May 19, 2025 • 34 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Joe's new political party & Biden's cancer
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- SNL & the "Big Beautiful Bill"
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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, Ketty Armstrong and
Jettie and Ke Armstrong and Yeddy Line Dannie Darnie. I
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thought I could make it through it without coughing, live
from studio C season your a dimly lit room deep
with them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound.
And to kick off the brand new week. Oh boy,
the new Week headed into Memorial Day. This could be
a big week for your life today. Today you're under
the tutelage of our general manager, the Republican Party, both
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Houses of Congress and the White House. And they're going
to grow the DEAFA sets and leave bloated entitlements alone.
What's the point anymore? Wow, I'm forming a new political
party of given up. Wow, coming out angry hot on
a Monday morning, exactly well offended, righteously angry. Not like
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I lost my temper because I'm drunk angry, No righteous indignation.
It's a stupidity, that hypocrisy, the lack of principle. I
got three names, so party, so not I lost my
temper because I'm drunk angry, like that's the only other
golf shot. Now I'm helicoptering my club angry. No, this
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is righteous, biblical anger. How about how about the door
dash was so slow by the time the yogurt got
to me it was all melted angry, which I had. Yes,
that's legit to me and pays for yogurt. You know
he expects it to be nice and chili. All right,
So I got three possible names for a new political party.
I assume you'll join me on this question. Angrytarians referencing
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my being pissed off. Enough is enoughocrats, gotcha? Or finally,
f Yawlikins. That's pretty good too. I'd wear that T
shirt and whatever the flag looks like, I'm flying it
in the back of my truck. F Yaolickins. I thought
the general manager would be Joe Biden's prostate. No, No,
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an old man has cancer. There's no humor there. It's
just it's terrible to be humorous. It's just a big
news story I adopted for Huber. I'll tell you something though,
interesting wrinkle on this that just happened, and I want
to get to it before you hear somewhere else to
tell that came up on Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough,
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and he didn't state it outright, but he was certainly
hinting at it strongly. So it turns out according to
the doctor they had, Well, there's a whole bunch of
stuff I can say about this as a guy who
had cancer. The reporting on everything that happens in the
mainstream news is so horrible. But as usual with this,
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there are a number of things I keep hearing over
and over again. They keep saying an aggressive cancer, as
if that absolutely means something, and it doesn't at all.
Having had concert and talked to doctors before, uh back
in the day, many many many years ago, in general,
aggressive was bad and not aggressive was good, but not anymore.
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My cancer was worse because it was not aggressive, because
I found fascinating at the time. Yeah, because it wouldn't
take the bait. As my doctor said, you're trying to
poison the cancer with the chemotherapy, and it wouldn't take
the bait, like trying to catch a rat with you know,
rat poison. It wouldn't take the bait because it was
so slow moving and aggressive cancer. He told me, well,
grasp on to the we're gonna get you and grasp
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on to the poison and die faster. So often that
is better, so that that using that word every single
time in every story is meaningless. So there you go,
let's start there. I'm exciting. But the interesting thing is
that I learned from from Scarborough showed and again this
is what they kept hitting it. He's had it for
probably a decade at least through his presidency, absolutely minimum
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several years, but probably a decade. And it's impossible they
either well almost certainly, they just didn't test for it,
or or just didn't do anything and or just kept
it quiet because as we've said many times, the president
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decides what to reveal from that presidential exam, what not
to reveal it. It is the ultimate. This tells us
nothing possible that they did that, although you'd had to
kept it, keep it quiet every year for many, many
many years. I mean, because the president, you know, gets
a yearly physical and everything like that. And did he
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get tested for it every year and keep it quiet
throughout his entire presidency, probably years before his presidency so
that he could maybe run again or whatever. Or this
is what I think Scarborough was hinting at. It's just
is overall medical health, including his brain. They just didn't
test for things. They just didn't ask any questions about
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anything because it was all gonna be bad news and
they didn't want to have to discuss anything, so better
just to not know. I think that is by far
the most likely theory. And I hate to steal the
thunder of our own featurette, but we got this note
from Jacob that I was going to include in mailbag
later on in the hour, he says, Hey, guys, do
you remember that speech where President Biden randomly said I
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just found I have out I have cancer or something
like that. Then he moved on and nobody commented on
it in the White House right down? Do you remember that? Yeah,
that's right, although he accidentally let it slip. Although there's
no way he just fouled out he had cancer because
he's had it for a very very long time. But Christmas,
they just gave him a PSA test for the first
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time ever. Possibly although we're going to play some of
the her tapes later, he didn't know when he was
president or vice president or when his son died by years,
So him saying I just found out I got cancer,
who knows what that means that could have been him
remembering from ten years ago. But I'm talking about his brain.
The fact that you know him having prostate cancer and
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hiding it or whatever, I find that kind of a
non story actually, But the fact that it fits in
with just the overall ignoring everything about his body and brain,
I think it's pretty interesting. Oh on how widespread the
knowledge was. And I've read a great piece we'll share
it with you later about why this all matters. Now.
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This is not just looking in the rear view mirror
and kicking Democrats for the fun of it. This is
one of the great cover ups in American history. All Right.
Mark Alper keeps making it about the media, which I
think is a good thing. It's the biggest failure of
the media ever. Period. I don't know what second place
would be biggest failure of the media period. And again,
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I just think it's mostly interesting from the hiding his
brain thing, and over the weekend, Maureen dud in the
New York Times, who's the guy they always quote in
the Washington Boast, the senior man. We had him on
the show when we were out there in Chicago. Dad Balls,
like some of the biggest heavyweight Hitters wrote some major
pieces over this weekend about how awful it is that
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this was hidden for all this time, kind of like
they're discovering it, which is weird but shocking. I mean,
it's really comes to the top of everybody's consciousness as
a what the hell sort of story? Right, Well, more
on that later. It's just it's absolutely amazing. But wow,
So I wonder, see he got crazy Jill involved. You
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got to go to crazy Jill and the artist Hunter,
who's also crazy. They might have just been saying, no, Dad, honey,
no tests. Let's just do no tests, no tests about anything,
and then we don't have to lie, and then we
can just go out there and say everything's fine. It
is gratifying and somewhat shocking to look back and see
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how right we were about all of this, not that
we had any unique knowledge. Look at the polls at
the time. And I said this not to pat ourselves
on the back, but virtually everything we said about Jill
is the evildoer in this. You can tell doctor Jill
not a real doctor. She's a crazy person. She's a
for real crazy person. Yes, she is absolutely unhinged, but
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everybody in the cabinet who knew and was silent or
denied it vociferously. Chuck Schumer, who's a congenital liar. I
don't know why anybody ever listens to him on any topic.
He couldn't tell the truth unless he accidentally did it.
You know, mayor Pete, you know, all of these people
who continue to be significant to you know, persons in
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American politics. We cannot just let them get away with it.
They should never be in office again. They should never
be entrusted with power again. God, who's the guy I
don't remember his name, Democrat? He's the chair of the
Armed Services Committee, like you know, a big committee. Never
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talked to Joe Biden once, right, which is just incredible.
Well because he in previous administrations had regularly talked to
the president as the head of the important Defense Committee. Yeah,
of course you would. Yeah. So anyway, there's a lot
on that Joe Biden's prostinct, you know. I hope they
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get him a treatment and he's fine and all that. Oh,
he's come on, he's on DSD anyway, true, that door
uh one foot. Trump's about to talk to Vladimir Putin.
That's gonna happen all on the air. I don't know
if we'll get any details about that or not, but
that's a big deal, yes, Michael, Well, Putin played the
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power play where he makes Trump wait, I don't know.
I'm actually nervous about this, just because I don't want to.
I don't, I don't. I just don't want to have
to deal with it with I hope Trump doesn't handle
it in a really horrible way. There is no chance
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of a good outcome. There you go, war Wire's the reality.
Enjoy it. Roll it around in your mouth for a while.
You'll get used to the taste or a little bitter.
You mean, just the war. Are you talking about us
having to talk about Trump and how he handles Putin today? Well,
that too, Actually, No, I was talking about the call
and the quote unquote peace process. This is a dry hole.
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Nothing will come of this call except deception, and it's terrible.
Well he got right after Trump announced the phone call
with Putin, Putin launched the largest drone attack on Ukraine
since the war started. So that targeting civilian targets. So
that happened over the weekend. Specifically, let's start show. Officially,
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I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty, on this It is Monday,
May nineteenth, Viere twenty twenty five. Were Armstrong and getting
and we approve of this program. One final thought on
that while Putin has the phone with Trump to his
right ears, shieshen ping will be in his left ear.
He may even hold two phones up to his head
in classic movie gag fashion from back in the day,
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anyway worth remembering. All right, let's begin in the show
officially now according to FCC rules of regulations, here we go,
leaping into action at mark.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No, I'm not here to testify for the Didty trial
that I know I've hosted on my Instagram that I
was here in New York and enjoying myself, because I
wanted to make it clear to everyone that I am
not here testifying. You could potentially be in danger. You
definitely don't travel openly and let everyone know where you're
staying and who you're with.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
You said at all, So I thought, I was, like, yeah,
in danger from whom I mean? New York is Diddy City,
a potential witness in the trial who said they won't
travel to New York less they can let everyone know
where they are because it's too scary, because it's Diddy City. Well,
that's interesting. They might get rubbed out like the mob
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or something that was some pop culture curiosity from back
in the day. So we've got the Didny trial going on,
some of the details that came out on Friday, maybe today.
The why is the Mexican Navy attacking our bridges? We've
got to get to that right, this means under attack
and uh and a lot of other stuff. Katie's headlines
on the way our text line four one nine KFTC.
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There's a deadline you don't have, Katie. Sean Davis, a
well known provocative Twitter sort of person, tweeted out, it's
amazing the media did not discover Joe Biden's prostate cancer earlier,
given how far up his butt they have been for
the last several years. Ah. Yes, I've seen that from
a couple of quarters. That is not helpful. I don't
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feel like that's helpful. That's sort of commentary, medically accurate enough. Yes,
so great stuff to talk about as usual today, Let's
get right into it. Who's reporting what it's the least
story with Katie Green?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Katie starting with NBC, Trump set to push Putin to
end the quote bloodbath in Ukraine and high stakes phone call.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We'll see. Trump's a great deal maker, approaching a deal
that neither side wants. That's a tough deal. Well yeah, yeah, yeah,
if you were just playing coming at it from the
standpoint of how do you solve this problem? But if
he says something very harsh about putin to putin, it'll
be the first time. So we'll see what happens. It
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could be a turning point, no doubt from writers.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Iran says nuclear talks will fail if the United States
pushes for zero enrichment.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, according to Marco Rubio yesterday on one of those shows,
that's a mandatory, speaking of posturing before negotiations, posture away,
mullus can nowhere defense from.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
ABC Trump's quote big Beautiful Bill passes House Budget.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Committee vote last night. It did, Yeah, made the first step. Okay,
The Big Beautiful Bill is a horrific betrayal bill. I'm
so second by it. I don't even want to think
about it. Joe's gonna explain it later because you are
what what is your mood for the day. Oh, I'm
just angry. I say you mentioned it a little bit ago.
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It's so angry and betrayed or fined. He's an f yollikin.
That is what I believe. Well, that's the party's political party,
h F yolikins, and like you guys just discussed.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
From News Nation, euroyllogist says Biden likely knew he had
cancer for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
He might not have known if he didn't get tested.
If he didn't get tested, it was on purpose.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Though.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Here's here's one thing I think we can all agree on.
Absolutely nothing that is being said about this at this
point can be trusted even ten percent. They lie, and
they lie, and they lie. From the Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Seven escaped inmates still at large after three day.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Manhunt in New Orleans. This story is amazing. I just
love that they let everybody know.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, a couple of them are murderers, but don't worry.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You're not in any danger. Really. I mean they escaped
old timey Shawshank style, Yeah, and then left behind an
illiterate note. We'll get to that later. From Breitbart.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Organizers are planning a nationwide protest for Trump's birthday.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It'll be called No Kings Day. Alright, alrightey, maybe they
can have Bruce Springsteen play slash lecture US. Oh Yeah,
Trump blasted Bruce over the weekend. We gotta get to
that later.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
From the New York Post, LA business owner blasts the
song baby Shark on repeat, ward off.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Homeless, encampments it, whatever it takes. The bums say it's
driving them nuts. Little Sentinel, knock that back, you'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And finally, from the Babylon Bee, ghost of Pete Rose
bets on Hall of Fame induction.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How much time I got? I go twenty five seconds.
That's not enough time. I want to tell you my
favorite thing from the opening of Saturday Night Live. We
don't even need the clip. I just want to tell
you what it is because it was so funny. Later,
but Joe, who's embittered? That's the word you used, embittered. Yes,
we'll explain to us why he's embittered. I can't wait
to hear that. Do you even want to hear it?
I don't want to drag anybody down with me. I'll
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get I'm in a good mood. I'll keep us pumped
up no matter how bitter you are. All right, armstrong
and getdy.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Trump loves these rich Arab guys. Can they set up
a mobile McDonald's there lit a little different out there, Donalds.
The happy meal toy is a little bone.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Saw made me laugh? Did you writeen that joke? Here's
the funniest thing I thought that happened on the Saturday
Night Live Go Open with the guy who does Trump.
He was talking about anyway in Abbi Dobby, Abby, Dabby
Abby Dobby do like the late great friends Flintstone. I
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thought that was so funny. Oh boy, the late great
Fred Flintstone. So I saw then news yesterday that they
were going to have a voting session on the Big
Beautiful Bill at ten o'clock Sunday night, And because it's
the weekend and I'm a normal human being, I didn't
like take a second to look into that because I thought,
what the hell kind of a procedural deal is a
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Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But I just did
see that the four holdouts went along with whatever and
it passed, So there you go. You know, the four
holdouts went along with whatever is a pretty good description
of it. I will be a bit more detailed. And
this is the reason I'm disgusted and embittered. This is
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the most sausagey of sausage making. If you're familiar with
the old reference to politics. Here's your headline from the wappole.
I'm gonna read you just a little bit because it's
kind of revealing of at least a couple of things.
Trump's tax and immigration bill clears Hurtle after late night
vote to the House Budget Committee, passed to a massive
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tax and immigration package central President Trump's agenda late Sunday,
overcoming opposition from hardline conservatives, overspending four fiscal conservatives all
deficit hawks aligned with the old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus,
change their vote to present, allowing the legislative monstrosity I
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injected that package to be recommended favorably to the House
by a vote seventeen to sixteen. But their hesitance to
vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act out of
committee is a reminder that the far right flank of
the Republican Conference remains skeptical. I think I see where
you're going here. Yeah. Now, it could just be your
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typical wah po journalistic bias, although the wa poe has
improved somewhat lately a little bit. Anyway, I think it's
unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable with that there
are only a handful of like lunatic hard liners who
are against the following headlines. This is from the Richard
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Ruben writing in the Wall Street Journal, the stark math
on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut the deficit, It
grows the deficit. The Republican Party, with both Houses of
Congress and the White House, are going to grow the deficit.
It's undeniable. Next headline, National Review, Republicans should stay the
course on reducing Medicaid spending. They're not going to. They're
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running in the other direction, partly because the incredibly smart
calculating what is he up to? Josh Hawley of Missouri
is all of a sudden, this is the guy now
who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. He's now out
shumering Schumer, saying that the party's Wall Street wing, a
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noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans want to slash health insurance
for the working poor. Yeah, we mentioned that. On Friday,
he wrote that op ed piece that the Republicans need
to back off cutting medagare any Well, it's a reform
of Medicaid. Any reforms are a hidden tax on working
poor people. This is and he's referring to a thirty
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five dollars copay for able bodied adults covered by Obamacare
Medicaid for a visit to the doctor. Thirty five dollars
copay is some sort of hidden tax on working for
And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the
party of the working class, and they feel like they
got enough for working class that are on Medicaid that
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they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it,
and they, uh, yeah, now the party of pandering to
and writing checks to people to win their votes. Yeah.
I was going to say that it's interesting they call
these people ultra conservative of right wing when not very
many years ago, you would have been the center of
the Republican Party. I mean that would have been I
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mean as like what the Republican Party was. It was
it was, it was a term you would have used
to define the party exactly, so intrinsic to the Republican Party.
You'd feel silly even repeating what you just repeat it right,
that no need fisically conservative. But I suppose in reality,
given where most of the party is, they are ultra
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a right wing or ultra conservative because the bulk of
the party doesn't care apparently apparently not voters. So suspending
your children grandchill run into tax and spend oblivion. Well
all right, well this story got repeated a lot over
the weekend that we got downgraded on one of our
credit scores by one of the major organizations that does
that sort of thingiz. Yeah, And over the weekend it
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kind of got put out there that it was like
a Trump thing because of tariffs or whatever. It was
basically around the fact that our debt is just so high.
It's just like that would happen to you if you
go to the bank and they take a look at
your well you've got with your car payments. Now you
bought like eight cars and two houses, and you're you're
just overmaxed. So we have eighty thousand dollars in credit
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card bills and you only make ninety a year, right, right,
So they just down graded because you just spend more
than you make. That's what happened. That didn't happen just
in the last one hundred days under Trump. We've been
building this for a long time. And the final reason
I am completely embittered about the Republican Party in politics
and America and democracy and life on Earth is the
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fact that, and it's a two part horror show. Part
number one is that there are a bunch of swing
district Republicans from big blue states California and New York
most notably, who are not only trying to defend the
idea of the salt deduction, the state and local tax deduction,
they want to raise it from ten thousand dollars to
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at least thirty thousand dollars and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning,
if you live in a tax and spend lunatic state
like state California, all of those incredibly high taxes you're
paying you can deduct from your federal tax return. So
the other states will subsidize the tax and spend lunacy
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of New York and California. So my brothers in Kansas
pay some of my taxes because I live in California.
That makes sense. Yeah, you get a giant subsidy from
the other states, you pay a lower federal tax rate,
significantly lower depending on how much money you make. Then,
folks in fiscally responsible states is indefensible morally, it's indefensible
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as for Republican reason, not the party, but the idea
of we have a federal system than states, and the
states can do what they want, and they should do
what they want. If you're fine, if Massachusetts wants to
have a sixty five percent income tax, go ahead. I'm
not living there, but go ahead. But then to transfer
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that profligacy to the other states is it's a horror.
And as a conservative slash Republican, he says, trying not
to vomit because of my embitteredness, the idea that that
is a plank of the Republican Party. I'm done. It's
it's hard to swallow. I mean, you know, it would
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help Joe and I if this happens financially, but it's awful. Absolutely,
I believe you can't defend it. No, it's it's it's
it's I am horrified. I don't care how much it
would benefit me. God bless me. I have principles. It's
really held me back in life. Jack too, I just
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I'm done. I'm done. Yeah, it's uh. Well, like I
said last week, Sarah Isger of The Dispatch, I heard
her on a podcast They're having this discussion about party
and she said, there are no political parties. What are
we talking about here. Yeah, I need to seek that
out because I think she nailed absolutely one hundred percent.
There are no political parties. There's just whoever emerges as
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the candidate, cycle by cycle, and then whatever they believe
the party goes along with. And it's true on both sides.
So the idea that there are parties that stand for something,
we need to all move past that. I want to
get this quote every uh, I'm sorry, I want to
get this quote exactly right from my hero hl Menken.
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Every election is a sort of advanced auction sale of
stolen goods. That's always been true. There was a time
when a certain party had certain principles that I admired.
Do your time is pasted. You know what my high
school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my wife of forty years is.
(26:22):
When she's not turning tricks, she's killing people for the mob. Okay,
she's not the woman I felt. This is, by the way,
fictional illustration has nothing to do with my beloved bride Judith.
She's not the person she was. Its you forget it.
It's over, so move on. Get a get an ai
(26:43):
girlfriend like a normal person, and a love bot or
something I girlfriend like a normal person. So the four
hole bouts that like still care about not having the country.
Remember it was quite a few years ago now that
the Chairman of the Chiefs announced the biggest threat to
national security is our debt. Correct. I mean that's what's
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gonna bring us down as a country anyway. The four
hole bouts that voted present last night, so this could
move along. What's their thinking? What things that are just
beaten down? There's no they abandoned the Alamo. There's there,
there's no winning the fight. Yeah yeah, who knows what
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they were promised or threatened? Well right, yeah, yeah, some
some if Trump wanted a sausage e backroom agreement was struck,
or if Trump or someone below Trump wanted to, you know,
turn full maga on you as a whole bout, your
life gets pretty hard pretty fast. By the way, credit
where it's due. Chip Roy a Texas, Ralph Norman of
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South Carolina we had a stand up for South Cackilliac,
Ralph Josh Breeching of Oklahoma, and Andrew Clyde of Georgia.
We're blocking the bill because it urged the lawmakers to
stop talking and get it done. I'm through, yes, because
they thought you shouldn't keep spending more than you take in.
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You can't do that forever. On top of already terrifying debt, yes,
and the fact that we now spend more money on
just the I mean, if you've ever gotten into credit
card trouble where you're like, you look at your interest
payment is all you can you know, your minimum payment.
That's what we are as a country. Our interest payment
is more than defense. Now. It's crazy and growing and growing,
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and we're going to grow it next year. And for extremist,
ultra conservative, far right wing, that man attempted to slow
that down. And there's some sort of Wall Street something
or others. According to josh Holly, Yeah, Hawley's lost his mind. Well,
he sees a political calculator. He wants to stay in office,
and he is a crocodile, a very very smart crocodile.
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At some point. I'm not defending it, but it's at
some point you could make the argument for people like him,
hey that's where the country is. Now. You're supposed to
lead people a different direction if they're in the wrong place.
But he might just be saying, hey, that's where the
country is. And Joshua is again again extremely bright and
savvy would probably say, hey, dude, if I can get
the reins of power, I figure I can pull this
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back about two three percent. Anything more than that, the
American people are going to toss me out of office
because that's where the country is. Brother, all right, dang it,
that is tough. Okay, man. We got lots to talk
about today. Stuff that happened over the weekend. That horse
race is pretty interesting. I don't usually watch horse races,
(29:40):
but that one was kind of exciting. And Caitlin Clark
knock turned Nemesis down on the court on the first
game of the season that I thought, I find that
very exciting. The zone, Well, you actually do, I think.
And we got mail bag coming up next day. Here.
For some reason, I'm feeling no need to be the
(30:02):
least bit decent about this, so I'll just go full
thrown it on this there. It seems to be some
hinting that the Biden family has had this cancer thing
in their pocket for like a decade perhaps, and have
trotted it out right when the heat is getting the
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hottest on the Hurt Report, the Tapper Book, the everything else.
To get the maximum amount of sympathy, Hey, leave us alone.
We're dealing with cancer that fits, that fits their modus operandi,
either the character lack of it that fits. That weird
statement he made like a year ago, a year and
a half ago in a spec I just found out
I have cancer that nobody ever commented on. Again it
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all fits. Yeah, yeah, despicable. Here's your freedom. Let me
quote it to day. I love this one from Einrand.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The
savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of
his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free
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from men. Interesting thought. Yeah, yeah, it's probably not one
hundred percent true, but again great thought starter. Mailbag drop
us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot
com is the email address. H druth a millennial frequent
correspondent rights I discovered something. I had a couple of
thoughts this weekend as I was fixing my boat, because
(31:25):
that's what you do when you have a boat, you
fix it a lot. Anyway. Firstly, you often discuss the
fact that reporters and journalists report on all topics and
we tend to trust them. However, it isn't until they
report on a topic. You happen to be an expert
in that you discovered that they have no idea what
the hell they're talking about. One hundred percent. There's actually
a term for this, the gel Man amnesia effect. Yeah,
(31:46):
g e l or gell Man amnesia effect. I became
aware of this fairly recently. We talked about this for years.
Yeah huh yeah, and it's funny even as we recognized it.
It's hard to believe it's completely true. Universally true engineers
read a news report about engineering and think these people
don't have any idea what they're talking about. But I'm
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sure their coverage of the radio industry is accurate, you know,
and vice versa. Yeah, anyway, I like this note from
the lovely Lindsay, Jack and Joe, longtime listeners. Since I
was nineteen years old, now a divorced woman in her
mid forties, we're old. I finally decided to ask chat
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gpt to help me with many unanswered questions about building
a vegetable garden an irrigation system. Where at Google never
give me any answers to my specific questions and circumstances.
Chat GPT understood what I needed in three seconds told
me exactly how to do it, and provided an illustrated
schematic to help. Seems like chet GPT is filling the
mail gap in my life and I probably don't need
(32:50):
to worry about dating anymore. Thanks, guys, I don't cage. Yes,
I don't know that term. What was that word? Before
the garden vegetables? She signs off kg wrte THR keep
giving women a reason to end the human race. I
love you, guys, love you. Why are you gonna give
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up on women or on men entirely because chat GPT
can tell you out of the garden? Okay, m that
is too bad. Another freaking correspondent, the Great JT in Livermore.
Trump may be the master deal maker, but I think
a huge critical mistake he and others are making is
that you can't make a deal when one or both
parties don't want a deal. New York real Estate or
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Trump made his bones. There's always a buyer and a seller,
or a union boss and a business interest when there
are two parties who want to make a deal if
it's the right deal, and having a master deal maker
as possible. But putin Russia Palestinians, they don't want to
make a deal. Certainly Hamas doesn't, so there's not a
master deal making to be made. Well. You can pressure
people into a deal, though, either militarily or economically possibly,
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but you have to be willing to pressure them, and
I'm not sure he's willing to pressure Pootin at all. Well,
and I would say, you know a couple of those
example Putin and Hamas, the pressure would have to be
very very intense. Yes, yes it would and violent and expensive,
coast to coast allergies attacking Americans stay tuned and risky
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as well. It would open various Pandora's boxes. So yeah,
I too, am skeptical about some of this. Let's see,
with our president having the best doctors, writes Chris, how
did Biden get such a late cancer diagnosis? I mean,
Jake Tapper's had his head up Biden's bleep for the
last five years. So I see, I see that that
is an ongoing joke. Okay, really, yeah, there you go. Yeah?
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The uh why they telling this now when it's probably
been known for some time? That is an interesting question.
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Houses of Congress and the White House. And they're going
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What's the point anymore? Wow, I'm forming a new political
party of given up. Wow, coming out angry hot on
a Monday morning, exactly well offended, righteously angry. Not like
(01:09):
I lost my temper because I'm drunk angry, No righteous indignation.
It's a stupidity, that hypocrisy, the lack of principle. I
got three names, so party, so not I lost my
temper because I'm drunk angry, like that's the only other
golf shot. Now I'm helicoptering my club angry. No, this
(01:30):
is righteous, biblical anger. How about how about the door
dash was so slow by the time the yogurt got
to me it was all melted angry, which I had. Yes,
that's legit to me and pays for yogurt. You know
he expects it to be nice and chili. All right,
So I got three possible names for a new political party.
I assume you'll join me on this question. Angrytarians referencing
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my being pissed off. Enough is enoughocrats, gotcha? Or finally,
f Yawlikins. That's pretty good too. I'd wear that T
shirt and whatever the flag looks like, I'm flying it
in the back of my truck. F Yaolickins. I thought
the general manager would be Joe Biden's prostate. No, No,
(02:18):
an old man has cancer. There's no humor there. It's
just it's terrible to be humorous. It's just a big
news story I adopted for Huber. I'll tell you something though,
interesting wrinkle on this that just happened, and I want
to get to it before you hear somewhere else to
tell that came up on Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough,
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and he didn't state it outright, but he was certainly
hinting at it strongly. So it turns out according to
the doctor they had, Well, there's a whole bunch of
stuff I can say about this as a guy who
had cancer. The reporting on everything that happens in the
mainstream news is so horrible. But as usual with this,
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there are a number of things I keep hearing over
and over again. They keep saying an aggressive cancer, as
if that absolutely means something, and it doesn't at all.
Having had concert and talked to doctors before, uh back
in the day, many many many years ago, in general,
aggressive was bad and not aggressive was good, but not anymore.
(03:24):
My cancer was worse because it was not aggressive, because
I found fascinating at the time. Yeah, because it wouldn't
take the bait. As my doctor said, you're trying to
poison the cancer with the chemotherapy, and it wouldn't take
the bait, like trying to catch a rat with you know,
rat poison. It wouldn't take the bait because it was
so slow moving and aggressive cancer. He told me, well,
grasp on to the we're gonna get you and grasp
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on to the poison and die faster. So often that
is better, so that that using that word every single
time in every story is meaningless. So there you go,
let's start there. I'm exciting. But the interesting thing is
that I learned from from Scarborough showed and again this
is what they kept hitting it. He's had it for
probably a decade at least through his presidency, absolutely minimum
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several years, but probably a decade. And it's impossible they
either well almost certainly, they just didn't test for it,
or or just didn't do anything and or just kept
it quiet because as we've said many times, the president
(04:30):
decides what to reveal from that presidential exam, what not
to reveal it. It is the ultimate. This tells us
nothing possible that they did that, although you'd had to
kept it, keep it quiet every year for many, many
many years. I mean, because the president, you know, gets
a yearly physical and everything like that. And did he
(04:50):
get tested for it every year and keep it quiet
throughout his entire presidency, probably years before his presidency so
that he could maybe run again or whatever. Or this
is what I think Scarborough was hinting at. It's just
is overall medical health, including his brain. They just didn't
test for things. They just didn't ask any questions about
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anything because it was all gonna be bad news and
they didn't want to have to discuss anything, so better
just to not know. I think that is by far
the most likely theory. And I hate to steal the
thunder of our own featurette, but we got this note
from Jacob that I was going to include in mailbag
later on in the hour, he says, Hey, guys, do
you remember that speech where President Biden randomly said I
(05:33):
just found I have out I have cancer or something
like that. Then he moved on and nobody commented on
it in the White House right down? Do you remember that? Yeah,
that's right, although he accidentally let it slip. Although there's
no way he just fouled out he had cancer because
he's had it for a very very long time. But Christmas,
they just gave him a PSA test for the first
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time ever. Possibly although we're going to play some of
the her tapes later, he didn't know when he was
president or vice president or when his son died by years,
So him saying I just found out I got cancer,
who knows what that means that could have been him
remembering from ten years ago. But I'm talking about his brain.
The fact that you know him having prostate cancer and
(06:16):
hiding it or whatever, I find that kind of a
non story actually, But the fact that it fits in
with just the overall ignoring everything about his body and brain,
I think it's pretty interesting. Oh on how widespread the
knowledge was. And I've read a great piece we'll share
it with you later about why this all matters. Now.
(06:37):
This is not just looking in the rear view mirror
and kicking Democrats for the fun of it. This is
one of the great cover ups in American history. All Right.
Mark Alper keeps making it about the media, which I
think is a good thing. It's the biggest failure of
the media ever. Period. I don't know what second place
would be biggest failure of the media period. And again,
(07:01):
I just think it's mostly interesting from the hiding his
brain thing, and over the weekend, Maureen dud in the
New York Times, who's the guy they always quote in
the Washington Boast, the senior man. We had him on
the show when we were out there in Chicago. Dad Balls,
like some of the biggest heavyweight Hitters wrote some major
pieces over this weekend about how awful it is that
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this was hidden for all this time, kind of like
they're discovering it, which is weird but shocking. I mean,
it's really comes to the top of everybody's consciousness as
a what the hell sort of story? Right, Well, more
on that later. It's just it's absolutely amazing. But wow,
So I wonder, see he got crazy Jill involved. You
(07:47):
got to go to crazy Jill and the artist Hunter,
who's also crazy. They might have just been saying, no, Dad, honey,
no tests. Let's just do no tests, no tests about anything,
and then we don't have to lie, and then we
can just go out there and say everything's fine. It
is gratifying and somewhat shocking to look back and see
(08:09):
how right we were about all of this, not that
we had any unique knowledge. Look at the polls at
the time. And I said this not to pat ourselves
on the back, but virtually everything we said about Jill
is the evildoer in this. You can tell doctor Jill
not a real doctor. She's a crazy person. She's a
for real crazy person. Yes, she is absolutely unhinged, but
(08:32):
everybody in the cabinet who knew and was silent or
denied it vociferously. Chuck Schumer, who's a congenital liar. I
don't know why anybody ever listens to him on any topic.
He couldn't tell the truth unless he accidentally did it.
You know, mayor Pete, you know, all of these people
who continue to be significant to you know, persons in
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American politics. We cannot just let them get away with it.
They should never be in office again. They should never
be entrusted with power again. God, who's the guy I
don't remember his name, Democrat? He's the chair of the
Armed Services Committee, like you know, a big committee. Never
(09:14):
talked to Joe Biden once, right, which is just incredible.
Well because he in previous administrations had regularly talked to
the president as the head of the important Defense Committee. Yeah,
of course you would. Yeah. So anyway, there's a lot
on that Joe Biden's prostinct, you know. I hope they
(09:35):
get him a treatment and he's fine and all that. Oh,
he's come on, he's on DSD anyway, true, that door
uh one foot. Trump's about to talk to Vladimir Putin.
That's gonna happen all on the air. I don't know
if we'll get any details about that or not, but
that's a big deal, yes, Michael, Well, Putin played the
(09:57):
power play where he makes Trump wait, I don't know.
I'm actually nervous about this, just because I don't want to.
I don't, I don't. I just don't want to have
to deal with it with I hope Trump doesn't handle
it in a really horrible way. There is no chance
(10:17):
of a good outcome. There you go, war Wire's the reality.
Enjoy it. Roll it around in your mouth for a while.
You'll get used to the taste or a little bitter.
You mean, just the war. Are you talking about us
having to talk about Trump and how he handles Putin today? Well,
that too, Actually, No, I was talking about the call
and the quote unquote peace process. This is a dry hole.
(10:41):
Nothing will come of this call except deception, and it's terrible.
Well he got right after Trump announced the phone call
with Putin, Putin launched the largest drone attack on Ukraine
since the war started. So that targeting civilian targets. So
that happened over the weekend. Specifically, let's start show. Officially,
(11:01):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty, on this It is Monday,
May nineteenth, Viere twenty twenty five. Were Armstrong and getting
and we approve of this program. One final thought on
that while Putin has the phone with Trump to his
right ears, shieshen ping will be in his left ear.
He may even hold two phones up to his head
in classic movie gag fashion from back in the day,
(11:22):
anyway worth remembering. All right, let's begin in the show
officially now according to FCC rules of regulations, here we go,
leaping into action at mark.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No, I'm not here to testify for the Didty trial
that I know I've hosted on my Instagram that I
was here in New York and enjoying myself, because I
wanted to make it clear to everyone that I am
not here testifying. You could potentially be in danger. You
definitely don't travel openly and let everyone know where you're
staying and who you're with.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
You said at all, So I thought, I was, like, yeah,
in danger from whom I mean? New York is Diddy City,
a potential witness in the trial who said they won't
travel to New York less they can let everyone know
where they are because it's too scary, because it's Diddy City. Well,
that's interesting. They might get rubbed out like the mob
(12:07):
or something that was some pop culture curiosity from back
in the day. So we've got the Didny trial going on,
some of the details that came out on Friday, maybe today.
The why is the Mexican Navy attacking our bridges? We've
got to get to that right, this means under attack
and uh and a lot of other stuff. Katie's headlines
on the way our text line four one nine KFTC.
(12:32):
There's a deadline you don't have, Katie. Sean Davis, a
well known provocative Twitter sort of person, tweeted out, it's
amazing the media did not discover Joe Biden's prostate cancer earlier,
given how far up his butt they have been for
the last several years. Ah. Yes, I've seen that from
a couple of quarters. That is not helpful. I don't
(12:53):
feel like that's helpful. That's sort of commentary, medically accurate enough. Yes,
so great stuff to talk about as usual today, Let's
get right into it. Who's reporting what it's the least
story with Katie Green?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Katie starting with NBC, Trump set to push Putin to
end the quote bloodbath in Ukraine and high stakes phone call.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We'll see. Trump's a great deal maker, approaching a deal
that neither side wants. That's a tough deal. Well yeah, yeah, yeah,
if you were just playing coming at it from the
standpoint of how do you solve this problem? But if
he says something very harsh about putin to putin, it'll
be the first time. So we'll see what happens. It
(13:39):
could be a turning point, no doubt from writers.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Iran says nuclear talks will fail if the United States
pushes for zero enrichment.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, according to Marco Rubio yesterday on one of those shows,
that's a mandatory, speaking of posturing before negotiations, posture away,
mullus can nowhere defense from.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
ABC Trump's quote big Beautiful Bill passes House Budget.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Committee vote last night. It did, Yeah, made the first step. Okay,
The Big Beautiful Bill is a horrific betrayal bill. I'm
so second by it. I don't even want to think
about it. Joe's gonna explain it later because you are
what what is your mood for the day. Oh, I'm
just angry. I say you mentioned it a little bit ago.
(14:28):
It's so angry and betrayed or fined. He's an f yollikin.
That is what I believe. Well, that's the party's political party,
h F yolikins, and like you guys just discussed.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
From News Nation, euroyllogist says Biden likely knew he had
cancer for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
He might not have known if he didn't get tested.
If he didn't get tested, it was on purpose.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Though.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Here's here's one thing I think we can all agree on.
Absolutely nothing that is being said about this at this
point can be trusted even ten percent. They lie, and
they lie, and they lie. From the Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Seven escaped inmates still at large after three day.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Manhunt in New Orleans. This story is amazing. I just
love that they let everybody know.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, a couple of them are murderers, but don't worry.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You're not in any danger. Really. I mean they escaped
old timey Shawshank style, Yeah, and then left behind an
illiterate note. We'll get to that later. From Breitbart.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Organizers are planning a nationwide protest for Trump's birthday.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It'll be called No Kings Day. Alright, alrightey, maybe they
can have Bruce Springsteen play slash lecture US. Oh Yeah,
Trump blasted Bruce over the weekend. We gotta get to
that later.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
From the New York Post, LA business owner blasts the
song baby Shark on repeat, ward off.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Homeless, encampments it, whatever it takes. The bums say it's
driving them nuts. Little Sentinel, knock that back, you'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And finally, from the Babylon Bee, ghost of Pete Rose
bets on Hall of Fame induction.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How much time I got? I go twenty five seconds.
That's not enough time. I want to tell you my
favorite thing from the opening of Saturday Night Live. We
don't even need the clip. I just want to tell
you what it is because it was so funny. Later,
but Joe, who's embittered? That's the word you used, embittered. Yes,
we'll explain to us why he's embittered. I can't wait
to hear that. Do you even want to hear it?
I don't want to drag anybody down with me. I'll
(16:41):
get I'm in a good mood. I'll keep us pumped
up no matter how bitter you are. All right, armstrong
and getdy.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Trump loves these rich Arab guys. Can they set up
a mobile McDonald's there lit a little different out there, Donalds.
The happy meal toy is a little bone.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Saw made me laugh? Did you writeen that joke? Here's
the funniest thing I thought that happened on the Saturday
Night Live Go Open with the guy who does Trump.
He was talking about anyway in Abbi Dobby, Abby, Dabby
Abby Dobby do like the late great friends Flintstone. I
(17:28):
thought that was so funny. Oh boy, the late great
Fred Flintstone. So I saw then news yesterday that they
were going to have a voting session on the Big
Beautiful Bill at ten o'clock Sunday night, And because it's
the weekend and I'm a normal human being, I didn't
like take a second to look into that because I thought,
what the hell kind of a procedural deal is a
(17:51):
Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But I just did
see that the four holdouts went along with whatever and
it passed, So there you go. You know, the four
holdouts went along with whatever is a pretty good description
of it. I will be a bit more detailed. And
this is the reason I'm disgusted and embittered. This is
(18:12):
the most sausagey of sausage making. If you're familiar with
the old reference to politics. Here's your headline from the wappole.
I'm gonna read you just a little bit because it's
kind of revealing of at least a couple of things.
Trump's tax and immigration bill clears Hurtle after late night
vote to the House Budget Committee, passed to a massive
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tax and immigration package central President Trump's agenda late Sunday,
overcoming opposition from hardline conservatives, overspending four fiscal conservatives all
deficit hawks aligned with the old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus,
change their vote to present, allowing the legislative monstrosity I
(18:54):
injected that package to be recommended favorably to the House
by a vote seventeen to sixteen. But their hesitance to
vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act out of
committee is a reminder that the far right flank of
the Republican Conference remains skeptical. I think I see where
you're going here. Yeah. Now, it could just be your
(19:17):
typical wah po journalistic bias, although the wa poe has
improved somewhat lately a little bit. Anyway, I think it's
unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable with that there
are only a handful of like lunatic hard liners who
are against the following headlines. This is from the Richard
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Ruben writing in the Wall Street Journal, the stark math
on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut the deficit, It
grows the deficit. The Republican Party, with both Houses of
Congress and the White House, are going to grow the deficit.
It's undeniable. Next headline, National Review, Republicans should stay the
course on reducing Medicaid spending. They're not going to. They're
(20:00):
running in the other direction, partly because the incredibly smart
calculating what is he up to? Josh Hawley of Missouri
is all of a sudden, this is the guy now
who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. He's now out
shumering Schumer, saying that the party's Wall Street wing, a
(20:23):
noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans want to slash health insurance
for the working poor. Yeah, we mentioned that. On Friday,
he wrote that op ed piece that the Republicans need
to back off cutting medagare any Well, it's a reform
of Medicaid. Any reforms are a hidden tax on working
poor people. This is and he's referring to a thirty
(20:46):
five dollars copay for able bodied adults covered by Obamacare
Medicaid for a visit to the doctor. Thirty five dollars
copay is some sort of hidden tax on working for
And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the
party of the working class, and they feel like they
got enough for working class that are on Medicaid that
(21:06):
they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it,
and they, uh, yeah, now the party of pandering to
and writing checks to people to win their votes. Yeah.
I was going to say that it's interesting they call
these people ultra conservative of right wing when not very
many years ago, you would have been the center of
the Republican Party. I mean that would have been I
(21:28):
mean as like what the Republican Party was. It was
it was, it was a term you would have used
to define the party exactly, so intrinsic to the Republican Party.
You'd feel silly even repeating what you just repeat it right,
that no need fisically conservative. But I suppose in reality,
given where most of the party is, they are ultra
(21:51):
a right wing or ultra conservative because the bulk of
the party doesn't care apparently apparently not voters. So suspending
your children grandchill run into tax and spend oblivion. Well
all right, well this story got repeated a lot over
the weekend that we got downgraded on one of our
credit scores by one of the major organizations that does
that sort of thingiz. Yeah, And over the weekend it
(22:15):
kind of got put out there that it was like
a Trump thing because of tariffs or whatever. It was
basically around the fact that our debt is just so high.
It's just like that would happen to you if you
go to the bank and they take a look at
your well you've got with your car payments. Now you
bought like eight cars and two houses, and you're you're
just overmaxed. So we have eighty thousand dollars in credit
(22:38):
card bills and you only make ninety a year, right, right,
So they just down graded because you just spend more
than you make. That's what happened. That didn't happen just
in the last one hundred days under Trump. We've been
building this for a long time. And the final reason
I am completely embittered about the Republican Party in politics
and America and democracy and life on Earth is the
(23:03):
fact that, and it's a two part horror show. Part
number one is that there are a bunch of swing
district Republicans from big blue states California and New York
most notably, who are not only trying to defend the
idea of the salt deduction, the state and local tax deduction,
they want to raise it from ten thousand dollars to
(23:24):
at least thirty thousand dollars and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning,
if you live in a tax and spend lunatic state
like state California, all of those incredibly high taxes you're
paying you can deduct from your federal tax return. So
the other states will subsidize the tax and spend lunacy
(23:45):
of New York and California. So my brothers in Kansas
pay some of my taxes because I live in California.
That makes sense. Yeah, you get a giant subsidy from
the other states, you pay a lower federal tax rate,
significantly lower depending on how much money you make. Then,
folks in fiscally responsible states is indefensible morally, it's indefensible
(24:10):
as for Republican reason, not the party, but the idea
of we have a federal system than states, and the
states can do what they want, and they should do
what they want. If you're fine, if Massachusetts wants to
have a sixty five percent income tax, go ahead. I'm
not living there, but go ahead. But then to transfer
(24:32):
that profligacy to the other states is it's a horror.
And as a conservative slash Republican, he says, trying not
to vomit because of my embitteredness, the idea that that
is a plank of the Republican Party. I'm done. It's
it's hard to swallow. I mean, you know, it would
(24:54):
help Joe and I if this happens financially, but it's awful. Absolutely,
I believe you can't defend it. No, it's it's it's
it's I am horrified. I don't care how much it
would benefit me. God bless me. I have principles. It's
really held me back in life. Jack too, I just
(25:16):
I'm done. I'm done. Yeah, it's uh. Well, like I
said last week, Sarah Isger of The Dispatch, I heard
her on a podcast They're having this discussion about party
and she said, there are no political parties. What are
we talking about here. Yeah, I need to seek that
out because I think she nailed absolutely one hundred percent.
There are no political parties. There's just whoever emerges as
(25:37):
the candidate, cycle by cycle, and then whatever they believe
the party goes along with. And it's true on both sides.
So the idea that there are parties that stand for something,
we need to all move past that. I want to
get this quote every uh, I'm sorry, I want to
get this quote exactly right from my hero hl Menken.
(25:59):
Every election is a sort of advanced auction sale of
stolen goods. That's always been true. There was a time
when a certain party had certain principles that I admired.
Do your time is pasted. You know what my high
school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my wife of forty years is.
(26:22):
When she's not turning tricks, she's killing people for the mob. Okay,
she's not the woman I felt. This is, by the way,
fictional illustration has nothing to do with my beloved bride Judith.
She's not the person she was. Its you forget it.
It's over, so move on. Get a get an ai
(26:43):
girlfriend like a normal person, and a love bot or
something I girlfriend like a normal person. So the four
hole bouts that like still care about not having the country.
Remember it was quite a few years ago now that
the Chairman of the Chiefs announced the biggest threat to
national security is our debt. Correct. I mean that's what's
(27:07):
gonna bring us down as a country anyway. The four
hole bouts that voted present last night, so this could
move along. What's their thinking? What things that are just
beaten down? There's no they abandoned the Alamo. There's there,
there's no winning the fight. Yeah yeah, who knows what
(27:29):
they were promised or threatened? Well right, yeah, yeah, some
some if Trump wanted a sausage e backroom agreement was struck,
or if Trump or someone below Trump wanted to, you know,
turn full maga on you as a whole bout, your
life gets pretty hard pretty fast. By the way, credit
where it's due. Chip Roy a Texas, Ralph Norman of
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South Carolina we had a stand up for South Cackilliac,
Ralph Josh Breeching of Oklahoma, and Andrew Clyde of Georgia.
We're blocking the bill because it urged the lawmakers to
stop talking and get it done. I'm through, yes, because
they thought you shouldn't keep spending more than you take in.
(28:13):
You can't do that forever. On top of already terrifying debt, yes,
and the fact that we now spend more money on
just the I mean, if you've ever gotten into credit
card trouble where you're like, you look at your interest
payment is all you can you know, your minimum payment.
That's what we are as a country. Our interest payment
is more than defense. Now. It's crazy and growing and growing,
(28:35):
and we're going to grow it next year. And for extremist,
ultra conservative, far right wing, that man attempted to slow
that down. And there's some sort of Wall Street something
or others. According to josh Holly, Yeah, Hawley's lost his mind. Well,
he sees a political calculator. He wants to stay in office,
and he is a crocodile, a very very smart crocodile.
(28:58):
At some point. I'm not defending it, but it's at
some point you could make the argument for people like him,
hey that's where the country is. Now. You're supposed to
lead people a different direction if they're in the wrong place.
But he might just be saying, hey, that's where the
country is. And Joshua is again again extremely bright and
savvy would probably say, hey, dude, if I can get
the reins of power, I figure I can pull this
(29:20):
back about two three percent. Anything more than that, the
American people are going to toss me out of office
because that's where the country is. Brother, all right, dang it,
that is tough. Okay, man. We got lots to talk
about today. Stuff that happened over the weekend. That horse
race is pretty interesting. I don't usually watch horse races,
(29:40):
but that one was kind of exciting. And Caitlin Clark
knock turned Nemesis down on the court on the first
game of the season that I thought, I find that
very exciting. The zone, Well, you actually do, I think.
And we got mail bag coming up next day. Here.
For some reason, I'm feeling no need to be the
(30:02):
least bit decent about this, so I'll just go full
thrown it on this there. It seems to be some
hinting that the Biden family has had this cancer thing
in their pocket for like a decade perhaps, and have
trotted it out right when the heat is getting the
(30:22):
hottest on the Hurt Report, the Tapper Book, the everything else.
To get the maximum amount of sympathy, Hey, leave us alone.
We're dealing with cancer that fits, that fits their modus operandi,
either the character lack of it that fits. That weird
statement he made like a year ago, a year and
a half ago in a spec I just found out
I have cancer that nobody ever commented on. Again it
(30:44):
all fits. Yeah, yeah, despicable. Here's your freedom. Let me
quote it to day. I love this one from Einrand.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The
savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of
his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free
(31:04):
from men. Interesting thought. Yeah, yeah, it's probably not one
hundred percent true, but again great thought starter. Mailbag drop
us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot
com is the email address. H druth a millennial frequent
correspondent rights I discovered something. I had a couple of
thoughts this weekend as I was fixing my boat, because
(31:25):
that's what you do when you have a boat, you
fix it a lot. Anyway. Firstly, you often discuss the
fact that reporters and journalists report on all topics and
we tend to trust them. However, it isn't until they
report on a topic. You happen to be an expert
in that you discovered that they have no idea what
the hell they're talking about. One hundred percent. There's actually
a term for this, the gel Man amnesia effect. Yeah,
(31:46):
g e l or gell Man amnesia effect. I became
aware of this fairly recently. We talked about this for years.
Yeah huh yeah, and it's funny even as we recognized it.
It's hard to believe it's completely true. Universally true engineers
read a news report about engineering and think these people
don't have any idea what they're talking about. But I'm
(32:08):
sure their coverage of the radio industry is accurate, you know,
and vice versa. Yeah, anyway, I like this note from
the lovely Lindsay, Jack and Joe, longtime listeners. Since I
was nineteen years old, now a divorced woman in her
mid forties, we're old. I finally decided to ask chat
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gpt to help me with many unanswered questions about building
a vegetable garden an irrigation system. Where at Google never
give me any answers to my specific questions and circumstances.
Chat GPT understood what I needed in three seconds told
me exactly how to do it, and provided an illustrated
schematic to help. Seems like chet GPT is filling the
mail gap in my life and I probably don't need
(32:50):
to worry about dating anymore. Thanks, guys, I don't cage. Yes,
I don't know that term. What was that word? Before
the garden vegetables? She signs off kg wrte THR keep
giving women a reason to end the human race. I
love you, guys, love you. Why are you gonna give
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up on women or on men entirely because chat GPT
can tell you out of the garden? Okay, m that
is too bad. Another freaking correspondent, the Great JT in Livermore.
Trump may be the master deal maker, but I think
a huge critical mistake he and others are making is
that you can't make a deal when one or both
parties don't want a deal. New York real Estate or
(33:34):
Trump made his bones. There's always a buyer and a seller,
or a union boss and a business interest when there
are two parties who want to make a deal if
it's the right deal, and having a master deal maker
as possible. But putin Russia Palestinians, they don't want to
make a deal. Certainly Hamas doesn't, so there's not a
master deal making to be made. Well. You can pressure
people into a deal, though, either militarily or economically possibly,
(33:55):
but you have to be willing to pressure them, and
I'm not sure he's willing to pressure Pootin at all. Well,
and I would say, you know a couple of those
example Putin and Hamas, the pressure would have to be
very very intense. Yes, yes it would and violent and expensive,
coast to coast allergies attacking Americans stay tuned and risky
(34:18):
as well. It would open various Pandora's boxes. So yeah,
I too, am skeptical about some of this. Let's see,
with our president having the best doctors, writes Chris, how
did Biden get such a late cancer diagnosis? I mean,
Jake Tapper's had his head up Biden's bleep for the
last five years. So I see, I see that that
is an ongoing joke. Okay, really, yeah, there you go. Yeah?
(34:42):
The uh why they telling this now when it's probably
been known for some time? That is an interesting question.
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