November 1, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Kamala's cracking & J Lo is everywhere
- Don't text "STOP"
- How risky is a 2nd Trump term?
- The Waymo stand off
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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 Katty. I'm strong
and Jetty, and he armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And by the way I looked at her this morning,
she had a little news conference lasted for like two minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
She's exhausted. You know, she's exhausted.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
She's a train wreck who is totally unqualified to be
the president of the United States of America. There are
some people who thrive under pressure, and there are some
people who crack under pressure.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
She's a cracker. And the more.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Pressure Kamala, the more pressure Kamala has, the more you
see it happening.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, she's cracking now. So you got to play nothing
but cracker bumper music for the rest of tower. Michael, So,
this is a delicate topic since we're talking about a woman, obviously,
but Trump talking about how she looks exhausted, as she
looks terrible. Somebody on our staff who watched her appearance
yesterday said she looked really rough yesterday. And I would
(01:20):
just like to say, as someone who is exactly the
same age as her, it happens. There are days where
you look in the mirror and you think looking pretty good.
And then some days you look at the mirror and think,
good lord, what happens a gesture day? I don't know
why that is. I've eaten in the night. I don't
recall it. It's just like some days I feel ten
years younger and some days I feel ten years older.
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It's like I even say to people, I'm having an
old day. Sorry, it's not a good extreme one of
my old days where I feel ten years older most
of time out And I think she was having one
of her old looking days yesterday, which happens when you're
this age. Yeah, well, especially if you're kind of hungover.
Because she well known get the old shardonnay in excess
(02:03):
probably shows going with this show's going with that. She's
a drunk angle. Yes, we need a woman involved. Katie
as a woman, as a woman, can confirm she looked
like hell really. Yeah, as a person her age, I
can confirm some days are rougher than others. So I
don't know a play you know this is? This is
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for the beloved female listeners of the Armstrong and Getty show,
where we know what a woman is? Uh? Play that?
Uh that? Kamala drunkenly shouting again Michael about if that
ain't a gal three glasses of shardenay in, come on,
come on, that's that's like, my friends, I recognize that, Cadence,
(02:50):
this is your wheelhouse, and we're going to like an
expert commentator on someone who knows what a woman who's
had a few glasses of wine sounds like, Oh yeah,
I'm a native guide to that culture.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
What fucking about?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Here's here's where we are as a country. Maybe we
deserve to die as a democracy. So I got ABC
on and CBS and CNN and Fox on at least
three of them, not Fox at the same time. J
Loo's face. She was at the rally, Jennifer Lopez dressed up. Man,
when she is, she does not look tired. She's fifty
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two or O my god, she gets dulled up. Man,
that's an attractive woman. But anyway, Jaen and a long
time consort of the rate DP Diddy, as I recall,
weren't they married, were dating certainly together. I think they're
yeah engaged one of her six engagements. Uh, j Lo
on three of my televisions at the same time. And
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no democracy deserves to survive. That can be evolved at
that level with a celebrity pushing one candidate and the
news reacting to it like it freaking matters. That's crazy.
You give me thirty seconds, I can list for you
my ten favorite musicians of all time. I'd be leaving
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out a lot, but uh, and then if you told
me all ten of those have endorsed Kamala Harris, my
reaction be oh m, I don't care. I don't even
think you'd get a reaction out of me. Why did
you tell me that might be my reaction? I don't care.
What sort of silly person could possibly give even half
a crap? I don't know. He's a brilliant guitar player.
(04:27):
He really bends his noteswell, and he likes that. Yeah,
it's thanks for telling me. It's not anti Jhillo or
Hulk Hogan or any of these people. Really, It's just like,
how could you possibly be influenced by somebody like that
for your vote? It just that makes no sense. Oh,
I've got a nice dining room table. You talk about
a useless room, the formal dining room. Yeah, anyway, what
(04:50):
a useless square footage? They should subtract that from the
square footage of the house to give you the LB
your houses. That's why there was rooms for a pool
table and your cues in there. There'd be a pool
table in there anyway. Don't tell my wife I said that.
But so we got a nice dinning room table. If
the guy who like carved that table came in said,
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you know, I'm for Kamala Harris, I'd be like, why
are you telling me you're a nice You're a skilled carpenter,
and I congratulate you. Why would I give a boy
almost said an unfortunate word? Folks, what do you think
about politicians? I just I honestly, I guess you admire
those people on some level. And if you're young and impressionable.
(05:32):
It's like actors, we imbue them. We kind of associate
them with the qualities of the characters they've played. Yeah,
there's that. Also, I remember from being young, you get
the sense that, well, this is the cool party and
that's the uncool party. So because all the cool people
are on this side, and I want to be at
the cool people, just like in high school. Yeah, yeah,
(05:52):
George Washington would slap you with the broadside of his sword. Anyway.
Certainly there's an opinion that one half of the electorate
is garba what the old man say the other day, Michael.
The only garbage I see flowed down there is his
supporters and the White House in mainstream media trying desperately
to spin that as some sort of uh, missing apostrophe
(06:15):
or misspeaking or something. It occurred to me as we're
getting ready for the show today, one thing I'd forgotten
about is the tendency of older men and women to
completely lose their filter, to say things that may be
true and they may think, but you would never say
in polite society. I think many of us have observed that. Yes,
I've experienced that in my real life, including with good
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and decent people who mean no harm. I'm looking forward
to that era of my own life. I'm just gonna
write it prematurely. I do it for a living, anyway,
I think. I think that's what happened with Joe Biden.
He said what he was thinking because he's his filter
is gone with some of his other neurological function. Yeah,
(06:59):
he was supposed to be in Scranton, Pennsylvania this weekend
campaigning for Harris. I heard a one strategist say he's
likely to be put in American Samoa until Tuesday nights
campaigning by the Harris campaign. Yeah, so, I want to
share with you just a bit of what the brilliant
Kimstrecell wrote for the Wall Street Journal opinion page. She
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is so good. Should Republicans lose this election, it will
be in some part due to the contempt Donald Trump
has shown his opponent. Should Democrats lose this election, it
will be in large part due to the contempt they
routinely show tens of millions of voters. The media is
doing its best to play down Joe Biden's casual insult
of half of America's garbage. He was misunderstood it was
(07:39):
a gaff. Let's meditate on Donald Trump's garbage trunks truck
stunt instead. Why on earth would anyone assume mister Biden
would again show derision for voters he's labeled as semi fascists,
MAGA extremist, and proponents of Jim Crow two point zero.
Of course, it wasn't a gaff. It's the latest injection
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of time sick democratic arrogance, and it explains the party's
electoral struggles. It's of a piece with the open dismissal
by the media and elites of critics as idiots, yokels,
and deplorable yocals. The men accused of toxic masculinity, the
women written off as handmaids. The religious are fanatics, the
millions the left scorn with a long list of ist
(08:22):
and fobe words. If you don't bout a progressive dogma,
you're a fascist, sexist, racist, nationalist, insurrectionists, domestic terrorist, extremist,
far rightist and homophobe, and nazi who is bitter and
cleaning the guns and religions. These labels are now even
being employed as an election strategy, pejoratives to be ascribed
to people based on their vote. Michelle Obama lectures the
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men in our lives that only vote for that only
a vote for Kamala Harris will prove that they take
women's health seriously. Don't be misogynistic. Barack Obama explains to
black men that a failure to vote for commaed as
evidence Kamala is evidence that you just aren't feeling the
idea of having a woman as president. Don't be a sexist.
Mark Cuban reminds us Donald Trump is never in a
company of strong intelligent women, don't be a weak, dumb
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GOP voting broad then she gets into the awful Julia
Roberts women terrified of their idiot maga husbands or a
progressive activist. Jeff Piper tweeted this to white women this month.
I don't care what kind of sign your husband has
put in the yard or what your pastor preaches on Sunday.
You can vote your conscience. You can vote for your
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children and grandchildren. No one will know. Thanks for the stereotypes, ladies.
No doubt millions of US females, as soon as we've
unchained ourselves from the sink and reread Ephesians five twenty two,
we'll go mindlessly vote for more inflation and border chaos
and debt. After all, we wouldn't want to check the
boxes spineless, stupid, and baby hating. But that's the joke.
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The contempt isn't working. It's alienating large segments of the country,
including once key sections of Democratic coalition. And you know
who those are. GOP blue collar voters, black folks, Hispanic folks,
et cetera. Boy, I don't know if it's I don't
know why this has happened to me now age or
I don't know what. I've been a parent for quite
(10:11):
a while, but I've never voted on the abortion issue.
They're not with that in mind, really, But man, when
I see the focused groupie woman on the street talking
about it's my body, since keep your hands off my body,
I find that just freaking maddening. If you want to
make the argument for why it should be okay to
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abort a baby in the first trimester, I'm fine with
you making that argument. A majority of Americans think that
should be legal. I'm fine. I underget all that, but
please lay off the whole my body. There's another body
involved at some point. We all don't know where to
draw the line. But to act as if there's not
even a question, and if you have that opinion, you're
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a monster, is just it's again, incredibly insulting. It is.
It's insulting. That's why it pisses me off so much.
You act like I don't know the spin you're making.
It infuriates me, you know. Final note, this is our
freedom loving quote of the day, last hour from Richard Nixon,
of all people. But it's absolutely brilliant politics. People will
vote for you, even if they don't like you, they
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will never vote for you if you think if they
think you don't like them, I'm sorry, I screwed up
the genius of the great Richard Nixon. Nixon, But if
you give the impression that you are contemptuous of people,
and that's what I've been saying of the left in
America for a very long time. They are so superior, condescending,
just pretentious and contemptuous of the voters, which is kind
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of the mood of the over educated white Democratic voter.
They just think they're better and smarter than everyone, and
that is rubbing people the wrong way. It's taken a
little while for certain segments of the population to catch up.
But man, that is electorally speaking, and just in terms
of human beings, dealing with human beings at work, in
your relationships whatever, that's poisonous. And I'm just looking at
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the headlines. I don't want to talk about Moza. I mean,
it's just this dumb misstep gaff made up controversy versus
this dumb misstep gaff controversy over the last twenty four hours.
It just I guess that's the way it's gonna be
up to the finish line. Oof tiring. I'm gonna watch
football or listen to music or something these last three
days induced coma. I'm telling you, yes, medically induced coma.
(12:30):
Can you hire a doctor to do that? Just put
me down almost all the way down enough that you
can bring me back maybe like Tuesday night. Hey, you
were a doctor, you lost your license, you still got
some of the drugs around Texas four on five two
nine five KFTC more on the way takes the snap
four man rush blobs, one left in at the ends,
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one for Garrett Wilson. What pave Garrett Wilson He makes
his second one handed touchdown catch of the night. One
of the sickest catches I've ever seen. Yeah, if you
haven't seen that, it is. It is one of the
coolest catches in the history of the NFL. As the
last place Jets beat the first place Texans and whatever.
Maybe you care about this, that's exciting. Stop texting, stop,
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says The Wall Street Journal. To those political ads, it
makes it worse. They determine. Oh no, if you text
stop to one of those, their internal algorithm is, ah,
we got a live number and send you more. So
your only options are to not text, stop report is junk,
and get a spam filter, says the Wall Street Journal,
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and you know, wait patiently for the election to be
over and hopefully they go away. But texting stop is
not the right answer, which I've been doing endlessly, which
is probably why I get about fifty brazilion of those
texts every single day because I text stopped all of them. Right, wow, interesting,
and there are laws against that, but I mean, you
can bash somebody over the had and take their watch
in most blue cities and not get arrested. So yeah, right,
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nobody's running around in forcing that, right, please, So we
didn't get I live at a different house than I've
lived the last several halloweens, and I knew I wasn't
gonna get a lot of trick or treaters because it's
a round about road that doesn't give a traffic done
a cul de sac on it, So it's just I
don't know why you'd walk down that unlikely, but a
couple families did, and one group with like five kids, young,
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younger kids and super cute, and I'm glad they came by.
I wish it could have been more. I love that,
and my son really wanted to hand out candy because
we had full sized bars and he wanted to make
an impression. It was a flex, no doubt, full sized Snickers.
I only ate candy for dinner last night. Oh my god. Yeah,
I had a Snickers, a kit Cat and then just
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a plain chocolate bar for dessert. Child, You had dessert
after your candy dinner? Yeah, yeah, I have nothing to add.
I did not feel good when I went to bed.
Any who really, So they knock on the door. I
step outside to get him the candy so the dog
doesn't run out the door. And I said, oh, you're cute.
The littlest one. How old is she? And uh, mom
(15:16):
said he's three and a half. I misgendered a little
kid in this turbulent era in California where it's a crime.
Oh no, oh, no criminal, And you just admitted to it. Ah,
what were what were the clues? Why did why did
you miss gender this person? And that's quotes, folks. I
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will never use that terms extraordinarily long hair. I just
you know, I didn't actually feel bad about it, but
I mean, if you're a little boy is going to
have and I don't just mean long hair like some
boys have long hair. I mean like way down to
the middle of your back, like really only girls usually
have or rock stars. You just don't see that not
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that long anyway. I don't know what am I supposed
to do. I guess not pick a gender. And the
costume was lean in a little that direction. But you
know none of my business. Hey, you say, hey lady,
your lad looks like a little girl. That's why I
said she happy Halloween.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Please do not use gendered language to address everyone.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't feel like they needed to do that. Er treat
dang it. So texting stop back to them is an
indicator that it's a live phone. Now send me all
your emails and say, hey, JD vans here, I personally
typed you this text. I know it's not you, JD.
You're not following me. Yeah, well, we all suspected as much,
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and now we know. I can't believe those things work
since they're free. They might not work, but it costs
them nothing really to send those emails, so they keep
sending them. It's just who even reads them. You just say,
damn another politically email and try to get rid of it. Yep,
we got a lot more of the way. I hope
you can stay with it us Miss narget the podcast
(17:08):
Armstrong and Getty. So I guess it's somewhat our duty
to go through the controversial clips of the twenty four
hour news cycle. We've done some of them already. This
is Trump at an event with Tucker Carlson in Arizona,
which they're hoping to win. I gotta believe if you're
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a Trump hater, it makes your head explode. Trump with
Tucker Carlson and the fact that there's a decent chance
he's going to win. But Trump took the bait, as
he regularly does, on something Liz Cheney said negative about him,
so he had to really fire back at Liz Cheney.
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Oh boy, and this is what he said. She's a
radical warhawk.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Let's put her with a rifle, standing there with nine
barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels
about it. You know, when the guns are trained in
her face. You know, there are all walkhawks when they're
sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, Gie,
will let's send let's send ten thousand troops right into
the mouth of the enemy. But she's a stupid person.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So it's being portrayed by the left as a threat
of violence against Liz Cheney and the talk of a
fascist dictator as usual. I don't agree with well, I
don't even know. I'm not sure what Trump's stance is
on Ukraine and Israel actually, which is a little troubling.
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I'm not exactly sure what kamalus stance is on those either,
which is also someone troubling, as these are major issues.
But that's just a it's easy to be for war
if you're not actually fighting an argument that people have
been making for you know, ever, Sure, and it's a
legitimate argument. It's one of the balancing forces that must
be at play as we make those decisions. Sure, in play,
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not at play anyway. So either you think that was
violent rhetoric threatening Liz Cheney, that's ridiculous. Please. And then
Joe Biden says his supporters are garbage and no, that's
not what he meant. Please, Okay, that's the flat of
the Night's a nice try again. Never in the last well,
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just restricted to the last three months, the critical phase
of the election, not once has any human being, citizen
or immigrants uttered the words. I wonder what Liz Cheney thinks.
That's enough for me a couple of developments in the
world of journalism worth following and we've been talking about.
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Is the trend now it would seem I hope it's
a trend that you're increasingly meaningless yet still how high
profile news sources like the New York Times, the Washington Post,
the LA Times. They don't endorse a candidate. What the
Wall Street Journal does is publish their best attempt at
two uh rigorous honest editorials about the two candidates, and
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then they trust their listeners, they're their readers, rather to
make the judgment, like to them, like is it too
arguing pro for each or just pro and con? Okay,
an honest, an attempted, and honest assessment of each candidate. Now,
I'm not a child. I know the Wall Street Journal
swings conservative. It's why I love it so much, even
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when I disagree with it. It's it's worth reading. Uh
So they they are definitely a little more sympathetic to
Trump and and and scathing of Kamala. How could they
not be scathing? The woman has no talent, She's accomplished nothing,
She's a DEI higher. She slept her way to the
top of California. Wow, misogyny dripping from your fangs. Fangs anyway,
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Katie's clapping though you may, I would make me so proud.
That was perfect, Thank you. I was reminded by the
great Katie Grimes of the California Globe the other day
that Willie Brown, her boyfriend who gave her phony bologny
bored appointments that made her hundreds of thousands of dollars,
then lifted her up to the highest reaches of California politics,
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including being the Attorney General. When she was Attorney General,
several investigations that would have ensnared Willy and his buddies
quietly went away, well as the nine your own damn
business as the non misogynist who's not trying to smear
Kamala Harris. I would say that the Wall Street Journal
might be on solid ground as a business newspaper to
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be pretty against her based on just her policies like
price fixing, rent control, anti gouging laws, equity as a goal,
I mean, like everybody being equal. What are you talking about? No,
you could not design a worse candidate, honestly, unless I
had fangs, for instance, for eight babies like the current
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sitting president. Well known infanty, dogs, cats, and babies all
being eaten in a cycle. It's amazing, that's right anyway.
The Wall Street Journal's editorial about Trump, I thought was
very interesting. It's entitled how risky is a second Trump term?
He'd slow the left's coercive march, but his policies are
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likely to be a jump ball, and he says the
Democrat is a California progressive elevated at the last minute,
who looked unprepared for a world on fire. The Republican
is Donald Trump, who still denies he lost in twenty twenty,
has done little to reassureed swing voters that his second
term will be calmer than his rancorous first. I'm gonna
call out my friends at the Journal for that. The
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first term was rancorous, and for the millionth time, I'm
no great fan of Trump. But the ranker didn't come
from Trump was directed at him. The Russia collusion hoax
occupied in an enormous amount of time and energy, the
fifty one intelligence professionals, Russia Hunter's laptop, Russian disinformation, all
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of that stuff, trying to oppose him even when he
was doing good stuff. That's where the ranker came from
and Trump's a jackass anyway. The best argument for a
Trump victory is it would be suitable penance for the
many democratic failures at home and abroad. And they touch
on inflation, adversaries, on the march abuses of regulatory power,
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law fair All of that marching forward, unchecked would be awful.
Second argument is that mister Trump's first term was better
than expected. His leadership was often chaotic and caustic, and
he rolled through multiple chiefs of staff and security advisors,
but voters were called at home. He presided over a
strong pre COVID economy or deregulation, tax reformed. Additional nominees
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were terrific, broke many diplomatic rules. His praise for dictators
was disconcerting, but the enemies stayed quiet on his watch,
kept her on in the Bronx Abraham Accords. All that
stuff's pretty damned good. What do you think about the
argument that some people make, Like if I I know
some people that won't vote for Trump because of January sixth,
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I think that's a perfectly reasonable argument that I have
no response to. Really, I mean, if you just can't
vote for a guy because of that, you know, I
get it. But to the terms of him being a
fascist or a dictator, he was president for four years
and he didn't try. He didn't take over. He laugh,
here's how he yeah, oh yeah, yeah, he did leave. Yeah,
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in spite of his claims that he won. It's funny.
The Wall Street Journal puts it. The authoritarian rule the
Democrats and the press predicted never appeared. Mister Trump was
too undisciplined and his attention spent too short to stay
on one message. That's much less stature. Coo.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's one of my reasons that what I realized is
not the greatest argument for a guy that like, I
just don't think he's got the energy or the the
like ideology to be a dictator. He just or the youth. Yeah,
they touched on January sixth, Mister Trump's attempt to overturn
the election was appalling and for many Americans is disqualifying
for a second term. We thought he shouldn't win the
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nomination again, they write, blah blah. The one thing they
are concerned about is that his chiefs of staff and
his cabinet in general, even some of the leadership of
the Senate and the House checked his worst impulses consistently.
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And the one thing the Journal is concerned about, and
I share their concern, is that he is likely to
surround himself to loyalists beyond like defense the Constitution, loyal
attorney Defense, Attorney General Rudy Giuliani, right, Secretary of State
Tucker Carlson, you know whatever. Oh my god, Oh my god.
(25:58):
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Secretary of Health or whatever. Right. And then one final
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across this on the Trump clip we played about Liz
Cheney and the guns being pointed at her and all
that sort of stuff. Glenn Greenwald, who I rarely agree
with lately, but he made the point all these people
Morning Joe, everybody on MSNBC this morning screaming at Trump
for criticizing Liz Cheney about wanting to get in wars
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when she doesn't have the guns pointed at her. Are
all the people that have been screaming it that at
Liz Cheney and her dad for like a decade and
a half, word for word word, That's what the CNNMSNBC
crowd has been saying. You're all about getting into wars.
The guns aren't pointed at you, You're willing to send
other people off to war. That's what they've been saying
(28:10):
for years and now just for like twenty five years
now that I think about it, and not Trump says
it and he's the evil one. That is pretty hilarious.
People are full of crap anyway. So one thing Wall
Street Journal Editorial Board said, other than the surrounded by
sycophants thing which which concerns me a little bit, and
this there are books written about this. There are libraries
(28:30):
full of books written about this. The incredible challenge of
for instance, in the wake of our need to decouple
with the Chinese on shoring critical industry, be it pharmaceuticals,
which I was just reading about we are so dependent
(28:51):
on China for our pharmaceuticals, not just the final pills,
but the raw materials, the chemicals, all of it military
and semi military technologies. So the question of on shoring
critical industries tariffs to protect US industry. I'm not for
(29:11):
protecting US industry from competition with tariffs, but I am
for protecting American jobs from unfair competition like subsidies given
out by the EU or the Chinese or whatever to
their companies, which is an unleveled playing field. For the
longest time, Corporate America said, well, you know what, that
sucks and it's not fair. But a trade war would
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be more expensive to the board of directors, the c suite,
the stockholders than fighting for American jobs. We're not even
going to bother to do that. There's a certain amount
of that that's necessary. But as the Wall Street Journal
puts it, if Trump goes with the protectionist industrial policy
pro big labor voices who surround JD vance, the GOP
(29:56):
will no longer be a party of free markets in
small government. This is one way the US into slow
growth Europe, where all the major parties are statists. I
think that's a bit of a concern. But you know,
now that I think about it, Trump is so hot
to trot to the point of like obsessing over how
(30:17):
hot the economy is and whether it makes him look good.
He's not gonna employ measures that turn the US into
a slow growth Europe or all the major parties are
status I think he will probably balance those impulses and
you know, back forth back forth. If the march toward
neo Marxism continues, the radical gender theory, critical race theory,
(30:39):
all the theories you hear that's all out of Marxism,
if that were to march forward for another four years unchallenged,
that would be utterly disastrous. So I'll roll my dice
and hope Trump can stay under control.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Speaking for myself, so you're not hearing a lot about
the massive shootout involving four Hundre gang members in France
and how it factors fits in with their whole immigration
problem and everything. Wow, wow, blue heck of a story
in Lion France. L Yo n not lyon Ted Cruz
(31:14):
or lying Kamala Harris, but Lion France.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
It's Leon okay leic absolutely, proudly, proudly yes, if you
haven't heard the Star State garbage. That's what I say
about it. Guys, Like, if you haven't heard this story,
it's something I'm not a lot of things on the way.
(31:37):
Stay right here, Armstrong. The Weimo is stuck because the
Weimo is trying to go behind the Amazon, but then
it's stuck behind the Weimo and oh my god, there's
another Weimo. What's everybody gonna do? It is a Weimo
stand off? What is gonna happen? Who's gonna win? There's
(31:59):
four of them stuck that way. Moo came through, so
a bunch of the driverless taxi cars from one company.
They're AI, how do we drive? They were facing each
other and trying to figure out how to get out
of it. My self driving Tesla does it every once
(32:20):
in a while if there's like a bicyclist or a
dog or something like that and it's at a crosswalk,
it's like, I don't know what to do. It just
sits there. Nah, I don't know what to do. It's
kind of funny those people behind you start honking. That
was a woman laughingly mocking several computers, right, and it
was very funny. Yeah, stupid computer cars it's a little scary.
(32:43):
I mean, I don't know what the technology is like
on those, but and it's way better on my Tesla
than when I first bought it, So I've had it
for three years, significantly better the self driving now than
it was when I first got it. But every once
in a while it'll just like practically lock up the
brakes you're flying down the highway seventy miles nard. It's
just like it senses something or I don't know what happens.
It scares the crap out of you, and that you
(33:06):
don't want that happening very often before you're just never
going to use that technology. Good way to get rear
ended too. Heck yeah. So, as is often the case
with violence involving youths in Europe, particularly France and England,
you can't find any reporting that lets you know perhaps
(33:28):
what is exactly going on. First became aware of this
with Mark Stein when he wrote a number of pieces
and books and stuff like that, where he said, they
always refer to the people as youths. They don't want
to say out loud that it's immigrants from other countries,
often Muslim immigrants, doing all this in England and France
and wherever youths. But anyway, they had a shootout with
(33:52):
somewhere between four hundred and six hundred people a couple
of rival gangs in France last night. Let me read
this to you from I thought this was a heck
of a statement. What started as a shooting at a
restaurant ended up as a fight between rival gangs. It
involved several hundred people again four hundred and six hundred
(34:13):
depending on who you're asking. The government spokesman said France
was at a tipping point when it came to drug
related violence. Trafficking gangs today have no limits. These shootouts
are not in Latin America. They're in France and once
tranquil western France. We have a choice between general mobilization
or the Mexicanization of the country Holy Cow, which is
(34:36):
a heck of a statement from a government official. General
mobilization this sort of thing that a fascist like Trump
would say, you know, sending out the France version of
the National Guard or something I guess, or the Mexicanization
of our country. It's so interesting that in so many
quote unquote civilized nations, the allowing civilization to be destroyed
(35:02):
is seen as much more enlightening than doing the thing
or enlightened rather than doing the things it takes to
preserve civilization, that is brutish and unacceptable. They talked about
a lot of the drugs coming in from Southern Africa. Okay,
So in other words, I'm sorry, just to refine my thought,
(35:24):
allowing brutes to take control is less brutish than stopping them. Right,
You will not summon up the strength and unkindness it
takes to stop the brutes. Man, It'll be interesting to
see how this plays out. One more reason Trump's got
(35:46):
to be in charge. We cannot let the forces of
lawlessness get another. Fourn the only one who is prosecuted
trans gang trafficking drugs, prosecuted practically nobody when she was
in office. Every aspect of her Her resume is inflated.
(36:07):
Armstrong and getty. Mm hmm
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty. I'm strong
and Jetty, and he armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And by the way I looked at her this morning,
she had a little news conference lasted for like two minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
She's exhausted. You know, she's exhausted.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
She's a train wreck who is totally unqualified to be
the president of the United States of America. There are
some people who thrive under pressure, and there are some
people who crack under pressure.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
She's a cracker. And the more.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Pressure Kamala, the more pressure Kamala has, the more you
see it happening.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, she's cracking now. So you got to play nothing
but cracker bumper music for the rest of tower. Michael, So,
this is a delicate topic since we're talking about a woman, obviously,
but Trump talking about how she looks exhausted, as she
looks terrible. Somebody on our staff who watched her appearance
yesterday said she looked really rough yesterday. And I would
(01:20):
just like to say, as someone who is exactly the
same age as her, it happens. There are days where
you look in the mirror and you think looking pretty good.
And then some days you look at the mirror and think,
good lord, what happens a gesture day? I don't know
why that is. I've eaten in the night. I don't
recall it. It's just like some days I feel ten
years younger and some days I feel ten years older.
(01:42):
It's like I even say to people, I'm having an
old day. Sorry, it's not a good extreme one of
my old days where I feel ten years older most
of time out And I think she was having one
of her old looking days yesterday, which happens when you're
this age. Yeah, well, especially if you're kind of hungover.
Because she well known get the old shardonnay in excess
(02:03):
probably shows going with this show's going with that. She's
a drunk angle. Yes, we need a woman involved. Katie
as a woman, as a woman, can confirm she looked
like hell really. Yeah, as a person her age, I
can confirm some days are rougher than others. So I
don't know a play you know this is? This is
(02:25):
for the beloved female listeners of the Armstrong and Getty show,
where we know what a woman is? Uh? Play that?
Uh that? Kamala drunkenly shouting again Michael about if that
ain't a gal three glasses of shardenay in, come on,
come on, that's that's like, my friends, I recognize that, Cadence,
(02:50):
this is your wheelhouse, and we're going to like an
expert commentator on someone who knows what a woman who's
had a few glasses of wine sounds like, Oh yeah,
I'm a native guide to that culture.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
What fucking about?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Here's here's where we are as a country. Maybe we
deserve to die as a democracy. So I got ABC
on and CBS and CNN and Fox on at least
three of them, not Fox at the same time. J
Loo's face. She was at the rally, Jennifer Lopez dressed up. Man,
when she is, she does not look tired. She's fifty
(03:22):
two or O my god, she gets dulled up. Man,
that's an attractive woman. But anyway, Jaen and a long
time consort of the rate DP Diddy, as I recall,
weren't they married, were dating certainly together. I think they're
yeah engaged one of her six engagements. Uh, j Lo
on three of my televisions at the same time. And
(03:44):
no democracy deserves to survive. That can be evolved at
that level with a celebrity pushing one candidate and the
news reacting to it like it freaking matters. That's crazy.
You give me thirty seconds, I can list for you
my ten favorite musicians of all time. I'd be leaving
(04:05):
out a lot, but uh, and then if you told
me all ten of those have endorsed Kamala Harris, my
reaction be oh m, I don't care. I don't even
think you'd get a reaction out of me. Why did
you tell me that might be my reaction? I don't care.
What sort of silly person could possibly give even half
a crap? I don't know. He's a brilliant guitar player.
(04:27):
He really bends his noteswell, and he likes that. Yeah,
it's thanks for telling me. It's not anti Jhillo or
Hulk Hogan or any of these people. Really, It's just like,
how could you possibly be influenced by somebody like that
for your vote? It just that makes no sense. Oh,
I've got a nice dining room table. You talk about
a useless room, the formal dining room. Yeah, anyway, what
(04:50):
a useless square footage? They should subtract that from the
square footage of the house to give you the LB
your houses. That's why there was rooms for a pool
table and your cues in there. There'd be a pool
table in there anyway. Don't tell my wife I said that.
But so we got a nice dinning room table. If
the guy who like carved that table came in said,
(05:10):
you know, I'm for Kamala Harris, I'd be like, why
are you telling me you're a nice You're a skilled carpenter,
and I congratulate you. Why would I give a boy
almost said an unfortunate word? Folks, what do you think
about politicians? I just I honestly, I guess you admire
those people on some level. And if you're young and impressionable.
(05:32):
It's like actors, we imbue them. We kind of associate
them with the qualities of the characters they've played. Yeah,
there's that. Also, I remember from being young, you get
the sense that, well, this is the cool party and
that's the uncool party. So because all the cool people
are on this side, and I want to be at
the cool people, just like in high school. Yeah, yeah,
(05:52):
George Washington would slap you with the broadside of his sword. Anyway.
Certainly there's an opinion that one half of the electorate
is garba what the old man say the other day, Michael.
The only garbage I see flowed down there is his
supporters and the White House in mainstream media trying desperately
to spin that as some sort of uh, missing apostrophe
(06:15):
or misspeaking or something. It occurred to me as we're
getting ready for the show today, one thing I'd forgotten
about is the tendency of older men and women to
completely lose their filter, to say things that may be
true and they may think, but you would never say
in polite society. I think many of us have observed that. Yes,
I've experienced that in my real life, including with good
(06:39):
and decent people who mean no harm. I'm looking forward
to that era of my own life. I'm just gonna
write it prematurely. I do it for a living, anyway,
I think. I think that's what happened with Joe Biden.
He said what he was thinking because he's his filter
is gone with some of his other neurological function. Yeah,
(06:59):
he was supposed to be in Scranton, Pennsylvania this weekend
campaigning for Harris. I heard a one strategist say he's
likely to be put in American Samoa until Tuesday nights
campaigning by the Harris campaign. Yeah, so, I want to
share with you just a bit of what the brilliant
Kimstrecell wrote for the Wall Street Journal opinion page. She
(07:19):
is so good. Should Republicans lose this election, it will
be in some part due to the contempt Donald Trump
has shown his opponent. Should Democrats lose this election, it
will be in large part due to the contempt they
routinely show tens of millions of voters. The media is
doing its best to play down Joe Biden's casual insult
of half of America's garbage. He was misunderstood it was
(07:39):
a gaff. Let's meditate on Donald Trump's garbage trunks truck
stunt instead. Why on earth would anyone assume mister Biden
would again show derision for voters he's labeled as semi fascists,
MAGA extremist, and proponents of Jim Crow two point zero.
Of course, it wasn't a gaff. It's the latest injection
(07:59):
of time sick democratic arrogance, and it explains the party's
electoral struggles. It's of a piece with the open dismissal
by the media and elites of critics as idiots, yokels,
and deplorable yocals. The men accused of toxic masculinity, the
women written off as handmaids. The religious are fanatics, the
millions the left scorn with a long list of ist
(08:22):
and fobe words. If you don't bout a progressive dogma,
you're a fascist, sexist, racist, nationalist, insurrectionists, domestic terrorist, extremist,
far rightist and homophobe, and nazi who is bitter and
cleaning the guns and religions. These labels are now even
being employed as an election strategy, pejoratives to be ascribed
to people based on their vote. Michelle Obama lectures the
(08:45):
men in our lives that only vote for that only
a vote for Kamala Harris will prove that they take
women's health seriously. Don't be misogynistic. Barack Obama explains to
black men that a failure to vote for commaed as
evidence Kamala is evidence that you just aren't feeling the
idea of having a woman as president. Don't be a sexist.
Mark Cuban reminds us Donald Trump is never in a
company of strong intelligent women, don't be a weak, dumb
(09:08):
GOP voting broad then she gets into the awful Julia
Roberts women terrified of their idiot maga husbands or a
progressive activist. Jeff Piper tweeted this to white women this month.
I don't care what kind of sign your husband has
put in the yard or what your pastor preaches on Sunday.
You can vote your conscience. You can vote for your
(09:29):
children and grandchildren. No one will know. Thanks for the stereotypes, ladies.
No doubt millions of US females, as soon as we've
unchained ourselves from the sink and reread Ephesians five twenty two,
we'll go mindlessly vote for more inflation and border chaos
and debt. After all, we wouldn't want to check the
boxes spineless, stupid, and baby hating. But that's the joke.
(09:50):
The contempt isn't working. It's alienating large segments of the country,
including once key sections of Democratic coalition. And you know
who those are. GOP blue collar voters, black folks, Hispanic folks,
et cetera. Boy, I don't know if it's I don't
know why this has happened to me now age or
I don't know what. I've been a parent for quite
(10:11):
a while, but I've never voted on the abortion issue.
They're not with that in mind, really, But man, when
I see the focused groupie woman on the street talking
about it's my body, since keep your hands off my body,
I find that just freaking maddening. If you want to
make the argument for why it should be okay to
(10:33):
abort a baby in the first trimester, I'm fine with
you making that argument. A majority of Americans think that
should be legal. I'm fine. I underget all that, but
please lay off the whole my body. There's another body
involved at some point. We all don't know where to
draw the line. But to act as if there's not
even a question, and if you have that opinion, you're
(10:55):
a monster, is just it's again, incredibly insulting. It is.
It's insulting. That's why it pisses me off so much.
You act like I don't know the spin you're making.
It infuriates me, you know. Final note, this is our
freedom loving quote of the day, last hour from Richard Nixon,
of all people. But it's absolutely brilliant politics. People will
vote for you, even if they don't like you, they
(11:16):
will never vote for you if you think if they
think you don't like them, I'm sorry, I screwed up
the genius of the great Richard Nixon. Nixon, But if
you give the impression that you are contemptuous of people,
and that's what I've been saying of the left in
America for a very long time. They are so superior, condescending,
just pretentious and contemptuous of the voters, which is kind
(11:42):
of the mood of the over educated white Democratic voter.
They just think they're better and smarter than everyone, and
that is rubbing people the wrong way. It's taken a
little while for certain segments of the population to catch up.
But man, that is electorally speaking, and just in terms
of human beings, dealing with human beings at work, in
your relationships whatever, that's poisonous. And I'm just looking at
(12:07):
the headlines. I don't want to talk about Moza. I mean,
it's just this dumb misstep gaff made up controversy versus
this dumb misstep gaff controversy over the last twenty four hours.
It just I guess that's the way it's gonna be
up to the finish line. Oof tiring. I'm gonna watch
football or listen to music or something these last three
days induced coma. I'm telling you, yes, medically induced coma.
(12:30):
Can you hire a doctor to do that? Just put
me down almost all the way down enough that you
can bring me back maybe like Tuesday night. Hey, you
were a doctor, you lost your license, you still got
some of the drugs around Texas four on five two
nine five KFTC more on the way takes the snap
four man rush blobs, one left in at the ends,
(12:53):
one for Garrett Wilson. What pave Garrett Wilson He makes
his second one handed touchdown catch of the night. One
of the sickest catches I've ever seen. Yeah, if you
haven't seen that, it is. It is one of the
coolest catches in the history of the NFL. As the
last place Jets beat the first place Texans and whatever.
Maybe you care about this, that's exciting. Stop texting, stop,
(13:19):
says The Wall Street Journal. To those political ads, it
makes it worse. They determine. Oh no, if you text
stop to one of those, their internal algorithm is, ah,
we got a live number and send you more. So
your only options are to not text, stop report is junk,
and get a spam filter, says the Wall Street Journal,
(13:41):
and you know, wait patiently for the election to be
over and hopefully they go away. But texting stop is
not the right answer, which I've been doing endlessly, which
is probably why I get about fifty brazilion of those
texts every single day because I text stopped all of them. Right, wow, interesting,
and there are laws against that, but I mean, you
can bash somebody over the had and take their watch
in most blue cities and not get arrested. So yeah, right,
(14:03):
nobody's running around in forcing that, right, please, So we
didn't get I live at a different house than I've
lived the last several halloweens, and I knew I wasn't
gonna get a lot of trick or treaters because it's
a round about road that doesn't give a traffic done
a cul de sac on it, So it's just I
don't know why you'd walk down that unlikely, but a
couple families did, and one group with like five kids, young,
(14:29):
younger kids and super cute, and I'm glad they came by.
I wish it could have been more. I love that,
and my son really wanted to hand out candy because
we had full sized bars and he wanted to make
an impression. It was a flex, no doubt, full sized Snickers.
I only ate candy for dinner last night. Oh my god. Yeah,
I had a Snickers, a kit Cat and then just
(14:49):
a plain chocolate bar for dessert. Child, You had dessert
after your candy dinner? Yeah, yeah, I have nothing to add.
I did not feel good when I went to bed.
Any who really, So they knock on the door. I
step outside to get him the candy so the dog
doesn't run out the door. And I said, oh, you're cute.
The littlest one. How old is she? And uh, mom
(15:16):
said he's three and a half. I misgendered a little
kid in this turbulent era in California where it's a crime.
Oh no, oh, no criminal, And you just admitted to it. Ah,
what were what were the clues? Why did why did
you miss gender this person? And that's quotes, folks. I
(15:39):
will never use that terms extraordinarily long hair. I just
you know, I didn't actually feel bad about it, but
I mean, if you're a little boy is going to
have and I don't just mean long hair like some
boys have long hair. I mean like way down to
the middle of your back, like really only girls usually
have or rock stars. You just don't see that not
(16:00):
that long anyway. I don't know what am I supposed
to do. I guess not pick a gender. And the
costume was lean in a little that direction. But you
know none of my business. Hey, you say, hey lady,
your lad looks like a little girl. That's why I
said she happy Halloween.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Please do not use gendered language to address everyone.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't feel like they needed to do that. Er treat
dang it. So texting stop back to them is an
indicator that it's a live phone. Now send me all
your emails and say, hey, JD vans here, I personally
typed you this text. I know it's not you, JD.
You're not following me. Yeah, well, we all suspected as much,
(16:46):
and now we know. I can't believe those things work
since they're free. They might not work, but it costs
them nothing really to send those emails, so they keep
sending them. It's just who even reads them. You just say,
damn another politically email and try to get rid of it. Yep,
we got a lot more of the way. I hope
you can stay with it us Miss narget the podcast
(17:08):
Armstrong and Getty. So I guess it's somewhat our duty
to go through the controversial clips of the twenty four
hour news cycle. We've done some of them already. This
is Trump at an event with Tucker Carlson in Arizona,
which they're hoping to win. I gotta believe if you're
(17:29):
a Trump hater, it makes your head explode. Trump with
Tucker Carlson and the fact that there's a decent chance
he's going to win. But Trump took the bait, as
he regularly does, on something Liz Cheney said negative about him,
so he had to really fire back at Liz Cheney.
(17:51):
Oh boy, and this is what he said. She's a
radical warhawk.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Let's put her with a rifle, standing there with nine
barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels
about it. You know, when the guns are trained in
her face. You know, there are all walkhawks when they're
sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, Gie,
will let's send let's send ten thousand troops right into
the mouth of the enemy. But she's a stupid person.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So it's being portrayed by the left as a threat
of violence against Liz Cheney and the talk of a
fascist dictator as usual. I don't agree with well, I
don't even know. I'm not sure what Trump's stance is
on Ukraine and Israel actually, which is a little troubling.
(18:39):
I'm not exactly sure what kamalus stance is on those either,
which is also someone troubling, as these are major issues.
But that's just a it's easy to be for war
if you're not actually fighting an argument that people have
been making for you know, ever, Sure, and it's a
legitimate argument. It's one of the balancing forces that must
be at play as we make those decisions. Sure, in play,
(19:03):
not at play anyway. So either you think that was
violent rhetoric threatening Liz Cheney, that's ridiculous. Please. And then
Joe Biden says his supporters are garbage and no, that's
not what he meant. Please, Okay, that's the flat of
the Night's a nice try again. Never in the last well,
(19:24):
just restricted to the last three months, the critical phase
of the election, not once has any human being, citizen
or immigrants uttered the words. I wonder what Liz Cheney thinks.
That's enough for me a couple of developments in the
world of journalism worth following and we've been talking about.
(19:44):
Is the trend now it would seem I hope it's
a trend that you're increasingly meaningless yet still how high
profile news sources like the New York Times, the Washington Post,
the LA Times. They don't endorse a candidate. What the
Wall Street Journal does is publish their best attempt at
two uh rigorous honest editorials about the two candidates, and
(20:11):
then they trust their listeners, they're their readers, rather to
make the judgment, like to them, like is it too
arguing pro for each or just pro and con? Okay,
an honest, an attempted, and honest assessment of each candidate. Now,
I'm not a child. I know the Wall Street Journal
swings conservative. It's why I love it so much, even
(20:33):
when I disagree with it. It's it's worth reading. Uh
So they they are definitely a little more sympathetic to
Trump and and and scathing of Kamala. How could they
not be scathing? The woman has no talent, She's accomplished nothing,
She's a DEI higher. She slept her way to the
top of California. Wow, misogyny dripping from your fangs. Fangs anyway,
(20:58):
Katie's clapping though you may, I would make me so proud.
That was perfect, Thank you. I was reminded by the
great Katie Grimes of the California Globe the other day
that Willie Brown, her boyfriend who gave her phony bologny
bored appointments that made her hundreds of thousands of dollars,
then lifted her up to the highest reaches of California politics,
(21:22):
including being the Attorney General. When she was Attorney General,
several investigations that would have ensnared Willy and his buddies
quietly went away, well as the nine your own damn
business as the non misogynist who's not trying to smear
Kamala Harris. I would say that the Wall Street Journal
might be on solid ground as a business newspaper to
(21:42):
be pretty against her based on just her policies like
price fixing, rent control, anti gouging laws, equity as a goal,
I mean, like everybody being equal. What are you talking about? No,
you could not design a worse candidate, honestly, unless I
had fangs, for instance, for eight babies like the current
(22:03):
sitting president. Well known infanty, dogs, cats, and babies all
being eaten in a cycle. It's amazing, that's right anyway.
The Wall Street Journal's editorial about Trump, I thought was
very interesting. It's entitled how risky is a second Trump term?
He'd slow the left's coercive march, but his policies are
(22:24):
likely to be a jump ball, and he says the
Democrat is a California progressive elevated at the last minute,
who looked unprepared for a world on fire. The Republican
is Donald Trump, who still denies he lost in twenty twenty,
has done little to reassureed swing voters that his second
term will be calmer than his rancorous first. I'm gonna
call out my friends at the Journal for that. The
(22:46):
first term was rancorous, and for the millionth time, I'm
no great fan of Trump. But the ranker didn't come
from Trump was directed at him. The Russia collusion hoax
occupied in an enormous amount of time and energy, the
fifty one intelligence professionals, Russia Hunter's laptop, Russian disinformation, all
(23:08):
of that stuff, trying to oppose him even when he
was doing good stuff. That's where the ranker came from
and Trump's a jackass anyway. The best argument for a
Trump victory is it would be suitable penance for the
many democratic failures at home and abroad. And they touch
on inflation, adversaries, on the march abuses of regulatory power,
(23:29):
law fair All of that marching forward, unchecked would be awful.
Second argument is that mister Trump's first term was better
than expected. His leadership was often chaotic and caustic, and
he rolled through multiple chiefs of staff and security advisors,
but voters were called at home. He presided over a
strong pre COVID economy or deregulation, tax reformed. Additional nominees
(23:49):
were terrific, broke many diplomatic rules. His praise for dictators
was disconcerting, but the enemies stayed quiet on his watch,
kept her on in the Bronx Abraham Accords. All that
stuff's pretty damned good. What do you think about the
argument that some people make, Like if I I know
some people that won't vote for Trump because of January sixth,
(24:11):
I think that's a perfectly reasonable argument that I have
no response to. Really, I mean, if you just can't
vote for a guy because of that, you know, I
get it. But to the terms of him being a
fascist or a dictator, he was president for four years
and he didn't try. He didn't take over. He laugh,
here's how he yeah, oh yeah, yeah, he did leave. Yeah,
(24:35):
in spite of his claims that he won. It's funny.
The Wall Street Journal puts it. The authoritarian rule the
Democrats and the press predicted never appeared. Mister Trump was
too undisciplined and his attention spent too short to stay
on one message. That's much less stature. Coo.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I know.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That's one of my reasons that what I realized is
not the greatest argument for a guy that like, I
just don't think he's got the energy or the the
like ideology to be a dictator. He just or the youth. Yeah,
they touched on January sixth, Mister Trump's attempt to overturn
the election was appalling and for many Americans is disqualifying
for a second term. We thought he shouldn't win the
(25:13):
nomination again, they write, blah blah. The one thing they
are concerned about is that his chiefs of staff and
his cabinet in general, even some of the leadership of
the Senate and the House checked his worst impulses consistently.
(25:34):
And the one thing the Journal is concerned about, and
I share their concern, is that he is likely to
surround himself to loyalists beyond like defense the Constitution, loyal
attorney Defense, Attorney General Rudy Giuliani, right, Secretary of State
Tucker Carlson, you know whatever. Oh my god, Oh my god.
(25:58):
And he's literally talking about our k Junior is the
Secretary of Health or whatever. Right. And then one final
thing that concerns me seriously sincerely, after a quick word
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across this on the Trump clip we played about Liz
Cheney and the guns being pointed at her and all
that sort of stuff. Glenn Greenwald, who I rarely agree
with lately, but he made the point all these people
Morning Joe, everybody on MSNBC this morning screaming at Trump
for criticizing Liz Cheney about wanting to get in wars
(27:49):
when she doesn't have the guns pointed at her. Are
all the people that have been screaming it that at
Liz Cheney and her dad for like a decade and
a half, word for word word, That's what the CNNMSNBC
crowd has been saying. You're all about getting into wars.
The guns aren't pointed at you, You're willing to send
other people off to war. That's what they've been saying
(28:10):
for years and now just for like twenty five years
now that I think about it, and not Trump says
it and he's the evil one. That is pretty hilarious.
People are full of crap anyway. So one thing Wall
Street Journal Editorial Board said, other than the surrounded by
sycophants thing which which concerns me a little bit, and
this there are books written about this. There are libraries
(28:30):
full of books written about this. The incredible challenge of
for instance, in the wake of our need to decouple
with the Chinese on shoring critical industry, be it pharmaceuticals,
which I was just reading about we are so dependent
(28:51):
on China for our pharmaceuticals, not just the final pills,
but the raw materials, the chemicals, all of it military
and semi military technologies. So the question of on shoring
critical industries tariffs to protect US industry. I'm not for
(29:11):
protecting US industry from competition with tariffs, but I am
for protecting American jobs from unfair competition like subsidies given
out by the EU or the Chinese or whatever to
their companies, which is an unleveled playing field. For the
longest time, Corporate America said, well, you know what, that
sucks and it's not fair. But a trade war would
(29:33):
be more expensive to the board of directors, the c suite,
the stockholders than fighting for American jobs. We're not even
going to bother to do that. There's a certain amount
of that that's necessary. But as the Wall Street Journal
puts it, if Trump goes with the protectionist industrial policy
pro big labor voices who surround JD vance, the GOP
(29:56):
will no longer be a party of free markets in
small government. This is one way the US into slow
growth Europe, where all the major parties are statists. I
think that's a bit of a concern. But you know,
now that I think about it, Trump is so hot
to trot to the point of like obsessing over how
(30:17):
hot the economy is and whether it makes him look good.
He's not gonna employ measures that turn the US into
a slow growth Europe or all the major parties are
status I think he will probably balance those impulses and
you know, back forth back forth. If the march toward
neo Marxism continues, the radical gender theory, critical race theory,
(30:39):
all the theories you hear that's all out of Marxism,
if that were to march forward for another four years unchallenged,
that would be utterly disastrous. So I'll roll my dice
and hope Trump can stay under control.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Speaking for myself, so you're not hearing a lot about
the massive shootout involving four Hundre gang members in France
and how it factors fits in with their whole immigration
problem and everything. Wow, wow, blue heck of a story
in Lion France. L Yo n not lyon Ted Cruz
(31:14):
or lying Kamala Harris, but Lion France.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
It's Leon okay leic absolutely, proudly, proudly yes, if you
haven't heard the Star State garbage. That's what I say
about it. Guys, Like, if you haven't heard this story,
it's something I'm not a lot of things on the way.
(31:37):
Stay right here, Armstrong. The Weimo is stuck because the
Weimo is trying to go behind the Amazon, but then
it's stuck behind the Weimo and oh my god, there's
another Weimo. What's everybody gonna do? It is a Weimo
stand off? What is gonna happen? Who's gonna win? There's
(31:59):
four of them stuck that way. Moo came through, so
a bunch of the driverless taxi cars from one company.
They're AI, how do we drive? They were facing each
other and trying to figure out how to get out
of it. My self driving Tesla does it every once
(32:20):
in a while if there's like a bicyclist or a
dog or something like that and it's at a crosswalk,
it's like, I don't know what to do. It just
sits there. Nah, I don't know what to do. It's
kind of funny those people behind you start honking. That
was a woman laughingly mocking several computers, right, and it
was very funny. Yeah, stupid computer cars it's a little scary.
(32:43):
I mean, I don't know what the technology is like
on those, but and it's way better on my Tesla
than when I first bought it, So I've had it
for three years, significantly better the self driving now than
it was when I first got it. But every once
in a while it'll just like practically lock up the
brakes you're flying down the highway seventy miles nard. It's
just like it senses something or I don't know what happens.
It scares the crap out of you, and that you
(33:06):
don't want that happening very often before you're just never
going to use that technology. Good way to get rear
ended too. Heck yeah. So, as is often the case
with violence involving youths in Europe, particularly France and England,
you can't find any reporting that lets you know perhaps
(33:28):
what is exactly going on. First became aware of this
with Mark Stein when he wrote a number of pieces
and books and stuff like that, where he said, they
always refer to the people as youths. They don't want
to say out loud that it's immigrants from other countries,
often Muslim immigrants, doing all this in England and France
and wherever youths. But anyway, they had a shootout with
(33:52):
somewhere between four hundred and six hundred people a couple
of rival gangs in France last night. Let me read
this to you from I thought this was a heck
of a statement. What started as a shooting at a
restaurant ended up as a fight between rival gangs. It
involved several hundred people again four hundred and six hundred
(34:13):
depending on who you're asking. The government spokesman said France
was at a tipping point when it came to drug
related violence. Trafficking gangs today have no limits. These shootouts
are not in Latin America. They're in France and once
tranquil western France. We have a choice between general mobilization
or the Mexicanization of the country Holy Cow, which is
(34:36):
a heck of a statement from a government official. General
mobilization this sort of thing that a fascist like Trump
would say, you know, sending out the France version of
the National Guard or something I guess, or the Mexicanization
of our country. It's so interesting that in so many
quote unquote civilized nations, the allowing civilization to be destroyed
(35:02):
is seen as much more enlightening than doing the thing
or enlightened rather than doing the things it takes to
preserve civilization, that is brutish and unacceptable. They talked about
a lot of the drugs coming in from Southern Africa. Okay,
So in other words, I'm sorry, just to refine my thought,
(35:24):
allowing brutes to take control is less brutish than stopping them. Right,
You will not summon up the strength and unkindness it
takes to stop the brutes. Man, It'll be interesting to
see how this plays out. One more reason Trump's got
(35:46):
to be in charge. We cannot let the forces of
lawlessness get another. Fourn the only one who is prosecuted
trans gang trafficking drugs, prosecuted practically nobody when she was
in office. Every aspect of her Her resume is inflated.
(36:07):
Armstrong and getty. Mm hmm
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