December 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Sickly Jack, something fun & Trump accounts
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Trump goes after Ilhan Omar & the Somali theft in MN
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Kaddy Armstrong, and
Greg k and he Arms live from studio. C ya,
(00:33):
I see you are still ailing, Sior. Damn it. I
even practiced with the microphone off for a little bit
so i'd be ready. I still didn't pull it off.
We're a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. I'm trying to spread
my disease around everyone, and today we're under the tutelage
of our general manager, il Han Omar. What did she
(00:55):
know and when did she know it? About the gigantic
fraud by Oliver Buddies and contributors? Hum? Who is she?
She is the Somali born American hating America, hating Minneapolis
squad member House of Representatives. Got you, okay? That's nothing
(01:15):
but contempt for the United States of America and it's
laws and traditions. I don't know that story. I look
forward to hearing it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I mean, I know the Minneapolis stealing money story. We
did that yesterday, But I don't know this latest thing
with her. Remember about a year ago or so.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
When I said, a friend brought up to me, is
the first time I'd ever really fully embraced this. They said,
you know, you get sick a lot. And it's the
first time.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'd ever fully embraced the fact that I am a
sickly human.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I do get sick a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I either have a bad immune system or a poor
lifestyle or both, and I get sick a lot. And
it's just it's disappointing to me. It's very disappointing to me.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It runs counter to yourself image. Is yeah, plucky individualists.
That's why I hate admitting but it's clearly true.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
But yeah, you also have kids, and that kind of
coming with.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The kids too. But he gets sick a lot, Okay, yeah,
I think I get to go.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I was all very I'd get very little sleep, so
that probably doesn't help me in either. I don't know
how much of it is my lifestyle and how much
of it is I'm just one of those people to
get sick more often because I'm not good at fighting
off diseases.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, I know you check your tire pressure by licking
your tires. I've asked you not to do that many times,
just in general, you know, I like lots of stuff doorknobs. Sure, yeah, yeah,
it goes out to the mailbox instead of opening it,
he licks the handle to see if the postman's been
there lately. It's just it's a habit. Yeah, yeah, and
I've tried to quit. Yeah. So Jack, are you forming
(02:44):
a plan to become more healthy? I mean, are there
steps you're gonna take or something? Why'd you have to
say that? I suppose I told her he wouldn't like
that hands and he's both getting more sleep would be
the best idea, because I didn't go. I don't know
if there's anything else. Maybe eating, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Like we were talking about yesterday, you get you get
most of the stuff you need from unless you eat
an extremely crazy diet. You actually get most of the
stuff you need from from your from a diet.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Sure yeah, yeah. I've noticed your your boys got sick
a lot too. It's almost certainly just a genetic thing.
One of them does like a tendency toward arthritis. I mean,
one of them doesn't. One of them doesn't. One of
them is like Dad never gets sick. Oh there you go, huh. Interesting,
And they're you know, and they're in the same house,
(03:33):
exposed to the same things. More or less. Let's just
do a quick checklist. Do you or do you not
have a flush toilet? How about a sink? You know?
Do you own soap? Right? No, it's it's it's gotta
be genetics. I don't know. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Anyway, it seems to be getting worse. So that's exciting.
I have something fun. You want something fun?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Please? There's nothing more fun than fun. That's what I
always say. So they put out the list of the
top searches for Google in the US for twenty twenty five,
which I found interesting. I do loves my end of
the year lists. Yea, I do too. And it feels,
you know, honestly, it feels like the holidays. I mean,
(04:21):
obviously it's just a guilt by association, pleasure by association.
But yeah, it's fun. Yeah. And what I found interesting
about it is this is not just the top searches,
but because that's actually pretty boring, because every year a
whole bunch of people search a lot of the same stuff,
like about cold symptoms or whatever. But its spikes. It's
(04:43):
things that spiked and stayed spiked for a certain period
of time that counts as like a trending spike.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And so the top trending searches in the US this
last year one of them, only one of them is
confusing to.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Me global of the US versus the global in the
United States top spike search not surprising Charlie Kirk, with
lots of people thinking who's Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And why is this such a big deal? Who weren't
aware or weren't in on it? K Pop demon Hunters
we talked about that a little bit during the year.
That has been very hot. It's a pop culture trend.
It's a what's it like a cartoon on Netflix or something?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah? Movie, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
My boys are at the age where boys like them
really hate it and hate the fact that other people
like it. Yes, but it's very popular amongst younger girls.
I think we also, I would be disappointed if anything
on these lists, any of these on this list we
hadn't talked about, because that meant we weren't doing our job.
The boo boo, that's that little doll thing that people
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hang off their purse or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, that people who desperately need to belong belonged to briefly. Yes,
did adults get into that, Katie, do you know? Yeah?
Yes they did.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And I also CBS right celebs adults. And I've also
seen something going around on TikTok where people are having
full blown, like fake nail manicures made for their la
booboo and then matching with them, and it just made
me want to vomit.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh my god, have a baby, please start a family,
for goodness sakes, It's funny. I said this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Somebody sent me a picture they were in traffic of
somebody with the tesla in front of them said part
of the I hate Elon.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Club, And that's exactly what I said to them. People
like that need to have a kid. They'd be too
busy to be worried about arguing over the ownership of
the car company they run. They're extremely online anger over
the owner of the car company. It is a political status.
Yeah please, Oh my god, you so you're seriously angry
(06:45):
about like that last one fourth of one percent of
your existence? How fundamental are Elon Musk's political beliefs to
you and your joy? If you answered well, pretty much none, great,
you're normal. If you answered anything else, take a long,
hard look at yourself, buy a Bible, have a kid,
(07:07):
go to Tibet. Do something just not what you're doing now,
go to Tibet. That's a good that's a good thing
to shout. It's go to Tabet.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Back to the Google list of spikes iPhone seventeen. When
it got released, people apparently googled it for several days,
wanting to know, you know, are the features enough for
me to want to buy it?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Blah blah blah. One big beautiful bill Act got enough attention.
A piece of legislation that had spiked for a while.
People want to know what that was in I'm happy
to hear that one. Yeah, this one's not surprising. Zo
Ron Mamdani, Who the heck is this guy? And everybody
wanted to know? Government shut down? Apparently people want to
know what that was, what it meant. Always on these
(07:50):
lists something soccer related, FAIFA Cup, Club World Cup.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
All right, I don't follow soccer, so that when I'm
not in, but apparently.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Enough people are.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Tariffs not surprising. Then a lot of people wanted to
figure out what the heck is a tariff? What does
this mean to me?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh? That reminds me. There's a there's a story in
the New York Times. Your package arrives, shocker, you have
to pay the tariff, and on some goods, like you
buy an expensive coat from overseas, tariff can be a
couple hundred bucks and you don't know it until you
get it. Correct. Yeah, at least that's the conceit of
(08:28):
the article. If something surprised when your package arrives, you
have to pay the tariff?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, and who's gonna tell me that? Am the postman?
I'm not giving your package? Should hand me two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Well, after the coat was shipped, UPS told this gal
from Oakland, California in an email that she would have
to pay over two hundred and fifty dollars in customs
duties to receive it. Then can you just say send
it back if you want to?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Then I don't want it? All right, It's final? Yeah, happy,
And finally I find this interesting the only AI related
search on Google. Now, it's possible that if you're into AI,
you were already further enough down the road, Like I
googled fewer things this year than any year probably of
(09:17):
my life, since Google's been a thing because I was
using the various chatbots. I never google anything now never.
A lot of people probably used Google's Gemini to figure
out what, you know, the Google searches are. But deep
Seek was the number one searched on AI company, which
is a Chinese AI Right. That was that shocking announcement
(09:41):
late summer early fall that China was indeed much farther.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Ah, you're right, and that's that's why people were searching
on it. They were thinking, well, deep Seek's better, I
want to check that out.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It turned either out of curiosity or concern about the
dirty commies. Yeah, it turns out it was overblown.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They were over over over exaggerating their qualities to a
certain extent, as all of these AI companies seem to
do because they're trying to get funding for their own company.
But there you go, there's your top searches. If you
didn't search any of those, your I don't know a
cool person who's not with the mainstream or something I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Coming up later in the show, who is on what
social media? And some of the numbers will shock you. Yeah,
that's what I heard on Instagram. So stay with us
for that. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday, alrighty man,
this week went by fast December fourth or twenty twenty
five or Armstrong Getty and we prove of this program. Okay, then,
(10:40):
so much to get to Let's get to it precisely
according to the FCC rules and regulations. Here we go.
The show starts at Mark.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
People understand, these accounts could make a big difference in
the lives of young Americans.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
When a young person has an account like this, they're
way more likely to graduate from college or high school,
start a family, buy a.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Home, and be a productive member of society.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Michael Dell there, I'm talking about the Trump savings plans
and his ginormous contribution to them. I think it is
you know, it's funny. It strikes me some of the
obviously the simplest things are the truest things, and we
have systematically failed to do what he is encouraging us
(11:24):
to do. Teach our kids about the things that make
America great and explain why they should value them and
or love them. We have just let that kind of
we assumed because we were taught that and it was
taught in schools that that was still happening. But it's
(11:45):
not so. Why is the free market the most incredibly
brilliant artificial intelligence that's ever existed. I could explain it
to you, but most kids couldn't answer that question, not
any level whatsoever. Why is hate speech protected speechquote unquote
hate speech? Why is free speech? Why is liberty so wonderful? Man?
We have to do a better job at that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It's quite possible they had a teacher explain to them
how we have more inequality in this country than any
other country as opposed to the wonders of the free market.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, what a load of crap. Well, it's guaranteed what
you just said is happening, guaranteed. We got Katie's headlines
on the way and a whole bunch of other news
for you to catch up on.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
A new Pete Hegseets report came out. Timing seems suspicious
to me. Is somebody just out to get Pete?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That? We got yet another different Pete scandal going on.
It's a drum beat all of that. Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Trying to read the latest on the various Pete Hegseets scandals,
trying to figure out if there's there there or not.
National Review has a piece out today and they're definitely
a Republican leaning outfit, saying the convoluted changing explanations for
the second strike on that boat is there.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The story has shifted quite a bit. I thought yesterday
it got cleared up pretty well. Well.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
My only question was why didn't they give us that
information right off the bat? Well, you had a lawyer
there looking at the scene, advising you legally where you
should be on this, and the lawyer decided this was okay.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, why didn't he tell us that right off the
bat If you have the time and energy to watch
as much coverage as we do, you'll become aware that
this is a great example of competing narratives. Like ABC
News last night, their big lead was pressure growing on
Pete hagsat is the investigation. I was like, that's funny.
I don't perceive the pressure growing. It's kind of an
(13:34):
ongoing question that they're dealing with. But so there are
a lot of different narratives and various head hunters hunting
for heads and head hunters will oh, let's figure out
who's reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Quick question for you, Katie, what do you get when
you cross human DNA with dolphin DNA? Oh? You get
your ass band from Marine World. I'll tell you that
(14:00):
a good one, Holy human animal hybrid. Yes, Katie.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Speaking of Pete hagg Seth, He's at the top of
the headlines today for another reason. From the Washington Post,
Republicans begin to tighten the screws on heg Seth's Pentagon
from MS now Watchdog Hegseet's signal use put troops at
risk and NBC Pentagon's Signal Gate review finds Pete Hegseth
(14:28):
violated military regulations.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah. So the Inspector General's supposedly non partisan report came
out on the whole signal Gate thing. You remember that,
and uh, hegsett says it cleared him. You know, mainstream
media is saying it's damning. Hegseet says, they're partisan.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Uh why did it come out exactly the same time
that he's in this mess? Is that just a coincidence
or is there somebody trying to build a narrative He's
got to go.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
New York Times and a reporter suing the Pentagon and
Pete hegseeth over their new press credentials rule too, so
so spicy times there at the Pentagon.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
ABC Hootin vows to take Ukraine's eastern region. Is top
us and Ukrainian prepared top us and Ukrainian prepared to meet.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, his only desires for victory. How long does it
take you to catch on to that? Although you know
the they're trying to go with a work, You're going
to profit so much from laying down your arms and
will we'll gut Ukraine, you'll own it. It will be
a vassal state. Let's save some lives. Different people can
have different opinions on that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
From the Wall Street Journal, Wall Street wants in on
the Trump accounts for babies. Same banks brokers and money
managers are eager to find a role in the program.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So as a Dell family, are they big Trump fans?
I don't know that. I've never never heard of their
politics on.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I would just think that if I'm a philanthropist, calling
it Trump accounts or whatever is just you know, polk
in a certain segment of society wanting to make them angry.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
From brightbart dot com, Subaru drivers say ads are taking
over their car screens, even at highway speeds.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh boy, that's my car is feeding me ads, mm hmmah.
They're gonna be watching TV. I'm listening to a podcast. Whatever,
that's fine, that's the bargain. Oh well, cock my ear
to the ads. See if it's something I'm interested in,
my car starts pitching me. No, no, those ladies are
gonna be late for their softball game if that happens.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Hello from study fines, patients decide in twenty minutes if
they'll ever return to a doctor.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Sure, yeah, I think it's less than that. Yeah, I agree.
I'm surprised it's that long. Right.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And finally, from the Babylon b Tim Walls offers journalists
free tampons to stop talking about the fraud scandal.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Oh god, he's tampon, Tim, tampon, Tim? What loser? Oh
you're gonna pay off? Why? Ilan Omar is our general
manager today. Yes, she ought to be deported. Now can
you do that? She's a counterferson, don't.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.
They've taken billions and billions of dollars. They have a representative,
Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother as a fraud.
She tries to deny it now, but you can't really
deny it because you know, it just happened. She should
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be allowed to be a congresswoman, and I'm sure people
are looking at that, and she should be throwing the
hell out of our country.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I would say the president's obsession with me and the
Somaldi community is unhealthy. It's creepy, and I hope that
he gets to help that he needs.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I was watching ABC's.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
National Network coverage of this yesterday afternoon, the story that
you brought us about the billion dollars of taxpayer money
they got ripped off.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
By the smaller community in particular, right.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And they mostly went with the angle of Trump and
Republicans using this as an opportunity to attack Somalis as
opposed to a billion.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Dollars got stolen from taxpayers. That seems like a pretty
big story, right in one state, really, in one city, Yeah,
by one particular close knit, non assimilating ethnic group. All right,
Well that's yeah, that's just a great example of their
incredible dishonesty. So, yes, Trump is certainly interested in ilhan
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Omar and the Somalis of Minnesota, and in fact, they're
mounting in operation that's already being called racist and xenophobick
or whatever else to remove people who have final deportation orders.
That's you're just doing what the law says you're supposed
to do in the Somali areas of Minneapolis. But yeah,
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he was. Trump was on fire yesterday mentioned that Omar
married her brother to defraud our immigration laws to get
into the country in the first place. That is pretty
well accepted, though she denies it. Here he is clipped
thirty six. Michael, they have destroyed Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Okay, Minnesota, you have an incompetent governor.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You have a crooked governor.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
He's crooked, has held, but he's incompetent.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Walts.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
He should be a shamed at beautiful land, that beautiful state.
It's a hell hale right now. And the Somalians should
be out of here. They've destroyed our country and all
they do is complain. Complain.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Blaine, you have her, she's.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Always talking about the constitution provides me with go back
to your own country and figure out your constitutions.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
All right. So Trump unfiltered in his criticisms of miss Omar.
Some others are being a bit more scholarly about their thoughts.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Go ahead, I got to believe that there are a
lot of people who live in Minnesota, not in Minneapolis
Saint Paula, are thinking.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It doesn't feel like a hell hold to me. I'm
pretty happy here. Oh sure, yeah, right. But anyway, For instance,
Bartan Swain in the Wall Street Journal has written a great,
great piece and he covers a couple of different angles, including, oh,
and we will get to what did Ilhan Homer know
and when did she know it? But he starts with
how this is the perfect parable of modern liberalism's failure.
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It's hard to top the story of some all these
immigrants and US citizens alike Bilky Minnesota's social welfare system.
And then he refers to the New York Times that
treated the story with a competent and mostly unflinching article.
I finally read the whole thing. It's really really good
in the way that when the New York Times decides, yes,
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we will deign to report on this story with our might,
they do a really good and thorough job. And it
is an indictment of Tim Walls and the Somali community
and Minneapolis, Minnesota in general, and the federal government just
spewing castoring code. That's what I thought when I was
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watching the news last night.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The fact that they made it all about Trump using
this as an opportunity to attack Somali's as opposed to
a really interesting New York Times story that makes it
pretty clear that a particular ethnic group, with the help
of some politicians, ripped off a billion dollars from one town.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's a compelling story. Yeah, and I hate to jump
to the punchline too early. The fact that it was
just stated by several people involved in the article. I'm
sorry in the scandal that look, you're not going to
ask any questions as a politician, or you're gonna lose
the Somali vote. You hear me, all right, So back off,
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And people backed off to keep the mobbed up Somali
vote anyway. Barton Swain mentions the incredible amount of time
it took for the Minnesota story to make its way
into national headlines. How that's part of the problem. Federal
prosecutors have already convicted almost sixty of the fraudsters, which
tells you how long this has been going on. That's
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not a fast process. Few local media outlets have covered
the story since the first indictment. You've got power Line
the power Line blog has been covering it now for
a couple of years, and he mentions a couple others.
But Denny makes a great point to Samali fraud stories
in some respects respects akin to the so called grooming
scandal in Britain, in which gangs have mostly Pakistani and
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Pakistani men sexually abused young girls even as the country's
government and news media looked the other way, terrified by
accusations of racism or Islamophobia. In the Twin Cities, state
authorities couldn't rouse themselves to stop the theft hundreds of
millions of dollars siphoned from medicaid, housing and other welfare programs.
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They really, they targeted every program they could see. It's
to the great credit of the US under administration of
both parties that it didn't allow the perpetrator's race, religion,
or country of origin to hinder the prosecution. But then
he points out both scandals in the UK and Minnesota
race yourselves, folks, you weren't supposed to say this raise
a question most of us would rather not consider, that
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of large scale immigration from predominantly Muslim countries, and he mentions, yes,
it's true that other ethnic groups brought some criminality with
them from the home country, and that there are plenty
of fine Somali folks in Minnesota. But as he points
out from the Giant story, I think it was in
(23:59):
the New York Times, bad actors, this is a quote.
Bad actors within the community would approach potential co conspirators
without any fear of betrayal. Even the people who said
no to phenomenal offers of tens of thousands of dollars
in free tax payer money did not inform the authorities
that a major community wide fraud against the public was
in progress, potential criminalodities when almost totally unreported to anyone
(24:20):
in government. And then he goes into the fact that
risking the Somali votes was too much and so people
just literally said, this is crazy. There's something going on here,
but I'm not even gonna look at it. And then
this is where it gets really important and uncomfortable. He
(24:40):
goes into some observations recently made by the historian British
History and Tom Holland, whose recent book contends that Christianity
has left an imprint on the West, so deep as
to be uneradicable and imperceptible. Even atheists think in Christian
without knowing it. Yeah, that's a good book. I've been
(25:02):
into that book. Yeah, I've got to read that. And
only a Christian nation would invent a social welfare system
as lavish and easily exploitable as Minnesota's. And then he
points out, and this is so interesting, and I'm going
to listen to this whole podcast, but essentially, what Christianity
has that Islam does not is the concept of the secular,
you know, or under under God? What is God? And
(25:25):
unto Caesar, what is Caesar's there's the spiritual religious part
and then there's secular part, and Christianity recognizes the need
for those things to be secret or separate so they
don't pervert each other. Islam recognizes no such division. The
book he's referring to is called Dominion.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's been around for a while and made a lot
of noise, and it's really interesting, the subtitle being how
the Christian Revolution remade the world culturally in addition to spiritually.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You know, there's part of me that would just like
to read the entire New York Times piece. It would
take a long time, but in a way you almost
have to get down into the details to understand the
true horror of it and how well known it was
in these circles and everybody knew it was happening. That's
(26:16):
what I was saying yesterday. How many thousands of people
had to be on board with this to allow it
to happen at the scale it happened, right, And there's
some repugnant details, like is the dad of an autistic kid?
The fact that the one of the big scams was
the provider's recruited children in Minneapolis's Smally community, falsely certified
(26:37):
them as qualifying for autism treatment and paid their parents'
kickbacks for the cooperation and made millions and millions and
millions of dollars off of that. Just disgusting anyway. The
New York Post asking the question what did Ilhan Omar
know about the one billion dollar welfare fraud case in
her community? There are held parties at one of the
(27:02):
key restaurants named in the fraud where they were running
the fraud out of knew one of its now convicted owners.
One of her staffers also has been convicted, both for
stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to
two hundred and fifty million dollars worth of the fraud,
yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it.
(27:23):
Bill Glenn, a policy fellow with the Minnesota based Center
of the American Experiment, said to the Post quote, Omar
knew who these people were. People she personally knew were
making tens of millions of dollars in this program. She'd
been inside the one restaurant facility on numerous occasions and
couldn't put two and two of it together. Either she's
termally naive or new and didn't care. Yeah, it's pretty
(27:46):
hard to imagine that she didn't know. It's also pretty
hard to imagine that she's going to get nailed on
this because people rarely do plausa. She is smart and
calculating plausible denial.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That's what it's all about. Here's a good gift. Mind
show up yesterday my box from Omaha Steaks. It was
at the doorstep when I got here, very excited about that.
Probably grilling up some burgers tonight or steaks.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I don't know. I'll have to ask kids what they're into.
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hearings today around the whole second shot at that boat
story with Pete hegseeth. One word I want to get
(29:16):
into a little bit, maybe an hour or two, clinging.
People really use the word clinging, and I'm not sure
clinging was happening. Every time somebody said clinging, I thought,
do we know that they were clinging? Clinging sounds very
weak and vulnerable. A couple of people clinging to a boat.
Everybody uses clinging. Well, the actual description that came out
(29:37):
yesterday is they were crawling across the boat trying to
get the drugs together, waiting for another boat to show up.
Blah blah blah. So that might be the testimony today.
So anyway, I want to talk about the word clinging later,
among other things. One final note on the ilhan Omar
thing is one of her top aids was involved when
the Minnesota Department of Education actually finally flagged the fee
(30:00):
eating our future people for irregularities and serious deficiencies. This
guy came out and blasted the state government. He praised
the vital work of feeding our families, blasted state agencies
for asking too many questions, hinted that it was clearly racism, bigotry, islamophobia.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I was listening to a podcast yesterday with the Washington
Post reporter who made the point that people don't care
about this stuff near as much as they should, or
you would think. I want to talk about that also.
I think it's thinks she's right. I think she's absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Are they too busy being amused or cynical? That's a
good question. That's a good question right there. We'll have
to get into that. We got lots of good stuff today.
I hope you can stick around Mailbag next. Sickly Jack
Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Gedtty. I am sickly.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
My immune system is weak and pathetic. I'm gonna keep
yelling at it and see if I can get it
to care more.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
First time I ever encountered the word sickly, it was
reading I Believe a biography of Edgar Allan Poe and
it mentioned that his wife was sickly. I'm like that,
that sounds bad.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I'm like the grandpa from the original Uh what was
the Chocolate Factory movie. I'm like, I'm like the grandpa
from Willy Wonka, just in bed, sickly, waiting for other
people to bring me soup.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Here's your freedom woman. Quotes of the day from James A. Garfield,
assassinated President of the United States. Too bad, too, a
really decent and good man from Ohio. If the power
to do hard work is not a skill, it's the
best possible substitute for it, And then in a similar vein,
(31:46):
he said, I mean, I mean to make myself a man,
and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in
everything else. Wow, which reminds me. I became aware of
a fella who's I think his gig these days is
speaking about the masculinity crisis in American boys and how
they've been cheated and mistreated and what to do about it.
(32:07):
Absolutely wonderful stuff. I'm gonna learn myself up on that
and join the crusade. But you know, the Jordan Peterson
type of thinking that masculinity is not toxic. Sure, there
are toxic manifestations of masculinity, just as there are femininity,
But the idea that masculinity is self is toxic is
(32:28):
one of the sickest, most well toxic things that's ever
been foisted on a population. Mail bag drop uson notwood
you a mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com
is the email address Mary writes Jack, Joe's that time
of the year again. My daughter and son in law
coming into town tomorrow from Denver. Thought i'd surprise them
(32:48):
with a little homemade eggnog. And she sends me a
picture of all the supplies, knowing that I am perhaps
the world's greatest fan of the nog, and I have
been nogging starting this week. Oh you have Yeah, when's
eggnog season officially start? Oh? I generally wait till December first, gotcha? Yeah? Yep.
(33:11):
M Too fat and too drunk is the problem with eggnog.
You get both of those things moving along. Several people
weighing in on the question of driverless cars, which we
talked about yesterday, and how soon they'll be around. Jeff
from North Carolina rights guys. Revenue from car insurance payments
would plummet if self driving cars became mandatory. I don't
(33:32):
agree that insurance companies want this. I hope your insurance
might not be mandatory if a chance of accidents are
next to nothing. I hope you're right.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I hate the fact that I think driving is going
to go away, but I think it is Conversely, in
a world where driverless cars are the majority and drivers
are not banned from driving. Insurance companies would welcome drivers
for the extra revenue, probably be cheaper two since the
risk would be lower. Okay, interesting, Thanks Jeff. And how
about this, Dan, auto shop owner and beautiful Sacamenta, California. Hello,
(34:02):
silly Jack and gullible Joe. You two had me yelling
at my phone yesterday. You proved that common sense isn't
that common? Under ten years? We're wasn't that what you?
Or we said that?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah? We think how long it'll be before majority the
government doesn't let you drive anymore out of safetyism and lawyers. Okay,
he says, you proved, oh under ten years. Really, ten
years from now, maybe five percent of the cars on
the road will be fully self driving. It will be
thirty years before fifty percent of the cars on the
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road or self driving. Has the government banned cars without airbags?
Have they banned motorcycles? Have they banned cars with drum brakes?
I love you guys, which you need to pull your
heads out of your asses on this one. Dan, If
a I was going to live that long and be cared,
I would bet you today. Yeah, well, you mentioned that
it's going to be far fewer than thirty years before
(34:57):
fifty percent of cars on the road or self driving.
Perhaps the only head in an ass is your sirt.
I think ten is on the outside edge. Actually yeah,
but we'll see, we'll see. My friend.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
The point about you can still drive a car with
drum brakes and without airbag stuff, that's a decent point.
But yeah, oh yeah, so appreciate the thoughts, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
The idea that I'm sorry insurance companies would lose money,
that's a powerful point. Right side Joe Bob Wrights on
the Pete Hegsath controversy. I'm now convinced that Hexath needs
to go for one important reason. He refuses to accept
responsibility instead trying to throw someone else under the bus,
same thing he did with a signal chat that isn't
a leader, that's a bitch. Should start wearing a skirt
(35:41):
to work. Oh that's some strong stuff. Yeah, it does
have a whiff of throwing someone under the bus. Little
bit twenty year school marm great correspondent is a transplant
to Minnesota and wants to talk about the scandal. Cool
(36:01):
good stuff, but I don't want to rush through it,
so we'll get to that in a little bit. Cool Yeah,
George Will with a column about Pete hags Eth, pretty
rough on the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Course, he hates Trump, but you know, emphasizing clinging once again. Well,
the news that came out yesterday is these dudes were
not clinging to the boat in the way it's been
portrayed exactly. So maybe we can get into that at an
hour or two, among other things.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
If you make it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
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Greg k and he Arms live from studio. C ya,
(00:33):
I see you are still ailing, Sior. Damn it. I
even practiced with the microphone off for a little bit
so i'd be ready. I still didn't pull it off.
We're a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. I'm trying to spread
my disease around everyone, and today we're under the tutelage
of our general manager, il Han Omar. What did she
(00:55):
know and when did she know it? About the gigantic
fraud by Oliver Buddies and contributors? Hum? Who is she?
She is the Somali born American hating America, hating Minneapolis
squad member House of Representatives. Got you, okay? That's nothing
(01:15):
but contempt for the United States of America and it's
laws and traditions. I don't know that story. I look
forward to hearing it.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I mean, I know the Minneapolis stealing money story. We
did that yesterday, But I don't know this latest thing
with her. Remember about a year ago or so.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
When I said, a friend brought up to me, is
the first time I'd ever really fully embraced this. They said,
you know, you get sick a lot. And it's the
first time.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'd ever fully embraced the fact that I am a
sickly human.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I do get sick a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I either have a bad immune system or a poor
lifestyle or both, and I get sick a lot. And
it's just it's disappointing to me. It's very disappointing to me.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It runs counter to yourself image. Is yeah, plucky individualists.
That's why I hate admitting but it's clearly true.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
But yeah, you also have kids, and that kind of
coming with.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The kids too. But he gets sick a lot, Okay, yeah,
I think I get to go.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I was all very I'd get very little sleep, so
that probably doesn't help me in either. I don't know
how much of it is my lifestyle and how much
of it is I'm just one of those people to
get sick more often because I'm not good at fighting
off diseases.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, I know you check your tire pressure by licking
your tires. I've asked you not to do that many times,
just in general, you know, I like lots of stuff doorknobs. Sure, yeah, yeah,
it goes out to the mailbox instead of opening it,
he licks the handle to see if the postman's been
there lately. It's just it's a habit. Yeah, yeah, and
I've tried to quit. Yeah. So Jack, are you forming
(02:44):
a plan to become more healthy? I mean, are there
steps you're gonna take or something? Why'd you have to
say that? I suppose I told her he wouldn't like
that hands and he's both getting more sleep would be
the best idea, because I didn't go. I don't know
if there's anything else. Maybe eating, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Like we were talking about yesterday, you get you get
most of the stuff you need from unless you eat
an extremely crazy diet. You actually get most of the
stuff you need from from your from a diet.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Sure yeah, yeah. I've noticed your your boys got sick
a lot too. It's almost certainly just a genetic thing.
One of them does like a tendency toward arthritis. I mean,
one of them doesn't. One of them doesn't. One of
them is like Dad never gets sick. Oh there you go, huh. Interesting,
And they're you know, and they're in the same house,
(03:33):
exposed to the same things. More or less. Let's just
do a quick checklist. Do you or do you not
have a flush toilet? How about a sink? You know?
Do you own soap? Right? No, it's it's it's gotta
be genetics. I don't know. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Anyway, it seems to be getting worse. So that's exciting.
I have something fun. You want something fun?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Please? There's nothing more fun than fun. That's what I
always say. So they put out the list of the
top searches for Google in the US for twenty twenty five,
which I found interesting. I do loves my end of
the year lists. Yea, I do too. And it feels,
you know, honestly, it feels like the holidays. I mean,
(04:21):
obviously it's just a guilt by association, pleasure by association.
But yeah, it's fun. Yeah. And what I found interesting
about it is this is not just the top searches,
but because that's actually pretty boring, because every year a
whole bunch of people search a lot of the same stuff,
like about cold symptoms or whatever. But its spikes. It's
(04:43):
things that spiked and stayed spiked for a certain period
of time that counts as like a trending spike.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And so the top trending searches in the US this
last year one of them, only one of them is
confusing to.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Me global of the US versus the global in the
United States top spike search not surprising Charlie Kirk, with
lots of people thinking who's Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
And why is this such a big deal? Who weren't
aware or weren't in on it? K Pop demon Hunters
we talked about that a little bit during the year.
That has been very hot. It's a pop culture trend.
It's a what's it like a cartoon on Netflix or something?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah? Movie, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
My boys are at the age where boys like them
really hate it and hate the fact that other people
like it. Yes, but it's very popular amongst younger girls.
I think we also, I would be disappointed if anything
on these lists, any of these on this list we
hadn't talked about, because that meant we weren't doing our job.
The boo boo, that's that little doll thing that people
(05:48):
hang off their purse or whatever.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, that people who desperately need to belong belonged to briefly. Yes,
did adults get into that, Katie, do you know? Yeah?
Yes they did.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And I also CBS right celebs adults. And I've also
seen something going around on TikTok where people are having
full blown, like fake nail manicures made for their la
booboo and then matching with them, and it just made
me want to vomit.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh my god, have a baby, please start a family,
for goodness sakes, It's funny. I said this yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Somebody sent me a picture they were in traffic of
somebody with the tesla in front of them said part
of the I hate Elon.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Club, And that's exactly what I said to them. People
like that need to have a kid. They'd be too
busy to be worried about arguing over the ownership of
the car company they run. They're extremely online anger over
the owner of the car company. It is a political status.
Yeah please, Oh my god, you so you're seriously angry
(06:45):
about like that last one fourth of one percent of
your existence? How fundamental are Elon Musk's political beliefs to
you and your joy? If you answered well, pretty much none, great,
you're normal. If you answered anything else, take a long,
hard look at yourself, buy a Bible, have a kid,
(07:07):
go to Tibet. Do something just not what you're doing now,
go to Tibet. That's a good that's a good thing
to shout. It's go to Tabet.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Back to the Google list of spikes iPhone seventeen. When
it got released, people apparently googled it for several days,
wanting to know, you know, are the features enough for
me to want to buy it?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Blah blah blah. One big beautiful bill Act got enough attention.
A piece of legislation that had spiked for a while.
People want to know what that was in I'm happy
to hear that one. Yeah, this one's not surprising. Zo
Ron Mamdani, Who the heck is this guy? And everybody
wanted to know? Government shut down? Apparently people want to
know what that was, what it meant. Always on these
(07:50):
lists something soccer related, FAIFA Cup, Club World Cup.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
All right, I don't follow soccer, so that when I'm
not in, but apparently.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Enough people are.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Tariffs not surprising. Then a lot of people wanted to
figure out what the heck is a tariff? What does
this mean to me?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh? That reminds me. There's a there's a story in
the New York Times. Your package arrives, shocker, you have
to pay the tariff, and on some goods, like you
buy an expensive coat from overseas, tariff can be a
couple hundred bucks and you don't know it until you
get it. Correct. Yeah, at least that's the conceit of
(08:28):
the article. If something surprised when your package arrives, you
have to pay the tariff?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Well, and who's gonna tell me that? Am the postman?
I'm not giving your package? Should hand me two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Well, after the coat was shipped, UPS told this gal
from Oakland, California in an email that she would have
to pay over two hundred and fifty dollars in customs
duties to receive it. Then can you just say send
it back if you want to?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Then I don't want it? All right, It's final? Yeah, happy,
And finally I find this interesting the only AI related
search on Google. Now, it's possible that if you're into AI,
you were already further enough down the road, Like I
googled fewer things this year than any year probably of
(09:17):
my life, since Google's been a thing because I was
using the various chatbots. I never google anything now never.
A lot of people probably used Google's Gemini to figure
out what, you know, the Google searches are. But deep
Seek was the number one searched on AI company, which
is a Chinese AI Right. That was that shocking announcement
(09:41):
late summer early fall that China was indeed much farther.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Ah, you're right, and that's that's why people were searching
on it. They were thinking, well, deep Seek's better, I
want to check that out.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It turned either out of curiosity or concern about the
dirty commies. Yeah, it turns out it was overblown.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They were over over over exaggerating their qualities to a
certain extent, as all of these AI companies seem to
do because they're trying to get funding for their own company.
But there you go, there's your top searches. If you
didn't search any of those, your I don't know a
cool person who's not with the mainstream or something I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Coming up later in the show, who is on what
social media? And some of the numbers will shock you. Yeah,
that's what I heard on Instagram. So stay with us
for that. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday, alrighty man,
this week went by fast December fourth or twenty twenty
five or Armstrong Getty and we prove of this program. Okay, then,
(10:40):
so much to get to Let's get to it precisely
according to the FCC rules and regulations. Here we go.
The show starts at Mark.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
People understand, these accounts could make a big difference in
the lives of young Americans.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
When a young person has an account like this, they're
way more likely to graduate from college or high school,
start a family, buy a.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Home, and be a productive member of society.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Michael Dell there, I'm talking about the Trump savings plans
and his ginormous contribution to them. I think it is
you know, it's funny. It strikes me some of the
obviously the simplest things are the truest things, and we
have systematically failed to do what he is encouraging us
(11:24):
to do. Teach our kids about the things that make
America great and explain why they should value them and
or love them. We have just let that kind of
we assumed because we were taught that and it was
taught in schools that that was still happening. But it's
(11:45):
not so. Why is the free market the most incredibly
brilliant artificial intelligence that's ever existed. I could explain it
to you, but most kids couldn't answer that question, not
any level whatsoever. Why is hate speech protected speechquote unquote
hate speech? Why is free speech? Why is liberty so wonderful? Man?
We have to do a better job at that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It's quite possible they had a teacher explain to them
how we have more inequality in this country than any
other country as opposed to the wonders of the free market.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, what a load of crap. Well, it's guaranteed what
you just said is happening, guaranteed. We got Katie's headlines
on the way and a whole bunch of other news
for you to catch up on.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
A new Pete Hegseets report came out. Timing seems suspicious
to me. Is somebody just out to get Pete?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That? We got yet another different Pete scandal going on.
It's a drum beat all of that. Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Trying to read the latest on the various Pete Hegseets scandals,
trying to figure out if there's there there or not.
National Review has a piece out today and they're definitely
a Republican leaning outfit, saying the convoluted changing explanations for
the second strike on that boat is there.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
The story has shifted quite a bit. I thought yesterday
it got cleared up pretty well. Well.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
My only question was why didn't they give us that
information right off the bat? Well, you had a lawyer
there looking at the scene, advising you legally where you
should be on this, and the lawyer decided this was okay.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, why didn't he tell us that right off the
bat If you have the time and energy to watch
as much coverage as we do, you'll become aware that
this is a great example of competing narratives. Like ABC
News last night, their big lead was pressure growing on
Pete hagsat is the investigation. I was like, that's funny.
I don't perceive the pressure growing. It's kind of an
(13:34):
ongoing question that they're dealing with. But so there are
a lot of different narratives and various head hunters hunting
for heads and head hunters will oh, let's figure out
who's reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Quick question for you, Katie, what do you get when
you cross human DNA with dolphin DNA? Oh? You get
your ass band from Marine World. I'll tell you that
(14:00):
a good one, Holy human animal hybrid. Yes, Katie.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Speaking of Pete hagg Seth, He's at the top of
the headlines today for another reason. From the Washington Post,
Republicans begin to tighten the screws on heg Seth's Pentagon
from MS now Watchdog Hegseet's signal use put troops at
risk and NBC Pentagon's Signal Gate review finds Pete Hegseth
(14:28):
violated military regulations.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah. So the Inspector General's supposedly non partisan report came
out on the whole signal Gate thing. You remember that,
and uh, hegsett says it cleared him. You know, mainstream
media is saying it's damning. Hegseet says, they're partisan.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Uh why did it come out exactly the same time
that he's in this mess? Is that just a coincidence
or is there somebody trying to build a narrative He's
got to go.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
New York Times and a reporter suing the Pentagon and
Pete hegseeth over their new press credentials rule too, so
so spicy times there at the Pentagon.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
ABC Hootin vows to take Ukraine's eastern region. Is top
us and Ukrainian prepared top us and Ukrainian prepared to meet.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, his only desires for victory. How long does it
take you to catch on to that? Although you know
the they're trying to go with a work, You're going
to profit so much from laying down your arms and
will we'll gut Ukraine, you'll own it. It will be
a vassal state. Let's save some lives. Different people can
have different opinions on that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
From the Wall Street Journal, Wall Street wants in on
the Trump accounts for babies. Same banks brokers and money
managers are eager to find a role in the program.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So as a Dell family, are they big Trump fans?
I don't know that. I've never never heard of their
politics on.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I would just think that if I'm a philanthropist, calling
it Trump accounts or whatever is just you know, polk
in a certain segment of society wanting to make them angry.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
From brightbart dot com, Subaru drivers say ads are taking
over their car screens, even at highway speeds.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh boy, that's my car is feeding me ads, mm hmmah.
They're gonna be watching TV. I'm listening to a podcast. Whatever,
that's fine, that's the bargain. Oh well, cock my ear
to the ads. See if it's something I'm interested in,
my car starts pitching me. No, no, those ladies are
gonna be late for their softball game if that happens.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Hello from study fines, patients decide in twenty minutes if
they'll ever return to a doctor.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Sure, yeah, I think it's less than that. Yeah, I agree.
I'm surprised it's that long. Right.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And finally, from the Babylon b Tim Walls offers journalists
free tampons to stop talking about the fraud scandal.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Oh god, he's tampon, Tim, tampon, Tim? What loser? Oh
you're gonna pay off? Why? Ilan Omar is our general
manager today. Yes, she ought to be deported. Now can
you do that? She's a counterferson, don't.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.
They've taken billions and billions of dollars. They have a representative,
Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother as a fraud.
She tries to deny it now, but you can't really
deny it because you know, it just happened. She should
(17:45):
be allowed to be a congresswoman, and I'm sure people
are looking at that, and she should be throwing the
hell out of our country.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I would say the president's obsession with me and the
Somaldi community is unhealthy. It's creepy, and I hope that
he gets to help that he needs.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I was watching ABC's.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
National Network coverage of this yesterday afternoon, the story that
you brought us about the billion dollars of taxpayer money
they got ripped off.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
By the smaller community in particular, right.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And they mostly went with the angle of Trump and
Republicans using this as an opportunity to attack Somalis as
opposed to a billion.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Dollars got stolen from taxpayers. That seems like a pretty
big story, right in one state, really, in one city, Yeah,
by one particular close knit, non assimilating ethnic group. All right,
Well that's yeah, that's just a great example of their
incredible dishonesty. So, yes, Trump is certainly interested in ilhan
(18:56):
Omar and the Somalis of Minnesota, and in fact, they're
mounting in operation that's already being called racist and xenophobick
or whatever else to remove people who have final deportation orders.
That's you're just doing what the law says you're supposed
to do in the Somali areas of Minneapolis. But yeah,
(19:20):
he was. Trump was on fire yesterday mentioned that Omar
married her brother to defraud our immigration laws to get
into the country in the first place. That is pretty
well accepted, though she denies it. Here he is clipped
thirty six. Michael, they have destroyed Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Okay, Minnesota, you have an incompetent governor.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You have a crooked governor.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
He's crooked, has held, but he's incompetent.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Walts.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
He should be a shamed at beautiful land, that beautiful state.
It's a hell hale right now. And the Somalians should
be out of here. They've destroyed our country and all
they do is complain. Complain.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Blaine, you have her, she's.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Always talking about the constitution provides me with go back
to your own country and figure out your constitutions.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
All right. So Trump unfiltered in his criticisms of miss Omar.
Some others are being a bit more scholarly about their thoughts.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Go ahead, I got to believe that there are a
lot of people who live in Minnesota, not in Minneapolis
Saint Paula, are thinking.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It doesn't feel like a hell hold to me. I'm
pretty happy here. Oh sure, yeah, right. But anyway, For instance,
Bartan Swain in the Wall Street Journal has written a great,
great piece and he covers a couple of different angles, including, oh,
and we will get to what did Ilhan Homer know
and when did she know it? But he starts with
how this is the perfect parable of modern liberalism's failure.
(20:56):
It's hard to top the story of some all these
immigrants and US citizens alike Bilky Minnesota's social welfare system.
And then he refers to the New York Times that
treated the story with a competent and mostly unflinching article.
I finally read the whole thing. It's really really good
in the way that when the New York Times decides, yes,
(21:16):
we will deign to report on this story with our might,
they do a really good and thorough job. And it
is an indictment of Tim Walls and the Somali community
and Minneapolis, Minnesota in general, and the federal government just
spewing castoring code. That's what I thought when I was
(21:36):
watching the news last night.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The fact that they made it all about Trump using
this as an opportunity to attack Somali's as opposed to
a really interesting New York Times story that makes it
pretty clear that a particular ethnic group, with the help
of some politicians, ripped off a billion dollars from one town.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's a compelling story. Yeah, and I hate to jump
to the punchline too early. The fact that it was
just stated by several people involved in the article. I'm
sorry in the scandal that look, you're not going to
ask any questions as a politician, or you're gonna lose
the Somali vote. You hear me, all right, So back off,
(22:15):
And people backed off to keep the mobbed up Somali
vote anyway. Barton Swain mentions the incredible amount of time
it took for the Minnesota story to make its way
into national headlines. How that's part of the problem. Federal
prosecutors have already convicted almost sixty of the fraudsters, which
tells you how long this has been going on. That's
(22:35):
not a fast process. Few local media outlets have covered
the story since the first indictment. You've got power Line
the power Line blog has been covering it now for
a couple of years, and he mentions a couple others.
But Denny makes a great point to Samali fraud stories
in some respects respects akin to the so called grooming
scandal in Britain, in which gangs have mostly Pakistani and
(22:56):
Pakistani men sexually abused young girls even as the country's
government and news media looked the other way, terrified by
accusations of racism or Islamophobia. In the Twin Cities, state
authorities couldn't rouse themselves to stop the theft hundreds of
millions of dollars siphoned from medicaid, housing and other welfare programs.
(23:16):
They really, they targeted every program they could see. It's
to the great credit of the US under administration of
both parties that it didn't allow the perpetrator's race, religion,
or country of origin to hinder the prosecution. But then
he points out both scandals in the UK and Minnesota
race yourselves, folks, you weren't supposed to say this raise
a question most of us would rather not consider, that
(23:38):
of large scale immigration from predominantly Muslim countries, and he mentions, yes,
it's true that other ethnic groups brought some criminality with
them from the home country, and that there are plenty
of fine Somali folks in Minnesota. But as he points
out from the Giant story, I think it was in
(23:59):
the New York Times, bad actors, this is a quote.
Bad actors within the community would approach potential co conspirators
without any fear of betrayal. Even the people who said
no to phenomenal offers of tens of thousands of dollars
in free tax payer money did not inform the authorities
that a major community wide fraud against the public was
in progress, potential criminalodities when almost totally unreported to anyone
(24:20):
in government. And then he goes into the fact that
risking the Somali votes was too much and so people
just literally said, this is crazy. There's something going on here,
but I'm not even gonna look at it. And then
this is where it gets really important and uncomfortable. He
(24:40):
goes into some observations recently made by the historian British
History and Tom Holland, whose recent book contends that Christianity
has left an imprint on the West, so deep as
to be uneradicable and imperceptible. Even atheists think in Christian
without knowing it. Yeah, that's a good book. I've been
(25:02):
into that book. Yeah, I've got to read that. And
only a Christian nation would invent a social welfare system
as lavish and easily exploitable as Minnesota's. And then he
points out, and this is so interesting, and I'm going
to listen to this whole podcast, but essentially, what Christianity
has that Islam does not is the concept of the secular,
you know, or under under God? What is God? And
(25:25):
unto Caesar, what is Caesar's there's the spiritual religious part
and then there's secular part, and Christianity recognizes the need
for those things to be secret or separate so they
don't pervert each other. Islam recognizes no such division. The
book he's referring to is called Dominion.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's been around for a while and made a lot
of noise, and it's really interesting, the subtitle being how
the Christian Revolution remade the world culturally in addition to spiritually.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You know, there's part of me that would just like
to read the entire New York Times piece. It would
take a long time, but in a way you almost
have to get down into the details to understand the
true horror of it and how well known it was
in these circles and everybody knew it was happening. That's
(26:16):
what I was saying yesterday. How many thousands of people
had to be on board with this to allow it
to happen at the scale it happened, right, And there's
some repugnant details, like is the dad of an autistic kid?
The fact that the one of the big scams was
the provider's recruited children in Minneapolis's Smally community, falsely certified
(26:37):
them as qualifying for autism treatment and paid their parents'
kickbacks for the cooperation and made millions and millions and
millions of dollars off of that. Just disgusting anyway. The
New York Post asking the question what did Ilhan Omar
know about the one billion dollar welfare fraud case in
her community? There are held parties at one of the
(27:02):
key restaurants named in the fraud where they were running
the fraud out of knew one of its now convicted owners.
One of her staffers also has been convicted, both for
stealing millions. Omar even introduced the bill that led to
two hundred and fifty million dollars worth of the fraud,
yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it.
(27:23):
Bill Glenn, a policy fellow with the Minnesota based Center
of the American Experiment, said to the Post quote, Omar
knew who these people were. People she personally knew were
making tens of millions of dollars in this program. She'd
been inside the one restaurant facility on numerous occasions and
couldn't put two and two of it together. Either she's
termally naive or new and didn't care. Yeah, it's pretty
(27:46):
hard to imagine that she didn't know. It's also pretty
hard to imagine that she's going to get nailed on
this because people rarely do plausa. She is smart and
calculating plausible denial.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
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dot com and the code is Armstrong. So there's some
hearings today around the whole second shot at that boat
story with Pete hegseeth. One word I want to get
(29:16):
into a little bit, maybe an hour or two, clinging.
People really use the word clinging, and I'm not sure
clinging was happening. Every time somebody said clinging, I thought,
do we know that they were clinging? Clinging sounds very
weak and vulnerable. A couple of people clinging to a boat.
Everybody uses clinging. Well, the actual description that came out
(29:37):
yesterday is they were crawling across the boat trying to
get the drugs together, waiting for another boat to show up.
Blah blah blah. So that might be the testimony today.
So anyway, I want to talk about the word clinging later,
among other things. One final note on the ilhan Omar
thing is one of her top aids was involved when
the Minnesota Department of Education actually finally flagged the fee
(30:00):
eating our future people for irregularities and serious deficiencies. This
guy came out and blasted the state government. He praised
the vital work of feeding our families, blasted state agencies
for asking too many questions, hinted that it was clearly racism, bigotry, islamophobia.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I was listening to a podcast yesterday with the Washington
Post reporter who made the point that people don't care
about this stuff near as much as they should, or
you would think. I want to talk about that also.
I think it's thinks she's right. I think she's absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Are they too busy being amused or cynical? That's a
good question. That's a good question right there. We'll have
to get into that. We got lots of good stuff today.
I hope you can stick around Mailbag next. Sickly Jack
Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Gedtty. I am sickly.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
My immune system is weak and pathetic. I'm gonna keep
yelling at it and see if I can get it
to care more.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
First time I ever encountered the word sickly, it was
reading I Believe a biography of Edgar Allan Poe and
it mentioned that his wife was sickly. I'm like that,
that sounds bad.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I'm like the grandpa from the original Uh what was
the Chocolate Factory movie. I'm like, I'm like the grandpa
from Willy Wonka, just in bed, sickly, waiting for other
people to bring me soup.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Here's your freedom woman. Quotes of the day from James A. Garfield,
assassinated President of the United States. Too bad, too, a
really decent and good man from Ohio. If the power
to do hard work is not a skill, it's the
best possible substitute for it, And then in a similar vein,
(31:46):
he said, I mean, I mean to make myself a man,
and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in
everything else. Wow, which reminds me. I became aware of
a fella who's I think his gig these days is
speaking about the masculinity crisis in American boys and how
they've been cheated and mistreated and what to do about it.
(32:07):
Absolutely wonderful stuff. I'm gonna learn myself up on that
and join the crusade. But you know, the Jordan Peterson
type of thinking that masculinity is not toxic. Sure, there
are toxic manifestations of masculinity, just as there are femininity,
But the idea that masculinity is self is toxic is
(32:28):
one of the sickest, most well toxic things that's ever
been foisted on a population. Mail bag drop uson notwood
you a mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com
is the email address Mary writes Jack, Joe's that time
of the year again. My daughter and son in law
coming into town tomorrow from Denver. Thought i'd surprise them
(32:48):
with a little homemade eggnog. And she sends me a
picture of all the supplies, knowing that I am perhaps
the world's greatest fan of the nog, and I have
been nogging starting this week. Oh you have Yeah, when's
eggnog season officially start? Oh? I generally wait till December first, gotcha? Yeah? Yep.
(33:11):
M Too fat and too drunk is the problem with eggnog.
You get both of those things moving along. Several people
weighing in on the question of driverless cars, which we
talked about yesterday, and how soon they'll be around. Jeff
from North Carolina rights guys. Revenue from car insurance payments
would plummet if self driving cars became mandatory. I don't
(33:32):
agree that insurance companies want this. I hope your insurance
might not be mandatory if a chance of accidents are
next to nothing. I hope you're right.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I hate the fact that I think driving is going
to go away, but I think it is Conversely, in
a world where driverless cars are the majority and drivers
are not banned from driving. Insurance companies would welcome drivers
for the extra revenue, probably be cheaper two since the
risk would be lower. Okay, interesting, Thanks Jeff. And how
about this, Dan, auto shop owner and beautiful Sacamenta, California. Hello,
(34:02):
silly Jack and gullible Joe. You two had me yelling
at my phone yesterday. You proved that common sense isn't
that common? Under ten years? We're wasn't that what you?
Or we said that?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah? We think how long it'll be before majority the
government doesn't let you drive anymore out of safetyism and lawyers. Okay,
he says, you proved, oh under ten years. Really, ten
years from now, maybe five percent of the cars on
the road will be fully self driving. It will be
thirty years before fifty percent of the cars on the
(34:35):
road or self driving. Has the government banned cars without airbags?
Have they banned motorcycles? Have they banned cars with drum brakes?
I love you guys, which you need to pull your
heads out of your asses on this one. Dan, If
a I was going to live that long and be cared,
I would bet you today. Yeah, well, you mentioned that
it's going to be far fewer than thirty years before
(34:57):
fifty percent of cars on the road or self driving.
Perhaps the only head in an ass is your sirt.
I think ten is on the outside edge. Actually yeah,
but we'll see, we'll see. My friend.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
The point about you can still drive a car with
drum brakes and without airbag stuff, that's a decent point.
But yeah, oh yeah, so appreciate the thoughts, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
The idea that I'm sorry insurance companies would lose money,
that's a powerful point. Right side Joe Bob Wrights on
the Pete Hegsath controversy. I'm now convinced that Hexath needs
to go for one important reason. He refuses to accept
responsibility instead trying to throw someone else under the bus,
same thing he did with a signal chat that isn't
a leader, that's a bitch. Should start wearing a skirt
(35:41):
to work. Oh that's some strong stuff. Yeah, it does
have a whiff of throwing someone under the bus. Little
bit twenty year school marm great correspondent is a transplant
to Minnesota and wants to talk about the scandal. Cool
(36:01):
good stuff, but I don't want to rush through it,
so we'll get to that in a little bit. Cool Yeah,
George Will with a column about Pete hags Eth, pretty
rough on the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Course, he hates Trump, but you know, emphasizing clinging once again. Well,
the news that came out yesterday is these dudes were
not clinging to the boat in the way it's been
portrayed exactly. So maybe we can get into that at an
hour or two, among other things.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
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