June 21, 2024 • 35 mins
In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:
- Columbia anti Israel rioters let off the hook
- A new level of woke
- How other countries do business
- Reimbursements for playdates
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I know he.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Armstrong and Jetty, a mine who worked as SeaWorld, claims
that he was fired after an argument with a security guard.
To be fair, if you're yelling at someone, you probably
got fired for not being a great mind.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
True, there are a couple of and I won't go
this Friday, so I won't go full Jack Armstrong World
War three on you here. But there are a couple
of hotspots that have gotten a lot of attention in
the recent last twenty four hours. We'll start here. This
is a confrontation between China and the Philippines. If you
(01:02):
haven't heard this.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
A high seas confrontation that could ignite a war. In
the middle is a boat belonging to US ally the
Philippines sandwiched by the China Coastguard in the heavily contested
South China Sea on Monday. Footage released by the Armed
Forces of the Philippines shows its uniformed sailors attempting to
fight back some Chinese Coast Guard personnel armed with axes
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and knives, but Beijing says the Philippines started it. China
says it seized guns and ammunition from the Philippines ship.
Monday's clash marks a clear escalation with multiple Philippine servicemen injured.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Have you seen this video. It is unbelievable. You got
the two Chinese ships that come in from opposite sides
and sandwich the boat from the Philippines, and then the
Chinese guys got they got axes and bats and all
these different sorts of things and basically saying, stay out
of our waters. It's not their waters. But China is
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claiming so much of that area of the world is theirs,
and they're basically just seeing if the world is willing
to stand up and push back on that. In addition
to the fact that the head military guy from the
Philippines there said if one of our guys is herd
or killed, we will take that as an active war. Well,
one of the reasons that's important is we have a
(02:24):
defense agreement with the Philippines that if they are in
a battle with anybody, we're with them, We'll help you out.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah, it's a very black and white agreement too. It
is just such classic bully behavior. It reminds me there's
a reason Westerns are so popular because they're all morality plays.
And China's absolutely the outlaw gang that comes into town,
roughs people up, steals, does whatever they want until somebody
stands up to them, and generally there's a loss of life.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That's why I keep that happens referencing the movie Tombstone
or just the OK Corral. In general, it's the you're right.
That's why those stories grab people's attention because that very
situation gets played over and over and over throughout history.
The bad guys are doing something you told them not
to do. Are you gonna go down there and deal
with it or are you gonna let them get away
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with it and hope they don't go further? Those are
your choices.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Yeah, So in the Philippines or in the South China Sea,
they are literally going very very close to the Philippines
by the way and saying no, it's our our mine
now or our town now, and.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The Philippines in short, yes, sir. The Philippines official statement
being if one of our guys gets killed, it's an
active war and we're ready to jump ugly with you.
It's easier to say when you got a written agreement
with the United States is on your side. But okay,
so that's a rough situation. And because I promised I
wouldn't go too far on the whole World War three
is at our doorstep. Then this from the dispatch, let's
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not mince words. The Middle East is on the precipice
of the most destructive war in the region's modern history.
And that's all about Hezbolah and how that whole situation
is going up north. And there's no reason to think
that that ain't gonna blow up anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So and Ron and its proxies are so desperate to
blow up the agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia they
will do anything. They will start any war because the
more people dead, the better it is for them.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, and since China and Iran are in communication now,
there's no reason to not think that they have, you know,
complete ideas of the timing of this. It'd be a
little more than the United States going to handle to
have to defend Israel against Iran and the Philippines against China.
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That's a lot, that's a lot on your plate. And hey,
this is not implausible at all.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I could see the axis of a holes in their
weekly meeting zoom conference or whatever they do, saying, Hey,
we've got the doddering, senile old man and in charge
of the US for a few more months. Maybe we
need to make able the sun shines.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I think that's perfectly plausible. Also, I know that so
I was watching MSNBC today and they were going on
about some comment that just came out of some leaked
comment of Donald Trump discussing nuclear weapons, and they were
treating it as a you know, a crazy man who's
too frivalent with the use of nuclear power. I would
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like the rest of the world, particularly Iran in China
or Putin, to be as scared of US using a
dirty bomb as where are of them using a dirty bomb?
How about a little that we better not have the
United States escalate for once, right right?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Well, And you know, getting back to the Western metaphor,
not to flog it to death. But often the hero
who rides in, and I have never called Trump a hero,
so I'm just again, I'm just looking at the metaphor.
Often the Clint Eastwood who rides in to save the
town is a highly imperfect character and interesting Westerns.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Kurt Russell's cheating on his wife and Tombstone. That ain't cool.
That's a great example.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
That's unfaithfulness, terrible, and it's his wife was a drug addict.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
She was on the Uh what was everybody on back
in the day. One of your painkillers opium? Probably, No,
it was, they used the name of it. It's one
of your popular drugs. Somebody will text it. But your
old timey Western drugs that people would get done.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Seen hundred's drug addiction morphine morphine, No, it was.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's in that category though it's a quailuse. It's on
the tip of my tongue. It'll pop into my head.
The ludes man. Yeah, she had sores right down her bowl. Yes,
Wyatt IRB's wife was on the trank. She's standing arrow
with tombstone Arizona, leaning up against a pole with sores
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in her legs. That wouldn't have been a good movie.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
It wasn't Jakab, it wasn't Jacob all right, Mike then,
But seriously, now, Trump may have his flaws, he may
have many of them, but he is the guy who says, no,
I'm not gonna let anybody bully us or our friends.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
He's a tough guy, you know, whether real or not.
Thank you text line Lottom. That's what your old timing
people got hooked on Lodom back in the day. You
become an addict, completely different to Lottam. How do you
spell that? Uh? Well, these people spell the l A
U d u M. But you haven't come across that.
(07:33):
And like movies or books from back in that day,
I mean sounds vaguely the sort of thing that the
guy with the wolf wrote the books who died of
drinking too much Jack London, The sort of thing Jack London. Yes,
the guy with the wolf wrote the books. Come on,
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you know what I'm talking about. Man, I don't know
if I got the stomach to move on from this silliness.
All right, one more, one more? You got one more
hot spot? Is that the idea enough the courage to
get to I got one more thing I'm angry about
so I can move out and from anger. The same
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guy that brought you the impossible to explain Donald Trump felonies?
How'd you get there? Al Alvin Bragg who ran on
I'm going to get Donald Trump and got him. Let
the Columbia kids go, here's that.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Large chunk of the cases against the protesters were dismissed.
Thirty cases in all dismissed. There were forty four cases
before the judge. Another fourteen are still pending. One of
them is an individual who's facing arson charges for bernie
an Israeli flag, and when the prosecutor was describing the
allegations against him, people in the audience supporters of this
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individual actually started laughing.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yep, they're laughing at the whole idea. So the Columbia
protesters who took over the buildings illegally and all that
sort of stuff, album Bragg dropped the charges unpractically all.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Of them, Ah yes, and and if I remember correctly,
almost none of them faced any real consequences from.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The school, right, yeah, right, So.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Why would they They're not They're not like ideologically crazy
in the view of the administration. They're they're trained acolytes.
They learned what they were supposed to learn.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, you might as well hear this. Here's from a
Columbia student who doesn't like the result.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
I'm worried that.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
If the protesters just receive a slap on the wrists
that they'll feel very comfortable in repeating the chaos that
they inflicted on Hamilton Hall, and also the hostile environment
they created with their at least their second encampment. If
you were one of the ones to violate campus policy
or violate a law, you should be held accountable.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And a conservative is born. I well, a good one,
A liberal who got mugged. Mugged my reality is the
full quote, and that is what is happening with her.
I feel like there's a theme today of if you
don't punish people who do things that are legal, they'll
keep doing them obs.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Meanwhile, convince the rest of the population that they should
be passive, not stand up against whatever, to let the
authorities handle it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It's gonna be Friday night here in a couple hours.
Should I do that justin Timberlake Martini? It's gonna be
some Martine? Or should I go Lotom or Timberlake Martini?
Either them? You can't a little of both? Put on
some wife. Huh, exactly exactly. Came across something damn interesting
(10:48):
from one of the leader leading thinkers in America, writers
who is usually beating up on the left. He was asked,
why do you beat up on the left more than
the right, because he's kind of an a political guy.
He explains why in a way that I had not
thought of. I thought was really really interesting.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
And headlines you're not going to hear for a little while,
but you'll be ahead of the curve. Am Low, the
departing president of Mexico on his way out is doing
crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Wow, I haven't heard this. Good.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
There are neighbor Perhaps you realize that we have a
non existent border with them so.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Much on the way stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Here you go do it seven in the morning, a
fresh You gotta go down before any and everything that
Tommy is going.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We gotta get the what did we do to deserve this?
I'll tell you what in a second. Jack's at fault.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Just for the record, because this is not my idea.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I'm waiting to get to the hook man. Nothing makes
you want to drink those justin timber like Martini's like this.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Hook Come on, kids, Wow, I would drink anything that
would make me deaf right now, I would.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Drink bleach at this point. Oh, I'd get heavy, get
some of that laudanum. Get heavy on the laudanum, which
is kind of funny. We had one hundred texts about that,
each one of them spelled differently, which is funny. That's
her birthday today, that girl right there, And what's interesting
about that is she's only twenty seven, twenty seven, all right,
(12:39):
please make it stuff, still a child. And she had
that giant hit song where she basically just recant in
the morning, gotta get up, put on my socks, tie
my shoes, brush my teeth, have some cereal, make sure
the door is closed. Did I remember my homework.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
To a funky, funky beat? Where is she now? Probably
in hiding?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And I think that was backstill, And you could make
a lot of money off a hit song. Maybe, So,
I don't know. I don't know. Two things. Oh wait,
so this the big Supreme Court ruling could come down
any minute. I just want to make sure we get
this on the air before it happens. If the immunity
decision is announced, nobody is going to report it correctly, correct,
(13:20):
and practically everybody's going to claim it was political. I
was watching MSNBC today and they were stating it like
it's just obvious fact that the justices appointed by Trump
are likely slow walking this to make sure the decision
doesn't come out in time for the Jack Smith prosecution
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thing to move forward, which I think is outrageous to
say that these Supreme Court justices would clearly do something
just to help Donald Trump. That's nuts in my mind.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
That is setting fire to the most important institutions in
the country. Yeah, by engaging that sort of incendiary political talk.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I wouldn't think that about Soda, my Oor or Kagan,
that they would clearly slow walk a case just to
barely help Joe Biden. That's crazy to me. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
There's Charlie Cook took apart CNN's coverage of a recent
Supreme Court decision, and I came away from it at
number one, loathing this guy dominic air design at CNN,
but also thinking, you know, if people, good people are
trying to be informed and they read that. On Friday,
(14:35):
in a display of smoldering defiance and bewildering logic, the
Supreme Court overruled the Trump era federal bump stock band,
charging the ATF with an abrupt reversal of its own criteria.
Charlie Cook goes through it and says it was not
smoldering defiance in any way. The logic is air tight.
It wasn't abrupt reversal of its old criteria. It was
(14:55):
an easy case, but CNN just went with a utterly
false accounting of the decision.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
How much time I got, Michael, want to make sure
you can get this in? I got two and a half? Okay, cool.
So there's a new doctor drama out. And doctor dramas
have been popular on television since I was a little kid.
And how many have there been? I mean, Saint Elsewhere
or you name more of them. But you know whatever,
that George Clooney one was in, he was in that
(15:24):
was on Forever where you got the whole all the
excitement of the emergency room and dealing with the hospital
and people fallen in love and people dying and it's
so tough to be a doctor, all that sort of stuff. Anyway,
there's a new one coming out, and the tease from
it what's the name of this one? So this is
a it's actually from twenty eighteen.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
The show started in twenty eighteen, but this wokeness has
been building over the years.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
So this episode is hitting now. But what's the name
of this new Amsterdam? I had never even watched this before,
but it's one of your doctor dramas. It has the
look of every doctor drama you've ever seen, except for
this scene is so over the top. Listen to this is.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, he's he's okay. If I had cephas
answered some questions from a Harvard test known as unrest.
It is designed to measure someone's level of social resistance.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
Social resistance when people like us oppose the values and
policies of the dominant culture.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
That's right, What.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Does that have to do?
Speaker 8 (16:24):
He feels threatened on a daily basis, like everything he's
earned can just be taken away. He's disenfranchised, wait for it,
because his life is seemingly free from all this. Because
he can't name it, he's internalizing it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Name what racism.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
I think your son's tumor was caused by racism.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
My lord, I think your son's tumor was caused by racism.
Speaker 10 (16:54):
And when that music starts, When that music starts, the
camera pans to all the character They all have this
like deathly scared look on their face.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Like, oh my god, racism has caused tumors.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Now, how can you unleash parody?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
All artists of parody have laid down their pens and
are going off to plumbing school. Now, how unbelievable is that.
I'm rarely stunned. I'm stunned.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Are you saying, Yes, I'm saying your son's tumor was
caused by racism? Dramatic music? Wow? What the hell?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Fuck Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
This is how the presumptive nominees stack up on the
big issues. Former President Trump gets the nod on immigration,
the economy, the Israel Hamas war, and guns. President Biden
is favored on standing up to elite interests, stability and normalcy,
and the future of American democracy.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I don't think Biden's gonna have any role in the future,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So the behind this number, the numbers behind the numbers
that came out later in the day from that Fox poll.
So the big headline, of course, was that Biden pulled
ahead of Trump for the first time since October or whatever,
And I thought, how can that be when Trump is
dominating on all the lead issues. Well, on this Fox poll,
the lead issue was defending democracy or worried about democracy
(18:22):
or whatever. That was the issue people said they cared
the most about, and Biden wins pretty big on that one.
That's the first time immigration or the economy wasn't the
big issue to me. So I don't know. But there's
another poll out today, a couple more polls out actually
in the last twenty four hours where the gap has
closed or Biden has pulled ahead, so that seems to
be a real thing, which.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Polls all of them.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
As far as preserving or protecting democracy, Trump has got
to go Clinton and triangulate on that and come up
with a good concise attack on Biden in company their
attacks on democracy.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
But let that unfold. Is an unfold.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I wanted to talk about mostly immigration and specifically Mexico.
And it's amazing to me how casually we as Americans
take it that there is a borderline failed Narco State
to our south, I mean just right next door, and
we have a non existent border.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, and that was I'm sorry. I go ahead. If
you want to throw in a con, I think something
bad is going to happen. Some people would argue that
bad things are already happening, they are rapes and murders,
but something really big and bad is going to happen
at some point. And then it is going to seem
extra ridiculous looking back what you just said.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Right, So, Mexico's lame duck president amlow overdoor overdoor retree.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
If I like to call him.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
He is on his way out, and he seems intent
on passing a series of what he calls reforms that
will eliminate independent regulators or merge their offices with executive
branch agencies. Which is, it's really a dumb idea for
business and investment. It violates the US Mexico Canada Agreement.
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It essentially any regulation would be in the hands of politicians,
not independent regulators. That one is a little less jazzy
than the next one, which is he wants to get
through a proposal that all federal and local judges in Mexico,
including the Supreme Court, be elected by popular vote. So
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that would be game over for judicial recourse in Mexico.
If a foreign investor has a dispute, say with a
powerful political actor or a powerful political interest, a big
corporation that's got a lot of political poll or what
have you, you're.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Doomed well with. Even without looking at Mexico, can you
imagine the judicial system we had if all of our
Supreme Court justice were elected by popular vote in the
current era. Oh my god, oh.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Right, right, And they point out in the Wall Street Journal, Yeah,
this is Wall Street Journal that with large swaths of
Mexico under the control of the cartels, the what sort
of judges do you think are going to get elected there?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
This would be absolutely greasing.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
The ramp of Mexico's slide into failed narco state.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So do analysts believe he's just like fully on the
payroll of the big cartels or does he actually think
for some reason this is a way to fix things.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Interestingly enough, the journal doesn't go there. Their view or
their point of view for this article, not surprisingly, is
more business oriented than purely political.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
But that was the first thing I thought of.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
How I mean, if something empowers the cartels that powerfully
pardon me not my best sentence.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
How can you think anything? But well, is there a
chance that he would say, assuming he's not a criminal,
that he would say, Look, everybody who appoints judges is
in the pocket of the cartels, and at threat of death.
We need to make this a giant vote for the
whole country. They can't threaten the whole country and pick
our judges that way, it's our only way out.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I'd like to hear some analysis of that. It's an
interesting theory.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I don't know. I don't know either. How would you
get out of that? That's one of the reasons that
corruption is so awful. You end up in a situation
like that, how do you get out of it? And
I always I've told this story many times. I always
remember this one. So I went on vacation many many
summers ago to Mexico City, spent a week, most of
a week in Mexico City, then went further south to
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some other town. But anyway, and in Mexico City, staying
on the Zokolo, which is just historic and fascinating and
so cool. And it was an awesome vacation. But cab
driver that picked me up one morning from the hotel
to take me out to those giant pyramids that maybe
you've seen before on TV that are as big as
the pyramids in Egypt. They're they're stunning. But the cab
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driver gave a little history lesson driving us out to
the pyramids, and he said he was talking about when
the Spanish took over Mexico in the early fifteen hundreds,
Spain ran Mexico from early fifteen hundreds to early eighteen hundreds.
They don't get beaten up as a colonizer the way
the United States says for some reason. But the cab
(23:22):
driver said, Spain gave us two things, our language and corruption.
And I thought that was so interesting that he looks
at it that way. It's just part of their culture,
like language, corruption. And that's true. I mean, it's either
part of your culture or not. But if it becomes
your culture or is your culture, how the hell do
you fix that and get out of it? If it's
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just if it's just a common thing for a politician
to be on the take and you know, choose judges
because of whoever's paying them, I don't.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Know how you get out of that well, right, And
if it's a cultural norm, especially I can't remember where
the person was from, whether it was like Afghanistan or
somewhere in the Soviet blocker. And it doesn't really matter,
because it's true of any such system. But they said,
we don't look at it as corruption. Westerners keep calling
it corruption. This is just how we do business. If
(24:17):
you want your permit to go faster, you slip the
guy at twenty.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, the idea. And I never had to do this,
but it was all your travel books warned you to carry,
you know, some extra cash in your boot or whatever
traveling around the way I did, because it was so
common for somebody to some cop to give you a
ticket and tell you, you know, it goes away if you
give me fifty bucks or whatever. Otherwise you're gonna have
to go down to the courthouse. You need to be
there on Friday, blah blah blah. And that what you
(24:42):
were just talking about, that wouldn't be seen as oh
my god, I'm being held up. It's just now, it's
the way we do business around here.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yeah, it's one of these okay. Now, So but getting
back to your having an election to skirt the corrupt
officials theory, it might be true, but if you think
that the elections would be free and fair in any
cartel controlled area, come on, now, the Klan would like
a word with you from you know, eighteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, I don't know how the hell you get out
of the one of this situation that they're in, or
any country's in.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
It's such a crazy relationship, and I wish I had
more time to study it just because it's so interesting.
But there are Mexico's our number one training partner. They
are neighbor. They're a borderline failed narco state. We have
a non existent border. We send them flooding the country
with deadly drugs. We send them an iPhone. They send
us a borough in a sombrero. Fair enough, fair trade,
(25:42):
and and they're like our unofficial source of labor when
our labor market's tight, but our politicians pretend to be
angry about it. And it's it's you'd need like a
thousand page novel to spin out all the weird that
is our relationship with Mexico.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Do you have anybody listening and travels around Mexico still
the way I used to? Or is that not something
you can do? I wouldn't do it now, But that's
just from what I read. I know when I used
to go down to Mexico. I went down to Mexico
a lot many times. I was being told regularly by
some people, Oh, you can't go down there anymore, it's
too dangerous. I never had one even slight problem driving
(26:28):
thousands of miles around Mexico. Not one. But I doubt
that's true. Now, yeah, I think the times have changed,
but I that is what people told me exactly when
I was going down there before. Oh the times of change.
You can't do it's too dangerous. Never one time was
even the slightest bit worried.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I wonder if the evil doers look at you and think, hey,
can't have enough money to be worth kidnapping, and he's
clueless tourist, let him go exactly. We don't need the headache.
It's orth repeating. And I don't have the number in
front of me, but I'm pretty sure it's fifty eight.
In the last election cycle, fifty eight candidates for office
were assassinated. In Mexico, fifty eight candidates for office were
(27:13):
rubbed out.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Woo.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
That's the country we live next to with a non
existent border, and baddies from all over the world are
now flooding into the country. And Biden is trying to
start to get back to American politics. But Biden threw
a couple of his executive orders, is trying to look
like he's on top of it, and if these recent
poll numbers are worth looking at, he may be.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Having some success. Among things we should deal with, should
you get reimbursed for a playdate. You haven't put somebody's
kid over to your house. And yeah, gave him a
juice box and a peanut butter sandwich. And that'll be
eight dollars when they come pick up the kit.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
You're gonna invoice the other parents. What is this a thing?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I don't know that. That's what I'm asking Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Paul.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I can say is this.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I watched him with Paul Ryan, and he destroyed Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan with the water. He was chugging water at
a left and right. I didn't think a human bamber
would be able to drink so much water at one time,
and he'd beat Paul Ryan. So I'm not underestimating him.
I'm not underestimating him.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It is what it is. So Donald Trump trying to,
I guess, raise expectations for Joe Biden for the debate
as we get closer to it.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Why is Trump so critical of people who drink water?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Marco Rubio, thirsty, little Marco. I've never seen somebody drink
so much water.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I think it might be the TV guy in him,
and he just sees it as you don't take a
drink of water on camera. I think I don't know.
Joe Biden asked about the debate by David Muir. Are
you ready for this debate?
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Are you ready for this bait?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Why he sounds like he's a you got one foot
and a half in the grave. Are you ready for
this debate? Yes? About to topple over into the grave? Wow? Wow? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Have the U is the digger guy in his coffee break?
I haven't get ready?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh wow, come on? Wow too much? Sorry.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Supreme Court out with a pro maga, out of control
right wing decision that absolutely is pleasing the left. The
justices rejected a Second Amendment challenge to a federal law
that makes it a crime for people subject to domestic
violence restraining orders to possess a gun.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Okay, so, as with all these rulings, is this what
it sounds like or is it some sort of complicated No,
it's not actually about the Second Amendment. It's about something else.
I don't think so. So this is the idea that
you can get a constitutional right taken away if you
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have a restraining order against you.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
The Supreme Court rules that the government may disarma Texas
man subject to a domestic violence order, limiting the sweep
of its earlier blockbuster decision the vastly expanded gun rights.
The new case US versus Raheemi. Only Clarence Thomas, the
author of the majority opinion in the twenty twenty two decision, dissented,
(30:19):
so this was eight to one wow. Writing for the majority,
Chief Justice John Roberts said that the Second Amendment rights
had limits. Quote. When a restraining order contains a finding
that an individual poses a credible threat to the physical
safety of an intimate partner, that individual may, consistent with
the Second Amendment, be banned from possessing firearms while the
order is in effect.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, that is not There was no standing here, right, No,
that was a serious ruling. But that's an interesting one,
And I don't know how I feel about it. I
sure as hell. You know, you got a crazy ex
boyfriend who is violent and shown himself to be violent,
and you got a restraining order against him. He should
not be able to get your gun's taken away, or
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you can't buy a gun. You can't possess have a gun.
So you can't possess a gun, whether you had one
before or not. You know, I don't want that guy
to have a gun either, but you don't take away
their right to free speech or assembly. Or well, you
can't kill somebody with your speech. Generally, you don't make
them quarter troops because anything like that.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Well, I appreciate the comparison, I don't think it applies exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And sometimes restraining orders, you know, even though a court
looks into it makes a decision, are thrown around, not
to completely correctly. I don't know. Robert wrote further.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Since the founding, our nation's firearm laws have included provisions
preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms. Interesting, well,
that's misusing, not possessing. John the case, the guy involved
Raheemi is a scumbag.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh yeah, that guy shouldn't have had a gun. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Anyway, interesting that there will be plenty of analysis to
analyze going forward.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And since it's eight one, I'd say it's going to
be the law of the land for a long, long
long time. Different topic. If you got kids, you've done
the whole playdate thing. Either your kid goes over to
somebody else's house or kids come over to your house.
Here's one mom with an interesting wrinkle on.
Speaker 11 (32:20):
It so recently my daughter had a friend of her
So after the play dated text her moment, I said,
thanks for letting Jamie play today. Please help out with
your share of the expenses for the play date, totaling
fifteen dollars via themo Let's do it again sometime, because
I can't keep doing these playdates.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
If it's so expensive.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
And she said expenses, and I said, yeah, she used
supplies and food while she was here. In this way,
we can do this more often without a monetary obligation
on just one party. Right, She did say what supplies.
There was chalk, apple, sauce, fruit, She sat on the couch.
That's wear and tear, especially, broke a toy. She had
three juice boxes. She went to the bathroom, she had yogurt.
(32:57):
Then she actually sent the money. She didnt say anything else,
but I said, you know, this will make it easier
for us to do more play dates in the future.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So what do you guys, there won't be any playdates
this money? Is this real, Katie?
Speaker 10 (33:10):
It's yeah, yeah, And she's she's getting.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
All hell online for this wear and tear on this sofa.
That's where she crossed the line. That's that's where you know,
because you were thinking, well, I could kind of wear
and tear on the sofa. Okay, you're a crazy person.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
You're going to charge somebody for the chalk They used
drawing pictures of butterflies on the driveway supplies.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
So the chalk, the apple sauce, the fruit, and the
yogurt all went for one dollar. The three trips to
the bathroom and the wear and tear on the couch
was five bucks, and then there was three bucks, and
then the breaking of the doll was five dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Wait a second, why are you charging them for going
to the bathroom? What is that charge? The water? Water
isn't free water? And toilet paper is it flush charge?
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Toilet paper? Nothing in life is free. Jack. So I
got to take my kid over and say, look, you
can pee once, but I ain't paying for you p
and twice. You hold it until we get go in
the backyard. Yeah, go out and scrat. Here's a gatorade bottle.
Pee in that. Go in a closet, be in this
gatorade bottle. I can't afford all these bathroom trips exactly now. Also,
unless the kid is going to the fridge and just
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standing there as a five year old looking around and
what you got in here and taking some of your food.
I think you offered all this stuff to them. Maybe don't,
you know, offer them so much food if it's draining
your bank account.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
You check on the kids and they're doing up some
thick tea bon steaks on the grill or something like that.
I guess maybe you're charging people for apple sauce.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
What is a child's portion of apple sauce cost?
Speaker 10 (34:38):
And three bucks for wear and tear for sitting on
the couch.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Yeah, that's either a psychopath or it's fake.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I always offer. Very rarely does anybody take you up
on when you offer, Like, you know, they took the
kids out to McDonald's or something like that, because it
ain't nothing. Your kid can easily eat fifteen dollars worth
of food, especially now with the current rates. But that's
a little different than they're sitting on your and tear
on the sofa. How fat is this kid? Huh? They
(35:13):
jumping up and down on it. That's that's insane. Well,
bathroom muse. You're gonna charge guests for bathroom muse?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
It's not cheap.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Have you seen the prices? Of things these days.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Wow, Samded a little young to have lived through the depression.
That's it's, it's it's a psycho wear and tear.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You can weigh in text line four one five KFTC.
I'm gonna adopt this in my own, my own house.
That's twice to the bathroom. I'm marking them down.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I know he.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Armstrong and Jetty, a mine who worked as SeaWorld, claims
that he was fired after an argument with a security guard.
To be fair, if you're yelling at someone, you probably
got fired for not being a great mind.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
True, there are a couple of and I won't go
this Friday, so I won't go full Jack Armstrong World
War three on you here. But there are a couple
of hotspots that have gotten a lot of attention in
the recent last twenty four hours. We'll start here. This
is a confrontation between China and the Philippines. If you
(01:02):
haven't heard this.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
A high seas confrontation that could ignite a war. In
the middle is a boat belonging to US ally the
Philippines sandwiched by the China Coastguard in the heavily contested
South China Sea on Monday. Footage released by the Armed
Forces of the Philippines shows its uniformed sailors attempting to
fight back some Chinese Coast Guard personnel armed with axes
(01:27):
and knives, but Beijing says the Philippines started it. China
says it seized guns and ammunition from the Philippines ship.
Monday's clash marks a clear escalation with multiple Philippine servicemen injured.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Have you seen this video. It is unbelievable. You got
the two Chinese ships that come in from opposite sides
and sandwich the boat from the Philippines, and then the
Chinese guys got they got axes and bats and all
these different sorts of things and basically saying, stay out
of our waters. It's not their waters. But China is
(02:03):
claiming so much of that area of the world is theirs,
and they're basically just seeing if the world is willing
to stand up and push back on that. In addition
to the fact that the head military guy from the
Philippines there said if one of our guys is herd
or killed, we will take that as an active war. Well,
one of the reasons that's important is we have a
(02:24):
defense agreement with the Philippines that if they are in
a battle with anybody, we're with them, We'll help you out.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah, it's a very black and white agreement too. It
is just such classic bully behavior. It reminds me there's
a reason Westerns are so popular because they're all morality plays.
And China's absolutely the outlaw gang that comes into town,
roughs people up, steals, does whatever they want until somebody
stands up to them, and generally there's a loss of life.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That's why I keep that happens referencing the movie Tombstone
or just the OK Corral. In general, it's the you're right.
That's why those stories grab people's attention because that very
situation gets played over and over and over throughout history.
The bad guys are doing something you told them not
to do. Are you gonna go down there and deal
with it or are you gonna let them get away
(03:15):
with it and hope they don't go further? Those are
your choices.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Yeah, So in the Philippines or in the South China Sea,
they are literally going very very close to the Philippines
by the way and saying no, it's our our mine
now or our town now, and.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The Philippines in short, yes, sir. The Philippines official statement
being if one of our guys gets killed, it's an
active war and we're ready to jump ugly with you.
It's easier to say when you got a written agreement
with the United States is on your side. But okay,
so that's a rough situation. And because I promised I
wouldn't go too far on the whole World War three
is at our doorstep. Then this from the dispatch, let's
(03:54):
not mince words. The Middle East is on the precipice
of the most destructive war in the region's modern history.
And that's all about Hezbolah and how that whole situation
is going up north. And there's no reason to think
that that ain't gonna blow up anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
So and Ron and its proxies are so desperate to
blow up the agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia they
will do anything. They will start any war because the
more people dead, the better it is for them.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, and since China and Iran are in communication now,
there's no reason to not think that they have, you know,
complete ideas of the timing of this. It'd be a
little more than the United States going to handle to
have to defend Israel against Iran and the Philippines against China.
(04:45):
That's a lot, that's a lot on your plate. And hey,
this is not implausible at all.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I could see the axis of a holes in their
weekly meeting zoom conference or whatever they do, saying, Hey,
we've got the doddering, senile old man and in charge
of the US for a few more months. Maybe we
need to make able the sun shines.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I think that's perfectly plausible. Also, I know that so
I was watching MSNBC today and they were going on
about some comment that just came out of some leaked
comment of Donald Trump discussing nuclear weapons, and they were
treating it as a you know, a crazy man who's
too frivalent with the use of nuclear power. I would
(05:31):
like the rest of the world, particularly Iran in China
or Putin, to be as scared of US using a
dirty bomb as where are of them using a dirty bomb?
How about a little that we better not have the
United States escalate for once, right right?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Well, And you know, getting back to the Western metaphor,
not to flog it to death. But often the hero
who rides in, and I have never called Trump a hero,
so I'm just again, I'm just looking at the metaphor.
Often the Clint Eastwood who rides in to save the
town is a highly imperfect character and interesting Westerns.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Kurt Russell's cheating on his wife and Tombstone. That ain't cool.
That's a great example.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
That's unfaithfulness, terrible, and it's his wife was a drug addict.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
She was on the Uh what was everybody on back
in the day. One of your painkillers opium? Probably, No,
it was, they used the name of it. It's one
of your popular drugs. Somebody will text it. But your
old timey Western drugs that people would get done.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Seen hundred's drug addiction morphine morphine, No, it was.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's in that category though it's a quailuse. It's on
the tip of my tongue. It'll pop into my head.
The ludes man. Yeah, she had sores right down her bowl. Yes,
Wyatt IRB's wife was on the trank. She's standing arrow
with tombstone Arizona, leaning up against a pole with sores
(06:56):
in her legs. That wouldn't have been a good movie.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
It wasn't Jakab, it wasn't Jacob all right, Mike then,
But seriously, now, Trump may have his flaws, he may
have many of them, but he is the guy who says, no,
I'm not gonna let anybody bully us or our friends.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
He's a tough guy, you know, whether real or not.
Thank you text line Lottom. That's what your old timing
people got hooked on Lodom back in the day. You
become an addict, completely different to Lottam. How do you
spell that? Uh? Well, these people spell the l A
U d u M. But you haven't come across that.
(07:33):
And like movies or books from back in that day,
I mean sounds vaguely the sort of thing that the
guy with the wolf wrote the books who died of
drinking too much Jack London, The sort of thing Jack London. Yes,
the guy with the wolf wrote the books. Come on,
(07:55):
you know what I'm talking about. Man, I don't know
if I got the stomach to move on from this silliness.
All right, one more, one more? You got one more
hot spot? Is that the idea enough the courage to
get to I got one more thing I'm angry about
so I can move out and from anger. The same
(08:15):
guy that brought you the impossible to explain Donald Trump felonies?
How'd you get there? Al Alvin Bragg who ran on
I'm going to get Donald Trump and got him. Let
the Columbia kids go, here's that.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Large chunk of the cases against the protesters were dismissed.
Thirty cases in all dismissed. There were forty four cases
before the judge. Another fourteen are still pending. One of
them is an individual who's facing arson charges for bernie
an Israeli flag, and when the prosecutor was describing the
allegations against him, people in the audience supporters of this
(08:50):
individual actually started laughing.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yep, they're laughing at the whole idea. So the Columbia
protesters who took over the buildings illegally and all that
sort of stuff, album Bragg dropped the charges unpractically all.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Of them, Ah yes, and and if I remember correctly,
almost none of them faced any real consequences from.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The school, right, yeah, right, So.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Why would they They're not They're not like ideologically crazy
in the view of the administration. They're they're trained acolytes.
They learned what they were supposed to learn.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, you might as well hear this. Here's from a
Columbia student who doesn't like the result.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
I'm worried that.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
If the protesters just receive a slap on the wrists
that they'll feel very comfortable in repeating the chaos that
they inflicted on Hamilton Hall, and also the hostile environment
they created with their at least their second encampment. If
you were one of the ones to violate campus policy
or violate a law, you should be held accountable.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And a conservative is born. I well, a good one,
A liberal who got mugged. Mugged my reality is the
full quote, and that is what is happening with her.
I feel like there's a theme today of if you
don't punish people who do things that are legal, they'll
keep doing them obs.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Meanwhile, convince the rest of the population that they should
be passive, not stand up against whatever, to let the
authorities handle it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It's gonna be Friday night here in a couple hours.
Should I do that justin Timberlake Martini? It's gonna be
some Martine? Or should I go Lotom or Timberlake Martini?
Either them? You can't a little of both? Put on
some wife. Huh, exactly exactly. Came across something damn interesting
(10:48):
from one of the leader leading thinkers in America, writers
who is usually beating up on the left. He was asked,
why do you beat up on the left more than
the right, because he's kind of an a political guy.
He explains why in a way that I had not
thought of. I thought was really really interesting.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
And headlines you're not going to hear for a little while,
but you'll be ahead of the curve. Am Low, the
departing president of Mexico on his way out is doing
crazy stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Wow, I haven't heard this. Good.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
There are neighbor Perhaps you realize that we have a
non existent border with them so.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Much on the way stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Here you go do it seven in the morning, a
fresh You gotta go down before any and everything that
Tommy is going.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We gotta get the what did we do to deserve this?
I'll tell you what in a second. Jack's at fault.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Just for the record, because this is not my idea.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I'm waiting to get to the hook man. Nothing makes
you want to drink those justin timber like Martini's like this.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Hook Come on, kids, Wow, I would drink anything that
would make me deaf right now, I would.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Drink bleach at this point. Oh, I'd get heavy, get
some of that laudanum. Get heavy on the laudanum, which
is kind of funny. We had one hundred texts about that,
each one of them spelled differently, which is funny. That's
her birthday today, that girl right there, And what's interesting
about that is she's only twenty seven, twenty seven, all right,
(12:39):
please make it stuff, still a child. And she had
that giant hit song where she basically just recant in
the morning, gotta get up, put on my socks, tie
my shoes, brush my teeth, have some cereal, make sure
the door is closed. Did I remember my homework.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
To a funky, funky beat? Where is she now? Probably
in hiding?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And I think that was backstill, And you could make
a lot of money off a hit song. Maybe, So,
I don't know. I don't know. Two things. Oh wait,
so this the big Supreme Court ruling could come down
any minute. I just want to make sure we get
this on the air before it happens. If the immunity
decision is announced, nobody is going to report it correctly, correct,
(13:20):
and practically everybody's going to claim it was political. I
was watching MSNBC today and they were stating it like
it's just obvious fact that the justices appointed by Trump
are likely slow walking this to make sure the decision
doesn't come out in time for the Jack Smith prosecution
(13:40):
thing to move forward, which I think is outrageous to
say that these Supreme Court justices would clearly do something
just to help Donald Trump. That's nuts in my mind.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
That is setting fire to the most important institutions in
the country. Yeah, by engaging that sort of incendiary political talk.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I wouldn't think that about Soda, my Oor or Kagan,
that they would clearly slow walk a case just to
barely help Joe Biden. That's crazy to me. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
There's Charlie Cook took apart CNN's coverage of a recent
Supreme Court decision, and I came away from it at
number one, loathing this guy dominic air design at CNN,
but also thinking, you know, if people, good people are
trying to be informed and they read that. On Friday,
(14:35):
in a display of smoldering defiance and bewildering logic, the
Supreme Court overruled the Trump era federal bump stock band,
charging the ATF with an abrupt reversal of its own criteria.
Charlie Cook goes through it and says it was not
smoldering defiance in any way. The logic is air tight.
It wasn't abrupt reversal of its old criteria. It was
(14:55):
an easy case, but CNN just went with a utterly
false accounting of the decision.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
How much time I got, Michael, want to make sure
you can get this in? I got two and a half? Okay, cool.
So there's a new doctor drama out. And doctor dramas
have been popular on television since I was a little kid.
And how many have there been? I mean, Saint Elsewhere
or you name more of them. But you know whatever,
that George Clooney one was in, he was in that
(15:24):
was on Forever where you got the whole all the
excitement of the emergency room and dealing with the hospital
and people fallen in love and people dying and it's
so tough to be a doctor, all that sort of stuff. Anyway,
there's a new one coming out, and the tease from
it what's the name of this one? So this is
a it's actually from twenty eighteen.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
The show started in twenty eighteen, but this wokeness has
been building over the years.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
So this episode is hitting now. But what's the name
of this new Amsterdam? I had never even watched this before,
but it's one of your doctor dramas. It has the
look of every doctor drama you've ever seen, except for
this scene is so over the top. Listen to this is.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, he's he's okay. If I had cephas
answered some questions from a Harvard test known as unrest.
It is designed to measure someone's level of social resistance.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
Social resistance when people like us oppose the values and
policies of the dominant culture.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
That's right, What.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Does that have to do?
Speaker 8 (16:24):
He feels threatened on a daily basis, like everything he's
earned can just be taken away. He's disenfranchised, wait for it,
because his life is seemingly free from all this. Because
he can't name it, he's internalizing it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Name what racism.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
I think your son's tumor was caused by racism.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
My lord, I think your son's tumor was caused by racism.
Speaker 10 (16:54):
And when that music starts, When that music starts, the
camera pans to all the character They all have this
like deathly scared look on their face.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Like, oh my god, racism has caused tumors.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Now, how can you unleash parody?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Now?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
All artists of parody have laid down their pens and
are going off to plumbing school. Now, how unbelievable is that.
I'm rarely stunned. I'm stunned.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Are you saying, Yes, I'm saying your son's tumor was
caused by racism? Dramatic music? Wow? What the hell?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Fuck Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
This is how the presumptive nominees stack up on the
big issues. Former President Trump gets the nod on immigration,
the economy, the Israel Hamas war, and guns. President Biden
is favored on standing up to elite interests, stability and normalcy,
and the future of American democracy.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I don't think Biden's gonna have any role in the future,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So the behind this number, the numbers behind the numbers
that came out later in the day from that Fox poll.
So the big headline, of course, was that Biden pulled
ahead of Trump for the first time since October or whatever,
And I thought, how can that be when Trump is
dominating on all the lead issues. Well, on this Fox poll,
the lead issue was defending democracy or worried about democracy
(18:22):
or whatever. That was the issue people said they cared
the most about, and Biden wins pretty big on that one.
That's the first time immigration or the economy wasn't the
big issue to me. So I don't know. But there's
another poll out today, a couple more polls out actually
in the last twenty four hours where the gap has
closed or Biden has pulled ahead, so that seems to
be a real thing, which.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Polls all of them.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
As far as preserving or protecting democracy, Trump has got
to go Clinton and triangulate on that and come up
with a good concise attack on Biden in company their
attacks on democracy.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
But let that unfold. Is an unfold.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I wanted to talk about mostly immigration and specifically Mexico.
And it's amazing to me how casually we as Americans
take it that there is a borderline failed Narco State
to our south, I mean just right next door, and
we have a non existent border.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, and that was I'm sorry. I go ahead. If
you want to throw in a con, I think something
bad is going to happen. Some people would argue that
bad things are already happening, they are rapes and murders,
but something really big and bad is going to happen
at some point. And then it is going to seem
extra ridiculous looking back what you just said.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Right, So, Mexico's lame duck president amlow overdoor overdoor retree.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
If I like to call him.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
He is on his way out, and he seems intent
on passing a series of what he calls reforms that
will eliminate independent regulators or merge their offices with executive
branch agencies. Which is, it's really a dumb idea for
business and investment. It violates the US Mexico Canada Agreement.
(20:08):
It essentially any regulation would be in the hands of politicians,
not independent regulators. That one is a little less jazzy
than the next one, which is he wants to get
through a proposal that all federal and local judges in Mexico,
including the Supreme Court, be elected by popular vote. So
(20:30):
that would be game over for judicial recourse in Mexico.
If a foreign investor has a dispute, say with a
powerful political actor or a powerful political interest, a big
corporation that's got a lot of political poll or what
have you, you're.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Doomed well with. Even without looking at Mexico, can you
imagine the judicial system we had if all of our
Supreme Court justice were elected by popular vote in the
current era. Oh my god, oh.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Right, right, And they point out in the Wall Street Journal, Yeah,
this is Wall Street Journal that with large swaths of
Mexico under the control of the cartels, the what sort
of judges do you think are going to get elected there?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
This would be absolutely greasing.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
The ramp of Mexico's slide into failed narco state.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So do analysts believe he's just like fully on the
payroll of the big cartels or does he actually think
for some reason this is a way to fix things.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Interestingly enough, the journal doesn't go there. Their view or
their point of view for this article, not surprisingly, is
more business oriented than purely political.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
But that was the first thing I thought of.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
How I mean, if something empowers the cartels that powerfully
pardon me not my best sentence.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
How can you think anything? But well, is there a
chance that he would say, assuming he's not a criminal,
that he would say, Look, everybody who appoints judges is
in the pocket of the cartels, and at threat of death.
We need to make this a giant vote for the
whole country. They can't threaten the whole country and pick
our judges that way, it's our only way out.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I'd like to hear some analysis of that. It's an
interesting theory.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I don't know. I don't know either. How would you
get out of that? That's one of the reasons that
corruption is so awful. You end up in a situation
like that, how do you get out of it? And
I always I've told this story many times. I always
remember this one. So I went on vacation many many
summers ago to Mexico City, spent a week, most of
a week in Mexico City, then went further south to
(22:39):
some other town. But anyway, and in Mexico City, staying
on the Zokolo, which is just historic and fascinating and
so cool. And it was an awesome vacation. But cab
driver that picked me up one morning from the hotel
to take me out to those giant pyramids that maybe
you've seen before on TV that are as big as
the pyramids in Egypt. They're they're stunning. But the cab
(23:02):
driver gave a little history lesson driving us out to
the pyramids, and he said he was talking about when
the Spanish took over Mexico in the early fifteen hundreds,
Spain ran Mexico from early fifteen hundreds to early eighteen hundreds.
They don't get beaten up as a colonizer the way
the United States says for some reason. But the cab
(23:22):
driver said, Spain gave us two things, our language and corruption.
And I thought that was so interesting that he looks
at it that way. It's just part of their culture,
like language, corruption. And that's true. I mean, it's either
part of your culture or not. But if it becomes
your culture or is your culture, how the hell do
you fix that and get out of it? If it's
(23:45):
just if it's just a common thing for a politician
to be on the take and you know, choose judges
because of whoever's paying them, I don't.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Know how you get out of that well, right, And
if it's a cultural norm, especially I can't remember where
the person was from, whether it was like Afghanistan or
somewhere in the Soviet blocker. And it doesn't really matter,
because it's true of any such system. But they said,
we don't look at it as corruption. Westerners keep calling
it corruption. This is just how we do business. If
(24:17):
you want your permit to go faster, you slip the
guy at twenty.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, the idea. And I never had to do this,
but it was all your travel books warned you to carry,
you know, some extra cash in your boot or whatever
traveling around the way I did, because it was so
common for somebody to some cop to give you a
ticket and tell you, you know, it goes away if you
give me fifty bucks or whatever. Otherwise you're gonna have
to go down to the courthouse. You need to be
there on Friday, blah blah blah. And that what you
(24:42):
were just talking about, that wouldn't be seen as oh
my god, I'm being held up. It's just now, it's
the way we do business around here.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yeah, it's one of these okay. Now, So but getting
back to your having an election to skirt the corrupt
officials theory, it might be true, but if you think
that the elections would be free and fair in any
cartel controlled area, come on, now, the Klan would like
a word with you from you know, eighteen seventy five.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, I don't know how the hell you get out
of the one of this situation that they're in, or
any country's in.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
It's such a crazy relationship, and I wish I had
more time to study it just because it's so interesting.
But there are Mexico's our number one training partner. They
are neighbor. They're a borderline failed narco state. We have
a non existent border. We send them flooding the country
with deadly drugs. We send them an iPhone. They send
us a borough in a sombrero. Fair enough, fair trade,
(25:42):
and and they're like our unofficial source of labor when
our labor market's tight, but our politicians pretend to be
angry about it. And it's it's you'd need like a
thousand page novel to spin out all the weird that
is our relationship with Mexico.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Do you have anybody listening and travels around Mexico still
the way I used to? Or is that not something
you can do? I wouldn't do it now, But that's
just from what I read. I know when I used
to go down to Mexico. I went down to Mexico
a lot many times. I was being told regularly by
some people, Oh, you can't go down there anymore, it's
too dangerous. I never had one even slight problem driving
(26:28):
thousands of miles around Mexico. Not one. But I doubt
that's true. Now, yeah, I think the times have changed,
but I that is what people told me exactly when
I was going down there before. Oh the times of change.
You can't do it's too dangerous. Never one time was
even the slightest bit worried.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I wonder if the evil doers look at you and think, hey,
can't have enough money to be worth kidnapping, and he's
clueless tourist, let him go exactly. We don't need the headache.
It's orth repeating. And I don't have the number in
front of me, but I'm pretty sure it's fifty eight.
In the last election cycle, fifty eight candidates for office
were assassinated. In Mexico, fifty eight candidates for office were
(27:13):
rubbed out.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Woo.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
That's the country we live next to with a non
existent border, and baddies from all over the world are
now flooding into the country. And Biden is trying to
start to get back to American politics. But Biden threw
a couple of his executive orders, is trying to look
like he's on top of it, and if these recent
poll numbers are worth looking at, he may be.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Having some success. Among things we should deal with, should
you get reimbursed for a playdate. You haven't put somebody's
kid over to your house. And yeah, gave him a
juice box and a peanut butter sandwich. And that'll be
eight dollars when they come pick up the kit.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
You're gonna invoice the other parents. What is this a thing?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I don't know that. That's what I'm asking Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Paul.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I can say is this.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I watched him with Paul Ryan, and he destroyed Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan with the water. He was chugging water at
a left and right. I didn't think a human bamber
would be able to drink so much water at one time,
and he'd beat Paul Ryan. So I'm not underestimating him.
I'm not underestimating him.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It is what it is. So Donald Trump trying to,
I guess, raise expectations for Joe Biden for the debate
as we get closer to it.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Why is Trump so critical of people who drink water?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Marco Rubio, thirsty, little Marco. I've never seen somebody drink
so much water.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I think it might be the TV guy in him,
and he just sees it as you don't take a
drink of water on camera. I think I don't know.
Joe Biden asked about the debate by David Muir. Are
you ready for this debate?
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Are you ready for this bait?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Why he sounds like he's a you got one foot
and a half in the grave. Are you ready for
this debate? Yes? About to topple over into the grave? Wow? Wow? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Have the U is the digger guy in his coffee break?
I haven't get ready?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh wow, come on? Wow too much? Sorry.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Supreme Court out with a pro maga, out of control
right wing decision that absolutely is pleasing the left. The
justices rejected a Second Amendment challenge to a federal law
that makes it a crime for people subject to domestic
violence restraining orders to possess a gun.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Okay, so, as with all these rulings, is this what
it sounds like or is it some sort of complicated No,
it's not actually about the Second Amendment. It's about something else.
I don't think so. So this is the idea that
you can get a constitutional right taken away if you
(29:55):
have a restraining order against you.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
The Supreme Court rules that the government may disarma Texas
man subject to a domestic violence order, limiting the sweep
of its earlier blockbuster decision the vastly expanded gun rights.
The new case US versus Raheemi. Only Clarence Thomas, the
author of the majority opinion in the twenty twenty two decision, dissented,
(30:19):
so this was eight to one wow. Writing for the majority,
Chief Justice John Roberts said that the Second Amendment rights
had limits. Quote. When a restraining order contains a finding
that an individual poses a credible threat to the physical
safety of an intimate partner, that individual may, consistent with
the Second Amendment, be banned from possessing firearms while the
order is in effect.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, that is not There was no standing here, right, No,
that was a serious ruling. But that's an interesting one,
And I don't know how I feel about it. I
sure as hell. You know, you got a crazy ex
boyfriend who is violent and shown himself to be violent,
and you got a restraining order against him. He should
not be able to get your gun's taken away, or
(31:01):
you can't buy a gun. You can't possess have a gun.
So you can't possess a gun, whether you had one
before or not. You know, I don't want that guy
to have a gun either, but you don't take away
their right to free speech or assembly. Or well, you
can't kill somebody with your speech. Generally, you don't make
them quarter troops because anything like that.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Well, I appreciate the comparison, I don't think it applies exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And sometimes restraining orders, you know, even though a court
looks into it makes a decision, are thrown around, not
to completely correctly. I don't know. Robert wrote further.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Since the founding, our nation's firearm laws have included provisions
preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms. Interesting, well,
that's misusing, not possessing. John the case, the guy involved
Raheemi is a scumbag.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh yeah, that guy shouldn't have had a gun. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Anyway, interesting that there will be plenty of analysis to
analyze going forward.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And since it's eight one, I'd say it's going to
be the law of the land for a long, long
long time. Different topic. If you got kids, you've done
the whole playdate thing. Either your kid goes over to
somebody else's house or kids come over to your house.
Here's one mom with an interesting wrinkle on.
Speaker 11 (32:20):
It so recently my daughter had a friend of her
So after the play dated text her moment, I said,
thanks for letting Jamie play today. Please help out with
your share of the expenses for the play date, totaling
fifteen dollars via themo Let's do it again sometime, because
I can't keep doing these playdates.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
If it's so expensive.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
And she said expenses, and I said, yeah, she used
supplies and food while she was here. In this way,
we can do this more often without a monetary obligation
on just one party. Right, She did say what supplies.
There was chalk, apple, sauce, fruit, She sat on the couch.
That's wear and tear, especially, broke a toy. She had
three juice boxes. She went to the bathroom, she had yogurt.
(32:57):
Then she actually sent the money. She didnt say anything else,
but I said, you know, this will make it easier
for us to do more play dates in the future.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So what do you guys, there won't be any playdates
this money? Is this real, Katie?
Speaker 10 (33:10):
It's yeah, yeah, And she's she's getting.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
All hell online for this wear and tear on this sofa.
That's where she crossed the line. That's that's where you know,
because you were thinking, well, I could kind of wear
and tear on the sofa. Okay, you're a crazy person.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
You're going to charge somebody for the chalk They used
drawing pictures of butterflies on the driveway supplies.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
So the chalk, the apple sauce, the fruit, and the
yogurt all went for one dollar. The three trips to
the bathroom and the wear and tear on the couch
was five bucks, and then there was three bucks, and
then the breaking of the doll was five dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Wait a second, why are you charging them for going
to the bathroom? What is that charge? The water? Water
isn't free water? And toilet paper is it flush charge?
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Toilet paper? Nothing in life is free. Jack. So I
got to take my kid over and say, look, you
can pee once, but I ain't paying for you p
and twice. You hold it until we get go in
the backyard. Yeah, go out and scrat. Here's a gatorade bottle.
Pee in that. Go in a closet, be in this
gatorade bottle. I can't afford all these bathroom trips exactly now. Also,
unless the kid is going to the fridge and just
(34:14):
standing there as a five year old looking around and
what you got in here and taking some of your food.
I think you offered all this stuff to them. Maybe don't,
you know, offer them so much food if it's draining
your bank account.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
You check on the kids and they're doing up some
thick tea bon steaks on the grill or something like that.
I guess maybe you're charging people for apple sauce.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
What is a child's portion of apple sauce cost?
Speaker 10 (34:38):
And three bucks for wear and tear for sitting on
the couch.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Yeah, that's either a psychopath or it's fake.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I always offer. Very rarely does anybody take you up
on when you offer, Like, you know, they took the
kids out to McDonald's or something like that, because it
ain't nothing. Your kid can easily eat fifteen dollars worth
of food, especially now with the current rates. But that's
a little different than they're sitting on your and tear
on the sofa. How fat is this kid? Huh? They
(35:13):
jumping up and down on it. That's that's insane. Well,
bathroom muse. You're gonna charge guests for bathroom muse?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
It's not cheap.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Have you seen the prices? Of things these days.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Wow, Samded a little young to have lived through the depression.
That's it's, it's it's a psycho wear and tear.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
You can weigh in text line four one five KFTC.
I'm gonna adopt this in my own, my own house.
That's twice to the bathroom. I'm marking them down.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
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