August 15, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
and Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Armsrong nine from the studio scene see signor Jimily lit
room deep with them the Bowels, the Armstrong Bowels, the
Armstrong in getting communications compound day Friday, we are under
the tutelage of our general manager Trump and Putin.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
But who will generally manage the other only history than Josh.
I'm Jake. I know I'm jokingting you're Joe. I'm joking.
Here's my favorite thing I've heard. Wait for the music,
den Here we go, Pouf. Putin's leaving Moscow Friday night
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to get to his meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday morning.
If he can bend the time like that, I don't
see how he can possibly compete good time travel. I
hadn't even goodness I started. I know if he can
do that, I just I don't see it. I don't
see how we have an advantage. Yeah wow, you'd think
his troops would have been doing better and had less
death anyway. Oh yeah wow, high high stakes, unbelievably high.
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Does Trump know what he's walking into. I heard the
latest numbers are Ukraine has now lost one hundred thousand
men dead in the three and a half year war.
We lost seventy five in the Vietnam War in fifteen years,
and it roiled the entire country with a much much
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larger population. I mean, it's hard to imagine a hundred
dead in three years. Just stunning number. And of course
soific numbers wounded, how to commission terribly damaged. Russia's got
something like a quarter of a million dead and another
three quarters of a million off the battlefield. Just the
numbers are shocking. And I heard Trump this morning. He
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asked about it will be some sort of mineral rights deal.
He said rarers. He said, I don't care about rare earths. Now,
this is about stopping the killing. So if he's going
in with that attitude, I like it better. Yeah. I
have been I suspect you have been as well, reading
a bunch of analysis from different quarters on the negotiation
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and how it might go and which eats you know,
what each side is bringing. And the fundamental fact that
I don't think I distilled down as succinctly as I
should have yesterday is that Putin wants Ukraine to disappear
as an independent country. He wants either to absorb Ukraine
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into the into Russia or have it be a powerless
and defenseless client state. That is his goal. Some of it,
it's difficult to reconcile that with whatever you know, Trump
slash Zelenski would bring to the bargaining table. Yeah, some
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of it goes back to as we've talked about during COVID,
Trump or Putin was so freaked out about COVID he
just hid in the Kremlin and he went down in
the basement and started reading the archives, is reading stuff
going back hundreds and hundreds of years about Ukraine's role
in Russia and all that sort of stuff, and just
became all encompassing fascinated with the idea of Ukraine being
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back part of Russia. So it's really important to him.
So I wonder how does Trump handle this. What if
they sit down and Putin launches into one of his
multi hour screeds about the history of Russia and Ukraine
land like he did with Tucker Carlson, and Tucker just
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sits there with his mouth opening, you know, not want
to interrupt. I mean, I hope. I hope somebody has
mentioned that to Trump so he's not caught off guard
because if I'm sitting there as soon as he starts, well,
actually in the year eight No, no, no, we're not
doing the history lesson. Okay, we all know the history
of Russians. Some we're skipping over that. I mean, you
got to interrupt him right away, or it's just going
to go off the rails. There's nothing but what if
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it's at this point, But what if Putin were to
say to Donald J. Donald, I want Ukraine to well,
you just repeat what I just said. I want it
to no longer be an independent country, certainly not a
Western country. I want it to be a vassal state
of the of Russia. I keep wanting to say the
Soviet Union. Probably for good reason anyway, Ah, And Putin
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says to Trump, and it's so important to me, I
will lay on you a deal so ridiculous you're not
gonna believe it. And he just drops his pants, as
they say in the negotiating business, and promises Trump permanent
supremacy in the architect. Of course, Putin breaks every deal
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he makes, but sure, you know, and half a dozen
other things because he wants Ukraine that badly. He's obsessed
with it. As you are describing, this is gonna Trump do? Then, Donald,
what it should he do? But what do you think
he might do? Donald? This will knock the socks off
your swollen ankles. I read the news. I will give
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Siberia to your beautiful wife. That's obviously rename it Milania.
That's obviously a possible weak spot. Since Trump is so
into deals and all kinds of complicated negotiations, and you know,
trying to win that sort of deal that that might
really get his interest. That's why I was excited to
hear him say, we're not talking about rare earth metals now,
this is about stopping the killing. That if he goes
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in very focused on on cease fire, ending the killing,
he won't get sidetracked by these more complicated deals, right right?
What is one? What do you think of this? And
I just it's it annoys me so bad. We've discussed
it the last couple of days, but I heard it
this morning from a high level former person in the government.
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Putin has already won by allowing him to meet with
the President and come to the United States. I think
that sort of stuff is just crap. I just think
it's crap. I think it's pointing at academic crap. Look
back on all the big negotiations throughout history, does anybody
remember where they were, who called the meeting or no,
it's what comes out of it is what matters. I
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tell you what. The consensus among the heavyweights is what
you are rejecting. Wouldn't you feel that it's practically unanimous?
And I either you're missing something. I'm gonna pretend like
I don't agree. Either you, sir, are missing something or
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the conventional wisdom is just dopey and antiquated. Well, conventional
wisdom is sometimes dope. Yeah, but I also heard somebody
else say, no, them coming to you is a victory.
If Trump got on a plane and went to Moscow,
that would be embarrassing, But them coming to your countries.
So I don't know. I just don't think any of
that matters. I think whatever deal they strike in the
conversations they have with matters everything. But I don't know.
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Of course, it'll obliterate the details. Yes, yes, absolutely true.
I mean, if you're a Trump basher, it's just so
easy and fun to say he's already given Putin a
victory by allowing whatever. Putin, who had been isolated, now
he's come out into the open and blah blah blah
on American soil. Note, Yeah, I know, the on US
soil thing. I'm one hundred percent certain doesn't matter. I
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think that's absolute, one thousand percent horse crap, academic horse crap,
the on US soil. Who cares the meeting with them possible?
Zelenski said that yesterday, he said, this is the end
of the isolation, that Putin gets to stand there with
the President of the United States. I mean, if there's
a picture of Trump and Putin's shaking hands and smiling,
which are almost guaranteed there's going to be I think
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that does help with this whole isolation, and certainly domestically,
right right, yeah, Well, it's been played up big in
the Russian media, of course, because they have state controlled media,
that the great leaders of the world, will you meet
with Vladimir whenever he demands it, and that he is
going to take care of the whole Nazification of Ukraine
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problem with the big man himself Trump. A quick sentence
or two from a piece I thought was very good
by Michael Kimmage who writes about Russian and Europe and
that sort of thing. A twofold dilemma confronts the White House.
Putin's love of obfuscation and delay makes negotiating with him
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fiendishly difficult. And I'll just end it there. I like
that writing number one and number two. That is what
he does, obfuscate and delay, and he is perhaps the
best ever at it. That's a hell of a deal. Yeah,
I would say it's a hell. I'm sorry, I was
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a deep in thought about metaphors. It's a hell of
a deal to wander into a negotiation with a guy
like that knowing that you will be met with every
trick of the trade. And surely somebody is in Trump's
ear saying, look, dude has studied you. He's gonna flatter you,
He is going to he is going to pull every
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single lever you can conceive of psychologically to get the
better of you. Does Trump have those kind of conversations
with anyone? I don't know. I don't know either. Putin
yesterday lauded Trump as energetic and sincere in his efforts
to end the worn Ukraine. Putin appeared optimistic that forthcoming
meetings and anchorage between Moscow and Rushtern could create long
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term conditions for peace between our countries. Yeah, the last
minute pronouncements have been flattery of Trump. The guy has
no interest in peace whatsoever unless he gets what he wants,
and even then peace will just be until he rearms
enough to take whatever the next thing is he wants. Right, Yeah,
help Trump knows that. Anyway, We got headlines on the way.
(10:24):
What if Putin shows up with McDonald's Like again, that's
another one of the levers we were talking about Michael
and probably a large fry too. Who's not going to
spare any expense although the Russian economy is struggling. Who
did that recently? Was that Saudi Arabia where they had
a McDonald's there, or so they opened up a temporary
McDonald's like a food truck McDonald's authentic. Wow, be like
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greeting me with a plate of biscuits and gravy. Here
you go, Oh what do you think, like really world
class biscuits and gravy. You'd appreciate the chest shay huh, oh,
pretty good. We got headlines on the way. We've got
a lot more news today. He's traveling Trump is traveling
five thousand miles. Ohn't know how tired he'll be when
he gets there, five thousand miles to get to Anchorage,
Alaska for a meeting that Oh, and this is an
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interesting little look at itself. According to the Kremlin, the
meeting starts at twelve thirty Pacific time. According to the
White House, it starts at noon. Somebody better work that
out before somebody is standing there by themselves. A lot
on the way stay here, it's listening to people list off.
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I guess it was Peter Doucy on Fox. List off
the heavyweights that are going with Trump. Heavyweights. You're going
with Putin too. You know these other meetings where nobody
of any any importance showed up. No, the heaviest of
heavyweights are showing up with Putin from Russia and their government,
and same with Trump. I mean, Marco Rubio and a
bunch of other people are going to be there, But
no JD. Vance who's on vacation, No Secretary Defense Hezeth,
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and no Tulsi Gabbard okay for whatever? Yeah ah, so uh,
before we get into Katie's headlines, I got a guest pitch.
We probably got a decide on. I was just scanning
the email and this guest pitch is pretty compelling. Is
rainwater good for house plants? Must know that's good stuff
(12:18):
when it comes to watering our houseplants. Many of us
will simply head straight to the sink to fill up
our watering cans. But is rain no no, no. Plants
have evolved over millions of years to crave yummy, yummy
municipal water, and gosh, they hate rainwater. Who the what
(12:38):
the why? The Henson says he'll book it. Guess big?
If true? Holy cow, let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Katie from ABC News as Trump departs for DC. Russia
attacks Ukraine overnight.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Good point, How big of an attack was it? It
was minor, but still it happened. It was an attack, right,
I'm sure human beings lost their lives. Right from the
Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Crime hotspots targeted encampments cleared as Feds expand the DC crime.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Push, Boy and the anti push is just deliciously hilarious
to watch people still screeching about dictatorship, and even the
Wall Street Journal many of Who's whose reporters are just
Lefty Columbia Journal grads saying this all comes in spite
(13:37):
of the fact that crime dropped thirty five percent in Washington,
d C. Last year. Excuse me, crime never drops by
thirty five percent anywhere. Secondly, there are multiple lawsuits being
covered rather lavishly everywhere. But your publication about the fact
that DC's been faking their crime statistics, How are you
(13:58):
not aware of that? You suck at your job? As
how you suck. I'm sorry to be so frank. Go
water your plants with toilet water you Yeah, idiots From
the New York.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Times, tariffs are high, but so is the stock market.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot there, a lot to untangle,
including many birds that have not yet come home to roost.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
From the Wall Street Journal, Gavin Newsom lays out California
redistricting plan to counter Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Republicans, and he's counting on the fact that the media
and Republicans are not doing a good job of explaining
how California's already jerry mandered, so's Illinois. So over lots
of democratic states. This has been going on forever. This
is nothing new, but most people don't know that well.
And Gavvy boys calling for a special referendum to overturn
the referendum that cause that came up with a nonpartisan
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redistricting commission. If he gets this horrific, if he gets
his signatures and people vote for that, then yeah, I
gotta leave. I gotta move. Everybody's got to leave. Everybody
leaves California. That'd show him tax BASI is now one
hundred dollars. We have one hundred dollars in tax revenue.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
And because I know you guys can't resist a catching
name from USA today, Florida to open second immigration detention
facility known as Deportation Depot.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
There you go, Yes, right up the road from Alligator Alley,
your Alligator Alcatraz. That's right, that's what it is. Yeah,
it's in the constitution that all prisons have to have
a name where the first word and the second word
have the same letter. It's part of our flaw.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
From the New York Post, metas twisted rules for AI
chatbots allowed them to engage in quote romantic or sensual
chats with children. Oh Lord, got to get this under control.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I need to know more about that. And the lists.
We're giving handguns to chimpanzees. That's what AI is. If
this will not end, well, that's gonna be your quote
from We're giving handguns to Chimpanzee. It's just like that,
(16:09):
Michael aye on it from Wired dot Com.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
World's first humanoid robot games begin in China like a competition.
It's like the Olympics, but with robots. They're playing soccer,
table tennis.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Wow, you gotta watch that. It's actually kind of funny.
How amazing would that be?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And when the soccer players fall, the guys come out
with little gurney's and carry them off.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The robots lay on the turf for a while, even
though they're not actually injured.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
From study fines, two thirds of Americans lie about financial
struggles to their.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Loved ones in which direction.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
When they're struggling, they pretend if they're not, they minimize. Yeah,
I get that and fine From the Babylon Bee, Adam
Schiff worried legal troubles will make it hard for him
to afford his upcoming head reduction surgery.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
He's got a big head comment large head shot. What
he kind of comments along a bee too better, that's
beneath even us. We've got more on the way. Wow,
Armstrong and Getty Trump was in the air right now,
flying five thousand miles to Anchoraedje, Alaska for the big
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meeting later today. And we've got more details on that
coming up later. Yeah, some good analysis to man would
a minefield Trump is walking into, but so is putin
in a way. So stay tuned if you can. Plus
controversial measure punishing parents for the kid's delinquency. It's a
very very good moral political debate and it's got some
(17:56):
strange bedfellows too. Conservatives are saying, no way, wait a minute.
I thought we were in favor of law and order
and accountability, all right, So we'll talk about that as well.
So headline in the Wall Street Journal, Oh my god,
I remembered, like ten minutes ago, do you settle down? Katie?
Myself is settled down, cheering. Way to go, Michael. Listeners
(18:20):
at home cheering, Yes, Oh my god, you lying, and Jack,
you piece of fath We spent the commercial break discussing
what we're gonna do, What can I do? What can
I do? Michaels here, you can have a little respect
for your partner of however long we've been doing this, Michael, ka,
(18:40):
I have the buzzer ready. I would if it wasn't
for we get somebody texts the listeners enjoy so much.
So quick question to the listeners, have you ever been
betrayed by everyone close to you? Here's our question for
the hour. What's it like to be betrayed by everyone
close to you? We'll take your calls, all right. So
apparently it's time to take a fun look back of
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the week.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
That was.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's cow clips of the week. Let's punch them, doggies,
it's cow zips.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Of This is my brand new album, The Life of
a show Girl.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yes, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
When Charlie said that he was smoking seven grand rocks,
he was, he was smoking seven gram rocks. So now
we're here maybe to give you the platform to apologize
to the first lady. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
There's a split from the Democratic Party on Unless you
have the IQ of a of a meat thermometer, you
can see that, yes me take my meat.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I have no will of my own bath. Right in
front of the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, hundreds
of people block an intersection as drivers perform dangerous donuts.
If you're a.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Driver and you want to see that car literally crushed
as we impound it, go ahead and test us.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Newly released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to be
workers from the world's Central Kitchen.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
We got a lot of thrown at us by Putin.
For you one another truth. And the message that they're
obviously trying to send to audiences here in Russia is
that Vladimir Putin is going into this meeting a winner.
This is really a feel out dating. There's a very
real chance President Trump will get up and leave that
Putin refuses to concede anything. You'll have some land swaps,
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but only after you have security guarantees to Ukraine. It
is important to see how serious Putin is, and the
only one who can do that is President Trump. President
Donald Trump saying he wants to make Washington, d C.
Safer and more beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I'm officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of
Columbia Home Rule Act.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know what that is.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young punks.
A police commissioner was just put on leave for allegedly
cooking the books on the data, saying, you know, saying
that crime was down.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Washington DC very dangerous.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
There that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks
down from here.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I mean I I've had friends who have been shot at.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
If people are afraid to come to DC, go to
Disney World, get fat, eat French fise I don't care.
I've lived here thirty seven years.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Clips of the week, we got a number of texts
saying basically, thank you, Joe Day made wow. The joy
you brought people is the key. Wow. Wow. So the
abuse has no end apparently where you could look at
it like you're about bringing joy to others. Whatever. Others
(22:29):
can go get their own damn joys, not on me,
all right? What am I the joy fountain? You know?
I was struck by a number of the clips in
reference to the Washington d C. Police semi sort of
takeover by the Feds and the wing of Democrats who've
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apparently been tasked with pretending to be angry about it
and in large measure, pretending that there's no crime to
worry about. Like that one just checkass with his you
feel unsafe in DC, go to Disney World and eat
fries and get fat. We kind of lost the thread
there for a second minute. Sir, I'd sure what my
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eating habits have to do with anything, but how pathetic
that is. And I was protesting earlier that the Wall
Street Journal, of all places, and they need better editors
to ride herd on their lefty twenty four year old
Columbia journalism school grads claiming that it will. And I
actually read an article today in the Journal where the
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journal said crime is actually down thirty five percent in Washington,
d C. From twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four.
Just ridiculous. And not only is a precinct captain suspended
for cooking the books on crime, but DC, as we
mentioned yesterday later in the show, settled quietly a lawsuit
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from a sergeant who accused all sorts of the Metropolitan
Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the crime statistics.
And she goes into specifics, and there are all sorts
of in the discovery, They have all sorts of emails
in which these officers describe specifically. Okay, so we're going
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to we're going to have everybody not call it theft.
We're going to downgrade the arrest reports to taking property
without right. Right. Yeah, that's the way we're going to
lower the crime statistics. Hey, that'll work. Good idea, Jim, Thanks.
I mean, it's just spell right out there. We need
to reduce all these crime statistics. How can we undercharge
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people to make it look better? It's right there in
open court. Well, like you said earlier, crime doesn't drop
thirty percent in a year. If you see that stat
your first response should be, all right, what's wrong here?
Because right way of the way the world works. Yeah. Yeah,
And there are all sorts of examples where you know,
assault with a it's called a dangerous weapon in DC
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was downgraded routinely to simple assault. Otherwise, is this police
sergeant alleged dinner suit You would get chewed out by
your superiors for actually filling out your report for the
appropriate crime, and people's careers were being threatened. And the
city of DC settled the suit said yeah, you're right,
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we don't want this to go to trial. Wow. I
hadn't heard that. Yeah, that is something. This is actually
some fantastic reporting by the Washington Free Beacon that has
pages and pages of exhibits from the suit, verbatim transcriptions
of conversations. Here's a good one. Let's see. The Kapuu
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suit reported one case in which a female was cut
a deep knife wound on the side of her face
with an unknown object from her forehead to the bottom
of her chin, while the responding officer split her face
wise open. Sorry, folks, disturbing and I apologize. Might be
the blunt. But while the responding officer had called in
the crime as assault with a dangerous weapon, the captain
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allegedly classified the offense as sick person to the hospital. Wow,
and then there's an email about it that's way beyond
the dispute over Trump and whether or not he gets
to federalize blah blah blahh. This is horrific, right, So
the cop called the captain, who had ordered the officers
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to use that taking property without right instead of theft
to to lower those statistics, and an on duty watch
officer had downgraded an assault like that to a misdemeanor
simple assault. Let's see, then there was an assailant strangling
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a victim, threw her over the couch. She had scratches
on her neck, shirt ripped. He threw a knife at her,
missed her head. She moved out of the way, and
the captain downplayed the crime, saying it only tangentially involved
the knife because the knife never made contact with a complainant,
and the cops said, yeah, it only missed her because
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she dodged out of the way. Captain asked, are you
gonna classify it? Because I don't see any issues with
the current classification, and I suggest you stick with it.
So it's just unbelievable bullying to artificially lower the crime
statistics in an absolutely crime rotten city. And just one
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final point, so what are the Democrats politicians priority priorities?
Is it the people of Washington d C. I mean,
because obviously if that were your priority, you would be
doing what we're doing, acting with outrage, reacting with outrage
to this lawsuit. But no, they're saying it's safe, it's safe.
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If you don't like you go to Disneyland. Well, that's
why it's such an easy political win, I feel like
for Trump and why people like Joe Scarborough and Arama
Manuel are saying that Democrats are playing into his hands.
Just on the face of it, it's a lot easier
to believe Trump's just doing this to get crime lowered,
not to become hitler, than it is to believe that
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other narrative of you know, well that he's becoming Hitler.
It wants to be Hitler. And it's not about crime, right,
which is not. But again, even without this this legal dispute,
how awful is it to have your people, you pay
their salaries lying to you about the crime in your
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own town. God, that is unconscionable. And what danger you're in? Oh,
yaysical danger? And then one more note on this story.
Two left wing nonprofits spearheading protests against Donald Trump's DC
crime crackdown have received millions of dollars from liberal megadon
or George so Community Change and Community Change Action, the
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two progressive nonprofits that have funded the anti Trump Free
DC protests this week, received twelve point six million dollars
from Soros's Open Society Foundations, according to The New York Post,
based on analysis by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust.
They've also received five point six million dollars from Arabella
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Advisors and one point nine million dollars from the Tides
Foundation between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three. So, these groups,
these protests, these outraged citizens of DC, you just can't
believe that the Timu Hitler has taken over their perfectly
functional city have received what is the total of that,
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twenty million dollars from activist groups just in the last
few years. Twenty million dollars. What's the opposite of grassroots?
I think they call it astro turf. That is unbelievable.
I can't handle this. I want to go back to
the discussion about whether it's okay to use rain water
on your plants. It turns out it's great for them.
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Who knew? Effing everybody, everybody, God nature, plants. I don't know,
second graders, lots of people. Some details you haven't heard
yet about the Putin Trump summit. How does Hillary Clinton
play into this very interesting comment she made today? Maybe
(30:30):
we can find that to have the audio. But lots
of stuff on the way. It's going to be quite
the historic day. I think. I wish it wasn't all
happening after we get off the air. But still a
lot that is known that is super interesting to discuss.
We've got mailbag coming up next to here. I guess
I should fact check everything I hear. I was watching
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MSNBC last night The Eleventh Hour with Stephanie Rule. How
many times they said, well, he's traveling five thousand miles.
You would travel five thousand miles and then come back
in one day. Blah blah blah, five thousand miles. Then
a texture said, it's not five thousand miles from Washington,
DC to Anchorage. It's thirty three hundred miles. So I
looked it up in the right it's five thousand kilometers.
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So MSNBC discussed the five thousand mile thing over and over.
I repeated it look like an idiot, do it. You
have to fact check every single thing you come across.
Obviously you do with me. I appreciate you watching those
fools just to figure out what they're talking about. It
would rankle me. Oh boy, here's your freedom. Let me
quote it to day. I love this one. This is
so simple, so powerful. From John Adams. Get this tattooed
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somewhere on your body today, my friends. All right, all right,
Liberty once lost is lost forever true that John Blanken Adams.
If you need them, mailbag rob us, no mailbag at
Armstrong and Getty dot com. That's sneazy. Here he comes. Ah,
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how just come after me for some reason? Let's see.
Oh I love this note from Sean guys. Oh my gosh,
I'm gonna sneeze again. It's the worst mail bag ever.
Where was I? Ah, Yes, Sean, guys, I'm a longtime listener,
literally jumped out of my desk at work when you
started talking about the video of the drunk airline passenger
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waving a skateboard around the guy who had to be
detained multiple times. The big guy who restrained the guy
into the seat like a toddler is my best friend,
Ray la Native. He said it was way crazier than
the video even indicates. First off, Ray had a son
next to him who was recording the video. The drunk
guy had assaulted a flight attendant, was swinging his skateboard around.
(32:44):
They had restrained him. He broke free and was swinging
his belt around and the belt almost hit Ray's sun.
Oh my godness, that is when Papa Bear took action,
picked the scumbag up like a toddler. I'm my best
friend as a national hero. Keep up the good work.
You keep up the good work. Ray, God bless you,
my friend. That's awesome. But I'm surprised their email. I
don't know what the makeup of the crowd was in
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the plane, but there weren't enough like younger guys that
you can just stand there and let a guy swing
a bat basically around and hope he doesn't hit you
in the head. We have such good email and I
want to get to it, but there's too much here
to pass by. We have been systematically turned into a
nation of sheep that have been told let the authorities
(33:27):
take care of it, don't take the law into your
own hands, don't be a vigilante, these nasty, scary sounding
terms which often refer to people just protecting their own safety,
which is if there is a god given right, that's it.
Got to admit when I ran this scenario through my
head the other day when I was in the shower,
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when I first hold the story, what would I have
done if that happened to me? And my first thought
was how much trouble would I get in if I
tried to tackle this guy. My first thought wasn't what
if he clocks me in the head with the skateboard
or whatever. It wasn't the like physical safety. It was
the what's going to happen to me legally if I
try to stop this guy? Right, because, like you said,
it's been beaten into us. Yeah, anyway, I think I
(34:13):
made my point moving along, we have practically no time.
Let's see on the topic of protesters and grassroots versus AstroTurf, etcetera,
Jen and the People's Republic of Marin rights. Guys, you've
often said you wondered what it would be like in
the head of a crazy person. And she recommends a
podcast that includes a discussion with a lady who talks
(34:35):
about her activism addiction. She's addicted to yelling and waving
signs and feeling like she's changing the world even though
she's just yelling and waving signs. I know a few
people that go to every dang protest there is. The
whole family goes. It's just part of their lifestyle. I
don't know if it's an addiction. Yeah, all right, we
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barely have any time, so I'll read this one from
Aaron Hey to my democratic, black and actual gay friends.
No teas or drunk girls. Well, yeah, drunk girls who
kiss are not counted as gay. How pleased are you
with the overwhelming support from the media and white women.
We've been literally overwhelmed by the overwhelming support, but it
seems to be having the opposite effect. Right, that's a
(35:19):
very good point. I'm gonna talk Putin Trump an hour two,
among other things. I hope you can stick around, Armstrong
and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
and Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Armsrong nine from the studio scene see signor Jimily lit
room deep with them the Bowels, the Armstrong Bowels, the
Armstrong in getting communications compound day Friday, we are under
the tutelage of our general manager Trump and Putin.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
But who will generally manage the other only history than Josh.
I'm Jake. I know I'm jokingting you're Joe. I'm joking.
Here's my favorite thing I've heard. Wait for the music,
den Here we go, Pouf. Putin's leaving Moscow Friday night
(01:10):
to get to his meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday morning.
If he can bend the time like that, I don't
see how he can possibly compete good time travel. I
hadn't even goodness I started. I know if he can
do that, I just I don't see it. I don't
see how we have an advantage. Yeah wow, you'd think
his troops would have been doing better and had less
death anyway. Oh yeah wow, high high stakes, unbelievably high.
(01:34):
Does Trump know what he's walking into. I heard the
latest numbers are Ukraine has now lost one hundred thousand
men dead in the three and a half year war.
We lost seventy five in the Vietnam War in fifteen years,
and it roiled the entire country with a much much
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larger population. I mean, it's hard to imagine a hundred
dead in three years. Just stunning number. And of course
soific numbers wounded, how to commission terribly damaged. Russia's got
something like a quarter of a million dead and another
three quarters of a million off the battlefield. Just the
numbers are shocking. And I heard Trump this morning. He
(02:20):
asked about it will be some sort of mineral rights deal.
He said rarers. He said, I don't care about rare earths. Now,
this is about stopping the killing. So if he's going
in with that attitude, I like it better. Yeah. I
have been I suspect you have been as well, reading
a bunch of analysis from different quarters on the negotiation
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and how it might go and which eats you know,
what each side is bringing. And the fundamental fact that
I don't think I distilled down as succinctly as I
should have yesterday is that Putin wants Ukraine to disappear
as an independent country. He wants either to absorb Ukraine
(03:03):
into the into Russia or have it be a powerless
and defenseless client state. That is his goal. Some of it,
it's difficult to reconcile that with whatever you know, Trump
slash Zelenski would bring to the bargaining table. Yeah, some
(03:23):
of it goes back to as we've talked about during COVID,
Trump or Putin was so freaked out about COVID he
just hid in the Kremlin and he went down in
the basement and started reading the archives, is reading stuff
going back hundreds and hundreds of years about Ukraine's role
in Russia and all that sort of stuff, and just
became all encompassing fascinated with the idea of Ukraine being
(03:47):
back part of Russia. So it's really important to him.
So I wonder how does Trump handle this. What if
they sit down and Putin launches into one of his
multi hour screeds about the history of Russia and Ukraine
land like he did with Tucker Carlson, and Tucker just
(04:08):
sits there with his mouth opening, you know, not want
to interrupt. I mean, I hope. I hope somebody has
mentioned that to Trump so he's not caught off guard
because if I'm sitting there as soon as he starts, well,
actually in the year eight No, no, no, we're not
doing the history lesson. Okay, we all know the history
of Russians. Some we're skipping over that. I mean, you
got to interrupt him right away, or it's just going
to go off the rails. There's nothing but what if
(04:31):
it's at this point, But what if Putin were to
say to Donald J. Donald, I want Ukraine to well,
you just repeat what I just said. I want it
to no longer be an independent country, certainly not a
Western country. I want it to be a vassal state
of the of Russia. I keep wanting to say the
Soviet Union. Probably for good reason anyway, Ah, And Putin
(04:54):
says to Trump, and it's so important to me, I
will lay on you a deal so ridiculous you're not
gonna believe it. And he just drops his pants, as
they say in the negotiating business, and promises Trump permanent
supremacy in the architect. Of course, Putin breaks every deal
(05:15):
he makes, but sure, you know, and half a dozen
other things because he wants Ukraine that badly. He's obsessed
with it. As you are describing, this is gonna Trump do? Then, Donald,
what it should he do? But what do you think
he might do? Donald? This will knock the socks off
your swollen ankles. I read the news. I will give
(05:37):
Siberia to your beautiful wife. That's obviously rename it Milania.
That's obviously a possible weak spot. Since Trump is so
into deals and all kinds of complicated negotiations, and you know,
trying to win that sort of deal that that might
really get his interest. That's why I was excited to
hear him say, we're not talking about rare earth metals now,
this is about stopping the killing. That if he goes
(05:58):
in very focused on on cease fire, ending the killing,
he won't get sidetracked by these more complicated deals, right right?
What is one? What do you think of this? And
I just it's it annoys me so bad. We've discussed
it the last couple of days, but I heard it
this morning from a high level former person in the government.
(06:23):
Putin has already won by allowing him to meet with
the President and come to the United States. I think
that sort of stuff is just crap. I just think
it's crap. I think it's pointing at academic crap. Look
back on all the big negotiations throughout history, does anybody
remember where they were, who called the meeting or no,
it's what comes out of it is what matters. I
(06:45):
tell you what. The consensus among the heavyweights is what
you are rejecting. Wouldn't you feel that it's practically unanimous?
And I either you're missing something. I'm gonna pretend like
I don't agree. Either you, sir, are missing something or
(07:07):
the conventional wisdom is just dopey and antiquated. Well, conventional
wisdom is sometimes dope. Yeah, but I also heard somebody
else say, no, them coming to you is a victory.
If Trump got on a plane and went to Moscow,
that would be embarrassing, But them coming to your countries.
So I don't know. I just don't think any of
that matters. I think whatever deal they strike in the
conversations they have with matters everything. But I don't know.
(07:30):
Of course, it'll obliterate the details. Yes, yes, absolutely true.
I mean, if you're a Trump basher, it's just so
easy and fun to say he's already given Putin a
victory by allowing whatever. Putin, who had been isolated, now
he's come out into the open and blah blah blah
on American soil. Note, Yeah, I know, the on US
soil thing. I'm one hundred percent certain doesn't matter. I
(07:52):
think that's absolute, one thousand percent horse crap, academic horse crap,
the on US soil. Who cares the meeting with them possible?
Zelenski said that yesterday, he said, this is the end
of the isolation, that Putin gets to stand there with
the President of the United States. I mean, if there's
a picture of Trump and Putin's shaking hands and smiling,
which are almost guaranteed there's going to be I think
(08:12):
that does help with this whole isolation, and certainly domestically,
right right, yeah, Well, it's been played up big in
the Russian media, of course, because they have state controlled media,
that the great leaders of the world, will you meet
with Vladimir whenever he demands it, and that he is
going to take care of the whole Nazification of Ukraine
(08:34):
problem with the big man himself Trump. A quick sentence
or two from a piece I thought was very good
by Michael Kimmage who writes about Russian and Europe and
that sort of thing. A twofold dilemma confronts the White House.
Putin's love of obfuscation and delay makes negotiating with him
(08:56):
fiendishly difficult. And I'll just end it there. I like
that writing number one and number two. That is what
he does, obfuscate and delay, and he is perhaps the
best ever at it. That's a hell of a deal. Yeah,
I would say it's a hell. I'm sorry, I was
(09:19):
a deep in thought about metaphors. It's a hell of
a deal to wander into a negotiation with a guy
like that knowing that you will be met with every
trick of the trade. And surely somebody is in Trump's
ear saying, look, dude has studied you. He's gonna flatter you,
He is going to he is going to pull every
(09:41):
single lever you can conceive of psychologically to get the
better of you. Does Trump have those kind of conversations
with anyone? I don't know. I don't know either. Putin
yesterday lauded Trump as energetic and sincere in his efforts
to end the worn Ukraine. Putin appeared optimistic that forthcoming
meetings and anchorage between Moscow and Rushtern could create long
(10:03):
term conditions for peace between our countries. Yeah, the last
minute pronouncements have been flattery of Trump. The guy has
no interest in peace whatsoever unless he gets what he wants,
and even then peace will just be until he rearms
enough to take whatever the next thing is he wants. Right, Yeah,
help Trump knows that. Anyway, We got headlines on the way.
(10:24):
What if Putin shows up with McDonald's Like again, that's
another one of the levers we were talking about Michael
and probably a large fry too. Who's not going to
spare any expense although the Russian economy is struggling. Who
did that recently? Was that Saudi Arabia where they had
a McDonald's there, or so they opened up a temporary
McDonald's like a food truck McDonald's authentic. Wow, be like
(10:50):
greeting me with a plate of biscuits and gravy. Here
you go, Oh what do you think, like really world
class biscuits and gravy. You'd appreciate the chest shay huh, oh,
pretty good. We got headlines on the way. We've got
a lot more news today. He's traveling Trump is traveling
five thousand miles. Ohn't know how tired he'll be when
he gets there, five thousand miles to get to Anchorage,
Alaska for a meeting that Oh, and this is an
(11:12):
interesting little look at itself. According to the Kremlin, the
meeting starts at twelve thirty Pacific time. According to the
White House, it starts at noon. Somebody better work that
out before somebody is standing there by themselves. A lot
on the way stay here, it's listening to people list off.
(11:33):
I guess it was Peter Doucy on Fox. List off
the heavyweights that are going with Trump. Heavyweights. You're going
with Putin too. You know these other meetings where nobody
of any any importance showed up. No, the heaviest of
heavyweights are showing up with Putin from Russia and their government,
and same with Trump. I mean, Marco Rubio and a
bunch of other people are going to be there, But
no JD. Vance who's on vacation, No Secretary Defense Hezeth,
(11:56):
and no Tulsi Gabbard okay for whatever? Yeah ah, so uh,
before we get into Katie's headlines, I got a guest pitch.
We probably got a decide on. I was just scanning
the email and this guest pitch is pretty compelling. Is
rainwater good for house plants? Must know that's good stuff
(12:18):
when it comes to watering our houseplants. Many of us
will simply head straight to the sink to fill up
our watering cans. But is rain no no, no. Plants
have evolved over millions of years to crave yummy, yummy
municipal water, and gosh, they hate rainwater. Who the what
(12:38):
the why? The Henson says he'll book it. Guess big?
If true? Holy cow, let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Katie from ABC News as Trump departs for DC. Russia
attacks Ukraine overnight.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Good point, How big of an attack was it? It
was minor, but still it happened. It was an attack, right,
I'm sure human beings lost their lives. Right from the
Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Crime hotspots targeted encampments cleared as Feds expand the DC crime.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Push, Boy and the anti push is just deliciously hilarious
to watch people still screeching about dictatorship, and even the
Wall Street Journal many of Who's whose reporters are just
Lefty Columbia Journal grads saying this all comes in spite
(13:37):
of the fact that crime dropped thirty five percent in Washington,
d C. Last year. Excuse me, crime never drops by
thirty five percent anywhere. Secondly, there are multiple lawsuits being
covered rather lavishly everywhere. But your publication about the fact
that DC's been faking their crime statistics, How are you
(13:58):
not aware of that? You suck at your job? As
how you suck. I'm sorry to be so frank. Go
water your plants with toilet water you Yeah, idiots From
the New York.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Times, tariffs are high, but so is the stock market.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot there, a lot to untangle,
including many birds that have not yet come home to roost.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
From the Wall Street Journal, Gavin Newsom lays out California
redistricting plan to counter Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Republicans, and he's counting on the fact that the media
and Republicans are not doing a good job of explaining
how California's already jerry mandered, so's Illinois. So over lots
of democratic states. This has been going on forever. This
is nothing new, but most people don't know that well.
And Gavvy boys calling for a special referendum to overturn
the referendum that cause that came up with a nonpartisan
(14:49):
redistricting commission. If he gets this horrific, if he gets
his signatures and people vote for that, then yeah, I
gotta leave. I gotta move. Everybody's got to leave. Everybody
leaves California. That'd show him tax BASI is now one
hundred dollars. We have one hundred dollars in tax revenue.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
And because I know you guys can't resist a catching
name from USA today, Florida to open second immigration detention
facility known as Deportation Depot.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
There you go, Yes, right up the road from Alligator Alley,
your Alligator Alcatraz. That's right, that's what it is. Yeah,
it's in the constitution that all prisons have to have
a name where the first word and the second word
have the same letter. It's part of our flaw.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
From the New York Post, metas twisted rules for AI
chatbots allowed them to engage in quote romantic or sensual
chats with children. Oh Lord, got to get this under control.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I need to know more about that. And the lists.
We're giving handguns to chimpanzees. That's what AI is. If
this will not end, well, that's gonna be your quote
from We're giving handguns to Chimpanzee. It's just like that,
(16:09):
Michael aye on it from Wired dot Com.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
World's first humanoid robot games begin in China like a competition.
It's like the Olympics, but with robots. They're playing soccer,
table tennis.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Wow, you gotta watch that. It's actually kind of funny.
How amazing would that be?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And when the soccer players fall, the guys come out
with little gurney's and carry them off.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The robots lay on the turf for a while, even
though they're not actually injured.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
From study fines, two thirds of Americans lie about financial
struggles to their.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Loved ones in which direction.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
When they're struggling, they pretend if they're not, they minimize. Yeah,
I get that and fine From the Babylon Bee, Adam
Schiff worried legal troubles will make it hard for him
to afford his upcoming head reduction surgery.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
He's got a big head comment large head shot. What
he kind of comments along a bee too better, that's
beneath even us. We've got more on the way. Wow,
Armstrong and Getty Trump was in the air right now,
flying five thousand miles to Anchoraedje, Alaska for the big
(17:32):
meeting later today. And we've got more details on that
coming up later. Yeah, some good analysis to man would
a minefield Trump is walking into, but so is putin
in a way. So stay tuned if you can. Plus
controversial measure punishing parents for the kid's delinquency. It's a
very very good moral political debate and it's got some
(17:56):
strange bedfellows too. Conservatives are saying, no way, wait a minute.
I thought we were in favor of law and order
and accountability, all right, So we'll talk about that as well.
So headline in the Wall Street Journal, Oh my god,
I remembered, like ten minutes ago, do you settle down? Katie?
Myself is settled down, cheering. Way to go, Michael. Listeners
(18:20):
at home cheering, Yes, Oh my god, you lying, and Jack,
you piece of fath We spent the commercial break discussing
what we're gonna do, What can I do? What can
I do? Michaels here, you can have a little respect
for your partner of however long we've been doing this, Michael, ka,
(18:40):
I have the buzzer ready. I would if it wasn't
for we get somebody texts the listeners enjoy so much.
So quick question to the listeners, have you ever been
betrayed by everyone close to you? Here's our question for
the hour. What's it like to be betrayed by everyone
close to you? We'll take your calls, all right. So
apparently it's time to take a fun look back of
(19:00):
the week.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
That was.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's cow clips of the week. Let's punch them, doggies,
it's cow zips.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Of This is my brand new album, The Life of
a show Girl.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yes, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
When Charlie said that he was smoking seven grand rocks,
he was, he was smoking seven gram rocks. So now
we're here maybe to give you the platform to apologize
to the first lady. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
There's a split from the Democratic Party on Unless you
have the IQ of a of a meat thermometer, you
can see that, yes me take my meat.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I have no will of my own bath. Right in
front of the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, hundreds
of people block an intersection as drivers perform dangerous donuts.
If you're a.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Driver and you want to see that car literally crushed
as we impound it, go ahead and test us.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Newly released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to be
workers from the world's Central Kitchen.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
We got a lot of thrown at us by Putin.
For you one another truth. And the message that they're
obviously trying to send to audiences here in Russia is
that Vladimir Putin is going into this meeting a winner.
This is really a feel out dating. There's a very
real chance President Trump will get up and leave that
Putin refuses to concede anything. You'll have some land swaps,
(20:50):
but only after you have security guarantees to Ukraine. It
is important to see how serious Putin is, and the
only one who can do that is President Trump. President
Donald Trump saying he wants to make Washington, d C.
Safer and more beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I'm officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of
Columbia Home Rule Act.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know what that is.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I see too much violent crime being committed by young punks.
A police commissioner was just put on leave for allegedly
cooking the books on the data, saying, you know, saying
that crime was down.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Washington DC very dangerous.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
There that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks
down from here.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I mean I I've had friends who have been shot at.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
If people are afraid to come to DC, go to
Disney World, get fat, eat French fise I don't care.
I've lived here thirty seven years.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Clips of the week, we got a number of texts
saying basically, thank you, Joe Day made wow. The joy
you brought people is the key. Wow. Wow. So the
abuse has no end apparently where you could look at
it like you're about bringing joy to others. Whatever. Others
(22:29):
can go get their own damn joys, not on me,
all right? What am I the joy fountain? You know?
I was struck by a number of the clips in
reference to the Washington d C. Police semi sort of
takeover by the Feds and the wing of Democrats who've
(22:49):
apparently been tasked with pretending to be angry about it
and in large measure, pretending that there's no crime to
worry about. Like that one just checkass with his you
feel unsafe in DC, go to Disney World and eat
fries and get fat. We kind of lost the thread
there for a second minute. Sir, I'd sure what my
(23:12):
eating habits have to do with anything, but how pathetic
that is. And I was protesting earlier that the Wall
Street Journal, of all places, and they need better editors
to ride herd on their lefty twenty four year old
Columbia journalism school grads claiming that it will. And I
actually read an article today in the Journal where the
(23:33):
journal said crime is actually down thirty five percent in Washington,
d C. From twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four.
Just ridiculous. And not only is a precinct captain suspended
for cooking the books on crime, but DC, as we
mentioned yesterday later in the show, settled quietly a lawsuit
(23:54):
from a sergeant who accused all sorts of the Metropolitan
Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the crime statistics.
And she goes into specifics, and there are all sorts
of in the discovery, They have all sorts of emails
in which these officers describe specifically. Okay, so we're going
(24:16):
to we're going to have everybody not call it theft.
We're going to downgrade the arrest reports to taking property
without right. Right. Yeah, that's the way we're going to
lower the crime statistics. Hey, that'll work. Good idea, Jim, Thanks.
I mean, it's just spell right out there. We need
to reduce all these crime statistics. How can we undercharge
(24:38):
people to make it look better? It's right there in
open court. Well, like you said earlier, crime doesn't drop
thirty percent in a year. If you see that stat
your first response should be, all right, what's wrong here?
Because right way of the way the world works. Yeah. Yeah,
And there are all sorts of examples where you know,
assault with a it's called a dangerous weapon in DC
(25:02):
was downgraded routinely to simple assault. Otherwise, is this police
sergeant alleged dinner suit You would get chewed out by
your superiors for actually filling out your report for the
appropriate crime, and people's careers were being threatened. And the
city of DC settled the suit said yeah, you're right,
(25:23):
we don't want this to go to trial. Wow. I
hadn't heard that. Yeah, that is something. This is actually
some fantastic reporting by the Washington Free Beacon that has
pages and pages of exhibits from the suit, verbatim transcriptions
of conversations. Here's a good one. Let's see. The Kapuu
(25:46):
suit reported one case in which a female was cut
a deep knife wound on the side of her face
with an unknown object from her forehead to the bottom
of her chin, while the responding officer split her face
wise open. Sorry, folks, disturbing and I apologize. Might be
the blunt. But while the responding officer had called in
the crime as assault with a dangerous weapon, the captain
(26:08):
allegedly classified the offense as sick person to the hospital. Wow,
and then there's an email about it that's way beyond
the dispute over Trump and whether or not he gets
to federalize blah blah blahh. This is horrific, right, So
the cop called the captain, who had ordered the officers
(26:30):
to use that taking property without right instead of theft
to to lower those statistics, and an on duty watch
officer had downgraded an assault like that to a misdemeanor
simple assault. Let's see, then there was an assailant strangling
(26:52):
a victim, threw her over the couch. She had scratches
on her neck, shirt ripped. He threw a knife at her,
missed her head. She moved out of the way, and
the captain downplayed the crime, saying it only tangentially involved
the knife because the knife never made contact with a complainant,
and the cops said, yeah, it only missed her because
(27:13):
she dodged out of the way. Captain asked, are you
gonna classify it? Because I don't see any issues with
the current classification, and I suggest you stick with it.
So it's just unbelievable bullying to artificially lower the crime
statistics in an absolutely crime rotten city. And just one
(27:35):
final point, so what are the Democrats politicians priority priorities?
Is it the people of Washington d C. I mean,
because obviously if that were your priority, you would be
doing what we're doing, acting with outrage, reacting with outrage
to this lawsuit. But no, they're saying it's safe, it's safe.
(27:57):
If you don't like you go to Disneyland. Well, that's
why it's such an easy political win, I feel like
for Trump and why people like Joe Scarborough and Arama
Manuel are saying that Democrats are playing into his hands.
Just on the face of it, it's a lot easier
to believe Trump's just doing this to get crime lowered,
not to become hitler, than it is to believe that
(28:20):
other narrative of you know, well that he's becoming Hitler.
It wants to be Hitler. And it's not about crime, right,
which is not. But again, even without this this legal dispute,
how awful is it to have your people, you pay
their salaries lying to you about the crime in your
(28:41):
own town. God, that is unconscionable. And what danger you're in? Oh,
yaysical danger? And then one more note on this story.
Two left wing nonprofits spearheading protests against Donald Trump's DC
crime crackdown have received millions of dollars from liberal megadon
or George so Community Change and Community Change Action, the
(29:02):
two progressive nonprofits that have funded the anti Trump Free
DC protests this week, received twelve point six million dollars
from Soros's Open Society Foundations, according to The New York Post,
based on analysis by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust.
They've also received five point six million dollars from Arabella
(29:23):
Advisors and one point nine million dollars from the Tides
Foundation between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three. So, these groups,
these protests, these outraged citizens of DC, you just can't
believe that the Timu Hitler has taken over their perfectly
functional city have received what is the total of that,
(29:45):
twenty million dollars from activist groups just in the last
few years. Twenty million dollars. What's the opposite of grassroots?
I think they call it astro turf. That is unbelievable.
I can't handle this. I want to go back to
the discussion about whether it's okay to use rain water
on your plants. It turns out it's great for them.
(30:07):
Who knew? Effing everybody, everybody, God nature, plants. I don't know,
second graders, lots of people. Some details you haven't heard
yet about the Putin Trump summit. How does Hillary Clinton
play into this very interesting comment she made today? Maybe
(30:30):
we can find that to have the audio. But lots
of stuff on the way. It's going to be quite
the historic day. I think. I wish it wasn't all
happening after we get off the air. But still a
lot that is known that is super interesting to discuss.
We've got mailbag coming up next to here. I guess
I should fact check everything I hear. I was watching
(30:52):
MSNBC last night The Eleventh Hour with Stephanie Rule. How
many times they said, well, he's traveling five thousand miles.
You would travel five thousand miles and then come back
in one day. Blah blah blah, five thousand miles. Then
a texture said, it's not five thousand miles from Washington,
DC to Anchorage. It's thirty three hundred miles. So I
looked it up in the right it's five thousand kilometers.
(31:13):
So MSNBC discussed the five thousand mile thing over and over.
I repeated it look like an idiot, do it. You
have to fact check every single thing you come across.
Obviously you do with me. I appreciate you watching those
fools just to figure out what they're talking about. It
would rankle me. Oh boy, here's your freedom. Let me
quote it to day. I love this one. This is
so simple, so powerful. From John Adams. Get this tattooed
(31:35):
somewhere on your body today, my friends. All right, all right,
Liberty once lost is lost forever true that John Blanken Adams.
If you need them, mailbag rob us, no mailbag at
Armstrong and Getty dot com. That's sneazy. Here he comes. Ah,
(32:01):
how just come after me for some reason? Let's see.
Oh I love this note from Sean guys. Oh my gosh,
I'm gonna sneeze again. It's the worst mail bag ever.
Where was I? Ah, Yes, Sean, guys, I'm a longtime listener,
literally jumped out of my desk at work when you
started talking about the video of the drunk airline passenger
(32:22):
waving a skateboard around the guy who had to be
detained multiple times. The big guy who restrained the guy
into the seat like a toddler is my best friend,
Ray la Native. He said it was way crazier than
the video even indicates. First off, Ray had a son
next to him who was recording the video. The drunk
guy had assaulted a flight attendant, was swinging his skateboard around.
(32:44):
They had restrained him. He broke free and was swinging
his belt around and the belt almost hit Ray's sun.
Oh my godness, that is when Papa Bear took action,
picked the scumbag up like a toddler. I'm my best
friend as a national hero. Keep up the good work.
You keep up the good work. Ray, God bless you,
my friend. That's awesome. But I'm surprised their email. I
don't know what the makeup of the crowd was in
(33:05):
the plane, but there weren't enough like younger guys that
you can just stand there and let a guy swing
a bat basically around and hope he doesn't hit you
in the head. We have such good email and I
want to get to it, but there's too much here
to pass by. We have been systematically turned into a
nation of sheep that have been told let the authorities
(33:27):
take care of it, don't take the law into your
own hands, don't be a vigilante, these nasty, scary sounding
terms which often refer to people just protecting their own safety,
which is if there is a god given right, that's it.
Got to admit when I ran this scenario through my
head the other day when I was in the shower,
(33:48):
when I first hold the story, what would I have
done if that happened to me? And my first thought
was how much trouble would I get in if I
tried to tackle this guy. My first thought wasn't what
if he clocks me in the head with the skateboard
or whatever. It wasn't the like physical safety. It was
the what's going to happen to me legally if I
try to stop this guy? Right, because, like you said,
it's been beaten into us. Yeah, anyway, I think I
(34:13):
made my point moving along, we have practically no time.
Let's see on the topic of protesters and grassroots versus AstroTurf, etcetera,
Jen and the People's Republic of Marin rights. Guys, you've
often said you wondered what it would be like in
the head of a crazy person. And she recommends a
podcast that includes a discussion with a lady who talks
(34:35):
about her activism addiction. She's addicted to yelling and waving
signs and feeling like she's changing the world even though
she's just yelling and waving signs. I know a few
people that go to every dang protest there is. The
whole family goes. It's just part of their lifestyle. I
don't know if it's an addiction. Yeah, all right, we
(34:57):
barely have any time, so I'll read this one from
Aaron Hey to my democratic, black and actual gay friends.
No teas or drunk girls. Well, yeah, drunk girls who
kiss are not counted as gay. How pleased are you
with the overwhelming support from the media and white women.
We've been literally overwhelmed by the overwhelming support, but it
seems to be having the opposite effect. Right, that's a
(35:19):
very good point. I'm gonna talk Putin Trump an hour two,
among other things. I hope you can stick around, Armstrong
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