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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Jetty,
and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The origin dates to the fourth century of Rome and
has been repeated ever since, including by our first Commander
in Chief, George Washington, the first leader of the War Department.
It captures a simple yet profound truth. To ensure peace,
we must prepare for war.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So, in a practically unprecedented move, Secretary of Pete Hegsath
called all your generals, admirals, everybody in charge of all
our military to come together there in DC. And for
some reason, and nobody knew for several days. And it
turned out it's a bit of a pep talk or
like refocusing talk that sometimes you have at your corporation.
(01:07):
You know, let's let's let's let's re let's refocus on
what we're trying to do here. And uh. And he's
given a speech today and Trump came out and said, Wow,
that was a great speech. I don't want to I
don't want him to be so good. I hate that.
I almost fired him. I said, I don't want to
go on. After that, Trump said of Pete's speech that
(01:30):
it was too good. He wants to farm. They also
said Trump said, before we get back to Peach, which
I find is funny. Trump said, if you don't like
what I'm saying, you can leave the room room, because
there goes your rank, there goes your future to the
generals super perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'll find with that, you know, I was just reading,
and then we'll get back to Pete's quotes. But I
was just reading about how pre Ronald Reagan are. We
were engaged in what was called an active defense strategy
of military management, especially in Europe, and we were weak
and drug addled and not very well armed against the
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Soviet Union, and it was a very passive, flabby way
to run a military. And Pete, God bless him. I
love what he's saying because if as many pieces of
evidence reached our ears as did that our military had
become a jobs program, a progressive jobs program, then it
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needed an ass whooping. And that's what this sounds like.
Pardon my French, folks.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And to Trump's comment, if you don't like what I'm saying,
you know you ought to leave. He knows there are
a lot of generals out there that were they got
They rose through the ranks during the This is a
social experiment times, and that's what that's their main thing. Yes,
and they would like to get rid of those people.
I would like to get rid of those people.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Next clip, Michael, the origin.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Dates to them from this moment forward.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
The only mission of the newly restored Department of War
is this war fighting, preparing for war, and preparing to win,
unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not because we want war,
No one here wants war. But it's because we love peace.
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We love peace for our fellow citizens. They deserve peace,
and they rightfully expect us to deliver it.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
This reminds me, in an odd way of our discussion
about the Blue Cities policies toward junkies and how they
make it as easy as possible to be a junkie
and then are shock that they have more junkies. Pete Hegseith,
the Secretary of Defense of a secretary war is saying
we need to be so big and scary and capable
nobody dares make war on us self. Evidently true, and
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to the extent that we straight from that philosophy, shame
on us well, right try to get the conversations about
our preparedness for fighting China as opposed to is the
military gonna pay for abortions if someone is pregnant on
a base and wants to go to another state where
they don't allow you know, all that stuff. If a
man gets pregnant, will he be able to have as
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a birthing person a government abortion in Spanish because he's
an a legal immigrant and doesn't speak English. That is
my question to the General.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh Man, I love this.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Let's skip ahead to sixty three. Michael, I tell you
what some feathers are about to get ruffled. Brace yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We have a sacred duty to ensure that our warriors
are led by the most capable and qualified combat leaders.
This is one thing you and I can control, and
we owe it to the force to deliver it. For
too long we have simply not done that. The military
has been forced foolish and reckless politicians to focus on
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the wrong things. In many ways, this speech is about
fixing decades of decay, some of it obvious, some of
it hidden, or as the Chairman has put it, we
are clearing out the debris, removing the distractions, clearing the
way for leaders to be leaders. You might say we're
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ending the war on warriors. I heard someone wrote a
book about that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That was the wind up, Michael Nexclip here's the pitch.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
For too long, we've promoted too many uniform leaders for
the wrong reasons, based on their race, based on gender quotas,
based on historics, so called firsts. We've pretended that combat
arms and non combat arms are the same thing. We've
weeded out so called toxic leaders under the guise of
double blind psychology assessments, promoting risk averse go along to
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get along conformists instead.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You name it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
The department did it. Foolish and reckless political.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
We became the woke Department. But not anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh that's good. Oh that is so good. That is
good stuff. I can't wait to see this way this
is handled on the lefty media.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Woof all right, promoting the wrong people for the wrong reasons, gender, race, etc.
Wolke Department, that was the gentle part. Now he gets going.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
In sixty five, this administration has done a great deal
from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct
and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department to
rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices,
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dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship. Yeah, no
more division distraction or gender delusions, No more debris. As
I've said before, and we'll say again, we are done
with that.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I don't know if you could hear that. It sounded
like there was a drone attack on Pete during the
speech mixer. Oh no, no, no, don't go back to
the pizza drinker thing. That's not fair. Michael.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh yeah, Michael, they did both of you.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Both of you.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Step just step to attention, both of you, or you'll
get drummed out of this man's army. We're done with that.
S No more dudes and dresses, no more DEI offices.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, the military, in my opinion, shouldn't spend a dollar
or a moment worried about climate change, not about China
and their military period.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, yeah, you worry about that, the rest of us
will worry if the ocean levels rise by a fifth
of an inch. We'll give you more boats, still boots.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You know, this is tougher because we're generally preaching to
the choir. I suppose although we get a fair number
of emails and texts from those of you tune in
because you don't agree agree with this, but find it
entertaining on some level. Do you realize if we get
beaten by China as the hyper power in the world,
none of the stuff you care about will ever happen?
(08:25):
I mean ever, you know? That's what has it great
point wear on Earth.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
The only hope in hell you progressives have is for
the United States to continue to be strong. Think about
that as you try to tear it down from k
through grad school.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
If China, Russia, Iran and countries that fall into their
orbit get their way, climate change will become a non issue,
I guarantee, and nobody will say a word about it
for the next five hundred years. Yeah, go start in
pay We're done with that.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
S Tell Shieshin Ping about your concerns these The man
is rolling Michael next clip.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Every parent deserves to know that their son or their
daughter that joins our ranks is entering exactly the kind
of unit.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
That the Secretary of War would.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Want his son to join. Think of it as the
Golden rule test Jesus said, do unto others.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's which you would have done unto yourself. It's the
ultimate simplifying.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Test of truth.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The New War Department Golden rule is this, do onto
your unit as you would have done onto your own
child's unit. Would you want him serving with fat or
unfit or undertrained troops, or alongside people who can't meet
basic standards, or in a unit where standards were lowered
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so certain types of troops could make.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It, in in a unit.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Where leaders were promoted for reasons other than merit performance
and war fighting.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
The answer is not.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Just no, it's hell though.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I'm on Pete's side, but I do wonder if he
if there's not a little bit of the I'm super
fit and everybody should be super fit.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I don't understand why you're undermining it. This is this
is a great moment in America.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, that's fantastic, that's absolutely fantastically.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And your childish objections, I have no time for them.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Again, I thought I drummed you out like two minutes ago.
I'dvent two.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I might be right to self drum jack out of
the AAR again. As we discussed the last hour, I'm
all for fat drone operators, if that's what it takes
that matter to me how fit they are.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But how about.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Don't call them a fat pig you can't get how.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
About one hundred and thirty pound women in a infantry
combat situation?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Now, infantry combat completely different, right, I'll be right, And
that's I have a feeling Pete would agree with you,
and I will be interested to hear him clarify.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Going forward, the technological branch of the service, however it
takes shape, is going to have different requirements and we'll
have to approach it in a different ways.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, God, and based on what's happening in Ukraine and
all the writing that I've seen about this is what
war is going to look like. Everybody pay attention. There's
a lot of that. There's a lot of technology involved.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Right right, But putting that aside for now, and I
think they have a common sense to do it. One
more clip because I'm loving this sixty seven Michael.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
This means at the.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
War Department, first and foremost, we must restore a ruthless, dispassionate,
and common sense application of standards. I don't want my
son serving alongside troops who are out of shape, or
in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Arms physical standards as men.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Our troops who are not fully proficient on their assigned weapons,
platform or task, or under a leader who was the
first but not the best standards must be uniform, gender neutral,
and high. If not, they're not standards, they're just suggestions,
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suggestions that get our sons and daughters killed.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The time has passed when we could have a kind
of fun, experimental military where we just have nice people.
That the first ever Eskimo woman promoted to a three
star general, I mean, isn't that exciting. No, that time
is passed.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, we don't have that last portion. And if they
are the female Eskimo, fine, then they should be the
three star general. But if they're not, then pick somebody else.
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Speaker 3 (13:39):
No more fat generals.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yes, we are done with that.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh, he actually dropped an S bomb.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You know, I'm going into combat next to a dainty
little transgender fellow. But I tell you what it's worth
it for the equality. Mom, I'll right to you after
the battle's over. We're done with that. As they had
DEI departments in the military. Oh, that's horrifying. How long
did that last? Oh my god, that is horrifying. We
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let the woke mind virus, the neo Marxist infection. Go
so far?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Okay, we got more than we got to take a break.
Stay here, I get this. I read that nearly two
hundred thousand BMW's were just recalled over a potential fire risk.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Don't worry, the rest will continue taking up two parking
spaces at the mall.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Just where because yours fancy?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
This story came to us via alert listener and longtime
friend of the Armstrong and Giddy showed Dave. He texted
it to me. My words crossed the line After social
media fire storm, Joe Bullard apologizes. Joe Bullard is the
band announcer for Florida A and M University. The band announcer,
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the band announcer. Yes, apparently their band is well known
for their entertaining halftime shows, and they have an announcer
who says stuff during the show, and I read. If
we had time, I would like to read this entire
piece to you, because you have to read and read
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and read things like social media firestorm apology blah blah blah.
My comments directed toward the ASU honey Bees with a
z or men as lighthearted banter, but I now recognize
that they came across in a way that was hurtful
and disrespectful. For that, I extend my deepest and most
heartfelt apologies to. Then he lists like every organization that
was within twenty five miles of the football field when
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he did the horrible thing to any one who was offended,
I am truly start sorry. He goes on to write
that friendly competition and playful jesting have long been part
of the HBCU band culture. Blah blah blah as an
elder who has been blessed to serve and witness the
brilliance blah blah blah in her own apology earlier in
the day, the university president voudu blah blah blah, when
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asked about the apology the other school said blah blah,
and they still hadn't gotten to what the f The
guy said, no, I know, you have to go and
go and go and go.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
What did he say that was so horrific? What he
said was anouncer for the band, that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The band announcer posted on Facebook that the ASU Honeybees,
which is their legendary plus sized girls dance troupe, was
quote unquote the new face of ozempic. What and I
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only gave you like half of the apologizing and bowing
and scraping and weeping and tearing of garments and vowing
to do better and shame brought to my family and
my school. And I've plucked out one of my own
eyes and shown my bitter, bitter self hatred. Blah blah blah.
Finally they get to the comment, which was blasted as
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demeaning and disparaging.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
He plucked out one of my own eyes to show
how is shaped right.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The Big Old Gal Dance Troupe was the new face
of Ozampic, he said online.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
So God, I came across a video the other day
of what they do at Alabama games. They play the
Alabama song Dixie Land Delight, and then the crowd chants
things in between the lyrics. Have you ever seen that before?
It was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That made me wish I was there.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
They did. It's a famous song if you don't know
Alabama as a music group from the eighties, like the
biggest thing in America at the time. Anyway, they sing
something the whole crowd chance f Auburn and then there's
another line and Georgia too. That's fantastic. I thought that
is great. That is some really great America stuff right there.
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More of that, let's cat more of that. That's what
we need. A historic day possibly stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
The President laying out a twenty point plan that would
see Hamas release all of the remaining hostages and agree
not to have any role in the governance of Gaza
in any form.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
The plan that we put forward today is focused on
ending the war immediately, getting all of our hostages back,
getting everything back.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Now. I don't blame you if you kind of like
spaced off during that or are thinking about turning the
dial or whatever. Yet another how we're going to solve
the midd least thing. Here's what you need to know.
NPR loves this plan. Fox and Friends loves this plan. Obviously,
Trump and Netanyahu loved this plan. The Arab countries love
this plan. Tom Friedman of The New York Times loves
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this plan. You got a group of people that are
backing this idea that never come together on anything, right,
which is pretty damned interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
In the cynical man's bet, of course, this won't work.
Nothing ever works, and I'll just keep going like they've
always been going. The difference being Israel has vowed, with
the backing of the US and kind of the sort
of backing of everybody else, that if they don't go
for this, you get to go hogwild. Yeah, And we'll
hear more about that and the rest of this reporting
(19:37):
on ABC News.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
In exchange, Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza and
would slowly withdraw its military, though not fully.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
All parties will agree on a timeline for Israeli forces
to withdraw in phases. Will be withdrawing in phases, no
more shooting.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Hopefully, Gaza would be governed by an apolitical Palestinian committee
over by an international Board of Peace, with Trump as
its chairman. And while just months ago Trump said Palestinians
would have to leave Gaza, under this plan, no one
will be forced to leave Gaza. We will encourage people
to stay.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Trump's the chairman of the Board of Peace, but it's
going to be run by a former Prime Minister of
Great Britain and then a whole bunch of Arab countries
right underneath him working together. So and then here comes
the threat.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Part I support your planned to end the war in
Gaza which achieves our warnings.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
But Netan yahoo with this warning.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
If a Maas refuses to accept.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Then as we will finish the job by itself. This
can be done the easy way, or it can be
done the hard way, but it.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Will be done. Well.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
We ought to play a play forty three there, Michael,
because this is Trump on that.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I have a feeling that we're going to have a
positive answer. But if not, as you know, maybe you'd
have more full backing.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
To do what you would have to do. Yeah, that's
a heck of a thing.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Then I was saying, they don't agree to this, We're
going to do whatever we gotta do, and Trump says,
you got our full backing right. So to me, one
of the reasons this is such a big deal is
when you've got NPR saying this is this is they
get a lot Hamas should agree to this, and Fox
agrees that would Hamas have any political cover at least
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domestically if they reject this For what happens next, Well,
they don't.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Depend on political cover in the same way that normal
societies do, because they just slaughter you if you disagree
with them. Here's what does not change no matter what
else changes. This does not change. Hamas is dedicated to
the destruction of Israel period. If they agree to this,
it's only because it's their last option. They know they
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won't survive not agreeing to it. But they will plot
from this moment on to once again become a force
that can obliterate is Or. But you know, Phebe not
in Yahoo knows that. Yeah, but that's fine.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I mean, if you establish if this, if they agree
to it, and you establish some sort of area there
with Gaza with eight Arab countries and former prime minister
camera and run in the thing and Hamas attacks that,
that would be that'd be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well, and especially if if this plan works out, and
my god, I hope it does. But you will have
a new level of peace and prosperity in those territories
that the good people, you know, perverted as they are
by the propaganda that they've been fed their our lives,
they will start to think, hey, this is really really great.
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And so Hamas ought to be starved of the support
in the lifeline that they would need to reconstitute themselves
as a significant force.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Okay, So here's the interesting thing here. So while you've
got a peace plan coming out of Donald Trump that's
got the backing of left, right and center, and I
mean many of Trump's biggest critics that exist in America
are on board saying this is a good deal. Support
for Israel has dramatically declined. According to this poll that's
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out in the New York Times today, a majority of
American voters now oppose economic and military aid to Israel,
a stunning reversal in public opinion since the October seventh attack,
says the New York Times, it is dropped off a cliff.
And we have explained that, and we'll explain it again
here in a little bit. A majority of Americans now
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a post sending money or a military aids, which we've
been doing for a very long time. About six out
of ten voters said that Israel should end its military
campaign even if the remaining Israeli hostages were not released
or Hamas was not eliminated. Sixty percent of Americans say.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That you have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Forty percent of voters say Israel it was intentionally killing
civilians in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
That's double the number of.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
A year ago.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Propaganda works.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Well, yeah, so getting to that and the numbers are
really high among the young. So as we were talking
about last hour, you know, okay, so you got all
your college kids or a lot of that poll and
that's what their college teachers are telling them, and that's what,
like most of the mainstream media is telling them. Then
you got to wonder how many of those people that
have turned on Israel are Maga or Republicans or you know,
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the right that are into Tucker Carlson and Canda and
Benny Johnson.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
In that crowd. Oh, the whole Jews are trying to
control America. Jews do control America. The Jews killed Charlie Kirk,
that crowd, right, Yeah, speaking of which I made reference
to this I think a couple of days ago. But
the headline from the Times of Israel is Tucker Carlson
appears to blame Jews for killing Charlie Kirk with his
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story on Jesus' death. And they describe, if you heard
the speech he talks about just like Jesus, a bunch
of hummus eating people who didn't want to let him
speak anymore, decided to kill him. That was the only
way to stop his message. And you know, as far
as it went directly. The idea was that they didn't
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stop Jesus and his message, and they won't stop Charlie
Kirk's message either, And so that was nice in life affirming.
But the whole people sitting around eating hummus deciding who
should live and who should die and who should speak
was viewed as coded. The Jews did it in Israel,
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in Arab countries, Muslim countries, they were celebrating it. Tucker Carlson,
prominent American conservative, blames the Jews for killing Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, Tucker's not sitting around eating hummus. He appears to
be sitting around eating donuts, as he has gotten quite
round faced over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Maybe anti Semitism slows your metabolism.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I don't call him a fat pick, you can't.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
But uh, this is this is a sideline. This is
not important.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But do you think Tucker comes by this naturally or
is he just found an angle to be more popular
and make money. Does he believe this stuff? I don't know.
I just don't know. No way he grew up the
way he grew up in the Bay Area and in Washington,
d C. And all the stuff he's done his whole
life that he believes this.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, there are a list of quote unquote right wing
influencers and hosts and such who I would go ahead
and just describe as shameless grifters preying on the weak
of mind. Tucker, I don't know. I don't know because
I admired him so much as a thinker and a writer,
and he's so smart and funny. But yeah, he's either
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lost his mind or has become completely wildly sim But
the cratering support for Israel.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Financial aid, economic aid, and military aid, that's a big
political problem for Israel because you're going to have you're
going to have a house, whether it drawn by the
Democrats or Republicans who are under a lot of pressure
to not continue what we've been doing my whole life. Yes,
it's a bigger problem for Republicans, no doubt, who are
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much more staunching their support of Israel. Yeah, and whether
it came about through a shameless propaganda by the media
and the educational system or not, it's still a challenge.
As I said earlier, Israel is being held to a
standard for protecting, feeding, nurturing the civilians of its adversaries.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Adversary in a way that no government or army has
ever been held to that standard in the history of warfare.
Just completely unique, I mean, an invented. Are you out
of your mind? Set of standards that the New York
Times and company hold Israel to? And yet because it
is put forth is what is plainly clearly good and true,
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people think, yeah, that's plainly good and true. They're right,
Israel's being way too mean. And I don't demand that
every Americans study the Middle East for their entire life.
They've been misled. The argument or the issue has been
reframed in such a way that Israel can't win.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But how about this coming out of last week when
Israel was really you know, all those countries that came
out in favor of a two state solution and for
the first time recognized a Palestinian state and everybody bad
mouth and Israel were the only that stood with Israel.
And now here you are a week later with all
the major players, Arab states, lefty journalists and people on
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the right saying this is a good plan, a moss
should take it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That is something that is so What is gnosticism and
what does it have to do with Candice Owens and
hating the Jews and stuff. After being a gnostic, Oh
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It's kind of become a joke in my house. Like
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oh my god, I'm having a heart attack. It's a
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I get your watch. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's like Colin shotgun exactly boy, oh exactly. Well, you
got a lot to keep from crime. Oh, the story
of Candice Owens and and blaming the Jews a gnosticism, gnostics,
you will recognize people in your life when I hit
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Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm gonna check out of all of this and watch
baseball later today. That's what I'm gonna do. Okay, we've
got a lot on the way. Stay here, being human,
I tell you what ain't easy. So as asking the
question of so the cratering support for Israel, according to
(31:30):
this New York Times poll that is out today, a
lot of it is the young who've been told by
all of the media, practically and their college professors that
Israel is evil, So not surprising that they've changed their views.
But how about the right, you know, the Tucker Carlson,
Candace Owen's crowd that think Israel is evil? Now, I guess.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
We got this text.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I kind of think Tucker and Candace at all are
being paid handsomely by Katar. That explains a lot. Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Now, remember they are spreading tens of billions of dollars
around to universities and lobbyists in anyone they can get
to influence with.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Now, Bennie Johnson, who does a talk show, he is
not cool if Israel he was getting paid by RT
Russian state media.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, but hugely popular. He's shockingly popular.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Online. So I thought there was an interesting Wall Street journal.
Would Tucker need Tucker doesn't need money. I have no
idea what's going on with Tucker. I really don't. I
would love to know that.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
But Josh Apple wrote a piece.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
The assassination to Charlie Kirk has become another battleground for
conspiracy theories about Jewish influence and other nefarious forces. Just
as on a side, I think I mentioned this yesterday
on the show that as I was getting ready to
kick off the Monday show. I realized that a lot
of the stuff from Friday was not one horrific America
(33:02):
stops and takes a look at itself act of violence ago.
It was two ago. So I mean all those follow
ups and stuff like that that probably ought to be
talked about was just two out a day. We've had
so much horror since then three days ago probably ought
to move on, which is a hell of a deal anyway.
So conspiracy theories about Jewish influence and other Nefari's forces,
(33:23):
within hours, and despite evidence of the alleged shooter's identity
and motive online influence, just began weaving elaborate tales. Ian
Carroll declared within twenty four hours that quote. The Internet
already figured out who most likely the culprit was spinning
a story of financier Bill Ackman and bb Netanyau who
pressuring Kirk behind closed doors. Candace Owens spent a week
(33:45):
suggesting that Jews had been threatening Kirk because he was
seeing the light about Israel's influence. When others debunked these fantasies,
the conspiracy theorists didn't retreat. They doubled down. For instance,
of the New York Posts reporting quite specifically about the
shoot her and what he believed. Miss Owens wrote, you
don't have to listen to that because the New York
Post is an outfit of the massad. Anyone rebutting their
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claims was accused of participating in a cover up. And
here's the kind of interesting, somewhat to three hundred level
class part of this piece by Josh Apple. This should
sound familiar to anyone who studied religious history. What we're
witnessing is a digital form of gnosticism, a first century
Christian heresy that holds the material world is evil and
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that a special KnowledgeR Gnosis lifts us out of its
corruption into redemption. Salvation under its theory, requires neither faith
nor action, only the recognition that you're being lied to
and that your soul belongs elsewhere. Then it talks about
malevolent forces controlling the world, and they get into some
fairly elaborate descriptions. But here's where the rubber meets the road.
(34:53):
Bah bah bah. Modern conspiracy culture operates on similar principles.
Like ancient gnostics, today's online truth se believe malevolent forces
control the visible world. Mainstream institutions, media, and government aren't
imperfect human constructs but tools of a cosmic deception. Modern
gnostics believe in what is deliberately hidden. Watch this video,
(35:15):
listen to this podcast, read this thread, and you'll be
awakened to secret truths that ordinary people can't see. It
doesn't hurt that many offerings are behind a paywall. Then
they give a bunch of different examples, but it's always
we have the secret knowledge other people don't have. You
will be in the the Enlightenment one. You will be smarter,
(35:37):
your soul will be redeemed because you know the truth.
That's absolutely that's a great description of so much of
the pizza Gates, infernal Hollywood child trafficking thing of a jigger.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So Cana Zones has seven point two million followers on Twitter.
Mm hmm, that's a lot. And I just looked through
her top tweet to the day. They're almost all about
how Israel's controlling everything, including Trump. Trump is uh allowing
Israel to purchase our speech and everything that he says.
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So that's interesting to that crowd has turned on Trump.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I guess yeah, oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
This was some of them.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Anyway, This isn't healthy political discourse, it's spiritual pathology masquerading
his analysis. Still, the appeal is obvious. Nastissism offers a
flattering explanation for life's difficulties. Your problems aren't the result
of bad decisions, random misfortune, or complex social forces. They're
the fault of shadowy puppet masters. Most seductively, you don't
need to do anything difficult to overcome them. You only
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need to know the right secrets. Charlie Kirk, for what
it's worth, saw the danger of that sort of thinking
and denounced it as demonic last month. And like the
ancient gnostics, modern conspiracists view contradiction as confirmation. When authorities
debunk their theories, it's proof that the conspiracy actually goes deeper.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
You know, the whole blaming the Jews has been around
forever and I don't have never quite understood it. Reading Ulysses,
which is about the year nineteen oh four, they're walking
around Dublin constantly blaming the Jews for everything, and they
are conversations at the bars and everything like that. I mean,
it's just it's been a part of Western sieve for
a very long time for whatever reason. If you missed
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
The origin dates to the fourth century of Rome and
has been repeated ever since, including by our first Commander
in Chief, George Washington, the first leader of the War Department.
It captures a simple yet profound truth. To ensure peace,
we must prepare for war.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So, in a practically unprecedented move, Secretary of Pete Hegsath
called all your generals, admirals, everybody in charge of all
our military to come together there in DC. And for
some reason, and nobody knew for several days. And it
turned out it's a bit of a pep talk or
like refocusing talk that sometimes you have at your corporation.
(01:07):
You know, let's let's let's let's re let's refocus on
what we're trying to do here. And uh. And he's
given a speech today and Trump came out and said, Wow,
that was a great speech. I don't want to I
don't want him to be so good. I hate that.
I almost fired him. I said, I don't want to
go on. After that, Trump said of Pete's speech that
(01:30):
it was too good. He wants to farm. They also
said Trump said, before we get back to Peach, which
I find is funny. Trump said, if you don't like
what I'm saying, you can leave the room room, because
there goes your rank, there goes your future to the
generals super perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'll find with that, you know, I was just reading,
and then we'll get back to Pete's quotes. But I
was just reading about how pre Ronald Reagan are. We
were engaged in what was called an active defense strategy
of military management, especially in Europe, and we were weak
and drug addled and not very well armed against the
(02:08):
Soviet Union, and it was a very passive, flabby way
to run a military. And Pete, God bless him. I
love what he's saying because if as many pieces of
evidence reached our ears as did that our military had
become a jobs program, a progressive jobs program, then it
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needed an ass whooping. And that's what this sounds like.
Pardon my French, folks.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And to Trump's comment, if you don't like what I'm saying,
you know you ought to leave. He knows there are
a lot of generals out there that were they got
They rose through the ranks during the This is a
social experiment times, and that's what that's their main thing. Yes,
and they would like to get rid of those people.
I would like to get rid of those people.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Next clip, Michael, the origin.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Dates to them from this moment forward.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
The only mission of the newly restored Department of War
is this war fighting, preparing for war, and preparing to win,
unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not because we want war,
No one here wants war. But it's because we love peace.
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We love peace for our fellow citizens. They deserve peace,
and they rightfully expect us to deliver it.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
This reminds me, in an odd way of our discussion
about the Blue Cities policies toward junkies and how they
make it as easy as possible to be a junkie
and then are shock that they have more junkies. Pete Hegseith,
the Secretary of Defense of a secretary war is saying
we need to be so big and scary and capable
nobody dares make war on us self. Evidently true, and
(04:00):
to the extent that we straight from that philosophy, shame
on us well, right try to get the conversations about
our preparedness for fighting China as opposed to is the
military gonna pay for abortions if someone is pregnant on
a base and wants to go to another state where
they don't allow you know, all that stuff. If a
man gets pregnant, will he be able to have as
(04:21):
a birthing person a government abortion in Spanish because he's
an a legal immigrant and doesn't speak English. That is
my question to the General.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh Man, I love this.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Let's skip ahead to sixty three. Michael, I tell you
what some feathers are about to get ruffled. Brace yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We have a sacred duty to ensure that our warriors
are led by the most capable and qualified combat leaders.
This is one thing you and I can control, and
we owe it to the force to deliver it. For
too long we have simply not done that. The military
has been forced foolish and reckless politicians to focus on
(05:03):
the wrong things. In many ways, this speech is about
fixing decades of decay, some of it obvious, some of
it hidden, or as the Chairman has put it, we
are clearing out the debris, removing the distractions, clearing the
way for leaders to be leaders. You might say we're
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ending the war on warriors. I heard someone wrote a
book about that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That was the wind up, Michael Nexclip here's the pitch.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
For too long, we've promoted too many uniform leaders for
the wrong reasons, based on their race, based on gender quotas,
based on historics, so called firsts. We've pretended that combat
arms and non combat arms are the same thing. We've
weeded out so called toxic leaders under the guise of
double blind psychology assessments, promoting risk averse go along to
(06:01):
get along conformists instead.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You name it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
The department did it. Foolish and reckless political.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
We became the woke Department. But not anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh that's good. Oh that is so good. That is
good stuff. I can't wait to see this way this
is handled on the lefty media.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Woof all right, promoting the wrong people for the wrong reasons, gender, race, etc.
Wolke Department, that was the gentle part. Now he gets going.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
In sixty five, this administration has done a great deal
from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct
and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department to
rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices,
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dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship. Yeah, no
more division distraction or gender delusions, No more debris. As
I've said before, and we'll say again, we are done
with that.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I don't know if you could hear that. It sounded
like there was a drone attack on Pete during the
speech mixer. Oh no, no, no, don't go back to
the pizza drinker thing. That's not fair. Michael.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh yeah, Michael, they did both of you.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Both of you.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Step just step to attention, both of you, or you'll
get drummed out of this man's army. We're done with that.
S No more dudes and dresses, no more DEI offices.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, the military, in my opinion, shouldn't spend a dollar
or a moment worried about climate change, not about China
and their military period.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, yeah, you worry about that, the rest of us
will worry if the ocean levels rise by a fifth
of an inch. We'll give you more boats, still boots.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
You know, this is tougher because we're generally preaching to
the choir. I suppose although we get a fair number
of emails and texts from those of you tune in
because you don't agree agree with this, but find it
entertaining on some level. Do you realize if we get
beaten by China as the hyper power in the world,
none of the stuff you care about will ever happen?
(08:25):
I mean ever, you know? That's what has it great
point wear on Earth.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
The only hope in hell you progressives have is for
the United States to continue to be strong. Think about
that as you try to tear it down from k
through grad school.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
If China, Russia, Iran and countries that fall into their
orbit get their way, climate change will become a non issue,
I guarantee, and nobody will say a word about it
for the next five hundred years. Yeah, go start in
pay We're done with that.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
S Tell Shieshin Ping about your concerns these The man
is rolling Michael next clip.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Every parent deserves to know that their son or their
daughter that joins our ranks is entering exactly the kind
of unit.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
That the Secretary of War would.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Want his son to join. Think of it as the
Golden rule test Jesus said, do unto others.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's which you would have done unto yourself. It's the
ultimate simplifying.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Test of truth.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
The New War Department Golden rule is this, do onto
your unit as you would have done onto your own
child's unit. Would you want him serving with fat or
unfit or undertrained troops, or alongside people who can't meet
basic standards, or in a unit where standards were lowered
(09:48):
so certain types of troops could make.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It, in in a unit.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Where leaders were promoted for reasons other than merit performance
and war fighting.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
The answer is not.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Just no, it's hell though.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I'm on Pete's side, but I do wonder if he
if there's not a little bit of the I'm super
fit and everybody should be super fit.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I don't understand why you're undermining it. This is this
is a great moment in America.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, that's fantastic, that's absolutely fantastically.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And your childish objections, I have no time for them.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Again, I thought I drummed you out like two minutes ago.
I'dvent two.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I might be right to self drum jack out of
the AAR again. As we discussed the last hour, I'm
all for fat drone operators, if that's what it takes
that matter to me how fit they are.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But how about.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Don't call them a fat pig you can't get how.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
About one hundred and thirty pound women in a infantry
combat situation?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Now, infantry combat completely different, right, I'll be right, And
that's I have a feeling Pete would agree with you,
and I will be interested to hear him clarify.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Going forward, the technological branch of the service, however it
takes shape, is going to have different requirements and we'll
have to approach it in a different ways.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, God, and based on what's happening in Ukraine and
all the writing that I've seen about this is what
war is going to look like. Everybody pay attention. There's
a lot of that. There's a lot of technology involved.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Right right, But putting that aside for now, and I
think they have a common sense to do it. One
more clip because I'm loving this sixty seven Michael.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
This means at the.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
War Department, first and foremost, we must restore a ruthless, dispassionate,
and common sense application of standards. I don't want my
son serving alongside troops who are out of shape, or
in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Arms physical standards as men.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Our troops who are not fully proficient on their assigned weapons,
platform or task, or under a leader who was the
first but not the best standards must be uniform, gender neutral,
and high. If not, they're not standards, they're just suggestions,
(12:11):
suggestions that get our sons and daughters killed.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
The time has passed when we could have a kind
of fun, experimental military where we just have nice people.
That the first ever Eskimo woman promoted to a three
star general, I mean, isn't that exciting. No, that time
is passed.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, we don't have that last portion. And if they
are the female Eskimo, fine, then they should be the
three star general. But if they're not, then pick somebody else.
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Speaker 3 (13:39):
No more fat generals.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yes, we are done with that.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh, he actually dropped an S bomb.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You know, I'm going into combat next to a dainty
little transgender fellow. But I tell you what it's worth
it for the equality. Mom, I'll right to you after
the battle's over. We're done with that. As they had
DEI departments in the military. Oh, that's horrifying. How long
did that last? Oh my god, that is horrifying. We
(14:11):
let the woke mind virus, the neo Marxist infection. Go
so far?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Okay, we got more than we got to take a break.
Stay here, I get this. I read that nearly two
hundred thousand BMW's were just recalled over a potential fire risk.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Don't worry, the rest will continue taking up two parking
spaces at the mall.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Just where because yours fancy?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
This story came to us via alert listener and longtime
friend of the Armstrong and Giddy showed Dave. He texted
it to me. My words crossed the line After social
media fire storm, Joe Bullard apologizes. Joe Bullard is the
band announcer for Florida A and M University. The band announcer,
(15:13):
the band announcer. Yes, apparently their band is well known
for their entertaining halftime shows, and they have an announcer
who says stuff during the show, and I read. If
we had time, I would like to read this entire
piece to you, because you have to read and read
(15:36):
and read things like social media firestorm apology blah blah blah.
My comments directed toward the ASU honey Bees with a
z or men as lighthearted banter, but I now recognize
that they came across in a way that was hurtful
and disrespectful. For that, I extend my deepest and most
heartfelt apologies to. Then he lists like every organization that
was within twenty five miles of the football field when
(15:58):
he did the horrible thing to any one who was offended,
I am truly start sorry. He goes on to write
that friendly competition and playful jesting have long been part
of the HBCU band culture. Blah blah blah as an
elder who has been blessed to serve and witness the
brilliance blah blah blah in her own apology earlier in
the day, the university president voudu blah blah blah, when
(16:20):
asked about the apology the other school said blah blah,
and they still hadn't gotten to what the f The
guy said, no, I know, you have to go and
go and go and go.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
What did he say that was so horrific? What he
said was anouncer for the band, that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The band announcer posted on Facebook that the ASU Honeybees,
which is their legendary plus sized girls dance troupe, was
quote unquote the new face of ozempic. What and I
(17:01):
only gave you like half of the apologizing and bowing
and scraping and weeping and tearing of garments and vowing
to do better and shame brought to my family and
my school. And I've plucked out one of my own
eyes and shown my bitter, bitter self hatred. Blah blah blah.
Finally they get to the comment, which was blasted as
(17:23):
demeaning and disparaging.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
He plucked out one of my own eyes to show
how is shaped right.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The Big Old Gal Dance Troupe was the new face
of Ozampic, he said online.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
So God, I came across a video the other day
of what they do at Alabama games. They play the
Alabama song Dixie Land Delight, and then the crowd chants
things in between the lyrics. Have you ever seen that before?
It was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
That made me wish I was there.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
They did. It's a famous song if you don't know
Alabama as a music group from the eighties, like the
biggest thing in America at the time. Anyway, they sing
something the whole crowd chance f Auburn and then there's
another line and Georgia too. That's fantastic. I thought that
is great. That is some really great America stuff right there.
(18:12):
More of that, let's cat more of that. That's what
we need. A historic day possibly stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
The President laying out a twenty point plan that would
see Hamas release all of the remaining hostages and agree
not to have any role in the governance of Gaza
in any form.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
The plan that we put forward today is focused on
ending the war immediately, getting all of our hostages back,
getting everything back.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Now. I don't blame you if you kind of like
spaced off during that or are thinking about turning the
dial or whatever. Yet another how we're going to solve
the midd least thing. Here's what you need to know.
NPR loves this plan. Fox and Friends loves this plan. Obviously,
Trump and Netanyahu loved this plan. The Arab countries love
this plan. Tom Friedman of The New York Times loves
(19:07):
this plan. You got a group of people that are
backing this idea that never come together on anything, right,
which is pretty damned interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
In the cynical man's bet, of course, this won't work.
Nothing ever works, and I'll just keep going like they've
always been going. The difference being Israel has vowed, with
the backing of the US and kind of the sort
of backing of everybody else, that if they don't go
for this, you get to go hogwild. Yeah, And we'll
hear more about that and the rest of this reporting
(19:37):
on ABC News.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
In exchange, Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza and
would slowly withdraw its military, though not fully.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
All parties will agree on a timeline for Israeli forces
to withdraw in phases. Will be withdrawing in phases, no
more shooting.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Hopefully, Gaza would be governed by an apolitical Palestinian committee
over by an international Board of Peace, with Trump as
its chairman. And while just months ago Trump said Palestinians
would have to leave Gaza, under this plan, no one
will be forced to leave Gaza. We will encourage people
to stay.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Trump's the chairman of the Board of Peace, but it's
going to be run by a former Prime Minister of
Great Britain and then a whole bunch of Arab countries
right underneath him working together. So and then here comes
the threat.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Part I support your planned to end the war in
Gaza which achieves our warnings.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
But Netan yahoo with this warning.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
If a Maas refuses to accept.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Then as we will finish the job by itself. This
can be done the easy way, or it can be
done the hard way, but it.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Will be done. Well.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
We ought to play a play forty three there, Michael,
because this is Trump on that.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I have a feeling that we're going to have a
positive answer. But if not, as you know, maybe you'd
have more full backing.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
To do what you would have to do. Yeah, that's
a heck of a thing.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Then I was saying, they don't agree to this, We're
going to do whatever we gotta do, and Trump says,
you got our full backing right. So to me, one
of the reasons this is such a big deal is
when you've got NPR saying this is this is they
get a lot Hamas should agree to this, and Fox
agrees that would Hamas have any political cover at least
(21:34):
domestically if they reject this For what happens next, Well,
they don't.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Depend on political cover in the same way that normal
societies do, because they just slaughter you if you disagree
with them. Here's what does not change no matter what
else changes. This does not change. Hamas is dedicated to
the destruction of Israel period. If they agree to this,
it's only because it's their last option. They know they
(22:05):
won't survive not agreeing to it. But they will plot
from this moment on to once again become a force
that can obliterate is Or. But you know, Phebe not
in Yahoo knows that. Yeah, but that's fine.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I mean, if you establish if this, if they agree
to it, and you establish some sort of area there
with Gaza with eight Arab countries and former prime minister
camera and run in the thing and Hamas attacks that,
that would be that'd be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well, and especially if if this plan works out, and
my god, I hope it does. But you will have
a new level of peace and prosperity in those territories
that the good people, you know, perverted as they are
by the propaganda that they've been fed their our lives,
they will start to think, hey, this is really really great.
(23:04):
And so Hamas ought to be starved of the support
in the lifeline that they would need to reconstitute themselves
as a significant force.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Okay, So here's the interesting thing here. So while you've
got a peace plan coming out of Donald Trump that's
got the backing of left, right and center, and I
mean many of Trump's biggest critics that exist in America
are on board saying this is a good deal. Support
for Israel has dramatically declined. According to this poll that's
(23:35):
out in the New York Times today, a majority of
American voters now oppose economic and military aid to Israel,
a stunning reversal in public opinion since the October seventh attack,
says the New York Times, it is dropped off a cliff.
And we have explained that, and we'll explain it again
here in a little bit. A majority of Americans now
(23:56):
a post sending money or a military aids, which we've
been doing for a very long time. About six out
of ten voters said that Israel should end its military
campaign even if the remaining Israeli hostages were not released
or Hamas was not eliminated. Sixty percent of Americans say.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That you have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Forty percent of voters say Israel it was intentionally killing
civilians in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
That's double the number of.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
A year ago.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Propaganda works.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Well, yeah, so getting to that and the numbers are
really high among the young. So as we were talking
about last hour, you know, okay, so you got all
your college kids or a lot of that poll and
that's what their college teachers are telling them, and that's what,
like most of the mainstream media is telling them. Then
you got to wonder how many of those people that
have turned on Israel are Maga or Republicans or you know,
(24:55):
the right that are into Tucker Carlson and Canda and
Benny Johnson.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
In that crowd. Oh, the whole Jews are trying to
control America. Jews do control America. The Jews killed Charlie Kirk,
that crowd, right, Yeah, speaking of which I made reference
to this I think a couple of days ago. But
the headline from the Times of Israel is Tucker Carlson
appears to blame Jews for killing Charlie Kirk with his
(25:23):
story on Jesus' death. And they describe, if you heard
the speech he talks about just like Jesus, a bunch
of hummus eating people who didn't want to let him
speak anymore, decided to kill him. That was the only
way to stop his message. And you know, as far
as it went directly. The idea was that they didn't
(25:45):
stop Jesus and his message, and they won't stop Charlie
Kirk's message either, And so that was nice in life affirming.
But the whole people sitting around eating hummus deciding who
should live and who should die and who should speak
was viewed as coded. The Jews did it in Israel,
(26:06):
in Arab countries, Muslim countries, they were celebrating it. Tucker Carlson,
prominent American conservative, blames the Jews for killing Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, Tucker's not sitting around eating hummus. He appears to
be sitting around eating donuts, as he has gotten quite
round faced over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Maybe anti Semitism slows your metabolism.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I don't call him a fat pick, you can't.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
But uh, this is this is a sideline. This is
not important.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But do you think Tucker comes by this naturally or
is he just found an angle to be more popular
and make money. Does he believe this stuff? I don't know.
I just don't know. No way he grew up the
way he grew up in the Bay Area and in Washington,
d C. And all the stuff he's done his whole
life that he believes this.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, there are a list of quote unquote right wing
influencers and hosts and such who I would go ahead
and just describe as shameless grifters preying on the weak
of mind. Tucker, I don't know. I don't know because
I admired him so much as a thinker and a writer,
and he's so smart and funny. But yeah, he's either
(27:16):
lost his mind or has become completely wildly sim But
the cratering support for Israel.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Financial aid, economic aid, and military aid, that's a big
political problem for Israel because you're going to have you're
going to have a house, whether it drawn by the
Democrats or Republicans who are under a lot of pressure
to not continue what we've been doing my whole life. Yes,
it's a bigger problem for Republicans, no doubt, who are
(27:47):
much more staunching their support of Israel. Yeah, and whether
it came about through a shameless propaganda by the media
and the educational system or not, it's still a challenge.
As I said earlier, Israel is being held to a
standard for protecting, feeding, nurturing the civilians of its adversaries.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Adversary in a way that no government or army has
ever been held to that standard in the history of warfare.
Just completely unique, I mean, an invented. Are you out
of your mind? Set of standards that the New York
Times and company hold Israel to? And yet because it
is put forth is what is plainly clearly good and true,
(28:30):
people think, yeah, that's plainly good and true. They're right,
Israel's being way too mean. And I don't demand that
every Americans study the Middle East for their entire life.
They've been misled. The argument or the issue has been
reframed in such a way that Israel can't win.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But how about this coming out of last week when
Israel was really you know, all those countries that came
out in favor of a two state solution and for
the first time recognized a Palestinian state and everybody bad
mouth and Israel were the only that stood with Israel.
And now here you are a week later with all
the major players, Arab states, lefty journalists and people on
(29:10):
the right saying this is a good plan, a moss
should take it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That is something that is so What is gnosticism and
what does it have to do with Candice Owens and
hating the Jews and stuff. After being a gnostic, Oh
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Speaker 3 (30:28):
It's kind of become a joke in my house. Like
if if I like eat a lot, like I ate
a lot at breakfast the other day, surprising and I say,
oh my god, I'm having a heart attack. It's a
race between Sam and Henry for one of them to say,
I get your watch. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's like Colin shotgun exactly boy, oh exactly. Well, you
got a lot to keep from crime. Oh, the story
of Candice Owens and and blaming the Jews a gnosticism, gnostics,
you will recognize people in your life when I hit
(31:06):
you with this description.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm gonna check out of all of this and watch
baseball later today. That's what I'm gonna do. Okay, we've
got a lot on the way. Stay here, being human,
I tell you what ain't easy. So as asking the
question of so the cratering support for Israel, according to
(31:30):
this New York Times poll that is out today, a
lot of it is the young who've been told by
all of the media, practically and their college professors that
Israel is evil, So not surprising that they've changed their views.
But how about the right, you know, the Tucker Carlson,
Candace Owen's crowd that think Israel is evil? Now, I guess.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
We got this text.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I kind of think Tucker and Candace at all are
being paid handsomely by Katar. That explains a lot. Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Now, remember they are spreading tens of billions of dollars
around to universities and lobbyists in anyone they can get
to influence with.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Now, Bennie Johnson, who does a talk show, he is
not cool if Israel he was getting paid by RT
Russian state media.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, but hugely popular. He's shockingly popular.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Online. So I thought there was an interesting Wall Street journal.
Would Tucker need Tucker doesn't need money. I have no
idea what's going on with Tucker. I really don't. I
would love to know that.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
But Josh Apple wrote a piece.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
The assassination to Charlie Kirk has become another battleground for
conspiracy theories about Jewish influence and other nefarious forces. Just
as on a side, I think I mentioned this yesterday
on the show that as I was getting ready to
kick off the Monday show. I realized that a lot
of the stuff from Friday was not one horrific America
(33:02):
stops and takes a look at itself act of violence ago.
It was two ago. So I mean all those follow
ups and stuff like that that probably ought to be
talked about was just two out a day. We've had
so much horror since then three days ago probably ought
to move on, which is a hell of a deal anyway.
So conspiracy theories about Jewish influence and other Nefari's forces,
(33:23):
within hours, and despite evidence of the alleged shooter's identity
and motive online influence, just began weaving elaborate tales. Ian
Carroll declared within twenty four hours that quote. The Internet
already figured out who most likely the culprit was spinning
a story of financier Bill Ackman and bb Netanyau who
pressuring Kirk behind closed doors. Candace Owens spent a week
(33:45):
suggesting that Jews had been threatening Kirk because he was
seeing the light about Israel's influence. When others debunked these fantasies,
the conspiracy theorists didn't retreat. They doubled down. For instance,
of the New York Posts reporting quite specifically about the
shoot her and what he believed. Miss Owens wrote, you
don't have to listen to that because the New York
Post is an outfit of the massad. Anyone rebutting their
(34:08):
claims was accused of participating in a cover up. And
here's the kind of interesting, somewhat to three hundred level
class part of this piece by Josh Apple. This should
sound familiar to anyone who studied religious history. What we're
witnessing is a digital form of gnosticism, a first century
Christian heresy that holds the material world is evil and
(34:30):
that a special KnowledgeR Gnosis lifts us out of its
corruption into redemption. Salvation under its theory, requires neither faith
nor action, only the recognition that you're being lied to
and that your soul belongs elsewhere. Then it talks about
malevolent forces controlling the world, and they get into some
fairly elaborate descriptions. But here's where the rubber meets the road.
(34:53):
Bah bah bah. Modern conspiracy culture operates on similar principles.
Like ancient gnostics, today's online truth se believe malevolent forces
control the visible world. Mainstream institutions, media, and government aren't
imperfect human constructs but tools of a cosmic deception. Modern
gnostics believe in what is deliberately hidden. Watch this video,
(35:15):
listen to this podcast, read this thread, and you'll be
awakened to secret truths that ordinary people can't see. It
doesn't hurt that many offerings are behind a paywall. Then
they give a bunch of different examples, but it's always
we have the secret knowledge other people don't have. You
will be in the the Enlightenment one. You will be smarter,
(35:37):
your soul will be redeemed because you know the truth.
That's absolutely that's a great description of so much of
the pizza Gates, infernal Hollywood child trafficking thing of a jigger.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So Cana Zones has seven point two million followers on Twitter.
Mm hmm, that's a lot. And I just looked through
her top tweet to the day. They're almost all about
how Israel's controlling everything, including Trump. Trump is uh allowing
Israel to purchase our speech and everything that he says.
(36:13):
So that's interesting to that crowd has turned on Trump.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I guess yeah, oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
This was some of them.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Anyway, This isn't healthy political discourse, it's spiritual pathology masquerading
his analysis. Still, the appeal is obvious. Nastissism offers a
flattering explanation for life's difficulties. Your problems aren't the result
of bad decisions, random misfortune, or complex social forces. They're
the fault of shadowy puppet masters. Most seductively, you don't
need to do anything difficult to overcome them. You only
(36:40):
need to know the right secrets. Charlie Kirk, for what
it's worth, saw the danger of that sort of thinking
and denounced it as demonic last month. And like the
ancient gnostics, modern conspiracists view contradiction as confirmation. When authorities
debunk their theories, it's proof that the conspiracy actually goes deeper.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
You know, the whole blaming the Jews has been around
forever and I don't have never quite understood it. Reading Ulysses,
which is about the year nineteen oh four, they're walking
around Dublin constantly blaming the Jews for everything, and they
are conversations at the bars and everything like that. I mean,
it's just it's been a part of Western sieve for
a very long time for whatever reason. If you missed
(37:25):
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