October 3, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Terrorist attacks on synagogues & jobs report
- Dogs taking over SF
- Mamdani the socialist
- Wars update
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jatte and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
A deadly attack branded my authorities as terror at a
synagogue in the UK on the holiest day of the
Jewish year.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Jan Kapor, you know, and I just I don't feel safe.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
This morning, a man rammed a car into worshippers outside,
then got out and stabbed more with a knife. He
tried to get inside the sending On, but the door
was barricaded.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
All those inside were safely contained until police were able
to confirm that it was safe to leave the premises.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
So when we start the show every single day, we
maybe you don't hear the beginning of the show where
I say today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
and then Joe names somebody who's our manager for the day,
usually a person or a vent or idea, and today.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It was anti Semitism worldwide.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I came across this post on Twitter from a guy
named Ashley Reinsburg, who I don't know. He writes for Substack.
He's an investigative officer journalist sort of writer person, and
he posted this. I thought it was really good yesterday afternoon.
This morning, as I sat in a London synagogue for
(01:30):
Yam Kapur services, a friend sitting next to me said,
I reckon Jews of about ten years left in this country.
I said, I disagreed in that it's not as bad
as it seems. About twenty minutes later, the service was
suddenly interrupted. A synagogue security official went up to the
podium and said there had been a major incident in
the north and they were locking down this synagogue. There
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was a buzz of fear. Children's services were canceled. We
were not to leave. My friend looked at me and said,
you see what I mean. Ten years in twenty twenty five,
two Jews were murdered for the crime of praying in
a synagogue in Britain. Truth is, I don't know a
single Jewish family in London. Now this is the important part,
because you got a liver to know this. Truth is,
I don't know a single Jewish family in London who
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doesn't speak openly and often about leaving. These are died
in the woold Brits who love this country, but they
are watching the England they know disintegrate around them. British
Jews have lost the right to security and safety. The
response by authorities is to attack. To this attack is
to pledge more security at Jewish schools and synagogues. They're
just restating the problem. Why should Jewish kids go to
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a school in London or Manchester under a flanks of
security guards. Why do synagogues need a rotation of specially
trained guards at every event? Jewish parents who pass bisecular
and non Jewish parochial schools might gaze and wonder, perhaps
envy at the sight of children entering their schools without
six or seven men in stab vests standing guard. And
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Keir Starmer comes out with his valiant statement, we will
defeat anti semit they will tolerate it ally with it
reward its most virulent opponents. And the most insane part
is that I write this with the full knowledge that
it's me who might get the knock on my door
from the police to ask me about this very tweet,
which I find which they find concerning right absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Joe Rogan, God bless him, has joined me in railing
against the censorship of opinion in Britain. They are so
terrified of their Muslim population and so British in that,
you know, we're always very polite and do not wish
to give offense that people can't express legitimate concern about
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the rise of a Islamism and b anti Semitism, anti Christianism,
rape of young girls, whatever. You can't bring those concerns
out publicly and it is horrifying. Well, how about the
fact that that the government would capitulate to that and
enable that as that writer was just describing, is I mean,
(04:05):
that is an unbelievable it's a really scary betrayal.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Well, how about he's sitting in the synagogue, guy next
to him says, I feel like Jews in London we
got about ten more years, and then the attack happens
at a different synagogue, and he says every Jewish person
he knows talks openly about having to leave Great Britain.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, that's unbelievable. Yeah wow.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And then you combine that with the fact that by
saying that out loud, you might get a knock on
your door and end up in jail because there's no
free speech around this issue.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's too inflammatory. Yeah, I mean, for the millionth time,
Islam is for many people a personal faith, like being
a Lutheran. It is also, for hundreds of millions of
people around the world, a religious system, a political system,
an economic system, and one that will be expanded even
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if it's over the dead bodies of those who resist.
There are hundreds of millions of people who believe that
around the world. It's undeniable. And the problem is, especially
for good, decent, patriotic Muslim Americans or Brits, the problem
is the second group masquerades is the first and tries
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to convince you, oh, oh, hey, hey, we're just trying
to practice our faith, and if you express concern about
rape gangs in Manchester or whatever, you're an Islamophobe, a
term I never ever use. And they get people to
remain silent for fear of being branded bigots. And that's
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a specific strategy by the we'll call them the bad guys.
Oh I'm sorry. One more thing. There's a saying I
just became aware of fairly recently. But the idea is
I will demand freedom from you because those are your values.
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When I have power, I will deny freedom to you
because those are my values and their values are out
there in the open if you look for them. But
it's it's a difficult wrestling match. I'll admit that. Yeah,
i'd say so.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
A bunch of things we got to talk about over
the final couple hours of the show today, But I
like this one. Cracker Barrel has ended their partnership with
the consulting firm behind the logo change after intense backlash.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Not a surprise.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Hey, I think we're not going to renew your contract
because you came up with this idea that had everybody
in the entire freaking country talking about us in a
negative way every day for like a week and everything
was fine.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So clean out your death. Everybody hated your ideas. Everybody
you know who hated them the most are core customers.
So with you, the people who love us most were
the most upset. So they've gotten rid of their PR firm.
Oh and then the PR firm, how are they going
(07:23):
to pitch themselves with somebody else? Yeah, we came up.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
With the whole taking Uncle Harold off the Cracker Barrel
or logo or whatever that was.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
No, you gotta change your name and just try to
reinvent yourself or something. Lie just lie. Oh No, that
wasn't us. So this is about a snippet length that
I thought y'all would enjoy. It's it's almost a little game.
I'm gonna read you something and then there's gonna be
like a dot dot dot and you're gonna fill in
the blank, and the blank's like a sentence. Okay, here
(07:53):
we go. Hmm. It's about the fact that the first
Friday each month, economists and investors and policymakers usually are
studying the latest government jobs report, but not today because
of the shutdown. Means the Bureau Labor Statistics is in
issuing reports, sending anyone eager to learn more about the
recently sluggish job market scrambling for alternatives. Nothing entirely fits
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the bill, but a proliferation of alternatives that stats are
helping to fill the gaps. There's Payroll Processor ADP, which
uses data for more than twenty six million workers at
ADP customer firms to gauge employments. Job Posting Site indeed
produces an alternative to the BLS's Jobs Opening Report, and
newcomer Revellio Labs uses figures from networking platforms to get
(08:38):
readings on measures including employment, salaries, hiring, an attrition, and
if you combine that, you get really really accurate data.
So dot dot dot big Foot, Why the how are
we spending zillions of dollars to have the government do it?
Especially because the government's methodology is to send out these
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surveys that we've been talking about that back in the
day they got really good compliance, but now only a
small percentage of people companies send them back, and those
that do are frequently, you know, a month and a
half late, which is why there's always those giant revisions. Well,
how about we just stop.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It's like I said the other day, if the best
thing you got to scare me about the government shut
down is the numbers not coming out today, all right, Well,
I guess it's not as big a deal as I thought.
I mean, it's even a smaller deal than I thought.
If that's your best scare me sort of story, woo.
So you'll either use this number that Joe just described,
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or you'll wait like three days and get the number.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Whooped, de crap. How about I go to any college
or university you name, find a grad student in a
stats program, and say, hey, can you take these four
measures and like come up with a five number? That
people can understand. For how the job market's doing, it'd say, yeah,
give me three days and we would have it the
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private sector. It'd be fine.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
It doesn't look like the shutdown's going to end today.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Don't care. I don't care either, And they're not going
to vote over the weekend, which means or two, I
don't care.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
It's going to ruin my news flow because the mainstream
news will conte Can you continue to treat this like
it's nine to eleven or something and then Monday they'll
vote again. So big flippin' deal. Like I said, we
got a lot more on the ways to hear.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Sean Diddy Combs is apologizing for his actions in a
letter to the judge, Combs saying he quote takes full
responsibility and accountability for his actions, adding he's sorry for
the hurt and pain he caused. Combs's attorney pushing for
a fourteen month sentence or time serve prosecutors requesting more
than eleven years. The judge will allow one of Colmbs's
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accusers to deliver a victim impact statement at the sentencing, apologizing.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
For his actions and showing taking full response. Sorry about that,
I don't know what I was thinking. With the whole
drugging and raping for years, I just I lost my head,
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And the beating, so many beatings. What was I thinking? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I take full responsibility for the stuff that is on
video of me doing yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Something tells me you're about to.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Oh yeah, no kidding the actual responsibility fourteen months, that
would be a travesty.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So oh yeah, I doubt that's gonna happen. So a
couple of tales of blue cities, some of the pearls
of the West Coast. First of all, Portland, briefly great
writing in the New York Times, I'm sorry. The New
York Post inside the Antifa siege on in war zone
Portland videosstance to the National Guard. You see the videos
from last night. I finally did yeah, absolute violent insanity.
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Portland is out of control. Yeah, violent Antifa criminals, writes
the Post, have laid siege to the Ice Detention Center
in Portland, Oregon, for over one hundred days. Every night,
the encampment of wacos last loud music, engage in anti
government chants over loud speakers and megaphones, violently clashed with
law enforcement officers. Rever breaks around the neighborhood, and the
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word is the local cops have been told don't help
the Feds. They're on their own. That's right, And you know,
we can go big on the serious aspect of this
another time, but I thought this was really interesting. They
talk about Antifa and defining Antifa and nailing down who's
in Antifa. They're intentionally decentralized, and they carry burner phones.
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They have subgroups and stuff like like revolutionary groups have
for years and years and years. Read Witness by Witter
ker Chambers Witness. That was the name of it, right anyway,
most have no traceable online presence, carry burner phones, et cetera. Currently,
they occupy a city block and are reported to have
set up a safe house on Lowell Street in Portland
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for anyone in doubt. One person who's been around the
Antifa camp by the Ice facility explained to quote, most
of them are on a lot of medication. They get
very violent. It's crazy how violent it gets, especially at night.
As soon as it gets dark. They feel like they
can get away with breaking the laws world country at night.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
You know what makes them think that getting away with
violating the law for years.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
But they talk about how a lot of it is
illegal immigration, activist Hispanic types, but a lot of like
angry just post adolescent adderall addicted, you know, quirky white
kids from the suburbs decided to become brave revolutionaries. That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Did you see that Apple took the ice Tracker app
out of the store.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Oh, they took it off, which they don't usually cooperate
with like law enforcement stuff, which I admire about Apple,
but the government asked them to take that down because
people were using the app and it had one point
one million downloads. This app to where you know, if
you saw ice on your street, corner or whatever, you
could put it on the app to let people know
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where they were. And obviously the argument from the Trump
White House was this was putting ice officers in danger
and et cetera, and Apple agreed to take it out
of the store. Well, the Rose city of Oregon is
of Portland, Reather has become the Antifa city, So let's
move on to San Francisco. I thought this was interesting
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and it really illustrates the difference between liberty and license,
which license is a word that like political science people
use and fancy writers in a way that nobody else uses.
The word liberty means you can do what you want
as long as you don't hurt other people or violate
the norms society or the law or whatever. License means
you can do whatever the f you want and damn
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the consequences. The title of this is America's most dog
friendly city has had enough and they we have a
lot of examples.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Rose loves dogs. The violinists grew up with sled dogs
in Alaska. She stops to pet dogs on the street.
She had to raid her love on a scale of
one to ten, it would be a ten. But Rose
twenty nine is start thinking maybe San Francisco is two
dog friendly. Well. She and a friend were having coffee
at Alamo Square Park, a lovely spot. The pair were
approached by five different off leash dogs in an area
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that required dogs to be leashed. The final visitor, a
golden retriever, center over the edge quote. It literally launched
itself at my pastry, cut its mouth all over it,
and covered it with drool. The dog's owner saw the
whole thing and just kept walking. Oh God, you gotta
be kidding.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No, you're not even a sorry about that, or I'll
buy you another one that's weak.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Virginia may be for lovers, but San Francisco is for
dog lovers. Sprawling green spaces, treats behind every shop counter,
and beaches where canines can run and splash in the surf.
But dog lovers, dog haters, and the dog neutral are
finding themselves in an uncomfortable alliance against a contingent they
say is exploiting the city's tolerance. This is the life thing.
I'm just so annoyed.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I've always been annoyed by people who think their dogs
are in control enough, and then they aren't. Obviously very
few dogs are. And then they just stand there and say, Puffy, Puffy,
stop it, Puffy, stop it right now, as their dog
does whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The help wants. You read the writer's mind, pause her up.
On the counters and coffee shops, no one flinches croissant's
being stolen out of the hands of hungry diners by
hungry or black labs. The aisles of Target and Trader
Joe's are full of service animals in quotes that can't
seem to recall much, if any, of their trading had
some good sarcasm, and they quote a bunch of dog lovers.
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It's like you got dogs crapping everywhere, eating food off
the table at restaurants. This is insane. It is insane.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Wow, San Francisco has turned a corner. No more street people,
at least around the nice stores, and can do something
about the dogs everywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Let's go in the right direction. It's like the voters
of San Francisco have finally found the courage to say
there's such a thing as too.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Much Yeah, okay, which is good to know. Which is
good to know for all the other cities that need
to come to the same realization.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Armstrong and Getty, is this hacking you as a communist?
Are you? No?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I'm a democratic socialist. That means I believe in dignity
for all people.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I made more than that. Idiots, I think you're not
a communist. I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
No, I'm not a communist, and I think you know
a lot of New Yorkers have asked me, what does
it mean that you're a democratic socials? Yes, and I
tell them to think about the words of doctor King
from decades ago. He said, call it democracy or call
it democratic socialism. There has to be a better distribution
of wealth for all of God's children in this country.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, all, yay, yay. We've read the platform of the
Democratic Socialists of America to you. It's open the borders,
abolish capitalism, shut down the military, empty the prisons. He's
a freaking communist.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
He announced yesterday that he will eliminate the gifted student
program in New York public Schio rules, which is a
common move on the left to achieve equity. It's a
common communist thing. You pursue equity by dragging everyone down
to the lowest common denominator, right zor run monadnie.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
All right, there's one of his brilliant supporters there. So
that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Did you read the Douglas Murray piece yesterday about Republicans
be careful what you wish for, No, sir, because there's
a lot of people like I think you and I
have said this. Good elect him, go ahead, give it
a shot. Let him be the face of the Democratic
Party for the next however many years.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Good luck with that. Discredit their policies for another generation
or two.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
And Douglas Murray's thing was, yeah, well he might get
in power and a lot of people follow him. And
the Socialists have always been pretty successful with.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Because even if the policies fail.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Blaming it on well, we didn't go far enough, they
didn't give enough.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Power or money. He said, that's the whole socialist thing.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
The only way it still exists is people saying, well,
it hasn't been tried properly, because every place that's been tried,
it's failed and usually led to deaths of tens of
millions of people. But you get to say, well, it
just hasn't been tried properly. He gets in office and
runs that, well, we just haven't been able to do
it all the way and could win a couple elections
in our own.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
And do some serious damage. Yikes, yikes. So it's beyond
question there's a war for the soul of the Democratic
Party going on right now. And while there's part of
me that wants them to go ahead and be the
party of Mumdanni in AOC, I mean, to whatever extent
they get power, it ruins people's lives. Think of all
the super bright little kids in New York City who
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would be part of that gifted program, but they don't
have rich parents, they can't really afford private schools. They're
depending on the government schools to stimulate them, give them
advanced math, science classes, the STEM stuff we're always hearing about. Well,
m Donnie's going to take all of that away, and
you can't do a redo with that generation of kids anyway.
Having said that, the clear voice on the other side
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of the Democratic Party is increasingly not Dopey cohn Man,
Gavin Newsom, but Ram Emmanuel, who published an opinion piece
in the Journal that I reference but didn't share with you.
Democrats need an education reset, and I tell you what
America would be better if his voice becomes the dominant
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voice in democratic politics. Never mind you know his sins
of the past or whether he wins or loses. But
he opens with describing that data that was released in
September that we talked about. He said it should have
lit Washington a blade. The National report Card is exactly
which tracks education results across the country, reveals to student
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performance and is falling in math reading scores below where
they were in nineteen ninety two, as best as I
can tell. He writes, neither the President nor the National Governors'
Association is treated this like the crisis it is. We
should be as angry about the silence as we are
about the scores. Actually, the Trump administration has talked about it,
but the governor's part, well, anyway, his point is few
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things are more important than ensuring every American student can
read by third grade and do basic math by eighth.
Then he takes a stupid shot. Republicans would rather privatize
than fix our public education system. Well, that's because Ron,
we don't think it's fixable, then he says. And Democrats
must realize that if money alone could solve the problem,
every American student would be a National Merit scholar. We've
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written too many blank checks, particularly following COVID, without ensuring
results or accountability for the investment. We've spent the past
five years debating pronouns without noticing that too many students
can't tell you what a pronoun is. That's a good line,
and the US has been more focused on whether a
school is named for Abraham Lincoln then whether students can
tell you why he is an American giant. We've become
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so obsessed with bathroom access that we've ignored classroom excellence.
America has lost the plot. Democrats need to refocus on
the fundamentals in the elementary years, when it comes to
high school. We need to be pursuing fundamental reforms. He
is one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I wonder how much blowback he's been getting privately, or
I'll bet that's the other way more. He doesn't care
about the blowback. I guarantee you, I'll bet more. He's
getting big money people who are saying, yes, you need
to run. You can count on me. I will be
a joint. Then he brags about the Chicago schools. Oh, oh,
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here you go. This is important, he says.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
For decades, when pollsters asked voters which party they trusted
more on education, Democrats maintained on average of fourteen point advantage.
More recently that gap closed than flipped to favor Republicans.
That's in part because we made the grave error of
refusing to reopen schools during the pandemic, even when the
evidence suggested it was safe.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Oh my god, Oh my god. I would vote for
him over any other Democrat.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, and then you know he makes the
point that you missed a chance with those kids.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You cannot make that up. God, that is such a
crime against humanity, It really is. Oh my god. I
was just I just had a little vision of him
on the debate stage with Gavin Newsom, who was captain
shut down the schools and let Ram just rip him
a new air piece. Oh yes, do it, Gavin, get
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on the stage with Rama Manuel and talk about why
it was important to keep the schools shut down. Oh
my god, anytimes we all fall short sometimes.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And and Kamala as if she won't get as a.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Friend, I'm not your friend. But if I were a friend,
I would say, don't. Don't get on a debate stage
with Rama Manuel. Don't don't, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Here's more. We drove up graduation rates and test scores
by focusing. Oh that's in Chicago. The teachers unions, Brad
disagreed with my approach. That's fine. The results speak for themselves.
That's as close as he gets to really blasting the teachers' unions.
But it's notable. And he talks about how in Chicago
they just returned to fundamentals. He talks about the Mississippi
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miracle and how it's real. How has the Magnolia State
risen from forty ninth to ninth by not only discarding
whole language literacy methods but training teachers to employ the
strategies that define the science of reading, providing for tutors,
summer literacy camps, holding schools accountable for testing results, and
kids who can't read a by the third grader are
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held back. This is classic. You know, I actually believe
he believes this stuff. Why did you?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Because I've been following him for years. He's been saying
the same sort of thing forever.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
But interestingly, just as a guy who studies politics, it
is just absolutely Bill Clinton triangulating. This is a Democrat
bellowing that we got to quit teaching the genderbred person
and pretending these kids are learning. We need to get
the Teachers' Union to back the hell up. We need
to teach fundamentals and phonics right now.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
He's going to be a formidable candidate. Yeah, his biggest
challenge is going to be getting through the Democratic primary.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But oh, the Randy Winingartens of the world, they're polishing
up their weaponry to go after him as quick as
they can.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Can he get enough normal Democrats in a primary to
come out and say we got to turn away from
the AOC trans weirdos.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, I wonder. You know. The good news is,
no matter what happens with rom unless he gets swept
aside and is seen as a joke. It's sad, but
it's true. It's a lot easier for conservative ideas to
catch hold and do the good that they're intended to
do if you get some buy in from moderate Democrats
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and moderate people in the media. Makes it easier. And
so I love hearing Rama Manuel saying things that are
plainly true.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Yeah, and such good news that if he ends up
being the candidate, you know, if the Democrats end up
winning the White House, that it's not a crazy person.
It's not a Kamala Harris, it's not.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
A Joe Biden.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Well, I don't even know what Joe Biden was. Dementia
ridden for one thing.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, he was a puppet being manipulated by his young staffers.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Rama Manuel is not going to raise his hand on
the debate stage with everybody else for free health care
for illegals whatever, free sex changes for criminals in prison.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Right, and all that stuff. Yeah, I imagine a candidate
who actually has principles and ideas on the Democratic side. Again,
I don't love all of them, but man, what an
upgrade from Kamalin Biden.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Good, Like you said the other day, you end up
with Ram Emanuel and JD Vance in a debate. Man,
we have upgraded a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Oh yeah, go on, now you're a simpleton.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Oh man, that is funny. Take a shot at it,
just to do what you can. One thing I want
to mention. Do I have time to mention it here?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I don't know? Do I want to? Probably? Does anybody
really know what time it is? I think I've given up? Wow,
somebody marked the calendar. Jack gave up October just on
the time end date on the politics conversations. I just
had a bunch of notes and I thought I can't
talk about anymore. It's Friday. I heard that I was listening.
(27:34):
Oh you know, I'm sorry. One more note on that
San Francisco dog story that I found really interesting than
we were talking about last segment. If you missed it,
subscribe to the podcast Armstrong and Getting on the Band.
Is a bunch of people say that not very long ago,
if a dog was misbehaving, the dog owners around and say,
(27:55):
hey man, that's not cool. You know, if we're going
to have dogs here, we've got to blah blah blah.
But they said COVID just any sense of social cohesion
in the very very blue San Francisco that shut down
like crazy and etcetera. Therea, nobody says anything to anybody anymore.
Now people just turn their back and say, I'm not
getting involved. That's surprising.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
You wouldn't think among adults that a couple of years
of shutdown would alter your behavior that much, but apparently did.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah. I wish I had the expertise or wisdom to
explain why that would be. It makes sense, but I
don't know why. People just got disconnected from each other. Yeah,
we forgot how to be people. Trump made a hell
of a statement. He's a drawn a line in the
sand on the whole Hamas deal six o'clock East Coast time,
(28:42):
Sunday evening, yes or no Hamas or Israel's going to
release all hell with Trump's backing. That is what he
said today, And we got a little more on that,
among other things on the.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Way I forget this.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
In a new video, the head of Insane said, I
swear we do not listen to your microphones. I want
to believe them, but I just asked someone if Instagram
is listening to me, and that video popped up. Apparently
Instagram doesn't listen to people it's for their microphones. Meanwhile,
Apple and Amazon are like, just keep your head down,
don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It's just impossible to believe that the that if a
company can listen to you or watch you, that they're not.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well right and they agree to terms thing that we
all click on. It says, by the way, we'll lie
to you constantly about whether we're monitoring you, and you're
gonna take it right.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Okay, updates on a couple of the wars that we've
got skin in the game in. First of all this
you know the big peace proposal that Trump put forward
that everyone from Fox to NPR liked, but Hamas needs
to sign on to. Well, he has drawn a deadline
six o'clock DC times Sunday, yes or no. And he
(30:03):
said in his long truth social post today, more than
twenty five thousand Hamas soldiers have already been killed. Most
of the rest are surrounded and militarily trapped, just waiting
for me to give the word go for their lives
to be quickly extinguished. As for the rest, we know
where you are, who you are, and you'll be hunted
down and killed. Well, that's pretty unequivocal. It's not exactly
(30:27):
Obama esque high flutant rhetoric. Release the hostages, all of
them now, including the bodies of those that are dead,
and agreement must be reached by six o'clock. Every country
is signed on. If this last chance agreement is not reached,
all hell like no one has ever seen before will
break out against Hamas. There will be piece in them
at least one way or the other. Trump said, So
(30:49):
that's quite a thing, right right. And what's really interesting,
I heard a great podcast. The host was talking to
an Israeli leader, not currently in charge, but and this
person has dealt a lot with the governments around the
region and all of the big ones, you know, NBS,
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, even cutter, are like, Hey, if
(31:12):
we could just kind of end this whole thing one
way or the other, that would be fine. Then we
can do business.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
We just can't deal with you while it's a flame.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
So on the other wall or that we have stake in.
We mentioned earlier this week that Trump apparently is signed
off on Tomahawk missiles, which have an incredible range more
than twelve hundred miles way beyond Moscow and into parts
of Russia to be able to hit their energy sources,
(31:42):
and that seems to be the plan for NATO, and
the United States is backing that. The Telegraph reporting yesterday
that oil production has been cut thirty seven percent in
the last month, with Ukraine going after Russia's oil already already. Yeah,
so all that leads to this. This is in the
(32:02):
New York Times. President Putin yesterday said that Russia had
no plans to invade NATO countries. Amid alarm over confirmed
and suspected Russian drone incursions from Poland to Denmark in
recent weeks. After the airspace violation, some European leaders have
said that the continent has entered its most perilous moment
in many decades.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
NATO nations are moving to beef up.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Aerial defenses that they believe Russia has been probing for weaknesses.
Speaking at an international relations conference in Russia, Putin lashed
out at European elites for whipping up the hysteria about
the Russian threat. It looks as if a war with
Russians is just around the corner. They keep repeating this
mantra over and over again, he said in televised remarks
(32:45):
that is classic Putin. That's the sort of thing he
did leading up to invading Ukraine. Sure, they're calling for this,
they're creating the hysteria because he's assembling the troops and
doing all the things, and then he ends up doing
the thing that they were being hysterical about. It turns
out it wasn't hysteria. It was proper caution. But I
thought it was interesting. Mark Hauprin's analysis of that from
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the New York Times was the story of NATO pretending
Russia hasn't triggered articles four and five remains the biggest
story on the planet besides everything China. I thought that
was interesting. So Article four is the any country and
NATO can call a meeting of everyone on which you'd
have thought would happen around all of this multiple times,
(33:29):
and then article five being if one is attacked, all
are attacked, because like three or four different nations have
had what you could definitely describe as an attack if
you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
By Russia, Yeah, yeah, wow, definitely is on the edge
of something that could spiral a lot of control, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well, if his oil has been decimated that much, and
Trump is talking about go ahead, go after the oil infrastructure,
the energy infrastructure, and we're given the missiles they hit it.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Yeah, there isn't isn't going to be no pushback on that, right,
although what form the pushback takes is the critical question.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Course, you know, as Stalinoffen said, take your bayonet and
test where you find a mush, push where you find
steel withdraw and you know, I know some of you
in good conscience think, look, it's Ukraine, doesn't matter to
the US. You know, it's Europe. We can't worry about it.
We're going to ask Layton call it because World War three,
(34:32):
And there are plenty of people who and we can
still be friends, who think you let Putin get away
with it, you guarantee more horror to come.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, it's going to get more exciting though the next
couple of weeks, unless you think Putin's gonna say, well,
I guess they're serious about this.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I better back off. He's running out of oil and
men and maybe political support. As you've often said, if
something can't go on forever, it will end.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Right anyway, those are two exciting stories to follow for
the entire weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, it was more fun talking about dogs stealing people's donuts.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
A deadly attack branded my authorities as terror at a
synagogue in the UK on the holiest day of the
Jewish year.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Jan Kapor, you know, and I just I don't feel safe.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
This morning, a man rammed a car into worshippers outside,
then got out and stabbed more with a knife. He
tried to get inside the sending On, but the door
was barricaded.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
All those inside were safely contained until police were able
to confirm that it was safe to leave the premises.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
So when we start the show every single day, we
maybe you don't hear the beginning of the show where
I say today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
and then Joe names somebody who's our manager for the day,
usually a person or a vent or idea, and today.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It was anti Semitism worldwide.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I came across this post on Twitter from a guy
named Ashley Reinsburg, who I don't know. He writes for Substack.
He's an investigative officer journalist sort of writer person, and
he posted this. I thought it was really good yesterday afternoon.
This morning, as I sat in a London synagogue for
(01:30):
Yam Kapur services, a friend sitting next to me said,
I reckon Jews of about ten years left in this country.
I said, I disagreed in that it's not as bad
as it seems. About twenty minutes later, the service was
suddenly interrupted. A synagogue security official went up to the
podium and said there had been a major incident in
the north and they were locking down this synagogue. There
(01:50):
was a buzz of fear. Children's services were canceled. We
were not to leave. My friend looked at me and said,
you see what I mean. Ten years in twenty twenty five,
two Jews were murdered for the crime of praying in
a synagogue in Britain. Truth is, I don't know a
single Jewish family in London. Now this is the important part,
because you got a liver to know this. Truth is,
I don't know a single Jewish family in London who
(02:10):
doesn't speak openly and often about leaving. These are died
in the woold Brits who love this country, but they
are watching the England they know disintegrate around them. British
Jews have lost the right to security and safety. The
response by authorities is to attack. To this attack is
to pledge more security at Jewish schools and synagogues. They're
just restating the problem. Why should Jewish kids go to
(02:33):
a school in London or Manchester under a flanks of
security guards. Why do synagogues need a rotation of specially
trained guards at every event? Jewish parents who pass bisecular
and non Jewish parochial schools might gaze and wonder, perhaps
envy at the sight of children entering their schools without
six or seven men in stab vests standing guard. And
(02:55):
Keir Starmer comes out with his valiant statement, we will
defeat anti semit they will tolerate it ally with it
reward its most virulent opponents. And the most insane part
is that I write this with the full knowledge that
it's me who might get the knock on my door
from the police to ask me about this very tweet,
which I find which they find concerning right absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Joe Rogan, God bless him, has joined me in railing
against the censorship of opinion in Britain. They are so
terrified of their Muslim population and so British in that,
you know, we're always very polite and do not wish
to give offense that people can't express legitimate concern about
(03:44):
the rise of a Islamism and b anti Semitism, anti Christianism,
rape of young girls, whatever. You can't bring those concerns
out publicly and it is horrifying. Well, how about the
fact that that the government would capitulate to that and
enable that as that writer was just describing, is I mean,
(04:05):
that is an unbelievable it's a really scary betrayal.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Well, how about he's sitting in the synagogue, guy next
to him says, I feel like Jews in London we
got about ten more years, and then the attack happens
at a different synagogue, and he says every Jewish person
he knows talks openly about having to leave Great Britain.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, that's unbelievable. Yeah wow.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And then you combine that with the fact that by
saying that out loud, you might get a knock on
your door and end up in jail because there's no
free speech around this issue.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's too inflammatory. Yeah, I mean, for the millionth time,
Islam is for many people a personal faith, like being
a Lutheran. It is also, for hundreds of millions of
people around the world, a religious system, a political system,
an economic system, and one that will be expanded even
(05:08):
if it's over the dead bodies of those who resist.
There are hundreds of millions of people who believe that
around the world. It's undeniable. And the problem is, especially
for good, decent, patriotic Muslim Americans or Brits, the problem
is the second group masquerades is the first and tries
(05:29):
to convince you, oh, oh, hey, hey, we're just trying
to practice our faith, and if you express concern about
rape gangs in Manchester or whatever, you're an Islamophobe, a
term I never ever use. And they get people to
remain silent for fear of being branded bigots. And that's
(05:50):
a specific strategy by the we'll call them the bad guys.
Oh I'm sorry. One more thing. There's a saying I
just became aware of fairly recently. But the idea is
I will demand freedom from you because those are your values.
(06:13):
When I have power, I will deny freedom to you
because those are my values and their values are out
there in the open if you look for them. But
it's it's a difficult wrestling match. I'll admit that. Yeah,
i'd say so.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
A bunch of things we got to talk about over
the final couple hours of the show today, But I
like this one. Cracker Barrel has ended their partnership with
the consulting firm behind the logo change after intense backlash.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Not a surprise.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Hey, I think we're not going to renew your contract
because you came up with this idea that had everybody
in the entire freaking country talking about us in a
negative way every day for like a week and everything
was fine.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So clean out your death. Everybody hated your ideas. Everybody
you know who hated them the most are core customers.
So with you, the people who love us most were
the most upset. So they've gotten rid of their PR firm.
Oh and then the PR firm, how are they going
(07:23):
to pitch themselves with somebody else? Yeah, we came up.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
With the whole taking Uncle Harold off the Cracker Barrel
or logo or whatever that was.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
No, you gotta change your name and just try to
reinvent yourself or something. Lie just lie. Oh No, that
wasn't us. So this is about a snippet length that
I thought y'all would enjoy. It's it's almost a little game.
I'm gonna read you something and then there's gonna be
like a dot dot dot and you're gonna fill in
the blank, and the blank's like a sentence. Okay, here
(07:53):
we go. Hmm. It's about the fact that the first
Friday each month, economists and investors and policymakers usually are
studying the latest government jobs report, but not today because
of the shutdown. Means the Bureau Labor Statistics is in
issuing reports, sending anyone eager to learn more about the
recently sluggish job market scrambling for alternatives. Nothing entirely fits
(08:17):
the bill, but a proliferation of alternatives that stats are
helping to fill the gaps. There's Payroll Processor ADP, which
uses data for more than twenty six million workers at
ADP customer firms to gauge employments. Job Posting Site indeed
produces an alternative to the BLS's Jobs Opening Report, and
newcomer Revellio Labs uses figures from networking platforms to get
(08:38):
readings on measures including employment, salaries, hiring, an attrition, and
if you combine that, you get really really accurate data.
So dot dot dot big Foot, Why the how are
we spending zillions of dollars to have the government do it?
Especially because the government's methodology is to send out these
(09:01):
surveys that we've been talking about that back in the
day they got really good compliance, but now only a
small percentage of people companies send them back, and those
that do are frequently, you know, a month and a
half late, which is why there's always those giant revisions. Well,
how about we just stop.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It's like I said the other day, if the best
thing you got to scare me about the government shut
down is the numbers not coming out today, all right, Well,
I guess it's not as big a deal as I thought.
I mean, it's even a smaller deal than I thought.
If that's your best scare me sort of story, woo.
So you'll either use this number that Joe just described,
(09:42):
or you'll wait like three days and get the number.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Whooped, de crap. How about I go to any college
or university you name, find a grad student in a
stats program, and say, hey, can you take these four
measures and like come up with a five number? That
people can understand. For how the job market's doing, it'd say, yeah,
give me three days and we would have it the
(10:07):
private sector. It'd be fine.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
It doesn't look like the shutdown's going to end today.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Don't care. I don't care either, And they're not going
to vote over the weekend, which means or two, I
don't care.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
It's going to ruin my news flow because the mainstream
news will conte Can you continue to treat this like
it's nine to eleven or something and then Monday they'll
vote again. So big flippin' deal. Like I said, we
got a lot more on the ways to hear.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Sean Diddy Combs is apologizing for his actions in a
letter to the judge, Combs saying he quote takes full
responsibility and accountability for his actions, adding he's sorry for
the hurt and pain he caused. Combs's attorney pushing for
a fourteen month sentence or time serve prosecutors requesting more
than eleven years. The judge will allow one of Colmbs's
(10:54):
accusers to deliver a victim impact statement at the sentencing, apologizing.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
For his actions and showing taking full response. Sorry about that,
I don't know what I was thinking. With the whole
drugging and raping for years, I just I lost my head,
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And the beating, so many beatings. What was I thinking? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I take full responsibility for the stuff that is on
video of me doing yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Something tells me you're about to.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Oh yeah, no kidding the actual responsibility fourteen months, that
would be a travesty.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So oh yeah, I doubt that's gonna happen. So a
couple of tales of blue cities, some of the pearls
of the West Coast. First of all, Portland, briefly great
writing in the New York Times, I'm sorry. The New
York Post inside the Antifa siege on in war zone
Portland videosstance to the National Guard. You see the videos
from last night. I finally did yeah, absolute violent insanity.
(11:50):
Portland is out of control. Yeah, violent Antifa criminals, writes
the Post, have laid siege to the Ice Detention Center
in Portland, Oregon, for over one hundred days. Every night,
the encampment of wacos last loud music, engage in anti
government chants over loud speakers and megaphones, violently clashed with
law enforcement officers. Rever breaks around the neighborhood, and the
(12:12):
word is the local cops have been told don't help
the Feds. They're on their own. That's right, And you know,
we can go big on the serious aspect of this
another time, but I thought this was really interesting. They
talk about Antifa and defining Antifa and nailing down who's
in Antifa. They're intentionally decentralized, and they carry burner phones.
(12:36):
They have subgroups and stuff like like revolutionary groups have
for years and years and years. Read Witness by Witter
ker Chambers Witness. That was the name of it, right anyway,
most have no traceable online presence, carry burner phones, et cetera. Currently,
they occupy a city block and are reported to have
set up a safe house on Lowell Street in Portland
(12:56):
for anyone in doubt. One person who's been around the
Antifa camp by the Ice facility explained to quote, most
of them are on a lot of medication. They get
very violent. It's crazy how violent it gets, especially at night.
As soon as it gets dark. They feel like they
can get away with breaking the laws world country at night.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
You know what makes them think that getting away with
violating the law for years.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
But they talk about how a lot of it is
illegal immigration, activist Hispanic types, but a lot of like
angry just post adolescent adderall addicted, you know, quirky white
kids from the suburbs decided to become brave revolutionaries. That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Did you see that Apple took the ice Tracker app
out of the store.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Oh, they took it off, which they don't usually cooperate
with like law enforcement stuff, which I admire about Apple,
but the government asked them to take that down because
people were using the app and it had one point
one million downloads. This app to where you know, if
you saw ice on your street, corner or whatever, you
could put it on the app to let people know
(14:09):
where they were. And obviously the argument from the Trump
White House was this was putting ice officers in danger
and et cetera, and Apple agreed to take it out
of the store. Well, the Rose city of Oregon is
of Portland, Reather has become the Antifa city, So let's
move on to San Francisco. I thought this was interesting
(14:31):
and it really illustrates the difference between liberty and license,
which license is a word that like political science people
use and fancy writers in a way that nobody else uses.
The word liberty means you can do what you want
as long as you don't hurt other people or violate
the norms society or the law or whatever. License means
you can do whatever the f you want and damn
(14:52):
the consequences. The title of this is America's most dog
friendly city has had enough and they we have a
lot of examples.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Rose loves dogs. The violinists grew up with sled dogs
in Alaska. She stops to pet dogs on the street.
She had to raid her love on a scale of
one to ten, it would be a ten. But Rose
twenty nine is start thinking maybe San Francisco is two
dog friendly. Well. She and a friend were having coffee
at Alamo Square Park, a lovely spot. The pair were
approached by five different off leash dogs in an area
(15:22):
that required dogs to be leashed. The final visitor, a
golden retriever, center over the edge quote. It literally launched
itself at my pastry, cut its mouth all over it,
and covered it with drool. The dog's owner saw the
whole thing and just kept walking. Oh God, you gotta
be kidding.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No, you're not even a sorry about that, or I'll
buy you another one that's weak.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Virginia may be for lovers, but San Francisco is for
dog lovers. Sprawling green spaces, treats behind every shop counter,
and beaches where canines can run and splash in the surf.
But dog lovers, dog haters, and the dog neutral are
finding themselves in an uncomfortable alliance against a contingent they
say is exploiting the city's tolerance. This is the life thing.
I'm just so annoyed.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I've always been annoyed by people who think their dogs
are in control enough, and then they aren't. Obviously very
few dogs are. And then they just stand there and say, Puffy, Puffy,
stop it, Puffy, stop it right now, as their dog
does whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The help wants. You read the writer's mind, pause her up.
On the counters and coffee shops, no one flinches croissant's
being stolen out of the hands of hungry diners by
hungry or black labs. The aisles of Target and Trader
Joe's are full of service animals in quotes that can't
seem to recall much, if any, of their trading had
some good sarcasm, and they quote a bunch of dog lovers.
(16:39):
It's like you got dogs crapping everywhere, eating food off
the table at restaurants. This is insane. It is insane.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Wow, San Francisco has turned a corner. No more street people,
at least around the nice stores, and can do something
about the dogs everywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Let's go in the right direction. It's like the voters
of San Francisco have finally found the courage to say
there's such a thing as too.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Much Yeah, okay, which is good to know. Which is
good to know for all the other cities that need
to come to the same realization.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Armstrong and Getty, is this hacking you as a communist?
Are you? No?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
I'm a democratic socialist. That means I believe in dignity
for all people.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I made more than that. Idiots, I think you're not
a communist. I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
No, I'm not a communist, and I think you know
a lot of New Yorkers have asked me, what does
it mean that you're a democratic socials? Yes, and I
tell them to think about the words of doctor King
from decades ago. He said, call it democracy or call
it democratic socialism. There has to be a better distribution
of wealth for all of God's children in this country.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, all, yay, yay. We've read the platform of the
Democratic Socialists of America to you. It's open the borders,
abolish capitalism, shut down the military, empty the prisons. He's
a freaking communist.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
He announced yesterday that he will eliminate the gifted student
program in New York public Schio rules, which is a
common move on the left to achieve equity. It's a
common communist thing. You pursue equity by dragging everyone down
to the lowest common denominator, right zor run monadnie.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
All right, there's one of his brilliant supporters there. So
that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Did you read the Douglas Murray piece yesterday about Republicans
be careful what you wish for, No, sir, because there's
a lot of people like I think you and I
have said this. Good elect him, go ahead, give it
a shot. Let him be the face of the Democratic
Party for the next however many years.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Good luck with that. Discredit their policies for another generation
or two.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
And Douglas Murray's thing was, yeah, well he might get
in power and a lot of people follow him. And
the Socialists have always been pretty successful with.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Because even if the policies fail.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Blaming it on well, we didn't go far enough, they
didn't give enough.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Power or money. He said, that's the whole socialist thing.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
The only way it still exists is people saying, well,
it hasn't been tried properly, because every place that's been tried,
it's failed and usually led to deaths of tens of
millions of people. But you get to say, well, it
just hasn't been tried properly. He gets in office and
runs that, well, we just haven't been able to do
it all the way and could win a couple elections
in our own.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
And do some serious damage. Yikes, yikes. So it's beyond
question there's a war for the soul of the Democratic
Party going on right now. And while there's part of
me that wants them to go ahead and be the
party of Mumdanni in AOC, I mean, to whatever extent
they get power, it ruins people's lives. Think of all
the super bright little kids in New York City who
(19:45):
would be part of that gifted program, but they don't
have rich parents, they can't really afford private schools. They're
depending on the government schools to stimulate them, give them
advanced math, science classes, the STEM stuff we're always hearing about. Well,
m Donnie's going to take all of that away, and
you can't do a redo with that generation of kids anyway.
Having said that, the clear voice on the other side
(20:06):
of the Democratic Party is increasingly not Dopey cohn Man,
Gavin Newsom, but Ram Emmanuel, who published an opinion piece
in the Journal that I reference but didn't share with you.
Democrats need an education reset, and I tell you what
America would be better if his voice becomes the dominant
(20:30):
voice in democratic politics. Never mind you know his sins
of the past or whether he wins or loses. But
he opens with describing that data that was released in
September that we talked about. He said it should have
lit Washington a blade. The National report Card is exactly
which tracks education results across the country, reveals to student
(20:50):
performance and is falling in math reading scores below where
they were in nineteen ninety two, as best as I
can tell. He writes, neither the President nor the National Governors'
Association is treated this like the crisis it is. We
should be as angry about the silence as we are
about the scores. Actually, the Trump administration has talked about it,
but the governor's part, well, anyway, his point is few
(21:12):
things are more important than ensuring every American student can
read by third grade and do basic math by eighth.
Then he takes a stupid shot. Republicans would rather privatize
than fix our public education system. Well, that's because Ron,
we don't think it's fixable, then he says. And Democrats
must realize that if money alone could solve the problem,
every American student would be a National Merit scholar. We've
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written too many blank checks, particularly following COVID, without ensuring
results or accountability for the investment. We've spent the past
five years debating pronouns without noticing that too many students
can't tell you what a pronoun is. That's a good line,
and the US has been more focused on whether a
school is named for Abraham Lincoln then whether students can
tell you why he is an American giant. We've become
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so obsessed with bathroom access that we've ignored classroom excellence.
America has lost the plot. Democrats need to refocus on
the fundamentals in the elementary years, when it comes to
high school. We need to be pursuing fundamental reforms. He
is one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I wonder how much blowback he's been getting privately, or
I'll bet that's the other way more. He doesn't care
about the blowback. I guarantee you, I'll bet more. He's
getting big money people who are saying, yes, you need
to run. You can count on me. I will be
a joint. Then he brags about the Chicago schools. Oh, oh,
(22:31):
here you go. This is important, he says.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
For decades, when pollsters asked voters which party they trusted
more on education, Democrats maintained on average of fourteen point advantage.
More recently that gap closed than flipped to favor Republicans.
That's in part because we made the grave error of
refusing to reopen schools during the pandemic, even when the
evidence suggested it was safe.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Oh my god, Oh my god. I would vote for
him over any other Democrat.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, and then you know he makes the
point that you missed a chance with those kids.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You cannot make that up. God, that is such a
crime against humanity, It really is. Oh my god. I
was just I just had a little vision of him
on the debate stage with Gavin Newsom, who was captain
shut down the schools and let Ram just rip him
a new air piece. Oh yes, do it, Gavin, get
(23:28):
on the stage with Rama Manuel and talk about why
it was important to keep the schools shut down. Oh
my god, anytimes we all fall short sometimes.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And and Kamala as if she won't get as a.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Friend, I'm not your friend. But if I were a friend,
I would say, don't. Don't get on a debate stage
with Rama Manuel. Don't don't, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Here's more. We drove up graduation rates and test scores
by focusing. Oh that's in Chicago. The teachers unions, Brad
disagreed with my approach. That's fine. The results speak for themselves.
That's as close as he gets to really blasting the teachers' unions.
But it's notable. And he talks about how in Chicago
they just returned to fundamentals. He talks about the Mississippi
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miracle and how it's real. How has the Magnolia State
risen from forty ninth to ninth by not only discarding
whole language literacy methods but training teachers to employ the
strategies that define the science of reading, providing for tutors,
summer literacy camps, holding schools accountable for testing results, and
kids who can't read a by the third grader are
(24:35):
held back. This is classic. You know, I actually believe
he believes this stuff. Why did you?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Because I've been following him for years. He's been saying
the same sort of thing forever.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
But interestingly, just as a guy who studies politics, it
is just absolutely Bill Clinton triangulating. This is a Democrat
bellowing that we got to quit teaching the genderbred person
and pretending these kids are learning. We need to get
the Teachers' Union to back the hell up. We need
to teach fundamentals and phonics right now.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
He's going to be a formidable candidate. Yeah, his biggest
challenge is going to be getting through the Democratic primary.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
But oh, the Randy Winingartens of the world, they're polishing
up their weaponry to go after him as quick as
they can.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Can he get enough normal Democrats in a primary to
come out and say we got to turn away from
the AOC trans weirdos.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, I wonder. You know. The good news is,
no matter what happens with rom unless he gets swept
aside and is seen as a joke. It's sad, but
it's true. It's a lot easier for conservative ideas to
catch hold and do the good that they're intended to
do if you get some buy in from moderate Democrats
(25:58):
and moderate people in the media. Makes it easier. And
so I love hearing Rama Manuel saying things that are
plainly true.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Yeah, and such good news that if he ends up
being the candidate, you know, if the Democrats end up
winning the White House, that it's not a crazy person.
It's not a Kamala Harris, it's not.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
A Joe Biden.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Well, I don't even know what Joe Biden was. Dementia
ridden for one thing.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, he was a puppet being manipulated by his young staffers.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Rama Manuel is not going to raise his hand on
the debate stage with everybody else for free health care
for illegals whatever, free sex changes for criminals in prison.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Right, and all that stuff. Yeah, I imagine a candidate
who actually has principles and ideas on the Democratic side. Again,
I don't love all of them, but man, what an
upgrade from Kamalin Biden.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Good, Like you said the other day, you end up
with Ram Emanuel and JD Vance in a debate. Man,
we have upgraded a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Oh yeah, go on, now you're a simpleton.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Oh man, that is funny. Take a shot at it,
just to do what you can. One thing I want
to mention. Do I have time to mention it here?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I don't know? Do I want to? Probably? Does anybody
really know what time it is? I think I've given up? Wow,
somebody marked the calendar. Jack gave up October just on
the time end date on the politics conversations. I just
had a bunch of notes and I thought I can't
talk about anymore. It's Friday. I heard that I was listening.
(27:34):
Oh you know, I'm sorry. One more note on that
San Francisco dog story that I found really interesting than
we were talking about last segment. If you missed it,
subscribe to the podcast Armstrong and Getting on the Band.
Is a bunch of people say that not very long ago,
if a dog was misbehaving, the dog owners around and say,
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hey man, that's not cool. You know, if we're going
to have dogs here, we've got to blah blah blah.
But they said COVID just any sense of social cohesion
in the very very blue San Francisco that shut down
like crazy and etcetera. Therea, nobody says anything to anybody anymore.
Now people just turn their back and say, I'm not
getting involved. That's surprising.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
You wouldn't think among adults that a couple of years
of shutdown would alter your behavior that much, but apparently did.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah. I wish I had the expertise or wisdom to
explain why that would be. It makes sense, but I
don't know why. People just got disconnected from each other. Yeah,
we forgot how to be people. Trump made a hell
of a statement. He's a drawn a line in the
sand on the whole Hamas deal six o'clock East Coast time,
(28:42):
Sunday evening, yes or no Hamas or Israel's going to
release all hell with Trump's backing. That is what he
said today, And we got a little more on that,
among other things on the.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Way I forget this.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
In a new video, the head of Insane said, I
swear we do not listen to your microphones. I want
to believe them, but I just asked someone if Instagram
is listening to me, and that video popped up. Apparently
Instagram doesn't listen to people it's for their microphones. Meanwhile,
Apple and Amazon are like, just keep your head down,
don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It's just impossible to believe that the that if a
company can listen to you or watch you, that they're not.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well right and they agree to terms thing that we
all click on. It says, by the way, we'll lie
to you constantly about whether we're monitoring you, and you're
gonna take it right.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Okay, updates on a couple of the wars that we've
got skin in the game in. First of all this
you know the big peace proposal that Trump put forward
that everyone from Fox to NPR liked, but Hamas needs
to sign on to. Well, he has drawn a deadline
six o'clock DC times Sunday, yes or no. And he
(30:03):
said in his long truth social post today, more than
twenty five thousand Hamas soldiers have already been killed. Most
of the rest are surrounded and militarily trapped, just waiting
for me to give the word go for their lives
to be quickly extinguished. As for the rest, we know
where you are, who you are, and you'll be hunted
down and killed. Well, that's pretty unequivocal. It's not exactly
(30:27):
Obama esque high flutant rhetoric. Release the hostages, all of
them now, including the bodies of those that are dead,
and agreement must be reached by six o'clock. Every country
is signed on. If this last chance agreement is not reached,
all hell like no one has ever seen before will
break out against Hamas. There will be piece in them
at least one way or the other. Trump said, So
(30:49):
that's quite a thing, right right. And what's really interesting,
I heard a great podcast. The host was talking to
an Israeli leader, not currently in charge, but and this
person has dealt a lot with the governments around the
region and all of the big ones, you know, NBS,
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, even cutter, are like, Hey, if
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we could just kind of end this whole thing one
way or the other, that would be fine. Then we
can do business.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
We just can't deal with you while it's a flame.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
So on the other wall or that we have stake in.
We mentioned earlier this week that Trump apparently is signed
off on Tomahawk missiles, which have an incredible range more
than twelve hundred miles way beyond Moscow and into parts
of Russia to be able to hit their energy sources,
(31:42):
and that seems to be the plan for NATO, and
the United States is backing that. The Telegraph reporting yesterday
that oil production has been cut thirty seven percent in
the last month, with Ukraine going after Russia's oil already already. Yeah,
so all that leads to this. This is in the
(32:02):
New York Times. President Putin yesterday said that Russia had
no plans to invade NATO countries. Amid alarm over confirmed
and suspected Russian drone incursions from Poland to Denmark in
recent weeks. After the airspace violation, some European leaders have
said that the continent has entered its most perilous moment
in many decades.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
NATO nations are moving to beef up.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Aerial defenses that they believe Russia has been probing for weaknesses.
Speaking at an international relations conference in Russia, Putin lashed
out at European elites for whipping up the hysteria about
the Russian threat. It looks as if a war with
Russians is just around the corner. They keep repeating this
mantra over and over again, he said in televised remarks
(32:45):
that is classic Putin. That's the sort of thing he
did leading up to invading Ukraine. Sure, they're calling for this,
they're creating the hysteria because he's assembling the troops and
doing all the things, and then he ends up doing
the thing that they were being hysterical about. It turns
out it wasn't hysteria. It was proper caution. But I
thought it was interesting. Mark Hauprin's analysis of that from
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the New York Times was the story of NATO pretending
Russia hasn't triggered articles four and five remains the biggest
story on the planet besides everything China. I thought that
was interesting. So Article four is the any country and
NATO can call a meeting of everyone on which you'd
have thought would happen around all of this multiple times,
(33:29):
and then article five being if one is attacked, all
are attacked, because like three or four different nations have
had what you could definitely describe as an attack if
you wanted to.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
By Russia, Yeah, yeah, wow, definitely is on the edge
of something that could spiral a lot of control, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well, if his oil has been decimated that much, and
Trump is talking about go ahead, go after the oil infrastructure,
the energy infrastructure, and we're given the missiles they hit it.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Yeah, there isn't isn't going to be no pushback on that, right,
although what form the pushback takes is the critical question.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Course, you know, as Stalinoffen said, take your bayonet and
test where you find a mush, push where you find
steel withdraw and you know, I know some of you
in good conscience think, look, it's Ukraine, doesn't matter to
the US. You know, it's Europe. We can't worry about it.
We're going to ask Layton call it because World War three,
(34:32):
And there are plenty of people who and we can
still be friends, who think you let Putin get away
with it, you guarantee more horror to come.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, it's going to get more exciting though the next
couple of weeks, unless you think Putin's gonna say, well,
I guess they're serious about this.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I better back off. He's running out of oil and
men and maybe political support. As you've often said, if
something can't go on forever, it will end.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Right anyway, those are two exciting stories to follow for
the entire weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, it was more fun talking about dogs stealing people's donuts.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
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