July 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The ups and downs of federal worker's lives...
- The incredible tech behind Israel's missile defense system...
- Trump is proving Biden wrong on immigration...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
But the fact that it is so close and they
have to probably call in jd vance again, the House
only getting through with one vote, doesn't it suggest that
Washington really stinks at cutting funding?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It absolutely does.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
And look, this is, as Senator Thune said, nine billion
dollars one tenth of one percent of the federal budget.
This is a rounding error when it comes to Washington
and they're struggling to do it. I mean, how are
they going to fix Social Security? How are they going
to fix Medicare? How are they going to do the
big things? So your your question was absolutely right. It's like,
if this is so hard, then how are they going
to do anything the big cuts?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And what are they going to do in the next decision?
Bill Comminson, Yeah, I saw part of that interview, and
it's the usual that blamed it on the Democrats to
start with, and then le Brett Bear jumped in, Yeah,
but the Republicans control everything and they barely could get
it through. Right, Nobody wants to call out their own party.
It's an excellent point.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, yeah, the headlines the Senate barely, barely barely passed
a bill to cancel less than one tenth one percent
of federals funding, mostly foreign aid programs, and public media.
Public media is getting a lot of attention because it's
you know, a lot of people are into it. It's
not going to go away, by the way, it just
won't be as well funded. They'll have to come up
with different revenue streams. That's fine, so of the rest
(01:40):
of us. But a lot of it's cutting foreign aid.
Excuse me, And I'm in favor of good foreign aid,
just not bad for an aid. So that's fine, and
you got to cut something. But this is this is funny.
This was tangential to that reporting on that. It may
be the most ironic thing I've ever read in my life,
and I like iron happens to be in New York Times, Jack,
(02:02):
you'll love this headline Federal workers emotional roller coaster, fired, rehired,
fired again, And the story thinks it's about how tough
it's been on federal workers, the ups and downs of
late And you know what, honestly, if there's this gal
(02:23):
they profile from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
She had a gig, then she didn't, then she did again,
then she didn't again.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That sucks.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I mean, I wouldn't want to be in that position.
That's not an argument against making government more efficient, though
doesn't come close to being an argument to like blunt
the doge you know, urges but unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
This article.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
In interviews, workers described reaching a stage where they were
ready to move on, only to be frustrated by administrative morass.
They are finding the only thing harder than getting fired
is staying that way and navigating a Kafka esque web
of bureaucratic snaffoos that have left some of them in
surreal employment limbo. Obtaining the termination paperwork necessary to apply
(03:13):
for unemployment benefits in some states has taken months. Some said,
calls and emails to former bosses human resources officials went
unanswered or were redirected in what seemed like an endless loop.
Lapses in healthcare coverage were a major source of stress.
In other words, this article, which is sincerely because it's
(03:34):
The New York Times all about this, is tragic that
these federal workers are being fired. Well, the federal workers
are trying to get the government to do what it's
supposed to do, and it's so big and stupid and
bloated they can't even get the paperwork that says, yeah,
they don't work here anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That to me is incredibly ironic. Yeah, wow, I am.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Therefore, what New York Times Eileen's ollivant who wrote this piece,
I lean bottom line it for me, Therefore, we should
keep a big, bloate a government that sucks so bad
it's very.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Employees can't get a phone call back. What is your point? Right?
I have no optimism that this is going to change
in my lifetime, and I'm not unless we hit bottom
in your lifetime. I'm not real close to dead either,
So I mean, I got quite a few years left.
I still don't think it's going to happen in my
lifetime that we actually deal with this. A couple of things.
(04:32):
I'll do that one second. Since we're on politics, this
is from Josh krash Hour. Who's with? Which organization is
you with? Currently? One of yours? Politico? Whichever one. The
Democratic Party's biggest fundraisers remain to be true blue left wingers.
AOC raised almost six million dollars in the last three
(04:55):
months as she gets more and more presidential buzz from
the super hardcore left, Wow and Bernie Sanders, even though
he has said he's not going to run for president.
He's not even running for reelection as a senator, brought
in more than four and a half million dollars in
the second quarter because people are so into his all
(05:18):
the things he says when he jumps on TV. AOC
is getting way more talk than I remember previously about
her being a serious nominee. That is that's serious is
the last thing that is Well, she could win the nomination. Hilarious.
I think she could win the nomination, don't you.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Oh, I'm just talking about qualifications and the idea of
her being present.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
What are you talking about, you and your nitpicking qualifications?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yeah, you know, it's funny. I've referenced this a couple
of times, but Carl Rove wrote this piece talking about
what a miserable state of affairs the Democrats are in
and they have their lowest ever favorable rating. They only
have themselves to blame and all of the energy in
the party is Auran Mamdani an AOC, and arguably, like
(06:11):
he talks about the Bernie AOC tour the.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
National Fighting Alakaki to.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
That brought out progressive true believers, but made the Democratic
Party appear even more distant from the mainstream.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, well, good luck with that. We got a
lot of time though, I mean, good gosh. The six
months that was yesterday, very recently, the sixth year, and
I guess the twentieth would be so coming up in
a day, two days, it's the seventeenth, three day. Six months?
Is that right? I haven't done the man? What are
we talking about? How long Trump's been present? He's got
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ten and a half years left of this term. He
gets discussed like he's in its final six months, He's
in it. We're going on six months, barely six months? Right,
Oh my god. The fact that this is even a conversation.
My point was just there's so much time for so
many we could have a major financial meltdown and a
recovery and another brand and the meltdown by it in
(07:07):
that amount of time. It's second Canada and put down
the rebellion. Okay, enough that I wanted to get this on.
I thought it was interesting. Sody asked chat GPT. Actually
it was a priest ask Chat GPT and GROC about happiness.
(07:31):
And I don't quite understand his tweet, but I do
understand the ultimate sentiment. I don't understand if chat, GPT
and Groc said this or he's combining it with traditional
knowledge or traditional knowledge is but it doesn't matter. Let
me just get to what he said. Unless you despise
yourself will and renounce all worldly concerns, you will never
(07:55):
have peace. I thought that was really good. Despise yourself will,
that's the doing what you want to do most of
the time, and renounce all worldly concerns, you shall never
have peace. And I don't suppose I'll ever have peace.
You're not gonna renounce or worldly concerns. No, Okay, it's unrealistic. Wow,
(08:21):
way to give up the towel.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Well, and I would question whether is very premise is
correct that we should seek that. Since when of human
beings been able to give up all worldly concerns? It's
not natural to the beast. I think a lot of
peaceful people do. Oh worldly, let's define worldly. Okay, you know,
maybe maybe that's where I'm getting hung up, although I'm
(08:45):
frankly not going to do that either.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm just being honest I like your well, I like
your lack of even putting up a fight. That's what
I really enjoyed. Just no, I'm not gonna do that.
Oh okay, fine, yeah, not a chance. No thanks. No,
how about the first part, the uh, despising yourself? Will?
(09:11):
I need help with that another definition or two, if
you can. Generally our will throughout the days we want
more stuff of some sort, material objects, sex, fame, prestige,
all of those things. That's what's generally driving is through
the day most human beings. Yeah. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Put sex in the same place as I put like
a nicer car. You don't, No, Well, probably because I'm
in a stable relationship, and sex is a lot. Is
is about a lot more than God's sexual pleasures, God's
gift to genitals. Well, it is that. I wouldn't phrase
(09:50):
it that way, but you're right. Yeah, okay, So again
you need some definitions. But because I have, actually I've
thought a great deal about this, which is why I'm like,
I have a conclusion. I've read a fair amount about
Buddhism and and the Buddha's advice for living a life
(10:11):
at peace and that sort of thing, and I just don't.
I don't see it. I mean because and Jesus would
have me do the same thing. I should give away
everything I have and all my money. I would like
Jesus to explain to Judy why I'm doing that, by
the way, because there's gonna be a hell of an argument.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yeah, yeah, So I just yeah, I'm not no, I.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Bet there's a lot of freedom in that. I don't
I'm not going to do it that. I'm not going
to do that either, but about there is a fair
amount of freedom in it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
And and trust me when I say I'm approaching this
from a devil's advocate point of view, perhaps literally, advocating
for satan uh is being at peace. What we're looking for,
what we should be looking for.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It reminds me of your thing about the giving away
all your stuff, and how I think there would be
certain piece in that reminds me of Knockolm began in
his autobiography. He was an solitary confinement thanks to the
Russians early in his life in Poland, I guess, and
some of the happiest, most peaceful times of his life
(11:30):
is when he had nothing but like a crust of
hard bread and roaches alone in a dimly lit cell
for months at a time. Just because he had nothing,
he was able to get to a place of peace
that he that he later in life longed for he
could just never replicate. Isn't that interesting? It is? It
(11:51):
absolutely is. Yeah. I ain't gonna do that. I ain't
gonna live in a you know, a dirt floor cell
with roaches and a crust of hard bread to try
to get to some sort of peace.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
But just for the record, are we talking about nearly
but not quite exhausted marijuana cigarettes or the surfboard looking insect, the.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Cacarach, the cocka roach, the bug, okay, the disgusting bug.
It's an interesting discussion.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Feel free to drop us a note mail bag at
armstrong Eyeddy dot com. I like the idea of visiting
peace now and again. And maybe I'm just a fool.
Uh and oh, I hear a chorus of voices.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Damn right you are.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
There are there are rights I want to wrong and
fights I want to fight. Can I do that and
have what that priest was talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I like, I'm going to try to adopt your immediate
dismissal of these things. Whenever I run into them in
the future, I ain't doing that. Nope, not signing up
stand up. You know, I'm at peace with dismissing that
stand up in the middle of the church said nah,
not for me, all right? More in a way.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He show Hey Otani couldn't make it tonight, man. I
hope his interpreter didn't bet that he was going to
be here. Show Hey is a once in a generation talent.
No one's been able to do what he does at
so many positions. Pitcher, hitter and Bookie. Hey Bookie is
(13:30):
what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime. Sugar
Ray Leonards here.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Ell, yeah, Sugar, reg you're the man.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But what in ten years, Jake Paul is going to
try to knock you.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Out, So take it easy. Shane Gillis, who's hilarious, laughs
at his own jokes more than any comedian I've ever heard,
but it works for him. He's just as mused as
his audience. But the best joke I did think that
he had of the night was there's an Epstein joke
on the teleprompter, but it deleted itself.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Wow, wow, ah, this is apropos nothing we've been discussing,
but I found it super interesting one to bring it
to you mentioned this briefly earlier that during the Twelve
Day War as it's being called, between Iran and Israel,
with a special guest appearance by the United States, biggest
bombs at the end of it, the bunker busters. But
(14:26):
Iran got better and better at evading Israel's air defenses.
They are anti missile defenses, and it's not that surprising,
but they did show that even the world's most advanced
systems can be penetrated.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They got better and better at it.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
They began to launch more advanced and longer range missiles
from a wider range of locations in different patterns with
different timing, and increased the geographic spread of the targets.
And as they went on, they fired fewer missiles, but
their success rate rows.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
So governments and.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Militaries, especially those with the capacity to build this sort
of stuff, are studying all this very very carefully, and
it reminds me of our drones in Ukraine discussion that
the Ukraine has by necessity leaped decades forward.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
In drone and counter drone technology and will learn from it.
But I did not know this.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Most of the missiles launched against Israel were medium range
ballistic missiles about twelve hundred mile range. Israeli Arrow three
missiles are used. Initially, they have two stage interceptor can
destroy targets up to fifteen hundred miles away at altitudes
outside the atmosphere. They take out incoming threats through direct impact.
(15:48):
That's the first layer of defense. Additionally, you have US
Navy SM three AEGIS interceptors with sophisticated radar and fire
control deployed from the Mediterranean. They can destroy targets up
to seven hundred and forty five miles away. That's the
first layer of defense. Like for Israel, second layer of defense.
(16:08):
They're engaged outside the atmosphere of missiles that get through
by Arrow two, which intercepts long range ballistic missiles and
I can tell you more about them, but we don't
have time.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Also, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
The THAD American Anti Ballistic Missile System forms the other
part of that second layer of defense. The third layer
of defense David's Sling defense against medium range missiles and
heavy rockets within one hundred and eighty five miles as
well as cruise missiles.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The fourth layer of defense.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
That's when the iron dome kicks in only after the
first three.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Layers have failed.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
It protects against short short range rockets, missiles, and mortars
within seventy five miles well, and not only when other
things have failed, but different sort of weapons. But I
had not realized how many layers there are of quote
unquote missile defense and how many systems are involved.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
The technical capability is its incomprehensible. I think to simpletons
like myself also incomprehensible some of the numbers around illegal
immigration and the border and how much it's changed under Trump. Wow,
stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty, really really interesting immigration stuff.
But we got to get this on before you hear
(17:19):
it anywhere else. Right now as we're speaking. I don't
know when you're going to be hearing this, maybe hearing
it live now, maybe in the future. Right now as
we're speaking. So do you remember when Trump talked about
reopening Alcatraz and that was a story for like twenty
four hours and everybody said, that's ridiculous, you can't and
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for a variety of reasons you can't and you shouldn't.
That's correct as we speak, and we're on the air
in San Francisco right now. Pambondi is in San Francisco
with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visiting Alcatraz right now, and
are going to announce plans to reopen the federal penitentiary.
(18:02):
I don't believe it, Nancy Pelosi said, it's the stupidest
idea she's ever heard.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
It's in the top three. I don't believe this. This,
this can't be true.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What is your source, sir? Uh? ABC seven New York
never heard of them. Pambondi's in well, it's documented. They
can see her there. She's at Alcatraz with Doug Burgham.
This is too much. I've just hit overload.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I you know what, If you need me, I'll be
chuckling to myself in the corner with a glazed look
in my eyes.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Wow, what's the game there? I understood the initial one
by Trump because it's just a I'm announcing I'm being
I'm tough on crime. The residual for me saying this
is I'm the guy that's tough on crime.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Exactly, I'm going to reopen with the iconic hard ass
prison of all time.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Exactly. Yes, I get it. And then I assumed after
he said that he never thought about it again for
a second and blind to But now the Attorney General
and the Interior Secretary are there at Agriculture Alcatraz saying
this is where a Clinicewood character drolled the hole in
the wall. I've done the tour myself, and they're gonna
talk about reopening. Okay, all right, well that's that.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
What's what is this?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
To stop the Epstein headlines? Ooh good?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Because Trump is a genius at that. Sometime, although it's funny,
I keep going back and forth. Sometimes I think, wow,
that's really good. He's he's stopped the discussion of this
by bringing that up, and now that's the controversy.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
But at other times he steps on his.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Own great stuff, on his shooting right exactly, steps on
his own tie.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I know this is a pretty good one, though. I'll
be pretty surprised if this isn't way toward the front
of the ABC Evening News tonight, Pam BONDI, that's what
it is. That's what it is, Okay, change the story.
This story hung around the Biden administration enough to drive
him out of office, and the woman who replaced him.
(20:14):
Immigration was the number one topic for good reason. Where
are we now in immigration? Here's Peter Doucia Fox, and.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
President Trump is doing something that he campaigned to do.
He is proving the last president wrong when it comes
to border security. Remember, Joe Biden and his whole team
said nothing was going to happen at the border unless
a very specific, narrow, bipartisan immigration bill passed. President Trump
has not pushed that forward, The Congress hasn't passed it.
(20:41):
And yet we've got a graphic twenty twenty eight total
encounters nationwide that is the lowest monthly total in CBP history.
Eight thousand US Border Patrol apprehensions nationwide.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That is a new historic low.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Six seventy two Southwest border apprehensions that is fifth teen
percent lower than the previous March low. One hundred and
thirty six apprehensions on June twenty eight, that is the
lowest single day in agency history. And zero parole releases
compared to twenty seven, seven hundred and sixty six released
in June twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That is that happens.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
That was my favorite one, Okay, I I was thinking
what was the last at a year ago Biden and
company let loose twenty eight thousand illegals into the country,
just paroled them out to do whatever this month, this
last month under Trump.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Zero not a one. The first part is what's amazing
to mean? It gets no attention and coverage and appreciation.
Joe Biden and his party claimed there was nothing you
could do unless you pass this big, comprehensive immigration reform bill.
The only way you could stop this. Trump hasn't even
mentioned a bill in Congress and they stopped it dead.
(21:55):
Zero people. Yep, Yeah, what a lie. That was it?
Everybody knew is a lie. That's why the Democrats lost
A big order is secure. Wow, Well, we got a
number of things on here. We want to get to any.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Decent society with a tartan feathered Well, that's violent. How
about maple syrup and the glitter. That's what we should
have done. The may orchis the old syrup and glitter treatment.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
She mentioned the ABC Evening News with David mu and
his ridiculously tight T shirts. They had this story last night.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
The Trump administration has fired seventeen immigration judges without cause,
according to the union representing them. It comes amid a
critical shortage of judges and as Ice continues to ramp
up arrests, the Union saying there were only six hundred
judges while Congress has authorized eight hundred, Critics calling the
firings politically motivated.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Okay, so you listen to critics and you talked to
the union, did you ask why they might have been
dismissed without cause? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I'd like to know more. So here's Tom Holman. He's
the maybe.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Because these judges are are utterly uninterested in forcing immigration law.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I have a strong feeling, right, and that would be
political and with a negative connotation if you got rid
of people that wanted to enforce the current law. Right. Okay,
Tom Holman's a guy Trump put in charge of dealing
with all this illegal immigration. He's going to say something
strong and then you're going to hear the explanation.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Look, you got all these crazies on the left that
they feel emboldant because you got members of Congress, you
got members of the Senate comparing ice of the Nazis
and races and and terrorist groups. For God's sake, they're
making these claims. So you got these nuts on the
left who are in boldant. They're thinking, well, if a
member of Congress thinks are racist into the terrorists, then
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we can act upon it.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I was just watching a video got Fox on here.
They're the only network that really covers illegal immigration, and
you know in any real way. I was just watching
a video on Fox of ice vehicles leaving an area
and people throwing giant rocks at them. How is that
happening in the United States of America and being put
up with as they try to enforce the current law.
(24:06):
And again, if you don't like the law, do you
think it's too If it's wrong, change the law, petition
your cons This would be a good time to drop
this in.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Karen Bass, the leftist mayor of La tweeted, who are
these masked men going around our city snatching people off
the streets?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Why?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Ah, where are the people there detaining? I demand answers.
Blah blah blah. And the US Immigrations and Custom Enforcement
Officers Association, said Mayor Bass. Our officers wear masks because
rhetoric like yours has ramped up threats and assaults against
their families. They're doing their job and detaining illegal aliens
who broke immigration law. Enough of the fear mongering for
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political attention.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Now the crazies on the left were not emboldened by
people in the Democratic Party. That's what the Democrats say. Well,
here's a montage. Have a lot of Democrats emboldening the crazies.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
The conditions that we saw inside this in turn camp,
which it is nothing less than that description.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
I mean, in technical terms, if you've got a facility
that's holding people indefinitely and there's no legal process to
get in there, and there's no legal process to get out,
that is traditionally called a concentration camp or an internment camp.
Speaker 11 (25:20):
They're not going for every person here that's undocumented, because
when I was in that internment camp in the Everglades,
I didn't see any Europeans who overstayed their visa. I
saw nothing but Latino men and Haitian men.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yes, obviously a talking point has gone out. Call them
internment camps.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
All right, call them in tournament camps. We had Senator
Mark Wayne Mullen on with us maybe a year ago today,
quite possible. We were at the Republican Convention. It was
a year ago today, Thursday that Trump gave his hour
and a half long rambling speech that was absolutely something. Anyway,
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Sender Mark Wayne Mullen on this whole internment camp thign, that's.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
An insult to those that survived those concentration camps. To
even compare this, they were put there just because of
their religious beliefs. You have individuals that are in these
that are in these attention centers, are there because they
enter the country illegally, and then they broke the law
before they got here. I mean, one guy they arrested
from Houston hijacked an airplane coming from Cuba that was
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headed to Florida. My lord, what type of people are
these Democrats trying to protect.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
They're just trying to win the politics of it. They
don't care about the people, or the border security or
whatever else that.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
They're not about results. They're about virtue signaling and getting power.
I think ultimately cracking down on illegal immigration is going
to be a net benefit to the Republican Party by
a lot, even with these cases that I'm not happy with.
Mentioned one the other day of a friend of a
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friend who been here since they were he was eleven
years old, working for decades, paying taxes, going to every
single appointment they're supposed to to try to get citizenship,
and they just got rounded up and thrown in one
of these. Well, they're being detained currently, and they're doing
enough gofund me to try to hire a lawyer to
try to figure out what they do. I don't like that.
(27:27):
That's probably not good, but it is the law. It
is the current law.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
The practical political reality, though, is if you can stay
as close to violent criminals as possible, or at least
prioritize those and work outward, you'll maintain popular support for
much much longer.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
The poll numbers on law abiding, tax paying illegal immigrants
booting them.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Out are miserably low. I know, miss just so'll be
interesting to see how people vote right and when we've
aired far too far to the other side, which is
not booting anybody out for a very long time. I'm
not advocating some sort of super soft on illegal immigration policy.
I'm just saying, to whatever extent you can stay towards
(28:16):
the scumbag end that ensures enough political support to get
it done, we will finish strong. Next.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
If you talk about this, I'm going to excommunicate you. Well,
you're not the Pope, bro, I mean, you're not speaking
from the throne ex Cathra.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Anyone who disagrees anything I say is vanished.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
And I'm not saying trump Land as a cult. The
Democrats are the cult of hating reason and logic and
common sense. But when Trump starts behaving like that, it
starts getting into cult territory. I don't listen to Alex Jones, but.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
He needs a lozenge. I guess he's trying to thread
the needle a lot of people are. He's got the
benefit of still being in the media and not in
the government, of trying to explain away something they knew
wasn't true. I assume for all those years the giant
pedophile rings story.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Just as a media guy and a student of media
and politics and pop culture, it's interesting to study how
the very Trump oriented.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Groove that they're in.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Is willing to give Trump an elbow in the chops
at least, and I wonder if they're positioning themselves for
a post Trump world.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I do'ant to mention names. Joe will probably know who
I'm talking to, but there is a host we had
never heard of when we were at the convention a
year ago, set up very close to us. Turns out
to be a really big deal because he goes full
on this sort of QAnon ish stuff on his show
(30:21):
and a big enough deal to like and Super Super
Maga as well. Right, yeah, will will those shows have
a shelf life, maybe not even after Epstein, but after
Trump is gone. That's what I was driving at. I
think they're trying to figure that out. I don't think
they will.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I mean, because their business is pandering, it's not informing,
and so they're trying to figure out. Okay, Trump has
now come out anti Epstein conspiracy. I'm just going to
use that for shorthand do we go with Trump or
do we go with the bulk of her audience on this?
(31:04):
And clearly, like gave the example of Charlie Kirk earlier,
he was hardcore. This is the most important thing in
the world. Get a call from Trump. Trump says, hey,
cool it because this is really screwing up our MAGA
progress and stuff. And he's like, all right, cool, I'm
not talking about this anymore for now, I trust the administration.
His audience goes nuts. He immediately turns around reversus field
(31:26):
and puts out a list of twenty seven demands or whatever.
It was, all having to do with Epstein. So that'd
be an interesting position to be in if we were
one of those shows. Yeah, we gotta choose do we
stick with Trump or do we give him the finger.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I'm glad we don't have to make that decision. Hmm.
If I could go back in time, I wouldn't. I
was about to say, if I could go back in
time and knew how this whole Trump thing was going
to play out, maybe you go full on his hardcore
you can and uh, you know, well the things pretty
(32:04):
turned out pretty good for us. So just you know,
as complaints.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Anyway, it was a year ago. We were at that convention,
just during like that crazy, crazy time the Republican Convention
was going on a year ago this week.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
The answer is breed millions of sterilized flies and drop
them at the Mexican border. The question is what do
you do about these flesh eating parasitic flies that can
kill a head of cattle or many heads of kettles
in a couple of weeks. You don't even know they're there,
and then you got dead cows. Oh wow, really flesh
(32:44):
eating parasitic fly that's been cited in Mexico near the US.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
And so.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
The answer is you breed millions of sterilized flies. They
get with the hot fly gals. We have no time
then to get jiggy with the you know, the non
sterilized flies, and they die out.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Do they go after people or only cows? People? Any minute?
Jack one Tree of Life, admit me quotus to this history.
Who prologue like your humble patients.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Prey gently to hear, kindly to judge the final thoughts
of Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It's almost entirely animals susceptible to it. What it does
to them is so gross and terrible I won't even
read it. Oh boy, here's your host for final thoughts,
Joe Getty. We'll just leave it at flesh eating. Let's
get a final thought from everybody on the crew. Who's
here today? Michael lens Low Present the bountains. Michael Wisch
final thought.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
Yeah, I guess the cutting of PBS funding is already
starting to affect Sesame Street. Some of the changes he've
made is the grocery store is now a smoke shop
on Sesame Street. And Big Burg got evicted from his nest.
He's living in Ernie's old motor home in his driveway.
So this is what happens when y'all get funding.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
You know, I'm starting to feel bad about those evil
fiscal conservatives. Michael Katie green Is offer the day jacket
final thought for us. So I flip on PBS for whatever,
ur NPR radio as soon as I get out of
here every single day to see what they're talking about.
And it's always some very very left wing, non mainstream topic,
like not even mainstream Democrat topic. Do you think that
(34:23):
will get more so or less so losing their funding?
I think now they'll think we don't have to answer anybody.
I have no idea. It's an interesting question. They do
a very very good job an incredibly biased reporter. Yeah,
they are good at it. Armstrong, you, Getty wra pick
up another grueling four hour workday. So many people thanks
(34:44):
a little time. My final thought is good to Armstrong
and Getty dot com. Check out the hotlinks, drop us
and no buy some swag. See you tomorrow. God bless America.
Can we get out of here please, it's over? Oh,
come on, get here? Absolutely, What the hell are you
talking about?
Speaker 12 (35:03):
Said a word?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So stop yelling at me.
Speaker 8 (35:05):
This is a perspective exended our European ally.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Share go away, when it comes on for you to go,
you'll have to go. Are you sure of that? Dude?
Absolutely so, Everybody chill.
Speaker 12 (35:18):
And that I note.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Thanks you all very much, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
But the fact that it is so close and they
have to probably call in jd vance again, the House
only getting through with one vote, doesn't it suggest that
Washington really stinks at cutting funding?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It absolutely does.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
And look, this is, as Senator Thune said, nine billion
dollars one tenth of one percent of the federal budget.
This is a rounding error when it comes to Washington
and they're struggling to do it. I mean, how are
they going to fix Social Security? How are they going
to fix Medicare? How are they going to do the
big things? So your your question was absolutely right. It's like,
if this is so hard, then how are they going
to do anything the big cuts?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And what are they going to do in the next decision?
Bill Comminson, Yeah, I saw part of that interview, and
it's the usual that blamed it on the Democrats to
start with, and then le Brett Bear jumped in, Yeah,
but the Republicans control everything and they barely could get
it through. Right, Nobody wants to call out their own party.
It's an excellent point.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, yeah, the headlines the Senate barely, barely barely passed
a bill to cancel less than one tenth one percent
of federals funding, mostly foreign aid programs, and public media.
Public media is getting a lot of attention because it's
you know, a lot of people are into it. It's
not going to go away, by the way, it just
won't be as well funded. They'll have to come up
with different revenue streams. That's fine, so of the rest
(01:40):
of us. But a lot of it's cutting foreign aid.
Excuse me, And I'm in favor of good foreign aid,
just not bad for an aid. So that's fine, and
you got to cut something. But this is this is funny.
This was tangential to that reporting on that. It may
be the most ironic thing I've ever read in my life,
and I like iron happens to be in New York Times, Jack,
(02:02):
you'll love this headline Federal workers emotional roller coaster, fired, rehired,
fired again, And the story thinks it's about how tough
it's been on federal workers, the ups and downs of
late And you know what, honestly, if there's this gal
(02:23):
they profile from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
She had a gig, then she didn't, then she did again,
then she didn't again.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That sucks.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I mean, I wouldn't want to be in that position.
That's not an argument against making government more efficient, though
doesn't come close to being an argument to like blunt
the doge you know, urges but unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
This article.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
In interviews, workers described reaching a stage where they were
ready to move on, only to be frustrated by administrative morass.
They are finding the only thing harder than getting fired
is staying that way and navigating a Kafka esque web
of bureaucratic snaffoos that have left some of them in
surreal employment limbo. Obtaining the termination paperwork necessary to apply
(03:13):
for unemployment benefits in some states has taken months. Some said,
calls and emails to former bosses human resources officials went
unanswered or were redirected in what seemed like an endless loop.
Lapses in healthcare coverage were a major source of stress.
In other words, this article, which is sincerely because it's
(03:34):
The New York Times all about this, is tragic that
these federal workers are being fired. Well, the federal workers
are trying to get the government to do what it's
supposed to do, and it's so big and stupid and
bloated they can't even get the paperwork that says, yeah,
they don't work here anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That to me is incredibly ironic. Yeah, wow, I am.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Therefore, what New York Times Eileen's ollivant who wrote this piece,
I lean bottom line it for me, Therefore, we should
keep a big, bloate a government that sucks so bad
it's very.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Employees can't get a phone call back. What is your point? Right?
I have no optimism that this is going to change
in my lifetime, and I'm not unless we hit bottom
in your lifetime. I'm not real close to dead either,
So I mean, I got quite a few years left.
I still don't think it's going to happen in my
lifetime that we actually deal with this. A couple of things.
(04:32):
I'll do that one second. Since we're on politics, this
is from Josh krash Hour. Who's with? Which organization is
you with? Currently? One of yours? Politico? Whichever one. The
Democratic Party's biggest fundraisers remain to be true blue left wingers.
AOC raised almost six million dollars in the last three
(04:55):
months as she gets more and more presidential buzz from
the super hardcore left, Wow and Bernie Sanders, even though
he has said he's not going to run for president.
He's not even running for reelection as a senator, brought
in more than four and a half million dollars in
the second quarter because people are so into his all
(05:18):
the things he says when he jumps on TV. AOC
is getting way more talk than I remember previously about
her being a serious nominee. That is that's serious is
the last thing that is Well, she could win the nomination. Hilarious.
I think she could win the nomination, don't you.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Oh, I'm just talking about qualifications and the idea of
her being present.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
What are you talking about, you and your nitpicking qualifications?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yeah, you know, it's funny. I've referenced this a couple
of times, but Carl Rove wrote this piece talking about
what a miserable state of affairs the Democrats are in
and they have their lowest ever favorable rating. They only
have themselves to blame and all of the energy in
the party is Auran Mamdani an AOC, and arguably, like
(06:11):
he talks about the Bernie AOC tour the.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
National Fighting Alakaki to.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
That brought out progressive true believers, but made the Democratic
Party appear even more distant from the mainstream.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, well, good luck with that. We got a
lot of time though, I mean, good gosh. The six
months that was yesterday, very recently, the sixth year, and
I guess the twentieth would be so coming up in
a day, two days, it's the seventeenth, three day. Six months?
Is that right? I haven't done the man? What are
we talking about? How long Trump's been present? He's got
(06:47):
ten and a half years left of this term. He
gets discussed like he's in its final six months, He's
in it. We're going on six months, barely six months? Right,
Oh my god. The fact that this is even a conversation.
My point was just there's so much time for so
many we could have a major financial meltdown and a
recovery and another brand and the meltdown by it in
(07:07):
that amount of time. It's second Canada and put down
the rebellion. Okay, enough that I wanted to get this on.
I thought it was interesting. Sody asked chat GPT. Actually
it was a priest ask Chat GPT and GROC about happiness.
(07:31):
And I don't quite understand his tweet, but I do
understand the ultimate sentiment. I don't understand if chat, GPT
and Groc said this or he's combining it with traditional
knowledge or traditional knowledge is but it doesn't matter. Let
me just get to what he said. Unless you despise
yourself will and renounce all worldly concerns, you will never
(07:55):
have peace. I thought that was really good. Despise yourself will,
that's the doing what you want to do most of
the time, and renounce all worldly concerns, you shall never
have peace. And I don't suppose I'll ever have peace.
You're not gonna renounce or worldly concerns. No, Okay, it's unrealistic. Wow,
(08:21):
way to give up the towel.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Well, and I would question whether is very premise is
correct that we should seek that. Since when of human
beings been able to give up all worldly concerns? It's
not natural to the beast. I think a lot of
peaceful people do. Oh worldly, let's define worldly. Okay, you know,
maybe maybe that's where I'm getting hung up, although I'm
(08:45):
frankly not going to do that either.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm just being honest I like your well, I like
your lack of even putting up a fight. That's what
I really enjoyed. Just no, I'm not gonna do that.
Oh okay, fine, yeah, not a chance. No thanks. No,
how about the first part, the uh, despising yourself? Will?
(09:11):
I need help with that another definition or two, if
you can. Generally our will throughout the days we want
more stuff of some sort, material objects, sex, fame, prestige,
all of those things. That's what's generally driving is through
the day most human beings. Yeah. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Put sex in the same place as I put like
a nicer car. You don't, No, Well, probably because I'm
in a stable relationship, and sex is a lot. Is
is about a lot more than God's sexual pleasures, God's
gift to genitals. Well, it is that. I wouldn't phrase
(09:50):
it that way, but you're right. Yeah, okay, So again
you need some definitions. But because I have, actually I've
thought a great deal about this, which is why I'm like,
I have a conclusion. I've read a fair amount about
Buddhism and and the Buddha's advice for living a life
(10:11):
at peace and that sort of thing, and I just don't.
I don't see it. I mean because and Jesus would
have me do the same thing. I should give away
everything I have and all my money. I would like
Jesus to explain to Judy why I'm doing that, by
the way, because there's gonna be a hell of an argument.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yeah, yeah, So I just yeah, I'm not no, I.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Bet there's a lot of freedom in that. I don't
I'm not going to do it that. I'm not going
to do that either, but about there is a fair
amount of freedom in it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
And and trust me when I say I'm approaching this
from a devil's advocate point of view, perhaps literally, advocating
for satan uh is being at peace. What we're looking for,
what we should be looking for.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It reminds me of your thing about the giving away
all your stuff, and how I think there would be
certain piece in that reminds me of Knockolm began in
his autobiography. He was an solitary confinement thanks to the
Russians early in his life in Poland, I guess, and
some of the happiest, most peaceful times of his life
(11:30):
is when he had nothing but like a crust of
hard bread and roaches alone in a dimly lit cell
for months at a time. Just because he had nothing,
he was able to get to a place of peace
that he that he later in life longed for he
could just never replicate. Isn't that interesting? It is? It
(11:51):
absolutely is. Yeah. I ain't gonna do that. I ain't
gonna live in a you know, a dirt floor cell
with roaches and a crust of hard bread to try
to get to some sort of peace.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
But just for the record, are we talking about nearly
but not quite exhausted marijuana cigarettes or the surfboard looking insect, the.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Cacarach, the cocka roach, the bug, okay, the disgusting bug.
It's an interesting discussion.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Feel free to drop us a note mail bag at
armstrong Eyeddy dot com. I like the idea of visiting
peace now and again. And maybe I'm just a fool.
Uh and oh, I hear a chorus of voices.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Damn right you are.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
There are there are rights I want to wrong and
fights I want to fight. Can I do that and
have what that priest was talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I like, I'm going to try to adopt your immediate
dismissal of these things. Whenever I run into them in
the future, I ain't doing that. Nope, not signing up
stand up. You know, I'm at peace with dismissing that
stand up in the middle of the church said nah,
not for me, all right? More in a way.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He show Hey Otani couldn't make it tonight, man. I
hope his interpreter didn't bet that he was going to
be here. Show Hey is a once in a generation talent.
No one's been able to do what he does at
so many positions. Pitcher, hitter and Bookie. Hey Bookie is
(13:30):
what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime. Sugar
Ray Leonards here.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Ell, yeah, Sugar, reg you're the man.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But what in ten years, Jake Paul is going to
try to knock you.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Out, So take it easy. Shane Gillis, who's hilarious, laughs
at his own jokes more than any comedian I've ever heard,
but it works for him. He's just as mused as
his audience. But the best joke I did think that
he had of the night was there's an Epstein joke
on the teleprompter, but it deleted itself.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Wow, wow, ah, this is apropos nothing we've been discussing,
but I found it super interesting one to bring it
to you mentioned this briefly earlier that during the Twelve
Day War as it's being called, between Iran and Israel,
with a special guest appearance by the United States, biggest
bombs at the end of it, the bunker busters. But
(14:26):
Iran got better and better at evading Israel's air defenses.
They are anti missile defenses, and it's not that surprising,
but they did show that even the world's most advanced
systems can be penetrated.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
They got better and better at it.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
They began to launch more advanced and longer range missiles
from a wider range of locations in different patterns with
different timing, and increased the geographic spread of the targets.
And as they went on, they fired fewer missiles, but
their success rate rows.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
So governments and.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Militaries, especially those with the capacity to build this sort
of stuff, are studying all this very very carefully, and
it reminds me of our drones in Ukraine discussion that
the Ukraine has by necessity leaped decades forward.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
In drone and counter drone technology and will learn from it.
But I did not know this.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Most of the missiles launched against Israel were medium range
ballistic missiles about twelve hundred mile range. Israeli Arrow three
missiles are used. Initially, they have two stage interceptor can
destroy targets up to fifteen hundred miles away at altitudes
outside the atmosphere. They take out incoming threats through direct impact.
(15:48):
That's the first layer of defense. Additionally, you have US
Navy SM three AEGIS interceptors with sophisticated radar and fire
control deployed from the Mediterranean. They can destroy targets up
to seven hundred and forty five miles away. That's the
first layer of defense. Like for Israel, second layer of defense.
(16:08):
They're engaged outside the atmosphere of missiles that get through
by Arrow two, which intercepts long range ballistic missiles and
I can tell you more about them, but we don't
have time.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Also, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
The THAD American Anti Ballistic Missile System forms the other
part of that second layer of defense. The third layer
of defense David's Sling defense against medium range missiles and
heavy rockets within one hundred and eighty five miles as
well as cruise missiles.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The fourth layer of defense.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
That's when the iron dome kicks in only after the
first three.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Layers have failed.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
It protects against short short range rockets, missiles, and mortars
within seventy five miles well, and not only when other
things have failed, but different sort of weapons. But I
had not realized how many layers there are of quote
unquote missile defense and how many systems are involved.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
The technical capability is its incomprehensible. I think to simpletons
like myself also incomprehensible some of the numbers around illegal
immigration and the border and how much it's changed under Trump. Wow,
stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty, really really interesting immigration stuff.
But we got to get this on before you hear
(17:19):
it anywhere else. Right now as we're speaking. I don't
know when you're going to be hearing this, maybe hearing
it live now, maybe in the future. Right now as
we're speaking. So do you remember when Trump talked about
reopening Alcatraz and that was a story for like twenty
four hours and everybody said, that's ridiculous, you can't and
(17:40):
for a variety of reasons you can't and you shouldn't.
That's correct as we speak, and we're on the air
in San Francisco right now. Pambondi is in San Francisco
with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visiting Alcatraz right now, and
are going to announce plans to reopen the federal penitentiary.
(18:02):
I don't believe it, Nancy Pelosi said, it's the stupidest
idea she's ever heard.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
It's in the top three. I don't believe this. This,
this can't be true.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What is your source, sir? Uh? ABC seven New York
never heard of them. Pambondi's in well, it's documented. They
can see her there. She's at Alcatraz with Doug Burgham.
This is too much. I've just hit overload.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I you know what, If you need me, I'll be
chuckling to myself in the corner with a glazed look
in my eyes.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Wow, what's the game there? I understood the initial one
by Trump because it's just a I'm announcing I'm being
I'm tough on crime. The residual for me saying this
is I'm the guy that's tough on crime.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Exactly, I'm going to reopen with the iconic hard ass
prison of all time.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Exactly. Yes, I get it. And then I assumed after
he said that he never thought about it again for
a second and blind to But now the Attorney General
and the Interior Secretary are there at Agriculture Alcatraz saying
this is where a Clinicewood character drolled the hole in
the wall. I've done the tour myself, and they're gonna
talk about reopening. Okay, all right, well that's that.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
What's what is this?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
To stop the Epstein headlines? Ooh good?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Because Trump is a genius at that. Sometime, although it's funny,
I keep going back and forth. Sometimes I think, wow,
that's really good. He's he's stopped the discussion of this
by bringing that up, and now that's the controversy.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
But at other times he steps on his.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Own great stuff, on his shooting right exactly, steps on
his own tie.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I know this is a pretty good one, though. I'll
be pretty surprised if this isn't way toward the front
of the ABC Evening News tonight, Pam BONDI, that's what
it is. That's what it is, Okay, change the story.
This story hung around the Biden administration enough to drive
him out of office, and the woman who replaced him.
(20:14):
Immigration was the number one topic for good reason. Where
are we now in immigration? Here's Peter Doucia Fox, and.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
President Trump is doing something that he campaigned to do.
He is proving the last president wrong when it comes
to border security. Remember, Joe Biden and his whole team
said nothing was going to happen at the border unless
a very specific, narrow, bipartisan immigration bill passed. President Trump
has not pushed that forward, The Congress hasn't passed it.
(20:41):
And yet we've got a graphic twenty twenty eight total
encounters nationwide that is the lowest monthly total in CBP history.
Eight thousand US Border Patrol apprehensions nationwide.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That is a new historic low.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Six seventy two Southwest border apprehensions that is fifth teen
percent lower than the previous March low. One hundred and
thirty six apprehensions on June twenty eight, that is the
lowest single day in agency history. And zero parole releases
compared to twenty seven, seven hundred and sixty six released
in June twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That is that happens.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
That was my favorite one, Okay, I I was thinking
what was the last at a year ago Biden and
company let loose twenty eight thousand illegals into the country,
just paroled them out to do whatever this month, this
last month under Trump.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Zero not a one. The first part is what's amazing
to mean? It gets no attention and coverage and appreciation.
Joe Biden and his party claimed there was nothing you
could do unless you pass this big, comprehensive immigration reform bill.
The only way you could stop this. Trump hasn't even
mentioned a bill in Congress and they stopped it dead.
(21:55):
Zero people. Yep, Yeah, what a lie. That was it?
Everybody knew is a lie. That's why the Democrats lost
A big order is secure. Wow, Well, we got a
number of things on here. We want to get to any.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Decent society with a tartan feathered Well, that's violent. How
about maple syrup and the glitter. That's what we should
have done. The may orchis the old syrup and glitter treatment.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
She mentioned the ABC Evening News with David mu and
his ridiculously tight T shirts. They had this story last night.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
The Trump administration has fired seventeen immigration judges without cause,
according to the union representing them. It comes amid a
critical shortage of judges and as Ice continues to ramp
up arrests, the Union saying there were only six hundred
judges while Congress has authorized eight hundred, Critics calling the
firings politically motivated.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Okay, so you listen to critics and you talked to
the union, did you ask why they might have been
dismissed without cause? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I'd like to know more. So here's Tom Holman. He's
the maybe.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Because these judges are are utterly uninterested in forcing immigration law.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I have a strong feeling, right, and that would be
political and with a negative connotation if you got rid
of people that wanted to enforce the current law. Right. Okay,
Tom Holman's a guy Trump put in charge of dealing
with all this illegal immigration. He's going to say something
strong and then you're going to hear the explanation.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Look, you got all these crazies on the left that
they feel emboldant because you got members of Congress, you
got members of the Senate comparing ice of the Nazis
and races and and terrorist groups. For God's sake, they're
making these claims. So you got these nuts on the
left who are in boldant. They're thinking, well, if a
member of Congress thinks are racist into the terrorists, then
(23:44):
we can act upon it.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I was just watching a video got Fox on here.
They're the only network that really covers illegal immigration, and
you know in any real way. I was just watching
a video on Fox of ice vehicles leaving an area
and people throwing giant rocks at them. How is that
happening in the United States of America and being put
up with as they try to enforce the current law.
(24:06):
And again, if you don't like the law, do you
think it's too If it's wrong, change the law, petition
your cons This would be a good time to drop
this in.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Karen Bass, the leftist mayor of La tweeted, who are
these masked men going around our city snatching people off
the streets?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Why?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Ah, where are the people there detaining? I demand answers.
Blah blah blah. And the US Immigrations and Custom Enforcement
Officers Association, said Mayor Bass. Our officers wear masks because
rhetoric like yours has ramped up threats and assaults against
their families. They're doing their job and detaining illegal aliens
who broke immigration law. Enough of the fear mongering for
(24:44):
political attention.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Now the crazies on the left were not emboldened by
people in the Democratic Party. That's what the Democrats say. Well,
here's a montage. Have a lot of Democrats emboldening the crazies.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
The conditions that we saw inside this in turn camp,
which it is nothing less than that description.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
I mean, in technical terms, if you've got a facility
that's holding people indefinitely and there's no legal process to
get in there, and there's no legal process to get out,
that is traditionally called a concentration camp or an internment camp.
Speaker 11 (25:20):
They're not going for every person here that's undocumented, because
when I was in that internment camp in the Everglades,
I didn't see any Europeans who overstayed their visa. I
saw nothing but Latino men and Haitian men.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yes, obviously a talking point has gone out. Call them
internment camps.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
All right, call them in tournament camps. We had Senator
Mark Wayne Mullen on with us maybe a year ago today,
quite possible. We were at the Republican Convention. It was
a year ago today, Thursday that Trump gave his hour
and a half long rambling speech that was absolutely something. Anyway,
(26:04):
Sender Mark Wayne Mullen on this whole internment camp thign, that's.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
An insult to those that survived those concentration camps. To
even compare this, they were put there just because of
their religious beliefs. You have individuals that are in these
that are in these attention centers, are there because they
enter the country illegally, and then they broke the law
before they got here. I mean, one guy they arrested
from Houston hijacked an airplane coming from Cuba that was
(26:31):
headed to Florida. My lord, what type of people are
these Democrats trying to protect.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
They're just trying to win the politics of it. They
don't care about the people, or the border security or
whatever else that.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
They're not about results. They're about virtue signaling and getting power.
I think ultimately cracking down on illegal immigration is going
to be a net benefit to the Republican Party by
a lot, even with these cases that I'm not happy with.
Mentioned one the other day of a friend of a
(27:06):
friend who been here since they were he was eleven
years old, working for decades, paying taxes, going to every
single appointment they're supposed to to try to get citizenship,
and they just got rounded up and thrown in one
of these. Well, they're being detained currently, and they're doing
enough gofund me to try to hire a lawyer to
try to figure out what they do. I don't like that.
(27:27):
That's probably not good, but it is the law. It
is the current law.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
The practical political reality, though, is if you can stay
as close to violent criminals as possible, or at least
prioritize those and work outward, you'll maintain popular support for
much much longer.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
The poll numbers on law abiding, tax paying illegal immigrants
booting them.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Out are miserably low. I know, miss just so'll be
interesting to see how people vote right and when we've
aired far too far to the other side, which is
not booting anybody out for a very long time. I'm
not advocating some sort of super soft on illegal immigration policy.
I'm just saying, to whatever extent you can stay towards
(28:16):
the scumbag end that ensures enough political support to get
it done, we will finish strong. Next.
Speaker 12 (28:32):
If you talk about this, I'm going to excommunicate you. Well,
you're not the Pope, bro, I mean, you're not speaking
from the throne ex Cathra.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Anyone who disagrees anything I say is vanished.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
And I'm not saying trump Land as a cult. The
Democrats are the cult of hating reason and logic and
common sense. But when Trump starts behaving like that, it
starts getting into cult territory. I don't listen to Alex Jones, but.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
He needs a lozenge. I guess he's trying to thread
the needle a lot of people are. He's got the
benefit of still being in the media and not in
the government, of trying to explain away something they knew
wasn't true. I assume for all those years the giant
pedophile rings story.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Just as a media guy and a student of media
and politics and pop culture, it's interesting to study how
the very Trump oriented.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Groove that they're in.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Is willing to give Trump an elbow in the chops
at least, and I wonder if they're positioning themselves for
a post Trump world.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I do'ant to mention names. Joe will probably know who
I'm talking to, but there is a host we had
never heard of when we were at the convention a
year ago, set up very close to us. Turns out
to be a really big deal because he goes full
on this sort of QAnon ish stuff on his show
(30:21):
and a big enough deal to like and Super Super
Maga as well. Right, yeah, will will those shows have
a shelf life, maybe not even after Epstein, but after
Trump is gone. That's what I was driving at. I
think they're trying to figure that out. I don't think
they will.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I mean, because their business is pandering, it's not informing,
and so they're trying to figure out. Okay, Trump has
now come out anti Epstein conspiracy. I'm just going to
use that for shorthand do we go with Trump or
do we go with the bulk of her audience on this?
(31:04):
And clearly, like gave the example of Charlie Kirk earlier,
he was hardcore. This is the most important thing in
the world. Get a call from Trump. Trump says, hey,
cool it because this is really screwing up our MAGA
progress and stuff. And he's like, all right, cool, I'm
not talking about this anymore for now, I trust the administration.
His audience goes nuts. He immediately turns around reversus field
(31:26):
and puts out a list of twenty seven demands or whatever.
It was, all having to do with Epstein. So that'd
be an interesting position to be in if we were
one of those shows. Yeah, we gotta choose do we
stick with Trump or do we give him the finger.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I'm glad we don't have to make that decision. Hmm.
If I could go back in time, I wouldn't. I
was about to say, if I could go back in
time and knew how this whole Trump thing was going
to play out, maybe you go full on his hardcore
you can and uh, you know, well the things pretty
(32:04):
turned out pretty good for us. So just you know,
as complaints.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Anyway, it was a year ago. We were at that convention,
just during like that crazy, crazy time the Republican Convention
was going on a year ago this week.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
The answer is breed millions of sterilized flies and drop
them at the Mexican border. The question is what do
you do about these flesh eating parasitic flies that can
kill a head of cattle or many heads of kettles
in a couple of weeks. You don't even know they're there,
and then you got dead cows. Oh wow, really flesh
(32:44):
eating parasitic fly that's been cited in Mexico near the US.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
And so.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
The answer is you breed millions of sterilized flies. They
get with the hot fly gals. We have no time
then to get jiggy with the you know, the non
sterilized flies, and they die out.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Do they go after people or only cows? People? Any minute?
Jack one Tree of Life, admit me quotus to this history.
Who prologue like your humble patients.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Prey gently to hear, kindly to judge the final thoughts
of Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It's almost entirely animals susceptible to it. What it does
to them is so gross and terrible I won't even
read it. Oh boy, here's your host for final thoughts,
Joe Getty. We'll just leave it at flesh eating. Let's
get a final thought from everybody on the crew. Who's
here today? Michael lens Low Present the bountains. Michael Wisch
final thought.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
Yeah, I guess the cutting of PBS funding is already
starting to affect Sesame Street. Some of the changes he've
made is the grocery store is now a smoke shop
on Sesame Street. And Big Burg got evicted from his nest.
He's living in Ernie's old motor home in his driveway.
So this is what happens when y'all get funding.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
You know, I'm starting to feel bad about those evil
fiscal conservatives. Michael Katie green Is offer the day jacket
final thought for us. So I flip on PBS for whatever,
ur NPR radio as soon as I get out of
here every single day to see what they're talking about.
And it's always some very very left wing, non mainstream topic,
like not even mainstream Democrat topic. Do you think that
(34:23):
will get more so or less so losing their funding?
I think now they'll think we don't have to answer anybody.
I have no idea. It's an interesting question. They do
a very very good job an incredibly biased reporter. Yeah,
they are good at it. Armstrong, you, Getty wra pick
up another grueling four hour workday. So many people thanks
(34:44):
a little time. My final thought is good to Armstrong
and Getty dot com. Check out the hotlinks, drop us
and no buy some swag. See you tomorrow. God bless America.
Can we get out of here please, it's over? Oh,
come on, get here? Absolutely, What the hell are you
talking about?
Speaker 12 (35:03):
Said a word?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So stop yelling at me.
Speaker 8 (35:05):
This is a perspective exended our European ally.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Share go away, when it comes on for you to go,
you'll have to go. Are you sure of that? Dude?
Absolutely so, Everybody chill.
Speaker 12 (35:18):
And that I note.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Thanks you all very much, Armstrong and Getty
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