June 11, 2025 • 36 mins
On the Wednesday June 11, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show...
- The talking point used by the left to describe the LA riots...
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And Jetty and keep arms wrong, get it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We've got two National guardments standing outside the Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Compounds, surrounded my dogs and moats.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And today we are under the tutelage of our general
manager quoting the tattoos on my knuckles, law and order.
That's right. I've got long tattooed on my right hand,
order on the knuckles of my left.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But it hadn't dawned on me that the.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh would be invisible if I held out my fists,
So people ask me, what is urger it through? I
am flabbergasted, And if you've ever had your flabbergasted, you
know how painful that can be.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
One of my favorite David Letterman lines.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The media coverage I've been taken in today, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I just, I just.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
How do you not see your you look at from
the outside, yourself, see how you're perceived or what's.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Going on here? But I just heard a long.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Thing on MSNBC about how the White House some sort
of internal anonymous source from the White House, is the
Trump administration is thrilled with the way that's playing out politically.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I'm sure they are. I'm sure they are.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And how the something about how using the media to
their benefit.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You don't have to be used.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You could go ahead and get on the side of
like eighty percent of Americans who don't like rioting, or
you could say they're peaceful protests with cars on fire
behind you and quote play into his hands.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I don't get it. How do you not understand this? Right?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's such a head scratcher. You're you're doing it. You're
you're reporting on night. Wait, no, you're the person in Europe.
Nobody's making you claim that everything is calm while the
things are behind you were on fire. That's not him
taking advantage of you. You don't claims media making out
(02:33):
landish claims because he's hitler.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, you can't know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So a couple of things, Uh One. I like the
quote I heard from Karen bassa mayor of la this morning.
I heard her say, those of you who are vandalizing
and defacing buildings are not standing up for migrants.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You're absolutely right, you are onto something.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
There are looting, she said, yeah, looting and vandalizing. You're
not standing up for right, Yes, exactly. Those people looting
are not. They don't they're not thinking about the whole
US immigration policy as they break into a building and
steal a television.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You are correct there, yes, Mike, right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, I'm just thinking somebody's washing TV about ready to
go to a store to rip it off, and thinking, oh, okay,
never mind.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Right, this doesn't help the working bus boy.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, I was gonna get a toaster up and to
protect our immigrant community, that's I'll order one from Amazon.
But the talking point, and I hadn't caught onto this
un till I was listened to the National Reviews podcast yesterday.
But this has been a big talking point last the
last twenty four hours, and I've heard it multiple times
this morning, including from Karen Bass. There's a tiny part
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of LA that has unrest.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's just a.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Tiny portion of the city. So I flipped on MSNBC
and the person went with that, Oh, Willie geist was
going on on other channels. He means Fox, They're making
it seem like the entire city of Los Angeles is
on fire.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But it's a tiny portion. It isn't Linda or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
He goes to and they said, yes, Los Angeles is
five hundred square miles. There's about one square mile in
which is under curfew last night, in a small portion
of that where there was some unrest last night. Okay,
so you think that's the story, do you? Okay, so
I'll try that on January sixth, twenty twenty one. Washington,
(04:20):
DC is three hundred square miles. It was really just
one building where there was unrest.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The rest of Washington, d C. Was fine. I'm at
the Department of the Treasury. Nothing happening here.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Let's go ahead at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum,
ches airplanes and spaceships. Here.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Nothing to see. It's a tiny portion of Washington, d C.
Will people are beating cos cops and running into a building. Yeah,
I mean that's hilarious. Again, you're beclouding yourself. Nobody's making
you do this. You don't have to go. Here's here's
one thing that I've found very helpful. Don't spend all
your time thinking does this help Trumper hurt Trump? If
(05:00):
I say this, how about you just say what you see?
If you're standing there and there are things on fire
and cops are fighting people just say it. Yeah, yeah,
I agree with you, except that MSNBC is not about
the fifty percent of America that tends to lean left
vote left certainly not about all of America. They're about
the ten percent, the ten percent least critically thinking, most
(05:24):
enthusiastic about leftism. Yeah, well it's not working if well, again,
as we said all through the election, if you think
you're helping your side or hurting Trump by doing this,
that's not the way it played out in the election.
This is what Mark Halpern's been writing, History is repeating itself.
You're doing the same thing. Yeah, yeah, you're helping Trump
by pretending this stuff is really there's not much. What
(05:47):
was that the thing from ABC seven where they where
they they said, people, you know, you bring in the
cops and it's just people are trying to enjoy a
car being on fire and you're just going.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
To you know, cosports on watching cars. That's right, yes,
uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And it's on the one of the easiest of topics,
illegal immigration. I mean, my goodness, look at the poll numbers.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But yeah, I think part of it is.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And the longer you live, the more you see and do,
the more you realize. You know, I imagine people at
this level were going to be like, really smart and capable,
and it turns out they're not. They're kind of the same,
you know, dim witted drones that I encountered on the
last level of whatever I'm doing. There are exceptions, obviously,
all of us, you know, encounter people are very impressive.
But I just think you're Karen's Bass, your Gavin's Newsome,
(06:38):
especially because they operate in one party states, their game
is not sharp. They're just not that good, and so
they don't understand the subtleties or even the obvious aspects
of what they're I don't think I don't think there's
a subtlety subtleties. Americans don't like rioting, never have, never will.
People do not like rioting. They like order. That's just
(07:01):
human nature. Gavin Newsom gave a speech last night standing
in front of an American flag with he I think
he either used to dye his hair and he stopped,
or he's putting gray in his hair. That's the greyest
his hair has ever looked. In his most presidential looking.
He meant put a lot of effort into this to
(07:21):
look like he was the like counter West Coast president.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, the focus groups definitely said a little more gray
upstairs would make you look more you know, mature, more gravitas.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I noticed that myself this morning. Anyway, Gavin gave
a speech last night. We'll have some of that. And
Karen Bass enacted a curfew last night in Los Angeles.
They arrested at least a one hundred and then so
all the reporting has been today, things are calm. Why
did they? Why did Trump send the National Guard? We
certainly don't need marines. I don't think we need marines either,
but the National Guard. Does anybody think that there would
(07:55):
have been a curfew or arrests or any of these
things happening if Trump hadn't put all the spotlight and
pressure on Los Angeles with the whole National Guard thing?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Does anybody think that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's an obvious cause and effect and everybody knows that
and to claim otherwise. Yeah, Karen Largemouth Bass Bass leaps
at Trump's bait.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's my headline, gotcha. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on This is is Wednesday,
July the eleventh, or ten days from the longest day
of the year. And I don't know why that bothers me.
I've been watching the sunset every night so late and
really enjoying it. In just a few days, the days
are going to start getting shorter again. I mean, that's
a bad way to look at life. Well yeah, and
yet I always call the winter equinox the National Optimism Day,
(08:43):
because all the days get longer starting then, and the
summer equinox the opposite.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It seems like it comes so fast.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Anyway, I know you are twenty twenty five, warmstrong, and
getting We approve of this program, all right. Let's begin then, officially,
according to FCC rules and regulations, law and order.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Here we go, at mark.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed
a combustible situation. Democracy is under assault before our eyes.
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We're not going to wait seven days and eight days
and wait for a governor that's never going to call.
And the only flag that will wave triumphant over the
streets of Los Angeles is the American flag.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So help me God, those two clips, if you ran
those two clips for America, I'm thinking it's at least
eighty twenty.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's certainly the majority on the side of Trump. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, the democracy is under assault, is what you're seeing now.
I'm seeing a lot of rioting about illegal immigration, and
I'm against illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
The whole narrative, which they worked so hard, so feverishly
to get going, that this calling out of the National
Guard was over the objections of Gavin Newsom, was some
sort of totalitarian monstrosity not done since nineteen sixty. And
now the Marines, and I've got to admit the Marines
because they are a fighting force. The National Guard has
(10:06):
all sorts of jobs. The Marines thing bothers me a
little bit trying to get the narrative going that this
is martial law, it's a seizing of the powers of
government for the evil dictator Trump to you know, get
going is Nazi regime. That's just that's those seeds are
not growing. Nobody thinks that we also need to talk
(10:26):
about that big military pariode that Trump's got going.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I don't know what I think about that. I don't
have a strong opinion either way.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But first time in thirty years, and that was to
celebrate the winning of a war. It's not something we do. Yeah,
we'll discuss that a little bit later. Only Ran Paul's
the only big time Republican that's come out against it.
I'd love to hear his arguments, okay, because there's definitely
an aspect of it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That I like.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay, there's also an aspect of it is you know,
North Korea, China, Soviet Union standing there running your missiles
and everything through the streets to you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't know. I'm not sure that's Look at Meval,
I'm weak. You are weak man. I put cream in
my coffee. Look at me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Repeating the talking points to the left, the progressive talking
points exactly. I mean, because like, those arguments are not nothing, okay,
they have some validity. Well, I believe that they have
cars in North Korea too. Where are we gonna drive
cars just like North Korea? That doesn't work. That's a
that's a logical logical fallacy right there. Uh. That is
(11:36):
the reason they don't make me bring law and order out,
all right. That is the reason we don't do those
parades and never have. Even during the Cold War, we
didn't do that. Yes, to be different than the Soviet
But anyway, more on that later, we got some more
headlines of all the news that's going on in the world,
and a bunch of stuff to get to.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I hope you can stay here. This is one of
our clips of today.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
This could actually end up being in the running for
a Clip of the Year for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Gavin Newsom from his speech last night.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The moment we have feared has arrived. Donald Trump has
become an authoritarian.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
This moment we have feared has arrived here.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It landed last night at about eleven o'clock. The moment
we have feared has arrived. Nice lady and gentlemen. Sorry,
sorry Kevin. Looking around seemed to be fine, but thank
you for the OGA horn. Let's run through a handful
of headlines. Katie is out at the moment. You got
(12:44):
seven hundred Marines joining the twenty one hundred National Guard
personnel present in La Tuesday morning. Neither the Marines or
guardsmen will make arrests. They are just bulk to protect stuff.
Karen Largemouth Bass ordered a curfew for parts of this
cty's downtown area from eight pm to six am. What
since it's spelled the same if I was hard pronounce
(13:05):
my name base.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Not fooling anybody.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Another news, Russian forces yesterday launched with Ukrainian President Zelenski
described as one of the largest attacks on Kiev since
the start of the full scale invasion three, which is
every a headline every single day. David Ignatius in the
Washington Post, am I going to read the headline as
much as this first line from his story that we'll
get into later. Democrats have gotten the border issue so
(13:33):
wrong for so long that it amounts to political malpractice.
I would agree that's from a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
As a political scientist, and I use that Terman quotes,
I'm just interested in human beings and how they can
be so misguided, so incredibly out of touch with I mean,
the American people. We literally have polls that are published
in the very you know, outlets that they work for
(14:03):
that tell them where most Americans are, you know, how
do they process that?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
For me?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I think it's and I think it's exactly like the
same thing like if your kids, if your kid is
hanging around troublemakers, your kid's gonna get into trouble. If
your kid is hanging around kids who play sports and
get good grades.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
They're probably gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
If your husband is hanging around a bunch of divorced dudes,
he's more likely to get divorced than he's hanging around
other dads who are doing the deal.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That's just life, man.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
If you're in a bubble, this is like you know,
it's like a fish doesn't know he's wet or something like.
That's just everything you're around. This is life. This is
just normal life. And they hang around other people who
think this so much. So much of the time, you
go to your lunch break and you talk about how
Trump's an authoritarian, how awful this is, and nobody raises
(14:55):
their hand and say, yeah, I think almost everybody agrees
we shouldn't have so much illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So there's somebody there to say that.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I guess, as a guy who takes in information as
a profession I think other people who do that have
a similar approach to gathering that information that I do,
but obviously not. I bet we'd be shocked at how
little information these people take in from other sources.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'll bet you're right. I bet you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
More headlines, there was a US citizen who's been held
by Russia for a couple of years. They finally figured
out where he was in a Russian prison. Hasn't been
able to call his family until recently. Stephen Hubbard, air
Force veteran Russia, claims he was fighting for Ukraine. None
of his communication with his family tends to back that up.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Who knows, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I like this headline. Elon Musk tweeted out last night.
I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week.
They went too far. That was a very short succinct.
That's what an apology should be like. I regret it
and I went too far. I was wrong. There's no
but he shouldn't of or I'm sorry his feelings were hurt.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Michael, gimme twelve A. You know I want it.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Throwing back his war awards with the President simming.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Tensions between Musk and the President burst.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Into the open on June fifth. But now the healing
has begun. Well, don't you think this is just real?
It seems like a pretty genuine and it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's probably It's probably absolutely true. He got he went
off and now he looks back on it like many
of us, haven't the wishes he hadn't centered on that.
Another headline similar spirit, US and China agree to get
Geneva packed back on track, the War of Words and
terrorff swear, buddies, Come on, let's get back together.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, we're have reunited.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Mettle in down, we are trade wise, We absolutely are.
You Such an interesting relationship. It reminds me of we
were talking the other day about the Marxists and Islamists
are frequently working together, each one figuring that, Okay, we'll
work together, we'll get the overthrow happening. Then when we overthrow,
the powers that be will take control and we'll hang
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looose guys and over on the other side, they're thinking
precisely the same thing. China and the US are both thinking, Hey,
we need the trade to ramp up our economies, and
then once we're on top, we'll take care of you.
And both sides think.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Of the same thing. Yeah, we got a lot of
stuff to talk about. I hope you can stick around.
If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and
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Speaker 6 (17:28):
Disney World announced last week and it'll be closing the
Rivers of America, Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Square
Riverboat Attractions. Oh no, said your lamest Kid.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Wow, Wow, Sayer exhibition. I don't rank my kids on lameness.
First of all, sir, dare he impew in the good
name of the Tom Sawyer Exhibitions. And you know what's
interesting in the world where the uh you know, Revenge
of the Nerds as they've called it for the last
quite a few decades, as the computer geeks have run things,
(18:05):
Your lamest Kid might be by far the most successful
one going out into the world. Although I read I
was reading, I read way too much about AI. But
it might be the end of Revenge of the Nerds
and that all that coding stuff and all that stuff
is going to that it's going to be the first
to go with AI, right right, Yeah, the whole learned
(18:27):
to code. That has been like a mantra for certain
people for quite a few years. That might be the
first might already have been. In fact, I know somebody
it was a PhD who coded all the time. They
use AI now, I mean they would have to sit
and for hours code stuff for various programs they needed.
Now it's just like that with one of your AIS.
(18:48):
That might be the first thing to have gone. Is
the whole learned to code, so man be nimble in
the modern world with the whole, what skill.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Is the best one to have?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, in the fact that that class of people invented
their own doom is ironic. Yeah, yeah, exactly something revenge
of the nerds. Then the nerds invented the thing that
took is going to take away all their jobs. So whatever,
I just wanted to mention this. We're moving away from
the protest at least for a little while. We'll get
back to later Gavin's late night speech and what that
means and blah blah blah. One of your protesters went viral.
(19:23):
Kind of a round person. I can't tell if this
is a man or a woman, but because of their
yellow helmet like yellow skateboarder helmet and goggles, they look
exactly like a minion.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And that became quite the.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Quite the uh wow, you know, the meme opportunity for
the Internet. And for some reason, this giant, life size
minion had a leaf blower at that.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I don't know what they're doing with the leaf blower.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You know, if you want to make me mad and
annoy me, a leaf blower would do better than practically
anything because I hate them. But what are you doing
with You're trying to incite violence? Yes, I will will
be violence. They can just make noise.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, that's odd. Don't dress like a minion. More on
the lowers yours. More on the riots, the the curfews,
Gaviy Newsom's desperate attempt to use this to vaulting to
the presidency. Fox Scophant right wing talking point. Five hundred
square miles is Los Angeles. One square mile was under curfew.
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Couple of blocks.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's the that's the square mile I'm talking about that one.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
There just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Exactly right.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's right, having fun watching cars burn. It's practically the
fourth of July. Some have fireworks, some have fiery cars.
It's an LA thing. You're not from La. You wouldn't
get it. Back to a story I mentioned just briefly
last segment, the US and China are wrapping up a
couple of days of intense talks with what they say
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is a framework to get the trade truce back on track,
ratchet down tensions between the worlds two biggest economies. I
was especially interested in this, having just read something about
how the economic prospects for the summertime are a little
iffy because of a number of factors, including labor. And
there is some fear that if Trump and company are
(21:17):
serious about just rounding up illegal immigrant workers workplace raids,
because that's what really sparked.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Some of this.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Some of the unrest was just going down to the
home depot and saying, all right, who's illegal. There's some
fear that, oh, that's right. There was a big raid
in Oklahoma City too, a jack. This will not shock you.
It was, as I recall, a meat packing concern of
some sort and they found a bunch of illegal aliens
and the boss said, wait, what are you kidding? Me's outrageous.
(21:48):
They all showed me their ideas. I wonder if they
were fake.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, I don't have a single employee that speaks one
word of English. But I assumed, oh no, they were
waving a flag when they apply an American flag, so
I assume, well, hack anyway, So there are some fear
that that could disrupt the economy too.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But anyway, back to China.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Representatives from the country said the framework could essentially restore
a pack they agreed to in Switzerland last month, lower tariffs.
Beijing is going to speed up criminal critical mineral export licenses,
We're going to loosen up the whole elite computer chip thing,
and everybody's going to be get back to doing business.
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Well that's interesting because the Wall Street journal piece has
in it a senior Chinese negotiator nodded to Lutnik's remark, saying,
the two sides have agreed in principle, with the analysis
being this suggests all this is just a prelude until
the leader's summit face to face sometime this summer. So
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that makes it seem more up in the air to me.
But oh, I don't know. I mean, because things were
ratcheting up, up, up, I mean more and more hostile,
and more and more. You think you're a tough guy.
I'm a tough guy. Now it's the two sides both saying, hey, hey, hey,
we want to get along. You want to get along, Yes,
we want to get along to Nobody would have predicted
(23:09):
this a month and a half ago. So Donald Trump's
approval ratings have gone up. I'm not wanting to talk
about that, but whudo they would go up, and inflation
would be pretty low. US inflation numbers out today rose
two point four percent, a slight increase, but Trump tariffs
still haven't sparked major price hikes that people were expecting
(23:30):
or detractors were predicting. Yeah, two point four is getting
fairly close to the Fed's targeted two percent. So is
that good still coming later? I mean, when is this
supposedly gonna hit? I don't want it to hit. I
won't get any glee out of it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And for all of my complaints about the Wall Street
Journal's journalism lately, as they've swung wildly left, I want
to talk about that more later. Their hardcore business reporting
is still really good. And as our former producer Positive
Sean back in the day pointed out, he likes to
read business news because everybody is betting their own money
(24:13):
that they're right, or that they're accurate, or that their
information is thorough. It's it's not you know, the wild
Gaven Newsome style, you know, pontificating about truth, justice and whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Trump is hitler.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's if exports are likely to rise causing X, Y and.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Z, people really really want to know that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So anyway, combination of the terriff uncertainty, the labor uncertainty.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And a couple other things.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
There are a lot of really really nervous people in
the world of finance in business right now. So anything
that calms the waters, I think will be welcomed because
nobody's sure which direction the stuff's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
All feels very up in the air.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
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Speaker 2 (26:19):
I'd hate to get hit hit by a bus. That'd
be a bad way to go. A vehicle, you'd prefer
different sort of.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Any vehicle really is no good. But bus seems like
that's completely on me. Oh yeah, yeah, I see what
you're saying. Yeah, there's no you get hit by a car.
Think we get all kinds of circumstances you die in
a car wreck. I mean we've all probably known people.
It's horrific, all kinds of it. But hit by a
bus almost guaranteed he didn't. I mean it's like when
(26:48):
people find out there's the jack didn't look both ways.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Oh, not surprising. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
People will judge you in the headline is that it's
your fault.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yes, you don't have to say it because everybody's thinking. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So, speaking of the dirty commis, I thought this was interesting.
Chiesion Ping has tightened the leash on communist officials lavish
living and they're heavy boozing. They talk about how for
a long time the Communist Party, the officials various levels,
they get together and they drink like crazy, they eat
(27:28):
gourmet food. They all smoke cigarettes that are paid for
by the party, I guess, and Chiesion Ping is calling
for a new era of, you know, more thrifty activity
by the commis. Let's see the party cigarettes and boothe Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Here's the quote.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The party center has beaten drums and swung hammers, issued
orders time and again, but some officials turned to deaf
bear and showed no fear or awe for such problems.
We must insist on zero tolerance penalties, including censure, probation, demotion,
removal from positions, and expulsion from the party.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Isn't this a history of communism?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Though? Is everybody just kind of nobody's taken this seriously.
Is this whole thing's a fake? It's a whole thing's
a fraud. Oh yeah, yeah. So Beijing reinforced its messages
with updates to its frugality rules for party and state workers,
adding provisions that included an explicit ban against serving alcohol,
gourmet dishes, and cigarettes at official meals. A ban on
(28:35):
gourmet dishes, that's right. I wonder who draws the line
on gourmet. Look at his onion ranch dip and laced
potato chips. That's my gourmet. There are the roughly potato chips,
though those are fancy.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Other clauses this is the part I really liked.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Prohibit floral displays and elaborate backdrops at work meetings.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
This backtoy is too elaborate. What wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You're building a bridge for Wuhan backdrop is awfully elaborate.
The new rules added to a twenty thirteen frugality code
are meant to promote the view that thrift is glorious.
But so it reminds me I'd heard this many times
throughout my life, but I heard somebody say it the
(29:21):
other day, The old Soviet joke that was if you're
a communist, and I wonder about these people in the
Communist Party if it's true to a certain extent. We
pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. That's
the agreement we have, So it's probably good like that.
We pretend we're really into this whole thing and and
they pretend that they care, and then we're going along
(29:44):
with Yeah, yeah, yeah, thrift is glorious. Next time your
sweetheart wants to spend wildly, mention that to her or
am yes, honey, enough with the elaborate backdrops. Yeah, and
then tell them give up your soul's desire for freedom
or what's our favorite clip?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, that's rough actually during COVID, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Speaking of China, before we take a break, the top
US General for the Middle East yesterday announced that ninety
percent of Iran's oil is being purchased by China to
keep them afloat China holes. Absolutely so, China is effectively
supporting and financing Iran's malign behavior, including their rush to
(30:30):
get a bomb, said the SITCOM Chief General Eric Kurilla
yesterday during a congressional hearing. That is that's a problem,
and the whole deal maybe next hour two New York
Times breaks down pretty simply what's going on with the
Iran deal. We're either gonna let them enrich and hope
(30:53):
that they follow the rules, or we're gonna go to war.
It's almost that stark at this point in terms of
the deal between US and are.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
In, and it's getting so little attention.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, oh yeah, heck yeah me you know because uh
elon and la and a variety of other things, a
mailbag on the way and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So just stay here.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
We have feared has arrived.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
The moment we have feared has arrived, according to Gavin
Newsom last night. We'll play a little of his speech
in hour two and then great response to all this
in the National Review from Rich Lowry. This is not
what authoritarianism authoritarian being an authority trying to run as hmm,
I don't know, you want to pay me to be
(31:42):
your substitute, like it's the Civil War? Yes, authoritarianism look like.
That's not that's this is not what it looks like.
And we'll run through that for you. I think you'll
like it. Great freedom loving quote of the day George W. Romney,
father of Mitt Art, moderate widely admired politician back in
(32:03):
the day. Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice.
But I denounce political extremism of the left or the
right based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence, and threats when
they endanger liberty. That sounds like the kind of thing
politicians used to say, kind of complicated. Long, You're not
(32:24):
going to raise any money on Twitter with that sort
of statement, right.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Own, Libs drink their tears. Not right toalking. Trump's hiller,
Trump's mmler, that's right. Mail bag, Oh my god, druve
us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
We're struggling to find the right term, a brief term
we could all remember to refer to roughly twenty nineteen
through twenty twenty four or so, when the most obvious
basic ideas America is the land of the free. Hard
work is good, you can get ahead in this country.
A man is a man, a woman as a woman.
(33:03):
A boy shouldn't play on girls' sports teams. If you're
a racist, you're a racist, doesn't matter what color you are. No,
this country wasn't founded on slave but all of the
basic bedrock ideas were suddenly taboo to say, or you'd
lose your career, or they'd shut you into your house
for months because of COVID uh and and the best
we came up with yesterday was the Great Oppression. Mike
(33:26):
nailed it. I believe we should refer to this time
frame as the Great Repression because it sounds more like depression,
easier to remember the Great Repression. I'm tracking. Yeah, I
love that. I think you got it, Mike. We will
refer to that period henceforth. That's the Great Repression.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Jim the San Diego writes, Guys, I've been listening every
day for about seven years. You have the best show
in the country.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Thank you, Jim.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That is very kind, got one, It's very kind. Today
I was driving with my wife listening to the show.
Talking about immigration. You asked the quintessential question that everyone
seems to repeat. If we deport the people in the
country illegally, who will do the jobs Americans don't want
to do. My wife, a naturalized American citizen, looked at
the car radio and yelled, maybe the millions of people
waiting years and years to legally come to America.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And I looked into it briefly. Rights best I could
find it is that in twenty twenty three, thirty five
million people applied to legally immigrate, not migrate, birds migrate,
humans immigrate. Good thanks for the great show you, Jack, Katie,
Katie the News Lady, Michael Agel and Hansson make my
day better.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Thank you You're very very.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Kind and that you know, people bring up comprehensive immigration
reform all the time, but I've always said that that's
just a dodge for I want to leave it the
way it is because it's so messy. But how is
that not more of a conversation. We have thirty five
million people applying to get in, but no good, decent
system to let them in. No, we punish them, we
(34:54):
drain them of money, we treat them like garbage. And
these are the law abiding, ambitious are people that we want. Hey,
it is nuts, it's it. Yeah, it's it's unspeakably nuts. Anyway,
moving along, not much time left to I'll switch right
to the practical email of the day from Adam. Hey, Jack,
(35:15):
you're asking about cleaning your windshield, Yes, inside and out,
because a new car has a miraculously clear windshield and
it's never like that in correct. And you're at a
car show, Yes, a big cross that car show. But
I didn't want to ask some old guy because I
have fraid he'd talk to me for half an hour. Yeah,
and your son gave you the excellent advice. Ask a
(35:37):
young guy who's afraid you're that old guy, and you'll
both keep it brief.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yes, it's just fabulous, well done, son, Jack.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You can clean a windshield like new by using two
separate microfibers. Use the first one with a lot of
cleaner to get the big dirt and debris, and use
a small spray with a new microfiber to get rid
of the swipe marks. Also, try your best to do
this early morning. You're at nights, so the windshield is cooler.
This also helps white marks. I'll bet that is a
(36:05):
part of the thing too, when the windshield is cool. Okay,
I'll try that. So one soapy cloth and one barely
with a cleanser cloth. Yeah, you gotta buy some the
windshield is cool, I have learned. You gotta buy some
good window cleaner, not Windex. Windex is worthless for that
sort of stuff. There's there's much better, more expensive, but
much better. Okay, cool, thanks for the tip. We got
(36:25):
some good stuff an hour two. This is not authoritarianism.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yes, I did it.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
I said it.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And Jetty and keep arms wrong, get it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We've got two National guardments standing outside the Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Compounds, surrounded my dogs and moats.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And today we are under the tutelage of our general
manager quoting the tattoos on my knuckles, law and order.
That's right. I've got long tattooed on my right hand,
order on the knuckles of my left.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But it hadn't dawned on me that the.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh would be invisible if I held out my fists,
So people ask me, what is urger it through? I
am flabbergasted, And if you've ever had your flabbergasted, you
know how painful that can be.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
One of my favorite David Letterman lines.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The media coverage I've been taken in today, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I just, I just.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
How do you not see your you look at from
the outside, yourself, see how you're perceived or what's.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Going on here? But I just heard a long.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Thing on MSNBC about how the White House some sort
of internal anonymous source from the White House, is the
Trump administration is thrilled with the way that's playing out politically.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I'm sure they are. I'm sure they are.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And how the something about how using the media to
their benefit.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You don't have to be used.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You could go ahead and get on the side of
like eighty percent of Americans who don't like rioting, or
you could say they're peaceful protests with cars on fire
behind you and quote play into his hands.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I don't get it. How do you not understand this? Right?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's such a head scratcher. You're you're doing it. You're
you're reporting on night. Wait, no, you're the person in Europe.
Nobody's making you claim that everything is calm while the
things are behind you were on fire. That's not him
taking advantage of you. You don't claims media making out
(02:33):
landish claims because he's hitler.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, you can't know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
So a couple of things, Uh One. I like the
quote I heard from Karen bassa mayor of la this morning.
I heard her say, those of you who are vandalizing
and defacing buildings are not standing up for migrants.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You're absolutely right, you are onto something.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
There are looting, she said, yeah, looting and vandalizing. You're
not standing up for right, Yes, exactly. Those people looting
are not. They don't they're not thinking about the whole
US immigration policy as they break into a building and
steal a television.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
You are correct there, yes, Mike, right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
No, I'm just thinking somebody's washing TV about ready to
go to a store to rip it off, and thinking, oh, okay,
never mind.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Right, this doesn't help the working bus boy.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, I was gonna get a toaster up and to
protect our immigrant community, that's I'll order one from Amazon.
But the talking point, and I hadn't caught onto this
un till I was listened to the National Reviews podcast yesterday.
But this has been a big talking point last the
last twenty four hours, and I've heard it multiple times
this morning, including from Karen Bass. There's a tiny part
(03:40):
of LA that has unrest.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's just a.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Tiny portion of the city. So I flipped on MSNBC
and the person went with that, Oh, Willie geist was
going on on other channels. He means Fox, They're making
it seem like the entire city of Los Angeles is
on fire.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But it's a tiny portion. It isn't Linda or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
He goes to and they said, yes, Los Angeles is
five hundred square miles. There's about one square mile in
which is under curfew last night, in a small portion
of that where there was some unrest last night. Okay,
so you think that's the story, do you? Okay, so
I'll try that on January sixth, twenty twenty one. Washington,
(04:20):
DC is three hundred square miles. It was really just
one building where there was unrest.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The rest of Washington, d C. Was fine. I'm at
the Department of the Treasury. Nothing happening here.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Let's go ahead at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum,
ches airplanes and spaceships. Here.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Nothing to see. It's a tiny portion of Washington, d C.
Will people are beating cos cops and running into a building. Yeah,
I mean that's hilarious. Again, you're beclouding yourself. Nobody's making
you do this. You don't have to go. Here's here's
one thing that I've found very helpful. Don't spend all
your time thinking does this help Trumper hurt Trump? If
(05:00):
I say this, how about you just say what you see?
If you're standing there and there are things on fire
and cops are fighting people just say it. Yeah, yeah,
I agree with you, except that MSNBC is not about
the fifty percent of America that tends to lean left
vote left certainly not about all of America. They're about
the ten percent, the ten percent least critically thinking, most
(05:24):
enthusiastic about leftism. Yeah, well it's not working if well, again,
as we said all through the election, if you think
you're helping your side or hurting Trump by doing this,
that's not the way it played out in the election.
This is what Mark Halpern's been writing, History is repeating itself.
You're doing the same thing. Yeah, yeah, you're helping Trump
by pretending this stuff is really there's not much. What
(05:47):
was that the thing from ABC seven where they where
they they said, people, you know, you bring in the
cops and it's just people are trying to enjoy a
car being on fire and you're just going.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
To you know, cosports on watching cars. That's right, yes,
uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And it's on the one of the easiest of topics,
illegal immigration. I mean, my goodness, look at the poll numbers.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But yeah, I think part of it is.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And the longer you live, the more you see and do,
the more you realize. You know, I imagine people at
this level were going to be like, really smart and capable,
and it turns out they're not. They're kind of the same,
you know, dim witted drones that I encountered on the
last level of whatever I'm doing. There are exceptions, obviously,
all of us, you know, encounter people are very impressive.
But I just think you're Karen's Bass, your Gavin's Newsome,
(06:38):
especially because they operate in one party states, their game
is not sharp. They're just not that good, and so
they don't understand the subtleties or even the obvious aspects
of what they're I don't think I don't think there's
a subtlety subtleties. Americans don't like rioting, never have, never will.
People do not like rioting. They like order. That's just
(07:01):
human nature. Gavin Newsom gave a speech last night standing
in front of an American flag with he I think
he either used to dye his hair and he stopped,
or he's putting gray in his hair. That's the greyest
his hair has ever looked. In his most presidential looking.
He meant put a lot of effort into this to
(07:21):
look like he was the like counter West Coast president.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, the focus groups definitely said a little more gray
upstairs would make you look more you know, mature, more gravitas.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, I noticed that myself this morning. Anyway, Gavin gave
a speech last night. We'll have some of that. And
Karen Bass enacted a curfew last night in Los Angeles.
They arrested at least a one hundred and then so
all the reporting has been today, things are calm. Why
did they? Why did Trump send the National Guard? We
certainly don't need marines. I don't think we need marines either,
but the National Guard. Does anybody think that there would
(07:55):
have been a curfew or arrests or any of these
things happening if Trump hadn't put all the spotlight and
pressure on Los Angeles with the whole National Guard thing?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Does anybody think that.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's an obvious cause and effect and everybody knows that
and to claim otherwise. Yeah, Karen Largemouth Bass Bass leaps
at Trump's bait.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's my headline, gotcha. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on This is is Wednesday,
July the eleventh, or ten days from the longest day
of the year. And I don't know why that bothers me.
I've been watching the sunset every night so late and
really enjoying it. In just a few days, the days
are going to start getting shorter again. I mean, that's
a bad way to look at life. Well yeah, and
yet I always call the winter equinox the National Optimism Day,
(08:43):
because all the days get longer starting then, and the
summer equinox the opposite.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It seems like it comes so fast.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Anyway, I know you are twenty twenty five, warmstrong, and
getting We approve of this program, all right. Let's begin then, officially,
according to FCC rules and regulations, law and order.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Here we go, at mark.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed
a combustible situation. Democracy is under assault before our eyes.
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We're not going to wait seven days and eight days
and wait for a governor that's never going to call.
And the only flag that will wave triumphant over the
streets of Los Angeles is the American flag.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So help me God, those two clips, if you ran
those two clips for America, I'm thinking it's at least
eighty twenty.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's certainly the majority on the side of Trump. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, the democracy is under assault, is what you're seeing now.
I'm seeing a lot of rioting about illegal immigration, and
I'm against illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
The whole narrative, which they worked so hard, so feverishly
to get going, that this calling out of the National
Guard was over the objections of Gavin Newsom, was some
sort of totalitarian monstrosity not done since nineteen sixty. And
now the Marines, and I've got to admit the Marines
because they are a fighting force. The National Guard has
(10:06):
all sorts of jobs. The Marines thing bothers me a
little bit trying to get the narrative going that this
is martial law, it's a seizing of the powers of
government for the evil dictator Trump to you know, get
going is Nazi regime. That's just that's those seeds are
not growing. Nobody thinks that we also need to talk
(10:26):
about that big military pariode that Trump's got going.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I don't know what I think about that. I don't
have a strong opinion either way.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But first time in thirty years, and that was to
celebrate the winning of a war. It's not something we do. Yeah,
we'll discuss that a little bit later. Only Ran Paul's
the only big time Republican that's come out against it.
I'd love to hear his arguments, okay, because there's definitely
an aspect of it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That I like.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay, there's also an aspect of it is you know,
North Korea, China, Soviet Union standing there running your missiles
and everything through the streets to you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't know. I'm not sure that's Look at Meval,
I'm weak. You are weak man. I put cream in
my coffee. Look at me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Repeating the talking points to the left, the progressive talking
points exactly. I mean, because like, those arguments are not nothing, okay,
they have some validity. Well, I believe that they have
cars in North Korea too. Where are we gonna drive
cars just like North Korea? That doesn't work. That's a
that's a logical logical fallacy right there. Uh. That is
(11:36):
the reason they don't make me bring law and order out,
all right. That is the reason we don't do those
parades and never have. Even during the Cold War, we
didn't do that. Yes, to be different than the Soviet
But anyway, more on that later, we got some more
headlines of all the news that's going on in the world,
and a bunch of stuff to get to.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I hope you can stay here. This is one of
our clips of today.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
This could actually end up being in the running for
a Clip of the Year for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Gavin Newsom from his speech last night.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The moment we have feared has arrived. Donald Trump has
become an authoritarian.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
This moment we have feared has arrived here.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It landed last night at about eleven o'clock. The moment
we have feared has arrived. Nice lady and gentlemen. Sorry,
sorry Kevin. Looking around seemed to be fine, but thank
you for the OGA horn. Let's run through a handful
of headlines. Katie is out at the moment. You got
(12:44):
seven hundred Marines joining the twenty one hundred National Guard
personnel present in La Tuesday morning. Neither the Marines or
guardsmen will make arrests. They are just bulk to protect stuff.
Karen Largemouth Bass ordered a curfew for parts of this
cty's downtown area from eight pm to six am. What
since it's spelled the same if I was hard pronounce
(13:05):
my name base.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Not fooling anybody.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Another news, Russian forces yesterday launched with Ukrainian President Zelenski
described as one of the largest attacks on Kiev since
the start of the full scale invasion three, which is
every a headline every single day. David Ignatius in the
Washington Post, am I going to read the headline as
much as this first line from his story that we'll
get into later. Democrats have gotten the border issue so
(13:33):
wrong for so long that it amounts to political malpractice.
I would agree that's from a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
As a political scientist, and I use that Terman quotes,
I'm just interested in human beings and how they can
be so misguided, so incredibly out of touch with I mean,
the American people. We literally have polls that are published
in the very you know, outlets that they work for
(14:03):
that tell them where most Americans are, you know, how
do they process that?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
For me?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I think it's and I think it's exactly like the
same thing like if your kids, if your kid is
hanging around troublemakers, your kid's gonna get into trouble. If
your kid is hanging around kids who play sports and
get good grades.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
They're probably gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
If your husband is hanging around a bunch of divorced dudes,
he's more likely to get divorced than he's hanging around
other dads who are doing the deal.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That's just life, man.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
If you're in a bubble, this is like you know,
it's like a fish doesn't know he's wet or something like.
That's just everything you're around. This is life. This is
just normal life. And they hang around other people who
think this so much. So much of the time, you
go to your lunch break and you talk about how
Trump's an authoritarian, how awful this is, and nobody raises
(14:55):
their hand and say, yeah, I think almost everybody agrees
we shouldn't have so much illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So there's somebody there to say that.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I guess, as a guy who takes in information as
a profession I think other people who do that have
a similar approach to gathering that information that I do,
but obviously not. I bet we'd be shocked at how
little information these people take in from other sources.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'll bet you're right. I bet you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
More headlines, there was a US citizen who's been held
by Russia for a couple of years. They finally figured
out where he was in a Russian prison. Hasn't been
able to call his family until recently. Stephen Hubbard, air
Force veteran Russia, claims he was fighting for Ukraine. None
of his communication with his family tends to back that up.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Who knows, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I like this headline. Elon Musk tweeted out last night.
I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week.
They went too far. That was a very short succinct.
That's what an apology should be like. I regret it
and I went too far. I was wrong. There's no
but he shouldn't of or I'm sorry his feelings were hurt.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Michael, gimme twelve A. You know I want it.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Throwing back his war awards with the President simming.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Tensions between Musk and the President burst.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Into the open on June fifth. But now the healing
has begun. Well, don't you think this is just real?
It seems like a pretty genuine and it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's probably It's probably absolutely true. He got he went
off and now he looks back on it like many
of us, haven't the wishes he hadn't centered on that.
Another headline similar spirit, US and China agree to get
Geneva packed back on track, the War of Words and
terrorff swear, buddies, Come on, let's get back together.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, we're have reunited.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Mettle in down, we are trade wise, We absolutely are.
You Such an interesting relationship. It reminds me of we
were talking the other day about the Marxists and Islamists
are frequently working together, each one figuring that, Okay, we'll
work together, we'll get the overthrow happening. Then when we overthrow,
the powers that be will take control and we'll hang
(17:05):
looose guys and over on the other side, they're thinking
precisely the same thing. China and the US are both thinking, Hey,
we need the trade to ramp up our economies, and
then once we're on top, we'll take care of you.
And both sides think.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Of the same thing. Yeah, we got a lot of
stuff to talk about. I hope you can stick around.
If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and
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Speaker 6 (17:28):
Disney World announced last week and it'll be closing the
Rivers of America, Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Square
Riverboat Attractions. Oh no, said your lamest Kid.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Wow, Wow, Sayer exhibition. I don't rank my kids on lameness.
First of all, sir, dare he impew in the good
name of the Tom Sawyer Exhibitions. And you know what's
interesting in the world where the uh you know, Revenge
of the Nerds as they've called it for the last
quite a few decades, as the computer geeks have run things,
(18:05):
Your lamest Kid might be by far the most successful
one going out into the world. Although I read I
was reading, I read way too much about AI. But
it might be the end of Revenge of the Nerds
and that all that coding stuff and all that stuff
is going to that it's going to be the first
to go with AI, right right, Yeah, the whole learned
(18:27):
to code. That has been like a mantra for certain
people for quite a few years. That might be the
first might already have been. In fact, I know somebody
it was a PhD who coded all the time. They
use AI now, I mean they would have to sit
and for hours code stuff for various programs they needed.
Now it's just like that with one of your AIS.
(18:48):
That might be the first thing to have gone. Is
the whole learned to code, so man be nimble in
the modern world with the whole, what skill.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Is the best one to have?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, in the fact that that class of people invented
their own doom is ironic. Yeah, yeah, exactly something revenge
of the nerds. Then the nerds invented the thing that
took is going to take away all their jobs. So whatever,
I just wanted to mention this. We're moving away from
the protest at least for a little while. We'll get
back to later Gavin's late night speech and what that
means and blah blah blah. One of your protesters went viral.
(19:23):
Kind of a round person. I can't tell if this
is a man or a woman, but because of their
yellow helmet like yellow skateboarder helmet and goggles, they look
exactly like a minion.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And that became quite the.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Quite the uh wow, you know, the meme opportunity for
the Internet. And for some reason, this giant, life size
minion had a leaf blower at that.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I don't know what they're doing with the leaf blower.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You know, if you want to make me mad and
annoy me, a leaf blower would do better than practically
anything because I hate them. But what are you doing
with You're trying to incite violence? Yes, I will will
be violence. They can just make noise.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, that's odd. Don't dress like a minion. More on
the lowers yours. More on the riots, the the curfews,
Gaviy Newsom's desperate attempt to use this to vaulting to
the presidency. Fox Scophant right wing talking point. Five hundred
square miles is Los Angeles. One square mile was under curfew.
(20:25):
Couple of blocks.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's the that's the square mile I'm talking about that one.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
There just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Exactly right.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's right, having fun watching cars burn. It's practically the
fourth of July. Some have fireworks, some have fiery cars.
It's an LA thing. You're not from La. You wouldn't
get it. Back to a story I mentioned just briefly
last segment, the US and China are wrapping up a
couple of days of intense talks with what they say
(20:55):
is a framework to get the trade truce back on track,
ratchet down tensions between the worlds two biggest economies. I
was especially interested in this, having just read something about
how the economic prospects for the summertime are a little
iffy because of a number of factors, including labor. And
there is some fear that if Trump and company are
(21:17):
serious about just rounding up illegal immigrant workers workplace raids,
because that's what really sparked.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Some of this.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Some of the unrest was just going down to the
home depot and saying, all right, who's illegal. There's some
fear that, oh, that's right. There was a big raid
in Oklahoma City too, a jack. This will not shock you.
It was, as I recall, a meat packing concern of
some sort and they found a bunch of illegal aliens
and the boss said, wait, what are you kidding? Me's outrageous.
(21:48):
They all showed me their ideas. I wonder if they
were fake.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, I don't have a single employee that speaks one
word of English. But I assumed, oh no, they were
waving a flag when they apply an American flag, so
I assume, well, hack anyway, So there are some fear
that that could disrupt the economy too.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But anyway, back to China.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Representatives from the country said the framework could essentially restore
a pack they agreed to in Switzerland last month, lower tariffs.
Beijing is going to speed up criminal critical mineral export licenses,
We're going to loosen up the whole elite computer chip thing,
and everybody's going to be get back to doing business.
(22:28):
Well that's interesting because the Wall Street journal piece has
in it a senior Chinese negotiator nodded to Lutnik's remark, saying,
the two sides have agreed in principle, with the analysis
being this suggests all this is just a prelude until
the leader's summit face to face sometime this summer. So
(22:49):
that makes it seem more up in the air to me.
But oh, I don't know. I mean, because things were
ratcheting up, up, up, I mean more and more hostile,
and more and more. You think you're a tough guy.
I'm a tough guy. Now it's the two sides both saying, hey, hey, hey,
we want to get along. You want to get along, Yes,
we want to get along to Nobody would have predicted
(23:09):
this a month and a half ago. So Donald Trump's
approval ratings have gone up. I'm not wanting to talk
about that, but whudo they would go up, and inflation
would be pretty low. US inflation numbers out today rose
two point four percent, a slight increase, but Trump tariffs
still haven't sparked major price hikes that people were expecting
(23:30):
or detractors were predicting. Yeah, two point four is getting
fairly close to the Fed's targeted two percent. So is
that good still coming later? I mean, when is this
supposedly gonna hit? I don't want it to hit. I
won't get any glee out of it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And for all of my complaints about the Wall Street
Journal's journalism lately, as they've swung wildly left, I want
to talk about that more later. Their hardcore business reporting
is still really good. And as our former producer Positive
Sean back in the day pointed out, he likes to
read business news because everybody is betting their own money
(24:13):
that they're right, or that they're accurate, or that their
information is thorough. It's it's not you know, the wild
Gaven Newsome style, you know, pontificating about truth, justice and whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Trump is hitler.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's if exports are likely to rise causing X, Y and.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Z, people really really want to know that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So anyway, combination of the terriff uncertainty, the labor uncertainty.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And a couple other things.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
There are a lot of really really nervous people in
the world of finance in business right now. So anything
that calms the waters, I think will be welcomed because
nobody's sure which direction the stuff's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
All feels very up in the air.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
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Speaker 2 (26:19):
I'd hate to get hit hit by a bus. That'd
be a bad way to go. A vehicle, you'd prefer
different sort of.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Any vehicle really is no good. But bus seems like
that's completely on me. Oh yeah, yeah, I see what
you're saying. Yeah, there's no you get hit by a car.
Think we get all kinds of circumstances you die in
a car wreck. I mean we've all probably known people.
It's horrific, all kinds of it. But hit by a
bus almost guaranteed he didn't. I mean it's like when
(26:48):
people find out there's the jack didn't look both ways.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Oh, not surprising. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
People will judge you in the headline is that it's
your fault.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yes, you don't have to say it because everybody's thinking. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So, speaking of the dirty commis, I thought this was interesting.
Chiesion Ping has tightened the leash on communist officials lavish
living and they're heavy boozing. They talk about how for
a long time the Communist Party, the officials various levels,
they get together and they drink like crazy, they eat
(27:28):
gourmet food. They all smoke cigarettes that are paid for
by the party, I guess, and Chiesion Ping is calling
for a new era of, you know, more thrifty activity
by the commis. Let's see the party cigarettes and boothe Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Here's the quote.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The party center has beaten drums and swung hammers, issued
orders time and again, but some officials turned to deaf
bear and showed no fear or awe for such problems.
We must insist on zero tolerance penalties, including censure, probation, demotion,
removal from positions, and expulsion from the party.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Isn't this a history of communism?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Though? Is everybody just kind of nobody's taken this seriously.
Is this whole thing's a fake? It's a whole thing's
a fraud. Oh yeah, yeah. So Beijing reinforced its messages
with updates to its frugality rules for party and state workers,
adding provisions that included an explicit ban against serving alcohol,
gourmet dishes, and cigarettes at official meals. A ban on
(28:35):
gourmet dishes, that's right. I wonder who draws the line
on gourmet. Look at his onion ranch dip and laced
potato chips. That's my gourmet. There are the roughly potato chips,
though those are fancy.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Other clauses this is the part I really liked.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Prohibit floral displays and elaborate backdrops at work meetings.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
This backtoy is too elaborate. What wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You're building a bridge for Wuhan backdrop is awfully elaborate.
The new rules added to a twenty thirteen frugality code
are meant to promote the view that thrift is glorious.
But so it reminds me I'd heard this many times
throughout my life, but I heard somebody say it the
(29:21):
other day, The old Soviet joke that was if you're
a communist, and I wonder about these people in the
Communist Party if it's true to a certain extent. We
pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. That's
the agreement we have, So it's probably good like that.
We pretend we're really into this whole thing and and
they pretend that they care, and then we're going along
(29:44):
with Yeah, yeah, yeah, thrift is glorious. Next time your
sweetheart wants to spend wildly, mention that to her or
am yes, honey, enough with the elaborate backdrops. Yeah, and
then tell them give up your soul's desire for freedom
or what's our favorite clip?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, that's rough actually during COVID, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Speaking of China, before we take a break, the top
US General for the Middle East yesterday announced that ninety
percent of Iran's oil is being purchased by China to
keep them afloat China holes. Absolutely so, China is effectively
supporting and financing Iran's malign behavior, including their rush to
(30:30):
get a bomb, said the SITCOM Chief General Eric Kurilla
yesterday during a congressional hearing. That is that's a problem,
and the whole deal maybe next hour two New York
Times breaks down pretty simply what's going on with the
Iran deal. We're either gonna let them enrich and hope
(30:53):
that they follow the rules, or we're gonna go to war.
It's almost that stark at this point in terms of
the deal between US and are.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
In, and it's getting so little attention.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, oh yeah, heck yeah me you know because uh
elon and la and a variety of other things, a
mailbag on the way and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So just stay here.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
We have feared has arrived.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
The moment we have feared has arrived, according to Gavin
Newsom last night. We'll play a little of his speech
in hour two and then great response to all this
in the National Review from Rich Lowry. This is not
what authoritarianism authoritarian being an authority trying to run as hmm,
I don't know, you want to pay me to be
(31:42):
your substitute, like it's the Civil War? Yes, authoritarianism look like.
That's not that's this is not what it looks like.
And we'll run through that for you. I think you'll
like it. Great freedom loving quote of the day George W. Romney,
father of Mitt Art, moderate widely admired politician back in
(32:03):
the day. Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice.
But I denounce political extremism of the left or the
right based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence, and threats when
they endanger liberty. That sounds like the kind of thing
politicians used to say, kind of complicated. Long, You're not
(32:24):
going to raise any money on Twitter with that sort
of statement, right.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Own, Libs drink their tears. Not right toalking. Trump's hiller,
Trump's mmler, that's right. Mail bag, Oh my god, druve
us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
We're struggling to find the right term, a brief term
we could all remember to refer to roughly twenty nineteen
through twenty twenty four or so, when the most obvious
basic ideas America is the land of the free. Hard
work is good, you can get ahead in this country.
A man is a man, a woman as a woman.
(33:03):
A boy shouldn't play on girls' sports teams. If you're
a racist, you're a racist, doesn't matter what color you are. No,
this country wasn't founded on slave but all of the
basic bedrock ideas were suddenly taboo to say, or you'd
lose your career, or they'd shut you into your house
for months because of COVID uh and and the best
we came up with yesterday was the Great Oppression. Mike
(33:26):
nailed it. I believe we should refer to this time
frame as the Great Repression because it sounds more like depression,
easier to remember the Great Repression. I'm tracking. Yeah, I
love that. I think you got it, Mike. We will
refer to that period henceforth. That's the Great Repression.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Jim the San Diego writes, Guys, I've been listening every
day for about seven years. You have the best show
in the country.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Thank you, Jim.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That is very kind, got one, It's very kind. Today
I was driving with my wife listening to the show.
Talking about immigration. You asked the quintessential question that everyone
seems to repeat. If we deport the people in the
country illegally, who will do the jobs Americans don't want
to do. My wife, a naturalized American citizen, looked at
the car radio and yelled, maybe the millions of people
waiting years and years to legally come to America.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And I looked into it briefly. Rights best I could
find it is that in twenty twenty three, thirty five
million people applied to legally immigrate, not migrate, birds migrate,
humans immigrate. Good thanks for the great show you, Jack, Katie,
Katie the News Lady, Michael Agel and Hansson make my
day better.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Thank you You're very very.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Kind and that you know, people bring up comprehensive immigration
reform all the time, but I've always said that that's
just a dodge for I want to leave it the
way it is because it's so messy. But how is
that not more of a conversation. We have thirty five
million people applying to get in, but no good, decent
system to let them in. No, we punish them, we
(34:54):
drain them of money, we treat them like garbage. And
these are the law abiding, ambitious are people that we want. Hey,
it is nuts, it's it. Yeah, it's it's unspeakably nuts. Anyway,
moving along, not much time left to I'll switch right
to the practical email of the day from Adam. Hey, Jack,
(35:15):
you're asking about cleaning your windshield, Yes, inside and out,
because a new car has a miraculously clear windshield and
it's never like that in correct. And you're at a
car show, Yes, a big cross that car show. But
I didn't want to ask some old guy because I
have fraid he'd talk to me for half an hour. Yeah,
and your son gave you the excellent advice. Ask a
(35:37):
young guy who's afraid you're that old guy, and you'll
both keep it brief.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yes, it's just fabulous, well done, son, Jack.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You can clean a windshield like new by using two
separate microfibers. Use the first one with a lot of
cleaner to get the big dirt and debris, and use
a small spray with a new microfiber to get rid
of the swipe marks. Also, try your best to do
this early morning. You're at nights, so the windshield is cooler.
This also helps white marks. I'll bet that is a
(36:05):
part of the thing too, when the windshield is cool. Okay,
I'll try that. So one soapy cloth and one barely
with a cleanser cloth. Yeah, you gotta buy some the
windshield is cool, I have learned. You gotta buy some
good window cleaner, not Windex. Windex is worthless for that
sort of stuff. There's there's much better, more expensive, but
much better. Okay, cool, thanks for the tip. We got
(36:25):
some good stuff an hour two. This is not authoritarianism.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yes, I did it.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
I said it.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
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