May 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- A simpler time, the SALT deduction & divorced dad dinner
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Biggest scandal in US history & a shocked Whoopi
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Armstrong, and Jettie and he arm get breaking news. Speaker
Johnson says, the full bill may go to the or
the bill may go to the full House for a vote. Tonight.
(00:40):
There you go, come on, Chrissy edwork. I was just
reading print media that said maybe this weekend that shows
you why print media is dead. Oh, tonight live from
Studio C.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You see signor then it goes to the Senate where
they come up with something completely different than the real
work begins.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Anyway. Hello, a dim room deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong in Getty Communications compound. And today we're under
the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
To heck with politics. I say, to heck with the
our general manager. Today, the Great George went norm from Cheers,
a sitcom that went off the air thirty two years ago.
It was a better simpler time. The eighties, Yes, were
a better simpler time they were. Do you think they
actually were?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yes? I do? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
How about the ninety anyways? Sociologically nineties pretty solid.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
When did it when? When did it stop? Being a better,
simpler time. That'd be my question.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The twin happenings of the rise of the smartphone, which
has been both a blessing indocurse about two thousand seven
for that, and the rise of critical theory slash DEI
in our nation's education systems, which I think really it
was under cover so you didn't know it, but it
was really i'd say two thousand on really gain esteem.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And then they start putting skirts on the quarterbacks. Couldn't
touch emxactly exactly that too, that's a good point. We
used to have men in this country. Yeah, man, like
George went of cheers, uh and then yeah, I don't
want to talk about this either. It's just I'm so
bothered by it. So that well, overnight they claim anyway
(02:25):
that the salt deduction thing is going to happen. Now,
oh yeah, it's going to be big. And the number
now yeah, with with another caveat that makes it even higher,
which is just insane.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Absolutely so, you're insane spending blue states. The poor denizens
of those states will have giant tax deductions because they're
being soaked by their blue state.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
What could be less conservative than red states paying the
taxes of blue states. I know it's obscene. So this
congress person from New York, and you can't blame him.
He's representing his people. I don't think he can blame him.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, he's got to be seen trying. Because people vote
their self interests. They shouldn't if they're patriots, but they do.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That's about him. I might change my mind in that
because like, it's my self interest to have the salt
deduction would save me quite a bit of money, right,
like put more money in my kids pockets. But it's
just so horrible. I can't. I can't. There's no way.
If I was king, I would not allow it to
happen anyway. This representative from New York said, New York
is the highest tax burden of any state in the country.
(03:37):
We need to raise the cap on salt to deliver
relief for middle class families to my ass in which
many people replied some version of why is that my fault?
Or why do I have to pick up the tab please?
Or this if only were there some other way for
New York to lower their tax burden, as in, lower
(03:59):
your own tax if you get too often.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's sarcasm right there, Yeah, it is so crazy, it's repugnant.
It's a betrayal of everything the Republican Party claimed to
have stood for. But it doesn't anymore apparently.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And while you are correct that the House version, even
if it does go to the full House tonight and
gets passed, it goes to the Senate and then they'll
have their changes and then it goes back. But it
certainly directionally gives you an idea of where things are.
Trump was in there yesterday, strong arm strong and strong
arming people this way or that to get this thing through.
And if it passes in its current form, it will
(04:35):
set the record for the highest debt to GDP ratio
that we've had since World War Two.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So during prosperous times of a growing economy, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right, Not at war with China, which will happen someday,
and we'll start the war in a really bad financial
position instead of World War II begins, and then you
get into financial trouble because you're dealing with the crisis.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well, and remember, if there's some giant i'm a downtterm, recession, depression, whatever, generally,
governments will go into debt stimulating their economy.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
But we're already way into that. This is like, so,
I mean you're always using the family, you know, analogy
of He's just like living as stretched as you can
your paycheck to paycheck, with a really nice house and
really nice cars, and you've already booked your vacation and
everything like that, with the assumption that mom or Dad
won't lose their job, nobody will have a medical problem, nothing,
(05:30):
the air conditioner won't break down. If any of those
things happen, you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And the kids have sat mom and down at the
kitchen table and explained the situation to him. Unfortunately, Dad's
a coke fiend and mom's psychotics. So Dad does a
big line and blow and goes off to the Ferrari
dealer as the children sit at their kitchen table crying,
crying over their future. Good morning, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
How are you, the eight year feeling the eight year
old daughter says, but what if the air conditioner broke?
I'm off to get another Ferraur, says the government. I
was walking my dog yesterday and I walked by his house.
They had their garage door open. I've never walked by
it before. He's got a I couldn't help was a
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Lamborghini or a Ferrari. I'm not I don't know those
kind of cars that well, but it was one of
those and some sort of super fancy, little tiny sports
Porsche car. Those are his two cars. And then in
the living room, he's got a giant drum set set up.
That's got to be a divorced guy, right, A rich
divorced guy has to be a rich divorced guy. Two
little sports cars and your drum set in the living room,
(06:34):
screams rich divorced guy.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
To me, I can't imagine any lifestyle whatsoever. Well, rich
tech guy who's never been married. Could That could? But
you're right, that could be. There is no household in
America that includes a female partner that also includes a
drum kit in the living.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Room, full setup, like it's Phil Collins. I mean, yeah, wow,
my kids hit me the other night with Actually I
said it first, and then Sam said, I was thinking
the same thing. What did we eat? Yes, I can't remember,
like macaroni and cheese, and I steamed some vegetables or
something like that. I said, wow, this is really a
(07:14):
divorced dad meal right here. Sam said, Sack that you
could laugh about it. Yeah, it's hilarious. Well, some laughs
are different than other laughs. Maybe we need laughs. We'll
go open the show with our very clip. I'm Jack
(07:36):
Enough human despair pie God. Yes, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, May twenty first,
the year twenty twenty five. We are damn it. Whoop,
we are armstrong and geddy, and we approve of this program. Whoops.
There it is all right.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Let's begin the show officially according to CC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Here we go at mark. Everybody paying arm what I
know enough? Anybody? Yeah, better give me a tall one
case I like it. I was life treating you Norm.
I just ran over its dog my nipples. It's freezing
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out there. How can I do well?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I am gonna need something to kill time before my
second beer.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
How about a first one? That's a good one. I
like a really tall one in case I like it.
That's pretty funny. I always liked. That's George Went, who
died yesterday. He was a figure on a popular sitcom
where he would walk in the bar every day and
they would say something like, what's up to Norman? He'd say,
my ideal weight? If I'm seven feet tall. How's life
(08:50):
treating you, Norman like a dog treats a bone. I
was watching some video with Seinfeld Jerry Sin the other night,
and the question was how did Seinfeld become such a
big hit? And he said ted Danson got tired of
doing Cheers because they moved into the Cheers time slot.
(09:13):
When time when Ted Danson got tired of doing Cheers
and Seinfeld had been on four different time slots and
not caught on zero ratings and might have died a
death as a cult favorite had it not been for that. Yeah,
which is an interesting thing about wife right there, It
really is. That's why you just keep grinding.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You never know when the ted Dancing of Fate is
going to duck out of the timeslot of reality, right exactly? Yeah,
in the TV schedule of your dreams, Yeah, I got one,
I got one question before we take a break.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So a hallmark of the Armstrong and Getty Show. There
are several hallmarks, but one hallmark is the media not
answering the obvious question. Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
We've the one that pops into everybody's mind, but professional reporters,
And I think that's happening today where I've heard six times.
Probably the Republicans met at one am or still wrangling
over the bill.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The rules committee began at one am. Why did they
start at one o'clock in the morning. You can't just
throw that out there? Isn't that the obvious question? How
did you start at one in the morning? When did
that become a thing? Is that a thing?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Did they start it? Well, they started at one am.
They're like eight hours in. They started at one am,
as I said yesterday. But I haven't heard anybody say,
why isn't that isn't it? Isn't that it obvious? Why
do they start at one in the morning? Who does that?
Who says, be here in your suit and tie and
hard shoes, park and get in here and be in
your seat at one am? Because do you have any idea? Why?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Probably because they they were working until roughly midnight to
get to a place to have that committee meeting.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I guess right. It seems like an odd way to
do business to me. I don't know. I feel like
I'm not I'm not suggesting anything untoward or anything. It
just seems odd.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah. At the risk of returning to the mood of
two and a half minutes, ago. I feel like I'm
observing a you know, a couple of you know, like
I don't know. I'm in a Chinese prison camp and
the two guys are discussing exactly how.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
They're going to torture me.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And I'm listening to the process and absorbing, and the
whole thing is so disappointing and disgusting to me.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I just want to pretend it's not happening. You are
to talk about it. If you are in a Chinese
prison camp, you've got to get the maintenance worker to
figure out a way to let you out. We've got
more on that story, a momental genius huh, among other
things on the way Katie's headlines. Next stay here. Just
writing an article to the wall Sure journal about how
you can make money streaming. That's what I need to do.
(12:03):
I need to be a guy just like opens boxes.
That's a big box opening box, boxing stream unboxing streamer.
That's what all become. I'm gonna open up these shoes.
My son was watching one of these the other day.
Just got the shoes, Gonna open it. Ooh, lift off
the lid. Look at this some nice crey paper. I
am so mystified by This guy had like eighty million followers.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I try not to poop poo
something before I at least a little understand it. Ah,
maybe I could kill a couple of birds with one stone, Katie,
what do you think of this? Let me just try that.
You're young and hip garage cleaning videos?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh what sure?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That could get guy? Where will I put this rake?
Let me think? And then people would be watching thinking
you could put it up on that rake rack. I
don't know it would work.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Then you cut to Judy her saying, if I see
that rake l leaning up against the car one more time,
I don't know what I'm gonna do. Then back to
you with the rake.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
There's this whole time Scot He's got millions of followers,
and he does yardwork.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Is he hot? Nof?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
He just goes through and he finds he finds houses
that have completely let their front yards go, and he
fixes them for him and videos it and puts it up.
And this guy, he's making so much money that his
niche now as he goes around and does it for
free for people.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I've never watched that, but I have watched things before,
and this might be my least favorite emotion. I've watched
things before where I'm several minutes into it, sometimes way
too many minutes into it, and I think, what am
I doing? Is this how I want to spend my life? Agreed?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right, It's like you on your deathbed as whispering to you,
are you serious with this? This is how you're this
is how you're spending our time. I'm thinking my garage
cleaning videos would be great. I think Judy and I
could work on a little I don't know, honeymooner's style,
bickering sitcom style.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I told you I pick up the rake. Yeah, I
haven't picked up that ring. You know, just this sort
of thing, money pit do it?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, A right, Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Green Dailey.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Starting with the free Beacon quote. It could be twelve
to eighteen months. Former White House doctor says biden cancer
prognosis is grim.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Really he might have that long to live twelve.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
To eighteen months, according to the Free beaconless he was
one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Given you know the look of him, it wouldn't be
super long anyway. Yeah, wow, But God bless him. He's
our fellow human being God bless him in the liar.
I don't wish he had cancer, but he's a freaking
liar top to bottom. And every continue to hear out
of them about their cancer diagnosis is probably a lie.
So where do you place your sympathy since they're lying
(14:40):
about everything.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
From The New York Post, Hunter Biden told Jake Tapper
to go f himself after CNN host pestered him during
his brother's last days.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Okay, yeah, I heard they almost got into a fight
at some point. I don't know that story.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, Tapper was asking him about bow and Hunter flipped.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, hundreds of crackhead and they flip about a lot
of things. I don't know if you ever see him
on the corner yelling at fire hydrants.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
From CNN, Trump details planned to build Golden Dome missile
shield by the end.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Of his term. Love this story. I don't know how
doable it is.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And they've got to develop the technology at Notre Dame University. Obviously,
the golden domes And did Trump just go with that
name because he likes gold so much?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, maybe I mean orya the plated dome. Israel has
the iron dome, so it's not a huge stretch. I
guess I don't know. I'm a titanium. Gold is a
soft metal. It's useless as a dome.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
From NBC. Twenty one year old man charged with giving
alcohol to twenty year old who fell two stories.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
At the Pirates game. O. Wow, you're twenty one and
you slipped a beer to your twenty year old friend
and you're in trouble bottom two beers. Thank goodness. None
of my friends or I have ever done that during
our coll No, God, that only happens always. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Come on, hey, Darwin, try not to flip out of
your seat onto the field and break your neck.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I mean, I realize the laws of law, but it's
not the same as like a fifty year old buy
and beer for twelve year old. Yeah right, right.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
From the Financial Times, Google offers AI mode in.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Total re imaging of search, so they're trying to just yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
No, it's just they're trying to keep up with the
chatbots and all of that nonsense.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I was just reading about Google's challenges with AI and
then competing and how it's changing the landscape of search,
especially so much.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But Google's doomed unless they really revamp it. I'm I'm
full chat GPT for I surges. Now, yeah, Google's got
some interesting stuff in the works. I wouldn't give upon
him yet. In fact, I was tempted to buy some
stock from the Babylon b Alarming.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Thanks to public schools funding cuts, this five year old
student doesn't know all of the various sexual lusts adults
adults can have.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Because of the funding cuts, we've had to cut our
teaching perversion to kindergartener's program.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm afraid we've got some more news of the day
for you, and there's a lot as always. If you
missed a second, get the podcast Armstrong and get you
on demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I have to tell you direct me and personally that
I regret voting for you for Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I yield back.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I respond, well, first of all, your regret for voting
for me confirms I'm doing a good job.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh yeah, because you're a dumb ass. Then he took
a drink of water because he's so thirsty. L Marco's
too classy to throw in the dumb ass part. But
that's precisely with him. And if I found myself in
agreement with you, I'd be humiliated your dumbass. Okay, that
was fun. So I uh, I'll speak for myself. Joe
then can put in his opinion on this. I'm I'm
(17:58):
feeling maybe people getting tired of the Hey, we get it,
Joe Biden was ancient and they're covering it up. On
the other hand, at the risk of wearing people out
on this, it is well, I'm looking at David Harsani's tweet.
He echoes what a lot of people that I like
are saying. It's the biggest It's one of the biggest
(18:20):
scandals in US history. Yes, it could potentially be the
biggest scandal in US history, right, and for a number
of reasons.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's a multi layered not only scandal, but opportunity I think,
and I'm sure we'll miss it as a country, but
the opportunity is to blow the lid off of the
unbelievable dishonesty and dysfunction of the American media system. Okay,
so you used to claim to be one thing while
clearly behaving is another.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, So it depends on how you define the scandal.
If the scandal is the Biden cover up like within themselves,
and then the media going along with it for whatever reason.
That's a very, very giant scandal, just the media's coverage
in the era of Trump. The Wall Street Journal lays
it out today. And when you put it in order
like this, their failure to admit that Russian collusion was
(19:14):
a lie, followed by claiming Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian
intelligence when they knew it wasn't. Then four to eight
years of pretending Joe Biden wasn't senile. You put all
three of those together, it's amazing they don't have a
zero percent approval rating. I mean that is incredible. Oh
(19:36):
and as they point out in the Wall Street Journal,
all the while trying to claim Trump was hitler and
you should be afraid, very afraid, right, Yeah, And which
brings us back to the incredible, hilarious lack of self
awareness that Jake Tapper displays with his whole look what
I uncovered saying, the media, after each of those major
(19:59):
betray rails of their listeners, readers, et cetera, said nothing
is here. Let's talk about the next thing, thinking people
didn't notice.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. I
watch you every night and you told me something that
wasn't true. Two hundred and thirty seven consecutive nights. Well, okay,
I guess I'll keep watching, and then another one and
another one occurs, and then they have no trust left
in the American or the American people have no trust
left in them, and they're completely mystified as to why
(20:28):
it's It's really strange.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I don't Well, they clearly don't realize, as was laid
out by the Wall Street Journal there, how much damage
they've done to themselves.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Right right, That's what I'm saying there there. They are
spectacularly unself aware. Speaking of which I said to the
guys in the pre show meeting today, this is as
if I created it with Ai A WHOOPI Goldberg, commenting
on the scandal, dishore is always.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Been a mass trust of trust issue because politicians, media
nobody does what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Now, I say, for me, is.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
It he's eighty three, so he's a little stumbling, he's
a little rumbly.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I can't point to.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Anything that he's done as president that he did.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
For you.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
But but I'm saying, I want not you, but I
want somebody to tell me, well, when did you know.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It was bad? If you knew. Why did you wait?
So he said that it was after moderated the debate.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, but that's I'm sorry, baby, that's not what I'm
talking about. I'm talking about if if you're telling me
that hundreds of people knew that he was not able
to do his job, then where the hell was everybody job?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
No, it's more like one hundred million people knew, wood
be two thirds of Americans knew. How were they not
away of this? The bubble syndrome?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's got to be they are as bubbled as we
suspected when we were at our most cynical. That's clearly true.
So again, this scandal has so many different layers to it.
One of them is just you know, you, us, all
of us, as we observe humanity, have learned something about
how delusional people can be.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Right. That quote from Morewell that Jake Tapper put in
the beginning of the book that he thought he was
making about people around Biden was actually about himself. But
it is really really good about how difficult it is
for human beings sometimes to recognize the truth if it's
not what they want it to be. It takes a
constant effort.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, yeah, and it exists, you know, all over the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I know some folks.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I haven't talked to him for a little while, but
it was in the wake of one of Trump's, you know,
just inexplicable missteps, and they denied, as a couple up
and down, that he had made any mistakes or miscalculations
at all, and they thought I was nuts to say
he had.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And I thought, wow, okay, well we can uh, okay,
let's talk about the weather. So I've got so I'm
still reading the Jake Tapper book and making my way
through it. But the one thing that he doesn't seem
to have the answer on that I wonder if history
will dig up. But he he suspects strongly, and this
(23:29):
clearly seems to be the case somebody close to Biden,
and I don't think this could be Jill. This had
to be some of his handlers. They were feeding Biden
fake polls. Yeah, you know the various interviews where he
went on said no, no, I'm leading the polls. That's because
he was being fed phony poles. As has been pointed
(23:52):
out many, many times, there were no internal Democratic Party
polls that ever showed him being ahead. Kamala Harris being
ahead ever once? Right? So who I mean that? First
of all, why are you doing this? And secondly, what
makes you think that's a good idea to make up
(24:12):
a poll for an old, senile man to make him
think he's ahead right?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, And that is probably the headline because it's practically
become a cliche in American politics. George Bush doesn't want
to run the White House. He's a puppet, Dick Cheney's
in charge, blah blah blah, just every president. This was
an actual example of a senile old man unable to
function at some times and not function very at a
very high level at others, being completely controlled and gas
(24:42):
lit in the classic sense from the original movie by
his inner circle, including his wife, that he was doing great,
and the poor doddering old fool believed it. And oh,
by the way, he was the leader of the free
world at the time. But why would the The normality
of that story cannot be overstated.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But why were they bringing him polls showing him ahead
when he wasn't? For what reason?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
To keep him in it? Because they thought only he
could beat Trump. They shared that decision apparently.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
But that's not the way usually you do The opposite, like, look,
our internal polls show us behind, so we need to
change our messaging here, or we need to go to
these states or whatever to help your strategy. What's the
point telling the guy he's winning.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, I think they had that low an opinion of
his abilities to do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So you think they were running the campaign based on
the real polls that they knew. Yes, he wasn't incapable
of doing any he wasn't going to do anything, so
it doesn't matter. Let's just keep him happy. He can
eat his jello and he can watch prices right and
go to bed.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, if I were to use the football metaphor, oh
the tush push soon to be outlaw jack, Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yes, Oh it's a Persian. It's it's it's it's it's
an American. What it's against a lot?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I have a big ass, the ass, that's the operative,
the factory.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
This was America, all right, So oh, to use a
football metaphor.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So the campaign is thinking, all right, can we jazz
up our offense, meaning can we use our candidate more effectively?
Can we alter our strategies become more aggressive?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And they looked at the senile old mummy and said no,
we cannot. So they went entirely in this may ring
a bell on defense. Trump is hitler, Trump is evil.
Trump is coming for game people, for black people. It
will come to your home and beat your children down.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I still think there's a missing element to this somewhere
that I don't quite understand what their end goal was
they did. There's no way they thought that Biden could
be president for another four years.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, no, they just wanted him to beat Trump and
then they would continue to be the puppet masters a
new puppet.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Because there's a lot there's a fair amount of suspicion
and well earned suspicion that they were as scared of
Kamala Harris being president as you are. Yeah, and so
that that that I mean, if if if al Gore
had been the vice president, problem solved, We we make
it clear the guy's got to go, and al Gore's
president and we run him because he's a good politician
and he would win. That that's what they would have done.
(27:22):
But they didn't have that in their in their as
a backup. But that doesn't make sense. So you want
to get Biden to win, so then he has to
step down after he gets elected because of his brain
and Kamala Harris's president. That's is that what they wanted.
I still don't understand it. I would argue that.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
And whether it was the super cynical version of this
or the fairly cynical version, I don't know. But they
either thought, we will continue to be behind the scenes
puppet masters with all this enormous power when we install
Kamala Harris, making it clear that we engineered her rise.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Trump is more you did it again yesterday. He's more
leaning more into the hole who was running the auto pen,
who was running the autopen And that's not a crazy
conspiracy given the way things have played out over the
last couple of months at all.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Or the slightly less cynical version of my theory is
that they actually believe Trump is the h man and
that they had to save the country by keeping him
out of office, and Joe Biden was his best their
best bet. But either way, it was quite literally a
cabal of insiders controlling a senile old man to their purposes.
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Speaker 2 (29:40):
I mentioned this last week. Sometimes with politicians we act
like they don't have the same needs that every other
human being has for employment or having their kids in
school or all those different sorts of things, and make
all these things out. You should have resigned, or you
should quit to if you don't believe whatever, or you know,
(30:00):
he should be honest about this or that. Whoever he
works for loses the next election, you gotta move. Probably
you're picking up your wife and kids, her husband and
kids and moving and putting them in a different school.
And now you got to figure out how to get
a job. And you know it's not easy, and it
might not just be you. This is what I got
from Jake Tapper's book last night. They're talking about the
(30:21):
inner circle, the very inner circle that he calls the
pull up Bureau in the Jake Tapper book. The people
around Biden that will protect him in the most the
people that were lying to like Chuck Schumer and saying no, no,
he's fine behind closed doors. The inner circle. They're immediately
family members worked at the White House too. This one
person's daughter was Biden's day schedule, or this other person
(30:42):
don Len's his niece worked at the National Security Council.
Rashetti's children would find found jobs in the White House
Social Office, the State Department, and the Treasury Department and
the Department of Transportation. So it's not just you. You
and your entire family would lose their livelihoods. It's all
you're is that? Okay? First of all, how was that? Okay?
(31:04):
The Democratic Party is always worried about equity and equality
and people getting a patriarchy and all this different sort
of crap. You get a job in the White House,
and you get all your kids different jobs in the
federal government.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Wow, yeah, yeah, And this Jack, I'm gonna read your
mind here in case anybody's wondering.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You're not making excuses.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You're you're helping people understand how incredibly hollow and hilariously
fake the notion of public servant right right, please, it's
the gig And my gosh, that what an interesting illustration,
all of those different family members. Yeah, you're gonna keep
the Mummy in power if you possibly can, because if
(31:46):
Kamala gets in there, who knows, maybe she cleans house.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
She probably will, probably would, because she's got her own
family members and staff to get in there, got mail
bag on the way. Stay here. I do want you
to explain that if the NFL is going to make
the tush push illegal, that's a pretty big deal. It
won them the Super Bowl, right, Yeah, they're just going
back to the old rule. Need an asterisk. The Chiefs won.
(32:09):
As a Chiefs fan, Chiefs should get the trophy.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Boy, it puts the ass back an asterisk, doesn't it?
The tush push?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I get it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Freedom loving Quote of the day from the Marquis de Lafayette, Frenchman, soldier,
fighting man, leader helped us win the revolution. By golly,
humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Country's said of the United States.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It's beautiful. It gives me chills just to read it. Yeah,
humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. Hey, friends,
let's try not to screw it up. Mailbag Woo woo
drops an oap mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
You want short emails, here you go, writes Brian in Vancouver.
Kudos to Katie. That was very brave to share with
(32:55):
her family what she and her husband are going through
to bring a sweet child into the world. Our oldest
utter and her husband had been worth trying with IVF
unsuccessfully as yet. But Katie was talking to us about
that at fair length that process during Armstrong You Getty
One More Thing podcast dated May the twentieth.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Do you plan to share more of that? Katie?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
All Sarah, that goes Why not your choice?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Let's see Brian family wish you and Drew's success success.
Look forward to hearing about the results. Listeners since day
one of the show. Good lord now, thanks Brian.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Good to hear from you. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Let's see Freaquent correspondent Paolo guys budget frustration.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
It's tempting to give up on.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
The national debt, but politicians' attitudes and actions just keep
getting worse. Please keep harping on this stuff. Then he
sends a quote from The New York Times Has he
got the Votes? As the title of the story. About
three dozen Republicans deficit hawks have been strategizing in a
group text and at the Capitol Hill home of one
of the members. Most of them signed a letter earlier
this year saying they would not vote for a bill
(34:01):
that adds to the federal deficit. The bill's current version
would add three point three trillion over the next decade.
All these hawks are talking about is controlling the deficit,
and they can't even muster up support for that. Have
you seen the great you know, outcry and ground swell
and conservative media for how we cannot possibly grow a
deficit one more dime?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
No, you have not. No, the country doesn't care. Getting
back to that last temailer, who's been listening to us
since day one? That's yes, twenty seven years ago, is
that right, twenty? That is twenty seven years. You've been
listening for twenty seven years, Brian, Have you tried anything else?
(34:43):
You know what you've earned.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
You've already earned the armstrong and getty potholders, Oven Mitz,
Oven Mitz, the bumper stickers, the framed as signed autograph
poster to end autographed.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
We came to your house one Thanksgiving in Cooke to dinner, and.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Now you've earned yourself a three night stay at Jack's place.
That's the twenty seven year premium.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
So check in anytime. It's gonna be hot. The air
condition work right now, no early.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Check insh Matthew, Idaho farmhand on a similar topic, right, guys,
excellent takedown to the big beautiful craft sandwich making its
way through this Republican Congress. Joe, my wife and I
had already said done this past election cycle when it
become undeniable that the R stands for little else other
than expediency and a means to power. The parties do
indeed shift chameleon like to match whatever their standard bearer
(35:31):
of the month is. We're independent Conservatives, although the f
yahli Can Party certainly appeals Yeah, yeah, what are we?
And Michael will be about out of time about one minute.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I think Trump is reading the room correctly, though the
country doesn't care. They should and leaders should lead people
into caring.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yes, well, yeah, they should vote their conscience, not pander
to the you know, greedy simpletons who vote for them.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
But good luck getting them to do that.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I'd like to talk more about the salt deduction and
salt penalty for people in blue states. Give you a
little bonus mail bag a little bit later on in
the show.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
If we add three trillion dollars to the deficit, yes,
during prosperous peace time. Yes, we as a country deserve
what's coming. We do we do. I just hate for
my kids to have to live through it, right, Armstrong
and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Armstrong, and Jettie and he arm get breaking news. Speaker
Johnson says, the full bill may go to the or
the bill may go to the full House for a vote. Tonight.
(00:40):
There you go, come on, Chrissy edwork. I was just
reading print media that said maybe this weekend that shows
you why print media is dead. Oh, tonight live from
Studio C.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You see signor then it goes to the Senate where
they come up with something completely different than the real
work begins.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Anyway. Hello, a dim room deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong in Getty Communications compound. And today we're under
the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
To heck with politics. I say, to heck with the
our general manager. Today, the Great George went norm from Cheers,
a sitcom that went off the air thirty two years ago.
It was a better simpler time. The eighties, Yes, were
a better simpler time they were. Do you think they
actually were?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yes? I do? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
How about the ninety anyways? Sociologically nineties pretty solid.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
When did it when? When did it stop? Being a better,
simpler time. That'd be my question.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The twin happenings of the rise of the smartphone, which
has been both a blessing indocurse about two thousand seven
for that, and the rise of critical theory slash DEI
in our nation's education systems, which I think really it
was under cover so you didn't know it, but it
was really i'd say two thousand on really gain esteem.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And then they start putting skirts on the quarterbacks. Couldn't
touch emxactly exactly that too, that's a good point. We
used to have men in this country. Yeah, man, like
George went of cheers, uh and then yeah, I don't
want to talk about this either. It's just I'm so
bothered by it. So that well, overnight they claim anyway
(02:25):
that the salt deduction thing is going to happen. Now,
oh yeah, it's going to be big. And the number
now yeah, with with another caveat that makes it even higher,
which is just insane.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Absolutely so, you're insane spending blue states. The poor denizens
of those states will have giant tax deductions because they're
being soaked by their blue state.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
What could be less conservative than red states paying the
taxes of blue states. I know it's obscene. So this
congress person from New York, and you can't blame him.
He's representing his people. I don't think he can blame him.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, he's got to be seen trying. Because people vote
their self interests. They shouldn't if they're patriots, but they do.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That's about him. I might change my mind in that
because like, it's my self interest to have the salt
deduction would save me quite a bit of money, right,
like put more money in my kids pockets. But it's
just so horrible. I can't. I can't. There's no way.
If I was king, I would not allow it to
happen anyway. This representative from New York said, New York
is the highest tax burden of any state in the country.
(03:37):
We need to raise the cap on salt to deliver
relief for middle class families to my ass in which
many people replied some version of why is that my fault?
Or why do I have to pick up the tab please?
Or this if only were there some other way for
New York to lower their tax burden, as in, lower
(03:59):
your own tax if you get too often.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It's sarcasm right there, Yeah, it is so crazy, it's repugnant.
It's a betrayal of everything the Republican Party claimed to
have stood for. But it doesn't anymore apparently.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And while you are correct that the House version, even
if it does go to the full House tonight and
gets passed, it goes to the Senate and then they'll
have their changes and then it goes back. But it
certainly directionally gives you an idea of where things are.
Trump was in there yesterday, strong arm strong and strong
arming people this way or that to get this thing through.
And if it passes in its current form, it will
(04:35):
set the record for the highest debt to GDP ratio
that we've had since World War Two.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So during prosperous times of a growing economy, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Right, Not at war with China, which will happen someday,
and we'll start the war in a really bad financial
position instead of World War II begins, and then you
get into financial trouble because you're dealing with the crisis.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well, and remember, if there's some giant i'm a downtterm, recession, depression, whatever, generally,
governments will go into debt stimulating their economy.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
But we're already way into that. This is like, so,
I mean you're always using the family, you know, analogy
of He's just like living as stretched as you can
your paycheck to paycheck, with a really nice house and
really nice cars, and you've already booked your vacation and
everything like that, with the assumption that mom or Dad
won't lose their job, nobody will have a medical problem, nothing,
(05:30):
the air conditioner won't break down. If any of those
things happen, you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And the kids have sat mom and down at the
kitchen table and explained the situation to him. Unfortunately, Dad's
a coke fiend and mom's psychotics. So Dad does a
big line and blow and goes off to the Ferrari
dealer as the children sit at their kitchen table crying,
crying over their future. Good morning, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
How are you, the eight year feeling the eight year
old daughter says, but what if the air conditioner broke?
I'm off to get another Ferraur, says the government. I
was walking my dog yesterday and I walked by his house.
They had their garage door open. I've never walked by
it before. He's got a I couldn't help was a
(06:12):
Lamborghini or a Ferrari. I'm not I don't know those
kind of cars that well, but it was one of
those and some sort of super fancy, little tiny sports
Porsche car. Those are his two cars. And then in
the living room, he's got a giant drum set set up.
That's got to be a divorced guy, right, A rich
divorced guy has to be a rich divorced guy. Two
little sports cars and your drum set in the living room,
(06:34):
screams rich divorced guy.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
To me, I can't imagine any lifestyle whatsoever. Well, rich
tech guy who's never been married. Could That could? But
you're right, that could be. There is no household in
America that includes a female partner that also includes a
drum kit in the living.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Room, full setup, like it's Phil Collins. I mean, yeah, wow,
my kids hit me the other night with Actually I
said it first, and then Sam said, I was thinking
the same thing. What did we eat? Yes, I can't remember,
like macaroni and cheese, and I steamed some vegetables or
something like that. I said, wow, this is really a
(07:14):
divorced dad meal right here. Sam said, Sack that you
could laugh about it. Yeah, it's hilarious. Well, some laughs
are different than other laughs. Maybe we need laughs. We'll
go open the show with our very clip. I'm Jack
(07:36):
Enough human despair pie God. Yes, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, May twenty first,
the year twenty twenty five. We are damn it. Whoop,
we are armstrong and geddy, and we approve of this program. Whoops.
There it is all right.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Let's begin the show officially according to CC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Here we go at mark. Everybody paying arm what I
know enough? Anybody? Yeah, better give me a tall one
case I like it. I was life treating you Norm.
I just ran over its dog my nipples. It's freezing
(08:18):
out there. How can I do well?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I am gonna need something to kill time before my
second beer.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
How about a first one? That's a good one. I
like a really tall one in case I like it.
That's pretty funny. I always liked. That's George Went, who
died yesterday. He was a figure on a popular sitcom
where he would walk in the bar every day and
they would say something like, what's up to Norman? He'd say,
my ideal weight? If I'm seven feet tall. How's life
(08:50):
treating you, Norman like a dog treats a bone. I
was watching some video with Seinfeld Jerry Sin the other night,
and the question was how did Seinfeld become such a
big hit? And he said ted Danson got tired of
doing Cheers because they moved into the Cheers time slot.
(09:13):
When time when Ted Danson got tired of doing Cheers
and Seinfeld had been on four different time slots and
not caught on zero ratings and might have died a
death as a cult favorite had it not been for that. Yeah,
which is an interesting thing about wife right there, It
really is. That's why you just keep grinding.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You never know when the ted Dancing of Fate is
going to duck out of the timeslot of reality, right exactly? Yeah,
in the TV schedule of your dreams, Yeah, I got one,
I got one question before we take a break.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So a hallmark of the Armstrong and Getty Show. There
are several hallmarks, but one hallmark is the media not
answering the obvious question. Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
We've the one that pops into everybody's mind, but professional reporters,
And I think that's happening today where I've heard six times.
Probably the Republicans met at one am or still wrangling
over the bill.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The rules committee began at one am. Why did they
start at one o'clock in the morning. You can't just
throw that out there? Isn't that the obvious question? How
did you start at one in the morning? When did
that become a thing? Is that a thing?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Did they start it? Well, they started at one am.
They're like eight hours in. They started at one am,
as I said yesterday. But I haven't heard anybody say,
why isn't that isn't it? Isn't that it obvious? Why
do they start at one in the morning? Who does that?
Who says, be here in your suit and tie and
hard shoes, park and get in here and be in
your seat at one am? Because do you have any idea? Why?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Probably because they they were working until roughly midnight to
get to a place to have that committee meeting.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I guess right. It seems like an odd way to
do business to me. I don't know. I feel like
I'm not I'm not suggesting anything untoward or anything. It
just seems odd.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah. At the risk of returning to the mood of
two and a half minutes, ago. I feel like I'm
observing a you know, a couple of you know, like
I don't know. I'm in a Chinese prison camp and
the two guys are discussing exactly how.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
They're going to torture me.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And I'm listening to the process and absorbing, and the
whole thing is so disappointing and disgusting to me.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I just want to pretend it's not happening. You are
to talk about it. If you are in a Chinese
prison camp, you've got to get the maintenance worker to
figure out a way to let you out. We've got
more on that story, a momental genius huh, among other
things on the way Katie's headlines. Next stay here. Just
writing an article to the wall Sure journal about how
you can make money streaming. That's what I need to do.
(12:03):
I need to be a guy just like opens boxes.
That's a big box opening box, boxing stream unboxing streamer.
That's what all become. I'm gonna open up these shoes.
My son was watching one of these the other day.
Just got the shoes, Gonna open it. Ooh, lift off
the lid. Look at this some nice crey paper. I
am so mystified by This guy had like eighty million followers.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I try not to poop poo
something before I at least a little understand it. Ah,
maybe I could kill a couple of birds with one stone, Katie,
what do you think of this? Let me just try that.
You're young and hip garage cleaning videos?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh what sure?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That could get guy? Where will I put this rake?
Let me think? And then people would be watching thinking
you could put it up on that rake rack. I
don't know it would work.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Then you cut to Judy her saying, if I see
that rake l leaning up against the car one more time,
I don't know what I'm gonna do. Then back to
you with the rake.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
There's this whole time Scot He's got millions of followers,
and he does yardwork.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Is he hot? Nof?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
He just goes through and he finds he finds houses
that have completely let their front yards go, and he
fixes them for him and videos it and puts it up.
And this guy, he's making so much money that his
niche now as he goes around and does it for
free for people.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I've never watched that, but I have watched things before,
and this might be my least favorite emotion. I've watched
things before where I'm several minutes into it, sometimes way
too many minutes into it, and I think, what am
I doing? Is this how I want to spend my life? Agreed?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Right, It's like you on your deathbed as whispering to you,
are you serious with this? This is how you're this
is how you're spending our time. I'm thinking my garage
cleaning videos would be great. I think Judy and I
could work on a little I don't know, honeymooner's style,
bickering sitcom style.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I told you I pick up the rake. Yeah, I
haven't picked up that ring. You know, just this sort
of thing, money pit do it?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, A right, Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Green Dailey.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Starting with the free Beacon quote. It could be twelve
to eighteen months. Former White House doctor says biden cancer
prognosis is grim.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Really he might have that long to live twelve.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
To eighteen months, according to the Free beaconless he was
one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Given you know the look of him, it wouldn't be
super long anyway. Yeah, wow, But God bless him. He's
our fellow human being God bless him in the liar.
I don't wish he had cancer, but he's a freaking
liar top to bottom. And every continue to hear out
of them about their cancer diagnosis is probably a lie.
So where do you place your sympathy since they're lying
(14:40):
about everything.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
From The New York Post, Hunter Biden told Jake Tapper
to go f himself after CNN host pestered him during
his brother's last days.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Okay, yeah, I heard they almost got into a fight
at some point. I don't know that story.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, Tapper was asking him about bow and Hunter flipped.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, hundreds of crackhead and they flip about a lot
of things. I don't know if you ever see him
on the corner yelling at fire hydrants.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
From CNN, Trump details planned to build Golden Dome missile
shield by the end.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Of his term. Love this story. I don't know how
doable it is.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And they've got to develop the technology at Notre Dame University. Obviously,
the golden domes And did Trump just go with that
name because he likes gold so much?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, maybe I mean orya the plated dome. Israel has
the iron dome, so it's not a huge stretch. I
guess I don't know. I'm a titanium. Gold is a
soft metal. It's useless as a dome.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
From NBC. Twenty one year old man charged with giving
alcohol to twenty year old who fell two stories.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
At the Pirates game. O. Wow, you're twenty one and
you slipped a beer to your twenty year old friend
and you're in trouble bottom two beers. Thank goodness. None
of my friends or I have ever done that during
our coll No, God, that only happens always. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Come on, hey, Darwin, try not to flip out of
your seat onto the field and break your neck.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I mean, I realize the laws of law, but it's
not the same as like a fifty year old buy
and beer for twelve year old. Yeah right, right.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
From the Financial Times, Google offers AI mode in.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Total re imaging of search, so they're trying to just yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
No, it's just they're trying to keep up with the
chatbots and all of that nonsense.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I was just reading about Google's challenges with AI and
then competing and how it's changing the landscape of search,
especially so much.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But Google's doomed unless they really revamp it. I'm I'm
full chat GPT for I surges. Now, yeah, Google's got
some interesting stuff in the works. I wouldn't give upon
him yet. In fact, I was tempted to buy some
stock from the Babylon b Alarming.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Thanks to public schools funding cuts, this five year old
student doesn't know all of the various sexual lusts adults
adults can have.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Because of the funding cuts, we've had to cut our
teaching perversion to kindergartener's program.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm afraid we've got some more news of the day
for you, and there's a lot as always. If you
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Speaker 1 (17:23):
I have to tell you direct me and personally that
I regret voting for you for Secretary of State.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I yield back.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I respond, well, first of all, your regret for voting
for me confirms I'm doing a good job.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh yeah, because you're a dumb ass. Then he took
a drink of water because he's so thirsty. L Marco's
too classy to throw in the dumb ass part. But
that's precisely with him. And if I found myself in
agreement with you, I'd be humiliated your dumbass. Okay, that
was fun. So I uh, I'll speak for myself. Joe
then can put in his opinion on this. I'm I'm
(17:58):
feeling maybe people getting tired of the Hey, we get it,
Joe Biden was ancient and they're covering it up. On
the other hand, at the risk of wearing people out
on this, it is well, I'm looking at David Harsani's tweet.
He echoes what a lot of people that I like
are saying. It's the biggest It's one of the biggest
(18:20):
scandals in US history. Yes, it could potentially be the
biggest scandal in US history, right, and for a number
of reasons.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's a multi layered not only scandal, but opportunity I think,
and I'm sure we'll miss it as a country, but
the opportunity is to blow the lid off of the
unbelievable dishonesty and dysfunction of the American media system. Okay,
so you used to claim to be one thing while
clearly behaving is another.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, So it depends on how you define the scandal.
If the scandal is the Biden cover up like within themselves,
and then the media going along with it for whatever reason.
That's a very, very giant scandal, just the media's coverage
in the era of Trump. The Wall Street Journal lays
it out today. And when you put it in order
like this, their failure to admit that Russian collusion was
(19:14):
a lie, followed by claiming Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian
intelligence when they knew it wasn't. Then four to eight
years of pretending Joe Biden wasn't senile. You put all
three of those together, it's amazing they don't have a
zero percent approval rating. I mean that is incredible. Oh
(19:36):
and as they point out in the Wall Street Journal,
all the while trying to claim Trump was hitler and
you should be afraid, very afraid, right, Yeah, And which
brings us back to the incredible, hilarious lack of self
awareness that Jake Tapper displays with his whole look what
I uncovered saying, the media, after each of those major
(19:59):
betray rails of their listeners, readers, et cetera, said nothing
is here. Let's talk about the next thing, thinking people
didn't notice.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. I
watch you every night and you told me something that
wasn't true. Two hundred and thirty seven consecutive nights. Well, okay,
I guess I'll keep watching, and then another one and
another one occurs, and then they have no trust left
in the American or the American people have no trust
left in them, and they're completely mystified as to why
(20:28):
it's It's really strange.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I don't Well, they clearly don't realize, as was laid
out by the Wall Street Journal there, how much damage
they've done to themselves.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Right right, That's what I'm saying there there. They are
spectacularly unself aware. Speaking of which I said to the
guys in the pre show meeting today, this is as
if I created it with Ai A WHOOPI Goldberg, commenting
on the scandal, dishore is always.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Been a mass trust of trust issue because politicians, media
nobody does what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Now, I say, for me, is.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
It he's eighty three, so he's a little stumbling, he's
a little rumbly.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I can't point to.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Anything that he's done as president that he did.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
For you.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
But but I'm saying, I want not you, but I
want somebody to tell me, well, when did you know.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It was bad? If you knew. Why did you wait?
So he said that it was after moderated the debate.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, but that's I'm sorry, baby, that's not what I'm
talking about. I'm talking about if if you're telling me
that hundreds of people knew that he was not able
to do his job, then where the hell was everybody job?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
No, it's more like one hundred million people knew, wood
be two thirds of Americans knew. How were they not
away of this? The bubble syndrome?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
It's got to be they are as bubbled as we
suspected when we were at our most cynical. That's clearly true.
So again, this scandal has so many different layers to it.
One of them is just you know, you, us, all
of us, as we observe humanity, have learned something about
how delusional people can be.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Right. That quote from Morewell that Jake Tapper put in
the beginning of the book that he thought he was
making about people around Biden was actually about himself. But
it is really really good about how difficult it is
for human beings sometimes to recognize the truth if it's
not what they want it to be. It takes a
constant effort.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, yeah, and it exists, you know, all over the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I know some folks.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I haven't talked to him for a little while, but
it was in the wake of one of Trump's, you know,
just inexplicable missteps, and they denied, as a couple up
and down, that he had made any mistakes or miscalculations
at all, and they thought I was nuts to say
he had.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And I thought, wow, okay, well we can uh, okay,
let's talk about the weather. So I've got so I'm
still reading the Jake Tapper book and making my way
through it. But the one thing that he doesn't seem
to have the answer on that I wonder if history
will dig up. But he he suspects strongly, and this
(23:29):
clearly seems to be the case somebody close to Biden,
and I don't think this could be Jill. This had
to be some of his handlers. They were feeding Biden
fake polls. Yeah, you know the various interviews where he
went on said no, no, I'm leading the polls. That's because
he was being fed phony poles. As has been pointed
(23:52):
out many, many times, there were no internal Democratic Party
polls that ever showed him being ahead. Kamala Harris being
ahead ever once? Right? So who I mean that? First
of all, why are you doing this? And secondly, what
makes you think that's a good idea to make up
(24:12):
a poll for an old, senile man to make him
think he's ahead right?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, And that is probably the headline because it's practically
become a cliche in American politics. George Bush doesn't want
to run the White House. He's a puppet, Dick Cheney's
in charge, blah blah blah, just every president. This was
an actual example of a senile old man unable to
function at some times and not function very at a
very high level at others, being completely controlled and gas
(24:42):
lit in the classic sense from the original movie by
his inner circle, including his wife, that he was doing great,
and the poor doddering old fool believed it. And oh,
by the way, he was the leader of the free
world at the time. But why would the The normality
of that story cannot be overstated.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But why were they bringing him polls showing him ahead
when he wasn't? For what reason?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
To keep him in it? Because they thought only he
could beat Trump. They shared that decision apparently.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
But that's not the way usually you do The opposite, like, look,
our internal polls show us behind, so we need to
change our messaging here, or we need to go to
these states or whatever to help your strategy. What's the
point telling the guy he's winning.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, I think they had that low an opinion of
his abilities to do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So you think they were running the campaign based on
the real polls that they knew. Yes, he wasn't incapable
of doing any he wasn't going to do anything, so
it doesn't matter. Let's just keep him happy. He can
eat his jello and he can watch prices right and
go to bed.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, if I were to use the football metaphor, oh
the tush push soon to be outlaw jack, Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yes, Oh it's a Persian. It's it's it's it's it's
an American. What it's against a lot?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I have a big ass, the ass, that's the operative,
the factory.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
This was America, all right, So oh, to use a
football metaphor.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So the campaign is thinking, all right, can we jazz
up our offense, meaning can we use our candidate more effectively?
Can we alter our strategies become more aggressive?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And they looked at the senile old mummy and said no,
we cannot. So they went entirely in this may ring
a bell on defense. Trump is hitler, Trump is evil.
Trump is coming for game people, for black people. It
will come to your home and beat your children down.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I still think there's a missing element to this somewhere
that I don't quite understand what their end goal was
they did. There's no way they thought that Biden could
be president for another four years.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, no, they just wanted him to beat Trump and
then they would continue to be the puppet masters a
new puppet.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Because there's a lot there's a fair amount of suspicion
and well earned suspicion that they were as scared of
Kamala Harris being president as you are. Yeah, and so
that that that I mean, if if if al Gore
had been the vice president, problem solved, We we make
it clear the guy's got to go, and al Gore's
president and we run him because he's a good politician
and he would win. That that's what they would have done.
(27:22):
But they didn't have that in their in their as
a backup. But that doesn't make sense. So you want
to get Biden to win, so then he has to
step down after he gets elected because of his brain
and Kamala Harris's president. That's is that what they wanted.
I still don't understand it. I would argue that.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
And whether it was the super cynical version of this
or the fairly cynical version, I don't know. But they
either thought, we will continue to be behind the scenes
puppet masters with all this enormous power when we install
Kamala Harris, making it clear that we engineered her rise.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Trump is more you did it again yesterday. He's more
leaning more into the hole who was running the auto pen,
who was running the autopen And that's not a crazy
conspiracy given the way things have played out over the
last couple of months at all.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Or the slightly less cynical version of my theory is
that they actually believe Trump is the h man and
that they had to save the country by keeping him
out of office, and Joe Biden was his best their
best bet. But either way, it was quite literally a
cabal of insiders controlling a senile old man to their purposes.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
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Speaker 2 (29:40):
I mentioned this last week. Sometimes with politicians we act
like they don't have the same needs that every other
human being has for employment or having their kids in
school or all those different sorts of things, and make
all these things out. You should have resigned, or you
should quit to if you don't believe whatever, or you know,
(30:00):
he should be honest about this or that. Whoever he
works for loses the next election, you gotta move. Probably
you're picking up your wife and kids, her husband and
kids and moving and putting them in a different school.
And now you got to figure out how to get
a job. And you know it's not easy, and it
might not just be you. This is what I got
from Jake Tapper's book last night. They're talking about the
(30:21):
inner circle, the very inner circle that he calls the
pull up Bureau in the Jake Tapper book. The people
around Biden that will protect him in the most the
people that were lying to like Chuck Schumer and saying no, no,
he's fine behind closed doors. The inner circle. They're immediately
family members worked at the White House too. This one
person's daughter was Biden's day schedule, or this other person
(30:42):
don Len's his niece worked at the National Security Council.
Rashetti's children would find found jobs in the White House
Social Office, the State Department, and the Treasury Department and
the Department of Transportation. So it's not just you. You
and your entire family would lose their livelihoods. It's all
you're is that? Okay? First of all, how was that? Okay?
(31:04):
The Democratic Party is always worried about equity and equality
and people getting a patriarchy and all this different sort
of crap. You get a job in the White House,
and you get all your kids different jobs in the
federal government.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Wow, yeah, yeah, And this Jack, I'm gonna read your
mind here in case anybody's wondering.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You're not making excuses.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You're you're helping people understand how incredibly hollow and hilariously
fake the notion of public servant right right, please, it's
the gig And my gosh, that what an interesting illustration,
all of those different family members. Yeah, you're gonna keep
the Mummy in power if you possibly can, because if
(31:46):
Kamala gets in there, who knows, maybe she cleans house.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
She probably will, probably would, because she's got her own
family members and staff to get in there, got mail
bag on the way. Stay here. I do want you
to explain that if the NFL is going to make
the tush push illegal, that's a pretty big deal. It
won them the Super Bowl, right, Yeah, they're just going
back to the old rule. Need an asterisk. The Chiefs won.
(32:09):
As a Chiefs fan, Chiefs should get the trophy.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Boy, it puts the ass back an asterisk, doesn't it?
The tush push?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I get it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Freedom loving Quote of the day from the Marquis de Lafayette, Frenchman, soldier,
fighting man, leader helped us win the revolution. By golly,
humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Country's said of the United States.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It's beautiful. It gives me chills just to read it. Yeah,
humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. Hey, friends,
let's try not to screw it up. Mailbag Woo woo
drops an oap mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
You want short emails, here you go, writes Brian in Vancouver.
Kudos to Katie. That was very brave to share with
(32:55):
her family what she and her husband are going through
to bring a sweet child into the world. Our oldest
utter and her husband had been worth trying with IVF
unsuccessfully as yet. But Katie was talking to us about
that at fair length that process during Armstrong You Getty
One More Thing podcast dated May the twentieth.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Do you plan to share more of that? Katie?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
All Sarah, that goes Why not your choice?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Let's see Brian family wish you and Drew's success success.
Look forward to hearing about the results. Listeners since day
one of the show. Good lord now, thanks Brian.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Good to hear from you. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Let's see Freaquent correspondent Paolo guys budget frustration.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
It's tempting to give up on.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
The national debt, but politicians' attitudes and actions just keep
getting worse. Please keep harping on this stuff. Then he
sends a quote from The New York Times Has he
got the Votes? As the title of the story. About
three dozen Republicans deficit hawks have been strategizing in a
group text and at the Capitol Hill home of one
of the members. Most of them signed a letter earlier
this year saying they would not vote for a bill
(34:01):
that adds to the federal deficit. The bill's current version
would add three point three trillion over the next decade.
All these hawks are talking about is controlling the deficit,
and they can't even muster up support for that. Have
you seen the great you know, outcry and ground swell
and conservative media for how we cannot possibly grow a
deficit one more dime?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
No, you have not. No, the country doesn't care. Getting
back to that last temailer, who's been listening to us
since day one? That's yes, twenty seven years ago, is
that right, twenty? That is twenty seven years. You've been
listening for twenty seven years, Brian, Have you tried anything else?
(34:43):
You know what you've earned.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
You've already earned the armstrong and getty potholders, Oven Mitz,
Oven Mitz, the bumper stickers, the framed as signed autograph
poster to end autographed.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
We came to your house one Thanksgiving in Cooke to dinner, and.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Now you've earned yourself a three night stay at Jack's place.
That's the twenty seven year premium.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
So check in anytime. It's gonna be hot. The air
condition work right now, no early.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Check insh Matthew, Idaho farmhand on a similar topic, right, guys,
excellent takedown to the big beautiful craft sandwich making its
way through this Republican Congress. Joe, my wife and I
had already said done this past election cycle when it
become undeniable that the R stands for little else other
than expediency and a means to power. The parties do
indeed shift chameleon like to match whatever their standard bearer
(35:31):
of the month is. We're independent Conservatives, although the f
yahli Can Party certainly appeals Yeah, yeah, what are we?
And Michael will be about out of time about one minute.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I think Trump is reading the room correctly, though the
country doesn't care. They should and leaders should lead people
into caring.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yes, well, yeah, they should vote their conscience, not pander
to the you know, greedy simpletons who vote for them.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
But good luck getting them to do that.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I'd like to talk more about the salt deduction and
salt penalty for people in blue states. Give you a
little bonus mail bag a little bit later on in
the show.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
If we add three trillion dollars to the deficit, yes,
during prosperous peace time. Yes, we as a country deserve
what's coming. We do we do. I just hate for
my kids to have to live through it, right, Armstrong
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