June 4, 2026 • 36 mins
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- Heather Myers has The Lead Story...
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Armstrong, and Jettie and he arms Raw live from Studio C.
See signor my shirt's wrinkled and I feel like a hobo.
(00:32):
I hate when it happened somehow, and if you didn't
know when I put it in the closet, you got
banned and it was pressed it between shirts and then
it looked like a hobo. Hate to start the day
filling like a home you know you do. It's a
dimly lit room deep with from the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getty communications compounded. Today we're toiling under the
title of the show. Only one title today. This is
(00:52):
a dictatorship. This is a one party state. Your title
is time to close Congress a rebooted or shut it down,
or just to just you know, take a big sharpie
and cross out Article one in the Constitution. It's completely useless.
It's a clown show. It's a joke, it's ineffective, it
doesn't do its job. I'm sure you're going to back
(01:14):
up that title later in the program. It's like a
wrinkled hobo shirt. Of an institution congress. Terrible. She hadn't
mentioned that. How bad is it's? It's pretty bad. You
can't see where you're standing below the desk, but the
bottom part of my shirt is a Yeah, you'd have
to stare at my carch, but the bottom part of
my shirt is very wrinkled. It is off amazing though,
(01:40):
how Like I noticed, sometimes I can put on certain
I don't want to say the word outfit, but certain
group of clothes. But why didn't you want to say
outfit because of the Jason Isbell song, because of the
drive by Truckers song. Yes, oh yeah, I guess it
was a dry by trucker. Yeah, don't call what you're
wearing an outfit. It's not manly. You're fit, as my
(02:02):
son says, like your fit. Uh. Sometimes you can have
a fit on and you're like, man, I really look
good today, which at least for me, helps my entire mood.
But then put exact same thing on two weeks later
and like lost its zip somehow. I don't know what's
going on. That's so just pointing out it's all in
your mind. Really, a lot of it, not all of it,
but some of it is just in your mind, certainly,
(02:24):
how you're looking, how you're feeling. You know, you got
your swagger or not well, and we all spend way
too much energy of praising ourselves when the rest of
the world isn't really paying that much attention. Having your swagger, though,
helps with the day. Having your I don't know what's
the French term you you like throw on French or
a Latin. Yeah, I got zero de plume, I got
(02:49):
I got zero nom de plume today. Yeah, that's too bad.
I tell you you had their swagger was the Knickerbockers. Yeah,
Game one of the NBA Finals. Man, I'd say not
that I but it sounded exciting that Jalen Brunson. Dude,
is he is something. He's he's he performs better in playoffs,
and he does regular season more than any other player
(03:11):
than NBA histories statistically, Like he's bored during the regular
season and then he gets into the games that matter
and he's a different guy more than anybody ever ever
has been. It's something you see sometimes in sports speaking
icewagger got to have a lot at stake to focus
or he properly motivated. One more sports note, which I
know is annoying to people who don't like sports show. Hey,
(03:33):
o Tani, the greatest baseball player in the world maybe
of all time, has the lowest ER at this point
in the season, pretty early in the season. But he's
however many innings in uh has the lowest ERA since
nineteen thirteen. Lore I know it as a pitcher, and
(03:55):
he's hitting over three hundred, which will put you in
the Hall of Fame on its own. He's the great.
That is ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. It's kind of
funny though, when you get into sports status, when you
go way way way back, because the sport is so
different you barely can call it the same thing. I mean,
you know, the equipment and just all kinds of different things.
But this is of no significance to anyone or anything.
(04:18):
But how much of an outlier is he physically in
Japan because Japanese men are famously smaller to be generally speaking,
say Americans. But he's got to be like the equivalent
of as eight foot tall, doesn't he. Yeah, he's an
enormous man, so yeah, he's got to They got to
fear him like Godzilla. I mean, please, adversity on the
(04:39):
subway trains show. Hey, oh great show. Hey right, it's
traffic in the worstly shades Japanese stereotypes. Yeah, exactly. Man,
when he comes back to Tokyo, he's probably walking through
the streets and they got airplanes flying around and try
to stop him. Makes those noises. I've never heard it
(05:02):
make that noise, but he might in his private time
with his bookie translator Dye. They've severed ties. Yes, exactly,
so this is interesting. I got a question speaking of
the playoff clutch thing. I've either died emotionally or I've
reached a new plateau of zen. I used two computers
and an iPad for the show. I've got tabs, I
(05:24):
got screens, i got sheets, I got updates. Both of
my computers crashed today, I mean like crashed. I lost
dozens of carefully arranged tabs of articles I wanted to
talk about, arranged by subject and like in order of
most like newsworthy to most evergreen, and everything a genius system.
(05:45):
If I just crashed, lost it all, and yes, I
know how to get it back, but it keeps coming
back in the wrong way, and I don't care. It's fine.
I thought, now we'll work our way around it. In
the past, I would have been panicked. Second, do you
have any idea why I have died emotionally? I have
a friend, I guess. I have a friend who used
to say, you know how I handle it? I'm dead inside.
(06:08):
I wonder. I wonder, but we will forge you ahead. Nonetheless,
if you don't care anymore? Is that it I happen
to be talking about wife? I said, It's not like
it was a patient on the table. It's okay, low
te well that no, no tea. I have no measurable
t I'm like a female feel calf as a man.
(06:29):
It's terrible. I got to comment on an NPR story
that I heard on the way to work today that
it's going the right direction. Their their coverage of it,
their version of it, the lefty version of it, really
bothers me. It's all around. Uh, there are quite a
few states in the country, they said, most mostly red states.
(06:52):
I think it's interesting that it's not all red states.
But I'll have to look into it before we discuss it.
All around the topic of states that have decided Yeah,
we didn't really know the county or city health commissioner
had the power to do all these things in a pandemic.
So what change in the rules here so that the
(07:14):
legislature or some bigger body can decide whether or not
schools are going to be closed for two years, or
the parks are closed down, or you can no longer
go to the beach or whatever. As opposed to one
person that somehow got elected health commissioner, well, you don't
have any idea who it is or what their deal is, right,
their qualifications are practically nil for the county. Yeah, health
(07:36):
commissioner and pr presented that as a horror with a
bunch of quotes from doctor Fauci. I guess is part
of the pushback on this across the country. Oh my god,
I want to talk about that more later. Just oh
I couldn't it brought back all the horrors of the
whole thing and the idea that some people, like one
(07:57):
individual who the hell no is what their qualifications are
in your county, that can say you're right, parks are
closed down, put yellow taper on the playground equipment so
the kids can't play. Well, why doesn't matter I make
those decisions. As opposed to the legislature, who would be
responsible to the people making that decision. Right. For all
(08:17):
of their constant howling about democracy, the left is extremely
uncomfortable with democracy. They really want dictatorship, god Fauci saying
something like, we want to strip the power of someone
who's sworn duty is to protect your health and put
it in the hands of a committee. That's outrageous. Yeah,
if they're going to revoke our rights, hundred percent. Yeah,
(08:38):
doctor gain of function. I want the doctor wuhan. I
want the legislature who legislates, in other words, makes laws
to decide the rules, as opposed to some person on
a whim, one person. Right, it'll never happen in Corruptifornia.
But I'd also like to see every state house around
the nation rule firmly on what constitutes an emergence, how
(09:02):
one is declared, and when one ends, quite specifically to
rain in the future lunatics like Gavin Newsom. And then
they ended the story. It's just so funny because NPR
constantly runs promos about how you said, the place you
go to get the real story with no spin and
all facts, and it's just so hilarious. Anyway, they ended
(09:22):
the story with hantavirus' cases continuing to show up and
the Ebola virus not under control. This could become an
issue sooner than many of us realize. Back to you,
Jim Oh, I pray it does, and I pray all
those red states and their legislatures take a careful look
at the policy and science, actual scientific fact, not the
(09:44):
craze that took place during COVID, but what all of
the responsible health organizations had declared years before would be
the response to pandemics. And follow those carefully, and then
let's draw a contrast. If it happens again, God for
a bid between your economy, our economy, our schools, your schools,
(10:04):
our health outcomes, your health outcomes. That seems to be
the only way to do it. The time is to
strike is now, though, before people forget about it. Yeah,
because the next pandemic could be in, you know, another
century away. But let's say I just apparently, and this
is good news. I am not emotionally dead because I
hear the name Anthony Wuhan Fauci, and I get my
(10:25):
blood starts to boil. Joe's I represent science. Here's our
headline for the day, Joe's not dead. Inside, that's that's
our breaking news. I'm not doing well. But not dead yet.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday,
June the fourth of the year twenty twenty six, where
I'm strong. You getting we approve of this program. Okay,
let's beget officially then according to f CC rules or eggs.
(10:46):
Here we go at Mark, I'm a drive.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Spence underneath, puts it up, puts it in, chialen, prods it,
does it again. It's a six point lead, but forty
seven seconds left, we.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Were down by fourteen late in the third quarter. Never
say die, That's what I say. Timothy Chalomey was digging it.
He was in the second row. He was in the
second row behind what's his name, the comedian that got
all the money from the car, right, Tracy Morgan. Tracy
Morgan was in the front row. Chalomey was in the
second room. So hey, shallow Wi, you need a little
more money or something. Oh, it's twice as many rows
(11:22):
as the first row. Heather Myers has our headlines for
us and a bunch of stuff we can get into today.
California is not even close to finishing counting their bouts,
not even close, which is pretty crazy. Among other things,
on the way, stay here. Sam Altman, one of the
(11:46):
biggest AI guys in the world, says, Ah, this whole
thing about people losing their jobs is overblown. I think
it's going to be just fine, And I would trust
his honesty on this topic about as little as as
anybody it possibly imagine. But more on that later. Yeah, no, kidd,
who asked you? I just came across a fascinating bit
of American history, the farm boy, the Vermont farmboy who
(12:11):
in the early eighteen hundreds invented something that made skyscrapers possible.
What the plucky young American. Great story. We'll share that
with you coming up, But first let's figure out who's
reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Meyer's Heather Joe.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Jack, Good morning. Let's find out how the networks are
covering the news this morning. From NBC News, House votes
to rebuke Trump over war with Iran.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Nobody I have to jump in just because nobody is
pointing out because they want the excitement that goes with it.
It's a symbolic vote. It holds no weight, it has
no power. It doesn't help politically, but no, it does
not signal the end of anything.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, Foxter's covered it this way. Trump suffers rare House
defeat as bipart artists and moves to withdraw troops from
Iran conflict. And then the Washington Post said it like this,
the four Republicans who broke with Trump on Iran and
now face his wrath.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
No, it's interesting that in a Republican controlled House you
know that it passed, But to leave out the fact
that it's symbolic and does not have the ability to
end the war is beyond disingenuous. I mean, you're misleading
on purpose. That's a tough story.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Recovering out of northern California this morning, Caseyra reporting one
dead and three injured in shooting after graduation ceremony at
Fairfield High.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
School as getting national attention. It's just down the road
from us.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
From Forbes, Trump baselessly accuses Democrats of stealing California primaries.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, if you allow counting to go on for days
and weeks, it certainly helps the argument from people four
people who want to claim theirre Shenanigan's going on. Yeah,
California is vote counting system essentially puts lipstick on collar,
blonde hair across shoulder of shirt and weird hotel stays
that can't be explained, but then denies there's an affair
(14:10):
going on. It sets it all up to look like
electoral fraud. So if people say, wow, that looks kind
of fraudulent, you can't act like that's unreasonable.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Well, this headline from the La Times will backs that up.
Does Nitthia Rahmans still have a chance California's uncounted votes
could help Democrats?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, speaking of disingenuous, A lot of the coverage around
this given people totals who's ahead and whatever. With fifty
some percent of the vote counted, there's no point so
wait until they're got ya. Every number you hear about
results in California could be flipped completely upside down by
the time they're done counting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
From the Sacramento Bee, Katie Porter's failed bid for governor
is a loss for all Californians.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
What who said that?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Stucker going to be their opinion page this morning?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Wow, it used to be a newspaper. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
From ABC seven, Newport Beach ceo accused of illegally selling
US tech to Iranian government.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, that's a big story we got into later. Why
was this person so rich, hanging out in California for
so long and selling secrets to the Iranians. What's going
on there?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, they nabbed him at his thirty five million dollar mansion.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah woo.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
From CNN. SpaceX sets the stage for a record seventy
five billion dollar ipo.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We got to talk to many somebody smart about all
these IPOs that are coming out, the big tech things.
What it means should you be trying to get involved?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Blah blah blah from People dot Com. Service dog's extreme
in flight accident sickens passengers.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
What happened? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Oh the dog got the squirts?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh swells that swell. Okay, that's age. But at least
nobody's left wondering, Yes, what happened? So clarity points for clarity.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well, I just wanted to sum it up so there
was no guessing.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, exactly, That settled the issue.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
From the Associated Press this morning, woman sues Outback Steakhouse
for one and a half million after allegedly slipping on
mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Oh god, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
From the AP again, The winner pays nine million in
cherry auction for a private lunch with Warren Buffett and
Stephan Curry.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Wow, I would like to lunch with the greatest investor
of all time and the greatest jumpshooter over time. Yes,
together the same table, exactly, they must be together. And finally,
why so many three pointers in the NBA Stefan is
their growth in the housing industry? Sorry? Fifteen six.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
From the Babylon Bee, California announces they have finished counting
the votes. Ronald Reagan has won the nineteen sixty six
governors race.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, that's an embarrassment. I got a scenario around that
to present. Oh and have you heard the Steph Curry
business story Armstrong and Geddy?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Sixty percent of the vote has been counted. If that holds,
it means that in November, Los Angelinos are going to
have to choose between a woman named Karen and a
man who is one.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, this is insane. Oh wow, we should be very embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Rocher not be a top two finalist for mayor. He
should be DJing the worst New Year's Eve party in
Reno right now. He's unlikely to win, and in fact,
he's already filming a reality show about his run for mayor,
so he definitely has his priorities over order.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That is so interesting because, like I know, Bill Maher
and Jimmy kimmeler friends. I've seen Jimmy Kimmel on his
show a couple of different times, hanging out and talking
and stuff like that, and likewise the very practical and
very realistic Adam Carolla. But Bill Maher, you know, as
a lifelong lefty who lives in Los Angeles, saying, look,
(18:16):
this is ridiculous. So we got street people everywhere, you
can't get anything done. Jimmy Kimmel goes with a Spencer
Pratz a Karen for complaining about drug addicts in tents everywhere. Wow,
that's really interesting. Are you being a Karen when you
pointed out that poor woman who was chased into a
furniture store and stabbed to death by a craze junkie?
(18:38):
I mean, was that? Is that being a Karen to
point out with the horror of that? Anyway, I got
another thing on the California elections, but I wanted to
follow up on a couple of things that Heather head
Force headlines. That one about somebody paying a bunch of
money to have lunch with Warren Buffett and Steph Curry.
That sounds I would love to have lunch with either
one of those guys alone. But I feel like if
(19:01):
I was there with them together and you have that
whole thing going where you're trying to include everybody, like
at a party or something like that, it'd be really
difficult to do. I mean, I have specific questions for
Warn't to have specific questions for Steph Curry, but neither
one of them. I don't know Steph Curry. I would
like to lunch with Geddy Lee and Sam Altman. I mean,
come on, ged how do you get that bass sound? Sam?
(19:23):
Will this restructure the economy? Getty? How do you play
the keyboards? Sam? What? That's an odd combo? Anyway? Steph
Curry's closer to Warren Buffett than the other way around.
Steph Curry just signed a four a new he's going
with a new shoe is under armor shoe thing. Ended
biggest sports contract at that time that had ever been signed.
His new one with some Chinese shoe I've never even
(19:45):
heard of. Oh boy, they're all kind of Chinese shoes,
because I mean, Nike's an American company, but everything's made anyway.
Leaning four hundred million dollars shoe deal Steph Curry signed
and his career is practically over four hundred million dollars.
So yeah, I think you could talk business with both
(20:07):
of those guys. Yeah, yeah, wow, I'm super uncomfortable with
that though. It's a Chinese own company. That's the difference.
So you're under the influence of the communists Chinese by definition,
by definition on the election thing. So we got this
text people that are complaining about how slow California is
(20:28):
in counting the ballots, and lots of different people pointing
out how long it takes in different states, cities, or
countries around the world. California is the worst of any
like developed democracy on planet Earth in terms of getting results.
And the problem is what we got this text. If
they did it super quick, you guys would say that's
(20:48):
too fast. It had to be rigged. No, I wouldn't
because nobody in history has ever said that everybody does
it fast. And the likelihood that you believe a fast
result is obviously higher than a slow, drawn out result.
Now I don't like. I was thinking about my big
local measure where I live, and uh, you don't need
(21:09):
to know the details, but it's a housing development, So
I was thinking, like, how much money is involved? Here
in one small town and the vote is really close.
They're like five hundred votes apart, and they're forty percent
of the way counting two days later. You've got how
many millions of dollars would you have involved in a
fifteen hundred home development of hundreds of acres? It would
(21:35):
It'd have to be hundreds of millions of dollars, wouldn't it.
That's an awful lot of money because there's a park,
and there's roads, and there's whole kinds of stuff that
has to happen. That's a lot of money hinging on
a very tiny election. Now. I don't have any reason
to think that it's going to be rigged in any way,
but oh my god, there'd be a lot of people
that would love to rig it if they could. And
(21:57):
you only got to change a couple votes, right, So yeah,
you got to get those results out fast. You're just
asking for people to speculate when it takes you this
long account votes. The problem is it's got to take
this long because the Bizarro practically unprecedented in electoral history
system California has. You can mail in a ballot any
(22:20):
time before the election. You can mail it in day
of it can get there a week later, it still
has to be counted. There's nothing like a deadline. There's
no structure to it. It's the most unstructured voting I've
ever seen in terms of time. And then the blanketing
of the state with mail in ballot's a state of
forty million people. I mean, that's just the reason nobody
(22:40):
else does it like that is because it's so wildly unmanageable,
both logistically and security of the vote wise. But I
you know, I guess I just so. It was all
driven by the goal I suppose to get as many
people to vote as possible, make it the easiest vote
as possible. Every half wit, bum junkie, the moron in
(23:02):
every corner of California, Let's get a ballot from them.
They have no ability to manage their lives to get
to the polls, to figure out when voting day is.
What's your address collect all those votes? I don't know. Yes, Uh,
can you tell me what your previous address was? I
don't know. Well, the young woman you were talking about,
(23:23):
Jack actually witnessed in line who didn't know her present
nor former address, but was still voting. She's in like
the eightieth percentile. She got herself to the pole. She
knew where to go, or at least knew where a
polling place was. But she's above average, well de designed
(23:43):
to allow a collecting votes from morons and b fraud. Yeah,
the whole the lot of the Save Act stuff that
Trump's trying to get through. Still claiming that the twenty
twenty election was stolen from him is uh, nonsensical or counterproductive.
But anything that makes it faster and leans towards showing
(24:04):
your idea is a good idea, and everybody should be
on board with that one hundred percent. Practically everybody is
on board with it, as we've discussed many times, including
the vast majority of Democrats. A couple other headlines, just
to touch on, Israel and Lebanon agreed to implementation of
a ceasefire. It's so complicated and Trump oversimplified it the
(24:24):
other day. What does that mean? So your headline right there,
you talked about this yesterday. Israel's not at war with Lebanon,
So calling a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and them
signing an agreement, that's not the problem. Here's a little
tip for you from your old uncle Joe say you're
forming up a country and one of your political parties decides,
you know, we're hardcore is Lamists and we don't want
(24:45):
to wait around for our country to make decisions about
who needs to be killed or fought. We're going to
arm our giant political party and kind of do what
we want most of the time. Don't do that. You
don't want that in your country. So Lebanon's in a
situation where they do join with Hesbela at times if
they think Israel's gotten too belligerent or they're in armed conflict,
(25:06):
and Hebela says, yeah, we'll help you out if you
need it, and they'll tell all right, you know, throw
some rockets at Israel. But a significant amount of the
time of the legitimate government of Lebanon and Lebanese people
are thinking, can we get these lunatics out of here,
or at least get them to disarm, because then we
can have peace with Israel. Israel has no desire for conquest.
They just don't want to be attacked anymore. So what's
(25:27):
happened now, And as you're kind of indirectly pointing out,
it doesn't mean peace has come. Lebanon has just said
to Israel. Look, we're not fighting each other, right, so
do us a favor and be Israel, be a little
restrained when you're attacking Hezbela, because don't draw us into it,
because we don't want any part of it. And Israel said, okay,
let's be cool and concentrate on Hesbela. So that's my
(25:50):
nickel version of what's happening right now. But Trump said
Israel's got to stop fighting Lebanon, and that's that's again oversimplified,
but it's a good sign. I think at least maybe
if fighting rezumes, Israel can point out to Trump and others, look,
we're not fighting Lebanon. We have an agreement with Lebanon. Lebanon.
(26:11):
Are we fighting you? No, you're not. And it's just
the Islamist Iranian proxies. Again. Yeah, there's some interesting Wall
Street Journal reporting on Trump's attitude about the war. But
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Street Journals reporting around the war with Iran, President Trump
has told aids privately that he would consider surprise. It's
just consider ending the ceasefire if Tehran kills American troops.
(27:35):
US officials said, insisting that the week's long paws and
air strikes remains intact despite a steady stream of violet skirmishes.
So he's gonna hold on to it. The little tit
for tat they call it tit for tat when you're
sending ballistic missiles at each other. It's set some pretty
heavy duty tit for tat. But if you kill a
bunch of American troops, Trump's gonna end the ceasefire and attack.
(27:58):
He'd consider it. They said, Yeah, beware, because the headline
in the Wall Street Journals exclusive is Trump tells aids
he won't resume all out war unless US troops are killed.
And then you read the entire body of the article
and you realize, no, that's not what he said. He
said he would seriously consider ending the ceasefire if Iran
(28:23):
killed American troops, not that that was the only trigger
or that that was the only scenario. It's a terrible misleading.
I see the difference you're pointing out, but I would
rather he used the words hell, yeah, f yeah, if
they kill US troops, we're going back to war, as
opposed to a consider a much stronger language, right, and
(28:44):
or how about yeah, we're going to go back to
serious war unless they come to the table in a
serious way, I'd agree to a deal. I think Trump
has lost his nerve and his willingness to rattle the
world economy to push as hard as it's going to
take to get Iran to Actually, I have not been
on board with the taco thing, through any of this stuff,
tariffs or any of this stuff. He has lost his
(29:06):
nerve on this one. He chickened out. And I'm not
exactly sure why. The market. I mean, he doesn't care
about people's opinions. He does care about the market, but yeah,
he clearly is chickened out. We were talking to Nora
Rothman yesterday. He is a journalist with the National Review,
and he's got a book called Blood and Progress about
(29:29):
left wing violence. Anyway, we did a podcast with him
yesterday that you can find where you find podcasts. But anyway,
we said what Joe said a couple of weeks ago
to him, because I wondered what his reaction was. Iran
getting a nuclear weapon would be one of the biggest
developments in world history. And he said, absolutely, he agrees.
I don't know how it would not. I don't know
(29:50):
how you'd make the argument that wouldn't be with that
on the table and a negative development, not like electricity
is one of the biggest developments in world history too,
but didn't leave to World War three? How is that
the case ran getting a new clear upon to be
one of the worst things that's ever happened on planet Earth.
(30:11):
And because gas is going to be high this summer,
we're just gonna not bother, not bother. Yeah, now I
think it's awful. It's terrible mismanagement. I want to pay
off next hour the young mount farm boy who made
skyscrapers possible. It might be a slight overstatement, but it's
a cool story. It's a Right Brothers esque tale, a
(30:31):
couple of bicycle repairmen that'll never happen. Plus we've got
a mailbag coming up, and Sam Holtman says, you're not
going to lose your job to AI, and I would
certainly believe him. Why would he lie to you? Among
other things? On the way stay here, I didn't talk
(30:53):
later about my new face. Remember I made a conscious
effort to have a different face about a year ago.
Maybe it's really been working for me. It's quite amazing.
Maybe it could help out you know somebody who's listening,
because it's extraordinary. Your jowel lift? Is that what you mean?
Also have this headline we'll get to it's here. The
(31:14):
new world screwworm has shown up in the United States,
first example in Texas, and look for it near you.
Flesh eating bacteria loving, gonna get into your eyeballs. Screw,
it's a stake on it. May let's not frighten people
so it eats your flesh and kills you think you
(31:36):
got about a fifty to fifty chance. Here's your freedom
loving quote of today. I decided, in the wake of
our discussion of Trump's negotiating with it, their on apparently
who everything charged to do some quotes about negotiation. Let's
go with this one. Where'd that go? Oh? There it
(31:57):
is John F. Kennedy from nineteen sixty one. We cannot
negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and
what's yours is negotiable. That's a good line. Or I
actually like this one. It's you know, laying out the
very basics. It's from John Maynard Keynes, who u the
father of Kingsey and economics, who ruined the world. But
when the final result is expected to be a compromise.
(32:20):
It is often prudent to start from an extreme position. Ah,
that's a good one. Peg the negotiations way over there.
Oh my god, you're dragging me off away over there.
What kind of monster are you? Ogay, I'll come a
little bit. Yeah. Mailbag drops a note mail bag at
Armstrong and Getty dot com. Oh wow, some folks have
(32:41):
already listened to the long form interview of Noah Rothman
on One More Thing Armstrong getting one more Thing. If
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bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Roye Marine writes,
heard your commentary about people who are bubbled don't know
(33:02):
their bubble one music, Slow down, Joe, one musician friend
of mine who goes all the way back to school
days is brilliant. A grad of a major university astounded
me by being unaware of the enslavement in some cases
genocide of the wigers. Turns out he had a national
geographic magazine on his coffee table with an in depth
article about it. He just hadn't gotten around to it.
(33:25):
He was clearly disturbed. He shook his head after reading
quite a bit of it and said, I had no
idea this was happening. Bah blah blah. He was in
disbelief when I commented that eighty to ninety percent of
homeless or drug addicts alcoholics are both, which is why
they can't keep a job or a domicile. He also
believes that ms now, especially Rachel Maddow or honest journalists.
(33:45):
So yeah, well, it's has been pointed out by us
and many other people. It's a lot harder to be
bubbled if you lean to the right, because you're confronted
with a different version of it every time you flip
on the television or or go to a movie, or
your kids coming home from school or whatever. Are you
yourself go to school as a younger person, you're subjected.
(34:06):
You're subjected. You're exposed to those arguments and have to
learn to deal with them and confront why you think
they're either right or wrong your whole life. Liberals need
not do that, so they're bubbled. Thought this was a great,
great summary from Jeff on the true Marxist strategy. It's
(34:28):
a strategy of patients and persistence the Marxist strategy to
infiltrate the US was a long term cultural revolution, not
an armed rebellion. By methodically placing ideological sympathizers into education, media, government,
and corporate power structures, the American worldview has been shifted
dramatically over the past century. Today, many Americans are unaware
that what they see as normal progress was in fact
(34:50):
carefully orchestrated over decades following a playbook written by Gramsky,
refined by Marcuse, and executed by a legion of activists
opposing as educator's journalists and public servants. That's exactly right.
If there's a lesson to be learned, it's this cultural
warfare is real and fought not with guns, but with ideas, textbooks,
and television screens. You know. It kind of reminds me
(35:11):
of the way conservatives, pro life conservatives got Roll versus
Wade finally overturned. That was a like half century project
from the Federal Society to try to, you know, get
judges in places at lower levels, let it play out
over a very long period of time. To try to
(35:33):
reverse that, you have to play a long game with
some of these big ideas, and they have on the
other side with Marxism in our schools and media for
longer than that. Yeah. Yeah. And then finally, Kevin from
Beautiful Placerville, California points out that Nate Silver talking about
California's electoral system and how hopeless it is, Nate called
(35:56):
it learned helplessness, and he says, I take issue with
the characterization because it completely mixdiagnoses the issue. It's this
is exactly how they want the system to function. They
want a gigantic, untrackable flood of votes that they can
then harvest and control. It's not a mistake, it's it's
(36:18):
it's intentional. Yeah. And then it's got the help of
it makes it seem like you're trying to count every
vote out there. Seeing get a lot of people on
board who lean that direction. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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See signor my shirt's wrinkled and I feel like a hobo.
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I hate when it happened somehow, and if you didn't
know when I put it in the closet, you got
banned and it was pressed it between shirts and then
it looked like a hobo. Hate to start the day
filling like a home you know you do. It's a
dimly lit room deep with from the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getty communications compounded. Today we're toiling under the
title of the show. Only one title today. This is
(00:52):
a dictatorship. This is a one party state. Your title
is time to close Congress a rebooted or shut it down,
or just to just you know, take a big sharpie
and cross out Article one in the Constitution. It's completely useless.
It's a clown show. It's a joke, it's ineffective, it
doesn't do its job. I'm sure you're going to back
(01:14):
up that title later in the program. It's like a
wrinkled hobo shirt. Of an institution congress. Terrible. She hadn't
mentioned that. How bad is it's? It's pretty bad. You
can't see where you're standing below the desk, but the
bottom part of my shirt is a Yeah, you'd have
to stare at my carch, but the bottom part of
my shirt is very wrinkled. It is off amazing though,
(01:40):
how Like I noticed, sometimes I can put on certain
I don't want to say the word outfit, but certain
group of clothes. But why didn't you want to say
outfit because of the Jason Isbell song, because of the
drive by Truckers song. Yes, oh yeah, I guess it
was a dry by trucker. Yeah, don't call what you're
wearing an outfit. It's not manly. You're fit, as my
(02:02):
son says, like your fit. Uh. Sometimes you can have
a fit on and you're like, man, I really look
good today, which at least for me, helps my entire mood.
But then put exact same thing on two weeks later
and like lost its zip somehow. I don't know what's
going on. That's so just pointing out it's all in
your mind. Really, a lot of it, not all of it,
but some of it is just in your mind, certainly,
(02:24):
how you're looking, how you're feeling. You know, you got
your swagger or not well, and we all spend way
too much energy of praising ourselves when the rest of
the world isn't really paying that much attention. Having your swagger, though,
helps with the day. Having your I don't know what's
the French term you you like throw on French or
a Latin. Yeah, I got zero de plume, I got
(02:49):
I got zero nom de plume today. Yeah, that's too bad.
I tell you you had their swagger was the Knickerbockers. Yeah,
Game one of the NBA Finals. Man, I'd say not
that I but it sounded exciting that Jalen Brunson. Dude,
is he is something. He's he's he performs better in playoffs,
and he does regular season more than any other player
(03:11):
than NBA histories statistically, Like he's bored during the regular
season and then he gets into the games that matter
and he's a different guy more than anybody ever ever
has been. It's something you see sometimes in sports speaking
icewagger got to have a lot at stake to focus
or he properly motivated. One more sports note, which I
know is annoying to people who don't like sports show. Hey,
(03:33):
o Tani, the greatest baseball player in the world maybe
of all time, has the lowest ER at this point
in the season, pretty early in the season. But he's
however many innings in uh has the lowest ERA since
nineteen thirteen. Lore I know it as a pitcher, and
(03:55):
he's hitting over three hundred, which will put you in
the Hall of Fame on its own. He's the great.
That is ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. It's kind of
funny though, when you get into sports status, when you
go way way way back, because the sport is so
different you barely can call it the same thing. I mean,
you know, the equipment and just all kinds of different things.
But this is of no significance to anyone or anything.
(04:18):
But how much of an outlier is he physically in
Japan because Japanese men are famously smaller to be generally speaking,
say Americans. But he's got to be like the equivalent
of as eight foot tall, doesn't he. Yeah, he's an
enormous man, so yeah, he's got to They got to
fear him like Godzilla. I mean, please, adversity on the
(04:39):
subway trains show. Hey, oh great show. Hey right, it's
traffic in the worstly shades Japanese stereotypes. Yeah, exactly. Man,
when he comes back to Tokyo, he's probably walking through
the streets and they got airplanes flying around and try
to stop him. Makes those noises. I've never heard it
(05:02):
make that noise, but he might in his private time
with his bookie translator Dye. They've severed ties. Yes, exactly,
so this is interesting. I got a question speaking of
the playoff clutch thing. I've either died emotionally or I've
reached a new plateau of zen. I used two computers
and an iPad for the show. I've got tabs, I
(05:24):
got screens, i got sheets, I got updates. Both of
my computers crashed today, I mean like crashed. I lost
dozens of carefully arranged tabs of articles I wanted to
talk about, arranged by subject and like in order of
most like newsworthy to most evergreen, and everything a genius system.
(05:45):
If I just crashed, lost it all, and yes, I
know how to get it back, but it keeps coming
back in the wrong way, and I don't care. It's fine.
I thought, now we'll work our way around it. In
the past, I would have been panicked. Second, do you
have any idea why I have died emotionally? I have
a friend, I guess. I have a friend who used
to say, you know how I handle it? I'm dead inside.
(06:08):
I wonder. I wonder, but we will forge you ahead. Nonetheless,
if you don't care anymore? Is that it I happen
to be talking about wife? I said, It's not like
it was a patient on the table. It's okay, low
te well that no, no tea. I have no measurable
t I'm like a female feel calf as a man.
(06:29):
It's terrible. I got to comment on an NPR story
that I heard on the way to work today that
it's going the right direction. Their their coverage of it,
their version of it, the lefty version of it, really
bothers me. It's all around. Uh, there are quite a
few states in the country, they said, most mostly red states.
(06:52):
I think it's interesting that it's not all red states.
But I'll have to look into it before we discuss it.
All around the topic of states that have decided Yeah,
we didn't really know the county or city health commissioner
had the power to do all these things in a pandemic.
So what change in the rules here so that the
(07:14):
legislature or some bigger body can decide whether or not
schools are going to be closed for two years, or
the parks are closed down, or you can no longer
go to the beach or whatever. As opposed to one
person that somehow got elected health commissioner, well, you don't
have any idea who it is or what their deal is, right,
their qualifications are practically nil for the county. Yeah, health
(07:36):
commissioner and pr presented that as a horror with a
bunch of quotes from doctor Fauci. I guess is part
of the pushback on this across the country. Oh my god,
I want to talk about that more later. Just oh
I couldn't it brought back all the horrors of the
whole thing and the idea that some people, like one
(07:57):
individual who the hell no is what their qualifications are
in your county, that can say you're right, parks are
closed down, put yellow taper on the playground equipment so
the kids can't play. Well, why doesn't matter I make
those decisions. As opposed to the legislature, who would be
responsible to the people making that decision. Right. For all
(08:17):
of their constant howling about democracy, the left is extremely
uncomfortable with democracy. They really want dictatorship, god Fauci saying
something like, we want to strip the power of someone
who's sworn duty is to protect your health and put
it in the hands of a committee. That's outrageous. Yeah,
if they're going to revoke our rights, hundred percent. Yeah,
(08:38):
doctor gain of function. I want the doctor wuhan. I
want the legislature who legislates, in other words, makes laws
to decide the rules, as opposed to some person on
a whim, one person. Right, it'll never happen in Corruptifornia.
But I'd also like to see every state house around
the nation rule firmly on what constitutes an emergence, how
(09:02):
one is declared, and when one ends, quite specifically to
rain in the future lunatics like Gavin Newsom. And then
they ended the story. It's just so funny because NPR
constantly runs promos about how you said, the place you
go to get the real story with no spin and
all facts, and it's just so hilarious. Anyway, they ended
(09:22):
the story with hantavirus' cases continuing to show up and
the Ebola virus not under control. This could become an
issue sooner than many of us realize. Back to you,
Jim Oh, I pray it does, and I pray all
those red states and their legislatures take a careful look
at the policy and science, actual scientific fact, not the
(09:44):
craze that took place during COVID, but what all of
the responsible health organizations had declared years before would be
the response to pandemics. And follow those carefully, and then
let's draw a contrast. If it happens again, God for
a bid between your economy, our economy, our schools, your schools,
(10:04):
our health outcomes, your health outcomes. That seems to be
the only way to do it. The time is to
strike is now, though, before people forget about it. Yeah,
because the next pandemic could be in, you know, another
century away. But let's say I just apparently, and this
is good news. I am not emotionally dead because I
hear the name Anthony Wuhan Fauci, and I get my
(10:25):
blood starts to boil. Joe's I represent science. Here's our
headline for the day, Joe's not dead. Inside, that's that's
our breaking news. I'm not doing well. But not dead yet.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday,
June the fourth of the year twenty twenty six, where
I'm strong. You getting we approve of this program. Okay,
let's beget officially then according to f CC rules or eggs.
(10:46):
Here we go at Mark, I'm a drive.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Spence underneath, puts it up, puts it in, chialen, prods it,
does it again. It's a six point lead, but forty
seven seconds left, we.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Were down by fourteen late in the third quarter. Never
say die, That's what I say. Timothy Chalomey was digging it.
He was in the second row. He was in the
second row behind what's his name, the comedian that got
all the money from the car, right, Tracy Morgan. Tracy
Morgan was in the front row. Chalomey was in the
second room. So hey, shallow Wi, you need a little
more money or something. Oh, it's twice as many rows
(11:22):
as the first row. Heather Myers has our headlines for
us and a bunch of stuff we can get into today.
California is not even close to finishing counting their bouts,
not even close, which is pretty crazy. Among other things,
on the way, stay here. Sam Altman, one of the
(11:46):
biggest AI guys in the world, says, Ah, this whole
thing about people losing their jobs is overblown. I think
it's going to be just fine, And I would trust
his honesty on this topic about as little as as
anybody it possibly imagine. But more on that later. Yeah, no, kidd,
who asked you? I just came across a fascinating bit
of American history, the farm boy, the Vermont farmboy who
(12:11):
in the early eighteen hundreds invented something that made skyscrapers possible.
What the plucky young American. Great story. We'll share that
with you coming up, But first let's figure out who's
reporting what. It's the lead story with Heather Meyer's Heather Joe.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Jack, Good morning. Let's find out how the networks are
covering the news this morning. From NBC News, House votes
to rebuke Trump over war with Iran.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Nobody I have to jump in just because nobody is
pointing out because they want the excitement that goes with it.
It's a symbolic vote. It holds no weight, it has
no power. It doesn't help politically, but no, it does
not signal the end of anything.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, Foxter's covered it this way. Trump suffers rare House
defeat as bipart artists and moves to withdraw troops from
Iran conflict. And then the Washington Post said it like this,
the four Republicans who broke with Trump on Iran and
now face his wrath.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
No, it's interesting that in a Republican controlled House you
know that it passed, But to leave out the fact
that it's symbolic and does not have the ability to
end the war is beyond disingenuous. I mean, you're misleading
on purpose. That's a tough story.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Recovering out of northern California this morning, Caseyra reporting one
dead and three injured in shooting after graduation ceremony at
Fairfield High.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
School as getting national attention. It's just down the road
from us.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
From Forbes, Trump baselessly accuses Democrats of stealing California primaries.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, if you allow counting to go on for days
and weeks, it certainly helps the argument from people four
people who want to claim theirre Shenanigan's going on. Yeah,
California is vote counting system essentially puts lipstick on collar,
blonde hair across shoulder of shirt and weird hotel stays
that can't be explained, but then denies there's an affair
(14:10):
going on. It sets it all up to look like
electoral fraud. So if people say, wow, that looks kind
of fraudulent, you can't act like that's unreasonable.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Well, this headline from the La Times will backs that up.
Does Nitthia Rahmans still have a chance California's uncounted votes
could help Democrats?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, speaking of disingenuous, A lot of the coverage around
this given people totals who's ahead and whatever. With fifty
some percent of the vote counted, there's no point so
wait until they're got ya. Every number you hear about
results in California could be flipped completely upside down by
the time they're done counting.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
From the Sacramento Bee, Katie Porter's failed bid for governor
is a loss for all Californians.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
What who said that?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Stucker going to be their opinion page this morning?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Wow, it used to be a newspaper. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
From ABC seven, Newport Beach ceo accused of illegally selling
US tech to Iranian government.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, that's a big story we got into later. Why
was this person so rich, hanging out in California for
so long and selling secrets to the Iranians. What's going
on there?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, they nabbed him at his thirty five million dollar mansion.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah woo.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
From CNN. SpaceX sets the stage for a record seventy
five billion dollar ipo.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We got to talk to many somebody smart about all
these IPOs that are coming out, the big tech things.
What it means should you be trying to get involved?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Blah blah blah from People dot Com. Service dog's extreme
in flight accident sickens passengers.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
What happened? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Oh the dog got the squirts?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh swells that swell. Okay, that's age. But at least
nobody's left wondering, Yes, what happened? So clarity points for clarity.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well, I just wanted to sum it up so there
was no guessing.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, exactly, That settled the issue.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
From the Associated Press this morning, woman sues Outback Steakhouse
for one and a half million after allegedly slipping on
mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Oh god, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
From the AP again, The winner pays nine million in
cherry auction for a private lunch with Warren Buffett and
Stephan Curry.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Wow, I would like to lunch with the greatest investor
of all time and the greatest jumpshooter over time. Yes,
together the same table, exactly, they must be together. And finally,
why so many three pointers in the NBA Stefan is
their growth in the housing industry? Sorry? Fifteen six.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
From the Babylon Bee, California announces they have finished counting
the votes. Ronald Reagan has won the nineteen sixty six
governors race.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, that's an embarrassment. I got a scenario around that
to present. Oh and have you heard the Steph Curry
business story Armstrong and Geddy?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Sixty percent of the vote has been counted. If that holds,
it means that in November, Los Angelinos are going to
have to choose between a woman named Karen and a
man who is one.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, this is insane. Oh wow, we should be very embarrassed.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Rocher not be a top two finalist for mayor. He
should be DJing the worst New Year's Eve party in
Reno right now. He's unlikely to win, and in fact,
he's already filming a reality show about his run for mayor,
so he definitely has his priorities over order.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That is so interesting because, like I know, Bill Maher
and Jimmy kimmeler friends. I've seen Jimmy Kimmel on his
show a couple of different times, hanging out and talking
and stuff like that, and likewise the very practical and
very realistic Adam Carolla. But Bill Maher, you know, as
a lifelong lefty who lives in Los Angeles, saying, look,
(18:16):
this is ridiculous. So we got street people everywhere, you
can't get anything done. Jimmy Kimmel goes with a Spencer
Pratz a Karen for complaining about drug addicts in tents everywhere. Wow,
that's really interesting. Are you being a Karen when you
pointed out that poor woman who was chased into a
furniture store and stabbed to death by a craze junkie?
(18:38):
I mean, was that? Is that being a Karen to
point out with the horror of that? Anyway, I got
another thing on the California elections, but I wanted to
follow up on a couple of things that Heather head
Force headlines. That one about somebody paying a bunch of
money to have lunch with Warren Buffett and Steph Curry.
That sounds I would love to have lunch with either
one of those guys alone. But I feel like if
(19:01):
I was there with them together and you have that
whole thing going where you're trying to include everybody, like
at a party or something like that, it'd be really
difficult to do. I mean, I have specific questions for
Warn't to have specific questions for Steph Curry, but neither
one of them. I don't know Steph Curry. I would
like to lunch with Geddy Lee and Sam Altman. I mean,
come on, ged how do you get that bass sound? Sam?
(19:23):
Will this restructure the economy? Getty? How do you play
the keyboards? Sam? What? That's an odd combo? Anyway? Steph
Curry's closer to Warren Buffett than the other way around.
Steph Curry just signed a four a new he's going
with a new shoe is under armor shoe thing. Ended
biggest sports contract at that time that had ever been signed.
His new one with some Chinese shoe I've never even
(19:45):
heard of. Oh boy, they're all kind of Chinese shoes,
because I mean, Nike's an American company, but everything's made anyway.
Leaning four hundred million dollars shoe deal Steph Curry signed
and his career is practically over four hundred million dollars.
So yeah, I think you could talk business with both
(20:07):
of those guys. Yeah, yeah, wow, I'm super uncomfortable with
that though. It's a Chinese own company. That's the difference.
So you're under the influence of the communists Chinese by definition,
by definition on the election thing. So we got this
text people that are complaining about how slow California is
(20:28):
in counting the ballots, and lots of different people pointing
out how long it takes in different states, cities, or
countries around the world. California is the worst of any
like developed democracy on planet Earth in terms of getting results.
And the problem is what we got this text. If
they did it super quick, you guys would say that's
(20:48):
too fast. It had to be rigged. No, I wouldn't
because nobody in history has ever said that everybody does
it fast. And the likelihood that you believe a fast
result is obviously higher than a slow, drawn out result.
Now I don't like. I was thinking about my big
local measure where I live, and uh, you don't need
(21:09):
to know the details, but it's a housing development, So
I was thinking, like, how much money is involved? Here
in one small town and the vote is really close.
They're like five hundred votes apart, and they're forty percent
of the way counting two days later. You've got how
many millions of dollars would you have involved in a
fifteen hundred home development of hundreds of acres? It would
(21:35):
It'd have to be hundreds of millions of dollars, wouldn't it.
That's an awful lot of money because there's a park,
and there's roads, and there's whole kinds of stuff that
has to happen. That's a lot of money hinging on
a very tiny election. Now. I don't have any reason
to think that it's going to be rigged in any way,
but oh my god, there'd be a lot of people
that would love to rig it if they could. And
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you only got to change a couple votes, right, So yeah,
you got to get those results out fast. You're just
asking for people to speculate when it takes you this
long account votes. The problem is it's got to take
this long because the Bizarro practically unprecedented in electoral history
system California has. You can mail in a ballot any
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time before the election. You can mail it in day
of it can get there a week later, it still
has to be counted. There's nothing like a deadline. There's
no structure to it. It's the most unstructured voting I've
ever seen in terms of time. And then the blanketing
of the state with mail in ballot's a state of
forty million people. I mean, that's just the reason nobody
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else does it like that is because it's so wildly unmanageable,
both logistically and security of the vote wise. But I
you know, I guess I just so. It was all
driven by the goal I suppose to get as many
people to vote as possible, make it the easiest vote
as possible. Every half wit, bum junkie, the moron in
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every corner of California, Let's get a ballot from them.
They have no ability to manage their lives to get
to the polls, to figure out when voting day is.
What's your address collect all those votes? I don't know. Yes, Uh,
can you tell me what your previous address was? I
don't know. Well, the young woman you were talking about,
(23:23):
Jack actually witnessed in line who didn't know her present
nor former address, but was still voting. She's in like
the eightieth percentile. She got herself to the pole. She
knew where to go, or at least knew where a
polling place was. But she's above average, well de designed
(23:43):
to allow a collecting votes from morons and b fraud. Yeah,
the whole the lot of the Save Act stuff that
Trump's trying to get through. Still claiming that the twenty
twenty election was stolen from him is uh, nonsensical or counterproductive.
But anything that makes it faster and leans towards showing
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your idea is a good idea, and everybody should be
on board with that one hundred percent. Practically everybody is
on board with it, as we've discussed many times, including
the vast majority of Democrats. A couple other headlines, just
to touch on, Israel and Lebanon agreed to implementation of
a ceasefire. It's so complicated and Trump oversimplified it the
(24:24):
other day. What does that mean? So your headline right there,
you talked about this yesterday. Israel's not at war with Lebanon,
So calling a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and them
signing an agreement, that's not the problem. Here's a little
tip for you from your old uncle Joe say you're
forming up a country and one of your political parties decides,
you know, we're hardcore is Lamists and we don't want
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to wait around for our country to make decisions about
who needs to be killed or fought. We're going to
arm our giant political party and kind of do what
we want most of the time. Don't do that. You
don't want that in your country. So Lebanon's in a
situation where they do join with Hesbela at times if
they think Israel's gotten too belligerent or they're in armed conflict,
(25:06):
and Hebela says, yeah, we'll help you out if you
need it, and they'll tell all right, you know, throw
some rockets at Israel. But a significant amount of the
time of the legitimate government of Lebanon and Lebanese people
are thinking, can we get these lunatics out of here,
or at least get them to disarm, because then we
can have peace with Israel. Israel has no desire for conquest.
They just don't want to be attacked anymore. So what's
(25:27):
happened now, And as you're kind of indirectly pointing out,
it doesn't mean peace has come. Lebanon has just said
to Israel. Look, we're not fighting each other, right, so
do us a favor and be Israel, be a little
restrained when you're attacking Hezbela, because don't draw us into it,
because we don't want any part of it. And Israel said, okay,
let's be cool and concentrate on Hesbela. So that's my
(25:50):
nickel version of what's happening right now. But Trump said
Israel's got to stop fighting Lebanon, and that's that's again oversimplified,
but it's a good sign. I think at least maybe
if fighting rezumes, Israel can point out to Trump and others, look,
we're not fighting Lebanon. We have an agreement with Lebanon. Lebanon.
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Are we fighting you? No, you're not. And it's just
the Islamist Iranian proxies. Again. Yeah, there's some interesting Wall
Street Journal reporting on Trump's attitude about the war. But
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Street Journals reporting around the war with Iran, President Trump
has told aids privately that he would consider surprise. It's
just consider ending the ceasefire if Tehran kills American troops.
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US officials said, insisting that the week's long paws and
air strikes remains intact despite a steady stream of violet skirmishes.
So he's gonna hold on to it. The little tit
for tat they call it tit for tat when you're
sending ballistic missiles at each other. It's set some pretty
heavy duty tit for tat. But if you kill a
bunch of American troops, Trump's gonna end the ceasefire and attack.
(27:58):
He'd consider it. They said, Yeah, beware, because the headline
in the Wall Street Journals exclusive is Trump tells aids
he won't resume all out war unless US troops are killed.
And then you read the entire body of the article
and you realize, no, that's not what he said. He
said he would seriously consider ending the ceasefire if Iran
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killed American troops, not that that was the only trigger
or that that was the only scenario. It's a terrible misleading.
I see the difference you're pointing out, but I would
rather he used the words hell, yeah, f yeah, if
they kill US troops, we're going back to war, as
opposed to a consider a much stronger language, right, and
(28:44):
or how about yeah, we're going to go back to
serious war unless they come to the table in a
serious way, I'd agree to a deal. I think Trump
has lost his nerve and his willingness to rattle the
world economy to push as hard as it's going to
take to get Iran to Actually, I have not been
on board with the taco thing, through any of this stuff,
tariffs or any of this stuff. He has lost his
(29:06):
nerve on this one. He chickened out. And I'm not
exactly sure why. The market. I mean, he doesn't care
about people's opinions. He does care about the market, but yeah,
he clearly is chickened out. We were talking to Nora
Rothman yesterday. He is a journalist with the National Review,
and he's got a book called Blood and Progress about
(29:29):
left wing violence. Anyway, we did a podcast with him
yesterday that you can find where you find podcasts. But anyway,
we said what Joe said a couple of weeks ago
to him, because I wondered what his reaction was. Iran
getting a nuclear weapon would be one of the biggest
developments in world history. And he said, absolutely, he agrees.
I don't know how it would not. I don't know
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how you'd make the argument that wouldn't be with that
on the table and a negative development, not like electricity
is one of the biggest developments in world history too,
but didn't leave to World War three? How is that
the case ran getting a new clear upon to be
one of the worst things that's ever happened on planet Earth.
(30:11):
And because gas is going to be high this summer,
we're just gonna not bother, not bother. Yeah, now I
think it's awful. It's terrible mismanagement. I want to pay
off next hour the young mount farm boy who made
skyscrapers possible. It might be a slight overstatement, but it's
a cool story. It's a Right Brothers esque tale, a
(30:31):
couple of bicycle repairmen that'll never happen. Plus we've got
a mailbag coming up, and Sam Holtman says, you're not
going to lose your job to AI, and I would
certainly believe him. Why would he lie to you? Among
other things? On the way stay here, I didn't talk
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Also have this headline we'll get to it's here. The
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new world screwworm has shown up in the United States,
first example in Texas, and look for it near you.
Flesh eating bacteria loving, gonna get into your eyeballs. Screw,
it's a stake on it. May let's not frighten people
so it eats your flesh and kills you think you
(31:36):
got about a fifty to fifty chance. Here's your freedom
loving quote of today. I decided, in the wake of
our discussion of Trump's negotiating with it, their on apparently
who everything charged to do some quotes about negotiation. Let's
go with this one. Where'd that go? Oh? There it
(31:57):
is John F. Kennedy from nineteen sixty one. We cannot
negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and
what's yours is negotiable. That's a good line. Or I
actually like this one. It's you know, laying out the
very basics. It's from John Maynard Keynes, who u the
father of Kingsey and economics, who ruined the world. But
when the final result is expected to be a compromise.
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It is often prudent to start from an extreme position. Ah,
that's a good one. Peg the negotiations way over there.
Oh my god, you're dragging me off away over there.
What kind of monster are you? Ogay, I'll come a
little bit. Yeah. Mailbag drops a note mail bag at
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bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Roye Marine writes,
heard your commentary about people who are bubbled don't know
(33:02):
their bubble one music, Slow down, Joe, one musician friend
of mine who goes all the way back to school
days is brilliant. A grad of a major university astounded
me by being unaware of the enslavement in some cases
genocide of the wigers. Turns out he had a national
geographic magazine on his coffee table with an in depth
article about it. He just hadn't gotten around to it.
(33:25):
He was clearly disturbed. He shook his head after reading
quite a bit of it and said, I had no
idea this was happening. Bah blah blah. He was in
disbelief when I commented that eighty to ninety percent of
homeless or drug addicts alcoholics are both, which is why
they can't keep a job or a domicile. He also
believes that ms now, especially Rachel Maddow or honest journalists.
(33:45):
So yeah, well, it's has been pointed out by us
and many other people. It's a lot harder to be
bubbled if you lean to the right, because you're confronted
with a different version of it every time you flip
on the television or or go to a movie, or
your kids coming home from school or whatever. Are you
yourself go to school as a younger person, you're subjected.
(34:06):
You're subjected. You're exposed to those arguments and have to
learn to deal with them and confront why you think
they're either right or wrong your whole life. Liberals need
not do that, so they're bubbled. Thought this was a great,
great summary from Jeff on the true Marxist strategy. It's
(34:28):
a strategy of patients and persistence the Marxist strategy to
infiltrate the US was a long term cultural revolution, not
an armed rebellion. By methodically placing ideological sympathizers into education, media, government,
and corporate power structures, the American worldview has been shifted
dramatically over the past century. Today, many Americans are unaware
that what they see as normal progress was in fact
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carefully orchestrated over decades following a playbook written by Gramsky,
refined by Marcuse, and executed by a legion of activists
opposing as educator's journalists and public servants. That's exactly right.
If there's a lesson to be learned, it's this cultural
warfare is real and fought not with guns, but with ideas, textbooks,
and television screens. You know. It kind of reminds me
(35:11):
of the way conservatives, pro life conservatives got Roll versus
Wade finally overturned. That was a like half century project
from the Federal Society to try to, you know, get
judges in places at lower levels, let it play out
over a very long period of time. To try to
(35:33):
reverse that, you have to play a long game with
some of these big ideas, and they have on the
other side with Marxism in our schools and media for
longer than that. Yeah. Yeah. And then finally, Kevin from
Beautiful Placerville, California points out that Nate Silver talking about
California's electoral system and how hopeless it is, Nate called
(35:56):
it learned helplessness, and he says, I take issue with
the characterization because it completely mixdiagnoses the issue. It's this
is exactly how they want the system to function. They
want a gigantic, untrackable flood of votes that they can
then harvest and control. It's not a mistake, it's it's
(36:18):
it's intentional. Yeah. And then it's got the help of
it makes it seem like you're trying to count every
vote out there. Seeing get a lot of people on
board who lean that direction. Armstrong and Getty
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