January 9, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- NFL, Death by Lightning, Brown University shooter & Travis Kelce
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week, the MN ICE shooting reaction & coverage
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and he arms Yet Thanks Friday live from Studio
(00:34):
c Say Senior, a dimly lit room deep within the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compounding. Hey, y'all,
today we are under the tutelage of our general manager.
Conflict and chaos. Oh yay, oh goodie, thanks for that,
Oh boy and Loman, they'd I and hose open, they'd
promote Jim from accounting for general manager instead of instead
(00:58):
they hired conflicting chaos. Unless you mean NFL playoff football
or college That's exactly what I've met. That's conflicting chaos.
It's a good point, andentrol chaos. But yeah, yeah, fair enough,
brightly colored uniforms. Watch NFL Wildcar Weekend, which is some
big NFL fans favorite weekends when you got a whole
bunch of playoff games going at one time and anyone
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could win. With the Kansas City Chiefs not in it
for the first time in like a decade, it's more
of a wide open on both sides sort of situations.
So there you go. Very exciting, great, great, great college
football game last night if you watched it, to Miami
came from behind and beat poor old miss. So we'll
play either Indiana or Oregon, who played tonight, which will
(01:44):
be exciting. There you go, that'll be a good ball game. Yeah,
I'm going to catch some of that action. I said
this yesterday too, and this isn't really about sports. If
you're not a sports fan, the quarterback for Indiana is
one of those special human beings is that you run
into now and then and if you man, if you
haven't caught his act as a sports fan or even
(02:05):
a non sports fan, is just like a positive energy
guy or leadership person or something. He's either going to
be a giant NFL star or a motivational speaker or
end up the CEO of Ford or something. But he
is a white president, he is well yeah, exactly, Yeah,
he is quite the dude. You remember when young men
in America and little girls theoretically could grow up and
(02:27):
dream of being president. That was like this, in this
great country, you could grow up and be president. That
was that was not a cliche truism in America. It
was a bromide a saying that we all knew and
now it's like, oh god, no, oh, why are you
threatening me? Well, it's it's been that way for for
some people for a long time. I just started that
(02:49):
Assassination of Garfield mini series on Netflix. What's it called?
About the Lightnings? I'm about the last Blood everywhere disgusting. Yeah,
death by lightning, Death by lightning. And it's about the
assassination of James Garfield, which nobody knows anything about, if
he even knew. There wasn't a session ate. I mean,
I barely knew it. And I'm a big giant fan
of presidential stuff, and this mini series lays it's about
(03:09):
the crazy guy who shot him and about Garfield himself,
and at least the way it's Garfield's portrayed in this show.
He had no interest in being president, right. He goes
to the convention to cast his votes for this dude
Sherman to try to get him to be the nominee,
and somebody nominates him and then he ends up the
nominee and then president. He had no interest in being president.
(03:30):
His wife didn't want it, he didn't want it. It
was one of those they were terribly divided and there
were thirty seven ballots, and finally somebody said, look, everybody
likes Garfield. He's a good and decent man. And every
faction said, yeah, actually, Garfield's a pretty good guy. And
he's like, what the hell are you doing? And you
know what's really interesting. We didn't talk about this because
(03:51):
the news flow has just been insane this week. The
shooter at Brown University put out video confessions there in
his storage locker where he killed himself, thankfully ending his
miserable life. Unfortunately he ended it too late, but essentially
he was one of those sad pathetic losers who blamed
(04:11):
everyone else for his sad pathetic life and his failures.
And the guy who shot Garfield, at least as portrayed
by the miniseries very much the same. God. That's exactly
what I was thinking last night. I couldn't quite get
it together. Here's a very angry, sad loser who at
some point latched onto a way for his suicide to happen. Yeah, essentially, yeah,
(04:36):
uh huh. Which it turns out throughout history, the more
you think about it, I think are the more you
observe it. A lot of the major assassinations throughout history
or terrorist attacks or whatever were perpetrated not so much
by somebody with a strong ideology or like they're really
going to accomplish something. They're just crazy people that needed
(04:57):
the thing to unleash their vibe on or to make
them the big big man they had always believed they were,
and that the world wasn't recognizing. That was the Garfield case.
A lot of people believe that was Lee Harvey Oswald.
You know. The John Wilkes booth thing is the exception,
not the rule. Definitely, the dedicated ideologue, definitely. Anyway, the
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other really really crazy interesting thing I've discovered in the
last twenty four hours, and maybe we can get into
this later. We'll have to decide to so much to
talk about is conspiratualism. These people who, for various reasons,
they latch onto conspiracy deep you know, deep conspiracy, rabbit
hole Qanani stuff and exists on the left too, absolutely
(05:45):
and get a near religious attachment to it or or
virtually religious attachment to it. I've just been reading about that,
and it's frequently an elaborate coping mechanism dealing with the
trauma of their lives and that sort of thing. But
oh my god, it snapped my head back. It was
so interesting and revealing. Oh I really want to hear
(06:07):
about that. We were probably better off as apes. The
human brain got too big, too complicated, too prone to
going off in wacky directions. So back to the trees.
That's my rallying cry. Nobody tunes us in, especially on
a Friday for presidential minutia. But just while it's in
my mind that Garfield show, which, by the way, I
think a lot of people would like. It's really well done.
(06:28):
It's pretty good drama whatever. Yeah, agreed. Was Chester A Arthur,
who again is just a name.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I knew nothing about Chester A Arthur. I knew he
was a president, knew nothing about him until this show.
Was he actually a violent thug like that? I don't
know to what extent that's true. I remember learning that
he was very much a party hack. He's not really
well respected as a statesman or thinker. But boy, the
(06:56):
presidents we always make jokes about on President's Day of
being nothing's whatever, turn out at least in this show
to be pretty fascinating. It looks like Chester A. Arthur
was the kind of guy that would take people in
a back alley and beat him down to get the
money out of him or whatever. He was like. He
was like a Paully Walnuts in the Sopranos, and he
ends up vice president. Yeah, Makien, politics were pretty brutal
(07:17):
back in the day, and then Garfield gets assassinated and
then he's president. But yeah, wow, that's interesting. We're we've
got some disgusting politics now, but there's a lot less
taking people into alleys and beating the money out of them,
right right, Yeah, let's start the show officially. There's so
much to talk about today. I can't wait to talk
about Aram. Very excited about what's going on there. Optimistic
(07:41):
or at least we're getting to the crossroads where the
Mullas are going to decide. All right, that's enough of that. Yeah,
But like Venezuela, the question of what's next, the most
likely answer is not terribly palatable. But more on that
to come. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
it is Friday, January ninth, year, twenty twenty six. How
did that happen? We are Armstrong and Getty and we
approve of this program. Well let's begin. Then, here we
(08:03):
go officially according to f CC rules. Reggs show starts
at mark.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
A new episode of his podcast, Kansas City Chief star
Travis Kelsey said that he won't make a decision about
retirement for a month and added that he's quote just
being a regular human for a couple of weeks. You know,
a regular human who's engaged to Taylor Swift and contemplating
retirement at thirty six.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
This regular dude stuff. Yeah, sitting on an enormous pile
of money. But that's place. See, he can't, you know,
Travis Kelsey is the perfect test case for do you
resent people just because they're successful? I mean, what are
you going to resent about the dude? I don't know,
he's very likable, but what a what could anything turn
(08:46):
your life more upside down even when you're already wealthy
and famous, than getting engaged to Taylor Swift. I mean,
holy crap, that would put you into a new well.
Hardly any human being has ever been in the Taylor
Swift zone, right right? Yeah? I mean, the heart wants
what the heart wants, Jack, But I'd be tempted to
(09:07):
go looking for another skinny block. This is just gonna
be complicated, Okay, we got Katie's headlines on the way
and you can join us anytime you want on the
text line four one five kftc yo yo anniversary today
of uh. It was on this day in two thousand
(09:28):
and seven that Steve Jobs did a big presentation there
the Bay Area and held up a little heavy, weird
looking gadget called the iPhone, and man did that change everything?
Mm thanks Steve in many ways for the worse. Yeah.
Speaking of which, Oh my gosh, did Peter Mgosian write
(09:50):
a great piece entitled eh ah here it is. Here's
the title for you, the title, the reveal it there
it is. Oh I'm sorry. It was just and hate
is sometime partner the Devil's planned to ruin the next generation.
If you were to say to Satan, how would you
ruin the next generation of humans and steal their souls?
(10:11):
How he would do it? It will chill you to
the bone. First, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
the lead story. Oh my gosh, we have plenty of
time for Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Katie all right, So let's start with the main headline here,
ABC News Minneapolis Ice shooting. Officer involved in shooting was
injured in a June incident NBC Minnesota and Portland shootings
fuel protests and then to kind of counter this New
York Post Renee Good was Minneapolis quote Ice Watch warrior
(10:43):
who trained to resist Feds prior to shooting.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, and the ramming of ICE officers in their vehicles
is going on nationwide. Ain't a joke. They're all aware
of it. People are getting hurt badly. Stop it now
or you might get shot in your head. Are they LARPing?
Joe had a piece for us yesterday about these people
who are kind of LARPing until they run into reality.
It's really interesting. It's changed kind of the way I
(11:09):
look at these people. Also, that got a lot of
attention yesterday that the officer that shotter had been drugged
by a car by a protester already earlier and he
got what two hundred stitches. Yeah, he got hurt and
had to be feared for his life when that happened before.
So that would have an effect on your reaction. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
From the Washington Post. Iranian protests and strikes escalate as
leader vows state will not back down.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I listened to a journalist out of Iran yesterday and
they are really ramping up the protests. The opposition leader
dude who is a crown prince of something that is
calling for the protests every single night. People are coming
out of what is it, one hundred and ten towns
(11:58):
cities across Iran now that have protests in them. That
way bigger than any protests have been previously. Right, right,
it's an oh, go ahead, you add more. They shut down.
But the bad guys, and they are bad guys. They
pulled in their security forces and are bringing in the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard to try to deal with the situation.
(12:18):
That's just like in the last forty eight hours, right, Yeah,
it's such an interesting phenomenon of uprisings like this that
you have to alter, I'm sorry, offer an alternative. You
can't just say down with the powers that be. There's
got to be an alternative to rally around. And in
this case, the best they can come up with is
the son of the deposed Shaw, who'd almost certainly become
(12:40):
a figurehead in something like a republic more of a democracy,
kind of British style something like that. But you've got
to have that that figurehead. You can't just say, hey, democracy,
there's got to be a person.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
From The New York Times, Trump says more US attacks
on Venezuela quote will not be needed.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Nogay would I wouldn't think so. We grabbed a couple
more Russian tankers. Russia's really mad. It is. Well, how
much of this whole Venezuela thing is that? It's just
like an end around on the whole Ukraine Russia deal.
I'd say it's an add on advantage.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
From the Wall Street Journal, White House ballroom architect said
a West Wing edition is under consideration, going to be
some ballroom.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Can't wait. I hope I get invited to many balls.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
From Fox News, Naked woman allegedly assaults deputy while intoxicated
and claiming she was trying to be a mermaid.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well try harder, sweetheart number one. You're on try land
number two. You still got legs the whole mermaid. I
saw a dude yesterday on a moped, like a cool
vintage moped. I mean, this is like the hipster of hips.
He's on a cool vintage moped. He's got a tail,
I'm sorry, tail or some sort of tale, the free thing,
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free tale.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I know you gotta look at me, Look at me,
I'm special. Look at me. You gotta tail. He had
sideburns and some sort of wacky old timey hat. All right,
so help you. This is bordering on old man shouting
at clouds. But we need a great deal more of
this in our society. Yeah, I get it. Look at me,
(14:30):
look at me, look at me. Accomplish something then someone
then people will look at you to all this just
the virtue signaling, look at me, I'm trans, I'm you know,
a gender or whatever. Oh look I have a tail. Whatever.
If you're twelve, okay, great, I get it. But if
you're a grown ass man or ought to be, there
(14:51):
ought to be more judgment, harsh judgment of that sort
of thing, because it's sad. Do something, accomplish some something,
learn something, then people will pay attention to you, not
just because you dress up as a damn fox, you weirdo.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
From page six, Madonna strips down to lingerie.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And Jamby has for that ahead what else did she do?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
And jumps in bed with younger lovers in new raunchy ad.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I haven't saying this for a long time. You get
what to move past the I'm sexy and people want
me thing? At some point you're in your sixties. Not
that you can't be sexy in your sixties, but you
can't be You can't be a sex symbol for the everyone,
for the masses in your sixties. You know, how about
the wise and respected elder Stateswoman's things? Any really literally anything?
(15:46):
But look at me? Look at me spreading my knees.
Nobody wants that. I know it's time for straight talk, Katie.
Oh my god, no thanks.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Study finds drunk from pizza auto brewery syndrome turns carbs
into alcohol.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
How do you get that? Can you sign up for that?
Oh my gosh, imagine that I wouldn't have to like
drink beer with the beer, wine with the pizza. It
was if the ones shop stop shopping.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, And I have two Babylon Bees because I couldn't decide.
So the first one is teenager confused how parents still
don't know everything?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
But it only took him sixteen years. That's pretty good.
And then the other.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
One is Greenland Panics, as Marco Rubio is seen donning
heavy parka.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I came across what may be my favorite Babylon Bee
headline of the last six months or so. I don't
want to paraphrase it because it's so good. But it
has to do with the the Minnesota Social Services ripoff scandal.
Joe is going to re explain to us the LARPing
element of these protesters. Really, yeah, the poor stupid lady
(17:05):
who got shot in the head. Just what what are
those people doing? What do they think they're doing? Marping?
Pretty well illustrated. Marping is the acronym for live action
role playing. Yeah, essentially, well, yes, yes, and that's what
they're doing. I never thought about it this way before.
It's pretty interesting. It's what's going on all across the country.
On the way Armstrong and Getty, Oh a beautiful Chester,
(17:37):
Joe and I are about to launch into content completely
forgetting the first Friday of the new year that this
is where we do clips of the week, right right,
and the very people who are supposed to be part
of the team to present the show. Instead of pointing
out that fact, I'm saying, hey, dude, you got clips
of the week, so maybe move that other feature a
(17:57):
little No, no, no, they just remain silent, giggling like idiots.
Hope and we'll screw up some team. This is now.
Miami wouldn't have won that game last night, so it
couldn't be now.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I will say, last time this happened, there was some
coordination going on behind the scenes. We were all in cahoots.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I had nothing to do with that. I am Michael.
This is all Michael. Yeah. So it's like Aaron Rodgers
offensive line knows he thinks it's going to be a pass,
but it's a run. This is hilarious. Oh yeah, we're
gonna get let him get wiped out by the defensive tackle. Yeah, Michael, Well,
we'll wait, we'll we'll wait for a moment.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Someday it will come and revenge will be sweet. I
completely forgot the Clips of the Week even existed. I didn't.
I just hadn't thought of it for a while. All right,
So let's we'll get to that stuff in a few minutes.
It's fascinating and compelling and trust us. But first, let's
take fun look back at the insane week that was.
It's cow clips of the Week. What a great game?
(19:00):
This is going give me our first day big problems here,
what you get it. We will replace the frigidity of
rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. Families, especially white families,
(19:22):
but some UOC families who are homeowners as well are
going to have a different relationship to property than than
than the one that we currently have. I want you
to give me one example of socialism you think working
well somewhere. I think of Cuba in particular. That's coming
to day becoming.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Nobody's gonna fight the United States militarily over the future
of Greenlands.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
One last question, see it make any sense?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
One helony and protesters taking to the streets of their
country again.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Iron's government is now and he got payments, payments of
seven dollars a month to help people afford food.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
The United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation
in the capital of Venezuela, Operation Absolute Resolve. This was
an audacious operation. Nicholas Uduro had his chance. He left
around and he found out.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And he's a violent guy.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
He gets up there and he tries to imitate my
dance a little bit.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The American people did not sign up for this kind
of adventurism. So we are going to run the country.
So those of you who thought this whole project was
globalhomo oh crazy. Actually we are.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Under assault like no other time in our state's history.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It was an active domestic terrorism, and she attempted to
run an law enforcement officer over. I want to tell
everybody directly that is both. So it looked like she
was impeding ICE vehicles. Definitely, yeah, that was her goal.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And I have a message for Ice to Ice get
the fuck out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's clips of the week, first week of the year,
first week back. Two giant stories, very very short follow
up to that. First of all, if anybody is left
thinking that I Joe Getty was like being hyperbolic or
(21:37):
paranoid in describing the social justice crowd as neo Marxists
when they say we need to confiscate private property. Now
do you believe me? Anyway? Moving along, so on the
Minnesota shooting. The Minneapolis shooting, it's interesting. I think a
heck of a lot of people on the right are
coming together and agreeing that this poor woman, Renee Nicole
(21:59):
Good is an unfortunate dupe and it's very very sad
that she got shot, which I think is a good
and healthy way to look at it. There are a
couple of ways I'd like to frame what happened, and
I think if you understand these two things, you'll really,
really really understand what happened Number one. I mentioned it
yesterday that Marxists are trained to put you in predicaments.
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You can't win decision to them, as they call them,
You taunt, you impede law enforcement until they take a
swing at you, and then you post the video online
and say, look at the fascist brutes were up against
any attempt to rally people to the cause. It's actually
it's in writing Read Rules for Radicals by Saul Lensky.
It's a well known strategy. They do it all the time.
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In this case, it went way, way, way, wait, way
too far. This woman believed, as one writer put it,
she'd been radicalized by her fellow lefty political friends that
ice are monsters that she must fight. She bought all
the fascist coming into our communities to blah blah blah,
(23:06):
and she imagined that she was a brave resistance fighter.
Which brings us to an absolutely terrific piece that we
shared late in the show yesterday, And if you've heard
it before, I hope you enjoyed as much as we did.
And it's very thought provoking. It's written by a gal
who has an anonymous account on Twitter, but is quite
smart anyway. I think a lot of radicalization happens in
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spaces where it's all talk. Everything is hypothetical. It's easy
to LARP as a revolutionary. That's live action role playing
as someone who stands against oppression. There's a lack of
seriousness about it all. You start to believe the memes.
You start to believe you're a hero, you're the main character.
Then you convince yourself to do something really dumb, like
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pull your car in front of police officers. They draw
their guns, and the LARP crumbles. You're not that person.
This is real life and those are real guns. Nothing
but get the hell out of here, screams in her brain.
She probably didn't see the officer standing in front of
her car as she smashes the gas. The officer can't
know this, of course, they don't know what she's thinking.
(24:10):
They just know when guns were drawn asking her to
step out of her vehicle, she slammed on the gas
in the direction of an officer. They're not in a LARP.
Their job is real and they encounter people who want
to kill them, so they fire. No one in this
woman's life told her she's on a retarded, destructive LARP.
She was encouraged by her peer group viral videos of
similarly lost radical larper's getting nothing but praise online politicians
(24:34):
calling the enforcement of our laws akin to the Nazis,
calling them illegitimate, calling them evil, telling them, telling their
citizens to make their voices heard. Everyone in her life
failed her. She needed someone to tell her to grow up. Instead,
she had no one, and now she's dead, a horrible
case of internet radicalization. Yeah, I think that's really really good.
(24:55):
I think that describes some people I know who see
this as all as kind of like an online game
and well LARPing, live action role playing, as opposed to
reel their real laws and real consequences and real situations
that people can get themselves into where people get hurt
rightly or wrongly.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I think it's revealing that her partner, lesbian partner, was
screaming after the shooting, this is my fault, This is
my fault. I made her come down here to be
a brave revolutionary standing up to Trump's fascist forces. I
thought it was interesting. Now none of this matters her.
What she you know, her lifestyle doesn't have anything to
do with whether or not the cops get to shoot
(25:35):
her in this situation or not. Certainly not. Yeah, but
it is kind of interesting. So she they mentioned on
the news last night, And I'm going to rail about
the CBS evening news coverage last night. I mean, nobody
watches these newscasts, so it doesn't matter that much. I
couldn't believe how incredibly bad a job they did of
(25:55):
like informing America. What was going on there? Or why
why is ice there? Never came up, never came up
at all. But anyway, they mentioned just off handedly, when
her second husband died, she and she after that she
had had a kid, surgate kidd and adopted kid whatever
they're lesbian part. So she is married to two dudes
(26:18):
before she got married to this woman. Yeah, and you
know all her other stuff. So it doesn't matter. I
just as an interesting you got, she got quite the life.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And a poet is said to be a fine poet.
I've said many times I love poets and dreamers and artists.
I just don't want them in charge. Yeah, yeah, it's said.
And for what it's worth, two things, Trump and company
never miss a chance to be belligerent in a way
(26:49):
that fires up opposition. I don't think that's smart. I
think there are times for that. It's absolutely appropriate to
come on strong rhetorically with the action whatever. Absolutely, but
it not always. Sometimes, as in law enforcement, you need
(27:09):
the buy in from the community to do it effectively.
Any cop will tell you that. That's why good policing
inquires a lot of community outrage outreach rather a lot
of it. When the cop comes in to the hood
because something's gone wrong, everybody says, oh, there's Jones, because
Jones has been in the hood and introduced himself and
(27:32):
said hello, and stopped in the stores and stuff like that.
It's an important part of policing. Never ending belligerence is
not going to help this situation, even if you're in
the right, and I think some of it could be
toned down a little bit. Absolutely. It got no attention
the day of the shooting. But Tom, because nobody wanted
(27:52):
to know, media wanted to hear from anybody being calmed.
Tom Holman said, well, I think we should wait and
have an investigation. Tom Holman, who's you know, kind of
fam on Fox and throwing red meat, was like the
grown up that day saying we should wait for an investigation.
But in fact he said it would be unprofessional of
me to comment before all the facts are in. Oh
my lord, I didn't even hear that till yesterday. There
(28:13):
were no clips of that because that's not what people want.
They want the people declaring in a murder or the
exact opposite. I was watching CBS News last night, and
it's just one newscast on a channel that, like most channels,
very few people watch. But they interviewed a number of
people on the street, all of them with the ICE
(28:34):
has got to get out of here, this is America,
blah blah blah. Never even gave a wink to the
other side that about half the country agrees with. And
the reason that ICE is there at all, there was
a giant scandal. Nine billion dollars got stolen from taxpayers,
much of it by illegal immigrants. So they up to
(28:55):
the number of ICE agents there to try to deal
with all these illegal criminals. So they come into Minnesota.
That's what started this this whole thing, but never even
mentioned why federal agents would be there to try to
arrest criminals. And whether or not they you know or not,
still doesn't mean you get to shoot people as a cop,
but you gotta have that background for some context. They
(29:18):
presented it as just like, I don't know, they just
sent in thugs for no reason to harass Minnesota's right.
It's outrageous, it's sad, it's sick, I praised CBS News.
I watched Tony de Couple's first UH broadcast and it
was it was pretty good, it was solid, it was something,
but it was terrible. It was egregious. Last night they
gave this one young black kid on the street, like
(29:41):
quote after quote after quote, who declared this kid the
arbiter of what's right and wrong? And you made that
the center of your newscast. I just believe it's wrong
and they shouldn't be here, and blah blah, and they
went on and on. We asked once again, whatever his
name was, what do you think follow up interview and
kit he was well into his twenties, But what what
Who can there's with this one person who clearly has
(30:02):
no idea. We would have an IQ of about seventy
eight too. Why the hell is he the spokesman for
Minneapolis or America When you interview people on the street
who clearly don't have the slightest idea what sanctuary city
is or isn't what law enforcement supposed to do the
fact that are cracking down on illegal immigration, that we
have millions of illegals here and something needs to be
(30:24):
done about it. Why why wouldn't you give that context
to America? Well, it especially And my only quibbal with
your screen, which was most excellent, was that the percentage
of Americans who would agree with apprehending illegal immigrants who
rip off the taxpayers would be closer to eighty eight
percent than half the country, virtually unanimous. But that's why
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more ICE agents were sent in. Right then that's fine.
If you then say, and we think this was an
illegal shooting, that's fine, but you got to have all
that information, all right. My final note, I want to
talk of about more about the topic of never ending
belligerence as a terrible strategy, both you know, for the
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administration and for us as human beings. That's not how
you change minds. What is your goal? What is your goal?
If you're if your tactics don't fit your strategy, they're
bad tactics. If your strategy is to change minds, Michael,
I know we got to take an effing break. If
(31:29):
you make that gesture again, I'm gonna come in there
and do it on your forearm. That's way out of line.
That's actually threatening violence. That was a little month. Oh
that was just awful, and I pat, I just want
to finish my my god dang sentence. Never mind, go
to break. It's our top priority. Break. We've got mail
bag on the way. And then there's much more to
(31:51):
say on this topic, no doubt about it. If you
want to say it. Here's our text line four one, five,
two nine five KFTZ. Jene has talked hopefully about this
in the past. Maybe it's gonna happen. It looks like
gen Z is more likely to cut down on screen
time than us gen xers or millennials on their own.
(32:13):
We can talk about that in hour two. First, here's
your freedom hating quote of the day. Super interesting. It
from the nuremberger Berg trials. Gurring was being interviewed by
a journalists about war and how it's tough to drag
people to war in a way because they have nothing
to gain. Just getting home in one piece is all
they want. And the American journalist says, well, in a democracy,
(32:36):
we have Congress, so it's different. Blah blah bah. He said,
all that's well and good, but the people can always
be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That's easy.
All you have to do is tell them they're being
attacked and denounce the Pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. Or it's the same way
in any country. Yeah, boy, that's true. And throughout the time.
Have you watched that movie about that with Russell Crowe's
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no during that looks so good. I want to watch it.
Oh wow, mailbg sounds good. Yeah. I wish I had
more time to take in all the wonderful content that
exists in the world. Ah, let's see mailbag, drop us
a note, mailbag a armstrong giddy dot com very quickly.
I want to clean this up. We got a couple
of great emails about the Venezuela Maduro thing that I
didn't get to. Jimmy Houston wrote, Does anyone find it
(33:21):
odd that it was easier to arrest the president of
Venezuela than it was to find a single child in
a Somali run daycare in Minnesota? Nah? Anyway, I owned too.
I thought that was good. We're there, We're all leering
about this. Eric L. Polpo Smith, in a story Oregon,
wrote the fracas in Caracas. Get out your maraccas, but
keep your l pacus. Anyway, the note was pretty good too.
(33:43):
Oh let's see. Ah. Several people, including Stacey, said, respect
Mary in the Hoe, who worked hard to compile the
end of the year lists of bad names and things.
Jack is never done. She got shafted in twenty twenty five.
This is worse than Jack not tipping the dumpster driving Maid.
You're right, I propose our four of the show today
got at the end of the year lists from Mary
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and the Hoe got do I agree that with and
I am completely to blame. Let's see Robert writes a
preventable death the entire state of Minnesota probably would only
require four or five ice agents if we had not
allowed millions of people into our country for no good reason. Yeah. Yeah, well,
you let something bad go long enough. The cleaning it
(34:26):
up is going to be hard and unpleasant. You've heard
that many times here. How the hell are you gonna
unwind that without a lot of really uncomfortable things see
deficit spending. I actually got pulled last night and they
asked the biggest problem thank you facing the country and
gave me a list. I said, none of those things,
deficit spending. Let's see ice ice baby, writes Antonio whin
(34:49):
Are Minnesota leader's going to be charged with inciting a riot?
It's good question. Then finally, this from big Ern McCracken.
I believe that had to be a upha. That's non
diplome of some sort. Hardly anyone's been in the position
of being engaged to Taylor Swift. Come on, how about
every bass player from every emo band from the year
twenty oh four through twenty eighteen. That's a good one.
(35:09):
I don't think she was actually engaged. I don't think
she was it. They were just boyfriends about the Jonas
boy No, they were just boyfriends. I don't care. We
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they hired conflicting chaos. Unless you mean NFL playoff football
or college That's exactly what I've met. That's conflicting chaos.
It's a good point, andentrol chaos. But yeah, yeah, fair enough,
brightly colored uniforms. Watch NFL Wildcar Weekend, which is some
big NFL fans favorite weekends when you got a whole
bunch of playoff games going at one time and anyone
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could win. With the Kansas City Chiefs not in it
for the first time in like a decade, it's more
of a wide open on both sides sort of situations.
So there you go. Very exciting, great, great, great college
football game last night if you watched it, to Miami
came from behind and beat poor old miss. So we'll
play either Indiana or Oregon, who played tonight, which will
(01:44):
be exciting. There you go, that'll be a good ball game. Yeah,
I'm going to catch some of that action. I said
this yesterday too, and this isn't really about sports. If
you're not a sports fan, the quarterback for Indiana is
one of those special human beings is that you run
into now and then and if you man, if you
haven't caught his act as a sports fan or even
(02:05):
a non sports fan, is just like a positive energy
guy or leadership person or something. He's either going to
be a giant NFL star or a motivational speaker or
end up the CEO of Ford or something. But he
is a white president, he is well yeah, exactly, Yeah,
he is quite the dude. You remember when young men
in America and little girls theoretically could grow up and
(02:27):
dream of being president. That was like this, in this
great country, you could grow up and be president. That
was that was not a cliche truism in America. It
was a bromide a saying that we all knew and
now it's like, oh god, no, oh, why are you
threatening me? Well, it's it's been that way for for
some people for a long time. I just started that
(02:49):
Assassination of Garfield mini series on Netflix. What's it called?
About the Lightnings? I'm about the last Blood everywhere disgusting. Yeah,
death by lightning, Death by lightning. And it's about the
assassination of James Garfield, which nobody knows anything about, if
he even knew. There wasn't a session ate. I mean,
I barely knew it. And I'm a big giant fan
of presidential stuff, and this mini series lays it's about
(03:09):
the crazy guy who shot him and about Garfield himself,
and at least the way it's Garfield's portrayed in this show.
He had no interest in being president, right. He goes
to the convention to cast his votes for this dude
Sherman to try to get him to be the nominee,
and somebody nominates him and then he ends up the
nominee and then president. He had no interest in being president.
(03:30):
His wife didn't want it, he didn't want it. It
was one of those they were terribly divided and there
were thirty seven ballots, and finally somebody said, look, everybody
likes Garfield. He's a good and decent man. And every
faction said, yeah, actually, Garfield's a pretty good guy. And
he's like, what the hell are you doing? And you
know what's really interesting. We didn't talk about this because
(03:51):
the news flow has just been insane this week. The
shooter at Brown University put out video confessions there in
his storage locker where he killed himself, thankfully ending his
miserable life. Unfortunately he ended it too late, but essentially
he was one of those sad pathetic losers who blamed
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everyone else for his sad pathetic life and his failures.
And the guy who shot Garfield, at least as portrayed
by the miniseries very much the same. God. That's exactly
what I was thinking last night. I couldn't quite get
it together. Here's a very angry, sad loser who at
some point latched onto a way for his suicide to happen. Yeah, essentially, yeah,
(04:36):
uh huh. Which it turns out throughout history, the more
you think about it, I think are the more you
observe it. A lot of the major assassinations throughout history
or terrorist attacks or whatever were perpetrated not so much
by somebody with a strong ideology or like they're really
going to accomplish something. They're just crazy people that needed
(04:57):
the thing to unleash their vibe on or to make
them the big big man they had always believed they were,
and that the world wasn't recognizing. That was the Garfield case.
A lot of people believe that was Lee Harvey Oswald.
You know. The John Wilkes booth thing is the exception,
not the rule. Definitely, the dedicated ideologue, definitely. Anyway, the
(05:19):
other really really crazy interesting thing I've discovered in the
last twenty four hours, and maybe we can get into
this later. We'll have to decide to so much to
talk about is conspiratualism. These people who, for various reasons,
they latch onto conspiracy deep you know, deep conspiracy, rabbit
hole Qanani stuff and exists on the left too, absolutely
(05:45):
and get a near religious attachment to it or or
virtually religious attachment to it. I've just been reading about that,
and it's frequently an elaborate coping mechanism dealing with the
trauma of their lives and that sort of thing. But
oh my god, it snapped my head back. It was
so interesting and revealing. Oh I really want to hear
(06:07):
about that. We were probably better off as apes. The
human brain got too big, too complicated, too prone to
going off in wacky directions. So back to the trees.
That's my rallying cry. Nobody tunes us in, especially on
a Friday for presidential minutia. But just while it's in
my mind that Garfield show, which, by the way, I
think a lot of people would like. It's really well done.
(06:28):
It's pretty good drama whatever. Yeah, agreed. Was Chester A Arthur,
who again is just a name.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I knew nothing about Chester A Arthur. I knew he
was a president, knew nothing about him until this show.
Was he actually a violent thug like that? I don't
know to what extent that's true. I remember learning that
he was very much a party hack. He's not really
well respected as a statesman or thinker. But boy, the
(06:56):
presidents we always make jokes about on President's Day of
being nothing's whatever, turn out at least in this show
to be pretty fascinating. It looks like Chester A. Arthur
was the kind of guy that would take people in
a back alley and beat him down to get the
money out of him or whatever. He was like. He
was like a Paully Walnuts in the Sopranos, and he
ends up vice president. Yeah, Makien, politics were pretty brutal
(07:17):
back in the day, and then Garfield gets assassinated and
then he's president. But yeah, wow, that's interesting. We're we've
got some disgusting politics now, but there's a lot less
taking people into alleys and beating the money out of them,
right right, Yeah, let's start the show officially. There's so
much to talk about today. I can't wait to talk
about Aram. Very excited about what's going on there. Optimistic
(07:41):
or at least we're getting to the crossroads where the
Mullas are going to decide. All right, that's enough of that. Yeah,
But like Venezuela, the question of what's next, the most
likely answer is not terribly palatable. But more on that
to come. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
it is Friday, January ninth, year, twenty twenty six. How
did that happen? We are Armstrong and Getty and we
approve of this program. Well let's begin. Then, here we
(08:03):
go officially according to f CC rules. Reggs show starts
at mark.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
A new episode of his podcast, Kansas City Chief star
Travis Kelsey said that he won't make a decision about
retirement for a month and added that he's quote just
being a regular human for a couple of weeks. You know,
a regular human who's engaged to Taylor Swift and contemplating
retirement at thirty six.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
This regular dude stuff. Yeah, sitting on an enormous pile
of money. But that's place. See, he can't, you know,
Travis Kelsey is the perfect test case for do you
resent people just because they're successful? I mean, what are
you going to resent about the dude? I don't know,
he's very likable, but what a what could anything turn
(08:46):
your life more upside down even when you're already wealthy
and famous, than getting engaged to Taylor Swift. I mean,
holy crap, that would put you into a new well.
Hardly any human being has ever been in the Taylor
Swift zone, right right? Yeah? I mean, the heart wants
what the heart wants, Jack, But I'd be tempted to
(09:07):
go looking for another skinny block. This is just gonna
be complicated, Okay, we got Katie's headlines on the way
and you can join us anytime you want on the
text line four one five kftc yo yo anniversary today
of uh. It was on this day in two thousand
(09:28):
and seven that Steve Jobs did a big presentation there
the Bay Area and held up a little heavy, weird
looking gadget called the iPhone, and man did that change everything?
Mm thanks Steve in many ways for the worse. Yeah.
Speaking of which, Oh my gosh, did Peter Mgosian write
(09:50):
a great piece entitled eh ah here it is. Here's
the title for you, the title, the reveal it there
it is. Oh I'm sorry. It was just and hate
is sometime partner the Devil's planned to ruin the next generation.
If you were to say to Satan, how would you
ruin the next generation of humans and steal their souls?
(10:11):
How he would do it? It will chill you to
the bone. First, let's figure out who's reporting what it's
the lead story. Oh my gosh, we have plenty of
time for Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Katie all right, So let's start with the main headline here,
ABC News Minneapolis Ice shooting. Officer involved in shooting was
injured in a June incident NBC Minnesota and Portland shootings
fuel protests and then to kind of counter this New
York Post Renee Good was Minneapolis quote Ice Watch warrior
(10:43):
who trained to resist Feds prior to shooting.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, and the ramming of ICE officers in their vehicles
is going on nationwide. Ain't a joke. They're all aware
of it. People are getting hurt badly. Stop it now
or you might get shot in your head. Are they LARPing?
Joe had a piece for us yesterday about these people
who are kind of LARPing until they run into reality.
It's really interesting. It's changed kind of the way I
(11:09):
look at these people. Also, that got a lot of
attention yesterday that the officer that shotter had been drugged
by a car by a protester already earlier and he
got what two hundred stitches. Yeah, he got hurt and
had to be feared for his life when that happened before.
So that would have an effect on your reaction. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
From the Washington Post. Iranian protests and strikes escalate as
leader vows state will not back down.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I listened to a journalist out of Iran yesterday and
they are really ramping up the protests. The opposition leader
dude who is a crown prince of something that is
calling for the protests every single night. People are coming
out of what is it, one hundred and ten towns
(11:58):
cities across Iran now that have protests in them. That
way bigger than any protests have been previously. Right, right,
it's an oh, go ahead, you add more. They shut down.
But the bad guys, and they are bad guys. They
pulled in their security forces and are bringing in the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard to try to deal with the situation.
(12:18):
That's just like in the last forty eight hours, right, Yeah,
it's such an interesting phenomenon of uprisings like this that
you have to alter, I'm sorry, offer an alternative. You
can't just say down with the powers that be. There's
got to be an alternative to rally around. And in
this case, the best they can come up with is
the son of the deposed Shaw, who'd almost certainly become
(12:40):
a figurehead in something like a republic more of a democracy,
kind of British style something like that. But you've got
to have that that figurehead. You can't just say, hey, democracy,
there's got to be a person.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
From The New York Times, Trump says more US attacks
on Venezuela quote will not be needed.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Nogay would I wouldn't think so. We grabbed a couple
more Russian tankers. Russia's really mad. It is. Well, how
much of this whole Venezuela thing is that? It's just
like an end around on the whole Ukraine Russia deal.
I'd say it's an add on advantage.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
From the Wall Street Journal, White House ballroom architect said
a West Wing edition is under consideration, going to be
some ballroom.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Can't wait. I hope I get invited to many balls.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
From Fox News, Naked woman allegedly assaults deputy while intoxicated
and claiming she was trying to be a mermaid.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well try harder, sweetheart number one. You're on try land
number two. You still got legs the whole mermaid. I
saw a dude yesterday on a moped, like a cool
vintage moped. I mean, this is like the hipster of hips.
He's on a cool vintage moped. He's got a tail,
I'm sorry, tail or some sort of tale, the free thing,
(14:08):
free tale.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I know you gotta look at me, Look at me,
I'm special. Look at me. You gotta tail. He had
sideburns and some sort of wacky old timey hat. All right,
so help you. This is bordering on old man shouting
at clouds. But we need a great deal more of
this in our society. Yeah, I get it. Look at me,
(14:30):
look at me, look at me. Accomplish something then someone
then people will look at you to all this just
the virtue signaling, look at me, I'm trans, I'm you know,
a gender or whatever. Oh look I have a tail. Whatever.
If you're twelve, okay, great, I get it. But if
you're a grown ass man or ought to be, there
(14:51):
ought to be more judgment, harsh judgment of that sort
of thing, because it's sad. Do something, accomplish some something,
learn something, then people will pay attention to you, not
just because you dress up as a damn fox, you weirdo.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
From page six, Madonna strips down to lingerie.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And Jamby has for that ahead what else did she do?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
And jumps in bed with younger lovers in new raunchy ad.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I haven't saying this for a long time. You get
what to move past the I'm sexy and people want
me thing? At some point you're in your sixties. Not
that you can't be sexy in your sixties, but you
can't be You can't be a sex symbol for the everyone,
for the masses in your sixties. You know, how about
the wise and respected elder Stateswoman's things? Any really literally anything?
(15:46):
But look at me? Look at me spreading my knees.
Nobody wants that. I know it's time for straight talk, Katie.
Oh my god, no thanks.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Study finds drunk from pizza auto brewery syndrome turns carbs
into alcohol.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
How do you get that? Can you sign up for that?
Oh my gosh, imagine that I wouldn't have to like
drink beer with the beer, wine with the pizza. It
was if the ones shop stop shopping.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, And I have two Babylon Bees because I couldn't decide.
So the first one is teenager confused how parents still
don't know everything?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
But it only took him sixteen years. That's pretty good.
And then the other.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
One is Greenland Panics, as Marco Rubio is seen donning
heavy parka.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I came across what may be my favorite Babylon Bee
headline of the last six months or so. I don't
want to paraphrase it because it's so good. But it
has to do with the the Minnesota Social Services ripoff scandal.
Joe is going to re explain to us the LARPing
element of these protesters. Really, yeah, the poor stupid lady
(17:05):
who got shot in the head. Just what what are
those people doing? What do they think they're doing? Marping?
Pretty well illustrated. Marping is the acronym for live action
role playing. Yeah, essentially, well, yes, yes, and that's what
they're doing. I never thought about it this way before.
It's pretty interesting. It's what's going on all across the country.
On the way Armstrong and Getty, Oh a beautiful Chester,
(17:37):
Joe and I are about to launch into content completely
forgetting the first Friday of the new year that this
is where we do clips of the week, right right,
and the very people who are supposed to be part
of the team to present the show. Instead of pointing
out that fact, I'm saying, hey, dude, you got clips
of the week, so maybe move that other feature a
(17:57):
little No, no, no, they just remain silent, giggling like idiots.
Hope and we'll screw up some team. This is now.
Miami wouldn't have won that game last night, so it
couldn't be now.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I will say, last time this happened, there was some
coordination going on behind the scenes. We were all in cahoots.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I had nothing to do with that. I am Michael.
This is all Michael. Yeah. So it's like Aaron Rodgers
offensive line knows he thinks it's going to be a pass,
but it's a run. This is hilarious. Oh yeah, we're
gonna get let him get wiped out by the defensive tackle. Yeah, Michael, Well,
we'll wait, we'll we'll wait for a moment.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Someday it will come and revenge will be sweet. I
completely forgot the Clips of the Week even existed. I didn't.
I just hadn't thought of it for a while. All right,
So let's we'll get to that stuff in a few minutes.
It's fascinating and compelling and trust us. But first, let's
take fun look back at the insane week that was.
It's cow clips of the Week. What a great game?
(19:00):
This is going give me our first day big problems here,
what you get it. We will replace the frigidity of
rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. Families, especially white families,
(19:22):
but some UOC families who are homeowners as well are
going to have a different relationship to property than than
than the one that we currently have. I want you
to give me one example of socialism you think working
well somewhere. I think of Cuba in particular. That's coming
to day becoming.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Nobody's gonna fight the United States militarily over the future
of Greenlands.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
One last question, see it make any sense?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
One helony and protesters taking to the streets of their
country again.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Iron's government is now and he got payments, payments of
seven dollars a month to help people afford food.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
The United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary military operation
in the capital of Venezuela, Operation Absolute Resolve. This was
an audacious operation. Nicholas Uduro had his chance. He left
around and he found out.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And he's a violent guy.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
He gets up there and he tries to imitate my
dance a little bit.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The American people did not sign up for this kind
of adventurism. So we are going to run the country.
So those of you who thought this whole project was
globalhomo oh crazy. Actually we are.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Under assault like no other time in our state's history.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It was an active domestic terrorism, and she attempted to
run an law enforcement officer over. I want to tell
everybody directly that is both. So it looked like she
was impeding ICE vehicles. Definitely, yeah, that was her goal.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And I have a message for Ice to Ice get
the fuck out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's clips of the week, first week of the year,
first week back. Two giant stories, very very short follow
up to that. First of all, if anybody is left
thinking that I Joe Getty was like being hyperbolic or
(21:37):
paranoid in describing the social justice crowd as neo Marxists
when they say we need to confiscate private property. Now
do you believe me? Anyway? Moving along, so on the
Minnesota shooting. The Minneapolis shooting, it's interesting. I think a
heck of a lot of people on the right are
coming together and agreeing that this poor woman, Renee Nicole
(21:59):
Good is an unfortunate dupe and it's very very sad
that she got shot, which I think is a good
and healthy way to look at it. There are a
couple of ways I'd like to frame what happened, and
I think if you understand these two things, you'll really,
really really understand what happened Number one. I mentioned it
yesterday that Marxists are trained to put you in predicaments.
(22:22):
You can't win decision to them, as they call them,
You taunt, you impede law enforcement until they take a
swing at you, and then you post the video online
and say, look at the fascist brutes were up against
any attempt to rally people to the cause. It's actually
it's in writing Read Rules for Radicals by Saul Lensky.
It's a well known strategy. They do it all the time.
(22:44):
In this case, it went way, way, way, wait, way
too far. This woman believed, as one writer put it,
she'd been radicalized by her fellow lefty political friends that
ice are monsters that she must fight. She bought all
the fascist coming into our communities to blah blah blah,
(23:06):
and she imagined that she was a brave resistance fighter.
Which brings us to an absolutely terrific piece that we
shared late in the show yesterday, And if you've heard
it before, I hope you enjoyed as much as we did.
And it's very thought provoking. It's written by a gal
who has an anonymous account on Twitter, but is quite
smart anyway. I think a lot of radicalization happens in
(23:29):
spaces where it's all talk. Everything is hypothetical. It's easy
to LARP as a revolutionary. That's live action role playing
as someone who stands against oppression. There's a lack of
seriousness about it all. You start to believe the memes.
You start to believe you're a hero, you're the main character.
Then you convince yourself to do something really dumb, like
(23:49):
pull your car in front of police officers. They draw
their guns, and the LARP crumbles. You're not that person.
This is real life and those are real guns. Nothing
but get the hell out of here, screams in her brain.
She probably didn't see the officer standing in front of
her car as she smashes the gas. The officer can't
know this, of course, they don't know what she's thinking.
(24:10):
They just know when guns were drawn asking her to
step out of her vehicle, she slammed on the gas
in the direction of an officer. They're not in a LARP.
Their job is real and they encounter people who want
to kill them, so they fire. No one in this
woman's life told her she's on a retarded, destructive LARP.
She was encouraged by her peer group viral videos of
similarly lost radical larper's getting nothing but praise online politicians
(24:34):
calling the enforcement of our laws akin to the Nazis,
calling them illegitimate, calling them evil, telling them, telling their
citizens to make their voices heard. Everyone in her life
failed her. She needed someone to tell her to grow up. Instead,
she had no one, and now she's dead, a horrible
case of internet radicalization. Yeah, I think that's really really good.
(24:55):
I think that describes some people I know who see
this as all as kind of like an online game
and well LARPing, live action role playing, as opposed to
reel their real laws and real consequences and real situations
that people can get themselves into where people get hurt
rightly or wrongly.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I think it's revealing that her partner, lesbian partner, was
screaming after the shooting, this is my fault, This is
my fault. I made her come down here to be
a brave revolutionary standing up to Trump's fascist forces. I
thought it was interesting. Now none of this matters her.
What she you know, her lifestyle doesn't have anything to
do with whether or not the cops get to shoot
(25:35):
her in this situation or not. Certainly not. Yeah, but
it is kind of interesting. So she they mentioned on
the news last night, And I'm going to rail about
the CBS evening news coverage last night. I mean, nobody
watches these newscasts, so it doesn't matter that much. I
couldn't believe how incredibly bad a job they did of
(25:55):
like informing America. What was going on there? Or why
why is ice there? Never came up, never came up
at all. But anyway, they mentioned just off handedly, when
her second husband died, she and she after that she
had had a kid, surgate kidd and adopted kid whatever
they're lesbian part. So she is married to two dudes
(26:18):
before she got married to this woman. Yeah, and you
know all her other stuff. So it doesn't matter. I
just as an interesting you got, she got quite the life.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
And a poet is said to be a fine poet.
I've said many times I love poets and dreamers and artists.
I just don't want them in charge. Yeah, yeah, it's said.
And for what it's worth, two things, Trump and company
never miss a chance to be belligerent in a way
(26:49):
that fires up opposition. I don't think that's smart. I
think there are times for that. It's absolutely appropriate to
come on strong rhetorically with the action whatever. Absolutely, but
it not always. Sometimes, as in law enforcement, you need
(27:09):
the buy in from the community to do it effectively.
Any cop will tell you that. That's why good policing
inquires a lot of community outrage outreach rather a lot
of it. When the cop comes in to the hood
because something's gone wrong, everybody says, oh, there's Jones, because
Jones has been in the hood and introduced himself and
(27:32):
said hello, and stopped in the stores and stuff like that.
It's an important part of policing. Never ending belligerence is
not going to help this situation, even if you're in
the right, and I think some of it could be
toned down a little bit. Absolutely. It got no attention
the day of the shooting. But Tom, because nobody wanted
(27:52):
to know, media wanted to hear from anybody being calmed.
Tom Holman said, well, I think we should wait and
have an investigation. Tom Holman, who's you know, kind of
fam on Fox and throwing red meat, was like the
grown up that day saying we should wait for an investigation.
But in fact he said it would be unprofessional of
me to comment before all the facts are in. Oh
my lord, I didn't even hear that till yesterday. There
(28:13):
were no clips of that because that's not what people want.
They want the people declaring in a murder or the
exact opposite. I was watching CBS News last night, and
it's just one newscast on a channel that, like most channels,
very few people watch. But they interviewed a number of
people on the street, all of them with the ICE
(28:34):
has got to get out of here, this is America,
blah blah blah. Never even gave a wink to the
other side that about half the country agrees with. And
the reason that ICE is there at all, there was
a giant scandal. Nine billion dollars got stolen from taxpayers,
much of it by illegal immigrants. So they up to
(28:55):
the number of ICE agents there to try to deal
with all these illegal criminals. So they come into Minnesota.
That's what started this this whole thing, but never even
mentioned why federal agents would be there to try to
arrest criminals. And whether or not they you know or not,
still doesn't mean you get to shoot people as a cop,
but you gotta have that background for some context. They
(29:18):
presented it as just like, I don't know, they just
sent in thugs for no reason to harass Minnesota's right.
It's outrageous, it's sad, it's sick, I praised CBS News.
I watched Tony de Couple's first UH broadcast and it
was it was pretty good, it was solid, it was something,
but it was terrible. It was egregious. Last night they
gave this one young black kid on the street, like
(29:41):
quote after quote after quote, who declared this kid the
arbiter of what's right and wrong? And you made that
the center of your newscast. I just believe it's wrong
and they shouldn't be here, and blah blah, and they
went on and on. We asked once again, whatever his
name was, what do you think follow up interview and
kit he was well into his twenties, But what what
Who can there's with this one person who clearly has
(30:02):
no idea. We would have an IQ of about seventy
eight too. Why the hell is he the spokesman for
Minneapolis or America When you interview people on the street
who clearly don't have the slightest idea what sanctuary city
is or isn't what law enforcement supposed to do the
fact that are cracking down on illegal immigration, that we
have millions of illegals here and something needs to be
(30:24):
done about it. Why why wouldn't you give that context
to America? Well, it especially And my only quibbal with
your screen, which was most excellent, was that the percentage
of Americans who would agree with apprehending illegal immigrants who
rip off the taxpayers would be closer to eighty eight
percent than half the country, virtually unanimous. But that's why
(30:46):
more ICE agents were sent in. Right then that's fine.
If you then say, and we think this was an
illegal shooting, that's fine, but you got to have all
that information, all right. My final note, I want to
talk of about more about the topic of never ending
belligerence as a terrible strategy, both you know, for the
(31:07):
administration and for us as human beings. That's not how
you change minds. What is your goal? What is your goal?
If you're if your tactics don't fit your strategy, they're
bad tactics. If your strategy is to change minds, Michael,
I know we got to take an effing break. If
(31:29):
you make that gesture again, I'm gonna come in there
and do it on your forearm. That's way out of line.
That's actually threatening violence. That was a little month. Oh
that was just awful, and I pat, I just want
to finish my my god dang sentence. Never mind, go
to break. It's our top priority. Break. We've got mail
bag on the way. And then there's much more to
(31:51):
say on this topic, no doubt about it. If you
want to say it. Here's our text line four one, five,
two nine five KFTZ. Jene has talked hopefully about this
in the past. Maybe it's gonna happen. It looks like
gen Z is more likely to cut down on screen
time than us gen xers or millennials on their own.
(32:13):
We can talk about that in hour two. First, here's
your freedom hating quote of the day. Super interesting. It
from the nuremberger Berg trials. Gurring was being interviewed by
a journalists about war and how it's tough to drag
people to war in a way because they have nothing
to gain. Just getting home in one piece is all
they want. And the American journalist says, well, in a democracy,
(32:36):
we have Congress, so it's different. Blah blah bah. He said,
all that's well and good, but the people can always
be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That's easy.
All you have to do is tell them they're being
attacked and denounce the Pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. Or it's the same way
in any country. Yeah, boy, that's true. And throughout the time.
Have you watched that movie about that with Russell Crowe's
(32:58):
no during that looks so good. I want to watch it.
Oh wow, mailbg sounds good. Yeah. I wish I had
more time to take in all the wonderful content that
exists in the world. Ah, let's see mailbag, drop us
a note, mailbag a armstrong giddy dot com very quickly.
I want to clean this up. We got a couple
of great emails about the Venezuela Maduro thing that I
didn't get to. Jimmy Houston wrote, Does anyone find it
(33:21):
odd that it was easier to arrest the president of
Venezuela than it was to find a single child in
a Somali run daycare in Minnesota? Nah? Anyway, I owned too.
I thought that was good. We're there, We're all leering
about this. Eric L. Polpo Smith, in a story Oregon,
wrote the fracas in Caracas. Get out your maraccas, but
keep your l pacus. Anyway, the note was pretty good too.
(33:43):
Oh let's see. Ah. Several people, including Stacey, said, respect
Mary in the Hoe, who worked hard to compile the
end of the year lists of bad names and things.
Jack is never done. She got shafted in twenty twenty five.
This is worse than Jack not tipping the dumpster driving Maid.
You're right, I propose our four of the show today
got at the end of the year lists from Mary
(34:04):
and the Hoe got do I agree that with and
I am completely to blame. Let's see Robert writes a
preventable death the entire state of Minnesota probably would only
require four or five ice agents if we had not
allowed millions of people into our country for no good reason. Yeah. Yeah, well,
you let something bad go long enough. The cleaning it
(34:26):
up is going to be hard and unpleasant. You've heard
that many times here. How the hell are you gonna
unwind that without a lot of really uncomfortable things see
deficit spending. I actually got pulled last night and they
asked the biggest problem thank you facing the country and
gave me a list. I said, none of those things,
deficit spending. Let's see ice ice baby, writes Antonio whin
(34:49):
Are Minnesota leader's going to be charged with inciting a riot?
It's good question. Then finally, this from big Ern McCracken.
I believe that had to be a upha. That's non
diplome of some sort. Hardly anyone's been in the position
of being engaged to Taylor Swift. Come on, how about
every bass player from every emo band from the year
twenty oh four through twenty eighteen. That's a good one.
(35:09):
I don't think she was actually engaged. I don't think
she was it. They were just boyfriends about the Jonas
boy No, they were just boyfriends. I don't care. We
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