July 22, 2024 • 36 mins
In hour 4 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:
- Kamala didn't make it to Iowa in 2019
- JD Vance's story
- A weird mix of yoga instructor and vice principal
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong
and Jetty and no he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
But as a former prosecutor, Kamala was putting criminals in
jail back before liberals decided that was a bad thing.
And now that CBS is locking the shaving cream behind plexiglass,
Democrats are coming around to her again.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I think that's an interesting angle. I think.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
She runs as Kamala the cop. It would be good
for her try agreed in the general absolutely trying to
become president of the United States. It'd be interesting to
see how that plays when the younger crowd that thinks,
oh good, now we've got a younger, younger in her fifties,
a younger, woke person that has our politics, and then
(01:07):
they find out, No, she's tough on crime, like super
tough on crime.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
But that would help her in a general election overall.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
If she goes back to her old Kamala, that'll be
quite the turn.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I was gonna say she was.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Tough on crime and in an ironic twist, because the
Democratic Party is so goofy, Now that really hurt her.
Kamala the cop was a slur oh yeah yeah against
her from the left, and so that was one of
the reasons she was brought down. And you absolutely could
argue if she went back to that moderate America might think, yeah,
she's not so bad, She's better than I heard. But
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so in the interim though, she's gone full on woke
and I believe she has no beliefs whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
She is a weather vein.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
But you know, you could make the saying argument about
jd Vance, his beliefs evolved or is he just willing
to say whateveryone has.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
To say, right, well, I don't actually know, but sing
thee Kamala as a cop is closer to the real
her than all this woke stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
That'd be my guess.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
She put a lot of people in jail for drugs
and then talked about smoking pot. And you know, she
got killed from the left on that whole thing. And
that's one deserved and that's one of the reasons she
didn't even make it to Iowa. That is that is
not repeated enough or completely appreciated. There are like ten
(02:29):
candidates competing in Iowa in twenty nineteen to be the nominee.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
She didn't even make it that far.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Yeah, all you've really needed was enough money to cover
your hotel bill at the Motel six in Des Moines,
to stay in the race and just see how you do.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But no, she dropped out in December of the previous year.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
That's how unpopular she was with her with the base
of the Democratic Party. And she is the least popular
vice president in our nation's history since Paul started on
vice presidents below Dick Cheney, who shot.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
A guy in the face. That's my favorite line.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
She is incredibly unpopular in San Francisco, where they know
her best.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
She's in like the thirties.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I mean, all of this stuff, after the rosy glow
of now she's the nominee wears off is gonna be discussed,
I think. And then some of her policy stuff like
the kamalas a cop stuff. Bill Mullusion, Uh got all
my notes here. Bill Mlusion put this out yesterday to
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try to remind people who she is and who she
has been on immigration, even though she is the immigration czar.
Kamala Harris has previously said she supports decriminalizing illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Right, that's full on open borders.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yes, and in twenty eighteen, she suggested that ICE should
be eliminated, saying we probably need to think about starting
from scratch.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
She also pushed the false.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
BP border patrol whipping claim, saying it reminded her of slavery.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Do you remember that.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That was completely debunked completely after an investigation. She should
have to answer for that. Of course, Joe Biden never
had to answer for it, and he's the one that
said strapping those guys.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It was debunked the next day.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I mean it was completely in writing, debunked after the
so called investigation.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But it was ridiculous from the outset.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Kamala Harris when she was running and was trying to
get in the crowd with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
back in twenty nineteen, she was Medicare for All, which
is one hundred percent government healthcare covering everybody in America,
including illegals. She was one of those raised their hand
for Yeah, free health care for everyone in America, free,
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using my finger quotes including illegals. So is that still
her position? Well, somebody needs to ask her.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Well, I don't even think it's borderline unfair to portray
her as an open borders person. I mean you compile
all those clips and quotes and then you know the
statistics about the invasion of millions and millions of foreigners
across our border. That's pretty devastating stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Exactly Now, how handy for you that is? That is
the one she's getting dinged with the most. Now is
because practically every speech she throws in me unburdened by
what has been. Okay, go ahead, let's do the Montagh.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
What can be?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Can what can be unburdened by what has been? What
can be unburdened by what has been? What can be
unburdened by what has been? What can be unburdened by
what has been? What we can see, what we believe
(05:47):
can be unburdened by what has been? What can be
unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So what are you doing to my fence? Signed Chesterton? Yeah,
what has been has been? For a reason.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Did somebody send her a mother in law's card or
something like that that had that in it? And she thought, man,
it's pretty clever. She decided to work into every speech
she ever spouted in her life.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I guess the next time I hear an original thought
it will be the first time.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
So I'm hoping there's a turn toward paying attention to
her policies at least somewhat.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
There is a chance.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And this was this is the big question on a
couple of zoom calls I was on over the weekend.
Does the media fully circle the wagons, get on board
and really pump her up? Or are they a little
more skeptical? Which do you think?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I suspect it'll lean much more toward the former, that
they'll circle the wagons and try to talk her up
and put lipstick on the hog, et cetera. Shine that
you know what, whatever metaphor is, you know you favor,
it's not going to be good enough.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's a really good question.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Has any significant portion of the media regained their sanity
or are they still in full on where the resistance mode.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I suspect it's more the resistance.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Well, if they actually are pissed off, like Ed O'Keeffe
suggested a couple of weeks ago, we're mifed or yes
he was mythed jack, they should still be mythed A Kamala.
You should have known him.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Better than anybody.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And you were pretending he was fine. So what Gibbs.
But I don't know if that question will ever come up.
I want to get this on just because this is
her explaining sort of her worldview economic philosophy thingy that
sounds like Marxism to me.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
It is our lowest income communities and our communities of
color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and
impacted by issues that are not of their own making,
and so absolutely, and so we have to address this
in a way that is about giving resources based on
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equity understanding that we fight for equality, but we also
need to fight for equity understanding not everyone starts out
at the same place, and if we want people to
be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take
into account those disparities and do that work.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And she was specifically talking about a hurricane had come
through and wiped a bunch of stuff out, and we
need to give out our resources differently based on your
skin color or gender or income, right, and so we
can bring everybody up to an equal level, which is
flat out Marxism.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So, as I tweeted out last night.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think this is a pretty clear cut difference between
the Republican candidate and the Democratic candate.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Trump is not a Marxist and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Is right right, And if Trump is at all skilled
on a debate stage, for instance, well his people will
be skilled, you know, in their advertising and stuff. But
I think Trump can utterly expose her for what she
has been, unburdened by what she's going to become or
something or other, and make her look terrible. I mean,
(09:17):
she is avowedly open borders, for instance, and I don't
know if he can make the Marxist argument effectively, but yeah,
but she is absolutely capable of becoming an entirely new
beast like as of right now, for all we know,
she's going to come out like Ronald Reagan and be
some sort of rabid anti communist, pro free market person.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I did hear some Democratic strategists and it sounds like
they actually believe this, which is interesting to me. That
she is going to be up against. What every woman
candidate is up against in the United States is the
misogyny that comes in the coverage that Hillary faced. And
then when the is she likable and is pure misogyny,
(10:01):
you would They don't ask that of male candidates.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I think they do.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Always, but that and then when someone like you says
she will become a different beast a beast, okay, calling
a woman a beast.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They used examples like that of Yeah, who was it?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Was it Jake Tapper or somebody somebody of alleged reasonable
haft in the media, And I wish I could remember
who it was, but said, one thing we can be
certain of is the racist and misogynist attacks are coming. Well,
if you're talking about the darkest depths of fore Chan
or Twitter, well, yeah, but that doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Forget that.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I still contend that you get more votes as a
woman because you're a woman than less.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'd prove would completely, yeah, prove me wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
That might probably wouldn't have been true in nineteen fifty two,
but it's certainly true now.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Speaking of Kamala's Marxist leanings, came across a great, very
brief piece of writing about why the left is so
anti jd. Vance and they're trying so hard to portray
him as some sort of faux like a fake populist
because he went to Yale at all.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Some great thinking on that. I don't know if Nancy
Pelosi was an option. I'm sorry, why did I say
Nancy Pelosi? The woman from South?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Jackie is Jackie here?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Nancy Mace, Nancy Mace or who is the actual candidate
ran against Trump finished second, Nicky Haley or that britt
woman from the South.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Anything.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I just, man, I feel like a woman on the
ticket with Kamba at the top would have really helped
as the attack dog one woman saying this about another woman?
I think, what, Oh, did you just refer to one
woman as a dog more misogyny rather than having jd vance,
you know, say it, Hey, you're not wrong. I wonder
if they would take that one back if they hadn't
known Kamma was gonna be Although there's summary, I saw
(11:55):
some reporting today say they not the Trump campaigns not
only prepared for it, they expected it, So maybe they
went into it fully annoying Harris was going to be
the candidate. One other thing I was going to mention,
I saw some younger pictures of Kamala Harris back when
she was dating Willie Brown.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Hot not a bad looking, curly headed, curly well. I
just I saw her with her curly hair and thought
that's cute.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh my god. So we've got more on the way
of that level of commentary.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Dang right, can It's cool?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Strong?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Heyetty, they look forward the more highlights tomorrow out of
the Secret Service director's testimony in from of Congress today,
because that's still a heck of a story.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, I guess she's being lit up by some of
the Congress people. It's become more contentious as it goes.
So again, highlights and low lights for you. Ran into
this from Melissa Chan, who's a journalist. I thought this
was great, she says, Oh, and it was our clip
of Kamala just openly advocating Marxism earlier that got our
attention and reminded me of this, as Kamo was big
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into equity, which means equality of outcome, which is Marxism.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Hm.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But Melissa cheneris the accusation of JD. Vance is a
faux anti elite populist, either because he went to Yale
or he's now deeply entrenched in elite media and political circles.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Rings so hollow to me. I suspected.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
His life trajectory annoys progressives for many reasons, but the
chief is that a. He is living proof that it
is possible to surmount obstacles from deep cultural rot and
socioeconomic malays and escape the circumstances of one's birth in America,
which is just a fatal indictment of Marxism right there.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And crucially that b.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
To do so requires sensibilities and choices that today code
is conservative. Stop doing drugs, stop denigrating, learning, hit the books,
join the military, get a great education. He prescribed the
kind of cultural norms that is Indian white was steeped in.
He values discipline, honor, and duty. Almost every troubled youth
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who was able to reverse their fate followed a very
similar roadmap, which is described in a book that I've
never heard of. But I mean, we could probably stop there.
You remember how there for a cup of coffee. Stupid
white guilt prone morons were convinced that, oh yes, working hard,
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that's white supremacy. Showing up on time is white supremacy.
Learning in school is white supremacy. Like everything is white supremacy. Well,
that's because Marxism the one thing it can't accept is that.
Oh no, if you work hard and you're smart, you
can absolutely improve your life. Cultural Marxism like economic Marxism. Anyway,
(14:47):
I love this, She writes, a significant portion of blind
vance hate from the Left comes down to this. And
this is the very beginning of the introduction to hillbillye elogy.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
My name is JD.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Vance, and I think I should start with a confession.
I find the existence of the book you hold in
your hands somewhat absurd. Says right there on the cover
that it's a memoir. But I'm thirty one years old,
and I'll be the first to admit that I've accomplished
nothing great in my life, certainly nothing that would justify
a complete stranger paying money to read about it. The
coolest thing I've done, at least on paper, is graduate
from Yale Law School, something thirteen year old Jadvance would
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have considered ludicrous. But about two hundred people do the
same thing every year, and trust me, you don't want
to read about most of their lives. I am not
a senator, well not yet a governor, or a Firmer
cabinet secretary. I haven't started a billion dollar company or
a world changing nonprofit. I have a nice job, a
happy marriage, a comfortable home, and two lively dogs. So
I didn't write this book because I've accomplished something extraordinary.
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I wrote this book because I've achieved something quite ordinary,
which doesn't happen to most kids who grow up like me.
And then he goes into his upbringing. He wrote the
book purely to say you can escape your crappy origins.
And they hate them for that.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Right, because if your mom's a drug addict, you're supposed
to take in a whole bunch of different government programs
the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Right, only the government can save you, specifically the Democratic Party.
And in fact, if you have any inconveniences whatsoever, you're
like a well educated white woman, well and a woman.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I heard a woman in there.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Yes, you can't possibly help yourself either. That's the great
evil of intersectionality. It ranks everybody on the totem pole
of oppression. But if you are, if you have any
claim to oppression whatsoever, you're excused from any agency, any
personal responsibility.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And JD.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Vance's book just you know, called out that horrific, horrific lie,
and they hate him for it.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Well said, I've got one hundred and Kamala Harris just
tweeted out one day down, one hundred and five to go,
So I guess one hundred and five as of tomorrow. Okay,
that's a long time man to flesh out all of
these different stories.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
JD. Van's her whoever running mate is Trump in a
long time to hide your lunk headedness.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
The Secret Services solemn mission is to protect our nation's leaders.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
On July thirteenth, we failed.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
As a director of the United States Secret Service, I
take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency.
We are fully cooperating with ongoing investigations. We must learn
what happened, and I will move heaven and earth to
ensure that an incident like July thirteenth does not happen again.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I like some of those words, although I think what
full responsibility means has been lost over the years. If
your organization completely fails, you got to quit, right. If
you're responsible, you are accountable. That is the Secret Service
Director Kim Cheadle testifying before Congress. We haven't were on
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the air, so we haven't heard that much of it,
but I'm reading about it, and a number of people
have called it just devastatingly awful.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Let me respond to one more phrase she used there
and which she described how hard they're working to get
to the bottom of how it could have happened. You
could have figured that out within twenty four hours, forty
eight hours if the guy you were calling his battery
ran out, you know, that's just that's absurd. Who was
in charge of securing that building and what happened?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That doesn't take weeks. Maybe the only question really to
answer is why aren't you telling us?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We know you. Now you've known for a long time,
you've known for a week, So why aren't you telling us? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Nancy Mace, representative from South Carolina who we tried to
get on the air. She walked in front of us.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How many times there in Milwaukee she snubbed us. She's
a pretty girl, she's used to snubbing guys like this.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
It felt familiar, walked on mind anyway, here's her grilling
the Secret Service director.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Thank you, mister chairman, Director Cheetel.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
The American people are watching and they're wondering if there
are any questions you can answer honestly today. So Director
Cheetle I have a series of questions, very specific questions.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
I want very specific answers.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Most of my questions are going to demand a yes
or no answer.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Do you understand I do? Okay?
Speaker 9 (19:32):
My first question, both sides of the aisle today have
asked for your resignation. Would you like to use my
five minutes to draft your resignation letter?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Wow, no? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Was this a colossal failure? It was a failure?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Yes or no?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Was it a colossal failure?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Is the question?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Yes or no? I have admitted this is a This
is a yes or no series of questions. Was this
a colossal failure?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Now bigness Yes?
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Was this tragedy preventable?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Or no?
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Yes? Has a secret service been transparent with this committee?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Would you say the fact that we had to issue
a subpoena to get you to show up today as
being transparent?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Or no?
Speaker 7 (20:20):
I have always been yes or no.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
You didn't want to answer the question we had to
issue a subpoena to get you to show up today.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
That is not transparent.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
By the way you stated earlier, secret service is not political?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Would you say leaking your opening statement to punch Bowl News,
Politico's Playbook, and Washington Post several hours before you sent
it to this committee as being political yes or no.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I have no idea how my statement got out. Well,
that's bullshit.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Ooh, I don't like stunty. Oh the whole yes no game.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Now that needs to be banned from all hearings. It's
a yes or no question. Don't act like all questions
can be yes or no. There are plenty of questions
that you're being perfectly forthcoming and honest to say it's
too complicated to answer yes or no.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'd say the vast majority of questions yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
If it rises to the level if you need to
have a hearing about it, it's probably too complicated for
a yes or no. I'm on the side of answy
Mace on this. Something's up with the Secret Service, but
I didn't dig that at all. And the hole do
you want us to use the five minutes to draft
your resignation? Oh, come on, grown, grown.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I know it's so grand. It's not helpful. Ivy, it's
not helpful, not helpful for my side anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I think it would have been perfectly well. Do you
think my question is grandstanding. I don't think it is.
I would ask, I believe you guys have known for
a week what happened. It's impossible that you haven't known
for a week what happened. Right, You don't only have
to ask you people, So why don't you tell us
what's the reason? I think that's perfectly reasonable?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
She would respond, Well, it's an ongoing investigation, and I
can't blah blah blah. The timetable for the investigation, by
the way, Jack, is sixty days to figure out why
the kid could clamber up on the roof.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
How absurd is that that is? Something? Okay?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Turning the page slightly on the news of the day,
I just came across this and found it so good
I wanted to read it to you. Kevin Williamson, who
we've had on the air before and we like, who
now works for The Dispatch, wrote a piece today called
now dump Harris. He had been pushing on how the
Democratic Party needed to dump Biden, and he sing now
dump Harris because he doesn't think she's much of a talent.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Anyway, let me read this for you. I thought this
was a pretty good paragraph.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
All Democrats really need to have a real shot at
beating Trump again is to nominate someone halfway normal and competent.
They have many promising options from which to choose. Kamala Harris,
whatever her virtues as a human being, is not one
of them. She's damaged goods from an unpopular administration that
effectively has just.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Come to an early end.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
A California weirdo who talks like some weird mix of
yoga instructor horoscope and vice principle. Biden's withdrawal is one
piece of evidence that at least some Democrats really believe
what they say. They believe that Donald Trump is a
unique threat to the Republic. If it really is the case,
the Democrats sincerely believe that, then they should act on
that belief. They are still in that position. If the
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polling comes out this week or next or whatever, and
it's still basically the same seventy percent likely Trump wins,
he leads in all the swing states, it's basically tied nationwide,
then yeah, if you think it's in this existential threat,
why don't you get a different candidate who's not a
California weirdo who talks like some weird mix of yoga
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instructor horoscope and vice principle.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yeah, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
What has that that is handy.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
You know, Yes, I realize this goes against your off
stated principle that we need to return at least partially
to smoke filled rooms and let the parties, the party elders,
pick the candidate, perhaps with the aid of the common voter,
but not exclusively. All the hand in the common all
the power in the hands of the common voter. Rather,
(24:22):
I get that, But I am struck though that the
party that believes the government and everything should be run
by their designated experts and bureaucrats like the lovely miss
Cheadle from the Secret Service. I mean, the progressive movement
for a century now has been we need to just
get the right people in charge and they will run
(24:42):
the economy for us. And it's the experts and the
ivy leaguers who should be in charge of everything. It
strikes me that it's utterly in character that they're not saying, hey,
we got a bunch of really sharp young people, let's
have an open contest and see who's the best. They think, No, No,
Kamma is the sitting vice president she's kind of the
op his choice. Therefore, yes, we'll make sure it's her.
(25:03):
They just don't trust the market of ideas or the
marketed dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
But there's nothing historically or legally that says if a
president decides not to run, the vice president should be
the nominee.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Right, And indeed there's nothing to recommend Kamala Harris as
an individual, right, So that's kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
So the idea of getting away from the current primaries
where the voters decide on a candidate and going to
elites choosing it, which is what the Democrats are doing
right now. A handful of elites have decided who the
candidate's going to be. It's kind of weird that they've
chosen Kamala Harris. There are some reasons for that, and
we can talk about some other times. But the idea
here is that the role the people have is and
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you support a party, you support a party, and they
choose a candidate. And that's why, like when I was younger,
people talked about being Republicans or Democrats more than you
talked about being a Trump person or a Biden person.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It was not about an individual.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
As much as I'm a Republican or a Democrat, and
I just think we'd be better off if we were that,
and then the parties had a consistent platform that didn't
change with whoever the nominee ended up being, especially if
the nominee is a no talent, charisma free numbskull. I
heard it positive by some commentator on the left. It'll
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be so interesting to find out what Kamala Harris's policies are,
so we know what we're voting for.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Paraphrasing, but that was their point. What an odd scenario
that is so out of nowhere. This again, I won't
repeat my description of her, but I think it's more
or less indisputable that she has practically zero political charisma.
But for whatever reason, because Joe Biden needed a box
checking DEI choice for vice president, all of a sudden,
she is the great sage that's going to determine what
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the Democratic Party is.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What the hell kind of system is that?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
So in the plus column for Kamala Harris, some people
saying she's better in private than she is in public, although,
like I said, that was what they said about Hillary
Clinton and she couldn't ever do it in public, So
I'm not sure, that does you good unless you can
transfer it at some point.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
But does that mean in private, like in a meeting,
or like private private like Willie Brown with the candles burnout,
some Sudsey Bath draw some soft music on.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Come on, now, what glass of wine or two? So
the reason I got this guy, what was the name
of the book?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I could come up with the really good it was
like your political guys wrote a book about the twenty
twenty campaign and their revelation was one of the reasons
Joe Biden looked to Kamala Harris as his choices was
when names were being thrown out for vice president, hit
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pieces kept showing up on those people, and Joe Biden
became aware that Kamala was a person getting those out.
So if somebody other than her name came up, she
got something into the New York Times or to CNN
or whatever to take that person down.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And he appreciated that.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
He thought, Okay, that's somebody who knows how this game works.
That's somebody who's willing to throw elbows. And he appreciated that.
That's what the reporting was in the book. And so
I'm not sure I would take it that way. But
I'm not a career politician either.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
How would you take it? I would take that.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Hey, how about you run on your merits and I'll
figure out whether you know person's X and Y are worst.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The same book said that he was impressed with her,
that little girl was me, even though it was stupid.
The fact that she had the testicles to stand up
to him and hit him with that big line he appreciated.
He thought that was impressive. So yeah, fair enough, she's
got that inner uh to take on this battle. We'll
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see if it, you know, manifests itself in any way.
And that little girl was me, which was just dumb.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
I'm looking forward to hearing her off script because, as
I said earlier, they have a highly placed aid behind
her with a taser ready to use it if she
gets off the teleprompter for more than two syllables. And
she knows it, but at some point she's going to
have to speak off the cough answer questions, debate that
sort of thing, and like Biden, once the narrative builds,
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people just look for more examples of its truth. And
the narrative for her, of course, is that she is
the world's greatest word salad bar Yes.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
I can imagine what can be and beyond this we know.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Yeah, No, dear, you're a bunch of times. Yeah, so
she's gonna have to do it.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
When you think about the passage of time, you have
to think about the passage of time.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
All that's going to take is one or two of those.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Man.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, she has to do a press conference at some point,
and it depends on whether the press is going to
ask questions like I just want to know is it
difficult being as wonderful as you are? Or are they
going to ask questions like in twenty nineteen, you ran
on medicare for all, including illegals? Do you stand by
that you believed that the term illegal immigration should be
done away with that? There's no such thing as do
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you still stand by that. Is she going to have
to answer for that stuff or not? That's on a
dismantle ice. Did she ever say defund the police? I
can't remember. She bailed out people that rioted and destroyed stuff,
do you think that's right? But bailed out Antifa members
and other radical leftists, that's right, who some of whom
went on to commit terrible crimes.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So we'll see if anybody digs into that or not.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
We got one hundred and five days tomorrow, I guess anyway,
we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Has this ever happened to you?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Asking Katie or Michael, because I already talked to Joe
about this last week. This was disturbing. So we're in Milwaukee.
We take a break. I'm walk into the bathroom. I
run into Sid Rosenberg from New York. We had him
on anyway. I'm talking to Sid in the hallway, have
a little conversation or whatever. I go into the bathroom.
I whip out my phone like everybody every guy does anyway,
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and and I go to voice text, and it prints
out in the little box like the last three sentences
I had said to Sid in the hallway, word for word.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, what is that.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You?
Speaker 10 (31:41):
Well, you probably didn't lock your phone screen before you
put it in your pocket, and it just picks, you know,
your something gets tapped on and then the microphone gets activated.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's not I've done that before. Well, it's it's a
variation of the butt dial. Yeah, it's the butt text. Yeah,
that's horrifying voice recording. Yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Well, and it was like a good minute or two later.
That's why it was so disturbing to me, went up
to it, whipped up my phone, and it started printing
back the very words I had just said, most of
it like really private.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Stuff too, Oh god, dang it. And how long do
then butt texted that to who knows who? Or emailed it?
Or how long does it save that or does it
save it all forever?
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Does?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Nobody knows?
Speaker 10 (32:30):
For reason, I don't know how long it saves it,
but I know that I have quickly deleted things when
that's happened to me.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Well, every company claims it doesn't record stuff until they
get caught recording stuff, and that has happened over and
over again with Facebook and Tesla and all kinds of
different people.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
All right, here's a question for you. Answer honestly.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Now, if you get a voicemail and it's from a
friend who's clearly butt dialed to, and it goes on
and on for like three and a half minutes, do
I listen to the whole thing? Listen to the whole
thing to see if anything interesting happens.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yes, yes, of course you do.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Actually, with God, with my good friends, I wouldn't because
I wouldn't be expecting anything interesting in the least or
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
But I happened one acquaintances. I'm all over it.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
I had that happened one time with a friend where
I could tell that it was going in a direction
that was not my business, So I know, or I
didn't hang out, but I stopped listening to it.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
But I was honorable with it.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You know.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Our executive producer Hanson's got a story about that, about
listening in on a thing once and it turned out
to be a disaster and.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Hurtful and he and he wished he hadn't and he
never will again. Oh lesson learned. But yeah, I listened.
Speaker 11 (33:44):
Yes, Jack and Joe just had a very robust and
productive conversation this morning, working together to discuss very important
issues together in this moment in time and now together
in this moment, they will have final thoughts with Armstrong
and Getty. This is the most final thoughts of our
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lifetime and it is time to share the final thoughts
they have been thinking. And that time is every day.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Wow. If yeah, I can't wait for our first press conference.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Mike Lage low lead us off, and.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
It's gonna be interesting to see if a couple of
our press conferences go really poorly, will the Democrats say no, no, no,
gotta get somebody else right.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Nancy Pelosi trudges back up to the White House. Brian exactly.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, how.
Speaker 10 (34:40):
Great would it be if it's Joe Biden the one
that's telling her listen, you can't Yeah he might.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Jeez wow Jack.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
A final thought for us, I wonder about the mental
health of the entire country. This pace of news and
change and threat and disturbance is unlike anything in my life,
and I wonder, I wonder how our mental health.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Is as an ancient.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
M edgy, stressed, waiting for the other shoe to fall, anxious, anxious, Yeah, definitely,
so well. The next couple of months are going to
be absolutely cookie.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
My final thought is hold on tight. We'll try to
bring you the truth behind the scenes. I've got an
idea for the Armstrong and Getty One More Thing podcast,
But it's controversial, Okay, it's probably ill advised, it's unwise
if you like some professional impolite, do you like the.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Show, you should definitely check out the One More Thing
podcast wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another ruling four hour workday,
so many people, Thank so a little time. Go to
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getdy dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
We will see you Manyana, God bless America.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
You know I hear that everything in the last couple
of days is going rather smoothly.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I'm Strong and Getty. It's outrageous, it's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
Think about it in the context of the fact that
they suggest that such as the what this one?
Speaker 7 (36:15):
Actually that's bullshit.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
You may be overegging the pudding a bit. So let's
go with the very much Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong
and Jetty and no he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
But as a former prosecutor, Kamala was putting criminals in
jail back before liberals decided that was a bad thing.
And now that CBS is locking the shaving cream behind plexiglass,
Democrats are coming around to her again.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I think that's an interesting angle. I think.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
She runs as Kamala the cop. It would be good
for her try agreed in the general absolutely trying to
become president of the United States. It'd be interesting to
see how that plays when the younger crowd that thinks,
oh good, now we've got a younger, younger in her fifties,
a younger, woke person that has our politics, and then
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they find out, No, she's tough on crime, like super
tough on crime.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
But that would help her in a general election overall.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
If she goes back to her old Kamala, that'll be
quite the turn.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I was gonna say she was.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Tough on crime and in an ironic twist, because the
Democratic Party is so goofy, Now that really hurt her.
Kamala the cop was a slur oh yeah yeah against
her from the left, and so that was one of
the reasons she was brought down. And you absolutely could
argue if she went back to that moderate America might think, yeah,
she's not so bad, She's better than I heard. But
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so in the interim though, she's gone full on woke
and I believe she has no beliefs whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
She is a weather vein.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
But you know, you could make the saying argument about
jd Vance, his beliefs evolved or is he just willing
to say whateveryone has.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
To say, right, well, I don't actually know, but sing
thee Kamala as a cop is closer to the real
her than all this woke stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
That'd be my guess.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
She put a lot of people in jail for drugs
and then talked about smoking pot. And you know, she
got killed from the left on that whole thing. And
that's one deserved and that's one of the reasons she
didn't even make it to Iowa. That is that is
not repeated enough or completely appreciated. There are like ten
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candidates competing in Iowa in twenty nineteen to be the nominee.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
She didn't even make it that far.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Yeah, all you've really needed was enough money to cover
your hotel bill at the Motel six in Des Moines,
to stay in the race and just see how you do.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But no, she dropped out in December of the previous year.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
That's how unpopular she was with her with the base
of the Democratic Party. And she is the least popular
vice president in our nation's history since Paul started on
vice presidents below Dick Cheney, who shot.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
A guy in the face. That's my favorite line.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
She is incredibly unpopular in San Francisco, where they know
her best.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
She's in like the thirties.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I mean, all of this stuff, after the rosy glow
of now she's the nominee wears off is gonna be discussed,
I think. And then some of her policy stuff like
the kamalas a cop stuff. Bill Mullusion, Uh got all
my notes here. Bill Mlusion put this out yesterday to
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try to remind people who she is and who she
has been on immigration, even though she is the immigration czar.
Kamala Harris has previously said she supports decriminalizing illegal immigration.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Right, that's full on open borders.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yes, and in twenty eighteen, she suggested that ICE should
be eliminated, saying we probably need to think about starting
from scratch.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
She also pushed the false.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
BP border patrol whipping claim, saying it reminded her of slavery.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Do you remember that.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That was completely debunked completely after an investigation. She should
have to answer for that. Of course, Joe Biden never
had to answer for it, and he's the one that
said strapping those guys.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It was debunked the next day.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I mean it was completely in writing, debunked after the
so called investigation.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
But it was ridiculous from the outset.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Kamala Harris when she was running and was trying to
get in the crowd with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
back in twenty nineteen, she was Medicare for All, which
is one hundred percent government healthcare covering everybody in America,
including illegals. She was one of those raised their hand
for Yeah, free health care for everyone in America, free,
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using my finger quotes including illegals. So is that still
her position? Well, somebody needs to ask her.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Well, I don't even think it's borderline unfair to portray
her as an open borders person. I mean you compile
all those clips and quotes and then you know the
statistics about the invasion of millions and millions of foreigners
across our border. That's pretty devastating stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Exactly Now, how handy for you that is? That is
the one she's getting dinged with the most. Now is
because practically every speech she throws in me unburdened by
what has been. Okay, go ahead, let's do the Montagh.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
What can be?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Can what can be unburdened by what has been? What
can be unburdened by what has been? What can be
unburdened by what has been? What can be unburdened by
what has been? What we can see, what we believe
(05:47):
can be unburdened by what has been? What can be
unburdened by what has been?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So what are you doing to my fence? Signed Chesterton? Yeah,
what has been has been? For a reason.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Did somebody send her a mother in law's card or
something like that that had that in it? And she thought, man,
it's pretty clever. She decided to work into every speech
she ever spouted in her life.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I guess the next time I hear an original thought
it will be the first time.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
So I'm hoping there's a turn toward paying attention to
her policies at least somewhat.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
There is a chance.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And this was this is the big question on a
couple of zoom calls I was on over the weekend.
Does the media fully circle the wagons, get on board
and really pump her up? Or are they a little
more skeptical? Which do you think?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I suspect it'll lean much more toward the former, that
they'll circle the wagons and try to talk her up
and put lipstick on the hog, et cetera. Shine that
you know what, whatever metaphor is, you know you favor,
it's not going to be good enough.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's a really good question.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Has any significant portion of the media regained their sanity
or are they still in full on where the resistance mode.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I suspect it's more the resistance.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Well, if they actually are pissed off, like Ed O'Keeffe
suggested a couple of weeks ago, we're mifed or yes
he was mythed jack, they should still be mythed A Kamala.
You should have known him.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Better than anybody.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And you were pretending he was fine. So what Gibbs.
But I don't know if that question will ever come up.
I want to get this on just because this is
her explaining sort of her worldview economic philosophy thingy that
sounds like Marxism to me.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
It is our lowest income communities and our communities of
color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and
impacted by issues that are not of their own making,
and so absolutely, and so we have to address this
in a way that is about giving resources based on
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equity understanding that we fight for equality, but we also
need to fight for equity understanding not everyone starts out
at the same place, and if we want people to
be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take
into account those disparities and do that work.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And she was specifically talking about a hurricane had come
through and wiped a bunch of stuff out, and we
need to give out our resources differently based on your
skin color or gender or income, right, and so we
can bring everybody up to an equal level, which is
flat out Marxism.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So, as I tweeted out last night.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think this is a pretty clear cut difference between
the Republican candidate and the Democratic candate.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Trump is not a Marxist and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Is right right, And if Trump is at all skilled
on a debate stage, for instance, well his people will
be skilled, you know, in their advertising and stuff. But
I think Trump can utterly expose her for what she
has been, unburdened by what she's going to become or
something or other, and make her look terrible. I mean,
(09:17):
she is avowedly open borders, for instance, and I don't
know if he can make the Marxist argument effectively, but yeah,
but she is absolutely capable of becoming an entirely new
beast like as of right now, for all we know,
she's going to come out like Ronald Reagan and be
some sort of rabid anti communist, pro free market person.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I did hear some Democratic strategists and it sounds like
they actually believe this, which is interesting to me. That
she is going to be up against. What every woman
candidate is up against in the United States is the
misogyny that comes in the coverage that Hillary faced. And
then when the is she likable and is pure misogyny,
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you would They don't ask that of male candidates.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I think they do.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Always, but that and then when someone like you says
she will become a different beast a beast, okay, calling
a woman a beast.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
They used examples like that of Yeah, who was it?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Was it Jake Tapper or somebody somebody of alleged reasonable
haft in the media, And I wish I could remember
who it was, but said, one thing we can be
certain of is the racist and misogynist attacks are coming. Well,
if you're talking about the darkest depths of fore Chan
or Twitter, well, yeah, but that doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Forget that.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I still contend that you get more votes as a
woman because you're a woman than less.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'd prove would completely, yeah, prove me wrong.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
That might probably wouldn't have been true in nineteen fifty two,
but it's certainly true now.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Speaking of Kamala's Marxist leanings, came across a great, very
brief piece of writing about why the left is so
anti jd. Vance and they're trying so hard to portray
him as some sort of faux like a fake populist
because he went to Yale at all.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Some great thinking on that. I don't know if Nancy
Pelosi was an option. I'm sorry, why did I say
Nancy Pelosi? The woman from South?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Jackie is Jackie here?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Nancy Mace, Nancy Mace or who is the actual candidate
ran against Trump finished second, Nicky Haley or that britt
woman from the South.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Anything.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I just, man, I feel like a woman on the
ticket with Kamba at the top would have really helped
as the attack dog one woman saying this about another woman?
I think, what, Oh, did you just refer to one
woman as a dog more misogyny rather than having jd vance,
you know, say it, Hey, you're not wrong. I wonder
if they would take that one back if they hadn't
known Kamma was gonna be Although there's summary, I saw
(11:55):
some reporting today say they not the Trump campaigns not
only prepared for it, they expected it, So maybe they
went into it fully annoying Harris was going to be
the candidate. One other thing I was going to mention,
I saw some younger pictures of Kamala Harris back when
she was dating Willie Brown.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Hot not a bad looking, curly headed, curly well. I
just I saw her with her curly hair and thought
that's cute.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh my god. So we've got more on the way
of that level of commentary.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
what has been.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Dang right, can It's cool?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Strong?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Heyetty, they look forward the more highlights tomorrow out of
the Secret Service director's testimony in from of Congress today,
because that's still a heck of a story.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, I guess she's being lit up by some of
the Congress people. It's become more contentious as it goes.
So again, highlights and low lights for you. Ran into
this from Melissa Chan, who's a journalist. I thought this
was great, she says, Oh, and it was our clip
of Kamala just openly advocating Marxism earlier that got our
attention and reminded me of this, as Kamo was big
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into equity, which means equality of outcome, which is Marxism.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Hm.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But Melissa cheneris the accusation of JD. Vance is a
faux anti elite populist, either because he went to Yale
or he's now deeply entrenched in elite media and political circles.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Rings so hollow to me. I suspected.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
His life trajectory annoys progressives for many reasons, but the
chief is that a. He is living proof that it
is possible to surmount obstacles from deep cultural rot and
socioeconomic malays and escape the circumstances of one's birth in America,
which is just a fatal indictment of Marxism right there.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And crucially that b.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
To do so requires sensibilities and choices that today code
is conservative. Stop doing drugs, stop denigrating, learning, hit the books,
join the military, get a great education. He prescribed the
kind of cultural norms that is Indian white was steeped in.
He values discipline, honor, and duty. Almost every troubled youth
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who was able to reverse their fate followed a very
similar roadmap, which is described in a book that I've
never heard of. But I mean, we could probably stop there.
You remember how there for a cup of coffee. Stupid
white guilt prone morons were convinced that, oh yes, working hard,
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that's white supremacy. Showing up on time is white supremacy.
Learning in school is white supremacy. Like everything is white supremacy. Well,
that's because Marxism the one thing it can't accept is that.
Oh no, if you work hard and you're smart, you
can absolutely improve your life. Cultural Marxism like economic Marxism. Anyway,
(14:47):
I love this, She writes, a significant portion of blind
vance hate from the Left comes down to this. And
this is the very beginning of the introduction to hillbillye elogy.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
My name is JD.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Vance, and I think I should start with a confession.
I find the existence of the book you hold in
your hands somewhat absurd. Says right there on the cover
that it's a memoir. But I'm thirty one years old,
and I'll be the first to admit that I've accomplished
nothing great in my life, certainly nothing that would justify
a complete stranger paying money to read about it. The
coolest thing I've done, at least on paper, is graduate
from Yale Law School, something thirteen year old Jadvance would
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have considered ludicrous. But about two hundred people do the
same thing every year, and trust me, you don't want
to read about most of their lives. I am not
a senator, well not yet a governor, or a Firmer
cabinet secretary. I haven't started a billion dollar company or
a world changing nonprofit. I have a nice job, a
happy marriage, a comfortable home, and two lively dogs. So
I didn't write this book because I've accomplished something extraordinary.
(15:44):
I wrote this book because I've achieved something quite ordinary,
which doesn't happen to most kids who grow up like me.
And then he goes into his upbringing. He wrote the
book purely to say you can escape your crappy origins.
And they hate them for that.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Right, because if your mom's a drug addict, you're supposed
to take in a whole bunch of different government programs
the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Right, only the government can save you, specifically the Democratic Party.
And in fact, if you have any inconveniences whatsoever, you're
like a well educated white woman, well and a woman.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I heard a woman in there.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Yes, you can't possibly help yourself either. That's the great
evil of intersectionality. It ranks everybody on the totem pole
of oppression. But if you are, if you have any
claim to oppression whatsoever, you're excused from any agency, any
personal responsibility.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And JD.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Vance's book just you know, called out that horrific, horrific lie,
and they hate him for it.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Well said, I've got one hundred and Kamala Harris just
tweeted out one day down, one hundred and five to go,
So I guess one hundred and five as of tomorrow. Okay,
that's a long time man to flesh out all of
these different stories.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
JD. Van's her whoever running mate is Trump in a
long time to hide your lunk headedness.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
The Secret Services solemn mission is to protect our nation's leaders.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
On July thirteenth, we failed.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
As a director of the United States Secret Service, I
take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency.
We are fully cooperating with ongoing investigations. We must learn
what happened, and I will move heaven and earth to
ensure that an incident like July thirteenth does not happen again.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I like some of those words, although I think what
full responsibility means has been lost over the years. If
your organization completely fails, you got to quit, right. If
you're responsible, you are accountable. That is the Secret Service
Director Kim Cheadle testifying before Congress. We haven't were on
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the air, so we haven't heard that much of it,
but I'm reading about it, and a number of people
have called it just devastatingly awful.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Let me respond to one more phrase she used there
and which she described how hard they're working to get
to the bottom of how it could have happened. You
could have figured that out within twenty four hours, forty
eight hours if the guy you were calling his battery
ran out, you know, that's just that's absurd. Who was
in charge of securing that building and what happened?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That doesn't take weeks. Maybe the only question really to
answer is why aren't you telling us?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You know?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We know you. Now you've known for a long time,
you've known for a week, So why aren't you telling us? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Nancy Mace, representative from South Carolina who we tried to
get on the air. She walked in front of us.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How many times there in Milwaukee she snubbed us. She's
a pretty girl, she's used to snubbing guys like this.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
It felt familiar, walked on mind anyway, here's her grilling
the Secret Service director.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Thank you, mister chairman, Director Cheetel.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
The American people are watching and they're wondering if there
are any questions you can answer honestly today. So Director
Cheetle I have a series of questions, very specific questions.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
I want very specific answers.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Most of my questions are going to demand a yes
or no answer.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Do you understand I do? Okay?
Speaker 9 (19:32):
My first question, both sides of the aisle today have
asked for your resignation. Would you like to use my
five minutes to draft your resignation letter?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Wow, no? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Was this a colossal failure? It was a failure?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Yes or no?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Was it a colossal failure?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Is the question?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Yes or no? I have admitted this is a This
is a yes or no series of questions. Was this
a colossal failure?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Now bigness Yes?
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Was this tragedy preventable?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Or no?
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Yes? Has a secret service been transparent with this committee?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Would you say the fact that we had to issue
a subpoena to get you to show up today as
being transparent?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Or no?
Speaker 7 (20:20):
I have always been yes or no.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
You didn't want to answer the question we had to
issue a subpoena to get you to show up today.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
That is not transparent.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
By the way you stated earlier, secret service is not political?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (20:34):
Would you say leaking your opening statement to punch Bowl News,
Politico's Playbook, and Washington Post several hours before you sent
it to this committee as being political yes or no.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
I have no idea how my statement got out. Well,
that's bullshit.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Ooh, I don't like stunty. Oh the whole yes no game.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Now that needs to be banned from all hearings. It's
a yes or no question. Don't act like all questions
can be yes or no. There are plenty of questions
that you're being perfectly forthcoming and honest to say it's
too complicated to answer yes or no.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'd say the vast majority of questions yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
If it rises to the level if you need to
have a hearing about it, it's probably too complicated for
a yes or no. I'm on the side of answy
Mace on this. Something's up with the Secret Service, but
I didn't dig that at all. And the hole do
you want us to use the five minutes to draft
your resignation? Oh, come on, grown, grown.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I know it's so grand. It's not helpful. Ivy, it's
not helpful, not helpful for my side anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I think it would have been perfectly well. Do you
think my question is grandstanding. I don't think it is.
I would ask, I believe you guys have known for
a week what happened. It's impossible that you haven't known
for a week what happened. Right, You don't only have
to ask you people, So why don't you tell us
what's the reason? I think that's perfectly reasonable?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
She would respond, Well, it's an ongoing investigation, and I
can't blah blah blah. The timetable for the investigation, by
the way, Jack, is sixty days to figure out why
the kid could clamber up on the roof.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
How absurd is that that is? Something? Okay?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Turning the page slightly on the news of the day,
I just came across this and found it so good
I wanted to read it to you. Kevin Williamson, who
we've had on the air before and we like, who
now works for The Dispatch, wrote a piece today called
now dump Harris. He had been pushing on how the
Democratic Party needed to dump Biden, and he sing now
dump Harris because he doesn't think she's much of a talent.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Anyway, let me read this for you. I thought this
was a pretty good paragraph.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
All Democrats really need to have a real shot at
beating Trump again is to nominate someone halfway normal and competent.
They have many promising options from which to choose. Kamala Harris,
whatever her virtues as a human being, is not one
of them. She's damaged goods from an unpopular administration that
effectively has just.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Come to an early end.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
A California weirdo who talks like some weird mix of
yoga instructor horoscope and vice principle. Biden's withdrawal is one
piece of evidence that at least some Democrats really believe
what they say. They believe that Donald Trump is a
unique threat to the Republic. If it really is the case,
the Democrats sincerely believe that, then they should act on
that belief. They are still in that position. If the
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polling comes out this week or next or whatever, and
it's still basically the same seventy percent likely Trump wins,
he leads in all the swing states, it's basically tied nationwide,
then yeah, if you think it's in this existential threat,
why don't you get a different candidate who's not a
California weirdo who talks like some weird mix of yoga
(23:54):
instructor horoscope and vice principle.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yeah, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
What has that that is handy.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
You know, Yes, I realize this goes against your off
stated principle that we need to return at least partially
to smoke filled rooms and let the parties, the party elders,
pick the candidate, perhaps with the aid of the common voter,
but not exclusively. All the hand in the common all
the power in the hands of the common voter. Rather,
(24:22):
I get that, But I am struck though that the
party that believes the government and everything should be run
by their designated experts and bureaucrats like the lovely miss
Cheadle from the Secret Service. I mean, the progressive movement
for a century now has been we need to just
get the right people in charge and they will run
(24:42):
the economy for us. And it's the experts and the
ivy leaguers who should be in charge of everything. It
strikes me that it's utterly in character that they're not saying, hey,
we got a bunch of really sharp young people, let's
have an open contest and see who's the best. They think, No, No,
Kamma is the sitting vice president she's kind of the
op his choice. Therefore, yes, we'll make sure it's her.
(25:03):
They just don't trust the market of ideas or the
marketed dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
But there's nothing historically or legally that says if a
president decides not to run, the vice president should be
the nominee.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Right, And indeed there's nothing to recommend Kamala Harris as
an individual, right, So that's kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
So the idea of getting away from the current primaries
where the voters decide on a candidate and going to
elites choosing it, which is what the Democrats are doing
right now. A handful of elites have decided who the
candidate's going to be. It's kind of weird that they've
chosen Kamala Harris. There are some reasons for that, and
we can talk about some other times. But the idea
here is that the role the people have is and
(25:49):
you support a party, you support a party, and they
choose a candidate. And that's why, like when I was younger,
people talked about being Republicans or Democrats more than you
talked about being a Trump person or a Biden person.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It was not about an individual.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
As much as I'm a Republican or a Democrat, and
I just think we'd be better off if we were that,
and then the parties had a consistent platform that didn't
change with whoever the nominee ended up being, especially if
the nominee is a no talent, charisma free numbskull. I
heard it positive by some commentator on the left. It'll
(26:25):
be so interesting to find out what Kamala Harris's policies are,
so we know what we're voting for.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Paraphrasing, but that was their point. What an odd scenario
that is so out of nowhere. This again, I won't
repeat my description of her, but I think it's more
or less indisputable that she has practically zero political charisma.
But for whatever reason, because Joe Biden needed a box
checking DEI choice for vice president, all of a sudden,
she is the great sage that's going to determine what
(26:54):
the Democratic Party is.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What the hell kind of system is that?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
So in the plus column for Kamala Harris, some people
saying she's better in private than she is in public, although,
like I said, that was what they said about Hillary
Clinton and she couldn't ever do it in public, So
I'm not sure, that does you good unless you can
transfer it at some point.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
But does that mean in private, like in a meeting,
or like private private like Willie Brown with the candles burnout,
some Sudsey Bath draw some soft music on.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Come on, now, what glass of wine or two? So
the reason I got this guy, what was the name
of the book?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I could come up with the really good it was
like your political guys wrote a book about the twenty
twenty campaign and their revelation was one of the reasons
Joe Biden looked to Kamala Harris as his choices was
when names were being thrown out for vice president, hit
(28:01):
pieces kept showing up on those people, and Joe Biden
became aware that Kamala was a person getting those out.
So if somebody other than her name came up, she
got something into the New York Times or to CNN
or whatever to take that person down.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And he appreciated that.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
He thought, Okay, that's somebody who knows how this game works.
That's somebody who's willing to throw elbows. And he appreciated that.
That's what the reporting was in the book. And so
I'm not sure I would take it that way. But
I'm not a career politician either.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
How would you take it? I would take that.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Hey, how about you run on your merits and I'll
figure out whether you know person's X and Y are worst.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The same book said that he was impressed with her,
that little girl was me, even though it was stupid.
The fact that she had the testicles to stand up
to him and hit him with that big line he appreciated.
He thought that was impressive. So yeah, fair enough, she's
got that inner uh to take on this battle. We'll
(29:08):
see if it, you know, manifests itself in any way.
And that little girl was me, which was just dumb.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
I'm looking forward to hearing her off script because, as
I said earlier, they have a highly placed aid behind
her with a taser ready to use it if she
gets off the teleprompter for more than two syllables. And
she knows it, but at some point she's going to
have to speak off the cough answer questions, debate that
sort of thing, and like Biden, once the narrative builds,
(29:37):
people just look for more examples of its truth. And
the narrative for her, of course, is that she is
the world's greatest word salad bar Yes.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
I can imagine what can be and beyond this we know.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Yeah, No, dear, you're a bunch of times. Yeah, so
she's gonna have to do it.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
When you think about the passage of time, you have
to think about the passage of time.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
All that's going to take is one or two of those.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Man.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, she has to do a press conference at some point,
and it depends on whether the press is going to
ask questions like I just want to know is it
difficult being as wonderful as you are? Or are they
going to ask questions like in twenty nineteen, you ran
on medicare for all, including illegals? Do you stand by
that you believed that the term illegal immigration should be
done away with that? There's no such thing as do
(30:27):
you still stand by that. Is she going to have
to answer for that stuff or not? That's on a
dismantle ice. Did she ever say defund the police? I
can't remember. She bailed out people that rioted and destroyed stuff,
do you think that's right? But bailed out Antifa members
and other radical leftists, that's right, who some of whom
went on to commit terrible crimes.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
So we'll see if anybody digs into that or not.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
We got one hundred and five days tomorrow, I guess anyway,
we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Has this ever happened to you?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Asking Katie or Michael, because I already talked to Joe
about this last week. This was disturbing. So we're in Milwaukee.
We take a break. I'm walk into the bathroom. I
run into Sid Rosenberg from New York. We had him
on anyway. I'm talking to Sid in the hallway, have
a little conversation or whatever. I go into the bathroom.
I whip out my phone like everybody every guy does anyway,
(31:25):
and and I go to voice text, and it prints
out in the little box like the last three sentences
I had said to Sid in the hallway, word for word.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, what is that.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You?
Speaker 10 (31:41):
Well, you probably didn't lock your phone screen before you
put it in your pocket, and it just picks, you know,
your something gets tapped on and then the microphone gets activated.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's not I've done that before. Well, it's it's a
variation of the butt dial. Yeah, it's the butt text. Yeah,
that's horrifying voice recording. Yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Well, and it was like a good minute or two later.
That's why it was so disturbing to me, went up
to it, whipped up my phone, and it started printing
back the very words I had just said, most of
it like really private.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Stuff too, Oh god, dang it. And how long do
then butt texted that to who knows who? Or emailed it?
Or how long does it save that or does it
save it all forever?
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Does?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Nobody knows?
Speaker 10 (32:30):
For reason, I don't know how long it saves it,
but I know that I have quickly deleted things when
that's happened to me.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Well, every company claims it doesn't record stuff until they
get caught recording stuff, and that has happened over and
over again with Facebook and Tesla and all kinds of
different people.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
All right, here's a question for you. Answer honestly.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Now, if you get a voicemail and it's from a
friend who's clearly butt dialed to, and it goes on
and on for like three and a half minutes, do
I listen to the whole thing? Listen to the whole
thing to see if anything interesting happens.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yes, yes, of course you do.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Actually, with God, with my good friends, I wouldn't because
I wouldn't be expecting anything interesting in the least or
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
But I happened one acquaintances. I'm all over it.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
I had that happened one time with a friend where
I could tell that it was going in a direction
that was not my business, So I know, or I
didn't hang out, but I stopped listening to it.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
But I was honorable with it.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You know.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Our executive producer Hanson's got a story about that, about
listening in on a thing once and it turned out
to be a disaster and.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Hurtful and he and he wished he hadn't and he
never will again. Oh lesson learned. But yeah, I listened.
Speaker 11 (33:44):
Yes, Jack and Joe just had a very robust and
productive conversation this morning, working together to discuss very important
issues together in this moment in time and now together
in this moment, they will have final thoughts with Armstrong
and Getty. This is the most final thoughts of our
(34:06):
lifetime and it is time to share the final thoughts
they have been thinking. And that time is every day.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Wow. If yeah, I can't wait for our first press conference.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Mike Lage low lead us off, and.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
It's gonna be interesting to see if a couple of
our press conferences go really poorly, will the Democrats say no, no, no,
gotta get somebody else right.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Nancy Pelosi trudges back up to the White House. Brian exactly.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, how.
Speaker 10 (34:40):
Great would it be if it's Joe Biden the one
that's telling her listen, you can't Yeah he might.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Jeez wow Jack.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
A final thought for us, I wonder about the mental
health of the entire country. This pace of news and
change and threat and disturbance is unlike anything in my life,
and I wonder, I wonder how our mental health.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Is as an ancient.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
M edgy, stressed, waiting for the other shoe to fall, anxious, anxious, Yeah, definitely,
so well. The next couple of months are going to
be absolutely cookie.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
My final thought is hold on tight. We'll try to
bring you the truth behind the scenes. I've got an
idea for the Armstrong and Getty One More Thing podcast,
But it's controversial, Okay, it's probably ill advised, it's unwise
if you like some professional impolite, do you like the.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Show, you should definitely check out the One More Thing
podcast wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another ruling four hour workday,
so many people, Thank so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and geddy dot com.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Check out the hot links, grab yourself t shirt, drop
us note the email addresses mail bag at Armstrong and
getdy dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
We will see you Manyana, God bless America.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
You know I hear that everything in the last couple
of days is going rather smoothly.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I'm Strong and Getty. It's outrageous, it's dangerous.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
Think about it in the context of the fact that
they suggest that such as the what this one?
Speaker 7 (36:15):
Actually that's bullshit.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
You may be overegging the pudding a bit. So let's
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