September 4, 2025 • 37 mins
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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 Getty arm Strong
and Jetty enough he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm strong and Jetty A defiant show of force.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
China flexing its military might with its largest ever parade,
sending a clear warning to the US it will not
be bullied. For the first time, President Jimping standing shoulder
to shoulder with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Koreas
Kim John Unn.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You should be frightened by that. It is frightening. This
parade could end up being something that they show in
newsreels to show the beginning of when it then became
the attack on the United States of America six months later,
six years later, whatever. But the ABC actually had a
(01:05):
reporter on the ground for this giant military parade. She
goes on.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
China showcasing new weapons including nuclear missiles experts say could
be capable of striking the continental US, powerful attack drones,
including large torpedo like underwater drones, and lasers China calls
the most powerful in the world, and four legged robot
wolves designed to locate mines and hunt down soldiers, all
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while thousands of troops paraded in perfect unison. It's quite
extraordinary to be this close to marching soldiers right here
in Teneman Square, in the heart of the.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Chinese capitol world.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm sorry, sorry, did I fall asleep and have a nightmare?
Or did she say four legged robot wolves.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, I just want to point out that I'm not
sure I heard any words after I heard robot wolves
that will chase you down. Well, FLRW, i's afraid of this.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, I don't feel like you can throw robot wolves
into the middle of your report and expect anybody to
pay attention after that. On the other hand, you could
throw robot wolves into the middle of your four band
lineup tonight at hard Rocks on Third Street.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Frolls. That is a good band name.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, wow, it's interesting to me, or it's worth noting
anyway that you got your you know, two bit tin horn,
fake klonel dictators of various countries that trot out their
military and make them goose step or whatever, and it's fine.
Stupid China has embarked on a massive course of militarization
(02:46):
for the purpose of using their military against us. By
the way, offensively not a meaningless, exerci no and offensively.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I think we we are. This happens when you're the
big dog for too long. I don't think we can
wrap our heads around the idea of them just attacking
us out of the blue like Japan did on December seventh,
nineteen forty one. I mean just we're going to try
to take you over or bend you to our will.
(03:16):
I don't think people can wrap their heads around that.
I hope that people in charge had no experience of it. Yeah, yeah,
well they just it's been unimaginable our whole lives. We
should start imagining it. We'll roll with the next clip
because it talks about Trump in the parade.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
President Trump and I acknowledging he did watch.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I thought it was a beautiful ceremony.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I thought it was very, very impressive, but I understood
the reason they were doing it, and they were hoping
I was watching, and I was watching.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In an earlier post on social media, the president accused
she Putin and Kim conspiring against the US, in Kutin
saying the suggestion shows Trump's sense of humor, and claimed
none of the lead is that the parade said anything
negative about the President.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Wow, yeah, the president with ay, I know you're conspiring
against the USFA, have a nice day.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So coming up in a moment, the bizarre hot mic
moment in which Chijin Ping and Vladimir Putin were discussing
how to live forever through organ transplants, organs that will
probably be collected by robot wolves in a nightmare scenario.
But first I want to touch on this, at least briefly.
(04:30):
I came across the Twitter feed of one Mick Ryan,
who is a strategist, analyst, senior fellow, blah blah blah.
He's also retired Army major general, and he was analyzing
the big parade in Beijing there and said some interesting stuff.
I thought, no major surprise that though there was some
(04:53):
new equipment, the structure in the content of the parade
was pretty standard. Five key themes stood out for me. However.
Number one, most of the weapons and platforms were not
brand new, but generally every land, air, and sea platform
was far more modern than that in the inventories of
Western military organizations. Newer does not always mean better, however,
(05:14):
While most Western military equipment has been tested in Rock,
Ukraine and elsewhere. None of China's new kit has Theme two.
The new weapons and platforms were interesting in demonstrate the
ongoing advanced military R and D ecosystem that China now has.
The large underwater uncrewed vessels, the uncrewed rotary wing aircraft,
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and the long series of letters and numbers, a bunch
of different vehicles and missiles, as well as the laser
defense systems were new reveals by the PLA. I thought
the UA V on the back of the infantry fighting
vehicle is interesting. Long gone are the days where China
was reliant on Russian or other foreign systems. This level
of indigenous capacity and first high levels of sustainability in
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any future conflict.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Though laser things I don't know what though they do,
but those are impressive looking.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, no kidding, anti drone weaponry in particular, probably other
things to it. Theme three. Parades are not indicators of
war fighting effectiveness. Notwithstanding the impressive orchestration of the parade
and highly synchronized music in marching, these have almost zero
impact on the measurement of military effectiveness. While there have
been large reforms in the past decade, particularly in the
(06:26):
creation of joint theater commands and strategic support institutions, space,
cyber etc. We need to watch exercise and activities such
as joint swords, straight thunder around Taiwan and elsewhere to
gain additional insights into real PLA capability. A couple more
quick points Theme four. This parade is clearly designed to
influence the calculus of regional governments. While the demonstration of
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military power is impressive, I don't think this will shift
the perspectives of regional leaders drastically. For those who've already
decided to accommodate China, the parade might reinforce why they've
done so. For others who have decided to resist Chinese aggression,
it may additional purpose for doing so. And then he said,
the really interesting question is this, what was Putent thinking
watching the parade and what were his generals thinking. Surely
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they must be concerned. They have fought against China in
the past century and has stripped out large parts of
their forces force structure from the East to fight in Ukraine.
So his point being Potent is sitting there thinking we're
like half decimated. China's crazy, advanced, richer than we can picture,
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and we've fought them in the past, they're a neighbor
and not a very friendly neighbor.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Generally, you think China would have any interest in taking.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Russia as needed, not like the entire country, but resources, rivers, dams,
chunks of the country. And then finally, theme five, She's
narrative remains steady and can assistant. In his speech, President
She reinforced his long standing narrative about the inevitable rise
(08:04):
of China. He described how the this is a quote,
the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable. That humanity
is again faced with a choice of peace or war,
dialogue or confrontation, and win win out comes. There zero
sum games. And it gave she another chance to re
and reinforce loyalty to the Communist Party by the army.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And of course we got robot wolves.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, not to be overlooked. Oh my god, there's
one of them now.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So we'll play for you the whole organ transplant thing
between She and curtain right after we tell you this.
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Speaker 1 (09:57):
So she and Putin are dictators for life unless somebody
snuffs them, which would still make them dictators for their lives.
But they until they die of natural causes or so
many stuffs, and then they're going to be in charge of
their countries. And so they got into a conversation with
each other about organs or something. Well, they're both in
(10:18):
their early seventies. Yeah, so they are caught on a
hot mic. Whoever was holding that hot mic is.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Probably in a gulag somewhere, but they are caught on
a hot mic describing how they were gonna beat aging
fifty three.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Michael and tonight that rare hot mic moment. Right before
the parade, Putin and she caught in a candid conversation.
Putin overheard talking about multiple organ transplants was a way
to achieve immortality. She responding, say, some predict that in
this century humans may live up to one hundred and
fifty years old. Putin has been leading Russia for twenty
(10:55):
five years, she leading China for almost thirteen and both
leader is her talking about immortality?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Is they tried to send a message to the US
and the world, all right, that's that we're going to
live forever. There's a better version of that. Let's go
with fifty seven. Then we'll play the next one after it, Michael,
we'll ask for go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Plutin and she have proven they've got staying power as superpowers,
and it could remain that way for decades to come.
According to a hot mic moment about medical technology.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
In the past, people rarely lived longer than seventy years,
but today they say that at seventy you're still a child.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Human organs can be continuously transplanted.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
The longer you live, the younger you become, and can
even achieve immortality.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I don't think that's actually true. Immortality is a stretch
in it a bit. Yeah, I've seen people get major
organ transplants. They don't strike me as being super duper youthful.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And you're not a child at seventy yeah, so uh.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is that just they're just shooting the ball and you know,
throwing around stuff like, oh yeah it's seventy, you're just
a child, please, eighties the new forty or whatever. Plus
you could get organ transplants over. I mean, they're both
brilliant dictators. I despise them both, but they are brilliant
calculating men. But they surely they're more up on organ
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transplant science.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And yeah, they still don't have any additional access to
organs that you don't have as just like a regular citizen.
Really in the United States, if you need a liver
or a heart or something like that, what now, Well,
they don't have any new special technology. If I need
a liver and I'm gonna die, I can get on
a listen and get a liver. Pudent could maybe get
it faster. But other than that, he doesn't have a
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leg up on me. Well he doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Like better livers to choose from. No, in right to transplant,
actually technology and aftercare would be the same. So yeah,
he might have a gulag of dissidents who are going
to give up their lungs whether they like it or not.
But the idea that you could get like four or
five six organ transplants and just spring out of bed
and be like a kid again with the effort you
(13:12):
guys reading, where'd you get that idea?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Give up your lungs whether you want to or not.
We're here for your lungs, but I'm using them. I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh your here is the scratch of the claws of
the robot wolves.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay, more on the way stay here. Oh my gosh, you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Know what I stand corrected. I got a couple of
new lungs and a knee during the commercial break, and
I feel great.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
The grapex sperimen has been gotten.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
There you go, let's see how it works.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Wow. So got caught up up in Oregon transplants and
robot wolves and whatnot in the last segment and didn't
get to one more thing I wanted to throw in.
That's a couple of stories about the future of war.
First of all, our army, the United States Army has
just signed a big contract with a San Francisco Bay
area startup, Turbine one. It is an artificial intelligence mechanism
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program APP that they can carry in their pockets and rucksacks.
And it's really good because it reflects quoting. Now the
story twin realities of the modern battlefield. Drones and AI
have accelerated the speed of combat to a blistering pace,
and you biquit. A signal jamming makes it difficult to
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send and receive data at the front lines. So this
Turbine one software runs on soldiers laptops, smartphones, drones, whatever,
eliminating the need for any sort of cloud connection. It
equips individual soldiers with the ability to quickly identify enemy
threats such as drone launch sites, concealed troop positions, and
the context needed to decide how to respond without relying
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on analysts sitting miles away.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Well, I've been amazed by what they're doing there in
Ukraine with the drones that are attached to a fiber
optic optic line. They're hardwired so that there's no way
to intercept the communications and uh, you know, detect them
and then mess up their signals. They actually have a
fiber optic line as they're flying out. That's incredible old school.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, it's this hyper thin line spooled up like a
fishing reel, and yeah, it's amazing. I like this couple
of sentences. The modern battlefield is teeming with drones in
the sky, in the water, on the ground. That creates
both unceasing surveillance and a deluge of data that soldiers
must sort through in seconds to determine the most pressing
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threats and how to respond. The Army's Director of Strategy
and Transformation said the service's goal is to process data
ten twenty five times faster than its adversaries, a benchmarket
considers crucial to battlefield superiority.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Wow, if you've ever seen any of that stuff of
a Russian soldier or a Ukrainian soldier being chased by
a drone man, it's that's some frightening stuff right there.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, and there's nothing like life and death to motivate
you to innovate. And on that front, AI powered drones
have now entered the battlefield in a new frontier for warfare,
Ukraine is using technology to allow groups of drones to
communicate and make decisions independent of their operators. So they're
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using AI to coordinate drone attacks on Russian positions, marking
the first known routine use of swarm tech in combat.
And this Ukrainian company develops software that allows drones to
autonomously coordinate strikes, saving time and manpower. And the US
and other countries are developing swarm technology, but concerns are
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rising about AI making lethal decisions. Well, get over it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, that's happening and going to happen a lot. Well,
so so you end up having a battle and you
could have, like say it's Indian Pakistan. You have a battle.
You each just release all your drones and then you
sit there and see who wins. I guess like it's
a video game.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Practically, yeah, well literally, as they describe, a trio of
Ukrainian drones flew under the cover of darkness to a
Russian position and decided among themselves exactly when to strike.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Wow. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No human being watching and assessing and deciding, just the
drones saying, what do you think, how about we wait
two minutes and hit those guys over there first, because
they're close enough to those guys, and the other drones
say this sounds good to me, whites of their eyes,
et cetera. Right, Yeah, craziness. The evolution of the battlefield
from five years ago to five years from now would
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be unlike anything mankind has ever reckoned with.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
So we have a pretty big vote coming up in
California about this whole redistricting thing. I just saw the
very first ad I want to talk to a little
bit about that. This is Gavin Newsome trying to fight
against Texas and blah blah blah. You know that old thing.
Just saw the first ad that I want to talk
about and explain the visuals. We'll get to that in
just a second.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Armstrong and Getty, I want to.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Talk about my son's history class that he's taken at school,
and I'm somewhat hesitant to get into it, although I'm
kind of over being concerned about causing any waves or whatever,
and what's the worst gonna happen. He's taken two classes
through the public school. The rest of it is homeschool,
and I'll just do that this. He's taken an American
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history class, and I was afraid of that when it started,
given where California has been recently on their public schools
and history stuff, and it has lived up to my expectation.
Before we get to that, speaking of California and the
current governor, Gavin Newsom, so uh, I assume you all
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know this. Texas is redistricting, not right after a census
in the middle of a decade. It's unusual, it's not unprecedented.
The census was done poorly. That has been documented in
the favor of Democrats. Blah blah blah. Texas is redistricting,
and they're gonna end up with five more Republican House
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seats out of it. It's called Jerry mandering or Gary mandering.
As Tom McClintock said when he was on last week
while you were gone. Tom mcclintac actually goes with Gary
mandering because it's of course he does, because it's accurate.
But whatever. So it's jerry mandering. It's been going on
since the beginning of our country. It's nothing new at all.
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Both parties have done it over and over and over again.
California is already jerry mandered, Illinois already jerry mandered, et cetera,
et cetera. Anyway, you all know that the doesn't tell
you that though. So a lot of people think Texas
is doing something new and unique and absolutely unfair and
some sort of hardball that we've got to push back against.
And Gavin Newsom is jumping on that with the help
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of the media, convincing people that he is fighting back
in California and we're going to vote on it. I guess.
So here's the first ad I've seen. It was on
the TV just a little bit ago. I rewound it
and we're going to listen to it together. Let me
give you the visual. It's clearly not a real rally.
It's so incredibly perfectly lit and the right kind of
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people with the right facial expressions. So it's obviously a
fake rally. He's standing at a podium, he's pointing his finger,
he's looking like a leader. The camera's down below him,
so he looks like he's eleven feet tall, and all
the people are just enthralled. That's the vision, and this
is what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We cannot unilaterally disarmed.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
We can't stand back and watch this democracy disappear, district
by district, all across this country. Giving the power to
the people on November fourth, you have the power to stand.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Up to Trump.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
You have the power to declare that you support a
system that is not rigged.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
We're having on all of you on November four.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And stand up for our democracy.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Thank you all, very very much. So again, it's not
a real rally. It's clearly a fake rally, which is fine.
I mean, it's an ad.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
At the end, he's complete bullspit. But as bullspit goes,
that was pretty good bullspit.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
At the end, he turns to the crowd and he points,
and you have the chance too. I mean, he's just
very it's a funny looks like a hero. He looks
like Hitler's what he looks like waving a boras did
he give the Hitler's look? And then at the end
here I rewounded it says AD paid for by Yes,
I'm fifty. That's the prop we're going to vote on
in California because it's against the law in California to
redistrict right now. We passed the law about that, and
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he's wanting to get around that law. It's called the
Election Rigging Respect wants to act. That's the name of it.
Hilarious and we're going to vote for it in November.
And currently it's polling very poorly, even among Democrats. What
hell is going on? Sixty percent of Democrats currently say no,
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we're not gonna do this.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
We have a allegedly manipulated but allegedly nonpartisan commission to
do that. We all voted on it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And two thirds overall. But in our modern world of
everything's about being president and it's all performative politics, that
was the first Gavin Newsom for President AD is what
that was as the very first TV Gavin Newsom for
President AD. And he he might actually be happier if
this loses than if it wins, because he wants to
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be the guy that's fighting the resistance, but they're just
too strong. But with my help and your help, we
can overcome it. Who knows, but he he just all
he wants is for this to run and for him
to be seen as the Democrat that's willing to fight Trump.
And we'll see where this goes. Yeah, whoop?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Do you do?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Gavvy boy? A couple more Gavin knew some stories here.
First of all, his agricultural equity advisors is what now
you're saying? His agricultural equity advisors are preparing a plan
to redistribute farmland, redistribute farmland to racial minorities. California has
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the responsibility to help rebuild the wealth that was stolen, says.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The task force. Okay, so the devil's in the details
in this one. So if I'm a white farmer and
I got five hundred acres, how exactly are you taking
that from me and giving it to somebody who's black
or brown? By what I mean, you're just gonna come
and take that from me? The government?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Well, well they haven't said that yet, but eighty two
percent of privately held farmland California is owned by producer
who identify as white. So that is clear evidence of
racism or discrimination or inequity or something or other. And
the quote is the wealth of the US, including that
of its agricultural industry, has been built on stolen land
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and the forced labor of California tribal nations, enslaved African
Americans wait a minute in California, No, it wasn't, and
other exploited communities who've been systematically excluded from land ownership
and wealth building opportunities. The report says addressing these past
and continuing harms require active efforts to ish ensure that
people have secure and affordable access blah blah blah. But
(24:35):
how they would actually do that is getting into the
weeds of policy. It recommends state funds offer programs to
support land return and acquisition for tribes. How about for
the tribes they took it from. I mean like right
before they owned it, different people owned it, and the
tribes were talking about slaughtered all of them and took
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their land. So what about those tribes.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That gets to my son's history class in which he
had to write a land acknowledgment statement on day one
of history class. That was the assignment. He had to
write out, we are taking this history class in a
school building built on the land that belonged to the
whatever tribe it was that last had it before the
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Spanish took it, and then we got it, we being Americans.
So yeah, that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
In a statement, the spokeswoman for the California's government officer,
the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, says,
you know, it's hilarious. You can't read a sentence of
this without coming across an Orwellian Department of Departments. You know,
it's just stress that the task force does not implement
policy and that its report consists of recommendations. Okay, there
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you go, which he can tell. Then on the campaign trail,
and then my favorite Gavin knwsome update of the day.
A court just over earned his ridiculous AB twenty eight
thirty nine, which I remember at the time saying it
couldn't pass muster at the People's Court, never mind the
Supreme Court. It prohibited distributing content depicting a candidate doing
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or saying something that he didn't that is reasonably likely
to harm his reputation or electoral prospects, outlawing parody. Certainly
AI generated parody, and it was an hilariously naked attempt
to just be seen doing something but completely impossible to enforce. Well, ironically,
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a judge just tossed it out on its ear, saying
he can't be serious with this crap, which protected Gavin
Newsom from being prosecuted under it because he's been doing
all sorts of parody stuff of Trump. His Twitter feed
has become a Trumpian. It's a Trump imitation blasting Trump
and includes satire and parody and all sorts of stuff
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that he would have violated his own funny stupid law
that he never intended to actually be enforced. That's really
Gavin Newsome in a nutshell.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Man. There's a horrible story that I don't even want
to get into because the details are so brutal, although
it's an important issue about a guy that was still
on the streets. He had horribly abused a child, his kid,
to the point the kid will be in bedridden the
rest of its life. Good lord, he didn't spend a
(27:34):
day in prison for that was out on the street
to then murder a child recently. Yeah, thanks, And because
of the whole we have too many of a certain
kind of people in prison, or build more schools not
prisons or whatever. Bless that Gavin Newsom is in favor
of in the state of California. Just horrifying story. And
he's going to have to defend that, probably for the nomination,
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let alone for running for president. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
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Speaker 1 (29:19):
You know. Kind of on this topic, my son explained
what day one of history class was, its American history
class in the public school in California in my town.
And if it's as he described, and he, like many children,
has a tendency to exaggerate, so I'm going to try
to nail down this. But if it's even close to
(29:39):
as he described, there's no way I'm going to let
him finish the year in that classroom. But apparently the
teacher said the text this textbook is full of lies
and distortions, and we're going to go through them one
by one. So even the textbook, which I guarantee you
I wouldn't agree with. I'm sure the current textbook they're
(29:59):
using is way too far out there for me. The
teacher said, we are not going to let the textbook
get away with us and talk about the genocide that
was perpetrated upon Native Americans by the Spanish and the
UH and white people that brought California to what it is. Okay,
So if that's going to be your focus, I don't
want my kid in your class.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I just don't no willingly offer them up to be
indoctrinated to hate their country. Well not, ain't gonna work
on my son, because first of all, he's taken in
enough history through all kinds of YouTube lectures and shows
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
He knows what it is. But why, why can't you
just teach the Stamp Act and the Declaration of Independence
blah blah, I'm.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Here to indoctrinate your children to hate their country to
usher in a leftist revolution.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's a really young guy, and I can just imagine
what his education was like.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, oh yeah, which is why I'm always going on
about how I don't know if the government school system
can be fixed because you have not only the old
school activists and they're victims, but you've got youngsters. We
got a great email the other day from somebody, a
great young woman, nice, well meaning, et cetera. But she
(31:13):
took down the American flag and put up the Pride
Progress flag because that's what she believes she ought to
be doing for the kids.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I am becoming like a zealot for dismantling or public
school system. Just dismantling it. Yeah, start again, start or
make it go away. Make everything private. You get to
keep a big chunk your tax money and it'll go toward,
you know, some sort of co op that you and
other parents agree upon what the curriculum is going to be.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You know, have an inspector come by, make sure everything's
on the up and up.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You got to have some sort of system of that
or just you know, competition spill it out. But you know,
I've got private enterprise building my house, for instance, and
and there are occasional inspections. Makes everything's up stuff and
everything's going great. Yeahs ought to be the same way.
There's no reason government ought to be in. And it's
got to end. It's got to end. It in fact,
that's the well. And I think it was uh who
(32:11):
said that. Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue.
Of all the monopolies that are possible, a government monopoly
on education is the most loathsome of.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
God, I would say, and it is off the rails. Anyway,
We've got more on the waistairing the death of Matthew Perry.
The suspect called the Kettymine Queen pleading guilty to five
criminal charges, including providing the drug that all to be
led to Perry's death.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Jaspine Sanga faces up to sixty five years in prison.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Hey, drug dealers, take note. Somebody dies ain't gonna work
out well for you.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, but streets, that's if your boat doesn't get blowed
up by Trump on the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Right.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
So, the more I think at the more unhappy I
am that we did not get to see the spectacle
of Gavin Newsom being prosecuted by his own ridiculous anti
free speech law before it was overturned. And I wish
Judge John Mendez, who's ruling was both eloquent and absolutely correct,
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I wish he just held off a few weeks so
we could add the prospect of Gavin being prosecuted for
violating his own law, then having to rail against how
unconstitutional it was himself that would have I could have
died happy if I had seen that. You've ruined it,
Judge Mendez. You've ruined it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You've brought the man's deathbed wish.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Anyway, good ruling. And from that very same department. Do
you remember who little Titia James is, the New York
Attorney General who ran on, I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Gonna get Trump on something.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Whatever I can find, I'm gonna get Trump. And she
cooked up those ridiculous charges about you know, entries on ledgers,
each one being a felony, blah blah blah. That giant
penalty just got overturned too. But anyway, she's joined forces
with Zorin mom Domini, the Kami and uh and and
was appearing with him at a rally the other day
(34:18):
and said this, and.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
That individual is someone who I've supported and endorsed and
someone who I will stand and stand with each and
every day. His name is zorrn mona donie. You gotta say,
with all the syllables for those who still get it wrong.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
You just got it wrong, like totally wrong or rn Mona, Donie. No,
it's mom, Donnie. I despise the guy and I know
how to So let's just make this clear. You're shouting
at the crowd to pronounce his name correctly, and you
(35:03):
say this zor ron Monadnie.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, that's true. If you're gonna make the whole focus
of your little speech how to pronounce the guy's name,
he probably look in, probably look into you know, we'll
look at it. Just look at it, look at it,
look at it. Brilliance.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, it's how it's spelled. It's yeah, fanatic anyway, nice job, Letitia.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's not like it's one of those where, you know,
pneumonia starts with a P. It's it's just like it's spelled.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, it's the end is pronounced. Is an end?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
It's a.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
There's not one until late in the Yeah, he's got
a way that you know. I was tempted to play
the rest of her speech too, because it is the
sort of vague, up with the people clap trap that
passes for political rhetoric on the on the left.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
He's gonna win, though, unless a couple of people get out,
and they aren't probably aren't going to. But there was
polling just last week. And if Cuomo stays in and
Adams stays in, mom Donnie is going to win?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Are politics? I realize you know this, but it's completely dysfunctional.
You got a communist running, so you need somebody good
to run against him. And who ends up at the
front of the parade That scumbag Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Excel He's every kind of a scumbag. He's a crook,
he's a thicker when it comes to women, and I
love you well, it's like.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
You're familiar with the term polymath. It's like somebody who's
a genius at physics and they're a poet and they
play the violin and blah blah blah, and I hate
them for that out of pure jealousy. But he's he's
like a polyscumbag.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
He is sweetheart darling.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I mean, he excels almost well almost. He is a
world class talent at at least three or four different
kinds of combaggery.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Including bad policies. He sent the old people into the
old folks homes to die of COVID.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Oh yeah, and then lied about it.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
It's really a.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Towering talent in the world of and he's our only
hope to stop the Communist from becoming the mayor.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Zor Ron Mandani.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
That's the fella, Yes, that's him, well, almost her.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Really forcefully and this is the way you say it.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
And contemptuous of anybody who gets it wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
It's Mandani.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jetty enough he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm strong and Jetty A defiant show of force.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
China flexing its military might with its largest ever parade,
sending a clear warning to the US it will not
be bullied. For the first time, President Jimping standing shoulder
to shoulder with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Koreas
Kim John Unn.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You should be frightened by that. It is frightening. This
parade could end up being something that they show in
newsreels to show the beginning of when it then became
the attack on the United States of America six months later,
six years later, whatever. But the ABC actually had a
(01:05):
reporter on the ground for this giant military parade. She
goes on.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
China showcasing new weapons including nuclear missiles experts say could
be capable of striking the continental US, powerful attack drones,
including large torpedo like underwater drones, and lasers China calls
the most powerful in the world, and four legged robot
wolves designed to locate mines and hunt down soldiers, all
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while thousands of troops paraded in perfect unison. It's quite
extraordinary to be this close to marching soldiers right here
in Teneman Square, in the heart of the.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Chinese capitol world.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm sorry, sorry, did I fall asleep and have a nightmare?
Or did she say four legged robot wolves.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, I just want to point out that I'm not
sure I heard any words after I heard robot wolves
that will chase you down. Well, FLRW, i's afraid of this.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, I don't feel like you can throw robot wolves
into the middle of your report and expect anybody to
pay attention after that. On the other hand, you could
throw robot wolves into the middle of your four band
lineup tonight at hard Rocks on Third Street.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Frolls. That is a good band name.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, wow, it's interesting to me, or it's worth noting
anyway that you got your you know, two bit tin horn,
fake klonel dictators of various countries that trot out their
military and make them goose step or whatever, and it's fine.
Stupid China has embarked on a massive course of militarization
(02:46):
for the purpose of using their military against us. By
the way, offensively not a meaningless, exerci no and offensively.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I think we we are. This happens when you're the
big dog for too long. I don't think we can
wrap our heads around the idea of them just attacking
us out of the blue like Japan did on December seventh,
nineteen forty one. I mean just we're going to try
to take you over or bend you to our will.
(03:16):
I don't think people can wrap their heads around that.
I hope that people in charge had no experience of it. Yeah, yeah,
well they just it's been unimaginable our whole lives. We
should start imagining it. We'll roll with the next clip
because it talks about Trump in the parade.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
President Trump and I acknowledging he did watch.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I thought it was a beautiful ceremony.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I thought it was very, very impressive, but I understood
the reason they were doing it, and they were hoping
I was watching, and I was watching.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In an earlier post on social media, the president accused
she Putin and Kim conspiring against the US, in Kutin
saying the suggestion shows Trump's sense of humor, and claimed
none of the lead is that the parade said anything
negative about the President.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Wow, yeah, the president with ay, I know you're conspiring
against the USFA, have a nice day.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So coming up in a moment, the bizarre hot mic
moment in which Chijin Ping and Vladimir Putin were discussing
how to live forever through organ transplants, organs that will
probably be collected by robot wolves in a nightmare scenario.
But first I want to touch on this, at least briefly.
(04:30):
I came across the Twitter feed of one Mick Ryan,
who is a strategist, analyst, senior fellow, blah blah blah.
He's also retired Army major general, and he was analyzing
the big parade in Beijing there and said some interesting stuff.
I thought, no major surprise that though there was some
(04:53):
new equipment, the structure in the content of the parade
was pretty standard. Five key themes stood out for me. However.
Number one, most of the weapons and platforms were not
brand new, but generally every land, air, and sea platform
was far more modern than that in the inventories of
Western military organizations. Newer does not always mean better, however,
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While most Western military equipment has been tested in Rock,
Ukraine and elsewhere. None of China's new kit has Theme two.
The new weapons and platforms were interesting in demonstrate the
ongoing advanced military R and D ecosystem that China now has.
The large underwater uncrewed vessels, the uncrewed rotary wing aircraft,
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and the long series of letters and numbers, a bunch
of different vehicles and missiles, as well as the laser
defense systems were new reveals by the PLA. I thought
the UA V on the back of the infantry fighting
vehicle is interesting. Long gone are the days where China
was reliant on Russian or other foreign systems. This level
of indigenous capacity and first high levels of sustainability in
(05:57):
any future conflict.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Though laser things I don't know what though they do,
but those are impressive looking.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, no kidding, anti drone weaponry in particular, probably other
things to it. Theme three. Parades are not indicators of
war fighting effectiveness. Notwithstanding the impressive orchestration of the parade
and highly synchronized music in marching, these have almost zero
impact on the measurement of military effectiveness. While there have
been large reforms in the past decade, particularly in the
(06:26):
creation of joint theater commands and strategic support institutions, space,
cyber etc. We need to watch exercise and activities such
as joint swords, straight thunder around Taiwan and elsewhere to
gain additional insights into real PLA capability. A couple more
quick points Theme four. This parade is clearly designed to
influence the calculus of regional governments. While the demonstration of
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military power is impressive, I don't think this will shift
the perspectives of regional leaders drastically. For those who've already
decided to accommodate China, the parade might reinforce why they've
done so. For others who have decided to resist Chinese aggression,
it may additional purpose for doing so. And then he said,
the really interesting question is this, what was Putent thinking
watching the parade and what were his generals thinking. Surely
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they must be concerned. They have fought against China in
the past century and has stripped out large parts of
their forces force structure from the East to fight in Ukraine.
So his point being Potent is sitting there thinking we're
like half decimated. China's crazy, advanced, richer than we can picture,
(07:33):
and we've fought them in the past, they're a neighbor
and not a very friendly neighbor.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Generally, you think China would have any interest in taking.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Russia as needed, not like the entire country, but resources, rivers, dams,
chunks of the country. And then finally, theme five, She's
narrative remains steady and can assistant. In his speech, President
She reinforced his long standing narrative about the inevitable rise
(08:04):
of China. He described how the this is a quote,
the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable. That humanity
is again faced with a choice of peace or war,
dialogue or confrontation, and win win out comes. There zero
sum games. And it gave she another chance to re
and reinforce loyalty to the Communist Party by the army.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And of course we got robot wolves.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, not to be overlooked. Oh my god, there's
one of them now.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So we'll play for you the whole organ transplant thing
between She and curtain right after we tell you this.
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Speaker 1 (09:57):
So she and Putin are dictators for life unless somebody
snuffs them, which would still make them dictators for their lives.
But they until they die of natural causes or so
many stuffs, and then they're going to be in charge of
their countries. And so they got into a conversation with
each other about organs or something. Well, they're both in
(10:18):
their early seventies. Yeah, so they are caught on a
hot mic. Whoever was holding that hot mic is.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Probably in a gulag somewhere, but they are caught on
a hot mic describing how they were gonna beat aging
fifty three.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Michael and tonight that rare hot mic moment. Right before
the parade, Putin and she caught in a candid conversation.
Putin overheard talking about multiple organ transplants was a way
to achieve immortality. She responding, say, some predict that in
this century humans may live up to one hundred and
fifty years old. Putin has been leading Russia for twenty
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five years, she leading China for almost thirteen and both
leader is her talking about immortality?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Is they tried to send a message to the US
and the world, all right, that's that we're going to
live forever. There's a better version of that. Let's go
with fifty seven. Then we'll play the next one after it, Michael,
we'll ask for go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Plutin and she have proven they've got staying power as superpowers,
and it could remain that way for decades to come.
According to a hot mic moment about medical technology.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
In the past, people rarely lived longer than seventy years,
but today they say that at seventy you're still a child.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Human organs can be continuously transplanted.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
The longer you live, the younger you become, and can
even achieve immortality.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I don't think that's actually true. Immortality is a stretch
in it a bit. Yeah, I've seen people get major
organ transplants. They don't strike me as being super duper youthful.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
And you're not a child at seventy yeah, so uh.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is that just they're just shooting the ball and you know,
throwing around stuff like, oh yeah it's seventy, you're just
a child, please, eighties the new forty or whatever. Plus
you could get organ transplants over. I mean, they're both
brilliant dictators. I despise them both, but they are brilliant
calculating men. But they surely they're more up on organ
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transplant science.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And yeah, they still don't have any additional access to
organs that you don't have as just like a regular citizen.
Really in the United States, if you need a liver
or a heart or something like that, what now, Well,
they don't have any new special technology. If I need
a liver and I'm gonna die, I can get on
a listen and get a liver. Pudent could maybe get
it faster. But other than that, he doesn't have a
(12:47):
leg up on me. Well he doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Like better livers to choose from. No, in right to transplant,
actually technology and aftercare would be the same. So yeah,
he might have a gulag of dissidents who are going
to give up their lungs whether they like it or not.
But the idea that you could get like four or
five six organ transplants and just spring out of bed
and be like a kid again with the effort you
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guys reading, where'd you get that idea?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Give up your lungs whether you want to or not.
We're here for your lungs, but I'm using them. I
don't care.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh your here is the scratch of the claws of
the robot wolves.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay, more on the way stay here. Oh my gosh, you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Know what I stand corrected. I got a couple of
new lungs and a knee during the commercial break, and
I feel great.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
The grapex sperimen has been gotten.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
There you go, let's see how it works.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Wow. So got caught up up in Oregon transplants and
robot wolves and whatnot in the last segment and didn't
get to one more thing I wanted to throw in.
That's a couple of stories about the future of war.
First of all, our army, the United States Army has
just signed a big contract with a San Francisco Bay
area startup, Turbine one. It is an artificial intelligence mechanism
(14:26):
program APP that they can carry in their pockets and rucksacks.
And it's really good because it reflects quoting. Now the
story twin realities of the modern battlefield. Drones and AI
have accelerated the speed of combat to a blistering pace,
and you biquit. A signal jamming makes it difficult to
(14:47):
send and receive data at the front lines. So this
Turbine one software runs on soldiers laptops, smartphones, drones, whatever,
eliminating the need for any sort of cloud connection. It
equips individual soldiers with the ability to quickly identify enemy
threats such as drone launch sites, concealed troop positions, and
the context needed to decide how to respond without relying
(15:09):
on analysts sitting miles away.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Well, I've been amazed by what they're doing there in
Ukraine with the drones that are attached to a fiber
optic optic line. They're hardwired so that there's no way
to intercept the communications and uh, you know, detect them
and then mess up their signals. They actually have a
fiber optic line as they're flying out. That's incredible old school.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, it's this hyper thin line spooled up like a
fishing reel, and yeah, it's amazing. I like this couple
of sentences. The modern battlefield is teeming with drones in
the sky, in the water, on the ground. That creates
both unceasing surveillance and a deluge of data that soldiers
must sort through in seconds to determine the most pressing
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threats and how to respond. The Army's Director of Strategy
and Transformation said the service's goal is to process data
ten twenty five times faster than its adversaries, a benchmarket
considers crucial to battlefield superiority.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Wow, if you've ever seen any of that stuff of
a Russian soldier or a Ukrainian soldier being chased by
a drone man, it's that's some frightening stuff right there.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, and there's nothing like life and death to motivate
you to innovate. And on that front, AI powered drones
have now entered the battlefield in a new frontier for warfare,
Ukraine is using technology to allow groups of drones to
communicate and make decisions independent of their operators. So they're
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using AI to coordinate drone attacks on Russian positions, marking
the first known routine use of swarm tech in combat.
And this Ukrainian company develops software that allows drones to
autonomously coordinate strikes, saving time and manpower. And the US
and other countries are developing swarm technology, but concerns are
(17:01):
rising about AI making lethal decisions. Well, get over it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, that's happening and going to happen a lot. Well,
so so you end up having a battle and you
could have, like say it's Indian Pakistan. You have a battle.
You each just release all your drones and then you
sit there and see who wins. I guess like it's
a video game.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Practically, yeah, well literally, as they describe, a trio of
Ukrainian drones flew under the cover of darkness to a
Russian position and decided among themselves exactly when to strike.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Wow. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No human being watching and assessing and deciding, just the
drones saying, what do you think, how about we wait
two minutes and hit those guys over there first, because
they're close enough to those guys, and the other drones
say this sounds good to me, whites of their eyes,
et cetera. Right, Yeah, craziness. The evolution of the battlefield
from five years ago to five years from now would
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be unlike anything mankind has ever reckoned with.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
So we have a pretty big vote coming up in
California about this whole redistricting thing. I just saw the
very first ad I want to talk to a little
bit about that. This is Gavin Newsome trying to fight
against Texas and blah blah blah. You know that old thing.
Just saw the first ad that I want to talk
about and explain the visuals. We'll get to that in
just a second.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Armstrong and Getty, I want to.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Talk about my son's history class that he's taken at school,
and I'm somewhat hesitant to get into it, although I'm
kind of over being concerned about causing any waves or whatever,
and what's the worst gonna happen. He's taken two classes
through the public school. The rest of it is homeschool,
and I'll just do that this. He's taken an American
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history class, and I was afraid of that when it started,
given where California has been recently on their public schools
and history stuff, and it has lived up to my expectation.
Before we get to that, speaking of California and the
current governor, Gavin Newsom, so uh, I assume you all
(19:07):
know this. Texas is redistricting, not right after a census
in the middle of a decade. It's unusual, it's not unprecedented.
The census was done poorly. That has been documented in
the favor of Democrats. Blah blah blah. Texas is redistricting,
and they're gonna end up with five more Republican House
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seats out of it. It's called Jerry mandering or Gary mandering.
As Tom McClintock said when he was on last week
while you were gone. Tom mcclintac actually goes with Gary
mandering because it's of course he does, because it's accurate.
But whatever. So it's jerry mandering. It's been going on
since the beginning of our country. It's nothing new at all.
(19:51):
Both parties have done it over and over and over again.
California is already jerry mandered, Illinois already jerry mandered, et cetera,
et cetera. Anyway, you all know that the doesn't tell
you that though. So a lot of people think Texas
is doing something new and unique and absolutely unfair and
some sort of hardball that we've got to push back against.
And Gavin Newsom is jumping on that with the help
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of the media, convincing people that he is fighting back
in California and we're going to vote on it. I guess.
So here's the first ad I've seen. It was on
the TV just a little bit ago. I rewound it
and we're going to listen to it together. Let me
give you the visual. It's clearly not a real rally.
It's so incredibly perfectly lit and the right kind of
(20:32):
people with the right facial expressions. So it's obviously a
fake rally. He's standing at a podium, he's pointing his finger,
he's looking like a leader. The camera's down below him,
so he looks like he's eleven feet tall, and all
the people are just enthralled. That's the vision, and this
is what it sounds like.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We cannot unilaterally disarmed.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
We can't stand back and watch this democracy disappear, district
by district, all across this country. Giving the power to
the people on November fourth, you have the power to stand.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Up to Trump.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
You have the power to declare that you support a
system that is not rigged.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
We're having on all of you on November four.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And stand up for our democracy.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Thank you all, very very much. So again, it's not
a real rally. It's clearly a fake rally, which is fine.
I mean, it's an ad.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
At the end, he's complete bullspit. But as bullspit goes,
that was pretty good bullspit.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
At the end, he turns to the crowd and he points,
and you have the chance too. I mean, he's just
very it's a funny looks like a hero. He looks
like Hitler's what he looks like waving a boras did
he give the Hitler's look? And then at the end
here I rewounded it says AD paid for by Yes,
I'm fifty. That's the prop we're going to vote on
in California because it's against the law in California to
redistrict right now. We passed the law about that, and
(21:55):
he's wanting to get around that law. It's called the
Election Rigging Respect wants to act. That's the name of it.
Hilarious and we're going to vote for it in November.
And currently it's polling very poorly, even among Democrats. What
hell is going on? Sixty percent of Democrats currently say no,
(22:15):
we're not gonna do this.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
We have a allegedly manipulated but allegedly nonpartisan commission to
do that. We all voted on it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
And two thirds overall. But in our modern world of
everything's about being president and it's all performative politics, that
was the first Gavin Newsom for President AD is what
that was as the very first TV Gavin Newsom for
President AD. And he he might actually be happier if
this loses than if it wins, because he wants to
(22:47):
be the guy that's fighting the resistance, but they're just
too strong. But with my help and your help, we
can overcome it. Who knows, but he he just all
he wants is for this to run and for him
to be seen as the Democrat that's willing to fight Trump.
And we'll see where this goes. Yeah, whoop?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Do you do?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Gavvy boy? A couple more Gavin knew some stories here.
First of all, his agricultural equity advisors is what now
you're saying? His agricultural equity advisors are preparing a plan
to redistribute farmland, redistribute farmland to racial minorities. California has
(23:32):
the responsibility to help rebuild the wealth that was stolen, says.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The task force. Okay, so the devil's in the details
in this one. So if I'm a white farmer and
I got five hundred acres, how exactly are you taking
that from me and giving it to somebody who's black
or brown? By what I mean, you're just gonna come
and take that from me? The government?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Well, well they haven't said that yet, but eighty two
percent of privately held farmland California is owned by producer
who identify as white. So that is clear evidence of
racism or discrimination or inequity or something or other. And
the quote is the wealth of the US, including that
of its agricultural industry, has been built on stolen land
(24:14):
and the forced labor of California tribal nations, enslaved African
Americans wait a minute in California, No, it wasn't, and
other exploited communities who've been systematically excluded from land ownership
and wealth building opportunities. The report says addressing these past
and continuing harms require active efforts to ish ensure that
people have secure and affordable access blah blah blah. But
(24:35):
how they would actually do that is getting into the
weeds of policy. It recommends state funds offer programs to
support land return and acquisition for tribes. How about for
the tribes they took it from. I mean like right
before they owned it, different people owned it, and the
tribes were talking about slaughtered all of them and took
(24:57):
their land. So what about those tribes.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That gets to my son's history class in which he
had to write a land acknowledgment statement on day one
of history class. That was the assignment. He had to
write out, we are taking this history class in a
school building built on the land that belonged to the
whatever tribe it was that last had it before the
(25:21):
Spanish took it, and then we got it, we being Americans.
So yeah, that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
In a statement, the spokeswoman for the California's government officer,
the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, says,
you know, it's hilarious. You can't read a sentence of
this without coming across an Orwellian Department of Departments. You know,
it's just stress that the task force does not implement
policy and that its report consists of recommendations. Okay, there
(25:51):
you go, which he can tell. Then on the campaign trail,
and then my favorite Gavin knwsome update of the day.
A court just over earned his ridiculous AB twenty eight
thirty nine, which I remember at the time saying it
couldn't pass muster at the People's Court, never mind the
Supreme Court. It prohibited distributing content depicting a candidate doing
(26:17):
or saying something that he didn't that is reasonably likely
to harm his reputation or electoral prospects, outlawing parody. Certainly
AI generated parody, and it was an hilariously naked attempt
to just be seen doing something but completely impossible to enforce. Well, ironically,
(26:38):
a judge just tossed it out on its ear, saying
he can't be serious with this crap, which protected Gavin
Newsom from being prosecuted under it because he's been doing
all sorts of parody stuff of Trump. His Twitter feed
has become a Trumpian. It's a Trump imitation blasting Trump
and includes satire and parody and all sorts of stuff
(27:01):
that he would have violated his own funny stupid law
that he never intended to actually be enforced. That's really
Gavin Newsome in a nutshell.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Man. There's a horrible story that I don't even want
to get into because the details are so brutal, although
it's an important issue about a guy that was still
on the streets. He had horribly abused a child, his kid,
to the point the kid will be in bedridden the
rest of its life. Good lord, he didn't spend a
(27:34):
day in prison for that was out on the street
to then murder a child recently. Yeah, thanks, And because
of the whole we have too many of a certain
kind of people in prison, or build more schools not
prisons or whatever. Bless that Gavin Newsom is in favor
of in the state of California. Just horrifying story. And
he's going to have to defend that, probably for the nomination,
(27:57):
let alone for running for president. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
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Speaker 1 (29:19):
You know. Kind of on this topic, my son explained
what day one of history class was, its American history
class in the public school in California in my town.
And if it's as he described, and he, like many children,
has a tendency to exaggerate, so I'm going to try
to nail down this. But if it's even close to
(29:39):
as he described, there's no way I'm going to let
him finish the year in that classroom. But apparently the
teacher said the text this textbook is full of lies
and distortions, and we're going to go through them one
by one. So even the textbook, which I guarantee you
I wouldn't agree with. I'm sure the current textbook they're
(29:59):
using is way too far out there for me. The
teacher said, we are not going to let the textbook
get away with us and talk about the genocide that
was perpetrated upon Native Americans by the Spanish and the
UH and white people that brought California to what it is. Okay,
So if that's going to be your focus, I don't
want my kid in your class.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I just don't no willingly offer them up to be
indoctrinated to hate their country. Well not, ain't gonna work
on my son, because first of all, he's taken in
enough history through all kinds of YouTube lectures and shows
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
He knows what it is. But why, why can't you
just teach the Stamp Act and the Declaration of Independence
blah blah, I'm.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Here to indoctrinate your children to hate their country to
usher in a leftist revolution.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's a really young guy, and I can just imagine
what his education was like.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, oh yeah, which is why I'm always going on
about how I don't know if the government school system
can be fixed because you have not only the old
school activists and they're victims, but you've got youngsters. We
got a great email the other day from somebody, a
great young woman, nice, well meaning, et cetera. But she
(31:13):
took down the American flag and put up the Pride
Progress flag because that's what she believes she ought to
be doing for the kids.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I am becoming like a zealot for dismantling or public
school system. Just dismantling it. Yeah, start again, start or
make it go away. Make everything private. You get to
keep a big chunk your tax money and it'll go toward,
you know, some sort of co op that you and
other parents agree upon what the curriculum is going to be.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You know, have an inspector come by, make sure everything's
on the up and up.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You got to have some sort of system of that
or just you know, competition spill it out. But you know,
I've got private enterprise building my house, for instance, and
and there are occasional inspections. Makes everything's up stuff and
everything's going great. Yeahs ought to be the same way.
There's no reason government ought to be in. And it's
got to end. It's got to end. It in fact,
that's the well. And I think it was uh who
(32:11):
said that. Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue.
Of all the monopolies that are possible, a government monopoly
on education is the most loathsome of.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
God, I would say, and it is off the rails. Anyway,
We've got more on the waistairing the death of Matthew Perry.
The suspect called the Kettymine Queen pleading guilty to five
criminal charges, including providing the drug that all to be
led to Perry's death.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Jaspine Sanga faces up to sixty five years in prison.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Hey, drug dealers, take note. Somebody dies ain't gonna work
out well for you.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, but streets, that's if your boat doesn't get blowed
up by Trump on the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Right.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
So, the more I think at the more unhappy I
am that we did not get to see the spectacle
of Gavin Newsom being prosecuted by his own ridiculous anti
free speech law before it was overturned. And I wish
Judge John Mendez, who's ruling was both eloquent and absolutely correct,
(33:22):
I wish he just held off a few weeks so
we could add the prospect of Gavin being prosecuted for
violating his own law, then having to rail against how
unconstitutional it was himself that would have I could have
died happy if I had seen that. You've ruined it,
Judge Mendez. You've ruined it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You've brought the man's deathbed wish.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Anyway, good ruling. And from that very same department. Do
you remember who little Titia James is, the New York
Attorney General who ran on, I'm.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Gonna get Trump on something.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Whatever I can find, I'm gonna get Trump. And she
cooked up those ridiculous charges about you know, entries on ledgers,
each one being a felony, blah blah blah. That giant
penalty just got overturned too. But anyway, she's joined forces
with Zorin mom Domini, the Kami and uh and and
was appearing with him at a rally the other day
(34:18):
and said this, and.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
That individual is someone who I've supported and endorsed and
someone who I will stand and stand with each and
every day. His name is zorrn mona donie. You gotta say,
with all the syllables for those who still get it wrong.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
You just got it wrong, like totally wrong or rn Mona, Donie. No,
it's mom, Donnie. I despise the guy and I know
how to So let's just make this clear. You're shouting
at the crowd to pronounce his name correctly, and you
(35:03):
say this zor ron Monadnie.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah, that's true. If you're gonna make the whole focus
of your little speech how to pronounce the guy's name,
he probably look in, probably look into you know, we'll
look at it. Just look at it, look at it,
look at it. Brilliance.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, it's how it's spelled. It's yeah, fanatic anyway, nice job, Letitia.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's not like it's one of those where, you know,
pneumonia starts with a P. It's it's just like it's spelled.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, it's the end is pronounced. Is an end?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
It's a.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
There's not one until late in the Yeah, he's got
a way that you know. I was tempted to play
the rest of her speech too, because it is the
sort of vague, up with the people clap trap that
passes for political rhetoric on the on the left.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
He's gonna win, though, unless a couple of people get out,
and they aren't probably aren't going to. But there was
polling just last week. And if Cuomo stays in and
Adams stays in, mom Donnie is going to win?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Are politics? I realize you know this, but it's completely dysfunctional.
You got a communist running, so you need somebody good
to run against him. And who ends up at the
front of the parade That scumbag Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Excel He's every kind of a scumbag. He's a crook,
he's a thicker when it comes to women, and I
love you well, it's like.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
You're familiar with the term polymath. It's like somebody who's
a genius at physics and they're a poet and they
play the violin and blah blah blah, and I hate
them for that out of pure jealousy. But he's he's
like a polyscumbag.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
He is sweetheart darling.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I mean, he excels almost well almost. He is a
world class talent at at least three or four different
kinds of combaggery.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Including bad policies. He sent the old people into the
old folks homes to die of COVID.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Oh yeah, and then lied about it.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
It's really a.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Towering talent in the world of and he's our only
hope to stop the Communist from becoming the mayor.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Zor Ron Mandani.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
That's the fella, Yes, that's him, well, almost her.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Really forcefully and this is the way you say it.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
And contemptuous of anybody who gets it wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
It's Mandani.
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