February 26, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Notice to illegals & people losing their jobs in the government
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- The Middle East conflict & polling on removing illegal immigrants
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy Armstrong, and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Jackie and he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Armrong.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Excuse me who as a bad start live from my
home office because I'm sick. Sick signor via a dimly
lit room where everybody else is deeper than the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Illegal immigrants, illegal limits. Why are they the general manager
major moved by the Trump administration. It's not yet come
to fruition. But the idea is, if you're in the country,
you sign up on the website, tell us who you
(01:04):
are and where you are, and you're fine for now.
If you don't do that, you have committed a crime.
You will be jailed and deported.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
So did Elon send a letter to all illegal immigrants
saying you have to give me a list of five
things you did last.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Week, right, exactly, five reasons you love this country. Five
things you did last week? I mot alawn, I cleaned.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
A hotel room, and I perhaps participated in gang activity,
depending on the illegal immigrant we're talking.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh, there's a hard work and vivas something something. We're
racist something. Boy, have there ever been this many moving
pieces at one time and a whole bunch of big stories.
I don't think so, not in my life. I know.
It's absolutely remarkable. I was listening to a favorite podcast
the other day. Turns out there are two others, not
(01:53):
just ours, There are two other podcasts. I don't suggest
you listen to them, but it was remarkable how the
folks and they were center right, center left, in kind
of left. Oh, there's one like Maga person too. But
it was a fairly large panel. But everybody agreed, as
(02:14):
if we were discussing whether the sun rose in the
east or not. Everybody agreed that rampant immigration has decimated
the working people of various countries, upended their cultures, made
the lives of average people worse, and calling anybody who
objected to it racist was just repugnant. And that's terrible.
(02:38):
That's not an answer. People are really suffering. How dare
you call people racist just for expressing their views of
the town they live in, in the world they live in.
It was like, you know, again, I appreciate the world
coming round. I do. It's better than continuing the obscenely stupid,
insulting and brutal mistreatment of anybody who expressed their frustration
(03:01):
to immigration. But it was never true, and these people
have switched their stripes immediately now that the shoe is
on the other foot, or you know, the control immigration
is on the front foot around the globe, bastards call
people racists for wanting their hometown not to become a
completely different place.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
We got some uh what's his name, borders are Holman
for you later in the show doing interviews.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, you want to talk about the right man for
the job at the right time. He's an urs kicker.
Is he's a kulo kicker to our Spanish speaking listeners,
what's kulo mean? As means ass? Yes, okay, career end button.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I know very few Spanish words. And then you got
the whole Ukraine Russia things. Speaking of moving pieces, Zelenski
might be coming to DC to sign a deal with Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Together mineral slash security deal. That'll be quite the scene,
uh with the what the how they treat each other?
Trump called him a dictator last week, basically a thief
and all that, and then Zelensky will probably do a
bunch of interviews while he's in the country, and so
that'll be whatever it is, and this could cause a
(04:23):
history deflecting change in not only the Ukraine situation, but
European security, Russia pootin all of this. I tell you what,
Trump famously a showman. If this was like a drama,
Judy and I are binge watching or something, it's a
good one. It's it's really got some plot twists to it,
(04:45):
I'd say. Unfortunately, it's not a TV drama and people
are dying by the many thousands. Uh, speaking of that,
what what what are you currently binge watching or have
you most recently binge watched? We have gone back to Severance, okay,
which is a weird, mind bending drama. You'd enjoy it
(05:08):
on the Apple TV. We find ourselves frequently turning to
Apple TV. Oh really for for good shows. Yeah, it's
probably the most productive mine of entertainment these days for US.
Separance and it's several seasons in I don't even know.
It's about somebody who got laid off from work and
(05:29):
got three weeks pay. Oh yeah, it's about a US
federal worker who lost their job for the first time
ever and is a gas that sometimes people lose their jobs. Yes,
it's wonderful. It's sad though, very sad. It's in its
second season. Michael says, I was told, okay, thank you,
thank you. Ord on the Street, is it's in its
(05:50):
second season. Ask your uncle Google, where was I my
hilarious riff about federal workers. Yes. Yes, the next episode
they are going to be sending out resumes again, totally
unknown to anybody outside the government. Yeah, I know, well, yeah,
that kind of fits in with the opening clip. Let's
let's start the show officially.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Get to the opening clip, and we can have a
little discussion about the continuing portrayal in the media of
the idea of anyone.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Losing their job in the federal government.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Wednesday,
middle of the week, January twenty sixth, No, no, February
twenty sixth or twenty twenty five, were Armstrong and getting
we approve.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Of this program, well until they shut down the FCC
elon looking at you. Let's proceed according to the FCC
rules and regulations. Beginning the show at mark to the
White House.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
We say no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Hell no to dismantling the postal service, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I think it's so funny. It's got the it's got
the hell no and a bunch of people chanting, and
you think, wow, who are these people? And it's hell
no to dismantling the postal service. I assume most Americans
react with what the postal solidarity for the postal service?
Who still gets mail? Who needs a postal service? I
have Amazon come by every day and FedEx and UPS
(07:24):
drops something off. Maybe one of those DHL the postal service. Well,
I don't think anybody's in favor of dismantling the postals,
I mean completely, but make it more efficient. Of course,
how many things you get important out of the postal
service given a week? Very few? Who gay? Fine? Whatever
the postal Service, of all the of all the departments
(07:47):
to get all worked up about, that's hilarious, that's funny.
So uh yeah, they continue to pray portray on the
news will their interview somebody in szones about how yeah,
now I'm I don't even know what I'm gonna do
now I'm sending out resumes and I'd been working there
for a couple of years and never crossed my mind
(08:08):
that I would need another job, and are you kidding me?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
How do you?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I'm surprised that people in media, since in media people
get fired all the time.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I'm surprised that people in media aren't interviewing these government
workers and saying.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Hey, take it down a notch. Everybody I know got
fired last week. We used to have three hundred people here,
now we have twenty seven. So yeah, well, it's Trump's
arrangement syndrome and just you know bias, which is just
flaming all the time in media, even if there were,
I mean, the ideal obviously is that government would be
(08:44):
highly adaptable and have some of the creative destruction of capitalism,
because you know, we don't need the Department of horseshoeing
anymore in the federal government. Just to make a particularly
silly but obvious example, we've moved into the Department of
car tires. Okay, the times have changed, the needs of changed,
goals have been accomplished, the demographics have changed. Whatever, So
(09:08):
the idea of that no longer works, or it never worked,
or we don't need it anymore, or it's redundant. That
ought to be like an every day occurrence in government.
Of course, the idea of all encompassing permanence is not
only strange, it's idiotic. It's the antithesis of what government
(09:29):
ought to be. And here we are with a popular
cultural belief because because doge in, what they're doing not popular,
not popular among the American people, mostly because it's being
portrayed as something like the Holocaust in the media. As
we've been discussing, you've seen polling on Doge that shows
that people don't dig it. Yeah, it's way underwater. I
don't remember the specific wo. Wow, that's disappointing to me. Yeah. Yeah,
(09:52):
Well again, if people get their point of view through
the bigfoot media and NPR and you know, your face
booky stuff, I think there's also just. I think there's
also just. And this is disappointing. There's too many people
that I don't know, think the way I thought when
I was twenty two. They think the government is here
(10:14):
to help you. The government is full of selfless people
who just want to do the right thing, which a
lot of people are. But the bureaucracy itself does not
yield those results right in the way. It turns out
enormous job patronage money program that is held to practically
(10:35):
zero standards productivity. That's what it is. It's a same monster.
It's like I saw a cartoon yesterday about how people
how some people view the federal government, and it was
a guy pointing at an eagle that has a rabbit
in its clutches, and it says, look, that eagle is
rescuing that rabbit. Oh, that's good.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Just so, I mean, how else would you explain those
poll results. If most Americans are down or down don't
like the whole Doach thing. It's got to be because
they think, no most government worker, all government programs are
necessary and doing good, and these people shouldn't be fired.
Is there any other way to take it?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Uh? No, No, think I think that's it. More or
less people have a view that the government is here
to run our lives and solve our problems. I can't
go on. I was already ill. I might have to
go back to bed with that news. I can't handle
that reality. You know. It's what I'm always saying. The
reason the Founding Fathers designed this country the way they
(11:39):
did is because they knew a lot of people want
a king and they want to be taken care of
what in your life rethinkers, if you're over twenty five,
what in your life experience leads you to believe that
the government is efficient and you know in it to
help you. Like I said the other day, ninety percent
of my interactions with the government are they slow me
(12:00):
down or cost me money? Yeah? Hm, I must just
create the roads. I'm glad the Marines are there. I
think park rangers do a nice job. But that's that's
just the forward facing stuff that people like, and that's
why they always drop that stuff out when they say, well,
it's like the classic we've got to raise taxes for
teachers and firefighters and in the utterly horrific, wasteful blue
(12:25):
states of America, when you always fite those sympathetic faults,
you have depressed me to the depths of standing on
a ledge. That's why I'm here with that news. Wow,
stay off the ledge. They'll probably have like eight or
ten government workers scrape your body off the rocks. It'll
be expensive for those of us who survive. I'm gonna
(12:46):
put my head in the oven during the commercial break.
You have an electric ovenor'll just get your head hot.
Oh it's supposed to be a gas of it. I
see toes. Oh, yes, unclear on the concept. It's not
just a bay and or broil your head. We've got
Katie's headlines on the way and more news of the day.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Stay here, Armstrong, Andy, I'm tired of hearing about eggs,
their prices up, Jack getting high.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
All I wanted to talk about was eggs. Okay, maybe
we'll do it hour three. It will be an all
egg hour. Let's get right into it. It's lead story
with Katie Green and Katie, what do you have for us? Well?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Starting with the New York Times, US House narrowly passes
Trump backed spending bill.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Are A lot of people thought this couldn't happen, and
it did so. I guess the big vote is in April.
This would include extending the Trump tax cuts, which is
a major deal.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah. The vote yesterday sets up a conflict with the Senate,
which favors larger tax cuts and plans to alter the
House plan rather than accept it. Even if the House
and Senate degree on a budget, lawmakers will have to
negotiate hundreds of details on taxi, healthcare, energy, and food
stamps before they can get a bill to Trump's desk.
It's a big step needed every Republican vote, and most
people were predicting it would go down. And then at
(14:04):
the last moment and he they had the votes. Trump
got a couple of people on the phone. Made them
feel bad, buddy. But Thomas Massey, who's the greatest budget
hawk in the House with Tom McClintock, probably from.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
The Free Beacon Red District. Doge protests, cited as proof
of broad Musk backlash were organized by left wing groups.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Mmm. Shocking. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely clear. From the beginning.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
From CNN, Trump says US will sell five million dollar
gold cards to wealthy foreigners.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, that's an interesting one instead of a game airport
lounge access, so it's great. Yeah, we'll have to talk
in detail about that later. That's an interesting idea he has.
It's it's an old idea, but uh yeah, okay, we'll
talk about it.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
From ABC, Russia reports massive Ukraine drone attack on strategic
port and logistics hub.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah. Putin's still trying to move the battle lines a
little bit before the talks start. If they do in earnest.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
From NPR, consumer confidence falls the most since twenty twenty
one over fears about inflation and tariffs.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
And somewhere in there is the word eggs. I'm sure
in that arta. Well you know it. Not only that,
but any responsible economists said, Yeah, there was this huge
surgeon confuter, I'm sorry, consumer confidence right after the election,
and it's just settled down to where it was.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
From the Associated Press, Iran accelerates production of near weapons
grade uranium as tensions with the United States ratchet up.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I am man, what a back burner story that could
happen any afternoon. We could all get alerts on our.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Phone that Israel, with the help of the United States
has just attacked Iran to try to take out that
nuclear facility. Because I think that's coming from Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Fcced brief house Republicans on unprecedented George Soro's scheme to
control two hundred radio stations.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What. Yeah, he's bought a big radio group. Apparently the
FCC is still doing something. It's good to hear. This
was such a story yesterday. I can't believe it.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
NBC White House says that large bruise on Trump's hand
is from shaking hands.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
All day every day. I hadn't heard that story. The
President bruised.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Somebody took a picture of his hands and he's got
a big bruise on the back of his hand, and
everybody was thinking it's.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
A health issue and blah blah. Usually for really old
people it's they got some sort of got a needle
stuck in there for some sort of old person thing. Well,
any bruises more easily here, they're so an old guy
who shakes hands all day. Yeah, yeah, that's the guy.
I was unaware of the bruise. And finally the Babylon
be laid off.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
I r S agents now forced to go door to
door robbing people directly.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh no, that's unfair or something. So Elon is going
to be in the cabinet meeting today and there's a
lot of excitement around where does he sit? Does he
have a speaking role? How is that all gonna play out.
We'll keep our eye on that. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The historyonics the body Lang, which things could get real
spicy here throughout this game is danc It's rich and man.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It immediately turns to the Mavericks pace. So that is
after one of the strangest trades in major sports history
(17:47):
for such a giant star Luka Dancik, who took the
Dallas Mavericks to the finals last year, gets traded out
of the blue. Had no idea to the Lakers and
then the other giant start Lebron James, had no idea
he was losing one of his teammates to get Luca.
Nobody told these people anyway. The first time they played
each other, and Luca had an unbelievable game and staring
(18:10):
down his bench and former general manager as he went
for nineteen points, fifteen rebounds, twelve assists, three steals and
two blocks. That's quite a game, and kicked a field goal.
Fat Luca, boy, that had to be That had to
be a good feeling. The revenge of staring at your
old boss. Take a sunk of that. Meanwhile, the go ahead,
(18:33):
the player they traded for, Anthony Davis, is hurt, got it,
got himself hurt. After one game. Oh on that the
crowd was chanting the name of the general manager, thank you,
like thank you for trading us, Fat Luca. You know
the I mentioned that a friend of mine won the
PGA tournament Sunday and it was a great victory. He
had great story. But the guy he beat in the playoff.
(18:54):
Also a fat guy. It's really good to see fat
guys excelling in major sports these days. I think it's
a step forward for fat acceptance in the end of
body shaming. Sure, well on look at the NFL. I mean,
the lineman enormous and fast and athletic, but they're fat.
(19:14):
So absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, it's good to see. It's been
a great month for the Eagles winning the Super Bowl.
It's been a great month for the fat Yeah. Agreed, Yeah,
really inspiring. So to pay off fat, I do in
my part God to scale and I'm sick. The scale
should take into account that I'm already sick. Scale was
really cruel to me this morning. Fat. Yes, the scale
(19:37):
has no human kindness built into it. It's programming is
strictly business.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You know, this is kind of weird, but I do
like that about getting on the scale every single morning,
like I do.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's not only about my weight. It's just a reminder
that reality is reality. You can want things to be
a certain way, you can think things are a certain way,
you can think things are going a certain way, but
there are ways to measure various things in the world,
including your weight, and reality is reality. And I like
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being reminded of that every day. That's funny you should
say that after doing a good job maintaining my weight.
It's up recently for various reasons, and and I have
occasionally not wanted to write down the weight. You see,
And then I think that doesn't change reality. Right, It's
a daily like in booster dose of what you just said. Yeah,
(20:35):
reality doesn't care what you want. You must be realistic. Yeah,
I think it fits in with all kinds of political
stories or family life or whatever. Sure, the very design
of government and taxation and government bloat, the doge thing
that we've been talking about anyway, mentioned this in the
previous segment. I thought it was worth going into a
little bit of detail. The Trump administration created a registry
(20:58):
for immigrants in the US illegally to submit their personal
information or face fines in prison time. Now these it's
not up and running fully at this point. It's draft.
The regulations that was leaked. Immigrants in the country illegally,
including children fourteen and older, would be required to submit
fingerprints and home addresses to the registrate. Immigrants who qualify
(21:21):
who are in that list but failed to register could
be fined up to five thousand dollars and senden stuff
to six months in prison. Well I would I think
I would feel like this is a trick. You tell
me I need to go downtown to this office to
get fingerprinted for being illegal. I feel like they're gonna,
you know, put me on a bus and send me
out of the country. That's absolutely the thinking that's going
(21:43):
to take place. Yeah, well, why wouldn't it.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It sounds like those kind of things they do where
the cops, you know, they alert a whole bunch of
like criminals that hey, you just won Super Bowl tickets,
meet us here at this hotel ballroom, and then they
arrest everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Right right, Yeah, yeah, it's very much like that. That
moved to criminalized being in the US legally would build
on the Trump administration's efforts to toughen immigration laws. Obviously, previously,
if you're an illegal alien, I'm gonna kick at old
school and use the actual legal term. You can't make
me say migrant. Ap you had jerks anyway, where was I? Oh? Previously,
(22:21):
immigrants in the country illegally were committing a civil offense
and could be detained and deported, but were not considered
to have committed a crime. You know, it's funny. Later
on in the show, I will be repeating a case
made by others. I will not be making the case
(22:41):
because I don't want to get picketed. Who has the time,
but quoting the case made by others that there is
only one option for Israel, the annihilation of its foes.
And indeed, if you look at the situation Israel is
in and recent events, that's the only way it's ever
(23:02):
been dealt with in history, with no exceptions. And to
argue against that is to argue no, the sun rises
in the north. And yet we don't as a modern
homo sapien, we won't allow ourselves to say, oh, yeah,
Israel has to wipe out their opponents, there's no other choice,
(23:22):
because it's not the sort of thing you say. I
think it's similar. And the scale thing was a perfect
introduction to this, to how all of America are a
lot of America, including our politicians, deal with the immigration situation. Yeah,
we pass laws, then ignore them, and the system is
(23:44):
just a gigantic festival of lawlessness that we kind of
nudge back and forth a little bit, but nobody is
willing to pass laws nobody's willing to compromise. The lobbyists
are too powerful, so we just permit rampant lawlessess.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
We just had the biggest non wartime migration in world history. Yeah,
into our country. Yeah, and nobody voted for it because
it wasn't put up to a vote.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And as we were discussing previously, even the center left
is now saying, yeah, it's a completely legitimate concern working
people all over the globe. And calling people racist because
they didn't like mass uncontrolled immigration is really wrong. You
shouldn't call them that. And all of us on the
writer are like, oh, that's nice. Yeah, we havent for decades,
(24:32):
but oh my god. Yeah, this is an interesting historical factoid.
A law passed in nineteen forty created an immigrant registry
to catch suspected commies. For years, the government aired television
ads reminding all immigrants, including permanent residents, to register annually
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at local post offices. System fell into disuse by the
nineteen sixties, when the government decided it was too costly
and provide I did a little benefit. President GW. Bush
created a similar immigration registry after September eleventh, when his
administration required men and boys from predominantly Muslim countries to
(25:14):
submit photographs and fingerprints to the federal government. Tens of
thousands of people who registered under the program were arrested
and deported. I'd forgotten that I have well, and remember, yeah,
Obama got tagged with the Deporter in chief for the
number of people he deported. But I got a question
for you on that whole thing, which we'll tell you
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(25:38):
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before we take a break and get to mail bag.
I think the number they're going with is nine million
people came in illegally during Biden's presidency. What percentage of
those people will be booted out of the country do
you think at the end of nine million? Ah, three percent? Maybe? Really? Wow? Well,
(27:04):
here's here's the thing, and I've been intending to get
to this. It's so the.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Polling is the question on the polling, as you know,
is you know anyone here illegally, any undocumented immigrant, should
they be booted out of the country? And the two
thirds of Americans say yes, that's been pretty consistent, And
you're thinking and that would be all of them, not
just during Biden everyone, So in your thinking it's going
(27:30):
to be more like three percent.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well that's not that's not what people are hoping. Yeah,
the primary problem is that the mechanisms for booting people
out of the country are very small an atrophied. It's
it's just not been done. The Deporter in Chief thing
was all about the people come across the border, and
you can kick them out immediately if you catch them.
(27:51):
But if they go into the interior, then they get
due process a law, and we just don't have the judges,
we don't have the courts, we don't have the attorneys. Wow.
So that's a big win for the forces that wanted
this to happen.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And those forces exist on the right and the left
and absolutely and they have different goals, I assume, but
still we're all for this giant wave of people again,
unlike anything in world history.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And there's no reason you should be excited about this.
You live in small town Indiana or whatever, and all
of a sudden, your culture, your school's, your hospital, everything
has changed. You cannot convince me that I should be
happy about that. Don't give me any crap about nation
of immigrants or rising tide boats or whatever. Their city
is their greatest stringth I've lived the greatest string. I've
(28:41):
lived this reality. It's bs that I should be happy
about this. It is as you have said, and I
have said, the greatest failure of democracy of our lifetimes. Wow.
If you're right, then wow, that is that's going to
have ramifications for well forever. I hope I'm wrong. You
know it might be ten percent. That's an optimistic view. Wow. Wow. Yeah,
(29:05):
we've got mail bag on the way to stay here.
Trump having this first cabinet meeting today, and the most
interesting thing is that, uh, Elon is going to be there.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
And the question out there is will Elon like be
the focus sitting in the middle doing most of the talking. Well,
he'd be off to the side since he's not actually
a member of the cabinet and just observing. Uh, it
will give us an indication of how he's being treated
or seen. I think he's there for a reason.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Clearly, it's gonna say, hey, y'all's here's what we're going
to do to reign in all your departments. Get started, cabinet,
the order of hay no, well, the world's richest men,
an unelected something something. Yeah. Will they bring a kid? Yeah, exactly,
one of his thirteen kids. Keep your nose pickers out
of the cabinet meeting. I love kids. That kid was
(29:59):
sweet and cute to This is serious business. Now here's
your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing with our
series from the great George Washington, I'm reminded of Pete
Hegseeth hoping to bring a warrior mentality back to the Pentagon,
and a great editorial in the Wall Street Journal recently
about how we need to market the military is a
(30:21):
chance for young men and women, but mostly men, to
achieve excellence, to be the best version of themselves they
can be. And it also made the point we got
to say, hey, this is for warriors. There are also
some cool benefits, not come for benefits, and either way
you might end up in a wooer. Right. No, no,
that's not the way to build a military anyway, George Washington.
(30:45):
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small
numbers formidable, procures success to the week, and esteem to
all interesting And keep this in mind next time you
utter a foul word. Washington also said the foolish and
wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice
(31:05):
so mean and low that every person of sense and
character detests and despises it. Wow. Times have changed, Damn Yeah,
they have, George but thank you. He was a dignified man.
You can all use a little more George Washington in US,
couldn't we mailbag pups? No mailbag at armstrong in giddy
(31:26):
dot com is the email address. Let's see this from Jen,
writing on a few topics, fan of the silk pillowcases. Okay,
better for your hair, better for your skin. I don't
have hair, you have skin, though clearly, clearly you do.
She also writes, Guys, some of the people that answer
(31:47):
no opinion on poles, which we were mocking yesterday, cruelly
and unfairly in my mind. But anyway, she says, some
of the people that answer no opinion polls are undoubtedly
paste eaters and window lickuors. Window lickers, I gotta use
that one more. But there has to be a certain
percentage that just don't want to answer any more questions
and want to be on their way source. I've done it, Yeah,
(32:09):
that's true. I've done it before.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You said this would take five minutes. We're fifteen minutes
in no opinion? Do you'd think doge is a good
thinger about no opinion? Matt the Idaho Farmhand, likewise, writing
on a number of topics, But he says, jack, as
to your query as to how things have changed in
hospitals when one's child is born due to the gender
bending madness these days. Just recently welcomed our seventh into
(32:35):
the world. Wow Wow, Matt, the Idaho farmhand every bit
as fertile as the land he plows. Wow seven. Anyway,
even out here in conservative Idaho, they don't announce the
sex of the child anymore. Thank you for using the
proper term. It's sex non gender. Now the doctors and
nurses say it's ah and leave the parents to fill
(32:55):
in the plank. You're that we hate dodge potential trouble.
You're kidding me. So they hold the baby up for
you and say it's uh and what let you fill
in the blank, Like one of those annoying classes you
take where the teacher makes you say the end even
though everybody knows it and it's just a question. Who's
gonna say A boy? So we can move on with
(33:16):
the damn class. I've always hated that. But yeah, if
you're a parent who says whatever they want to be,
then you can do that. Yes, And they think another
woke crack pot they're doing that. Yeah, he says, kind
of weird that they're that cowed. I would agree, Wow, yeah, yeah, sick.
Oh that reminds me. H yeah, well, we'll get to
(33:40):
it later. It's a great wild It's a great bit
from Fred Armison's Genius Portlandia several years ago that was
portraying mockingly the Portlandian view of gender. Okay, and that
went in a few years from mockable to enforced federal policy.
(34:02):
I want to hear that. Yeah, anyway, you've heard it before.
It's one of our favorites. But it's I was reminded
of recently. Let's see moving along. Alnonymous right, twenty year listener,
thanks for making commuting bearable. It's our pleasure. And he
mentioned that we had a couple of different conversations back
to back that were related, but he thinks we missed it.
(34:25):
We're talking about Jack was discussing forcing his son to
make a piece of ike of furniture so he could
have basic skills like turning a screwdriver, and then I
went on a rant about why people aren't coupling, and
he said, you guys missed how connected those two subjects are.
And he tells a rather charming tale that we don't
have the whole time for. But he's dating a woman
(34:45):
and one of her friends was having a hard time
mounting a TV mount on the wall of her apartment.
Girlfriend asked, can you help her? And so while the
gal sat around and had a cocktail and chatted, he
fired the thing up. And he said, the sexual tension
in the room, the bedroom eyes from all of the
women toward a guy who could do things was palpable. Wow. Yes,
(35:12):
I come from a world where every guy could do
things so well, shucking me. But then he goes on
society's taking it too far with the woman power stuff
and not needing a man. It's not only affected the women,
but made young men no longer men. Men are afraid
to be men. That's looked down upon. And the problem
is that women down deep really want a real man.
As we've discussed many times, he's absolutely right. Jd Vance
(35:35):
had that great speech the other day at Seapack. Young
men don't be ashamed to be men, don't be ashamed
to be in masculine kind of madness?
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Is this you concur Katie irm that all of my
single girlfriends are foaming at the mouth for actual men,
manly men who can do things.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I feel like I hear that a lot myself from
women out there in the world of online dating or whatever.
Rare man. I wish I was younger, righty, tidy, lefty lucy.
I can lift twenty pounds clear over my head. Man,
Would I be a catch? Whoever thought turning a screwdriver
or changing entire would be a way to, you know,
get it to bed right? Making an ikea desk? Now,
(36:17):
look how capable he is. That's not that hard. Oh,
if you miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and
Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy Armstrong, and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Jackie and he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Armrong.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Excuse me who as a bad start live from my
home office because I'm sick. Sick signor via a dimly
lit room where everybody else is deeper than the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Illegal immigrants, illegal limits. Why are they the general manager
major moved by the Trump administration. It's not yet come
to fruition. But the idea is, if you're in the country,
you sign up on the website, tell us who you
(01:04):
are and where you are, and you're fine for now.
If you don't do that, you have committed a crime.
You will be jailed and deported.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
So did Elon send a letter to all illegal immigrants
saying you have to give me a list of five
things you did last.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Week, right, exactly, five reasons you love this country. Five
things you did last week? I mot alawn, I cleaned.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
A hotel room, and I perhaps participated in gang activity,
depending on the illegal immigrant we're talking.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh, there's a hard work and vivas something something. We're
racist something. Boy, have there ever been this many moving
pieces at one time and a whole bunch of big stories.
I don't think so, not in my life. I know.
It's absolutely remarkable. I was listening to a favorite podcast
the other day. Turns out there are two others, not
(01:53):
just ours, There are two other podcasts. I don't suggest
you listen to them, but it was remarkable how the
folks and they were center right, center left, in kind
of left. Oh, there's one like Maga person too. But
it was a fairly large panel. But everybody agreed, as
(02:14):
if we were discussing whether the sun rose in the
east or not. Everybody agreed that rampant immigration has decimated
the working people of various countries, upended their cultures, made
the lives of average people worse, and calling anybody who
objected to it racist was just repugnant. And that's terrible.
(02:38):
That's not an answer. People are really suffering. How dare
you call people racist just for expressing their views of
the town they live in, in the world they live in.
It was like, you know, again, I appreciate the world
coming round. I do. It's better than continuing the obscenely stupid,
insulting and brutal mistreatment of anybody who expressed their frustration
(03:01):
to immigration. But it was never true, and these people
have switched their stripes immediately now that the shoe is
on the other foot, or you know, the control immigration
is on the front foot around the globe, bastards call
people racists for wanting their hometown not to become a
completely different place.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
We got some uh what's his name, borders are Holman
for you later in the show doing interviews.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, you want to talk about the right man for
the job at the right time. He's an urs kicker.
Is he's a kulo kicker to our Spanish speaking listeners,
what's kulo mean? As means ass? Yes, okay, career end button.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I know very few Spanish words. And then you got
the whole Ukraine Russia things. Speaking of moving pieces, Zelenski
might be coming to DC to sign a deal with Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Together mineral slash security deal. That'll be quite the scene,
uh with the what the how they treat each other?
Trump called him a dictator last week, basically a thief
and all that, and then Zelensky will probably do a
bunch of interviews while he's in the country, and so
that'll be whatever it is, and this could cause a
(04:23):
history deflecting change in not only the Ukraine situation, but
European security, Russia pootin all of this. I tell you what,
Trump famously a showman. If this was like a drama,
Judy and I are binge watching or something, it's a
good one. It's it's really got some plot twists to it,
(04:45):
I'd say. Unfortunately, it's not a TV drama and people
are dying by the many thousands. Uh, speaking of that,
what what what are you currently binge watching or have
you most recently binge watched? We have gone back to Severance, okay,
which is a weird, mind bending drama. You'd enjoy it
(05:08):
on the Apple TV. We find ourselves frequently turning to
Apple TV. Oh really for for good shows. Yeah, it's
probably the most productive mine of entertainment these days for US.
Separance and it's several seasons in I don't even know.
It's about somebody who got laid off from work and
(05:29):
got three weeks pay. Oh yeah, it's about a US
federal worker who lost their job for the first time
ever and is a gas that sometimes people lose their jobs. Yes,
it's wonderful. It's sad though, very sad. It's in its
second season. Michael says, I was told, okay, thank you,
thank you. Ord on the Street, is it's in its
(05:50):
second season. Ask your uncle Google, where was I my
hilarious riff about federal workers. Yes. Yes, the next episode
they are going to be sending out resumes again, totally
unknown to anybody outside the government. Yeah, I know, well, yeah,
that kind of fits in with the opening clip. Let's
let's start the show officially.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Get to the opening clip, and we can have a
little discussion about the continuing portrayal in the media of
the idea of anyone.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Losing their job in the federal government.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Wednesday,
middle of the week, January twenty sixth, No, no, February
twenty sixth or twenty twenty five, were Armstrong and getting
we approve.
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Of this program, well until they shut down the FCC
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White House.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
We say no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Hell no to dismantling the postal service, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I think it's so funny. It's got the it's got
the hell no and a bunch of people chanting, and
you think, wow, who are these people? And it's hell
no to dismantling the postal service. I assume most Americans
react with what the postal solidarity for the postal service?
Who still gets mail? Who needs a postal service? I
have Amazon come by every day and FedEx and UPS
(07:24):
drops something off. Maybe one of those DHL the postal service. Well,
I don't think anybody's in favor of dismantling the postals,
I mean completely, but make it more efficient. Of course,
how many things you get important out of the postal
service given a week? Very few? Who gay? Fine? Whatever
the postal Service, of all the of all the departments
(07:47):
to get all worked up about, that's hilarious, that's funny.
So uh yeah, they continue to pray portray on the
news will their interview somebody in szones about how yeah,
now I'm I don't even know what I'm gonna do
now I'm sending out resumes and I'd been working there
for a couple of years and never crossed my mind
(08:08):
that I would need another job, and are you kidding me?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
How do you?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I'm surprised that people in media, since in media people
get fired all the time.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I'm surprised that people in media aren't interviewing these government
workers and saying.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Hey, take it down a notch. Everybody I know got
fired last week. We used to have three hundred people here,
now we have twenty seven. So yeah, well, it's Trump's
arrangement syndrome and just you know bias, which is just
flaming all the time in media, even if there were,
I mean, the ideal obviously is that government would be
(08:44):
highly adaptable and have some of the creative destruction of capitalism,
because you know, we don't need the Department of horseshoeing
anymore in the federal government. Just to make a particularly
silly but obvious example, we've moved into the Department of
car tires. Okay, the times have changed, the needs of changed,
goals have been accomplished, the demographics have changed. Whatever, So
(09:08):
the idea of that no longer works, or it never worked,
or we don't need it anymore, or it's redundant. That
ought to be like an every day occurrence in government.
Of course, the idea of all encompassing permanence is not
only strange, it's idiotic. It's the antithesis of what government
(09:29):
ought to be. And here we are with a popular
cultural belief because because doge in, what they're doing not popular,
not popular among the American people, mostly because it's being
portrayed as something like the Holocaust in the media. As
we've been discussing, you've seen polling on Doge that shows
that people don't dig it. Yeah, it's way underwater. I
don't remember the specific wo. Wow, that's disappointing to me. Yeah. Yeah,
(09:52):
Well again, if people get their point of view through
the bigfoot media and NPR and you know, your face
booky stuff, I think there's also just. I think there's
also just. And this is disappointing. There's too many people
that I don't know, think the way I thought when
I was twenty two. They think the government is here
(10:14):
to help you. The government is full of selfless people
who just want to do the right thing, which a
lot of people are. But the bureaucracy itself does not
yield those results right in the way. It turns out
enormous job patronage money program that is held to practically
(10:35):
zero standards productivity. That's what it is. It's a same monster.
It's like I saw a cartoon yesterday about how people
how some people view the federal government, and it was
a guy pointing at an eagle that has a rabbit
in its clutches, and it says, look, that eagle is
rescuing that rabbit. Oh, that's good.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Just so, I mean, how else would you explain those
poll results. If most Americans are down or down don't
like the whole Doach thing. It's got to be because
they think, no most government worker, all government programs are
necessary and doing good, and these people shouldn't be fired.
Is there any other way to take it?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Uh? No, No, think I think that's it. More or
less people have a view that the government is here
to run our lives and solve our problems. I can't
go on. I was already ill. I might have to
go back to bed with that news. I can't handle
that reality. You know. It's what I'm always saying. The
reason the Founding Fathers designed this country the way they
(11:39):
did is because they knew a lot of people want
a king and they want to be taken care of
what in your life rethinkers, if you're over twenty five,
what in your life experience leads you to believe that
the government is efficient and you know in it to
help you. Like I said the other day, ninety percent
of my interactions with the government are they slow me
(12:00):
down or cost me money? Yeah? Hm, I must just
create the roads. I'm glad the Marines are there. I
think park rangers do a nice job. But that's that's
just the forward facing stuff that people like, and that's
why they always drop that stuff out when they say, well,
it's like the classic we've got to raise taxes for
teachers and firefighters and in the utterly horrific, wasteful blue
(12:25):
states of America, when you always fite those sympathetic faults,
you have depressed me to the depths of standing on
a ledge. That's why I'm here with that news. Wow,
stay off the ledge. They'll probably have like eight or
ten government workers scrape your body off the rocks. It'll
be expensive for those of us who survive. I'm gonna
(12:46):
put my head in the oven during the commercial break.
You have an electric ovenor'll just get your head hot.
Oh it's supposed to be a gas of it. I
see toes. Oh, yes, unclear on the concept. It's not
just a bay and or broil your head. We've got
Katie's headlines on the way and more news of the day.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Stay here, Armstrong, Andy, I'm tired of hearing about eggs,
their prices up, Jack getting high.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
All I wanted to talk about was eggs. Okay, maybe
we'll do it hour three. It will be an all
egg hour. Let's get right into it. It's lead story
with Katie Green and Katie, what do you have for us? Well?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Starting with the New York Times, US House narrowly passes
Trump backed spending bill.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Are A lot of people thought this couldn't happen, and
it did so. I guess the big vote is in April.
This would include extending the Trump tax cuts, which is
a major deal.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah. The vote yesterday sets up a conflict with the Senate,
which favors larger tax cuts and plans to alter the
House plan rather than accept it. Even if the House
and Senate degree on a budget, lawmakers will have to
negotiate hundreds of details on taxi, healthcare, energy, and food
stamps before they can get a bill to Trump's desk.
It's a big step needed every Republican vote, and most
people were predicting it would go down. And then at
(14:04):
the last moment and he they had the votes. Trump
got a couple of people on the phone. Made them
feel bad, buddy. But Thomas Massey, who's the greatest budget
hawk in the House with Tom McClintock, probably from.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
The Free Beacon Red District. Doge protests, cited as proof
of broad Musk backlash were organized by left wing groups.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Mmm. Shocking. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely clear. From the beginning.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
From CNN, Trump says US will sell five million dollar
gold cards to wealthy foreigners.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, that's an interesting one instead of a game airport
lounge access, so it's great. Yeah, we'll have to talk
in detail about that later. That's an interesting idea he has.
It's it's an old idea, but uh yeah, okay, we'll
talk about it.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
From ABC, Russia reports massive Ukraine drone attack on strategic
port and logistics hub.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah. Putin's still trying to move the battle lines a
little bit before the talks start. If they do in earnest.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
From NPR, consumer confidence falls the most since twenty twenty
one over fears about inflation and tariffs.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
And somewhere in there is the word eggs. I'm sure
in that arta. Well you know it. Not only that,
but any responsible economists said, Yeah, there was this huge
surgeon confuter, I'm sorry, consumer confidence right after the election,
and it's just settled down to where it was.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
From the Associated Press, Iran accelerates production of near weapons
grade uranium as tensions with the United States ratchet up.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I am man, what a back burner story that could
happen any afternoon. We could all get alerts on our.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Phone that Israel, with the help of the United States
has just attacked Iran to try to take out that
nuclear facility. Because I think that's coming from Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Fcced brief house Republicans on unprecedented George Soro's scheme to
control two hundred radio stations.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What. Yeah, he's bought a big radio group. Apparently the
FCC is still doing something. It's good to hear. This
was such a story yesterday. I can't believe it.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
NBC White House says that large bruise on Trump's hand
is from shaking hands.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
All day every day. I hadn't heard that story. The
President bruised.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Somebody took a picture of his hands and he's got
a big bruise on the back of his hand, and
everybody was thinking it's.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
A health issue and blah blah. Usually for really old
people it's they got some sort of got a needle
stuck in there for some sort of old person thing. Well,
any bruises more easily here, they're so an old guy
who shakes hands all day. Yeah, yeah, that's the guy.
I was unaware of the bruise. And finally the Babylon
be laid off.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
I r S agents now forced to go door to
door robbing people directly.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Oh no, that's unfair or something. So Elon is going
to be in the cabinet meeting today and there's a
lot of excitement around where does he sit? Does he
have a speaking role? How is that all gonna play out.
We'll keep our eye on that. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The historyonics the body Lang, which things could get real
spicy here throughout this game is danc It's rich and man.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It immediately turns to the Mavericks pace. So that is
after one of the strangest trades in major sports history
(17:47):
for such a giant star Luka Dancik, who took the
Dallas Mavericks to the finals last year, gets traded out
of the blue. Had no idea to the Lakers and
then the other giant start Lebron James, had no idea
he was losing one of his teammates to get Luca.
Nobody told these people anyway. The first time they played
each other, and Luca had an unbelievable game and staring
(18:10):
down his bench and former general manager as he went
for nineteen points, fifteen rebounds, twelve assists, three steals and
two blocks. That's quite a game, and kicked a field goal.
Fat Luca, boy, that had to be That had to
be a good feeling. The revenge of staring at your
old boss. Take a sunk of that. Meanwhile, the go ahead,
(18:33):
the player they traded for, Anthony Davis, is hurt, got it,
got himself hurt. After one game. Oh on that the
crowd was chanting the name of the general manager, thank you,
like thank you for trading us, Fat Luca. You know
the I mentioned that a friend of mine won the
PGA tournament Sunday and it was a great victory. He
had great story. But the guy he beat in the playoff.
(18:54):
Also a fat guy. It's really good to see fat
guys excelling in major sports these days. I think it's
a step forward for fat acceptance in the end of
body shaming. Sure, well on look at the NFL. I mean,
the lineman enormous and fast and athletic, but they're fat.
(19:14):
So absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, it's good to see. It's been
a great month for the Eagles winning the Super Bowl.
It's been a great month for the fat Yeah. Agreed, Yeah,
really inspiring. So to pay off fat, I do in
my part God to scale and I'm sick. The scale
should take into account that I'm already sick. Scale was
really cruel to me this morning. Fat. Yes, the scale
(19:37):
has no human kindness built into it. It's programming is
strictly business.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
You know, this is kind of weird, but I do
like that about getting on the scale every single morning,
like I do.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's not only about my weight. It's just a reminder
that reality is reality. You can want things to be
a certain way, you can think things are a certain way,
you can think things are going a certain way, but
there are ways to measure various things in the world,
including your weight, and reality is reality. And I like
(20:11):
being reminded of that every day. That's funny you should
say that after doing a good job maintaining my weight.
It's up recently for various reasons, and and I have
occasionally not wanted to write down the weight. You see,
And then I think that doesn't change reality. Right, It's
a daily like in booster dose of what you just said. Yeah,
(20:35):
reality doesn't care what you want. You must be realistic. Yeah,
I think it fits in with all kinds of political
stories or family life or whatever. Sure, the very design
of government and taxation and government bloat, the doge thing
that we've been talking about anyway, mentioned this in the
previous segment. I thought it was worth going into a
little bit of detail. The Trump administration created a registry
(20:58):
for immigrants in the US illegally to submit their personal
information or face fines in prison time. Now these it's
not up and running fully at this point. It's draft.
The regulations that was leaked. Immigrants in the country illegally,
including children fourteen and older, would be required to submit
fingerprints and home addresses to the registrate. Immigrants who qualify
(21:21):
who are in that list but failed to register could
be fined up to five thousand dollars and senden stuff
to six months in prison. Well I would I think
I would feel like this is a trick. You tell
me I need to go downtown to this office to
get fingerprinted for being illegal. I feel like they're gonna,
you know, put me on a bus and send me
out of the country. That's absolutely the thinking that's going
(21:43):
to take place. Yeah, well, why wouldn't it.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It sounds like those kind of things they do where
the cops, you know, they alert a whole bunch of
like criminals that hey, you just won Super Bowl tickets,
meet us here at this hotel ballroom, and then they
arrest everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Right right, Yeah, yeah, it's very much like that. That
moved to criminalized being in the US legally would build
on the Trump administration's efforts to toughen immigration laws. Obviously, previously,
if you're an illegal alien, I'm gonna kick at old
school and use the actual legal term. You can't make
me say migrant. Ap you had jerks anyway, where was I? Oh? Previously,
(22:21):
immigrants in the country illegally were committing a civil offense
and could be detained and deported, but were not considered
to have committed a crime. You know, it's funny. Later
on in the show, I will be repeating a case
made by others. I will not be making the case
(22:41):
because I don't want to get picketed. Who has the time,
but quoting the case made by others that there is
only one option for Israel, the annihilation of its foes.
And indeed, if you look at the situation Israel is
in and recent events, that's the only way it's ever
(23:02):
been dealt with in history, with no exceptions. And to
argue against that is to argue no, the sun rises
in the north. And yet we don't as a modern
homo sapien, we won't allow ourselves to say, oh, yeah,
Israel has to wipe out their opponents, there's no other choice,
(23:22):
because it's not the sort of thing you say. I
think it's similar. And the scale thing was a perfect
introduction to this, to how all of America are a
lot of America, including our politicians, deal with the immigration situation. Yeah,
we pass laws, then ignore them, and the system is
(23:44):
just a gigantic festival of lawlessness that we kind of
nudge back and forth a little bit, but nobody is
willing to pass laws nobody's willing to compromise. The lobbyists
are too powerful, so we just permit rampant lawlessess.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
We just had the biggest non wartime migration in world history. Yeah,
into our country. Yeah, and nobody voted for it because
it wasn't put up to a vote.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And as we were discussing previously, even the center left
is now saying, yeah, it's a completely legitimate concern working
people all over the globe. And calling people racist because
they didn't like mass uncontrolled immigration is really wrong. You
shouldn't call them that. And all of us on the
writer are like, oh, that's nice. Yeah, we havent for decades,
(24:32):
but oh my god. Yeah, this is an interesting historical factoid.
A law passed in nineteen forty created an immigrant registry
to catch suspected commies. For years, the government aired television
ads reminding all immigrants, including permanent residents, to register annually
(24:53):
at local post offices. System fell into disuse by the
nineteen sixties, when the government decided it was too costly
and provide I did a little benefit. President GW. Bush
created a similar immigration registry after September eleventh, when his
administration required men and boys from predominantly Muslim countries to
(25:14):
submit photographs and fingerprints to the federal government. Tens of
thousands of people who registered under the program were arrested
and deported. I'd forgotten that I have well, and remember, yeah,
Obama got tagged with the Deporter in chief for the
number of people he deported. But I got a question
for you on that whole thing, which we'll tell you
about right after this. Because when you leave your house,
(25:38):
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Speaker 5 (25:48):
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and it is protected with the cameras and the censors
and the live guard protection and all that.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
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(26:37):
before we take a break and get to mail bag.
I think the number they're going with is nine million
people came in illegally during Biden's presidency. What percentage of
those people will be booted out of the country do
you think at the end of nine million? Ah, three percent? Maybe? Really? Wow? Well,
(27:04):
here's here's the thing, and I've been intending to get
to this. It's so the.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Polling is the question on the polling, as you know,
is you know anyone here illegally, any undocumented immigrant, should
they be booted out of the country? And the two
thirds of Americans say yes, that's been pretty consistent, And
you're thinking and that would be all of them, not
just during Biden everyone, So in your thinking it's going
(27:30):
to be more like three percent.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well that's not that's not what people are hoping. Yeah,
the primary problem is that the mechanisms for booting people
out of the country are very small an atrophied. It's
it's just not been done. The Deporter in Chief thing
was all about the people come across the border, and
you can kick them out immediately if you catch them.
(27:51):
But if they go into the interior, then they get
due process a law, and we just don't have the judges,
we don't have the courts, we don't have the attorneys. Wow.
So that's a big win for the forces that wanted
this to happen.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And those forces exist on the right and the left
and absolutely and they have different goals, I assume, but
still we're all for this giant wave of people again,
unlike anything in world history.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And there's no reason you should be excited about this.
You live in small town Indiana or whatever, and all
of a sudden, your culture, your school's, your hospital, everything
has changed. You cannot convince me that I should be
happy about that. Don't give me any crap about nation
of immigrants or rising tide boats or whatever. Their city
is their greatest stringth I've lived the greatest string. I've
(28:41):
lived this reality. It's bs that I should be happy
about this. It is as you have said, and I
have said, the greatest failure of democracy of our lifetimes. Wow.
If you're right, then wow, that is that's going to
have ramifications for well forever. I hope I'm wrong. You
know it might be ten percent. That's an optimistic view. Wow. Wow. Yeah,
(29:05):
we've got mail bag on the way to stay here.
Trump having this first cabinet meeting today, and the most
interesting thing is that, uh, Elon is going to be there.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
And the question out there is will Elon like be
the focus sitting in the middle doing most of the talking. Well,
he'd be off to the side since he's not actually
a member of the cabinet and just observing. Uh, it
will give us an indication of how he's being treated
or seen. I think he's there for a reason.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Clearly, it's gonna say, hey, y'all's here's what we're going
to do to reign in all your departments. Get started, cabinet,
the order of hay no, well, the world's richest men,
an unelected something something. Yeah. Will they bring a kid? Yeah, exactly,
one of his thirteen kids. Keep your nose pickers out
of the cabinet meeting. I love kids. That kid was
(29:59):
sweet and cute to This is serious business. Now here's
your freedom loving quote of the day. Continuing with our
series from the great George Washington, I'm reminded of Pete
Hegseeth hoping to bring a warrior mentality back to the Pentagon,
and a great editorial in the Wall Street Journal recently
about how we need to market the military is a
(30:21):
chance for young men and women, but mostly men, to
achieve excellence, to be the best version of themselves they
can be. And it also made the point we got
to say, hey, this is for warriors. There are also
some cool benefits, not come for benefits, and either way
you might end up in a wooer. Right. No, no,
that's not the way to build a military anyway, George Washington.
(30:45):
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small
numbers formidable, procures success to the week, and esteem to
all interesting And keep this in mind next time you
utter a foul word. Washington also said the foolish and
wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice
(31:05):
so mean and low that every person of sense and
character detests and despises it. Wow. Times have changed, Damn Yeah,
they have, George but thank you. He was a dignified man.
You can all use a little more George Washington in US,
couldn't we mailbag pups? No mailbag at armstrong in giddy
(31:26):
dot com is the email address. Let's see this from Jen,
writing on a few topics, fan of the silk pillowcases. Okay,
better for your hair, better for your skin. I don't
have hair, you have skin, though clearly, clearly you do.
She also writes, Guys, some of the people that answer
(31:47):
no opinion on poles, which we were mocking yesterday, cruelly
and unfairly in my mind. But anyway, she says, some
of the people that answer no opinion polls are undoubtedly
paste eaters and window lickuors. Window lickers, I gotta use
that one more. But there has to be a certain
percentage that just don't want to answer any more questions
and want to be on their way source. I've done it, Yeah,
(32:09):
that's true. I've done it before.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You said this would take five minutes. We're fifteen minutes
in no opinion? Do you'd think doge is a good
thinger about no opinion? Matt the Idaho Farmhand, likewise, writing
on a number of topics, But he says, jack, as
to your query as to how things have changed in
hospitals when one's child is born due to the gender
bending madness these days. Just recently welcomed our seventh into
(32:35):
the world. Wow Wow, Matt, the Idaho farmhand every bit
as fertile as the land he plows. Wow seven. Anyway,
even out here in conservative Idaho, they don't announce the
sex of the child anymore. Thank you for using the
proper term. It's sex non gender. Now the doctors and
nurses say it's ah and leave the parents to fill
(32:55):
in the plank. You're that we hate dodge potential trouble.
You're kidding me. So they hold the baby up for
you and say it's uh and what let you fill
in the blank, Like one of those annoying classes you
take where the teacher makes you say the end even
though everybody knows it and it's just a question. Who's
gonna say A boy? So we can move on with
(33:16):
the damn class. I've always hated that. But yeah, if
you're a parent who says whatever they want to be,
then you can do that. Yes, And they think another
woke crack pot they're doing that. Yeah, he says, kind
of weird that they're that cowed. I would agree, Wow, yeah, yeah, sick.
Oh that reminds me. H yeah, well, we'll get to
(33:40):
it later. It's a great wild It's a great bit
from Fred Armison's Genius Portlandia several years ago that was
portraying mockingly the Portlandian view of gender. Okay, and that
went in a few years from mockable to enforced federal policy.
(34:02):
I want to hear that. Yeah, anyway, you've heard it before.
It's one of our favorites. But it's I was reminded
of recently. Let's see moving along. Alnonymous right, twenty year listener,
thanks for making commuting bearable. It's our pleasure. And he
mentioned that we had a couple of different conversations back
to back that were related, but he thinks we missed it.
(34:25):
We're talking about Jack was discussing forcing his son to
make a piece of ike of furniture so he could
have basic skills like turning a screwdriver, and then I
went on a rant about why people aren't coupling, and
he said, you guys missed how connected those two subjects are.
And he tells a rather charming tale that we don't
have the whole time for. But he's dating a woman
(34:45):
and one of her friends was having a hard time
mounting a TV mount on the wall of her apartment.
Girlfriend asked, can you help her? And so while the
gal sat around and had a cocktail and chatted, he
fired the thing up. And he said, the sexual tension
in the room, the bedroom eyes from all of the
women toward a guy who could do things was palpable. Wow. Yes,
(35:12):
I come from a world where every guy could do
things so well, shucking me. But then he goes on
society's taking it too far with the woman power stuff
and not needing a man. It's not only affected the women,
but made young men no longer men. Men are afraid
to be men. That's looked down upon. And the problem
is that women down deep really want a real man.
As we've discussed many times, he's absolutely right. Jd Vance
(35:35):
had that great speech the other day at Seapack. Young
men don't be ashamed to be men, don't be ashamed
to be in masculine kind of madness?
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Is this you concur Katie irm that all of my
single girlfriends are foaming at the mouth for actual men,
manly men who can do things.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I feel like I hear that a lot myself from
women out there in the world of online dating or whatever.
Rare man. I wish I was younger, righty, tidy, lefty lucy.
I can lift twenty pounds clear over my head. Man,
Would I be a catch? Whoever thought turning a screwdriver
or changing entire would be a way to, you know,
get it to bed right? Making an ikea desk? Now,
(36:17):
look how capable he is. That's not that hard. Oh,
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