April 30, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Could RFK take CA?...
- James Carville's lecture for young voters...
- One of the more egregious chants from the Pro-Hamas crowd...
- The weak White House response to the protests.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
So the biggest political news, we've got some more protester stuff,
which this is a big story. I mean, the whole
protester thing is a big story because it's the coming
part of America and the university system. I welcome the
coming a part of the university system, but it's not
a pretty way for it to.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Go through this transition. It never could have been though.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Probably this feels so inevitable, so hitting bottom to me,
and whether it's actually the bottom or not, who knows.
But at least people are starting to say, what the
hell is wrong with America's universities?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Aha, let me tell you what's wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, we got some example of some chanting from last
night at one of the universities. I think it was Harvard.
But that is just, oh incredibly over the top. So
stay tuned for that. The biggest political news of the
day is that our FK Junior is on the ballot
in California, which, if you what the hell is going
(01:12):
on If you know anything about the way we elect
presidents with the electoral system winner take all in almost
every state, you need two hundred and seventy delegates to
become president in California, if you win California, if you
went in California fifty point five to forty nine point five,
you still get all fifty five delegates, and nobody in
(01:34):
California's arguing to end that y had no Democrats. Certainly
no Democrats. Yet on the national level they are the
Florida one hundred percent ought to be proportional. We're just not.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
California people are so.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Funny and the fact that anybody falls for their crap
is discouraging.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Anyway, RFK Junior got on to which party is it?
Remember up in Michigan, he got on some crazy party.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
The Truths Injustice or the Bull Moose Party, or this
one in California is called your Tariff's.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
On hog Meets Party. I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
But it's interesting that he's pulling this off because he's
not getting all the signatures and all the stuff that
you need to do to get on the ballot, like
with his own name or his own party. So he's
getting on other parties that already did this years ago.
Figuring out how to get on the ballot, and they
just always have a candidate that you've never even heard of.
You know, when you vote, there's there's a list of
all kinds of parties you've never even heard of, and
(02:36):
they got a candidate you've never heard of. But so
they did all the legwork to get on the ballot.
And he's jumping on to some of these third parties
that nobody's ever heard of.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Tickets, so he's going.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
To be he's offering them if he's offered to hey,
I'll throwing a word or two about you know, more
salmon in the streams or whatever your party is into.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, I wonder if he's just offering him money. People
will have heard of your party now. It might just
be that the one in Michigan. Remember their thing was
global warming, gun control and like one other stray thing,
Oh yeah, responsible gun use. And it was an odd combo, right,
The American Independent Party. Yeah, well that's what this one
(03:20):
is in California, the American Independent Party, the AIP their
current platform, not that I think he probably has to
match it, because the Democrat and Republican candidates certainly don't
match their party's platforms anymore. Its members are strong proponents
of small, limited government and taxation, Christian conservative values, the
Second Amendment, and secure borders. Well, that sounds like it's
(03:43):
up my alley. Just under four percent of the state's
register voters are that, But the polling from the La
Times is that it's a lot closer than you might
think already, as Biden only has a twelve point lead
(04:03):
over Trump when you factor in rfk Junior, because he
gets a pretty good chunk. He gets nine percent already,
and that's before he's ever showed up on the bout.
Here's a little of his announcement yesterday to Californians.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Hey, everybody, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, here with some great news.
As of today, Nicole and I are officially on the
ballot in California, the largest of all the electoral college states.
A journalist recently asked me whether I consider myself a populace,
and she used that term as if it were.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
A dirty word.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I answered, yeah, I'm a populist the same way, and
my father was a populist, And I explained to her
that populism is often motivated by idealistic impulses and motivations
to take government back from corrupted leits, but it can
also be captured by demagogues for darker purposes. The spur division, hatred, polarization,
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and bigotry.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So Mark Halprin writes in his news letter today that
RFK Junior. When he's not talking about vaccines or who
killed his father, he's really really good on this populous stuff.
Or you know, let's take on the powers that have
stolen our country stuff. He's really good at that. And
so I don't know if he can grow his nine
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percent into something that could threaten Biden, or at the
very least, a lot of pundits believe the Biden campaign
now has to spend money in California. They weren't planning
on probably spending a dollar, and now they might have
to spend quite a few dollars just to make sure,
because if he loses California, forget it. I mean that
is Trump absolutely wins if Biden loses California.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Right, all right, here's my analysis number one. And this
is not being childish and idiotic. This is sincere. He
needs some sort of AI voice thingy. So because it's
just his you know, and it's not his fault, he's
got a condition or a disease or genetic thing or
whatever that his voice doesn't work right, but it's distract anyway.
Putting that aside, he's the anti Vivey Ramaswami. You remember
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how the more people heard from Vivek, the less they
liked him. Robert Kennedy Junior is the opposite. The more
people hear from him, the more they think. You know,
he's not the nut job that was portrayed to me.
He's actually right about a bunch of stuff. So that's
point number one. Point number two is that, as I
often do, I will remind everybody that today, as we're jabbering,
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is it's the end of April, and there are many,
many months to go before the election. And Joe Biden
is a very old, increasingly decrepit man, and if his
decline continues, and it will.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Every month that.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Goes by, there's a greater chance that he will come
off as utterly incapable of serving as the president. Including
I still think it's possible there will be a moment
where the whole country gasps and says, wait, that's impossible.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And if that is the case, you.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Don't need a huge turnout for Trump or RFK to
have a huge effect. The turnout for Biden will be
so brutally depressed because nobody likes Kamala Harris, including her
home state California.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Your numbers are miserable in California.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
See, you will see just the word paltry doesn't begin
to describe how paltry the turnout for Biden will be
if those things come together.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, is there am I because we don't need to
talk about this if it's never gonna happen. I don't
particularly enjoy that style of punditry. Do you think there's
any chance Biden doesn't win California? I mean, is it
worth even discussing for real?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, because I think the scenario I just outlined is
more likely than not.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But you're picturing who winning men Trump wins because Kennedy
takes so many votes. Or are you think you're picturing
Kennedy actually winning the state?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
No, the accommodation of I didn't bottom line if we're
your bottom line, the Kennedy vote taking from Biden plus
miserably low turnout on the Democrat side, Okay, it could
be enough to gobble up that twelve percent.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
On the other hand, I.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Guess what it breaks down in my head is I'm
not so certain that because I agree with you that
the more he's heard, the more people like him opposite
Ramaswami or Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Right, But I think he now there.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Was a poll last week where it showed RFK Junior
taken more from Trump than Biden. I don't I think
he'd take a whole bunch from both. I mean, certainly
that party platform is not where Democrats are going to
land limited government, Christian values.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't think anybody you'll even hear that much less
be swayed by it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm not sure that has anything to do with it,
but yeah, you've got to put yourself constantly in the
mind of low, practically no information voters. I'm not exactly
sure why r FK Junior would ever take from Joe Biden.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Might have to be more familiar with the whole of
his platform. I've just been following the polls, and I
know that he does. But what's interesting is if you
ask the question in Wisconsin, who does RFK take more
votes from Trump for Biden? You get a different answer
than if you asked it in Pennsylvania or any one
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of the other swing States, which is odd, but there.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Might be some significant twists and turns before we get
to November. We're all kind of locked into this Trump
versus Biden idea in the world's longest election, and maybe
there's just some giant I mean, all of a sudden, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
A three it's full on three way race.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, this is why I've had so little patience for
polls right now, especially national polls.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But the trends are interesting. Well some of them. All
of them were poles, all of them.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Okay, okay, that is congenital liarar Michael Cullen. Who's going
to be on the stand in Manhattan any any moment
now or any day now anyway, So back to your question. Yeah,
I thoroughly believe events, including the decline and fall of
Joe Biden, are much more likely than not to completely
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change the narrative between now and November.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You're behind in all the polls, says who the polls.
I just said that. That says who says who?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I just answered your question.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Okay, one of our favorite clips of all time, some of.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Them, all of them.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I don't know if you've heard. The universities of America
are a flame. Not yet literally but soon to be.
I suspect mostly peaceful protests.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And we keep using the example of things that were
one one thousandth as inflammatory as things happening now used
to bring out the FBI and Oval Office addresses.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
A noose was found on a tree. Oh no, stop
the world, bring the FBI in issue crying towels for
every student holds a puppy, petting sessions, not down classes
for a week.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now you can stand there with the noose and point
to the specific person you're going to use it on
and say I'm going to kill them and ing Jews,
yes and fine, and nothing happens. You know, we got
more examples of that and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Stay here.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Curry has it on the high right side high picked
from Yokich Murray jumper from me, you got it again, three.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Point six second side for the Lakers. Lebron over the
Prince jumperst good at the heart and the LA Lakers
get take that cow all the way out.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So the Los Angeles Lakers eliminated in the first round.
And is that the end of the all time leading
score in NBA history or did he at least play
his last game with the LaaS. I guess we'll see
Lebron James out. He's old and he's bored with losing in.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
The first round. Los Angeles spelled l O s s angelus.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
W w wah. If you're impressed by that, you're not
very bright.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Moving along, a couple of contrasting clips here that I
thought would I didn't, you know, as I make my
little witticisms, I kind of grade them in my head.
That was a solid a right there, Joe, good job,
high five. That's that's a sea work at best.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Anyway, So a couple of different pieces of audio I
thought were interesting contrasts. First, James Carville, who through the
years has been a source of a good deal of good, hard,
realistic political wisdom. I often disagree with him. I didn't
like his candidates very much at the time. Although if
Bill Clinton ran for the Democratic Party right now, so.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Where do I I? At the age of the era
of big government is over?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
James Carville has lost his mind here he is talking
about young voters turning out this November.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
There will be no government left, there'll be no rights left,
You'll live under theocracy, You'll end up Christian nationalism. But
that's all right, you know, twenty six year old, you
don't feel like the elections in part and the mad
and not addressing the issues that I care about. My
advice to tell these young people to get off your
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ass and go vote, because you should vote like your
entire future, in the entire future of this United States,
depends on it, because quite frankly.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It does.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
So then you've got to stop going to carvil after
he's had his fourth drink.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
He's also one hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The New York Times had their front page Sunday story,
did you see that no one has ever run for
president like this before? I had quotes from Donald Trump
from recent campaign stops where he says things like, at
the end of it, we don't win this election, it'll
be the end of America. Nobody has run this darkly before,
Nobody has ever predicted the doom. And I said, how
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I thought to myself, I didn't say anything. How unself
aware are you? You people say every day that if
Trump wins, it's the end of the country.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
They'll never be another election.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He's not the only apocalyptic person around, are you crazy?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So not only has no one ever run a campaign
like this? Someone has. It's now and it's you why
you both are so what?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Wow? That is just crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And then this is a complete change of topic, kind
of back to the college protest. Just became aware of
this the visuals and this is an attractive young lady
with a kafia around her shoulders is taking you on
a guided tour. And the whole thing kind of has
the feel of an ad for a so camp you
can send your children to, but it's the Stanford Encampment
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for Palestine.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Take it away, my dear, the Stanford.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Encampment for Palestine. We want to show you what the
mainstream media refuses to what a people's university really looks like.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
The vibes in here are.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Amazing today, so let's go check it out. This afternoon,
students have set up a flea market. You can purchase clothing,
jewelry and food, and all the proceeds they are going
to Palestine. Students are making art, they're playing live music,
they're reading. This is what a people's university really looks like.
Students in this encampment are agents of their own learning,
their time, and their engagement with the world around them.
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The intense police media repression facing the movement today is
a sign that the student movement for Palestine is working
and growing stronger despite all the distractions. All of our
eyes are still on Palestine from now until liberation.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So what was your main point there, Because at my
university people were playing music and reading.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Also her point was, this.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Is a peaceful movement for the people of Palestine. There's
no reason to repress it. This is the people's university
and even their their their verbiage is straight onto Marxism,
and that any any cracking down of any sort on
any of these movements is is oppression. You're oppressing the masses.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So your parents' money that you spend at the flea
market goes to Palestine, and your parents' money you spend
buying a sandwich over there goes to Palestine.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Okay, But they're agents of their own education, jack and
their own involvement in the world around them.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And the vibe and it was also you know, just.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
A college campus, kids hanging out with each other because
that makes you feel good and it's a really cool
part of your life.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Amazing today. Vibes are amazing today. That's a clip we'll
use the rest of our lives. The vibes in here
are amazing today, are amazing today. That's what I mean,
good vibes.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, the whole well Man, your side wants to wipe
out the jew news.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I mean, I enjoy an acoustic guitar as much as Yeah,
you're anybody.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I played one yesterday.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
You're pro raping grandma in front of her children.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
That never happened. That's been debunked, even by the New
York Times. It's just resistance.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Those aren't the best vibes I've ever heard. You want
to hear something over the top. Wait you hear this?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Armstrong and Geeddy. So we've got well, I guess we
should bring up to speed in case you don't know
the Again, I'm embarrassed as an adult. I'm embarrassed as
a parent. I'm embarrassed at a guy at various times
in my life who's been sort of a boss. I'm
just embarrassed. You can't draw red lines and then let
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them go by and then just pretend you never said it.
It's embarrassing. But so that's what Columbia University did the Esterday.
Two pm is the deadline we mean it this time.
Two PM is the deadline. You must clear out, you
must no seconds. Then it got closer to two and
nothing happened, and the day went by and nothing happened.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
So I'd like to say, as a guy who plays
a fair amount of poker did anyway, bluffing is delightful
in poker, but I don't advise it in real life practically.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So the protesters were emboldened throughout the day as you
would expect them to be at Columbia, and got to
be nighttime and they broke into the same building that
their grandparents generation, I guess at this point took over
that same building in nineteen sixty eight as Vietnam War protesters.
So yay, they get to cosplay being part of protester history,
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which is part of the what drive is this? But
so they got the kaffeas wrapped around their head like
their hamas, and they broke into the building and now
they've taken it over, and they've got their list of
demands and everything like that, and who knows what Columbia's
plan is to get him out of there. Meanwhile, at
another prestigious university, Harvard, I was watching the video last
night where they all had surrounded the flagpole there at
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Harvard and took down the USA flag in red, white
and blue and put up a Palestinian flag and cheered
like crazy. And then so we will play this audio
for you. This first part is some people at Harvard.
Then we've got some people at some other campuses. But this,
this is how over the top it is at this point.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Never bridge out the seventh of October. Never bridge out
the seventh right time, not five times, not ten more time,
not a hundred more times, not a thousand more time,
thousand time.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So the KKK and the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force
are all the same. But that first one, if you
couldn't hear it October seventh, there's not going to be
one more October seventh, or ten more, one hundred more,
one thousand more, ten thousand more October seventh, So ten
thousand more breaking into homes while people are asleep, dragging
them around their bed, murdering the children in front of
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the parents, or the parents in front of the children,
are raping the wise in front of the husbands before
you cut off their hands and set them on fire.
Ten thousand more of those against innocent people, and the
President has nothing to say about that other than a
statement saying we don't approve of the term intafada.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
And you left out the most amazing irony all of
the people, the young people, precisely like Hugh who got
machine gunned at a music festival while demonstrating for peace.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, man, Yeah, you talk about if you could bring
some of those people back as ghosts. I was idealistic
like you too. I was at a music festival on
the border between Israel and Gaza and they came and murdered.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
The gang raped me.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
To death because machine gunned all my friends, exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Because I wanted peace between Israel and Hamas. Freaking unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
At its core, there is so much ignorance and stupidity.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
It's a little frustrating. Boys.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Columbia not the greatest illustration of deal with little problems
when they're little. Even if it's difficult, you have to
make tough choices, you know. I'm reminded I came across
this thing I'm a jigger in the Washington Post. Where
is that young woman? A young Jewish woman they were interviewing.
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She's at Columbia The protests outside are window at Columbia
University were loud and Dahlia, they use her last name,
lay awake all night, tossing in her dorm room bed,
a little scared as a Jewish student. Some of the
chants felt threatening, like she was being targeted because she
supports the existence of the state of Israel.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And she does.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
But the next day, when more than one hundred protesters
were arrested, that was upsetting.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Too.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Did wants students taken to jail or suspended from college.
She too, wants the bombing in Gaza to stop. Quote.
Every value that I hold in my heart is intention
with another principle I hold deeply. Right now, I would
say to Dahlia, welcome to adulthood. It's all about hard choices.
The easy choices are few and far between, and when
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they come, they're delightful. My dear life is about making
hard choices.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, actually, don't even think about those or remember them,
because they're rare and unimportant.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I mean, right, easy ones. They go by very quickly.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
But to repeat myself, this is precisely what had to
happen on American colleges university campuses. It's the inevitable result
of what they've been teaching for a couple of generations.
Now this whole victim oppressor, neo Marxist stuff I'm always
talking about, and the kids finally have a good one
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to latch onto, so they're going to tear the whole
thing down.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I agree with all that, but I just I can't
believe that from the president to governors, to mayors, to
college presidents to whoever, there aren't more.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Giant speeches being given.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I live in a town where I remember years ago
the one mosque we have in the college town I
live in, somebody put bacon on the doorknob, and it
turned out to be one of those deals where it
was a self hating or it's one of those you
commit a crime against yourself to try to make it
seem like the other side is bad. I mean, somebody
who is Muslim put the bacon on the doorknob at
this mosque. But anyway, there was an FBI investigation and
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speeches from the college president and rallies about how we
will not put up with hate like this. Where is
that sort of speech about somebody promising ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
More October seventh to your Jewish students.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
This is an actual, to your face threat of death.
Not bacon on a doorknob or a Confederate flag or
a noose hanging in a tree kind of a vag
old threat. You're not exactly sure what it means, who
it's for. No, this is just flat out saying I
want to kill those You see those people over there,
I want to kill those people. We're gonna kill those people,
and nobody is saying anything. Well, this is why I'm
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so militantly anti Neo Marxist, because they're utterly dishonest. They
fake up the outrage or they've convinced the poor kids
to actually crumble. If a news is found on campus,
it's going to be an activist put it up there anyway, dear,
don't don't get so upset. And then they they're they're
they're claimed principles vanish like steam. If hate and violence
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or whatever comes from the left, just they're they're they're
utterly dishonest. Don't listen to them, don't be bullied by them,
stand up to them. Yeah, I believe that with a
lot of the college kids and the administrators and all
that stuff. But where where where are some of our governors,
And where's the president on this? I can't believe. Is
he he's letting his woke staffers control what he thinks.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He doesn't want to piss off the young leftist vote?
Or is he so just his brain's so muddled. I mean,
I just can't imagine nineteen ninety five Joe Biden not
making a strong statement about this. Well, that's because the
Democratic votes were flowing in that direction. He has no principles,
he has no spine, he has no balls.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
He's an awful leader. But that's just bad politics.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You know, if you want to just make it about politics,
it's bad politics. He'd gain more than he'd lose by
coming out strongly against these people. That's just I think
there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I'm mulling that over in my mind.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
I think he permanently loses the young left vote if
he does that.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Okay, well, so so lose all of the like older
regular people who are gonna either not vote or vote
for Trump.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You could be right. I'm not saying you're wrong. It's
not entirely convinced. Can you imagine as a party being
captured the dog being wagged by the tail of militant
young people who are utterly clueless about the way the
world really works. That's an uncomfortable spot to be in.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Actually, whether I'm right or wrong, if whoever's president can't
come out and say, promising ten thousand more October seventh
to the Jews in America is not something we can tolerate.
They need to be expelled from school and investigated by
the FBI. You know, we got to play that Ronald
Reagan stuff when we come back. If you haven't heard it,
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it's fantastic. This is what leadership used to sound like,
or having a clear moral compass used to sound like.
It's fantastic. It's on the way. If you had told
me on October ninth, when we came to work on
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that Monday, that in what is six seven months, there
would be college kids promising ten thousand more October seventh
to the Jews and getting away with it.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
More or less.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
You get to stand there in a college campus and
say that you're not suspended or expelled or nothing happened.
I would have thought that is not possible, or the
world has completely come apart. And one more thing on
that we got this good text. I like the way
they simultaneously claim October seventh didn't happen the rapes of
the murders, yet are threatening more of them. So you
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either believe that that was a massacre or not. Yeah, well,
Marxist sly all the time.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
So you got Columbia University where the feckless, weak, spineless
administrators that have let deadline after deadline go and are
trying to quote unquote negotiate with the college kids.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Why are you negotiating anyway?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
And now they've occupied building a building and it's getting
uglier and uglier.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And that's been the approach.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Yet all of the woke captured by the far left
universities around America, not so in Texas and North Florida.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Can't wait to bring that to you.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
First of all, though, when Ronald Reagan was the governor
of California and various campuses, the UCLA's the UC Berkeleys
went wild, he took rather a different approach to it.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Back in the day, most.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
People told you for days in advance that if the
university sought to go ahead with that construction, they were
going to physically destroy the university. Why did you negotiate,
many times.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Negotiate what is to negotiate?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
What is the Anjessees and public institution that's day, but
the university.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Its own community and for the community of Berkeley that
live around.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
All of it began the first time some of you,
who know better and are old enough to know better,
let young people think that they had the right to
choose the laws they would obey as long as they
were doing it in the name of social protest. I'm
sick and tired of the argument about whether some effort
to enforce law and order is going to escalate.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
Anything at all. Playing truth of the matter is this
has to stop, and it has to stop like the
day before yesterday. I would like to propose that the
issue is that on the.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Campus is you, who are adults, You who are entrusted
with those young people and their guidance, have a responsibility
to make it plain to them from the very beginning
that you, yourselves do not tolerate the kind of conduct
that has led to the burning of Wheeler Hall, that
has led to two murders on the campus of UCLA.
You've created an atmosphere on the campus where no one
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wants to listen.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You are alive.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
So the university profs and heads trying to blame Reagan
for enforcing the law. You've made an atmosphere where nobody
wants to listen, as if they were going to listen anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I love this. This is out of Florida. We thank
the friend of Armstrong you Get who sent this long.
Protestors at the University of Florida and University of South Florida,
Florida were arrested on Monday, according to the university officials,
and they go into the details of the arrests, it's
a variety of charges. In a release, Uniuniversity of Florida
spokesman Steve Orlando announced the arrests.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Now this Ben Sass was brought.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
In you remember to run the Florida university system. He
announced the arrests, saying that the university had provided ample
warnings last week regarding prohibited activities, and I will read
the statement.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
It is manna from heaven. This is not complicated.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
The University of Florida is not a daycare and we
do not treat protesters like children. They knew the rules,
they broke the rules, and they'll face the consequences. For
many days, we have patiently told protesters, many of whom
are outside agitators, that they were able to exercise their
right to free speech and free assembly, and we also
told them that clearly prohibited activities would result in a
trespassing order from the UPD the University police department, barring
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them from all university properties for three years, and an
interim suspension from the university for days. UPD patiently and
consistently reiterated the rules. Today, the individuals who refused to
comply were arrested after UPD gave multiple warnings and multiple
opportunities to comply period.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Like Reagan said, this has got to end, and it's
got to end. What does he say there, Michael the
day it has.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
To stop, and it has to stop like the day
before yesterday.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
That is really good. It reminds me I it came
across this last night. I was reading the book as
opposed to listening to Modern Times, who wrote that it's
a very famous book. I'm just getting around to reading
it Modern Times. I'll look that up for you.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I heard somebody making a reference to that the other day.
I now Paul in fifty books that I'm intending to
read that's my limit.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
The great historian Paul Johnson. Anyway, it's fantastic book. It's
a history of America from or the world from nineteen
nineteen till I don't know after the Soviet Union felt
But anyway, this is going way back in the day,
and it's talking about Einstein. And at the end of
his life he was so concerned about moral relative relativism.
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That's what his biggest concern was, and how it was
a disease that was infecting the world. And so already
as a guy who was on college campuses, he was
recognizing that that was a major problem.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
And that's the whole you don't You don't say.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Uh, America is right and China is wrong, because we've
done bad things too. So where do we get off
claiming China is wrong? That's moral relativism and it has
infected the world. And that's what I keep complaining about.
John Stewart with David Sanger two Daily Shows ago, two
Mondays ago, when they're having a conversation about us in
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Russia and China, and he kept talking about the things
we've done to cause Russia to do this and to
cause China to be this way. We're responsible for this.
I mean that that sort of attitude is is the
whole thing of the protests on college campuses right now.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
That's that's the thing that's a big source of energy
for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, the obligatory self hatred of the of the left.
It's it's is universal and and and and obvious as
a teenager's rebelliousness. But you'd think, as a grown person
who has the capacity to understand the counter argument, you
would wake up.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
But they don't.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
They don't take on the counter argument. They act as
if the counter argument is belligerent. You know, you're a
you're a moron if you're a patriot. I mean, that's
it's contempt for anybody who even presents the other argument.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Moral relativism is a disease. What what is it?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
What is the Is there a what's the counter phrase
for that truth? I guess or logic or I don't
even know what the counterphrase for. There is one that's
better than the other, and objectively better than the other.
So just because one has flaws doesn't mean they're both
equally bad.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
It's like the difference between a early good person who
occasionally does bad things, and a thoroughly bad person who
occasionally does good things. That does not make them equals,
which is not the nature of human life.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You've yelled at your wife and don't pay all your taxes.
So who are you to claim that that mass rapists
is a bad guy. I mean, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
That's a good illustration of moral relativism.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah, but that it seems to be winning the day
for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
You act as if all sins are equal, and any
amount of sin is equal, and anybody who has sinned
has no right to call out sins in other systems,
for instance, massive concentration camps in China.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Well, the US had racism. What Well, it is just
a bizarre argument.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Israel is killing children occasionally in this war, but that's
not their goal. Hamasa's goal is to kill children. There's
a huge difference between those two.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Things, including it must be noted Palestinian children the only
person or you know, the Palestinians were happy to see
a dead Palestinian child than a dead Jewish child because
they know what that will do for world opinion. They
are financial Hamas, the worst organizations on earth, are supporting
these college protests, financing them, helping to organize them, and
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encouraging them.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
To escalate, and they are escalating as the Columbia students
are still in that building as we speak. I don't
know what they're going to do about that at this point,
but this thing is far from over, no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
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From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
So the biggest political news, we've got some more protester stuff,
which this is a big story. I mean, the whole
protester thing is a big story because it's the coming
part of America and the university system. I welcome the
coming a part of the university system, but it's not
a pretty way for it to.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Go through this transition. It never could have been though.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Probably this feels so inevitable, so hitting bottom to me,
and whether it's actually the bottom or not, who knows.
But at least people are starting to say, what the
hell is wrong with America's universities?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Aha, let me tell you what's wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, we got some example of some chanting from last
night at one of the universities. I think it was Harvard.
But that is just, oh incredibly over the top. So
stay tuned for that. The biggest political news of the
day is that our FK Junior is on the ballot
in California, which, if you what the hell is going
(01:12):
on If you know anything about the way we elect
presidents with the electoral system winner take all in almost
every state, you need two hundred and seventy delegates to
become president in California, if you win California, if you
went in California fifty point five to forty nine point five,
you still get all fifty five delegates, and nobody in
(01:34):
California's arguing to end that y had no Democrats. Certainly
no Democrats. Yet on the national level they are the
Florida one hundred percent ought to be proportional. We're just not.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
California people are so.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Funny and the fact that anybody falls for their crap
is discouraging.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Anyway, RFK Junior got on to which party is it?
Remember up in Michigan, he got on some crazy party.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
The Truths Injustice or the Bull Moose Party, or this
one in California is called your Tariff's.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
On hog Meets Party. I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
But it's interesting that he's pulling this off because he's
not getting all the signatures and all the stuff that
you need to do to get on the ballot, like
with his own name or his own party. So he's
getting on other parties that already did this years ago.
Figuring out how to get on the ballot, and they
just always have a candidate that you've never even heard of.
You know, when you vote, there's there's a list of
all kinds of parties you've never even heard of, and
(02:36):
they got a candidate you've never heard of. But so
they did all the legwork to get on the ballot.
And he's jumping on to some of these third parties
that nobody's ever heard of.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Tickets, so he's going.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
To be he's offering them if he's offered to hey,
I'll throwing a word or two about you know, more
salmon in the streams or whatever your party is into.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, I wonder if he's just offering him money. People
will have heard of your party now. It might just
be that the one in Michigan. Remember their thing was
global warming, gun control and like one other stray thing,
Oh yeah, responsible gun use. And it was an odd combo, right,
The American Independent Party. Yeah, well that's what this one
(03:20):
is in California, the American Independent Party, the AIP their
current platform, not that I think he probably has to
match it, because the Democrat and Republican candidates certainly don't
match their party's platforms anymore. Its members are strong proponents
of small, limited government and taxation, Christian conservative values, the
Second Amendment, and secure borders. Well, that sounds like it's
(03:43):
up my alley. Just under four percent of the state's
register voters are that, But the polling from the La
Times is that it's a lot closer than you might
think already, as Biden only has a twelve point lead
(04:03):
over Trump when you factor in rfk Junior, because he
gets a pretty good chunk. He gets nine percent already,
and that's before he's ever showed up on the bout.
Here's a little of his announcement yesterday to Californians.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Hey, everybody, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, here with some great news.
As of today, Nicole and I are officially on the
ballot in California, the largest of all the electoral college states.
A journalist recently asked me whether I consider myself a populace,
and she used that term as if it were.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
A dirty word.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I answered, yeah, I'm a populist the same way, and
my father was a populist, And I explained to her
that populism is often motivated by idealistic impulses and motivations
to take government back from corrupted leits, but it can
also be captured by demagogues for darker purposes. The spur division, hatred, polarization,
(04:57):
and bigotry.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So Mark Halprin writes in his news letter today that
RFK Junior. When he's not talking about vaccines or who
killed his father, he's really really good on this populous stuff.
Or you know, let's take on the powers that have
stolen our country stuff. He's really good at that. And
so I don't know if he can grow his nine
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percent into something that could threaten Biden, or at the
very least, a lot of pundits believe the Biden campaign
now has to spend money in California. They weren't planning
on probably spending a dollar, and now they might have
to spend quite a few dollars just to make sure,
because if he loses California, forget it. I mean that
is Trump absolutely wins if Biden loses California.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Right, all right, here's my analysis number one. And this
is not being childish and idiotic. This is sincere. He
needs some sort of AI voice thingy. So because it's
just his you know, and it's not his fault, he's
got a condition or a disease or genetic thing or
whatever that his voice doesn't work right, but it's distract anyway.
Putting that aside, he's the anti Vivey Ramaswami. You remember
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how the more people heard from Vivek, the less they
liked him. Robert Kennedy Junior is the opposite. The more
people hear from him, the more they think. You know,
he's not the nut job that was portrayed to me.
He's actually right about a bunch of stuff. So that's
point number one. Point number two is that, as I
often do, I will remind everybody that today, as we're jabbering,
(06:28):
is it's the end of April, and there are many,
many months to go before the election. And Joe Biden
is a very old, increasingly decrepit man, and if his
decline continues, and it will.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Every month that.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Goes by, there's a greater chance that he will come
off as utterly incapable of serving as the president. Including
I still think it's possible there will be a moment
where the whole country gasps and says, wait, that's impossible.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And if that is the case, you.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Don't need a huge turnout for Trump or RFK to
have a huge effect. The turnout for Biden will be
so brutally depressed because nobody likes Kamala Harris, including her
home state California.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Your numbers are miserable in California.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
See, you will see just the word paltry doesn't begin
to describe how paltry the turnout for Biden will be
if those things come together.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, is there am I because we don't need to
talk about this if it's never gonna happen. I don't
particularly enjoy that style of punditry. Do you think there's
any chance Biden doesn't win California? I mean, is it
worth even discussing for real?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, because I think the scenario I just outlined is
more likely than not.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But you're picturing who winning men Trump wins because Kennedy
takes so many votes. Or are you think you're picturing
Kennedy actually winning the state?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
No, the accommodation of I didn't bottom line if we're
your bottom line, the Kennedy vote taking from Biden plus
miserably low turnout on the Democrat side, Okay, it could
be enough to gobble up that twelve percent.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
On the other hand, I.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Guess what it breaks down in my head is I'm
not so certain that because I agree with you that
the more he's heard, the more people like him opposite
Ramaswami or Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Right, But I think he now there.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Was a poll last week where it showed RFK Junior
taken more from Trump than Biden. I don't I think
he'd take a whole bunch from both. I mean, certainly
that party platform is not where Democrats are going to
land limited government, Christian values.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't think anybody you'll even hear that much less
be swayed by it.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm not sure that has anything to do with it,
but yeah, you've got to put yourself constantly in the
mind of low, practically no information voters. I'm not exactly
sure why r FK Junior would ever take from Joe Biden.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Might have to be more familiar with the whole of
his platform. I've just been following the polls, and I
know that he does. But what's interesting is if you
ask the question in Wisconsin, who does RFK take more
votes from Trump for Biden? You get a different answer
than if you asked it in Pennsylvania or any one
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of the other swing States, which is odd, but there.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Might be some significant twists and turns before we get
to November. We're all kind of locked into this Trump
versus Biden idea in the world's longest election, and maybe
there's just some giant I mean, all of a sudden, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
A three it's full on three way race.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, this is why I've had so little patience for
polls right now, especially national polls.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But the trends are interesting. Well some of them. All
of them were poles, all of them.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Okay, okay, that is congenital liarar Michael Cullen. Who's going
to be on the stand in Manhattan any any moment
now or any day now anyway, So back to your question. Yeah,
I thoroughly believe events, including the decline and fall of
Joe Biden, are much more likely than not to completely
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change the narrative between now and November.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You're behind in all the polls, says who the polls.
I just said that. That says who says who?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I just answered your question.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Okay, one of our favorite clips of all time, some of.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Them, all of them.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I don't know if you've heard. The universities of America
are a flame. Not yet literally but soon to be.
I suspect mostly peaceful protests.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And we keep using the example of things that were
one one thousandth as inflammatory as things happening now used
to bring out the FBI and Oval Office addresses.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
A noose was found on a tree. Oh no, stop
the world, bring the FBI in issue crying towels for
every student holds a puppy, petting sessions, not down classes
for a week.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now you can stand there with the noose and point
to the specific person you're going to use it on
and say I'm going to kill them and ing Jews,
yes and fine, and nothing happens. You know, we got
more examples of that and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Stay here.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Curry has it on the high right side high picked
from Yokich Murray jumper from me, you got it again, three.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Point six second side for the Lakers. Lebron over the
Prince jumperst good at the heart and the LA Lakers
get take that cow all the way out.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So the Los Angeles Lakers eliminated in the first round.
And is that the end of the all time leading
score in NBA history or did he at least play
his last game with the LaaS. I guess we'll see
Lebron James out. He's old and he's bored with losing in.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
The first round. Los Angeles spelled l O s s angelus.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
W w wah. If you're impressed by that, you're not
very bright.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Moving along, a couple of contrasting clips here that I
thought would I didn't, you know, as I make my
little witticisms, I kind of grade them in my head.
That was a solid a right there, Joe, good job,
high five. That's that's a sea work at best.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Anyway, So a couple of different pieces of audio I
thought were interesting contrasts. First, James Carville, who through the
years has been a source of a good deal of good, hard,
realistic political wisdom. I often disagree with him. I didn't
like his candidates very much at the time. Although if
Bill Clinton ran for the Democratic Party right now, so.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Where do I I? At the age of the era
of big government is over?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
James Carville has lost his mind here he is talking
about young voters turning out this November.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
There will be no government left, there'll be no rights left,
You'll live under theocracy, You'll end up Christian nationalism. But
that's all right, you know, twenty six year old, you
don't feel like the elections in part and the mad
and not addressing the issues that I care about. My
advice to tell these young people to get off your
(13:31):
ass and go vote, because you should vote like your
entire future, in the entire future of this United States,
depends on it, because quite frankly.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It does.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
So then you've got to stop going to carvil after
he's had his fourth drink.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
He's also one hundred years old.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The New York Times had their front page Sunday story,
did you see that no one has ever run for
president like this before? I had quotes from Donald Trump
from recent campaign stops where he says things like, at
the end of it, we don't win this election, it'll
be the end of America. Nobody has run this darkly before,
Nobody has ever predicted the doom. And I said, how
(14:14):
I thought to myself, I didn't say anything. How unself
aware are you? You people say every day that if
Trump wins, it's the end of the country.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
They'll never be another election.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He's not the only apocalyptic person around, are you crazy?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Right?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So not only has no one ever run a campaign
like this? Someone has. It's now and it's you why
you both are so what?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Wow? That is just crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And then this is a complete change of topic, kind
of back to the college protest. Just became aware of
this the visuals and this is an attractive young lady
with a kafia around her shoulders is taking you on
a guided tour. And the whole thing kind of has
the feel of an ad for a so camp you
can send your children to, but it's the Stanford Encampment
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for Palestine.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Take it away, my dear, the Stanford.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Encampment for Palestine. We want to show you what the
mainstream media refuses to what a people's university really looks like.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
The vibes in here are.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Amazing today, so let's go check it out. This afternoon,
students have set up a flea market. You can purchase clothing,
jewelry and food, and all the proceeds they are going
to Palestine. Students are making art, they're playing live music,
they're reading. This is what a people's university really looks like.
Students in this encampment are agents of their own learning,
their time, and their engagement with the world around them.
(15:39):
The intense police media repression facing the movement today is
a sign that the student movement for Palestine is working
and growing stronger despite all the distractions. All of our
eyes are still on Palestine from now until liberation.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So what was your main point there, Because at my
university people were playing music and reading.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Also her point was, this.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Is a peaceful movement for the people of Palestine. There's
no reason to repress it. This is the people's university
and even their their their verbiage is straight onto Marxism,
and that any any cracking down of any sort on
any of these movements is is oppression. You're oppressing the masses.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So your parents' money that you spend at the flea
market goes to Palestine, and your parents' money you spend
buying a sandwich over there goes to Palestine.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Okay, But they're agents of their own education, jack and
their own involvement in the world around them.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And the vibe and it was also you know, just.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
A college campus, kids hanging out with each other because
that makes you feel good and it's a really cool
part of your life.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Amazing today. Vibes are amazing today. That's a clip we'll
use the rest of our lives. The vibes in here
are amazing today, are amazing today. That's what I mean,
good vibes.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, the whole well Man, your side wants to wipe
out the jew news.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I mean, I enjoy an acoustic guitar as much as Yeah,
you're anybody.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I played one yesterday.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
You're pro raping grandma in front of her children.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
That never happened. That's been debunked, even by the New
York Times. It's just resistance.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Those aren't the best vibes I've ever heard. You want
to hear something over the top. Wait you hear this?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Armstrong and Geeddy. So we've got well, I guess we
should bring up to speed in case you don't know
the Again, I'm embarrassed as an adult. I'm embarrassed as
a parent. I'm embarrassed at a guy at various times
in my life who's been sort of a boss. I'm
just embarrassed. You can't draw red lines and then let
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them go by and then just pretend you never said it.
It's embarrassing. But so that's what Columbia University did the Esterday.
Two pm is the deadline we mean it this time.
Two PM is the deadline. You must clear out, you
must no seconds. Then it got closer to two and
nothing happened, and the day went by and nothing happened.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
So I'd like to say, as a guy who plays
a fair amount of poker did anyway, bluffing is delightful
in poker, but I don't advise it in real life practically.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
So the protesters were emboldened throughout the day as you
would expect them to be at Columbia, and got to
be nighttime and they broke into the same building that
their grandparents generation, I guess at this point took over
that same building in nineteen sixty eight as Vietnam War protesters.
So yay, they get to cosplay being part of protester history,
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which is part of the what drive is this? But
so they got the kaffeas wrapped around their head like
their hamas, and they broke into the building and now
they've taken it over, and they've got their list of
demands and everything like that, and who knows what Columbia's
plan is to get him out of there. Meanwhile, at
another prestigious university, Harvard, I was watching the video last
night where they all had surrounded the flagpole there at
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Harvard and took down the USA flag in red, white
and blue and put up a Palestinian flag and cheered
like crazy. And then so we will play this audio
for you. This first part is some people at Harvard.
Then we've got some people at some other campuses. But this,
this is how over the top it is at this point.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Never bridge out the seventh of October. Never bridge out
the seventh right time, not five times, not ten more time,
not a hundred more times, not a thousand more time,
thousand time.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So the KKK and the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force
are all the same. But that first one, if you
couldn't hear it October seventh, there's not going to be
one more October seventh, or ten more, one hundred more,
one thousand more, ten thousand more October seventh, So ten
thousand more breaking into homes while people are asleep, dragging
them around their bed, murdering the children in front of
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the parents, or the parents in front of the children,
are raping the wise in front of the husbands before
you cut off their hands and set them on fire.
Ten thousand more of those against innocent people, and the
President has nothing to say about that other than a
statement saying we don't approve of the term intafada.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
And you left out the most amazing irony all of
the people, the young people, precisely like Hugh who got
machine gunned at a music festival while demonstrating for peace.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, man, Yeah, you talk about if you could bring
some of those people back as ghosts. I was idealistic
like you too. I was at a music festival on
the border between Israel and Gaza and they came and murdered.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
The gang raped me.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
To death because machine gunned all my friends, exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Because I wanted peace between Israel and Hamas. Freaking unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
At its core, there is so much ignorance and stupidity.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
It's a little frustrating. Boys.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Columbia not the greatest illustration of deal with little problems
when they're little. Even if it's difficult, you have to
make tough choices, you know. I'm reminded I came across
this thing I'm a jigger in the Washington Post. Where
is that young woman? A young Jewish woman they were interviewing.
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She's at Columbia The protests outside are window at Columbia
University were loud and Dahlia, they use her last name,
lay awake all night, tossing in her dorm room bed,
a little scared as a Jewish student. Some of the
chants felt threatening, like she was being targeted because she
supports the existence of the state of Israel.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And she does.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
But the next day, when more than one hundred protesters
were arrested, that was upsetting.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Too.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Did wants students taken to jail or suspended from college.
She too, wants the bombing in Gaza to stop. Quote.
Every value that I hold in my heart is intention
with another principle I hold deeply. Right now, I would
say to Dahlia, welcome to adulthood. It's all about hard choices.
The easy choices are few and far between, and when
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they come, they're delightful. My dear life is about making
hard choices.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, actually, don't even think about those or remember them,
because they're rare and unimportant.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I mean, right, easy ones. They go by very quickly.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
But to repeat myself, this is precisely what had to
happen on American colleges university campuses. It's the inevitable result
of what they've been teaching for a couple of generations.
Now this whole victim oppressor, neo Marxist stuff I'm always
talking about, and the kids finally have a good one
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to latch onto, so they're going to tear the whole
thing down.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I agree with all that, but I just I can't
believe that from the president to governors, to mayors, to
college presidents to whoever, there aren't more.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Giant speeches being given.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I live in a town where I remember years ago
the one mosque we have in the college town I
live in, somebody put bacon on the doorknob, and it
turned out to be one of those deals where it
was a self hating or it's one of those you
commit a crime against yourself to try to make it
seem like the other side is bad. I mean, somebody
who is Muslim put the bacon on the doorknob at
this mosque. But anyway, there was an FBI investigation and
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speeches from the college president and rallies about how we
will not put up with hate like this. Where is
that sort of speech about somebody promising ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
More October seventh to your Jewish students.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
This is an actual, to your face threat of death.
Not bacon on a doorknob or a Confederate flag or
a noose hanging in a tree kind of a vag
old threat. You're not exactly sure what it means, who
it's for. No, this is just flat out saying I
want to kill those You see those people over there,
I want to kill those people. We're gonna kill those people,
and nobody is saying anything. Well, this is why I'm
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so militantly anti Neo Marxist, because they're utterly dishonest. They
fake up the outrage or they've convinced the poor kids
to actually crumble. If a news is found on campus,
it's going to be an activist put it up there anyway, dear,
don't don't get so upset. And then they they're they're
they're claimed principles vanish like steam. If hate and violence
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or whatever comes from the left, just they're they're they're
utterly dishonest. Don't listen to them, don't be bullied by them,
stand up to them. Yeah, I believe that with a
lot of the college kids and the administrators and all
that stuff. But where where where are some of our governors,
And where's the president on this? I can't believe. Is
he he's letting his woke staffers control what he thinks.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He doesn't want to piss off the young leftist vote?
Or is he so just his brain's so muddled. I mean,
I just can't imagine nineteen ninety five Joe Biden not
making a strong statement about this. Well, that's because the
Democratic votes were flowing in that direction. He has no principles,
he has no spine, he has no balls.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
He's an awful leader. But that's just bad politics.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You know, if you want to just make it about politics,
it's bad politics. He'd gain more than he'd lose by
coming out strongly against these people. That's just I think
there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I'm mulling that over in my mind.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
I think he permanently loses the young left vote if
he does that.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Okay, well, so so lose all of the like older
regular people who are gonna either not vote or vote
for Trump.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You could be right. I'm not saying you're wrong. It's
not entirely convinced. Can you imagine as a party being
captured the dog being wagged by the tail of militant
young people who are utterly clueless about the way the
world really works. That's an uncomfortable spot to be in.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Actually, whether I'm right or wrong, if whoever's president can't
come out and say, promising ten thousand more October seventh
to the Jews in America is not something we can tolerate.
They need to be expelled from school and investigated by
the FBI. You know, we got to play that Ronald
Reagan stuff when we come back. If you haven't heard it,
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it's fantastic. This is what leadership used to sound like,
or having a clear moral compass used to sound like.
It's fantastic. It's on the way. If you had told
me on October ninth, when we came to work on
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that Monday, that in what is six seven months, there
would be college kids promising ten thousand more October seventh
to the Jews and getting away with it.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
More or less.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
You get to stand there in a college campus and
say that you're not suspended or expelled or nothing happened.
I would have thought that is not possible, or the
world has completely come apart. And one more thing on
that we got this good text. I like the way
they simultaneously claim October seventh didn't happen the rapes of
the murders, yet are threatening more of them. So you
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either believe that that was a massacre or not. Yeah, well,
Marxist sly all the time.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
So you got Columbia University where the feckless, weak, spineless
administrators that have let deadline after deadline go and are
trying to quote unquote negotiate with the college kids.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Why are you negotiating anyway?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
And now they've occupied building a building and it's getting
uglier and uglier.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
And that's been the approach.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Yet all of the woke captured by the far left
universities around America, not so in Texas and North Florida.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Can't wait to bring that to you.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
First of all, though, when Ronald Reagan was the governor
of California and various campuses, the UCLA's the UC Berkeleys
went wild, he took rather a different approach to it.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Back in the day, most.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
People told you for days in advance that if the
university sought to go ahead with that construction, they were
going to physically destroy the university. Why did you negotiate,
many times.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Negotiate what is to negotiate?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
What is the Anjessees and public institution that's day, but
the university.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Its own community and for the community of Berkeley that
live around.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
All of it began the first time some of you,
who know better and are old enough to know better,
let young people think that they had the right to
choose the laws they would obey as long as they
were doing it in the name of social protest. I'm
sick and tired of the argument about whether some effort
to enforce law and order is going to escalate.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
Anything at all. Playing truth of the matter is this
has to stop, and it has to stop like the
day before yesterday. I would like to propose that the
issue is that on the.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Campus is you, who are adults, You who are entrusted
with those young people and their guidance, have a responsibility
to make it plain to them from the very beginning
that you, yourselves do not tolerate the kind of conduct
that has led to the burning of Wheeler Hall, that
has led to two murders on the campus of UCLA.
You've created an atmosphere on the campus where no one
(29:31):
wants to listen.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You are alive.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
So the university profs and heads trying to blame Reagan
for enforcing the law. You've made an atmosphere where nobody
wants to listen, as if they were going to listen anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I love this. This is out of Florida. We thank
the friend of Armstrong you Get who sent this long.
Protestors at the University of Florida and University of South Florida,
Florida were arrested on Monday, according to the university officials,
and they go into the details of the arrests, it's
a variety of charges. In a release, Uniuniversity of Florida
spokesman Steve Orlando announced the arrests.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Now this Ben Sass was brought.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
In you remember to run the Florida university system. He
announced the arrests, saying that the university had provided ample
warnings last week regarding prohibited activities, and I will read
the statement.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
It is manna from heaven. This is not complicated.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
The University of Florida is not a daycare and we
do not treat protesters like children. They knew the rules,
they broke the rules, and they'll face the consequences. For
many days, we have patiently told protesters, many of whom
are outside agitators, that they were able to exercise their
right to free speech and free assembly, and we also
told them that clearly prohibited activities would result in a
trespassing order from the UPD the University police department, barring
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them from all university properties for three years, and an
interim suspension from the university for days. UPD patiently and
consistently reiterated the rules. Today, the individuals who refused to
comply were arrested after UPD gave multiple warnings and multiple
opportunities to comply period.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Like Reagan said, this has got to end, and it's
got to end. What does he say there, Michael the
day it has.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
To stop, and it has to stop like the day
before yesterday.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
That is really good. It reminds me I it came
across this last night. I was reading the book as
opposed to listening to Modern Times, who wrote that it's
a very famous book. I'm just getting around to reading
it Modern Times. I'll look that up for you.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I heard somebody making a reference to that the other day.
I now Paul in fifty books that I'm intending to
read that's my limit.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
The great historian Paul Johnson. Anyway, it's fantastic book. It's
a history of America from or the world from nineteen
nineteen till I don't know after the Soviet Union felt
But anyway, this is going way back in the day,
and it's talking about Einstein. And at the end of
his life he was so concerned about moral relative relativism.
(32:05):
That's what his biggest concern was, and how it was
a disease that was infecting the world. And so already
as a guy who was on college campuses, he was
recognizing that that was a major problem.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
And that's the whole you don't You don't say.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Uh, America is right and China is wrong, because we've
done bad things too. So where do we get off
claiming China is wrong? That's moral relativism and it has
infected the world. And that's what I keep complaining about.
John Stewart with David Sanger two Daily Shows ago, two
Mondays ago, when they're having a conversation about us in
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Russia and China, and he kept talking about the things
we've done to cause Russia to do this and to
cause China to be this way. We're responsible for this.
I mean that that sort of attitude is is the
whole thing of the protests on college campuses right now.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
That's that's the thing that's a big source of energy
for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, the obligatory self hatred of the of the left.
It's it's is universal and and and and obvious as
a teenager's rebelliousness. But you'd think, as a grown person
who has the capacity to understand the counter argument, you
would wake up.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
But they don't.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
They don't take on the counter argument. They act as
if the counter argument is belligerent. You know, you're a
you're a moron if you're a patriot. I mean, that's
it's contempt for anybody who even presents the other argument.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Moral relativism is a disease. What what is it?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
What is the Is there a what's the counter phrase
for that truth? I guess or logic or I don't
even know what the counterphrase for. There is one that's
better than the other, and objectively better than the other.
So just because one has flaws doesn't mean they're both
equally bad.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
It's like the difference between a early good person who
occasionally does bad things, and a thoroughly bad person who
occasionally does good things. That does not make them equals,
which is not the nature of human life.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You've yelled at your wife and don't pay all your taxes.
So who are you to claim that that mass rapists
is a bad guy. I mean, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
That's a good illustration of moral relativism.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah, but that it seems to be winning the day
for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
You act as if all sins are equal, and any
amount of sin is equal, and anybody who has sinned
has no right to call out sins in other systems,
for instance, massive concentration camps in China.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Well, the US had racism. What Well, it is just
a bizarre argument.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Israel is killing children occasionally in this war, but that's
not their goal. Hamasa's goal is to kill children. There's
a huge difference between those two.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Things, including it must be noted Palestinian children the only
person or you know, the Palestinians were happy to see
a dead Palestinian child than a dead Jewish child because
they know what that will do for world opinion. They
are financial Hamas, the worst organizations on earth, are supporting
these college protests, financing them, helping to organize them, and
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encouraging them.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
To escalate, and they are escalating as the Columbia students
are still in that building as we speak. I don't
know what they're going to do about that at this point,
but this thing is far from over, no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
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