April 24, 2024 • 36 mins
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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 (00:14):
In fact, De Benegon says some of the weaponry is
already in storage in depots in nearby Germany and could
get to the front lines within days, and they couldn't
come any faster, guys. Ukraine has been out gunned and
out shelled by the Russians in recent months, losing key
ground at several points. Of course, President Biden, yes, still
has to sign that bill and make it into law,
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and that is expected shortly.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
But yes, very.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Emotional and a very determined President Zelenski here.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
In Kiev, Yeah, because his life and a lot of
his friends and family literally on the line with this
whole thing on a day by day basis. I am
someone that is in support of Ukraine greatly and how
we need to arm them and everything like that. But
it is angering to me that a lot of the
crowd that doesn't want to arm Ukraine has kept Ukraine
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from having any weapons now for nine months, and then
after you let them get their ass kicked for nine months,
you make the argument, well, they can't win, so I
don't want to give money. Well, if you hadn't given
them up stuff nine months ago, maybe they could have,
or a year and a half ago, or whenever they
needed it. But just to just to get the nuts
and bolts here before we get into that conversation. The
Senate voted seventy nine to eighteen yesterday to pass the ninth.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So a close vote there, Jack really pins and needles
in the capital. Seventy nine eighteen squeaked through.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, between a lot of people been saying for a
long time, is all. This legislation passed overwhelmingly with three
hundred plus votes in the House over the weekend, and
with almost eighty votes in the Senate. I mean, so
it's not controversial really, but the way our system works,
it was held up all that time. Anyway, seventy nine
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to eighteen to pass the eight package for Ukraine, Israel,
and the Taiwana area. And then also they passed the
TikTok thing. The Senate also passed part of the package
that will force byte Dance, the Chinese tech company, to
divest from TikTok within nine months. That's sort of a
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separate topic. President Biden is expected to sign all of this,
they're already to the Department of Defense is reportedly already
preparing to send one billion dollars of the weapons, including
artillery and air defenses to Ukraine that could arrive within days.
So we had this stuff ready to go in the Senate,
you just gotta gotta get it approved. And you got
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Ukrainians dying on a daily basis waiting for it to
show up, which I find to be a horror. So
I listened to a fantastic debate yesterday on the National
Review podcast among all Republicans over whether or not we
should be continuing to support Ukraine the way we are.
It is worth mentioning that in the House anyway, a
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majority of Republicans voted against it was very close, one
twelve to one hundred or something like that. And I
still think that a lot of the no votes would
have been yes as if they were necessary to pass.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And the other aspect of it that I keep in
mind is that Republicans decided to use all of this
as a as leverage for getting some serious border reform going,
and that failed, partly because they felt like they didn't
get a square deal, and so they're trying to rebuke
the other side by voting against this because they didn't
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get what they want.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And I get that politically speaking, well.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Right, yeah, So one of the arguments against this was
the Democrats wanted it so bad? How did you get
nothing in return? If the other side wants something really, really,
really bad, you ought to get something in return for
supporting it. Just you know, kind of politics one on one.
Maybe that's true, maybe it's not.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I think something stand on their own is clearly a
good idea, but I would.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Agree with that too. And there was a border compromise.
A lot of people didn't like it. I'm not here
to relitigate that, but we on the right got part
of a loaf, just not enough for some people.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
The other part of the debate that made some sense
to me of the argument on why not fund Ukraine?
And I'm bringing this up because I know a lot
of you are not for funding Ukraine. Was nobody ever
talks about winning the thing or a strategy for winning
this sort of thing. Is our plan to win or not?
I mean so at the beginning the President said a
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lot and regularly We're with you to the end. We're
with you to the end. Okay, well, what is a win?
Are we talking about booting them all the way out
or most of the way out or or what? Or
well what is?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
What is? When are we planning to win?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Are we just planning to like have a face saving
we didn't abandon you sort of moments?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Is that we're doing right? I was about to say
that's the wrong question. It's not the wrong question. It's
a good question, but it's not the only question. So
I would have liked to have seen much more decisive leadership.
But asking Joe Biden to provide decisive leadership is like
trying to get I don't know, gold out of silver mind.
To quote the great political philosopher Elton John, He's just
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not made that way, never will be. He's a miserable president,
especially on foreign policy. In my opinion, now, I think
it's at least conceivable that we, the Western world could
have armed Ukraine and aided them enough to drive the
Russians off of all of their soil, which is how
Vladimir Zelensky would define a win. Other people might define
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or might call driving the Russians mostly back to like
the twenty fourteen you know, little Green men borders, you know,
let him have some of the eastern Ukrainian regions that
they took over. Anyway, a lot of different ways to
find success. But like I said, that's not the wrong question,
but it's not the only question. Ukraine's goal is to
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drive the Russians completely off their soil. We don't necessarily
share that goal, but we share their aim, which is
to to fight Russia as hard as possible. That's still
worth doing even if they don't run the Russians completely
off their soil for a couple of reasons, which I've
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talked about before. But you want to make it as
expensive and terrible as possible for anybody who decides I'm
going to launch a war of conquest on the European continent.
You can't not resist that because you're not going to
get the whole loaf back. That's a you know, I
don't want to be hurtful because I want to convince people.
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I don't want to name call. But if you still
don't get that after I've explained it, I'm not sure
how to explain it any better. You might not win,
but you will stop the enemy's progress, you will minimize
their victory. You will make their victory whatever, to whatever
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extent it is a victory.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Maybe they snatch up a little Ukrainian land.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You will make that quote unquote victory so pyrrhic, in
other words, so miserable and expensive and painful.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's no victory at all. That's an enormous win for
the West.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I've had emailers say, oh, now, at least you're being honest,
so go to hell Ukraine. No, we have the same aims,
just not necessarily the same goals. So it's still worth doing.
Of course, it's worth doing. China is on the March.
There ought to be not a single damn story about
Donald Trump on the news right now, because there are
stories about China that are critical to our national security
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that have nothing to do with freaking Alvin Bragg and
his stupid case in Manhattan, but nobody's paying any attention
to it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Or not a serious society. Russia is on the March.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
There's danger, serious danger in Europe, and capitulating to Putin.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Is the worst thing you could do.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Yew.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
The only argument that really needs to be made to me,
because I believe it one hundred prescent, is the whole
how we treat Russia in Ukraine is absolutely completely tied
to what's gonna end up happening with China.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, what does the West do when we launch a
war for conquest? Let's find out That's what Chijinping is
saying right now.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Of course, Oh, they don't do anything because they don't
have the stomach for fighting a war.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I guess we'll take Taiwan now and control one of
the most important shipping lanes in the entire world forever.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Or just keep building up the South Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Or they're actually starting to militarize an island in the
Caribbean now in our neighborhood. China is seriously what You
didn't hear that on the nightly news last night because
you heard about frickin' Donald Trump and Alvin Bragg and
Stormy Daniels the porn skank all night long.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's right, you're ignoring it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
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Speaker 4 (10:08):
So I'm listening to this book, The New Cold Wars
by David Sanger The New York Times.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Man, it's just fascinating.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It's so up my alley, uh, talking about how much
intel we had leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
I mean we had, We've got some people inside, and
we couldn't be more forceful than we were at the
time about what we knew because we didn't want, you know,
Putin to go on a killing spree or whatever. But
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we had we had intel close somehow, either hacking into
communications or actual human beings or whatever. But so we
were telling Zelensky he believed it, he knew it was coming,
but our European friends just would We're just pretending it
wasn't true and going with the I keep mentioning Ian Bremer,
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but he just makes this kind of argument about it
wouldn't be in his financial interest. Nordstream two is about
to go online. He's going to make so much money
off in Nordstream two that will disrupt that if he invaded,
so he will not invade.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
That's what our European leaders were thinking. And we knew, no,
he's invading.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We know he's invading, trust us, and we went to
everybody and told him and they just wouldn't buy it
until it actually occurred. But the actual day it happened,
we found out from Microsoft. And that's one of the
things David Sanger wanted to point out that the new
world we're headed into, that's why he's calling it the
New Cold Wars.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Just so much of this is just we've entered a
new era. This has been the.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
History of the world where wars change and the dividing
line is not always you know at the time. Clear
in retrospect, you can look back on it and say, Okay,
everything changed at that moment, like when ironclad ships became
a thing in the Civil War, changed sea battles forever
the way they had been for hundreds of years. Were
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there now We found out for Microsoft because they saw
all of the cyber attacks that were of a certain
kind happening in Ukraine, and Microsoft contacted the Pentagon and
say it's happening. It's happening right now, it'll happen within
in the next twenty four hours. And that's how we
found out a private company with abilities that our government
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just can't have because they're not you know, all this
the computing stuff that they're using in Ukraine and in
Russia's all Microsoft stuff. A private company let our Pentagon
know when an attack was comany coming in the same
way that Elon Musk was able to jump in and
allow communications to keep going in Ukraine in the way
that our government could with.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The Starlink satellite system, which the Russians are now using,
and the US and Ukrainians are pressuring him to shut
that down somehow. You have the social media giants in
China dancing to their tunes, not to mention our big
companies that are hesitant to defy their communist overlords in
the name of their country because they're doing too much
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business there.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The interconnections and conflicts are definitely new and strange.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
General Millies quoted in the book talking about how this
war in Ukraine is an odd combination of nineteen eighteen
World War One trench warfare, a tank battle like World
War two and then this completely modern Nobody knows how
it's going to play out, private tech companies being involved.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
We're into a new era.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I hope we can stay on the.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Powerful end of it well.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
With the brave leadership of Joseph R. Biden, I'm sure
it'll come out just fine. I say, we keep electing
eighty year olds. That's the best way to stay on
top of it. More on the way, stay here. Oh yeah,
well you too, stump.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
O, slumpo. I don't like this sound of that. Squish. Guys,
I think Larry's dead. I don't know why we had
to come here. Funerals are stupid. You're all excused from
coming to mind good.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I had some that day anyway, I didn't have anything
that day.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
The Simpsons killed off Larry the Barfly, which I gotta say,
as a guy who's watched hundreds and hundreds of Simpsons episodes,
I didn't even know he existed.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
But time to go slumpo because he just kind of
slumps at the bar.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yes, anyway, after thirty five years of being then the Simpsons,
and then the whole episode is about scattering his ashes
or whatever. So I said to my son last night
he said, oh, we got to watch the latest Simpsons.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
One of the characters died, and he said, is it Lisa?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I said, you want Lisa to I and he said,
she's a liberal. I can't stand her.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh my gosh, my twelve year old.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
He's a more right wing than I am, and I
have no idea how he got there. Anyway, he's surrounded
by the lunacy of the left. Probably he's reacting viscerally too,
like you hear about a lot of young men. That
is actually right. A couple of TV questions. Have you
watched episode one of man Hunt on Apple TV yet?
I asked you about three quarters of it. Yes, it's
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pretty good, isn't it. As far as the assassination shows.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
It is.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I didn't like the way they portrayed Lincoln, but just
kind of a yeah, just kind of a bumbling corn pone,
which I'm a little protective of old link.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
But well, yeah, the show is quite dratic.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
The focus is John wilkes booth and hunting for him
after the assassination, so that's the point of it.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
But anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Also got this because I know you did watch this, Joe.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I just finished washing three body problem, which is getting
so much attention, and it got me the same way
it did you with the Chinese Revolution. I now gret
investing all that time watching it. It strays so far
from how it starts. Spend your time watching doing something else.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, I'm almost at the end of that.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's it's it's a pretty interesting science fiction story.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
But it's not a primarily about the cultural Revolution.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
No, not even close. I remember.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The other thing about the Lincoln thing that bothered me
is it's a little heavy handed in establishing certain themes,
like they have to do it two or three times
to make sure you got it. But I don't know,
maybe that's just me. Okay, so you're famous, you're not
as famous as your brother and your dad. Now, no,
I'm not Putucia to them. Look it's John wilt Smooth
who's not as famous? Is his dad or his brother?
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It's they keep hammering that. Okay, I got it.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Joseph.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Joseph thumbs down on the Lincoln. Joe, I'm a thumbs up,
So decide for yourself. Biden just said some interesting things
about the Ukraine Aid that just passed that I think
is worth playing. Getting to the how much are we
standing behind and Ukraine? How important do we think this is?
So stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh boy?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
You know boys?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, I think you're condemning of me. Finding fault with
the Lincoln show is out of It's unfair, it's untoward,
it's disgusting. I mean, for instance, Mark Hamill couldn't act
in the first Star Wars movie. He's terrible, and it's
one of my favorite movies of all time. Okay, so
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it's a quibble. It's not an indictment. It's merely a quibble.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Were your thumbs up or a thumbs down? You sounded
like a thumb's down. No, I'm a thumbs up. Well okay,
but I'm not that far into it either. But I'm
definitely against the assassination. Can we start to the spoiler
alone Lincoln common ground? Lincoln dies? Oh no, spoiler yeah
too soon. I'm kind of gruesome, but yo, we'll hear
from the president. Are we recommitting to Ukraine now after
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not sending them stuff for so long that they're really
on their back foot and getting their asses kicked?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I don't know where that's gonna take us, and a
whole bunch of other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
So I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, the whole campus radicals thing. What they're trying to get,
what they really want? Who's controlling them? It's troubling stuff.
How have we let our university system get so diseased?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, so much for that Midnight deadline last night, Armstrong
and Geeddy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
We are you're of us?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
WHOA. I don't know if those are Jewish students or
teachers or whatever, but they are outside calling me a
university there and they're walking along the sidewalk being heckled
by some of the protesters, including the one calling the
Jewish dudes pigs and beating their cow bell and saying
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we are Amas. I mean, this has gone from way
Wait a second, we don't boort Homas. We're just in
support of the downtrodden Palestinians who deserve their own land
and food. They're not getting any medicine, they're hospitals, et cetera.
To just flat out stating we are with Hamas. It
has gone that far in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
It's so easy to turn young people into attack dogs.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I turned them loose. Shock.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
My biggest question is do these students know who Hamas
is or what they're all about, or a number of
them I saw, like on a bunch of Fox clips
don't know what Hamas is because they don't believe the stories.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
They believe.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
The stuff about babies being put in ovens and the
grandma's being raped and murdered has all been debunked.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
That's what they've learned.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, accombination of their ideological fervor has convinced them that
anything that was done was justified, or those who buy
the propaganda that it never happened, just like you know,
the reason Dwight David Eisenhower spent so much time, energy
and money photographing and documenting the concentration camps in Germany
and Poland after World War Two was that he knew
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it would be denied and people would would not believe
it happened.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
So they were chanting, NYPD, go to hell as the
cops were coming last night, because the story was they
had to clear out there at Columbia by midnight, and
then the university extended it by a number another forty
eight hours. NYPD, go to hell. So that's where that
whole thing is. Andy McCarthy of the National Review tweeted out,
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the biggest life fueling the whole anti Semitic student uprising
is the youth are not leading some sort of insurgency
against the powers that be. They are tools of the
powers that be, which is exactly a good thing to understand.
Let's play again this Marxist professor and what she's again.
So they're saying out loud, we are Hamas. And now
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professors are saying this out loud.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Pleased to do whatever you can to not work, not
go to class, not do research, or otherwise of the
functioning of this despicable place until they meet all the man.
You all are incredibly smart people who are so knowledgeable
about things like postcolonialism and Marxism and other theories. It
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is time for you to get out of your libraries
and labs and put your theories into action and standalisms.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yay, yay, yay, put your Marxist theories into actions. So
now they're saying that out loud, which.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Marxistms have literally taken over the campus. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I love this Babylon Bee headline. I just came across
Columbia student leaves lecture on microaggressions to attend kill the
Jews rally, which is.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You know, too pretty well wrong.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
It's funny and very very true.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Now to the uh, what's the negotiations? So you got
to be out by midnight and they're negotiating something and
they've extended it for forty eight hours. I don't understand
whether there's a negotiation. It should just be kick them out.
But I came across this too. There are now fourteen
hundred academics that will boycott Columbia Barnard College until the
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university expunges the offenses from the protesting students records, the
presidents resign, and the police are removed from campus. So
you can't have it on your record that you were
in the quad, protesting on behalf of hamas.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Breaking university rules, fighting cops whatever. No, you've got to
have all that expunch. You know, the inmates are running
the asylum, is the cliche. The Marxist fringe is now
running the universities. As we've been saying for a long time,
we've been trying to warn you Marxists are taking over
the American university system, and now they have, and in
some places they're absolutely open about it. And in the
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few I mean there are a few places. University of Florida,
the brand new Texas University at Ain Austin or whatever
they're calling themselves are citadels of traditional learning, but they're
either wholly owned by the Marxists or the leadership at
the universities is too afraid to stand.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Up to them.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, well, how many of them are the same thing
as I heard somebody say yesterday. The reason this doesn't
bother the people that run like a Columbia university is
they the fact that the classes are shut down. They
think this is the point of college. The point of
college is to be a protester against all the power structures.
The point isn't to get your engineering degree and make
it to physics class. It's this is why we have
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these people here, is to try to tear down the world.
So I wonder how many of the leadership of these
various universities are agreement with that idea.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
A lot of what it's worth.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
The deal rought with the pro hamas terrorist Marxist students
who are again, they are so dopey in so many cases,
they're misled, they're fired up. They want to be important.
They have no life experience, they haven't seen the same
scam run half a dozen times like those of us
who are a bit older, and so they fall for
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this stuff so easily. And you know what, when they
regain their sanity and they want to apologize for being
a stupid radical, I'll welcome them back and say, hey,
I was young too. But the problem is if you
get enough of them, with enough energy and enough anger,
they hurt people and they kill people. You know, histories
replete with examples of that. But Columbia is negotiating now.
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Student protesters have committed to dismantling and removing a significant
number of tents. Student protesters will ensure that those not
affiliated with Columbia will leave. Only students will be participating.
Student protesters in the encampment will comply with all requirements
of the Fire Department of New York with respect to
activities and safety, and student protesters have taken steps to
make the encampment welcome to all and have prohibited discriminatory,
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discriminatory or harassing language. Now, that was brought up because
a couple of Jewish students with wearing a Star David
or whatever walked up and said, hey, we just wanted
to see what's going going on and the young radical
Marxist said, for a human chain, form a human chain.
We have interlopers. Now move forward, move forward and force
(25:10):
them out for being Jews.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, so that's the Babylon B headline. Columbia student leaves
lecture on microaggressions to attend kill the Jews rally.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
I mean that is so crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
You used to lectures about cultural appropriation and what a
horror it was that eminem was doing rap music or something.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Now you're okay with kill the Jews. I'm glad you're
enjoying it. You're chuckling.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
We need a laugh to keep from crying. And the
young idiots believe this stuff. But the neo Marxists at
the heart of it, they understand that's a tool. It's
a tool to silence you. All that microaggression stuff. They're
just trying to cow people into being so confused. It's
like the whole this is one of my favorite things.
It's the if you say you're not a racist, that's
(26:01):
proof you're racist, and if you admit you're a racist,
that's proof you're a racist. Or in the whole microaggressions thing,
it comes from critical theory that you've heard the praise problematic.
They pick everything apart and say that phrase you use
that's racist, that has a racist history. And you say, well,
I didn't intend it at all to be racist, and
they tell you it doesn't matter how you intended it,
(26:22):
it's racist. Then you say something else and they say, oh,
that's transphobic, and you say, I'm not transphobe. I didn't
mean to be translated, and they say no, no, no, no,
it doesn't matter what you meant. If you're so dopey,
you don't understand, that's a technique to silence you. You
didn't say anything wrong. They're trying to confuse you into
silence so they can win. That's what all of that
(26:44):
stuff was always, the whole microaggression stuff. The leaders of
it have never been sincere about this. Now their attack
dog students are because they're they're radicalized, they're dopey, they
don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I wonder what are there any like, are there more
than a handful of young people who are are saying, oh,
so that whole microaggressions thing like cultural appropriation, all these
different things, that was all bs you just were we
were doing that just so we could do this.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Is anybody catching on to that?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Some are probably, I don't know if it's one percent
or twelve percent.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
It's not men.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I remember when The New York Times published that big
piece about how intent doesn't matter, and we talked about
that being a post Enlightenment moment.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, well that's the like the my truth, this
is my live truth. They've now made the word well,
they've made the concept of an I'm sorry, Can I
have a second?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Take? Michael? Do we have enough tape? Can I do
a second?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
We do?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We do take two? Take two.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They have labeled the idea of an opinion with the
word truth.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
This is my truth. No, it's your opinion.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
So I say I'm taking my family on a picnic,
and I say picnic is a racist term. And I say, well,
I don't mean it in a racist way. Doesn't matter,
intent doesn't matter. It's a racist term. And you just
are you are now a racist?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Right? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And a lot of people, because they're not ornery like us,
or don't are not familiar with the techniques, they think,
oh my god, I had no idea picnic was a
racist term. Then they do that to you four or
five more times until you're silent, till you shut the
hell up and let them take over your university, your school,
your company, your government agency, whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
It's a technique of bullying.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
It's been pretty successful.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Oh, extremely successful. Yeah, So what do you do about it?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Number One, dismantle all DEI programs every day exist, Corporate America, education, government,
dismantle all DEI programs. The diversity they want is more Marxists.
The equity is equal outcomes always, that's communism.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
And the.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Inclusion is including more Marxists. That's all it means. It's
all code.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I don't know if I like our chances.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I don't love them.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I think the success of the technique has been incredibly widespread.
The knowledge of what I was just trying to explain
is very very limited, right, And we as a country
lack a common set of values like we did like
in nineteen sixty eight. For instance, you got race riots,
(29:28):
you got riots against the Vietnam War, internal terrorism, weather underground,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
But for instance, Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Could in the name of civil rights, say hey, we
all agree on these principles, you're not living up to them.
And a lot of America said, you know what, He's
right because it was a set of common principles. You
have kids saying we are Hamas, you have Islamic supremacists,
you have all sorts of stripes of ideology. Our greatest
(29:58):
strength is unity, and I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
We don't have enough of it anymore. But I don't know.
I'll keep fighting the fight. Why wouldn't I?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Well, just since we're probably gonna move on from this,
I want to get on this clip of Joe Biden
when he was on Colbert back when he was running
for president, talking about Charlottesville, and so you just heard
the stuff yelling at the Jews, we are Hamas and
that sort of thing. This is Joe Biden when he
was talking about why he decided to get into the
(30:24):
presidential race.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
There are certain things that when they occur, you just
can't remain silent. And Charlottesville, for me, was a moment
where I thought silence would be complicity, I mean for real,
And so I wrote an article for Atlantic and talking
about we're in We're in a battle for the soul
(30:47):
of the country and the idea that you would see
in America in a historic city. Nazis carrying flags, spouting
the same exact bile about Jews that was spouted in
Germany in the thirties. And and then they crawled, these
guys crawling off from under rocks with torches, uh and
(31:10):
and and and to not have an outright flat condemnation
of that.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Okay, so uh similar, much much worse statements from a
much much larger group. And I don't hear any condemnation.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Really.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
The White House put out a statement Sunday afternoon. But
he's having blatant anti semitism a written statement on a
Sunday after Now, he's.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Not going on the talk shows, he's not given oval
off office addresses like he did over Charlottesville. Right, So,
if it's right wingers saying Jews will not replace this,
it's a horror, it's.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
A it's a it's a fight for the nation's soul.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
But you've got college kids all across America saying we
are homaths.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
What are you gonna do that votes in November? Are
you kidding? It's that amoral, That is freaking cynical.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Stay with us. So we played a clip available earlier
from The Simpsons. They killed off a character someday I
don't watch the Simpsons the newer ones. I won't let
my kids watch the newer Ones. Not just because the
politics of it make me insane, but it's just it's
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way more inappropriate than it used to be.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
The newer ones.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
They get into sex stuff that is just they never
did back in the day. But anyway, so that show
is very, very old from the early nineties. Also very
very old the movie Pulp Fiction, which is celebrating its
thirtieth anniversary. If you're older, you think, how could it
be thirty years? If you're younger, I don't know if
it means anything to you, but it's just an old
(32:47):
movie that is pretty damn good. I was actually watching
them the other night on my big television. In this
one of my favorite scenes came on, and I thought,
this is such a good display of the fact that
inflation is a thing, and I always has been. I
remember watching this in the theater and when Uma Thurman
sits down at the restaurant with John Travolton orders the
(33:09):
five dollars milkshake, I had the same reaction he did, five.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Dollars for a milkshake. Here's how it goes in the movie.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Did just order a five dollar shake. That's a shake,
that's milk and iceed drink. Last I heard, that's five dollars.
You don't put bourbon in or nothing.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
No ghost, be my guest.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
I gotta know what a five dollar shake tastes like.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Damn, it's a pre good milkshake.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
He told you. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Always worth five dollars, was.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
God, Judge re Volta is so good. He's a n
actional treasure and a weirdo.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You can act. Yeah, but I remember.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
At the time thinking five dollars for a milkshake, and
even pre inflation, pre pandemic twenty nineteen, a five dollars
milkshake would have been incredibly cheap because we'd had two
percent inflation for all those intervening twenty six years or whatever.
And things get more expensive and you just get used
to it gradually, little by little, and they don't compounds too,
(34:18):
and they don't go backwards. They don't at some point
magically go back to the old price, right. And I
just don't understand how everybody does understand that that inflation
happens and things get more expensive and it doesn't magically
go backwards, and you don't get to say, but inflation
is down.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Why are people.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Complaining about rising prices but inflation is actually down.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Milkshakes aren't going back to five dollars anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
No, they won't.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
That's just milk and ice cream. Okay, I just checking
five dollars milkshake.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So I'm not sure we have time to get into
this fully, but we can touch on it at least.
A new survey of happiness and they pulled men on
whether they were very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy.
And married men with oh, well, let's start with unmarried
men with children. Only eleven point nine describe themselves as
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very happy. Unmarried men with no children about fourteen percent
describe themselves as very happy, married men with no children
not fourteen percent. Thirty percent said they are very happy,
and married men with children thirty five percent described themselves
as very happy.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
It's not even close.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
And you know, I'm not going to launch on a
screeter into a screeter sermon or anything like that. I
think it's worth mentioning that pleasure seeking is virtually our
entire advertising industry, with the exception of the sponsors of
this time show or selling you excellent goods and services
at reasonable pricescial meaning, But social media is all about
(36:01):
pleasure seeking. This is never going to make you happy.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
But all data shows throughout the history of human beings
that it doesn't make you happy.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh and if you combine very happy and pretty happy
men with children, for instance, it's eighty five percent.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Wow. That should be taught in school.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Armstrong and getdy.
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
In fact, De Benegon says some of the weaponry is
already in storage in depots in nearby Germany and could
get to the front lines within days, and they couldn't
come any faster, guys. Ukraine has been out gunned and
out shelled by the Russians in recent months, losing key
ground at several points. Of course, President Biden, yes, still
has to sign that bill and make it into law,
(00:35):
and that is expected shortly.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
But yes, very.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Emotional and a very determined President Zelenski here.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
In Kiev, Yeah, because his life and a lot of
his friends and family literally on the line with this
whole thing on a day by day basis. I am
someone that is in support of Ukraine greatly and how
we need to arm them and everything like that. But
it is angering to me that a lot of the
crowd that doesn't want to arm Ukraine has kept Ukraine
(01:06):
from having any weapons now for nine months, and then
after you let them get their ass kicked for nine months,
you make the argument, well, they can't win, so I
don't want to give money. Well, if you hadn't given
them up stuff nine months ago, maybe they could have,
or a year and a half ago, or whenever they
needed it. But just to just to get the nuts
and bolts here before we get into that conversation. The
Senate voted seventy nine to eighteen yesterday to pass the ninth.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So a close vote there, Jack really pins and needles
in the capital. Seventy nine eighteen squeaked through.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, between a lot of people been saying for a
long time, is all. This legislation passed overwhelmingly with three
hundred plus votes in the House over the weekend, and
with almost eighty votes in the Senate. I mean, so
it's not controversial really, but the way our system works,
it was held up all that time. Anyway, seventy nine
(01:58):
to eighteen to pass the eight package for Ukraine, Israel,
and the Taiwana area. And then also they passed the
TikTok thing. The Senate also passed part of the package
that will force byte Dance, the Chinese tech company, to
divest from TikTok within nine months. That's sort of a
(02:20):
separate topic. President Biden is expected to sign all of this,
they're already to the Department of Defense is reportedly already
preparing to send one billion dollars of the weapons, including
artillery and air defenses to Ukraine that could arrive within days.
So we had this stuff ready to go in the Senate,
you just gotta gotta get it approved. And you got
(02:41):
Ukrainians dying on a daily basis waiting for it to
show up, which I find to be a horror. So
I listened to a fantastic debate yesterday on the National
Review podcast among all Republicans over whether or not we
should be continuing to support Ukraine the way we are.
It is worth mentioning that in the House anyway, a
(03:02):
majority of Republicans voted against it was very close, one
twelve to one hundred or something like that. And I
still think that a lot of the no votes would
have been yes as if they were necessary to pass.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And the other aspect of it that I keep in
mind is that Republicans decided to use all of this
as a as leverage for getting some serious border reform going,
and that failed, partly because they felt like they didn't
get a square deal, and so they're trying to rebuke
the other side by voting against this because they didn't
(03:37):
get what they want.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And I get that politically speaking, well.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Right, yeah, So one of the arguments against this was
the Democrats wanted it so bad? How did you get
nothing in return? If the other side wants something really, really,
really bad, you ought to get something in return for
supporting it. Just you know, kind of politics one on one.
Maybe that's true, maybe it's not.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I think something stand on their own is clearly a
good idea, but I would.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Agree with that too. And there was a border compromise.
A lot of people didn't like it. I'm not here
to relitigate that, but we on the right got part
of a loaf, just not enough for some people.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
The other part of the debate that made some sense
to me of the argument on why not fund Ukraine?
And I'm bringing this up because I know a lot
of you are not for funding Ukraine. Was nobody ever
talks about winning the thing or a strategy for winning
this sort of thing. Is our plan to win or not?
I mean so at the beginning the President said a
(04:37):
lot and regularly We're with you to the end. We're
with you to the end. Okay, well, what is a win?
Are we talking about booting them all the way out
or most of the way out or or what? Or
well what is?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
What is? When are we planning to win?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Are we just planning to like have a face saving
we didn't abandon you sort of moments?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Is that we're doing right? I was about to say
that's the wrong question. It's not the wrong question. It's
a good question, but it's not the only question. So
I would have liked to have seen much more decisive leadership.
But asking Joe Biden to provide decisive leadership is like
trying to get I don't know, gold out of silver mind.
To quote the great political philosopher Elton John, He's just
(05:23):
not made that way, never will be. He's a miserable president,
especially on foreign policy. In my opinion, now, I think
it's at least conceivable that we, the Western world could
have armed Ukraine and aided them enough to drive the
Russians off of all of their soil, which is how
Vladimir Zelensky would define a win. Other people might define
(05:45):
or might call driving the Russians mostly back to like
the twenty fourteen you know, little Green men borders, you know,
let him have some of the eastern Ukrainian regions that
they took over. Anyway, a lot of different ways to
find success. But like I said, that's not the wrong question,
but it's not the only question. Ukraine's goal is to
(06:06):
drive the Russians completely off their soil. We don't necessarily
share that goal, but we share their aim, which is
to to fight Russia as hard as possible. That's still
worth doing even if they don't run the Russians completely
off their soil for a couple of reasons, which I've
(06:26):
talked about before. But you want to make it as
expensive and terrible as possible for anybody who decides I'm
going to launch a war of conquest on the European continent.
You can't not resist that because you're not going to
get the whole loaf back. That's a you know, I
don't want to be hurtful because I want to convince people.
(06:48):
I don't want to name call. But if you still
don't get that after I've explained it, I'm not sure
how to explain it any better. You might not win,
but you will stop the enemy's progress, you will minimize
their victory. You will make their victory whatever, to whatever
(07:10):
extent it is a victory.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Maybe they snatch up a little Ukrainian land.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You will make that quote unquote victory so pyrrhic, in
other words, so miserable and expensive and painful.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's no victory at all. That's an enormous win for
the West.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I've had emailers say, oh, now, at least you're being honest,
so go to hell Ukraine. No, we have the same aims,
just not necessarily the same goals. So it's still worth doing.
Of course, it's worth doing. China is on the March.
There ought to be not a single damn story about
Donald Trump on the news right now, because there are
stories about China that are critical to our national security
(07:46):
that have nothing to do with freaking Alvin Bragg and
his stupid case in Manhattan, but nobody's paying any attention
to it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Or not a serious society. Russia is on the March.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
There's danger, serious danger in Europe, and capitulating to Putin.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Is the worst thing you could do.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Yew.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
The only argument that really needs to be made to me,
because I believe it one hundred prescent, is the whole
how we treat Russia in Ukraine is absolutely completely tied
to what's gonna end up happening with China.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, what does the West do when we launch a
war for conquest? Let's find out That's what Chijinping is
saying right now.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Of course, Oh, they don't do anything because they don't
have the stomach for fighting a war.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I guess we'll take Taiwan now and control one of
the most important shipping lanes in the entire world forever.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Or just keep building up the South Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Or they're actually starting to militarize an island in the
Caribbean now in our neighborhood. China is seriously what You
didn't hear that on the nightly news last night because
you heard about frickin' Donald Trump and Alvin Bragg and
Stormy Daniels the porn skank all night long.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's right, you're ignoring it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
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Speaker 4 (10:08):
So I'm listening to this book, The New Cold Wars
by David Sanger The New York Times.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Man, it's just fascinating.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It's so up my alley, uh, talking about how much
intel we had leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
I mean we had, We've got some people inside, and
we couldn't be more forceful than we were at the
time about what we knew because we didn't want, you know,
Putin to go on a killing spree or whatever. But
(10:35):
we had we had intel close somehow, either hacking into
communications or actual human beings or whatever. But so we
were telling Zelensky he believed it, he knew it was coming,
but our European friends just would We're just pretending it
wasn't true and going with the I keep mentioning Ian Bremer,
(10:58):
but he just makes this kind of argument about it
wouldn't be in his financial interest. Nordstream two is about
to go online. He's going to make so much money
off in Nordstream two that will disrupt that if he invaded,
so he will not invade.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
That's what our European leaders were thinking. And we knew, no,
he's invading.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We know he's invading, trust us, and we went to
everybody and told him and they just wouldn't buy it
until it actually occurred. But the actual day it happened,
we found out from Microsoft. And that's one of the
things David Sanger wanted to point out that the new
world we're headed into, that's why he's calling it the
New Cold Wars.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Just so much of this is just we've entered a
new era. This has been the.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
History of the world where wars change and the dividing
line is not always you know at the time. Clear
in retrospect, you can look back on it and say, Okay,
everything changed at that moment, like when ironclad ships became
a thing in the Civil War, changed sea battles forever
the way they had been for hundreds of years. Were
(11:59):
there now We found out for Microsoft because they saw
all of the cyber attacks that were of a certain
kind happening in Ukraine, and Microsoft contacted the Pentagon and
say it's happening. It's happening right now, it'll happen within
in the next twenty four hours. And that's how we
found out a private company with abilities that our government
(12:19):
just can't have because they're not you know, all this
the computing stuff that they're using in Ukraine and in
Russia's all Microsoft stuff. A private company let our Pentagon
know when an attack was comany coming in the same
way that Elon Musk was able to jump in and
allow communications to keep going in Ukraine in the way
that our government could with.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
The Starlink satellite system, which the Russians are now using,
and the US and Ukrainians are pressuring him to shut
that down somehow. You have the social media giants in
China dancing to their tunes, not to mention our big
companies that are hesitant to defy their communist overlords in
the name of their country because they're doing too much
(13:00):
business there.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The interconnections and conflicts are definitely new and strange.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
General Millies quoted in the book talking about how this
war in Ukraine is an odd combination of nineteen eighteen
World War One trench warfare, a tank battle like World
War two and then this completely modern Nobody knows how
it's going to play out, private tech companies being involved.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
We're into a new era.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I hope we can stay on the.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Powerful end of it well.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
With the brave leadership of Joseph R. Biden, I'm sure
it'll come out just fine. I say, we keep electing
eighty year olds. That's the best way to stay on
top of it. More on the way, stay here. Oh yeah,
well you too, stump.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
O, slumpo. I don't like this sound of that. Squish. Guys,
I think Larry's dead. I don't know why we had
to come here. Funerals are stupid. You're all excused from
coming to mind good.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I had some that day anyway, I didn't have anything
that day.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
The Simpsons killed off Larry the Barfly, which I gotta say,
as a guy who's watched hundreds and hundreds of Simpsons episodes,
I didn't even know he existed.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
But time to go slumpo because he just kind of
slumps at the bar.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yes, anyway, after thirty five years of being then the Simpsons,
and then the whole episode is about scattering his ashes
or whatever. So I said to my son last night
he said, oh, we got to watch the latest Simpsons.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
One of the characters died, and he said, is it Lisa?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I said, you want Lisa to I and he said,
she's a liberal. I can't stand her.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh my gosh, my twelve year old.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
He's a more right wing than I am, and I
have no idea how he got there. Anyway, he's surrounded
by the lunacy of the left. Probably he's reacting viscerally too,
like you hear about a lot of young men. That
is actually right. A couple of TV questions. Have you
watched episode one of man Hunt on Apple TV yet?
I asked you about three quarters of it. Yes, it's
(15:21):
pretty good, isn't it. As far as the assassination shows.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
It is.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I didn't like the way they portrayed Lincoln, but just
kind of a yeah, just kind of a bumbling corn pone,
which I'm a little protective of old link.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
But well, yeah, the show is quite dratic.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
The focus is John wilkes booth and hunting for him
after the assassination, so that's the point of it.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
But anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Also got this because I know you did watch this, Joe.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I just finished washing three body problem, which is getting
so much attention, and it got me the same way
it did you with the Chinese Revolution. I now gret
investing all that time watching it. It strays so far
from how it starts. Spend your time watching doing something else.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, I'm almost at the end of that.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It's it's it's a pretty interesting science fiction story.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
But it's not a primarily about the cultural Revolution.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
No, not even close. I remember.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The other thing about the Lincoln thing that bothered me
is it's a little heavy handed in establishing certain themes,
like they have to do it two or three times
to make sure you got it. But I don't know,
maybe that's just me. Okay, so you're famous, you're not
as famous as your brother and your dad. Now, no,
I'm not Putucia to them. Look it's John wilt Smooth
who's not as famous? Is his dad or his brother?
(16:40):
It's they keep hammering that. Okay, I got it.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Joseph.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Joseph thumbs down on the Lincoln. Joe, I'm a thumbs up,
So decide for yourself. Biden just said some interesting things
about the Ukraine Aid that just passed that I think
is worth playing. Getting to the how much are we
standing behind and Ukraine? How important do we think this is?
So stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh boy?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
You know boys?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, I think you're condemning of me. Finding fault with
the Lincoln show is out of It's unfair, it's untoward,
it's disgusting. I mean, for instance, Mark Hamill couldn't act
in the first Star Wars movie. He's terrible, and it's
one of my favorite movies of all time. Okay, so
(17:29):
it's a quibble. It's not an indictment. It's merely a quibble.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Were your thumbs up or a thumbs down? You sounded
like a thumb's down. No, I'm a thumbs up. Well okay,
but I'm not that far into it either. But I'm
definitely against the assassination. Can we start to the spoiler
alone Lincoln common ground? Lincoln dies? Oh no, spoiler yeah
too soon. I'm kind of gruesome, but yo, we'll hear
from the president. Are we recommitting to Ukraine now after
(17:58):
not sending them stuff for so long that they're really
on their back foot and getting their asses kicked?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I don't know where that's gonna take us, and a
whole bunch of other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
So I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, the whole campus radicals thing. What they're trying to get,
what they really want? Who's controlling them? It's troubling stuff.
How have we let our university system get so diseased?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, so much for that Midnight deadline last night, Armstrong
and Geeddy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
We are you're of us?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
WHOA. I don't know if those are Jewish students or
teachers or whatever, but they are outside calling me a
university there and they're walking along the sidewalk being heckled
by some of the protesters, including the one calling the
Jewish dudes pigs and beating their cow bell and saying
(18:54):
we are Amas. I mean, this has gone from way
Wait a second, we don't boort Homas. We're just in
support of the downtrodden Palestinians who deserve their own land
and food. They're not getting any medicine, they're hospitals, et cetera.
To just flat out stating we are with Hamas. It
has gone that far in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
It's so easy to turn young people into attack dogs.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I turned them loose. Shock.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
My biggest question is do these students know who Hamas
is or what they're all about, or a number of
them I saw, like on a bunch of Fox clips
don't know what Hamas is because they don't believe the stories.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
They believe.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
The stuff about babies being put in ovens and the
grandma's being raped and murdered has all been debunked.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
That's what they've learned.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, accombination of their ideological fervor has convinced them that
anything that was done was justified, or those who buy
the propaganda that it never happened, just like you know,
the reason Dwight David Eisenhower spent so much time, energy
and money photographing and documenting the concentration camps in Germany
and Poland after World War Two was that he knew
(20:07):
it would be denied and people would would not believe
it happened.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
So they were chanting, NYPD, go to hell as the
cops were coming last night, because the story was they
had to clear out there at Columbia by midnight, and
then the university extended it by a number another forty
eight hours. NYPD, go to hell. So that's where that
whole thing is. Andy McCarthy of the National Review tweeted out,
(20:36):
the biggest life fueling the whole anti Semitic student uprising
is the youth are not leading some sort of insurgency
against the powers that be. They are tools of the
powers that be, which is exactly a good thing to understand.
Let's play again this Marxist professor and what she's again.
So they're saying out loud, we are Hamas. And now
(20:57):
professors are saying this out loud.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Pleased to do whatever you can to not work, not
go to class, not do research, or otherwise of the
functioning of this despicable place until they meet all the man.
You all are incredibly smart people who are so knowledgeable
about things like postcolonialism and Marxism and other theories. It
(21:21):
is time for you to get out of your libraries
and labs and put your theories into action and standalisms.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yay, yay, yay, put your Marxist theories into actions. So
now they're saying that out loud, which.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Marxistms have literally taken over the campus. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I love this Babylon Bee headline. I just came across
Columbia student leaves lecture on microaggressions to attend kill the
Jews rally, which is.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You know, too pretty well wrong.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
It's funny and very very true.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Now to the uh, what's the negotiations? So you got
to be out by midnight and they're negotiating something and
they've extended it for forty eight hours. I don't understand
whether there's a negotiation. It should just be kick them out.
But I came across this too. There are now fourteen
hundred academics that will boycott Columbia Barnard College until the
(22:16):
university expunges the offenses from the protesting students records, the
presidents resign, and the police are removed from campus. So
you can't have it on your record that you were
in the quad, protesting on behalf of hamas.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Breaking university rules, fighting cops whatever. No, you've got to
have all that expunch. You know, the inmates are running
the asylum, is the cliche. The Marxist fringe is now
running the universities. As we've been saying for a long time,
we've been trying to warn you Marxists are taking over
the American university system, and now they have, and in
some places they're absolutely open about it. And in the
(22:52):
few I mean there are a few places. University of Florida,
the brand new Texas University at Ain Austin or whatever
they're calling themselves are citadels of traditional learning, but they're
either wholly owned by the Marxists or the leadership at
the universities is too afraid to stand.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Up to them.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, well, how many of them are the same thing
as I heard somebody say yesterday. The reason this doesn't
bother the people that run like a Columbia university is
they the fact that the classes are shut down. They
think this is the point of college. The point of
college is to be a protester against all the power structures.
The point isn't to get your engineering degree and make
it to physics class. It's this is why we have
(23:33):
these people here, is to try to tear down the world.
So I wonder how many of the leadership of these
various universities are agreement with that idea.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
A lot of what it's worth.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
The deal rought with the pro hamas terrorist Marxist students
who are again, they are so dopey in so many cases,
they're misled, they're fired up. They want to be important.
They have no life experience, they haven't seen the same
scam run half a dozen times like those of us
who are a bit older, and so they fall for
(24:05):
this stuff so easily. And you know what, when they
regain their sanity and they want to apologize for being
a stupid radical, I'll welcome them back and say, hey,
I was young too. But the problem is if you
get enough of them, with enough energy and enough anger,
they hurt people and they kill people. You know, histories
replete with examples of that. But Columbia is negotiating now.
(24:25):
Student protesters have committed to dismantling and removing a significant
number of tents. Student protesters will ensure that those not
affiliated with Columbia will leave. Only students will be participating.
Student protesters in the encampment will comply with all requirements
of the Fire Department of New York with respect to
activities and safety, and student protesters have taken steps to
make the encampment welcome to all and have prohibited discriminatory,
(24:49):
discriminatory or harassing language. Now, that was brought up because
a couple of Jewish students with wearing a Star David
or whatever walked up and said, hey, we just wanted
to see what's going going on and the young radical
Marxist said, for a human chain, form a human chain.
We have interlopers. Now move forward, move forward and force
(25:10):
them out for being Jews.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, so that's the Babylon B headline. Columbia student leaves
lecture on microaggressions to attend kill the Jews rally.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
I mean that is so crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
You used to lectures about cultural appropriation and what a
horror it was that eminem was doing rap music or something.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Now you're okay with kill the Jews. I'm glad you're
enjoying it. You're chuckling.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
We need a laugh to keep from crying. And the
young idiots believe this stuff. But the neo Marxists at
the heart of it, they understand that's a tool. It's
a tool to silence you. All that microaggression stuff. They're
just trying to cow people into being so confused. It's
like the whole this is one of my favorite things.
It's the if you say you're not a racist, that's
(26:01):
proof you're racist, and if you admit you're a racist,
that's proof you're a racist. Or in the whole microaggressions thing,
it comes from critical theory that you've heard the praise problematic.
They pick everything apart and say that phrase you use
that's racist, that has a racist history. And you say, well,
I didn't intend it at all to be racist, and
they tell you it doesn't matter how you intended it,
(26:22):
it's racist. Then you say something else and they say, oh,
that's transphobic, and you say, I'm not transphobe. I didn't
mean to be translated, and they say no, no, no, no,
it doesn't matter what you meant. If you're so dopey,
you don't understand, that's a technique to silence you. You
didn't say anything wrong. They're trying to confuse you into
silence so they can win. That's what all of that
(26:44):
stuff was always, the whole microaggression stuff. The leaders of
it have never been sincere about this. Now their attack
dog students are because they're they're radicalized, they're dopey, they
don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I wonder what are there any like, are there more
than a handful of young people who are are saying, oh,
so that whole microaggressions thing like cultural appropriation, all these
different things, that was all bs you just were we
were doing that just so we could do this.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Is anybody catching on to that?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Some are probably, I don't know if it's one percent
or twelve percent.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
It's not men.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I remember when The New York Times published that big
piece about how intent doesn't matter, and we talked about
that being a post Enlightenment moment.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, well that's the like the my truth, this
is my live truth. They've now made the word well,
they've made the concept of an I'm sorry, Can I
have a second?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Take? Michael? Do we have enough tape? Can I do
a second?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
We do?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
We do take two? Take two.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
They have labeled the idea of an opinion with the
word truth.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
This is my truth. No, it's your opinion.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
So I say I'm taking my family on a picnic,
and I say picnic is a racist term. And I say, well,
I don't mean it in a racist way. Doesn't matter,
intent doesn't matter. It's a racist term. And you just
are you are now a racist?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Right? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And a lot of people, because they're not ornery like us,
or don't are not familiar with the techniques, they think,
oh my god, I had no idea picnic was a
racist term. Then they do that to you four or
five more times until you're silent, till you shut the
hell up and let them take over your university, your school,
your company, your government agency, whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
It's a technique of bullying.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
It's been pretty successful.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Oh, extremely successful. Yeah, So what do you do about it?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Number One, dismantle all DEI programs every day exist, Corporate America, education, government,
dismantle all DEI programs. The diversity they want is more Marxists.
The equity is equal outcomes always, that's communism.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
And the.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Inclusion is including more Marxists. That's all it means. It's
all code.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
I don't know if I like our chances.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I don't love them.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I think the success of the technique has been incredibly widespread.
The knowledge of what I was just trying to explain
is very very limited, right, And we as a country
lack a common set of values like we did like
in nineteen sixty eight. For instance, you got race riots,
(29:28):
you got riots against the Vietnam War, internal terrorism, weather underground,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
But for instance, Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Could in the name of civil rights, say hey, we
all agree on these principles, you're not living up to them.
And a lot of America said, you know what, He's
right because it was a set of common principles. You
have kids saying we are Hamas, you have Islamic supremacists,
you have all sorts of stripes of ideology. Our greatest
(29:58):
strength is unity, and I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
We don't have enough of it anymore. But I don't know.
I'll keep fighting the fight. Why wouldn't I?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Well, just since we're probably gonna move on from this,
I want to get on this clip of Joe Biden
when he was on Colbert back when he was running
for president, talking about Charlottesville, and so you just heard
the stuff yelling at the Jews, we are Hamas and
that sort of thing. This is Joe Biden when he
was talking about why he decided to get into the
(30:24):
presidential race.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
There are certain things that when they occur, you just
can't remain silent. And Charlottesville, for me, was a moment
where I thought silence would be complicity, I mean for real,
And so I wrote an article for Atlantic and talking
about we're in We're in a battle for the soul
(30:47):
of the country and the idea that you would see
in America in a historic city. Nazis carrying flags, spouting
the same exact bile about Jews that was spouted in
Germany in the thirties. And and then they crawled, these
guys crawling off from under rocks with torches, uh and
(31:10):
and and and to not have an outright flat condemnation
of that.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Okay, so uh similar, much much worse statements from a
much much larger group. And I don't hear any condemnation.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Really.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
The White House put out a statement Sunday afternoon. But
he's having blatant anti semitism a written statement on a
Sunday after Now, he's.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Not going on the talk shows, he's not given oval
off office addresses like he did over Charlottesville. Right, So,
if it's right wingers saying Jews will not replace this,
it's a horror, it's.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
A it's a it's a fight for the nation's soul.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
But you've got college kids all across America saying we
are homaths.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
What are you gonna do that votes in November? Are
you kidding? It's that amoral, That is freaking cynical.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Stay with us. So we played a clip available earlier
from The Simpsons. They killed off a character someday I
don't watch the Simpsons the newer ones. I won't let
my kids watch the newer Ones. Not just because the
politics of it make me insane, but it's just it's
(32:22):
way more inappropriate than it used to be.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
The newer ones.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
They get into sex stuff that is just they never
did back in the day. But anyway, so that show
is very, very old from the early nineties. Also very
very old the movie Pulp Fiction, which is celebrating its
thirtieth anniversary. If you're older, you think, how could it
be thirty years? If you're younger, I don't know if
it means anything to you, but it's just an old
(32:47):
movie that is pretty damn good. I was actually watching
them the other night on my big television. In this
one of my favorite scenes came on, and I thought,
this is such a good display of the fact that
inflation is a thing, and I always has been. I
remember watching this in the theater and when Uma Thurman
sits down at the restaurant with John Travolton orders the
(33:09):
five dollars milkshake, I had the same reaction he did, five.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Dollars for a milkshake. Here's how it goes in the movie.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Did just order a five dollar shake. That's a shake,
that's milk and iceed drink. Last I heard, that's five dollars.
You don't put bourbon in or nothing.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
No ghost, be my guest.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
I gotta know what a five dollar shake tastes like.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Damn, it's a pre good milkshake.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
He told you. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Always worth five dollars, was.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
God, Judge re Volta is so good. He's a n
actional treasure and a weirdo.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You can act. Yeah, but I remember.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
At the time thinking five dollars for a milkshake, and
even pre inflation, pre pandemic twenty nineteen, a five dollars
milkshake would have been incredibly cheap because we'd had two
percent inflation for all those intervening twenty six years or whatever.
And things get more expensive and you just get used
to it gradually, little by little, and they don't compounds too,
(34:18):
and they don't go backwards. They don't at some point
magically go back to the old price, right. And I
just don't understand how everybody does understand that that inflation
happens and things get more expensive and it doesn't magically
go backwards, and you don't get to say, but inflation
is down.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Why are people.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Complaining about rising prices but inflation is actually down.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Milkshakes aren't going back to five dollars anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
No, they won't.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
That's just milk and ice cream. Okay, I just checking
five dollars milkshake.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So I'm not sure we have time to get into
this fully, but we can touch on it at least.
A new survey of happiness and they pulled men on
whether they were very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy.
And married men with oh, well, let's start with unmarried
men with children. Only eleven point nine describe themselves as
(35:17):
very happy. Unmarried men with no children about fourteen percent
describe themselves as very happy, married men with no children
not fourteen percent. Thirty percent said they are very happy,
and married men with children thirty five percent described themselves
as very happy.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
It's not even close.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
And you know, I'm not going to launch on a
screeter into a screeter sermon or anything like that. I
think it's worth mentioning that pleasure seeking is virtually our
entire advertising industry, with the exception of the sponsors of
this time show or selling you excellent goods and services
at reasonable pricescial meaning, But social media is all about
(36:01):
pleasure seeking. This is never going to make you happy.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
But all data shows throughout the history of human beings
that it doesn't make you happy.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh and if you combine very happy and pretty happy
men with children, for instance, it's eighty five percent.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Wow. That should be taught in school.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Armstrong and getdy.
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