April 26, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Friday April 26, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- The Supreme Court's review of the Trump immunity case...
- Clips of the Week...
- Mailbag....
- The folks behind the Columbia protests...
- Katie Green has The Lead Stories!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and Key Armstrong and Getty from Studio C. See
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senor pause.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's Fria and we're deeper than the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getty communications compound.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Compound compound and hey, y'all, they were under the tutelage
of our general.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Manager USC the University of scaredy Cats.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Ooh, that's not their actual name.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You substituted different words to try to imply something.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I couldn't decide between that and University of Saclos Cowards. Wow,
sackless cowards.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I like that one.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That's pretty good to you. I'm gonna go with Michael Show.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Why are you calling this famed university these disparaging names?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Huge headline yesterday, got a lot of attention. We will
discuss today. USC has canceled. It's a big graduation ceremony.
They don't feel like they can provide security too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I would assume that's the first of many campuses that
are going to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Bob, Bob, because of let's well, let's put names on
the people who will do damage Neo Marxists and angry Muslims,
Palestinian rights activists.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Hack of a thing to cancel graduation not surprising to
me at all. I mean, you're either going to allow
mayhem or you're not, and they've indicated that they are.
So you can't gather one hundred thousand people when you're
gonna allow this sort of mayem.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's some good analysis.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
They've decided they are unwilling to do what it would
take to maintain order. They wouldn't like to look and
so they're just going to cancel the event. This is
an inflection points, as they say.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Uh yeah, well yeah, I feel like the modern world
it's one inflection point after another. I don't know, they
all kind of run together, but yeah, I would agree.
So here's the big breaking news that has just come across.
It's only the Financial Times has it so far. The
inflation numbers for the month are out, and there was
some concern that following yesterday's news that the economy grew
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by one point nine percent, slower than they thought that,
but there's a number of other indicators that are bad anyway.
US inflation rose two point seven percent. Well, is that
good or bad. They were expect it to be two
point six, so it was faster.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Than they were expecting. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
We'll have to wait for more analysis from actual economists
on whether or not that's a bad thing. It is
still higher than the target goal of two percent.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I have my usual questions. Number one, I was expecting
a pony for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I mean, what's with all the expectations? Just published the
number one? It comes out, I might expect we'll know
the number tomorrow. So two point seven stead of two
point six.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I think this is the core number because the Financial
Times gets really, really, really into the weeds on this
sort of stuff. So we'll wait for more analysis as
these numbers come out. But I have heard a number
of your going to various websites and stuff like that
and looking at their Twitter feeds and all that. It
is a kind of a double whammie off, not particularly
good news. Inflation's more than they wanted, and yeah, so
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there we are. Almost the idea of interest rates coming
back down is almost completely off the table right now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And that's a shame. That is a shame.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
If you want to buy or sell a house, really,
I guess you're selling a house. The demand is so
low that you're probably going to get the crazy price
that you want.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I don't know where you're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Move to, though, it's the problem unless you're starting the
renting period of your life or something.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Uh, pitch a tent in a local park.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You could get a much smaller house for the same
house payment if you wanted to do that.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
For some weird reason, I don't know what that would be.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Maybe you just don't like vacuuming dusting, Yes, exactly, it's
so such a long walk, darling, from the bedroom to
the kitchen. Let's get a smaller house for precisely the
same payments, right, so you know, I listened to.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Quite a bit of the Supreme Court yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I don't know how many people do that if you've
never done it before, and I don't. Maybe I'll have
to ask Tim the lawyer, why this is. I feel
like Supreme Court arguments are easier to follow than like
everything else in the law that I ever try to follow.
Other law stuff I try to follow it and gets
over my head really really fast. Does the Supreme Court
like work extra hard to make it digestible? Is it
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because they only take on really big things with giant
tectonic plates that are more easy to grasp than lower court.
I don't know why, but if you've never done it before,
you might expect, as I would have when I was younger,
that listening to Supreme Court arguments would have been difficult.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It's usually not.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, they'll occasionally, as you know, get into long discussions
of two or three different precedents that if you're not
familiar with them, it's just complete gobbledty cook. But you're right,
because they're trying to hand down guiding principles. It's not
about fact finding. Generally, it's kind of about the law,
(05:52):
but it's more about what the law should do. What
kind of country do we want?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Lots of fascinating hypotheticals about what if the president thought
his opponent was a terrorist and decided to shoot him,
would that be part of his job or not?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I mean, just really interesting stuff. I thought, Wow, yeah,
I'm sorry I missed that.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I took in about an hour of the almost three
hours that they had yesterday, and it was all damned interesting.
We've got some clips on that today. But everybody's analysis
seems to be that well, even the prosecution admitted I
heard that word. That's not a fair thing to say.
(06:31):
Agreed is a better word. Even the process had fairness
is dead. Even the prosecution agreed that there is some
immunity that exists for a president. Well, once you exist
there is some immunity that exists for a president, then
you got to get into the Okay, where do we
draw the line in which case? Now you've got to
start getting into more of the intricacies of it, which
sends it back to the other court, which means the
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headline being that whole Jack Smith case is not going
to happen before the election, not a chance. Remember when
adults were in charge and patriots and things were said
of this sort.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We can't go down that road. It's too dangerous. That
would be bad for the country. Those were good times,
enjoyable times. I should have appreciated them more while I
was in there. We could do this to take advantage,
but that would be terrible for the country.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I was listening to the analysis of the Supreme Court stuff,
and I suppose both sides do this problem.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Maybe I even do it in my own mind and
don't and don't realize it.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
But I was watching MSNBC today, and so their analysis
is the liberal justices. Of course, we're just asking the
sort of questions legal scholars asked to ask to try
to dig into the law and figure things out. The
conservative justice however, all their questions were clearly designed for
the politics of the day and.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
To try to push things a certain direction.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And I suppose that's just, you know, maybe everybody does
that to a certain extent. You feel like your people
are just getting into the law. On the other side,
it's clearly playing politics with this game. Maybe we're all
so jaded that we look at it that way. But well,
(08:15):
I hope it's more than just the usual majority. I
hope it's not a five to four. I think that'd
be good for the country, right.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't know enough about how this works, but the
further you go down the rabbit hole is a little
overused as a term these days, but it's good enough
when you start going down the rabbit hole of hypotheticals
and the idea of the president having to have enough
leeway without fear of being prosecuted later that he can
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make fast decisions and important decisions and history making decisions.
And yet we can't have somebody you know, on the
thinnest of pretexts. I love that hypothetical decide that, you know,
my opponent is actually an isis operative, and so I
had him droned yesterday in Kanton, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I mean he was at a rom grocery store.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Once you start looking into that stuff, it's it would
be the project of a lifetime trying to come up
with some reasonable jurisprudence to guide us forward again for
the emptieenth time. How have we gotten this far into
the country without having this question.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Really come up with? Now that's an interesting one.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So we made it two hundred and fifty years and
forty four presidents without it really needing to be narrowed
down like this to a certain extent because of the
character of people that you elect not crossing certain lines
or right.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's correct, both the presidents themselves and the people that
followed them, and the leaders of the Senate and the
rest of it. I think if there was any sort
of malfeasance, ugliness, corruption even in office, the idea as
we get rid of the guy and now he can't
do that anymore because he's not the president anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And that's the solution that's a good enough solution, and
not crossing lines on both sides. Trump did things nobody
had ever done before. But now the opposition, whether it's
journalism or the political party, they cross lines too. So
it's all it's all new. And which is the problem
with this is what I'm always trying to tell my kids.
I mean, when they get bring, you get into fights,
if you get into the tit for tat race to
the bottom thing, I mean, there's just there's just no
(10:26):
win in that. Yeah, he started it, you did this,
you did that, You did this, you did that, So
I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It just never ends, all right, Well, you're right earlier,
if you have an inflection point like once a week,
you just I feel like a bit like a pin Paul.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
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Speaker 4 (10:56):
Without presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, there can be no
presidency as we.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Know it, right right, that's that is true. I think
that is clearly true. And as the prosecution attorney said,
as I mentioned, there has got to be some sort
of immunity. So there you go. Now it's off to
deciding where you draw the line. How does mail bag look?
(11:24):
It's okay, we're working on it's behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's okay. That's not great. There's a pitch under promising
I'll try to over deliver. We got cow coming up
in a moment. Clips of the week. How's this car?
It's all right. I wouldn't buy it if I were you.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Nice house. What do you think of it? You've lived
here for ten years? Eh Man mid Our text line
is four one five, two nine five k ftcar.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's all hard to get unbiased news in the modern world.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I'm going to lots and lots of sources on the
inflation numbers that are coming out. So far, I haven't
come across anybody who doesn't say this is bad news.
The inflation numbers out today. So we'll get into that
more later. And I just it's a big deal politically,
more than financially, well, financially it's a big deal. But like,
I'm not going to change my life for you based
on these numbers. But uh man, if there's if there's,
(12:24):
if there's bad news to sell out there for the
Republican Party, you're gonna hear a lot about it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Plus if they if they're interest rates go up again.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh my god, I'm looking for a heap and helping
a good news if anybody's got me.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I've come coming across the word stagflation and a number
of analysts first tweets, which is a scary word. We
can talk more about that later. If you want to
spend the weekend horrified, is that optional?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I'd rather not.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Hey, we've got a freedom loving quote today. Coming up
to mail bag. First, let's take a fond look back
at the week that was. It's cow clips of the week.
This case is an abomination that are by like fifteen
pounds a myth.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Whips of the week.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
The folks in Ukraine are breathing a huge sigh of relief.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
This is a historical moment.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I want to thank you for such significant support.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Couldn't triumph triumphs in Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
The next move of Russian forces could very well be
a direct attack on a NATO ally.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
A huge day with high stakes, not just for Donald Trump,
at any future president.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You don't have immunity, You just have a ceremonial president.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Nondisclosure agreements are not illegal, and neither is trying to
influence an election. Blanche called that quote democracy. Why are
you trying to close the window?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
John, Why are you trying to make.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
A smell Farks. I'm not trying to make a smell,
You're trying to make a Trump may be playing Russian roulette,
but continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide. That's important.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Foreign products I'm explorting for their products.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It is especially important that we remember the power of
young people shaping this country. Is there something that I'm
what he was doing? I really don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I'm pretty sure there you know.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
What my story that is yourself more educated? You are
a mass, You're moss well are otherwise the functioning of
this despickable place?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
The mass they've screamed at those suits bear the star
of David.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Enjoy your free speech.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
If you disagreed with AMAS to take you to the
top of the building and push you off, or just
put a bullet in the back of your head.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Mad you what we can do next? Four more years?
I don't like the sound of that.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Squish we got fake newsmack because Dio, it's Trump, Donald.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Trump, yeses mob President Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yes, that's mob president. Yes, that's my president, the president
Joe Biden with his four more years pause, President Ron Burgundy,
go after yourself, San Diego.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Somebody's got to get that on the teleprometer.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh oh, that would be an all time historic moment
in comedy, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yes, you would lose your job, but you'd become a
household name.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, oh please, somebody had started to go fund before
he'd be richard than you are.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Now, hey, let's get a freedom loving quote of today,
and can we huh?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Going back to Joseph Warren, the penman of the Revolution,
who I've been weaving in and out of his votes
for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Now I've forgotten founding father.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
He's a physician, don't you know, probably put leeches on
you and lead your feet anyway. I love this, especially
because I've been reading something very good about the Imperial
presidency and how in the space of a very short time,
the power of the executive branch has gone from you know,
awesome but certainly constrained to utterly unchecked, specifically the vast
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world of regulations and policies and priorities of the departments
of the executive branch, like immigration for instance, and how
we veer back and forth between one set of policies
and another, nobody having really voted, including Congress, on those policies. Anyway,
here's the Joseph Warreng quote. It is undeniably true that
the greatest and most important right of a British subject
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is that he shall be governed by no laws but
those to which he, either in person or by his representatives,
has given his consent. And this, I will venture to assert,
is the great break basis of British freedom. It is
interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the
Constitution must be destroyed.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You ah. Another inflection point note to self, say a half.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
More often means classy. We're going to work that into
my weekend. Excuse me, I have the winds.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
For instance, we have a lot to talk about. No,
we do coming up many issues to get to, so stay.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
With us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Across the country.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
More than four hundred people detained on dozens of campuses
as pro Palestinian protesters call for schools to divest from
companies that profit from ties to Israel. After nearly one
hundred protesters were arrested in causes with police at USC
the university canceling their main graduation ceremony.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, that's ABC and other major news outlets. They're right
in the particulars of that's what the protesters.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Are demanding everywhere.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
But you're really leaving out the story if you don't
say they're protesting in favor of terrorists and making it
pretty clear that that's what they're about. Here's a little
of a Columbia chant from yesterday. So they were chanting,
(18:21):
we don't want no two states, we want all of it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay, wow wow.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And here is so this made the rounds yesterday and
then somebody identified him as not just like a student
at Columbia saying this sort of stuff out loud, he
is one of, if not the leader of the whole thing.
Based on a whole bunch of photos and pictures of
him with bullhorns and stuff like that. From the beginning,
a Columbia protest leader in a post that he put
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out himself, and so.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Be glad, be grateful that I'm not just going out
and murdering Zionus.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I've never murdered anyone in my life, and I hope
to keep it that way. I genuinely hope to keep
it that way.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's not a stable person right there, and it reinforces
what we've been saying, and what is clearly true is
that the most innocent of explanations, I think the people
of Palestine, the Palestinian folks are taking the brunt of
too big an attack by Israel. Their humanitarian needs aren't
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being met, and I just want to make sure they're safe.
That sort of innocent, fairly defensible point of view, that
is absolutely one, not the top tier of the leadership.
It's not the second tier, the third tier either. I
don't think it's a coincidence that the leaders of Hamas
just endorsed the college demonstrations and have called for escalation.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Another chance at Columbia was we don't want no Zionists here.
They started that when there were some Jewish students there
trying to counter protest, and they shouted down and got
threatening enough. I guess that the Jewish students left there.
I don't know if you saw the video making the
rounds from Northwestern University, one of many college protests going
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on yesterday. So there was somebody there to try to
film with their iPhone the camps going up, and some
protesters ran at them and knocked down their phone. So
not going to get any journalism or coverage of their
encampment if they can stop it. So that's not exactly
the sort of peaceful protests you know, as laid out
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by the Constitution. I'm trying to guestimate when the massive
people in the United States wake up to what's happening
and understand the true nature of it. And my tangential
rumination is, at what point is the mainstream media, which
has a grit great deal of sympathy toward the left
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and the Palestinians because they've been steeped in the same
educational you know waters as these protesters, when are they
going to be honest about it? Because I think when
the awareness grows to a certain point, people are going
to be like, that's what these people are in favor of.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
These are the things they're chanting. They're not just wanting
Palestinian children to be safe. That's going to be an
interesting clash.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
So on the chant of we don't want no two states,
we want all of it. An AEI American Enterprise Institute,
a guy analyzed, don't let them tell you these protests
are about a cease fire or the goal of establishing
a Palestinian state, which is undoable anyway. It's always been
about eradicating Israel and killing the Jews. The videos, like
the chant below are way too widespread to dismiss.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yes, I think that is perfectly clear, although as you.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Just pointed out, not being grasped by ABC, NBC, Washington
Post whoever. And then to the guy leading the Columbia
protest said, be glad, be grateful that I'm not just
going out and murdering Zionists, and guy Benson and Fox said,
what does it take to get expelled from Columbia?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah? No kidding, Wow, wow, no kidding. Huh. What a
lot of Americans don't understand.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I think they maybe are starting to is unlike the
two thirds, maybe even three quarters, of the right three
quarters of American politics, you ask for exactly what you want. Specifically,
you tend not to hide your main goal. Now, some
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lobbyists might and activists might, I suppose, But what Americans
don't get is that Marxists lie routinely.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's part of the philosophy.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
You get where you want to go by any means necessary.
Perhaps you've heard that phrase. It's true in Islamism too,
that to deceive the unbelievers is not a sin, it's
an important tool.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's how you get power. And so I think people
are slow to pick up on.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
That. These protesters, what especially the leadership is calling for,
is not an honest expression of what they want. Although
some of those chants, you know, we don't want two states,
we want all of it. Well, at least they're being honest. Now,
we want to wipe the Jews off the map.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Here's one of the colleges, I don't remember which one.
It doesn't really make any difference with their list of demands.
That the universities are making such a mistake of even
even acting like there's a negotiation going on.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Don't even play that game. We're not negotiating anything. You
gotta leave. These are the five things we want. You're
not getting anything.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You gotta leave is the only response once you enter
into the negotiation. It gives them so much I don't know,
power and leverage, and it puts in other people's minds
that like, Okay, this makes sense. There's a negotiation going on, well.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Right, and there's an assumption that they're negotiating the radical
kids in good faith.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That's what I was just talking about. They're not anyway.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
One of the leaders at this particular university said, we
have a right to control where our tuition goes, and
it should never go to oppressing any people anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
No, you don't have a right.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
To go find a school that invests the way you
want them to. You're gone, goodbye here.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Exactly, any more than I have a right for a
restaurant to give me the service I want. If I
don't like it, I have to spend my money elsewhere
I can.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Here's your money back. Goodbye, goodbye, No, no leave now, goodbye.
We're gonna arrest you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
So who allows them to have that thought in their
head that they have a right to say where their
tuition money goes. That's specifically what they were taught from
kindergarten through grad school. The monster created by the American
leftist education CAUPAL is now rearing its ugly heads.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Again.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
This is not shocking to those of us who have
been warning about it for years now. It's like, well,
of course the sun came up. I told you the
son would go it was gonna come up.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
But now it's up.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Now what do we do about it? And I'm not
trying to lecture people or make them feel bad about it.
They're making a living, they're feeding their families, They're going
about their business. They don't have time to study socio
political trends like I do.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And it's made me a miserable person. By the way,
So and again I sounded too high handed there.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I just I want to make it clear to everybody
that this has been a long process and an unavoidable
result of that process. Go to your local elementary school.
Are they teaching the genderbread person? Are they teaching.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Systemic anything, systemic racism?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Whatever? Have they uttered the word intersectionality? If so, they're
teaching your kids this sort of neo Marxism.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Can you imagine a different setting where the leader talking
about gay people, black people, name the group yeah was
talking about I've never killed before, and I hope I
don't have to.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
What you would be drummed out of everything, everything but
the plan, maybe the Nazi Party. Even then they think, wow,
he's crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
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you a first hand account as a UCLA alum and
mother of a current UCLA student. When I heard about
the pro Hamas encampment, have felt at my duty to
counter protest and show solidarity with the Jewish students on campus,
as did about one hundred other pro Israel people. We're
just normal, hardworking people, not paid for supported by powerful organizations. However,
the protesters that were there were obviously well trained and
(27:51):
knew what to do exactly. There's no way they were
just students. When a few of us got up on
a platform waving the Israeli flag as soon as it
starts and getting dark, one guy, face completely covered with
a kaffia, told people to start pushing us out. They
immediately started climbing the platform next to us inching their
way in. To get us to leave, they shoved a
couple of our guys off the platform slowly pushed all
(28:12):
of us away. When I stood my ground, a young man,
face covered, tried to grab my flag out of my hand.
I'm a middle aged woman. My face was not covered.
I managed to keep the flag, at which point someone
need me from behind, causing me to fall off the platform.
I fell on their safety officer, who told me I
should leave. They're safely the officer. That's hilarious. Someone else
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grabbed my flag and pulled me so I hit the
edge of the platform, injuring both of my knees. I
told them I felt totally safe and had the right
to be there like they did, so they immediately formed
a circle around me, locked arms, and slowly pushed me out.
I was flabbergasted. It was like a military exercise, like
they'd been trained.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
To do this.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I want to know if there's training them and showing
them how to act like soldiers.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
You know, we talked about this a lot back during
the period of time where we're all being told that
microaggressions were violence and all that sort of stuff. All
these different layers of safety officers, and we've gone through
the salaries they make.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
And all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
So you got somebody who's a safety officer making sure
nobody gets misgendered. Or what was the example the other day,
Nobody gets away with wearing a sombrero for a Halloween
costume because that's cultural appropriation, you know, that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But you're allowing peaceful protesters to.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Actually get pushed off of a stage by violent protesters
at your chance and kill the Jews. Yeah, we're the
safety officers there to make sure nobody gets misgendered though.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So it's just a couple more things from Aleen Anonymous.
How do these students quote unquote have time for this
in the middle of their midterms? Very reminiscent of the
occupy movement, the anarchists always do this, blah blah blah.
The good news is, in my mind that their numbers
were not impressive at all, and most there were about
three hundred people total, not impressive given twenty four thousand
students in total of over forty thousand people who work
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and attend UCLA. Most were totally clueless about what was happening,
and we suspect.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
They were there for the free food.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I hope more people will help us to stand up
to these professional anarchists, to uphold Western values, because you
know what they say, first we get the Saturday people,
then the Sunday people. It's not the Jews or Israel
they hate, it's our democratic Western values. KTTT keep telling
the truth. We'll do Thanks for the note.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I heard somebody point out the underappreciated part of Mike
Johnson's speech the other day, the Speaker of the House
when he was at Columbia, where he said go back
to class. That is underappreciated.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Just go back to class. Be a college student. That's
what you're here for. If you don't want to do that,
leave the idea.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That after a year or two, or even four or
six of college you know enough to tell the rest
of the world how it should function is hilarious. You
are an ass clown, my young friend, just as every
generation before.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
You has engaged in similar ass clownery.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
On the other hand, at some point you got to
check yourself and say, oh, all these people are laughing
at me, or they ought to be. When your seven
year old starts handing out orders, you should be chuckling
at them. And if they get out of hand, we
need to spank them.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I hate it when you use political science terms that
I have to look up, like AC that you just dropped, Well,
it's an AC. I'll have to look it up in Wikipedia.
We've got Katie's headlines on the way. Lots of news today,
so stay here. Two quick texts before we get to
(31:31):
Katie's headlines. We get this now, and then, what is
Zionism or what are you talking about with the Zionis.
That's the idea that Jews should have their own state.
It was a movement originally to try to get a
homeland for the Jews, and then since then it's about
protecting a homeland for the Jews. But sometimes it's used
as Sometimes it's legit, like I don't have any problem
(31:52):
with Jews. I just don't think they should have this
much land or this land or whatever. But it's often
an excuse for getting out of trouble being anti Jew sometimes,
so it depends on the person. I'm not anti I
don't hate Jews, I just I don't believe in Zionism,
So all.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Right, I think there should be a two state solution,
and Israel's not cooperating right.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
We also got this. You guys are taking this way
too lightly? Really, what really how heavy and dark should
we go?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Would you have us assemble an army of vigilantes under
our command? I mean, I'm not sure how to be
more strong about.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Maybe you don't like the wea chuckle now and then,
but in the midst of our chuckles, we're throwing around
things like this is the end of civilization.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
So it seems pretty heavy to me. They're indoctrinating your
children into marxism as and it's all going in a
strong direction and it'll be a disaster for Western civilization.
I'm not sure how to go darker than that, but
I'll work on it. Let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Thank you guys from NBC News, Key prosecution witness and
Trump trial to face grilling from former presidents lawyers.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
The more I dig into the Trump trial in Manhattan,
the angrier I get about the miscarriage of justice, that
it is nakedly, indefensibly lawfair for political purposes.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
This trial is a joke. Right, Well, we'll talk more
about that later.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
We've got some clips on that, but it's going to
be interesting to see what direction he goes.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
From Reuters, US economy sees low growth, high inflation in
first quarter.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, got some more anawly so to that coming up.
It is practically the worst of both worlds. In forty
eight hours from.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
The Washington Post, colleges changed graduation plans as protests spread
to more campuses.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
These poor youngsters, they're number one. They're dopey and misguided,
not the hardcore activist types. But they started their college
career remotely in COVID and I have dealt with these
stupid politics. Now they don't have a graduation because the
radical jackass is a.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I gotta believe it, all of it, even Colombia. I
gotta believe it. All of these universities.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
The vast majority of the students aren't where the protesters are.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Am I wrong? Correct? No? No, you're right, you're right.
You know, the well of support may differ from school
to school, but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
From ABC seven in LA, more properties are being targeted
by squatters across LA, turning homes into complete chaos.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I gotta do this, I'm on renter. Yeah, the housing
situation is just depressing me. I gotta just pick a
house and live in it.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Or you could just stop paying your rent and make
some sort of wild claim that has to be litigated,
and you'll you'll get a minimum and cal unicornea of
six months rent free minimum.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I want a better house, so I got to you
got I gotta grab one of those houses that's open
for sale. I got to teach my kids to cry
on Q but my children and I print out some
sort of thing at you know, Kinko's copiers, says this
is my lease or my deed or something right.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Exactly, and call a railtor and say, you know, I
want to move quickly, so just show me uninhabited houses, right.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And then squat away, squat away.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
From Fox News, Representative Adam Schiff reportedly robbed in San Francisco,
forced to attend Ritzy campaign dinner.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
With no suit to wear. He actually got robbed.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yeah, his car got broken into in a parking garage.
Come on, with all the headlines, you don't know not
to leave stuff in your car in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
He might not. From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Panic as automatic sprinklers soak Harvard's anti Israel encampment.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I've wanted to do this constantly ton of water. Long kids,
you're in the way, big hoes, just spray him down. Yes.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
And finally the Babylon Bee, a protesting college student, is
starving to death as door dash driver unable to locate tent.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Unfortunately, the activist groups that are backing all of this,
the neo Marxists, Islamists.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Whatever, are bringing the kids food. The kids.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
They are kids, emotionally, intellectually, their children. They're angry little children.
They need to be spanked.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I still think there are going to be more graduations canceled,
which is just horrible.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Are we going to allow this to happen? Are the
parents going to allow this to happen?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
A lot of good stuff next hour are gonna help
you and us understand what's going on in a way
that you probably haven't heard before.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and Key Armstrong and Getty from Studio C. See
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senor pause.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's Fria and we're deeper than the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getty communications compound.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Compound compound and hey, y'all, they were under the tutelage
of our general.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Manager USC the University of scaredy Cats.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Ooh, that's not their actual name.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You substituted different words to try to imply something.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I couldn't decide between that and University of Saclos Cowards. Wow,
sackless cowards.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I like that one.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That's pretty good to you. I'm gonna go with Michael Show.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Why are you calling this famed university these disparaging names?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Huge headline yesterday, got a lot of attention. We will
discuss today. USC has canceled. It's a big graduation ceremony.
They don't feel like they can provide security too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I would assume that's the first of many campuses that
are going to do that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Bob, Bob, because of let's well, let's put names on
the people who will do damage Neo Marxists and angry Muslims,
Palestinian rights activists.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Hack of a thing to cancel graduation not surprising to
me at all. I mean, you're either going to allow
mayhem or you're not, and they've indicated that they are.
So you can't gather one hundred thousand people when you're
gonna allow this sort of mayem.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's some good analysis.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
They've decided they are unwilling to do what it would
take to maintain order. They wouldn't like to look and
so they're just going to cancel the event. This is
an inflection points, as they say.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Uh yeah, well yeah, I feel like the modern world
it's one inflection point after another. I don't know, they
all kind of run together, but yeah, I would agree.
So here's the big breaking news that has just come across.
It's only the Financial Times has it so far. The
inflation numbers for the month are out, and there was
some concern that following yesterday's news that the economy grew
(02:45):
by one point nine percent, slower than they thought that,
but there's a number of other indicators that are bad anyway.
US inflation rose two point seven percent. Well, is that
good or bad. They were expect it to be two
point six, so it was faster.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Than they were expecting. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
We'll have to wait for more analysis from actual economists
on whether or not that's a bad thing. It is
still higher than the target goal of two percent.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I have my usual questions. Number one, I was expecting
a pony for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I mean, what's with all the expectations? Just published the
number one? It comes out, I might expect we'll know
the number tomorrow. So two point seven stead of two
point six.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I think this is the core number because the Financial
Times gets really, really, really into the weeds on this
sort of stuff. So we'll wait for more analysis as
these numbers come out. But I have heard a number
of your going to various websites and stuff like that
and looking at their Twitter feeds and all that. It
is a kind of a double whammie off, not particularly
good news. Inflation's more than they wanted, and yeah, so
(03:56):
there we are. Almost the idea of interest rates coming
back down is almost completely off the table right now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And that's a shame. That is a shame.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
If you want to buy or sell a house, really,
I guess you're selling a house. The demand is so
low that you're probably going to get the crazy price
that you want.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I don't know where you're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Move to, though, it's the problem unless you're starting the
renting period of your life or something.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Uh, pitch a tent in a local park.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You could get a much smaller house for the same
house payment if you wanted to do that.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
For some weird reason, I don't know what that would be.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Maybe you just don't like vacuuming dusting, Yes, exactly, it's
so such a long walk, darling, from the bedroom to
the kitchen. Let's get a smaller house for precisely the
same payments, right, so you know, I listened to.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Quite a bit of the Supreme Court yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I don't know how many people do that if you've
never done it before, and I don't. Maybe I'll have
to ask Tim the lawyer, why this is. I feel
like Supreme Court arguments are easier to follow than like
everything else in the law that I ever try to follow.
Other law stuff I try to follow it and gets
over my head really really fast. Does the Supreme Court
like work extra hard to make it digestible? Is it
(05:12):
because they only take on really big things with giant
tectonic plates that are more easy to grasp than lower court.
I don't know why, but if you've never done it before,
you might expect, as I would have when I was younger,
that listening to Supreme Court arguments would have been difficult.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It's usually not.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, they'll occasionally, as you know, get into long discussions
of two or three different precedents that if you're not
familiar with them, it's just complete gobbledty cook. But you're right,
because they're trying to hand down guiding principles. It's not
about fact finding. Generally, it's kind of about the law,
(05:52):
but it's more about what the law should do. What
kind of country do we want?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Lots of fascinating hypotheticals about what if the president thought
his opponent was a terrorist and decided to shoot him,
would that be part of his job or not?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I mean, just really interesting stuff. I thought, Wow, yeah,
I'm sorry I missed that.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I took in about an hour of the almost three
hours that they had yesterday, and it was all damned interesting.
We've got some clips on that today. But everybody's analysis
seems to be that well, even the prosecution admitted I
heard that word. That's not a fair thing to say.
(06:31):
Agreed is a better word. Even the process had fairness
is dead. Even the prosecution agreed that there is some
immunity that exists for a president. Well, once you exist
there is some immunity that exists for a president, then
you got to get into the Okay, where do we
draw the line in which case? Now you've got to
start getting into more of the intricacies of it, which
sends it back to the other court, which means the
(06:52):
headline being that whole Jack Smith case is not going
to happen before the election, not a chance. Remember when
adults were in charge and patriots and things were said
of this sort.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We can't go down that road. It's too dangerous. That
would be bad for the country. Those were good times,
enjoyable times. I should have appreciated them more while I
was in there. We could do this to take advantage,
but that would be terrible for the country.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I was listening to the analysis of the Supreme Court stuff,
and I suppose both sides do this problem.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Maybe I even do it in my own mind and
don't and don't realize it.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
But I was watching MSNBC today, and so their analysis
is the liberal justices. Of course, we're just asking the
sort of questions legal scholars asked to ask to try
to dig into the law and figure things out. The
conservative justice however, all their questions were clearly designed for
the politics of the day and.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
To try to push things a certain direction.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And I suppose that's just, you know, maybe everybody does
that to a certain extent. You feel like your people
are just getting into the law. On the other side,
it's clearly playing politics with this game. Maybe we're all
so jaded that we look at it that way. But well,
(08:15):
I hope it's more than just the usual majority. I
hope it's not a five to four. I think that'd
be good for the country, right.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I don't know enough about how this works, but the
further you go down the rabbit hole is a little
overused as a term these days, but it's good enough
when you start going down the rabbit hole of hypotheticals
and the idea of the president having to have enough
leeway without fear of being prosecuted later that he can
(08:48):
make fast decisions and important decisions and history making decisions.
And yet we can't have somebody you know, on the
thinnest of pretexts. I love that hypothetical decide that, you know,
my opponent is actually an isis operative, and so I
had him droned yesterday in Kanton, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I mean he was at a rom grocery store.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Once you start looking into that stuff, it's it would
be the project of a lifetime trying to come up
with some reasonable jurisprudence to guide us forward again for
the emptieenth time. How have we gotten this far into
the country without having this question.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Really come up with? Now that's an interesting one.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So we made it two hundred and fifty years and
forty four presidents without it really needing to be narrowed
down like this to a certain extent because of the
character of people that you elect not crossing certain lines
or right.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's correct, both the presidents themselves and the people that
followed them, and the leaders of the Senate and the
rest of it. I think if there was any sort
of malfeasance, ugliness, corruption even in office, the idea as
we get rid of the guy and now he can't
do that anymore because he's not the president anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And that's the solution that's a good enough solution, and
not crossing lines on both sides. Trump did things nobody
had ever done before. But now the opposition, whether it's
journalism or the political party, they cross lines too. So
it's all it's all new. And which is the problem
with this is what I'm always trying to tell my kids.
I mean, when they get bring, you get into fights,
if you get into the tit for tat race to
the bottom thing, I mean, there's just there's just no
(10:26):
win in that. Yeah, he started it, you did this,
you did that, You did this, you did that, So
I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It just never ends, all right, Well, you're right earlier,
if you have an inflection point like once a week,
you just I feel like a bit like a pin Paul.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'll make you crazy. Let's start the show officially. I'm
Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Friday,
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Life will not be a boor and it hasn't been
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Speaker 4 (10:56):
Without presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, there can be no
presidency as we.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Know it, right right, that's that is true. I think
that is clearly true. And as the prosecution attorney said,
as I mentioned, there has got to be some sort
of immunity. So there you go. Now it's off to
deciding where you draw the line. How does mail bag look?
(11:24):
It's okay, we're working on it's behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's okay. That's not great. There's a pitch under promising
I'll try to over deliver. We got cow coming up
in a moment. Clips of the week. How's this car?
It's all right. I wouldn't buy it if I were you.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Nice house. What do you think of it? You've lived
here for ten years? Eh Man mid Our text line
is four one five, two nine five k ftcar.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's all hard to get unbiased news in the modern world.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I'm going to lots and lots of sources on the
inflation numbers that are coming out. So far, I haven't
come across anybody who doesn't say this is bad news.
The inflation numbers out today. So we'll get into that
more later. And I just it's a big deal politically,
more than financially, well, financially it's a big deal. But like,
I'm not going to change my life for you based
on these numbers. But uh man, if there's if there's,
(12:24):
if there's bad news to sell out there for the
Republican Party, you're gonna hear a lot about it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Plus if they if they're interest rates go up again.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh my god, I'm looking for a heap and helping
a good news if anybody's got me.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I've come coming across the word stagflation and a number
of analysts first tweets, which is a scary word. We
can talk more about that later. If you want to
spend the weekend horrified, is that optional?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I'd rather not.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Hey, we've got a freedom loving quote today. Coming up
to mail bag. First, let's take a fond look back
at the week that was. It's cow clips of the week.
This case is an abomination that are by like fifteen
pounds a myth.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Whips of the week.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
The folks in Ukraine are breathing a huge sigh of relief.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
This is a historical moment.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I want to thank you for such significant support.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Couldn't triumph triumphs in Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
The next move of Russian forces could very well be
a direct attack on a NATO ally.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
A huge day with high stakes, not just for Donald Trump,
at any future president.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You don't have immunity, You just have a ceremonial president.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Nondisclosure agreements are not illegal, and neither is trying to
influence an election. Blanche called that quote democracy. Why are
you trying to close the window?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
John, Why are you trying to make.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
A smell Farks. I'm not trying to make a smell,
You're trying to make a Trump may be playing Russian roulette,
but continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide. That's important.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Foreign products I'm explorting for their products.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It is especially important that we remember the power of
young people shaping this country. Is there something that I'm
what he was doing? I really don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I'm pretty sure there you know.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
What my story that is yourself more educated? You are
a mass, You're moss well are otherwise the functioning of
this despickable place?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
The mass they've screamed at those suits bear the star
of David.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Enjoy your free speech.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
If you disagreed with AMAS to take you to the
top of the building and push you off, or just
put a bullet in the back of your head.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Mad you what we can do next? Four more years?
I don't like the sound of that.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Squish we got fake newsmack because Dio, it's Trump, Donald.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Trump, yeses mob President Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yes, that's mob president. Yes, that's my president, the president
Joe Biden with his four more years pause, President Ron Burgundy,
go after yourself, San Diego.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Somebody's got to get that on the teleprometer.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh oh, that would be an all time historic moment
in comedy, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yes, you would lose your job, but you'd become a
household name.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, oh please, somebody had started to go fund before
he'd be richard than you are.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Now, hey, let's get a freedom loving quote of today,
and can we huh?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Going back to Joseph Warren, the penman of the Revolution,
who I've been weaving in and out of his votes
for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Now I've forgotten founding father.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
He's a physician, don't you know, probably put leeches on
you and lead your feet anyway. I love this, especially
because I've been reading something very good about the Imperial
presidency and how in the space of a very short time,
the power of the executive branch has gone from you know,
awesome but certainly constrained to utterly unchecked, specifically the vast
(16:27):
world of regulations and policies and priorities of the departments
of the executive branch, like immigration for instance, and how
we veer back and forth between one set of policies
and another, nobody having really voted, including Congress, on those policies. Anyway,
here's the Joseph Warreng quote. It is undeniably true that
the greatest and most important right of a British subject
(16:49):
is that he shall be governed by no laws but
those to which he, either in person or by his representatives,
has given his consent. And this, I will venture to assert,
is the great break basis of British freedom. It is
interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the
Constitution must be destroyed.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You ah. Another inflection point note to self, say a half.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
More often means classy. We're going to work that into
my weekend. Excuse me, I have the winds.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
For instance, we have a lot to talk about. No,
we do coming up many issues to get to, so stay.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
With us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Across the country.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
More than four hundred people detained on dozens of campuses
as pro Palestinian protesters call for schools to divest from
companies that profit from ties to Israel. After nearly one
hundred protesters were arrested in causes with police at USC
the university canceling their main graduation ceremony.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, that's ABC and other major news outlets. They're right
in the particulars of that's what the protesters.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Are demanding everywhere.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
But you're really leaving out the story if you don't
say they're protesting in favor of terrorists and making it
pretty clear that that's what they're about. Here's a little
of a Columbia chant from yesterday. So they were chanting,
(18:21):
we don't want no two states, we want all of it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay, wow wow.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And here is so this made the rounds yesterday and
then somebody identified him as not just like a student
at Columbia saying this sort of stuff out loud, he
is one of, if not the leader of the whole thing.
Based on a whole bunch of photos and pictures of
him with bullhorns and stuff like that. From the beginning,
a Columbia protest leader in a post that he put
(18:52):
out himself, and so.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Be glad, be grateful that I'm not just going out
and murdering Zionus.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I've never murdered anyone in my life, and I hope
to keep it that way. I genuinely hope to keep
it that way.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's not a stable person right there, and it reinforces
what we've been saying, and what is clearly true is
that the most innocent of explanations, I think the people
of Palestine, the Palestinian folks are taking the brunt of
too big an attack by Israel. Their humanitarian needs aren't
(19:34):
being met, and I just want to make sure they're safe.
That sort of innocent, fairly defensible point of view, that
is absolutely one, not the top tier of the leadership.
It's not the second tier, the third tier either. I
don't think it's a coincidence that the leaders of Hamas
just endorsed the college demonstrations and have called for escalation.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Another chance at Columbia was we don't want no Zionists here.
They started that when there were some Jewish students there
trying to counter protest, and they shouted down and got
threatening enough. I guess that the Jewish students left there.
I don't know if you saw the video making the
rounds from Northwestern University, one of many college protests going
(20:18):
on yesterday. So there was somebody there to try to
film with their iPhone the camps going up, and some
protesters ran at them and knocked down their phone. So
not going to get any journalism or coverage of their
encampment if they can stop it. So that's not exactly
the sort of peaceful protests you know, as laid out
(20:40):
by the Constitution. I'm trying to guestimate when the massive
people in the United States wake up to what's happening
and understand the true nature of it. And my tangential
rumination is, at what point is the mainstream media, which
has a grit great deal of sympathy toward the left
(21:03):
and the Palestinians because they've been steeped in the same
educational you know waters as these protesters, when are they
going to be honest about it? Because I think when
the awareness grows to a certain point, people are going
to be like, that's what these people are in favor of.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
These are the things they're chanting. They're not just wanting
Palestinian children to be safe. That's going to be an
interesting clash.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
So on the chant of we don't want no two states,
we want all of it. An AEI American Enterprise Institute,
a guy analyzed, don't let them tell you these protests
are about a cease fire or the goal of establishing
a Palestinian state, which is undoable anyway. It's always been
about eradicating Israel and killing the Jews. The videos, like
the chant below are way too widespread to dismiss.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yes, I think that is perfectly clear, although as you.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Just pointed out, not being grasped by ABC, NBC, Washington
Post whoever. And then to the guy leading the Columbia
protest said, be glad, be grateful that I'm not just
going out and murdering Zionists, and guy Benson and Fox said,
what does it take to get expelled from Columbia?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah? No kidding, Wow, wow, no kidding. Huh. What a
lot of Americans don't understand.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I think they maybe are starting to is unlike the
two thirds, maybe even three quarters, of the right three
quarters of American politics, you ask for exactly what you want. Specifically,
you tend not to hide your main goal. Now, some
(22:38):
lobbyists might and activists might, I suppose, But what Americans
don't get is that Marxists lie routinely.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's part of the philosophy.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
You get where you want to go by any means necessary.
Perhaps you've heard that phrase. It's true in Islamism too,
that to deceive the unbelievers is not a sin, it's
an important tool.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's how you get power. And so I think people
are slow to pick up on.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
That. These protesters, what especially the leadership is calling for,
is not an honest expression of what they want. Although
some of those chants, you know, we don't want two states,
we want all of it. Well, at least they're being honest. Now,
we want to wipe the Jews off the map.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Here's one of the colleges, I don't remember which one.
It doesn't really make any difference with their list of demands.
That the universities are making such a mistake of even
even acting like there's a negotiation going on.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Don't even play that game. We're not negotiating anything. You
gotta leave. These are the five things we want. You're
not getting anything.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You gotta leave is the only response once you enter
into the negotiation. It gives them so much I don't know,
power and leverage, and it puts in other people's minds
that like, Okay, this makes sense. There's a negotiation going on, well.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Right, and there's an assumption that they're negotiating the radical
kids in good faith.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That's what I was just talking about. They're not anyway.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
One of the leaders at this particular university said, we
have a right to control where our tuition goes, and
it should never go to oppressing any people anywhere.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
No, you don't have a right.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
To go find a school that invests the way you
want them to. You're gone, goodbye here.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Exactly, any more than I have a right for a
restaurant to give me the service I want. If I
don't like it, I have to spend my money elsewhere
I can.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Here's your money back. Goodbye, goodbye, No, no leave now, goodbye.
We're gonna arrest you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
So who allows them to have that thought in their
head that they have a right to say where their
tuition money goes. That's specifically what they were taught from
kindergarten through grad school. The monster created by the American
leftist education CAUPAL is now rearing its ugly heads.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Again.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
This is not shocking to those of us who have
been warning about it for years now. It's like, well,
of course the sun came up. I told you the
son would go it was gonna come up.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
But now it's up.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Now what do we do about it? And I'm not
trying to lecture people or make them feel bad about it.
They're making a living, they're feeding their families, They're going
about their business. They don't have time to study socio
political trends like I do.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And it's made me a miserable person. By the way,
So and again I sounded too high handed there.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I just I want to make it clear to everybody
that this has been a long process and an unavoidable
result of that process. Go to your local elementary school.
Are they teaching the genderbread person? Are they teaching.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Systemic anything, systemic racism?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Whatever? Have they uttered the word intersectionality? If so, they're
teaching your kids this sort of neo Marxism.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Can you imagine a different setting where the leader talking
about gay people, black people, name the group yeah was
talking about I've never killed before, and I hope I
don't have to.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
What you would be drummed out of everything, everything but
the plan, maybe the Nazi Party. Even then they think, wow,
he's crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Hey.
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the pro Hamas encampment, have felt at my duty to
counter protest and show solidarity with the Jewish students on campus,
as did about one hundred other pro Israel people. We're
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the protesters that were there were obviously well trained and
(27:51):
knew what to do exactly. There's no way they were
just students. When a few of us got up on
a platform waving the Israeli flag as soon as it
starts and getting dark, one guy, face completely covered with
a kaffia, told people to start pushing us out. They
immediately started climbing the platform next to us inching their
way in. To get us to leave, they shoved a
couple of our guys off the platform slowly pushed all
(28:12):
of us away. When I stood my ground, a young man,
face covered, tried to grab my flag out of my hand.
I'm a middle aged woman. My face was not covered.
I managed to keep the flag, at which point someone
need me from behind, causing me to fall off the platform.
I fell on their safety officer, who told me I
should leave. They're safely the officer. That's hilarious. Someone else
(28:33):
grabbed my flag and pulled me so I hit the
edge of the platform, injuring both of my knees. I
told them I felt totally safe and had the right
to be there like they did, so they immediately formed
a circle around me, locked arms, and slowly pushed me out.
I was flabbergasted. It was like a military exercise, like
they'd been trained.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
To do this.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I want to know if there's training them and showing
them how to act like soldiers.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
You know, we talked about this a lot back during
the period of time where we're all being told that
microaggressions were violence and all that sort of stuff. All
these different layers of safety officers, and we've gone through
the salaries they make.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
And all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
So you got somebody who's a safety officer making sure
nobody gets misgendered. Or what was the example the other day,
Nobody gets away with wearing a sombrero for a Halloween
costume because that's cultural appropriation, you know, that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But you're allowing peaceful protesters to.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Actually get pushed off of a stage by violent protesters
at your chance and kill the Jews. Yeah, we're the
safety officers there to make sure nobody gets misgendered though.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So it's just a couple more things from Aleen Anonymous.
How do these students quote unquote have time for this
in the middle of their midterms? Very reminiscent of the
occupy movement, the anarchists always do this, blah blah blah.
The good news is, in my mind that their numbers
were not impressive at all, and most there were about
three hundred people total, not impressive given twenty four thousand
students in total of over forty thousand people who work
(29:53):
and attend UCLA. Most were totally clueless about what was happening,
and we suspect.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
They were there for the free food.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I hope more people will help us to stand up
to these professional anarchists, to uphold Western values, because you
know what they say, first we get the Saturday people,
then the Sunday people. It's not the Jews or Israel
they hate, it's our democratic Western values. KTTT keep telling
the truth. We'll do Thanks for the note.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I heard somebody point out the underappreciated part of Mike
Johnson's speech the other day, the Speaker of the House
when he was at Columbia, where he said go back
to class. That is underappreciated.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Just go back to class. Be a college student. That's
what you're here for. If you don't want to do that,
leave the idea.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That after a year or two, or even four or
six of college you know enough to tell the rest
of the world how it should function is hilarious. You
are an ass clown, my young friend, just as every
generation before.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
You has engaged in similar ass clownery.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
On the other hand, at some point you got to
check yourself and say, oh, all these people are laughing
at me, or they ought to be. When your seven
year old starts handing out orders, you should be chuckling
at them. And if they get out of hand, we
need to spank them.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I hate it when you use political science terms that
I have to look up, like AC that you just dropped, Well,
it's an AC. I'll have to look it up in Wikipedia.
We've got Katie's headlines on the way. Lots of news today,
so stay here. Two quick texts before we get to
(31:31):
Katie's headlines. We get this now, and then, what is
Zionism or what are you talking about with the Zionis.
That's the idea that Jews should have their own state.
It was a movement originally to try to get a
homeland for the Jews, and then since then it's about
protecting a homeland for the Jews. But sometimes it's used
as Sometimes it's legit, like I don't have any problem
(31:52):
with Jews. I just don't think they should have this
much land or this land or whatever. But it's often
an excuse for getting out of trouble being anti Jew sometimes,
so it depends on the person. I'm not anti I
don't hate Jews, I just I don't believe in Zionism,
So all.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Right, I think there should be a two state solution,
and Israel's not cooperating right.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
We also got this. You guys are taking this way
too lightly? Really, what really how heavy and dark should
we go?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Would you have us assemble an army of vigilantes under
our command? I mean, I'm not sure how to be
more strong about.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Maybe you don't like the wea chuckle now and then,
but in the midst of our chuckles, we're throwing around
things like this is the end of civilization.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
So it seems pretty heavy to me. They're indoctrinating your
children into marxism as and it's all going in a
strong direction and it'll be a disaster for Western civilization.
I'm not sure how to go darker than that, but
I'll work on it. Let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Thank you guys from NBC News, Key prosecution witness and
Trump trial to face grilling from former presidents lawyers.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
The more I dig into the Trump trial in Manhattan,
the angrier I get about the miscarriage of justice, that
it is nakedly, indefensibly lawfair for political purposes.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
This trial is a joke. Right, Well, we'll talk more
about that later.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
We've got some clips on that, but it's going to
be interesting to see what direction he goes.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
From Reuters, US economy sees low growth, high inflation in
first quarter.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, got some more anawly so to that coming up.
It is practically the worst of both worlds. In forty
eight hours from.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
The Washington Post, colleges changed graduation plans as protests spread
to more campuses.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
These poor youngsters, they're number one. They're dopey and misguided,
not the hardcore activist types. But they started their college
career remotely in COVID and I have dealt with these
stupid politics. Now they don't have a graduation because the
radical jackass is a.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I gotta believe it, all of it, even Colombia. I
gotta believe it. All of these universities.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
The vast majority of the students aren't where the protesters are.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Am I wrong? Correct? No? No, you're right, you're right.
You know, the well of support may differ from school
to school, but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
From ABC seven in LA, more properties are being targeted
by squatters across LA, turning homes into complete chaos.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I gotta do this, I'm on renter. Yeah, the housing
situation is just depressing me. I gotta just pick a
house and live in it.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Or you could just stop paying your rent and make
some sort of wild claim that has to be litigated,
and you'll you'll get a minimum and cal unicornea of
six months rent free minimum.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I want a better house, so I got to you
got I gotta grab one of those houses that's open
for sale. I got to teach my kids to cry
on Q but my children and I print out some
sort of thing at you know, Kinko's copiers, says this
is my lease or my deed or something right.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Exactly, and call a railtor and say, you know, I
want to move quickly, so just show me uninhabited houses, right.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And then squat away, squat away.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
From Fox News, Representative Adam Schiff reportedly robbed in San Francisco,
forced to attend Ritzy campaign dinner.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
With no suit to wear. He actually got robbed.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yeah, his car got broken into in a parking garage.
Come on, with all the headlines, you don't know not
to leave stuff in your car in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
He might not. From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Panic as automatic sprinklers soak Harvard's anti Israel encampment.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I've wanted to do this constantly ton of water. Long kids,
you're in the way, big hoes, just spray him down. Yes.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
And finally the Babylon Bee, a protesting college student, is
starving to death as door dash driver unable to locate tent.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Unfortunately, the activist groups that are backing all of this,
the neo Marxists, Islamists.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Whatever, are bringing the kids food. The kids.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
They are kids, emotionally, intellectually, their children. They're angry little children.
They need to be spanked.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I still think there are going to be more graduations canceled,
which is just horrible.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Are we going to allow this to happen? Are the
parents going to allow this to happen?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
A lot of good stuff next hour are gonna help
you and us understand what's going on in a way
that you probably haven't heard before.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty
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