WEBVTT - Start With The Scumbags 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.760 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:17.239 and je and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.600 In the days after our report aired, CNN started talking 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.600 to people in the city of hamps who told us 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.479 that his real name is in fact Salama Mohammed Salama. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:52.000 He is reportedly a lieutenant in the Air Force Intelligence Directorate. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.840 He's accused of extorting and harassing people. And we have 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.960 now been able to corroborate the information, and it's clear 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.080 that far from being an ordinary guy as he presented 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.920 himself to be, he was a part of Bashar al 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:10.280 Assad's brutal regime who somehow found himself in prison. We 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.360 are continuing to dig, obviously, and as of this moment, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.840 we have not been able to contact Salama himself. Stories 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.120 take unexpected turns. We continue to report them, you know, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.360 without fear or favor, but it is immensely challenging in 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.800 this environment, and I think we need to be transparent 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:27.240 about that. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.760 Good for you, I mean the unexpected turn of you 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.039 liberated one of the worst human beings on earth. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.000 Hey, we free to torturous monster and claimed it was 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.399 a beautiful humanitarian moment. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:38.080 These things happen. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.360 I'm just looking at this picture. I just saw up 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.440 until the fall of Bushar al Asad's regime, no drones 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.080 were allowed to fly over Damascus's ancient city, the old 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:52.440 part of Damascus, which is the oldest continually inhabited city. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:52.960 In the world. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.000 Yeah, and while reporting on the rebels takeover of serious, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.760 CBS News captured rare footage, So you've got footage over 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:04.320 that area for the first time in fifty years maybe ever, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:06.200 which is really kind of interesting. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:07.880 I look forward to looking that. But that reminds me. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.959 So I'm reading this book about Iraq and Saddam Hussein 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.560 called the Achilles Heel or something like that. But anyway, 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.639 Saddam and Assad hated each other. They hated each other 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.200 more than they hated Jews, as both of them agreed 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.799 at one point, which is really saying something. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.400 They hated just standard in the Middle East more than 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:28.320 they hated Israel. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.239 And so the whole thing is fascinating our relationship with 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:34.720 the Middle East, and it's one of the reasons I'm 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.160 like in this book is just the way we've done 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:38.640 it in the past and the way we're likely to 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.160 do it in the future. Like, for instance, in this 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.840 particular section of the book, Donald Rumsfeld, this is nineteen 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:52.160 eighty two, Donald Rumsfeld. Yeah, that Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.080 sitting on a couch talking to Sadam Hussein in nineteen 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.639 eighty two, trying to convince Sadam Hussein to take our 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.760 CIA photos to help him in his war against Iran. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.600 Sadam who doesn't trust us. He thinks we're trying to 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.160 pull the old TRICKERU or something like that. We're actually 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.520 trying to help him because we're on his side versus Iran, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.760 just because we hate Iran so much. But yeah, freaking 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.799 Rumsfeld sitting there having cigars with Sadam Hussein in nineteen 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.960 eighty two. I mean, man, the future they were going 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.160 to have that they didn't know about. They're horrific, bloody 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:30.600 war with Iran. Yeah, and we were overlooking the fact 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:36.640 that Sadam Hussein had already gassed the Iranians and built 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:43.960 very soon the largest, most sophisticated chemical weapons facility on Earth, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.200 better than Russia had, better than we had, better than 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.360 anybody had on the planet. Yeah, so he did have 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.440 weapons of mass destruction certainly at one point. Oh yeah, 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.240 any who has a parting gift because Sadam was like 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:01.440 trying to leverage more help against a sad because he 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.680 hated a SOD so much in Syria, and we hated 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.120 Syria too, so our big enemies were we called, I 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.680 think Reagan called Syria the bad boy of the Middle East, 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.480 and we hated Iran in Syria and sat and wanted 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.839 to help on that. He gave as a parting gift 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.840 to Rumsfeld when he left a video, and it was 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:26.640 a poorly put together obviously edited, but tried to make 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:28.520 it look like so it had pictures of Ashar al 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:35.400 Assad laughing and applauding, then it skipped to people strangling puppies, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.159 and then back to a stem minute. Then you got 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.039 to give her a trigger warning or I know, I know, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.120 but so they edited a SOD clapping and laughing people 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.960 stringing puppetisn't back to asad to try to make. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.960 It look like he was a guy who applauded. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.800 And laughed at strangling puppies, and Asadom apparently thought we 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:56.600 wouldn't catch on. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.119 But it was an edit or something like that. I got, Lord, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.280 it's surreal, isn't it? And incredibly trumpled. 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:04.600 And Rumsfeldt looked at that. I mean when they got 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.839 back then I Sayshwake, what the hell? What are we 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:08.839 dealing with here? 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.240 Oh? My lord, that is surreal. I know. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.120 The Middle East is so crazy, always has been, may 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:18.719 always be. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.520 Yeah, any region run by religious fanaticism is going to 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:25.080 be nuts. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:25.719 Wow. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.960 Change of tone and direction here to domestic policy. Perhaps 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.719 you heard the news. I had several people bring this 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.560 up in real life to me yesterday. Aurora, Colorado police 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:41.480 detained fourteen suspects Tuesday after officers responded to a report 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.360 of a home invasion with weapons. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.640 This happened at the edge at Loude. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.880 This has at one apartment complex. Remember what Martha radd 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.400 had said to JD. Vans there's one apartment complex and 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.520 Jad said exactly how many apartment complexes need to be 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.680 taken over by violent gangs before that. 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.000 Is in gangs? Right? 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.159 But before your concerned, Martha, I was going to bring 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:04.440 that up. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:05.480 We should ask for the clip. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.440 But yeah, that was an astounding moment in media complicity 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:15.520 and dishonesty and unbelievable. It's only one apartment complex in 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.640 suburban Colorado that you know, a person could pause there 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:25.320 and consider for a minute what sort of bias and 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.280 unwillingness to report anything that would tend to reinforce any 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.960 of your opponents, you know, policies or ideas. You'd have 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:38.600 to be practically fanatical well and so not self serving. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.200 From the Martha at its point of view, you helped 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.680 get Trump elected. Most people, a lot of people who 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.400 saw that, at least like in the echo chamber, because 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.279 they didn't watch it live, because I didn't watch your 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:54.360 stupid shows. That helped Trump get more votes because people 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:54.880 are like, what. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.640 Are you talking about, pretending that it's not a big deal. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.960 Yeah, yeah, and seriously, I mean, anybody who listens to 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.760 the show knows I'm vehemently against the DEI, the neo 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.440 Marxist stuff, the radical gender theory, stuff like that. But 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.440 if somebody brought to my attention, or brought to our 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:18.520 attention actual racism, like on a college campus, do you 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.760 think we would you know, pooh PuO it or tut 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.000 tutt or say well it's just one guy who was 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.840 beaten down or something. No, we'd say it's awful, it's despicable. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.320 How nuts do you have to be if there's an 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:35.320 armed home invasion by Venezuelan illegal gangs taking over apartment complexes, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.360 that you say it's just one complex, you're freaking nuts. Anyway, 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:44.080 back to Aurora police, So, just before two thirty in 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.640 the morning, cops responded to a report of an armed 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:51.200 home invasion involving a stabbing and a kidnapping, ended up 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:58.880 arresting thirteen males from possibly three females. On this this 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.800 horrend this crime that I believe city council member Danielle 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:09.280 Jurinsky describes here. I'll fill in Andy blank. She leaves sixty. Michael, 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:10.000 We'll go from there. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.080 I am tired of this being portrayed as just another 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.840 gang in Aurora. This is so heinous. This is a 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.240 whole different level, and I am tired of it. I've 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.280 been called a liar, I've been told this was in 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.080 my imagination. This has been downplayed and people are suffering. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.160 And I will not be silenced on this issue. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.960 Roll on, Michael, this is unfortunately not something that you 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.880 want to be able to say. I told you so, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:42.000 on but I told you so, and nobody wanted to 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.120 listen to me. This very much turned into political theater 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:51.120 leading up to the presidential election, and many people have suffered. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.480 So the first bit of audio there was for a 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.000 press conference she did. The second was an interview with 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.040 Fox and Friends, and I will just tell you briefly. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:08.400 A couple was at home in their apartment when thirteen 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:14.200 to sixteen gang members entered it at eight forty five 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.120 in the evening. Investigators say the suspects moved the victims 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:22.000 to another apartment building on the property, where they were threatened, bound, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.520 and assaulted. An adult male sustained a non threatening stab wound. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.640 Yeah, don't go too fast by that. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.800 Imagine gang members show me your and moving you to 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.640 another room. You'd think you were gonna die. I get 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.160 to another apartment, it would be just, oh. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.800 My god, said the police chief. The victims were held 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.200 against their will. They were bound, both the male and 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.040 the female. They were pistol whipped, they were beaten, they 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.640 were victimized, they were terrorized. Other folks are using the 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.719 term torture, and of course obviously that's appropriate. During the 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.079 time they were held, the police Chief, Todd Chamberlain said, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.320 the suspects went to the victim's apartment and burglarized and 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.000 took over that apartment, taking items of value that belonged 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.079 to the victims. Tell you what, you can take anything 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.560 you want. Stop torturing me. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:04.560 Please. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.120 The fact that the Tops, God bless them, say we're 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:08.800 going to get everybody involved, the. 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.920 Fact that these gangs think they can do that in 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.040 the United States is so troubling. 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.319 And they've got Martha Radditts and ABC News and others 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.319 trying to soft pedal it. Good lord, next clip, Michael, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.559 back to Danielle Jerinski. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:26.160 This isn't just assault, This isn't just fistfights. This is 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:31.120 absolute torture what some of these people have been going through. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.160 And once the Americans were moved out of the complex, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.480 this is the most vulnerable population left. These are other 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.880 migrants who some of them don't even really realize where 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.080 they are. They were simply dropped off in the middle 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.400 of the night in some cases. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.520 And finally, sixty three Michael, yesterday. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:57.800 The police response to these two victims was huge. The 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.640 police presence in this neighborhood right now is huge. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:02.800 He has made. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.800 Clear that we will not stand for this. It is 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.880 a new day in the Aurora place to go this. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:15.120 You can't import new cultures by the thousands, tens of thousands, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.280 hundreds of thousands of millions, and not have it change 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:22.120 your culture. Obviously, the math doesn't work on that. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.960 And our greatest strength is not diversity. That was a lie. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:32.400 That was a greeting card level dopey claim. Diversity is fine, 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.040 it's a challenge and a good thing in a lot 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.240 of different ways. But our greatest strength is unity. By far, 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.280 your greatest strength is diversity. That's one of the stupidest 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.760 thing that's ever been said. And shared values are at 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.400 the heart of what I'm saying. You have to have 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:52.520 shared values. And if you have young gang members brought 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:57.680 up in communist Venezuela where law andlorder has broken down, 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.680 you got a strong man dictator. The only way to 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.840 make it on the streets is to be tougher and 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.840 faster and more vicious than the next guy. And then 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.520 you bring them into the United States. You think they 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.240 share your values? Do you, Martha? 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:16.320 Unbelievable. It's a highly troubling story. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.040 There's a couple of stories that are going to be 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:24.880 giant next year. Trump tax cuts, that battle, the doge battle, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.520 and the deportation program that is going to start like 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.600 on day one. The media is going to work really 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.959 hard to give you the most sympathetic stories to their 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:39.000 standpoint that they possibly can of. You know, innocent, decent, 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.199 hardworking people being kicked out of the country. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.040 But it was convicted of Jaywalkie in nineteen ninety five. Right, 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:48.920 they'll pick out the one sympathetic case. 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.520 But if the Trump crowd can do a good job 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.439 at getting to actual criminals and boot them out of 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.680 the country, it's gonna make him pretty popular. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.760 Mm hmm. Start with scumbags. Nobody's going to object. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.520 Right, We've got a great text on somebody who invented 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.800 a new word. I would like to get to Webster's 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.880 dictionary because I deal with it all the time, among 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.040 other things. On the way, stay here, arm Strong. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.800 Apparently, according to a new poll, Americans are over Christmas traditions. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.640 One tradition that a lot of people are ready to 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.960 shake up is the holiday meal, evidently, with many people 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.400 saying that this year they want burgers. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:24.720 Instead of turkey. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.959 But I got to ask, if we eat burgers on Christmas, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.280 what are we going to eat on the fourth of July? 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.319 This just throws off the whole festive food calendar. I 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:37.079 can't eat burritos on our bor day. It's not just burgers. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.120 Forty four percent of responding say they want pizza, thirty 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:45.680 eight percent said tacos, and thirty four percent said Chinese takeout. Yes, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.120 that thirty four percent also celebrates Christmas by watching a 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.920 movie and then lighting Hanukka candles. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.440 I think that's breakdown the American family stuff. The people 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.679 don't care about traditions. But anyway, I don't want to get 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.480 caught up on that. Somebody on the text line reminded 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:09.439 us that Martha Raddits's phrasing to JD Vance about the Aurora, 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.520 Colorado thing was it was a handful of apartment buildings, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.440 she said to JD. And he said, how many would 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.839 it have to be before you'd be concerned? Which is 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:24.600 a good response. We got this text a word that 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.280 should be in the dictionary. I've dealt with this recently. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:33.520 Packaging frustrating instead of packaging. Packaging frustration felt when trying 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.160 to open a plastic sealed product. Also response to cutting 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.960 yourself with a box cutter, opening a plastic clamshell or 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.360 blister pack that is impossible to open, or cutting yourself 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.200 with the plastic itself, which is sharp as a nice 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.720 There needs to be a tool. I'm surprised somebody hasn't 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.680 invented a tool, like a really safe tool, like a 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.840 safety says or something that easily cuts through that stuff 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.680 so you can get out your floonnaise. The other day 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.600 is get out flownase for my allergies. The packaging was 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:00.960 since on that. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.720 Because of thieves, mostly. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.160 Because of thieves, because that tiny little bottle is like 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.400 twenty five bucks or something, so they put it in 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.160 the big, giant plastic so it's a little harder to 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.320 you know, jab it in your pants or whatever so 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:16.000 you can steal it. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.120 Well, they got to make them big as a milk jug. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.440 Then it's going to be interesting to see how this 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:25.800 plays out. New York is going to do kind of 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.760 what California is doing, and that is starting to crack 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:33.240 down on the mentally ill or put them in some 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.560 sort facility help help them. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.280 Well, we'll see how it turns out. I hope you're right. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.280 Specifically, following a string of horrifying subway attacks, May Eric 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:48.040 Adams dramatically expanded the city's ability to do involuntarily commit 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:52.440 New Yorkers with chronic and untreated mental illness. City workers 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:57.360 can now immediately hospitalize people who refuse treatment even if 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.640 they don't pose a clear and present danger to themselves 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.240 or others. So I'm not exactly sure what kind of 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.760 judgment call goes on in there. I don't have a 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.960 problem with this, by the way, but I'm not sure 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.080 what kind of judgment call is being made by somebody. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.920 It's probably not as sharp as you hope. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.440 They are, whether or not they ought to be committed 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.320 involuntarily even though they're posing no danger to themselves or 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:18.360 others at the moment. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:19.680 This is one of those. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.720 Things because obviously we agree it's gone way too far 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.960 in the other direction, and what you can get completely 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.240 looney tunes people and junkies running around. They can't take 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.400 care of themselves, they're a danger, et cetera, et cetera. 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.720 There is no perfect way to do this. I think 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.240 we just as a society have to say, all right, look, 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.720 we're going to scrutinize whatever programs we have all the 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.600 time to make sure people's rights are protected. There's no 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.160 perfect way to do this, so don't look for it perfect. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.320 This is the perfect example of the perfect being the 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.280 enemy of the good. We've got to get all these 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.840 mental ill people off the streets. You think it's doing 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.640 them a favor by letting them starve, and you robbed 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.480 and abused and be cold on this streets. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.400 What the hell? By the way, I didn't get to 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:02.760 this story. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.640 I'll have to later the NYC homeless shelters who are 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.800 taking massive salaries for the people who run them at 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:10.679 taxpayer expense. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:18.119 Of course, Armstrong and Getty, I love this song, but 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.800 it's a great song and it's. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.840 You know, it's a heartbreak song that just happened to 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.920 happen around Christmas time, quite the same as the theme 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:31.000 of most Christmas song. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:36.199 I don't know, right, Yeah, I see your point. I 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.199 want to get this story, hun before we moved on 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:40.800 to the main thing. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:42.639 I'm sure this is true in lots of different places, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.080 including California, where my tax money goes to die, But 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.480 in New York City, where they're throwing lots of money 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.359 at the homeless problem, like they are all over the place. Hey, 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.560 a new report showed a whole bunch of people that 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:00.639 are running the homeless shelters are giving themselves massive salaries. Yeah, 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.600 top executors, executives of taxpayer funded groups running the city's 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.280 homeless shelters gave themselves some massive salaries, and some of 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.119 the nonprofits still haven't reported their pay A new report 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.840 revealed nonprofits aheah nonprofit except for me. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.440 Again, We've explained that before. Yes, we have a nonprofit. 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.240 Jack earns a salary of two point three million dollars. 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.440 I take Fridays off, so I earn a salary of 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.560 one point nine million dollars. But don't worry, we don't 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:29.719 make any profits. 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.160 City Hall in New York is scrambling to make changes 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.240 to its provider compliance process. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:38.840 Oh, that was the problem. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.960 There was a mistake with the provider compliance process. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.680 Yeah, the CPP is a little out of line. We're 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:45.760 working to realign our. 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.240 CPP after what has turned out to be an embarrassing 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.840 report from the Department of Investigations exposed inflated salaries. Nepotism. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.200 Does nepotism have to be family members? Are going to 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.399 be friends? That specifically mean family members? 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.520 Good question. I always assume means family members too. Do 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.120 not know for certain either way, it's horrifying. So you're 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:05.200 hiring you or your. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.119 Kids, or your wife or whatever to also get in 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.119 on the deal and a lack of competitive bidding in 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:15.679 the city shelter contracting process. You morons in blue cities 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.119 and blue states who are willing to just throw money 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.119 at tear jerker problems like the homeless, or puppies or 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:26.120 whatever the hell it is without any follow through because 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.520 you trust that the other people care about this as 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.160 much as you do and won't waste a dime. They're 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.720 just gonna do what's best. You're safe, stupid. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:35.600 I mean, I just I don't know how you how 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.920 you last past being eight years old. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.840 I know they think with their hearts and their egos 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:41.800 and not with their heads. 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.800 It makes me insane. Thirteen of the ages because they 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:45.520 get my money. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.120 Thirteen of the eighty seven shelters haven't provided their executive's compensation. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:51.320 I wonder why. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.520 I wonder why they don't want to provide that anyway, 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.720 Actually getting to some of them. In one instance, the 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.520 chief executive of a shelter provided a provider paid himself 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.640 because it was his decision on how much he got 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.320 paid A million dollars a year. How much do you 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.520 think I ought to make? I think I've decided I'm 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:07.960 worth a million dollars a year. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.879 You know me, I work very hard, and I have 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.600 been very impressed with my performance this year, and I'm 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.080 going to give me a raise. 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.840 Almost entirely funded by city taxes. By the way, this 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.560 report says the president and CEO of some other group 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.560 acronym you've never heard of received more than seven hundred 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.720 thousand dollars. Uh. Here's somebody who had made nine hundred 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:32.800 and sixteen thousand dollars two years ago. Some of the 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.440 nonprofits enhanced senior executives pay by contracting to other companies 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:36.800 they own. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:37.879 Wow. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.160 Wow, yeah, double dealing. Anyway, there's a bunch of examples 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:43.359 of this. It's it's all the same. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.480 Well, yeah, those no bid contracts weren't awarded at random. 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.840 They were awarded to their friends, their cronies, and themselves obviously. 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:51.720 God dang it. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.640 And when you try to do anything about this, like doge, 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.199 you know, an evil, mean capitalist is going to come 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.719 in and take away government jobs. 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.159 Or you're trying to balance the budget on the backs 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.160 of the homeless or society's most vulnerable. And why don't 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.880 you tell you what those who sip who sup at 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:16.160 the government trough, they're skilled at defending what they do 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.400 and putting everybody on the back foot. They're good at it. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.760 Why don't you liberals, progressives who care so much about 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:23.040 these things more than I do. 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:25.480 You're probably a better person than me for caring about 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:25.960 these things. 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:31.040 Why don't you get more upset than even me when 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.479 you find out somebody is getting a million dollars who 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.920 could certainly do that job for two hundred thousand dollars 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:38.000 or whatever it ought to pay, as opposed to the 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:39.399 money going to actually help the homeless. 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:40.560 You should be more upset than me. 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.080