Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm Strong
Speaker 1: and je and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: In the days after our report aired, CNN started talking
Speaker 2: to people in the city of hamps who told us
Speaker 2: that his real name is in fact Salama Mohammed Salama.
Speaker 2: He is reportedly a lieutenant in the Air Force Intelligence Directorate.
Speaker 2: He's accused of extorting and harassing people. And we have
Speaker 2: now been able to corroborate the information, and it's clear
Speaker 2: that far from being an ordinary guy as he presented
Speaker 2: himself to be, he was a part of Bashar al
Speaker 2: Assad's brutal regime who somehow found himself in prison. We
Speaker 2: are continuing to dig, obviously, and as of this moment,
Speaker 2: we have not been able to contact Salama himself. Stories
Speaker 2: take unexpected turns. We continue to report them, you know,
Speaker 2: without fear or favor, but it is immensely challenging in
Speaker 2: this environment, and I think we need to be transparent
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 3: Good for you, I mean the unexpected turn of you
Speaker 3: liberated one of the worst human beings on earth.
Speaker 4: Hey, we free to torturous monster and claimed it was
Speaker 4: a beautiful humanitarian moment.
Speaker 1: These things happen.
Speaker 3: I'm just looking at this picture. I just saw up
Speaker 3: until the fall of Bushar al Asad's regime, no drones
Speaker 3: were allowed to fly over Damascus's ancient city, the old
Speaker 3: part of Damascus, which is the oldest continually inhabited city.
Speaker 1: In the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and while reporting on the rebels takeover of serious,
Speaker 3: CBS News captured rare footage, So you've got footage over
Speaker 3: that area for the first time in fifty years maybe ever,
Speaker 3: which is really kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: I look forward to looking that. But that reminds me.
Speaker 3: So I'm reading this book about Iraq and Saddam Hussein
Speaker 3: called the Achilles Heel or something like that. But anyway,
Speaker 3: Saddam and Assad hated each other. They hated each other
Speaker 3: more than they hated Jews, as both of them agreed
Speaker 3: at one point, which is really saying something.
Speaker 1: They hated just standard in the Middle East more than
Speaker 1: they hated Israel.
Speaker 3: And so the whole thing is fascinating our relationship with
Speaker 3: the Middle East, and it's one of the reasons I'm
Speaker 3: like in this book is just the way we've done
Speaker 3: it in the past and the way we're likely to
Speaker 3: do it in the future. Like, for instance, in this
Speaker 3: particular section of the book, Donald Rumsfeld, this is nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty two, Donald Rumsfeld. Yeah, that Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq,
Speaker 3: sitting on a couch talking to Sadam Hussein in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty two, trying to convince Sadam Hussein to take our
Speaker 3: CIA photos to help him in his war against Iran.
Speaker 3: Sadam who doesn't trust us. He thinks we're trying to
Speaker 3: pull the old TRICKERU or something like that. We're actually
Speaker 3: trying to help him because we're on his side versus Iran,
Speaker 3: just because we hate Iran so much. But yeah, freaking
Speaker 3: Rumsfeld sitting there having cigars with Sadam Hussein in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty two. I mean, man, the future they were going
Speaker 3: to have that they didn't know about. They're horrific, bloody
Speaker 3: war with Iran. Yeah, and we were overlooking the fact
Speaker 3: that Sadam Hussein had already gassed the Iranians and built
Speaker 3: very soon the largest, most sophisticated chemical weapons facility on Earth,
Speaker 3: better than Russia had, better than we had, better than
Speaker 3: anybody had on the planet. Yeah, so he did have
Speaker 3: weapons of mass destruction certainly at one point. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: any who has a parting gift because Sadam was like
Speaker 3: trying to leverage more help against a sad because he
Speaker 3: hated a SOD so much in Syria, and we hated
Speaker 3: Syria too, so our big enemies were we called, I
Speaker 3: think Reagan called Syria the bad boy of the Middle East,
Speaker 3: and we hated Iran in Syria and sat and wanted
Speaker 3: to help on that. He gave as a parting gift
Speaker 3: to Rumsfeld when he left a video, and it was
Speaker 3: a poorly put together obviously edited, but tried to make
Speaker 3: it look like so it had pictures of Ashar al
Speaker 3: Assad laughing and applauding, then it skipped to people strangling puppies,
Speaker 3: and then back to a stem minute. Then you got
Speaker 3: to give her a trigger warning or I know, I know,
Speaker 3: but so they edited a SOD clapping and laughing people
Speaker 3: stringing puppetisn't back to asad to try to make.
Speaker 1: It look like he was a guy who applauded.
Speaker 3: And laughed at strangling puppies, and Asadom apparently thought we
Speaker 3: wouldn't catch on.
Speaker 4: But it was an edit or something like that. I got, Lord,
Speaker 4: it's surreal, isn't it? And incredibly trumpled.
Speaker 3: And Rumsfeldt looked at that. I mean when they got
Speaker 3: back then I Sayshwake, what the hell? What are we
Speaker 3: dealing with here?
Speaker 1: Oh? My lord, that is surreal. I know.
Speaker 3: The Middle East is so crazy, always has been, may
Speaker 3: always be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, any region run by religious fanaticism is going to
Speaker 4: be nuts.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Change of tone and direction here to domestic policy. Perhaps
Speaker 4: you heard the news. I had several people bring this
Speaker 4: up in real life to me yesterday. Aurora, Colorado police
Speaker 4: detained fourteen suspects Tuesday after officers responded to a report
Speaker 4: of a home invasion with weapons.
Speaker 1: This happened at the edge at Loude.
Speaker 3: This has at one apartment complex. Remember what Martha radd
Speaker 3: had said to JD. Vans there's one apartment complex and
Speaker 3: Jad said exactly how many apartment complexes need to be
Speaker 3: taken over by violent gangs before that.
Speaker 1: Is in gangs? Right?
Speaker 4: But before your concerned, Martha, I was going to bring
Speaker 4: that up.
Speaker 1: We should ask for the clip.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was an astounding moment in media complicity
Speaker 4: and dishonesty and unbelievable. It's only one apartment complex in
Speaker 4: suburban Colorado that you know, a person could pause there
Speaker 4: and consider for a minute what sort of bias and
Speaker 4: unwillingness to report anything that would tend to reinforce any
Speaker 4: of your opponents, you know, policies or ideas. You'd have
Speaker 4: to be practically fanatical well and so not self serving.
Speaker 3: From the Martha at its point of view, you helped
Speaker 3: get Trump elected. Most people, a lot of people who
Speaker 3: saw that, at least like in the echo chamber, because
Speaker 3: they didn't watch it live, because I didn't watch your
Speaker 3: stupid shows. That helped Trump get more votes because people
Speaker 3: are like, what.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about, pretending that it's not a big deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and seriously, I mean, anybody who listens to
Speaker 4: the show knows I'm vehemently against the DEI, the neo
Speaker 4: Marxist stuff, the radical gender theory, stuff like that. But
Speaker 4: if somebody brought to my attention, or brought to our
Speaker 4: attention actual racism, like on a college campus, do you
Speaker 4: think we would you know, pooh PuO it or tut
Speaker 4: tutt or say well it's just one guy who was
Speaker 4: beaten down or something. No, we'd say it's awful, it's despicable.
Speaker 4: How nuts do you have to be if there's an
Speaker 4: armed home invasion by Venezuelan illegal gangs taking over apartment complexes,
Speaker 4: that you say it's just one complex, you're freaking nuts. Anyway,
Speaker 4: back to Aurora police, So, just before two thirty in
Speaker 4: the morning, cops responded to a report of an armed
Speaker 4: home invasion involving a stabbing and a kidnapping, ended up
Speaker 4: arresting thirteen males from possibly three females. On this this
Speaker 4: horrend this crime that I believe city council member Danielle
Speaker 4: Jurinsky describes here. I'll fill in Andy blank. She leaves sixty. Michael,
Speaker 4: We'll go from there.
Speaker 5: I am tired of this being portrayed as just another
Speaker 5: gang in Aurora. This is so heinous. This is a
Speaker 5: whole different level, and I am tired of it. I've
Speaker 5: been called a liar, I've been told this was in
Speaker 5: my imagination. This has been downplayed and people are suffering.
Speaker 5: And I will not be silenced on this issue.
Speaker 6: Roll on, Michael, this is unfortunately not something that you
Speaker 6: want to be able to say. I told you so,
Speaker 6: on but I told you so, and nobody wanted to
Speaker 6: listen to me. This very much turned into political theater
Speaker 6: leading up to the presidential election, and many people have suffered.
Speaker 4: So the first bit of audio there was for a
Speaker 4: press conference she did. The second was an interview with
Speaker 4: Fox and Friends, and I will just tell you briefly.
Speaker 4: A couple was at home in their apartment when thirteen
Speaker 4: to sixteen gang members entered it at eight forty five
Speaker 4: in the evening. Investigators say the suspects moved the victims
Speaker 4: to another apartment building on the property, where they were threatened, bound,
Speaker 4: and assaulted. An adult male sustained a non threatening stab wound.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't go too fast by that.
Speaker 3: Imagine gang members show me your and moving you to
Speaker 3: another room. You'd think you were gonna die. I get
Speaker 3: to another apartment, it would be just, oh.
Speaker 4: My god, said the police chief. The victims were held
Speaker 4: against their will. They were bound, both the male and
Speaker 4: the female. They were pistol whipped, they were beaten, they
Speaker 4: were victimized, they were terrorized. Other folks are using the
Speaker 4: term torture, and of course obviously that's appropriate. During the
Speaker 4: time they were held, the police Chief, Todd Chamberlain said,
Speaker 4: the suspects went to the victim's apartment and burglarized and
Speaker 4: took over that apartment, taking items of value that belonged
Speaker 4: to the victims. Tell you what, you can take anything
Speaker 4: you want. Stop torturing me.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 4: The fact that the Tops, God bless them, say we're
Speaker 4: going to get everybody involved, the.
Speaker 3: Fact that these gangs think they can do that in
Speaker 3: the United States is so troubling.
Speaker 4: And they've got Martha Radditts and ABC News and others
Speaker 4: trying to soft pedal it. Good lord, next clip, Michael,
Speaker 4: back to Danielle Jerinski.
Speaker 6: This isn't just assault, This isn't just fistfights. This is
Speaker 6: absolute torture what some of these people have been going through.
Speaker 6: And once the Americans were moved out of the complex,
Speaker 6: this is the most vulnerable population left. These are other
Speaker 6: migrants who some of them don't even really realize where
Speaker 6: they are. They were simply dropped off in the middle
Speaker 6: of the night in some cases.
Speaker 1: And finally, sixty three Michael, yesterday.
Speaker 6: The police response to these two victims was huge. The
Speaker 6: police presence in this neighborhood right now is huge.
Speaker 1: He has made.
Speaker 6: Clear that we will not stand for this. It is
Speaker 6: a new day in the Aurora place to go this.
Speaker 3: You can't import new cultures by the thousands, tens of thousands,
Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of millions, and not have it change
Speaker 3: your culture. Obviously, the math doesn't work on that.
Speaker 1: And our greatest strength is not diversity. That was a lie.
Speaker 4: That was a greeting card level dopey claim. Diversity is fine,
Speaker 4: it's a challenge and a good thing in a lot
Speaker 4: of different ways. But our greatest strength is unity. By far,
Speaker 4: your greatest strength is diversity. That's one of the stupidest
Speaker 4: thing that's ever been said. And shared values are at
Speaker 4: the heart of what I'm saying. You have to have
Speaker 4: shared values. And if you have young gang members brought
Speaker 4: up in communist Venezuela where law andlorder has broken down,
Speaker 4: you got a strong man dictator. The only way to
Speaker 4: make it on the streets is to be tougher and
Speaker 4: faster and more vicious than the next guy. And then
Speaker 4: you bring them into the United States. You think they
Speaker 4: share your values? Do you, Martha?
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. It's a highly troubling story.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of stories that are going to be
Speaker 3: giant next year. Trump tax cuts, that battle, the doge battle,
Speaker 3: and the deportation program that is going to start like
Speaker 3: on day one. The media is going to work really
Speaker 3: hard to give you the most sympathetic stories to their
Speaker 3: standpoint that they possibly can of. You know, innocent, decent,
Speaker 3: hardworking people being kicked out of the country.
Speaker 4: But it was convicted of Jaywalkie in nineteen ninety five. Right,
Speaker 4: they'll pick out the one sympathetic case.
Speaker 3: But if the Trump crowd can do a good job
Speaker 3: at getting to actual criminals and boot them out of
Speaker 3: the country, it's gonna make him pretty popular.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Start with scumbags. Nobody's going to object.
Speaker 3: Right, We've got a great text on somebody who invented
Speaker 3: a new word. I would like to get to Webster's
Speaker 3: dictionary because I deal with it all the time, among
Speaker 3: other things. On the way, stay here, arm Strong.
Speaker 7: Apparently, according to a new poll, Americans are over Christmas traditions.
Speaker 7: One tradition that a lot of people are ready to
Speaker 7: shake up is the holiday meal, evidently, with many people
Speaker 7: saying that this year they want burgers.
Speaker 1: Instead of turkey.
Speaker 7: But I got to ask, if we eat burgers on Christmas,
Speaker 7: what are we going to eat on the fourth of July?
Speaker 7: This just throws off the whole festive food calendar. I
Speaker 7: can't eat burritos on our bor day. It's not just burgers.
Speaker 7: Forty four percent of responding say they want pizza, thirty
Speaker 7: eight percent said tacos, and thirty four percent said Chinese takeout. Yes,
Speaker 7: that thirty four percent also celebrates Christmas by watching a
Speaker 7: movie and then lighting Hanukka candles.
Speaker 3: I think that's breakdown the American family stuff. The people
Speaker 3: don't care about traditions. But anyway, I don't want to get
Speaker 3: caught up on that. Somebody on the text line reminded
Speaker 3: us that Martha Raddits's phrasing to JD Vance about the Aurora,
Speaker 3: Colorado thing was it was a handful of apartment buildings,
Speaker 3: she said to JD. And he said, how many would
Speaker 3: it have to be before you'd be concerned? Which is
Speaker 3: a good response. We got this text a word that
Speaker 3: should be in the dictionary. I've dealt with this recently.
Speaker 3: Packaging frustrating instead of packaging. Packaging frustration felt when trying
Speaker 3: to open a plastic sealed product. Also response to cutting
Speaker 3: yourself with a box cutter, opening a plastic clamshell or
Speaker 3: blister pack that is impossible to open, or cutting yourself
Speaker 3: with the plastic itself, which is sharp as a nice
Speaker 3: There needs to be a tool. I'm surprised somebody hasn't
Speaker 3: invented a tool, like a really safe tool, like a
Speaker 3: safety says or something that easily cuts through that stuff
Speaker 3: so you can get out your floonnaise. The other day
Speaker 3: is get out flownase for my allergies. The packaging was
Speaker 3: since on that.
Speaker 1: Because of thieves, mostly.
Speaker 3: Because of thieves, because that tiny little bottle is like
Speaker 3: twenty five bucks or something, so they put it in
Speaker 3: the big, giant plastic so it's a little harder to
Speaker 3: you know, jab it in your pants or whatever so
Speaker 3: you can steal it.
Speaker 1: Well, they got to make them big as a milk jug.
Speaker 3: Then it's going to be interesting to see how this
Speaker 3: plays out. New York is going to do kind of
Speaker 3: what California is doing, and that is starting to crack
Speaker 3: down on the mentally ill or put them in some
Speaker 3: sort facility help help them.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see how it turns out. I hope you're right.
Speaker 3: Specifically, following a string of horrifying subway attacks, May Eric
Speaker 3: Adams dramatically expanded the city's ability to do involuntarily commit
Speaker 3: New Yorkers with chronic and untreated mental illness. City workers
Speaker 3: can now immediately hospitalize people who refuse treatment even if
Speaker 3: they don't pose a clear and present danger to themselves
Speaker 3: or others. So I'm not exactly sure what kind of
Speaker 3: judgment call goes on in there. I don't have a
Speaker 3: problem with this, by the way, but I'm not sure
Speaker 3: what kind of judgment call is being made by somebody.
Speaker 1: It's probably not as sharp as you hope.
Speaker 3: They are, whether or not they ought to be committed
Speaker 3: involuntarily even though they're posing no danger to themselves or
Speaker 3: others at the moment.
Speaker 1: This is one of those.
Speaker 4: Things because obviously we agree it's gone way too far
Speaker 4: in the other direction, and what you can get completely
Speaker 4: looney tunes people and junkies running around. They can't take
Speaker 4: care of themselves, they're a danger, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4: There is no perfect way to do this. I think
Speaker 4: we just as a society have to say, all right, look,
Speaker 4: we're going to scrutinize whatever programs we have all the
Speaker 4: time to make sure people's rights are protected. There's no
Speaker 4: perfect way to do this, so don't look for it perfect.
Speaker 4: This is the perfect example of the perfect being the
Speaker 4: enemy of the good. We've got to get all these
Speaker 4: mental ill people off the streets. You think it's doing
Speaker 4: them a favor by letting them starve, and you robbed
Speaker 4: and abused and be cold on this streets.
Speaker 1: What the hell? By the way, I didn't get to
Speaker 1: this story.
Speaker 3: I'll have to later the NYC homeless shelters who are
Speaker 3: taking massive salaries for the people who run them at
Speaker 3: taxpayer expense.
Speaker 1: Of course, Armstrong and Getty, I love this song, but
Speaker 1: it's a great song and it's.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a heartbreak song that just happened to
Speaker 3: happen around Christmas time, quite the same as the theme
Speaker 3: of most Christmas song.
Speaker 1: I don't know, right, Yeah, I see your point. I
Speaker 1: want to get this story, hun before we moved on
Speaker 1: to the main thing.
Speaker 3: I'm sure this is true in lots of different places,
Speaker 3: including California, where my tax money goes to die, But
Speaker 3: in New York City, where they're throwing lots of money
Speaker 3: at the homeless problem, like they are all over the place. Hey,
Speaker 3: a new report showed a whole bunch of people that
Speaker 3: are running the homeless shelters are giving themselves massive salaries. Yeah,
Speaker 3: top executors, executives of taxpayer funded groups running the city's
Speaker 3: homeless shelters gave themselves some massive salaries, and some of
Speaker 3: the nonprofits still haven't reported their pay A new report
Speaker 3: revealed nonprofits aheah nonprofit except for me.
Speaker 4: Again, We've explained that before. Yes, we have a nonprofit.
Speaker 4: Jack earns a salary of two point three million dollars.
Speaker 4: I take Fridays off, so I earn a salary of
Speaker 4: one point nine million dollars. But don't worry, we don't
Speaker 4: make any profits.
Speaker 3: City Hall in New York is scrambling to make changes
Speaker 3: to its provider compliance process.
Speaker 1: Oh, that was the problem.
Speaker 3: There was a mistake with the provider compliance process.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the CPP is a little out of line. We're
Speaker 1: working to realign our.
Speaker 3: CPP after what has turned out to be an embarrassing
Speaker 3: report from the Department of Investigations exposed inflated salaries. Nepotism.
Speaker 3: Does nepotism have to be family members? Are going to
Speaker 3: be friends? That specifically mean family members?
Speaker 1: Good question. I always assume means family members too. Do
Speaker 1: not know for certain either way, it's horrifying. So you're
Speaker 1: hiring you or your.
Speaker 3: Kids, or your wife or whatever to also get in
Speaker 3: on the deal and a lack of competitive bidding in
Speaker 3: the city shelter contracting process. You morons in blue cities
Speaker 3: and blue states who are willing to just throw money
Speaker 3: at tear jerker problems like the homeless, or puppies or
Speaker 3: whatever the hell it is without any follow through because
Speaker 3: you trust that the other people care about this as
Speaker 3: much as you do and won't waste a dime. They're
Speaker 3: just gonna do what's best. You're safe, stupid.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't know how you how
Speaker 1: you last past being eight years old.
Speaker 4: I know they think with their hearts and their egos
Speaker 4: and not with their heads.
Speaker 1: It makes me insane. Thirteen of the ages because they
Speaker 1: get my money.
Speaker 3: Thirteen of the eighty seven shelters haven't provided their executive's compensation.
Speaker 1: I wonder why.
Speaker 3: I wonder why they don't want to provide that anyway,
Speaker 3: Actually getting to some of them. In one instance, the
Speaker 3: chief executive of a shelter provided a provider paid himself
Speaker 3: because it was his decision on how much he got
Speaker 3: paid A million dollars a year. How much do you
Speaker 3: think I ought to make? I think I've decided I'm
Speaker 3: worth a million dollars a year.
Speaker 4: You know me, I work very hard, and I have
Speaker 4: been very impressed with my performance this year, and I'm
Speaker 4: going to give me a raise.
Speaker 3: Almost entirely funded by city taxes. By the way, this
Speaker 3: report says the president and CEO of some other group
Speaker 3: acronym you've never heard of received more than seven hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. Uh. Here's somebody who had made nine hundred
Speaker 3: and sixteen thousand dollars two years ago. Some of the
Speaker 3: nonprofits enhanced senior executives pay by contracting to other companies
Speaker 3: they own.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, double dealing. Anyway, there's a bunch of examples
Speaker 3: of this. It's it's all the same.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, those no bid contracts weren't awarded at random.
Speaker 4: They were awarded to their friends, their cronies, and themselves obviously.
Speaker 1: God dang it.
Speaker 3: And when you try to do anything about this, like doge,
Speaker 3: you know, an evil, mean capitalist is going to come
Speaker 3: in and take away government jobs.
Speaker 4: Or you're trying to balance the budget on the backs
Speaker 4: of the homeless or society's most vulnerable. And why don't
Speaker 4: you tell you what those who sip who sup at
Speaker 4: the government trough, they're skilled at defending what they do
Speaker 4: and putting everybody on the back foot. They're good at it.
Speaker 3: Why don't you liberals, progressives who care so much about
Speaker 3: these things more than I do.
Speaker 1: You're probably a better person than me for caring about
Speaker 1: these things.
Speaker 3: Why don't you get more upset than even me when
Speaker 3: you find out somebody is getting a million dollars who
Speaker 3: could certainly do that job for two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: or whatever it ought to pay, as opposed to the
Speaker 3: money going to actually help the homeless.
Speaker 1: You should be more upset than me.
Speaker 4: They find it impossible to process the world in that way.
Speaker 4: It's just it's all about servicing their ego and being
Speaker 4: in favor of the right things so they can wave
Speaker 4: the flag of look at me, I'm politically correct, I'm
Speaker 4: part of the gang. I'm part of the group. Look
Speaker 4: at my rainbow flag. The rest of it's galling, absolutely galling.
Speaker 4: So lost the election big time. And on that topic,
Speaker 4: we played some audio Van Jones earlier. He said this
Speaker 4: big panel that the New York Times puts on, and
Speaker 4: he said a couple of really interesting things, pointing out
Speaker 4: that the mainstream has become fringe in the media, and
Speaker 4: the quote unquote friends the world of proadcasting, for instance,
Speaker 4: has become the mainstream much bigger.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 4: He also pointed out that Trump is not an idiot.
Speaker 4: He's smarter than me. And you look, he beat us here,
Speaker 4: he beat us there, he beat beat us everywhere. To
Speaker 4: paraphrase doctor Seussan. Anyway, he goes on, Michael, we'll start
Speaker 4: with ninety two and go from there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's a reckoning inside the Democratic Party. Kama Harris
Speaker 8: promised us freedom. Well, she delivered it to us because
Speaker 8: now we're free from having to run anything in Washington,
Speaker 8: d C. That's not what we were signing out for us.
Speaker 4: What we got. I thought that was pretty funny. And
Speaker 4: then he makes an excellent point in the next clip.
Speaker 8: And I hope the party take the chance to look
Speaker 8: at the fact that we pushed all our rebels out
Speaker 8: of this party. We had a rebellion in our party
Speaker 8: in twenty sixteen. It was called Bernie Sanders. You had
Speaker 8: a rebellion in your party in twenty sixteen it was
Speaker 8: called Donald Trump, your rebel one, our rebel lost. And
Speaker 8: then since then the rebels in our party been pushed out.
Speaker 8: RFK was a rebel inside of our party. He wanted
Speaker 8: to run against Joe Biden fair and square, the DNC
Speaker 8: wouldn't let him.
Speaker 1: Pushed him out.
Speaker 8: You can walk down the list.
Speaker 1: Don't forget.
Speaker 8: Elon Musk was a Andrew Young Democrat four years ago.
Speaker 1: He's out.
Speaker 8: You can walk down the list. Joe Rogan was very
Speaker 8: favorable toward Michelle Obama.
Speaker 1: He was a Bernie guy. He's out.
Speaker 8: So there's something that's happened in this party where the
Speaker 8: rebels in this party no longer feel like they have
Speaker 8: a place, and we've got to be able to talk
Speaker 8: about that stuff.
Speaker 3: Honestly, Wow, that's really interesting that that happened. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's no denying that happened. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: the old guard, the entrenched Democratic Party cater's the Bernie
Speaker 3: wing so much that they can't win elections.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 4: It's a weird set of contradictions. I'll tell you this though.
Speaker 4: There are a couple of big time factors that will
Speaker 4: determine like the next elections obviously, but one of them
Speaker 4: absolutely in that top tier is does the Democrat Party
Speaker 4: listen to Van Jones. If they do, they will be
Speaker 4: in a much much better place. I suspect that they won't.
Speaker 4: So another factor because he was right about all this.
Speaker 4: But another factor, and Michael, I'm looking at the next
Speaker 4: two clips ninety four ninety five, is that they ran
Speaker 4: this check.
Speaker 9: The true test of our commitment is weather in the
Speaker 9: face of an obstacle, do we throw up our hands
Speaker 9: or do we roll up our sleeves and as we approach?
Speaker 1: Wow? Wow?
Speaker 4: She that is a motivational speech from middle school class.
Speaker 3: She dropped that line. And that wasn't just like the
Speaker 3: build up to the line. That was the line. And
Speaker 3: she paused, She's like.
Speaker 1: Huh, how about that?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: Or do we roll up our sleeves? Did you hear that?
Speaker 1: That was some shizzle right there. That's a raw, raw
Speaker 1: speech appropriate for twelve year olds. Wow. So she's there's more.
Speaker 3: What is the effect when incompetent people don't know they're incompetent?
Speaker 4: That's what she mean in Kruger effect, That's what she is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: she doesn't know that none of these things.
Speaker 1: Land is brilliant to anyone else.
Speaker 4: All right, but she's had her mediocrity reinforced for various
Speaker 4: reasons throughout her career.
Speaker 1: Willie. I know next clip, Michael.
Speaker 9: And I ask you to remember the context in which
Speaker 9: you exist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did that.
Speaker 4: As hilarious as she is inspiring Camala Harrius, Harius Harris
Speaker 4: and then rents the writ's previous. I think he's right.
Speaker 4: This will be the final clip, Michael.
Speaker 10: It's one thing for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. You know,
Speaker 10: the entire premise of their campaign was totally rejected. Their
Speaker 10: entire basis of their campaigns, that Trump's a threat to democracy,
Speaker 10: Trump Trump, Trump, everything about Trump and was totally rejected.
Speaker 10: So being out of touch is one thing. Staying out
Speaker 10: of touch is another. And that's and that's even worse.
Speaker 10: So all of these pardons, all this nonsense that they've
Speaker 10: that they're perpetrating on the American people, it's it's it's
Speaker 10: front and center selling the border wall, continuing to snub
Speaker 10: the American people.
Speaker 1: It's astonishing.
Speaker 4: Her campaign saying yes, she lost only because of misogyny,
Speaker 4: sexism in America. I hope they listened to her and
Speaker 4: not Van Jones.
Speaker 3: I am i'm uh. I guess I'm a pessimist in
Speaker 3: that like if the team my sports team wins, I
Speaker 3: barely can enjoy the championship before it settles in. This
Speaker 3: is the high mark it's downhill from here. I mean,
Speaker 3: we can't we can't continue to be this good. You know,
Speaker 3: we'll lose play blah blah. And I'm like that. And
Speaker 3: I feel that way about the whole Republicans versus Democrats,
Speaker 3: because the Republican Party, the MAGA part of it anyway,
Speaker 3: is as high as it's ever going to be, and
Speaker 3: the Democrats are such a low I assume they're going
Speaker 3: to get their act together and dig out of this.
Speaker 1: At this point. I mean, it's just astonishing how.
Speaker 3: Low they're I was trying to find this graph I
Speaker 3: came across yesterday that was just another example. It was
Speaker 3: how many states, almost every single state Joe Biden is
Speaker 3: in the negative in terms of approval rating, like like
Speaker 3: all but like two states in the whole country. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're just that party is down, down, down, and should be.
Speaker 3: They earned it. Oh yeah, But I have to assume
Speaker 3: that that the rebuild in some way with the vangel
Speaker 3: of the world understand or not. Go ahead, Listen to Bernie,
Speaker 3: listen to Elizabeth, make commonly your standard beer again. Put
Speaker 3: Ac in charge, in charge, and things continue to read
Speaker 3: Twitter all day long.
Speaker 1: Make that your party.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, continue to press the radical crap in.
Speaker 1: Our nation's schools.
Speaker 3: Continue to run candidates who put pronouns on their name,
Speaker 3: placard at the debate and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Just keep doing it. Knock yourself. Yeah, m.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm old and bitter enough to have heard the
Speaker 4: pronouncements of the death of one party or the other
Speaker 4: multiple times. They do find a way of reassessing and retooling,
Speaker 4: and which is gitting back into power.
Speaker 3: Which is, for all the criticism of the two party system,
Speaker 3: that is the way it works. They do retool, they
Speaker 3: become different things and.
Speaker 4: Well, and I think anybody with an ounce of realism
Speaker 4: in their veins or bones, wherever you keep your realism.
Speaker 1: Perhaps stuck between the cheek and gum, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I use it pository well to each their owne. You're
Speaker 1: gonna feel a little pressure.
Speaker 4: But anybody with any realism understands if the Republican Party
Speaker 4: were unopposed, we became a one party country, they would
Speaker 4: become monsters in about five minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I suitcase my realism. Oh boy, sneak it in. Uhh,
Speaker 1: when's vacation? Stunned, Michael?
Speaker 4: Is it this Friday? Tell me it's this Friday. We
Speaker 4: get started in ten minutes.
Speaker 1: If you're want we all finish strong. Next time strong.
Speaker 1: We like this song so much we're gonna play it again.
Speaker 3: The whole droolne conversation can be summed up here in
Speaker 3: just a few seconds here by the New Jersey Senator
Speaker 3: Kristen Gillibrand. This is the latest from a sitting US senator.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's safe or not safe because.
Speaker 1: We don't have full domain awareness. We don't know who's
Speaker 1: the the drones are.
Speaker 6: We don't know whether they're adversarial or run by a
Speaker 6: foreign entity.
Speaker 1: We don't know what their purpose is, we don't know
Speaker 1: if they're spying.
Speaker 3: So, despite all the things you've heard in the last
Speaker 3: two weeks, in the last twenty four hours particularly, there's
Speaker 3: a US senator, which is a big deal, and you'd think,
Speaker 3: as a senator from New Jersey, you could get practically
Speaker 3: anybody on the.
Speaker 1: Phone and ask the question you want to ask.
Speaker 3: And she says, we don't have any idea if they're
Speaker 3: adversarial or not, if they're domestic or foreign or dangerous, or.
Speaker 1: We have no idea of any of that. That's amazing.
Speaker 4: You know who is aware of that clip guaranteed hesiin
Speaker 4: ping and he's being told or thinking, okay, so there
Speaker 4: are enough drones there unless he's already involved in surveiling
Speaker 4: our military bass, which he is, but I don't know
Speaker 4: if it's the East Coast drone mania. But he's thinking, okay,
Speaker 4: there's so many drones. They even US senators say we
Speaker 4: have no idea, what's what, And he's like, hey, I
Speaker 4: want ten thousand drones surveiling American military basis by the
Speaker 4: end of the month, and they'll make it so we're
Speaker 4: that vulnerable.
Speaker 1: That's interesting.
Speaker 3: Quick thing I came across yesterday that I either didn't
Speaker 3: know ord forgotten. I like rain sound effects when I'm
Speaker 3: trying to sleep, particularly if I'm gonna nap. YouTube there's
Speaker 3: there are so many YouTube videos of different kinds of rain,
Speaker 3: and they're awesome and they're there. Some of them are
Speaker 3: like eight hours long if you want to have it
Speaker 3: run all night long the video and all different kinds rain,
Speaker 3: like heavy rain, light rain. You want rain with wind,
Speaker 3: you want rain on a tin roof, you want rain
Speaker 3: on the cement, you want rain on trees, whatever kind
Speaker 3: of rain you want. So if you like those kind
Speaker 3: of sound effects. You don't need to buy some machine,
Speaker 3: it's just it's on your YouTube. Can they get me
Speaker 3: purple rain rain?
Speaker 1: I don't know if that would help me sleep.
Speaker 3: Reminds me that way slow living or whatever that's popular
Speaker 3: on YouTube where it's like an eight hour video of
Speaker 3: just looking out the window on a train. That's sort
Speaker 3: of stuff I've never done that. I'm too busy for that,
Speaker 3: but sounds really load for you.
Speaker 1: No, I am, actually am or are you? I think
Speaker 1: about that? Auten.
Speaker 3: I remember one time when you were raising younger kids,
Speaker 3: back when we took phone calls, you saying not having
Speaker 3: time to you didn't have time to work out, and
Speaker 3: some guy called in and said, you're just making excuses,
Speaker 3: and you got so mad at him. And that's why
Speaker 3: I feel like now I have so many days where
Speaker 3: there is not a five minute window to fit anything
Speaker 3: into period.
Speaker 1: Period.
Speaker 4: I'll put off a two minute trip to the bathroom
Speaker 4: for an hour and a half less unless I'm gonna,
Speaker 4: you know, have somebody else pick up my kid or
Speaker 4: drop them off there or you know whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is fine. You could do glute crunches in
Speaker 1: the car well you wait for you, Yeah, exactly exactly. Sure,
Speaker 1: that's a good one.
Speaker 3: By while, while you're helping them with their their math homework,
Speaker 3: stand on one leg and flex your glutes.
Speaker 1: Sounds great. You're just making excuses if you're not working
Speaker 1: out the son of a bitch and find you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hunt you down. That's funny. I clicked on the
Speaker 1: wrong dang.
Speaker 3: How do you like my chances of swearing off baked
Speaker 3: goods as a new Year's resolution? I don't even I'm
Speaker 3: not even setting the gold doing it for a year.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to see how long I can go.
Speaker 3: But maybe that's a bad way. That's almost like giving
Speaker 3: in before I start. Well, this is a clear over
Speaker 3: under situation. It's not an if, but an over under.
Speaker 1: How Lady Picks can can get in on us? Price
Speaker 1: Picks should get in on this exactly. That's hilarious. I
Speaker 1: believe in you, Jack, Thank you Ish. I'll save my
Speaker 1: comment on that for the final thought. Here's your host
Speaker 1: for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: Well, let's get a final thought from every one, then,
Speaker 4: wouldn't that be gay? Let's begin with with our technical
Speaker 4: director Michael Angelo. Michael, one week till Christmas, I got
Speaker 4: my last gift coming in tomorrow, and I think I'm
Speaker 4: all set, so I'm pretty happy.
Speaker 1: This is the earliest I've ever done. Oh nice, humble brag.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear that. Shut up? Yeah, cool story, Michael,
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: Wow, where do you get off? Katie Green are a
Speaker 4: steam Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 5: Just wanted to add to this year and review that
Speaker 5: you guys did earlier and remind everyone that it was
Speaker 5: in June when all the women chose a bear over
Speaker 5: a man while hiking.
Speaker 1: Right rather run and enjoy having your leg chewed off,
Speaker 1: Lady Jack.
Speaker 3: A final thought for us, this is my most aggressive
Speaker 3: New Year's resolution I've ever thought of.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna swear off all big goods.
Speaker 3: I'm talking pies, cakes, donuts, cinnamon rolls, anything that other
Speaker 3: than like bread for sandwiches.
Speaker 1: And I don't actually know if I can do it,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty committed. You're a brave little man. I
Speaker 1: congratulate you.
Speaker 4: I finally thought i'd meant to get this early on
Speaker 4: the show earlier, but I forgot your your router, your
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Speaker 4: has been linked to Chinese cyber attacks.
Speaker 1: O nice TP link. Remember like toilet paper, go check
Speaker 1: it when you get home.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getdy wrapic and another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 3: I mean, for instance, I remember when Joe's New Year's
Speaker 3: resolution one year was wear better pants Like that is
Speaker 3: you know, not daunting.
Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow. God bliss America. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 1: How many more hours am I doing this? We're just
Speaker 1: gonna keep playing? Are you sure of that? Dude? To me,
Speaker 1: that would be the reasonable rational thing to do. Uh,
Speaker 1: well down, small crack, that's ludicrous. I'm so good. You
Speaker 1: cannot talk to me that way. So let's go with
Speaker 1: a bug.
Speaker 4: Tell you what you got, the old whistling scrotum. You're
Speaker 4: gonna win some bar bets.
Speaker 1: Huh. I'll take that bet ten dollars says you can't.
Speaker 1: And that high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty