Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and he arms Yet live from the studio scene.
Speaker 1: See you're a dimly let room where deep within the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And today
Speaker 1: we're under the two ledge of our general manager, Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: four star general. What does that mean? There's this story
Speaker 1: going around.
Speaker 2: It's a headline on a lot of your big publications
Speaker 2: that Elon Musk is going to get a top secret
Speaker 2: briefing on our attack plans when we go to war
Speaker 2: with China.
Speaker 1: But the Pentagon is saying what, No, he's not.
Speaker 2: But it's still the giant headline. Who knows how much
Speaker 2: truth there is to it or how little.
Speaker 1: So those of you watching the TV feed at home
Speaker 1: are probably wondering why Joe and I are smeared with
Speaker 1: blood today, and the reason is spring equinox. Joe and
Speaker 1: I are both druids. That's actually how we met thirty
Speaker 1: years ago. We were at We were standing around a fire.
Speaker 1: We just slaughtered a lamb.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was wearing goat pants, he was wearing goat pants,
Speaker 2: thank you, gladys. Yes, thirty years ago we're around a
Speaker 2: fire at midnight on the spring equinox, so it'd have
Speaker 2: been thirty some years ago today. And then we're druids,
Speaker 2: and then we get into their rituals and all that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff. The sun is directly overhead and the equator.
Speaker 1: At the spring equinox. I didn't realize that. And it's
Speaker 1: the only time of the year that there is sun
Speaker 1: on both the South Pole and the North Pole at
Speaker 1: the same time, which is very handy if you're traveling
Speaker 1: between those two locations.
Speaker 2: I guess, Wow, this is all fairly interesting.
Speaker 1: How have I gotten to this advanced age in life
Speaker 1: and not known this? Well?
Speaker 2: Did you know?
Speaker 1: I didn't know this? Oh, it makes sense though. So
Speaker 1: June twenty first is the longest day of the year,
Speaker 1: longest sunlight of the year. The day doesn't change, it's
Speaker 1: still twenty four hours. But now we're tracking fine, yes,
Speaker 1: and then you know December twenty first is the shortest
Speaker 1: day of the year. But your spring and fall equinox
Speaker 1: is the nighttime and daytime are exactly the same length,
Speaker 1: which obviously that's delightful fascinating. Yes, but More importantly, it's
Speaker 1: a number of other things depending on where you live.
Speaker 1: Koone Takani is where it is celebrated many places in
Speaker 1: the world. Meticulous spring cleaning to purge a home's negative energy. Boy,
Speaker 1: I was to do that, and then also jumping over
Speaker 1: fire to symbolically cleanse the prior year's bad experiences, of
Speaker 1: which I've had many. So maybe I'll make a fire
Speaker 1: for the weekend, jump over it and cleanse the past
Speaker 1: year bad experiences.
Speaker 2: If that's what it takes, fine, it's got to be
Speaker 2: a fairly small fire. In my case, my hops are
Speaker 2: not quite what they.
Speaker 1: Used to be.
Speaker 2: But I'd hate to singe my nether world as it were.
Speaker 1: Fellow druids. I was telling my son yesterday. We were
Speaker 1: talking about though, because we had great weather where we are.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you know, spring arrives and it feels like spring,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't. Man, did it yesterday? I mean
Speaker 1: it was just gorgeous here. It's like eighty degrees and sunny.
Speaker 2: And it's far far more primal and powerful than Oh
Speaker 2: the weather is better, therefore I can do more fun
Speaker 2: things outside.
Speaker 1: No, it's very deep.
Speaker 2: In your reptile brain, right, that's you delight in the
Speaker 2: spring coming.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was talking to my son about.
Speaker 2: Of course, because he's a teenager, he'd say, I don't
Speaker 2: feel anything.
Speaker 1: But but it is. It's just like you said. It
Speaker 1: is not just well it's a nice day so I
Speaker 1: can go for a bike ride.
Speaker 2: It's just oh my god, just so you feel like
Speaker 2: the possibilities are endless with your life and you want
Speaker 2: to you know, mate, and have offspring and started meet clearly, yes,
Speaker 2: but more than usual, bright guy, it's always but good point. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's amazing, right right, Yeah, it's it's powerful. That's not
Speaker 2: to get overly philosophical about this, but one of my
Speaker 2: firm beliefs about the modern world is that we have
Speaker 2: abandoned our sense of rhythm.
Speaker 1: For all sorts of things.
Speaker 2: Everything is available all the time, twelve months a year,
Speaker 2: twenty four hours a day, whether it's your beloved childhood,
Speaker 2: Christmas TV specials or you know, communication or entertainment or whatever.
Speaker 2: Night is not very different from the day other than
Speaker 2: the lack of light out of doors.
Speaker 1: Right, And if you're an endorsement, an avid endorsement is
Speaker 1: so many younger people are nowadays, so there is really
Speaker 1: no difference because you're not You're inside no matter what anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, there's no difference between nine or day.
Speaker 1: You're right, All the rhythms of humanity for of thousands
Speaker 1: of years have kind of done away with in the
Speaker 1: modern society.
Speaker 2: Even more fundamentally, I think than some of the things
Speaker 2: I mentioned is the question of inputs and quiet, interaction
Speaker 2: and solitude, entertainment and quote unquote boredom, which I think
Speaker 2: is incredibly important psychologically. The more the more they realize that.
Speaker 1: I think I'll put an earbud in my ear today
Speaker 1: and listen to a podcast about the importance of solitude.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. But what's from the old Bambi
Speaker 1: movie that the rabbit is he's pounding his foot on
Speaker 1: the ground and something about the twittering or the thumping
Speaker 1: or whatever of the animals come springtime mating season. I
Speaker 1: mean that they're you know, mating season. Why would it
Speaker 1: be something for animals or animals and not something for us.
Speaker 1: So that's part of it is where we don't do
Speaker 1: that as human beings. We don't tend to. I don't
Speaker 1: think like more often have babies get together and have
Speaker 1: babies in the springtime. But but we're designed to like, ah,
Speaker 1: I know, I've got my plumage out. I don't know
Speaker 1: about the rest of you.
Speaker 2: Oh it's and it's beautiful too. I was gonna say something.
Speaker 2: I find myself wondering though, given our roughly nine months
Speaker 2: just gestation period as almost apiens, whether we shouldn't like
Speaker 2: feel the urge in what October?
Speaker 1: So the kid is born in nice weather or something
Speaker 1: like that. That's funny you just mentioning October, and I
Speaker 1: get this feeling of just honkering down, no optimisms up,
Speaker 1: all the covers up, just just kind of right wild
Speaker 1: and just trying to ride out the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: maybe find some fentanyl. Just you're just hoston at that point.
Speaker 1: Whereas it right like this time of year yesterday, it's
Speaker 1: just like, ah, come on that life is great. Let's
Speaker 1: do something. I just find that interesting.
Speaker 2: So just you know, it's not exactly a data set,
Speaker 2: but I've got two September kids the ninth months, that's
Speaker 2: easy enough to do the math, and a December kid.
Speaker 2: So evidently in the Getty household winter time as well,
Speaker 2: it's time for reindeer games. But anyway to use their
Speaker 2: own I need.
Speaker 1: To work on my What was that phrase, uh, haktua?
Speaker 1: I think it was the phrase of no cleaning out,
Speaker 1: no different phrase. No, that's not the phrase, bad phrase,
Speaker 1: may I think that's it's interesting that baseball the opening
Speaker 1: day so much coincides with the beginning of spring, and
Speaker 1: then that the whole hope springs eternal baseball start of
Speaker 1: the year. I mean, you know, the fact that they
Speaker 1: start at the same time, that it's that feeling we've
Speaker 1: all got already for springtime. And then we've got a
Speaker 1: sport that starts then too.
Speaker 2: And you are just a font of philosophy today.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: It occurs to me then the rhythm of baseball is,
Speaker 2: you know, you just spring into action and the spring
Speaker 2: and get ready and then in the fall, the late fall,
Speaker 2: it is crunch time.
Speaker 1: It's time to win the championship.
Speaker 2: Everything serious and decisions and you know, activities are done,
Speaker 2: made and done that will determine whether you're successful or not,
Speaker 2: much like preparing for the winter time. Well, I said, way,
Speaker 2: baseball is so close to so many people's I don't know,
Speaker 2: similar to the mating thing. You get out your bat
Speaker 2: and balls here in the springtime. Oh yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: you know what, Michael, Your segment went on thirty seconds
Speaker 2: too long?
Speaker 1: Did you put the bat and balls away in the fall?
Speaker 1: Time is over? Let's wait at next year. You're an idiot.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Speaker 1: Getty on this it is Friday, March twenty first year,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, where I'm strong you getting we approve
Speaker 1: of this program. And again I was the star of
Speaker 1: winter Ball.
Speaker 2: Clearly all right, let's begin officially now according to f
Speaker 2: SEC rules of regulations, here we go at Mark.
Speaker 1: How are you doing the job differently than Kamala did it? Well?
Speaker 3: I don't have, you know, four shots of vodka before
Speaker 3: every meeting. That's That's one way I think that Kamala
Speaker 3: really tried to bring her herself into the role. Is
Speaker 3: is these word salads? And I think that I would
Speaker 3: need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer
Speaker 3: a question the way that Kamala Harris answered question.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's just if you just heard the first part,
Speaker 2: that's JD. Van's declaring Kamala Harris is a raving drunk.
Speaker 2: He really kind of softened it in a second. He
Speaker 2: realized he'd gone too far. And changed it a bit, Yes,
Speaker 2: said there.
Speaker 1: At the end. Yeah. I while I laugh at that,
Speaker 1: I continue to say, it's not good that we keep
Speaker 1: going down this road. There's really no need to claim
Speaker 1: that the other party's nominee for president was a drunk.
Speaker 2: At this point, they said that about Grant, who was
Speaker 2: one of the great heroes of the American history.
Speaker 1: Well, he just at the country in a war.
Speaker 2: They didn't like it much, Right, But if she is
Speaker 2: a drunk, who're doing her a favor by not enabling
Speaker 2: her anymore? Jack, Wow, I care about Kamala Harris the person.
Speaker 1: So we do need to get into the headline.
Speaker 2: And this is it's the say on my Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: one of my newspapers. It was the top headline. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the top headline in the Wall Street Journal. App Musk
Speaker 2: set to receive top secret briefings on war plans with China. Likewise,
Speaker 2: the New York Times, Wow, top story.
Speaker 1: And then you've got the other big story that Germany
Speaker 1: has decided to invest trillion plus dollars in their defense.
Speaker 1: And as we've been saying all week long, depending on
Speaker 1: your point of view, Trump finally got Europe to wake
Speaker 1: up to the fact that they need to be able
Speaker 1: to defend themselves. Or look how desperate Europe is. We've
Speaker 1: abandoned them. They can't count on the United States as
Speaker 1: an ally, and out of desperate they're coming up with
Speaker 1: their own defense.
Speaker 2: I tell falls caused Germany to rearm and build itself
Speaker 2: into a military powerhouse, and that can't possibly go wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we all look back on this and say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's why we didn't want Germany to be able to rearm.
Speaker 2: All right, we thought they were nice, Now they seemed nice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we ought to play that Norm McDonald bit that he
Speaker 2: did on Letterman about.
Speaker 1: See the country that worries me is Germany. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're a history buffer or not. But so
Speaker 1: we got Katy's headlines on the way. We've got mail
Speaker 1: bag and those two big stories, among other things to
Speaker 1: update you on, and a lot on the way. So
Speaker 1: clips off of the week too, come on. Clips of
Speaker 1: the Week coming up text line four one, the Clipse
Speaker 1: of the Week cow coming up next segment. And before
Speaker 1: we get to Katy's headlines, we've already mentioned that. And
Speaker 1: this is a usual. The Wall Street Journal and New
Speaker 1: York Times both have the same big headline Pentagon to
Speaker 1: brief elon Musk on war plans with China. Why do
Speaker 1: those two papers with different political viewpoints have the same
Speaker 1: Who got that story into the Wall Street Journal and
Speaker 1: the New York Times? Why are they both kind of
Speaker 1: it feels to me like suggesting something nefarious is going
Speaker 1: on here.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's according to two officials, two US officials
Speaker 2: who are obviously leaking, like a you know, a punctured tire.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that later, but I find that interesting.
Speaker 2: That's not an accident.
Speaker 1: Somebody wanted that headline in those two publications. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2: I think their motivations are fairly clear. But we will
Speaker 2: discuss it in the coming moments. Stay tuned if you can.
Speaker 2: Clips to the Week again. Next segment.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's figure out who's reporting what it's the
Speaker 1: lead story. It's Katie Green, Katie.
Speaker 4: Hey, you guys, starting with ABC quote willefully insufficient. Federal
Speaker 4: judge accuses Justice Department of evading obligations to.
Speaker 1: Comply with deportation flight request. Is this a potential huge deal? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be one, but it
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they nailed down the details in it
Speaker 1: looks like the Trump administration absolutely ignored a court order.
Speaker 1: That's a I don't know where you go from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh. Well.
Speaker 2: The good news is Trump and his main lieutenants have
Speaker 2: said we absolutely would not do that. Yeah, Yeah, which
Speaker 2: is good. Even if they did a little bit, We'll
Speaker 2: just have to see the facts really matter in this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you are right. There's a big difference between
Speaker 1: if the if they did accidentally on purpose, pushed it
Speaker 1: too far, the time got too close together, something like that,
Speaker 1: and they're saying, but we wouldn't do that, versus if
Speaker 1: he's out and proud saying courts can't stop me.
Speaker 2: I can do anything I want, all right, And the
Speaker 2: difference between a judge in a hearing saying you guys
Speaker 2: really need to blankety blank and then putting out the
Speaker 2: written court order because the Trump administration is resting on
Speaker 2: that distinction a little bit. Wow, okay, And I don't
Speaker 2: know nearly enough to rule on that.
Speaker 1: From Fox News. Husband of former Squad Rep.
Speaker 4: Corey Bush charged with wirefraud linked to COVID relief funds.
Speaker 2: No way, please place, that's the family business making loud
Speaker 2: claims about their great maral duty. And then profiting mightily
Speaker 2: from it. Please a bunch of crooks, enjoy your.
Speaker 1: Cage, sir. I hope to get her too. Wow.
Speaker 4: From the New York Post, Transgender runner blows out competition,
Speaker 4: set season record in girls races at Oregon High School
Speaker 4: track meet.
Speaker 1: I saw that in a couple of different races in
Speaker 1: the four hundred he beat all the girls by seven
Speaker 1: seconds or something like that.
Speaker 2: Which is well done, hundred, sir, well done, which in
Speaker 2: the four hundred would be like a quarter of the lap.
Speaker 2: I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: If that were not a man, that person would be
Speaker 2: hailed as our greatest Olympic hope.
Speaker 1: Since you know whomever flow Joe, what a joke.
Speaker 2: And the people who can't see that that's a joke,
Speaker 2: they frighten me.
Speaker 1: You are mindless from USA today.
Speaker 4: Venus could make a brief appearance this weekend as it
Speaker 4: passes between.
Speaker 1: The Earth and the Sun. Have I mentioned this on
Speaker 1: the air or maybe we've talked about it before. So
Speaker 1: you can get there are various apps you can get
Speaker 1: on your phone where you just hold your phone up.
Speaker 1: I'm when it tells you what everything is. So I've
Speaker 1: got one. I love it. It's amazing. But I was
Speaker 1: doing that the other night and you could see that night.
Speaker 1: You could see mars Venus Saturn.
Speaker 2: There's another one in there lined up, Kate. You I've
Speaker 2: been working on my flexibility. I'm almost there.
Speaker 1: No, shut up, Oh.
Speaker 2: My Michael, I come in every No, now you've now
Speaker 2: you've abandoned me. I want to come in and talk
Speaker 2: constitutional norms and the proper workings of the governments.
Speaker 1: I'm getting jokes about people's body parts. I can already
Speaker 1: touch my toes. That's the next touch of children from
Speaker 1: rightepart dot Com.
Speaker 4: Texas janitor gets six years for spreading STDs by peeing
Speaker 4: in office water bottles.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, no, no, my god. Yeah, hey, can
Speaker 2: we have one story that's not like in the toilet?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 1: No, bablonde try.
Speaker 4: Administration orders removal of dei black pieces from all chess sets.
Speaker 1: That is good. I like that to come on. So
Speaker 1: we got clips of the week, and then we got
Speaker 1: to figure out some of the news of the day.
Speaker 1: Am I supposed to be afraid, very afraid that Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is getting the Chinese war plans and they've got
Speaker 1: the pictures. I'm elected heed sunglasses and all the pictures
Speaker 1: so scary. Have boiled down two key elements of the
Speaker 1: whole Trump defying judges, whole order story as it's being
Speaker 1: portrayed in the mainstream media that we have talked about,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure everybody has heard. So we ought
Speaker 1: to get into that because this could turn into a
Speaker 1: big story. If the Democrats controlled the House, it'd be
Speaker 1: impeachment talk right now, guaranteed. Yes. Wow. Interesting.
Speaker 2: Plus the richest man in the world has taken over
Speaker 2: our military. The terrifying details coming up, or reasons to
Speaker 2: not be worried about it at all, stay with us.
Speaker 2: But first, let's take a fond look back at the
Speaker 2: week that was. It's the Friday tradition, cow clips of
Speaker 2: the week. Hello strangers.
Speaker 1: It's really come as quite a shock to me. The
Speaker 1: whips of the week.
Speaker 4: Then is Leeland gang members arriving to his country overnight,
Speaker 4: marching into prison.
Speaker 2: I don't care what the judges think, I don't care
Speaker 2: the left things we're coming.
Speaker 1: I think at a certain point you have to start
Speaker 1: looking at what do you do when you have a
Speaker 1: rogue judge? You The guys are actually at war with Venezuela.
Speaker 5: That nations you're not hearing me, and you're not understanding me.
Speaker 5: Is the time of war, and then you'll know that
Speaker 5: I'm with and you'll know that I'm writ The FBI
Speaker 5: is investigating what it calls a targeted attack shots fired
Speaker 5: at this Tesla dealership in Oregon.
Speaker 1: Tesla's spray painted Massachusetts. Tesla is a peaceful company. We've
Speaker 1: never done anything hawful. Please don't vandalize. Don't ever vandalize
Speaker 1: Tesla vehicles. And so, what's the plan? If Putin doesn't
Speaker 1: agree to a ceasefire? Bad news for this world. Ladimir
Speaker 1: Putin did not agree to the unconditional US backed thirty
Speaker 1: day ceasefire plan. It looks like more than three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty people were killed.
Speaker 5: This according to the Palestinian health officials in Hamas.
Speaker 2: We cannot have a world with the Ayatolas with their
Speaker 2: finger on the nuclear button.
Speaker 1: Not just the US. We're doing the world a favor.
Speaker 1: It's a little.
Speaker 3: Afternoon on a Friday, And don't you all have jobs?
Speaker 1: Who are the people?
Speaker 2: First?
Speaker 1: It was Elon Musk with the chainsaw.
Speaker 2: Now President Trump taking a sledgehammer to the Department of Education.
Speaker 1: As a former real estate person, I will tell you.
Speaker 1: I ride through the streets of Washington, and that says
Speaker 1: to Department of Education. Department of Education.
Speaker 3: SpaceX Crew ten climbing through the skies above a Falcon
Speaker 3: nine rocket.
Speaker 1: And splash down Crew nine back on Earth.
Speaker 6: You know, we could have done this sooner, but Biden
Speaker 6: didn't want to because he was embarrassed.
Speaker 1: By what happened.
Speaker 2: I am a firm believer that President Trump UH will
Speaker 2: run and win again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: We'll say what the definition of term limit is. I'm
Speaker 1: a leader.
Speaker 6: I made my money all by myself. How dare your
Speaker 6: government take my money from me? I don't want to
Speaker 6: pay taxes this nation.
Speaker 1: Most of their ass I do happen, HI have money.
Speaker 1: I'm studying. The unseen body in space is a racial exposure,
Speaker 1: theo quird. Do we have jobs for that?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Called starbucks?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, turbulent times Jack, Speaking of which.
Speaker 1: So you pointed this out yesterday, But I don't think
Speaker 1: this gets mentioned enough. I hadn't heard it until you
Speaker 1: said it, and it doesn't. It doesn't get pointed out
Speaker 1: in this story much. So you don't know this. Judge
Speaker 1: says the other day, Hey, you can't send those migrants
Speaker 1: he rounded up back to Venezuela. Just yet, we got
Speaker 1: to figure something out first, so don't do it, and
Speaker 1: the planes went anyway. Now, the timing of that is
Speaker 1: all important, you know, did the judge make that announcement
Speaker 1: before the plane's left? And all these sorts of things
Speaker 1: need to be figured out. But the implication is in
Speaker 1: the mainstream media is certainly willing to go with the
Speaker 1: assumption that the Trump administration, the Trump White House just
Speaker 1: absolutely ignored a federal judge and did whatever they wanted
Speaker 1: to do, which would be a legit constitutional crisis, correct,
Speaker 1: because then who fixes that? But anyway, as you pointed
Speaker 1: out yesterday, it should get mentioned. Every single time, more
Speaker 1: judges have stepped in and stopped Trump's doings than eight
Speaker 1: years of Obama, eight years of Bush, and four years
Speaker 1: of Biden combined. So I mean, it's an outlier of
Speaker 1: an outlier of how often this sort of thing happens,
Speaker 1: where a judge steps in and tells the president, no,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. Right. So you got one side saying, well,
Speaker 1: so obviously the judges are out of control. They all
Speaker 1: just hate Trump, the other side saying, well, Trump does
Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy s that's why judges are having
Speaker 1: to step in more often. These other presidents didn't do
Speaker 1: crazy unconstitutional s all the time, right argument, try and
Speaker 1: nail down where that is. But to me, the constitutional
Speaker 1: crist either way, it is a crisis. We've got that.
Speaker 1: Either presidents are going further and further down the road.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely true. But presidents are going further down
Speaker 1: the road of seeing what they can get away with
Speaker 1: around the Constitution and intentionally baiting judges into stopping them
Speaker 1: so they can get credit for trying from their base
Speaker 1: and blame the judiciary for being out of control. Both
Speaker 1: sides have done it, absolutely and sometimes judges who do
Speaker 1: really hate one side or the other do step in.
Speaker 1: It would seem I don't know how often that happens.
Speaker 1: I mean, you do have the situation with that Ninth
Speaker 1: Circuit Court, and you know out on the West Coast
Speaker 1: that gets overturned like what is it eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the time. Clearly their politics are wacky or whatever that is.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if you're an outlier like that, then
Speaker 1: you get so. But this is a bit of a crisis.
Speaker 2: It is just to flesh that out a little bit.
Speaker 2: Here's the headline federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from
Speaker 2: reclaiming billion dollar climate grants.
Speaker 1: Those horrific, utterly criminal.
Speaker 2: Graft, just stealing and handing out to your crony's taxpayer
Speaker 2: money grants from the Biden administration. The EPA is trying
Speaker 2: to get the money back, and good old Judge Tanya
Speaker 2: Chutkin of the U. S. District Court in the District
Speaker 2: of Columbia, her name should be familiar to you from
Speaker 2: one of the Trump Big Trump cases, said no.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's too vague.
Speaker 2: Vague references to programmatic who waste, fraud and abuse, conflicts
Speaker 2: of interest, but not enough specific information about the investigations.
Speaker 2: This is insufficient. You can't claw the money back, not yet.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: It was kind of a weight let's wait and sort
Speaker 2: this out ruling. It wasn't a complete quashing of it.
Speaker 2: But so that's another setback from a judge. But the
Speaker 2: numbers are amazing. In Bush, there were six George w
Speaker 2: six total injunctions by federal judges against something they were
Speaker 2: trying to do. Half of them were issued by a
Speaker 2: judge appointed by the president of the opposing party. Okay,
Speaker 2: so it is fifty percent under Obama, it was a
Speaker 2: total of twelve and fifty eight percent were by the
Speaker 2: other party appointed judges. Okay, Trump's first term, we went
Speaker 2: from twelve to sixty four, and fifty nine of those
Speaker 2: were issued by a judge of the opposing party. That's
Speaker 2: over ninety two percent of the injunctions. Then, when Biden
Speaker 2: was in office, and I think there's a pretty good
Speaker 2: explanation for this, there were just fourteen total injunctions, all
Speaker 2: fourteen of them by Republican appointed judges. And then Trump's
Speaker 2: what are we up to with Trump? I thought I
Speaker 2: had that number, but it's following in a similar trend.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's even hotter and heavier twelve nationwide. No,
Speaker 2: that's Obama anyway, the trend is continuing in the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: Many many, many injunctions, and the vast, vast majority of
Speaker 2: them by judges appointed by Democrats.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a really bad look now on this, sorry,
Speaker 1: on this most recent one, the one that's getting all
Speaker 1: the attention with the you know, supposed gang members on
Speaker 1: the plane being flown back home. That judge was appointed
Speaker 1: by Roberts. My correct about that, including Roberts had put
Speaker 1: this guy on the FISA Court, which you would have
Speaker 1: to assume that Chief Justice Roberts wouldn't choose some whack
Speaker 1: job for the FISA Court. Man. Once maybe we're already
Speaker 1: we might already be there, but once we're to the
Speaker 1: point where we we perceive judges to be no different
Speaker 1: than House members or senators, you just vote your party,
Speaker 1: we're in a bad spot. I would agree. Uh.
Speaker 2: The constitutional issue at stake, which we talked about at
Speaker 2: fair length yesterday I think I think it was yesterday,
Speaker 2: is that you have a federal District Court judge who
Speaker 2: has a very narrow jurisdiction. It's a very small area
Speaker 2: of land that they deal with federal law in that area.
Speaker 2: And you can have that judge, who you knows, the
Speaker 2: Eastern District of Maryland or whatever, halt the presidential administration,
Speaker 2: the executive branch from doing something nationwide, and it's not
Speaker 2: constrained in the way judges jurisdiction usually is with who's
Speaker 2: got standing in the rest of it. They're just issuing
Speaker 2: these injunctions. Willy Nilly and Ben Weingarten, who is an
Speaker 2: editor for The Federalist, says there's a credible case to
Speaker 2: be made that any one of the around seven hundred
Speaker 2: District Court judges possesses more power than anyone Supreme Court justice,
Speaker 2: given their unilateral power to issue a universal injunction. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm stumbling over my words like a like a drunk,
Speaker 2: like Kamala Harris. Anyway, we'll have to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on this. This topic will not go away. Well, god,
Speaker 2: I'd say not.
Speaker 1: It could ex blowed into one of the biggest political
Speaker 1: topics ever depending on what facts get laid out.
Speaker 2: So I thought we were going to dive into the
Speaker 2: Elon Musk thing, but we're out of time. We will
Speaker 2: hit that at the top of our two But the
Speaker 2: headline story in Wall Street Journal and the New York Times,
Speaker 2: which is notable, is that Elon Musk, the unelected elot,
Speaker 2: he's the richest man of the world, track is going
Speaker 2: to receive a top secret briefing on the US war
Speaker 2: plans for China. According to two US officials, the Pentagon says,
Speaker 2: wait what, No, he's not. We'll try to bring you
Speaker 2: something close to the truth. Or who's saying what?
Speaker 1: What is it? A constitutional christ? No? No, it's not. No.
Speaker 1: What is the implication that he has become a quasi king?
Speaker 2: Dictator, rich guy advisor thing. But no, they always leave
Speaker 2: that vague and unspoken. Be afraid, be very afraid of
Speaker 2: what exactly he's just elected, Like ninety nine percent of
Speaker 2: the executive branch is an elect He's.
Speaker 1: The richest man of the world. It's okay, Well he's
Speaker 1: done well.
Speaker 2: Yes, if I was advising Elon, and when you're the
Speaker 2: world's richest men, you don't have anybody advise you. You
Speaker 2: do whatever the hell you want.
Speaker 1: Don't worry a fool in that case. You gotta have
Speaker 1: a good advisors. Don't wear the dark maga hat and
Speaker 1: the aviator sunglasses. I mean, I like the look. I
Speaker 1: think it's very cool, but it just leans into the
Speaker 1: left's perception of you some sort of scary oligarch and
Speaker 1: to be fair, because fairness is my hallmark, Michael, isn't it? Yes?
Speaker 1: It is? Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 2: Is that if indeed this story is true, and it's
Speaker 2: not clear that it is. Elon does have some substantial
Speaker 2: conflicts of interest when it comes to China.
Speaker 1: So you wanted Kamala Harris to be president? Okay? Oh Lord,
Speaker 1: see where you are? Joe's a mailbag next stair. Utah
Speaker 1: University upset Texas State, so my rackets ruined. I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna win this year.
Speaker 2: So sorry, I am bracketless. Here's your freedom loving quote
Speaker 2: of the day, continuing our series from Theodore Roosevelt.
Speaker 1: I'm beginning to.
Speaker 2: Understand as we go through these quotes how ROOSEVELTI, in
Speaker 2: my thinking, is in a lot of ways. You've been
Speaker 2: hearing this from us for years and years. We've been
Speaker 2: listening for years and years. Order without liberty and liberty
Speaker 2: without order are equally destructive. We've been saying, as we
Speaker 2: watched the Blue states of America crumble California and Oregon,
Speaker 2: Washington stay most notably, that order without compassion is brutality,
Speaker 2: but compassion without order is chaos seems anyway, And in
Speaker 2: a similar vein obedience of the law is demanded, not asked,
Speaker 2: as a favor. Keep that in mind, Gavin you Tutts
Speaker 2: mailbag drop us an o mailbag at armstrong e getdy
Speaker 2: dot com. Speaking of beautiful Washington State, Chuck from Vancouver writes, guys,
Speaker 2: we need your help on getting the word out on
Speaker 2: the planned attack on home schoolers states Illinois and Washington
Speaker 2: to name a few. We actually talked about Illinois yesterday.
Speaker 2: I think it might have been hour four. But Washington's
Speaker 2: state too, notably, are passing laws to go after homeschoolers.
Speaker 2: With public schools agendas geared more for critical race theory
Speaker 2: and wokeness and students drastically failing, many parents are opting
Speaker 2: for homeschooling. Now Democrats are attacking these homeschoolers with jail
Speaker 2: tim and fines if they don't meet their standards. Well,
Speaker 2: we've got convoluted and to take hours and hours and
Speaker 2: hours of compliance in mores.
Speaker 1: I'm doing a version of homeschooling, and I'm paying a
Speaker 1: guy a lot of money for a couple of hours
Speaker 1: of just paperwork per week to meet the requirements. That's
Speaker 1: never what they're trying to do. I would never be
Speaker 1: able to get it done on my own.
Speaker 2: The teachers' unions are trying to make it so painful
Speaker 2: and humbersome to homeschool in any setting, in any format,
Speaker 2: that you can't do it anymore. It is a brutal
Speaker 2: and shameless attack on liberty. Moving along, Dirk's a German
Speaker 2: with a comment on Chuck Schumer's statement the other.
Speaker 6: Day, Michael, do we have that handy I made my
Speaker 6: money all by myself. How dare your government take my
Speaker 6: money from me? I don't want to pay taxes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the government deserves all of your money. They
Speaker 2: may let you keep a little in Chuck Schumer's world.
Speaker 2: It's tough not to say naughty words on the air
Speaker 2: in response to that. But when Chuck Schumer alluded to
Speaker 2: that money is the governments, not taxpayers, it made me
Speaker 2: think it's not just that the government takes our money,
Speaker 2: but what they do or don't do with it. We
Speaker 2: pay more for student to educate quote unquote our students
Speaker 2: than any nation, but score at the bottom of math
Speaker 2: and reading. In California, we pay the highest gas taxes,
Speaker 2: Dirk writes, but our roads are like Albania's. We paid
Speaker 2: loads of local taxes, feeds, fees, fines, and levies get
Speaker 2: their hobos living.
Speaker 1: On the sidewalk outside my office.
Speaker 2: At least in Europe, the government fleeces the tax bearers
Speaker 2: but gives them something of value in return.
Speaker 1: Amen for that to that, Dirk. That Chuck Schumer clip
Speaker 1: is so freaking maddening. Oh yeah, oh it is contempt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for anybody who suggests, you know, I earned that
Speaker 2: money I'm willing to contribute.
Speaker 1: Why are you taking half of my money?
Speaker 2: Especially people who are in sales or something like that
Speaker 2: that are gonna have one or two good years, maybe
Speaker 2: home run years, then going back to just making ok living. Nope,
Speaker 2: those two great years where they excelled. No, the government's
Speaker 2: going to take half of that or damn near it.
Speaker 6: I made my money all by myself. How dare your
Speaker 6: government take my money from me? I don't want to
Speaker 6: pay taxes from.
Speaker 2: A guy who made his living through graft his entire life.
Speaker 1: And if you don't agree with me, I'm gonna act
Speaker 1: like you talk like a cartoon.
Speaker 2: Bear JKA, fair fair point JK and granted Bay California rights.
Speaker 2: Read the district court judges, we must be wary of
Speaker 2: asking that they be stifled completely. While their district court
Speaker 2: judges stop issues they object to, like immigration, doge other
Speaker 2: Maggie issues, are district court judges stop issues we object to,
Speaker 2: like the curtailment of Second Amendment rights. In other words,
Speaker 2: the dcjs may be a pain in the ass, but
Speaker 2: the knife cuts both ways. There needs to be a
Speaker 2: better definition of their jurisdiction and ability to block issues
Speaker 2: nationwide from their narrow perch. That's exactly correct. Yeah, JK.
Speaker 2: Friend of Armstrong and Getty since the beginning. Keep it real,
Speaker 2: Jance ms Green a fantastic addition to the team. Agreed,
Speaker 2: Do we have time for this frequent correspondent JT and Livermore.
Speaker 2: During Tuesday show, you brought up the attempt to classify
Speaker 2: Trump derangement syndrome as a recognized mental disorder. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's a mental disorder or not, but it
Speaker 2: seems to have jumped the shark over previous opposition efforts
Speaker 2: by the Dems. Unlike their crazy stunts in the past,
Speaker 2: Dems suffer FROMTDS. Have gone so far that they are
Speaker 2: more of danger to themselves than they are to the
Speaker 2: gop R Trump. Consider that they've rallied around the wrong
Speaker 2: end of several eighty twenty issues.
Speaker 1: They're suddenly funding like hell.
Speaker 2: To prevent the lawful deportation of illegals that have been
Speaker 2: convicted of murder, rape, and child molestation. They're fighting to
Speaker 2: keep graphic gay sex books in school libraries, demanding that
Speaker 2: liberals be allowed to secretly help trans children without notifying parents.
Speaker 2: They're against the notion of cutting a single dollar from
Speaker 2: the federal budget, even as tens of billions of dollars
Speaker 2: in waste for an abuse have been uncovered. They're ready
Speaker 2: to die on the Hill of Men and Women's Sports.
Speaker 1: Agreed. We got all those stories Joe mentioned to get
Speaker 1: to an hour or two and hours of all we're
Speaker 1: gonna do six hours today. I think that's planned if
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