Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Getty and he are Strong and Getty.
Speaker 2: After his groundbreaking trip to the Middle East, President Trump
Speaker 2: with a warning to her Mass, saying they must disarm
Speaker 2: as part of the next phase of his peace plan Israel,
Speaker 2: accusing her Mass of violating this ceased five deal by
Speaker 2: not releasing the remains of more hostages, threatening to cut
Speaker 2: desperately needed aid into Gaza in retaliation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So they gave the live hostages back. They're supposed Hamas
Speaker 3: is supposed to give back all the deceased. Were they
Speaker 3: passed away, what natural causes, the people that were murdered
Speaker 3: or tortured to death or starved to death. They're supposed
Speaker 3: to give those remains back. And they're like any two
Speaker 3: bodies Hamas has not returned to Israel. They returned one
Speaker 3: yesterday that turned out to be somebody else. Yeah. So
Speaker 3: here's Trump in his own words, key on the word
Speaker 3: we and wonder who we is here.
Speaker 4: Well, they're going to disarm, and because they said they
Speaker 4: were going to disarm, and if they don't disarm, we
Speaker 4: will disarm them.
Speaker 1: How you do that?
Speaker 4: I don't have to explain that to you. But if
Speaker 4: they don't disarm, we will disarm them. They know I'm
Speaker 4: not playing games.
Speaker 1: We have.
Speaker 4: Told them we want disarmed, and they will disarm. And
Speaker 4: if they don't disarm, we will disarm them, and it'll
Speaker 4: happen quickly and perhaps violently. But they will disarm. Do
Speaker 4: you understand me, because you always everyone says, oh, well,
Speaker 4: they won't disarm, they will disarm. And I spoke to
Speaker 4: Hamas and I said, you're going to disarm, right, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: we're going to disarm.
Speaker 1: That's what they tell me.
Speaker 4: They will disarm or we will disarm them.
Speaker 1: Got it.
Speaker 3: I should try that on my kids because it clearly
Speaker 3: works for him, or he thinks it's important to repeat
Speaker 3: your main message. Oh yeah, like fifteen times. I should
Speaker 3: try that more often. Anyway, Who's we Hamas will either
Speaker 3: disarm or we will disarm them, perhaps violently.
Speaker 5: The signatories to the treaty, the accord. I mean, what
Speaker 5: he really means is Israel with US support.
Speaker 1: Doesn't he? I assume?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it is not going to disarm willingly.
Speaker 3: So it's like if I'm a Dodgers fan and I say,
Speaker 3: we really looked good last night. I don't actually do anything.
Speaker 1: It's you and show Heo Tani right collectively wanted to.
Speaker 3: Get this on. I actually I haven't heard this. This
Speaker 3: is one of the freed Israeli hostages talking about if
Speaker 3: Kamala had been elected. Well, this is back in February.
Speaker 6: He was released at his owner chef told and he's
Speaker 6: talking about the fact that he was treated poorly by Hamas.
Speaker 3: And then when Donald Trump was elected.
Speaker 4: Much they were they want't uh.
Speaker 1: We're afraid of Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They wanted Kaman to be.
Speaker 6: Each other you talked to politics and that, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: They wanted Kamana to be an active when Trump came
Speaker 3: into Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, you're waiting to cheat at us, change.
Speaker 3: More food shot.
Speaker 7: That.
Speaker 3: You know. That doesn't surprise me. Does it surprise you
Speaker 3: that Amasa crap Trump got elected? Uh? Well, I mean
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris was sending the message on a daily basis,
Speaker 3: do whatever the hell you want. We're gonna lean on Israel.
Speaker 1: Leave leave Amas alone, leave them in peace. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't that something that's you know, uh, put aside.
Speaker 5: Your political theories and theorists and talking heads on cable TV.
Speaker 5: That's real world proof of what you know we've been
Speaker 5: saying for a long time.
Speaker 3: Speaking of putting away your political theory, I'll just touch
Speaker 3: on this Tom Friedman in the New York Times. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you read him, but he's one of
Speaker 3: the most respected thinkers on the Middle East. I don't
Speaker 3: always agree with him. He's a super lefty. He always
Speaker 3: sides with Democrat ideas and hates Republicans for the most part.
Speaker 3: So that's one of the reasons this is so interesting
Speaker 3: what he has written today in the New York Times.
Speaker 3: Mister Trump, on the Middle East, please move fast and
Speaker 3: break things. And he writes Listening to President Trump telling
Speaker 3: Israelis and Arabs on Monday that they were at the
Speaker 3: historic dawn of a new Middle East was like watching
Speaker 3: Trump selling his bankers on a plan to build the biggest,
Speaker 3: most beautiful, most amazing hotel in the world on a
Speaker 3: toxic waste dump. On the one hand, you tell yourself,
Speaker 3: this man must be crazy. Doesn't he know the history
Speaker 3: of this place. You can't build a hotel there. On
Speaker 3: the other hand, a voice in the back of your
Speaker 3: head whispers, what if he can bring it off. Trump's
Speaker 3: ability to combine bullying, flattering and exaggeration is truly a
Speaker 3: site to behold, and it was on full display Monday
Speaker 3: and his address to the Israeli kanness It and then
Speaker 3: to more of the twenty world leaders there. I will
Speaker 3: give Trump this. No traditional diplomat on foreign policy or
Speaker 3: foreign policy professor would have advised the president to take
Speaker 3: such risks, to declare that we are on the road
Speaker 3: to Middle East peace and that he Donald Trump will
Speaker 3: chair the Board of Peace, then we'll deliver it. But
Speaker 3: Trump went to business school, not the school of foreign service,
Speaker 3: and he clearly believes that he can cajole, muscle, and
Speaker 3: bluster this conflict to a happy ending. And I'm not
Speaker 3: going to bet against him or for him, but I'll
Speaker 3: give but I do think he can pull it off.
Speaker 3: That's an amazing thing from somebody who hates Donald Trump
Speaker 3: as much as Tom Friedman. This whole recognizing that ignoring
Speaker 3: the rules of the past can work in your favor.
Speaker 3: Obviously it wouldn't always work in your favor, but sometimes
Speaker 3: it can. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about.
Speaker 5: Trump as the proverbial bull in the China Show. And
Speaker 5: there are situations where the China shop. The China that
Speaker 5: you're talking about is just the tired out, old expectations
Speaker 5: and conventional wisdom we've.
Speaker 1: Been talking about.
Speaker 5: It needs a bull because the China shop sucks. Nobody
Speaker 5: wants the China, nobody buys it, and it just sits
Speaker 5: there collecting dust. And his point about how Trump, you know,
Speaker 5: presents a grand vision. In the case of the Middle
Speaker 5: East and the various actors, the various heads of the
Speaker 5: countries and diplomats, they are now put in a position
Speaker 5: of either I go along with that grand vision or
Speaker 5: I face Trump's cajoling, bullying and bombs. So it's a
Speaker 5: beautiful example of that if you have an intractable problem,
Speaker 5: make it bigger. And now they're all in the position
Speaker 5: of this brave, beautiful new Middle East.
Speaker 1: Am I on board or not?
Speaker 5: I guess I'm on board talking about a big, beautiful,
Speaker 5: brave Middle East. A couple of years ago, it was
Speaker 5: the very narrow, just tired out two state solution. We
Speaker 5: must work toward a t state solution, which is just
Speaker 5: the worst sort of flip service to dissolving the problem.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be something to watch over the next well,
Speaker 3: not even months or years, maybe hours and days at
Speaker 3: least on this whole returning the bodies situation and the
Speaker 3: disarming situation again, they will disarm or we will disarm them.
Speaker 3: And he means now.
Speaker 5: Right, I really want to get to the Hamas situation
Speaker 5: right now. After a quick word from our friends, that
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Speaker 5: So the situation in Gaza right now is crazy. So
Speaker 5: they're at peace with Israel Hamas is, but instead of
Speaker 5: laying down their arms and making clear that now is
Speaker 5: the time for peace, Hamas is quickly real arming, trying
Speaker 5: to take control of the streets, show that they're still
Speaker 5: in charge, and they're rounding up anybody who's opposed them
Speaker 5: now that these Israelis are out of the way, and
Speaker 5: either exiling them or shooting them dead in the streets
Speaker 5: in front of crowds.
Speaker 3: Well, they're claiming that they're having trials, oh yeah, and
Speaker 3: finding them guilty right.
Speaker 1: Of collaborating with the Israelis or whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've seen some of the pictures
Speaker 3: and videos, but they are horrific, horrific.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Clashes around a hospital in Gaza City on Sunday left
Speaker 5: dozens dead, some peace according to the Hamas unit.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Videos emerge Monday, verified by various news organizations that show
Speaker 5: Hamas fighters dragging a number of men from one family
Speaker 5: into a public square in broad daylight, forcing them to kneel,
Speaker 5: and executing them in front of onlookers.
Speaker 3: Well, there are rival gangs that want to be the
Speaker 3: people that run Gaza instead of Hamas. Been running it
Speaker 3: for a long long time, and Hamas's the people that
Speaker 3: are left are saying no, you ain't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's interesting the stuff that Trump said right
Speaker 5: before the quotes that we were just playing. He was
Speaker 5: asked about Hamas's deployment of security forces and ongoing crackdowns
Speaker 5: while he was on Air Force one. He said the
Speaker 5: group had understandably asked to be allowed to secure the
Speaker 5: devastated enclave. Quote, they've been open about it, and we
Speaker 5: gave them approval for a period of time. But they're
Speaker 5: going to disarm, and if they don't disarm, we will
Speaker 5: disarm them. And that whole bit.
Speaker 3: Have you heard this stat that people keep mentioning that
Speaker 3: Hamas still has a tunnel system the size of the
Speaker 3: New York City subway system.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's I heard there are a bunch that remained,
Speaker 5: but not that that's significant.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, incredible. Yeah, yeah, so there's one story.
Speaker 5: One early target of the Hamas guys was the dog
Speaker 5: Moosh family dog Mosh in Gaza City, long history of friction.
Speaker 5: This family backed the Fatah faction.
Speaker 1: Of the PLO. You may remember those guys from back
Speaker 1: in the day.
Speaker 5: On Sunday, masked Hamas fighters armed with kalishnikovs and pistols
Speaker 5: showed up outside the Jordanian Hospital in Gaza City. A
Speaker 5: number of Dogmash family members had taken shelter there during
Speaker 5: an Israeli offensive.
Speaker 1: Hamas ordered them to leave.
Speaker 5: They also demanded the family hand over ten members it
Speaker 5: alleged had cooperated with Israel. They said they couldn't turn
Speaker 5: over its sons. At the hospital gates, armed Hamas fighters
Speaker 5: threatened to clear the hospital by force unless the family
Speaker 5: members left immediately. When they refused, some of the gunmen
Speaker 5: raised their weapons. One pointed a weapon, and a family
Speaker 5: member threatened to bring the hospital.
Speaker 1: Down on top of him if he didn't leave.
Speaker 5: Another family member shot the Hamask guy dead, and that
Speaker 5: killing sharply escalated the fighting. Hamas closed off access around
Speaker 5: the hospital, besieged the neighborhood and open fire with machine.
Speaker 1: Guns, rocket propelled grenades.
Speaker 5: Just absolute craziness, dead ender Islamist, death cult, gang banging scum.
Speaker 3: This could be pretty exciting over the next several days
Speaker 3: or one thousand years.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, it's a good thing. Trump is a hard
Speaker 5: ass and Bbe's a hard ass. We'll have to see
Speaker 5: how hard ass the Gulf States are, because it is
Speaker 5: one hundred percent gonna take hard assidness to get Gaza
Speaker 5: turned around.
Speaker 1: One percent.
Speaker 3: Hard ass. Katie Porter, remember her from last week? She
Speaker 3: became a bit of a household name. I hadn't even
Speaker 3: heard of her here in California.
Speaker 1: Get out of my fing shot.
Speaker 3: I don't have to answer to that. I'm calling this
Speaker 3: ah and we got she tried to apologize yesterday, So
Speaker 3: we'll get to that coming up in just a little bit.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about that and what was the
Speaker 3: other thing on to get to Oh geez, we're gonna
Speaker 3: take a look back at what somebody called the high
Speaker 3: point in US debac that I had forgotten about. This
Speaker 3: is just like a throwback Wednesday sort of thing. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: that I think you'll find entertaining, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 8: Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has been accused of drunkenly assaulting
Speaker 8: a delivery driver before the driver stabbed him. The penalties
Speaker 8: offset for pete first down. If convicted, Sanchez could be
Speaker 8: sent to prison or worse.
Speaker 3: Back to the Jets. Those are decent jokes around a
Speaker 3: horrifying story of a drunken, giant, ex NFL football player
Speaker 3: who decided to beat up an old man, or beat
Speaker 3: an old man to death is what he was going
Speaker 3: to do until that old man, until that old man
Speaker 3: pulled a knife. Did you see that Sanchez's ex wife
Speaker 3: came out or X. I don't know if they ever married. X.
Speaker 3: Baby mom you came out and said I'm not surprised
Speaker 3: she had full custody of their kid because he's a
Speaker 3: violent lunatic and said, I'm not surprised at all by
Speaker 3: this so and degenerate drunk. Yeah, yeah, that's a rough story. So, boy,
Speaker 3: this is apropos of nothing. I just I was scrolling
Speaker 3: media and I came across this somebody who's calling this
Speaker 3: the low point or peak moment of US democracy or whatever.
Speaker 3: So we all remember the disastrous debate between Trump and Biden.
Speaker 3: It changed the course of perhaps world history see the
Speaker 3: Middle East currently. But we forget this part of it.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you remember watching it, it degenerated into
Speaker 3: this toward the end. This is not flattering for either
Speaker 3: one of them or for America as a whole.
Speaker 6: I just won two club championships, not even senior, two
Speaker 6: regular club championships. To do that, you have to be
Speaker 6: quite smart, and you have to be able to hit
Speaker 6: the ball a long way. And I do it. He
Speaker 6: doesn't do it. He can't hit a ball fifty yards.
Speaker 6: He challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit
Speaker 6: a ball fifty years.
Speaker 9: He's happy to have a driving contest. Yet, Kareim, I
Speaker 9: got my handicapped, which when I was vice president, down
Speaker 9: to a six. By the way, I told you, I'm
Speaker 9: happy to play golf. If you carry your own bag,
Speaker 9: I think you can do it.
Speaker 6: That's the biggest line. When he's a six handicap of all,
Speaker 6: I was an eight handicap.
Speaker 1: Yeah eight. Oh no, I've seen you swing.
Speaker 6: I know you swing.
Speaker 1: It was worse than I remember. I know me too.
Speaker 3: That's why I wanted to play it, because we all
Speaker 3: got I mean it drove the guy. It drove the
Speaker 3: sitting president out of office. It is a world changing
Speaker 3: I mean from the first moment, so we forgot that
Speaker 3: happened at the end, but when they got in it,
Speaker 3: and it goes on after that, when they got into
Speaker 3: that long conversation of which eighty year old is the
Speaker 3: best golfer? I mean it was like a couple of
Speaker 3: todder sitting around the clubhouse after too many beers, and
Speaker 3: in that setting, it would be embarrassing. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: If it were kind of getting late at night at
Speaker 3: the bar there at the golf course and you got
Speaker 3: a couple of eighty year olds getting into it over
Speaker 3: who's the best golfer, you'd think.
Speaker 1: Is you were never a six?
Speaker 3: This is the general was this, Can you even carry
Speaker 3: your bag? I don't think you're good.
Speaker 5: I'll play an I'll play you anytime if you carry
Speaker 5: your bag, think you can? Alright, fellas, we gotta talk
Speaker 5: about Marthon else.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, you didn't see the visual. But when Biden says,
Speaker 3: and God does Biden sound one hundred and fifty years
Speaker 3: old than.
Speaker 5: That, I was just gonna say that was the other
Speaker 5: big impression was that it sounds like two old men
Speaker 5: arguing about golf. Well, one of them is in his deathbed,
Speaker 5: right right, Let me die in peace.
Speaker 3: You have to attack my golfing here in the last
Speaker 3: moments of my life.
Speaker 5: Let my family in here stop yelling at me about golf.
Speaker 3: But when Biden says I got my handicapped down to
Speaker 3: a six, Trump rolls his eyes and makes his face
Speaker 3: looks so funny, like he he is actually personally offended
Speaker 3: by the fact that Biden claimed he had his six handicap.
Speaker 3: That's what was on his mind during the presidential debate.
Speaker 3: That guy's lying about his handicap. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, low moment, definitely.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Anyway, speaking of bad politics, that simmering ball of angry hate,
Speaker 5: Katie Porter of California attempting to apologize.
Speaker 1: Oh that went well, we'll have that audio for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I wonder how much she blew up her career.
Speaker 3: We'll know soon enough. How many times does an apology
Speaker 3: and I mean not in politics, just in any realm
Speaker 3: not make things worse? I think only if you like
Speaker 3: apologize immediately and it's like out of your own mind,
Speaker 3: as opposed to anytime somebody focus groups or talks to
Speaker 3: you know, some handler or something like that. Whether it's
Speaker 3: a corporation or whatever, it almost always makes a situation
Speaker 3: worse right, fuel to the fire, for sure, almost always. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we got that for you. A whole bunch of other
Speaker 3: stuff on the way. If you miss the second, get
Speaker 3: the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Katy Perry, the pop music superstar Wars spotted smooching a
Speaker 3: former Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. What a couple.
Speaker 1: I've been wondering.
Speaker 3: How Canada was gonna exact their revenge for the.
Speaker 1: Tariffs, and this is it. They're taking our women.
Speaker 2: They're not just taking our women, they're taking our astronauts.
Speaker 3: That's a good jo and he's not an obnoxious political
Speaker 3: weany Kim. It's pretty funny taking our astronauts.
Speaker 1: Wow, that a good joke. Yes.
Speaker 5: So this is just yet more proof, as if you
Speaker 5: needed it, that the whole green energy climate change thing
Speaker 5: was a for profit scam. This is some great writing.
Speaker 5: Holman Jenkins, who I really enjoy he's talking about. You know,
Speaker 5: during the Obama years, they there was a finding by
Speaker 5: the EPA. I think it was that carbon emissions that
Speaker 5: caused climate change threatened people's health, so they could regulate
Speaker 5: it like mercury in the rivers or smog in the air.
Speaker 5: And he's writing about how thirty nine scientists from various
Speaker 5: organizations just signed to find signed a finding that in
Speaker 5: fact green greenhouse gases are in fact a danger because
Speaker 5: the Trump administration EPA just said no, they're not. So
Speaker 5: you got these thirty nine scientists anyway, So to quote Jenkins,
Speaker 5: read On realized their book length report is concocted for
Speaker 5: a bureaucratic and legalistic purpose, not a scientific one. The
Speaker 5: finding in the Obama years came to justify regulatory actions
Speaker 5: that have zero impact none on climate change. Not only
Speaker 5: are US emissions too small a share of the global
Speaker 5: total to matter. In practice, EPA actions mostly just drive
Speaker 5: US emissions off shore. Whatever they think that thirty nine
Speaker 5: scientists are part of a machine now defending its own
Speaker 5: activity and privilege in one of the biggest boondoggles in
Speaker 5: the history of policy making. And then he points out,
Speaker 5: and I was totally unaware of this, Michael Moore, the
Speaker 5: fat progressive film director.
Speaker 1: Why would I take a shot in his body shape
Speaker 1: it helps us necessary?
Speaker 3: I disagree. I think it was necessary. I think it
Speaker 3: helps describe who the person is for people who aren't sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the fat progressive film documentary guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, the judges will permit it. It will stand.
Speaker 1: Objection overruled anyway.
Speaker 5: He had a movie come out in twenty nineteen, Planet
Speaker 5: of the Humans, and he says, remember that, of course
Speaker 5: you don't. It was shadow banned by the left and
Speaker 5: film distributors, not because it wasn't climate apocalyptic y enough
Speaker 5: over the top on climate apocalyptics. It was shadow band
Speaker 5: for pointing out that the US climate policy was a fraud.
Speaker 5: Oh so Michael, who actually believes this stuff? Okay, so
Speaker 5: he actually believes climate changes a problem, we need to
Speaker 5: worry about it, and that all the stuff we're doing
Speaker 5: is fake and people need to know that because we're
Speaker 5: not making a debt. Well, good for him, I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, that's better than knowingly lying like the al
Speaker 5: Gore crowd is doing. Right, as Jenkins rights, it consisted
Speaker 5: of colossal pork barrel spending that was having no effect
Speaker 5: on the ellection problem.
Speaker 3: That is amazing. Michael Moore, one of the most revered
Speaker 3: documentary filmmakers of the left, ever gets memory hold on. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 3: that's interesting.
Speaker 5: They have Richard York at the University of Oregon seen
Speaker 5: marveling in the film at the self willed blindness of
Speaker 5: the US policy community to simple question to clean energy
Speaker 5: subsidies result in fossil fuels being displaced, He says in
Speaker 5: a voice of wonder, No, they don't even know that
Speaker 5: that's the question. It reminds me of when Californians found
Speaker 5: out that not only was there no measure of how
Speaker 5: effective the bums and junkies billions of dollars spent had been,
Speaker 5: there wasn't even a mechanism to look into the question.
Speaker 5: And that's what this guy's saying about the the climate
Speaker 5: change stuff, you know, and then he goes into details.
Speaker 1: It's totally interesting and good writing. But so like, I'm pretty.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty optimistic that we're on the other side of
Speaker 3: the whole trans issue and we're never going to go
Speaker 3: back to it at its peak, you know, from a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago where things were just off the rails.
Speaker 3: But I don't I don't have much faith that we'll
Speaker 3: get on the other side of the climate change thing
Speaker 3: where people will start being honest. Do you think maybe
Speaker 3: we're actually our head in that direction.
Speaker 5: That's going to be a tough because a lot of
Speaker 5: people are completely convinced that what they have been told
Speaker 5: is correct. Well, I met more on the left is
Speaker 5: dedicated to keeping that then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I met more in terms of being honest about
Speaker 3: what things actually are doing something and aren't doing something.
Speaker 3: I mean, to Michael Moore's point, you need more people
Speaker 3: like him or saying yeah, climate change is real, but
Speaker 3: the stuff we're doing isn't doing anything. I'm not worried
Speaker 3: about climate change the way he is, but none of
Speaker 3: these things are doing any good. So what are we
Speaker 3: doing it for? You combine people that don't believe in
Speaker 3: climate change with people who are honest about it but
Speaker 3: realize this stuff is phony and maybe we could kill
Speaker 3: it most of it right, because we can't actually do it.
Speaker 3: We can't actually do anything about it.
Speaker 5: Reality bats last, as we often say, I feel good
Speaker 5: that it's moving in that direction. There are a bunch
Speaker 5: of headlines actually that the entire world Europe is is
Speaker 5: now put its electric car in backward, in reverse when
Speaker 5: it comes to electric vehicles. The whole world is saying,
Speaker 5: you know, this wasn't quite what everybody is saying it was,
Speaker 5: including even China, which leads the world in electric vehicle
Speaker 5: use and sales and manufacture and.
Speaker 1: The rest of it.
Speaker 5: So I think, I think sanity is creeping into the issue.
Speaker 5: But a couple of more stories real quickly unless you
Speaker 5: add more on that. I love the topic, But the
Speaker 5: United Nations is about to tax you. If if you know,
Speaker 5: the other stuff we've talked to about today hasn't boiled
Speaker 5: your frog already, this will global government voters. Voters are
Speaker 5: showing their opposition to the net zero climate agenda whenever
Speaker 5: they get the chance in the US and increasingly in Europe.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't make sense. People don't like it.
Speaker 5: But that isn't stopping the United Nations, which this week
Speaker 5: is poised to impose what amounts to a global tax
Speaker 5: on carbon emissions. And yes, if you're wondering, this is
Speaker 5: the de mission of taxation without representation.
Speaker 1: Here's how they're doing it.
Speaker 5: The International Maritime Organization, a UN body based in London,
Speaker 5: hopes that it's meeting this week to secure final approval
Speaker 5: for its net zero framework for shipping, and it would
Speaker 5: impose charges per metric ton of carbon dioxide that ships
Speaker 5: emit above certain levels, and the tax would be several
Speaker 5: hundred dollars per metric ton, depending on various factors. That
Speaker 5: could translate to an annual tax take of ten to
Speaker 5: twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 3: And then see how many of the people behind that
Speaker 3: new rule somehow profit from that. But that's horrifying. So
Speaker 3: I mentioned that I listened to a podcast.
Speaker 5: And all the money would go to the UN. By
Speaker 5: the way, oh lovely right.
Speaker 3: I mentioned I was listened to a podcast out of
Speaker 3: Great Britain talking about what a disaster their net zero.
Speaker 3: They really took net zero seriously and just destroyed their
Speaker 3: economy a lot of Europe did. In fact, I got
Speaker 3: a stat on that that I wanted to bring that
Speaker 3: I came.
Speaker 5: In poll seventy five percent of Brits agree with the
Speaker 5: statement Britain is broken seventy five percent just.
Speaker 3: In general, not just around climate change stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I mean that selling out the economy to
Speaker 5: that cult is one of the main drivers of unhappiness
Speaker 5: and dissatisfaction of all of Europe.
Speaker 3: Yesterday it was announced Ninvidia is worth more than the
Speaker 3: entire German stock market. That one company, Mississippis. We had
Speaker 3: this stat last week. Mississippi's per capita income is almost
Speaker 3: the same as Germany's. So the most powerful economy in Europe,
Speaker 3: Germany is roughly the same as our poorest state in
Speaker 3: the United States.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And one thing we don't we don't have a near
Speaker 5: enough understanding of in this country is why we have
Speaker 5: such an engine of creativity and growth.
Speaker 1: It's called liberty, for God's sake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been the richest country for a long time,
Speaker 3: but not to this extent versus a relative to Europe.
Speaker 3: And a lot of it is because of all that
Speaker 3: climate change crap. They did so much climate change crap
Speaker 3: to just destroy their economies. That's amazing. Though our poorest
Speaker 3: state is as powerful as Germany.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. Yeah. It really is.
Speaker 5: Final story that I wanted to squeeze in because it's
Speaker 5: all kind of related. Note to self by stock In
Speaker 5: nuclear here's the headline for you. US Army plans to
Speaker 5: power bases with tiny nuclear reactors. The Janus program fulfills
Speaker 5: Trump order to start powering military installations with state of
Speaker 5: the art nuclear technology.
Speaker 1: This is such a great idea.
Speaker 3: Dang right.
Speaker 5: Time to go nuke, Hey, hippies with your no nuke
Speaker 5: crap and your climate change bulls, and I wish I
Speaker 5: could use the word your day is done.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: I just pray that JD. Vance wins the next election
Speaker 5: or whomever there's. I mean, we got so far down
Speaker 5: the road to Crazyville, it's going to take a minute
Speaker 5: or two to get our way to find our way
Speaker 5: back to Sanity Town, or at least Sanity Heights in
Speaker 5: the suburbs.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 3: The least attractive politician in America, and I mean that
Speaker 3: personality wise, is this Katie Porter person Michael feel herself
Speaker 3: out of my effing shot.
Speaker 1: You're asleep at the switch? No what hello?
Speaker 3: We don't have that clipy on this shot anyway. So
Speaker 3: she tried to apologize yesterday. It did not go well,
Speaker 3: and we'll have that for you coming up.
Speaker 1: Stay do.
Speaker 3: So the always attempting to make a joke John Kennedy
Speaker 3: of Louisiana Sorry Alive, did a pretty good at mocking
Speaker 3: im uh conceptualizing him. Saturday night, John Kennedy, always trying
Speaker 3: to make a joke, said probably the best way to
Speaker 3: end the shutdown would be the lock fun and Schumer
Speaker 3: in a room with Katie Porter and tell them they
Speaker 3: can't come out until there's a deal.
Speaker 5: That's funny. It is, that is funny. The delightful Katie
Speaker 5: Porter of California. Have you heard her act? This is
Speaker 5: what brought her to a lot of people's attention last week.
Speaker 3: And the state could lose.
Speaker 10: You're out of my shot.
Speaker 3: I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.
Speaker 6: It's not that it's electric vehicles.
Speaker 7: It's that you don't need commitment Paris climb report.
Speaker 10: Okay, it does.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: You also were in my shot before that. Stay out
Speaker 3: of my shot, Stay out of my shots.
Speaker 1: Off and.
Speaker 5: I gotta have a dance remex Come on Internet, what
Speaker 5: are you doing there?
Speaker 1: Going lazy on me?
Speaker 5: And then the video where she cuts short an interview
Speaker 5: with a perfectly reasonable reporter because she.
Speaker 1: Just didn't want to.
Speaker 5: Well, she's had seething ball of hatred and anger. Everybody
Speaker 5: knows that she poured boiling mashed potatoes on her husband's head.
Speaker 5: She's known as missus potato Head in Orange County, California,
Speaker 5: et cetera. Well, she realizes that her hopes of being
Speaker 5: the governor of the most corrupt state in the Union
Speaker 5: are shaky now because she had really been in the lead,
Speaker 5: because she's the best water carrier and you know, doer
Speaker 5: of deeds for the powers that actually run California guarantee
Speaker 5: unions and the lawyers.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you, in the back of her mind she
Speaker 3: has inklings of being President of the United States someday.
Speaker 5: Well so, anyway, having realized that her being exposed as
Speaker 5: an angry her mounculus with a face like a closed
Speaker 5: fist has heard her chances, she's now doing the apology circuit.
Speaker 1: And here's how it went. We'll start with ad Michael.
Speaker 7: Should California voters feel confident that there aren't any more
Speaker 7: Katie Porter videos out there, well, what.
Speaker 10: I know is that I could have done better in
Speaker 10: those moments. I'm going to be focused on earning their
Speaker 10: votes and earning their trust. That's true in every election.
Speaker 10: I've only ever had tough elections. So I'm absolutely aware
Speaker 10: that I'm going to have to continue to show them.
Speaker 10: I'm going to have to answer every question. I'm glad
Speaker 10: I got to continue that interview and finish that interview
Speaker 10: and answer all her questions. And that's what I'm going
Speaker 10: to continue to do to show Californians not only that
Speaker 10: I understand their problems, but that I have the will
Speaker 10: and the strength of character to actually get something done.
Speaker 3: Why are politicians so tiring when they go into there?
Speaker 3: We know what you're going to say, Spiel just so tiring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not bad.
Speaker 5: She is reasonably skillful when she's not in the throes
Speaker 5: of her frequent temper tantrums. But the reporter ed is
Speaker 5: dog it on her trail and wants to follow up.
Speaker 7: But not just the CBS interview, the interview with the staffer.
Speaker 7: Can voters be confident that there won't be another one
Speaker 7: of those videos that's going to come to light?
Speaker 10: What I do know is that I could have done
Speaker 10: better in that situation.
Speaker 7: Does not to know? So is there potentially another video
Speaker 7: that we're going to see?
Speaker 10: Nikki? I'm going to be honest with you. I know
Speaker 10: that that video and that video was several years ago,
Speaker 10: as you know, And I apologize to the staffer that's
Speaker 10: super important to me, and will continue to try to
Speaker 10: hold myself to do better. That's that's what I can promise.
Speaker 3: Stop asking me this question. I'm gonna put potatoes on
Speaker 3: your head and Nicki Lorenzo the Fox forty reporter is
Speaker 3: not having.
Speaker 7: It, but not that there's not going to be any
Speaker 7: more videos, because that's that's what people are wondering. Are
Speaker 7: we going to see something else like that?
Speaker 10: I can tell you what I've told you, which is
Speaker 10: that I am taking responsibility for this situation, and I'm
Speaker 10: also not going to back down from from fighting back
Speaker 10: for California, from being tough. I don't I don't think
Speaker 10: this is a moment where the same old, same old
Speaker 10: is going to cut it. But that doesn't change the
Speaker 10: fact that I what I did to that stuff her
Speaker 10: was wrong. I've acknowledged it to her in that moment,
Speaker 10: and I've acknowledged it now.
Speaker 5: She's ground all the enamel off of her teeth right
Speaker 5: by now in the interview, trying not to attack the
Speaker 5: reporter with her hands because she is such.
Speaker 1: A fuful anger.
Speaker 3: If she had had a pot of boiling potatoes handy,
Speaker 3: she would have dumped them on the potato on the
Speaker 3: reporter's head.
Speaker 1: Thank god she didn't.
Speaker 3: Her answer was, if you can't read between the lines, yes,
Speaker 3: there are many more videos out there. I'm a horrible person.
Speaker 3: I have yelled at children, I have drowned cats, I
Speaker 3: have done all kinds of awful things, and they're all
Speaker 3: on video, and they're going to come out and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to answer for all of them.
Speaker 5: What you need to understand, Nikki, is that those incidents
Speaker 5: weren't exceptions. That's how I live my life. So yes,
Speaker 5: there are almost certainly.
Speaker 3: That he should have said, do you mean today, I've
Speaker 3: done it several times today, or a bit DMB video
Speaker 3: doing awful things?
Speaker 1: So I've got them catalog.
Speaker 5: Do you want me screaming at a handicapped man, a
Speaker 5: handicapped woman, a small child, a child with a cat
Speaker 5: or without a cat. We've got it all alphabetized, berating
Speaker 5: a staffer, berating a voter.
Speaker 3: What would you like me berating? I got my whole
Speaker 3: berating category. Yes, Katie, and that's Katie. There's actually a
Speaker 3: video service called Cameo where she could set herself up
Speaker 3: and people could purchase videos of her yelling at them,
Speaker 3: and she could give up politics and make a boatload
Speaker 3: of money doing that. That'd be funny. I have friends
Speaker 3: who nothing could be funnier, But if I had her
Speaker 3: yelling at them for their birthday, I'd pay fifty bucks
Speaker 3: for that. Absolutely. So we used to have Steve Hilton
Speaker 3: on Now and Then. He's a British guy who you
Speaker 3: see on Fox as his own show. He tweeted out,
Speaker 3: Katie Porter just ripped the mask off. These California Democrat
Speaker 3: politicians are all like this, an arrogant, entitled ruling elite
Speaker 3: who think they're above accountability for their failures. I think
Speaker 3: that's very true. That happens in all one party states.
Speaker 3: It's just the history of one party governance. You end
Speaker 3: up with lots of people like this who think they
Speaker 3: can say and do anything right.
Speaker 5: Into paraphrase the great Katie Grimes in this cavalcade of Katie's,
Speaker 5: you don't rise to the top of California politics by
Speaker 5: being a good leader or politician. You do it by
Speaker 5: prostituting yourself to the special interests period, the public employee.
Speaker 1: Unions and the related unions.
Speaker 5: They don't give a crap whether you have the good
Speaker 5: of the people California and in your heart. No, they
Speaker 5: just want you to carry their water. So, yeah, you
Speaker 5: get to Katie Porter's. Can you imagine her being the
Speaker 5: best choice to lead a state?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 3: I can't believe that she actually went with I fell short.
Speaker 3: Given the fact that that's Gavin Newsom's phrase from when
Speaker 3: he got caught eaten at the French laundry door.
Speaker 1: We all fall short. Sometimes thought she would have the
Speaker 1: same PR people. I'll bet they do. They probably hired
Speaker 1: the same crisis PR company.
Speaker 3: You'd have thought that she I'm going to hold myself
Speaker 3: to a higher standard and do better. I know that
Speaker 3: I fell short. You can't say that when Gavin is
Speaker 3: the last plitician in California to have a level this
Speaker 3: level controversy.
Speaker 1: What else are you gonna say? I suck?
Speaker 3: People hate me and I hate them and I hate them.
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