1 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: Jetty Enough he Armsronget Lie from studio scene. Oh my gosh, 4 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: we're in a dimly lit room deep with from the 5 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Today Tuesday, 6 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: we're under the tutelage of our general manager. 7 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 2: The pardon herd around the world. Oh are you telling 8 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 2: me there's still reverberations? 9 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: Oh please, it's server verberating like a crazy server vibrator. 10 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: I almost went with the real Joe Biden because his 11 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: latest episode is completely typical of Joe Biden. The idea 12 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: that it's a shock, it's a surprise old Scranton show 13 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: that was an entirely media created the fake image. So 14 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: how you doing. Welcome to the show. We have the 15 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: news of the rage. Thanks for outraged, I tell you, 16 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: as you can hear from the sound of Joe's voice, 17 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: he is outraged. I uh stepped on the scale and 18 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: got punched in the face again. The struggle is real. 19 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: So that will continue to be a big part of 20 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: my life view that there is more to me to love. Yes, 21 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: the struggle against the real colonial oppressor gravity. Yeah. Yeah. 22 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: And I just heard this as I walked in the door. 23 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: I was very happy to hear this. Sometimes the government 24 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: does things, I like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whatever 25 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: that is. I'm sure they have a budget of eighteen 26 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: trillion dollars is I'm like, uh, we're gonna get new 27 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: rules in the United States for the way they share 28 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: your data. Finally, and it should really really put a 29 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 1: dent in the every time you buy something, it means 30 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: they sell all your data and now you get texts 31 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: and emails from fifty different companies you've never done business with. 32 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: That'd be like an account of each and every datum. Personally, 33 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: is that that's the singular of data, right datum? Don't 34 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: ask me. I et latino. I don't speak that. I 35 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: don't know that sounds fantastic, but I would love if 36 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: that happened. And the other news story I saw just 37 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: as I was walking through the door. Did you see 38 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: sixty minutes on Sunday night? I did not, Oh man. 39 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: The first story about Notre Dame was really good because 40 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: they've unveiled the remaking of the cathedral there in part 41 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: oh after that horrible fire years ago two thousand. Artisans 42 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: who like still have the old timey specialty of certain 43 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 1: kinds of woodworking and metal forging and stuff like that 44 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: at you know, like kind of people you see at 45 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: the Fair of blacksmith that sort of sure still has 46 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,519 Speaker 1: those skills doing stuff in the old timey way, and 47 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: they real beat the whole thing and it looks absolutely amazing. 48 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: It's good to go for many many more centuries now. Yeah. 49 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: I saw Twitter thread on it the other day, and 50 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: I agree it was astounding. Unfortunately, those old timey craftsmen 51 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: will be boring friends and relatives with the tales of 52 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: their grade moment for the rest of their natural lives. 53 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: Finally, somebody wanted my skill. 54 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: The phone rang. Do you know who it was? It was? Yeah, 55 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: it was the Assistant Minister of Antiquities. You've told me 56 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: the story like five times. It was the Assistant Minister 57 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: of Antiquities, and he said, we need an ivery smith. 58 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: Oh my god. Ah. I I laying in bed last 59 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: night watching John Stewart on The Daily Show, Tara part 60 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: Joe Biden for that pardoner you're still outraged about. 61 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 2: It was really good stuff. 62 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: It was mostly visual Unfortunately we can't play it on 63 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: the air because it was just so much visually. But 64 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: it was really really good and it was uh, it 65 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: was what most of America is feeling about. 66 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 2: The whole thing is just Okay, we get it. 67 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: So you're rich and powerful, you get to do things, 68 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: you get to you get to complain about all this stuff, 69 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: but it happens to you. You have to get around 70 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: the world, and you lied for years about I'm not 71 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: gonna pardon my son, and then you do just al whatever. 72 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: And now people are coming out and saying, yeah, we 73 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: had a meeting about it, and we said we're gonna 74 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: claim he's not going to, but then he's going to, 75 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: and don't don't be a little KJP continues to deny. 76 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: This is as you're you know, indicating this is one 77 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: of those news stories that does not confuse or distort 78 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: or cloud people's understanding. This is clarity, folks, This is 79 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: the way it really is. Fox and Friends was saying 80 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: KJP should have resigned yesterday and said, I'm not going 81 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: out there and defending this. I went out there. I've 82 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: actually got the list. Put out the list yesterday somebody 83 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 1: did of all the dates that Joe Biden. Oh yeah, 84 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: said The Hill, which is a liberal newspaper website, put 85 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: out all the dates that they officially made the statement 86 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden wouldn't pardon Hunter. And it's a lot 87 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: of them and KGP should have resigned and said you can't, 88 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: you can't. I can't. I went out there fifteen times 89 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: with my own mouth and said you weren't gonna Borro, 90 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 1: and now I can't go out there and explain why 91 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're changing your mind unless you're 92 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: gonna give me something better to say. 93 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 2: That would have been an honorable thing to do, I think. 94 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: And but you know, well, if your boss repeatedly makes 95 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: you look like a jackass, the only reason you don't 96 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 1: resign is because you are indeed a jackass, And so 97 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: why would you John Stuart plag maybe we had this 98 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: clip yesterday, but it was one when Joe Biden was 99 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: asked by David Muir on ABC News. He was more 100 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: specific and because David Muir said, have you made a decision, 101 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: and he said, yes, I have, and I'm not going 102 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: to pardon my son. So he specifically said, you know, 103 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: I've thought it over, made the decision and this is 104 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: what I've decided, right right well, And you know, there's 105 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: part of me that feels like there's no point in 106 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: trying to point out the dishonesty of it and squaring 107 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: his statements with the result. But it's probably worth going 108 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: through at least a little bit in that he said 109 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,799 Speaker 1: he made the decision and then apparently he changed his mind, 110 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: But he didn't say, Look, I changed my mind out 111 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: of an outpouring of love for my son, and I 112 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: know people won't disapprove. No, he he strung together this 113 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: utterly ridiculous, condemned on all sides, just unforgivably fanciful account 114 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: of how his own justice department singled out his boy 115 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: and because of the pressure of the Republicans that persecuted him. 116 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 2: They how did him like I get escaped convict. 117 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: When everybody but he knows it was exactly the opposite. 118 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 1: You've got iris whistleblowers coming out and saying and risking 119 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: their entire lives and careers, saying, Hey, this guy committed 120 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: all sorts of crimes and we're letting them get away 121 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: with it. What's happening here? Yes, Brenton, Joe, die or 122 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: resign or go away? Yeah, Sir. John Stewart on The 123 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: Daily Show had a different point about that, but I 124 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: think that will be in our opening clips. So let's 125 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty 126 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: on this It is Tuesday, December third, there, twenty twenty four. 127 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: Life will not be a born twenty four. It certainly hasn't. 128 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: And we are Armstrong, You Getti. We approved of this program. 129 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: All right, let's begin then officially according to f SEC 130 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: rules of regulations, here we go at Mark Shaid, I 131 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: ad buy by the jury decision. 132 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 3: I'll do that and I'll not. 133 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: Partner, letting the world know that he will not wipe 134 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: away the decision of twelve of his son's peers. Was 135 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: asked directly, and he has said he wouldn't pardon his 136 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: son if he gets convicted. Let's see what happens if 137 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: he loveses. Yeah, but I mean, but he said it. 138 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: He's going to get pardoned by his dad. There's no 139 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: question about that. The President has ruled out pardoning his son. 140 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: Major commitment from the President accepting the outcome of the 141 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: trial and also pledging not to pardon his son. We 142 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: are nine minutes of talking heads and commentators saying, this 143 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: man has made it clear that he's not going to 144 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: this question should stop coming. He's a man of honor, 145 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: he's old Scranton Joe. Well. The thing John Stewart is 146 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: most outraged about. He had a montage of Democrats during 147 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: the campaign talking about the difference between Democrats and Republicans. 148 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 2: We believe the courts, we accept the results. 149 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: Even our president with his own son, has said he 150 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: will accept the results and will not pardon him because 151 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: we believe in the And John Stewart's thing was, Okay, 152 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 1: you're a dad, you decide to partner your kid. 153 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 2: Lots of us would have done that. We can all 154 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 2: understand that. 155 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: But you sent all those people out there to say 156 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: this when you were planning to do this all along. 157 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 2: That not good at all. 158 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: No, they're they're liars. They are lying liars. They have 159 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: no principles. All they do they use principles as weapons. 160 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: They don't actually own those principles. They don't internalize them. 161 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: They put them on and take them off like a jacket. 162 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: Then go, yeah, we talked about the tax stuff yesterday, 163 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: so you're the party of when will the rich pay 164 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: their fair share? And then here's a rich guy who 165 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: wasn't paying anything, let alone his fair share, and feloniously 166 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: lying about it and covering it up. Yes, but the 167 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: gun part, I was watching zoom thing with Spicer, Trump's 168 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: former White House spokesperson say it. The Democrats are done. 169 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: They can't ever talk about guns again. They're always talking 170 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: about background checks and registration and wanting more registration. Here 171 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: and there you got Hunter Biden who didn't register, lied 172 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: on registration, took the gun through it and threw it 173 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: in the bushes near a school, right and you're gonna 174 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: and he gets off, and combine, please, with coast to coast, 175 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: you have Democrat das who refuse to add gun enhancements 176 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: to prosecutions. For instance, they refuse to prosecute people for 177 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: gun offenses at all if those people happen to be 178 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 1: more tan than me. So please quit with your phony, 179 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: phony principles. So mostly, of course it all gets covered 180 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: as one side's up, one sides down, our side against 181 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: your side. This makes you look bad, blah blah blah. 182 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: But sure, ultimately the thirty thousand foot view, which bothers me, 183 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: is just more cynicism, just more nobody believes anything, nobody 184 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: trusts any of it, nobody takes any of it seriously. 185 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: That is not good. That is not good. As we 186 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: reach I don't know. I thought we have reached peak 187 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: cynicism many times, but we keep going further. 188 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 2: How would you blame us? 189 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: How would you blame us for feeling this way? We 190 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 1: the public? You know, I wish I had the AI 191 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,439 Speaker 1: at work. I could do you a quick illustration in 192 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: Twitter so you can see what I'm thinking, what I 193 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: see in my mind. But what I'm seeing is a 194 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: big field. It's like a spectrum of naivete. And then 195 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: over here there's bitter cynicism, a big it's probably dark purple. 196 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: But right there in the middle is like a narrow 197 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 1: band of realism. Somewhere between delusional naivete and being scammed 198 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: by these politicians ridiculous promises and then being so pissed 199 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: off you can't you don't even care anymore. Somewhere is 200 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: the sweet spot of being skeptical yet caring. That's what 201 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: I would like to lead you all to. Somehow I 202 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: will fail at this, but it keeps me busy during 203 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, they don't make it easy. Gives me 204 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: off those streets how about Trump saying, and then we'll 205 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: take our break. How about Trump saying to Trudeau yesterday 206 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: Trudeau was saying, our economy would collapse, Our economy would 207 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: collapse with those tarraffs, and Trump says, you can't survive 208 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: with those with those tariffs. Well, then why don't you 209 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: become our fifty first state and you can be the governor? 210 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: Hilarious and and Trudeau laughed uneasily. What I'm to say 211 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: to a foreign leader? Anyway? 212 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 2: How does mailbag look? It's it's quite good. 213 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 1: Let's get to it text line four one, five, two 214 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: nine five k FTZ players. By the way, we'll get 215 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: back to it later in the show. But there is 216 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: some reporting and a couple of different news places about 217 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,719 Speaker 1: how the pardon decision was made and how Jill was 218 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: pushing it and how they came to that conclusion over 219 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and everything. And we'll talk about that later. Just 220 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: as long as the Biden family's out of politics and gone, 221 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: please go away, go away, mummy. Here's your freedom loving 222 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: quote of the day. It's from Jay William Fulbright. Perhaps 223 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: you've heard of him. The Scholarship, et cetera. Continuing our 224 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: series on law is the essential foundation of stability and order, 225 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: both within societies and in international relations. I would point 226 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: out that a society or in international relationship, if you 227 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:19,239 Speaker 1: have no sanctions that will be enforced and are sufficient 228 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 1: to discourage the undesired behavior, then you don't have law. 229 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: International law is mostly a joke, and I would argue 230 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: that the postmodernist, neo Marxist Democratic Party has turned domestic 231 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: lawn into a bit of a joke too. But we'll 232 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: see whether Donald Jay and his troops can overcome that mailbag. 233 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: You who Matthew, Idaho farmhand right? Oh, it's mail bag 234 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: at Armstrong in getty dot com. Drop us a note 235 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: sometimes continue, good to have you back. You're missed, but 236 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: it's great to have the refreshed perspective and added verve 237 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: that you bring back from vacation. All the verve I'm 238 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,199 Speaker 1: afraid of underver But anyway, thank you. He's gonna remind 239 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: me to bet on politics because I predict these things, 240 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: and I never lay any money down because I just 241 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: don't think of it. But anyway, and then he says, 242 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: on the rush of gay marriages and preparations for Trump's 243 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: certain crackdown, it reminds me reminds one of Obama's on sets, 244 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: A certain crowd rushed to by firearms dead off is 245 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: his expected dismantling of the Second Amendment. Come on, American, 246 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: why must we veer from guardrail to guardrail? Steady? Now? 247 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: Yeah that's true. Yeah, that's true. Here's a certain personality 248 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: that enjoys the crisis. Oh absolutely, yeah. Yeah, to get 249 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: fired up, to be afraid, to be under threat, to 250 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: join together to fight the evil to it's a good feeling. 251 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: I think it's part of us as human beings. You 252 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: just gotta be careful where you direct it. Anyway. One 253 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: of my favorite notes of the day and the week 254 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: probably from Mary in the Hoe more than guys on 255 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: the We agree thankfully that the Black Friday craze seems 256 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: to be over, but for some reason, people are still 257 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: looking back all wistfully on that nonsense like it was 258 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: awesome and being all remember when we'd wake up super 259 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: early and it would be pitch black and crowded and freezing. Ma'am, 260 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: you're describing being a coal miner in eighteen thirty six. 261 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: Resist me much, Mary in the Hoe. Thank you, Mary, 262 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: that's very funny. 263 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 4: Uh. 264 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: Eric in Beautiful Astoria Oregon, guys, on your excellent program Monday, 265 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: in vote to General Che's Chicken in the same vein 266 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: as the Chinese Communist Party. I'm sorry the Chinese Communist 267 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: Horde Sacre Blue. As you well know, General Cho's Chicken 268 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: was created by the personal chef to none other than 269 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: Generallyssiumo Chang Kai Shek, whose anti communist credentials against Chaikom 270 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: tyranny are incontrovertible. I expect a full public retraction. Consider 271 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: it retracted. And I'd happen to know your nickname is 272 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: not stir Fries, so don't sign your emails like that. 273 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: See what's up, stir Fry. Here's a Tommy in Texas. 274 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: Let's see on the topic of Hunter. Sorry, guys, if 275 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: my fifty four year old son was in this much trouble, 276 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: I'd let him rot in jail. I'd feel sorry, I 277 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: might be ashamed I didn't raise him correctly, but I'd 278 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: let him face the consequences. It's not like he's an 279 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: eighteen year old punk. He's fifty four. Well, he's been 280 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: set out sober for five years. And if you believed 281 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: he's you know, turned it around, Yeah, well then why 282 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: didn't he say, hey, when I was wasted, I didn't 283 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: pay my taxes. I need to get this right. No, 284 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: he lied and perjured and covered up when he was 285 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: so he was busy becoming a painter. All right. Anyway, 286 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: Tommy goes on to say, Hunter's a scumbag. Do you 287 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: think it's possible he went to Dad and said, pardon me, 288 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: or I'll write a book about us, or go to 289 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: the press and tell him something about our sideline business 290 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: hosing down governments for profit. I think it was probably 291 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: an unspoken understanding, Tommy, But you're on the right. Yeah, 292 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: more on that to come. Obviously a lot of people 293 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: wanted to weigh in. Yeah, that's a good one. So uh, 294 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: we didn't mention what's going on around the world much yesterday. 295 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: And what's good? How about Syria? Wow? 296 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 2: Did that explode over the last couple of days. 297 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: And Russia and Iran's involved in that whole bunch of 298 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: different stuff we can talk about to day. 299 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 2: Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty. 300 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 4: We are seeing the woman who managed to sneak past 301 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 4: airport workers and onto an international delta flight from JFK 302 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 4: to Paris. According to sources, the woman was so unruly 303 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 4: she had to be removed and she remains in France. 304 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 4: The TSA says the woman bypassed the ID check podium, 305 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 4: went through security, then slipped past a Delta gate agent. 306 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 4: The crew and passengers noticing the woman would never sit down. 307 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 2: During the flight. 308 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 1: She was seen moving from one laboratory to another, never 309 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: actually going to a passenger seat. 310 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 4: French officials telling ABC News the suspected stowaway passenger is 311 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 4: a Russian national and a legal resident of the US. 312 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: And I wasn't paying attention to beginning she got on 313 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: it JFK. Is that what I remember? Yeah, so, and oh, 314 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: there'd never be any terrorism at JFK. And I don't 315 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: want to come off as uh, you know, because you can't. 316 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: You can't be one hundred percent right on a TSA. 317 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: They're never going to get it, all right. But the 318 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: pat down of my son that lasted a ridiculously long time, 319 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: got pulled out a line and like going up the 320 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: crotch and around the back and under his hat and 321 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: then looked behind his ears because his hair is long, 322 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: and just like they might have grenades back there. Since 323 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: no white teenagers have ever done anything ever in the 324 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: history of airfare, but this woman just walks in and gets. 325 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 2: On a plane. I just I just feel like I 326 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: don't know what. 327 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: Are you doing? Yeah, there need to be more whistleblowers 328 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 1: from the TSA, more of the blue shirts. You come 329 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: forward and say, hey, here's what they make us do, 330 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: and we got to check a box and show we 331 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 1: did this number of that. Well, when they need to 332 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: have a vote, when we'll raise our hands in somebody 333 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: way up. I can count all across America the raising 334 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: of the hands, how many people would be okay with? 335 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: How about you don't pull out randomly people so it 336 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 1: makes looky look like you look makes it look like 337 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: you check young women, babies, and white kids the same 338 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: amount as you check islam Muslim men from Africa who 339 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: are twenty five years old. How about we don't worry 340 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 1: you're chanting angrily under their breast. 341 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 2: How we don't worry about that? 342 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: And they just go with like their gut feeling who 343 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: they think might be somebody to worry about. You have 344 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: so diagnosed it. Yeah, there it is, k there it 345 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: is yeah, I know. Speaking of law and order, Well, 346 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: this is just a lovely, lovely development. There are so 347 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: many people getting their packages porch pirated that you can 348 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 1: now get insurance on your delivery. Nearly half of shoppers 349 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: expect to have at least one delivery get snatched up 350 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: during this holiday season. 351 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 2: WHOA, I've never had that hat. 352 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: Well, I guess I have a very minor I left 353 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: my pallette of water sitting outside that the door dash 354 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: delivered way too long and somebody took it. I think 355 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: that's like a whole pallette of pallette. But I get 356 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: them by the twenty four pack of the bottles. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, 357 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 1: I just didn't bring it in. Yeah. Thieves who grab 358 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: packages off the front porch would become so common that 359 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 1: shoppers now spend hundreds of dollars to protect themselves. Ah 360 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 1: to tur the porch pirates, Americans are shelling out for 361 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: such high gadgets as doorbell cameras four hundred dollars, lock boxes, 362 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: self service locker rental. Interesting. I'll bet that's gonna become 363 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: a thing everybody will have, like a little locked like 364 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: the trunk sitting by the door. It'll just be part 365 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: of every house and delivery box. Well, I would agree, 366 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 1: and it'll be sunk into the concrete and impossible to move. 367 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: And that sort of thing, depending on the quality you get. 368 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: Also to deter the the scumbag thieves. I almost hate 369 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: to call them porch pirates because it brings to mind 370 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 1: Johnny Depp and are in good times. No, they're they're 371 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: I almost used an unfortunate word on the air. That's 372 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: imagine the kids and how shocked they would have been. 373 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: I'm glad I didn't. But they're blanken thieves. They're scumbags. 374 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: To deter them, oh said that already. Now, there's also 375 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: insurance porch Pals, a subscription based startup that launches nationwide yesterday, 376 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: I guess says it will cover the cost of your 377 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 1: stolen packages one hundred and twenty bucks a year, covers 378 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: up to two thousand dollars worth of deliveries or up 379 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: take three claims in this case, which is your case, 380 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: is probably the way it works. You having tried to 381 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: collect on a ups thing in a variety of other 382 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: insurance policies I've purchased before, it is, but not in 383 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 1: this case except in high crime areas. Yeah, exactly, which 384 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: they will declare the day that you get your things stolen? Right? 385 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: Did you request a special signed for personal fingerprinted delivery. 386 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,199 Speaker 1: What now, sorry, oh right, reec. Yeah, which is a 387 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: pain in the ass. And except for really really expensive 388 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: stuff I'm never going to do because I'm not home. Yeah, 389 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 1: I will concede that a portion of the lawlessness of 390 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: porch piratry is just opportunity, because I mean, back in 391 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: the day, you just didn't have nearly you didn't have 392 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: a fraction of the stuff sitting on your front porches 393 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: as people do these days. On the other end, part 394 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: of it's just another example of the current of lawlessness, 395 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: the feeling that minor and medium and sometimes major offenses 396 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: are ignored in this postmodern neo Marxist the justice regime 397 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: that the George Gascones of the world, and you know 398 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: the list, Kim Fox, all these people. Well, as you mentioned, 399 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: it brought us, as you mentioned last week or a 400 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: week before that, in a lot of neighborhoods my neighborhood, 401 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: your neighborhood, there's a FedEx or Amazon or ups van 402 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: constantly coming and going. 403 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 2: I mean it's constant. 404 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, And because so many people get so many things 405 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: or door dash or the target delivery, which I do, 406 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: and I live in a neighborhood where it's unlikely that 407 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: you know, anything's gonna get stolen, so I don't worry 408 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: about it much. But I'll bet we do come up 409 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: with a fix for this, and that makes sense to me. 410 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: Every home will have some sort of lock box thingy, 411 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: or you could execute porch pirates like we did horse 412 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: thieves hangings. I don't know. I'm just thinking out of 413 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: the box here, so to speak. Current lawlessness is a 414 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: big part of this, so much of it as culture, 415 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: and I think about this a lot. I find it fascinating. 416 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: I don't know what you can do about it. But 417 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: I grew up in cultures my whole life where it 418 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: left your door open and your keys in your car. 419 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: Everybody did and it wasn't a problem ever. And you 420 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 1: remember the movie Bowling for Columbine way back in the day, 421 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: Michael Moore was up in Canada and going around and 422 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: amused that he could go through this neighborhood and just 423 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: walk up and open people's doors. Their doors are unlocked. 424 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: You can have a culture where that is the thing. 425 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 1: How do you hold on to that, I don't know, 426 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,679 Speaker 1: or how do you get it back? Part of it 427 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 1: is what you were saying, you have to punish people 428 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: who violated. Yeah, but that's not what was going on 429 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: any of the places I lived. 430 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 2: It just didn't happen. 431 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: Well, right, Part of that was a sense of community 432 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: and all that implies a a common set of values, 433 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: which is incredibly important and which we have to a 434 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: large extent given away in the name of diversity and 435 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,479 Speaker 1: immigration and such in the United States. And there are 436 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: absolutely pluses and minuses to everything. I'm not saying it's 437 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: entirely one or the other. You have that a loss 438 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: of common cultural values, loss of repercussions, and we just 439 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: don't know, oh our neighbors. It used to be the 440 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: humiliation of being branded a scumbag was enough to keep 441 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: people in line. 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He's gotten away with it so 478 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: many times. It's a story about this TDA the trendy 479 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: Aragua Venezuelan gang immigrant gang member robbed a Manhattan prosecutor 480 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: inside her own home last month. Jeeze, man, if somebody 481 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: came into my home to rob me, I would think 482 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to die. Well, here's the deal. It's worse 483 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: than that. It was quite later, as after midnight, and 484 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: a thirty eight year old woman, Yes, I would definitely 485 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: think I was going to die. Oh yeah. A thirty 486 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: eight year old woman is getting home in Hell's Kitchen 487 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: near Times Square, New York City. Man followed her through 488 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: the front door of her building. He demanded cash and 489 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: motioned that he might have a gun in his pocket, 490 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: so she tossed him her phone, ID in credit card, 491 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: but then he cornered her and masturbated in front of 492 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: her for several moments. According to prosecutor, you, well, the 493 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 1: woman stood terrified, cowering in the corner of her Stairwe 494 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: you this this young model citizen. Well, no, he's not 495 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: a model anything. And he's not a citizen. Twenty five 496 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: year old Brandon Simosa Venezuelan. Why are people saying migrant 497 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: these days? Immigrant with links to TDA? And the woman 498 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: he robbed was no ordinary victim. She's a New York 499 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: City prosecutor who works to put scumbags like this guy 500 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: behind bars. But the victim works for Alvin Bragg, the 501 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: infamous Manhattan District Attorney. The very sort of guy was 502 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: just talking about who has skipped across that there is 503 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: downgraded sixty percent of felony cases the lesser charges, while 504 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: declining to prosecute fourteen percent of all arrests last year. 505 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: The anointed one, according to Lawrence O'Donnell, for going after 506 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,239 Speaker 1: Donald Trump for those ridiculed ills falsifying business records. Is 507 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: better known for his track record of freeing criminals like 508 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: and there's a long, long list But so anyway, this 509 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: Samosa guy, that was his seventh arrest since June, and 510 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: the New York authorities just kept turning him loose on 511 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: the streets. What kind of society, getting back to our 512 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: discussion of the way it used to be here is 513 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: still this is a place? What sort of society do you 514 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: think you're gonna end up with if a guy can 515 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: get arrested seven times in When did this happen November? 516 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: In six months barely with no repercussions? Good lord, I 517 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: feel like the world has lost its mind. Right. That's well. 518 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: We started the show talking about how the Hunter Biden 519 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: pardon makes, you know, adds to cynicism. How about this, Well, 520 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: the good news is we can't do anything about Hunter 521 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: Biden unless there's some sort of major restructuring of the 522 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:03,719 Speaker 1: pardon power to the presidency. But voting for DA's, voting 523 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: for county attorneys for the people who appoint them or 524 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: run that sort of stuff. Man, that's got to become 525 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: part of your political consciousness. I don't know, it is 526 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: so crazy, and thank god it hasn't happened to me, 527 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: although kind of practically did and got a similar reaction. 528 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: But that woman might be pretty hard bitten being a 529 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 1: prosecutor in New York City. But just for the average person, 530 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: you basically get a gun stuck in your face, run 531 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: rob a gunpoint, worried you're gonna die. Then the guy's 532 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: masturbating in front of youst tonight, you think you're going 533 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: to be raped. You would never be the same after 534 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: that ever again in your life. You will never ever 535 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: walk down a street at night into a room by 536 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: yourself ever without thinking about that again in your life. 537 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: And then when you find out the guy's been arrested 538 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: seven times in the last six months and let go, 539 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: I mean, how do you deal with that? 540 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 2: With that going nuts? 541 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: So I want to reapproach this next hour because obviously 542 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: this is a problem in and of it self. But 543 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: here's the deal. This Samosa scumbag is one of nearly 544 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen thousand immigrants the city is absorbed 545 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: in just the last two years. And the word has 546 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: gotten into Central America that a great, crazy, profitable place 547 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: to do crimes is the United States of America, particularly 548 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: this list of cities. So these guys are not well. 549 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: I almost said they're not coming for a better life, 550 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 1: but they are in a way. It's not the classic 551 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: immigrant story. They're like, hey, you four, Jose Pedro whatever. 552 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: We need you guys to get to New York City. 553 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: You need to set up a crime syndicate and send 554 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: the profits back to the main line. It's essentially opening 555 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 1: field offices. Don't worry these criminal gangs, and don't worry 556 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: if you get caught, to let you out again. Precisely 557 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: yet on this guy and how it all works. Next hour, 558 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: stay with us. We got Katie's headlines on the way. 559 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: Stay here, Michael. 560 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 2: I apologize. I just door dashed donuts to the radio station. 561 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,479 Speaker 1: Why well, I needed to door dash my cream because I'm 562 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: out of my cream for my coffee and I gotta 563 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: have my special cream. And I thought I get donuts 564 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: because people bring donuts all time. I never bring anything. 565 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: I'm a taker. Oh, I thought I was going to 566 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: accuse you of KJP style rambling bull crap to just no, 567 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: that's I'm buying that. That's good people bringing big goods 568 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: all the time. I never bring anything. So I ordered some. 569 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: But I could have gotten like bagels and cream, cheese 570 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: or something healthy or what's that new healthy thing beans. 571 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: I should have eaten some beans. Nice bean salad. It's 572 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: good for you. 573 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 2: A bean salad in the lunch room, Jack order it. 574 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: Anyway, Let's figure out who's reporting what perhaps about beans. 575 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green. 576 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,720 Speaker 2: Katie, Well, thank you guys. 577 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 3: Starting with the NBC News Hunter Biden pardon fuels Trump's 578 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 3: weaponization arguments. 579 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I mean bobs. 580 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: The big other shoe to drop is it does Biden 581 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: pardon his brother or any of the other people involved 582 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: in this whole thing? And then it just becomes completely 583 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: obvious when it's all about it's entirely possible. James Biden 584 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: is sood am old it might not matter. But yeah, 585 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: since he's not like up for being sentenced for anything, right, 586 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: Joe Biden can wait till you know, the last hour 587 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: in office, like presidents generally do, including Trump. 588 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 3: From the New York Times, Cash Patel has a plan 589 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 3: to remake the FBI into a tool of Trump. 590 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, pluses and minus says we can talk more about 591 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: that down the road. 592 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 3: And international news from CNN Deadley. Israeli strikes hit southern 593 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 3: Lebanon after Hesbula attacks, testing. 594 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: A shaky ceasefire agreement. Well, when they haven't ceased firing. 595 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: I'd say it's a shaky ceasefire. Donald Jay yesterday the 596 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: day before said give us the American hostages back by 597 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,959 Speaker 1: the time I get inaugurated, or we're going to hit 598 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: you like you've never been it before. Where has that 599 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: been an American foreign policy hal lujah. 600 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,360 Speaker 3: From NPR, US will send Ukraine seven hundred and twenty 601 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 3: five million more dollars in arms and land. 602 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,399 Speaker 2: Mines Russia case. 603 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: Russia has taken more territory in the last couple of 604 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: weeks than at any point since the whole thing started. Wow, crazy, 605 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,359 Speaker 1: crazy Trump might be defunding in PR. There's certainly a 606 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: move in that direction. Boy, would I'd love to see it. 607 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 3: From ABC News, missing Hawaiian woman crossed freely into Mexico, 608 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 3: according to Los Angeles police. 609 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: I haven't been following that story, but I saw that 610 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: update yesterday. What the hell? 611 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 3: So this woman went missing, She apparently didn't board her 612 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 3: flight on purpose, and her family's been searching for her 613 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 3: to the point where her father committed suicide. What because 614 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 3: this has been so hard on their family, and now 615 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,919 Speaker 3: they're saying they have footage of her crossing freely into Mexic. 616 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 2: A councils alive? What's she up to? 617 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: Mental illness? Thing? Is she meeting that dude from Wisconsin 618 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: who made his way to Eastern Europe? What's happening here? Jack? 619 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 3: This one's for you because you need to step up 620 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 3: your inflatable decor game. And my post Long Island couple 621 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,240 Speaker 3: wants to make Christmas great again with a giant forty 622 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 3: two foot three thousand dollars inflatable. 623 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: Lawn Santa forty two foot a four story Santa building 624 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: all of a sudden shows up in your neighborhood. Wow, 625 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to moor that thing to the ground 626 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: like it's a radio tower or something. 627 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,239 Speaker 2: Wow. Planes will hit it. 628 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: Wow. 629 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 3: And finally from the Babylon Bee Hunter, Biden asks. 630 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 2: If he can get his baggy of cocaine back from 631 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 2: the White House. 632 00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: Now, come on, boy, I get it. Some of the 633 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 1: reporting out today, I think is in the New York 634 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: Times is that Joe is really worried that a sentencing 635 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 1: would cause his son to go back to using drugs, 636 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:02,360 Speaker 1: that it endangers his sobriety really factored into his decision 637 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: making a sweeping pardon for any crime that could conceivably 638 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 1: have been committed in an eleven year period. That is 639 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:15,399 Speaker 1: more sweeping than Richard Nixon's Pardon to Heal the Nation 640 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 1: given by Gerald Ford. It is astounding. Yeah, we got 641 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: a lot more on that an hour too. 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