Speaker 1: The Armstrong and getting shot attention.
Speaker 2: Walmart choppers.
Speaker 3: Instead of rolling back prices, America's biggest retailer just announced
Speaker 3: they're raising them and they're blaming Trump's tariffs. How many
Speaker 3: more stories are going to have to follow Walmart's lead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that story broke while we're on there yesterday. I
Speaker 2: should have mentioned it. I just wasn't in the mood,
Speaker 2: but probably should have been a big deal. Walmart saying
Speaker 2: they're gonna raise prices because of tariffs. For one thing,
Speaker 2: They're the biggest retailer in the world. Like Jake said, there, lion, lion,
Speaker 2: Jake Tapper.
Speaker 4: And I was just gonna say, the list of voices
Speaker 4: I can hear on our show that don't immediately sour
Speaker 4: me to what they're saying is shrinking. David Muher of
Speaker 4: ABC News, Please, I know if I need to know
Speaker 4: what time of day it wasn't he had a watch.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't ask him because I don't want to hear
Speaker 4: his stinking voice.
Speaker 2: And Jake Tapper, I'm.
Speaker 4: Sorry, sorry, Jake, the great Sherlock Holmes style solver of
Speaker 4: mysteries who figured out that Biden was senile.
Speaker 2: Please more on that a little bit later. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what it is personal between Mark Alprin, who's got
Speaker 2: a new TV show that's on YouTube every night. It's
Speaker 2: on YouTube and somewhere else. It's really good. I mean
Speaker 2: it looks like a TV show. He's sitting there in
Speaker 2: a suit and tie with a TV storreter background, has guests.
Speaker 2: But man, he is killing Jake Tapper and then with
Speaker 2: receipts every single night. Maybe I get into that while
Speaker 2: we're on it. Why the hell not? Why not? So
Speaker 2: Tapper has got this book coming out next week right
Speaker 2: where he's going to try to be the hero of
Speaker 2: the story and bring you all these behind the scenes
Speaker 2: details of what was going on with the cover up,
Speaker 2: and practically everybody's well not true. I was gonna say
Speaker 2: everybody's reaction, but no, The New York Times and The
Speaker 2: Washington Post and CNN's own media person have reviewed the
Speaker 2: book like, oh, oh my god, Jake Tapper has uncovered
Speaker 2: some secrets that are oh wait till you hear this.
Speaker 4: Okay, why don't we just say everyone who's not guilty
Speaker 4: of precisely the same crimes as Jake Tapper have reacted
Speaker 4: this way to jack Jake Tapper's.
Speaker 2: Book right, And so Jake Tapper, as we mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 2: I hired some PR firm when it became fairly obvious
Speaker 2: that some people are like, oh, give me a break.
Speaker 2: You can't set the fire, put out the fire, and
Speaker 2: then take credit for taking you putting out the fire
Speaker 2: and act like you didn't. I mean, nig We're not
Speaker 2: just putting up with this. And so Mark Hauprin, whose
Speaker 2: main thing is as a news guy, I think he's
Speaker 2: got two things going for him. One, he got driven
Speaker 2: out of the industry when he got me tooed around
Speaker 2: what two thousand and twenty twenty one somewhere in there.
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people he's like, you
Speaker 2: didn't come to my defense, screw you. So I don't
Speaker 2: think he cares if he hurts any feelings here with
Speaker 2: Carlin aut.
Speaker 4: We're one of the first shows to have him back on,
Speaker 4: by the way, and you know, I'm not sensing a
Speaker 4: lot of gratitude, but anyway.
Speaker 2: And the other end of it is he really is
Speaker 2: concerned about the state of media and if people don't
Speaker 2: believe the media, we can't hold any president's accountable. He said,
Speaker 2: you can't hold Trump accountable because he lost all of
Speaker 2: your credibility with Biden, and you know, vice versa. So
Speaker 2: just the media can't do its job and we're doomed
Speaker 2: if the media can't hold either party accountable, which is
Speaker 2: obviously a problem. He regularly calls this, and he's absolutely correct,
Speaker 2: the biggest media failure in US history. It absolutely is.
Speaker 2: What would compare to pretending that the president is fine
Speaker 2: for all those years? Anyway? So I think we did.
Speaker 2: First of all, I can't just look at the list quickly,
Speaker 2: handsome that clip I sent you to get Okay, here
Speaker 2: it is here, it is. I want you to play
Speaker 2: forty and let me set this up real quick. So
Speaker 2: back toward this was before the election. Wall Street Journal
Speaker 2: does a not even really strong piece about how Biden's
Speaker 2: brain doesn't work anymore, and it made such waves in
Speaker 2: the world of media. The Wall Street Journal says the
Speaker 2: president isn't fit and mental, that he'd be to be
Speaker 2: in office, and he's certainly to be president for another
Speaker 2: four years. I remember presenting it to the good folks
Speaker 2: on our show, where we decided, yeah, this is good, solid,
Speaker 2: a good solid accounting of that which all of us
Speaker 2: can see with our own eyes. But man, he got
Speaker 2: somebody's serious pushback, and that's when Joe Scarborough on MSNBC
Speaker 2: went nuts and said, hey, look at the camera, af
Speaker 2: you if you don't believe this is the best version
Speaker 2: of Joe Biden. I mean, people pushed back hard, including
Speaker 2: Jake Tapper, who had on various guests to counter the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal narrative and let them say their piece
Speaker 2: completely unchallenged on his showback at the time yesterday he
Speaker 2: has the gall in trying to rewrite history to have
Speaker 2: these Wall Street Journal reporters on and called them heroes.
Speaker 2: Here it is clip forty. They're with me now.
Speaker 3: Two of the heroic reporters were covering this intensely during
Speaker 3: the Biden years, any Lensky and Shevon Hughes. They are
Speaker 3: with the Wall Street Journal. They reported in decline of
Speaker 3: Biden's mental acuity back in June of last year. The
Speaker 3: piece then quote behind closed Doors, Biden shows signs of
Speaker 3: slipping participants in meetings that the eighty one year old
Speaker 3: president performed poorly at times. The White House said Biden
Speaker 3: is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics.
Speaker 2: Unquote.
Speaker 3: This is not the first time you guys have been
Speaker 3: on I said it last year. Before the election, and
Speaker 3: I'll say it again, the journalism you did was vi
Speaker 3: and the smear campaign by Democrats against you two is disgraceful.
Speaker 2: Which you participated in the smear campaign by Democrats against
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal reporters at the time he helped along
Speaker 2: And again getting to the Wholemark Alprin thing his TV
Speaker 2: show last night, I mean, he's been dedicating so much
Speaker 2: time to this. He had a segment where the next
Speaker 2: day or the day of the Wall Street Journal piece,
Speaker 2: Tapper had on Kons, Senator Kuhons, Big Biden advocate and
Speaker 2: surrogate and on there and just tore into the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal and says, where's the Wall Street Journal criticizing
Speaker 2: Trump for when he gets a name wrong? And Tapper
Speaker 2: let him say his giant piece, no pushback whatsoever. So
Speaker 2: he participated. And the Democrats tearing down the Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal then has the balls to have them on yesterday
Speaker 2: and call them heroes. I mean, that is another level.
Speaker 4: And to make the point repeatedly in his introduction that
Speaker 4: I've been on this story the whole time. I'd said
Speaker 4: this last to eight year, I'm saying it now along
Speaker 4: with that other stuff I said all through the Biden
Speaker 4: years that I'm sure everybody remembers. Jake Tapper cannot hear
Speaker 4: the Cosmos screaming at him, saying, Jake, you can't defend you.
Speaker 4: This is not working. You're just reminding people of what
Speaker 4: a liar you are. You cannot be your main advocate
Speaker 4: because you got no credibility.
Speaker 2: Chum. I don't know if it's gonna matter, because it's
Speaker 2: people in the usual circles. If you read the Washington
Speaker 2: Post in the New York Times, you're you're they're taking
Speaker 2: in this book like, oh my god, did you hear?
Speaker 2: And and Fox and everybody leaning right who already knew
Speaker 2: Joe Biden was in the situation he is, you know,
Speaker 2: are laughing at this book. But he must, he must
Speaker 2: be worried to do what he did yesterday. This was yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh he had the Wall Street Journals reporters on and
Speaker 2: called them heroes. I mean, how do you sit there
Speaker 2: and do that.
Speaker 4: It's pathetic, it's de and it's so clearly desperation. That's
Speaker 4: what That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, I would be embarrassed.
Speaker 2: I would be embarrassed to go that far.
Speaker 4: Yes, Uh, you know, it's funny. I just had the
Speaker 4: feeling wash over me.
Speaker 2: That. Uh, the.
Speaker 4: Utter dishonesty of the mainstream media has been recognized by
Speaker 4: the vast, vast majority of the American people. They're less
Speaker 4: popular or less trusted than any institution but Congress, which
Speaker 4: should make you shudder as a fan of the Constitution.
Speaker 4: And and they're they're their punishment's already been exacted upon them.
Speaker 2: They're laughing stocks. Here's the problem. Though it hurts us.
Speaker 2: If it only hurt them, i'd be fine with that.
Speaker 2: I don't care. But it's not. This is Helpern's point.
Speaker 2: It's bad for the country. So you're they've been punished,
Speaker 2: they've gotten what they deserved, but with having an eight
Speaker 2: percent of approval rating. But that's a terrible place for
Speaker 2: us to be as a country. And they're not great,
Speaker 2: and they're not trying to dig themselves out of it.
Speaker 2: They're making it worse. Well, I'll read from Mark Alprin's
Speaker 2: Today he quote, I'm not against it, I'm having lots
Speaker 2: of fun. He quotes Politico Today in his newsletter, This
Speaker 2: is Politico Today. It was what happened in that debate
Speaker 2: was a shock to me. Jake Sullivan told Playbooks Jack
Speaker 2: Blanchard at Politico's Security summerd on Thursday. I think it
Speaker 2: was a shock to everybody, So Jake Sullivan saying this
Speaker 2: week that it was a shock to everyone around Joe
Speaker 2: Biden when he showed up, that they acted that way.
Speaker 2: House Les Alpin writes, no one can legitimately say they
Speaker 2: were shocked by what happened in the debate because Biden
Speaker 2: exhibited all the same behaviors in public four years, and
Speaker 2: goes on to say, oh my god, reporters need to
Speaker 2: stop asking Democrats, were you surprised by the debate? Or
Speaker 2: should Biden have run for reelection? Or did you see
Speaker 2: signs of decline in private? The correct question at this
Speaker 2: p point is, given Joe Biden's obvious mental decline in public,
Speaker 2: why didn't you speak up? That should be the only
Speaker 2: question every single time, right right, And if you're going
Speaker 2: to talk to reporters, it should be But the reporter,
Speaker 2: given his obvious decline, why weren't you reporting on that?
Speaker 4: There are only two possible Well, yeah, for the politicos
Speaker 4: the one question, reporters another, But the only possible answer
Speaker 4: for politicos would be I place my party above my country. Well,
Speaker 4: the second answer might be, look, I go along to
Speaker 4: get along.
Speaker 2: That's what politicians do.
Speaker 4: Third answer, and if they were going to be honest,
Speaker 4: they would say this, Kamala Harris is an effing idiot.
Speaker 4: I figured we were better off with old man Biden
Speaker 4: his inner circle than that half wit from California and
Speaker 4: her band of renegade dopes.
Speaker 2: The why to that is, and this is what Alpen
Speaker 2: points out all the time, is that they hated Trump
Speaker 2: so much they just didn't want him to win. Whatever
Speaker 2: kept him from winning. Yeah, that's answer for right, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And but to go so far to bring in those
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal reporters, they should have called him out
Speaker 2: there on the show you're calling a well, I wish
Speaker 2: one of them would have said, you're calling me a hero.
Speaker 2: You had guest after guest on to terras apart at
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's weird, Jake. I was an idiot last year.
Speaker 4: Now I'm a hero.
Speaker 2: Huh. That's a great hero heroic coverage because they were
Speaker 2: able to report what everybody already knew.
Speaker 4: This is.
Speaker 2: Well. I keep quoting Mark Comperany, he said last night,
Speaker 2: we're through the looking glass. I don't even know what
Speaker 2: to say anymore? Well?
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, what's your next book? Jake Nixon was
Speaker 4: a little paranoid. You got a book about Carter, He's
Speaker 4: a well meaning fellow, but didn't do it very well.
Speaker 4: You got any more crazy revelations nobody saw God?
Speaker 2: I mean, can Jake Tapper go any farther than this
Speaker 2: calling them heroes?
Speaker 4: Well, the harder he tries, the more sad and pathetic
Speaker 4: it is, which is what I was trying to say
Speaker 4: about the cosmos.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jake, you just gotta let it lie.
Speaker 4: Dude, you are the last person who ought to be
Speaker 4: saying these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think he's just completely self unaware? That's
Speaker 2: what I wonder. I have been self delusional about things before,
Speaker 2: and then when it becomes evident to me how wrong
Speaker 2: I was, I'm amazed. It's like, wow, the human brain
Speaker 2: can do that, or my human brain did this, or
Speaker 2: but he doesn't seem to want to have that what
Speaker 2: How interesting would that be if he did, If he'd
Speaker 2: be willing to come on the air and say I
Speaker 2: was so against Trump winning and so just very deep
Speaker 2: in the idea of not helping him that I ignored
Speaker 2: the obvious. That would be interesting. It would be more interesting,
Speaker 2: it would be more believable.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, you raised an interesting pointer, Michael did at
Speaker 4: the end. There You've never had any brain but the
Speaker 4: one you've had. You know, all of us obviously can
Speaker 4: say that. I wonder if there are people who are
Speaker 4: just way, way, way more pliable to that sort of
Speaker 4: group think than I can imagine being it's got to
Speaker 4: be true.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's Jack Armstrong and Joey, the Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 5: Class as the years ago were pushed to the side
Speaker 5: in favor. Of course, we're prioritizing test scores, and STEM
Speaker 5: now seen as a huge opportunity. According to one survey,
Speaker 5: sixty six percent of all high schools now offer career education,
Speaker 5: and it's being driven by economic demand.
Speaker 6: I have construction companies and I have other employers coming
Speaker 6: to me wanting students right out of high school.
Speaker 2: To be career ready. We need employees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a story last week about kids being
Speaker 4: recruited straight out of high school for like, you know,
Speaker 4: seventy five thousand dollars a year jobs in welding and
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. Interesting how that's turned culturally. Speaking
Speaker 4: of which you know. It's it's partly the change, the
Speaker 4: amount of change. It's making everybody crazy these days.
Speaker 2: It's also the pace of change.
Speaker 4: Like I remember, it wasn't very long ago that we
Speaker 4: were telling the youngsters who are like bringing their whole
Speaker 4: selves to work and taking spirit days and the rest
Speaker 4: of it. I mean, because it seemed like employees had
Speaker 4: all the power.
Speaker 2: And there was that employees to it Monday, and I'll
Speaker 2: work half a day Tuesday and take Fridays off. I
Speaker 2: demand to on Friday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're trying to tell you, trust us, this
Speaker 4: will not last.
Speaker 2: Well, it has.
Speaker 4: Not not long ago. Everybody's replaceable, as the headline the
Speaker 4: story the new the way bosses talk about workers. Not
Speaker 4: long ago, bosses routinely praised workers as their most prized asset.
Speaker 4: Today with a giant question mark hanging over the economy
Speaker 4: less so today after the temporary maybe you trade deal
Speaker 4: with China, But executives are pulling punches, pulling no punches
Speaker 4: and saying employees need to work harder, complain lesson, be
Speaker 4: glad they have a job. How work life balance is
Speaker 4: your problem, said Emma. Is it's greed or gridet or something?
Speaker 4: Emma greed is not a good name for this article,
Speaker 4: but she's the co founder of the Skims shapewear company.
Speaker 2: I should ask my dad how many times in employers
Speaker 2: seemed concerned about his work life balance when he was
Speaker 2: a young man out there starting.
Speaker 4: Work life balance is your problem, she said. Starbucks, after
Speaker 4: cutting in more than a thousand jobs, there's a new CEO,
Speaker 4: Brian Nichols said, remaining corporate staff need to step it
Speaker 4: up her own and own whether or not this place grows.
Speaker 4: Jamie Diamond, in a profo he laced internal meeting, told
Speaker 4: employees lamenting a return to work mandate that he didn't care.
Speaker 4: I've had it with this kind of stuff. I've been
Speaker 4: working seven days a week since COVID.
Speaker 2: I come in. Where is everybody else? Man? If you
Speaker 2: can concern yourself with work life balance, you should consider
Speaker 2: yourself among the more privileged workers in the history of
Speaker 2: work on planets Earth. If it is even an option,
Speaker 2: that means you've got shelter and enough food and you
Speaker 2: can start to decide, you know how much do I need? Right? Right?
Speaker 4: And that's not to say it's a bad idea or
Speaker 4: you shouldn't. You just have to keep it in perspective,
Speaker 4: the shift in tone marks a shift in power. Now
Speaker 4: the companies are shrinking their white collar staff, with jobs
Speaker 4: harder to find, many workers are seeing pricks disappear and
Speaker 4: their grievance is ignored, or.
Speaker 2: That if you don't have the luxury of being concerned
Speaker 2: about work life balance, that you're somehow unique in the
Speaker 2: history of working right right, Yeah, let's see again. How
Speaker 2: many of our parents ever had the ever had it
Speaker 2: crossed their mind?
Speaker 4: And interestingly, they mentioned a twenty twenty three episode where
Speaker 4: this one company told staffers leave Pitty City. Well, that comment,
Speaker 4: made in a video call, immediately went viral, sparking days
Speaker 4: of headlines and worker backlash. The CEO quickly apologized, set
Speaker 4: our comments were insensitive.
Speaker 2: Now it's like they're all saying it. See how long
Speaker 2: this lasts?
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 2: Well, it's crazy just because of him. Here, you're the
Speaker 2: only reason I'm here to a free to talk at
Speaker 2: I'm not. That's Eemen, Alexander. He was a hostage of
Speaker 2: Hamas for three years. How long has it been? Four
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty days or something? I don't remember exactly
Speaker 2: since October of twenty three. He was on the phone
Speaker 2: with Trump yesterday saying, the only reason I'm here, You're
Speaker 2: the only reason I'm here. You saved my life, Trumpet
Speaker 2: negotiating with somebody in Hamas and bypassing Israel on that
Speaker 2: whole thing and getting the guy out. So that was
Speaker 2: a good story. Over the weekend, we mentioned on Friday
Speaker 2: how Bruce Springsteen had bad mouthed Trump in the United
Speaker 2: States while he was kicking off his world tour in
Speaker 2: Great Britain. We are annoyed by that. It was after
Speaker 2: we got off the air on Friday that Trump truth
Speaker 2: to this out about Bruce Springsteen. I see that highly
Speaker 2: overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a foreign country to speak
Speaker 2: badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him,
Speaker 2: never liked his music or his radical left politics, and importantly,
Speaker 2: he's not a talented guy. I love the stuff like low.
Speaker 2: He's just a pushy of noxious jerk all caps who
Speaker 2: fervently supported crooked Joe Biden and mentally incompetent fool than
Speaker 2: our worst ever president who came close to destroying our country.
Speaker 2: If I wasn't elected, it would have been gone by now,
Speaker 2: sleepy dough Joe didn't have a clue as to what
Speaker 2: he was doing. But Springsteen is quote dumb as a
Speaker 2: rock unquote. I like how he puts quotes. I don't
Speaker 2: even know exactly what that means, and couldn't see what
Speaker 2: was going on, or could he which is even worse.
Speaker 2: This dried out prune of a rocker prune also in quotes,
Speaker 2: his skin is all atrophied. Trump, right, let me close
Speaker 2: with the sentence. I'll say it again because it's just
Speaker 2: too good, This dried out prune of a rocker, his
Speaker 2: skin is all atrophied. Ought to keep his mouth shut
Speaker 2: until he gets back into the country. That's just standard fair,
Speaker 2: also in quotes. Then we'll see how it goes for him.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm glad you find it so amusing. I
Speaker 4: just I find it very amusing.
Speaker 2: On what level? Help me understand skin is attributed? I
Speaker 2: think it's hilarious that the president of the United States
Speaker 2: is making fun of an old rock and roller for
Speaker 2: having saying his skin. I just can't believe it's even happening, right,
Speaker 2: And we can't be held responsible for what we find amusing.
Speaker 4: That's fine. I just find it troubling. It's just weird.
Speaker 4: It's hell weird. Yeah, uh so, anyway, although none of
Speaker 4: that's really of any consequence. And uh and and and
Speaker 4: Bruce is obnoxious and a blow hard and a limousine
Speaker 4: liberal and not to shut up and plays damn music.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Having said that, one of the own end quotes,
Speaker 2: why do you think he puts word of random words
Speaker 2: in quotes?
Speaker 4: What is that? That happens a lot online. It's just
Speaker 4: a way to emphasize that word.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's like a cow capitalizing it or okay, gotcha, Okay,
Speaker 2: I didn't get you onto that. There you go. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And you know, Hunter Thompson used to do this way
Speaker 4: back in the day, and people do it online too.
Speaker 4: They capitalize a word like all caps, but just capitalize
Speaker 4: it to phasizes.
Speaker 2: I do that.
Speaker 4: I've used that quote as an amateur linguist. I think
Speaker 4: it's interesting how, you know, print language evolves to imitate
Speaker 4: the speaking language. Anyway, uh so, yeah, and the other
Speaker 4: thing Trump tweeted out. And for the record, I've got
Speaker 4: a couple of things that I've been wanting to talk about.
Speaker 4: How Trump, the Trump administration has essentially put out the
Speaker 4: word disparate impact. The theory of disparate impact, meaning if
Speaker 4: a lower percentage of black people get accepted to be cops,
Speaker 4: that's proof that the test is racist. They said, that's
Speaker 4: that's wrong, it's racist, and it no longer will guide
Speaker 4: any federal policy. Huge victory for common sense, for meritocracy,
Speaker 4: the rest of it. Nobody's talking about that move. It's
Speaker 4: incredibly important. I say, well done. So the Trump's Energy department.
Speaker 4: So the Trump government said that that that's what they're
Speaker 4: going to look at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the administrange because the Supreme Court unfortunately has said
Speaker 2: disparate impact of the thing.
Speaker 4: Bring it up again. That was an obscene couple of rulings.
Speaker 4: Just idiotic, indefensible anyway, And another thing, I love this headline,
Speaker 4: free the gas stove. Trump's Energy Department is ACKed dozens
Speaker 4: of Biden appliances and regulations like one hundred thousand pages
Speaker 4: of phony green new scam regulations are gone.
Speaker 2: God I heard a good one the other day because
Speaker 2: I have this last two dishwashers. I've had your modern
Speaker 2: dishwasher because of all the dumb regulations they, as has
Speaker 2: been pointed out by many people, you practically have to
Speaker 2: wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher
Speaker 2: because they don't do what they used to do because
Speaker 2: of all these different environmental regulations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so before I kicked Trump, I just wanted to
Speaker 4: mention that. I mean, for instance, let's dig into this
Speaker 4: a little bit. Gone are rules bad a wide swath
Speaker 4: of gas stoves. Gone are the strict water standards governing
Speaker 4: dishwashers and shower, And gone is the government wide effort
Speaker 4: to force electrification of the economy through appliance regulations, all
Speaker 4: part of a historic action the Trump administration announced today
Speaker 4: reversing dozens of energy regulations, saving consumers more than eleven
Speaker 4: billion dollars and cutting more than one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: five thousand words from the United States Code of Regulations.
Speaker 4: Great stuff, great, great, great, save you money.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Amen. Okay. I like when Trump says things like
Speaker 2: in Brucebrington he has no talent. What I just find
Speaker 2: that so bizarre. It's like screaming that Kareem abdul Jabbar
Speaker 2: wasn't even tall, right, That's just absurd.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So he was tweeting truthing out a bunch of
Speaker 4: stuff the other day, including and I'll just go ahead
Speaker 4: and shout the stuff that's in all caps.
Speaker 2: Walmart should stop.
Speaker 4: Trying to blame tariffs is the reason for raising prices
Speaker 4: throughout the chain. Walmart made billions of dollars last year,
Speaker 4: far more than expected between Walmart and China. They should
Speaker 4: eat the tariffs and not charge valued customers anything. I'll
Speaker 4: be watching, and so will your customers. Well, many exclamation
Speaker 4: points as usual. I agree with Bernie Sanders or disagree
Speaker 4: with Bernie Sanders. I don't like Bernie when he does
Speaker 4: this sort of thing. Oh that was Trump, you'd say, yes,
Speaker 4: this was also Trump. After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamlaw
Speaker 4: announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls. Her
Speaker 4: plan is very dangerous because it may sound good politically.
Speaker 4: This is communists, this is Marxist, this is fascist. Yes,
Speaker 4: both statements by Donald Trump. Last year he blasted Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris's proposal for price controls on groceries. Now he's attacking
Speaker 4: Walmart for warning that it will have to raise prices
Speaker 4: in the wake of the tariffs.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know in claiming that Walmart would only
Speaker 2: raise price is to make more profit. You made. You
Speaker 2: made enough money last year. Basically is what he's saying.
Speaker 2: He made billions last year. Okay, when has this become
Speaker 2: a conservative thing? You tell companies you've made enough.
Speaker 4: Money, Yeah, I'll be going to play your golf courses
Speaker 4: for free, sir, because you made enough money last year.
Speaker 2: So, and the other part of it is.
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's a rebuttal of what he's claimed
Speaker 4: himself for months. He said the foreign producers will pay
Speaker 4: the full cost to tariffs, but now he's admitting that
Speaker 4: Walmart and American retailer will have to eat some of
Speaker 4: the costs or pass them on to their customers. And
Speaker 4: Walmart's net profit margin is less than three percent.
Speaker 2: Now, it's an enormous company.
Speaker 4: So if you have two point eight percent profit on
Speaker 4: you know, a company of that size, that's a hell
Speaker 4: of a number. But it doesn't have a bunch of
Speaker 4: room to absorb the higher costs caused by tariffs. Retail
Speaker 4: competition is incredibly intense, and Walmart's longtime comparative advantages has
Speaker 4: been lower prices. And what bothers me is Number one
Speaker 4: Trump trying to tell Walmart how to run its business,
Speaker 4: and number two like that vague threat of retribution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's not cool. I'm I'm against that no
Speaker 2: matter who's the president.
Speaker 4: Sorry, if you're just a hardcore you know, Trump fan,
Speaker 4: or or you figure if admitting anything is wrong, that
Speaker 4: will weaken the case and Democrats will win and the
Speaker 4: rest of it.
Speaker 2: You know, I see your point, but I just can't
Speaker 2: very very bernie aoc. You could imagine either one of
Speaker 2: them shouting that on the no Oligarchs tour, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Walmart is plenty of money. They have too much profit.
Speaker 2: We'll hold the Walmart accountable if they raise prices. That's
Speaker 2: a very Bernie Sanders thing to say.
Speaker 4: And as always, my real concern and the reason I
Speaker 4: bring this up, is the dumb stuff Trump does might
Speaker 4: derail the fabulous stuff he does, and that would kill me.
Speaker 2: Do you mean dumb politically or for the way Conservatism
Speaker 2: out of work politically? I think the Republicans, you know,
Speaker 2: going for this big, beautiful bill that gives perfectly healthy,
Speaker 2: working age men free healthcare might be a good idea.
Speaker 2: That's what bothers me.
Speaker 4: Right right, I think, Yeah, the saying what he said
Speaker 4: about Walmart and the rest of it, I don't think
Speaker 4: he's going to make much political difference.
Speaker 2: At all.
Speaker 4: I think the whole teriff thing will though. It'll mess
Speaker 4: up the economy either.
Speaker 2: A little or a lot. I don't even know where
Speaker 2: we are in terms of politics and the parties and stuff.
Speaker 2: It's very difficult for me to figure out. There are probably,
Speaker 2: to the extent that they saw it, many many, many,
Speaker 2: many would consider themselves Republican voters who said, yeah, screw
Speaker 2: Walmart trying to raise.
Speaker 4: Prices on us. Yeah, yeah, these are weird times. There
Speaker 4: are no political parties. As we were discussing.
Speaker 1: Earlier Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4: But speaking of immigration, I'm trying to remember the situation
Speaker 4: before Trump got in office.
Speaker 2: How is the border doing? The border is secure?
Speaker 4: Oh, that's right, that's right. March numbers are in. This
Speaker 4: year border patrol encountered two hundred and thirty people per day,
Speaker 4: two hundred and thirty. Last year it was seventy two hundred.
Speaker 4: Biden's miserable betrayal of the country on the border. I
Speaker 4: hope there are some historians who are honest enough to
Speaker 4: make it clear how unconscionable it was.
Speaker 2: Well, Bob Woodward, no, you know, right where in his
Speaker 2: book called it the biggest migration in world history. Yeah,
Speaker 2: peacetime migration in world And all it took was a
Speaker 2: couple of executive orders and empowering the border patrol and
Speaker 2: it ended. It ended in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 2: It also ended as presidency. So I do understand. Getting
Speaker 2: back to the I don't understand the politics and some
Speaker 2: of these issues. It's not like it's popular. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's terrible.
Speaker 4: So we've been talking about, you know, tribalism and politics
Speaker 4: and the way progressive minds think and how it's different
Speaker 4: from conservatives on and off. I think you'll find this
Speaker 4: as interesting and amusing as I did.
Speaker 2: Michael.
Speaker 4: We're going to start with clip number eighty one. We
Speaker 4: will discuss briefly, and then there's a bit of a reveal.
Speaker 7: Donald Trump announced this past week that he would be
Speaker 7: urging Ice and other administration authorities to seek out people
Speaker 7: living here illegally that had broken law to deport them.
Speaker 7: So have a quote for you here that's been making
Speaker 7: the rounds social media about the deportation of criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 7: We are a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our laws,
Speaker 7: and I believe they must be held accountable, especially those
Speaker 7: who may be dangerous. That's why over the past six years,
Speaker 7: deportations of criminals are up eighty percent, and we're going
Speaker 7: to keep focusing on threatsto our security. What's your thought
Speaker 7: on that quote in that policy in general? I think
Speaker 7: that policy comes from a place of like white American nationalism.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has kind of like embraced this rhetoric of
Speaker 1: like racism and xenophobia that is not beneficial to our
Speaker 1: country at all.
Speaker 7: I don't think that that quote really stands true. This
Speaker 7: administration has totally not done anything moral.
Speaker 6: This is really awful.
Speaker 7: Amnesty does not necessarily mean that we're losing border security.
Speaker 2: I think that Trump feels that way.
Speaker 7: I think that's a bad decision because like the United
Speaker 7: States should be open to immigrants, like it's like they
Speaker 7: call it Lands with the Free for a reason, we.
Speaker 6: Have to advocate for those kind of people when people
Speaker 6: like in Congress, like Ocascio QUOTEZ, who is helping people
Speaker 6: overcome these kinds of things.
Speaker 7: Crimes do not nullify your humanity and people are coming
Speaker 7: here in search of opportunity.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, several of those were hard to take.
Speaker 4: Yeah, trying to reason what those people in the short
Speaker 4: term would be a fool.
Speaker 2: I don't know that you'd have to have a class
Speaker 2: because they're they're greeting card rhetoric level knowledgeable or have
Speaker 2: thought about this not at all? They called for a reason,
Speaker 2: I mean, what kind of argument. It's just so transparently stupid.
Speaker 2: But wait, there's a twist.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna show you the person that said that quote.
Speaker 2: Undocumented. Is that surprising?
Speaker 6: Yeah, a little bit, because I thought it was the
Speaker 6: Trump administration that said something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite surprising. I thought from Trump. I didn't
Speaker 2: expect it to be Obama either. Why did you not
Speaker 2: expect it to be Obama? Because I'm stupid? I just
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know, like it just never. It
Speaker 2: never occurred to me that it could be Obama.
Speaker 7: Is that surprising that it's a quote from President Obama?
Speaker 2: That was surprising? For sure?
Speaker 7: Do you think it's still a practice of white nationalism though,
Speaker 7: to deport criminal league aliens?
Speaker 2: I think the way Trump's doing.
Speaker 7: It it is, but president to this point in Trump's presidency,
Speaker 7: Obama actually deported more people though, so it's in practice
Speaker 7: it was more from Obama, though, what's your question?
Speaker 2: Can I boil this down. I'd like your question. I
Speaker 2: think I can boil this down very simply.
Speaker 4: Self governance doesn't work, and children should be seen and
Speaker 4: not heard, and we must institute a nationwide compulsory child test.
Speaker 4: Are you still a child? And only when you receive
Speaker 4: the a of adulthood tattooed upon your body will you
Speaker 4: be able to speak your damn stupid mind. And there
Speaker 4: will be a variety of standards shack.
Speaker 2: If you.
Speaker 4: Enlist in and serve in the military honorably for at
Speaker 4: least a year, if you are married, if you have
Speaker 4: a child, if you have paid income taxes for five years,
Speaker 4: there will be a number of standards. I have an
Speaker 4: open mind about this, but unless you are those things.
Speaker 4: For instance, if you are a college gender studies major,
Speaker 4: never had a I don't want to hear an effing
Speaker 4: word out of you. You don't know enough to advise
Speaker 4: an eight year old on the world. Okay, just keep learning,
Speaker 4: that's fine. That doesn't mean you're a bad person. It
Speaker 4: doesn't mean I hate you. I don't want the new
Speaker 4: person in the office to explain to me how things
Speaker 4: really work around here.
Speaker 2: Okay, unfair. I was going to go with a blanket
Speaker 2: rule if you can't vote till you're thirty, but yours
Speaker 2: probably more fair for people who get up to speed
Speaker 2: on reality a little earlier, right right, Oh God, that
Speaker 2: hurts my heart.
Speaker 4: I've said this before, and I wish, you know, we
Speaker 4: had the power and influence to spread it.
Speaker 2: It's my only lust for like more reach of the show,
Speaker 2: which is great now, it's going really really well, and
Speaker 2: thanks so much for the support and for listening.
Speaker 4: But I don't want to make any more money. I'll
Speaker 4: take it if it comes, but I just wantanity to prevail.
Speaker 2: And I wish more people knew this. Adulthood life is
Speaker 2: a big, complicated.
Speaker 4: Complex. It's like the Ford Motor Company. Okay, it's really
Speaker 4: complicated and huge and sprawling. And if you die at
Speaker 4: the age of eighty eight, your last week on earth,
Speaker 4: you will learn something you didn't know. You young folks,
Speaker 4: your college kids especially, you've been convinced by your professors
Speaker 4: that you can walk into the reception area of Ford
Speaker 4: Motor Company and tell everyone exactly how it works and
Speaker 4: how it should be run. As you stand there in
Speaker 4: the reception area, having not explored any of that giant,
Speaker 4: sprawling corporation, that's what you are doing. That's why you're
Speaker 4: so blanking annoying, which I was.
Speaker 2: At your age, But nobody paid a damn bit of
Speaker 2: attention to what you said at your age, and they
Speaker 2: were better for it, and I thought it was better
Speaker 2: for it. Okay, boomer um. They call it the land
Speaker 2: of the Free for a reason. Oh my god, we're
Speaker 2: a nation of immigrants. Boom headshot got me.
Speaker 4: The statue of liberty says, Oh, I can't argue against that.
Speaker 2: You can't argue with a statue. I pull them on
Speaker 2: a statue. Everybody knows that. Quick question for you, what
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