Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and he Armrong get it. The main question is
Speaker 1: where's my spit? That's what we're all wondering. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: where's what? Now? Where's our spit? If twenty three and
Speaker 1: meters is going out of business? Oh yeah, where's the
Speaker 1: I want most lava back? Where's our spit? Live from
Speaker 1: Studio C. I'm sorry, hang on just a second.
Speaker 2: No, I think we should attack their ship building first
Speaker 2: so they cannot rearm as easily said.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm advising the Pentagon.
Speaker 2: For somehow I got included in their text string over
Speaker 2: how to attack Chinas.
Speaker 1: So, anyway, where were we are? A general manager? Vine? Oh, snap,
Speaker 1: O threadogram or however.
Speaker 2: People are communicating these days, sometimes leaking it to Jeffrey Goldberg.
Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with all these Rye references, we
Speaker 2: will explain momentarily.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 3: It's just like two days ago, I was on something
Speaker 3: called I think it was Dispatch. I'd have to look
Speaker 3: it up, a messaging app i'd never used before, and
Speaker 3: somebody said, so we're we're texting about financial stuff, and
Speaker 3: so somebody said, let's take this to Discord. No it's
Speaker 3: not Discord. I know Discord, but yeah, that's my whole point.
Speaker 3: It's one I'd never heard of. And so then I said,
Speaker 3: let's take this financial stuff there, and they said, what's
Speaker 3: your account number?
Speaker 1: I said, I've never even heard of this. I don't
Speaker 1: have that account.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I set it up, and then last night this
Speaker 3: news breaks about this one, which is a completely different one.
Speaker 1: I'd never heard.
Speaker 3: How many different encrypted you got to know the person's
Speaker 3: handle messaging services are out there.
Speaker 1: Apparently many are, some of them better than others. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Anyway, Welcome to the show. We got lots
Speaker 1: to talk about.
Speaker 3: We will get to the bottom of where your spin
Speaker 3: is at a point and how big a deal this
Speaker 3: whole thing is that they were discussing the war plans on.
Speaker 1: Attack and the who thy's on a.
Speaker 3: Uh, well it's a company, it's a commercial company, but
Speaker 3: encrypted messaging app but not the official government stuff.
Speaker 2: And accidentally included the editor of The Atlantic on the
Speaker 2: string somehow somehow, Yeah, Signal the app.
Speaker 3: In question, Yeah, which is another one of those I guess,
Speaker 3: so this is either a huge deal or not a
Speaker 3: huge deal.
Speaker 1: Most of the people I tend to fairly large deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of the people I respect in the world
Speaker 3: of journalism seem to think it's a very big deal.
Speaker 3: Mark Alprin was saying this is unbelievable, I mean, just
Speaker 3: over and over again, and talking to his sources, which
Speaker 3: a lot of my Republicans who seem to be pretty
Speaker 3: beside themselves with amazement over it. And the Wall Street
Speaker 3: Journal they're quoting some people anonymously, you know, in the
Speaker 3: early hours of this scandal.
Speaker 1: Is scandal of fair word on this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, it is Wall Street Journal quoting some people
Speaker 3: on this scandal at this point saying it's just somebody.
Speaker 1: Some heads have got to roll. This is just you
Speaker 1: can't you can't have this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm afraid it may be our friend Mike Waltz,
Speaker 2: who I think very highly of, the National Security Advisor.
Speaker 2: He appears to have initiated the string on. I can't
Speaker 2: even remember. I just said it. Signal right, Snapo Chado
Speaker 2: Vino's signal Graham.
Speaker 3: So he is the National Security Advisor, and he put
Speaker 3: together the meeting that included all the heavyweights, but the
Speaker 3: present I mean all the heaviest of heavyweights, but the president.
Speaker 3: You got your Secretary of State, you got your second deaf,
Speaker 3: you got your CIA director, I mean you got everybody
Speaker 3: that is, anybody the vice president who was arguing strongly
Speaker 3: against attacking the huthis, which I find interesting because the
Speaker 3: texts are out. They accidentally invited this journalist on and
Speaker 3: he has released some of the texts, and so that
Speaker 3: was kind of interesting on its own to see the
Speaker 3: back and forth.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I thought that part was just fascinating.
Speaker 3: And worth discussing, and discussing on its own is a topic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But anyway, you got all these super heavyweights discussing, well,
Speaker 3: should we attack them now or later? Or what methods
Speaker 3: are we going to use? Or what do we attack first?
Speaker 3: And all that sort of stuff. The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 3: reporting today, administration officials said President Trump was frustrated by
Speaker 3: the episode and was directing his ire at Waltz, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't immediately clear if he had moved to oust
Speaker 3: his national security advisors. The official said Trump asked Aids
Speaker 3: on Monday how Waltz would be so sloppy.
Speaker 1: One of the officials set.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is any given the dreaded expression of utmost
Speaker 2: confidence by the Press secretary. Anybody who's been a fan
Speaker 2: of Major league sports knows if the owner says I
Speaker 2: have complete confidence in our manager and we are looking
Speaker 2: out to him to guide us into the future, that
Speaker 2: means he's fired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So different ways to look at this. I suppose
Speaker 3: let's start here. So, how big a deal is this?
Speaker 3: How common is this? I'm starting to see people say
Speaker 3: it's incredibly common. Everybody in government does it? Okay, fine,
Speaker 3: that might be true. It might not be true. That's
Speaker 3: a great cover if it's not true to say, hey,
Speaker 3: everybody does. The problem is we've got to get to
Speaker 3: the bottom of classified documents, communication lines, all these different things.
Speaker 1: What's official, what's proper, what's not.
Speaker 3: If the government system is so slow and clunky and
Speaker 3: archaic that nobody uses it, well, then say it out loud.
Speaker 3: So the next time a Democrat gets caught doing this, all.
Speaker 1: The Republicans don't say.
Speaker 3: He's gotta go classified information, blah blah blah, and we
Speaker 3: just keep going back and forth right right, and it's
Speaker 3: all performative.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of Wen Rand's famous screed about is
Speaker 2: it ign Rand or or well, well it was. I
Speaker 2: think the two of them had dinner one night and
Speaker 2: concocted this, the idea that we create so many laws,
Speaker 2: we make you into a law breaker. When we need to,
Speaker 2: we'll find something you're in violation of and then bring
Speaker 2: you to your knees.
Speaker 1: And I think it was Rand anyway.
Speaker 3: I think they got together one night, sexed it up,
Speaker 3: had a child.
Speaker 1: His name is Tim Sanderford. Oh golly, that was perfect.
Speaker 2: But the point being everybody's playing fast and loose and
Speaker 2: then pretending to be outraged when the other.
Speaker 1: Side does stuff.
Speaker 2: I think the fact that Jeffrey freaking Goldberg, who I
Speaker 2: will never forgive him for this, hired Kevin Williamson, one
Speaker 2: of the most reasonable conservative not mega thinkers and writers
Speaker 2: in America, and then fired him before he wrote a
Speaker 2: paragraph because his way left woke weeny readers peed their
Speaker 2: pants over the hiring just is the worst sort of
Speaker 2: limp wristed phony pseudo intellectual cowards.
Speaker 1: And he was included in this string. How did that act?
Speaker 3: Well, here's the theory on that, and it sounds pretty
Speaker 3: plausible to me.
Speaker 1: Talk to me.
Speaker 3: Walls has been leaking to Goldberg Jewish guy was very
Speaker 3: pro Israel to get various stories out to help boost
Speaker 3: the whole Israel people are in favor of, you know,
Speaker 3: supporting Israel against the moths.
Speaker 1: So he was a good theory.
Speaker 3: In fact, that's almost that makes perfect sense because that's
Speaker 3: what happens in Washington, d C. That's what you do
Speaker 3: if you have a policy position, your word, your policy
Speaker 3: position is not winning the day you leak to New
Speaker 3: York Times, the Atlantic, whoever, to try to get your
Speaker 3: side out to affect the conversation. And I think that's
Speaker 3: probably why you know, he was so top of mind
Speaker 3: or top a list for inviting somebody on a call
Speaker 3: like a friend. He's probably in you know, the the
Speaker 3: your group friends, and he just clicked them all included
Speaker 3: Secretary of State ci Oh and Jeffrey Goldberg.
Speaker 1: I forgot to unclick that one. Oh. That reminds me.
Speaker 2: We've got to get to the story about the Washington
Speaker 2: Post reporter who covers the Israel Hamas war and what
Speaker 2: she posts online in her personal time, stuff like call
Speaker 2: me a Nazi, call me a terrorist, call me backward,
Speaker 2: but still if you're illegal State of Israel. Wow, that's
Speaker 2: the wappos a solid, solid gold reporter on the Israel
Speaker 2: Hamas conflict right there.
Speaker 3: But before we start the show officially, which we need
Speaker 3: to do or we're going to be an FCC violation.
Speaker 3: And there's a decent chance Trump puts us on a
Speaker 3: plane and flies us to another country.
Speaker 2: Oh no, not that Jalen else Alva or it doesn't
Speaker 2: look private club hasn't again?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: You think this is a a scale of one to eight,
Speaker 3: one to ten.
Speaker 1: How big a deal is it? You know? That's that's
Speaker 1: a great question.
Speaker 3: There's all kinds of investigations like it's are on Contra
Speaker 3: or Watergate or maybe Fast and Furious or something like that.
Speaker 1: Six point five. Okay, not as high as I thought.
Speaker 2: And I'll make this very brief because I know we
Speaker 2: need to move on. But I'm reminded of a couple
Speaker 2: of incidents during our long and mediocre career in which
Speaker 2: we left a microphone opener somebody did, and we were
Speaker 2: conversing and saying the sort of thing fellas say to
Speaker 2: each other and uh, and realized the mic was open
Speaker 2: and had to quickly rewind through our idol memories trying
Speaker 2: to figure out, oh my god, what did we say
Speaker 2: in our careers over and thankfully the very few time
Speaker 2: that they should have been over it wasn't audible enough
Speaker 2: to you know.
Speaker 1: Had that effect.
Speaker 2: This is an example of they left the mic open,
Speaker 2: and if they had been talking about China and Taiwan, ooh,
Speaker 2: it would have been an historic disaster.
Speaker 1: Bombing the Hoothies not good.
Speaker 2: A couple of shots at Europe not great, but Europeans
Speaker 2: are weenies and that's mine and.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows it, and it was successful.
Speaker 3: Imagine if this had happened and it hadn't been successful,
Speaker 3: then people would be.
Speaker 1: Able to claim that was the reason. So the bullet
Speaker 1: was dodged.
Speaker 2: But the question remains, why are we dodging bullets over here?
Speaker 1: We've got to be.
Speaker 3: Better, right, One more nugget and why there's a problem there.
Speaker 3: But let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's
Speaker 3: Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, March twenty fifth, year,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, three twenty five, twenty five.
Speaker 2: We are Armstrong in Getty and we approve of this
Speaker 2: program nine shopping months till Christmas. All right, let's beak
Speaker 2: in the show officially then, according to FCC rules and rags.
Speaker 4: Here we go at Mark, who did the colonists fight
Speaker 4: in the Revolutionary War?
Speaker 1: Was I don't know if this is right.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna sound so stupid. Was it the Spanish?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 4: What are your majors? Business? Biology of elementary education.
Speaker 1: Oh, sp America's college students? Yes, okay, Well you remember
Speaker 1: the Boston.
Speaker 2: Tea party when the uh, the costume colonists through the
Speaker 2: pie into the water to punish the Spanish. We will
Speaker 2: talk of Boston pie Party. There's much to say about
Speaker 2: that and more clips.
Speaker 1: And we will do that later. And it's so frustrating.
Speaker 3: The other one nugget that bothers me is Hegzeth coming
Speaker 3: out attacking Goldberg, calling him a hack journalist, all that
Speaker 3: sort of stuff, which I'm fine with that, but now,
Speaker 3: two hours earlier the Trump administration had confirmed it was true.
Speaker 3: You gotta know that somebody's got to tell you or something.
Speaker 2: Well, and and and the idea that hey, critical national
Speaker 2: secrets were leaked to a journalist. Yeah, well he's a
Speaker 2: hack journalist and he sucks. That makes it better.
Speaker 1: Well, he was saying, we didn't leak any war plans.
Speaker 3: That never happened. I'm a journalist, Uh, the White House
Speaker 3: already confirmed it two hours ago. Nobody told you.
Speaker 1: Nobody told Amateur Hour. I know that just sets a
Speaker 1: bad look. That is a bad look. If I was him,
Speaker 1: I would transpen people. Hey, you want to let me
Speaker 1: know if the government.
Speaker 3: Is confirmed this actually happened before I go out to
Speaker 3: a reporter and say it didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's rough, any of the greatest superpower on Earth.
Speaker 3: Friends, We've got Katie's headlines on the way, lots of stuff,
Speaker 3: and you know you comment on this text line four
Speaker 3: one five two nine five KFTC. I know I was
Speaker 3: gonna say something impactful, but we got plenty of time
Speaker 3: for impactful. Have you seen any of the AI threads
Speaker 3: of TV casts as babies?
Speaker 1: Have you seen any of those? I have not. It's
Speaker 1: AI created.
Speaker 3: It's like the cast of Friends if they were all babies,
Speaker 3: or the cast of the Sopranos if they were babies,
Speaker 3: or the Offranos. Oh, they're so freaking good off the
Speaker 3: fine when send you joke. They're so alartious, good in
Speaker 3: what sense?
Speaker 1: Oh? Funny? Okay, Yeah, he is like baby. It looks
Speaker 1: like Boston Rachel if they were babies.
Speaker 2: I mean exactly I'm not sure I get it, but
Speaker 2: I will when I say it, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: And uh and.
Speaker 3: I suppose the entire AI prompt was make the cast
Speaker 3: of the Sopranos' babies, and that was probably.
Speaker 1: The whole prompt.
Speaker 2: I feel like I have no time for such internet foolishness.
Speaker 1: But to each their own, I say, m M all right, too,
Speaker 1: so much to get to today, boy, let's figure out
Speaker 1: who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie.
Speaker 5: Green Katie, and I'm working on a Katie's corner at
Speaker 5: Armstrong getty dot com. I'll put the baby Sopranos on
Speaker 5: there for you guys. Starting with NBC intelligence officials to
Speaker 5: face Senate questions about journalists inclusion.
Speaker 1: In military strikes. Gee, yeah, I'd say it.
Speaker 3: It's quite a coincidence that there is a big their
Speaker 3: first big congressional hearing of the year with all the
Speaker 3: top intelligence uh chairs. And uh so, I'm sure this
Speaker 3: will be topic number one at least for the deistily
Speaker 3: rewriting the agenda.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed from.
Speaker 5: USA today, Judge says at hearing quote Nazis were treated
Speaker 5: better than Venezuelan's deported by Trump.
Speaker 1: All right, again with the Nazi references.
Speaker 3: Oh that guy that got played on every news episode
Speaker 3: I saw in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: From ABC, Kremlin says details of US Russia talks on
Speaker 5: Ukraine will not be published, okay.
Speaker 1: From Breitbart dot com, Elon.
Speaker 5: Musk claims Doge discovered three hundred and thirty million dollars
Speaker 5: in small business administration loans given to kids under the
Speaker 5: age of eleven.
Speaker 2: HEYI the go getters, lemonade stands, etcetera. I need about
Speaker 2: ten million dollars in startup money to get myself a
Speaker 2: bike from a newspaper route.
Speaker 1: From the Associated Press.
Speaker 5: Columbia student protester who's lived in the United States since
Speaker 5: age seven sous to stop deportation order.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this stuff has all got to work. It's way
Speaker 1: through the courts. It's fine. It's the process. We have
Speaker 1: a good system.
Speaker 2: It's lasted two hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 5: From the BBC AI job application rise bringing risks of
Speaker 5: hiring incapable staff.
Speaker 2: Why, oh, yeah, because you use AI to prep your resume, right, Katie,
Speaker 2: go ahead, Yeah, I've got the story.
Speaker 3: But how's that any different than if you just lied
Speaker 3: on your resume in the past.
Speaker 5: Well, because AI can make you look really good.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, generally those sort of people who lie on
Speaker 2: resumes aren't super great at it.
Speaker 3: I think I've got to I've got a great possible
Speaker 3: example of that. I'll have to get to a little
Speaker 3: bit later. I may have encountered that yesterday.
Speaker 1: Really okay. From the Wall Street.
Speaker 5: Journal, The space station is too clean and it's making
Speaker 5: astronauts sick.
Speaker 2: I'm just reading about that, really really interesting. Back to
Speaker 2: the theme of the human body is not We are
Speaker 2: not a organism and organism we are an environment with
Speaker 2: millions of organisms.
Speaker 1: The space station is too sterile. From the New York
Speaker 1: After the space Station, I'll take care of that real quick.
Speaker 5: From the New York Post only, fan star Sophie Rain
Speaker 5: says she believes that God is happy she's successful after
Speaker 5: earning forty three million dollars.
Speaker 1: Forty three million dollars. Again, I don't know how this
Speaker 1: stuff scales. How much porn did some of you people
Speaker 1: look at? Is the only thing you do? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: there's so much porn, so little time. You gotta stay busy.
Speaker 5: And finally, the Babylon b Elon Musk disguises irs building
Speaker 5: as a tesla dealership, so Democrats.
Speaker 1: Will burn down.
Speaker 3: Continues to be a problem. So we got to catch
Speaker 3: up on a whole bunch of these stories. And I
Speaker 3: think I ran into one of those inflated resumes by
Speaker 3: AI just yesterday. It's funny that you had that in
Speaker 3: your news headlines today. I'll give an example, among other things, on.
Speaker 1: The way Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Let's do another one of these, sticking a mic in
Speaker 3: the face of spring breakers who are in college.
Speaker 1: These are college students.
Speaker 4: What shape is the US Pentagon Building?
Speaker 1: Isn't it just a square?
Speaker 4: How many US Senators are there? How many amendments are
Speaker 4: in the Bill of Rights?
Speaker 1: There's a lot. I know, I know seventeen. I wish
Speaker 1: I could enjoy this. I used to. I no longer do.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's because I've gotten older or
Speaker 3: I'm aware of how much of the decay of our
Speaker 3: education system K through PhD is a disaster for the
Speaker 3: country or whatever.
Speaker 1: But and the fact that college is so freaking.
Speaker 3: Expensive, and then the attitude some of it that's one
Speaker 3: of the greatest frauds in the history of mankind, And
Speaker 3: the attitudes that some of you still have about it,
Speaker 3: how it's just something you gotta do, or you're a
Speaker 3: failed parent or a feral child if you don't go
Speaker 3: to college.
Speaker 1: Listen to those people. They're not qualified to be in college,
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna learn all of that stuff while.
Speaker 3: They're there, and they're gonna spend a gazillion dollars and
Speaker 3: get drunk. And then that's so. And then I've got
Speaker 3: another thing I want to get to later about diploma inflation.
Speaker 3: The higher percentage that we've got now than even a
Speaker 3: few years ago of businesses that demand a college degree.
Speaker 3: Why why yeah, well I thought that was on the Wayne.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about that more. I tell you what,
Speaker 3: it used to be more enjoyable to feel superior to
Speaker 3: those ninnis until you realize they'll be providing our elder
Speaker 3: care someday.
Speaker 1: Right, they'll be running the country now, Hal Steale, I've
Speaker 1: got to put this natle in your artery. No, I
Speaker 1: think you mean vain, don't you. They're the same.
Speaker 3: Oh lord, I can't imagine how you could be an
Speaker 3: adult and not know there are one hundred senators.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just unimaginable to me, period alone, a
Speaker 1: college student.
Speaker 2: In the defense of that cabal of bikini clad hotties.
Speaker 2: One of them did shout out the correct answer too.
Speaker 2: For state, she said, well, my heart went pitter pat.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on knowing what a third grader should know. Well, right,
Speaker 2: but shall we level our contempt at the youngsters or
Speaker 2: the government schools and the woke lunatics who've taken them over.
Speaker 1: The Spanish.
Speaker 2: In case you're just tuning in one of the earlier tapes,
Speaker 2: go ahead, play the first and would you Michael ninety?
Speaker 4: Did the colonists fight in the Revolutionary War? Was?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I don't know if this is right. I'm gonna sound
Speaker 4: so stupid. Was it the Spanish?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 4: What are your majors? Business? Biology, of elementary education.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2: The colonists fought against the Spanish because they hated tapas.
Speaker 1: They wanted just one meal. I'm got a bunch of
Speaker 1: little plates. I'm glad you think the decay of this
Speaker 1: nation is funny? That is so God.
Speaker 3: But listen to them talking. They're majors. I'm a business
Speaker 3: major elementary education. Are you freaking serious?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're an ignoramus and you have been cheated?
Speaker 1: Well you have, it's not yeah, exactly, it's not your fault.
Speaker 3: It's the fault that you were passed along through every
Speaker 3: grade your whole life, not learning any of this stuff,
Speaker 3: and your parents weren't aware of that for some reason.
Speaker 3: And now you're in college and somebody's footing the bill
Speaker 3: for that for.
Speaker 1: No open whatsoever. You're getting nothing out.
Speaker 2: Of it, right, It's a scam in which many, many,
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of people are profiting mightily running our
Speaker 2: fake universities and colleges. If you ask those girls how
Speaker 2: many genders are there? And if you can't answer that question, why,
Speaker 2: And I'll bet they could give you a pretty good
Speaker 2: description of Well, you can choose your gender just based
Speaker 2: on the way you want to express yourself.
Speaker 1: I'll bet they've got that down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they could probably decent chance. They could give
Speaker 3: you a couple of lines on why Israel is a
Speaker 3: bad country.
Speaker 1: Let's just do one more.
Speaker 4: Who won the Civil War? Oh?
Speaker 1: Shoot, it's East or West?
Speaker 4: Right, Well, it's the civil wars, so it's the civilians
Speaker 4: versus whoever was in power. How many justices are on
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court?
Speaker 1: Justices?
Speaker 4: Like when you say that, you mean like that be I.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wow? You know you could say, oh, come on.
Speaker 2: They asked a bunch of people as questions and edited
Speaker 2: it to make the most humor and blossom.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't be able to find anybody.
Speaker 2: You should have to take a week to find somebody
Speaker 2: who's that ignorant. Yeah, all right, different topic here, since, uh,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a fair amount of news that I
Speaker 2: think is unfavorable to the Trump administration. This whole sloppiness
Speaker 2: around the text chat about war plans and inviting a
Speaker 2: journalist all that.
Speaker 3: If you don't know what we're talking about. More on
Speaker 3: that next hour, I thought I'd hit this Axios. Now
Speaker 3: two of the best reporters in all of political reporting
Speaker 3: are Mike Allen and Jim vanda Hi.
Speaker 1: They started a couple of these companies.
Speaker 3: Anyway, they had a good piece out yesterday from Axios
Speaker 3: on the state of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: We've talked about some of these some of these are.
Speaker 3: I was aware of, not all of them though, for instance,
Speaker 3: and we mentioned this last year. Just statistically, the Democrats
Speaker 3: are in their deepest hole in fifty years. So Mike
Speaker 3: Allen says, top Democrats tell us their party is in
Speaker 3: the deepest toll they've been in in fifty years. Half
Speaker 3: a century, so i'd be going back to they're probably
Speaker 3: talking McGovern getting wiped out by Nixon.
Speaker 1: Probably, yeah, oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 3: And they fear things could actually get worse. The party
Speaker 3: has its lowest favorability ever. You knew that, no popular
Speaker 3: national leader to help improve it. You probably knew that too,
Speaker 3: But that's interesting that there's like nobody even close. It
Speaker 3: is like, you know, it was Nancy until she stepped
Speaker 3: down anyway, Yeah, I mean she was.
Speaker 2: Not that if popular. She was just incredibly effective.
Speaker 3: You gotta have somebody who can walk out and when
Speaker 3: you talk, all the media stops and thinks, okay, that's
Speaker 3: their position.
Speaker 1: And they don't have that person out at all.
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's Josh Shapiro, for all of
Speaker 2: his smarts, for various reasons.
Speaker 1: We can get into later.
Speaker 3: Insufficient numbers to stop most legislation in Congress. That's just math,
Speaker 3: but that's true. A durable minority on the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a long time before lefties run
Speaker 3: the Supreme Court again. This one, though I hadn't thought
Speaker 3: of all of this is occurring because this has happened before.
Speaker 1: Parties have been up and down. Joe and I talk
Speaker 1: about this a lot.
Speaker 3: I mean, after Barack Obama won, it seemed like, when
Speaker 3: will the Republicans ever be able to win again? Now
Speaker 3: the Democrats not that many years later, at the worst
Speaker 3: they've been in fifty years. But this part is new,
Speaker 3: dwindling influence over the media ecosystem with rightlinging podcasters and
Speaker 3: social media accounts ascended. That is brand new where that
Speaker 3: mainstream media just doesn't in Hollywood, it just doesn't even
Speaker 3: have a tiny percentage of.
Speaker 1: The power it did when I was like twenty five.
Speaker 2: And what's really interesting to me is that you combine
Speaker 2: that with the fact that they throw away their legacy
Speaker 2: as the party of the working class and made it
Speaker 2: all about ideology as opposed to you know, I hate
Speaker 2: to use the term class for various, you know, exist
Speaker 2: hating reasons, but they've absolutely squandered their their hold on
Speaker 2: working class America, blue collar America of all races when
Speaker 2: they made it about you know, their wacky dootal ideology.
Speaker 1: And to squander that legacy at the same time.
Speaker 2: You lose control of the indoctrination machine that is the
Speaker 2: major media.
Speaker 1: You've screwed yourself, right.
Speaker 3: Well, the next one on the list young voters are
Speaker 3: growing dramatically more conservative, which we've talked about.
Speaker 1: Polling shows set the lunatic gals.
Speaker 2: Dads, Dads, talk to your daughters, help them be sane.
Speaker 3: Democrats have a very bad twenty twenty six map for
Speaker 3: Senate races. Democratic Senate retirements could make it harder for
Speaker 3: the party to flip the House with members tempted by
Speaker 3: statewide races. Ity'd be shocking if the Democrats didn't take
Speaker 3: the House back. And then I'll just hit you with
Speaker 3: one more because some of the other ones get pretty
Speaker 3: technical and inside, you know, Washington sort of thing. But
Speaker 3: thanks to the number of people fleeing blue states, the
Speaker 3: math for a dem to win the presidency will just
Speaker 3: get harder. In for instance, by twenty thirty, just the
Speaker 3: demographic demographics are working toward Republicans, not Democrats. Right man,
Speaker 3: I thought all that stuff that I knew, combined with
Speaker 3: all of a sudden the media and Hollywood don't have
Speaker 3: the power they had before. That's a bad spot to
Speaker 3: be in. Great they need to let a pile star.
Speaker 3: I've got a little bit more.
Speaker 2: The Democratic Party's popularity hitting twenty percent in the NBC poll.
Speaker 1: We talked about that. I'm sure you've heard that.
Speaker 2: And according to Nelly Bowles and the Free Press, and
Speaker 2: as an aside, and if you know Nelly Bulls, tell
Speaker 2: her I said this. I think she may be America's
Speaker 2: greatest humorist. I don't mean like stand up comedian, but
Speaker 2: in writing she is brilliant anyway she writes. And only
Speaker 2: a brave seven percent say they have a very positive
Speaker 2: view according to the NVC poll, a similar poll. I
Speaker 2: love this seven percent who think the Democrats are doing great.
Speaker 2: That's the seven percent of Americans who don't read the
Speaker 2: news and live happy, good, peaceful lives. That's the seven
Speaker 2: percent of Americans who make lemon grass tea from their
Speaker 2: garden and they go to an Episcopal church with a
Speaker 2: rainbow stained glass windows, and they have zero grandchildren and
Speaker 2: three superos. But you know what, it's a good life.
Speaker 2: There're the mel robins people shouting let them. Every time
Speaker 2: a Democrat dies on the hill of gender affirming healthcare
Speaker 2: for legal immigrants. The Democrats are committing slow motion suicide.
Speaker 2: And seven percent of voters are all that's their truth.
Speaker 2: And I love them despite it, but not despite it, but.
Speaker 1: Because of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know those people I was talking to a
Speaker 3: I wish I could say who it was, but I
Speaker 3: mean very very highly educated professional who said to me recently,
Speaker 3: and I keep my mouth shut about this stuff. They
Speaker 3: don't know anything about me. But he said, I was shocked.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris lost.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 3: It just shows you what a bubble we live in California,
Speaker 3: he said, I had. I mean, just does just basing
Speaker 3: it on, you know, people I talk to. I was
Speaker 3: shocked you lost. I thought, really, you pay no attention?
Speaker 3: Then if you were shocked zero attention.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit.
Speaker 2: Of self awareness creeping in, though, which is encouraging realizing
Speaker 2: he's a bubble. And then finally this the lefty poster
Speaker 2: David Sure has data showing just how much Trump would
Speaker 2: have won if everyone had shown up.
Speaker 1: To the polls.
Speaker 2: Quote, the reality is if all registered voters had turned out,
Speaker 2: then Donald Trump would have won the popular vote by
Speaker 2: five points, he said, instead of just one point seven points.
Speaker 1: There's long been an idea the Dems just need to.
Speaker 2: Get out the foot but the truth for Dems is
Speaker 2: that under no circumstances should the vote be gotten out.
Speaker 2: That has flipped back to Nelly Bowles next cycle, We'll
Speaker 2: see rich ladies heading to the Philly suburbs to padlock
Speaker 2: people inside their homes. Celebrities will hold concerts hundreds of
Speaker 2: miles from the nearest polling place. Candidates will shake the
Speaker 2: hand of working class men in Ohio and then tell
Speaker 2: them if the line of vote is longer than ten minutes,
Speaker 2: just call it good and go home.
Speaker 1: Huh, that's right.
Speaker 3: The rock the vote is going to be Ted Nugit,
Speaker 3: not Bruce Springsteen, don't rock them well, it's going to
Speaker 3: be saying all the lefties, no, stay home, you should't
Speaker 3: votes waste some time.
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Speaker 3: So Joe's got mail bag on the way, and then
Speaker 3: an hour or two we'll revisit the scandal.
Speaker 4: Of the day.
Speaker 1: How big a deal is it or not? It could
Speaker 1: be a really big deal.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know. We'll let you decide. We'll bring
Speaker 3: you the facts as we know them currently. That's the
Speaker 3: whole discussing war plans over texts sort.
Speaker 2: Of thing, some sort of some communication means, which maybe
Speaker 2: everybody does or not, depending on who you ask. It's
Speaker 2: complicated anyway. Mail Bag on the way, stay.
Speaker 3: Here, arm Strong.
Speaker 1: I gotta use it. I gotta mention that AI writing resumes.
Speaker 3: I think I came across that yesterday, and.
Speaker 1: That's kind of ruin.
Speaker 3: One of my best skills, which I've always thought was like,
Speaker 3: you know, sniffing out scumbags.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, just through like the writing and texting in that
Speaker 1: bag sniffery. Now you can't because AI anyway more than that.
Speaker 2: Well, and then you got AI reading those resumes. So great,
Speaker 2: super no need for humans anymore.
Speaker 1: Hooray. Wait a minute. Uh, here's your.
Speaker 2: Freedom loving quote of the day from the Great Thomas Soul,
Speaker 2: sent along by Philip dush Job. Philip, I love this one.
Speaker 2: What multiculturalism boils down to is that you can praise
Speaker 2: any culture in the world except Western culture, and you
Speaker 2: cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 2: That is very good the whole wokest multicultural thing. Please,
Speaker 2: What does what does trans theory have to do with
Speaker 2: critical race theory have to do with settler colonial theory?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: At the end, it's always Western civilization that is bad
Speaker 2: and needs.
Speaker 1: To be torn down. That's weird.
Speaker 2: Mailbag woo You've explained it many times. If you're new
Speaker 2: to the show, it's neo Marxism. That's the short version.
Speaker 2: Drump's note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com,
Speaker 2: David writes Jack, seriously, dude, Okay, the Oprah remark just now,
Speaker 2: this is yesterday. I don't believe Jack, that you believe
Speaker 2: what you just said. Twenty million votes for Oprah or something.
Speaker 2: It sounds like pandering, not buying it. I always yell
Speaker 2: BS at my radio when you pop off with these comments.
Speaker 3: I stated that I think Oprah, if she Iran would
Speaker 3: run away with it, she'd get the nomination, and I
Speaker 3: don't even know if anybody challenger, and I think she'd
Speaker 3: win the election with gazillions of people who've never voted
Speaker 3: before coming out to vote for.
Speaker 2: And then precisely thirty four minutes later, I take it
Speaker 2: back what I said about Jack. David Wrights, Okay, Jack
Speaker 2: just said the therapists are there to co sign your BS.
Speaker 1: That was profound and I will be using it going forward.
Speaker 2: From guard my earlier email about Jack's pandering, Jack, you're
Speaker 2: brilliant every day from South Carolina or So car as
Speaker 2: we call it around here.
Speaker 1: You do I've never heard that. Love you guys, even
Speaker 1: though you irritate me at times.
Speaker 2: Keep it up, David, we irritate me every single day,
Speaker 2: so I don't want to hear any more. You're gripen Frankly,
Speaker 2: how about this, Tom from so cow Fellas. During yesterday's show,
Speaker 2: you diagnosed the I'm sorry you discussed the language of
Speaker 2: the Alien and Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight in
Speaker 2: the reference to being a or This is the Act
Speaker 2: that the Trump administration is leaning on for departing all
Speaker 2: those alleged Venezuelan gang members. But the phrase that really
Speaker 2: stuck out to me is quote blah blah blah by
Speaker 2: any foreign nation or government, et cetera, et cetera. Since
Speaker 2: the Biden administration opened the borders and in some cases
Speaker 2: actually flew the illegal aliens in, that's absolutely correct. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and since they are not a foreign nation or government.
Speaker 2: Is this the language that the left will point to
Speaker 2: next in their bid to bring all of the deported
Speaker 2: illegal aliens back. Let's call it the Biden Mayorkist loophole.
Speaker 2: I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday. Tom signs up,
Speaker 2: beautiful Tom. Yeah, that's funny now it was not a
Speaker 2: foreign government that brought in dangerous foreigners.
Speaker 1: It was our government. So it's okay, hmm.
Speaker 2: Moving along, Jeff and Reno, how old are the laws
Speaker 2: against murder?
Speaker 1: It's a reference to the seventeen to ninety.
Speaker 2: Eight law that Trump is relying on, just younger than
Speaker 2: the Constitution. But Jeff writes, Pancho Villa raiding border towns
Speaker 2: probably what you'd call an incursion. Also, taking over control
Speaker 2: of the entire apartment buildings sounds like an incursion reference
Speaker 2: to Colorado. It's, of course irrelevant how the old Alien
Speaker 2: Enemies Act is. Some laws on the books go back
Speaker 2: to before recorded history and we still enforce them. Sure,
Speaker 2: Jesson Wiley, Texas Rights, how doy dooty duties? Second paragraph
Speaker 2: of the Times newsletter The New York Times.
Speaker 1: Why is the fighting restar?
Speaker 2: It's mainly because Israel and Hamas have incompatible visions of
Speaker 2: how this war ends. That Israel wants Hamas to relate
Speaker 2: yours power and Hamas wants to retain control of Gaza. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's it, Jess rights. Israel's just being mean for no reason.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: Ever, argue with a passive aggressive lover and they hit
Speaker 2: you with I'm sorry that you're so mad. Jess and Wiley,
Speaker 2: Texas that has a brief and fabulous email about media
Speaker 2: bias in Israel.
Speaker 1: That's good. I just came across yesday.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize in the Old Testament God says Gaza
Speaker 3: will be cursed forever or something like that.
Speaker 1: Was that right? It seems to have played out pretty
Speaker 1: accurately the Bible. That's right, sir.
Speaker 2: And finally, this Sonny writes, it occurred to me, guys
Speaker 2: on the Department of the topic of the Department of Education.
Speaker 2: Take two, It occurred to me that the last thing
Speaker 2: in Nazi would ever do is disband the Department of
Speaker 2: Education and give any power back to the States. Just
Speaker 2: the thought for the crazy left to ponder. Yes, these
Speaker 2: Nazis trying to decentralize power, how dare they idiots?
Speaker 1: Any who? Oligarks and whatnot?
Speaker 2: So blah blah blah Nazis blah blah blah, fascists, etcetera.
Speaker 3: So a journalist gets accidentally added to a group chat
Speaker 3: about war plans.
Speaker 1: If you haven't heard that story, we'll get into it.
Speaker 1: An hour two.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty