WEBVTT - I Want To Join In On The Anger 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.880 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:17.239 Jetty and he Armstrong and Eddy. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.160 So the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal has 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.520 a sad day for the US at the UN, the 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.960 Land of the Free votes with Russia on a Ukraine 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.839 war resolution. We brought that up with Tom mcclintalk last hour. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.800 If you didn't get hear that, get the podcast Armstrong 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.240 and Getty on demand. But the resolution was basically calling, 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.360 you know, Russia the aggressor and that they need to 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.199 get out. And we didn't vote yes on that. We 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.839 voted with Russia and North Korean some other scumbag countries 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.080 on not wanting to call out Russia in that war. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:01.000 And as Tom mcclintact, the Congressman said, heal give plenty 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.000 of latitude to Trump to negotiate the way he sees 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:09.200 fit to try to end the war. It's fairly obviously 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:14.480 to me anyway, Trump trying to avoid any antagonizing the 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:21.480 people with whom he'll be negotiating, specifically Putin unnecessarily. I 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:26.280 think you can manipulate Putin through flattery or leaving out 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.000 criticism about as you successfully as you can negotiate with 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.640 a hungry mountain lion. It's just it's a useless effort. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.800 But that's the way he does business well. But it's 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.640 a completely different thing. We're not negotiating on a house 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:40.560 or a car here. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.400 If I flatter some lying, cheating I know he's a 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.360 scumbag car salesman, but I flatter him. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.120 I know he's a jerk. I know him from around 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:50.800 the neighborhood. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.600 He's a bad guy, but I flatter him because I'm 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:54.600 trying to do a deal with him. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.440 That's one thing. There's no ultimate harm. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:02:00.000 There really, but telling the world as the most important 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.760 country on planet that no, there's nothing to criticize about 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:04.800 what Russia did here. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.160 Is not good. Yeah, oh, I agree completely. You know that. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.600 I was just trying to, you know, express the Trump 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.160 point of view. That is one of my great criticisms 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:21.600 of Trump is he does not understand how the United 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.760 States and the way it behaves echoes through history like 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.800 a real estate deal doesn't. On the other hand, maybe 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.720 he does, according to his defenders, or in the case 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:37.960 of Jerry Baker, who is a great writer, happens to 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.519 work for the Wall Street Journal. Most of the time 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.880 he's trying to understand exactly what Trump's at And I 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.880 thought it was very interesting you even if you don't 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.480 agree with it. But first, as a bit of a 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:53.079 scene setter, here's a reporter grilling the president yesterday subsequent 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.600 to his meeting with Macrone, the pante wasted leader of France, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.040 talking about you in Russia and European security. And I 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.519 actually I have a lot of sympathy with mccrone's point, 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.120 if you at least to some extent. But the Roll 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.320 forty one, Michael Lin will discuss a dictator. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.280 Would you use the same words for gold and cruising 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:12.800 the part. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.480 I don't use those words lightly. I think that we're 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:18.760 going to see how it all works out. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:19.840 Let's see what happens. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.280 I think we have a chance of a really good 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.040 settlement between various countries. And you know, you're talking about 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.080 Europe and you're talking about Ukraine as part of that 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:35.800 whole situation. The other side has a lot of support also, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:37.600 so let's see how it all works. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:39.000 It might work out. 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.360 Look, you can never make up lives. The one thing 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.080 you can, you can make up the money, but you 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.560 can't make up the lives. A lot of lives lost. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.720 I think, probably a lot more lives than people are 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:51.240 talking about. It's been a rough war, but I think 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:52.440 we're close to getting itself. 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:59.760 So you think Trump thinks that there's an advantage to 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.920 no calling Putin a dictator. Because he called Puttin a dictator, 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.440 he's less likely to do a deal. 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.240 He's yes, he is doing what you described, more or less, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.640 he's flattering all of the parties to the deal before 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.600 the negotiation, because it just does not do any good 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.880 to antagonize the person you're negotiating with. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.640 Generally, but as you keep pointing out, putting such a crocodile, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.640 he's gonna do a deal if he thinks it's in 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.719 his best interest, and he's not going to do a 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.640 deal if he doesn't. The end, with no other extraneous 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.359 things mattering whatsoever. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.120 Right, exactly, he is no more throne to flattery nor 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:38.760 threat than a crocodile. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.320 Yeah, exactly, in my opinion. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.720 But Trump does business the way Trump does business another 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.000 explanation of and obviously he does throw the word lightly 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.960 around dictator, called Zelenski a dictator, even though he's clearly 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.760 not anyway. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.599 And if I was gonna, you know, back on the 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.040 side of giving Trump some credit, He's done a hell 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:09.040 of a lot more deals than practically anybody, and maybe he's. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.840 Dealt with some really bad guys before, where you know. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.640 Other people would have said, look, you can't flatter old 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.920 you know whatever mob boss or whoever he had to 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.559 deal with tried to get a hotel Bilt Matt turns 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:21.080 out he did. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.080 He feels like it helped him. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.240 Yeah, yeah, I suppose. And this really gets into seven 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.039 dimensional chess. Maybe he wants Putin to think he thinks 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:37.480 he can flatter Putin. Ah, yeah, but I don't know. Anyway, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.279 This is the really really important part. I'm gonna quote 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.800 Jerry Baker a bit here and there, as we discussed. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:49.560 But Jerry's trying to figure out Trump's strategy, and I 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.240 think he may be onto something. Beneath Donald Trump's mendacious 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.000 that means dishonest contempt for Ukraine and its dictator, and 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.919 his cringing admiration for Russia and the genie in the Kremlin, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.560 there seems to be a kernel of strategic reasoning. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.840 Okay, I read that opening. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.159 Partly to illustrate that Baker is no fan of what 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.120 Trump said recently, but he says he isn't wrong that 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.960 America has born the burdens of global leadership for far 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.960 too long undeniably truth. Look at NATO and their lack 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.320 of spending on defense. Just that's almost the only thing 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.240 you need to see. And he's not wrong that the 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.640 liberal order we have led is giving way to a 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.960 world in which the US must pursue a narrower definition 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.560 of the national interest, and that the age of spending 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.919 hundreds of billions of dollars to defend parts of the 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.680 world that are no longer essential to US security and 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.680 for nations that have the resources to defend themselves. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:50.279 That era is over. And what he says is this. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.840 Strengthens the impression that mister Trump may be leading the 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.680 US toward a return of a great power approach to 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.960 global strategy. Here's what that is if you're not familiar 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.600 with it. As he uppends a foreign policy, there's been 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.760 a lot of talk in diplomatic circles lately of. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.040 A new Yalta. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.400 That was the nineteen forty five conference on the Black 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.040 Sea where the leaders of the US, the UK, which 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.640 used to matter and the Soviet Union struck up a 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.880 deal to carve up the planet. This is your sphere 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.120 of influence. This is our sphere of influence. This is 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.400 your sphere of influence. We don't mess with yours. You 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.040 don't mess with ours, and we don't go to war. Now, Jack, 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:36.200 you have been talking about how what's his face? 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.360 The great reporter puts out a newsletter. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:47.040 Mark alperson Mark Alpern has been describing lately how Washington 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.520 is a buzz with some sort of great bargain that 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.360 is allegedly being crafted behind the scenes that. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:59.480 Includes Greenland and Taiwan and Russia and Ukraine and a 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:04.720 whole bunch of stuff exactly as a way to make 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:10.000 business not war in the style of Yalta. Getting back 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.320 to Jerry Baker, mister Trump's apparent hunger for US territorial 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.600 expansion in Greenland, Panama, Gaza, even maybe even Canada, his 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:22.320 ambitions to tie foreign policy to the exploitation of economic resources, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:27.360 his seeming acquiescence to Vladimir Putin's European ambitions, and similar 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.040 expressions of respect for Shijin Ping of China suggest a 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.560 hard edged foreign policy realism revolving around a new big 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.200 three powers, while another yalta. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.960 This is damned interesting. This is damned interesting. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.880 And you know, I don't want to get sucked into 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.320 giving Trump way too much credit for the sort of 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:50.800 thing that I don't think he's spent a lot of 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.600 his life thinking about. But it's possible that he and 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.800 smart people around him have decided we're into a new era. Now, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.640 we're into an era much like you know, the Soviet 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.360 Union in the United States where you have to say 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.200 you get that side of the world, we get this 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.280 side of the world. You don't mess with us like 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.280 you were just talking about. It might be where we 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.360 are now. It's funny. It's easy. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:18.319 Even if you spend your life studying massive changes in 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:24.280 global dynamics, it's easy to think, well, massive changes are 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.920 in history books. Now we have stability and rules based 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.040 blah blah blah. There will never be as Fuki Yama 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.280 idiotically said, we're at the end of history. I mean, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:35.719 how did you get those words to come out of 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.840 his mouth anyway? 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.720 Ah, So, set aside. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.440 The moral indignation about the president's till to Moscow, take 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.800 a take at face value. There's potentially profound shift and 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:53.200 foreign policy. Then he gets into three potential implications, what 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:58.440 would this new world look like? I humbly submit that 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.720 we should break semi on time for once and give 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:06.560 plenty of time for those three main potential implications. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.679 Well, I'm fascinated by this idea. I know, I know. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:17.600 I have accused Trump many times of not being real 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.800 up on the historical significance of certain maneuvers and the 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.720 presidency and the rest of it. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:34.000 I do think he understands power, leverage and money though, true, Dad, huh, So, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.680 we got a lot more on the way, including paying 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.240 off what that would look like. 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:39.240 We'll do that next. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.760 And has anybody had increased luminosity from their silk pillow 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.840 case if you have? Our text line is four one 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.439 five two nine five KFTC. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.480 And finally, doctors are warning against a new viral TikTok 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.520 trend in which users are dropping heavy objects on their feet. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.520 You know, at a certain point, we just have to 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:02.720 let evolution do its. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.440 Thing, as we've argued many times. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.400 And apparently TikTok's back is the thing everywhere and just 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.839 people are using it, and China continues to spy on 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:14.000 us and whatever. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.160 And propagandize our young people yeah, lovely. Speaking of China, 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.080 we've been discussing Jerry Baker's column in the Wall Street Journal. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.640 He's talking about how Trump is showing a number of 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:28.040 signs of going toward moving toward a great power approach 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.560 to global strategy, not the rules based international order of 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.559 the last fifty seventy five years whatever, and the references. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.960 Maybe we're going for New Yalta conference. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.760 That's a nineteen forty five conference where the leaders of 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.120 the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union struck a 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.760 deal to carve up the planet back. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:46.880 In nineteen forty five. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.160 And there are rumors Mark Alpern we've discussed, says the 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.800 Washington's a buzz with talk of just such a giant agreement, 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:02.800 which might indeed include Greenland and Panama and Gazan, Canada, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.760 who knows what, but almost certainly Taiwan, Which brings us 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.800 to Baker's analysis. If there is a move towards this 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.280 great power world and a New Yalta first, we can 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.559 look forward to territorial insecurity. In a Trumpian vision of 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.480 the world in which great power sees what they can, 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.560 we can expect a much more fluid, muscular approach to 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.559 international boundaries than the last half century's efforts at a 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.360 rules based system. And then of course he name checks Taiwan. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.719 I've heard it said many times. If Taiwan goes, there 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:37.400 will be a global depression because of the acute need 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.000 for their advanced computer chips, mostly in some other technologies, 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:45.840 but mostly the chips. There's an argument to Trump's approach 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.480 to Russia. It represents a hardened approach to Taiwan, saying 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.560 that cutting Ukraine loose was necessary to enable Washington to 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.000 focus on China. But is this mister Trump's view? How 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.600 essential does he think of free taiwan Is? And it's 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.080 not clear? And then he talks about how Trump has 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.600 also spoken favorably of Shijin paying is a brilliant guy. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.600 He controls one point four billion people with an iron fist. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.160 Is he just trying to flatter him? 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:11.760 Does he mean it? 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.800 Nobody's quite sure. So territorial instability definitely would come down 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:21.080 the pike. Second, nuclear proliferation. The big difference between the 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.319 great power world of the past and that of today 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.120 is the thermonuclear bomb. If small nations can no longer 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.040 rely on large, powerful allies to protect them against predators, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.760 they have one last option, the threat of nuclear annihilation 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.680 for any country that tries to invade them. Then he 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.160 goes through quite a list of countries that don't have 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.800 nuclear arms because they're under the US nuclear umbrella and 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:52.439 they are our allies, Germany, let's see Poland, Oh blah 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.760 bah bah. Who else does he mat well? Bunches of 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.120 countries and obviously Korea, Japan. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.880 Obviously, the more countries that have NU clear weapons, more 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.800 likely that one gets used on purpose or by mistake 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.720 or whatever, or gets loose. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.880 Right, Yeah, absolutely, And then the third thing to look 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.280 for is geopolitical and economic realignments. If Europeans no longer 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.920 view America as a dependable ally, they will seek alternatives. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.280 In the pre World War One era of Great European powers, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.400 countries shifted allegiances fairly regularly. Britain could have signed up 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.400 with Germany rather than France and Russia. We may now 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.520 see that kind of hard, self interested realism among powers 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:36.720 replace attachment to sentimental ideas and values. You know, I 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.560 think he almost undersells the idea of the democracy, the 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:45.800 world banding together to defend freedom and free trade and democracy. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.120 It's more than sentimental ideals. It certainly values. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.320 If Germany was willing to go all in on using 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:58.400 Russian gas until the invasion of Ukraine, they don't care 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.880 about Russia's value. I think history will look back on 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.880 Angela Merkel as a self important jackass who did all 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.560 the wrong things anyway to finish a Baker's piece here, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.800 For all its frailties as a geopolitical force, Europe's economy 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.480 is many times the size of Russia's, and combined with 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.240 the UK's, it's on par with Americas. Europe as a 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.920 whole as an economy just about as big as ours. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.680 It's already heavily dependent on China, and Europeans now see 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:32.480 closer ties with troubling implications for American interests. In as summary, 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.520 mister Trump may well like his new world's order, but 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:41.000 it will come at a steep price. Well, at least 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.920 sounded like the beginning of this article that he was 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:44.680 kind of presenting it as that there might not be 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.160 any other choice. Right. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.720 Well, I think he would probably put it, and we 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.120 ought to try to talk to Gerard Baker someday. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:56.040 Fascinating guy. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:16:01.520 Anyway he might put it. It's not not clearly true 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:06.200 that the old choice will work. I think he would 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.640 say it can if we're super smart about it and 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.600 do it in the right way. But there are those 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.920 in the Trump orbit who say, hell, we get their 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.080 emails all the time, say no, the old world order 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.560 is broke. It's not going to work anymore. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.920 So we need to grab hold of the future and 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.160 change before it changes us. If there are still human 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.600 beings on the planet. A couple hundred years from now, 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.600 one of the big stories in history books will be 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.360 the rise of China and how it just changed the 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:37.080 world order. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.600 Yeah from the previous century. 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.880 Tom Cotton in his new book talks about how China's 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.320 military rises the fastest expansion and growth of a military 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:48.560 in world history. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.720 I think China's peak and decline is going to happen 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.960 within five years, maybe maybe ten. But they'll soon be 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.080 like Britain, a shrunken former power might be, you know, 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:04.840 after we're dead. And on Europe, the coddling of Europe 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.080 over the last fifty years one of the greatest mistakes 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:07.560 ever made. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.240 Oh wow, that's some heavy, interesting stuff. We got a 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.679 lot more on the way. Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.920 After a trans female basketball player missed her game. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:22.640 The team ended up. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:27.600 Losing by twenty six points, but on the bright side, 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.080 they didn't have to shower in their uniforms afterward. 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:38.240 That's a good joke. I'm not sure I followed that well. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.560 What was confusing about it was that Guttfeld used a 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:48.919 trans girl and her talking about a dude, and I 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.480 think we needed more setup to that joke. He was 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:56.560 talking about a dominant basketball team whose dude couldn't play 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.200 one day and got hammered. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.480 Apparently. Oh okay, a bit of missing context there, and I. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.120 Should making the point that that player made a big difference. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.480 Having having a dude on your team was a great benefit. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:09.720 Yeah. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:11.840 I have a little more gender bending madness. If you're 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.480 in the mood for it, you know, why not? Michael, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:14.399 do you have the theme ready? 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:19.400 We don't? You know? No, no, this you know what. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.320 Elon Musk is going to take a look at your 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:23.880 list of five things and he's. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.760 Gonna cross it off. I've seen his list. It was 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.199 playing theme songs on time and. 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.840 Under bending madness. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:48.360 A couple of items worth mentioning. Riley Gains And if 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.040 you don't know Riley, she's the great college swimmer who 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.840 called out Hey, there's a full grown dude in the 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.679 locker room calling himself a woman, and I'm sick of 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.480 pen making me put up with it. God bless her 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.040 for her current anyway, she's been a leading light in 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.040 keeping men out of women's sports. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:05.399 Well. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.919 The President signed in order to ban transgender athletes from 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.000 school sports, and the NCAA claim to have rewritten its 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:16.680 rules to comply. But now Riley and Texas Attorney General 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:21.119 Ken Paxton have gotten together to say the NCAA policy 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:25.200 has way too many loopholes to be meaningful. She says, quote, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.440 this policy is about as clear as mud, and very 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.879 very much still allows men to compete on women's teams 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.480 and receive women's benefits, And she says we're watching to 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.840 see what they actually do. But critics of the NCAA's 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.960 changes claim that the new policy bases gender on birth 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.960 certificates or a doctor's certification, both of which can be 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:50.000 changed by compliance state officials or activist doctors. Sure, and 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.160 that does not comply with the Trump administration's definition, which 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.199 maintains that sex is immutable and binary. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:00.800 Why can't they just go with if you got a penis, because. 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.679 You can get your penis lopped off, then you have 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.600 still have male skeleton, lungs, bone, well, I said, skeleton 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:15.439 already muscles, et cetera. Anyway, so we're and this is 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.600 it's true of the DEI stuff, it's true of the 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.760 race based college admissions. 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:22.840 They will not change. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.040 They will change the appearance of what they do to 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.640 try to fool you and still get away with their 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:30.440 nefarious radical schemes. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.000 Moving along, maybe you heard about this story. I thought 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.359 it was worth mentioning Columbine High School. Yes, that Columbine 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:42.280 High School news story recently that a female teacher was 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:51.080 sexually grooming a free female student and the administration knew 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.800 it and covered it up and allowed the girl to 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.920 change her status to homeless so she could legally move 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.400 out of her parents home and into the teacher home. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:06.080 Oh my god, they could be lovers. Wow, Holy crap. 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.840 When the student's mom got w into this, she discovered 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.480 thousands of phone calls and texts between the teacher, who 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.280 had at minimum been making out with the student. When 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.280 the student's mom went to the principal to let them 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.840 know that a predator had been sexually grooming her daughter, 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.920 the principal responded and I quote Ms Kearnie takes interest 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:26.120 in helping kids. 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.119 Navigate their sexuality. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.520 But again, the administration, knowing that this girl had a 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:37.000 home and parents, helped her declare herself homeless so she 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.840 could move in with her teacher. The sexualization of children 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.800 in schools and trying to pry them away from the 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.320 families straight out of Marxism. 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:51.600 Well, and an adult helping a child navigate their sexuality 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:52.960 is one hundred percent grooming. 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.000 I mean one percent is the definition of grooming. Yes, 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:57.280 it is absolutely true. 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.720 And again, if you don't get this, I don't know 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:06.639 what to do except slap you upside the head any time, 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:12.280 any it would help me any time an adult says 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:16.400 and hey, let's not tell your parents about this. Something 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:20.080 awful is going on unless there is a clear and 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.359 documented history of abuse or something like that. 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:24.760 Moving along, I just wanted to get this on. 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.480 We have a link at Armstrong and gedddy dot com 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.280 under hot links. I'm ninety percent sure, he says, scrolling 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:32.120 to make sure it's true. 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.840 Yes, what is Sage's Law? 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:40.120 And this is a law that is got some momentum 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:44.280 in Virginia and people are becoming aware of it around 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:48.960 the country schools keeping secrets from parents open the door 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.840 to predators, I'm reading from their website. So do states 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.600 who call it abuse to raise girls as girls and 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.159 boys as boys and rip them from loving families to 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:02.120 affirm them in state custom and both led to this 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:04.720 person's sages trafficking. 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:07.680 Her school affirmed her. 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:10.720 As a boy when she was a confused adolescent afraid 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.640