Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jettie and Ke Armstrong and Yeddy Line Dannie Darnie. I
Speaker 1: thought I could make it through it without coughing, live
Speaker 1: from studio C season your a dimly lit room deep
Speaker 1: with them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 1: And to kick off the brand new week. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: the new Week headed into Memorial Day. This could be
Speaker 1: a big week for your life today. Today you're under
Speaker 1: the tutelage of our general manager, the Republican Party, both
Speaker 1: Houses of Congress and the White House. And they're going
Speaker 1: to grow the DEAFA sets and leave bloated entitlements alone.
Speaker 1: What's the point anymore? Wow, I'm forming a new political
Speaker 1: party of given up. Wow, coming out angry hot on
Speaker 1: a Monday morning, exactly well offended, righteously angry. Not like
Speaker 1: I lost my temper because I'm drunk angry, No righteous indignation.
Speaker 1: It's a stupidity, that hypocrisy, the lack of principle. I
Speaker 1: got three names, so party, so not I lost my
Speaker 1: temper because I'm drunk angry, like that's the only other
Speaker 1: golf shot. Now I'm helicoptering my club angry. No, this
Speaker 1: is righteous, biblical anger. How about how about the door
Speaker 1: dash was so slow by the time the yogurt got
Speaker 1: to me it was all melted angry, which I had. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's legit to me and pays for yogurt. You know
Speaker 1: he expects it to be nice and chili. All right,
Speaker 1: So I got three possible names for a new political party.
Speaker 1: I assume you'll join me on this question. Angrytarians referencing
Speaker 1: my being pissed off. Enough is enoughocrats, gotcha? Or finally,
Speaker 1: f Yawlikins. That's pretty good too. I'd wear that T
Speaker 1: shirt and whatever the flag looks like, I'm flying it
Speaker 1: in the back of my truck. F Yaolickins. I thought
Speaker 1: the general manager would be Joe Biden's prostate. No, No,
Speaker 1: an old man has cancer. There's no humor there. It's
Speaker 1: just it's terrible to be humorous. It's just a big
Speaker 1: news story I adopted for Huber. I'll tell you something though,
Speaker 1: interesting wrinkle on this that just happened, and I want
Speaker 1: to get to it before you hear somewhere else to
Speaker 1: tell that came up on Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough,
Speaker 1: and he didn't state it outright, but he was certainly
Speaker 1: hinting at it strongly. So it turns out according to
Speaker 1: the doctor they had, Well, there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff I can say about this as a guy who
Speaker 1: had cancer. The reporting on everything that happens in the
Speaker 1: mainstream news is so horrible. But as usual with this,
Speaker 1: there are a number of things I keep hearing over
Speaker 1: and over again. They keep saying an aggressive cancer, as
Speaker 1: if that absolutely means something, and it doesn't at all.
Speaker 1: Having had concert and talked to doctors before, uh back
Speaker 1: in the day, many many many years ago, in general,
Speaker 1: aggressive was bad and not aggressive was good, but not anymore.
Speaker 1: My cancer was worse because it was not aggressive, because
Speaker 1: I found fascinating at the time. Yeah, because it wouldn't
Speaker 1: take the bait. As my doctor said, you're trying to
Speaker 1: poison the cancer with the chemotherapy, and it wouldn't take
Speaker 1: the bait, like trying to catch a rat with you know,
Speaker 1: rat poison. It wouldn't take the bait because it was
Speaker 1: so slow moving and aggressive cancer. He told me, well,
Speaker 1: grasp on to the we're gonna get you and grasp
Speaker 1: on to the poison and die faster. So often that
Speaker 1: is better, so that that using that word every single
Speaker 1: time in every story is meaningless. So there you go,
Speaker 1: let's start there. I'm exciting. But the interesting thing is
Speaker 1: that I learned from from Scarborough showed and again this
Speaker 1: is what they kept hitting it. He's had it for
Speaker 1: probably a decade at least through his presidency, absolutely minimum
Speaker 1: several years, but probably a decade. And it's impossible they
Speaker 1: either well almost certainly, they just didn't test for it,
Speaker 1: or or just didn't do anything and or just kept
Speaker 1: it quiet because as we've said many times, the president
Speaker 1: decides what to reveal from that presidential exam, what not
Speaker 1: to reveal it. It is the ultimate. This tells us
Speaker 1: nothing possible that they did that, although you'd had to
Speaker 1: kept it, keep it quiet every year for many, many
Speaker 1: many years. I mean, because the president, you know, gets
Speaker 1: a yearly physical and everything like that. And did he
Speaker 1: get tested for it every year and keep it quiet
Speaker 1: throughout his entire presidency, probably years before his presidency so
Speaker 1: that he could maybe run again or whatever. Or this
Speaker 1: is what I think Scarborough was hinting at. It's just
Speaker 1: is overall medical health, including his brain. They just didn't
Speaker 1: test for things. They just didn't ask any questions about
Speaker 1: anything because it was all gonna be bad news and
Speaker 1: they didn't want to have to discuss anything, so better
Speaker 1: just to not know. I think that is by far
Speaker 1: the most likely theory. And I hate to steal the
Speaker 1: thunder of our own featurette, but we got this note
Speaker 1: from Jacob that I was going to include in mailbag
Speaker 1: later on in the hour, he says, Hey, guys, do
Speaker 1: you remember that speech where President Biden randomly said I
Speaker 1: just found I have out I have cancer or something
Speaker 1: like that. Then he moved on and nobody commented on
Speaker 1: it in the White House right down? Do you remember that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, although he accidentally let it slip. Although there's
Speaker 1: no way he just fouled out he had cancer because
Speaker 1: he's had it for a very very long time. But Christmas,
Speaker 1: they just gave him a PSA test for the first
Speaker 1: time ever. Possibly although we're going to play some of
Speaker 1: the her tapes later, he didn't know when he was
Speaker 1: president or vice president or when his son died by years,
Speaker 1: So him saying I just found out I got cancer,
Speaker 1: who knows what that means that could have been him
Speaker 1: remembering from ten years ago. But I'm talking about his brain.
Speaker 1: The fact that you know him having prostate cancer and
Speaker 1: hiding it or whatever, I find that kind of a
Speaker 1: non story actually, But the fact that it fits in
Speaker 1: with just the overall ignoring everything about his body and brain,
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty interesting. Oh on how widespread the
Speaker 1: knowledge was. And I've read a great piece we'll share
Speaker 1: it with you later about why this all matters. Now.
Speaker 1: This is not just looking in the rear view mirror
Speaker 1: and kicking Democrats for the fun of it. This is
Speaker 1: one of the great cover ups in American history. All Right.
Speaker 1: Mark Alper keeps making it about the media, which I
Speaker 1: think is a good thing. It's the biggest failure of
Speaker 1: the media ever. Period. I don't know what second place
Speaker 1: would be biggest failure of the media period. And again,
Speaker 1: I just think it's mostly interesting from the hiding his
Speaker 1: brain thing, and over the weekend, Maureen dud in the
Speaker 1: New York Times, who's the guy they always quote in
Speaker 1: the Washington Boast, the senior man. We had him on
Speaker 1: the show when we were out there in Chicago. Dad Balls,
Speaker 1: like some of the biggest heavyweight Hitters wrote some major
Speaker 1: pieces over this weekend about how awful it is that
Speaker 1: this was hidden for all this time, kind of like
Speaker 1: they're discovering it, which is weird but shocking. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really comes to the top of everybody's consciousness as
Speaker 1: a what the hell sort of story? Right, Well, more
Speaker 1: on that later. It's just it's absolutely amazing. But wow,
Speaker 1: So I wonder, see he got crazy Jill involved. You
Speaker 1: got to go to crazy Jill and the artist Hunter,
Speaker 1: who's also crazy. They might have just been saying, no, Dad, honey,
Speaker 1: no tests. Let's just do no tests, no tests about anything,
Speaker 1: and then we don't have to lie, and then we
Speaker 1: can just go out there and say everything's fine. It
Speaker 1: is gratifying and somewhat shocking to look back and see
Speaker 1: how right we were about all of this, not that
Speaker 1: we had any unique knowledge. Look at the polls at
Speaker 1: the time. And I said this not to pat ourselves
Speaker 1: on the back, but virtually everything we said about Jill
Speaker 1: is the evildoer in this. You can tell doctor Jill
Speaker 1: not a real doctor. She's a crazy person. She's a
Speaker 1: for real crazy person. Yes, she is absolutely unhinged, but
Speaker 1: everybody in the cabinet who knew and was silent or
Speaker 1: denied it vociferously. Chuck Schumer, who's a congenital liar. I
Speaker 1: don't know why anybody ever listens to him on any topic.
Speaker 1: He couldn't tell the truth unless he accidentally did it.
Speaker 1: You know, mayor Pete, you know, all of these people
Speaker 1: who continue to be significant to you know, persons in
Speaker 1: American politics. We cannot just let them get away with it.
Speaker 1: They should never be in office again. They should never
Speaker 1: be entrusted with power again. God, who's the guy I
Speaker 1: don't remember his name, Democrat? He's the chair of the
Speaker 1: Armed Services Committee, like you know, a big committee. Never
Speaker 1: talked to Joe Biden once, right, which is just incredible.
Speaker 1: Well because he in previous administrations had regularly talked to
Speaker 1: the president as the head of the important Defense Committee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course you would. Yeah. So anyway, there's a lot
Speaker 1: on that Joe Biden's prostinct, you know. I hope they
Speaker 1: get him a treatment and he's fine and all that. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's come on, he's on DSD anyway, true, that door
Speaker 1: uh one foot. Trump's about to talk to Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1: That's gonna happen all on the air. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we'll get any details about that or not, but
Speaker 1: that's a big deal, yes, Michael, Well, Putin played the
Speaker 1: power play where he makes Trump wait, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm actually nervous about this, just because I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I just don't want to have
Speaker 1: to deal with it with I hope Trump doesn't handle
Speaker 1: it in a really horrible way. There is no chance
Speaker 1: of a good outcome. There you go, war Wire's the reality.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it. Roll it around in your mouth for a while.
Speaker 1: You'll get used to the taste or a little bitter.
Speaker 1: You mean, just the war. Are you talking about us
Speaker 1: having to talk about Trump and how he handles Putin today? Well,
Speaker 1: that too, Actually, No, I was talking about the call
Speaker 1: and the quote unquote peace process. This is a dry hole.
Speaker 1: Nothing will come of this call except deception, and it's terrible.
Speaker 1: Well he got right after Trump announced the phone call
Speaker 1: with Putin, Putin launched the largest drone attack on Ukraine
Speaker 1: since the war started. So that targeting civilian targets. So
Speaker 1: that happened over the weekend. Specifically, let's start show. Officially,
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty, on this It is Monday,
Speaker 1: May nineteenth, Viere twenty twenty five. Were Armstrong and getting
Speaker 1: and we approve of this program. One final thought on
Speaker 1: that while Putin has the phone with Trump to his
Speaker 1: right ears, shieshen ping will be in his left ear.
Speaker 1: He may even hold two phones up to his head
Speaker 1: in classic movie gag fashion from back in the day,
Speaker 1: anyway worth remembering. All right, let's begin in the show
Speaker 1: officially now according to FCC rules of regulations, here we go,
Speaker 1: leaping into action at mark.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not here to testify for the Didty trial
Speaker 2: that I know I've hosted on my Instagram that I
Speaker 2: was here in New York and enjoying myself, because I
Speaker 2: wanted to make it clear to everyone that I am
Speaker 2: not here testifying. You could potentially be in danger. You
Speaker 2: definitely don't travel openly and let everyone know where you're
Speaker 2: staying and who you're with.
Speaker 1: You said at all, So I thought, I was, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: in danger from whom I mean? New York is Diddy City,
Speaker 1: a potential witness in the trial who said they won't
Speaker 1: travel to New York less they can let everyone know
Speaker 1: where they are because it's too scary, because it's Diddy City. Well,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. They might get rubbed out like the mob
Speaker 1: or something that was some pop culture curiosity from back
Speaker 1: in the day. So we've got the Didny trial going on,
Speaker 1: some of the details that came out on Friday, maybe today.
Speaker 1: The why is the Mexican Navy attacking our bridges? We've
Speaker 1: got to get to that right, this means under attack
Speaker 1: and uh and a lot of other stuff. Katie's headlines
Speaker 1: on the way our text line four one nine KFTC.
Speaker 1: There's a deadline you don't have, Katie. Sean Davis, a
Speaker 1: well known provocative Twitter sort of person, tweeted out, it's
Speaker 1: amazing the media did not discover Joe Biden's prostate cancer earlier,
Speaker 1: given how far up his butt they have been for
Speaker 1: the last several years. Ah. Yes, I've seen that from
Speaker 1: a couple of quarters. That is not helpful. I don't
Speaker 1: feel like that's helpful. That's sort of commentary, medically accurate enough. Yes,
Speaker 1: so great stuff to talk about as usual today, Let's
Speaker 1: get right into it. Who's reporting what it's the least
Speaker 1: story with Katie Green?
Speaker 3: Katie starting with NBC, Trump set to push Putin to
Speaker 3: end the quote bloodbath in Ukraine and high stakes phone call.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Trump's a great deal maker, approaching a deal
Speaker 1: that neither side wants. That's a tough deal. Well yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you were just playing coming at it from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of how do you solve this problem? But if
Speaker 1: he says something very harsh about putin to putin, it'll
Speaker 1: be the first time. So we'll see what happens. It
Speaker 1: could be a turning point, no doubt from writers.
Speaker 3: Iran says nuclear talks will fail if the United States
Speaker 3: pushes for zero enrichment.
Speaker 1: Well, according to Marco Rubio yesterday on one of those shows,
Speaker 1: that's a mandatory, speaking of posturing before negotiations, posture away,
Speaker 1: mullus can nowhere defense from.
Speaker 3: ABC Trump's quote big Beautiful Bill passes House Budget.
Speaker 1: Committee vote last night. It did, Yeah, made the first step. Okay,
Speaker 1: The Big Beautiful Bill is a horrific betrayal bill. I'm
Speaker 1: so second by it. I don't even want to think
Speaker 1: about it. Joe's gonna explain it later because you are
Speaker 1: what what is your mood for the day. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: just angry. I say you mentioned it a little bit ago.
Speaker 1: It's so angry and betrayed or fined. He's an f yollikin.
Speaker 1: That is what I believe. Well, that's the party's political party,
Speaker 1: h F yolikins, and like you guys just discussed.
Speaker 3: From News Nation, euroyllogist says Biden likely knew he had
Speaker 3: cancer for a very long time.
Speaker 1: He might not have known if he didn't get tested.
Speaker 1: If he didn't get tested, it was on purpose.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: Here's here's one thing I think we can all agree on.
Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing that is being said about this at this
Speaker 1: point can be trusted even ten percent. They lie, and
Speaker 1: they lie, and they lie. From the Washington Post.
Speaker 3: Seven escaped inmates still at large after three day.
Speaker 1: Manhunt in New Orleans. This story is amazing. I just
Speaker 1: love that they let everybody know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple of them are murderers, but don't worry.
Speaker 1: You're not in any danger. Really. I mean they escaped
Speaker 1: old timey Shawshank style, Yeah, and then left behind an
Speaker 1: illiterate note. We'll get to that later. From Breitbart.
Speaker 3: Organizers are planning a nationwide protest for Trump's birthday.
Speaker 1: It'll be called No Kings Day. Alright, alrightey, maybe they
Speaker 1: can have Bruce Springsteen play slash lecture US. Oh Yeah,
Speaker 1: Trump blasted Bruce over the weekend. We gotta get to
Speaker 1: that later.
Speaker 3: From the New York Post, LA business owner blasts the
Speaker 3: song baby Shark on repeat, ward off.
Speaker 1: Homeless, encampments it, whatever it takes. The bums say it's
Speaker 1: driving them nuts. Little Sentinel, knock that back, you'd be fine.
Speaker 3: And finally, from the Babylon Bee, ghost of Pete Rose
Speaker 3: bets on Hall of Fame induction.
Speaker 1: How much time I got? I go twenty five seconds.
Speaker 1: That's not enough time. I want to tell you my
Speaker 1: favorite thing from the opening of Saturday Night Live. We
Speaker 1: don't even need the clip. I just want to tell
Speaker 1: you what it is because it was so funny. Later,
Speaker 1: but Joe, who's embittered? That's the word you used, embittered. Yes,
Speaker 1: we'll explain to us why he's embittered. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to hear that. Do you even want to hear it?
Speaker 1: I don't want to drag anybody down with me. I'll
Speaker 1: get I'm in a good mood. I'll keep us pumped
Speaker 1: up no matter how bitter you are. All right, armstrong
Speaker 1: and getdy.
Speaker 4: Trump loves these rich Arab guys. Can they set up
Speaker 4: a mobile McDonald's there lit a little different out there, Donalds.
Speaker 4: The happy meal toy is a little bone.
Speaker 1: Saw made me laugh? Did you writeen that joke? Here's
Speaker 1: the funniest thing I thought that happened on the Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live Go Open with the guy who does Trump.
Speaker 1: He was talking about anyway in Abbi Dobby, Abby, Dabby
Speaker 1: Abby Dobby do like the late great friends Flintstone. I
Speaker 1: thought that was so funny. Oh boy, the late great
Speaker 1: Fred Flintstone. So I saw then news yesterday that they
Speaker 1: were going to have a voting session on the Big
Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill at ten o'clock Sunday night, And because it's
Speaker 1: the weekend and I'm a normal human being, I didn't
Speaker 1: like take a second to look into that because I thought,
Speaker 1: what the hell kind of a procedural deal is a
Speaker 1: Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But I just did
Speaker 1: see that the four holdouts went along with whatever and
Speaker 1: it passed, So there you go. You know, the four
Speaker 1: holdouts went along with whatever is a pretty good description
Speaker 1: of it. I will be a bit more detailed. And
Speaker 1: this is the reason I'm disgusted and embittered. This is
Speaker 1: the most sausagey of sausage making. If you're familiar with
Speaker 1: the old reference to politics. Here's your headline from the wappole.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read you just a little bit because it's
Speaker 1: kind of revealing of at least a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Trump's tax and immigration bill clears Hurtle after late night
Speaker 1: vote to the House Budget Committee, passed to a massive
Speaker 1: tax and immigration package central President Trump's agenda late Sunday,
Speaker 1: overcoming opposition from hardline conservatives, overspending four fiscal conservatives all
Speaker 1: deficit hawks aligned with the old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus,
Speaker 1: change their vote to present, allowing the legislative monstrosity I
Speaker 1: injected that package to be recommended favorably to the House
Speaker 1: by a vote seventeen to sixteen. But their hesitance to
Speaker 1: vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act out of
Speaker 1: committee is a reminder that the far right flank of
Speaker 1: the Republican Conference remains skeptical. I think I see where
Speaker 1: you're going here. Yeah. Now, it could just be your
Speaker 1: typical wah po journalistic bias, although the wa poe has
Speaker 1: improved somewhat lately a little bit. Anyway, I think it's
Speaker 1: unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable with that there
Speaker 1: are only a handful of like lunatic hard liners who
Speaker 1: are against the following headlines. This is from the Richard
Speaker 1: Ruben writing in the Wall Street Journal, the stark math
Speaker 1: on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut the deficit, It
Speaker 1: grows the deficit. The Republican Party, with both Houses of
Speaker 1: Congress and the White House, are going to grow the deficit.
Speaker 1: It's undeniable. Next headline, National Review, Republicans should stay the
Speaker 1: course on reducing Medicaid spending. They're not going to. They're
Speaker 1: running in the other direction, partly because the incredibly smart
Speaker 1: calculating what is he up to? Josh Hawley of Missouri
Speaker 1: is all of a sudden, this is the guy now
Speaker 1: who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. He's now out
Speaker 1: shumering Schumer, saying that the party's Wall Street wing, a
Speaker 1: noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans want to slash health insurance
Speaker 1: for the working poor. Yeah, we mentioned that. On Friday,
Speaker 1: he wrote that op ed piece that the Republicans need
Speaker 1: to back off cutting medagare any Well, it's a reform
Speaker 1: of Medicaid. Any reforms are a hidden tax on working
Speaker 1: poor people. This is and he's referring to a thirty
Speaker 1: five dollars copay for able bodied adults covered by Obamacare
Speaker 1: Medicaid for a visit to the doctor. Thirty five dollars
Speaker 1: copay is some sort of hidden tax on working for
Speaker 1: And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the
Speaker 1: party of the working class, and they feel like they
Speaker 1: got enough for working class that are on Medicaid that
Speaker 1: they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it,
Speaker 1: and they, uh, yeah, now the party of pandering to
Speaker 1: and writing checks to people to win their votes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was going to say that it's interesting they call
Speaker 1: these people ultra conservative of right wing when not very
Speaker 1: many years ago, you would have been the center of
Speaker 1: the Republican Party. I mean that would have been I
Speaker 1: mean as like what the Republican Party was. It was
Speaker 1: it was, it was a term you would have used
Speaker 1: to define the party exactly, so intrinsic to the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: You'd feel silly even repeating what you just repeat it right,
Speaker 1: that no need fisically conservative. But I suppose in reality,
Speaker 1: given where most of the party is, they are ultra
Speaker 1: a right wing or ultra conservative because the bulk of
Speaker 1: the party doesn't care apparently apparently not voters. So suspending
Speaker 1: your children grandchill run into tax and spend oblivion. Well
Speaker 1: all right, well this story got repeated a lot over
Speaker 1: the weekend that we got downgraded on one of our
Speaker 1: credit scores by one of the major organizations that does
Speaker 1: that sort of thingiz. Yeah, And over the weekend it
Speaker 1: kind of got put out there that it was like
Speaker 1: a Trump thing because of tariffs or whatever. It was
Speaker 1: basically around the fact that our debt is just so high.
Speaker 1: It's just like that would happen to you if you
Speaker 1: go to the bank and they take a look at
Speaker 1: your well you've got with your car payments. Now you
Speaker 1: bought like eight cars and two houses, and you're you're
Speaker 1: just overmaxed. So we have eighty thousand dollars in credit
Speaker 1: card bills and you only make ninety a year, right, right,
Speaker 1: So they just down graded because you just spend more
Speaker 1: than you make. That's what happened. That didn't happen just
Speaker 1: in the last one hundred days under Trump. We've been
Speaker 1: building this for a long time. And the final reason
Speaker 1: I am completely embittered about the Republican Party in politics
Speaker 1: and America and democracy and life on Earth is the
Speaker 1: fact that, and it's a two part horror show. Part
Speaker 1: number one is that there are a bunch of swing
Speaker 1: district Republicans from big blue states California and New York
Speaker 1: most notably, who are not only trying to defend the
Speaker 1: idea of the salt deduction, the state and local tax deduction,
Speaker 1: they want to raise it from ten thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: at least thirty thousand dollars and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning,
Speaker 1: if you live in a tax and spend lunatic state
Speaker 1: like state California, all of those incredibly high taxes you're
Speaker 1: paying you can deduct from your federal tax return. So
Speaker 1: the other states will subsidize the tax and spend lunacy
Speaker 1: of New York and California. So my brothers in Kansas
Speaker 1: pay some of my taxes because I live in California.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Yeah, you get a giant subsidy from
Speaker 1: the other states, you pay a lower federal tax rate,
Speaker 1: significantly lower depending on how much money you make. Then,
Speaker 1: folks in fiscally responsible states is indefensible morally, it's indefensible
Speaker 1: as for Republican reason, not the party, but the idea
Speaker 1: of we have a federal system than states, and the
Speaker 1: states can do what they want, and they should do
Speaker 1: what they want. If you're fine, if Massachusetts wants to
Speaker 1: have a sixty five percent income tax, go ahead. I'm
Speaker 1: not living there, but go ahead. But then to transfer
Speaker 1: that profligacy to the other states is it's a horror.
Speaker 1: And as a conservative slash Republican, he says, trying not
Speaker 1: to vomit because of my embitteredness, the idea that that
Speaker 1: is a plank of the Republican Party. I'm done. It's
Speaker 1: it's hard to swallow. I mean, you know, it would
Speaker 1: help Joe and I if this happens financially, but it's awful. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I believe you can't defend it. No, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's I am horrified. I don't care how much it
Speaker 1: would benefit me. God bless me. I have principles. It's
Speaker 1: really held me back in life. Jack too, I just
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done. Yeah, it's uh. Well, like I
Speaker 1: said last week, Sarah Isger of The Dispatch, I heard
Speaker 1: her on a podcast They're having this discussion about party
Speaker 1: and she said, there are no political parties. What are
Speaker 1: we talking about here. Yeah, I need to seek that
Speaker 1: out because I think she nailed absolutely one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: There are no political parties. There's just whoever emerges as
Speaker 1: the candidate, cycle by cycle, and then whatever they believe
Speaker 1: the party goes along with. And it's true on both sides.
Speaker 1: So the idea that there are parties that stand for something,
Speaker 1: we need to all move past that. I want to
Speaker 1: get this quote every uh, I'm sorry, I want to
Speaker 1: get this quote exactly right from my hero hl Menken.
Speaker 1: Every election is a sort of advanced auction sale of
Speaker 1: stolen goods. That's always been true. There was a time
Speaker 1: when a certain party had certain principles that I admired.
Speaker 1: Do your time is pasted. You know what my high
Speaker 1: school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my wife of forty years is.
Speaker 1: When she's not turning tricks, she's killing people for the mob. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's not the woman I felt. This is, by the way,
Speaker 1: fictional illustration has nothing to do with my beloved bride Judith.
Speaker 1: She's not the person she was. Its you forget it.
Speaker 1: It's over, so move on. Get a get an ai
Speaker 1: girlfriend like a normal person, and a love bot or
Speaker 1: something I girlfriend like a normal person. So the four
Speaker 1: hole bouts that like still care about not having the country.
Speaker 1: Remember it was quite a few years ago now that
Speaker 1: the Chairman of the Chiefs announced the biggest threat to
Speaker 1: national security is our debt. Correct. I mean that's what's
Speaker 1: gonna bring us down as a country anyway. The four
Speaker 1: hole bouts that voted present last night, so this could
Speaker 1: move along. What's their thinking? What things that are just
Speaker 1: beaten down? There's no they abandoned the Alamo. There's there,
Speaker 1: there's no winning the fight. Yeah yeah, who knows what
Speaker 1: they were promised or threatened? Well right, yeah, yeah, some
Speaker 1: some if Trump wanted a sausage e backroom agreement was struck,
Speaker 1: or if Trump or someone below Trump wanted to, you know,
Speaker 1: turn full maga on you as a whole bout, your
Speaker 1: life gets pretty hard pretty fast. By the way, credit
Speaker 1: where it's due. Chip Roy a Texas, Ralph Norman of
Speaker 1: South Carolina we had a stand up for South Cackilliac,
Speaker 1: Ralph Josh Breeching of Oklahoma, and Andrew Clyde of Georgia.
Speaker 1: We're blocking the bill because it urged the lawmakers to
Speaker 1: stop talking and get it done. I'm through, yes, because
Speaker 1: they thought you shouldn't keep spending more than you take in.
Speaker 1: You can't do that forever. On top of already terrifying debt, yes,
Speaker 1: and the fact that we now spend more money on
Speaker 1: just the I mean, if you've ever gotten into credit
Speaker 1: card trouble where you're like, you look at your interest
Speaker 1: payment is all you can you know, your minimum payment.
Speaker 1: That's what we are as a country. Our interest payment
Speaker 1: is more than defense. Now. It's crazy and growing and growing,
Speaker 1: and we're going to grow it next year. And for extremist,
Speaker 1: ultra conservative, far right wing, that man attempted to slow
Speaker 1: that down. And there's some sort of Wall Street something
Speaker 1: or others. According to josh Holly, Yeah, Hawley's lost his mind. Well,
Speaker 1: he sees a political calculator. He wants to stay in office,
Speaker 1: and he is a crocodile, a very very smart crocodile.
Speaker 1: At some point. I'm not defending it, but it's at
Speaker 1: some point you could make the argument for people like him,
Speaker 1: hey that's where the country is. Now. You're supposed to
Speaker 1: lead people a different direction if they're in the wrong place.
Speaker 1: But he might just be saying, hey, that's where the
Speaker 1: country is. And Joshua is again again extremely bright and
Speaker 1: savvy would probably say, hey, dude, if I can get
Speaker 1: the reins of power, I figure I can pull this
Speaker 1: back about two three percent. Anything more than that, the
Speaker 1: American people are going to toss me out of office
Speaker 1: because that's where the country is. Brother, all right, dang it,
Speaker 1: that is tough. Okay, man. We got lots to talk
Speaker 1: about today. Stuff that happened over the weekend. That horse
Speaker 1: race is pretty interesting. I don't usually watch horse races,
Speaker 1: but that one was kind of exciting. And Caitlin Clark
Speaker 1: knock turned Nemesis down on the court on the first
Speaker 1: game of the season that I thought, I find that
Speaker 1: very exciting. The zone, Well, you actually do, I think.
Speaker 1: And we got mail bag coming up next day. Here.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I'm feeling no need to be the
Speaker 1: least bit decent about this, so I'll just go full
Speaker 1: thrown it on this there. It seems to be some
Speaker 1: hinting that the Biden family has had this cancer thing
Speaker 1: in their pocket for like a decade perhaps, and have
Speaker 1: trotted it out right when the heat is getting the
Speaker 1: hottest on the Hurt Report, the Tapper Book, the everything else.
Speaker 1: To get the maximum amount of sympathy, Hey, leave us alone.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with cancer that fits, that fits their modus operandi,
Speaker 1: either the character lack of it that fits. That weird
Speaker 1: statement he made like a year ago, a year and
Speaker 1: a half ago in a spec I just found out
Speaker 1: I have cancer that nobody ever commented on. Again it
Speaker 1: all fits. Yeah, yeah, despicable. Here's your freedom. Let me
Speaker 1: quote it to day. I love this one from Einrand.
Speaker 1: Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The
Speaker 1: savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of
Speaker 1: his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free
Speaker 1: from men. Interesting thought. Yeah, yeah, it's probably not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent true, but again great thought starter. Mailbag drop
Speaker 1: us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot
Speaker 1: com is the email address. H druth a millennial frequent
Speaker 1: correspondent rights I discovered something. I had a couple of
Speaker 1: thoughts this weekend as I was fixing my boat, because
Speaker 1: that's what you do when you have a boat, you
Speaker 1: fix it a lot. Anyway. Firstly, you often discuss the
Speaker 1: fact that reporters and journalists report on all topics and
Speaker 1: we tend to trust them. However, it isn't until they
Speaker 1: report on a topic. You happen to be an expert
Speaker 1: in that you discovered that they have no idea what
Speaker 1: the hell they're talking about. One hundred percent. There's actually
Speaker 1: a term for this, the gel Man amnesia effect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: g e l or gell Man amnesia effect. I became
Speaker 1: aware of this fairly recently. We talked about this for years.
Speaker 1: Yeah huh yeah, and it's funny even as we recognized it.
Speaker 1: It's hard to believe it's completely true. Universally true engineers
Speaker 1: read a news report about engineering and think these people
Speaker 1: don't have any idea what they're talking about. But I'm
Speaker 1: sure their coverage of the radio industry is accurate, you know,
Speaker 1: and vice versa. Yeah, anyway, I like this note from
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Speaker 1: up on women or on men entirely because chat GPT
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Speaker 1: is too bad. Another freaking correspondent, the Great JT in Livermore.
Speaker 1: Trump may be the master deal maker, but I think
Speaker 1: a huge critical mistake he and others are making is
Speaker 1: that you can't make a deal when one or both
Speaker 1: parties don't want a deal. New York real Estate or
Speaker 1: Trump made his bones. There's always a buyer and a seller,
Speaker 1: or a union boss and a business interest when there
Speaker 1: are two parties who want to make a deal if
Speaker 1: it's the right deal, and having a master deal maker
Speaker 1: as possible. But putin Russia Palestinians, they don't want to
Speaker 1: make a deal. Certainly Hamas doesn't, so there's not a
Speaker 1: master deal making to be made. Well. You can pressure
Speaker 1: people into a deal, though, either militarily or economically possibly,
Speaker 1: but you have to be willing to pressure them, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he's willing to pressure Pootin at all. Well,
Speaker 1: and I would say, you know a couple of those
Speaker 1: example Putin and Hamas, the pressure would have to be
Speaker 1: very very intense. Yes, yes it would and violent and expensive,
Speaker 1: coast to coast allergies attacking Americans stay tuned and risky
Speaker 1: as well. It would open various Pandora's boxes. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I too, am skeptical about some of this. Let's see,
Speaker 1: with our president having the best doctors, writes Chris, how
Speaker 1: did Biden get such a late cancer diagnosis? I mean,
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper's had his head up Biden's bleep for the
Speaker 1: last five years. So I see, I see that that
Speaker 1: is an ongoing joke. Okay, really, yeah, there you go. Yeah?
Speaker 1: The uh why they telling this now when it's probably
Speaker 1: been known for some time? That is an interesting question.
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