Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and no He Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2: A man accused of fire bombing a peaceful Jewish demonstration
Speaker 2: in Colorado facing a judge, Ahamed Sabri Solomon.
Speaker 1: He's now formally.
Speaker 2: Charged with one hundred and eighteen crimes, including twenty eight
Speaker 2: counts of attempted murder. A federal judge temporarily blocking efforts
Speaker 2: to deport the entire family until they get a hearing
Speaker 2: next week.
Speaker 3: I heard somebody say yesterday that they think it's too
Speaker 3: bad that the term Molotov cocktail caught on because it
Speaker 3: sounds too like fun, like a child's toy, as opposed
Speaker 3: to what it is. Maybe it's just because I've read
Speaker 3: enough war stuff that I I don't look at it
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does sound kind of clever. It's a fire bomb,
Speaker 4: it's setting people on fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it's a it's.
Speaker 5: A weapon of death and torture.
Speaker 3: And you're right, and you could make one this afternoon
Speaker 3: easily at home, which is one of the great one
Speaker 3: of the reasons it's such a great invention for the
Speaker 3: terrorist or the you know, low funded insurgency.
Speaker 5: Right, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the term Molotov cocktail is a wry, sarcastic joke
Speaker 4: created by people who are in life or death struggles.
Speaker 4: It's like, if familiar with cops sense as of humor,
Speaker 4: it's pretty dark.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you're right. It's an interesting point.
Speaker 4: Uh So, I sort of pride myself in being able
Speaker 4: to combine several different stories into a little feature atte
Speaker 4: and bring you various aspects of a bigger story. I'm
Speaker 4: struggling with this one because there are several elements to
Speaker 4: this and they're all so important. It has to do
Speaker 4: with Islamism, speaking of the would be Islamic supremacist or
Speaker 4: a pro Palestinian activist or anti Semite monster.
Speaker 5: However you want to describe this.
Speaker 4: Guy in Boulder, Colorado who set fire to a bunch
Speaker 4: of Jews and old people in well, Americans, he said
Speaker 4: fire to a bunch of Americans. I was doing some
Speaker 4: research earlier to remind myself of some great examples of
Speaker 4: the alliance between elements of the far left and Islamists
Speaker 4: through you know, the last seventy five one hundred years
Speaker 4: or so, and there are a lot of different examples
Speaker 4: of it, and the main point being, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: you want to tear down the West. I want to
Speaker 4: tear down the West. Maybe we can work together. And
Speaker 4: then each side thinks, once the tearing down of the
Speaker 4: West occurs, we'll just get rid of those lunatics and
Speaker 4: we'll be in charge. And if you're in you know,
Speaker 4: in World War Two, the Islamists ended up on the
Speaker 4: short end of the stick. But if you were a
Speaker 4: Marxist in Iran who helped overthrow the Shah, the Iyatolas
Speaker 4: got got the power and ended up hanging and disappearing
Speaker 4: the Marxists.
Speaker 5: But it's an old, old.
Speaker 4: Thing, and nobody ever wants to talk about it, especially
Speaker 4: in the mainstream media because they're so uncomfortable telling the
Speaker 4: truth about uncomfortable things. But yeah, the college kids demonstrating
Speaker 4: in favor of the Palestinians and screaming about how Israel
Speaker 4: is a colonial press or state or whatever the hell,
Speaker 4: that's the nexus between, you know, the neo Marxists and
Speaker 4: the Islamists that you're watching it play out in real time.
Speaker 4: How the hell can there be some angry twenty year
Speaker 4: old woman with purple hair screaming queers for Palestine.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's so absurd, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: But that's it.
Speaker 5: That's that nexus. Anyway.
Speaker 4: Maybe more on that another time, but there are a
Speaker 4: bunch of stories on that topic, like did you follow
Speaker 4: Jack the Washington Post Israel kill over thirty gozens of
Speaker 4: the Humanitarian Aid site covers.
Speaker 1: And that they then apologized for it.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, you skipped from And then the death star
Speaker 4: exploded the galaxy far far away than the staring.
Speaker 1: Out Bruce Willis was dead the whole time.
Speaker 5: Well what spoiler alert?
Speaker 4: So what happened was the Washington Post published this story
Speaker 4: blaming Israel for killing over thirty gozzins, and then it
Speaker 4: very notably significantly edited this story but did not issue
Speaker 4: a correction or explanation, which is kind of the rule
Speaker 4: if you're a news organization, If you completely alter the
Speaker 4: facts in a story, you have to own it and
Speaker 4: explain why. They didn't for days until the howling got
Speaker 4: too loud and they finally put out a mealy mouthed
Speaker 4: the statement. Earlier versions of the article on Sunday stated
Speaker 4: that Israeli troops killed more than thirty feetple near a
Speaker 4: US eight site with the headline attributing the action to
Speaker 4: health officials. In a correction no blah blah, the article
Speaker 4: failed to make clear if attributing the death to Israel
Speaker 4: was the position of the Gaza Health Ministry or a
Speaker 4: fact verified by the Post.
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah was updated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nice job taking the word of the Gaza Health
Speaker 3: Ministry and running with the story. I mean, that's just
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: And gave no weight in fact, pretended as if the IDF,
Speaker 4: the Israeli Defense Forces hadn't said anything about it. It
Speaker 4: was it was as if, you know, the Muslim Brotherhood
Speaker 4: had their own newspapers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, the Washington that is worth pointing out because
Speaker 3: NPR does this all the time. They'll quote something will happen,
Speaker 3: then they'll quote the Gaza Health Ministry. They don't quote Israel.
Speaker 3: Israel always makes a statement to always. Of course they
Speaker 3: do all the freaking time. They're not gonna let you know,
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of people die at the where they're
Speaker 3: handing out the food and just let headlines run wild
Speaker 3: around the world.
Speaker 1: They make a stake. But NPR, Washington Post other news outlets.
Speaker 3: Act like, well, the only people we've heard from is
Speaker 3: the God, the help God, the health Ministry.
Speaker 1: And they never lie.
Speaker 5: Isa.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's embarrassingly bad journalism. Yeah, yeah it is,
Speaker 3: but it's it's not journalism, it's the thing. It's it's
Speaker 3: advocacy for a radical UH philosophy, Mass creating his journalism.
Speaker 4: Moving along to Eli Lake's fabulous piece for the Free Press,
Speaker 4: who profits from Gaza's desperation, and he goes into the
Speaker 4: aid distribution debacle. There have been a number of deaths
Speaker 4: and shootings and chaos, and as a US backed charity
Speaker 4: has taken over aid distribution from the UN because Hamas
Speaker 4: was stealing all the UN food and selling it at
Speaker 4: high profits to the Palestinians.
Speaker 3: I was watching some videos of that the other day
Speaker 3: and thinking, you know, if you, if you can can
Speaker 3: get away from the how this all occurred and what
Speaker 3: brought all these circumstances together, and the complications there and
Speaker 3: everything like that, just being a human being in that area,
Speaker 3: you and your family, Starvin trying to literally fight for
Speaker 3: a box of rice or something. I just I can't
Speaker 3: imagine how awful that would be.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is hell, That is hell.
Speaker 4: I would argue it's the inevitable result of an Islamist,
Speaker 4: militant Islamist government declaring war on its neighbor, but it
Speaker 4: is horrible. So the headline of Eli lakes story is
Speaker 4: who profits from Gaza's desperation, and he talks about how
Speaker 4: Israel's currently rolling out a new process for disturbing the aid.
Speaker 4: If it's successful, it will bypass Amas completely. This should
Speaker 4: be a shared goal for everyone but the terrorists. And
Speaker 4: yet the coverage of the new aid distribution system has
Speaker 4: been dominated by scandal mongering. And he makes the greater
Speaker 4: point that if the good things that people are trying
Speaker 4: to do work in Gaza, it's a death sentence for Hamas.
Speaker 4: And the idea that the Israelis are trying to decimate
Speaker 4: the new aid program, which they.
Speaker 1: Have backed and it's not Hamas.
Speaker 5: Doing it is absurd.
Speaker 4: Hamas is desperate to derail list desperate, and anybody who
Speaker 4: thinks about it for five minutes can figure that out.
Speaker 4: But the mainstream US media, which are a bunch of
Speaker 4: Columbia grad school would be Marxists, are reporting the opposite. Again,
Speaker 4: we don't have time to go into detail. I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna hit a couple more headlines and maybe tease the
Speaker 4: fact that we'll get into them in a significant way.
Speaker 4: Congress is nearing a move to designate the Muslim Brotherhood
Speaker 4: a terrorist organization. Our Congress, keep that in mind when
Speaker 4: I hit you with this headline.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised we hadn't already. I thought we had.
Speaker 5: I know, I know. And this is by a writer.
Speaker 5: It's a terrific piece. It's long. I wish I could
Speaker 5: read you the whole thing.
Speaker 3: How opis the Egyptians consider the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Speaker 5: So does Jordan and the UAE and several others.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how the Muslim Brotherhood is capturing Europe.
Speaker 5: And I'm just going to hit you with a little
Speaker 5: bit of this.
Speaker 4: And if you read Holliback was that his name, the
Speaker 4: guy who wrote Submission novel, It got a tremendous amount
Speaker 4: of attention, what like five years ago or so, is
Speaker 4: about how France becomes a Muslim country, not like a
Speaker 4: country with Muslims, but like Iran.
Speaker 1: And it's a very believable scenario. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The scary part of it is how mundane a lot
Speaker 4: of it is. It's just kind of the slow movement
Speaker 4: of politics and pressure and money and the rest of it.
Speaker 3: It's also got some very vivid explicit sex scenes in
Speaker 3: that book, so I don't want you to be caught
Speaker 3: unaware if you're horrified by that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Helped the jazz it up a little bit.
Speaker 4: So anyway, this woman Simone raw Don Benzaquin Benzequin, who
Speaker 4: I've never heard of before, but she's a terrific writer.
Speaker 4: France didn't I'm going to read this for just a minute.
Speaker 4: France didn't plan to blow the whistle on the Muslim
Speaker 4: Brotherhood's attempt to take over Europe.
Speaker 5: But that's exactly what it did.
Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago when a classified report from
Speaker 4: the Ministry of the Interior leaked to the newspaper Le Figaro,
Speaker 4: which is a big newspaper. Funny Jack is an aside.
Speaker 4: Have you heard about that leak? No nobody has. US
Speaker 4: media has held it at the end of a ten
Speaker 4: foot pole, big leak of a confidential report. The seventy
Speaker 4: three page document marked Confidential Defense, was meant for top
Speaker 4: officials only. Based on intelligence files, field investigations, and dozens
Speaker 4: of interviews, it laid out a stark diagnosis the Muslim
Speaker 4: Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France, not
Speaker 4: through violence, but through schools, charities, mosques and soft power.
Speaker 4: It states quote the Brotherhood's strategy is to install a
Speaker 4: form of ideological hegemony by infiltrating civil society under the
Speaker 4: guise of religious and educational activities. It's the most detailed
Speaker 4: governmental study to date of the Brotherhood's present in presence
Speaker 4: in Europe. Its conclusion is blunt. The Brotherhood operates as
Speaker 4: a political project. Is Its goal is not sudden revolution
Speaker 4: but gradual transformation. Its targets our hearts and minds. It
Speaker 4: strength lies not in secrecy, but in strategic ambiguity. And
Speaker 4: it is not coming just for France, It is coming
Speaker 4: for all of the West, our allies. The French just
Speaker 4: put out a confidential report saying the Muslim Brotherhood is
Speaker 4: trying to conquer the West, and we slumber.
Speaker 5: Here in the US thinking our oceans will.
Speaker 3: Protect us and talk about Twitter feuds, speaking of which, well,
Speaker 3: it's a damn good Twitter feud.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're going to be distracted, be distracted
Speaker 4: by something entertaining.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, Donald and Elon are shinned deep in
Speaker 3: urine after their whizzing match yesterday and it continue overnight
Speaker 3: in today, colorful yet unnecessarily graphic.
Speaker 1: More of not coming up stated.
Speaker 6: Forty new study from the American Medical Association, use of
Speaker 6: cannabis among senior citizens increased forty six percent over two years.
Speaker 1: And you've thought old people drove slow.
Speaker 3: Before coming up, we'll get into a little of the
Speaker 3: elon Trump feud where it is and and some of
Speaker 3: the commentary around it, which I find kind of entertaining.
Speaker 3: This is kind of heavy, but damned interesting. I didn't
Speaker 3: know there was a new documentary out about Billy Joel.
Speaker 3: Is that just a coincidence that there's a documentary out
Speaker 3: when he announced he's got this horrible brain condition and
Speaker 3: he had to cancel our his tour. It's called a
Speaker 3: Billy Joel and so it goes, which I was just
Speaker 3: reading the other day. He thinks that's the best song
Speaker 3: he ever wrote. That's a heavy song. Speaking of heavy,
Speaker 3: I don't know it.
Speaker 1: Oh oh wow?
Speaker 3: Really okay, you got to check that that That is
Speaker 3: his most powerful heartbreak song of all time?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it is. It is absolutely something.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I liked Uptown Girl. I thought that was a
Speaker 5: great song.
Speaker 3: He earned his powerful emotions in some songs by being
Speaker 3: a certain sort of guy. You find out in the documentary,
Speaker 3: and I've been all I was a Billy Joel freak
Speaker 3: in high school. And I think I wrote a paper
Speaker 3: about him once. Didn't know any of this stuff. He
Speaker 3: tried to kill himself twice in his twenties. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: like really tried to kill himself twice in his twenties,
Speaker 3: which I'll get to in a second. He had a
Speaker 3: music act with another dude. They were living together. The
Speaker 3: other dude was married. Billy Joel falls in love with
Speaker 3: his best friend and music partner's wife ends up having an.
Speaker 1: Affair with her.
Speaker 3: Dude punches him in the nose, which Billy Joel says
Speaker 3: was perfectly appropriate.
Speaker 1: They had a kid. I was a homewrecker.
Speaker 3: I felt so bad about it that I just so
Speaker 3: horrible about myself that I tried to kill myself twice.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 3: He got kicked out of that house obviously, you know
Speaker 3: they don't stay there once you start doing that. And
Speaker 3: he was sleeping in laundromats, and he said he was
Speaker 3: almost psychotic. He was so sad and crazed at the time.
Speaker 3: His sister gave him a bottle of sleeping pills to
Speaker 3: help him sleep. He took the mall. He ended up
Speaker 3: in a coma for many days in the hospital. I
Speaker 3: didn't know Billy Joel was in a coma in the
Speaker 3: hospital for days, trying to kill himself. Then when he
Speaker 3: got out, he tried to kill himself a second time,
Speaker 3: drinking an entire bottle of lemon pledge.
Speaker 1: Sing us a song, You're the piano man, drank.
Speaker 3: An entire bottle of lemon pledge, ended up in the
Speaker 3: hospital again with great fresh breath.
Speaker 1: And a shine.
Speaker 4: This is a man in despair trying to end his
Speaker 4: own life. I apologize.
Speaker 3: He got rid of that hazy tabletop. Look beautiful, shine,
Speaker 3: you can see a reflection in it.
Speaker 1: Yes, so.
Speaker 3: He earned some of his you know, like a lot
Speaker 3: of artists. Yeah, I'll probably watch that documentary.
Speaker 1: Whoo, that's heavy.
Speaker 7: How did he keep that? Being as big as he is,
Speaker 7: how did he keep that part of his life a
Speaker 7: secret all these years? Usually you know this stuff about
Speaker 7: the big giant stars.
Speaker 4: Well, right, was the gossip press just not quite as
Speaker 4: well developed?
Speaker 3: Or I guess dude and his wife didn't go to
Speaker 3: the press with it. And good for them, you know,
Speaker 3: they didn't write a tell all book My years with
Speaker 3: Billy Joel the Homewrecker.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't.
Speaker 3: They didn't try to profit from it, and his sister
Speaker 3: didn't either, apparently, because that's what it usually takes is
Speaker 3: for stuff like this to come out.
Speaker 4: Is somebody needs a few bucks and they go to
Speaker 4: You're right, those those kind of books are just disgusted me.
Speaker 3: You go to a bookstore, there's always tons of them,
Speaker 3: whether it's about politicians or athletes or movie stars, singers
Speaker 3: or whatever. You know, you slept with him for a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, and now I want to tell your
Speaker 3: story and make money off of it whatever.
Speaker 1: Disgusting.
Speaker 5: Hm, I must not go to that section of the
Speaker 5: bookstore or something. Uh.
Speaker 3: Well, they're always they're always prominently displayed. Maybe they sell well,
Speaker 3: I don't know what.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh so Elon and Trump, where are we on that?
Speaker 3: So I woke up this morning to the Politico headline
Speaker 3: that Trump and Elon both had calmed down, become grown
Speaker 3: ups and they were gonna have a phone call today.
Speaker 1: Well, that's completely over fake news.
Speaker 3: I don't know where political Well, Trump told Politico that
Speaker 3: I don't know what point he changed his mind, because
Speaker 3: then he told CNN and then the Washington Post later
Speaker 3: that no, I'm not talking to Elon and I'm moving
Speaker 3: on and care about the bill, and he's gonna get
Speaker 3: rid of his tesla has read tesla, according to uh
Speaker 3: mirork Post, and Elon's got some things. Is Elon continuing
Speaker 3: late into the night last night to link Epstein's stories
Speaker 3: with Trump in them to who is two hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty million follow words?
Speaker 1: For some reason. I don't know what he thinks he's
Speaker 1: going to get there.
Speaker 4: Well, I've been following the minute by minute updates on
Speaker 4: the feud. I have some recent developments for you. Ted
Speaker 4: Cruz has weighed in wrong.
Speaker 8: And you know, Elon's upset because we took the EV
Speaker 8: mandate and you know, which was a lot of money
Speaker 8: for electric vehicles and you know they're having a hard
Speaker 8: time the electric vehicles and they want us to pay
Speaker 8: billions of dollars in subsidy. And you know, I Elon
Speaker 8: knew this from the beginning. He knew it for a
Speaker 8: long time ago. That's been in there. That's been I
Speaker 8: would say, j D. That hasn't changed. That's been right
Speaker 8: from the beginning.
Speaker 4: Mister.
Speaker 8: I think mister secretary, that hasn't changed it all right
Speaker 8: from the beginning.
Speaker 4: You know, just this and aside before we get into
Speaker 4: the ongoing Hatfields and McCoy's battle between Trump and Elon
Speaker 4: Musk read a great piece about how GM has been
Speaker 4: whip sawd as administrations come and go on like massive policies,
Speaker 4: and how their CEO has to come out and say,
Speaker 4: we embrace the new ev revolutionists.
Speaker 1: It will lead us to a brighter future.
Speaker 4: And then you know, as soon as Biden's out office,
Speaker 4: thank god that hiad is over. Hey, let's guess up
Speaker 4: America and kick some ass.
Speaker 5: Just it's just not good.
Speaker 3: I know, somebody who's at a high level in one
Speaker 3: of the other very famous American automobile manufacturers found on
Speaker 3: road dead Fixer repaired daily. I drive lots of words,
Speaker 3: but yeah, they said, yeah, So they tell us, we
Speaker 3: got to build all these electric charge stations on our lot.
Speaker 3: So we're going to spend millions of dollars on that
Speaker 3: when there's a good chance that nobody wants the cars,
Speaker 3: nobody's buying them, nobody's biting the Ford lightning. We've done
Speaker 3: the story before from Wall Street Journal about how many
Speaker 3: gazillions of dollars they've lost on all of these things,
Speaker 3: doing it because the government tells them, and then the
Speaker 3: next administration comes along is no, no, we ain't doing this.
Speaker 3: Nobody wants them. And Trump said that yesterday about Elon.
Speaker 3: We're taking out the uh, the subsidies for the.
Speaker 1: Electric cars because people don't want them.
Speaker 4: Just crew right, right. But Elon and Giant Corporation and
Speaker 4: shareholders had, you know, planned their business future based on
Speaker 4: government policy, which has now changed completely. And that's just
Speaker 4: not the way a market ought to operate. But that's
Speaker 4: kind of an aside to the clown show, which is
Speaker 4: the Musk Trump feud.
Speaker 9: Who signed time for the clowns and the acrobats and
Speaker 9: the dancing palo whatever?
Speaker 4: Whose side are you on? When I wanted that clip?
Speaker 4: But forget it.
Speaker 1: You got to pick a side.
Speaker 3: From the way I understand it, You're either on Elon
Speaker 3: side or Trump side. That's the only way you can
Speaker 3: do it. There's no nuance, there's no this but that
Speaker 3: you pick a side. This is the United States of
Speaker 3: America looking around for a coin. I don't carry coins.
Speaker 3: Let's see, how about I'll twist the pen if the
Speaker 3: pen point toward me. It's Trump, it's a way, it's musk.
Speaker 3: Oh shoot, I just threw the pen on myself. I
Speaker 3: line side's about the way you'd have to do it.
Speaker 5: Jack.
Speaker 4: I'm on the side of America. The reason I asked
Speaker 4: for the Ted Cruz clip, which I said I would cue,
Speaker 4: is that I'm following the minute by minute updates on
Speaker 4: a couple of different publications and frankly, they're now milking.
Speaker 5: This and because it's not not much as happening, but.
Speaker 4: Ted Cruz has entered the fray Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz.
Speaker 9: The time for the clowns and the acrobats and the
Speaker 9: dancing bears has passed.
Speaker 1: Is this part of the delicious scandal? Milk?
Speaker 4: The problem with Ted Cruz is that saying that is
Speaker 4: he he is one of the acrobatic clown bears, which
Speaker 4: is weird because if you meet Ted in person, he
Speaker 4: is a very sincere, down to earth.
Speaker 3: Guy from serious person. But now he is a bear
Speaker 3: doing summer resaults on a tight wire.
Speaker 1: Hyah.
Speaker 4: It's a guy who recognized, okay, showmanship in hyperbole is
Speaker 4: the way to get head these days.
Speaker 5: But that's not his game, that's not his groove. Anyway.
Speaker 4: Ah, but he said, he said, let's hug and makeup.
Speaker 4: He said on his podcast Friday that he was in
Speaker 4: the Oval Office with President Trump while the fight with
Speaker 4: Elon Musk was unfolding, and that the President was pissed
Speaker 4: in that moment, but he said the country would be
Speaker 4: better off if Trump and Musk reconciled.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of conservatives are feeling like this
Speaker 4: is not good. Let's hug and make up. He added
Speaker 4: that both Musk and Trump are right about the budget bill.
Speaker 4: The country needs for it to pass, but it can
Speaker 4: be made better.
Speaker 5: Wow. How about that?
Speaker 3: So I said this earlier, and you gave me your
Speaker 3: squinty look, like I know if I believe you're muttering
Speaker 3: squinty look when tweeted out yesterday. Without me, Trump would
Speaker 3: have lost the election, Dems would control the House, Republicans
Speaker 3: would be fifty one to forty nine per centate. I
Speaker 3: believe that you don't think that's true. You think Trump
Speaker 3: would have won without.
Speaker 1: Elon in the three hundred million dollars, I.
Speaker 4: Think it's it's impossible to say that with any certainty.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it helped a lot.
Speaker 3: It sure made a big difference to me, like, God,
Speaker 3: do we'd want to do this again? Sort of you know,
Speaker 3: Trump supporter and Elon being so hardcore about you know,
Speaker 3: doge over and over and over again in fiscal responsibility.
Speaker 3: Sure brought me along. I don't know how many other
Speaker 3: people it did.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think you're right in principle one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: I'm just very cynical about the whole this is what
Speaker 4: won the election thing, because that's crap most of the time.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it was, it was, it was significant, hundred percent.
Speaker 1: The Nazi salute brought all the Nazis into the party.
Speaker 5: Oh that was valuable. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4: New York Times you reported on Cory Booker's Nazi salute.
Speaker 5: Yet no, I didn't think so.
Speaker 3: So Steve Bannon, who helped Trump get elected, say this
Speaker 3: morning on one of the gazillion podcasts that exist that
Speaker 3: Trump should sign an executive order and sees SpaceX tonight
Speaker 3: before midnight. Wow, the government's gonna seize the most successful
Speaker 3: rocket company in world history, just at a butt hurtness.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Bannon, he just he wants to tear
Speaker 4: the whole thing down. He's he's a Marxist, he says himself.
Speaker 4: He's a weird sort of Marxist, but he just wants
Speaker 4: to tear it down and start again. The only other
Speaker 4: headline update really anything happening is that Tesla stock has
Speaker 4: turned around. It had lost fourteen percent yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's a hell of a lot of mine.
Speaker 1: And why do you think that was?
Speaker 3: Just because I theres a lot of people have been
Speaker 3: making these jokes about how you know liberals are out
Speaker 3: there trying to scrape there. I bought this car before
Speaker 3: Elon became a Nazi. Bumper stickers off their Tesla now, right,
Speaker 3: and you know put on I'm with Elon bumper sticker
Speaker 3: back on it or something.
Speaker 5: Like that, right.
Speaker 3: So why did that hurt Tesla's stock, that Elon turned
Speaker 3: against Trump?
Speaker 4: I think because of the enormous regulatory power of the
Speaker 4: federal government, regulatory slash, subsidies, the rest of it. Because
Speaker 4: the government has way, way, way too much power over
Speaker 4: the economy. So you've been quoting this Constantine kiss in person, yeah,
Speaker 4: a couple of times lately.
Speaker 3: And he tweeted this out. Yes, this is where I
Speaker 3: am on the whole thing. What Elon Musk is doing
Speaker 3: is genuinely heroic. He will win no friends in politics
Speaker 3: and will be ostracized by the current administration, but he
Speaker 3: is totally right. We the entire Western world, simply cannot
Speaker 3: go on pretending our way of life is sustainable. Historically,
Speaker 3: countries build up surpluses in peacetime and then go into
Speaker 3: debt to fight wars. We're going into more and more
Speaker 3: debt during peacetime. Clever economists will tell you this is sustainable.
Speaker 3: It is not, and someone has to do something about it.
Speaker 4: I only want to add, also, you will go into
Speaker 4: debt during times of recession and depression, but during times
Speaker 4: of economic growth you replenish the reserves and actually build surpluses.
Speaker 4: We're doing the opposite of that as well. It's suicidal.
Speaker 4: My only response to that, you know, somewhat negative, is
Speaker 4: that if Elon could have done it without being such
Speaker 4: an a hole, it would have been really helpful to
Speaker 4: the cause.
Speaker 1: You mean, while he was just running dog or yesterday,
Speaker 1: no yesterday.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sorry, in the whole run of him criticizing
Speaker 4: the ugly abomination or whatever it was, the horrific See
Speaker 4: if they but.
Speaker 3: Got the guy's short on sleep, he's got thirteen kids.
Speaker 3: He's changing diapers, he's teaching it how to ride a bike.
Speaker 3: He's helping somebody with their finals the last week of school.
Speaker 3: He's got another kid headed off to college, trying to
Speaker 3: get to Mars Burpen. One kid told one of his
Speaker 3: girlfriend's baby, mama's can side pieces can get a night's
Speaker 3: sleep while he's taking.
Speaker 4: Our transgender kid who hates him tiring.
Speaker 1: That would be that lifestyle.
Speaker 5: That's a good point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so I feel like the missing piece of
Speaker 3: this whole story all ever since last week when he
Speaker 3: first turned on the bill, the focus on the drama
Speaker 3: of the bro.
Speaker 1: Ship or marriage or whatever coming to an end, as opposed.
Speaker 3: To the guy is sticking with something he's been talking
Speaker 3: about for years. He believes that wanting to have a
Speaker 3: dollar forty for every dollar that you give the government
Speaker 3: a dollar forty of services for every dollar you give
Speaker 3: the government can't go on. Obviously, it's simple math. So
Speaker 3: we got to stop. I didn't realize Great Britain's doing
Speaker 3: the same thing. They're not as far down the road
Speaker 3: as us. We're at one hundred and thirty percent of
Speaker 3: our GDP, they're at one hundred percent. So that's why
Speaker 3: this guy mentioned Western civilization.
Speaker 5: In a time of growing economy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there's part of me that things and this
Speaker 4: is really discouraging and I shouldn't even say it out
Speaker 4: loud on Friday, but it reminds me of the Biden
Speaker 4: crime family, the idea that you could just pull one
Speaker 4: thread and that would be one thread.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Their whole economic model was selling influence, selling access the
Speaker 4: rest of it. There are twenty three you LLCs and
Speaker 4: untraceable money and mysterious loans that were never paid off
Speaker 4: as sources of income and all that stuff. The US
Speaker 4: government is the same are gigantic expenditures on all of
Speaker 4: social programs are all built on lies. Compensation rates for
Speaker 4: doctors and hospitals that are utterly unsustainable. You know, Congress,
Speaker 4: as you've pointed out many times lately, Jack saying we're
Speaker 4: gonna spend this much, but we're gonna cut this much.
Speaker 4: The expenditures are upfront, the cuts are in seven years,
Speaker 4: and they never ever happen. It's a giant house and
Speaker 4: cards built on lies.
Speaker 3: A couple more witty things around this, because we might
Speaker 3: not talk about it again this show. I don't know
Speaker 3: unless one of them goes off again. It's a popular
Speaker 3: female pundit said, so Elon goes kill the bill and
Speaker 3: Trump goes. Elon has TDS, so Elon goes I'm the
Speaker 3: reason Trump won.
Speaker 1: So Trump goes, we waste billions on Elon.
Speaker 3: So Elon goes Epstein and Flunky goes to port and
Speaker 3: Elon goes impeach. And that's why women are too emotional
Speaker 3: to be president, says this woman.
Speaker 1: Thought that was pretty clear. Shot my dear, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty good. And one more from Mark Halprin.
Speaker 4: Today, he as I mentioned earlier Nelly Bowls of the
Speaker 4: Free Press described it as Real Housewives of Pennsylvania eviden
Speaker 4: it's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: So Mark Alprin and his nude letter went through the
Speaker 3: stuff that actually happened, and he said, I mean that
Speaker 3: was right before Trump referred to Musk as a clown
Speaker 3: car of bad ideas in a tesley chassis, and Musk
Speaker 3: fired back. I liked it better when President's got banned
Speaker 3: from Twitter, and then the riffing when Trump called Musk
Speaker 3: a blinking libertarian who's just Jeff Bezos, with memes prompting
Speaker 3: most Musk to post an AI generated image of a
Speaker 3: but jeweled Trump hugging a cyber truck.
Speaker 1: And it went on from there that all could happen today.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, that was imagination.
Speaker 1: Well, it's difficult to parody this.
Speaker 5: You can't.
Speaker 3: You can't if if tell me this, So New York
Speaker 3: Post says Trump is going to get rid of his
Speaker 3: red tesla s that must come play. If Trump is
Speaker 3: out on the White House lawn with a hammer beating
Speaker 3: on that car today in front of cameras, would you
Speaker 3: be shocked?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Yes, I would think, oh my god, where will this end?
Speaker 3: But I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 5: He'd be shocked, shocked, but not surprised.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got more. Oh you gonna weigh in on this?
Speaker 3: Where are you Trump or Elon? You gotta choose one.
Speaker 3: It's the way life works. Four one KFTC.
Speaker 1: Ghost networks.
Speaker 10: Insurance companies show a robust list of available healthcare providers
Speaker 10: on paper, but not in practice. Ghost networks exist nationwide.
Speaker 10: A recent study by the New York Attorney General's Office
Speaker 10: of thirteen health plans found eighty six percent of the
Speaker 10: listed in network. Mental health provider's staff called we're ghosts
Speaker 10: experts we spoke with say, first, get.
Speaker 11: The care that you need, then go back to your
Speaker 11: insurance company and file for an exemption or an appeal
Speaker 11: if you had to seek care from an out of
Speaker 11: network provider, and finally report that ghost network to your
Speaker 11: safe department of insurance so they can investigate.
Speaker 1: Well, is this mostly mental health stuff they're talking about?
Speaker 1: They mentioned that.
Speaker 3: Does it happen more in the mental health world than
Speaker 3: it does in like the regular doctor world.
Speaker 5: I would be taking a wild guest. I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I was just going to throw out a therapist I
Speaker 3: know says chat GPT is completely replacing us. You got
Speaker 3: a question about something mental help wise, ask chat GPT.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how interesting? So, speaking of people who need emotional help,
Speaker 4: Trump and Elon Musk getting into a feud.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: One of the more uncomfortable and weird.
Speaker 4: Aspects of it was that Friedrich Merrittz, yeah, or the
Speaker 4: German chancellor was chancellor prime minister?
Speaker 5: What is he these days? I don't know. Later he
Speaker 5: was in pardon no no, oh nine nine nine nine.
Speaker 5: You don't you?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: Anyway, so he was in town to visit with Trump
Speaker 4: and it was extremely annoying. He was on a show
Speaker 4: and they asked him all about the Trump Elawn feud.
Speaker 5: I was like, are you serious anyway?
Speaker 4: So Trump asks about defense spending and and and and
Speaker 4: I wish we had more time. I think we do
Speaker 4: have time. Play forty eight real quick, Michael reporter and Trump.
Speaker 1: Is Germany doing enough on defense?
Speaker 5: It's mister President enough on defense?
Speaker 1: Enough defense? Or Chancellor wants Germany doing want to Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean, I haven't discussed it very much. I know
Speaker 8: that you're spending more money on defense now, and quite
Speaker 8: a bit more money, and that's a positive thing. I'm
Speaker 8: not sure that General MacArthur would have said it's positive.
Speaker 8: You know, he couldn't like it, but I sort of
Speaker 8: think it's good.
Speaker 5: You understand what I mean.
Speaker 8: But he may have stay and never let Germany re arm.
Speaker 8: And I said, I always think about that. When he says, sir,
Speaker 8: with spending more money on defense, I say, oh, is
Speaker 8: that a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 8: But you know, at least a certain point, there'll be
Speaker 8: a point when I'll see, please don't arm anymore.
Speaker 1: If you don't want it, you watch.
Speaker 3: It get it well, that is, it gets more wild
Speaker 3: nomadic train wreck. Yeah, yeah, but nobody paid attention to it.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's an astonishing effort at conversation.
Speaker 9: That was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, I think it stands on his own. But
Speaker 4: then this next clip actually has got and a bit
Speaker 4: of attention.
Speaker 12: May I remind you that we are having June sixth tomorrow.
Speaker 12: This is D Day anniversary when the Americans once ended
Speaker 12: the war in Europe, and I think this is in
Speaker 12: your hand in specific in ours hell.
Speaker 8: Is not a pleasant day.
Speaker 12: No, that was not a pleasant in the long run,
Speaker 12: mister president. This was the liberation of my country from
Speaker 12: Nazi Nazi dictator, and we know what we owe you.
Speaker 12: But this is the reason why I'm saying that America
Speaker 12: is again in a very strong position to do something
Speaker 12: on this war and ending this war. So let's talk
Speaker 12: about what we can do jointly.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So D Day not a good day for you all?
Speaker 4: Huh wow, Wow, you know, it's fine, It's fine.
Speaker 5: That's a hell of a thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then so I didn't watch the interview when he
Speaker 3: was on Brett Bair, and I thought I should have
Speaker 3: because did anybody ask the German FEU or Trump about
Speaker 3: the dude Merc's statement last week that limits are off
Speaker 3: on Ukraine using the weapons. They can fire mo wherever
Speaker 3: they want. In Ukraine, we say so, Britain says so.
Speaker 3: Franciso in the United States says so. Did anybody ask
Speaker 3: Trump did we say so or not?
Speaker 5: I'm ashamed of this. I tuned out of it.
Speaker 4: I was so annoyed with Aisha Hasney's attempt to interview him.
Speaker 4: I was thinking, boy, she's the rising star. She's been
Speaker 4: filling in three days this week. I think for Brett
Speaker 4: Behar her like global geopolitics, chops are not good.
Speaker 1: Well, then they ask about Elon and Trump.
Speaker 3: The German chancellor had to leave thinking this is why
Speaker 3: Ukraine is doomed.
Speaker 1: America is so inner looking.
Speaker 5: You're not adults? Yeah, wow, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a good good day to look like adults.
Speaker 5: No, No, these are odd times, folks say.
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