Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1: Well, we're very honored.
Speaker 2: Oh well, it's crazy just because of him here. You're
Speaker 2: the only reason I'm here.
Speaker 1: Are you free to talk a little bit?
Speaker 2: I'm not speaking cameras.
Speaker 1: That's seen Alexander. He was a hostage of Hamas for
Speaker 1: three years. How long has it been.
Speaker 2: Four hundred and fifty days or something? I don't remember exactly,
Speaker 2: since October of twenty three.
Speaker 1: Uh. He was on the phone with Trump yesterday saying,
Speaker 1: the only reason I'm here, You're the only reason I'm here.
Speaker 1: You saved my life, Trumpet negotiating with somebody in Hamas
Speaker 1: and bypassing Israel on that whole thing and getting the
Speaker 1: guy out. So Uh, that was a good story. Over
Speaker 1: the weekend, we mentioned on Friday how Bruce Springsteen had
Speaker 1: bad mouthed Trump in the United States while he was
Speaker 1: kicking off his world tour in Great Britain. We are
Speaker 1: annoyed by that. It was after we got off the
Speaker 1: air on Friday that Trump truth to this out about
Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen. I see that highly overrated Bruce Springsteen goes
Speaker 1: to a foreign country to speak badly about the president
Speaker 1: of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his
Speaker 1: music or his radical left politics, and importantly, he's not
Speaker 1: a talented guy.
Speaker 2: I love stuff like low.
Speaker 1: He's just a pushy of notxious jerk all caps who
Speaker 1: fervently supported crook and Joe Biden and mentally incompetent fool
Speaker 1: and our worst ever president who came close to destroying
Speaker 1: our country. If I wasn't elected, it would have been
Speaker 1: gone by now. Sleepy dough Joe didn't have a clue
Speaker 1: as to what he was doing. But Springsteen is quote dumb,
Speaker 1: is a rock unquote.
Speaker 2: I like how he puts quotes.
Speaker 1: I don't even know exactly what that means, and couldn't
Speaker 1: see what was going on, or could he which is
Speaker 1: even worse, This dried out prune of a rocker. Prune
Speaker 1: also in quotes his skin is all atrophied. Trump right,
Speaker 1: let me close with the sentence. I'll say it again
Speaker 1: because it's just too good. This dried out prune of
Speaker 1: a rocker, his skin is all atrophied. Ought to keep
Speaker 1: his mouth shut until he gets back into the country.
Speaker 1: That's just standard fair also in quotes. Then we'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes for him.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm glad you find it so amusing. I
Speaker 2: just I find it very amusing. On what level? Help
Speaker 2: me understand? His skin is atrophied.
Speaker 1: I think it's hilarious that the president of the United
Speaker 1: States is making fun of an old rock and roller
Speaker 1: for having saying his skin.
Speaker 2: I just can't believe it's even happening, right, And we
Speaker 2: can't be held responsible for what we find amusing. That's fine.
Speaker 2: I just find it troubling. It's just weird.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 2: Uh So anyway, although none of that's really of any consequence.
Speaker 2: And uh and and and Bruce is obnoxious and a
Speaker 2: blow hard and a limousine liberal and how to shut
Speaker 2: up and plays damn music. Anyway, Having said.
Speaker 1: That, one of the own quotes, why do you think
Speaker 1: he puts word of random words in quotes That happens
Speaker 1: a lot online.
Speaker 2: It's just a way to emphasize that word.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like a capitalizing it or okay, gotcha, okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't get you onto that.
Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, And you know, Hunter Thompson used
Speaker 2: to do this way back in the day, and people
Speaker 2: do it online too. They capitalize a word like all caps,
Speaker 2: but just capitalize it to emphasize I do that. I've
Speaker 2: never used a quote as an amateur linguist. I think
Speaker 2: it's interesting how you know, print language evolves to imitate
Speaker 2: speaking language. Anyway. Uh so, Yeah, and the other thing
Speaker 2: Trump tweeted out. And for the record, I've got a
Speaker 2: couple of things that I've been wanting to talk about
Speaker 2: how Trump, the Trump administration has essentially put out the
Speaker 2: word disparate impact. The theory of disparate impact, meaning if
Speaker 2: a lower percentage of black people get accepted to be cops,
Speaker 2: that's proof that the test is racist. They've said that's wrong,
Speaker 2: it's racist, and it no longer will guide any federal policy.
Speaker 2: Huge victory for common sense, for meritocracy, the rest of it.
Speaker 2: Nobody's talking about that move. It's incredibly important. I say,
Speaker 2: well done. So the Trump's Energy Department. So the Trump
Speaker 2: government said that that's the way they're going to look
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the administration, because the Supreme Court unfortunately has said
Speaker 1: disparate impact of the thing.
Speaker 2: Bring it up again. That was an obscene couple of
Speaker 2: rulings just idiotic, indefensible anyway, And another thing, I love
Speaker 2: this headline, free the gas stove. Trump's Energy Department has
Speaker 2: acted dozens of Biden appliances and regulations, like one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand pages of phony green new scam regulations are gone.
Speaker 1: God I heard a good one the other day because
Speaker 1: I have this last two dishwashers, I've had your modern
Speaker 1: dishwasher because of all the dumb regulations they As has
Speaker 1: been pointed out by many people, you practically have to
Speaker 1: wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher
Speaker 1: because they don't do what they used to do because
Speaker 1: of all these different environmental regulations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so before I kicked Trump, I just wanted to
Speaker 2: mention that. I mean, for instance, let's dig into this
Speaker 2: a little bit. Gone are rules banning a wide swath
Speaker 2: of gas stoves. Gone are the strict water standards governing
Speaker 2: dishwashers and shower and articular chick. Gone is the government
Speaker 2: wide effort to force electrification of the economy through appliance regulations,
Speaker 2: all part of a historic action the Trump administration nounced
Speaker 2: today reversing dozens of energy regulations, saving consumers more than
Speaker 2: eleven billion dollars and cutting more than one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand words from the United States Code of Regulations.
Speaker 2: Great stuff, great, great, great, save you money. Hallelujah. Amen.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like when Trump says things like in Bruce
Speaker 1: Brington he has no talent. What. I just find that
Speaker 1: so bizarre. It's like screaming that Kareem ab Duel Jabbar wasn't.
Speaker 2: Even tall, right, That's just absurd anyway, So he was
Speaker 2: tweeting truthing out a bunch of stuff the other day,
Speaker 2: including and I'll just go ahead and shout the stuff
Speaker 2: that's in all caps. Walmart should stop trying to blame
Speaker 2: tariffs is the reason for raising prices throughout the chain.
Speaker 2: Walmart made billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Last year, far more than expected between Walmart and China.
Speaker 1: They should eat the tariffs and not charge valued customers anything.
Speaker 1: I'll be why, and so will your customers. Well many
Speaker 1: exclamation points as usual. I agree with Bernie Sanders or
Speaker 1: disagree with Bernie Sanders. I don't like Bernie when he
Speaker 1: does this sort of thing. Oh that was Trump, you'd say, yes,
Speaker 1: this was also Trump. After causing catastrophic inflation. Comrade kamalaw
Speaker 1: announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls. Her
Speaker 1: plan is very dangerous because it may sound good politically.
Speaker 1: This is communist, this is Marxist, this is fascist. Yes,
Speaker 1: both statements by Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Last year, he blasted Kamala Harris's proposal for price controls
Speaker 2: on groceries. Now he's attacking Walmart for warning that it
Speaker 2: will have to raise prices in the wake of the tariffs.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, in claiming that Walmart would only
Speaker 1: raise prices to make more profit made, you made enough
Speaker 1: money last year, basically is what he's saying. He made
Speaker 1: billions last year. Okay, when does this become a conservative thing?
Speaker 1: You tell companies you've made enough money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be going to play your golf courts for free, sir,
Speaker 2: because you made enough money last year. So, and the
Speaker 2: other part of it is, you know, it's it's a
Speaker 2: rebuttal of what he's claimed himself for months. He said
Speaker 2: the foreign producers will pay the full cost to tariffs,
Speaker 2: But now he's admitting that Walmart and American retailer will
Speaker 2: have to eat some of the costs or pass them
Speaker 2: on to their customers. And Walmart's net profit margin is
Speaker 2: less than three percent. Now, it's an enormous company, so
Speaker 2: if you have two point eight percent profit on you know,
Speaker 2: a company of that size, that's a hell of a number.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't have a bunch of room to absorb
Speaker 2: the higher costs caused by tariffs. Retail competition is incredibly intense,
Speaker 2: and Walmart's longtime comparative advantages advantage has been lower prices.
Speaker 2: And what bothers me is Number one Trump trying to
Speaker 2: tell Walmart how to run its business and number two
Speaker 2: like that vague threat of retribution. Yeah, yeah, that's not cool.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm against that no matter who's the president. Sorry,
Speaker 2: if you're just a hardcore you know, Trump fan, or
Speaker 2: are you figure if admitting anything is wrong, that will
Speaker 2: weaken the case and Democrats will win and the rest
Speaker 2: of it. You know, I see your point, but I
Speaker 2: just can't.
Speaker 1: Very very bernie aoc. You could imagine either one of
Speaker 1: them shouting that on the no Oligarchs tour, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Walmart's plenty of money, they have too much profit.
Speaker 1: Will hold the Walmart accountable if they raise prices.
Speaker 2: That's a very Bernie Sanders thing to say. And as always,
Speaker 2: my real concern. And the reason I bring this up
Speaker 2: is the dumb stuff Trump does might derail the fabulous
Speaker 2: stuff he does, and that would kill me. Do you
Speaker 2: mean dumb politically or for the way conservatism out of
Speaker 2: work politically? I think the Republicans, you know, going for
Speaker 2: this big, beautiful bill that gives.
Speaker 1: Perfectly healthy work age men free healthcare might be a
Speaker 1: good idea.
Speaker 2: That's what bothers me, right right, I think, yeah, the
Speaker 2: saying what he said about Walmart and the rest of it,
Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to make much political difference
Speaker 2: at all. I think the whole tariff thing will though
Speaker 2: it'll mess up the economy either a little or a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't even know where we are.
Speaker 1: In terms of politics and the parties and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: very difficult for me to figure out. There are probably,
Speaker 1: to the extent that they saw it, many many, many,
Speaker 1: many would consider themselves Republican voters who said, yeah, screw
Speaker 1: Walmart trying to raise prices on us. Yeah, yeah, these
Speaker 1: are weird times.
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Speaker 1: We got downgraded on our on our credit and US stocks.
Speaker 1: New York Post headline is US stocks fall on US downgrade.
Speaker 1: That news came out Friday, I think after the markets
Speaker 1: closed or over the weekend. So this is new news
Speaker 1: to the markets. But we got downgraded because of the
Speaker 1: debt we've built up over many administrations. This is not
Speaker 1: just a Trump thing, obviously, or a Democrat thing, but.
Speaker 2: Sure, but the credit raging agencies were looking at the
Speaker 2: negotiations for the big giant budget bill and trying to see, all, right,
Speaker 2: are they going to try to get their fiscal house
Speaker 2: in order?
Speaker 1: The answer is no. Let the party roll on. You know,
Speaker 1: Trump would probably make the argument, So Biden wasn't going
Speaker 1: to take the hit. George Bush didn't want to. Nobody, nobody,
Speaker 1: Republican or Democrat, wants to take that. You want me
Speaker 1: to take the political hit for finally like cutting services
Speaker 1: or raising taxes?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: I mean, all the Congress people say what he said, right,
Speaker 2: I don't know how you get out of this. I
Speaker 2: suppose by monarchy.
Speaker 1: By finally collapsing.
Speaker 2: Or a wise and benevolent philosopher king. Who's who's picking
Speaker 2: that person? I'll go ahead if you'd like. Is that
Speaker 2: you've got a few names in mind? Okay, okay, we
Speaker 2: got a lot on the way. Stay here, Eddie.
Speaker 3: Multiple cameras rolling as a ship strikes the Brooklyn Bridge.
Speaker 1: Why is the Mexican navy attacking our bridges? And why
Speaker 1: have we not fired back?
Speaker 2: They're not very good at it, Great Scott. Anybody who's
Speaker 2: seen the video? Man, I just saw one from a
Speaker 2: different angle. Ooh, grizzly. There are a bunch of guys
Speaker 2: Mexican sailors up in the riggings. They got knocked down
Speaker 2: when they hit the Brooklyn Bridge. Oh they so it was.
Speaker 1: A really tall ship. So as they were heading toward it,
Speaker 1: weren't there people weren't there. Weren't the people up there saying, well,
Speaker 1: that looks like that's about eye level. I'm getting held down.
Speaker 1: I don't care if I got ordered to or not.
Speaker 1: Have we thought this through because that looks like we're
Speaker 1: not going to fit under there. Yeah, I think they
Speaker 1: lost power or something like that. Just her sketchy reports.
Speaker 2: It's a lot like when that cargo ship bashed into
Speaker 2: the bridge in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Speaking of boats, are you familiar with the premise of
Speaker 1: the television show Gilligan's Island from the sixties, because some
Speaker 1: of you might not be, as a bunch of helpfully
Speaker 1: laid out.
Speaker 2: In the theme song every week if you needed a reminder.
Speaker 1: Back in the old days, they would tell you what
Speaker 1: I don't remember, why these people were on there, what
Speaker 1: circumstances caused them to be so stranded. Just sit right
Speaker 1: back and you'll hear a tale. Back in the old days,
Speaker 1: they would lay out the premise of the show every
Speaker 1: week in the song for you.
Speaker 2: That was very, very handy.
Speaker 1: You take the take, you good, you take the bad,
Speaker 1: the facts of life, whatever the show was, they would
Speaker 1: tell you. But anyway, here's the story of a man
Speaker 1: named Brady exactly. But so you got this boat that
Speaker 1: ran into an island and they got stuck there, and
Speaker 1: the whole show is about they're stuck on this island
Speaker 1: and dealing with each other, and you got cannibals and.
Speaker 2: They're just concertingly ineffective efforts to leave. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I thought this was really good from James Lindsay, who
Speaker 1: were big intellectual fans of on Twitter, he said, I
Speaker 1: think we often overestimate how much worse some things are
Speaker 1: now than they were in the past, and he linked
Speaker 1: this story about Gilligan's Island which says at the height
Speaker 1: of Gilligan's Island popularity, which was nineteen sixty six, the
Speaker 1: US Coast Guard received twenty five hundred letters a week
Speaker 1: asking why the castaways hadn't been rescued yet. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: with James'sa's point being, see, we've always been a bunch
Speaker 1: of morons, or I had a lot of morons.
Speaker 2: What I've got to take a moment to absorb that.
Speaker 2: And I assume they mean sincere letters, not like trolling
Speaker 2: by mail. I don't think trolling was a thing back then.
Speaker 2: Certainly you wouldn't take the time by mail.
Speaker 1: Twenty five hundred a week a week asking the Coastguard
Speaker 1: why they hadn't rescued Gilligan the Skipper and oh, in particular,
Speaker 1: if I'm a Coastguard mail a young twenty two year
Speaker 1: old in the Coastguard, I'm rescuing Marianne and Ginger right
Speaker 1: off the bat.
Speaker 2: Sure women and children first, Florius, that.
Speaker 1: Guy from that seventies, what's that that Twitter feed. Everybody
Speaker 1: likes the seventies. Something wrong?
Speaker 2: Oh oh super seventy sports.
Speaker 1: He said, as you get older, you look at missus
Speaker 1: how and realize there's a third viable option on that alley.
Speaker 2: She was an attractive woman. Yeah, absolutely, ages, yeah, exactly. Well,
Speaker 2: so many questions, how was the skipper still a peace
Speaker 2: after being stranded at an island for years?
Speaker 4: Going on?
Speaker 2: There metabolism problem?
Speaker 1: But so he did some wagovi the ultimate point being,
Speaker 1: and I think James makes a good point, we do
Speaker 1: overestimate the the percentage of people that are dumb or
Speaker 1: don't pay attention or whatever. It's not like everybody in
Speaker 1: the sixties or the eighteen fifties or whenever. We're learning
Speaker 1: Latin and studying the constitution, like Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 2: Yeah right right, yeah, yeah, so true. Deer Coast Guard,
Speaker 2: why haven't you rescued?
Speaker 1: Gilligan signed for people are desperate and desperately incompetent.
Speaker 2: They can't even build a raft. What is my tax
Speaker 2: money going?
Speaker 1: So you thought every TV show you were watching was
Speaker 1: a reality show in the sixties.
Speaker 2: And they didn't like ask why don't the camera people
Speaker 2: rescue them? That didn't even occur to them. No, boy,
Speaker 2: that is really dumb.
Speaker 1: Or the orchestra playing the music when you come back
Speaker 1: from commercials, they could have die helped goodly.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Blue.
Speaker 1: Research shows that too much sitting could damage your brain,
Speaker 1: which explains why Stephen Hawking was such a dumb ass.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, I know I feel about that A little
Speaker 2: uncomfortable with that one.
Speaker 1: Too much sitting can damnage your brain. So the big
Speaker 1: story of the day is not exactly what I thought
Speaker 1: it was originally when I heard it. By the way,
Speaker 1: my son has whooping cough. Now, oh no, I was
Speaker 1: afraid of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: Took him to Digery Carry yesterday though, got him on
Speaker 1: some medicine so waited out. Wasn't obvious to me right
Speaker 1: away when the news broke that Joe Biden has not
Speaker 1: just prostate cancer, which is the most curable all the
Speaker 1: cancers out there that we regularly talk about, but just
Speaker 1: that he's got a pretty bad version of it, and
Speaker 1: all the timing around this that hadn't occurred to me.
Speaker 1: But before we get to that, here is jd Vance.
Speaker 1: I guess he was asked a question about the breaking
Speaker 1: story in Joe Biden's health today. Here's what he had
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 5: We really do need to be honest about whether the
Speaker 5: former president was capable of doing the job.
Speaker 2: And that's no.
Speaker 5: You know that you can separate the desire for him
Speaker 5: to have the right health outcome with a recognition that
Speaker 5: whether it was doctors or whether there were staffers around
Speaker 5: the former president, I don't think he was able to
Speaker 5: do a good job for the American people. And that's
Speaker 5: not politics. That's not because I disagree with him on policy.
Speaker 5: That's because I don't think that he was in good
Speaker 5: enough health. In some ways, I blame him less than
Speaker 5: I blame the people around him. And why didn't the
Speaker 5: American people have a better sense of his health picture?
Speaker 5: Why didn't the American people have more accurate information about
Speaker 5: what he was actually dealing with? This is serious stuff,
Speaker 5: But this is the guy who carries around the nuclear
Speaker 5: football for the world's largest nuclear arsenal. This is not
Speaker 5: child's play, and we can pray for good health but
Speaker 5: also recognize that if you're not in good enough health
Speaker 5: to do the job, you shouldn't be doing the job.
Speaker 1: I don't know that seems a little You're not gonna
Speaker 1: run against Joe Biden again. So but I am interested.
Speaker 1: I am interested in this angle of Oh.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll read what Mark Halpern wrote.
Speaker 1: Among other people that are saying this today, including Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough on Morning Joe, This Morning, Stelter on CNN, Mark
Speaker 1: Halperin writing, if the intention was to make it if
Speaker 1: the intention of this medical reveal was to make it less,
Speaker 1: it's likely that the Bidens would be accused of lying,
Speaker 1: engaging in a cover up built on falsehoods during the presidency. Well,
Speaker 1: the impact maybe one hundred and eighty degrees of that,
Speaker 1: he's suggesting.
Speaker 2: It's completely a possibility.
Speaker 1: That they let us know about the cancer now because
Speaker 1: of these books that are coming out, because of the
Speaker 1: Hurt report that came out on Friday, the actual audio.
Speaker 1: That's a heck of an accusation. And it's coming out
Speaker 1: of mainstream media.
Speaker 2: Yeah, including even MSNBC, who are saying, essentially, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: given the quality of medical care that the president gets,
Speaker 2: only now at a very very late stage, he's become
Speaker 2: aware that he has prostate cancer.
Speaker 1: He's probably had this for ten years, according to the
Speaker 1: doctor on Mourning Joe Today.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, come on, it's just no, it's not so
Speaker 2: it hadn't even occurred to me either that this was
Speaker 2: some sort of bizarre misdirect. Look over here, look over here.
Speaker 1: So people wouldn't be talking about how Biden and Jill
Speaker 1: Biden and everybody around them knew how Seniley was and
Speaker 1: still tried to trot him out for election twenty four.
Speaker 2: They're just trying to distract. It's shameful.
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, nobody's running against Joe Biden again.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, is there a point in showing
Speaker 1: how because I'm interested in the media. Thing that continues
Speaker 1: to be at media and everybody who's still in politics
Speaker 1: who is lying to us so agreed to Both of
Speaker 1: those things are worth it. They just like talking about it.
Speaker 1: I blame Joe Biden, Eh, how about all the people
Speaker 1: around him and knew his brain didn't work? How about
Speaker 1: the media? All that that still matters. But if the bidens,
Speaker 1: and I think you mostly have to talk about Jill
Speaker 1: because he can't blame Joe his brain doesn't work. If
Speaker 1: the Biden's hung on to a cancer diagnosis until it
Speaker 1: was most opportune for them, they are a whole other level,
Speaker 1: even beyond what I thought of.
Speaker 2: Just like I don't even know what you call that? Well,
Speaker 2: europeing too charitable apparently, because they're capable of everything you thought,
Speaker 2: and much more so.
Speaker 1: On Friday, the day the HR tape finally comes out,
Speaker 1: and they've probably been dreading this for a long time.
Speaker 1: Jill and Hunter have been dreading this for a long time.
Speaker 1: We played some earlier. It's exactly as it was described
Speaker 1: years ago. A lost old man who would be very
Speaker 1: sympathetic to a jury because he clearly has no idea
Speaker 1: what he's talking about. They've probably been dreading this coming
Speaker 1: out forever. The day it comes out Friday, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we got a cancer diagnosis for cancer that's been around
Speaker 1: for ten years. We should all really remember cancer touches
Speaker 1: every family. Blah blah blah what Joe Biden is saying
Speaker 1: today and others, And it's time to stop talking about
Speaker 1: the past and help this poor fellow.
Speaker 2: Heel right, Yeah, yeah, the timing's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is some serious Macavelian stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, if you contemplate doctor Jill in her
Speaker 2: unhinged you know, power lust and inability to recognize reality,
Speaker 2: or unless she wants to come out and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: the plan was to get him to win the election,
Speaker 2: and then we'd replace him with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: I agree that Mark Alpern is saying that it's going
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty degrees. If within when did the
Speaker 1: story break last night? I think it was last night
Speaker 1: on my phone, I was getting the alert. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think so. If within a dozen hours Joe Scarborough and
Speaker 1: that dude on CNN are both questioning the timing of this,
Speaker 1: you're in trouble.
Speaker 2: Well it's Joe Scarborough joining in. I mean, talk about
Speaker 2: a rat fleeing a sinking ship. I mean he was
Speaker 2: sailing the ship at least in terms of the media
Speaker 2: covering up for the senility. So that's a little tough
Speaker 2: to take. But yeah, it does absolutely indicate the fact
Speaker 2: that everybody's saying the same thing.
Speaker 1: Wow, this might be one of the ultimate backfires if
Speaker 1: it goes the direction it looks like it's going. We're
Speaker 1: in the early hours of this. Somebody gets some inside
Speaker 1: reporting on how long he's known about this cancer diagnosis,
Speaker 1: and it becomes completely evident that it was just you know,
Speaker 1: a look over here story. WHOA, that's rock well right, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but come on. The Brian Stelters of the world and
Speaker 1: the Joe's Scarborough and the Jake's Tapper. There's got to
Speaker 1: be an extra hot place in hell for them now
Speaker 1: to be saying, look.
Speaker 2: At this, I believe he.
Speaker 1: Is seen Allen and this is just to cover it up,
Speaker 1: and doctor Jill is crazy and the no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, you are not welcome on our side.
Speaker 6: Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell
Speaker 6: you the truth, and that few if you can't handle
Speaker 6: the truth, this version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the
Speaker 6: best Biden ever.
Speaker 2: We don't want you in our team. You're not welcome here.
Speaker 1: That was after the Wall Street Journal story came out.
Speaker 1: Who now Jake Tappercall's heroes, those reporters.
Speaker 2: It's also hard to believe.
Speaker 1: So your anger toward them, I perfectly get. But if
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Joe Biden are playing upon people's sympathies cancer,
Speaker 1: oh my god, and all the death he's had in
Speaker 1: his family, you talk about a special hot place in hell,
Speaker 1: I mean that is not cool, shocking yet unsurprising.
Speaker 2: They come on, come on, I sound like Joe Biden.
Speaker 7: Come on, come on anyway anyway, Eh, this is this
Speaker 7: is the Biden crime family, the family of Hunter Biden
Speaker 7: with this Wang in his gun crack and his uncle
Speaker 7: Jim and the prophets and plausible deniability, My dear boy,
Speaker 7: plausible deniability is Wang in his gun and it's just
Speaker 7: the whole package and running a senile guy for president, shouting.
Speaker 2: You did it, yow you at you.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is not surprising, this is completely in character.
Speaker 1: You answered all the questions.
Speaker 2: You did such a great job. You answered every question.
Speaker 1: I realized there's an extra depth of depravity to trotting
Speaker 1: out a cancer diagnosis as.
Speaker 2: A you know, a shield.
Speaker 1: But it's like finding out that the Diddy was rude
Speaker 1: to a waitress. I mean, well, yes, sure, wow, And
Speaker 1: you got to remember the reporting that they're broke. That's
Speaker 1: what makes you desperate enough to do crazy stuff being broke.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, what a cesspool? So being political cesspools,
Speaker 2: I Joe am completely embittered by the political process. I
Speaker 2: have abandoned the Republican Party. I'm going to try to
Speaker 2: start a third party. I was trying to decide whether
Speaker 2: to call them Angratarians us Angritarians, enough is enough ocrats
Speaker 2: or f Yolikans, which seems to be the crowd favorite
Speaker 2: shirt f yawlickans anyway, and I'll explain why and improve
Speaker 2: my point next segment, and then something I'm really excited
Speaker 2: about for our four. And you might not get our four,
Speaker 2: that's fine, you can grab it later follow us wherever
Speaker 2: you get podcasts Armstrong and Getty on demand. But Jack,
Speaker 2: when we have through the years discussed becoming a cryptocurrency zillionaire, okay,
Speaker 2: And the only way you can get access to your
Speaker 2: account is with your fingerprint. And do you remember we
Speaker 2: predicted what would start happening if bad people really wanted
Speaker 2: your account. It's happening. Oh really, cryptocurrency.
Speaker 1: The home run hitters are now running, hiding for their lives.
Speaker 2: Keep your hands in your pockets. Yeah, i'd say, wow,
Speaker 2: holy Yeah. So anyway, that crazy story hour four.
Speaker 1: Okay, and probably a Diddy trial update too, So stick
Speaker 1: around strong.
Speaker 4: And the middle class is about the same as it
Speaker 4: was seventy years ago. The one segment of our economy
Speaker 4: that has grown is those making over one hundred thousand
Speaker 4: dollars a year, and that has tripled, so most of
Speaker 4: the middle class. If the middle class shrunk at all,
Speaker 4: actually went to an upper class. If you say upper
Speaker 4: class begins at one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: So most of this is just fallacy.
Speaker 4: We have gotten rich, rich, rich off of trade all Americans,
Speaker 4: and it is lifting all boats, and we are richer
Speaker 4: than we have ever been in any time in our history.
Speaker 4: But it's not easy to convince people of that because
Speaker 4: there are short term problems where you have inflation, like
Speaker 4: during the last four years, where the middle class actually
Speaker 4: did lose purchasing.
Speaker 2: Power and did get poor.
Speaker 1: Rand Paul yesterday talking about both about the Taraf war
Speaker 1: and the big beautiful Bill that's going through. He's, of course,
Speaker 1: as a Senator, not going to be a fan of
Speaker 1: anything that increases the.
Speaker 2: Debt, right right, So, and before we get to that,
Speaker 2: just one final note on the Biden cancer thing. I
Speaker 2: was just reading a well known cancer doctor saying it
Speaker 2: is inconceivable that that diagnosis managed to go undetected for
Speaker 2: so long, given his medical care and the state of medicine.
Speaker 1: He said, it's impossible. So anyway, the other line, back
Speaker 1: to the Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2: I have announced my departure not only from the Republican
Speaker 2: Party but all politics. I've given up, thrown up my hands.
Speaker 2: I will be moving to Uruguay or Paraguay. I can
Speaker 2: never remember which one, y right, because I have forgotten. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: because I've given up. But I found this very very interesting.
Speaker 2: Part of my despair is that the Republican Party has
Speaker 2: abandoned any pretense at taming the budget, reducing the deficit,
Speaker 2: reducing the debt in wildly out of control entitlement programs.
Speaker 2: And so you know, I've got no home. I'm a
Speaker 2: homeless man. I have no port in which to pull
Speaker 2: my little boat to safety. But I found this really,
Speaker 2: really interesting, and this is the reason why you know
Speaker 2: you ought to be on my side. The Trump administration
Speaker 2: recently promised that it will not cut Social Security, Medicare,
Speaker 2: or Medicaid benefits. Now I'm going to quote Phil.
Speaker 1: Graham, the great philgram Well I was quoting last week,
Speaker 1: fiscal conservative slash sane guy of the past. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: determination not to reform retirement benefit entitlements is politically understandable
Speaker 1: third rail blah blah blah. But there is no reason
Speaker 1: to include Medicaid, the nation's most abused welfare program, in
Speaker 1: that pledge means tested welfare or welfare tied to a
Speaker 1: person's income level. Or means is the main driver of
Speaker 1: the budget deficit. It is not Social Security, which is
Speaker 1: almost ninety percent self funded by its dedicated payroll taxes
Speaker 1: ninety percent self funded, or Medicare, which is fifty percent
Speaker 1: funded by premiums and payroll taxes. Spending on Medicaid IRS,
Speaker 1: cash welfare payments, and supplemental the SNAP program food stamps
Speaker 1: has grown in inflation adjusted dollars. Those three things.
Speaker 2: Spending un Medicaid, cash welfare payments that are fundable tax credits,
Speaker 2: and SNAP have grown inflation adjusted by six hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy one percent, fourteen hundred and sixty three percent, and
Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety percent, respectively since nineteen ninety. By contrast,
Speaker 2: total real Medicare, social Security, and Defense expenditures have grown
Speaker 2: by three hundred and eighty, three hundred and eighty six
Speaker 2: percent and thirty eight percent respectively. Medicaid numbers, yeah, they
Speaker 2: are actually meta dead absorbs seven times as much general
Speaker 2: revenue as Social Security, more than Social Security and Medicare combined.
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
Speaker 2: I know nobody's talking about this.
Speaker 1: Medicaid is this gigantic monstran's like Frankenstein If it was
Speaker 1: the side of Godzilla, you know, just stomping across the countryside,
Speaker 1: crushing entire villages.
Speaker 2: So when we talk.
Speaker 1: About people, you know, able bodied people leeching off us taxpayers,
Speaker 1: this is the program where they're doing a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Correct, yeah, correct, And it has to do and you know,
Speaker 2: part of me wishes we had time. Part of me
Speaker 2: is glad that we don't to explain the bizarre states
Speaker 2: intentionally tax hospitals and doctors so then they can spend more.
Speaker 2: Then they can build the federal government more for Medicaid.
Speaker 2: Then the federal government gives them more money for Medicaid,
Speaker 2: which they didn't give back to the doctors and hospitals.
Speaker 1: And that stupid, stupid federal taxpayer pays for all of it.
Speaker 1: It's just this giant scam slash scheme. We actually have
Speaker 1: the great Craig gottwals On tomorrow to probably explain some
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah he did. Yeah, he's a perfect guy to
Speaker 2: ask about this. But it all has to do with
Speaker 2: Obamacare and the Medicaid expansion. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1: And a lot of red states said no, we don't
Speaker 1: want this money, and they were.
Speaker 2: Criticized, how dare you deny medical care to pay, and
Speaker 2: the Blue States accepted it well. Now, as has been
Speaker 2: discussed at least somewhat lately, federal taxpayers pay for ninety
Speaker 2: percent of the bills of healthy, working age men who
Speaker 2: get medicaid, poor pregnant ladies get I think it's a third.
Speaker 2: It's so perverse and upside down. One final point, and
Speaker 2: this is actually the main point of Phil Graham's article,
Speaker 2: which I found really interesting. The title is the Census
Speaker 2: defines the poverty rate up and fact. This is something
Speaker 2: you have hit many times through the years. But during
Speaker 2: the War on Poverty, the government adopted a common sense
Speaker 2: definition of poverty having resources that are not enough to
Speaker 2: meet basic needs. The problem is they didn't scale a
Speaker 2: lot of this to inflation. Some of it they did,
Speaker 2: but they've begun not counting government transfers. Eighty eight percent
Speaker 2: of government transfers that poor quote unquote poor people get
Speaker 2: are not counted. When you ask, all, right, is this
Speaker 2: person poor? Do they need more stuff, more aid? That
Speaker 2: sort of thing, they pretend that all the rest of
Speaker 2: the government aid hadn't happened.
Speaker 1: Right, So, if you're living on using my finger quotes
Speaker 1: living on twenty eight thousand dollars a year. Somehow they
Speaker 1: only count that for political purposes. When they're making arguments,
Speaker 1: they don't count They maybe another eighty thousand dollars you
Speaker 1: might be getting in all kinds of transfer payments, all
Speaker 1: kinds of different stuff, housing subsidies, food help, medical help,
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff doesn't count and.
Speaker 2: Adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 1: Now those classified as poor have almost twenty times the
Speaker 1: purchasing power they had when the War on Poverty began,
Speaker 1: yet they're still called poor people for the purposes of
Speaker 1: growing these programs. Yeah, we have talked about this perio
Speaker 1: is that needs to be straightened out. That would be
Speaker 1: a huge change in our politics. We could let more
Speaker 1: people know that. If you missed a segment in the
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