Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Getty. We've
Speaker 2: wind up.
Speaker 1: Ten different guests to talk about the government shutdown over
Speaker 1: the next three hours. Cable news. I'm old, so I
Speaker 1: watch cable news. I realize a lot of you who
Speaker 1: are not old, You're like you were watching what that?
Speaker 1: You don't watch it, so that makes sense. But the
Speaker 1: small number of people who still watch cable news, what
Speaker 1: do they think they're doing? I watch MSNBC and Fox
Speaker 1: every morning, and they were wall to wall government shutdown.
Speaker 1: I thought, is there anybody in the country interested in
Speaker 1: this back and forth and the wranglings over this?
Speaker 2: Anyone?
Speaker 1: And even if you're interested in it, you probably misunderstand it.
Speaker 1: I've got a good illustration of that caught up a
Speaker 1: little later, not because you lack sophistication or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but because the budget process is so complicated. Haven't you
Speaker 1: lived through the last dozen of these where most of
Speaker 1: the time he gets settled before it happens and nobody
Speaker 1: ever thinks about it again after all this.
Speaker 2: Conversation, Yes, the beltweit bubble.
Speaker 1: They're self obsessed on a completely different topic which we're
Speaker 1: going to slide into now. Got this note from Mike
Speaker 1: who lives in the San Jose, California area. We're huge
Speaker 1: in the hoe. Shout out to our friends there, Californian California.
Speaker 1: In a nutshell, homeless guy is masturbating outside someone's home
Speaker 1: and he runs bites a cop in the process of
Speaker 1: being arrested. And the headline in the Mercury News is
Speaker 1: advocates blame San Jose's homelessness approach for violent police altercation
Speaker 1: with unhoused man.
Speaker 2: Wow. And he said it's articles.
Speaker 1: As much he supports local journalism, it was articles like
Speaker 1: this that made him throw up his hands and cancel
Speaker 1: his subscription to Sure Mercury News, which used to.
Speaker 2: Be a really good regional paper Metro.
Speaker 1: And hey, even your readers in the Bay area of
Speaker 1: California no longer are on your side on this sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. People are speaking of bubbles. Yeah, journalism in
Speaker 1: America is a weird little subset of people. It's like
Speaker 1: the Amish, but odder anyway, their lives and thoughts have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with your as friends. So topic of
Speaker 1: bums and junkies came across this yesterday. It's a guy
Speaker 1: who goes on the street in San Francisco. He's actually
Speaker 1: wearing those cool ray band glasses where you can video
Speaker 1: people and record him. I don't know if he's getting
Speaker 1: their permission or not.
Speaker 2: I don't know. They're feats on the street. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: know JJ Smith's works. He's really good.
Speaker 1: This is what he does, and he's very polite and
Speaker 1: respectful and asks people if you can talk to them
Speaker 1: and record it. But anyway, here's a conversation with a
Speaker 1: young man standing on a street corner in uh, could
Speaker 1: be any corner in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Where you from?
Speaker 3: Patrick, I'm from Indiana, Indiana, USA?
Speaker 2: Hey, how long you've been in San Francisco, West Indiana.
Speaker 2: I've been in San Francisco for four years? Four years? Max.
Speaker 2: What type of drugs you use?
Speaker 3: I use crack and phetamine, hard cocaine. I use fentanyl,
Speaker 3: iso fentanyl, isopoo, fentanyl and smoke weed.
Speaker 2: Do you know I fitanel can kill you?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, How you ever overdosed on it?
Speaker 3: I've overdosed yeah, many times, several times.
Speaker 2: Several times. Yes. That never scared you. It scars me
Speaker 2: every time. Don't has it scared you not to use
Speaker 2: it anymore? Sort of but not not.
Speaker 3: There's no longevity there.
Speaker 2: Obviously pretty well spoken dude.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's, you know, completely crazy or an
Speaker 1: idiot by any means.
Speaker 2: Rolls on, Are you homeless?
Speaker 3: On how I'm no, No, I'm not, you're not what
Speaker 3: I'm not homeless or.
Speaker 2: In honest he said, he still on the streets? Are
Speaker 2: in the shelter?
Speaker 3: Or I have an apartment through a subsidy? Uh that
Speaker 3: it was a nonprofit funded with city benefits.
Speaker 2: Oh so they gave you an apartment. The city gave
Speaker 2: you an apartment. Yeah, okay, how did that work it
Speaker 2: out for you? Well, I mean it's working out.
Speaker 3: It's working out really well relative to some of the
Speaker 3: people on the streets. I mean I still have a
Speaker 3: lot of my health, i'd say, and I you know,
Speaker 3: I have the ability to not worry about like my
Speaker 3: basic needs like you know, food, shelter, and hold.
Speaker 2: Are you I'm thirty one? Tell you what do you
Speaker 2: ever stay in contact with your family members? I talked
Speaker 2: to my mom kind of if I was able to
Speaker 2: tell you I could help you out and get you
Speaker 2: into a detox where you can start helling yourself. Are
Speaker 2: you interested? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm always interested. Uh, I have kind
Speaker 3: of a flight risk, a risk.
Speaker 2: Ye, what do you mean about it.
Speaker 3: I've been to several detoxes, even since I've been in
Speaker 3: San Francisco.
Speaker 2: You know, I've researched the avenues.
Speaker 3: But then when it gets close, I I just tend
Speaker 3: to not go.
Speaker 2: Okay, I understand you what that means. Now.
Speaker 3: No, I'm super interested, Like I'm super interested. But then, like,
Speaker 3: fedol is such a different animal, it's such a different drug.
Speaker 2: It's like I lived in Chicago.
Speaker 3: I was. I was a heroin out of in Chicago
Speaker 3: for some years and I was always able to get
Speaker 3: into detox very easily. But there's something with the spend
Speaker 3: on it's like just.
Speaker 2: Keeping people on the streets.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got more of this, But that's a pretty
Speaker 1: interesting insight right there. As a guy who used does
Speaker 1: meth and heroin, fentanyl's a different animal.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was struck by his rather concise and eloquent
Speaker 1: description of what I'm always going on about the city.
Speaker 1: San Francisco has made it easy and comfortable for him
Speaker 1: to continue to be an addict. Which is the worst
Speaker 1: thing you can do. I'm reminded of the words of
Speaker 1: Nelly Bowles, now of the Free Press, before the Free
Speaker 1: Press existed, as a liberal, lesbian San Franciscan who realized
Speaker 1: that as she put it so beautifully, and I wish
Speaker 1: I had it in front of me, I'll paraphrase that,
Speaker 1: the way we treat these people is allegedly kindness, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like kindness to me. It looks like
Speaker 1: easing young people into death on the pavement. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: that gets into having a judgment about their lifestyle.
Speaker 2: Maybe you don't like that.
Speaker 1: You're a libertarian and people should be able to do
Speaker 1: whatever they want. Fine, if you can support yourself while
Speaker 1: you're taking fentanyl and meth and hard cocaine whatever that is,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: But if you can't support yourself, and now it's my
Speaker 1: money you're paying for you, Now I get to say.
Speaker 2: Well, he said, it's worked out.
Speaker 1: His apartment, a city paid apartment, because it takes care
Speaker 1: of all of his basic needs. He doesn't have to
Speaker 1: worry about being broke or on the street. It's great
Speaker 1: so he can keep being a junkie, and that is
Speaker 1: the favor we're doing him as a society quote.
Speaker 2: Unquote, let's a little more of this and discuss more
Speaker 2: some of this. When you get your supplies, do you
Speaker 2: get them from harm Reduction? Yeah? Yeah, I supplies. I know.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Let me actually, what do you think about harm reduction?
Speaker 2: Do you think they're enabling people? Yes? I do think
Speaker 2: they're enabling people.
Speaker 3: But I can't say that they're a totally bad organization
Speaker 3: because they do offer services. But like I said before,
Speaker 3: that if barely anybody takes the services, I also have
Speaker 3: such a grip on people that remember they you know,
Speaker 3: they they take the pipes and the and the brillo
Speaker 3: and the you know, the needles over the you know,
Speaker 3: the subtexts, the maintenance trument's, the micro the eath and
Speaker 3: orphan microos, the uh SD tests.
Speaker 2: Yeah, OK, I'll get there. Darn it.
Speaker 1: We edited out the part I wanted to talk about. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: that's just funny. Uh uh. He He was asked what
Speaker 1: he does all day long or where he gets his money,
Speaker 1: and he talked a little bit about it, and they
Speaker 1: kind of like winked at each other and used some
Speaker 1: code words. I wanted to ask people what that meant.
Speaker 1: Did that mean he stole all day long? Was he
Speaker 1: breaking into cars? Or let's see if we can dig
Speaker 1: that up. We have the raw audio. Yeah, we'll come
Speaker 1: back to it, because I thought that's a heck of
Speaker 1: a thing to gloss over if that's what he meant.
Speaker 2: You know, I just kind of you know, I steal
Speaker 2: from my other stuff. Ha ha.
Speaker 1: You know, if you've got your car broken into in
Speaker 1: the San Francisco are you don't find it quite as
Speaker 1: funny or is not a big deal as he does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as long as I'm quoting people, Thomas Sowell famously said,
Speaker 1: there are some ideas so stupid. It was a word
Speaker 1: like stupid, so stupid only an intellectual could could have them.
Speaker 1: And I'm there are so many times when especially progressive America,
Speaker 1: manages to overlook the bedrock truths of human beings and
Speaker 1: human behavior, and that is, if you want less of
Speaker 1: a terrible, terrible behavior, there have to be disincentives for it. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to wrap my head around how you even
Speaker 1: get to this place. So San Francisco's a hippie town
Speaker 1: or know, And this is true, and lots of places,
Speaker 1: not just San Francisco, But uh, San Francisco is a
Speaker 1: hippie town, and so they think partying is cool and
Speaker 1: you shouldn't ever describe any possible downsides to party in
Speaker 1: hert Like a lot of port cities, it has a
Speaker 1: reputation isn't anything goes place?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: But then when you got drug addicts on the street,
Speaker 1: so did those of you who you still believe that
Speaker 1: if you just had if you just had enough rehabs,
Speaker 1: these people would go to rehab and stop doing this.
Speaker 2: You think, how do you come to that conclusion?
Speaker 1: What's your what's your mindset of data that brought you
Speaker 1: to that conclusion?
Speaker 2: Do they know like they have no experience of the
Speaker 2: actual people?
Speaker 1: I would guess, well, it's not like I've lived my
Speaker 1: life around heroin addicts. It just seems like obvious to me. Sure, yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. And then you've got the crowd that
Speaker 1: uses the numbers of people on the streets to claim
Speaker 1: it's a housing thing. And then that's I don't know,
Speaker 1: you're either an idiot or it's just a scam. It's
Speaker 1: a way to try to get more tax revenue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: anything goes, I get, but anything goes and taxpayers will
Speaker 1: pay for it. Is an attitude that is not only
Speaker 1: outrageous as a taxpayer, but just again, it overlooks the
Speaker 1: bedrock truths of human behavior. That guy seems more or
Speaker 1: less perfectly comfortable with his lifestyle. Yeah, yeah, to the
Speaker 1: extent that an addict can be. Yeah, yes, because of
Speaker 1: the quote unquote services.
Speaker 2: Every time I hear these stories, so I just I'm
Speaker 2: amazed this guy's still alive. Just this list of drugs
Speaker 2: that he was using.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we edited out also the number of times
Speaker 1: he's had to be brought back. He's overdosed a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of times and had to be revived, you know,
Speaker 1: because you heard him asked you ever you never almost
Speaker 1: did oh yeah yeah, or you realize could kill you?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. I have overdose a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different times. They had to bring me back. Wow,
Speaker 1: And it just like it seemed like a no big
Speaker 1: deal to him whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the number of times we've talked about this that
Speaker 1: we've been flooded with emails and texts saying guys, I
Speaker 1: was an addict of various substances and getting arrested and
Speaker 1: put in jail saved my life we see over again. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we have seen that over and over again. Have we
Speaker 1: ever had one in your in your personal life or
Speaker 1: on the radio. Have you ever had one? Yeah, they
Speaker 1: put me up in an apartment. They gave me needles
Speaker 1: and brittopads and all that stuff he is mentioned. They
Speaker 1: gave me a vouchers so I could buy food, and
Speaker 1: then I got sober.
Speaker 2: I have never heard that story one time, not one.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I think we have the clip you're
Speaker 1: looking for, Michael seventy four, still coming in and actually, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that later.
Speaker 2: Is she mailing it to us or what? How do
Speaker 2: we get these clips we have? We have, we have
Speaker 2: the same bird. I got it right now now it's
Speaker 2: sent by owl. Okay, okay, So how do you how
Speaker 2: do you survive like to get your to get the
Speaker 2: money to get the drugs. Well, I don't know how.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much. I don't know how much
Speaker 2: of that I can go into. I've been trying to
Speaker 2: go with my story, but whatever you want to say.
Speaker 3: Well, I've gone career.
Speaker 2: Okay, every day.
Speaker 1: I work every day, so I've gone I've gone career.
Speaker 1: And he kind of smiles and nods, So that's breaking
Speaker 1: into cars. I couldn't tell if that was turning tricks
Speaker 1: or breaking into cars. Well, that's interesting. It could be
Speaker 1: that I assumed he use a he's a thief, he's
Speaker 1: a shoplifter.
Speaker 2: Right, and then for that to be just so you know,
Speaker 2: I break into cars.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they they provide me with an apartment and
Speaker 1: all the stuff I need from a drugs and then
Speaker 1: I steal from preak people who are just trying to
Speaker 1: park their cars so they can go to work. All
Speaker 1: because he had one medical Billy couldn't pay in housing
Speaker 1: is expensive, said nobody. Ever, that is really interesting again,
Speaker 1: what's your any response to that?
Speaker 2: Text? Line four one five two nine five kftc.
Speaker 4: Armstrong Ngetti, a Los Angeles County Deputy sheriff, has been
Speaker 4: accused of smuggling black tar heroin into a jail by
Speaker 4: hiding it inside two cans of pringles. And the worst
Speaker 4: part was the prisoners could never get that last bit
Speaker 4: of heroin from the bottom of the cabin.
Speaker 2: Though at the end of the day, it's Philly a jo.
Speaker 1: So we just played some audio as an interview with
Speaker 1: a drug addict standing on the street in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: which is probably not a lot different than the drug
Speaker 1: addict standing on the street in Seattle or La or
Speaker 1: sam Hit in all West coast cities, but that's where
Speaker 1: a lot of it is. Vancouver, man, you can just
Speaker 1: drive I five San Diego, La on off the coast,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Hit, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver cities. That will provide
Speaker 1: you someplace to live, all the paraphernalia you need to take,
Speaker 1: the drugs, all that sort of thing, and it's working
Speaker 1: out great. As you look around the city, you can
Speaker 1: see that it's a that plan has been really you
Speaker 1: can reap the benefits anyway. So the guy that was
Speaker 1: interviewed on the street, at some point, the interviewer said,
Speaker 1: you know how you getting by or whatever, and he said, oh,
Speaker 1: I've gone career, and a whole bunch of people they
Speaker 1: pointed out that that means career criminal. That's your street lingo.
Speaker 1: He's almost bragging about it, as if there's no stigma
Speaker 1: in that culture. Yeah, seems to be. He didn't seem
Speaker 1: the least bit bothered by the fact that I'm parking
Speaker 1: my car so I can go in him to a
Speaker 1: store or go to work or whatever. You smash the windows,
Speaker 1: stole some stuff. I now have great expense, My insurance
Speaker 1: goes up. You stole my laptop all the putte pain
Speaker 1: that comes with that. But you know, hey, what are
Speaker 1: you going to do? And he stole everything in the
Speaker 1: story you went into, right, Yeah, that's a little disappointing
Speaker 1: that it's a treated you may have crossed paths with him.
Speaker 1: He was walking out with his big trash can full
Speaker 1: of trash bag full of what you were going to buy,
Speaker 1: and while you were in there saying what hell's all
Speaker 1: the goods, he was breaking into your car win Win.
Speaker 2: Uh. Well, I'll just here's somebody somewhat angry.
Speaker 1: A lot of you are quite angry with that nonchalant
Speaker 1: drug addict thief standing on the corner there.
Speaker 2: I'm dead being serious.
Speaker 1: I want to go dark knight vigilante like Philippines President
Speaker 1: Duratati or whatever his name is on the Temple day. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I want that, well, and I
Speaker 1: know I don't want that.
Speaker 2: You don't need that. You just got to stop enabling
Speaker 2: these people.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't need to give people an apartment
Speaker 1: and money for food and the actual paraphernalia to take
Speaker 1: the drugs. You don't need to do that, and if
Speaker 1: you stop, you'll have a lot fewer drug addicts period. Sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's too miserable. I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1: That has been Is that not jack? Roughly the cry
Speaker 1: that precedes every serious attempt to heal from addiction. This sucks.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah, essentially, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't like this lifestyle. Whatever the other lifestyle would be,
Speaker 1: of not being drunk or drugged, I would prefer to
Speaker 1: This is the only way anybody ever stops. And if
Speaker 1: you're providing somebody a pretty easy life, and if you
Speaker 1: don't have to go to work every day, obviously you
Speaker 1: don't have any kids or anything like that, or if
Speaker 1: you do, you don't care about them. I was you know,
Speaker 1: he's from Indiana. Do you talk to your mom, The
Speaker 1: interviewer asked, Yeah. Sometimes, Yeah, you know, mom might just
Speaker 1: have just raised a kid, like we all raise a kid,
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, at a party, that kid did
Speaker 1: some drugs and tried fentanyl, and off the goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: First worth mentioning that he was an addict in Chicago
Speaker 1: for a while and now he's in San Francisco. Was
Speaker 1: it because he was transferred for his career or what exactly?
Speaker 2: The weather?
Speaker 1: Probably I'm guessing he got word that, Hey, they really
Speaker 1: take take care of you in San Francisco. It's great
Speaker 1: and easy to be an addict. I'd be in fre Attle,
Speaker 1: but it's too rainy, so I went with San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Great. Why does society do this? Anyway, We've got more
Speaker 2: on the win.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty now you I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about March Madness and betting gambling a little bit later.
Speaker 1: As you know, it's changed in the last few years.
Speaker 1: A big court ruling allowed legalized gambling all across the
Speaker 1: country in a way that had never existed before, and
Speaker 1: there's been an explosion of gambling. We do ads for
Speaker 1: it too, and I, you know, do whatever you want
Speaker 1: to do. I have no problem with that. It's funny
Speaker 1: as well. I'll save this for later. I heard NPR
Speaker 1: doing this story. Their take was hilarious. Anyway, my main
Speaker 1: thrust here is you don't understand the giant federal government.
Speaker 1: I don't understand the giant federal government. It'd be almost
Speaker 1: possible to understand it, and it's hopeless to think we're
Speaker 1: ever going to pare it down to something that is
Speaker 1: responsible to the people. So good night, everybody drive safely,
Speaker 1: tip your weight staff. Yes, and it's equally impossible for say,
Speaker 1: the president to understand it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So this is an article in the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: by Kim Strassel. Strassel do we decide how were you
Speaker 1: going to pross? Meet the lawyer who's about to head
Speaker 1: one of the most ideological offices in Washington. Her meet
Speaker 1: Dylan is her name, and she was appointed. Talk to
Speaker 1: her several times. Yeah, we've talked to her. Yes, Wow, cool?
Speaker 1: What did we talk to her about? Oh, she's represented
Speaker 1: some great clients in the face of progressive madness. I
Speaker 1: don't remember the specifics.
Speaker 2: She's junior.
Speaker 1: She's doomed in this new assignment, I think, But yeah,
Speaker 1: she is going to she's the nominee as Assistant Attorney
Speaker 1: General for civil rights and she is going to be
Speaker 1: involved in what former Attorney General Eric Holder called the
Speaker 1: Justice Department's crown jewel. And this is something that none
Speaker 1: of us pay any attention to the Civil Rights Division
Speaker 1: of the Justice Department, which has I'm in favor of
Speaker 1: civil rights jack, which has for decades successfully repelled any
Speaker 1: effort at reform or oversight. It's a hotbad of liberal
Speaker 1: activism that acts as a law unto itself. If mister
Speaker 1: Trump hopes to see through his goal of deep politicizing
Speaker 1: the Justice Department, it will be ground zero. And I
Speaker 1: thought a lot of you had been overstating, you know,
Speaker 1: the Justice Department's ideological leanings or the deep state or whatever.
Speaker 2: But no, you haven't been.
Speaker 1: And this whole there's an article the other day about
Speaker 1: all the people that Elon is firing and trying to
Speaker 1: get rid of. But it's the gazillions of unelected people
Speaker 1: underneath all these people that are real, the fabric of
Speaker 1: the whole federal government, that make the rules and bog
Speaker 1: things down and cost you money, that are most untouchable.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Well you go to somebody in that the
Speaker 1: Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, you say, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I need you to file this writ. I'll say, I'm
Speaker 1: on it. And a week later, how's that writ to file?
Speaker 1: And gone, I lost it? All right, I need you
Speaker 1: to file it all right? Week later I lost it again.
Speaker 1: I ought to fire you. Well you can't.
Speaker 2: They quote a.
Speaker 1: Former Republican in the Wall Street journal who got involved
Speaker 1: in this division of the Justice Department. I've never been
Speaker 1: met with greater hostility narrowly. All the career lawyers come
Speaker 1: from liberal advocacy groups and all carry the mindset I
Speaker 1: can do exactly what I was doing for the ACL
Speaker 1: you only now with the power of the government behind me.
Speaker 1: Largest of the Justice's eight litigation areas today, it has
Speaker 1: a mandate far beyond the nineteen fifty seven Civil Rights Law.
Speaker 1: It was initially created a police It's embedded activists take
Speaker 1: pride not in enforcing the law, but in making the
Speaker 1: law and areas that range from disabilities in voting laws
Speaker 1: to housing lending and immigration. It's one sided approach to
Speaker 1: the laws. It oversees. Constant trading narrowly on radical priorities,
Speaker 1: ignoring entirely basic speech and religious rights has played a
Speaker 1: part in American's distrust of the Department.
Speaker 2: And that's why you're so angry with the federal government
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 1: It comes out of this department prior republican of political appointees,
Speaker 1: alongside the rare conservative lawyer who accidentally ended there, brim
Speaker 1: with stories of the division's resistance to direction, even direct orders.
Speaker 1: Career attorneys refused to work on cases. This is kind
Speaker 1: of what you were talking about. Career attorneys refuse to
Speaker 1: work on cases which with which they disagree. Others take
Speaker 1: part with the goal of misleading superiors on legal questions
Speaker 1: or sabotaging cases. Lawyers send letters, make threats, or initiate
Speaker 1: proceedings without sign off from leadership. So they really just
Speaker 1: do whatever the hell they want to do on their own. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're all activists, self righteous, angry activists and things really
Speaker 1: hum along with Democrats and are in charge. A twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen Inspector General report evaluating the operations of the civil
Speaker 1: rights divisions noted that of nine trial attorneys hired in
Speaker 1: twenty ten, eight had one or more liberal affiliations, including
Speaker 1: activist groups like the Aclulraza or a Lawyer's Committee for
Speaker 1: Civil Rights, which is a crazy organization. Also with no
Speaker 1: candidates that were Republican or conservative affiliated hired. And it
Speaker 1: got even crazier under Biden, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: And that was in the voting section. And you may
Speaker 1: recall when Georgia tried to quite reasonably say COVID's over,
Speaker 1: We're going to go back to the before COVID rules.
Speaker 1: The Justice Department went crazy, and you got all that
Speaker 1: Jim Crow on steroids, horrific garbage out at Joe Biden
Speaker 1: his administration. So all these super lefty organizations are fighting
Speaker 1: like crazy. They're waging a ferocious battle that says here
Speaker 1: against her confirmation. A letter signed by sixty five activist
Speaker 1: group warnsman assault on this and that if she is confirmed.
Speaker 1: So they're really pressure and Democrats to to try to
Speaker 1: keep her from becoming the nominee. Nobody pays any attention
Speaker 1: to this stuff. No normal person is even where it's
Speaker 1: going on, and it doesn't make the news on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. All these affiliated with the most left ring
Speaker 1: wing Marxist organizations, lawyers pushing cases, they care about losing
Speaker 1: files and cases. They don't care about doing whatever they
Speaker 1: want without any oversight. And it's been going on for
Speaker 1: decades without anybody making a dent in it. Right, the
Speaker 1: deep state or I just prefer the permanent bureaucracy because
Speaker 1: it is a boring, straightforward term. The permanent bureaucracy, which
Speaker 1: actually runs DC is almost uniformly left right. The whole
Speaker 1: concept of capture is not appreciated enough. Like once you
Speaker 1: get enough capture where you have to say a click
Speaker 1: on each picture that has a traffic light. Is that
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, is that the polls in it,
Speaker 1: the light's nodded. Does that count as the traffic exactly.
Speaker 1: I've got the bottom part of the Oh it says
Speaker 1: I'm a robot. Now I gotta do it again. Click
Speaker 1: on everything with a bicycle. Well, that's that barely looks
Speaker 1: like a tire. It could be something else.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Capture I mean if you get enough of your crowd
Speaker 1: into something, you can take it over.
Speaker 2: And we've seen it with the university system.
Speaker 1: Where if you get enough left wing Democrats and I
Speaker 1: mean the far left wing democrats, you've captured the institution.
Speaker 1: In that one, you only hire other left wingers, and
Speaker 1: two you'd be scared as somebody who didn't agree with
Speaker 1: them to ever raise your voice because it's going to
Speaker 1: damage your career.
Speaker 2: So that institution has been captured. Well that has happened
Speaker 2: with our federal government.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that is precisely the aim of DEI. Diversity
Speaker 1: means more people who think like I do. Inclusion means
Speaker 1: more people who think like I do. If their color,
Speaker 1: if their skin is slightly darker than a tanned golfer.
Speaker 1: All the better if they can claim some sort of
Speaker 1: I'm queer, which can mean anything in the world you want,
Speaker 1: but they think like me, Yes see how inclusive I am.
Speaker 1: It's it is a technique of capture of conquest. I
Speaker 1: tell you, I find this really depressing that one of
Speaker 1: the most important departments in all of the federal government
Speaker 1: that is causing so many of the things that I
Speaker 1: hate is so one captured and two beyond you know,
Speaker 1: you can't really touch it. They're like the untouchables. And
Speaker 1: three nobody talks about it and writes about it. He
Speaker 1: thinks about it, so it's unlikely to change. I finds
Speaker 1: so rooting for Ms Dylan to kick ass in that job,
Speaker 1: and it'll it'll do some real good. And you know,
Speaker 1: the years time, I'm just afraid Trump's erraticness and wacky
Speaker 1: policies and statements is gonna derail his opportunity to do really, really.
Speaker 2: Good stuff too soon.
Speaker 1: But you know, asking for a disciplined Trump at this
Speaker 1: point in his life and in ours, frankly is kind
Speaker 1: of silly. He's almost eighty so and another example not
Speaker 1: to depress you, or anything. But I thought this was instructive.
Speaker 1: As Chuck Schume is bellowing about the Republicans want to
Speaker 1: slap food out of the mouths of babes and enriched
Speaker 1: they are billionaires and million.
Speaker 2: And the rest of it.
Speaker 1: The rhetoric around the budget as we try to avoid
Speaker 1: a government shut down or shut it down who cares? Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's some writing by who is this? Oh, it's the
Speaker 1: editorial editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. But welcome
Speaker 1: to the ar king details of the budget baseline their premises.
Speaker 1: We hope Republicans aren't boxed into bad policy by some
Speaker 1: of the realities of the budgeting process. The main goal
Speaker 1: Republicans in the current Congress is to extend the twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen tax reform provisions that expire at the end of
Speaker 1: this year. Is written that is, they want to continue
Speaker 1: with current policy, which seems simple enough. But this is
Speaker 1: Congress which instead lives by the current law that's quote
Speaker 1: baseline over a ten year period. I'll explain, and if
Speaker 1: you don't quite get it, that's part of the point.
Speaker 1: Because some of those twenty seven twenty seventeen tax provisions
Speaker 1: expire within the congressional budget office is ten year window.
Speaker 1: The extension of current policy to fill to get to
Speaker 1: the end of that ten year window is considered a
Speaker 1: budget busting tax cut, even though it would merely prevent
Speaker 1: a four and a half trillion dollar tax increase. This
Speaker 1: is Republicans scrambling to find offsetting tax increases or spending
Speaker 1: cuts to quote unquote pay for an alleged tax cut
Speaker 1: that doesn't cut taxes. It's like your fiscal year in
Speaker 1: the calendar year, don't overlap or something, and so you've
Speaker 1: got to pretend that well, in October November, we need
Speaker 1: to cut things down to the bone, when in truth,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1: But the way the system is set up so you don't,
Speaker 1: you have to pretend like the higher tax keep think
Speaker 1: the current laws a tax increase, so.
Speaker 2: Higher taxes would kick in.
Speaker 1: And if you try to stop the higher taxes from
Speaker 1: kick in kicking in, that's seen as a tax cut,
Speaker 1: even though it would be just holding them steady.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, so.
Speaker 1: So the Republicans have to jump through all sorts of
Speaker 1: hoops and budget trickery and the rest of it to
Speaker 1: keep the current policy, because on paper, it looks.
Speaker 2: Like a huge change in policy.
Speaker 1: Wow, and you're gonna have Chuck Schumer yelling at people
Speaker 1: that we're trying to you know, I don't know, slap
Speaker 1: the insulin out of the hands of the.
Speaker 2: Old or something. Ive.
Speaker 1: I go around to old folks homes, I slap the
Speaker 1: insulin out of their hands, and then I give it
Speaker 1: to Billy Airs.
Speaker 2: I don't need any insulin take it anyway. The pine
Speaker 2: is to deny it to the old.
Speaker 1: Well, if there wasn't if there was any point to
Speaker 1: this segment, and that's probably enough on a Friday of that.
Speaker 1: It's this is also convoluted and complicated. Very few people understand.
Speaker 1: Certainly people chanting in, cheering at political rallies don't know
Speaker 1: any of this is happening. Don't get me started on
Speaker 1: how medicare really works, right, it's dizzying.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: If there's a takeaway from all of this, it would
Speaker 1: be shrink government, federal government as much as possible, and
Speaker 1: get government as local as you can conceive it to be,
Speaker 1: because that's the only way the voters have actual control
Speaker 1: over it and there's any accountability.
Speaker 2: Man, we like our gambling, we sure do.
Speaker 1: And March Madness is one of the biggest gambling periods
Speaker 1: of the entire and the tournament brackets come out on Sunday.
Speaker 1: A little some stats on that that are really interesting.
Speaker 1: Among all the things on the way, stay here, arm
Speaker 1: Strong and Getty.
Speaker 5: Sunday isn't here yet, but there are some big conference
Speaker 5: championships this weekend. Use winners will automatically punch a tickets
Speaker 5: in the Big Dance, and some teams are already shoe ins.
Speaker 5: We're going to get right into it first. On the
Speaker 5: men's side, Duke, Houston, Auburn, and Florida are the top
Speaker 5: ranked teams. The four top ranked teams.
Speaker 1: They will make. Yeah, anytime Duke is one of the
Speaker 1: top ranked teams, it's a bad it's a bad time
Speaker 1: to be alive. But March Madness, Hey, Duke is them
Speaker 1: on display. Folks really gets rolling on Sunday when the
Speaker 1: brackets come out. And if you're into sports, you know this.
Speaker 1: If you're not into sports, it's about as big a
Speaker 1: deal as anything happens. I mean, it's not as big
Speaker 1: as the Super Bowl, but it's probably well, it is
Speaker 1: second betting wise, and uh and people love it. This year,
Speaker 1: they're expecting three point one billion dollars to be bet
Speaker 1: legally on just March madness. But the total amount that
Speaker 1: is going to be bet in the country is fifteen
Speaker 1: point five billion. So even with all the legal betting
Speaker 1: that exists everywhere three billion, there's another twelve and a
Speaker 1: half billion that are going to be bet illegally.
Speaker 2: I'm using my finger quotes.
Speaker 1: I mean, who's I mean, there's some real it talks
Speaker 1: in this article about, you know, for some real offshore
Speaker 1: serious betting that is not but the stuff you're doing
Speaker 1: at the office where everybody puts in five bucks that
Speaker 1: adds up to a ton of money. But is anybody
Speaker 1: really worried about cracking down on that?
Speaker 2: No, they are.
Speaker 1: I want to see Trump crackdown on it. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see ice. There's somebody coming to offices and you know,
Speaker 1: cuff people who are handing out brackets.
Speaker 2: It's disgusting.
Speaker 1: Prior to twenty eighteen, you could only bet on sports
Speaker 1: in Vegas, But since the courts decided that the states
Speaker 1: should be able to decide, there are forty states that
Speaker 1: allow legal gambling, and it has exploded legally from where
Speaker 1: it was before. Twenty three million more Americans betting on
Speaker 1: the tournament this year than two years ago, for instance,
Speaker 1: that's a lot more. I feel exactly the same. By
Speaker 1: the way, for the bracket, you fill out your bracket,
Speaker 1: your odds of getting the bracket completely correct, getting all
Speaker 1: sixty three games right, one in nine point two. Quintillion
Speaker 1: whatever that is, that's a word I say regularly. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know it was a real word. Quintillion, five trillion, No,
Speaker 1: five hundred trillion. I don't even know what a thousand
Speaker 1: trillion would be. Uh, I don't know. I'd lose track
Speaker 1: at that point. It's not very likely you're gonna get
Speaker 1: the whole record right to summarize, But I.
Speaker 2: Have the same attitude on the whole gambling things I
Speaker 2: had on the drug thing. You know, feel free, is it?
Speaker 1: But if you end up in a bad situation, don't
Speaker 1: be taking my money because you don't have any money.
Speaker 1: When you in year sixty and you ain't got no
Speaker 1: money and you need food or housing or whatever. And
Speaker 1: I find out when you in your twenties you used
Speaker 1: to bet heavily on sports. I don't want you to
Speaker 1: get in in my money, see is the deal?
Speaker 2: So yeah, right?
Speaker 1: And it's their own But there's no mechanism for that.
Speaker 1: Oh here's the funny thing. I was listening to NPR.
Speaker 1: They presented it as, so, is this benefiting states? And
Speaker 1: then they went through how much the legalized gambling is
Speaker 1: shoring up the coffers of state governments and whether.
Speaker 2: It is or not, and so do you think it
Speaker 2: was a good idea?
Speaker 1: It was all run through the lens of does this
Speaker 1: make your state government richer or not? Nobody bringing up
Speaker 1: the idea at all of maybe people adults ought to
Speaker 1: be able to make their own decisions on this, and
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be illegal to decide to sad on a sport.
Speaker 2: That was they didn't even bring that up. Is only
Speaker 2: does it benefit the state government or not?
Speaker 1: As to whether or not it was a good idea
Speaker 1: to rule this way, and that an interesting way to
Speaker 1: look at the world. Yeah, I think that's really illuminating.
Speaker 1: Yeah about it that sort of people? Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: so when they decided no, no, no, states can decide whether
Speaker 1: or not they want to have gambling. If you're a lefty,
Speaker 1: looked at through it through the lens of is this
Speaker 1: going to give more money to the government or not not?
Speaker 1: More personal freedom fascinating right. Coming up next hour, the
Speaker 1: fight to clean up America's disease universities, how's the immigration
Speaker 1: crackdown going?
Speaker 2: And is progressivism actually a mental disorder?
Speaker 1: I will present a case to you, and you the jury,
Speaker 1: are their juries and the sort of thing you the
Speaker 1: jury will decide.
Speaker 2: We need to have.
Speaker 1: I wonder if the social credit score like they got
Speaker 1: in China, maybe someday we can have that in the
Speaker 1: United States. So you get to be aged sixteen, you
Speaker 1: ain't got no money, but we can look at your
Speaker 1: social credit score of how much you gambled in your life,
Speaker 1: were spent on cigarettes, or went on fancy vacations you
Speaker 1: couldn't afford. I realize that the libertarian and me does
Speaker 1: not like anybody keeping track of this sort of thing,
Speaker 1: but I'd like to know it as a tax payer
Speaker 1: before you get all my money, right exactly? Yeah, your
Speaker 1: responsibility score, call it that. No, Sorry, you were wildly irresponsible.
Speaker 1: You're not the other people's problem anymore.
Speaker 2: Good one, Sary, Armstrong and Getty