Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm Strong and Katty and
Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3: For just twenty minutes or so left in his presidency.
Speaker 4: We've just gotten word from President Biden that he is pardoning.
Speaker 2: His brothers, their wives, his.
Speaker 4: Sister, other family members.
Speaker 2: He says, it's all just normal.
Speaker 3: First of all, Biden, you're at the inauguration.
Speaker 2: Did you auto schedule your parties?
Speaker 3: And second of all, what the fuck man? You're just
Speaker 3: pardoning your whole family. It's not a great look. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like any good captain. As the ship is going down,
Speaker 3: Biden gave the order that life.
Speaker 5: Voter is from my family.
Speaker 3: The rest of you can do just like a kind
Speaker 3: of Jack and Rose thing, one on one off fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty shot Biden outy.
Speaker 1: John Sewart not pleased with the Biden pardons with the
Speaker 1: and he criticized Trump's pardons, which we're about to talk
Speaker 1: about too. But they're just saying so there's just no
Speaker 1: accountability for anybody, which is yeah, a little of it.
Speaker 6: I a withhold my umbrella comments until the discussion has gone.
Speaker 6: But I'd say, between the two of them, we have
Speaker 6: fashioned a system where if you are favored by the president,
Speaker 6: you can do anything or have done anything, which ain't
Speaker 6: the way the system's supposed to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kidd.
Speaker 1: So Trump did his inaugular address, then he goes into
Speaker 1: another room with a bunch of more Maggie people and
Speaker 1: a more freewheeling Trump rally ish sort of thing, before
Speaker 1: he goes to an actual Trump rally over at the
Speaker 1: basketball arena. He did three giant speeches yesterday, then three
Speaker 1: balls last night, dancing to one am. He's seventy eight
Speaker 1: years old and fat. His energy is incredible. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't relate.
Speaker 2: That is amazing.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he said this at the little gathering after
Speaker 1: the official.
Speaker 4: Address, and I was going to talk about the J
Speaker 4: six hostages.
Speaker 2: But you'll be happy because you.
Speaker 7: Know it's action, not words account and you're going to
Speaker 7: see a lot of action on the J six hostage
Speaker 7: to a.
Speaker 4: Lot of that.
Speaker 1: And shortly after that that he announced that he is
Speaker 1: pardoning twelve hundred and fifty plus people involved in January sixth,
Speaker 1: including the full, complete and unconditional pardons extend to people
Speaker 1: who are convicted of some of the worst crimes committed
Speaker 1: the day of the Capital attack. The group includes individuals
Speaker 1: like and maybe some know some of these names. This
Speaker 1: person who assaulted US Capital police officer later pled guilty
Speaker 1: to assaulting officers with the dangerous weapon. Another person who
Speaker 1: hit a police officer with a metal baton, another person
Speaker 1: who attacked police with a fire extinguisher.
Speaker 2: Wooden Plank in a poll.
Speaker 1: Tim Carney, who we used to have on the show
Speaker 1: a lot writes for The Washington Examiner, tweeted that out
Speaker 1: with this comment, Trump could have picked a couple of
Speaker 1: protesters who were given two harsh a sentences, or maybe
Speaker 1: a lot of them. Instead, he decided to effectively declare
Speaker 1: the riot okay and clear them all. Do you have
Speaker 1: any idea why he didn't go with more selective like
Speaker 1: the people that did the actual most violent violence leave
Speaker 1: them alone, Which is actually what JD. Vance said on
Speaker 1: a number of Sunday talk shows leading up to the election,
Speaker 1: that they weren't going to pardon the violent people, but
Speaker 1: all the rest of the people were overcharged. Which we
Speaker 1: have a family friend who was there who I believe
Speaker 1: was overcharged.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, that's completely defensible and probably justified. You know,
Speaker 6: case by case, and the JD and other Trump officials.
Speaker 6: I can't remember if Trump said and himself said, that's
Speaker 6: what they were going to do. Look at it case
Speaker 6: by case. It is very it's impossible to justify. It
Speaker 6: can't be justified, just out and out pardoning people who
Speaker 6: were beating cops down in the name of penetrating the
Speaker 6: capital to do whatever they wanted to do. The people
Speaker 6: who wandered in looked around. I don't want them charged
Speaker 6: with anything.
Speaker 1: Now, I guess those of you who say it didn't
Speaker 1: happen and it's all made up, there's no point in
Speaker 1: trying to have a conversation. But if you believe the videos,
Speaker 1: which I do, there are people beating on cops with
Speaker 1: sticks and clubs and stuff like that. If they had
Speaker 1: killed them, which it looks like you're trying to do.
Speaker 2: Would you pardon that?
Speaker 1: I just I don't anyway, So I got into the
Speaker 1: comments on this particular Twitter conversation, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting in a number of different ways. First
Speaker 1: of all, a lot of this were they given blanket
Speaker 1: pardons going back to twenty fourteen. That's one of the
Speaker 1: problems with our current race to the bottom that we've
Speaker 1: got going with both parties is that each party abuses standards, norms,
Speaker 1: goes outside the constitution, whatever, which justifies the other party
Speaker 1: doing it whenever they decide to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not good.
Speaker 6: I think, as I indicated earlier, we've got the beginnings
Speaker 6: of a bipartisan believe we need to reform our pardon system.
Speaker 1: But back to you, a fair trial was not given
Speaker 1: to these people. Okay, they served enough time.
Speaker 6: Interesting in some cases I would agree, Yeah, But again,
Speaker 6: in case by case.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's over find another hopeless cause yawn,
Speaker 1: a lot of that sort of thing over this. I
Speaker 1: did not yawn at this. I thought it was an
Speaker 1: extraordinary thing that Trump did. But then this stuff was
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. Andrew, that was the reporter that tweeted out
Speaker 1: this information. Do you know that some Portland protesters on
Speaker 1: the left who attacked police and shined lasers in their
Speaker 1: eye sockets and twenty twenty got pre trial diversion in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, no court whatsoever.
Speaker 2: You do know that? Right? Again, it's this whole race
Speaker 2: to the bottom thing.
Speaker 1: There's more of this, and then we can talk about
Speaker 1: that U Biden pardoned his whole family. They will awe,
Speaker 1: bah ba this, it's awesome. Finally patriots are released. I
Speaker 1: don't understand how you find somebody beating police officers to
Speaker 1: keep you from ransacking the capitol is a patriot.
Speaker 2: I just do not understand that argument.
Speaker 1: Yawn, Okay, cry more. The mob boss pardons his mob.
Speaker 1: There's nothing new under the sun. You all are crying.
Speaker 1: And then somebody said, now do the George Floyd riots.
Speaker 6: That's pretty good, yes, one percent, And it's not a
Speaker 6: good argument. Well, we've got to excuse beating cops because
Speaker 6: they excuse beating cops. No, but if you have an
Speaker 6: entire system that is based on the idea of equal
Speaker 6: justice under the law, that all men are created equal,
Speaker 6: and you know, I could, I could go down the
Speaker 6: list of this is like the fundamental precept that the
Speaker 6: United States of America functions on, and you behave with
Speaker 6: such contempt for those norms for years and years now.
Speaker 6: If people are angry for the right reason, we'll let
Speaker 6: them do friggin' anything, and then act all outraged when
Speaker 6: the quote unquote other side does it. You have lost
Speaker 6: all of your moral authority, all of it. That doesn't
Speaker 6: make it right. You could certainly make the argument that
Speaker 6: we need to call the fouls on both sides accurately.
Speaker 2: That's what we've been saying for years.
Speaker 6: Not excuse these fouls because they excuse those other fouls.
Speaker 6: But you're not wrong. What happened in Portland we are
Speaker 6: screaming about. For months, one hundred and twelve days in
Speaker 6: a row, whatever it was, there was violence against cops
Speaker 6: at federal facilities, night after night after night, and it
Speaker 6: was ignored and or excused because they are angry about
Speaker 6: the stuff that the left says it's okay to be
Speaker 6: angry about.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So another response in this line, Andy, this name of
Speaker 1: the reporter that tweeted out the information about the pardons.
Speaker 1: I think you are a reasonable and fair minded guy.
Speaker 1: Would you please do a long file on all the
Speaker 1: violent criminals that progressive left wing prosecutors all around this
Speaker 1: country let out on bail or gave pathetically weak sentences
Speaker 1: so they could offend again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so I look at this politically, not rule a law,
Speaker 1: rule of law. You commit a crime, you got to
Speaker 1: take the punishment, full punishment, and you don't get out.
Speaker 1: But politically, surely you can understand how there's a big
Speaker 1: chunk of the country that sees their side being prosecuted
Speaker 1: for these crimes and the other side not being prosecuted
Speaker 1: for crimes so as not bothered when their side gets pardoned.
Speaker 2: Surely you can.
Speaker 6: Understand that there are precincts of the left in some
Speaker 6: of our major cities where you will not be prosecuted
Speaker 6: for assaulting a police officer preemptively.
Speaker 2: They just won't charge you. And so yeah, we need.
Speaker 6: To get a grip, folks, because if it continues to
Speaker 6: be a race to the bottom in terms of lawlessness,
Speaker 6: and you know, you can cast the blame where you want,
Speaker 6: it's really immaterial to my point, if we want to
Speaker 6: continue a race to the bottom of lawlessness, it's going
Speaker 6: to end in a very very ugly plan, absolutely unspeakably ugly.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, God, this goes way back, speaking of Trump, I
Speaker 1: took my kids to a Trump rally early twenty.
Speaker 2: Sixteen, Gladys. This was before things.
Speaker 1: Had gotten ugly, back when it still seemed like just
Speaker 1: kind of a fun like going to the county fair. When,
Speaker 1: because my kids were young at the time, we went
Speaker 1: to the Trump rally in Sacramento, California at the airport.
Speaker 2: Is plane flew in It was so cool. Everything like that.
Speaker 1: The next day he did a rally in San Jose
Speaker 1: and Trump supporters were beaten on the street, which is
Speaker 1: why I would have taking my kids to a rally
Speaker 1: after that. Trump supporters were beaten on the street merely
Speaker 1: for having Trump swag on and nothing happened. There were
Speaker 1: no no, there was no outcry, there was no oh
Speaker 1: my god, we're not this is not us, this is
Speaker 1: not our country. It was just okay to beat Trump
Speaker 1: supporters in the street. How do you think that's gonna
Speaker 1: turn out? If you allow that sort of thing, you
Speaker 1: end up going further down the road of outrage, of
Speaker 1: no rule of law.
Speaker 2: It just seems so obvious to me. We predicted that
Speaker 2: at the time, and.
Speaker 6: Here we are right right. You are truly reefing what
Speaker 6: you have sewn. It's it's not good. It's not good
Speaker 6: at all on either side.
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: So I wish any of these conversations CNN, Fox is
Speaker 1: not talking about it as much, although I just saw
Speaker 1: him up there doing it, ABC, NBC, everybody leading with it.
Speaker 2: Everything like that.
Speaker 1: I wish you would at least throw that into your conversation,
Speaker 1: because yeah, you can easily be outraged over some of
Speaker 1: these people getting pardoned by Trump. But if you don't
Speaker 1: include all the businesses that were destroyed and those people
Speaker 1: to get in charge with anything. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: your candidate for president did it gofund me to raise
Speaker 1: money to make sure.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't pay in trouble? I mean, what are you
Speaker 2: talking about? You got to.
Speaker 1: Include that, right, yep. Yeah, we're not going down a
Speaker 1: good road with this. This is not a good run.
Speaker 1: And then that both presidential sets of pardons yesterday really
Speaker 1: a bad precedent.
Speaker 2: We're gonna see pardon reform.
Speaker 6: I think got a twin mods and fine, good, let's
Speaker 6: talk about it. It's gonna take probably a constitutional amendment,
Speaker 6: but we'll see.
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Speaker 1: We have much less heavy fare than that conversation to
Speaker 1: come about the news of the day and all kinds
Speaker 1: of different things. I hope you can stick around, arm Strong.
Speaker 1: I can no longer beat my thirteen year old at chess.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what to do about it.
Speaker 2: Chess, It's not chess.
Speaker 6: Actually, it's actually not like, Oh my, don't we all
Speaker 6: wish for our children to be more successful.
Speaker 1: That's the great thing. I was explaining to a friend
Speaker 1: of mine. If I was losing to, you know, my neighbor,
Speaker 1: I would hate my kid, for instance. That's a different thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's the I want to win, but
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's better at it.
Speaker 2: Than I am.
Speaker 6: It's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, well you got up your game
Speaker 6: to up his game. Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: It's not like when I'm playing tennis and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm taking it easy because I want the game to continue.
Speaker 1: I want him to like it. I don't want to
Speaker 1: discourage him. That's not what's happening here. He's going to
Speaker 1: discourage me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I remember vividly the day that my son beat me
Speaker 6: at the Great Game of golf, and I realized, this
Speaker 6: is not me encouraging the boy anymore. This is me
Speaker 6: fighting for my life. I got to play as hard
Speaker 6: as I can. Interesting anyway, but it's fun.
Speaker 2: It's fun. It's great. So the Oval office has been redecorated.
Speaker 6: The new guy gets, obviously what he wants on the
Speaker 6: walls and shelves and the rest of it. The diet
Speaker 6: coke button is back, set up and ready to go.
Speaker 6: Trump with a buzzer, and he's evidently got a lackey
Speaker 6: at the other end of it when he needs a
Speaker 6: diet coke. An orderly. We need orderlies around here, Michael.
Speaker 6: You like a little side hustle as an orderly.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 8: Job.
Speaker 1: Is there somebody whose only job is to wait for
Speaker 1: that thing to buzz and take a diet coke out
Speaker 1: of the fridge.
Speaker 2: And walk it in there?
Speaker 6: I certainly hope not picture a guy sitting there his
Speaker 6: legs cross flipping through a magazine. Must not be thirsty today, Well,
Speaker 6: he says to his coworker.
Speaker 1: The story is he drinks about a dozen a day,
Speaker 1: so of course he works eighteen hours a day.
Speaker 2: So you'd have a lot of sitting around.
Speaker 6: President Trump's redecorated Oval office once again includes a portrait
Speaker 6: of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting.
Speaker 2: The late Great Benjamin Franklin.
Speaker 6: Tray Penn's was ready on the resolute desk for Trump
Speaker 6: to sign executive orders. The diet coke button back ready
Speaker 6: to go like four years ago. A portrait of George
Speaker 6: Washington now hangs over the fireplace, flanked by Alex Hamilton
Speaker 6: and Thomas Jefferson. The bust to Churchill is back, having
Speaker 6: been removed by the weasel Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: A bust of MLK Jr.
Speaker 1: Remains the Winston Churchill bust, even though Tucker Carlson's take
Speaker 1: is Churchill caused War two. Well, he had some faux
Speaker 1: historian on claiming it it was silly. But anyway, the
Speaker 1: Oval Office the most iconic setting in the White House.
Speaker 6: Blah blah blah. He added a couple of silver eagles.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Jack reminiscent of Nazi said well, come on.
Speaker 2: Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 6: We already talked about the hilariously idiotic Elon Trump did
Speaker 6: a Nazi salute, fake controversy.
Speaker 2: Oh my, it's actually become great.
Speaker 6: They are so beclowning themselves with that silly stuff on
Speaker 6: the left and in the media.
Speaker 2: They're doing our work for uslu bit I got let
Speaker 2: or not fay.
Speaker 1: That was Elon Musk there right before he did the salute.
Speaker 6: Redecorating the Oval Office occurs in a few hours, jack
Speaker 6: a staff began making the changes while Biden was still
Speaker 6: in the building.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: Now fans of area rugs will be interested to know
Speaker 6: that deep blue rug Biden had used was swapped out
Speaker 6: for a more neutral one that Trump had used previously
Speaker 6: in his Oval office. Pieces of the Resolute desk had
Speaker 6: to be disassembled so the rug could be placed under it.
Speaker 6: That puts the trivial triba back in trivial.
Speaker 2: Yes it does.
Speaker 6: Actually I did find out or was reminded for like
Speaker 6: the twenty seventh time, and I'll forget it by tomorrow
Speaker 6: that the Resolute Desk was a gift from the Queen
Speaker 6: of England. It was made of white oak and mahogany
Speaker 6: timbers from the HMS Resolute, a British naval ship used
Speaker 6: for Arctic exploration.
Speaker 1: As was true in twenty seven seen when Trump went in.
Speaker 1: It's a unique situation where you're so wealthy that you're
Speaker 1: probably moving into a lesser house than the one you love.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The White House is famously like old and drafty and
Speaker 6: badly in need of a.
Speaker 1: But even the whole size of it, and that you know,
Speaker 1: the kitchen, you can eat whatever you want.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's Trump's lifestyle already.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he has somebody gets him a diet coke
Speaker 1: whenever he wants already, and that he can have any
Speaker 1: food he wants at anytime already, So none.
Speaker 2: Of that would be very new to him.
Speaker 6: Now, Biden had progressive hero FDR's portrait up and various
Speaker 6: labor leader's statues on his desk.
Speaker 1: Jay Govera Carl Marx had had to move the Karl
Speaker 1: Marx bust out.
Speaker 2: Long gone, baby get out? Why that area rugg stuff
Speaker 2: was interesting, wasn't it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: The way they had to move the desk to get
Speaker 2: to that because they changed the rug.
Speaker 6: Coming up more highlights and low lights from yesterday. Montage
Speaker 6: of media explaining how pardons are bad right before Biden
Speaker 6: did it so much good Sah Boy.
Speaker 9: Armstrong and getty that historic moment in front of the Capitol.
Speaker 9: Now former President Biden, six months after dropping his own
Speaker 9: re election run, exiting Washington, ending a.
Speaker 2: Fifty year political career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure anybody should have a fifty year
Speaker 1: political career in DC.
Speaker 6: Go get George Washington had the decency to go back
Speaker 6: to his farm. Oh, speaking of which I was describing
Speaker 6: the changes in the decor of the Oval Office. If
Speaker 6: you missed it, it was fascinating. But you know what
Speaker 6: I didn't mention I should have, was that Trump reinstalled
Speaker 6: the flags of all of our military services in the
Speaker 6: Oval Office. Biden had them removed, what in favor of
Speaker 6: the you know, probably the NEIU, you and whatever other unions.
Speaker 2: He had a BLM flag.
Speaker 6: Exactly a rainbow flag in this house we believe in
Speaker 6: science or whatever. No, now the service flags are back
Speaker 6: in the Oval Office. We had to go, mister president.
Speaker 6: But speaking of the old guy who is senile and lying, backslapping,
Speaker 6: relative pardoning buffoon soon to be ranked the worst US
Speaker 6: president of all time, probably had a bit of a ceremony.
Speaker 2: As his.
Speaker 6: Because as is traditional, and Andrew's a force Andrews Air
Speaker 6: Force Base as he left the office in the city,
Speaker 6: and it sounded there whereas it there it is. We'll
Speaker 6: start Michael with seventy one. Let you know how it sounded.
Speaker 4: Hervey stay before. No president gets to choose the moment
Speaker 4: in or history, but they get to choose the team
Speaker 4: that it is. And we chose the best stamp team.
Speaker 7: In the world.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 6: That last part I got the United Mates a bandera
Speaker 6: about the jack listen bow well, come for the incoherence
Speaker 6: and stay for the incomprehensible seventy two, Michael.
Speaker 4: I only hope so look look back in these years.
Speaker 4: Hope you look back on the same pride I have
Speaker 4: of all you've done. I'm proud. I'm proud of is
Speaker 4: that you did it a folding the core values of honesty, decency, integrities.
Speaker 4: I mean no scandal. I mean it's incredible what.
Speaker 1: You did for him to stand there on the day
Speaker 1: of pardoning his family and say, no scandal.
Speaker 6: I feel like we ought to pause for five to
Speaker 6: ten seconds to let every single human being gathered here
Speaker 6: respond in their own accustomed way with are you blanking
Speaker 6: kidding me? Or if you you crank? Or you should
Speaker 6: be in jail, whatever you prefer, folks, it's up to you,
Speaker 6: or just.
Speaker 1: The scandal of eighty five percent of America thought you
Speaker 1: couldn't pull off a second term because your brain didn't work,
Speaker 1: and everybody pretending you were, like, you know, out running
Speaker 1: laps around the White House.
Speaker 2: We can barely keep up with them. That seems like
Speaker 2: quite a scandal.
Speaker 6: The scandal of opening the border and allowing foreign gang
Speaker 6: members to set up shop in the United States. The
Speaker 6: hasty Afghan evacuation, when you know, one of my favorites.
Speaker 6: Because it's recent, it didn't get enough attention. How about
Speaker 6: your people yelling at Mark Zuckerberg to take down facts
Speaker 6: or you're gonna put them out of business.
Speaker 2: That seems like a scandal.
Speaker 6: Spending trillions of dollars and stealing money out of the
Speaker 6: pockets of working class Americans to the point that they
Speaker 6: were panic stricken every single trip to the grocery store.
Speaker 6: But luckily, no scandals. You senile old coot get Oh,
Speaker 6: we're not sorry, Thank you, mister president. Roll on, Michael,
Speaker 6: you know with.
Speaker 4: The point I want to make today's and make clear
Speaker 4: of farewell addressed as we all do, have more to
Speaker 4: a lot more to do. What you heard the inargle
Speaker 4: was addressed to them today. We got a lot more
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 2: I don't lost himself.
Speaker 4: Many is experience. They're up and down, but we have
Speaker 4: to stay with it.
Speaker 2: Four more years, four more years. I got the perfect
Speaker 2: capstone paragraphed. When we're done with this, don't let me.
Speaker 6: Forgerfect Fans of gibberish, this one will delight you.
Speaker 4: I've been doing this for fifty years for the best
Speaker 4: group of People's sory to say there's been the honor
Speaker 4: of my life to serve as your president.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you what?
Speaker 6: Did everybody hear that? Or if I've been suddenly struck deaf?
Speaker 6: I was just getting to the good hard too. We've
Speaker 6: had a technical malfunction. Is there a test that radio?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just died. That's unfortunate. The clip died. I
Speaker 2: will try to get in those see what happens. Well,
Speaker 2: it's the digital age. I don't know what it means.
Speaker 2: Nobody does.
Speaker 4: I've been doing this for fifty years for the best
Speaker 4: group of people. Hard to say there's been the honor
Speaker 4: of my life to serving your president.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you what.
Speaker 4: Greater honor? And being able to serve with all of you?
Speaker 4: You're incredible?
Speaker 5: You really are.
Speaker 4: You really are. Mark my words, because she's gonna judge
Speaker 4: what you've done as one of the most significant contributions
Speaker 4: has been in made by all of America.
Speaker 2: All right, Wow, that was worth the late.
Speaker 1: I don't understand during fifty years of being in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. I'm not a term limits guy. I've been
Speaker 1: argued out of that for a variety of reasons. George
Speaker 1: Will wrote a book for term limits, then wrote a
Speaker 1: book against term limits when he changed his mind.
Speaker 6: But just doesn't work the way you think it's going
Speaker 6: to anyway, Paty, and I'm about to quote George Will
Speaker 6: is the capstone paragraph to this whole discussion. But why
Speaker 6: why do you cheer that?
Speaker 1: Yay?
Speaker 7: You hung around way too long to the point that
Speaker 7: your brain didn't work. You got wealthy on a on
Speaker 7: a government salary, somehow managed to buy multiple houses and
Speaker 7: support an entire extended family on a lavish, rich lifestyle.
Speaker 5: Yay.
Speaker 2: I just don't get it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's disgusting. We need the shortened version of that clip, please.
Speaker 6: I would like to play it repeatedly every time his
Speaker 6: name comes up for the rest of my life and
Speaker 6: his I'm hoping mine is longer than his. And then finally,
Speaker 6: this looks a little long, but I'm told it's if
Speaker 6: you've got an old man who's way past his prime,
Speaker 6: and he's and he's not bring away incomprehensively, he's probably
Speaker 6: what shouting angrily, let's hear it, block.
Speaker 4: Folks, you know, let me close that phone. You heard
Speaker 4: me quote before Jamis had he wrote, once in a lifetime,
Speaker 4: the long four tidle wave of justice will rise up
Speaker 4: and hope of mister Rhyme, you made it right. Moderns
Speaker 4: riding a long time. I waited. He's a lot of
Speaker 4: customer real change. So let's make hoping this to Rhyme.
Speaker 4: I love y'all. I'd give you too long.
Speaker 5: Thank you, more years, more years.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Walk this way.
Speaker 2: Let's getting in the campstone.
Speaker 1: Do I go on this way?
Speaker 6: He says into the microphone.
Speaker 1: They they did have the sense to chant thank you.
Speaker 1: Joe is opposed to four more years.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodne not kidding, Sariah, not kidding, Jack Noble, Larky,
Speaker 5: what maybe belonging?
Speaker 2: Not even Larkey. I don't know what you said. You're
Speaker 2: having a good time, Joan, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Marco's being asked the new Secretary of State about the
Speaker 1: January sixth pardons. Of course they are. They're putting pride
Speaker 1: and put him in an embarrassing position. See if you
Speaker 1: can grab that answer hands And I'm kind of interested
Speaker 1: in what he's gonna say.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 6: One of the inconveniences of the move is that every
Speaker 6: Trump will point and that it is going to be
Speaker 6: asked about that now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yep, yeah, here's the uh, the paragraph that
Speaker 1: I wanted to get from George Will but I thought
Speaker 1: was really good about the whole thing. Whether you're excited
Speaker 1: about Trump, whether you're angry about Trump, or vice either
Speaker 1: of those two, about Biden whatever. Most people realize around
Speaker 1: age seven that the universe under its current administration produces
Speaker 1: many disappoints.
Speaker 2: Then they shrug and get on with their lives.
Speaker 1: Today, many emotionally dilapidated obsessives experience either despair or euphoria
Speaker 1: about the inaugurations of presidents who come and go. Both
Speaker 1: groups should rethink what they expect from politics and why
Speaker 1: they do.
Speaker 2: Oh that's well said, Yeah yeah, yeah, that's undermining the.
Speaker 6: Fairly significantly sized industry of talk radio and online opinion
Speaker 6: and that sort of thing that insists Otherwise.
Speaker 2: Is that making people happier?
Speaker 1: The idea that it's all about who's president at your
Speaker 1: life comes and goes with administrations. You look back over
Speaker 1: your life and you think, I was happy from two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight to two thousand and sixteen, Then I
Speaker 1: was unhappy from sixteen to twenty, Then I was happy again.
Speaker 2: What way of looking at the world of this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously that's an unhealthy way to look at life.
Speaker 6: And secondly, if that were true, it's not. But if
Speaker 6: it were, then you ought to join with us as
Speaker 6: a real zealous for reducing the power of the president,
Speaker 6: so they couldn't possibly have that effect on your life.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when your party's in power, you fall in love,
Speaker 6: you raise beautiful children, you get ahead.
Speaker 2: At work, and then if you lose your election, it
Speaker 2: all goes to hell.
Speaker 10: Guy, I'm tired of being married to you. You get divorced,
Speaker 10: you disown your children, you quit your job, you live
Speaker 10: under a bridge, You grow your hair long and let
Speaker 10: lice crawl all over your body until your guy gets ilected.
Speaker 10: Then off with the lice. Honey, I miss you. It's
Speaker 10: all good again.
Speaker 1: Please, holy cow, that's no way to live your life,
Speaker 1: no kidding.
Speaker 4: You made it right waters running a long time.
Speaker 1: That might be that was a perfect capstone to his career.
Speaker 2: And again, please get me the end of seventy four.
Speaker 4: Gotta have it, hark, he's my words, because she's gonna
Speaker 4: judge your You've done as manmos significant contributionis has been
Speaker 4: obeyed by all of America.
Speaker 2: All right, how's good? Well, what do we think about?
Speaker 1: And is a long conversation, but just part of the
Speaker 1: reason people get so euphoric or down is a president
Speaker 1: comes in Congress. It's not Congress, it's the president sitting
Speaker 1: down with a pen and a whole bunch of executive orders,
Speaker 1: and they last as long as that person's president. Then
Speaker 1: the new person comes in from the other party and
Speaker 1: wipes them all out and goes the other direction. The
Speaker 1: Congress is supposed to make laws that slowly happen and
Speaker 1: then are slowly undone.
Speaker 6: And there used to be a consensus for better or
Speaker 6: worse at times that if we whipsaw back and forth
Speaker 6: on domestic policy, foreign policy, energy policy, it's going to
Speaker 6: be bad for everybody. Right, it doesn't make things better.
Speaker 6: You've got to have at least some sort of continuity.
Speaker 6: But you know the counter argument to that, obviously, Well,
Speaker 6: the last guy was a cry. I mean, with the
Speaker 6: Green New Deal and the trillions of dollars of it,
Speaker 6: of handing out the money to cronies.
Speaker 2: We've got to correct that. I get that. No, I'm
Speaker 2: happy about that.
Speaker 1: Trump wiped out most of the New Green Deal, thank god,
Speaker 1: billions and billion, tens of billions of dollars spent to
Speaker 1: build charging stations around the country.
Speaker 2: What did they end up with? A total love.
Speaker 1: They had none up until a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: and now I think they had eighteen or something charging
Speaker 1: stations they built and the entire country for tens of
Speaker 1: billions of dollars.
Speaker 6: If it were eighteen in your town, you'd think that's
Speaker 6: pretty good start.
Speaker 1: About the cost. But anyway, right so, I'm happy about
Speaker 1: the corrections. It's just not the best way to run
Speaker 1: a railroad in general.
Speaker 6: We got an email from, uh, you know, I've got
Speaker 6: it handy here.
Speaker 2: I'll make this quick. I'm sorry there is oh Robert No.
Speaker 6: Somebody, one of our beloved listeners said, hey, we're never
Speaker 6: going to talk about Biden.
Speaker 2: Or Harris again, right I need a break.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, yeah, to some extent, obviously, it'll be
Speaker 6: a great deal less, but I feel like I'm giving
Speaker 6: up drinking or my favorite pastime, or giving up TV
Speaker 6: for lent or something. Not being able to kick Biden
Speaker 6: and the half with Kamala Harris anymore, there's gonna be
Speaker 6: a blank space in my life avoid.
Speaker 2: For a while.
Speaker 1: You're the reverse of MSNBC and CNN. They're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's back. Oh I missed it so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had one more thing to say.
Speaker 2: No, I don't remember what it was, darn it. This
Speaker 2: is why I lose it. Chess, we'll be back in
Speaker 2: a moment.
Speaker 1: That's chest thoughts flip out of my head, flap out
Speaker 1: of my head, so quick stop.
Speaker 2: We got much more on the way. Stay.
Speaker 5: You made it rights rutting a long time, and.
Speaker 3: America's illustrious senators like Amy Koba Shar and Deb Fisher
Speaker 3: and of course how came Jeffers are there?
Speaker 2: And Fetterman was are you coma Fetnerman? Really shorts?
Speaker 3: It's not even an inaugural decorum thing. It's freezing out there.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a healthkincer. Federman is literally America's teenage son.
Speaker 2: At your grandma's funeral. I told you I don't like
Speaker 2: long pants. Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 6: And if you have not seen the pictures, it's not
Speaker 6: like he was wearing tailored golf shorts and some sort
Speaker 6: of quarter zip. No, he looked like he was leaving
Speaker 6: the gym on a chilly day with like loose fitting
Speaker 6: short sweats.
Speaker 1: I don't dig that. I definitely don't dig that. And
Speaker 1: I'm not a I'm not a decorum guy mostly, But.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 1: What is he what is his message? Regular guy as
Speaker 1: that he was trying to be. I don't know regular guys.
Speaker 1: I know lots of regular guys, very regular guys, very
Speaker 1: working class, regular guys.
Speaker 2: And you know what, they do nice things. They dress up,
Speaker 2: they wear nice.
Speaker 6: Clothes to indicate the seriousness that they're taking it with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they go to weddings and funerals and graduations and
Speaker 1: stuff wearing like khaki pants and a real shirt because
Speaker 1: they're no, they're at something important.
Speaker 2: They don't dress like that. So I don't know who
Speaker 2: he's playing to. Slobs.
Speaker 6: Look, I'm kind of pleased that I don't need to
Speaker 6: throw on a sport code have a steak in most
Speaker 6: parts of the country, but mix in some buttons fetterman,
Speaker 6: Oh my god, even a zipper somewhere just no draw strings.
Speaker 6: Can we just say that right? Much more serious topic.
Speaker 6: Senator Marco Rubio now Secretary of State. Marco Rubio unanimously
Speaker 6: approved by the Senate. AH, which is great.
Speaker 1: That's a great message to the world. This guy speaking
Speaker 1: for Trump isn't just a maga guy. The whole Senate,
Speaker 1: half of which's Democrat, said, this is the guy we want.
Speaker 6: One of the most intriguing questions about the Trump administration
Speaker 6: to me is how does his no new wars America first,
Speaker 6: let's avoid foreign entanglements jibe with his we've got to
Speaker 6: be very very strong in project American power in smart ways.
Speaker 6: How is that balance going to be struck? Some clues
Speaker 6: from Marco Rubio here.
Speaker 8: President Trump was elected to keep promises, and he's going
Speaker 8: to keep those promises. And his primary promise when it
Speaker 8: comes to foreign policy is that the priority of the
Speaker 8: United States Department of State will be the United States.
Speaker 8: It will be furthering the national interest of this country.
Speaker 8: And he's given us a very clear mandate. President Trump's
Speaker 8: made it very clear everything we do, and this is
Speaker 8: true in government, but especially at the Department of State,
Speaker 8: everything we do must be justified by the answer to
Speaker 8: one of three questions. Does it make us stronger, does
Speaker 8: it make us safer? And does it make us more prosperous.
Speaker 8: If it doesn't do one of those three things, we
Speaker 8: will not do it.
Speaker 1: The problem being that because I know, a lot of
Speaker 1: the you and the Maga crowd hate every dollar that
Speaker 1: goes to Ukraine. Marco Rubio would make the argument, I
Speaker 1: happen to agree with him that sending money to Ukraine
Speaker 1: does make us stronger and wealthier and safer.
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, Michael, don't worry about it. We won't use
Speaker 6: the second clip. He's talking in our ears lovingly. I
Speaker 6: would also point out there's a lot of misunderstanding in
Speaker 6: populist politics of foreign aid. There are three ways to
Speaker 6: get friends on Earth as a government. You can scare
Speaker 6: them into it or beat them into it. That's kind
Speaker 6: of one of your choices. Secondly, it's just automatically in
Speaker 6: their best interests. I mean, Canada has no reason to
Speaker 6: be hostile to the United States, where their biggest trading partner,
Speaker 6: et cetera. So that's an easy one. The third way
Speaker 6: you get friends is bribe them. And sometimes you need
Speaker 6: friends that you have to bribe because the evildoers China,
Speaker 6: for instance, is trying to bribe them onto their side,
Speaker 6: which would make our lives less safe, less prosperous, all
Speaker 6: those things. Marco Rubio said, So for an aid is
Speaker 6: not charity, it's bribery.
Speaker 2: If it's used correctly.
Speaker 6: I wish I had more time to expound on that thought,
Speaker 6: but the mullet three, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: You know, down the road there is now something called
Speaker 1: Elon must derangement syndrome, and we'll talk about that next hour.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty