Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Jetty and keep arms wrong, get it.
Speaker 1: We've got two National guardments standing outside the Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Compounds, surrounded my dogs and moats.
Speaker 1: And today we are under the tutelage of our general
Speaker 1: manager quoting the tattoos on my knuckles, law and order.
Speaker 1: That's right. I've got long tattooed on my right hand,
Speaker 1: order on the knuckles of my left.
Speaker 2: But it hadn't dawned on me that the.
Speaker 1: Oh would be invisible if I held out my fists,
Speaker 1: So people ask me, what is urger it through? I
Speaker 1: am flabbergasted, And if you've ever had your flabbergasted, you
Speaker 1: know how painful that can be.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite David Letterman lines.
Speaker 1: The media coverage I've been taken in today, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I just, I just.
Speaker 1: How do you not see your you look at from
Speaker 1: the outside, yourself, see how you're perceived or what's.
Speaker 2: Going on here? But I just heard a long.
Speaker 1: Thing on MSNBC about how the White House some sort
Speaker 1: of internal anonymous source from the White House, is the
Speaker 1: Trump administration is thrilled with the way that's playing out politically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure they are. I'm sure they are.
Speaker 1: And how the something about how using the media to
Speaker 1: their benefit.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be used.
Speaker 1: You could go ahead and get on the side of
Speaker 1: like eighty percent of Americans who don't like rioting, or
Speaker 1: you could say they're peaceful protests with cars on fire
Speaker 1: behind you and quote play into his hands.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. How do you not understand this? Right?
Speaker 1: That's such a head scratcher. You're you're doing it. You're
Speaker 1: you're reporting on night. Wait, no, you're the person in Europe.
Speaker 1: Nobody's making you claim that everything is calm while the
Speaker 1: things are behind you were on fire. That's not him
Speaker 1: taking advantage of you. You don't claims media making out
Speaker 1: landish claims because he's hitler.
Speaker 2: No, you can't know.
Speaker 1: So a couple of things, Uh One. I like the
Speaker 1: quote I heard from Karen bassa mayor of la this morning.
Speaker 1: I heard her say, those of you who are vandalizing
Speaker 1: and defacing buildings are not standing up for migrants.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, you are onto something.
Speaker 1: There are looting, she said, yeah, looting and vandalizing. You're
Speaker 1: not standing up for right, Yes, exactly. Those people looting
Speaker 1: are not. They don't they're not thinking about the whole
Speaker 1: US immigration policy as they break into a building and
Speaker 1: steal a television.
Speaker 2: You are correct there, yes, Mike, right.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just thinking somebody's washing TV about ready to
Speaker 3: go to a store to rip it off, and thinking, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: never mind.
Speaker 2: Right, this doesn't help the working bus boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna get a toaster up and to
Speaker 1: protect our immigrant community, that's I'll order one from Amazon.
Speaker 1: But the talking point, and I hadn't caught onto this
Speaker 1: un till I was listened to the National Reviews podcast yesterday.
Speaker 1: But this has been a big talking point last the
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours, and I've heard it multiple times
Speaker 1: this morning, including from Karen Bass. There's a tiny part
Speaker 1: of LA that has unrest.
Speaker 2: It's just a.
Speaker 1: Tiny portion of the city. So I flipped on MSNBC
Speaker 1: and the person went with that, Oh, Willie geist was
Speaker 1: going on on other channels. He means Fox, They're making
Speaker 1: it seem like the entire city of Los Angeles is
Speaker 1: on fire.
Speaker 2: But it's a tiny portion. It isn't Linda or whatever.
Speaker 1: He goes to and they said, yes, Los Angeles is
Speaker 1: five hundred square miles. There's about one square mile in
Speaker 1: which is under curfew last night, in a small portion
Speaker 1: of that where there was some unrest last night. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you think that's the story, do you? Okay, so
Speaker 1: I'll try that on January sixth, twenty twenty one. Washington,
Speaker 1: DC is three hundred square miles. It was really just
Speaker 1: one building where there was unrest.
Speaker 2: The rest of Washington, d C. Was fine. I'm at
Speaker 2: the Department of the Treasury. Nothing happening here.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum,
Speaker 1: ches airplanes and spaceships. Here.
Speaker 2: Back to you.
Speaker 1: Nothing to see. It's a tiny portion of Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Will people are beating cos cops and running into a building. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's hilarious. Again, you're beclouding yourself. Nobody's making
Speaker 1: you do this. You don't have to go. Here's here's
Speaker 1: one thing that I've found very helpful. Don't spend all
Speaker 1: your time thinking does this help Trumper hurt Trump? If
Speaker 1: I say this, how about you just say what you see?
Speaker 1: If you're standing there and there are things on fire
Speaker 1: and cops are fighting people just say it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, except that MSNBC is not about
Speaker 1: the fifty percent of America that tends to lean left
Speaker 1: vote left certainly not about all of America. They're about
Speaker 1: the ten percent, the ten percent least critically thinking, most
Speaker 1: enthusiastic about leftism. Yeah, well it's not working if well, again,
Speaker 1: as we said all through the election, if you think
Speaker 1: you're helping your side or hurting Trump by doing this,
Speaker 1: that's not the way it played out in the election.
Speaker 1: This is what Mark Halpern's been writing, History is repeating itself.
Speaker 1: You're doing the same thing. Yeah, yeah, you're helping Trump
Speaker 1: by pretending this stuff is really there's not much. What
Speaker 1: was that the thing from ABC seven where they where
Speaker 1: they they said, people, you know, you bring in the
Speaker 1: cops and it's just people are trying to enjoy a
Speaker 1: car being on fire and you're just going.
Speaker 2: To you know, cosports on watching cars. That's right, yes,
Speaker 2: uh yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's on the one of the easiest of topics,
Speaker 1: illegal immigration. I mean, my goodness, look at the poll numbers.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think part of it is.
Speaker 1: And the longer you live, the more you see and do,
Speaker 1: the more you realize. You know, I imagine people at
Speaker 1: this level were going to be like, really smart and capable,
Speaker 1: and it turns out they're not. They're kind of the same,
Speaker 1: you know, dim witted drones that I encountered on the
Speaker 1: last level of whatever I'm doing. There are exceptions, obviously,
Speaker 1: all of us, you know, encounter people are very impressive.
Speaker 1: But I just think you're Karen's Bass, your Gavin's Newsome,
Speaker 1: especially because they operate in one party states, their game
Speaker 1: is not sharp. They're just not that good, and so
Speaker 1: they don't understand the subtleties or even the obvious aspects
Speaker 1: of what they're I don't think I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a subtlety subtleties. Americans don't like rioting, never have, never will.
Speaker 1: People do not like rioting. They like order. That's just
Speaker 1: human nature. Gavin Newsom gave a speech last night standing
Speaker 1: in front of an American flag with he I think
Speaker 1: he either used to dye his hair and he stopped,
Speaker 1: or he's putting gray in his hair. That's the greyest
Speaker 1: his hair has ever looked. In his most presidential looking.
Speaker 1: He meant put a lot of effort into this to
Speaker 1: look like he was the like counter West Coast president.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the focus groups definitely said a little more gray
Speaker 1: upstairs would make you look more you know, mature, more gravitas.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed that myself this morning. Anyway, Gavin gave
Speaker 1: a speech last night. We'll have some of that. And
Speaker 1: Karen Bass enacted a curfew last night in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: They arrested at least a one hundred and then so
Speaker 1: all the reporting has been today, things are calm. Why
Speaker 1: did they? Why did Trump send the National Guard? We
Speaker 1: certainly don't need marines. I don't think we need marines either,
Speaker 1: but the National Guard. Does anybody think that there would
Speaker 1: have been a curfew or arrests or any of these
Speaker 1: things happening if Trump hadn't put all the spotlight and
Speaker 1: pressure on Los Angeles with the whole National Guard thing?
Speaker 2: Does anybody think that.
Speaker 1: It's an obvious cause and effect and everybody knows that
Speaker 1: and to claim otherwise. Yeah, Karen Largemouth Bass Bass leaps
Speaker 1: at Trump's bait.
Speaker 2: That's my headline, gotcha. Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on This is is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: July the eleventh, or ten days from the longest day
Speaker 1: of the year. And I don't know why that bothers me.
Speaker 1: I've been watching the sunset every night so late and
Speaker 1: really enjoying it. In just a few days, the days
Speaker 1: are going to start getting shorter again. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a bad way to look at life. Well yeah, and
Speaker 1: yet I always call the winter equinox the National Optimism Day,
Speaker 1: because all the days get longer starting then, and the
Speaker 1: summer equinox the opposite.
Speaker 2: It seems like it comes so fast.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I know you are twenty twenty five, warmstrong, and
Speaker 1: getting We approve of this program, all right. Let's begin then, officially,
Speaker 1: according to FCC rules and regulations, law and order.
Speaker 2: Here we go, at mark.
Speaker 4: This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed
Speaker 4: a combustible situation. Democracy is under assault before our eyes.
Speaker 4: This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 3: We're not going to wait seven days and eight days
Speaker 3: and wait for a governor that's never going to call.
Speaker 3: And the only flag that will wave triumphant over the
Speaker 3: streets of Los Angeles is the American flag.
Speaker 1: So help me God, those two clips, if you ran
Speaker 1: those two clips for America, I'm thinking it's at least
Speaker 1: eighty twenty.
Speaker 2: It's certainly the majority on the side of Trump. Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the democracy is under assault, is what you're seeing now.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of rioting about illegal immigration, and
Speaker 1: I'm against illegal immigration.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The whole narrative, which they worked so hard, so feverishly
Speaker 1: to get going, that this calling out of the National
Speaker 1: Guard was over the objections of Gavin Newsom, was some
Speaker 1: sort of totalitarian monstrosity not done since nineteen sixty. And
Speaker 1: now the Marines, and I've got to admit the Marines
Speaker 1: because they are a fighting force. The National Guard has
Speaker 1: all sorts of jobs. The Marines thing bothers me a
Speaker 1: little bit trying to get the narrative going that this
Speaker 1: is martial law, it's a seizing of the powers of
Speaker 1: government for the evil dictator Trump to you know, get
Speaker 1: going is Nazi regime. That's just that's those seeds are
Speaker 1: not growing. Nobody thinks that we also need to talk
Speaker 1: about that big military pariode that Trump's got going.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I think about that. I don't
Speaker 2: have a strong opinion either way.
Speaker 1: But first time in thirty years, and that was to
Speaker 1: celebrate the winning of a war. It's not something we do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll discuss that a little bit later. Only Ran Paul's
Speaker 1: the only big time Republican that's come out against it.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear his arguments, okay, because there's definitely
Speaker 1: an aspect of it.
Speaker 2: That I like.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's also an aspect of it is you know,
Speaker 1: North Korea, China, Soviet Union standing there running your missiles
Speaker 1: and everything through the streets to you know whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure that's Look at Meval,
Speaker 2: I'm weak. You are weak man. I put cream in
Speaker 2: my coffee. Look at me.
Speaker 1: Repeating the talking points to the left, the progressive talking
Speaker 1: points exactly. I mean, because like, those arguments are not nothing, okay,
Speaker 1: they have some validity. Well, I believe that they have
Speaker 1: cars in North Korea too. Where are we gonna drive
Speaker 1: cars just like North Korea? That doesn't work. That's a
Speaker 1: that's a logical logical fallacy right there. Uh. That is
Speaker 1: the reason they don't make me bring law and order out,
Speaker 1: all right. That is the reason we don't do those
Speaker 1: parades and never have. Even during the Cold War, we
Speaker 1: didn't do that. Yes, to be different than the Soviet
Speaker 1: But anyway, more on that later, we got some more
Speaker 1: headlines of all the news that's going on in the world,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of stuff to get to.
Speaker 2: I hope you can stay here. This is one of
Speaker 2: our clips of today.
Speaker 1: This could actually end up being in the running for
Speaker 1: a Clip of the Year for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom from his speech last night.
Speaker 5: This moment we have feared has arrived.
Speaker 1: The moment we have feared has arrived. Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: become an authoritarian.
Speaker 5: This moment we have feared has arrived here.
Speaker 1: It landed last night at about eleven o'clock. The moment
Speaker 1: we have feared has arrived. Nice lady and gentlemen. Sorry,
Speaker 1: sorry Kevin. Looking around seemed to be fine, but thank
Speaker 1: you for the OGA horn. Let's run through a handful
Speaker 1: of headlines. Katie is out at the moment. You got
Speaker 1: seven hundred Marines joining the twenty one hundred National Guard
Speaker 1: personnel present in La Tuesday morning. Neither the Marines or
Speaker 1: guardsmen will make arrests. They are just bulk to protect stuff.
Speaker 1: Karen Largemouth Bass ordered a curfew for parts of this
Speaker 1: cty's downtown area from eight pm to six am. What
Speaker 1: since it's spelled the same if I was hard pronounce
Speaker 1: my name base.
Speaker 2: Not fooling anybody.
Speaker 1: Another news, Russian forces yesterday launched with Ukrainian President Zelenski
Speaker 1: described as one of the largest attacks on Kiev since
Speaker 1: the start of the full scale invasion three, which is
Speaker 1: every a headline every single day. David Ignatius in the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, am I going to read the headline as
Speaker 1: much as this first line from his story that we'll
Speaker 1: get into later. Democrats have gotten the border issue so
Speaker 1: wrong for so long that it amounts to political malpractice.
Speaker 1: I would agree that's from a Democrat.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: As a political scientist, and I use that Terman quotes,
Speaker 1: I'm just interested in human beings and how they can
Speaker 1: be so misguided, so incredibly out of touch with I mean,
Speaker 1: the American people. We literally have polls that are published
Speaker 1: in the very you know, outlets that they work for
Speaker 1: that tell them where most Americans are, you know, how
Speaker 1: do they process that?
Speaker 5: For me?
Speaker 1: I think it's and I think it's exactly like the
Speaker 1: same thing like if your kids, if your kid is
Speaker 1: hanging around troublemakers, your kid's gonna get into trouble. If
Speaker 1: your kid is hanging around kids who play sports and
Speaker 1: get good grades.
Speaker 2: They're probably gonna do that.
Speaker 1: If your husband is hanging around a bunch of divorced dudes,
Speaker 1: he's more likely to get divorced than he's hanging around
Speaker 1: other dads who are doing the deal.
Speaker 2: That's just life, man.
Speaker 1: If you're in a bubble, this is like you know,
Speaker 1: it's like a fish doesn't know he's wet or something like.
Speaker 1: That's just everything you're around. This is life. This is
Speaker 1: just normal life. And they hang around other people who
Speaker 1: think this so much. So much of the time, you
Speaker 1: go to your lunch break and you talk about how
Speaker 1: Trump's an authoritarian, how awful this is, and nobody raises
Speaker 1: their hand and say, yeah, I think almost everybody agrees
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have so much illegal immigration.
Speaker 2: So there's somebody there to say that.
Speaker 1: I guess, as a guy who takes in information as
Speaker 1: a profession I think other people who do that have
Speaker 1: a similar approach to gathering that information that I do,
Speaker 1: but obviously not. I bet we'd be shocked at how
Speaker 1: little information these people take in from other sources.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you're right. I bet you're right.
Speaker 1: More headlines, there was a US citizen who's been held
Speaker 1: by Russia for a couple of years. They finally figured
Speaker 1: out where he was in a Russian prison. Hasn't been
Speaker 1: able to call his family until recently. Stephen Hubbard, air
Speaker 1: Force veteran Russia, claims he was fighting for Ukraine. None
Speaker 1: of his communication with his family tends to back that up.
Speaker 2: Who knows, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like this headline. Elon Musk tweeted out last night.
Speaker 1: I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week.
Speaker 1: They went too far. That was a very short succinct.
Speaker 1: That's what an apology should be like. I regret it
Speaker 1: and I went too far. I was wrong. There's no
Speaker 1: but he shouldn't of or I'm sorry his feelings were hurt.
Speaker 2: Michael, gimme twelve A. You know I want it.
Speaker 5: Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: Throwing back his war awards with the President simming.
Speaker 1: Tensions between Musk and the President burst.
Speaker 2: Into the open on June fifth. But now the healing
Speaker 2: has begun. Well, don't you think this is just real?
Speaker 2: It seems like a pretty genuine and it makes sense.
Speaker 1: That's probably It's probably absolutely true. He got he went
Speaker 1: off and now he looks back on it like many
Speaker 1: of us, haven't the wishes he hadn't centered on that.
Speaker 1: Another headline similar spirit, US and China agree to get
Speaker 1: Geneva packed back on track, the War of Words and
Speaker 1: terrorff swear, buddies, Come on, let's get back together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're have reunited.
Speaker 1: Mettle in down, we are trade wise, We absolutely are.
Speaker 1: You Such an interesting relationship. It reminds me of we
Speaker 1: were talking the other day about the Marxists and Islamists
Speaker 1: are frequently working together, each one figuring that, Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: work together, we'll get the overthrow happening. Then when we overthrow,
Speaker 1: the powers that be will take control and we'll hang
Speaker 1: looose guys and over on the other side, they're thinking
Speaker 1: precisely the same thing. China and the US are both thinking, Hey,
Speaker 1: we need the trade to ramp up our economies, and
Speaker 1: then once we're on top, we'll take care of you.
Speaker 1: And both sides think.
Speaker 2: Of the same thing. Yeah, we got a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff to talk about. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 2: If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and
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Speaker 6: Disney World announced last week and it'll be closing the
Speaker 6: Rivers of America, Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Square
Speaker 6: Riverboat Attractions. Oh no, said your lamest Kid.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, Sayer exhibition. I don't rank my kids on lameness.
Speaker 1: First of all, sir, dare he impew in the good
Speaker 1: name of the Tom Sawyer Exhibitions. And you know what's
Speaker 1: interesting in the world where the uh you know, Revenge
Speaker 1: of the Nerds as they've called it for the last
Speaker 1: quite a few decades, as the computer geeks have run things,
Speaker 1: Your lamest Kid might be by far the most successful
Speaker 1: one going out into the world. Although I read I
Speaker 1: was reading, I read way too much about AI. But
Speaker 1: it might be the end of Revenge of the Nerds
Speaker 1: and that all that coding stuff and all that stuff
Speaker 1: is going to that it's going to be the first
Speaker 1: to go with AI, right right, Yeah, the whole learned
Speaker 1: to code. That has been like a mantra for certain
Speaker 1: people for quite a few years. That might be the
Speaker 1: first might already have been. In fact, I know somebody
Speaker 1: it was a PhD who coded all the time. They
Speaker 1: use AI now, I mean they would have to sit
Speaker 1: and for hours code stuff for various programs they needed.
Speaker 1: Now it's just like that with one of your AIS.
Speaker 1: That might be the first thing to have gone. Is
Speaker 1: the whole learned to code, so man be nimble in
Speaker 1: the modern world with the whole, what skill.
Speaker 2: Is the best one to have?
Speaker 1: Well, in the fact that that class of people invented
Speaker 1: their own doom is ironic. Yeah, yeah, exactly something revenge
Speaker 1: of the nerds. Then the nerds invented the thing that
Speaker 1: took is going to take away all their jobs. So whatever,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention this. We're moving away from
Speaker 1: the protest at least for a little while. We'll get
Speaker 1: back to later Gavin's late night speech and what that
Speaker 1: means and blah blah blah. One of your protesters went viral.
Speaker 1: Kind of a round person. I can't tell if this
Speaker 1: is a man or a woman, but because of their
Speaker 1: yellow helmet like yellow skateboarder helmet and goggles, they look
Speaker 1: exactly like a minion.
Speaker 2: And that became quite the.
Speaker 1: Quite the uh wow, you know, the meme opportunity for
Speaker 1: the Internet. And for some reason, this giant, life size
Speaker 1: minion had a leaf blower at that.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're doing with the leaf blower.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to make me mad and
Speaker 1: annoy me, a leaf blower would do better than practically
Speaker 1: anything because I hate them. But what are you doing
Speaker 1: with You're trying to incite violence? Yes, I will will
Speaker 1: be violence. They can just make noise.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's odd. Don't dress like a minion. More on
Speaker 1: the lowers yours. More on the riots, the the curfews,
Speaker 1: Gaviy Newsom's desperate attempt to use this to vaulting to
Speaker 1: the presidency. Fox Scophant right wing talking point. Five hundred
Speaker 1: square miles is Los Angeles. One square mile was under curfew.
Speaker 1: Couple of blocks.
Speaker 2: That's the that's the square mile I'm talking about that one.
Speaker 1: There just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.
Speaker 2: Exactly right.
Speaker 1: That's right, having fun watching cars burn. It's practically the
Speaker 1: fourth of July. Some have fireworks, some have fiery cars.
Speaker 1: It's an LA thing. You're not from La. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: get it. Back to a story I mentioned just briefly
Speaker 1: last segment, the US and China are wrapping up a
Speaker 1: couple of days of intense talks with what they say
Speaker 1: is a framework to get the trade truce back on track,
Speaker 1: ratchet down tensions between the worlds two biggest economies. I
Speaker 1: was especially interested in this, having just read something about
Speaker 1: how the economic prospects for the summertime are a little
Speaker 1: iffy because of a number of factors, including labor. And
Speaker 1: there is some fear that if Trump and company are
Speaker 1: serious about just rounding up illegal immigrant workers workplace raids,
Speaker 1: because that's what really sparked.
Speaker 2: Some of this.
Speaker 1: Some of the unrest was just going down to the
Speaker 1: home depot and saying, all right, who's illegal. There's some
Speaker 1: fear that, oh, that's right. There was a big raid
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City too, a jack. This will not shock you.
Speaker 1: It was, as I recall, a meat packing concern of
Speaker 1: some sort and they found a bunch of illegal aliens
Speaker 1: and the boss said, wait, what are you kidding? Me's outrageous.
Speaker 1: They all showed me their ideas. I wonder if they
Speaker 1: were fake.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have a single employee that speaks one
Speaker 1: word of English. But I assumed, oh no, they were
Speaker 1: waving a flag when they apply an American flag, so
Speaker 1: I assume, well, hack anyway, So there are some fear
Speaker 1: that that could disrupt the economy too.
Speaker 2: But anyway, back to China.
Speaker 1: Representatives from the country said the framework could essentially restore
Speaker 1: a pack they agreed to in Switzerland last month, lower tariffs.
Speaker 1: Beijing is going to speed up criminal critical mineral export licenses,
Speaker 1: We're going to loosen up the whole elite computer chip thing,
Speaker 1: and everybody's going to be get back to doing business.
Speaker 1: Well that's interesting because the Wall Street journal piece has
Speaker 1: in it a senior Chinese negotiator nodded to Lutnik's remark, saying,
Speaker 1: the two sides have agreed in principle, with the analysis
Speaker 1: being this suggests all this is just a prelude until
Speaker 1: the leader's summit face to face sometime this summer. So
Speaker 1: that makes it seem more up in the air to me.
Speaker 1: But oh, I don't know. I mean, because things were
Speaker 1: ratcheting up, up, up, I mean more and more hostile,
Speaker 1: and more and more. You think you're a tough guy.
Speaker 1: I'm a tough guy. Now it's the two sides both saying, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: we want to get along. You want to get along, Yes,
Speaker 1: we want to get along to Nobody would have predicted
Speaker 1: this a month and a half ago. So Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: approval ratings have gone up. I'm not wanting to talk
Speaker 1: about that, but whudo they would go up, and inflation
Speaker 1: would be pretty low. US inflation numbers out today rose
Speaker 1: two point four percent, a slight increase, but Trump tariffs
Speaker 1: still haven't sparked major price hikes that people were expecting
Speaker 1: or detractors were predicting. Yeah, two point four is getting
Speaker 1: fairly close to the Fed's targeted two percent. So is
Speaker 1: that good still coming later? I mean, when is this
Speaker 1: supposedly gonna hit? I don't want it to hit. I
Speaker 1: won't get any glee out of it.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 1: And for all of my complaints about the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal's journalism lately, as they've swung wildly left, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about that more later. Their hardcore business reporting
Speaker 1: is still really good. And as our former producer Positive
Speaker 1: Sean back in the day pointed out, he likes to
Speaker 1: read business news because everybody is betting their own money
Speaker 1: that they're right, or that they're accurate, or that their
Speaker 1: information is thorough. It's it's not you know, the wild
Speaker 1: Gaven Newsome style, you know, pontificating about truth, justice and whatever.
Speaker 2: Trump is hitler.
Speaker 1: It's if exports are likely to rise causing X, Y and.
Speaker 2: Z, people really really want to know that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, combination of the terriff uncertainty, the labor uncertainty.
Speaker 2: And a couple other things.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of really really nervous people in
Speaker 1: the world of finance in business right now. So anything
Speaker 1: that calms the waters, I think will be welcomed because
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Speaker 2: I'd hate to get hit hit by a bus. That'd
Speaker 2: be a bad way to go. A vehicle, you'd prefer
Speaker 2: different sort of.
Speaker 1: Any vehicle really is no good. But bus seems like
Speaker 1: that's completely on me. Oh yeah, yeah, I see what
Speaker 1: you're saying. Yeah, there's no you get hit by a car.
Speaker 1: Think we get all kinds of circumstances you die in
Speaker 1: a car wreck. I mean we've all probably known people.
Speaker 1: It's horrific, all kinds of it. But hit by a
Speaker 1: bus almost guaranteed he didn't. I mean it's like when
Speaker 1: people find out there's the jack didn't look both ways.
Speaker 2: Oh, not surprising. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: People will judge you in the headline is that it's
Speaker 1: your fault.
Speaker 2: Yes, you don't have to say it because everybody's thinking. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of the dirty commis, I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: Chiesion Ping has tightened the leash on communist officials lavish
Speaker 1: living and they're heavy boozing. They talk about how for
Speaker 1: a long time the Communist Party, the officials various levels,
Speaker 1: they get together and they drink like crazy, they eat
Speaker 1: gourmet food. They all smoke cigarettes that are paid for
Speaker 1: by the party, I guess, and Chiesion Ping is calling
Speaker 1: for a new era of, you know, more thrifty activity
Speaker 1: by the commis. Let's see the party cigarettes and boothe Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Here's the quote.
Speaker 1: The party center has beaten drums and swung hammers, issued
Speaker 1: orders time and again, but some officials turned to deaf
Speaker 1: bear and showed no fear or awe for such problems.
Speaker 1: We must insist on zero tolerance penalties, including censure, probation, demotion,
Speaker 1: removal from positions, and expulsion from the party.
Speaker 2: Isn't this a history of communism?
Speaker 1: Though? Is everybody just kind of nobody's taken this seriously.
Speaker 1: Is this whole thing's a fake? It's a whole thing's
Speaker 1: a fraud. Oh yeah, yeah. So Beijing reinforced its messages
Speaker 1: with updates to its frugality rules for party and state workers,
Speaker 1: adding provisions that included an explicit ban against serving alcohol,
Speaker 1: gourmet dishes, and cigarettes at official meals. A ban on
Speaker 1: gourmet dishes, that's right. I wonder who draws the line
Speaker 1: on gourmet. Look at his onion ranch dip and laced
Speaker 1: potato chips. That's my gourmet. There are the roughly potato chips,
Speaker 1: though those are fancy.
Speaker 2: Other clauses this is the part I really liked.
Speaker 1: Prohibit floral displays and elaborate backdrops at work meetings.
Speaker 2: This backtoy is too elaborate. What wait a minute.
Speaker 1: You're building a bridge for Wuhan backdrop is awfully elaborate.
Speaker 1: The new rules added to a twenty thirteen frugality code
Speaker 1: are meant to promote the view that thrift is glorious.
Speaker 1: But so it reminds me I'd heard this many times
Speaker 1: throughout my life, but I heard somebody say it the
Speaker 1: other day, The old Soviet joke that was if you're
Speaker 1: a communist, and I wonder about these people in the
Speaker 1: Communist Party if it's true to a certain extent. We
Speaker 1: pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. That's
Speaker 1: the agreement we have, So it's probably good like that.
Speaker 1: We pretend we're really into this whole thing and and
Speaker 1: they pretend that they care, and then we're going along
Speaker 1: with Yeah, yeah, yeah, thrift is glorious. Next time your
Speaker 1: sweetheart wants to spend wildly, mention that to her or
Speaker 1: am yes, honey, enough with the elaborate backdrops. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then tell them give up your soul's desire for freedom
Speaker 1: or what's our favorite clip?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's rough actually during COVID, no kidding.
Speaker 1: Speaking of China, before we take a break, the top
Speaker 1: US General for the Middle East yesterday announced that ninety
Speaker 1: percent of Iran's oil is being purchased by China to
Speaker 1: keep them afloat China holes. Absolutely so, China is effectively
Speaker 1: supporting and financing Iran's malign behavior, including their rush to
Speaker 1: get a bomb, said the SITCOM Chief General Eric Kurilla
Speaker 1: yesterday during a congressional hearing. That is that's a problem,
Speaker 1: and the whole deal maybe next hour two New York
Speaker 1: Times breaks down pretty simply what's going on with the
Speaker 1: Iran deal. We're either gonna let them enrich and hope
Speaker 1: that they follow the rules, or we're gonna go to war.
Speaker 1: It's almost that stark at this point in terms of
Speaker 1: the deal between US and are.
Speaker 2: In, and it's getting so little attention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, heck yeah me you know because uh
Speaker 1: elon and la and a variety of other things, a
Speaker 1: mailbag on the way and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 2: So just stay here.
Speaker 5: We have feared has arrived.
Speaker 1: The moment we have feared has arrived, according to Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom last night. We'll play a little of his speech
Speaker 1: in hour two and then great response to all this
Speaker 1: in the National Review from Rich Lowry. This is not
Speaker 1: what authoritarianism authoritarian being an authority trying to run as hmm,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you want to pay me to be
Speaker 1: your substitute, like it's the Civil War? Yes, authoritarianism look like.
Speaker 1: That's not that's this is not what it looks like.
Speaker 1: And we'll run through that for you. I think you'll
Speaker 1: like it. Great freedom loving quote of the day George W. Romney,
Speaker 1: father of Mitt Art, moderate widely admired politician back in
Speaker 1: the day. Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice.
Speaker 1: But I denounce political extremism of the left or the
Speaker 1: right based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence, and threats when
Speaker 1: they endanger liberty. That sounds like the kind of thing
Speaker 1: politicians used to say, kind of complicated. Long, You're not
Speaker 1: going to raise any money on Twitter with that sort
Speaker 1: of statement, right.
Speaker 2: Own, Libs drink their tears. Not right toalking. Trump's hiller,
Speaker 2: Trump's mmler, that's right. Mail bag, Oh my god, druve
Speaker 2: us a note mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 1: We're struggling to find the right term, a brief term
Speaker 1: we could all remember to refer to roughly twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty four or so, when the most obvious
Speaker 1: basic ideas America is the land of the free. Hard
Speaker 1: work is good, you can get ahead in this country.
Speaker 1: A man is a man, a woman as a woman.
Speaker 1: A boy shouldn't play on girls' sports teams. If you're
Speaker 1: a racist, you're a racist, doesn't matter what color you are. No,
Speaker 1: this country wasn't founded on slave but all of the
Speaker 1: basic bedrock ideas were suddenly taboo to say, or you'd
Speaker 1: lose your career, or they'd shut you into your house
Speaker 1: for months because of COVID uh and and the best
Speaker 1: we came up with yesterday was the Great Oppression. Mike
Speaker 1: nailed it. I believe we should refer to this time
Speaker 1: frame as the Great Repression because it sounds more like depression,
Speaker 1: easier to remember the Great Repression. I'm tracking. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love that. I think you got it, Mike. We will
Speaker 1: refer to that period henceforth. That's the Great Repression.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Jim the San Diego writes, Guys, I've been listening every
Speaker 1: day for about seven years. You have the best show
Speaker 1: in the country.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jim.
Speaker 1: That is very kind, got one, It's very kind. Today
Speaker 1: I was driving with my wife listening to the show.
Speaker 1: Talking about immigration. You asked the quintessential question that everyone
Speaker 1: seems to repeat. If we deport the people in the
Speaker 1: country illegally, who will do the jobs Americans don't want
Speaker 1: to do. My wife, a naturalized American citizen, looked at
Speaker 1: the car radio and yelled, maybe the millions of people
Speaker 1: waiting years and years to legally come to America.
Speaker 2: That's a good one.
Speaker 1: And I looked into it briefly. Rights best I could
Speaker 1: find it is that in twenty twenty three, thirty five
Speaker 1: million people applied to legally immigrate, not migrate, birds migrate,
Speaker 1: humans immigrate. Good thanks for the great show you, Jack, Katie,
Speaker 1: Katie the News Lady, Michael Agel and Hansson make my
Speaker 1: day better.
Speaker 2: Thank you You're very very.
Speaker 1: Kind and that you know, people bring up comprehensive immigration
Speaker 1: reform all the time, but I've always said that that's
Speaker 1: just a dodge for I want to leave it the
Speaker 1: way it is because it's so messy. But how is
Speaker 1: that not more of a conversation. We have thirty five
Speaker 1: million people applying to get in, but no good, decent
Speaker 1: system to let them in. No, we punish them, we
Speaker 1: drain them of money, we treat them like garbage. And
Speaker 1: these are the law abiding, ambitious are people that we want. Hey,
Speaker 1: it is nuts, it's it. Yeah, it's it's unspeakably nuts. Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving along, not much time left to I'll switch right
Speaker 1: to the practical email of the day from Adam. Hey, Jack,
Speaker 1: you're asking about cleaning your windshield, Yes, inside and out,
Speaker 1: because a new car has a miraculously clear windshield and
Speaker 1: it's never like that in correct. And you're at a
Speaker 1: car show, Yes, a big cross that car show. But
Speaker 1: I didn't want to ask some old guy because I
Speaker 1: have fraid he'd talk to me for half an hour. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and your son gave you the excellent advice. Ask a
Speaker 1: young guy who's afraid you're that old guy, and you'll
Speaker 1: both keep it brief.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's just fabulous, well done, son, Jack.
Speaker 1: You can clean a windshield like new by using two
Speaker 1: separate microfibers. Use the first one with a lot of
Speaker 1: cleaner to get the big dirt and debris, and use
Speaker 1: a small spray with a new microfiber to get rid
Speaker 1: of the swipe marks. Also, try your best to do
Speaker 1: this early morning. You're at nights, so the windshield is cooler.
Speaker 1: This also helps white marks. I'll bet that is a
Speaker 1: part of the thing too, when the windshield is cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll try that. So one soapy cloth and one barely
Speaker 1: with a cleanser cloth. Yeah, you gotta buy some the
Speaker 1: windshield is cool, I have learned. You gotta buy some
Speaker 1: good window cleaner, not Windex. Windex is worthless for that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. There's there's much better, more expensive, but
Speaker 1: much better. Okay, cool, thanks for the tip. We got
Speaker 1: some good stuff an hour two. This is not authoritarianism.
Speaker 2: Yes, I did it.
Speaker 6: I said it.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty