WEBVTT - Are You Blind, Man?! 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:13.600 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:19.160 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and Jetty. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:34.560 And live from the studio Season your. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:37.199 It is a dimly lit room deal with in the 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.360 bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compounds of to day 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:46.800 Little Friday under the futelage of general manager rapid change. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:52.200 Oh wow, dizzying? Good lord? What's next? 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.080 Oh? 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:02.160 That might be your funniest ever general manager rapid change. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.480 Would you like to explain? Well? 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.319 Sure, what what? What's to explain? Or you blind man? 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:17.600 Everywhere you look domestically, internationally, it's just everything's in like 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.679 wild flux. Name anything that's stable, even though the Major 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.280 League Baseball they're talking about idiotic rule changes that that's 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.720 how too much fashion? 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.640 These wide pants these children wear today. I just tell you, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.480 I understand it. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.760 The high rise genes. Oh you know what, this government 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.600 should have stepped in there. Just again, too much change. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.520 They're not flattering, That's what I don't get. I'm amazing people, 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:52.200 particularly young women, don't want to display what they look like. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.920 Just kind of surprising to me that they want to 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.520 be don'tna were something that makes it impossible to know 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:58.240 what they look like. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.160 So I don't I'm just I don't know. It really 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.680 looks like something designed in a Marxist system to de 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:10.720 sexualize everybody, or something. Since trust me, my word on 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.400 what looks good on women can be trusted, like the 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.600 very tablets that came down from God Almighty in the 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.799 hands of Moses, I would not lie. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.080 Well right about that. That's kind of weird that that 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.840 fits a bit of a cultural moment, you know, the 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.960 last month with Trump, a side of the you know, 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:34.120 no genders and all the sort of stuff in that 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:39.120 young women up until like a year ago, we're wearing 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.200 jeans that were all about making it very clear what 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:42.760 you look like. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.680 All right, if only we had a woman to consult. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.240 Katie Green joins us, Katie. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.639 Not only are they awful, but I'll tell you I've 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.359 worned the high rise genes before. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.520 Try sitting down in those babies. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.280 Well, yeah, there's that, but I don't even mean the 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:58.000 high rise, just. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:58.720 The wide pants. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:02:59.919 They're very very low. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:01.000 The bottoms. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.440 I mean, you're you could be you could be between 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.440 eighty five pounds and one hundred and eighty five pounds, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.400 and you would look exactly the same in all the 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.920 genes that college girls were today. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.280 It's all about the mystery. It's all about the mystery. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.320 Jack Well, it wasn't for the past fifteen years. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.520 So I just well, the mystery is never solved because 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.079 they never take off their genes, because everybody's asexual. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.440 Maybe that's it. Maybe it's the I don't want a date. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.680 I don't want anybody to talk to me. I'd rather 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.720 meet a bear in the woods than a strange man. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.400 And I'm gonna let the big formless scheme right exactly. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.640 And they are actual Marxists in many cases, So I 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.560 think I think I had the answer there long before 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.240 most of the discussion. But anyway, I haven't even. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.920 Thought about that. You got to write a long essay 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:51.720 for The Atlantic on Marxist clothing and the use of today. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.560 I'll get chance Ept to do it for me. I'll 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.600 put my name to it. That's a good idea. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.760 So has anybody an excoriated op ed I just read 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.200 from the Wall Street Journal today, second day in a 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.440 row on Trump's plan and the things he's saying about 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.480 Zelensky and Ukraine. Has anybody figured out exactly what the 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.480 what the what the goal is here, what we're doing, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:14.120 what he's doing. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:20.719 I'm figuring out more and more. Honestly, I did a 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.080 bit of a deep dive into the argument in favor 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:28.480 of his position, and it is, as usual with Trump, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:35.640 a combination of some good points and an explanation of 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:40.240 them that's so horrific. Nobody who doesn't know precisely what 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.360 he's talking about has any idea what he's talking about. 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:45.799 Well, is it three dimensional chess? 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:51.000 Is that what's happening here? All chests is three dimensional? No, 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:56.800 not exactly, not exactly. It's it's a it's a policy 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:01.320 of as we discussed yesterday. Some of you could call 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.719 it reprochemont with with Russia or just not driving Russia 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.760 into the arms of the axes of a holes. That's 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.080 part of it. And the other part of it is 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:18.440 that there were some fairly little uh talked about, written about, 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:23.000 not totally not totally ignored, but mostly ignored negotiations a 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.719 couple of years ago to end the conflict. And the 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.880 story is the Ukrainians kind of liked the deal, and 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:33.120 the US told them, no, don't take this deal with Russia. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:41.040 And that seems to be what Trump is referring to Okay, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.320 and it's difficult. I mean you could, you could absolutely 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.360 teach a year long college class on all of this, 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.680 because I mean, among some of the other claims is 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:55.160 that the US stage decoup that overthrew the freely elected 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.600 government of Ukraine back in twenty four, which I find 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:07.839 to be fairly ridiculous description of the Kremlin's puppet regime 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.560 being tossed aside, Yes, with the help of the West, 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.960 because the Ukrainian people really wanted to lean more towards 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.919 Europe and democracy and justice in the free market and 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.040 the rest of it, as opposed to Putin's kleptocracy in 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:27.000 that former Soviet republic. And and they then actually held 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:31.960 elections in which Vladimir Lensky was elected, for better or worse. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.040 So it's there are there are multiple layers, there are 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.960 multiple stories to each layer, multiple points of view, and 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.040 and again, uh, Trump needs to put JD. Vans out 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:45.440 front to explain this. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:49.760 We all have to talk about that more or later 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.279 with the full because it's it's it's it's roiling the world. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:07:00.680 It absolutely is. And as I was trying to babble out, 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:07.919 it is such a mix of fact opinion, propaganda, historical 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.360 guess work. It's difficult to pin down. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.480 Well, I for the first time I heard somebody hint 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.200 at so I mentioned the other day Mark Halpern wrote, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.080 and I haven't seen this anywhere else. So one of 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.320 the reasons I like Mark Alpern's writing is he's got 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.360 tremendous sources and stuff that. But i'd never heard this 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.120 anywhere else. I read it on the air the other day. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.400 He said, you can't go anywhere in Washington, d C. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:39.760 With talk of this grand bargain that includes Greenland, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, China, US, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.760 all of it coming together. Everybody's talking about this thing. 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.240 And I heard David Ignatius the first time on the 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.880 Washington Post this morning saying there is talk of a 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.040 grand bargain that would include China. And so that's the 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.000 first time I've heard anybody even hint at it. But 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.920 according to Halpurn, that's what everybody's talking about behind the scenes. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.920 So that must play a role this somehow. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.720 I don't know why it has to be so secret 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.880 that nobody that Trump's taken so much fire from so 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.760 many different directions, including a fair number of people in 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:11.480 his own party. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:18.000 Oh yeah, virtually everybody. I I came across this, and 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:25.120 we've got a listener who either spent like seventy hours 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.480 compiling information or is crazy into this or has a 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.000 role in this, but anyway, sending a bunch of links 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.040 to articles through the years and Twitter threads and such, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.320 including one from j d Vance who spells out in 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:44.040 ten steps or so, why the current Ukraine policy is 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.040 so bad? 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.600 Well, the current happy to the current Ukraine policy of 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.480 just give them barely enough to survive. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.720 Well, no, no, he would characterize it more as a 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:06.119 ten to spread democracy and freedom, et cetera, and oppose 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.840 Putin and bleed him dry in a proxy war. That's 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.600 our current policy. That's the way they describe it. Okay, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.679 That's what I was trying to communicate to you. There's 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.720 virtually no aspect of this that doesn't have like three 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:25.480 different strong opinions about how to describe it or what 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.520 facts are salient. I'm not sure. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.679 I'm not sure standing up for an already existing democracy 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.959 is the same as spreading democracy, like when we went 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:34.320 into a rack in Afghanistan. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.800 Oh, I would agree, And in fact, Noah Rothman of 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.600 National Review responded to jd Vance's ten point post for 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.640 the life of me, I can't see how Russia is worn. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:48.800 Ukraine bears even a passing resemblance to a rock save 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.840 for the subtextual argument. Ukraine's critics seem to have internalized 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.120 that America is the bad guy. But you know, I'd 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.920 be happy to share Jadvance's ten point post next segment 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.200 or what we should do that later. Absolutely at the 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:01.920 bottom of the hour. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.560 It's one of the biggest stories in the world, no 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.200 doubt about it, and depending on how it turns out, 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.040 it could be a really big story. We should start 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.839 to show officially before we run out of toime. I'm 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.840 Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this How did it 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:13.560 already get to be? 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:14.000 What? 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.560 Thursday February twentieth, the year twenty twenty five, where I'm 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.160 strong and getting. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.760 We approve of this program. Let's begin then officially, Here 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.160 we go according to FCC rules, rags, Here we go 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.000 at mark. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.839 If we're doing solve the deficit, there won't be money 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.560 for medical care, they won't be a money. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.520 For social security. We either solve the deficit. All we'll 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.080 be doing is paying debt. It's got to be solved. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.680 It's not optional, and MIC will go bankrupt if this 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:37.400 is not done. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:38.439 That's why I'm here. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.400 I want to replace the national anthem, non Pledge of 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.520 allegiance in all our schools all across the country where 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.360 they still do that with that, I want to take 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.040 out the pledge of allegiance and put that in. I 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.200 think it might be important, important right now that every 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.760 school child here first thing in the morning. We're going broke. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.360 We're going to go broke. We're not going to have 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.079 anything if we don't change direction. It's just math, maybe 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.000 fleshed out a little bit. There will be no money 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.920 for national defense. There will be no money for sick people. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.679 There will be no money for disaster relief. After the 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.680 hurricanes hit, there will be no money for anything. Will 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.880 be broke. We'll be starving or homeless people in trans 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.800 bathrooms if that's your where you like money to go, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.160 but wherever whatever you had. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.360 Two different things, or do you have homeless people in 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:19.480 trans bathrooms? 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.360 Matter what your are too much for, there won't be 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.160 any money. Well, there ain't no money. There ain't no money. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.120 I don't if you've ever been broke, but there ain't 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.600 no money. There ain't no money. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.280 Give generously to the fun to get trans people into 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:32.520 junkie bathrooms. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.320 So we have mail bag and headlines this hour more 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:36.800 news of the day. Lots of stuff going on. I 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:44.240 hope you can see around. Just came across another headline 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.160 I should have sent you, Katie. We'll get this on later. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.240 I need to do some breeding exercises before we do 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:49.760 the headlines. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.400 I know Joe, Joe hasn't seen this yet. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.120 I sent Katie what might be the most depressing headline 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:02.040 as a California taxpayer that I've ever seen my wife, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.040 So I need to, yeah, calm down a little bit, yeah, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.719 before it's all going to be our before she does 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:09.200 the headlines. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.640 Here we go. It's probably not going to be all right. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.120 But anyway, you're breathing exercises that I don't wanted to 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.080 pass out. Joe work with me here. Yes, I'm sorry. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.720 Let's figure out who's reporting what we've rejiggered the schedule. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.760 Now is the time, friends, Now for the lead story 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:31.000 with Katie Green. Katie, all right, Jack hold on, Katie La. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:36.520 Majority of Californians still support high speed rail project, polling. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.960 Shows a new Emerson poll came out yesterday. Fifty four 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.880 percent of Californians still think the bullet train, using my 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:50.600 finger quotes, is still a good expenditure of state funds. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.199 Excuse me, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I got to 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:58.439 take this call. Yeah, yep, Joe here, yep, hmm, yeah, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.520 I'll tell them. Okay, that was James Madison. The experiment 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.840 of self government has failed. It's now over. It's been ended. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.920 So anyway, good to hear from the father of the Constitution. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.400 And even if you don't live in California, you should 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:18.720 be depressed how people don't pay attention, or people are morons, 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.320 or I don't, I don't, I'm I'm having trouble absorbing 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:23.040 this information. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.800 My brief thesis would be, if you make the government 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.720 big and complicated enough that people can't comprehend it, you 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.920 have the cover to do whatever you want in terms 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.520 of milking the treasury for yourself and your cronies. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:38.440 Let me read one thing from the poll and then 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.400 I'll let you get back to the other headlines. Just 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.080 the wording of this really bothered me. Despite uncertainty over 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:50.040 its budget and timeline, oh no, there's there's absolute certain 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:55.320 The majority of Californians still say the California High School 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.880 project is worthy of state county despite uncertainty. You mean 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:01.880 the fact that we're supposed to have it years ago, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.960 and it's and they haven't laid any track yet, and 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.520 it's never gonna happen, and it's cost five times as much, 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.800 and it's the biggest boondoggle and maybe the history of 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.920 tax payer money anywhere in the world, anywhere in history. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.160 Despite that, you mean, you're still in favor of it. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.520 The cost balloons over and over and over again. The 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.560 uncertainty is how far it will balloon. I'm not sure 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.720 I would just call that uncertain few morons. There will 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.040 never be a bullet train. They're not even claiming it's 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.720 a bullet train anymore. It's a regular speed train. Jack. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.680 You just need to go out in the streets, ask 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.560 people their opinion. If they say, yeah, I'm still in 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.960 favor of it, beat them with your fists. That's the 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.120 only way to get over this, Katie, back to you, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.280 Oh my god. CNN fact check. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.320 Trump claims de Lenski has a four percent approval rating 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:49.960 when it's above fifty percent. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.240 The only part I don't get of the if there's 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.880 a strategy here. Maybe it's a strategy that I could 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.400 even kind of understand. And then you throw in Trump's 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.040 personality on top of it, because there's no reason you 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.840 have to belittle Zolensky to pull off the strategy is there? 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.200 You know he's doing that because he's but hurt that 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.520 Zelensky argued with him. 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:11.960 You don't have to call him a you know, a 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.359 cut rate comedian with a four percent approval? 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:20.800 How does that help anything? Now, as I've said, many times, 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.040 what is wrong with Trump will be the undoing of 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.200 what's right with Trump. It's like watching a slow motion 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.720 train wreck. Meanwhile, I just hope more and more of 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.440 the good stuff happens, because there's a lot of great 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:30.080 stuff happening. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.480 High speed train wreck or regular speed train wreck. No, no, no, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.640 slow motion train wreck from the Telegraph. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:43.840 Hamas parades coffins of child hostages in disgusting spectacle. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.400 Oh my god, I got so mad at NPR today, 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.640 and that happens almost What was the Ulways say about 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:49.400 listening to NPR. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.000 I listened to it to punish myself for the bad 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:52.800 things I've done. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.040 So Hamas released the bodies of people they had murdered, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.640 including a mom and two babies. Hamas ordered a couple 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:05.120 of babies. They release the bodies, they parade them around, 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.560 they do their usual big flags of a Hamas support 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:13.400 and everything like that, belittling everybody and everything. NPR called 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.120 it Hamas with once more a show of strength as 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.840 they release bodies to the Israelis a show of strength. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.840 PR right now, Yeah, ah, It's been claimed by some 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.360 sympathetic to the Hamas cause that well, they were killed 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.360 in Israeli air strikes. Most likely well, by every standard 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.920 of law that exists on the planet, the abductor is 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.680 responsible for that outcome. Please quick true. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.480 It's still Hamas's fault and no reason to believe that's true. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.840 From Reuters, Trump says he's considering returning twenty percent of 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.360 DOGE savings to Americans. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.040 Yeah, I need to dig into this. It's the perpetual 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:56.080 motion machine of people's approval for the program. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.120 From the New York Post, Chipotle will use AI to 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.920 hire twenty thousand workers for burrito season. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.720 Awesome. And from the Babylon Bee, cruel elon. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.040 Musk cuts off social security benefits for thousands of revolutionary 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:12.160 war veterans. 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:13.720 Beautiful. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.679 Yeah, we got more dough stuff and lots of headlines 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.560 and mail bag on the way all this hour, So stay. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.679 Tuned, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.880 As we mentioned earlier in the week, with some pulling 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.240 Trump's most popular he's ever been in his political career, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.560 it'll be interesting to see if there's any political price 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:37.359 to pay for this newt angle he's taking on wrapping 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:43.840 up Ukraine. So he called said Ukraine started the war 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.040 and Zalnsi's a dictator and all that such stuff. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:47.240 Forty eight hours ago. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.200 And we speculated yesterday that he might walk that back, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.159 that maybe he was shooting out his mouth. Apparently not. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.240 He was in Miami last night and these are some 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:56.680 of the comments he made. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:01.000 A dictator without elections. Zelensky, better move, He's not going 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.760 to have a country left. Got to move, got to 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.040 move fast, because that war's going in the wrong direction. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.520 In the meantime, we're successfully negotiating an into the war 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:11.200 with Russia. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.800 Something all admit that only Trump is going. 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.920 To be able to do. In the Trump administration, we're 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:16.960 going to be able to do it. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:22.240 I think Putin even admitted that Biden never tried. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.159 Europe has failed to bring peace and Zolensky probably wants to. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.399 Maybe he wants to keep the gravy train going. I 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.359 don't know what's the problem, but he hasn't been able. 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.080 He's very upset that he wasn't invited. He could have 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.240 come if he wanted to, but that he wasn't invited 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.520 to Saudi Arabia. But he's been working for three years, 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.200 he's never been even meeting. So phone calls to stop 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:42.800 this war. It's a horrible thing. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.800 I see. That's nonsensical to my ears. So on the 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:54.360 one hand, we're being ordered to believe that Zelensky hasn't 0:18:54.720 --> 0:19:01.040 participated in any conversations. Meanwhile, I've got folks all sorts 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:05.359 of information that indicates that the US pressured Zelensky not 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.639 to come to an agreement that he wanted to in 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:08.600 twenty twenty two. 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.600 I'd never heard that before, so I don't I got 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:12.199 nothing on that. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:17.320 But yeah, on the Turkey talks is stun bull talks. Well. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.040 Also, the whole using the term dictator is a pejorative, 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.840 which it should be a pejorative against Zelensky, but not 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.960 Putin News. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:31.040 Not critical of Putin, uh Putin. Volinski is barred from 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:35.040 having elections during wartime according to the Ukrainian constitutions. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:40.000 Well, yeah, yeah, I I just don't understand the strategy. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.560 And like I said earlier, if if Trump wants to 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.159 come out and those of you who agree with him 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.480 want to come out and say it's a regional dispute, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.320 it's Europe, it's we don't live there, it's not. At 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.800 least that's an intellectual argument, and I don't agree with it. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.760 I think we have national interest in how it turns out. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:01.200 But it's an argument to say we have no business 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.240 in that, to say, to say you've grain started and 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.240 Zelensky's a dictator and all that, I don't know what 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:07.879 the hell that is. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.760 No, I'm I'm just utterly flabbergasted. 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.040 And then he's in it for the money. He's he's 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:18.520 he's in it for It's amazing he hasn't died yet, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.639 him and his family, So many of his friends and 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.639 countrymen have died horrible deaths or been raped or beaten 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.040 or whatever. He's in it for the money. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.760 What well, in ninety percent of the money never leaves 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.120 the United States. It's it just goes to armaments. I mean. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.080 And again, if you want to make the it's the 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:39.000 military industrial complex continuing this because they're making so much money. Okay, 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:43.840 that's that's fine. Again, that's an argument, but that's happening 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.680 simultaneously with u. Zelensky is keeping the money and he's 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.919 on a gravy train. So which one is it? Those are? 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:55.840 They're diametrically opposed your two arguments. There's there's so much, 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.800 you know, fog going on here. Got this note from 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:05.080 and with many many links and opinions, some more factual, 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:11.359 some a little wishy washy. And it's interesting the links 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.159 to Twitter accounts, including this one dude who's quoted a 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.520 great deal and he has like something like three hundred 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.280 and seventy thousand followers on Twitter for what it is worth. 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.040 But I took several minutes to scroll through his Twitter 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:27.400 feed for a very long time. Or you know, many many, 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.119 many different entries and posts and quotes and links and 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:38.560 that sort of thing. And it's uniformly anti Us, anti Israel. 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.040 You know, once in a while, somebody mad at US says, 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.160 you guys act like Israel can do no wrong, which 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.080 is not true. I don't act like that, speaking for myself, 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.160 and they do wrong all the time. It happens in war, 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:56.439 and we've acknowledged it. But this point of view is 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.800 the America can do no right. Man can do no 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:00.840 it's the woke right. 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.639 I'm amazed you were able to get past that. I 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.960 can't handle that. That past what point of view? You 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:09.399 act like America does no wrong. Well, I'm done talking 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:10.760 to you if you say that to me. 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:15.080 Oh, I said Israel, but yeah, yeah, it's just a 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.360