Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong and Jetty and
Speaker 2: now he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Hetty.
Speaker 3: Do you work only with humans or do you move drugs?
Speaker 2: Also everything?
Speaker 3: How much fentanyl do you move across that border?
Speaker 4: Lately it's been quiet, but for a while there we
Speaker 4: were bringing in thirty kilos per month.
Speaker 3: Wow, you were the drugs come from from China.
Speaker 4: I get more into the US, but also it goes
Speaker 4: from the US to Canada and weapons.
Speaker 1: That was on sixty Minutes last night.
Speaker 5: We're speculating that they got so much pushback on sixty
Speaker 5: Minutes from some of their ridiculously left leaning coverage of
Speaker 5: a couple of big stories in the last few weeks,
Speaker 5: they decided to do this because, I mean, God, a
Speaker 5: lot of liberals had to hate sixty minutes pointing out, Yeah,
Speaker 5: the Mexican cartels are absolutely moving humans and drugs across
Speaker 5: the Canadian border, and the interview guy.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, I was so disgusted with sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: I couldn't bring myself to look at it last night,
Speaker 1: just because they've been on the twenty five issue of
Speaker 1: sixty five twenty five issues several weeks in a row,
Speaker 1: and they don't even acknowledge right that there is another viewpoint,
Speaker 1: much less that that viewpoint is held by double or
Speaker 1: triple's number of the number of people there. Especially, they've
Speaker 1: just gone so full on lefty. It's ridiculous, that's so
Speaker 1: much correct.
Speaker 5: Perhaps it's so maddening when the news does that, when
Speaker 5: they take the minority position and act like that's the
Speaker 5: only position. God, how are you even in journalism when
Speaker 5: you do that? But anyway, luckily they're dying. Jack is
Speaker 5: an industry, right.
Speaker 1: Here's a little more of this cartel guy.
Speaker 5: With his face blacked out and adjusting his voice, talking
Speaker 5: to sixty minutes.
Speaker 3: In February, we traveled to an area the US Customs
Speaker 3: and Border Protection calls the Swanton Sector, which runs from
Speaker 3: New Hampshire to upstate New York. Last year, more than
Speaker 3: eighty percent of migrant apprehensions at the northern border happened here.
Speaker 3: This man told us he coordinated the handoff and took
Speaker 3: the video.
Speaker 2: Can you tell us who you work for? For the
Speaker 2: Cineloa cartel.
Speaker 3: He goes by the name Hove and agreed to speak
Speaker 3: with us only with his camera off. He said he
Speaker 3: can't risk his identity being exposed.
Speaker 2: How does this work?
Speaker 3: They tell you where to go, They tell you how
Speaker 3: many people you have to bring across each week.
Speaker 2: I set them makes exactly, That's how it goes.
Speaker 4: They provide the people, They have more people who are
Speaker 4: behind all this looking for customers, finding them and summoning
Speaker 4: them to certain locations.
Speaker 1: This is not fundamental to the discussion. But why is
Speaker 1: that dude talk in a sixty minute right outside? Because
Speaker 1: the downside is several holes in him? Oh, the downside
Speaker 1: is being tortured to death. Yes, I mean like horrifically
Speaker 1: to make sure that they would again shoot you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be a bargain.
Speaker 5: That's why, as I was watching this, I thought, if
Speaker 5: the politics were flipped on this story, I'd be calling BS.
Speaker 5: I really would. I'd be saying, oh, sure, sixty minutes
Speaker 5: found somebody who's willing to risk their lives of being
Speaker 5: tortured by the Sonola Cartel to go on the record
Speaker 5: for some reason.
Speaker 1: What a bunch of crap.
Speaker 5: I think I would be saying that it's odd. Here's
Speaker 5: a little more the guy I don't know, but here's
Speaker 5: a little more from him before we discuss.
Speaker 3: Search for border excursions on TikTok and Facebook and you'll
Speaker 3: find a black market set to music that guarantees migrant
Speaker 3: safe passage across the northern border. There are posts in Spanish,
Speaker 3: English and Punjabi Hello, and reviews like you'd find on Yelp.
Speaker 3: These men in the back of a car on their
Speaker 3: way to a new life in the United States. Give
Speaker 3: their smugglers five stars and a thumbs up.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: How about that they have just flat out advertisements with
Speaker 5: music and a voiceover and an endorsement from somebody from
Speaker 5: a happy customer who the Mexican did the awful, deadly
Speaker 5: Mexican cartels are working in Canada to get these people across,
Speaker 5: and of course they are, because your life is going
Speaker 5: to be so much better for you and the rest
Speaker 5: of your family if you can get into the United States,
Speaker 5: especially with our currents in a low of vacations. Sign
Speaker 5: up today.
Speaker 6: How about the fact that on sixty minutes they had
Speaker 6: a guy flat out say yeah, China is getting the
Speaker 6: fentanyl to Mexico and then we get it into the
Speaker 6: United States across the Canadian border.
Speaker 5: Right on sixty minutes', which's line right there.
Speaker 1: It's pretty well known, but it is very very interesting
Speaker 1: that they are saying, yeah, all that stuff is true. Yep,
Speaker 1: and much more than years old. We had an email.
Speaker 5: Known at all by the crowd that watches sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's good point, great point. We had an email
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I think we featured it
Speaker 1: from a recently retired fella who worked the Canadian border
Speaker 1: who said, fellas that you know, only two percent of
Speaker 1: the fentanyl in America comes through the Canadian border. Thing
Speaker 1: is a wildly outdated number based on a faulty estimate,
Speaker 1: and it's easily ten times that much.
Speaker 5: It's the largest ungo guarded border on planet Earth. The
Speaker 5: line mail, Yeah, by by quite a bit. It's almost
Speaker 5: six thousand miles long. I mean, it's it's amazing. I
Speaker 5: had another point to make on that. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 5: it's a small percentage of the amount that comes across
Speaker 5: the Mexican border.
Speaker 1: Well, good god, I would hope so, because that's an
Speaker 1: absurd amount absolutely to kill you know, hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of Americans, millions of Americans every year.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're pointing out the The fentanyl overdose rate is
Speaker 1: down fairly significantly from are you kidding me too?
Speaker 5: That's a tragedy.
Speaker 1: The number is still in the eighty thousand a year range,
Speaker 1: eighty thou that's down twenty five percent, which is a
Speaker 1: good thing. But again it's from unthinkable to horrific.
Speaker 5: Wow, we have what thirty thousand a year fatalities from
Speaker 5: car wreck something like that, eighty thousand from fentanyl. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that is a main good news. I have always wondered
Speaker 5: with fentanyl. It's just at some point, don't you kill
Speaker 5: are your customers? That's what I've just always wonder. Can
Speaker 5: you come up with enough new people who are willing
Speaker 5: to dabble in fentanyl? Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: We can look when we have a little more time
Speaker 1: at why the drop has occurred. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: bunch of different factors. There seems to be a drop
Speaker 1: in opioid use over all, which is partly so many
Speaker 1: people have died. Partly word is getting around that that
Speaker 1: is just you are diving into the grave, Yeah, by
Speaker 1: dabbling in this stuff.
Speaker 5: So I guess the main point would be I'm not
Speaker 5: I don't think we need to be in a trade war.
Speaker 5: With Canada.
Speaker 1: No, they need to be our fifty first state. Just
Speaker 1: ask Governor Trudeau.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's right, he's not in an office or be
Speaker 5: bad mouth in Canada like there's some sort of evil country.
Speaker 5: But obviously the pushback that the Mexican cartels were not
Speaker 5: working with the Canadian border and doing this sort of
Speaker 5: stuff is just flat out wrong. So good on sixty
Speaker 5: minutes for having that story. I appreciate that I mentioned earlier.
Speaker 5: My neighbors are making me feel bad about myself and
Speaker 5: super super nice people in this new neighborhood that I
Speaker 5: live in.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 5: They my picture of them from my driveway is I've
Speaker 5: only had a couple of conversations with them, a few conversations,
Speaker 5: met their kids, that sort of stuff. Really nice, But
Speaker 5: my picture of them for my driveway it's like seeing
Speaker 5: their Facebook page with all the achievements and everything that
Speaker 5: all the time. They're always up earlier than me and
Speaker 5: my kids. They're always out exercising, like with the kids,
Speaker 5: bike rides and all this different sort of stuff. On Sundays,
Speaker 5: they're up early and the kids are all dressed up
Speaker 5: and they get to church. Every time I go to
Speaker 5: the gym, he's there, it's like, are there two of you?
Speaker 5: How do you do this? I don't understand how you
Speaker 5: do this? Washing their cars in the drive. It's just
Speaker 5: like they're constantly doing productive things and like being just
Speaker 5: so productive and happy. And it's just it's I need
Speaker 5: to move somewhere where the people are like just laying around.
Speaker 1: They're in super fit. I need I need to I
Speaker 1: need to live.
Speaker 5: I need to live next to people who are like, oh,
Speaker 5: laying around and even crap, their.
Speaker 1: Cars are dirty, their kids look right, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Well you have you have three choices to me, all right.
Speaker 1: Number one, there's that choice, very attractive. Number two. Number two,
Speaker 1: you could up your game and be as good or
Speaker 1: better than your neighbors.
Speaker 5: Let's just put that one aside. Right, Let's table that
Speaker 5: at best.
Speaker 1: Third, undermine their efforts. Now here's the option. I'm interested
Speaker 1: in exploring. What can you do to undermine that family
Speaker 1: their good habits and their happiness?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Just the best offense is a good defense, you know that.
Speaker 1: Watching the NZAA tournament, got.
Speaker 5: To admit I'm looking for some downside to make myself
Speaker 5: feel better.
Speaker 1: It's like there's gotta be.
Speaker 5: Something going on over there. That's not perfect because it
Speaker 5: looks perfect. Yeah, and I feel like they're doing it
Speaker 5: just to mock me. That's their main motivation. Well, that's yeah,
Speaker 5: that's the key is to take it personally. Yes, it
Speaker 5: only makes sense. Their excellence is an insult to you. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a very productive, great attitude to have. Yeah, when
Speaker 5: I when I walk out and I see them with
Speaker 5: their kids all dressed up headed to Sunday school, and
Speaker 5: I think my kids are still in bed, and I
Speaker 5: just got up myself. Oh my good.
Speaker 1: Right, you've got to resent them for that.
Speaker 5: You're gonna come home from church and then wash your
Speaker 5: cars and then you're going to the gym.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not exactly what my plan is. Wow, have
Speaker 1: you read He'll be elegy? You really should. Or we're
Speaker 1: gonna reath it. We're gonna eat too much bad food
Speaker 1: and go back to sleep.
Speaker 5: Is sort of our plan, but SATs their own exactly.
Speaker 5: We've got more on the Waistay here.
Speaker 7: The IDF expands its attacks in Gaza, and then he
Speaker 7: talks of a renewed ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have stalled,
Speaker 7: the IDF saying they'll continue to seize more areas in
Speaker 7: Gaza until Hamas releases the remaining several dozen hostages. The
Speaker 7: IDF targeting Nasser Hospital, one of Gaza's largest still operational,
Speaker 7: saying a Hamas leader was operating from inside the Trumpe
Speaker 7: administration firmly standing behind Israel, saying it had every right
Speaker 7: to restart this war after Hamas refused to keep negotiating. Hamas,
Speaker 7: of course, accuses Israel of breaking the ceasefire ceasefire.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Sagan, you got cut off. Israel is breaking
Speaker 1: the ceasefire. Yes, I saw it on the news. Israel
Speaker 1: broke the ceasefire.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Goodness sakes, So Benjamin Netanyahu and his national security team
Speaker 1: have decided to go ahead with an aggressive plan to
Speaker 1: capture and hold swaths of territory. They think that's the
Speaker 1: way to finally defeat Hamas, because that's it's the only
Speaker 1: way to go. There's no co existing with Hamas anymore.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you saw over the weekend they sent infantry into
Speaker 1: the northern part of the Gaza Strip, areas around Rafa
Speaker 1: in the south has Also, Israel has also deployed troops
Speaker 1: in the so called Netsarim Corridor, which bi sects the
Speaker 1: enclave returning it, returning two areas that had withdrawn from
Speaker 1: as part of the ceasefire, that the prisoner exchange the hostages.
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: We all follow that, and I didn't mean to blah
Speaker 1: blah blah the hostages and those still held. It is horrific,
Speaker 1: It is medieval, It is evil. What's interesting is that
Speaker 1: Netanya Netanyahu and his hawkish group of aids are kind
Speaker 1: of going against the grain of Israeli society right now
Speaker 1: because polls have shown a majority, a pretty good majority,
Speaker 1: including a majority of right wing voters in Israel, want
Speaker 1: the fighting to stop as part of a deal that
Speaker 1: brings home the remaining hostages in God. So, I'm of
Speaker 1: two minds on this. Number One, Israel and Israelis should
Speaker 1: run their own country the way they see fit.
Speaker 5: But also.
Speaker 1: Hamas is really really good at manipulating public opinion and saying, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is take it easy on
Speaker 1: us for a little while longer and your dad will
Speaker 1: come home.
Speaker 5: Just give us another week.
Speaker 1: We're not reconstructing the tunnels or re arming or training
Speaker 1: recruits or anything like that. And that that nice granny,
Speaker 1: We'll we'll go ahead and release here or they're not.
Speaker 5: Already dead and we don't even know where they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I am sympathetic to the desperation of the
Speaker 1: Israeli people for you know, just normal reasons that all
Speaker 1: humans share, and then for traditional reasons among uh Jewish
Speaker 1: folks to get those people and or their bodies back.
Speaker 1: I just wonder how realistic they're being. I mean, because
Speaker 1: I look at the American public. There are times that
Speaker 1: polls show Americans want something that's completely unrealistic.
Speaker 5: It happens.
Speaker 1: People are not experts in this stuff, and so I
Speaker 1: just I don't understand, you know what, I ought to
Speaker 1: dig into this find out why the Israeli people in
Speaker 1: large numbers think this. Do they think that if we
Speaker 1: string this along a little bit and get a few
Speaker 1: more hostages back, we can then stomp out Hamas.
Speaker 5: Most of the polling that I've seen has been overwhelmingly
Speaker 5: positive towards stomping out Hamas. Still ultimately, but that is
Speaker 5: Jewish tradition, to do whatever you got to do to
Speaker 5: get hostages back. That's just that's part that's I mean,
Speaker 5: that's the religious law and cultural.
Speaker 1: So the debate is just a question of timing and tactics.
Speaker 5: Then I think, yeah, how to stomp out Hamas.
Speaker 1: I've got to believe, and I again, I will dig
Speaker 1: into these poll numbers, try to understand them a little
Speaker 1: more thoroughly.
Speaker 5: But I can't believe.
Speaker 1: There is any serious constituency in Israel for let's have
Speaker 1: a two state solution in which Hamas is part of
Speaker 1: the process. I mean, that would just be that would
Speaker 1: be psychotic.
Speaker 5: I think what net and Yahu ought to do. He's
Speaker 5: an old man, he's got legal problems. I think he
Speaker 5: should just use up every bit of political capital he's
Speaker 5: got and do whatever he's got to do to absolutely
Speaker 5: wipe out Hamas. Agree, even if the opinion turns against
Speaker 5: him all around the world, just do it like as
Speaker 5: a patriot to his country. I would agree.
Speaker 1: You know, take a page out of Churchill's book, who
Speaker 1: was unpopular and hoot it at and you know, and
Speaker 1: made fun of during the thirties, as he was screaming,
Speaker 1: we've got to defend her. We've got to arm ourselves
Speaker 1: because Germany is re arming themselves fast as he can so.
Speaker 1: And then you know, history looks upon you much more kindly.
Speaker 1: Speaking of politics, a domestic Bernie and AOC. It's the
Speaker 1: hottest tour since the Rolling Stones last summer packing that
Speaker 1: Bernardstat's the man. Yes, and cute little AOC are packing
Speaker 1: and that is where all the energy is in the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party these days. Awesome as a conservative, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: say it's super. I mean to go on nothing exact, guy,
Speaker 1: I got no criticism whatsoever.
Speaker 5: We can tell you the sort of.
Speaker 1: Things they're saying from the stage, though, and you can
Speaker 1: be the judge whether that message will catch fire among
Speaker 1: the American people.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and you got to hear the thunderous applause
Speaker 5: and everything. I mean, Bernie with the biggest crowds he's
Speaker 5: ever had. And that's saying something because he's drawn some
Speaker 5: of the big crowds in modern political history. And he's
Speaker 5: biden old. Right, Oh yeah, let me ask Siri here
Speaker 5: stand by everybody, how old is Bernie Sanders? And God
Speaker 5: for my watch and he's three? How he's older than
Speaker 5: these other people. He's eighty three years old.
Speaker 1: You know his brain works, which is more than a
Speaker 1: small detail.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've seen no slippage on him whatsoever in terms
Speaker 5: of his cognitive abilities.
Speaker 1: Well, he's helped by the fact that his ideas haven't
Speaker 1: changed since nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 5: Maybe socialism keeps you I don't know.
Speaker 1: Perhaps, so we'll have that for you coming up.
Speaker 5: Less to worry about it, because somebody else is going
Speaker 5: to take care of you, cradle to grave. It's less stressful.
Speaker 5: We got a lot all the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here, armstrong, and getdy.
Speaker 5: Out here in ten for big crowds to see Bernie
Speaker 5: Sanders and Alexandria A Cossi a Cortez. They're calling it
Speaker 5: the Fighting Oligarchy Tour. Yes, yes, and drawing giant crowds
Speaker 5: and going around the country.
Speaker 1: And you got how we got.
Speaker 5: We nailed down Bernie's age? How old is AOC masking
Speaker 5: my watch? Thirty four, thirty five? Joe's guessing thirty five, Yes,
Speaker 5: that's her. The other day she's old enough to run
Speaker 5: for president. Wow, Bernie's eighty three. She's thirty five. He's
Speaker 5: almost fifty years older than her.
Speaker 1: There's your twenty twenty eight ticket right there, Bernie and AOC.
Speaker 5: Yeah, spanning the ages. That'd be their slogan, do it,
Speaker 5: do it and drawing crowds like this and if this
Speaker 5: makes the media. The media got so excited about this
Speaker 5: over the weekend we're about to play clips, but so
Speaker 5: excited about this good believe that that's where your party
Speaker 5: is and that's where America is. Just keep believing that
Speaker 5: for like several more election cycles, I would loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyway, let's let's hear some of it. Here's here's the
Speaker 5: old man Flemy Bernie. First, he loves media that fauns
Speaker 5: on him.
Speaker 2: That tells about Grady is Well.
Speaker 8: I got news to you, and mister president, what democracy
Speaker 8: is about. It's people discussing issues, debating issues, and disagree
Speaker 8: with you. And if you can't take the credits of
Speaker 8: get the.
Speaker 2: Hell out of politics.
Speaker 5: That was some of the weakest political rhetoric I've ever
Speaker 5: heard in my life. I was ready for, you know,
Speaker 5: Bernie bringing it. It's okay to disagree. We're gonna disagree.
Speaker 5: If you don't, I could get out of politics.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: People have been like hammering Trump since the moment he
Speaker 5: came down the escalator. What are you talking about? I
Speaker 5: don't know. We got more Burnie a little bit for
Speaker 5: here's aoc with the tale of woe.
Speaker 1: Seeing all of.
Speaker 9: This stack up is enough to make even the best
Speaker 9: of us want to give in to despair. I get
Speaker 9: it and trust me, I really understand, but understand.
Speaker 2: That that is by design.
Speaker 9: They want us to give up, and it is easy
Speaker 9: to give in to despair. And I can tell you
Speaker 9: for a while there, in the years that I spent
Speaker 9: waitressing and wiping down tables and never being able to
Speaker 9: get ahead, I did give up.
Speaker 1: I tried.
Speaker 9: I tried to stop caring, keep my head down, work
Speaker 9: my shifts, and accept that this is just how things are.
Speaker 2: But that's no way to live Colorado.
Speaker 5: It's no way to live.
Speaker 1: And we do not have to live like this.
Speaker 9: In fact, we cannot live like this.
Speaker 5: Did she graduate from Boston University or something you went to,
Speaker 5: like a fantastic school. You're a college graduate and you're
Speaker 5: going to give up because you had to work a
Speaker 5: regular job for a while.
Speaker 1: And you hadn't made it at age twenty seven? And
Speaker 1: what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: What sort of.
Speaker 1: Life trajectory were you told to expect? Sweetheart? Yeah, when
Speaker 1: I was twenty seven, I had kid number one and
Speaker 1: could hardly pay the bills, and it was fine, And
Speaker 1: I didn't give up for a moment. Neither should any
Speaker 1: other normal person. What a load of crap?
Speaker 5: Well, she had what lots of young people have, especially
Speaker 5: young people who come from fairly well to do families
Speaker 5: and go to a nice college. They assume when they
Speaker 5: come out at twenty two, things are going to be
Speaker 5: so damned easy and uh and rewarding right off the batse.
Speaker 5: They aren't because the world has never been that way.
Speaker 1: The world will welcome them with open arms and open checkbooks.
Speaker 5: Right, so it's called the oligarchs now tour or whatever
Speaker 5: it is. Let's hear about the oligarchs.
Speaker 8: And right now, what these oligarchs are doing as they're
Speaker 8: going after Social Security, they're going after Medicaid. They are
Speaker 8: trying to destroy the Veterans Administration. Oh, veterans put their
Speaker 8: lives on the line to defend this country. And you
Speaker 8: don't fire eighty three thousand workers at the VA, which
Speaker 8: will mean worse quality healthcare for our veterans.
Speaker 1: All right, so you got the whole.
Speaker 5: They're coming after your social security thing, the oligarchs, because
Speaker 5: nothing makes a billionaire happier knowing you're not getting your
Speaker 5: social security check.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I went to everyone so poor they can't
Speaker 1: buy my products. Wait a minute, what I realize we're
Speaker 1: on new stations. You don't know our act.
Speaker 5: But the whole.
Speaker 1: Now both parties.
Speaker 5: It used to just be one party, but now both
Speaker 5: parties swearing to never touch social security because god, how
Speaker 5: could we possibly change something that's quick about to fall apart.
Speaker 5: It's just insane. It's just it's so depressing. Give the
Speaker 5: people what they want. Jack any politics as well as
Speaker 5: show business.
Speaker 1: I shall tell you this. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: doge cuts that have made me uncomfortable. I think they're
Speaker 1: ham handed and not in the right places. I would
Speaker 1: prefer they're a little more surgical. We can talk about
Speaker 1: that next hour.
Speaker 5: Are you really concerned that these things won't grow back
Speaker 5: fast enough? Though?
Speaker 1: I just I'd have no.
Speaker 5: Worry about that. Oh that's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have a little worry about it, because
Speaker 1: there are some lapses in care and help for average
Speaker 1: people right now that are, you know, screwing them and
Speaker 1: causing them great stress and pain.
Speaker 5: People get screwed all the time, though, when the government's
Speaker 5: trying to do its best and nobody ever talks about it.
Speaker 1: It gets so little coverage.
Speaker 5: Remember the Well this got coverage because it was so
Speaker 5: incredibly over the top.
Speaker 1: But remember the VA which he was just talking about.
Speaker 5: Remember how bad we found out the VA was at
Speaker 5: various points when they were doing their best. The government
Speaker 5: screws people all the time when it's doing its best.
Speaker 5: So when doage comes along and makes some cuts and
Speaker 5: somebody gets screwed, oh my god, that's a horror.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 1: No, I just think you can be smart and have
Speaker 1: it both ways if you're strategic about it. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're in favor of screwing more people. You've
Speaker 1: made that clear. Let's just move on.
Speaker 5: That's that's fine, and a fair character's history. Let's hear more, Bernie.
Speaker 8: Here, you know what is almost unimaginable. And this is
Speaker 8: what greed it's about. It's like a heroin addict. I
Speaker 8: need it more and more and more. They want to
Speaker 8: cut nutrition programs for hungry kids.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, now they want to starve the children.
Speaker 1: Right in what world, in what universe?
Speaker 2: In what religion?
Speaker 8: Is taking food away from hungry children at giving talks
Speaker 8: breaks to the rich?
Speaker 1: Vaguely moral? But look, let me explain it to you, Bernie,
Speaker 1: as simple as this. As a conservative, we starved, you know,
Speaker 1: not like normal healthy adults, and then we starved widows.
Speaker 1: Then we moved on to starving the handicapped. We passed
Speaker 1: over the blind. That's too much even for us. But
Speaker 1: then we thought, who can we starve next? To fulfill
Speaker 1: our hairin like need to starve people? And I thought children,
Speaker 1: Why not hungry children?
Speaker 5: My personal criticism, Bernie, My personal favorite thing to do
Speaker 5: is and I do this sometimes on the weekends. I
Speaker 5: find a veteran, especially if I can find somebody who
Speaker 5: served in the Middle East protecting our country, and if
Speaker 5: I can take food from his child and then give
Speaker 5: the dollars directly to an oligark, because that's the way
Speaker 5: it works, that's what makes me the happens.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is like a Project Veritas video
Speaker 1: in reverse. Listen to these two diabolical conservatives discussing their
Speaker 1: nevarios plans.
Speaker 5: Right, I find a veteran, it's got to fly out
Speaker 5: front marine tattoo. I run into his house at dinner time.
Speaker 5: I scooped the food off the table with his crying
Speaker 5: children into a bag, and then I run it over
Speaker 5: to the Bay Area and give it to alligarks.
Speaker 1: Right to slap the food out of the hungry child's mouth.
Speaker 1: Who's the child of a veteran? I mean, that is
Speaker 1: just that's a good day.
Speaker 5: I just I hate that populism works so well, and
Speaker 5: it works on both sides. They a't like trumpet a population,
Speaker 5: but populism working is just so depressing when you hear that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're right. Any program that's designed to field children is
Speaker 5: beyond reproach. Couldn't possible have any waste or be overlapping
Speaker 5: with ten other programs or not needed in the first place. Impossible.
Speaker 5: It's got to, by definition, be all wonderful. It's just,
Speaker 5: and it would be.
Speaker 1: It would be impossible in human history, of course, for
Speaker 1: the most nefarious among us to intentionally choose the most
Speaker 1: sympathetic sounding charities and programs because they're the easiest to
Speaker 1: rip off because people so easily condemnic on it. You'll
Speaker 1: find this interesting. Love this. So days after Trump got
Speaker 1: inaugurated this time, Biden and Harris staffers came together to
Speaker 1: launch a new effort called Families Over Billionaires, exactly what
Speaker 1: Bernie and AOC were talking about. Quote the camp all right,
Speaker 1: the campaign will elevate the voices of the majority of
Speaker 1: Americans who opposed more tax breaks for the rich. And
Speaker 1: they told the Free Press that the organization is teaming
Speaker 1: with grassroots organizers to get its message out. In fact,
Speaker 1: like this is who am I quoting here, Davy oh
Speaker 1: gab Kaminski. In fact, like his surprising number of Trump
Speaker 1: two point zero resistance pop up groups, Families over Billionaires
Speaker 1: owes this existence not too small dollar donations from ordinary
Speaker 1: Americans or grassroots organizers, but to a single entity, the
Speaker 1: consulting firm Arabella Advisors, which oversees a massive dark money
Speaker 1: network bankrolled by the super rich and aligned with the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. The Families over Billionaires group relies on support
Speaker 1: from billionaires like Bill Gates, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar LinkedIn
Speaker 1: coin finder, Reid Hoffman founder Reid Hoffman, and Democratic mega
Speaker 1: donor George Soros. In other words, it's not families over.
Speaker 5: Billionaires so much as it's billionaires over other billionaires. Hilarious,
Speaker 5: pure astro turf. So just on the pollen tics of this.
Speaker 5: If this is the hottest thing out there for the Democrats,
Speaker 5: socialist eighty three old Bernie Sanders and powerless do nothing AOC,
Speaker 5: that's good news for Republicans. More on that right after.
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Speaker 5: Sarah is here of the Dispatch, who I really like
Speaker 5: commenting on AOC.
Speaker 10: I mean, one of the ironies is seeing AOC out
Speaker 10: there an incredibly good fundraiser and incredibly good spokesperson on
Speaker 10: behalf of the progressive movement, but a congresswoman. She's in
Speaker 10: the lowest twenty for actual accomplishments out of four hundred
Speaker 10: and thirty five. Mind you, in the bottom twenty for
Speaker 10: accomplishments as a legislator.
Speaker 2: I'm twenty percent.
Speaker 5: You're saying twenty.
Speaker 10: Twenty human beings. She's renaming some post offices. So if
Speaker 10: Congress is just going to be a platform to raise
Speaker 10: small dollar donors and go on cable news, I don't
Speaker 10: know what we're doing with that first branch of government.
Speaker 10: And when you ask a Senator what they can do
Speaker 10: and he's like, well, I don't know. Basically, we have
Speaker 10: to win back the White House. This is the first
Speaker 10: branch of government. Make cong great again.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 5: I like the idea of that, But in terms of
Speaker 5: her evaluating AOC's impact, I just I think I actually
Speaker 5: think she's wrong about that.
Speaker 1: I've heard this so many times.
Speaker 5: My Barack Obama name one piece of a legislation, Barack
Speaker 5: Obama's name is attached to as a senator, and don't
Speaker 5: make no difference, and don't make it anymore. No, but
Speaker 5: the idea that you're hot for the Twitter left is
Speaker 5: going to transfer to general election wins. Come on. That's
Speaker 5: one thing Trump has such an advantage of. He he
Speaker 5: understands where most Americans are on these topics in place
Speaker 5: to them with his populism as opposed to the Twitter crowd,
Speaker 5: which is a small chunk of America.
Speaker 1: I don't remember who it was who made the distinction
Speaker 1: not long ago about popularism. How about we do things
Speaker 1: that people want us to do. Imagine that as a
Speaker 1: governing philosophy that would be foreign. Well, I was gonna
Speaker 1: say that'd be foreign to a person like AOC. But
Speaker 1: I think if you are bubble in the online world,
Speaker 1: for instance, and just watch MSNBC all day, you think
Speaker 1: that your ideas are populu, but they're not not at all.
Speaker 5: Got quite a few texts on how I should handle
Speaker 5: my perfect neighbors who are making me feel bad about.
Speaker 1: Myself, amongst other things. Among other things.
Speaker 5: On the way and Arizona man was executed, but not
Speaker 5: before eating.
Speaker 1: A last meal of onion rings, French.
Speaker 5: Fries, to sandwiches blac la bah, and a double Western cheeseburger.
Speaker 5: After hearing the news, Jay Pritzker said, I should.
Speaker 1: Murder someone because he's a big, fat guy, the governor
Speaker 1: of Illinois. Wow, I was an evil, evil man. Yes,
Speaker 1: I thought there were.
Speaker 5: A limit on last meals. Apparently not in this case.
Speaker 1: I couldn't eat that much on my best day.
Speaker 5: What is it? Maybe you just nibbled at a variety.
Speaker 1: It's a weird tradition we have.
Speaker 5: Is that bib?
Speaker 1: How cold does it come out of the last supper?
Speaker 1: But what's the idea?
Speaker 5: You murdered a family of feign cold blood, but now
Speaker 5: we're gonna let you eat whatever you want before we
Speaker 5: execute you. Is a weird thing. It is an odd
Speaker 5: How about you just eat a freaking prison food everybody
Speaker 5: else eats if you're hungry at all, and then we'll
Speaker 5: execute you. Yeah, I see your point.
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's tipping our cap to the
Speaker 1: seriousness of executing somebody. But you're right, it's an odd custom.
Speaker 1: We can talk more about that later. Oh. Speaking of
Speaker 1: blue states and their woes, cal Unicornia, there is a
Speaker 1: new poll out that shows that about half of California
Speaker 1: voters are at least open to considering a Republican I
Speaker 1: know that sounds like a meager bit of good news,
Speaker 1: but let's go on a positive Well that and some
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Speaker 5: First to the text line, got this text, Jack, you
Speaker 5: are so rude to your workmates. Workmates, you interrupt them
Speaker 5: while they're talking, thinking all we want to hear is
Speaker 5: what Jack thinks. I think it's time for a change.
Speaker 1: Good note, good email or text. Thanks for sending it.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 5: Solid Now to the topic of my fabulous neighbors make
Speaker 5: me feel bad about myself. I got really lucky where
Speaker 5: I move. I got great neighbors on both sides. I've
Speaker 5: been in a cul de sack, so it's like four
Speaker 5: houses staring at each other. But directly to my left
Speaker 5: is this really really really nice family. But they're so perfect.
Speaker 5: I mean, they're everybody's in really great shape. They got
Speaker 5: the kids out and about all the time. They're always
Speaker 5: on bike rides or going to church, or washing their
Speaker 5: cars or just and every time I go to the gym,
Speaker 5: he's there. It's just I don't know, and it's so
Speaker 5: it makes me feel bad of my mind. They're always
Speaker 5: up earlier than us. Got a couple of texts on
Speaker 5: that maybe you need fast and maybe you need to
Speaker 5: move to a fat neighborhood that would help.
Speaker 1: Uh, Jack, what are they like zoned for that?
Speaker 5: Or what?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 1: What is a fat neighborhood?
Speaker 5: You might live next to Mormon's best neighbors ever. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I got a buddy who lives in Salt Lake City
Speaker 5: and that's been his experience in every neighborhood he's lived
Speaker 5: in the neighbor the Mormon neighbors are like the people
Speaker 5: I just described, Jack. Remember, comparison is the thief of
Speaker 5: joy true.
Speaker 1: Or the supplier of standards.
Speaker 5: Wow? That hurts? Sorry? Sorry? Uh send your neighbors, Uh
Speaker 5: sign sign your neighbors up for a subscription to Playboy
Speaker 5: A classic. Wow. Oh, put some distrust into their happy lives.
Speaker 5: Think you're so happy?
Speaker 2: Jack?
Speaker 5: Put the shoe on the other foot. Think how much
Speaker 5: better your neighbors feel? Having you as their neighbor. Waited
Speaker 5: a minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're a you're a force for.
Speaker 5: Good in the neighborhood. Yeah, everybody's an example. You're everybody's
Speaker 5: an exact ample in life. And I am the example
Speaker 5: of Swath.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's how they get their kids in line, right,
Speaker 1: Or you don't want to draw up to be like
Speaker 1: Jack our neighbor.
Speaker 5: We're gonna skip church, We're gonna get up late and
Speaker 5: go eat some bad food, then.
Speaker 1: Come back, maybe take a little nap after all those carbs.
Speaker 5: And uh. Also this you're Homer Simpson and you live
Speaker 5: next to ned Flanders. That is pretty accurate. Dope.
Speaker 1: Eh, you know, I was just telling some folks the
Speaker 1: other day about the years I spent in Salina, Kansas,
Speaker 1: Judy and I when we were young and broke, and uh,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned that the people in that part of
Speaker 1: the country are among the kindest and most generous humans
Speaker 1: on earth. It was the best place to be young
Speaker 1: and broke in the world because if you knew somebody
Speaker 1: for ten minutes, they'd do anything for you. And a
Speaker 1: couple of the people were from various coastal areas where
Speaker 1: that is definitely not the culture and they looked at
Speaker 1: me like, where.
Speaker 5: Is this wonderland?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, the middle part of the country
Speaker 1: some of you all, I'll call it fly over country
Speaker 1: and Yanna right. So we got a lot more stuff
Speaker 1: to get to.
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