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Now on with the infotainment and interesting 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.240 story in the Wall Street Journal America's new millionaire class 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:09.720 plumbers and hvac entrepreneurs, and it's well, it's what the 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.319 headline would suggest. There's one twist to it. But I'm 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.360 reminded of something that I We've been saying for years. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.440 The virtually every election comes down to how much the 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.000 government is going to give you, and most of it's phony. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.720 Sure looks like it right now of other people's tax 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.119 moment with both candidates claiming all kinds of things are 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.280 going to give you, or a wave is a fee 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.120 or whatever, just laying out the gifts and the handouts 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.039 and the new programs and the rest of it. When 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:45.319 it's funny that ninety well that's not true anymore. The 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.560 vast majority of us we make a living, we have 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.400 a job, and we you know, the government's involved in 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.960 our lives, but more than we want. And it's just 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:57.880 the idea of that, well I'm going to vote for 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.320 who gives me the most is just ugly to me anyway. Yeah, 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.840 it's never been part of my life. And oh that 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.640 gets back to you know what I've always tried to 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.720 lay out, and I wish Conservative America was better at this. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.160 And I'm not claiming some sort of mantle as some 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:17.639 sort of eloquent hero, but I've always said I've come 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:24.240 up with this program where you can feed, clothe, educate, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:30.800 and medicate ten to ten thousand families and it's not 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.840 going to cost a dime of taxpayer money. It's called 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.600 starting a business and growing it to success. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.359 Where is that in our political discussions? 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:47.200 That is the engine of prosperity, The engine the government 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.480 handout stuff is crumbs around the edges. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.960 I hate for this to be true, but I think 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.960 the reason you don't pitch that as an argument is 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.520 because there are enough people that are going to decide 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.239 the election. That are that other thing you were talking about, Yeah, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.400 what are you going to give me without me doing 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.320 anything for it? Really, you start talking about starting a 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:10.960 business and all that sort of stuff, that's a lot 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:11.320 of work. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.360 And the politics of envy has been so successful in 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:19.160 convincing people that the successful have done something untoward to 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.960 get there. They should be resented for that success. They 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.320 have stolen from you. If they have more than you, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.760 it's because they have stolen from you, which was not 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.679 culturally the attitude in the United States up until very 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:31.440 very recently. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.240 Oh, I heard a great thing yesterday on that from 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.800 Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch that he regularly says in 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.080 his speeches, I guess when people talk about why is 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.160 there poverty? He says, that's not the question. There's always 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.760 been poverty. Poverty is the natural state of human beings. Yes, 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.240 why is their wealth is the question? And then you 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.520 get into the discussion of how capitalism creates wealth. Poverty 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.280 is the way it would be for everyone. If you 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.760 didn't have capitalism, we'd all be poor. It's not like 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.280 we'd all have, you know, nice sized homes and cars 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.080 and go on vacations and a comfortable retirement. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.400 Yeah. Yeah, that's not the natural state of things, right. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.120 And my only quibbal with Jonah, who's absolutely right, is 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.000 that because of the resentment of quote unquote wealth, you 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.600 could break it down to never mind why there's poverty, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.000 why is there housing, why is their food to eat? 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.040 Why is their medical care? How did this happen? And 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.280 we've just gotten away from that as a culture again 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.640 because the politics of envy works. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.320 And digression number ten before you get to your main point, Yes, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.480 when I said I've never voted for somebody given me stuff, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.520 I think that's factually true. But if you are to 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.920 the left, you'd say, yeah, you vote for people who 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.720 who want lower taxes, are going to lower taxes, and 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.080 they're giving you money. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.839 As opposed to I'm keeping my own. Letting me keep 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.440 my money is not giving me anything. But yeah, you're 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.599 absolutely right. So this article in the Wall Street Journal 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:02.080 is interesting. It is absolutely on the side of folks 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.520 who build, learn a skill, build a business, hire others, 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.880 teach them to do that business and grow it. One 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.800 interesting wrinkle is that it's all about how private equity 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:17.680 is now recognizing how the HVAC business. The plumbing business 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:24.760 are good solid electrical contractors too. They're good, solid, profitable businesses. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:29.880 And so venture capital is moving in and buying up 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.680 these businesses, private equity businesses. They hope to profit by 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.760 running larger, more profitable operations, more efficient, etc. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.960 Well, we endorse a heating and air company, Fantastic One. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.760 And I remember when we were talking to him last 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.560 year and he was telling us what people can make 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.559 to start. Yeah, and he can't find workers and they'll 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.760 train them right right, And there's some concern that. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:58.479 And you do have to watch for this if you've 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:03.960 been with a company for a long time. Joe Hvac 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:10.839 who learned the trade, smart guy, gal family entrepreneur, hired people, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.279 grew it, etc. Then they sell to the private equity 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.919 company and it becomes a different company. Yeah, standards of 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.160 service change, priorities change, that sort of thing. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.880 What happens with everything, absolutely everything, Oh yeah, not just companies, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.960 practically everything. You go and buy in a store that 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.160 has a name brand, and I'm thinking of a home depot, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.880 so many different brands of things at Home Depot built 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:39.000 their reputation years ago on being super quality items that 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.680 aren't crap. Yes, because they're you know, they're run by 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:43.559 what you're just talking about. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.719 The wave of investment is minting a new class of 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.520 millionaires across the country, one that small business owners say 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.719 is helping add more shine to working with a tool belt. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.120 Some of us don't need more shine for that. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.320 But anyway, you don't need to go to Silicon Valley 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.360 to have a successful career. An entrepreneur Real Opportunities, said 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.840 this fellow with Detroit based private equity company that is 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.200 doing a lot of investment in service companies. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.880 You know, I well, never mind. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.560 I was about to go off on a personal tangent, 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.480 but we have a ten tangent limit and we've exceeded it. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.120 Why does everybody say space these days? 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.800 Quote, everybody in their uncle owns an HVAC business in 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.320 the private equity space. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.360 Today, he said. Another guy that's hip. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.080 This private equity company, Redwood Services. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.400 Where are they based? It doesn't matter, Tucson. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:42.800 Interesting they've required acquired thirty five companies in the past 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:50.720 four years, from small to large. In the services trades 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.480 have long offered a solidly hourly wage for workers without 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.680 college degrees, also springboards for those with bigger entrepreneurial ambitions. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.600 Goodness knows that is true. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.040 Wow, this guy spent five years in prison for selling 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.640 meth before he co founded his plumbing business and now 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.040 he's an entrepreneur. He was selling meth and now he's 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.640 got a legitimate business. But it was in sales. Honestly, 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:18.000 you know, that's funny but true. I absolutely believe in 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.160 second chances for people. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:21.640 I'm a one strike you're out guy. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:28.080 Wow, that's hard anyway, Saudi Arabia is calling, But yeah, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.000 there is an element to that. He grew up in 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.079 a hard scrabble place where that was the entrepreneurial opportunity 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:34.240 and something open. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:35.320 Well, he learned the trade. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.040 I don't know if it was in prison or what, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.920 but he learned the trade and realized, oh, there are 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.680 better entrepreneurial opportunities than selling death to people. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.240 Anyway. Ain't that America for you and me? Land of 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.160 the Free? Anyway? 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:54.280 I'm amazed by all you small business owners because you 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:59.200 work so hard and you got everything on the line 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:00.520 every day. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.840 Yeah, I don't know how you. I really don't know 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:03.440 how you do it. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.160 That is why I so resent and I'm so strongly 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.560 against this idiotic, nonsensical idea that we're going to raise 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.959 business taxes because businesses have to pay their fair share. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.640 Like everybody who runs a business is crazy wealthy. I 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.600 know a lot of small business people and entrepreneurs who 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.840 draw what they have to to keep a roof over 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.240 their head, and they pour everything else back into the 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:33.200 business hours they work are insane, right, pardon, pardon my 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.760 French folks, but I'll say gun instead of the B 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.960 word I heard many years ago. You want to work 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.480 for yourself, You're gonna hate the son of a gun. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:44.800 You're gonna hate your boss because he won't let you 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.840 have saturdays off or holidays or going to work you 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.080 like you've never worked before. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.120 You know, stay home when you're sick. He's not gonna 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:51.400 let you. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.320 Yeah, So here's to you, entrepreneurs and small business owners. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.080 May a private equity firm buy you out and I'll 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:59.079 see on the golf. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.600 Course, I guess you can buy the drinks because you'll 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:02.360 be richer than me. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:04.400 Armstrong and. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:21.600 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:26.280 So the sentencing of all of those activists and politicians 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.800 and journalists in Hong Kong, it just reminds me how 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:34.960 incredibly fragile. A free system is unless it will defend 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.200 itself by arms. I mean because Hong Kong was a 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:46.280 robust democracy, very wealthy, very educated, with every interest in 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.560 protecting itself, and it couldn't. It was just it was 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.680 bullied into submission and quickly. I'm reminded of one of 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.680 my favorite memes, partly because it's a little snarky, but 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.440 it's also funny. George Washington didn't use his freedom of 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:04.160 speech to beat the British. He shot them. That's the 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.160 only way to resist aggression. You can't talk a predator 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:09.640 out of predating. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.840 I have to look into this after the show as 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.280 trying to confirm that Chinese stuff that I read and 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:17.800 figure out. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:18.560 As real or not. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.360 This does not get the attention it deserves the rising China. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.959 According to the report that I read, and again, whether 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:30.720 he said it to Biden or not, whether it's just 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.480 stuff being put out by the Chinese, it was a 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.800 It was a lot of language like you're not the 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:39.040 only nuclear power on earth and just you know, very 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.320 very push pushback. E this means war. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:43.719 Oh. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.480 He laid out, actually laid out four red lines for 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.480 China that the US better not cross that sort of thing. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:55.679 Yeah, well, we'll see bra from the perspective of if 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.760 we were attacked by Martians, we would all come together. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:58.200 On Earth. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.480 We have been so obsessed with are internal divisions. I 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.920 think that's why most Americans are unaware of the threats 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:04.559 from abroad. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.600 Yeah. Probably so. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.680 Big study that came out today and this was in 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:14.600 the New York Times, China has now surpassed Europe as 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:20.079 the second all time leading polluter on planet Earth. I'm 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.920 not sure how much I care about the historical polluting 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.160 that's gone on, but the climate change people care about 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.480 it a lot because we polluted more throughout the history 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.200 of the world than any of the country, So we 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.640 owe more money than anybody else to try to fix 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.120 the problem, is what they claim. That's only going to 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.800 be true for a few more years. According to this graph, though, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.440 So China has now passed Europe on this pretty much 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.200 straight up graph because they just started polluting fairly recently, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.040 because they were all living in huts and eating their 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:50.600 cats and. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.400 Stuff like that and not a lot of pollution. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.359 But now they got all the coal fires and electricity 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.960 and everything going on, They're polluting like crazy. The country 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.520 has now passed Europe is the second largest all time admitter, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.600 shifting the debate about who pays for global warming. According 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.320 to the New York Times, projections show that China may 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.560 catch up with the United States in just a few years. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.439 China's soaring emissions are upending climate politics was the story, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.560 let me just read a little bit of it. For 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.800 many years, wealthy places like the United States and Europe 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.720 have had the biggest historical responsibility for global warming. China's 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.960 astonishing rise is upending that dynamic. Over the past three decades, 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.559 China has built more than one thousand coal fired power 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.839 plants a thousand as its economy has grown more than 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.880 forty fold in thirty years, mostly because of our help, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.560 thinking that if they got rich enough, they'd be our friends. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.720 One of the dumbest gambles in the history of the planet. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:49.720 Whoops. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.640 The country has become by far the largest annual emitter 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.320 of greenhouse gases in the world. So they're emphasizing the historical, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.120 How about emphasize the and on the today chart, it's 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.559 not even close. Like China is way up there and 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.960 the United States is way down here with other countries 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:08.800 underneath us. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.400 Right, So if you're trying to build some sort of 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:16.160 framework for who owes the most your Paris climate accord folks, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.400 I suppose looking at the historical responsibility makes a little 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.120 bit of sense. But for those of us who live 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.360 in the real world, who's doing it now is a 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.240 much more relevant question. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:26.640 I would say so. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.120 And according to this chart, it looks like China is 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.400 polluting it about two and a half times what we 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.920 are on a year by year basis at this. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.760 Point two and a half times. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:42.800 Yeah, and I'm supposed to alter my lifestyle and suffer 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:47.400 the overall GDP consequences for what reason? 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.160 And India is working on it. They'll be on that 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.720 chargument we're on. Yeah, the actual biggest country on Earth. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.200 You go to them and say, hey, can you cut 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.200 back on your fossil fuels a little bit because of 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:04.760 the planet? The answer is yeah, No, Are you kidding? 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.840 We've got four hundred million people starving here and you 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:09.040 want us to go solar? 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:09.640 No. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:12.120 Yeah. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.520 I've got to hope that a lot of the climate 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.680 change nonsense is going to be swept away. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:21.960 During Trump's presidency. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.640 And I'm not talking about any legitimate claims about the 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.720 atmosphere or the environment or whatever. I'm down with that, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:35.840 it's fine, but again, cut the crap. Cut the crap. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.360 Go normstrung, you, Getty dot com, pick yourself up. But 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.040 cut the craft T shirt they're selling like hotcakes. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.480 Speaking of trouble spots around the world that we ignore, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.640 this happened over the weekend. Haven't heard it anywhere. The 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.920 Pentagon leaked to Axios that the Houthis are now effectively 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.600 in control over the Red Sea, which is where Remember 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.760 they're telling us the numbers all the time, fifteen percent 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.960 or whatever of all world shipping goes through Kuthi rebels 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.600 are brandishing increasingly sophisticated weapons, including missiles that can do 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.000 things that are just amazing, said the Pentagon's chief Weapons 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.680 somebody or other to Axios over the weekend. The big 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.080 picture being that the militant group has for years used 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.800 drones and missiles to strangle the waters off of Yemen, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.640 disrupting international shipping. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.640 And uh, well, I'll read this quote. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.960 I'm an engineer and a physicist, and I've been around 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.880 missiles my whole career, said a Pentagon employee to Axios. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.120 What I've seen of what the Houthis have done in 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.400 the last six months is something I'm just shocked. So 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.760 the rest of the world has just let this ragtag 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.800 group of camel riders take over a big, major lane 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.040 of shipping on planet Earth. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.120 I believe they have Toyota pickups there. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.680 But anyway, Yeah, who's they're not building those missiles in Yemen? 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.680 Who's sending them to them? And how soon can we 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.880 get the Mummy out of office? I mean he is 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:05.800 useless bat Kerryah Michael, that's in his old vital days. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.520 Yeah, he isn't that good anymore. He hasn't he hasn't unleashed. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.080 I had about a kef care with that sort of 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.000 forcefulness in a year's five. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.600 Quick question for you, what if you happen to miss 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.640 this unbelievable radio program. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.080 The answer is easy, friends, just download our podcast, Armstrong 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:24.960 and Getty on demand. It's the podcast version of the 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.040 broadcast show, available anytime, any day, every single podcast platform 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:29.679 known demand. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.640 Download it now Armstrong and Getty on Demand. 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:44.040 Armstrong, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.639 I love this from Andrew Styles the definitive list of 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:52.639 winners and losers the twenty twenty four election, and actually, 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.720 much as I love Andrew I'm gona quippalle. With his opening, 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.400 he says, the election's over Donald Trump and the Republicans, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:02.480 excuse me, a stunning and decisive victory. I would say 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.760 Donald Trump won a stunning, in decisive victory. The Senate 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.840 performed very very well, and the House scraped by for 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:09.600 the Republicans. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.600 Yeah. Mentioned certified government mentioned this earlier. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.320 I hadn't thought about it until I heard a Democrat 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.800 pointed out, how can you call it a wave if 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.000 you're going to have like a three seat majority in 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.520 the House of Representatives. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:22.760 That ain't much of a wave. 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.080 I mean, when Obama won, he had like an eighty 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:26.000 seat majority. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:27.920 It's an indy bitty wave. Yeah. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.520 But anyway, winners and losers. Winner diversity, actual diversity. All 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.960 sorts of different people voted for Trump and got out 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.320 of their electoral pens that the Democrat had told them 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.720 they ought to stay in the Democrats rather, with the 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:44.440 exception of seniors and college educated white women. Huzzah, Trump 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.679 improved his margins in every group. Winner Hillary Clinton no 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.679 longer the only Democrat to lose to Trump. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:50.879 Winner. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.439 Mental health professionals about to make a fortune treating the 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.040 emotional breakdowns of college educated white women and deranged liberals 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.439 and journalists who base their entire personalities on and hating 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:01.520 Trump and his supporters. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.080 Wow, what a way to live your life. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.879 All the same people who are cutting off friends and 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:07.880 loved ones who care about them deeply as a human 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.360 being because they because they've bought I think the most 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:15.359 hyperbolic and ridiculous stuff about politics. Spend Thanksgiving alone and 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.359 in the comfort of knowing at least you're not hanging 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:19.680 around with Trump voters. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.920 You weirdo are evil, That's right. Another winner, Dean Phillips. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.440 Only Democrat with the balls to run against Biden in 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.320 the Democratic primary and say he's too old. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.080 He was mocked and ridiculed at the time. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.760 Oh Man in the Democratic Party cut his legs out 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.159 from underneath him, made it impossible for him to get anywhere. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.480 And he was a one hundred percent right it turns out, 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.879 and telling the truth. Yeah, which he's not welcome in politics. Yeah. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.840 Another winner Josh Shapiro. He dodged the bullet of being 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:50.639 a hitch to Kamala Harris's right. He looks smart for 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.040 not taking the job, which he probably didn't want anyway, 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.280 we've already forgotten the name of the guy she did pick, 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.240 the guy in the camo had who pranced around and 0:19:58.280 --> 0:19:59.080 lied about China. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.760 Yeah, what's his face? Laugh on say or other? How 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.760 about his weird five minutes of fame? That'll never I mean, 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:06.879 it'll be a trivia question. 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.879 Please, let's begin laughing at the laughing stock. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.159 Jeff Bezos the whole temper tantrum, saying we got to 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:15.840 be a reporter. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.560 Of news, not an opinion machine. Tony Hitchcliff and garbage. 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.560 He goes into how that was like the final week 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.040 closing argument, look at this monster Trump mounted to nothing, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.119 didn't amount to a pile of garbage in terms of 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:30.040 electoral effect? 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:35.520 Right, yes, go ahead that. 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.480 Remember we were counting the days it had, like five 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:45.240 days of legs. That Puerto Rico joke as being one 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:50.560 of the lead stories. What a stupid decision from the 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.920 media who was hell bent on bringing down Trump. You 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.080 thought that was your best argument. That comedian's joke apparently 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:56.600 didn't work. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.919 Why because they see everything through the lens of identity politics. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.199 So this looked like an enormous faux paw and a 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.240 great to bring bet to beat Trump with the rest 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.720 of us normal people, including plenty of Democrats and lefties, 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.200 as many of whom are listening right now. They're like, yeah, 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.719 I can't afford my groceries. I don't care what some 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:20.600 obscure comedians said about Puerto Rico. Alts the new media 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:26.080 alternative meetia, including ourselves big winners in the election, Sonny 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.040 Hostin and the other ladies of the view, for sinking 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.280 the Harris campaign with the what would you do differently 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.280 than Biden? There is not a thing that comes to mind, 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:39.159 Harris said, in a breathtaking display of unpreparedness. 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:41.960 Is Sonny Hosten a lot for journalists of the year. 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.359 Well, as she has come out and said she was 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.760 shocked to that answer. So she was trying to throw 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.720 Kamala a life preserver because she had flubbed the answer 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.720 the day before, and instead of the life preserver she 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:56.760 threw a cinderblock that took. 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:00.760 Her under the water. Yes, yeah, well, said winner women. 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:04.200