WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Friday Hour One 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.760 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:17.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:25.320 Armstrong and Jetee arms Long Guddy Strong. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.240 What you're listening to now is the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.840 But make sure to check out our many podcasts. 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.480 There's Armstrong e Getty Extra Large, featuring interviews with interesting people. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.800 There's Armstrong and Getty Select Cuts, and Armstrong and Getty 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:44.360 One More Thing. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.160 All are free, and all are available on the iHeart 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.400 app or wherever you like to download your podcasts. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.800 Us From Aleen Anonymous. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:00.640 We're on our way home from school tonight and out 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.440 of nowhere, my twelve year old daughter says, do you 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.000 know why I'm worried about having kids racing myself for 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.759 some climate scare mongering or some other brand of crazy 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.880 that TikToker or teachers are pushing. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:13.280 I responded, no. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.560 Why, she says, I'm afraid they'll come home one day 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.920 and they'll tell me they're trans and I'll say, oh, no, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.160 you're not, and then they'll hate me, and the school 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:22.800 will call me in and yell at me and tell 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.600 me I'm anti trans, and I'll say you damn right, 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:26.000 I am. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:27.319 This is a twelve year old. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.600 By the way, Wow, who has a very similar attitude 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.880 is my twelve year old? Isn't that interesting? So many 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.039 thoughts and emotions racing through my head. But in the 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:37.640 moment I couldn't ever stout laughing. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.959 I told her, I hope it's bad that will have 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.000 passed by the time she has kids. I certainly think 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.880 it will. I wouldn't call it a fad kind of one. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.040 It's a psychological contagion. There are a bunch of examples 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.040 of this through history. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.840 How interesting is that the kids like her kid and 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.280 my kid coming to this conclusion in the face of 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.160 everything around them other than like reality. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.880 Well, yeah, this young woman, obviously, God bless her, has 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:08.600 the I am not going to tell you to ignore 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.280 the evidence of my eyes and ears and my conscience. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:16.160 Good for her anyway, Who knows, maybe a little be 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.600 the kids of this generation, whatever they're called, who are 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.240 growing up rolling their eyes at the furries in their classrooms. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.200 They're sick of having pronouns and gender issues shoved down 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.800 their throats. Who can see plainly and simply that the 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.760 trans and nine non binary kids are mainly just misfits 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:36.240 who are desperate for attention and belonging ding. Maybe today's 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.640 middle schoolers will be the ones to rebel with conservatism 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.600 and put a stop to the madness eventually. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.800 My son's always bringing up the furries. How does he 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.160 even know the word furries? 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.520 Brilliantly said an anonymous and good for your kid. You 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:55.160 are absolutely right on every single count. How's about this? 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.239 Greeting's Big Freedom's old simple Jack in America's Sweethearts Michael, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.720 Katie and Hanson. Our fabulous son, who just happens to 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.880 be of mixed heritage, is about the same age as 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.440 Jack's oldest, and, like Jack, soon or a young man, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.560 is starting the years of freshmen at a very nice 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.160 California public high school. We've driven our son to and 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.840 from school since kindergarten in order to be sure he 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:20.639 attends better than nearby local schools up with school choice, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.799 let's see. Due to this and to and fro drive time, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:29.000 our son also enjoys the statistically proven educational advantage of 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.639 listening to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Our son, who 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.520 naturally understands the meaning of such words as Marxist, woke, progressive, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.360 and scumbag reported that his classes were pretty much chill 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.600 and relax He reported that week one, after reviewing the 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.720 class syllabus, he asked his chill I think, I can 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.320 you know I'm going to leave the subject even out, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.560 But he asked his chill blank teacher, what does climate 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.120 change have to do with this topic? The teacher leaned 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.080 in and quietly told him nothing. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:04.360 They make us teach this stuff. Oh my god, wow. Wow. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.200 The notable exception. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.600 To the mostly chill and relaxed teachers who would say 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.280 that to him was the wait for it, young white, 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.800 college educated female English teacher who has a giant Pride 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.159 flag hanging in her classroom. This has been our son's 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.080 English teacher's teachings. Week one read a novel about the 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:30.640 offensive nature of quote not seeing color. Next week, definition examples, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.320 and how to react to microaggressions. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.240 Oh man, then he. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:40.960 Was to declare what genders he identifies as for that week. Boy, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.440 the whole microaggressions thing has been so thoroughly debunked and 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.440 misproven that that or whatever the word is, that that's 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.680 the worst thing you can do is have people, you know, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.360 focus on microaggressions. Finally, last week he was to declare 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.640 his to the class his pronouns. This is English class now. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.800 He stood up and proudly declared that his pronouns were 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.280 HRH and HRM, his Royal Highness and his royal majesty. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.120 He reports that the class erupted in laughter and cheers. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.360 His English teacher, on the other hand, was not amused 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.640 and angrily announced that his declaration was quote not appropriate 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.240 for her English class. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.400 Why aren't you reading Shakespeare or something? 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:33.120 Oh, let's see on brighter side. Substitute teacher came in 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.760 who'd taught for decades. When the gentleman asked the class 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.080 what they had last worked on and was told pronouns, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.240 he declared to the class, I will be teaching English 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:45.800 and nothing else. Twitch The class of kids cheered wow. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.480 A and g s A y daat ang. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:56.120 Saving America's utes one day at a time, Alnonymous. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.760 You know it's not unrelated to the Wall Street Journal 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:05.440 opinion piece we read earlier about how America isn't ignoring 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:06.520 the fact that World War. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:07.320 Three is on the horizon. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:13.360 They're not unrelated that we're so willingly like giving away 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.839 Western civilization or embarrassed by it. Of course, they're related. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:23.680 There's why would there be a great need to protect 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:24.400 something that. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:25.000 You don't like? 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.840 Yeah, yeah, I remember years It just started years ago 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.159 when I think it. Harold Bloom, his last name is Bloom, 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.159 the world's greatest Shakespeare expert who taught at Yale for 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.320 years and years, and how he was so bothered by 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.200 the fact that nobody taught Shakespeare anymore so, the greatest 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.800 writer in the English language of all time was no 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.080 longer being taught in the universities, unless it was to 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.280 point out how misogynist or racist or you know, male 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.080 toxic it was, or anything like That was the only 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.160 time I'd ever come up if at all. Well, if 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.760 you're that willing to give away your culture, of course 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:03.240 you're not figuring out how to make sure China, Russia. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.680 And Iran don't band together to win. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:11.760 Right, right in the success that they have had coming 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:16.320 up primarily through education, the teachers, colleges, and then the 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.760 schools in indoctrinating several generations of American kids and Western 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:25.480 kids in general into this stuff. Admires the wrong word. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.200 You've got to respect how incredibly evil and devious and 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.120 successful it has been, and we. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.040 Let it happen under our watch. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.040 I was reading Henry the Fifth and listening to it 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.680 at fair amount over the weekend because I was doing 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.280 this history podcast about the Battle of Asancore, which is 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.760 what is in Henry the Fifth. The Shakespeare thing, that's 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:55.880 the famous speech we band of Brothers, That whole speech 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.120 is from that. But man, the writing of Shakespeare. I 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.400 know this is a ridiculous thing for anyone to say, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:08.040 but it's just so amazing. I mean, it's unimaginably rich 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.520 and amazing. And the fact that we don't teach it 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.440 in universities anymore will come on in China, we don't 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:14.920 care about our culture. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:22.040 No, I'm sure there are multiple really good books about this. Actually, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.560 I can think of a couple that are more or 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.360 less on this topic. And I just bought a Douglas 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.360 Murray book, The Strange Death of Europe, I think is 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.840 the title. Can't wait to dig into that, probably tonight. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:41.080 But how the civil rights movement followed fairly closely after 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.559 the development of the critical theory crowd in France and Germany, 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:54.520 and how they realized, oh, racial divisions and later sexual divisions, 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.640 that's where we convinced people to hate their own countries 0:08:58.640 --> 0:08:59.840 and their own civilizations. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.600 It's not gonna be workers of the World unite. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.719 It's gonna be every single misfit or minority we can 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:07.240 think of. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.240 We'll come up with a way to convince them. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.040 That there's no redeeming their society and they've got to 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.959 help us tear it down. That's what we'll do. And 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.240 just for what it's worth, this is not my paranoid ratings. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.559 They wrote books with their names on the cover describing 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.600 this very process. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.120 And they got it into the schools and universities. Again, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.240 it's insidious, it's horrifying, it's heartbreaking, but it has been successful. 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.600 And as my twelve year old just finished reading Animal 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.199 Farm and picking up on the fact that the people 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:46.240 who promised, you know, a more fair world took over 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.520 and were the same tyrants as the tyrants before a 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.600 line from the Who song one of the best lines 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.480 ever in rock music. Meet the new boss same as 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:57.120 the old boss. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.960 Yeah so good. Yeah yeah. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.440 And as I tweeted the other day, I untleashed a 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:07.320 long screed about elections and political theory and stuff like that. 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.560 I don't know why the urge just overcame me, but 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:15.679 I was describing how elegant the description in nineteen eighty 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:20.199 four is of the scam the Orwell book. Obviously, and 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.320 interestingly enough, Well I won't give you the context because 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.040 it's fairly straightforward. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:25.559 But. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:34.160 He explains how the time honored technique is. The middle 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:40.000 says to the low, we're talking about like layers of society. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:47.280 The middle says to the low, we will overthrow the high. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.880 You gotta join with us. We'll overthrow the high. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.200 And the middle throws out the high and becomes the high, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.600 and the low gets screwed see Black America. Since you 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.839 know the New Deal practically, since the welfare state came 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.600 into being and debased the black family and made them 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.440 dependent on the largesse of the government as opposed to 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.640 their own genius and hard work. Anyway, then the next 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.640 time around the old high, remember they're now the middle, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:17.280 they make. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:18.720 The same promise to the low. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.720 Maybe they throw out the current high, maybe they don't, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.080 but either way, it's a scam. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.800 History of the world, yep, pretty much. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:40.320 Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, Jack 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:41.720 Armstrong and. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.920 Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show. Back to Joe 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.000 and Burton's soul. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:53.000 So I have a lot of worries about Trump character 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:59.600 wise and judgment wise, and a few geopolitically. But at 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:05.280 the same time time, Kamala Harris's policies are so ruinous, 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:10.040 so dangerous, and she's such an idiot it's it's difficult 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.080 to know. I mean, like in terms of geopolitics, national security, 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.480 it's impossible to know what the hell she has in mind. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.120 She hasn't given a single clue. But when it comes 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:26.040 to free speech, pro the economy, pro business, lower regulation, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:32.160 not sacrificing our economy on the altar of green, this, 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.440 that and the other. Oh, I mean, I think Trump 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.000 is well who was it? Who said was it? Bill 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.520 Barr said? Trump is Russian Roulette, Kamala Harris's national suicide. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:44.559 I think that's true. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.839 The one thing that does worry me a little bit 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.840 about Trump, though, is he is, I think, partly for 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:57.120 ego reasons, utterly unable to do the hard thing now 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.520 to protect the future. Fiscally speaking, guy say now granted 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.760 on the campaign trail some of the things he proposed, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.640 I mean, the campaign it's silly season, you claimed, you 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.599 promise all sorts of ridiculous crap that couldn't happen in 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.000 a thousand years. Oh yeah, even if you were sincere 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:13.839 about of Congress would never let you do it, even 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:14.800 if it was your own party. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:15.040 Yeah. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.640 I remember when I read Stephanopolis's book All Too Human 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.960 about the Clinton campaign. It's going way back, but nothing 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.680 has changed. Just he was talking in that book about 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.720 that because he ran Clinton's campaign. If you don't know that, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:31.480 George Stephanopolis from ABC this week, he was talking about 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.680 all the things that you promised that you know you 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.920 aren't even going to try to do, and then the 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.160 things that you promised that you'll try but you don't 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.760 think you can do them, and then the things you 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.200 promised that you actually that's why you're running for president. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.280 But there there's a list of things that you don't 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.240 even intend to, like have a meeting about. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:47.880 You're not. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.800 I mean, there's zero effort whatsoever that you're out there 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.200 nickname for those things. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.280 I don't know, it's just a category. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.640 I think they all they just all acknowledged, they all 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.679 probably know the thing is that they're talking about that. Oh, 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.760 nobody's even going to bring this up the next day. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.880 We're not even gonna have a meeting on it, right, Yeah, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.559 not interesting. Beautiful, that is interesting. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.680 But in terms of being afraid of what this country 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.080 would look like, it's funny. The left is always talking 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.760 about how Trump is this, that and the other new 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:23.520 Hitler blah blah blah, threatening democracy, threatening democracy. You have 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.520 the left trying to tear down the Supreme Court, trying 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.000 to end the filibuster. Tim Walls was in cal Unicorney 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.360 the other day, suck it up to Gavin Newsom saying, Hey, 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.160 we need to end the electoral college. We need to 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.440 go to a popular election of the president. We need 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.240 to do this as soon as possible. That would bring 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.880 civil war to this country. So though I am uncomfortable 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.920 with Trump, it's to me he's clearly the right choice anyway. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.720 Having said that, though, the one thing that bothers me 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.600 is that he has all sorts of policies that would 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:58.520 would be wildly inflationary, partly because of rampant spending. He 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.040 seems to have no hesitation to spend like a lunatic 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.240 in lower taxes, and that's dangerous. And I came across 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.840 this from Milton Friedman, who is always worth quoting. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.120 Michael. It's clip number fourteen if you would. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.720 The great Milton Friedman on inflation and all sorts of. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.880 Stuff, Inflation is the most destructive disease known to modern societies. 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.200 There is nothing which will destroy a society so fairly 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:24.200 and so fully as. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:25.640 Letting inflation run right. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.720 Inflation doesn't arise because you got to consumers who are. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.280 Spends s rift. They've always been spend script. It doesn't arise. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.240 Because you've got the businessmen who are greedy. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:34.160 They've always been greedy. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.440 Inflation arises because we, as citizens have been asking you, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.080 as politicians, to perform an impossible test. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.200 We've been asking you to spend. 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.240 Somebody else's money on us, but not to spend our 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.320 money on anybody else. Everybody talks against inflation, but what 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.400 he means is that he wants the prices of the 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.720 things he sells to go up and the prices of 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.720 the things he buys to go down. The real tax 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.080 on the American people is not what. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.920 You label taxes. It's total spending. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.560 If Congress spends fifty billion dollars more than it takes in, 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.400 if govern and spend fifty billion dolls who do you supoth 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.840 pay that fifty billion dollars? The Arab cheeks aren't paying it. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.480 Santa Claus isn't playing it. The tooth fairy isn't paying it. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.480 You and I, as taxpayers are paying it indirectly through 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:10.280 hidden taxation. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.160 Yeah, that's one of my favorite quotes from him, and 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.560 something the man they should teach in school. The real 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.280 rate of taxation is the rate of spending because it 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.120 has to get paid for someday. So whatever way they 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.000 come up with a way to get money from you, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:25.880 that that's the rate of taxation. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:30.280 But with interest, Yeah, which is the insidious part, and 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.720 that sort of the need for the US to service 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.640 debt at the level we're accumulating, it will drive up 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.160 interest rates for all of us, so it will be 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.520 much more difficult to borrow money to buy houses, cars, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.680 et cetera, for businesses to borrow money. And inflation is 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.120 a tax. They print money to give us a bucket 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.040 a quarter. With the services for a buck it devalues 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.560 the money we have. That's the hidden tax, and then 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.080 we got to hit it back with interest. It's it's 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.560 brutally horrifically unwise. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:06.800 Nobody wants to hear this. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.879 I'm done right, So this is not the stuff that 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.120 gets talked about during elections, certainly not the last month 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.320 of any presidential election at this point in our nation's history. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.960 Quick question for you, what if you happen to miss 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:20.960 this unbelievable radio program. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.439 The answer is easy, friends, Just download our podcast, Armstrong 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.359 and Getty on demand. It's the podcast version of the 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.400 broadcast show, available anytime, any day, every single podcast platform 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:31.040 known demand. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.000 Download it now. Armstrong and Getty on Demand. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:44.480 Armstrong, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:46.760 First this. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.840 I've been meaning to talk about this for a while. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:50.960 LA Times has a story about how the San Francisco 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.120 mayor's race is the hottest and many many years, San 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.280 Francisco tech workers are spending millions on the mayor's race 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.560 in San Francisco because they want the politics to be 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.200 more sent T's just less progressive. I bring this up 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.159 for the rest of the country. He doesn't live in 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.720 San Francisco to wint out that there must be a limit. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.360 Apparently there's a limit for everybody. Yeah, how far how 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.920 crappy you can let your town get with liberal policies 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.000 before you'll decide to do something different. I was just 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.400 reading about this ad this activist dude who's got somehow 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.520 all sorts of political power because he has a bunch 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.000 of followers in San Francisco, who's so staunchly against quote 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:30.120 unquote gentrification that anything that improves anything he's against, that's 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.399 a weird and he gets his neighbors to go along 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:32.720 with it. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.480 That's a wild position. I'd say. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.480 We were talking earlier about we're in the last three 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.639 weeks of the election, and both sides are promising to 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.000 give people all kinds of things they can't actually give 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.240 them because so many people vote on who's going to 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.680 give me the most. Got this text, I don't vote 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.320 for who will give me something. I will vote for 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.320 who takes less from me. Yeah, that's the category I'm in. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.560 But about half the country don't believe there's such thing 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.680 as that. I guess everything you learn really belongs to 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.240 the government, and it's up to the government and to 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.440 let you. They decide how much they'll let you have, right, 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.400 and they'll take the part that's important for all of society. Hey, 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.600 one man's socialism is another man's neighborliness, says Tim Walls, Right, 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.840 and those are the same people who think the government 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:19.320 gives you your rights. Yeah, the same principle on the 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.560 Starbucks thing with the bathroom. So Starbucks the communal sinks 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:24.399 that they now have because they took the bathrooms and 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.399 mirrors out of the or they took the sinks and 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.800 mirrors out of the bathrooms because homeless. 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:30.840 People were washing themselves in there. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.480 So now you come out of the bathroom and there's 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.240 like a communal thing there out by where you get 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.439 your coffee, like you're at an outdoor rock concert or 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.399 something outside the porta potties exactly. So the Starbucks communal 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.840 sinks are still used to bathe right there in the open. 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:47.399 On many occasions we've caught them. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.119 Straight up nude in the bathroom hallway with half their 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.280 naked bodies literally in the sink. I've been in leadership 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.199 for Starbucks for over ten years in northern California, trust me. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:57.200 Wow. 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.199 And it's mostly junkie, of course it is. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.600 And we put up with this in some parts of 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.199 the country, and lots of the parts of the country, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.639 this doesn't happen. I live near Portland. I assure you 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.080 it's not fine. We will not go downtown unarmed. Always 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.760 carry everywhere here. Yeah, and miss kidding brother. I could 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.000 not believe what I was hearing out of the NPR. Dude, 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.159 and this text just to keep us level headed. This 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:24.239 show has hit the rocks. There you go, hit the 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:29.720 rocks doing poorly, Icey Yeah wow, played this yesterday, but 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.159 in case you didn't hear it, it's pretty good. Trump 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.960 is closing hard on the immigration argument way too much. Well, 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.400 they call it the immigration argument. It's a legal immigration 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:45.000 that really bothers people, or just unregulated immigration, even if 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.359 people end up being legal or decent people, with. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:52.720 Just the idea of just randomly decided no policy whatsoever. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.320 It's just, however, many millions of people decide to come 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.240 in and where they want to go is a nutty 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.720 way to run a country, whoever they are. And polling 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:04.560 show sixty percent of Americans now want to deport everybody. 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.120 Who's undocumented, which is an extraordinary thing. Right. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.399 So Trump's closing hard with the immigration argument. He was 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.919 in Aurora, Colorado the other day talking about the Venezuelan's 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:17.159 taken over the apartment complexes. But anyway, Martha Rattits pushed 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:21.879 back against his running mate Vance the other day and 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:22.720 this is how that went. 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:23.639 The Center advance. 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:26.080 I'm going to stop you because I know exactly what happened. 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:27.080 I'm going to stop you. 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:32.439 The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment CONFLX 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:36.840 apartment complexes, and the mayor said, our dedicated police officers 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.560 have acted on those concerns a handful of problems. 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.400 Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.879 Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.240 over by Venezuelan gangs. And Donald Trump is the problem 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:52.280