WEBVTT - How'd They Get An Evil Monkey In My Turbon? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:22.360 Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.760 I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.880 country's going to be further weakened by this. I think 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.120 we're going to see the end of American empire. Obviously 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.640 other nations would like to see that, and this is 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.479 a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.760 shoals of Iran. But it's also going to end, I believe, 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.199 Trump's presidency and effectively end it. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.120 So there's Tucker Carlson on his very very viewed and 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:53.000 influential podcast, and then he goes on Bannon Steve Bannon's podcast, 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.120 and Bannon, who was, you know, a major advisor to 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.360 Trump when he got elected first time around. I don't 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.279 understands politics. I don't quite get that. Maybe we can 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.600 talk about that more. But to that comment that war 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.760 with Iran will destroy the American empire and Trump's presidency, 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.080 Trump was asked about that on the plane flying back 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:13.440 to the United States last night. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.640 Were Carlson criticizing You're saying that you're complicit. 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:18.759 In the war. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.920 I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.520 go get a television network and say it so that 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:25.119 people listen. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.360 You let him go get a television network so people listen. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.759 There's an old man who doesn't understand times have changed. Ah, yes, exactly. Yeah, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:39.360 Tucker Carlson has more viewers than practically every single show 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:40.640 on every cable. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.560 Channel combined at once, combined at once. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:49.600 Yes, yes, yeah, name the Host or Meet the Press 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.520 or any of those shows on the major networks. Tucker's 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.520 audience is way bigger than Meet the Press. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.200 Sure, or even the you know the alphabet networks Evening 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:00.800 news is Yeah. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.520 So that's just a guy who surprisingly or he's just 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.480 trying to be because he understands modern media better than 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.560 most people. He takes advantage of it all the time. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:14.079 See the fact that he announces things on Twitter. But uh, 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.920 maybe he's just poking Tucker, which you know he has, 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.840 he has a want to do. What is the Tucker 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.920 Steve Bannon worldview? I used to watch Tucker was on 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.960 Fox before he left. I'd watch every night, every single night. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.960 I often loved his opening segment, often loved it. Yeah, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.639 but I couldn't figure out his worldview, like a consistent 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:34.960 state his worldview. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.440 I just couldn't. Yeah, I don't. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.040 I don't know if I have the energy to get 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.920 into this, but I think there are certain people who have, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:48.120 uh have had crystallized in their mind. What does the 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:53.440 approach look like that gets the attention and money of 0:02:53.520 --> 0:03:01.200 the clicks of the young, online, angry, hyper confident America first, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:06.639 but in an isolationist kind of nationalist, hypernationalist way. They've 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.760 they've just crystallized that approach and it's been very, very PROFITGA. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.040 Well, so you think that's an act the world a 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.000 large I figured out a niche to make a lot 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.440 of money for both him and Steve Bannon. I feel 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.960 like they believe it, and maybe Tucker is Tucker just 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.680 really what huh believe what? 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:25.080 Though? That's the problem. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.520 I can't, like you started, I don't get what they're 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.760 pitching exactly, I think, and I don't know. Bannon is 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.040 different from Tucker, is different than Candace Owen's, is different 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.760 than you know, Matt Walsh, who intersects a little bit 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:39.520 with that community. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:40.040 For instance. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.560 There are a bunch of names out there and they 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.840 all have different approaches. They overlap a little bit. But yeah, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.400 there's there's a lot of grift there. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.160 Really. I I go back and forth on that. I've 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.280 watched a fair amount of Tucker since he left Fox 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.720 watching he seems sincere to me. I don't know if 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:03.520 you went crazy or his claim is. I saw a 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:08.440 great long interview with him where he claims that everything 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.560 changed when he feels like he was lied to about 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.880 the Iraq war. He pushed the war in Iraq really 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.839 really hard, the weapons of mass destruction thing, on whichever 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.960 show he had, and he's had a show on every network. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.000 He had a show on MSNBC, he had a show 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.839 on CNN, and obviously he had a very successful show 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.839 on Fox. He pushed the Iraq war hard. He feels 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.039 like he was lied to. That kind of like broke 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.760 his brain and then he went a different direction after that. Yeah, 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.359 but he seems sincere to me, or he got so 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.279 cynical he thought, these people don't care. I don't care anymore. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.880 I'm just gonna get rich. But man, he's good at it. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.839 Although the Iraq thing was in two thousand and three, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.279 and he changed completely again when he left Fox News. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:49.800 So I don't know. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.840 And again, just to make it clear, there are some 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.440 of the list of ten or so of the people 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.800 who are like the leaders in this thing that are 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.120 probably ten percent grift in ninety percent and sincere. There 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.839 are some that are ninety percent drift and ten percent sincere, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.520 some that are half and half. And y'all have to 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:13.040 remember it's possible to be completely sincere. And your worldview 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.920 is either just wrong the world doesn't work the way 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:23.640 you think it ought to, or it's incoherent. Your prescriptions 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.080 for the world are incoherent. So I don't know. It's 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:33.400 a grab bag. For instance, Candace Owens saying, get ready, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.800 white American men, it's time for you to go die 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:41.640 for Israel again. And then there's Tucker Carlson's favorite non historian, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:47.640 historian Daryl Cooper, offering prayerful words of consolation to his followers. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:49.640 Excuse me, don't worry, friends. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.359 As arrogant and invincible as he may seem, the end, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.600 the devil and all his children are cast into the 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:55.400 lake of fire. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.800 He's talking about this the Jews, I guess. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.839 So I agree with this critique that I've heard many times. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.760 A number of the America First crowd seem to be 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:12.280 America last. Really, they think everybody's better than us, and 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.640 their decisions to do evil things is okay, but we 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.080 shouldn't ever do anything right. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.479 Well, that's why they call him the woke right in 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:25.159 some places, because the woke left says America's irredeemable. It 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.440 was founded on racism. It needs to be terror torn 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.360 apart for a brave Marxist future. And on the woke 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.839 right it's America's irredeemable. It's become run by the Jews 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.040 or the immigrants or whatever. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.400 There are all sorts of variations. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.440 Therefore, it needs to be torn apart and usher in 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:46.520 a beautiful ultranationalist something or other future. So here you 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.320 have one more. Here's Dave Smith, who was a comedian. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:56.520 Allegedly he's big in these circles. He's big on Israel 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.280 committed genocide in gaz He was on Joe Rogan's podcast 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.640 There is no bigger media in America than Joe Rogan's podcast. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.160 He referred to Trump reports that Trump is fully supporting 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.120 Israel's action. He called Trump a trader to his own 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.000 movement quote, if this is true, Trump is the most 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.160 impotent bitch of a leader imaginable. He is allowing one 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.200 side of a war who clearly wants to drag us 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.120 in to lie about our involvement, while not correcting the record. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.960 Either way, Trump is betrayed MAGA and every principle of 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.920 America First. He is no longer worthy of any of 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:29.640 our support. He probably never was. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:31.680 Wow. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:38.280 So is this Trump's kind of weirdly sister soldier moment? Yesterday? 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.239 He told The Atlantic we repeated this. He said, I 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.480 invented American America first. It's my phrase. I get to 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.360 define what it is. I'm I'm the definer on This 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.280 is basically saying which is true, and you don't get to. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.119 Tell me it's true until it's not. Many a leader 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.559 has been eclipsed by their own movement. But I'm betting 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:01.000 on Trump. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.080 Yeah, he is not going to be eclipsed by his 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:03.559 own movement. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:09.160 He's going to lose a chunk of it, Certainly, he's 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.360 going to gain a whole bunch of more people. Though 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.480 I think, I mean this makes Trump look more sane 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:20.480 then than it doesn't, more help than harm because obviously 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.720 letting a ran get a nuclear weapon, how is that 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.040 America first? 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.200 That makes no sense whatsoever. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.920 I think some of these people indulge themselves in a 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.040 fantasy that if we just keep to ourselves the rest 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.000 of the world, we'll just keep to themselves. I don't know, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:42.000 just be lied by every moment of human history. Right in, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.120 the world's smaller. The world's smaller than it's ever been 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.080 in terms of our ability to reach out and touch 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.040 someone and everybody. Else's one final note when Trump does 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.959 leave the scene, whether to go to heaven or hell, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.880 or when he dies in short or just when he's 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:05.640 through as a president. And you know, he's an old fella, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.920 so he might be a quote unquote kingmaker for a while, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.760 but not indefinitely obviously, But as soon as he is 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:17.719 no longer the north star of Maga, it's going to 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.720 be complete chaos. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.080 In my estimation. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.040 Well, since you're talking about the end of the Trump era, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.559 let's revisit the beginning of the Trump era. We missed 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:32.040 this anniversary yesterday. It was ten years ago yesterday. He 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.160 comes down the escalator. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:48.120 Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:53.520 the United States, and we are going to make our 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:54.840 country great again. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:10:01.240 Not a person on planet Earth had any idea, how 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:06.040 consequential that was going to be for a decade or more, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.720 as you were just laying out one of the biggest 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:13.000 moments in political history, maybe in the world, depending on 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.040 how things turn out, certainly in the United States of America. Yeah, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.680 And I'll always remember watching Fox Brett bar that night 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.120 back when he used to have the amazing panel that 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:32.920 included George Will and Charles Crodammer and Brett bhar asked 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:38.200 them both played this clip about Trump's announcement. Kroudhammer said 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.440 it was a stunt and nothing more. George Will said, 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.240 I will not dignify it with a comment. That's how 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:49.520 little they made of Trump's announcement. He took over politics 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:54.000 in every way. He took over both parties. You're right, 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.840 because everything the Democratic Party does is a reaction to Trump. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:02.000 He took over both parties for the next ten years. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:06.080 Right, And the Middle East at the least will be remade, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.880 I think in the next few years. And what's going 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.040 to happen in Europe still mystifies the hell out of me. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.360 We haven't even gotten to Trump's just unhinged comments about 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.480 Putin at the G seven yesterday, about he shouldn't have 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:20.120 kicked him out. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.360 I can talk to him. You can't know. You can't 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:23.160 talk to Putin. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.920 But anyway, obviously the last ten years he has dominated 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.120 both parties. He's got three years at three and a 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.559 half years left in his presidency, and as you just 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.440 pointed out, he'll have some sway afterwards, depending on his 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:34.240 health and everything. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.960 Right, I'm just I'm talking less about politics than the 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.959 trajectory of world history. Sure, Middle East one hundred percent 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.960 has changed. What's going to happen in Europe? I kind 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.640 of derailed myself making the point what's going to happen 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.680 in Europe is still utterly unclear to me. But he 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.160 is an agent to change, no doubt. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:56.959 If you're a person that lean's Tucker Steve Bannon, what's 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.440 your Let Iran get a nuclear weapon because it's. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.600 Not our war, not our job. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.960 I mean, canis owns suggesting white guys are gonna go 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.400 die for Israel, gonna die to stop a rent The 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.760 number one enemy of the United States for decades, has 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.079 killed so many of our soldiers, has vowed to kill. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.080 Us all forever, my whole life. They want a nuclear weapon. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.920 That's why we'd be going to war if indeed we do, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.600 and I don't think we'll end up with a you know, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.920 American soldiers fight in a war anyway, right, well, anyway, 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.440 I just wondered what your thoughts on that are on 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.440 that text line four one five two nine five KFTC. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.120 Yes, Joe, I was just gonna say, we've got to 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.200 play the Israeli ambassador clip again. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.800 Oh when we come back. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.840 Oh my god, if you haven't heard this, Holy Cows 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.960 is not getting more enough attention, stay tuned. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.600 During a bill signing ceremony last week, President Chun said 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.400 the quote, Unlike Biden, I stay awakened and I thinking 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.840 about how to save our country. And as everybody knows, 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.439 all the best ideas come from a seventy nine year 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:03.199 old man. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:03.840 On no sleep. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.080 Dude doesn't need much sleep, as is a famously known. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.720 Can you imagine being almost eighty years old and dealing 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.040 with all this stuff, as a Mark Alpern wrote today, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.920 he's in the midst of making the biggest decision of 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:18.520 his life. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:24.640 Yeah, maybe it's easier when you're that age. Maybe I 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.160 don't know, Maybe it is a couple of different things. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.120 But first, this, uh, this is the Israeli ambassador to 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.240 the United States in an interview yesterday. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.880 When the dust settles, You're going to see some surprises 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.800 on Thursday night and Friday that will make the deeper. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.240 Operation almost seem simple. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.520 So the pagers exploding and killing everybody in hes Bla 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:59.959 at once, which is considered one of the greatest logistics, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:07.080 military ingenius legence, Yeah, intelligence tricks in the history of 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.240 the world, is going to pale in comparison to whatever 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.880 Israel's got Thursday or Friday. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:18.640 The imagination runs wild. Is it going to be something 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.400 incredibly clever like that? Will it be a preview of 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.320 what I've been talking about a lot when China decides 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:30.320 to bring the Great Satan to its knees us and 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.800 China flips off all of our electrical systems and water 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.600 systems and credit card processing and banks and the rest 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.720 of it. Is it going to be something like that? 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.680 Now Israel has implanted in Iran systems. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.920 We made a bunch of childish jokes earlier in the 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.720 show about exploding. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.280 Beards and what you did place. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.280 I like the idea of constricting belts. All of a sudden, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.200 your belt just starts squeezing you like a python. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.200 Thinking outside the vibe. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.160 What if you know you hide a monkey in their treurban. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.640 There's all kinds of things you could do. But wow, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.560 if all the electricity just get shut off in terran 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.200 cell phones stop, I'd be pretty big. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:19.840 Yeah, and again, and water and payment processing and banks 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.400 and anything necessary to pump gas. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.880 I mean, ultimately I want them to not get a 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.800 nuclear weapon. But in terms of just viewing the monkey 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.800 in the turbine seems like pretty entertaining stuff. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.600 Wow, wow, wow, you see what I gotta work. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.800 How did they sneak the monkeys into their turbans without 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.680 them even noticing they do that? 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:40.240 Overnight? 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.160 They took over a turbine manufacturer, right, found ways to 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.320 crossbreed monkeys with those weird lungfish. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.040 That can be like dead in the dirt. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.520 For do you remember learning about African lungfish when you're 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:57.800 a kid. Fascinating Google it folks, if you I'm. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.560 So they got their brand new don't look a new turbine, honey, 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.680 and you put on your turban not knowing at all there's. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.200 A monkey and evil monkey hiding in there. It houses 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.920 a dormant monkey, that's right. AnyWho, what the hell? 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.320 Thursday or Friday and I was reading the National Review 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:20.880 Andy McCarthy writing, He's his prediction is a quick US 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.160 strike to destroy Ford, Oh, with the rest of the 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.280 war war making left to the highly capable Israelis. That 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.440 would be perfectly consistent with Trump's history, willing to act 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.720 decisively but resistant to long term engagements. So we do 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.080 the big stuff, bomb the crap out of that thing. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.040 Then we're out, and it's up for you. It's yours now, Israel. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.160 Trump has not shied away from the big traumatic hit 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:47.600 and run. Solamony the obvious example taken out that general. Hey, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.440 for what it's worth, side miss this Trump truth doubt. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.080 Somebody please explain to Kookie Tucker Carlson that Iran cannot 0:16:55.160 --> 0:17:01.840 have a nuclear weapon. KOOKI why ayana uh so yew? 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.199 That fracture continues to be very interesting. Coming up a 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.159 couple of stories about the United States military that you 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:13.760 may find interesting. For instance, Silicon Valley suddenly has rediscovered 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.679 their patriotism in large measure. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.119 Love it, Bengetti. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.639 There's news in the case involving the death of actor 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.520 Matthew Perry. You'll remember he died of a ketamine overdose 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.440 in October of twenty twenty three, the Justice Department now 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.679 saying doctor Salvador Placencia, one of two doctors accused of 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.360 supplying the actor with the drug, has agreed to plead 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.400 guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine. To charge 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.639 carries a maximum sentence of forty years in federal prison. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.159 Whoa maximum of forty you won't get the maximum, but 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.080 even if he gets a percentage of that, that's. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.280 Quite a bit of time in jail. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.000 But then, you know, don't give drug addicts a drug 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.560 that they obviously are using to get high, doctor. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.000 And don't give people drugs that you know might kill them. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.840 Drug dealers all over the world giving people of for instance, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.720 you kill somebody, you pay for it. So I keep thinking, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.199 all right, let's get away from the Iran thing. I 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.639 just saw the headline in Washington. Lawmakers are continuing their 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.439 efforts to limit Trump's authority to use forces to engage 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:19.240 in hostilities against Iran. But it's like ro Kana Democratic 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.359 California and Thomas Massey, Republican of Kentucky introducing a measure. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.480 There's a couple of senators who are down with this 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:31.880 idea too, of essentially recapturing Congress's role in declaring war right, 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.560 and I'm not hostile to that idea by any means, 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.120 but the concept of declaring war has become so muddled 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.080 in the last seventy five years. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:43.440 I don't even know what it means. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.320 Every president since nine to eleven is still using the 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.120 same authorization for all this. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.320 Stuff right right in a way that you know, you 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:53.720 look at it seriously. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:54.880 It's just it's silly. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.239 There is some breaking news Bloomberg is reporting Russia has 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:00.840 said they will not help Ran. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:07.840 Wow. So that's interesting. Yeah, I wonder. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.240 If Trump was working that angle when he made those 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.639 statements at the G seven. Very soft on putin. You know, 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:15.440 we've mentioned this a couple of times. Why don't we 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:21.080 go ahead and hit that, uh put the play thirty 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.560 one for us, Michael, the G seven used. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:24.240 To be the G eight. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.359 Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn't want to 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.240 have Russia in. Then I would say that there was 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.080 a mistake, because I think you wouldn't have a war 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.639 right now if you had Russia in, and you wouldn't 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.960 have a war right now if Trump were president four 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.800 years ago. But it didn't work out that way. But 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.640 it used to be the G eight and now it's 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.360 I guess what's that nine years ago? Eight years ago 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:51.520 and switched over the They threw Russia out, which I 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.600 claimed was a very big mistake, even though I wasn't 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.760 in politics and I was very loud about it. It 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.400 was a mistake in that you spent so much time 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.639 talking about Russia no longer at the table, so it 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.200 makes life more complicated, But you wouldn't. 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:04.480 Have had the work. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:09.159 That's just an odd, odd statement. The G seven is 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:14.040 a group of industrialized Western countries that see the world 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.840 and trade and civilization more or less the same. And 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.240 then you've got Russia annexing parts of Ukraine, invading crimea, 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.080 taking crimea annexing. 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.000 It's too soft a word. I know, it's the word 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.560 everybody uses. But he invaded a country and took part 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:31.879 of their land, and so yeah, I get to be 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:33.840 in the G seven anymore. So yeah, you kick him 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:37.720 out of the we follow the rules group. Yeah again, 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.080 I don't know what Trump is doing there. I hope 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.359 it all becomes clear at some point. But this is 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.359 so interesting. This is another aspect of this that I 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.720 didn't see coming. Neither did anybody else. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.640 And it's the Wall Street Journal editorial board talking about 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:57.359 how recent events, including the current mayhem in the Middle East, 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:01.240 just haven't really shaken prices that much. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.480 They call it the oil price spike that wasn't. 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.240 And the longest short of it is, there's so much 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.680 production of oil and it's so dispersed that it's well, 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.520 it's like a free market economy is supposed to function. 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:20.000 Something crazy happens here knocks this amount of oil production offline. 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.480 These people over there say, no, we'll crank out more 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.760 of it. It'll be fine, and they go through all 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:29.640 sorts of different examples and sanctions and Russians selling discounted 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:31.800 oil to the Chinese. But the Chinese have the option 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.040 of blankety blankets. So there's too many moving parts for 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:36.320 everything to go nuts. 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:37.480 Probably at this point. 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.639 Wow, So is that era over the idea of you know, 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.080 a problem in one spot causes people in California you 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:45.400 have to wait in line for gas. 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:51.680 Barring a catastrophic disruption, as they point out, Yeah, there 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.040 just won't be that much instability. 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:55.560 Like there used to be. Interesting. 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:57.760 If you want to geek out on that, we can 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.960 post that at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. So this 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:05.600 is a really good piece from the National Review talking 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:09.120 about how in politics and government, clever is not always 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:13.560 the same thing as good. Sometimes you use cleverness to 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:16.720 deceive and to pull off crap that shouldn't be happening. 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:23.160 They're talking about the Trump administration, the Department of Defense 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:32.359