WEBVTT - Oh, Don’t Be So Tiresome! 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:06.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:17.400 and Katty and he Armstrong and Natty. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.560 UNC football coach Bill Belichick last night made his college debut, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.560 and only six years after his girlfriend made her college debut. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.120 Bill Belichick embarrassingly lost his first Tar Heels game as 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.840 head coach forty eight to fourteen. The only thing worse 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.440 would have been at the score was seventy three to 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:46.200 twenty four. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.960 That's pretty good jokes. Yeah, that is a good joke, 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.319 is it. So we've talked about this many times over 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:02.080 the past. A lot of humor is to indicate to 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.880 others the guardrails we have in society. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:06.160 Yeah. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.520 In fact, there's that ang T shirt which I have 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.040 and I wear. It's the Latin phrase, which I can remember. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.839 It translates as mockery teaches mortals, right, So that's what's 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.360 going on there. All the jokes and they're endless everywhere 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.959 about this is to indicate to others and ourselves that 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.000 we don't think this is really the best way for 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.800 society to have dudes hooking up with girls. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.200 Fifty years younger. Than them fifty. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:41.440 Five zero booty for riches, a pretty face for riches. Yeah, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.760 we don't know that's what's going on there, but no, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.160 but that's where the mockery comes from. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:47.280 Yeah. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.640 Yeah, anyway, coming to I was just glancing up at 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.120 the television where they're showing that Chinese parade, which is 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.720 absolutely horrifying, absolutely freaking horrifying. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.080 But that's not what I was going to te. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.080 Last week or I guess before you went to England, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.160 we were talking about how England has gone off the 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.320 rails in terms of free speech. They just went even 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.880 further off the rails in the last forty eight hours 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.320 arresting a guy for a couple of tweets and it's amazing, 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:17.919 So stay tuned for that story. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:23.160 Yeah, I decided against intentionally violating their laws and getting arrested. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.480 I thought, you know, let me get through one visit. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.359 I'll go back and do that, but I think it'd 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.080 be an interesting experience. I still would like to do it, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.760 which I realized is a nod thing to say and 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.560 shows premeditation, which will probably get me an. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.679 Extra day in the brig or the Gulag or the 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:40.200 Limey or. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.280 The cracky or whatever the hell the jail over there anyway, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:45.680 total change of topic. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.760 There are times I feel like I'm rereading The. 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.519 Great Gatsby or there's another classic Hemingway book or something 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.519 like that that I remember that The Lover. There was 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:57.959 a couple that was kind of at the center of 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.640 the novel, and the woman was, you know, beautiful and clever, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.200 but utterly irresponsible in spending them into oblivion and stuff 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.400 like that, and the guy would object to it, and 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.240 she'd say, oh, darling, you so tiresome. You know that 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.320 that sort of dynamic. And I feel a little bit 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.400 like the Western world is that. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.359 Woman, Darling. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.359 We're spending ourselves into oblivion that we'll never recover from. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.639 Oh, don't be so tiresome. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.600 And there are some real signs of it. The bond market. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.840 Nobody cares about the bond market. I'll keep this brief. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.760 The bond market collectively around the world said, hey, all 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.800 you Western governments, your debt it's starting to look less attractive. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.120 You're gonna have to pay us more interest to. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.560 Have us lend you any money, Okay, in a pretty 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:51.560 significant way. 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.080 Eh one day we'll see. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:59.119 American companies once again beating profit expectations. Way to go, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.520 America go. But it's not because of consumer spending and sales. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:09.640 It's because of massive cost cuts, massive layoffs, turning to 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.040 new technologies. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.240 The bottom line is better. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.760 But company after companies as we're holding down hiring and 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:23.279 finding ways to get employees to work more efficiently. Oh, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:30.040 which reminds me, where is that The Wall Street Journal 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:30.920 had a piece? 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:31.719 Oh? Here it is. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.920 Your boss doesn't have time to talk to you. Amazon 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.880 wants bigger teams. Bank of America is flattening, Corporate America 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:43.120 is shedding managers, and the workplace is changing radically. And 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.880 here it is. According to this data research and advisory firm. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:48.200 There was. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:55.560 There was one manager for every five employees in twenty seventeen. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.640 Looking at big corporations in America, it was a one 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.760 to five manager to team members in twenty seventeen. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.560 It seems like too many managers, doesn't it. Well it 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.080 could well have been absolutely Yeah. These things move in cycles. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.160 It's like, you know, the Grand theory of democracy. I'm 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.680 always spouting that we veer all the way to the 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.680 right guardrail, figure, Oh this is too far right, so 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.159 we go way to the left and then smash into 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.080 the left guardrail and are way way too far left, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.720 and we passed the sweet spot in the middle, and 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.359 never have any idea anyway. But that one to five 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.680 has increased to one to fifteen. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.479 Wow in the intervening eight years. Wow. That's quite a change. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.120 It appears to be growing further today, according to this 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:44.800 management corporation. Google recently said it cut thirty five percent 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.279 of its managers of small teams following the restructure Amazon 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.279 as we pronounce it in Britain, one of the US's 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.039 largest employers, told investors earlier this week it was working 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.920 to increase the ratio of employees to managers. Many other 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.559 companies want to flatten hierarchies as well, Intel, Stay Lauder, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.240 Match Group, City, Bank of America, you had. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.240 Personal Service and others. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:05.960 Blah blah blah. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:07.480 So that's a trend. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.960 Back to what I was going to talk about there, 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.560 It is these retailers are selling cameras that are spying 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:21.600 for the Chinese Communists. As impressive as that military parade was, 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.920 I think more impressive is the rest of China's effort 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:32.400 to subvert and supplant us all the ways they're effing 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:38.000 with us. Pardon my French, We're British, including stuff that 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.960 we have no clue about. I think most of us, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.480 I still say. China decides one day to flip the 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.640 switch and cell phone service disappears, our banks shut down, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.080 the lights go out, maybe the water stop stops flowing. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.880 Who knows there's a drone attack on like fifteen different 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:02.760 military basis. Yeah, from when that they purchased nearby and 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:03.839 nobody cared. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.680 Right right, yeah, yeah, Oh hey, it's the free market. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:08.640 You know, what are you gonna do? 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.160 Ah, Not to be too big a downer, but if 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:16.200 you're not familiar with Chinese whole of society, thou to 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.480 achieve their rightful place on earth, which includes stepping on 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:27.000 our heads every sink, from bankers to plumbers, to school 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:33.520 teachers to filmmakers, every single Chinese person is required by 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.360 law to aid the effort to become the greatest country 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.920 China can be. And again, a lot of that has 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.840 to do with stepping on our heads anyway. So independent 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:49.360 analysis have concluded that cameras manufactured by the Dahua company 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.920 have severe security lapses that enable hackers, including Chinese commies, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.960 to access video and audio feeds. Findings that have spurred 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:02.200 bands in several other countries. Let's see who has also 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.960 allegedly provided goods at the Chinese government service of its 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:10.040 weaker genocide and among other sins but anyway. Washington Examiner 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:15.280 reviewed review identified listenings for Lorex branded cameras that are 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.360 made by these Chinese people on online storefronts managed. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.640 By Amazon or I'm sorry, Amazon. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.400 Best Buy, Costco, Cole's Office, Depot, Home Depot, Wayfair, New Egg, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:32.200 and Target. In other words, everybody selling Chinese spying tools. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.880 Chijin Ping has just got to laugh himself to sleep 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.640 every night. Does he die at some point? 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.120 He's kind of a fat old guy. Yeah, you'd think 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.600 Putin's not fat, but he's old. Why did dictators live 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.880 so long? It must be good for him anyway. A 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.400 final note out of Consumer News. Are you a tennis fan? 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.599 I'm not really, but I noticed the US Open is 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:53.959 going on. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:55.079 I'm kind of following it. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.040 Yeah, because Venus is still in it for a Blushing 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.720 Meadows or forty five. She's aged forty five. She's playing 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:07.640 doubles with this girl who's twenty two, less than half 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.880 her age of a bellowchick like relationship, and they've upset 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.240 a couple of people and made it into the semifinals. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:15.200 Good for her. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.719 I love rooting for the oldsters anyway. So if you 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.959 go to the US Open, and why wouldn't you, and 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.600 you get a bit packish, as we say in Great Britain. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:30.800 Here among your venu selections, caviar topped chicken nuggets for 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.320 one hundred dollars caviar. 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.520 I wish I was kidding. I'm not chicken nuggets. Yes, 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:37.560 one hundred dollars. Boy. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.280 I try to stay away from chicken nuggets, and I 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.640 don't like caviar, so that's not a lot to like 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:41.959 for me. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:47.080 There there's a drink cleverly named the Watermelon Slice, which 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:51.599 includes a watermelon slice. It's thirty nine dollars. Wow, a 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.280 forty dollars drink. You're sitting there in the sun, it's 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.280 a little hot. You're thinking, you know, a little fro 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.960 yo is exactly what I need. Hey, honey, you get 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.120 me a fro yo. You want the larger, the small, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.439 the Small's fine. Let's be thrifty nineteen dollars for the 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:08.680 small frozen yogurt. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.360 I don't know if I can get past that forty 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.000 dollars drink. I've never had one drink in my life, 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.839 so I'm gonna have two eighty bucks. I want to 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:23.199 forget all of my problems for at least three days. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.880 By the way, the nineteen dollars for the small cup 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.040 of frozen yogurt, it's actually a couple of dollars more 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.400 than New York's minimum wage. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.319 So anyway, I don't know what that means. This well, 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:35.920 I'll skip to the end. At the end. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:40.480 The US Open signature drink, the Honey Deuce, made of 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.920 vodka raspberry liqueur and topped and lemonade, topped with a 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:50.880 skewer of honeydew melon balls. That's twenty three dollars a pop, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:56.000 and they sold thirteen million dollars worth of them last year. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:01.439 WHOA Now this writer trying to make some sort of 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:07.240 you know, Hunger Games capital. The Romanovs partying is the 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:12.200 surf starve in Russia unit. You got some damn much money. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.760 You want one hundred dollars cavard top chicken nuggets. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.120 I say, go for it. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.840 Try It's no skin off my note, right, But they 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.280 point out that the amount of money spent on the 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.480 honeydewce dring slash year could have bought eight hundred years 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.280 of groceries for a family of four. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.520 Oh and if you're just thirsty and want a bottle 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.600 of water, nine dollars nine dollars for. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.960 The bottle of water you can get for forty cents 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.160 at Costco nine dollars. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:41.160 Yeah. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.760 Wow, I've got the most interesting Epstein news you've heard 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.160 in quite some time. But first we need to tell 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.880 you about this is. 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I promise 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:07.920 this will be short. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.760 I refuse to be drug into a conversation on the 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.440 list Joe decides to go off on it. I will 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.199 not say another word other than this. This is what 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.000 Mark Alpern wrote in his newsletter today about Congress coming 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:20.719 back and starting up with the Epstein talk again. There 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:28.120 remains not one public, credible evidence backed specific allegation against 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.599 anyone besides Epstein and Maxwell as it pertains to a 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.160 child sex trafficking ring. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.680 None the end, as far as I'm concerned. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.959 Okay, if this were a different era, we would have 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:48.719 come back with the Google Google Dolls song iris. We 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.480 can't play songs anymore because of copyright thingies. But anyway, 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.679 that song was according to the Wall Street Journal, And 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.920 you've heard the song, even if you don't think you've 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.440 heard no the song, know the song because you can't. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.600 I couldn't escape it for a while. You can't escape 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.640 it now. That song was the number one streamed song 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.840 of the summer. It's from nineteen ninety two or whatever, 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.520 is forty some years old. Oh this summer, this summer. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:16.960 Yes, so it was in some. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.720 Netflix show, and for whatever reason, everybody who is like 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.960 the nineties was their heyday was like, oh yeah, I 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.600 love the Googoo Dolls and started streaming that song again. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.600 And then it caught on as a big karaoke thing, 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.560 and so it was the number one stream song in 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.480 the summer, and the Googoo Dolls just happened to be 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.640 out touring, you know, like you do if you're a 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.360 band forty years later and now you're old men and 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.040 you think, hey, that'd be kind of fun. Maybe we'd 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.080 make a couple of dollars playing at the county Fair. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.160 They're bigger than they've ever been. They're bigger than they 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.720 were in the nineties, and the lead singers, I ammed, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.360 we don't know, this is so crazy. We go around 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.840 and we play absolutely packed houses. We can't sell enough 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.800 T shirts. We never thought this would happen. I just 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:57.840 thought that was kind of funny. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.280 Well not to e Quipple, but what I'm say backing 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.720 this through it was thirty years ago, and change if 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.880 it was ninety two, but no, because I'm thinking through 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.200 the cycle of you're hot, then you're not hot, then 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.960 you're old, then you're Oh, I. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.120 Love those guys again. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.239 But you've got to wander through the desert of irrelevant 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.480 and kind of embarrassing. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.840 For fewer years than I think you used to. And 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:26.240 I was. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.320 I was listening to it. So I read this and 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:29.960 then I dialed it up and I was listening to it. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.760 And it's got the whole, you know, that whole period 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.720 of ninety songs where they were all that you bleed 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.560 just to know you're alive, just all that angst that 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:45.080 that all those songs from that era had that inward. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.160 My life sucks. It's so tough to be a live thing. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.320 And I'm super emotive. Yeah, that kind of previewed where 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.000 we were going. I feel like as a nation, for 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:56.800 better or worse. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.520 But that's gotta be something when you think you're doing 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:04.680 your kind of embarrassing has been County Fair tour part 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.120 of your life and you end up being bigger than 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.440 you were back when you were young and attractive. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.000 That's not you take. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.640 Good for them, Yeah, exactly good for them. You take 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.600 the break, says they come. I was talking to how 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.880 much time by Michael? Okay, two minutes, I'll start it. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.680 Maybe we'll talk about it more later. I was talking 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.240 to my niece, saw her Walter in Kansas for my 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.040 dad's birthday and all that sort of stuff. She was 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.200 in Australia all summer interning for a doctor. There's part 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.040 of her university education and become a doctor. She was 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.920 talking about how Sydney was so clean, no homeless people, 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.920 no trash, nobody talked about crime or anything like that, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:49.120 and it got me starting started on the topic I 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.880 think about a lot is just culture. The culture we 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.640 have in the United States, the permissive culture we've let 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.320 toward cultural decay, the cultural decay that we've allowed in 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.760 this country over many many dedays, and whether or not 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.040 we can turn it around. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.159 And Australia is. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:10.760 What we were like in the forties, fifties or just 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.919 the culture was clean, neat, orderly. We don't put up 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.879 with crime or trash and we let that go away. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.080 And you know, you don't have to do that. It's 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:26.680 not just inevitable that that happens, right, right, Yeah, it's 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.800 all a question of balance though. No, no, because I'm 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.960 thinking of an example. I don't have time for this 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.200 whole story. I shouldn't have launched you don't. I shouldn't 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:35.760 have launched into this. I'll have to get into it later, 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:40.119 because I think it's a very important discussion about the 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.879 culture of just allowing nonsense to occur. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:45.879 You don't have to have that. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.600 It's not the laws, it's the culture that doesn't get 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:50.760 enough attention. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.639 Being tolerant to the point of, well, we have to 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.800 put up with anything, no matter how horrifying, because we're 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.359 not allowed to say we don't like anything. I mean, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.359 it's just kosis. It's terrible to that. But you're right, 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:03.440 that is an important discussion. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.280 You to that point, Trump sending the National Guard or 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.960 talking about sending in the National Guard into Chicago to 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:09.720 deal with the crime. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.439 Is it legal? Is it constitutional? Is it allowed? All right? 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.000 Those are really good questions. Here's something nobody's talking about. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:16.080 It's working. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.320 It's working unbelievably well, arm strong and getty. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.040 When you crunch the numbers here that fifty people were 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.240 shot at last check, eight of them fatally. We're told 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.800 those numbers could likely go up later this morning, after 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.399 the full weekend count. Numbers like that only bolster the 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.600 White House's message that true presence is needed in Chicago. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.640 I think it does, and I think what the President 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.879 can point to is the reduction in crime in Washington, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:46.159 d C. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.040 Since he federalized DC's police. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.679 Since he deployed National Guard on the streets, assaults are 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.199 down compared to a similar period last year. Assaults were 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.959 down from fifty three to forty three. Burglaries were down 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:04.159 from seventy seven to forty. Violent crimes were down by 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:08.880 about half. Homicides were down by more than half. Combined 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.320 violent crime incidents in twenty twenty four during that same period, 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.080 we're one hundred and eighty incidents. During the time that 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.399 the Trump had National Guard on the streets, during the 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.240 time he had federalized federal police, crime went down to 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.120 ninety two incidents, so we're seeing a big reduction crime. 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:28.040 So there you go. That's from News Nation, that's not Fox. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.680 Just going through the crime statistics of how much it 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:32.439 changed with the National Guard troops there. 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.239 And I was listening to Morning Joe This Morning Joe 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.800 Scarborough saying. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.320 Yeah, I know that people are on social media talking 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.760 about the dictator takeover and how awful this is and 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.720 their protests. He said, but everybody, I know, when we 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.200 get onto a train and we see National Guarden troops, 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:49.840 we get on the subway, we think cool. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.600 Yes, yeah, it's funny. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.240 You should point out that was News Nation and not 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:59.280 you know, avowedly conservative outlet, none other than Murial Bowser, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:04.600 the insufferable mayor of DC is saying, hey, this is 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.200 like really really working well and the way I was 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.840 thinking of presenting this information originally, and we've kind of 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.960 already done it. But is that the question of Trump 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:20.880 deploying like the National Guard to Chicago and whether that's legal, constitutional, etc. 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.119 I mean, you have the Posse Comatatis Act of eighteen 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.320 seventy eight, maybe you know it. Essentially the US military 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.000 can't be used to execute domestic law it's not what 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.920 they're there for. We don't want that, and we don't 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.560 want that. And it's a worthy question and a good 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.600 one and an interesting one, and we will work our 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:40.080 way through it. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.320 With the help of some very very helpful judges, I'm sure. 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:49.440 But that's a distraction from like the question that affects 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.800 actual human beings and their lives, and that question is 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.680 why is it so miserable in America's blue cities and 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:58.520 can anything be. 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.520 Done about it? Answer is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:03.040 It can be. 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.200 That's what even Scarborough was saying on MSNBC, and I 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.000 mentioned him because he's they're such an important voice for 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:10.960 the left that MSNBC show. 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:14.639 Scarborough even saying, you standing up there saying we. 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.919 Don't want your troops in our city while the headline 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:22.600 over your head is fifty some shot, eight dead, is 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:23.679 not working. 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.359 That's not the way normal people react. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.880 Normal people react to holy crap, fifty some people were 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:31.280 shot in one weekend. 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:36.600 Yeah, something needs to be done, of course, says I 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:37.840 was ranting about yesterday. 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.480 It takes an Ivory Tower type or a media type 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:44.600 to look at the numbers and not say, my god, 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.440 this is horrible and I don't want to live like this. 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:50.000