Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2: The Big Beautiful Show is back live from Studio c
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Speaker 2: of our general manager.
Speaker 3: Ah C and Gee tanned, rested and ready back from
Speaker 3: vacation also well theoretically, And the poor people of Texas,
Speaker 3: good God.
Speaker 2: The flooding, what a horror. I'm tan, I'm way too tan.
Speaker 2: Probably be paying the price for that with skin doctors
Speaker 2: years from now. Uh ready, yes, very ready rested? No,
Speaker 2: definitely not rested.
Speaker 3: You are dark enough to get away with railing against
Speaker 3: white people in a public place and people thinking.
Speaker 1: Oh, I bet he's what is he on his pannica?
Speaker 1: You're very dark. I couldn't pull that off exactly. All
Speaker 1: you care about is white people. We white people. One
Speaker 1: people are thinking, hmm, I wonder what is he? I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh he has no accent, I don't Uh. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: went too hard on vacation, as I usually do I
Speaker 2: go hard on vacations. I always have always, well it's
Speaker 2: this way I'm built. But I wore me and the
Speaker 2: kids out. We probably vacationed one to two days too long.
Speaker 2: Probably should have ended it just a dad earlier. It
Speaker 2: was a a I think, have we reached our maximum
Speaker 2: uh moment of three people being together, you know, all
Speaker 2: the time? Uh forty eight hours before we finished, I'd say,
Speaker 2: oh boy, you know, it sets a long time to
Speaker 2: do everything together all the time and work out where
Speaker 2: we're gonna go, where we were gonna eat, you know,
Speaker 2: blah blah, just everything you do on vacation.
Speaker 1: It was enough. It was enough by the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have you thought about like scheduling it? Well, of
Speaker 3: course scheduling and take some of the fun out of him,
Speaker 3: but scheduling in you know, solo times. Isn't people go
Speaker 3: off and do their own thing for a while. Did
Speaker 3: you do that at all?
Speaker 2: One kid? I can, with the other kid I can't.
Speaker 2: So yeah, all right, yeah, so that's not really an
Speaker 2: option yet. I What we basically did is I would
Speaker 2: go with one kid and then the other one would
Speaker 2: take a break and I would go with the other kid.
Speaker 2: The one the person that never took a break was
Speaker 2: the oldest person, although I didn't notice. They can't keep
Speaker 2: up with me. I kept saying to him, I'm sixty.
Speaker 2: Why can't you guys keep up? My legs are tired. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well why why?
Speaker 1: Wow, it's because there's not in school anymore. There's no
Speaker 1: p in school anymore. Michael, You're right, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Right, it's because there's no pe in school anymore.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Michael's shaming your own children.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, we left the met where we probably stayed
Speaker 2: for too long in New York City. Ended up going
Speaker 2: to New York Off. Talk about that later. That was
Speaker 2: completely Wait a minute.
Speaker 1: Me, that's not in the South Florida pulled.
Speaker 2: A complete audible in the middle of vacation when we
Speaker 2: decided we were tired of being hot, and I booked
Speaker 2: flights to.
Speaker 1: New York and then we went to New York and
Speaker 1: did stuff there for a couple of days.
Speaker 2: But because that's the way I roll on vacation, everything's
Speaker 2: completely random in the seat of the pants, and I
Speaker 2: love it that way. But we are at the museum
Speaker 2: for probably too long. My sophomore in high school said,
Speaker 2: when I get older, I'm never going to a museum.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's like digging a ditch in the mid Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It was like I was punishing them for some reason.
Speaker 1: Glad he had a good time, never going to a
Speaker 1: museum again. AnyWho are you rested?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, more or less? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And and and fed, good Lord of my fed, and watered,
Speaker 3: if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: There was no shortage of excess over the week.
Speaker 3: It was big fun, very laid back by your standards,
Speaker 3: as we had folks in visiting, a folk and my daughter,
Speaker 3: so it was a lot of good family time, played golf,
Speaker 3: eight drank that sort of thing. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: say staycation, except in making clear that I'm not saying it,
Speaker 3: but I guess.
Speaker 1: That's what it was. I came back lighter than I left.
Speaker 2: That's how much walking we did, so I'm happy about that,
Speaker 2: even though there was a tremendous amount of eating. It
Speaker 2: was so freaking hot in Florida, good freaking God. And
Speaker 2: I know it was going to be in and kind
Speaker 2: of went down here on purpose because it's not near
Speaker 2: as crowded, but it was hot. We were in the Everglades, like,
Speaker 2: not very far from where Trump was for the whole
Speaker 2: unveiling of the Alligator Alcatraz, Like I was just not
Speaker 2: too many miles away, but it really disrupted traffic and everything.
Speaker 2: We did a fifteen mile bike ride through the Everglades
Speaker 2: in the heat, and that was that was pretty grueling.
Speaker 2: That was pretty grueling because it was ninety with seventy
Speaker 2: percent humidity, and it was just oppressive fifteen miles and
Speaker 2: Henry wanted to turn around. I called him weak, He
Speaker 2: got angry, and then he finished. So I consider that
Speaker 2: a win. I'm sure he'll be talking to therapist about
Speaker 2: that the rest of his life. But he went ahead
Speaker 2: and finished the fifteen mile ride. And he's not dead.
Speaker 3: He'll become some sort of superachieving navy seal type and
Speaker 3: he'll never stop hating you. All Right.
Speaker 2: We finished the fifteen miles, and I mean we were gassed,
Speaker 2: I mean just beat red and so tired, and there
Speaker 2: was no water on it. You could only the water
Speaker 2: he took, which we ran through very quickly. And but
Speaker 2: I got back and I was talking to the what
Speaker 2: are you a park ranger? Park rangers? And he said
Speaker 2: to one of the girls, I said, man, has anybody
Speaker 2: ever died on that? She said, yeah, last week a
Speaker 2: guy he had a heart attack and died. Okay, I
Speaker 2: just kind of kidding. But anyway, what are you gonna do.
Speaker 2: It's all lots of alligators. That alligator alcatraze. That's a
Speaker 2: good idea. They escaped from prison or I guess they're
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants. That's where housing illegal immigrant in the Everglades.
Speaker 2: And the idea is that if you try to escape,
Speaker 2: you'll be eaten by alligators. I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: cruel and unusual. I usually that unsad. It seems like
Speaker 2: it seems rude to actually say that out loud.
Speaker 3: We are going to accommodate you here while the paperwork
Speaker 3: is being processed, and we suggest you stay on campus.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your stay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would present it this way. People come from
Speaker 2: all over the world to vacation here the Everglades. I
Speaker 2: mean people a to come here. That's how desirable a
Speaker 2: spot we have put you. And by the way, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't try to leave.
Speaker 3: The place is surrounded by fifteen foot lizards will rip
Speaker 3: your head off. Just thought you'd want to know. Anyway,
Speaker 3: get comfy and enjoy your stack and.
Speaker 2: Bugs that are like from the prehistoric era, just like
Speaker 2: the size of a baseball, Like, what the hell is
Speaker 2: that thing?
Speaker 3: Cocker you could ride to town. I don't even know
Speaker 3: what the bugs were. I couldn't test saddle on that thing.
Speaker 2: Grasshoppers that should have you know, individual names and be
Speaker 2: able to vote.
Speaker 1: I mean they were like.
Speaker 3: Gee, you should have numbers on the back so the
Speaker 3: FAA can identify that exactly.
Speaker 1: Yes, AnyWho.
Speaker 2: I feel really bad that we missed out on a
Speaker 2: week of talking about the big, beautiful bills that passed,
Speaker 2: although we will get to talk about tariff switch kick
Speaker 2: in on Wednesday, so lucky us. Let's start the show
Speaker 2: officially before we get to some of the news of
Speaker 2: the day, some of it awful. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Speaker 2: Joe Getty on this that it is Monday, July seventh,
Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty five. Where Armstrong and getting We
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Speaker 4: The American Revolution is the most important event since the
Speaker 4: birth of Christ in all of world history.
Speaker 1: Love it. How was your fourth of July?
Speaker 2: Did you spend a little time thinking about the whole
Speaker 2: independence from Great Britain forming a new nation in a
Speaker 2: way that had never been done before. As ken Burns
Speaker 2: the documentarian, Just to point it out there, I just
Speaker 2: watched that whole interview that Ken Burns. He's got a
Speaker 2: documentary coming out in November about the revolution and the
Speaker 2: importance of it, and it was refreshingly old school boosterism
Speaker 2: for the idea of the United States of America and
Speaker 2: our creation and what we're trying to accomplish in a
Speaker 2: way that I haven't seen in twenty years.
Speaker 1: Wow. Color me slightly surprised.
Speaker 3: I know Ken has been a bit of a liberal,
Speaker 3: what an annoying one in recent years, but good for him.
Speaker 2: I've always loved his documentaries though, and I think I'm
Speaker 2: gonna talk about this more or later as it fits
Speaker 2: into my vacation and going around and seeing different things.
Speaker 2: I really really think that whole moment, that weird period
Speaker 2: that we have said needs to be named, that we
Speaker 2: all just live through is over.
Speaker 1: There's some cleaning up to.
Speaker 2: Do, plenty plenty of cleaning up to do, but it
Speaker 2: is over the fact that CBS had a fifteen minute
Speaker 2: interview with ken Burns about the founding of the country
Speaker 2: and that they talked about it.
Speaker 1: In all positive terms.
Speaker 2: Wow, as opposed to the sixteen nineteen project, which looked
Speaker 2: like it was going to rule the day a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's refreshing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: My concern is an obvious one, the generation of kids
Speaker 3: who were indoctrinated into this evil, awful idea that America
Speaker 3: is a force for badness and not goodness. They're going
Speaker 3: to have to work their way through the system, the
Speaker 3: system of governance and culture and the rest of it.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping we can sand off some of those edges
Speaker 3: because it's not their fault. It really isn't. The people
Speaker 3: we trusted to educate them perverted their minds.
Speaker 2: It is still just so incredibly annoying going to a
Speaker 2: ton of museums over vacation and museums. Now every plaque
Speaker 2: you read has got to include some sort of displaced
Speaker 2: people used to live here, or because of climate change,
Speaker 2: or Europeans came and wiped out the just every plaque
Speaker 2: has to have some sort of woke Western civilization is
Speaker 2: bad statement in it, and it's so flipping annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I read that months and months ago that one of
Speaker 3: the top priorities Trump and company have to pursue to
Speaker 3: turn the culture around, or to continue to help it
Speaker 3: turn around, is to root out that sort of stuff
Speaker 3: at museums. Specifically, they were talking about the Smithsonian, which
Speaker 3: is just rife with that sort of garbage.
Speaker 1: And my final note on that.
Speaker 2: We were at the Museum of American Natural History, The
Speaker 2: American Museum of Natural History, one of the most famous
Speaker 2: museums in the world and famous for some movies that
Speaker 2: a lot of kids, including my kids, liked, The Night
Speaker 2: at the Museum and All the Things Come Alive, and
Speaker 2: those are great movies, but of course it included Robin
Speaker 2: Williams as Teddy Roosevelt on the horse the statue from
Speaker 2: in front of the museum rides in and Teddy Roosevelt
Speaker 2: runs the whole thing. Very charming movies, except for that
Speaker 2: statue of Teddy Roosevelt on the horse no longer exists,
Speaker 2: and I'd forgotten about that walking up to the museum.
Speaker 1: I hadn't been there since they took that statue down.
Speaker 2: And it's just nots It's just nuts that that actually happened.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, what a strange strange time. Keep
Speaker 1: fighting it. That infection is still there.
Speaker 3: I just read a we probably ought to take a break,
Speaker 3: but I just read an impassioned piece in Slate, that
Speaker 3: awful lefty website, talking about how Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: banning big announcement to what we're on vacation that gladden
Speaker 3: into my heart, banned dudes from competing in women's sports
Speaker 3: and rescinded all the records and apologized to the women
Speaker 3: who were abused.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But this piece of Slate was arguing that that was
Speaker 3: a horrific thing to do. It was exactly the wrong
Speaker 3: thing to do, and we need to stand up more
Speaker 3: than ever for dudes pretending to be women.
Speaker 1: So that tell you what that thinking is not gone.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk wants to start a new party, and that
Speaker 2: could be pretty damned interesting because lord knows he's got
Speaker 2: the money to throw behind it. Among the many many
Speaker 2: things we're going to talk about since we're back, here's
Speaker 2: our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2: That's giant piece of legislation passing is a pretty big deal,
Speaker 2: and we'll have to talk about that later.
Speaker 1: Whether we like it or not.
Speaker 3: I think it's a lot like life a lot of
Speaker 3: great stuff, a lot of pain, tragedy, suffering, occasional vomiting.
Speaker 3: It's a metaphor for life, Jack. Yeah, well maybe, but
Speaker 3: it's not. It's another step in that we're we're just
Speaker 3: broken the way we do things, just completely completely broken.
Speaker 1: That is correct, Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, all right, let's figure out who's reporting what
Speaker 3: it's the lead story with Katie Green Katie Righty's starting.
Speaker 4: With the ABC News Texas flooding. At least eighty killed
Speaker 4: across the state.
Speaker 2: That is one of the worst stories I can remember
Speaker 2: hearing that whole thing.
Speaker 1: Just I think.
Speaker 3: We all asked how in the world could that happen
Speaker 3: in the modern world, And the answer is the river
Speaker 3: levels rose more rapidly than anyone has ever seen twenty
Speaker 3: because this freakish weather phenomena.
Speaker 2: Twenty five thirty feet in forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's incomprehensible.
Speaker 2: You're banked along a river like my kid has done
Speaker 2: with boy Scouts or lots of camps have been throughout history,
Speaker 2: because Campania River is a thing and it starts raining
Speaker 2: and you think, holy crap, Well, in forty five minutes,
Speaker 2: thirty feet deeper and yeah, there's there's an awful lot
Speaker 2: of who's who. You know, what can be done to
Speaker 2: prevent this?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes bad things happen. That's horrible, horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible story.
Speaker 4: From the Washington Post, Trump posting net and Yahoo at
Speaker 4: the White House as US pushes for a ceasefire deal
Speaker 4: in Gaza.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this could be a very big deal. I would
Speaker 1: like to talk about that.
Speaker 3: I am as certain as I've been about anything that
Speaker 3: this is.
Speaker 1: This will not happen. It cannot happen. Really. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: as I often say, the math just doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Even with the stick carrot and stick with the carrots
Speaker 2: out there of Saudi Arabia other countries signing on historic
Speaker 2: deals with Israel. They get all these Arab countries to
Speaker 2: sign on the historic agreements if you layoff Gaza.
Speaker 3: The only way it works is if Israel gets incredibly
Speaker 3: unprecedentedly strong assurances about keeping Hamas in check from now
Speaker 3: till the end of time.
Speaker 4: From the New York Times, Ukraine turns to fishing nets
Speaker 4: to catch Russian drones.
Speaker 1: Wow, I haven't heard this story off to read that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that horror grinds on.
Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, the photos are pretty amazing. They
Speaker 4: look like tunnels made out of these fishing nets, but
Speaker 4: the drones get all caught up in there. So that's
Speaker 4: how they're protecting roadways in transportation.
Speaker 2: Trump and Putin talked on the phone while we were gone.
Speaker 2: We'll have to get into that whole story.
Speaker 1: From USA Today train Wreck.
Speaker 4: Trump slams Musk after billionaire announces new.
Speaker 2: Political party, the American Party, as Elon.
Speaker 1: Says, we're gonna go broke. Something need to change. Both
Speaker 1: parties are doing it, which is right. More on that
Speaker 1: later from Box News.
Speaker 4: Red states consider quote Alligator Alcatraz spinoffs as White House
Speaker 4: urges them to follow DeSantis' lead.
Speaker 2: I feel like you can't have an Alligator Alcatraz in Kansas.
Speaker 2: I just feel like there's a problem there that's insurmountable.
Speaker 1: Call it Prairie Dog Levenworth, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I also think that this is getting at least thirty
Speaker 3: five percent extra coverage because people like saying alligator Alcatraz,
Speaker 3: no doubt.
Speaker 1: It is fun to say.
Speaker 4: From the Associated Press, lawyer says Diddy got standing ovation
Speaker 4: from inmates after court victory.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, why he's going to prison though?
Speaker 1: Right, he's still going to prison.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's still guilty of I think three of
Speaker 4: the charges.
Speaker 1: I believe a couple.
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see what he's sentenced to transporting. Wow,
Speaker 3: sex workers across state lines.
Speaker 1: How serious a crime is that these days?
Speaker 4: And finally, the Babylon b journalist up late trying to
Speaker 4: decide whether to compare Trump's bill to Jim Crow or
Speaker 4: the Holocaust.
Speaker 2: All right, right, we have to weigh in some of
Speaker 2: the punditry around that, which a lot of what's fairly
Speaker 2: flattering about just how dominant Trump is as a political
Speaker 2: force in the country right now.
Speaker 1: As a lame duck no less, it's pretty impressive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is. We've got so much to get to.
Speaker 1: Hope you can stay here the Armstrong in Getty.
Speaker 4: Show, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Not one Democrat voted for Trump as a big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1: May two Republicans broke ranks.
Speaker 2: The top House Democrat delayed its passage by speaking.
Speaker 1: For a record setting a and a half hours. We're
Speaker 1: fighting hard to defend during this extraordinary moment of assault.
Speaker 1: All right, whatever directed at the American people, shut up.
Speaker 2: Yes, as a result of this one ugly bill.
Speaker 3: Got it so how we're going to get over the
Speaker 3: next election, or a fellow Republicans, let's assault the American people.
Speaker 1: They'll never see it coming.
Speaker 2: Cry and shame that we were gone vacation last week
Speaker 2: and didn't get to discuss the big, beautiful bill while
Speaker 2: it was all.
Speaker 1: Coming together in the voting and all that.
Speaker 2: But it did pass, and just some overarching views on
Speaker 2: the whole thing before we get to some of the details.
Speaker 2: First of all, I was listening to one of my
Speaker 2: favorite podcasts yesterday when we got back, and one of
Speaker 2: the reporters was talking about how you could walk around
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill and if you asked Republican Congress people who
Speaker 2: voted on this thing, maybe half of them could tell
Speaker 2: you five things that were in it. I mean, the
Speaker 2: people don't know for a variety of reasons. It's so giant,
Speaker 2: so complicated, comes together so fast, and things get yanked
Speaker 2: in and out and whatever, and it just becomes a
Speaker 2: tribal are you with us or against this thing at
Speaker 2: the end. And this isn't Trump didn't invent this. This
Speaker 2: is the way we've been doing it now for quite
Speaker 2: a few administrations. We do these two big to fail
Speaker 2: bills that have so much stuff in it that you
Speaker 2: gotta have in your party if your party holds power,
Speaker 2: that you end up voting for it. And and and
Speaker 2: you know, the president, the various presidents have figured that out.
Speaker 2: I guess you just make this giant giant. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: you'll be voting against the tax cuts for instance, right,
Speaker 2: funding the military, right cetera. Right, if you decide you
Speaker 2: don't like the part about this or the part about that.
Speaker 2: And uh, and that's just the way we've started doing
Speaker 2: things and and it's not gonna work. We're going broke quickly.
Speaker 2: I hate the national conversation we have around it. Almost
Speaker 2: almost every single thing you hear is either a flat
Speaker 2: out lie or at least a distortion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the point I was about to make.
Speaker 3: The frustrating part of trying to comprehend this, whether you're
Speaker 3: a citizen or a congressman, is that there are wildly
Speaker 3: differing narratives about every single aspect of it, and there
Speaker 3: are about a million aspects of it. For instance, New
Speaker 3: York Times, you know, the minute it passed, had a
Speaker 3: very sincere looking woman on their front to, you know,
Speaker 3: at the top of their website explaining how it is
Speaker 3: this clearly benefits the rich.
Speaker 1: And the cost of the poor. It's a tragedy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, say, I'm glad you mentioned that the tax
Speaker 2: cuts part the starting list starting with and I always
Speaker 2: complain about it. Hey, Republicans work on pushing back. If
Speaker 2: you're on one of those Sunday shows and they start
Speaker 2: talking to you about tax cuts, say well, let's not
Speaker 2: call them tax cuts. Let's call them the tax rate.
Speaker 2: They've been the rate for eight years, So this isn't
Speaker 2: a tax cut. It's how long does something have to
Speaker 2: be the current rate right before? You're just extending the
Speaker 2: current tax rate and you call a tax cut. I mean,
Speaker 2: don't allow the left to always create the language that
Speaker 2: you then have to dance around. Okay, that that aside, Well,
Speaker 2: let me let me just add this to that thought,
Speaker 2: just very briefly. And if you can't make this argument,
Speaker 2: resign from public life. Yes, lower taxes help those who
Speaker 2: pay taxes more than those who don't pay taxes. I
Speaker 2: will concede that point.
Speaker 3: So the whole it helps the rich much more than
Speaker 3: the Well, of course, a quote unquote tax cut jackal
Speaker 3: yell at me.
Speaker 1: Of course, a tax cut helps people who pay more taxes.
Speaker 2: But doesn't that seem reasonable if it's been the rate
Speaker 2: for eight years, how long do you get to call
Speaker 2: it Trump's tax cuts before it's just the current tax rate.
Speaker 1: As long as it helps your partisan a jadas.
Speaker 2: But only on Fox yesterday, excuse me, only on Fox
Speaker 2: yesterday did Shannon Bream push back against one of the
Speaker 2: Democrats who said this is all about helping the rich.
Speaker 2: The tax cuts benefit the rich, and Shannon Breems said, well,
Speaker 2: the IRS's own data shows that a higher percentage of
Speaker 2: the tax cuts go to lower and middle class taxpayers.
Speaker 2: That's the IRS's own data. Well that may be true,
Speaker 2: but they had to go. But nobody else even pushed
Speaker 2: back on it on any other show. Did I ever
Speaker 2: see either the hosts or even the Republicans. They just
Speaker 2: sure so bad at baking the argument. That argument happened
Speaker 2: eight years ago. These were primarily they helped more lower
Speaker 2: middle class. Maybe against tax cuts, fine, but that you know,
Speaker 2: it's just a lie that it's for the rich, so.
Speaker 1: Please right right, Yeah, So.
Speaker 3: A very very brief digest of what's in this thing.
Speaker 3: It the legislation, which not a single Democrat voted for,
Speaker 3: of course, makes permanent twenty seventeen tax cuts, adds new
Speaker 3: temporary tax breaks for overtime income and tips, as well
Speaker 3: as for completely unworkable, idiotic, unworkable, a bad idea, pandering
Speaker 3: on the campaign trail in Nevada, purely but temporarily fulfilling
Speaker 3: that promised kind of sorta with some carve outs.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's politics.
Speaker 3: A massive increase in funding for immigration, customs enforcement, slight
Speaker 3: increase in defense spending.
Speaker 1: Also major elements of the bill, the work.
Speaker 2: Requirements for welfare as I heard the shade and snap
Speaker 2: as I heard described.
Speaker 1: And this is the left is the crying. You know,
Speaker 1: millions of people will die in.
Speaker 2: The streets and all that sort of stuff because of this,
Speaker 2: even though it's a classic example of you start a
Speaker 2: program to help a certain group of people and then
Speaker 2: it grows over time and it's so far away from
Speaker 2: its initial what it was supposed to do you can't
Speaker 2: even recognize it. But you try to carve it back
Speaker 2: a little bit to what it was originally supposed to be.
Speaker 2: And you know, people scream and yell people that you
Speaker 2: know they're going to be dying in the streets, but
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 1: I loved how the mainstream media.
Speaker 3: They in describing that, they would talk about the reform
Speaker 3: saying able bodied men, for instance, able bodied adults who
Speaker 3: are getting Medicaid, which was originally intended for something very different.
Speaker 3: They now have to work at least a little bit
Speaker 3: before they get other people's tax money. Right, But they
Speaker 3: would always say cuts to Medicaid, the program to provide
Speaker 3: medical care for the poor and helpless. Well, the poor
Speaker 3: and helpless are untouched by this reform, so we know
Speaker 3: what you're doing describing it that way. It was originally that, yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's grown, So that's an absolutely dishonest description of
Speaker 3: what Medicaid is.
Speaker 2: And the fact that it's gonna make able bodied men
Speaker 2: work now to get their benefit is a bit of
Speaker 2: a stretch, and it becomes just a are you willing
Speaker 2: to do the paperwork to pretend that you're looking for
Speaker 2: a job. If you are, you get to keep getting
Speaker 2: your benefits while you don't work. If you're too lazy
Speaker 2: to even go about filling out the paperwork where it
Speaker 2: makes it look like you're getting work and you don't.
Speaker 2: First of all, if your kids are under fourteen, you
Speaker 2: don't even have to try to get work. And if
Speaker 2: you volunteering counts as a work, so you can either
Speaker 2: work or be volunteering. So all you got to do
Speaker 2: is find any organization or person who's willing to sign
Speaker 2: a piece of paper that claims you're volunteering.
Speaker 1: So so much for the you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're running our neighborhood watch. Takes a lot of time,
Speaker 3: forty hours a week. I'm always not and I'm always watching, right.
Speaker 3: A few more details of this the reform of SNAP
Speaker 3: that's your food stamps, in an unholy deal with Satan
Speaker 3: who signed the deal in the blood of the innocent
Speaker 3: GOP Lawmakers from New York and California held out until
Speaker 3: they got the increase in the state and local tax deductions.
Speaker 1: The salt deductions up.
Speaker 3: To forty grand for the next five years, with some
Speaker 3: phaseouts if you're in more than half a million bucks.
Speaker 3: Defunds Planned Parenthood for one year, which is lovely. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're gonna sue Planned parenthoods suing. Phases out green energy
Speaker 3: tax credits in spite of Republicans who enjoy that delicious
Speaker 3: pork screaming about it. Also slightly increases the child tax Credit,
Speaker 3: which you know, there's a history of that too. That's
Speaker 3: pretty interesting. It's a perfect example. We'll get into this later,
Speaker 3: but there's a plan for this new savings thing, the
Speaker 3: Mega Savings Plan for kids. The government will put in
Speaker 3: some seed money you can contribute to your kid's private
Speaker 3: investment account. It's not a bad idea at all, and
Speaker 3: it's a fairly you know, limited expenditure by the taxpayers
Speaker 3: at this point, but it is guaranteed to metastasize, guaranteed,
Speaker 3: and this lovely little idea for getting kids some seed
Speaker 3: money when they're born is going to become another giant
Speaker 3: entitlement program.
Speaker 2: So sure, And again, the overarching thing is probably the
Speaker 2: most important, that we're just continuing down the road of
Speaker 2: these giant bills that spend insane amounts of money, and
Speaker 2: they throw all this stuff together and the party that's
Speaker 2: in power enough people vote for it to push it through.
Speaker 2: I heard somebody describe it this way, and it's perfect.
Speaker 2: Coming off of vacation, you know, how you go on vacation.
Speaker 2: For some reason, you trick your brain into believing that
Speaker 2: money and calories don't count while you're on vacation, so
Speaker 2: you eat like you wouldn't normally eat, and you spend
Speaker 2: like you wouldn't normally spend. Then you get back home
Speaker 2: and it's like, all of a sudden, you're not going
Speaker 2: to just ninety bucks for this or whatever.
Speaker 1: Sure, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: I heard somebody explain, and I think it's what's happened.
Speaker 2: It started with Obama during the financial crisis of two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, and that what seems tiny bill now
Speaker 2: seven hundred sum billion dollars that we all freaked out
Speaker 2: about and formed the tea party around. It's tiny compared
Speaker 2: to what we do now, but anyway, we started acting
Speaker 2: like that's normal.
Speaker 1: We started spending after that, all through the.
Speaker 2: COVID so Financial then COVID and then we just spend
Speaker 2: like you we're on vacation. It's like you come home
Speaker 2: for vacation and you lock in your vacation spending and
Speaker 2: just continue to spend like you're on vacation from that
Speaker 2: point forward. That's what we're doing. Is a federal government
Speaker 2: doesn't matter which party is in power. That's a great
Speaker 2: way to put it. I love that we've got to
Speaker 2: keep selling that idea. Speaking of you know, spending, eating
Speaker 2: and drinking on vacation. At one point on vacation, just
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago. We had homemade apple crisp
Speaker 2: lemon meringue pie and Judy's Banana split cake, which is
Speaker 2: a layer of Graham cracker crust with sugar and all
Speaker 2: cream cheese, then a pineapple, bananas, strawberries.
Speaker 1: Cool whip, etc. Top of just spectacular.
Speaker 3: We had all three of those desserts in the fridge
Speaker 3: at one time to be eaten morning, noon, and night.
Speaker 1: Man, that's awesome iak.
Speaker 3: For breakfast, never mind cake by the Ocean cake at
Speaker 3: eight am.
Speaker 2: I was in the Florida Keys for three four days.
Speaker 2: I had keelime pie four days in a row. Yes,
Speaker 2: and I actually got to the point where I just
Speaker 2: couldn't stomach the idea of it.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I'm gonna vomit. And that's our country,
Speaker 1: he says, winding back to the main point of the segment.
Speaker 2: But fiscal conservatism, as we have been saying for quite
Speaker 2: a while, is completely dead.
Speaker 1: It does not exist as a concept in.
Speaker 2: Either party, which is why Elon claims he's going to
Speaker 2: start something called the America Party to resc us from
Speaker 2: rescue us from going bankrupt, which we are going to do.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's not like, that is not harm. SCAREM
Speaker 2: just trying to get people scared. Whatever, No, we are
Speaker 2: going to You can't spend more than you take in forever.
Speaker 2: It ends at some point.
Speaker 1: Right, agreed. I'm intrigued.
Speaker 3: And when Trump vanishes from the scene, what is the
Speaker 3: Republican Party?
Speaker 1: I think this idea is a non starter at all. Interesting.
Speaker 2: We got mailbag on the way, lots of stuff stay here.
Speaker 1: Maybe my favorite thing on vacation.
Speaker 2: Did you see the video I tweeted out of the
Speaker 2: guy balance and the tire on his head as he
Speaker 2: rode his bike around Washington Square Park.
Speaker 1: Missed it, but it sounds delightful. It is all. Have
Speaker 1: to talk about that later. It was amazing.
Speaker 2: You don't see that sort of thing. No every day, No,
Speaker 2: you don't. Right, here's your.
Speaker 1: Freedom loving quote of the day, in honor of.
Speaker 3: His ninety fifth birthday while we were on vacation, the
Speaker 3: great Thomas Sowell this week, maybe every day this month
Speaker 3: from my.
Speaker 1: Favorite thinkers of all time.
Speaker 3: Thomas could have been one of the founding Fathers except
Speaker 3: for the unfortunate state of race relations in the seventh
Speaker 3: but one of the wisest men who's ever strode the earth.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, here's today's free will having quote of
Speaker 3: the day. Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true,
Speaker 3: but many other things are believed simply because they have
Speaker 3: been asserted repeatedly, and repetition has been accepted as a
Speaker 3: substitute for evidence. People will just repeat the lie over
Speaker 3: and over and over again until you think it must
Speaker 3: be true. A man can decide he's a woman, for instance,
Speaker 3: what a ridiculous notion?
Speaker 1: Mailbag?
Speaker 3: I mean, you can decide that which certainly can't become
Speaker 3: one mail bag drops a note mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 3: e Geeddy dot com. Kevin the Texas Marine welcoming us back.
Speaker 3: Thank you Kevin very much. He says that the very
Speaker 3: last show before vacation, when Jack is alright on vacation,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done that. That's why I'm so tired.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 3: That may have been the best dowry of radio Oh.
Speaker 3: I have ever listened to a full hour with Tim
Speaker 3: Sandeffer talking about the revolution and the declaration of independence. Fantastic.
Speaker 3: I have listened three times to catch all the details.
Speaker 1: I will listen to that. I will listen to it again.
Speaker 3: That would be the twenty seventh June twenty seventh, Armstrong
Speaker 3: getting on demand the interview of Tim Sanderfforth terrific, just enjoyable.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the kind words, Kevin, And you know,
Speaker 3: part of the reason I'm enthusiastic about recommending that it's
Speaker 3: not just self aggrandizement to get our numbers up, but
Speaker 3: because I am firmly, practically, religiously convinced that we need
Speaker 3: to all go on the war path for liberty, for
Speaker 3: the United States, for the founding principles and the great,
Speaker 3: great nation that we're so privileged to be citizens of,
Speaker 3: with all of its flaws. Of course, we need to
Speaker 3: be positive about that, because we've let the forces of
Speaker 3: negativity own the battlefield for a very long time. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Having said that, Ryan from Houston points out that everything
Speaker 3: is political these days, including oh, what's That's the other one,
Speaker 3: isn't it? The for instance, the parliamentarian. Oh I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: it's funny I conflated two emails in my head. Powell's
Speaker 3: talking about how everything is political these days, including the
Speaker 3: Senate parliamentarian what the hell is that? Nobody heard? Nobody
Speaker 3: knew there was one, and now she's in the crosshairs.
Speaker 3: And also in the Scotis. You got Katanji Brown Jackson
Speaker 3: calling the Conservatives monsters, and Amy Cony Barrett yelling back
Speaker 3: her shame you don't know anything about the law of
Speaker 3: the Constitution.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the.
Speaker 3: Details of that high level cat fight later on in
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you're up on that. I just saw
Speaker 2: some of the headlines that thought. Man, that's a Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty story right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it. Here's Ryan
Speaker 3: from Houston. He points out's a shame our country is doomed.
Speaker 3: First off, you got a vocal minority. You believes we're
Speaker 3: installing in cinegret incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz, taking immigrants into
Speaker 3: cargo planes and throwing them shackled into the oceans.
Speaker 1: They've alleged that online.
Speaker 3: Luckily, in the face of that most haymous war crime,
Speaker 3: all they want to do is TikTok about it. But
Speaker 3: with the massive spending bill once again causing the death
Speaker 3: of untold millions, we will not survive every news story
Speaker 3: being a def con one. Every day we had a
Speaker 3: decent run, he says. He's right, the never ending deaf
Speaker 3: con one. Let's see another Jay in San Jose has
Speaker 3: a couple of points to make. He says, what's a
Speaker 3: democratic socialist? Aren't these two different political ideologies? Are these
Speaker 3: people by political Do we need to add a letter?
Speaker 3: If we had time, I could get into death. You
Speaker 3: know what democratic socialism is. It's pretending to reject socialism, sure,
Speaker 3: but saying the heretofore recognized limits on government interference, taxation
Speaker 3: at all. We're going to wipe those away and just
Speaker 3: creep a little bit further and further and further and
Speaker 3: further and further. It's just to go up, you know,
Speaker 3: beyond the bounds that we all used to accept. And
Speaker 3: then the other point he makes is Trump's second term
Speaker 3: already seems too good to be true for him and
Speaker 3: his supporters, too consequential, too unique, especially for a second term,
Speaker 3: probably too transformational not to end in his tragic demise.
Speaker 3: I'm not in the business of wishing death on anyone
Speaker 3: except mosquitoes. But in history, the immense power Trump seems
Speaker 3: to be wielding has often been the beginning of the end.
Speaker 3: This doesn't seem like the kind of story that ends
Speaker 3: with Trump doing the YMCA from a wheelchair after he retires. Wow,
Speaker 3: it's a lighthearted way to say. Trump is so consequential
Speaker 3: they'll never stop coming for him.
Speaker 2: There is a long way to go in the second
Speaker 2: Trump term, though long while you got three and a
Speaker 2: half years left? Wait what No, and that seemed crazy,
Speaker 2: Let me check those. It just gets started. What anyway,
Speaker 2: We've got so many things to talk about, so many
Speaker 2: stories from vacation I can't wait to talk about. If
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