Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Keekie Enough Key.
Speaker 2: Armrongt live from the studio c sor it's a dimly
Speaker 2: lit room.
Speaker 3: You put them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 3: Communications Compound. And today on Wednesday, we're toiling under the title.
Speaker 4: Of Totus forgives, cotis gets Democrats gotus? Or we need
Speaker 4: to stop paying our presidents by the word oof? Did
Speaker 4: we need a two hour State of the Union address?
Speaker 3: The wonder I'd be interested in what the thinking is
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 4: I would love to know. I wonder if it's like
Speaker 4: how they film, you know, some movies, or they accumulate
Speaker 4: lots and lots and lots of clips that they could
Speaker 4: use to follow it up. It's like, it's what's important
Speaker 4: is the next day the echo chamber of the online,
Speaker 4: the clips online.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I was saying yesterday that maybe Trump has
Speaker 3: this theory as a guy who understands show business better
Speaker 3: than you know, your average politician, that it's the it's
Speaker 3: the clips in the echo chamber. She might as well
Speaker 3: have as many clips out there as possible. How many
Speaker 3: people watched the whole thing? I mean, I probably watched
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes of it, which is more than I usually watch.
Speaker 4: Outside of that room. It's got to be maybe double
Speaker 4: digits fifteen people between forty and forty five. It wouldn't
Speaker 4: be a lot, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: No, And so maybe Trump must just think it's it's
Speaker 3: all about the echo chamber and different clips on different
Speaker 3: topics for different needs in different states.
Speaker 4: So, with the highlight being.
Speaker 3: Uh, putting, the Democrats in the situation of are you
Speaker 3: going to stand up and make it clear that you
Speaker 3: prioritize US citizens over legal immigrants or not?
Speaker 4: And they didn't stand. Nope, No, in an excruciatingly long
Speaker 4: and exquisite moment of ut, do.
Speaker 3: You think do you think if they had that back
Speaker 3: and could all get together and discuss it, that they
Speaker 3: would redo it and stand and then explain afterwards.
Speaker 4: Or that's a that's a really interesting question. Probably not
Speaker 4: because Trump intentionally phrased it just objectionably enough. Oh you
Speaker 4: think trats? You put them in a box? In what way?
Speaker 4: Was it objectionable enough?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Your first duty is to American citizens and not illegal aliens?
Speaker 4: How do you argue with that? What you can? Where's
Speaker 4: the wiggle room on that? Oh, it's just knowing Democrats
Speaker 4: in the way they think they couldn't stand for that,
Speaker 4: which which is precisely as the potus intended proof of
Speaker 4: where they stand and what their priorities are. That's so crazy.
Speaker 4: It was a moment, you know, on par with who's
Speaker 4: in favor of government healthcare for illegal immigrants? Undocumented immigrants
Speaker 4: and all the yay who's raised their hands on the
Speaker 4: primary debate stage back in the day.
Speaker 3: What do you what supposed to What do you suppose
Speaker 3: the vote is on America on that for American citizens?
Speaker 4: Oh? Gosh, eighty eight to six with the inevitable six
Speaker 4: having an opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it might be higher than that on
Speaker 3: the if you did it for the whole country, I
Speaker 3: think more than that percentage of the whole country would
Speaker 3: sit just out of hate tred of Trump. But just
Speaker 3: on the face of it, I mean, how do you
Speaker 3: can You can have every bit of problem you want
Speaker 3: to have with Donald Trump on the way and forced
Speaker 3: this and that and blah blah blah blah blah, but
Speaker 3: to say you don't prioritize American citizens over illegals is nuts.
Speaker 4: If you had Barack Obama say that Democrats would approve
Speaker 4: eighty percent plus of that notion. Well, yeah, we've played
Speaker 4: the clips in a lot over the last couple of
Speaker 4: weeks of Barack and Hillary and Bill Clinton going back
Speaker 4: in the day of illegals, need to go back home,
Speaker 4: get back in line, do it the right way, pay
Speaker 4: a penalty, learn English exactly. So that's how far it's
Speaker 4: shifted in that amount of time. But wow, I was.
Speaker 3: I was blown away by that. So what would how
Speaker 3: would Trump have handled it if they stood just turned
Speaker 3: it into a see okay, so good, we're all in agreement.
Speaker 3: We need to prioritize American citizens over illegal immigrants. Let's
Speaker 3: start doing it, which should have been signed and he
Speaker 3: might have had an ask. I'm glad to see that.
Speaker 3: Now let's blank. Now let's just start to using e
Speaker 3: verify in a serious way. But you know, the Republicans
Speaker 3: are in on it too, in a way they didn't
Speaker 3: some ways, at least from the camera shots I saw,
Speaker 3: there wasn't a lot of looking around, like geez, should
Speaker 3: we stand or not? They seem to be really committed
Speaker 3: to sitting all of them in their heart, straight ahead,
Speaker 3: scrolling through their phones.
Speaker 4: Whatever.
Speaker 3: Wow, the whole thing is nuts. I saw a Bill
Speaker 3: maher with a reaction. He's a lifelong liberal that everybody
Speaker 3: needs to go to the State of Union, and he said,
Speaker 3: and when there's a when there's a Democratic president, all
Speaker 3: the Republicans need to show. I feel the same way.
Speaker 3: I think it's just ridiculous to not go. And I
Speaker 3: will say the same thing if there's a Democratic president
Speaker 3: next term and a whole bunch of Republicans say, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to go.
Speaker 4: Listen to those lies. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Show up to the damn State of the Union address
Speaker 3: if you're a member of Congress and sit there and
Speaker 3: listen to it, and then comment on it afterwards.
Speaker 4: I quote Representative Angie Craig of Minnesota, I would rather
Speaker 4: stick forks in my eyes than listen to that. That well,
Speaker 4: it least at least she's got a colorful quote.
Speaker 1: I would rather stick forks in my eyes than be
Speaker 1: here tonight to listen to Donald Trump talk about.
Speaker 4: The State of the Union. But this is the People's
Speaker 4: House that you and I are in agreement, ma'am, honey.
Speaker 3: I didn't watch it either I don't like my brother
Speaker 3: stick for to my eyes and watch any State of
Speaker 3: the Union address. We are an agreement on that, but
Speaker 3: I'm not a member of Congress. And the whole point
Speaker 3: is the executive branch comes in reports to the legislative branch,
Speaker 3: so that's your job.
Speaker 4: Show up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm glad I don't have to watch it,
Speaker 3: and I didn't.
Speaker 4: I think your honey actually did show up. She was
Speaker 4: explaining that since it is the people's house that oh
Speaker 4: it feels like she ought to.
Speaker 3: She was just expressing that if she were given in
Speaker 3: a weird it's hard to imagine how this situation would
Speaker 3: occur if somebody puts her into a You've got two choices.
Speaker 3: I'm only two choices, and we're not letting you out
Speaker 3: of this room until you make one of Okay, you
Speaker 3: can listen to the speech, or we're gonna jam forks
Speaker 3: into your eyeballs.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, whoa.
Speaker 3: Let me think that over. I see pluses and minuses.
Speaker 3: I'll be blinded for.
Speaker 4: Really depend on my site, and yet probably would really hurt.
Speaker 4: How long did you say the speech is going to
Speaker 4: be again? Yeah? Yeah? Are they clean forks? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Two hours? Come on, now I'd like to see those numbers.
Speaker 3: How many people you said? It's low double digits, so
Speaker 3: it's like fifteen peoples wide.
Speaker 4: Ain't nobody got time for it?
Speaker 3: I agree, ain't nobody got time for that? Wasn't a
Speaker 3: heck of a lot of stuff on her hand? A
Speaker 3: little bit in there. I preferred diplomacy, but barely any
Speaker 3: did he mentioned Ukraine at all?
Speaker 4: I didn't recall it. Hear it if it happened. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And I was pleased on a positive note that he
Speaker 4: did not get to nasty and personal with the Supreme
Speaker 4: Court justice. I was thinking about that. It was terrible
Speaker 4: enough what he said last week. So again he went easy,
Speaker 4: which was good. Somebody got in his ear, maybe Don Junior,
Speaker 4: maybe Milania.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said it was an unfortunate decision by the
Speaker 3: Supreme Court, very unfortunate.
Speaker 4: But then he just moved on. And so.
Speaker 3: What I thought with that is, so he's aware that
Speaker 3: what he did Friday wasn't productive or wouldn't be productive.
Speaker 4: Last night, So then why is he doing it in
Speaker 4: the first place? Utter lack of discipline.
Speaker 3: But does he He's eighty years old, so doesn't he
Speaker 3: at this point think you know, a whole bunch of times.
Speaker 3: I've just like, when I'm really angry, I've said things
Speaker 3: that turned out not to be a good idea.
Speaker 4: Maybe I hold back this time. You know, You've got
Speaker 4: a number of factors, and I spend a fair amount
Speaker 4: of time thinking about this. I'd be happier if I didn't.
Speaker 4: But you've got the combination of his just boiling boiling
Speaker 4: resentments against the swamp and the Democrats and the law
Speaker 4: fair and everything else. And I can't blame him at
Speaker 4: all for having that level of resentment. So that fuels
Speaker 4: his machine gun verbiage sometimes. Plus you mentioned his age,
Speaker 4: he's getting into the old man loses his filter portion
Speaker 4: of life.
Speaker 3: Oh, perhaps I took in a lot of the punditry afterwards.
Speaker 3: I took in more punditrary than of the speech. And
Speaker 3: i'd say of the mainstream media, the left leaning mainstream media,
Speaker 3: they were pretty positive that this was among Trump's better speeches,
Speaker 3: if not his best speech that he's ever given. I
Speaker 3: heard that on like ABC and CNN and CBS places
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 4: It was remarkably positive for a long time, I mean
Speaker 4: until everybody had left. Yeah, I was watching Mark Hauprin's
Speaker 4: podcast afterwards, and he thought it was the best interaction
Speaker 4: of Trump reading a teleprompter an ad libbing he'd ever seen,
Speaker 4: of the going back and forth and seamlessly regardless of
Speaker 4: people's feelings about the content. I think that immigration stunt
Speaker 4: was freaking awesome. I thought that was brilliant landed. That's
Speaker 4: the only thing that'll be remembered from that. That and
Speaker 4: the gold medal hockey team, if anything's remembered at all,
Speaker 4: that those will be the two things a week from now,
Speaker 4: let alone for history. But and here's here's a question
Speaker 4: for you. Because I'm in the branding business, Jack, I'm
Speaker 4: in the image business, the advertising business. Does Jack Hughes
Speaker 4: get his teeth fixed? Wow? Or does he leave the
Speaker 4: jagged gape in his mouth? That's his brand, it is,
Speaker 4: gotta admit.
Speaker 3: If he walks up to me with teeth, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure I know him without the teeth.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you're the guy's mouse Jack, Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like the goalie getting a presidential medal of whatever
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 4: I thought that was a little silly. He's a really
Speaker 4: good goaltender. I'm not sure that puts him up there
Speaker 4: with the war hero and astronauts. I don't know.
Speaker 3: You on me the other old level for hockey once
Speaker 3: every fifty years, and he was the reason. Eh, what's
Speaker 3: the harmac the values above?
Speaker 4: It will be fine, We'll be fine. I don't know.
Speaker 4: The hockey moment was good though, I liked it. Oh,
Speaker 4: it was lovely. And I tell you what those young
Speaker 4: men and we're gonna grab you a couple of clips.
Speaker 4: But Brett Baar talked to the Kuchuck brothers and also
Speaker 4: mister Hollibeck, the goalie. They are primming with patriotism and
Speaker 4: love of the American people and tried that they could
Speaker 4: represent their beloved country.
Speaker 3: According to the New York Times, they allowed themselves to
Speaker 3: be used as political pawns, which damages the entire gold
Speaker 3: medal win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, watch your teeth, New York Times editors. We should
Speaker 4: start the show officially.
Speaker 3: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is
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Speaker 4: The first duty of the.
Speaker 2: American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal arians.
Speaker 4: Been that shame. You should be ashamed of yourself. Not
Speaker 4: standing out, You should be ashamed of yourself. To me,
Speaker 4: the best part of that that we edited for time
Speaker 4: was how long the applause went on. It went on
Speaker 4: a long time because the Republicans were just delighting in
Speaker 4: just the moment and keeping the Democrats sitting through the
Speaker 4: roaring applause. It was all. It was something.
Speaker 3: I feel like, you do yourself no harm as the
Speaker 3: Democrats to stand for that, and then if you have
Speaker 3: to an election or a speech or whatever, explain you
Speaker 3: know the nuance of it.
Speaker 4: Fine, we protect everyone, all human beings. There you go,
Speaker 4: I solve it for you. Find the Republicans. That's of
Speaker 4: political commercial of course, that is gonna do. That's what
Speaker 4: Trump wanted.
Speaker 3: They're gonna run the hell of out of that leading
Speaker 3: up to the midterms every congressional race in America.
Speaker 4: And they probably had twenty million views online already.
Speaker 3: And they should. It's crazy. It's a crazy stance. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 3: we've got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay tuned, we beloviated.
Speaker 4: We're beloviators, so we got to get right to Katie's headlines.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, let's figure out who's reporting what it's Lee
Speaker 4: Strow with Katie name Katy Bobby.
Speaker 5: Usually do the top three for the the Alphabet networks,
Speaker 5: but I'll just give you one from CNN. Representative Al
Speaker 5: Green escorted out of House chamber early into Trump's speech
Speaker 5: after his protest.
Speaker 4: Good for him. I just retweeted Ilhan Omar and Rashida
Speaker 4: Talib screaming wild eyed and red faced at the infidel
Speaker 4: president who runs the Infidel States of America. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was something, man, boyer. They not only hate Trump, they
Speaker 4: hate America. I'm stopping before I say too much.
Speaker 5: From the Washington Post Iranians, I have Venezuela for him.
Speaker 4: Hints of Trump's next move, I'm sure. From the Wall Street.
Speaker 5: Journal, Bill Gates apologizes to Foundation staff over Epstein ties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he said he did nothing illicit, He saw nothing illicit,
Speaker 4: but he shouldn't have hung with the guy. And by
Speaker 4: the way, I've had two Russian lovers. Let's just get
Speaker 4: that out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: From the New York So essentially, yeah, oh, I didn't
Speaker 4: catch you had two affairs with Russian women, okay.
Speaker 5: From the New York Post, Kamala Harris refuses to rule
Speaker 5: out another White House run quote, I haven't decided.
Speaker 4: Oh please run, please, that's why dying wish. I'm not
Speaker 4: dying overall time slowly from time, Uh please run Gavin
Speaker 4: YouTube from.
Speaker 5: The New York Times. Ukraine wants to join the EU
Speaker 5: quickly and that won't be easy.
Speaker 4: From USA Today, there's a.
Speaker 5: Toxic new dating trend called ghost lighting. It's even worse
Speaker 5: than ghosting. It's a combo of ghosting and gas lighting,
Speaker 5: where they'll drop all communication only to reinitiate contact later
Speaker 5: as if nothing happened.
Speaker 4: All right. That a work.
Speaker 5: Study finds AI estimates time of death more accurately than
Speaker 5: standard methods used today.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's now, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: If AI could take in all the information about you
Speaker 3: and put it together in a way that humans never
Speaker 3: have and figure out, yeah, you got until about June seventh,
Speaker 3: twenty thirty two. I don't think this is that what
Speaker 3: the story is about now.
Speaker 5: It's after someone passes away to pinpoint their time.
Speaker 3: Gotcha protection I died, which AI probably will be able
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 5: And finally, from the Babylon B Democrats announce State of
Speaker 5: the Union response will be delivered by bad Bunny.
Speaker 4: Ha ha.
Speaker 3: This whole game, I just, I just the whole thing
Speaker 3: is nobody will think about this at all in a week,
Speaker 3: I mean at all.
Speaker 4: The response blah blah the midterms blah blah blah, rallying
Speaker 4: the bass and blah blah blah, the academy bah bah
Speaker 4: blah bah feeling their pain blah. It is. It is
Speaker 4: the definition of a pseudo event. To look it up.
Speaker 3: It's created and then and then reported on as if
Speaker 3: it as a tornado or something.
Speaker 4: It exists to be talked about it exactly yea, And
Speaker 4: here we are suckered into it still well, the whole
Speaker 4: Democrats not standing to prioritize Americans over illegals is something.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that one will have legs. As Michael said,
Speaker 4: that'll be in the ads everywhere for a long time.
Speaker 4: We get a lot more on the way. I hope
Speaker 4: you can stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: In New York City, meanwhile, the police are investigating an
Speaker 6: incident you may have seen online In Washington Square Park
Speaker 6: officers were pelted by snowballs. The police commissioner and union
Speaker 6: say this was a criminal act. Mayors Iron Momdami tried
Speaker 6: to diffuse the situation, saying officers deserve respect, and he
Speaker 6: joked if anyone should be pelted, it's him.
Speaker 3: Did you see that that attack on the cops with
Speaker 3: the with the ice balls, if you've ever just heard
Speaker 3: about it, been involved in snowballfy, you can form them
Speaker 3: into I kind of snow ice balls that will do
Speaker 3: serious damage. It's not as childish and fun as it
Speaker 3: always looks on TV.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you can pack them tight and throw them
Speaker 4: hard and you know, break your bone or somebody's.
Speaker 3: There are bloody faces in some of those cops. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's awful.
Speaker 4: Well, you have a situation where, for instance, Rashida Talib
Speaker 4: wore an f ice pin with the words spelled out
Speaker 4: to the State of the Union address last night. That's
Speaker 4: federal law enforcement. That absolutely contributes to people's attitudes toward
Speaker 4: law enforcement. Yeah, you know, I just came across a phrase.
Speaker 4: It's in my mind. Maybe i'll bring it up here.
Speaker 4: I was reading a.
Speaker 3: Newsletter that I read every single day from Wide World News,
Speaker 3: written by Mark Alpern, and he had this phrase in there.
Speaker 3: He's just talking about how different people saw the speech
Speaker 3: last night in different ways, and we'll play more clips
Speaker 3: of it later, as we do with everything now. But
Speaker 3: he said the country's divisions feel not only political but
Speaker 3: almost anthropological, and I thought, wow, I have not heard
Speaker 3: it put that way, but that is exactly right. It
Speaker 3: feels like some giant like evolutionary cleave has occurred.
Speaker 4: That's such an interesting way to put it. Yeah, Thomas Sowell,
Speaker 4: I think, is nodding his head in agreement. The the
Speaker 4: gulf between the two sorts of people read a conflict
Speaker 4: of visions has become enormous, and our bonds of friendship
Speaker 4: and brotherhood, to paraphrase Lincoln, have like been frayed. So
Speaker 4: we don't have the Yeah, I think he's I think
Speaker 4: he's crazy about some stuff. But he's my fellow American,
Speaker 4: he's my fellow California and Illinois and whatever. He's a
Speaker 4: member of my church, he's my brother in law, whatever.
Speaker 4: So that's it's fine. It's that's much more important than
Speaker 4: our differences. We've also lost that, so we've been able
Speaker 4: to drift, like emotionally much farther apart than me we
Speaker 4: ever have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the whole you know you will not date
Speaker 3: someone who voted for the other person for president, thing
Speaker 3: which is brand new, I think, certainly in modern history.
Speaker 4: And just seems absurd to those of us who don't
Speaker 4: think that way. On the other hand, I'm not a
Speaker 4: twenty five year old guy, and every woman I have
Speaker 4: coffee with is like a foaming mouthed f ice f Trump,
Speaker 4: radical gender theoriespounding lunatic.
Speaker 3: I might just think, I'm not going down that road. Again, Well,
Speaker 3: it doesn't take two to tango. It takes one to tango.
Speaker 3: If you've got one person in the pair that is
Speaker 3: of the I won't tolerate anything other than my point
Speaker 3: of view, it doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Well. Yeah, in fact, I'm sorry I went too far.
Speaker 4: I overproved the case. If you will become aware, as
Speaker 4: a moderate to conservative male that the only acceptable stances
Speaker 4: for your progressive women is to agree with them, you
Speaker 4: just would never go there. You'd think, okay, fair, fair enough,
Speaker 4: all right, you've you've you've made yourself sclare almost nobody.
Speaker 3: I'm watching Senator John Fetterman's on Fox this morning in
Speaker 3: his sweatshirt, and I know he hated the fact that
Speaker 3: Democrats didn't show up and where some were behaving badly.
Speaker 3: But outside of him, there's just there's just not a
Speaker 3: lot of voices saying, what's what's the endgame of this?
Speaker 4: If we just keep.
Speaker 3: Going further of now we don't show up, Now more
Speaker 3: of you don't show up. So okay, we've lost this
Speaker 3: common thing. We just keep losing more common things. We're
Speaker 3: all just talking to you where everybody's preaching to the choir?
Speaker 4: What do you see the endgame as? So this is uh,
Speaker 4: you're right, yeah, that's a great rhetorical question. This this
Speaker 4: is not an original thought, and it's been run up
Speaker 4: the flagpole kind of once or twice. But the Unity Ticket,
Speaker 4: the Marco Rubio and Josh Shapiro, the all Oh ticket,
Speaker 4: like a moderate Republican although Mark is certainly hawkish on defense,
Speaker 4: and a moderate Democrat Unity ticket. Would America respond with, oh,
Speaker 4: thank god? There was a brief chance of that in
Speaker 4: eight Is that when McCain and momentum, that's right, McCain
Speaker 4: and uh, well they were a Lieberman right, Well, there
Speaker 4: was top prior to that, McCain and Carrie running together
Speaker 4: at one point. Which cycle was that?
Speaker 3: And that was a behind the scenes thing that never
Speaker 3: made it into the public, but they it was kind
Speaker 3: of got discussed, and I forget which one of them
Speaker 3: shot it down. I think Harry. But they recognized at
Speaker 3: that point where we were, and maybe maybe we should
Speaker 3: try what you're talking about, some sure unity ticket, which
Speaker 3: might have been a good idea.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I would like to see how that would play out.
Speaker 3: Would you just get destroyed by first of all, the
Speaker 3: two parties have so much interest in making sure no
Speaker 3: third party ever gets a sniff of anything, correct, So
Speaker 3: that that way that would help the duopoly though, or
Speaker 3: would that hurt it? I think it might help it. Boy,
Speaker 3: it what an interesting thought experiment. I got to think
Speaker 3: about it for a while. My mine's moving best slowly.
Speaker 3: I was up way too late last night.
Speaker 4: Speaking of electoral politics, Jack, we've buried the lead. Congratulations
Speaker 4: to the winner of a landslide victory. Editorials in his
Speaker 4: capital's newspaper called him, quote the greatest person in the world.
Speaker 4: Well done, Kim Jong Kim Jong un, who has won
Speaker 4: re election in North Korea. Wow.
Speaker 3: I don't think I knew that he has the fake elections.
Speaker 3: A lot of your dictators do, but I didn't know
Speaker 3: he actually went through the whole election process.
Speaker 4: It's not a super frequent thing. I think he just
Speaker 4: does it when he wants to watch people dances to
Speaker 4: that particular too.
Speaker 3: But do they actually have polls and people go out
Speaker 3: and vote and stuff, or does he just announce that
Speaker 3: there was an election or I'm not one hundred I
Speaker 3: don't know what the mechanics of it are.
Speaker 4: They actually have an a and people go out and vote.
Speaker 4: But this is actually some pretty amusing writing by Tim
Speaker 4: Martin in The Wall Street Journal. It was a lateral
Speaker 4: move for Kim Jong un, merely retaining his top spot
Speaker 4: atop North Korea's ruling Workers Party, but the appointment won
Speaker 4: lavish praise in the regime's largest newspaper on Wednesday. His
Speaker 4: re election as party general secretary finalized this week at
Speaker 4: a rare political gathering resulted from Kim. Oh. I guess
Speaker 4: it was like a congress got together. It resulted from
Speaker 4: Kim spear heading quote unimaginable achievements, according to the editorial,
Speaker 4: in five years that would take other centuries to accomplish.
Speaker 4: According to an editorial in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun, which
Speaker 4: I read every day. If you don't read the Rodong Sinmun. Jack,
Speaker 4: you don't know what's going on in the world. North
Speaker 4: Korea under Kim's rule reached quote absolute military power at
Speaker 4: the highest level, the editorial read. The forty two year
Speaker 4: old dictator was also credited with having performed three miracles,
Speaker 4: personally overseeing the rescue. Yeah, so like becoming a saint.
Speaker 4: Maybe canonization it's in the air, Jack, it's in the air.
Speaker 4: He personally oversee the rescue of oversaw the rescue of
Speaker 4: citizens from a major flood, reviving that hard hit area,
Speaker 4: completing work on a modern greenhouse farm. Dear respected Comrade
Speaker 4: Kim Jong un is the greatest person in the world.
Speaker 4: The editorial red actually said that by Barry Wise, it
Speaker 4: probably reminds you of working at the New York Times. Wow,
Speaker 4: the greatest person in the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I might say, could we tone that down
Speaker 3: just slightly.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it seems a little showy. Tone it down.
Speaker 4: Oh man, you're gonna be eaten by dogs by sunset.
Speaker 4: The reinstatement of Kim as General Secretary brought bought, brought
Speaker 4: boundless joy it quote guard posts, workplaces, and home windows.
Speaker 4: The editorial read, our future is infinitely bright and promising.
Speaker 3: As people fight to the death over colonels of corn
Speaker 3: because they're starving all over the country.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do mention the nation's widespread malnutrition, poverty, and
Speaker 4: human rights abuses. Yes, plus and this is interesting. This
Speaker 4: is interesting too. It's getting tougher and tougher to indoctrinate
Speaker 4: young North Koreans because there's more and more illicit foreign
Speaker 4: media filtering its way into the country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting because I was going to say, for
Speaker 3: a lot of those people, like in the Congress, they
Speaker 3: grew up in North Korea.
Speaker 4: I don't know how.
Speaker 3: How crazy they know that that is, because since they've
Speaker 3: grown up there and they've been told that their whole lives,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how nutty they perceive that to be.
Speaker 4: Another really good question, and I, interestingly enough came across
Speaker 4: something that I think tends to answer it. And this
Speaker 4: gets back to a couple of things we've talked about
Speaker 4: a number of times. Number One, the first thing that's
Speaker 4: implanted in your head wants to stick. Somebody teaches you
Speaker 4: a word is pronounced in one way, and then they
Speaker 4: come back twenty minutes later and say I was I
Speaker 4: was wrong. I was wrong. The word is pronounced this way,
Speaker 4: you will stick to the first one for reasons of
Speaker 4: neurological science that I can't comprehend. Second thing is, and
Speaker 4: we all know this, You've got to indoctrinate the children.
Speaker 4: That's why the neomarxists moved from the factory floors to
Speaker 4: our nation's schools and are indoctrinating your kids into radical
Speaker 4: gender theory and hating white people and the rest of it.
Speaker 4: They've been horrifically successful in perverting the minds of the young,
Speaker 4: which brings me to the interesting thing I read. It
Speaker 4: was a North Korean defector who said it was unbelievably
Speaker 4: hard to get adoration for I think it was Kim
Speaker 4: Jong un out of his head. He said, even rationally,
Speaker 4: I see what the West is, and I see how
Speaker 4: horrible North Korea was, but I still have to work
Speaker 4: to get it out of my brain. Yeah, I've heard that,
Speaker 4: which I found so interesting.
Speaker 3: I've read about that over the years with Hitler or
Speaker 3: Stalin or all kinds of different people, that it's really
Speaker 3: hard to let go of that even when you intellectually
Speaker 3: know it's crazy.
Speaker 4: It's like falling out of love when I mean, you
Speaker 4: know she's moved on it's over, and you've got to
Speaker 4: practically like powerwash your brain to get those pathways rerouted.
Speaker 4: So it is with dictators and radical politics. Well, congratulations
Speaker 4: to Kim being reelected. I guess Seth Meyers had a
Speaker 4: joke about this.
Speaker 7: North Korean leader Kim Jong unn was reelected yesterday as
Speaker 7: the head of the ruling political party. I think because
Speaker 7: he got out and really talked to the people, unlike
Speaker 7: his opponent who never left his grave.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: But so when they announce in that congress he's won,
Speaker 3: everybody he's not.
Speaker 4: We're whelming victory and he is not.
Speaker 3: And we declared him the greatest person in the world,
Speaker 3: and everybody just cheers, and nobody even you don't even
Speaker 3: dare look sideways at the person next to you, like,
Speaker 3: can you believe this?
Speaker 4: Because he ain't get fed to dogs. I read a
Speaker 4: story the other day, one from North Korea, one from
Speaker 4: the Soviet Union where the security forces were watching and
Speaker 4: gathering like that and figured out who stopped clapping first. Oh,
Speaker 4: and put him to death. Wow to death? Wow? Yeah woo.
Speaker 4: That's rough.
Speaker 3: So what'll play some more clips from last night's State
Speaker 3: of the Union address about a variety of topics an
Speaker 3: hour two. We've got mailbag on the way next to here. Okay,
Speaker 3: I just read the whole thing about Bill Gates apologizing
Speaker 3: to Gates Foundation employees yesterday and about the affairs.
Speaker 4: We got to talk about that later. That's an interesting story.
Speaker 4: But first of freedom loving quote of the day, I
Speaker 4: have switched dovetailing with our discussion of North Korea to
Speaker 4: this fabulous quote from Barbara Demick, who wrote Nothing to Envy,
Speaker 4: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. She's got to be a
Speaker 4: fascinating book, she says, and I quote North Korean defectors
Speaker 4: often find it hard to settle down. It's not easy
Speaker 4: for somebody who's escaped to totalitarian country to live in
Speaker 4: the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are
Speaker 4: in the world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live,
Speaker 4: what to do, even which clothes to put on in
Speaker 4: the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed
Speaker 4: to making choices. It can be utterly paralyzing for people
Speaker 4: who've made decisions, who've had decisions made for them by
Speaker 4: the state for their entire lives. That's really something. It
Speaker 4: really is the way you can twist human minds is amazing.
Speaker 4: Mail bag Trompson note mail bag at Armstrong e Getty
Speaker 4: dot com is the email address mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 4: getty dot com. Sue b Right this speech. I thought
Speaker 4: this speech was great? Why are you so judgmental about it?
Speaker 4: Here was wonderfully, Here's wonderful, especially pointing out the Dems
Speaker 4: are crazy? What was I judgmental about? Other than the length?
Speaker 4: I can't imagine if we're not worshipful enough. Apologies Bob
Speaker 4: from Cammel Rights. State of the Union best show ever. Gentlemen,
Speaker 4: we watched the entire presidential production in my lifetime. I'm
Speaker 4: sixty two, probably the best over ever. I usually can't
Speaker 4: stand watching these things, but Trump entertained for almost two hours.
Speaker 4: The event flew by as we laughed, fell proud of
Speaker 4: the Americans, and cheered as he hammered the Dems over
Speaker 4: and over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the pacing, because Trump is an entertainer. The talk
Speaker 3: for a while, introduce a guest, and almost all of
Speaker 3: them are really interesting war heroes.
Speaker 4: And all kinds of stuff like that. Talk for a while,
Speaker 4: introduce a guest. That was a good idea, so interestingly,
Speaker 4: my freedom loving quote of the day was going to
Speaker 4: be from Friedrich Engels about centrally planned economies and absolute
Speaker 4: proof that there's some ideas so idiotically an intellectual could
Speaker 4: hold them. And on that topic, Jeff from North Carolina
Speaker 4: sends along a picture from Trier, Germany. He says, I
Speaker 4: was originally in Truer, Germany, Germany, came across a statue
Speaker 4: of Carl Marx. At this point, I was completely unaware
Speaker 4: I was in his birth town not too far away.
Speaker 4: There's a gift shop with tons of Carl Marx's merchandise. Lol,
Speaker 4: Carl Mark swag. Oh my gosh, what percentage of that
Speaker 4: is bought ironically and what percent sincerely by college miseducated idiots.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, I would absolutely buy a
Speaker 3: pin or a magnet or whatever.
Speaker 4: If they have, like Riley sarcastic Marx t shirts, I
Speaker 4: would have to have one of those. I mean, I
Speaker 4: am Michael Joe Geddy cold Warring exactly. I mean, come on,
Speaker 4: I have to buy one of those shirts. Getting back
Speaker 4: to the whoops, I had that out order poll Getty. Yes,
Speaker 4: Cold Warrior. There, it is right on time. Trump the topic.
Speaker 4: Oh Antonio writes, the truth is obvious. Trump is a
Speaker 4: rich man among a sea of money whorese. Can't blame
Speaker 4: a whrror. They were born that way. Have a nice day. Wow, Oh,
Speaker 4: drop the mind? Not sure I followed that. Drop the keyboard.
Speaker 4: That's tough to argue with. How about this from Anthony
Speaker 4: about this State of the Union address. Never before has
Speaker 4: such a scoundrel tried so hard to bask in the
Speaker 4: achievements and heroisms of others. It wasn't a speech, it
Speaker 4: was stolen valor. Okay. Wow. Then this in contrast from Aaron.
Speaker 4: He sent along a video from Twitter of Rashida Talib
Speaker 4: what's her name? Ilhan Omar and a couple of other
Speaker 4: characters from the Democrats who were all seated together. Hilarious.
Speaker 4: They placed the jihadi, the pirate, and the tranny in
Speaker 4: one place so they could shout together like vitriolic savages.
Speaker 4: I don't know about the term tranny. Wow. Which one's
Speaker 4: the pirate? The Somali pirate? I get it? Oh, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, No, No,
Speaker 4: do better? Be better? Does anybody know what she was shouting?
Speaker 4: Have you heard that? Well?
Speaker 3: I watched the video there shouting by I couldn't tell
Speaker 3: what she was saying, though.
Speaker 4: You should be ashamed you killed Americans and something else. Okay,
Speaker 4: but I tell you what, it was not performative. They
Speaker 4: were wild eyed with hate. Right, yeah, perhaps getting Trump
Speaker 4: will be their jihat. Moving along, boy Z dog, you
Speaker 4: shows that word accidentally, what z dog rights? Dear JACKI
Speaker 4: and Joe am I the only one who thinks the
Speaker 4: USA gold medal hockey goalie Connor Hellibuck should be having
Speaker 4: as many progenies as possible. With the USA Olympic women's
Speaker 4: gold medal hockey team starting in twenty forty six, the
Speaker 4: US teams would be unstoppable. Thank you for your attention
Speaker 4: to this matter. Well, I don't think we have forced
Speaker 4: Olympic breeding programs in this Chinese dog, but like China,
Speaker 4: and certainly they will couple with whomever they choose. I
Speaker 4: wonder how political the women declining the invitation was and
Speaker 4: how logistical it was the invitation to go to the SOO.
Speaker 3: The logistical problem of it makes sense to me. They're
Speaker 3: already all going back home.
Speaker 4: You are a liberal. You're covering up for the progressive
Speaker 4: women's hockey team.
Speaker 3: What And they all sang the national anthem together on
Speaker 3: the podium, swaying back and forth, and I didn't see
Speaker 3: any anti Americanism out of them.
Speaker 4: I'm swayed back. I think the other thing now well,
Speaker 4: argued Armstrong and Getty