WEBVTT - Memes & Communists 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:05.360 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 Armstrong and Getty and now he. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:16.520 Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.480 We're taking them out by the thousands. We're being obstructed. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.760 It's very unfair what's happening because the court system is 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.040 being it's very unfair. So we're getting them out. It's 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:36.479 a very difficult thing with the courts because the courts 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.280 have all of a sudden out of nowhere, they said, 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.720 maybe you have to have trials, trials. We're going to 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.720 have five million trials. Doesn't work. Doesn't work. You wouldn't 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.440 have a country left. But hopefully the Supreme Court will 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.160 save it. But what they've done is a very very 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:54.880 serious thing. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.480 So how was how was the Deporter in chief, Barack Obama, 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.720 who deported so many people? Did he get him out 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.840 without having a trial for everybody? The new process that 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.560 we're talking about now, was it? 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.480 A lot of that was they were apprehended at the border. Okay, 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.759 he did like the immediate quickie deportation, which is which 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.959 is different for reasons. I mean, we could argue about 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.560 whether it ought to be or not, but so those 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:20.560 differences part of it. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.760 Biden opened up the border, let gazillions of the biggest 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.000 migration in human history happen. People got well deep into 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.720 the country for years. Then it's a different thing. Yeah. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.800 Yeah, So within a certain geographic distance from the border, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.360 that rules change because you're not apprehended. Then you're living here. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.880 It's again, we could argue about whether that's appropriate or not, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:41.760 but that's the way it is. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.959 So then you qualify as a person in the United 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.560 States as the Constitution. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.840 Called it, right exactly. You're not just caught sneaking across 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.440 the border, your person living here under the jurisdiction. Blah 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:57.480 blah blah. So anyway, Trump was explaining why they've gone 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.000 with various alternative plans to get people out of the country, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.440 including self deportation. Next clip here with Michael. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.880 So, we're going to have a self deportation where they 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.720 deport themselves out of our country, and we'll work with them, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.720 and we're going to try and if we think they're good. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.160 They have you know, the people we want in. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.200 Our country, they're going to come back into our country. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.480 Will give them a little easier route, and then the 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.080 world's most glam Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:27.160 explaining further. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.240 We spend about seventeen thousand dollars arresting, detaining, and deporting 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.840 an illegal alien right now today, If we have the 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.119 opportunity to purchase a plane ticket and send someone home 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.840 with a stipend like this, it saves US thousands and 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.160 thousands of dollars, and it also is a much safer 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.080 situation for officers and for those in communities. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.760 Yeah, somebody said it costs like forty five hundred dollars 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.239 to send them out on average. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.000 This Stephen Miller, and I thought that was part of 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.239 that same clip. But it doesn't matter. Stephen Miller pointed 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.959 out that over the course of a lifetime or multiple years, 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.600 with public benefits and education and the rest of it, 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.240 could easily cost the American taxpayer a million dollars. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.639 Oh, no, doubt, No, I don't have any quid about that. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.839 But why does it even cost forty five hundred dollars 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.079 on average? I could fly first class to anywhere in 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.640 the world for forty five hundred dollars. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.480 You have to, you know, arrest them and hold them 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.480 and feed them and get them to the airport. And 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.040 blah blah blah. It's just labor costs, among other things, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.919 facilities costs. I think it's the process of getting them out, 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:29.000 not just the physical you know, transportation of getting them 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.840 from here to there. Yeah, so I thought that was 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.000 that was interesting and the Supreme Court will rule on this. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.560 But the whole look, we'll buy a plane ticket, will 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.640 give you a thousand dollars, fill out to paperwork. Maybe 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.160 you can come back some day. It's not going to 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.840 get everybody out, but if it helps, it helps well. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.200 On the Fox interview, I saw her with this morning 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:56.160 looking fantastic. Probably shouldn't comment on that, that probably makes me misogynists, 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:57.000 But yeah. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.280 I think that was wildly you know. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.840 Although on the other hand, she didn't put all that 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.120 time and effort into that long hair to make it 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.320 look like that to not have it be noticed. That's 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.120 not an accident. It looks lip gloss. Yes, So me 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.240 noticing it makes me a bad person, that's correct. Yes. Anyway, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.680 I think she said one person so far has taking 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.080 us up on this, so one. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:24.560 Total, one ay longest journey, single step look it up. Huh. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.480 I kind of like this because the quotes from Trump 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.479 forty one please from ABC News Michael. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.960 The Trump administration says they've deported one hundred and fifty 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.279 thousand people since January, far short of the pace needed 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.520 to remove the tens of millions the president promised. Trump 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.480 today blaming required immigration hearings for slowing down his plan. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.719 The courts have all of a sudden, out of nowhere, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.919 they said, uh, maybe you have to have trials, trials. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.839 We're going to have five million trials. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:55.000 Doesn't work. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.880 Doesn't work. So this is a beautiful Oh it is. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.560 It's a beautiful example. It's like the best one ever 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.839 of the Cloward Pivens strategy that was sixties radicals. You know, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.919 adhere to. The idea is you make the other side 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.760 live up to their own rules. You insist even as 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.960 you are breaking every rule you can think of. You 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.520 constantly make the other side live up to their own 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.440 rules and principles, and then you overload the system to 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.239 the point that it breaks. This is the absolute classic 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.800 example of that. Biden for whatever bizarro reasons or you know, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.120 he was so incoherent, maybe it was his progressive aids 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.479 or pushing him to do this, but they let in 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.919 so many people so quickly. The systems that exist to 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.080 get people out again are completely overwhelmed. It's like, you know, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:48.160 after the tsunami in Japan, that giant flood that ruined 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.640 the Fukushima reactor, that flood of immigrants is just it. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:57.000 We're drowning in it. And so then the left is saying, no, no, no, no, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.240 you have these principles, you have these procedures. You have 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.640 to follow your principles. Having drowned the system. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.440 Yeah, that's a tough one. It is completely undoable. Five 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:13.400 million trials, more like fifteen million to try to get 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.000 people out. So yeah, it's I don't know what the 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.920 answer is that this. Well there is an answer, and 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.120 national reviews written about it, and it's been talked about 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.039 for decades. It's been talking about our entire radio career. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.400 If you had Everify, where people couldn't hire you unless 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.120 you could prove your you've got the paperwork in your ear, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.760 people would leave because you wouldn't be able to have 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:35.239 a job. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.680 Somebody pointed out via email the other day that, well, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.880 you have to have employers that are willing to use 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.600 the everify. Oh yeah, I tell you what if they 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.160 don't to enforce it, we enforce the law on them too. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.119 Absolutely hammer them. You're running some sort of chicken killing 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.000 plant in the middle of Iowa and you're not filling 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.200 the filling out your paperwork, mining your p's and q's. Huh, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:58.080 we'll shut you down. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:06:59.200 What do you do for a living? 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.679 I work at a chick and kill and I murdered 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.360 chickens and hack them apart. That's what they do. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:05.760 It is. 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.480 We're going to meat processing facility. You murder chickens and 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:11.720 hack them apart. It's okay. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:12.880 I like chicken. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.720 Yeah, I'm a carnivore. Speaking of getting back to the 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.960 questions and overwhelming the system and that sort of thing. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.720 Murdered chickens and act them apart. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:29.040 Eric track Suit see from a story Oregon frequent correspondent 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:33.200 rights Dear Joe, kudos for your herculean and fair minded 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.360 analysis of what Trump said in response to Kristen Welker's 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.360 question over the weekend. But even given those numbers that 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.680 you're talking about, don't you need to uphold the Constitution 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.600 of the United States? As president? And he says the 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.200 presidential three as follows. Eric says, I do solemnly swear 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.480 or for him that I will faithfully execute the office 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.320 of President of the United States, and I will, to 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.920 the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.520 Constitution of the United States. Not to put too fine 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.040 a point on it, I might suggest that having given 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.160 this oath twice, President Trump could have come up with 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.880 a better answer than I don't know. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.160 Yeah, I don't. I don't know if he was trolling. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.400 It worked, I mean because it got lots of headlines, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.200 because he could have so easily said I'll uphold the Constitution. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.880 But as always, it needs to be interpreted as to 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.680 what the Constitution means. It's always been that way it 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.800 is today, and I think it means something different than 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:26.080 you do. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.840 Eric, You're one hundred percent right. He could have come 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.120 up with a better explanation, But that's Trump. It makes 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.440 me insane because he does such a poor job of 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.880 explaining what he's talking about so frequently. And as a 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.880 guy who has criticized Trump. In fact, my last sentence 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:47.760 criticized Trump, he meant exactly what Jack was saying. He meant, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.600 you are trying to, in the fashion of the Cloward 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.760 pivot strategy, which I was just talking about, trying to 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.720 hold me to your conception of the rules to prevent 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.160 me from solving the problem you have caused. That is 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.760 what he meant in his answer to the evil and 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:13.800 disingenuous and horrific christin welker horrific. I'm being charitable. I 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.920 emerged chickens and I hacked them into pieces. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:16.400 That's what I do. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.280 And I'm a wardsmith. And so he's trying to say, no, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.080 you're not going to trap me into agreeing with your 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:26.240 premise that I have to adhere to the Constitution in 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.760 the ways you have just set forth. But he's not 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.000 a good enough litigator of his own point of view 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.199 to express it like that, so he goes without, Oh, no, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.400 we'll have to see, we'll follow the Supreme Court, which 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:42.160 is saying yes, but we've got great lawyers looking at it. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.679 So that answer was only unsatisfactory if A you're a 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.840 stickler for Trump, you know, being a better communicator, or 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.240 B you're wilfully misinterpreting what he was saying. I believe that, amen, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:54.120 hell ya. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.000 So what do you think is going to happen with 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.360 the millions and millions of people that got in illegally 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:03.280 that the vast majority of people in this country including Democrats, 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.520 won't boot it out. They're gonna stay. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:11.200 Most of them, A lot of them are. Yeah. I 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.400 think the question is how many can we get out 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.760 and buy what procedures? And I don't know the answer 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.360 to that question. That's one of the reasons that the 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.199 radicals use the strategy I was describing, because it works 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:25.880 real well. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:27.800 How about the majority end up staying. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.120 You end up, for instance, getting millions and millions and 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.800 millions of people in the city of Chicago where I 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.800 grew up, right outside the city, but dependent on the government. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.880 You've overloaded the system. Now all of those people will 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.040 not eat or be able to medicate themselves. They don't 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.320 even feed their own damn children. How are you going 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.240 to reform the government now they've overwhelmed the system to 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.760 break it. It works. It's evil and insidious and non American, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.920 but it works. So yeah, we're in a hell of 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.040 spot right now. What the answer is I don't know. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.560 But Trump and company are working on it pretty hard. 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.160 That's interesting. This story is not over. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.520 I think they are doing great, if somewhat controversial work. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.520 I hope they can stay on the right side of 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.920 the law. On the other hand, the whole tariffs on 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:26.559 movies is ludicrous. It's practically hilarious. It's impossible. I mean, 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:31.240 it's intellectual property with no set value. If I made 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.760 a movie in Ireland today and Francis Corsese made a 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.000 movie in Ireland today, what are you gonna tear If 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.680 from the same nobody's gonna see my day movie, it'd 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.000 be garbage. Trust me, I don't know the first thing 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.400 about me. Well, I think you need a story anyway. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.800 So it's just it's utterly unworkable. It's silly. Well, you'd 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.120 have to tax the profits after Oh lord, you know 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.880 nothing about Hollywood accounting. I could write, direct, star in, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.040 and film a movie and own ninety eight percent of 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.760 it and the studio that owned two percent would find 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.280 a way to get all of the profits. That is 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.319 what makes Hollywood go round. So yeah, it's utterly unworkable. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.920 The Alcatraz thing is hilarious. It's just trolling. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.480 Yeah, that's one hundred percent trolling. Yeah. Yeah. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.320 But the immigration stuff, they're doing the work that needs 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.400 to be done, and they're they're working against the real odds. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:25.880 Tough hearts. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.640 Yeah, AI coming for a lot of people's jobs. As 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.559 we've talked about AI coming for our jobs. It looks 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.240 like got a good example of that, among other thing. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:43.240 You stay here, do. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:43.760 You guys say this? 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.840 Trump just shocked Hollywood by announcing on tariff on all 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.080 movies and TV shows made in foreign lands. And be 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:52.720 fun seeing the next Lord of the Rings filmed in 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.280 bay on New Jersey. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:13:04.040 Hey, look at billb movies. We'll gonnoray got a mine merrita. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.560 So you mentioned this last segment, but the the one 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.400 hundred percent tariff on foreign movies because we're gonna make 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.400 a movie's American again. And John Voight, the one of 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.800 the few conservative Hollywood types, came out yes day and said, yeah, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.000 he's gonna help lead the charge to make a movies 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.400 American again. This is all is this? Does everybody know 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.440 this is trolling? Or I mean, because this isn't gonna 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:30.960 do anything? 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.959 Not exactly Voight, by the way, who's eighty six years old. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.520 I didn't realize that he's almost like a bad age. Okay. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.720 Yeah. So the problem is there are a bunch of 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.600 foreign countries that offer huge tax incentives to make the 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.880 movies in their country instead of the United States. And 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.199 so Trump says, well, we'll see about that we'll put 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.440 huge tariffs on them, and the movie business is saying, like, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.439 thanks for your concern, but uh, how about tax incentives 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.280 here in the US wouldn't be easier, and so that's 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:03.080 probably the direction. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.960 Okay, okay, okay, Well I get that different topic also 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.240 the entertainment world, where I. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.520 Don't know why you'd offer tax incentives to movies and 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.280 not your local plumbing contractor. But we can discuss that 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:14.080 another time. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:18.080 And that's a good point. Yesterday we were talking about 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.800 AI Ai me continuing after I die from this cold 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.480 that I've had for oh going on a month. No way, 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.160 you can just take my voice in all the many 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.840 words I've said over thirty years and AI can fashion 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.840 it together and whatever it needs to say. Well, that 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.040 is actually happening. So I was watching the NBA last night. 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.120 I'm a big NBA fan. Great first round games last night, 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.440 two upsets, fantastic stuff. But one of the most famous 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:46.040 announcers in all of modern NBA history, Jim Fagan of NBC. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.040 He no longer is with us, but the NBA is 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:56.000 using clips of him to create voiceovers to continue to 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.680 have the voice of the nineties NBA today. Here's a clip. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:08.880 Now, the NBA on NBC is bad. See you this 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.160 October for the NBA season tip off. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.920 I want munch of that. I don't know if a 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.840 I had to play any role. They surely he said 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:26.320 that like eight million times so, but either way, that's 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:27.400 gonna be fairly common. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.320 I think, yeah, I'm sure they could craft him saying 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.080 the Lakers. Well, the Lakers aren't taking on anybody except 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.000 that the local golf course. But you know, whatever, the 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.040 Nuts take on the Nuggets Tuesday Night winner take all? 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.960 Sure you though? He's with God? 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.560 Now, I was thinking of the great Don Pardo of 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.440 Saturday Night Live, who did the voice of that for 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.640 like the first forty seven years of their fifty year 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:53.040 history or whatever. They could have him continue, and you know, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.280 with whatever new hosts are on there, that'll probably become 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.640 a thing. Yeah, big deal in eliminate a handful of 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:01.440 announcer jobs. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:06.840 But why not? Yeah, Well, they're talking in Movieland about 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:13.160 having no actors eventually and just a CGI generated AI 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.960 generated folks right actors on the screen. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:18.800 I don't know. We'll have to see it in action 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.160 to see if we like it or not. I don't know, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.960 you're gonna tell us why Medicaid sucks at some point. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:29.160 That's a bit of a oversimplification, but although it's accurate, 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.760 Yes it does. It's a scam. It's a giant scam. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:37.120 It goes around wearing the clothes of this is just 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.440 a little government help for the poor to get the 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.280 medical care they need. Poor pregnant women so their babies 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.520 are healthy. That's all we're doing here. It's become this 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:50.560 giant like money trading scam where the states exploit this 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:56.400 you know, sub law of a sub rule of medicaid 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.320 and get this much money in exchange, and if they 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.800 use that money for this to get even more money, 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:08.760 and it turns out healthy, lazy, grown men are getting 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.679 way more than poor pregnant ladies. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.080 Really, Oh, I don't like that story. So we got 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.000 a lot on the way to stay here. If you 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.720 missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:20.439 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:26.040 But it sort of represents something that's both horrible and 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:31.480 beautiful and strong and miserable. Week It's got a lot 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.840 of it's got a lot of qualities that are interesting, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:34.200 and I. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:35.520 Think they make a point. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.800 I think he's talking about me horrible, strong, miserable week 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.320 and everyone knows it. Thank you very much. How you 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:45.840 doing today, Good glad to hear it. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:53.080 So there's a lot here trying to figure out exactly 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.359 how to corral all this information. I should have figured 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.440 this out earlier, but I just came across something really 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.000 interesting about how do you explain the current battle over 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:07.760 Medicaid reform? Maybe you'll just start here, a couple of folks. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.640 I want to make sure everybody understands what's going on here. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.840 So when you turn sixty five, you get government healthcare. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:19.160 At that point, you get medical care, medical care sixty five. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:24.760 Medicaid is for the super poor, down and out right. 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.800 Yeah, originally like one percent of the population, now much much, much, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.879 much more. So let me just lay this out and 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.440 we'll stick with this through the weeks to come, in 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.679 a way that I promise won't be boring and wonky. 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.440 But it's such an enormous problem. The Wall Street Journal 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.880 is at the editorial board. I was talking about how 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:49.640 the Republicans are trying to reform Medicaid and they haven't 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.040 even rolled out a draft Medicaid bill, but Democrats and 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.920 the media allies are already pounded on them for snatching 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.800 healthcare from millions of poor people, which just goes to 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:00.800 show you, and you'll understand at the end of this 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:05.480 how incredibly dishonest politics is. And Republicans would be making 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.400 a terrible blunder to let that intimidate them from fixing 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:14.919 the program, especially winding down free federal money for able 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.520 bodied men on Medicaid, which is a huge part of it. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:24.840 So here's the one idea that they're working with, is 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.480 imposing sanity on the way federal Medicaid money flows to 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.600 the states. Here's the core dysfunction, writes the editorial Board. 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.000 The Feds pick up roughly fifty to seventy seven percent 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.480 of the tab, depending on the state, for pregnant women, 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:44.520 the disabled, and other low income populations, so between half 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:49.520 and three quarters. But the Feds pay ninety percent for 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:54.480 prime age adults, all eligible under the Affordable Care Act, 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:59.439 Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. You remember all the talk about the 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.320 Medicaid expansion and the money to states, and most of 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:04.240 us scratched our heads and weren't sure what to make 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.160 of it. And blue states said yes, and red states 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.880 said no. And we're accused of neglecting their citizens for saying. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.440 That, and critics said this was just an attempt to 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.840 get universal health care going, which is what it looks like. 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.560 Yeah, exactly, so again, the feds paid ninety percent. If 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.400 I'm a thirty two year old male, smoking pot, living 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.800 in my parents' basement, in porn, watching porn, refusing to work, 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.240 collecting fake disability whatever. 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.920 Probably got a one man bun of some sort, probably 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:36.919 man bund. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.240 They pay ninety percent for my medicaid expansion the federal 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.760 government does. The enhanced funding was a Democratic bribe debate 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.879 states into expanding their programs under Obamacare. That it also 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.440 contradicted the founding purpose of Medicaid, which was to help 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:56.320 the poor. Now you you can't find voters who think 0:20:56.359 --> 0:21:00.439 the federal government should be giving their scarce healthy sources 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.879 to working age men over poor children and pregnant women. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:09.080 Nobody wants that, But that's where we are because that's 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.240 what the perverse financing formula encourages. The states can grab 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.040 more federal dollars if they sign up more prime age adults. 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:17.280 But if you try to reform this, Chuck Schumer is 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:18.760 going to get on the steps of the Capitol and 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.480 with crocodile tears in his eyes, talk about how you're 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:26.960 trying to starve poor babies right. Twenty twenty two study 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.440 from the Mercada Center looked at the spending growth patterns 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:31.880 and states that took the expansion money compared with those 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:35.400 that didn't. It found quote strong evidence in Medicaid expansion 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.960 states of a shift of financial resources away from certain 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.480 vulnerable and roly populations, the most notable being from low 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:47.720 income children. And the GOP can make a really strong 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.399 argument that fixing this bias in federal payments is shoring 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.840 up the program to serve the vulnerable much better. It's 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:55.639 not trying to take it away from them. It's the 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.960 opposite about it, opposite of that. But you know how 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:04.080 politics works. It's easy to scare people. It's way easier 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:09.320 to scare them than to explain to them. There are 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.080 ten states, including Florida and Texas, that have declined the 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.800