WEBVTT - Merkin$$* - That'll Stop The Russians! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.640 Armstrong and Jettie and no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:25.120 Well listen to this. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.280 According to a new report, last week, air traffic controllers 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.400 at Newark lost all communication with. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:31.720 Plans for over a minute. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:33.840 It's getting to the point where we really should clap 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:34.760 when the plane lands. 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:37.160 Wow. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.200 Hey, yeah, no kidding. Turns out our air traffic control 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:47.440 system in the United States is horrifically antiquated, as bureaucratically 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.839 screwed up, as virtually anything the government does, and probably 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.120 not very safe. 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:56.120 Other than that, though, it's just a peach Well statistically 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.000 has been very very safe, including up to like write 0:00:59.000 --> 0:00:59.480 this moment. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.960 So what until people start dying in droves? You don't 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:10.000 you don't maintain it. What is your point, sir? 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.440 Why am I yelling? Yes? That's true air traffic. Air 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.040 air travel in the United States is miraculously say yeah, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.160 I just wonder how we pull it off. I mean, yeah. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.280 On the other hand, it is, uh, it is absolutely 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.280 in The rack in Washington, d C was a symptom 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.320 of this at Reagan National airport between the passenger jet 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.520 and the helicopter. The near misses are getting more and more. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.520 The we don't know what's going on, Hey, what's happening 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.200 over here? Incidents where it's out of controller happening more 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.240 and more in a way that any you know, sane 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.520 people would nip in the bud, although the bud was 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.480 like twenty years ago anyway. Sean Duffy is the new 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.640 go get them transportation secretary who makes Pete Buddhajic look 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:56.160 like the pleasant faced, do nothing climber that he is. 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.880 Sean is making the rounds talking about how we've got 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:01.480 to reform the system. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.400 Michael will start with thirty one. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.560 This is an infrastructure problem, right, and we've known this 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.440 infrastructure problem has existed for a very long time. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.560 The last administration knew it. No one has done anything. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.040 So for Newark specifically, we're going to rebuild the communication 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.239 system at Newark. I thought it was going to be 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.239 eight months, six months. We're pushing to do it faster. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.040 Hopefully this summer we get that done. But the key 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.959 is always safety, right. I don't want people to fly. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.600 I'd rather have them delayed or canceled. I'd rather have 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.040 it takes six months than two and a half months 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.840 to build out the communication system because I want people 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.120 to get from point A to point B safely, and again, 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.800 if they have to wait for a flight, I'll prefer 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.119 that then something else going wrong with their flight. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.840 So while I did throw in the it's still safe. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.520 I mean, it's safer to fly than to drive to 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.400 the airport. But we all know over the last several years, 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.640 the whole delays thing has gotten completely out of control. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.880 You show up at the airport assuming one of your 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.000 flights is going to be delayed. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.160 Now, it didn't used to be that, right. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.520 Duffy goes on, What. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.120 We have to do is we're rolling a plan out 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.400 on Thursday. We're gonna need a lot of money from 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.040 Congress to do this. It's not gonna take ten years 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.079 like Pete suggested. It's gonna take three to four years 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.440 to get this build out done. You can't snap your 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.960 fingers and lay fiber or bring in new radios or 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.400 new radar. Those things take time. And we're gonna put 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.320 the time in, the money in, and you're gonna start 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.359 to see results sooner than three or four years. As 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:30.400 this buildout happens. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:38.600 So other countries have private, nonprofit companies doing their air 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.200 traffic control because they can adapt, they can innovate, they 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.320 can hire people, they can fire people, they can pay 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:46.600 what it takes to get good. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.640 People, et cetera. Without the incredible bureaucracy. I didn't know. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.280 This chokes everything. Why are other countries more libertarian on 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:55.080 this than we are? 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.720 Because they don't have incredibly powerful employee unions government employee 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.600 union France is probably all screwed up. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.120 I don't know, but I don't know how they run it. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.120 I know Canada does the tomorrow private full hour on 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.240 French air traffic controlling. Oh wow, wouldn't that be fascinating? 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.120 In the people? 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.200 Alex What is people who have no shame and will 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.600 say anything, no matter how dishonest. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:21.920 Thirty five Michael. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:27.000 It's outrageous and it's because of Trump and doge. FAA 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.919 has been cut, employees have been caught, top people have 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.400 left in exasperation. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.320 Now what Trump is trying to do. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.760 If there's any place where Trump chaos, which is so 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.719 typical of this administration, can really cause loss of life, 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:43.520 it's at the FAA. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.680 God, I hate politics. This, Oh my god, honestly the 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.560 worst form of government ever invented, except for all the others. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.080 I mean, it's just that's one of the most powerful 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.440 people in that party just playing the old game. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.960 Oh it's so tiring. Absolutely lie. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.560 Not only that, but I was reading an aviation expert 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:08.279 talking about how Chuck Schumer has opposed every single meaningful 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.520 update and reform to the FAA through the years, merely 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.920 to protect the unions that contribute to his campaigns. He 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.039 every time somebody has said, hey, we really ought to 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.560 update this, we ought to increase the technology, we ought 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.120 to do this, we ought to hire these people. 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.720 Uh give. He has opposed every reform. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.600 And now now when when the Trump administration is trying 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.920 to do something, he says, it's Trump and Doge, good lord, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:39.600 how does he hide his horns? 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:41.200 What an evil you do? 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.640 The game of politics? Just don't. I don't know how 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.479 you do it. I guess you just accept that that's 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:47.200 the way we do it. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.560 Yeah, so, goodness knows. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.560 I've been more than critical of Donald J when I 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.560 think it's appropriate, and will continue to be. And if 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.200 you don't like it, I'm sorry to hear that. But 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.400 it does what it does. But Matthew countin any of 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.880 the free press actually listened to him. I'm not sure 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.200 if he was there, but he listened to Trump's entire 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:09.839 address to the University of Alabama's graduating class, and he says, 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.400 and Matthew countenend is a very serious journalist. He said, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.960 he's been amazed that while people were either enjoying or 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.400 criticizing his riff on transgender athletes, which was at that speech, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.760 and a couple of other things, he said, there's almost 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.839 no coverage of the substance of what he said and. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.120 Continent. He said, he found it really interesting. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.800 Trump summarized ten tips for getting out of college and 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.600 having a good life, and I will touch on them briefly. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.600 That's a good tease right there. I mean, that would 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.040 make me. I'm surprised that hasn't been in the news. 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I was gonna squeeze 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.120 in one more thing, but we could break on time 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.720 for once in our lives. And I'll tell you there's 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.920 a great gender bending madness and campus madness update coming 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:30.720 up before the end of the show today. So I 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.839 mentioned Steph Curry and Big Star for the Golden State 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.080 Warriors basketball player hurting his hamstring, and they kept talking 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:36.959 about he's thirty seven. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.080 It's going to be hard to come back. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.480 It's funny when you get older watching sports and them 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.160 talking about thirty seven year olds as old. When you 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.360 know you get a little older, you'd give a lot 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.360 of money to be thirty seven again. In there, the 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.360 old man trying to shake his old veteran right. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.480 He limps off the court, perhaps for the last time, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.000 walking into history. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:02.199 He's thirty seven, got a recipe for success, and Joe's 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:03.680 gonna tell us I'm very excited about it. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.800 It's coming up next. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:11.439 We also have a situation because Evere says when when, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:12.480 when are you gonna sign deals? 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:13.920 We don't have to sign deals. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.280 We can sign twenty five deals right now, Howard, if 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.520 we wanted, we don't have to sign deal. They have 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.880 to sign deals with us. They want a piece of 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.160 our market. We don't want a piece of their market. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.440 We don't care about their market. They want a piece 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:27.080 of our market. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:28.520 There's the hardball salesman. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.480 Yes, yeah, and putting aside some of the particulars which 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.520 were bs because Trump's a ps or. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.920 That was Donald J and his I'm gonna make a 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.320 deal mode. More on the trade talks with China later, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.640 although it's early days of an enormously complex. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.560 And more on what he said with the ceasefire with 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.080 the Hoothies, which is kind of interesting too. Yeah. But anyways, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.439 speaking of Donald J, you know, I see him as 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:53.959 like some of. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.040 My favorite athletes through the years, great strengths and great flaws. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:09:59.800 That's fine, that's enough set. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.560 But he He gave an address at Alabama Roll Tide 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.520 at their graduation the other day in which he rolled 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.360 out ten thoughts about success that I found very, very interesting, 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.800 and they explained a fair amount about Trump himself. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:14.000 The first one. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.040 Success can happen at a young age, he said. In America, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.480 with drive and ambition, young people can do anything. And 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.480 he cited some chapters of his own life. And I hear, Yeah, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.079 the dad was rich and gave him money. Yeah, that's true. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.760 But he mentioned other American innovators like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.480 the founders who started off in their twenties. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.000 Don't waste your youth, he said, get after it. By 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.560 the way, I can name off the top of my 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.280 head five people I've known in my life who dad 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.880 gave them a bunch of money and they spent it 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.559 all and ruined their lives and are worthless. Yes. Yeah, indeed, 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.600 love what you do, he says. I rarely see somebody 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.160 that's successful that doesn't love what he or she does. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.720 Yeah, that's a mixed bag. Let me get through it, 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.440 then we can discuss. He pointed to his father, Fred Trump, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.960 who died in ninety nine at the age of ninety three. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.840 He was a tough guy, tough as hell, actually, or 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.360 he worked seven days a week, not because he had to, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:11.880 but because he enjoyed it, and Matthew count in any comments, Well, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.400 it's hard for his critics to understand. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:14.199 Donald Trump and his. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:18.800 Supporters enjoy politics a sense of fun, improvisation, and risk, 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.800 imbuse his rallies and campaigns. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.760 My you know, I'm not quibbling with any of this 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.280 because that's all true, and I'm sure most of this 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.319 will be true in general. But man, not everybody has 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.040 a motor like Donald Trump does, or are lots of 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.440 successful people I've known. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.960 You just either have that motor or you don't. Yeah, 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:37.760 and some people. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.480 I'm thinking of one friend of mine who said to 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.320 me not terribly long ago, Look, I hate my job, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.240 but I'm good at it, and I make good money, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.040 and I've got job security, and I do other things 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.520 that bring me life satisfaction. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.439 He says, I can accept the bargain. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.720 So, I mean, if you want to be like a runaway, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.160 success in your field probably helps to. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.080 Really enjoy what you do. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:04.080 But anyway, this is what the Sean Duffy and the 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:09.920 reforming air traffic control thing reminded me of, because instead 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.120 of saying, well, we got to protect the unions, and 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.920 you know, the head of the fbaa he's got his turf, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.040 and you know, we don't want to rush into this 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.319 blah blah blah blah, which has yielded a system that 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.520 still used the technology of the nineteen nineties, even though 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.480 it's one of the most important things the government does. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.600 Think Big Trump said, it's just as hard to solve 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.320 a small problem as a big problem. He finds the 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.200 audacious more enticing than the incremental. He leans toward the 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.640 wildest visions, winning the presidency despite no military or government experience, 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.920 for example, or being re elected after impeachment, defeat, embarrassment indictments, 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.199 a criminal conviction and two assassination attempts, Oh my god, 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.880 rewriting the rules of American government foreign policy or the 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.800 global trading system, or turning the Gaza Strip into a 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:02.679 luxury resort, or reopening Alcatraz Prison. Goes on, and some 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:09.000 of it gets filed away with the under the heading no, but. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.360 Some of it is worth considering. And it's kind of 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.600 cool that someone would say it out loud. Yeah, we've 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.320 been in these like post WW two trade agreements for 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.520 seventy years. Why do we blow them up? What would happen? 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.679 How about the crowd that always just wants to keep 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.480 things the same so you can stay in your job. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.920 That's a lot of people. Oh, it's huge in government. Huge. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.360 It's like the number one thing to be reckoned with, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.080 work hard, never ever stop. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:38.880 That explains the two am tweets. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.920 Yeah, that's the motor. You just I think he got 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:41.640 that or you don't. 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.040 Yeah, you can get more disciplined as you go, certainly, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:46.640 but I hear you. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:47.480 Yeah. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.480 He quotes the great Gary player, South African pro golf 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.319 for nine major champion chip winner. He was one of 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.680 those guys's fond of saying. It's funny. The harder I work, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:57.680 the luckier I get. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.280 Yeah. True. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.119 Anyway, don't lose your momentum. I thought this was interesting. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.559 The word momentum is very important. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:07.160 Trump said. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.160 He brought up William Levitt, real estate developer who pioneered 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.679 the post WW two move to the suburbs in nineteen 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.480 seventy two. You remember Levitt Towns. That was an expression. Anyway, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.360 Levitt sold his company to a large corporation. He was 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.960 never able to recapture his earlier success, and years later 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.880 Trump continued to encountered Levitt at a party, referring to 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.040 the sale Levitt told Trump, I shouldn't have done it. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:34.120 I lost my momentum, and the anecdotes right. The anecdote, rather, 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:38.560 writes Matthew CONTINENTI reveals why Trump operates at such high speeds. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.320 Trump has been liking to the honey badger who doesn't 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.280 give up. His tenacity is related to a fear that's 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.720 slowing down means a loss of momentum and an end 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:47.440 to his career. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:55.520 I think someday, long after this period, when you know 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.000 people's hatred of Trump, for people who hate him, you 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.840 know you can look at him more objectively. They'll pick 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:05.240 up on that because he's obviously got qualities, good qualities 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:06.720 to be able to pull off what he's pulled off 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:07.360 in his life. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.360 And some of them are that I admire. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.960 Are He takes bad breaks better than like anybody ever. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.119 He just he just finds a way around or ignores 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.560 it or I don't know, just amazing to something else. Yeah, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.600 I want to get through these if I can. I 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.800 love this be an outsider. Progress never comes from those 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:34.640 satisfied with the failures of a broken system. Trump said, wow, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:35.520 one more time. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.760 Progress never comes from those satisfied with the failures of 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.960 a broken system. The contrast with his political antithesis, Barack 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:48.360 Obama is stark write continenty. Obama says progress is achieved 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.560 through bottom up community action within institutions. For Trump, progress 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.400 is the result of renegade individuals willing to break things. 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.480 That Trump approach is more effective, and he goes into 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.960 it a little bit. Trust your instincts. I have a 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.920 quibble with this. I won't get into I'd like to 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:11.480 rephrase that is, trust your common sense. And Trump addressed 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:16.360 the kids at Alabama said Trump used the word instinct 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.880 as a synonym for common sense. Borders are not racist, 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:24.480 he said, speech is not violence. America is good and 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:29.040 terrorists are bad. Men can never become women. Police are 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:33.200 not criminals, and criminals are not victims. Police can be criminals. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.960 But that's about as clear as a credo as you 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:37.560 can get. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.400 Wow, how does that get more attention? 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.640 Ah? Because it probably makes so much sense in the media. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:43.120 Hated it. 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.320 Believe in the American Dream. Last August, Trump declared that 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.440 the American Dream was dead. He pledged to bring it back. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.520 Mission accomplished. The American Dream is real, he said to 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:56.680 the Alabamas. It's there, it's right before you. I love 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.800 that and fine is that? Finally, oh, two more things positively, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.800 he said to the youngsters and their parents and friends. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:09.360 Don't consider yourself a victim, he said, consider yourself a winner. 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.440 And he recommended one of his favorite books, a classic, 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.639 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peel. The 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.040 teaching has your universal application. Whether you're born rich or poort, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.720 black or white, male or female. In America, anyone can 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.159 be a winner. And finally, be an original. And his 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.720 list of American trailblazers went from Teddy Roosevelt to Doug MacArthur, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.720 George Patton, Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Muhammad Ali, all men 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:38.240 and women of action, Daredevil's risk takers, outside personalities, He's capone. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.600 You're one of a kind. Trump told the graduates. Don't 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.080 try to be someone else, just be yourself. And finally, 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:52.240 and most importantly concluded, never ever give up. Number eleven, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.280 Have a hot young wife. Number twelve, be like Hitler, 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:01.000 because I'm the new Hitlar, un below evable. So much 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.960 good there. For all the legitimate criticisms, those are points 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:06.800 worth considering and teaching your kids. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:10.600 When Democrat presidents speak to Harvard with the usual crap 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.719 it gets in, it leads every newscast. I didn't hear 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:18.200 a word about Trump's speech to Alabama, Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.720 Under this ban, service members who have a current diagnosis, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.719 or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.720 will be processed for separation from military service. Now, that 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.800 also means that transgender individuals cannot currently join any branch 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.119 of the military. No, it's unclear exactly how many people 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.640 were talking about, but in twenty eighteen, an independent research 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:47.800 institute estimated there are about fourteen thousand transgender troops serving 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:48.600 in the Middle. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:49.639 It's probably closer to six. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.680 Yeah, it's not nearly that that number is way cooked up. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.000 Gender vending update next hour. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.360 I'm looking at the cardinals, however, many hundreds of them 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:07.440 there are taking their individual out loud oath of silence, ironic. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.320 What the hell would happen if it leaked out who 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.600 the pope was? And again, I just want to throw 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.320 this in because it's shocking to me. I'm pro Catholic Church, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.800 I'm pro pope, I'm pro Christianity, all that sort of stuff. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.400 But the fact that. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.560 All this wonderment at their system and secrecy and rules 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:34.480 without throwing in like constantly, the biggest pedophile crisis in 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.159 world history, and you knew it, and you've known it 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.840 for centuries, and you hit it, and then you would 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.160 move a rapist to another little town so we'd rape 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:44.040 more little kids. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.920 He didn't care about that. I don't get it. 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.479 Bureacracies protect bureaucracies. That's all you need to get. 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:53.639 That is what you need to know. And it's a 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.520 very important thing to know. Not about the Catholic Church, 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.000 it's about bureaucracies in general. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.240 If I might steal twenty seconds, I was reading about 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:05.200 the Vatican's finances. I guess Francis was struggling against this till. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.760 His dying day. It was like the last days of 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:09.640 his life. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.480 He was issuing edicts and trying desperately to figure out 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.800 how to straighten out the Vatican's finances. That is a 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:20.479 wash in priceless treasures, but tumbling deeper into debt. And 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.000 all they could come up with is hit believers up 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.639 for more money and maybe raise prices for all the 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.120 tickets to get into the Vatican. 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.159 And one more thing in this, and I realize this 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.240