Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: The Iranians continue to launch waves and waves of ballistic
Speaker 2: missiles into this country. Overnight, we understand there were sixty
Speaker 2: five missiles and they were targeting a variety of locations.
Speaker 2: We could hear the explosions in Tel Aviv as some
Speaker 2: were intercepted overhead by Israel's advanced missile defense systems.
Speaker 3: And also Saudi Arabia and Jordan helping knock those things down.
Speaker 3: And we're prepared to help if we have to if
Speaker 3: things get really ugly, including we're setting the USS Nimics
Speaker 3: Carrier Strike Group toward the Middle East right now to
Speaker 3: bulk up our ability to help Israel if things get
Speaker 3: worse than they are now, which it's pretty warry now.
Speaker 3: Iran officially declared war the other night.
Speaker 1: Right keeping in mind, and I must state this for
Speaker 1: the fellas and very few women in the Silent Service.
Speaker 1: Anytime we have a couple of submarines in waters within
Speaker 1: a thousand miles, we have one of the strongest militaries
Speaker 1: on Earth poised to unleash Holy Hell. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a real show force adding that carrier group to it.
Speaker 1: It's difficult to imagine what the Mullahs think they can
Speaker 1: accomplish by lobbing ordinance at Israel. I guess you have
Speaker 1: to do something. Are they hoping for a lucky hit
Speaker 1: that brings down high rise apartment building or something and
Speaker 1: kill so many people? Israel says, oh no, nope, all
Speaker 1: that stuff about we've got to deny them a nuclear
Speaker 1: weapon and any cost is worth it. We've changed our minds.
Speaker 1: Let's have a peace treaty. I guess that's what they're
Speaker 1: hoping for.
Speaker 3: Supreme Leader Kamani declared war on Israel as Iran's opening
Speaker 3: MISSILESAVO ranged down in television. The Zionist regime made a
Speaker 3: grave mistake, he said in a televised address. Life will
Speaker 3: become bitter for them, without a doubt. They should not
Speaker 3: think they struck in. It's over. No, they started this
Speaker 3: in triggered to war. We will not allow them to
Speaker 3: walk away unscathed from the great crime they have committed.
Speaker 3: And then the plan was apparently to unleash about a thousand.
Speaker 1: Ariel.
Speaker 3: This and that drones and missiles toward Israel. But turns
Speaker 3: out Israel took out a bunch of the missile launchers
Speaker 3: and or the people who would have ordered them launched,
Speaker 3: so the number in the response was way, way, way
Speaker 3: way smaller than the weird beard was open.
Speaker 1: The Zionist regime was not content to just take that blow.
Speaker 1: They As tree Yanks continues, the Empire strikes back.
Speaker 2: The Israelis are striking back, taking out top intelligence officials
Speaker 2: from the Iranian regime, including the country's chief intelligence officer
Speaker 2: and his deputy. They also took out what they say
Speaker 2: are one third of the ballistic missile launching positions, despite
Speaker 2: the fact the Israelis say they now have air superiority
Speaker 2: over the Iranian capital of Tehran. This is expected to
Speaker 2: continue for a number of days, if not weeks, as
Speaker 2: Israeli forces are trying to weaken the Iranian regime and
Speaker 2: target the country's nuclear facilities.
Speaker 3: I saw Tray yingst have to run to a bunker
Speaker 3: over the weekend while he was doing a live report.
Speaker 3: People are dying in Israel, not in large numbers, but
Speaker 3: people are dying and being injured.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Trace a terrific reporter by the way last clip
Speaker 1: from him.
Speaker 2: The assessment is that Iran has around two thousand ballistic missiles,
Speaker 2: and the Israelis have been able to take out some
Speaker 2: of the stockpile. They've been able to target, like I said,
Speaker 2: a third of the launching positions. But this still gives
Speaker 2: around the capability to fire hundreds of ballistic missiles into
Speaker 2: this country. These are not like the rockets that came
Speaker 2: from Gaza or from southern Lebanon.
Speaker 1: These are missiles that can.
Speaker 2: Take out entire blocks in major cities like Tel Aviv.
Speaker 3: Uh it's on, I mean, it is a war. War.
Speaker 3: I thought this was interesting. The Atlantic was talking to
Speaker 3: Donald Trump and making the argument that a lot of
Speaker 3: your base doesn't like to be involved in any of
Speaker 3: these wars. And you ran on America first, and America
Speaker 3: first means not getting, you know, involved in things that
Speaker 3: we have nothing to do with, and Trump said, and
Speaker 3: I thought this was a really good answer to the
Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson crowd, or the Tulsi Gabbard or whoever. Well,
Speaker 3: it's now pretty clear that that Tulsi Gabbard video she
Speaker 3: put out was because she knew as the DNI that
Speaker 3: was all about to go down and she was trying
Speaker 3: to influence her boss, Donald Trump toward you know, not
Speaker 3: getting us involved and worried about nuclear war and that
Speaker 3: sort of stuff, because she's a non interventionist or whatever
Speaker 3: you want to call that crowd. Anyway, Rup said, well,
Speaker 3: considering that I'm the one that developed America first, and
Speaker 3: considering that I invented that term, I think I'm the
Speaker 3: one that decides that. Trump said, for those people who
Speaker 3: say they want peace, you can't have peace if Iran
Speaker 3: has a nuclear weapon. So for all those wonderful people
Speaker 3: who don't want to do anything about Iran having a
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: That's not peace.
Speaker 3: So I like him just stating to that crowd, Well,
Speaker 3: I invented American first, So American first, so I get
Speaker 3: to define it, and my definition is includes Iran not
Speaker 3: getting a nuclear weapon. I really like Rand Paul and
Speaker 3: agree with him on practically everything except for this.
Speaker 1: I think he's a kook on this.
Speaker 3: He was on one of your talk shows yesterday and
Speaker 3: he said, well that he has a weird way of talking.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that accent is, but.
Speaker 3: He said, people have been debating what is a a
Speaker 3: just war for centuries?
Speaker 1: You know, when do you go to war? When do
Speaker 1: you not go to war?
Speaker 3: He said, But any preemptive or what was it, what's
Speaker 3: the other word, preemptive or when you're trying to stop
Speaker 3: something from happen, preventative? Any preemptive or preventative war is
Speaker 3: not just. This war is not just. I thought, that's
Speaker 3: a crazy standard. So you're gonna get your next let
Speaker 3: your next door neighbor who's been vowing to kill you,
Speaker 3: get the greatest weapon ever developed by man, because if
Speaker 3: I stopped him, that'd be a preventive war, and that's unjust.
Speaker 1: Once he gets the weapon, that's when I'll go to
Speaker 1: war with him, after he's killed me. That's a crazy
Speaker 1: way to look at the world, like you. I love
Speaker 1: rand on domestic politics, but yeah, that's a crack pot
Speaker 1: point of view, honest. Interesting to point out a year
Speaker 1: ago Israel was struggling, bogged down in Gaza, the earlier
Speaker 1: days of it surrounded by hesvelon Hamas, all backed by Iran,
Speaker 1: under pressure from Biden's wi A White House to stop fighting.
Speaker 1: Now it's reshaping the Middle East on its own terms.
Speaker 1: Quoting the Wall Street Journal, down forcing the Trump administration
Speaker 1: to play ketchup kind of Uh. With a series of
Speaker 1: daring intelligence operations and fierce military campaigns, Israel's effectively disabled
Speaker 1: Iranian allies Hamas and Hezbollah, while also prompting the collapse
Speaker 1: of the Asad regime in Syria, an important Iran proxy
Speaker 1: that people don't bring up, and it's now taking the
Speaker 1: fight directly to Tehran.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Cleins brought this up an hour too, and
Speaker 3: if you missed it, you should grab our podcast Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty on demand. How this all has played out,
Speaker 3: There's a number of reasons that Iran has no defense
Speaker 3: for what Israel's doing right now. Somewhat it is the
Speaker 3: defense they had got wiped out. But why did it
Speaker 3: get wiped out? Because of October seventh. So October seventh
Speaker 3: was so awful for Israel, but in the weird way
Speaker 3: that history unfolds, it gave Israel the political cover on
Speaker 3: the world stage to hit back. They're internal resolve too,
Speaker 3: and yeah, in the internal politics to allow it to happen.
Speaker 3: And so they wiped out a whole bunch of the defense,
Speaker 3: and then it also allowed them to wipe out Hamas
Speaker 3: and do that attack against Hesbelah, which was part of
Speaker 3: the air defense that Iran had in just that. Hey,
Speaker 3: if you ever strike Tehran, we got bad guys right
Speaker 3: on your border, Hamas and Hesbola that can unleash Hell
Speaker 3: not anymore. So part of their air defense was Hamas
Speaker 3: and Hesbel which got taken out that way. And as
Speaker 3: you already mentioned, Sirius, So that's an interesting development. It's
Speaker 3: so easy, you know the whole We may have lost
Speaker 3: the battle, but will win the war. Is a very
Speaker 3: true statement that you need to look down the road
Speaker 3: of how things will play out, because October seventh was
Speaker 3: a horrible day for Israel, but it has allowed them
Speaker 3: to do all these different things where they might be
Speaker 3: able to take out their greatest enemy on the planet entirely.
Speaker 3: One more note this from Benjamin net and Yahoo, addressing
Speaker 3: the people of Iran. I have no doubt that your
Speaker 3: day of liberation from tyranny is closer than ever. And
Speaker 3: when that happens, Israelis and Iranians will renew the covenant
Speaker 3: between our two ancient nations together will bring a future
Speaker 3: of prosperity, peace and hope. I like that tone.
Speaker 1: I think it could be depending on what takes the
Speaker 1: place of the theocracy, and that's always a messy, messy business.
Speaker 3: According to The New York Times, Israel had the Iotola
Speaker 3: located and the ability to take him out in the
Speaker 3: same way that they've taken out you know, the leaders
Speaker 3: of all these different things and scientists and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: They've killed a whole bunch of people. They knew where
Speaker 3: the Ayatola was, they had whatever technology they needed to
Speaker 3: kill him. And Trump said no one talked him out
Speaker 3: of it. So I don't know if that's true or not.
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Speaker 3: Do you want to do, Doug Murray, because it's so
Speaker 3: good when we come back and have time to love
Speaker 3: that idea discuss. I think it's really interesting that Trump
Speaker 3: came out and said, look, America first is what I
Speaker 3: say it is.
Speaker 1: I invented it.
Speaker 3: So I think this is included in that that that's
Speaker 3: a pretty good pushback against the Tulser Tulsi Tucker crowd.
Speaker 1: Well, and I'm heartin just because I agree with them.
Speaker 1: I say, speaking of Mike Lyons, why don't we give
Speaker 1: him the last word? Clip fifty seven Michael from just
Speaker 1: earlier today.
Speaker 4: And this is a generational moment, and I think we've
Speaker 4: got to take advantage of it in the United States
Speaker 4: right now. And I understand about America First policy, but
Speaker 4: it clearly, as the President has now said, this isn't
Speaker 4: our best interest to make sure the Ranians have nowhere
Speaker 4: near any kind of nuclear capability. And Israel is just
Speaker 4: not satisfied with just kicking the can down the road.
Speaker 1: This is a big deal.
Speaker 3: This war in the Middle East is a big deal,
Speaker 3: and it is a war and we're I'm not super
Speaker 3: involved in it yet and hopefully we will not be. Oh,
Speaker 3: nobody alerted Joe to the fact that he needs to
Speaker 3: come into the studio. Hopefully we'll walk in the door here. Shortly,
Speaker 3: Joe has walked in the door and it joins us. Now,
Speaker 3: Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, what I was.
Speaker 3: Just setting up the fact that we are at war
Speaker 3: in the Middle East and it's a very, very big deal.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Douglas Murray, the fabulous British thinker,
Speaker 1: gave this speech. I believe it was thirteen years ago.
Speaker 1: He was right then, he is right now. Let's hit it, Michael.
Speaker 5: When Israel he is pushed to.
Speaker 6: The situation, it will be pushed to of having to
Speaker 6: believe they mean it. And when every bit of jiggery
Speaker 6: pokery behind the scenes runs out, and when the un
Speaker 6: and distinguished figures have run out of time and Iran
Speaker 6: is about to produce his first.
Speaker 5: Bomb, Israel will strike.
Speaker 6: Every single country, including this one. People from a elegant service,
Speaker 6: people from America. Everyone will condemn Israel. Everyone in the
Speaker 6: Middle East will condemn Israel, and they will go back
Speaker 6: to their homes and they will say in private, thank
Speaker 6: God for Israel. The Saudis, the Bahrainis, the Egyptians, the Libyans,
Speaker 6: the Lebanese, everybody will say thank God they did it,
Speaker 6: because nobody else would.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows Israel has the most at stake in preventing
Speaker 1: Iran from having nukes, and everybody's known for a very
Speaker 1: long time, as Murray put it so eloquently, that they
Speaker 1: would make sure there won't happen. And so everybody else
Speaker 1: had the lovely and still has the lovely luxury of
Speaker 1: saying where against violence and for diplomacy. Israel, with their
Speaker 1: violence in the attacks I want to approve. And then
Speaker 1: they go to their homes and say, thank God they
Speaker 1: did it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw a number of people over the week and
Speaker 3: say this really sets back the ability to negotiate. Actually,
Speaker 3: Ran Paul said that among other people here we were
Speaker 3: in the midst of negotiations in Israel, did this.
Speaker 1: This is not helpful at all. You're in You're nuts. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 1: that is just delusional. Let's go roll on with mister Murray.
Speaker 6: The proposition being put before you tonight is that you
Speaker 6: have a choice between war.
Speaker 5: And an Iran with the bomb.
Speaker 6: You have a choice, as has been said before, between
Speaker 6: war and dishonor you'll choose disnor this evening and you'll
Speaker 6: get war.
Speaker 5: You have the choice between a war.
Speaker 6: With a nuclear Iran or a war at some point
Speaker 6: with an Iran that is not nuclear, which you stop from.
Speaker 5: Ever being nuclear, and hope.
Speaker 6: That in stopping that regime in embedding itself, you will
Speaker 6: give the Iranian people the best chance.
Speaker 5: They will have of overthrowing that regime.
Speaker 6: But as I say, thank God, this doesn't rely on
Speaker 6: you or any Europeans, because you've made the same mistake
Speaker 6: before and nobody should trust you to get it right
Speaker 6: this time.
Speaker 3: So it was in nineteen eighty one that Israel took
Speaker 3: out a nuclear facility. At that time was who was
Speaker 3: it the Iraqis that were getting close to having a
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, and it was Prime Minister Monachem Began at
Speaker 3: the time who made that call. And Reagan said that
Speaker 3: that was awful and just just like Douglas morilated, the whole.
Speaker 1: World condemned it. And then.
Speaker 3: Prime Minister Began, after his office out of office, was
Speaker 3: given the Medal of Freedom by Dick Cheney years later
Speaker 3: because in reality, behind closed doors, we were happier than
Speaker 3: hell that Israel did what had to be done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm cynical enough to get how domestic politics influence
Speaker 1: the pronouncements you make about foreign relations, even if behind
Speaker 1: the scenes your actual policies are very different than the pronouncements.
Speaker 1: But it's just I get sick of it, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm just it's so obvious. If it's obvious to Austin
Speaker 1: Douglas Murray, I mean, it's obvious to a lot of
Speaker 1: people what's going on now. I understand why Mohammed Bien
Speaker 1: Solomon has to pretend for the quote unquote Arab street.
Speaker 1: You remember when that was a popular term. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: get why he has to pretend to condemn it and
Speaker 1: the rest of it. But our leaders, please just so phony.
Speaker 1: Our executive producer Mike Hanson has come up with a
Speaker 1: good idea we start using Britney spears as a national
Speaker 1: barometer of how crazy things are getting in what sense
Speaker 1: We'll explain that coming up a little bit. But I think, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna work pretty well.
Speaker 3: Actually, it's like it's like the rainbow at Doom, you know,
Speaker 3: where it's stage orange or something like that, where it's
Speaker 3: stage Britney dancing. Crazy is is when things are getting
Speaker 3: out of control. She's a national barometer.
Speaker 1: And of course when we're at the dancing with knives, yes,
Speaker 1: point on the scale then you know, run for your lives,
Speaker 1: hold your deer ones close.
Speaker 3: Yes, things have gotten really out of control. We have
Speaker 3: much more news that we need to get to on
Speaker 3: a variety.
Speaker 1: Of fronts, including the fact that the President of Argentina
Speaker 1: gave a nineteen dollars gift to Pope Leo, which might
Speaker 1: be the best gift he could possibly give him. Ninety
Speaker 1: brillion dollars. I can't imagine what they would be. That's
Speaker 1: a rough figure. Check your local listings. Also Astute Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty Listener pointing out and I hope our authorities
Speaker 1: are way ahead of us on this. The nexus between
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian built drone farms inside of Russia and China's
Speaker 1: aggressively buying up land in the United States. What are
Speaker 1: they doing with that land?
Speaker 3: I saw a map of how much land they own
Speaker 3: in the United States, agricultural land.
Speaker 5: It was shocking Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: But Israel has had it up to here with fighting
Speaker 7: Iran's proxies, and the giant raid on Iran on their
Speaker 7: military facilities, on their nuclear facilities, killed their top three
Speaker 7: military commanders. Predictably, Hesballah, that's one of Iran's proxies. They
Speaker 7: condemned the attack and they said they were awaiting instructions
Speaker 7: and how to respond.
Speaker 1: Check your pagers, guys. Now.
Speaker 3: Crowd applauds like crazy, which is kind of interesting because
Speaker 3: I was everybody who has thought this not an original thought.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever had an original thought.
Speaker 3: But I'd like to go to a parallel universe where
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris won the presidential election and see how she
Speaker 3: would be dealing with this whole thing between Israel and Iran.
Speaker 3: You know that she would be daily lecturing Israel and
Speaker 3: telling them they need to stop.
Speaker 1: Responding to her wokeust you know, fifteen percent of supporters,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah, I'm slightly ashamed that I didn't think
Speaker 1: of this myself, But it's a lot going on in
Speaker 1: the world these days. Regular correspondent to JT in Livermore, California, Guys,
Speaker 1: if China can build secret prisons within the US, they're
Speaker 1: more like police stations with holding cells. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: know they're going to be building drone armies here in
Speaker 1: the US, maybe stored on those properties they're buying next
Speaker 1: to military bases. We hope they haven't already. Well, right, Obviously,
Speaker 1: the spring board of this is the knowledge that Ukraine
Speaker 1: had facilities within Russia in which they were constructing and
Speaker 1: or storing drones and waiting for the right moment to attack.
Speaker 1: And JT helpfully sent along a link to an article
Speaker 1: I believe we talked about at the time. Maps show
Speaker 1: Chinese owned farmland next to nineteen US military bases, an
Speaker 1: alarming threat to national security. Even if they hadn't come
Speaker 1: up with that plan prior to what Ukraine did and
Speaker 1: what Israel just did, they started a week ago, they're
Speaker 1: doing it now. The New York Post identified nineteen bases
Speaker 1: across the US from Florida, Hawaii to Hawaii, which were
Speaker 1: in close proximity to land bought by Chinese entities and
Speaker 1: could be exploited by spies working for the communist nation.
Speaker 1: And if they can be, they will be. You know,
Speaker 1: get that tattooed somewhere where you can look at it regularly.
Speaker 1: If the Chinese communists can use a capability against us,
Speaker 1: they will use it.
Speaker 3: Just the question of when I gotta admit if I
Speaker 3: ever took off my shirt and someone said, what does
Speaker 3: that to tattoos say? And I say it says if
Speaker 3: the Chinese government can exploit a situation, they will.
Speaker 1: That's your tattoo. Yes, I just don't want to forget it,
Speaker 1: don't just Robert Spaulding retired to US State's Air Force,
Speaker 1: Spriggadier jenneral Brigadier general, who's work focused on US gene relation.
Speaker 1: Still the post it's concerning due to the proximity of
Speaker 1: its strategic or to our strategic location. We are a big, rich,
Speaker 1: naive moron as a country in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: Contrast that with Israel, if you will, oh, speaking of which,
Speaker 1: on a similar theme, I was thinking of going into
Speaker 1: this in a playful way. Uh, you know, maybe I will?
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead? What is the app Tamu's business?
Speaker 1: Is it Timu or tamu U Katie? Do you know
Speaker 1: t e m U? I've heard it both ways. I
Speaker 1: say team Timu. Okay, fire enough. What is Tmu's real business? Business?
Speaker 3: Okay, hang on, now there's more. What is TikTok's real business?
Speaker 3: There's one more for you.
Speaker 1: It's Shine right, that's the cheap clothing. What is Shines
Speaker 1: real business? I've never even heard of that one? Or
Speaker 1: here's Pin Duo Duo. What is that app's real business?
Speaker 3: A trick question. The answer for all of them is
Speaker 3: collecting your data. They include a service along with that.
Speaker 3: That's why you download the app. They are data collection
Speaker 3: and surveillance apps for instant They all Chinese, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: for instance Pindo, although certainly the Chinese are not the
Speaker 3: only voracious collectors of data.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mark Zuckerberg, please the data da Timu and
Speaker 1: Pin Duo Duo represent themselves as e commerce apps that
Speaker 1: offer in inexpensive merchandise, but they're also in the business
Speaker 1: of data collection. The lawsuit filed by Attorney General Mike
Speaker 1: Hilgers of Nebraska. UH says, according to an IT security
Speaker 1: report firm report, Pinduo Duo requests is man is eighty
Speaker 1: three permissions, including access to biometrics, Bluetooth, Wi Fi network information,
Speaker 1: and well obviously seventy or eighty more things. As an aside,
Speaker 1: why is TikTok still happening in America? Mister president? That
Speaker 1: good because they gave you a big giant contribution to
Speaker 1: your your campaign or your inauguration. Them and their lobbyists
Speaker 1: are paying off the administration get rid of TikTok. Congress
Speaker 1: passed the law. It's time.
Speaker 3: Isn't there a way for since Congress did pass a
Speaker 3: lot to force the executive to do what you're supposed
Speaker 3: to do legally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody's gotta like prove standing and that they've been
Speaker 1: damaged by it and go to the courts. I guess
Speaker 1: you'd think there'd be kind of a blanket. The law
Speaker 1: said that and it's not happening lawsuit that you could
Speaker 1: file an ex post mirand or corpus loss it or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but crazy. UH. An investigation found by
Speaker 1: Montana found that the team app is designed to hide
Speaker 1: its collection of sensitive information from users and from any
Speaker 1: researcher who might be investigating the app's functionality. That's part
Speaker 1: of its programming is to hide what it is doing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Timu also has code that quote allows it to reconfigure
Speaker 1: itself after being downloaded. What do you use t move for?
Speaker 1: What's it? It's a what dental hygiene?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: What do you use for?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: You can you can buy anything on it. It's it's
Speaker 1: like China's Amazon. Oh okay, then why.
Speaker 3: Do we use in the United States Because there's just
Speaker 3: a lot of cheap crap on it, super cheap okay,
Speaker 3: yeah wow, yeah wow. They are really hoisting us on
Speaker 3: our own petards with the whole we like cheap crap. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we'll develop an app that can spy on every
Speaker 3: single American in the United States who wants to buy
Speaker 3: extra cheap crap. And uh, they're so hungry for their
Speaker 3: cheap crap and it what is crap most of it,
Speaker 3: that they'll allow us to spy.
Speaker 1: On everybody, right exactly, And keep in mind what I
Speaker 1: just said. Temu has code that allows it to reconfigure
Speaker 1: itself after you download it, so it becomes something different
Speaker 1: than you downloaded. Blah blah blah. This is the part
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to. The fear is that consumer
Speaker 1: products marketed on Timu are the bait to get Americans
Speaker 1: to download an app that gives the company and thereby
Speaker 1: the Communist party, access to personal data, location tracking, and
Speaker 1: other sensitive information. Article seven of the National Intelligence Law
Speaker 1: of China is the Chinese communists on their own. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm tempted to dig up that great piece we had
Speaker 1: by was it? Oh? No, no, no, no. Who is
Speaker 1: the guy who wrote ah? His name is flitted out
Speaker 1: of my head?
Speaker 3: An unbelievable piece quoting Chinese Intelligence Service officials on how
Speaker 3: valuable a resource TikTok is. It quoted them chapter and verse,
Speaker 3: quote after quote after quote from internal memorandum and meetings
Speaker 3: where the Chinese intelligence services said, wow, TikTok is.
Speaker 1: An unbelievable boon to what we're doing. But anyway, here's
Speaker 1: Article seven of the National Intelligence Law of China. Quote.
Speaker 1: Any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with
Speaker 1: the state intelligence work in accordance with the law, and
Speaker 1: keep the secrets of the national intelligence work from becoming
Speaker 1: known to the public. They are bound by law to
Speaker 1: report anything that Chinese communists want to know. Well, we're fools,
Speaker 1: we are, we want we freaking are. That's very maddening.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, we've said enough. When when the
Speaker 1: poo hits the fan in whatever shape or array of
Speaker 1: flung poo results, everybody will say, how did that happen?
Speaker 1: I don't. Will I be some some sort of grimly
Speaker 1: satisfied now I want to be horror. No, just horrified.
Speaker 1: On a cheerier note, love this, Andy Kessler, writing in
Speaker 1: the Journal Javier Milay's gift for Pope Leo. On June
Speaker 1: the seventh, the new Pope, the Chicago Guy, met with
Speaker 1: Argentine President j Javier Malay at the Vatican. Malay gave
Speaker 1: the pope a historical document from sixteen forty two cool
Speaker 1: a hand woven vicunya poncho. Oh that's a guard. Oh
Speaker 1: did you got your machine woven vicunya? Please throw it
Speaker 1: in the trash. You're hand woven gorgeous. And he also
Speaker 1: gave him Friedrich Hayek's book from nineteen eighty eight, The
Speaker 1: Fatal Conceit The Errors of Socialism. The book costs less
Speaker 1: than nineteen dollars on Amazon, but It was the most
Speaker 1: valuable gift, says Kessler, and he explains with some just
Speaker 1: fabulous quotes from the book, which I need to read.
Speaker 1: I've written quotes from it in my whole life.
Speaker 3: But high K's fatal conceit is that quote man is
Speaker 3: able to shape the world around him according.
Speaker 1: To his wishes. That is the fatal conceit of humans.
Speaker 1: It's a hearty defense of free markets and of classical liberalism,
Speaker 1: and Kessler mentions that his friend and colleague Matthew Hennessy
Speaker 1: got taken the task by Vice President Vance for defending
Speaker 1: free markets. On these pages. In twenty twenty five, Hyak
Speaker 1: pounds home the point that markets are about price discovery,
Speaker 1: wealth creation. Quote is determined not by objective physical facts
Speaker 1: known to any one mind, but by the separate differing
Speaker 1: information of millions, which is precipitated in prices that serve
Speaker 1: to guide further decisions. Catch that by buying and selling
Speaker 1: in free markets to determined prices, you and I and
Speaker 1: millions who are connected but only by signals resulting from
Speaker 1: long and infinitely ramified chains of trade, we drive the economy,
Speaker 1: and we do it better than self selecting know it
Speaker 1: alls who really know nothing.
Speaker 3: He gave that book to the pope. He did because
Speaker 3: he thinks the pope or popes tend to lean a
Speaker 3: little too socialist.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, I think that was his purpose. Let me
Speaker 1: hit you with one or two more quotes from Hayek.
Speaker 1: This is maybe my favorite. One's initial surprise at finding
Speaker 1: that intelligent people tend to be socialists diminishes when one realizes,
Speaker 1: of course, that intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence. Ah.
Speaker 1: The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men
Speaker 1: how little they really know about what they imagine they
Speaker 1: can design. Planners are ill informed. Quote to the naive
Speaker 1: mind that can conceive of order only as the product
Speaker 1: of deliberate arrangement, it might seem absurd that order and
Speaker 1: economic growth can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions,
Speaker 1: he notes, And he notes that the fallacy because quote
Speaker 1: decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account
Speaker 1: man by millions of people who don't even know they're
Speaker 1: doing it. I'm a hyak for the wind there.
Speaker 3: That would be Friedrich Hayek. Wrong, hyak, right, very different, hyak.
Speaker 3: I love that love that.
Speaker 1: Coming up.
Speaker 3: Why are sharks falling out of the sky in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Order, mister chairman, how did they get it in.
Speaker 3: This pretty interesting story and using our craziest celebrities as
Speaker 3: a barometer for how much unrest we have in the world.
Speaker 3: I think it might actually work. Among other things coming up, did.
Speaker 7: You see the press conference the other day, Christy No,
Speaker 7: our Homeland secretary was was here and one of our senators,
Speaker 7: Alex Padia. I don't know if they knew it was him,
Speaker 7: but he stood up to ask a question and confront her,
Speaker 7: and they frog marched him out of there and threw
Speaker 7: him on the ground and started to cuff him, and
Speaker 7: got Newsom said, now do me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I tell you if if anyone.
Speaker 7: Who's ready for us close up, it's Gavin.
Speaker 5: I think this is his moments.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The era of performative politics. Yeah. I was just reading
Speaker 1: a description of little Greta Tuneberg who was walking frelly
Speaker 1: through the airport. Then when she saw the cameras, thrust
Speaker 1: her hands behind her back as if she were cuffed.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, all right, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: I concur our executive producer Mike Hanson came up with
Speaker 3: this idea. When our celebrities, when our crazy celebrities get
Speaker 3: crazier or peak crazy than the whole world is going,
Speaker 3: They're like a barometer.
Speaker 1: We can use them, I mean, said very insightful. Justin
Speaker 1: Bieber and his wife are having troubles.
Speaker 3: Cher's daughter's son tried to kill himself herself over the weekend,
Speaker 3: and Brittany has released yet another crazy dancing TikTok video.
Speaker 3: That's a barometer of how off the rails things are.
Speaker 3: If Brittany, like you said, if she's dancing with knives,
Speaker 3: well then we got k war in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Probably.
Speaker 3: If she's calm, everything's calm, and right now things are
Speaker 3: things are not good.
Speaker 2: I'm scared of you because you're weird, because you go
Speaker 2: into puberty.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. That's right, amen to that.
Speaker 3: So she is she is at peak crazy. The world
Speaker 3: is at peak crazy. Not a coincidence.
Speaker 5: Just saw this.
Speaker 3: Dow surges four hundred points, oil falls three percent as
Speaker 3: Iran reportedly seeks talks to end Israel war. I did
Speaker 3: not see that headline anywhere. Just came across.
Speaker 1: Israel responds unconditional surrender and regime change. Please.
Speaker 3: You think they'll demand regime change. I think they'll just
Speaker 3: demand I don't know what would you demand to make
Speaker 3: sure they don't get it, because they'd lie about anything
Speaker 3: in terms of getting a nuclear.
Speaker 1: Weapon, right, Yeah, any concession on the nuclear bomb front
Speaker 1: has to include inspections and that's not gonna go over.
Speaker 1: You don't think, well, even if they agree to it initially,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll flake on it and cheat on it. It's
Speaker 1: been demonstrated over and over again. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was listening to I don't remember who, somebody on
Speaker 3: when You're a Table news channel's talking about how Iran
Speaker 3: fought Iraq for ten years and many, many, many many
Speaker 3: people died, but Iran finally got to a point after
Speaker 3: vowing to never surrender where they the Ayahtola actually said,
Speaker 3: this pains me more than anything I've done in my life.
Speaker 3: But the you know, the war must end, and they
Speaker 3: made all kinds of concissions that nobody thought they'd ever
Speaker 3: make to get the war to stop. There is a
Speaker 3: point at where you realize this has got to end.
Speaker 3: And I don't know when you get to that point.
Speaker 3: Like a whole bunch of bombs going off near government
Speaker 3: installations yesterday in Tehran where you realize I might die
Speaker 3: this week if I don't end this, So then maybe
Speaker 3: you do allow them to go into four to Oho
Speaker 3: and inspect the place.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, they're going to find a robust
Speaker 1: industry designed to produced a bomb as quickly as possible,
Speaker 1: and very close to having done so. And then what
Speaker 1: do you do, say, Ah, full we caught you. Then
Speaker 1: go back to Tel Aviv. No, you destroy the place?
Speaker 3: Well, right, but then you've also got the problem of
Speaker 3: is this the only place there might be everybody's talking
Speaker 3: about four to Oho the last nuclear facility that hasn't
Speaker 3: been blown up yet. Well, they might have a facility
Speaker 3: nobody's ever heard of somewhere. Yeah, I doubt it, but
Speaker 3: that is possible, certainly. I thought this was an interesting
Speaker 3: stat around that whole thing. In nineteen ninety, Israel and
Speaker 3: Iran's gdb GDP per capita the average individual salary basically,
Speaker 3: or what you were producing for the country, Israel and
Speaker 3: Iran were close to each other thirteen thousand for Israel
Speaker 3: Iran for ten thousand dollars. They were near. In twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, Israel's has quadrupled to fifty eight thousand, and
Speaker 3: Iran's has been cut in more than half, down to
Speaker 3: thirty eight hundred. That leads me to believe that there's
Speaker 3: a lot of people on the street that would like
Speaker 3: the current leadership to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I wish I had the quote in front
Speaker 1: of me. I thought it was great that it illustrates
Speaker 1: the problem with giving theocrats in love with the Middle
Speaker 1: Ages the keys to your economy. Right, yeah, just ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Iranian people have been so brutally misserved by the regime,
Speaker 1: just terrible. Do you think Iran would use a nukufa
Speaker 1: had it? Yeah? I did too. I don't know what
Speaker 1: context or when, but yeah, part of the whole death
Speaker 1: to America, death to the Zionists thing is for their
Speaker 1: radical ten twenty fifty percent of their population, but a
Speaker 1: lot of it's sincere sure. And if you go around
Speaker 1: vowing to wipe somebody off the face of the earth
Speaker 1: over and over again for decades and then you achieved
Speaker 1: the means to do that coming.
Speaker 3: Right, And Hamas wasn't joking around obviously in October seventh, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: and this is a this is a blood sport.
Speaker 1: Obviously October seventh illustrated what negotiation will get Israel If
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