Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jackiete and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: I don't remember anybody having these kinds of meltdowns. When
Speaker 2: Barack Obama deported five million people. It is not uncommon
Speaker 2: for the executive branch to deport illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: It happens in every administration.
Speaker 2: Obama deported more than most, and I don't remember any
Speaker 2: of this kind of meltdown, and the crisis.
Speaker 1: Has only gotten worse.
Speaker 2: So I think Donald Trump's doing the right thing, and
Speaker 2: most Republicans would agree it is a national emergency.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Trump said, yep, he is going to declare it a
Speaker 3: national emergency, and yep he is considering using the military
Speaker 3: deal with it because they're the only people who would
Speaker 3: have the infrastructure to deal with such a large number
Speaker 3: of people.
Speaker 1: And we will talk more about that later. I've just
Speaker 1: become I'm.
Speaker 4: Aware of Scott Jennings because he has been hiding from
Speaker 4: humanity on CNN. But I love the cut of his GiB.
Speaker 4: I love his act. He's calm, he smart, he's reasonable.
Speaker 4: I posited last hour that gen X would save the world,
Speaker 4: and I realized that somewhat self serving, as we are
Speaker 4: on the older end of gen X, but gen X
Speaker 4: known for kind of a cut the crap, don't don't
Speaker 4: mess around with us, just give us the straight scoop.
Speaker 4: Feel not terribly ideological. I like you pitched us as
Speaker 4: not hippies. Not hippies on the one end, not needing
Speaker 4: coloring books and puppies to deal with bad news on
Speaker 4: the other end, right, just for goodness sakes, can we
Speaker 4: can we speak plainly to each other? Is kind of
Speaker 4: sort of and I've always mocked a generation thing, but
Speaker 4: it's kind of sort of the feel of gen X anyway.
Speaker 4: I love that with Scott Jennings essentially, and this is
Speaker 4: my rallying cry today and probably for a long time.
Speaker 4: Cut the crap, Scott is saying, cut the crap. Obama
Speaker 4: deported lots and lots of people. You had nothing to say,
Speaker 4: so cut the crap.
Speaker 1: It's crap right, all right, thank you?
Speaker 4: And then you know I've got I've got a million examples.
Speaker 4: You've got this stuff from the University of California Davis,
Speaker 4: which is advising the federal government on how to be
Speaker 4: a woke ally for the Alphabet Soup crew, and they
Speaker 4: have stuff like, instead of some saying someone was born
Speaker 4: a boy or a girl, try saying they were as
Speaker 4: signed male at birth. These terms recognize the difference between
Speaker 4: section gender and emphasize the way in which section gender
Speaker 4: are not binary or immutable.
Speaker 1: They can be changed. No, cut the crap.
Speaker 4: A man can't become a woman because.
Speaker 1: He takes hormones.
Speaker 4: You start ovulating, call me back, all right, then I'll
Speaker 4: concede you're a woman. Cut the crap. Thought this was
Speaker 4: brilliant from Gerard Baker. I'm gonna hit you with some
Speaker 4: of it. He's an opinion writer for mostly the Journal,
Speaker 4: but Jack jump in anytime you want, obviously, And he
Speaker 4: talks about Trump's election is a bit of an Emperor's
Speaker 4: new clothes moment for American maybe the rest of the West,
Speaker 4: to an overdue recognition and repudiation of the regime of
Speaker 4: oppressive insanities we've been subjected to for a decade or more.
Speaker 4: I think everybody's saying, yeah, man, well said, especially in
Speaker 4: blue states. And you know, I'm gonna issue a battle
Speaker 4: cry toward the end of this, and I understand you're
Speaker 4: working like.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna sound like that. It's a lot like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe you're working at the infamous you see Davis
Speaker 4: or Berkeley in California and you're like, dude, I would
Speaker 4: love to fight against this stuff. But and so it's
Speaker 4: always with the caveat of do what you can. But
Speaker 4: I'll tell you this, I can practically guarantee no matter
Speaker 4: where you work, you live, you worship whatever, if you
Speaker 4: stand up to the crap and you say the crap,
Speaker 4: you're gonna see a bunch of people, few, maybe a ton,
Speaker 4: are gonna say, yeah, what he said. They're just waiting
Speaker 4: for someone to call the emperor on having no clothes anyway,
Speaker 4: to ju our Baker's piece. For a decade or more, yes,
Speaker 4: even when Republicans have been nominally in control, we've been
Speaker 4: led by peddlers of a set of ideas that have
Speaker 4: clothed our institutions in the country in social and political doctrines,
Speaker 4: fake claims, and strictures that have inflicted untold harms. The
Speaker 4: fancy new items of invisible attire that our nation's rulers
Speaker 4: have made us wear for too long include these. The
Speaker 4: idea that people who have stolen into this country illegally
Speaker 4: should be showered with all the rights and benefits of citizens,
Speaker 4: that it is immoral to deny them those rights, and
Speaker 4: that they should instead be treated as victims of persecution
Speaker 4: and given sanctuary in our crowded and fiscally strained cities.
Speaker 1: Call bullss on that.
Speaker 4: That's ridiculous, the idea that a nation that sits atop
Speaker 4: one of the greatest reservoirs of natural energy resources on
Speaker 4: Earth should forcibly restrain itself from exploiting them to save
Speaker 4: the planet on the basis of politicized science, while other
Speaker 4: countries are free to do much more damage to the
Speaker 4: global environment. That's a good Gavin, cut the crap.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 4: At the risk of going off on this as I
Speaker 4: did last hour, meaningless effectless gestures in the face of
Speaker 4: all the other countries on Earth doing what they're doing.
Speaker 4: You know, if you were going to do some good,
Speaker 4: come to the table with that argument, say yeah, we
Speaker 4: got to risk damaging the economy and poor people are
Speaker 4: going to stay poor, and inflation's gonna rise because energy
Speaker 4: prices affect everything. But look that it's lowered emissions twenty
Speaker 4: percent globally, except it hasn't hasn't done anything, So cut
Speaker 4: the crap. Here's another good one, the idea that after
Speaker 4: a century and a half of progress in solving and
Speaker 4: soothing America's original sin of racism and making the country
Speaker 4: more equal, we are suddenly obliged to believe that America
Speaker 4: is as oppressive as it was in sixteen nineteen, and
Speaker 4: that the best way to write the past wrong of
Speaker 4: treating people based on the color of their skin is
Speaker 4: to treat people based on the color of their skin.
Speaker 1: M god, I hope that's over. I really hope that's over.
Speaker 4: What we all hope for is those radicals just nasty people.
Speaker 4: Don't have the juice to end your career anymore. Because
Speaker 4: your management, your corporate godfathers are such cowards. They're not
Speaker 4: going to stand up to the crap. It's easier to
Speaker 4: fire you, and they'll say on the way out. You know, Jim,
Speaker 4: I'm really sorry about this. I mean, it's really unfortunate
Speaker 4: they don't have the balls to say because you said
Speaker 4: nothing wrong. But these people are so mad. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: capitulate to them, but that's what they're thinking.
Speaker 1: Stand up to it.
Speaker 3: I'm less optimistic on the illegal immigration part because I've
Speaker 3: been before, but on the trans and anti racist and
Speaker 3: what was the other one I was going to include
Speaker 3: in that. It'll come to me. But on a couple
Speaker 3: of those, is it possible? Oh, the climate change? Is
Speaker 3: it possible. We're on the other side of those, and
Speaker 3: we just all, unfortunately, those of us of a certain age,
Speaker 3: just lived through this really weird time. Yeah, we're things,
Speaker 3: people said, all kinds of crazy stuff, and you had.
Speaker 1: To go along with it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think we're at this stage of it where the
Speaker 4: troops are rallied. We're aware, we're fired up, but you
Speaker 4: got to remember the enemy is absolutely running our nation's
Speaker 4: educational complex right now, and our media and entertainment. But
Speaker 4: education is the most insidious part because they're indoctrinating our kids.
Speaker 4: So yeah, the battle has just begun. Here's another great one,
Speaker 4: another one of these insane ideas that we've been forced
Speaker 4: to pretend are are not idiotic, The idea that children should,
Speaker 4: without parental consultation or consent, be free to choose their gender,
Speaker 4: be assisted by the state in committing acts of self
Speaker 4: mutilation to do so, and all on the understanding that
Speaker 4: we have repealed millennia of science and just discovered there's
Speaker 4: no such thing as biological sex.
Speaker 1: Bow ass cut the crap.
Speaker 3: I think that one is the biggest anchor around Gavin
Speaker 3: Newsom's neck. If he tries to run for president. How's
Speaker 3: he gonna How's he gonna deal with that.
Speaker 4: Expiring experimenting on in mutilating children because they're momentarily confused
Speaker 4: and I have adolescence.
Speaker 3: And Gavin signed in law the idea that the schools
Speaker 3: can keep it a secret from you, so that in
Speaker 3: fact they must, How does how does he deal with that?
Speaker 4: I want that's one of the reasons I want him
Speaker 4: to run. I want him to be beaten like a
Speaker 4: drum for these reasons, because it's important to defeat this crap.
Speaker 1: There's a little.
Speaker 4: More or the Empress new clothes that people have just
Speaker 4: been walking around silently pretending they didn't notice or too
Speaker 4: afraid to resist the idea that democracy and freedom are
Speaker 4: best protected by denying people the right to express certain
Speaker 4: views that the authorities deem misinformation, and by weaponizing the
Speaker 4: law against political opponents lest they weaponize the law for
Speaker 4: political purposes.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 4: They're actually democrats out right now saying, hey, you know
Speaker 4: weaponizing law against candidates is probably a bad strategy, admitting
Speaker 4: that that was the strategy, so ambitious elites in business
Speaker 4: and civil society went along with these fictions. Politicians on
Speaker 4: all sides, including Republicans, declined to dissent for fear of
Speaker 4: being called out. And here's where Gerard Baker gives Trump
Speaker 4: a fair amount of credit. It took a man with
Speaker 4: some of the instincts of a child, a political angenoux newcomer,
Speaker 4: lacking the sophistication to participate in the sham, to call
Speaker 4: the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Out for what it was.
Speaker 4: And then he makes it clear that he's not like
Speaker 4: totally in on Trump and his plans and his policies
Speaker 4: and the rest of it. But for God's sake, we
Speaker 4: needed to call bulls on the bulls.
Speaker 1: But here's what I'm optimistic about.
Speaker 4: He says, four years from now, there's a good chance
Speaker 4: that the nonsense we have had to endure will be buried,
Speaker 4: that important things will become normal again. It will have
Speaker 4: become normal to tell people they have who have no
Speaker 4: right to be here, that they must leave.
Speaker 1: That in the process, people around the world will have.
Speaker 4: Been made to understand that they don't have an automatic
Speaker 4: right to live in the freest, most prosperous country on earth.
Speaker 4: Then he goes on the children. You know, I'm going
Speaker 4: to hit this because it's one of my jihads. It
Speaker 4: will have become normal again for children to be helped
Speaker 4: to respond to the inevitable strains and traumas of growing up,
Speaker 4: not by having their genitals cut out, but by receiving
Speaker 4: loving guidance, guidance and care from family and society.
Speaker 3: Got the crab. I hope that's true. I hope that's true.
Speaker 3: I think it's true. It's going to be longer and
Speaker 3: harder battle than four years.
Speaker 4: Man. The university system and their influence on the elementary
Speaker 4: education system and secondary.
Speaker 1: Is It's going to be a long, hard fight, But
Speaker 1: I'm up for it. Are you?
Speaker 3: Where are people getting their news and information? A new
Speaker 3: PU study kind of interesting, particularly around young people.
Speaker 1: It's a little disturbing. I don't know what that happens.
Speaker 3: Of course, as you were just talking about, if people
Speaker 3: catch on to the fact that the mainstream media is
Speaker 3: not a very reliable source of real news, people are
Speaker 3: going to turn to other sources. Sure, and the problem
Speaker 3: being the other sources are probably not better either, but
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff to talk about on the way to.
Speaker 1: Hear how well, the head of their party, the outgoing
Speaker 1: president Man the ramparts.
Speaker 3: During this challenging and fraught peaceful transition to factism.
Speaker 5: President Biden is in Zil, where he became the first
Speaker 5: American head of state to visit the Amazon rainforest. He
Speaker 5: went there to highlight the dangers of climate change and
Speaker 5: the need to turn away from fossil fuels.
Speaker 3: In the middle of all this, he disappeared to the rainforest.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is how we should do the transfer of power.
Speaker 3: The winner moves into the White House.
Speaker 1: And the incumbent just wanders off into the jungle so
Speaker 1: that he's nutrients maybe returned to the soil.
Speaker 3: A peaceful transfer to fascism, less for you money, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Man, if I've been amused reading the various accounts of
Speaker 4: Joe and Mika's pilgrimage down to mar A Lago, both
Speaker 4: the very serious discussions of what it means and then
Speaker 4: the snarkier ones which are much more appropriate.
Speaker 3: All right, all the way around this peaceful transfer to fascism,
Speaker 3: where I was like, eh, I guess we'll just accept
Speaker 3: that it's.
Speaker 1: It's Trump and move on with our lives. Well, I
Speaker 1: think they.
Speaker 4: Hitler do for lunch, honey, Well he should be here
Speaker 4: at noon thirty.
Speaker 3: Dear, before I get into something of substance. We have
Speaker 3: talked about this many times. The one of the problems
Speaker 3: with the algorithms on ads is this assumption that whatever
Speaker 3: it is you shopped for or bought, you're gonna buy
Speaker 3: many more of or be shopping for them forever. And
Speaker 3: I don't understand how they haven't fixed that already, that
Speaker 3: they don't have categories where they realize this is like a.
Speaker 1: One time purchase.
Speaker 3: For instance, this funny one from somebody yesterday I came
Speaker 3: across on Twitter. Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat
Speaker 3: because I needed one necessity, not desire.
Speaker 4: I do not collect them. I'm not a toilet seat addict.
Speaker 4: No matter how attemptingly you email.
Speaker 3: I email me, I'm not going to think, Oh, go on,
Speaker 3: then just one more toilet seat.
Speaker 1: I'll treat myself. That's kid, It's really good. I did
Speaker 1: not collect them. I'm not an addict. That's funny.
Speaker 3: For the next two years, you get toilet seed ads
Speaker 3: you're buying by the palette.
Speaker 1: Oh, that is funny. I'm surprised they haven't figured that
Speaker 1: out yet.
Speaker 3: While we're on Twitter, this from Michael Avenatti, and I
Speaker 3: mentioned this because we might get breaking news during the
Speaker 3: show today that the stupid Stormy Daniels hush money case
Speaker 3: has been basically ended and tossed. Remember Michael Avenati, he
Speaker 3: was the representative for Stormy Daniels, and then he became.
Speaker 1: Such a hero to America.
Speaker 3: He went on all the talk shows, he was on
Speaker 3: the late night shows and the View and everything like
Speaker 3: that as the guy who's going to bring down Trump
Speaker 3: and a hero and he should run for president and
Speaker 3: all this stuff. He turned out to be a crook,
Speaker 3: stole from Stormy Daniels, went to jail. But anyway, he
Speaker 3: stole from everybody, stole from everybody and went to jail.
Speaker 3: Here's Michael Avanatti's tweet from yesterday. The hush money verdict
Speaker 3: should be promptly thrown out by Judge Murshaan and the
Speaker 3: case immediately dismissed. It was always a political prosecution solely
Speaker 3: designed to keep President Trump from being elected, founded on
Speaker 3: the perjury of grifters Cohen and Daniels. He calls his
Speaker 3: own client a grifter and but he would west uh
Speaker 3: founded on the perjury of the grifters Cohen and Daniels.
Speaker 3: While the country moves forward, Coen and Daniels can crawl
Speaker 3: back to where they came from.
Speaker 1: Writing this from prison. I don't know if he's out
Speaker 1: or not. Yeah, time flies? Is it that something?
Speaker 6: Though?
Speaker 3: Again, I mean another cut the crap that was and
Speaker 3: most of America saw through. That is phony political prosecution.
Speaker 3: And seriously, and now and now as of I think
Speaker 3: later today, it's all going to be over.
Speaker 1: That'll be over. Wow. Not a good way to run things.
Speaker 4: So he's not hitler, And yeah, it was a phony prosecution.
Speaker 4: But let's all move on with our lives.
Speaker 1: Hey, all's well, that ends. Well, let's shake hands and
Speaker 1: then we'll see in the midterms. Okay.
Speaker 3: So Pew's out with a study not surprising that a
Speaker 3: lot of people get their news from what they call influencers,
Speaker 3: and that would be people on social media who, for
Speaker 3: whatever reason you respect their opinion. And it can come
Speaker 3: from all different walks of life. You know, it can
Speaker 3: be a singer and artists, a politician, or just like
Speaker 3: you know, some farmer who you trust their opinion, who
Speaker 3: build a following on Twitter or TikTok or something like that,
Speaker 3: and they become an influencer, and that's where you get
Speaker 3: a lot of your new stuff from. And I know
Speaker 3: people that follow non professionals as closely as they follow
Speaker 3: any professionals in media for their opinion on things, which
Speaker 3: I find interesting. What I was surprised by is it
Speaker 3: all It leans mostly right most of the news sources
Speaker 3: out there, and they use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube. It's
Speaker 3: mostly right leaning influencers that influence people throughout the election.
Speaker 3: Twitter's the only one that's balanced left and right. All
Speaker 3: the other ones are people on the right getting their
Speaker 3: information from their for better or worse. Probably because most
Speaker 3: of the mainstream media is so left, you have to
Speaker 3: go somewhere else right exactly, It's created a need for
Speaker 3: an alternative him almost certainly what is driven it.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and getty. He wants him to be the face
Speaker 1: of the Justice Department.
Speaker 7: The only way that Donald Trump believes he can be
Speaker 7: the face of the Justice.
Speaker 1: Department is as Attorney general. And so he has told
Speaker 1: everyone around him all through.
Speaker 6: The weekend, all last week that he is one hundred
Speaker 6: percent behind Matt Gates and that what he wants the
Speaker 6: most out of any of his picks is for Gates
Speaker 6: to be confirmed.
Speaker 3: So I pay attention to what the mainstream media is
Speaker 3: paying attention to because it has an influence on the
Speaker 3: national conversation and all the major networks I was checking
Speaker 3: today leading with either Gates whether or not he's going
Speaker 3: to be the attorney general, or the mass deportations, and
Speaker 3: then flip the stories because those are the top two
Speaker 3: stories the mainstream media is into right now. The mass
Speaker 3: deportations thing is popular. Trump ran on it. It's not
Speaker 3: a surprise. Sixty percent of Americas for it. We'll see
Speaker 3: how that plays out. The Gates thing, I think was
Speaker 3: a surprise to a lot of people. He didn't run
Speaker 3: in specifically on that, and I have assumed since he
Speaker 3: announced that that it probably wouldn't happen. But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: And as you just heard there from the lead on CNN,
Speaker 3: Trump wants it to happen. This is what the New
Speaker 3: York Times is writing today. In private conversations over the
Speaker 3: past few days, President elect Donald J. Trump has admitted
Speaker 3: that his besieged choice for Attorney General, Matt Gates, has
Speaker 3: less than even odds of being confirmed by the Senate.
Speaker 3: Now you never know if the New York Times is
Speaker 3: right or not. But that's Trump saying he thinks it's
Speaker 3: less than fifty to fifty that Gates gets through. But
Speaker 3: mister Trump has shown no signs of withdrawing the nomination,
Speaker 3: which speaks volumes about his mindset as he staffs his
Speaker 3: second administration. He's making calls on mister Gates's behalf, and
Speaker 3: he remains confident that even if mister Gates does not
Speaker 3: make it, the standard for an acceptable candidate will have
Speaker 3: shifted so much that the Senate may simply approve his
Speaker 3: other nominees who have appalled much of Washington.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting take. Yeah, yeah, I've heard that argument.
Speaker 1: I don't have any idea if that's his thinking or not.
Speaker 3: So I mentioned that yesterday I was listened to a
Speaker 3: couple of podcasts with some of my favorite like super
Speaker 3: Smart Pundits Who are I think they're all lawyers who
Speaker 3: know a lot about the nomination process and the confirmation process,
Speaker 3: and I was surprised that three of them thought Gates
Speaker 3: would get through. The why I can get to after
Speaker 3: we hear this, This is on a number of newscasts
Speaker 3: last night. Lawyer for one of the girls that testified
Speaker 3: privately to that congressional committee about the whole Gates having
Speaker 3: sex with a seventeen year old story.
Speaker 1: Here's the lawyer on NBC News last night.
Speaker 6: She was walking outside to the pool and she observed
Speaker 6: to write her friend, who was seventeen at the time
Speaker 6: of having sex with Represented Gates. They were leaned up
Speaker 6: to what she described to as a game table.
Speaker 1: Of some type.
Speaker 7: Did your client believe that Gates at the time knew
Speaker 7: that her friend was underage?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the house was curious about that.
Speaker 6: She testified that her belief was that Representative Gates had
Speaker 6: no knowledge that she was under eighteen, that she was
Speaker 6: seventeen years old at the time he was having sex
Speaker 6: with her. She also testified that when Representative Gates found
Speaker 6: out that she was under age, that they stopped their
Speaker 6: sexual relationship and did not resume it until after she
Speaker 6: returned eighteen.
Speaker 3: I thought that was interesting. And then hear a little
Speaker 3: more on this and then I can fill in some
Speaker 3: other details.
Speaker 6: They did testify, both of them that they consented to
Speaker 6: their activities. They were also asked whether or not they
Speaker 6: were victims, and and she broke down in tears and
Speaker 6: she said It's a very complicated question.
Speaker 7: Did your clients make any assessments in their testimony about
Speaker 7: mister Gates's fitness or judgment to serve in office.
Speaker 6: They're very careful about what they might express publicly, but
Speaker 6: one did say, I do not think a man like
Speaker 6: him should have that much power.
Speaker 3: Well, she's probably a young Democrat who would hate whoever
Speaker 3: Trump would pick to be a nominee for attorney general.
Speaker 3: But what I think is interesting about this story is
Speaker 3: everybody can have a line morality line or you know
Speaker 3: who they think ought to be attorney general line and
Speaker 3: draw it in different places. You might be way over
Speaker 3: on No, Matt Gates and the things he's said and done,
Speaker 3: no chance I want him attorney general.
Speaker 1: And you might be clear over on this end, going you.
Speaker 3: Know, decision by decision that mister Gates has made throughout
Speaker 3: his life. Clear over to Oh, it turns out he
Speaker 3: didn't know she was seventeen and stopped contacted afterwards. I'm okay, then,
Speaker 3: right and anywhere in between. Yeah, I suppose so sure. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't disagree with anything you've said there. I've got
Speaker 3: to go back to your dismissal of her saying a
Speaker 3: man like that shouldn't have power.
Speaker 1: She's probably a young democrat.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Hang on now, and I could name names of
Speaker 4: guys we've known like that, sex pigs who do lots
Speaker 4: of drugs and get with as many young girls as
Speaker 4: they can at these parties and run around because their
Speaker 4: daddy was rich, driving expensive cars and being complete scumbags.
Speaker 1: And if anybody.
Speaker 4: Asked you, should he have power, you'd have said no,
Speaker 4: probably because I would hate.
Speaker 1: Them because they're loathsome.
Speaker 3: Right, So I didn't get until so this guy was
Speaker 3: on a bunch of shows yesterday, I don't remember which
Speaker 3: one where I finally found out that this party these
Speaker 3: girls are prostitutes. So this party hired women to be
Speaker 3: at the party and have sex with the people they
Speaker 3: invited to the party. I'd never been to a party
Speaker 3: like that. I sounds like a diddy party of some that.
Speaker 1: Kind of thing.
Speaker 3: I guess those parties exist where you show up to
Speaker 3: the party and you know the girls are all open game.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to have sex with you.
Speaker 3: They're being paid, so there's like, no, you don't have
Speaker 3: to like buy him flowers, actor out, ask him out,
Speaker 3: and charm them.
Speaker 1: That's what they're there for, and so that's how the
Speaker 1: age of consent wherever this party was. You know, that's funny.
Speaker 3: They never an enormous question, That's funny. They never throw
Speaker 3: that in. They they do say underage various times. So
Speaker 3: it must be seventeen, must be under the age of
Speaker 3: consent or I assume you wouldn't call it underage.
Speaker 1: No, I do.
Speaker 4: That just sounds like sloppy mainstream media to be dishonesty.
Speaker 1: Could could be.
Speaker 4: I'm just curious, I mean, And part of the reason
Speaker 4: I asked that is there's no such thing as a
Speaker 4: child prostitute, that is a rape slave. A child does
Speaker 4: not have the legal nor moral uh you know wherewithal
Speaker 4: to consent to sex, certainly for money.
Speaker 3: So yeah, the fact that that details left out actually
Speaker 3: would lead me to believe that she's not underage, because.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you would throw that in, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would agree the point of all these
Speaker 3: news stories is to bring down Matt Gates. I would
Speaker 3: think if it was strictly illegal and that makes him
Speaker 3: a sex offender by definition, that you would throw that
Speaker 3: detail in, right, So I think you're probably right.
Speaker 1: We got to look into that, We got to figure
Speaker 1: that out suspicious. How wish you wash you that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, But anyway, so that's how that you know, how
Speaker 3: he ends up having sex up against a foosball table
Speaker 3: at a party is because they're prostitutes and that's what
Speaker 3: they were there for. And then there's also testimony that
Speaker 3: he would he because I've got the texts and everything,
Speaker 3: he would text and say basically, are are they who's
Speaker 3: bringing the drugs? Are there going to be drugs there?
Speaker 3: And he had code words for all this stuff, very
Speaker 3: sly code words. And so again there's another place you
Speaker 3: can draw the line.
Speaker 1: Whatever your view is of this sort of thing. You
Speaker 1: know he's doing.
Speaker 3: He's doing illegal drugs at this party two and having
Speaker 3: sex with prostitutes. But I thought it wasn't as damning
Speaker 3: a testimony as it could be. He wasn't seeking out
Speaker 3: a seventeen year old right right, No, I see what
Speaker 3: you're driving at and listen. I'm no fan of Matt
Speaker 3: Gates at all.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, his lifestyle is not terribly different
Speaker 4: than that of John F. Kennedy or decent you know,
Speaker 4: Teddy Kennedy or a bunch of other people Junior, which
Speaker 4: does not make it okay it reinforces that there were
Speaker 4: scumbags who really should have reigned it in. One of
Speaker 4: the things that bothers me about Gates is he was
Speaker 4: barely a lawyer for like two years. He didn't really
Speaker 4: practice much at all, and running the Justice Department, you
Speaker 4: really ought to have a pretty firm grasp on how
Speaker 4: criminal law works, among the other issues I have with him.
Speaker 1: But whatever, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard pushback on that. I don't know anything
Speaker 3: about this. I heard pushback on that yesterday from like,
Speaker 3: for instance, Sarah Isgar who worked in the Trump Justice
Speaker 3: Department at the time. She's went to Harvard Lawyer. She said,
Speaker 3: there's lots of people that barely have ever practiced law
Speaker 3: in real life that are in the Justice Department.
Speaker 1: It's just the way it isn't. I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but okay, well, if I respect Sarah's point
Speaker 4: of view, but it seems odd that he would run
Speaker 4: it anyway?
Speaker 1: Was I going to say? I had another point on that,
Speaker 1: Matt Gatesman.
Speaker 3: Oh so, and then you've got the problem of do
Speaker 3: you not want do you not want somebody to be
Speaker 3: the attorney general because just because you hate that sort
Speaker 3: of person. If I didn't want anybody to be in
Speaker 3: office because I hate that sort of person.
Speaker 1: Why that'd be.
Speaker 3: It might be I don't know ten percent of DC left.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I would hate most of those people. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for all kinds of reasons. He is absolutely one the
Speaker 3: kind of guy I hate, just I mean, top to bottom.
Speaker 4: Grew up rich and good looking and and did whatever
Speaker 4: the hell he wanted his dad got out of trouble,
Speaker 4: and then his dad smoothed the way to his easy,
Speaker 4: cushy life where he continues to do with whatever the hell.
Speaker 4: I hate those kind of people, So, you know, but
Speaker 4: would he be good at getting the Justice Department right
Speaker 4: and outing it for having its stumb on the scale?
Speaker 1: I have no idea about that. Yeah, interesting question.
Speaker 3: Why some of my favorite people think he will be
Speaker 3: confirmed after this?
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Speaker 3: I also find interesting the arguments around the whole advice
Speaker 3: and consent thing and to what extent the Senate should
Speaker 3: determine whether somebody is good for the job and boot
Speaker 3: them or not, or the further down the other side
Speaker 3: of it being the president gets to choose his own
Speaker 3: advisors in cabinet, so that's we chose. So unless there's
Speaker 3: like a really overwhelming reason to not say okay to
Speaker 3: the person, you should say okay to the person, with
Speaker 3: some of the argument being if you start reading ag
Speaker 3: would be a different choice because that's a specific duties
Speaker 3: and powers, but a lot of the advisor's sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: If you reject them, he'll just get his vice from
Speaker 3: someone else who's not officially on the books, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 4: And given the nature of the cabinet these days, which
Speaker 4: is see you just execute what the president tells you
Speaker 4: to do, it's it's you know, he'll just get the
Speaker 4: next person.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I heard a couple of people making the
Speaker 3: argument how difficult it would be for these Republican senators
Speaker 3: to come out against Gates unless they can get enough
Speaker 3: people together, you know, before the hearing or you know,
Speaker 3: behind closed doors or whatever, say how many of us
Speaker 3: are We need like at least twenty of us so
Speaker 3: that we're not all you know, the individual targets. We
Speaker 3: need a bunch of us, because the MAGA army will
Speaker 3: come after these people so hard. Your career will be,
Speaker 3: if not over, certainly miserable for the rest of your term.
Speaker 3: Trump will make it miserable for you. You will get
Speaker 3: no you know, friends, tours of the White House or
Speaker 3: invited to any dinner or any help with fundraising or
Speaker 3: get on any of the big MAGA events or anything whatsoever.
Speaker 3: And then you'll be constant harassment, death threats, Twitter, bombs, out,
Speaker 3: doxing's that sort of stuff from the Trump crowd out there.
Speaker 1: And do you want to sign up for that?
Speaker 3: And the idea that there's enough people that don't want
Speaker 3: to take on that headache for the next two to
Speaker 3: four years of their Senate term six years that you
Speaker 3: would not vote no, which is why I am here
Speaker 3: to predict that it won't get to that point.
Speaker 4: They will caucus, they will talk, they will send word
Speaker 4: via Johnson or somebody to the White House. Hey dude,
Speaker 4: we got twenty defectors on Gates. Everybody else is looking solid,
Speaker 4: although I have some strong issues with Tulsea Gabbard, but
Speaker 4: more on that to come. You don't have the votes,
Speaker 4: You don't even have close to the votes, and then
Speaker 4: either the White House withdraws Gates or Gates to withdraws
Speaker 4: himself to avoid the beating he would take or the humiliation,
Speaker 4: although I think Gates is below or above humiliation.
Speaker 1: Depending on how you look at it. I certainly i Trump.
Speaker 3: You only get so much political capital, which drips away
Speaker 3: a little by little as you take on all these battles,
Speaker 3: and I just don't think spending it up man Gates,
Speaker 3: seems the best expenditure of your political capital to me.
Speaker 4: Right, final note, very quickly, because I believe the Justice
Speaker 4: Department does have a hell of a lot of straightening
Speaker 4: out that needs to be done. A lot of you
Speaker 4: Gate supporters, I agree with you on a lot of it,
Speaker 4: but it reminds me of the old fallacy, the fraud
Speaker 4: that something must be done, This is something, therefore, this
Speaker 4: must be done. Now what if this is a terrible idea?
Speaker 4: Someone needs to clean out the Justice Department. Gates is someone. Therefore,
Speaker 4: Gates must clean out.
Speaker 1: To No, I'm not going along with it. Find somebody better.
Speaker 1: We'll see. It'll be fun to watch. Stay here.
Speaker 3: Why did Marjorie Taylor Green just drop a potential bomb?
Speaker 4: And we'll get to that an hour three? Wow, she
Speaker 4: is a bomb checker. Hey, let's touch on a few
Speaker 4: short stories here. Bingo bango bongo as we call it.
Speaker 4: This is a Chicago resident. What of many at a
Speaker 4: recent city council meeting, y'all can bird.
Speaker 1: Dog me all?
Speaker 8: Y'all won't. But if y'all if this relationship over duty,
Speaker 8: then y'all don't serve the blue and you can smirk
Speaker 8: all you want.
Speaker 1: Mister Sims directing your attention towards me, Please.
Speaker 8: You're criminal wife who I got to address you.
Speaker 1: Affairs need to.
Speaker 8: Address you, DJ need to address you, and and hopefully
Speaker 8: Donald Trump will address you. Because you're gonna protect the
Speaker 8: undocumented while you're gonna allow for the citizens in Chicago
Speaker 8: to suffer under yo what three percent?
Speaker 1: See?
Speaker 8: Lopez cooked that three percent up a long time ago.
Speaker 8: Y'all called it a circuit breakup. Y'all been talked about it.
Speaker 8: Remember before you came here and gave that jovial speech.
Speaker 8: You need to be expected you over there.
Speaker 4: There are all sorts of Chicago onans of all races.
Speaker 1: Hey, wait a minute, I thought you're.
Speaker 4: Supposed to obey the Democrats orders for your particular race
Speaker 4: and vote the way they Anyway, lots and lots of
Speaker 4: black folks are pissed off and slamming Mayor Brandon. Let's
Speaker 4: go Brandon Johnson for proposing three hundred million dollars in
Speaker 4: property tax increases to cover the costs of dealing with
Speaker 4: the city's illegal immigrant problem. Unbelievable, And they're saying, quite correctly,
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, not only have you been neglecting our
Speaker 4: neighborhoods and our programs and the rest of it, but
Speaker 4: now you've got to tax us even more because we're
Speaker 4: a sanctuary city. What the hell is going on? People
Speaker 4: are waking up, love it, moving along. John Nolty wrote
Speaker 4: the following, and I just loved it, so I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna read part of it. Disney cancels another Star Wars
Speaker 4: movie The Groomers had slated December eighteenth of twenty six
Speaker 4: for some untitled Star Wars piece of crap.
Speaker 1: He actually uses the S word, but in a humiliating move.
Speaker 4: Because everything lucasfilmed Chief Kathleen Kennedy touches turns toick crap.
Speaker 4: Ice Age six has been slotted in its place. Our
Speaker 4: best guess is that this Star Wars piece of crap
Speaker 4: would have been a continuation of the Skywalker saga starring
Speaker 4: Daisy Ridley's Ray, a Mary Sue character absolutely no one
Speaker 4: cares about after defeating the Empire in a twenty nineteen
Speaker 4: Star Wars piece of crap called The Rise of Skywalker.
Speaker 4: This new piece of crap would apparently add Ray rebuilding
Speaker 4: the Jedi order, an order that almost certainly would have
Speaker 4: been made up of effeminate men, harry guys in high heels,
Speaker 4: dumb dads, pronouns, land acknowledgments, and homely lesbians.
Speaker 1: Not what means.
Speaker 3: That's hilarious, and a new Ice Age movie with Ray
Speaker 3: Romano fantastic.
Speaker 4: Let's say a lesbian in California happens to be Jewish
Speaker 4: says that her friends in the LGBTQ plus community are
Speaker 4: shunning her because she voted for Donald Trump due to
Speaker 4: his support for Israel against terrorism. She says, I definitely
Speaker 4: feel I'm on an island alone. The queer people have
Speaker 4: turned their backs on me, and I'm queer, so it's
Speaker 4: very painful. Remember queer as an all purpose term that
Speaker 4: just means in opposition to the status quo, doesn't mean
Speaker 4: anything at all. She mentions that her LGBTQ basketball team
Speaker 4: won't pass the ball to her. Wow, that's got to
Speaker 4: be a very bad feeling, and I'm sorry being treated
Speaker 4: that way. Could it be that the people around you
Speaker 4: are not good people? Mockery is are up to jack after?
Speaker 4: An infamous modern art piece of a banana duct tape
Speaker 4: to a wall has been valued at more than a
Speaker 4: million dollars. Oh I saw this simply titled Comedian by
Speaker 4: Italian artists something or other. The art piece went viral
Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen at Miami Beach, where three editions of
Speaker 4: it meaning three bananas was like six inches of duct
Speaker 4: tape I guess, sold for between one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: and one hundred and fifty grand each. Five years later,
Speaker 4: the piece has been estimated worth one and one point
Speaker 4: five million dollars for a sophobes auction.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of that. I really don't. Well,
Speaker 1: you got to.
Speaker 4: Stop at the grocery store, and the lows to get
Speaker 4: a banana and duct tape, So.
Speaker 1: Well, now you can probably get duct tape at the
Speaker 1: grocery store.
Speaker 3: Kind of, there's the age old argument of my kid
Speaker 3: could do that with some art, but this one your
Speaker 3: kid actually could do.
Speaker 4: We didn't get to police station under attack by monkeys,
Speaker 4: so many monkeys, armstrong and