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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he.
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Speaker 2: It is a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of.
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Speaker 2: And paint y'all.
Speaker 4: Today we're under are the tutelage of our general manager,
Speaker 4: Day two, and it's mighty rain.
Speaker 2: FEMA. What is it? What does it do? How's it funded?
Speaker 2: Why is it so slow? What's going on? That's a
Speaker 2: good question. That is a good question.
Speaker 4: How about that quote from the mayor of Tampa if
Speaker 4: you stay, you are going to die.
Speaker 2: That's the most stark.
Speaker 4: Warning I've ever heard from a public official. I appreciate
Speaker 4: the frankness. If you stay, you are going to die.
Speaker 4: And that's for That is something for FEMA to deal
Speaker 4: with coming this weekend. Yes, they're struggling already with the
Speaker 4: last hurricane. You got this Milton bearing down on Florida,
Speaker 4: which increased faster than any hurricane anybody's ever seen yesterday,
Speaker 4: which is something.
Speaker 2: You want to hear. A crazy statistic.
Speaker 4: Tampa has not been hammered by a major hurricane since
Speaker 4: nineteen twenty one. Really, I'll be darn Florida very long. Yes,
Speaker 4: it is very long. There are lots of different places
Speaker 4: hurricanes can hit. It hasn't hit Tampa, a peninsula, it is,
Speaker 4: so I was ready. It wasn't that long ago. I
Speaker 4: was calling Florida America's infected appendix, and then it should
Speaker 4: be sought off instead of float in the Atlantic. Right
Speaker 4: since Ron DeSantis, you know, restored sanity and good governance
Speaker 4: to Florida, it's like.
Speaker 2: The you know, these the most popular state in the
Speaker 2: country to move to, along with Texas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and held up as kind of an example of
Speaker 4: good governance. She got this hurricane, Milton, and I was
Speaker 4: listening to an expert this morning, like a real hurricane expert,
Speaker 4: just not like you know, your usual TV weather man
Speaker 4: who's really more of a personality.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not like you know, but.
Speaker 4: They're really good at pointing at a screen that actually
Speaker 4: doesn't exist. It's a green screen behind them and they're
Speaker 4: looking at a monitor ten feet over there.
Speaker 2: But they're very good at that.
Speaker 4: But the other one, it looks but the al Rokers
Speaker 4: of the world and whoever that hate hottie is on
Speaker 4: ABC or CBS that they have on all the time.
Speaker 4: They're they're they're they're because they're funny, or they look good,
Speaker 4: or they participate, you know, on the concert on Friday
Speaker 4: Day dance.
Speaker 2: That's that's what they're.
Speaker 4: But like a real meteorologist I was watching this morning,
Speaker 4: who you know, studies the weather for a living, said,
Speaker 4: the whole category thing is way overblown. That has very
Speaker 4: little to do with how much damage is going to
Speaker 4: be done. That's so okay. So now I know that's
Speaker 4: kind of like the stupid person's version of how you
Speaker 4: figure out how big a deal the storm is gonna make.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a factor. Yeah, it's oversimplified.
Speaker 4: Reminding everyone that Katrina, which was devastating to so much
Speaker 4: of the Gulf Coast, was a was a three when
Speaker 4: it landed. It's how strong was how much water it
Speaker 4: picked up? Blah blah blah, all kinds of different things
Speaker 4: that the size so Milton shrinking from a five to
Speaker 4: a three before it hits could actually make it way
Speaker 4: way way more damaging in terms of the water. And
Speaker 4: they think it might just be the you can't say
Speaker 4: perfect storm when you're talking about a storm. Obviously, No,
Speaker 4: all these things are coming together.
Speaker 2: It's almost the perfect storm.
Speaker 4: It seems like a bad idea, but it might hit
Speaker 4: with just the absolute maximum amount of water right in Tampa.
Speaker 4: And politically, not that I don't care about the Floridians,
Speaker 4: but you know whatever, I mean, I got problems to lots,
Speaker 4: lots of people have their bad things happening all over
Speaker 4: the place. But politically, this could end up being the
Speaker 4: story for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: And there's only four weeks left from today.
Speaker 4: Agreed both legitimately, and these things are always politicized, ask
Speaker 4: George W.
Speaker 2: Bush Ran. But yeah, it could be an enormous factor.
Speaker 4: Well, it's already obviously, especially in right wing media.
Speaker 2: It's it's never ending.
Speaker 4: The criticism of FEMA and the examples real or made
Speaker 4: up of the terrible things that are happening in North Carolina.
Speaker 4: And it's everywhere in right wing media, and Trump's Trump's
Speaker 4: hammering it because he's picked up on that that social media.
Speaker 4: It's just huge. So oh and we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 4: start helping out today or letting you help out by
Speaker 4: raising some money.
Speaker 2: So we've got more information on that coming up.
Speaker 4: I thought it would be a good idea to get
Speaker 4: involved in a local charity in North Carolina. Oh, my goodnes,
Speaker 4: that thousands and thousands and thousands of people whose lives
Speaker 4: have just been devastated. They don't have a tenth of
Speaker 4: the insurance to rebuild their lives. They got no food,
Speaker 4: they got no clothes, they got nothing. How did you
Speaker 4: think Kamala Harris did on sixty minutes last night? Oh?
Speaker 4: But but actually pretty well, really, some of it was crap,
Speaker 4: but it was fairly well presented crap.
Speaker 2: So you want Harris to win? That's interesting?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, okay, do you want pandering, I'll pander.
Speaker 4: She's an idiot, she didn't put two sentences together. She's stupid.
Speaker 4: She's a Marxist, weirdly, and then I believe most of that.
Speaker 2: Weirdly, Hey, you had not heard.
Speaker 4: Her mother's a Marxist too, Her late mother, her dad
Speaker 4: I knew, was a Marxist professor. Her mom is cited
Speaker 4: as a promising young Marxist in some like Big Time
Speaker 4: Middle twentieth century Marxists book, where he mentions his proteges meant,
Speaker 4: this is Kamala's mom. Well, I appreciated that Bill Whittaker
Speaker 4: asked some hard questions and definitely followed up on him.
Speaker 4: There were a couple of things he left out that
Speaker 4: I really wish you'd gotten into, but he didn't uh there.
Speaker 4: And there was one time where he characterized her answer
Speaker 4: and it's on a topic that she's floundered in the past,
Speaker 4: and I thought, wait a minute, why didn't you just
Speaker 4: play your answer instead of telling us what she said?
Speaker 4: And you're neatly edited Bill Whittaker esque, you know the language.
Speaker 2: In your mustachioed way right.
Speaker 4: I I've had this happen a couple of times where
Speaker 4: I watched it live last night and thought, man, in
Speaker 4: a couple of spots, she really sounded like the got
Speaker 4: no answers Kamala Harris. And then some other times she
Speaker 4: sounds good, But then I reheard it today. Sometimes when
Speaker 4: I hear it the second time, I don't know why.
Speaker 4: I thought she sounded way worse her stuff on the
Speaker 4: on the immigration in the border when he asked her,
Speaker 4: you know, to be fair, missus President Vice President, you
Speaker 4: haven't answered the question, and why didn't you do it?
Speaker 2: Was it a bad idea to let so many people in?
Speaker 4: And her answer is just typical Kamala Harris nonsense. She
Speaker 4: talks nonsense in a way I've never heard any other
Speaker 4: politician talk nonsense. It's a common thing for politicians to
Speaker 4: just say nonsensical things or just kill time or filibuster
Speaker 4: or whatever. But God, she's got a unique way about
Speaker 4: it like nobody else.
Speaker 2: And she is just profoundly annoying.
Speaker 5: What is that her tone of voice and how she
Speaker 5: nods her head yes, oh, yes, as she's delivering her
Speaker 5: crap as if you see, you see, No, I don't see.
Speaker 4: You're not saying anything. The immigration stuff was terrible. I
Speaker 4: was just trying to take it in through the eyes
Speaker 4: of one of the few, the proud, the undecided voters
Speaker 4: trying to figure out if she could be president or not.
Speaker 4: And again it was it was a bee to me. Uh,
Speaker 4: with some some serious swings and misses. I realize a
Speaker 4: person is predisposed to this. So if you tend to
Speaker 4: like her politics, half the country not be annoyed by
Speaker 4: by by watching her, right, I mean? The New York
Speaker 4: Times poll just came out as I was driving to
Speaker 4: work today. It's one of the biggest polls they had
Speaker 4: put in the field yet and she's increased her lead
Speaker 4: somewhat nationally, so about half the country must be okay
Speaker 4: watching her. I just am so annoyed by her very
Speaker 4: presence that it's difficult for me to listen to. I
Speaker 4: just think she comes off as a complete moron. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and a phony and facial expressions, the nodding, the tone
Speaker 4: of voices to all of them. But beyond that, what
Speaker 4: you just said her her condescending. How dare you ask me?
Speaker 4: How do you not understand what I'm saying? Isn't what
Speaker 4: I'm saying brilliant, It's just all I couldn't find her
Speaker 4: more annoying. She is more annoying to me than maybe
Speaker 4: any politician ever. I dislike her so much. I never
Speaker 4: disliked Barack Obama. I didn't this policies, but I didn't
Speaker 4: dislike him. His mere presence her, there's something about her
Speaker 4: that's just Maybe it's because of women and women me
Speaker 4: in charge of things now. I don't I don't know
Speaker 4: what is wow a shocking. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 4: but there's something about her talking that just makes me, oh,
Speaker 4: I can't handle it.
Speaker 2: Obama was unbearably smug. Yeah, you you have that problem
Speaker 2: with him. Yeah, I don't know why, but it didn't turn.
Speaker 4: It didn't make me angry the way her just speaking
Speaker 4: makes me angry.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, and I.
Speaker 4: Did a poor sheb of explaining. Is now crystallizing in
Speaker 4: my head what makes me so insane about her nodding.
Speaker 4: She will say something like, we have a country. Mm hmmm,
Speaker 4: mm hmmm, and this country has states. Hmmm, right, yes,
Speaker 4: we have thing know that. She says something nodding, like
Speaker 4: you've laid the Ten Commandments, some great pearl of wisdom,
Speaker 4: honest lady.
Speaker 2: She lays out a phrase that's so banal. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can't do it.
Speaker 4: You can't even believe that she said it. But then
Speaker 4: let's it hang there, like, huh, take a load of
Speaker 4: that ass.
Speaker 2: Huh. Small businesses the heartbeat of our nation.
Speaker 3: Lord, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened
Speaker 3: by what has been.
Speaker 4: So we'll play straight out of Marxism, straight out of Marxism.
Speaker 2: That that sentence.
Speaker 4: So there was that, and then there was some of
Speaker 4: the other things were things that I just hate that
Speaker 4: they work. She dropped the well, I'm gonna go after
Speaker 4: the billionaires who pay lower tax than the average worker
Speaker 4: that load of crap. I mean, it's just crap, but
Speaker 4: it pulls well and it works. So you know, what
Speaker 4: can I do about that?
Speaker 2: She's pleased with that. I don't. I'll bet Bill Whittaker
Speaker 2: walked out of there not liking her.
Speaker 4: I was thinking, he's like, he's hating her right now,
Speaker 4: but she interrupted him a couple of times. Let me finish, Bill,
Speaker 4: Nobody was thinking, you're not even answering the freaking question.
Speaker 4: Don't give me your let me finish. When you finish,
Speaker 4: you don't say anything, mister.
Speaker 3: Vice president, I'm speaking, yeah, speaking anyway.
Speaker 4: So we got that so grating and a bunch of
Speaker 4: other stuff, and once again I was overlooked for the
Speaker 4: Nobel Prize for physics. I got this whole slinky going
Speaker 4: down the stairs thing that I'm really proud of every year,
Speaker 4: overlooked but snubbed. It's because you're a white man. The
Speaker 4: actual winners are worth talking about. It could be in
Speaker 4: people look back on it in twenty years as devastating, horrifying, terrifying.
Speaker 4: Why didn't we see it coming Nobel Prize in physics.
Speaker 4: But let's start the show. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Speaker 4: Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, October eighth, the
Speaker 4: year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: We are m strong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 4: Let's begin then officially according to FCC rules and regulations,
Speaker 4: far better funded than FEMA, apparently at mark.
Speaker 2: How are you going to pay for it?
Speaker 3: Well, one of the things I'm going to make sure
Speaker 3: that the richest among us who can afford it, pay
Speaker 3: their fair share in taxes.
Speaker 2: That old thing.
Speaker 4: Top one percent earners pay forty eight percent of in
Speaker 4: tax I wish one person would ever ask this question,
Speaker 4: because I think it's the It's the one I always ask. Anyways,
Speaker 4: if if paying half the taxes in the country by
Speaker 4: the top one percent is not their fair share, what
Speaker 4: would be? What do you think the proper share would
Speaker 4: be for one percent of the country to pay?
Speaker 2: They're paying half of.
Speaker 4: Everybody's taxes while half the country plays pay zero.
Speaker 2: So, uh, what should it be?
Speaker 4: Put a number on it, Tell me what the number
Speaker 4: should be for what the one percent pay?
Speaker 2: Should they be paying ninety percent of all of her
Speaker 2: taxes or what do you think it ought to be?
Speaker 4: My final comment, and this is what Chaff's my ask.
Speaker 4: They will trot to billionaires out there, the hedge fund
Speaker 4: guys and their tax situations complicated. We don't have time
Speaker 4: to get into it, but citing that is those guys
Speaker 4: is the reason the rich should pay their fair share
Speaker 4: than anybody who's finally, after decades of toil, gotten a
Speaker 4: little money in the bank and gotten a little success
Speaker 4: at their job or whatever. Maybe you're in your forty
Speaker 4: r fifties, your your sixties, you get hammered because the
Speaker 4: rationale applied to the billionaire hedge fund guy. Well, and
Speaker 4: the biggest problem to me is always if you have
Speaker 4: a tiny percentage paying most of the taxes, then nobody
Speaker 4: else needs to care about tax policy. So they don't
Speaker 4: care about all of these or spending policy, spending policies,
Speaker 4: all these wasteful programs, and whether they work or.
Speaker 2: Not, you don't care. It's very frustrating. We got mail
Speaker 2: bag on the way and a bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a big day. Stay here. What do I know?
Speaker 2: We got lots of stuff to catch you up on.
Speaker 4: I hope you can stick around today.
Speaker 2: Indeed a lot of good stuff. Here's your freedom of being.
Speaker 2: Quote of the day.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna paraphrase Huxley just because I came across a
Speaker 4: great job.
Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson quote that's very similar.
Speaker 4: Huxley says something like the way to be happy is
Speaker 4: not to pursue happiness.
Speaker 2: It's you will find it in the pursuit of other things.
Speaker 4: Don't be focused on happiness, be focused on the things
Speaker 4: that need to be done. Jefferson, I love this. Do
Speaker 4: you want to know who you are? Don't ask act
Speaker 4: action will delineate and define you. It's interesting, interesting, thought
Speaker 4: less naval gazing more getting out there and doing something
Speaker 4: hum mailbag like dropping us a note. Mail bag at
Speaker 4: armstrong a geddy dot com. Don't sit in stew don't
Speaker 4: shout at your radio and or listening device, drop us
Speaker 4: a note. David from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina wants to
Speaker 4: know guys who still uses the word knucklehead. Is it
Speaker 4: the same people who still say malarkey.
Speaker 2: And I'm a knucklehead at times? This idea is a
Speaker 2: bunch of malarkey old guys.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Well, we're the same age as Tim
Speaker 4: Walls and uh malarkeye. I wouldn't say it unless I
Speaker 4: was just trying to be funny. Ironically, Yeah, knucklehead maybe.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Brian in border Town, South Dakota writes, Love Gaz, I'll
Speaker 4: keep short and sweet, thank you, Brian. On the topic
Speaker 4: of the border bill and Trump rejecting in how that's
Speaker 4: proof he wanted to have issue not solved the issue,
Speaker 4: he said, the fact that it was presented as a
Speaker 4: border security bill is misleading and disgusting. The bill proposed
Speaker 4: giving sixty billion dollars to Ukraine, but only twenty billion
Speaker 4: for border security improvements.
Speaker 2: Those are separate issues. Why are they putting them together?
Speaker 4: Just leading to taxpayers and a nice talking point for
Speaker 4: the Dems to fall back on, Not to mention that
Speaker 4: a number of the provisions of it.
Speaker 2: Were pretty pretty bad.
Speaker 4: There were some Republicans that were in favor of it, indeed,
Speaker 4: but a lot weren't.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: The follow up I wish Whitaker would have hit her
Speaker 4: with last night on that is you and your boss
Speaker 4: Joe Biden. You guys controlled the House, the Senate, and
Speaker 4: the presidency for a couple of years. Why didn't you
Speaker 4: do what you wanted to do with the border?
Speaker 2: Then? Right right?
Speaker 4: Scott writes, I just honored the victims of October seventh
Speaker 4: slaughter by yelling shalom mother efforts at a group of
Speaker 4: terrorist sympathizers in my little foothill leftist town in northern California.
Speaker 4: It's more satisfying than I could have ever imagined. Wow,
Speaker 4: best wishes Scott with the artificial ORDA. Thanks Scott was
Speaker 4: the artificial ORDA. That's a good sign off. It's a
Speaker 4: good moniker. Yeah, good morning, guys. I'm a high school
Speaker 4: teacher at a charter school in California. Love my job
Speaker 4: despite the garbage the state expects. I want to share
Speaker 4: a story that happened in one of my classes yesterday.
Speaker 4: As is tradition in our homeroom, one student reads a
Speaker 4: list mostly for laughs of it's the national day of whatever.
Speaker 4: We've done that ourselves. After doing so, one of my
Speaker 4: Muslim students stated that today also marked the one year
Speaker 4: anniversary of the beginning of the genocide against Palestine.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I literally stared blankly at this individual for a solid
Speaker 4: ten seconds in silence, along with the other students in
Speaker 4: the class, utter disbelief. How the rewriting of history is
Speaker 4: happening in just one year's time.
Speaker 2: Of the event. Wow.
Speaker 4: If I had not been so completely caught off guard,
Speaker 4: I would have replied, I think you mean one year today.
Speaker 4: One year ago today was when Israel was attacked by terrorists,
Speaker 4: with civilian men, women and children being savagely attacked, murdered, raped,
Speaker 4: and taken hostile.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't have known how.
Speaker 4: To react either. One you're caught off guard too in
Speaker 4: a classroom. How's the how's everybody going to react? And
Speaker 4: that would have been a tough situation, and Alnonymous signs
Speaker 4: off with I'll follow up with an update if this
Speaker 4: topic comes up again, and if I end up losing
Speaker 4: my job, right exactly, you got to think about losing
Speaker 4: your job starting to fight in the classroom. Wo wow,
Speaker 4: it's an odd It's almost a Heckler's veto thing. The
Speaker 4: most aggressive person you can't answer them because that might
Speaker 4: offend them words their aggression. Our job is so much
Speaker 4: different than it used to be in so many different ways,
Speaker 4: because this job is basically you take in a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of information. I was gonna say news, but it
Speaker 4: isn't always news. This is information of all different kinds,
Speaker 4: and then we try to figure out what we think
Speaker 4: is the most interesting to our audience and then give
Speaker 4: it to you. But there used to be just like
Speaker 4: you had the morning newspaper and two two cable channels
Speaker 4: or something, and and now got you know, picked up
Speaker 4: a magazine on the way into the station. Now you
Speaker 4: have infinite sources, some of them are crap or partially
Speaker 4: crap or whatever, and it's it's just so hard to
Speaker 4: figure out, and we have to guess what you know
Speaker 4: or don't know to a certain extent, because everybody gets
Speaker 4: their news from different sources now. But it seems like
Speaker 4: in conservative leaning and I don't even know if media
Speaker 4: is the right word, because you get through stuff through
Speaker 4: people forward you emails and tiktoks, you see in a
Speaker 4: Twitter thing that gets reposted on Facebook, and all that
Speaker 4: sort of stuff, in addition to maybe you watch the
Speaker 4: evening News or you saw Hannity last night or whatever.
Speaker 4: So anyway, it definitely feels like to me that on
Speaker 4: the right, it is a huge and constant story right
Speaker 4: now about the FEMA response to the Hurricane Helene. If
Speaker 4: you just read the New York Times or watch the
Speaker 4: evening News, you wouldn't have that sense at all, not
Speaker 4: even a little bit, really right, that people are just
Speaker 4: so incensed about this. So that's why the whole conversation
Speaker 4: that we talked about quite a bit yesterday, and we
Speaker 4: got into our big fungible discussion about female money and
Speaker 4: what Mayorcis has been saying. The guy who runs a
Speaker 4: department Homeland Security last week and he said we were
Speaker 4: out of money, when like two weeks early he said,
Speaker 4: we have plenty of money.
Speaker 2: This is what we do.
Speaker 4: We prepare for hurricanes and we're ready for the hurricane season.
Speaker 4: Then they get their first hurricane, it says we're out
Speaker 4: of money. And the response from a lot of people
Speaker 4: on the right was, well, what about all the money
Speaker 4: that you seem to have for illegals or all kinds
Speaker 4: of different things or Ukraine. From a certain point of view,
Speaker 4: it seems there is unlimited money available immediately at any
Speaker 4: any time it's needed for various causes, and then when
Speaker 4: Americans are faced with the worst, all of a sudden, sorry,
Speaker 4: we just wear out of money. Or if you want
Speaker 4: to bail out college students, even though it's a different
Speaker 4: you find it somewhere, you figure out a way to
Speaker 4: find it, or you just print more right anyway, So
Speaker 4: Peter Doocy got into that yesterday in the White House
Speaker 4: briefing room with KJP the spokesman, Worth pointing out, I
Speaker 4: think the two actually hate each other at this point.
Speaker 4: It used to be a bit of a front of
Speaker 4: me thing and uneasy chucklate. Now they're both short timers
Speaker 4: at this point, and they hate each other. I'll tell
Speaker 4: you what I think. I think she. You're right, I
Speaker 4: think she. I think she dislikes him because she finds
Speaker 4: him annoying and doesn't like his politics.
Speaker 2: I think he thinks she's stupid.
Speaker 4: And lying to him to his face and trying to
Speaker 4: make him look stupid. Anyway, we'll roll roll this and
Speaker 4: we might interject it now and then this.
Speaker 6: Issue of funding.
Speaker 7: The administration has money to send to Lebanon without Congress
Speaker 7: coming back.
Speaker 6: The Congress does have to come back to approve money
Speaker 6: to send to people in North Line. Do I have
Speaker 6: that right.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm going to be very clear about. The President,
Speaker 1: the vice president has had a robust hole of government
Speaker 1: response to this. Hundreds of millions of dollars I said
Speaker 1: it at the top, more than two hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: that we have directly put towards survivors here for disaster help.
Speaker 1: And that's because of this President's commitment to make sure
Speaker 1: that we are there for communities that are impacted. We
Speaker 1: take this very seriously. Again, we take this very seriously.
Speaker 1: And before before the hurricane hit, we prepositions more than
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred federal folks on the ground to help, and
Speaker 1: so we have made sure that every state has gotten
Speaker 1: their storm requested emergency declaration. They requested it and we
Speaker 1: made sure they received it. We've taken this very seriously,
Speaker 1: more than two hundred million dollars that we have provided
Speaker 1: to the impacted areas. But instead people want to do disinformation,
Speaker 1: misinformation which is dangerous. Which is dangerous because then that
Speaker 1: when when folks on the ground hear that, they may
Speaker 1: not want to ask for the help that they need,
Speaker 1: that is there for them, That is there for them.
Speaker 1: That's our focus here.
Speaker 7: President Biden is fond of saying, show me your budget
Speaker 7: and I will tell you what you value. If he's
Speaker 7: got money for people in Lebanon right now without commerce
Speaker 7: having to come back, what does it say about his values.
Speaker 6: There's not enough money right now for people in North Carolina.
Speaker 6: That's not misinformation.
Speaker 1: Wait, no, that is your whole your whole premise of
Speaker 1: the question is misinformation, sir?
Speaker 2: What you don't.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, it's misinformation.
Speaker 6: I just mentioned.
Speaker 1: I just mentioned. I just mentioned to you that we
Speaker 1: provided more than two hundred million dollars two folks who
Speaker 1: are impacted in the area. And I just shared with
Speaker 1: you that people are deciding not to people are deciding
Speaker 1: not to not.
Speaker 6: The Congress that there's not enough money to help people.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the SBA disaster loan.
Speaker 6: That's money for people in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: And that's important and people in North Carolina need that.
Speaker 1: Cong Wait, this is nothing new, Peter, This is nothing new.
Speaker 1: Congress comes together, they provide money millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: For disaster relief.
Speaker 1: We're asking them to do the doubt that they have
Speaker 1: been doing for some time.
Speaker 6: And jeffries, the president's letter is not misinformation. Would you agree?
Speaker 1: No, the way you're asking me the question is misinformation.
Speaker 1: There is money that we are allocating to the impacted areas,
Speaker 1: and there's money there to help people who truly need it.
Speaker 1: There are survivors who need the funding, who need the funding,
Speaker 1: and it's there, and it's there.
Speaker 6: You don't like misinformation. I said that.
Speaker 1: I actually said, we have the money available to help
Speaker 1: survivors of Hurricane Helene and also Hurricane Milton.
Speaker 2: Now we're now.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a shortfall, right because we don't
Speaker 1: know how bad it's Hurricane Milton is going to be,
Speaker 1: and so we're going to need additional funding.
Speaker 2: We're going to need additional funding.
Speaker 6: Exactly what I said.
Speaker 1: What you're asking is why Congress needs to come back
Speaker 1: and do their job. That's what you're asking me. Congress
Speaker 1: needs to come back and do their job and provide
Speaker 1: it extra assistance, extra funding to disaster relief fund. That's
Speaker 1: what Congress needs to do, and we're going to continue
Speaker 1: to urge that. You may not want that, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: That's what this president wants, and that's what the Vice
Speaker 1: president wants.
Speaker 6: Thanks everybody.
Speaker 2: That's what I just asked you about, is what's there
Speaker 2: wasn't enough funding.
Speaker 4: You know, I've got to I'm battered into exhaustion by
Speaker 4: the complexity of the federal budget. You know, budgeting mechanisms
Speaker 4: and how money flows from here to there. It's it's
Speaker 4: pre designated or it's got to be authorized by Congress
Speaker 4: or whatever. I just well, so Joe here, here's behind
Speaker 4: the scenes. Joe said, it's more complicated than you think.
Speaker 4: In our pre show meeting, which I don't doubt. But
Speaker 4: what I don't is the Secretary of Homeland Security came
Speaker 4: out last week and said they don't have enough money.
Speaker 4: He just flat out said that they don't have enough
Speaker 4: money to deal with another hurricane?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 4: And they've they've spent up their budget. But why can't
Speaker 4: that be taken care of in like two minutes? Because
Speaker 4: you need Congress to authorize more money? Why currently? That's
Speaker 4: why I'm asking the same questions Peters. Well, for everything else,
Speaker 4: you figure out a way. We have three branches of government, Jack,
Speaker 4: but that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter for and I'm
Speaker 4: for giving money to Ukraine, but it doesn't seem to
Speaker 4: matter for all kinds of other things.
Speaker 2: They just figure out a way to make it happen.
Speaker 4: Student loans, they just find they'd find some one of
Speaker 4: eight million different laws or agencies or something to do
Speaker 4: it right right, which I think the problem though, is
Speaker 4: on that end, as opposed to the Congress needs to
Speaker 4: authorize more money end of it. Although certainly there are
Speaker 4: mechanisms for emergency funding, I would guess, but the first
Speaker 4: half of that or the second can't remember the second
Speaker 4: half where they create money out of thin air to
Speaker 4: do whatever the executive branch decides it ought to do
Speaker 4: in defiance of both Congress and the courts, is just grotesque.
Speaker 4: Overreached by the executive branch. It's kingly and we see
Speaker 4: that over and over again, so that when anybody says, hey,
Speaker 4: Congress needs to authorize more money because we've had more
Speaker 4: disasters than usual, it seems arbitrary and unfair. This seems
Speaker 4: to happen in government a lot, probably on both sides,
Speaker 4: if I were to think about it for five minutes.
Speaker 4: But you you if you don't really It's exactly what
Speaker 4: Peter Deocey was saying there about it shows your priorities.
Speaker 4: If it's something you really want to do, you make
Speaker 4: it happen. You don't follow the rules, you don't worry
Speaker 4: about the Supreme Court, you don't worry about Congress, you
Speaker 4: don't worry about anything.
Speaker 2: You make it happen.
Speaker 4: But if you don't really want to do something, then
Speaker 4: you fall back on the wall. There are three branches
Speaker 4: of government, and it's Congress's role to deal with this
Speaker 4: and deal with that, or the spring blah blah orror,
Speaker 4: and or if you are prostituting the executive branch to
Speaker 4: buy votes. Then you do it the fast and loose way.
Speaker 4: You find that money through some you know, immoral, unconstitutional
Speaker 4: means or just created out of thin air or whatever.
Speaker 4: And as you pointed out, for many many years, when
Speaker 4: a state budget, for instance, is struggling because of the
Speaker 4: bad governance and they're trying to rationalize raising taxes, they
Speaker 4: will always fall back on teachers and firefighters and nurses
Speaker 4: or whatever. And in the same way, I think the
Speaker 4: Democrats say, hey, natural disaster. We see we said we
Speaker 4: need more money for the natural disaster. We're not going
Speaker 4: to say for the corrupt freaking teachers, unions or longshoremen
Speaker 4: or whatever are you know, food, feeding, clothing and medicating
Speaker 4: eleven million illegal immigrants, because people will revolt if we
Speaker 4: say we need higher taxes for that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I didn't even finish my own thought, which was
Speaker 4: going to be probably the correct way to look at
Speaker 4: all this is they is uh, this stuff Peter Deucey
Speaker 4: was talking about, they shouldn't be doing Whenever you need
Speaker 4: money for this or that, you come up with it.
Speaker 2: But they shouldn't be doing that, so it wouldn't be a.
Speaker 4: We should cut back on doing that going around Congress
Speaker 4: and everything like that, as opposed to more often going
Speaker 4: around Congress. But given the fact that people are their
Speaker 4: houses are underwater and femas claiming they don't have enough money,
Speaker 4: now is not really the time to straighten that out.
Speaker 4: I suppose yeah, And I guess my bottom line because
Speaker 4: of the complexity again of federal budgeting and funding that
Speaker 4: sort of thing, and it's I mean, it's the complexity
Speaker 4: is such that the Speaker pro tem of the Senate
Speaker 4: only has half an idea of how it works. The
Speaker 4: bottom line is it's just impossible to take to watch
Speaker 4: when Americans are an acute, severe need for all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, Well, you got a budget to money, and
Speaker 4: Congress is going it holds the persprange. Wait a minute,
Speaker 4: I don't care if I don't understand federal budgeting. That
Speaker 4: wasn't a factor when you were buying votes with your
Speaker 4: unconstitutional student loan forgiveness.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's really tough to do.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: In reality, there's not a single dollar available to bail
Speaker 4: out college students in their loans, not dollar. But they've
Speaker 4: come up with what is it, how many hundreds of
Speaker 4: millions of dollars billions millions of dollars rather somewhere. So yeah,
Speaker 4: if it's your priority, and like you said, for votes,
Speaker 4: you seem to magically be able to figure it out.
Speaker 4: They have a political problem with this, though, A good
Speaker 4: chunk of the country thinks they're not prioritizing.
Speaker 2: Victims of the hurricane.
Speaker 4: And well, and if I was going to crank up
Speaker 4: a narrative, I'd say, isn't it suspicious that all of
Speaker 4: those virtually all of those counties that are sober leaguered
Speaker 4: are read they will vote Trump. One interesting angle will
Speaker 4: be if if this sort of thing happens in floor,
Speaker 4: if DeSantis actually calls it.
Speaker 2: Out, because he might. Yeah.
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Speaker 8: NBC News Hurricane Milton Live updates. Florida is bracing for
Speaker 8: a direct hit from a monster storm.
Speaker 2: Man. My niece sent me a picture.
Speaker 4: She's in Orlando for some college internship program doing something
Speaker 4: with Disney, I guess anyway, she was in line for
Speaker 4: gas for hours last night in the Orlando area and
Speaker 4: then they ran out of gas. So all the thousands
Speaker 4: of vehicles that had been waiting in line for hours
Speaker 4: and hours and hours went to a different gas station
Speaker 4: and waited.
Speaker 2: Line for hours and hours and hours. Getting very hush.
Speaker 4: But I just saw a thing where and that's before
Speaker 4: you sit in traffic for hours and hours and hours
Speaker 4: trying to inch your way out of you know, that
Speaker 4: part of Florida. I just saw some meteorologists are saying
Speaker 4: there needs to be a category six for hurricanes to
Speaker 4: encompass what Milton is doing.
Speaker 2: Right now, which is interesting.
Speaker 4: It's going to push a hell of a lot of
Speaker 4: water on shore for various reasons.
Speaker 2: That's that's the key, that's the real danger in this one.
Speaker 2: From a National Review.
Speaker 8: Hundreds of anti Israel protesters demonstrate at Columbia University on
Speaker 8: anniversary of October seventh.
Speaker 2: Nuts.
Speaker 4: These kids have been raised being and you can indoctrinate
Speaker 4: a child into anything.
Speaker 2: They're incredibly malleable.
Speaker 4: And we have, under our watch, allowed the Academia of
Speaker 4: America from K through grad school to indoctrinate these kids
Speaker 4: into radical anti colonial Marxist theory their whole lives, of
Speaker 4: all the things, of all the causes you could get
Speaker 4: involved in to give your energy.
Speaker 2: Two, you choose that one up with his Lombists. Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2: From Fox News.
Speaker 8: President Biden promotes Press Secretary Kareem John Pierre to a
Speaker 8: new top roll in promotion to senior advisor for the
Speaker 8: President yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, she's a good looking woman. The
Speaker 4: way she was dressed yesterday. She puts a lot of
Speaker 4: effort into her outfits and everything like that hum secretary
Speaker 4: of garbled Nuns. She doesn't swing my way, so it
Speaker 4: doesn't do me a good to flatterer.
Speaker 8: From the New York Post, Diddies a List pals are
Speaker 8: quietly paying off victims to avoid being publicly named.
Speaker 4: Dah oh rampant behind the scenes. Nune on disclosure agreements. Hello,
Speaker 4: would that'd be a tough one too. We should talk
Speaker 4: about that later. If you're a victim, do you get
Speaker 4: involved in the trial, have everybody know exactly what happened
Speaker 4: to you, relive the pain, or you just take a
Speaker 4: giant check and move on with your life.
Speaker 2: I can see I can see it well.
Speaker 4: And what if I'm an actor with a good reputation, musician, whatever,
Speaker 4: And I was at one of those free coughs I
Speaker 4: like wandered past and I'm like, oh, I don't want
Speaker 4: any part of that, And somebody saw me, and now
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Speaker 4: I'm thinking, oh boy, right.
Speaker 8: From brightbart dot com, Ben Affleck and Son stranded on
Speaker 8: highway after their electric truck dies.
Speaker 2: Wow, damn the luck.
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Speaker 8: And finally the Babylon Bee Hamas clarifies they meant to
Speaker 8: start the type of war where they can go do
Speaker 8: whatever they want and no one gets to fight back.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right. Wow beautifully said, that is exactly right. God,
Speaker 4: those militant college students, how long is it going to
Speaker 4: take to deprogram them?
Speaker 2: Can't?
Speaker 4: I don't think you can think they're lost. We lost
Speaker 4: a generation or two.
Speaker 2: So prison camp are strong and getty