WEBVTT - I'm Battered Into Exhaustion 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.880 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.880 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:21.720 Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and Jettie and he. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:25.200 Arms Raw. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.280 Live from the studio ce Sor. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.519 It is a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.320 The Armstrong Ngetty Communications Compound. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:43.440 And paint y'all. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.800 Today we're under are the tutelage of our general manager, 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.400 Day two, and it's mighty rain. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.760 FEMA. What is it? What does it do? How's it funded? 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.640 Why is it so slow? What's going on? That's a 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.400 good question. That is a good question. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.480 How about that quote from the mayor of Tampa if 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.520 you stay, you are going to die. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:06.040 That's the most stark. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.800 Warning I've ever heard from a public official. I appreciate 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.600 the frankness. If you stay, you are going to die. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.200 And that's for That is something for FEMA to deal 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:22.760 with coming this weekend. Yes, they're struggling already with the 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.959 last hurricane. You got this Milton bearing down on Florida, 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:31.959 which increased faster than any hurricane anybody's ever seen yesterday, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:33.840 which is something. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.760 You want to hear. A crazy statistic. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.800 Tampa has not been hammered by a major hurricane since 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:45.360 nineteen twenty one. Really, I'll be darn Florida very long. Yes, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.560 it is very long. There are lots of different places 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.760 hurricanes can hit. It hasn't hit Tampa, a peninsula, it is, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.120 so I was ready. It wasn't that long ago. I 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:01.200 was calling Florida America's infected appendix, and then it should 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.520 be sought off instead of float in the Atlantic. Right 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.800 since Ron DeSantis, you know, restored sanity and good governance 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:08.680 to Florida, it's like. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.359 The you know, these the most popular state in the 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:14.919 country to move to, along with Texas. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.720 Yeah, and held up as kind of an example of 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.919 good governance. She got this hurricane, Milton, and I was 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.040 listening to an expert this morning, like a real hurricane expert, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.200 just not like you know, your usual TV weather man 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.200 who's really more of a personality. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.280 Yeah, they're not like you know, but. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.640 They're really good at pointing at a screen that actually 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.840 doesn't exist. It's a green screen behind them and they're 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.639 looking at a monitor ten feet over there. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:42.919 But they're very good at that. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.920 But the other one, it looks but the al Rokers 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.760 of the world and whoever that hate hottie is on 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.040 ABC or CBS that they have on all the time. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.639 They're they're they're they're because they're funny, or they look good, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.680 or they participate, you know, on the concert on Friday 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:55.240 Day dance. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:56.440 That's that's what they're. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.680 But like a real meteorologist I was watching this morning, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.720 who you know, studies the weather for a living, said, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.720 the whole category thing is way overblown. That has very 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.520 little to do with how much damage is going to 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.200 be done. That's so okay. So now I know that's 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.600 kind of like the stupid person's version of how you 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.360 figure out how big a deal the storm is gonna make. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.120 Well, it's a factor. Yeah, it's oversimplified. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:24.880 Reminding everyone that Katrina, which was devastating to so much 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.560 of the Gulf Coast, was a was a three when 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.919 it landed. It's how strong was how much water it 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.000 picked up? Blah blah blah, all kinds of different things 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.760 that the size so Milton shrinking from a five to 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.760 a three before it hits could actually make it way 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.720 way way more damaging in terms of the water. And 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.200 they think it might just be the you can't say 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.880 perfect storm when you're talking about a storm. Obviously, No, 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:47.920 all these things are coming together. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.200 It's almost the perfect storm. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.560 It seems like a bad idea, but it might hit 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.200 with just the absolute maximum amount of water right in Tampa. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.760 And politically, not that I don't care about the Floridians, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.760 but you know whatever, I mean, I got problems to lots, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.600 lots of people have their bad things happening all over 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.600 the place. But politically, this could end up being the 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.040 story for the next couple of weeks. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:13.880 And there's only four weeks left from today. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:20.920 Agreed both legitimately, and these things are always politicized, ask 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:21.640 George W. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.560 Bush Ran. But yeah, it could be an enormous factor. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.719 Well, it's already obviously, especially in right wing media. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.719 It's it's never ending. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:36.680 The criticism of FEMA and the examples real or made 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.560 up of the terrible things that are happening in North Carolina. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.640 And it's everywhere in right wing media, and Trump's Trump's 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.920 hammering it because he's picked up on that that social media. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.680 It's just huge. So oh and we're gonna we're gonna 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.960 start helping out today or letting you help out by 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:51.720 raising some money. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.440 So we've got more information on that coming up. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:55.640 I thought it would be a good idea to get 0:04:55.680 --> 0:05:00.000 involved in a local charity in North Carolina. Oh, my goodnes, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.320 that thousands and thousands and thousands of people whose lives 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.240 have just been devastated. They don't have a tenth of 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.640 the insurance to rebuild their lives. They got no food, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.919 they got no clothes, they got nothing. How did you 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.360 think Kamala Harris did on sixty minutes last night? Oh? 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:24.000 But but actually pretty well, really, some of it was crap, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.679 but it was fairly well presented crap. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.560 So you want Harris to win? That's interesting? 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:33.600 Okay, all right, okay, do you want pandering, I'll pander. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.520 She's an idiot, she didn't put two sentences together. She's stupid. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.839 She's a Marxist, weirdly, and then I believe most of that. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.480 Weirdly, Hey, you had not heard. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.800 Her mother's a Marxist too, Her late mother, her dad 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.039 I knew, was a Marxist professor. Her mom is cited 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.239 as a promising young Marxist in some like Big Time 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.960 Middle twentieth century Marxists book, where he mentions his proteges meant, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.000 this is Kamala's mom. Well, I appreciated that Bill Whittaker 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.520 asked some hard questions and definitely followed up on him. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.080 There were a couple of things he left out that 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.559 I really wish you'd gotten into, but he didn't uh there. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.479 And there was one time where he characterized her answer 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.680 and it's on a topic that she's floundered in the past, 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.039 and I thought, wait a minute, why didn't you just 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.800 play your answer instead of telling us what she said? 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:30.400 And you're neatly edited Bill Whittaker esque, you know the language. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.679 In your mustachioed way right. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.040 I I've had this happen a couple of times where 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.280 I watched it live last night and thought, man, in 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.839 a couple of spots, she really sounded like the got 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.240 no answers Kamala Harris. And then some other times she 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.960 sounds good, But then I reheard it today. Sometimes when 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:46.680 I hear it the second time, I don't know why. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.920 I thought she sounded way worse her stuff on the 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.840 on the immigration in the border when he asked her, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.400 you know, to be fair, missus President Vice President, you 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.680 haven't answered the question, and why didn't you do it? 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.720 Was it a bad idea to let so many people in? 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:06.240 And her answer is just typical Kamala Harris nonsense. She 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.720 talks nonsense in a way I've never heard any other 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.000 politician talk nonsense. It's a common thing for politicians to 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.000 just say nonsensical things or just kill time or filibuster 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.600 or whatever. But God, she's got a unique way about 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.120 it like nobody else. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.160 And she is just profoundly annoying. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.920 What is that her tone of voice and how she 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.640 nods her head yes, oh, yes, as she's delivering her 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.400 crap as if you see, you see, No, I don't see. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.960 You're not saying anything. The immigration stuff was terrible. I 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.920 was just trying to take it in through the eyes 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.040 of one of the few, the proud, the undecided voters 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.520 trying to figure out if she could be president or not. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.200 And again it was it was a bee to me. Uh, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:55.040 with some some serious swings and misses. I realize a 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.720 person is predisposed to this. So if you tend to 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.160 like her politics, half the country not be annoyed by 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.640 by by watching her, right, I mean? The New York 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.120 Times poll just came out as I was driving to 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.240 work today. It's one of the biggest polls they had 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.520 put in the field yet and she's increased her lead 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.640 somewhat nationally, so about half the country must be okay 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.080 watching her. I just am so annoyed by her very 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.080 presence that it's difficult for me to listen to. I 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.840 just think she comes off as a complete moron. Oh yeah, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.079 and a phony and facial expressions, the nodding, the tone 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.079 of voices to all of them. But beyond that, what 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.240 you just said her her condescending. How dare you ask me? 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.960 How do you not understand what I'm saying? Isn't what 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.360 I'm saying brilliant, It's just all I couldn't find her 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.480 more annoying. She is more annoying to me than maybe 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.600 any politician ever. I dislike her so much. I never 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.360 disliked Barack Obama. I didn't this policies, but I didn't 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.040 dislike him. His mere presence her, there's something about her 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.240 that's just Maybe it's because of women and women me 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.280 in charge of things now. I don't I don't know 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.280 what is wow a shocking. I don't know what it is, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.960 but there's something about her talking that just makes me, oh, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:10.800 I can't handle it. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.200 Obama was unbearably smug. Yeah, you you have that problem 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.000 with him. Yeah, I don't know why, but it didn't turn. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.920 It didn't make me angry the way her just speaking 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:21.840 makes me angry. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.959 I'm thinking, and I. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.320 Did a poor sheb of explaining. Is now crystallizing in 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.400 my head what makes me so insane about her nodding. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.439 She will say something like, we have a country. Mm hmmm, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:39.160 mm hmmm, and this country has states. Hmmm, right, yes, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.720 we have thing know that. She says something nodding, like 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.520 you've laid the Ten Commandments, some great pearl of wisdom, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:47.320 honest lady. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.839 She lays out a phrase that's so banal. I mean, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:51.760 you can't do it. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.240 You can't even believe that she said it. But then 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.920 let's it hang there, like, huh, take a load of 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:57.400 that ass. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.400 Huh. Small businesses the heartbeat of our nation. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.080 Lord, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:09.840 by what has been. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.080 So we'll play straight out of Marxism, straight out of Marxism. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:13.920 That that sentence. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.800 So there was that, and then there was some of 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.720 the other things were things that I just hate that 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.040 they work. She dropped the well, I'm gonna go after 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.080 the billionaires who pay lower tax than the average worker 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.800 that load of crap. I mean, it's just crap, but 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.760 it pulls well and it works. So you know, what 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:32.920 can I do about that? 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.840 She's pleased with that. I don't. I'll bet Bill Whittaker 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.160 walked out of there not liking her. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.400 I was thinking, he's like, he's hating her right now, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.600 but she interrupted him a couple of times. Let me finish, Bill, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.199 Nobody was thinking, you're not even answering the freaking question. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.880 Don't give me your let me finish. When you finish, 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.360 you don't say anything, mister. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.840 Vice president, I'm speaking, yeah, speaking anyway. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.240 So we got that so grating and a bunch of 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.040 other stuff, and once again I was overlooked for the 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.600 Nobel Prize for physics. I got this whole slinky going 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:11.079 down the stairs thing that I'm really proud of every year, 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.520 overlooked but snubbed. It's because you're a white man. The 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.440 actual winners are worth talking about. It could be in 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:22.480 people look back on it in twenty years as devastating, horrifying, terrifying. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.760 Why didn't we see it coming Nobel Prize in physics. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.679 But let's start the show. Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.679 Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, October eighth, the 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:31.600 year twenty twenty four. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.920 We are m strong in getting we approve of this program. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.920 Let's begin then officially according to FCC rules and regulations, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.560 far better funded than FEMA, apparently at mark. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.560 How are you going to pay for it? 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.319 Well, one of the things I'm going to make sure 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.360 that the richest among us who can afford it, pay 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.000 their fair share in taxes. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:55.720 That old thing. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.760 Top one percent earners pay forty eight percent of in 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.680 tax I wish one person would ever ask this question, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.360 because I think it's the It's the one I always ask. Anyways, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.400 if if paying half the taxes in the country by 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.920 the top one percent is not their fair share, what 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.320 would be? What do you think the proper share would 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:16.880 be for one percent of the country to pay? 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:18.000 They're paying half of. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.040 Everybody's taxes while half the country plays pay zero. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.960 So, uh, what should it be? 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.800 Put a number on it, Tell me what the number 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.360 should be for what the one percent pay? 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.360 Should they be paying ninety percent of all of her 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.160 taxes or what do you think it ought to be? 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.959 My final comment, and this is what Chaff's my ask. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.600 They will trot to billionaires out there, the hedge fund 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.240 guys and their tax situations complicated. We don't have time 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.720 to get into it, but citing that is those guys 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.120 is the reason the rich should pay their fair share 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:51.040 than anybody who's finally, after decades of toil, gotten a 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.440 little money in the bank and gotten a little success 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.520 at their job or whatever. Maybe you're in your forty 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:01.200 r fifties, your your sixties, you get hammered because the 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.600 rationale applied to the billionaire hedge fund guy. Well, and 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.120 the biggest problem to me is always if you have 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.760 a tiny percentage paying most of the taxes, then nobody 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.120 else needs to care about tax policy. So they don't 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.680 care about all of these or spending policy, spending policies, 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.280 all these wasteful programs, and whether they work or. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.760 Not, you don't care. It's very frustrating. We got mail 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.079 bag on the way and a bunch of other stuff. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:30.840 Gonna be a big day. Stay here. What do I know? 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:32.920 We got lots of stuff to catch you up on. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.000 I hope you can stick around today. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.360 Indeed a lot of good stuff. Here's your freedom of being. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:39.080 Quote of the day. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.640 I'm gonna paraphrase Huxley just because I came across a 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:42.040 great job. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.440 Thomas Jefferson quote that's very similar. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.880 Huxley says something like the way to be happy is 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.119 not to pursue happiness. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.560 It's you will find it in the pursuit of other things. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.960 Don't be focused on happiness, be focused on the things 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.760 that need to be done. Jefferson, I love this. Do 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.560 you want to know who you are? Don't ask act 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:06.280 action will delineate and define you. It's interesting, interesting, thought 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.680 less naval gazing more getting out there and doing something 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:14.280 hum mailbag like dropping us a note. Mail bag at 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.560 armstrong a geddy dot com. Don't sit in stew don't 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:22.080 shout at your radio and or listening device, drop us 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.320 a note. David from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina wants to 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:30.560 know guys who still uses the word knucklehead. Is it 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.080 the same people who still say malarkey. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.200 And I'm a knucklehead at times? This idea is a 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.800 bunch of malarkey old guys. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.760 I don't know, Well, we're the same age as Tim 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.600 Walls and uh malarkeye. I wouldn't say it unless I 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:52.240 was just trying to be funny. Ironically, Yeah, knucklehead maybe. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:54.240 Uh. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.240 Brian in border Town, South Dakota writes, Love Gaz, I'll 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.000 keep short and sweet, thank you, Brian. On the topic 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.920 of the border bill and Trump rejecting in how that's 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.920 proof he wanted to have issue not solved the issue, 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.000 he said, the fact that it was presented as a 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.000 border security bill is misleading and disgusting. The bill proposed 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.880 giving sixty billion dollars to Ukraine, but only twenty billion 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.359 for border security improvements. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.640 Those are separate issues. Why are they putting them together? 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.320 Just leading to taxpayers and a nice talking point for 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.480 the Dems to fall back on, Not to mention that 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.040 a number of the provisions of it. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.360 Were pretty pretty bad. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.800 There were some Republicans that were in favor of it, indeed, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:33.840 but a lot weren't. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:34.080 Well. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.760 The follow up I wish Whitaker would have hit her 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.560 with last night on that is you and your boss 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.280 Joe Biden. You guys controlled the House, the Senate, and 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.800 the presidency for a couple of years. Why didn't you 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.440 do what you wanted to do with the border? 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.240 Then? Right right? 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.480 Scott writes, I just honored the victims of October seventh 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.440 slaughter by yelling shalom mother efforts at a group of 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.560 terrorist sympathizers in my little foothill leftist town in northern California. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.360 It's more satisfying than I could have ever imagined. Wow, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:08.600 best wishes Scott with the artificial ORDA. Thanks Scott was 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.160 the artificial ORDA. That's a good sign off. It's a 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.240 good moniker. Yeah, good morning, guys. I'm a high school 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.320 teacher at a charter school in California. Love my job 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.800 despite the garbage the state expects. I want to share 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:20.800 a story that happened in one of my classes yesterday. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.640 As is tradition in our homeroom, one student reads a 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.600 list mostly for laughs of it's the national day of whatever. 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.440 We've done that ourselves. After doing so, one of my 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.160 Muslim students stated that today also marked the one year 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.080 anniversary of the beginning of the genocide against Palestine. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:35.960 Oh my god. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.240 I literally stared blankly at this individual for a solid 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.640 ten seconds in silence, along with the other students in 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.720 the class, utter disbelief. How the rewriting of history is 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.120 happening in just one year's time. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.640 Of the event. Wow. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.280 If I had not been so completely caught off guard, 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.440 I would have replied, I think you mean one year today. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.400 One year ago today was when Israel was attacked by terrorists, 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.160 with civilian men, women and children being savagely attacked, murdered, raped, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:16:59.920 and taken hostile. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:00.760 Wouldn't have known how. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.000 To react either. One you're caught off guard too in 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.840 a classroom. How's the how's everybody going to react? And 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.879 that would have been a tough situation, and Alnonymous signs 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.520 off with I'll follow up with an update if this 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.800 topic comes up again, and if I end up losing 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.040 my job, right exactly, you got to think about losing 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.920 your job starting to fight in the classroom. Wo wow, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.080 it's an odd It's almost a Heckler's veto thing. The 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.360 most aggressive person you can't answer them because that might 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:33.280 offend them words their aggression. Our job is so much 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:38.159 different than it used to be in so many different ways, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.760 because this job is basically you take in a whole 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.560 bunch of information. I was gonna say news, but it 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.800 isn't always news. This is information of all different kinds, 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.000 and then we try to figure out what we think 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.520 is the most interesting to our audience and then give 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.399 it to you. But there used to be just like 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.560 you had the morning newspaper and two two cable channels 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.159 or something, and and now got you know, picked up 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.080 a magazine on the way into the station. Now you 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.320 have infinite sources, some of them are crap or partially 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.480 crap or whatever, and it's it's just so hard to 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:14.159 figure out, and we have to guess what you know 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:18.040 or don't know to a certain extent, because everybody gets 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.359 their news from different sources now. But it seems like 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.040 in conservative leaning and I don't even know if media 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.600 is the right word, because you get through stuff through 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.359 people forward you emails and tiktoks, you see in a 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.960 Twitter thing that gets reposted on Facebook, and all that 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.199 sort of stuff, in addition to maybe you watch the 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.359 evening News or you saw Hannity last night or whatever. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.480 So anyway, it definitely feels like to me that on 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:52.120 the right, it is a huge and constant story right 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:56.239 now about the FEMA response to the Hurricane Helene. If 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.960 you just read the New York Times or watch the 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.520 evening News, you wouldn't have that sense at all, not 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.600 even a little bit, really right, that people are just 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.600 so incensed about this. So that's why the whole conversation 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.280 that we talked about quite a bit yesterday, and we 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:17.000 got into our big fungible discussion about female money and 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.480 what Mayorcis has been saying. The guy who runs a 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.120 department Homeland Security last week and he said we were 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.160 out of money, when like two weeks early he said, 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:25.040 we have plenty of money. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:25.719 This is what we do. 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.240 We prepare for hurricanes and we're ready for the hurricane season. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.120 Then they get their first hurricane, it says we're out 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.399 of money. And the response from a lot of people 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.200 on the right was, well, what about all the money 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.800 that you seem to have for illegals or all kinds 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.120 of different things or Ukraine. From a certain point of view, 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:47.399 it seems there is unlimited money available immediately at any 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.560 any time it's needed for various causes, and then when 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:56.080 Americans are faced with the worst, all of a sudden, sorry, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.080 we just wear out of money. Or if you want 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.280 to bail out college students, even though it's a different 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.359 you find it somewhere, you figure out a way to 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.479 find it, or you just print more right anyway, So 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.000 Peter Doocy got into that yesterday in the White House 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:14.199 briefing room with KJP the spokesman, Worth pointing out, I 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.520 think the two actually hate each other at this point. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:18.040 It used to be a bit of a front of 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.600 me thing and uneasy chucklate. Now they're both short timers 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.239 at this point, and they hate each other. I'll tell 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.560 you what I think. I think she. You're right, I 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.960