Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and he.
Speaker 2: Armsrong, who live the Drum studio see see Senor.
Speaker 1: It is a dimly lit room deeper than the bowels
Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty communications compounding. Hey, y'all today, Monday, today, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: thirteen days from the election, we are under the tutelage
Speaker 1: of our general manager, against my better judgment, Adolf Hitler. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, I'm not a fan of Hitler. That's a
Speaker 1: general manager.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I've got this break, This awful, awful thought is there's
Speaker 1: a heavily Hitler involved story that's banging around hard and
Speaker 1: lefty media right now. If you were to have told
Speaker 1: old Dolf in the in the bunker, how long ago
Speaker 1: is that eighty years ago? Hey, By the way, folks
Speaker 1: are going to be throwing your name around in the
Speaker 1: American presidential election eighty years from now. He just said, wait, what, why?
Speaker 1: What's the context? And yet here we are. We will
Speaker 1: get into that conversation at some point under protest from me.
Speaker 1: I'm like at the un when you're a FIGI I
Speaker 1: put up your flag that shows you're there under protest.
Speaker 1: I'm under protest on this topic. Oh boy, the biggest
Speaker 1: news of the day. When I got up this morning
Speaker 1: and reached over and grabbed my phone and saw what
Speaker 1: the you know, headlines had come over the in overnight,
Speaker 1: the headline that it's been confirmed that North Korea has
Speaker 1: sent troops to Russia. I thought, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: got a f up on the TV and see what
Speaker 1: the smart people are saying about that. I haven't found
Speaker 1: anything about that. That is quite the story. Uh yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's got the potential to be explosive literally, well, very
Speaker 1: very explosive. This is exactly what our administration said and
Speaker 1: what Lloyd Austin, the Secretary Defense said. This is a
Speaker 1: major development, but not worth talking about because we're thirteen
Speaker 1: days from a presidential election. You know, when we get
Speaker 1: obsessed with our presidential elections fits in with what you
Speaker 1: were talking about yesterday, and you know, just decline and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, and that we get so
Speaker 1: inward looking and everything will be fine no matter what. Really,
Speaker 1: just the TV show that is the presidential Elections my
Speaker 1: favorite TV show. So yeah, one guy's whole buddy called
Speaker 1: him a bad name. That's the lead. Well, it's the
Speaker 1: lead if you're Joe Getty, it's not the lead if
Speaker 1: you're we're not as serious. Wow, okay, well let's have
Speaker 1: it out here we go, let's see put your dukes up.
Speaker 1: I'm ready. So I let me hit you with these
Speaker 1: headlines that I got yesterday that will lead us into
Speaker 1: this I think. So I was watching. I hope it's
Speaker 1: about the Menendez brothers. And you're not gonna waste any
Speaker 1: more of my time with that whole Ukraine, Russia, North Korea,
Speaker 1: the Menendez brothers, well, which we have to talk about too,
Speaker 1: keeps coming up in my real life and continues on,
Speaker 1: and you assure me they're not getting out all right?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that that is certainly my my closely held belief. Okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, we do have to talk about that again later.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's a Marxist jackass in charge to the
Speaker 1: prosecutor's office in La so who knows that's there. There's
Speaker 1: the Armstrong in Getty angle that nobody knows. The guy
Speaker 1: lets out all kinds of criminals because he wants to
Speaker 1: break down our judicial system that's being left out of
Speaker 1: the conversation one. That's the important part. That's a good angle.
Speaker 1: So I think the best political show in America if
Speaker 1: you like politics, is what Mark Alpern does every morning
Speaker 1: and night, where he compiles the information he's got from
Speaker 1: both campaigns on the record and off the record, and
Speaker 1: in a non partisan way, shares it with people. And
Speaker 1: I think it's just absolutely so damned interesting. But here
Speaker 1: among the things that he said yesterday, some of which
Speaker 1: have emerged today, he said in his show last night,
Speaker 1: The Atlantic has a story that is going to be
Speaker 1: it's the current October surprise. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: the October surprise, but it's an October surprise anyway. Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Goldberg at The Atlantic and a bunch of the stuff
Speaker 1: that's coming out of there, in addition with the New
Speaker 1: York Times blah blah blah, that's what we're going to
Speaker 1: be talking about in a little bit. Trump's old friends
Speaker 1: bad mouthing him, so they held onto this stuff until
Speaker 1: thirteen days out for some reason. I assume, you know,
Speaker 1: to be an October surprise. But here's the other stuff.
Speaker 1: Halprin also said he said he's been pitched a story that,
Speaker 1: if true, would end Trump's campaign, and he's not the
Speaker 1: kind of guy that throws that around lightly at all.
Speaker 1: He knows how Trump is weathered many many a storm
Speaker 1: and all kinds of things. People claim, are you know,
Speaker 1: going to do Trump in? Don't And he said he's
Speaker 1: been pitched. Well, not only that, but you got some
Speaker 1: of the smartest people on the planet spending a billion
Speaker 1: dollars to accomplish that very aim to end his presidency.
Speaker 1: So if this is that blockbustere bring it, well, my
Speaker 1: guess is it's a crap story because he said he's
Speaker 1: been pitched this story for weeks. He said other people
Speaker 1: are being pitched too. He didn't he didn't give any
Speaker 1: more information on that. So my guess would be it's
Speaker 1: a completely crap story. But so I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: let's all be prepared for a really crap story to
Speaker 1: land at some point. Remember the uh, the whole Steele
Speaker 1: dossier thing was pitched to all kinds of media outlets
Speaker 1: and they all said, no, we're not going to run
Speaker 1: with this. It's an embarrassment. But then finally was it
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed or whoever did and then the door was opened
Speaker 1: and everybody jumped on it and it became well, the
Speaker 1: biggest story in America for years and years for years.
Speaker 1: It perverted the functioning of the Trump admenute for a
Speaker 1: long time. So whatever this story is, and it's not
Speaker 1: the current stuff today, whatever this story is that's so
Speaker 1: big a would end as Trump campaign, somebody's gonna run
Speaker 1: with it a buzzfeetish level of outfit. And then the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, in New York Times and CBS News will
Speaker 1: have the cover to say there are reports that because
Speaker 1: they didn't break the story, and the Steele dossier obviously
Speaker 1: is such a great example of how low you can go,
Speaker 1: because I mean, that was a load of rubbish, right,
Speaker 1: And so with the overall point being that this last
Speaker 1: two weeks is going to be very ugly, very very ugly,
Speaker 1: and I think that has begun today. The good news
Speaker 1: if you're on the anti Harris or pro Trump side
Speaker 1: of things is everyone agrees if early voting holds where
Speaker 1: it is, and Democrats are trying to spin it in
Speaker 1: all kinds of ways, but if early voting percentages hold
Speaker 1: up the way it is, we will know on election
Speaker 1: Day before they even close the polls that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is going to be the next president in the United States,
Speaker 1: it is that overwhelmingly in favor of the Republican candidate currently. Interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah really thought for focus, yeah, i'd say, And for
Speaker 1: that reason and others, a lot of the big time
Speaker 1: hedge fund and money managers on Wall Street are getting
Speaker 1: heavily behind trades that will work out if Trump is elected. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well you are putting there many heavily in that direction.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Another piece of information on that side is Democratic strategists
Speaker 1: saying they're looking, at what point do they start going
Speaker 1: with the look, Trump's going to win. We need to
Speaker 1: get out there. Trump's going to win unless you and
Speaker 1: they believe that starting this weekend, that will be the message,
Speaker 1: like led by Barack Obama, Trump's winning. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: been calling themselves with the underdog, but they haven't been
Speaker 1: flat out saying we're going to lose unless we do this.
Speaker 1: And then the other shoe that's going to drop soon
Speaker 1: is Democratic congress people starting to make the argument because
Speaker 1: this is happened in past elections, when it was clear
Speaker 1: Bob Dole was going to lose, when it was clear
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney was going to lose. I mean, sometimes it's
Speaker 1: clear the Congress people and senators are going to start
Speaker 1: making the argument, you need to vote for us to
Speaker 1: be a check on Donald Trump. Get out there and
Speaker 1: vote for us. Donald Trump's gonna be president the House
Speaker 1: and the Democrats need to take back the House to
Speaker 1: be a check And you'll start seeing that argument in
Speaker 1: the next thirteen days. We're already seeing the step before that.
Speaker 2: The uh.
Speaker 1: In several of the swing states, congress people and senators
Speaker 1: are running ads saying, hey, I worked with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I I wrote this law that Donald Trump passed. We've
Speaker 1: worked together in the past vliatively right, which is damn
Speaker 1: near what you're suggesting. Yeah, that's that's that. And that's
Speaker 1: an interesting tell, isn't it. I mean, that's a oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to lose, so I better start looking out
Speaker 1: for my own bacon. Well, all I know is I'm
Speaker 1: going to stuck up on Wiener Schnitzel and buy Volkswagen
Speaker 1: stock if you get what I mean. Geez, what with that?
Speaker 1: That's the narrative. I feel like that's snarrative. Himpler, I
Speaker 1: feel like we got to get into that. To the
Speaker 1: fin of Hitler, feel like we got Hec's on the record.
Speaker 1: I feel like we got to get into that at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour when we got time to
Speaker 1: expound on the whole topic. But let's start the show
Speaker 1: officially or we will be in trouble. I mean, when
Speaker 1: the fascists takeover, they're not going to put up with
Speaker 1: shows starting late. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, October the twenty third, the year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Life will not be a born twenty four.
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Speaker 4: Nearly nine million people have already cast their ballot in
Speaker 4: the general election through early voting. That story again, nearly
Speaker 4: nine million people are asking the candidates to please stop texting.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, well said. It's actually up to about twenty
Speaker 1: million now nationwide people have cast their ballots already, which
Speaker 1: I just the mainstream media presents that with just as
Speaker 1: smile on their face, like that's obviously good news, not
Speaker 1: recognizing of course that I think about half the country cringes.
Speaker 1: I cringe just any talk about the early voting because
Speaker 1: it just it just seems like a big giant heap
Speaker 1: and helping of one opportunity for fraud and two people
Speaker 1: not believing in the vote, and it's just not good. Right.
Speaker 1: And when NBC breaks the story that Trump has a
Speaker 1: secret prison of children being drained of their youthful blood
Speaker 1: already voted, I don't think that would even end his campaign.
Speaker 1: Surely it would have burned it, but yeah, god darn it.
Speaker 1: So there is a bit of an October surprise out
Speaker 1: today with some quotes from former staff members of Trump
Speaker 1: that are getting all the coverage on the left side
Speaker 1: of media, and we'll get into that. It is going
Speaker 1: to be a long thirteen days. How about the idea
Speaker 1: that if the early vote as an indication of where
Speaker 1: the things are going, it's going to be easy to
Speaker 1: call the election On election night, It'll be like the
Speaker 1: old days where okay, and the polls have closed and
Speaker 1: Trump has won. So how is America going to react?
Speaker 1: How is half of America going to react? What? Not
Speaker 1: only he won, but he's like already one. I think
Speaker 1: it will be horrifarious. There will be absolute moments of
Speaker 1: hilarious unintentional comedy of the Katy Perry's crying Share is
Speaker 1: crying variety, and there will also be angry, self righteous
Speaker 1: lunatics who will and this exists across the aisle, folks, angry,
Speaker 1: self righteous lunatics who will feel that lawlessness, ugliness, violence,
Speaker 1: criminality in general are justified. And there's way too sicka
Speaker 1: vein of that running through American society and politics right
Speaker 1: mat now. In my opinion, do we have Obama rapping
Speaker 1: to lose yourself with Eminem on stage last night. That's
Speaker 1: a cool thing to get to do. I gotta admit,
Speaker 1: if I was on stage with Eminem and a microphone,
Speaker 1: I'd like to join in. That'd be a cool moment.
Speaker 1: But Barack Obama did because celebrities are a thing on
Speaker 1: the democratic side. Springsteens Springsteen's getting out with Kamala for
Speaker 1: the weekend. There you go, huh. I'd get up there
Speaker 1: and trade lines with Kid Rock because he's on the
Speaker 1: right side of the aisle, him and Ted Nugent. I'd
Speaker 1: roundhouse kick somebody with Chuck Norris. Yeah, how does mailbag look?
Speaker 1: It's it's good. It' stop provoking cool. A lot of
Speaker 1: really interesting stuff on the way. Our text line is
Speaker 1: four one, five, two nine five KFTC. I put too
Speaker 1: much cream in my coffee today and I feel nauseous
Speaker 1: as smart. I feel like the New York Times changed
Speaker 1: their headline, which happens fairly regularly in the modern world.
Speaker 1: You're not crazy if you like go back to an
Speaker 1: article online and it looks different. They day update stuff constantly,
Speaker 1: which is annoying. But the new headline is US says
Speaker 1: North Korean troops are in Russia to aid fight against Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I don't think the headline said that earlier, that the
Speaker 1: North Koreans are going to be involved in fighting Ukraine.
Speaker 1: That's a heck of a thing for us to say
Speaker 1: in a heck of a development. But more on that later. Indeed,
Speaker 1: here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Once again, history in general only informs us what bad
Speaker 1: government is. It's interesting history, Like so many stories that
Speaker 1: are told are mostly about bad things happening, and unluckily
Speaker 1: we are not warned away by any of those stories
Speaker 1: because we learned nothing from history. Yeah, that was an
Speaker 1: interesting observation from TJ mailbag. That's terrific, So let's get
Speaker 1: to it. Drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 1: Egeeddy dot com. Chuck Wrights to Joe and Katie. When
Speaker 1: Joe hits his last day of punching in late will
Speaker 1: you be hiring anyone soon? Two companies I work for
Speaker 1: allowed twelve days of coming in late day thirteen Audio
Speaker 1: Studio C. First of all, Chuck, it's Jack, Jack who
Speaker 1: is late, Not Joe but Joe. Me, Joe punctual, captain punctual,
Speaker 1: they call me. But that keeps the street. But that
Speaker 1: keeps the streak going, which is weird. People always get
Speaker 1: us backwards. Yes, Oh, I know it's odd, isn't it
Speaker 1: interesting time everyday listeners do? Oh yeah, people that listen
Speaker 1: every single day all the time. People that know me
Speaker 1: sometimes talk about things Joe did and his family and
Speaker 1: how his kids are doing college or whatever. Interested. That
Speaker 1: was just Jack talking jet anyway? Oh what was I
Speaker 1: gonna say? Uh, someday we got to explain why you're
Speaker 1: late sometimes. Okay, you're a bad person anyway, No, I
Speaker 1: can't I take long. If you've ever noticed, I'm not
Speaker 1: the least bit rofled because I know why he's late.
Speaker 1: It's because he's cramming as hard as he can to
Speaker 1: laminit he has to jet out of his house anyway.
Speaker 1: Most mostly plus your love of racketball. You like to
Speaker 1: work in a game in the morning. Does anybody play
Speaker 1: racketball anymore? I do hot yoga? Yeah yeah. Moving along, Jack.
Speaker 1: Jack's story about his Apple iPhone experience preventing his fragilized
Speaker 1: from semi nudity was hilarious. Here's my Apple problem. I'm
Speaker 1: a thirty two year old woman, writes them, and my
Speaker 1: phone regularly asked me. At the end of my work day,
Speaker 1: when it connects to my car, would you like to
Speaker 1: text Mom and let her know you're on your way?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Apple, No, I would not. That's hilarious. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: It is. This is two notes in a row, practically
Speaker 1: back to back from cal Unicornians. I opened my official
Speaker 1: ballot tonight, writes Dot. It contained one copy of page
Speaker 1: one of two that's the President, etc. And two copies
Speaker 1: of page two the propositions. For some reason, I told
Speaker 1: my husband he opened his envelope. His contained one copy
Speaker 1: of page one, but no copy of page two. Should
Speaker 1: I be worried? I've already got very little confidence in
Speaker 1: California's elections. And then we get this from John in
Speaker 1: San Diego. I hate that we're automatically mailed to ballot
Speaker 1: in California. My house received six ballots. One was a
Speaker 1: neighbors delivered to the wrong address, two were for people
Speaker 1: who moved out of the state years ago, two were
Speaker 1: for my father and I. You have the same name
Speaker 1: and address, and we're not sure which belongs to whom.
Speaker 1: If we fill them out mixed up and the signatures
Speaker 1: don't match, neither of our votes will count even if
Speaker 1: they check. It's outrageous that this is our system. The
Speaker 1: opportunity for fraud mistakes are just too high. That's intentional.
Speaker 1: A ego voted person, probably not a preferably not on
Speaker 1: a machine. He says, Yeah, I've received five at my
Speaker 1: house because I'm in a rental where a bunch of
Speaker 1: people used to live there. So I've received mine and
Speaker 1: five others ballots six total. We got an email from
Speaker 1: a text from somebody in Nevada who had all kinds
Speaker 1: of ballot weirdness coming to their house. They've received two
Speaker 1: and they don't know why. I got this from Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Thank you for uh speaking up for women who oppose
Speaker 1: males in their sports and spaces. You got to try
Speaker 1: to stop me, And Steve says, hey, why don't San
Speaker 1: Jose states opposing teams just try out their men's teams
Speaker 1: say they all identify as women. I would love somebody
Speaker 1: to do that. I think that would bring this madness
Speaker 1: to an end. We got some election stuff we got
Speaker 1: to tell you about. There's a lot going on. It's
Speaker 1: going to be an ugly couple of weeks. Armstrong Andy
Speaker 1: more than once that.
Speaker 3: You know the Hitler did some good things too, And
Speaker 3: of course, if you know history again, I think he's
Speaker 3: lacking in that. But if you know what his you
Speaker 3: know him it was all about, uh, you'd be pretty
Speaker 3: hard to make an argument that you did anything good.
Speaker 1: That is General John Kelly, former chief staff for Donald J. Trump,
Speaker 1: who is out saying some very critical things about Trump.
Speaker 1: Do we happa? Do we have Yester? Absolutely? Absolutely? Why
Speaker 1: do we have to do this? I have two thoughts.
Speaker 1: I mean I have more than two thoughts, but I
Speaker 1: have two thoughts that I'd like to share at this moment.
Speaker 1: I have only two thoughts. I am hungry and I
Speaker 1: want to pleasure myself. Those are my two thoughts. Food good,
Speaker 1: fire bad food plus fire very good.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: My two thoughts again from the opening, if you were
Speaker 1: to tell Hitler and the bunker. You're going to be
Speaker 1: regularly referenced in the year twenty twenty four in the
Speaker 1: American election. He would say, what's the context? I mean,
Speaker 1: what are they saying? I mean, come on, secondly, I
Speaker 1: reject that idiotic notion expressed by General Kelly there, who
Speaker 1: I'm sure is a fine explain it. We got to
Speaker 1: go this direction. I think we have to before you explain,
Speaker 1: explain the I would have voted to not even bring
Speaker 1: this up. Yes, I made Now bring it well. I
Speaker 1: think it's an interesting conversation. So I flip on all
Speaker 1: my news sources today, as I always do. Read a
Speaker 1: bunch of different things, watch a bunch of different things.
Speaker 1: MSNBC is going wall to wall with the stuff you're
Speaker 1: about to hear of in I'm gonna use my finger
Speaker 1: quotes here Trump admiring Hitler, as is CNN, and some
Speaker 1: of the alphabet and the and the takeaway being it's
Speaker 1: just another example in the ongoing narrative that Trump wants
Speaker 1: to be a fascist. Trump is a fascist, wants to
Speaker 1: be a fascist, will rule like a fascist, wants to
Speaker 1: be a dictator, and that we all needed. Well, they've
Speaker 1: been you'd thrown around the f word a lot today,
Speaker 1: and I would like them to all define that for
Speaker 1: the first For first of all, what do you mean
Speaker 1: by fascism? Since nobody can define that term. But and
Speaker 1: I think it was in nineteen forty six that George
Speaker 1: Orwell said, Yeah, the word fascism has become meaningless. It
Speaker 1: now just means things I don't like. But then I
Speaker 1: took in some of my right leaning media like Fox
Speaker 1: and other stuff like that, and there's mention of the
Speaker 1: story whatsoever. And I thought, is our job as a
Speaker 1: show to alert people in our audience to the scandal
Speaker 1: of the day being peddled by MSNBC. Are we doing
Speaker 1: MSNBC's work for them by putting that out there? Are
Speaker 1: you better off not hearing this crab? And I don't
Speaker 1: actually know the answer to that question, But we do
Speaker 1: that all the time. Yeah, we do that every day,
Speaker 1: multiple times per day. And retreating from that outraged tone
Speaker 1: of voice that I was adopting, you know, some are
Speaker 1: worthy of it and some or not. It's just a
Speaker 1: question of whether it's an interesting discussion or not. As
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. Yeah, I feel like is there
Speaker 1: something there? I feel like this reaches into the territory
Speaker 1: of like taking the bait. Basically, it's like when Trump
Speaker 1: took the bait on people leave your rally early and
Speaker 1: he lost his mind, or Kamala took the bait on
Speaker 1: he's at McDonald's in their campaign and their side lost
Speaker 1: their mind. I don't I don't like to be jerked
Speaker 1: around by dumb what I think are dumb stories. You
Speaker 1: think a highly I can't remember what his ultimate rank was,
Speaker 1: John Kelly, but he's a four star general. There you go,
Speaker 1: and he was Trump's chief of staff, saying the guys
Speaker 1: had not seen he shouldn't be in the White House.
Speaker 1: You don't think that's a story worthy of taking on. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's because, hey, you think that's junk. He's
Speaker 1: said it so many times. It's just so revisiting this again.
Speaker 1: It's the major story in the major news media. We're
Speaker 1: taking it on courageously. Well one of us is, anyway,
Speaker 1: is it the major story in the major news media.
Speaker 1: I've only seen it on the cable news channels, which
Speaker 1: what they care about does not count. But if it's
Speaker 1: if it's making it too like, I don't even know
Speaker 1: what you call this kind of media, ABC, CBS, NBC
Speaker 1: as opposed to the cable news channel. That's a different
Speaker 1: level to me. But anyway, that's that's okay. Now now
Speaker 1: we're going at it hammer and tongs. That is, there
Speaker 1: is a dude on TikTok who like features really attractive shoelaces,
Speaker 1: who has five thousand times the following of ABC News.
Speaker 1: They're they're they're Yesterday's news. There your your granny's doily's
Speaker 1: they're nothing. I'm just speaking of different journalistic standards that
Speaker 1: I believe still exist barely because they're they're none on
Speaker 1: your cable news channels. Zero. You're all in for one
Speaker 1: of that. You're all in for one side or the other.
Speaker 1: You might as well be paid outlet for whichever campaign. Uh,
Speaker 1: I feel although I'm about to blast my own argument
Speaker 1: by playing a clip from CBS News later in the
Speaker 1: show to show how all in CBS News is, well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the answer will be there. What will be?
Speaker 1: Will this be? In the first segment of ABC, CBS,
Speaker 1: NBC tonight, This Trump stuff, this Hitler stuff, you're voting, yes,
Speaker 1: you think it will be. I think it could be. Again,
Speaker 1: I reject this standard. But we're now five minutes into
Speaker 1: arguing about whether we out argue about this. I think
Speaker 1: it's it has been a drum beat of from John
Speaker 1: Bolton to John Kelly and all sorts of other aides.
Speaker 1: Mike Pence, half of Trump's White House, says he shouldn't
Speaker 1: be trusted with the levers of power. And I think
Speaker 1: it's an interesting discussion, partly because we got this long
Speaker 1: note from Brian, which is it's well reasons this is
Speaker 1: wrong on a lot of things, including accusing I'll just
Speaker 1: speak for myself me of suffering suffering from Kamala derangement syndrome.
Speaker 1: I'm not deranged by anything in the eighties, as briefly
Speaker 1: cuckoo for cocoa puffs, but I got over that.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: I view both candidates in a rational way and see
Speaker 1: their strength and weaknesses. I think in a pretty objective way.
Speaker 1: Is there an example of what would be Kamala derangement syndrome?
Speaker 1: What is being so against Kamala overlooking something? Or honestly,
Speaker 1: he's accusing us both of having Kamlo derangement syndrome which
Speaker 1: causes us to overlook Trump's flaws. Oh, I see, And
Speaker 1: he has a list of instances, but I think most
Speaker 1: of them are poorly reasoned and they don't apply. They're
Speaker 1: either wrong or I don't think that. So I didn't
Speaker 1: want to even go there. But what his point is,
Speaker 1: and this is kind of the point of a lot
Speaker 1: of the people who criticize Trump, is that he said,
Speaker 1: in my case, it's not that I believe he'll be
Speaker 1: a third World style dictator with full control over the military, etc.
Speaker 1: His form of democratic authoritarianism will be more subtle than that.
Speaker 1: At his core, Trump fails to understand and in fact
Speaker 1: mocked the concept of loyal to the loyalty to the
Speaker 1: constitution versus loyalty to a specific Later, I myself have
Speaker 1: suggested that he leans too far that way. He learned
Speaker 1: his lesson during his first term and appointing people who
Speaker 1: are loyal to the constitution and the rule of law.
Speaker 1: In his second term, he's likely to point cabinet members
Speaker 1: and senior officials who are solely loyal to him and
Speaker 1: shares contempt for the rule of law. Unlike his first term,
Speaker 1: there will be very few on his worst instincts with
Speaker 1: terrible results to our institutions to adherence to the rule
Speaker 1: of law, into the coherence of our civil society. Now
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that as I was taken in
Speaker 1: a lot of this He's going to be a fascist
Speaker 1: stuff Like watching MSNBC, they were using their solemn sad
Speaker 1: voices its official Trump could win and is going to
Speaker 1: be a dictator and we are about to go through
Speaker 1: the darkest times exactly like Germany did in the thirties.
Speaker 1: And then they're they're they're they're like shaking with fear
Speaker 1: of this, and I thought, am I am I Am
Speaker 1: I dumb on this or what? Because I just I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about Trump doing that. I think they're ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Then do I think he might if he could?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: But do I think could he pull it off in
Speaker 1: our system? No, which is precisely why I wanted to
Speaker 1: have this conversation. My view of it is, Brian, He's
Speaker 1: not wrong in that paragraph exactly, and I am concerned
Speaker 1: about some of those things with Trump. My bottom line
Speaker 1: is that the institutions of the country, and indeed the
Speaker 1: brightest lights in the Republican Party, will resist any of
Speaker 1: those urges to the point of open warfare with the president.
Speaker 1: I have a great deal of faith in that, and
Speaker 1: I could run down a name of Republican leaders and
Speaker 1: great thinkers, but I have a high level of confidence
Speaker 1: that that is true. On the other hand, I think
Speaker 1: the greatest minds in the Democratic Party will reinforce and
Speaker 1: encourage and turbo charge Kamala Harris's worst instincts, which like
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's, also are utterly corrosive to the institutions of
Speaker 1: our society. And that's what Brian, for instance, leaves out
Speaker 1: of his discussion, which is reasonably intelligent. But again, I
Speaker 1: just think it's wrong in a lot of ways. And
Speaker 1: that is that Biden and Harris regularly constantly advocate for
Speaker 1: things they know to be unconstitutional to get credit for
Speaker 1: the electorate and then paint their opposition is monsters for
Speaker 1: resisting those urges they have. They have poisoned the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court and the perception of the Supreme Court in a
Speaker 1: way that is utterly unforgivable. It is factually just completely
Speaker 1: incorrect and morally unforgivable, accusing the Supreme Court, which has
Speaker 1: had even handed decision after even handed decision, of being
Speaker 1: some sort of monstrous maga, you know, monster poor writing
Speaker 1: gone wild. And so both sides have played fast and
Speaker 1: loose with traditions and institutions. I just think that the
Speaker 1: best of the Republican Party will work to reign in
Speaker 1: Trump's worst impulses, and the opposite on the other side.
Speaker 1: I agree one hundred percent. That's that's why I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you got to choose one or the other, I
Speaker 1: choose Trump over Kamala Harris, not because I think Trump
Speaker 1: is fantastic and any in any way whatsoever, right. I
Speaker 1: find myself very much in agreement with Bill Barr, who
Speaker 1: said Trump is Russian roulette, Kamala is national suicide. I
Speaker 1: would agree. Look at the subversion of our society, of
Speaker 1: our welfare systems, of our education systems during the Kamala
Speaker 1: and Joe Old Joe the Mummy. It's awful. We can't
Speaker 1: sustain immigration like illegal immigration like this, teaching Neo Marxism
Speaker 1: in our elementary schools, never mind the universities. It's just
Speaker 1: we can't do that. I would rather try to reign
Speaker 1: Trump in, But to each their own vote, according to
Speaker 1: your conscience. So do you want to play the long
Speaker 1: the New York Times clip that's the interview Kelly did
Speaker 1: with New York Times, or the New York Times version
Speaker 1: of it. I guess yeah, we could yeah, let's let's
Speaker 1: let's why not go ahead and roll at Michael forty five.
Speaker 1: Certainly the former president.
Speaker 3: Is in the far right area, certainly not authoritarian, admires
Speaker 3: people who are dictators. He has said that, so he
Speaker 3: certainly falls into the general definition of fascists for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah, that's that's that's good enough. He that's
Speaker 1: you got the flavor. Two things. Number one, Trump is
Speaker 1: a ceo, has been his entire career. Many many, many
Speaker 1: business people will tell you when they get into government,
Speaker 1: they are completely flabbergasted by how the level levels of
Speaker 1: power work. A CEO ship is very much a dictatorship
Speaker 1: in a way constrained by you know, the obvious realities
Speaker 1: a business board of directors, et cetera. But it's much
Speaker 1: much closer to a dictatorship, and CEOs have a hard
Speaker 1: time adjusting to political office. Second thing is Trump's style,
Speaker 1: which I find immoral and and and awful. As a
Speaker 1: business person was he wanted to litigate everything. He would
Speaker 1: hire a plumber to do five hundred bathrooms in a
Speaker 1: hotel at one hundred dollars a bathroom whatever. Then at
Speaker 1: the end he would say, I'll pay you seventy dollars
Speaker 1: a bathroom and if you don't like it, sue me.
Speaker 1: And he did that over and over again. That was
Speaker 1: part of doing business with Trump. I would hate doing
Speaker 1: business like that. I consider it, again, just unethical. But
Speaker 1: that's Trump. So you've got a CEO who always wants
Speaker 1: to push it and see if he can litigate a
Speaker 1: better outcome. That's Trump. He's not Hitler. He's just a
Speaker 1: He's a hard ass New York real estate developer. If
Speaker 1: I turn out to be wrong, made the Saints and
Speaker 1: the Constitution forgive me.
Speaker 5: So I assume that this was dropped today, yesterday today,
Speaker 5: in this twenty four hour news cycle on purpose two
Speaker 5: weeks to go before election day by The Atlantic in
Speaker 5: the New York Times.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like John Kelly just heard this
Speaker 1: stuff or just learned it. He's hash from a fishing trip.
Speaker 1: Oh you want to know about Trump? Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: lot like Hitler. Right, So the point of this, it's
Speaker 1: been orchestrated with the timing to land and have it effect.
Speaker 1: Do you think it will? I don't think it will,
Speaker 1: you know, remains to be seen. I was just looking
Speaker 1: at some of the polling in most polling, Trump and
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, same as Trump and Biden are neck and
Speaker 1: neck on who do you think will protect democracy? So,
Speaker 1: at least up until now, it hasn't really made a dent,
Speaker 1: and I don't think this is anything new, right, but
Speaker 1: it is designed to be in October surprise, and it
Speaker 1: is being treated that way, at least on the cable
Speaker 1: news networks. I will be able to. I will be
Speaker 1: interested to see how they handle it on the evening newscast.
Speaker 1: I don't think the evening newscasts are important, as Joe
Speaker 1: pointed out, but I think it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: if they're trying to make the argument that this is
Speaker 1: like a new big thing. Yeah, that will be interesting
Speaker 1: from your Nora O'Donnell and your what's his name over
Speaker 1: there at ABC. Yeah, I don't want to hear a
Speaker 1: word from him. We've got Katie's headlines on the way,
Speaker 1: still hearty. There are some damn interesting stories going on
Speaker 1: out there. We're about to hear. Wait, it's about to
Speaker 1: hear some of them in the headlines with Katie but
Speaker 1: aired day. Come on, man, you've got it in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's figure out who's reporting what it's leave story with
Speaker 1: Katie Green Katie, Oh, thank you guys.
Speaker 6: Starting with ABC News, North Korean troops are already in Russia,
Speaker 6: according to Lloyd Austin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there to aid in the fight against Ukraine,
Speaker 1: according to now the the State Department and the New
Speaker 1: York Times. So because we were saying earlier we don't
Speaker 1: know what they're there for, maybe just training or something,
Speaker 1: but no, they're there to help in the fight against Ukraine. Somehow,
Speaker 1: I have a great deal to say on this topic.
Speaker 1: We're pressed for time. What else you got, Katie CNN.
Speaker 6: Israeli military says it is heild three Hesbola commanders in
Speaker 6: the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Who's up? Who's next? Who wants to be move up
Speaker 1: to vice president?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was thinking of taking a sabbatical. I'd like to
Speaker 1: spend more time with my family, like any time with
Speaker 1: my family. From CBS.
Speaker 6: Former Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries arrested on sex
Speaker 6: trafficking and interstate prostitution charges.
Speaker 1: That is a watered down version of the monster that
Speaker 1: this guy is. Holy cow, I went through some of
Speaker 1: the stuff he's being accused of yesterday. It makes p
Speaker 1: Diddy seem like your grandma. He is a serial boy rapist,
Speaker 1: among others things. Torture torturer might even be closer drug torture,
Speaker 1: rape monster, all those shaved over sexualized young models. There
Speaker 1: was a reason he was that into that ad campaign
Speaker 1: or on that to come.
Speaker 6: ESPN Dodgers legendary pitch. Sure, Fernando Valonzuela dies at sixty three.
Speaker 1: Boy, that's young for the rotund master of the horse hide.
Speaker 1: And then we'll get a lot of attention. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll do something special with the World series going on,
Speaker 1: starting to uh Dodger bill this Friday night show. Hey,
Speaker 1: Otani's ball for the fifty to fifty home run ball
Speaker 1: just sold for four point remind the fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: home run ball sold for four point three nine million
Speaker 1: dollars yesterday.
Speaker 2: Who wow?
Speaker 1: Why wish god lucky? If you catch that ball changes
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 6: From people with decision on Menandez brothers resentencing just days away, DA.
Speaker 1: Says they're not a danger to society. I think they are.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure they are. But they shotgunned their parents
Speaker 1: to death so they could go on a party bingch
Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, more on that later. All right. The
Speaker 1: meme of the day.
Speaker 6: It's a sign with another sign underneath it. It says employee attitude.
Speaker 6: Staff here need to stop acting like they don't want
Speaker 6: to be here, And underneath it's a post it note
Speaker 6: that says we're not acting sincerely. And finally, the Babylon
Speaker 6: Bee disaster is Tim Walls accidentally signals Boeing seven forty
Speaker 6: seven to land at rally to knock on his arm, waving.
Speaker 1: We got a good Tim Walls clip for you an
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