Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Ice detention facilities nationwide on high alert after a sniper
Speaker 3: rained bullets from a rooftop on a van filled with detainees,
Speaker 3: killing one detainee and wounding two more in what authorities
Speaker 3: are calling an act of targeted violence against the agency.
Speaker 3: FBI Director Cash Battel revealed they found these rounds of
Speaker 3: ammunition with writings on one of them reading anti ICE.
Speaker 3: We've also spoken with friends, people that knew the suspect.
Speaker 3: They say he was more of a gamer and not
Speaker 3: interested in politics.
Speaker 4: The writing on the bullets seems to be a sick,
Speaker 4: twisted part.
Speaker 2: Of our new world. Just something you have to.
Speaker 5: Do well and my goodness, yet another example of what
Speaker 5: we were talking about last hour. This is an angry,
Speaker 5: disaffected youngish person who had no particular political philosophy for
Speaker 5: most of their lives, latching on too, just won very
Speaker 5: recently and deciding to kill people, which is often a
Speaker 5: performative suicide, as experts say, is it political violence?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Is there a left wing political message to what he's doing. Yes,
Speaker 5: but it's a more complicated phenomenon than them. Was he
Speaker 5: actually trying to affect a political issue, I'm not sure, or.
Speaker 4: Did he just want to be famous and end his
Speaker 4: own life? He wanted his suicide to mean something, right,
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 5: That's the actual pathology we're dealing with a lot. How
Speaker 5: many times have you heard, I mean the murder of
Speaker 5: Charlie Kirk had absolutely developed a left wing angry philosophy.
Speaker 2: He also didn't kill himself, so he might be a
Speaker 2: different situation.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I would agree. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 5: get hung up on that one in the similarities and differences,
Speaker 5: but there the pathology is not simply I'm angry about
Speaker 5: politics anyway.
Speaker 2: More on that to come, But.
Speaker 5: Back to the shooting up of Ice and specifically the
Speaker 5: question of anti ice rhetoric.
Speaker 2: Michael, give us thirty one thirty two.
Speaker 6: Back to back a lot of new disturbing details about
Speaker 6: the shooting outside of this ice facility here. You know,
Speaker 6: officials all day yesterday, after sharing more information said this
Speaker 6: is the direct result of anti ice rhetoric. They said,
Speaker 6: it only incites violence, and really it has to stop
Speaker 6: because if it doesn't more people are going to end
Speaker 6: up dead.
Speaker 7: President Trump, reacting to this tragedy entreue social saying a
Speaker 7: part quote, I will be signing an executive order this
Speaker 7: week to dismantle these domestic terrorism networks. I am calling
Speaker 7: on all Democrats to stop this rhetoric against ICE and
Speaker 7: America's law enforcement right now.
Speaker 4: And we mentioned this poll earlier that's getting so much traction.
Speaker 4: Do you think the way people talk about politics is
Speaker 4: contributing to violence? Eighty two percent say yes, and the
Speaker 4: other ones are wrong to that question.
Speaker 5: What rhetoric are they talking about? Are Democrats engaging in
Speaker 5: dangerous rhetoric toward ICE forty one?
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's modern.
Speaker 4: Da descopo is scooping folks up off the streets. As
Speaker 4: somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see
Speaker 4: slave patrols. The dangers that we saw in in you know,
Speaker 4: Nazi Germany are the dangers that we need to react
Speaker 4: to now. Mass secret ICE agents are snatching and arresting
Speaker 4: immigrants for coming.
Speaker 7: And kidnapping and disappearing people on the streets of the
Speaker 7: United States.
Speaker 8: We have ICE, ICE federal agents pulling up terrorizing our communities,
Speaker 8: hopping out of unmarked vans, stealing and yes, kidnapping people.
Speaker 5: Now that's some crazy inflammatory rhetoric, but is it actually
Speaker 5: resulting in violence?
Speaker 2: Forty three This is Toddlines, the ICE Director. I've never
Speaker 2: seen anything like this in my law enforcement career.
Speaker 1: I've never seen threats on law enforcement, specifically ICE increased.
Speaker 2: Way it is.
Speaker 1: You know, we're up over one thousand percent assaults on
Speaker 1: officers right now, and really just a lot of the
Speaker 1: talk that's out there, a lot of the rhetoric is
Speaker 1: just the Violence director towards law enforcement officers just trying
Speaker 1: to do their job.
Speaker 4: God, can you imagine being an ICE agent? You'd be
Speaker 4: It's unlikely that every single one of them haven't contemplated
Speaker 4: leaving their job, right, because how could you go and
Speaker 4: you'd want to say, you'd want to carry a giant
Speaker 4: sign everywhere you go saying this is my job, this
Speaker 4: is what I'm being told to do. Argue with your congressman. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't make policy. They tell me what to do, right,
Speaker 4: My option is either quit or do this. So Tom Holman,
Speaker 4: the head guy in forty four and forty five, back
Speaker 4: to back, Michael telling you talking about the current atmosphere unless.
Speaker 9: A rhetoric stops is not over and it's just it's scary.
Speaker 9: I'm afraid for the men and win of Ice every night.
Speaker 2: Every night would have been.
Speaker 9: And I pray for the men and win of boort
Speaker 9: On Ice that they go home safe to their families.
Speaker 9: They're American patriots, they're forced on the wall, and it's
Speaker 9: just I've never seen anything like this in my entire career.
Speaker 9: And that's that's forty one years. You know what you
Speaker 9: just mentioned. I do have a security detail. I feel
Speaker 9: bad because every ICE agent don't have a security detail
Speaker 9: and they're actually out doing this job.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You're right.
Speaker 9: I don't live in my family just because of this threat.
Speaker 9: But my family understands. They don't want me to stop
Speaker 9: doing this. I'll tell you something else. The ICE agents
Speaker 9: are going to continue doing what they're doing, make this
Speaker 9: country safe again, because President Trump made that promised American people.
Speaker 4: Holman actually doesn't live at home with his family right
Speaker 4: anymore because there's a threat. And yes, it's the language
Speaker 4: on both sides needs to calm down both sides.
Speaker 2: But I don't. I don't.
Speaker 4: I just I'm not optimistic short term. I don't know
Speaker 4: if anything could cause it. I don't know if if
Speaker 4: the president being assassinated would cause us to stop calling
Speaker 4: everybody hitler or saying that there won't be another election
Speaker 4: if the other side wins, and just all this ridiculousness.
Speaker 4: Had a conversation very recently with some very smart, pretty
Speaker 4: well informed people who were completely unfamiliar with the devastating
Speaker 4: power of online donations, small online donations to politics. And
Speaker 4: we're unfamiliar with the fact that one of the reasons
Speaker 4: for the superheated rhetoric. It's it's partly just we live
Speaker 4: in the age of hyperbole, and that's how you break through.
Speaker 4: But the other part is anger gets more dollars donated
Speaker 4: than anything else. Anger is the king of the financial
Speaker 4: end of politics right now, small online donations, and they're
Speaker 4: not going to give up their most lucrative, you know,
Speaker 4: way to soak.
Speaker 2: You out of your money.
Speaker 4: No, you look like you fight well, right, and some
Speaker 4: anger or activism is one hundred percent justified and important,
Speaker 4: but it's it's if you've never been in this situation,
Speaker 4: it is it's seductive. Like Joe and I have been
Speaker 4: on stages before. It's been years now, but we've been
Speaker 4: on stages before you say some reasonable stuff, people kind
Speaker 4: of watch and there's this mattering. You say some really
Speaker 4: charged thing yes, and people just me It gives you
Speaker 4: a boost of adrenaline. Look at the people cheering me
Speaker 4: saying makes you want to say crazier things. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just it, don't We've been We've been on stage
Speaker 4: with people who after we do our reasonable oh yeah,
Speaker 4: act who come on and just chuck handfuls of red
Speaker 4: meat into the audience. Well, oh my god, it's gobbled
Speaker 4: up like you're you're chucking t bones to tigers.
Speaker 2: I mean, people love it.
Speaker 4: The best example and this isn't a knock on her,
Speaker 4: because there's lots of people do it. That attractive blonde
Speaker 4: woman for Fox Tommy Tommy Laren, We wish we were
Speaker 4: at some event where we just did our At that event,
Speaker 4: we're like, just very reasonable. This is what we need
Speaker 4: to do to make the country better. And it's like, yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 4: She came out with their Hitler stuff and uh and man,
Speaker 4: just people came to their feet on the lips and
Speaker 4: drinks their tears. Right, yeah, we're back stage like holy crap.
Speaker 4: And yeah, so that drives a lot of it. Then
Speaker 4: you you add into that what you were just talking about.
Speaker 4: The fundraising. Obviously, that sort of enthusiasm that makes people
Speaker 4: leap to their feet and clap, makes them grab their
Speaker 4: phone and send a little money your way.
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Speaker 5: So the Fed cutting rates finally, and that means your
Speaker 5: mortgage rate is gonna go up.
Speaker 2: Stay with us, I said, this can't be right. Plus
Speaker 2: gen Z are they unemployable? Okay, we've got a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 4: Well, some business news today Michaels and As that they're
Speaker 4: putting a Joeanne fabric section into all of their stores.
Speaker 2: You might not care, but for your mom.
Speaker 4: This is like, this is like Taylor Swift doing a
Speaker 4: duet with Taylor Swift. Do you know what's exactly? I'm
Speaker 4: going to assume that makes sense to someone.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a big big deals people like my mom.
Speaker 2: As craft is a big deal.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, my wife had extensive opinions on the Joe
Speaker 5: Ann's closing and what it means and.
Speaker 2: What it doesn't mean.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll be Darne and if we ever do a
Speaker 5: quilting extension show, we'll certainly have her on as our
Speaker 5: first guest. So I was intrigued by this and reminded
Speaker 5: of an important economic principle. He Fed last week lowered
Speaker 5: its benchmark rate for the first time this year, signaled
Speaker 5: that more cuts could be ahead. President Trump said people
Speaker 5: can't afford homes because the Fed's rates are too high.
Speaker 5: But the central Bank doesn't set mortgage rates. And more importantly,
Speaker 5: you might have to wait for relief from higher rates
Speaker 5: for a while because the recent cut. What the recent
Speaker 5: cuts mean for savings accounts, for credit cards and carl
Speaker 5: isn't clear cut.
Speaker 2: And here's why we talked to rates aren't.
Speaker 4: When this news broke last week, when you were gone,
Speaker 4: I said, I, you know, how this plays out for
Speaker 4: your credit card or your mortgage rate remains to be seen.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine it making a heck of a lot
Speaker 4: of different short term. But then yesterday we had the
Speaker 4: news that jumping mortgages by twenty percent since the interest
Speaker 4: rate dropped. I don't even I don't even see how
Speaker 4: that's possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't seen those homeless sales. I guess home sales, right.
Speaker 5: I still say that's a twenty percent rise from a
Speaker 5: historically paltry number, But I can't swear to that. I'd
Speaker 5: be interested to see the actual figures. But so here's
Speaker 5: here's the story. Mortgage rates are not set by the Fed.
Speaker 5: They have a relationship to it kind of. But the
Speaker 5: average rate has drifted down to six and a quarter ish,
Speaker 5: the lowest in nearly a year.
Speaker 4: But it's not expected. It's incredibly high. That's what we've
Speaker 4: all got to get over. That is historically a great rate,
Speaker 4: but it sounds awful based on what we got used to,
Speaker 4: right and again I say that whole you know, post
Speaker 4: crash followed by COVID artificially low interest rates period, that
Speaker 4: was your honeymoon. You got used to that much lovin'.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna continue. Those rates were for a glorious
Speaker 4: week of your life, whether in the Bahamas or the
Speaker 4: Poconos or wherever you were.
Speaker 2: It's not going to happen again anyway.
Speaker 5: It's expected by everybody in charge of the sort of
Speaker 5: thing that is probably going to stick around six to
Speaker 5: seven percent. The deal is the Feds move targets short
Speaker 5: term interest rates. Mortgage rates, on the other hand, tend
Speaker 5: to move with the yields on long term tenure treasuries,
Speaker 5: and those yields rise and fall based on expectations for
Speaker 5: the economy. So if the FED cuts rates, but there
Speaker 5: are ominous storm clouds on the horizon, the long term
Speaker 5: rates are likely to stay high because you got to
Speaker 5: pay fairly high rates to be to get them to
Speaker 5: want to buy your increasingly crappy government debts. And I'm
Speaker 5: tempted to go into a bit of a riff on
Speaker 5: France and their financial problems, but nobody wants to hear that,
Speaker 5: including the French.
Speaker 4: But holy crap, do they have financial problems. Oh and
Speaker 4: they're finally admitting, admitting that they pushed immigration hard because
Speaker 4: they desperately needed it to shore up their social security
Speaker 4: type systems, their social safety net systems, socialism.
Speaker 2: And sure they needed workers, younger workers, they needed young people.
Speaker 2: They just needed population.
Speaker 5: They needed young workers to support their aging socialistic population.
Speaker 4: And they don't have kids. It's like Mark Stein wrote,
Speaker 4: in America alone, Italy, France, places like that. They'll still
Speaker 4: be in a map with those names, but they'll be
Speaker 4: completely different countries in a couple generations.
Speaker 5: Well right, and they're waking up and realizing it that
Speaker 5: not only in Britain is my favorite case of this.
Speaker 2: Not only has.
Speaker 5: Importing an enormous number of people who despise your culture,
Speaker 5: despise your way of life, spit on your history.
Speaker 2: Couldn't give a damn about your traditions.
Speaker 5: Not only is that incredibly off putting in disruptive, but
Speaker 5: the promise that that rampant immigration would bring back to
Speaker 5: good times and prop up our welfare state and.
Speaker 4: The economy would raw ahead. Those promises were false too.
Speaker 4: It didn't work.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you bring in a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: people from different countries, eventually nobody's going to care about
Speaker 4: King Henry the fifth or Shakespeare or any of that
Speaker 4: sort of stuff. That's not their heritage, right, and you
Speaker 4: will be divorced from your history and you will not
Speaker 4: be what you are anymore. And you absolutely have a
Speaker 4: right to not want that, and don't let anybody tell
Speaker 4: you different. It just came across a really, really good
Speaker 4: think piece. Maybe I'll try to digest it and edit
Speaker 4: it for you, but it's a restatement of the fact
Speaker 4: that the Constitution has no hope of enduring unless it is.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say cherished.
Speaker 4: That that's not a bad word really, unless we love it,
Speaker 4: unless we understand its value, unless we value it. The
Speaker 4: Constitution doesn't have a chance. Guns and judges won't save it.
Speaker 4: It's the sentiment in the heart of the American people
Speaker 4: that protect it. And if we import zillions of people
Speaker 4: who couldn't give a crap and would much rather have
Speaker 4: Sharia law, or they don't care, or they're kind of
Speaker 4: used to cartels being in charge, and so that the
Speaker 4: whole Constitution thing.
Speaker 5: People worship the Constitution like it's a religion. Why don't
Speaker 5: you calm down.
Speaker 2: I mean, we will lose it.
Speaker 5: And it's not just immigration, by the way, if our
Speaker 5: young people are not brought up to understand the value
Speaker 5: of it, that's another facet of this.
Speaker 4: I don't know if this story resonates with anybody who's
Speaker 4: no a cable news junkie, but James call me. The
Speaker 4: former FBI director might get charged today with a number
Speaker 4: of things. That's going to be your big you know
Speaker 4: that world soap opera for the next however, many days,
Speaker 4: not sure how much call anywhere. No, I'm not sure
Speaker 4: how much time we'll spend on it. We got a
Speaker 4: lot of things to talk about coming up, though, I
Speaker 4: hope you can stick herround. Is gen Z unemployable?
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty?
Speaker 10: What I kept hearing from everybody on this team was
Speaker 10: we got more work to do, And it seems like
Speaker 10: this team was just even more focused tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, uh, you know, I think most people hear
Speaker 7: I said last night, you know, might as well went.
Speaker 10: The whole thing, all right, Larnt cut to you, naughty,
Speaker 10: naughty cal naughty cow.
Speaker 2: That's two nights in a row, two nights in a row.
Speaker 4: Or the Big Dumper, the catcher for the Seattle Mariners,
Speaker 4: interviewed after the game in Seattle and they're in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: and he says, let's win the whole effing thing, and
Speaker 4: the crowd goes wild. So that's clearly if they get
Speaker 4: on a roll, gonna be there T shirts, hat. Every
Speaker 4: baseball team when they get on a roll has got
Speaker 4: some sort of like thing their hats, their beards, they're
Speaker 4: sayings their T shirts, the rally thong or cowboy up
Speaker 4: for the Red Sox back in the day, or whatever
Speaker 4: it is. Their thing is gonna be let's win the
Speaker 4: whole effing thing. I guarantee you they're gonna be shirts.
Speaker 4: Don't appreciate this.
Speaker 5: I don't appreciate the sailor talk, but I do love
Speaker 5: Cal Raley America's.
Speaker 4: Latest or you know, the one of the very few
Speaker 4: legit sixty Homer club members.
Speaker 5: The fact that he's a catcher is amazing because that's
Speaker 5: a grueling position. If he's a likable dufus.
Speaker 4: If if I were more of an entrepreneur, I would
Speaker 4: copyright that. If he hasn't already, let's win the whole
Speaker 4: effing thing. I'd have T shirts and hats. You can
Speaker 4: get away with selling unlicensed stuff because that's gonna be
Speaker 4: a hot thing.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Here's a story I have, I have no interest in
Speaker 4: and don't plan to talk about, but it's one of
Speaker 4: the big Now that's a leading it's one of the
Speaker 4: big stories for people who are really really into politics
Speaker 4: and watch cable news, and so here here it is.
Speaker 8: We're told a grand jury in Virginia's looking at evidence
Speaker 8: relating to allegations that former FBI Director James Comy may
Speaker 8: have lied to Congress on September thirtieth, twenty twenty. That
Speaker 8: data is very specific because the statute of limitations for
Speaker 8: lying before Congress is typically five years. Next Tuesday marks
Speaker 8: exactly five years since his remote testimony. He was in
Speaker 8: Virginia at the time. It was during the throes of COVID.
Speaker 8: It's unclear if a grand jury will vote to indict Comy.
Speaker 8: The grand jury has the option to say yes or
Speaker 8: no to an indictment. To be clear, as we speak,
Speaker 8: he's not been indicted and he's not facing charges at
Speaker 8: this moment. This is all up to a grand jury.
Speaker 4: And a lot of people are expecting that news today.
Speaker 4: I had never thought about this until the National Review
Speaker 4: is writing about it. But for a lot of these
Speaker 4: things that you're angry about are various bad actors or whatever.
Speaker 4: We have a nun on court way to deal with
Speaker 4: these things. It's called the election Donald Trump won. That
Speaker 4: was the penalty for James Comy and a lot of
Speaker 4: those intelligence people who wrote the letter and all kinds
Speaker 4: of everything, the attempt to throw Trump and jail over
Speaker 4: the things that were made up. The penalty doesn't need
Speaker 4: to be them going to jail. The penalty or the
Speaker 4: prize is you won. Pursue it politically, not judicially. And
Speaker 4: obviously sometimes there buts heaved out of power. Sometimes you
Speaker 4: need things to be punished in the justice system to
Speaker 4: make sure they don't happen again or whatever. But in general, yeah,
Speaker 4: you win. The elections. That's the way to get people
Speaker 4: to stop doing bad things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I tell you what, though, James Cally a conniving
Speaker 5: fiend who engaged in all sorts of skullduggery, I mean,
Speaker 5: really did damage to the American people, But whether it.
Speaker 2: Certainly did damage the FBI.
Speaker 4: Although Mark Alpern writes the Democrats in general hate call me,
Speaker 4: the media for some reason seems to like him because
Speaker 4: he says bad things about Trump, but police shows most
Speaker 4: Democrats blame him for Hillary losing, which you can because
Speaker 4: he is responsible for part of it. Yeah, he's all
Speaker 4: kinds of a weirdo.
Speaker 2: Yes, speaking of topics, Yes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go, Hill, speaking of things we normally
Speaker 5: don't talk about, even as cable news drones on and
Speaker 5: on about them.
Speaker 4: The government shut down. Oh, good lord, prospect of a
Speaker 4: government shut out.
Speaker 5: I'm more interested in it than I've been for a
Speaker 5: long time. Because of this headline.
Speaker 4: White House to pursue mass firings if government shuts down.
Speaker 4: The Office of Management Budget says, oh yeah, okay, you're
Speaker 4: gonna cut off the flow of money. Yeah, we'll just
Speaker 4: fire a bunch of people because we have to, because
Speaker 4: we have no money coming in and that is expected
Speaker 4: to put enormous pressure on Democrats to either not do
Speaker 4: it at all, or, if they shut it down, to
Speaker 4: come around quickly.
Speaker 2: It is a ballsy move.
Speaker 5: But who anti move well, that's another question that I
Speaker 5: refuse to consider.
Speaker 2: Don't expect me to get involved. Who will the media
Speaker 2: try to blame? That's an easy one. You want to
Speaker 2: hear my favorite story of the day. Let me do
Speaker 2: this real quick, just because it kind of fits in
Speaker 2: with the shutdown thing.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised by this. In USA today front page staff
Speaker 4: cuts at national parks had little apparent impact. Their front
Speaker 4: page store in the USA Today Today is about how
Speaker 4: doge cut your national parks all across the country? And
Speaker 4: there were worries that the cuts would lead to messy
Speaker 4: parks and dirty bathrooms and closed trails.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't appear.
Speaker 4: That it did any harm whatsoever by getting rid of
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of government employees. Despite widespread fears of
Speaker 4: a system wide collapse by some public activists and advocates,
Speaker 4: America's national parks appear to have weathered the bulk of
Speaker 4: the cuts. More than twenty five percent of staff jobs
Speaker 4: cut with no problem. That story does not get told
Speaker 4: about government shutdowns or doze or anything like that.
Speaker 2: How often things move along just fine? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've heard thirty times that we need some of
Speaker 5: those people back at Social Security, and we're getting them back.
Speaker 5: By the way, a lot of guys are being rehired,
Speaker 5: or people, I should say, likewise, the IRS, I mean
Speaker 5: the taxpayers. Not all IRS employees are evil vampires flying
Speaker 5: through the night, coming to suck your blood as you sleep.
Speaker 5: They're there to answer the phone and answer your completely
Speaker 5: unanswerable questions about our bizarrely complex tax code.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I.
Speaker 4: Think they're flying vampires. Well, certainly there are plenty within
Speaker 4: their ranks. Yes, but you know you got to do
Speaker 4: it in a smart way. But yeah, can we reduce
Speaker 4: the side of the size of the federal government?
Speaker 2: Hell? Yes we can. All right, here's my favorite story
Speaker 2: of the day.
Speaker 5: I love this story so much I hate to even
Speaker 5: do it because it's been so much fun anticipating doing it.
Speaker 5: Things have gone badly jack with Greta Tuneberg's Palestinian flotilla.
Speaker 2: Another setback.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, We've we stole her childhood, now we're
Speaker 4: stealing her twenties. How old is Gretitune Berk.
Speaker 10: You have stolen my dreams, my childhood with your empty words.
Speaker 4: Now we're sorry, Now we're not bad. Now we're stealing
Speaker 4: her early adulthood.
Speaker 2: Right, right, this is all wrong? Might be right, I
Speaker 2: would agree.
Speaker 4: So the belieguered Global Samud flotilla, which aimed to bypass
Speaker 4: Israel's blockade to deliver aid to Gaza in an idiotic
Speaker 4: showy self aggrandizing not enough food to feed three people
Speaker 4: for two days act? Was it there underway?
Speaker 5: Because it's it's the what do they call it, the
Speaker 5: permanent omni caause she's off the climate change and onto
Speaker 5: the Palestinians now for some reason anyway, But when self
Speaker 5: described queer activist say if A Yadi joined the effort,
Speaker 5: Kaled Bouja Mamma Mamma, a Tunisian coordinator for the flotilla,
Speaker 5: resigned in anger. Quote, we were lied to about the
Speaker 5: identity of some of the participants at the forefront of
Speaker 5: the flotilla. I accuse the organizers of hiding this from us.
Speaker 5: Another Tunisian activist accused the flotilla of involving suspicious activists.
Speaker 5: Palestini is the issue of Muslims first, and foremost and
Speaker 5: cannot be separated from its spiritual and religious dimension. So
Speaker 5: why do you involve suspicious activists in it who serve
Speaker 5: other agendas that do not concern us, have no relation
Speaker 5: to Gaza, such as homo sexuals.
Speaker 4: No, I'd like to get into some of these meetings,
Speaker 4: the permacause meetings where you talk about climate change and
Speaker 4: trans rites and ice and the Palestinians and.
Speaker 2: Big pharma.
Speaker 4: Just you know, black lives mattering exactly exactly, So there's
Speaker 4: more these.
Speaker 2: One of these couple of Tunisians goes on.
Speaker 4: Why do you divide people over the greatest issue that
Speaker 4: unites and gathers them? Which is true, the phony mostly
Speaker 4: phony Palestinian issue really does galvanized people. But what can
Speaker 4: we expect from a Muslim Araboos season. Here's the slogans
Speaker 4: of the queer movement in a flotilla in the name
Speaker 4: of its most sacred cause, and which is thus desecrated.
Speaker 4: A different activist echoed those sentiments. Being a queer activist
Speaker 4: means that you are violating society values and are putting me,
Speaker 4: my children, and my relatives in a situation we reject.
Speaker 4: I rejected my son be told in kindergarten, that he
Speaker 4: is neither a boy nor a girl, and that he
Speaker 4: grows up you decide, I will not forgive anyone who
Speaker 4: puts this in this predicament.
Speaker 2: But oh, Greta, be careful.
Speaker 5: Angry Muslims saying they will never forgive you is that's
Speaker 5: not good?
Speaker 2: No? Um, yeah, I hope you know. I hope she
Speaker 2: stays Okay.
Speaker 4: The problem, it sounds to me like, is they haven't
Speaker 4: caught on to the fact that queer has a new
Speaker 4: meaning now as of like the last five minutes. That
Speaker 4: it doesn't mean gay anymore. It means anything that's anti
Speaker 4: what we've been doing.
Speaker 2: Partly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it absolutely means gay and bisexual and transgender and
Speaker 5: being a furry and or just I'm.
Speaker 2: Fighting against a man, I'm queer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a ridiculous term. It's about as useful
Speaker 4: as fascist as at this point. But somebody finally on
Speaker 4: the Muslim side of things said, wait a minute, queer's
Speaker 4: for Palestine?
Speaker 2: What fury he threw furries in there? Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 5: That shooter guy, the idiot who murdered Charlie Kirk was
Speaker 5: a free or furry adjacent a transgender confused poor misfit boyfriend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who got kicked out of his parents' home because
Speaker 4: they're devout Mormons.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a rough one.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, really rough, really rough. Anyway, Uh more on
Speaker 4: that to come.
Speaker 5: Uh probably, But I wish, I certainly wish the Queers
Speaker 5: for Palestine and the Furries for.
Speaker 2: Allah and everybody else.
Speaker 4: I hope you can get together and have a quiet
Speaker 4: meeting there and break bread with a little Greta and
Speaker 4: solve your differences.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I finally agree with you, dear.
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Speaker 4: So this just came across. Nobody knows what it means.
Speaker 4: Pete Hagzeth, the Secretary of Defense, orders a rare urgent.
Speaker 4: Urgent is the word urgent meeting of hundreds of generals
Speaker 4: and admirals without a stated reason, sewing alarm. So Pete
Speaker 4: Hegseeth has said basically all hands on deck today.
Speaker 2: And nobody knows exactly why.
Speaker 4: Wow, a day after Trump says Ukraine should get their
Speaker 4: land back.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's tied into that at all.
Speaker 2: Have no idea.
Speaker 5: Jerry's still out on Pete. A lot of good coming
Speaker 5: out of his leadership, some chaos, some resistance, of course,
Speaker 5: can do a lot of pull ups. Anybody who changes
Speaker 5: the status quo is going to get resistance.
Speaker 2: Robert F.
Speaker 5: Kennedy Junior. I think he is not long for his post,
Speaker 5: not long at all. Oh really, yeah, I will explain later.
Speaker 5: I'll probably offend an annoy some people, but that's okay.
Speaker 5: We could still be friends. Let me know why you
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Speaker 5: Dissent is fine. It's what makes a republic like ours run.
Speaker 4: You know what I chat gpt'd last night before dinner
Speaker 4: because I didn't know. I didn't know which meat you
Speaker 4: using meat sauce for spaghetti and meat sauce. I assumed
Speaker 4: it was pork my whole life.
Speaker 2: But it's not. It's Hamburger almost always, oh I.
Speaker 4: According to according to all meree sauce is a little vague.
Speaker 2: Okay, Katie william You're you're adorable jacket.
Speaker 4: I asked chat gpt Grock and Gemini and they all said,
Speaker 4: it's almost always Amberger for your Spaghettian meat sauce. No, no, no,
Speaker 4: what do you say, Katie, I've always I've always used beef.
Speaker 4: Joseph's pork. Okay, well no, no, not necessarily.
Speaker 5: Again is the sole staff member who was born and
Speaker 5: raised for almost three years in Italy. If you're talking
Speaker 5: to an Italian making sauce, it's often pork and veal.
Speaker 5: It can, it can be beef, But hamburger meat.
Speaker 2: You look down on that.
Speaker 4: It's it's fine, working class italian Ish sauce, which is
Speaker 4: what I want. As grandma labor labors in the kitchen
Speaker 4: with the ants and the daughters for six hours in Brooklyn,
Speaker 4: I say, no, Joe's looking down. I'm just wondering the
Speaker 4: difference between beef and hamburger meat.
Speaker 5: Well, hamburger meat. All hamburger meat is beef, Not all
Speaker 5: beef is hamburger meat.
Speaker 2: Either way, the cow ends. I'm dead. This is really
Speaker 2: broken down. Okay, we've got more on the way. Stay here.
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Speaker 2: The that's a pretty funny joke.
Speaker 5: I was just researching, like great authentic Italian bolonnaise.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: Recipes online definitely calls for ground beef for bolonaise sauce.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's funny.
Speaker 4: There's so many styles of quote unquote meat sauce. That's
Speaker 4: that's the problem. But I've been using pork my whole life.
Speaker 4: Just for some reason, I assumed that you were supposed to.
Speaker 4: I always use Italian sausage. And then as at the
Speaker 4: grocery store, they are out of sausage, and I thought,
Speaker 4: I wonder if I can use amburger, then gpted it
Speaker 4: and found out that's what you're supposed to.
Speaker 2: Use, you idiot.
Speaker 4: So okay, anyway, doesn't I and I thought it was
Speaker 4: just delicious. This is Trump's America. By the way, no
Speaker 4: sausage in the grocery store. So just a quick follow
Speaker 4: up on the Jimmy Kimmel thing. So one of my
Speaker 4: favorite tweeters tweeted this out yesterday. See if you agree.
Speaker 4: Here's what happened to sum up the Jimmy Kimmel thing.
Speaker 4: One croc crocodile tears for himself because he's the real victim. Too,
Speaker 4: didn't concede he was wrong. Three didn't apologize, so the
Speaker 4: ratings are out, he had about six million people tune in,
Speaker 4: which is about six times his normal ratings, which is
Speaker 4: not surprising to me at all. I don't whether or
Speaker 4: not many of those people hang around in his ratings
Speaker 4: get a permanent boost or not.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I would tend to think not, but uh, I for
Speaker 4: some reason ended up watching the original Monday Night monologue.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I just can't buy the whole I never
Speaker 4: suggested that the death of a young man, anybody that
Speaker 4: could think that I would take lightly the death of it.
Speaker 2: I went back and watched your Monday Night.
Speaker 4: It was like hours after the murder happened, and you
Speaker 4: had a completely flip an attitude or the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, you.
Speaker 4: Didn't seem broken, utterly uncaring, completely snarky and uncaring, with
Speaker 4: your only goal to blame Republicans for it. So I
Speaker 4: just find it hard to believe that now, a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks later, you're this busted up by the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know.
Speaker 5: Right, as I tried to make clear yesterday, I think
Speaker 5: he is a terrible person in certain ways.
Speaker 2: He's been so perverted by his politics.
Speaker 4: He's lost his soul and the government shouldn't be in
Speaker 4: the censorship business. But also I'll stand up for this
Speaker 4: people who regularly say and he's not funny. I think
Speaker 4: he's hilarious when he's not talking about politics. You don't
Speaker 4: have to claim that all these people aren't funny and
Speaker 4: you don't like their politics.
Speaker 2: He was doing a bit last night.
Speaker 4: I happened to see of all the texts and emails
Speaker 4: that a lot of the people on his staff got
Speaker 4: from family members and friends.
Speaker 2: It was freaking funny. I mean, it was very, very funny.
Speaker 4: But I also think he's an insufferable smug a hole
Speaker 4: when it comes to his politics thing.
Speaker 5: I wish we had time to go through this list
Speaker 5: of all of the times prominent Democrats called for direct
Speaker 5: government censorship of media and free speech that now they're
Speaker 5: beating their chests and bellowing about for Jimmy Kimmel. We
Speaker 5: will get to that list. It is shocking and worth remembering.
Speaker 4: Why is heg Zeth calling all those generals for an
Speaker 4: all hands on deck meeting all of a sudden at
Speaker 4: the Pentagon. Let's go to square next hour. I will
Speaker 4: pay off. Is gen z unemployable?
Speaker 2: I think yes? Damn near Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty