Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and he armstrong
Speaker 2: and yetty.
Speaker 3: This overturns a lower court order which had barred those
Speaker 3: removals from taking place. Here's Homeland Security Secretary Christinoum.
Speaker 4: Today's a bad day to be a terrorist in the
Speaker 4: United States of America. Today the Supreme Court came out
Speaker 4: with a decision that reaffirmed President Trump was correct in
Speaker 4: using his authority on using the Alien Enemies Act to
Speaker 4: deport terrorists out of this country.
Speaker 3: Attorney General Pambondi saying tonight's decision is a landmark victory
Speaker 3: for the rule of law. An activist judge in Washington,
Speaker 3: d C. Does not have the jurisdiction to seize control
Speaker 3: of President Trump's authority to conduct foreign policy and keep
Speaker 3: the American people safe.
Speaker 5: So the big headline that landed yesterday was from this
Speaker 5: is from the New York Times. The Supreme Court is
Speaker 5: allowing the Trump administration to use a wartime power law
Speaker 5: to deport Venezuelan's uh yeah.
Speaker 1: The reporting on Supreme Court decisions especially fairly technical preliminary
Speaker 1: decisions like this is absolutely as bad as the economic reporting.
Speaker 1: You were always griping about the dire indoor reporting on
Speaker 1: dire wolves on ABC, for instance, or NBC. Ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah it is. You might as well not hear the report.
Speaker 5: Okay, awesome. I glad you're going to fill us in.
Speaker 5: Because I didn't pay attention to this story.
Speaker 1: I find myself in a place of profound discouragement Jack.
Speaker 2: I was doing all my right through.
Speaker 5: I was doing all my research on ancient wolves, so
Speaker 5: I didn't have time to look into the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Somebody go get me my scotch. I need to, you know,
Speaker 1: screw my courage to the sticking place I just did.
Speaker 5: Did you see that on the third story on sixty
Speaker 5: minutes Sunday Night about oak barrels and whiskey.
Speaker 2: I did not. You should watch it. It'd be up
Speaker 2: your alley.
Speaker 5: It's all about the importance of oak barrels and how
Speaker 5: they continue to be as big a deal as they
Speaker 5: ever were.
Speaker 2: And it looked it made me, it made me want
Speaker 2: to drink whiskey. Wow.
Speaker 1: Necessarily great, But yeah, boy, I do enjoy my scotch
Speaker 1: in the evening anyway. So it was a five for
Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruling on Monday that lifted the lower court's order.
Speaker 1: You've heard about this judge, what's his name, Boburg or
Speaker 1: something like that, Bohsburg.
Speaker 2: That's right, Who's Washington d C. Judge and lefty.
Speaker 1: Anyway, he had said, you got to stop sending Venezuelan
Speaker 1: gang members to that Salvador and maximum security prison under
Speaker 1: the Alien Enemies Act.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at the videos of that. Why do they
Speaker 5: march everybody around pushing their head down?
Speaker 2: Are they all that bad? It must be a crowd
Speaker 2: of bad guys.
Speaker 1: And nobody can like mount or resistance in that posture.
Speaker 1: I know it looks incredibly uncomfortable, especially as an older fellow.
Speaker 2: So anyway, but the.
Speaker 1: Five to four Supreme Court ruling yesterday lifted the judges
Speaker 1: order blocking the deportations, but in a note that I
Speaker 1: find very encouraging for reasons i'll explain, the court also
Speaker 1: said the detainees were entitled to notice that they were
Speaker 1: being removed under the wartime measure and an opportunity to
Speaker 1: challenge their deportations before a federal judge in Texas, because
Speaker 1: that's where they are in the immigration lock up, where
Speaker 1: they're being held they cannot go before District Judge James
Speaker 1: Boseburg in Washington, d C. And get a favorable ruling anymore.
Speaker 1: So it absolutely is a affirmation of the Trump administration
Speaker 1: what it had been doing. But it also said, and
Speaker 1: I think this is absolutely appropriate, Hey slow down and
Speaker 1: give these people due process, because we give everybody due process,
Speaker 1: whatever that happens to be in the specific day.
Speaker 5: So Scarborough was saying this morning on Morning Join MSNBC,
Speaker 5: he said, smacked down by the Supreme Court for Trump,
Speaker 5: and I thought, okay, this is interesting. This is the
Speaker 5: opposite of the way I saw the headline yesterday he said,
Speaker 5: in those headlines that we heard to start the segment, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he said, with all nine justices saying he needs to
Speaker 5: go through due.
Speaker 2: Process for these people. So that that's correct, that's accurate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean that's a one sided interpretation
Speaker 1: of what was done. On the one hand, it was, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have this power under the Wartime Act as far
Speaker 1: as we can tell, but everybody has to go through
Speaker 1: due process. So it was, you know, a little peanut butter,
Speaker 1: a little jelly if you will, I.
Speaker 5: Don't know, a little league coach here and there, and
Speaker 5: ship them off to one of the worst prisons in
Speaker 5: the world.
Speaker 2: Omelet Eggs.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your finally wrought sarcasm, sir, but I tell
Speaker 1: you what. Looking into the case of the one Salvadoran
Speaker 1: fellow who was alleged to be a member of MS thirteen,
Speaker 1: different gang and got shipped off, and now there are
Speaker 1: a couple of suits and cases going on, and the
Speaker 1: judge ordered that he'd be brought back. Really interesting legal
Speaker 1: fight going on over that. I dug pretty deeply into
Speaker 1: it yesterday, including reading the transcripts of the actual case,
Speaker 1: and it was a serious mistake. I don't see any
Speaker 1: good evidence that the guy was an MS thirteen member.
Speaker 1: In fact, as a boy, a young boy, he was
Speaker 1: brought to the United States because the gang thing was
Speaker 1: so ugly where he lived, and they were trying to
Speaker 1: compel him to join the gang. For reasons that are
Speaker 1: a little complicated. His parents had a business. They're being
Speaker 1: extorted by the gangs, blah blah blah, horrible, and it
Speaker 1: was like, we need, we need young men in our gang.
Speaker 1: It'd be a shame of something happened to your business.
Speaker 1: So they said, you know, terrified and and grief stricken.
Speaker 1: Send the boy to live with his aunt and uncle
Speaker 1: in the US because this is too dangerous. He's never
Speaker 1: been accused of anything, he's never been arrested for anything.
Speaker 1: He had one informant who said he associates with quote
Speaker 1: unquote MS thirteen guys. Now it could be that that's true,
Speaker 1: and if he's an active MS thirteen guy, bring him back,
Speaker 1: go through due process, then ship his ass out. But
Speaker 1: here's here's the thing. And if you do not share
Speaker 1: this principle with me, we can't be friends. We have
Speaker 1: got to every time tell the government before you take
Speaker 1: away somebody's liberty or their property or their life, you
Speaker 1: prove to whatever level is appropriate. Because criminal law, civil law,
Speaker 1: immigration law, they all have different standards, which is fine,
Speaker 1: but you've got to prove to that standard that what
Speaker 1: you're doing is justified. Because if we the people start
Speaker 1: you know, going soft on well, he was an allegal immigrant,
Speaker 1: therefore we can do anything we want with them, even
Speaker 1: though he's been here for years and has an America
Speaker 1: wife and American children. It's very close to I said,
Speaker 1: they came for the Jews, and I said nothing. They
Speaker 1: came for the Catholics, and I said nothing, et cetera.
Speaker 1: We've just got to have that in place, even when
Speaker 1: it's annoying and time consuming. Now, does that include somebody
Speaker 1: who sneeze across the border and the border patrol grabs
Speaker 1: them right there.
Speaker 2: No turn around, boot their ass out. That's fine. Man,
Speaker 2: that's a horrible story.
Speaker 5: That reminds me of the Clint Eastwood movie Grand Tarino,
Speaker 5: where that poor kid was being you know, they're trying
Speaker 5: to force them into the gang. Yeah, you know, your
Speaker 5: parents don't want their kids to be in the gangs.
Speaker 5: But man, what an awful situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, I actually think this is a pretty balanced ruling.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look into it more. It's interesting because there
Speaker 1: have been three very similar cases, each of which has
Speaker 1: been five to four. But Justice Roberts and amy Cony
Speaker 1: Barrett's votes are very much in play, and she dissented.
Speaker 1: Amy Cony bar did at least in part and joined
Speaker 1: the three liberals on the case. And I have a
Speaker 1: feeling it is one of the most sacred conservative principles.
Speaker 1: And that is the big stupid bureaucracy. A government doesn't
Speaker 1: get to f with the people without really good reasons,
Speaker 1: and just because it's and I know I'm going against
Speaker 1: the grain here of a lot of talk radio. But
Speaker 1: just because it's a group that you don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of sympathy for, you give away that principle. And
Speaker 1: we don't have a country. We don't have our country
Speaker 1: anymore anyway. Enough said, So.
Speaker 5: You could portray it if you want to do, like
Speaker 5: a drive by media they've brought back the dire Wolf
Speaker 5: sort of headline. You could portray this as good news
Speaker 5: for the Trump administration or bad news for the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can keep doing it, but
Speaker 1: you've got to be more careful.
Speaker 2: That's what the ruling said.
Speaker 5: By all nine justicials. You got to follow due process. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: You either know what those two words mean or you
Speaker 5: really really really don't. But they are causing problems all
Speaker 5: across the country in movie theaters. It has grown exponentially
Speaker 5: since I brought it up yesterday. Wow, there's a problem
Speaker 5: for movie theaters. We've got an example of it coming up.
Speaker 5: Maybe warn your kids before they go to the Minecraft
Speaker 5: movie to keep them out of trouble. Chicken jockey, stay tuned, armstrong,
Speaker 5: chicken jockey. So my kids have been saying this for weeks.
Speaker 5: I didn't pay any attention to it, but I know
Speaker 5: they and their friends were saying chicken jockey for weeks.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a meme that has come out of
Speaker 5: the Minecraft movie, and like they ran enough promos that
Speaker 5: all the kids were aware of it, and it was
Speaker 5: already like the thing you had to say to each
Speaker 5: other to show your I don't know part of the
Speaker 5: tribe or however civilization works, this.
Speaker 2: Year's skivity, this month's or what.
Speaker 5: This is bigger than that and definitely more real than that.
Speaker 5: That was just so disappointing. I was disappointed in human
Speaker 5: guind for that one. Let me read from the Economic Times,
Speaker 5: which rights pretty in a funny way about this. Yeah,
Speaker 5: meet the chicken jockey. Tiny, rare and totally ununhinged unless
Speaker 5: you're a diehard Minecraft fan. That's where it comes from
Speaker 5: the movie. The term chicken jockey might sound like an
Speaker 5: odd combination of barnyard animal and rodeo event, but in
Speaker 5: Minecraft lore, this rare and quirky creature is something of
Speaker 5: a digital unicorn, a baby zombie writing a chicken. Its
Speaker 5: in game appearance is staggeringly rare, just a point to
Speaker 5: five percent chance if no chickens are nearby, and a
Speaker 5: point five percent chance if they are when you were
Speaker 5: playing Minecraft.
Speaker 2: But it little better with the presence of chickens.
Speaker 5: Every once in a while, it will just show up,
Speaker 5: and then it's very, very exciting. I guess then all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, you got a chicken jockey in your
Speaker 5: little Minecraft scenario that you're dealing with while you're playing
Speaker 5: your video games. So I mentioned I played this yesterday,
Speaker 5: you can start it. My son was at the movie
Speaker 5: theater with all his friends opening night for Chicken Jockey
Speaker 5: and he gets his phone out here let's listen, So
Speaker 5: everybody says chicken Jockey at the same time and collapse.
Speaker 5: And the fact that my son had his phone out
Speaker 5: already is I don't even know.
Speaker 2: What that is doing. It was coming and everything, but it's.
Speaker 5: Grown and it's become a thing. Here's the latest version
Speaker 5: of it, a different theater. People going wild, throwing things,
Speaker 5: jumping around, police having to come, people.
Speaker 2: Being leased, police coming, people being escorted out of theaters.
Speaker 1: And then people chanting and singing at them as they're
Speaker 1: dragged out.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So I'm just just letting you know because this is
Speaker 5: I'm guessing that's enough of that, Michael. I'm guessing that
Speaker 5: this weekend it is going to reach its zenith, would
Speaker 5: be my guess, and then it will go away forever.
Speaker 5: But it's going to be mayhem in the theaters. So
Speaker 5: just be prepared if you're sending your kid or going
Speaker 5: with your kids, Like if you're going with a younger kid,
Speaker 5: we're prepared to have popcorn thrown on your head when
Speaker 5: the chicken jockey appears.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm watching the strange mating rituals of
Speaker 1: the ostrich or something like that. These are humans and
Speaker 1: this is something they do.
Speaker 5: This this article in The Economic Times is really good
Speaker 5: divided fandom, hilarious hype or public nuisance.
Speaker 2: I'll have to do a deep dive on that. I
Speaker 2: don't know which it is actually.
Speaker 1: I just feel like The Economic Times is way out
Speaker 1: of its lane.
Speaker 2: But whatever. Jack.
Speaker 1: Speaking of chickens, everyone wants to raise chickens, but egg
Speaker 1: layers can be bad neighbors.
Speaker 5: It's the cost of eggs don't you know, as I've
Speaker 5: been saying for a couple of weeks, I don't know
Speaker 5: how many eggs you eat. Again, that's always my bottom line.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you eat fifty eggs a day, I
Speaker 5: suppose maybe you need to do something. But you do
Speaker 5: not want to get into the I'm owning chickens business
Speaker 5: just because the price of eggs is high for a while.
Speaker 2: I would suggest that there is.
Speaker 1: A failure to perform mathematics or right end, a failure
Speaker 1: to properly anticipate who's going to take care of the
Speaker 1: damn things. If you want to go on vacation or whatever, Hey,
Speaker 1: can you stop buy three times a day and tend
Speaker 1: to my chickens? No, not at any cost. A decade ago,
Speaker 1: Jack backyard chickens or on. We're more a niche for
Speaker 1: part time farmers and urban hipsters. But the COVID nineteen pandemic,
Speaker 1: and more recently the spiking egg prices has sent America's
Speaker 1: Americans flocking for their own poultry.
Speaker 2: It's plan worse.
Speaker 5: Wow, they said, flocking, and we're talking about birds. That's
Speaker 5: really something.
Speaker 1: There were eleven million households with backyard chickens last year,
Speaker 1: up from about half that number in twenty eighteen, according
Speaker 1: to the American Pet Products Association. Even US Agriculture Secretary
Speaker 1: Brook Rollins recently jumped in, by the way, what percentage
Speaker 1: of Americans could name the egg secretary?
Speaker 2: Well, maybe in the heartline they could.
Speaker 1: Anyway, recently jumped in saying she wants to help Americans
Speaker 1: save money by making it easier to raise their own
Speaker 1: egg layers.
Speaker 2: You're going to save money by.
Speaker 1: First of all, making sure that you can do this
Speaker 1: wherever you live, because there is noise and chicken guano
Speaker 1: is so stinky, and the startup call.
Speaker 2: And all of the care they take, they require it.
Speaker 5: It's the Uh, it's your time. So if you like
Speaker 5: this as a hobby, cool, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, being being a gentleman farmer, a gentlewoman farmer. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you like I mean, if you can figure out
Speaker 1: how to make this work, you know, it's it's it's interesting,
Speaker 1: it's primal, it's it's agriculture, which is great.
Speaker 5: But I was thinking about this while I was dealing
Speaker 5: with my computer, which I still want to talk about.
Speaker 5: In the many hours I invested in trying to get
Speaker 5: my son's computer fixed, and this article I read a
Speaker 5: couple of years ago. I wish I could find it.
Speaker 5: It was so good. I talked about it on the
Speaker 5: air a lot about calculating what your time is worth
Speaker 5: and thinking about that on a regular basis.
Speaker 2: Oh, I remember.
Speaker 5: Bird flu, bird flu coincidental thinking about what your time
Speaker 5: is worth. And and most people, including me, don't do that.
Speaker 5: And you you do a lot of things you probably
Speaker 5: shouldn't do. You should either hire somebody to do or something,
Speaker 5: because you would never take that job for the amount
Speaker 5: of money that you're getting paid, which is nothing. But
Speaker 5: you would never take that job before even a decent
Speaker 5: amount of money, because no, I'm not gonna spend my
Speaker 5: Saturday X, you know, driving to Best Buys to try
Speaker 5: to get my computer fixed. I mean, if somebody approach you, hey,
Speaker 5: I'll give you fifty bucks to spend your entire Saturday
Speaker 5: afternoon dealing with this computer thing.
Speaker 1: You take no way, but you know it's what are
Speaker 1: you saved by driving or whatever?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right, And it's just it doesn't quite make sense. And
Speaker 5: the same thing with the chicken thing. How much is
Speaker 5: your time worth?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: If you if you're enjoying this, fine, but are you
Speaker 5: do you want to spend an hour a day or
Speaker 5: two hours a day, or it ends.
Speaker 2: Up being to get cheaper eggs.
Speaker 1: I did not even get to my favorite chicken statistics.
Speaker 2: Does it involved jockeys at all?
Speaker 1: No, these are unjockeyed chickens. That's the hot thing right now.
Speaker 1: You got to get a jockey involved.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: The reason we're not talking about tariffs with Russia is
Speaker 6: because we're not doing business essentially with Russia because they're
Speaker 6: in a war and I'm not happy about what's going
Speaker 6: on with.
Speaker 2: The bombing.
Speaker 6: Is a bombing like crazy right now. I don't know
Speaker 6: what's happening there. That's not a good situation. So we're
Speaker 6: meeting with Russia, we're meeting with Ukraine, and we're getting
Speaker 6: sort of close, but I'm not happy with all the
Speaker 6: bombing that's going in the last week or so.
Speaker 5: So Trump once again in the Oval Office yesterday with
Speaker 5: Benjamin nuttyaw who took some questions, and that.
Speaker 2: One about the.
Speaker 5: Peace process between Russia and Ukraine. I don't know if
Speaker 5: a peace process exists in any way. Actually they're trying
Speaker 5: to get one started. Unless he starts saying even stronger
Speaker 5: things about Russia. There is no leverage against Russia. Why
Speaker 5: would they quit? No him, So that's that one. And
Speaker 5: then the other hot spot in the world is Iran,
Speaker 5: and he was asked about that.
Speaker 7: We're having direct talks with Iran and they've started. It'll
Speaker 7: go on Saturday, we have a very big meeting, or
Speaker 7: we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees
Speaker 7: that doing a deal would be preferable to.
Speaker 2: Doing the obvious.
Speaker 7: And the obvious is not something that I want to
Speaker 7: be involved with, or frankly that Israel wants to be
Speaker 7: involved with if they can avoid it. So when going
Speaker 7: to see if.
Speaker 5: We can avoid it, and the obvious is what he
Speaker 5: talked about last week, which is a bombing the likes
Speaker 5: of which they have never seen or the world has
Speaker 5: never seen, or some language like that.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 1: That's that's well put, it's well stated. I think he's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. It's going to be a hell
Speaker 1: of a tough nut to crack. The Iranians are among
Speaker 1: the best at appearing to cooperate and sign a deal
Speaker 1: meanwhile continuing their efforts, but Trump knows that well.
Speaker 5: There are various claims that Iran is just days from
Speaker 5: being able to put together a nuclear weapon and then
Speaker 5: that changes everything in the Middle East. So the difference
Speaker 5: between this and the Russia thing is obviously the leverage
Speaker 5: of he has stated out loud, We're going to bomb
Speaker 5: the crap out of you. If you don't, we will
Speaker 5: take out your nuclear program if you don't agree to,
Speaker 5: you know, pare it down to something that's only about energy.
Speaker 5: So that don't have that leverage with Russia. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: why don't we have that leverage with Russia because they
Speaker 5: have nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2: That's why you don't want Iran to get nuclear weapons. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they have the most nuclear weapons. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: I would say that's exactly the right bargaining posture with Iran.
Speaker 1: Anything else is just fantasy land.
Speaker 2: Well, that'll be exciting.
Speaker 1: You think he comes to a deal with him, or
Speaker 1: do you think the bombs fly?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think we end up bombing us in Israel.
Speaker 2: How certain are you? I don't know. I'm over fifty percent.
Speaker 5: But I also can't come up with why Iran wouldn't
Speaker 5: realize at some point Jesus, what is what? What advantage
Speaker 5: do we get out of getting bombed back through?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Have enough? Yeah? The only thing that we won't let
Speaker 2: This is what I'm certain of.
Speaker 5: We will not let Iran get Trump will not let
Speaker 5: Iran get a nuclear weapon. Biden said that, but would
Speaker 5: have let them get a nuclear weapon rather than bombing
Speaker 5: and Obama.
Speaker 1: Obama was so in love with his own diplomatic skills
Speaker 1: he was not a realist.
Speaker 2: Trump will not let them get a nuclear weapon. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: uh yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I agree with you about the most probable results.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see unfold.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: What I started to say was the only wild card
Speaker 1: that Westerners must always remind ourselves of, which is why
Speaker 1: I harp on this so much.
Speaker 2: Islamism is willing.
Speaker 1: To sacrifice virtually anything to bring on the ultimate victory
Speaker 1: of Islam, and there's a particular sub sect that's well
Speaker 1: represented by the Mullahs that believes the only way to
Speaker 1: bring on the I don't want to get too theological,
Speaker 1: but the coming of the great and glorious day is
Speaker 1: through cataclysm, through utter chaos, the battle for the universe
Speaker 1: and the hearts of mankind. So I guarantee you there's
Speaker 1: a faction Iran that says, oh, bring on the horrifying
Speaker 1: attack from the infidels. That's exactly what we need to
Speaker 1: galvanize the Islamic world.
Speaker 5: And anytime you unleash the dogs of war, you don't
Speaker 5: know what's going to happen. That's always been the case
Speaker 5: throughout history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very true.
Speaker 1: So speaking of Islamism, a couple of headlines, leadership crisis
Speaker 1: is compounding the decline of the Palestinian cause. Uh Hamas
Speaker 1: is is devastated, and and and Fatah.
Speaker 2: If you're not into.
Speaker 1: This, they're the like, more political, more reasonable leadership that's
Speaker 1: mostly on the West Bank for the Palestinians, but they're
Speaker 1: utterly corrupt and completely ineffective. So you know, you're beleaguered
Speaker 1: Palestinian folk. They get to choose between the lunatics of
Speaker 1: Hamas and the fat, thieving bureaucrats of Fatah, and no
Speaker 1: third alternative has has arisen. And after you know, the
Speaker 1: failings of yes or Era fat and just everybody who's
Speaker 1: claimed to be their leader, who was the jackass, who
Speaker 1: was the latest to hold negotiations then back out at
Speaker 1: the last second when they had a great deal.
Speaker 2: Mack Mudubas, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, there's there's They're in miserable, miserable shape, And
Speaker 1: I think this is a pretty good description. The Gaza
Speaker 1: strip is in ruins. Many residents might leave orb be
Speaker 1: pushed out. Following the war sparked by October seventh attacks,
Speaker 1: Palestinian territory in the West Bank is divided by ever
Speaker 1: expanding Israeli settlements. Middle East countries have been building ties
Speaker 1: with Israel and allies such as Iran and the Lebanese
Speaker 1: militia Hesbola were battered by Israeli attacks last year. Palestinians, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: are fighting with each other, caught between violent groups such
Speaker 1: as Hamas and the nationalist Fatah.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah, which we were just describing.
Speaker 1: You know, if you were if this was some sort
Speaker 1: of simulation in a political science class and putting aside
Speaker 1: the names and you know all and you were asked
Speaker 1: as a student, when you're looking at this trend line,
Speaker 1: what do you think is the most likely, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: set of developments, looking say five years down the road.
Speaker 1: I think any student worth the damn I mean, Jack,
Speaker 1: you can jump in here if you want, if you
Speaker 1: want to answer that question. My answer would be, uh no,
Speaker 1: those people are headed for a complete defeat and either
Speaker 1: assimilation with the new ruling party or they will be
Speaker 1: pushed aside and go find somewhere else to live.
Speaker 5: And decimating people is not what we do in the
Speaker 5: modern world, so it'll be interesting to see if that
Speaker 5: happens like the old timey days, where you actually just
Speaker 5: completely defeat your enemy to the point that they can't
Speaker 5: mount a offensive against you anymore. We don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, And as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: read a great think piece and shared in on the air,
Speaker 1: there is no case in history last several hundred years
Speaker 1: where one neighbor has launched an unprovoked attack on its
Speaker 1: neighbor and lost that it did not lose its land.
Speaker 5: Of course, sovereignty, of course, it seems like the obvious
Speaker 5: end to that sentence.
Speaker 1: So it's this bizarro conceit of the polite pinking the
Speaker 1: air modern world that, oh, well, they launched a deadly
Speaker 1: and horrifying attack, including the murder of babies and rapes
Speaker 1: and the rest of it out of nowhere, and we've
Speaker 1: defeated them. But we must now go and live side
Speaker 1: by side and seek a to state solution. Though that's
Speaker 1: never happened in human israe.
Speaker 5: So I learned something interesting the other day journalist Douglas Murray,
Speaker 5: if you know his act, he's on a Lex Friedman's podcast,
Speaker 5: and he's done a lot, spent a lot of time
Speaker 5: in Israel and Gaza over the last you know, since
Speaker 5: October seventh, then before. But he explained it in a
Speaker 5: way I hadn't heard before about how Net and Yahoo
Speaker 5: and the Israeli government was asleep at the switch that
Speaker 5: allowed October seventh to happen. Now a lot of the
Speaker 5: Net and Yaho are Net Yaho haters have portrayed it
Speaker 5: as like some sort of evil deal he had made
Speaker 5: with Hamas or something like that, something untour. Douglas Murray's
Speaker 5: take on it was just that they had become convinced Net,
Speaker 5: Yahoo and most of the Israeli government had become convinced
Speaker 5: that Hamas no longer meant what they.
Speaker 2: Said, that they had become decadent.
Speaker 5: They had Israel had allowed them to accumulate so much
Speaker 5: wealth and comfort that they were not the kind of
Speaker 5: thread anymore that they used to be. The super high
Speaker 5: level rich guys were living in those apartments in do
Speaker 5: Bai or whatever, and they were stealing all the money
Speaker 5: and they got yachts and homes around the world, and
Speaker 5: net Yahoo and those around him just thought, they're not
Speaker 5: going to blow that up.
Speaker 2: That's not human nature.
Speaker 1: So the fiery rhetoric was just to you know, keep
Speaker 1: the people right, oil and the rest of right.
Speaker 2: And he actually believed that.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I could see where you'd come to believe that,
Speaker 5: like what, they're gonna blow up the cushiest gig ever.
Speaker 5: They're all billionaires and living you know, lives everyone wants
Speaker 5: to live. They're gonna blow that up to actually.
Speaker 2: Go to war with Israel. No, no flipping away, And they.
Speaker 1: Did well, and especially under the Obama and Biden years,
Speaker 1: the greatest superpower on earth was ordering them stop acting
Speaker 1: like there's an attack imminent, wars im and a you
Speaker 1: gotta live side by side two state solution blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And then Europe, you know, one to hear other, big important,
Speaker 1: influential you know groups was saying exactly the same thing.
Speaker 1: And they'd look over there and think, you know, they
Speaker 1: are living pretty good lives and they say they're just
Speaker 1: gonna govern now and not be a militant organization. There'd
Speaker 1: be a hell of a temptation to believe it.
Speaker 5: And the other thing Douglas Moore Murray points out, which
Speaker 5: everybody points out, is Gaza is just rubble. Now, it's
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of people and rubble. So even if
Speaker 5: every member of Hamas's killed the day, now what who
Speaker 5: Who's gonna rebuild that?
Speaker 2: And why? And who's gonna pay for it? And why? Wow?
Speaker 2: What a man.
Speaker 1: Trump made reference just yesterday again to owning Gaza. If
Speaker 1: the US were to run it and own it, that
Speaker 1: would benefit to many many people Gaza Lago.
Speaker 5: Well, who else is gonna step in and want to
Speaker 5: run it or build it back up? What's your investment
Speaker 5: get you?
Speaker 1: Well, unless there develops a giant market for rubble around
Speaker 1: the world, Yeah, where's that money going to come from?
Speaker 1: Unless it's real estate speculation, because it's spectacular real estate.
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, that story's got a lot yet to be written,
Speaker 5: no doubt.
Speaker 1: And you know what, honestly, not to come off like
Speaker 1: some old Testament profit or something like that. But in
Speaker 1: the span of history, the unfortunate circumstance of the quote
Speaker 1: unquote Palestinian people between the nineteen forties and today, that's
Speaker 1: not even a blip in human history. So they get
Speaker 1: shoved to side and got to live over there.
Speaker 2: History would not even yawn at it. It would even
Speaker 2: blink at it. It's not even worth remarking on.
Speaker 1: And yet in the modern world, modern media, video everywhere,
Speaker 1: and student activists and the best of it, everybody's acting
Speaker 1: like it's like the end of the industrialization of mankind
Speaker 1: or like one of the greatest happenings in human history.
Speaker 1: And I realized, I sound cold and saying this, but seriously,
Speaker 1: it's not no.
Speaker 5: The small number of people that are gonna lose their
Speaker 5: chuckle land yeah and go live elsewhere. And it wasn't
Speaker 5: working out anyway. Stocker Markets on why is that? Well,
Speaker 5: there are a couple of stories behind that we can
Speaker 5: bring to you maybe an hour four. If you don't
Speaker 5: get that, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1: Strong.
Speaker 2: This is going viral.
Speaker 6: A New York City delivery worker was caught on video.
Speaker 1: Dropping a pizza on the street, then picking it up
Speaker 1: and putting.
Speaker 2: It back in the box.
Speaker 1: Customers like, as long as it doesn't have any pineapple, I'll try.
Speaker 2: I like pineapple on my pizza. I do too.
Speaker 5: Our four some tariff talk that I think is interesting,
Speaker 5: but that that made you growan We do have a
Speaker 5: story about two identical twin dudes who married two identical
Speaker 5: twin women in a coat ceremony, and there's way more
Speaker 5: things that are the same.
Speaker 2: It's very interesting.
Speaker 1: And did that cause a wrinkle in the fabric of
Speaker 1: time or did they breed a super baby?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 2: Does seem like it should be in the Loki Show
Speaker 2: or something?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, h so great, Yeah baby, join us.
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Speaker 1: to the podcast Armstrung and gettion demanded. I wish we
Speaker 1: had a little more time for this, but I just
Speaker 1: came across not long ago one of the most beautiful
Speaker 1: and touching things that I've seen in a very long time,
Speaker 1: and that is a a farewell message from me a love.
Speaker 2: Do you recognize that name?
Speaker 1: She was the young black woman who's elected the Congress
Speaker 1: in Utah. She'd been a mayor and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: She was the first black back woman Republican in the
Speaker 1: House of Representatives and.
Speaker 2: Really interesting person.
Speaker 1: She died recently of brain cancer, and she wrote what
Speaker 1: she said not a good was not a goodbye message,
Speaker 1: but a thank you message, and it is absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1: And again I wish I had time for more, but
Speaker 1: I'll give you a little bit of it, dear friends,
Speaker 1: fellow Americans and Utah. And so I'm taking up my
Speaker 1: pen not to say goodbye, but to say thank you
Speaker 1: and express my living wish for you and the America
Speaker 1: I know. And then she describes the end of the
Speaker 1: battle with brain cancer and why she and her family
Speaker 1: have decided that now it's time to just be with
Speaker 1: each other as posed more treatments. Anybody who's gone through
Speaker 1: that terrible experience notes which she's talking about. As mayor,
Speaker 1: member of Congress, and media commentator, I've seen the worst
Speaker 1: of petty politics, devisive rhetoric, and disappointing lapses of moral
Speaker 1: character by some. These same roles also provided me a
Speaker 1: front row seat and a back stage pass to be
Speaker 1: blessed and inspired by the courage, vision, and hope of
Speaker 1: America's finest daughters, sons, and citizens. Couching this column as
Speaker 1: a dying wish felt a little dramatic, even for a
Speaker 1: drama person like me. We are not certain how long
Speaker 1: the season of my battle will be, and I do
Speaker 1: want to share and reshare some things with the world
Speaker 1: that I passionately believe I write all of this is
Speaker 1: my living wish and hopefully enduring wish for you. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you about the America I know. My parents
Speaker 1: immigrate into the United States with ten dollars in their
Speaker 1: pocket and a belief that the America they heard about
Speaker 1: really did exist as the land of opportunity. Through hard
Speaker 1: work and great sacrifice, they achieved success. So the America
Speaker 1: I came to know growing up was filled with all
Speaker 1: the excitement found in living the American dream. I was
Speaker 1: taught to love this country warts and all, and I
Speaker 1: understand I had a role to play in our nation's future.
Speaker 1: I learned to passionately believe in the possibilities and promise
Speaker 1: of America. Then she talks a lot about watching her
Speaker 1: mom and dad work our odd jobs to provide for
Speaker 1: the kids and the education that they got.
Speaker 5: God, I hate to turn this negative, but that's what
Speaker 5: I do. It makes me nuts that there are so
Speaker 5: many children of privilege on college campuses. I mean, you
Speaker 5: grew up an upper class lifestyle. Now you're at an
Speaker 5: expensive university and you're down and sad in our anxiety medicine,
Speaker 5: and became angry because you believe the country's so off
Speaker 5: awful and you can't make it right?
Speaker 2: Oh right?
Speaker 1: That just to me, You know, I don't hands are
Speaker 1: the devil's playthings. That just shows the corrosive power of
Speaker 1: lack of purpose and anyway, and this part I love too.
Speaker 1: Watching my mother and father work at odd jobs in
Speaker 1: order to provide for us and maintain their independence taught
Speaker 1: me valuable lessons and personal responsibility. When tough times came,
Speaker 1: they didn't look to Washington. They looked within because the
Speaker 1: America they knew was centered in self reliance. The America
Speaker 1: I know is founded in the freedom self reliance always brings.
Speaker 1: What makes America great is the idea that when government
Speaker 1: is limited and decisions are made.
Speaker 2: Closest to the people they impact.
Speaker 1: People are free, free to work, free to live, free
Speaker 1: to choose, free to fail, and free to achieve. The
Speaker 1: America I know provides everyone an equal opportunity to be
Speaker 1: as unequal as they choose to be. We will have
Speaker 1: a link to this entire essay at Armstrong and getty
Speaker 1: dot com. I say just you very strongly. You read it,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot more to it.
Speaker 5: What said saying of whether you think you can or
Speaker 5: you think you can't you're right, you're right. It reminds
Speaker 5: me of that with the philosophy of you either believe
Speaker 5: this is a country where you can work hard and
Speaker 5: make it, or you don't. You believe that that's a
Speaker 5: lie that people tell you. I've heard Bruce Springsteen say
Speaker 5: that they push this lie that you work hard and
Speaker 5: you'll make it.
Speaker 2: Afe youw Bruce, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I need my sociology lessons from guitar players.
Speaker 1: Gritty determination you're gonna win, sniffling victim, you're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: That's just true, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm