WEBVTT - I Could Have Designed A Fake Organization In An Afternoon! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:17.239 and Getty, and now he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.080 And to that end, I have created the brand new 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.640 Department of Government Efficiency. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.280 Go perhaps you've heard of it. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:40.200 Perhaps, thank you, Elan. You're working very hard. He didn't 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.159 need this. He didn't need this. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:43.920 Thank you very much. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.120 We appreciate it. Everybody here, even this side, appreciates that. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:48.000 I believe. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.600 They just don't want to admit that. Just listen to 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.520 some of the appalling waste. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:58.440 We have already. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:04.840 Identified two billion dollars from HHS to provide free housing 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:10.600 and cars for illegal aliens, Forty five million dollars for diversity, 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:16.440 equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma, forty million dollars to 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:21.559 improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:27.720 Nobody knows what that is. Eight million dollars to promote. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.240 He goes on and on with a whole bunch of 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.800 other good stuff that I'm happy they've cut out. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.240 Sedentary migrants. Get off your ass what nobody knows what 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:41.759 that is? That's hilarious. And you know what one thing 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.800 I noticed during the speech last night I took one 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.360 for the team and watched like an hour of it, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.480 was that Trump is so used to his raucous rallies 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.560 where people yell constantly while he's talking. He is utterly 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.920 unflapped by heckling. He doesn't care at all. He just 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.639 either addresses it or keeps going. It's up to him. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:58.640 Very good at that. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.280 I think that fits in with something Paul mcgala, who 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.400 helped Bill Clinton get elected back in the day. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.760 He was on CNN yesterday showmanship. It is his great gift. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.760 His guy's a great showman, but he understands better than anybody, 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.760 probably even better than Ronald Reagan, how to command attention. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.160 Yeah, well, he's a TV star. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.640 Ronald Reagan was an actor, but that's different than being 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.679 a standing up in front of a live crowd all 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.560 the time TV star sort of guy. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.760 Right, Even he's just a showman through and through, and 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.160 even when Trump was ninety percent just a real estate developer, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.320 he was the showman real estate developer. And other guys 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.520 who went about the gig more quietly and probably more 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.679 you know, effectively, or made more money. We're ill, I 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.880 was saying Trump's not that big a deal, but he's 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.000 a big deal when it comes to brand building. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.920 Anyway, what I wanted to bring up was the the 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.119 cutting waste thing in the doage thing. And I'm annoyed 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.600 by the cynics who say this is a drop in 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.280 the bucket, it's a rounding error, it will make no effect. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.040 Oh I care. I want to deal with the real 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.079 debt and deficit. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.160 Sure, the structural stuff is, they say. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.400 I do want to deal with that, But why would 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.880 I not be in favor of getting rid of this 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:19.960 wasteful stuff. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.240 I just I don't get that. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.520 And I've been saying I've been saying for years, but 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.120 I said last week, just like in a parallel universe 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:31.480 or if I could come back in life, one thing 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.960 I'd like to try to do is, starting at age eighteen, 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.160 just try to get government money. I think if you, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.000 if you put effort into it and work the system 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.360 and just paid attention to the news and saw where 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.280 the big chunks of money were going, you could fake 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.280 up a board or an organization or a charity or 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.120 a whatever and get big. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.080 Chunks of that money so easy. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.240 And I think there are millions of people across the 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.080 country that do that at the county, state, and federal level. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.280 That's all they do. Well, right that Stacey, I know 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.840 that sure, Like that Stacy Abrams organization we talked about. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.880 I think it was last week or early this week. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.360 They got twenty million dollars as Biden was going out 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.760 the door. And their name is like it's a random 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:19.400 hip woke word generator string together of social green justice 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.280 Fairness coalition. Well, I'm allowed to get into doing anything 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:23.200 or nothing some of that. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.080 Barry Weiss tweeted this out yesterday, this story, and it's 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.640 a lot of that stuff. The Department of Justice is 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:33.320 investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. It's a twenty seven 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.200 billion dollar program that was part of Biden's seven hundred 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.200 and forty billion dollar Inflation Reduction Act, which we all 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.320 know was the New Green Deal called the Inflation Reduction Act, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.280 and everybody fell for it. Well people didn't fall for it, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.400 but it passed. Created in the spring of twenty twenty 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.480 three and managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the fund 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.240 was supposed to be a first of its kind program 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.080 to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.960 considered historically left behind. Man, there's a lot of phrases 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.000 there that make you want to grab your wallet. But 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.920 Barry Weiss goes on to say, but it appears that 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.360 little of the twenty seven billion dollars revitalized anything except 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.680 the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.560 former Obama and Biden administration officials. The Biden administration used 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.320 so called climate equity, another phrase that makes me want 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.640 to grab my wallet. Make sure nobody steals it. The 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.440 Biden administration used so called climate equity to justify handouts 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:40.040 of billions of dollars to their far left friends Lee Zelden, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.479 for instance, the Trump administration's new EPA administer told the 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.119 Financial Press, it's my utmost priority to get a handle 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:50.960 on every dollar that went out the door in this 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.640 scheme and once again restore oversight and accountability over these funds. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:59.400 This shrawujah, this rush job operation is riddled with conflicts 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.320 of interest and corruption. A Free Press investigation reveals that 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.200 of the twenty seven billion, twenty billion was rushed out 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.800 the door. This is what you were talking about to 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.480 eight nonprofit groups after Biden lost the election, but before 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.760 Trump took office. As one former EPA official put it 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.880 on a secretly recorded video. It was akin to tossing 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.440 gold bars off the Titanic. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:27.719 It is grafted, pure and simple, and titanic amounts of it. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.000 I remember when these big trillion dollar deals passed and 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.279 Steve Hayes of the Dispatch said, they're going to be 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:40.400 unraveling for decades where this money went and how much 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.680 was just ripped off because there's just so much When 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.800 you have a trillion dollar deal, there's just so much money. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.560 A billion here or it's certainly fifty million here or there, 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.360 nobody'll ever hear about. I mean, it's got a rise 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.280 to the level of billions before the lever even make 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:56.920 the news. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.240 But like sure, if you consider that a trillion dollars 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.520 is one thousand billion, but. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.960 Some individual guy ending up with, you know, twenty million dollars, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.080 it would set you for life. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:08.840 Nobody will ever uncover that stuff. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.800 Anyway, back to this, the eight groups were allocated sums 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.520 ranging from four hundred million to six point nine billion. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.760 Several of them were formed in August twenty twenty three, 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.040 just one month after the grant applications went live. In 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.400 July of twenty twenty three, when it became clear that 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.880 the large nine and ten figure grants would be up 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:28.480 for grabs. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.480 The board. We are idiots. I too, I've gotten in 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.720 on that. I know. That's what I'm talking. I should 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.160 have designed a fake organization in an afternoon. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:41.160 Please, so this passes, you get wind from your friends 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.920 in Congress or whoever it is. That man, they've got 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.000 like one hundred billion dollar fund. They got to get 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.600 out the door. So you form some forty board the 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.240 save the planet from from greenhouse gas and help the 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.560 trans Commission. And you know me and my kids are 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.559 on it, and my parents and and if you're friends 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.560 with the righteo, they send fifty million dollars your way. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.200 Throw the word equity in there. It's just it's all powerful. Yeah. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.120 The boards and staff of these eight groups include Democratic donors, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.560 people with connections to Obama and Biden administrations, and prominent 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.480 Democrats as you mentioned, like Stacy Abrams. These are some 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:20.679 of the biggest grants to individual organizations in American history. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.720 And in your tax dollars, you bust your ass all 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.760 week long. You look at your gross pay and your 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.560 net pay. That's where it went. Now, do we have 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.080 you tune in so we can make you angry. No, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.960 not per se, but somebody needs to be angry about this. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:45.400 We can't de fleeced. Like if you are complacent in 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.760 the face of thievery, this egregious. You deserve the thievery. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.200 Would this be investigated, It's being investigated by the Justice Department. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.600 Would this be investigated if Kamala had won? 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.640 Of course not. That's hilarious. I know why I even 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:01.080 mention it. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:07.240 But the idea that when they've they had these twenty 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.960 billion dollars that rushed out the door after the election, 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.480 but before Trump took office, and some of these boards 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.960 were invented, you know, days after this happened, and they 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.280 got right anywhere between as she said, here road here 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.760 between four hundred million and six point nine billion dollars. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:33.439 They exist to receive the money. That's why they exist. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:40.600 It's horrifying. It is the only way that you can 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.920 combat this is to be against taxes. 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They're making honest inquiries to try to 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.960 figure out what's happening, which is kind of what we 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:57.680 do around here. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.760 Among things, we can get to this hour, quite a 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.600 bit of polling. Your snap polling came out last night 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.240 after the Trump's speech. Really good news for Trump, or 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.360 if you're a Trump fan, I'd say that, among other things, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:09.160 all the way, stay. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:16.240 Here thirty Los Angeles County detention officers charged for allegedly 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:21.400 facilitating these so called gladiator fights between juvenile detainees. The 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.680 Attorney General says from June to December of twenty twenty three, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.960 there were sixty nine fights involving one hundred and forty 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:32.079 three teenagers, the youngest just twelve years old. Man officers 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.480 now facing charges ranging from child abuse and battery to conspiracy, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.920 and the LA County Parole Department says all current staff 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.679 who have been charged are now on leave without paid. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.480 On leave are going to be fired. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.160 It's almost impossible to fire a lot of guards in 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:48.280 a lot of prisons. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.880 But that's why they're on leaf. Yeah. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.880 I thought that story was disgusting when I thought it 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.120 was an adult. Geez, you're pitting children against each other. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.679 Oh god, you are lots of them. You have been 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:04.079 around and ugly crowd prisoners for so long. You've lost 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.400 your humanity. You shouldn't be doing that job anymore. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.920 One of our listeners wrote, I think it was self 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.480 published a book years and years and years ago, and 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:13.800 he sent it to us, and I read part of 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.120 it and I kept it. It was I think it 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.520 was called how to create a monster. He'd worked in 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.400 the prison system for a long time, and his thesis 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.840 was that our prison system as it exists is almost 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.480 like it's designed to create the hardest, meanest people we 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.000 possibly can. And he was not coming at it from 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.960 some sort of liberal do good or turn them all 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.280 loose Gavin k newso nonsense. He was just thinking, we 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.920 really ought to reimagine this if we want to create, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.360 you know, citizens that we want to have around because 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.679 ninety whatever percent of them will get out eventually. Anyway, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.200 thought for evoking, Yeah, god, that's horrible. Yeah, it is 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:52.959 a totally different topic. Here. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.800 Target Jack big target man. Through the years, I'm a stockholder. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.440 I go to Target at least once a week, sometimes multiple. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.600 It's determined to bring back some of its lost Tarje Mojo. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.760 In fact, the CEO actually use the term targe on 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.360 a big call with investors. They want to refocus on 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.440 their traditional strengths, exciting merchandise and a great store experience. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:24.360 The original appeal for me was, it's not Walmart. It's 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.920 just a It's Walmart with better carts and a little cleaner. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.200 Oh wow, I'm working with the Rockefeller over here. Mister fancy. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.600 It's like it's like Nate Margatzi says Target. I don't 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.680 go to Target. I'm not We're not from old money. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.800 I've got to admit, and I tend to be a 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:51.920 forgiving person. I have a really hard time for giving them, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.000 not just for like rainbow t shirts, but like selling 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.960 tucking your little boy's penis garments so he can expl 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.160 his transgenderism. Stuffy, it's pretty awful. That is way way, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.520 way way beyond the pale. But you might see some 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.560 trying to class up the Target in a store near you. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:19.680 Speaking of consumer the affairs, this is literally consuming. Meet 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.560 the Cali sober set. No booze, but drugs are fine. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.040 California sober, Yeah, who are I mean? 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.160 Levato? Nevato? What is that singer name? She invented enough 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.120 she went into rehab and then was asked about towd 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.680 rehabits going she said, well, I'm California sober. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.840 I still smoke pot. So that is caught on as 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:39.160 a term. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:40.200 Right. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.760 Here's a thirty year old gal who they focus on 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.560 who has cut down her drinking since moving to southern 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.640 California in twenty nineteen, and then quote started doing big 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:55.640 doses of mushrooms instead. Now she's thirty, living in Topanga Canyon, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.040 where she whole hosts alcohol free pop up parties in 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.080 the LA area where she serves mood enhancing mocktails and 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.720 mushroom chocolates. All right, so alcohol is largely off the table, 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:11.760 but psychedelics are a big part of the the social scene. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.840 I'm not sure. I mean, if you were like drinking 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.000 to excess and you couldn't control it and you were 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.120 hurting your health and relationships and that sort of thing, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.240 you know, what the heck, if you can just do 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.400 something a little bit, I get that. But the idea that, yeah, 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.920 I've given up alcohol because it's harmful and now I 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:34.240 take powerful psychoactive drugs all the time, I would I 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:40.200 would advise caution. They mentioned that she started dabbling with 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.160 quote unquote plant medicine after cutting back on alcohol because 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:48.440 she's tired of hangovers. Yeah, and wanted different experiences. There 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:53.120 you go, Okay, she man, she does like all of 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.960 this stuff. Yeah, California sober is mostly mocked. I think 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.640 I don't think it's a thing other than big moncked. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.720 I'm a big to each your own guy. I will 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.080 just tell you this, and I've said this to young 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:10.359 people more than once. The idea of psychoactive drugs, which 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.080 you know can be fine to take if you believe that, 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.199 that's okay. The problem is the bargain you're striking is 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.800 I'm going to alter my brain chemistry and when I'm done, 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.200 it'll go back to normal. Then next week, I'm gonna 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.480 alter my brain chemistry and then it'll go back to normal. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.280 And you repeat that over and over and over again, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.800 and many people eventually their brain says, yeah, I'm not 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.680 going back to normal. I can't anymore. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.760 Yeah, Joe Rogan Elon and a lot of people swear 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.320 by it changed their lives forever in a profound way. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.080 Yeah, I'm not cynical about it. I'm just again advising caution. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.920 I'd hate to ruin my brain over it. You only 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:49.520 got to one what kind of you know, be minus 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.600 as it is, and sometimes you get ruined like the 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.160 first try. Right, it can happen. Yeah, that would suck. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.320 They did some snap polling on Trump's speech last night. Man, 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.720 pretty good reasons aults, breaking down different issues and everything 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.080 like that. He's got to be happy with that. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.560 Yeah, it's probably great results because it was so great 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:08.080 and kicks. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:10.840 If you miss this that's coming up. If you missed 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.720 a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.399 Demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.960 We have Marco Rubio in charge. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:20.720 Good luck Marco. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.800 Now we know who to blame if anything goes wrong. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.119 Marco has been amazing and he's going to do a 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:29.680 great job. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.520 So Marco Rubyo is the Secretary of State. A lot 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.160 going on foreign policy wise. But there was reporting yesterday, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:41.120 although all with unnamed sources. See, you never have any 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.240 idea if there's a grain of truth that these stories 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:43.600 are not. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:45.719 But there was some reporting yesterday. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.800 I forget where I saw it, real publication that Marco 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.760 Ruby is not happy with how being Secretary of State 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.560 has turned out, because it seems like Trump and Vance 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.639 and others are making foreign policy decisions kind of on 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:04.480 the flow, saying them out loud without his input or 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:08.160 his knowledge of what direction they're doing. It wouldn't shock 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.120 me that that's true. No, that's not an insane thing 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.439 to claim. No, but get into the speech in general. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.120 So what are you calling last night's. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.159 Speech the sootach the state of the ass kicking? 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.199 So Trump gives the longest speech ever for one of 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:29.880 those things, and the Democrats sat for everything that's never 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.920 happened before. And that's a new deal, no matter what 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.040 that mean to me. Kid to beat cancer. They didn't 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:36.800 stand in cheer. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:41.320 I mean, okay, well, Debbie Dingle of Michigan, I'm not 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.479 stealing your thunder here, am I. She actually plugged her 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.719 ears and rolled her eyes as people were a plodding 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:52.440 for the little kid who's fighting cancer. Good look, Debbie. Yeah. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.920 And then some of the issues that they won't stand for. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.359 You know, we're gonna end men in women's sports. Nobody 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.760 stood really, not even one, not a single vote the 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.520 other day, not even in some of those districts, like 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.520 whatever that woman was that gave the the rebuttal speech 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.000 last night, she was pretty good from Michigan, but they 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:16.240 chose her because Trump won her district and she won 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.840 as a Democrat. Even districts like that, there's not somebody 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.080 that wants to stand up and say, you know, I 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.640 kind of think dudes shouldn't be in girls' sports either. 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:28.399 That's just shocking that they're that uniform on such a 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.000 what seemed to me settled issue anyway. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.640 Yeah, No, dissent is allowed in the Democratic Party. Before 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.760 I get to some of the poet and even Politico 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:46.000 thought the democrats attempt at pushback fell flat. Politico wrote today, 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:47.520 Oh yeah, Rich Lowry. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.119 Rich Lowry, who's a man of the right but definitely 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.199 not a Trump fan, said, Uh, most people watching that 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.600 speech will be a loss for what they were supposed 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.240 to disagree with and wonder why Democrats were so glum 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.480 and disagreeable. Well, that would fit in with some of 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:08.119 the polling that came out the CNN snappole. Among speech 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:13.240 watcher views of Trump's speech, approve, seventy six percent disapproved 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:21.480 twenty three So seventy six twenty three approve. Among speech watchers' 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:26.560 issues you care about almost two thirds, a lot, twenty 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.800 eight percent, a little ten percent, none at all. So 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.200 speech made you feel hopeful, proud, worried, or angry. Those 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:40.160 are the options. Sixty eight percent hopeful, Uh, over half 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:44.480 prad for all of the quote unquote controversy, it had 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.159 a very positive vibe to it. 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.240 Yeah. 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:54.600 In the speech, Trump was presidential, entertaining, inspiring, unifying, divisive. 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:00.680 Three quarters said presidential, three quarters said entertaining. Seventy one 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:07.280 percent inspiring, sixty two percent unifying, and less than half divisive. Now, 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.920 my first thought upon seeing these numbers was, well, maybe 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.919 only Republicans watched, and it's not only Republicans, but it 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:18.800 was heavily Republicans. Party identification of speech watchers fifty one 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.359 percent Republicans, and then you split it among independents and 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:25.240 Democrats for the rest. But I don't know. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.760 I don't know what the numbers are on that. Usually. 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.360 I know, I've looked at these snap polls over the years, 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:35.720 and they're usually not that overwhelmingly favorable for a Democrat 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:40.399 or a Republican. I don't know about the makeup of 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.640 the audience. Do you remember is the Is it always 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.720 the case? I mean, I'm sure it's always the case 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.119