Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Getty, and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: And to that end, I have created the brand new
Speaker 2: Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 1: Go perhaps you've heard of it.
Speaker 2: Perhaps, thank you, Elan. You're working very hard. He didn't
Speaker 2: need this. He didn't need this.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Everybody here, even this side, appreciates that.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 2: They just don't want to admit that. Just listen to
Speaker 2: some of the appalling waste.
Speaker 1: We have already.
Speaker 2: Identified two billion dollars from HHS to provide free housing
Speaker 2: and cars for illegal aliens, Forty five million dollars for diversity,
Speaker 2: equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma, forty million dollars to
Speaker 2: improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows what that is. Eight million dollars to promote.
Speaker 3: He goes on and on with a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: other good stuff that I'm happy they've cut out.
Speaker 1: Sedentary migrants. Get off your ass what nobody knows what
Speaker 1: that is? That's hilarious. And you know what one thing
Speaker 1: I noticed during the speech last night I took one
Speaker 1: for the team and watched like an hour of it,
Speaker 1: was that Trump is so used to his raucous rallies
Speaker 1: where people yell constantly while he's talking. He is utterly
Speaker 1: unflapped by heckling. He doesn't care at all. He just
Speaker 1: either addresses it or keeps going. It's up to him.
Speaker 1: Very good at that.
Speaker 3: I think that fits in with something Paul mcgala, who
Speaker 3: helped Bill Clinton get elected back in the day.
Speaker 1: He was on CNN yesterday showmanship. It is his great gift.
Speaker 3: His guy's a great showman, but he understands better than anybody,
Speaker 3: probably even better than Ronald Reagan, how to command attention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's a TV star.
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan was an actor, but that's different than being
Speaker 3: a standing up in front of a live crowd all
Speaker 3: the time TV star sort of guy.
Speaker 1: Right, Even he's just a showman through and through, and
Speaker 1: even when Trump was ninety percent just a real estate developer,
Speaker 1: he was the showman real estate developer. And other guys
Speaker 1: who went about the gig more quietly and probably more
Speaker 1: you know, effectively, or made more money. We're ill, I
Speaker 1: was saying Trump's not that big a deal, but he's
Speaker 1: a big deal when it comes to brand building.
Speaker 3: Anyway, what I wanted to bring up was the the
Speaker 3: cutting waste thing in the doage thing. And I'm annoyed
Speaker 3: by the cynics who say this is a drop in
Speaker 3: the bucket, it's a rounding error, it will make no effect.
Speaker 3: Oh I care. I want to deal with the real
Speaker 3: debt and deficit.
Speaker 1: Sure, the structural stuff is, they say.
Speaker 3: I do want to deal with that, But why would
Speaker 3: I not be in favor of getting rid of this
Speaker 3: wasteful stuff.
Speaker 1: I just I don't get that.
Speaker 3: And I've been saying I've been saying for years, but
Speaker 3: I said last week, just like in a parallel universe
Speaker 3: or if I could come back in life, one thing
Speaker 3: I'd like to try to do is, starting at age eighteen,
Speaker 3: just try to get government money. I think if you,
Speaker 3: if you put effort into it and work the system
Speaker 3: and just paid attention to the news and saw where
Speaker 3: the big chunks of money were going, you could fake
Speaker 3: up a board or an organization or a charity or
Speaker 3: a whatever and get big.
Speaker 1: Chunks of that money so easy.
Speaker 3: And I think there are millions of people across the
Speaker 3: country that do that at the county, state, and federal level.
Speaker 1: That's all they do. Well, right that Stacey, I know
Speaker 1: that sure, Like that Stacy Abrams organization we talked about.
Speaker 1: I think it was last week or early this week.
Speaker 1: They got twenty million dollars as Biden was going out
Speaker 1: the door. And their name is like it's a random
Speaker 1: hip woke word generator string together of social green justice
Speaker 1: Fairness coalition. Well, I'm allowed to get into doing anything
Speaker 1: or nothing some of that.
Speaker 3: Barry Weiss tweeted this out yesterday, this story, and it's
Speaker 3: a lot of that stuff. The Department of Justice is
Speaker 3: investigating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. It's a twenty seven
Speaker 3: billion dollar program that was part of Biden's seven hundred
Speaker 3: and forty billion dollar Inflation Reduction Act, which we all
Speaker 3: know was the New Green Deal called the Inflation Reduction Act,
Speaker 3: and everybody fell for it. Well people didn't fall for it,
Speaker 3: but it passed. Created in the spring of twenty twenty
Speaker 3: three and managed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the fund
Speaker 3: was supposed to be a first of its kind program
Speaker 3: to address the climate crisis while revitalizing communities that it
Speaker 3: considered historically left behind. Man, there's a lot of phrases
Speaker 3: there that make you want to grab your wallet. But
Speaker 3: Barry Weiss goes on to say, but it appears that
Speaker 3: little of the twenty seven billion dollars revitalized anything except
Speaker 3: the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with
Speaker 3: former Obama and Biden administration officials. The Biden administration used
Speaker 3: so called climate equity, another phrase that makes me want
Speaker 3: to grab my wallet. Make sure nobody steals it. The
Speaker 3: Biden administration used so called climate equity to justify handouts
Speaker 3: of billions of dollars to their far left friends Lee Zelden,
Speaker 3: for instance, the Trump administration's new EPA administer told the
Speaker 3: Financial Press, it's my utmost priority to get a handle
Speaker 3: on every dollar that went out the door in this
Speaker 3: scheme and once again restore oversight and accountability over these funds.
Speaker 3: This shrawujah, this rush job operation is riddled with conflicts
Speaker 3: of interest and corruption. A Free Press investigation reveals that
Speaker 3: of the twenty seven billion, twenty billion was rushed out
Speaker 3: the door. This is what you were talking about to
Speaker 3: eight nonprofit groups after Biden lost the election, but before
Speaker 3: Trump took office. As one former EPA official put it
Speaker 3: on a secretly recorded video. It was akin to tossing
Speaker 3: gold bars off the Titanic.
Speaker 1: It is grafted, pure and simple, and titanic amounts of it.
Speaker 3: I remember when these big trillion dollar deals passed and
Speaker 3: Steve Hayes of the Dispatch said, they're going to be
Speaker 3: unraveling for decades where this money went and how much
Speaker 3: was just ripped off because there's just so much When
Speaker 3: you have a trillion dollar deal, there's just so much money.
Speaker 3: A billion here or it's certainly fifty million here or there,
Speaker 3: nobody'll ever hear about. I mean, it's got a rise
Speaker 3: to the level of billions before the lever even make
Speaker 3: the news.
Speaker 1: But like sure, if you consider that a trillion dollars
Speaker 1: is one thousand billion, but.
Speaker 3: Some individual guy ending up with, you know, twenty million dollars,
Speaker 3: it would set you for life.
Speaker 1: Nobody will ever uncover that stuff.
Speaker 3: Anyway, back to this, the eight groups were allocated sums
Speaker 3: ranging from four hundred million to six point nine billion.
Speaker 3: Several of them were formed in August twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: just one month after the grant applications went live. In
Speaker 3: July of twenty twenty three, when it became clear that
Speaker 3: the large nine and ten figure grants would be up
Speaker 3: for grabs.
Speaker 1: The board. We are idiots. I too, I've gotten in
Speaker 1: on that. I know. That's what I'm talking. I should
Speaker 1: have designed a fake organization in an afternoon.
Speaker 3: Please, so this passes, you get wind from your friends
Speaker 3: in Congress or whoever it is. That man, they've got
Speaker 3: like one hundred billion dollar fund. They got to get
Speaker 3: out the door. So you form some forty board the
Speaker 3: save the planet from from greenhouse gas and help the
Speaker 3: trans Commission. And you know me and my kids are
Speaker 3: on it, and my parents and and if you're friends
Speaker 3: with the righteo, they send fifty million dollars your way.
Speaker 1: Throw the word equity in there. It's just it's all powerful. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The boards and staff of these eight groups include Democratic donors,
Speaker 3: people with connections to Obama and Biden administrations, and prominent
Speaker 3: Democrats as you mentioned, like Stacy Abrams. These are some
Speaker 3: of the biggest grants to individual organizations in American history.
Speaker 1: And in your tax dollars, you bust your ass all
Speaker 1: week long. You look at your gross pay and your
Speaker 1: net pay. That's where it went. Now, do we have
Speaker 1: you tune in so we can make you angry. No,
Speaker 1: not per se, but somebody needs to be angry about this.
Speaker 1: We can't de fleeced. Like if you are complacent in
Speaker 1: the face of thievery, this egregious. You deserve the thievery.
Speaker 3: Would this be investigated, It's being investigated by the Justice Department.
Speaker 3: Would this be investigated if Kamala had won?
Speaker 1: Of course not. That's hilarious. I know why I even
Speaker 1: mention it.
Speaker 3: But the idea that when they've they had these twenty
Speaker 3: billion dollars that rushed out the door after the election,
Speaker 3: but before Trump took office, and some of these boards
Speaker 3: were invented, you know, days after this happened, and they
Speaker 3: got right anywhere between as she said, here road here
Speaker 3: between four hundred million and six point nine billion dollars.
Speaker 1: They exist to receive the money. That's why they exist.
Speaker 1: It's horrifying. It is the only way that you can
Speaker 1: combat this is to be against taxes. It's your only
Speaker 1: Who the rich going to pay their fair share of this?
Speaker 1: S no kidding, God dang.
Speaker 3: It, it's so frustrating.
Speaker 1: I mean, it makes you so cynical.
Speaker 3: Does it make you feel okay about cheating on your taxes?
Speaker 1: I don't know how it wouldn't if.
Speaker 3: You can, we certainly don't suggest that on any level. Yeah,
Speaker 3: push it as hard as you can.
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Speaker 1: Oh, if we can just whip up the fervor a
Speaker 1: little bit for more fiscal conservatism in this country, we'll
Speaker 1: be doing our children and grandchildren of great service. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean you and me, I mean all of us, friends,
Speaker 1: all of us again, just oh, such SAPs. And this
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Speaker 3: Among things, we can get to this hour, quite a
Speaker 3: bit of polling. Your snap polling came out last night
Speaker 3: after the Trump's speech. Really good news for Trump, or
Speaker 3: if you're a Trump fan, I'd say that, among other things,
Speaker 3: all the way, stay.
Speaker 4: Here thirty Los Angeles County detention officers charged for allegedly
Speaker 4: facilitating these so called gladiator fights between juvenile detainees. The
Speaker 4: Attorney General says from June to December of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: there were sixty nine fights involving one hundred and forty
Speaker 4: three teenagers, the youngest just twelve years old. Man officers
Speaker 4: now facing charges ranging from child abuse and battery to conspiracy,
Speaker 4: and the LA County Parole Department says all current staff
Speaker 4: who have been charged are now on leave without paid.
Speaker 1: On leave are going to be fired.
Speaker 3: It's almost impossible to fire a lot of guards in
Speaker 3: a lot of prisons.
Speaker 1: But that's why they're on leaf. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought that story was disgusting when I thought it
Speaker 3: was an adult. Geez, you're pitting children against each other.
Speaker 3: Oh god, you are lots of them. You have been
Speaker 3: around and ugly crowd prisoners for so long. You've lost
Speaker 3: your humanity. You shouldn't be doing that job anymore.
Speaker 1: One of our listeners wrote, I think it was self
Speaker 1: published a book years and years and years ago, and
Speaker 1: he sent it to us, and I read part of
Speaker 1: it and I kept it. It was I think it
Speaker 1: was called how to create a monster. He'd worked in
Speaker 1: the prison system for a long time, and his thesis
Speaker 1: was that our prison system as it exists is almost
Speaker 1: like it's designed to create the hardest, meanest people we
Speaker 1: possibly can. And he was not coming at it from
Speaker 1: some sort of liberal do good or turn them all
Speaker 1: loose Gavin k newso nonsense. He was just thinking, we
Speaker 1: really ought to reimagine this if we want to create,
Speaker 1: you know, citizens that we want to have around because
Speaker 1: ninety whatever percent of them will get out eventually. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thought for evoking, Yeah, god, that's horrible. Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: a totally different topic. Here.
Speaker 3: Target Jack big target man. Through the years, I'm a stockholder.
Speaker 3: I go to Target at least once a week, sometimes multiple.
Speaker 1: It's determined to bring back some of its lost Tarje Mojo.
Speaker 1: In fact, the CEO actually use the term targe on
Speaker 1: a big call with investors. They want to refocus on
Speaker 1: their traditional strengths, exciting merchandise and a great store experience.
Speaker 3: The original appeal for me was, it's not Walmart. It's
Speaker 3: just a It's Walmart with better carts and a little cleaner.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm working with the Rockefeller over here. Mister fancy.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like Nate Margatzi says Target. I don't
Speaker 3: go to Target. I'm not We're not from old money.
Speaker 1: I've got to admit, and I tend to be a
Speaker 1: forgiving person. I have a really hard time for giving them,
Speaker 1: not just for like rainbow t shirts, but like selling
Speaker 1: tucking your little boy's penis garments so he can expl
Speaker 1: his transgenderism. Stuffy, it's pretty awful. That is way way,
Speaker 1: way way beyond the pale. But you might see some
Speaker 1: trying to class up the Target in a store near you.
Speaker 1: Speaking of consumer the affairs, this is literally consuming. Meet
Speaker 1: the Cali sober set. No booze, but drugs are fine.
Speaker 1: California sober, Yeah, who are I mean?
Speaker 3: Levato? Nevato? What is that singer name? She invented enough
Speaker 3: she went into rehab and then was asked about towd
Speaker 3: rehabits going she said, well, I'm California sober.
Speaker 1: I still smoke pot. So that is caught on as
Speaker 1: a term.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Here's a thirty year old gal who they focus on
Speaker 1: who has cut down her drinking since moving to southern
Speaker 1: California in twenty nineteen, and then quote started doing big
Speaker 1: doses of mushrooms instead. Now she's thirty, living in Topanga Canyon,
Speaker 1: where she whole hosts alcohol free pop up parties in
Speaker 1: the LA area where she serves mood enhancing mocktails and
Speaker 1: mushroom chocolates. All right, so alcohol is largely off the table,
Speaker 1: but psychedelics are a big part of the the social scene.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean, if you were like drinking
Speaker 1: to excess and you couldn't control it and you were
Speaker 1: hurting your health and relationships and that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: you know, what the heck, if you can just do
Speaker 1: something a little bit, I get that. But the idea that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've given up alcohol because it's harmful and now I
Speaker 1: take powerful psychoactive drugs all the time, I would I
Speaker 1: would advise caution. They mentioned that she started dabbling with
Speaker 1: quote unquote plant medicine after cutting back on alcohol because
Speaker 1: she's tired of hangovers. Yeah, and wanted different experiences. There
Speaker 1: you go, Okay, she man, she does like all of
Speaker 1: this stuff. Yeah, California sober is mostly mocked. I think
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a thing other than big moncked.
Speaker 1: I'm a big to each your own guy. I will
Speaker 1: just tell you this, and I've said this to young
Speaker 1: people more than once. The idea of psychoactive drugs, which
Speaker 1: you know can be fine to take if you believe that,
Speaker 1: that's okay. The problem is the bargain you're striking is
Speaker 1: I'm going to alter my brain chemistry and when I'm done,
Speaker 1: it'll go back to normal. Then next week, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: alter my brain chemistry and then it'll go back to normal.
Speaker 1: And you repeat that over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: and many people eventually their brain says, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: going back to normal. I can't anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe Rogan Elon and a lot of people swear
Speaker 3: by it changed their lives forever in a profound way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not cynical about it. I'm just again advising caution.
Speaker 1: I'd hate to ruin my brain over it. You only
Speaker 1: got to one what kind of you know, be minus
Speaker 1: as it is, and sometimes you get ruined like the
Speaker 1: first try. Right, it can happen. Yeah, that would suck.
Speaker 3: They did some snap polling on Trump's speech last night. Man,
Speaker 3: pretty good reasons aults, breaking down different issues and everything
Speaker 3: like that. He's got to be happy with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably great results because it was so great
Speaker 1: and kicks.
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Speaker 2: We have Marco Rubio in charge.
Speaker 1: Good luck Marco.
Speaker 2: Now we know who to blame if anything goes wrong.
Speaker 2: Marco has been amazing and he's going to do a
Speaker 2: great job.
Speaker 3: So Marco Rubyo is the Secretary of State. A lot
Speaker 3: going on foreign policy wise. But there was reporting yesterday,
Speaker 3: although all with unnamed sources. See, you never have any
Speaker 3: idea if there's a grain of truth that these stories
Speaker 3: are not.
Speaker 1: But there was some reporting yesterday.
Speaker 3: I forget where I saw it, real publication that Marco
Speaker 3: Ruby is not happy with how being Secretary of State
Speaker 3: has turned out, because it seems like Trump and Vance
Speaker 3: and others are making foreign policy decisions kind of on
Speaker 3: the flow, saying them out loud without his input or
Speaker 3: his knowledge of what direction they're doing. It wouldn't shock
Speaker 3: me that that's true. No, that's not an insane thing
Speaker 3: to claim. No, but get into the speech in general.
Speaker 3: So what are you calling last night's.
Speaker 1: Speech the sootach the state of the ass kicking?
Speaker 3: So Trump gives the longest speech ever for one of
Speaker 3: those things, and the Democrats sat for everything that's never
Speaker 3: happened before. And that's a new deal, no matter what
Speaker 3: that mean to me. Kid to beat cancer. They didn't
Speaker 3: stand in cheer.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, well, Debbie Dingle of Michigan, I'm not
Speaker 1: stealing your thunder here, am I. She actually plugged her
Speaker 1: ears and rolled her eyes as people were a plodding
Speaker 1: for the little kid who's fighting cancer. Good look, Debbie. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then some of the issues that they won't stand for.
Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna end men in women's sports. Nobody
Speaker 3: stood really, not even one, not a single vote the
Speaker 3: other day, not even in some of those districts, like
Speaker 3: whatever that woman was that gave the the rebuttal speech
Speaker 3: last night, she was pretty good from Michigan, but they
Speaker 3: chose her because Trump won her district and she won
Speaker 3: as a Democrat. Even districts like that, there's not somebody
Speaker 3: that wants to stand up and say, you know, I
Speaker 3: kind of think dudes shouldn't be in girls' sports either.
Speaker 3: That's just shocking that they're that uniform on such a
Speaker 3: what seemed to me settled issue anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, dissent is allowed in the Democratic Party. Before
Speaker 1: I get to some of the poet and even Politico
Speaker 1: thought the democrats attempt at pushback fell flat. Politico wrote today,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Rich Lowry.
Speaker 3: Rich Lowry, who's a man of the right but definitely
Speaker 3: not a Trump fan, said, Uh, most people watching that
Speaker 3: speech will be a loss for what they were supposed
Speaker 3: to disagree with and wonder why Democrats were so glum
Speaker 3: and disagreeable. Well, that would fit in with some of
Speaker 3: the polling that came out the CNN snappole. Among speech
Speaker 3: watcher views of Trump's speech, approve, seventy six percent disapproved
Speaker 3: twenty three So seventy six twenty three approve. Among speech watchers'
Speaker 3: issues you care about almost two thirds, a lot, twenty
Speaker 3: eight percent, a little ten percent, none at all. So
Speaker 3: speech made you feel hopeful, proud, worried, or angry. Those
Speaker 3: are the options. Sixty eight percent hopeful, Uh, over half
Speaker 3: prad for all of the quote unquote controversy, it had
Speaker 3: a very positive vibe to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In the speech, Trump was presidential, entertaining, inspiring, unifying, divisive.
Speaker 3: Three quarters said presidential, three quarters said entertaining. Seventy one
Speaker 3: percent inspiring, sixty two percent unifying, and less than half divisive. Now,
Speaker 3: my first thought upon seeing these numbers was, well, maybe
Speaker 3: only Republicans watched, and it's not only Republicans, but it
Speaker 3: was heavily Republicans. Party identification of speech watchers fifty one
Speaker 3: percent Republicans, and then you split it among independents and
Speaker 3: Democrats for the rest. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the numbers are on that. Usually.
Speaker 3: I know, I've looked at these snap polls over the years,
Speaker 3: and they're usually not that overwhelmingly favorable for a Democrat
Speaker 3: or a Republican. I don't know about the makeup of
Speaker 3: the audience. Do you remember is the Is it always
Speaker 3: the case? I mean, I'm sure it's always the case
Speaker 3: that if you have a democratic president, more Democrats watching
Speaker 3: Republicans and vice versa.
Speaker 1: Yes, sure, But is it overwhelmingly that way? I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I don't remember either, have we Is that just like
Speaker 3: part of the new era we're in where only Republicans
Speaker 3: are going to watch a Republican president, only democrats away,
Speaker 3: and so all of this will be skewed.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Given the fact that the
Speaker 1: state of the Union address has just become a campaign speech,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's Joe Biden or halfway Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: or Barack Obama. I heard they're jabbering plenty. I didn't.
Speaker 1: You know, if I could do this for a living,
Speaker 1: why do I want to tune into one of his
Speaker 1: campaign speeches? So it's probably pretty heavily partisan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so then if that's the fact, well, so it's
Speaker 3: half Republicans. The fact that three quarters of people thought
Speaker 3: the speech was great, that means you're doing better than
Speaker 3: just Republicans.
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, Well again, depending on the distribution of the
Speaker 1: audience Republicans, Independence, and Democrats, which isn't clear to me.
Speaker 1: You didn't mention that, right, or did you?
Speaker 3: Over half Republicans watch the speech of watchers over half
Speaker 3: a Republicans, Yeah, and then twenty seven percent Independence, twenty
Speaker 3: percent Democrats.
Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, I was thinking of other things and missed that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, clearly I was going to say, yeah, Republicans
Speaker 1: are watching, but a lot of you know, Trump agnostic
Speaker 1: or Trump friendly independence, I'm sure watch too. It was
Speaker 1: a really good the first chunk of it was a
Speaker 1: really good speech. How he went deep into the night.
Speaker 1: I don't get why he does that. Maybe you're right,
Speaker 1: he's just trying to generate more sound bites because most
Speaker 1: people take it in through the echo chamber. But it
Speaker 1: was good. It was terrific. And I'm highly trump skeptical
Speaker 1: on a lot of things. Everybody knows that, but as
Speaker 1: a celebration of the progress and rallying the country behind
Speaker 1: the things he's trying to do that we all agree on,
Speaker 1: eliminating government waste, getting men out of women's sports and
Speaker 1: women's private places, all that stuff. I thought he presented
Speaker 1: it in a very down to earth, easy to digest way.
Speaker 1: I thought it was very effective. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw Jeff Greenfeld, he wrote a piece for Politico
Speaker 3: fairly praising of Trump's speech from his standpoint, I mean,
Speaker 3: because a smart pundit, if you're not just a naked partisan,
Speaker 3: you would say, I mean, you would say, even if
Speaker 3: you hate Trump, I hate Trump. I hate everything he's doing.
Speaker 3: But that was good for him. That was a win
Speaker 3: for him, which is I saw a number of people say, oh,
Speaker 3: that's what everybody on the Dispatch said last night. Dispatch
Speaker 3: is a conservative publication. If you don't know what website.
Speaker 3: None of them like Trump, but they all thought it
Speaker 3: was a net win for Trump.
Speaker 1: Definitely last night.
Speaker 3: Politico writing today, the actual headline is giving Bingo Democrats
Speaker 3: silent protest against Trump falls flat. That's the everybody holding
Speaker 3: up the little signs that say various things. Looking at
Speaker 3: the signs, must steals, save Medicaid, protect veterans.
Speaker 1: Okay, just false.
Speaker 3: One of the problems with those signs I saw pointed
Speaker 3: out on social media was they were so easily mimable.
Speaker 3: It takes very little pharoshop skill to change those signs
Speaker 3: into all kinds of ridiculous things that a lot of
Speaker 3: people write, right, I'm a moron or whatever.
Speaker 1: Well, and the great grand standing moment at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the thing where al Green, the ancient lunatic who
Speaker 1: even Democrats wish would die. They don't say that on
Speaker 1: the record, of course, but they want it, the fact
Speaker 1: that he was the big grand standy I'm against Trump leader,
Speaker 1: an ancient lunatic shaking his cane. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: beyond parody. It was the stuff of like a really
Speaker 1: good Saturday Night Live sketch.
Speaker 3: Well, an ancient lunatic I'd never heard of. And I
Speaker 3: follow politics more closely obviously than most people do the
Speaker 3: pulling on that. Seventy six percent of people approved of
Speaker 3: carrying that old guy out of there. I was hoping
Speaker 3: he was gonna like shove one of those dudes or like,
Speaker 3: you know, make a real.
Speaker 1: Scene, right, try to turn it into you know, the
Speaker 1: Selma March or something like that, because that was the thing.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure how I was gonna go because it
Speaker 1: was so obviously performing, right, I mean, it was new
Speaker 1: he was gonna get kicked out for that.
Speaker 3: He was told Stopper, he'll get kicked out, and he
Speaker 3: kept on with the hopes that he would get kicked out.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly, it was just so according to an obvious script.
Speaker 1: Mostly it was eye rolling and chuckling at the whole
Speaker 1: idiotic exhibition. And then Annie went on. Trump went with
Speaker 1: a speech.
Speaker 3: Yeah, AnyWho, that's that. Nobody will even remember. It happened
Speaker 3: by Friday.
Speaker 1: Oh, the getting kicked out of the speech now the
Speaker 1: whole speech. Yeah. The only effect it might have is
Speaker 1: it was a bigger audience than usual for look at
Speaker 1: the crazy s we've found in the budget, or trying
Speaker 1: to save your taxpayer dollars. That part was really effective.
Speaker 1: Could nudge the needle We've.
Speaker 3: Got such big stories, like real stories going on right now.
Speaker 3: The tariff thing, depending on how long that lasts, that's
Speaker 3: going to be the talk of the country if it
Speaker 3: lasts very long and people start seeing significant price increases.
Speaker 3: And then the whole Ukraine Russia thing, which could go.
Speaker 3: Who knows how that's going.
Speaker 1: To turn out, and that might just be a single
Speaker 1: theater of the alleged greater scheme to switch away from
Speaker 1: the American led rules based international order to more spheres
Speaker 1: of influence great nations, old timey way to arrange the globe.
Speaker 3: Am I right that Trump said We're going to get
Speaker 3: Greenland last night? I don't know I read that up there.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we have that we have that clip, Penson,
Speaker 3: but I read it up on the sorry one about it.
Speaker 3: Trump said to Greenland will be ours. Oh, here you
Speaker 3: go seventy six.
Speaker 2: And I also have a message tonight for the incredible
Speaker 2: people of Greenland. We strongly support your right to determine
Speaker 2: your own future, and if you choose, we welcome you
Speaker 2: into the United States of America. We need Greenland for
Speaker 2: national security and even international security, and we're working with
Speaker 2: everybody involved to try and get it, but we need
Speaker 2: it really for international world security. And I think we're
Speaker 2: going to get it one.
Speaker 1: Way or the other. We're going to get it one
Speaker 1: way or the other. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2: We will keep you say, we will make you rich,
Speaker 2: and together we will take Greenland to heights like you
Speaker 2: have never thought possible before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to install fifty million space heaters around to
Speaker 1: warm the place up, that'd be a start. Well, it
Speaker 1: reminds me of the Panama strategy where he's talking about
Speaker 1: taking the canal back by force. And yesterday, if you
Speaker 1: didn't hear this, we mentioned it lay Dish in the
Speaker 1: show that an American company, well black Rock Investments, that
Speaker 1: the investment giant had bought the port facilities at either
Speaker 1: end of the canal from the Hong Kong based company
Speaker 1: that had been running them. So you know, and I've
Speaker 1: said this from the beginning, he's angling toward an enhanced
Speaker 1: security agreement with Greenland and it's Danish overlords. I can
Speaker 1: hardly see the road with the heat rising up on
Speaker 1: the horizon. Panama, Wow, Greenland.
Speaker 3: So he actually wants Greenland, though I don't think this
Speaker 3: is just a point and I as a what a
Speaker 3: territory or whatever. We would make it like something like
Speaker 3: what Guam is or something. But I've read a number
Speaker 3: of pundits that I was surprised that were like, all in, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: we should absolutely find a way to get Greenland. It's
Speaker 3: very important to the future of the safety.
Speaker 1: Of the world and everything like that. Now, but I
Speaker 1: agree completely for the record.
Speaker 3: It's not up to the green Greenlanders, is isn't it
Speaker 3: up to the Danes? Don't they own Greenland or someone?
Speaker 1: Well, they've got a pretty good right of self determination
Speaker 1: to the extent that I understand the Danish system. I
Speaker 1: understand a nice Danish with a cup of coffee. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the people of Greenland decide there faith.
Speaker 3: The population of fifty six thousand. Buy them each car,
Speaker 3: vote for it. I'll buy a car. Well, it cost
Speaker 3: us nothing. Why are you so belligerent? You are the
Speaker 3: ugly American. This disgusts me.
Speaker 1: Here's what's going to happen. Here's all Trump is saying.
Speaker 1: And this goes again to the here's our sphere of influence,
Speaker 1: there's your sphere of influence. We won't screw with yours.
Speaker 1: You don't screw with ours. New world order that they're
Speaker 1: talking about building. We have to have Greenland to protect
Speaker 1: the Arctic Circle and the northern shipping and military passages.
Speaker 1: And it might be some sort of protectorate status. It
Speaker 1: might just be here's what he's going for, a one
Speaker 1: hundred percent certain alliance with Greenland or Denmark, or we
Speaker 1: own it so that we always know it's on our
Speaker 1: side in our sphere of influence, in whatever shape that takes.
Speaker 3: You want Santa under the control of the Chinese, We
Speaker 3: need Greenland?
Speaker 1: Is that what you want? I was reading some really
Speaker 1: interesting stuff about Greenland the other day. Do we have
Speaker 1: time for this? I find that hard to believe. Uh
Speaker 1: what No, I was super interesting. If you're into mining logistics,
Speaker 1: and you know me mining logistics, getting the crap out
Speaker 1: of the ground there may be one of the most
Speaker 1: logistically daunting tasks anybody's ever imagined. Giant mining company after
Speaker 1: mining companies looked into it, seen the enormous wealth to
Speaker 1: be extracted and said no.
Speaker 3: But couldn't we not literally bribe them, like give you
Speaker 3: a car, but make it clear to him your economy's
Speaker 3: going to be so different if you come under the
Speaker 3: sway of the United States, You're all going to be.
Speaker 1: Wealthy for one thing. Yeah, if we could promise them that,
Speaker 1: I think we can. Can we sure? What do you
Speaker 1: know about mining logistics? Nothing? And I wasn't reading about
Speaker 1: it the other day and the adults are talking all
Speaker 1: right here? Who are twenty six twenty point games this year?
Speaker 1: Lebron col for three twenty two seasons, forty years of age,
Speaker 1: what contests fifty thousand and two.
Speaker 3: Points is already the leading scorer in NBA history. Now
Speaker 3: he is by a lot, hitting fifty thousand points. Nobody
Speaker 3: thought that would ever be possible. It helps if you
Speaker 3: start when you're eighteen and are really really good, but.
Speaker 1: Until you're sixty five. Apparently that seems to be the plan.
Speaker 3: He's forty, and they are in first place in their division,
Speaker 3: and they got one of the best players in the
Speaker 3: NBA to join him, and he's young Luka Doncic, and
Speaker 3: they're gonna be a finals contender.
Speaker 1: That'll be fun to watch. I think.
Speaker 3: I was just watching some news, and you know how
Speaker 3: during COVID, people weren't going into studios, so guests on
Speaker 3: TV were doing their thing from home, which was new,
Speaker 3: but it is continued. A lot of people or organizations
Speaker 3: have decided, what do we make an you drive clear
Speaker 3: across New York or DC, or fly across the country
Speaker 3: or whatever to be in the studio when you can
Speaker 3: just do it from home. And then also the whole
Speaker 3: not only am I not gonna throw on a suit,
Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna throw on a decent shirt.
Speaker 1: Or put away the cereal bowl on the counter behind me.
Speaker 3: It's just amazing how many people just don't care.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure it matters. So what difference does
Speaker 1: it make? Yeah, it's funny. I've done enough of that.
Speaker 1: I've tried to come up with a perfect background, you know,
Speaker 1: the right books and the right look and all that. Eh.
Speaker 1: Then I see some like great pundits whore and this
Speaker 1: is true a lot in DC. You see their background
Speaker 1: and you realize, oh, you have much more influence than
Speaker 1: money because they're you know, doing their shot from a
Speaker 1: very very modest basement room there in Dcah. Hey, I
Speaker 1: want to mention this.
Speaker 3: So I met brought up on the show yesterday that
Speaker 3: Dolly Parton's husband died of all weird stories, but she
Speaker 3: had been married to the same guy for sixty years
Speaker 3: and met him when at the laundromat when she was eighteen.
Speaker 1: He saw her devil too. I've seen pictures back in
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 3: He saw him for the first saw her for the
Speaker 3: first time, thought I'm going to marry that girl. And
Speaker 3: he did two years later, and they stayed married the
Speaker 3: whole time, and very happily married from all accounts from
Speaker 3: both of them. But this, yes, interesting. Yesterday I saw this,
Speaker 3: tweeted out Carl Dean. That's Dolly Parton's husband. Married young,
Speaker 3: gave zero fs about fame and fortune. He laid us
Speaker 3: asphalt for a living. He ran an asphalt laying company
Speaker 3: for sixty years, married to a very famous woman. Zero
Speaker 3: Facebook posts, zero tweets, ten for ten life legend. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just so somebody you had no interest in putting his
Speaker 3: opinion out there about everything that happens in the world,
Speaker 3: or any opinions about anything. Just gonna live my life.
Speaker 3: I don't care how famous I could be or how
Speaker 3: much attention I could get.
Speaker 1: I just don't care. Worked hard and loved a woman,
Speaker 1: It's all right. Why don't more people do that? You'd
Speaker 1: be happier. Lust for fame is difficult to explain. It
Speaker 1: seems to be damn near Universe. We do four hours.
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