Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and get Katy and he arms wrong yet live
Speaker 1: from Studio C Senor eight, within the stinking bowels of
Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Information Complex. This is The Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Giddy Show Live, the twenty first of Pemberuwerry, the
Speaker 1: Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five, the birthday of
Speaker 1: one Jack Armstrong, who has the day off to go
Speaker 1: do something for Jack, spend little Jack time, which is lovely,
Speaker 1: but he will be checking in later on this hour
Speaker 1: because we can't help ourselves, just like I did on
Speaker 1: my day off. Busy day today on the show, great
Speaker 1: guests on all of the hot topics before us. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously it's going to be trumpy at times. Both the
Speaker 1: increasingly troubling treatment of Ukraine or is that seven dimensional chess?
Speaker 1: Some of the domestic stuff doge and beyond is what
Speaker 1: Trump is doing. What Peggy Noonan called was it Peggy
Speaker 1: noon no Is Kim Strassel called a constitutional cleanup. I'm
Speaker 1: so happy and excited about this. It's just absolutely terrific.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Mike Lyons about NATO and
Speaker 1: national security and Ukraine and all sorts of good stuff,
Speaker 1: and then can't wait to get into it with lanhe Chen,
Speaker 1: who if you don't know Lan he is absolutely brilliant
Speaker 1: mind Stanford Professor policy advisor, to talk about domestic policy
Speaker 1: and some of the things that Trump and dozerre doing
Speaker 1: domestically to clean up the sprawling, idiotic mess that is
Speaker 1: the federal government and bureaucracy. And then later that's our three,
Speaker 1: and then later in our three and we're still working
Speaker 1: on the schedule, so don't assume me if this changes,
Speaker 1: but we're going to talk to our longtime tax authority
Speaker 1: advisor and guest, Steven Moskowitz about everything that's relevant tax
Speaker 1: wise from last year and looking ahead this year for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five as we start to get closer to
Speaker 1: when everybody's frantically and miserably doing their paperwork. So a
Speaker 1: good show today. I hope you can hang around. If not,
Speaker 1: as always, grabbed the podcast later via wherever you'd like
Speaker 1: to get podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. You probably
Speaker 1: ought to subscribe. Michael, I tell you what, why don't
Speaker 1: we start the show officially? Because I want to get
Speaker 1: right into something. So here we go, leaping into action
Speaker 1: according to de FCC rules and regulations. Oh, I forgot
Speaker 1: to say the general manager. Ah, I tell you what.
Speaker 1: Let's just begin at Mark.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump and yeah, listen, I think this is the
Speaker 3: most serious cons crisis the country has faced.
Speaker 4: This country will potentially find ourselves in a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 5: This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy turns off.
Speaker 1: Let's try like, ladies and gentlemen. Our general manager today
Speaker 1: is charge sall charity. I want to hear that a
Speaker 1: thousand times today, Michael Churgeall. And here is why. Well,
Speaker 1: here's it. For instance, first from the Free Beacon, Doge
Speaker 1: finds two billion dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked for Stacey
Speaker 1: Abrams linked group Stacy Abrams, the perennial Georgia candidate, woke
Speaker 1: activist gal two billion dollars or set aside for a
Speaker 1: fledgling nonprofit linked to Stacy Abram. I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: fledgling obviously. Well, I'll tell you more about it than
Speaker 1: we'll analyze. The EPA under Biden awarded Power Forward Communities.
Speaker 1: What a great sounding arroganization that is Power Forward communities.
Speaker 1: It's got power, it's got forward, and it's got communities
Speaker 1: in it. It must be good. But that was part
Speaker 1: of the agency's greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward
Speaker 1: Communities received the green Energy grant despite the fact that
Speaker 1: it was founded just months prior and never managed anywhere
Speaker 1: near the grant's dollar figure, and it reported just one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars in total revenue during its first three months
Speaker 1: in operation, according to its latest tax filings. But the EPA,
Speaker 1: under their grotesque authority as outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I vomited a little bit, sorry even trying
Speaker 1: to call it that. Under that unholy Act, they doled
Speaker 1: out incomprehensible amounts of money, as I always say to
Speaker 1: their cronies, with the thinnest of cover, like naming your
Speaker 1: organization power Forward Community and saying, this money, this enormous,
Speaker 1: incomprehensible pile of money, will go toward green, socially equitable
Speaker 1: power community engagement. And then the money just goes out.
Speaker 1: Always remember somebody got that money when you hear about
Speaker 1: these incredible expenditures. So I could talk about that all day.
Speaker 1: There's some more detail to the story, but it's absolutely obscene.
Speaker 1: But that brings us to this absolutely wonderful column. I
Speaker 1: came a cross by Kim Strassel and The Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal that really explains what's happening here with not just
Speaker 1: doge and their headlines about eliminating transgender puppet shows for
Speaker 1: Ecuador or whatever the hell, but some of the regulatory
Speaker 1: reform that they're doing, and Kim Wright's FDR fundamentally redefined
Speaker 1: the purpose of the federal government, which set off an
Speaker 1: era of ever expanding Washington's scope and reach. Nearly a
Speaker 1: century later, Donald Trump's White House is taking it on
Speaker 1: itself to challenge the legitimacies some of the foundations of
Speaker 1: that expansion. The left calls this a constitutional crisis, how
Speaker 1: about a constitutional cleanup? Then she says, the sheer volume
Speaker 1: of what Trump's doing, it makes it hard to sort
Speaker 1: out the merely aggressive and the truly striking. And she says,
Speaker 1: it's the truly striking stuff that deserves note because some
Speaker 1: of the other stuff is gobbling up all the headlines.
Speaker 1: Like I said, and it's great, and it's fine, and
Speaker 1: I'm happy it's happening, but this is the fundamental stuff
Speaker 1: that's a little bit lower in the national consciousness. It's
Speaker 1: the growing list of Trump actions deliberately designed to provoke
Speaker 1: a judicial review of the legality of long standing Washington features.
Speaker 1: Congress spent a century creating dozens dozens of agencies that
Speaker 1: blur the boundaries between executive, legislative, and judicial power, while
Speaker 1: the administrative state produced thousands of rules that diverge from
Speaker 1: Congressional intent. Constitutionalists have long disputed the legality of these actions,
Speaker 1: but over time even most critics succumb to the status quo,
Speaker 1: and the White House is reviving that fight, audaciously questioning
Speaker 1: the foundations of the DC architecture. And it's remarkable. And
Speaker 1: Trump unveiled the latest zinger this week, debtning, detonating, rather
Speaker 1: what the American Action Forums Daniel Goldbeck labeled quote a
Speaker 1: thermonuk deregulatory warhead that nobody's talking about. This is the
Speaker 1: important stuff. The President ordered agency heads to scour every
Speaker 1: regulation and bit of guidance under their remit and make
Speaker 1: lists of those that either violate the Constitution, exceed legislative power,
Speaker 1: or go beyond the clear words of a statute, or
Speaker 1: harm the national interest. Hey, Michael, would it be easy
Speaker 1: enough to just replay those two clips we started the
Speaker 1: show with, and then I'm going to jump the gun
Speaker 1: and go to our freedom loving quote of the day
Speaker 1: and wrap up this thought for now Donald Trump, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I think this is the most serious crisis
Speaker 3: the country has faced.
Speaker 4: This country will potentially find ourselves in a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 5: This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Churns off, Chames alls off.
Speaker 1: Which brings us to our freedom loving quote of the day, Michael,
Speaker 1: how to place. I'm sorry, you probably don't even have
Speaker 1: a team music ready, Look at it. Grab this fife,
Speaker 1: picked up his drum, came thrue for us. So this
Speaker 1: is from Abraham Lincoln. This country, with its institutions, belonged
Speaker 1: to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow
Speaker 1: weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional
Speaker 1: right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to
Speaker 1: overthrow it. I'm not calling for, you know, blood in
Speaker 1: the streets and revolution or anything like that. But compare
Speaker 1: that sentiment, if you will, to what the Democrats were
Speaker 1: bellowing in the preceding clip, which was every jot and
Speaker 1: tittle as they say. I would never say that.
Speaker 6: Mixed Company but every law, every regulation, every bureaucrat, every office,
Speaker 6: every scrap of paper, every memo, every regulation, and every
Speaker 6: subregulation and every sub subregulation must remain. Nothing could change.
Speaker 1: It's a constitutional crisis. What aim Lincoln was saying exactly
Speaker 1: the opposite. He was saying, dudes. If he'd lived now,
Speaker 1: Lincoln absolutely would have said, dudes, dudes, keep an eye
Speaker 1: on your government, and if it's wonky, get rid of it,
Speaker 1: or gets rid of the wonky parts. Not only is
Speaker 1: that okay, that's what you're supposed to do, you lazy bastards.
Speaker 1: So far from shaking up the giant, bloated, lawless, accountable
Speaker 1: to no one, regulatory, administrative state. Not a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 1: It's what we're supposed to do. And it's long overdue.
Speaker 1: Because Washington and or the government has become the most
Speaker 1: important lobbyist of the government. It's incredibly self protective for
Speaker 1: its own interests. We need to chuck that. So I
Speaker 1: hate what Trump's saying about Ukraine. Couldn't hate it more,
Speaker 1: and it's getting worse. But on the dome stick side,
Speaker 1: oh nobody, wake me up, because if this is a dream,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful, beautiful dream. Katie's headlines coming up in
Speaker 1: moments to stay with us, Armstrong and Getty. They have
Speaker 1: a busy hour. Katie's standing by with the lead story.
Speaker 1: But first let's take a fond look back at the
Speaker 1: week that was. It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 2: They need to tone it down.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not lady.
Speaker 2: Wish for the week.
Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to find somebody smarter than him.
Speaker 1: We said a little this.
Speaker 7: Thanks having me. I'm here to provide the present with
Speaker 7: technology support.
Speaker 1: We've got people that are taking faxes off fax machines.
Speaker 1: They had to leave the building and they were never
Speaker 1: able to walk back in the building.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 7: It comes down to two things, competence and carry.
Speaker 8: You could be talking about saving over a true billion
Speaker 8: dollars if we're.
Speaker 7: Doing solve the deficit, and I will go bankrupt.
Speaker 4: If this is not done, President drums sending shock waves
Speaker 4: throughout Europe.
Speaker 1: You should have never started it. You could have made
Speaker 1: a deal, doubling.
Speaker 6: Down and accusing the Ukrainian leader of being a dictator.
Speaker 1: A dictator without elections. So Lensky better move faster or
Speaker 1: he's not going to have a country left. Got to move,
Speaker 1: got to move fast.
Speaker 6: Zelenski, who's pulling over fifty percent, colling Trump's accusation Russian disinformation.
Speaker 7: They need to tone it.
Speaker 1: Down and uh and take a hard look and sign
Speaker 1: that Deal.
Speaker 3: Is a war criminal and should be in jail for
Speaker 3: the rest of his life if not executed.
Speaker 2: I trust a Scott like I trust gas stations soution,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 1: Think I have the power to end this war, and
Speaker 1: I think it's going very well. Free speech needs boundaries, so.
Speaker 2: We said no, we have free speech as well, but
Speaker 2: it is also has his limits.
Speaker 1: You wait, sue them, Susie.
Speaker 8: What no democracy, American, German or European will survive is
Speaker 8: telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their
Speaker 8: aspirations they're pleased for relief are invalid.
Speaker 9: Why would our allies there, anybody be irritated by free
Speaker 9: speech and by someone giving their opinion.
Speaker 1: We are, after all, democracies.
Speaker 10: It didn't reach that level to me to say something
Speaker 10: terrible could happen and maybe.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't have gone on the trip.
Speaker 1: Why didn't it to me?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that that's one of the things
Speaker 2: we need to look at.
Speaker 9: The August and sorry and Kanye West of Cold it quits.
Speaker 9: I I just hope this doesn't make Kanye do something stupid.
Speaker 1: Oh great, We're in a brave new world. Not my
Speaker 1: captain America.
Speaker 7: Okay, fifty of the best times of a right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be giving you the freedom of speech.
Speaker 2: You are free to say. What do we say?
Speaker 1: Is okay to say?
Speaker 6: You here's the list of officially Aspproved German sings, you
Speaker 6: can say and send.
Speaker 1: You have free speech. Oh, thank you. No, let's figure
Speaker 1: out who's repporting what. It's link story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 10: Katie alrighty, let's start with the Associated Press. Israel identifies
Speaker 10: remains of child hostages, but says another body from Hamas
Speaker 10: was not their mother.
Speaker 1: Yeah, horrifying.
Speaker 10: From the Washington Post, three empty buses explode in Israel
Speaker 10: in suspected terrorist attack. NBC Senate adopts three hundred and
Speaker 10: forty billion dollars budget blueprint for Trump's agenda after marathon vote. A.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't dug into that whole legislative mess of
Speaker 1: the big beautiful bill and all that. We'll let you
Speaker 1: folks fight it out and let us know what you
Speaker 1: come up with, you know, back to the bus explosions.
Speaker 1: That's just another example is Hamas and and allied Islamic
Speaker 1: supremacists setting off those bombs to force Israel to come
Speaker 1: to the table to work toward a two state solution. No,
Speaker 1: they just want to wipe them off the face of
Speaker 1: the map. From ABC.
Speaker 10: Gunshots fired into windows of Oregon Tesla dealership.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, there have been protests. They did another.
Speaker 10: They did a big one in San Francisco as well.
Speaker 1: Of course, if somebody squeezed off a couple of shots
Speaker 1: into a planned parenthood window, the world would come to
Speaker 1: a stop. It would be the lead story of every
Speaker 1: paper in America. But no, it's it's okay because it's
Speaker 1: something somewhat Trump aligned.
Speaker 10: From Breitbart dot com. President Trump gives Governor Trudeau an
Speaker 10: invite to join him to watch Four Nations five.
Speaker 1: No boy, oh, not helping. Trudeau clapped back last night
Speaker 1: after the Knuckers won in overtime. I couldn't watch. I
Speaker 1: had a thing, but then I heard the score. Ah,
Speaker 1: but I probably will watch this afternoon because I love
Speaker 1: playoff in high level hockey.
Speaker 7: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh, Trudeau clapped back. He said, you can't have our
Speaker 1: country and you can't have our game. All right, tough guy,
Speaker 1: go go change your panties.
Speaker 10: From the New York Post, woman with a rare phobia
Speaker 10: of popular condiment suffers panic attacks on site. It's like
Speaker 10: being held at gunpoint. Do tell his freakouts are caused
Speaker 10: by a major phobia of ketchup.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 10: They put they did a video of it, and they
Speaker 10: put it in front of her, and she freaks out,
Speaker 10: very strange.
Speaker 1: I have ketchup, Phelia. I mean, I can't eat fries
Speaker 1: without ketchup. I love it.
Speaker 10: And finally, the Babylon Bee Delta adds a little hanging
Speaker 10: tennis ball to the end of the runway for female pilots.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, Katie, even worse coming out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: That's terrible. It's improper, And I don't approve. Jack's gonna
Speaker 1: be calling in in a moment or two. Then we've
Speaker 1: got great mail bag later on the hour. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good show. Hang around Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 5: This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy, turns.
Speaker 1: Off, churnsall ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 8: Here.
Speaker 1: He is more a belt sander than a chainsaw. The
Speaker 1: co host calling in on his birthday, Jack Armstrong, Jack, what's.
Speaker 2: Up waiting for this million degree cup of coffee to
Speaker 2: cool down enough to drink?
Speaker 1: Is it this the Buck of Stars?
Speaker 2: No, sir, comes with the room I'm staying at. I'm
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles, beautiful and a nice
Speaker 2: hotel at Spago's last night. Oh well yeah, yeah. I
Speaker 2: texted somebody and said, cool if it's nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had dinner at was it the Brown Derby?
Speaker 1: The legendary Brown Derby with Eric our agent once that
Speaker 1: that also was like wow, time machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I thought, man, if I was here, you know,
Speaker 2: waiting to see Cindy Lauper and the stars of Nott's
Speaker 2: landing walk in, it would be really cool.
Speaker 1: But it's a beautiful dream.
Speaker 2: Here am I myself at an empty restaurant?
Speaker 1: Oh well yeah, yeah, well that's nice. You're just gonna
Speaker 1: you got specific plans, You're just gonna kick around or
Speaker 1: what uh not that it's our business, you know, share
Speaker 1: what you want.
Speaker 2: A couple museums I'm going to go to There's a
Speaker 2: one of the best bookstores in America. There's a couple
Speaker 2: of blocks from here. I'm going to go to a
Speaker 2: couple of big giant churches. I'm going to check out.
Speaker 2: I uh four childcare reasons. Can't be any where where
Speaker 2: I can't get home really fast. So I could jet
Speaker 2: home on like an hour's notice from where I am.
Speaker 2: I have a competent sitter at home, but I still
Speaker 2: long time listeners know I have a unique child care situation,
Speaker 2: and so that's part of I can't get too far away.
Speaker 2: So I'm only going to be going for like thirty
Speaker 2: six hours.
Speaker 1: But I'm a little surprised that there are churches in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles at this point. Are they for worship of
Speaker 1: Satan or illegals or what?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're close. What would drive big giant Catholic
Speaker 2: churches having a pretty good membership in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1: Yeah, come come friende Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah yeah, so
Speaker 1: very active church community in Los Angeles. Well that's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine. It's fine, hardworking, god loving people. Just to
Speaker 1: fill out the paperwork, please.
Speaker 2: We have loss. So Spago is in Beverly Hills. It's
Speaker 2: just like right off Rodale. I didn't know where it was.
Speaker 2: I was just like I was walking around doing some
Speaker 2: shopping yesterday and I was hungry, and I just you know,
Speaker 2: restaurants near me, and there was Spogo a couple of
Speaker 2: blocks away, so it's where I went. But boy, the
Speaker 2: people are hilarious in the Rodeo Drive area. It's just hilarious.
Speaker 2: I mean you see people that you think are like
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live creations that couldn't possibly be real human beings,
Speaker 2: but they're real human beings. With that. I remember, we'd
Speaker 2: clothes and there and they're they're they're you know, Dolly
Speaker 2: part and Kenny Rogers faces and everything. It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's funny. It reminds me in a weird
Speaker 1: way of uh, my son, the Oregon hippie and and
Speaker 1: some of his friends. If you're going to like stand
Speaker 1: out in Oregon, Not that Deco is a freak or
Speaker 1: anything like that. He's just a musician and an Oregonian,
Speaker 1: but if you're going to go stand if you're gonna
Speaker 1: stand out, say in the streets of Portland, you gotta
Speaker 1: go full on freak. And then you know you'd go
Speaker 1: to Lincoln, Nebraska and people think you've descended from a spaceship.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't. You don't have to try very
Speaker 1: hard to be a little bit of a nonconformist in
Speaker 1: certain parts of the country, but in the same way,
Speaker 1: if you want to send the message I have lots
Speaker 1: of money and I'm very stylish in Beverly Hills, you
Speaker 1: gotta go freaking nuts, oh oh yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, just crazy like tight leather pants and
Speaker 2: furs and and just insane shoes. And then they you know,
Speaker 2: they get in and out of a Lamborghini or whatever
Speaker 2: and their faces are giant lips.
Speaker 1: All the queen size pillows. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, it's just it's so crazy you can't believe
Speaker 11: they're actual human beings. It's I mean, it's as it's
Speaker 11: it says everybody should stop and stare and and talk
Speaker 11: about them as if you were in some you know,
Speaker 11: uh far off tribe in Africa that has never seen
Speaker 11: electricity or something.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's a it's very interesting.
Speaker 1: It's an extra greamely rich freak show like a roadside
Speaker 1: stand in nineteen thirty but everybody is a zillionaire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, it's something, and it's you know, you
Speaker 2: can't you can't parody it enough. You can't go far
Speaker 2: enough to be outside of.
Speaker 1: What actually is true. Yeah, It's been ages since I've
Speaker 1: done that walk, but I should. That's funny, well, you know,
Speaker 1: and I will do me which is laughing at you. Yes, sorry, I.
Speaker 2: Haven't paid any attention to the news today. What is
Speaker 2: the story of the day.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you know, it's funny. It's it's kind
Speaker 1: of the angel and devil of the Trump administration, some
Speaker 1: of the domestic stuff. And I talked about this in
Speaker 1: the opening segment, and Kim Strassel wrote a great column
Speaker 1: in The Wall Street Journal about how Trump is has
Speaker 1: declared thermonuclear war on the giant bloated administrative state in
Speaker 1: a way that people aren't even paying attention to because
Speaker 1: they're not aware of two things. He ordered agency heads
Speaker 1: to scour every regulation and bit of guidance and make
Speaker 1: lists of those that violate in the constitution, exceed legislative powers,
Speaker 1: and go beyond the clear words of a statute, or
Speaker 1: harm the national interest. And they're laying the groundwork for
Speaker 1: going straight to the Supreme Court on a lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff. But the other thing that nobody is talking
Speaker 1: about is he issued an executive order taking aim at
Speaker 1: agencies that Congress created to perform executive functions. But are
Speaker 1: free of executive control. Instead, they report to Congress. It's
Speaker 1: the quasi executive branch barely under the control of Congress,
Speaker 1: and it's now more than one hundred congressionally mandated agencies,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to dismantle that and decide on its constitutionality,
Speaker 1: which is just the people who've wanted administrative reform in
Speaker 1: DC are wild with joy.
Speaker 2: If he has much success, he is going to be
Speaker 2: historic in the way that he wants and not in
Speaker 2: the way that his detractors were expecting him to be.
Speaker 2: A historic, Yeah, very.
Speaker 1: Much an anti FDR. FDR who ushered in the age
Speaker 1: of the gigantic in charge of everything federal government. Trump
Speaker 1: could well be the hero that pairs it back, even
Speaker 1: as he says and does things that are unconscionable in
Speaker 1: my mind. On the international scene, Hey, let me squeeze
Speaker 1: this in real quick, Jack, and then you can come
Speaker 1: in as you like. A word from our friends, that's
Speaker 1: simply safe home security who reminds us that every twenty
Speaker 1: six seconds a burglary takes place in the US. So
Speaker 1: many scumbags and junkies run around. They want to take
Speaker 1: your stuff. That's why you get simply Safe and its
Speaker 1: active guard outdoor protection helps prevent breakings before they happen.
Speaker 1: You got your AI powered cameras backed by live professional
Speaker 1: monitoring agents monitoring your property, and if they see one
Speaker 1: of the aforementioned scumbags lurking around, those agents can see
Speaker 1: and talk to them in real time. Activate spotlights, call
Speaker 1: the cops, all before they've broken into your home. No
Speaker 1: long term contracts cancelay. Monitoring plants start affordably just around
Speaker 1: a bucket day sixty day satisfaction guaranteed. You need to
Speaker 1: look into this. It's peace of mind. Friends, visit simply
Speaker 1: safe dot com slash armstrong. Get fifty percent off a
Speaker 1: new system with a professional monitoring plan. Your first month
Speaker 1: is free. Again. That's simplysafe dot com slash armstrong. There's
Speaker 1: no safe like simply Safe.
Speaker 2: So I got on a plane in Sacramento yesterday, middle
Speaker 2: of the afternoon, which is Sacramento is the capital of
Speaker 2: California for people who don't know. And California's economy would
Speaker 2: be the fifth biggest country in the world, so it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like the capital of the fifth biggest
Speaker 2: country in the world. And the plane was full of
Speaker 2: I don't know. They were involved in front somehow, but
Speaker 2: it was just full of like the plane was. It
Speaker 2: was full in the middle of the day count on Thursday,
Speaker 2: all guys in suits and women in business suits, and
Speaker 2: a lot of them know each other, and a lot
Speaker 2: of them were like introducing themselves each other networking and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. They're all involved in government somehow, and
Speaker 2: I was listening to their conversations. They weren't politicians, and
Speaker 2: I just thought that was interesting. There were just so
Speaker 2: many people and I just wondered, what do you all do?
Speaker 2: And it's and you know what, it's all involved in
Speaker 2: trying to get chunks of money for whatever their thing is,
Speaker 2: whether you know necessary or not. They're just trying to
Speaker 2: get their chunk of the giant pie. Like you've been
Speaker 2: talking about all week long. That's what the whole thing is.
Speaker 2: It's just it's a ton of money flowing through and
Speaker 2: then people trying to get their hands on it for
Speaker 2: various things, some of them worth worthwhile many of them not. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We kicked off the discussion of the Kim Strassel piece
Speaker 1: by citing the Free Beacon, who were reporting that DOGE
Speaker 1: found two billion dollars b with a B two billion
Speaker 1: dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked for this flimsy, hastily constructed
Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams linked Empowering Energy through Community Energy Group. I mean,
Speaker 1: not clear at all what they do, and they got
Speaker 1: siphoned ginormous amounts of money, just unthinkable amounts of money
Speaker 1: during the unholy so called Inflation Reduction Act.
Speaker 2: Right, I'll bet if you're good at it, it is
Speaker 2: so much easier than you would like it to be
Speaker 2: to come up with some sort of program or idea
Speaker 2: or something that gets many millions of dollars shoveled to
Speaker 2: it on an annual basis. But it's just shocking how
Speaker 2: easy that is to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm reminded. Your description of your flight reminds me
Speaker 1: of a couple of the flights to and fro the
Speaker 1: political conventions last summer, especially flying to Chicago for the DNC,
Speaker 1: when I was surrounded by Democratic activists of various ethnic
Speaker 1: groups and that sort of thing. But they all either
Speaker 1: knew each other or were anxious to know each other.
Speaker 1: They all had a look in a sound in a
Speaker 1: manner of behavior. Yes, it was very subculture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right. The way they looked. I mean
Speaker 2: you could have you could have looked across the whole
Speaker 2: plane and said, Okay, you're one of them, You're one
Speaker 2: of them, You're one of them. They just had a
Speaker 2: look and in a way of talking, in a facial
Speaker 2: expression almost it was just they're they're they're a kind
Speaker 2: of people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was very striking how distinct that subculture was.
Speaker 1: I mean, you didn't have to look for it. It
Speaker 1: was just so in your face. And that that experience
Speaker 1: more people should have it, because when we're ranting and
Speaker 1: raving about how the Beltway culture is so unique and
Speaker 1: exists for the Beltway culture, they throw us bones now
Speaker 1: and again because they know they have to, that's the
Speaker 1: business they're in. But in terms of their day to
Speaker 1: day consciousness, no, they.
Speaker 2: Are for them, and they would they would be amused.
Speaker 2: They're probably aware of it, but they would be amused
Speaker 2: by how naive we are about that, about how you
Speaker 2: just you don't understand how this all works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to get you read my mind.
Speaker 1: Their air of superiority was unmistakable too. Yes, ye yeah,
Speaker 1: we're the movers, were the shakers, We're the people who
Speaker 1: get things done. We're the people who control what you need,
Speaker 1: So be polite, little boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually tried to engage a guy sitting in
Speaker 2: my row in conversation and he was like, yeah, he
Speaker 2: kind of come up with a way to like turn
Speaker 2: the other direction and get back to his conversation with
Speaker 2: the other masters of the universe. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep it in mind, friends, keep it in mind. Well,
Speaker 1: have a lovely day wandering about la I will excellent.
Speaker 1: And to keep you know, keep those observations handy, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you monday.
Speaker 2: I'll be there, all right.
Speaker 1: Mail bag is a blockbuster. It's moments away. Stay with this.
Speaker 1: Thanks tuning in. Happy Friday. Let's freseet the freedom loving
Speaker 1: quote of the day. We did it earlier this hour,
Speaker 1: but I love it so much and it's so apropos
Speaker 1: from A B. Lincoln Donald Trump and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I think this is the most serious crisis
Speaker 3: the country has faced.
Speaker 4: This country will potentially find ourselves in a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 1: This is the.
Speaker 5: Chainsaw a bureaucracy turns off.
Speaker 1: Chames All, here's your freedom loving quote of the day
Speaker 1: from Lincoln. This is a continuation the conversation with Jack
Speaker 1: in the last segment. This country with its institutions, belongs
Speaker 1: to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow
Speaker 1: weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional
Speaker 1: right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to
Speaker 1: overthrow it. Now, I have no intention of bloody revolution,
Speaker 1: as I said earlier, but the idea that to threaten
Speaker 1: any of the giant, bloated bureaucracy is a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 1: That is the cry of the people we're describing in
Speaker 1: the last segment, people whose entire you know, ego and
Speaker 1: existence and professional life and fortune is tied up in
Speaker 1: the gigantic federal government. They act as if any threat
Speaker 1: to that is a horrifyingly unpatriotic thing to do, whereas
Speaker 1: Lincoln would say exactly the opposite. Exactly, we're tasked with
Speaker 1: constantly reigning the government in.
Speaker 2: If we can.
Speaker 1: More on that to come, mailbag drop us now at
Speaker 1: anytime you like. Mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot
Speaker 1: com Again, mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Boy,
Speaker 1: the volume has been unbelievable lately. Trying not to or
Speaker 1: it's easy to get bogged down in it, honestly, but
Speaker 1: you know, we appreciate you staying in touch and offering
Speaker 1: your thoughts and their agreements and disagreements anyway, Ryan from
Speaker 1: Houston Rights just want to say thank you Jack, Joe, Michaelangelow,
Speaker 1: Katie Hansen. You're my reason to see the morning.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're welcome.
Speaker 2: Ryan.
Speaker 1: Nice you to write Joe, you dirty bastard. Oh that's
Speaker 1: a bit of a contrast there, Joshawn writes, why don't
Speaker 1: you just admit why you've been moving the first hour
Speaker 1: segments around you, filthy bastard. You're doing it so you
Speaker 1: don't forget cow and get buzzed on Fridays. You're trying
Speaker 1: to kill the only joy. Michael has so sad. You
Speaker 1: should be ashamed. Eh, I am ashamed. I do enjoy
Speaker 1: it than this from Tim from Pewallup, Washington. I'm reading
Speaker 1: this email for a couple of reasons. Number one, it's quirky,
Speaker 1: and secondly, to show off that I know how to
Speaker 1: pronounce Pewallup, as my Tacoma area daughter has coached me.
Speaker 1: It looks like pooh yallop, but it's not, you see anyway,
Speaker 1: writes Hey, just wondering what you think of the tracking
Speaker 1: Wilberry's just recently listen to their end of the line,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I didn't appreciate it when I
Speaker 1: was little, but now that I'm forty five, I really
Speaker 1: love it. It's maybe the ideal sound for a band
Speaker 1: of that type anyway. Love the show. Yes, Tim from Pewallup,
Speaker 1: I do like the Traveling Willberries and that is a
Speaker 1: fine song. Thank you for asking for some reason. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to geek out on music all day. But that's
Speaker 1: just funny speaking music.
Speaker 2: Oh my lord.
Speaker 1: As mailbag takes a dark turn. Uh, Kathy said, please
Speaker 1: find a clip, and I didn't ask the guys to
Speaker 1: find it. It's enough to describe it of When the
Speaker 1: Israeli baby hostages bodies are being transferred by Hamas. In
Speaker 1: the background, they're playing dance music and passing out candy
Speaker 1: as the coffins of the babies are moving through the terrorists.
Speaker 1: No commentary he needed. I would agree. I would agree.
Speaker 1: And it turns out the body that they turned over
Speaker 1: is not of the mom of those little kids, all
Speaker 1: of whom were perfectly healthy when Hamas snatched them. They
Speaker 1: claim they died in Israeli airstrikes. Even if that were true,
Speaker 1: and according to these Israelis, there's no evidence from the
Speaker 1: autopsies that that is true. Even if that were true,
Speaker 1: that would still be one hundred percent the responsibility of
Speaker 1: the abductors according to every law, rule, any basic human sentiment. Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving along, I thought this was interesting analysis from Jeff,
Speaker 1: and I think he's absolutely right. I believe the four
Speaker 1: years Jeff Wrights Trump had to build a coalition and
Speaker 1: process the things he would do, and seeing how Nepte
Speaker 1: Biden regime was all played a humongous reason. What's being
Speaker 1: done now, Well, not many of us will agree with
Speaker 1: one hundred percent or even ninety percent of what Trump
Speaker 1: does these next four years, it is unimaginably better than
Speaker 1: four years under Harris. Yeah, true Trump. I am worried
Speaker 1: about the foreign policy stuff, but we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: more later. Trump losing in twenty twenty supplied him time
Speaker 1: to properly proceed or process rather how screwed up government
Speaker 1: is and how he should plot a plan to fix
Speaker 1: or work situationally for his ideal outcome. The left forcing
Speaker 1: Trump out in twenty twenty, in hindsight, may be a
Speaker 1: blessing in disguise for all conservative and center right leaning voters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. To a large extent. Also,
Speaker 1: the never ending law fair was such a mistake. Let's
Speaker 1: see side Joe Bob writes, doesn't anyone remember, oh on
Speaker 1: the concept of doge checks. Doesn't anyone remember that sending
Speaker 1: checks out to everyone was how he got started down
Speaker 1: this inflationary path in the first place. Seems like I'm
Speaker 1: the only one in my memory. Sucks. Just ask my
Speaker 1: wife what's her name? That's a funny, funny joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would. I would differentiate the Tubob though, in that
Speaker 1: the ridiculous spreading of trillions of dollars around the country
Speaker 1: was in addition to current spending, which is already in
Speaker 1: the deficit zone, whereas this is sharing part of a
Speaker 1: cut in spending with taxpayers now not sharing, it would
Speaker 1: be less inflationary. You're right, But I just think it's
Speaker 1: a brilliant political ploy to continue and to grow the
Speaker 1: support for the program. Drop us a note anytime you like,
Speaker 1: mailbag at Armstrong and Geddy dot com. Looking forward to
Speaker 1: talking to Mike Lyons next hour. Stay with us if
Speaker 1: you can. Armstrong and Getty