Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty
Speaker 1: enough he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2: It's not likely to be just the automakers. I mean,
Speaker 2: the President is going to decide this today, but he's
Speaker 2: talking about it. But I think it's likely that it
Speaker 2: will cover all USMCA compliant goods and services, so that
Speaker 2: which is part of President Trump's deal with Canada and Mexico,
Speaker 2: are likely to get an exemption from these tariffsm.
Speaker 1: For a month. Is that what they're saying?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the John continues the negotiations, the talks.
Speaker 4: If you will, will it keep working to do this
Speaker 4: if every time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, back off of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: At some point even Pantywayte Trudeau pick up the phone
Speaker 3: say look, can we skip this part?
Speaker 1: What do you want?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 4: Uh, terrify and all Canadian goods started to a midnight
Speaker 4: Monday or Tuesday, and then except for the car makers,
Speaker 4: they announced yesterday and now today they're saying and everything
Speaker 4: else except for the cars and everything else, So it's
Speaker 4: on hold.
Speaker 3: Canadian bacon, which the President has renamed Montana ham.
Speaker 1: Well, I refer to Canada as gay North Dakota.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, wow, wow, that is way out of bounds
Speaker 3: speaking a gay US mc A. It's fun to trade
Speaker 3: in the USMCA. And yes, I am doing the letters.
Speaker 3: Oh Canada, we developed, Yes, we got this text earlier. Jack,
Speaker 3: your laugh is infectious. Love hearing it, my Laughe actually
Speaker 3: is infectious, as I have the flu, ironically, yes, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk about a sneeze and his cough.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was going to talk a little bit about the
Speaker 4: flu and flu vaccine and stuff, as I've learned a
Speaker 4: few things about it, as I didn't get the vaccine
Speaker 4: and I got the flu. And I'll tell you what,
Speaker 4: I'd get the vaccine every year if I could avoid this.
Speaker 4: Although I've only got the flu I think once in
Speaker 4: my life, So if I only get it once every
Speaker 4: forty years, not getting the vaccine, it's not much of
Speaker 4: a risk.
Speaker 1: But more than that, you're old now, you fool.
Speaker 3: That's the difference.
Speaker 4: Does that make it more likely that you get the flu?
Speaker 3: It makes it more likely it really really hurts you.
Speaker 3: Hum hm oh yeah, it's like COVID. Just think of
Speaker 3: it like COVID. Nobody healthy under the age of fifty
Speaker 3: five should have done a damn thing, especially not the
Speaker 3: kids similar with the flu.
Speaker 1: I'm not die of the flu. Old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we'll see. Anyway, there's so much I want
Speaker 3: to squeeze into this half hour, and then at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the hour, we're gonna play some audio from
Speaker 3: the hearings yesterday in Congress where they hauled a bunch
Speaker 3: of sanctuary city mayors into the hearing room and berated them.
Speaker 3: Good fun for everyone, but I got a bunch of
Speaker 3: stuff to get to. All of it deserves a couple
Speaker 3: of minutes. I've changed my mind on one thing. We've
Speaker 3: got to get these two stories on. They're both from
Speaker 3: cal Unicornia, and either many of our listeners are cal
Speaker 3: Unicornians many are not. So it's either directly applicable to
Speaker 3: you or trust me, somebody's going to try to introduce
Speaker 3: this in your state soon, and you need to be forewarned.
Speaker 3: Let's begin by playing Joe Getty's How They Gonna Solve It,
Speaker 3: the brand new game show Everyone Loves Jack first of all,
Speaker 3: in an irony among ironies, California leaders are facing a
Speaker 3: quandary arising from the rise of sales of electric cars
Speaker 3: as more people buy fuel efficient zero missions vehicles, the
Speaker 3: public's consumption of gases declined, so the revenue from gas
Speaker 3: taxes has declined significantly. It's increasingly problematics. As this professor
Speaker 3: of urban planning at UCLA, gas tax revenues could are
Speaker 3: about thirteen billion last year. They could fall as low
Speaker 3: as five billion dollars in the next quite a few years.
Speaker 3: You're talking about now, just the state of California here, Yeah,
Speaker 3: just the state of California. I know how they're going
Speaker 3: to fix it, although there are federal taxes. Also, they
Speaker 3: get into the fact that, for all their benefits, electric
Speaker 3: vehicles still create problems. Equipped with heavy batteries, these fuel
Speaker 3: efficient cars and trucks tend to weigh more than their counterparts,
Speaker 3: so they do more damage to the roads. They unleash
Speaker 3: more micro rubber fragments and plastic from the tires into
Speaker 3: the atmosphere. They also accelerate more quickly, which increases the
Speaker 3: risk of collisions. Blah blah blah. So all of these problems, Jack,
Speaker 3: can you guess how are they gonna solve it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, in California, they're just gonna they want you to
Speaker 4: stop driving gas powered cars. So of course they'll just
Speaker 4: add more tax to a gallon of gas with the
Speaker 4: idea that thanks to electric cars mean and blah blah
Speaker 4: blah in states where well in states where people don't
Speaker 4: like electric cars, they're not buying them, so it's not
Speaker 4: an issue. Oh, I see, I was at the Tesla
Speaker 4: charging thing yesterday, and when I first started charging my
Speaker 4: car there three years ago, there'd be two cars there,
Speaker 4: maybe no cars. This particular Tesla charging thing by the
Speaker 4: station there's I don't know, fifteen stalls. Now it's regularly
Speaker 4: full and you have to wait, and so that's a
Speaker 4: pretty limiting factor, I think. And that's for Tesla's if
Speaker 4: you have a regular if you have a different kind
Speaker 4: of electric car.
Speaker 1: You can't charge it anywhere. I mean, none of those
Speaker 1: things work.
Speaker 3: So I just I don't.
Speaker 4: It seems so incredibly unworkable. And then you add in
Speaker 4: the politics of it. If the bloom is off the
Speaker 4: rows for Tesla because people hate Elon so much, only
Speaker 4: lefties were really into electric cars to start with, aside
Speaker 4: for me because I wanted the world's fastest car. But
Speaker 4: only lefties really were into electric cars anyway. Now they've
Speaker 4: turned on Elon.
Speaker 3: What's it going to do.
Speaker 1: That might blow up the whole electric car thing, just
Speaker 1: people's hatred of Trump.
Speaker 3: So this think tank gal who they quote, suggested a
Speaker 3: variety of policies solutions, including mostly new taxes or fees
Speaker 3: that could hinge on how many miles you drive, no
Speaker 3: matter what you're driving or how many.
Speaker 1: Cars a household owns.
Speaker 3: Soon you'll have to report your mileage to Uncle Gavy
Speaker 3: and be taxed on it, no matter what you're driving,
Speaker 3: and taxes will go up. And that's how they're going
Speaker 3: to solve it.
Speaker 1: Or Texas so.
Speaker 4: With the goal of driving more people into electric cars,
Speaker 4: which has got a ton of problems that I just
Speaker 4: pointed out nice and is absolutely not clearly an environmental.
Speaker 3: Win now according to any sober analysis. And I'm not anti,
Speaker 3: I'm not pro I don't care. And then this also
Speaker 3: from cal Unicornia, compiled by a loyal listener, Paolo Excellent correspondent.
Speaker 1: You may know this.
Speaker 3: Blue states all over the country have been subsidizing rooftop
Speaker 3: solar electric installation and generation. More precisely, nonsolar customers have
Speaker 3: been subsidizing solar customers through various means, and solar customers
Speaker 3: generally have higher income. So that's not sitting well with
Speaker 3: the nonsolar crowd, nor with the equity minded the progressives
Speaker 3: in government, and that doesn't include one in particular of
Speaker 3: the equity minded Gavin Newsom, who promoted policies that led
Speaker 3: to this. I mean, Gavey has been hammering solar like
Speaker 3: a lunatic since he came onto the scene.
Speaker 1: But it can't be his fault.
Speaker 3: So California is blaming an unlikely villain for your high
Speaker 3: energy bills. So the state government now is turning the
Speaker 3: peep people who listened and installed solar and responded to
Speaker 3: the incentives and all as the scapegoats. California regulators, analysts,
Speaker 3: and even the governor himself have recently blamed popular solar
Speaker 3: incentive programs for saddling other eight payers with higher energy bills. Indeed,
Speaker 3: the arguments from state officials pit the energy bills of
Speaker 3: two groups California customers, the haves and have nots at
Speaker 3: home solar against each other. It's a dramatic pivot from
Speaker 3: the state with more rooftop solar panels than any other.
Speaker 3: So if you have solar, look to get hammered by
Speaker 3: the very government that berated you.
Speaker 1: To get solar. Yeah, you laugh. I laugh.
Speaker 4: Well that's the sort of thing that happens when government
Speaker 4: starts getting involved in the free market, you know, getting
Speaker 4: back to the electric car thing. Seventy five dollars subsidy
Speaker 4: on electric cars. So you go out and buy it
Speaker 4: one of the cheaper teslas and you're in the right
Speaker 4: income range. The rest of US taxpayers paid seven twenty
Speaker 4: five hundred dollars of your car so that it's more
Speaker 4: affordable for you.
Speaker 1: What kind of wealth redistribution is that?
Speaker 4: And if that goes away, tons of those electric cars,
Speaker 4: those smaller ones that people buy, they ain't gonna.
Speaker 3: Buy right, right, and again, all of this for something
Speaker 3: that's not a clear environment will win.
Speaker 1: Finally, this at least for this segment.
Speaker 3: Jack and I are both firearms owners, enthusiasts, not experts.
Speaker 3: But South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing
Speaker 3: squad tomorrow.
Speaker 4: WHOA, I didn't know any states still did. That was
Speaker 4: a sparky on the print.
Speaker 3: No, they just thought, hey, let's save a little money,
Speaker 3: old sparky. You know, it's a high maintenance thing. Did
Speaker 3: somebody at any point say, you know, it would be fun?
Speaker 3: I mean, how did they come up with this idea. Well,
Speaker 3: in terms of the process of death, there could be
Speaker 3: nothing less painful than sudden catastrophic gun injury. H Lethal injections.
Speaker 3: Pretty they got a jaby and find a vein. Sometimes
Speaker 3: they have to jab you over and all again.
Speaker 4: As much as I hate needles, I think I'd take
Speaker 4: the lethal injection over being shot, even though I realized
Speaker 4: it'd probably not be very painful, as many people have
Speaker 4: pointed out inert gas. Inert gas, you fall asleep and
Speaker 4: then you die for the lack oxygen. It would work easily,
Speaker 4: and I don't think it would hurt to get shot.
Speaker 4: Read Executioner Song by Norman Mailer sometime if you want
Speaker 4: to know a lot about the death penalty and getting shot,
Speaker 4: because that's how it ends. He gets shot, but the
Speaker 4: fear leading up to it would be brutal. Sitting there, Yes,
Speaker 4: yes it would. I hope they xanaxia up or something
Speaker 4: like that. Anyway, that's not we're not here to talk
Speaker 4: about that jacket. Can I murder something to take the
Speaker 4: edge off, like a I don't know, a Goldschlager shot
Speaker 4: or margarita or something.
Speaker 3: You know what I've recovered my footing here. I'm obviously
Speaker 3: working with a progressive here. Hey, don't slaughter people in
Speaker 3: cold blood and we won't have to.
Speaker 1: Worry about it.
Speaker 4: You always hell, we always get into this conversation and
Speaker 4: put it as if it were us. Well, it's not
Speaker 4: gonna be us, because I'm not gonna do some horrific
Speaker 4: crime that deserves the death penalty.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 3: I was gonna yell at you, but you yelled at
Speaker 3: you pretty effectively, so I'll let it go. Do we
Speaker 3: have time for this? We really don't have time for this.
Speaker 3: I will describe to you why even firearms experts are
Speaker 3: questioning whether this is a good idea. Oh wow, South Cakilaki,
Speaker 3: you gotta check yourself.
Speaker 1: Don't detail us to come. What's next in the South?
Speaker 3: Well, if the shooting goes well, we might think about stoning. Yeah,
Speaker 3: why not you?
Speaker 4: I got something about the medieval justice system that we'll
Speaker 4: fit in with this.
Speaker 3: Just fine?
Speaker 1: That feel across yesterday?
Speaker 4: Yeah, which burnings and stuff or and immediately medieval justice
Speaker 4: system not that great?
Speaker 1: Not that great. We got a lot more on the way.
Speaker 5: Stay with us.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, at the old timey execution's desk, here's Joe Jeddy
Speaker 6: So in South Carolina, one of my many adopted home states,
Speaker 6: the South Carolina Department of Corrections is going to execute
Speaker 6: a dude tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Theoretically, they're gonna strap this Brad Sigmund, who, by the way,
Speaker 3: didn't like his ex girlfriend's parents so beat them to
Speaker 3: death with a baseball bat twenty three years ago.
Speaker 1: Anytime you get into the what the person did, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I don't care. How they're murdering doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: About So they're going to strap him to a metal
Speaker 3: seat in the same small, indoor brick death chamber or
Speaker 3: South Carolina has executed more than forty other prisoners by
Speaker 3: electric chair and lethal injections since nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like that room in your house. It's
Speaker 1: an all purpose room. Anyway.
Speaker 3: If the execution goes according to plan, six o'clock Friday
Speaker 3: evening Eastern time, Sigmun's head will be covered by a hood,
Speaker 3: A target will be placed over his heart. Three prison
Speaker 3: employees will be prepared to shoot from a distance of
Speaker 3: about fifteen feet.
Speaker 1: That's awful close.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: In Utah, which is the only state, why would you
Speaker 4: want to be further away? Where obviously the farther you
Speaker 4: are away, the more likely you miss.
Speaker 3: Well, right, right, sure now, Utah, the only other state
Speaker 3: that's executed prisoners by firing squad in the past fifty years,
Speaker 3: does the traditional five shooters, four with a live round,
Speaker 3: one with a blank, so all of them, if necessary,
Speaker 3: can convince themselves it wasn't me killed a guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Reads an interesting deal, but seriously, executioners Songs one of
Speaker 4: the most interesting books I've ever read about crime and
Speaker 4: punishment and everything else. But anyway, back to you, Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 4: he says, South Carolina, shut up, Utah.
Speaker 3: They got three guys each with a live bullet. Anyway,
Speaker 3: they got three guys Utah.
Speaker 1: Three guys with a hammer, and they ain't sober.
Speaker 3: Boy. After the warden reads the execution order, the team
Speaker 3: will fire, the protocol states, and they will also have
Speaker 3: most lawyers and family members sit in a space directly
Speaker 3: beside the gas chamber behind a glass partition.
Speaker 1: But firearms inspectors who wants to watch that?
Speaker 3: Boy?
Speaker 1: I don't want to get like crazy crazy gross.
Speaker 3: There are ways you could make it less bad, but
Speaker 3: again I don't people haven't tuned in for that. But
Speaker 3: firearms experts who are no. Left wingers are saying, guys,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't shoot in that space. I wouldn't even be
Speaker 3: in the room. It's just an unnecessary risk. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: you got a small room built of brick and a
Speaker 3: strap to a metal chair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 4: So I mean, if I had to, you know, Christy
Speaker 4: Nomestyle get rid of a farm dog, I'm not putting
Speaker 4: them in a brick room.
Speaker 1: That'd be crazy.
Speaker 3: Well, and you wouldn't strap them in anything but strap
Speaker 3: to a metal chair. That's just a terrible idea, depending
Speaker 3: on what you know the chair is made of, in
Speaker 3: the sort of ammunition and the rest of it. The
Speaker 3: fire squad chairs, South Carolina said, now we're good. The
Speaker 3: firing squad chairs surrounded by protective equipment and the prison
Speaker 3: installed bullet resistant class between the witness room and the
Speaker 3: death chamber. The witness room looks uncomfortably like someone's home theater.
Speaker 3: It doesn't quite have the really recliney chairs, but they
Speaker 3: look quite comfortable.
Speaker 1: And is there a concession stand? Oh boy? Oh jack.
Speaker 3: Ricochets aren't the only danger when bullets are shot in
Speaker 3: closed spaces, since led particles and noxious gases are released
Speaker 3: to people who use it. For shooting rams are required
Speaker 3: by law. Wow, shut up, must have ricochetted. Uh. Hearing
Speaker 3: loss is another risk were aheadphones you morons.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to watch that. I don't quite get
Speaker 4: going to uh an execution anyway. I mean, thank god,
Speaker 4: I've never been in this situation and hopefully never will be,
Speaker 4: where a loved one is, you know, so horribly murdered
Speaker 4: by someone that.
Speaker 1: They get the death penalty.
Speaker 4: But I don't need to watch them snuffed for any
Speaker 4: sort of closure or anything. I'm not criticizing anybody who does.
Speaker 4: You get to do whatever you want, but I can't
Speaker 4: imagine wanting to do that.
Speaker 3: As long as it is an open enough process that
Speaker 3: we're assured that it was carried out according to the
Speaker 3: laws of the state and the country, and what he's
Speaker 3: tortured or anything like that, I'm fine with that. But
Speaker 3: you know, one interesting truth about the death penalty, which
Speaker 3: I'm not against exactly, is that families think it will
Speaker 3: bring them closure when the person is finally executed after decades,
Speaker 3: and it almost never does, right.
Speaker 1: That is one of the biggest problems with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, anyway, this is not a debate about the
Speaker 3: death penalty.
Speaker 1: In general.
Speaker 3: But I wonder if South cakilak, he's going to go ahead.
Speaker 4: Well, what's the argument against it?
Speaker 1: It just sounds awful.
Speaker 3: Most of the arguments against specific methods of execution are phony.
Speaker 3: They're just efforts to postpone it in general. Yeah, because
Speaker 3: you're against it, and you can be against it. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can make a solid argument against the death penalty
Speaker 3: as a libertarian. I mean there's all kinds of, you know,
Speaker 3: good reasons argue against it. I'll find a single forty
Speaker 3: five caliber slug while someone sleeps would be completely merciful,
Speaker 3: but we don't do that.
Speaker 1: Most of the arguments are famish, armstrong, and getty.
Speaker 7: Take your seat, sir, take your seat. Finding that members
Speaker 7: continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption or proper decorum,
Speaker 7: the Chair now directs a sertant at arms to restore order,
Speaker 7: remove this gentleman from the chamber.
Speaker 3: The ejection of al Green not the sole singer of
Speaker 3: the representative. Was it racism? No, it wasn't. Does anybody
Speaker 3: have any other questions? Because he's an idiot?
Speaker 1: So he got.
Speaker 4: Censured, that's correct, Jack whatever, whatever. See, I'm surprised that
Speaker 4: Norm hasn't been blown up in that somebody just keeps
Speaker 4: doing things and getting censured.
Speaker 1: Like, go ahead, censure me, what do I care?
Speaker 3: All right, these people have no shame, they can't be shame.
Speaker 3: Shame on you.
Speaker 1: I have none.
Speaker 4: Well, and just the public doesn't care. So yeah, it's
Speaker 4: all so performative. Yes it is, and it raises money.
Speaker 3: So speaking of the House of Representatives such as it is,
Speaker 3: they hold held a house hearing on sanctuary cities yesterday,
Speaker 3: which is a topic well worth talking about.
Speaker 1: Oh he my goodness, declaring yourself.
Speaker 3: Immune from cooperating with federal authorities or above the law,
Speaker 3: or so righteous as to not have to participate in
Speaker 3: our great self governance experiment. That's the way I see
Speaker 3: sanctuary cities anyway, So yeah, it should be looked into.
Speaker 1: I'd love for the Supreme Court to weigh you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah eventually.
Speaker 4: House hearings are usually not the best way to get
Speaker 4: to the bottom of anything. Yeah, the Supreme Court just
Speaker 4: needs to rule finally, They need to skip to that
Speaker 4: and just say is this okay or not? The Supreme
Speaker 4: Court's gonna say, nah, you can't do that, and that's
Speaker 4: the end of it.
Speaker 3: Ah, right, I fear the dreaded narrow ruling, But yeah,
Speaker 3: I would love to see it work through that process,
Speaker 3: and I suspect very strongly it will.
Speaker 1: One has to remind.
Speaker 3: Oneself just yeah, I really don't talk in real life.
Speaker 3: That's Trump's been in office for what six weeks, five
Speaker 3: weeks something like that. Yeah, like six weeks, so there's
Speaker 3: plenty of time to get to that anyway. So the
Speaker 3: House of Representatives of the hearings is Jack indicated, not
Speaker 3: the best way to actually get to the bottom of issues,
Speaker 3: but they're an excellent.
Speaker 1: Opportunity to yell at people and be entertained.
Speaker 3: So, first of all, we've got congress Person Gill, who
Speaker 3: I don't think I know they're act joining with Mayor
Speaker 3: Brandon Johnson of Chicago, who if there were three of
Speaker 3: them that would almost amount to normal intelligence. He is
Speaker 3: a union hack and a liar and a cheat and
Speaker 3: a communist and a hundred others things. Clip Hady first,
Speaker 3: Michael and Jackie jump in. Anytime it's a little longish,
Speaker 3: we can bail as needed.
Speaker 1: Mayor Johnson, I want to start with you.
Speaker 8: One of your first actions as mayor was establishing a
Speaker 8: deputy mayor for immigrant migrant and refugee right. I want
Speaker 8: to ask you a series of questions if you could
Speaker 8: answer with a yes or no answer that yes no.
Speaker 8: First of all, do you support allowing illegal aliens to
Speaker 8: obtain driver's licenses?
Speaker 1: Does yes or no?
Speaker 5: Can you? My city of Chicago has been a welcoming
Speaker 5: city for.
Speaker 3: Over four so uh we all know the yes no question.
Speaker 3: The thing is just a trap game, and it's stupid
Speaker 3: and performative. And if anybody ever said just yes or no,
Speaker 3: even if I had a simple yes or no answer,
Speaker 3: I would launch into some long screed just to piss
Speaker 3: them off. And Gil is on my side of this.
Speaker 4: I agree with them completely, But that's just a sudd
Speaker 4: Although on driver's licenses for illegals, that's that's a yes
Speaker 4: or no. Is that it certainly can.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, anyway, let's go brand and Johnson continues.
Speaker 5: For years.
Speaker 1: I'll say that is a yes. Next question, that's the
Speaker 1: policy that we will hold to.
Speaker 8: Do you support tax dollars subsidizing or paying for the
Speaker 8: health care of illegal aliens?
Speaker 5: I support investments in all residents of the people of Chicago,
Speaker 5: and that's what I do.
Speaker 1: That's a yes as well.
Speaker 8: Do you support free or reduced college for illegal aliens.
Speaker 5: Again, I support the investments of all residents of the
Speaker 5: people of Chicago. That is a yes.
Speaker 1: Next question, do you support it?
Speaker 3: Okay, if you get to yeses, he gets put out
Speaker 3: of office or what? Okay, that's enough of that, and
Speaker 3: he works this way too. Do you support a taxpayer
Speaker 3: funding of abortions for illegal aliens? And Johnson gives the same,
Speaker 3: you know, reasonably diplomatic effort answer. Rather, Hey, all residents
Speaker 3: of Chicago gets the same thing. That's not a bad dodge. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm staunchly against you know, a lot of these policies.
Speaker 3: I'm just talking about the strategy of arguing it. How
Speaker 3: do you not politically say no?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 4: Because it's not popular even in Chicago. No, it's definitely
Speaker 4: not part popular nationwide. I don't think he's got his
Speaker 4: site set on national office, but it's not even popular
Speaker 4: in Chicago or New York at this point, all this
Speaker 4: stuff for illegals.
Speaker 1: Why would you just say no?
Speaker 4: Even if in reality every citizen, every citizen, every resident
Speaker 4: gets the same treatment.
Speaker 3: You know, the college president gals who were pro anti
Speaker 3: Semitism just didn't want to admit it. They're the rare,
Speaker 3: rare example of where a non answer isn't the best answer.
Speaker 1: Because Johnson's diplomatic half.
Speaker 3: Answer this, it's hard to get to stirred up over it.
Speaker 4: So what's the justification for every resident gets the same treatment.
Speaker 4: That's just their philosophy of governance. They'd say, don't we
Speaker 4: don't pick and choose, We don't who's who in the
Speaker 4: city of Chicago. We look out for everybody because we're
Speaker 4: one big, happy family.
Speaker 3: Wow, you know effectively, you know, budgetarily, that's insane, but
Speaker 3: it sounds good.
Speaker 1: See, here's difficult.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't be difficult to you know, you got to
Speaker 4: show an ID showing your of course, then how to
Speaker 4: who do you ask to prove? Because I've never been
Speaker 4: asked to prove I'm a US citizen for anything.
Speaker 3: White privilege right there, folks, Do you hear that?
Speaker 4: So you're just gonna anybody who's kind of tan, You're
Speaker 4: gonna make them come up with some documentation that they
Speaker 4: were born.
Speaker 3: Here speaks with an accent right that there are practical issues.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm trying to be fair about this.
Speaker 4: So you're watching soccer match on your phone out there
Speaker 4: in the lobby. You got any documentation.
Speaker 3: So this is well right, And what's interesting to me
Speaker 3: is asking him about specifics. He actually has a reasonable
Speaker 3: case to make that. No, we don't worry about who's
Speaker 3: what citizenship status. As long as you live here, we
Speaker 3: take care of you. But a sanctuary city in general,
Speaker 3: if it extends to we do not cooperate with ICE
Speaker 3: when they tell us you have a dangerous felon you're
Speaker 3: about to let out. We need to take him and
Speaker 3: get rid of him. I despise that. A little bit
Speaker 3: of Byron Donald's of Florida talking to a handful of mayors.
Speaker 9: Next clip, Michael, did your city spend on illegal immigration?
Speaker 10: Do you have how much over the last couple of
Speaker 10: years on all newcomers, whatever their status was.
Speaker 5: It's around seventy nine million since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 9: Seventy nine million, Mayor Johnson, Chicago. How much is the
Speaker 9: city of Chicago spent on illegal immigration?
Speaker 5: If you refer into the twenty twenty two up to
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four of the buses coming from Texas, roughly
Speaker 5: the same percentage of the state of Texas, about one
Speaker 5: percent of our overall budget. What is that?
Speaker 9: Because we don't have the city's budget in front.
Speaker 5: Of me numbers it's one percent. And if you want
Speaker 5: the actual calculation, we can make sure someone.
Speaker 1: You're the mayor, you don't have the math in front
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 5: Is one percent of the overall budget over the last
Speaker 5: That's why you were a failing Which is the same
Speaker 5: number that New York actually spent.
Speaker 9: On tech legal immigration. Mayor Johnson, I already asked you.
Speaker 9: You don't have a hard number, and if you don't
Speaker 9: have a hard number, you're not running your city well.
Speaker 5: Mayor Adams, how much.
Speaker 9: Did the City of New York actually spend on illegal immigration?
Speaker 5: Six point nine billion of taxpayers that's.
Speaker 9: Zero point nine billion dollars of taxpayer money on a
Speaker 9: problem that was fostered on the American people. Mayor Will,
Speaker 9: in the city of Boston, how much did you spend We.
Speaker 4: Don't ask about immigration status and delivering city.
Speaker 9: You don't ask about how much money the City of
Speaker 9: Boston has spent on illegal immigration?
Speaker 1: Out of your miss between immigration status, do you manage
Speaker 1: your budget or not?
Speaker 5: Mayor? That is how we keep.
Speaker 1: Mayor Will, Do you manage your.
Speaker 3: Numbers to prove it? I manage my budget.
Speaker 5: I have a triple a Bond writing daily back ten years.
Speaker 9: So to the City of Boston, just understand that your
Speaker 9: mayor does not care how much of your resources she
Speaker 9: has spent on people who are not citizens.
Speaker 3: The City of Boston.
Speaker 9: Of Boston, mister Bhaer, have a question for you, because
Speaker 9: I understand Cato's perspective when it comes to legal immigration.
Speaker 5: I understand that.
Speaker 1: Is who who here can do a one handed push up?
Speaker 1: I can't. I just keep hitting them with questions.
Speaker 3: You can't do a one handed push up?
Speaker 1: Mayor woo bringing it there?
Speaker 3: Woo?
Speaker 1: Who says I?
Speaker 3: Uh? And then do you want to hear people yelling
Speaker 3: at each other? It's Ianna Presley now hates America and
Speaker 3: James Cohmer what there's.
Speaker 4: Obviously something flawed with these hearings, and that I'm not
Speaker 4: digging the questioners, even though I agree with them one
Speaker 4: hundred percent. It's that the process is just.
Speaker 3: Not the best. Well, it's it's not even pretending to
Speaker 3: fulfill the purpose it claims to be there for. You
Speaker 3: know what I mean, They're not it's not a hearing,
Speaker 3: it's a it's a it's a debate, yeah yeah, like.
Speaker 4: Rather than the yes no, I'll take that as a
Speaker 4: yes or you don't know the wraw number. I would
Speaker 4: like to hear him explain your philosophy of why you
Speaker 4: think taxpayers should have to support illegals.
Speaker 3: Is there any limit to the number of the legal
Speaker 3: immigrants that you think? I mean, is there any limit
Speaker 3: to the amount of money you'd be willing to spend
Speaker 3: taxpayer money? And at what point do you think the
Speaker 3: taxpayers might revolt? Blobbah, Yeah, in an interesting discussion, but
Speaker 3: there's no time for that.
Speaker 1: More yelling coming up in a moment. Stay with us.
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Speaker 3: no safe. I like sad place half. I haven't actually
Speaker 3: heard this, but I heard it's decent. Aana Presley who
Speaker 3: hates America part of the squad, and James Komer who's
Speaker 3: a bit of a hard ass of battling here and
Speaker 3: clip eighty three Michael missus.
Speaker 11: Jerk canne have several articles I need to enter them.
Speaker 11: Let me just go ahead with the what the the
Speaker 11: articles are?
Speaker 1: What's the next article? Let me proceed.
Speaker 11: Data from Texas shows that US born and Marians oh
Speaker 11: met more race.
Speaker 1: This trend.
Speaker 12: If you're all trying to get thrown out of committee,
Speaker 12: so you can get on ms b C is gonna
Speaker 12: end more.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna put up with it.
Speaker 12: You can go, you can go with mister Frost and
Speaker 12: mister Green.
Speaker 1: That's what you want.
Speaker 12: No, no, miss Presley, I've been very I have been
Speaker 12: very accommodating to you.
Speaker 3: Go record.
Speaker 11: This is my right, thank you.
Speaker 12: No, no, it is, mister supermom.
Speaker 1: Mister yo. You know the process.
Speaker 3: Of unanimous consents.
Speaker 4: You you are not recognized articles to enter into human record.
Speaker 5: Mister.
Speaker 12: If you don't go, we're going to recognize mister Timmins.
Speaker 1: Oh No. The simple true.
Speaker 3: Be it, be it shoplifting, murder or yelling your wack
Speaker 3: a doodal squad talking points even though you're breaking all
Speaker 3: the rules, is if the sanction isn't adequate to deter
Speaker 3: the action, the action will continue. Yeah, and I again
Speaker 3: I equit the sergeant at arms with a taser, simple
Speaker 3: as that, bringing.
Speaker 4: Out the compliance belt. I think it would have been
Speaker 4: more effective to let her say those freaking ridiculous statistics
Speaker 4: about So what's your logic here, Let's just ship out
Speaker 4: all US born citizens and bring in people from other
Speaker 4: countries because they commit rape.
Speaker 1: And murder at a lower rate.
Speaker 3: I mean, what is that?
Speaker 1: Hell is the point here?
Speaker 4: But I'd rather have her say it and then have
Speaker 4: people push back against it, either statistically or philosophically.
Speaker 3: And sure, yeah, native borns commit rape at one point
Speaker 3: three per hundred thousand, immigrants at one point two per
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand, So we've imported fifty thousand rapists. Explain
Speaker 3: to me how that's a good thing, right, it's an
Speaker 3: okay thing since the rate was a little lower. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: you bald headed America hating freak. Okay, we've got more
Speaker 3: coming Upstay here.
Speaker 13: The possible scientific breakthrough of these extra furry rodents are
Speaker 13: called wooly mice.
Speaker 1: A Dallas company that works on.
Speaker 13: De extinction genetically modified them with hair to resemble the
Speaker 13: traits of a wooly mammoth. The company says it plans
Speaker 13: to revive the actual wooly mammoth to walk the earth
Speaker 13: again as soon.
Speaker 10: As twenty twenty eight. Wow, within three years. But there's
Speaker 10: a lot missing in that story. It sounds to me
Speaker 10: like all you did was genetically modify mice so they
Speaker 10: have wooly r hair and then made the leap that
Speaker 10: you're going to bring back the wooly mammoth wool.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See, that's my problem, is this whole thing. I
Speaker 3: read the long account of it yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yes, they've just.
Speaker 1: Bred harry mice, which you know is kind of novel.
Speaker 1: They're cute, the little bastards.
Speaker 3: But and so in reading into this, these people, what
Speaker 3: they're going to try to do is manipulate the genes
Speaker 3: of heffalumps until they look kind of like wooly mammon.
Speaker 1: Oh Okay, that's not the same thing, all right.
Speaker 3: Now it really isn't. Yeah, it's it's phony.
Speaker 4: Now there are projects to bring back the willly mammoth
Speaker 4: with like various genetic material they have from frozen carcasses
Speaker 4: of wily mammotson that sort of stuff that could be
Speaker 4: like actually bringing back that beast.
Speaker 1: But this just your elephants manipulated. Again, novel attractive.
Speaker 3: We got this text would they dead or would you
Speaker 3: have to like send them to the groomer.
Speaker 4: So we got into the conversation about bringing back you know,
Speaker 4: willie mammoths and dinosaurs and all this stuff that has
Speaker 4: been talked about for a long time, kind of Jurassic parkish,
Speaker 4: although the technology is coming real. We got this text
Speaker 4: soon aill be clashing with dinosaurs for world domination.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like two different things that.
Speaker 4: Mankind couldn't do before now can And everybody's thinking, is
Speaker 4: this a good idea?
Speaker 1: But we're screaming toward it anyway.
Speaker 3: Way, AI versus the dinosaurs produced is like a Japanese
Speaker 3: nineteen fifties werfleck.
Speaker 4: How good would that be? But speaking of AI, and
Speaker 4: this is minor AI. If you have I don't know
Speaker 4: to your Google phones, Android phones have this. They probably
Speaker 4: had it a year before Apple did. But the new
Speaker 4: Apple software, it gives me suggestions for all my text responses.
Speaker 4: And I gotta say sometimes it's really like exactly what
Speaker 4: I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: I had one of those this morning where it was
Speaker 1: like ha.
Speaker 4: Ha, yeah, I doubt it, And I thought that's exactly
Speaker 4: how I was going to respond. Oh, and I feel
Speaker 4: like there's something wrong if I just press send on
Speaker 4: the pretty close to I was gonna say reply, I
Speaker 4: feel like I'm just opening.
Speaker 1: The door to Yes, what am I doing here? Right right?
Speaker 1: Because what does the reply act?
Speaker 3: That's a problem. It's just entering into that that realm.
Speaker 4: If their reply is you're so funny or I mean
Speaker 4: if there's ever two replies in a row that were
Speaker 4: AI and we just pressed send.
Speaker 1: Now, what are we doing?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: That's troubling, isn't it? And and uh and uh.
Speaker 4: I was texting somebody I remember the other day and said,
Speaker 4: was this an AI reply? Because they heard me talking
Speaker 4: about this and they're like troubled by the idea AI.
Speaker 4: They aren't as meaningful or real or whatever. But you're right,
Speaker 4: two in a row would be monstrous. Yes, yes, and
Speaker 4: very quickly could become the whole half the conversation.
Speaker 1: But so far I'd just.
Speaker 3: Be sitting there ignoring each other, letting your AIS converse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, getting the gist of what they said. AI has
Speaker 4: a good reply, it's good enough you press send.
Speaker 1: It's weird. There's something weird, Dan.
Speaker 4: I haven't quite put my finger on it, but so
Speaker 4: far I have not used I should turn it off,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And maybe there's a way to turn it off.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, every great authority on philosophy, religion, you know, emotional
Speaker 3: health says the same thing. Best to disconnect even more
Speaker 3: from your friends and loved ones. Yeah, make it even
Speaker 3: more about screens and computers.
Speaker 4: Ugh, I do like the long text summaries and email
Speaker 4: summaries that I'm getting from AI pretty damned helpful.
Speaker 1: I glance at my.
Speaker 4: Emails in the morning and it's, you know, like my
Speaker 4: son's teacher I had emailed about something and says, says,
Speaker 4: that's fine, we'll see you Sunday, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and then just break it down to the main points.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, yes, Katie.
Speaker 4: The only problem I'm seeing with that, for me at least,
Speaker 4: is I'm reading those things and I'm going okay, and
Speaker 4: I'm not responding.
Speaker 1: All right, I've done that a few times.
Speaker 3: Oh whoops, Yeah, yeah, whoops. I'm still involved in this process.
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Speaker 4: Or maybe just have your AI listen, and then you
Speaker 4: have to waste your time summarise the show for you.
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