Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Joe Getty arm Strong and Jetty and he I'm
Speaker 2: Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Ukraine firing the first American made long range missiles into Russia,
Speaker 3: targeting an ammunition store in the Brian's border region. Eight missiles,
Speaker 3: known as attackers, were fired and two intercepted. The Kremlin
Speaker 3: appearing to threaten possible use of nuclear weapons in response,
Speaker 3: but the pensacons saying there are no signs it's preparing
Speaker 3: to do so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is an interesting development, And I was shocked
Speaker 4: that that wasn't the lead story on the Evening News
Speaker 4: last night. For a lot of people that I follow,
Speaker 4: it was a really, really big deal.
Speaker 2: But it didn't.
Speaker 4: Not only did not lead the Evening News last night,
Speaker 4: couple of cam I saw didn't even mention it. So
Speaker 4: David Sanger and The New York Times wrote yesterday for Russia,
Speaker 4: nuclear weapons are the ultimate bargaining chip, talking about how
Speaker 4: on the one thousandth day of the war, coincidentally, Vladimir
Speaker 4: Zlenzi took advantage of the new permission to use those
Speaker 4: attack them rockets that you just heard about and fired
Speaker 4: them into Russia. At the same time, Russia formally announced
Speaker 4: a new nuclear doctrine, declaring for the first time that
Speaker 4: it would use nuclear weapons not only in response to
Speaker 4: an attack that threatened its survival, but also in any
Speaker 4: response to any attack that posed a threat to its
Speaker 4: sovereignty or territorial integrity, which is exactly what happened yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you're hardcore defender of territorial integrity, now, are
Speaker 1: you of lad right?
Speaker 4: And also it declared for the first time the right
Speaker 4: to use nuclear weapons against the state that possesses conventional
Speaker 4: arms only if it is backed by a nuclear power
Speaker 4: Ukraine obviously being backed by the United States in France,
Speaker 4: three of the nine current nuclear powers that exist on Earth.
Speaker 4: And this is the part from the Sanger piece that
Speaker 4: I thought was interesting. Yet it was telling that the
Speaker 4: reaction in Washington on Tuesday was just short of a yawn.
Speaker 4: Officials dismissed the doctrine as the nothing burger of nuclear threats.
Speaker 4: The city was rife with speculation over whether or not
Speaker 4: Matt Gates would get confirmed, but nobody was interested in talking.
Speaker 2: About the possibility of a nuclear war.
Speaker 4: So, as he said, striking the Ukraine War has changed
Speaker 4: many things that it has ended hundreds of thousands of lives,
Speaker 4: shattered millions of lives, shaken Europe, and inured Washington in
Speaker 4: the world to the use of nuclear weapons, apparently as
Speaker 4: a bargaining chip for better or worse.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's.
Speaker 4: A good thing that you know, the world no longer
Speaker 4: freaks out when somebody threatens that, or if it's a
Speaker 4: bad thing that we've gotten used to it and nothing
Speaker 4: has happened in the past, so nothing will probably happen
Speaker 4: in the future.
Speaker 2: So whatever, I think, all of those things factor.
Speaker 1: And I also think there's probably a belief, especially given
Speaker 1: the that we're dealing with Putin here, that there will
Speaker 1: be other ratcheting up steps of the rhetoric before anything
Speaker 1: goes cur Bluey. He's not going to suddenly leap three
Speaker 1: steps ahead and unleash a tactical nuke on Kiev. See.
Speaker 2: I don't think it.
Speaker 4: Would be Putin's not going to fire a ballistic missile
Speaker 4: of the United States or anything like that. But I
Speaker 4: don't think it would be out of there is out
Speaker 4: of the realm of possibility that he uses a tactical
Speaker 4: nerd nuke on the battlefield, and it gets a hell
Speaker 4: of a lot of attention and push back and everything
Speaker 4: like that. But from reading David Sanger's book The New
Speaker 4: Cold Wars and getting making my way through Bob Woodward's book,
Speaker 4: there's nobody knows how we would react, or certainly how
Speaker 4: Biden would react to the use of a tacular tactical news.
Speaker 4: It's not a given that we would immediately put troops
Speaker 4: in or fire back with a nuclear reapon or anything
Speaker 4: like that. It might just be strong sanctions. Again, a
Speaker 4: lot of you know, this cannot stand sort of language.
Speaker 2: Might be right. Yeah, I wonder this one is so tough.
Speaker 1: There are major flaws and limitations to both sides of
Speaker 1: the we ought to be yarm in Ukraine to the
Speaker 1: teeth and defeating Russia side. There are absolute realities that
Speaker 1: you bought up against, if that's your opinion. And likewise,
Speaker 1: the absolutely indefensible moronic idea that Putin is somehow the
Speaker 1: savior of Western civilization, or and this is less moronic
Speaker 1: but incorrect, the idea that NATO somehow threatened him into
Speaker 1: doing this. You're ignoring Putin's stated goals for years now. Well,
Speaker 1: and I will want to regrow the Soviet Empire.
Speaker 4: And I will say again my personal position is I
Speaker 4: don't want world War three either, but I think letting
Speaker 4: Putin get away with this makes world War three more likely,
Speaker 4: not less likely.
Speaker 2: And I guess we strong response doesn't invite aggression weakness.
Speaker 4: I guess we disagree on this because I follow a
Speaker 4: lot of social media and there's a lot of people
Speaker 4: out there that believe, like Biden, using the allowing attackers
Speaker 4: yesterday gets us closer to World War three. So, for
Speaker 4: the first time ever, according to Gallup, more than half
Speaker 4: of Ukrainians want the war to end as soon as possible.
Speaker 4: Is now crossed that threshold just recently fifty two thirty eight,
Speaker 4: which of the following statements about the war with Russia
Speaker 4: comes closest to your personal views, and what they want
Speaker 4: is the ultimate decision. What we want in the United
Speaker 4: States doesn't determine. It's what Ukrainians want to do with
Speaker 4: how much they want to fight and everything like that.
Speaker 4: Should continue fighting the war until they win thirty eight percent.
Speaker 4: Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war
Speaker 4: as soon as possible fifty two percent, So pretty clear
Speaker 4: win for that now so what's that going to look
Speaker 4: like negotiate an end of the war. Here's James Stravitus,
Speaker 4: who was the head guy at NATO for a while
Speaker 4: on MSNBC Today talking about that.
Speaker 5: And then strategically, what I think the Biden team is about,
Speaker 5: and it's a smart play, is to give Vo Lodimir
Speaker 5: Zelenski as many chips for the bargaining table as he
Speaker 5: can possibly have. He's holding a chunk of Russia around Kursk.
Speaker 5: Here's another bargaining chip, a TACKS missile, So I think
Speaker 5: there are implications in all domains. And he goes on,
Speaker 5: He's lost two hundred thousand killed in action, four hundred
Speaker 5: thousand who are grievously wounded, six hundred thousand who have
Speaker 5: left the country to avoid the draft. He is now
Speaker 5: approaching civil warlike levels of casualties. It's a terrifying thing
Speaker 5: in my view if you are a member of.
Speaker 2: The Russian population.
Speaker 5: So I think between the bargaining chips, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 5: The chunk of territory that the Ukrainians hold of Russia,
Speaker 5: the new a tacms, the F sixteens, which are starting
Speaker 5: to have real impact. Those are operational military bargaining chips.
Speaker 5: On the other side of it is going to be
Speaker 5: casualties inflicted on Russia. Those two things I think might
Speaker 5: help get Putin to the bargaining table.
Speaker 2: So I watched that whole interview.
Speaker 4: Stravenis believes Ukraine is going to have to give up
Speaker 4: twenty percent of their territory, which is a lot. That's
Speaker 4: a lot of your country you're given up, but it
Speaker 4: could end the war and that would only be for you, hope.
Speaker 4: You would hopeuarantees that are actual guarantees from NATO and
Speaker 4: more importantly the United States that you don't get a
Speaker 4: second bite of the apple Russia or we actually NATO
Speaker 4: actually is going to push back. You'd have to have that,
Speaker 4: wouldn't you that NATO like a fourth.
Speaker 2: Bite of the apple?
Speaker 1: Which is not cribbling this pointing something out by saying that, yeah.
Speaker 4: But wouldn't you have to have a full on NATO
Speaker 4: will come to your defense guarantee for Ukraine to agree
Speaker 4: to give up twenty percent of their land with troops present. Yeah,
Speaker 4: with NATO troops present.
Speaker 2: Or something that is the equivalent. But would would Putin
Speaker 2: agree to that?
Speaker 4: I mean, in his biggest concern was having a NATO
Speaker 4: country on his border. He would basically have a NATO
Speaker 4: country on his border, whether they were a member of
Speaker 4: NATO or not. If there are NATO troops there, there
Speaker 4: would be a STREVETUS talked about a wide DMZ to
Speaker 4: militarized zone, So it wouldn't be right on the border.
Speaker 4: There would be many miles in between the two countries,
Speaker 4: but it would be NATO troops right there. That's the
Speaker 4: only one you keep putting from going back again.
Speaker 1: Well, and anybody who has studied the history of warfare,
Speaker 1: both modern and ancient, knows that just because you come
Speaker 1: to the bargaining table doesn't mean you reach a bargain right.
Speaker 2: So to assume that, I think is a mistake.
Speaker 1: Jack before we run out of time, run out of time,
Speaker 1: A tragic note from the world of from the art world.
Speaker 1: You know that in Russia ballet stars are national heroes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 1: Russia, for all of it's false and like never ever
Speaker 1: having representative government, has incredibly rich arts and has for
Speaker 1: a long time.
Speaker 4: But this is I've got a very sad I've got
Speaker 4: a good selfie of myself in front of the Bullshey
Speaker 4: Theater there in Moscow, I took a selfie of myself
Speaker 4: trying to do a pirouet right in front of the bullshit.
Speaker 2: Or we could post that at armstring and get a
Speaker 2: dot com. That'd be charming.
Speaker 1: But back to the tragic story from the art world.
Speaker 1: Russian ballet star Vladimir Kylarov has has passed away. The
Speaker 1: national hero ballet dancer had previously spoken out against the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine, saying quote, politicians should be able to
Speaker 1: negotiate without shooting and killing civilians. Well, he suffered an
Speaker 1: unfortunate accident. Jack, I'll give you one guess, twisted his ankle,
Speaker 1: slippery floor open window, plunged out of a fifth floor window.
Speaker 2: In Saint Petersburg. That is amazing.
Speaker 1: They really really need to look into those window locks
Speaker 1: like you avon hotels that only let you open at
Speaker 1: six inches or so.
Speaker 2: That something with that in Russia.
Speaker 4: And the amazing part is that people are so scared
Speaker 4: of Putin and he has such a tight fisted control
Speaker 4: over that country that those deaths are reported as died
Speaker 4: from falling out a window without pointing out the obvious,
Speaker 4: because they're scared enough that they'll fall out of a window,
Speaker 4: and Putin knows that that's why they keep falling out
Speaker 4: a windows. He doesn't think, well, I better come up
Speaker 4: with a different sort of accident so people will catch on. No,
Speaker 4: he wants people to know. Yeah, we killed him. We
Speaker 4: killed him, We killed all those doctors who said had
Speaker 4: things about COVID. We kill whoever we want to kill.
Speaker 4: Just want to make sure you all know that, and
Speaker 4: we don't even try to cover it up. That's how
Speaker 4: dangerous we are. Company got to comment, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So I wonder what the over under is for ballet
Speaker 1: dancers shoved out of windows before the end of the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine.
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Speaker 4: By the way, Biden approved land mines for the first
Speaker 4: time Ukraine can use, and that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 4: They've been wanting that for years to keep Russian soldiers
Speaker 4: from being able to come in. It's just trying to
Speaker 4: put Putent in enough pain that he'll agree to something.
Speaker 4: Obviously a lot of pain for Ukraine if they have
Speaker 4: to give up twenty percent of their country. But if
Speaker 4: you could come to an agreement, you know, around those terms,
Speaker 4: something like that, as all always with war, what an
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Speaker 1: Hold a lighter note, because everything's a lighter note. Sorry, Kale,
Speaker 1: goodbye kin Wa. Beans are the new in food?
Speaker 4: What Sorry, I'm having trouble making the transition hit a bit.
Speaker 2: Of a jarring transition there, I had.
Speaker 4: Beans are the new cool food. Beans are the new
Speaker 4: in food. Okay, that and other stuff on the waist
Speaker 4: to hear.
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Speaker 1: point of my life where I'm chasing the lowest fare,
Speaker 1: no matter how uncomfortable or badly I'm treated. I don't
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Speaker 2: I haven't experienced that anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know doctor Oz got nominated for a cabinet post. Yes,
Speaker 1: we have heard about that. We've chosen not to obsess
Speaker 1: over that sort of thing. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: picks that I'm really intrigued by, some of the newer ones.
Speaker 1: Oz is a smart guy. I don't shot, I don't know.
Speaker 2: No, he's a quack. Yeah, he's a con man.
Speaker 4: And in just no way he's the best choice. It's
Speaker 4: just a Trump. Trump makes it hard to support him
Speaker 4: so often. Just why does he get this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: We got so many emails saying essentially that thing. God,
Speaker 1: just when I got through telling my friends, look, some
Speaker 1: of these are unconventional, but beat Meg Seth.
Speaker 2: Is a blubb Marco Marco, Yeah right whatever. Then he
Speaker 2: goes with doctor freaking Oz.
Speaker 1: You're freakings anyway, speaking of medical Oh there's doctor Oz
Speaker 1: there anyway, speaking of medical matter. Sorry, Kale, you're out.
Speaker 1: Beans are the new nutritional obsession. Why everyone's talking about beans?
Speaker 4: Kale is out? And I never even got a chance
Speaker 4: to try it. I was gonna get around to it.
Speaker 4: I just never did. Beans are a musical fruit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I knew it would get there eventually. Untoward
Speaker 1: and childish jokes about flatulence, I, for one, do not approve,
Speaker 1: but they actually get into it in this discussion of
Speaker 1: how beans are high protein, protein and fiber, low and fat.
Speaker 1: I'm not really anti fat. I think fat's good for
Speaker 1: you and it keeps you full. But anyway, they help
Speaker 1: lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and recent research suggests that
Speaker 1: eating beans frequently can improve gut health and might lower
Speaker 1: risk of cardioiovascular disease, obesity, and colon cancer.
Speaker 2: Is there a particular kind of bean I should eat?
Speaker 1: There are multiple kinds of beans that you can eat, Jack,
Speaker 1: And I've got a chart here, but it would be
Speaker 1: tedious and not at the least but entertaining for me
Speaker 1: to read their various nutrition nutritional advantages.
Speaker 2: But like, uh, I like beans? Does that count kidney beans?
Speaker 1: Seven point eight grams of proteins seven grams of fibers
Speaker 1: a per bean? No, that's per hundred grams of beans.
Speaker 1: What cannellini beans, chickpeas, black beans, pinto beans, navy beans,
Speaker 1: let's all salute navy beans.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your service, navy beans.
Speaker 1: But the protein and fiber and beans also help produce
Speaker 1: spikes and subsequent crashes in blood sugar. And the way
Speaker 1: they beef up your biome in your gut with the
Speaker 1: good bacteria and that sort of thing they think can
Speaker 1: help stave off colon cancer and stuff like that. Here's
Speaker 1: the way you avoid the obvious drawbacks.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was wondering. You gotta ease into it, they
Speaker 2: say them.
Speaker 1: No, no, they can cause gas and bloating, especially if
Speaker 1: you're not used to eating them.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Dieticians advise people who want to add beans to their
Speaker 1: diet to start slowly. Begin with a quarter cup, Drink
Speaker 1: plenty of water, which can prevent fiber related constipation, and
Speaker 1: move around. If you feel bloated or gassy, your body
Speaker 1: will acclimate.
Speaker 2: Move around if you feel gassy, okay, hard fart primary
Speaker 2: I feel okay. I like with every jumping jack, another
Speaker 2: one comes out. That's what the problem is.
Speaker 1: Well, they didn't say it will prevent unfortunate foofage. They
Speaker 1: just it'll make you feel more comfortable.
Speaker 4: Okay, boy, I'll get cans of pork and beans at home,
Speaker 4: and I'll start eating.
Speaker 1: That's all. Start every morning, you know, a good bean
Speaker 1: salad with you know, a little uh, little little dressing,
Speaker 1: little onion, little tomato, a little list, a little at
Speaker 1: I find delicious.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it a point to eat more. Means
Speaker 2: that is fantastic and good news, tons of them. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, they're blue, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6: This morning, it's increasingly clear it is Donald Trump's world
Speaker 6: and we're just living in it. The most powerful rocket
Speaker 6: ever built blasting off from Texas yesterday with its creator,
Speaker 6: Elon Musk, looking on, with the President elect of the
Speaker 6: United States, Donald Trump, wearing a hat said forty five
Speaker 6: and forty seven, making the trip with his billionaire buddy
Speaker 6: to take in the launch, just days after they both
Speaker 6: attended a UFC fight at Madison Square Garden, where the
Speaker 6: winner did Trump's signature dance after the knockout.
Speaker 1: Why does she sound like she's describing that incident in
Speaker 1: which a Philadelphia Eagles fan eat eight horseman.
Speaker 4: Or I wanted to get let's play the one I
Speaker 4: wanted to get on that is thirty two, please?
Speaker 2: Not just a high profile name.
Speaker 7: Doctor Oz is also a television star, so something that
Speaker 7: he Donald Trump is clearly making a repetition of. Obviously, yesterday,
Speaker 7: as we announced, he was said that he was choosing
Speaker 7: Sean Duffy, who is the host of Fox Business as
Speaker 7: well as a reality TV star, as the head of
Speaker 7: the Transportation Department. Now we know that he is going
Speaker 7: to choose rem and Oz as the head of centers
Speaker 7: for Medicare and Medicaid services.
Speaker 4: Come on, even if you're a Trump supporter, you gotta
Speaker 4: admit he chooses an awful lot of people from television, Yes, right, clearly, yes,
Speaker 4: I mean and again I wonder is it because he
Speaker 4: knows them from TV? Or is it because he thinks,
Speaker 4: you know what, the average voter out there barely pays attention.
Speaker 4: And we're going to get to that here in a
Speaker 4: few seconds about the election. But the average voter out
Speaker 4: there just barely pays attention, and people they see on
Speaker 4: TV makes them more excited about my picks. That might
Speaker 4: actually be his strategy. I wonder.
Speaker 2: I think that's part of it.
Speaker 1: The other part of it is this is a guy
Speaker 1: who we've agreed he will execute my vision. He is
Speaker 1: not some old hand in Washington, DC. That's gonna smile
Speaker 1: to my face and then slow walk every single thing
Speaker 1: I want to get done to protect all of his cronies.
Speaker 4: So some interesting reporting came out yesterday about people who
Speaker 4: voted made their decisions at the very end, like last week,
Speaker 4: last days, or day of. I know, for most of us,
Speaker 4: it's impossible to imagine. You didn't know between Kamala Harrison
Speaker 4: Donald Trump, with their stark differences in all the baggage,
Speaker 4: You didn't know who you're going to go vote for
Speaker 4: on that last day. But they broke heavily toward Trump.
Speaker 4: The people who decided in the last week, last days,
Speaker 4: and day of, I mean overwhelmingly toward Trump. So if
Speaker 4: you got a practically tied election with whatever it was,
Speaker 4: ten percent undecided and the undecided to break overwhelmingly toward
Speaker 4: one person, that person wins, which is what happened. But
Speaker 4: so I came onto this from a tweet from Ian Bremer,
Speaker 4: which I can't figure out if this news organization is
Speaker 4: jerking with me, jerking me hair, or if they know
Speaker 4: what they're saying or they don't quite want to say it.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Ian Bremer tweeted out the.
Speaker 4: Percentage of swing voters that chose Trump and believed the
Speaker 4: Harris campaign supported taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries was eighty
Speaker 4: three percent. So eighty three percent of swing voters believed
Speaker 4: keyword here that Harris was into that whole taxpayer sex changes.
Speaker 2: For you know, that whole thing.
Speaker 1: Well, where the heck did they come by that belief?
Speaker 1: That's what I want to know, right, So is.
Speaker 4: The implication there that they believed something untrue?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, let me make you some.
Speaker 1: Sort of pardon me. But we ass effort to cloud
Speaker 1: those waters. That's what we heard her say it with
Speaker 1: their own mouth.
Speaker 4: So the headline of the organization that wrote this blueprint
Speaker 4: twenty twenty twenty four, their headline was Swing voters misperceptions
Speaker 4: of Harris and late turn to Trump. These voters, who
Speaker 4: remained open to persuasion until the very end, delivered not
Speaker 4: just a rejection of Harris, but what they believed the
Speaker 4: Democratic Party stands for absorbing right wing narratives. See, all
Speaker 4: of this is fudgie. That's exactly one hundred percent true.
Speaker 4: But you're kind of implying that people believe stuff that
Speaker 4: wasn't true. But you're not saying that some of those
Speaker 4: narratives were true. Lots of narratives are true. The narrative
Speaker 4: that I'm a father of two is a true narrative.
Speaker 2: So they So, what do you think they're doing here?
Speaker 4: They are they just trying to like satisfy people who
Speaker 4: want to hate on Trump voters, but don't have the
Speaker 4: guts to say it out loud because will they be lying?
Speaker 1: I think so, Yeah, it's just pandering. You're not going
Speaker 1: to challenge any of the beliefs to the bubble people
Speaker 1: within your orbit. Although the interesting you know aspect of
Speaker 1: that to me is that a lot of people within
Speaker 1: that bubble would be fine with taxpayers paying for sexually confused,
Speaker 1: murderous lunatics sex change operations.
Speaker 4: Well, I responded to Ian Bremer, and he gets so
Speaker 4: many responses.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he didn't see it.
Speaker 4: But I responded to in Bremer that, well, people believed
Speaker 4: that because she once said it, and when she was
Speaker 4: given the opportunity to clean it up, she didn't remember when.
Speaker 2: She was where do you stand on this, I'll follow
Speaker 2: the law.
Speaker 4: Well, does that mean you still support taxpayers funding sex
Speaker 4: change operations for illegals?
Speaker 2: I'll follow the law.
Speaker 4: So she had an opportunity to disavow her own position,
Speaker 4: and she passed on it. That's not the fault of
Speaker 4: the voters if they believe the narrative.
Speaker 3: Kind of.
Speaker 1: She just expressed that sentiment that once in that clip
Speaker 1: that we saw in the campaign.
Speaker 2: Ad right, she espoused that.
Speaker 1: For years, and so that the article is somehow implying
Speaker 1: that voters stupid, stupid, paranoid voters assumed that she still
Speaker 1: has those beliefs just because she said them over and
Speaker 1: over again and never disavowed them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we assumed. Yeah, and when given the chance,
Speaker 4: that makes us idiots play right, and when given the
Speaker 4: chance to clean that up on a big, giant national platform.
Speaker 4: I don't remember which interview it was, but it was
Speaker 4: one of the highly anticipated.
Speaker 2: It might have been in the sixty minutes she took
Speaker 2: a pass or that was Brett Baar. I think, oh
Speaker 2: was it Brett Baar? Okay, fine, I'll follow that.
Speaker 4: It was one of the real high profile interviews because
Speaker 4: she didn't do very many. I mean, this really pisses
Speaker 4: me off, This really makes me angry. Key findings here
Speaker 4: late break for Trump. Swing voters broke for Trump fifty
Speaker 4: two to thirty eight for Harris overall, which is huge
Speaker 4: in a close election.
Speaker 2: Nearly half of swing.
Speaker 4: Voters who chose Trump made their decision in the final weeks,
Speaker 4: including twenty seven percent in the final days, fifteen percent
Speaker 4: in the last week, and twelve percent on election day.
Speaker 4: Twelve percent of swing voters decided on election day. I
Speaker 4: don't even know what your deal is, but all right,
Speaker 4: I mean, you get to do it however you want.
Speaker 4: But how you're supposed to reach people who don't have
Speaker 4: it figured out until the day they walk in.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And I don't like to term culture war issues because
Speaker 1: that's often used by the left to make it sound
Speaker 1: like people are crazy for defending like the very norms
Speaker 1: of society. But I guarantee you that's stuff, and it's
Speaker 1: difficult to quantify exactly that stuff matters.
Speaker 2: Now, if somebody.
Speaker 1: Had the world's most brilliant economic ideas, we're going to
Speaker 1: keep inflation low, you know, the economy would surge, chicken
Speaker 1: in every pot, et cetera.
Speaker 2: They had some somewhat odd.
Speaker 1: Social ideas, man, you'd be tempted to just swell. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll just to do a speech against the social issues.
Speaker 1: But let's get her going. When you combine inflation with
Speaker 1: just utterly abhorrent radical came out of nowhere and rigidly
Speaker 1: enforced social doctrines.
Speaker 2: Now go to hell, get out. We don't want you.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm making too big a deal of this two
Speaker 4: weeks after the election. But here's their other paragraph. Tell
Speaker 4: me this isn't fudgy. Eighty percent of swing voters who
Speaker 4: chose Trump believed Harris held positions she didn't campaign on
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four, including supporting including supporting tax payer
Speaker 4: funding for transgender surgeries from documented immigrants.
Speaker 2: No, that's not fudgy.
Speaker 1: It's deliberately misleading without crossing the line into a laws
Speaker 1: stating an out and out falsehood.
Speaker 4: Right, So they're doing that on purpose. She didn't campaign
Speaker 4: on twenty twenty four. No, she didn't campaign on it
Speaker 4: because it was incredibly unpopular, but she did. But she
Speaker 4: did campaign in twenty nineteen, and when she was given
Speaker 4: a chance to disavow it, she took a pass.
Speaker 2: So don't. Ah. It really makes me mad that they're
Speaker 2: doing this. And to me, the.
Speaker 4: Two things that made it that that Fate should have
Speaker 4: intervened and made sure Kamala Harris lost one is that one.
Speaker 4: You're so way too cute, double the way too cute,
Speaker 4: by h I'll follow the law. So you don't have
Speaker 4: the guts to come out and say I don't believe
Speaker 4: taxpayers should pay for illegals to get sex change operations.
Speaker 2: You don't have to say that.
Speaker 4: And the same on Prop thirty six in California that
Speaker 4: past seventy thirty How do you vote on that? I
Speaker 4: don't think I should weigh in this close to the election.
Speaker 4: You were the attorney general. Are you kidding me? You're
Speaker 4: not gonna wig in crime and punishment? Screw you, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 4: You deserve to lose for not having the guts to
Speaker 4: take a position on those two easy wins.
Speaker 2: Easy wins, and you didn't say anything. Wait, I'm having
Speaker 2: a psychic moment. I'm having a sign.
Speaker 1: I'm channeling the spirit of Kamala Harris. Michael's busy fixing
Speaker 1: technical problem. Otherwise I'd have him played a whoo sound
Speaker 1: because I'm having a psychic moment. Michael, do we have
Speaker 1: some sort of like oddly mystical here's a psychic sound?
Speaker 2: Hang on, com I'll channel in a second.
Speaker 1: We're working on the sound anyway here I'm channeling or Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: look wise ass. I'm the head of a party that
Speaker 1: depends on the votes of a coalition of people who
Speaker 1: are so effing nuts you don't know what to do
Speaker 1: with them. These people think a guy can just declare
Speaker 1: himself a woman and then like you know, Jesus turned
Speaker 1: water into wine, or or the what did you call
Speaker 1: the old the old guys who thought they could turn
Speaker 1: lead into gold?
Speaker 2: What was that called chemists? Alchemist?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like an alchemist that you can turn a man
Speaker 1: into a woman just by saying, look, looky there, that's
Speaker 1: a woman.
Speaker 2: So what do you want me to do? It's not
Speaker 2: easy to run for office? Would you party? A coalition is.
Speaker 1: In Say all right, all right now, me and Doug
Speaker 1: are going back to California.
Speaker 2: You can get drunk on wine. How about have a bud?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, us ooh, it's exhausting when I have
Speaker 1: those channeling moments.
Speaker 2: It is time for us to do what we have
Speaker 2: been doing in that time as every day.
Speaker 4: As well, said Trump voters believed things she didn't even
Speaker 4: campaign on in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: If you, oh, that pisses me off.
Speaker 1: I think we may have begun the discussion with a
Speaker 1: mention of doctor Oz, who is unquestionably a quack and
Speaker 1: agree to have fun.
Speaker 2: He's a smart guy.
Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder if he is the sort of
Speaker 1: hammer that it's going to take to reform. The Department
Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services has more than six thousand employees,
Speaker 1: and his agency, the agency he heads up, would would
Speaker 1: fall under that, but it plays a major role in
Speaker 1: shaping the health coverage of morton. One hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: million Americans. Wow enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and plans obtained
Speaker 1: through the Affordable Care Act. So he would work under
Speaker 1: RFKA Junior for the love of Heaven. But that this
Speaker 1: isn't a you can have real impact. So this doctor
Speaker 1: Oz thing is not something he has to get confirmed for.
Speaker 2: That I don't know. Yes, he will be.
Speaker 1: He will need to be confirmed by the Senate next
Speaker 1: year before he officially takes charge of the agency.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: It'll be interesting to follow these confirmations to see how
Speaker 4: they play out. A lot of my favorite pundits think
Speaker 4: Trump's going to get all these people through. I'm surprised
Speaker 4: by that.
Speaker 1: But while many of these choices are have to deal
Speaker 1: with discretionary spending, which is a smallish part of the
Speaker 1: federal budget. Oz is going right into the belly of
Speaker 1: the entitlement beast to see what sort of waste, fraud, abuse,
Speaker 1: and inefficiency he can root out. You know, having said
Speaker 1: what I said about im, which I will take to
Speaker 1: the grave that belief, because it's true, you know who knows,
Speaker 1: who knows? Maybe he can get something done. He will
Speaker 1: be fighting against a bureaucracy so entrenched people who are
Speaker 1: so determined to protect their jobs, their turf, their power,
Speaker 1: their budget. It will be a herculean task. Nice why
Speaker 1: he has Bobby Kennedy with him, because Bobby's, you know,
Speaker 1: a bit of a roid guys herculean physique.
Speaker 4: If I'm gonna stretch my ability to be in favor
Speaker 4: of doctor Oz and RFK Junior and some of these people,
Speaker 4: it's that they're so wealthy they don't have to You
Speaker 4: can't buy them off. Really, they're not going to do
Speaker 4: it because they're getting paid or promised a job. On
Speaker 4: the other end, that is true, they will not jump
Speaker 4: back and forth across the aisle working for lobbyists than
Speaker 4: their agency than the lobbyist.
Speaker 2: Again, look at me managing to find a positive um.
Speaker 4: We have a verdict in one very high profile, controversial trial.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that coming up. And a bunch of
Speaker 2: stuff stay here.
Speaker 8: Count one malice murder. I find the defendant guilty. Count
Speaker 8: two felony murder. I find the defendant guilty Count three,
Speaker 8: felony murder. I find the defendant guilty. Count four, felony murder.
Speaker 8: I find the defendant guilty. Count five Kidnapping with bodily injury.
Speaker 8: I find the defendant guilty. Count six, aggravated assault with
Speaker 8: intent to rape. I find the defendant guilty count seven,
Speaker 8: aggravated battery. I find the defendant guilty. Count eight Obstructing
Speaker 8: or hindering a nine call. I find the defendant guilty
Speaker 8: count nine Tampering with evidence. I find the defendant guilty
Speaker 8: Count ten, peeping Tom. I find the defendant guilty.
Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, I don't think the peeping tom matters that much.
Speaker 4: After the horror rape and murder thing.
Speaker 2: So that's the.
Speaker 4: Became a giant story Lake and Riley rape and murder
Speaker 4: by an illegal. And it's interesting how so many news
Speaker 4: outrelets don't get around to mentioning anywhere in the first
Speaker 4: paragraph that he's in illegal. That's why it became now
Speaker 4: beautiful women getting killed by Rando's become national stories a lot.
Speaker 4: But the reason this one was being mentioned so much
Speaker 4: during the campaign as you had an illegal who killed
Speaker 4: someone and he has found guilty on all that stuff
Speaker 4: or horrible story.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to analyze it, but look,
Speaker 1: this is she was a kid. I mean, she was
Speaker 1: just starting out her life. She was getting some exercise
Speaker 1: in a college town. And this monster who had been
Speaker 1: let in through immoral, awful government policy, brutalized her then
Speaker 1: snuffed out her young life. People should be pissed off
Speaker 1: and outraged. You know, I realized this is this is
Speaker 1: not moment. But we're talking yesterday a lot about the
Speaker 1: about cut the crap, and people are buying up the
Speaker 1: armstrong and getting cut the crap T shirt. Here's the deal,
Speaker 1: your nuanced sounding, compassionate sounding, No human is illegal, build
Speaker 1: bridges not walls. Yeah, cut the crap. Murderers are coming in.
Speaker 1: They're murdering people, they're hurting people, they're committing crimes. That
Speaker 1: the trendy orogua was set up in how many twenty
Speaker 1: two different states we've heard Now, well, the root causes
Speaker 1: of no cut the crap, secure the border.
Speaker 2: We need more of that.
Speaker 4: The illegals commit crimes at a lower rate than natural
Speaker 4: born citizens.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, cut that crap too. How many murders
Speaker 2: Is it okay to.
Speaker 1: Import whatever freaking tendency they have to commit crimes compared
Speaker 1: to native born Blah blah blah, Shut up with that.
Speaker 2: God, dang it, it's crap. It's crap.
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Speaker 1: I really like talking about ideas and nuance and ambivalence
Speaker 1: and and things that appear to be one thing at first,
Speaker 1: but then they reveal themselves later.
Speaker 2: I really enjoy that sort of discussion.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, there are certain bedrock principles that
Speaker 1: you've got to stick within your life or it.
Speaker 2: All gets fed up.
Speaker 1: And one of those is you got a border, you
Speaker 1: get to decide who comes in and not. If you
Speaker 1: find yourself in a making having discussions and decisions and
Speaker 1: regulations and all that, weaken that that interfere with it,
Speaker 1: or make a mockery of it, You've gone way too
Speaker 1: far down that road.
Speaker 2: Cut the crap.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, the deportation conversation is hot since
Speaker 4: Trump promised to the biggest deportation in US history. Looking
Speaker 4: at the chart, Obama deported so many more people than Trump.
Speaker 4: Trump's biggest year matches Obama's lowest year barely. Obama was
Speaker 4: the deporter in chief and gotten no crap from it
Speaker 4: from the media, whereas Trump much lower deportion, deportation rate,
Speaker 4: you know, got all these courty.
Speaker 1: Part of that is Trump said, hey, we're not going
Speaker 1: to let you in at all. We're not going to
Speaker 1: let you in. Then fart around for a while, then
Speaker 1: deport you. You're not coming in at all. Remain in Mexico.
Speaker 2: Our forest is going to be great.
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