February 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Trump talking tough about Zelensky
- The people who "reply all"
- Karen Bass & the deadly LA wildfires
- Elon & Trump interview part 2
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I figured Russia's lost nine hundred thousand soldiers. I think
that Ukraine's lost probably seven hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You'll see body parts, bodies and body parts all.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Over the field, all over.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We see them through very accurately through satellites. I love Ukraine,
but Zelensky has done a terrible job. His country is
shattered and millions and millions of people have unnecessarily died.
And you can't bring a war to an end if
you don't talk to both sides.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You got to talk.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
They haven't been talking for three years.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Boy. So this is such an interesting topic and I
can't wait to see how it plays out and read
the books someday when the behind the scenes stuff is
laid out, because I guarantee you his secretary of State
doesn't agree with a lot of what his boss is saying.
Right now. I'm hoping Trump has got some sort of
three dimensional chess plan that's gonna wrap this up in
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some sort of way. But like I've been saying, if
he just thinks, hey, this is Europe's war, it's not
our war, I don't believe it's in our interest. I
want it over. We're not supporting him anymore. I don't
agree with that, but that's a policy decision, and he
ran on that and he won, so you know, it
is what it is. But I don't understand where you
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got a bad mouth to Zelensky and call him a
crook and all this stuff on the way out the door,
and especially because.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's like word for word the Kremlin's talking points about
he's a dictator and refuses to have elections coming from
Putin right, Seriously, how stupid are you if you fall
for that? I mean, and honestly, is freely elected. His
approval ratings are over fifty percent, and they're not allowed
to have an election during wartime. So the idea that
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he's a dictator is just ridiculous. So I don't know
what Trump is working at. I seriously, I'm so befuddled.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Got some interesting info on that in a second from
Mark Calprin's newsletter today as he talks a bunch of
people behind the scenes. But the Financial Times is reporting
that because we're coming up on the three year anniversary
at the beginning of this thing, right, So the first
couple of years, the G seven has put out a
big statement about it. This year, the US is opposing
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calling Russia the aggressor. The aggressor. In the G seven
statement on the third anniversary of the beginning of the war,
it says here in the Financial Times, threatening to which
is a lefty outfit, but threatening to derail a traditional
show of unity. According to five Western officials familiar with
the matter, I'm sure that's true. So Trump doesn't want
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the g doesn't want the United States involved in a
statement where we call Russia the aggressor. I'm not exactly
sure why. I hope it's some mass negotiating. Yeah. Again,
I don't understand why the negotiating has to include bad
mouthings Zelensky. Here's a little more. A Trump in Miami
last night.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
On top of this, Zolenski admits that half of the
money that we sent them is missing. They don't know
where the money is. He said, well, we don't know
where half of it is. Yes, great, wonderful. He refuses
have elections is low and the real Ukrainian Poles. I mean,
how can you be high with every city is being demolished.
It's hard to be Somebody said, oh no, his polls
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are good.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Give me a break. Every city is being demolished by who.
They look like a.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Demolition site, every single one of them. And the only
thing he was really good at was playing Joe Biden
like a fiddle. He played them like a fiddle. That's
an expression we use, yes, sir, to say that he's
pretty easy, pretty easy.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
This hole. It's your fault. Your cities are rubble because
a country attacked you, and you're doing your best to
stop them from turning your cities into double because obviously
you don't want that to happen, but you can't stop
them because you're the you know, you're the small country.
It's your fault. You should pay a political price. I
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don't even know.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I don't understand the logic of this at all, but well, yeah,
and I'm hoping it will emerge. And I know you're
about to get to that. But as I've said before,
there are things Trump does that I uh that we're
on the same side of. I agree with one hundred percent,
and he utterly butchers explaining it to the point that
if you don't know exactly what he's talking about, you
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have no idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And I hope this is one of those. So here's
some uh Mark Awpern's newsletter today. Lost in nearly all
of the dominant media coverage of Donald Trump's efforts to
end the war between Ukraine and Russia are these ten points.
One Ending the war is not easy and won't be pretty. Yeah,
people need to realize that. Two. Trump ran on ending
the war. Like I said a little bit ago. Three
tens of millions of Americas, of Americans from major Maggot to
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Sanders supporters want the war to end. Did see some
polling the other day it's getting close to fifty to
fifty on support for Ukraine. So four. Trump's long standing
pro putin rhetoric is really impossible to explain or justify.
But it didn't keep the Maven of mar A Lago
from being tough on Russia as president the first time around. Sanctions,
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pipeline cancelation, et cetera. Right, and at least so far.
I read this last week kind of lost in the
shuffle of you know, the the the everybody, oh my god,
Trump said, Zelensky caused this, which is another thing to
say to me, he didn't, hasn't canceled a whole bunch
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of arms and money that's still going there. So something
you know, I don't know what that is. Number six,
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris built a military and a
diplomatic coalition to halt Putin's march to Kiev, but they
had no plan to end the war on any terms.
Not a minor point. How is this going to play out?
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Of Kamala Harris won just keep dripping along, barely, keeping
them afloat for some reason because it looked like it
looked bad if we didn't or something.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I can't even indulge in the what if Kamala had
won fantasy for more than like thirty seconds, because it's
so sickening to me, just.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In every single way. And they were.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They were a miserable, miserable failure at foreign policy, no
question about it. That doesn't mean every single thing they
did was wrong, but yeah, it's true they had no plan.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So see how it goes and hope. So Halpurn pointing
out Biden Harris had no plan to end the war,
and he also says number six, Zelenski, he's skilled it
to media and has had Churchillian moments, but he has
no plan to end the war on any terms. What
are you gonna do number seven except defeat? Right, Yeah,
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and I don't. I don't think it's an indictment of it. No,
But but Trump has a plan to end the war. Biden,
Harris didn't, Zelenski doesn't. Right. Uh seven. There's no way
to end the war without giving putin something and maybe
quite a bit, including things that no civilized person would
want to bestow upon a thug who did what he did.
But there's just no other way to end the war.
That's just freaking reality, which I hate in the current
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state of things, but it is true. I love this one.
Number eight. The coddling of Europe militarily, diplomatically, economically by
every recent president not named Trump is one of the
great foreign policy debacles in the history of the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Right right, Even as an Obama for instance, or even
a Bush or or a Biden would would say, hey,
y'all got to step up, you got to do better,
but that was as far as it went. It was
the you know, the parent in the grocery store. Stop that, Johnny.
Stop that, Johnny. Stop that Johnny. There's no enforcement or twist.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And when Trump first term came along and made a
big deal of them not paying their you know, the
amount of the on their military they're supposed to with
their NATO agreement. Oh my god, he wants to destroy NATO.
He's not supporting our allies. I like Mark Alpern's a
judgment that our coddling of Europe on these issues is
one of the great foreign policy debacles in the history
of the United States, and that might play out in
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a giant way that makes history books, you know, in
a decade or something, in a way we don't want.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, yeap, Europe had to be dependent on the US
post WW two. But like a thirty three year old
living in their parents' basement, we never cut off the teat.
We never said, hey, you got to stand on your
own and stand up as an equal and an ally
and quit you know, gloming off of us.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's absolutely true. And also this Trump and his foreign
policy national security team might be blundering into a colossal
error on Ukraine. But the above list, all the things
we just mentioned suggests that they should be given a
chance to prove they know what they're doing this. There's
a lot of complex pieces involved in all those things
were true.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, there's a lot of nuance to this. I mean because,
for instance, the G seven statement not listing Russia as
an aggressor seems ridiculous, ridiculous, but the statement was abandoning
the traditional show of unity. And if JD Vance were
to call the show, first of all, JD thanks for listening.
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But if you were to call and say, hey, what
is your traditional show of unity gotten you so far?
I would have to say, well, not much in the
way of concrete results other than draining Russia's resources. That's
not a reason though, to make up crap and repeat
Kremlin talking points.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But you know, it's not one hundred percent ridiculous. So
we never actually got around to some of these tweets
from a former member of Zelensky's administration. He tweeted this
out the other day about what's going on right now.
We have always lived in this reality. We just didn't
want to admit. The difference between Biden and Trump is
that Trump says out loud what Biden was thinking and
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doing about Ukraine. Biden was against NATO, expansion, against providing
Ukraine with enough support to retake occupied territories when it
was still possible, and against strong sanctions on Russia. Trump
was just making it explicit. Biden stood with Ukraine in
the war as long as it took for him to
leave office, but without giving them enough aid to win.
Trump wants to end the war, but it is not
going to provide the aid either, But Biden was not
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going to provide the aid if he stuck around. At
the same time, this guy, former Zelenski, a cabinet member,
said Trump isn't cutting off military support that's already in
place so far, which a point I made already, and
previous US presidents have followed a similar policy. They didn't
provide serious military aid, didn't impose tough sanctions, for example
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after CRIMEA, Bush and Obama letting Putin get away with
various things, and didn't bring Ukraine into NATO, despite constant
statements about support and future possibilities. So to a certain extent,
Trump is just doing well. He's doing the same thing.
He's just saying it, and that's what he's getting so
much grief for, except for the stuff. And this is
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why I wish he'd lead out the why you got
a bad mouth Zolensky and call him a mediocre comedian
and a thug and a dictator. I don't understand that
at all. I have no explanation for why that has
to be part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's a temper tantrum because Zelensky challenged him on not
being at the talks and some of the other stuff
he'd said.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So Trump had a tantrum. But if you leave that out,
Trump could say, I Biden wasn't going to do anything
any different. He just wasn't. He was going to pretend
he was going to keep saying We're with you till
the end while not doing anything that was going to
lead to a better outcome that we're going to end
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up with me as more people die.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, it's absolutely a defensible position when you describe it
like that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But that only works if you leave out the bad mouthings.
Lens Game claiming that Ukraine started it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
For some which is one of the most bizarre things
I've ever heard in my life. You know, the whole
there are There was part of the foreign policy establishment
that back in the twenty teens was saying, hey, don't
be leading Ukraine down the primrose path. Is the one
diplomat put it that they're going to just come over
to NATO and go with the West and it's going
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to be fine and dandy because Russia is going to
go crazy over that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And indeed there was a lot of truth to that.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But to stay and again, sometimes when Trump is doing
the right thing, he describes it so badly it's impossible
to know what is thinking. Is But for a generation
of Ukrainians to say, you're giving us a choice between
the thug kleptocracy of Kremlin or being part of the
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West with free markets, human rights, free speech, et cetera,
we want that second one to suggest that that provoked
Russia to invade them.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
To me is well, it's a pilot crap. We'll see
how this plays out over the coming days, weeks, months, years,
and centuries as it all fits. No, we won't. I'll
be dead. Well, maybe you'll be I got planned. Okay,
right after a lot more in the way. Stay here
(13:24):
Delta confirming that it is offering thirty thousand dollars to
each passenger, no strings attached, and only one person remains
in the hospital. Yeah, so here's thirty thousand dollars. Sorry,
we landed upside down. Okay, So is that so you
don't sue them? You probably have to sign some sort
of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, I suspect it's a preemptive settlement. It's not clear
exactly what caused it yet. I'm really curious to hear
that I've gone deep into the helicopters slash airplane wreck
at Reagan National Man multiples grew ups multiple.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Sorry about that landing upside down thing. Here's a here's
thirty thousand dollars. Let's can we still be friends? Yes, Katie?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, technically as they landed right side up then flipped
upside down.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So at least they didn't give them like a voucher
for a free flight, right, why did they do that?
Or or worse like, sorry, we ruined your entire Christmas
and you're not gonna get to your family. Here's a
free drink on the next flight drink coupon. Yeah, basically,
here's four dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I'd be okay with having a tire pop if I
got a thousand bucks out of here.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, exactly, can you scale these down? I don't want
to make that trade of the plane flips upside down?
I'm hanging upside down. There are flames and smoke, and
then I get thirty thousand dollars, but maybe for three
thousand dollars a bag falls on my head. Wow, I
don't take it worse like that. I'll be okay, see
your point.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So coming up some some very fun, lighthearted stuff I
have about the you know, consumer issues. Also freaking moss
handing over the bodies of four Israeli hostages, two beautiful
little children, an eighty four year old peace activist who
advocated coexistence with Palestinians. Just just terrible. Just see the
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story about the hero dog that passed away America's most
decorated Special Forces as Secret Service dog, beautiful Melanoi black
and just oh seeing him with his handler who loved him.
And since my dog is old and sick and who
knows how long he's gonna last, very touching, but man.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I love dogs anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, this dog had performed all sorts of great services
and feats of daring do like he was trained to do,
including when that guy got onto the White House grounds
when Obama was in office, I think, and charging towards
the White House. This is the dog that said no
you're not. Oh yeah, and brought him down Beautiful beast too. Anyway,
on a much less positive note, I was just going
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through email during the commercial break. Can we have some
sort of national intervention. Maybe Trump can have Elon Musk
take a couple of days on this to talk to
the people who reflexively reply all to group emails, including
I'm part of an organization, the guy said at the
end of the email, reply to me only thanks. Five
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minutes later, mister reply all hits everybody with his whether
he'll be there or not and the rest.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
They had a couple of comments. What drives that you
feel like everybody see your comment?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I think it is not fifty to fifty, but part
of the group is old people who don't understand the
difference between reply all in reply could be honestly and secondly,
God who likes other people to hear his conversation full
see in the midline of the grocery store restaurants.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yes, you're absolutely right, it's that person which they're annoying
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
So Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, still trying to mitigate
the fallout of her much criticized handling of the historic
wildfires in La. She is now and apparently started an
investigation into why she claims no one told her not
to go on that infamous trip to Ghana ahead of
the deadly fire storm.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
This is the problem with you being old, the Karen Bass.
If you were younger, you would realize the news cycle
on this passed so many days ago. All you did
was remind people that you took off and stayed gone
during the worst of disaster in California history.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Right outside of Greater La, people had moved on to
other fair But oh, that's right, the mayor of LA
was taking some sort of pleasure junks, even though the
fire danger was crazy high, and she'd got at the
budget and left the city unprepared for a natural disaster.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Everybody knew what was coming, right, You can't just not
travel every fire season because there might be a fire.
Once she was there and the fire started, she stayed
till the end of the dang thing. That's the ground rime.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah yeah, Union Lackey slash goon phony progressive Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Okay, so now she's gonna get to the bottom of this.
How was I not told? She wants to know. Next clip, it.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Was going to be a very very short trip over
a weekend and two business days. Although there were warnings
that I frankly wasn't aware of. Although there were warnings,
I think our preparation it wasn't what it typically is.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What do you mean there were warnings you weren't aware
of because I know we were talking about it on
the news.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It didn't reach that level to me to say something
terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on
the trip.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Why didn't it to me? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I mean, I think that that's one of the things
we need to look at.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
This is straight out of the Gavy Newsom playbook. In California,
under the one party benevolent leadership of the Democrats, these
terrible problems happen, and then they vow angry to get
right to the bottom of how this happened.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Who let this happen? We're going to root out the evil?
Why exactly? I've never been so many Can you see
how many home most people we've got here.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I've never been so angry. This can't stand exactly. Back
to Charlie Painter's report.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
This fire Department is responding sternly to the Mayor's claims
she was not warned say the department followed all standard
preparation procedures.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Prior to the Palisades fire, the LAFD email, two separate
media advisories conducted multiple live and recorded media interviews about
the predicted extra fire weather and notified city officials about
the upcoming weather event.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
She's a lying piece of crap, I think is the
bottom line here, lying union lackey piece of crap. Keep
voting the same way, folks, and wait for that different result.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
To come down the line. Tell you what. Okay, we
got a couple of responses of the one of the
stories of the day, definitely the week. Now, like I said,
maybe year, decade, or century is how this whole thing
between Ukraine and Russia is going to handle it? And uh,
you know why is Trump claiming Ukraine started it in
bad mouthing Zelensky. So a couple of thoughts on all
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of this that I thought were interesting. And then I've
got a couple too that I thought were quite compelling.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I won't say who's this from, but somebody we work with.
Does bashing Zelensky make it so Putin will come to
the table. I was thinking about that. Actually, Trump has
worked with a lot of probably mobsters in trying to
get deals done in New York over the years, and
the extent to where you had to make them feel
like the tough guy and the you know, the guy
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who calls the shots all the time and everything to
do business with them at all and get what you
wanted probably somewhat similar to Putin.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It could be the only thing that bothers me about
that is that Putin's a reptile. And if you bad
mouthed Zelensky to make Putin feel like there's a chance
of a deal, Putin is thinking, Okay, now he's bad
mouthing Zolensky to make me think there's a better chance
of a deal. Possibly you're not gonna outplay Putin at poker.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
On the other side of it, Zolensky, we got this text.
Zelensky has to convince his people that he had no
choice but to accept a deal that gives Russia crimean
don boss, and he needs to blame the US for
putting Ukraine in an a possible position where this was
the best and only outcome. I wouldn't be surprised at all.
I don't know by it. I don't agree with this,
but I wouldn't write this text. I wouldn't be surprised
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it off. Zilinsky and his team requested of Trump that
they behave like this publicly to cover Zelensky's needs. The
likely resolution of this conflict hasn't changed since six months
into it. He needs cover for agreeing to it. That
happens sometimes in international uh politics. We all know that
that was kind of happening between Biby and bb and
Net and Yaho. I think where he'd say I gave
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a s turn talking to BB Nett Yaho and then
they'd send him a bunch of planes and bombs. Oh Biden,
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So so that point of view you just read, it's
not the crack pop No, no, absolutely not. My only
criticism of it, I don't agree with it, but it's
it's it's a reasonable point of view is that I
don't think Zelinski has the slightest interest in staying in
power past.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, you know, whatever juncture he can't. No, God, I
think he's an actual patriot. I've got one more either way,
one more. Uh. This is pushing back to the whole
NATO thing that you brought up earlier. I don't think
Charles c. W of National Review was listening, but he
was arguing with people who make that argument that Ukraine
and US did start the war by talking about Ukraine
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being part of NATO. Alaska became a state ten years
after NATO was founded. That was a provocative NATO expansion.
We made Alaska a state so we would have territory there,
keep an eye on Russia to be able to have
a military base. All that sort of stuff. Was that
provocative if Russia had gone to war with US, or
we to blame if they had attacked us or whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The problem that I have with that point of view,
and again, it's not insane, it's just that it always
underestimates the cost of being passive or submissive or not
being robust.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Right. They always act as if if we weren't mean,
nobody would be Yeah, exactly, exactly, yeah, and yeah. That
oversimplifies your argument and it saves me time. Though, more
and more and more thing from Charles c. W. Cook.
He said, rumors now that Trump is playing seven dimensional chess.
I love Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So got this from Moe, longtime correspondent listener as a
militant Magas supporter. I too am baffled by WTF Trump
is doing with Ukraine. I do agree with and support
the position that Ukraine and Zelensky are corrupt, et cetera.
I have two very brief answers to that, and the
first part is not I'm not trying to blow my
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horn or anything like this, but my giant senior project
way back in school was was about the Soviet republics
that were not Russia, and then when they crumbled right
after I got graduated, it's been so interesting to watch
how they have assimilated mostly into the West and have
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moved beyond the Soviet style of communism corruption into a
more Western way of doing business. And it's been halting
and imperfect. It always is. The Yes, there continues to
be corruption because the only way to get ahead in
the communist system is to be corrupt, essentially, and so
working through that is a really difficult thing. The second
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caveat I would throw in is that profiteering and wartime
are like inhaling and exhaling. They have never existed without
each other.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It was one of Lincoln and Stanton's greatest challenges during
the Civil War. The extent to which profiteers in the
North and the Union were screwing the government and making
it harder to end the war. So to point out
waste and some fraud during wartime as some sort of
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proof positive that therefore Zelensky's a bad guy and must go.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It's just not the way it works. I'm not sure
that's so much chaos. That's all true, but I'm not
sure why it matters anyway. We went to war with
Iraq first time around because they invaded Kuwait, which was
not a democracy. If if Saudi Arabia got attacked by Iran,
we'd be on Saudi Arabia's side and fight with them.
They're not a democracy. They're all kinds of corrupt and
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everything it doesn't run. If Ukraine is friendly to the
United States, we can't live in a world where a
country that's an enemy of Europe and the United States
gets to invade it, right right.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
On the other hand, it's a good conversation and dissent
is more than welcome. You know, you can drop us
an email, mail bag at armstrong in getty dot com
or a text four to one five two nine five KFTC.
Disagreement makes my ideas stronger or convinces me that yours
are better. You're doing us a favor by disagreeing anyway.
But Moe goes on to say one thing Trump said
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in the incredibly good interview with Musk on Hannity, and
it was super informative and entertaining.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I would agree in.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The course of a fairly casual conversation, he said, I
believe I have the power to end the war.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
If I do, I should do it.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And Trump has said many things that strike me as
sincere to indicate his horror at the human cost of
the war, and he honestly thinks, I think that somebody
needs to end it because it's horrific and it's needless.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, that gets to that point. We mentioned a couple
of times, it's not gonna there's not gonna be a
better outcome. All you'll end up with was many, many,
many more dead people on both sides. There's truth there. Yeah,
absolutely is personal problem after this. So we're in the
middle of basketball season now, and baseball season is about
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Run your game. My fingernails are the longest they've ever
been in my life, and I'm disgusted by it. Are
you homeless? Do you need a place to stay? Yes, Katie,
I was just wondering if you've ever heard of nail clippers, right,
So that was that was insulting. I had nail clippers.
(28:55):
I've never used them much throughout my life because I
have the really bad habit of chewing my nails. I've
always had it, yeah, and I've gotten away from it
a couple of times with just a little bit of discipline,
and I'm trying to do it again. But I keep
forgetting to trim my nails because it's not part of
my routine since you know, I keep them chewed to
a nub anyway usually. But now they're really long, clean,
(29:17):
not like Bob Dylan in the movie or Timothy Chalet
in the movie. Watch that, and that's a very accurate thing.
If you go to the Bob Dylan movie, his portrayal
Bob Dylan with the long, dirty fingernails is accurate. But
how do you play guitar like that? I don't know.
I don't know. Long fingernails are anathema to playing guitar. Yeah,
but I need to buy clippers. It's gross. I've always
(29:39):
I've never trusted guys with long fingernails.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, if you need to borrow the two dollars, come
to me. We can start to gofund me and they're
available everywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So do you swallow the nails? Oh? Oh, Michael, A
good question but disgusting. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
My fingernails are so like thick and hard. I don't
think I could choose them off. Have you been spitting
them in jail all these years when I turned my back, idiot?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
One of the reasons. And it's a terrible habit, not
an uncommon one, but a terrible habit, especially as an adult.
But I have a family member with OCD who choose
them down to bloody and just can't stop. And so
I'm hoping that by you know, because you know, doing
that in front of him is not helping with trying
to convince him. It's a bad idea once again, an
(30:30):
example of having kids making you a better person because
you have to live up to various things you believe in.
As an example, so annoying. That would be so freeing
once they go and I can go back to old
mestre eating nail bite and Jack crosswalking, all kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Wow, jaywalking rather a So what do we want to
do next? I have many, many options.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
There's some more because they did a two day version
of Elon and Trump together on Hannity and they had
another round of them, and some are pretty good, including
our I'd love to hear that maybe the clip of
the year. We've played it a couple of times already.
It could end up being the clip of the year,
just because it matters so much to us.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That would be Elon's second win, by the way, unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Wow. Well, you know, things are getting weird, and they
getting weird fast. That was clip of the year two
years ago. Stay with us.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
I really want to I really want to emphasize to
people that that's a very important point. If we don't
solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care,
they won't be moneyful for Social Security. We either solve
the deficit, all we'll be doing is paying debt.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
It'd be a pretty dry clip of the year, but
it's gonna be. It's I guarantee it's going to be
in the running, just because it's so flipping true and important.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And the fact that him saying that out loud is
novel and surprising just is shock.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I know the answer to this, but I'm going to
say it anyway. Why does every single news report about
Elon Musk include the phrase world's richest men? Because news
is for stupid people? Or I don't know. Well, I
think they're trying to insinuate some sort of untortinous and
that he's cutting things while being the richest man in
(32:22):
the world, and that's supposed to be ironic or scary
or something scary.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, we well, in ironic, Yeah for dumb people.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Again. Ah, it's obvious.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
And this has been well documented that our society has
gone from admiring success and hoping to emulate it to
wanting to demonize it and acting like being successful is
self evident proof of being a bad person. It's a
very socialist, awful way to approach life.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But this was a part two of the Hannity Interview
first interview with Trump and Elon together last night, and
you probably haven't heard a lot of this. So here's
a little more.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Provided the economy grows faster than the money supply, which
means you stop the government over spending in the waste
and the output of real useful goods and services exceeds
the increase in the money supply. You have no inflation,
and you also drop the interest payments that that people
pay because if the government waves youuly. Yes, the reason
(33:23):
the interest paiments are so high is because the national
debt keeps increasing, so the government is competing to sell
debt with with the private citizens.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
This drives up the interest rate. So if you have a.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
If you cut back on the deficit, you actually have
an amazing situation for people because you get rid of
inflation and you drop the interest rates.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yep, which one you want to know?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Let's go with twenty six. Trump was talking about media
so many people. You know, you're talking about the radical left.
They have the lowest ratings. Ms NBC is dying, CNN
is dying. They're all dying. The New York Times.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Is doing a lousy The Washington Post is doing horribly.
They're all doing badly because people don't buy it anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Well, let's let CNN respond and the person of Kara
Swisher twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Michael, it's like a sequel to I Love You Man,
but bad like a bad one. It feels like a
buddy comedy. It's very it's a very it's Ron camm
in some way.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Although it's not funny, it's very it's a very strang
I thought, I thought George Bush, if I used his term,
that was that was weird.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That was some weird ass. Yeah, some weird stuff. Yeah,
you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I can hardly even get myself worked up to be,
you know, annoyed with CNN and MSNBC anymore. They're just
such clowns and their significance is dropping so steadily. It's like, okay,
if you and your thirty one viewers enjoyed that. There
they are talking seriously and soberly about America's debt problem
(35:07):
and the damage it will do and how to solve it.
And all you've got is that was like a sequel
to I Love You man, Who's weird? And that was
some weird ass? No wonder you're going away? You're terrible.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, well I've been saying this now for By the way,
today is the one month anniversary of Trump becoming President
of the United States. Does it seem like he's been
president for a month? God, how many presidents have happened
in US history where nothing happened in the first month.
I mean nothing.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
The Carl Rove wrote an Interest In column saying, Hey,
Trump's gotta slow down some so the American people know
what you're doing. Celebrate the victory at the border, tour
the border straight states, talk to the governors because news
junkies know what's happening, but the average American might not
have noticed yet.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I think he had a decent point. Oh, I think
there's all kinds. There's a small thing slipping by, whether
it's you know, getting rid of plastic paper straws, or
maybe the trains sports thinger, just because there's so many
news stories per day. Our four is on the way.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
If you don't get our four, subscribe to our podcast
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I figured Russia's lost nine hundred thousand soldiers. I think
that Ukraine's lost probably seven hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
You'll see body parts, bodies and body parts all.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Over the field, all over.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We see them through very accurately through satellites. I love Ukraine,
but Zelensky has done a terrible job. His country is
shattered and millions and millions of people have unnecessarily died.
And you can't bring a war to an end if
you don't talk to both sides.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
You got to talk.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
They haven't been talking for three years.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Boy. So this is such an interesting topic and I
can't wait to see how it plays out and read
the books someday when the behind the scenes stuff is
laid out, because I guarantee you his secretary of State
doesn't agree with a lot of what his boss is saying.
Right now. I'm hoping Trump has got some sort of
three dimensional chess plan that's gonna wrap this up in
(01:20):
some sort of way. But like I've been saying, if
he just thinks, hey, this is Europe's war, it's not
our war, I don't believe it's in our interest. I
want it over. We're not supporting him anymore. I don't
agree with that, but that's a policy decision, and he
ran on that and he won, so you know, it
is what it is. But I don't understand where you
(01:41):
got a bad mouth to Zelensky and call him a
crook and all this stuff on the way out the door,
and especially because.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's like word for word the Kremlin's talking points about
he's a dictator and refuses to have elections coming from
Putin right, Seriously, how stupid are you if you fall
for that? I mean, and honestly, is freely elected. His
approval ratings are over fifty percent, and they're not allowed
to have an election during wartime. So the idea that
(02:07):
he's a dictator is just ridiculous. So I don't know
what Trump is working at. I seriously, I'm so befuddled.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Got some interesting info on that in a second from
Mark Calprin's newsletter today as he talks a bunch of
people behind the scenes. But the Financial Times is reporting
that because we're coming up on the three year anniversary
at the beginning of this thing, right, So the first
couple of years, the G seven has put out a
big statement about it. This year, the US is opposing
(02:34):
calling Russia the aggressor. The aggressor. In the G seven
statement on the third anniversary of the beginning of the war,
it says here in the Financial Times, threatening to which
is a lefty outfit, but threatening to derail a traditional
show of unity. According to five Western officials familiar with
the matter, I'm sure that's true. So Trump doesn't want
(02:55):
the g doesn't want the United States involved in a
statement where we call Russia the aggressor. I'm not exactly
sure why. I hope it's some mass negotiating. Yeah. Again,
I don't understand why the negotiating has to include bad
mouthings Zelensky. Here's a little more. A Trump in Miami
last night.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
On top of this, Zolenski admits that half of the
money that we sent them is missing. They don't know
where the money is. He said, well, we don't know
where half of it is. Yes, great, wonderful. He refuses
have elections is low and the real Ukrainian Poles. I mean,
how can you be high with every city is being demolished.
It's hard to be Somebody said, oh no, his polls
(03:32):
are good.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Give me a break. Every city is being demolished by who.
They look like a.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Demolition site, every single one of them. And the only
thing he was really good at was playing Joe Biden
like a fiddle. He played them like a fiddle. That's
an expression we use, yes, sir, to say that he's
pretty easy, pretty easy.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
This hole. It's your fault. Your cities are rubble because
a country attacked you, and you're doing your best to
stop them from turning your cities into double because obviously
you don't want that to happen, but you can't stop
them because you're the you know, you're the small country.
It's your fault. You should pay a political price. I
(04:16):
don't even know.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I don't understand the logic of this at all, but well, yeah,
and I'm hoping it will emerge. And I know you're
about to get to that. But as I've said before,
there are things Trump does that I uh that we're
on the same side of. I agree with one hundred percent,
and he utterly butchers explaining it to the point that
if you don't know exactly what he's talking about, you
(04:37):
have no idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And I hope this is one of those. So here's
some uh Mark Awpern's newsletter today. Lost in nearly all
of the dominant media coverage of Donald Trump's efforts to
end the war between Ukraine and Russia are these ten points.
One Ending the war is not easy and won't be pretty. Yeah,
people need to realize that. Two. Trump ran on ending
the war. Like I said a little bit ago. Three
tens of millions of Americas, of Americans from major Maggot to
(05:02):
Sanders supporters want the war to end. Did see some
polling the other day it's getting close to fifty to
fifty on support for Ukraine. So four. Trump's long standing
pro putin rhetoric is really impossible to explain or justify.
But it didn't keep the Maven of mar A Lago
from being tough on Russia as president the first time around. Sanctions,
(05:24):
pipeline cancelation, et cetera. Right, and at least so far.
I read this last week kind of lost in the
shuffle of you know, the the the everybody, oh my god,
Trump said, Zelensky caused this, which is another thing to
say to me, he didn't, hasn't canceled a whole bunch
(05:47):
of arms and money that's still going there. So something
you know, I don't know what that is. Number six,
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris built a military and a
diplomatic coalition to halt Putin's march to Kiev, but they
had no plan to end the war on any terms.
Not a minor point. How is this going to play out?
(06:07):
Of Kamala Harris won just keep dripping along, barely, keeping
them afloat for some reason because it looked like it
looked bad if we didn't or something.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I can't even indulge in the what if Kamala had
won fantasy for more than like thirty seconds, because it's
so sickening to me, just.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In every single way. And they were.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They were a miserable, miserable failure at foreign policy, no
question about it. That doesn't mean every single thing they
did was wrong, but yeah, it's true they had no plan.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So see how it goes and hope. So Halpurn pointing
out Biden Harris had no plan to end the war,
and he also says number six, Zelenski, he's skilled it
to media and has had Churchillian moments, but he has
no plan to end the war on any terms. What
are you gonna do number seven except defeat? Right, Yeah,
(07:00):
and I don't. I don't think it's an indictment of it. No,
But but Trump has a plan to end the war. Biden,
Harris didn't, Zelenski doesn't. Right. Uh seven. There's no way
to end the war without giving putin something and maybe
quite a bit, including things that no civilized person would
want to bestow upon a thug who did what he did.
But there's just no other way to end the war.
That's just freaking reality, which I hate in the current
(07:24):
state of things, but it is true. I love this one.
Number eight. The coddling of Europe militarily, diplomatically, economically by
every recent president not named Trump is one of the
great foreign policy debacles in the history of the United States.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Right right, Even as an Obama for instance, or even
a Bush or or a Biden would would say, hey,
y'all got to step up, you got to do better,
but that was as far as it went. It was
the you know, the parent in the grocery store. Stop that, Johnny.
Stop that, Johnny. Stop that Johnny. There's no enforcement or twist.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And when Trump first term came along and made a
big deal of them not paying their you know, the
amount of the on their military they're supposed to with
their NATO agreement. Oh my god, he wants to destroy NATO.
He's not supporting our allies. I like Mark Alpern's a
judgment that our coddling of Europe on these issues is
one of the great foreign policy debacles in the history
of the United States, and that might play out in
(08:22):
a giant way that makes history books, you know, in
a decade or something, in a way we don't want.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, yeap, Europe had to be dependent on the US
post WW two. But like a thirty three year old
living in their parents' basement, we never cut off the teat.
We never said, hey, you got to stand on your
own and stand up as an equal and an ally
and quit you know, gloming off of us.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's absolutely true. And also this Trump and his foreign
policy national security team might be blundering into a colossal
error on Ukraine. But the above list, all the things
we just mentioned suggests that they should be given a
chance to prove they know what they're doing this. There's
a lot of complex pieces involved in all those things
were true.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, there's a lot of nuance to this. I mean because,
for instance, the G seven statement not listing Russia as
an aggressor seems ridiculous, ridiculous, but the statement was abandoning
the traditional show of unity. And if JD Vance were
to call the show, first of all, JD thanks for listening.
(09:26):
But if you were to call and say, hey, what
is your traditional show of unity gotten you so far?
I would have to say, well, not much in the
way of concrete results other than draining Russia's resources. That's
not a reason though, to make up crap and repeat
Kremlin talking points.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But you know, it's not one hundred percent ridiculous. So
we never actually got around to some of these tweets
from a former member of Zelensky's administration. He tweeted this
out the other day about what's going on right now.
We have always lived in this reality. We just didn't
want to admit. The difference between Biden and Trump is
that Trump says out loud what Biden was thinking and
(10:04):
doing about Ukraine. Biden was against NATO, expansion, against providing
Ukraine with enough support to retake occupied territories when it
was still possible, and against strong sanctions on Russia. Trump
was just making it explicit. Biden stood with Ukraine in
the war as long as it took for him to
leave office, but without giving them enough aid to win.
Trump wants to end the war, but it is not
going to provide the aid either, But Biden was not
(10:26):
going to provide the aid if he stuck around. At
the same time, this guy, former Zelenski, a cabinet member,
said Trump isn't cutting off military support that's already in
place so far, which a point I made already, and
previous US presidents have followed a similar policy. They didn't
provide serious military aid, didn't impose tough sanctions, for example
(10:49):
after CRIMEA, Bush and Obama letting Putin get away with
various things, and didn't bring Ukraine into NATO, despite constant
statements about support and future possibilities. So to a certain extent,
Trump is just doing well. He's doing the same thing.
He's just saying it, and that's what he's getting so
much grief for, except for the stuff. And this is
(11:11):
why I wish he'd lead out the why you got
a bad mouth Zolensky and call him a mediocre comedian
and a thug and a dictator. I don't understand that
at all. I have no explanation for why that has
to be part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's a temper tantrum because Zelensky challenged him on not
being at the talks and some of the other stuff
he'd said.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So Trump had a tantrum. But if you leave that out,
Trump could say, I Biden wasn't going to do anything
any different. He just wasn't. He was going to pretend
he was going to keep saying We're with you till
the end while not doing anything that was going to
lead to a better outcome that we're going to end
(11:48):
up with me as more people die.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, it's absolutely a defensible position when you describe it
like that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But that only works if you leave out the bad mouthings.
Lens Game claiming that Ukraine started it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
For some which is one of the most bizarre things
I've ever heard in my life. You know, the whole
there are There was part of the foreign policy establishment
that back in the twenty teens was saying, hey, don't
be leading Ukraine down the primrose path. Is the one
diplomat put it that they're going to just come over
to NATO and go with the West and it's going
(12:21):
to be fine and dandy because Russia is going to
go crazy over that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And indeed there was a lot of truth to that.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But to stay and again, sometimes when Trump is doing
the right thing, he describes it so badly it's impossible
to know what is thinking. Is But for a generation
of Ukrainians to say, you're giving us a choice between
the thug kleptocracy of Kremlin or being part of the
(12:52):
West with free markets, human rights, free speech, et cetera,
we want that second one to suggest that that provoked
Russia to invade them.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
To me is well, it's a pilot crap. We'll see
how this plays out over the coming days, weeks, months, years,
and centuries as it all fits. No, we won't. I'll
be dead. Well, maybe you'll be I got planned. Okay,
right after a lot more in the way. Stay here
(13:24):
Delta confirming that it is offering thirty thousand dollars to
each passenger, no strings attached, and only one person remains
in the hospital. Yeah, so here's thirty thousand dollars. Sorry,
we landed upside down. Okay, So is that so you
don't sue them? You probably have to sign some sort
of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, I suspect it's a preemptive settlement. It's not clear
exactly what caused it yet. I'm really curious to hear
that I've gone deep into the helicopters slash airplane wreck
at Reagan National Man multiples grew ups multiple.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Sorry about that landing upside down thing. Here's a here's
thirty thousand dollars. Let's can we still be friends? Yes, Katie?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, technically as they landed right side up then flipped
upside down.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So at least they didn't give them like a voucher
for a free flight, right, why did they do that?
Or or worse like, sorry, we ruined your entire Christmas
and you're not gonna get to your family. Here's a
free drink on the next flight drink coupon. Yeah, basically,
here's four dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I'd be okay with having a tire pop if I
got a thousand bucks out of here.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, exactly, can you scale these down? I don't want
to make that trade of the plane flips upside down?
I'm hanging upside down. There are flames and smoke, and
then I get thirty thousand dollars, but maybe for three
thousand dollars a bag falls on my head. Wow, I
don't take it worse like that. I'll be okay, see
your point.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So coming up some some very fun, lighthearted stuff I
have about the you know, consumer issues. Also freaking moss
handing over the bodies of four Israeli hostages, two beautiful
little children, an eighty four year old peace activist who
advocated coexistence with Palestinians. Just just terrible. Just see the
(15:22):
story about the hero dog that passed away America's most
decorated Special Forces as Secret Service dog, beautiful Melanoi black
and just oh seeing him with his handler who loved him.
And since my dog is old and sick and who
knows how long he's gonna last, very touching, but man.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I love dogs anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, this dog had performed all sorts of great services
and feats of daring do like he was trained to do,
including when that guy got onto the White House grounds
when Obama was in office, I think, and charging towards
the White House. This is the dog that said no
you're not. Oh yeah, and brought him down Beautiful beast too. Anyway,
on a much less positive note, I was just going
(16:05):
through email during the commercial break. Can we have some
sort of national intervention. Maybe Trump can have Elon Musk
take a couple of days on this to talk to
the people who reflexively reply all to group emails, including
I'm part of an organization, the guy said at the
end of the email, reply to me only thanks. Five
(16:30):
minutes later, mister reply all hits everybody with his whether
he'll be there or not and the rest.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
They had a couple of comments. What drives that you
feel like everybody see your comment?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I think it is not fifty to fifty, but part
of the group is old people who don't understand the
difference between reply all in reply could be honestly and secondly,
God who likes other people to hear his conversation full
see in the midline of the grocery store restaurants.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yes, you're absolutely right, it's that person which they're annoying
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
So Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, still trying to mitigate
the fallout of her much criticized handling of the historic
wildfires in La. She is now and apparently started an
investigation into why she claims no one told her not
to go on that infamous trip to Ghana ahead of
the deadly fire storm.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
This is the problem with you being old, the Karen Bass.
If you were younger, you would realize the news cycle
on this passed so many days ago. All you did
was remind people that you took off and stayed gone
during the worst of disaster in California history.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Right outside of Greater La, people had moved on to
other fair But oh, that's right, the mayor of LA
was taking some sort of pleasure junks, even though the
fire danger was crazy high, and she'd got at the
budget and left the city unprepared for a natural disaster.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Everybody knew what was coming, right, You can't just not
travel every fire season because there might be a fire.
Once she was there and the fire started, she stayed
till the end of the dang thing. That's the ground rime.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah yeah, Union Lackey slash goon phony progressive Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Okay, so now she's gonna get to the bottom of this.
How was I not told? She wants to know. Next clip, it.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Was going to be a very very short trip over
a weekend and two business days. Although there were warnings
that I frankly wasn't aware of. Although there were warnings,
I think our preparation it wasn't what it typically is.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What do you mean there were warnings you weren't aware
of because I know we were talking about it on
the news.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It didn't reach that level to me to say something
terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on
the trip.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Why didn't it to me? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I mean, I think that that's one of the things
we need to look at.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
This is straight out of the Gavy Newsom playbook. In California,
under the one party benevolent leadership of the Democrats, these
terrible problems happen, and then they vow angry to get
right to the bottom of how this happened.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Who let this happen? We're going to root out the evil?
Why exactly? I've never been so many Can you see
how many home most people we've got here.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I've never been so angry. This can't stand exactly. Back
to Charlie Painter's report.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
This fire Department is responding sternly to the Mayor's claims
she was not warned say the department followed all standard
preparation procedures.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Prior to the Palisades fire, the LAFD email, two separate
media advisories conducted multiple live and recorded media interviews about
the predicted extra fire weather and notified city officials about
the upcoming weather event.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
She's a lying piece of crap, I think is the
bottom line here, lying union lackey piece of crap. Keep
voting the same way, folks, and wait for that different result.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
To come down the line. Tell you what. Okay, we
got a couple of responses of the one of the
stories of the day, definitely the week. Now, like I said,
maybe year, decade, or century is how this whole thing
between Ukraine and Russia is going to handle it? And uh,
you know why is Trump claiming Ukraine started it in
bad mouthing Zelensky. So a couple of thoughts on all
(20:44):
of this that I thought were interesting. And then I've
got a couple too that I thought were quite compelling.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I won't say who's this from, but somebody we work with.
Does bashing Zelensky make it so Putin will come to
the table. I was thinking about that. Actually, Trump has
worked with a lot of probably mobsters in trying to
get deals done in New York over the years, and
the extent to where you had to make them feel
like the tough guy and the you know, the guy
(21:11):
who calls the shots all the time and everything to
do business with them at all and get what you
wanted probably somewhat similar to Putin.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It could be the only thing that bothers me about
that is that Putin's a reptile. And if you bad
mouthed Zelensky to make Putin feel like there's a chance
of a deal, Putin is thinking, Okay, now he's bad
mouthing Zolensky to make me think there's a better chance
of a deal. Possibly you're not gonna outplay Putin at poker.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
On the other side of it, Zolensky, we got this text.
Zelensky has to convince his people that he had no
choice but to accept a deal that gives Russia crimean
don boss, and he needs to blame the US for
putting Ukraine in an a possible position where this was
the best and only outcome. I wouldn't be surprised at all.
I don't know by it. I don't agree with this,
but I wouldn't write this text. I wouldn't be surprised
(22:00):
it off. Zilinsky and his team requested of Trump that
they behave like this publicly to cover Zelensky's needs. The
likely resolution of this conflict hasn't changed since six months
into it. He needs cover for agreeing to it. That
happens sometimes in international uh politics. We all know that
that was kind of happening between Biby and bb and
Net and Yaho. I think where he'd say I gave
(22:23):
a s turn talking to BB Nett Yaho and then
they'd send him a bunch of planes and bombs. Oh Biden,
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So so that point of view you just read, it's
not the crack pop No, no, absolutely not. My only
criticism of it, I don't agree with it, but it's
it's it's a reasonable point of view is that I
don't think Zelinski has the slightest interest in staying in
power past.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, you know, whatever juncture he can't. No, God, I
think he's an actual patriot. I've got one more either way,
one more. Uh. This is pushing back to the whole
NATO thing that you brought up earlier. I don't think
Charles c. W of National Review was listening, but he
was arguing with people who make that argument that Ukraine
and US did start the war by talking about Ukraine
(23:07):
being part of NATO. Alaska became a state ten years
after NATO was founded. That was a provocative NATO expansion.
We made Alaska a state so we would have territory there,
keep an eye on Russia to be able to have
a military base. All that sort of stuff. Was that
provocative if Russia had gone to war with US, or
we to blame if they had attacked us or whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The problem that I have with that point of view,
and again, it's not insane, it's just that it always
underestimates the cost of being passive or submissive or not
being robust.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Right. They always act as if if we weren't mean,
nobody would be Yeah, exactly, exactly, yeah, and yeah. That
oversimplifies your argument and it saves me time. Though, more
and more and more thing from Charles c. W. Cook.
He said, rumors now that Trump is playing seven dimensional chess.
I love Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So got this from Moe, longtime correspondent listener as a
militant Magas supporter. I too am baffled by WTF Trump
is doing with Ukraine. I do agree with and support
the position that Ukraine and Zelensky are corrupt, et cetera.
I have two very brief answers to that, and the
first part is not I'm not trying to blow my
(24:27):
horn or anything like this, but my giant senior project
way back in school was was about the Soviet republics
that were not Russia, and then when they crumbled right
after I got graduated, it's been so interesting to watch
how they have assimilated mostly into the West and have
(24:51):
moved beyond the Soviet style of communism corruption into a
more Western way of doing business. And it's been halting
and imperfect. It always is. The Yes, there continues to
be corruption because the only way to get ahead in
the communist system is to be corrupt, essentially, and so
working through that is a really difficult thing. The second
(25:13):
caveat I would throw in is that profiteering and wartime
are like inhaling and exhaling. They have never existed without
each other.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It was one of Lincoln and Stanton's greatest challenges during
the Civil War. The extent to which profiteers in the
North and the Union were screwing the government and making
it harder to end the war. So to point out
waste and some fraud during wartime as some sort of
(25:47):
proof positive that therefore Zelensky's a bad guy and must go.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It's just not the way it works. I'm not sure
that's so much chaos. That's all true, but I'm not
sure why it matters anyway. We went to war with
Iraq first time around because they invaded Kuwait, which was
not a democracy. If if Saudi Arabia got attacked by Iran,
we'd be on Saudi Arabia's side and fight with them.
They're not a democracy. They're all kinds of corrupt and
(26:11):
everything it doesn't run. If Ukraine is friendly to the
United States, we can't live in a world where a
country that's an enemy of Europe and the United States
gets to invade it, right right.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
On the other hand, it's a good conversation and dissent
is more than welcome. You know, you can drop us
an email, mail bag at armstrong in getty dot com
or a text four to one five two nine five KFTC.
Disagreement makes my ideas stronger or convinces me that yours
are better. You're doing us a favor by disagreeing anyway.
But Moe goes on to say one thing Trump said
(26:45):
in the incredibly good interview with Musk on Hannity, and
it was super informative and entertaining.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I would agree in.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The course of a fairly casual conversation, he said, I
believe I have the power to end the war.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
If I do, I should do it.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And Trump has said many things that strike me as
sincere to indicate his horror at the human cost of
the war, and he honestly thinks, I think that somebody
needs to end it because it's horrific and it's needless.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, that gets to that point. We mentioned a couple
of times, it's not gonna there's not gonna be a
better outcome. All you'll end up with was many, many,
many more dead people on both sides. There's truth there. Yeah,
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Run your game. My fingernails are the longest they've ever
been in my life, and I'm disgusted by it. Are
you homeless? Do you need a place to stay? Yes, Katie,
I was just wondering if you've ever heard of nail clippers, right,
So that was that was insulting. I had nail clippers.
(28:55):
I've never used them much throughout my life because I
have the really bad habit of chewing my nails. I've
always had it, yeah, and I've gotten away from it
a couple of times with just a little bit of discipline,
and I'm trying to do it again. But I keep
forgetting to trim my nails because it's not part of
my routine since you know, I keep them chewed to
a nub anyway usually. But now they're really long, clean,
(29:17):
not like Bob Dylan in the movie or Timothy Chalet
in the movie. Watch that, and that's a very accurate thing.
If you go to the Bob Dylan movie, his portrayal
Bob Dylan with the long, dirty fingernails is accurate. But
how do you play guitar like that? I don't know.
I don't know. Long fingernails are anathema to playing guitar. Yeah,
but I need to buy clippers. It's gross. I've always
(29:39):
I've never trusted guys with long fingernails.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, if you need to borrow the two dollars, come
to me. We can start to gofund me and they're
available everywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So do you swallow the nails? Oh? Oh, Michael, A
good question but disgusting. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
My fingernails are so like thick and hard. I don't
think I could choose them off. Have you been spitting
them in jail all these years when I turned my back, idiot?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
One of the reasons. And it's a terrible habit, not
an uncommon one, but a terrible habit, especially as an adult.
But I have a family member with OCD who choose
them down to bloody and just can't stop. And so
I'm hoping that by you know, because you know, doing
that in front of him is not helping with trying
to convince him. It's a bad idea once again, an
(30:30):
example of having kids making you a better person because
you have to live up to various things you believe in.
As an example, so annoying. That would be so freeing
once they go and I can go back to old
mestre eating nail bite and Jack crosswalking, all kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Wow, jaywalking rather a So what do we want to
do next? I have many, many options.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
There's some more because they did a two day version
of Elon and Trump together on Hannity and they had
another round of them, and some are pretty good, including
our I'd love to hear that maybe the clip of
the year. We've played it a couple of times already.
It could end up being the clip of the year,
just because it matters so much to us.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That would be Elon's second win, by the way, unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Wow. Well, you know, things are getting weird, and they
getting weird fast. That was clip of the year two
years ago. Stay with us.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
I really want to I really want to emphasize to
people that that's a very important point. If we don't
solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care,
they won't be moneyful for Social Security. We either solve
the deficit, all we'll be doing is paying debt.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
It'd be a pretty dry clip of the year, but
it's gonna be. It's I guarantee it's going to be
in the running, just because it's so flipping true and important.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And the fact that him saying that out loud is
novel and surprising just is shock.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I know the answer to this, but I'm going to
say it anyway. Why does every single news report about
Elon Musk include the phrase world's richest men? Because news
is for stupid people? Or I don't know. Well, I
think they're trying to insinuate some sort of untortinous and
that he's cutting things while being the richest man in
(32:22):
the world, and that's supposed to be ironic or scary
or something scary.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, we well, in ironic, Yeah for dumb people.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Again. Ah, it's obvious.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
And this has been well documented that our society has
gone from admiring success and hoping to emulate it to
wanting to demonize it and acting like being successful is
self evident proof of being a bad person. It's a
very socialist, awful way to approach life.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But this was a part two of the Hannity Interview
first interview with Trump and Elon together last night, and
you probably haven't heard a lot of this. So here's
a little more.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Provided the economy grows faster than the money supply, which
means you stop the government over spending in the waste
and the output of real useful goods and services exceeds
the increase in the money supply. You have no inflation,
and you also drop the interest payments that that people
pay because if the government waves youuly. Yes, the reason
(33:23):
the interest paiments are so high is because the national
debt keeps increasing, so the government is competing to sell
debt with with the private citizens.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
This drives up the interest rate. So if you have a.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
If you cut back on the deficit, you actually have
an amazing situation for people because you get rid of
inflation and you drop the interest rates.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yep, which one you want to know?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Let's go with twenty six. Trump was talking about media
so many people. You know, you're talking about the radical left.
They have the lowest ratings. Ms NBC is dying, CNN
is dying. They're all dying. The New York Times.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Is doing a lousy The Washington Post is doing horribly.
They're all doing badly because people don't buy it anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Well, let's let CNN respond and the person of Kara
Swisher twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Michael, it's like a sequel to I Love You Man,
but bad like a bad one. It feels like a
buddy comedy. It's very it's a very it's Ron camm
in some way.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Although it's not funny, it's very it's a very strang
I thought, I thought George Bush, if I used his term,
that was that was weird.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That was some weird ass. Yeah, some weird stuff. Yeah,
you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I can hardly even get myself worked up to be,
you know, annoyed with CNN and MSNBC anymore. They're just
such clowns and their significance is dropping so steadily. It's like, okay,
if you and your thirty one viewers enjoyed that. There
they are talking seriously and soberly about America's debt problem
(35:07):
and the damage it will do and how to solve it.
And all you've got is that was like a sequel
to I Love You man, Who's weird? And that was
some weird ass? No wonder you're going away? You're terrible.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, well I've been saying this now for By the way,
today is the one month anniversary of Trump becoming President
of the United States. Does it seem like he's been
president for a month? God, how many presidents have happened
in US history where nothing happened in the first month.
I mean nothing.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
The Carl Rove wrote an Interest In column saying, Hey,
Trump's gotta slow down some so the American people know
what you're doing. Celebrate the victory at the border, tour
the border straight states, talk to the governors because news
junkies know what's happening, but the average American might not
have noticed yet.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I think he had a decent point. Oh, I think
there's all kinds. There's a small thing slipping by, whether
it's you know, getting rid of plastic paper straws, or
maybe the trains sports thinger, just because there's so many
news stories per day. Our four is on the way.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
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