May 13, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Don't call it Obesity...
- The popularity of Fast Food...
- Trump holds a massive rally...
- Jen Psaki has a new book, which contains a few inaccurate claims.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
School districts from coast to coast bracing for possible teacher
layoffs a critical factor in some of these budget battles.
One hundred and ninety billion in federal pandemic relief funding
approved in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one now set
up to drive this September. The National Education Association, the
country's largest labor union, is demanding that federal, state, and
local leaders come up with a solution that serves both
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educators and their students.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I don't want to get distracted on this topic, but
I wish there was some sort of follow up accounting
on how all that money got spent, the pandemic money
that went to schooling. It sure looks to me like
a lot of schools built mprs they didn't need or repay,
you know, talking about a school I know, repaved playgrounds
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that seemed perfectly fine. We're a bunch of other things,
and now teachers are going to be laid off because
you don't have enough money.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Okay, unless we pass this half cent sales tax, blah
blah blah. I would I would so be in favor
of a national system of mandatory meetings or we all
have to sit down and watch TV for an hour
and they report back, all right, now that pandemic funding,
here's what it was spent on, and they.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Go through it. So everybody's aware of this stuff.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
That's you know, there are quotes of plenty from the
founding fathers about an informed electorate being absolutely necessary to
the functioning of our system of government. But not only
are most people not informed, it's fairly difficult to be
accurately informed. You almost have to do it for a living,
like we do. Otherwise you just don't have the time. Anyway,
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we're doomed. Here's the point. So here's one we're way
in which we're probably doomed. Uh. Not only do we
have a bunch of bad guys to talk about, we
have a hero to talk about. So don't tune out
here in despair. We will get to an hero, actually
an hero with an organization doing great stuff and really
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putting a thumb in the eye of the DEI crowd.
So there's been a fair amount of attention paid recently,
and we haven't really talked about it about DEI initiatives.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is your.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is none of those three things.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's neo Marxism.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
But they're infiltrating American medical schools and accrediting boards. So
even as so many of us have been spreading the
word that this stuff is neo Marxism, it's just about
tearing the system down. And they use various excuses at
various times, but it always ends in therefore, we must
tear down the system. Even as it's rolling back in
corporate America and more and more media folks are waking
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up to it. It's forging ahead in education where it
got started, really and government Democrat government anyway. But this guy,
he's a congressman, a physician, and he says the ability
and education of America's newest physicians and the health of
our nation's future patients will perilously atrophy unless something changes,
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and he goes into Just last week, during a mandatory
course on structural racism for first year medical students at UCLA,
one of the great colleges in America, a guest speaker
led chance of this required class. Now speaker led chance
of free, free Palestine and referred to the October seventh
hamas terrorist attacks against Jews as justice. She then demanded
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that the medical students bow down to Mama Earth and
led what she described as a non secular prayer to
the ancestors in the mandatory first year of course structural
racism and helps.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That We've got to back up to that one. What
what what was that one?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
So they're not bowed down to Mama Earth and led
to what non desecular prayer to the ancestors being who
the ancestors?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I don't know. Okay, that reminds me.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
So my favorite golf course has a new clock so
you can see what time it is on the driving
range as you're getting ready to play golf. And the
plaque at the bottom of it is very touching. It says,
dedicated to those who've gone before us. And my buddy
Bob said, does that mean the earlier teacher anyway?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Where were we?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yes, the ancestors, you idiot, That's who we're praying to.
And the aspiring medical doctors were told that structural racism
and health equity is getting in the way of care
and that modern medicine is white science. And then they
were asked to stand for a second so called prayer
against the occupation of Turtle Island, which this person called
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the United States Turtle Island anyway, don't get hung up
on that. But in addition to mandatory DEI classes, medical
student staff and faculty, or finding the placement or promotion, and.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
This is including the students who's.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
First in their class, et cetera, hinges On pledges to
affirm and adopt the poisonous and parasitic tenants of DEI.
We were talking about Duke University, Jerry Seinfeld. A bunch
of people walked out, good, go to hell, keep off
of the graduation. But a recent investigation into Duke University's
private health system revealed that its health facilities.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Recruit based on race rather than merit.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
That's not mis doctor congressperson rails against the inevitable results.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, that's not a good way to building a good
healthcare system.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
No, I would say. And so they go in the
Free Beacon. They go into more detail on this UCLA class,
and they had a fat liberationist in telling the kids
that fat phobia's medicine status quo and weight loss is
a helpless endeavor and you shouldn't shame people for being fat,
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says Jeffrey Flyer. In case you think, oh, listen to
the right wing tacsha guy in his crazy tinfoil hat paranoia.
Let me quote Jeffrey Flyer, who's the former dean of
Harvard Medical School, one of the world's foremost experts on obesity.
Among other things. He said, the curriculum quote promotes extensive
and dangerous misinformation. UCLA has centered this required course on
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a socialist Marxist ideology that is totally inappropriate. As a
long standing medical educator, I found this course truly shocking.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Okay, well, that's that side of it. A doctor friend
to me sent this topic to me over the weekend
because he came across his story that obesity is a
term of degradation. It's a biological injustice, the term obesity,
and they're wanting to rename it at Medical School's ABCD,
which stands for ad deposity based chronic disease, is what
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you'll call it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Fundamentally, knowledge can reduce the social stigma and even prejudice
from the medical community itself. We must be respectful and
compassionate and understand well what we are treating in the
best way to approach eat patient with realistic expectations.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, but they can't call it OBCD. How's that going
to help.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
That is a great illustration of the way critical theory works,
critical race theory, radical gender theory, caer theory, the rest
of it. They throw and this may sound familiar to
you from your workplace, your local school, whatever. They throw
this blizzard of new terminology that you have to adopt.
And if you don't adopt it, or if you don't
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adopt it correctly, or if you say something that they
tell you that's offensive, that's problematic. Remember you say I
didn't mean it that way. They say, it doesn't matter
how you meant it. You are a racist, you are
a fat phobe, you are a transphobe, you or whatever,
And they terrify you until they're in charge. As James
Lindsay has put it, if you want to be in
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charge of something, call it racist until you're in charge
of it. This is the same thing now they're doing
it in medical schools. If you say, well, this person
is morbidly obese.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
WHOA, WHOA?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Where do you get off? You're a white man? You
remember that quote from about two minutes ago. You are
a white supremacist with a Western centric sounds, and before
you know it, they're in charge. That's how it works.
It's all neo Marxism. And then one more thing. So
one required reading list from UCLA Medical School lists anti
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capitalist politics as a principle of disability justice I'm quoting
now and attacks the evils of ablest heteropatriarchical capitalism.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
In medical school. I promised to you a hero.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Oh yeah, I don't have time for the North Carolina
Department of Health and Human Services, which has gone full woke,
which is crazy in a purple state. But anyway, education
is just so steeped in this. All right, here's your hero.
This is a piece written by one Stanley gold Goldfarb
in the Wall Street Journal Opinions section how We've taken
the bias out of implicit bias training. They operate in Michigan, Okay,
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And there are all sorts of rules about you have
to have this implicit bias training. Partly because Gretchen Whitmer,
the woke jackass, shut the whole thing down in COVID.
Governor is a creature of the left. I'm just going
to read this to you, it's so great. Is there
any escape from woke in doctrination. I've heard versions of
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this question from countless doctors, nurses, and mother medical professionals. Yeah,
it's worth departing from the text for a minute. The
vast majority of people hate this stuff. They realize it's
racist and stupid and will destroy society. But the other
side is so well organized and so mean they cow
everybody into submission.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
That's not the way it was presented on NPR this morning.
I'll explain coming up.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh really, okay, actually, now might be a good time
for that. I was listening to it if I get
to the punchline of this hero thing.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
They had a DEI discussion on NPR as as driving
to work today, and they talked about how many states
right wing white so premisists are trying to shut down
DEI programs and how awful it is, and they cherry
picked some examples of Nazis or actual white supremacists saying
various things, and presented a story that only actual racists
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would be against DEI. Unluckily, the whole country is on
board with the EI, not surprising from NPR. No, No,
they're not.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
We are in the vast majority folks and DEI programs
wherever they exist, corporate education, government and them. Now they're evil, evil, evil,
And I love that idea that you know. Well, if
I say, you know, I was really disappointed it rained
on my daughter's wedding and we had to move it inside.
You know who else is disappointed when when their weddings
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get rained out? White supremacists, Nazis exactly. Nazis I've heard
are also disappointed when their daughter's weddings are ruined. Oh my,
what a stupid ass argument. I'm sorry, folks, they're just days.
I don't have the patience. Okay, so let me get
back to this. This is so great. So healthcare has
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been captured by activists pushing divisive and discriminatory ideologies, especially
through education and training rights doctor Goldfarb. One of the
most visible manifest stations is mandatory implicit by IT bias training,
which seven states have adopted, only seven, but at least
twenty five more are considering. In Michigan, medical professionals will
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soon be free. On May first, my organization will launch
a continuing medical education course that fulfills Michigan's implicit bias
training mandate created by Governor Gritch and Whitmer in twenty
twenty one, updated blah blah blah. Not only doctors and nurses,
but athletic trainers, acupuncturists, massage therapists, midwives, and many others
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must take this mandatory implicit bias Woke DEI training talks
about the one hundreds of thousands, one of the most
expansive laws in the nation. The off of the authors
of this policy, no doubt want every medical professional in
state to accept the Woke party line on race. But
our course goes in a more ethical and less political direction.
Instead of teaching implicit biases, fact, we're telling medical professionals
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the truth that this training is grounded in falsehood and
is a direct threat to the health and well being
of patients. How are we able to offer this course, Well,
the rule requires providers to be quote a nationally recognized
or state recognized health related organization, which we are. We
also provide quote information on implicit bias, which is another requirement,
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and our course includes quote strategies to reduce disparities and
access and the delivery of healthcare services. So he and
his folks have followed the letter of the law and
designed an implicit bias training program that says, all of
this stuff is crap. It's not a medical education, it's
ideological clap trap and you should not believe it. And
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they are fully certified to give this class.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Wow, that's pretty clever. I love that. Love it.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
That is clever, and it's good, a good thing. These
people have the heft and the energy and the money
to put something like that together. But man, what a great, smart, hilarious,
heroic response to the Marxist jackasses.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You lay down with dogs, you get fleas.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Donald Trump's old fixer, Michael Cohen is on the stand
today a little insight to who Michael Cohen was throughout
Donald Trump's career, among other things.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
On the way stay with US, Army Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
McDonald's is cooking up a limited five dollar value meal
an effort to win back the customers they lost who
felt out. Priced eighteen dollars Big Max and six dollars
Hash Browns seen in places like Connecticut, came at the
cost of complaining consumers. For the first time in years.
McDonald saw profit loss last quarter and people maybe opting
out of dining out because it's just become more expensive.
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Roughly four point two percent more than this time last year, So.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
That's not surprising. Prices are up. Maybe people start eating less.
That's its own interesting story. That aside, there are two
articles that I'm kind of combining for this conversation that
I think are interesting just culturally, about where we are
with bad food for small six dollars, for that little
triangle of hash browns.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It's crazy I ate fast food too often and the
prices are redict article in the New York Times about how
McDonald's won one w N one at the cultural battle.
There was a moment when Supersize Me came out in
the early two thousands. It was a movie where a
guy ate only McDonald's and claimed it made his liver fail,
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and all these different sorts of things. And then so
there was a culturally a moment there where like McDonald
folds was seen, muck was seen as a bad term
m mansions. They use some other examples of muck being
a term of like derision. Well, since SENTI Scottish racism.
By the way, since that moment two decades later, it
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points out in the New York Times, not only is
McDonald's bigger than it's ever been with nearly forty two
thousand global locations, but fast food in general has boomed.
There are now some forty chains with more than five
hundred locations in the United States. That's amazing. There are
forty fast food chains that have more than five hundred locations.
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I could name fifteen, maybe I couldn't certainly name forty.
Fast food is the second largest private employment sector in
the country after hospitals, and thirty six percent of Americans
eat fast food on any given day Nearly forty percent
of Americans eat fast food any given wow Wow, and
the three major appeals of fast food remain intact. It's cheap,
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although not as much as it used to be, It's convenient,
and people the way it tastes. Also, it turns out
that years of saturating American childhood with fast food has
paid dividends. The kids from the early two thousands that
were getting toys in their happy meal or whatever are
now millennials, among the group with the highest rate of
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fast food consumption a day. That high rate you heard
was everybody. It's much higher for the millennials, and they
have a lifetime of memories that connect them to fast
food brands McDonald's in particular, in their head, so they're
eating a lot of it. Now to this other article
that's in Business Insider today about what's going on with
Starbucks and how if you've been to Starbucks lately and
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you look up at their menu, you don't see much coffee.
We've been saying this for years. I've been saying this
for years. It's not a coffee shop, it's a milkshake house. Well,
they've embraced that more than they ever have. It's difficult
to find anything on the menu that's got much to
do with coffee. It's all milkshakes, and they're packed and
people buying the ten dollars worth of fat and sugar.
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So McDonald's won wn that whole battle cultural battle.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's so interesting.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You can start is one thing and then add a
bunch of stuff that's like masquerading as a cousin of
that thing when it really isn't.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And you feel better about walking into a coffee shop
than a McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I guess, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
But what we haven't seen so far is any direct
evidence that Donald Trump himself directed that. At best, we've
seen a piece of paper showing that Alan Weisselberg has
trusted deputy in the former CFO sort of sketched out
exactly how this repayment scheme was going to work. We
also know that Donald Trump himself signed nine checks attached
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to which there was paperwork saying they were four legal
services and they were for a retainer by each month.
Count on Michael Cohen then today to start filling those
gaps in the already substantial evidence and sherry record, but
their gaps only Michael Cohen can fill.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Sure a full two weeks in the Donald Trump hush
money trial thingy and two weeks in and they still have.
As the MSNBC legal analysts pointed out there, they still
haven't in any way made it clear that Trump knew
what was going on or what he was signing the
checks for Cohen, who is a known liar, and that
will be pointed out to the jury like liar, to
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the point of he goes to jail over it is
the key to this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I think all of this is ultimately not ultimate.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Ultimately, not like when we're standing before the Pearly Gates
and Saint Peter's checking his ledger. No, I mean at
the end of this trial, all of this is utterly
irrelevant because the prosecution is going to explain how this misdemeanor,
which covered up that misdemeanor, violates state law, which is
arguably federal election and that fence gets up here and
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with their closing argument says, wait a minute, you're supposed
to can this guy of a felony because that misdemeanor
and that's a federal love.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It's gonna fall apart and no testimony is gonna matter.
That is my theory. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
So he's testifying today, Cohen, and I'm sure we'll have
highlights either today or tomorrow. Okay, whenever they happen. The
real highlights will come and cross examination.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Look, yeah, I'm gonna combine two stories here in something
I came across over the weekend. Cohen and the certain
segment of the public's adoration for Donald Trump, which was
on display Saturday night at his big political rally in
New Jersey, in which he had somewhere between eighty and
one hundred thousand people show up one of the biggest
political rallies in US history. Here's a little him talking
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about his opponent took.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Its shoe surrendered to the terrorists, just like he's surrendered
to the Taliban, and now he's surrendering our college campuses
to anarchist jihadas freaks and anti American extremists, freaks. We're
trying to tear down our American flag. They want to
tear it down every single place they go.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They want to rip down our flag.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
The chaos and violence happening on our college campuses right
now is all because Crooked Joe Biden doesn't know what
the hell he's doing. The very same people who are
funding the violent campus uprisings are also funding Joe Biden's campaign.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Do you believe this?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Tonight, I'm officially calling.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
On Joe Biden and the Democrat National Committee to return
the donations of all anti Semites, American haters, and financiers
of chaos who have funded the chaos on our campuses.
Return the money, Joe.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
So that's some of the particulars he got into which
the crowd was eating up. If you wanted just some
of the Trump on stage show, here's him rambling about
something that was a tangent for some reason.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Silence of the lamb.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Has anyone ever seen the silence of the lamps, the
late Great Hadib elector, he's a wonderful man. He oftentimes
would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last thing.
Excuse me, I'm about to have a friend for dinner?
Is this, poor doctor, I'm about to have a friend
for dinner. But Hannibal elector, congratulations, the late great hanniballector.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
The late great Annimal letter lucky, but he said the
late grade Ayam Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Anyway, what the heck?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Combining a couple of things here, which I think this
is probably best if you're a Trump hater to hear this.
So I was reading Mark Helprin's a morning political newsletter
on Saturday, and he had some segments from a book,
one of the political books he wrote years ago. This
goes back to twenty eleven. It's the first time he
met Michael Cohen at Trump Tower. He'd never been to
Trump Tower before. This is twenty eleven, all right. I
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had no idea how many people were interested in Donald
Trump being president in twenty eleven. I, in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Famously infamously said.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yes, I would eat my truck if he was ever
the nominee for the Republican Party, because I just didn't
think there was any chance he would run, or that
if he did, it would go anywhere. I didn't know
what Mark halper knew in twenty eleven, so let me
read this stuff. I think it's pretty darned interesting. And again,
he's meeting Cohen in Trump Tower, in one of Trump's offices.
At the time of my visit to Trump Tower in
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twenty eleven, Cohen was the main public face and point
of contact for an exploration into a Trump presidential bid.
So he would have been running against Obama second term
if he had run then, But he didn't, as his
boss taped episodes of The Apprentice, the number one show
in America, marketed his brand, dallied with real estate deals,
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and dipped his toes in and out of the political
waters of Iowa, New Hampshire and beyond.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So it's pretty serious.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
If he was going to Iowa, New Hampshire and stuff
and visiting, you know, you don't do that unless you're
at least considering actually running.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That's that's toe dipping. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Cohen gabbed about mister Trump with a breathless reverence that
was almost most laughable, as if the Mogul were some
combination of Solomon and George Washington, giving you idea of.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
How Cohen felt about his boss.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Trump and Cohen are very different men, but the same
time they were identical in one respect, the ardor with
which they could discuss the brain's talents and general splendor
of Donald J.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Trump.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
One tends to absorb such hyperbole with more than a
touch of skepticism. I listened with patients and rever and reserve.
Then Cohen brought out the binders, binders filled with letters, dozens, scores,
hundreds of letters. Coin told me heaps of letters arrived
in the mail every single day, sent by strangers from
all over the country, and that Trump's secretarial team collected, sorted,
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and organized them into binders. Some were handwritten, Some included
checks or five or ten dollars bills or small mementos.
All beseeched Trump to run for president. This is in
twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Cohen flipped through the pages of plastic and cased correspondence,
reading alound from particularly heartwarm, be impassioned, or resurant missives.
You have to run. America needs you. My children's future
depends on it. The career politicians will never fix our problems.
Colin's face was a light with devotion, urgency, and pride. Idly,
I wondered if the letters were genuine, But the language
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of these letters was genuine, the words evocative. Many of
the letters echoed the message Trump and delivered at the
Sea Pack gathering that year. There were citizens all over
the country, a significant portion of the electric, who were struggling, grievously,
unhappy and afraid. They were in trouble, and they thought
America was in trouble too. They had seen this man
on television, this man who had so much confidence and
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so many glib answers, and they wanted him to go
to Washington and set things right. Not interesting in twenty eleven.
I mean there was something I was missing that I
didn't go as was going on. And a little more
on that. Colin's binders of letters, the outpouring of promises
and pleas were perhaps unprecedented in modern times. The people
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who wrote to Try nearly a decade ago would be
disappointed when he announced in May of twenty eleven that
he would not be entering the twenty twelve presidential race.
This decision does not come easier without regret, said Trump
at a statement especially when my potential candidacy continues to
be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican
contenders and polls across the country. I maintained the strong
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conviction that if I were to run, I would be
able to win the primary and ultimately the general election.
Four years later, those burners, yeah, four years later, those
binders of letters I believed helped inspire Trump to make
his victorious bid.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
For the White House.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
So the Trump haters out there or who think it
was all organized by Russia or whoever, are still missing
that whole story of the chunk of America that is,
for whatever reasons, and they vary from person to person,
think everything's going the wrong direction. The country is going
to hell, and nobody can save it except for Donald Trump.
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I don't know how some people tapped in. I didn't
ever watch The Apprentice, and I don't know. If I'd
have watched The Apprentice, I would have thought, you know what,
things are going to hell, and that's the guy to
fix it, and written a letter and sent him a
five dollar bill like people were doing in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I did watch it a couple of times and thought
its mildly entertaining, But no point did I think Donald
Trump could save the Union. On the other hand, we
are where we are, and to me, the end of
the story is as hazy as it's ever been in
terms of Trump and the idea of a second term.
I just don't know. He's a wild card. He's Russian Roulette.
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Like William Barr said, we only get two choices in
this country at least. Well, I know r FT Junior. Okay,
oh thrills, you gotta choose one of them.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I know we can not vote.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
We got a clip of him saying it the rally
the other night, But he's right where he said, I'm
more popular than I've ever been. They launched all these
trials against me, all these charges and everything like that,
I'm more popular than I've ever been. And he is
even with those binders of outpouring of love that I mean,
I think Mark Awprin's right. That's probably unprecedented in modern
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times that somebody who's not even politics, not even in politics,
is getting such an outpouring for so many people of
please run, please run, You're the only person that could
save the country.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
But he's more popular now than he was then. By
fun Hey, Michael place place clip number thirty three. Would
you we have people.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
That are being released into our country that we don't
want in our country, and they're coming in totally unchecked,
totally unvetted, and we can't let this happen. They're destroying
our country and we're sitting back and we better damn
well win this election because if we don't, our country
is going to be doomed.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
You have a choice between that and the border is secure.
I mean, come on, Yeah, there are a couple issues,
maybe the border, well the border in the economy being
the top two issues. But yeah, there's no getting around that.
I mean, you can hate Trump all day long, but
he cares about the border and Biden doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, it's just a fact. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
I was just reading about the millions of asylum cases
that are backlogged now and the years and years it
will take to have all those people. Number one, now,
do don't laugh, show up for their hearings. Number two,
have that case adjudicated. The number three again a smaller chuckle.
(28:32):
Abide by the message of the CORDA. So, yeah, millions
of people have come into the country with no authorization,
no background check, no nothing, no reason to be here
other than they want to. They've been turned loose, and
people are not people except for the far left so
called pro immigrant crowd.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
People are extremely uncomfortable with that.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
And then on the angle of you know, criminals coming
into this country, which you find quote whatever statistic you
want about it being a tiny percentage, but a tiny percentage.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Well, even so, a.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Tiny percentage of a very large number is a lot
of people.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Trump talking about that.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Jail populations all over the world are way down, and
these fools back there, the press, the fake news, they
don't want to report it.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You know why they're.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Down because they're sending people in their jails into the
United States, from Africa, from Asia, from.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
All over the world.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
They're emptying out their jails into the United States. They're
emptying out their mental institutions into the United States, our
beautiful country. And now the prison populations all over the
world are down.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
They don't want to report that.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
The guy spreading that message is drowing one hundred thousand
people to hear him speak live.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's your bottom line. And yet
he's tied with Biden, right, Well he's ad a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yeah, yep, he has a had a little bit right now,
and uh, I think that is one of the reasons
there will be a debate because coming up, we go
ahead just because Biden is unless something happens, and there
are a lot of things could happen in six months.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
We're just under six months.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
But unless something happens, Biden is gonna need something that
changes the direction of things, and a debate is one
of the only things he'll have as a tool. So
I think he's going to agree to a debate that
will be a oh my train wreck, Oh my god,
and how many people will watch it might be the
most watched shown world history.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Coming up, prominent woman in politics gott a book out
claims something that isn't true, forced to edit it. Nope,
I'm not talking about the dog shooting Governor of South Dakota.
I'm talking about Jen Saki's book, former spokeshole for the
White House. Uh out with a tell all, but she's
(30:51):
got to untell some of it. The details to come, untel.
That's funny, Okay, stay here.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
Shot a dog was rescued after it fell off a
fifty foot cliff into a quarry. Next time, said Christy Nome. Wow,
I assume she's off the list.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I hope Trump picked somebody that makes it easier to
vote for him and not harder, right, like yeah, Kerry
Lake or to my mind, Jade Vance.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yeah, yeah, he can't double down on Trumpy. He needs
to do the opposite if he wants to get elected.
Very quick apropos of our discussion about fast food, my
friend Dave texted Governor Pete Wilson, two term Republican governor
of California when Jack and I moved to cal Unicornea
was once asked sarcastically at about a press conference about
creating McJobs. He shot back with mcjob's lead to mcmanagement
(31:51):
and mcownership. How different is that than the quasi Marxist
governor of California right now in Gavin Newsom, with his
artificially jacking up the minimum wage. Now thousands are getting
laid off, having their hours cut, Youngsters and immigrants no
longer can get hired because it's become too expensive to
hire them.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Just miserable failure of a policy. Anyway. So Jen Saki's
got a book out. You haven't read it, really?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Oh, it's called Say More.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Who cares?
Speaker 5 (32:23):
She's being forced to alter future reprints of her book.
She claimed that during the infamous Family for the Return
of the Troopers killed in Afghanistan that he had repeatedly
looked at his watch, and in her book she says
that he never looked at his watch during the ceremony,
(32:47):
and now they're going to alter it, and she does
a mealy mouth, half denial that they're going to alter anything,
but they really are. The park that I found really interesting,
there's a video of them looking at his watch. I've
never liked, well, yeah, repeatedly, and the people the next
one said he kept looking at his watch.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, I've never liked the looking at your watch thing
with politicians. George hw got killed in a debate for
that once. There's all kinds of reasons to look at
your watch. That don't mean you aren't interested in what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Right right.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Nonetheless, because it made him look bad, Jen Saki denied
it in her book. And the part I really found
interesting was that in twenty twenty one, USA Today did
a fact check at the incident after it was over
and claimed that Biden only checked his watch when the
ceremony was over. But then they played the video and
(33:38):
there he is looking at his watch repeatedly, and the
USA today had to issue a correction on their fact check,
so they had to fact check their own fact check,
which is all you need to know about fact checks. Yeah,
fact Jensaki has murdered no dogs as far as I
can discern.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Yeah, well, so I could hit you with this here.
So at the rally the other night is like an
hour and a half long. Uh Trump speaking to eighty
thousand people, He actually said this at one point, you
can take the ten worst presidents in the history of
our country and add them up, and they haven't done
the damage to our country that this total moron has done.
Come on, Trump said to cheers, He's a fool, not
(34:26):
a smart man. He never was. He was considered stupid.
I talk to him differently. I talk about him differently
now because the gloves are off.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
He's a bad guy. He's the worst president ever of
any country. The whole wolve is laughing at him. He's
a fool.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Come man, Oh wow, worst president ever of any country.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's well, that's a fact. Jack. He was considered stupid. Fight.
Oh what are you talking about? I don't know. Uh,
the third grade insults, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Uh, He talked about all all the indictments that he's had.
He blamed Biden for his legal troubles, saying, you don't
do that to your opponents. It's done in third world countries.
It's not done the United States. I fly over a
he said, I fly over a blue state my plane.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Now I land. I've got three indictments. Well, he's right
about that, one hundred percent right. This is not something
that should be happening in America, especially the Alvin Bragg foolishness.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
It was Biden is a dummy.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
It was in New Jersey started talking about Chris Christy
being a fat pig. He got the whole crowd chanting,
fat pig, fat pig.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Oh no, Armstrong and Geeddy
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
School districts from coast to coast bracing for possible teacher
layoffs a critical factor in some of these budget battles.
One hundred and ninety billion in federal pandemic relief funding
approved in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one now set
up to drive this September. The National Education Association, the
country's largest labor union, is demanding that federal, state, and
local leaders come up with a solution that serves both
(00:37):
educators and their students.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I don't want to get distracted on this topic, but
I wish there was some sort of follow up accounting
on how all that money got spent, the pandemic money
that went to schooling. It sure looks to me like
a lot of schools built mprs they didn't need or repay,
you know, talking about a school I know, repaved playgrounds
(01:01):
that seemed perfectly fine. We're a bunch of other things,
and now teachers are going to be laid off because
you don't have enough money.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Okay, unless we pass this half cent sales tax, blah
blah blah. I would I would so be in favor
of a national system of mandatory meetings or we all
have to sit down and watch TV for an hour
and they report back, all right, now that pandemic funding,
here's what it was spent on, and they.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Go through it. So everybody's aware of this stuff.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
That's you know, there are quotes of plenty from the
founding fathers about an informed electorate being absolutely necessary to
the functioning of our system of government. But not only
are most people not informed, it's fairly difficult to be
accurately informed. You almost have to do it for a living,
like we do. Otherwise you just don't have the time. Anyway,
(01:54):
we're doomed. Here's the point. So here's one we're way
in which we're probably doomed. Uh. Not only do we
have a bunch of bad guys to talk about, we
have a hero to talk about. So don't tune out
here in despair. We will get to an hero, actually
an hero with an organization doing great stuff and really
(02:15):
putting a thumb in the eye of the DEI crowd.
So there's been a fair amount of attention paid recently,
and we haven't really talked about it about DEI initiatives.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
This is your.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is none of those three things.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's neo Marxism.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
But they're infiltrating American medical schools and accrediting boards. So
even as so many of us have been spreading the
word that this stuff is neo Marxism, it's just about
tearing the system down. And they use various excuses at
various times, but it always ends in therefore, we must
tear down the system. Even as it's rolling back in
corporate America and more and more media folks are waking
(02:54):
up to it. It's forging ahead in education where it
got started, really and government Democrat government anyway. But this guy,
he's a congressman, a physician, and he says the ability
and education of America's newest physicians and the health of
our nation's future patients will perilously atrophy unless something changes,
(03:15):
and he goes into Just last week, during a mandatory
course on structural racism for first year medical students at UCLA,
one of the great colleges in America, a guest speaker
led chance of this required class. Now speaker led chance
of free, free Palestine and referred to the October seventh
hamas terrorist attacks against Jews as justice. She then demanded
(03:40):
that the medical students bow down to Mama Earth and
led what she described as a non secular prayer to
the ancestors in the mandatory first year of course structural
racism and helps.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That We've got to back up to that one. What
what what was that one?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
So they're not bowed down to Mama Earth and led
to what non desecular prayer to the ancestors being who
the ancestors?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I don't know. Okay, that reminds me.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
So my favorite golf course has a new clock so
you can see what time it is on the driving
range as you're getting ready to play golf. And the
plaque at the bottom of it is very touching. It says,
dedicated to those who've gone before us. And my buddy
Bob said, does that mean the earlier teacher anyway?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Where were we?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yes, the ancestors, you idiot, That's who we're praying to.
And the aspiring medical doctors were told that structural racism
and health equity is getting in the way of care
and that modern medicine is white science. And then they
were asked to stand for a second so called prayer
against the occupation of Turtle Island, which this person called
(04:54):
the United States Turtle Island anyway, don't get hung up
on that. But in addition to mandatory DEI classes, medical
student staff and faculty, or finding the placement or promotion, and.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
This is including the students who's.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
First in their class, et cetera, hinges On pledges to
affirm and adopt the poisonous and parasitic tenants of DEI.
We were talking about Duke University, Jerry Seinfeld. A bunch
of people walked out, good, go to hell, keep off
of the graduation. But a recent investigation into Duke University's
private health system revealed that its health facilities.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Recruit based on race rather than merit.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
That's not mis doctor congressperson rails against the inevitable results.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, that's not a good way to building a good
healthcare system.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
No, I would say. And so they go in the
Free Beacon. They go into more detail on this UCLA class,
and they had a fat liberationist in telling the kids
that fat phobia's medicine status quo and weight loss is
a helpless endeavor and you shouldn't shame people for being fat,
(06:00):
says Jeffrey Flyer. In case you think, oh, listen to
the right wing tacsha guy in his crazy tinfoil hat paranoia.
Let me quote Jeffrey Flyer, who's the former dean of
Harvard Medical School, one of the world's foremost experts on obesity.
Among other things. He said, the curriculum quote promotes extensive
and dangerous misinformation. UCLA has centered this required course on
(06:22):
a socialist Marxist ideology that is totally inappropriate. As a
long standing medical educator, I found this course truly shocking.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Okay, well, that's that side of it. A doctor friend
to me sent this topic to me over the weekend
because he came across his story that obesity is a
term of degradation. It's a biological injustice, the term obesity,
and they're wanting to rename it at Medical School's ABCD,
which stands for ad deposity based chronic disease, is what
(06:53):
you'll call it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Fundamentally, knowledge can reduce the social stigma and even prejudice
from the medical community itself. We must be respectful and
compassionate and understand well what we are treating in the
best way to approach eat patient with realistic expectations.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, but they can't call it OBCD. How's that going
to help.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
That is a great illustration of the way critical theory works,
critical race theory, radical gender theory, caer theory, the rest
of it. They throw and this may sound familiar to
you from your workplace, your local school, whatever. They throw
this blizzard of new terminology that you have to adopt.
And if you don't adopt it, or if you don't
(07:31):
adopt it correctly, or if you say something that they
tell you that's offensive, that's problematic. Remember you say I
didn't mean it that way. They say, it doesn't matter
how you meant it. You are a racist, you are
a fat phobe, you are a transphobe, you or whatever,
And they terrify you until they're in charge. As James
Lindsay has put it, if you want to be in
(07:53):
charge of something, call it racist until you're in charge
of it. This is the same thing now they're doing
it in medical schools. If you say, well, this person
is morbidly obese.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
WHOA, WHOA?
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Where do you get off? You're a white man? You
remember that quote from about two minutes ago. You are
a white supremacist with a Western centric sounds, and before
you know it, they're in charge. That's how it works.
It's all neo Marxism. And then one more thing. So
one required reading list from UCLA Medical School lists anti
(08:23):
capitalist politics as a principle of disability justice I'm quoting
now and attacks the evils of ablest heteropatriarchical capitalism.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
In medical school. I promised to you a hero.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Oh yeah, I don't have time for the North Carolina
Department of Health and Human Services, which has gone full woke,
which is crazy in a purple state. But anyway, education
is just so steeped in this. All right, here's your hero.
This is a piece written by one Stanley gold Goldfarb
in the Wall Street Journal Opinions section how We've taken
the bias out of implicit bias training. They operate in Michigan, Okay,
(09:05):
And there are all sorts of rules about you have
to have this implicit bias training. Partly because Gretchen Whitmer,
the woke jackass, shut the whole thing down in COVID.
Governor is a creature of the left. I'm just going
to read this to you, it's so great. Is there
any escape from woke in doctrination. I've heard versions of
(09:25):
this question from countless doctors, nurses, and mother medical professionals. Yeah,
it's worth departing from the text for a minute. The
vast majority of people hate this stuff. They realize it's
racist and stupid and will destroy society. But the other
side is so well organized and so mean they cow
everybody into submission.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
That's not the way it was presented on NPR this morning.
I'll explain coming up.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh really, okay, actually, now might be a good time
for that. I was listening to it if I get
to the punchline of this hero thing.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
They had a DEI discussion on NPR as as driving
to work today, and they talked about how many states
right wing white so premisists are trying to shut down
DEI programs and how awful it is, and they cherry
picked some examples of Nazis or actual white supremacists saying
various things, and presented a story that only actual racists
(10:15):
would be against DEI. Unluckily, the whole country is on
board with the EI, not surprising from NPR. No, No,
they're not.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
We are in the vast majority folks and DEI programs
wherever they exist, corporate education, government and them. Now they're evil, evil, evil,
And I love that idea that you know. Well, if
I say, you know, I was really disappointed it rained
on my daughter's wedding and we had to move it inside.
You know who else is disappointed when when their weddings
(10:46):
get rained out? White supremacists, Nazis exactly. Nazis I've heard
are also disappointed when their daughter's weddings are ruined. Oh my,
what a stupid ass argument. I'm sorry, folks, they're just days.
I don't have the patience. Okay, so let me get
back to this. This is so great. So healthcare has
(11:07):
been captured by activists pushing divisive and discriminatory ideologies, especially
through education and training rights doctor Goldfarb. One of the
most visible manifest stations is mandatory implicit by IT bias training,
which seven states have adopted, only seven, but at least
twenty five more are considering. In Michigan, medical professionals will
(11:28):
soon be free. On May first, my organization will launch
a continuing medical education course that fulfills Michigan's implicit bias
training mandate created by Governor Gritch and Whitmer in twenty
twenty one, updated blah blah blah. Not only doctors and nurses,
but athletic trainers, acupuncturists, massage therapists, midwives, and many others
(11:50):
must take this mandatory implicit bias Woke DEI training talks
about the one hundreds of thousands, one of the most
expansive laws in the nation. The off of the authors
of this policy, no doubt want every medical professional in
state to accept the Woke party line on race. But
our course goes in a more ethical and less political direction.
Instead of teaching implicit biases, fact, we're telling medical professionals
(12:13):
the truth that this training is grounded in falsehood and
is a direct threat to the health and well being
of patients. How are we able to offer this course, Well,
the rule requires providers to be quote a nationally recognized
or state recognized health related organization, which we are. We
also provide quote information on implicit bias, which is another requirement,
(12:33):
and our course includes quote strategies to reduce disparities and
access and the delivery of healthcare services. So he and
his folks have followed the letter of the law and
designed an implicit bias training program that says, all of
this stuff is crap. It's not a medical education, it's
ideological clap trap and you should not believe it. And
(12:56):
they are fully certified to give this class.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Wow, that's pretty clever. I love that. Love it.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
That is clever, and it's good, a good thing. These
people have the heft and the energy and the money
to put something like that together. But man, what a great, smart, hilarious,
heroic response to the Marxist jackasses.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You lay down with dogs, you get fleas.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Donald Trump's old fixer, Michael Cohen is on the stand
today a little insight to who Michael Cohen was throughout
Donald Trump's career, among other things.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
On the way stay with US, Army Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
McDonald's is cooking up a limited five dollar value meal
an effort to win back the customers they lost who
felt out. Priced eighteen dollars Big Max and six dollars
Hash Browns seen in places like Connecticut, came at the
cost of complaining consumers. For the first time in years.
McDonald saw profit loss last quarter and people maybe opting
out of dining out because it's just become more expensive.
(14:05):
Roughly four point two percent more than this time last year, So.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
That's not surprising. Prices are up. Maybe people start eating less.
That's its own interesting story. That aside, there are two
articles that I'm kind of combining for this conversation that
I think are interesting just culturally, about where we are
with bad food for small six dollars, for that little
triangle of hash browns.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It's crazy I ate fast food too often and the
prices are redict article in the New York Times about how
McDonald's won one w N one at the cultural battle.
There was a moment when Supersize Me came out in
the early two thousands. It was a movie where a
guy ate only McDonald's and claimed it made his liver fail,
(14:53):
and all these different sorts of things. And then so
there was a culturally a moment there where like McDonald
folds was seen, muck was seen as a bad term
m mansions. They use some other examples of muck being
a term of like derision. Well, since SENTI Scottish racism.
By the way, since that moment two decades later, it
(15:13):
points out in the New York Times, not only is
McDonald's bigger than it's ever been with nearly forty two
thousand global locations, but fast food in general has boomed.
There are now some forty chains with more than five
hundred locations in the United States. That's amazing. There are
forty fast food chains that have more than five hundred locations.
(15:34):
I could name fifteen, maybe I couldn't certainly name forty.
Fast food is the second largest private employment sector in
the country after hospitals, and thirty six percent of Americans
eat fast food on any given day Nearly forty percent
of Americans eat fast food any given wow Wow, and
the three major appeals of fast food remain intact. It's cheap,
(15:56):
although not as much as it used to be, It's convenient,
and people the way it tastes. Also, it turns out
that years of saturating American childhood with fast food has
paid dividends. The kids from the early two thousands that
were getting toys in their happy meal or whatever are
now millennials, among the group with the highest rate of
(16:17):
fast food consumption a day. That high rate you heard
was everybody. It's much higher for the millennials, and they
have a lifetime of memories that connect them to fast
food brands McDonald's in particular, in their head, so they're
eating a lot of it. Now to this other article
that's in Business Insider today about what's going on with
Starbucks and how if you've been to Starbucks lately and
(16:38):
you look up at their menu, you don't see much coffee.
We've been saying this for years. I've been saying this
for years. It's not a coffee shop, it's a milkshake house. Well,
they've embraced that more than they ever have. It's difficult
to find anything on the menu that's got much to
do with coffee. It's all milkshakes, and they're packed and
people buying the ten dollars worth of fat and sugar.
(17:02):
So McDonald's won wn that whole battle cultural battle.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It's so interesting.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You can start is one thing and then add a
bunch of stuff that's like masquerading as a cousin of
that thing when it really isn't.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And you feel better about walking into a coffee shop
than a McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I guess, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
But what we haven't seen so far is any direct
evidence that Donald Trump himself directed that. At best, we've
seen a piece of paper showing that Alan Weisselberg has
trusted deputy in the former CFO sort of sketched out
exactly how this repayment scheme was going to work. We
also know that Donald Trump himself signed nine checks attached
(17:47):
to which there was paperwork saying they were four legal
services and they were for a retainer by each month.
Count on Michael Cohen then today to start filling those
gaps in the already substantial evidence and sherry record, but
their gaps only Michael Cohen can fill.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Sure a full two weeks in the Donald Trump hush
money trial thingy and two weeks in and they still have.
As the MSNBC legal analysts pointed out there, they still
haven't in any way made it clear that Trump knew
what was going on or what he was signing the
checks for Cohen, who is a known liar, and that
will be pointed out to the jury like liar, to
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the point of he goes to jail over it is
the key to this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I think all of this is ultimately not ultimate.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Ultimately, not like when we're standing before the Pearly Gates
and Saint Peter's checking his ledger. No, I mean at
the end of this trial, all of this is utterly
irrelevant because the prosecution is going to explain how this misdemeanor,
which covered up that misdemeanor, violates state law, which is
arguably federal election and that fence gets up here and
(18:57):
with their closing argument says, wait a minute, you're supposed
to can this guy of a felony because that misdemeanor
and that's a federal love.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It's gonna fall apart and no testimony is gonna matter.
That is my theory. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
So he's testifying today, Cohen, and I'm sure we'll have
highlights either today or tomorrow. Okay, whenever they happen. The
real highlights will come and cross examination.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Look, yeah, I'm gonna combine two stories here in something
I came across over the weekend. Cohen and the certain
segment of the public's adoration for Donald Trump, which was
on display Saturday night at his big political rally in
New Jersey, in which he had somewhere between eighty and
one hundred thousand people show up one of the biggest
political rallies in US history. Here's a little him talking
(19:40):
about his opponent took.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Its shoe surrendered to the terrorists, just like he's surrendered
to the Taliban, and now he's surrendering our college campuses
to anarchist jihadas freaks and anti American extremists, freaks. We're
trying to tear down our American flag. They want to
tear it down every single place they go.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They want to rip down our flag.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
The chaos and violence happening on our college campuses right
now is all because Crooked Joe Biden doesn't know what
the hell he's doing. The very same people who are
funding the violent campus uprisings are also funding Joe Biden's campaign.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Do you believe this?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Tonight, I'm officially calling.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
On Joe Biden and the Democrat National Committee to return
the donations of all anti Semites, American haters, and financiers
of chaos who have funded the chaos on our campuses.
Return the money, Joe.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
So that's some of the particulars he got into which
the crowd was eating up. If you wanted just some
of the Trump on stage show, here's him rambling about
something that was a tangent for some reason.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Silence of the lamb.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Has anyone ever seen the silence of the lamps, the
late Great Hadib elector, he's a wonderful man. He oftentimes
would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last thing.
Excuse me, I'm about to have a friend for dinner?
Is this, poor doctor, I'm about to have a friend
for dinner. But Hannibal elector, congratulations, the late great hanniballector.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
The late great Annimal letter lucky, but he said the
late grade Ayam Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Anyway, what the heck?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Combining a couple of things here, which I think this
is probably best if you're a Trump hater to hear this.
So I was reading Mark Helprin's a morning political newsletter
on Saturday, and he had some segments from a book,
one of the political books he wrote years ago. This
goes back to twenty eleven. It's the first time he
met Michael Cohen at Trump Tower. He'd never been to
Trump Tower before. This is twenty eleven, all right. I
(21:45):
had no idea how many people were interested in Donald
Trump being president in twenty eleven. I, in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Famously infamously said.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yes, I would eat my truck if he was ever
the nominee for the Republican Party, because I just didn't
think there was any chance he would run, or that
if he did, it would go anywhere. I didn't know
what Mark halper knew in twenty eleven, so let me
read this stuff. I think it's pretty darned interesting. And again,
he's meeting Cohen in Trump Tower, in one of Trump's offices.
At the time of my visit to Trump Tower in
(22:21):
twenty eleven, Cohen was the main public face and point
of contact for an exploration into a Trump presidential bid.
So he would have been running against Obama second term
if he had run then, But he didn't, as his
boss taped episodes of The Apprentice, the number one show
in America, marketed his brand, dallied with real estate deals,
(22:42):
and dipped his toes in and out of the political
waters of Iowa, New Hampshire and beyond.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So it's pretty serious.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
If he was going to Iowa, New Hampshire and stuff
and visiting, you know, you don't do that unless you're
at least considering actually running.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That's that's toe dipping. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Cohen gabbed about mister Trump with a breathless reverence that
was almost most laughable, as if the Mogul were some
combination of Solomon and George Washington, giving you idea of.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
How Cohen felt about his boss.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Trump and Cohen are very different men, but the same
time they were identical in one respect, the ardor with
which they could discuss the brain's talents and general splendor
of Donald J.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Trump.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
One tends to absorb such hyperbole with more than a
touch of skepticism. I listened with patients and rever and reserve.
Then Cohen brought out the binders, binders filled with letters, dozens, scores,
hundreds of letters. Coin told me heaps of letters arrived
in the mail every single day, sent by strangers from
all over the country, and that Trump's secretarial team collected, sorted,
(23:42):
and organized them into binders. Some were handwritten, Some included
checks or five or ten dollars bills or small mementos.
All beseeched Trump to run for president. This is in
twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Cohen flipped through the pages of plastic and cased correspondence,
reading alound from particularly heartwarm, be impassioned, or resurant missives.
You have to run. America needs you. My children's future
depends on it. The career politicians will never fix our problems.
Colin's face was a light with devotion, urgency, and pride. Idly,
I wondered if the letters were genuine, But the language
(24:16):
of these letters was genuine, the words evocative. Many of
the letters echoed the message Trump and delivered at the
Sea Pack gathering that year. There were citizens all over
the country, a significant portion of the electric, who were struggling, grievously,
unhappy and afraid. They were in trouble, and they thought
America was in trouble too. They had seen this man
on television, this man who had so much confidence and
(24:38):
so many glib answers, and they wanted him to go
to Washington and set things right. Not interesting in twenty eleven.
I mean there was something I was missing that I
didn't go as was going on. And a little more
on that. Colin's binders of letters, the outpouring of promises
and pleas were perhaps unprecedented in modern times. The people
(24:59):
who wrote to Try nearly a decade ago would be
disappointed when he announced in May of twenty eleven that
he would not be entering the twenty twelve presidential race.
This decision does not come easier without regret, said Trump
at a statement especially when my potential candidacy continues to
be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican
contenders and polls across the country. I maintained the strong
(25:20):
conviction that if I were to run, I would be
able to win the primary and ultimately the general election.
Four years later, those burners, yeah, four years later, those
binders of letters I believed helped inspire Trump to make
his victorious bid.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
For the White House.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
So the Trump haters out there or who think it
was all organized by Russia or whoever, are still missing
that whole story of the chunk of America that is,
for whatever reasons, and they vary from person to person,
think everything's going the wrong direction. The country is going
to hell, and nobody can save it except for Donald Trump.
(25:58):
I don't know how some people tapped in. I didn't
ever watch The Apprentice, and I don't know. If I'd
have watched The Apprentice, I would have thought, you know what,
things are going to hell, and that's the guy to
fix it, and written a letter and sent him a
five dollar bill like people were doing in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I did watch it a couple of times and thought
its mildly entertaining, But no point did I think Donald
Trump could save the Union. On the other hand, we
are where we are, and to me, the end of
the story is as hazy as it's ever been in
terms of Trump and the idea of a second term.
I just don't know. He's a wild card. He's Russian Roulette.
(26:36):
Like William Barr said, we only get two choices in
this country at least. Well, I know r FT Junior. Okay,
oh thrills, you gotta choose one of them.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I know we can not vote.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
We got a clip of him saying it the rally
the other night, But he's right where he said, I'm
more popular than I've ever been. They launched all these
trials against me, all these charges and everything like that,
I'm more popular than I've ever been. And he is
even with those binders of outpouring of love that I mean,
I think Mark Awprin's right. That's probably unprecedented in modern
(27:11):
times that somebody who's not even politics, not even in politics,
is getting such an outpouring for so many people of
please run, please run, You're the only person that could
save the country.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
But he's more popular now than he was then. By
fun Hey, Michael place place clip number thirty three. Would
you we have people.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
That are being released into our country that we don't
want in our country, and they're coming in totally unchecked,
totally unvetted, and we can't let this happen. They're destroying
our country and we're sitting back and we better damn
well win this election because if we don't, our country
is going to be doomed.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
You have a choice between that and the border is secure.
I mean, come on, Yeah, there are a couple issues,
maybe the border, well the border in the economy being
the top two issues. But yeah, there's no getting around that.
I mean, you can hate Trump all day long, but
he cares about the border and Biden doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, it's just a fact. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
I was just reading about the millions of asylum cases
that are backlogged now and the years and years it
will take to have all those people. Number one, now,
do don't laugh, show up for their hearings. Number two,
have that case adjudicated. The number three again a smaller chuckle.
(28:32):
Abide by the message of the CORDA. So, yeah, millions
of people have come into the country with no authorization,
no background check, no nothing, no reason to be here
other than they want to. They've been turned loose, and
people are not people except for the far left so
called pro immigrant crowd.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
People are extremely uncomfortable with that.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
And then on the angle of you know, criminals coming
into this country, which you find quote whatever statistic you
want about it being a tiny percentage, but a tiny percentage.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Well, even so, a.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Tiny percentage of a very large number is a lot
of people.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Trump talking about that.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Jail populations all over the world are way down, and
these fools back there, the press, the fake news, they
don't want to report it.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You know why they're.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Down because they're sending people in their jails into the
United States, from Africa, from Asia, from.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
All over the world.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
They're emptying out their jails into the United States. They're
emptying out their mental institutions into the United States, our
beautiful country. And now the prison populations all over the
world are down.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
They don't want to report that.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
The guy spreading that message is drowing one hundred thousand
people to hear him speak live.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's your bottom line. And yet
he's tied with Biden, right, Well he's ad a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Yeah, yep, he has a had a little bit right now,
and uh, I think that is one of the reasons
there will be a debate because coming up, we go
ahead just because Biden is unless something happens, and there
are a lot of things could happen in six months.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
We're just under six months.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
But unless something happens, Biden is gonna need something that
changes the direction of things, and a debate is one
of the only things he'll have as a tool. So
I think he's going to agree to a debate that
will be a oh my train wreck, Oh my god,
and how many people will watch it might be the
most watched shown world history.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Coming up, prominent woman in politics gott a book out
claims something that isn't true, forced to edit it. Nope,
I'm not talking about the dog shooting Governor of South Dakota.
I'm talking about Jen Saki's book, former spokeshole for the
White House. Uh out with a tell all, but she's
(30:51):
got to untell some of it. The details to come, untel.
That's funny, Okay, stay here.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
Shot a dog was rescued after it fell off a
fifty foot cliff into a quarry. Next time, said Christy Nome. Wow,
I assume she's off the list.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I hope Trump picked somebody that makes it easier to
vote for him and not harder, right, like yeah, Kerry
Lake or to my mind, Jade Vance.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yeah, yeah, he can't double down on Trumpy. He needs
to do the opposite if he wants to get elected.
Very quick apropos of our discussion about fast food, my
friend Dave texted Governor Pete Wilson, two term Republican governor
of California when Jack and I moved to cal Unicornea
was once asked sarcastically at about a press conference about
creating McJobs. He shot back with mcjob's lead to mcmanagement
(31:51):
and mcownership. How different is that than the quasi Marxist
governor of California right now in Gavin Newsom, with his
artificially jacking up the minimum wage. Now thousands are getting
laid off, having their hours cut, Youngsters and immigrants no
longer can get hired because it's become too expensive to
hire them.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Just miserable failure of a policy. Anyway. So Jen Saki's
got a book out. You haven't read it, really?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Oh, it's called Say More.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Who cares?
Speaker 5 (32:23):
She's being forced to alter future reprints of her book.
She claimed that during the infamous Family for the Return
of the Troopers killed in Afghanistan that he had repeatedly
looked at his watch, and in her book she says
that he never looked at his watch during the ceremony,
(32:47):
and now they're going to alter it, and she does
a mealy mouth, half denial that they're going to alter anything,
but they really are. The park that I found really interesting,
there's a video of them looking at his watch. I've
never liked, well, yeah, repeatedly, and the people the next
one said he kept looking at his watch.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, I've never liked the looking at your watch thing
with politicians. George hw got killed in a debate for
that once. There's all kinds of reasons to look at
your watch. That don't mean you aren't interested in what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Right right.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Nonetheless, because it made him look bad, Jen Saki denied
it in her book. And the part I really found
interesting was that in twenty twenty one, USA Today did
a fact check at the incident after it was over
and claimed that Biden only checked his watch when the
ceremony was over. But then they played the video and
(33:38):
there he is looking at his watch repeatedly, and the
USA today had to issue a correction on their fact check,
so they had to fact check their own fact check,
which is all you need to know about fact checks. Yeah,
fact Jensaki has murdered no dogs as far as I
can discern.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Yeah, well, so I could hit you with this here.
So at the rally the other night is like an
hour and a half long. Uh Trump speaking to eighty
thousand people, He actually said this at one point, you
can take the ten worst presidents in the history of
our country and add them up, and they haven't done
the damage to our country that this total moron has done.
Come on, Trump said to cheers, He's a fool, not
(34:26):
a smart man. He never was. He was considered stupid.
I talk to him differently. I talk about him differently
now because the gloves are off.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
He's a bad guy. He's the worst president ever of
any country. The whole wolve is laughing at him. He's
a fool.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Come man, Oh wow, worst president ever of any country.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's well, that's a fact. Jack. He was considered stupid. Fight.
Oh what are you talking about? I don't know. Uh,
the third grade insults, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Uh, He talked about all all the indictments that he's had.
He blamed Biden for his legal troubles, saying, you don't
do that to your opponents. It's done in third world countries.
It's not done the United States. I fly over a
he said, I fly over a blue state my plane.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Now I land. I've got three indictments. Well, he's right
about that, one hundred percent right. This is not something
that should be happening in America, especially the Alvin Bragg foolishness.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
It was Biden is a dummy.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
It was in New Jersey started talking about Chris Christy
being a fat pig. He got the whole crowd chanting,
fat pig, fat pig.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Oh no, Armstrong and Geeddy
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