May 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The Russia/Ukraine conflict & Jill the villain
- Joe & Jill Biden on The View
- Biden's legacy & a good year for the Taliban
- Final Thoughts!
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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 Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and he arm Strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
An eerie silence here that's not necessarily indicative of a
sea change.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We've heard from military.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Sources they saw a slight downtick in Russian artillery use,
but still in a small window. Four or five artillery
piece is firing, a big amount of Russian surveillance drones
in the sky, and even recently a Russian jet taking off,
so not an immediate sign of the guns falling silent.
There's great cynicism here amongst Ukrainian forces. They saw the
brief easter cease fire that Russia also called unilaterally as
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essentially a time the Russia seemed to reposition its troops
and then launched greater assaults in the hours afterwards, using
the lulls the tactical advantage.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So that's Putin's got his big.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
May celebration about Russia winning World War Two as he
presents it, and the big thing they do every year
in Russia and Ukraine had been attacking Moscow like crazy
with drones, so they had to close down the airports,
I mean, causing all kinds of disruptions as Putin was
trying to get the big celebration together. And I'm big
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into this story as a lot of you know. I've
been listening to the Ukraine the Latest. It's the London
Telegraph podcast. They have a daily on the Ukraine story
that is freaking awesome. If you're into the story, it
is so good. But anyway, they were pointing out that
she coming to town in Moscow is a bit of
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a using a human shield to protect for Putin to
be able to protect these May Day celebrations or they
think Ukraine would have attacked them and really disrupt that
have been caused a great embarrassment to Putin. But Putin
having president she in town Ukraine's not gonna dam you know,
hurt she or causing problems there.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That would be well, I'd be insane.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, speaking of that topic before we move on, I
came across this and I found it very very interesting.
Barton swain Rod it wrote it about what Trump fails
to understand about Putin. We've talked about this a little bit,
how Putin could not care less that too many people
are dying in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I mean, it's just he does not care at all.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And I found this very interesting because I knew part
of this, kind of the broad outlines of it. But
as Gary Saal Morrison explained in a superb twenty twenty
three essay, do Russians worship? War Putin fully embraces the
centuries old myth of Russia as the victim of betrayal
and exploitation. And he goes through some of the history
of it, and it's literally centuries old that the myth,
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the Russian myth is not myth is in fiction. But
this is one of the stories we tell ourselves that
helps us understand what our civilization is, like the American
myths of the revolution and opportunity and equal rights and stuff. Again,
it's not myth is in fiction, it's in These are
the stories that bind us together. But oh my god,
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I hate to break in, but breaking news. I know
all of America is waiting white smoke. Maybe the cardinals
are vaping. Turns out the cardinals are just vaping.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Look at the people. Maybe it's that meth smoking raccoon.
Look at the people jumping up and down and crying.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, in Vatican Square because there's a new pope all right,
anyway name it will tell.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You and and folks soon we won't have to hear
anything more about it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That's a good point. There you go, God bless us all.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So anyway, getting back to this twenty twenty three essay
about the history of Russia and how Russia must always
fight foes bent on stealing its wealth destroying his people.
May Night, the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Soviets
nineteen forty five, is for Russians the most important holiday
of the year, consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church mister
Morrison Wright. They sense their kinship with the mystical body
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of the people, passed and present. War in Russia, he explains,
is a kind of civic sacrament. Newly weds frequently placed
flowers on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow,
and criticizing the military is often considered blasphemous. In American
war movies, the true heroes, or most of them, survive,
most of them.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
By contrast, countless.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Russian war movies and novels feature as much death as possible.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The story is not.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Complete if anyone beside the one reporting the events survives
the more death, the greater the heroism.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
An interesting cultural difference.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And you know, a Bart and Swayin posits that mister
Trump's lamentations about all the killing in destruction Ukraine will
likely have the opposite of the intended effect on mister Putin.
That at any rate, is a reasonable conclusion from mister
Putin's latest pronouncement that any agreement to end the war
must include Russian control of four territories that they don't
currently fully controlled Denette's, Kersson, Luhansk and Zaphyarisia.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But yeah, the whole there are too many people dying.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's it's like telling me there's too much golf, too
many gen and tonics. It's like, what do you I
don't even we're not communicating here. Putin doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well this daily podcast that I listened to out of
Great Britain, they're heavily pro Ukraine, as Europe is, and
so they have every reason to look for good news.
But they're convinced that Russia is really close to collapse
in terms of their military that they're just flat. I mean,
there's a there is a finite limit to equipment and people,
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it's not unlimited and they have lost a million people
from the battlefield. I mean numbers nobody's ever heard of
in the history of the world of warfare in that
amount of time, and that they may be close to
like actually collapsing. And perhaps Trump is you know, aware
of that, NATO's aware of that, and we just know
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that's what we're waiting for. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Again, now they signed whatever on holy deal with North
Korea to import cannon fodder as a luxury. I think
they did it because they really kind of needed to.
I would guess that, and I feel pretty good about
my guests. Oh, speaking of Russia, one more thing, the
British government is updating the Cold War era Government War Book,
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a detailed plan for dealing with an attack on the
nation by a foreign power, specifically Russia, to be connectic
attacks and cyber attacks too, which is obviously a new wrinkle.
But they are going to revise it and put it
out and publicize it and train officials on it. They
are at a pre war footing, but a we can't
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have this catch us flat footed point, as is a
lot of Europe right now.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think a lot of Americans.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Consider the question of the spread of warfare to be
a purely rhetorical question, right, yeah, whereas in Europe, no,
they are seriously concerned about it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
So white smoke above the Vatican. They got a new pope,
if I remember correctly, pretty quickly, the new Pope comes
out on the balcony and speaks, which is sometimes a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Always thank his agent, Thanks Harvey Weinstein, and and then
everybody at Merrimax they start playing five hundred year old
music to play him off.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Your time is up. I remember John Paul the Second
when he came out fear not. The crowd went crazy.
But if anything happens around that will bring it to you.
Another ancient Catholic speaking today, we're just starting to get
clips from Joe Biden. So Joe and Joe Biden are
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on the View today. It hasn't aired yet, we're getting
some clips. I was just reading some of the headlines
of things he said, who clearly nobody has any control
over him, and Jill must be making these incredibly unwise
decisions to put him on television. As Joe said last hour,
it's doing him zero good, only harm and the entire
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Democratic Party and really any person of left politics. It's
hurting everyone there's no advantage to be had by him
going on the View and claiming, like I just read
up there that of course Trump won. He had built
an image of we can't elect a biracial woman or something.
(08:59):
That's his excuse, And Biden apparently said on the View
today he thinks he would have won.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Who is that for?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Boy the BBC interview the other day, he was incoherent,
And the fact that anybody would listen to that performance
and say, yep, let's plunge on with the media tour
is a measure of their depravity or stupid. I don't
know what they're doing, so it's difficult for me to
like criticize their strategy.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I can't imagine what their strategy is there. It explains
the whole bubbling thing. They're so bubbled nobody can talk
to them, apparently, because this is insane to go out
there and trot him out more. I've got a quote
here and we'll play some of it later. I did
not create a cocoon around Joe Biden. I mean, you
saw him in the old office, He saw him making speeches.
He wasn't hiding somewhere, says Joe Biden on the View, today. Oh,
(09:51):
that's not the way America interpreted it. We felt like
he was hiding because he obviously was. Here's a clip
from the bbcay Aga read it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Uh. He was asked if he regretted dropping out of
the race. No.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
No, we left it a time when we were we
had a good candidate, she was fully funded. What happened
was I had become what we had set out to
do no one thought we could do, had become so
successful in our agenda it was hard to say I'm
gonna stop now. It was the right decision. What right Jill.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Jill is the villain.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Eventually she's a delusional, crazy person.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Well, she's a doctor. Eventually history will record Jill is
the villain in this. We'll have some of that from
the view and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Don't mess with them unless you want to benefit.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, fair warning.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I think so a salesman ship here. Maybe we'll fall short.
But our executive producer, Hanson says, our life.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh no, no, no, I say don't over Brian, I
say build it up.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I say, low key it.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Okay, we got a good one for you, I think
coming up. But anyway, and it'll change your life. Joe
and Joe Biden on the view. Why is she trotting
him out? How do they think this is helping them
or anybody in any way whatsoever?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But anyway, this is from today.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Now.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
You are understandably very proud of many achievements in your administration.
But do you take any responsible for ready for responsibility
for not hearing the concerns of voters on the boarder
security or cost of living sooner? And do you take
any responsibility for Trump's re election?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I do, because look I was in charge and he won,
so you know, I take responsibility number one. But number two.
You know, you remember we put together a commission leading
with one of the most conservative members of the United
States Senate Oklahoma running it. When we came up with
a significant means by which we could deal with a border.
(12:04):
What did Trump do? He got on the telephone and
he called Republicans, do not support it. It's legal, it'll work,
it'll make Biden look good. Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And they backed off. They backed off. That's true, that
was legislation.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But Trump showed on day one that the president had
the power to stop the inflow of illegals in an
hour if he wanted to, and you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Didn't, and you're still free to work on legislation, right, Yeah, So, okay,
roll on.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
You are your husband's fiercest advocate and a close advisor,
and it's been reported that you created a sort of
cocoon around him and kind of limited his interactions with
the media and others. Do you think you could have
been too close to the situation to objectively gauge whether
he could handle a full.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Fime four years.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
I was with Joe day and night. I saw him
more than any other person. I went woke up with him,
I went to bed at night with him, So I
saw him all throughout the day.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
And I did not create.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
A cocoon around him. I mean, you saw him in
the Oval office, you saw him making speeches.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
He wasn't hiding somewhere.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
I didn't have him, you know, sequestered in some place.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I mean, that's what shitful to.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
You when they were describing you as Lady Macbeth.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Yeah, it was very hurtful. It was very hurtful, especially
from some of our so called friends.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Oh my god, how do they think they're helping themselves?
Eighty five percent of Americans thought you couldn't serve a
second term because they when they did see you, which
was rare, you displayed obvious cognitive problems. You did fewer
interviews than anybody ever has in the modern era.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I mean, you saw him giving speeches, you saw him
in the oval office.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That's like a childlike.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's the denial of a kid with his face covered
with chocolate saying he didn't eat the cookies.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yes, you just have all of these the hens on
the view Hm, oh yeah right yeah. Oh they called
you Lady Macbeth and it was hurtful. Oh, because you
related to keep it up, keep it up perfect. Yeah,
I find it. I only find it interesting from a
(14:24):
trying to figure out what they think they're trying to accomplish.
It's really got to be the two of them. There
cannot be a possible professional. I think this is a
good idea. No, it's it's delusional. It's egotism. It's it's
I've not been.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
A wash in power and influence and be have my
ass kissed for you know, better part of a century
like Joe Biden, and for a big chunk of it. Jill,
I don't know how that makes you as crazy as
they clearly are.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
But they clearly are that crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, it's hard to imagine going from being as relevant
as you can get President of the United States senator for
your whole life.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
We were told this clip is something to behold. Let's
hear it.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
They're all the the project, the benefits.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
How do you lead the world with having best instruction more?
How do you leave the world having been out of
the best health candle? How do you need to go
without having the best education?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Is more?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
How do you lead the world and you don't have
that done?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Woa?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Whoa, Okay, we're gonna have to obviously listen to this
more than once started started again, Michael.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
They're all the the project, the benefits.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
How do you lead the world with having best instruction more?
How do you leave the world having been out of
the best health careen role? How do you need to
go without having the best education?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Is more?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
How do you lead the world and you don't have
that done?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
He did? Hanson said, he did go full Elmer Fudd
there to the end? What is the okay?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You know that Barton swam piece of or a piece
of I was quoting earlier, said, look, they shouldn't be
dragging my grandmother out either she has dementia, Let her
play dominoes, smoke her Menthols, and if you ask her
what happened yesterday and she says, I have no idea, just.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Give her the dignity of age. Quit trotting them out.
It's sick.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
We all should hope to have a spouse that doesn't
do that to us when we're in that condition.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Be good to your meal ticket. You know what he
gave you that lifestyle, could quit quit embarrassing him.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
How is nobody of any power willing to call out
Jill Biden as evil?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Here hunter, spit out the crack pipe and say something
down your paint brush, it's funny your paintings aren't selling anymore,
and then say something, all right, I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No host on and it's gonna come out and say
Jill Biden shouldn't be allowing this. She's an evil person.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
More of that, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Wait the naming of a new pope, which is very exciting.
Like Joe said earlier, I could make up a name
for you if you want to, and you wouldn't know
the difference.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And Alex Baldwyk.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
With traditional ties or traditionalists with ties to reformers, or
a right gentle man with simple ways, or a simple
man with gentle ways.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Or I just I I'd like to be there.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I mean it looks like a happy, forward looking, optimistic vibe.
I mean, why not hoping for better times and you know,
peace on earth? What nothing wrong with being in that
kind of crowd now, and then as opposed for a hateful, sarcastic,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Whatever, narcissist.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
If if this guy can enhance the good that's done
by the Catholic Church and minimize some of the harms
and some of the scandals and problems, good for him. Man.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Those those outfits that the Vatican Guard wears, those are something.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Those are some old timey, colorful outfits. Yeah. The Swiss Guard,
is that what they call them? Something like?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, in they got those big axes they carry around
Harkin's back to win the Pope had tremendous military power,
like about as powerful as anything in Europe, which wasn't good.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's interesting the Swiss Guard, though, are actually Swiss and
they're paid with Swiss Franks. Because if you think of
big tough guys, of course you think of the Swiss.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Anyway, Well, you know, but he will go back on
the view. Yes, who they're gonna have to fight the Methodists,
I mean, you know, bring it.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
So we got another clip from Joe Biden and Joe
Biden on the View as they're coming out in drips
and drabs.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So Alisa Farah asks old man Joe whether about his
cognitive decline and whether the book sources of the many
books that have come out in recent days.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Were wrong about his condition.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
He says, yes, they're wrong, and then the conversation continues
as such.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
For you, so, we went to work and we got
it done. And you know, one of the things that
that well, I'm trying.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Well listen, you know, one of the things I think
is that the people who wrote those books were not
in the White House with us, and they didn't see
how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean he'd
get up, he put in a full day, and then
at night he would I'd be in bed, you know,
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reading my book, and he was still on the phone,
reading his briefings, working with staff. I mean, it was
non stop.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's and why isn't he's saying that having trailed off
and stared into space because he is and was mentally incapacitated.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yet not And the fact that he tried really hard
is not the question.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Wow, she is it that she's desperately trying to rescue
his legacy.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
His legacy is terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And if she thinks this is helping man, she is
not good at pr Yeah. I off with the halo
effect that happens when you disappear. You're better off with that.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
She keeps reappearing and reappearing and demanding no, no, no,
we should talk more about his presidency and his legacy.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
As I get she tries to save down the road
of dementia.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Right right, Yeah, speaking of Biden's legacy, the Taliban had
a good year last year. They took in three point
four billion dollars in revenue, boosting its cash supply significantly.
Among the return amid the return of Afghanistan is a
central safe haven for terrorists across the Middle East. According
to a US government watchdog group, the repercussions of the
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Biden administration's disastrous twenty one military withdrawal from Afghanistan continue
to reverbrate across the war torn country. You got multiple
al Qaida affiliates accessing American supplied weapons seized from the
former Afghan National Army. According to the Special Inspector General
for Afghan Reconstruction, US left seventy eight aircraft, forty thousand
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military vehicles, and over three hundred thousand weapons in Afghanistan
in the withdrawal that saw thirteen American service members lose
their lives. According to Cigar, which is the group, don't
be distracted by their acronym DA Da DA, which they
delivered to Congress on eighteenth. On April thirtieth, the report
that Taliban transferred many of these arms directly to terrorist affiliates,
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while others made their way to the black market. Pentagon
assists that are around eighteen point six billion dollars worth
of US equipment provided to the Afghan Army over decades
of support. About seven and a quarter billion remains in
the Taliban's possession. The rest is gone to terrorist groups,
isis K and other groups you've never heard of, including
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at least four Al Kayda offshoots.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, that was the beginning of the end of the
Biden presidency.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I mean he was cruising along at a decent clip
approval rating until that happened, and all the death there
at the gages we all know, and then his appropri
ratings plummeted as people realized grown ups are not back
in charge as they were claiming, and he never recovered,
and then his mental capacity became more evident and it
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continues to this day.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
For some reason.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Wow Trump administration initially attempted to preserve emergency food assistance
programs within the country, but the State Department ultimately froze
them in early April, citing Taliban interference in the delivery
of humanitarian aid. They nixed several other cash based assistance
programs given government misuse, lack of appropriate accountability, blah blah blah.
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This watchdog organization discovered last year that American aid partners
on the ground Afghanistan and paid the Taliban at least
eleven million dollars in various fees just to be able
to operate in the country and distribute food aid.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I ain't good.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
It's a scam, you know, an Islamist scam.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, my son.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Asked a question yesterday that forced me to come up
with an answer. And sometimes similar to what you're just
laying out here, it's complicated.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
My son is in a chapter on.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Islam in school and then we got to talking about
various countries, and then we got to talking about Iraq
and the Iraq War and my brother, his uncle uncle Jeff,
who fought in both Iraq wars, but him asking, you know,
why did we go to war with Iraq? And the
first one was fairly easy to explain. The second one
was not easy. You know, having lived through it and
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talked about it every single day for four hours you
know here on the air, it was still kind of
hard to explain to someone how that happened and how
it turned out.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
What we got out of it, and everything like that.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
I mean, yeah, it's a story worth hearing. The whole
Afghanistan Iraq thing during that whole period is complex, and
I don't know what we got out of it. We
spent a tremendous amount of money, not to mention obviously
many many injured and killed people. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
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what did we spend in Afghanistan before we got out
the way you just described trillion dollars or something like that.
Paved all the roads which were all completely ruined by
the time we got out, built all the schools, works are.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
All blown up or torn down by the time we left.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, Yeah, tens of millions of dollars meant to empower
Afghan youth, particularly girls and young women. Now the italipandans
them from schools and that sort of thing. Ah, nice, try,
nice try. Yeah, the nature of I mean, because I'd
be more than happy to talk about why we went
into Rock and what happened and blah blah blah, and
(25:03):
how Afghanistan is similar in how it's different. But you
create problems as you solve problems, and if you can
solve those problems without creating bigger problems, it's for us doing.
(25:23):
But if you just keep creating more bigger problems, at
some point you have to find another way. I realized
that was a completely unsatisfying That was more like a
fortune cookie than an analysis of our Middle Eastern inventions.
Well it adventures rather, But I think you know what
I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
While the beginning was very different, the result, I mean,
at some point they were very similar in that we're
trying to build a completely different kind of country in
a country that didn't want us to be there at all. Yeah,
that's apparently impossible to do, yes, unless you're gonna say
(26:04):
that for one hundred years and spend more trillions of
dollars than you have, maybe like.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Four hundred years. But anyway, your point is one hundred
percent true. Yeah, the whacking of the Taliban for harboring
and supporting Osama bin laden al Qaeda completely legitimate, as
we all know. So now you have a ungoverned, lawless
land full of would be militant Islamists.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
What do you do now?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
We attempted to answer that question best we could, but
it just the what now has never stopped.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
So the new Pope's about to come out, and they're
going to give us the name, wouldn't it be?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Some of it was Brandon. I think we're ready for
a pope.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Brandon, like just an American you mean, or just a
more new, more modern name.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Mmmm. We've never had a Sean.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
No, and Irish they are into Catholicism, so you could
have a pope Shawn.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Sure, No, we will have a name probably by the
time we get back.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Or not.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Well, we'll finish strong stake. Can you make it up
if you want to want?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You know, I like history, and I like Western civilization,
Western civilization being the best thing that ever happened to
planet Earth. Clearly, it'd be nice if we can hang
on to it. But one of the biggest things in
Western civilization has been the Catholic Church, no doubt about it.
There are a billion and a half Catholics still and
we're about to get a new pope. What effect that'll
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have down on that, I do not know. But I
was listening to the National Review podcast a week or
so ago. I know I mentioned this earlier, that they
all agreed that the Catholic Church is the most important
institution in Western civilization currently currently, and they didn't expound
on that. I wish they would have, because I'd like
(28:03):
to hear that line laid out. Certainly throughout time, you
can make that argument, but the power it still has
I don't. I don't quite fully understand. I suppose, I
suppose you could.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Argue this isn't Western civilization exactly, but it's one of
the few forces that's keeping people.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Millions and millions and millions of people.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Around the world from embracing say, radical fundamentalist Islam right,
or nihilism, or violent revolution or what have you.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
It's a it's at least a system of ethics and rules,
which turns out you might need. We've kind of been
fooling ourselves into believing over the last half century or
longer that you don't need that. Yeah, yeah, Pope Brandon.
Pope Brandon will get us back on the right track.
(29:01):
If it comes out and it's a chick, it'll be shocking.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Now, that would be a headline worth reading. Yes, it's
not gonna be. It's gonna be some old bastard because
they want I didn't realize that they want somebody seventy
plus because they think pope serving for too long is
a bad idea. Probably they want old guys. Yeah, that's
probably true. There is, Yes, Yes, Michael, it's like us presidents.
You got to be at least seventy five. What if
(29:27):
they had a Trump look alike walk out? Just wow,
just as a job, just as a job. Psych Yeah,
got you? You fell forward, didn't you? Then you have
the real guy?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Come on. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
The youngest cardinal I think I saw yesterday was forty five. Yeah,
you have a forty five year old pope. He could
be Pope for forty years and human beings being what
human beings are and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's no good.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, have somebody worshiped as some sort of well, you know,
it's in the eye of the beholder. And I am
not contemptuous with Catholicism in any way, but neither of mine.
There are aspects of the pope thing that is, he's
like a demi god. I mean, he's like he's in
the step below a God. Yeah, are you infallible?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'm not. No, I've found many times already today and
the day's young.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
What's the opposite fallible blind pig who finds an acorn able? Anyway,
But she said you had something you wanted to address.
Do you have something you'd like to address? I want
to address getting to see my doctor today. See if
I'm dying, it's hard for me to think of anything
of than that you talking about.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
GI.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I'm convinced that this is somehow COVID related.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't think I or you or anybody who's imagining
an explosion of weird variance of respiratory illnesses being way
bigger a thing now than they were in the year
twenty nineteen. No, I don't think that's at all. The
quademic or whatever it was there and just the RSV,
(31:03):
you know, just.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I have my first ever in my life month plus
long respiratory illness post COVID. Either there are new diseases
floating around because of COVID, or our bodies got damaged
in some sort of way. We're reacting differently to other diseases.
I don't know which, but I would be shocked if
it's not somehow COVID related.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I've got a doctor buddy who who said essentially the
same thing. He said, we're still trying to nail down
exactly what's going on, but the human respiratory system and
the things that we're breathing in what it does to
us is different.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Now and we're not sure why. Whoa god? They could
be studying this for decades.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I got a nice little lab in Wuhan they could use.
They got decent enough safety protocols.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Man oh Man, oh Man, Well the price ever be
paid for this whole damn thing.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
There's a great book about people. I want to do
a big podcast about it. I just I won't let
it go. I don't think we should let it go.
I think it would be just a dereliction of duty,
whatever our duty is as human beings and Americans, honestly,
to just say, you know, that was unpleasant and move on.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
That's that's just the worst thing you could do. And
doctor Fouchi's still what he's just still he's still a successful,
rich guy.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah, he's pardoned preemptively.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
That's right, Biden pardoned him going out the door. I
completely forgot about that. Yeah, oh that makes me angry
as I cough.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Read. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Let's get a final thoughts from everybody on the trew
to wrap up the show for the day.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
There he is pressing the buttons in the control room. Michaelangelo.
Michael final thought. Yeah, we need a little happy this here.
The world made change. It gets worse the Pope changes.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
But Costco's hot dog always says a dollar fifty, So
keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That's something you can count on in these troubled times.
Katie Green, or a Steam newswoman, has a final thought.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Katie.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Well, Unfortunately, according to Kanye's Twitter, Kyle Hitler has been
banned by all digital streaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
It's censorship. Jackie final thought. You're a whiskey drinker, correct?
Speaker 7 (33:29):
I am?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Indeed, Yeah, I had some Scotts last night.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
The very first bottle of whiskey matured in a cask
has been submerged in locked ness, and they've brought it
up and they're going to suck.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I think you should bid. How about you drink some
first and let me watch.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
My final thought, I've changed it on the fly.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Health's officials lied with the band in fifteen days to
slow the spread was a lie. Doctor Deborah Burks admitted
it in her memoirs. She intended to prolong the lockdown.
COVID originated in nature was a lie. Ifout you bullied
a handful of scientists into offering that notchious. The article dishonest.
Six feet of social distance was a lie.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
It was a guess.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
The vaccines prevent infection and transmission was a lie, as
became apparent to those of us who were vaccinated and
suffered recurrent bounts of the disease.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
On and on and on it goes. No, I will
not let it drop Armstrong in Getty. You're having up
another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
So many people, thanks so little time ago to Armstrong
in giddy dot com, drop us a note.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
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Speaker 1 (34:31):
Drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong in giddy
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Speaker 4 (34:36):
He in g swag, pick up a T shirt. We
will see you tomorrow with a brand new pope. God
bless America. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
We're in fear territory right now.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
How do you need the world have been out? I'm
in the best healthcare in Rane.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Say one way, sweetheart, sweetheart, listen to please. They need
to tone it down. Let me say, Let me say
one thing. I don't believe we import our TP from China.
You know what depends your brand? Applied by doctor? She's
booty wipe. What what is your brandow chairman? Sheese clean bottom?
Thank you, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and he arm Strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
An eerie silence here that's not necessarily indicative of a
sea change.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We've heard from military.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Sources they saw a slight downtick in Russian artillery use,
but still in a small window. Four or five artillery
piece is firing, a big amount of Russian surveillance drones
in the sky, and even recently a Russian jet taking off,
so not an immediate sign of the guns falling silent.
There's great cynicism here amongst Ukrainian forces. They saw the
brief easter cease fire that Russia also called unilaterally as
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essentially a time the Russia seemed to reposition its troops
and then launched greater assaults in the hours afterwards, using
the lulls the tactical advantage.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So that's Putin's got his big.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
May celebration about Russia winning World War Two as he
presents it, and the big thing they do every year
in Russia and Ukraine had been attacking Moscow like crazy
with drones, so they had to close down the airports,
I mean, causing all kinds of disruptions as Putin was
trying to get the big celebration together. And I'm big
(01:28):
into this story as a lot of you know. I've
been listening to the Ukraine the Latest. It's the London
Telegraph podcast. They have a daily on the Ukraine story
that is freaking awesome. If you're into the story, it
is so good. But anyway, they were pointing out that
she coming to town in Moscow is a bit of
(01:49):
a using a human shield to protect for Putin to
be able to protect these May Day celebrations or they
think Ukraine would have attacked them and really disrupt that
have been caused a great embarrassment to Putin. But Putin
having president she in town Ukraine's not gonna dam you know,
hurt she or causing problems there.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That would be well, I'd be insane.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, speaking of that topic before we move on, I
came across this and I found it very very interesting.
Barton swain Rod it wrote it about what Trump fails
to understand about Putin. We've talked about this a little bit,
how Putin could not care less that too many people
are dying in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I mean, it's just he does not care at all.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And I found this very interesting because I knew part
of this, kind of the broad outlines of it. But
as Gary Saal Morrison explained in a superb twenty twenty
three essay, do Russians worship? War Putin fully embraces the
centuries old myth of Russia as the victim of betrayal
and exploitation. And he goes through some of the history
of it, and it's literally centuries old that the myth,
(02:58):
the Russian myth is not myth is in fiction. But
this is one of the stories we tell ourselves that
helps us understand what our civilization is, like the American
myths of the revolution and opportunity and equal rights and stuff. Again,
it's not myth is in fiction, it's in These are
the stories that bind us together. But oh my god,
(03:21):
I hate to break in, but breaking news. I know
all of America is waiting white smoke. Maybe the cardinals
are vaping. Turns out the cardinals are just vaping.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Look at the people. Maybe it's that meth smoking raccoon.
Look at the people jumping up and down and crying.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, in Vatican Square because there's a new pope all right,
anyway name it will tell.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You and and folks soon we won't have to hear
anything more about it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That's a good point. There you go, God bless us all.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So anyway, getting back to this twenty twenty three essay
about the history of Russia and how Russia must always
fight foes bent on stealing its wealth destroying his people.
May Night, the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Soviets
nineteen forty five, is for Russians the most important holiday
of the year, consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church mister
Morrison Wright. They sense their kinship with the mystical body
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of the people, passed and present. War in Russia, he explains,
is a kind of civic sacrament. Newly weds frequently placed
flowers on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow,
and criticizing the military is often considered blasphemous. In American
war movies, the true heroes, or most of them, survive,
most of them.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
By contrast, countless.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Russian war movies and novels feature as much death as possible.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
The story is not.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Complete if anyone beside the one reporting the events survives
the more death, the greater the heroism.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
An interesting cultural difference.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And you know, a Bart and Swayin posits that mister
Trump's lamentations about all the killing in destruction Ukraine will
likely have the opposite of the intended effect on mister Putin.
That at any rate, is a reasonable conclusion from mister
Putin's latest pronouncement that any agreement to end the war
must include Russian control of four territories that they don't
currently fully controlled Denette's, Kersson, Luhansk and Zaphyarisia.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But yeah, the whole there are too many people dying.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's it's like telling me there's too much golf, too
many gen and tonics. It's like, what do you I
don't even we're not communicating here. Putin doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well this daily podcast that I listened to out of
Great Britain, they're heavily pro Ukraine, as Europe is, and
so they have every reason to look for good news.
But they're convinced that Russia is really close to collapse
in terms of their military that they're just flat. I mean,
there's a there is a finite limit to equipment and people,
(06:08):
it's not unlimited and they have lost a million people
from the battlefield. I mean numbers nobody's ever heard of
in the history of the world of warfare in that
amount of time, and that they may be close to
like actually collapsing. And perhaps Trump is you know, aware
of that, NATO's aware of that, and we just know
(06:29):
that's what we're waiting for. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Again, now they signed whatever on holy deal with North
Korea to import cannon fodder as a luxury. I think
they did it because they really kind of needed to.
I would guess that, and I feel pretty good about
my guests. Oh, speaking of Russia, one more thing, the
British government is updating the Cold War era Government War Book,
(06:53):
a detailed plan for dealing with an attack on the
nation by a foreign power, specifically Russia, to be connectic
attacks and cyber attacks too, which is obviously a new wrinkle.
But they are going to revise it and put it
out and publicize it and train officials on it. They
are at a pre war footing, but a we can't
(07:14):
have this catch us flat footed point, as is a
lot of Europe right now.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think a lot of Americans.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Consider the question of the spread of warfare to be
a purely rhetorical question, right, yeah, whereas in Europe, no,
they are seriously concerned about it.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
So white smoke above the Vatican. They got a new pope,
if I remember correctly, pretty quickly, the new Pope comes
out on the balcony and speaks, which is sometimes a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Always thank his agent, Thanks Harvey Weinstein, and and then
everybody at Merrimax they start playing five hundred year old
music to play him off.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Your time is up. I remember John Paul the Second
when he came out fear not. The crowd went crazy.
But if anything happens around that will bring it to you.
Another ancient Catholic speaking today, we're just starting to get
clips from Joe Biden. So Joe and Joe Biden are
(08:13):
on the View today. It hasn't aired yet, we're getting
some clips. I was just reading some of the headlines
of things he said, who clearly nobody has any control
over him, and Jill must be making these incredibly unwise
decisions to put him on television. As Joe said last hour,
it's doing him zero good, only harm and the entire
(08:37):
Democratic Party and really any person of left politics. It's
hurting everyone there's no advantage to be had by him
going on the View and claiming, like I just read
up there that of course Trump won. He had built
an image of we can't elect a biracial woman or something.
(08:59):
That's his excuse, And Biden apparently said on the View
today he thinks he would have won.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Who is that for?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Boy the BBC interview the other day, he was incoherent,
And the fact that anybody would listen to that performance
and say, yep, let's plunge on with the media tour
is a measure of their depravity or stupid. I don't
know what they're doing, so it's difficult for me to
like criticize their strategy.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
I can't imagine what their strategy is there. It explains
the whole bubbling thing. They're so bubbled nobody can talk
to them, apparently, because this is insane to go out
there and trot him out more. I've got a quote
here and we'll play some of it later. I did
not create a cocoon around Joe Biden. I mean, you
saw him in the old office, He saw him making speeches.
He wasn't hiding somewhere, says Joe Biden on the View, today. Oh,
(09:51):
that's not the way America interpreted it. We felt like
he was hiding because he obviously was. Here's a clip
from the bbcay Aga read it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Uh. He was asked if he regretted dropping out of
the race. No.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
No, we left it a time when we were we
had a good candidate, she was fully funded. What happened
was I had become what we had set out to
do no one thought we could do, had become so
successful in our agenda it was hard to say I'm
gonna stop now. It was the right decision. What right Jill.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Jill is the villain.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Eventually she's a delusional, crazy person.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Well, she's a doctor. Eventually history will record Jill is
the villain in this. We'll have some of that from
the view and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Don't mess with them unless you want to benefit.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, fair warning.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I think so a salesman ship here. Maybe we'll fall short.
But our executive producer, Hanson says, our life.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh no, no, no, I say don't over Brian, I
say build it up.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I say, low key it.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Okay, we got a good one for you, I think
coming up. But anyway, and it'll change your life. Joe
and Joe Biden on the view. Why is she trotting
him out? How do they think this is helping them
or anybody in any way whatsoever?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But anyway, this is from today.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Now.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
You are understandably very proud of many achievements in your administration.
But do you take any responsible for ready for responsibility
for not hearing the concerns of voters on the boarder
security or cost of living sooner? And do you take
any responsibility for Trump's re election?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I do, because look I was in charge and he won,
so you know, I take responsibility number one. But number two.
You know, you remember we put together a commission leading
with one of the most conservative members of the United
States Senate Oklahoma running it. When we came up with
a significant means by which we could deal with a border.
(12:04):
What did Trump do? He got on the telephone and
he called Republicans, do not support it. It's legal, it'll work,
it'll make Biden look good. Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
And they backed off. They backed off. That's true, that
was legislation.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But Trump showed on day one that the president had
the power to stop the inflow of illegals in an
hour if he wanted to, and you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Didn't, and you're still free to work on legislation, right, Yeah, So, okay,
roll on.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
You are your husband's fiercest advocate and a close advisor,
and it's been reported that you created a sort of
cocoon around him and kind of limited his interactions with
the media and others. Do you think you could have
been too close to the situation to objectively gauge whether
he could handle a full.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Fime four years.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
I was with Joe day and night. I saw him
more than any other person. I went woke up with him,
I went to bed at night with him, So I
saw him all throughout the day.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
And I did not create.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
A cocoon around him. I mean, you saw him in
the Oval office, you saw him making speeches.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
He wasn't hiding somewhere.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
I didn't have him, you know, sequestered in some place.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I mean, that's what shitful to.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
You when they were describing you as Lady Macbeth.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Yeah, it was very hurtful. It was very hurtful, especially
from some of our so called friends.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Oh my god, how do they think they're helping themselves?
Eighty five percent of Americans thought you couldn't serve a
second term because they when they did see you, which
was rare, you displayed obvious cognitive problems. You did fewer
interviews than anybody ever has in the modern era.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I mean, you saw him giving speeches, you saw him
in the oval office.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That's like a childlike.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's the denial of a kid with his face covered
with chocolate saying he didn't eat the cookies.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yes, you just have all of these the hens on
the view Hm, oh yeah right yeah. Oh they called
you Lady Macbeth and it was hurtful. Oh, because you
related to keep it up, keep it up perfect. Yeah,
I find it. I only find it interesting from a
(14:24):
trying to figure out what they think they're trying to accomplish.
It's really got to be the two of them. There
cannot be a possible professional. I think this is a
good idea. No, it's it's delusional. It's egotism. It's it's
I've not been.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
A wash in power and influence and be have my
ass kissed for you know, better part of a century
like Joe Biden, and for a big chunk of it. Jill,
I don't know how that makes you as crazy as
they clearly are.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
But they clearly are that crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, it's hard to imagine going from being as relevant
as you can get President of the United States senator for
your whole life.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
We were told this clip is something to behold. Let's
hear it.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
They're all the the project, the benefits.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
How do you lead the world with having best instruction more?
How do you leave the world having been out of
the best health candle? How do you need to go
without having the best education?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Is more?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
How do you lead the world and you don't have
that done?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Woa?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Whoa, Okay, we're gonna have to obviously listen to this
more than once started started again, Michael.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
They're all the the project, the benefits.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
How do you lead the world with having best instruction more?
How do you leave the world having been out of
the best health careen role? How do you need to
go without having the best education?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Is more?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
How do you lead the world and you don't have
that done?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
He did? Hanson said, he did go full Elmer Fudd
there to the end? What is the okay?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
You know that Barton swam piece of or a piece
of I was quoting earlier, said, look, they shouldn't be
dragging my grandmother out either she has dementia, Let her
play dominoes, smoke her Menthols, and if you ask her
what happened yesterday and she says, I have no idea, just.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Give her the dignity of age. Quit trotting them out.
It's sick.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
We all should hope to have a spouse that doesn't
do that to us when we're in that condition.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Be good to your meal ticket. You know what he
gave you that lifestyle, could quit quit embarrassing him.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
How is nobody of any power willing to call out
Jill Biden as evil?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Here hunter, spit out the crack pipe and say something
down your paint brush, it's funny your paintings aren't selling anymore,
and then say something, all right, I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
No host on and it's gonna come out and say
Jill Biden shouldn't be allowing this. She's an evil person.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
More of that, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Wait the naming of a new pope, which is very exciting.
Like Joe said earlier, I could make up a name
for you if you want to, and you wouldn't know
the difference.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And Alex Baldwyk.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
With traditional ties or traditionalists with ties to reformers, or
a right gentle man with simple ways, or a simple
man with gentle ways.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Or I just I I'd like to be there.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I mean it looks like a happy, forward looking, optimistic vibe.
I mean, why not hoping for better times and you know,
peace on earth? What nothing wrong with being in that
kind of crowd now, and then as opposed for a hateful, sarcastic,
you know.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Whatever, narcissist.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
If if this guy can enhance the good that's done
by the Catholic Church and minimize some of the harms
and some of the scandals and problems, good for him. Man.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Those those outfits that the Vatican Guard wears, those are something.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Those are some old timey, colorful outfits. Yeah. The Swiss Guard,
is that what they call them? Something like?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, in they got those big axes they carry around
Harkin's back to win the Pope had tremendous military power,
like about as powerful as anything in Europe, which wasn't good.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's interesting the Swiss Guard, though, are actually Swiss and
they're paid with Swiss Franks. Because if you think of
big tough guys, of course you think of the Swiss.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Anyway, Well, you know, but he will go back on
the view. Yes, who they're gonna have to fight the Methodists,
I mean, you know, bring it.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
So we got another clip from Joe Biden and Joe
Biden on the View as they're coming out in drips
and drabs.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So Alisa Farah asks old man Joe whether about his
cognitive decline and whether the book sources of the many
books that have come out in recent days.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Were wrong about his condition.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
He says, yes, they're wrong, and then the conversation continues
as such.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
For you, so, we went to work and we got
it done. And you know, one of the things that
that well, I'm trying.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Well listen, you know, one of the things I think
is that the people who wrote those books were not
in the White House with us, and they didn't see
how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean he'd
get up, he put in a full day, and then
at night he would I'd be in bed, you know,
(19:36):
reading my book, and he was still on the phone,
reading his briefings, working with staff. I mean, it was
non stop.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's and why isn't he's saying that having trailed off
and stared into space because he is and was mentally incapacitated.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yet not And the fact that he tried really hard
is not the question.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Wow, she is it that she's desperately trying to rescue
his legacy.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
His legacy is terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And if she thinks this is helping man, she is
not good at pr Yeah. I off with the halo
effect that happens when you disappear. You're better off with that.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
She keeps reappearing and reappearing and demanding no, no, no,
we should talk more about his presidency and his legacy.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
As I get she tries to save down the road
of dementia.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Right right, Yeah, speaking of Biden's legacy, the Taliban had
a good year last year. They took in three point
four billion dollars in revenue, boosting its cash supply significantly.
Among the return amid the return of Afghanistan is a
central safe haven for terrorists across the Middle East. According
to a US government watchdog group, the repercussions of the
(20:57):
Biden administration's disastrous twenty one military withdrawal from Afghanistan continue
to reverbrate across the war torn country. You got multiple
al Qaida affiliates accessing American supplied weapons seized from the
former Afghan National Army. According to the Special Inspector General
for Afghan Reconstruction, US left seventy eight aircraft, forty thousand
(21:20):
military vehicles, and over three hundred thousand weapons in Afghanistan
in the withdrawal that saw thirteen American service members lose
their lives. According to Cigar, which is the group, don't
be distracted by their acronym DA Da DA, which they
delivered to Congress on eighteenth. On April thirtieth, the report
that Taliban transferred many of these arms directly to terrorist affiliates,
(21:42):
while others made their way to the black market. Pentagon
assists that are around eighteen point six billion dollars worth
of US equipment provided to the Afghan Army over decades
of support. About seven and a quarter billion remains in
the Taliban's possession. The rest is gone to terrorist groups,
isis K and other groups you've never heard of, including
(22:03):
at least four Al Kayda offshoots.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well, that was the beginning of the end of the
Biden presidency.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I mean he was cruising along at a decent clip
approval rating until that happened, and all the death there
at the gages we all know, and then his appropri
ratings plummeted as people realized grown ups are not back
in charge as they were claiming, and he never recovered,
and then his mental capacity became more evident and it
(22:31):
continues to this day.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
For some reason.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Wow Trump administration initially attempted to preserve emergency food assistance
programs within the country, but the State Department ultimately froze
them in early April, citing Taliban interference in the delivery
of humanitarian aid. They nixed several other cash based assistance
programs given government misuse, lack of appropriate accountability, blah blah blah.
(22:55):
This watchdog organization discovered last year that American aid partners
on the ground Afghanistan and paid the Taliban at least
eleven million dollars in various fees just to be able
to operate in the country and distribute food aid.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I ain't good.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
It's a scam, you know, an Islamist scam.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, my son.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Asked a question yesterday that forced me to come up
with an answer. And sometimes similar to what you're just
laying out here, it's complicated.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
My son is in a chapter on.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Islam in school and then we got to talking about
various countries, and then we got to talking about Iraq
and the Iraq War and my brother, his uncle uncle Jeff,
who fought in both Iraq wars, but him asking, you know,
why did we go to war with Iraq? And the
first one was fairly easy to explain. The second one
was not easy. You know, having lived through it and
(23:52):
talked about it every single day for four hours you
know here on the air, it was still kind of
hard to explain to someone how that happened and how
it turned out.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
What we got out of it, and everything like that.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
I mean, yeah, it's a story worth hearing. The whole
Afghanistan Iraq thing during that whole period is complex, and
I don't know what we got out of it. We
spent a tremendous amount of money, not to mention obviously
many many injured and killed people. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
(24:26):
what did we spend in Afghanistan before we got out
the way you just described trillion dollars or something like that.
Paved all the roads which were all completely ruined by
the time we got out, built all the schools, works are.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
All blown up or torn down by the time we left.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, Yeah, tens of millions of dollars meant to empower
Afghan youth, particularly girls and young women. Now the italipandans
them from schools and that sort of thing. Ah, nice, try,
nice try. Yeah, the nature of I mean, because I'd
be more than happy to talk about why we went
into Rock and what happened and blah blah blah, and
(25:03):
how Afghanistan is similar in how it's different. But you
create problems as you solve problems, and if you can
solve those problems without creating bigger problems, it's for us doing.
(25:23):
But if you just keep creating more bigger problems, at
some point you have to find another way. I realized
that was a completely unsatisfying That was more like a
fortune cookie than an analysis of our Middle Eastern inventions.
Well it adventures rather, But I think you know what
I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
While the beginning was very different, the result, I mean,
at some point they were very similar in that we're
trying to build a completely different kind of country in
a country that didn't want us to be there at all. Yeah,
that's apparently impossible to do, yes, unless you're gonna say
(26:04):
that for one hundred years and spend more trillions of
dollars than you have, maybe like.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Four hundred years. But anyway, your point is one hundred
percent true. Yeah, the whacking of the Taliban for harboring
and supporting Osama bin laden al Qaeda completely legitimate, as
we all know. So now you have a ungoverned, lawless
land full of would be militant Islamists.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
What do you do now?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
We attempted to answer that question best we could, but
it just the what now has never stopped.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
So the new Pope's about to come out, and they're
going to give us the name, wouldn't it be?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Some of it was Brandon. I think we're ready for
a pope.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Brandon, like just an American you mean, or just a
more new, more modern name.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Mmmm. We've never had a Sean.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
No, and Irish they are into Catholicism, so you could
have a pope Shawn.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Sure, No, we will have a name probably by the
time we get back.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Or not.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Well, we'll finish strong stake. Can you make it up
if you want to want?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You know, I like history, and I like Western civilization,
Western civilization being the best thing that ever happened to
planet Earth. Clearly, it'd be nice if we can hang
on to it. But one of the biggest things in
Western civilization has been the Catholic Church, no doubt about it.
There are a billion and a half Catholics still and
we're about to get a new pope. What effect that'll
(27:41):
have down on that, I do not know. But I
was listening to the National Review podcast a week or
so ago. I know I mentioned this earlier, that they
all agreed that the Catholic Church is the most important
institution in Western civilization currently currently, and they didn't expound
on that. I wish they would have, because I'd like
(28:03):
to hear that line laid out. Certainly throughout time, you
can make that argument, but the power it still has
I don't. I don't quite fully understand. I suppose, I
suppose you could.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Argue this isn't Western civilization exactly, but it's one of
the few forces that's keeping people.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Millions and millions and millions of people.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Around the world from embracing say, radical fundamentalist Islam right,
or nihilism, or violent revolution or what have you.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
It's a it's at least a system of ethics and rules,
which turns out you might need. We've kind of been
fooling ourselves into believing over the last half century or
longer that you don't need that. Yeah, yeah, Pope Brandon.
Pope Brandon will get us back on the right track.
(29:01):
If it comes out and it's a chick, it'll be shocking.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Now, that would be a headline worth reading. Yes, it's
not gonna be. It's gonna be some old bastard because
they want I didn't realize that they want somebody seventy
plus because they think pope serving for too long is
a bad idea. Probably they want old guys. Yeah, that's
probably true. There is, Yes, Yes, Michael, it's like us presidents.
You got to be at least seventy five. What if
(29:27):
they had a Trump look alike walk out? Just wow,
just as a job, just as a job. Psych Yeah,
got you? You fell forward, didn't you? Then you have
the real guy?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Come on. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
The youngest cardinal I think I saw yesterday was forty five. Yeah,
you have a forty five year old pope. He could
be Pope for forty years and human beings being what
human beings are and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's no good.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, have somebody worshiped as some sort of well, you know,
it's in the eye of the beholder. And I am
not contemptuous with Catholicism in any way, but neither of mine.
There are aspects of the pope thing that is, he's
like a demi god. I mean, he's like he's in
the step below a God. Yeah, are you infallible?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'm not. No, I've found many times already today and
the day's young.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
What's the opposite fallible blind pig who finds an acorn able? Anyway,
But she said you had something you wanted to address.
Do you have something you'd like to address? I want
to address getting to see my doctor today. See if
I'm dying, it's hard for me to think of anything
of than that you talking about.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
GI.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I'm convinced that this is somehow COVID related.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't think I or you or anybody who's imagining
an explosion of weird variance of respiratory illnesses being way
bigger a thing now than they were in the year
twenty nineteen. No, I don't think that's at all. The
quademic or whatever it was there and just the RSV,
(31:03):
you know, just.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I have my first ever in my life month plus
long respiratory illness post COVID. Either there are new diseases
floating around because of COVID, or our bodies got damaged
in some sort of way. We're reacting differently to other diseases.
I don't know which, but I would be shocked if
it's not somehow COVID related.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I've got a doctor buddy who who said essentially the
same thing. He said, we're still trying to nail down
exactly what's going on, but the human respiratory system and
the things that we're breathing in what it does to
us is different.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Now and we're not sure why. Whoa god? They could
be studying this for decades.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I got a nice little lab in Wuhan they could use.
They got decent enough safety protocols.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Man oh Man, oh Man, Well the price ever be
paid for this whole damn thing.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
There's a great book about people. I want to do
a big podcast about it. I just I won't let
it go. I don't think we should let it go.
I think it would be just a dereliction of duty,
whatever our duty is as human beings and Americans, honestly,
to just say, you know, that was unpleasant and move on.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
That's that's just the worst thing you could do. And
doctor Fouchi's still what he's just still he's still a successful,
rich guy.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Yeah, he's pardoned preemptively.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
That's right, Biden pardoned him going out the door. I
completely forgot about that. Yeah, oh that makes me angry
as I cough.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Read. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Let's get a final thoughts from everybody on the trew
to wrap up the show for the day.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
There he is pressing the buttons in the control room. Michaelangelo.
Michael final thought. Yeah, we need a little happy this here.
The world made change. It gets worse the Pope changes.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
But Costco's hot dog always says a dollar fifty, So
keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That's something you can count on in these troubled times.
Katie Green, or a Steam newswoman, has a final thought.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Katie.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Well, Unfortunately, according to Kanye's Twitter, Kyle Hitler has been
banned by all digital streaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
It's censorship. Jackie final thought. You're a whiskey drinker, correct?
Speaker 7 (33:29):
I am?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Indeed, Yeah, I had some Scotts last night.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
The very first bottle of whiskey matured in a cask
has been submerged in locked ness, and they've brought it
up and they're going to suck.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I think you should bid. How about you drink some
first and let me watch.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
My final thought, I've changed it on the fly.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Health's officials lied with the band in fifteen days to
slow the spread was a lie. Doctor Deborah Burks admitted
it in her memoirs. She intended to prolong the lockdown.
COVID originated in nature was a lie. Ifout you bullied
a handful of scientists into offering that notchious. The article dishonest.
Six feet of social distance was a lie.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
It was a guess.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
The vaccines prevent infection and transmission was a lie, as
became apparent to those of us who were vaccinated and
suffered recurrent bounts of the disease.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
On and on and on it goes. No, I will
not let it drop Armstrong in Getty. You're having up
another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
So many people, thanks so little time ago to Armstrong
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Speaker 1 (34:31):
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Speaker 4 (34:36):
He in g swag, pick up a T shirt. We
will see you tomorrow with a brand new pope. God
bless America. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
We're in fear territory right now.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
How do you need the world have been out? I'm
in the best healthcare in Rane.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Say one way, sweetheart, sweetheart, listen to please. They need
to tone it down. Let me say, Let me say
one thing. I don't believe we import our TP from China.
You know what depends your brand? Applied by doctor? She's
booty wipe. What what is your brandow chairman? Sheese clean bottom?
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