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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong live from Studio C, Senor, a dimly lit room deep.
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Joe Getty
Within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound here on Wednesday. And today we're under the tutelage of.
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Jack Armstrong
Our general manager, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Joe Getty
Yep. The confirmation hearing will be running while we're on the air, and we'll have highlights. It's almost guaranteed to be. I was about to say to have fireworks, but I hate to say that that's. That's. It's just there's too much emphasis on wanting fireworks, on reporting fireworks, and so little emphasis on learning things, which is very frustrating.
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Jack Armstrong
Sure, yeah, I see your point. Yeah, it's all about the. The people yelling at each other video. If they spent six hours carefully and painstakingly discussing vaccines and public health and processed foods and 100 different other things, then when it came time to break for lunch, one guy wanted burgers, the other wanted pizza, and they started yelling at each other. That's the video you would see on the news. And then the hearing. Get hot.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
We had burgers yesterday. What? I didn't. I want pizza.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
It's just stupid.
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Joe Getty
So RFK Jr hearing. I do not have a strong position on a lot of these issues, as they are so freaking complicated. And then you add in politics and money and then try to figure out what's true and what's not. It's really, really difficult. But I do know this. Practically everybody in the country seems like they got a kid who's got something wrong with him that didn't exist decades ago. How many times have we said on this show, how is this not the biggest story in America?
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
And RFK Jr spends a lot of time talking about it. Whether he's right about any of that stuff, I haven't got the slightest idea. I would say this. It matters more to me than anything else in my life. I spent the entire day yesterday, like, I've spent many of my entire days over the last 13 years dealing with this situation with one child. Psychiatrists. Start this medicine. Stop that medicine. Do I call the police right now?
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Jack Armstrong
What.
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Joe Getty
How do I handle this whole situation? It's all because of something that my kid doesn't deserve that happened to him because of the environment or something that happens with vaccines around. Who freaking knows? I have no idea. But I know a lot of you are in the same boat, and I would love to be able to figure this out, love to be able to figure this out. It's the most challenging thing that's ever happened in my life. It'll be the most challenging thing in my son's life, the rest of his life. And I'd love it if we could have serious conversations about these things. But can we. Is it possible to get it beyond what is Trump for? Is he for it, then I'm for it. Is he for it, then I'm against it. Can we get past that or not? If we can't get past that, then I guess we're all just doomed to try to figure this all out on our own.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Getting back more specifically to RFK Jr. I think you could teach a college class, maybe two of them, back to back an entire year on his nomination and the controversies around it. Because there are, I mean there's the scientific part of it certainly the question of, you know what, how to approach scientific studies and meta studies and that sort of thing. Correlation and causation could be a few cases, a few classes and then you could get into a situation where somebody, and I'm glad that Senate's in charge of getting to the bottom of this and not me, but somebody says a whole lot of things that true and a whole lot of the people that are attacking him are greed heads and liars and he's a greed head and a crackpot and says things that aren't true for attention and money. All of those things can simultaneously be true. And that's why this is so interesting to me and, and troubling and confusing and you know, I have no idea, no, no desire rather to, to offend anybody who thinks that Bobby Kennedy would be a real for given some of his stances. Because I get that. I actually get it. I'm just troubled by the guy and a lot of the things he believes.
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Joe Getty
I am back to the general, back away from RFK Jr. To the general question of so he says on a regular basis we have the sickest kids in the world. Is that documentable? Is that true? I know we've got more anxiety and depression and suicide than we've ever had. Do we have more than other Western nations? I don't look into this stuff. Maybe I should because I'm so busy dealing with my own individual situation. I don't really have time to look into the, the meta problem and compare it to, you know, Norway, because I'm.
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Jack Armstrong
Trying to figure out.
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Joe Getty
Yesterday, yesterday I'm on the phone with multiple doctors trying to figure out various this and that as things aren't working well at all. And so I don't know, do we have the sickest kids in the world? Is that a statement that's true?
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know. I don't know that would be helpful. I mean, it's enough to know that our kids are sick in ways that they weren't 30 years ago. On the other hand, you know, if we're unique, then you can start nailing down what is unique about the United States, that that would tend to cause what we're seeing. I doubt that's true. I'm reeling through my memory banks. I know a lot of the negative trends in terms of mental health that we're seeing are practically universal, if not universal in the developed world. They all could be worse here by degrees in various topics, the number of.
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Joe Getty
People on the autism spectrum and anxiety and medication and all that sort of stuff. Is that true? Other development, I hope, you know, I hope somebody has. And we'll. And that comes up in the hearing today. If we have the sickest kids in the world. That's a big story.
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Jack Armstrong
And another problem is a lot of the big studies that people cite have been utterly discredited on some of these topics.
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Joe Getty
Sure, absolutely.
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Jack Armstrong
There are charlatans on all sides. Whenever you have a severe need, you will have fraud.
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Joe Getty
It's, it's tough, I mean, to be perfectly fair on all sides. It's really tough because you've got ideology, you've got money, and then you got Trump derangement syndrome. And you put all those together and it's really hard to figure something out. The money thing, I was asking this all the way through Covid. Remember when they would try to decide whether or not to, to, to approve another booster, make another mandatory booster? And I would say, and it's still true. How many billions of dollars depend on that? Yes or no? And are you going to tell me everybody involved in yes we should mandate another booster or no is doing it for health reasons and not for the billions and billions and billions of dollars that are on the line? It's impossible to think that that's true.
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Jack Armstrong
And even if it doesn't motivate them to do the opposite of what they would have done otherwise, it can definitely, you know, I'm 40% sure this is a good idea. Wait, wait, you're going to donate enough money that I can get elected for as many terms as I want for the rest of my life? Uh, yeah, I'm 51% sure.
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Joe Getty
Or the, the lot, mostly non elected officials involved in all that Stuff all these different committees and agencies and Stu. I don't know anything about their motivations, but again, when you've got that much money sloshing around, I mean, various pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be doing their jobs if they weren't trying to influence these people with, you know, we'll give you a gazillion dollar grant to study this. If you vote yes. Then the other, the other weird thing around the vaccine. You're going to see a whole bunch of Democrats today beaten up RFK Jr for his stance on vaccines. All of that flipped during COVID My whole life, our whole lives we've been talking about all these moms in Marin county in the Bay Area who wouldn't get their kids vaccinated. Super hippie lefty liberals. Remember the old saying used to be people that don't vaccinate their kids are all within a certain radius of a Whole Foods. That was always because it was true. I live in a town like that full of lefty moms who didn't want to vaccinate their kids. Now it's a mag of crazy right wing nut job thing. How did that happen? How did you all switch teams so fast?
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Jack Armstrong
I think if you can answer that question, you understand human beings and please at that point share it with the rest of us.
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Joe Getty
And then one more thing before start the show officially. We had the breaking Kennedy news at the end of the show yesterday. We read part of the Caroline Kennedy letter about her own brother. Didn't mean that to be any endorsement of Caroline Kennedy. If you've listened to the show for a long time. I don't hold the Kennedys in high regard in any way.
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Jack Armstrong
I think they ought to be banned. I think that we ought to offer him the following bargain. You can be jailed or, or exiled permanently or you can change your name. I never want to hear the damn name Kennedy again. Except for that nice gal from MTV is now on Fox News.
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Joe Getty
But worth keeping in mind the blast from Carol sweet Caroline. Bop bop bomb from Caroline Kennedy about her brother. She was up until like a couple of months ago saying Joe Biden is fit for office for another term. So keep that in mind in terms of her judgment or how honest she is. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, January 29th, the year 2025. We're Armstrong and getting we approved of.
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Jack Armstrong
This program telling you we should have stopped the world in 1996. Just no more quote unquote progress. No more nothing Just everything's going to stay like this. Thank you very much.
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Joe Getty
That would have been, I feel like that would have been better. Not sure if I liked my clothing choices at the time. Did that, did that have to stay or could you change that?
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Jack Armstrong
And the enforcement mechanisms to prevent any sort of progress would be difficult to watch and probably blatantly unconstitutional. And yet I can be trusted with such power. All right, let's begin the show officially now, according to FCC rules and regulations inoculating you against the left wing media spin at Mark, Tom Holman showed up.
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In Chicago and within 24 hours found a convicted sex offender who has been living in our city since 2009, flouting the sex offender registry. If he can do this, why can't you?
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That is their job, the federal government.
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C
Their job is not to keep, to.
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D
Make sure that individuals who are undocumented, who have been charged with, convicted of a crime, it is the federal government's responsibility to do their part and uphold the law.
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Joe Getty
That's an interesting thing to say in a sanctuary city.
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Jack Armstrong
Speaking of. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh, don't even start me on the hypocrisy of it. Speaking of college classes that ought to be taught, Brandon Johnson, the useless communist union elected in Chicago is the ultimate depth to which you can sink in. Machine, mob, union, racial politics in Chicago. He is the highest and or lowest achievement in that sort of system. He is utterly unqualified in every way and yet there he sits as the mayor of Chicago.
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Joe Getty
So it was a big day in terms of booting out criminal illegals yesterday. And we can run through the latest on that and the controversies. How about Trump's idea of offering all federal employees to quit? Hey, we'll give you a little, little check here. And how about you just quit? How about you just leave?
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Jack Armstrong
Love it.
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Joe Getty
All of you, love it. That's a good one, too. So we got lots of stuff to talk about today. How's mailbag look?
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Jack Armstrong
Fine and dandy.
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Joe Getty
Cool. Our text line. Anybody know do we have the sickest kids in the world? 415295, KFTC.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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Joe Getty
I've taken all my money out of Nvidia stock and put it in eggs. I think that's the next big thing.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, he cornered the egg market. Jack Armstrong, billionaire investor. Ah, where'd it go? Here's your freaking lovely quote today. It's from Neil Maxwell, who's a figure in the LDS church. But this is not in denomination or religion specific.
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Joe Getty
I've got something religion specific. After you do this.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay, fine. Once society loses its capacity to declare that some things are wrong per se, then it finds itself forever building temporary defenses, revising rationales, drawing new lines, but forever falling back and losing its nerve. A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I would agree with that.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. There have to be moral absolutes.
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Joe Getty
I want to bring this up later because I don't know much about it. Our friend Craig, and then somebody texted me yesterday about that American Primeval on Netflix about the Meadows Mountain massacre by the Mormons way back in the 1800s. That sounds like quite the story and somehow underreported. Maybe we'll talk about that later if you don't know anything about it.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. Also, what was I going to say about moral absolutes? Oh, that's one of the points of critical theory, which emerged from the French and German intellectual salons of the mid 20th century. They wanted to remove all dividing lines of man, woman, right, wrong, just everything that was part of their bizarro philosophy. And that's one of the reasons that the wackadoodles these days are so enthusiastic about saying there's no such thing as a man or a woman. You can't draw that line. That's part of critical theory. It's. It's crazy, but it's caught on anyway. Mailbag drop us note mailbagarmstrongetti.com Bill writes. Good morning, fellows. I'm curious who. Who might have shorted in video stock and other stocks in the AI world in the day before the release of the Chinese AI? That, that.
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Joe Getty
Because I was thinking yesterday, you and a lot of other people poo pooing the China AI thing.
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Jack Armstrong
I was tapping the brakes. There's no poo poo on my brakes.
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Joe Getty
There's a lot of people with a lot of money involved who, who seemed to think it was a big enough deal. But if it was this shortened stock, that's a different thing.
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Jack Armstrong
But then Bill writes, if I had any idea how to learn this, I would look it up. Hey, maybe I should ask AI.
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Joe Getty
That's why I'm all in eggs. Now, eggs are simple. They come out of the bottom of a chicken.
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Jack Armstrong
Right? Exactly. Let's see. Alex in Arkansas. Morning, gents. On the. I've been listening to you guys for many, many moons. He describes it. He's now in northwest Arkansas. Oh, it's a beautiful, beautiful part of the country. This morning I was finishing up our one of yesterday's show and you guys played that horrible bipoc song, Indigenous People of Color, Black and indigenous people. That's plenty. We don't have time to continue its horrors, he said. I never would have given a second thought. But this morning it dawned on me why it's so dangerous. When driving with my 10 month old son, he started to babble and tried to sing along.
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Joe Getty
There you go.
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Jack Armstrong
This garbage is not targeted at us. It's targeted at impressionable young children. Maybe dirty hippies. Well done, Alex. They have to. They can't change adults minds about this basic stuff. So they have to target children for their dangerous ideology to propagate. You're absolutely right, my brother. Absolutely right. Let's see. And Garrick writes, he said as an all right song, but it's no. There's a hole in the ground where the tree once was. Right, Michael? Somebody's making money. You can't write Stairway to Heaven every time you, you put pen to paper. All right. It's, it's a good song. Maybe not a great song.
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Joe Getty
Dylan, esque. I'd like to hear Timothy Chalamet sing it. We got more on the Bootin out illegals. We got more on the RFK Jr hearing and a whole bunch of other stuff. So stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. We are getting the dirt bags off these streets.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on the ground in New York City leading this early morning ICE raid across the Big Apple looking to remove violent criminals who are not supposed to be in this country in the first place. Noem says she asked President Trump for this job.
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Jack Armstrong
I said I would like to be the Secretary of Homeland Security, sir, because it's your number one priority. Alexis McAdams of Fox News there with Kristi Noem. One thing that really gratified me about that story yesterday was I was delighted to hear Kristi Noem say we're getting these dirt bags off the streets. And there was, at least in the media, I took in none of the utterly automatic. In the past few years, the administration is trying to characterize all immigrants as dirt bags. They're on the back foot, I think.
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Joe Getty
How would you not be? I think it is sunk in. Finally, 85% of Americans want criminal illegals booted out of the country. That's not a controversial issue. That's as a one sided issue as you're practically ever going to get in the United States.
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Jack Armstrong
One thing the Jake Tappers and the David Muirs of the world are trying to gather their courage and take deep breaths to do soon is make a big deal over. Okay. When you're rounding up a Venezuelan gang member Rapist and his brother, who's also an illegal, is there. The brother gets snatched up too and is probably going to get deported. And they will try very hard to build the narrative that they're casting too wide a net, they're bringing innocent people in, blah, blah, blah. Again, this, this is squarely, I think, in the middle of the, the, the, the field that we were discussing last couple of days, which is, y'all created a ginormous mess. We're kicking up a little dust when we clean it up. Quit yelling that we're the bad guys, cuz we're kicking up dust. All right, we're way past that.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I know we're gonna get into some of this sort of stuff, but I was looking at the New York Post story of New York City. Minority communities cheer ICE raids. They're actually cheering on the street as they rounded up violent criminal migrants. Some of these who had been tormenting these people as obvious criminals in these neighborhoods. And they're happy to see ICE come. And these are black people. And brown people are like, yeah, come in. Get these scumbags out of here. As you're just hearing the dirt bags. And this morning I was watching Fox and they had the big giant military transport planes, the really giant ones, like my brother. And so many of you have ridden on, you know, headed to Saudi Arabia or whatever, filling them full of illegal criminals and sending them back to wherever the hell they came from. You talk about a win, a political win. Oh, my God, what a video.
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Jack Armstrong
Before we go on, just a quick point. The response to those immigrants cheering the roundup of these predator scumbags, the response by the people who've been in charge of America for like the last four years would have been, well, they've internalized white supremacy and we would have been supposed to have taken that seriously. Bunch of lunatics. The fact that they ever had the upper hand is, is hurtful to me, but it's frightening. Yeah, yeah, it is.
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Joe Getty
To see how far off track you can get sometimes. But the coming up, Trump has solved.
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Jack Armstrong
Germany's immigration problems or damn near seriously, it's crazy. Stay tuned for that.
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Joe Getty
But in terms of a political win, the videos of loading up illegals on giant planes and flying back. And then how about the whole, if you followed this over the weekend when the president of Columbia said, you can't send them here, and then Trump had to threaten them with tariffs and a bunch of different stuff. And then the Columbia. How about countries that say, no, don't send them here, they're bad People, we don't want them. When does that ever happen where a country refuses to take back their own citizens?
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Jack Armstrong
Well, and speaking of narratives that should have been slapped out of the public conversation as quickly as possible, the idea that Trump is wrong about them being criminals and gang members, how dare he disparage. Blah, blah, blah. So you go to Venezuela, you go to Colombia, you go to Mexico, even in a lot of cases and say, hey, these are your nationals. You need to take them back. And they're like, whoa, no, no, these are dangerous scumbags. We don't want them. You gotta keep them. Okay, a little more from Alexis McAdams. Speaking of the sort of folks we're talking about. 41, please, Michael.
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This was a multi agency effort that ended in several arrests, including this Venezuelan illegal migrant who sources say is part of the South American gang trende Aragua, taken in on kidnapping, assault and burglary charges. DHS says Anderson Zimbrano Pacheco was hiding out in the Bronx and had a warrant out for his arrest in connection to this takeover at an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado.
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Joe Getty
Violent, violent, horrible guy, that the government knew exactly what sort of violent, horrible guy he was and they weren't going to boot him out because of the weird, crazy, fanciful. Were a sanctuary city, sanctuary state nonsense. You're going to put your own citizens at risk in their own neighborhoods for your strange ideology that makes no sense.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, Right. I'm sorely tempted to replay the opening clip with Brandon Johnson of Chicago.
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Joe Getty
Why don't you explain what it is before we hear it so people understand? Because it's a good one.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well, it's explained in context. I think Johnson, as a far lefty, has been proudly decrying any immigration raids and saying that America is a sanctuary city. And the ICE was just in Chicago and rounded up some truly dangerous scumbags. And this is a reporter asking him, asking him about it.
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C
Tom Holman showed up in Chicago and within 24 hours found a convicted sex offender who has been living in our city since 2009, flouting the sex offender registry. If he can do this, why can't you?
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D
That is their job, the federal government.
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C
Their job is not to keep as.
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D
A responsible gun, to make sure that individuals who are undocumented, who have been charged, charged with, convicted of a crime, it is the federal government's responsibility to do their part and uphold the law.
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Joe Getty
The people of Chicago, California, Los Angeles, all kinds of different places should be so outraged at their leadership that they're forced from office over this sanctuary nonsense.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes, absolutely. It is nonsense. It's outrageous, it's dangerous, it's perverse. Speaking of which, and the theme being all of those arguments that were thrown at us for years when we, you folks like us just said, look, I don't care how many brown people are here or whatever the hell, we have laws, we need to enforce the laws. Or what we have is lawlessness. We don't want lawlessness. Well, you're a racist. You just don't like brown people. Here's William lajeuness reporting from Mexico. How they feel about all the illegals in Mexico. 50. Michael, it's a huge problem in our neighborhood. The noise, the contamination, the garbage, the violence.
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Longtime Mexico City resident Hugo Sanchez, whose child has a heart condition, is fed up with illegal immigrants in Mexico. He's worried the government resources will be diverted to deal with migrants. They defecate and urinate in public, says neighbor and retiree Leticia Melendez, who hopes President Trump will help Mexico close its southern border.
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Joe Getty
He may have some influence with our.
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Jack Armstrong
Government, so together they can solve the problem.
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Joe Getty
I think you're wrong about this. I think natural born US Citizens defecate in public at a higher rate than illegals, according to a Harvard study.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, in the case of drug abuse. But one more. Oh, and they use the I word in clip 51. Michael, it's the I word. Cover your ears if you're sensitive.
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Francisco Rosas Flores lives near a migrant camp housing mostly Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans. He calls the migrant influx an invasion and worries about the drug and alcohol abuse he sees.
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Joe Getty
We don't know these people, where they come from, if they have a criminal record. Most are unemployed because they don't do anything.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, my God, the racism. The racism. He used the I word. Invasion. Oh, my God. Well, we've been right along. You've been right all along. It's gotta be at least somewhat comforting.
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Joe Getty
It's not, actually. I'm not feeling that much comfort. I am. I'm feeling fear that we got so off track. I can't believe that we. That, that. It disturbs me how easily a minority opinion can win if, if they're highly motivated.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I was going to describe it as a small but aggressive minority who are willing to use strong moral arguments and ruin lives, making the claim that anybody who opposes them is an awful human being. And how effective they were in spite of the complete illogic of their point of view. It is disturbing, especially in a country like this, that at least, you know, ostensibly has the free exchange of ideas and free speech. I want to talk more about that down the road. But the idea that a group of extremist crackpots have successfully, for instance, gotten you can choose to be a man or a woman into our nation's elementary schools is horrifying.
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Joe Getty
Among other things. That's pretty crazy. But I don't know if it's crazier than. No, no, we're not going to turn over a rapist to ICE because we're so up with illegal immigration or something. I don't even understand your philosophy.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, right. If you try to spell it out in simple declarative sentences, you just. You can't in a way that makes any sense.
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Joe Getty
But it was the winning theory among the people that matter for quite a while.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. And the argument that, well, our immigrant communities, they need to know they can trust the police, et cetera, et cetera. There is some truth to that, and I get that. But when you see the rubber, meet the. And the folks in those communities so glad the predators and the rapists and the murderers that allegedly they were afraid to report. When they see them removed, they're so joyful. I mean, that tells you the lie. But always remember this. That small, vicious minority that is trying to silence you or tell you white people shouldn't talk or that you're a bigot or transphobe if you don't want the gender betting madness taught in schools, how they will ruin you, always remember this, and this is quoting James Lindsay. Marxists just lie. They lie so overtly and blatantly that people begin to question their own perceptions. It works because no one expects another person to lie so overtly. They use words and arguments as weapons. They're not trying to reach some sort of meeting of the minds. They want you to back up, shut up, and let them take over. Whatever. Oh, I need to explain how Trump has solved Germany's immigration situation. Maybe after the commercials.
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Joe Getty
This is all very good. It's kind of a harshen my mellow, though, on this. The Chinese New Year to begin. The year of the snake, which I'm very excited about because I am a snake. When I sit down at a Chinese restaurant and look over the little chart where it tells you what you are based on your birth year. I am a snake, so it's my year.
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Jack Armstrong
Michael's always saying that about you.
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Joe Getty
So, yeah, happy Chinese New Year. The year of the snake.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm gonna have American tradition. Jack the snake is seen to be what? Likewise and smart. And I don't know, slithery or something.
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Joe Getty
I'm going.
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Jack Armstrong
It's. It's a Middle Ages to superstition.
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Joe Getty
I'll probably doordash Panda Express for the kids tonight in honor of the Chinese New Year. Is that the proper way to celebrate? It is.
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Jack Armstrong
That's really doordashing Panda Express Chinese culture. Yes.
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Joe Getty
Maybe I will just use my iPhone. Made in China or some cheap ch. Plastic Chinese crap also made in China. Also to honor the year of the snake.
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Jack Armstrong
Maybe raise a glass with all sorts of people who've been put out of work by our importation of cheap Chinese crap.
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Joe Getty
Hey now, the RFK junior hearings going on while we're on the air today. And when they get going, almost guaranteed controversy from the beginning. So we'll have that for you throughout the show and a whole bunch of other stuff. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg. It's time for a stock watch. McDonald's stock is up because one egg McMuffin now costs $75. I get that one. Next up, Hormel stock is up because everyone's making five alarm chili for the Super Bowl. And finally, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam and Jose Cuervo. Stocks are up because Buffalo Bills fans. There you have.
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Joe Getty
It's good to see why they're up and down. What'd I see somebody say the other day? I thought that was kind of funny. Oh, my, my, my team unfortunately lost to the Kansas City refs. So I was very unhappy with that.
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Jack Armstrong
That's the big meme.
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Joe Getty
The Kansas City refs. Boy haters.
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Jack Armstrong
Why is there not a chip at each end of the football? Just a tiny little chip like you put in your dog or something like that. And it's. They've. So they can see precisely where the end of the football was.
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Joe Getty
I don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
Using GPS technology, I generally feel like.
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Joe Getty
Most of this stuff has made stuff worse, slowed down all the games. Baseball, basketball, football. I just, I don't know. I wasn't miserable. Back in the day when you just, you went with the human being's judgment and then you moved on. It just was fine.
- [31:48]
Jack Armstrong
You had to.
- [31:49]
Joe Getty
Yeah. Because you had to. You didn't look at it for nine different ways and stop the game for 10 minutes to make sure you got exactly right. I was perfectly happy watching sports all those years.
- [31:58]
Jack Armstrong
Well, that's the point of my, my new technology. You don't have to look at it from 18 different angles. The league just says, yeah, it's on the 35 plus 4 inches. And they put the ball right there. It's right there on their Computer screen.
- [32:10]
Joe Getty
People don't want that, I guess. I mean, in tennis for forever, they were arguing about why don't we just have light beams that tell us whether it's in or out instead of arguing about this.
- [32:18]
Jack Armstrong
But yeah, I can't remember how that go went because I don't really watch tennis. So I found this absolutely fascinating. You don't know who Friedrich Mertz is, I suspect, unless you are a chairman. Uh, but he is a very kind of gray, dull, methodical, realist politician. Um, he's the leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union in Germany. He's kind of a, he's, he's no populist. He's even dull is his reputation. But yesterday, a couple of days ago, he made a declaration that electrified Germany's political landscape. Now, the previous day, an unspeakably horrible crime took place. 28 year old illegal Afghan migrant attacked a group of children with a kitchen knife. I'm not gonna go into details. Horror life was lost.
- [33:11]
Joe Getty
Crazy person or jihadist? Do we know?
- [33:14]
Jack Armstrong
I don't have the specifics on it. Honestly, I don't remember if I heard. But. But it's the latest in a long line of brutal crimes committed by immigrants. Who, who, who. Why is, is anybody using the term migrants? Who told you to? How did that evolve? Stop it anyway, but the horror of the attack, barely a month before the election in February made it a defining event. And then you got Trump signing a series of executive orders addressing the immigration crisis, which made big news in Germany. And this Merz character spent a night weighing his options, then stepped before the press last Thursday and delivered remarks unlike anything heard from a conservative German leader. He spoke of, quote, the completely unrestrained brutality in Germany, the wreckage of a decade long misguided immigration policy. And then came the words party insiders say he never would have uttered without Trump's inspiration. Quote, if elected Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany on the first day of my term, I will instruct the Federal Ministry of the Interior using blah, blah, blah, authority to permit permanently control Germany's borders with all of our neighbors and to categorically reject all attempts at illegal entry.
- [34:24]
Joe Getty
Wow. Tipping point happened somewhere in there.
- [34:30]
Jack Armstrong
And again, for whatever crazy ass reason that's a German term, those words could not have been uttered, right, until like last week.
- [34:39]
Joe Getty
Right. We all got cowed by being called racists. And it worked for a long time. But the jig is up.
- [34:52]
Jack Armstrong
And Apparently, I'm sorry, 66% support of Germans.
- [34:57]
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. It's just, yeah, most of us, the vast majority of us were in agreement about this for a long time. That's funny. It's almost exactly the same number as people who want to boot out immigrants in the United States.
- [35:12]
Jack Armstrong
Right. There are aspects of projecting American power around the globe that I think are utterly essential. And I think isolationists are wrong. On the other hand, it is undeniable that the globalist economic cheerleaders got their way for a very long time to the serious detriment of the citizens of our country and others. Yeah.
- [35:31]
Joe Getty
While lots of people were looking around their countries or their towns and thinking, how is this making my life better? This doesn't seem to be making my life better.
- [35:39]
Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg.