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Jack Armstrong
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now he's Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
I don't remember anybody having these kinds of meltdowns. When Barack Obama deported 5 million people. It is not uncommon for the executive branch to deport illegal immigrants. It happens in every administration. Obama deported more than most and I don't remember any of this kind of meltdown. And the crisis has only gotten worse. So I think Donald Trump's doing the right thing and most Republicans would agree it is a national emergency.
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There you go. Trump said, yep, he is going to declare it a national emergency. And yep, he is considering using the military to deal with it because they're the only people who would have the infrastructure to deal with such a large number of people. And we will talk more about that later.
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Jack Armstrong
I've just become aware of Scott Jennings because he has been hiding from humanity on cnn. But I love the cut of his jib. I love his act. He's calm, he's smart, he's reasonable. I posited last hour that Gen X would save the world. And I realize that somewhat self serving as we are on the older end of Gen X, but Gen X known for kind of a cut the crap, don't mess around with us, just give us the straight scoop feel not terribly ideological.
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Joe Getty
I like you pitched us. Not hippies, not, not hippies on the one end, not needing coloring books and puppies to deal with bad news on the other end.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Just for goodness sakes, can we, can we speak plainly to each other? Is kind of sort of, and I've always mocked the generation thing, but it's kind of sort of the feel of Gen X. Anyway, I love that with Scott Jennings essentially, and this is my rallying cry today and probably for a long time, cut the crap. Scott is saying cut the crap. Obama deported lots and lots of people. You had nothing to say, so cut the crap. It's crap.
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Joe Getty
It's crap.
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Jack Armstrong
All right, thank you and then, you know, I've got. Also, I've got a million examples. You've got this stuff from the University of California, Davis, which is advising the federal government on how to be a woke ally for the Alphabet soup crew. And they have stuff like, instead of some saying someone was born a boy or a girl, try saying they were assigned male at birth. These terms recognize the difference between sex and gender and emphasize the way in which sex and gender are not binary or immutable. They can be changed. No, cut the crap. A man can't become a woman because he takes hormones. You start ovulating, call me back. All right, Then I'll concede you're a woman. Cut the crap. Thought this was brilliant from Gerard Baker. I'm going to hit you with some of it. He's an opinion writer for mostly the Journal, but Jack, jump in anytime you want, obviously. And he talks about Trump's election is a bit of an Emperor's New Clothes moment for America and maybe the rest of the west, to an overdue recognition and repudiation of the regime, of oppressive insanities we've been subjected to for a decade or more. I think everybody's saying, yeah, man, well said. Especially in blue states. And, you know, I'm going to issue a battle cry toward the end of this. And I understand you're working.
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Joe Getty
Like, is it going to sound like that?
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Jack Armstrong
It's a lot like that. Maybe, maybe you're working at the infamous UC Davis or Berkeley in California, and you're like, dude, I would love to fight against this stuff. But, but, but. And so it's always with the caveat of do what you can. But I'll tell you this. I can practically guarantee, no matter where you work, you live, you worship, whatever, if you stand up to the crap and you say, cut the crap, you're going to see a bunch of people, maybe a few, maybe a ton, are going to say, yeah, what he said. They're just waiting for someone to call the emperor on having no clothes. Anyway, to Gerard Baker's piece. For a decade or more, yes, even when Republicans have been nominally in control, we've been led by peddlers of a set of ideas that have clothed our institutions and the country in social and political doctrines, fake claims and strictures that have inflicted untold harms. The fancy new items of invisible attire that our nation's rulers have made us wear for too long include these. The idea that people who have stolen into this country illegally should be showered with all the rights and benefits of citizens that it is immoral to den them those rights and that they should instead be treated as victims of persecution and given sanctuary in our crowded and fiscally strained cities. Call Bullas on that. That's ridiculous. The idea that a nation that sits atop one of the greatest reservoirs of natural energy resources on earth should forcibly restrain itself from exploiting them to save the planet on the basis of politicized science while other countries are free to do much more damage to global environment.
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Joe Getty
That's a good, Gavin, cut the crap. That's a good one.
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Jack Armstrong
At the risk of going off on this as I did last hour, meaningless, effectless gestures in the face of all the other countries on earth doing what they're doing, you know, if you were going to do some good, come to the table with that argument, say, yeah, we got to risk damaging the economy and poor people are going to stay poor and inflation's going to rise because energy prices affect everything. But look that it's lowered emissions 20% globally. Except it hasn't. It hasn't done anything. So cut the crap. Here's another good one. The idea that after a century and a half of progress in solving and soothing America's original sin of racism and making the country more equal, we are suddenly obliged to believe that America is as oppressive as it was in 1619 and that the best way to right the past wrong of treating people based on the color of their skin is to treat people based on the color of their sk.
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Joe Getty
God, I hope that's over. I really hope that's over.
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Jack Armstrong
What, what we all hope for is those radicals, just nasty people, don't have the juice to end your career anymore because your management, your corporate godfathers are such cowards. They're not going to stand up to the crap. It's easier to fire you. And they'll say on the way out, you know, Jim, I'm really sorry about this. I mean, it's really unfortunate they don't have the balls to say because you said nothing wrong, but these people are so mad I'm going to capitulate to them. But that's what they're thinking. Stand up to it.
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Joe Getty
I'm less optimistic on the illegal immigration part because I've been fooled before. But on the trans and anti racist and what was the other one I was going to include in that? It'll come to me. But on a couple of those, Is it possible with the climate change, is it possible we're on the other side of those? And we just all, unfortunately, those of us of a certain age just Lived through this really weird time.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Where things, people said, all kinds of crazy stuff, and you had to go along with it.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I think we're at this stage of it where the troops are rallied, we're aware we're fired up. But you got to remember the enemy is absolutely running our nation's educational complex right now in our media and entertainment. But education is the most insidious part because they're indoctrinating our kids. So, yeah, the battle has just begun. Here's another. Another one of these insane ideas that we've been forced to pretend are not idiotic. The idea that children should, without parental consultation or consent, be free to choose their gender, be assisted by the state in committing acts of self mutilation to do so. And all on the understanding that we have repealed millennia of science and just discovered there's no such thing as biological sex. Bull ass. Cut the crap.
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Joe Getty
I think that one is the biggest anchor around Gavin Newsom's neck. If he tries to run for president, how is he gonna. How's he gonna deal with that?
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Jack Armstrong
Experimenting on and mutilating children? Because they're momentarily confused.
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Joe Getty
And I have adolescence and Gavin signed into law the idea that the schools can keep it a secret from you.
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Jack Armstrong
So that in fact, they must.
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Joe Getty
How does, how does he deal with that?
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Jack Armstrong
That's one of the reasons I want him to run. I want him to be beaten like a drum for these reasons. Because it's important to defeat this crap. There's a little more. More of the Emperor's New clothes that people have just been walking around silently pretending they didn't notice or too afraid to resist. The idea that democracy and freedom are best protected by denying people the right to express certain views that the authorities deem misinformation. And by weaponizing the law against political opponents lest they weaponize the law for political purposes. That's a good one. There are actually Democrats out right now saying, hey, you know, weaponizing law against candidates is probably a bad strategy. Admitting that that was the strategy. So ambitious elites in business and civil society went along with these fictions. Politicians on all sides, including Republicans, declined to dissent for fear of being called out. And here's where Gerard Baker gives Trump a fair amount of credit. It took a man with some of the instincts of a child, a political ingenue newcomer lacking the sophistication to participate in the sham, to call the whole thing out for what it was. And then he makes it clear that he's not like totally in on Trump and his plans and his policies and the rest of it. But for God's sake, we needed to call bull s on the bull s. But here's what I'm optimistic about. He says four years from now, there's a good chance that the nonsense we have had to endure will be buried. That important things will become normal again. It will have become normal to tell people who have no right to be here that they must leave. That in the process, people around the world will have been made to understand that they don't have an automatic right to live in the freest, most prosperous country on earth. Then he goes on the children. You know, I'm going to hit this because it's one of my jihads. It will have become normal again for children to be helped to respond to the inevitable strain and traumas of growing up not by having their Geno genitals cut out, but by receiving loving guidance. Guidance and care from family and society. Cut the crap.
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Joe Getty
I hope that's true. I hope that's true. I think it's true.
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Jack Armstrong
Specifically, it's going to be a longer and harder battle in four years, man. The university system and their influence on the elementary education system and secondary age. It's going to be a long, hard fight. But I'm up for it. Are you?
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Joe Getty
Where are people getting their news and information? A new Pew study. Kind of interesting, particularly around young people. It's a little disturbing. I don't know what that happens. Of course, as you were just talking about. If. If people catch on to the fact that the mainstream media is not a very reliable source of real news, people are going to turn to other sources.
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Jack Armstrong
Sure.
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Joe Getty
And the problem being the other sources are probably not better either. But a lot of stuff to talk about on the way. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Unknown Speaker
How will the head of their party, the outgoing president. Man the ramparts during this challenging and fraught peaceful transition to fascism?
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Joe Getty
President Biden is in Brazil, where he became the first American head of state to visit the Amazon rainforest. He went there to highlight the dangers of climate change and the need to turn away from fossil fuels. What the.
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Unknown Speaker
In the middle of all this, he disappeared to the rainforest. Maybe this is how we should do the transfer of power. The winner moves into the White House and the incumbent just wanders off into the jungle so that his nutrients may be returned to the soil.
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Joe Getty
A peaceful transfer to fascism. That's pretty funny. Yeah, man.
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Jack Armstrong
If I've been amused reading the various accounts of Joe and Mika's pilgrimage down to Mar a Lago, both the very serious discussions of what it means. And then the snarkier ones, which are much more appropriate.
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Joe Getty
All right. All the way around this peaceful transfer to fascism where it was a. I guess we'll just accept that it's it's Trump and move on with our lives.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, I thought, when's Hitler due for lunch, honey? Well, he should be here at noon 30.
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Joe Getty
Dear before I get into something of substance, we have talked about this many times. The one of the problems with the algorithms on ads is this assumption that whatever it is you shopped for or bought, you're going to buy many more of or be shopping for them forever. And I don't understand how they haven't fixed that already, that they don't have categories where they realize this is like a one time purchase. For instance, this funny one from somebody yesterday I came across on Twitter, Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat because I needed one. Necessity, not desire. I do not collect them. I'm not a toilet seat addict. No matter how temptingly you email me, I'm not going to think, oh, go on then, just one more toilet seat. I'll treat myself.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, that's good. That's really good.
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Joe Getty
I do not collect them. I'm not an addict. That's funny. For the next two years you get toilet seat hats like you're buying by the pallet. Oh, that is funny. I'm surprised they haven't figured that out yet. While we're on Twitter, this from Michael Avenatti and I mentioned this because we might get breaking news during the show today that the stupid Stormy Daniels hush money case has been basically ended and tossed. Remember Michael Avenatti? He was the representative for Stormy Daniels and then he became such a hero to America. He went on all the talk shows, he was on the late night shows and the View and everything like that. As the guy who's going to bring down Trump and a hero and he should run for president and all this stuff. He turned out to be a crook. Stole from Stormy Daniels, went to jail. But anyway, here.
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Jack Armstrong
Stole from everybody.
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Joe Getty
Stole from everybody and went to jail. Here's Michael Avenatti's tweet from yesterday. The hush money verdict should be promptly thrown out by Judge Marshan and the case immediately dismissed. It was always a political prosecution solely designed to keep President Trump from being elected. Founded on the perjury of grifters Cohen and Daniels. He calls his own client a grifter and he would founded on the perjury of the grifters Cohen and Daniels. While the country moves forward, Cohen and Daniels can crawl back to where they came from.
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Jack Armstrong
He's writing this from prison.
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Joe Getty
I don't know if he's out or not.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, time flies.
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Joe Getty
Isn't that something, though? Again, I mean, another. Cut the crap. That was. And most of America saw through that as phony political prosecution. And seriously. And now, and now, as of. I think later today, it's all gonna be over. That'll be over.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
Not a good way to run things.
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Jack Armstrong
So he's not Hitler. And yeah, it was a phony prosecution, but let's all move on with our lives. Hey, all's well that ends well. Let's shake hands and we'll see in the midterms.
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Joe Getty
Okay, so Pew's out with a study, not surprising that a lot of people get their news from what they call influencers. And that would be people on social media who, for whatever you respect their opinion. And it can come from all different walks of life. You know, it can be a singer, an artist, a politician, or just like, you know, some farmer who you trust their opinion, who build a following on Twitter or TikTok or something like that, and they become an influencer. And that's where you get a lot of your new stuff from. And I know people that follow non professionals as closely as they follow any professionals in media for their opinion on things, which I find interesting. What I was surprised by is it all. It leans mostly right in most of the news sources out there and they use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube. It's mostly right leaning influencers that influence people throughout the election. Twitter is the only one that's balanced left and right. All the other ones are people on the right getting their information from there for better or worse. Probably because most of the mainstream media is so left you have to go somewhere else.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, Exactly. It's created a need for an alternative.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, almost certainly. What has driven it, Armstrong and Getty.
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Unknown Speaker
He wants him to be the face of the Justice Department. The only way that Donald Trump believes he can be the face of the Justice Department is as Attorney General. And so he has told everyone around him through the weekend, all last week, that he is 100% behind Matt Gates and that what he wants the most out of any of his picks is for Gates to be confirmed.
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Joe Getty
So I pay attention to what the mainstream media is paying attention to because it has an influence on the national conversation and all the major networks. I was checking today, leading with either Gates, whether or not he's going to be the Attorney General or the mass deportations and then flip the stories because those are the top two stories the mainstream media is into right now. The mass deportations thing is popular. Trump ran on it. It's not a surprise. 60% of America's for it. We'll see how that plays out. The Gates thing, I think, was a surprise to a lot of people. He didn't run specifically on that, and I have assumed since he announced that that it probably wouldn't happen. But maybe I'm wrong. And as you just heard there from the lead on cnn, Trump wants it to happen. This is what the New York Times is writing today. In private conversations over the past few days, President elect Donald J. Trump has admitted that his besieged choice for Attorney general, Matt Gates, has less than even odds of being confirmed by the Senate. Now, you never know if the New York Times is right or not, but that's Trump saying he thinks it's less than 50, 50 that Gates gets through. Uh, but Mr. Trump has shown no signs of withdrawing the nomination, which speaks volumes about his mindset. As he staffs his second administration, he's making calls on Mr. Gates his behalf and he remains confident that even if Mr. Gates does not make it, the standard for an acceptable candidate will have shifted so much that the Senate may simply approve his other nominees who have appalled much of Washington. It's an interesting take.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, I've heard that argument.
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Joe Getty
I don't have any idea if that's his thinking or not. So I mentioned that yesterday I was listening to a couple of podcasts with some of my favorite like super smart pundits who are. I think they're all lawyers who know a lot about the nomination process and the confirmation process. And I was surprised that three of them thought Gates would get through the. Why I can get to after we hear this. This was on a number of newscasts last night. Lawyer for one of the girls that testified privately to that congressional committee about the whole Gates having sex with a 17 year old story. Here's a lawyer on NBC News last.
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Unknown Speaker
Night she was walking outside to the pool and she observed to her right, her friend who was 17 at the time of having sex with Representative Gaetz. They were leaned up to what she described to as a game table of some type.
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Did your client believe that Gates at the time knew that her friend was underage?
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Unknown Speaker
So the House was curious about that. She testified that her belief was that Representative Gates had no knowledge that she was under 18, that she was 17 years old at the time he was having sex with her. She also testified that when Representative Gates found out that she was underage, that they stopped their sexual relationship and did not resume it until after she turned 18.
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Joe Getty
I thought that was interesting. And then hear a little more on this and then I can fill in some other details.
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Unknown Speaker
They did testify, both of them, that they consented to the activities. They were also asked whether or not they were victims. And she broke down in tears and she said, it's a very complicated question.
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Did your clients make any assessments in their testimony about Mr. Gates's fitness or judgment to serve in office?
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Unknown Speaker
They're very careful about what they might express publicly. But one did say, I do not think a man like him should have that much power.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, well, she's probably a young Democrat who would hate whoever Trump would pick to be a nominee for attorney general. But what I think is interesting about this story is everybody can have a line, moral morality line, or, you know, who they think ought to be attorney general line and draw it in different places. You might be way over on no Matt Gaetz and the things he said and done. No chance. I want him attorney general. And you might be clear over on this end going, you know, decision by decision that Mr. Gates has made throughout his life clear over to, oh, it turns out he didn't know she was 17 and stopped contacting afterwards. I'm okay then, right? And anywhere in between.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I suppose so. Sure. Yeah. I don't disagree with anything you've said there. I've got to go back to your dismissal of her saying a man like that shouldn't have power. She's probably a young Democrat anyway. Hang on now. And I could name names of guys we've known like that. Sex pigs who, who do lots of drugs and get with as many young girls as they can at these parties and run around because their daddy was driving expensive cars and being complete scumbags. And if anybody asked you, should he have power, you'd have said no, probably.
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Joe Getty
Because I would hate them.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Because they're, they're loathsome.
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Joe Getty
Right. So I didn't get until. So this guy was on a bunch of shows yesterday, I don't remember which one, where I finally found out that this party, these girls are prostitutes. So this party hired women to be at the party and have sex with the people they invited to the party. It was. I've never been to a party like that. It sounds like a ditty party of some, that kind of thing. I guess those parties exist where you show up to the party and, you know, the girls are all open game. They're supposed to have sex with you they're being paid so there's like no, you don't have to like buy them flowers, actor out, ask them out and charm them. That's what they're there for.
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Jack Armstrong
And so that's how he agent consent wherever this party was.
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Joe Getty
You know, that's funny. They never.
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Jack Armstrong
Enormous question.
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Joe Getty
That's funny. They never throw that in. They, they do say underage various times. So it must be 17, must be under the age of consent or I assume you wouldn't call it underage.
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Jack Armstrong
No, I do. That just sounds like sloppy mainstream media dishonesty.
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Joe Getty
Could be.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm just curious. I mean, and part of the reason I asked that is there's no such thing as a child prostitute. That is a rape slave. A child does not have the legal nor moral, you know, wherewithal to consent to sex, certainly for money.
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Joe Getty
So yeah, the fact that that details left out actually would lead me to believe that she's not underage because otherwise you would throw that in, wouldn't you? I mean, I would agree the point of all these news stories is to bring down Matt Gaetz. I would think if it was strictly illegal and that makes him a sex offender by definition that you would throw that detail in.
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
So I think you're probably right. We got to look into that. We got to figure that out.
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Jack Armstrong
Suspicious how wishy washy that is.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so that's how that, you know, how he ends up having sex up against a foosball table at a party is because they're prostitutes and that's what they were there for. And. And then there's also testimony that he would, he. Because they've got the texts and everything. He would text and say basically, are they. Who's bringing the drugs? Are there going to be drugs there? And he had code words for all this stuff. Very sly code words. And, and so again, there's another place you can draw the line, whatever your view is of this sort of thing.
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Jack Armstrong
Sure.
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Joe Getty
You know, he's doing, he's doing illegal drugs at this party too and having sex with prostitutes. But I thought it wasn't as damning a testimony as it could be. It. He wasn't seeking out a 17 year old.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, right. No, I see what you're driving at. And listen, I'm no fan of Matt Gates at all. On the other hand, his lifestyle is not terribly different than that of John F. Kennedy or decent point Teddy Kennedy or a bunch of other people or maybe RFK Jr which does not make it okay. It reinforces that they were scumbags who really should have reigned it in. One of the things that bothers me about Gates is he was barely a lawyer for like two years. He didn't really practice much at all. And running the Justice Department, you really ought to have a pretty firm grasp on how criminal law works. Among other, other issues I have with him. But whatever, I don't know.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I heard pushback on that. I don't know anything about this. I heard pushback on that yesterday from like, for instance, Sarah Isgar is gar who worked in the Trump Justice Department at the time. She's went to Harvard as a law lawyer. She said there's lots of people that barely have ever practiced law in real life that are in the Justice Department. It's just the way it is. So I don't, I don't know anything about that. But.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, but okay, well, if I respect Sarah's point of view, but it seems odd that he would run it.
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Joe Getty
But anyway, what was I going to say? I had another point on that. Matt Gatesman. Oh, so and then you've got the problem of do you not want, do you not want somebody to be the attorney General just because you hate that sort of person? If I didn't want anybody to be in office because I hate that sort of person, why that'd be, it might be, I don't know, 10% of DC left. I'm sure I would hate most of those people for all kinds of reasons. He is absolutely 100% the kind of guy I hate. Just, I mean, top to bottom, grew up rich and good looking and did whatever the hell he wanted. His dad got out of trouble and then his dad smoothed the way to his easy, cushy life where he continues to do with whatever the hell. I hate those kind of people. So, you know. But would he be good at getting the Justice Department right and outing it for having its thumb on the scale? I have no idea about that.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, interesting question.
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Joe Getty
Why some of my favorite people think he will be confirmed after this.
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Joe Getty
I also find interesting the arguments around the whole advice and consent thing and to what extent the Senate should determine whether somebody's good for the job and boot them or not. Or the further down the other side of it being the president gets to choose his own advisors and cabinet, so that's who he chose. So unless there's like a really overwhelming reason to not say okay to the person, you should say okay to the person with some of the argument being, if you start read, the AG would be a different choice because that's a specific duties and powers, but a lot of the advisor sort of stuff, if you reject them, he'll just get his advice from someone else who's not officially on the books. You know what I mean?
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Jack Armstrong
Given the nature of the cabinet these days, which is you just execute what the President tells you to do. It's, you know, you'll just get the next person.
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Joe Getty
But anyway, I heard a couple of people making the argument of how difficult it would be for these Republican senators to come out against Gates unless they can get enough people together, you know, before the hearing or, you know, behind closed doors or whatever. Say, how many of us are. We need like at least 20 of us so that we're not all, you know, individual targets. We need a bunch of us because the mega army will come after these people so hard your career will be, if not over, certainly miserable for the rest of your term. Trump will make it miserable for you. You will get no, you know, friends, tours of the White House or invited at any dinners or any help with fundraising or get on, you know, any of the big maga events or anything whatsoever. And then you'll be constant harassment, death threats, Twitter bombs out doxings, that sort of stuff from the. From the Trump crowd out there. And do you want to sign up for that? And the idea that there's enough people that don't want to take on that headache for the next two to four years of their Senate term, six years, that you would not vote no, which.
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Jack Armstrong
Is why I am here to predict that it won't get to that point. They will caucus, they will talk. They will send word via John Thune or somebody to the White House. Hey, dude, we got 20 defectors on Gates. Everybody else is looking solid, although I have some strong issues with Tulsi Gabbard. But more on that to come. You don't have the votes. You don't even have close to the votes. And then either the White House withdraws Gates or Gates withdraws himself to avoid the beating he would take or the humiliation, although I think Gates is below or above humiliation, depending on how you look at it.
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Joe Getty
I certainly Trump you only get so much political capital which drips away little by little as you take on all these battles, and I just don't think spending it on Mad Gates seems the best expenditure of your political capital to me.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Final note, very quickly, because I believe the Justice Department does have a hell of a lot of straightening out that needs to be done. I. A lot of you Gate supporters, I agree with you on a lot of it, but it's. It's. It's. It reminds me of the old fallacy, the fraud that something must be done. This is something, therefore this must be done. Now, what if this is a terrible idea? Someone needs to clean out the Justice Department. Gates is someone, therefore, Gates must clean out the judge. No, I'm not going along with it. Find somebody better.
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Joe Getty
We'll see. It'll be fun to watch. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
Wow. Did Marjorie Taylor Greene just drop a potential bomb? We'll get to that in hour three.
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Unknown Speaker
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
She. She is a bomb checker. Hey, let's touch on a few short stories here. Bingo Bango bongo, as we call it. This is a Chicago resident, one of many at a recent city council meeting.
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Unknown Speaker
Y'all can bird dog me all y'all want, but if y'all. If it's relationship over duty, then y'all don't serve the blue. And you can smirk all you want.
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Joe Getty
Mr. Sims, direct your attention towards me, please.
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Unknown Speaker
You're a criminal. Why do I gotta address you? The feds need to address you. DOJ need to address you. And hopefully Donald Trump will address you. Because you're going to protect the undocumented while you're going to allow for the citizens in Chicago to suffer under your, what, 33% procedure? Lopez cooked that 3% up a long time ago. Y'all called it a circuit breaker. Y'all been talked about it. Remember before you came in here and gave that jovial speech, you need to be inspected. You wear that creep over there.
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Jack Armstrong
There are all sorts of Chicagoans of all races. Hey, wait a minute. I thought you were supposed to obey the Democrats orders for your particular race and vote the way they. Anyway, Lots and lots of black folks are pissed off and slamming Mayor Brandon. Let's go. Brandon Johnson for proposing $300 million in property tax increases to cover the costs of dealing with the city's illegal immigrant problems. Unbelievable. And they're saying quite correctly, wait a minute. Not only have you been neglecting our neighborhoods and our programs and the rest of it, but now you gotta tax us even more because we're a sanctuary city. What the hell is going on? People are waking up. Love it. Moving along. John Nolte wrote the following, and I just loved it, so I'm just gonna read part of it. Disney cancels another Star wars movie, the groomers enslaved, December 18 of 26 for some untitled Star wars piece of crap. He actually uses the S word, but in a humiliating move because everything Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy touches turns to crap. Ice Age 6 has been slotted in its place. Our best guess is that this Star wars piece of crap would have been a continuation of the Skywalker saga, starring Daisy Ridley's Rey, a Mary sue character absolutely no one cares about. After defeating the empire in a 2019 Star wars piece of crap called the Rise of Skywalker, this new piece of crap would apparently add Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order, an order that almost certainly would have been made up of effeminate men, hairy guys in high heels, dumb dads, pronouns, land acknowledgments, and homely lesbians.
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Joe Getty
That's hilarious. And a new Ice Age movie with Ray Romano. Fantastic.
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Jack Armstrong
Like, let's see. A lesbian in California who happens to be Jewish says that her friends in the LGBTQ plus community are shunning her because she voted for Donald Trump due to his support for Israel against terrorism. She says, I definitely feel I'm on an island alone. The queer people have turned their backs on me and I'm queer, so it's very painful. Remember, queer is an all purpose term that just means in opposition to the status quo. Doesn't mean anything at all. She mentions that her LGBTQ basketball team won't pass the ball to her. Wow, that's gotta be a very bad feeling. And I'm sorry you're being treated that way. Could it be that the people around you are not good people? Mockery is erupted. Jack after an infamous modern art piece of a banana duct taped to a wall has been valued at more than a million dollars. Oh, I saw this simply titled comedian by Italian artist something or other. The art piece went viral in 2019 at Miami beach, where three editions of it. Three bananas was like six inches of duct tape, I guess sold for between 120 and 150 grand each. Five years later, the piece has been estimated worth one and $1.5 million for a Sotheby's auction.
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Joe Getty
I don't know what to make of that. I really don't.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, you gotta stop at the grocery store and the Lowe's to get a banana and duct tape, so. Well, no, you could probably get duct tape at the grocery store.
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Joe Getty
There's the age old argument. Specialized of my kid could do that with some art, but this one your kid actually 100% could do.
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Jack Armstrong
We didn't get to police station under attack by monkeys. So many monkeys. Armstrong and Getty.