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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio.
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Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Last night, President Trump posted over 160.
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Times on Truth Social, averaging more than.
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One post a minute. Well, I think we know where Venezuela's cocaine has been going. Yeah, that's not it, obviously, but what was it? 158 tweets or truths or whatever they call them in two and a half hours or something like that.
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Stream of consciousness, top of the head, communication with the American people. I like that better than Biden, but maybe there's an in between.
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Yeah, I don't know. That's interesting.
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How about you, you know, the whole write it, then sleep on it, and if it's still a good idea, send it tomorrow. How about we just go with five minutes?
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Well, the guy doesn't sleep much, so he's up late and just starts sending out thoughts.
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Right. So here's the report from the utterly dishonest mainstream media.
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The President is increasingly going after Somali immigrants. And now sources tell us that ICE is preparing for a surge operation in Minneapolis, which has a large somal population. But the mayor of Minneapolis says President Trump is wrong and that these immigrants have only greatly improved their community.
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Oh, that's funny. The President in the next clip has a contrasting point of view.
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We're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work. These aren't people that say, let's go. Come on, let's make this place great. These are people that do nothing but complain. But when they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don't want them in our country. Now, let me get back to the mayor before you talk about the president. So the mayor is saying they've been nothing but a positive for our community. You got to quit trying to sell that to people it doesn't work unless you're just so far down the road of diversity and believing that's important. Because you got to lie to yourself. If you import a bunch of poor people who don't speak English into your neighborhood, that is not going to immediately make your neighborhood better. It's impossible. It's impossible. It's impossible that you bring in a bunch of poor people who don't speak your language or know your culture and it makes your neighborhood better. Now you can make the argument that over time, with assimilation and bringing in new ideas, it makes our nation stronger. You can try to sell me on that, but you can't possibly claim that if you dump a bunch of poor people who don't speak English in my neighborhood that my neighborhood just got better. That's a lie. That's a freaking lie.
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Two thoughts. Number one, what if those people have a culture, indeed a religion, that is openly hostile to your culture and also come from a country where ripping off government programs is the way everybody gets by? You don't think there's a hazard there? That's absurd.
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Pro. The pro, you know, large scale immigration crowd needs.
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That's just crap.
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You need to try to sell it long term or whatever. Don't pretend that my neighborhood changing into something different overnight. Oh, that's what we were all thinking at the backyard barbecue the other night. I wish we all moved here. But we wish this neighborhood would change completely. Different music, different food, different language. We just love it. If it changed completely. That's why we live here. We for it to change into something else. That doesn't make any sense.
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I know, it's just. It's a lie. Second thought. And I'm jumping the gun a little bit because Jason Riley has a great piece about this in the Journal. Various politicians have been quoted as saying, you can't win Minneapolis unless you have the Somali vote. Wow. You can't win it. And you can't win Minnesota unless you have Minneapolis.
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Wow.
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So goes the power of ethnic urban politics. So what spawned all this? Well, after really years, the mainstream media has decided and others, even the conservative media, have decided the story of the massive ongoing fraud and theft from the taxpayers of America in Minnesota in particular by a bunch of criminals in the Somali. The Minneapolis tightly knit Somali diaspora community is worth talking about. The nation finally awakening to an ongoing scandal of massive proportions where state taxpayers have had somewhere north of $1 billion stolen from them by constraints concentric rings of welfare fraudsters based in and around Minneapolis's Somali community. And there's all sorts of significance to this story. They note in the National Review the depth of the fraud and how long it was ignored by the media at large. In September of 22, the federal government began to indict multiple sets of Minneapolis area Somali Americans on charges of defrauding Minnesota welfare and public assistance programs. First came the Feeding Our Future scandal, where so far, 75 defendants associated with the Somali charitable organization allegedly chose to feed on the sudden flood of COVID money available to anyone who could even vaguely claim a good cause. Feeding Our Future hoovered up millions of dollars of COVID funding with the promise of providing school lunches to disadvantaged children in the Twin Cities Somali community. Well, to their credit, the FBI back in 2022 raided their fake meal locations, and the federal indictments have been piling up ever since. But that turns out to be only one of multiple government fraud schemes emerging from the Twin Cities Somali community during the COVID era. September 18th of this year, federal prosecutors also dropped the first in a wave of indictments against eight defendants for defrauding the state's housing stabilization program to the tunes of hunt tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Hundreds of millions. Yeah. And there's much more that they're working to untangle. This is just the. These are the investigations that are done, and they're ready to prosecute. They note in the National Review, appropriately, that the scandal has finally been dignified over the weekend with a New York Times investigative article that calls out Tim Waltz, that useless embarrassment for his responsibility for Coach Walls. Just. I know. Yeah, I know. He's changing his carburetor. He's gonna teach men how to be masculine.
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I'm a knucklehead sometimes, and I'm a knucklehead at times.
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So the New York Times has given progressive America permission to notice the matter, Although that article, which I read was full of Republicans pounce as verbiage, which is utterly unnecessary as a career prosecutor. The federal lead on the case says fraud crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It's the result of widespread failure across nearly every level of leadership in Minnesota. You know, we could get into that, but the unpleasant reality is that we imported an element of Somalia's culture of criminality and for no good reason. While bogus charges of racism were used to keep suspicious authorities from following up on the blatant signs that something was amiss. And there was a heap load of that. Every time somebody would look into this, they were accused of racism. So the scandal raises the question, what does America owe to those who seek to immigrate here. Surely we as a nation are not commanded to accept an endless influx of people from third world countries with cultures opposite inimical to American values merely because they have the status of quote, unquote refugees. What is the what case is there to be made for admitting them in numbers large enough to recreate the cultural pathologies they escaped only in miniature? Well, and then own the politics of a state, as I was just illustrating. Skipping ahead, here's another angle of it. Headline for Fox News, abc, NBC and CBS evening newscasts ignore Widening Minnesota Fraud Case on Tim Waltz's Watch. Fox News was on it, of course, last night, but the Alphabet Networks pretended it didn't happen. Unbelievable. Moving along to Jason Riley's piece, which I think is well worth highlighting, and he talks about how the Manhattan Institute and what, what is the other. I'll, I'll think of the other publication that's been doing good reporting on this because they deserve the the credit. But last month, City Journal published an investigative report by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo about COVID related fraud in the Somali thing, what we've been talking about, instead of, instead of them using the money to provide housing or Medicaid services, all the stuff they owned, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles and buy real estate, including in foreign countries. According to the New York Times, Minnesota's fraud scandal stood out even in the context of rampant theft during the pandemic when Americans, well, and foreigners. That's interesting that the New York Times would say just Americans stole tens of billions of dollars through unemployment benefits, business loans and other forms of aid, et cetera, et cetera. Here's the quote.
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Even that happens, you know, to the point that that was a, you know, plenty of born here in this country, people were ripping off a lot of that Covid money. That happens when you start throwing out trillions of dollars. All kinds of people are going to be stealing it.
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Oh yeah. And everybody at every level of government knew that they were squandering your tax dollars but wanted to buy an inflated hot economy to save their own skins. So here's a couple of key quotes former state senator told Thorpe and Rufo, quote, the media does not want to put a light on this. And if you're a politician, it's a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community. If you don't win the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis. And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state. In a follow up, Rufo wrote that critics on the left were accusing him and his co author of racist reporting. God, we've got to just ignore the that completely. All of us. Apparently no one is supposed to notice that Minnesota's welfare fraud was heavily concentrated among people who are relatively new to the country and share an ethnic identity, writes Jason Riley. Rufo says, quote, a dis this. You know what? I'm going to get this tattooed on me. I'm finally going to get a tattoo.
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Okay, here we go.
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A description of the facts should not be measured as racist or not racist, but rather as true or not true.
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Well, that's pretty good.
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That is really. No kidding. No kidding. All right, a quick word from Omaha Steaks and then an expert at on Somali culture at a university is going to tell us the reality of this situation. And we're not going to measure it by is it racist or not, but by is it true or not.
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Stay tuned.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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What do you think makes the perfect snack?
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It's got to be when I'm really craving it and it's convenient.
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Could you be more specific when it's cravenient? Okay.
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Like a freshly baked cookie made with real butter available right down the street at a.m. p.m. Or a savory breakfast.
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Sandwich I can grab in just A.
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Second at am, pm.
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I'm seeing a pattern here. Well, yeah, we're talking about what I.
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Crave, which is anything from am, pm.
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What more could you want? Stop by ampm, where the snacks and drinks are perfectly craveable and convenient. That's cravenience. Am, pm. Too much. Good stuff. Quick things to get back into. Joe, explaining how people are ripping off taxpayers in Minnesota, particularly the Somali community. One, what's wrong with my voice? I don't know. A number of people have been texting. That's just the way I sound. I have a cold and this is why I sound. I don't. Maybe I'm dying. Could be that.
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Two, I saw Dying Jack slowly from time.
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This is a good point. Two, I saw the pictures of the drunk raccoon passed out by the toilet. That raccoon had a big night.
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That again, hitting a little close to home.
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Exactly. The fact that he got drunk and then passed out next to a toilet is too much.
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That's funny, because as far as I can discern, raccoons don't use toilets to vomit or otherwise. Right. It's almost too perfect. Does somebody drag it in there or.
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Even know what a toilet is?
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Well, so it's a good point.
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And thirdly, the way the media takes on stories like the Somali thing Joe was talking about. Republicans pounce. You either know that trope or you don't. But, for instance, Time magazine, what to know about Trump's targeting of Somalis in Minnesota. Have they done any stories on what to know about Somalis ripping off taxpayers in Minnesota? Probably not, but they do a story of what to know about Trump's targeting of Somalis. Like, that's the story, not the original taxpayer ripoff, which is what Trump's commenting on.
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Right, Exactly. So Ahmad Samatar, an expert on Somali culture at Macalester College, told the New York Times that many Somali refugees were raised in a culture where stealing from the government was common and that a reckoning over the fraud was overdue. So here's an expert on Somali culture is like, oh, yeah, ripping off the government is what you do. Okay, so is he a racist? Mr. Ahmed Samatar, you morons. Anyway, then Jason Riley goes into a little American history, which I found very, very interesting in the early 1900s, because the Somalis are hardly the first immigrant group to arrive in America with a little cultural baggage. In the early 1900s, crime was so prevalent in New York's Jewish and Italian neighborhoods that a specialized detective force was established, and the city's police commissioner wrote that among the most expert of all the street thieves are the Hebrew boys under 16. Da da da. Chinese immigrants who arrived in California during the mid-1800s during the gold Rush earned a reputation for poor hygiene, prostitution, gambling and other behavior that fanned anti Chinese sentiment.
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Poor.
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Following the massive influx of Irish immigrants beginning around the same time, it was hard not to notice that cholera, tuberculosis and alcoholism disproportionately plagued Irish communities. So he points out, these weren't negative perceptions or ugly stereotypes. They were truth. And fortunately, these groups are willing to face reality. The Chinese and Americans formed benevolent societies to help new arrivals assimilate. Jewish leaders in New York themselves established a Bureau of Social Morals and worked with police to address the crime problem. According to the historian Howard sacher, by the 1920s, Jews and criminality ceased to be interchangeable terms in the public vernacular. In other words, cultures can adapt, but that will require confronting the problem rather than ignoring it or pretending that anyone who speaks out is acting in bad faith or, you know, is a racist. Well said as always, Jason Riley.
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Back when we used to call out hygiene, finally, we just.
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We need to air so far back toward plain common sense. Oh, which reminds me later in the show, a gender bending madness update that absolutely proves this battle has just begun. The entrenched forces of postmodernism, they are absolutely not laying down their weapons. They're just adapting their game and fighting as hard as they can to keep the perversion going.
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Has anybody seen that kicker from the Giants alive? No, the guy that kicked his foot into the ground two feet behind the ball the other night on Monday Night Football? Is he okay?
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Is he the great JT in Livermore with a thought? I wish I'd had it myself. I'm a little ashamed. Guys, there's almost zero chance that the failed kick was natural. There's a reason people are saying worst ever. I've never seen that. What the f. Because no serious kicker could muff it that bad. Decade plus building up muscle memory, et cetera, et cetera. I smell another micro bet scandal.
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Wow. It's funny that we all didn't jump to that immediately, having just watched the videos of those pitches from a couple of weeks ago, where we know for a fact the guy throwing the ball, like straight into the ground halfway to the plate was on purpose because he had money on it.
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The only problem with that theory, the holder badly bobbled the snap and it looked there for a second. And all you have is a second that the kicker wasn't going to be able to kick it at all that. It was a complete abort run the ball situation. So, yeah, he completely lost focus. It was also the worst attempt in the history of the NFL. But I say not malfeasance, but incompetence.
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Sure was funny to watch, though. Every time I see it, I laugh. We've got more on the way. If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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Oh, my God. Oh, my God. What the is that waymo doing? So that was a police standoff in Los Angeles in which the Waymo drove into the middle of it. That's, you know, that's not what you want out of your Waymo. No.
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That'd make for an exciting and perhaps final ride.
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And here's a report from NBC News about Waymo.
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A line of police cars blocking the road and a man lying on the ground enter this Waymo driverless taxi, which while servicing riders, proceeds to take a left turn, driving right past the active police stop and officers who moments later are seen walking towards the subject with weapons drawn. In a statement, the company saying safety is our highest priority and that when we encounter unusual events like this one, we learn from them. Their vehicles are still facing challenges. Last year, a passenger got stuck in a Waymo after the car repeatedly circled around a parking lot at the Phoenix airport. And a federal investigation is now underway into Waymo's repeatedly passing stop school buses with lights flashing.
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That ain't good. But for whatever reason, the mainstream media loves stories of Waymo or Tesla's automatic driving when it fails. I don't know. I don't know what exactly that's all about, but regardless, we all know that the day is coming when they get all those kinks worked out and that will no longer be a problem, right?
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Oh, I would think so.
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Everybody agrees on that, I think.
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Interestingly, headlined in the Wall Street Journal, Waymo's self driving cars are suddenly behaving like New York cabbies. Autonomous vehicles are adopting human like qualities, making illegal U turns and flooring it. The second light turns green.
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Wow, that's interesting. I'd like to know something about how it learned to do that and why. But my. The latest Tesla update for their fsd, they call it for full service driving is so good. Oh, it's just unbelievable. I did the first time the other day tried to like do from my driveway where I hit the button and had me take me all the way and it was so good. The way the technology has improved in just a couple of years of me using it is quite amazing. And Elon keeps promising that they'll be able to go, you know, you don't have to pay attention anymore, blah, blah, blah, that sort of stuff. So that leads us to this. This is this doctor who wrote a piece over the weekend in the New York Times, a guest essay about autonomous vehicle safety. Waymo recently released Data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. Waymo is a driverless taxi. I guess we should throw that out. In case you don't know that we live in the area where they started in San Francisco, and they have way more taxis all over the place in San Francisco and now they're spread out across different cities across America. Waymo recently released Data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seem too good to be true. 91% fewer serious injury crashes than human driven taxis. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on. And then he makes this argument. 39,000Americans died in auto crashes last year. It's more than homicide, plane crashes and natural disasters combined. It's the number two killer of children and young adults, the number one cause of spinal cord injury. We've accepted this as a price of mobility. We no longer have to.
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Right. Sorry.
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I'm dying. So. And I wanted to get. And then we'll have the conversation I wanted to get Charles C.W. cook of National Reviews response to that essay was this. I like Waymo. But the moment that this argument switches, as it inevitably will from we have cool new technology that works and is available everywhere and saves lives to you must now be banned from driving your own car. I am going to become a foe, says Charles C. Cook. As am I, as are a lot of people. But good luck with that because it's gonna happen. I hate it. I hate it a lot. I don't think there's a chance in hell that my kids will end their lives getting to drive cars wherever they want to in the United States of America on their own.
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I would agree. The, the track is too slick, probably an unfortunate metaphor. And the, the math is too easy to do. It's, it's number one, it's safety. And especially on the left, safety is the only priority that matters. It matters more than liberty, even though matters more than fun and adventure and discovery. It's just safety.
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Even though traffic deaths are way down. But when they were at their highest, I had this number the other day. I think the highest was 1971. Adjusted for population inflation, it'd be like the equivalent of like 95, 000 people a year dying. Even with those levels of people dying, we were all perfectly comfortable going out, driving every day. Everybody's willing to take that risk for the enjoyment, freedom, whatever of driving. It wasn't. We weren't cringing, scared to death. In fact, we're the opposite. We're staring at our phone as we fly down the freeway. That's how little we're worried about it. But safetyism will take over. And then you bring in the insurance companies and the lawyers and goodbye freedom to drive ever again. I think it's inevitable. I hate it. It hurts my heart to think about it. I don't talk about it around my son because it's gonna just devastate him if he finds out that by the time he's 25 he will no longer be able to drive a car. He can't wait.
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And the resultant never ending government tracking of our whereabouts.
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Right.
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I mean that's gonna be part of it too.
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You'll never go anywhere ever again where it's not tracked. It's practically that way now because we carry phones in our pockets, right?
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There will be a certain percentage of us lone wolfs who. Wolves who will, you know, disable tracking devices and break the motor laws, to quote a great Rush song. Yeah, but no, I don't see any flaw in your logic.
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No, be the safety ism combined with the insurance companies and the lawyers. I mean, how are you going to get around that? It's going to be a situation where the insurance would just be so expensive, right, that you just can't afford to drive. And then at some point they'll probably just Flat outlaw it.
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Well, right, because yeah, the insurance would be expensive because the pool, the risk pool would get very, very small because only a certain number of people would be the lone Wolfests.
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Well, and when the technology gets practically perfect and it's as if you heard those Waymo stats, it's really good already. You can understand the insurance company's argument.
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You can be throw in, you can get a little, you can get a little loving during your, your drive there or watch your favorite movie. Maybe you watch, you know, Full Metal Jacket and Four parts as you go back and forth to work or whatever. You know, they could sweeten the pot a little bit.
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Well, and I've got to factor in the fact that I'm an outlier, apparently. I mean, every single human I talked to as I was driving across the country, I told him what I do. Oh my God, why don't you fly? I just want to get there. Nobody likes driving like I do, so I'm, I have to realize I'm an outlier. Most people hate the idea of driving, so they're gonna willingly give up being able to get out on the open road and go wherever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want.
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Well, I've got a steel man. The other side's argument. After I do that, I'm going to run its steel ass down. But here's what if, what if chainsaws killed 39,000Americans every year? Now granted, chainsaws aren't nearly as necessary, but let me just go with it. Maybe we can work on the metaphor as we go. So chainsaws kill 39,000 people a year and they come up with an automated chainsaw that you put the tree or whatever the log in there and the chainsaw just, it does a real nice cut. And you can stand back with your goggles and watch it do it at zero risk to yourself. Chainsaw. Would they still sell the regular old chainsaw? Could you even buy them?
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I don't think you're even steel manning it as well as you can because that's just me taking the risk. How about if chainsaws killed your neighbors? You using a chainsaw killed your neighbors, you know, tens of thousands of times a year when they're just minding their own business because that's what car wrecks are. Other people driving poorly can kill me.
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Now don't get all pissed off and back over me with your weird looking truck. What if you're just wrong on this one? There are so many advantages. It's clearly a good idea. Now I Can't say that without getting a sick feeling in my stomach because every step away from liberty in this country is a bad one.
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I think I am literally wrong. That's why it's going to happen. But I still don't like it. I still don't like it at all. I much prefer the idea. I will willingly the rest of my life drive out on the roads knowing that about 40,000 people a year die, sometimes it's not your fault. And still drive around this country and love it. Right, with that risk, absolutely. But it's going to get taken away from us. It just is.
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Yeah. I feel like a guy whose family is constantly being attacked illegitimately. False accusations and slanders. Then somebody in my family actually does something wrong. I don't want to admit it. I don't want to give up more liberty. Even if it's a good idea. Just the idea sickens me.
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Got it. Go ahead, Michael.
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I know I've said this before, but it wasn't very many years ago. I'm old, but I'm not like 150. It wasn't very many years ago. And I like to go on road trips. I'd go on a road trip and there wasn't anybody in the country knew where I Was, I mean, nobody. And it would been impossible to know. I'm in Montana in some hotel that I paid cash for. You know, I was paying cash at the gas stations. I mean, there's no record of where I am at all.
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Right.
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And I think that's fantastic. But I can't really nail down why. I just like the freedom of I'm doing whatever the hell I want and nobody's keeping track of it now. That is completely gone. Everything has to be on a credit card so the credit card companies know you're carrying your phone, everybody knows the location and soon it will be the thing will be driving you. And there's a map that I'm sure the government will have access to of everywhere you go, cameras on you, every building you walk into. That can't possibly be a good thing.
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Yeah, you know, I think I've come up with my stance on this because what you just described, the change has made it vastly more difficult to be a serial killer. There has been a huge drop in serial killings in the United States. And so those of you who in the interest of safety and law and order, want to push things further in that direction, I understand that you're not entirely wrong. You keep pushing for that, I'm going to keep pushing for liberty. Just because you only have so much time on Earth, Earth, I'm going to make that my cause and I'm going to try to counterbalance your worst, do gooder impulses. I'm not saying you're always wrong. I'm just saying if we let you people run roughshod, we will go even further down the road of becoming a nation of veal calves. Well, a nation of Mandarin speaking field calves. Because the hard asses of the world aren't going to say leave them alone, they're soft, often, they have lots of resources. So don't, don't be mean to them, please.
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B
Before we take a break, what would be your guess at how many more years we have the freedom to drive.
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C
The moment. The technology is, is. Although it's very close to being good enough very, very quickly after there's a general consensus that it's safe and effective, the technology.
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B
So do you think it's single digit years or decade or more anymore from now?
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C
Less than a decade.
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B
I'll bet it is too. Boy, that's bad news if you're a young man looking forward to drive like my son.
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C
Well, either listen to these incredibly important and helpful commercial messages or queue up Russia's song, the Red Barchetta and enjoy it during the commercial break. A great libertarian anthem.
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B
Okay, we got more on the way.
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C
Steer Armstrong and Getty. We'll get this.
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B
Today, YouTube released their first ever recap, which is a shareable highlight reel of.
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C
Your year's watch history.
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B
In other words, blackmail.
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C
Yeah.
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B
Now your friend can send you a reel of all the videos you didn't watch the first time he sent them to you. You're gonna love this.
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C
This one's great.
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B
You gotta watch it. You guys on the trampoline, you're gonna freak out.
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C
You know, the best thing about Fallon is he seems to have a. A good heart, a positive spirit, as he does his humor. He's not superior and hateful like a Kimmel or a Jerry.
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B
Seinfeld says Jimmy Fallon is the most normal person in all of show business.
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C
Yeah, I believe it seems like a fine bloke. Speaking of fine blokes, here's the President of the United States, and we're going.
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B
To start doing those strikes on land, too. You know, the land is much easier. It's much easier. And we know the routes they take. We know everything about them. We know where they live, we know where the bad ones live. And we're going to start that very soon, too.
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C
Trump talking about the powers that be in Venezuela and the drug cartels and whatever we're up to there, which, again, I think is just establishing that this is our neighborhood and there are going to be no more narco states unfriendly to the United States.
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B
So we're going to start rockets hitting people on land in Venezuela.
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C
Perhaps this. It's not a bluff, per se. I think that Trump is saying, look, you're going to make a deal with us or we're going to blow you to smithereens. Anyway, on the boat, the double tap controversy got this note from Joe the Marine. He says, good morning, gents. I've been biting my tongue over this boat thing for a couple of days, but Mike Lyons commentary yesterday on the show Grab It Vibe podcast. If you missed it, hit the nail on the head. This is a political scheme that's akin to the strife we had in the Vietnam War and creates huge issues within the services. The only thing he didn't address that I would is that we need clarity for the context. As Mike Lyons said, people seem to think this is Leonardo DiCaprio trying to fit on the floating door outside the sinking Titanic. While a Hellfire missile is a precision weapon, it's not precise enough to strike a person floating in the water. Having run controls on several, it would get close, but anything that is not the person it would splash into the water and probably never even set off the warhead. It needs a decent sized target, a vehicle, a tank, a building. I haven't seen the videos, but from a weaponeering perspective there's almost certainly a boat still floating which if the mission is to destroy it then it would require a re attack. This is political banter of the worst kind. Military operates within the law, but fog of war is real and split seconds decisions are made by people with years of experience to make that decision using their best military judgment with the goal of the mission accomplishment within the law. If politicians start witch hunting service members, we create an environment of hesitation which leads to bloodshed for Americans. Question the validity of the executive policy and the decision to prosecute the campaign, but don't start poking at the individual actions within the scope of that campaign anyway. Owen2 well said Joe. Well done sir. Appreciate that.
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B
So the oft commented on for the last week or so that you don't it's against the law to bomb shipwreck survivors. That assumes the ship has wrecked. What if the ship is not wrecked yet? We're trying to sink an aircraft carrier and it's hadn't been sunk yet. There's still people on it, but it hasn't been sunk yet. It might be sinking. We're not sure. We're gonna hit it again to make sure it sinks right?
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C
Bomb the Jesus out of it. Yeah, absolutely. And having heard personally stories from and Jack, I know you have too, at least as much as me. Stories from folks who served in Afghanistan in particular, but also Iraq where the rules of engagement were so handcuffing them that it was a statement that look for kind of political PR reasons we're gonna let more of you guys get killed. Killed dead or horribly maimed. So you don't like accidentally shoot first and make a mistake that it made me so mad I could barely function. And what Joe the Marine and other people are pointing out is all right, go after the mission if you want, but but do not be armchair quarterbacking guys who have to make the quick decisions. I agree with that completely.
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B
God, where is this story going? The Venezuela story?
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C
Yeah. The bigger story. Yeah. I don't know. This is clearly an assertive and overdue policy. You've heard me advocating this for years to really clean up our neighborhood and make our neighborhood about America and its allies. But the not every tin horn jackass commie who grabs power in some godforsaken banana republic. Why would we do that name a superpower that's ever done that. It's stupid.
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B
But Trump got, what did he get, 80 million votes or something like that Wasn't one of them. Because they wanted regime change in Venezuela.
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C
He's ahead of his time. Well, no, no, just we got our, our hemisphere needs to be our hemisphere.
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B
Yeah. Well, be interesting to watch and we'll talk about it because that's what we do. And if you missed a segment, an hour you should get or an hour you should get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. That's how it works.
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C
I will admit that if that is the policy, it's going to be a big challenge and complicated. And I hope we're going in with both eyes wide open.
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B
Yeah, it often gets more complicated than.
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C
You were expecting, right?
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A
Armstrong and Getty, this is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.