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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. Oh, I tell you what, a good buddy of mine just texted and said, I want to get it right. It's really getting crazy out there. I believe that it may boil over soon. I wonder. Tesla's being set on fire and blown.
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Joe Getty
Up and yeah, I was just looking at a video on that. Attorney General Pam Bondi came out yesterday, said we're going to prosecute these people the full extent of the law. That comment always is weird to me. I want everybody prosecuted to the full extent of law and every crime you break, I mean, that's the whole point of the law to me. But hard to disagree with that. But the number of Tesla's cybertrucks that have been set on fire at various dealerships, it's something really.
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Jack Armstrong
We'll get to that this hour.
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Pam Bondi
But things are weird and they're getting weird fast.
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Jack Armstrong
Amen. True words never spoken. So particularly if you turn to the pages of the left leaning media, you see the frantic and somewhat worn out cry that we are headed toward in the middle of whatever, a constitutional crisis this time, because the Trump administration is at loggerheads with various judges around the country as they try to institute their policies. And the President called for one judge to be impeached. We will talk about that a little more specifically in a minute. And then Chief Justice John Roberts criticized Trump's call to impeach judges. And in a very gentlemanly statement. And the left, I mean, number one, a lot of lefty media is absolutely desperate. And so everything they do is clickbait. And they make everything Trump versus the evil Trump versus the, you know, kind good people of whoever's against Trump. And then they jack up the significance of everything. So their hair is constantly on fire. You're familiar with that. But if you look at the actual substance of what's going on it's, to me, it's more interesting. But Chief Justice John Roberts, in a gentlemanly statement, said essentially the court should be left to resolve legal disputes through the traditional system of litigation. And I quote, for more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose. Meaning judge number one makes a bad decision, everybody be cool. Happens a lot. We've got a huge whole process worked out and it works really, really well.
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Joe Getty
And then John Roberts yelled, Obama cares. Attacks and ran back in his office.
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Jack Armstrong
And then Trump vowed to go down to the Supreme Court and drag Roberts out of there with his bare hands and give him the thresh. And he doesn't. No, he didn't. Here's what Trump said on Laura Ingraham's show last night. Clip 70 he didn't mention my name in the statement.
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Pam Bondi
I just saw it quickly.
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Jack Armstrong
He didn't mention my name.
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Joe Getty
But many people have called for his.
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Jack Armstrong
Impeachment, the impeachment of this judge.
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Joe Getty
I don't know who the judge is, but he's radical left.
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Pam Bondi
He was Obama appointed and he actually.
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Joe Getty
Said we shouldn't be able to take criminals, killers, murderers, horrible, the worst people.
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Pam Bondi
Gang members, gang leaders, that we shouldn't.
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Jack Armstrong
Be allowed to take them out of our country.
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Pam Bondi
Well, that's a presidential job.
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Jack Armstrong
That's not for a local judge to.
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Pam Bondi
Be making that determination.
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Joe Getty
And I thought it was terrible.
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Jack Armstrong
Just as an aside, I think it's funny that Trump says a lot of people are saying that you're the President of the United States of America. It doesn't matter if a lot of people are saying it or one person is saying it, or nobody. You don't need anyway. But it was, it was interesting. He said, hey, didn't name me. It's fine, we're good, we're good. And they called the judge, the individual judge, troublemaker and agitator. And then Laura doubled down, asked him a really good question.
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Pam Bondi
Would you defy a court order?
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Joe Getty
I never did defy a court order. And you wouldn't in the future?
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Jack Armstrong
No, you can't do that.
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Joe Getty
However, we have bad judges. We have very bad judges.
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Jack Armstrong
And these are judges that shouldn't be allowed. I think they, I think at a.
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Joe Getty
Certain point, you have to start looking.
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Pam Bondi
At what do you do when you.
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Joe Getty
Have a rogue judge.
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Jack Armstrong
So you could easily assign the headline Trump Affirms Judicial Review to that interview.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it's sort of like we're talking about with Kanye last hour Kanye shooting off his mouth a lot. But then when he gets in a bad legal situation, he seems to know where the line is, or somebody tells him. Trump realizes you can't be saying you're going to defy a judge's order. He realizes that's a, a line not to cross.
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Jack Armstrong
Right? And it is interesting. His line is very different than other presidents and it makes me really uncomfortable sometimes. But it seems like the whole whipping up the masses, getting people excited. It ends at the point where somebody asks him explicitly, will you do this thing that the left's hair is on fire that you're going to do, which would be an actual constitutional crisis. And he says, no, no, you can't do that. Which I thought was good. I was heartened by that. A couple of notes. If you're not following this stuff closely and good for you, go live your life, love your children or your spouse or go bird watching or something. We'll do it for you. But look, a bird. There's more to it than that. But in essence, that's it.
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Joe Getty
Jack, Headline number one, boiled it down to it.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, no, I thought you were gonna say you boiled the bird because that's definitely not part of it. Birds are beautiful, though. I kind of like bird watching. Judge said Doge's dismantling of US aid, likely unconstitutional ruling deals a blow to Elon Musk in one of his earlier efforts to cut back the size of the federal government. This is a federal district judge in Maryland. Likely unconstitutional on multiple fronts. Okay, you know, we can wrangle about the constitutionality of that, but it's. This is not a 400 level class. This is a, you know, podcast radio show. Uh, then this headline, Federal Judge blocks Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military. This is a completely different, lowest level of the federal judiciary. This gal in Washington D.C. where the courts are left at. Trotsky, ruled that the order against transgenders in the military, likely violating the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. Issued a preliminary junction that halted it while litigation continues. It's a, it's a blanket to standards. The, the, the, the, the transgender folks are, are great soldiers, right? They wrote the judge in a 79 page ruling. A lot of them are. Well, we'll see and we'll see whether the commander in chief can set those standards and it'll work its way through the courts. But I thought this was interesting. John Fund, who is a very, very smart guy, he writes for the National Review, mostly wrote a piece that said that's entitled the Epidemic of Judge made law by issuing nationwide injunctions against executive action, Federal district courts are exercising too much power. And some of the statistics on this, pretty interesting. Last month, district court judges issued 15 temporary restraining orders halting actions of the Trump administration. That's more restraining orders than were issued during the first three years of the Biden administration.
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Joe Getty
That's pretty interesting. Now, you could say, well, you could say two things. Obviously, you could say, look, these judges are out to get Trump. Or on the other side, you could say, well, Trump does so many things that are completely unconstitutional. That's why this is happening.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. I'm sure that argument is coming from the left. So far, district courts have blocked an extraordinary range of executive actions, ranging from the attempted repeal of birthright citizenship and a bid to end DEI programs to an effort to take down government web pages that discuss sex change operations. District courts blocked all of those things because obviously, the president, who runs the executive branch, can't take down web pages that talk about sex changes. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called it, quote, an emerging dictatorship of district court judges. And they point out, fund points out. The latest order comes from District Judge James Boasberg of Washington, D.C. an Obama guy. He blocked President Trump's deporting of the Venezuelan gang members. The alleged gang members, I think I'm supposed to say, to expedite the removal of members of trend under the Alien enemies Act of 1798. These people are neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents. And we sent them to El Salvador. You're probably familiar with that story or seen the video of them being forced off planes and into buses with their heads pressed down low, which looks very uncomfortable, but you cannot resist when somebody's doing that to you. Anyway, this is the judge who told the Department of Justice, hey, anybody who's taking off or in the area, they need to turn around and come back to the US but they landed in El Salvador, and there's some debate over when he said that or made it official. Blah, blah, blah. We're not going to get into that.
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Joe Getty
You do get into a sticky constitutional situation if a president starts defying federal judges, because then, then what do you do, right? I mean, do you send the army in? I mean, what do you do?
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Jack Armstrong
Here's where it gets more interesting. And if, if you just want to yell back and forth, left, right, left, right, that's fine. I do it myself sometimes. But at least around here, we find it much more interesting to understand what's actually going on. So Trump's acting Solicitor General. That's his number One lawyer argues that federal district judges have no authority at all to issue sweeping orders that block policies nationwide. Instead, the injunction should only apply to that judge's district or to the specific individuals or groups who have sued. So you can't have Johnny Trend say, hey, hey, all my buddies got shipped out. That's no fair. There was no due process. And this judge says, you know what? You're right. You can't ship any gang members out until I give you the go ahead. And the Trump administration is making the interesting legal argument that you can't do that. She said in her brief to the Supreme Court, and I quote, years of experience have shown that the executive branch cannot properly perform its functions. If any judge anywhere can enjoin every presidential action everywhere. National Review. Not always Trump friendly. I actually think they're quite fair. And they point out she may get a sympathetic hearing from the Supremes. They realize that something has clearly changed at the district court level. Couple more stats. During Trump's first term, 64 nationwide injunctions were issued, a staggering increase from the Obama and Bush years. Justice Samuel Alito Hero recently called it judicial hubris, a practice that damaged the rule of law. He asked, and I quote, does a single district court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the government of the United States? The answer to that question should be an emphatic no.
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Joe Getty
Wow, that's interesting, because I watch enough msnbc, for instance, to know they're not quoting Supreme Court justices who agree with Trump on this.
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Jack Armstrong
No, no. And they grossly oversimplify it and just say trump's a racist monster. But again, I find the actual reality of it much more interesting. I could go on because I could geek out on this stuff all day long. Don't want to overdo it, but this is a super interesting and important question.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, and it will end up at the Supreme Court and get figured out, I assume.
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Jack Armstrong
Good. The process works.
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Joe Getty
The process works. And I'll tell you what doesn't work. Having opening day in Japan. I don't like that.
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Jack Armstrong
Boo.
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Joe Getty
Dodgers have won two games already, and the season hasn't started for anybody else. Huh. I like that either.
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Jack Armstrong
In Japan, in the middle of the.
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Joe Getty
Night, foreign game shouldn't count. That'd be my new rule.
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Jack Armstrong
Two weeks before opening day. This is stupid. Come on, mlb. I know you want to grow the.
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Joe Getty
Game, but come on, come on. Elon did a big interview last night and talked a lot about his cars being attacked and death threats and all that sort of stuff. It's kind of interesting. Among other things on the way.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, things can get pretty.
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Joe Getty
Crazy at spring break.
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Jack Armstrong
So apparently some cities have put up warning signs around some popular places.
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Joe Getty
Like, you've seen these, like don't drink and drive.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, of course, that's very important.
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Joe Getty
But there are other some other warning signs that really caught my eye.
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Jack Armstrong
For instance, here's one from Myrtle Beach.
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Joe Getty
It says you're one viral TikTok away from unemployment.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I'm kidding.
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Joe Getty
Hey, I just saw Ted Lasso's returning for season four. You're a Ted Lasso person, are you not?
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Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah. Big fan. Loved it.
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Joe Getty
Still good clear up through the most recent season.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah, yeah. Loved every episode. Yeah, it's the rare, life affirming, you know, drama.
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Joe Getty
Awesome. So speaking of spring break, we haven't really been covering this story of the disappeared attractive woman who disappeared and then they're holding on to a guy and all this sort of stuff, you know, none of the details really matter.
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Jack Armstrong
Dominican Republic.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, but what bad luck it is if you're a dude with a chick who disappears and you didn't do anything. You were just, oh yeah, out there drinking. I mean, I've been in this situation but myself. It's getting later and you're drinking more and you're thinking, I'm wondering, this is going to turn into something. And then at some point you realize it's not, or they say it's not, and you go back to your room. But then if you get a knock on your door the next day, we haven't seen this person. You're the last person did. That's a bad situation to be in. And that seems like might be what happened here. Probably happened here, especially if you were hammered drunk. Oh, right.
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Jack Armstrong
But you, you know, then what happened?
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Joe Getty
I went back to my room. What was she doing? I don't know. You don't know? No, I really don't.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, she said, I, I want to swim. That's the last thing I remember.
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Joe Getty
Right. I thought, I don't want to swim. It's cold. I'm back to my room.
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Jack Armstrong
The one thing this guy's got going for him is he said, you know, I passed out on the sand and woke up in the morning, went back to my room. And there's security footage of him walking back bedraggled to his room precisely when he said he did.
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Joe Getty
Which is the sort of thing that happens a lot in spring break locations. I have gone out in the ocean, swimming, hammered, drunk in the middle of the night, and a giant wave could have knocked me down and swept me out to sea. Certainly.
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Jack Armstrong
I wonder if when you arrive at the pearly gates, other people, probably not me. St. Peter says to you, you know, just, we keep track of this kind of our hobby up here. Here's the times you came within an inch of dying. Well, let's see. Let's begin with the time when you were a kid and you ran out in the street. Then there was the time you're wasted at spring break and decided to swim. See there, your mouth right there, it's an inch above the water. That next wave is really big. But you turned around, see how close you were.
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Joe Getty
Did you just declare you think you're going to hell?
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Jack Armstrong
Just. I'm a betting man. I'm just going with the odds. It was a joke.
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Joe Getty
He makes your biggest transgression stupidity.
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Jack Armstrong
I left out the most interesting statistic in my constitutional geeking out thing. Last segment. Here it is. I've lost it again. I'm truly stupid.
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Joe Getty
I thought you were going to say being a disc jockey. God is going to see.
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Jack Armstrong
You were really briefly a disc jockey.
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Joe Getty
And we do not let in disc jockeys.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. There appears. Oh, Clarence Thomas pointed out that there does not appear to be a single case of a nationwide injunction against federal defendants for the first century and a half of the United States of the kind we were talking about. It's just grew up with the political polarization in our country over the last few years.
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Joe Getty
It's a modern phenomena that is really interesting. And another thing you don't hear on CNN or MSNBC or Fox for that matter, that's really interesting.
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Jack Armstrong
I apologize back to you.
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Joe Getty
Back to the Pearly Gates. Heard a great joke Ricky Gervais told. It's a very complex, it's not really funny. It's a philosophical sort of joke about meeting God at the Pearly Gates. Get to that in the next half hour because it's, it's a pretty good one.
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Jack Armstrong
It's not about the guy with the wife named Fanny.
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Joe Getty
I, I don't know that one.
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Jack Armstrong
Always enjoyed that one. It's classic.
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Joe Getty
Okay. Yeah, there's a, there's a lot of good. You're at the Pearly gates talking to St. Peter jokes. There's a lot of good ones. It is a classic of the genre. Elon Musk, big interview last night. He didn't like all his Teslas being set on fire, among other things.
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Amy Brown
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Jack Armstrong
The FBI is investigating what it calls.
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Joe Getty
A targeted attack after at least five.
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Jack Armstrong
Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas. Police say a suspect wearing all black through Molotov cocktails, shot three more Teslas with a firearm and spray painted the.
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Pam Bondi
Word resist on the building.
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Jack Armstrong
Just this month, shots fired at this Tesla dealership in Oregon, Tesla's spray painted in Massachusetts, and cybertrucks on fire in Seattle. Writing about all this vandalism on social media, Musk says Tesla makes great products.
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Joe Getty
That people love, so all the hate.
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Jack Armstrong
And violence directed toward him must be.
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Joe Getty
Because people are too woke. I saw a meme on Twitter yesterday. It had how did we become friends? And it was diesel truck driving guy and Tesla guy shaking hands because we're against the left or something like that. I have both a diesel truck and a Tesla and like them both, I don't know if you're allowed to do that or not, but in my world.
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Jack Armstrong
Yard, do whatever the hell you want.
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Joe Getty
Speaking of Elon, before we get to some of his interview, first of all, that's, that's nuts. That, that is political terrorism going on all across the country like that against a one of the most valuable companies in the world. And it's not getting near the attention it should.
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Jack Armstrong
Who was their best buddy just a few minutes ago? That does that remind you of any crazy people you know in your life?
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Joe Getty
The value this is. According to the Financial Times, the valuation of Elon's Twitter is at $44 billion. It says here in the Financial Times social media site was valued at less than 10 billion in September. A sharp turnaround for Twitter. I have no idea what drove that. But for anybody who we refuse to.
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Jack Armstrong
Call it X by the way, if you're wondering.
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Joe Getty
So let's just run through some of these. I thought they were all interesting. First of all, on some of the rocket stuff as Elon's SpaceX brought back, helped bring back those astronauts yesterday. This is Elon doing an interview with Sean Hannity last night.
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Pam Bondi
Well, I'm usually a little nervous about these returns because there's always some risk that something go wrong. But thanks to the excellent work of the SpaceX team working with NASA, the astronauts are now safely home. And so congratulations to the SpaceX NASA teams on excellent work and a huge note of appreciation to President Trump for prioritizing and expediting their return. In the beginning we didn't actually know anything about rockets. So our first three missions failed actually of our Falcon 1 rocket and we almost ran out of money and just barely made it with the fourth launch. If the fourth launch of Falcon 1 had not succeeded, we would have failed as a company. So we just barely made it. So I have to say that I was not a very good chief engineer in the beginning, but did learn over.
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Jack Armstrong
Time you see more of that in the world.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
All sorts of aspects of that, including just an honest assessment. Yeah, I made some mistakes.
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Joe Getty
I wasn't very good at it. Oh no, what is the point of SpaceX?
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Pam Bondi
He says here we are going to be able to take astronauts to Mars. In fact, we want to take anyone who goes to Mars and ultimately build a self sustaining civilization on Mars. That is the long term goal of the company. I think we could do it in 20 to 30 years.
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Joe Getty
20 to 30 years we'll be got a civilization on Mars. I hope I live long enough to see that because I think it would be flipping fascinating. Here's a little trivia about launching rockets that I didn't know.
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Pam Bondi
The Falcon 9 rocket takes off with 1.7 million pounds of thrust. So you can imagine something that has enough thrust to lift an office building off its foundations. And it gets to orbit, it gets to roughly 17,000 miles an hour in nine minutes. It's just when it comes back, you've got that heat shield that's got to dissipate that energy, and hardly anything can survive that heat. And if the heat shield fails, you just get vaporized immediately. So we're really testing the very edge of human ability here, the very edge of material science. But hopefully this gives. Hopefully for people out there, this is a moment of optimism about the future, a moment of excitement about the future, and it portends great things for America and humanity in space.
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Jack Armstrong
All I know is he's a monster for cutting the funding to transgender operas in Dublin.
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Joe Getty
So he took on Doge fairly recently, but I just can't imagine what his day is like. When he gets up in the morning, I wonder what's the first thing he checks on Tesla stock, whether his rocket landed, what people are saying about Doge, whether or not the, you know, monkeys escaped with the neuralink in their head, any of his 14 children, how they're doing, I wonder what are the, like, the first things he looks at?
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Jack Armstrong
I love that question and the examples you gave. I don't have the slightest idea. Wow.
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Joe Getty
Starting to get into the controversial stuff. Elon saying he wanted to bring those astronauts home sooner.
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Pam Bondi
We definitely offered to return the astronauts earlier. That's. There's no question about that. The astronauts were only supposed to be there for. For eight days and they've been there for almost 10 months. So obviously that doesn't make any sense. Space X could have brought the astronauts back after a few months at most. And we made that offer to the Biden administration. It was rejected for political reasons, and that's just a fact.
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Joe Getty
The Biden White House people say that's not true. So maybe that will get figured out by good reporting.
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Jack Armstrong
If you believe anything out of the former Biden White House at this point, I mean, within reason. Just please. I think that President's sharp as hell and ready for another term. I mean, after that. Come on.
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Joe Getty
I think that. I know the Jake Tapper book comes out at midnight tonight. I'm hoping it's midnight Eastern, which means it's 9:00 my time, west coast time, and then I'll be able to immediately jump on Kindle and start reading it and have some stuff from the book tomorrow on Jake Tapper, uncovering the hidden truth that Joe Biden's brain didn't work. But I still think there could be some really interesting stuff in that book. The.
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Jack Armstrong
The inevitable inappropriate eye rolling aside. Yes, the.
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Joe Getty
The hard to take. We all KN long time ago. But the specifics will be pretty good and hope to have some of that for you tomorrow. Wanted to get this on Elon. Asked about the crazies attacking Tesla and everybody who's hating on Elon.
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Pam Bondi
It's really come as quite a shock to me that there is this level of really hatred and violence from the left. I always thought the left or the Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring. And yet they're burning down cars, they're firebombing dealerships, they're firing bullets into dealerships. They're just, you know, smashing up Tesla's. Tesla is a peaceful company. We've never done anything harmful. I've never done anything awful. I've only done productive things. So I think we just have a deranged. There's some kind of mental illness thing going on here because this doesn't make any sense.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I would agree. So headline out of Sheburban. I combined several words at once there. I'm so busy, I don't have time to just utter complete sentences. Story from suburban Chicagoland, where I grew up. Headline, Buffalo Grove woman charged in vandalism. I once, I wrote a song as a teenager to the effect, there aren't any buffalo in Buffalo Grove. It was somewhat amusing. That's funny, I hadn't thought of that in 30 years. Buffalo Grove woman charged in vandalism of Tesla dealership. And it's setting. Let's see, what exactly did this human do? Vandalized service of graffiti, et cetera, criminal damaged property, blah, blah, blah. The interesting part of this is that this woman is a hulking 6 foot 2, 250 pounds. And indeed, Ellen is Evan. Washington state, where you get to choose what sex you are, which is a hilarious notion, but it's a. It's a radical transgender nut job. And I know what you're thinking.
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Joe Getty
What is.
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Jack Armstrong
What is like guys who want to pretend to be women have to do with Tesla and the rest of it. And this is, you know, this is my life. Jihad is getting people to understand this. The goal of neo Marxism is to radicalize every minority, racial minority, ethnic, sexual minority, sexual kink, whatever, and convince you that you need to tear down the system because that's the only thing holding you back from happiness and fulfillment. And so what the hell does hulking suburban Chicago transgender dude have to do with Tesla and Elon Musk defend defunding usaid? This person just has a vague notion that they are supposed to tear down the system. So what I'm always talking about. So no, it doesn't have anything to do with how in the world can any human being with a straight face hold up a sign that says queers for Palestine? Somebody explained that to me. Well, I just did explain it to you. That's what's happening. And obviously, if you're down with the Palestinian cause, you're fighting the man and tearing down Western civilization and the oppressor. That's how it all fits together.
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Joe Getty
So I want to get on this final Elon clip because this is him talking about probably the most important thing that he, that he has said in recent years.
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Pam Bondi
I'm very worried about America going bank bankrupt due to the corruption and waste. And if we don't do something about it, the ship of America is going to sink. And we're all on that ship. And this may be a message to people out there who are wealthy, have a lot of means, or patrol companies. It's like, just remember, we're all in ship America here. Your company's not going to exist if the ship of America sinks. And we should do everything we possibly can to ensure that America is strong for far into the future.
- [37:36]
Joe Getty
He's the richest man.
- [37:38]
Jack Armstrong
Where's my lighter fluid? I'm going to set fire to a Tesla. How dare he.
- [37:41]
Joe Getty
He's the richest man in the world. Which you don't get to be the richest man without understanding something about profit and loss. And he says America is going to go bankrupt because it is just mathematically true if we don't adjust our sales. And not only are we all in the United States, all American citizens in the boat that is America that is going to sing. The whole world depends on the United States from being taken over. The world being taken over by China or who knows what, you know, communism or whatever. So, yeah, be nice if we could get that all together. But it has become about hating Trump. So can't be good, right?
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Jack Armstrong
If, if Trump and Elon want to save the ship of America, then I want to sink. It says a lot of the left in America. It's, it's bizarre, it's idiotic, it's practically psychotic. Well, I made my money all by myself.
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Joe Getty
How dare your government take my money from me. I don't want to pay tax taxes. Well, to put it on the voter, neither party can say out loud we got to do something about Social Security. So oh yeah, I mean, come on.
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Jack Armstrong
At the moment the electorate understands that they can vote themselves money from the treasury. Republic is doomed.
- [38:51]
Joe Getty
So I promised this philosophical joke that I thought was really interesting from Ricky Gervais. Among other things we've got on the way. Stay here.
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Joe Getty
And here comes Shohei.
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Jack Armstrong
All the phones out trying to get their own perspective captured right here. Here.
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Joe Getty
There's an absolute take, right center field. It is off the wall.
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Jack Armstrong
To second goes Otani. To home goes Otani.
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Joe Getty
It was a home run.
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Jack Armstrong
And the question is, without the fans, would have it been a home run? After review, they're calling the field stands.
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Joe Getty
Home run.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, like I said, an absolute tank.
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Joe Getty
All right, how long did it take that play? I hate reviews. Make a call on the field and let's move on. But nobody.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm for accuracy.
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Joe Getty
Shohi oh, Itani in Japan in front of the home crowd. It's a home run. There you go.
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Jack Armstrong
The middle of the night against the Cubs, two weeks before opening day.
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Joe Getty
What the hell. Yeah, that reminds me, over Christmas break I read what is considered the best Babe Ruth biography for some reason. Really interesting. Just an interesting slice of America from the early 1900s and sports and what a different time and all that sort of stuff.
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Jack Armstrong
I'll bet every great biography and autobiography is about the times, really in a lot of ways.
- [43:26]
Joe Getty
So came across this the other day on my YouTube feed. Rickard Gervais on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. This is not funny. It sets you up ahead of time. Don't expect this joke to be funny. It's just an interesting philosophical joke that Ricky Gervais presents to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Jack Armstrong
I think this is the most interesting joke. So a Holocaust survivor eventually dies of old age and goes to heaven. He meets God and he tells God a Holocaust joke. And God goes, that's not funny. And he says, I guess you had to be there. Isn't that, isn't that amazing? What is that? No, not mine. No. Did you hear that? I don't, I, I don't know where it is. You heard that though?
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Amy Brown
Yeah. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. Because it's, it's so layered and philosophical. You're so layered. He wasn't there. And if you believe he was, he didn't do anything. Right. Oh my God. I've got a thing in my thing about prayer novel. It's incredible.
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Joe Getty
And that's something.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's a good one.
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Joe Getty
And Jerry Seinfeld, who's been pretty active in the last couple of years around Israel and he was in a kibbutz in high school, same sort of place that got massacred by Hamas on October 7th and all that sort of stuff. I mean, he's pretty into this issue, but that's a good one.
- [44:55]
Jack Armstrong
See listeners weighing in on my prospects in the afterlife via email. Certainly if you have an opinion mailbag@armstrong.com.
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Joe Getty
The Holocaust survivor says to God, I guess you had to be there. Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow, that could be a six month long theological no kidding class. And yeah. So quick update on the. The discussion earlier in the hour about judges, district court judges, like the lowest level of federal judges issuing nationwide injunctions against executive branch policies, which is was unknown for 150 years in America and has just exploded in recent years, specifically against Trump. And it's a super interesting constitutional question about whether that should be allowed or not. Again, listen, grab the podcast later. Armstrong and Getty on demand. Look at hour three and you'll find it and listen to it. But a couple of things to know. The judge on the transgender case who said, no, you can't ban transgender people from the military is a female Hispanic lesbian, narrowly confirmed by the Senate. And she made the Attorney general stand off to the side of the courtroom during the hearing so he could feel what it felt like to be singled out. Oh boy, an effing nut. Says one legal expert whose opinion I respect very much. And then this, the Obama appointee, lifelong Democrat who did the same thing to Trump's travel ban in 2017, the terribly misnamed Muslim travel ban. This guy literally peddled critical race theory as editor of the Harvard Law Review. And now he's trying to save usaid, which gives money to terrorists and radical critical race neo Marxists, LBGTQ plus minus over the power of three propaganda. And that's the one frustrating thing for conservatives about the way progressives view the judiciary and the Constitution. But even the Supreme Court is If you're a good conservative, you want the court to rule on whether the right thing happened according to the Constitution, whether they like the result or not, you ask what's her name? Brown Jackson. Ketanji Brown Jackson. And if she were honest, she'd tell you, no. Being a Supreme Court is justice about getting the result you want.
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Joe Getty
Right. So are we in a constitutional crisis? If we get to the point that you appoint judges that are super woke if you're a Democrat or super Trumpy if you're Trump and they're, you know, is that a constitutional crisis? And then yes. Yeah, it seems like it.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, it could be. If these district court judges have carte blanche to stop the executive branch. I mean, if the, like a flaming liberal gets in the next time and I'm a district court judge and I say, no, no, you can't have a trade deal with Britain because I think Brits are stupid. And, you know, maybe that injunction only lasts for a few weeks or whatever, but that's. That's crazy. That's no way to run an executive branch. It's a super interesting question. I hope the Supreme Court gets to it.
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Joe Getty
We do four hours of this every single day. If you don't get all of them or every segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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