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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. We'll accept Humboldt blame, right? So at the LA Times, we endorse Karen Bass. I think right now up front that's a mistake and we admit that. So I, I thought it was very early, important early on for me to come out and I think we were one of the few to say competence matters.
Guest Speaker
This is wild. I mean this is like dreams coming true. Guy runs the LA Times saying it was a mistake to endorse Karen Bass. That's fantastic. Yeah, that's fantastic. And Wall Street Journal out with a story today. Los Angeles fire response gives new ammunition to Mayor Karen Bass, arch rival. If you followed the race at all in la, and we did somewhat, Rick Caruso, the billionaire real estate developer lost to Karen Bass after spending a tremendous amount of money. But now, according to poly polling, is seen in a much better light and is leading the charge against her and at least according to the Wall Street Journal is going to. People are talking about him running for governor in 2026 and this might be his moment. So keep your eye on that dude in California.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, his, his campaign for mayor was extremely reasonable. He's nobody's idea of an arch conservative. But Karen Bass has the unions as the public employee unions, the teachers unions. Stop electing Communists.
Guest Speaker
We gotta stop electing Marxists to various positions in big cities around the country.
Jack Armstrong
As a guideline for which candidates to back. I think that's a good one to start with. Yeah. How about just no Communists, No Marxists. Anyway, having said that, the giant cataclysmic. Unbelievable. Still continuing fires in the LA area are continuing to have effects both political and non political. Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal today about the armed homeowners who are defying the rules of LA's burn zones. And I don't want to focus on the conflict between the rules and what they're doing because according to the accounts that I've heard and read, there is a slightly uneasy but respectful relationship between the homeowners and, and the cops who are in charge of not letting anybody in. For instance, there, there's a story of one guy, he's, he's an attorney, I believe well into his 50s, but he is staying in his home and talking to the authorities. Kind of an unofficial ambassador of the people who are staying put and not evacuating. They're guarding their homes from looters and scumbags.
Guest Speaker
Sure. And, and, and don't. And aren't worried about fire, apparently.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Not at this point. Or. Or just not worried. But at one point, he meets a friend at the yellow caution tape, and she's unloading supplies for him and a couple of the other people. And one of the cops says, hey, can you guys hurry up? We just got an order not to allow any supplies through. So I, I appreciate.
Guest Speaker
Why wouldn't you allow supplies through?
Jack Armstrong
Well, the authorities on high, unlike the cops on the street, are saying no. If. If we allow these people to resupply themselves and, and stay there, they're gonna stay there, and we want everybody out.
Guest Speaker
My freaking house. If I need water to stay here to keep scumbags from stealing my stuff, I want water. That is unbelievable. If we resupply these people, they'll stay here. Yeah, it's my God dang house.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right. Yeah, exactly. And I understand that the higher ups, the administrators say, well, this complicates our efforts, et cetera, et cetera. If we completely clear a zone, then we know any human being in it is a looter and can deal with them accordingly.
Guest Speaker
I get that, but, well, sure.
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Seems like an awful lot of looting happens anyway. So I'm going to stay in my house if I don't think a fire is coming and protect my own dang stuff.
Jack Armstrong
Right. One of the most important messages of the modern world has been don't do anything to protect yourself and your loved ones against predators or anything. Trust the authorities. They will protect you. And of course they don't. But anyway, so a handful of these folks are hanging around, they're warding off looters. They are either getting supplies from outside or. Here's one galaxy who had prepared. She has a natural gas generator that supplies 22 kilowatts of power. Why, that's plenty. Or a little. Or, I don't know, enough for several refrigerators, making her one of the few neighbors with electricity. She has 60 gallons of drinking water in the basement, as well as a reverse osmosis water filter and hot water tanks for showering. She says, yeah, my old neighbor was a real prepper, and I learned from him. She also replaced her wood shingles on her roof with concrete ones. She says, I don't know if that's why my house survived, but it didn't hurt.
Guest Speaker
Just guess in Los Angeles, California. If the authorities were going to go too far toward protecting your personal freedom and ability to take care of your own stuff, or go too far in front in terms of we do what we want, you do what we say. Which do you think it would probably be?
Jack Armstrong
Oh, please. Obviously the latter. Get clearly. In fact, here's Brian Rice, president of the California Professionals Firefighters Union, who I'm sure is a fine fellow. But police and fire officials say they're keeping residents from returning to burned neighborhoods because of such hazards as downed power lines and precarious fire weakened trees. And Brian says, do not go back in there. Do not sneak in there. It's not worth losing your life over.
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Okay, you can warn me. That's fine. Then I do. I make my own decision.
Jack Armstrong
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And I'm fine. I've always, with all these deals I've always been fine with. And then you don't have to come rescue me. I made that decision. So, you know, you don't have to risk a firefighter or something like that to come get me. I made the decision and I'm going in. It's my freaking house.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right. Yeah. I, we a lot of people, the folks listening are perfectly comfortable with that relationship with the government. I, as a citizen, have made a decision and I. Not only do I not resist the idea that I will feel the consequences of my decision, I embrace that.
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Jack Armstrong
The whole like. In fact, I cherish it.
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Like, I'm going to ride out the hurricane. I decided to write out the hurricane. You don't need to send people in to rescue me. It was my decision.
Jack Armstrong
Right. So. Ross Gerber, who's palace Pacific Palisades Reserve resident. I'm sorry, I'm reading ahead and organizing, blah, blah, blah. But he's among those who've been sneaking past police to check on his house. Official edicts be damned. He says, I have no patience for any of them. After you survive this, you don't care what they say. But Tuesday, he tried it again. He was thwarted. He was on the phone talking to a reporter. I'm trying to sneak in right now, and it's super hard. They are everywhere. Police had entry points, tight as hell. There are literally so many police. He said North Korea is easier. But that to me is good, though. I want that sort of police presence. If you assure me that, hey, we told you to evacuate. You evacuated. Your house will not be looted. Well, then I want it to be damned impossible to get in and out.
Guest Speaker
I don't. They could probably explain it to me, but I don't understand why it's not as simple as, okay, you got it all cordoned off. But if I show up with an ID that's obviously me with the address of down there, you let me in, Right.
Jack Armstrong
And if I don't have that ID and I'm clearly a nightstick upside down. That was. That was parody. That was humor for the purposes of entertainment. Go ahead and whack them.
Guest Speaker
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Jack Armstrong
Hit him. More importantly, perhaps in defense of gouging, great think piece in the Free press today, but we've gone over this argument enough. I think I'll just wing it. Here's the deal. And they're talking about lumber and water and a couple of other things. Rent is a little different situation. But Karen Bass, who's a communist, and Gavin Newsom, who's a liar and half a communist are making loud noises that we won't let any prow price gouging take place. We won't let people raise the prices more than a small percentage. All right, you ninnies, you have just made it inevitable that there will not be enough supplies.
Guest Speaker
For instance, bottled water. Why would. They're going to run out of bottled water at the convenience store and they're not going to do whatever they can to get more because they're not making any more than their normal profit.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right. And so why would they incur any more than their normal, normal costs? I mean, it would be lovely. And it does happen that companies would say, well, you know, we're going to lose a bunch of money, but we're going to ship a bunch of bottled water or plywood or generators or chainsaws or whatever to the trouble zone. Here's the deal. You let that 300%, the price has quadrupled. I'm Joe's Chainsaws two states away. I am loading up my car, my truck, my wife's car with every chainsaw we got, and I am flooding that area with chainsaws. And so are a thousand other people. You know what happens nearly instantaneously if you let the free market work? That price plunges.
Guest Speaker
And you wouldn't have to be two states away. It could be loading up a truck with bottled water in Bakersfield if the price gets expensive enough.
Jack Armstrong
Well, right. And you end up with a thousand times as much water there. There's a very temporary blip where the quote unquote gouging takes place. And then the market is flooded with goods because it is worth incurring the extra costs to get them there. More people do well almost immediately if you let the free market work. If you restrict that price, no more chains will flow in. No more water, no more plywood. There will be terrible scarcity.
Guest Speaker
I don't know. I need a smart person to explain to me how it works for hotel rooms. Since you can't flood in more hotel rooms. Do they get to gouge and now only the rich get to get a hotel room?
Jack Armstrong
I would tend to air in that direction just because there's such scarcity anyway. The amount of the number of people you're helping and or hurting by instituting that sort of price control is so small. But you've introduced into society the idea that the government gets to do this. So I tend to be very free market on that. But you're right, it's very different. You can't flood a market with hotel rooms. Our good friends at Simplisafe home security. A well timed message.
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We are very pro cop around here in law enforcement and all that sort of stuff. I understand some of the arguments around this, you know, not letting people back in. But we all know intuitively and we certainly saw it through Covid where it very quickly can turn from this is the best thing to do to because I said so. It's just a I have the power to do this and I'm going to do it thing that just exists in us. It's human nature apparently.
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Oh all right and or we need compliance or there's going to be chaos. Make damn sure the reason you're demanding compliance is a good one in a free society. And boy did well California especially err way too far in the other direction.
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As you know, that's a first year for us, at least in recent times.
Guest Speaker
All right, Marco Rubio with his opening statement. I am so excited about him being Secretary of State. He is for a couple of reasons. I agree with his positions on most things. I like that he's so good with the media. He's going to be on all those talk shows for the next maybe four years and kill it with those people.
Jack Armstrong
You have been great on pointing out how Republicans go on these shows and they get the hell beat out of them and they don't fight back. They just sit there and take it. They don't defend their point of view aggressively. Rubio will not make that error.
Guest Speaker
No, he's pretty good at that. He also said something pretty important a second ago. But let's hear A little bit of this. I don't know if we need the whole thing or not.
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Guest Speaker
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Jack Armstrong
I loved it. Loved it. Yeah, a couple of good points there. Go ahead.
Guest Speaker
He also said this, which gives you a pretty good inkling of where Trump is on the whole Ukraine thing. Marco Rubios calling for concessions in resolving the Ukraine Russia war, adding, there's no way Russia takes all of Ukraine. But it's also unrealistic that Ukraine will push Russia back to where it began at the start of the conflict, which is announcement that, you know, we're not on board with Ukraine gets all the territory back, which Zelensky has even said recently for the first time.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I'm much more interested in governance and policy than constantly being obsessed with politics. So I apologize for pointing this out. Marco. I think after a stint as Secretary of State is going to be a formidable presidential prospect. And I hope he and JD don't spend the next four years knifing each other in the back.
Guest Speaker
I was thinking laying in bed. What a dumb thing to think about laying in bed today. But I was thinking laying in bed. If we ever had a Secretary of State become President Jefferson. But Other than that, Carrie tried. I don't know. I don't know if that's a springboard to the presidency being Secretary of State.
Jack Armstrong
John Quincy Adams. I don't know. I don't know. It's. It's a rarity. Clearly.
Guest Speaker
It was the point. It's not a trivia contest, Joe. I'm making a point. I don't know.
Jack Armstrong
Well made.
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A great montage of some of the highlights from yesterday's Pete Hegseth hearing in just a moment. That convinced me that he ought to at least take a shot at this and see how it works out of him being Secretary of Defense. So the FDA is doing some stuff in their final days. You know we're in the final days for a lot of these people. They're doing some last minute things. This one from now on, the nutrition labels not only will have the how much saturated fat and added sugars and stuff like that, which I appreciate, I don't know about if it needs to be a government law, but I like knowing how much added sugar is in something but it's also going to include what percent of your daily value of that it is to do the math for you.
Jack Armstrong
So like already have that?
Guest Speaker
Apparently not.
Jack Armstrong
Maybe that's not required. It's. It's it's common.
Guest Speaker
Okay, I don't know if I noticed that before, but anywho.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, look at sodium mostly. Number of products have that. But you know, okay, that one, you know, it's more meddling, but at least it's not like some of the other last minute Biden edicts that are fundamentally changing, you know, regulations and laws in ways that'll take a long, long time to untangle on their way out the door. Look, you lost the election. Have some class.
Guest Speaker
Just go right. That is annoying. So Pete Hegseth, combat veteran, awarded combat veteran, Fox and Friends host, hasn't run giant organizations. That's the knock on him. But he can hire people right below him that have run giant organizations, you.
Jack Armstrong
See, and there's a long history of unconventional, surprising picks being absolute heroes. Now, some of them fail too, but the idea that we must pick someone who's utterly conventional. Says who?
Guest Speaker
Well, let me. I didn't. I didn't do this yet. The Wall Street Journal had an opinion piece on Hegseth, and they said Mr. Hegseth made noises about restoring US military deterrence, and that's something. But it appears we're on track to have a Secretary of Defense whose real views are a mystery. Let's hope he rises to the occasion. The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, their big knock was that Republicans or Democrats didn't really get to his his worldview philosophy of deterring, you know, fighting battles on, you know, big picture near as much as the drinking and carousing and all that sort of stuff.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Right now the Sec def doesn't like design foreign policy.
Guest Speaker
No.
Jack Armstrong
But I suppose it would be helpful to know whether he's in sync with the rest of the administration. I guess.
Guest Speaker
Yeah. Anyway, here's a montage of question and answers from yesterday that I thought was really good.
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H
I'm incredibly grateful for the. For the two women who've served our military in uniform and including in the Central Intelligence Agency, contributions on the battlefield, indispensable contributions. Senator, I would like to clarify when I'm talking about that issue, it's not about the capabilities of men and women. It's about standards.
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H
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An ally of Denmark?
H
Senator, one of the things that President Trump is so good at is never strategically tipping his hand. And so I would never, in this public forum, give one way or another.
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H
Me in any context.
Jack Armstrong
You're quite sure that every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years. You're not willing to make that same pledge?
H
I'm not a general. Senator.
Guest Speaker
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H
Oh, my goodness, Senator, absolutely. At Concerned Veterans for America, we created the Fixing Veterans Health Care Task Force, a bipartisan task force that had never been done before to create policy, to drive policy change on Capitol Hill that organizations fought ferocious.
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H
Senator? I'm fine. I'm glad we finally got to the topic of border security equaling national security because it's been abdicated and ignored. I have been involved in conversations relating to doing things this administration has not, which is secure the southern border.
Guest Speaker
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Jack Armstrong
I would say. Absolutely. Now, that slurring ninny you heard in the middle, who was asking, would you, would you obey in order to invade Green.
Guest Speaker
Are we attacking in Denmark? Are you going to attack Denmark?
Jack Armstrong
Be willing to attack Denmark? That was Maisie Hirono of Hawaii. And for the record, Matt and Honolulu wrote a very nice letter to us and all of you apologizing on behalf of his state for Maisie Hirono, who is clearly the stupidest member of either house of Congress. Numb nut, all you can ask for is a manful apology. Matt has offered it. Hawaii, you are forgiven mostly. But get it right next election. Speaking of Pete Hegseth in the hearing, if you missed this. Oh, you know what, folks? You're going to hear a term here that is harsh and I apologize. I take no childish delight, but it's impossible to discuss without mentioning it.
Guest Speaker
Okay, I don't know what this is.
Jack Armstrong
There was a prolonged discussion and our topic heading here is the idiotic wastes of time questions asked by Democrats. There was a long discussion as to the meaning of the word jag off with a G with a J. An antiquated schoolyard insult from Our heyday as. As young lads. Well, I get it, short pants.
Guest Speaker
J at the beginning, but the second consonant, is that a G? Jag.
Jack Armstrong
Yes. Jag off.
Guest Speaker
Okay.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, indeed. So stay tuned for that. First, though, another one of the, you know, it's not idiotic. It's at least fairly reasonable discussions in principle. Does the dude have a drinking problem?
Guest Speaker
My. My shop teacher in high school called.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, boy.
Guest Speaker
Called me Mr. Knofer.
Jack Armstrong
Your first name being Jack?
Guest Speaker
Correct.
Jack Armstrong
That's childish and idiotic, even. Like not an educator.
Guest Speaker
Well, we were 15 year olds. The other kids thought it was funny. I don't know that I appreciated it. Mr. Knofer, if you could bring that over here.
Jack Armstrong
Wow, that's just.
Guest Speaker
That's. Yes, Katie.
Jack Armstrong
Borderline child abuse Katie. Another common last name for a Jack would be Mihoff.
Guest Speaker
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, yes. World famous, certainly. Can we move on anyway?
Guest Speaker
Shop teacher, probably. Well, first of all, they don't have shop anymore because they don't want kids working with their hands.
Jack Armstrong
Every single kid needs a phony high school diploma aimed at getting them to a phony college to get a phony diploma there, having learned nothing. And the trades are insulting in a stupid way to make living according to, you know, much of America, certainly academia.
Guest Speaker
It's hard to imagine in a school today that a teacher would call a kid named Jack Mr. Knofer.
Jack Armstrong
Yes, yes. On the other hand, here we go back to the. The topic of the day, which I've damn near forgotten. Oh, that's right. So a couple of anonymous sources, in particular one disgruntled former employee said that Hegseth was. They could smell alcohol on his breath at work events once or twice, as if that's some sort of horror. Especially if you're a CEO and you're raising money and going to events all the time, that sort of thing. Anyway, I thought Mark Wayne Mullen, the fabulous senator from Oklahoma, was absolutely right on with his comments. 76.
Marco Rubio
Michael, Senator Kaine, or I guess I better use the senator from Virginia, starts.
Jack Armstrong
Bringing up the fact that what if you showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have showed up drunk.
Marco Rubio
To vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them.
Jack Armstrong
To step down and resign for their job? And don't tell me you haven't seen.
Marco Rubio
It, because I know you have.
Jack Armstrong
And then how many senators do you.
Marco Rubio
Know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives?
Jack Armstrong
Did you ask them to step down?
Marco Rubio
No, but it's for show. You guys make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy Because a man's made a mistake and.
Jack Armstrong
You want to sit there and say.
Marco Rubio
That he's not qualified.
Jack Armstrong
Give me a joke. It is so ridiculous that you guys hold yourself as this higher standard and.
Marco Rubio
You forget you got a big plank in your eye.
Guest Speaker
You know, I mentioned earlier Mark Halpern in his newsletter today was talking about the blocking and tackling nuts and bolts. The Trump administration did a good job of partially, like getting enough people in there that would laugh at Hegseth's jokes. Well, you saw it right there. The people laughing when he said, have any of you shown up drunk to vote really lands. I mean, it helps it land it.
Jack Armstrong
Does it made the line work. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Love, Mark Wayne Mullen. A shout out to Mark Wayne and his family, who are super nice. We met them and chatted for quite a while at the rnc. Anyway, give me back to the I.
Guest Speaker
Don'T want the SEC death to be stumbling through the hall. China has attacked China who obviously.
Jack Armstrong
But we are in nukem.
Guest Speaker
But then going super Puritan, like if he's ever had a drink at some sort of horror is hilarious.
Jack Armstrong
Well, yeah. And if you thought that was dumb because again, it's worth at least inquiring if there's reasonable testimony that the guy's got a drinking problem. But. But he just sounds like a combat veteran who likes to have a drink now and again me. So it's okay to ask the question, but to belabor it is silly. Yes.
Guest Speaker
I was just in Washington, D.C. do you remember what the biggest statue in front of the Capitol is right across the street? It is of Ulysses S. Grant, who was quite a drinker and perhaps our best general in U.S. history. And there's a giant statue of him from the Capitol. So I don't know. That's a disqualifying trait.
Jack Armstrong
It's all for show. It's, it's grandstanding. It's, it's virtue signaling. So one of the stranger moments for Pete Hegseth yesterday was when a senator asked the former fighting man and Fox News host to define the word jag off. The question from Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode island in the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee was prompted by a comment that Mr. Hegseth made to his military platoon, as he wrote in his 2024 book, the War on Warriors. He made the comment during his Iraq deployment after hearing a presentation by a JAG officer that is a military lawyer, judge advocate general, who they defend army soldiers in legal matters. But he and his team were briefed by the JAG officer on the proper protocols for when and how they could fire on an enemy with a rocket propelled grenade. Mr. Hegseth disparaged one of the rules of engagement, saying it was going to get people killed. And during the Hearing on Tuesday, Mr. Hegseth at first declined to define the slang term with sly smile. I don't need to, sir, he said. The men and women watching understand. But when pressed because you've got to press him on, what did you mean by JAG off? He said it would be a JAG officer who puts his or her own priorities in front of the war fighters, who puts their promotions and their medals in front of having the backs of those making the tough calls on the front lines.
Guest Speaker
It's a play on words. We called them supply on words. Referring to a common term for male masturbation is where the whole thing comes.
Jack Armstrong
Together and Jag officer, Jag officer, Jag off. It's irresistible, Mr. Senator, sir.
Guest Speaker
Now if we could move on to the meaning of motorboating and scissor sisters.
Jack Armstrong
Good Lord. So yeah, good time, good time spent. Their Senator it is a mark that they do try to keep things civil that nobody brought up Senator Blumenthal's stolen valor deal fake falsely claiming to be a Vietnam combat veteran.
Guest Speaker
Could the good senator from Virginia explain to me what a Cleveland steamer is?
Jack Armstrong
Okay, we're done here. Coming up, another near cat fight in the halls of Congress. Great Scott. Ladies, that's next.
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Jack Armstrong
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Guest Speaker
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Guest Speaker
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Jack Armstrong
All right? So that was obviously MTG and Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who's involved also in the latest fracas. Michael, we need civil rights to protect.
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Guest Speaker
Mr. Chairman and Committee is not in order. Point of order.
Jack Armstrong
Point of order. Order, order, order. Chair recognizes Ms. Crockett. No. Point of order. Mr. Chairman, state your point.
Guest Speaker
Is it allowed in the rules for.
Jack Armstrong
A member to incite violence against another member? I mean, she said she wants to take it outside with, hey, I have.
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Jack Armstrong
And so I'd like those words to be taken down.
Guest Speaker
I am moving to have those words taken down.
Jack Armstrong
I believe it's against the rules going outside violence. Another conversation that isn't.
Guest Speaker
The committee will suspend. The member will state the.
Jack Armstrong
State the words he wishes taken down. Where she said that we can take it outside, which is direct violation against the rules. Inciting violence against another member. Are people inviting violence? It's not inciting. It's inviting.
Guest Speaker
Were some people going to try to claim that that's not a. Let's fight. That's always been a let's fight. Do you want to take this outside?
Jack Armstrong
Well, right, but that was Jasmine Crockett and Nancy Mace, the attractive firebrand, first woman ever to graduate from the Citadel Military Academy. Getting into it, there's Crockett implying that Nancy Mace was just trying to protect girls sports and locker rooms and women's places and prisons and the rest of it from sick nutty men to raise campaign dollars. An interesting allegation indeed.
Guest Speaker
I don't know. I say you let them fight and then maybe they accidentally kiss. I mean, come on.
Jack Armstrong
Jiminy Egg.
Guest Speaker
I mean egg.
Jack Armstrong
Peg. Pig. I said pig.
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Okay, you want to step outside?
Jack Armstrong
It's a lovely day.
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Four hours. That's against my will. I'm being held. Help. Send help.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Episode Title: Stop Electing Communists!
Release Date: January 15, 2025
Host/Authors: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Publisher: iHeartPodcasts
In the "Stop Electing Communists!" episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into a range of political and societal issues, emphasizing the dangers of electing individuals with communist or Marxist ideologies. The discussion spans local politics in Los Angeles, disaster response, free-market advocacy, defense policies, and the decorum of congressional interactions. Throughout the episode, Armstrong and Getty advocate for personal responsibility, limited government intervention, and the promotion of competent leadership over party allegiance.
Jack Armstrong begins by addressing the podcast’s previous endorsement of Karen Bass by the Los Angeles Times, labeling it a misstep. He asserts the importance of competence over party affiliation:
Jack Armstrong [03:46]: "Competence matters."
Guest Speaker lauds this decision, highlighting its significance in challenging established political endorsements.
The conversation shifts to Rick Caruso, a prominent real estate developer who, despite losing the mayoral race to Karen Bass, is gaining traction in the polls. Guest Speaker notes:
"People are talking about him running for governor in 2026, and this might be his moment."
Jack Armstrong emphasizes Caruso's moderate stance compared to Bass's affiliations with unions, urging listeners to support leaders based on competence rather than partisan lines.
Addressing the influence of unions, Jack Armstrong critiques Karen Bass's ties with public employee and teachers' unions:
Jack Armstrong [04:53]: "Stop electing Marxists. No Marxists."
Guest Speaker reinforces this sentiment, calling for the cessation of electing Marxists to significant positions in major cities.
A substantial portion of the episode discusses the ongoing fires in Los Angeles and the response (or lack thereof) from authorities. Jack Armstrong highlights homeowners defying burn zone regulations to protect their properties:
Jack Armstrong [06:53]: "If I need water to stay here to keep scumbags from stealing my stuff, I want water. That is unbelievable."
The hosts argue that government restrictions hinder homeowners' ability to protect their own properties, advocating for personal responsibility and self-defense over reliance on authorities.
The debate intensifies as Armstrong and the Guest Speaker discuss the impact of price controls during emergencies. They criticize policies that prevent price gouging, arguing that free-market mechanisms ensure the availability of essential goods by incentivizing suppliers. Jack Armstrong states:
Jack Armstrong [11:48]: "They have just made it inevitable that there will not be enough supplies."
The hosts contend that allowing prices to rise naturally during crises leads to quicker distribution and prevents scarcity.
While advocating for free-market principles, the hosts acknowledge the complexities in sectors like hospitality, where increasing supply rapidly isn't feasible. This segment serves as a bridge to the next advertisement break.
A significant focus is placed on Senator Marco Rubio’s recent confirmation hearing for the role of Secretary of State. Rubio's critique of past foreign policies is highlighted:
Marco Rubio [20:00]: "America far too often continued to prioritize the global order above our core national interests."
Armstrong and Getty commend Rubio for his assertive communication and strategic vision, positioning him as a strong candidate for future leadership roles.
The discussion turns to Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. The hosts critique the nature of his confirmation hearing, emphasizing his background as a combat veteran and questioning the effectiveness of political interrogations:
Pete Hegseth [32:56]: "I have been involved in conversations relating to doing things this administration has not, which is secure the southern border."
Guest Speaker supports Hegseth, suggesting that non-conventional nominees can still rise to prominence and effectively serve in high-level positions.
Jack Armstrong and the Guest Speaker express frustration over the lack of professionalism in congressional interactions, highlighting personal insults and unproductive conflicts. They advocate for more respectful and civil discourse among lawmakers, criticizing what they perceive as a degradation of political decorum.
Throughout the episode, Armstrong and Getty underscore the necessity of electing competent leaders over those aligned with communist or Marxist ideologies. They advocate for free-market solutions, criticize government overreach, and call for greater civility in political institutions. The hosts consistently promote personal responsibility and skepticism towards government intervention, positioning themselves firmly within a conservative framework.
This detailed summary captures the essence of the "Stop Electing Communists!" episode, outlining the key discussions, insights, and conclusions presented by Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. The inclusion of notable quotes with timestamps provides clarity and depth, ensuring that readers grasp the pivotal moments and arguments without having listened to the full episode.