The Kingdom Of UrBooty

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3:07I'm from Studio C, C's and York. We are in a dim-witted room, deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty communication compound. And today midweek, Wednesday, we are under the tutelage, I'm sorry, we're working under the title of the show, WWMD. What would Marxists do or particularly proud of this one? Big brother Tom pulls ice barbies head off. Anybody who, anybody who grew up in a household with both boys and girls or perhaps has been a parent of one, knows that occasionally a brother and a saucy mood will pull off the head of his sister's doll. That probably makes her unhappy. It causes conflict, which often must be settled by the parent, known as the capitation. Well, it did. Capitation strike. Exactly. Yeah. Tom, tell us the senator from North Carolina kind of pulled ice barbies head off in a hearing yesterday. That would be Christy Nome.

4:08That's a Republican. Yes, sir. Soon to be no longer in the Senate Republican who don't care, no more. That's not a common thing to have somebody of your own party go after you as a secretary of something. Yes, she took a beaten. There are Republicans who consider her an embarrassment. Yeah, we got some information yesterday about how she was funneling all this ad by money spent to insane amount of money on ads to try to convince people what she was up to with all that immigration stuff was a good idea and a lot of it went to people as she used to hang out with in South Dakota. That's weird. Yeah. So that they must have been the low bidder and the best of the work. Any good. That's government, man. Yeah. I'm kidding. Lots of stuff. I'm looking up at the television. Someone's been watching news ever since I got up this morning and there's a lot of things with smoke billowing a lot of them around the Middle East.

5:09Lots of buildings with smoke coming up out of them. Some of them hotels and stuff like that, airports and military bases, hours, including the biggest military base we have in the entire Middle East, which got hit with a rocket. Nobody injured is at least that's what the report is. You might not be telling us the truth, which is fine. They, my brother was in that very hotel in Dubai that got smashed up last week. Oh, really? Of all things. Makes you stop and think. Yeah. We, the UAE has taken the brunt of the Israeli Senate rockets and missiles everywhere. And now a whole bunch of your Arabs are having a big meeting today on whether or not they should join up with the United States and Israel. Now that would be historic. And it would be the manifestation of something BB Netanyahu has been trying to get going. He made an announcement. I can't remember when it was a year ago, something like that that, look, we need to have the

6:10Abraham alliance in the spirit of the Abraham Accords. We all know who the danger is here. Israel has no beef with you guys. Go do your thing. It's fine. It ran a bunch of maniacs. We got a band together. And now it's happening. So maybe 59 years after the six day war in which every single country in the region attacked Israel at the same time, now almost all of those countries would be on the side of Israel, taking on Iran. That's something that could lead to peace in the Middle East. Yeah. For a while. Yeah. So the other thing I just read, I thought was really interesting is Israel is specifically targeting anybody and anything that played a role in cracking down on the protesters back in February, the 20 to 30,000 protesters that got gunned down in the street. Anybody involved in that is getting a rocket on their head or their house or their car. With the idea being, there aren't a lot of protests around Iran right now.

7:11And they need the public to come out into the streets of giant protests, force the government out. Take over the country and they can't do it right now because they're all afraid of being shot by their own government. Yeah. I listen to a little MPR this morning to punish myself for the terrible things I've done. And I will give them credit. They talk to a bunch of Iranians, expats right outside the country who are worried about their relatives. But to a person, they said without being challenged that, oh, this regime is unspeakably evil and horrible. They can't wait till it's gone. The only problem is they still have the guns. And if we were to raid an armory and try to get the guns, thousands of people would die, so it's just, it's not clear if that can happen yet was the, was the attitude. But to your point, we're targeting absolutely every office, every armory, every, you know, a house that was in charge of that effort and it's good. I still think, you know, tipping, pushing the regime past the tipping point is going

8:13to be an enormous challenge. But who knows, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth just gave a little presentation, we'll play clips of it later, but he said the operation against Iran is just getting started. So wow, if that's true. And this is big breaking news and luckily, NATO shot down a missile Iran Senate, Turkey, trying to get Turkey involved somehow or pissing them off. It's still not positive on their strategy, you know what, who's another big power around here? We can turn against us. Maybe turn it. It hasn't worked with the other 11 countries, but let's try it with Turkey. There are now 13 countries and I'm sure I couldn't name on a map where a lot of them are like your booty, for instance, your booty, the kingdom of your booty. Where's your booty? Shake your booty. 13 countries that the United States is saying, if you're an American, get out or don't

9:17go there in the first place, but get out and don't be wearing your Olympic hockey t-shirt either. Low profile. I'm amazed by the thousands upon thousands of Americans or in all these different countries. I never have been to any of these countries and just a lot of people who do business in these places, I guess. A lot of business being done. I would love to visit that part of the system, it takes it and long and giving our schedule is difficult to do. Hey, I want to get back very briefly to my other proposed title for the show, WWMD What Would Marxists Do. It's become extremely clear that having pivoted from the genocide in Gaza to ice out, now the Marxist organizations have all the placards printed and are taking to the streets and now their thing is down with the war of colonial oppressor aggression against the poor Muslims of Iran. It's a genocide against Muslims and the red-green alliance is reborn.

10:18The alliance of fundamentalist Muslims and Marxists. I don't think that one's going to work near as good as that. There is a fair amount of public support for their going after ice. There's not going to be a ton of public support for Iran, is there? There might be public support against this war, since it's at least so far not polling well, but it's more of a, we don't want to get involved in wars in the Middle East, get sucked into an Iraq or Afghanistan. It's not up with their Iranians, is it? Where they're? No, no. No. You have to be insane or just a liar with a bunch of soft-headed fans, adherents, teammates in your idiotic Marxist organization that will just believe anything you tell them. That's the only people who could make that argument. Congress is going to have some votes today on the War Powers Act and then a bunch of discussion tomorrow. It's really interesting to see where that goes.

11:18I know. Yeah, what the state of Congressional oversight of war is at this point is anybody's gas. Is there anything they can do about this one that already started? There's some talk about them just passing some legislation about the future, future moves by this president or other presidents, making it more, delineating more and which actions you need to come to talk to us about. I don't know if they can do about this one that's already started. Well, they could pass a resolution, you know, one of your symbolic resolutions reaffirming that the president has to come to them within 60 days for reauthorization, blah, blah, blah. It could be something like that. Kind of just a assertion of Congress is still here, we're over here and we want to roll in this. Well, I have to say, of course, you're a fan of history. You know that the Vietnam War really came to an end when Congress finally stopped funding any of it because they always have that power. We ain't giving you any more money to do any of this. So that's how it ends.

12:18That is the power. Congress is very, very powerful if they never decide they want to be and do all kinds of stuff. Um, let's start to show officially got a good clip for you. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday May of our March the fourth already, the year 2026 where I'm trying to get in. We approve of this program. Let's begin pelting the liars with truth bombs precisely according to FCC rules regulations. Here we go at Mark. I will shed no tears for the Iowa committee. He won the Corn Toss and he elected to receive and boarded he received. May he rest in pieces, may he rest in pieces. Oh boy. Oh boy. He won the Corn Toss and elected to receive. How much time does he spend thinking of these daily Senate job?

13:21He's in his office. I got a good one for you. He hits his staff with their older eyes. Uh, Mr. Kennedy, the Secretary of Agriculture wants to be with you. Don't hold on to many. He's in there at the door closed, trying to rub it his chin. He couldn't raise corn if you know, rest in pieces. That's a good one. I like this from Andrew styles in the free beacon. His headline making fun of the rest of the media's rest in pieces. Ali Kamehni, demure progressive stalwart and Black Lives Matter ally who inspired Democrats and academics bombed to death at 86. He expired on his own terms, mid-resistance surrounded by his closest friends and military hates. Wow. So did this actually happen or was this somebody made this up online? Did Trump, I had, I came across this yesterday, a reporter asked Trump, now that you've killed the Supreme leader who's going to be the next head of Iran and Trump responded, I don't know.

14:22I guess the position is open. I'm creating jobs in Iran too. Now, did he actually say that? I don't know. I hope so. That would be perhaps his all time. That's pretty good. We've got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weatherbug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, write at your fingertips, get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are. It's hyper-local, real-time customizable alerts. Make sure the weather never takes you by surprise so you can plan every day with confidence. Download the free weather bug app from the app store today and start getting accurate weather forecasts 24-7. Support for the show comes from public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On public, you can build a multi-asset portfolio of stocks, bonds, options, crypto, and now

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16:27Well, Exfinity makes that dream a reality. Devices so in sync you'd think they're telepathic. Wi-Fi that knows when your device needs a boost, the best equipment to stream, or games at once with multi-view, or stream your favorite podcast on iHeartRadio. That's the magic of Exfinity. Seemlessly in tune with you. Exfinity. Imagine that. Restrictions apply. There's no championship league for small business owners. But if there was, you'd be at the top of the standings. Because going pro with Lenovo Pro means you've got the winning formation. One on one advice, IT solutions and customized hardware powered by Intel Core Ultra processors help you stay ahead of the competition. Business goes pro with Lenovo Pro. Sign up for free at Lenovo.com slash pro. Lenovo. Lenovo. Crenshaw lost last night. I like him. I patch. Crenshaw. Yeah. Former Navy SEAL. I was surprised to see that. He wasn't always Trumpy. He wasn't always on board with Trump and got challenged by somebody Trumpy and lost.

17:30That's why modern politics work. Most congressional seats are safe, but not from your own party. If you aren't woke enough on the left or Trumpy enough on the right, you get defeated by your own party, which is a new thing that you already test. That is a new thing that did not happen very many years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Better or worse. And I don't know which is which. The whole every seat safe thing hasn't been working for us, but it's interesting that you now you're most vulnerable by far to somebody in your own party who's more of whatever than you are. The sort of person who tends to be 100% likely to vote in a primary doesn't represent the greater electorate. That's the problem. That's the problem. That trend. That is the problem. All right. Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story. It's Katie Green. Katie. All right. Top of the headlines, of course. What's going on in Iran? Starting with ABC. As Iran retaliates, largest US military base in the Middle East hit by ballistic missile. CNN. Israel vows to kill Iran's next supreme leader as to round strikes back at NBC.

18:35Iran strikes risk more voter frustration on the economy with rising gas prices. Yeah. Now, one basic got hit in Kuwait. They released the names and pictures of four of the people killed just horrifying. You know, you already know it's bad. But when you see the names pictures, ages, yeah, you hear about their lives, it's brutal. And mom, one 20-year-old, yes, just said, on a lighter note, my favorite headline of the day was from the New York Times. Iran has announced that his post-poned the public displaying of the Ayatollah's body, which is a missed opportunity for us to kill him again. Wow. I mean, bomb him again. Blow up the funeral. From Breitbart. Zelensky worried the world could forget about Ukraine and stop donating missiles because of Iran operation. Yeah. It is. It should be. Yeah. From the Wall Street Journal, a record number of American workers are pulling money from their 401Ks to cover financial emergencies.

19:38This is not good. No, it really is not. We need to talk about that more later. From the New York Times, Crockett concedes Democratic primary in Texas. Yeah, Jasmine Crockett got beat by that James Telereko phony who believes God has many genders. So is that her getting beat by someone more of her than she was? He really connected with Hispanic voters as the analysis I saw in a way that she never did because she super woke. He actually wished that we have a Tim O'Hiddler and the White House right now. Yeah, the Hispanics are like your little nutty for our taste and so it was not getting out woke exactly, although she's, Jasmine Crockett's about Jasmine Crockett. She's an Instagram influencer. Weaselon, bad built bush body. Says you. From CBS, jury finds father of accused high school shooter guilty of murder and all other

20:45charges. Interesting case, troubled kid, cops that had to come to the house, had a shrine to school shooters on his wall and dad buys him an AR-15. Well, I want to talk about that more later. Wow. From the New York Post, lawsuit claims, Google Gemini, quote, AI wife, pushed lovesick man to plot catastrophic airport truck bombing and kill himself. There's a lot there. What? Yeah. Okay, we'll have more details on that one. I don't get this one, but I find it funny. Study finds, chimpanzees share humans fascination with crystals. It could hint at the roots of symbolic thought. Oh. The picture is it. They like shiny objects. Yeah, but the picture is a champ holding a giant like quartz crystal and just like looking

21:45at it and kind of banging it on the ground, feeling like you feel the energy reaching my chakra. Right. And finally, from the Babylon B, Obama very confused to see bombs falling on Iran instead of pallets of cash. Oh boy. Well, as you heard, there's a bunch of stories there. We need to follow up on all different sorts of angles of the world. All very exciting. And again, we have some clips of Pete Hegsitz, Secretary of War, just gave us an update on where things are in a colorful way that he does. So lots today, if you miss this segment or now, we're going to get the podcast Armstrong and get it on demand. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weather bug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, right at your fingertips, get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are.

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24:51Business goes pro with Lenovo Pro. Line up for free at Lenovo.com slash pro. I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about Operation Epic Fury. America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy. That's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and we got more clips of him. Let me mention that I just read the story Katie Green mentioned in her headlines about the guy who was going to bomb an airport because his AI girlfriend told him to holy crap. What an interesting story about the what how the AI treated this dude. Highly so. This was Google Gemini in this case. It was Gemini in this case. Wow. We'll get to that. Okay, back to Pete Hegseth. I personally have been in favor of what we did in Iran over the weekend and have been

25:56kind of ignoring them. He doesn't know what's the day to plan all that sort of stuff and been kind of not susceptible to that argument. Yesterday, for some reason, I started to become susceptible to the where's this going? How do you know when you're done argument on this? Yeah. Well, that's it. It's a great question. Yeah. I'd say so. It doesn't even if the answer is, you know, the remnants of the regime remain in charge and it's still an autocracy blah, blah, blah. It doesn't counter the argument that we needed to bring them down with the capacity to recore. I'm definitely not at this was a bad idea stage or even close, but I am at the, hmm, I don't see how this is going to end. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a giant mystery. Completely. You want to hear a little more of Secretary P. Terry is in 51. We need to remember two things. First, we are only four days into this.

26:59Metrics or shifting dust is settling and more forces are arriving. It's very early and as President Trump has said, we will take all the time we need to make sure that we succeed. Second, we are only four days into this. And the results have been incredible. Historic really, only the United States of America could lead this, only us. But when you add the Israeli defense forces, a devastatingly capable force, the combination is sheer destruction for our radical Islamist Iranian adversaries. They are toast and they know it. Or at least soon enough, they will know it. Yeah, man, what we in Israel pulled off in that opening hour really is extraordinary. I was going to ask my clients about this. We should probably have him on, you know, today or tomorrow because this is, every day, there's a big news to ask about somebody with a military mind for this.

27:59But how much advantage does this give us if we ever end up go to war with China, that they have not really engaged in any actual military stuff in many, many, many years. And we have for better or worse, a lot of people that have done, you know, I assume I've never been the military, but I assume there's a big difference to matter how much you train between training and doing it for real. And we've got a lot of people that have done all this stuff for real. Both individually and as an institution, you know, the institutional learning of, oh, this is what happens. And okay, and you put that into your training and your planning and your options and the rest of it. It's incredibly important. Yeah. So, uh, Secretary Pete, who is an absolute quote machine and is an incredibly capable spokesperson. I know he's on TV and so it's obvious, but, uh, man, is he good? Woof, bringing it to, uh, we'll do 52, uh, then pause briefly, Michael. Starting last night and to be completed in a few days, in under a week, the two most

29:04powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies. Uncontested air space. I just wanted to pause to note and we'll get back to this in a little bit that virtually the entire Israeli Air Force was in on the strike against Iran in the early days. Virtually every fighter they had headed for Iran to, to bring down the Ayatollah and Israel regime. Is that accurate? That's interesting. I didn't know that the two most powerful air forces in the world are us in Israel. I don't know that that's accurate. You wouldn't. We are number one. I don't doubt that. But I didn't know Israel's number two. Hmm. Maybe in terms of capability and experience getting back to your previous point. But, uh, so Pete claims the Secretary that will have complete control of their air space and he expands on that thought. I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested air space and complete control means.

30:05That means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders flying over to Iran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the RGC, Iranian leaders, looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli air power every minute of every day until we decide it's over. Wow. That's a good one. Yeah. Let's go. Yesterday there was an actual dog fight like old school dog fight between an Israeli jet and an Iranian jet, the Israeli jet prevailed. First dog fight, Israel has been in or maybe anybody since the 80s. It's not a very common thing in the modern world. I was surprised that the Kuwaitis could bring down three of our jets, using our gear and

31:11our training. So I guess that was pretty good gear and training. We'll talk more about that, how that unfolded. Yeah, I'd like to know. That's super interesting. Yeah. The key fact really is just that the air space over Iran and the region is incredibly complicated right now with missiles and planes and drones flying around. And our base had just gotten hit and the Kuwaitis were on their toes to prevent that from happening again and misread our planes as some sort of Iranian attack. So was that right after the strike that killed six soldiers? Yeah. Exactly. Wow. So God bless the Kuwaitis. They kind of screwed up. But they were, as I said, on their toes trying to, you know, really defend their air space in our base along with us. So anyway, let's see. I wanted to do just a little more P tier is 57 Iran's senior leaders are dead. The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor, dead, missing or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room.

32:12Senior generals, mid-level officers and listed ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive. That's not great for morale. But wait, there's more bad news. The Iranian Air Force is no more built for 1996, destroyed in 2026. The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated, pick your adjective. In fact, last night, we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani. Looks like Potus got him twice. Wow. He'll be guy and the ship named after him. That one was a US submarine used to torpedo. In the Indian Ocean, it's the first time we've torpedoed and sunk a ship since World War Two. Really? Yeah. Now that's some naval trivia for you, un-trivial trivia.

33:13Yeah. If the true fury and might of our Navy ever had to get unlocked, I think the world would be surprised. Well, let's go with what we are. Yeah. Right, right. Yeah, that you have such an awesome force so that you never have to use it. So when we have full control of this guy, which I assume could be very soon, then we're just going to just keep hitting every thing that they have a target for. Anybody who's so much as points of rifle, I guess, I don't know. Again, the next chapter is the one that's really uncertain because for the entirety of, you know, as long as there have been airplanes and air wars, the next thing is you bring the guys in the troops. I'm not. I'm not as bothered as some people are and it doesn't mean I'm right. I could be wrong about this. But I'm not as bothered as some people are about the plan. Again, I think you had the best opportunity or ever going to get to take out the evil,

34:16evil enemy of the United States and you did and that's got to be better than what happens next. So I hear all this stuff about it's jazz. He's just improvising. Yeah. After he had took out the guy because there was another, no other choice. I believe that. So it doesn't have to be you had a concrete laid out plan of how it was going to play out and exactly follows it to me, right? And anybody who's into this sort of stuff or have studied it realizes that your plans get blown up the minute you engage with the enemy. And so I suspect that they've got four or five or six plans, depending on what happens, which is exactly the way war goes. That's the classic Mike Tyson quote of everybody's got a plan till they get punched in the face. Yeah. Exactly. So that's not to guarantee this is going to end in some sort of rosy conclusion. But I think it's a false, false criticism. I also want to dig into the whole divide between Marco Rubio and then the president who contradicted him about Israel, forcing the United States and blah, blah, blah, blah.

35:19That is a red herring. That is a false narrative and one that is very, very popular in the media today. I will do my best to explode it. Perhaps at the top of next hour or most hearing schedule yet or most hearings white. Well, exactly. That's why the red ones are you can't resist or say, well, what is a red herring in your chase it? Oh, okay. Is that where that comes from? I have no idea. Oh, my God. Red herring. Oh, why is that herring red? Good Lord. No, I have no idea where that expression comes from. I've been thinking about this. I wish somebody would put out a video about this or something to explain it. Can you imagine what the logistics of Saturday were with thousand airstrikes within like a half an hour with Israeli jets and US jets that I can't even imagine because they all had to have a target and that had to be mapped in and locked in and they all got to be flying and they can't be running into each other. So it's got to be timed in such a way that like, you know, I dropped my bomb and get out

36:22of the way before you drop your bomb like a mile away and you got a land somewhere, take off from somewhere, fuel somewhere. All that stuff. I can't even imagine. It's even hairier than that because while you're in the air, especially executing the mission, you've got to defend yourselves and keep an eye out for the other guy and figure out who's who in an incredibly crowded and kinetic airspace. And I'm sure all kinds of contingency plans for what if they shoot down this guy or these two jets and then the what that you come in and take out the target or whatever, it's got to be just mind-bogglingly complicated. And the people who do that work who I mean, you talk about unsung heroes that might be sitting at a desk who knows where in the United States that work all this stuff out on an Excel sheet or something. Yeah. Yeah. God, I can't imagine the amount of planning that's got to go into that. Yeah, that's one of the reasons we enjoy talking to Mike Lyons so much is he has a pretty good grasp of that sort of thing and how logistics and planning and infrastructure is just so

37:26critical to war fighting. Yeah. Organization in short. We got, we got so many good things to talk about today and really do want to get to that AI story, Gemini convincing a crazy dude to do a crazy thing. And why did Gemini go down that road? This part of AI, I do not understand, but anyway, we've got mailbag on the way, stay here. Art is strong and getting. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weather bug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, write at your fingertips, get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10 day forecasts wherever you are. It's hyper local real time customizable alerts. Make sure the weather never takes you by surprise so you can plan every day with confidence. Download the free weather bug app from the app store today and start getting accurate weather forecasts 24 seven. Support for the show comes from public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously.

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40:28entire life. The world is shipping insurance market is crumbling. Britain, their biggest thing is them ensuring pretty much the entire world. I didn't know this. That's why it's a London, etc. Yeah. And they didn't expect the war to be as big as it's going to be and it's a really or really big problem. I have to talk about that coming up. I mean, I knew nothing about this. Yeah. Okay. Shipping insurance. Fascinating. I know. Boy, here's your freedom of loving quarter of the day. Continuing our series about war, this from Norman Schwarzkopf. Remember him back in the day. The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. That's a good one. And he's echoing in a way, George Washington will throw in a bonus for no extra charge to be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

41:29Amen to that. Mr. President, sir, mailbag. Please feel free to drop us a note mailbag at Armstrongiegeti.com is the email address mailbag at Armstrongiegeti.com. Interesting crop of email. I wish we could do more of it. I want to enter a good, you know, thought-provoking thoughts, Jim in San Jose, writes, might have been a war, a choice today, but in a couple of years it would have been a war of necessity. Should we have waited to fight a more well-armed, possibly nuclear Iran, just stopping their drone production will save lives? Right, I don't get that argument. I like the term preemptive better. I think that gets closer to the middle ground and makes more sense. Yes, I like that. Yeah, well said. Garek in the People's Republic of Davis, California. Yeah, I think this is a war of choice. However, after looking at the choice, I like it. So I choose to be behind it, but I still believe it is a war of choice and that's after listening to you guys and others. I think you can be behind the move and that's going on with it being a choice.

42:30Thoughts? Yeah, it's a whole war of choice, war of necessity. It's a rhetorical flourish that has no specific definition. Yeah, I think to use the term war of choice, like John Sturt was on the Daily Show, that's what brought it up to me, as if that's by definition a bad thing is where you're getting into childlike views of international situations. Right. It's preaching to the choir stuff. You say war of choice and everyone is doing, yeah, yeah. More on that and the idea of necessity coming up later, JT and Livermore points out, Hillary has zero room to be whining about pizza gate. It's a little too much for her to complain about the made up scandal known as pizza gate given that she created an even bigger hoax that still negatively affects our country today, aka the Russian collusion hoax. I don't know how many people believe in the pizza gate story, but it has to be a fraction of the people who still believe in the Russian collusion hoax, given that a majority of democratic voters still believe it was legitimate.

43:33And he has a link to an article I didn't really have time to look at, but yeah, it's a majority. And getting back to the war of choice thing, isn't hold what's his name, whoever was the prime minister at the time, his name escapes me back World War II, the appeasement guy. Oh, Neville Chamberlain, isn't Neville Chamberlain still getting beaten up for trying to negotiate the whole situation rather than, you know, recognizing that was an enemy and doing something about it. That would have been a war of choice to take on Hitler before he moved. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Good point. Jay T says PS or country will never be united until the democratic party learns to love the country more than they hate Trump or the GOP. And then excuse me once again, I want to get into the whole imminent threat question, but let's see, oh, I like this note from Ryan, you're recent talk about pacifists and people not factoring in the cost of inaction has really put the trolley problem to the front of my mind. There are a lot of variations, but I think the West has been dealing with this on multiple

44:33dimensions, Iran, national debt deportations, et cetera. The train is greeting down the rails. There's something in the distance that's a little fuzzy or people pretend not to see, but it's certainly a bunch of people tied to the track, a bunch. The train can be diverted by flipping a relay switch, but doing so will definitely send it in this other direction and kill a single person we can clearly see right in front of us. Do you proactively intervene to kill the one person, even though you're quite likely saving many more? Trump is willing to flip that trolley switch that were up to Congress, most presidents, that train would continue on to hit whatever it is in the distance. And he gives the examples of interest bomb around getting a nuke, et cetera, but not through any direct action of Congress, safer to not flip the switch and assume the explicit blame for a likely smaller direct outcome. Bold leaders know that flipping the switch is sometimes the right thing to do. KKY HCC keep keeping your hands clean, cowards. We'll see what Congress does today and tomorrow in terms of keeping their hands clean.

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