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Published Sep 26, 2024, 4:41 PM

In hour 3 of The Armstrong & Getty Show

  • NY Mayor Eric Adams indicted
  • Extensive online scams out of Ghana
  • Kamala wants filibuster gone to get her will done
  • The history of Oakland sports

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Leaks and roommates have been aimed at me in an attempt to undermine my credibility and paint me as guilty. I will fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and my spirit.

Now I'm going to go back to my five thousand dollars a night hotel room played paid for by Turkish officials. That's Erry Adams, the mayor of New York for at least next several days.

Probably anybody got a wheelborrow, I can barrow, borrow.

I gotta move some gold bars.

So Eric Adams came on the scene in New York as mayor, former cop, different breed of Democrat, talking about, you know, cracking down on crime and we're gonna bring back stopping frisk and we're not gonna put up with this anymore. And then then loved to hammer in the hammer and the immigration problem of this is a failure of our border. Took on the UH, took on his own party to a certain extent, took on the White House to a certain extent. And uh, he's claiming that's why they're going after him and making up all these charges which he got indicted for last night.

Now they've released the supposed crimes. Yes, sometimes both are true. Yeah. Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on five federal charges a bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. The prosecutor said, began when he was a top elected official in Brooklyn and continued after he became mayor. The indictment, which was unsealed this morning, follows an investigation to starting twenty one, is focused on, at least in part, on whether he conspired with the Turmurkish government, a Turkish government to receive illegal foreign campaign contributions, and whether he took official actions on its behalf. He is.

Being accused of fast tracking their consulate or something, some sort of like approval that takes many, many years to get an expansion of a new building or something, and he made it happen like overnights, WI coud get trips and hotel rooms and who knows what else cash. Indeed, Yeah, the more details you get, the more interesting it becomes, federal prosecutors said, Adams sought and accepted improper valuable benefits since at least twenty fourteen, when he was then the Brooklyn Borough President. According to the indictment, the benefits included luxury international travel, free and discounted airline tickets to Turkey, and free meals and hotel rooms while there from wealthy foreigners and at least one Turkish government official. He tried to hide them or make them appear as if he'd paid for them, according to the indictment, gifts value to tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for the berks. Mister Adams is the mayor of pressured officials at the New York Fire Department to open a new Turkish consular building in Manhattan despite fire inspection issues. Fire department official who was overseeing the building's fire safety assessment said he was told he would Lewis his job if he did not follow the Mayor's orders. In the last two weeks, his police commissioner, his school's chancellor, his health commissioner, and counsel have all resigned, So you got nobody left around him and he's going to have to resign, and Mark Alprin in his new letter says, the only thing left in this conversation is who will Andrew Cuomo's cabinet be. Is the boy who's going to be the next mayor of New York And that's something Cuomo makes a comeback, and I love you. That is too bad because he was right about a lot of stuff. Yeah, and he struck me as a fast talking hustler from day one.

Yeah, that's true. It is politics, so you know, I know, but among politicians, I thought this guy's awfully I'm just always surprised by how easily.

Uh, you know, taking off track into a there's a decent there's a there's a really really good chance this isn't going to work out.

I don't know.

People get away with something awful, damn close to bribes in politics all the time, at every level.

Oh yeah, that's that's the game.

Why do you take it to such a level that you're almost certainly going to get caught?

When?

When it when it's so easy to skate by with hotel rooms and trips and all that sort of stuff. I mean, you know, we we we watch what happens in California. I mean, just it happens all the time. I just I'm always amazed when they reach too far for too big a brass ring.

Right right, And it's at least slightly notable that New York, New Jersey, Philly, all those cliches are true.

I think part of the.

Answer to your question is the same reason somebody is way up in Vegas ends up losing it all. If you are a polytical scammer of the sort that Eric Adams seems to be, and you rise up through the system getting the the ripe plums.

That come to a man in your position.

And with the bigger offices come bigger and juicier plums, and you've got a chance to reach for the big office in the city in New York. Anyway, that's too much temptation. They can't turn it down, not understanding or being too intoxicated with, you know, getting this the sweet stuff. You have now reached a level of scrutiny where people are not going to put up with your the rumors that have been going on forever about you, even if you did it before.

Of course, they've been following him around for a long time, so maybe if he had, even if he had stopped as mayor, he might have still gotten indicted, But you know, you end up Mayor of New York, You're gonna be set for life one way or another. You'll you'll you'll write a book called Taking a Bite out of the Big Apple with a two million dollar advance, and you'll go on a tour and then you'll they'll give you a talk show on MSNBC. And I mean, all kinds of your life's going to be really good. You don't need to have Turkish officials buying your hotel rooms.

Don't you think you just want to crash hotel rooms ain't cheap. You got the resort fee with the Turkish baths. And you know, I've heard from a bunch of people, if you want a really good suit, Turkey is a way to go. And he is really well dressed, that Eric Adams. I'll but that played a role. Ran into a guy who was really touting a tailor he had in Eastern Europe. He could get like a Seville Row bespoke suit for two hundred and fifty bucks. I go to a place. It's a it's a warehouse designed specifically for men. And I won't never.

Tell what's the name of this place.

Ah, dang it, it is disappointing just because he is right. And we've played a lot of clips over of Eric Adams over the last couple of years, beating up his own party over immigration, beating up his own party on letting crime slide. He's right about all that stuff. That doesn't discount what he was right about. But the crowd that hated him saying that, you know, get to discount.

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I just don't think they had a justice department that would take on the mayor's office in the past, in the Tammany Hall days for instance.

Well obviously, yeah, you go back then, they obviously were crooks. Yeah, no doubt about it. I've read enough about that. But what was I going to say? Oh, you do have to wonder he took on his own party on crime and immigration.

Is it possible that.

This slides or doesn't get looked at as closely if he isn't pissing off the wrong people.

The last couple of years. I don't know. It didn't help it. Yeah, it didn't help him at all.

So we're all familiar with the idea of getting catfished online like you're looking for love and all that sort of stuff, or maybe ripped off scammers. Man, there are some high level organized crime outfits out there that are doing it.

Now.

You should hear this story. CBS News has been doing a week long report on it. We'll bring that to you next. So I guess CBS has been doing a whole week long report on this. They focused earlier in the week on the people being scammed, talking to people, mostly seniors across the country who had gone on dating sites and gotten ripped off sometimes for millions, I mean, like really large amounts of money. Last night, the CBS Evening News focused on the other end, the scammers who are in Africa, And here's a little of that.

Meet Ghana's Yahoo Boys, online fraudsters who swindle Americans out of millions of dollars, preying on lonely older men over the age of sixty. The scammers pretend to be white American women residing in the US, tricking men into falling in love with them. They message constantly, laying on the attention and flattery. Then it's more expensive gifts to create the perception they are independently wealthy. When a victim insists on a video called voodoo, hires online porn stars and records them acting out scenarios that he directs from the mundane to them all raunchy. If the victim gets suspicious, he uses the image of one of his pawn stars to forge an American passport as proof of identity. For in person visits, they hire escorts who get a cups of the profits. Building trust can take months.

Yeah, it was a lot.

There was a level of this I had never seen before, where they really are playing the long game, where they actually have pictures of women and then if they need to. They you can actually meet a woman, and you think, okay, well it's actually a woman, and now I've met her and I've seen her passport, and yeah, that's that's sound.

A long great too, It's fantastic.

Let's tear a little more of this before we come in.

The setup often centers around gone as globally renowned gold mines. The scammers, still posing as a woman, claim they're in line to inherit one of these minds. The victim is invited to invest in the mind with the promise of huge returns that will secure the happy couple's future together, all sealed with a forged ownership document complete with an official seal.

That's it crosses into the really, so now you're dating somebody hotter than you've ever dated in your life.

Happened to be the heir to a gold mine. Hey, it's about time I got a good break. My ship came in at sixty five. Yeah, fantastic news. Yeah, it's just interesting to hear the way the business works. They invest so much in the long con and then they convert a certain number of the prospects into customers, I guess, and so it's worth the money. But I tell you what if I had and I've dealt with this sort of thing before, friends, acquaintances, loved ones getting scammed online. And it's tough to watch because it is they can't see what you can see because I've seen it for whatever reason of love or optimism or what have you. But if I had a friend who unspooled, you know, the first sixty percent of that story, and I said, but have you met this woman? And he said, oh, yeah. We spent the weekend in La.

It was great.

We went to the Dodgers game, we took a walk along the Beast, fantastic, we got a long I think, oh, okay, all right, I guess I don't know. I was just so afraid you're getting scammed. Yeah, because yeah, most of these low rent versions, it's it's it's some dude pretending to be a woman and you've never met them or talked to Is that? And yet there is a hired escort involved. Yeah, and a really well done passport. They showed it on a CBS news right, just a higher level of sophistication. Again, though, when it gets to the I'm an heir to a gold mine, Oh my god, how lucky for me. Wait, now it's cold.

It's interesting that you, being attractive and an air to a gold mine, need to date online and.

You know, to meet me. But and it's not even like my dad owned two car dealerships or anything. It's a gold mine, a literal gold mine. Anyway, it was in July that the Wall Street Journal had a fastin piece that I kept around, and I found it again very similar. It actually takes a look at the other side of the coin of similar scams. I'll just read the first part to you because it's really well written. In late December, Garacha the rest of his name is very long, helped lead a small but brazen rebellion. He'd been enslaved for sixteen months in a twisted new criminal empire in which Chinese gangsters traffick people from around the world, often to remote and lawless parts of Southeast Asia, and forced them to sit at computers all day scamming strangers online. The cyber frauds they're forced to commit are called pig butchering, named for the way the perpetrators fatten up their victims by gaining their trust before taking their money and cutting them loose behind the scenes. Though the scammers are victims too, and they kidnapped these poor people generally, they forced them to memorize a manual on how to seduce men online, manipulate them into pouring their money into bogus investments. And if these guys dare resist or try to get away, they are beaten and.

Tortured and starved.

And then and this guy who stage done an uprising was literally taken to a bathroom stall and tortured for another week. His captors beat him and said he'd have to scratch up seven thousand dollars if he wanted to be freed. Finally, and this guy's all scarred and broken, and finally his family scraped up seven grand and paid his ransom. So he and three others with him were among a few hundred who have made it out in recent years from industrial scale scam enterprises built on modern day slave trade. So to the just the lonely dating thing. And man, there's a horrible story out there, similar sort of thing. My main point being, this guy was getting talked up by a stripper at a strip club. Then she offered sex for money at the hotel, and he went to the hotel and got and then murdered. It's still a mystery as to why they murdered him, because that seems like a bad idea.

But anyway, Uh, in general, if somebody much younger and much hotter than has ever been interested you in your life is all of a sudden interested in you, you gotta be like beyond skeptical. And I understand, I understand it completely. If I'm sitting at a bar in Vegas and a twenty two year old super hotty dressed as a short skirt and high heels comes up and sits next to me, I just it would.

Be nicer, true, but I gotta know it's not true. On the other hand, that really is sitious. Part of this is I might be fully cognizant. Oh okay, she's a working girl and this is gonna cost me some money, Okay, but you know I expect to be papped over the head and have like everything taken.

Yeah, yeah, the whole. If the stripper doesn't actually like you, the uh the superat chick at the bar doesn't really like you. And uh again, if I if it's just if you're all of a sudden in a different league, just put up your end, like really, really high.

Yeah it seems like go or yeah. A final note on the lonely heart scams, there is a the scammers know that.

For instance, Christian.

Dating sites are a great place to fish wow, because if the scammer, you know, says what you say as a Christian, there's an immediate level of trust that you don't get other places.

They are utterly heartless, soulless and brutal. You know.

It reminds me of what I was going to say. This is just a modern version of something that's been around forever. Don't take any wooden nickels. News reports say there are nickels out there that look shiny and silver but are actually made of wood. Experts are saying you should bite into them or check to see if there were You know, there's just been, always been scams, and eventually we all catch.

On to them, right, smart people do anyway, So coming up some of the best smartest analysis I've come across as to why the left is so intent on shaking confidence in the Supreme Court.

Good stuff hoping and.

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We have aspirations, we have dreams, we can see what's possible. We have an incredible work ethic, but not everyone has the access to the opportunities.

That allow them to achieve those things. But we don't lack for those things.

But not everyone, you know, gets hand to stuff on.

A silver platter. All that ladies and gentlemen and everyone else. That is called bidenomics.

That is called bidenomics. And we are very proud of iidonomics.

So Bidenomics is great, but we must change it.

I don't want to get distracted because you have a different topic here, but I'll be interested to know if the people that ran the Obama campaign, who are now many of them in charge of her campaign, if it just thought, if they just so you know, we can do the same strategy we did before, hope and change. Just be above it all, just be above it all. But they don't have the talented candidate that Barack Obama was. He's one of the greatest politicians ever. She's one of the worst. Right, Yeah, well, good luck with that. Even the New York Times is starting to say she never answers any question, So we'll see how that goes.

I thought this was so smart.

A piece by Daniel Henninger, which I'll get to in a moment or two but it fits into a pattern. Perhaps we should have talked about this yesterday or at least mention it that Kamala Harris came out and said, we need to remove the filibuster in the Senate so he can codify Roe VWA nationwide. And we're just going to remove the filibuster and turn the Senate into a glorified house of representatives just for this one issue, but not for other issues, which is of course crocket crap.

Once you get rid of it, it's gone, and.

Then all the Senate needs is a simple majority to pass any legislation. The problem with that being the the idea of the Senate from the founding is this is the deliberative body that is going to be serious, moves slowly, not jerk from one policy to another. It's going to be the saucer that cools the milk.

Or with the idea that the House does quickly respond to passions perfect so you can quickly respond to new things if you have to. But then the Senate takes a look at it and says, Okay, this is a good idea, not yeah.

And sometimes the Senate says, you know what, House, you're right, you're up for election every two years, so you're constantly scurrying to do the voter's bidding, whether it's wise or not.

But we've looked at this one.

You're right or hey, let's all settle down. This would cause damage down the line anyway. So Kamla wants the filibuster gone to get her will done, and as the editorial board of the journal puts it, she wants to remove the biggest obstacle to one party progressive rule. And that is one characteristic of the progressive world, I think, especially although there are some, you know, right wing people who seem awfully enamored with big government too these days, but they believe that they are so wise and benevolent. They believe in a rule of technocrats and experts, that the smartest among us should go to Washington, d c. And centrally plan all of our lives in the economy. That's been progressivism since you know, the early twentieth century, and probably earlier than that. And a couple of things stand in their way, the Senate with the filibuster, and the Supreme Court or the courts in general. And I had it ready, we never got to it that John Roberts is the latest to be in the crosshairs of progressives trying to say the Supreme Court is fixed, which.

Is ridiculous if you know Roberts.

But they had a piece about how Justice Roberts has aided in Trump's winning streak. This is this long article full of innuendo and focus is just on who was made happy by the results, and ignores any of the constitutional principles that Supreme Court was actually ruling on. And it was just it was a slander of a slur piece. It was just innuendo and hints from.

The New York Times, from the New York Sunday front page a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah, I was intended just to undermine the Supreme Court, which obviously agreat it helps progressivism in general, and an abortion is what they focus on a lot lately. But Daniel Henninger speaking of the Wall Street Journal with a piece that just came out today that I thought was super insightful and interestingly the title of it is Joe Biden evaporates, but his bureaucrats don't. One of the campaign's most important issues is the vast power and authority of the federal government, and he gets into the latter days of the Biden administration, they're going to try to get done whatever they can on regulation programs, policies, handing out money, making sure the money's spent, and Henninger reminds us of the enormous, obscene power of the executive branch and it's regulatory agency. What has been the greatest blow against progressives using the executive branch to bend the country to their will in ways that are unconstitutional the Supreme Court knocking down the infamous Chevron decision, which granted an enormous deference to those eggheaded bureaucrat expert appointees of the progressives who want to bend the country to their will.

The Supreme Court.

Said, God bless them, No, no, no, Congress has got to be in charge of these regulatory agencies. They don't get to invent their own laws, and like with enormous latitude, and that much much much more importantly than Roe Vweighed the Hobbs decision. That's the one that the Progressives are desperate to change, and that's why they're motivated to undermine the Supreme Court. It's all about the Lower Bright decision that knocked down Chevron.

I think he's right.

Yeah.

The problem is I heard this joke on the podcast as listening to the other day with a bunch of political heavyweights, and they were talking about all this, and the one pundit said, yeah, I'm here in Georgia, is just at Gg's diner here in Athens, and man, they couldn't stop talking about the filibuster.

And the other one said, yeah, okay, I get it. It was a very dry joke.

As then nobody's freaking talking about the philibuster of people don't know what a filibuster is.

This, which is why I kept thinking yesterday I ought to bring it up, but I didn't. And here's why I think it matters to talk about it, at least among the folks gathered here today. And it's straight back to the brilliant Charles Krunt hammers the things that matter, the crap that the election is ostensibly about the stuff that you know, the vague, ridiculous, almost laughable promises Kamala is making about you have dreams and hopes and we need a hope economy because I grew up middle class. All of that's stupid, even if that's what the voters in Georgia are paying attention to the reason it's important to win, even with a candidate as flawed as Trump, is that this other stuff is.

What's going to actually happen.

The handouts to green energy companies that will go broken five years, but everybody involved gets rich and all of the cronies get rewarded, and the stupid regulations that will be passed in cripple American industry, and the meaningless gestures toward climate chas we the enormous power of the regulatory state. One side wants to reduce it, the other side wants to grow it. Clearly, that's really frustrating that that such important issues are not understood or discussed or at all.

No.

And that's and that's what was one of Kraudhammer's messages was You've got to win the stupid, grubby, dishonest game of electoral politics to do the things that matter.

And it's it's it's really frustrating.

It's like having to win a mud wrestling contest to become the CEO of General Electric.

It's it's almost not even related.

It's it's humiliating, it's beneath all of us.

It's not much different than that, really, I mean it it is. It is that different. I just came across this quote. I believe it's from looking at him, and I can't come up with his name. I had an interesting discussion with my doctor yesterday about how you're your mind slipping as you get older, taking longer to like pull up names and all that sort of stuff.

William F.

Buckley, I believe this is a quote from him about presidential elections. During these quadrenial clashes, the imperatives of ideological purity are brought into direct conflict with political and electoral realities.

Letting fancy pants way saying what I just said.

Right, no way, exactly.

The way you get elected ain't got anything to do with your various ideological.

Needs and everything like that. You won't get to do to your ideological stuff if you don't play the mud wrestling game.

Right right, you never get a chance.

Right. Oh, that is frustrating.

Yeah, it's frustrating.

That's why democracy is the worst system except for all the others invented. Exactly. I have this fantasy. It's a recurring fantasy. There's a sexy clown and she says, no, I'm kidding. My fantasy is clown sitting down well clown porn. You know, I'm a well known efficient afraid she'd tied it into a balloon animal. I don't want that.

Ow ow, it can't be good for me.

I'm trying to make the pool. Yeah, we'll stop. I have this weird, recurring fantasy, and I'll bet a lot of people who are everybody's every bit as weird as me have it. Sitting down with the founding Fathers and talking to him about the modern world in general, partly like talking to doctor Franklin about air travel and trying to answer his questions, would be an unbelievably amazing conversation.

To this dig this s you know, I gotta believe this. People have walked on the moon. What you drunk on? Meat or perhaps grog? My friend.

Sitting down and explaining to Madison what the year twenty twenty four looks like politically speaking. Hmmmm. First of all, the whole three branches of government, great idea, super good lasted for a couple hundred years. We got a fourth branch now, though nobody talks about it, but it's there. In fact, it may be the most powerful branch. It's the federal bureaucracy. It's just these guys in the girles in buildings that make laws and levy fines and punishments and if you don't pay the fines, you go to jail. But Congress never voted on those laws. And he'd be like, what are you talking about? How did you let that happen? And he'd rised all five foot four and ball up his little fists and say, let me, adam beminds me.

I have a conversation I had once with somebody where I thought I was being smart and I ended up being dumb, which happens a lot. But anyway, we're super into politics, political science, major graduate degree, that sort of stuff. And I had hit him with, can you imagine what the Founding Fathers would think if they were alive today?

Thinking I was all wry and everything. But anyway, he said, I think if the Founding Fathers were alive today, they'd say, oh my god, it worked. It actually worked true. First too, that's the first thing they would think, Oh wait, if you told them, I mean, look at the shakiness of the early days decades of the Republic, to say, dudes, two hundred and fifty years down the road, still together, they would.

They would weep with gratitude.

Same structure, more or less same constitution.

Oh, by the way, we're trying to screw it up. But it endured.

Somebody came up with a copy of the Constitution. They found it in their house. Did you hear this? Just found it? Yeah, I had a stack old newspapers and it was under that.

Wow, what a cool thing to find. I was going to mention something got on the way, but I don't remember. It was because my mind has stopped working. Actually, well, my doctor, my doctor had an interesting theory of why time moves faster as you get older that I thought was pretty good. He might be, I remember to right, stay with us.

So if here a sports it all, you got a lot of great memories that include the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. And I lived in the Midwest, and I don't even really know where Oakland was, but man, I watched so many Raiders games John Madden and Kenny Stabler and then on through the two thousands, Rich Gannon and all that sort of stuff, and Tim Brown and then of course all the A's teams throughout the years, and the Oakland A's are playing their final game. What sixty miles from where we're standing right now at the Oakland Hall SSEM today, and it's pretty much the end of the Oakland Calseum sports period because the Raiders are already gone to Vegas and Oakland has turned into what's the technical term crap hole.

Here's a little montage highlights I think from the two thousands of Oakland A's teams.

Tell us praying us through the perfect game popped up, there's Peyton and the Oakland Athletics have slipped the Minnesota Twins. Chrisville said it in the right field of basement Sexmith's coming around of the Kans who live them under.

Day f.

Nineteen game winning streak on the line here for the A's, the front runners of the American League West, right now, three up on the Angels. Swam on du Yeah.

I was thinking about people always remember the championship years for various teams that they root forever, but all the years where you like you were in it, you know, and you I don't even remember the players, but there are so many years where the A's were in it and made a run in the playoffs, and you know, even if they didn't make it, it was so much freaking fun with the super young unknowns barely making any money. Oh I love that, taking on the big teams.

So much fun.

So it's sad for Oakland and the memories in the coliseum and blah blah blah. But honestly, and nobody in the country has any idea what or what West Sacramento is. They can probably guess it's west of Sacramento. But you talk about a city that deserves a team, Hell, maybe the A's stay in the sac region.

Why not. Oakland's going to hell?

It is rotting, while the Sacramento region and West Sacramento in particular, booming and doing all the right things, making all the right moves, cleaning up crime, helping economic development, it's heading in the other direction.

Yeah, to get to get more serious about it, there will be on your evening newscasts, probably a clip of the Oakland A's game, and they'll mention that, but they won't mention why none of the sports stories on ESPN or CBS evening news talking about the Oakland A's played their final game in the Oakland colseume today, And they'll show a couple of highlights of Reggie Jackson. Order they're not gonna mention, and the Starbucks had to close by the airport, and all the Walgreens are gone, and Costco's looking at shutting down. All the teams have left, the Raiders, the A's and Warriors because it got so freaking sketchy to go to a game and there's so much crime and you're gonna get your car broken into that none of the teams could stick around or the fans wouldn't go to games.

That won't be mentioned. Well, yeah, it will be said that the city of Oakland and the team could not come to an agreement on a new stadium, right and the reason for that, And listen, sports stadiums are not necessary to have a healthy metropolitan area. No, it's nice, but the mismanagement of the progressive politicians of Oakland over the last couple of decades have caused an economic doom spiral, and you can't have nice things anymore. Is having a pro sports team a luxury in a way that's fun and brings tourism and gives a sense of cohesion to the region, But you can live without it. Yeah, all that stuff is true. Cities on the rise, regions on the rise, doing the right things. Can afford luxuries like that, and people think, yeah, it's probably pretty silly, but that's not much tax money. People are places involved in a doom spiral, not so much.

Back to a sports thing, we had some clips early from the steroid era. I don't get any I don't get any enjoyment out of the Bash brothers, do you. I mean that was fun at the time when we were kind of all like willfully ignoring the.

Obvious, But uh, I just I don't get.

That much enjoyment out of the Yeah, that was such a weird everybody was on steroids. Every record fell ah. Right, I got a bad taste in my mouth about that whole thing. Sure, sure, and then shrunken.

Testicles, tiny testicles, giant heads. Yeah, well, hey, you gotta wear an adjustable hat when you're on themroids. Nice job, heads, just nice, like a Thanksgiving Day balloon? Right, nice job. Making your head grow at age forty Berry Bonds a different team.

Yeah, same era, Yeah, exactly. How do you make your head grow when you're in forties? Are you like, plug your nose and push with your breath.

You can get my head to grow a bit, That's right, The easy, the most effective way to discredit progressive policies is to enact them.

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