Let Him Flounder

Published Jul 8, 2024, 4:33 PM

In hour 3 of The Armstrong & Getty Show: 

  • What about Kamala?
  • Why do calories & money not count on vacation?
  • Biden is still backing up "bad night" argument
  • European leaders weigh in on Biden and his ability

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

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I don't agree that it's just the elite media or just donors, because members of Congress are fundamentally about self preservation. That self preservation rests on the ability to get a majority of the vote. So when they're talking to their own voters, that's when they get this level of concern. And that's why when you see senior members of the House delegation like you did on that call yesterday, express concern, you can safely assume it's much more widespread. And I think sometime in the next week you're going to have people like the Obamas. You're going to have people like Jeffries or Schumer one way or the other come out and say emphatically, either people should put a sock in it or the president should think seriously about stepping aside.

So that's interesting.

Jim vander Hie of acxios, who also has really good sources, I don't know I quite understood that he said, like people like Obama are going to come out and what he thinks one of those two things is.

Going to happen. Is that what he meant. Obama is either going to come out.

And say he needs to set aside or he's gonna come out and say put a sock in it. Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, you talk about a big deal. If Barack Obama, if he went to the camera, you know, and said, I worked with Joe Biden for years, I love him, he's a great guy.

Blah blah blah blah blah, but he's a hero blah blah blah.

Right, Oh god, dang it, that'd.

Be huge, wouldn't he Would he go to Biden first though, in private, and if he was right buffed, go to the mic man, Yeah, that would have to be it. Yeah, okay, you know, I don't want to get too inside the media because nobody cares but.

Scarborough, what the hell is up with him?

Because the case that he was making that Van de Hie was responding to correct me if I'm a little off on this, was that it's the elite is freaking out, but the base still loves Old Scranton.

Joe.

Yeah, I got to it and show me those numbers inside the media. I wanted to see Morning Joe Scarborough on MSNBC today because he was on vacation last week like us, and the last we checked in with Joe Scarborough he was yelling at all of us, calling us names for claiming the president's mind didn't work and that behind the scenes he talks to the president all the time, and the President's is sharp as in fact, he's sharper than he's ever been.

Was is the best Joe Biden ever?

But then the day after the debate, wasn't he morose and head and hands and saying it's over?

And now he's switched back again.

I guess yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Joe Scarborough. Anyway, can you imagine folks being a political party or a human or a company or whatever, and your best path forward is Kamala Harris. I mean that is, you're caught in a bear trap and there's a guy coming at you with a knife.

You've got to saw off your foot.

I wish there was some sort of AI parallel universe thing we could run this through. If you had a competent vice president, if it was Al Gore, Dick Cheney, for instance, in a similar situation, was a vice president, would it be over already.

Would this have ended like a long time ago.

I think the electoral numbers would be vastly different. You could run the Mummy because he's not backed up by the dummy. If Amy Klovicher was the vice president, you could make the case and there'd be a certain amount of sympathy for this that Look, Trump is dangerous, He's a threat to democracy, all that crap.

Look, everybody vote for Biden.

He'll step aside super soon, and Senator Clovicher or Gretchen Whitmer or whomever you want a name as a semi competent vice president, they'll step in.

That would reassure a lot of pep.

The prospect of Biden getting elected then stepping aside is no less terrified than him not stepping aside terrifying.

I should say so.

The idea I like the best if I'm a Democrat, and I think is maybe the most likely is Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, who's the absolutely the guy who got Joe Biden the nomination in the first place and is one hundred percent responsible for Joe Biden keeping Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders from being the nominee back in twenty twenty, Jim Clyburn put out the plan over the weekend that they need to have a mini primary, and I absolutely think that's a good idea and definitely could be the path that ends up going forward. That, of course, assuming that Joe Biden willingly steps down, because if he does not willingly step down, he ain't going nowhere because there ain't no way to get him out. But if he willingly steps down, some sort of mini primary leading up to the convention, that on one hand, might be a way to edge Kamala Harris aside if it looks like there's way more support for somebody else or she ends up winning it. But it's not just to hand the baton to the DEI choice, right right, yeah.

Yeah, Well, And the fact that Clyburn is floating that speaks volumes. It's like we've discussed in the past, diplomatic language is always very veiled and very gentle, but you can spend you can send really strong signals with very mild language. The fact that Jim Clyburn suggested a he's the famous congressman from South Carolina who got Biden to win in South Carolina and relaunched him anyway, he says they ought to have a blitz primary. He called it to pick their candidate. If Biden drops out, Delegates would pick the candidates using rank choice voting before the Democratic Convention. Candidates would run positive only campaigns, which is interesting novel idea. It is also, yes, hilarious, the fact that Jim Clyburn, a black man, said no, we ain't just gonna go with Kamala Harris, because that's what he was saying, sir, He.

Said, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.

That that speaks volumes about her actual level of support behind the scenes, even among black power brokers in the Democratic Party or just our Democrats. Worth mentioning real briefly, you think that's a terrible idea, and that you just think the party leaders ought to go to a smoke field room and figure out who's the best candidate because the one thing that they fear and hate because it hasn't happened for decades since the nightmare of nineteen sixty eight in Chicago, is coming to the convention divided and angry and fighting factions because that just doesn't play well in the modern day.

Well, I, as I've talked about many times, I've completely changed my mind on the way parties should work and now believe smoke field rooms are much better than letting the people decide. And so maybe this is a way to usher back in the era of the smoke field room. They're kind of forced into it, and next time around they think, yeah, that pretty good. That's how we'll pick our candidates, and the Republicans will think, yeah, that looks like a good idea.

Yeah, keeping in mind it's a private organization.

A primary election has nothing to do with the Constitution at all.

You can do it any way you want.

You can have a foot race or you know, a round of Jeopardy, or whatever the hell you want to pick your.

I do not suggest a foot race involving Joe Biden at this point.

Certainly not now in our era of gerontocracy. But I actually think the Democrats had it somewhere close to right with our whole super delegate thing. But again, you know, it's up to the parties to decide.

One thing that they can't decide. Apparently I did some rating on this is where all the money goes. So Joe Biden has raised a tremendous amount of money because Kamala Harris's name is on the ticket that people are donating money too. He can step aside and she gets all that money. Doesn't work that way for Gavin Newsommre, Gretchen Whitmer any those other people. They got to start from scratch practically what they're trying going on, trying to raise money with a short amount of time and all that sort of stuff. So that's another reason that Kamala is more likely than a Gavin Yes.

On the other hand, it's very, very difficult to make a case for Kamala Harris on any logical in any logical way.

I mean, you look at the.

Poll numbers, her performance as the border root causes Czar right, her fight for quote unquote voting rights, her lack of support even among Black America, which is I mean this way more than most of America, but it's still it's tepid.

It best, oh she I mean, she becomes the candidate.

First of all, she's completely untested at that level.

She was tested at the lower level and failed.

If you'll remember, she had.

To get out before Iowa even happened.

She would have to answer for the border in a way that's even worse than Joe Biden, as you mentioned, and she's the borders are okay, you were named the person in charge of the border and we set records week after week, month after month, year after year.

What the hell happened there?

Also, she has to answer the questions of what did you know and when did you know it about Joe Biden's brain If you were, as you say, in a meeting with them, you know, you had lunch every Thursday and in lots of meetings. Okay, So were you hiding all this or did it just happen?

What's her story going to be on that?

If she were smart and articulate, she could craft an explanation. But she's neither, sue that's a problem. One of the first quotes in this Wall Street Journal coverage of Kama in her Futures from Al Sharpton, of all people, who says, quote, she's been a very visible and vocal advocate for this administration. She's a loyal Democrat. I think the question is whether the Democratic Party will be loyal to women and loyal to blacks, or been loyal to them as symbolized by her WHOA. So it's all DEI, it's all identity politics.

I mean and they're saying it out loud.

Now see, there's a certain.

Amount of you go the only direction you can go among these people. And if the consensus behind closed doors is, look, we can't go with Biden, and for money reasons and all kinds of other reasons, it's got to be Kamala. We can't get somebody else at this point, then they'll all rally behind Kamalin. They'll talk her up in ways that they might not believe, because that's just the way politics works. But as I was watching a zoom call the other day, it was pointed out by Mark Alperty said, until you've been tested at the presidential running for president.

Stage, nobody's ever done. In the full opo.

Everybody always uses the example of George Bush was elected governor of Texas twice. Nobody uncovered that dui that he got back in the day until he ran for president. There's stuff out there, and he throughout the example of he said on this zoom call, he said, how many of you know that she flew on Donald.

Trump's plane with Willie Brown once?

And he said, okay, that it's not a huge deal, but you'll have to answer questions about it for a couple of days, and there could be one hundred and fifty other stories like that that nobody's.

Ever uncovered until she's the presidential candidate. The opera research is absolutely a factor. Just capability, though, I think is the main one. And as a guy who was really enthusiastic about Scott Walker in Wisconsin, a couple of cycles going Rick Perry. There's so many examples Ron DeSantis, although that was a special case because Trump got back in. But you can be very, very capable on a state level and just be decimated on a national level.

You just don't have the chops.

And she has proved, if you know, she's occasionally called unproven on the national stage like Halprin was suggesting, No, she has proven.

She's she's proven to be incompetent. She does not have the chops.

She she wasn't even supported in her home state, in her own city.

Prior to Iowa.

Nobody wanted her the only any chance they have to get her to give up the shot at the White House. As we're discussing earlier, it's it's lust provoking and intoxicating in a way that normal human beings can't even imagine.

If you get a sniff of the White House.

The only way they get rid of her is to say, look at these polls, all of them. You will be humiliated. You will make George McGovern look like Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy two. You will lose so miserably. Or you take that giant campaign jest, you start a huge super pack. You become a king maker and a permanent part of the Democratic whatever. What do you want, Supreme Court or a permanent governor of cat centator, what do you want?

Baby?

And they convince her to avoid the historic humiliation that is surely hers.

But who knows.

Biden's gonna have to answer questions Thursday because of the big NATO summit that's going on, which we need to talk more about, and that's hugely important. And again for the tenth time today you got a president who may or may not be aware some of the time of what's being talked about at the NATO summit, or understand it because he slides in and out of consciousness more or less right.

Or he hears it and forgets it two minutes later.

God, we need to talk about the Trump angle of this, his truth social post that he put out, He has hardly talked at all, but he did put out a very entertaining truth social post we could analyze, among other things.

Yeah, we have a bunch of great commentators. We haven't even gotten to their audio yet, So why don't we hammer a bunch of that in the next half hour.

Stare, if your opponent is floundering, you just get out of the way and let him flounder.

See, you don't interrupt the news cycle at all.

But he did put out a pretty hilarious truth social or maybe you'll find it appalling.

I don't know. We'll read that for you coming up next segment.

Noah, we gotta wait a bunch of other commentary from various people on what is seriously one of the biggest presidential political stories in our entire nation's history.

I mean, it's just astounding. I did a full vacation. We're off for five days, we're off and off for a whole week.

But I haven't done a real like get away somewhere be in the same spot, the whole week vacation vacation in seventeen years, sixteen years. Wow, very very long time since I've done a vacation like that. And I'm finding it very difficult to go back to regular life.

Yeah, is that the way it's supposed to be.

Is that a good thing? Yeah, there's a getting back into it period for most folks.

Definitely, because most of my vacations, which are really nice, but lot of visiting a family and travel and stuff like that, and it's and with kids, it's just it's not And I've never had the I gotta go back to the grind. I just the grind kind of continued through the week, just in a different way. But this one man at the end coming back is like, I don't know if I can go back to my life.

It was painful.

Yeah, you have a different circumstance than I do. My life is pretty much vacation plus doing this job, which I love since I'm the empty nester.

But yeah, yeah, it's back to the hustle.

Yeah.

Is there like a re entry program that they suggest? Is there a book you can read, a bill you can take.

Yeah, you grit your teeth real hard.

I almost feel like it made things worse. I mean, it was nice to me the break, but then.

A this is painful.

Yeah.

I like to think I'm pretty good at my job. I'm real good at not working the practically effort. I'm real talent and not working.

I was explaining to my kids the whole concept of when you're on vacation that you feel like calories and money don't count, because they had that going, especially the my money part. But I did pretty good with the calories don't count. I actually lost weight on vacation, but man, the money doesn't count. I failed miserably on For some reason, I forgot that money is real. I thought I was playing like a board game and it was just pretend money.

Yeah. Well that's kind of universal, isn't it.

Why does that happen?

I don't know. There are probably, you know, university level studies on that, but it's it's absolutely universal.

Why is a thirty dollars T shirt when you're not on vacation? Think I don't need that, but you're on vacation. I grab a couple of them.

But what is that?

I bought a thirty five dollars T shirt the other day without thinking about it.

I like it, it's nice.

Look at this is a pattern on the back. I'll get I'll take one of those.

Yeah, I'm sure glad.

I liked my job.

I have come back to jobs I hated before. Now that's really hard. I've done that many times.

Trump's comment and his role, and we're going to the convention next week.

We got to talk about that.

Armstrong and Getty.

It being hard.

Getting back to real life from vacation doesn't include this job.

Man. I was missing this job while on vacation because the.

News was so damned interesting, and then not being able to talk about it was driving me crazy. I'm not excited about getting back to laundry and meal preparation, but I am excited about getting back to this. So Joe Biden just did an interview. Before we get to that, let's read Donald Trump's truth social that he put out over the weekend. I really think that's a mistake. If I were him, Since Elon let him back on Twitter, he should get back on Twitter.

He's got a way way bigger reach.

But he ya, he's got a hell of a lot of money tied up in the truth social thing.

Rle Anyway, here was his post over the weekend that nobody saw unless your own truth social Crooked Joe Biden should ignore his many critics and move forward with alacrity and strength with his powerful and far reaching campaign. He should be sharp, precise, and energetic, just like he was in the debate and selling his policies of open borders where millions of people, including record numbers of terrorists, are allowed to enter our country from prisons and mental institutions totally and unchecked and unvetted, to ending social security, men playing in women's sports, good one, high taxes, high interest rates, encouraging a woke military, uncontrollable inflation, record setting, crime only electric vehicles, subservience to China and other countries, endless wars, putting America last, losing our dollar based standard, and so much more. Yes, sleepy joy, Joe should continue his campaign of American descruction, destruction, and in all caps, make China great again.

The only justification or explanation of why that's not a mistake while Biden is drowning is if you issue a perfect blast, and that was a perfect blast.

Yeah, because it got all the issues in which I think is worth doing.

Yeah, Yeah, that was good stuff.

Meanwhile, on Biden's side of things, if you're not aware of this, maybe you were vacationing yourself the you know, the fairly open talk that you've heard from us over the last couple of years that Biden is clearly slipping. That evolved into whispers behind the scenes, that evolved into rumbles behind the scenes, are now rumbles in front of the scenes. And we've got some of those rumbles coming up in a moment or two. But the word that's coming out from the Beltway is that heavyweight donors and trust me, folks, people don't talk about donors enough and the influence they have. But your heavyweight Democratic donors and pullers of strings are saying, guy's got to write the ship by the end of the week. If it doesn't happen by the end of the week, we make a serious move. So Biden is launching this I almost said charm offensive, but it's like a coherence offensive, trying desperately to unring a which, as I.

Recall, is undoable.

But he's John's.

Trying to regain the sentient vote.

But as we utter these words, on Monday, the eighth of July, the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four, Joe Biden's just made an appearance on Morning Josef and it went like this, how can.

You assure the American people that you won't have another night like the one you did in Atlanta.

Book of my Career and not had many of those nights. It was a terrible night, and I really regret it happened. But the fact of the matter is, how can you assure you're going to be on you know, faith backing interview on your way to go to work tomorrow? Age age Wasn't you know the idea I'm too old created over fifteen million jobs twenty one and insured for the ACA, beat big farmer, relieve student dead for five million people, first black woman in the court. So I think I had a significant, significant run. And that's how I'd measure me. He measure me what I've done.

Yes, see, that's I mean to point out the obvious, since age league degeneration only goes in one direction. And Mika's question, which was a pretty good one, was given that that everybody knows about the future really scares us, and he said, look at the past.

That's not an answer. That's pathetic.

Right.

As was pointed out by a few people about those radio interviews he did last week, he knew the questions ahead of time, and he still answered them poorly. I doubt he knew these questions ahead of time. Although that you're going to get that one over and over again. Yeah, that's the same thing he said to Stephanopolis, and Stephanopolis pushed him on it a couple of times of the if people are worried your brain broke and something has gotten seriously worse in the last forty five days or whatever, you talking about what you did in twenty twenty.

Matter, how do you not get that?

Well, getting back to my people don't save their you know, good arguments.

He has no answer for that.

There is no answer for that, and so he's going to try to dupe people into buying that awful answer.

That's his only option.

Plus, there were chunks of that in there that of course were incoherent.

Is always the case, just well, I don't know what always saying.

Yeah, yeah, So speaking of the whispers behind the scene becoming open and loud, just a couple let's go with this is Mariano Sodomoyor on ABC this week, Clip forty four.

Michael, and there are a number of House Democrats and Senators who are still behind Biden, but almost everyone that I have spoken to, especially on the House, I'd say that many Democrats won't buy a step side and the interview on Friday when he said only we've only heard because there's through the press that has only emboldened Democrats to more than likely go public this week.

Yeah, self interest is the name of the game in politics. Very seldom are any politicians doing anything that isn't in their benefit. It'd be nice if it was more often about what's good for the country or whatever.

A lot of the people that are.

Coming out and saying he's got a step aside are in close races, and if Joe Biden's on the ticket, Democratic turnout is going to be low and they're going to lose. They're going to lose their jobs if Joe Biden stays on the ticket. So that's keeping a certain number of people, you know, honest, sure, if they were in safe districts, they might be perfectly willing to.

Say no, Joe Biden's the guy.

Hey Michael, let's run.

Jim Van derhyev axios forty one, forty two back to back.

I don't agree that it's just the elite media or just donors, because members of Congress are fundamentally about self preservation. That self preservation rest on the ability to get a majority of the vote. So when they're talking to their own voters, that's when they get this level of concern. And that's why when you see senior members of the House legation like you did on that call yesterday, express concern, you can safely assume it's much more widespread. And I think sometime in the next week, you're going to have people like the Obamas. You're going to have people like Jeffries or Schumer, one way or the other come out and say emphatically, either people should put a sock in it, or the president should think seriously about stepping aside.

So they can Joe Biden can ignore the other politicians. I think, well, he certainly can. Literally they ignore him. He doesn't have to do what they say. They have no actual leverage over him. It's a looking different with the donors, though. The big donors pull the money, right, that's a different situation. I saw most big donors you don't even know their names. I mean, I follow all this stuff really really closely. I saw some one of the biggest Democratic donors in America on a TV show the other day. I'd never heard of him or seen him in my life. These are some of the most powerful people in America that completely anonymous, which is interesting about our system. But anyway, he was so des and he and they were asking him about what he's gonna do with his money, and he said, I have now decided to switch to the races. That's what they're doing. That's not like they're going to become Republicans. They're gonna quit putting their money into the presidential race and they're gonna put it into the Senate races and the House races to hang on to that for Democrats. But anyway, he started to talk and then he at some point this was like a younger guy.

He looked like he was like fifty.

And at some point he said, how did we get ourselves in this situation?

He was just so mad.

You know, that's a reasonable question to ask.

Like I said before, your best option is Kamala Harris, good lord, is time for us to do what we have been doing in that time?

Is every day?

Well, well, said Michael, getting back to your point though about they'll they'll just move to the Senate and the congressional races and that sort of thing. The problem with that is if you have a loser at the top of the ticket, you can spend all the money in the world in your turnout is just going to be awful. That's just the reality of national politics. I just came to a realization looking at the clips we played, and I feel kind of bad about this. We have run nothing but clips by mammals. Let's run a couple of clips of a reptile. This is Adam Schiff in thirty six and thirty seventy. Reptilian, utterly dishonest, disgusting, a moral lying. Did I say that scumbag soon to be US senator? Perhaps the republic is lost, Doctor Franklin. Anyway, here's Adam Schiff thirty six thirty seven back to back.

The performance on.

The debate stage. I think rightfully raised questions among the American people about whether the president has the vigor to defeat Donald Trump. He should be mopping the floor with Donald Trump. Joe Biden's running against a criminal. It should not be even close. And there's only one reason it is close, and that's the president's age.

Does anybody need me to decode that if a reptile like shift shift is that open about?

Yeah?

Yeah, it's the.

Age is the only issue now, it's the only thing He's going to be asked about for the rest of the campaign. That's one of the difficult situations Joe Biden is in. He's never going to do an.

Interview where they're not asking him about his.

Age and his brain, right, right, Yeah.

I'm looking at some further coverage of this, and I was actually I'm kind of surprised. Nearly three quarters of Democrats hold a favorable view of Kamala Harris, only twenty one unfavorable. Interestingly, that number is significantly lower among black voters.

I saw though.

She is incredibly unpopular as a vice president, though most vice presidents are, they have decent numbers because nobody cares, and.

So people have made some determination about her.

And so I saw a meme on Twitter the other day it was, uh, Kamala Harris has the lowest approval rating among any vice president ever polled, including Dick Cheney, and he shot a guy in the face.

But so, anyway, as this class unfolds and yields Biden pulling out, I think maybe by the end of the week or the chorus will be so loud as obvious he's going to Kamala Harris is the least chaotic and nutty option going forward for.

The Democratic Party, She's almost a certain loser. You know, Trump could die. He's an old, fat guy, and something nutty could happen, even nuttier than Kamala Harris being a heartbeat away from the presidency. But if he resigns, yeah, or loses it completely, because keep in mind, we have months to go, and he's a very old man who's clearly But anyway, what I was leading up to is, since a debate that was in Chicago and August, if it was riven by controversy and conflict and serious open public splits in the Democratic Party, because the Democratic Party is truly a helter skelter quilt of why the hell are y'all in the same party, and if all of that was fully on display in each side beginning to attack each other, that could do some real damage going forward. Or you run the dunce she loses, you get her off the national stage, and you set your sights on twenty twenty eight.

I think that's the best move.

Off'm a Democrat in your regroup and have maybe a good run the couple of terms of being you know, pretty in charge of all of DC. So the Democratic Convention is aug starting in twenty twenty eight.

You mean yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Democratic Convention is in August. The Republican Invention is next week. We fly to Milwaukee on Sunday and we will be there and broadcasting live all next week.

What do you expect out of that?

Is Trump gonna?

I feel like he's got to hold his VP nominee at this point to see who's running against.

I also think he doesn't want to interrupt this news cycle.

True, true, that's absolutely.

You know that to my bones. Yeah.

But for instance, somebody floated the idea of a decent ticket of being Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer, two women running against Donald Trump. How would Trump go about attacking them and not you know, more alienate suburban women across the country. How good they would be on the only issue Democrats really have as the abortion issue right now? Maybe you know, if that were the ticket that he knows he's running against, he might have to pick a woman at that point so she could say the things, so Nicki Haley could say the things she needs to say, or or whoever.

Wow, that is interesting. Huh.

You don't want two dudes, you don't want another dude, having to beat up on two women and.

Then high five.

No not a good look.

Oh my god, we got more other ways to hear. I forget what Democratic so pundit said on one of the zooms I watched in the last couple of days about dumping Joe Biden.

He said, why would we jump dump a guy who.

We don't think can win for a woman we know can't win, which I was pretty good.

What is the point there?

Well, there's the.

One ship, the latter ship. You might be able to turn. The Joe Biden ship. There's no turn, and I'm completely convinced of that.

So one of the many interesting angles of all this thing is the media's.

Cover up.

I don't think it's too strong a term for the last three years of Joe Biden's medal situation and so many people covering it up or ignoring it, combination of the two.

I read several articles.

I'll have to find the notes on the European leaders and the things that they were saying. Oh, it was the big New York Times article that had Peter Baker and David Sanger and all the biggest heavyweights. The New York Times has wrote the song article with all these quotes from the European leaguers leaders when Joe Biden was over at the G seven and I thought.

Where were these quotes before the debate? What are you're just going to hang on to him or what?

But anyway, a whole bunch of the European leaders saying he'd be in the meetings and sometimes he'd be sharp and like really get into some issues, but then he would just like check out and stare off into space, and we didn't know if he was still paying attention or not.

Wow.

And they were sat on those quotes even as the right wing media was creating cheap fakes, right.

Yeah, So that that whole thing has got to get played out.

Any way, The European leaders, a number of them, are back in the United States and Washington, DC with this big NATO summit that's going on this week that Joe Biden's going to be checking in on a couple of different times.

I'm looking at his schedule.

He'll delivery remarks on the seventy fifth anniversary of NATO tomorrow. We'll see how that goes. That'll be teleprompter. He's going to welcome Allied leaders. That might be teleprompter. On Thursday, he will participate in a couple of working sessions of the NATO summit.

He's doing that a number of times this week.

Now.

I feel like, based on what I just said, the behind the scenes quotes from NATO leaders about how he checked out and stared.

Into space aren't going to stay hidden anymore. I think.

I think if he checks out during one of these meetings, it'll be in the afternoon news or tweeted out immediately, so that'll be interesting to follow. And then the President will host a press conference Thursday afternoon with the NATO leaders taking actual questions in a real time.

So that's a big day. That could be the end of the whole thing.

Think it probably will be. That'll be the final nail in the coffin. Again, an unfortunate metaphor, but how amazing is it that you'd have quotes that juicy and you'd sit on them.

Yes, so ideologically you've become.

But I wanted to get to this, getting again to the point that there's some real s going down in the world and we need somebody in charge. Is Hunter going to make these decisions if the President can't, the NATO General Secretary, the new guy was on one of the talk shows yesterday and he was asked by the host, you know you've got Australia and Japan and all these meetings, said, is this about China. It sounds like it's about China, and he said, it's absolutely about China. This meeting, this is from the NATO secretary. It's absolutely about China, said, China is the main enabler of Russia in their aggressor again in their aggression against Ukraine.

Much more to be said on this topic. A lot of good stuff. Do Western elites speaking of those folks have a reality problem. We'll do that nour for a lot of people. Don't get our four grab it via podcast later. It's called the Armstrong and Getty on demand wherever you like to get podcasts. Armstrong and Getty

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