Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and and He.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 4: Abolish the police, Abolish Ice, abolished borders, abolished the Senate,
Speaker 4: abolished the Constitution. It's an extreme political ideology that is
Speaker 4: gaining traction. The Democrat leadership has lost control. They know it,
Speaker 4: and people like Alexandria Ocassio Cartez Hong in Wisconsin, Abdua
Speaker 4: l Saiet in Michigan. You talked about the big tent.
Speaker 4: The Democrat Jewish Attorney General of Michigan cannot even go
Speaker 4: to her party's nominating convention because she says I won't
Speaker 4: be because of the supporters of abdul l say ed.
Speaker 5: It is not hyperbole to suggest that we are in
Speaker 5: a battle for the Constitution of the United States and
Speaker 5: the way that constitution has given us such a wonderful
Speaker 5: way of life, so much opportunity, so much safety. And
Speaker 5: nobody knows that better than our colleague Jason Rantz, who
Speaker 5: holds down afternoon Drive on one of the great conservative
Speaker 5: radio stations in America, Seattle Read seven seventy AM. Jason
Speaker 5: joins us now. Jason, how are you, my friend. I'm
Speaker 5: doing well. Thanks for having me excellent. Oh it's a pleasure.
Speaker 5: I'm so glad you had a little bit of time.
Speaker 5: You based out of Seattle. You're a man of the
Speaker 5: Pacific Northwest, which is one of my favorite places on earth.
Speaker 5: My daughter lives not very far from you. Watching the
Speaker 5: progressives damage your state and city is painful, and it's
Speaker 5: got to be painful for you, but at the same
Speaker 5: time kind of energizing. Help people understand what Washington State
Speaker 5: looks like in what direction it's headed these days.
Speaker 6: Oh, we're certainly not going in the right direction. The
Speaker 6: biggest fight right now is, well, there's actually quite a
Speaker 6: few fights coming into this election. We've got three initiatives
Speaker 6: on the ballot that have been forwarded by conservatives.
Speaker 7: One is to reverse course.
Speaker 6: For the twelfth time on an income tax that Democrats
Speaker 6: keep trying to impose on all of us. They have
Speaker 6: completely rigged the system to make it as difficult as
Speaker 6: humanly possible to get rid of this income tax. But
Speaker 6: we're obviously going to fight for that. The other two issues,
Speaker 6: one having to do with a pro bill of rights,
Speaker 6: which no longer exists in the state of Washington. After
Speaker 6: voters passed it, the Democrat legislature said, now we're going
Speaker 6: to just reverse course on what the voters wanted, and
Speaker 6: the final one would ban transgender girls from competing against
Speaker 6: biological girls in high school sports. All three poll on
Speaker 6: the side of conservatives because I don't think they're viewed
Speaker 6: as political issues, at least not inherently. That these are
Speaker 6: issues that, regardless of how one identifies politically, can say, yeah,
Speaker 6: this is not something we want in our state. Democrats
Speaker 6: continue to ignore it. So now it's going to the people.
Speaker 6: Seattle specifically, we're seeing an increase in crime again, homelessness
Speaker 6: is getting out of control, and we have a mayor
Speaker 6: who's a socialist who's never held a real job in
Speaker 6: her life, and she's not handling this position very well,
Speaker 6: to the point where even left wing media is calling
Speaker 6: her out for incompetence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Katie Wilson, the mayor of Seattle, reminds me of
Speaker 5: Francesca Hong, the woman child who wants to be governor
Speaker 5: of Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: They're kind of cut.
Speaker 5: From the same cloth, Dreamy. I mean, at least Francesca
Speaker 5: Hong has been a cook. I mean, she's had a job,
Speaker 5: tend's bar now and.
Speaker 3: Again, but kind of that dreamy.
Speaker 5: All they know is what they learned in their social
Speaker 5: classes at college, supported by mom and dad. Still, it's
Speaker 5: just shocking to me that these people get elected.
Speaker 6: Well, the good news is, at least in Wisconsin, she'll
Speaker 6: win tonight, hok will win the primary. She's not going
Speaker 6: to get elected. There's no one, sirius, who thinks she
Speaker 6: stands a shot in Wisconsin for governor. It's the same
Speaker 6: thing in Michigan, where you know privately Democrats will acknowledge, yeah,
Speaker 6: there's no way Abdul al Sayed is going to win this.
Speaker 6: He's too extreme for Michigan. The threat for Republicans would
Speaker 6: have been Hayley Stevens. Different take in Seattle and Washington, right,
Speaker 6: I mean, we are deeply, deeply, deeply blue. We are
Speaker 6: unapologetically blue, and Seattle is the worst of the worst.
Speaker 6: So you can get someone like a Katie Wilson or
Speaker 6: el Said or Hong and they could.
Speaker 7: In fact win there.
Speaker 6: And that's the scary part where people don't look at
Speaker 6: these people at the local level where I'm from and say, Okay,
Speaker 6: I guess I agree with them ideologically, but they don't
Speaker 6: have any experience, and I don't want to turn over
Speaker 6: the reins to a major city with a huge budget
Speaker 6: to someone like that simply because I agree with them ideologically.
Speaker 6: There's got to be someone else who I can align with,
Speaker 6: who actually comes with some experience. We don't vote like that,
Speaker 6: and we suffer the consequences as a result.
Speaker 5: We've all watched San Francisco take a turn towards the sane.
Speaker 3: Daniel Lurry's the mayor there, and.
Speaker 5: He's no Conservative, but he's the sort of fellow that
Speaker 5: you're describing. He can perceive reality and tell you about it.
Speaker 5: I see in Vancouver, which is one of the great
Speaker 5: places on Earth, that the police have been ordered to
Speaker 5: stop citing shoplifting and public hard drug use. I mean,
Speaker 5: doubling down on the absolutely corrosive policies that we've seen
Speaker 5: fail so miserably everywhere else.
Speaker 7: Well, and that's the sad part about all of this.
Speaker 7: This is twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6: This is in twenty twenty through twenty twenty three, where
Speaker 6: out of the defund police and the abolition has had
Speaker 6: a whole lot of control and decided to completely redefine
Speaker 6: what policing and prosecution meant and meant, and we all
Speaker 6: saw the results of that. We saw crime skyrocket. Only recently,
Speaker 6: in the last couple of years have we seen those
Speaker 6: numbers to start coming back down to where they used
Speaker 6: to be pre COVID.
Speaker 7: Because you know, it's kind of like going on a diet.
Speaker 6: It takes a very long time to lose like ten pounds,
Speaker 6: and then you go to Vegas for the weekend and
Speaker 6: then you gain fifteen. It's really, really, really easy to
Speaker 6: destroy our communities and lead to this rise in crime.
Speaker 6: It takes a long time to go back to normal,
Speaker 6: and that's what we've seen, only for Vancouver to reverse course.
Speaker 6: And again this was all by design that not to
Speaker 6: get two in the weeds. But the reason why they're
Speaker 6: doing this in Vancouver is because the Washington State Supreme Court,
Speaker 6: which is dominated by liberals, lowered the threshold for the
Speaker 6: minimum or the excuse me, the maximum cases that a
Speaker 6: public defender can hold, and every prosecutor outside of Seattle
Speaker 6: and King County said, we don't have enough, you know,
Speaker 6: defenders for this for what you're asking, and if you
Speaker 6: change these rules, you're gonna make it so that we
Speaker 6: can't actually prosecute we're gonna have to just release people.
Speaker 6: We're not even gonna be able to charge them. And
Speaker 6: this is a direct result. They ignored all of the
Speaker 6: complaints coming from the prosecuting attorney's office because they're the
Speaker 6: ones who have to fund the public defender's offices. They
Speaker 6: just ignored all of that. They implemented the plan, and
Speaker 6: now we're seeing the results. And again, this is not
Speaker 6: just specifically to Vancouver. If you go all around the
Speaker 6: state of Washington, you're going to see similar instances in
Speaker 6: which criminals are being let go because they just don't
Speaker 6: have public defenders to handle the cases.
Speaker 5: We're talking to a Jason Rantz, you know, Jason, occasionally
Speaker 5: I'll take off my patriot and concerned citizen hat and
Speaker 5: just put on my political science, you know, analyst hat.
Speaker 5: And I've got to tell you the far left were
Speaker 5: it was in genius that they ran their candidates for
Speaker 5: district attorney, county attorney, that sort of thing, county prosecutor,
Speaker 5: and got the Marxists in and took over the school boards,
Speaker 5: while the rest of us were assuming that, well, everybody
Speaker 5: has the same values because we all grew up.
Speaker 3: With them, we were taught them. We love this country.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: That was a stroke of evil genius, but as you indicate,
Speaker 5: digging our way out of the holes that that's created,
Speaker 5: and we need to win back those offices and then
Speaker 5: spend years ondoing this stuff.
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 6: And you know, generally conservatives and independence to a degree,
Speaker 6: just by their definition of being an independent, we're not
Speaker 6: particularly organized. And the far left is they are very organized.
Speaker 6: A lot of them do this professionally, you know, sort
Speaker 6: of live in this activist space. They take advantage of
Speaker 6: younger voters who, especially during primaries when the turnout is
Speaker 6: generally low.
Speaker 7: As long as you're organized.
Speaker 6: You bring out x amount of people depending on where
Speaker 6: it is you live, it's almost a guarantee that you're
Speaker 6: going to win in the primary. That doesn't always translate
Speaker 6: to general election wins. Sometimes it does, but it doesn't always,
Speaker 6: and they've been.
Speaker 7: Able to take advantage of that.
Speaker 6: You combine in I'm glad you brought up specifically like
Speaker 6: school board races. Those also are just low turnout elections.
Speaker 6: Even in generals, you've got people who vote who have
Speaker 6: no clue who they're voting for. They look, oh, I
Speaker 6: like that name, I have an aunt named Susie, I'll
Speaker 6: vote for her. That's how they tend to vote on
Speaker 6: these races, especially if you don't have any kids, you're
Speaker 6: not paying his close attention to it.
Speaker 5: And if they vote at all, and the teachers exact,
Speaker 5: the teachers Union vote to vote every single time.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent. And that's where the organizational stuff comes
Speaker 6: into play. And that's on us, right, I mean, the
Speaker 6: people who are listening. I guarantee you there's a huge
Speaker 6: number of people who didn't even vote. And if they
Speaker 6: did vote, they didn't vote on every single election. And
Speaker 6: if they did vote on every single election, I guarantee
Speaker 6: they didn't do the enough research on all the candidates before.
Speaker 7: They decided to vote. And that needs to change.
Speaker 5: Well, we got to keep browbeating them in anyway. That's
Speaker 5: what people tune in for, a good solid browbeating. To
Speaker 5: your point about organizing, You remember when Barack Obama first
Speaker 5: came on the scene and we were told he was
Speaker 5: a community organizer, and three quarters of America said, what
Speaker 5: the hell's a community organizer? But they know on the left,
Speaker 5: and you know, the irony is what we're calling for
Speaker 5: is individualists of the world unite. I mean it's just
Speaker 5: not in our nature. But we'd better and quick.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Again, we seed power to folks who hold minority viewpoints,
Speaker 6: and yet they have control over the legislatures, they have
Speaker 6: control over the culture because we've allowed them to take over.
Speaker 6: We know when we pull individual topics. Defund police is
Speaker 6: a perfect example of that. Open borders. We know where
Speaker 6: the American people, regardless of their political ideology stand. They
Speaker 6: are against police defunding, they are against open borders, and
Speaker 6: yet they're not voting, and if we can fire them
Speaker 6: to vote. And some of that, by the way, is
Speaker 6: on conservatives in particular, who I think send a bad
Speaker 6: message about elections being stolen. I think systems can be
Speaker 6: rigged to make it difficult to win.
Speaker 7: I hope that view.
Speaker 6: But elections don't need to be stolen if people aren't voting.
Speaker 6: So even if you were to believe that the tallies
Speaker 6: are being manipulated behind the scenes, make it hard for
Speaker 6: them that go ahead and vote and make it more
Speaker 6: difficult for them to steal anything, if that's what you
Speaker 6: truly believe.
Speaker 7: And I don't believe that.
Speaker 6: I think that we are losing because we don't get
Speaker 6: out the vote, and there are too many people on
Speaker 6: our side who have decided to give up because they
Speaker 6: think the system is so corrupt that they can't win elections.
Speaker 7: But you're ganding over the election to the left.
Speaker 5: Jason, I agree with you one hundred percent. I think
Speaker 5: it's an absolutely great point. Perhaps the most corrosive force
Speaker 5: in you know, politics are running a country is a comfort.
Speaker 5: Being comfortable because you stop doing the work. In our generation,
Speaker 5: I'll take the blame. I don't think we did a
Speaker 5: good job of convincing our children how important liberty is
Speaker 5: and limited government and how sacred our rights are because
Speaker 5: we assume we got comfortable. We assumed everybody agreed. But
Speaker 5: keep keep preaching the good word. Jason, love it big fan.
Speaker 5: Jason Rants, host of The Jason Rant Show on Seattle
Speaker 5: Red seven to seventy a m. In the afternoon, where
Speaker 5: we're honored to be on in the morning. Thanks Milling, Jason,
Speaker 5: good to talk to you.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 5: Jason's also I didn't want to kiss his butt too much,
Speaker 5: but he's a terrific writer and appears on Fox News
Speaker 5: semi regularly.
Speaker 3: And that sort of thing. I don't know how he
Speaker 3: finds the time and energy.
Speaker 5: This mess is all I can take, combined with you know,
Speaker 5: family responsibilities and having something like a personal life.
Speaker 3: But anyways, terrific, terrific guy in a hell of a.
Speaker 5: Talent, so so much more to get to. Hope you
Speaker 5: can stay around if you can. As always subscribed to
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Speaker 2: Demand see Armstrong and Yetti shot.
Speaker 5: But we take a quick look at the situation nan Iran,
Speaker 5: the Gulf of Hormuz, I'm sorry, the Straits of Hormuz
Speaker 5: at Ceau's Kirsimmons on NBC to.
Speaker 8: The stalemate over the Strait of Hamus, Iran demanding what
Speaker 8: would amount of billions of dollars before it will stop
Speaker 8: attacking commercial ships in the strait, and President Trump now
Speaker 8: pushing back, the President pointing to decades of deadly Iranian
Speaker 8: attacks on US soldiers and what the UN calls Iran's
Speaker 8: alarming increase in executions of Iranian protesters, and Iran demanding
Speaker 8: more concessions than the previous ceasefire, including that the US
Speaker 8: military leave the region, the renewed standoff, suggesting the Strait
Speaker 8: of Hamus will not reopen anytime soon.
Speaker 5: So you had the alleged agreement and that's fine, Michael,
Speaker 5: we won't use that other clip you had, the alleged
Speaker 5: agreement that keeps getting you know, put off and rescinded,
Speaker 5: and it's just a joke. And the Iranians come back
Speaker 5: with a yeah, well, we need you to withdraw all
Speaker 5: your forces and pay us billions of dollars in reparations
Speaker 5: and never attack us again, and never attack our proxies again,
Speaker 5: and we want to air Force one and utah, I mean,
Speaker 5: just making hilarious demands. And Trump responded yesterday with yeah, well,
Speaker 5: we want reparations for every soldier you've killed, all the
Speaker 5: damage all your proxies have done, all the attacks through
Speaker 5: the years, starting with the embassy in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 5: And as a professional wise ass I appreciate the wise
Speaker 5: assory of it, but it's really not getting us anywhere
Speaker 5: except signaling to them that they can f right off. However,
Speaker 5: that leaves us where we were yesterday. I think a
Speaker 5: handful of headlines real quickly to give you a description
Speaker 5: of where we are. The journal says Gulf States accept
Speaker 5: a new normal and horm moves, Iran is in control.
Speaker 5: Oil and gas exporters dislike the emerging deal to reopen
Speaker 5: the waterway, but see it as the least bad option version.
Speaker 5: Golf energy producers are concluding that Iran's control over the
Speaker 5: Strait of Hormus will become permanent, disrupting their oil and
Speaker 5: gas exports and global energy supplies indefinitely. The problem is,
Speaker 5: they worded, the alternative going back to war would be worse.
Speaker 5: That's true unless the US and the Gulf states in
Speaker 5: the world decided the Islamist supremacist violence, terror exporting lunatics
Speaker 5: of Iran need to be defeated once and for all,
Speaker 5: and I don't think I see that well. Around the
Speaker 5: National Review Rights, Iran is rewiring its proxy network. They
Speaker 5: mentioned that the IRGC goons are going out into the
Speaker 5: axis of resistance, the Gulf States, you know, just all
Speaker 5: over the place, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, wherever their proxies ooch about.
Speaker 3: You know, Hamas is certainly on that list.
Speaker 5: And they're teaching them new methods of organization and fighting
Speaker 5: and de set. Essentially, they're teaching them how to organize
Speaker 5: into smaller, decentralized cells outside the traditional militia hierarchies that
Speaker 5: they've always used to make the network more resilient and
Speaker 5: less vulnerable to decapitation strikes. They're describing it as strategic
Speaker 5: integration in Iran. So they're trying to rewire because they
Speaker 5: want to continue to fight for Islamic supremacy all over
Speaker 5: the region and all over the globe, and harden themselves
Speaker 5: against the ability of the West to fight against them.
Speaker 5: Another headline Iran's mysterious ruler signal is a hard line
Speaker 5: on Trump with new leadership. Evidently, according to our intelligence guys,
Speaker 5: weird Beard Junior is still alive, badly injured, but he's
Speaker 5: still wasting oxygen by breathing. But he has to the
Speaker 5: extent that he's in charge. He has appointed absolute murderous
Speaker 5: hard asses in domestic security. So if anybody so much
Speaker 5: as suggests, hey, the US has kind of a point,
Speaker 5: you will get tortured to death. They've gone harder, hardcore
Speaker 5: than the folks that machine gun dollar citizens in the streets.
Speaker 5: And finally, Trump's blockade keeps the economic pressure on Iran.
Speaker 5: That appears to be our strategy. We're going to squeeze
Speaker 5: them economically till they give. But will they give?
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty thee Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: Sad news from California.
Speaker 9: Jackie of the beloved bald eagle duo Jackie in Shadow,
Speaker 9: watched by millions on the Big Bear live feed, died
Speaker 9: about three weeks after being attacked by two other bald
Speaker 9: eagles and taken to a rehab facility. She raised six
Speaker 9: eaglets over the years and was believed to be fourteen
Speaker 9: years old.
Speaker 3: First of all, eagles don't have names.
Speaker 5: Secondly, if that's what happens in nature, that's what happens
Speaker 5: in nature. I could blame California being soft on crime
Speaker 5: for this horrific crime.
Speaker 3: But it was interesting. Katie was telling us.
Speaker 5: I think it was off the air yesterday that the
Speaker 5: vet center where the eagle was being cared for HM
Speaker 5: was just so inundated by calls and people showing up
Speaker 5: that they could barely do their thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the people were showing up, not only at the center,
Speaker 10: but at the care people that were taking care of
Speaker 10: their homes. Somehow they found there are there, you know,
Speaker 10: their residents.
Speaker 3: This whole thing.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's it's sad, and I get it, but
Speaker 10: like you said, nature took its.
Speaker 3: Course, Jackie.
Speaker 7: You here, where's Jackie? Jeez?
Speaker 5: Again? Mister president. Coincidentally, Jackie has passed. Ah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't. I guess we need the softhearted in the
Speaker 5: overly emotional in humanity. I believe in balance and that
Speaker 5: sort of thing. But look, there is no crueler bitch
Speaker 5: on earth than Mother Nature. Pardon my frank terminology A
Speaker 5: and B. While there aren't that many bald eagles in
Speaker 5: where was Jackie?
Speaker 3: Big bear? Big bear? Okay? Beautiful, yeah, beautiful part of
Speaker 3: southern California. I've just been.
Speaker 5: I'm just back from Alaska, where I can report that
Speaker 5: they're like crows.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of them, a hell of a
Speaker 3: lot of them.
Speaker 5: So if eagles did what eagles do and Jackie's dead,
Speaker 5: that's just the way it goes.
Speaker 3: I let the mighty eagles again, I think you missed
Speaker 3: the lead. The eagle is dead.
Speaker 5: So I'm sure i'll get angry emails about how insensitive
Speaker 5: I am. No, I just I like nature and I
Speaker 5: understand human beings don't get to tell nature how to
Speaker 5: be nature. Yeah, so I'm not gonna dwell on this,
Speaker 5: I promise. The whole WNBA controversy that really heated up
Speaker 5: when this DJNA is at her name dj Na Carrington
Speaker 5: Pole axed Sophie Cunningham in the head and it was
Speaker 5: a flagrant too foul as they say in the basketball business,
Speaker 5: which meant she got ejected. And then she went to
Speaker 5: the locker room, Miss Carrington, and and messaged out on
Speaker 5: her app of choice hashtag white privilege, hashtag Indiana anyway,
Speaker 5: and everybody's like, what the hell are you talking about.
Speaker 5: You practically killed this woman and you got ejected. It
Speaker 5: has nothing to do with race.
Speaker 3: Well, she has broken her silence, Katie. Oh good, she.
Speaker 5: Said, quote, I already spoke with people who potentially will
Speaker 5: have the agency to create the change that I'm hoping
Speaker 5: comes about out from not just this incident, but ones
Speaker 5: in the past that are obviously going to be coming
Speaker 5: up in the future probably. Okay, so you talk to
Speaker 5: a bunch of awoke, you know, black supremacist, white hating
Speaker 5: people who convinced you that, yes, we're we're working to
Speaker 5: tear down the patriarchy, blah blah blah. Okay, great, oh
Speaker 5: my god, you professional racists. And then this one more,
Speaker 5: one more note on the WNBA, just because I thought
Speaker 5: this was really good writing. All it took to collapse
Speaker 5: an entire sect of gender ideology was two alpha males
Speaker 5: declaring they identify as women and entering the WNBA draft.
Speaker 5: I'm going to show you the genius of what they did.
Speaker 5: The two ex NBA players, Enis Canner Freedom and Royce
Speaker 5: White didn't argue against the absurd premise that gender is fluid.
Speaker 5: That's a losing play. The better play is to enter
Speaker 5: the illusion and destroy it by taking the illusion to
Speaker 5: the logical extreme. So that's exactly what they did. They
Speaker 5: embraced the premise that gender is fluid and took it
Speaker 5: to the logical extreme, laring for the WNBA draft. Now
Speaker 5: they are forcing liberals to face the absurdity of their
Speaker 5: own ideology. Gender ideology's core claim is that sex is
Speaker 5: irrelevant and identity is sovereign. Trans women are women. Self
Speaker 5: id is enough. Now the WNBA, which is in many
Speaker 5: ways a major liberal institution, faces a big dilemma. They
Speaker 5: have to either a allow the two to enter the
Speaker 5: WNBA draft and admit women is just a feeling and
Speaker 5: this is absurd and will destroy the product. It will
Speaker 5: just be another men's league. Or b draw line and
Speaker 5: say they don't qualify. That concedes self id is not
Speaker 5: enough and biology matters. This would be a public abandonment
Speaker 5: of the progressive doctrine. Either path burns the ideology to
Speaker 5: the ground, which is hilarious. Take notes, everyone, two dudes
Speaker 5: literally just made one of the greatest persuasion plays of
Speaker 5: the decade, which, by the way, the Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 5: Show has been calling for for years. We've been asking
Speaker 5: somebody to do this and they have perhaps not answered
Speaker 5: our call, but they've a hanswer or the obvious call.
Speaker 5: And I could not be more delighted.
Speaker 3: To quote you from our group chat. Christmas has come early. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I'm so excited about this. Uh.
Speaker 5: Let's bingo Bango ban go. A couple other other stories.
Speaker 5: This is unbelievable. The Wall Street Journal often there or
Speaker 5: reportage is liberal because they hire these yay who's from
Speaker 5: the Columbia School at journalism, these twenty six year olds
Speaker 5: who are steeped and indoctrinated and the rest of it,
Speaker 5: and they probably try to straighten them out a little,
Speaker 5: but you get crap like this, and this is actually
Speaker 5: it's a really good it's an important article. It's about
Speaker 5: when Trump declared last month that US elections were vulnerable,
Speaker 5: claiming that a quarter million non citizens were registered to vote.
Speaker 5: A day later, Department of Home Land Security said the
Speaker 5: striking number actually just covered four states.
Speaker 3: And you probably heard this.
Speaker 5: New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl knew her state had a
Speaker 5: problem because of what she called a glitch in the
Speaker 5: motor voter mechanism where when you register to vote or
Speaker 5: to drive rather to get a license, you're automatically registered
Speaker 5: to vote, but you have to check a box and
Speaker 5: I a citizen or not. And she claims, and this
Speaker 5: may well be true, that the software registered people to
Speaker 5: vote whether they were citizens or not, and even if
Speaker 5: you selected no, it would register you'd to vote anyway,
Speaker 5: even though you're not supposed to the number of those
Speaker 5: who voted was relatively small. Say these reporterrets, and I
Speaker 5: think it's one dude in the Wall Street Journal, And
Speaker 5: I only point out their sex because women are undeniably,
Speaker 5: you know, in terms of percentage, is more progressive than men.
Speaker 5: So whenever I see a and maybe this makes me
Speaker 5: a bad person, but whenever I see a byline that
Speaker 5: has three women writing on it, I think, oh, there's
Speaker 5: a good chance it's going to be kind of progressive.
Speaker 3: And if it's not. It's not, and I admit so.
Speaker 5: But this is so you remember how there's no voter
Speaker 5: fraud and there are no foreigners on the rolls, and
Speaker 5: we don't have to worry about it. Well, for instance,
Speaker 5: in New Jersey, the governor has admitted they're little under
Speaker 5: seven thousand non citizens registered just in the space of
Speaker 5: a year, seven thousand, but only about four hundred voted. Okay,
Speaker 5: So now we're up to John Stewart, who is very
Speaker 5: smug about this point, as were lots of progressive commentators.
Speaker 5: So there are hundreds who voted just in New Jersey,
Speaker 5: and I don't know this to be true. There are
Speaker 5: sources in the administration who think the numbers are higher,
Speaker 5: both the non citizens and who voted. But even if
Speaker 5: we were to take Mikey Cheryl at her word, almost
Speaker 5: seven thousand registered and four hundred or so who voted,
Speaker 5: that's a hell of a long way from voter fraud
Speaker 5: is practically it's incredibly rare in America, which we've been
Speaker 5: told over and over and over again. The DHS went
Speaker 5: on to name New Jersey, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and California is
Speaker 5: the states Trump alleged in his address his addressed to
Speaker 5: have a quarter million non citizens on their voting role.
Speaker 5: The states have responded to the DHS, saying the agency
Speaker 5: has provided no methodology, proof, or details they can use
Speaker 5: to verify its claim. State officials also say that without
Speaker 5: access to the full voter roles, DHS can't make any
Speaker 5: accurate assessment of non citizen registration, but they don't want
Speaker 5: to give that information to the FEDS to check because
Speaker 5: they fear that that private voter information will be misused
Speaker 5: by the federal government. The angle of this Wall Street
Speaker 5: Journal article that annoyed me so much is they think
Speaker 5: that DHS doing this is going to hurt people's faith
Speaker 5: and elections, and that they're really they're casting doubt on
Speaker 5: these states and gosh, they can't be true trusted with
Speaker 5: with the voter rolls, and says Francisco Aguilar, the Democratic
Speaker 5: Secretary of State in Nevada, quote, I feel like I'm
Speaker 5: in a UFC chokehold. Everything we have to do has
Speaker 5: to be perfect. Yeah, like not have non citizens on
Speaker 5: the rolls. If they're on the roles, kick them off
Speaker 5: and don't let them vote. It's unbelievable. And voter voter
Speaker 5: has been the law on California effortless. A voter registration
Speaker 5: in one form or another has been the law for
Speaker 5: a very very long time, but there's been no mechanism
Speaker 5: to check the validity of the people, or at least
Speaker 5: none that they've they've used. So it'll be really interesting
Speaker 5: to see how this hash is out.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: This is a perfect example of I wish Trump would
Speaker 5: keep would stop doing stupid stuff so he could do
Speaker 5: the really really smart stuff, Like, look, folks, we've had
Speaker 5: tens of millions of people coming to this country, many
Speaker 5: of them illegally. A lot of states have practically no
Speaker 5: barrier to register for the vote.
Speaker 3: We probably ought to take a look at our voter rolls.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's not that's not a.
Speaker 5: Belligerent thing to say. That's not a racist thing to say.
Speaker 5: It's not even a conservative thing to say. It's just
Speaker 5: a sane thing to say. And if the Trump administration
Speaker 5: is making these states fess up like mikey Cheryl in
Speaker 5: New Jersey good not no, I'm sorry, not good?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 3: All right, Katie, you're a new mom. Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: These are two closely related stories. Okay, headline number one.
Speaker 5: University of Michigan drops first semester grades. First semester in college,
Speaker 5: you will get no grades. It's just past. Fail to
Speaker 5: curb mental health crisis.
Speaker 3: Oh, for the love.
Speaker 5: The pilot program aims to ease pressure on freshmen and
Speaker 5: help them adjust to the demands of college.
Speaker 10: How does that help them adjust to the demands of college.
Speaker 10: That's doing the opposite, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Well, they are arguing that you ease them in because
Speaker 5: they're in a new place. They've not been in college.
Speaker 5: They got a roommate, they got the professors, they're not
Speaker 5: used to it. They're stressed, they're scared, they're anxious, and
Speaker 5: they we can't give them grades or they'd freak out.
Speaker 10: Does the real world ease us in?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Well, see, that's that's the thing, And that's one of
Speaker 5: the aspects of progressivism that I don't understand. Although, well,
Speaker 5: I'm going to get to the second closely related story.
Speaker 3: In a second. This is this is the mental health crisis.
Speaker 5: Isn't the disease though, it's the symptom of the disease,
Speaker 5: And everybody's arguing about the symptom and treating the symptom.
Speaker 5: I mean, they're putting essentially a little hydro cortisone the
Speaker 5: idea that the kids, and they're all most of them
Speaker 5: are legally adults.
Speaker 3: Although haw haw haw.
Speaker 5: If you know many eighteen year olds, they're just putting
Speaker 5: a salve on the symptom and ignoring the disease, which
Speaker 5: is that our eighteen year olds get to college not
Speaker 5: able to absorb a bee if they get a bee. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and that I mean, that is a hot house flower.
Speaker 5: That is a veal calf. And Katie, long before you
Speaker 5: joined the show, I tried to get going the nation
Speaker 5: that we're raising a nation of veal calves. And I
Speaker 5: was right, and I continue to be right, and I'm
Speaker 5: an activist against it.
Speaker 3: But we have a serious problem.
Speaker 5: Here's your related story, and it takes the right angle
Speaker 5: on this story in the New York Times. Should letting
Speaker 5: children play alone outside be a crime? Some parents have
Speaker 5: been surprised to find themselves in the legal systems crosshairs,
Speaker 5: and they, of course open with an individual gallon or
Speaker 5: her husband who let their son, their six year old
Speaker 5: son ride his scooter to the playground that's like right
Speaker 5: over there, okay, and ride back on a scooter. Well,
Speaker 5: some gal saw this kid doing that stopped him questioned him,
Speaker 5: followed him in the car, and then reported him to
Speaker 5: the county Division of Family and Children's Services. This is,
Speaker 5: I think in Georgia, Wait.
Speaker 10: Reported him on what ground?
Speaker 5: Yes, in the Atlanta area. Let's see the official inadequate
Speaker 5: supervision for a child. Child neglect essentially, And these parents
Speaker 5: who believe in free range parenting, which I do and
Speaker 5: did when I was raising my kids, are just a gas.
Speaker 3: They're astounded.
Speaker 5: And the case manager explained that a complaint had been filed,
Speaker 5: that she would need to inspect their home and interview
Speaker 5: their son at school. And the case manager actually said
Speaker 5: to them, when we were up, our parents would be like, oh,
Speaker 5: you know, go ahead, it's fine. But now he would
Speaker 5: have to be like thirteen to scooter himself to the
Speaker 5: park that's right around the corner. And mister Pleasance that's
Speaker 5: their name, said thirteen. Is that the law quite sensible?
Speaker 5: And the case manager said, I mean they're going to
Speaker 5: consider that inadequate supervision for him to go completely by
Speaker 5: himself because anything could happen, right, he's extremely vulnerable at
Speaker 5: that age. Okay, we need to take a break. We'll
Speaker 5: be back in a second. We're going to make the
Speaker 5: obvious tie between those two stories and give you a
Speaker 5: little bit of good.
Speaker 3: News on that front. So thank God, stay here.
Speaker 1: Armstrong see Armstrong and Yetti show.
Speaker 5: I took my younger daughter, the coffee Achiever as we
Speaker 5: call her. That was an old, old ad campaign, but
Speaker 5: I took her to the University of Michigan to do
Speaker 5: campus visit.
Speaker 3: We hit a couple of Midwestern universities.
Speaker 5: She was curious about them, and the University of Michigan
Speaker 5: is an elite, elite, elite university. Even when we were there,
Speaker 5: they had all sorts of woke nonsense everywhere, and was like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, it's worse than I'd heard.
Speaker 3: And this was years ago.
Speaker 5: They announced the other day that they were canceling all
Speaker 5: grades for the first semester of college for all kids
Speaker 5: and all majors because the kids were freaking out. They're
Speaker 5: having a mental health crisis. They couldn't take being graded
Speaker 5: in college, which it would be very easy to just
Speaker 5: mock the little snowflakes, and I'll mock them a little bit,
Speaker 5: but they didn't raise themselves, as Jack famously always says,
Speaker 5: and the idea that you were so fragile you couldn't
Speaker 5: take grades your first semester at college is hilarious to
Speaker 5: me because I remember my first semester at college quite vividly,
Speaker 5: and how much fun and how wild it was, and
Speaker 5: how you know, the classes were interesting, the work was hard.
Speaker 5: But the idea that you shouldn't grade me because I
Speaker 5: can't take it, I mean, it's incumber. It's like trying
Speaker 5: to explain to me how it would work if there
Speaker 5: was no gravity. I just can't even understand it. And
Speaker 5: as Katie and I were just discussing, the New York Times,
Speaker 5: of all places, has an article entitled should letting children
Speaker 5: play alone outside be a crime? And it goes into
Speaker 5: some specifics about some folks who have gotten busted quote unquote,
Speaker 5: not arrested, per se, but investigated by their local child
Speaker 5: protective services for child neglect for letting their kid go
Speaker 5: to the park. Sometimes it's six year old, sometimes an
Speaker 5: eight year old, sometimes a twelve year old. But here's
Speaker 5: the somewhat good news. More and more people and states
Speaker 5: are waking up to what we've done to our children
Speaker 5: by constantly supervising them and managing them. Thirteen states have
Speaker 5: either created new, less restrictive child glack laws or amended
Speaker 5: existing ones, and there's a bipartisan federal build the Promoting
Speaker 5: Childhood Independence and Resilience Act, which was introduced in the
Speaker 5: House of Representatives in May. But we have that's thirteen states.
Speaker 5: We have a long, long, long way to go. And
Speaker 5: they get into the history of how this trend started.
Speaker 5: There's two forces, fear and control. Fear with the kids'
Speaker 5: pictures on milk cartons and one or two really high
Speaker 5: profile cases. Even though stranger child objection is incredibly rare,
Speaker 5: incredibly rare. Plus this need to control our kids to
Speaker 5: get them ready for what we see as an increasingly
Speaker 5: competitive society. They've got to be in organized activities all
Speaker 5: the time or else they're not going to get the scholarship,
Speaker 5: they're not going to go to college where they can't
Speaker 5: take getting.
Speaker 3: A grade, et cetera. It's a crazy trend and a
Speaker 3: terrible one.
Speaker 5: More on that, lots of good stuff an hour four
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty