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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: I'm strong, and and he I'm strong and Getty strong.
Speaker 4: Stop and think overall about the social contract?
Speaker 3: Can part of the.
Speaker 4: Deal and how we've kept this this democracy's economy of
Speaker 4: this country on a fairly steady path for more than
Speaker 4: two hundred years has been that those at the top.
Speaker 3: Pay a little more in taxes, are a little.
Speaker 4: Less rich than they otherwise might be, and everybody else
Speaker 4: at least gets chanced. And what happened when you turn
Speaker 4: this into the billionaires run at all is they get
Speaker 4: the opportunity to squeeze every last penny. Yeah, and look,
Speaker 4: we'll say it over and over. Violence is never the answer.
Speaker 4: This guy gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO
Speaker 4: of United Health. But you can only push people so
Speaker 4: far and then they start to take Matterson. It's their
Speaker 4: own hands.
Speaker 5: Yeah, none, no, no, no, no, no no no no
Speaker 5: no no, I'm.
Speaker 3: Just doing the tomahawk chunk. How in the world does
Speaker 3: she keep getting elected? Elizabeth Warren? So let's talk about
Speaker 3: the murder of the healthcare CEO of the reaction to
Speaker 3: us in all matters healthcare with Craig Gottwalls, Craig the
Speaker 3: healthcare guru, attorney, law benefit consultant, Benefit or Revolution and
Speaker 3: good longtime friend of the Ang Show. Craig, how are you, sir?
Speaker 6: I'm great, gentlemen, Thank you much for having me on.
Speaker 5: First of all, Joe and I went with humor around
Speaker 5: the fact that she's a pretend Indian and glossed over
Speaker 5: how outrageous that is what she just said. So much
Speaker 5: wrong with that at every level anyway.
Speaker 3: Now, Craig, is you as a person who has emerged
Speaker 3: in the world of benefits and health care and insurance
Speaker 3: and that sort of thing, and a person of good conscience,
Speaker 3: et cetera, and a student of the media. What have
Speaker 3: what's your reaction been to the murder and the ensuing discussion.
Speaker 3: I know you've probably got a million things to say.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the oversimplified reaction I would give is,
Speaker 6: you know, just the assumption that, like I just don't
Speaker 6: even engage in the whole concept and the idea of
Speaker 6: you know, it's appropriate to slaughter people in the streets
Speaker 6: one individual because you don't like what a whole industry
Speaker 6: is doing. I mean, obviously it's the most insane, ridiculous, murderous,
Speaker 6: horrific way you would ever address any issue. And so,
Speaker 6: of course, I think I think, guys, I think a
Speaker 6: lot of what you're seeing out there is sort of
Speaker 6: like you've said in the past, you know, like you're
Speaker 6: frustrated at something, you're angry at something, and part of
Speaker 6: humor is the dark sort of stuff that you're not
Speaker 6: willing to say out loud. And I think a lot
Speaker 6: of what we're seeing online is probably that, you know,
Speaker 6: just the irreverent attempts at humor. But I mean, obviously
Speaker 6: this isn't the way to address the matter. I mean,
Speaker 6: we've created this government corporate alliance in healthcare that is
Speaker 6: just bullied the American people for really for sixty years,
Speaker 6: but most intensely for thirty years, and so you just
Speaker 6: have tremendous frustration out there, and a lot of people
Speaker 6: just don't even really understand where they should channel their frustration.
Speaker 6: So a lot of the frustration channeling, if you will,
Speaker 6: is falling along party lines, like everything else in our world.
Speaker 6: So some people blame the government, some people blame private
Speaker 6: equity and large corporations, and I'm here to tell you
Speaker 6: there's plenty of blame to go around.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The one thing that's frustrated is frustrated me. And
Speaker 3: maybe you've heard us hammer on it, is that all
Speaker 3: these people who howling about the greed of the healthcare companies,
Speaker 3: the insurance companies and all, they never mentioned the unholy
Speaker 3: nexus with governments and how Obamacare in particular just utterly
Speaker 3: perverted the industry.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's funny you bring that up. I was thinking
Speaker 6: of you know that the book that is cited. You know,
Speaker 6: he had words written on the bullets, and a lot
Speaker 6: of people jumped on the book Delay Defend, excuse me, Delay, Deny,
Speaker 6: Defend by Jay Seinman was the book. That book was
Speaker 6: written in twenty ten. So the reality is there, if
Speaker 6: there ever was a time when large insurance companies were
Speaker 6: financially economically motivated to deny claims systematically, that may have
Speaker 6: existed prior to twenty ten. Now there's a whole other
Speaker 6: economic argument that it's bad for the insurance industry if
Speaker 6: claims don't grow. They want claims to grow because that's
Speaker 6: how they charge more premium. But set that aside. If
Speaker 6: you accept the fact that, okay, before twenty ten, they
Speaker 6: wanted to deny claims right to keep more money. That
Speaker 6: all changed with Obamacare because, as a reminder for your listeners,
Speaker 6: Obamacare coming in the law in March of twenty ten,
Speaker 6: specifically said okay, now there's price controls. Now an insurance
Speaker 6: company may only keep fifteen percent more than claims. So
Speaker 6: what that means is when you add up all the
Speaker 6: medical claims in a given year, the insurance company is
Speaker 6: allowed to keep fifteen percent of that for its profit
Speaker 6: and overhead. So everything flipped with Obamacare. The whole incentive
Speaker 6: to keep costs down went away, and insurance companies very
Speaker 6: quickly realized in twenty ten, oh my god, we need
Speaker 6: claims to grow because that's the only way we can
Speaker 6: charge more premium. So it's funny that a lot of
Speaker 6: this is like you guys talk about when you hear
Speaker 6: the mainstream media talk about radio, it's way more wrong
Speaker 6: than it's right. Well, that's what's going on here is
Speaker 6: everybody's talking about this book that was written in twenty
Speaker 6: ten that spoke about a landscape that just doesn't even
Speaker 6: exist anymore.
Speaker 3: Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 5: And then in his manifesto he talked about how we
Speaker 5: have the worst life expectancy of any first world country
Speaker 5: or whatever. And then I heard that broken down yesterday
Speaker 5: on how there's a number of reasons why that's inaccurate.
Speaker 5: We count a life expectancy different than a lot of
Speaker 5: people that put out their data or around childhood deaths
Speaker 5: in the first year. We also are the only country
Speaker 5: on the list where people drive a lot, and we
Speaker 5: have a lot of deaths from automobiles, and then we
Speaker 5: have a certain segment of society that's constantly shooting each other.
Speaker 3: If you take all those out, our life expectancy is.
Speaker 5: Pretty good, and it's got nothing to do None of
Speaker 5: those things have anything to do with health insurance.
Speaker 3: No, you're exactly right, Jack, and deathly sentinel has nothing
Speaker 3: to do with the level of my deductibles, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: go ahead, Craig.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, no, no, I was just going to say, and
Speaker 6: then if there is I would just say, you know,
Speaker 6: being inside of the healthcare industry and understanding all of
Speaker 6: the various land mines in this world, if there's one
Speaker 6: thing we have gotten incredibly good at as a society,
Speaker 6: it's keeping people along who have acute conditions gunshot wounds,
Speaker 6: you know, heart attack, putting, stents in addressing strokes right away,
Speaker 6: or our healthcare system is amazing at addressing acute issues,
Speaker 6: we're horrible at addressing chronic conditions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well I'd like to hear more about that.
Speaker 3: Maybe next segment. Can you give folks a three to
Speaker 3: four minute whatever you think is appropriate little primer for
Speaker 3: people are not hip to this, the relationship between government
Speaker 3: paid healthcare services and what they paid doctors and hospitals
Speaker 3: and stuff, and those of us with private insurance, and
Speaker 3: how Congress has handled the whole thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so this this started all the way back in
Speaker 6: the late nineties. It started It started with Clinton. Bush
Speaker 6: could kick the can down the road. Obama kicked the
Speaker 6: can down the road. Every president's guilty of this issue.
Speaker 6: But what happened starting in the nineties was medical inflation,
Speaker 6: like true inflation, what hospitals and doctors needed to treat
Speaker 6: you was going up faster than Medicare and Medicaid, which
Speaker 6: is you know, when we talk about government healthcare, it's
Speaker 6: overwhelmingly Medicare and Medicaid. Inflation was going up faster than
Speaker 6: Medicare and Medicaid could handle. So one of the ways
Speaker 6: that the government we're talking Congress, right, we're talking our legislature.
Speaker 6: One of the ways they would pass these massive boondog
Speaker 6: a law was to say, well, you know, the huge
Speaker 6: part of our budget that's killing us as Medicare and Medicaid.
Speaker 6: So what they would say is, well, we're going to
Speaker 6: start reducing what we pay on Medicare and Medicaid. We're
Speaker 6: gonna we're going to you know, reduce the increase or
Speaker 6: have no increase at all from Medicare and Medicaid, and
Speaker 6: that's how we're going to fund whatever pet project we're
Speaker 6: trying to fund in our district. And that started occurring
Speaker 6: in the nineties and it just kept getting kicked down
Speaker 6: the road all the way along to the point where
Speaker 6: Medicare and Medicaid payments have not kept up with true
Speaker 6: medical inflation. So what happens then is employer plans, what
Speaker 6: we call corporate plans. If for the roughly the third
Speaker 6: of us who are getting our healthcare at work, we
Speaker 6: have to pay many times three, four, five, six times
Speaker 6: what Medicare would pay for a certain claim to make
Speaker 6: up for the fact that the large hospital chains want
Speaker 6: a larger reimbursement for those medical claims. So there's been
Speaker 6: this insidious cost shift, the wink in a nod between
Speaker 6: Wall Street and K Street, the lobbyists, and of course
Speaker 6: Congress that has said, look, we'll keep the Medicare reimbursements
Speaker 6: artificially low at like one percent increase per year, and
Speaker 6: then that gives you the green light insurance industry to
Speaker 6: go ahead and charge seven, eight, nine, ten percent more
Speaker 6: every year to the private marketplace to pay for this
Speaker 6: health care, to the point now where you just have
Speaker 6: this ridiculous, absurd situation where employers are paying three to
Speaker 6: six times what they should be for healthcare because Medicare
Speaker 6: didn't keep up with the actual cost increases.
Speaker 3: And then Congress found a way to compel doctors and
Speaker 3: hospitals to see Medicare and Medicaid patients even though they
Speaker 3: were getting grossly underpaid for their services.
Speaker 6: Well compels. There's still there's no compel there. You can
Speaker 6: still actually find individual doctors that won't take Medicare and Medicaid.
Speaker 6: But it's still incredibly rare because there's this well A,
Speaker 6: it's the largest customer, the federal government is now the
Speaker 6: largest customer of every healthcare system. So I'm not sure
Speaker 6: there is a hospital out there that doesn't take Medicare
Speaker 6: and Medicaid. There are individual doctors that don't, but it's
Speaker 6: there's a there's a you can't live on the one
Speaker 6: third that are paying private rates. You still have to
Speaker 6: take that Medicare amount.
Speaker 5: That number that you just hit us with only a
Speaker 5: third of us or having the like traditional kind of
Speaker 5: we got our insurance through our company at work, only
Speaker 5: a third of.
Speaker 6: Us, Well I should, yeah, I should be more specific
Speaker 6: with that, Jackets. It's probably closer to forty percent. I'm
Speaker 6: falling back on the statistic that we've talked about on
Speaker 6: your show before, and that's the seventy percent of healthcare
Speaker 6: is now paid for by the taxpayers. Because when you
Speaker 6: when you add up Medicare and Medicaid VA, you know
Speaker 6: all of the community care programs, and then you even
Speaker 6: add up all of the federal and state workers, taxpayers
Speaker 6: pay about seventy percent. So about thirty percent of healthcare
Speaker 6: is paid for by private individuals, but probably more like
Speaker 6: forty percent are actually getting their healthcare at work. But
Speaker 6: you know, some of us work for cities and states
Speaker 6: and governments, et cetera. It's always way more complicated than
Speaker 6: you hear.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: One of the things one of the things we hit on. Hold,
Speaker 6: I want to hit this Joe real quick, if you
Speaker 6: don't mind, go ahead. Mentioned recently that we talked about
Speaker 6: was in this and I pulled the stat because I
Speaker 6: knew it blew your mind when we spoke about it privately.
Speaker 6: It's about one hundred million Americans. Roughly thirty percent of
Speaker 6: us are on a self funded health care plan, meaning
Speaker 6: the person paying the claims behind the scene is your employer,
Speaker 6: not the insurance company. They might be using United Healthcare
Speaker 6: as an example to administer the claims, to actually process
Speaker 6: the stuff, but the claims themselves. For roughly one third
Speaker 6: of Americans, thirty percent is actually paid for by your employer.
Speaker 5: Nobody knows.
Speaker 6: I don't understand that.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that till you told me, right right.
Speaker 6: People don't understand it at all.
Speaker 3: So you did turned down it.
Speaker 5: Oftentimes it's your company that you work for hiding behind
Speaker 5: with a healthcare company.
Speaker 3: Exactly right.
Speaker 6: And then how do you know, Well, if you work
Speaker 6: for an employer that has more than one thousand employees,
Speaker 6: you're almost certainly on a self funded health plan. Because
Speaker 6: people don't sure groups that large. Now, if you have
Speaker 6: an employer that's between five hundred and one thousand employees,
Speaker 6: it's probably fifty to fifty that you're on a self
Speaker 6: funded health plan. When work for a small employer, it
Speaker 6: is the insurance company. Anything under like two fifty, for sure,
Speaker 6: it's the insurance company almost always.
Speaker 7: You know, I'd love to.
Speaker 3: Chat a little bit about solutions. Can we take a
Speaker 3: quick break and come back and chat a little more? Craig, Absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I got one more question too, man, Why has it
Speaker 5: got to be so complicated? Or maybe being complicated is
Speaker 5: the point?
Speaker 7: Stay tuned the Armstrong and Getty show, yea or Jack
Speaker 7: or Joe podcasts and our hot links, the Jack Armstrong
Speaker 7: and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty show les.
Speaker 8: You know what's annoying me about this this kid who
Speaker 8: killed this CEO is none of these news programs are
Speaker 8: talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general
Speaker 8: public about this because of how these insurance companies treat
Speaker 8: people when they are their most vulnerable. After we've all
Speaker 8: given them our money every month and now we finally
Speaker 8: need you, and all you do is deny us, and
Speaker 8: then these and all of these things are taking the
Speaker 8: pictures of their CEOs off their websites. You know, I
Speaker 8: got to be honest with you, Okay, I love that
Speaker 8: the CEOs are afraid right now.
Speaker 3: You should be.
Speaker 8: By and large, You're all a bunch of selfish, greedy pieces,
Speaker 8: and a lot of you are mass murderers.
Speaker 5: You just don't pull the trigger. Wow, that is that's
Speaker 5: Bill Burr, the comedian. That's some French Revolution stuff right there.
Speaker 5: I mean, that is society completely coming apart. And I
Speaker 5: don't want to get too off track on that, but
Speaker 5: because of our healthcare guest we have here, expert Craig Gottwols,
Speaker 5: I wanted to throw this out. I assume a lot
Speaker 5: of people like Bill Burr and the people who are
Speaker 5: cheering the death of the United Healthcare CEO are people
Speaker 5: who want government healthcare. They want a complete government takeover
Speaker 5: of health care and somehow believe that you won't have
Speaker 5: any deny or delay if the government is running healthcare.
Speaker 3: What's the history of government healthcare around the world.
Speaker 6: Well, as we've talked on your show before many times,
Speaker 6: it's horrific, right, I mean, there's a reason why you know,
Speaker 6: Canadians come here in droves when they have serious issues
Speaker 6: because they can actually get care if they have money.
Speaker 6: Here you know, there's a free market. Well there's at
Speaker 6: least the semblances of for free market and healthcare still
Speaker 6: here in America. So you have rationing of health care
Speaker 6: across the globe. Because anytime that you say, well, this
Speaker 6: should be a human right now, there can be no
Speaker 6: human right where I am dependent upon the labor of another.
Speaker 6: That's not a thing right. So all healthcare has to
Speaker 6: be rationed. It's either rationed by a waiting list Canada
Speaker 6: or UK, or it's rationed by money. I mean, that's
Speaker 6: just the reality of it all. What I would say,
Speaker 6: the misplaced anger out there, it shouldn't be at the
Speaker 6: specific insurers or whatever. It's the iron law bureaucracy at
Speaker 6: play here, gentlemen. I mean, you have just the larger
Speaker 6: these bureaucracies grow, whether they're public or private, they get
Speaker 6: less personal and they become more dedicated to only fostering
Speaker 6: their own survival. And that's exactly what we're seeing here
Speaker 6: in healthcare. We're seeing the iron law bureaucracy at the
Speaker 6: government level, the insurer level, and then of course them
Speaker 6: working together to enrich themselves as much as they possibly can.
Speaker 6: It's horrific. But you don't fix that by randomly slaughtering
Speaker 6: somebody in the streets. I mean, it's just insane.
Speaker 3: Can you do sixty seconds on what would be first
Speaker 3: steps to improve it? If you are going to advise Trump, say.
Speaker 6: Yeah, as you just mentioned before, I made a housing
Speaker 6: difference in my career. My career is now housed somewhere
Speaker 6: else as of March of this year, and I'm now
Speaker 6: free to say even more than I did before. And
Speaker 6: the reality is, as a guy who installs large insurance plans,
Speaker 6: my best advice to everybody, individuals, employers, everybody buy as
Speaker 6: little insurance as you can. Really interesting, yes, yes, because
Speaker 6: you when you buy insurance, you're getting You're getting into
Speaker 6: a negotiation and buying a product from private equity, Wall
Speaker 6: Street and the government that has all been designed to
Speaker 6: ensure that it makes the most money. Great, I get it,
Speaker 6: we got to transfer risk for certain things. But if
Speaker 6: you're buying insurance, you want the highest deductible you can get.
Speaker 6: You want to self insure what you can because you're
Speaker 6: never going to win in that transaction in the long run.
Speaker 5: That is fascinating. That is not what I did on
Speaker 5: the most recent enrollment at the company.
Speaker 6: No, and it's it's it's especially at your company, I know,
Speaker 6: because you guys are housed at a large enough place.
Speaker 6: It's a self funded plan. I would again, I would
Speaker 6: buy the highest deductible I can get, and I would
Speaker 6: do the most I could myself. Now there's exceptance to that, right.
Speaker 6: If you have a child with special needs, you know
Speaker 6: you're going to spend a certain amount of a given year.
Speaker 6: Of course, buying the richer plan might be advancing. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I know, I think you are too, Jack, But as
Speaker 6: a general rule, I would just say to people, whether
Speaker 6: you're buying home insurance, auto insurance, health insurance, whether you're
Speaker 6: an employee buying interest by you, you're not going to
Speaker 6: win in a transaction.
Speaker 3: With Hey, Craig, I'm sorry to jump in. That's great stuff.
Speaker 3: If people want more on benefits insurance, how can they
Speaker 3: get a hold of you? Ten seconds?
Speaker 6: Gott Walls dot substack dot com is probably the fastest
Speaker 6: and easiest way to get me.
Speaker 3: And we'll have a link at Armstrong in getty dot
Speaker 3: com as well, so you can find it easily. Craig,
Speaker 3: got weals, Craig, Thanks a million. Great to talk to you,
Speaker 3: much more to come. Hope you can stick.
Speaker 2: Around Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: I've just become aware of Scott Jennings because he has
Speaker 3: been hiding from humanity on CNN. But I love the
Speaker 3: cut of his GiB. I love his act. He's calm,
Speaker 3: he smart, he's reasonable. I positive last hour that gen
Speaker 3: X would save the world, and I realized that somewhat
Speaker 3: self serving, as we are on the older end of
Speaker 3: gen X, but gen X known for kind of a
Speaker 3: cut the crap. Don't don't mess around with us, just
Speaker 3: give us the straight scoop feel not terribly ideological.
Speaker 5: I like you pitched us as not hippies, not uh
Speaker 5: not not hippies on the one end, not needing coloring
Speaker 5: books and puppies to deal with.
Speaker 3: Bad news on the other end. Right, just for goodness sakes,
Speaker 3: can we can we speak plainly to each other? Is
Speaker 3: kind of sort of and I've always mocked a generation thing,
Speaker 3: but it's kind of sort of the feel of gen
Speaker 3: X anyway. I love that with Scott Jennings, essentially, and
Speaker 3: this is my rallying cry today and probably for a
Speaker 3: long time. Cut the crap. Scott is saying, cut the crap.
Speaker 3: Obama deported lots and lots of people. You had nothing
Speaker 3: to say, so cut the crap. It's crap right, all right,
Speaker 3: thank you, And then you know I've got all I've
Speaker 3: got a million examples. You've got this stuff from the
Speaker 3: University of California, Davis, which is advising the federal government
Speaker 3: on how to be a woke ally for the Alphabet
Speaker 3: Soup crew, and they have stuff like, instead of saying
Speaker 3: someone was born a boy or a girl, try saying
Speaker 3: they were as signed male at birth. These terms recognize
Speaker 3: the difference between section gender and emphasize the way in
Speaker 3: which section gender are not binary or immutable. They can
Speaker 3: be chained. No, cut the crap. A man can't become
Speaker 3: a woman because he takes hormones. You start ovulating, call
Speaker 3: me back, all right, then I'll concede you're a woman.
Speaker 3: Cut the crap. Thought this was brilliant from Gerard Baker.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hit you with some of it. He's an
Speaker 3: opinion writer for mostly the Journal, but Jack jump in
Speaker 3: anytime you want, obviously, and he talks about Trump's election
Speaker 3: is a bit of an emperor's new clothes moment for
Speaker 3: American maybe the rest of the West, to an overdue
Speaker 3: recognition and repudiation of the regime of oppressive insanity we've
Speaker 3: been subjected to for a decade or more. I think
Speaker 3: everybody's saying, yeah, man, well said, especially in Blue states,
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm gonna issue a battle cry towards
Speaker 3: the end of this. I understand you're working like, is
Speaker 3: it gonna sound like that? It's a lot like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe you're working at the infamous Uh you see
Speaker 3: Davis or Berkeley in California and you're like, dude, I
Speaker 3: would love to fight against this stuff. But but but,
Speaker 3: and so it's always with the caveat of uh, do
Speaker 3: what you can. But I'll tell you this, I can
Speaker 3: practically guarantee no matter where you work, you live, you
Speaker 3: worship whatever, if you stand up to the crap and
Speaker 3: you say cut the crap, you're going to see a
Speaker 3: bunch of people, maybe a few, maybe a ton, are
Speaker 3: going to say, yeah, what he said. They're just waiting
Speaker 3: for someone to call the emperor on having no clothes. Anyway,
Speaker 3: did your our Baker's piece for a decade or more,
Speaker 3: even when Republicans have been nominally in control, we've been
Speaker 3: led by peddlers of a set of ideas that have
Speaker 3: clothed our institutions in the country in social and political doctrines,
Speaker 3: fake claims, and strictures that have inflicted untold harms. The
Speaker 3: fancy new items of invisible attire that our nation's rulers
Speaker 3: have made us wear for too long include these. The
Speaker 3: idea that people who have stolen into this country illegally
Speaker 3: should be showered with all the rights and benefits of citizens,
Speaker 3: that it is immoral to deny them those rights, and
Speaker 3: that they should instead be treated as victims of persecution
Speaker 3: and given sanctuary in our crowded and fiscally strained cities.
Speaker 3: Call bullless on that that's ridiculous. The idea that a
Speaker 3: nation that sits atop one of the greatest reservoirs of
Speaker 3: natural energy resources on Earth should forcibly restrain itself from
Speaker 3: exploiting them to save the planet on the basis of
Speaker 3: politicized science, while other countries are free to do much
Speaker 3: more damage to the global environment. That's a good Gavin
Speaker 3: cut the crap. That's a good one. At the risk
Speaker 3: of going off on this as I did last hour,
Speaker 3: meaningless effectless gestures in the face of all the other
Speaker 3: countries that are doing what they're doing. You know, if
Speaker 3: you were going to do some good, come to the
Speaker 3: table with that argument. Say, yeah, we got to risk
Speaker 3: damaging the economy, and poor people are going to stay poor,
Speaker 3: and inflation's going to rise because energy prices affect everything.
Speaker 3: But look that it's lowered emissions twenty percent globally, except
Speaker 3: it hasn't hasn't done anything, So cut the crap. Here's
Speaker 3: another good one, the idea that after a century and
Speaker 3: a half of progress in solving and soothing America's original
Speaker 3: sin of racism and making the country more equal, we
Speaker 3: are suddenly obliged to believe that America is as oppressive
Speaker 3: as it was in sixteen nineteen, and that the best
Speaker 3: way to write the past wrong of treating people based
Speaker 3: on the color of their skin is to treat people
Speaker 3: based on the color of their skin. God, I hope
Speaker 3: that's over. I really hope that's over. What we all
Speaker 3: hope for is those radicals just nasty people. Don't have
Speaker 3: the juice to end your career anymore because your management,
Speaker 3: your corporate godfathers are such cowards. They're not going to
Speaker 3: stand up to the crap. It's easier to fire you,
Speaker 3: and they'll say on the way out. You know, Jim,
Speaker 3: I'm really sorry about this. I mean, it's really unfortunate
Speaker 3: they don't have the balls to say because you said
Speaker 3: nothing wrong. But these people are so mad. I'm going
Speaker 3: to capitulate to them. But that's what they're thinking, stand
Speaker 3: up to it.
Speaker 5: I'm less optimistic on the illegal immigration part because I've
Speaker 5: been fooled before. But on the trans and anti racist
Speaker 5: and what was the other one I was going to
Speaker 5: include in that It'll come to me.
Speaker 3: But on a couple of those, is it possible? Oh,
Speaker 3: the climate change? Is it possible.
Speaker 5: We're on the other side of those, and we just all, unfortunately,
Speaker 5: those of us of a certain age, just lived through
Speaker 5: this really weird time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're things. People said, all kinds of crazy stuff
Speaker 3: and you had to.
Speaker 5: Go along with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think we're at this stage of it where the
Speaker 3: troops are rallied. Were aware, we're fired up. But you
Speaker 3: got to remember the enemy is absolutely running our nation's
Speaker 3: educational complex right now and our media and entertainment. But
Speaker 3: education is the most insidious part because they're indoctrinating our kids.
Speaker 3: So yeah, the battle has just begun. Here's another great one,
Speaker 3: another one of these insane ideas that we've been forced
Speaker 3: to pretend are not idiotic, The idea that children should,
Speaker 3: without parental consultation or consent, be free to choose their gender,
Speaker 3: be assisted by the state in committing acts of self
Speaker 3: mutilation to do so, and all on the understanding that
Speaker 3: we have repealed millennia of science and just discovered there's
Speaker 3: no such thing as biological sex. Bull ass. Cut the crap.
Speaker 5: I think that one is the biggest anchor around Gavin
Speaker 5: Newsom's neck. If he tries to run for president, How's
Speaker 5: he gonna How's he gonna deal with that.
Speaker 3: Expiring experimenting on in mutilating children because they're momentarily confused
Speaker 3: and I have adolescence, and Gavin signed in law the
Speaker 3: idea that the schools can keep it a secret from you,
Speaker 3: so that in fact they must, How does how does
Speaker 3: he deal with that? I want that's one of the
Speaker 3: reasons I want him to run. I want him to
Speaker 3: be beaten like a drum for these reasons, because it's
Speaker 3: important to defeat this crap. There's a little more more
Speaker 3: of the Emperor's new clothes, that people have just been
Speaker 3: walking around silently pretending they didn't notice or too afraid
Speaker 3: to resist the idea that democracy and freedom are best
Speaker 3: protected by denying people the right to express certain views
Speaker 3: that the authorities deem misinformation and by weaponi using the
Speaker 3: law against political opponents lest they weaponize the law for
Speaker 3: political purposes. That's a good one. They're actually democrats out
Speaker 3: right now saying, hey, you know, weaponizing law against candidates
Speaker 3: is probably a bad strategy, admitting that that was the strategy.
Speaker 3: So ambitious elites in business and civil society went along
Speaker 3: with these fictions. Politicians on all sides, including Republicans, declined
Speaker 3: to dissent for fear of being called out. And here's
Speaker 3: where Gerard Baker gives Trump a fair amount of credit.
Speaker 3: It took a man with some of the instincts of
Speaker 3: a child, a political angenoux newcomer, lacking the sophistication to
Speaker 3: participate in the sham, to call the whole thing out
Speaker 3: for what it was. And then he makes it clear
Speaker 3: that he's not like totally in on Trump and his
Speaker 3: plans and his policies and the rest of it. But
Speaker 3: for God's sake, we needed to call bulls on the bulls.
Speaker 3: But here's what I'm optimistic about. He says, four years
Speaker 3: from now, there's a good chance that the nonsense we
Speaker 3: have had to endure will be buried, that important things
Speaker 3: will become normal again. It will have become normal to
Speaker 3: tell people they have who have no right to be here,
Speaker 3: that they must leave. That In the process, people around
Speaker 3: the world will have been made to understand that they
Speaker 3: don't have an automatic right to live in the freest,
Speaker 3: most prosperous country on earth. Then he goes on the children.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to hit this because it's one
Speaker 3: of my jihods. It will have become normal again for
Speaker 3: children to be helped to respond to the inevitable strains
Speaker 3: and traumas of growing up, not by having their genitals
Speaker 3: cut out, but by receiving loving guidance, guidance and care
Speaker 3: from family and society. Got the crab. I hope that's true.
Speaker 3: I hope that's true. I think it's true. So yeah,
Speaker 3: but I give you it's going to be longer and
Speaker 3: harder battle than four years.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: The university system and their influence on the elementary education
Speaker 3: system and secondary It's going to be a long, hard fight,
Speaker 3: but I'm up for it. Are you?
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Gerty Armstrong and Getty Showy, Chris Ruffo,
Speaker 2: you know him, you love him with a great piece.
Speaker 3: Why Boeing killed Dei and the lead is the important
Speaker 3: part of reckoning is underway in corporate America. You remember,
Speaker 3: after the death of George Floyd in twenty twenty, likely
Speaker 3: every fortune five hundred company launched a diversity, equity and
Speaker 3: inclusion program with very serious faces as they were running
Speaker 3: terrified from the Marxists who claimed racial justice was their motivation.
Speaker 3: But now four short years later, many companies are quietly
Speaker 3: acknowledging the failure of these initiatives, in some cases winding
Speaker 3: them down. And Rufo has been writing about Dei at
Speaker 3: Boeing for a while. He's got an inside source, well placed,
Speaker 3: high up, that described it this way quote, I thought
Speaker 3: this was really good. DEI is the you put in
Speaker 3: the bucket and the whole bucket changes. It is anti excellence,
Speaker 3: and because it is ill defined, it becomes part of
Speaker 3: the culture.
Speaker 5: That is some of the most evocative phrasing I've ever heard. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the drop you put in the bucket, and it changes
Speaker 5: the whole bucket. That's interesting, folks.
Speaker 3: You've become aware that the whole woke thing, DEI anti
Speaker 3: racism thing, you can't win. It's a constantly moving target.
Speaker 3: If you say you're not a racist, you're a racist.
Speaker 3: And if you say you're a racist, you're a racist.
Speaker 3: But either way you shut up. We're in charge. There's
Speaker 3: no way to win against the woke people. That's not
Speaker 3: part of it. They're not talking to you to come
Speaker 3: to an understanding. They're talking to you to rule you.
Speaker 3: And more people are understanding that. And in the context
Speaker 3: of Boeing, obviously you know the doors are falling off
Speaker 3: your planes for instance. Yeah, earlier this month, Bowing installed
Speaker 3: new CEO Kelly Ortberg, quietly dismantled the DEI department and
Speaker 3: accept the resignation of the office's vice president. So Rufo
Speaker 3: reached out to the same insider to get insight onto
Speaker 3: what happened and how it happened. And he says, tell
Speaker 3: us what happened with DEI. It went from dominant to
Speaker 3: extinct in a very short period of time. The insider says,
Speaker 3: we're shifting from a company whose culture is simply the
Speaker 3: average of corporate America to a distinct and deliberate vision
Speaker 3: of leadership. The new boss wants Boeing focused on being
Speaker 3: an airplane company with our own culture and vision. The
Speaker 3: resulting cash crunch from the crunch from the strike accelerated
Speaker 3: this culture shift. When you start to focus on delivering
Speaker 3: value instead of preserving status, it becomes obvious what drives
Speaker 3: value and it's not DI. And then he gets into
Speaker 3: He asked my senses that many executives are not genuinely
Speaker 3: committed to DEI as an ideology. They simply want to
Speaker 3: build airplanes or create software, for instance, but they feel
Speaker 3: social pressure to maintain these departments. Is that true at Boeing?
Speaker 3: So when did the calculus change? And the answer is
Speaker 3: DEI is lazy thought. Leadership best practiced by companies in
Speaker 3: smooth waters with margins large enough to afford the associated inefficiency.
Speaker 3: That isn't Boeing today. When the new boss prioritized results
Speaker 3: over fitting in with other CEOs, it sends a strong
Speaker 3: signal to the culture and builds trust because employees know
Speaker 3: the rules and it's clear how to succeed through hard
Speaker 3: work and results. McKinsey's at the consulting group now debunked.
Speaker 3: Analysis was the standard driver in corporate boardrooms. But even
Speaker 3: if DEI has to defend itself on purely logical grounds,
Speaker 3: it doesn't stand up going More than anything needs an
Speaker 3: aligned workforce focused on building airplanes. And it's an easy
Speaker 3: decision to reject the divisive and US centric language of
Speaker 3: DEI in favor of unified vision for a diverse global company. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I thought that that was really good just as a
Speaker 3: description of how it works.
Speaker 5: And DEI could go away under a Trump administration which
Speaker 5: won't be working to push that on corporate America, Whereas
Speaker 5: if the Kamala Harris administration, there would have been so
Speaker 5: much pressure on all these companies to continue that or
Speaker 5: added if they hadn't already.
Speaker 3: Right, And it's a bludgeon again, it's not about racial
Speaker 3: justice or any of the things that claims to be about.
Speaker 3: Like in Jacks scenario, which is a good one, the
Speaker 3: Harris administration wanted Boeing to suddenly, you know, unionize its
Speaker 3: last three facilities or something like that. Well, then they
Speaker 3: can hammer them with DEI stuff or through their DEI
Speaker 3: executives and get them on their knees begging for mercy
Speaker 3: because they were being accused of racism. It's the old
Speaker 3: Jesse Jackson operation push blackmail scam. You don't want racial justice,
Speaker 3: you want something else, but you use claims of racial
Speaker 3: injustice to get there. It's the race hustler thing. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I thought this was good too. From the National Review,
Speaker 3: Lathan Watts. DEI is a corporate bust, and he starts
Speaker 3: about the He starts with the wild overreaction to the
Speaker 3: death of George Floyd and how all the corporations were terrified,
Speaker 3: and how Robbie Starbuck, the filmmaker, has been using sunlight
Speaker 3: as the best disinfectant, and he's brought failed policies that
Speaker 3: are legally questionable and highly unpopular with consumers to the
Speaker 3: attention the general public and the shareholders of these corporations.
Speaker 3: As a result, some of the best known brands in
Speaker 3: the country have hastily canceled their DEI programs and cut
Speaker 3: ties with the far left Human Rights Campaign, which pressures
Speaker 3: companies to do things like cover sex hormones and puberty
Speaker 3: blockers for miners. Wow, monstrous Nazi like experiments on children.
Speaker 3: Has to cover that stuff and their insurance plan wow
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, And I thought this was interesting. Unwilling to
Speaker 3: let the practical failure of a policy distract from the
Speaker 3: political fervor, forty nine members of Congress, keeping in mind
Speaker 3: their four hundred and thirty five of these geeks, spurred
Speaker 3: on signed an open letter to Fortune one thousand businesses
Speaker 3: demanding that they doubled down on DEI. But these companies
Speaker 3: have recently received two more open letters encouraging them to
Speaker 3: hold the line in favor of healthy ROI return on
Speaker 3: investment or feeble DEI ideology. I like that slogan OREI,
Speaker 3: not DEI for the companies I want to invest in.
Speaker 3: I love that the second of those two letters came
Speaker 3: from seventeen state treasurers and other financial officials, state of
Speaker 3: financial officials who are responsible for the gigantic state investment
Speaker 3: vehicles that hold billions of dollars in ownership positions in
Speaker 3: these companies for their retirees and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: And unlike the partisan gamesmanship paraphrasing the piece of the
Speaker 3: National Review here where the forty nine Congress geeks liberal
Speaker 3: CULTI jackasses are saying you've got to double down on DII,
Speaker 3: these people are saying, hey, we don't have the luxury
Speaker 3: of you and your virtue signaling crap. Run your company
Speaker 3: for efficiency, please not to please AOC. And so it's
Speaker 3: good to see you. Remember it was what a year
Speaker 3: ago I started saying. And all DEI programs now wherever
Speaker 3: they exist, and it's happening in spades. Hurrah, hurrah, better
Speaker 3: for black people, better for white and Hispanic people. People,
Speaker 3: in short, go get them awesome. The Tide Shirt turned
Speaker 3: on that whole thing fast. Yeah, although it is still
Speaker 3: monstrous in academia, media, Hollywood, and government in government itself, friends,
Speaker 3: which is why I am always saying, this is just
Speaker 3: the end of the beginning.
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