Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong in shoe Dy arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2: People never gave it out us until now when they
Speaker 2: finally realize that the chain is being broke. Now cars
Speaker 2: won't come in, food won't come in, clothing won't come in.
Speaker 2: You know how many people depend on our jobs.
Speaker 3: Half the world.
Speaker 2: And it's time for them and time for Washington to
Speaker 2: put so much pressure on them to take care.
Speaker 3: Of us, because we took.
Speaker 2: Care of them, and we're here one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: five years and brought tom where they are today.
Speaker 3: And they don't want to share.
Speaker 1: They don't want to share, says the guy who rides
Speaker 1: around in a Bentley and has a seventy foot yacht,
Speaker 1: lives in a two movie house, makes about a million
Speaker 1: dollars a year, and so does his son. We're loving us.
Speaker 1: Some herald j Daggett around here. The guys that's run
Speaker 1: how much money he makes on the books? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: an excellent point. That's an excellent point. Why are they
Speaker 1: why what would his entire package be, you know, on
Speaker 1: paper for everyone to read. He's the president of the
Speaker 1: International Longshoreman Association. Got the big strike going on tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of workers the Gulf Coast and the East Coast,
Speaker 1: costing our economy about five million dollars a day, but
Speaker 1: it's going to grow over time. There are now sixty
Speaker 1: some ships parked offshore like happened back during COVID, not
Speaker 1: able to unload their Their main thing is all the
Speaker 1: talk in the media is about the salary, because the
Speaker 1: media is too stupid to ever look into anything. But
Speaker 1: it's really about the automation. They're trying to fight the
Speaker 1: ports from modernizing and coming up to speed with all
Speaker 1: the other major reorts in the world.
Speaker 4: Because exactly, it's not like we're leading the way. It's
Speaker 4: like we're years behind, which.
Speaker 1: A wildly inefficient I guess we got another clip of
Speaker 1: our friend Daggett here in what he sounds like.
Speaker 5: Sisters and brothers of the ISLA. I am disgusted to
Speaker 5: hear the comment South Carolina Governor Henry mcmastus made in
Speaker 5: his State of the State address in late January attacking
Speaker 5: labor union in Ila and particularly who the hell does
Speaker 5: he think he is? He is a disgrace to be
Speaker 5: representing the citizens of South Carolina, especially my members from
Speaker 5: the ISLA living and working there. His attacks on the
Speaker 5: ISLA will not be ignored. ISLA members in the Port
Speaker 5: of Jarson are among the best compensated workers in the
Speaker 5: state of South Carolina, and that brins the hell out
Speaker 5: of the governor. He sits in his all white private
Speaker 5: country club, surrounded by his cronies, saying he'll go to
Speaker 5: the gates of Hell to keep unions out. Well, let
Speaker 5: me tell you he's gonna go to Hell. That's where
Speaker 5: he's heading.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, there's a lot there. I can't believe there
Speaker 1: are whispers about mob ties with this guy. He doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like a mobster in particularly.
Speaker 4: Right, And a guy driving a Bentley worth many, many
Speaker 4: millions of dollars with a seventy six foot yacht bitching
Speaker 4: about a guy in a country club.
Speaker 1: I mean, right, right, that's too much. It is something. Although,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, I noticed they made the turn on
Speaker 1: Fox from being kind of where we are right now.
Speaker 1: Yesterday when I was watching Fox, he got a modern
Speaker 1: I mean, the technology exists to do this faster and cheaper.
Speaker 1: Of course, the companies are going to do it, just
Speaker 1: like they have everywhere else in the world. We can't
Speaker 1: fall behind China hanging on to, you know, outdated manpower
Speaker 1: just because it's good for the worker. They made the
Speaker 1: switch somehow. I don't know who complained or what, or
Speaker 1: they noticed Trump's language or whatever, but today it was
Speaker 1: way more. These are hard working people who deserve their
Speaker 1: cut of the all the gazillions of dollars of these
Speaker 1: shipping companies are making.
Speaker 4: That's an interesting theory of labor. It doesn't square with
Speaker 4: like all known economic truth. I mean, look, there's a
Speaker 4: lot here. Number one, the economics of it. Your labor
Speaker 4: is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
Speaker 4: If you want to unionize, that's fine, that's legal. But
Speaker 4: the idea that if you are a say you know,
Speaker 4: a paper pusher for some company that makes enormous profits,
Speaker 4: you therefore, as somebody with sixty thousand dollars worth of skills,
Speaker 4: how to be making four hundred thousand dollars a year
Speaker 4: just because your company is profitable, is it?
Speaker 1: It ignores the realities of economics.
Speaker 4: Your labor is worth what it's worth the point at
Speaker 4: which somebody is willing to pay for your skills and
Speaker 4: you are willing to sell your skills.
Speaker 1: That's what your labor is worth. It just has always
Speaker 1: been true, always will be true.
Speaker 4: And so the union boss there is making some pretty,
Speaker 4: you know, just silly arguments.
Speaker 1: Well that's what doesn't work that way. Yeah, and that's great,
Speaker 1: and on an individual basis, of course, that makes perfectly
Speaker 1: good sense. I'm worried about the United States competing against
Speaker 1: China and the rest of the world and being like
Speaker 1: every uh, fading empire has been in history, where they
Speaker 1: just try to hang on to the past and get
Speaker 1: eclipsed by hungry or smarter, more nimble countries out there. Correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's interesting, Getting back to your observation that Fox
Speaker 4: News has changed its tune in the last twenty four hours,
Speaker 4: that is really interesting. Predictably, old Joe Biden says now
Speaker 4: is not the time for ocean carriers or refuse to
Speaker 4: negotiate a fair wage for these essential workers while ranking
Speaker 4: in record profits. So I guess a fifty percent wage
Speaker 4: increase over the next six years is not a fair wage.
Speaker 4: And a lot of these guys make a lot of
Speaker 4: money for not even showing up. They get money whether
Speaker 4: they work or not. And all the union bosses make
Speaker 4: money for doing nothing or whatever. So yeah, the idea
Speaker 4: that somehow a moral issue is hilarious to me. Now,
Speaker 4: Don Trump interestingly saying American workers should be able to
Speaker 4: negotiate for better wages, especially since the shipping companies are
Speaker 4: mostly foreign flag vessels.
Speaker 1: That's the he's the Republican candidate for president. He is.
Speaker 4: Indeed, Yes, the reason most ocean carriers are foreign is
Speaker 4: because union work rules haveered have rendered the US shipbuilding
Speaker 4: and shipping industries uncompetitive globally. It's killed the American shipping
Speaker 4: and shipbuilding industry, which is going to which is a
Speaker 4: serious danger for our military preparedness. I would say as
Speaker 4: an aside, but Jack and I were chatting during the
Speaker 4: break about what is this? Is this the populisms, you know,
Speaker 4: siding with the workers or what. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It might be siding with.
Speaker 4: The working man over the big corporation, or it might
Speaker 4: be that Donald J. Trump, for the entirety of his career,
Speaker 4: has been dealing with mob connected unions in New York City.
Speaker 4: You can't get cement poured in New York City without
Speaker 4: brushing up against somebody who knows somebody.
Speaker 1: Forget about it, mob connected. How's the heck of a
Speaker 1: thing to throw around? Are you saying, my man Daggett
Speaker 1: might be tied into organized crime?
Speaker 4: Well, the federal government certainly thinks so, and he's been acquitted.
Speaker 1: What did he say there? And particularly in particularly? I
Speaker 1: got some friends in particularly. How do you spell that anyway?
Speaker 1: So I will you, I will cripple you. And you
Speaker 1: have no idea what that means. Nobody does, he said
Speaker 1: in an interview a couple of weeks ago, according to
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal, I will cripple you. And oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Taft Hartley. That's where the President could step in and
Speaker 1: use the Taft Hartly Act and say he got to
Speaker 1: go back to work. There's a national economies at stake,
Speaker 1: national securities at stake, So you got to go back
Speaker 1: to work while we try to, you know, come to
Speaker 1: an agreement. But Biden said he's not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: But old Daggett said the other day, I'm putting Taft
Speaker 1: Hardly on you. Go ahead. You know what Taft Hartly means.
Speaker 1: I gotta go back to work. Oh yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. My guys who used to move thirty
Speaker 1: Krate's gonna move eight crates, so they're gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 1: and then he grabs his neck. They're gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 1: my neck, hoots, I can't grab a crate now. So
Speaker 1: he's just saying they're all gonna pretend to be hurt
Speaker 1: if they do, if they enact the taft hard.
Speaker 4: We're just a slow down a tome honored technique, we
Speaker 4: will cripple you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So this guy's been accused by the authorities of mob
Speaker 4: ties several times, you know five. He stood trial in
Speaker 4: Brooklyn on fraud charges alongside another ILA official and an
Speaker 4: alleged mobster who is accused of steering union benefit contracts
Speaker 4: to firms that paid kickbackstore crime witnessed. His witnesses testified
Speaker 4: under oath that Daggett was elevated through the ILA because
Speaker 4: the MO by the mob because he was an associate
Speaker 4: of one of the big crime families. Daggett denied it.
Speaker 4: He said, yea, he is afraid of the crime families.
Speaker 4: He avoids them.
Speaker 1: Seem pretty clear to me it's because he's a compelling orator.
Speaker 5: Well, let me tell you he's gonna go to hell
Speaker 5: Gotsch where he's heading.
Speaker 1: The three defendants were acquitted.
Speaker 4: Oddly, Lawrence Ricci, the defendant alleged to be a Genevie's
Speaker 4: crime family member, went missing during the trial, disappeared mid trial,
Speaker 4: and was later found partially decomposed in the trunk of
Speaker 4: a car outside the Huck Finn Diner in Union, New Jersey.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: That is absolutely unbelievable. And the point you made yesterday,
Speaker 1: I think is important that they feel so untouchable. That
Speaker 1: he's not trying to hide his wealth. He has a
Speaker 1: giant yacht and rides around in a Bentley. That's not
Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to hang onto the money and
Speaker 1: just come off as a regular working class guy just
Speaker 1: trying to make a living. No, you don't think anybody
Speaker 1: can touch you when you're being that ostentatious with your lifestyle.
Speaker 4: Guys, maybe we can actually find the audio of this.
Speaker 4: This is my favorite Daggett quote. He was leaving the
Speaker 4: cargo terminal in New Jersey the other morning and he
Speaker 4: suggested that he and the ILA are digging in for
Speaker 4: a lengthy showdown, and a reporter said, how.
Speaker 1: Long do you think it's likely to last? And he said, I.
Speaker 4: Don't have an f in crystal ball between my legs,
Speaker 4: but it will last very long.
Speaker 1: I would tell you that.
Speaker 4: Efen crystal ball between my legs, and particularly not like
Speaker 4: on a shelf er back at home, or why would
Speaker 4: you keep a crystal ball between your legs? Do you
Speaker 4: think Dagget himself has ever thrown a punch or swung
Speaker 4: an axe handle in a over the years. He is
Speaker 4: a very strong, tough looking old guy. It would not
Speaker 4: shock me.
Speaker 1: His language indicates he might be the sort of person
Speaker 1: that at least has threatened, if not actually been the
Speaker 1: the hammer.
Speaker 4: That had had gold Lawrence Ricci, but he was found
Speaker 4: partially decomposed in a trunk in particularly in particularly, we
Speaker 4: will cripple you.
Speaker 1: Oh my neck? You want to do taft hardly? Oh
Speaker 1: my neck? This is not gonna help Kamala Harris a bit. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's my big thing is if this grows, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna grow fast. I mean you can feel the
Speaker 1: heat getting turned up just three days in. What's it
Speaker 1: gonna feel like a week or two from now, when
Speaker 1: you got hundreds of ships parked off the coast. It's
Speaker 1: on the evening news every single night. Candidates are gonna
Speaker 1: have to take a real strong position one way or
Speaker 1: the other, and I don't know how the public's gonna
Speaker 1: react to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just for the record, I got nothing but sympathy
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Speaker 1: And once again quickly. One of the things they're arguing
Speaker 1: for the Longshorreman is not replacing with modern technology people
Speaker 1: that stand there with a clipboard making a lot of
Speaker 1: money and writing down the license plates of the trucks
Speaker 1: that come in. Right now, they have human beings do
Speaker 1: it instead of have just a license plate reader that
Speaker 1: you could get for very cheap and it'd be free
Speaker 1: after that. Because they don't want to lose the workers. Well,
Speaker 1: that's just you're just fighting against the ocean there the tide. Ironically,
Speaker 1: they know it's the last deal they're going to get
Speaker 1: before things really change, So I guess you swing for
Speaker 1: the fences. Speaking of swing for the fences, I want
Speaker 1: to mention a thing from the baseball playoffs. No, we
Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of other stuff on the ways.
Speaker 1: Stay here, you can't see this.
Speaker 6: California just and as that they're banning sell buy and
Speaker 6: best before food labels. Yeah, they prefer everyone to use
Speaker 6: the more scientific method of going up to your spouse
Speaker 6: and saying does this smell right to you?
Speaker 1: And that's what I like to do it. So what's
Speaker 1: what's the story on that? It seems like California would
Speaker 1: be the opposite of that, they'd be more strict as
Speaker 1: opposed to get rid of them. What's the story, Katie?
Speaker 7: Well, so they're getting rid of the cell buy and
Speaker 7: best before because they can be misleading, and they're going
Speaker 7: they're going to be replaced by two different labels, one
Speaker 7: best if used by, which will show when food is
Speaker 7: at its best quality, okay, and then a used by
Speaker 7: label to show when food is no longer safe to eat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a real leaf forward, right, just a
Speaker 4: heads up.
Speaker 1: It won't apply to eggs, beer and other malt drinks.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't it? Okay? But I well, I don't know
Speaker 1: how well you can nail down at what point something
Speaker 1: becomes not safe to eat. The companies that make the
Speaker 1: food mostly have an interest in making it seem like
Speaker 1: you got to buy new all the time because they
Speaker 1: stocked shelves. Yeah, and or your fridge. Yeah, so the
Speaker 1: whole best buy, Like this cracker will taste better if
Speaker 1: you eat it next week, but it's still be fine
Speaker 1: in a month. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: And if I'm drunk, it'll be even better. I mean
Speaker 4: in another month it'll be fine. So sliding scale the goal.
Speaker 7: The goal is to cut down on food waste, and
Speaker 7: because it's California, reduce harmful emissions that contribute to climate change.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, with the climate change. You know, I knew
Speaker 1: it would edit through it be ridiculous. Yeah, bringing back
Speaker 1: once again, at risk of being punched in the face
Speaker 1: the vice presidential debate the other night. Oh, I had
Speaker 1: missed this too until I heard smarter commentators commenting on it,
Speaker 1: So you got what's going on in North Carolina. And
Speaker 1: the day of the debate was a particularly bad day
Speaker 1: when we found out there were hundreds more people dead
Speaker 1: than they realized and lots of people missing, and really
Speaker 1: good reason to presume that they are dead. Also, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just a horrifying tragedy right in the midst of it,
Speaker 1: and they bring it up, and they don't talk about
Speaker 1: the government's response or you know, whether it's enough for
Speaker 1: all the different things around the immediacy of the tragedy.
Speaker 1: They go to global climate change and what you would
Speaker 1: do as president. Yeah, that's just freaking nuts. It is nuts,
Speaker 1: and it's not the way any normal human beings are,
Speaker 1: especially in the midst of the crisis. I think it's
Speaker 1: nuts if it were two months later. But the day
Speaker 1: that it's happening, you're not talking about federal response and
Speaker 1: is it enough or two much, or how we should
Speaker 1: deal with it, or what you would do, or what
Speaker 1: are your experiences, what had you done in Minnesota dealing
Speaker 1: with various disasters or as a vice president Biden administration not.
Speaker 1: They go right to climate change, the giant overarching will
Speaker 1: unfold over centuries and there's nothing we can do about it.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do in your couple of
Speaker 1: years as president bs Two interesting things I learned about this,
Speaker 1: one political. A lot of those counties that are decimated
Speaker 1: are red counties in a purple state in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and if those people don't get out and vote, that
Speaker 1: could hurt Republicans and Trump obviously in North Carolina, less
Speaker 1: so in some of the other states. But that could
Speaker 1: be a big deal because they don't know where their
Speaker 1: absentee ballot is. They can't find their house, and you know,
Speaker 1: whether they'll be able to organize the election and the
Speaker 1: polls and the rest of it in the normal ways
Speaker 1: is up in the air. Interesting, you don't think it
Speaker 1: would go the other direction where they'd be more motivated
Speaker 1: to figure out how to vote. Probably Republican. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. Well, if they have no house, so they
Speaker 1: might be depends on their view, depends on their view
Speaker 1: of the response, if they feel like the response wasn't
Speaker 1: good enough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's a factor. But they just they
Speaker 4: don't even know if they could administer the elections. Certainly
Speaker 4: wouldn't be top of your right now. No, no, And
Speaker 4: again it's about just the logistics. These towns don't exist anymore,
Speaker 4: so how are they going to hold the vote? That
Speaker 4: in the Brown Ocean? I want to talk about that.
Speaker 4: Insanity may be prevailing in women's sports.
Speaker 1: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8: At my National Park delay the reveal of its annual
Speaker 8: fat Bear Weak Bracket after one bear killed another and
Speaker 8: it was live streamed on explored dot org. Well, I'm
Speaker 8: not surprised you keep calling them fat on the internet.
Speaker 8: Someone was bound a snap.
Speaker 1: I get it. The dangers of social media, Joe.
Speaker 4: The dangers of being a bear, wild beasts, toothclaw, etc.
Speaker 1: So you can go on. I've never done this, So Katie,
Speaker 1: you said you did this yesterday. You can go on
Speaker 1: and watch just live cameras of fat bears walking around.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we actually have it linked at Armstrong and getty
Speaker 7: dot com.
Speaker 1: And then do people vote or who determines which bear
Speaker 1: is the cutest or fattest or.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a there's a voting. It's all on a website.
Speaker 7: So they have the voting and the webcams and.
Speaker 1: You get the whole, the whole fat bear package.
Speaker 4: The webcams are actually quite interesting because you see the
Speaker 4: bears fishing for salmon and so it's both beautiful and amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh my son would love this. Okay, until there's a
Speaker 1: murder that's less beautiful, killing each other. Yeah, well they
Speaker 1: are bears.
Speaker 4: The bears are who we thought they were right, So
Speaker 4: speaking of unpleasantness and what I.
Speaker 1: Say, Oh, but I'd rather run into a bear if
Speaker 1: I'm instead of a man exactly.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that sort of idiotic notion, that sort of attitude,
Speaker 4: It's time for a campus madness update, Campa campus madness.
Speaker 1: There it is right there.
Speaker 2: I heard it.
Speaker 1: I had forgotten that stupid thing that was born on
Speaker 1: the campuses. I'm sure the idea that a woman is
Speaker 1: better off running into a bear in the woods than
Speaker 1: a man. What what you know?
Speaker 4: What is happening to our culture? As the bear is
Speaker 4: gnawing on your liver? If you said you could be
Speaker 4: as so kind as to, perhaps in your own blood,
Speaker 4: write a note of apology to men everywhere I would appreciate.
Speaker 1: Or how stupid that was just stupid, unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Let's start the campus mad in this update with some
Speaker 4: good news.
Speaker 1: Michael, make that music go away. It's so slow and maudlin. Anyway.
Speaker 4: A fourth school, the second in as many days and
Speaker 4: third time in a week, a woman's volleyball team has said,
Speaker 4: we're not playing San Jose State. With the dude spiking
Speaker 4: the ball at eighty miles per hour, we are out.
Speaker 1: The undefeated San Jose State Spartans nine to Oho and
Speaker 1: now three teams in a row have forfeited because they
Speaker 1: figured out they got a guy on their team, their
Speaker 1: female team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, indeed, and this is a total of four teams.
Speaker 4: Now Utah State joined Boise State, Southern Utah in Wyoming
Speaker 4: in canceling matches against San Jose and an apparent protest
Speaker 4: of NCAA rules allowing transgender women that means dudes to
Speaker 4: compete in women's sports.
Speaker 1: No men in women's sports period.
Speaker 4: I don't care what you dress like, I don't care
Speaker 4: what sort of hormones you're take in your dude, you
Speaker 4: don't get to play with the girls in sports. So
Speaker 4: good for you. Once again that gallery of the courageous.
Speaker 4: And you know the gals on the teams are driving
Speaker 4: this and they're sticking their necks out. Utah State, Boise State,
Speaker 4: Southern Utah, and Wyoming. Way to go, moving along. Another
Speaker 4: victory speaking of the southwest of the United States.
Speaker 1: Big victory.
Speaker 4: The other day, the University of New Mexico was issued
Speaker 4: a preliminary injunction by federal court judge because they'd been
Speaker 4: in posing hefty security fees on any events held by
Speaker 4: conservative students. Right the university had put a winking, warm
Speaker 4: arm around the shoulders of the Heckler's veto crowd and said, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: when conservatives speak, things get out of hand, and so yes,
Speaker 4: you've got to pay a five thousand dollars feet have
Speaker 4: Rightley Gains come and speak to.
Speaker 1: You and speak of women's rights. One, it's overblown most
Speaker 1: of the time. And then two, if there is a problem,
Speaker 1: it's because your site is violent. So why is that
Speaker 1: our problem? Yeah, exactly, exactly, and.
Speaker 4: It's it's allowing Nazis to cancel any Jewish event or
Speaker 4: you know whatever. You know, rapists to cancel a women's
Speaker 4: safety event because they don't appreciate the safety, so they're
Speaker 4: gonna riot and break some windows and stuff. So well,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, any women's rights events will have to pay
Speaker 4: a hefty fee because you know, the rapists are unhappy
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: That is sick, it's weird, it's clever, and it has
Speaker 1: worked for years. It's evil and it's working for years.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many people have been canceled at Berkeley
Speaker 1: for instances down the road here over that claim the
Speaker 1: security would just be too expensive. We can't, we can't
Speaker 1: to ensure their security.
Speaker 3: Because your side's nuts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cowardly, cowardly Standford the same, moving swiftly here again
Speaker 4: or over to California. This is a great piece written
Speaker 4: for the Wall Street Journal by a Jewish fellow who
Speaker 4: emigrated from the Soviet Union and is a patriotic American,
Speaker 4: loves America. And he says, man, a lot of this
Speaker 4: anti Israel stuff, anti jew stuff is straight out of
Speaker 4: the Soviet Union anti Semitism. He said, it's so recognizable.
Speaker 4: The Jews go back to your Israel has been replaced
Speaker 4: with Jews go back to Poland, using Zionist as a
Speaker 4: derogatory term.
Speaker 1: And then he talks.
Speaker 4: About Clairmont Colleges in California, where he teaches the associated
Speaker 4: students of Pomona College. The school's student government had on
Speaker 4: its table booklets titled mask Up, We Need You, Palestinian
Speaker 4: Solidarity COVID nineteen and the Struggle for Liberation.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're like, wait, wait what, Yeah, I'll get to that.
Speaker 4: And this is the whole intersectionality, neo Marxist thing, every
Speaker 4: single annoyed person ought to join together in the overthrow
Speaker 4: of humanity, even when it doesn't make sense. Queers for Palestine.
Speaker 4: You know that sort of thing. But so this group
Speaker 4: seven c Staff for Justice and Palestine have a text
Speaker 4: pushing a conspiracy theory reminiscent of the Doctor's plot in
Speaker 4: the Soviet Union. It's an old thing, look it up,
Speaker 4: implying that the US and Israel purposefully see if you
Speaker 4: can follow this used COVID nineteen to commit a eugenics
Speaker 4: based genocide against Palestinians, minorities, and disabled people. The pamphlets
Speaker 4: warned that quote, Zionists and eugenicists rely on you to
Speaker 4: be poorly informed to follow for their simplified decontextualized, revisionist,
Speaker 4: racist and ablest takes.
Speaker 1: That's what they're teaching on her universities. Money well spent.
Speaker 1: There's more.
Speaker 4: The new editor of the Stanford Oh what is the
Speaker 4: name of this Stanford Review, which is the dissenting, sane
Speaker 4: conservative newspaper on the Stanford campus.
Speaker 1: This woman, this young woman is brilliant and brave. She
Speaker 1: is a hero. But she talks.
Speaker 4: About how Stanford Review is founded in the eighties because
Speaker 4: their peers demanded the end of the Western civilization program
Speaker 4: that taught authors like Aristotle and Dante, and they chanted, hey, hey,
Speaker 4: ho ho, Western culture has got to go. Stanford Cancer
Speaker 4: canceled Western Civilization, and now it's in its iteration of
Speaker 4: a class just called college that is like John Belushi.
Speaker 4: That was parody, but now it's Stanford only it only
Speaker 4: requires students to read articles instead of books, and is
Speaker 4: graded on completion, not hard work, comprehension, or excellence. The
Speaker 4: inmates have taken over the asylum. She writes really good stuff.
Speaker 4: We'll post links at Armstrong and getty dot com. I
Speaker 4: don't know how many years you'd have to go back.
Speaker 1: It's not very many years, but it would have been
Speaker 1: unimaginable that you would cancel Western civ Classes from colleges
Speaker 1: because you thought Western civilization was so evil it shouldn't
Speaker 1: even be taught. I mean you wouldn't have to go
Speaker 1: back many years a decade. Certainly you go back twenty
Speaker 1: thirty years ago, it would be just nuts, even on
Speaker 1: college campuses, not just seen as incorrect, but as looney
Speaker 1: tunes because it is right. Wow.
Speaker 4: We talked a little bit about the UH emotion professor
Speaker 4: Amy wax at Penn. One of the things she's accused of.
Speaker 4: This is hilarious. In the Age of DEI right where
Speaker 4: you're entirely defined by your race, the color of your skin.
Speaker 4: She was accused of making sweeping generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender,
Speaker 4: sexual orientation, immigration status. That is the very thing that
Speaker 4: DEI is based on. They're firing conservative professors for. Here's
Speaker 4: another example of what hypocrites and liars these people are.
Speaker 4: So Columbia University finally cranked out a report about the
Speaker 4: anti Semitism on campus, and a bunch of radical teachers, staffers, professors,
Speaker 4: faculties I'm looking for published an angry response to it,
Speaker 4: saying that one of the big flaws was that it
Speaker 4: contributes to a hospitle narrative about Columbia. It's marked by conspicuous,
Speaker 4: neglectful omissions of context and climate. It conflates feelings with facts,
Speaker 4: so it said the idea of your feelings are hurt
Speaker 4: or you feel threatened, that's not a fact. We don't
Speaker 4: have to react to that. That's the DEI progressive crowd
Speaker 4: saying that, Who've spent the last couple of decades telling
Speaker 4: us if you say something completely innocent but somebody thinks
Speaker 4: it's racist, you're a racist. People are such hypocrites. And finally,
Speaker 4: a profile and cowardice. For the last seven years, New
Speaker 4: York State Writers Institute held an annual book festival at
Speaker 4: the University of Albany. Notable authors come together and discuss
Speaker 4: big ideas. But this year the festival was disrupted because
Speaker 4: two authors refuse to discuss their books with the panels moderator.
Speaker 4: Why because she is a Zionist. Alyssa Albert, forty six
Speaker 4: year old progressive feminist author whose novels are dark comedies
Speaker 4: about subjects like modern motherhood and fame. She'd agreed to
Speaker 4: moderate the panel months earlier, was really looking forward to it,
Speaker 4: but then it turns out that she is a Jew,
Speaker 4: and so the other panelists or the author said, we
Speaker 4: don't want to be on a panel with a Zionist.
Speaker 4: Not to sugarcoat this or taken by surprise. Wow, we
Speaker 4: can't appear with a Zionist.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: There's another thing that you wouldn't have to go back
Speaker 1: many years where it would have just seemed nuts that
Speaker 1: somebody would get canceled from any sort of writer's gathering
Speaker 1: because they were Jewish, only because they're Jewish. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and state it as it is.
Speaker 4: Aisha abdel Gowad, a Muslim writer in her mid thirties,
Speaker 4: and Lisa Coe, whose first book was now nomine in
Speaker 4: for a National Book Award, wouldn't share the stage with
Speaker 4: a Jew who supports Israel. Won't be on stage with
Speaker 4: Jews again. That's Ayisha Gwad and Lisa Coe.
Speaker 1: Wow, weird times, man. That's troubling. It's extremely troubling, and
Speaker 1: that one is not receding anytime soon. I don't think, Oh.
Speaker 4: No, our college campuses are I mean, eighty percent of
Speaker 4: the faculty agree with it, or even if it's sixty percent,
Speaker 4: twenty five percent are too terrified to say anything, and
Speaker 4: fifteen percent disagree with it.
Speaker 1: They're so diseased. Oh, I'm not sure there's any curing. Well,
Speaker 1: like your first campus madness story, it would seem that
Speaker 1: the tide is turned on the whole women's women men
Speaker 1: dominating women's sports thing. It would seem the tide has
Speaker 1: turned on that, but not on this whole canceling Jews
Speaker 1: thing that has not yet.
Speaker 4: No, No, and anti Zionism as the polite face of
Speaker 4: anti Semitism is an old, old dodge.
Speaker 1: I need to pick a baseball team to root for
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. As we're getting past the wild card rounds.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to go with the Detroit Tigers,
Speaker 1: one of the lowest payrolls in all of baseball. Who
Speaker 1: knocked off the Houston Astros, who I usually root for
Speaker 1: last night? And move on, kindwagon jumper, folks, he's a
Speaker 1: fake fan. I love low pay roll teams always have.
Speaker 1: That's just that's fun when they when they get they
Speaker 1: get a chance to roll on. And baseball man more
Speaker 1: than practically any sport. You just got to make the
Speaker 1: playoffs than anything can happen. You get hot and get
Speaker 1: on a roll. Doesn't matter if the team you're up
Speaker 1: against one hundred games, who cares.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially if you have the pitching. You've got a
Speaker 4: couple of two tree pitchers who are really hot.
Speaker 1: Yep. Got some interesting political stuff you might want to
Speaker 1: know about. Not boring. Promise you promise you not dull, boring,
Speaker 1: normal cable news sort of stuff about the presidential rays
Speaker 1: and other things. All the way.
Speaker 3: Stay here, meet the mini move right now.
Speaker 9: The Erth's gravitational pull is playing host to something we
Speaker 9: traditionally find a little scary.
Speaker 3: An asteroid scientists see it.
Speaker 9: Swung by got caught up in our gravity and we'll
Speaker 9: spend about the next sixty days orbiting the planet. And no,
Speaker 9: there's no need to fear. They're not kidding about the
Speaker 9: mini part. The asteroid, affectionately named twenty twenty four PT five,
Speaker 9: is literally thirty three feet long, about the size of
Speaker 9: your average school bus.
Speaker 3: It's too small and too dark for most of us
Speaker 3: to glimbs.
Speaker 1: Oh, so the mini moon is going to be orbiting
Speaker 1: the Earth. So I for some reason, I was picturing
Speaker 1: it up by the moon, but I don't know how
Speaker 1: I got that in my head. So it's completely separate
Speaker 1: from the Moon. It's just an asteroid or okay, and
Speaker 1: we won't be able to see it. Okay, So it's
Speaker 1: really nothing. It's a junior moon. There you go. And
Speaker 1: there's no chance it's going to crash into the Earth
Speaker 1: and kill us all or anything like that. No, there's
Speaker 1: always a chance.
Speaker 4: Like one of our emailers said, some DEI hire might
Speaker 4: have failed to carry the one. It's in fact headed
Speaker 4: directly toward Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Some DEI higher did the math wrong. Hilarious, Yeah, quotas
Speaker 1: instead of excellence. Yes, I haven't heard this. I guess
Speaker 1: this is a lefty journalists in a Monta having to
Speaker 1: admit that Vance beat Walls in the debate the other night.
Speaker 4: Vance clearly, I think it needs to be said, clearly,
Speaker 4: the more experienced debater, so JD.
Speaker 1: Vance, came to this debate to land a bunch of punches,
Speaker 1: and he did. And the thing that really stood out
Speaker 1: to me was that Tim Walls did not seem prepared
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 10: I think the lack of interviews that he has done
Speaker 10: with national media, with local media, it showed he needed
Speaker 10: more racial and two issues driving the campaign right now
Speaker 10: are Harris has a big deficit of the economy, Harris
Speaker 10: has a big deficit of immigration. And Republicans were happy
Speaker 10: tonight and Democrats a little bit nervous that on those
Speaker 10: two issues Vance carried it.
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty clear Vance outclassed Walls tonight. I
Speaker 1: mean I was watching this and all I could think
Speaker 1: of was man Walls as so went over his head. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I hadn't heard all those responses and I
Speaker 1: recognized the voice of most of those people, and they're.
Speaker 4: Not predisposed to feel that way. Yeah, you've said for
Speaker 4: years and it's a truism. At this point, the whole
Speaker 4: question of who won the debate is such a dopey
Speaker 4: way to look at it. Did either candidate solidify or
Speaker 4: grow or support? Did anybody weaken their support? If Vance
Speaker 4: quote unquote one for his folks better than Waltz one
Speaker 4: for his folks, well, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Both their approval ratings went up, according to Pole, so
Speaker 1: they may have both helped their own positions. I'm confused
Speaker 1: as to how Walls's approval rating went up, even among
Speaker 1: people who liked him to start with. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: wanted to get this confused by that too. From the
Speaker 1: Wide World of News newsletter today, there are three post
Speaker 1: debate stories on Tim Walls from The Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: New York Times, and Political, all suggesting the Minnesotan's debate
Speaker 1: performance reflects some previously known flaws that the dominant media
Speaker 1: is now more ready to examine about his fish tails
Speaker 1: and making up his stories, his skill set, and his
Speaker 1: value to the campaign. As he gets ready to do
Speaker 1: the sixty minutes interview for this weekend, I think other interviews,
Speaker 1: and he's going to do a late night comedy turn,
Speaker 1: so he's going to go on all the late night
Speaker 1: shows Walls is so I haven't read these stories in
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Politico, suggesting that
Speaker 1: there's a little nervousness that the guy might not have
Speaker 1: the talent to pull all this off, which I'd say
Speaker 1: was evident the other night. I don't know how he'll
Speaker 1: do on the late night shows. I mean they'll they'll
Speaker 1: they'll give him all, they'll give him every you know,
Speaker 1: assist they can to try and make it better. Also,
Speaker 1: this from Mark Calpern, who's pretty good at this sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. He said my spidey sense says that the
Speaker 1: stories about the past an alleged past of Doug am Hoff,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's husband, have a few more chapters to inferral
Speaker 1: at least, so he must be hearing some whispers out
Speaker 1: there that this him slapping his ex girlfriend. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: more of these coming.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's it's not directly relevant to the race,
Speaker 4: but it just is an ugly.
Speaker 1: Well it's an it's an ugly reality.
Speaker 4: And if Kamala Harris is with a guy not only
Speaker 4: impregnated his kids nanny and then they didn't keep the baby,
Speaker 4: whether it was aborted or whatever, I think most people
Speaker 4: think that then he slapped his girlfriend. I just what
Speaker 4: sort of great feminist leaders with a guy like that.
Speaker 1: Well, and if there's a couple of more that are
Speaker 1: in that realm, yeah, that'd be pretty damaging. I think
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty