WEBVTT - Is Your Son A Rapper? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.640 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.240 George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.480 But apparently our nation civil service is now synonymous with waste. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.000 Fraud, and abuse. The gravy train. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.479 For a lot of these folks, it's been on biscuit 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.000 wheels and it's about to run off the dead gum tracks. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:36.040 It's about time. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:42.920 First of all, there is no way you actually talk 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:50.559 like that. No way, you're a congressman from Tennessee. You 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.680 didn't spring fully formed out of a primordial cracker barrel. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:02.000 All of this help burocra see is a shot uga shoot, shoot. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.120 To approp this boil on the flat jacks. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:11.840 Very funny from the Eastern media elite to media elite. Michael, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.960 very very well chosen. We'll have a chat after the show. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:17.480 I know plenty of people who talk like that. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.600 I do too, but we need to take it down 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.480 a little on the right with the clever sayings. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.280 Just too many of them, I feel. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.880 Yeah, John Kennedy, we're looking at you. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:33.480 Yeah, exactly. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.800 They've just realized, if you want to get on TV, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.840 a little blurb on Fox News or whatever. You have 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.560 some clever, little homespun saying, and that'll get you on. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.559 May I apologize to the audience for lying. I said 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.520 that Congressman Tom McClintock would kick off this hour of 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.960 the program. Indeed, we will visit with him at the 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.040 bottom of the hour, but are looking forward to it 0:01:53.280 --> 0:02:00.280 very much. I just read his editorial Washington Times. Great stuff. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.880 I look forward to asking him about this stuff. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.560 Part of the. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.360 Problem with framing Doge in all this is waste, fraud 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.639 and abuse is that it misses the point that, even 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.640 if it's all legitimate, we can't afford it. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.440 So oh yeah, well said I. 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.000 Mean you if you I've been here before when I 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.760 I was broke, sometimes you look at like where can 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.919 you cut and you think I need all of these 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.680 things I'm spending money on, but you still don't have 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.760 as much money coming in as going out, and something 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:33.399 has got. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:34.959 To go right, right. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:39.120 Indeed, it might be helpful to say waste, fraud, abuse 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:44.680 and overreach. Yeah, or or at some point and some 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.560 point soon it's going to be which of these things 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.200 that we like and need do we like and need? 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.920 The least because sure the rubber is going to meet 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.840 the road at some point anyway before. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.120 Yeah, Mike has got to go in favor of need, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.360 because like is spending us into oblivion. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:00.000 Back to you. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.080 Starbucks announced their coffee chain is laying off eleven hundred jobs, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.960 seven percent of its non retail staff. Is there gonna 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.320 be a big media scramble to get to Starbucks employees 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.280 and have them on there. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.320 I thought I'd get to work at Starbucks forever. I 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:17.920 just moved here for this job. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.480 I was working really hard because that would I'm sure 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.160 plenty of them would say that. But they lost their 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.480 jobs because here in the private sector, that happens all 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:26.360 the flip and time. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:27.200 Right. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.040 Another economic thing that I thought was interesting that I 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.639 will explain why I think it is a big deal. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.960 In the second, Apple said it's gonna invest half a 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.600 trillion dollars in the United States over the. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:40.680 Next four years. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.320 So half a trillion over four years and open a 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.760 new factory in Houston to build AI servers. I gotta 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.320 wonder if maybe they had they wouldn't have built that 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:51.320 in China or something. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.800 If this were twenty years ago. Oh yeah, one hundred 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:55.440 percent and. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.120 Now it's gonna be built in the United States for 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.160 you know, all the reasons that you know. But at 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.560 the same time, brit Hume tweeted this out and thought 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.120 this was a big deal. Huma Fox. I follow him 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.400 because I generally think he's right. The President just released 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.280 a new policy that does some big things. It's an 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.920 economic policy. It makes it easier for friendly nations to 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.600 invest in the United States, and makes it harder for 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.279 hostile nations to invest in the United States. And it 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.320 makes it harder for hostile nations to steal American technology. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.360 Those are all big things that are definitely welcome. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.480 I would like to see, and this is an issue 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.080 nobody talks about. I would like to see China booted 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:32.839 the hell out of our housing markets. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.400 Oh my god, Yes, oh my god. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:40.919 Yes, conglomerates buying up like every house for sale they 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.800 can renting them, and. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.599 It becomes impossible to get a house. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.920 Yeah, in my town, absolutely, that what goes on. When 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.280 I was trying to buy a house. I'm a renter. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.280 When I was trying to buy a house and all 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.640 these houses that seem ridiculously overpriced were selling, That's what 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:55.680 real estate agents told me. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:56.640 No the Chinese. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.240 The Chinese, various entities and businessmen are buying up pay 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.839 cash and they don't care what they cost, And yeah, 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.280 that is a distortion. And I butt head sometimes with 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.440 my libertarian brethren on this topic because foreign investment in 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.480 the United States is one of the reasons we all 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.880 have such a great standard of living, and that's absolutely true. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.919 But a commodity is limited and incredibly necessary is housing, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.400 which is then limited so severely by government policies zoning 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.760 and environmental stuff and whatever. That just causes a distortion 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.280 that beats down American families, American workers. And it reminds 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.479 me of what we were talking about last hour, where 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.680 David Leonhardt, a fairly moderate guy at the New York Times, 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.520 is writing, Hey, all these left wing governments from the 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:46.640 US to France, to Germany to Canada to Australia, when 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.320 their working class was saying, hey, this rampant the immigration 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.000 is hurting us badly. They were told shut up by 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.680 their left leaning governments, and now it's coming home to 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:57.400 coming back to bite them. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.160 I think the housing thing is similar. People are They're 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.320 screaming for relief and we've got our communists over lords. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:04.640 Snap it up houses. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.000 It can't last well. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.440 Last week we were talking about Senator Tom Cotton's new 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.880 book Seven Things You Can't Say about China, and we 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.760 hope to talk to him soon. One of them, I 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.480 don't know if he mentions the housing market at all 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.080 in the book. We'll have to ask him about that, 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:22.080 because that's interesting. But one of them is how China 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.840 sending their bright young people over here to attend our 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:30.080 colleges at full freight and eating up all the slots 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.520 in the colleges and distorting the price of college because 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.280 they don't care what it costs. They just want to 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.800 send their students over here to get the best engineering degrees, 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.920 invest this and that, and also occasionally a spy distorted 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.159 the whole college market. Always a spy had this headline 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.599 sitting around, hadn't get gotten to it yet. Under Biden, 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:53.520 American universities raked in nearly a billion dollars from offshore donors, 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.800 including many link to China. Yeah, China, and cutter and 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.640 all sorts of loathsome regimes have utterly perverted the curricula 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.680 of American universities. Again, we fell so in love with 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:12.080 the whole global thing. We forgot that not everybody's nice 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.440 like we are. It's funny, the great Satan, the big 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.080 belliger in America. No, we're like the nicest people on earth. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.280 We think everybody wants to be our friend worthy the proverbial, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:26.600 if somewhat insulting naive corn pone from Iowa buying fake 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:31.720 rolexes in Manhattan because we don't know better as a country. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.800 Which is really crazy. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.160 As the superpower, it's it's almost endearing, but the evildoers 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:37.960 are starting to really exploit it, and it's time to 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:38.400 get tough. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:41.840 I bought a fake rolex. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.040 I knew it was a fake rolex in Times Square 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.200 in New York once, and it was quite cheap. It 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.920 did not work and felt very flimsy. My son has 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:58.040 a great fake rolex that he bought on Amazon for 0:07:58.480 --> 0:07:59.480 seventy dollars. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.040 It was like super cheap. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:06.320 It is great, really heavy, good metal runs. Wow, looks 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.000 real your son or rapper he gets. He gets compliments 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:14.240 on it all the time. It's just the look though 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:15.760 a teenage boy with a road. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.440 It's a little odd, but you know, teach their own 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.240 u So speaking of economic matters, and then we'll take 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.600 a break because we've got something just great to get to. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.960 Two years ago, you might remember Teamster's boss Sean O'Brien. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.480 You remember him spoke at the Republican Convention and said 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:40.359 I hate Republicans. He touted a historic labor agreement with UPS. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.959 United Parcel Service. Now comes the rest of the story, 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:49.800 and it's not pretty. UPS shares are plunged recently after 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.520 it announced workforce and delivery reductions. Workers who lost their 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.240 jobs can thank mister O'Brien once again. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.160 Interview the UPS of people that lost their jobs. I 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.480 thought I could work here forever. I just moved here 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:02.120 for this job. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.679 Like the government employees, UPS is having to shrink, shrink 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.000 its contracts, just do less work and make less money 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:13.200 and less profit because in Amazon, one of the big clients, 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:14.760 is not going to do more of their own deliveries 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.400 because UPS can't do it at a cost anywhere near 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:24.200 Amazon can. Because Amazon's drivers aren't unionized. The Teamsters, according 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.200 to the General Editorial Board, have found little success trying 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.960 to organize Amazon workers. The UPS agreement increased average compensation 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.440 from full time drivers over five years to one hundred 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.680 and seventy thousand dollars a year. Teamsters at UPS get 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.119 up to seven weeks of vacation and don't pay healthcare premiums. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:44.960 Yes, I was a teamster. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.160 It was the most amazing healthcare I ever had in 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.520 my entire working life. It was insane, but as actually, 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.680 you shouldn't have healthcare this good as a guy who 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.400 stacks boxes for a living. I mean, it's just it 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.360 doesn't really make sense. Loved it, of course, but it 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.640 was pretty ridiculous given US standards. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:08.800 So UPS is firing thousands of workers and management closing 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.440 two hundred sorting centers. You know, union to have their 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.959 role and certainly have in history, but a union like 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.000 this one, in this case, all it does is concentrate 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.600 wealth in the hands of its members and leaders. It 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.080 has nothing to do with work. We're for working people, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.080 We're for labor. No, you're for yourself and your members, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:30.000 which is fine, but society and UPS need to recognize 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.880 that and encounter it. It's just hundreds and thousands and 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.520 thousands of workers are losing their jobs so that the 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.040 chosen few can get artificially high salaries. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.000 Oh that's just lovely. Ah. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:48.520 The Trump versus the AP fight is way more important 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.120 than you might think. It's not over the Gulf of America. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.920 Well, it kind of is, which is funny, but it's 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.320 about something much more interesting and important. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.800 We'll talk about that in a second. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.600 When I was a team stur at ups, the insurance 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.000 was I had one hundred percent coverage on medical, no deductible, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.359 one hundred percent deadal noductible, and no do and no payments. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.800 I should have gotten all my teeth pulled and had 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.600 several babies. I just should have taken advantage of it. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:14.439 You're a fool. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.000 We got all that stuff Joe mentioned, And we're going 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.760 to talk to a Republican Congressman, Tom McClintock coming up 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:25.199 this hour. I look forward to talking to Tom McClintock 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.560 as a fiscal conservative and a member of the House 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.520 of Representatives, a Republican where he is on the whole 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:32.040 doage thing. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.720 Yeah, oh yeah, I have a feeling, I know, since 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.360 he's been a fiscal hawk, since he was a. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.920 Knee high to a grasshopper. Oh that's right. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.440 We're not going to be charmingly homespun anymore. There's too 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.959 much of that in our nation's discourse. Uh So, one 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:53.079 of my many jihads is against conservatives and even moderates 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.960 who for some reason conformed to the language demands of 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.000 the left. They say, don't say this that anymore, say this, 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.760 and we obey them, even though that change in language 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.880 is deliberately designed to pervert the argument or to win 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.920 the argument in advance, Like gender affirming care that settles 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.160 the argument. Well, all you're doing is affirming the poor 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.959 child's gender. Now it's a sex change experiment. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:19.920 Anyway. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.920 Trump and the administration are in a bit of a 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.320 frakis a bit of a sparring match with the Associated Press. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.760 You may have read about it, the particulars of their 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.000 band from the press room, temporarily whatever, the Gulf of 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.880 America thing. That's all a distraction because the main issue 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.120 is the AP and its style book, which if you're 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.760 not in journalism you might not realize is incredibly influential 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.199 and has been for decades. It essentially says, all right, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.679 here's how to word something. Here's what words are acceptable unacceptable, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.480 here's the punctuation you should use. From the very mundane 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.760 to now. And this is a new development in the 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:03.920 last you know, several years now, it's become extremely ideological. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.280 For instance, and we mentioned this late in the show. Yesterday, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.280 AP began capitalizing black when used as a racial designation, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.320 but not white, because no, no black especial white is 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.439 just well, you are white people, and you're bad people. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.480 There are a bunch of other examples. You can't use 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:28.439 alien it's banned, or illegal immigrant in discussing immigration, even 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.920 though those are both statutory you know terms. You can't 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.560 say chain migration, anchor babies, and they have all sorts 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:41.320 of euphemism, like when CNN infamously described the George Floyd 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.400 riots as a mostly peaceful protest that was partly in 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.880 deference to the the AP saying don't. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:52.160 Use riot, oh wow, too hard. Yeah. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.400 And then there is its twenty nine hundred word ideological 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:01.960 Manifesto that says, quote, do not use the term transgenderism, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:06.439 which frames transgender identity is an ideology. It is filled 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.360 with bizarre assertions and jargon which reporters are mandated to 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.240 accept as if they supersede the facts of life. According 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.160 to the guide, a child isn't born a boy or 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.640 a girl quote rather. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.800 Sex is quote usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.440 and can turn out to be inaccurate, which happens one 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.120 out of ten thousand times. Examples of gender identities include 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.720 non binary, bigender, agender, gender fluid, gender queer, and combinations 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:35.560 of identities such as non binary woman. This is all 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.240 radical gender theory. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.280 Which nobody knew about, cared about, or thought about, and 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.040 certainly didn't believe until a cup of coffee ago. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.120 And they say the dead. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.520 Naming a transgender person, that is accurately reporting such a 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:52.080 person's given name, even posthumously, in obituaries or other coverage, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.480 is often considered disrespectful to the deceased, their survivors, and 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.680 any transgender people. So if you work for the AP, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.600 you'd have to say Aitlyn Jenner won the decathlon in 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:03.720 nineteen seventy six. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.240 For example. Hey, I got a question. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.440 Has anybody encountered like you're gonna have a baby and 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:11.840 you you have the doctor? 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.240 You know telepens a boy or girl? Do they like 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:15.560 fudge their language? 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.320 Do they just say we see a penis or something 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.200 like that to not declare it a boy? 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:21.120 I wonder if they do that. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:27.400 And there's more about how reporters are instructed to squelch 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.680 any challenge to the accepted authorities on sex and gender. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:35.000 Don't quote people speaking about biology or athletic regulations unless 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.320 they are experts with a proper background, which is why 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.320 Katanji Brown Jackson infamously said, I can't define woman. I'm 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.560 not a biologist, which is one of the most idiotic 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.760 things ever said. But then I came across a bunch 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:51.240 of other examples. Blah blah blah blah. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:52.320 Buh. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.880 The AP wants refer to former Vice President Kamala Harris, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.960 one of the most liberal senators to serve in the 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.680 Senate in the twenty first entry as a centrist. The 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.920 AP style book is widely used manual guiding editorial decisions 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.520 for thousands of newsrooms. It says, use the term anti abortion, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.800 not pro life, oh wow, but use the term abortion 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.840 rights for those who are in favor of abortion. So 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.440 pro lifers are stuck with the anti tag. Pro abortion 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:22.560 goes with rights. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:23.360 Cute. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.880 There was an AP memo in twenty twenty one instructing 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.720 all reporters staffers not to refer to the border crisis 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.440 as a crisis that's under Biden. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.880 Remember, and I could go into the numbers of border crossers, 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.640 but it's astounding. A few years before a memo went 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.480 out when Donald Trump was president and said few would 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.080 argue that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding, and. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:49.600 Again they are. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.400 We'll go ahead, the point being that this battle between 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.240 Trump's White House and AP is not just about Gulf 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:57.880 of Mexico. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.720 It's all this other strint and using the two pregnant 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:05.119 people instead of women, for instance, Congressman Tom McClintock next 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:06.200 gonna talk. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.360 Doge Armstrong and getty. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.680 Lots of confusion here. We should point out that Elon 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.560 Musk is not an elected official, not Senate confirmed to 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.399 run any agency and is asking employees to report outside 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.280 of their chain of command. And that is what these 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.280 unions are saying is essentially illegal. And now these unions 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.440 are suing and we learned about them amending an existing lawsuit. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.439 That hearing for that lawsuit against this email set by 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.080 Elon Musk is set for hearing this Thursday. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:36.960 Hilarious. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.879 The mainstream media is so concerned with the flow of 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.200 power and who has the right to do what when 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.400 it's cutting government jobs or it's the Trump administration versus 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.840 Joe Biden doing all kinds of crap that he wasn't 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.360 supposed to be able to do well, speak for yourself, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.600 I for one, am heartbroken at the whole reporting outside 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.000 the chain of command thing. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:55.880 Is that terrible? 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.120 To discuss this and the activities of the doge Fellas 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.440 and more. Please, welcome to the show. Congressman Tom McLintock 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.720 of the fifth District of California. If you don't know Tommy, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.800 he's often described as the gold standard for fiscal conservatism 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.639 in Congress. Tom, always a pleasure. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:11.040 How are you? 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.280 This is my pleasure. Thanks for having me back. 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.240 We're wondering where you are on the whole doage thing. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.159 And Elon telling federal workers they got to justify their 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.360 job with five things they did last week in all 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:21.960 of the hubbub. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.520 Well, it this a pretty simple situation. A new boss 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.320 takes over, he brings it an auditor. The auditor calls 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.680 in the staff and says, folks, I'd like to see 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:36.040 your expense account receipts, and the staff absolutely freaks out, Well, 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.040 what does that tell you about what's been going on 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.680 all that time? And this discussion about well, Musk is 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.159 an unelected official. Well, I've got news for these people. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.359 The only elected official in the entire executive branch of 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.160 our government is the president. All of the executive authority 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.800 is vested in the president, not some of it, all 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.160 of it. So under the Constitution there's no executive authority 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.439 that's independent of the president. Musk is acting under the 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.480 President's direction, as is every one of the some two 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.119 million employees in the executive branch. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:16.000 Not only that, but as you know, regulation and agency 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:17.760 overage is a big part of the effort, and I 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.399 don't think most Americans fully appreciate. Not only do we 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.080 have a fourth branch of government, the bureaucracy, it's not 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.160 in last place in terms of power. It's really important. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:28.240 Day to day. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.960 Well, it actually now passes ten times the number of 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.439 laws that the Congress passes, and not coincidentally, you have 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.280 about ten times a greater chance of being hauled before 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.399 an administrative law court than an actual Article three court 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.360 that respects all of your rights. Of this is entirely 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:51.720 contrary to the entire central architecture of the Constitution, the 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.440 entire vision of the American founders, which was to separate 0:19:55.720 --> 0:20:00.320 the three functions of government into three quite separate brand is. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.840 We all learned that in grade school, but it seems 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.439 more and more of us have forgotten. Is the debate 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:05.879 goes on. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.040 I'm going to throw you the all time fat softball 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:10.800 to a guy like you. 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:13.639 Is the government too big? 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.760 Well? Yes, the only thing who's keeping us afloat right 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.840 now is the fact that there are still capital markets 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.719 willing to lend us money. But the fact is, every 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.600 dime of our discretionary spending, that's the entire government, including 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.360 the Defense Department, every dime of that is now borrowed 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:37.399 of the interest on our thirty seven trillion dollars of debt. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.880 Just paying an interest on what we've already spent now 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.639 costs us more than the entire defense establishment. You know, 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.760 it was what about twelve or thirteen years ago now 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:53.760 that Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:58.760 warned that in his professional military judgment, the greatest threat 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:00.880 to our nation was the nation debt. And that's when 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.880 the national debt was about half less, in fact, less 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:05.240 than half of what it is right now. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.560 Would you agree that if we cannot successfully communicate that 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.560 to the American people before the disaster strikes, it's time 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:17.480 to abandon democracy and try monarchy again, because well, I mean, 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:21.320 it's not like you know, we've stepped in front of 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.440