Speaker 1: And broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong and Jatte and Geez.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 4: French Believe said they've been working around the clock to
Speaker 4: track down the suspects and last week's Louve Jewelry heist.
Speaker 4: Working around the clock, or as it's known in France,
Speaker 4: ten thirty to noon and then like two to three thirty.
Speaker 5: Yes, like critic criticize the French culture as being lazy.
Speaker 5: It's funny and accurate.
Speaker 3: True enough.
Speaker 6: Oh, speaking of foreign cultures, Jack, here's your headline of
Speaker 6: the day. China is testing restroom machines that make you
Speaker 6: watch ads in exchange for toilet paper.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah, oh my god. You want to
Speaker 3: tidy up, you gotta watch his ad first. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: need more. Well, here's another ad. Oh thirty seconds. China.
Speaker 6: You thought communism was bad, Now they're I'm inflicting this
Speaker 6: on us.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: Now that is I remember from like the only economics
Speaker 5: class I've ever had in my life, one that I
Speaker 5: took in college where you learned about elastic and inelastic products.
Speaker 5: Toilet paper is inelastic.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, you will pay what you need to pay.
Speaker 3: I will sit through every many ads. I gotta sit through. Wow,
Speaker 3: damn commies.
Speaker 5: So speaking of France, I wonder we were talking about
Speaker 5: this poll which I'm about to repeat, and a number
Speaker 5: of people who are extremely proud to be American? What
Speaker 5: is the poll in other countries? Your average Frenchman? Are
Speaker 5: they call him Jacques? Are they proud to be French
Speaker 5: or Brita or Spanish or Chinese or pick a country.
Speaker 5: I would love to know that.
Speaker 3: I don't have it. I don't really don't. I don't
Speaker 3: really have a guess.
Speaker 6: Well, and let's pull French French people and then immigrants
Speaker 6: and ask them the same people the same question.
Speaker 5: Gallup's been asking this question for a quarter of a century, now,
Speaker 5: how proud are you to be an American? And they
Speaker 5: only are putting in this graph extremely proud or very proud.
Speaker 3: It's the only.
Speaker 5: Group you really needed to include when they started doing
Speaker 5: the graph, because everybody was at like ninety percent. Republicans, Democrats,
Speaker 5: and Independents were all high eighties around ninety percent either extry.
Speaker 5: Sorry that was in nineteen fifty, right right after World
Speaker 5: War Two. Now, in two thousand to start this century,
Speaker 5: either extremely or very proud, not even including moderately proud.
Speaker 5: Extremely or very gets you to damn near for everybody.
Speaker 5: It is held at ninety percent. For Republicans, it has
Speaker 5: gone down to barely over half. For Independence, it's barely
Speaker 5: over a third now For Democrats who are extremely, very
Speaker 5: proud to be an American.
Speaker 3: I find that highly troubling.
Speaker 5: And the fact that it's that Republicans held steady through
Speaker 5: the Obama years, so they weren't basing it on.
Speaker 3: Who's president, which is a stupid way to base it.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's because Republicans would think we're not going to
Speaker 5: change whether I'm proud to be an American based on
Speaker 5: who's president.
Speaker 3: What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 5: Like, so we got a text, For instance, as an independent,
Speaker 5: I would say my pride for my country has gone
Speaker 5: down because of the way both parties now act so
Speaker 5: much like each other. Well, yeah, I'm not proud of
Speaker 5: our current state of politics. In fact, I think it's
Speaker 5: crappy and I'm not don't. I think our education system
Speaker 5: is a mess. I think our culture is headed in
Speaker 5: the wrong direction. But am I proud to be an
Speaker 5: America be up. Put me extremely? Do you have something
Speaker 5: higher than extremely?
Speaker 3: Put me down? From my friend?
Speaker 6: You have inadvertently reminded me of something I've said many times,
Speaker 6: and it's insidious. The idea that the United States of
Speaker 6: America is it's government. It's absolutely not true. It's the
Speaker 6: people of the United States. It's our constitution, it's our system.
Speaker 6: It's not our political parties. They exist within the US
Speaker 6: of A. They are not They do not define the
Speaker 6: US of A. They're just a part of it. And
Speaker 6: I'd rather stand up next to you.
Speaker 3: Yes, So how did we get here?
Speaker 6: I was expounding on my theory last hour, and there's
Speaker 6: more to it that the indoctrination of the neo Marxist class.
Speaker 6: And some of that's from you know, the Soviets and
Speaker 6: the Russians doing it on purpose, and the Chinese now,
Speaker 6: but also just radical leftists. The indoctrination that they've gotten
Speaker 6: into our schools has been successful. We've now got a
Speaker 6: couple a handful of generations of people who been brought
Speaker 6: up the only history they've gotten is the United States
Speaker 6: is evil. Here's a list of the evil things that
Speaker 6: have happened.
Speaker 3: That's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 5: My son has recently out of an American history public
Speaker 5: school class.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we let it happen, and I'm ashamed of that.
Speaker 6: Although you know, Judy and I were pretty involved in
Speaker 6: our kids' schooling, and it kind of crept in bit
Speaker 6: by bit.
Speaker 3: And then, as we.
Speaker 6: All know, as kids were doing online schooling during COVID,
Speaker 6: parents actually for the first time heard what was happening
Speaker 6: in the classrooms and were horrified by it.
Speaker 3: But this battle against it has just begun to wit.
Speaker 6: Back to the piece I mentioned about the Minneapolis public
Speaker 6: schools have ethnic studies is absolutely required. You got to
Speaker 6: take a bunch of it. And here's a class about
Speaker 6: the Mong people.
Speaker 3: Why why do you have to tell those classes?
Speaker 6: Well here, well, I'll tell you exactly why. So if
Speaker 6: you're taking a Mong studies class, you would think you'd
Speaker 6: learn about the Southeast Asian people's culture and history, right,
Speaker 6: maybe their involvement in the US Civil the Vietnam War,
Speaker 6: blah blah blah. So in Minneapolis, prepare you for life
Speaker 6: to go out and I don't know, support your family.
Speaker 6: But again, that's not why that class exists. In Minneapolis.
Speaker 6: High schoolers are instead taught lessons demonizing capitalism as a
Speaker 6: pillar of white supremacy alongside slavery and genocide in their
Speaker 6: class about Mong Studies. According to course materials obtained by
Speaker 6: this group defending Education, the Mong Studies course, which requires
Speaker 6: social justice activism as part of a final project, is
Speaker 6: just one of the Ethnic studies classes offered in Minneapolis
Speaker 6: public schools that push the so called anti racist agenda.
Speaker 6: Course materials describe ethnic studies as an anti racist tool,
Speaker 6: featuring themes like decolonizing education, and readings by anti racist
Speaker 6: activist Ibramex Kendy, who is both a con man and
Speaker 6: an America hating Marxist, made a lot of money. Though, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know, kidding from fools, idiots.
Speaker 6: So I'm reading about this some of these class descriptions.
Speaker 6: Let's see, is that the one I wanted to read?
Speaker 6: They all look kind of the same. Oh here you go, so,
Speaker 6: oh that's right. I meant to mention I heard this
Speaker 6: a number of years ago and was totally unaware of
Speaker 6: it that the schools of education, the colleges of education,
Speaker 6: is that was the seed of all this stuff seeping
Speaker 6: into universities and then high schools and elementary schools across
Speaker 6: the country. The leftists brilliantly and evillly targeted our educational system.
Speaker 6: Of course you would. You got to convince the kids
Speaker 6: to hate their country if you want to bring it down.
Speaker 6: So they successfully got their evil into the schools of education.
Speaker 3: Listen to this.
Speaker 6: Intro to Ethnic Studies Education and multi Multicultural Education. This
Speaker 6: is for grades eleven and twelve juniors and seniors in
Speaker 6: high school and you can earn up to six college
Speaker 6: credits for taking this. And it all has to do
Speaker 6: with heading into the field of education. Intro to Ethnic
Speaker 6: Studies Education is designed to look at the origin, development,
Speaker 6: and mission of ethnic studies education programs within the context
Speaker 6: K through twelve education in the United States.
Speaker 3: Okay, so what is that?
Speaker 6: You will learn how ethnic studies is an anti racist
Speaker 6: tool as counter story in humanizing pedagogy. You will identify
Speaker 6: the kinds of structural inequalities that are part of K
Speaker 6: through twelve institutions and the development of curriculum, as well
Speaker 6: as understand the concept of multidimensional identities and intersectionalities.
Speaker 3: Wow, blah blah blah, college credits a bunch of freaking gobbledegook.
Speaker 3: There's more.
Speaker 6: Multicultural education introduces prospective teacher candidates approaches of multicultural, anti
Speaker 6: oppressive education, including issues related to student, family, and community
Speaker 6: diversity based on race, culture, enguage, class, gender, sexual orientation,
Speaker 6: and ability. You will reflect on your own biases as
Speaker 6: they relate to oppression, privilege, and equity in schools and society,
Speaker 6: as well as formulate ways teachers can be agents of
Speaker 6: change in and with classrooms, schools, and communities.
Speaker 5: Wow, you got to get your kid out of that school.
Speaker 5: Not to get your kid out of your school. You'd
Speaker 5: be better off if they sat at home looking at
Speaker 5: YouTube videos about math and science than to be subjected
Speaker 5: to that. You're going to reflect on your own biases
Speaker 5: if you God, that makes me angry.
Speaker 3: And here's the and you can't.
Speaker 6: He can't connex Latins studies what that they offer. It's
Speaker 6: all about tearing down the system. That's what all this
Speaker 6: language means. I got so mad.
Speaker 5: I know I've told this story several times if you've
Speaker 5: hearn a but my my son's American history classes started
Speaker 5: this year, and he was so excited about it. He
Speaker 5: loves stuff like that. He's a history nut like his
Speaker 5: dad is, and he was so excited about getting into
Speaker 5: the Revolutionary War. George Washington, Tom Jefferson, all the different
Speaker 5: stuff and everything like that.
Speaker 3: No, maybe they got to it eventually. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I pulled him out of the class.
Speaker 5: They wrote the land Declaration the first day, explaining how
Speaker 5: we had stolen the land from the Indians and how
Speaker 5: awful we should feel about it.
Speaker 6: Had to that's what they did on day one, and
Speaker 6: had to give out their pronouns.
Speaker 5: That was their first day at school and went downhill
Speaker 5: from there as they learned more about the genocide that
Speaker 5: we committed against Native Americans.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised you didn't pull him day one, and he
Speaker 3: gave it a second day just to be sure.
Speaker 6: Gender Sexuality Studies students will explore the struggles, accomplishments, and
Speaker 6: culture of intersectionality of individuals within the LGBTQTIA plus community.
Speaker 6: Students will have the opportunity to investigate engrossing narratives, lectures, drawings, poems,
Speaker 6: and more as we engage in in covering the rich
Speaker 6: history of the queer community. This course encourages students of
Speaker 6: all identities to deepen their understanding of how intersectionality is
Speaker 6: their own life and uncovers the history of unequal systems
Speaker 6: of power and privilege and how they have been used
Speaker 6: to silence members of the queen community My God. Students
Speaker 6: will also learn about resilience, how the alphabet soup community
Speaker 6: has embraced resistance as a way to transform the communities
Speaker 6: in which they live.
Speaker 3: What grade is this?
Speaker 6: This is high schoolers ten through twelve public high school. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's required in Minneapolis. Required.
Speaker 5: The course sane and you know you can't. You should
Speaker 5: pay attention to the education your kids are getting, but
Speaker 5: you know you also should be able to count on
Speaker 5: sending your kid to a public school and things will
Speaker 5: be okay.
Speaker 3: You'd think you could, but you can't.
Speaker 6: So the course materials defending education uncovered for the Mong
Speaker 6: Studies course back to that is perhaps the best window
Speaker 6: into the Minneapolis public school systems approach to ethnic studies classes.
Speaker 6: In one section, power Struggles in Resistance, the class centers.
Speaker 6: Do you still think I'm paranoid when I say this
Speaker 6: is all foisted, honest by neo Marxists resistance to what well?
Speaker 6: The class centers on the pillars of white supremacy, a
Speaker 6: complete with a diagram equating capitalism with slavery and on
Speaker 6: par with war and genocide. Part of The class's final
Speaker 6: assignment requires students to engage in youth lead participatory action research,
Speaker 6: a convoluted name for social justice activism. It involves students
Speaker 6: identifying a problem perpetuated by the institutions and the logics
Speaker 6: of white supremacy. Remember, our whole system is white supremacy.
Speaker 6: You remember systemic racism. The kids are being taught to
Speaker 6: tear down the institutions of white supremacy, and our whole
Speaker 6: country is white supremacy.
Speaker 5: I keep thinking about my own kids, and you know,
Speaker 5: wanting to make sure they're not exposed too much of
Speaker 5: this crap. Dangerous and a waste of time. But you know,
Speaker 5: I gotta worry about the whole country, not just my kids, because.
Speaker 3: There's thousands of pounds, thousands of.
Speaker 5: Kids that are being taught this bulls and they're gonna
Speaker 5: be out.
Speaker 3: There, get up in the morning and come in and
Speaker 3: do this, and.
Speaker 5: They're going to be out there voting, in.
Speaker 6: Forming the future of this country. God, that is so frustrating.
Speaker 6: One final note. There's more, but we're out of time.
Speaker 6: Supplemental resources for the class include the article five Faces
Speaker 6: of Oppression, which actually cites Carl Efing Marx to argue
Speaker 6: that exploitation uses capitalism to oppress.
Speaker 5: That's incredible. Parents need to pay more attention to what
Speaker 5: they're teaching in their school. I'm glad I did for
Speaker 5: the school board. If I had just ignored it and
Speaker 5: assumed he was going to an American history class, I
Speaker 5: would never.
Speaker 2: Know the Armstrong and Getty shot.
Speaker 6: We're about to hear from a young lady in Portland,
Speaker 6: I believe. Tell us about her.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's probably early twenties, beautiful girl actually, but she's
Speaker 7: clearly sitting in a woodsy homeless encampment and clearly an addict. Yeah,
Speaker 7: do harm reduction people come out here and give you
Speaker 7: supplies like harm reduction.
Speaker 8: Like the clean syringes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of them.
Speaker 3: But then there's a few of them that came out
Speaker 3: in a vent and they start passing out stuff like
Speaker 3: pipes and snorting kids and like that. Why is making
Speaker 3: it so much easier and more comfortable for people to
Speaker 3: be like, oh okay, now I don't even know have
Speaker 3: to go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Stuff like that is definitely enabling.
Speaker 3: It doesn't help.
Speaker 7: It's enabling actually makes it more harmful because once.
Speaker 3: People get comfortable enough doing.
Speaker 2: Stuff a certain way, like why do anything else?
Speaker 3: So obvious?
Speaker 5: No, but back in the day, the original thing with
Speaker 5: needles would spread an HIV around. Okay, you could make
Speaker 5: an argument for that, But beyond that, what's the argument
Speaker 5: for the paraphernalia handing out hard to drug users?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean because you could get I don't know, a
Speaker 6: coal or herpes or COVID by sharing a straw you're
Speaker 6: snorting meth with.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't think it has anything with that. It's some
Speaker 5: sort of I don't know what it is, misplaced compassion.
Speaker 6: I guess, yeah, this is compassion, I think would be
Speaker 6: the answer. It's yet another great example of the feminization
Speaker 6: of America where people have completely lost track of the
Speaker 6: fact that you have to have negative consequences for bad behavior.
Speaker 6: You'll get more of it. That girl's like, no, you're
Speaker 6: enabling people. And she didn't make the point, but I
Speaker 6: thought she was going to say. And if you make
Speaker 6: it really comfortable for people to be addicted, they get
Speaker 6: more addicted and it gets harder and harder to get
Speaker 6: off the stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh, I had a story something.
Speaker 5: I had a story I was going to get to
Speaker 5: maybe I'll do it tomorrow about these rehabs that are
Speaker 5: ripping people off. Not only do the rehabs that aren't
Speaker 5: trying to rip you off fail, like ninety nine percent
Speaker 5: of the time, there's a whole bunch of them that
Speaker 5: are they're designed to rip you off.
Speaker 6: There, Well, that's funny, that's I've got a trio of stories.
Speaker 6: That's number one. Drug rehabs lower in patients for insurance money,
Speaker 6: then leave them on street.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So rehabs don't work when they're trying and they're legit,
Speaker 5: they've very rarely worked.
Speaker 6: These are just trying to steal your money. Huge number
Speaker 6: of scammers. Yeah, and then you got this headline, more
Speaker 6: marijuana users are crash gummies. High on pot drivers are
Speaker 6: contributing to more highway accident deaths. New study found that
Speaker 6: more than forty percent of drivers who died in car
Speaker 6: accidents in at least one US county over the last
Speaker 6: six years forty percent at elevated levels of THFC.
Speaker 3: In their Really, that's interesting, now, I say it is.
Speaker 5: Of course I need to know is that hire a
Speaker 5: lot by a lot than it used to be before
Speaker 5: it was legal.
Speaker 6: Over the last six years anyway, and then an article
Speaker 6: asking did pot make the Dallas ice shooter? You remember
Speaker 6: that a couple of weeks ago he was anti ice
Speaker 6: and he ended up killing some illegal immigrants. Did Pot
Speaker 6: make the Dallas ice shooter psychotic? He was a heavy
Speaker 6: pot user and was starting to develop psychotic symptoms. Heavy
Speaker 6: pot use absolutely makes psychosis more likely.
Speaker 5: Well, and pot's way stronger than it used to be,
Speaker 5: so it'd be exactly easier to get there. Well, that's trouble.
Speaker 9: The Armstrong and Getty show or Jack or show podcasts
Speaker 9: and our hot links the arm Strong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: It's the Armstrong and Getty replay.
Speaker 6: And we were talking about how even guys like us
Speaker 6: who are like super critical of the idea of becoming
Speaker 6: more detached from real life, having fewer real friends, fewer
Speaker 6: real relationships, having a computer girlfriend, and watching porn all
Speaker 6: the time.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's all incredibly unhealthy.
Speaker 6: But we were talking about how when you know Siri
Speaker 6: or grocor or I use chat ept for amount of
Speaker 6: oh my god, my Siri lit up.
Speaker 3: No, I don't want to talk to you, stop it.
Speaker 3: Let me alone, I would say, I was talking about you,
Speaker 3: not to you, stop it, And.
Speaker 6: How even guys like us have an emotional reaction when
Speaker 6: you have an exchange with you know who and they
Speaker 6: say a cheery thank you, or in Jack's case, said hey,
Speaker 6: if you really like that.
Speaker 3: Song, you gotta check out the live version. It's amazing.
Speaker 6: And in spite of ourselves, we have this emotional reaction
Speaker 6: to it as if it's a human being. And I
Speaker 6: don't think human beings can can resist that that attraction.
Speaker 6: I don't know how it would happen, especially the masses,
Speaker 6: because most people don't think about this stuff at all. Right, Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 6: so I was thinking, Katie, and this is why cracked
Speaker 6: myself up. I was gonna say, okay, everybody has to
Speaker 6: reveal their last three AI searches.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, And I looked at mine.
Speaker 6: And they are do I need a vent free gas
Speaker 6: insert for my gas fireplace? And it explained to me
Speaker 6: vent free and what that means and stuff? Also, what
Speaker 6: the hell is this currency? Saw a price that was
Speaker 6: listed in Indian rupees and I didn't recognize that the sign.
Speaker 6: But then this one, this is my third to last one.
Speaker 6: How many species of animals eat their young?
Speaker 3: Such a guy search?
Speaker 6: Well, remember I sent you that video of a big
Speaker 6: alligator eating a little alligator, right, And Katie, you replied,
Speaker 6: I could have gone the rest of my life without
Speaker 6: seeing that. I stand by that well. And I was
Speaker 6: going to reply the number of species that will eat
Speaker 6: their young or eat smaller members of that species, there
Speaker 6: are lots and lots of them, but I decided, no,
Speaker 6: she's a pregnant lady. You don't need to argue in
Speaker 6: favor of eating you're young. So I didn't excuse me.
Speaker 6: But that's why I was looking for. That turns out
Speaker 6: lots and lots of species, lots of them.
Speaker 5: So I just did mine and eliminating show stuff that
Speaker 5: I've done today, specifically for the show, just my own
Speaker 5: personal last three espresso with cream options because I was
Speaker 5: trying to figure out if people drank espresso with cream
Speaker 5: or not.
Speaker 3: Isn't that called something different?
Speaker 5: Meaning of a couple of letters in a text? Because
Speaker 5: this happens to me all the time, where a young person,
Speaker 5: usually my son, texts me something. It's just a couple letters,
Speaker 5: Now any idea what it means? So I have to
Speaker 5: go on GPT and figure out will you be home
Speaker 5: for dinner tonight?
Speaker 9: RF? Right?
Speaker 5: Exactly? Actually b FS for sure. Yeah, he's always hitting
Speaker 5: me with that. And then because I got lost the
Speaker 5: other day on this is who's a word? Who se
Speaker 5: But is that right? Because I have voice texted and
Speaker 5: it put on there and for some reason, you know,
Speaker 5: sometimes the word doesn't look right right, Yeah, and it turns.
Speaker 3: Out it's okay. But like just all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it hits you like, that's not right. I've never seen
Speaker 3: that before.
Speaker 6: Or if you say the words three times in a row,
Speaker 6: no longer sounds like a word to you. It just
Speaker 6: sounds like reflection the noises.
Speaker 3: Right. Yeah.
Speaker 7: My last three that are not work involved fall decorating ideas.
Speaker 7: Oh nice, pregnancy pain will say when the girls hurt,
Speaker 7: if you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Oh, gotch and Bube fairy comes to visit and sometimes
Speaker 6: it's uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're killing me.
Speaker 7: And convert this dog into a royal painting.
Speaker 3: Into a royal painting.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I took a picture of my friend's dog and turned
Speaker 7: it into like a dap a royal night.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's great.
Speaker 5: One of my searchings searches was what's canyon piercing? Because
Speaker 5: I heard so many reference at the other day and
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 3: Know what it was. That's can you say it on
Speaker 3: the air.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the it's above your butt cleft, the cleft
Speaker 5: there putting putting a bar through right above there.
Speaker 3: It's called a canyon peer. I guess it's kind of popular.
Speaker 5: It's like a step beyond the tramp tramp stamp if
Speaker 5: you ever are observing a woman from that angle for
Speaker 5: some reason.
Speaker 6: On pierced ladies, for some reason, you're a grand canyon
Speaker 6: if you will.
Speaker 3: It depends on the person. Your canyon is grand. Uh anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's a piercing insting.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's another thing my life could have done
Speaker 7: without Jack Canyon.
Speaker 3: One of my searches was asparagus storage tips. You are
Speaker 3: a fun guy. Wow, here you.
Speaker 5: Are on the stair light.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like bet in the circus. It's so
Speaker 3: much fun. All right, why don't we do this?
Speaker 6: Katie brought this to us speaking of children and that
Speaker 6: sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Does this need any set up? The little girl clips
Speaker 3: you like so much. She's arguing with her dog about
Speaker 3: her snacks. It's a golden retriever. Yeah, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 3: They say that is actually awesome. Oh my god, you're
Speaker 3: inside voice. Oh Is that what she said?
Speaker 7: Yeah, she said you your inside voice.
Speaker 6: God that is Oh no, I'm breaking out in hives.
Speaker 6: I'm addicted. I'm allergic to cute and.
Speaker 3: I'm having a reaction. Oh that is super cute. Oh
Speaker 3: that's spectacular. All right.
Speaker 6: Oh, I want to get into the insurance costs. And
Speaker 6: Bernie Sanders I agree with him for once, maybe later
Speaker 6: on in the hour. But in my looking at various
Speaker 6: major left to left center publications, there are several articles
Speaker 6: out today all saying essentially the same thing, and I
Speaker 6: wonder if it has something to do with mom Donnie.
Speaker 6: But they're all saying in Politico, the New York Times,
Speaker 6: Wall Street Journal, we gotta lose our left flank Democrats.
Speaker 6: They're crazy that we're running crack pot candidates.
Speaker 3: We've got to stop.
Speaker 6: And I came across this in the Journal some of
Speaker 6: their political writers, who are not as conservative as you
Speaker 6: might think, writing for the journal. But the headline is
Speaker 6: Democratic donors sit on sidelines as party schism persists. The RNC,
Speaker 6: the Republican National Committee, had eighty six million dollars in
Speaker 6: cash sitting around at the beginning of last month or
Speaker 6: this month, rather eighty six million it's twelve million for
Speaker 6: the DNC. The big donors are close in their checkbooks
Speaker 6: and sitting on their hands.
Speaker 3: Too many crazy people in your party.
Speaker 6: And what's amazing is how few people were willing to
Speaker 6: say that until recently.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and also big donors who, uh, there's plenty of
Speaker 5: capitalists who are Democrats, but oh, he's the chunk of
Speaker 5: the Democratic Party that is anti capitalism.
Speaker 3: They're probably not that excited to fund right right.
Speaker 6: And to return to the theme once again, the great
Speaker 6: feminization of America that we've been talking about for a
Speaker 6: couple of days, and how cancel culture is about ostracizing
Speaker 6: somebody who says something we don't like and you don't
Speaker 6: argued out with them, You cancel them. You declare them untouchable,
Speaker 6: You say anybody who goes to coffee with them as
Speaker 6: a bad person. A very feminine squeezing somebody out of
Speaker 6: the friend group thing. You combine that with the fact
Speaker 6: that on the left, especially women, tend to be more
Speaker 6: acceptance motivated than truths motivated. They want to be accepted
Speaker 6: in the group. So it makes perfect sense that it
Speaker 6: took a very long time for progressive or I should
Speaker 6: just say democrats who have that acceptance lens to stand
Speaker 6: up and say, excuse me, the group I'm in is wrong,
Speaker 6: And I think a lot of us agree. Those people
Speaker 6: have been running the show. They've been bullying everybody. They
Speaker 6: need to stop. Let's all stand up to them. Takes
Speaker 6: a while to do that on the left in a
Speaker 6: way that it doesn't on the right. Hell, we're arguing
Speaker 6: with each other all the time on the right, saying no,
Speaker 6: you're wrong, that's not true, or that's not.
Speaker 3: Going to work. The whole acceptance thing on the left
Speaker 3: doesn't permit that. I've been saying this for a couple
Speaker 3: of years.
Speaker 5: I have a lot of right leaning podcasts I listen
Speaker 5: to where the people regularly don't agree. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: like one of the things that makes the podcast. It's interesting.
Speaker 5: Are there such a thing on the left? I'm not
Speaker 5: aware of them.
Speaker 3: Where you have.
Speaker 5: You know a mainstream democrat and a progressive that don't
Speaker 5: agree on these subjects like happens in the right wing podcast.
Speaker 5: If you know them one push it my way. I'd
Speaker 5: love to I'd love to listen to it.
Speaker 3: I just think that's further proof of the of the
Speaker 3: premise that I can ever remember her name.
Speaker 6: Helen Andrews had in her Great Feminization, a piece that
Speaker 6: we talked about at length yesterday hour two of the show.
Speaker 6: If you want to grab the podcast Armstrong and Get
Speaker 6: on demand. But that's that's part of it is that women,
Speaker 6: generally speaking, I can find this really quickly. All cancelations
Speaker 6: are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do when
Speaker 6: there are enough of them to get in a given
Speaker 6: organization or field. Where is that it's just so well
Speaker 6: explained that women prize acceptance and cohesion there it is
Speaker 6: substance fits everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing
Speaker 6: the feminine over the masculine. And think about this in
Speaker 6: the context of moderate lefties standing up to far left lefties.
Speaker 6: Empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.
Speaker 5: On that one, couldn't you just go with the premise
Speaker 5: of the movie Mean Girls, just that with girls, you're
Speaker 5: just you're either part of the in group or you're ostracized. Right,
Speaker 5: that doesn't exist at the same level for guys at all.
Speaker 8: Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 6: Great reporting by Steve Williams. He posted it at RedState
Speaker 6: dot com. We can't get to the whole thing, so
Speaker 6: we'll post it at Armstrong and getdy under hot links.
Speaker 6: LA's latest housing scandal, the homeless industrial complex, unbelievable, he writes.
Speaker 6: The recent federal arrests tied to a senior housing project
Speaker 6: have exposed a pattern in a series of earlier transactions
Speaker 6: quietly approved by the city of La. Key to this
Speaker 6: scheme is the twenty twenty two purchase of four Extended
Speaker 6: State America hotels from Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm.
Speaker 6: These acquisitions, totally more than one hundred and eighty million dollars,
Speaker 6: were financed through Project Home key Gavin Newsom's California pandemic
Speaker 6: here a program to convert hotels into homeless housing, but
Speaker 6: analysis shows the city was not addressing.
Speaker 3: Homelessness they sit almost empty.
Speaker 6: Instead, it created a real estate windfall for politically connected
Speaker 6: developers and what to Wall Street's most powerful landlords. The
Speaker 6: four Extended State properties were sold for staggering amounts far
Speaker 6: far above market value.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: Each was bought from Blackstone, which it acquired the Extended
Speaker 6: Stay America brand in twenty twenty one through a venture
Speaker 6: blah blah blah. Less than a year later, Blackstone was
Speaker 6: cashing out of its La holdings, not to private investors,
Speaker 6: but to city hall, flush with emergency homeless funds. According
Speaker 6: to records, each purchase included architectural fees, zoning, CEQA reviews,
Speaker 6: environmental assessments, and a two percent administrative fee, all build
Speaker 6: to taxpayers, totally more than four point two million dollars
Speaker 6: in added costs besides the incredibly bloated prices. Three years later,
Speaker 6: most of these hotels remain largely empty. They're part of
Speaker 6: a growing portfolio of home key funded properties that have
Speaker 6: failed to house significant numbers of homeless residents despite costing
Speaker 6: taxpayers billions.
Speaker 3: Then he writes sound familiar because it is.
Speaker 6: Back in August, I reported how Torrence officials stopped La
Speaker 6: County from spending thirty million dollars on a hotel valued
Speaker 6: at just ten million dollars, a near copy of the
Speaker 6: scheme the city of ran three years earlier. The steps
Speaker 6: were nearly identical. Find a hotel, inflate its value, declare
Speaker 6: an emergency purchase using homelessness funds, move tax payer money
Speaker 6: quickly before anyone asks questions. But the problem was the
Speaker 6: city of Torrens is run by Republicans, and suspecting that
Speaker 6: the county's price was inflated, the city commission an independent
Speaker 6: third party appraisal which confirmed that the true value was
Speaker 6: not thirty million dollars, it was ten million dollars. Under
Speaker 6: public scrutiny, the deal collapsed, with the Republican led city
Speaker 6: government preventing another multi multimillion dollar misuse of public funds.
Speaker 6: And he goes into describing of how it's all built
Speaker 6: on secrecy, secrecy. Everything moves quickly, the figures are never
Speaker 6: known to the public. Project home Key was designed for speed,
Speaker 6: not scrutiny. Cities are allowed to bypass competitive bidding and
Speaker 6: public hearings if they labeled their purchases emergency acquisitions.
Speaker 5: How did the Bernie crowd get away with the tax
Speaker 5: the rich rich not paying their for fair share all
Speaker 5: the time without ever getting into this stuff. This is
Speaker 5: where the money is, Bernie AOC. You want more money
Speaker 5: for all the stuff you care about.
Speaker 3: This is where it is right, right, absolutely true.
Speaker 6: And you know what really pisses me off is that
Speaker 6: the media, they have completely lost their taste for finding
Speaker 6: and disclosing government waste or lavish programs like this because
Speaker 6: they're all generated by the left, and so they think, well,
Speaker 6: homeless is a terrible problem. I don't want to be
Speaker 6: seen as criticized them. I mean, they may have overpaid
Speaker 6: a little, but it was an emergency, after.
Speaker 5: All, after all, architect fees. It's already existed for a
Speaker 5: very long time. I'm sure it's fine.
Speaker 6: Well, and hack Law, which is the acronym for the
Speaker 6: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, acts as
Speaker 6: broker administrator, handles all the transactions internally, then builds the
Speaker 6: city for staffing and overhead millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 3: You know, this reminds me of how much time I got, Michael,
Speaker 3: depends on how you kept.
Speaker 5: Now we got three minutes, okay, so similar to this.
Speaker 5: I heard this story twice over the weekend, just coincidentally,
Speaker 5: from people that work in schools in California. How much
Speaker 5: food they're wasting at their school. Somebody brought it up,
Speaker 5: and then another person because during the pandemic, somebody was
Speaker 5: able to jam through the no, no, no, everybody should get
Speaker 5: breakfast in lunch. It used to be just like need based,
Speaker 5: and then somebody decided the crisis now everybody. And so
Speaker 5: it continued after the pandemic's over, as these programs always do.
Speaker 5: And these teachers, who I assume are probably lefties, were
Speaker 5: horrified by how much food they're throwing away every day.
Speaker 5: They said, like half the kids bring their own lunch,
Speaker 5: or don't eat lunch or breakfast or show up.
Speaker 3: They don't eat breakfast at home.
Speaker 5: And they make all of these meals for every single
Speaker 5: kid in the school, breakfast and lunch, and most of
Speaker 5: them they throw away. And I wanted to say to them,
Speaker 5: but I didn't want to jump into the story. The
Speaker 5: spending is the point. It's not about anybody getting any food.
Speaker 5: It's about spending money. And it's the same with this
Speaker 5: homeless thing. When will liberals understand the spending is the point,
Speaker 5: not fixing your causes that you care about.
Speaker 6: You know Steve Williams who wrote this article. You read
Speaker 6: his mind or vice versa. He writes, every wasted dollar
Speaker 6: is one that could have gone toward mental health treatment,
Speaker 6: addiction recovery, job training, new housing construction. Instead, those dollars
Speaker 6: flowed to brokers, bureaucrats and Blackstones balance sheet. And then
Speaker 6: then he points out to your point, When the leaders
Speaker 6: of Torrents rejected the thirty million dollar extended state proposal,
Speaker 6: they were immediately hammered with accusations being anti homeless, right
Speaker 6: or or insensitive to the almlessness problem.
Speaker 3: Mean conservatives.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like, I assume these teachers can come up with
Speaker 5: all kinds of places that money ought to be spent,
Speaker 5: whether it's books or whatever. The hell tutors to make
Speaker 5: education better, raise your hand and say, hey, we're throwing
Speaker 5: away food like crazy. This program was designed, probably by
Speaker 5: the Department of Agriculture, just to get money flowing various places.
Speaker 3: It had nothing to do with feeding anybody. How do
Speaker 3: you not get this right?
Speaker 6: Invent an emergency, appropriate, appropriate, just wildly excessive amounts of money,
Speaker 6: and then accuse anybody who calls you on it of
Speaker 6: being anti child or anti homeless, or Islamophobic or whatever else.
Speaker 5: The first person I heard say this, Norah Rothman, wrote
Speaker 5: this in the National Review. It's such a great line.
Speaker 5: The spending is the point. Yes, with all of these things,
Speaker 5: you get so far off track. If you start thinking
Speaker 5: about solving a problem, there is no problem.
Speaker 3: The spending is the point. People get this money.
Speaker 6: Place, Stacy Abrams getting one point eight billion dollars or
Speaker 6: whatever it was for green inner city initiatives.
Speaker 3: My ass was just a handout
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