Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 1: This is the Armstrong and Getty Show Live.
Speaker 2: Yes, not best of We're back live this Wednesday for
Speaker 2: the twenty third the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: This morning, under the tutelage of temporary general manager Clarity,
Speaker 2: Jack is out at least part of today, so I
Speaker 2: get to do one of my theme general managers instead
Speaker 2: of a specific general manager, specific human being. I should say,
Speaker 2: I've been thinking about as I look over a bunch
Speaker 2: of different stories and groups of stories that I really
Speaker 2: want to talk about today. And if there is a
Speaker 2: theme emerging, it is this, and as usual Donald J
Speaker 2: is more or less at the center of it. But
Speaker 2: whether it's Pete Hegseeth at the Defense Department that's getting
Speaker 2: a lot of attention among the chattering classes. The tariff slash,
Speaker 2: trade ups and downs, stock market skyrocketing yesterday after going
Speaker 2: in the toilets the previous day, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Getting kind of used to it, aren't we The immigration stuff,
Speaker 2: and a couple of different other topics, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: bumps and junkies on the streets, school choice, and in
Speaker 2: particular the battle with the major university. Clarity is a
Speaker 2: little hard to find because and we're all used to
Speaker 2: this at this point, you're either screeching twenty four hours
Speaker 2: a day that Trump is Satan. If Satan got together
Speaker 2: with a female Hitler and they had an unholy evil baby,
Speaker 2: that's Trump, or Trump is always right in every way,
Speaker 2: even when any reasonable human being would say, whoops, that
Speaker 2: was a misstep. He probably shouldn't have done that. Whereas
Speaker 2: the truth is usually in between, and it's much more interesting.
Speaker 2: And so we're gonna try to bring you clarity about
Speaker 2: a handful of different topics, and we'll figure out in
Speaker 2: what order in a moment or two, because they're all
Speaker 2: so interesting. Obviously, if you know the show I Joe
Speaker 2: Getti m on a g hod against the neo Marxist
Speaker 2: woke indoctrination our kids are getting from the time they
Speaker 2: step into pre kindergarten. As it turns out, I've been
Speaker 2: saying k through pH D for the longest time. There
Speaker 2: is a story out of Is it a Maryland, I'll look,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. It's one of your blue Eastern states
Speaker 2: that have lost their minds, where they are indoctrinating the
Speaker 2: tiny little kids, the pre k kids into the woke
Speaker 2: doctrine at age three and four in a preschool.
Speaker 1: I know it's an obscenity.
Speaker 2: Is it is absolutely worth having a g hot against
Speaker 2: this stuff. I came across an author that generally I
Speaker 2: like and admire a little bit.
Speaker 1: He's what's his face, It doesn't matter. He's the guy.
Speaker 1: He's always writing about Stoicism.
Speaker 2: He's put out like eleven books about the Stoic philosophy
Speaker 2: and stuff, and it's really good, and I like the
Speaker 2: Stoic philosophy. I'm a fan. But this guy had a
Speaker 2: piece in I think the New York Times, I think
Speaker 2: piece were he claimed that any claim of Neo Marxism
Speaker 2: in education these days is just the stupid kneed. You're
Speaker 2: in a kind of cliche of the right and there's
Speaker 2: nothing to say here. And I thought, oh, my god, brother,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I can read your stuff anymore. You're blind.
Speaker 2: You have these ideas that dominate education. You're supposed to
Speaker 2: be teaching how to add and subtract, and they've got
Speaker 2: the rainbow and the genderbread person and explaining how you
Speaker 2: know people of color aren't allowed to add in America because.
Speaker 1: The slavery are some nonsense.
Speaker 2: This guy's trying to claim that this stuff is just
Speaker 2: some sort of paranoid dream of the right, and it's
Speaker 2: just very disappointing. Whether he's deliberately blinded or ease of
Speaker 2: that point of view, I don't know. But we're definitely
Speaker 2: still at the stage of this battle where we're drawing
Speaker 2: people's attention to the issues at hand, which is fine,
Speaker 2: more than willing to do that. But the battle will
Speaker 2: be long, and it will be chaotic, and there will
Speaker 2: be times that perhaps our side, I'm assuming you're more
Speaker 2: or less on the same side ideologically. If you're not,
Speaker 2: that's fine, feel free to drop a note explaining where
Speaker 2: we're wrong. But those of us who are on the
Speaker 2: side of a much more traditional read and write, rhythmetsic
Speaker 2: education and not indoctrination into neo Marx's garbage, there are
Speaker 2: going to be missteps and courts that say, no, you
Speaker 2: can't do that. In that way, because Trump is trying
Speaker 2: to do what we're talking about in a very Trumpian way,
Speaker 2: suddenly and dramatically and stirring things up and stirn up
Speaker 2: a bunch of dust, and then trying to get a
Speaker 2: settlement within the chaos, which is his negotiating style.
Speaker 1: And there will be.
Speaker 2: Moments where, Hm, that's not gonna work, and probably wasn't
Speaker 2: a great idea.
Speaker 1: I mean, for instance, trying to deny Harvard its tax
Speaker 1: exempt status.
Speaker 2: You may be shocked by this, but I think that's
Speaker 2: a mistake, and we'll get into a little detail about
Speaker 2: that later. The reason being just very very briefly, it
Speaker 2: grants the executive ranks for presidents specifically think Obama and
Speaker 2: the Tea party organizations. It grants the administration way too
Speaker 2: much power to say to the irs, Yes, that group
Speaker 2: and that group and that college, deny their tax exempt status.
Speaker 2: There are four oh one C three or five oh
Speaker 2: one C three, whatever it is. This is why I
Speaker 2: hire an accountant, deny them their status because they are
Speaker 2: not under kingly favor, and the left has abused the
Speaker 2: hell out of that. And so I find myself on
Speaker 2: the side of Congress needs to do its job and
Speaker 2: limit that sort of abusive executive power because if we
Speaker 2: if we permit it on the right, the left is
Speaker 2: going to just do it like crazy. And I know
Speaker 2: there's a certain point of view that's like, you know,
Speaker 2: they take the low road all the time, and there
Speaker 2: are virtually no repercussions. So we're going to take the
Speaker 2: low road until we win. I don't think it's time
Speaker 2: for that yet. I think we kick Congress and it's
Speaker 2: behind get them to limit executive power in a way
Speaker 2: that it's fair handed for both sides, you know, and
Speaker 2: keep appointing reasonable conservative judges, not conservative politically that.
Speaker 1: Always come to an outcome.
Speaker 2: I like conservative as in the understand the three branches
Speaker 2: of government and what their jobs are and don't overreach.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that will be one of the topics to
Speaker 2: address today that I hope you'll find interesting. Matt Tayibe
Speaker 2: one of my favorite authors, even when I don't just
Speaker 2: when I don't agree with him, just because he's he's
Speaker 2: able to getting back to the whole Trump delusion syndrome
Speaker 2: or you know, people who believe he's right every single
Speaker 2: second of the day. Tayibe will praise Trump lavishly when
Speaker 2: he's right. And he'll say loudly when he thinks he's wrong.
Speaker 2: And his piece recently about the divorce between the federal
Speaker 2: bureaucracy and big time colleges is you know, long, long,
Speaker 2: long overdue. And he is absolutely honest in pointing out
Speaker 2: that while some of the things that Trump administration is
Speaker 2: doing to try to reign in the colleges might be
Speaker 2: a little over certain lines and maybe we need to
Speaker 2: reel it in a little bit, he is absolutely brutal
Speaker 2: and honestly describing how perverse and one sided universities in
Speaker 2: the United States have become. So we'll get to that,
Speaker 2: among other things. Anyway, glad you're here, Thank you for
Speaker 2: tuning in. Jack will be joining us as possible as
Speaker 2: he has got the respiratory butt kicker doujore Just nasty, Katie,
Speaker 2: do you here we go with a little on air
Speaker 2: medical diagnosis, one of our specialties. You said, it sounds
Speaker 2: kind of similar to what your mom and pop had, right.
Speaker 1: Almost to a t.
Speaker 3: I mean they were sore throat, a bunch of crap
Speaker 3: in their lungs, coughing a lot, and that's basically what
Speaker 3: Jack's been talking about. And theirs lasted for weeks.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not good. Ye yeah, was it ever named?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: They went from a cute bronchitis to possible pneumonia, back
Speaker 3: to bronchitis to upper respiratory infection.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, yeah you are I the all purpose term
Speaker 2: for you got some sort of microbe and it's it's
Speaker 2: making it hard to breathe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the wheezing and the coughing. Just they're still
Speaker 3: coughing a little bit. And it's been over a month.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, yeah, I've had a version of that, the
Speaker 2: ol you've felt good for five six weeks weeks and
Speaker 2: you're still coughing.
Speaker 1: Deal. Yeah, and just you know, just a little hint.
Speaker 2: And I will certainly not to harass our co hosts
Speaker 2: since he's not here to defind himself. Some people on
Speaker 2: Earth are hypochondriacs. In the minute they have a sniffle,
Speaker 2: they act like they're dying. Some people are much more stoic.
Speaker 2: Back to stoicism probably misuse of the term, but anyway,
Speaker 2: if perhaps they are the sort who come from a
Speaker 2: family of Iowa farmers, where you show up and do
Speaker 2: the work no matter how bad you feel, and you
Speaker 2: don't complain. Blah blah, blah blah blah much. Perhaps you
Speaker 2: don't take illnesses seriously enough. I would suggest if you
Speaker 2: get this one, you understand people are getting pretty sick
Speaker 2: from it. M M. What's interesting is nobody's even asking
Speaker 2: the question, is it COVID A variant?
Speaker 1: Is it COVID? Which is good?
Speaker 2: I guess we'll beyond that until doctor Fauci goes to
Speaker 2: work at the Wuhan lab again. Anyway, all right, let's
Speaker 2: begin the show officially according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 1: Here we go. The show starts at mark.
Speaker 4: I was born in Brooklyn, the same place where Donald Trump's.
Speaker 1: Family comes from. His father and my grandfather were builders
Speaker 1: together in Brooklyn. Yeah, even when he was much younger,
Speaker 1: you knew that he was going to go places.
Speaker 2: That's Chuck Schumer singing the praises of Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump.
Speaker 2: That was from The Apprentice in two thousand and six,
Speaker 2: which I don't want to horrify anybody, was nineteen years ago.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, let me, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: was never a.
Speaker 2: Great guy at math carry the three good Lord. Two
Speaker 2: thousand and six was nineteen years ago. II kamba, Oh
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Time?
Speaker 2: March is on. Doesn't it all right? Katie has her
Speaker 2: headlines coming up. We've got all sorts of good stuff
Speaker 2: squeeze in this hour. I hope you can stay with us.
Speaker 2: Hedgehogs are disappearing in the UK Live Team coverage coming
Speaker 2: up a little bit later on, among other stories we'll
Speaker 2: be covering today. I just saw that that audio. Are
Speaker 2: they really well, that's disturbing. I think are hedgehogs?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll talk about it. When we talk
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Let's figure out who's reporting what it will leave plenty
Speaker 2: of time.
Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2: Katie Well, it's just like, I mean, I've become aware
Speaker 2: spending time in South Carolina that our medillos, while a
Speaker 2: fascinating looking beast, and Texans can certainly relate to this,
Speaker 2: are incredibly destructive. They dig up your lawn and then
Speaker 2: they dig under your foundation. Oh real stuff, they're they're
Speaker 2: oh yeah, they're destructive little bastards. And I just the
Speaker 2: hedgehog is a cute little roly poly furry.
Speaker 1: Looking thing, right, yes, but but do the Brits oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. Sorry on a side, so.
Speaker 2: Years ago, when I just moved to northern California. I
Speaker 2: was playing golf with Mike. I'm not even sure Mike's
Speaker 2: still with us, but a wonderful guy and uh and
Speaker 2: I was trying to connect with them. And it was
Speaker 2: the first time we played golf together. And some deer
Speaker 2: kpered by on the very pretty golf course we're playing,
Speaker 2: and I said, oh my god, They're so graceful, aren't they?
Speaker 2: And he said, what they're beep beep, rats with hooves.
Speaker 1: They eat all my flowers. I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't work out right, make it graceful, rats with hoofs.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. The Brits think hedgehogs is rats
Speaker 1: with the fur. I don't, well the rats have for
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I don't, all right, Joe, And then he shot
Speaker 2: it to you right in front of me, out of
Speaker 2: your meanness.
Speaker 1: No he didn't know. I'm sorry, Katie. Back to you.
Speaker 3: From MSNBC. Education Department plans to restart debt collections for
Speaker 3: defaulted student loan.
Speaker 2: Borrowers, yes, having inexplicably been suspended for years and years
Speaker 2: and years because of COVID.
Speaker 3: From The New York Times, China has an army of
Speaker 3: robots on its side.
Speaker 1: In the tariff war. I actually glanced at that story.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Oh no, it's just they're they're mentioning major
Speaker 3: investments in factory equipment and artificial intelligence giving them the
Speaker 3: edge over us.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I came across a really really interesting throw piece about
Speaker 2: how we lost our manufacturing edge, and they talked about
Speaker 2: the automotive industry a lot, and I.
Speaker 1: How do I express this briefly?
Speaker 2: One of the overarching themes is timing, and nobody talks
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 1: If you have a.
Speaker 2: Gigantic, mature industry fifteen years later or twenty five years later,
Speaker 2: upstarts are going to be able to move much more
Speaker 2: swiftly and creatively than the giant established conglomerates with labor
Speaker 2: agreements with big unions and that sort of thing. Part
Speaker 2: of it is just timing. But anyway, back to you.
Speaker 1: More on that later from the Washington Times.
Speaker 3: Under Trump, border catch and release has dropped ninety nine
Speaker 3: point ninety nine percent.
Speaker 2: From Moortion, Oh whoopsnow no, actually he's so good at
Speaker 2: immigration there's nobody to round up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, More on that to come, including really interesting perspective
Speaker 2: on what the left was saying when their guys were
Speaker 2: in office, completely different.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's a shock from ABC.
Speaker 3: According to the FBI, seniors lost four point eight billion
Speaker 3: dollars to scammers in twenty twenty four alone.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Oh this is such a problem, and this is not
Speaker 2: as cold as it sounds. Is the only way to
Speaker 2: get beyond this to have folks who are not hip
Speaker 2: to the whole internet scammer. Everybody's trying to steal all
Speaker 2: the time culture of ours when they pass away. That's
Speaker 2: the only way we're going to get beyond this. I
Speaker 2: don't know, Katie, I don't know if you've ever heard
Speaker 2: this story. I was talking to some FBI agent instead
Speaker 2: a thing I did years ago, and they're talking about
Speaker 2: a woman had been scammed out of like half life
Speaker 2: savings by a smooth talking telephone, you know, scammer guy.
Speaker 2: This is back when it was mostly on phones, and
Speaker 2: they were investigating it talking to her. She was fully
Speaker 2: aware of what had happened to her. They are sitting
Speaker 2: in the living room, the phone rang, and after a
Speaker 2: while they wandered into the kitchen to see what she
Speaker 2: was doing. She was getting scammed again. She was falling
Speaker 2: for it again.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so what do you do? I don't know.
Speaker 3: From the New York Post, gen Z grads say their
Speaker 3: college degrees are a waste of time and money as
Speaker 3: AI has infiltrated the workplace.
Speaker 1: A lot of truth to that.
Speaker 3: And finally, the Babylon Bee after the food die ban,
Speaker 3: fruity pebbles to be changed to whitey pebbles.
Speaker 1: Whitey pebbles.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the comparing contrast between various popular
Speaker 2: products in the US and in Canada that's banned some
Speaker 2: of these diyes ages Ago, Yes, they look fine.
Speaker 1: Jack always said, Oh, they're just not quite as lurid.
Speaker 2: They look less like tropical fish and more like colors
Speaker 2: that actually occur in nature. I'm not super up on
Speaker 2: the food dye science. It can't be doing us any
Speaker 2: good now. All right, so much to talk about, My goodness,
Speaker 2: the list is long.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to get started. Glad you're here.
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Speaker 5: The UK announced plans to improve its environment and hopes
Speaker 5: to restore at least one point two million acres of
Speaker 5: wildlife habitat to protect a rare species like hedgehogs and
Speaker 5: red squirrels, because if those die out it could mean
Speaker 5: the end of the traditional English breakfast.
Speaker 2: Wow ends up being a shot at British food, which
Speaker 2: is admittedly yeah, way down, way down the ladder of
Speaker 2: world cuisines, towering only above the Scots from what I understand,
Speaker 2: not that I'm much of a world traveler.
Speaker 1: So there's your hedgehog story. Not a lot of detail
Speaker 1: to it, Katie.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you could dig into the whole vanishing hedgehog crisis
Speaker 2: in Britain.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm all over at excellent. There you go. Live
Speaker 1: team coverage coming up. So a first a scene setter.
Speaker 2: This is the practically unwatchable NBC Nightly News, Stephanie.
Speaker 4: Gosk more than two hundred educational institutions signing a statement
Speaker 4: protesting the Trump administration's efforts to reshape higher education in
Speaker 4: the US. The statement calls the government's tactics unprecedented overreach
Speaker 4: and political interference. The statements released coming just hours after
Speaker 4: Harvard became the first school to sue the federal government
Speaker 4: for freezing two point two billion dollars in research funds.
Speaker 4: The lawsuit accuses the government of using the funding as
Speaker 4: leverage to gain control of academic decision making.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just wanted to set the scene a little bit,
Speaker 2: and we'll be talking about colleges more specifically later on
Speaker 2: in the show, but I wanted to talk about elementary
Speaker 2: education at least a little bit. So here's here's the situation,
Speaker 2: and tactics matter because if say I got a kid
Speaker 2: and the next door neighbor kid is bullying my kid,
Speaker 2: and I go over to talk it over with the
Speaker 2: kid's parents and say it's got to end. But instead
Speaker 2: of talking it over, I just go over and punch
Speaker 2: the wife and say, how do you like it?
Speaker 1: Okay, my kid was getting bullied.
Speaker 2: That's a legitimate problem that needed to be fixed.
Speaker 1: But now I'm the bad guy and that bully.
Speaker 2: It ain't gonna get fixed because everybody's gonna be fixated
Speaker 2: on what I just did and this, so you.
Speaker 1: Can't do that. Yeah, they're going to focus on the
Speaker 1: wife punching for sure. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I couldn't decide whether I was going to kick the
Speaker 2: dog in this scenario or punch the wife.
Speaker 1: I would never raise my hand to a woman. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you get the point.
Speaker 2: You gotta be careful because if you overreach, then and
Speaker 2: anybody who's familiar with Saul Olenski's rules for radicals knows this.
Speaker 1: They try to make you the bad guy. They try desperately.
Speaker 1: It's called a decision dilemma.
Speaker 2: It's when the protester comes up and screams right in
Speaker 2: your face through a bullhorn until you can't take it
Speaker 2: anymore and you punch them. Then you notice that they've
Speaker 2: all got their phones out and are all videoing you.
Speaker 2: In the carefully edited version video of you punching them
Speaker 2: makes you into the bad guy, and they win the day.
Speaker 2: They're desperate to get you in a position to do that,
Speaker 2: so you have to be tactically smart. Anyway, One more
Speaker 2: scenes that are before we get into the substance. Up
Speaker 2: until very very recently, a lot of America would hear
Speaker 2: DEI and they would think, oh, yeah, diversity. I'm in
Speaker 2: favor of that. Equity sounds like equality, and I've been
Speaker 2: taught to be in favor of that an inclusion.
Speaker 1: How can I be against inclusion?
Speaker 2: And they had everybody convinced that this neo Marxist philosophy,
Speaker 2: which is actually just a tool of takeover of institutions
Speaker 2: because if they can pin the original sin of slavery
Speaker 2: on you, and you're thinking, I was born one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five years after it ended.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: You're still part of the patriarchy, white supremacy culture, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, sixteen nineteen project blah blah blah. So you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'll do it.
Speaker 1: You tell me to just tell me what you want
Speaker 1: me to do and and stopped calling me a racist.
Speaker 2: So a lot of America was in that attitude, and
Speaker 2: so they were winning like crazy, to the point that
Speaker 2: they've taken over vast swaths of the American education complex.
Speaker 2: So that's where this starts. You know, not long ago
Speaker 2: when a lot of people, including us, started fighting against this,
Speaker 2: and the Trump administration is right now. So the Trump
Speaker 2: administration recently sent a letter to states nationwide with the
Speaker 2: demand verify that your schools are not engaging in illegal diversity,
Speaker 2: equity and inclusion programs or risk your federal funding because
Speaker 2: they're racially discriminatory.
Speaker 1: Not to mention neo Marxist, but.
Speaker 2: Well, not surprisingly at all, several states have pushed back
Speaker 2: like crazy. For instance, New York State, we will not
Speaker 2: give in the misleading and damaging myths about diversity, equity,
Speaker 2: and inclusion work. Okay, all right, So they've gotten away
Speaker 2: with their own absolutely misleading and damaging myth about what
Speaker 2: they're doing, but so many people bought it.
Speaker 1: Now they're being called on it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We've
Speaker 1: seen the reality of what you're doing.
Speaker 2: You're trying to tear down that the pillars Western civilization.
Speaker 2: This isn't about diversity. Well, they're not going to go
Speaker 2: down without a fight. So here comes the fight you got.
Speaker 2: The General Counsel in Wisconsin's's education department love Wisconsin, but
Speaker 2: it's politics like Illinois, my home state, dominated by the
Speaker 2: urban areas, lunatic, lefty urban areas that, because of the
Speaker 2: numbers involved, you know, in a democracy, dominate the vast
Speaker 2: swaths of Wisconsin that are perfectly sane, good, reasonable Midwestern people.
Speaker 2: Actually reminds me of California too, for that matter. But anyway,
Speaker 2: so the General Council in Wisconsin's Education department said that
Speaker 2: letter that the Trump administration sent might be unconstitutionally vague.
Speaker 2: New York went back, there are no federal or state
Speaker 2: laws prohibiting the principles of DEI. Yes, there are of
Speaker 2: course there are. It's hell, DEI is against everything this
Speaker 2: country stands for. But they're clever. They've they've cloaked it.
Speaker 2: They've they've they've put lipstick on the pig of that
Speaker 2: it is and made it sound like some sort of
Speaker 2: noble undertaking. Anyway, So President Trump's attempt to reshape American
Speaker 2: inde has sparked a hell of a pushback from Harvard
Speaker 2: talked about that a little bit. Resistance is also emerging
Speaker 2: in K through twelve schools, where practices I'm quoting now
Speaker 2: I think this is the Wall Street Journal editorial. No,
Speaker 2: it's Matt Barnum in the yell Wall Street Journal. Ah,
Speaker 2: scrolling back to where I was. Uh sorry, So resistance
Speaker 2: is also emerging in K through twelve schools, where practices
Speaker 2: have been slow to change, and many Democratic officials are
Speaker 2: challenging Trump's edicts in court. They are going to fight it. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Republican leaders are cheering Trump's crackdown. For instance, Tom Hornet,
Speaker 2: Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, said quote, DEI has no
Speaker 2: place in education or society, and I've been working diligently
Speaker 2: to get it out of schools. So you've just got
Speaker 2: a big battle forming up blue states versus the Education Department,
Speaker 2: which maybe we don't distrimantle quite yet, because.
Speaker 1: It's a great way to fight, at least for now.
Speaker 2: Linda McMahon staying the job in telloy telling you so,
Speaker 2: that is going to be just a battle royale for
Speaker 2: a very long time. Not surprisingly, Cally, Unicornia has a
Speaker 2: state Attorney Generals suing over the cancelation of some of
Speaker 2: the spending. LA School System has not shifted its policies
Speaker 2: in response to Trump. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo has said, caught
Speaker 2: between California law, which bans discrimination on gender identity. In fact,
Speaker 2: as you know, you can't even tell if you're a teacher,
Speaker 2: you can't tell a kid's parent. Hey, Johnny says he
Speaker 2: wants to be known as Jenny now and is claiming
Speaker 2: to be transgender. I think you need to be aware
Speaker 2: you're forbidden by Gavin Newsom state tell that. But California
Speaker 2: is doubling down too on the DEI stuff. So anyway,
Speaker 2: But there are a couple other notes that are more
Speaker 2: encouraging in the K through twelve world. For instance, the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court heard just yesterday. Oh and guys, I was
Speaker 2: so busy. I forgot if we can get as much
Speaker 2: audio as possible of the oral arguments before the Supreme
Speaker 2: Court yesterday on the Montgomery County Gender Bending Kids case.
Speaker 2: That was the big oral argument yesterday. Montgomery County, Maryland
Speaker 2: is not letting parents opt their kids out of this
Speaker 2: super progressive, radical gender theory education stuff. For instance, imagine
Speaker 2: this is Ashley Maguire in the National Review. I'm going
Speaker 2: to quote on and off here, but imagine if you're
Speaker 2: four year old at preschool was given a book with
Speaker 2: the intersex flag, drag queens, references to underwear, and this
Speaker 2: is part of this is a search and find word list.
Speaker 2: Intersex flag is on the word list underwear, leather.
Speaker 1: Xo XO, and drag queen.
Speaker 2: This is from a preschool class, and the parents are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna do this stuff, you've got to let
Speaker 2: me know, and you've got to let me opt out.
Speaker 2: And this radical Montgomery County, Maryland school district has said no, no,
Speaker 2: you're not going to opt out anything. We're not going
Speaker 2: to tell you what we're teaching, and you don't have
Speaker 2: an option to opt out of it, no matter you're
Speaker 2: religious or moral concerns, whether you're a Catholic, a Jew,
Speaker 2: you're a Muslim, you're a devouting evangelical Christian, I mean,
Speaker 2: and never mind whether it's age appropriate or has any
Speaker 2: freakin educational value to begin with this crap. But in
Speaker 2: Machmood versus Taylor, which is the name of the case
Speaker 2: of that helps, religious parents are asking the highest court
Speaker 2: to hold the Maryland School District of policy uns constitutional.
Speaker 2: They argue that the policy violates the parental rights to
Speaker 2: educate their children on sensitive matters about human sexuality according
Speaker 2: to their faith without interference from the state. They're not
Speaker 2: even asking the school district to remove the books from
Speaker 2: the classroom or ideological sexual material from instruction, which I
Speaker 2: believe they ought to do yesterday. They're merely asking for
Speaker 2: the right to be notified and opt their children out,
Speaker 2: which is a long standing precedent in our public schools
Speaker 2: with regard to sex education.
Speaker 1: And this stuff is just so radical.
Speaker 2: Compared to the you know, testicles, ovaries, you know uterus
Speaker 2: stuff that we've all took. But getting back to Ashley's
Speaker 2: piece in the National Review, quote, my home County has
Speaker 2: bizarrely dug in the book list is part of a
Speaker 2: broader initial in the district focused on pre K through
Speaker 2: fifth grade titled building Community with LGBTQ plus affirming picture Books.
Speaker 2: According to slides from that initiative, which were presented to
Speaker 2: teachers and obtained by one new news outlet, teachers have
Speaker 2: been you know what, it's easy to pass by that phrase.
Speaker 1: One news outlet.
Speaker 2: Was able to obtain slides from this district wide initiative
Speaker 2: like they had to go under deep cover and sneaking
Speaker 2: at night and find the locked file cabinet. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: And because they try to keep this stuff secret, I mean,
Speaker 2: if that isn't a.
Speaker 1: Proof of guilt, has there ever been?
Speaker 2: Because you hear this fair amount when you get into
Speaker 2: this radical gender bending ideology in schools, you hear a
Speaker 2: lot of whether official policy or just teachers saying, you
Speaker 2: don't have to tell your parents about this. In fact,
Speaker 2: don't tell your parents about this. They might not understand it.
Speaker 2: So let's keep this between us. A time where it's
Speaker 2: ever appropriate for a non parental adult to say to
Speaker 2: your kid.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's keep this a secret from your parents.
Speaker 2: That is sick and that is what that's the entire
Speaker 2: school district's official policy.
Speaker 1: The good news.
Speaker 2: The justices of the court, aside from the radical leftists,
Speaker 2: seemed very sympathetic to the parental arguments in this yesterday
Speaker 2: during the oral arguments, and we will bring you some
Speaker 2: of that audio as soon as we can get it
Speaker 2: later on in the show. But anyway, this could be
Speaker 2: a really landmark case in this topic. I went on
Speaker 2: so long about this, we don't have time for this now.
Speaker 2: I'll try to get to it later. But Ohio has,
Speaker 2: like Arizona and a couple of other states. Texas is
Speaker 2: going big on this too, and Florida. Yeah, Florida a
Speaker 2: serious school choice for parents to opt out of their
Speaker 2: local government school that is not teaching the kids and
Speaker 2: or indoctrinating them into radical ideologies. Ohio is having some
Speaker 2: wonderful success with school choice programs.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to that a little bit later on.
Speaker 2: We have mail Bag our freedom loving Quota of the day,
Speaker 2: both coming up in seconds, hoping you can stick around.
Speaker 2: Coming up next hour, the immigration situation and everyone's favorite
Speaker 2: Maryland father, old kilmar Abrego Garcia the true story behind
Speaker 2: his status.
Speaker 1: Does that affect the way you see the situation? Probably not. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that next hour. Here's your freedom loving
Speaker 1: quota of the day from.
Speaker 2: Eric Hoffer, the great American author a couple of his classics,
Speaker 2: The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, Really wise guys,
Speaker 2: one of Reagan's favorite writers. Anyway, Eric Hoffer wrote the following,
Speaker 2: Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus,
Speaker 2: people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to
Speaker 2: find a new content, not only by dedicating themselves to
Speaker 2: a holy cause, but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.
Speaker 2: A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both. Boy,
Speaker 2: does that not characterize some of the angry left or
Speaker 2: vandalizing Tesla's or torching the dealerships or whatever. Oh, and
Speaker 2: I want to talk about that Minnesota guy who the
Speaker 2: progressive prosecutor is not going to punish in any way
Speaker 2: for causing rip tens of thousands of dollars of damage.
Speaker 2: Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one, so true. Mailbag.
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Speaker 2: Com kind of a hodgepodge today, as we were off
Speaker 2: for the last couple of days for various reasons, partly
Speaker 2: centered around the fact that various people's kids are on
Speaker 2: spring break. Anyway, Mike writing in about the San Jose
Speaker 2: Mercury News claiming, quote, criminalizing homelessness won't fix the housing shortage,
Speaker 2: or what other people say about the lifestyle isn't criminal,
Speaker 2: and he says we categorize all sorts of lifestyles as
Speaker 2: a criminal. Jeffrey Dahmer's lifestyle was definitely criminal.
Speaker 1: Who he hung out with, who he.
Speaker 2: Stalked, who he ate, definitely a criminal lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Oh. J.
Speaker 2: Simpson's lifestyle was at least one point, at one point
Speaker 2: definitely criminal, stalkingsac slashing and butchering her and her companion,
Speaker 2: then lying about it as a lifestyle. Gang banger is
Speaker 2: definitely living in a criminal lifestyle. Heck, the Sicilian mob
Speaker 2: had a class your lifestyle, but it was still very
Speaker 2: much a criminal lifestyle. So lounging about, not being constructive,
Speaker 2: trashing parks and regions, taking mind altering drugs in public,
Speaker 2: and defecating, Yeah, that's a criminal lifestyle. It's funny how
Speaker 2: the left pretends that the you know, the kind of
Speaker 2: the most obvious part of the bums and junkies that
Speaker 2: they're living on the streets is just an unfortunate choice,
Speaker 2: and they try to separate it from all the other
Speaker 2: things that make it so obnoxious, not to mention that
Speaker 2: the fact that there are and have always been laws
Speaker 2: against the post camping in the park for obvious reasons. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's a criminal lifestyle. They're breaking laws. That's how you
Speaker 2: can tell. Thank you, Mike. This note from John, Let's say, oh,
Speaker 2: this is harshly critical of Trump. Trump's policies are socialist.
Speaker 2: High tariffs, which are taxes, are now a new easy
Speaker 2: money policy, cutting interest rates, which will further drive up inflation.
Speaker 2: We've spent years railing against easy money, but now that
Speaker 2: Trump's tariff policy is a disaster, we're suddenly supposed to
Speaker 2: love it. And Powell is a major loser. What is
Speaker 2: this third grade cheers? Okay, we'll take dissent here. It's fine, guys,
Speaker 2: writes Fred. We need a term for transgender extremists, nihilists,
Speaker 2: transgender extremists. Trantifa is pretty good, violent radical transgender lunatics.
Speaker 2: Trantifa moving along sires C says, I saw a blurb
Speaker 2: on TV that RFK Junior is going to hold a
Speaker 2: pressor about food dies and additives. So how long before
Speaker 2: the leftists who've been shrieking about this for years will
Speaker 2: come out and protest their removal and come out in
Speaker 2: favor of food dies. It'll be interesting to see if
Speaker 2: trump dearrangement syndrome goes that far.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we don't have time for this. It's a great.
Speaker 2: Email about how the child star of yesteryear is now
Speaker 2: the child internet star. It's not on a sitcom anymore.
Speaker 2: The kid is on some Instagram feed or whatever. Really
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