Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2: Getty arm Strong, and Jetti and Hee Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 3: Tag Seth said China was quote incredibly preparing for an
Speaker 3: invasion of Taiwan, with Chinese forces staging regular drills around
Speaker 3: the island and the use of force has not been
Speaker 3: ruled out.
Speaker 4: It's amazing to me what stories get attention and what
Speaker 4: stories just don't grab people's attention. But yeah, Hexath gave
Speaker 4: a speech over the weekend to our Asian partners in
Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal version of it certainly grabbed my attention.
Speaker 4: A little quote from Hexath to be clear, any attempt
Speaker 4: by communist China to conquered time one by force would
Speaker 4: result in devastating consequences for the Indo Pacific in the world.
Speaker 4: We're not going to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses
Speaker 4: is real and it could be imminent, and saying that
Speaker 4: we will allow it, it will not happen on Trump's watch.
Speaker 4: We have repositioned some sort of anti ship killing missiles
Speaker 4: close by, to which China said, that's really really awful.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't be doing that, But.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is some serious bluster between the two
Speaker 4: most powerful countries in the world that at some point
Speaker 4: are going to go to war. I was just.
Speaker 5: Reading those rating about those anti ship munitions that are
Speaker 5: so interesting. They're mounted on remote controlled trucks. They need
Speaker 5: no humans, so somebody in a bunker far away drives
Speaker 5: these trucks around. They fire off missiles, then quickly relocate
Speaker 5: so they can't be hit by return fire. It's really
Speaker 5: quite interesting. We're positioning them in the Philippines and similar areas. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the Sabers are a ratlin, no doubt.
Speaker 2: As the Wall Street Journal rights.
Speaker 4: In recent years, China has built up the world's biggest navy,
Speaker 4: a title once held by the United States. You know
Speaker 4: who held it before the United States? Great Britain. Great
Speaker 4: Britain ruled the seas for a very long time. Then
Speaker 4: it's been US. Is it going to be China in
Speaker 4: the next century. Well, that's what China is hoping.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not sure you'd like their placing of the
Speaker 5: seas anyway.
Speaker 2: I've found this.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've been on this jihad for a long time,
Speaker 5: but more and more open coverage of the fact that
Speaker 5: we the United States and the Western world in general
Speaker 5: fell for an absolutely brilliant plan by the Chinese back
Speaker 5: in the late sixties early seventies. They needed help, primarily
Speaker 5: financially in trade from the Western world, and came up
Speaker 5: with an absolutely brilliant plan. Let's pretend that we want
Speaker 5: to westernize and move away from communism at our own
Speaker 5: pace and liberalize in return for our investment from the West.
Speaker 5: And this was absolutely deliberate plan. They knew all along
Speaker 5: that it was not sincere although there have been some
Speaker 5: reformers in you know, the last several decades in China
Speaker 5: who are actually like, you know, maybe that's not such
Speaker 5: a bad idea, but then a shijin thing always comes along,
Speaker 5: and so they duped us into opening up the relationship
Speaker 5: with China, which was bad enough, but a great deal
Speaker 5: of Left America still hasn't caught on to it, and
Speaker 5: they are so motivated by the need to show openness
Speaker 5: to other cultures. There's Zeno files, as I often put it,
Speaker 5: they still haven't caught on the China as a dire
Speaker 5: threat to the United States in our way of life.
Speaker 5: For instance, on universities told the story many times. Counterintelligence
Speaker 5: people came out to a university campus said you've got
Speaker 5: a bunch of Chinese spies on the campus. University president said,
Speaker 5: get off my campus, you racists, and that attitude persists headline.
Speaker 5: Harvard has trained so many Chinese Communist officials they call
Speaker 5: it their party school. Not like party school, let's get
Speaker 5: wasted and get laid the Communist parties school. Oh that's
Speaker 5: not as good a party not nearly. Yeah, in your
Speaker 5: rank of party schools. This is something totally different, Asu,
Speaker 5: don't worry, You're safe.
Speaker 4: Who is that comedian? I wish I could remember his
Speaker 4: name because I'd like to give him credit. So funny,
Speaker 4: But anyway, he has a thing he does on a
Speaker 4: piece of paper He lists best parties. At the bottom
Speaker 4: was search party Wow.
Speaker 5: The Kennedy School of Government at Hava. It is favored
Speaker 5: by party cadres seeking career boosts. US schools and one
Speaker 5: prestigious institution in particular, have long offered up and coming
Speaker 5: Chinese Communist officials a place to study governance. Can you
Speaker 5: imagine teaching Communist party officials about governance so they can
Speaker 5: twist it into totalitarianism, a practice that the Trump administration
Speaker 5: could end with a new effort to keep out what
Speaker 5: it says our Chinese students with Communist Party ties. But
Speaker 5: for decades the party has sent thousands of mid career
Speaker 5: and senior bureaucrats to pursue executive training in postgraduate studies
Speaker 5: on US campuses, with Harvard University a coveted destination, describe
Speaker 5: as some in China as the top party school outside
Speaker 5: the country. Alumni of such programs include a former vice
Speaker 5: president and Chinese leader, Shijin Ping's top trade negotiator these days.
Speaker 5: Maybe you heard, well, we talked about it. Last week.
Speaker 5: Secretary of State Marco Rubi announced US to authorities will
Speaker 5: tighten criteria for visa applications from China and aggressively revoke
Speaker 5: visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the
Speaker 5: Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
Speaker 4: Well, remember last week that new president of Harvard gave
Speaker 4: a big speech at the graduation ceremony talking about how
Speaker 4: we have always educated people from around the world, and
Speaker 4: we had recorded and he got a one miss ovation. Right,
Speaker 4: Because it is absolutely a requirement of being a lefty
Speaker 4: in America that you must worship all things foreign and
Speaker 4: loathe all things American and domestic.
Speaker 2: Or at least most of them.
Speaker 5: It's just it's so nakedly approval seeking and so stupid.
Speaker 5: American universities have played leading roles in shaping China's overseas
Speaker 5: training programs for mid career officials for years and years
Speaker 5: and years. Other US colleges have offered executive training the
Speaker 5: Chinese Communist officials, including Syracuse, Stanford, the University of Maryland,
Speaker 5: and Rotgers, where my dad taught many many years ago.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. So it's just amazing. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 5: I was thinking earlier when you were talking about and
Speaker 5: Pete Hegsuths was talking about the perhaps impending invasion of Taiwan,
Speaker 5: and they're running those millet that Chinese are running those
Speaker 5: military exercises that are like everything but pulling the trigger.
Speaker 5: And can you imagine if the United States, let the Japanese, say,
Speaker 5: in nineteen you know, put a bunch of aircraft carriers
Speaker 5: out in the Pacific and then fly planes right at
Speaker 5: Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 2: Then they said, hey, it's.
Speaker 5: An exercise, just an exercise, and then they turned around
Speaker 5: and went back to the you know, over and over again,
Speaker 5: we'd be said, no, it's okay, they're just doing an exercise.
Speaker 5: I mean, oh, good lord. And by the same token,
Speaker 5: you've got a hostile communist regime and we're educating their
Speaker 5: officials in how to govern.
Speaker 2: All right, moving along, I think the point's been made
Speaker 2: in terms of the exit speech.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll bring that up with Mike Lyons when
Speaker 4: we talk to him in hour three our military advisor.
Speaker 5: Listen to this, will you the economic contributions of international
Speaker 5: students that we You know, I'm primarily interested in Chinese students,
Speaker 5: but the share of international students from China is twenty
Speaker 5: three percent at Harvard, So about a quarter of all
Speaker 5: the international students are Chinese. At Harvard, it's fifth fifty percent.
Speaker 5: At Cornell, it's forty seven percent At Columbia. Wow, let's
Speaker 5: see you see Berkeley appears to be a third.
Speaker 2: Why don't you give me the number?
Speaker 5: They just it's a barograph and some of them are labeled,
Speaker 5: some of them or not. But just to give you
Speaker 5: an idea of why they put up with this, the
Speaker 5: economic contributions of international students at top us universities quote
Speaker 5: unquote top universities in twenty twenty three, Columbia got nine
Speaker 5: hundred million dollars in twenty twenty three from foreign students
Speaker 5: nine hundred million. You see Berkeley five hundred and seventy
Speaker 5: six million.
Speaker 2: Well, if you're getting half a trillion dollars, you ain't
Speaker 2: gonna want to end that.
Speaker 5: Uh is that half a trillion? Yeah, a thousand million
Speaker 5: is a billion. Well no, so it's it's almost a billion.
Speaker 5: Half a billion. What I remember what the number was
Speaker 5: now I'm confused. Columbia was nine oh three, Berkeley was
Speaker 5: five seventy six. Johns Hopkins. That's half a billion.
Speaker 2: There you go, half a billion.
Speaker 5: University of Chicago for twenty eight, Duke three eighteen, Yale
Speaker 5: two forty one, Northwestern three hundred and twenty four million
Speaker 5: dollars in a year. You know, I love capitalism, I do.
Speaker 5: Great is good, Gordon.
Speaker 2: Gecko, look it up.
Speaker 5: But when it leads you to betray your country and
Speaker 5: and risk its security, I mean and risk it. Not
Speaker 5: like some theoretical the Belgians may rise up. This is
Speaker 5: our greatest, most powerful geopolitical foe. We are we are
Speaker 5: begging for a comeuppance.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joetty The Armstrong and Getty Show. Jack
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom woman of the day.
Speaker 5: It's from Andre Breton, French writer and poet, co founder,
Speaker 5: leader and principal theorist of Surrealism.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 5: He said, there is nothing with which it is so
Speaker 5: dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. I might rephrase
Speaker 5: that is, don't take liberties with liberty, protect it fiercely. Yeah,
Speaker 5: mailbag boot bootah.
Speaker 4: Kind of like you should believe in moderation, including uh,
Speaker 4: you know, moderation, in moderation exactly.
Speaker 2: It's one of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he drops a note mailbag at Armstrong Egidi dot com.
Speaker 5: Jessin Wiley, Texas rites on the Supreme Court transgender ruling
Speaker 5: the other day and New York Times magazine coverage of it.
Speaker 5: The problem isn't the transgender folks. It's that much like
Speaker 5: string theory and experimental jazz, most Americans can't grasp it
Speaker 5: with their dumb, cheeseburger brain. That's her characterization of the
Speaker 5: New York Times characterization. That's pretty funny, and I actually
Speaker 5: read part of it and I'm digging into it. I
Speaker 5: must have a cheeseburger brain because I have tried to
Speaker 5: understand string theory and quantum physics and I just cannot
Speaker 5: get it. Yeah, I gave up more or less at
Speaker 5: the beginning. So frequent correspondent JT and Liver war on
Speaker 5: the topic of a crazy, crazy Iran. Iran has sworn
Speaker 5: to destroy Israel and all the Jews. To that end,
Speaker 5: Iran has empowered and sponsored several nation states salts attack Israel.
Speaker 5: Iran sanctioned tens of thousands of missile attacks from Lebanon
Speaker 5: and Gaza, attacked there's Raeli ships at sea, and of
Speaker 5: course all the atrocities on October seventh were facilitated and
Speaker 5: condoned by Iran. Iran also pays families of suicide bombers
Speaker 5: a pension if their children killed Jews and a suicide attack.
Speaker 2: Many people would call.
Speaker 5: Any or all of these actions acts of war, but
Speaker 5: apparently Iran didn't actually declare war. In fact, Iran claims
Speaker 5: Israel's attacks are the declaration of war. What does it
Speaker 5: say about Iran that they swear to destroy Israel, get
Speaker 5: four nation states to attack Israel, culminating on October seventh,
Speaker 5: then blame Israel for daring to fight back. Question, how
Speaker 5: do you deal rationally with people and countries that are irrationally.
Speaker 4: Saw somebody pointing out yesterday that during the Iran Raq
Speaker 4: War in the eighties and which a million people died,
Speaker 4: Iran was using children to send out into minefields to
Speaker 4: try to clear minefields. That's how they would do it
Speaker 4: and tell their parents, you know, they're going to be
Speaker 4: martyred and they'll be welcome by However, that whole thing works, Yeah,
Speaker 4: after the dead, So send the kids out there to
Speaker 4: get their legs blown off, figure out where the mines are.
Speaker 5: Nice culture. Yeah, indeed, his ps is. Following your discussion
Speaker 5: about how China has so many big successful apps that
Speaker 5: are stealing data from every customer, I realized at least
Speaker 5: one day devastating way that China could use that info
Speaker 5: on a coordinated attack against the US if they ever
Speaker 5: decided to. China could take all the credit card information
Speaker 5: they're supposed to be keeping safe, secret, and secure. They
Speaker 5: could flood the e commerce world with hundreds of millions
Speaker 5: of false charges, false money transfer requests, and other general
Speaker 5: bogus financial interactions. Imagine the chaos and confusion if, along
Speaker 5: with our attacking our power, water, and communications, they also
Speaker 5: used all those credit cards to make bogus purchases and
Speaker 5: cash advances.
Speaker 2: Don't trust China, He.
Speaker 4: Says, that would be the most annoying attack that I
Speaker 4: can imagine. There are other attacks where I think I'd
Speaker 4: rather you blew up my house or my car. Then
Speaker 4: you gave me a bunch of paperwork that I'm going
Speaker 4: to have to straighten out over months. Yeah, if the
Speaker 4: water is shut off, the need to straighten out a
Speaker 4: false cash advance is fairly minor concern. But uh, let's see,
Speaker 4: uh skip around. How about side show, Bob, I haven't
Speaker 4: heard anyone mention the threat of potential terrorist attacks here
Speaker 4: linked to Iran. We've been told at large numbers of
Speaker 4: suspicious Middle Eastern citizens across the border, So wouldn't it
Speaker 4: make sense that their Iranian handlers would give them the
Speaker 4: green light if they perceive were declaring war on them?
Speaker 2: This is my fear.
Speaker 5: Brings up another question, why haven't we heard of any
Speaker 5: deporte of Middle Eastern or Chinese people? And is the
Speaker 5: DHS and their leadership being too myopic about their mission.
Speaker 5: It's a discussion for another day. Tom from SoCal Jack
Speaker 5: John the topic of Biden's military parade. I'm confused as
Speaker 5: to why the left is so outraged by Trump's military
Speaker 5: parade honoring the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the Army.
Speaker 5: After all, Biden had his own paray to US military
Speaker 5: equipment in twenty twenty one. He just outsourced it to
Speaker 5: the tallyban in Afghanistan. Ooo, boom headshot. I still represent history,
Speaker 5: Tom and sok right in the term and that one
Speaker 5: hurt right. Jay from San Jose writes on the illegal
Speaker 5: round up question, You're missing an important point. The reason
Speaker 5: normal illegals are being rounded up in California is that
Speaker 5: California is a sanctuary state. If I just could pick
Speaker 5: up the criminals from the jails, these other raids would
Speaker 5: not be necessary. From truth to that excellent point, Jay,
Speaker 5: Thanks for the note. Powlo pointing out in the New
Speaker 5: York Times that the Sean Hubler New York Times Reporter
Speaker 5: wrote an article some rocks and bottles have been lobbed,
Speaker 5: and there were a couple of people picked up with
Speaker 5: molotov cocktails, but the quote unquote violence has been modest
Speaker 5: and local authorities have contained it.
Speaker 2: Why do you put quotes around violence?
Speaker 5: If I smash a cop in the head with a
Speaker 5: chunk of concrete. That's quote unquote violence. This to the
Speaker 5: New York Times, Shame on you.
Speaker 4: From the same crowd that used to say words are violent.
Speaker 4: Speech is violence. Put quotes around actual violence, that's troubling.
Speaker 5: Let's see this from Damon and beautiful San Jose, California.
Speaker 5: Listening to the conversation about California's idiotic new ruling on
Speaker 5: three medals, one for boys, one for girls, and ones
Speaker 5: for trans girls. Why not call out the need for
Speaker 5: equity and inclusion and insist on the fourth podium for
Speaker 5: trans boys.
Speaker 2: I can only assume that's because.
Speaker 5: There aren't any newly minted boys who ever win anything
Speaker 5: because of the obvious.
Speaker 2: Advantage males have over females.
Speaker 5: In athletics, and anybody but a lunatic knows it.
Speaker 2: That is an excellent point.
Speaker 5: Nobody elected Elon Musk a big, beautiful Jack and Joe.
Speaker 5: Maybe I haven't seen it yet. Where all those angry,
Speaker 5: concerned citizens or are yelling about Elon not being elected
Speaker 5: when you have undeniable evidence that during the Biden presidency,
Speaker 5: the duly elected president was not running the executive branch
Speaker 5: at all. He wasn't appointing powerful advisors, the powerful advisors
Speaker 5: were operating without his knowledge. But you're not worried about that,
Speaker 5: are you?
Speaker 4: Another aspect of this story that just is not being
Speaker 4: drilled down enough.
Speaker 5: Jeff with a G on Natural writes, good morning, old
Speaker 5: simple Jack and Big Freedom, longtime consumer, your glorious talk product.
Speaker 5: Minor correspondent for subjects such as killer clowns on the
Speaker 5: Edge of the Woods updates. I've also been married to
Speaker 5: a liberal in all caps for the past decade. When
Speaker 5: it comes to politics, we rarely see ida. But we're
Speaker 5: also not in our twenties, and we didn't start our
Speaker 5: journey by establishing our political beliefs. Yeah, that deside. She
Speaker 5: threw me for a loop yesterday. They were taking a
Speaker 5: trip to the zoo. She jumps in the car, had
Speaker 5: a little soft rock on the radio, and what I
Speaker 5: heard next will shock you. The better half gets in
Speaker 5: the car, here's one court of music and immediately says,
Speaker 5: throw on some Armstrong and Getty. Oh so this is
Speaker 5: a great day for America. Jents, right stuff, Wow, that's beautiful.
Speaker 5: A vesta, The Little Woman.
Speaker 1: The Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show,
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Speaker 5: I will go off on a screen, but it's disturbing
Speaker 5: the extent to which America's law schools have swung left,
Speaker 5: I mean way left, a lot of them. And you
Speaker 5: see the fruit of that in things like this. The
Speaker 5: do you remember the big judge election in Wisconsin that
Speaker 5: Elon Musk weighed in on and raised a bunch of
Speaker 5: money for the conservative and he got shellacked. And so
Speaker 5: because they have Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin and now
Speaker 5: they have a four to three liberal majority there, well,
Speaker 5: they ruled against a Catholic charity's nonprofit.
Speaker 2: It had to do with tax exemption and who gets it.
Speaker 5: Okay, I won't get into the fact that the case
Speaker 5: doesn't really matter, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court said, now
Speaker 5: you don't get your tax exemption. Sonia sort of mayor
Speaker 5: wrote the nine to decision for the Supreme Court, overturning
Speaker 5: the Wisconsin Supreme Court and administered a firm handed Scotus
Speaker 5: spanking to their utterly ridiculous, ridiculous ruling.
Speaker 4: There needs to be some sort of law that if
Speaker 4: you get overturned nine by the US Supreme Court, you
Speaker 4: have to disband that lower court and start over.
Speaker 5: Or you're on double secret probation, and if it happens
Speaker 5: a second time, yeah, you gotta mind your p's and q's.
Speaker 5: The State court, well, I won't read you what the
Speaker 5: state court held, but just as sodom Or writes in
Speaker 5: her opinion for the unanimous reversal that if a state
Speaker 5: law treats two religious soup kitchens differently depending on the
Speaker 5: amount of prayer and proselytizing before lunch, that's a violation
Speaker 5: of the First Amendment because they essentially said, yeah, this
Speaker 5: Catholic charity isn't doing enough Catholic stuff to earn their
Speaker 5: tax exemption. They're just doing kind of general charitable work.
Speaker 5: But she says, this is Sodo my or. It is
Speaker 5: fundamental to our constitutional order that the government maintained neutrality
Speaker 5: between religion and religion. There may be hard calls to
Speaker 5: make in policing that rule, but this is not one
Speaker 5: wow yeah again nine nothing decisions. You have to disband
Speaker 5: the lower court. That's a new I want that in
Speaker 5: the constitution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 5: The Wall Street Journal editorial board summarizes with don't expect
Speaker 5: this nine O SmackDown to temper the unrestrained ambitions of
Speaker 5: Wisconsin's four left wing justices. But in the debate to come,
Speaker 5: keep in mind how they're mangling of religious liberty, lost
Speaker 5: even justice Soda Mayor.
Speaker 4: By the way, we'll get back to the biggest story
Speaker 4: in America over the last four days. Coming up kickoff
Speaker 4: hour two, we're gonna talk to a California congressman Republican
Speaker 4: who's a hardcore against the lack of order in Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: fabulous Kevin Kylie. So we'll get back into that. But
Speaker 4: I was just reading this. Tim Sanderfer retweeted, if you
Speaker 4: think it's a good idea to protest deportation by waiving
Speaker 4: the flag of the country you don't want to live
Speaker 4: in or be deported to, you're a political idiot. Yes,
Speaker 4: I would agree, you left that country. In some cases
Speaker 4: you really really don't want to go back, then don't
Speaker 4: wave that flag.
Speaker 2: That'd be my suggestion. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So getting back kind of sort of to the
Speaker 5: law school theme, but just kind of sort of during.
Speaker 2: The whole.
Speaker 5: Well apocalypse, we ought to have a term for the
Speaker 5: post George Floyd period of time where everything that was
Speaker 5: left the extremist A lot of people were afraid to
Speaker 5: even argue against you sat there and took your euroacist
Speaker 5: training at work. You said, yes, that obvious man is
Speaker 5: a woman and should be in women's sports if he
Speaker 5: is a woman, for fear of backlash because the left
Speaker 5: was on the front foot and just whoop an ass wow.
Speaker 4: Period roughly twenty nineteen to Trump's election will be a
Speaker 4: period that historians do need to put a name on it.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was all woke.
Speaker 5: George Floyd Covid Trump January sixth insurrection, all the craziness
Speaker 5: of the twenty four election all. I mean, that's all
Speaker 5: got to fit into a period because the whole thing
Speaker 5: inflation that I don't know what they're gonna call it,
Speaker 5: but it's it's a period of time to have lived through,
Speaker 5: no doubt, as we all know.
Speaker 2: That's funny. It just clicked into my head.
Speaker 5: I refer to it over and over again in kind
Speaker 5: of cumbersome ways, and I need a quick summaration, summation.
Speaker 2: Does anybody have a suggestion.
Speaker 5: You can email us mail bag at Armstrong and Geddi
Speaker 5: dot com. Maybe we'll squeeze it into a mailbag coming
Speaker 5: out of there.
Speaker 4: It deserves a name. That period nineteen through twenty four
Speaker 4: like the Great Depression. It deserves a name, the wocopolyps.
Speaker 4: That's kind of cumbersome anyway. So all of this was
Speaker 4: along aside.
Speaker 5: Or along setup to the fact that some absolutely fundamental
Speaker 5: principles that nobody has ever argued with suddenly became taboo
Speaker 5: to say, like working hard is white supremacy, and showing
Speaker 5: up on time and blah blah blah, and the idea
Speaker 5: of the best person gets the job is evil and
Speaker 5: that obvious man is a woman.
Speaker 2: I mean, just this, the most.
Speaker 5: Fundamental truths of humankind were suddenly you weren't supposed to
Speaker 5: say them.
Speaker 2: We continued to perhaps you remember that anyway.
Speaker 5: One of those true true truisms is that meritocracy is
Speaker 5: what should run virtually everything.
Speaker 2: I'm huge on that. I've been saying that forever.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I love what Jordan Peterson said once.
Speaker 5: He said, Look, the job of the left, or the
Speaker 5: job of the right, is to make sure meritocracy endoors
Speaker 5: because we need that in every profession, every walk of life.
Speaker 5: The job of the left is to make sure at
Speaker 5: the bottom of that ladder there is fairness. People are
Speaker 5: not stopped impeded from getting on that ladder, and I
Speaker 5: think that's absolutely true.
Speaker 2: Having said that, for your story about like.
Speaker 4: Great Britain class system where families stay in that upper
Speaker 4: tier forever and it's very hard to move tears.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just yeah, just had a conversation about
Speaker 5: that last night, the British legal system specifically. But anyway,
Speaker 5: So here is this guy. He began his first final
Speaker 5: exam in law school and the classroom was half empty.
Speaker 5: There are maybe sixty seventy people in our big group.
Speaker 5: At least thirty of them were missing. He was at
Speaker 5: Pepperdine Caruso School Law in Malibu, California, summer twenty three.
Speaker 5: It was what we call a racehorse exam, he said,
Speaker 5: of the final it's pretty guarantee that you're not going
Speaker 5: to finish, but you have to move as fast as
Speaker 5: possible and rack up as many points as you can.
Speaker 5: My daughter just went through this five weeks ago. He
Speaker 5: later learned that the absent students weren't running late. They
Speaker 5: would be completing the exam separately using extended time, a
Speaker 5: testing accommodation that the Americans with Disabilities Act require schools
Speaker 5: to make available for students with conditions that impair major
Speaker 5: life activities like learning, reading, and concentrating, so those students
Speaker 5: usually receive one and a half or twice the standard
Speaker 5: testing time, which in law school can mean up to
Speaker 5: four extra hours.
Speaker 2: To multiple Pepperdine students.
Speaker 5: More than a third of the school's law students now
Speaker 5: received testing accommodations, the most common of which is extended time.
Speaker 5: Everybody has a note signed by somebody that says, yeah,
Speaker 5: Jimmy has trouble concentrated when I don't know the lights
Speaker 5: are on and so and so, everybody gets extended time.
Speaker 4: I know I'm in this world enough to know you'd
Speaker 4: never get turned down for some sort of.
Speaker 2: ADHD or add or anxiety or anything that eats something.
Speaker 5: So law schools don't disclose their rates of accommodations, but
Speaker 5: a twenty three organ Law Review paper reports data on
Speaker 5: public law schools obtained through state public record laws. And
Speaker 5: this is in twenty twenty one, before the post COVID
Speaker 5: rise in disability accommodations.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is the lower rate.
Speaker 5: It was like twenty two percent at the University of
Speaker 5: California in San Francisco, twenty six percent at you see Irvine,
Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. Here's my deal, and as the
Speaker 5: of an autistic daughter. For instance, I am one hundred
Speaker 5: percent in favor of us as a society finding ways
Speaker 5: to make sure people who have struggles and special needs
Speaker 5: get an education. I am crazy, staunchly, enthusiastically in favor
Speaker 5: of that. But I don't think my beloved daughter, Kate,
Speaker 5: who I think about every hour of every day of
Speaker 5: my life, I don't think she should be shoehorned into
Speaker 5: say you know Pepperdine law.
Speaker 4: Well, I can look at it this way, because I
Speaker 4: got a kid that's on all kinds of medications.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's ever gonna get through school.
Speaker 5: But you can't change the law school so that he
Speaker 5: can become a lawyer. Right, Are you fundamentally changed to
Speaker 5: a degree from that law school means yeah, because if
Speaker 5: you get out in the world and you're practicing law,
Speaker 5: Like if I need a lawyer for whatever I'm doing,
Speaker 5: I can't say, now this lawyer, this lawyer, it'll take
Speaker 5: you three days to get your paperwork done. Now this lawyer,
Speaker 5: because they have ADHD in anxiety, it's gonna be a month.
Speaker 2: I mean what, right? What? That doesn't make any sense?
Speaker 5: Well, and you put it beautifully I mean that illustrates
Speaker 5: the fundamental departure from what is obviously true. One of
Speaker 5: those COVID Floyd Woke apocalypse, you know, things that happened.
Speaker 5: And again, I want programs. I want people who need
Speaker 5: extra time to be able to get a law degree.
Speaker 5: But we've got to have excellence, and we've got to
Speaker 5: have places where excellence is the only standard.
Speaker 2: And then when that standard is met, we know there.
Speaker 5: Was excellence there, not excellence plus double time. Because the
Speaker 5: family doctor who's an old family friend went ahead wrote
Speaker 5: a note for a little Johnny so you could have
Speaker 5: a leg up. I mean, come on, you got a
Speaker 5: third of the freaking students, wow, and elite law schools.
Speaker 5: It's ridiculous. Get to meritocracy.
Speaker 4: Man, At what point are you not a good parent
Speaker 4: because you didn't get your kid one of these notes
Speaker 4: that helps.
Speaker 2: Him gets through everything. I mean, at some point across
Speaker 2: the line the.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Show, yeah, or Jack Orgio podcasts and
Speaker 1: our hot links.
Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show, you.
Speaker 4: Could start with the question of is the DNI supposed
Speaker 4: to spend her time producing and hosting many documentaries for
Speaker 4: social media.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that was a thing for some reason.
Speaker 5: Tulsei Gabber, the Director of National Intelligence, just put out
Speaker 5: a three and a half or so minute video in
Speaker 5: which she describes visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how horrific
Speaker 5: it was that the US used those weapons. You'll hear
Speaker 5: some of it, and then moves toward her point, which
Speaker 5: is troubling to me. Indeed, we'll give you a sample
Speaker 5: of it. Michael, let's hear sixteen.
Speaker 6: I recently visited her in Japan and stood at the
Speaker 6: epicenter of a city that remains scarred by the unimaginable
Speaker 6: horror caused by a single nuclear bomb dropped in nineteen
Speaker 6: forty five, eighty years ago. It's hard for me to
Speaker 6: find the words to express what I saw, the stories
Speaker 6: that I heard, the haunting sadness that still remains. This
Speaker 6: is an experience that will stay with me forever. This
Speaker 6: attack obliterated the city, killed over three hundred thousand people,
Speaker 6: many dying instantly, while others died from severe burns, injuries, radiation,
Speaker 6: sickness and cancer that set in in the following months
Speaker 6: and years. Nagasaki suffered the same faith, homes, schools, families.
Speaker 2: All gone in a flash.
Speaker 6: The survivors the Hibo Kusha. They carried the pain of
Speaker 6: extreme burns, radiation, sickness, and loss for decades.
Speaker 5: So she goes on in that vein for a couple
Speaker 5: of minutes and describing how today's warheads are even more and.
Speaker 4: It is never it is like a mini documentary. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's really really well done. The music, she looks great,
Speaker 4: it looks like a motion picture, and then all the
Speaker 4: video behind her of the explosion and then you know,
Speaker 4: sick and dying and injured and mutilated people. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's like a documentary.
Speaker 5: In art displays of the survivors, that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: So she never mentions the brutality of Imperial Japan Pearl Harbor,
Speaker 5: Baton Death March, tens of thousands of US troops who
Speaker 5: died to try to win the war in the Pacific.
Speaker 5: She doesn't mention Operation Downfall, which was the invasion of
Speaker 5: the Japanese mainland in which our military authorities believed between
Speaker 5: one hundred and five hundred thousand more young American men
Speaker 5: were expected to die. It just goes on and on
Speaker 5: about the horrors of using the nuclear weapons against japanchi
Speaker 5: Out Obama, Obama, who did this while ago.
Speaker 4: Or the Japanes the Imperial Armies statement they would never
Speaker 4: surrender or any of those things.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I just happened to hear a great podcast
Speaker 5: with a historian who is talking about the war in
Speaker 5: the Pacific and how the closer we got to Japan,
Speaker 5: the more intensely the Japanese fought to the death there
Speaker 5: would be. I can't remember the numbers, as like, seventeen
Speaker 5: thousand Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima and only two hundred
Speaker 5: of them surrendered at the end. Everybody else fought to
Speaker 5: the death. Pardon me if my numbers are not exact,
Speaker 5: they don't have them in front of me. And so
Speaker 5: the end of the war would have been horrifically bloody
Speaker 5: for both sides. I mean casualties on the Japanese side
Speaker 5: far beyond and the toll from the bombs.
Speaker 2: You attacked us.
Speaker 4: It is not our obligation to try to end this
Speaker 4: war in a way that saves as many as you
Speaker 4: as possible while wasting our lives.
Speaker 5: Right exactly exactly, So what is she doing? Why how
Speaker 5: did she make the video? Let's skip to eighteen Michael,
Speaker 5: when it's about to become more clear.
Speaker 6: This isn't some made up science fiction story. This is
Speaker 6: the reality of what's at state, what we are facing now,
Speaker 6: because as we stand here today, closer to the brink
Speaker 6: of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite and warmongers
Speaker 6: are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers. Perhaps
Speaker 6: it's because they are confident that they will have access
Speaker 6: to nuclear shelters for themselves and for their families that
Speaker 6: regular people won't have access to. So it's up to us,
Speaker 6: the people, to speak up and demand an end to
Speaker 6: this madness. We must reject this path to nuclear war
Speaker 6: and work toward a world where no one has to
Speaker 6: live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.
Speaker 5: This is a mini documentary aid to convince people to
Speaker 5: abandon Ukraine. That is the purpose of it. She is
Speaker 5: trying to convince us that support for Ukraine will lead
Speaker 5: to a nuclear holocaust that will get us all except
Speaker 5: for those elites who have their own bomb shelters.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Ian Bremer tweeted that out and said, closer to nuclear
Speaker 4: war than ever before possible because elites have access to
Speaker 4: bomb shelters questionable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well what Noah Rothman in The National Review points
Speaker 5: out many times we're much much, much closer to nuclear
Speaker 5: war than we are now, so that's just wrong. But
Speaker 5: and he also points out that, so where did this
Speaker 5: come from? Why would Telsea gabbert In puner country's integrity
Speaker 5: and terrorize the public as she talks about causing unnecessary fears?
Speaker 5: It's because Moscow's not coming around to.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's charms.
Speaker 5: As he put it, if you've succumbed to the delusion
Speaker 5: that Vladimir Putin is honest and that has invasions of
Speaker 5: Ukraine are the result of NATO's supposed aggression, then the
Speaker 5: Kremlin should have been satisfied by now. But Trump's peace
Speaker 5: overtures and concessions to Russia have failed to dissuade Moscow
Speaker 5: from pursuing its territorial ambitions with violence, bigger attacks every day.
Speaker 5: In the conspiracist's mind, Russia's stubbornness is evidence only that
Speaker 5: American dishonesty. He is even worse than we previously knew.
Speaker 4: I one of the many interesting things about the Trump
Speaker 4: administration in the way he does things. You know, he
Speaker 4: only has certain things that he's really interested in, and
Speaker 4: I think the rest of it doesn't pay much attention to.
Speaker 4: Does he have the slightest idea that she did. That
Speaker 4: is he okay with that?
Speaker 5: His d N There is a big internal argument in
Speaker 5: the Trump administration the abandoned Ukrainers versus the support Ukrainers,
Speaker 5: and this appears to be some sort of you know how,
Speaker 5: sir blast for her side as the Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 4: She goes on to say, and I think this is important.
Speaker 4: I wish more people knew this. She goes on to say,
Speaker 4: the bombs we have now are many, many, multiple times
Speaker 4: more powerful than those I think most people think nuclear
Speaker 4: bomb and they think Eroshama, which is bad enough, but
Speaker 4: it's significantly worse. It wouldn't be hundreds of thousands, it
Speaker 4: would be millions. These bombs are so much bigger now.
Speaker 4: If the point is to alert the world of that's
Speaker 4: what we're dealing with in the reality if we ever
Speaker 4: go to nuclear war, I'm fine with that. The problem
Speaker 4: is I believe sending the message to Putin and She
Speaker 4: that you can take land and there'll be no pushback
Speaker 4: gets us closer to nuclear war, not further from it,
Speaker 4: I would agree. And what the hell is the d
Speaker 4: and I doing doing this right right? Why is she
Speaker 4: putting out America. You have to understand how horrible nuclear
Speaker 4: war would be.
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