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Speaker 3: we're gonna there are all sorts of interesting things happening
Speaker 3: during the transition, many of which are not getting much
Speaker 3: attention in the dominant media that we're gonna touch on
Speaker 3: real quickly. But why not this topic just briefly. This
Speaker 3: is from frequent correspond to JT and Livermore talking about
Speaker 3: how in twenty sixteen, Trump's victory spawned the resistance with
Speaker 3: the paintcats and the He's not legitimate, He's a stooge
Speaker 3: of pootin Russia Gabe.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Trump's twenty four victory spawned a new TDS based sickness
Speaker 3: in which the crib every left cuts off their friendships
Speaker 3: and family relationships, seemingly as a form of virtue, signaling
Speaker 3: about how awful it is that the basket of deplorables,
Speaker 3: the bitter clingers in the garbage, have voted Trump into office.
Speaker 3: Then he gets into the insanity and the lefty leadership
Speaker 3: and pundits and media. They paid this election as an
Speaker 3: existential threat to the country. Then after they lose, those
Speaker 3: same people said that it was because our country was
Speaker 3: so misogynistic in racist, deplorable, bitter garbage. Then they validated
Speaker 3: their hateful rhetoric by telling distressed lefty voters that it
Speaker 3: was appropriate to cut off family and friends voting for Trump,
Speaker 3: which was worse the hateful rhetoric and lies against Trump
Speaker 3: and every Trump supporter or that post lost narrative, that's
Speaker 3: appropriate to cut off all Republicans from your life. It's
Speaker 3: so sad, And you know, there's part of me that thinks,
Speaker 3: you know, if I had a friend or relatives say that,
Speaker 3: I'd say good go go bye bye, but that that
Speaker 3: would almost validate the idea of it's appropriate to end
Speaker 3: relationships over politics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's easy to say if I don't think about a
Speaker 4: specific person, but like about you, or not talk to
Speaker 4: either one of my brothers ever again because of how
Speaker 4: the election went, that would be horrible.
Speaker 2: Right exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's incredibly dysfunctional and like childish and or adolescent.
Speaker 3: It's just what a state our politics are in. And
Speaker 3: then finally, or as it is in our politics is
Speaker 3: in or our mess at the end, I'm going with
Speaker 3: r and speaking of crazy, I want to squeeze this in.
Speaker 3: Did you see or did you hear that AOC has
Speaker 3: taken the pronouns out of her social media bios? Hm,
Speaker 3: social media accounts? Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4: Wow? Bill Maher had a thing about that on Friday night.
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll have to grab that on because he was
Speaker 4: comparing it to the Oh it's because they're sexist and
Speaker 4: racist and not because liberals have started using pronouns and
Speaker 4: claiming there's no such thing as a difference between a
Speaker 4: man and a woman all these other different things that
Speaker 4: almost nobody in America agrees with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then this same person pointed out that when
Speaker 3: Seth Molten said, hey, I got a couple of little
Speaker 3: girls in sports. I don't want them run over by
Speaker 3: a boy playing sports. He was compared to a Nazi collaborator,
Speaker 3: a monster, and one of his top staffers quit. So
Speaker 3: you know, look, Trump is what Trump is. It's pretty
Speaker 3: well documented what Trump is at this point. But y'all
Speaker 3: at that like one third of the farthest left in America,
Speaker 3: y'all are nuts. I think everybody's recognizing it more and
Speaker 3: more saying it openly. Yeah, all that stuff you've been
Speaker 3: making us do, that's cuckoo nuts. Transition wise, we trust
Speaker 3: Axios more or less. Now, why isn't that Jonathan Swan's outfit?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that pretty sure.
Speaker 4: They got a headline today, massive blow up between Musk
Speaker 4: and Trump advisor that I don't recognize the name over
Speaker 4: cabinet picks as each jockey for influence. The next Bob
Speaker 4: Woodward book or somebody's book is going to have about
Speaker 4: the whole Musk Trump thing and what's going on, because
Speaker 4: there's a fair amount of reporting about Musk being in
Speaker 4: like involved in everything, every decision, every cabinet pick, all
Speaker 4: the foreign leader calls, and just what is going on
Speaker 4: there exactly well, and even if you're used to being
Speaker 4: in the highest reaches of presidential power.
Speaker 3: It would have to be at least surreal to sit
Speaker 3: there in a room telling Elon Musk No, you're out
Speaker 3: of your mind.
Speaker 2: That's a dumb idea.
Speaker 3: Or it's probably weird for Elon to you know, if
Speaker 3: anybody's telling him that, to think, Okay, who are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So a couple of stories about to transition and
Speaker 3: the the way the transition affects the rest of the world.
Speaker 3: Smugglers are telling migrants again, when did immigrants become migrants?
Speaker 3: And ironically we're going to talk about farm workers. It
Speaker 3: used to be immigrants actually were migrants. They would migrate
Speaker 3: to the United States, they would work for six months
Speaker 3: or whatever, then migrate back to Mexico and back to
Speaker 3: their homes. Now these people from Venezuela, for the one
Speaker 3: of the first times in history, they're not migrants at all,
Speaker 3: and now we're.
Speaker 2: Supposed to call them migrants. Shut up anyway.
Speaker 3: Smugglers are telling illegal immigrants to rush to the US
Speaker 3: before Trump takes power. The Coyotes are anticipating US border
Speaker 3: policy changes and are rushing as many people as they
Speaker 3: can to the border to make as much money as possible.
Speaker 4: It's more profitable than drugs. Now, well that makes sense.
Speaker 4: I mean things are going to change very quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, absolutely. But the Coyotes follow the news. They
Speaker 4: know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: Also transition news, the Energy Department has quadrupled their lending
Speaker 3: budget and a rush to approve green energy loans before
Speaker 3: Trump takes office. In other words, the Biden administration is
Speaker 3: going to hand out as much of your tax money
Speaker 3: as they possibly can before they're out the door to
Speaker 3: their cronies in the green energy world, knowing that they
Speaker 3: can count on their votes next time, or for Congress
Speaker 3: or the Senate in two years or whatever. Department of
Speaker 3: Energy Loan office quadrupled it's available lending budget over two
Speaker 3: hundred and forty billion dollars last week, as Biden officials
Speaker 3: rushed to approve a flurry of green energy loans, even
Speaker 3: as it's becoming more and more clear that, for instance,
Speaker 3: the EVY thing is just not going to pan out.
Speaker 3: The numbers aren't there, the environmental impact isn't there. None
Speaker 3: of it's there. It's just handing out money to cronies.
Speaker 3: Let's say one more, Ah, this is important. The Customs
Speaker 3: and Border Patrol that Trump is going to take hold
Speaker 3: of and Mike Homan is it and just completely whoop
Speaker 3: into shape. Well, Biden's active too. The Biden Harris Customs
Speaker 3: and Border Patrol has rolled out new pronouns for its
Speaker 3: official web meetings as they have zoom calls and the
Speaker 3: rest of it. Then this is new. They want to
Speaker 3: make sure this is instituted in the CBP before they go.
Speaker 3: You can now put your pronoun up there in your
Speaker 3: official profile.
Speaker 2: It's on the screen for your name, free meeting.
Speaker 3: Brother.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't that just desperate and stupid? And it'll be
Speaker 3: rolled back immediately. Yeah, and there's a sister story to that.
Speaker 3: The online guide that the Customs and Border Patrol. Let's
Speaker 3: see what else could they be doing? Hmm, nothing I
Speaker 3: could think of. The online guide posted by the federal
Speaker 3: government directs the good folks to you see Davis, only
Speaker 3: a few miles away from the radio ranch.
Speaker 2: Who's you see Davis?
Speaker 3: Lgbt e QIA Recourse Center list fifty potential pronouns a
Speaker 3: person may choose.
Speaker 2: Fifty fifty cautions fifty seems like a lot.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, you're exactly wrong. You you monster,
Speaker 3: you you garbage, you deplorable, you clinger. It cautions readers
Speaker 3: that the list is not exhaustive, it is only partial,
Speaker 3: and it explains, in case you're unfamiliar with this, what
Speaker 3: are pronouns? All? These did go first the strunken white
Speaker 3: English usage thing. But pronouns are integral to who we are,
Speaker 3: and we share pronouns because we want to avoid assuming
Speaker 3: someone's pronouns based on factors like appearance. By sharing our
Speaker 3: own pronouns routinely, we encourage others to do the same.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. This is straight out of radical queer theory,
Speaker 3: radical gender theory. Common pronouns include she here, there's, he, him, his, etcetera.
Speaker 3: But then they get into the actual how to use
Speaker 3: them and how you have to memorize them. For instance,
Speaker 3: he laughed, ask him that's his pen? That pens his?
Speaker 3: Did he enjoy himself?
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to so far. Am I five years old?
Speaker 4: Or am I just moving here from Russia?
Speaker 3: Well it depends do you use a co as your pronoun?
Speaker 3: Co laughed? Ask Co, that's Co's pen that pens cos?
Speaker 2: Did Co? Did Co enjoys co self? Does Core? Does
Speaker 2: CO have a penis? Or a vagina. That's what I
Speaker 2: want to know.
Speaker 3: V that's v's pen uh ask viz that's ver pen
Speaker 3: And I would have to pen and I would have
Speaker 3: to memorize fifty plus of these? Did V enjoy verse self? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you better get started verse self? Okay, And that's just
Speaker 3: like the first dozen. And remember, folks, you got like
Speaker 3: forty eight more to memorize.
Speaker 4: God, I would look to be I would love to
Speaker 4: be involved in the meetings where they come up with
Speaker 4: these and sit there and listen to people present new
Speaker 4: ideas and then how they're going to be used and
Speaker 4: and act like this is going to sweep the world
Speaker 4: and everybody will be doing it soon.
Speaker 3: Oh I know, and like ending your career if you
Speaker 3: don't go along with it. In academia right now, we
Speaker 3: have some reasonable conservative, sane, you know, moderate lefty folks
Speaker 3: even saying yeah, dudes, I totally agree with you. But
Speaker 3: here at the English Department, for instance, you see Davis.
Speaker 3: If I dare not use my pronouns, my career's over.
Speaker 2: So g Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, As I've said before, I have a professor friend
Speaker 4: who retired early because he did not want to do
Speaker 4: that at that very university.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he if he could have held on
Speaker 3: a couple more years, But you know, a couple more
Speaker 3: years of being forced to your knees to submit to
Speaker 3: something you know is insane is a long time. But
Speaker 3: I think we all and I'm against obscenities in a
Speaker 3: public place. So if you would like to use the
Speaker 3: radio friendly version, I'm about to. We need to get
Speaker 3: used to this phrase. We need to get used to
Speaker 3: saying it. We need to say it with confidence. That's
Speaker 3: effing nuts, that's effing crazy, or that's effing stupid.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna tell you which of those to choose.
Speaker 2: It's up to you. You're an American. You got the
Speaker 2: First Amendment.
Speaker 3: When somebody says, you know, when when Professor Jones comes
Speaker 3: into the room, you've got to say Z laughed, Ask
Speaker 3: her that errs pen that pennzers did Z enjoys her self?
Speaker 2: You say, uh, that's effing nuts.
Speaker 3: There you go. You see how it works. Our system's
Speaker 3: a lot simpler than theirs. There's less memorization.
Speaker 2: O my god, that's funny.
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Speaker 4: They were talking about ratings on msn this morning. I
Speaker 4: think because CNN and MSNBC's ratings are so low. I'm
Speaker 4: looking up at Fox right now and there's Carl Rove
Speaker 4: and it reminded me so my brother loathes Carl Rove.
Speaker 4: And it's because in twenty twelve, during the entire election
Speaker 4: cycle between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, Karl Rove was
Speaker 4: going on TV every day explaining how Mitt Romney is
Speaker 4: gonna win and the mainstream media is misleading you, and
Speaker 4: it's gonna be hilarious on election Day when everybody figures
Speaker 4: this out. And then after it wasn't even close, my
Speaker 4: brother came to the conclusion that he was being lied
Speaker 4: to by Fox News. That's exactly what is going on
Speaker 4: with that huge drop off on CNN and specifically MSNBC
Speaker 4: right now, because after an entire election season of all
Speaker 4: those people laughing at the idea that Donald Trump could
Speaker 4: possibly get elected and here's why the polls are wrong,
Speaker 4: and here's how crazy you would have to blah blah
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. Then you wake up on election day
Speaker 4: or the day after and finance.
Speaker 2: Oh, you are all lying to me. That was all
Speaker 2: a bunch of crap. I think it is a kicking
Speaker 2: the gut.
Speaker 3: Mit I think you need to add the delicious icing
Speaker 3: of this to that cake. And that would be the
Speaker 3: absolute hair on fire, hyperbolic. He's Hitler fascist, There'll never
Speaker 3: be another an election, blood running in the streets. And
Speaker 3: then the next day there's Joe Biden, you know, shaking
Speaker 3: hands with the guy.
Speaker 4: Come on, and that's true. So you combine those two things,
Speaker 4: cut the crap. You combine those two things and you
Speaker 4: would have to like reorient yourself as to what you're
Speaker 4: gonna pay attention to or care about, because oh, you
Speaker 4: guys didn't actually care and uh and you were lying.
Speaker 4: So okay, now I need to find something else to
Speaker 4: do with my time. So I'm still reading Bob Woodward's Oars,
Speaker 4: and there's some those books are so clipping good. It's
Speaker 4: a shame nobody reads them, because nobody does. But the
Speaker 4: right into the part where the Ukrainian War is about
Speaker 4: to start in this book, and Biden had just gotten
Speaker 4: off a long phone call, the longest phone call he'd
Speaker 4: ever had with Putin. They were on the phone for
Speaker 4: an hour on a Sunday morning, and Biden was really
Speaker 4: laying into him about how what a horrible idea it
Speaker 4: would be to invade Ukraine.
Speaker 2: And everything like that. Putin was explaining.
Speaker 4: Why he had to do it, and you're planning to
Speaker 4: put nuclear bias blah blah blah blah. Anyway, Biden gets
Speaker 4: off the phone and says, he aft it up. He
Speaker 4: effed the whole thing up. And the people around him
Speaker 4: are like, what are you talking about, and he's like, Brock,
Speaker 4: he effed the whole thing up by doing nothing. In
Speaker 4: twenty fourteen, when Putin went in to Crimea, all he
Speaker 4: did was signal to Putin that he can get away
Speaker 4: with anything.
Speaker 3: Brock aft this up? And I thought, how is that
Speaker 3: not a headline out of the book, the fact that
Speaker 3: Joe Biden lays at Barack Obama's feet the responsibility for
Speaker 3: going into Ukraine. Wow, you got one side of the
Speaker 3: media that's utterly dishonest and nothing to see here. He
Speaker 3: said something mean about Trump on page two hundred and thirty,
Speaker 3: and then the other side of the media doesn't read
Speaker 3: what words so right?
Speaker 4: Really interesting that that was Biden's response. You know, he
Speaker 4: might be rewriting history in his own memory. I have
Speaker 4: no idea, but he portrayed it as he was pushing
Speaker 4: Barack Obama, we got to push back or putin will
Speaker 4: think he can get away with anything. And that doesn't
Speaker 4: sound like Joe Biden to me and his and his
Speaker 4: response afterwards.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, but I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I realized the irony of it that the feckless,
Speaker 3: gutless Joe Biden is calling his boss very feckless and gutless.
Speaker 3: But the man who is f andng if you will,
Speaker 3: he's the last guy who wants a problem shoved down
Speaker 3: the road to him, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 3: that's you know, if you were like a strong and
Speaker 3: decisive guy, you would say, yeah, Barack Obama's a coward
Speaker 3: and he f this up and now I've got to
Speaker 3: deal with it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to deal with it well.
Speaker 3: And the difference being Biden says, yeah, I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: say don't.
Speaker 2: Don't.
Speaker 4: And to Joe Biden's credit, I mean compared to Barack Obama,
Speaker 4: I mean, he was Eisenhower in terms of supplying Ukraine
Speaker 4: with an ability to push back. Because Barack Obama is correct,
Speaker 4: Barack Obama did nothing got him into the chapter right
Speaker 4: now where we sent over CIA director Burns to talk
Speaker 4: to Zelensky, this is right before the invasion happens, and
Speaker 4: sits down with him and says, look, it's gonna happen
Speaker 4: like next week, and this is what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4: And Zelensky doesn't believe it, and all the europe major
Speaker 4: European leaders don't believe it. Part of it is because
Speaker 4: we couldn't lay out all the information we had because
Speaker 4: we actually had a human being in the Kremlin, so
Speaker 4: that's where we're getting our info, So we couldn't like
Speaker 4: lay out how we know how we knew this, but
Speaker 4: we knew it was gonna happen, and Zelensky was like,
Speaker 4: surely not, it can't or maybe you know his he
Speaker 4: was hoping it couldn't be true because it's just horrifying.
Speaker 4: Burn said, they're going to roll in here and their
Speaker 4: first job is going to be to try to kill you.
Speaker 4: So what is your security situation like they've got They're
Speaker 4: gonna come straight to keep It's gonna take him like
Speaker 4: six hours. They're gonna be setting out special forces throughout
Speaker 4: the city hunting for you, trying to kill you. Can
Speaker 4: you imagine getting that information from the Sea High director
Speaker 4: of the United States.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, I would say, just completely overwhelming.
Speaker 3: As a former YouTube star who's now president of the country.
Speaker 2: Good Lord, that would be some info. Togain, I don't care.
Speaker 3: You might be the most seasoned chairman of the Joint
Speaker 3: chiefs of Staff. That would still be overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty show, Yeah, or Jack or show
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Speaker 3: I've just become aware of Scott Jennings because he has
Speaker 3: been hiding from humanity on CNN. But I love the
Speaker 3: cut of his GiB. I love his act. He's calm,
Speaker 3: he smart, he's reasonable. I posited last hour that gen
Speaker 3: X would save the world, and I realized that somewhat
Speaker 3: self serving, as we are on the older end of
Speaker 3: gen X. But gen X known for kind of a
Speaker 3: cut the crap. Don't don't mess around with us, just
Speaker 3: give us the straight scoop. Feel not terribly ideological.
Speaker 4: I like you pitched us as not hippies, not uh
Speaker 4: not not hippies on the one end, not needing coloring.
Speaker 2: Books and puppies to deal with bad news.
Speaker 3: On the other end, right, just for goodness sakes, can
Speaker 3: we can we speak plainly to each other. Is kind
Speaker 3: of sort of and I've always mocked a generation thing,
Speaker 3: but it's kind of sort of the feel of gen
Speaker 3: X anyway. I love that with Scott Jennings essentially, And
Speaker 3: this is my rallying cry today and probably for a
Speaker 3: long time. Cut the crap, Scott is saying, cut the crap.
Speaker 3: Obama deported lots and lots of people. You had nothing
Speaker 3: to say, so cut the crap.
Speaker 2: It's crap, all right, all right, thank you?
Speaker 3: And then you know I've got all I've got a
Speaker 3: million examples. You've got this stuff from the University of California, Davis,
Speaker 3: which is advising the federal government on how to be
Speaker 3: a woke ally for the Alphabet Soup crew, and they
Speaker 3: have stuff like, instead of saying someone was born a
Speaker 3: boy or a girl, try saying they were as signed
Speaker 3: male at birth. These terms recognize the difference between section
Speaker 3: gender and emphasize the way in which section gender are
Speaker 3: not binary or immutable. They can be chained. No, cut
Speaker 3: the crap. A man can't become a woman because he
Speaker 3: takes hormones. You start ovulating, call me back, all right,
Speaker 3: then I'll concede you're a woman. Cut the crap. Thought
Speaker 3: this was brilliant from Gerard Baker. I'm gonna hit you
Speaker 3: with some of it. He's an opinion writer for mostly
Speaker 3: the Journal, but Jack jump in anytime you want, obviously,
Speaker 3: and he talks about Trump's election is a bit of
Speaker 3: an Emperor's new clothes moment for American maybe the rest
Speaker 3: of the West, to an overdue recognition and repudiation of
Speaker 3: the regime of oppressive insanity we've been subjected to for
Speaker 3: a decade or more. I think everybody's saying, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: well said, especially in blue states. And you know, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna issue a battle cry toward the end of this.
Speaker 2: I understand you're working like is it gonna sound like that?
Speaker 2: It's a lot like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe you're working at the infamous Uh you see
Speaker 3: Davis or Berkeley in California and you're like, dude, I
Speaker 3: would love to fight against this stuff. But but but,
Speaker 3: and so it's always with the caveat of uh, do
Speaker 3: what you can. But I'll tell you this, I can
Speaker 3: practically guarantee no matter where you work, you live, you
Speaker 3: worship whatever, if you stand up to the crap and
Speaker 3: you say cut the crap, you're going to see a
Speaker 3: bunch of people, maybe a few, maybe a ton, are
Speaker 3: going to say, yeah, what he said. They're just waiting
Speaker 3: for someone to call the emperor on having no clothes anyway,
Speaker 3: did your R.
Speaker 2: Baker's piece?
Speaker 3: For a decade or more, Yeah, Even when Republicans have
Speaker 3: been nominally in control, we've been led by peddlers of
Speaker 3: a set of ideas that have clothed our institutions in
Speaker 3: the country in social and political doctrines, fake claims, and
Speaker 3: strictures that have inflicted untold harms. The fancy new items
Speaker 3: of invisible attire that our nation's rulers have made us
Speaker 3: wear for too long include these. The idea that people
Speaker 3: who have stolen into this country illegally should be showered
Speaker 3: with all the rights and benefits of citizens, that it
Speaker 3: is immoral to deny them those rights, and that they
Speaker 3: should instead be treated as victims of persecution and given
Speaker 3: sanctuary in our crowded and fiscally strained cities.
Speaker 2: Call bullss on that that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: The idea that a nation that sits atop one of
Speaker 3: the greatest reservoirs of natural energy resources on Earth should
Speaker 3: forcibly restrain itself from exploiting them to save the planet
Speaker 3: on the basis of politicized science, while other countries are
Speaker 3: free to do much more damage to the global environment.
Speaker 2: That's a good Gavin. Cut the crap. That's a good one.
Speaker 3: At the risk of going off on this as I
Speaker 3: did last hour, meaningless effectless gestures in the face of
Speaker 3: all the other countries on Earth doing what they're doing.
Speaker 3: You know, if you were going to do some good,
Speaker 3: come to the table with that argument. Say, yeah, we
Speaker 3: got to risk damaging the economy and poor people are
Speaker 3: going to stay poor, and inflation's gonna rise because energy
Speaker 3: prices affect everything. But look that it's lowered emissions twenty
Speaker 3: percent globally, except it hasn't hasn't done anything, So cut
Speaker 3: the crap. Here's another good one, the idea that after
Speaker 3: a century and a half of progress in solving and
Speaker 3: soothing America's original sin of racism and making the country
Speaker 3: more equal, we are suddenly obliged to believe that America
Speaker 3: is as oppressive.
Speaker 2: As it was in sixteen nineteen, and that the.
Speaker 3: Best way to write the past wrong of treating people
Speaker 3: based on the color of their skin is to treat
Speaker 3: people based on the color of their skin.
Speaker 2: God, I hope that's over. I really hope that's over.
Speaker 3: What we all hope for is those radicals just nasty people.
Speaker 3: Don't have the juice to end your career anymore. Because
Speaker 3: your management, your corporate godfathers are such cowards. They're not
Speaker 3: going to stand up to the crap. It's easier to
Speaker 3: fire you, and they'll say on the way out. You know, Jim,
Speaker 3: I'm really sorry about this. I mean, it's really unfortunate
Speaker 3: they don't have the balls to say because you said
Speaker 3: nothing wrong, but these people are so mad. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: capitulate to them, but that's what they're thinking, stand up
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 4: I'm less optimistic on the illegal immigration part because I've
Speaker 4: been fooled before. But on the trans and anti racist
Speaker 4: and what was the other one I was going to
Speaker 4: include in that it'll come to me.
Speaker 3: But on a couple of those, is it possible? Oh,
Speaker 3: the climate change? Is it possible.
Speaker 4: We're on the other side of those, and we just all, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: those of us of a certain age, just lived through
Speaker 4: this really weird time. Yeah, we're things. People said all
Speaker 4: kinds of crazy stuff and you had to.
Speaker 2: Go along with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're at this stage of it where
Speaker 3: the troops are rallied. Were aware, we're fired up. But
Speaker 3: you got to remember the enemy is absolutely running our
Speaker 3: nation's educational complex right now, and our media and entertainment.
Speaker 3: But education is the most insidious part because they're indoctrinating
Speaker 3: our kids. So, yeah, the battle has just begun. Here's
Speaker 3: another great one, another one of these insane ideas that
Speaker 3: we've been forced to pretend are not idiotic. The idea
Speaker 3: that children should, without parental consultation or consent, be free
Speaker 3: to choose their gender, be assisted by the state in
Speaker 3: committing acts of self mutilation to do so, and all
Speaker 3: on the understanding that we have repealed millennia of science
Speaker 3: and just discovered there's no such thing as biological sex.
Speaker 2: Full ass, cut the crap.
Speaker 4: I think that one is the biggest anchor around Gavin
Speaker 4: Newsom's neck if he tries to run for president, how's
Speaker 4: he gonna how's he gonna deal with that.
Speaker 3: Expiring experimenting on and mutilating children because they're momentarily confused
Speaker 3: and adolescence.
Speaker 4: And Gavin signed in law the idea that the schools
Speaker 4: can keep it a secret from you, so that in fact,
Speaker 4: they must. How does how does he deal with that?
Speaker 4: I want that's one of the reasons I want him
Speaker 4: to run. I want him to be beaten like a
Speaker 4: drum for these reasons, because it's important to defeat this crap.
Speaker 2: There's a little more.
Speaker 3: More of the Emperor's new clothes that people have just
Speaker 3: been walking around silently, pretending they didn't notice or too
Speaker 3: afraid to resist. The idea that democracy and freedom are
Speaker 3: best protected by denying people the right to express certain
Speaker 3: views that the authorities deem misinformation, and by weaponized the
Speaker 3: law against political opponents lest they weaponize the law for
Speaker 3: political purposes.
Speaker 2: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: They're actually democrats out right now saying, hey, you know,
Speaker 3: weaponizing law against candidates is probably a bad strategy, admitting
Speaker 3: that that was the strategy. So ambitious elites in business
Speaker 3: and civil society went along with these fictions. Politicians on
Speaker 3: all sides, including Republicans, declined to dissent for fear.
Speaker 2: Of being called out.
Speaker 3: And here's where Gerard Baker gives Trump a fair amount
Speaker 3: of credit. It took a man with some of the
Speaker 3: instincts of a child, a political angenoux newcomer, lacking the
Speaker 3: sophistication to participate in the sham, to call the whole
Speaker 3: thing out for what it was. And then he makes
Speaker 3: it clear that he's not like totally in on Trump
Speaker 3: and his plans and his policies and the rest of it.
Speaker 3: But for God's sake, we needed to call bulls on
Speaker 3: the bulls. But here's what I'm optimistic about. He says,
Speaker 3: four years from now, there's a good chance that the
Speaker 3: nonsense we have had to endure will be buried, that
Speaker 3: important things will become normal again. It will have become
Speaker 3: normal to tell people they have who have no right
Speaker 3: to be here, that they must leave. That In the process,
Speaker 3: people around the world will have been made to understand
Speaker 3: that they don't have an automatic right to live in
Speaker 3: the freest, most prosperous country on earth. Then he goes
Speaker 3: on the children. You know, I'm going to hit this
Speaker 3: because it's one of my jihods. It will have become
Speaker 3: normal again for children to be helped to respond to
Speaker 3: the inevitable strains and traumas of growing up, not by
Speaker 3: having their genitals cut out, but by receiving loving guidance,
Speaker 3: guidance and care from family and society.
Speaker 2: Got the crab I hope that's true. I hope that's true.
Speaker 2: I think it's true.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but again, it's going to be longer and
Speaker 3: harder battle than four years. Man the university system and
Speaker 3: their influence on the elementary education system and secondary.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a long, hard fight. But I'm
Speaker 2: up for it. Are you?
Speaker 5: Jack Armstrong and Joe Gerty The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 5: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: Chris Ruffo, you know him, you love him?
Speaker 3: With a great piece Why Boeing killed Dei and the
Speaker 3: lead is the important part of reckoning is underway in
Speaker 3: corporate America. You remember, after the death of George Floyd
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty, like every Fortune five hundred company launched
Speaker 3: a diversity, equity and inclusion program with very serious faces
Speaker 3: as they were running terrified from the Marxists who claimed
Speaker 3: racial justice was their motivation. But now four short years later,
Speaker 3: many companies are quietly acknowledging the failure of these initiatives,
Speaker 3: in some cases winding them down. And Rufo has been
Speaker 3: writing about Dei at Boeing for a while. He's got
Speaker 3: an inside source, well placed, high up, that described it
Speaker 3: this way quote.
Speaker 2: I thought this was really good.
Speaker 3: DEI is the drop you put in the bucket and
Speaker 3: the whole bucket changes. It is anti excellence, and because
Speaker 3: it is ill defined, it becomes.
Speaker 2: Part of the culture.
Speaker 4: That is some of the most evocative phrasing I've ever heard. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the drop you put in the bucket and it changes
Speaker 4: the whole bucket. That's interesting, folks.
Speaker 3: You've become aware that the whole woke thing DEI anti
Speaker 3: racism thing, you can't win. It's a constantly moving target.
Speaker 3: Do you say you're not a racist, you're a racist.
Speaker 3: And if you say you're a racist, you're a racist.
Speaker 3: But either way you shut up. We're in charge. There's
Speaker 3: no way to win against the woke people. That's not
Speaker 3: part of it. They're not talking to you to come
Speaker 3: to an understanding. They're talking to you to rule you.
Speaker 3: And more people are understanding that. And in the context
Speaker 3: of Boeing, obviously you know the doors are falling off
Speaker 3: your planes for instance. Yeah, early you know this month
Speaker 3: Boeing installed new CEO Kelly Ortberg, quietly dismantled the DEI
Speaker 3: department and accepted the resignation of the office's vice president.
Speaker 3: So Rufo reached out to the same insider to get
Speaker 3: insight onto what happened and how it happened, and he says,
Speaker 3: tell us what happened with DEI. It went from dominant
Speaker 3: to extinct in a very short period of time. The
Speaker 3: insider says, we're shifting from a company whose culture is
Speaker 3: simply the average of corporate America to a distinct and
Speaker 3: deliberate vision of leadership. The new boss wants Boeing focused
Speaker 3: on being an airplane company with our own culture and vision.
Speaker 3: The resulting cash crunch from the crunch from the strike
Speaker 3: accelerated this culture shift. When you start to focus on
Speaker 3: delivering value instead of preserving status, it becomes obvious what
Speaker 3: drives value and it's not DI And then he gets
Speaker 3: into he asked my senses that many executives are not
Speaker 3: genuinely committed to DEIS and ideology. They simply want to
Speaker 3: build airplanes or create software, for instance, but they feel
Speaker 3: social pressure to maintain these departments. Is that true at
Speaker 3: Boeing and if so, when did the calculus change? And
Speaker 3: the answer is DEI is lazy thought leadership best practiced
Speaker 3: by companies in smooth waters with margins large enough to
Speaker 3: afford the associated inefficiency that isn't Boeing today When the
Speaker 3: new boss prioritized results over fitting in with other CEOs,
Speaker 3: it sends a strong signal to the culture and builds
Speaker 3: trust because employees know the rules and it's clear how
Speaker 3: to succeed through hard work and results. McKinsey's at the
Speaker 3: Consulting Group now debunked analysis was the standard driver in
Speaker 3: corporate boardrooms. But even if DEI has to defend itself
Speaker 3: on purely logical grounds, it doesn't stand up. Boeing more
Speaker 3: than anything, needs an aligned workforce focused on building airplanes.
Speaker 3: And it's an easy decision to reject the divisive and
Speaker 3: US centric language of DEI in favor of unified vision
Speaker 3: for a diverse global company. Anyway, I thought that that
Speaker 3: was really good just as a description of how it works.
Speaker 4: INDI could go away under a Trump administration, which won't
Speaker 4: be you know, working to push that on corporate America,
Speaker 4: Whereas if the Kamala Harris administration, there would have been
Speaker 4: so much pressure on all these companies to continue that
Speaker 4: or add it if they hadn't already.
Speaker 3: Right, and it's it's a bludgeon again. It's not about
Speaker 3: racial justice or any of the things that claims to
Speaker 3: be about. Like in jackscenario, which is a good one.
Speaker 3: The Harris administration wanted Boeing to suddenly, you know, unionize
Speaker 3: its last three facilities or something like that. Well, then
Speaker 3: they could hammer them with DEI stuff or through their
Speaker 3: DEI executives and get them on their knees begging for
Speaker 3: mercy because they were being accused of racism. It's the
Speaker 3: old Jesse Jackson operation push blackmail scam. You don't want
Speaker 3: racial justice, you want something else, but you use claims
Speaker 3: of racial injustice to get there. It's the race hustler thing. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I thought this was good too. From the National Review,
Speaker 3: Lathan Watts. DEI is a corporate bust, and he starts
Speaker 3: about the He starts with the wild overreaction to the
Speaker 3: death of George Floyd and how all the corporations were terrified,
Speaker 3: and how Robbie Starbuck, the filmmaker, has been using sunlight
Speaker 3: as the best disinfectant, and he's brought failed policies that
Speaker 3: are legally questionable and highly unpopular with consumers to the
Speaker 3: attention the general public and the shareholders of these corporations.
Speaker 3: As a result, some of the best known brands in
Speaker 3: the country have hastily canceled their DEI programs and cut
Speaker 3: ties with the far left Human Rights Campaign, which pressures
Speaker 3: companies to do things like cover sex hormones and puberty
Speaker 3: blockers for miners. Wow, monstrous Nazia like experiments on children
Speaker 3: to cover that stuff and their insurance plan. Wow yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: And I thought this was interesting. Unwilling to let the
Speaker 3: practical failure of a policy distract from the political fervor,
Speaker 3: forty nine members of Congress, keeping in mind their four
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty five of these geeks, spurred on signed
Speaker 3: an open letter to Fortune one thousand businesses demanding that
Speaker 3: they doubled down on DEI. But these companies have recently
Speaker 3: received two more open letters encouraging them to hold the
Speaker 3: line in favor of healthy ROI return on investment over
Speaker 3: feeble DEI ideology.
Speaker 4: I like that slogan, AREI not DEI for the companies
Speaker 4: I want to invest in?
Speaker 3: I love that the second of those two letters came
Speaker 3: from seventeen state treasurers and other financial officials State of
Speaker 3: financial officials who are responsible for the gigantic state investment
Speaker 3: vehicles that hold billions of dollars in ownership positions in
Speaker 3: these companies for their retirees and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: And unlike the partisan gamesmanship paraphrasing the piece of the
Speaker 3: National Review here where the forty nine Congress geeks liberal
Speaker 3: CULTI jackasses are saying, you've got to double down on DII,
Speaker 3: these people a saying, hey, we don't have the luxury
Speaker 3: of you and your virtue signaling crap which you run
Speaker 3: your company for efficiency, please not to please AOC. And
Speaker 3: so it's good to see you. Remember it was what
Speaker 3: a year ago I started saying. And all DEI programs
Speaker 3: now wherever they exist, and it's happening in spades. Hurrah, hourrah,
Speaker 3: better for black people, better for white and Hispanic people. People,
Speaker 3: in short, go get them awesome. The tide shure turned
Speaker 3: on that whole thing fast. Yeah, although it is still
Speaker 3: monstrous in academia, media, Hollywood, and government in government itself, friends,
Speaker 3: which is why I am always saying, this is just
Speaker 3: the end of the beginning.
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