Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong.
Speaker 1: And Gatty and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Letty.
Speaker 4: Tiger Woods is once again stepping away from golf after
Speaker 4: Friday's crash in Jupiter, Florida. He says he's entering treatment
Speaker 4: so he can quote work toward lasting recovery.
Speaker 1: His post on X reading.
Speaker 4: In part I'm committed to taking the time needed to
Speaker 4: return in a healthier, stronger, and more focused place both
Speaker 4: personally and professionally.
Speaker 1: Has been nearly two years since.
Speaker 4: Tiger played golf on the PGA Tour, though he has
Speaker 4: played in tournaments, the PGA supports a fifteen time Major
Speaker 4: champions decision and posted on X Above all else, Tiger
Speaker 4: is a person and our focus is.
Speaker 1: On his health and well being.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: His statement, like most things in his life, was all
Speaker 5: about MEMI me, Here's what I'm going to do to
Speaker 5: make my life better.
Speaker 1: My life, this my life.
Speaker 5: That no mention of the fact that he so easily
Speaker 5: could have killed somebody again by driving like a complete
Speaker 5: nut job out of his mind on drugs uh and
Speaker 5: could have killed somebody. Nothing on that to me, which
Speaker 5: means he's nowhere near getting over his addiction.
Speaker 1: The fact that he's told me something about the pain
Speaker 1: he caused his family, which is kind of an automatic,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 5: There He said we would like privacy at this moment
Speaker 5: or something like that, but the I'm going to work
Speaker 5: to get my block, my my my and know, thank
Speaker 5: god I didn't kill anybody, which.
Speaker 1: Should you know. Anyway, I said what I said.
Speaker 5: So we got the Supreme Court oral arguments going on
Speaker 5: on the birthright citizens case going on right now, and
Speaker 5: we can talk more about that later. Just saw this
Speaker 5: that Gorsicch, according to Jonathan Turly, has continued to express
Speaker 5: a degree of skepticism towards the historical arguments of the administration.
Speaker 5: The historical arguments of the administration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keeping in mind that a guy like Gorsich will
Speaker 1: ask the tough questions because he's trying to find flaws
Speaker 1: in his own argument. Often. Well, we'll see. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you missed our fabulous preview of this case, it took
Speaker 1: place in our one right of the show. Yeah, Armstrong
Speaker 1: and gettyon demand subscribe to the podcast. So a quick
Speaker 1: follow up then, as we affectionately call the little bingo
Speaker 1: bango bongo stories that are definitely worth hearing about, at
Speaker 1: least in brief. But Jack falling up on your discussion
Speaker 1: of being asked to leave the room so the medical
Speaker 1: professional can get with your child and take control of
Speaker 1: the situation. The federal laws on this are practically non
Speaker 1: exis existent. It's a state by state thing. But even
Speaker 1: more than that, it's largely clinical guidelines recommended by groups
Speaker 1: like the AMA, AAP and ACOG, which I could probably
Speaker 1: figure out what it stands for, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Even more reason to ignore them exactly, especially when we've
Speaker 1: documented for you good people over and over again how
Speaker 1: a lot of the big medical organizations have been completely
Speaker 1: captured by the woke.
Speaker 5: Last I am, I gotta admit, I'm full of embarrassment,
Speaker 5: full of embarrassment that I agreed to leave the room.
Speaker 5: I'll never do it again. I'll never do it again.
Speaker 5: It's taught medical training.
Speaker 1: Again. The medical schools are famously captured by the woke.
Speaker 1: They were among the most susceptible to the woke takeover
Speaker 1: in recent years. Really more than that on university campuses.
Speaker 1: But it's taught medical training is best practice, especially for adolescents,
Speaker 1: reproductive health visits, and domestic violence screening. But it's left
Speaker 1: to provide our discretion in most plays. No, I cannot
Speaker 1: speak to cal Unicornia. Now, let me throw this in
Speaker 1: just so I don't come off as a complete monster.
Speaker 1: If I had a teenage daughter who said I'd like
Speaker 1: to talk to the doctor about something and it's I
Speaker 1: don't really want you to, I'd say, Okay, sure, and fine.
Speaker 1: You know, if it's just you know, the sort of
Speaker 1: thing you don't want to talk about in front of
Speaker 1: your dad. Maybe I don't know. I suppose I could happen.
Speaker 5: I don't have a daughter, but you know, the reverse,
Speaker 5: just them automatically as you said, I'll take the wheel.
Speaker 5: Now I'm in charge of the whole parenting thing. You
Speaker 5: leave the room, f you, And I don't mean the
Speaker 5: person who asked yesterday. I mean the institution all right
Speaker 5: here here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a hell of a lot in our
Speaker 1: lives that is crept in via the universities and medical
Speaker 1: schools and the capture of these organizations more than I
Speaker 1: probably even realize.
Speaker 5: And I'm pretty sensitive. If you'd like to look into
Speaker 5: this stuff. It's really interesting that that's quite a philosophical break.
Speaker 5: People who believe the family is like the sole important
Speaker 5: you of our society, and people who don't.
Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting, agreed. So as a bridge to some
Speaker 1: of the other stories I wanted to bring to you,
Speaker 1: I was clauding the question of what's the basis of
Speaker 1: these practices, you know, state law, federal laws, you know,
Speaker 1: AMA or whatever. And it occurred to me that, as
Speaker 1: always with Ai in search, I might be getting a
Speaker 1: distorted result, which reminded me that the New York Post
Speaker 1: had a really good piece about how a handful of
Speaker 1: woke Wikipedia editors have completely twisted Wikipedia into a progressive organization.
Speaker 1: You're saying, yeah, Joe, we know that, but what hadn't
Speaker 1: dawned on me? And here I'll give you the example,
Speaker 1: then I'll give you the significance. Wikipedia editors are editing
Speaker 1: the crap out of any coverage of Zoron Mumdani, for instance,
Speaker 1: his relationships with radical groups. During one of his rap
Speaker 1: songs back before he was in politics, he's a rapper.
Speaker 1: He was shouting out to five men convicted of financing Hamas,
Speaker 1: men who were held liable in federal court for the
Speaker 1: murder of a boy from New York City. Uh, but
Speaker 1: they're cleansing all of that. Here's the problem. Wikipedia is
Speaker 1: one of the primary learning sources for AI systems.
Speaker 5: I notice that whenever I don't know if every AI
Speaker 5: does this, but a lot of them do. The chatbots
Speaker 5: you ask you a question and you can see it
Speaker 5: thinking and the sources it's using. And Wikipedia is almost
Speaker 5: always the first source that it's using to give you
Speaker 5: the information.
Speaker 1: Right right, and the Free Beacon, the Washington Free Beacon
Speaker 1: has done some great writing on this too. Let's see
Speaker 1: a look at some key pages on the site reveals
Speaker 1: the links to which Wikipedia editors are willing to go
Speaker 1: to shape Momdnnie's public image and critically that of his wife,
Speaker 1: Rama Duagi and her pro hamas social media posts. And
Speaker 1: then a report by Washington Free Beacon found that Duagi
Speaker 1: created a post on blogging site Tumbler with a photo
Speaker 1: of a terrorist with a caption echoing that person's words
Speaker 1: and giving big thumbs up. And then let's see here's
Speaker 1: a post if I told you that The New York
Speaker 1: Times hired a recently graduated college student with only a
Speaker 1: couple prior articles written on the subject of food and
Speaker 1: cooking to be their lead on the ground reporter on
Speaker 1: the mass rape hoax in Britain, would you believe it?
Speaker 1: And that's this guy who who is repeating reporting on it.
Speaker 1: And then Wikipedia used that bias reporting and cleansed any
Speaker 1: unfortunate details from there from the already biased journalism so
Speaker 1: called journalism. And again it's being used to train aisystems.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of troubling. Well, it's not kind of troubling,
Speaker 1: it's completely troubling. But moving along, this is just funny.
Speaker 1: Trauma is the New Black is the title of this
Speaker 1: somewhat humorous post about how it starts with this Abdul
Speaker 1: al Sayed, far left terrorist adjacent democrat running for the
Speaker 1: US Senate in Michigan. He's running in the primary and
Speaker 1: he's doing very, very well. The funny story about how
Speaker 1: he's been boasting for years about doing time quote unquote
Speaker 1: after getting arrested for blocking traffic and had a protest
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. I put my body on the line
Speaker 1: and took an arrest. And I didn't take the politician's
Speaker 1: arrest where they like turn around and drop you off. No,
Speaker 1: I took the whole arrest. I did my time. Except
Speaker 1: he didn't. According to police records, he was taken by
Speaker 1: a van to a detention center in Detroit, where he
Speaker 1: has issued a citation for disorderly conduct and released immediately.
Speaker 1: He paid a two hundred dollars fine and the charges
Speaker 1: were dropped. But the tale's been a central component of
Speaker 1: his campaign pitch. He's told the story over and over
Speaker 1: and over again, Joe Biden like, And then what really
Speaker 1: amused me is they get into Democrats are bringing back
Speaker 1: the hardship Olympics in and beyond. Candidates across the country
Speaker 1: are asking their own lawyers how to get arrested on
Speaker 1: camera without suffering real consequences, And they go through how
Speaker 1: you have to lean into your childhood trauma. If you've
Speaker 1: had a really good life. Like Gavin Newsom, it's dyslexia
Speaker 1: and a rich, absent father who, by the way, funded
Speaker 1: his entire career. For Josh Shapiro, it's what he describes
Speaker 1: as at points an unhappy childhood home. Wow, those of
Speaker 1: us who had exclusively, perfectly, everyday happy homes feel for you.
Speaker 1: For JB. Pritzker, it's becoming a billionaire orphan at seventeen
Speaker 1: and combating fat phobia.
Speaker 5: If your kid is happy every moment of their childhood.
Speaker 5: You're probably doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And they go.
Speaker 5: Into unless you really like doing laundry and mowing the
Speaker 5: lawn or a variety of things.
Speaker 1: Here's another story that I wanted to bring to you,
Speaker 1: at least briefly. This should be a story everybody in
Speaker 1: America has heard, and it's incredibly important, and nobody will
Speaker 1: hear it except you, good people. The story of Argentina
Speaker 1: under President Javier Malay. Their GDP expanded four point four
Speaker 1: percent last year, further confirmation of malay success in turning
Speaker 1: around the economy, highest growth in years apart from the
Speaker 1: pandemic bounce back, and part of the unbelievable shift in
Speaker 1: South America's second largest economy since they abandoned socialism and
Speaker 1: went with free markets. Annual inflation was one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty percent when he took power in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's now at at the lowest level in eight years.
Speaker 1: It remains higher than they want. What is the current figure?
Speaker 1: Oh stop it, I don't want to subscribe. It's down
Speaker 1: to something like twelve percent if I'm reading this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: according to this art, it is unbelievable success. Poverty has
Speaker 1: fallen two, despite Malay's sharp cut to subsidies that sparked
Speaker 1: mass protests, still a self described anarchy anarcho capitalists approval
Speaker 1: rating is struggling, driven in part by accusations of corruption,
Speaker 1: of course, as well concerns over stagnating the incomes and
Speaker 1: because everybody who's benefiting from the social state is desperate
Speaker 1: to get rid of the guy. But again, inflation has
Speaker 1: been cut by something like ninety percent. And then finally
Speaker 1: this fake cops, fake judges, the Hollywood style scam poised
Speaker 1: to go global. India is leading the way in these
Speaker 1: incredibly elaborate digital scams where you're contacted through various means
Speaker 1: and told you have to have a video conference with
Speaker 1: a court or an authority or an investigative body or whatever.
Speaker 1: And it's Hollywood quality sets where the just sitting there
Speaker 1: with his robes. They pan around, there's the bailiff, there's
Speaker 1: the court reporter or whatever recorder and and or if
Speaker 1: it's a cop shop, it's like a full police station.
Speaker 1: And granted it still takes a bit of are you
Speaker 1: serious you fell for this, but it's incredibly elaborate, high
Speaker 1: budget live video conference scamming that's going on. And this
Speaker 1: one woman's a former assistant professor at Rutgers University's medical
Speaker 1: school and she got duped. Yeah, Hollywood level production that
Speaker 1: mimics the machinery of the state, tricking people with fake
Speaker 1: police stations and courtrooms.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: See I would never fall for this, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people do. Don't think I would either. You just
Speaker 1: dialed me up from the courtroom. Yeah. But here's here's
Speaker 1: the thing. It's it started appearing in US immigrant communities.
Speaker 1: Not widespread in Western countries excepting the immigrant communities, in
Speaker 1: part because there aren't scammers that are proficient enough in
Speaker 1: Western procedures and that sort of thing. But again in
Speaker 1: immigrant communities, where everything's a little more informal and weird
Speaker 1: in their court systems, they fall for It's crazy.
Speaker 5: Blasted after the moon later today, we got a Supreme
Speaker 5: Court case going on right now, and Donald Trump's actually
Speaker 5: in the room at the Supreme Court to listen to
Speaker 5: the arguments and other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1: Stay here, Armstrong, he yetti.
Speaker 6: So far, the US does seem to be winning. We
Speaker 6: know we like to win here in America. But China
Speaker 6: has landed a robot on the far side of the
Speaker 6: Moon that never faces Earth, and that's something that the
Speaker 6: US has never done. However, we are the only country
Speaker 6: to send humans to the Moon, and NASA hopes to
Speaker 6: do it again in twenty twenty eight, two years before
Speaker 6: China plans to The US also wants the permanent Moon
Speaker 6: base and humans on Mars starting in the early twenty
Speaker 6: thirties ahead of China.
Speaker 5: I was listening to NPR's take on the Moon mission today,
Speaker 5: first time humans are headed toward the Moon in half
Speaker 5: a century, and it was all identity politics with no mention.
Speaker 5: And I haven't heard hardly anybody mentioned the space race
Speaker 5: that's going on between US and China.
Speaker 1: That's clearly what's driving this.
Speaker 5: NASA didn't decide to do this so that they could
Speaker 5: have the first ever female black whatever, That's not what's
Speaker 5: driving or it shouldn't be what's driving this stuff. We're
Speaker 5: in a race with China for superiority over the next frontier,
Speaker 5: which is clearly space.
Speaker 1: That is a bizarre take by an organization that claims
Speaker 1: to be a news organization that they'd look at that.
Speaker 5: Angle of Well, you know, as I've been saying for years,
Speaker 5: and I've never heard anybody else say this. So maybe
Speaker 5: I'm wrong, but I think what killed NASA off was
Speaker 5: doing all identity politics and everybody younger generations lost their wonder.
Speaker 5: You can't get people motivated over first Jewish female astronaut
Speaker 5: the way you can exploring new frontiers, which just you know,
Speaker 5: grabs the imagination is amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, that's one of the insidious things about Wokism and
Speaker 1: leftism in general. They don't see the universal. All they
Speaker 1: see is the intersectional. Every kid ought to be thrilled
Speaker 1: and amazed by giant rockets blasting off into space. But no, no,
Speaker 1: this mission only be excited if you're an Indian American lesbian.
Speaker 5: It's coming, though, and I hope I get to see
Speaker 5: it in my lifetime. The claims on planets or space
Speaker 5: by various countries and just might makes right.
Speaker 1: None, No, it's not the moon. It's our moon.
Speaker 5: Oh, at some point that's gonna happen, or at least
Speaker 5: this chunk of the moon. No, no, no, you can't
Speaker 5: because right now there are no rules. Right China could
Speaker 5: go up there and take down our American flag.
Speaker 1: Only if we can.
Speaker 5: Stop them, would we stop them? Wellguestions that have not
Speaker 5: been had.
Speaker 1: As you point out, space is so clearly the next
Speaker 1: frontier of warfare or the avoidance of warfare. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: much time I got?
Speaker 3: I go?
Speaker 1: We out of time?
Speaker 5: Ready?
Speaker 1: Oh one minute, okay, I'll fit this in.
Speaker 5: Just came across this article that some people are reacting
Speaker 5: negatively to some popular graduate degrees may have zero or
Speaker 5: negative return. A study finds what in terms of finances,
Speaker 5: and the pushback has been. Imagine studying something just because
Speaker 5: you find it interesting rather than because of quote return,
Speaker 5: which I am fine with anybody studying anything because they're
Speaker 5: interested in it, but just don't make me pay for it.
Speaker 1: Or pay for you. If you can't figure out how
Speaker 1: to make a living, I mean, make me how to
Speaker 1: run my country. Permanent student types.
Speaker 5: If you can find a job that pays your rent
Speaker 5: and pays your food, and you wanted to get agree
Speaker 5: and I don't know pottery making, go ahead, knock yourself out,
Speaker 5: but don't expect us to pick up the slack if
Speaker 5: you can't make a living doing it.
Speaker 1: Or pay for your bills.
Speaker 5: If you decide to take out a loan and decide
Speaker 5: that wasn't the best idea I ever made.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna say, we're not bailing out your loans.
Speaker 1: You took them on, take them on. Pay it.
Speaker 5: Supreme Court oral arguments going on right now. We can
Speaker 5: check in on that, among other things coming.
Speaker 1: Up Armstrong and Getty. I just came across this tweet.
Speaker 5: It's a couple of days old from Nate Silver Though funny,
Speaker 5: though we understand these are challenging times for the literally
Speaker 5: dozens of Americans who are rooting for Duke.
Speaker 1: That is funny. Apparently Trump has left the Supreme Court.
Speaker 5: CNN says Trump leaves Supreme Court as justices express deep
Speaker 5: skepticism of his birthright citizenship case, which we'll get into
Speaker 5: more of that in a second. But apparently that's the
Speaker 5: first time a sitting president has ever attended the Royal.
Speaker 1: Arguments ever in our nation's history. Wow, and you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to be able to leave unless, I mean you
Speaker 1: can't once you're in there. You have to stay in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't come and go from the Supreme Court
Speaker 5: and home. You got to assume that doesn't apply to
Speaker 5: a president during wartime.
Speaker 1: What if I make some decisions on the whole war,
Speaker 1: you gotta stay till lunchtime. Sorry, just the rules Chairman
Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs is texting me. Your phone's supposed
Speaker 1: to be off, buddy, Okay, but if you have to
Speaker 1: go really, really bad, what if you raise your hands
Speaker 1: say excuse me, mister Chief Justice, I gotta go bad.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be. I mean, it's either here or in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. I'll leave that critical decision up to you,
Speaker 1: your honor.
Speaker 5: I wonder if Trump is going to say something about
Speaker 5: what he was hearing from some of the justices he appointed.
Speaker 5: He's gonna you said, he said some bad things about
Speaker 5: the justices last night.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear any of that. Oh, it was terrible.
Speaker 1: I think we have I thought we had that tape
Speaker 1: at audio. I don't see it.
Speaker 5: They're arguing whether over at the whole birthright citizenship thing
Speaker 5: applies the way it's being applied. Anybody that comes to
Speaker 5: this country, you have a baby here, they're a US
Speaker 5: citizen with all the rights and services, taxpayer funded services
Speaker 5: that come with that for the rest of their lives, up.
Speaker 1: To and including some birth tourist Chinese oligarchs surrogate who,
Speaker 1: as I put it in delicately earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: gets off a plane, squats on the tarmac at Lax
Speaker 1: pops a kid and then gets back on the plane
Speaker 1: goes back to China.
Speaker 5: The kid's a US citizen. I would care a lot laughable.
Speaker 5: I would care a lot less if we weren't such
Speaker 5: a welfare state. But you get into this country anyway
Speaker 5: you can, and you have a kid here. That kid,
Speaker 5: now I have to feed in house and medicate and
Speaker 5: take care of their medical bills for the rest of
Speaker 5: their life as a taxpayer.
Speaker 1: Correct kind of deal with that? Well, we take care
Speaker 1: of ill eagles too in the Blue States. But what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You can to vote in the
Speaker 1: next election anyway. Are we ready for a little audio
Speaker 1: just to give you a sampling of what it sounded like.
Speaker 1: This is my man, Neil Gorsich, with the advocate for
Speaker 1: the administration's position.
Speaker 7: Who's domicile matters? I mean, it's not the child, obviously,
Speaker 7: it's the parents. You'd have us focus on. And you know,
Speaker 7: what if is it the husband?
Speaker 2: Is it the wife? What if they're unmarried? Who's domicile?
Speaker 8: Well, in the executive order, it draws a distinction between
Speaker 8: the mother and the father.
Speaker 9: It's really the mother is domicile. I think that would matter,
Speaker 9: But he's not.
Speaker 2: Sixty eight matters you're telling us, So what's the answer?
Speaker 9: The eighteen sixty eight sources talk about parents.
Speaker 8: I'm not aware of them drawing a distinction between mother
Speaker 8: or father, but they say that domicile the child follows
Speaker 8: the domicile of the parents.
Speaker 2: And how are we going to determine domicile?
Speaker 7: I mean, would we use contemporary sources on what qualifies
Speaker 7: as domicile in a state or do we look in
Speaker 7: eighteen sixty eight and do we have to do this
Speaker 7: for every single person?
Speaker 8: And again I don't see a strong distinction between those
Speaker 8: because of course domicile is a high level concept has
Speaker 8: been pretty consistent over centuries, which is lawful presence with
Speaker 8: the intentory made permanently that domicile. When you've come to
Speaker 8: a new nation, you say I'm here for to stay.
Speaker 8: You become part of their political community, and you become akin.
Speaker 9: To a citizen. And that's reflected very strongly in the
Speaker 9: case I signed before.
Speaker 1: John Sower is a brilliant attorney with a terrible voice.
Speaker 1: He really needs some sort of AI system. The concept
Speaker 1: of domicile is a high level theory.
Speaker 5: Between his voice and my not being particularly bright. I
Speaker 5: didn't really get much out of that.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's not a question of bright. I was
Speaker 1: regretting not setting it up more thoroughly as I was
Speaker 1: listening to that. The question, man, I don't even want
Speaker 1: to get into the weeds. The question is is the
Speaker 1: person passing through or do they live here? And that's
Speaker 1: a distinction that the lawyers are saying matters because the
Speaker 1: law was never I'm sorry, the fourteenth Amendment was never
Speaker 1: intended to reflect somebody who came in to do business
Speaker 1: with a cotton the company and then immediately sailed back
Speaker 1: to England. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: The guy with the horrible voice. Was he arguing for
Speaker 5: the president's side or for the other side. So he's
Speaker 5: arguing for the president's side that people shouldn't be able
Speaker 5: to come here, and well that it was all about
Speaker 5: slavery and we don't have slaves anymore, so.
Speaker 1: This is all stupid, right. Yeah. Essentially, let's go with
Speaker 1: clip one O three, where he's explaining that there are
Speaker 1: all sorts of weird wrinkles in how people come to
Speaker 1: have kids in this country.
Speaker 8: There are five hundred, five hundred birth tourism companies in
Speaker 8: the People's Republic of China, who's what business is to
Speaker 8: bring people here to give birth and return to that nation.
Speaker 7: Having said all that, you do agree that that has
Speaker 7: no impact on the legal analysis before us.
Speaker 8: I think it's I'd quote with Justice Clia said in
Speaker 8: his Homdan Descent, where they have like their interpretation has
Speaker 8: these implications that could not possibly have been approved by
Speaker 8: the nineteenth century framers of this amendment.
Speaker 9: I think that shows that they made a mess. Their
Speaker 9: interpretation has made.
Speaker 2: A mess in the provision. Well, it certainly wasn't a
Speaker 2: problem in the nineteenth century.
Speaker 8: No, But of course we're in a new world now,
Speaker 8: is Justice Leader pointed out to where eight billion people
Speaker 8: are one plane ride away from having a child who's
Speaker 8: a US citizen.
Speaker 2: Well, to the world, it is the same constitution.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 8: And as Justice Clia said, I think in the case
Speaker 8: that Justice Leader was referring to, you've got a const
Speaker 8: social provision that addresses certain evils, and it should be
Speaker 8: extended to reasonly comparable evils. He said that about Stash
Speaker 8: story interpretation. I think the same principle applies here, and
Speaker 8: I think we quote that in our brief.
Speaker 5: So Garsa's saying it's a New World, but we have
Speaker 5: the same constitution. He's making the argument that drastic changes in,
Speaker 5: for instance, the ability to travel shouldn't matter.
Speaker 1: No, it's funny. It struck me, and I'm learning more
Speaker 1: and more about law school because my daughter is in
Speaker 1: it right now. That a lot of classes, you do
Speaker 1: your reading and there might be a lecture or whatever.
Speaker 1: Then the professor says, mister Armstrong, and you stand up
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh boy, they say, and they ask
Speaker 1: you a probe question like that. You know, it's still
Speaker 1: the same constitution. Why would we change the interpretation just
Speaker 1: because of the presence of air flights And you've got
Speaker 1: to explain yourself and your understanding law and that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. And so it strikes me that the oral
Speaker 1: arguments are like a law school class. A lot of
Speaker 1: the time, they're just quizzing the lawyer on help me
Speaker 1: think through this, think, you know, think through this. I
Speaker 1: didn't get Robert's point. Honestly. What the administration is saying
Speaker 1: is that the world has changed so wildly.
Speaker 6: That the.
Speaker 1: Court decision subsequent to the Fourteenth Amendment in eighteen ninety
Speaker 1: eight and nineteen ten and whatever else, they're irrelevant. Now
Speaker 1: we've got to go originalist and look at the framing
Speaker 1: of the fourteenth Amendment. What did they mean? Not what
Speaker 1: some court in eighteen ninety eight thought they probably kind
Speaker 1: of meant in the modern world. No, we've got to
Speaker 1: go back to the source and look at the source
Speaker 1: is the only lens through which we look at the
Speaker 1: modern interpretation. Why do you think Trump was in the
Speaker 1: courtroom today. I don't know. Part of me thinks he was.
Speaker 1: He wanted to intimidate a little bit, or remind some
Speaker 1: of those justices. I appointed you, all right, I'm your daddy.
Speaker 1: What's your daddy? I'm your daddy. And part of me
Speaker 1: just thinks he thinks it's really really important and he
Speaker 1: wanted to hear it.
Speaker 5: That second part could be true, although that would have
Speaker 5: been true for lots of presidents in cases they wanted
Speaker 5: to turn out a certain way and they didn't show
Speaker 5: up over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the tradition was you would never do that because
Speaker 1: it could be seen as one branch interfering with the
Speaker 1: other branch, or intimidation or whatever. I can't imagin sure
Speaker 1: I it entirely.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have any power to intimidate anybody, though he
Speaker 5: can't remove them.
Speaker 1: He can't. He can't damage them in any way. Well,
Speaker 1: if he whips up like the Maga bass against them,
Speaker 1: could physically be dangerous or you know, undermine the Court,
Speaker 1: which I know Roberts is really concerned about.
Speaker 5: I don't know how he could whip up the magabase
Speaker 5: against them any more than the you know, the people
Speaker 5: who hate Trump have whipped it up against justices on
Speaker 5: the conservative side already.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, the funny thing about Trump is he's
Speaker 1: so precedent upsetting in a lot of ways that when
Speaker 1: he upsets precedent, it's just it's not that big a deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, no sitting president has ever attended Supreme Court
Speaker 1: oral arguments on a case that he was Party two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he does all sorts of crap. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: just happened.
Speaker 5: And how shaken does the world seem to be that
Speaker 5: he They looking around, I think we're okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I like it.
Speaker 5: So it's April first, you know, you do on April first,
Speaker 5: you go to a loved one who you have earned
Speaker 5: their trust over many, many years of being a certain
Speaker 5: kind of person. Then you say something crazy to them
Speaker 5: that's a lie that causes.
Speaker 1: Them disturbing, frightening, sickening.
Speaker 5: Yes, it causes them some unpleasant feeling. And then you say,
Speaker 5: April fools. You say to your husband, I've been thinking
Speaker 5: about it and I want a divorce. And then when
Speaker 5: he's done crying or whatever, yes, you say April fools.
Speaker 1: Right, it's funny. Maybe tell your little kid.
Speaker 5: Maybe you tell your little kid you're moving and you're
Speaker 5: gonna happen, You're never gonna see your friends again.
Speaker 1: And then you say, aperfuls. I'm just doing this routine
Speaker 1: because I from a.
Speaker 5: Child, I've never understood April fools. I just have never
Speaker 5: understood why if you do something and I react scared
Speaker 5: or hurt or whatever, that I'm a fool. I'm a
Speaker 5: fool for believing you're.
Speaker 1: You're only introducing terrible things that turn out not to
Speaker 1: be true, because that's almost a happy ending. How about
Speaker 1: really good things that you then reveal. Nope, it's not happening,
Speaker 1: you fool. Schools out today, kids, schools out today. You
Speaker 1: can play all day, aha, April fools, get ready for school?
Speaker 5: Can Did you ever work at the radio stations where
Speaker 5: it was sort of obligatory that you did some sort
Speaker 5: of April Fools prank.
Speaker 1: I feel like Joe and I did that way back
Speaker 1: in the day. I don't even hardly remember, though, What
Speaker 1: oh three rock is now? What oh three country? Playing
Speaker 1: a country? That's all? Meanwhile the country station or across
Speaker 1: the streets one oh three country, one o one country
Speaker 1: is no one a one rock?
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: All your little turns are outraged and call and they're angry,
Speaker 1: and you say, we're getting.
Speaker 5: I worked for a station that decided to fire the
Speaker 5: morning show on April first, though, and being the phone
Speaker 5: screener during that debacle and trying to explain, no, this
Speaker 5: isn't this isn't a joke. What Yeah, that was bad timing. Yeah, no, kidd,
Speaker 5: Given the history of morning radio, we do the fake
Speaker 5: parade thing once.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a thing. Lots of people. Yes, we
Speaker 1: did that once. It was kind of fun. Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard that before, Katie.
Speaker 5: Now, we pretend there's a big April Fools parade downtown
Speaker 5: and you go live down there and there's bands and
Speaker 5: all this, and there's no parade.
Speaker 1: We described the floats going up.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: This was years ago.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yes, Michael, you guys don't remember the April Fol's
Speaker 10: joke you did right.
Speaker 1: Actually, Michael tells this story before we go to break.
Speaker 10: I had just started with the show and what happened, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 10: I had to reach over to.
Speaker 1: Ahead, reach over a nudge gladys alive.
Speaker 10: I was with the show maybe eight weeks, and I'm
Speaker 10: running the board for them, and they're doing their thing
Speaker 10: and they pretend to get in a fight, I believe,
Speaker 10: and they said better argument, better argument, and they storm out.
Speaker 10: They said, that's it, We're not doing this anymore.
Speaker 1: They just left me there right in the middle of
Speaker 1: a segment. I've forgotten what did you end up doing?
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 10: I I don't know if I cracked the mic, or
Speaker 10: if I went to a commercial, or I just I
Speaker 10: just I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this audio has to be somewhere. It's
Speaker 1: on a reel.
Speaker 5: Somewhere, like literally a reel of tape. But that is
Speaker 5: similar to what I was mocking before. So here's some
Speaker 5: people that I work for. We're now going to make
Speaker 5: it clear that you can't believe anything.
Speaker 1: We say more than we think.
Speaker 5: Cruelty to you, causing you emotional pain for our for
Speaker 5: our pleasure, is perfectly on the table.
Speaker 1: This stress terrible stress, gut wrenching stress. You're a young person,
Speaker 1: You've got a job. I just met you, guys.
Speaker 10: I really didn't know them very well at all.
Speaker 1: We were horrible people. Now you guys, knock it off.
Speaker 1: We are much better people now. I think, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I don't know less fun Evidently, listen to you, we're
Speaker 1: less fun people. Oh my god. I apologize on behalf
Speaker 1: of younger me. I still look back at it with joy.
Speaker 1: There you go. Cool, Okay, we got more on the ways.
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 5: I use AI chatbots a lot for all kinds of
Speaker 5: different stuff, and I just came across something delusional spiraling,
Speaker 5: which they've just discovered in AI chatbots.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in our four. Really interesting wow
Speaker 1: Plus Canada's lost its damn mind joined us for our four.
Speaker 1: If you don't get our four, you can't be here.
Speaker 1: Just to grab it via podcast, you got to follow us,
Speaker 1: subscribe to Armstrong you getty on demand. A couple of
Speaker 1: quick notes that I think are worth squeezing in. First
Speaker 1: of all, Jack, I'll bet you'll get this this. I'm
Speaker 1: putting Jack on the spot. What is wrong with this sentence?
Speaker 1: It's a story about our good friends in Washington State
Speaker 1: who have their first ever income tax. It happens to
Speaker 1: start now with income over one million dollars. Here's here's
Speaker 1: the sentence. Tell me what's wrong with this the loss
Speaker 1: I'm by Governor Bob Ferguson creates an income tax for
Speaker 1: top earners beginning in twenty twenty eight to nine point
Speaker 1: nine percent tax blah blah blah income over one million
Speaker 1: dollars and will be used to fund childcare programs, free
Speaker 1: school meals, tax credits for working families, and tax breaks
Speaker 1: for small businesses. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5: There's probably lots of things wrong with that. One of
Speaker 5: them would be what the money gets used for. It'll
Speaker 5: just go into a fund and get spent.
Speaker 3: Ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 1: I knew I could count on you. Money is fungible. Yeah, please,
Speaker 1: you can give me one thousand dollars and tell me
Speaker 1: it's for eating out with Judy. I might spend it
Speaker 1: on my wife eating out or on golfer. Spend less
Speaker 1: on golf because I got more over here. It's more
Speaker 1: a medical bill you just got hit with or whatever,
Speaker 1: right exactly? Oh my god, if you fall for that
Speaker 1: and everybody falls always yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 5: That's because of the article in the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 5: for gonna sake to be charitable to people. It's like
Speaker 5: social security. I think we make an assumption that it
Speaker 5: goes into a specific account.
Speaker 1: That it can only be used for that purpose. But
Speaker 1: that's not the way money. It's not the way you're
Speaker 1: SoC security.
Speaker 5: I mean, soci security is the greatest example of all,
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we all assume it's going into some sort
Speaker 5: of an account somewhere that is just for social security. No,
Speaker 5: it just goes into the general fund of money, and
Speaker 5: it's getting used for you know, the war, and for
Speaker 5: social programs and for you know, National Hot Dog Day
Speaker 5: if there's some reason the federal government needs to spend
Speaker 5: money or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then when you retire that the federal government says,
Speaker 1: where the effort are you going to get the money
Speaker 1: for a jack's retirement? I guess will borrow it. That's
Speaker 1: the way it actually works. All right, Moving along, I
Speaker 1: thought this was interesting. I'm super excited about Cuba. Nobody's
Speaker 1: talking about Cuba, the crumbling of the evil communist Castro
Speaker 1: regime and the prospect perhaps for reform there. I'm on
Speaker 1: fire for Cuba right now.
Speaker 5: I'm reading listening to Cuba Libre fantastic freaking book about
Speaker 5: the rise of Fidel and Chay and take it over
Speaker 5: the country and the before and after.
Speaker 1: It's so good. So anyway, Trump the other day little
Speaker 1: remarked upon let a giant Russian tanker carrying seven hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty thousand barrels of oil dock in a northern
Speaker 1: Cuban port to bring a little relief to the fuel
Speaker 1: star of island, because he's got enough balls in the
Speaker 1: air with plates spinning. What's the expression, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: There's so much going on with Iran right now. Cuba's
Speaker 1: regime is about to collapse, and it looks like the
Speaker 1: Trump administration was saying, we can't deal with that right now.
Speaker 5: Oh you think that's why they did it, to like
Speaker 5: keep the regime healthy for a little while. Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's the way White House officials said. The move does
Speaker 5: not market policy change, and the Trump administration is deciding
Speaker 5: on a case by case basis. Quote, Cuba's non functional
Speaker 5: economy cannot be fixed unless they undergo dramatic political and
Speaker 5: leadership change.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, But not now, not right now. That's
Speaker 1: the way I interpret it, And then maybe we can
Speaker 1: get to this next hour super super wise article by
Speaker 1: I Think it's the nephew of Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton Ferris Jr. You're not protesting like doctor King.
Speaker 1: It's a very serious bit of writing and very eloquent.
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