Alaska GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski & the 'One Big Beautiful Bill'

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The One Big Beautiful Bill is making me pretty depressed.
Making me pretty depressed for a couple of reasons, and
I want to talk about them today. It's mostly a
question of the standing of social conservatives within the Republican
Party and what the negotiations.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Of the obbb BBB reveal about it. So what do
I mean?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
What did social conservatives really want out of the One
Big Beautiful Bill? Well, the two main things at issue
were continued federal funding for transgender interventions through federal healthcare
programs and federal funding going to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. Okay,

(00:49):
those were the two big things. The House version of
the bill was great. The House version of the obbb
was great.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
It had a.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Complete defunding of all abortion providers, the most significant of
which is Planned Parenthood, which gets something like seven hundred
million dollars in federal funding every single year. A ten
year defunding of Planned Parenthood that was in the House built,
which is great. It also included a complete exclusion of

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any coverage whatsoever for all transgender interventions for adults as
well as kids from federal healthcare programs. The federal taxpayer
should not be paying for any kind of transgender interventions. Great,
makes total sense, and yet the Senate version, the Senate

(01:58):
version has been extremely weakened. And the reason why it's
weakened is because three Republicans jumped ship on it. Susan Collins,
the Republican senator from Maine, who understandable, I mean, as

(02:19):
much as I don't like it and don't like her.
Susan Collins is she and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, two
of the most liberal Republicans left in the Senate. Susan
Collins is pro choice. She has to have this weird
sort to stay as an elected official in Maine, where

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she's from. She has to maintain this kind of weird
position of not liking Trump but being Republican on certain things,
and Maine is kind of an odd duck state, and
in fact, they might be electing a Republican House member.
Paul Lapage, the former governor of Maine, is I think
running for the House, So I understand. And Susan Collins.

(03:02):
I don't like Susan Collins, but she's a Republican senator
from Maine.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
What am I going to expect that she's going to
vote like Ted Cruz.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, she's got a very bizarre political constituency that she's
responsive to. What I'm frustrated by is Tom Tillis and
Rand Paul. All right, Rand Paul again, I kind of understand.

(03:29):
Rand paula said he's not voting for the one big,
beautiful bill. Rand Paul is a libertarian leaning guy. He's
Ron Paul's kid inheriting that libertarian tradition. And Rand is like, Hey,
I don't want to do this big time increase of
the debt ceiling that the OBBB is requiring. The OBBB

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is not very physically responsible. Rand Paul is probably the
most closely aligned to Elon Musk's way of thinking about
the OBBB, and so Rand Paul says he's not going.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
To vote for it. The one that really hurts and kills.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
And weakens the OBBB is Tom Tillis, the Republican Senator
from North Carolina. Now, Tom Tillis said that he couldn't
support the OBBB because of its cuts to medicate And

(04:40):
this is the thing that I just find so curious,
basically the reasons why Tillis is uh So, there's there's
a write up on this a couple of weeks ago
from Fox News Tillis is unlikely to budge even after

(05:02):
conversations with Trump. He's also planning to unveil further analysis
on the impact of Medicaid cuts on his state that
he said, no one in the administration or in this
building has been able to refute. The President and I
have talked, and I just told him that, look, if
this works for the country, that's great, and if my
other colleagues have done extensive research and concluded it's different
in their states, I respect that.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
He said.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
We just have a disagreement based on the implementation in
our respective states. Basically, there are cuts to Medicaid that
the OBBB includes. Mostly it includes work requirements for able
bodied persons to receive Medicaid. Barack Obama really kind of

(05:46):
fundamentally transformed the Medicaid program after Obamacare. Where Medicaid used
to be a sort of more limited program, nowadays people
think of it as just it's just health insurance for
people under a certain income threshold. That's all it is.
And it kind of varies from state, and it varies
from state to state. What the OBBB is going to

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do is basically say, look, if able bodied people are
you know, if you have someone who is a healthy,
able bodied adult.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's not what Medicaid's supposed to be for.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Medicaid was originally designed as a health insurance program for
people in certain kinds of what's called now legacy groups,
which is the original groups, that legacy that Medicaid was
sort of designed for groups like pregnant women, disabled people,
other kinds. There's the s CHIP program for children. Okay,
so certain kinds of people for whom getting health insurance

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would be quite difficult, in no small part because of
the there maybe some hindrance to their ability to find
work due to their circumstances. I don't know that offering
it to able bodied people who just aren't looking for work,

(07:09):
I don't know that that's the best, most sensible solution.
So I've been largely comfortable with the Medicaid cuts or limitations.
I mean, I don't know. It seems to me that
the kinds of people, at least the way Republicans have
been framing it, I've been comfortable with Tillis is basically
saying he doesn't like it, And certainly anyone who's got

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a heavy percentage of Medicaid coveries in their district is
going to be nervous about it. Okay, David Valadeo is
going to take enormous heat for voting for the OBBB
in the House because a huge percentage of his district
is covered by Medicaid. This is how Valadeo lost his
seat in twenty eighteen. He voted for the Republican Reconciliation

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Bill in twenty seventeen, which would have eliminated Obamacare, would
have kicked a bunch of people off of medical California's
version of Medicaid, and that's why Valadeo lost to TJ.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
The disastrous it turned out TJ. Cox in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
So Tillis, basically who was not a person that you
would have expected would have abandoned ship on it. Now,
Tillis has been a bit more moderate in the Senate.
He had the temerity, particularly he picked a fight with
the Trump administration over the confirmation of Ed Martin to

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be the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, and
he was one of several Republicans who refused to vote
for his confirmation. Frankly, I didn't mind that. Martin then
turned around and said after Trump withdrew ed Martin and
replaced his nomination with of all people, Janine Shapiro, Judge Janine,

(09:00):
you know who hasn't been a practicing attorney for you know, decades.
Although Janine Shapiro did actually have experience working as a
local prosecutor, so I think Shapiro was actually much more
qualified for the job than Ed Martin was. Tillis supported
her confirmation totally fine. So Tillis already had this somewhat

(09:24):
antagonistic relationship with the Trump people and they lose out
on Tillis. So Tillis isn't voting for the bill. Rand
Paul isn't voting for the bill. Susan Collins isn't voting
for the bill. Republicans have fifty three seats in the Senate.
They've lost three, so they need fifty votes to pass
the OBBB. They need fifty votes in the Senate and

(09:46):
then Jade Vance as the tiebreaker, meaning meaning what enter
Lisa Murkowski. I hate Lisa Murkowski. The two most liberal
Republicans in the Senate are Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
Susan Collins from Maine, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska. Look, if

(10:09):
you're a Republican senator from Maine, I understand that you're
probably going to be more liberal than me. Okay, I'll
give you some leeway there. All right, We're not gonna
get a you know name, your very mainstream conservative Republican
Ted Cruz is not getting elected in Maine. Josh Hawley

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from Missouri. He's not he's elected in Missouri. He's not
elected in Maye. Okay, we're not going to get a
normal standard Republican senator from Maine. A Republican senator from
Maine is going to be much more liberal than a
Republican senator from Texas and Oklahoma and whatever. All right, fine,
I understand that.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I accept that.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
I can't stand the fact that Alaska keeps electing this
gal Alaska, which votes for Republican conservative Republican presidents every
year by massive margins, somehow elects the most liberal senator,
the most liberal Republican senator humanly possible, who stabs the

(11:12):
Republican Party in the back every chance she gets. And
Mitch McConnell didn't try to chuck her, or maybe he
did try to chuck her out, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
It seems like he was too buddy buddy with her.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Anyway, she managed to like re rig the whole system
of voting in Alaska, like ranked choice of voting, so
that basically she could keep getting elected. And basically, this
version of the OBBB that the Senate just passed is

(11:45):
the Lisa Murkowski approved version, which gets rid of the
cuts to federal funding for gender transition interventions, and.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
It reduces the defunding of Planned Parenthood from a ten
year defunding to a one year defunding, which might as
well be a zero year defunding.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Because these states are just gonna make blue states are
gonna just make up the difference one year of defunding
of Planned Parenthood. They can survive that, they can get
their donors to step up for one year. They can't
survive a ten year federal defunding or at the very
least a four year federal defunding. No, presumably the effects
of the OBBB won't be felt for ten consecutive.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Peers, although it could.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I mean, if a Democrat president's you know, elected in
twenty twenty eight, he or she might not have a
Republican he or she might have a Republican controlled House
or Senate to deal with, and this defunding might might
last for ten years, Planned parenthood would be cooked done
in many states if this defunding took place. I don't

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think they can sustain, especially in Republican states. I don't
think they can sustain a loss of federal funding for
ten years. They can sustain it for one year, but
not ten. And why are those things kicked out? Because
Lisa Murkowski? Lisa Murkowski. And that's the thing with the OBBB.

(13:16):
I get that Trump desperately wants it, and there are
certain really good things in the OBBB. Expanding the number
of federal immigration judges is a huge deal. Some of
the stuff it's doing for immigration is a big deal,
including expanding the number of immigration judges. If you expand
the number of immigration judges, it allows some fix to

(13:40):
the completely broken asylum system, which I'll talk I think
I'll talk about that a little more in the next segment.
But basically, the problem is people come to the border
making an asylum claim as a way of cutting the
line of our normal immigration process. That was the main
one of the major problems of the Trump of the

(14:03):
Biden administration was people would come to the border making
an asylum claim.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Federal law says, while your.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Asylum claim is being heard, you must be kept in custody,
and the Trump administration there aren't enough jail cells to
hold people in custody. So during the Trump administration, it
was remain in Mexico until we adjudicate your asylum claim.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
But the problem was it would take forever to adjudicate.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Anyone's asylum claim because we didn't have enough immigration judges.
This massively expands the number of immigration judges, which is
a really important thing. There's a lot of good things
for helping for expanding beefing up immigration enforcement. But from

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my perspective, you know, as someone who's always been a
social conservative first and foremost, and as someone who realizes,
you know you only you don't get multiple bites at
the apple. With these reconciliation bills, there may be some
chance to do just a clean defunding of planned parenthood bill.

(15:11):
If it was just up or down on defunding planned parenthood,
this thing could pass. Rand Paul would vote for it.
Tom Tillis would vote for it. But this is the
thing about the OBBB that just frustrates me is social
conservatives just aren't even in the game. That's just what

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kills me. Social conservatives are just not in the game.
It's just not a thing because I mean, Trump wants
OBBB to pass, and that's always been a thing about
Trump that has always a little frustrated me. But I

(15:54):
understand and respect and think it's politically smart. He offen
Eve just doesn't care about the details of legislation that
he wants. He just wants something signed because getting something
done is better than getting nothing done. And he takes
a very pragmatic approach of no idea is a good

(16:14):
idea if it can't get fifty votes, All right, fair enough,
But I sort of fear that, like the stuff you're
willing to compromise on versus what you're not willing to
compromise on. You're willing to compromise on defunding planned parenthood
and transsurgeries to get your fiftieth vote, and federal funding

(16:35):
for trans surgeries to get your fiftieth vote, but you're
not willing to compromise on the Medicaid stuff to get
your fiftieth vote. If Tom Tillis were on board and
instead what happened, all right, when we return, I want
to talk about the negotiating strategy or the wooing strategy.
If you will on the part of the Trump team

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and my questions about whether it was all that well done.
I realize on Monday morning quarterbacking. But again, my concern
is with my constituency of social conservatism. I care about
the immigration stuff, I care about all of that stuff,
but it feels like social conservatism is just not a
priority and that's frustrating. We'll talk about it more when
we return here on the John Girardi Show. The OBBB

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is probably going to pass, and it's not going to
be the House version of it, which was better. It's
going to be the Senate version, which is worse. Why well,
because ultimately the Senate version of the OBBB is the
Lisa Murkowski approved version. Lisa Murkowski the most liberal Republican
in the Senate. Maybe it's between her and Susan Collins,

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is the decisive fiftieth vote to get the OBBB over
the line in the Senate, and thus the OBBB reflects
what she is willing to live with, what she is
willing to do. I'm a little frustrated at how the
negotiations went, how it feels like the Trump people alienated

(18:08):
two conservative senators who would have voted the right way.
And thereby preserved the really good social conservative aspects of
the House version of the OBBB. What were those things? Well, first,

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a full ten year defunding of Planned Parenthood and full
defunding of any getting rid of any federal funding, any
federal coverage for transgender interventions for kids or adults. Those
provisions got taken out. I think that maybe it was

(18:50):
just the coverage for trans interventions for adults was restored
in the Senate. I need to double check to see
if if that was also for kids. I think it's
certainly adults was put back.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Not sure about kids, And.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
So those things go back in the bill. Why because
of the way, because the Trump administration could not craft
an OBBB that was able to get the votes of
two more socially conservative senators Rand Paul and Tom Tillis.
So Tillis has all these concerns about Medicaid. The response

(19:31):
from the Trump people I felt was so aggressive it
turned into and I mean, I don't know, I've read
his comments. I read a news story with Tillos's comments,
which seemed fairly mild, and he said, you know, I
don't know that I could support this.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
I think the Medicaid cuts or and I don't know,
maybe there's room to work with him on that.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
It seemed that Tillos was mostly concerned about Medicaid cuts
and how that could adversely impact people in North Carolina.
And the Trump people respond to that with these open
threats that they're gonna primary Tom Tillis. No, I can't
say I'd be crying big alligator tears to lose Tom Tillis.
He's not some like great pillar of conservatism or anything.

(20:16):
He seems like a pretty mediocre Republican senator. But North
Carolina is a tough state. He's an incumbent. Why are
we talking about primarying him like you want to hold
onto the Senate in twenty twenty six?

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Why are we talking about primarying him over this? Like?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
They immediately go to this very aggressive posture with Tillis,
and guess what happens. Tillis says, well, I'm gonna resign
at the end of this term. I'm not gonna run
for reelection, eliminating all leverage that the Trump people had.
So now Tillis can vote however the heck he wants
for the bill and stick it to the Trumpet say

(21:00):
you know what, screw you all right, I'll just retire then, No,
you're not gonna bully me into doing this or that.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Rand Paul.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Similarly, Rand Paul had all these concerns about spending and
how it was increasing the debt ceiling, and.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
The White House acted pretty petty towards him.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
They didn't invite him to like they were like all
these different parties at the White House. They specifically invited
every Republican Senate member's family to accept him, and these
people are petty, like, like, why would you do that?
I mean, Trump has had better or worse relationships with
Rand Paul over the course of time. And I recognize

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that Rand Paul is probably an annoying guy, and it's
clear that he sort of was siding with Elon Musk
and the whole Elon Musk Trump breakup. But why would
you do these little petty things to push someone away
from you? You know, you're trying to get these people

(22:09):
to vote for your thing, and the aggression level towards
them was ridiculous. Meanwhile, here's Lisa Murkowski, who's been a
Republican liberal Republican senator from a conservative Republican state for decades. Now,
why haven't we tried to primary her every single time.

(22:29):
I mean, I guess they did try to primary or
once and she won in a write in campaign.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Somehow I just cannot stand.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
And that's the thing that just annoys me to no end.
I'm okay with a version of the OBBB that bends
a little bit to what Tom Tillis wants. I'm okay
with a version of the OBBB that bends a little
to what Rand Paul wants. What I can't stand, what
just frustrates me is that we're gonna get a version

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of the OBBB that bends to what Lisa Murkowski wants.
I don't want it to reflect her priorities. Look if
it's an imperfect bill that reflects more Tom Tillis's priorities,
Ran Paul's priorities, or her priorities, which would I pick
Tillis or Rand Paul every day of the week and
twice on Sunday rather than her.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
I mean, we've got a Republican majority, and I don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
It just frustrates me that these big time conservative priorities
like defunding abortion providers, We're gonna get a one year
defunding of abortion providers. It's not gonna do much of anything,
and then we just got to hope somehow that that
can get continued in subsequent years. It frustrates me that
social conservatives are clearly just not in the game all

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right when we return this kind of culture ish story,
a story about AI and the spokesperson from President Unified
having to resign on the John Gerardi Show. I have
ranted and raved on this show about AI quite a bit.
I think it is a net negative force. I am

(24:14):
a luddite on this issue. I think that there are
really serious risks with AI. I think the way people
talk about AI and its risks and then gleefully leap
into it, it really concerns me and disturbs me. And
I think one of the things that really disturbs me

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one of the things I find really disturbing about it
is using AI as a replacement for doing a good job.
Let me put it away, using AI as a replacement
for you working harder and doing a good job. I

(24:56):
saw this exchange on Twitter happen. There's this writer I
follow whom I really like. I think he's is he
like a columnist now from New York Times.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
I'm not sure his name is Matthew Walther w A. L.
T h e. R. You should check him out.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
He's a great he's a Catholic author, and he's writing
a great book about John Henry Cardinal Newman, who is
this great Catholic convert from England in the eighteen hundreds
and great theologian. Walter writes about all kinds of different
political and social kind of commentary stuff, essay stuff. He

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runs this Catholic kind of essay journal called The Lamp Magazine,
which is great. Walter got in this exchange with this
very dumb professor who was saying, why don't you just
run all of your column ideas through AI? What I
do is I just make a draft of AI, run
it through I make a draft of my research, I

(25:57):
run it through six different AI models, and then use
the AI's input to help improve my work. And I,
like Walter saw this with just complete disdain of like,
so you're just outsourcing your original thinking to AI, that's

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all you're doing here. Why don't you edit your work?
Why don't you check your findings? Because this is one
of the glaring holes that's existing in AI. And I
don't know, maybe that's this is a thing that will
be fixed or improved with AI.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I kind of doubt it though, because.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Fundamentally what AI seems to be is it's a garbage in,
garbage out system. AI works by basically receiving a large
raft of information. It has some sort of ability to
respond to you with you know, syntax, It needs to

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have some sort of ability to sense a size and
then spit out summaries more or less of work that
you've given it. But it's a at the end of
the day, it's kind of a garbage in, garbage out system.
And so a lot of people have gotten into trouble,
especially using AI for high level research stuff. HHS had

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a really embarrassing incident under RFK recently where they introduced
some big paper endorsing various RFK ish kind of policies,
and a bunch of the references were junk, which is
a hallmark of AI that it was creating references out
of nowhere. It was synthesizing things incorrectly because it doesn't

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have the human ability to synthesize information. So I really
fear that a ton of people are using AI as
a substitute for actually doing the work and working hard
and producing good work product. You see this in law,
where people there are lawyers who are getting sanctioned for

(28:05):
sloppy work because they basically try to outsource their work
to some sort of AI and produce some work product
that was you know, sanctionably bad that damage their clients
or whatever. Yeah, I mean there's.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
A lot of bad stuff that's happened with AI. Now.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Presno Unified has gone through a very similar case. Misty
hur gets in charge. She's having tense negotiations, tense interactions
all the time with teachers union.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
What else is new?

Speaker 1 (28:49):
And she's seeking to have the teachers' union sort of
interact with talk about her publicly in a more respectful way.
She has her communications director, the chief spokesperson for Fresney Unified,
Nicki Henry. She clearly it seems that she assigned her

(29:11):
to come up with a list, you know, compile for me,
a list of the most negative quotes that Manuel Benia,
the head of the Fresno Teachers Union, has said about me.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
He said about a bunch of really nasty negative things
about me.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I want you to compile those so that when we
talk with them, we say, hey, look, you said all these.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Things about me, Why don't we try and talk more respectfully. Whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
So Nicki Henry puts together this summary document that Misty
hur runs with, and the summary document was clearly made
with AI. Henry didn't didn't clearly actually research it herself.
She just set up some AI sort of request hey

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compile for me all of the most negative all the
most negative quote notes made by Manuelbania or the president
Teachers Union against Misty Hurt. And guess what the AI did.
It basically fabricated quotes. It doesn't synthesize the information appropriately,
and it wound up fabricating quotes that it ascribed to Manuelbania,

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the head of the teachers Union or other officials. Missy
h Herr got this AI generated summary and used it
in conversations negotiations with the labor union as if it
was legitimate, and it wasn't. And again it's it was

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people using AI as a substitute for actually working hard.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
District official.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
So again here's the write up on it from the
presdent B. District officials confronted union leaders at a May
seventh meeting with a nine page document listing examples of
public criticism against Misty Hr and the district's superintendent Search process.
The document, compiled by artificial intelligence, included fabricated quotes in

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news media articles. Henry confirmed her role in creating the
document in a post on Nicky Henry, the former spokesperson
for President Unified who's just resigned, confirmed her role in
creating the document in a post on LinkedIn a social
media site. I produced a doc that was never meant
to be shared beyond six people. It was a rough
draft and an attempt to say, hey, we're off track,

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let's do something different together for our student's staff and community.
Henry wrote, Eh, I don't know if that seems like,
you know, people got to shade things in a way
to help sort of defend themselves. While I own my mistake,
I won't let it own me, she said. Henry said
she moved too fast under pressure and didn't push pause

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to fact check the document. Henry said the document wasn't
intended to be shared publicly or perceived as an attack
against the teachers union. I mean, clearly it was meant
to be perceived as an attack on the teachers union.
It was you know, her was going to use it
in talking to the teachers union and saying, hey, stop,
it's hard to have negotiations with you when you're out
here publicly blasting me.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Here's all these examples.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
The Fresno Teachers Association posted the document on Facebook, highlighting
the fabricated quotes said to have been included in articles
published by the Fresno Bee, ABC thirty and GV Wire.
Henry was placed on leave after the controversy became public
in late May. Bania said the union called for Henry's
termination and for her to quote admit the statements were false.
The former communications chief fabricated statements and falsely attributed them

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to FTA leadership. Even on her way out, she refused
to admit they were false, instead calling them off the
record or rough drafts, as if that excuses deliberate misinformation.
Bania said. President unifind confirmed that June thirty was Henry's
last day, and the district thanked her for her six
years of service. Henry touted her tenure as the district's
chief communications officer, writing that the communications team quote highlighted

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the positive work and humanity of the President Unified team.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
The humanity of.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Them, I mean, I'd be fine with them being robots
if they could actually teach kids how to freaking read
and gave quote voice and authentic engagement for our families.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
All right, great, why don't.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
You teach kids how to read? Can you teach kids
how to do math and read? Reading, writing and arithmetic?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Bebby Great.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
I don't really care about the humanity of your communication.
I mean, she's the communications director. Okay, it's not her
responsibility to be teaching the kids to read or write.
But I can't say I really care much about it.
That work and the people I did it with means
so much to me and always will. Henry wrote, thank
you to each and every one of you that helped
me grow and showed me so much love.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
But this is the thing I hate and fear with AI.
I fear it is becoming.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Like a crutch that people are using to replace actual
hard work. You're starting to see this impact the way
high school kids do and produce work. You're starting to
see this in you know, the SATs changing their formats

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to have fewer like long form reading comprehension exams because
kids are apparently their attention spans are so short now.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
That and and so you know small text.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Used to because I mean, very often they're they're kids
are using these AI softwares to cheat so rapidly to
create drafts of essays that I think it's becoming very
difficult to police. And a lot of schools are having
to revert to using blue books and writing out exam

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answers with pencil and paper, which I think is the
obvious answer to the problem. But you know, that's my
fear with all of this, where this is heading is
a continuing diminishment of young people and as they become adult,

(35:09):
professional people, and look, they're thirty. I mean, this woman
was the communications head for President Unified that she wasn't
a sixteen year old. That she's using AI basically as
a substitute for her actual job. She used this thing,
she prepped this thing. She didn't take the time to
verify it. You know, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (35:33):
It just seems like that is more and more often.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Look, if you want to use AI to say, hey,
I've got Guda cheese and pasta and this and that
and that in my fridge, Hey, AI, generate me find
some recipes on the internet for me. Okay, that's fine.
You want to use it as the start of a
research tool, okay. I think the problem is how it's

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being used as a crutch to replace actual hard work,
when actual hard work and actual thought. And I kind
of feel like my homeschool kids are going to have
a huge leg up because I'm not gonna let them
touch this crap until they are adults. And hopefully my
kids learning the old fashioned way will basically make them

(36:20):
superhuman masters of the world. We'll see Little President Jimmy
Girardi when we return a quick thought on why we
social conservatives also aren't okay with adults.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Engaging in gender transition stuff. That's next on the John
Girardi Show. Little Brew ha ha.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
In conservative commentary land, this anti Trump conservative outlet of
which many started after the Trump era, run by Jonah Goldberg,
who was a big time big wig for National Review,
called The Remnant, hired this male who transitioned to pretend

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to be a female named Jessica Reedal I think is
the name that this person goes by and to basically
be an economics analyst, and received an appropriate level of
flack for this decision, to which people said, Oh, I
thought conservatives just didn't care what people did in their

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personal lives.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
They were about freedom and choice in your personal lives. No,
that's what libertarians think.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Libertarians think basically that as long as you're not harming
someone within the perimeter of your swinging fists, you can
do whatever the heck you want. They seem to ignore
the fact that no human being is an island. This
person left his wife and kids to transition to become
a woman and or to pretend to be a woman.

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And this is the thing that is also a wrong choice.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
It is wrong.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
It is a denial of biological reality. And if you
tell me no you have to use this person's new
feminine name or feminine pronouns, No, I'm not going to
do that. I'm not going to be party to this insanity.
And I don't care if it's an adult doing the
insanity or it's it's more egregious when it's a kid
doing this and having this insanity done to them. But

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I'm not going to be party to it. That'll do it,
John Orrodi show, see you next Timem on Power Talk.