December 4, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The Hunter Biden pardon from the perspective of the IRS whistleblowers
- Martial law & protests in South Korea
- Gender Bending Madness in Tennessee
- Life altering procedures on kids
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
This nation was founded on the principle that there are
no kings in America. Each each of us is equal
before the law. No one, no one is above the law.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The fact is, no one is above the law in
this country. No one is above the law.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The American principle that no one is above the law
was reaffirmed.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Make no mistake, no one, not even the President of
the United States, is above the law.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And my administration no one, no one is above the law.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
This is not just another by political story, the pardoning
of Hunter.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
This is.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Gonna be like in the very top ways you describe
the whole Joe Biden thing. If if it's ever talked
about him being president, him pardoning his son.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I would agree, Yeah, if it's a three horned description
of his presidency, this will be one of those.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Horns, along with being senile and deciding to run again.
But the New York Times, for instance, their columnists, here's
the list of their columnists from is this today or yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yesterday. I think a.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Second rate crime gets a second rate pardon from Gail Collins,
a disgraceful pardon by Brett Stevens, Biden's pardon for his son,
dishonors the office from Jeffrey Tubin, and there were a
couple of more really negative things, and New York Times
is like, full on, this is awful. I was crazy
shocked listening to one of my favorite podcasts that these
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very learned and smart people who I enjoyed listening to
completely whift on the eleven year blanket immunity from anything
you might dig up. I mean, that's unfreaking believable.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
That's the key aspect of this. But the drive by media.
God bless Rush Limbaugh, God rest his soul. That is
such a great description because.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
They took a glance. Oh he pardoned his son.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I'll be damned. He said he wouldn't, but he did. Anyway,
taxes and guns. Anyway, let's move on to the next thing.
Maybe there's a scandal. Oh but the great Eli Lake
in the Free Press with a terrific piece talking about
all of the times Joe Biden and his cronies put aside,
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crapped on, ignored, our democratic norms, between the laptop cover up,
the perversion of the intelligence services, the law fair, all
of it. It's a great, great takedown. And I wish
we had more time because it was terrific, but I
wanted to get to this. And this is Joseph Ziegler
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and Gary Shapley who wrote a piece in the Journal.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Do you remember those names?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Those were the irs, whistleblowers who came by at risk
in great damage to their careers and personal lives, and said, hey,
the Merrick Garland Justice Department is giving Hunter an unbelievable
sweetheart ride when he's committed serious, serious tax crime. And
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as I said, they have a piece in the Journal.
Do we have that Scott Jennings clip I was looking
for yet Hanson. We can figure that out in a second,
because he does a great job with that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Anyway, they right.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
The White House's story on Hunter Biden keeps changing. The
President supposedly had no knowledge of his son's business, then
no involvement in it, then no financial benefit directly from it.
The goalpost moved as more facts came to light. Before
the election. Joe Biden honest, he would respect the legal
process and issue no pardon or commutation to his son.
This week, he went much farther than preemptively commuting any
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sentence to keep his son from prison. He issued a
broad pardon for any and all crimes over nearly eleven
year period. He gave his son the sweeping immunity to
which career prosecutors refused to agree to as part of
an aborted plea deal. When that deal collapsed in January
twenty three, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel,
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despite his testimony that they get into a detail that's
a little distracting. These dizzying narrative shifts happened because the
two of us blew the whistle and exposed the preferential
treatment the Biden Justice Department gave to a powerful political family.
Our story never changed because we told the truth.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And I thought, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
What, stepping aside from the specifics of what we're talking
about here, you have one party whose story constantly changes,
the other part of your story never changes. Well, I
remember on shouldn't there be a saying about that all
human beings grow up knowing?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
How powerful is that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I remember the Washington Post gave Biden for Pinocchio's on
one of those claims the uh never had knowledge of
the business of my son or something like that.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
So, to get back to the whistleblowers, President Biden's pardon
is an insult to every honest, tax paying American. He
claimed that his own Justice Department unfairly targeted his son.
On the contrary, we produced mountains of evidence and testified
under oath about the machinations as Justice Department, including mister Weiss,
used to shield the Biden family from a thorough investigation
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of alleged corruption Ukraine, Romania, and China. This year, a
jury found Hunter Biden guilty of federal gun charges in Delaware,
and he pleaded guilty to willful tax felonies in California.
The President's letter falsely suggests that his son was merely
late in filing and paying his taxes because of serious addictions.
He wrote that in such cases, when back taxes are
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paid with penalties and interest, they are often resolved without
criminal penalties. But his son was treated differently. That's malarkey.
The American people need to know him that the President's
good one. Yeah, well played, And the President's letter omits
that Hunter Biden admitted to intentional felony, tax evasion, criminal
charges for which ordinary Americans are held accountable every day.
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Hunter Biden admitted that he filed false tax returns with
the IRS knowingly and willfully while sober. False deductions taken
on his tax return contradicted statements he made in his memoir, which.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He also wrote while sober.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
These false deductions included things like sex club memberships, luxury
vehicle randal house late.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
The sex club memberships that he put down as a
business expense, which you know, maybe they were. Ordinary Americans
are routinely held accountable for that kind of tax fraud
every day, But Hunter Biden will escape accountability because his
father is President. Joe Biden's letter doesn't mention that his
broad pardon also absolves his son any other crime in
the past decade that the Justice Department didn't fully investigate.
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In a public filing in August, Special Council Weis's office
alleged that Hunter Biden agreed quote to attempt to influence
US public policy on behalf of a Romanian businessman, but
did not charge mister Biden with a violation of the
Foreign Agent's Registration Act. The dishonesty that has infected the
Washington political class must stop, and the bureaucrats and the
Justice Department in the IRIS who abused their power and
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acted unethically ought to be held accountable.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Then he they talk about the constant retaliation they have
faced from the very powerful in Democratic party circles and
the help they're getting from whistleblower support organizations. But without
serious reform and major changes in personnel and policy, something
like this will happen again. We will keep our ozis sworn.
Federal tax law enforcement officers stand up for fair and
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equal treatment of every taxpayer and speak out against improper
politicization of the Justice Department. Those dudes, aretriots. I'm glad
they took it down point by point. What a parade
of lies. That statement Biden wrote was, it's shameless, utterly shameless.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Well, and the fact that The New York Times has
five different columns from regular writers and guest essays blasting
this is unethical and awful and a disgrace and all
the different things. Really, the only support it's getting is
from cable news talking heads who are employed to make arguments.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
They don't mean any of it. It's just an effort
to keep you watching. But it's intellectually bankrupt. It's it's boring,
it's stupid, which is why a lot of those cable
news channels are going away. But anyway, well done, miss
Messrs Ziggler and Shapley.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So we have a breaking news story.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
The CEO of United Healthcare has been shot dead in
front a midtown hotel in New York and there's some
news breaking that it was a targeted like assassination. Now,
there's no way they would know that already. That could
just be the sort of internet rumor that flies around
and it turns out it'll just be you know, some
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Venezuelan gang person that's been arrested five times was just
trying to rob a rich guy.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Who knows. But we'll keep our eye on it.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, I'd love to know some of the facts that
have led people to say that. I mean, it could
be it could be a business thing, could be a
personal thing. I was like to remember when that tech
guy got gunned down in San Francisco and it tried
to be a love triangle deal.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, So the Supreme Court has taking a look at
transgender surgeries. Well, yeah, treatments for kids. What happened in
South Korea yesterday is nuts. Thank god it got settled
down the way it did, and it showed down important
strength in your institutions is and how brawny and ave
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your congressional aids are right. That aspect of the story
is nuts.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, a lot of good stuff this hour. Stay here.
I do want to talk at some point. Major League
Baseball is considering the Goldennet bat is something that they
add in adding to the things that they've done over
the last couple of years with pitch clocks and one
runner on second base and the extra innings or whatever
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that they do.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Is it like the Golden Bachelor. They'll have a sixty
year old guy come up and.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Hit exactly an agent Ken Griffy Jr.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
No, if he gets on base, agent groupies will attempt
to get his hotel room number.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Wow, is it crazy? In South Korea yesterday?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
The height of it happened while we were on the air,
and we were bringing it to you as we're like
watching it on cable news. But here's a report from
NBC A little follow up and then we'll comment to ourselves.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
This morning. A political crisis is deepening in South Korea.
A critical US ally. It comes after a chaotic night
that saw the military mobilized around the National Assembly, its
version of Congress, all of it triggered by South Korean
President Unsucuole's extraordinary move to declare martial law, an attempt
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to replace the country's democratic government with military rule. Une
says he did it to stop what he called North
Korean anti state forces within the government feel fitted move,
fueling a tense standoff with protesters scuffling with police as
helicopters flew overhead. One opposition lawmaker live streaming how he
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climbed a fence to get back inside the legislative.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Building for an emergency vote.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
That forced un to revoke the order within hours.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, and you didn't see that if you haven't seen
the video.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I mean, it's quite the fight they have there at
the doors as people are trying to get in and out,
and there for a while it was not known are
the police in the military listening to the president or
are they following the law and the parliament or what's
going to happen here.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Well, it's classic coup stuff, is what it is. Well, Jack,
as you know, I.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Spent my entire collegiate career studying this very sort of thing,
comparative politics, political systems, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And here is my comment.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You could just go into the streets and chant the
guy's name Yun suck, Yun suck, and that would be
a good chant, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
That's his name, Yeah, Yun suck Yol. Anyway, where was
I ah, yes, actual commentary. Your mother declared martial law.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yeah, so he declares martial law A couple hours later
in the parliaments of the modern day, the South Korea
people said yeah, no, And but he actually had some
elements in the military that were obedient an offer didn't
know what to do. They're trying to bust in to
prevent parliament from doing its work, and they were rebuffed
by like the equivalent of congressional age aides armed with
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fire extinguishers and furniture.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
It had a bit of a January sixth look to
it there. Yeah, thank god.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
The special forces guys I think they're paratroopers or something
like that, who were trying to get in to prevent
the parliament from being Parliament decided not to open fire
on their countrymen.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well, who were they answering to? Though?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Some military leader who just took it upon himself to
choose which direction to go. I mean, at some point
in the chain, somebody was freelancing it, weren't they.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well, thank god.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
President declared martial law, right, which was so he apparently
is a crook, or at least he's an alleged crook.
He's got all kinds of investigative but yeah, and he's
all kinds of investigations going on in him and his
wife and they're just they're crook politicians and the jig
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might be up. And so he declared martial law and
was gonna try to what become a dictator, I guess,
and the Parliament wanted to get back in there to
vote and say, no martial laws over, We're going back
to regular life and now we're going to impeach you,
which is what they're working on today. But they got
back in there and they voted one hundred and ninety
to nothing to get things right.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Right.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Like so many countries around the world, a good deal
of their system is based at least in part on
the United States Constitution, and their system says the president
can declare national law, but if the Assembly convenience and
says no, your justification is not adequate, it's over, which
is kind of The presiding declaration of martial law said
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there can be no political processes at all, including the press,
to which the parliament said, yeah, if we got to
fight our way in, we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
And martial law means you're not able to travel around freely.
And so if they're not in the building and you
declare martial law, how would they get back in to vote?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I guess that's what the president was opening, right, But
my ultimate point is I'm heartened that the institutions held
that the checks and balances worked, and the patriotism of
the South Korean Parliament and their folks, and I'm sure
a lot of them believe stuff I don't believe in,
or maybe rotten or whatever, but they said, whoa, whoa, Woa,
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this is too much, and it's so too much. I'm
going to fight soldiers in the hallways to make sure
we can have our vote.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Wow, that is getting too close to losing your democracy
right there. That's really shaky. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Keeping in mind that South Korea has just been a
democracy since was it nineteen eighty so I can't remember specifically,
but not very long.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
What's a gold met bat in Major League Baseball? They're
thinking actually bringing this in. And the idea is that,
like one idea that's being floated is you'd get one
per game if you followed all. You know, you go
through the order, you know, one through nine, you give
the order before the game, that's the order everybody at
bats in. But with the golden at bat, you'd be
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able to decide it's a crucial situation. Fourth inning, bases loaded,
we could win the game right here, shoy Otani's gonna
bat next. You just bring in your best player to bat.
Then you get one golden at bat per game. And
the idea would.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Be even though he's elsewhere in the lineup, Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
The idea would be that for the fans anyway, you
get the big moment, biggest player thing happening all the time,
instead of bases loaded, you know, two outs out of
pitchers up next, crap. You know, it'd be more exciting
for the fans if the best player gets to come.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Up to bat.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
I guess as a semi purist, as a moderate moderate purist,
I like the pitch clock.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
For instance, I despise this idea. I hate it. They're
not exactly sure.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I will fight South Korean paratroopers in the hallways to
prevent this. They're not quite sure how they would fix
the But then, so then do you bat in your
same bought again?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So you end up batting like twice.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
In potentially twice in a row if you with the
first st idiotic stop it, Stop this madness. What's Major
League Baseball's idea? We have much more news to get to.
I hope you can stay.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Here, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
This is a law that bans medical treatment only when
it is prescribed inconsistent with an individual sex. Our argument
is that that treats people differently because of their sex,
and therefore the court has to treat it like all
other forms of sex discrimination, and that's why it's unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What's that? Oh? That is the.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Just As a side note, former gal current fella Chase Strangio,
who's a lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court. That Tennessee
is the state of Tennessee, which is one of the
twenty six states that bans cruel experiments on children who
are momentarily confused about their sex or deny a suicidal
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kid's gender affirming care, driving them to suicide.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You animal who ordered a load of crap got a
load of crap here.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Uh yeah, So the State Supreme Court is being asked
to say that the Tennessee law prohibiting so called gender
firm and care, which is actually sex change experiments on children,
is somehow discriminatory based on the fourteenth Amendment. Because if I,
as a young lad need testosterone for some sort of
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recognized medical condition, I can get it. If I, as
a young girl who is momentarily confused through peer pressure
and activism at my perverted local school into thinking I
don't know, maybe I'm transgender or queer or something, if I,
as a girl want that same treatment, I can't get it. Therefore,
it is sex discrimination under the fourteenth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I think it's the commerce clause. Oh boy. Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
The law being challenged in Tennessee prohibits administering medical treatments
to miners if the purpose is to enable a gender
transition or to address quote purported discomfort or distress from
a discordance according to the miners set between the minors
sex and asserted identity, which is a so new it's
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like it makes the electric car look like horse travel.
Theory of the way people's minds work in sex that
just became super hot in academia, and now all of
a sudden, kids are getting mutilated over it. It's it's
shocking to me that a country's advanced as ours would
fall for this, this fraud and let kids be abused.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
But so the.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Supreme Court is looking at this for the first time,
the trans stuff, and they could rule what that States.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
May bar doctors from doing this or lead to children
so that or they or they okay, so uh, or
they will.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Say no, States, you can't do that. It is sex discrimination.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
And if a confused girl wants some male hormone treatments,
they should be able to give.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh well, if it was a super woke lefty court,
I would be worried. But I gotta believe there are
five votes to say no, this isn't sex discrimination.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's nuts.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
So let's hear again from the recent rival to manhood
mister Strangio, the trans lawyer at twenty sex Michael I.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Obviously disagree with that premise that allowing transgender women into
women's sports or women's bathroom is a threat to women,
but it is also not the question before the court
in this case. And in fact, it is a totally
independent question about whether a law that band's medical care
for transgender adolescence discriminates against people based on sex versus
these separate cases that preceded any of these law. Bands
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will continue to be litigated in the course regardless of that.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Oucome here is actually right about that.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It is a separate question. It's also a question with
a very clear answer. We only get medical care, though
I don't like. Man, Yeah, I'd cut the crap. Cut
the crap.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
This is our seam.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Stop allowing people to twist the language, or use prejudicial language,
or state that which is clearly not true or has
never been proven by science. This is the clip I
really want next one, Michael.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
These are not doctors being forced to provide this medication.
These are doctors who are wanting to treat their patients
in the best way that they know how, based on
the best available evidence to us. And these are young
people who may have known since they were two years
old exactly who they are, who suffered for six seven
years before they had any relief. And what's happening here,
it's not the kids who are consenting to this treatment.
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It's the parents who are consenting to the treatment, and
as a parent, I would say we when our children
are suffering, we are suffering. And these are parents who
love their children, who are listening to the advice of
their doctors, of the mainstream medical community and doing what's
right for their kids. In the state of Tennessee has
displaced their deaths.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Wow, I almost I wish I had that in writing,
because they're there so many things.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
To unpack from.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh, where do you want to start? With the mainstream
medical authorities. A lot of the quote unquote mainstream medical
authorities have been captured by their far left, and their
guidelines have been written by activists who have no no
scientific basis for their conclusions.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It's a horror. I've spent lots of time looking into this.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Trust me when I say there is no supporting evidence
that this stuff is good for kids, or prevents suicide
or leads to happy outcomes. It's all been faked up
by activists. Secondly, the fact that it's the parents who consent, Jack,
maybe you want.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
To handle that. I don't know. Uh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I got sidetracked by the She brought up the age
of two, so I wanted to hear that thing from
Jack Tapper, where somebody makes that argument that kids know
from the age of two, whether their trends or not.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That was it, Oh, that was it?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Okay, that is that is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That is absolutely unbelievable. It's wow. So she thinks it's like,
there's something wrong with my kid.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You can take your kid to the doctor and like
they would say, they have uh, I don't know, Ricketts.
And then and then they tell you this is the
medicine you need for them.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And that's the way this is playing out.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And it's not some weird progressive parents who would love
it if their kids were trans and keep putting that
in their head until they start to believe it, because
why wouldn't a three year old believe it?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Three year olds believe everything you tell them. That's why
it's so sick and twisted. And your kids should be
taken away from you if you're doing this to your children,
and then you find a doctor who's also of the
same mindset politically to go along with it. If the
activists at school haven't done, you know, right, that delightful
work for you in the state of California, for instance,
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among others.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, it's it's it's just awful.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
It's interesting that like in the state of California, they
will take your kids away if you don't use the
right pronoun but they won't take your kid away if
you try to convince a poor little three year old
boy that he's actually a girl.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
That's horrific. Yeah, correct, Yeah, it's perverse, it's sick.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I have to stay calm when I talk about this stuff,
and I am certain that in a very short time
it will be seen as the obscenity that it is.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I know somebody who at the very young age, they
convinced their which direction to go. They convinced their little
boy that they were a girl. You are a monster, Yeah,
you are a monster.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Shannon Bream discussed this case on Fox News. It's a
little lengthy, but she does a good job of explaining stuff.
Maybe I had left something out go with twenty eight
Michael whena.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
This Tennessee law is at the heart of this and
ad bans treatment of the gender issues for patients who
come seeking that if they're under eighteen years old, surgeries
and also hormone replacement therapy and hormone treatments. But what's
at stake in this case today is actually just the
challenge to the hormone treatments. It's not including the planets.
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Aren't challenging the surgical ban for kids who are under
eighteen in the state of Tennessee. I want to read
something because these planeffs were joined by the Biden administration,
which decided to intervene in this case. And here's part
of their argument to the Supreme Court. They say this,
if these laws are allowed to go into effect, transgender
adolescents in large swaths of the country will lose access
to medically necessary care, resulting in predictable and significant harms
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like escalating distress, anxiety, and suicidality. That's their argument they'll
make today before those nine justices.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Suicidality.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
I was way too blase with my little joke about
the gender affirming care for suicidal kids, but they have
used that as a you know, I'll shoot the hostage
sort of bargaining chip through this whole thing. Well, you
have to give them the gender for care because studies
show they're a lot more likely to commit suicide. If
you have a suicidal kid around this, you've got a
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really unhappy, disturbed kid, period.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And that's horrible. I've been there. It's horrible.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
But the idea that the way to fix it is
to have them operated on is crazy. Oh yeah, it's horrible.
It's horrible, as we've stated many times. Can you imagine
if some right wingy group said, you know, effeminate boys,
you know what, they're gay, they're going to be gay. No,
I tell you what, let's just cut off their genitals
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and make them into women. How about that? They would
be seen as monsters quite correctly. Oh my, correctly, your
kid is suicidal.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
So now you're going to give them an operation that
changes them forever and they're gonna be okay, yeah, lop
off their.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Healthy breasts for instance. Oh so, anyway, the Wall Street
Journal is writing about this, and the argument of the
plaintiffs and the right that on the hormone thing is
I described that a boy can get it but a
girl can't, and therefore it's well, I'll quote, a teenager
who's sex assigned at birth is male, can be prescribed
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to stosterone to conform to a male gender identity, but
a teenager assigned female at birth cannot. The problem with
this argument is that it's sophister is fake arguments the
Tennessee law is focused on diagnoses, and it permits treatments
for legitimate medical conditions. A biological male can obtain male
hormones to correct some medical problems. A biological female can't
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get male hormones for gender transition. This isn't sex discrimination
unless the starting ideological premise is that preference is the
only difference between boys and girls, which.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Gets to the root of this insanity.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Nobody's sex is designated or assigned at birth.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's merely observed.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
And the fact that there are a few ambiguous folks,
very very few, at birth, does not just proved the
fact that the vast, vast majority of people are clearly
male or clearly female. It's an awful argument and dopey,
and it's in defense of the indefensible and to defy
biological reality. And it enabled this ideological experimentation on the
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bodies of children as just awful.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
We have something new that sounds good fitting into this.
This is in front of the Supreme Court building the Great.
Jan Crawford of CBS News talking to a mom who
has dealt with this.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
School teacher Arion adam Chakhova said her son was sixteen
when he came out as a trans girl.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
His dad and I were very open to different gender expressions,
and we just figured that this was an experimental face,
and so I was like, yeah, you know, what dress
however you want, Like.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Cool, that's great. I was open to all of it.
Speaker 9 (28:51):
But then I realized if he went to the doctor,
they were going to prescribe him hormones, and he was
begging for the hormones.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Who was begging for puberty blockers.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
The doctors told me my daughter would commit suicide if
I didn't transition.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Home the doctors told you that they did.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Both women, self described liberals, did not let their children
take medication, which can be irreversible. They said their kids
went through intensive psychotherapy and after about eighteen months both
children de transition.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Shocking.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
When you're twenty five, If you decide that's the pathway
you need, then we will of course love you and
to support you and your decision.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
That's a great, great report from CBS News right there.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
And I've got some brilliant commentary on this. We've got
to do it on the other side of the break,
just for time reasons. There's a British study, I think
it was British that eighty five plus percent of kids
grew out of this, I think on the other sex
within a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And realized, Oh, I was unhappy because of this.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I mean, it's obscene that activists grab confused kids and
do these experiments.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
How more to come?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
How about a medical sitting you down as a parent
and telling you if you don't do this, they're going
to commit suicide.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh my god, I punch them. That things are completely fake,
I said him, because men are doctors, women or not.
That's why that's a.
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Good on Jan Crawford for having that report. Of course,
it fits in with the thinking of like ninety percent
of America.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
The Supreme Court is finally looking at this. More on
it next.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
A lot of serious news stories today, but the news
flow kind of dictates that, like, there's breaking news around
the Hunter Biden pardon that I can't wait to talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Though.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Really, I mean, this is becoming clear to me. This
is going to be his legacy of the worst thing
he did. This is worse than ignoring his dementia and
running again and the student loan crime app and all
these various things. This is Joe Biden, the Hunter Biden pardon.
And there's a federal judge last night while we were
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in bed blast in the Biden family over this.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And we'll read that in hour three.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Speaking of the mummies legacy, can I have a side
order of the Afghanistan withdrawal please?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Right?
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Yeah, So this is a brilliant written by John Bursch.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm just going to read it too.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
There's a dangerous trend sweeping through America, especially among susceptible teenagers.
Thanks to social media and peer influencers, teenagers and even
adolescents are pumping their bodies with chemicals. The secret is
often kept from the parents until it's too late. I'm talking,
of course, about energy drinks. Last year, Senator Chuck Schumer
warned that one brand's two hundred milligrams of caffeine, quote,
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could endanger the health of kids, causing them to be
moody and suffer headache.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I would like Chuck Schumer to take some energy drinks
so he talks a little faster.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
He demanded that the FDA investigate the drinks manufacturer. That's
pretty rich, considering that Schumer fully supports giving children hormones
and even performing experimental surgeries on them what he calls
gender affirming care to make those children look more like
the opposite sex.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
In Schumer's world, the.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Federal government should intervene when a young girl consumes caffeine
equivalent to about two cups of coffee, but cheer her
on if she takes enough testosterone to make her infertile,
increase her risk of heart attacks and strokes, and irreversibly
alter her body.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
So much for public health that is really good. I'd
say we can't.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
We have an epidemic nationwide of children having the equivalent
of two cups of coffee. If you want to like
have your penis lopped off though at age, whatever, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Right.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
All of this is of a piece with the Biden
administration's policy on position on this important issue. President Joe
Biden appointed doctor Rachel Levine as Assistant Secretary of the
US Department of Health and Human Services, second hist position
in our nation's largest health agency. Levin, a male who
identifies and presents as a woman, pressured the World Professional
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Association of Transgender Health WPATH to remove age limits. This
person pressured them to remove age limits in its standards
for care for life altering procedures used on children experiencing
gender dysphoria, from puberty blockers to cross sex hormones to
invasive surgeries that remove healthy body parts.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
As even The New York Times reported.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
This pressure was not based on science, but on worries
that age limits would increase political opposition to these dangerous
and experimental treatments.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
So much for science. I'm mister superlative, as you all know.
But this might be the craziest thing we've done in America.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
It really might be. It's close.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
It is close, I mean, and I've got it later
on the show, a brilliant takedown of the idea of
slave reparations. Slavery has been like universal in the the
entire history of mankind. It's loathsome, it's awful. Now it's
just it's incredibly common.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah, it's just a blip that it hasn't occurred in
human history.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Well right, yeah, it's prevention. It's a great victory.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
This is unprecedented, Bizarrow. Europe is saying, WHOA, We're totally
wrong on this. Don't treat kids. It's terrible for them.
That's an experiment. I don't know how we got down
that road. We're not doing it anymore. The United States
is almost alone in this sickness.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
It's really as text throwing children in volcanoes weirdness.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah, and about as supportable scientifically.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
And I guess it's quite the scene at the Supreme
Court today as they're arguing about this whole thing. There's
music and dancing and parties and arguing in the whole thing,
who are you? People who are in support of children
getting mutilated?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (35:55):
It's a radical ideology. It's all tied into postmodernism, neo marks.
Whether they understand that or not. But it's crazy, so.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Crazy, and when it's over, the look back on it
years from now and think how the hell did that happen?
Speaker 5 (36:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
The fact is, no one is above the law in
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Speaker 4 (00:57):
This is not just another by political story, the pardoning
of Hunter.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
This is.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Gonna be like in the very top ways you describe
the whole Joe Biden thing. If if it's ever talked
about him being president, him pardoning his son.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
I would agree, Yeah, if it's a three horned description
of his presidency, this will be one of those.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Horns, along with being senile and deciding to run again.
But the New York Times, for instance, their columnists, here's
the list of their columnists from is this today or yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yesterday. I think a.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Second rate crime gets a second rate pardon from Gail Collins,
a disgraceful pardon by Brett Stevens, Biden's pardon for his son,
dishonors the office from Jeffrey Tubin, and there were a
couple of more really negative things, and New York Times
is like, full on, this is awful. I was crazy
shocked listening to one of my favorite podcasts that these
(01:57):
very learned and smart people who I enjoyed listening to
completely whift on the eleven year blanket immunity from anything
you might dig up. I mean, that's unfreaking believable.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
That's the key aspect of this. But the drive by media.
God bless Rush Limbaugh, God rest his soul. That is
such a great description because.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
They took a glance. Oh he pardoned his son.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I'll be damned. He said he wouldn't, but he did. Anyway,
taxes and guns. Anyway, let's move on to the next thing.
Maybe there's a scandal. Oh but the great Eli Lake
in the Free Press with a terrific piece talking about
all of the times Joe Biden and his cronies put aside,
(02:43):
crapped on, ignored, our democratic norms, between the laptop cover up,
the perversion of the intelligence services, the law fair, all
of it. It's a great, great takedown. And I wish
we had more time because it was terrific, but I
wanted to get to this. And this is Joseph Ziegler
(03:06):
and Gary Shapley who wrote a piece in the Journal.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Do you remember those names?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Those were the irs, whistleblowers who came by at risk
in great damage to their careers and personal lives, and said, hey,
the Merrick Garland Justice Department is giving Hunter an unbelievable
sweetheart ride when he's committed serious, serious tax crime. And
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as I said, they have a piece in the Journal.
Do we have that Scott Jennings clip I was looking
for yet Hanson. We can figure that out in a second,
because he does a great job with that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Anyway, they right.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
The White House's story on Hunter Biden keeps changing. The
President supposedly had no knowledge of his son's business, then
no involvement in it, then no financial benefit directly from it.
The goalpost moved as more facts came to light. Before
the election. Joe Biden honest, he would respect the legal
process and issue no pardon or commutation to his son.
This week, he went much farther than preemptively commuting any
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sentence to keep his son from prison. He issued a
broad pardon for any and all crimes over nearly eleven
year period. He gave his son the sweeping immunity to
which career prosecutors refused to agree to as part of
an aborted plea deal. When that deal collapsed in January
twenty three, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel,
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despite his testimony that they get into a detail that's
a little distracting. These dizzying narrative shifts happened because the
two of us blew the whistle and exposed the preferential
treatment the Biden Justice Department gave to a powerful political family.
Our story never changed because we told the truth.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And I thought, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
What, stepping aside from the specifics of what we're talking
about here, you have one party whose story constantly changes,
the other part of your story never changes. Well, I
remember on shouldn't there be a saying about that all
human beings grow up knowing?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
How powerful is that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I remember the Washington Post gave Biden for Pinocchio's on
one of those claims the uh never had knowledge of
the business of my son or something like that.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
So, to get back to the whistleblowers, President Biden's pardon
is an insult to every honest, tax paying American. He
claimed that his own Justice Department unfairly targeted his son.
On the contrary, we produced mountains of evidence and testified
under oath about the machinations as Justice Department, including mister Weiss,
used to shield the Biden family from a thorough investigation
(05:39):
of alleged corruption Ukraine, Romania, and China. This year, a
jury found Hunter Biden guilty of federal gun charges in Delaware,
and he pleaded guilty to willful tax felonies in California.
The President's letter falsely suggests that his son was merely
late in filing and paying his taxes because of serious addictions.
He wrote that in such cases, when back taxes are
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paid with penalties and interest, they are often resolved without
criminal penalties. But his son was treated differently. That's malarkey.
The American people need to know him that the President's
good one. Yeah, well played, And the President's letter omits
that Hunter Biden admitted to intentional felony, tax evasion, criminal
charges for which ordinary Americans are held accountable every day.
(06:22):
Hunter Biden admitted that he filed false tax returns with
the IRS knowingly and willfully while sober. False deductions taken
on his tax return contradicted statements he made in his memoir, which.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He also wrote while sober.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
These false deductions included things like sex club memberships, luxury
vehicle randal house late.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
The sex club memberships that he put down as a
business expense, which you know, maybe they were. Ordinary Americans
are routinely held accountable for that kind of tax fraud
every day, But Hunter Biden will escape accountability because his
father is President. Joe Biden's letter doesn't mention that his
broad pardon also absolves his son any other crime in
the past decade that the Justice Department didn't fully investigate.
(07:04):
In a public filing in August, Special Council Weis's office
alleged that Hunter Biden agreed quote to attempt to influence
US public policy on behalf of a Romanian businessman, but
did not charge mister Biden with a violation of the
Foreign Agent's Registration Act. The dishonesty that has infected the
Washington political class must stop, and the bureaucrats and the
Justice Department in the IRIS who abused their power and
(07:25):
acted unethically ought to be held accountable.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Then he they talk about the constant retaliation they have
faced from the very powerful in Democratic party circles and
the help they're getting from whistleblower support organizations. But without
serious reform and major changes in personnel and policy, something
like this will happen again. We will keep our ozis sworn.
Federal tax law enforcement officers stand up for fair and
(07:51):
equal treatment of every taxpayer and speak out against improper
politicization of the Justice Department. Those dudes, aretriots. I'm glad
they took it down point by point. What a parade
of lies. That statement Biden wrote was, it's shameless, utterly shameless.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Well, and the fact that The New York Times has
five different columns from regular writers and guest essays blasting
this is unethical and awful and a disgrace and all
the different things. Really, the only support it's getting is
from cable news talking heads who are employed to make arguments.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
They don't mean any of it. It's just an effort
to keep you watching. But it's intellectually bankrupt. It's it's boring,
it's stupid, which is why a lot of those cable
news channels are going away. But anyway, well done, miss
Messrs Ziggler and Shapley.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So we have a breaking news story.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
The CEO of United Healthcare has been shot dead in
front a midtown hotel in New York and there's some
news breaking that it was a targeted like assassination. Now,
there's no way they would know that already. That could
just be the sort of internet rumor that flies around
and it turns out it'll just be you know, some
(09:15):
Venezuelan gang person that's been arrested five times was just
trying to rob a rich guy.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Who knows. But we'll keep our eye on it.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, I'd love to know some of the facts that
have led people to say that. I mean, it could
be it could be a business thing, could be a
personal thing. I was like to remember when that tech
guy got gunned down in San Francisco and it tried
to be a love triangle deal.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yeah, So the Supreme Court has taking a look at
transgender surgeries. Well, yeah, treatments for kids. What happened in
South Korea yesterday is nuts. Thank god it got settled
down the way it did, and it showed down important
strength in your institutions is and how brawny and ave
(10:00):
your congressional aids are right. That aspect of the story
is nuts.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, a lot of good stuff this hour. Stay here.
I do want to talk at some point. Major League
Baseball is considering the Goldennet bat is something that they
add in adding to the things that they've done over
the last couple of years with pitch clocks and one
runner on second base and the extra innings or whatever
(10:25):
that they do.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Is it like the Golden Bachelor. They'll have a sixty
year old guy come up and.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Hit exactly an agent Ken Griffy Jr.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
No, if he gets on base, agent groupies will attempt
to get his hotel room number.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Wow, is it crazy? In South Korea yesterday?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
The height of it happened while we were on the air,
and we were bringing it to you as we're like
watching it on cable news. But here's a report from
NBC A little follow up and then we'll comment to ourselves.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
This morning. A political crisis is deepening in South Korea.
A critical US ally. It comes after a chaotic night
that saw the military mobilized around the National Assembly, its
version of Congress, all of it triggered by South Korean
President Unsucuole's extraordinary move to declare martial law, an attempt
(11:17):
to replace the country's democratic government with military rule. Une
says he did it to stop what he called North
Korean anti state forces within the government feel fitted move,
fueling a tense standoff with protesters scuffling with police as
helicopters flew overhead. One opposition lawmaker live streaming how he
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climbed a fence to get back inside the legislative.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Building for an emergency vote.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
That forced un to revoke the order within hours.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, and you didn't see that if you haven't seen
the video.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I mean, it's quite the fight they have there at
the doors as people are trying to get in and out,
and there for a while it was not known are
the police in the military listening to the president or
are they following the law and the parliament or what's
going to happen here.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Well, it's classic coup stuff, is what it is. Well, Jack,
as you know, I.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Spent my entire collegiate career studying this very sort of thing,
comparative politics, political systems, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And here is my comment.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You could just go into the streets and chant the
guy's name Yun suck, Yun suck, and that would be
a good chant, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
That's his name, Yeah, Yun suck Yol. Anyway, where was
I ah, yes, actual commentary. Your mother declared martial law.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yeah, so he declares martial law A couple hours later
in the parliaments of the modern day, the South Korea
people said yeah, no, And but he actually had some
elements in the military that were obedient an offer didn't
know what to do. They're trying to bust in to
prevent parliament from doing its work, and they were rebuffed
by like the equivalent of congressional age aides armed with
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fire extinguishers and furniture.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
It had a bit of a January sixth look to
it there. Yeah, thank god.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
The special forces guys I think they're paratroopers or something
like that, who were trying to get in to prevent
the parliament from being Parliament decided not to open fire
on their countrymen.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well, who were they answering to? Though?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Some military leader who just took it upon himself to
choose which direction to go. I mean, at some point
in the chain, somebody was freelancing it, weren't they.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well, thank god.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
President declared martial law, right, which was so he apparently
is a crook, or at least he's an alleged crook.
He's got all kinds of investigative but yeah, and he's
all kinds of investigations going on in him and his
wife and they're just they're crook politicians and the jig
(13:57):
might be up. And so he declared martial law and
was gonna try to what become a dictator, I guess,
and the Parliament wanted to get back in there to
vote and say, no martial laws over, We're going back
to regular life and now we're going to impeach you,
which is what they're working on today. But they got
back in there and they voted one hundred and ninety
to nothing to get things right.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Right.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Like so many countries around the world, a good deal
of their system is based at least in part on
the United States Constitution, and their system says the president
can declare national law, but if the Assembly convenience and
says no, your justification is not adequate, it's over, which
is kind of The presiding declaration of martial law said
(14:43):
there can be no political processes at all, including the press,
to which the parliament said, yeah, if we got to
fight our way in, we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
And martial law means you're not able to travel around freely.
And so if they're not in the building and you
declare martial law, how would they get back in to vote?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I guess that's what the president was opening, right, But
my ultimate point is I'm heartened that the institutions held
that the checks and balances worked, and the patriotism of
the South Korean Parliament and their folks, and I'm sure
a lot of them believe stuff I don't believe in,
or maybe rotten or whatever, but they said, whoa, whoa, Woa,
(15:21):
this is too much, and it's so too much. I'm
going to fight soldiers in the hallways to make sure
we can have our vote.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Wow, that is getting too close to losing your democracy
right there. That's really shaky. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Keeping in mind that South Korea has just been a
democracy since was it nineteen eighty so I can't remember specifically,
but not very long.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
What's a gold met bat in Major League Baseball? They're
thinking actually bringing this in. And the idea is that,
like one idea that's being floated is you'd get one
per game if you followed all. You know, you go
through the order, you know, one through nine, you give
the order before the game, that's the order everybody at
bats in. But with the golden at bat, you'd be
(16:07):
able to decide it's a crucial situation. Fourth inning, bases loaded,
we could win the game right here, shoy Otani's gonna
bat next. You just bring in your best player to bat.
Then you get one golden at bat per game. And
the idea would.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Be even though he's elsewhere in the lineup, Yes.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
The idea would be that for the fans anyway, you
get the big moment, biggest player thing happening all the time,
instead of bases loaded, you know, two outs out of
pitchers up next, crap. You know, it'd be more exciting
for the fans if the best player gets to come.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Up to bat.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
I guess as a semi purist, as a moderate moderate purist,
I like the pitch clock.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
For instance, I despise this idea. I hate it. They're
not exactly sure.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I will fight South Korean paratroopers in the hallways to
prevent this. They're not quite sure how they would fix
the But then, so then do you bat in your
same bought again?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So you end up batting like twice.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
In potentially twice in a row if you with the
first st idiotic stop it, Stop this madness. What's Major
League Baseball's idea? We have much more news to get to.
I hope you can stay.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Here, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
This is a law that bans medical treatment only when
it is prescribed inconsistent with an individual sex. Our argument
is that that treats people differently because of their sex,
and therefore the court has to treat it like all
other forms of sex discrimination, and that's why it's unconstitutional.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What's that? Oh? That is the.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Just As a side note, former gal current fella Chase Strangio,
who's a lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court. That Tennessee
is the state of Tennessee, which is one of the
twenty six states that bans cruel experiments on children who
are momentarily confused about their sex or deny a suicidal
(18:01):
kid's gender affirming care, driving them to suicide.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You animal who ordered a load of crap got a
load of crap here.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Uh yeah, So the State Supreme Court is being asked
to say that the Tennessee law prohibiting so called gender
firm and care, which is actually sex change experiments on children,
is somehow discriminatory based on the fourteenth Amendment. Because if I,
as a young lad need testosterone for some sort of
(18:32):
recognized medical condition, I can get it. If I, as
a young girl who is momentarily confused through peer pressure
and activism at my perverted local school into thinking I
don't know, maybe I'm transgender or queer or something, if I,
as a girl want that same treatment, I can't get it. Therefore,
it is sex discrimination under the fourteenth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I think it's the commerce clause. Oh boy. Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
The law being challenged in Tennessee prohibits administering medical treatments
to miners if the purpose is to enable a gender
transition or to address quote purported discomfort or distress from
a discordance according to the miners set between the minors
sex and asserted identity, which is a so new it's
(19:20):
like it makes the electric car look like horse travel.
Theory of the way people's minds work in sex that
just became super hot in academia, and now all of
a sudden, kids are getting mutilated over it. It's it's
shocking to me that a country's advanced as ours would
fall for this, this fraud and let kids be abused.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
But so the.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Supreme Court is looking at this for the first time,
the trans stuff, and they could rule what that States.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
May bar doctors from doing this or lead to children
so that or they or they okay, so uh, or
they will.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Say no, States, you can't do that. It is sex discrimination.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
And if a confused girl wants some male hormone treatments,
they should be able to give.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh well, if it was a super woke lefty court,
I would be worried. But I gotta believe there are
five votes to say no, this isn't sex discrimination.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's nuts.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
So let's hear again from the recent rival to manhood
mister Strangio, the trans lawyer at twenty sex Michael I.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Obviously disagree with that premise that allowing transgender women into
women's sports or women's bathroom is a threat to women,
but it is also not the question before the court
in this case. And in fact, it is a totally
independent question about whether a law that band's medical care
for transgender adolescence discriminates against people based on sex versus
these separate cases that preceded any of these law. Bands
(20:51):
will continue to be litigated in the course regardless of that.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Oucome here is actually right about that.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It is a separate question. It's also a question with
a very clear answer. We only get medical care, though
I don't like. Man, Yeah, I'd cut the crap. Cut
the crap.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
This is our seam.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Stop allowing people to twist the language, or use prejudicial language,
or state that which is clearly not true or has
never been proven by science. This is the clip I
really want next one, Michael.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
These are not doctors being forced to provide this medication.
These are doctors who are wanting to treat their patients
in the best way that they know how, based on
the best available evidence to us. And these are young
people who may have known since they were two years
old exactly who they are, who suffered for six seven
years before they had any relief. And what's happening here,
it's not the kids who are consenting to this treatment.
(21:41):
It's the parents who are consenting to the treatment, and
as a parent, I would say we when our children
are suffering, we are suffering. And these are parents who
love their children, who are listening to the advice of
their doctors, of the mainstream medical community and doing what's
right for their kids. In the state of Tennessee has
displaced their deaths.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Wow, I almost I wish I had that in writing,
because they're there so many things.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
To unpack from.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh, where do you want to start? With the mainstream
medical authorities. A lot of the quote unquote mainstream medical
authorities have been captured by their far left, and their
guidelines have been written by activists who have no no
scientific basis for their conclusions.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It's a horror. I've spent lots of time looking into this.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Trust me when I say there is no supporting evidence
that this stuff is good for kids, or prevents suicide
or leads to happy outcomes. It's all been faked up
by activists. Secondly, the fact that it's the parents who consent, Jack,
maybe you want.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
To handle that. I don't know. Uh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I got sidetracked by the She brought up the age
of two, so I wanted to hear that thing from
Jack Tapper, where somebody makes that argument that kids know
from the age of two, whether their trends or not.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That was it, Oh, that was it?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Okay, that is that is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That is absolutely unbelievable. It's wow. So she thinks it's like,
there's something wrong with my kid.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You can take your kid to the doctor and like
they would say, they have uh, I don't know, Ricketts.
And then and then they tell you this is the
medicine you need for them.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And that's the way this is playing out.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
And it's not some weird progressive parents who would love
it if their kids were trans and keep putting that
in their head until they start to believe it, because
why wouldn't a three year old believe it?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Three year olds believe everything you tell them. That's why
it's so sick and twisted. And your kids should be
taken away from you if you're doing this to your children,
and then you find a doctor who's also of the
same mindset politically to go along with it. If the
activists at school haven't done, you know, right, that delightful
work for you in the state of California, for instance,
(23:50):
among others.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, it's it's it's just awful.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
It's interesting that like in the state of California, they
will take your kids away if you don't use the
right pronoun but they won't take your kid away if
you try to convince a poor little three year old
boy that he's actually a girl.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
That's horrific. Yeah, correct, Yeah, it's perverse, it's sick.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I have to stay calm when I talk about this stuff,
and I am certain that in a very short time
it will be seen as the obscenity that it is.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I know somebody who at the very young age, they
convinced their which direction to go. They convinced their little
boy that they were a girl. You are a monster, Yeah,
you are a monster.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Shannon Bream discussed this case on Fox News. It's a
little lengthy, but she does a good job of explaining stuff.
Maybe I had left something out go with twenty eight
Michael whena.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
This Tennessee law is at the heart of this and
ad bans treatment of the gender issues for patients who
come seeking that if they're under eighteen years old, surgeries
and also hormone replacement therapy and hormone treatments. But what's
at stake in this case today is actually just the
challenge to the hormone treatments. It's not including the planets.
(25:12):
Aren't challenging the surgical ban for kids who are under
eighteen in the state of Tennessee. I want to read
something because these planeffs were joined by the Biden administration,
which decided to intervene in this case. And here's part
of their argument to the Supreme Court. They say this,
if these laws are allowed to go into effect, transgender
adolescents in large swaths of the country will lose access
to medically necessary care, resulting in predictable and significant harms
(25:36):
like escalating distress, anxiety, and suicidality. That's their argument they'll
make today before those nine justices.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Suicidality.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
I was way too blase with my little joke about
the gender affirming care for suicidal kids, but they have
used that as a you know, I'll shoot the hostage
sort of bargaining chip through this whole thing. Well, you
have to give them the gender for care because studies
show they're a lot more likely to commit suicide. If
you have a suicidal kid around this, you've got a
(26:05):
really unhappy, disturbed kid, period.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And that's horrible. I've been there. It's horrible.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
But the idea that the way to fix it is
to have them operated on is crazy. Oh yeah, it's horrible.
It's horrible, as we've stated many times. Can you imagine
if some right wingy group said, you know, effeminate boys,
you know what, they're gay, they're going to be gay. No,
I tell you what, let's just cut off their genitals
(26:33):
and make them into women. How about that? They would
be seen as monsters quite correctly. Oh my, correctly, your
kid is suicidal.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
So now you're going to give them an operation that
changes them forever and they're gonna be okay, yeah, lop
off their.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Healthy breasts for instance. Oh so, anyway, the Wall Street
Journal is writing about this, and the argument of the
plaintiffs and the right that on the hormone thing is
I described that a boy can get it but a
girl can't, and therefore it's well, I'll quote, a teenager
who's sex assigned at birth is male, can be prescribed
(27:10):
to stosterone to conform to a male gender identity, but
a teenager assigned female at birth cannot. The problem with
this argument is that it's sophister is fake arguments the
Tennessee law is focused on diagnoses, and it permits treatments
for legitimate medical conditions. A biological male can obtain male
hormones to correct some medical problems. A biological female can't
(27:30):
get male hormones for gender transition. This isn't sex discrimination
unless the starting ideological premise is that preference is the
only difference between boys and girls, which.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Gets to the root of this insanity.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Nobody's sex is designated or assigned at birth.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's merely observed.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
And the fact that there are a few ambiguous folks,
very very few, at birth, does not just proved the
fact that the vast, vast majority of people are clearly
male or clearly female. It's an awful argument and dopey,
and it's in defense of the indefensible and to defy
biological reality. And it enabled this ideological experimentation on the
(28:17):
bodies of children as just awful.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
We have something new that sounds good fitting into this.
This is in front of the Supreme Court building the Great.
Jan Crawford of CBS News talking to a mom who
has dealt with this.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
School teacher Arion adam Chakhova said her son was sixteen
when he came out as a trans girl.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
His dad and I were very open to different gender expressions,
and we just figured that this was an experimental face,
and so I was like, yeah, you know, what dress
however you want, Like.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Cool, that's great. I was open to all of it.
Speaker 9 (28:51):
But then I realized if he went to the doctor,
they were going to prescribe him hormones, and he was
begging for the hormones.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Who was begging for puberty blockers.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
The doctors told me my daughter would commit suicide if
I didn't transition.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Home the doctors told you that they did.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Both women, self described liberals, did not let their children
take medication, which can be irreversible. They said their kids
went through intensive psychotherapy and after about eighteen months both
children de transition.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Shocking.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
When you're twenty five, If you decide that's the pathway
you need, then we will of course love you and
to support you and your decision.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
That's a great, great report from CBS News right there.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
And I've got some brilliant commentary on this. We've got
to do it on the other side of the break,
just for time reasons. There's a British study, I think
it was British that eighty five plus percent of kids
grew out of this, I think on the other sex
within a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And realized, Oh, I was unhappy because of this.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I mean, it's obscene that activists grab confused kids and
do these experiments.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
How more to come?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
How about a medical sitting you down as a parent
and telling you if you don't do this, they're going
to commit suicide.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh my god, I punch them. That things are completely fake,
I said him, because men are doctors, women or not.
That's why that's a.
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Good on Jan Crawford for having that report. Of course,
it fits in with the thinking of like ninety percent
of America.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
The Supreme Court is finally looking at this. More on
it next.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
A lot of serious news stories today, but the news
flow kind of dictates that, like, there's breaking news around
the Hunter Biden pardon that I can't wait to talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Though.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Really, I mean, this is becoming clear to me. This
is going to be his legacy of the worst thing
he did. This is worse than ignoring his dementia and
running again and the student loan crime app and all
these various things. This is Joe Biden, the Hunter Biden pardon.
And there's a federal judge last night while we were
(32:09):
in bed blast in the Biden family over this.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And we'll read that in hour three.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Speaking of the mummies legacy, can I have a side
order of the Afghanistan withdrawal please?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Right?
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Yeah, So this is a brilliant written by John Bursch.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm just going to read it too.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
There's a dangerous trend sweeping through America, especially among susceptible teenagers.
Thanks to social media and peer influencers, teenagers and even
adolescents are pumping their bodies with chemicals. The secret is
often kept from the parents until it's too late. I'm talking,
of course, about energy drinks. Last year, Senator Chuck Schumer
warned that one brand's two hundred milligrams of caffeine, quote,
(32:46):
could endanger the health of kids, causing them to be
moody and suffer headache.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
I would like Chuck Schumer to take some energy drinks
so he talks a little faster.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
He demanded that the FDA investigate the drinks manufacturer. That's
pretty rich, considering that Schumer fully supports giving children hormones
and even performing experimental surgeries on them what he calls
gender affirming care to make those children look more like
the opposite sex.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
In Schumer's world, the.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Federal government should intervene when a young girl consumes caffeine
equivalent to about two cups of coffee, but cheer her
on if she takes enough testosterone to make her infertile,
increase her risk of heart attacks and strokes, and irreversibly
alter her body.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
So much for public health that is really good. I'd
say we can't.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
We have an epidemic nationwide of children having the equivalent
of two cups of coffee. If you want to like
have your penis lopped off though at age, whatever, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Right.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
All of this is of a piece with the Biden
administration's policy on position on this important issue. President Joe
Biden appointed doctor Rachel Levine as Assistant Secretary of the
US Department of Health and Human Services, second hist position
in our nation's largest health agency. Levin, a male who
identifies and presents as a woman, pressured the World Professional
(34:03):
Association of Transgender Health WPATH to remove age limits. This
person pressured them to remove age limits in its standards
for care for life altering procedures used on children experiencing
gender dysphoria, from puberty blockers to cross sex hormones to
invasive surgeries that remove healthy body parts.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
As even The New York Times reported.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
This pressure was not based on science, but on worries
that age limits would increase political opposition to these dangerous
and experimental treatments.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
So much for science. I'm mister superlative, as you all know.
But this might be the craziest thing we've done in America.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
It really might be. It's close.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
It is close, I mean, and I've got it later
on the show, a brilliant takedown of the idea of
slave reparations. Slavery has been like universal in the the
entire history of mankind. It's loathsome, it's awful. Now it's
just it's incredibly common.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah, it's just a blip that it hasn't occurred in
human history.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Well right, yeah, it's prevention. It's a great victory.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
This is unprecedented, Bizarrow. Europe is saying, WHOA, We're totally
wrong on this. Don't treat kids. It's terrible for them.
That's an experiment. I don't know how we got down
that road. We're not doing it anymore. The United States
is almost alone in this sickness.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
It's really as text throwing children in volcanoes weirdness.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah, and about as supportable scientifically.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
And I guess it's quite the scene at the Supreme
Court today as they're arguing about this whole thing. There's
music and dancing and parties and arguing in the whole thing,
who are you? People who are in support of children
getting mutilated?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (35:55):
It's a radical ideology. It's all tied into postmodernism, neo marks.
Whether they understand that or not. But it's crazy, so.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Crazy, and when it's over, the look back on it
years from now and think how the hell did that happen?
Speaker 5 (36:08):
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