December 30, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in hour four of the Tuesday December 30, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- UC San Diego Stats
- Brits Want Teens to Vote
- Law Schools Turn Left/Post Floyd Period
- Tulsi Nuke War
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getty and no Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
We continue to be on vacation, but I hope you're
enjoying the leftovers. That's what we call the best of
Armstrong in getting Oh what a vacation it's been. I
begged Judy for years to get me a pony. She
finally did. Crapped on the carpet, it ate the drapes.
It was just a mistake. Be careful what you wish for. Anyway,
I enjoy this Armstrong and Getty replay well.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The Business News.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Target has a new ten to four policy, which requires
employees within ten feet of customers to smile and wave,
and employees within four feet to start a conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Customers like what happens within one foot? Right now, every
Target employee's goals is at least.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Eleven feet away from smile.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Nothing wrong with that. I a fair number.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Of Target employees, at least my local Target, who don't
really want to have to answer any questions and are
just trying to finish stock on the shelf and why
don't you leave me alone? That said somebody I think
maybe have picked up on that and decided, Hey, if
there's a customer near.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You, you need to smile. I don't want. I don't
think it employeed to ever be within four feet of me.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
That's pretty close. That's like arm's length. How about that
close to you, maam? I'm squeezing past them for some
reason in that scenario. Yeah, and if you get within
two feet, I want you to laugh uproariously. All right,
now get to work. So we did this story yesterday.
There have been some better arguments on the internet as.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
To the.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Not the authenticity of these numbers, but the way they're portrayed.
Going to give the new version of this, but it's
still really bad. So you see, San Diego had to
add a second remedial math class because they've got so
many people coming in who can't do math.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Before we get to the stats, how about this one.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Universities in our country get thirty times more government cash
than they did in the fifties. That's inflation adjusted, thirty
times as much money going to universities from taxpayers than
in the fifties. And we all know for a fact
that the results are much less. We're probably churning out
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college graduates that were similarly ish to high school graduates
in the fifties.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Probably not even that right.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, Oh, by the way, later on campus maddeness update,
including the hilarious controversy at Harvard over there the university saying, yeah,
we got to start having grades. Everybody gets a's all
the time. We got to stop that. And the little snowflakes,
you're going crazy over it. Anyway, that's for another time. Yeah, great,
inflation is one of the reasons for what they think
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happened here. The report shows that nearly one in five
students you see San Diego failed to meet entry level
writing requirements one in five. The deterioration goes across many across,
goes across many different you know, reading, math, science, all
that sort of stuff. But the report focuses on the
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client in math skills. Skills in particular, they recently tested
a group of their students. Now it's originally portrayed, and
I'm not exactly sure which is true. Is originally portrayed
as this was all students entering you see San Diego.
The correction on x Twitter is that it only applies
to the kids that are in these remedial math classes. Okay,
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that would be better, But even if it's true, it's stunning.
How do you have remedial math classes at a major
university where you get these results? Eighty seven percent of
them can do grade one math? One hundred thirteen percent
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of the people in your remedial math class that can't
do first grade math?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
How the hell did you get into the university?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, and we're not talking about you know, Jones County
Community College. This is the University of California at San Diego,
an alleged elite university. And I remember back in my
applying to university days, the idea that you can't do
math up to the standards of a six year old,
you would not have gotten in on any program.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, how'd you get out of high school? How'd you
get out of first grade?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, so, again, I'm not sure which is true, whether
this was all the students or just the remedial.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Math classes, but even best case scenario, it's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So eighty two percent of a could do second grade math,
only three quarters could do third grade math.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
What are you in third grade? Eight years old? Eight
or nine? Yeah, what are you doing in third grade.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Multiparas a quarter of you, I don't think you're into
multiplication tables yet. But anyway, even if you are, you're
at a university of college campus. Yeah, at a quarter
of you can't do that, So a third can't do
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fourth grade math. You get into about fifty that can
do fifth grade math. About fifty percent can't do fifth
grade math. That would be like multiplication and long division stuff.
I mean, I've just I've got a fifth grader recently. Yeah, yeah, so,
I mean it ain't hard stuff. I mean it's pretty
damned remedial. And half the kids all accepted into the
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university having graduated high school, I assume can't do math
at that level.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You get to eighth grade math.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Only nineteen percent of people could do eighth grade math,
but they were admitted to a major allegedly elite university.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Why is it a dei thing? Is it?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean, the the like the social grievance studies programs.
You don't need any preparation. You're there to sit and
be indoctrinated, so you don't need to leave it to
bring any skill to the table or any skill set.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I mean the why.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Is Almost as interesting a question is the how the
f although I think we know how the heck this happened.
More on that in a moment, on all education stuff,
the educators have the out of blaming the pandemic, and
there is a dip in the pandemic crowd. But as
we talked about a couple of weeks ago when the
nation's report card came out, the trend lines were down
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for decades before the pandemic. It accelerated a little during
the pandemic, and now it continues to go down.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So we're head of that direction. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That's a bad way out of this conversation to claim
it was the pandemic. Another reason, according to this researcher,
is the elimination of standardized test requirements, which helped schools
claim everybody's up to grade level and they can pass
everybody and get the government funding they want. And with
high school grade inflation, where the percentage of people.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
To get a's and b's is skyrocketed.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Over the years, not that the abilities have skyrocketed, just
the number of a's and b's that they hand out right,
and the whole social promotion thing where you get moved
on to the next grade, no matter if you learned
anything or not. And then at the point that I mean,
because math in particular, you build your next skill is
built on the foundation.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Of your previously learned skills.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Mostly and so yeah, if you got out of third
grade not having mastered or come close to third grade math,
you are finished as a person learning math. In most cases,
this is a California thing, but not surprising. A major cause,
according to this person, Steve Maguire, a major cause that
you see SD in particular, they point to a significant
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increase in students admitted from LCFF. That's Local Control Funding
Formula schools, which are California public schools in which seventy
five percent of the school's total enrollment is composed of
students who identified as either eligible for free or reduced
price meals, or English lunars or foster youth. So these
are schools with either troubled kids or poor kids or whatever,
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and you have to admit a whole bunch of them
because you know, equity and inequity and all these different
sorts of things, thereby setting them up to fail miserably
in college because they are at a place they can't
cut it. Two choices, and Roland Frar, the Gray Harvard
Economy black man Coleman Hughes. Another great Black thinker, Thomas Soel,
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has pointed this out all sorts of people have. The
worst thing you can do is take a kid unprepared
and throw them into the shark tank of an elite
university because they can't handle it. I mean, there's the
worst thing you can fail. I think there's a worst
thing you can do. Pass them through the university, give
them a degree, and then send them out in the
world with them thinking I'll be able to support myself.
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I'll be able to pay off these enormous debts because
I have an important and valuable university degree having been
defrauded by the university.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And that's what I was going to get to. So
you have two choices.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Number one, throw them in the shark tank is described
moments ago or two, so inflate grades that the kids
get through the university having been totally unprepared, doing very
little work and learning almost nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
My god, we need to tear this down to the studs.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And this gets to what you're talking about yesterday. Then
you get these college graduates who don't.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Know that they got a bad education. How would you
know that.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
They think they got a college education just like their
parents and grandparents did, and look at the results that
they got, and now I can't get a job. It
must be capitalism, it must be the system. And that's
why people voted for Momdani. Yeah, as we've pointed out
in that brilliant essay, we had a couple of days ago. Yeah,
they get out into the free market. They were told
that they had skills worth a certain amount, at least
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enough to pay off their college debt. And when it
turns out that no, they actually have a worthless degree,
they're not told that. They're told capitalism is the problem.
The system is the problem. It's exploitive and in a
very closely related story, I mean, it's the same story.
After the break, I want to bring you news of
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American Federation of Teachers Presidents Randy Weingarten's new book. I
do want to talk about that, but as just it
just popped in my head what you're always saying, we
need to go way back earlier in the development of
kids to deal with these situations. Dealing with it at
the point you're at the university, what how did you
get out of fifth grade not being able to do
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first grade math? Right, Well, how'd you get out of
first grade without being able to do first grade math
back when I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean, it's nuts.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So you graduated, how'd you get out of high school?
You can't do first grade math?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Right, So the left and the teachers unions would have
us failed these kids from age five through eighteen, completely
failed them while they feather their own nest, and then
make it all up at age eighteen as they're admitted
into an elite university that is perverse.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's idiotic.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Congress is back in session. Summer is over, school has restarted.
Life is serious again. The frivolity of summer is over.
No more hot daw ugs and beer and laying around,
no more brat girl summer or whatever the hell that is.
Time to get serious.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So the story behind the story of the whole Britain
is going to have children vote now is the lefty party.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
The Labor Party thought, hey, this is a great idea
because kids will fall for anything.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
But then a far lefty party emerged and said, yeah, no,
we're even crazier than you, and the kids will flock
to us. And according to the polls, they're right.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Probably. Yeah, it's because they're.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Selling childlike fantasies of what the government ought to do. Yeah, cure.
If you're a normal Democrat in the United States, you
would not want sixteen year olds to vote because they
would all become Bernie AOC types. Right, right, So I
found this very interesting ask to rate their life satisfaction
on a scale of zero to ten, Girls in Britain
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nearly twice as likely as boys to choose an answer between.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Zero and three.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
What was the question, rate your life satisfaction on scals
zero between zero and three. Yeah, twice as many girls
as boys. On the other end of the scale, fifty
eight percent of boys rate their life satisfaction as seven
out of ten or higher, compared with only thirty seven
percent of the girls.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Man, if you're saying.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Your life satisfaction between zero and three, you need a
dose of perspective.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
According to the poll by the think tank that there's
a gender split in other things too, boys are nearly
twice as likely to support right wing parties as girls.
Keeping in mind, right wing in Britain is fairly moderate right.
Some forty five percent of boys age sixteen seventeen would
vote for one of the more conservative parties. Forty five
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to twenty four of the girls the super lefty.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Let's see is well, it's the reverse.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
More than a third say they sympathize more with the
Palestinian side and the Gaza war. Nine percent side with Israel.
Almost half. That's that's a very British thing to ask.
That's almost a quarter of the sixteen and seventeen year
olds say they suffered from anxiety.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Thirty four percent among the girls. That's probably accurate.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Nearly three and five said they had stayed home from
school due to anxiety. Wow, sixty percent of the kids
say they stayed home for anxiety when I was in school.
When you're in school, that would be roughly zero zero
people stayed home from school for anxiety. Sixty nine percent
of the girls h Forty eight percent of the boys
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more than four and ten spend more than six hours
a day on their phone. Six and nine percent spend
more than ten hours.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Says a guy who probably spends eight hours a day
on his pumm that number.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Seven out of ten girls have stayed home from school
from anxiety and just that that great sex divide of
girls like women in the US because we don't let
children vote, are way way farther left than the boys
politically speaking. So would you guess this is an experiment
that will be done away with letting children vote or
(15:09):
I'm leaning toward this. Once you give that age group
the right to vote, it will never go away.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I'll be no getting rid of it. I don't know,
that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I think it might be one of those things that
rectivizes itself, rectifies itself over the long term, because it
will be a miserable, miserable failure.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
But it takes so long.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I mean, it's like, how long did San Francisco take
to come around? I just happen to be reading that
their commercial real estate situation has really turned around now
partly because of it, well largely because of AI, but
in the streets of San Francisco much cleaner, the bum
junkie camps far fewer and smaller. San Francisco's really turned
itself around. Credit where it's due. But how long did
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that take?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah? But I don't stand years and years and years.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Of the failure being just everybody could see a miserable
a failure. All those policies were, but in this particular case,
you give the sixteen and seventeen year olds the right
to vote, I don't see how you'd ever get rid
of it. It's going to change the politics so drastically,
so quickly.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
How would you ever end up with a majority that
wants to do away with it?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Oh wow, that's an interesting point. Yeah, it's a perpetual
motion machine. Yeah, I don't know my last I think
that could be one of the most disastrous experiments ever conducted. Yes,
I agree, this could be huge unless these sixteen year
olds when they're forty look back on it and think
I should not have been voting to do away with it.
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But that could take a long time. Obviously, you can
do the math on that well. Right in the new
crop of sixteen seventeen year olds lacking all perspective and
wisdom because that's the way you're supposed to freaking be
as a.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Child, there's no avoiding it.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They will say, oh, yeah, yeah, no, we know what's
right for the world. Up with whatever as opposed to
male white landowners over thirty, which.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Is what should be.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'm willing to expand the tent a little bit anyway. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know. The Western world is not looking super
healthy to me.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Wow, that is crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It it'll be fun to watch, you know, to get
to have that experiment not in the United States and
see how it turns out. I won't go off on
a screen, but it's disturbing the extent to which America's
law schools have swung left, I mean way left, a
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lot of them. And you see the fruit of that
in things like this the four to three Do you
remember the big judge election in Wisconsin that Elon Musk
weighed in on and raised a bunch of money for
the conservative and he got shellacked. And so because they
have Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin and now they have
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a four to three liberal majority there. Well, they ruled
against a Catholic charity's nonprofit.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It had to do with tax exemption and who gets it.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Okay, I won't get into the fact that the case
doesn't really matter, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court said, no,
you don't get your tax exemption. Sonya Soto Mayor wrote
the nine to decision for the Supreme Court, overturning the
Wisconsin Supreme Court and administered a firm handed scotus spanking
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to their utterly ridiculous, ridiculous ruling. There needs to be
some sort of law that if you get overturned nine
by the U. Supreme Court, you have to disband that
lower court and start over.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Or you're on double secret probation.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And if it happens a second time, yeah, you got
to mind your p's and q's. The State court, well,
I won't read you what the state court held, but
just as Soto Mayor writes in her opinion for the
unanimous reversal, that if a state law treats two religious
soup kitchens differently depending on the amount of prayer and
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proselytizing before lunch, that's a violation of the First Amendment
because they essentially said, yeah, this Catholic charity isn't doing
enough Catholic stuff to earn their tax exemption. They're just
doing kind of general charitable work. But she says, this
is soda, Mayor. It is fundamental to our constitutional order
that the government maintained neutrality between religion and religion. There
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may be hard calls to make in policing that rule,
but this is not one wow yeah again nine nothing decisions.
You have to disband the lower court. That's a new
I want that in the constitution.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, no, kidding.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
The Wall Street Journal editorial board summarizes with don't expect
this nine oh SmackDown to temper the unrestrained ambitions of
Wisconsin's four left wing justices. But in the debate to come,
keep in mind how they're mangling of religious liberty, lost
even justice Soda Mayor. By the way, we'll get back
to the biggest story in America over the last four days.
Coming up kickoff hour two. We're going to talk to
a California congressman Republican who's a hardcore against the lack
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of order in Los Angeles. Fabulous Kevin Kylie. So we'll
get back into that. But I was just reading this.
Tim Sanderfer retweeted, if you think it's a good idea
to protest deportation by waving the flag of the country
you don't want to live in or be deported to,
you're a political idiot. Yes, I would agree, you left
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that country. In some cases you.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Really really don't want to go back, then don't wave
that flag. That'd be my suggestion.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, yeah, so getting back kind of sort of to
the law school theme, but just kind of sort of
during the whole will Ca apocalypse, we ought to have
a term for the post George Floyd period of time
where everything that was left the extremist, a lot of
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people were afraid to even argue against you, sat there
and took your euro racist training at work, said yes,
that obvious man is a woman and should be in women's.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Sports if he is a woman.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
For fear of backlash because the left was on the
front foot and just whoop an ass wow. Roughly period
roughly twenty nineteen to Trump's election will be a period
that historians do need to put a name on it.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I mean, that was all woke, George Floyd.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
COVID Trump, January sixth Insurrection, all the craziness of the
twenty four election all. I mean, that's all gotta fit
into a period because the whole thing inflation that I
don't know what they're gonna call it, but it's a
period of time to.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Have lived through, no doubt, as we all know. That's funny.
It just clicked into my head.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I refer to it over and over again in kind
of cumbersome ways, and I need a quick summaration summation.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Does anybody have a suggestion.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You can email us mail bag at Armstrong E Geddy
dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Maybe we'll squeeze it into mailback coming up there.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
He deserves a name that period nineteen through twenty four,
like the Great Depression. It deserves a name, the wocopolyps.
That's kind of cumbersome anyway. So all this was along
aside or along setup to the fact that some absolutely
fundamental principles that nobody has ever argued with suddenly became
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taboo to say, like working hard is white supremacy, and
showing up on time and blah blah blah, and the
idea of the best person gets the job is evil,
and that obvious man is a woman.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I mean, just just the.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Most fundamental truths of humankind were suddenly you weren't supposed
to say them. We continued to perhaps you remember that anyway.
One of those true true truisms is that meritocracy is
what should run virtually everything.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I'm huge on that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I've been saying that for Oh yeah, yeah, I love
what Jordan Peterson said once. He said, Look, the job
of the left or the job of the right is
to make sure meritocracy indoors, because we need that in.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Every profession, in every walk of life.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
The job of the left is to make sure at
the bottom of that ladder there is fairness. People are
not stopped impeded from getting on that ladder. And I
think that's absolutely true. Having said that, were your story
about like great Britain class system where families stay in
that upper tier forever and it's very hard to move tears, Yeah,
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I was just yeah, just had a conversation about that
last night, the British legal system specifically.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
But anyway, So here is this guy.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
He began his first final exam in law school and
the classroom.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Was half empty.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
There are maybe sixty seventy people in our big group.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
At least thirty of them were missing.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
He was at Pepperdine Caruso School Law in Malibu, California's
summer twenty three.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It was what we call a racehorse exam.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
He said, out of the final it's pretty guarantee that
you're not going to finish, but you have to move
as fast as possible and rack up as many points
as you can. My daughter just went through this five
weeks ago. He later learned that the absent students weren't
running late, they would be completing the exam separately using
extended time, a testing accommodation that the Americans with Disabilities
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Act require schools to make available for students with conditions
that impair major life activities like learning, reading, and concentrating.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So those students.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Usually receive one and a half or twice the standard
testing time, which in law school can mean up to
four extra hours, and according to multiple Pepperdine.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Students, more than a third of the school's.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Law students now received testing accommodations, the most common of
which is extended time. Everybody has a note signed by
somebody that says, yeah, Jimmy has trouble concentrated when I
don't know the lights are on, and so everybody gets
extended time. I know I'm in this world enough to
know you'd never get turned down for some sort of
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ADHD or add or anxiety or anything I eat something.
So law schools don't disclose their rates of accommodations, but
a twenty three or in Law Review paper reports data
on public law schools obtained through state public record laws.
And this is in twenty twenty one, before the post
COVID rise in disability accommodations.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay, this is the lower rate.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It was like twenty two percent at the University of
California and San Francisco twenty six percent.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You see, Irvine, et cetera, et cetera. Here's my deal.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
And as the father of an autistic daughter, for instance,
I am one hundred percent in favor of us as
a society finding ways to make sure people who have
struggles and special needs get an education. I am crazy, staunchly,
enthusiastically in favor of that. But I don't think my
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beloved daughter, Kate, who I think about every hour of
every day of my life, I don't think she should
be shoehorned into say, you know, Pepperdine law. Well, I
can look at it this way, because I got a
kid that's on all kinds of medication.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I don't know if he's ever gonna get through school.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
But you can't change the law school so that he
can become a lawyer, right or you fundamentally changed to
what a degree from that law school means.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, because if.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You get out in the world and you're practicing law,
Like if I need a lawyer for whatever I'm doing,
I can't say now this lawyer, this lawyer, it'll take
you three days to get your paperwork done. Now this lawyer,
because they have ADHD in anxiety, it's going to be
a month.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I mean, what right? What? That doesn't make any sense? Well,
and you put it beautifully.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I mean that illustrates the fundamental departure from what is
obviously true. One of those COVID Floyd Woke apocalypse, you know,
things that happened.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And again, I want programs.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I want people who need extra time to be able
to get a law degree. But we've got to have excellence,
and we've got to have places where.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Excellence is the only standard.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And then when that standard has met, we know there
was excellence there, not excellence plus double time. Because the
family doctor who's an old family friend went ahead wrote
a note for a little Johnny so you could have
a leg up. I mean, come on, you got a
third of the freaking students. Wow, and elite law schools.
It's ridiculous. Get back to meritocracy. Man, At what point
(27:42):
are you not a good parent because you didn't get
your kid one of these notes that helps.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Him get through everything. I mean, at some point across
the line.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The Armstrong and Getty show, Your Show, podcasts and our
Hot Lakes.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You could start with the question of is the DNI
supposed to spend her time producing and hosting many documentaries
for social media.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I didn't know that was a thing for some reason.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Tulsea Gabber, the Director of National Intelligence, just put out
a three and a half or so minute video in
which she describes visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how horrific
it was that the US used those weapons.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You'll hear some of.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
It, and then moves toward her point, which is troubling
to me. Indeed, we'll give you a sample of it. Michael,
let's hear sixteen.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I recently visited Hiroshima in Japan and stood at the
epicenter of a city that remains scarred by the unimaginable
horror caused by a single nuclear bomb dropped in nineteen
forty five, eighty years ago. It's hard for me to
find the words to express what I saw, the stories
that I heard, the haunting sadness that still remains. This
(28:58):
is an experience that will stay with me forever. This
attack obliterated the city, killed over three hundred thousand people,
many dying instantly, while others died from severe burns, injuries, radiation,
sickness and cancer that set in in the following months
and years. Nagasaki suffered the same faith, homes, schools, families
(29:22):
all gone in a flash. The survivors, the Hibo Kusha,
they carried the pain of extreme burns, radiation, sickness and
loss for decades.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
So she goes on in that vein for a couple
of minutes and describing how today's warheads are even more
and it is never it is like a mini documentary.
I mean, it's really really well done. The music, she
looks great, it looks like a motion picture, and then
all the video behind her of the explosion and then
you know, sick and dying and injured and mutilated people.
(29:56):
I mean, it's it's like a documentary in art displays
of the survi that sort of thing. So she never
mentions the brutality of Imperial Japan Pearl Harbor Baton Death March,
tens of thousands of US troops who died to try
to win the war in the Pacific. She doesn't mention
Operation Downfall, which was the invasion of the Japanese mainland
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in which our military authorities believed between one hundred and
five hundred thousand more young American men were expected to die.
It just goes on and on about the horrors of
using the nuclear weapons against Japanchi out Obama, Obama who
did this while ago, or the Japanese Imperial Armies statement
they would never surrender, or any of those things. Well, yeah,
(30:41):
I just happened to hear a great podcast with a
historian who was talking about the war in the Pacific
and how the closer we got to Japan, the more
intensely the Japanese fought to the death. There would be
I can't remember the numbers, as like seventeen thousand Japanese
soldiers on Iwo Jima and only two hundred of them
surrendered at the end. Everybody else fought to the death.
(31:02):
Pardon me if my numbers are not exact, they don't
have them in front of me. And so the end
of the war would have been horrifically bloody for both sides.
I mean casualties on the Japanese side far beyond and
the toll from the bombs.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
You attacked us.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
It is not our obligation to try to end this
war in a way that saves as many as you
as possible while wasting our lives right exactly exactly, So
what is she doing? Why did she make the video?
Let's skip to eighteen Michael, and it's about to become
(31:40):
more clear.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
This isn't some made up science fiction story. This is
the reality of what's at stake, what we are facing now,
because as we stand here today, closer to the brink
of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite and warmongers
are carelessly fomenting fear and.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Tension between nuclear powers. Perhaps it's because.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
They are confident that they will have access to nuclear
shelters for themselves and for their families that regular people
won't have access to.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
So it's up to us, the people, to speak up.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
And demand an end to this madness.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
We must reject this path to.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Nuclear war and work toward a world where no one
has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This is a mini documentary made to convince people to
abandon Ukraine. That is the purpose of it. She is
trying to convince us that support for Ukraine will lead
to a nuclear holocaust that will get us all except
for those elites who have their own bomb shelters.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Ian Bremer tweeted that out and said, closer to nuclear
war than ever before possible because elites have access to
bomb shelters questionable.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, well whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
But Noah Rothman in the National Review points out many
times we were much, much, much closer to nuclear war
than we are now, So.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's just wrong.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And he also points out that so where did this
come from? Why would Telsey gabbert in puner country's integrity
and terrorize the public as she talks about causing unnecessary fears?
It's because Moscow's not coming around to Donald Trump's charms.
As he put it, if you've succumbed to the delusion
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that Vladimir Putin is honest and there's invasions of Ukraine
are the result of NATO's supposed aggression, then the Kremlin
should have been satisfied by now. But Trump's peace overtures
and concessions to Russia have failed to dissuade Moscow from
pursuing its territorial ambitions with violence bigger attacks every day.
In the conspiracist's mind, Russia's stubbornness is evidence only that
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American dishonest. He is even worse than we previously knew.
I one of the many interesting things about the Trump
administration in the way he does things. You know, he
only has certain things that he's really interested in, and
I think the rest of it doesn't pay much attention to.
(34:19):
Does he have the slightest idea that she did that?
Is he okay with that? DNA is a big internal
argument in the Trump administration, the abandoned Ukrainers versus the
support Ukrainers, and this appears to be some sort of
you know how it's er blast for her side as
the director of National Intelligence. She goes on to say,
(34:43):
and I think this is important. I wish more people
knew this. She goes on to say, the bombs we
have now are many, many, multiple times more powerful than
those I think most people think nuclear bomb and they
think of Roshama, which.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Is bad enough.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It's significantly worse. It wouldn't be hundreds of thousands, it
would be millions. These bombs are so much bigger now.
If the point is to alert the world of that's
what we're dealing with in the reality if we ever
go to nuclear war, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
The problem is, I believe sending the.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Message to Putin and she that you can take land
and then there'll be no pushback gets us closer to
nuclear war, not further from it, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
And what the hell is the D and I doing
doing this right? Right?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Why is she putting out America? You have to understand
how horrible nuclear war would be.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
What the hell Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty Show
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getty and no Pee Armstrong and Getty Strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
We continue to be on vacation, but I hope you're
enjoying the leftovers. That's what we call the best of
Armstrong in getting Oh what a vacation it's been. I
begged Judy for years to get me a pony. She
finally did. Crapped on the carpet, it ate the drapes.
It was just a mistake. Be careful what you wish for. Anyway,
I enjoy this Armstrong and Getty replay well.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The Business News.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Target has a new ten to four policy, which requires
employees within ten feet of customers to smile and wave,
and employees within four feet to start a conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Customers like what happens within one foot? Right now, every
Target employee's goals is at least.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Eleven feet away from smile.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Nothing wrong with that. I a fair number.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Of Target employees, at least my local Target, who don't
really want to have to answer any questions and are
just trying to finish stock on the shelf and why
don't you leave me alone? That said somebody I think
maybe have picked up on that and decided, Hey, if
there's a customer near.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You, you need to smile. I don't want. I don't
think it employeed to ever be within four feet of me.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
That's pretty close. That's like arm's length. How about that
close to you, maam? I'm squeezing past them for some
reason in that scenario. Yeah, and if you get within
two feet, I want you to laugh uproariously. All right,
now get to work. So we did this story yesterday.
There have been some better arguments on the internet as.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
To the.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Not the authenticity of these numbers, but the way they're portrayed.
Going to give the new version of this, but it's
still really bad. So you see, San Diego had to
add a second remedial math class because they've got so
many people coming in who can't do math.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Before we get to the stats, how about this one.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Universities in our country get thirty times more government cash
than they did in the fifties. That's inflation adjusted, thirty
times as much money going to universities from taxpayers than
in the fifties. And we all know for a fact
that the results are much less. We're probably churning out
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college graduates that were similarly ish to high school graduates
in the fifties.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Probably not even that right.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, Oh, by the way, later on campus maddeness update,
including the hilarious controversy at Harvard over there the university saying, yeah,
we got to start having grades. Everybody gets a's all
the time. We got to stop that. And the little snowflakes,
you're going crazy over it. Anyway, that's for another time. Yeah, great,
inflation is one of the reasons for what they think
(03:08):
happened here. The report shows that nearly one in five
students you see San Diego failed to meet entry level
writing requirements one in five. The deterioration goes across many across,
goes across many different you know, reading, math, science, all
that sort of stuff. But the report focuses on the
(03:28):
client in math skills. Skills in particular, they recently tested
a group of their students. Now it's originally portrayed, and
I'm not exactly sure which is true. Is originally portrayed
as this was all students entering you see San Diego.
The correction on x Twitter is that it only applies
to the kids that are in these remedial math classes. Okay,
(03:50):
that would be better, But even if it's true, it's stunning.
How do you have remedial math classes at a major
university where you get these results? Eighty seven percent of
them can do grade one math? One hundred thirteen percent
(04:12):
of the people in your remedial math class that can't
do first grade math?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
How the hell did you get into the university?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, and we're not talking about you know, Jones County
Community College. This is the University of California at San Diego,
an alleged elite university. And I remember back in my
applying to university days, the idea that you can't do
math up to the standards of a six year old,
you would not have gotten in on any program.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, how'd you get out of high school? How'd you
get out of first grade?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, so, again, I'm not sure which is true, whether
this was all the students or just the remedial.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Math classes, but even best case scenario, it's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So eighty two percent of a could do second grade math,
only three quarters could do third grade math.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
What are you in third grade? Eight years old? Eight
or nine? Yeah, what are you doing in third grade.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Multiparas a quarter of you, I don't think you're into
multiplication tables yet. But anyway, even if you are, you're
at a university of college campus. Yeah, at a quarter
of you can't do that, So a third can't do
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fourth grade math. You get into about fifty that can
do fifth grade math. About fifty percent can't do fifth
grade math. That would be like multiplication and long division stuff.
I mean, I've just I've got a fifth grader recently. Yeah, yeah, so,
I mean it ain't hard stuff. I mean it's pretty
damned remedial. And half the kids all accepted into the
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university having graduated high school, I assume can't do math
at that level.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You get to eighth grade math.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Only nineteen percent of people could do eighth grade math,
but they were admitted to a major allegedly elite university.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Why is it a dei thing? Is it?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean, the the like the social grievance studies programs.
You don't need any preparation. You're there to sit and
be indoctrinated, so you don't need to leave it to
bring any skill to the table or any skill set.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I mean the why.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Is Almost as interesting a question is the how the
f although I think we know how the heck this happened.
More on that in a moment, on all education stuff,
the educators have the out of blaming the pandemic, and
there is a dip in the pandemic crowd. But as
we talked about a couple of weeks ago when the
nation's report card came out, the trend lines were down
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for decades before the pandemic. It accelerated a little during
the pandemic, and now it continues to go down.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So we're head of that direction. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That's a bad way out of this conversation to claim
it was the pandemic. Another reason, according to this researcher,
is the elimination of standardized test requirements, which helped schools
claim everybody's up to grade level and they can pass
everybody and get the government funding they want. And with
high school grade inflation, where the percentage of people.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
To get a's and b's is skyrocketed.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Over the years, not that the abilities have skyrocketed, just
the number of a's and b's that they hand out right,
and the whole social promotion thing where you get moved
on to the next grade, no matter if you learned
anything or not. And then at the point that I mean,
because math in particular, you build your next skill is
built on the foundation.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Of your previously learned skills.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Mostly and so yeah, if you got out of third
grade not having mastered or come close to third grade math,
you are finished as a person learning math. In most cases,
this is a California thing, but not surprising. A major cause,
according to this person, Steve Maguire, a major cause that
you see SD in particular, they point to a significant
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increase in students admitted from LCFF. That's Local Control Funding
Formula schools, which are California public schools in which seventy
five percent of the school's total enrollment is composed of
students who identified as either eligible for free or reduced
price meals, or English lunars or foster youth. So these
are schools with either troubled kids or poor kids or whatever,
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and you have to admit a whole bunch of them
because you know, equity and inequity and all these different
sorts of things, thereby setting them up to fail miserably
in college because they are at a place they can't
cut it. Two choices, and Roland Frar, the Gray Harvard
Economy black man Coleman Hughes. Another great Black thinker, Thomas Soel,
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has pointed this out all sorts of people have. The
worst thing you can do is take a kid unprepared
and throw them into the shark tank of an elite
university because they can't handle it. I mean, there's the
worst thing you can fail. I think there's a worst
thing you can do. Pass them through the university, give
them a degree, and then send them out in the
world with them thinking I'll be able to support myself.
(09:27):
I'll be able to pay off these enormous debts because
I have an important and valuable university degree having been
defrauded by the university.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And that's what I was going to get to. So
you have two choices.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Number one, throw them in the shark tank is described
moments ago or two, so inflate grades that the kids
get through the university having been totally unprepared, doing very
little work and learning almost nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
My god, we need to tear this down to the studs.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And this gets to what you're talking about yesterday. Then
you get these college graduates who don't.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Know that they got a bad education. How would you
know that.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
They think they got a college education just like their
parents and grandparents did, and look at the results that
they got, and now I can't get a job. It
must be capitalism, it must be the system. And that's
why people voted for Momdani. Yeah, as we've pointed out
in that brilliant essay, we had a couple of days ago. Yeah,
they get out into the free market. They were told
that they had skills worth a certain amount, at least
(10:24):
enough to pay off their college debt. And when it
turns out that no, they actually have a worthless degree,
they're not told that. They're told capitalism is the problem.
The system is the problem. It's exploitive and in a
very closely related story, I mean, it's the same story.
After the break, I want to bring you news of
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American Federation of Teachers Presidents Randy Weingarten's new book. I
do want to talk about that, but as just it
just popped in my head what you're always saying, we
need to go way back earlier in the development of
kids to deal with these situations. Dealing with it at
the point you're at the university, what how did you
get out of fifth grade not being able to do
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first grade math? Right, Well, how'd you get out of
first grade without being able to do first grade math
back when I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean, it's nuts.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So you graduated, how'd you get out of high school?
You can't do first grade math?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Right, So the left and the teachers unions would have
us failed these kids from age five through eighteen, completely
failed them while they feather their own nest, and then
make it all up at age eighteen as they're admitted
into an elite university that is perverse.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's idiotic.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Congress is back in session. Summer is over, school has restarted.
Life is serious again. The frivolity of summer is over.
No more hot daw ugs and beer and laying around,
no more brat girl summer or whatever the hell that is.
Time to get serious.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So the story behind the story of the whole Britain
is going to have children vote now is the lefty party.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
The Labor Party thought, hey, this is a great idea
because kids will fall for anything.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
But then a far lefty party emerged and said, yeah, no,
we're even crazier than you, and the kids will flock
to us. And according to the polls, they're right.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Probably. Yeah, it's because they're.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Selling childlike fantasies of what the government ought to do. Yeah, cure.
If you're a normal Democrat in the United States, you
would not want sixteen year olds to vote because they
would all become Bernie AOC types. Right, right, So I
found this very interesting ask to rate their life satisfaction
on a scale of zero to ten, Girls in Britain
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nearly twice as likely as boys to choose an answer between.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Zero and three.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
What was the question, rate your life satisfaction on scals
zero between zero and three. Yeah, twice as many girls
as boys. On the other end of the scale, fifty
eight percent of boys rate their life satisfaction as seven
out of ten or higher, compared with only thirty seven
percent of the girls.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Man, if you're saying.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Your life satisfaction between zero and three, you need a
dose of perspective.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
According to the poll by the think tank that there's
a gender split in other things too, boys are nearly
twice as likely to support right wing parties as girls.
Keeping in mind, right wing in Britain is fairly moderate right.
Some forty five percent of boys age sixteen seventeen would
vote for one of the more conservative parties. Forty five
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to twenty four of the girls the super lefty.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Let's see is well, it's the reverse.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
More than a third say they sympathize more with the
Palestinian side and the Gaza war. Nine percent side with Israel.
Almost half. That's that's a very British thing to ask.
That's almost a quarter of the sixteen and seventeen year
olds say they suffered from anxiety.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Thirty four percent among the girls. That's probably accurate.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Nearly three and five said they had stayed home from
school due to anxiety. Wow, sixty percent of the kids
say they stayed home for anxiety when I was in school.
When you're in school, that would be roughly zero zero
people stayed home from school for anxiety. Sixty nine percent
of the girls h Forty eight percent of the boys
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more than four and ten spend more than six hours
a day on their phone. Six and nine percent spend
more than ten hours.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Says a guy who probably spends eight hours a day
on his pumm that number.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Seven out of ten girls have stayed home from school
from anxiety and just that that great sex divide of
girls like women in the US because we don't let
children vote, are way way farther left than the boys
politically speaking. So would you guess this is an experiment
that will be done away with letting children vote or
(15:09):
I'm leaning toward this. Once you give that age group
the right to vote, it will never go away.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I'll be no getting rid of it. I don't know,
that's a great question.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I think it might be one of those things that
rectivizes itself, rectifies itself over the long term, because it
will be a miserable, miserable failure.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
But it takes so long.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I mean, it's like, how long did San Francisco take
to come around? I just happen to be reading that
their commercial real estate situation has really turned around now
partly because of it, well largely because of AI, but
in the streets of San Francisco much cleaner, the bum
junkie camps far fewer and smaller. San Francisco's really turned
itself around. Credit where it's due. But how long did
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that take?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah? But I don't stand years and years and years.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Of the failure being just everybody could see a miserable
a failure. All those policies were, but in this particular case,
you give the sixteen and seventeen year olds the right
to vote, I don't see how you'd ever get rid
of it. It's going to change the politics so drastically,
so quickly.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
How would you ever end up with a majority that
wants to do away with it?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Oh wow, that's an interesting point. Yeah, it's a perpetual
motion machine. Yeah, I don't know my last I think
that could be one of the most disastrous experiments ever conducted. Yes,
I agree, this could be huge unless these sixteen year
olds when they're forty look back on it and think
I should not have been voting to do away with it.
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But that could take a long time. Obviously, you can
do the math on that well. Right in the new
crop of sixteen seventeen year olds lacking all perspective and
wisdom because that's the way you're supposed to freaking be
as a.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Child, there's no avoiding it.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They will say, oh, yeah, yeah, no, we know what's
right for the world. Up with whatever as opposed to
male white landowners over thirty, which.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Is what should be.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'm willing to expand the tent a little bit anyway. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know. The Western world is not looking super
healthy to me.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Wow, that is crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It it'll be fun to watch, you know, to get
to have that experiment not in the United States and
see how it turns out. I won't go off on
a screen, but it's disturbing the extent to which America's
law schools have swung left, I mean way left, a
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lot of them. And you see the fruit of that
in things like this the four to three Do you
remember the big judge election in Wisconsin that Elon Musk
weighed in on and raised a bunch of money for
the conservative and he got shellacked. And so because they
have Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin and now they have
(17:54):
a four to three liberal majority there. Well, they ruled
against a Catholic charity's nonprofit.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It had to do with tax exemption and who gets it.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Okay, I won't get into the fact that the case
doesn't really matter, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court said, no,
you don't get your tax exemption. Sonya Soto Mayor wrote
the nine to decision for the Supreme Court, overturning the
Wisconsin Supreme Court and administered a firm handed scotus spanking
(18:29):
to their utterly ridiculous, ridiculous ruling. There needs to be
some sort of law that if you get overturned nine
by the U. Supreme Court, you have to disband that
lower court and start over.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Or you're on double secret probation.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And if it happens a second time, yeah, you got
to mind your p's and q's. The State court, well,
I won't read you what the state court held, but
just as Soto Mayor writes in her opinion for the
unanimous reversal, that if a state law treats two religious
soup kitchens differently depending on the amount of prayer and
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proselytizing before lunch, that's a violation of the First Amendment
because they essentially said, yeah, this Catholic charity isn't doing
enough Catholic stuff to earn their tax exemption. They're just
doing kind of general charitable work. But she says, this
is soda, Mayor. It is fundamental to our constitutional order
that the government maintained neutrality between religion and religion. There
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may be hard calls to make in policing that rule,
but this is not one wow yeah again nine nothing decisions.
You have to disband the lower court. That's a new
I want that in the constitution.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, no, kidding.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
The Wall Street Journal editorial board summarizes with don't expect
this nine oh SmackDown to temper the unrestrained ambitions of
Wisconsin's four left wing justices. But in the debate to come,
keep in mind how they're mangling of religious liberty, lost
even justice Soda Mayor. By the way, we'll get back
to the biggest story in America over the last four days.
Coming up kickoff hour two. We're going to talk to
a California congressman Republican who's a hardcore against the lack
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of order in Los Angeles. Fabulous Kevin Kylie. So we'll
get back into that. But I was just reading this.
Tim Sanderfer retweeted, if you think it's a good idea
to protest deportation by waving the flag of the country
you don't want to live in or be deported to,
you're a political idiot. Yes, I would agree, you left
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that country. In some cases you.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Really really don't want to go back, then don't wave
that flag. That'd be my suggestion.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, yeah, so getting back kind of sort of to
the law school theme, but just kind of sort of
during the whole will Ca apocalypse, we ought to have
a term for the post George Floyd period of time
where everything that was left the extremist, a lot of
(20:52):
people were afraid to even argue against you, sat there
and took your euro racist training at work, said yes,
that obvious man is a woman and should be in women's.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Sports if he is a woman.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
For fear of backlash because the left was on the
front foot and just whoop an ass wow. Roughly period
roughly twenty nineteen to Trump's election will be a period
that historians do need to put a name on it.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I mean, that was all woke, George Floyd.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
COVID Trump, January sixth Insurrection, all the craziness of the
twenty four election all. I mean, that's all gotta fit
into a period because the whole thing inflation that I
don't know what they're gonna call it, but it's a
period of time to.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Have lived through, no doubt, as we all know. That's funny.
It just clicked into my head.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I refer to it over and over again in kind
of cumbersome ways, and I need a quick summaration summation.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Does anybody have a suggestion.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You can email us mail bag at Armstrong E Geddy
dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Maybe we'll squeeze it into mailback coming up there.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
He deserves a name that period nineteen through twenty four,
like the Great Depression. It deserves a name, the wocopolyps.
That's kind of cumbersome anyway. So all this was along
aside or along setup to the fact that some absolutely
fundamental principles that nobody has ever argued with suddenly became
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taboo to say, like working hard is white supremacy, and
showing up on time and blah blah blah, and the
idea of the best person gets the job is evil,
and that obvious man is a woman.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I mean, just just the.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Most fundamental truths of humankind were suddenly you weren't supposed
to say them. We continued to perhaps you remember that anyway.
One of those true true truisms is that meritocracy is
what should run virtually everything.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I'm huge on that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I've been saying that for Oh yeah, yeah, I love
what Jordan Peterson said once. He said, Look, the job
of the left or the job of the right is
to make sure meritocracy indoors, because we need that in.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Every profession, in every walk of life.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
The job of the left is to make sure at
the bottom of that ladder there is fairness. People are
not stopped impeded from getting on that ladder. And I
think that's absolutely true. Having said that, were your story
about like great Britain class system where families stay in
that upper tier forever and it's very hard to move tears, Yeah,
(23:36):
I was just yeah, just had a conversation about that
last night, the British legal system specifically.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
But anyway, So here is this guy.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
He began his first final exam in law school and
the classroom.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Was half empty.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
There are maybe sixty seventy people in our big group.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
At least thirty of them were missing.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
He was at Pepperdine Caruso School Law in Malibu, California's
summer twenty three.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It was what we call a racehorse exam.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
He said, out of the final it's pretty guarantee that
you're not going to finish, but you have to move
as fast as possible and rack up as many points
as you can. My daughter just went through this five
weeks ago. He later learned that the absent students weren't
running late, they would be completing the exam separately using
extended time, a testing accommodation that the Americans with Disabilities
(24:20):
Act require schools to make available for students with conditions
that impair major life activities like learning, reading, and concentrating.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So those students.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Usually receive one and a half or twice the standard
testing time, which in law school can mean up to
four extra hours, and according to multiple Pepperdine.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Students, more than a third of the school's.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Law students now received testing accommodations, the most common of
which is extended time. Everybody has a note signed by
somebody that says, yeah, Jimmy has trouble concentrated when I
don't know the lights are on, and so everybody gets
extended time. I know I'm in this world enough to
know you'd never get turned down for some sort of
(25:05):
ADHD or add or anxiety or anything I eat something.
So law schools don't disclose their rates of accommodations, but
a twenty three or in Law Review paper reports data
on public law schools obtained through state public record laws.
And this is in twenty twenty one, before the post
COVID rise in disability accommodations.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Okay, this is the lower rate.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It was like twenty two percent at the University of
California and San Francisco twenty six percent.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You see, Irvine, et cetera, et cetera. Here's my deal.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
And as the father of an autistic daughter, for instance,
I am one hundred percent in favor of us as
a society finding ways to make sure people who have
struggles and special needs get an education. I am crazy, staunchly,
enthusiastically in favor of that. But I don't think my
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beloved daughter, Kate, who I think about every hour of
every day of my life, I don't think she should
be shoehorned into say, you know, Pepperdine law. Well, I
can look at it this way, because I got a
kid that's on all kinds of medication.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I don't know if he's ever gonna get through school.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
But you can't change the law school so that he
can become a lawyer, right or you fundamentally changed to
what a degree from that law school means.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, because if.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You get out in the world and you're practicing law,
Like if I need a lawyer for whatever I'm doing,
I can't say now this lawyer, this lawyer, it'll take
you three days to get your paperwork done. Now this lawyer,
because they have ADHD in anxiety, it's going to be
a month.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I mean, what right? What? That doesn't make any sense? Well,
and you put it beautifully.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I mean that illustrates the fundamental departure from what is
obviously true. One of those COVID Floyd Woke apocalypse, you know,
things that happened.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And again, I want programs.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I want people who need extra time to be able
to get a law degree. But we've got to have excellence,
and we've got to have places where.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Excellence is the only standard.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And then when that standard has met, we know there
was excellence there, not excellence plus double time. Because the
family doctor who's an old family friend went ahead wrote
a note for a little Johnny so you could have
a leg up. I mean, come on, you got a
third of the freaking students. Wow, and elite law schools.
It's ridiculous. Get back to meritocracy. Man, At what point
(27:42):
are you not a good parent because you didn't get
your kid one of these notes that helps.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Him get through everything. I mean, at some point across
the line.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The Armstrong and Getty show, Your Show, podcasts and our
Hot Lakes.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You could start with the question of is the DNI
supposed to spend her time producing and hosting many documentaries
for social media.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I didn't know that was a thing for some reason.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Tulsea Gabber, the Director of National Intelligence, just put out
a three and a half or so minute video in
which she describes visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how horrific
it was that the US used those weapons.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You'll hear some of.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
It, and then moves toward her point, which is troubling
to me. Indeed, we'll give you a sample of it. Michael,
let's hear sixteen.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I recently visited Hiroshima in Japan and stood at the
epicenter of a city that remains scarred by the unimaginable
horror caused by a single nuclear bomb dropped in nineteen
forty five, eighty years ago. It's hard for me to
find the words to express what I saw, the stories
that I heard, the haunting sadness that still remains. This
(28:58):
is an experience that will stay with me forever. This
attack obliterated the city, killed over three hundred thousand people,
many dying instantly, while others died from severe burns, injuries, radiation,
sickness and cancer that set in in the following months
and years. Nagasaki suffered the same faith, homes, schools, families
(29:22):
all gone in a flash. The survivors, the Hibo Kusha,
they carried the pain of extreme burns, radiation, sickness and
loss for decades.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
So she goes on in that vein for a couple
of minutes and describing how today's warheads are even more
and it is never it is like a mini documentary.
I mean, it's really really well done. The music, she
looks great, it looks like a motion picture, and then
all the video behind her of the explosion and then
you know, sick and dying and injured and mutilated people.
(29:56):
I mean, it's it's like a documentary in art displays
of the survi that sort of thing. So she never
mentions the brutality of Imperial Japan Pearl Harbor Baton Death March,
tens of thousands of US troops who died to try
to win the war in the Pacific. She doesn't mention
Operation Downfall, which was the invasion of the Japanese mainland
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in which our military authorities believed between one hundred and
five hundred thousand more young American men were expected to die.
It just goes on and on about the horrors of
using the nuclear weapons against Japanchi out Obama, Obama who
did this while ago, or the Japanese Imperial Armies statement
they would never surrender, or any of those things. Well, yeah,
(30:41):
I just happened to hear a great podcast with a
historian who was talking about the war in the Pacific
and how the closer we got to Japan, the more
intensely the Japanese fought to the death. There would be
I can't remember the numbers, as like seventeen thousand Japanese
soldiers on Iwo Jima and only two hundred of them
surrendered at the end. Everybody else fought to the death.
(31:02):
Pardon me if my numbers are not exact, they don't
have them in front of me. And so the end
of the war would have been horrifically bloody for both sides.
I mean casualties on the Japanese side far beyond and
the toll from the bombs.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
You attacked us.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
It is not our obligation to try to end this
war in a way that saves as many as you
as possible while wasting our lives right exactly exactly, So
what is she doing? Why did she make the video?
Let's skip to eighteen Michael, and it's about to become
(31:40):
more clear.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
This isn't some made up science fiction story. This is
the reality of what's at stake, what we are facing now,
because as we stand here today, closer to the brink
of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite and warmongers
are carelessly fomenting fear and.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Tension between nuclear powers. Perhaps it's because.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
They are confident that they will have access to nuclear
shelters for themselves and for their families that regular people
won't have access to.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
So it's up to us, the people, to speak up.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
And demand an end to this madness.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
We must reject this path to.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Nuclear war and work toward a world where no one
has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This is a mini documentary made to convince people to
abandon Ukraine. That is the purpose of it. She is
trying to convince us that support for Ukraine will lead
to a nuclear holocaust that will get us all except
for those elites who have their own bomb shelters.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Ian Bremer tweeted that out and said, closer to nuclear
war than ever before possible because elites have access to
bomb shelters questionable.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah, well whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
But Noah Rothman in the National Review points out many
times we were much, much, much closer to nuclear war
than we are now, So.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's just wrong.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And he also points out that so where did this
come from? Why would Telsey gabbert in puner country's integrity
and terrorize the public as she talks about causing unnecessary fears?
It's because Moscow's not coming around to Donald Trump's charms.
As he put it, if you've succumbed to the delusion
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that Vladimir Putin is honest and there's invasions of Ukraine
are the result of NATO's supposed aggression, then the Kremlin
should have been satisfied by now. But Trump's peace overtures
and concessions to Russia have failed to dissuade Moscow from
pursuing its territorial ambitions with violence bigger attacks every day.
In the conspiracist's mind, Russia's stubbornness is evidence only that
(33:58):
American dishonest. He is even worse than we previously knew.
I one of the many interesting things about the Trump
administration in the way he does things. You know, he
only has certain things that he's really interested in, and
I think the rest of it doesn't pay much attention to.
(34:19):
Does he have the slightest idea that she did that?
Is he okay with that? DNA is a big internal
argument in the Trump administration, the abandoned Ukrainers versus the
support Ukrainers, and this appears to be some sort of
you know how it's er blast for her side as
the director of National Intelligence. She goes on to say,
(34:43):
and I think this is important. I wish more people
knew this. She goes on to say, the bombs we
have now are many, many, multiple times more powerful than
those I think most people think nuclear bomb and they
think of Roshama, which.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Is bad enough.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It's significantly worse. It wouldn't be hundreds of thousands, it
would be millions. These bombs are so much bigger now.
If the point is to alert the world of that's
what we're dealing with in the reality if we ever
go to nuclear war, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
The problem is, I believe sending the.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Message to Putin and she that you can take land
and then there'll be no pushback gets us closer to
nuclear war, not further from it, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
And what the hell is the D and I doing
doing this right? Right?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Why is she putting out America? You have to understand
how horrible nuclear war would be.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
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