April 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- It's tax day & more tax myths!
- Elephants after the earthquake in San Diego & regurgitated toes
- Gender Bending Madness!
- Illegal immigrants & the American dream.
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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, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty I know he Armstrong and Yetty, a writer.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
For the nineteen ninety show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, is
now saying that it was a mistake to cast a
black actor as the Black Ranger and an Asian actor
as the Yellow Ranger, and he really regrets having a
Mexican actor played the lazy Ranger.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
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for me. Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
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to its slogan cyber truck what if Kanye was a car?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
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The track list for Kanye's latest album.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
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doubt it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So it's tax Day, so I want to just mention
some tax things and trying to figure out how to
present this because I've got a bunch of numbers here,
you're listening to them on the radio. How do I
how do how do I present it in such a
way that you can comprehend it since you can't look
at it, or you don't just start thinking about something else.
But anyway, it's these tax myths from the Manhattan Institute,
and some of them are taking a shot at some
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of our favorite conservative tax myths that, for instance, tax
cuts pay for themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They haven't yet.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean, there's never been an example where the revenue
that came in from increased uh, you know, economic activity
matched the amount you cut by.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Taxes, right.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I think it's strong in our recommendation to say that
they partly pay for themselves, where tax increases do nothing
but screw the economy, right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I'm all for people keeping their own money, so
it doesn't have to I mean, you keeping your money
to me seems like a good thing, although you do
have to fund the government mostly, as Joe pointed out
last hour, we got to cut spending clearly. But anyway,
I wanted to get to this one because this is
such a big talking point for the left and it
shouldn't be. The middle class pays higher tax rates than
the rich. And you've heard versions of this your entire
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adult life, including the fourth ridgest man in the world
Warren Buffett, who famously said, why do I pay lower
taxes than my secretary? Which is just a freaking lie.
And I don't know why he went along with it.
I mean, it's got to do with you know, he
hasn't taken his money out yet, so he hasn't realized
the capital gains. Blah blah blah blah blah. So Jessica Ridle,
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writing for the Manhattan Institute, says, this is spectacularly false,
the idea that the middle class pays higher tax rates
than the rich.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And there's all kinds of numbers here I could use.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Within income taxes, the lowest earning forty percent pay a
negative rate, getting more from the government than they pay
the lowest forty percent, the median earning family pays an
effective rate of two percent, right the top one percent
just one percent of people pay an average income rate
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of twenty one point five percent, So it's not even close.
But there's all kinds of different ways to break this down.
Our tax code is incredibly progressive. It's gotten more progressive
over the years, and it's way more progressive than Europe,
which is the opposite of what you generally hear from lefties.
What would be the best example of that. Since nineteen
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seventy nine, for instance, the share of income taxes paid
by the top twenty percent has jumped from two thirds
to ninety percent of taxes. I mean, whenever you hear
and well, I meant to start with this, So how
do you present this in such a way that most
people aren't saying, oh, I'm not rich, so I you know,
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that's like, maybe that sucks, Maybe I agree with you,
but what do I care?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The problem is when you only have a small percentage
of people paying the giant chunk of taxes, then nobody
cares about the spending.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Right, that's the biggest My opinion, intentional and always has
been narrow satch based to the point that none of
your plans can be voted down. Tax populism is the
shortest put in the history of political golf.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean, you just stick them with it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
They should pay for you, And you're thinking, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Right, if the bulk of people feel like their taxes
aren't that high, that'd be the middle class and below.
If that bulk of people, which is most people, don't
feel like their taxes are that high, then they don't
care about any of these things they hear on talk
radio or out of the House of Representatives or or
whatever about spending, What do you care if you were
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paying the sort of taxes that Europe pays. The whole
social safety net thing that Europe has is funded by
the middle class.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The tax rates for the middle class.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
In Europe are way higher than they are for the
middle class in America.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Right, But if you can sell people on the notion
that if anybody gets as higher taxes, it should be
that damn rich guy who who doesn't pay as high
a rate as I do, that's what I heard. I
mean that is that is so easy to get people
to jump on board. It is an absolutely cost free
demagoguing and you know, chunk of dishonesty, but people love
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hearing it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Let's see if I can say this slow enough that
you can take it in. Last year, the top earning
twenty percent, the top fifth of taxpayers, paid just under
two trillion dollars in income tax. That next quintile, the
next twenty percent of people write above, and you're still
doing well. You know, if you're in that second twenty
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percent at the top paid two hundred and twenty eight
billion So the top twenty percent paid two trillion in taxes,
the next twenty percent paid two hundred and twenty eight billion.
The remaining sixty percent of earners paid a collective income
tax of ninety billion dollars. Wow, the bottom sixty percent
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paid ninety billion in taxes, the top twenty percent paid
two trillion. So when you say when are the rich
gonna pay their fair share? What the hell are you
talking about? What would the fair share be?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Again? It's the easiest demagogaury in the history of demagogaury
getting people to buy into it. The less you try
at work, the more money you'll make.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Okay, it's about as hard to sell.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
As that we're gonna spend like lunatics and we'll tax
him instead of you, and you'll get the benefits.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So Ridel rights that the Biden White House contributed to
this myth a lot. You probably remember Joe Biden giving
a big speech in saying this couple of years ago
that billionaires pay an average rate of eight percent. Well,
if you twist all kinds of numbers and ignore the
fact that when they finally realize their their wealth, when
they take it out, they're gonna pay oh way, way
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way by a hyderd percent. Then that yeah, you can
twist the numbers to make that true, but that's just
it's just not accurate.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I mean, it's a it's.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
A set of facts that lie way more than they reveal.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And you know, but it works.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Like you said, it's such an easy issue to demagogue.
Elon Musk does not pay taxes at the rate of
somebody who has four hundred billion dollars or whatever he has.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
If he took it all.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Out, he would, though, I mean, if he cashed it
all out of the stock market, he absolutely would, right right,
which is why the left is so desperate to tax
people on their assets even if they don't have any
income from them at this point, which it would be
insidious and trust me, would creep down to you in
yours soon enough. But well, right, So, the the way
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the middle class gets taxed so heavily in Europe is
mostly vat value added taxes that they have in all
those countries where you pay, and that hits the middle
class the hardest because the richer you are, the less
you care about another you know, a sales tax basically
on everything, and do the liberals want to go there?
Do they want to go there where the middle class
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is paying the bulk of taxes because that's the way
they do it in Europe where they have their you know, socialist.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Heaven that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I just I don't see any winning this battle because
the misperception is so widespread.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, what's going to happen in this Do you think
we're just going to play it clear and they'll run
it clear into the.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Ground with yes, with with claiming that the rich don't
play pay fair share and that the reason we're so
far in debt is because billionaires get all the tax breaks.
It's just it's so as he said, it's a spectacular lie.
I mean, it's not just misleading, it's the opposite of true. Yeah,
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the rich many many multiples. Yeah, the rich are paying
for everything.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, yeah, correct.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah, It's just if I were to convince a fairly
unsophisticated voter, you know, speaking of quintiles, like eighty percent
of the country does not know that this is true
what you just said, even though it's indisputable, And if
you were to propose to that eighty percent, you know,
roughly the deal I described that we will spend like lunatics,
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you will benefit from it, and we will tax him
because he isn't paying his fair share. That eighty percent
of voters would vote for that proposition over and over
and over again till the day they are.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
In the grave.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
It is the easiest sales proposition in the history of mankind.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I have given up. I've despaired again.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
The top twenty percent paid two trillion, the next twenty
eight billion, the bottom tens well, the bottom sixty percent
paid ninety two billion dollars in taxes last year. And
you're gonna go around saying when will the rich pay
their fair share?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And think that's gonna fix things. It'd be awesome if
it was true. If it was true, it'd be fantastic,
because you know what fix is.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It fixes me getting into office. So you need to know, God,
we're gonna run out of money and then and then
and then everything's gonna suck and could suck for the
rest of history in the United States. We just won't
be a powerful dynamic able to defend ourselves nation because
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of this lie that we hear over and over and
over again.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Uh yeah, and a couple of others that are it's
cheerful sidekicks.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
This is where No, we can just grow our way
out of our debt. We're enjoying nihilist Joe on tax
Day this year.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Not a nihilist, I'm a realist. No, you've described exactly
what's going to happen, Honey. If we keep buying new
cars and vacationing in Hawaii every year, we're going to
be dead broke in three years.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That is correct. Yes, And where are we going this
year for vacation? Hawaii? Hawaii? Yeah? How are we getting
to the airport in our new car? All right?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Standing by my racing It's justter bending madness coming up
later in the hour.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We're breaking a little late.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I'm not sure we can squeeze it in the next segment,
but we'll try.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Fantastic anything else. What was I gonna say?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I know I had a good thing to tease, but
I don't know why. It was because I'm sick, because
I'm on cold medicine.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's all on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
The five point two quakes epicenter near Julian, California, a
mountain town about sixty miles northeast of.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
San Diego at the San.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Diego Zoo Safari Park frightened elephants instinctively forming what's known
as an alert circle to protect the herd. People got
an early warning. Scientist at Caltech say, the my Shake
app alerted people this quake was coming just seconds before
it hit.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Oh wow, Okay, multiple layers of interesting there. Yeah, so
I want to talk about the elchant predict the earthquake
had the elephant's critical three seconds warning or whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
A couple might be two, so you don't even get
that third one.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So I just I think earthquake predicting apps are stupid
the whole concept.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
But interesting about the elephants though. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Indeed, if you haven't seen the video, we'll post a
link at armstrong egeddy dot com. But yeah, the ground
begins to shake and the elephants look around nervously. Then
they all back into a circle, butts together, trunks out,
looking for whatever danger might come their way to protect
the herd. It's really quite amazing, and one of our
beloved listeners who sent along the link pointed out that
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humans like are unaware of what's happening until somebody says, yeah,
it's an earthquake, and so then everybody runs around and
isn't sure what to do then anyway, But the elephants
are like, all right, Emergency Protocol three.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
C get into their alert circle. It's funny, that is interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I'm so fascinated by elephants since I was a little kid.
Continue to be I mean, that's my next act in life.
Jack Heflum, researcher.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Earthquake, earthquake, earthquake, earthquakes still happening.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
There you go, that's just what it sounded like. We're
experiencing an earthquake. Police.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do you want to tease what you've got because what
I what I'm about to say is gonna wipe everybody's
mind clean, and so they're not going to be able
to focus.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
An important gender bending madness update coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Stay with us. So this is a headline.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's not from the New York Post, it's not from
a tabloid. It's from NBC news. Woman admits trying to
sell human toes regurgitated by dogs.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
You know, as I said the other day, the supply
chain issues in that business seem daunting to me.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
How can you keep your supply coming? She works at
an animal shelter. Okay, they took in a couple of
dogs from some bloke who had died.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And we've done these stories before. It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You know, you die in your home alone with your pets,
and eventually they get hungry enough that they they to survive,
they eat you.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh, Grim's fairy tales.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And so this guy, this guy had died in his
home and the dogs ate off his toes to survive.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He's dead.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
The dogs go to the shelter. It's terriblets. Little pig
we went to market. This little piggy went and Rover, Oh,
you should have.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
A will for your pets, I guess, in case he dies,
so they don't just end up in the shelter. You know,
I'm guessing there's, like, you know, all kinds of things
that weren't perfect about this person's life who dies alone,
perhaps being eaten by their own dogs.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
But so when the dogs apparently didn't digest the.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Toes well for so much, yes, regurgitated them. This woman
her thought was not oh my god, gross, or what
are those or whatever? She thought, I'll bet I could
sell those online for money.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yes, yes, she thought she could.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
She could make as much as two hundred and fifty
bucks by selling them on the line. So she took
the toes, she put them in a jar of formaldehyde,
and she listed them online for sale, which is actually
against the law. For some reason, I can't believe we
have laws that deal with this.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I don't think you're allowed to wholesale body parts.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Just doesn't that that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, that's what the law is. She barely qualified for
baking the law, according to the judge, and he gave
her like community service and a small fine. It wasn't
like a hardcore version of selling body parts.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
But now if I find you online hawking thumbs, gonna
throw the book at you.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
All right. We have an understanding, all right, And by god,
if there's a human head, you will not see the
light of day. Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well, okay, you know we kind of glossed over the
critical moment you mentioned it when she thought, you know,
I could probably sell these toes to someone who wants
to buy toes.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It makes some money. She likes to think.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
She looks in the she looks in the cage, sees
regurgitated human toes. I realized how growth this as people,
And she thinks she sees it, recognizes what it is in.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
And my ship has come in my coworkers just see
severed toes. I see opportunity, said this plucky young capitalist.
But I like to think I'm a fairly creative guy.
But I don't think that thought would occur to me.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
She thinks outside the box. You have to give re
credit for.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
That, right coming up, gender Bending Madness Update, and it
goes to the core of how sick our education system is.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Trump's trying to clean it out. Will he be successful?
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It was reported that several White House officials are refusing
to answer messages from journalists if their email signatures include
identifying pronouns, which is extremely frustrating for New York Times reporter.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
To her, they then wow, Wow, that reminds me. Do
we have that uh? That the wackadoodle pronoun? Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Audio I asked for. I don't see it all right,
I'll yell at people behind the scenes. No problem.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's time for a gender bending Madness update.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Come on, I kept hearing about this thing called.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
The loco. We're a brave so much to report on today.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Congratulations to the brave transgender athlete who nabbed first place
during a girl's high school track meet in Portland.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oregon.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
The boy who goes by Leah used to compete under
the name Zachary, where he lost a lot, but now
that he is a she, he beat the hell out
of those girls high jumped four feet aged inches, beating
the second place furniture by two inches, and has nabbed
that first place ribbon. Way to go, fella, way to
best those girls. You're a better you're better at being
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a girl than they are.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Isn't it weird how you never see this happen the
other way.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
In the history of everything that's right?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah, yeah, so this I'm tempted to go off on
the tangent of Donald Jay in the Department of Education
trying to rain this sort of in and sort of
thing in, And they have opened an investigation into Portland
public schools for violating Title nine and have promised to
pull federal funding for states who continue to allow men
and women's sports.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I continue to be amazed by the crowd reaction to
this sort of stuff, that there isn't more of a
just outcry or walking out or refusing to participate or whatever.
And like you always say, it true, you're dealing a
lot of times with kids who are being told by
adults that make sense so.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Over and over again, which we'll get to in a
second or two, especially in cal Unicornia schools. Although come on,
Oregon and California are not only neighbors, they are ideological
brethren in that in defense of those two fine states,
they're a hell of a lot of perfectly reasonable, normal people.
They just don't control the politics. They're not in the
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urban centers, so they never win elections.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Moving along, Andy no posted the other day that a
violent Portland Trantifa member. These are these radically violent so
called transgender people who are torching tesla dealers, among other things,
and committing all sorts of acts of insanity and violence.
But this fella by the name of Philip Delesi decided
to not only become a transgender, but transracial and now
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identifies as a LATINIX woman. Made repeated violent death and
stalking threats against Andy, who we've talked to several times
on the show, which he reported to police and nothing happened.
Not only that, but this guy has committed violent acts
and Portland judge dismissed the case earlier this year. Well,
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Portland has moved in the direction of sanity in their
prosecutor's office and their mayor and stuff like that, and
they have reinstated, refiled criminal charges against this self proclaimed
Antifa super soldier. What's a Philip Delesi now calls himself
of Isabelle Rosa a Rojo.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
That's a mentally ill person period, mentally.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Ill super soldier his term.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah, yeah, wow, Antifa super soldier, that's right. All sorts
of pictures of this guy online with a big knife
in hand, wearing a spiked dog collar and makeup, and
then there he is in a gas mask in like
an all black and I'm an Antifa swat team member outfit.
And again could threaten and hurt people right and left,
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and Portland would do nothing about it until fairly recently. Anyway,
moving along, I thought this was so interesting. Beth O'Connor
has been a five term member of the main House
of Representatives, and she's talking to Caroline Downey in the
National Review, and she had proposed what she believed to
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be a common sense bill to ban men and women's sports.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But instead of seeing the usual.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Bipartisan spirit that Republicans in the state legislature have long
expected from their Democratic neighbors, I mean Maine is a
state where reasonable people get along even if they disagree.
Her proposal this time was met with a flood of
ugly messages from special interest groups claiming she was inventing
a fake crisis, an argument she knew to be false.
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She'd personally seen the medals won by dudes in girls sports.
My email inbox was full of threats, she told National Review.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I got phone calls telling me that this wasn't happening anywhere,
but I knew it was happening. There were instances it
was getting more and more difficult to work with the
Democrats at all.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
They were in lockstep. So I'm just happy to be
done and retire from politics. The long and short of
it is from covid on, Maine has seen a huge
influx of moneyed Northeastern progressives come into the state and
it's utterly upended their politics. And they've gone from kind
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of libertarian lefl you know, let's just all mind your
own business, to now like activist, gender bending madness politics,
which has got to be just incredibly disturbing. And then
you got the Main the gal who won the election
for Main's governor, whatever her name is, who got into
that arguing match with the President at the White House
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and is staunchly defending gender bending madness in all its forms.
But they say there are now two mains, Maine and
Northern Massachusetts. About sixty percent of the population live south
of Augusta, and it's all massachusetts ins who've moved into Maine.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So interesting that's happened so many different places.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, and totally changed just the culture of the state,
which I find disturbing, but wanted to get to. This
is the gender benning madness update contingent. We mentioned a
couple of days ago, a few days ago that California
school administrators had held a conference titled Lead with Pride Summit,
Out Proud and Moving Forward and teachers administrators, County Office
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of Education, personnel, district superintendents, education college professors, and drag
queens from around the state. We're attending this conference, and
we mentioned one session that's all about building LGBTQ plus
organizations and schools and helping kids transition. Again, these are
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school administrators going to seminars on how to help kids transition.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Because that's your job at a school to help kids
deal with their gender issues.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
And Jack, as you always point out, they're not teaching
the kids to read and write and do math would
be and failing miserably at their core job.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I would be against this even if they were scoring
at ninety percent of a proficiency and reading a math,
but it's not. So they failing at the main thing
and doing this, which is pretty hard to take.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
And the California Globe is pointing out that they have
a session titled combating transphobic Legislation with inclusive sex ed
and at that attendees will be filled with disinformation to
pass on to the kids from independent consultant Van Jones,
a woman pretending to be a man. The most disturbing
information Jones will present is to skirt laws to provide
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students with disinformation on puberty blockers.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And I'll summarize, they're.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Teaching the kids that the puberty blockers and the massive
hormone treatments have no permanent effects, will not change their
bodies for the rest of their lives. That is a
myth in a right wing conspiracy, and that it's absolutely
fine to do that as a child.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It is repulsive and evil.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It's sick, and it's even more amazing given the fact
that Europe has gone the other direction now because usually
your lefties they look to Europe for guidance on everything,
but not on this one. I guess they feel like
Europe's wrong. I guess, well, right, or they just ignore
that it's happening.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
And the final note, and I have believed for a
long time that LGB could would really do itself a
favor by divorcing itself from the T plus minus over
the power of three crowd. It used to be just
LGB lesbian, gay, bisexual people said, hey, quit beaten honus
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and denying us jobs and blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I know several in the LGB world that one hundred
percent agree with you.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Right, Yeah, I'm absolutely joining with the sane people I've
talked to of that same orientation to express this. But so,
the San Francisco Pride Month Parade festival organization has been
leaning harder and harder.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Into its activist identity.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Quoting Richie Greenberg also in the California Globe, it's turned
what was once a jubilant remoration into a sanctimony soapbox.
It's theme for this year, queer joy is resistance. Reeks
of the signed are the kind of self righteous sloganeering
that turns a party into an uncomfortable, biased, scolding lecture,
but now with a gaping budgetary whole threatening its June
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twenty eighth to twenty ninth extravaganza. Estimates fear the shortfall
could reach two of about two thirds of its operating
costs because the organization has recently lost about three hundred
thousand dollars in corporate sponsorships from corporate heavyweights like Comcast, Meta,
Anheuser Busch, local wine producers. That sort of thing. It's
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not just a budgetary hiccup. It's a big flashing neon
sign that even the most progressive enterprises can't outrun the
consequences of their own ideological bullying. And then they go
into the bud Light story again to summarize this, because
we don't have a ton of time, although it's very
very well written. The absolute far far end of radical
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leftism that is represented by turning little boys into little girls,
having them play in sports drag Queen's entertaining kiddergarteners. The
rest of it, I mean, the percentage of human beings
that thinks that's appropriate or cool is tiny, and these big,
giant corporations have realized, Wow, look at who we're in
bed with, no pun intended, and they're saying, yeah, no,
(28:21):
we can't do that anymore. So the increasingly scolding, hyper
radical Pride organization is realized the money spigot has run dry,
which I thought was interesting. It's a gender bending madness update.
Do we have a clothes on that that would probably
be a good idea?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
You got you gotta have you gotta have a cap there?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
What do you call it? Just hang mad? Yeah? I
kept hearing about this thing called we'll get this right.
When we actually do this.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Over and the actual show begins, Jack, I find myself
wondering this, Do you have more of those fabulous and
fascinating tax myths for us? I do, and then we're
going to talk to a tax attorney in hour three
about where things are tax wise in America.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Right now on this tax day, April fifteenth.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I know, I personally wrote the biggest check I've ever
written in my life a week ago.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's very fun.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Thank you, jee, thank you, especially knowing how well it's
spent with a variety of things that Doe just pointed
out to us. I'm hoping my money somehow accidentally went
to a battleship that we actually need as opposed to
a trans opera in Ireland or something like that.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Or more likely, and I will bore you with this
at some point because you can't stop me. More likely
it went to an able bodied, stoned guy who just
doesn't want to work, who gets medicaid from your taxes.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Right, Yeah, that's able.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Bodied mail not working choice live in quite a nice lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, we got way too many of those, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
The video vows to spend a half a trillion dollars
building AI servers in the United States.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yes, better or worse, among other things we can talk about.
Stay here more hilarity from our friends at the Babylon BA.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
I came to this country with nothing but the clothes
on my back and a dream, a dream that I
could come here and commit many, many crimes. But the
Trump administration deported me, and now my dreams of killing
many people and committing much crime have been shattered.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I am as sad.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
I thought America was a place where you could freely
traffic drugs maybe some people as well. I also came
here to rob do some cocaine. I also want to
do non crime things like see a chokichiese, go to
a dyer's game, but mostly all the crime stuff. I know,
I'm being deported thanks to President. I've only killed five people.
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There was so much more I wanted to do, so
many dreams yet to be dreamed.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Wow. I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. Uh yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, yeah. I was a little uncomfortable with that, frankly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I mean because, as we all know, there have been
some illegals here that have committed horrible crimes, and amazingly
there are cities and states that want to protect them
from being booted out of the country. That's insanity, m
But the vast majority of people who are coming into
this country illegally are just why.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Wouldn't you want to live here? And they want to work.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
But that's that's the I think that's the under layer
of that bit was that the dreams and aspirations of good,
hard working people are being applied to criminal gang members
and rapists and murderers right to defend them from being
deported or ice cooperated with local authorities. They're being portrayed
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by the Left. Is honest, hardworking murderers who just dreamed,
beautiful dreams of committing crimes in this country.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
How dare you turn them over to ice. I think
it's subtle, but it's good, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Just to give a visual this guy had an MS
thirteen tattoo on his forehead and when he said I
am as sad, he pointed at a tear drop tattoo
on his face.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Killer. So just a visual forum. He was clearly one
of the bad ones.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, hardworking people find a way that they
can apply and stay if they follow the law, and
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
They love this country. Hey, we're fellow Americans. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
You're gonna break the law though, you're gonna ship you
a hell out to that recreation complex in El Salvador.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
We've had a number of textures say they thought you
were interviewing RFK Junior today. Now that's me, Jack Armstrong.
I just have some sort of disease. This might be
my last disease. I told my son last night when
I went to bay, I said, you can have my
watch if huh in the morning, I'm I've passed.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Don't let the dog eat my toes, yes, and don't
let the dog eat me. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I know I sound bad, but the key is I
feel as bad as I sound I feel. Or where
I was complaining earlier about the baby Boomer generation, the
worst generation in American history, around the whole tax thing
on this tax day and how we ended up in
a situation where we spend more than we take in
and we're just comfortable with.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That and we're just going to continue it. Both parties
seem to be fine with that. Just real quick.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
How about the generation that says that said we like
having slaves, we want to keep having slaves.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
That was a pretty bad generation. What was What did
I see yesterday? It was so good. I saw a
comedian somewhere. Was that on Saturday Night Live?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I was on Saturday Night Live? Comedian on Saturday Live.
It was a bit during the news and as one
of the new cast members. I mean, he was talking
about how.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
We treat the whole uber door dash sort of world
and around. You know, they're obviously struggling, they got a
crappy car, they come up to your.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Door in the rain, whatever like that. You're just mad
that they weren't faster. You give them three bucks? He said.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It's clearly he said, it clearly proves that, you know,
the whole slave thing. A lot of us would have said,
you know what, this is pretty andy. Wow, Wow, this
was a spanic guy. Uh the way we you know,
I don't know, I had a point I was gonna make.
(34:39):
I don't remember what it was. It's a cold medicine. Oh.
The whole baby boomer thing was around taxes and how
we've gotten ourselves into this situation and just culturally, it's
amazing to me that this happened, But it seems to happen.
A society that's willing to spend beyond their means in
their own.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Lives allows the government to do that.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It just seems to be the case in the society
that didn't. Our parents didn't spend beyond their means, didn't
allow the government.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
To do it.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah, thriftiness for our entire history as people was not
viewed as a strategy.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
It was viewed as a moral question right, and that
went out the window for a lot of different reasons.
Maybe we'll talk about later. If you miss a seconment
gets the podcast Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty I know he Armstrong and Yetty, a writer.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
For the nineteen ninety show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, is
now saying that it was a mistake to cast a
black actor as the Black Ranger and an Asian actor
as the Yellow Ranger, and he really regrets having a
Mexican actor played the lazy Ranger.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Wow Wow Wow, play the Tesla Saturday Night Live joke
for me. Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Tesla is reportedly having trouble selling cyber trucks, partly due
to its slogan cyber truck what if Kanye was a car?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh you weren't here Friday. I gotta do this later.
The track list for Kanye's latest album.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh no, oh, no, oh, It's amazing. Oh I don't
doubt it.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So it's tax Day, so I want to just mention
some tax things and trying to figure out how to
present this because I've got a bunch of numbers here,
you're listening to them on the radio. How do I
how do how do I present it in such a
way that you can comprehend it since you can't look
at it, or you don't just start thinking about something else.
But anyway, it's these tax myths from the Manhattan Institute,
and some of them are taking a shot at some
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of our favorite conservative tax myths that, for instance, tax
cuts pay for themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They haven't yet.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean, there's never been an example where the revenue
that came in from increased uh, you know, economic activity
matched the amount you cut by.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Taxes, right.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I think it's strong in our recommendation to say that
they partly pay for themselves, where tax increases do nothing
but screw the economy, right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
And that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
And I'm all for people keeping their own money, so
it doesn't have to I mean, you keeping your money
to me seems like a good thing, although you do
have to fund the government mostly, as Joe pointed out
last hour, we got to cut spending clearly. But anyway,
I wanted to get to this one because this is
such a big talking point for the left and it
shouldn't be. The middle class pays higher tax rates than
the rich. And you've heard versions of this your entire
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adult life, including the fourth ridgest man in the world
Warren Buffett, who famously said, why do I pay lower
taxes than my secretary? Which is just a freaking lie.
And I don't know why he went along with it.
I mean, it's got to do with you know, he
hasn't taken his money out yet, so he hasn't realized
the capital gains. Blah blah blah blah blah. So Jessica Ridle,
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writing for the Manhattan Institute, says, this is spectacularly false,
the idea that the middle class pays higher tax rates
than the rich.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
And there's all kinds of numbers here I could use.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Within income taxes, the lowest earning forty percent pay a
negative rate, getting more from the government than they pay
the lowest forty percent, the median earning family pays an
effective rate of two percent, right the top one percent
just one percent of people pay an average income rate
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of twenty one point five percent, So it's not even close.
But there's all kinds of different ways to break this down.
Our tax code is incredibly progressive. It's gotten more progressive
over the years, and it's way more progressive than Europe,
which is the opposite of what you generally hear from lefties.
What would be the best example of that. Since nineteen
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seventy nine, for instance, the share of income taxes paid
by the top twenty percent has jumped from two thirds
to ninety percent of taxes. I mean, whenever you hear
and well, I meant to start with this, So how
do you present this in such a way that most
people aren't saying, oh, I'm not rich, so I you know,
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that's like, maybe that sucks, Maybe I agree with you,
but what do I care?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The problem is when you only have a small percentage
of people paying the giant chunk of taxes, then nobody
cares about the spending.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Right, that's the biggest My opinion, intentional and always has
been narrow satch based to the point that none of
your plans can be voted down. Tax populism is the
shortest put in the history of political golf.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean, you just stick them with it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
They should pay for you, And you're thinking, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Right, if the bulk of people feel like their taxes
aren't that high, that'd be the middle class and below.
If that bulk of people, which is most people, don't
feel like their taxes are that high, then they don't
care about any of these things they hear on talk
radio or out of the House of Representatives or or
whatever about spending, What do you care if you were
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paying the sort of taxes that Europe pays. The whole
social safety net thing that Europe has is funded by
the middle class.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The tax rates for the middle class.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
In Europe are way higher than they are for the
middle class in America.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Right, But if you can sell people on the notion
that if anybody gets as higher taxes, it should be
that damn rich guy who who doesn't pay as high
a rate as I do, that's what I heard. I
mean that is that is so easy to get people
to jump on board. It is an absolutely cost free
demagoguing and you know, chunk of dishonesty, but people love
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hearing it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Let's see if I can say this slow enough that
you can take it in. Last year, the top earning
twenty percent, the top fifth of taxpayers, paid just under
two trillion dollars in income tax. That next quintile, the
next twenty percent of people write above, and you're still
doing well. You know, if you're in that second twenty
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percent at the top paid two hundred and twenty eight
billion So the top twenty percent paid two trillion in taxes,
the next twenty percent paid two hundred and twenty eight billion.
The remaining sixty percent of earners paid a collective income
tax of ninety billion dollars. Wow, the bottom sixty percent
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paid ninety billion in taxes, the top twenty percent paid
two trillion. So when you say when are the rich
gonna pay their fair share? What the hell are you
talking about? What would the fair share be?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Again? It's the easiest demagogaury in the history of demagogaury
getting people to buy into it. The less you try
at work, the more money you'll make.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Okay, it's about as hard to sell.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
As that we're gonna spend like lunatics and we'll tax
him instead of you, and you'll get the benefits.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So Ridel rights that the Biden White House contributed to
this myth a lot. You probably remember Joe Biden giving
a big speech in saying this couple of years ago
that billionaires pay an average rate of eight percent. Well,
if you twist all kinds of numbers and ignore the
fact that when they finally realize their their wealth, when
they take it out, they're gonna pay oh way, way
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way by a hyderd percent. Then that yeah, you can
twist the numbers to make that true, but that's just
it's just not accurate.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I mean, it's a it's.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
A set of facts that lie way more than they reveal.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And you know, but it works.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Like you said, it's such an easy issue to demagogue.
Elon Musk does not pay taxes at the rate of
somebody who has four hundred billion dollars or whatever he has.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
If he took it all.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Out, he would, though, I mean, if he cashed it
all out of the stock market, he absolutely would, right right,
which is why the left is so desperate to tax
people on their assets even if they don't have any
income from them at this point, which it would be
insidious and trust me, would creep down to you in
yours soon enough. But well, right, So, the the way
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the middle class gets taxed so heavily in Europe is
mostly vat value added taxes that they have in all
those countries where you pay, and that hits the middle
class the hardest because the richer you are, the less
you care about another you know, a sales tax basically
on everything, and do the liberals want to go there?
Do they want to go there where the middle class
(08:32):
is paying the bulk of taxes because that's the way
they do it in Europe where they have their you know, socialist.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Heaven that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I just I don't see any winning this battle because
the misperception is so widespread.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, what's going to happen in this Do you think
we're just going to play it clear and they'll run
it clear into the.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Ground with yes, with with claiming that the rich don't
play pay fair share and that the reason we're so
far in debt is because billionaires get all the tax breaks.
It's just it's so as he said, it's a spectacular lie.
I mean, it's not just misleading, it's the opposite of true. Yeah,
(09:15):
the rich many many multiples. Yeah, the rich are paying
for everything.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, yeah, correct.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah, It's just if I were to convince a fairly
unsophisticated voter, you know, speaking of quintiles, like eighty percent
of the country does not know that this is true
what you just said, even though it's indisputable, And if
you were to propose to that eighty percent, you know,
roughly the deal I described that we will spend like lunatics,
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you will benefit from it, and we will tax him
because he isn't paying his fair share. That eighty percent
of voters would vote for that proposition over and over
and over again till the day they are.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
In the grave.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
It is the easiest sales proposition in the history of mankind.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I have given up. I've despaired again.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
The top twenty percent paid two trillion, the next twenty
eight billion, the bottom tens well, the bottom sixty percent
paid ninety two billion dollars in taxes last year. And
you're gonna go around saying when will the rich pay
their fair share?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And think that's gonna fix things. It'd be awesome if
it was true. If it was true, it'd be fantastic,
because you know what fix is.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It fixes me getting into office. So you need to know, God,
we're gonna run out of money and then and then
and then everything's gonna suck and could suck for the
rest of history in the United States. We just won't
be a powerful dynamic able to defend ourselves nation because
(10:44):
of this lie that we hear over and over and
over again.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Uh yeah, and a couple of others that are it's
cheerful sidekicks.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
This is where No, we can just grow our way
out of our debt. We're enjoying nihilist Joe on tax
Day this year.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Not a nihilist, I'm a realist. No, you've described exactly
what's going to happen, Honey. If we keep buying new
cars and vacationing in Hawaii every year, we're going to
be dead broke in three years.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
That is correct. Yes, And where are we going this
year for vacation? Hawaii? Hawaii? Yeah? How are we getting
to the airport in our new car? All right?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Standing by my racing It's justter bending madness coming up
later in the hour.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We're breaking a little late.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I'm not sure we can squeeze it in the next segment,
but we'll try.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Fantastic anything else. What was I gonna say?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I know I had a good thing to tease, but
I don't know why. It was because I'm sick, because
I'm on cold medicine.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's all on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
The five point two quakes epicenter near Julian, California, a
mountain town about sixty miles northeast of.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
San Diego at the San.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Diego Zoo Safari Park frightened elephants instinctively forming what's known
as an alert circle to protect the herd. People got
an early warning. Scientist at Caltech say, the my Shake
app alerted people this quake was coming just seconds before
it hit.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Oh wow, Okay, multiple layers of interesting there. Yeah, so
I want to talk about the elchant predict the earthquake
had the elephant's critical three seconds warning or whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
A couple might be two, so you don't even get
that third one.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
So I just I think earthquake predicting apps are stupid
the whole concept.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
But interesting about the elephants though. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Indeed, if you haven't seen the video, we'll post a
link at armstrong egeddy dot com. But yeah, the ground
begins to shake and the elephants look around nervously. Then
they all back into a circle, butts together, trunks out,
looking for whatever danger might come their way to protect
the herd. It's really quite amazing, and one of our
beloved listeners who sent along the link pointed out that
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humans like are unaware of what's happening until somebody says, yeah,
it's an earthquake, and so then everybody runs around and
isn't sure what to do then anyway, But the elephants
are like, all right, Emergency Protocol three.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
C get into their alert circle. It's funny, that is interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I'm so fascinated by elephants since I was a little kid.
Continue to be I mean, that's my next act in life.
Jack Heflum, researcher.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Earthquake, earthquake, earthquake, earthquakes still happening.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
There you go, that's just what it sounded like. We're
experiencing an earthquake. Police.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do you want to tease what you've got because what
I what I'm about to say is gonna wipe everybody's
mind clean, and so they're not going to be able
to focus.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
An important gender bending madness update coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Stay with us. So this is a headline.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's not from the New York Post, it's not from
a tabloid. It's from NBC news. Woman admits trying to
sell human toes regurgitated by dogs.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
You know, as I said the other day, the supply
chain issues in that business seem daunting to me.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
How can you keep your supply coming? She works at
an animal shelter. Okay, they took in a couple of
dogs from some bloke who had died.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And we've done these stories before. It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You know, you die in your home alone with your pets,
and eventually they get hungry enough that they they to survive,
they eat you.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh, Grim's fairy tales.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And so this guy, this guy had died in his
home and the dogs ate off his toes to survive.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He's dead.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
The dogs go to the shelter. It's terriblets. Little pig
we went to market. This little piggy went and Rover, Oh,
you should have.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
A will for your pets, I guess, in case he dies,
so they don't just end up in the shelter. You know,
I'm guessing there's, like, you know, all kinds of things
that weren't perfect about this person's life who dies alone,
perhaps being eaten by their own dogs.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
But so when the dogs apparently didn't digest the.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Toes well for so much, yes, regurgitated them. This woman
her thought was not oh my god, gross, or what
are those or whatever? She thought, I'll bet I could
sell those online for money.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yes, yes, she thought she could.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
She could make as much as two hundred and fifty
bucks by selling them on the line. So she took
the toes, she put them in a jar of formaldehyde,
and she listed them online for sale, which is actually
against the law. For some reason, I can't believe we
have laws that deal with this.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I don't think you're allowed to wholesale body parts.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Just doesn't that that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, that's what the law is. She barely qualified for
baking the law, according to the judge, and he gave
her like community service and a small fine. It wasn't
like a hardcore version of selling body parts.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
But now if I find you online hawking thumbs, gonna
throw the book at you.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
All right. We have an understanding, all right, And by god,
if there's a human head, you will not see the
light of day. Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well, okay, you know we kind of glossed over the
critical moment you mentioned it when she thought, you know,
I could probably sell these toes to someone who wants
to buy toes.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It makes some money. She likes to think.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
She looks in the she looks in the cage, sees
regurgitated human toes. I realized how growth this as people,
And she thinks she sees it, recognizes what it is in.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
And my ship has come in my coworkers just see
severed toes. I see opportunity, said this plucky young capitalist.
But I like to think I'm a fairly creative guy.
But I don't think that thought would occur to me.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
She thinks outside the box. You have to give re
credit for.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
That, right coming up, gender Bending Madness Update, and it
goes to the core of how sick our education system is.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Trump's trying to clean it out. Will he be successful?
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
It was reported that several White House officials are refusing
to answer messages from journalists if their email signatures include
identifying pronouns, which is extremely frustrating for New York Times reporter.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
To her, they then wow, Wow, that reminds me. Do
we have that uh? That the wackadoodle pronoun? Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Audio I asked for. I don't see it all right,
I'll yell at people behind the scenes. No problem.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's time for a gender bending Madness update.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Come on, I kept hearing about this thing called.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
The loco. We're a brave so much to report on today.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Congratulations to the brave transgender athlete who nabbed first place
during a girl's high school track meet in Portland.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oregon.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
The boy who goes by Leah used to compete under
the name Zachary, where he lost a lot, but now
that he is a she, he beat the hell out
of those girls high jumped four feet aged inches, beating
the second place furniture by two inches, and has nabbed
that first place ribbon. Way to go, fella, way to
best those girls. You're a better you're better at being
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a girl than they are.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Isn't it weird how you never see this happen the
other way.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
In the history of everything that's right?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah, yeah, so this I'm tempted to go off on
the tangent of Donald Jay in the Department of Education
trying to rain this sort of in and sort of
thing in, And they have opened an investigation into Portland
public schools for violating Title nine and have promised to
pull federal funding for states who continue to allow men
and women's sports.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I continue to be amazed by the crowd reaction to
this sort of stuff, that there isn't more of a
just outcry or walking out or refusing to participate or whatever.
And like you always say, it true, you're dealing a
lot of times with kids who are being told by
adults that make sense so.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Over and over again, which we'll get to in a
second or two, especially in cal Unicornia schools. Although come on,
Oregon and California are not only neighbors, they are ideological
brethren in that in defense of those two fine states,
they're a hell of a lot of perfectly reasonable, normal people.
They just don't control the politics. They're not in the
(19:55):
urban centers, so they never win elections.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Moving along, Andy no posted the other day that a
violent Portland Trantifa member. These are these radically violent so
called transgender people who are torching tesla dealers, among other things,
and committing all sorts of acts of insanity and violence.
But this fella by the name of Philip Delesi decided
to not only become a transgender, but transracial and now
(20:22):
identifies as a LATINIX woman. Made repeated violent death and
stalking threats against Andy, who we've talked to several times
on the show, which he reported to police and nothing happened.
Not only that, but this guy has committed violent acts
and Portland judge dismissed the case earlier this year. Well,
(20:43):
Portland has moved in the direction of sanity in their
prosecutor's office and their mayor and stuff like that, and
they have reinstated, refiled criminal charges against this self proclaimed
Antifa super soldier. What's a Philip Delesi now calls himself
of Isabelle Rosa a Rojo.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
That's a mentally ill person period, mentally.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Ill super soldier his term.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah, yeah, wow, Antifa super soldier, that's right. All sorts
of pictures of this guy online with a big knife
in hand, wearing a spiked dog collar and makeup, and
then there he is in a gas mask in like
an all black and I'm an Antifa swat team member outfit.
And again could threaten and hurt people right and left,
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and Portland would do nothing about it until fairly recently. Anyway,
moving along, I thought this was so interesting. Beth O'Connor
has been a five term member of the main House
of Representatives, and she's talking to Caroline Downey in the
National Review, and she had proposed what she believed to
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be a common sense bill to ban men and women's sports.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But instead of seeing the usual.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Bipartisan spirit that Republicans in the state legislature have long
expected from their Democratic neighbors, I mean Maine is a
state where reasonable people get along even if they disagree.
Her proposal this time was met with a flood of
ugly messages from special interest groups claiming she was inventing
a fake crisis, an argument she knew to be false.
(22:18):
She'd personally seen the medals won by dudes in girls sports.
My email inbox was full of threats, she told National Review.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I got phone calls telling me that this wasn't happening anywhere,
but I knew it was happening. There were instances it
was getting more and more difficult to work with the
Democrats at all.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
They were in lockstep. So I'm just happy to be
done and retire from politics. The long and short of
it is from covid on, Maine has seen a huge
influx of moneyed Northeastern progressives come into the state and
it's utterly upended their politics. And they've gone from kind
(22:58):
of libertarian lefl you know, let's just all mind your
own business, to now like activist, gender bending madness politics,
which has got to be just incredibly disturbing. And then
you got the Main the gal who won the election
for Main's governor, whatever her name is, who got into
that arguing match with the President at the White House
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and is staunchly defending gender bending madness in all its forms.
But they say there are now two mains, Maine and
Northern Massachusetts. About sixty percent of the population live south
of Augusta, and it's all massachusetts ins who've moved into Maine.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So interesting that's happened so many different places.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, and totally changed just the culture of the state,
which I find disturbing, but wanted to get to. This
is the gender benning madness update contingent. We mentioned a
couple of days ago, a few days ago that California
school administrators had held a conference titled Lead with Pride Summit,
Out Proud and Moving Forward and teachers administrators, County Office
(24:05):
of Education, personnel, district superintendents, education college professors, and drag
queens from around the state. We're attending this conference, and
we mentioned one session that's all about building LGBTQ plus
organizations and schools and helping kids transition. Again, these are
(24:27):
school administrators going to seminars on how to help kids transition.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Because that's your job at a school to help kids
deal with their gender issues.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
And Jack, as you always point out, they're not teaching
the kids to read and write and do math would
be and failing miserably at their core job.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I would be against this even if they were scoring
at ninety percent of a proficiency and reading a math,
but it's not. So they failing at the main thing
and doing this, which is pretty hard to take.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
And the California Globe is pointing out that they have
a session titled combating transphobic Legislation with inclusive sex ed
and at that attendees will be filled with disinformation to
pass on to the kids from independent consultant Van Jones,
a woman pretending to be a man. The most disturbing
information Jones will present is to skirt laws to provide
(25:21):
students with disinformation on puberty blockers.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And I'll summarize, they're.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Teaching the kids that the puberty blockers and the massive
hormone treatments have no permanent effects, will not change their
bodies for the rest of their lives. That is a
myth in a right wing conspiracy, and that it's absolutely
fine to do that as a child.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It is repulsive and evil.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It's sick, and it's even more amazing given the fact
that Europe has gone the other direction now because usually
your lefties they look to Europe for guidance on everything,
but not on this one. I guess they feel like
Europe's wrong. I guess, well, right, or they just ignore
that it's happening.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
And the final note, and I have believed for a
long time that LGB could would really do itself a
favor by divorcing itself from the T plus minus over
the power of three crowd. It used to be just
LGB lesbian, gay, bisexual people said, hey, quit beaten honus
(26:30):
and denying us jobs and blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I know several in the LGB world that one hundred
percent agree with you.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Right, Yeah, I'm absolutely joining with the sane people I've
talked to of that same orientation to express this. But so,
the San Francisco Pride Month Parade festival organization has been
leaning harder and harder.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Into its activist identity.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Quoting Richie Greenberg also in the California Globe, it's turned
what was once a jubilant remoration into a sanctimony soapbox.
It's theme for this year, queer joy is resistance. Reeks
of the signed are the kind of self righteous sloganeering
that turns a party into an uncomfortable, biased, scolding lecture,
but now with a gaping budgetary whole threatening its June
(27:17):
twenty eighth to twenty ninth extravaganza. Estimates fear the shortfall
could reach two of about two thirds of its operating
costs because the organization has recently lost about three hundred
thousand dollars in corporate sponsorships from corporate heavyweights like Comcast, Meta,
Anheuser Busch, local wine producers. That sort of thing. It's
(27:37):
not just a budgetary hiccup. It's a big flashing neon
sign that even the most progressive enterprises can't outrun the
consequences of their own ideological bullying. And then they go
into the bud Light story again to summarize this, because
we don't have a ton of time, although it's very
very well written. The absolute far far end of radical
(27:58):
leftism that is represented by turning little boys into little girls,
having them play in sports drag Queen's entertaining kiddergarteners. The
rest of it, I mean, the percentage of human beings
that thinks that's appropriate or cool is tiny, and these big,
giant corporations have realized, Wow, look at who we're in
bed with, no pun intended, and they're saying, yeah, no,
(28:21):
we can't do that anymore. So the increasingly scolding, hyper
radical Pride organization is realized the money spigot has run dry,
which I thought was interesting. It's a gender bending madness update.
Do we have a clothes on that that would probably
be a good idea?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
You got you gotta have you gotta have a cap there?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
What do you call it? Just hang mad? Yeah? I
kept hearing about this thing called we'll get this right.
When we actually do this.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Over and the actual show begins, Jack, I find myself
wondering this, Do you have more of those fabulous and
fascinating tax myths for us? I do, and then we're
going to talk to a tax attorney in hour three
about where things are tax wise in America.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Right now on this tax day, April fifteenth.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I know, I personally wrote the biggest check I've ever
written in my life a week ago.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's very fun.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Thank you, jee, thank you, especially knowing how well it's
spent with a variety of things that Doe just pointed
out to us. I'm hoping my money somehow accidentally went
to a battleship that we actually need as opposed to
a trans opera in Ireland or something like that.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Or more likely, and I will bore you with this
at some point because you can't stop me. More likely
it went to an able bodied, stoned guy who just
doesn't want to work, who gets medicaid from your taxes.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Right, Yeah, that's able.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Bodied mail not working choice live in quite a nice lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, we got way too many of those, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
The video vows to spend a half a trillion dollars
building AI servers in the United States.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yes, better or worse, among other things we can talk about.
Stay here more hilarity from our friends at the Babylon BA.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
I came to this country with nothing but the clothes
on my back and a dream, a dream that I
could come here and commit many, many crimes. But the
Trump administration deported me, and now my dreams of killing
many people and committing much crime have been shattered.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I am as sad.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
I thought America was a place where you could freely
traffic drugs maybe some people as well. I also came
here to rob do some cocaine. I also want to
do non crime things like see a chokichiese, go to
a dyer's game, but mostly all the crime stuff. I know,
I'm being deported thanks to President. I've only killed five people.
(31:02):
There was so much more I wanted to do, so
many dreams yet to be dreamed.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Wow. I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. Uh yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, yeah. I was a little uncomfortable with that, frankly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I mean because, as we all know, there have been
some illegals here that have committed horrible crimes, and amazingly
there are cities and states that want to protect them
from being booted out of the country. That's insanity, m
But the vast majority of people who are coming into
this country illegally are just why.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Wouldn't you want to live here? And they want to work.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
But that's that's the I think that's the under layer
of that bit was that the dreams and aspirations of good,
hard working people are being applied to criminal gang members
and rapists and murderers right to defend them from being
deported or ice cooperated with local authorities. They're being portrayed
(32:02):
by the Left. Is honest, hardworking murderers who just dreamed,
beautiful dreams of committing crimes in this country.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
How dare you turn them over to ice. I think
it's subtle, but it's good, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Just to give a visual this guy had an MS
thirteen tattoo on his forehead and when he said I
am as sad, he pointed at a tear drop tattoo
on his face.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Killer. So just a visual forum. He was clearly one
of the bad ones.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, hardworking people find a way that they
can apply and stay if they follow the law, and
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
They love this country. Hey, we're fellow Americans. Welcome.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
You're gonna break the law though, you're gonna ship you
a hell out to that recreation complex in El Salvador.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
We've had a number of textures say they thought you
were interviewing RFK Junior today. Now that's me, Jack Armstrong.
I just have some sort of disease. This might be
my last disease. I told my son last night when
I went to bay, I said, you can have my
watch if huh in the morning, I'm I've passed.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Don't let the dog eat my toes, yes, and don't
let the dog eat me. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I know I sound bad, but the key is I
feel as bad as I sound I feel. Or where
I was complaining earlier about the baby Boomer generation, the
worst generation in American history, around the whole tax thing
on this tax day and how we ended up in
a situation where we spend more than we take in
and we're just comfortable with.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That and we're just going to continue it. Both parties
seem to be fine with that. Just real quick.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
How about the generation that says that said we like
having slaves, we want to keep having slaves.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
That was a pretty bad generation. What was What did
I see yesterday? It was so good. I saw a
comedian somewhere. Was that on Saturday Night Live?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I was on Saturday Night Live? Comedian on Saturday Live.
It was a bit during the news and as one
of the new cast members. I mean, he was talking
about how.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
We treat the whole uber door dash sort of world
and around. You know, they're obviously struggling, they got a
crappy car, they come up to your.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Door in the rain, whatever like that. You're just mad
that they weren't faster. You give them three bucks? He said.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It's clearly he said, it clearly proves that, you know,
the whole slave thing. A lot of us would have said,
you know what, this is pretty andy. Wow, Wow, this
was a spanic guy. Uh the way we you know,
I don't know, I had a point I was gonna make.
(34:39):
I don't remember what it was. It's a cold medicine. Oh.
The whole baby boomer thing was around taxes and how
we've gotten ourselves into this situation and just culturally, it's
amazing to me that this happened, But it seems to happen.
A society that's willing to spend beyond their means in
their own.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Lives allows the government to do that.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It just seems to be the case in the society
that didn't. Our parents didn't spend beyond their means, didn't
allow the government.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
To do it.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah, thriftiness for our entire history as people was not
viewed as a strategy.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
It was viewed as a moral question right, and that
went out the window for a lot of different reasons.
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