May 29, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour one of the Thursday May 29, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- The Court of International Trade & the Trump Tariffs...
- Headlines...
- A very dishonest Harvard staffer...
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and he arms get it the Frum studio scene
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SEEZ and your It's a dimly lit room deep within
the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Is
it already Thursday? The short weeks hit fly by Today
we're under the tutelage of our general manager. I warned you,
I warned you. I warned you. I warned you as
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our general That's why wait, I've warned you. I'll tell
you what I warned you about after I get done
saying I warned you, our general manager this morning. The
Court of International Trade. Oh, only one major radio show,
Slide Podcast, told you about the Court of International Trade
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a week or two ago. You probably tuned out because
it was a fairly dull segment buyers standards. But it
was necessary. It was dullassary, It was vegetable, dull, yet necessary,
dul dulassary. The Court of International Trade has said, no,
the President doesn't have emergency powers to levy all these tariffs.
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That all is done. Whoa way to hang on the agreements,
does sum in progress some allegedly what all the tariff
stuff is off. First of all, we got to use
the term dolossary more often. We might even have to
set aside a segment a day now, the dolossary segment.
It's dull, but it's very important. As an American, you
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should know this exactly. Let's consider that it's the eating
your vegetables. Finish that and then we can have a
cookie or something. Yeah, two things on that one. From
the very beginning, it's been astounding to me that one man,
not Trump, just any one man could rattle world economy
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that way with his own personal decisions and then wake
up in the morning and think, nah, it should be
one hundred and five percent or never mind. I mean,
one guy being able to do that just doesn't seem
like the right system periodically, given the fact that a
tariff is a tax, plain and simple. It's attacks on imports.
And then secondly, Congress has the right to tax, though
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they have like virtually all of their other rights and
duties given them over to the executive branch. Because they're
a bunch of cowards. They are cards. They don't want
to take a vote on anything. The other part being, hey,
international Trade Court, with your three judges, what were you
busy on the left the last two months? That was
more important than this? Why did it take care get
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this long to get around to this? They were getting
their ducks in a row, good American made ducks, by
the way, not for it. You can't get parts for
them now. They stick to the bottom of the pond,
right exactly, their toxic Yeah. The Court of International Trade
blocked one of the Trump administration's most aud assertions of
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executive power under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in
nineteen seventy seven, and they said, in short, the Court
does not read the Emergency Act to confer such unbounded
authority and sets aside the challenge tariffs imposed there under.
That goes now to the circuit courts of appeals and
then the Supreme Court. This is not some sort of
you know, it's it's the first and last Court of
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International Trade. It can be appealed and certainly will be.
Of course, the media, mainstream media, and they're covering of
this is all about Trump didn't get what he wants,
So we're happy with this court ruling, even though the
mainstream media is left and lefties have been talking about
tariffs as they answer to everything my whole life. So
it's kind of a reverse thingy they don't they care
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more about Trump losing than the things that they generally
like or don't like. And then also the other end
of it is in case well and every time Biden
trampled on the Constitution, they celebrated it, right, And the
other end of it is, in case you didn't know this,
almost every conserve real conservative that I like didn't like
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the idea of a president being able to have this
much power. Oh right, yeah, I mean, and y'all should agree.
Can you imagine, because there will be a Democrat in
the White House at some point or another party because
the Democratic Party is in terrible shape. But and if
they wield this sort of you know, crazy executive power
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to tax and just throw economies into turmoil, I mean,
President AOC. Jack has brought up this example before. President
AOC could declare income inequality a national emergency in the
way that Trump has declared trade imbalances as a national emergency,
and then President AOC could dictate enormous changes to the
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economy and trade practices and whatever in the name of
income equality, or all kinds of things you would hate
around a climate emergency. Yeah, you get a bad hurricane
claim that's proof of climate change and all kinds of
crazy rules and laws, or the school shooting and you
decide clearly a national emergency, all kinds of things we
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got to do on taking away guns. You're right, don't
it right? There's lots of easy examples from the left
you could use if you're going to be okay with
presidents and executive orders and using emergencies for their justification. Yeah,
Trump's doing a lot of great stuff that I love.
I've tried to make that very very clear. But we
had a lot yesterday, a very long list yesterday if
you missed it, but Trump, I'm sorry. Oh, the founding
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Papas were absolutely right. They knew you, not you necessarily,
but you know, people they want a king. They want
a king because they think, wow, a king could really
get the stuff done that I want them to do.
But here's the problem. And if I have to tell
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you the problem, you should go back to I don't know,
fifth grade civics class that or read a little bit
of history or something. That sort of executive power is abused.
Let's see what percentage of the time one hundred. It's tempting,
but you don't want it again. I ask, hey, International
Court of Trade, Court of International Trade? How did this
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not r I as I refer to it. How did
this not rise to the top of your to do
box above? Wait? No, no, we got to decide whether
Belgian yarn falls under the rules were American yarn? No?
Pass on all that stuff and get to the global
trade has been changed for all of history or not.
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But anyway, you're just gonna pee all over Belgian yarn.
Let's see it. That's why you're not on the Court
of International Trade. I'm looking forward to it. Just came
across this. I just saw our friend Tim Sandifer retweeted it.
We have Tim Sanderfer, a great legal mind, on the
show later this morning to talk about a number of things,
including Supreme Court releases their most controversial rulings in June,
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which starts here in a couple of days, and so
we got that to look forward to. Any who. He
retweeted a George Will column from today from Washington Post
that says the Trump administration is the most progressive in
US history in terms of its politics. So maybe We'll
take a look wi to see what that means. I
don't know what that means. From the headline, we should
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start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty
on this it is Thursday, May twenty ninth, year twenty
twenty five, or Armstrong and getting with this program. I
think he probably just means using aggressive executive power to
reshape the country in one particular, you know vision. All right,
let's speak in the show officially now. According to FCC
rules and regulations, lay in truth bombs on you one
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after another. Here we go at Mark, like to stay
on topic here, But squirrel? Squirrel? Where squirrel? Riley Green's like,
who invited Rocky? He can get in, he can get out,
he can go wherever he wants. Oh, look at that,
he's in the bullpen with the guys down there. Yeah
he is, Well, what's Tyler halting? Come? Everybody?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
All?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Tyler gets left, He's and Wright he's out. But not
squirrels and a squirrel in the field at a baseball game.
That was our opening clip. Delightful, absolutely so. Tariff policy
and obscure court rulings and squirrels on baseball face. That's
the Armstrong and Getty show. Squirrel you know you got
one hundred and sixty two damn games right based on
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the field, It's right, exactly need more squirrels. You know what,
Chuck's beavers, whatever, any sort of and looks like a
giraffe is running across centerfield. Will that thing can really move? Well,
it would be awesome in a boring late May game
that is meaningless a giraffe anything? Or or how about streakers?
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Whatever happened to streakers? Streak? We're surrounded by porn in
the modern world. Whatever happened to drop and trow and
running around a base? You know what I think it is?
I remember from the seventies streakers they were always very fit.
I think we're all too fat. And what's the point. Oh,
there's a naked person porn everywhere. You're right, it's not shocking.
You're right about that. So we got to get to
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some headlines coming up. We got mail bag this hour,
more news of the day. That is a giant story
that for the most part, the whole tariff thing is
over TFN. But I suspect the appeals and Supreme courts
will uphold the ruling of the he scrolls down, reminding
himself Court of International Trade. I am very unhappy be
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with how much glee so much of the media is
taking in Elon Musk stepping away from his government role.
That's not good. It's not good. Yay, he failed. What
why are you happy about? Simultaneously, and this shows the
depth of their stupidity and hypocrisy, Simultaneously they're thrilled to
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report he has problems with the big beautiful bill. Right,
what are those problems, morons? It's that the government has
bloated and overspends, which you've been pushing your entire careers.
But no, now you're happy because it's criticizing Trump. Seriously,
these people have the intelligence of goldfish. I think. More importantly,
they have the integrity of goldfish. Well, goldfish might be
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very high integrity. I don't actually know. I see your point, though,
they have little or no integrity compared to gold vis.
Guess whatever animal metaphor you prefer. Okay, so we got
lots of the ways.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Stay here, Hey, somebody's run out on the field, some
goofball and a half and a red shirt. Now he
takes off the shirt. He's running down the middle by
the fifty he's at the thirty. He's bear chested and
banging his chest. Now he runs the opposite away, he
runs with the fifty, he runs the forty.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
The guy is drunk. But there he goes there twenty.
They're chasing him. They're not gonna get him.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Breathing his arms, bear chested, somebody's topping there.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Here comes the blue coke. Oh they got him.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Here comes the Oh they tackle him at the forty
yard line.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh, that was the most exciting thing that happened tonight.
I'd tell you what. That was a great call on
your pump. That was a great call. No, man, he
deserves a seat at the right hand of God for
that alone. Presidential Medal of Freedom. That's my suggestion. Great
stay here. The last living grandson of President John Tyler
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has died, Yes he has. The reason that is significant
is that has often been used as an example of
how few generations you can go back in time, as
his grandfather was born in seventeen ninety, you know, at
the time of George Washington of the United States, was
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born when George Washington was president, and his grandson, last
grandson just died. Doesn't take many generations to go really
far back in time, right, especially if you've got a
family that knocks out kids really really old, which is
what happened, and it has him a little bit later but
in life than normal. But yeah, you can jump back
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pretty fast. It's interesting. Yeah, the point certainly remains. Although
in the case of the Tyler family, President Tyler himself
was sixty three when he had a son, and that
son was seventy five when he had a son. Really, Okay,
well this is an extreme example, then yes, because I
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consider having a kid at seventy five damn near criminal.
Well that is seventy five's literally three generations. So dude
himself took up three generations, so we are still a
young country. The point remains, but it's not quite as
amazing as it sounds. That's a decent point. Taking the
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magic out of things, that's what I do. No, that's
not interesting. And here's magic out of things. No, that's
not funny. And here's why. No, you shouldn't be happy.
And here's why I'm strong and getty. Taking the magic
out of things. He heard a headline that fills you
with joy or awe, here's why you're wrong, stomping the
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magic out of life. I'm strong in Getty Show. Speaking
of Witch, here's your first headline. AI could wipe out
half of all entry level, white colored jobs and spy
unemployment by ten to twenty percent within five years. Warren's
the CEO of AI Giant Anthropic. Yeah, man, I didn't read.
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There's a piece in the New Yorker where a leading
AI expert who's on the side of it's not gonna
be near as big a deal as you think writes
an essay, and then a leading AI expert who says
this is going to change everything. Hold on, buckle up,
writes an essay. And I haven't read it yet. I
guess it's it's it's pretty pretty well thought out on
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both sides. But one point I heard the other day
is one out of ten workers does some sort of
driving job. One out of ten, So whether truck drivers, Uber,
you know, Amazon delivery, just all kinds of different things. Bus. Yeah.
I could go on and on, but you could probably
use your own imagination driving. I mean that alone, if
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self driving comes along, you disrupt ten percent of jobs,
that would be huge, and it's going to be significantly
more than just driving. So this chap told Axios that
companies and the government must stop sugar coating the threat
and prepare for mass disruption and tech law and finance.
As my kid is halfway through law school, or a
third of the way, most people are unaware of this
is about to happen, he said. It sounds crazy. Another headline,
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Marco Rubio, Secretary of State among other duties, announced last
evening that the US will begin revoking visas of Chinese students,
including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party. You're
studying in critical fields. I know this is headlines and
we're not supposed to go deep on these, but back
to the AI thing briefly. It just was just thinking,
ruminating about it. If it's going to disrupt the entire world, yeah,
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we can take a minute. It's just ruminating while you
were talking. So are people who have like school age
kids like I do. Ten years from now, are twenty
something kids going to be living in our house as
we all just try to figure out the way the
new world works and what they're gonna do or how
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they're gonna do it, or what government program is going
to pay them to stay home or oh my god,
there is a significant chance that that is indeed, we will.
Holy crap. And by significant, I don't mean and I'm
not an expert in the field obviously, but by significant,
I don't mean like ten percent. I mean like forty
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re emphasizing that the actual experts differ in the timeline
on this, but there is a decent chunk of them
that think it's coming really soon. Yeah. Yeah. As we
mentioned earlier, if you're just tuning in the US Court
of International Trade, that is a thing blocked Trump from
imposing all of his more severe tariffs on imports from
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countries like China and Mexico. Canada Justice Apartment says it'll peel.
It goes up to the circuit course and then the
Supreme Court, But for now, all the big tariff stuff
is off. It is off. Another headline that I like
is it looks like Trump told net and Yahoo know,
we ain't going to help you bomb Iran, and don't
you bomb Iran because we're close to a piece deal
and he waved off Netan Yaho nuts. Whether or not
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Israel acts alone, we don't know, And whether we are
indeed close to a piece deal, it's tough to say,
because Trump usually comes off very positive. Yeah. No, doubt
about that. We got a lot more. I hope you
can stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
But the paper itself, she was citing real books, but
the quotes did not exist. The page numbers were the
citing page seven hundred in the book only had three
hundred pages.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So that's a professor on the lead with Jake Tapper
on CNN talking about a student who used a AI
on their paper. Well, that's that makes the news. I
have a feeling that here at the end of the
school year about eighty to ninety percent of papers have
at least used AI for something, if not a lot
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of the paper. I would be shocked if that wasn't
the case. Well, I think he'd be a fool if
you didn't use it for a list of good sources
and or proposed structure for the paper. I'm in the
habit thanks to you bringing it up now, of I
go to it before I go to Google for most things,
and it is so good and thorough, it's just absolutely amazing.
I've got it on the front page of my phone
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now because it's my go to if I got a
question about anything. It's just so good at getting there.
But to that point of cheating. You brought this up
last week, this hilarious story of this Harvard professor writing
a paper about dishonesty in which she stole and or
made up facts. She did both. I'm sorry, I must quittle.
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She is one of the leading scholars in the field.
This is multiple major projects that have attracted huge attention
through the years she was making. This came out today.
She was making at Harvard Francesca Gino a million dollars
a year. She was one of their highest paid faculty.
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She was a giant in the field. She was making
a million dollars a year as a behavioral scientist at
Harvard Business School, and she got fired for fabricating data
on her studies focused on dishonesty, which is just too much.
A million dollars a year, These freaking frauds. Yeah, yeah, well,
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and she's she's counter student claiming all sorts of stuff.
But you've got these rogue rogues, is that the right word.
These crusading scholars who go through all sorts of scholarship,
and they use algorithmic analysis of the data to find
suspicious patterns, and when they find it, they dig into
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it further and they've identified all sorts of fraudulent academia
or academic work. You know, you combine that with the
utter ridiculousness of the so called soft sciences, as James
Lindsay and Helen Pluckrowse and Peter Bogosien pointed out famously
a few years ago, how much well, okay, I'm sorry.
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And then to finish the delicious stew of stupid, you
combine that with all the woke crap that's being taught
on campuses, the federal subsidies to higher education, which has
made it suffocatingly expensive. I mean, our university system could
not be more diseased. And it used to be the
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envy of the world. Man, Harvard is to fallen in
terms of the way people think about Harvard a lot
in the last five to ten years, for a whole
bunch of different reasons. This is the first professor that's
with tenure that's been fired since the forties. That alone
is probably a problem. You're gonna tell me there's not
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one professor in the last eighty years that has deserved
to be fired. Okay. I think there's it's a great
truth there, and it's still forming in my head. Harvard
has gone from a place that achieved greatness because it
was so academically rigorous, to a place that has preserved
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its greatness by pretending nothing's wrong. So I think in
the years that built Harvard, which is like the year
sixteen eighty on, they would have heaved professors out for
being fraudulent or dishonest right and left. That's how they
became great. But now that they are great, to protect
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that greatness, it's another facet or it's like a tangent
to the iron law of bureaucracy. Harvard is now a
giant self protecting bureaucracy. The vast majority of people there
do not get up in the morning with the aim
of pursuing academic excellence. They get up in the morning
with the aim of protecting Harvard. I know this. First
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of all, this is hurtful to sever of people. I
know I hope aren't listening, but and I know what
their response would be. I gotta believe the vast majority
of published papers are crap, useless crap that's only for
each other, and nobody reads we know statistically that's true.
Nobody ever cites or reads them. It's just it's like
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a it's like an internal make it justify each other's
existence organization that they've built. Correct. Yeah, well, you're so
fond of good Heart's law, speaking of the great laws
that govern the universe, where if a measure becomes a standard,
it ceases to be it ceases to be valid as
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a measure. Yeah. Well, if I've got to publish what
happened for papers a year? I have gone from a
guy who published papers because they ought to be published
because there's good research and data and people should know
this stuff too. Ah crap, I gotta do four papers,
all right? What am I gonna do this week? But
this particular paper that one launched her getting investigated and
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losing her million dollar a year job. She had done
a study claiming that requiring people to sign an honesty
pledge at the beginning of a form, rather than the end,
boosted honest responses, which I actually think probably is true.
You made me say again, so have you ever I've
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filled out tons of papers. I'm sure you have at
the end where you swear that everything you just said
was true. Oh yeah, okay, putting that at the beginning
of the of the form makes it more likely or honest.
I'll but that's true. That makes sense to me, makes
perfect sense. How doing you do it at the end
is kind of odd? Actually, yeah, yeah, she a number
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of her studies were really interesting in thought provoking. They're
about dishonesty and and you know, I read the descriptions
of them and thought, wow, that's that's really disappointing that
she may have faked up the dad, because that's a
really important revelation about humankind. But also it's also kind
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of funny though, as we were just saying, these papers
they disappear into the world of justifying each other's existences.
It doesn't mean anything to the rest of the humanity.
So the fact that you get fired for you know,
copying somebody else's who cares. I mean, ultimately, it doesn't
make any difference unless you're gonna tear the whole thing down,
which I'd be all for. And to remake a point
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have made before, the idea that occasionally these woke professors
in your fake fields of study, gender studies, you know, ethnics, whatever,
that they plagiarized. Of course they plagiarized. The entire field
is repeating the cult's talking points. That's how you become
a giant in the field. By repeating the doctrine of woke.
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So of course they're plagiary. They're not supposed to innovate.
That's the last thing they're supposed to do and has
been well document And it also, if you go against
the prevailing narrative on whatever topic it is, you got
no chance. You got to go along with the prevailing narrative.
See climate change as an example. There's not a chance
you're gonna get anywhere being a scientist who says, you know,
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I'm not exactly sure it is getting that warm that fast.
That's no money, No, there's not. That's not gonna get
you anywhere. I had one other thing to say about this.
I want to point out what was it? And I
publish the paper on truth and mine. I don't know.
I don't pop back in it. Iron Lobby got good
hearts long so on a completely different topic. I'm trying
to find the numbers I had the other day. It's
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probably more trouble. I I did want to point this,
that's such a progressive thing. Though the other people shouldn't lie.
It's very important people be honest. I, however, am so smart.
I can handle the you know, the fudging around the edges.
But only people like me can do that. That's the
exact you know, free speech. I can determine what speech
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should be. Okay, not on because my vote, my motives
are so pure, My motives are pure, and my judgment
is so good. Yeah. Anybody who says that I immediately
know their motives suck and their judgment is worse. On
a similar topic, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that's one
of like four titles he has announced Wednesday evening that
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the Trump administration would work to aggressively revoke visas of
Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communists Party,
are those who are studying in critical fields. He did
not nail down exactly what it meant to have quote
unquote ties to the Communist Party or what the critical
fields were, although I think we can guess well enough
at what those things mean. A couple of quick points.
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Number one mentioned earlier. All right, I guess it was
yesterday that foreign students make up less than five percent
of American university students, but they pay twenty eight percent
of the tuition. They are a cash cow. No offense
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to Indian students with sacred cows Hinduism, et cetera. But
you're our sacred cow. You're certainly our cash cow. There.
They are a huge cash grab and so many, many,
hundreds of thousands of American students can't get into the
so called elite universities because they're busy sucking cash out
of the rich foreigners, including many many Chinese students. These
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Chinese students are either Chinese agents or Chinese nationals who
are susceptible to being forced to become Chinese agents. If
Xi Jinping, the CCP, ever, decides that they would be useful,
that's second part is risk. Yeah, that second part is tough.
I mean, you know, if you're here as a spy
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and that was your purpose to come here, obviously, if
we can boot you out, we ought to boot you out.
But if you're here and you're just seriously wanting to
study whatever and you like America, just fine. But the
Communist Party says, hey, your your mom is going to
lose her job unless you take a picture of these
forms that you have access to. I feel researcher with us.
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I feel bad for that person. Well, feeling bad is
no basis on which to conduct foreign policy. Sir, Wow,
grow up. Wow, now I hear you. It's definitely. It's
a different situation, but one you have to be aware of.
I've told a story one hundred times FBI counter intelligence
going on to a major college campus. Tell them the
university president, your campus has Chinese agents all over the place,
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and he said, get off of my campus, you racists.
That is the state of academia. It is an enormous,
glaring weak spot for US national security. I don't doubt
for a bit that that is true. But what are
you going to ban every Chinese born student in America
from a whole bunch of different academic fields. You're going
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to aggressively revoke visas of Chinese students, including those with
ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Here those who are
studying criminal in critical fields here's and listen, there are
subtleties to this, and I'm so yes, is the answer
based on that last phrase or studying in critical fields?
I'm making a bit of a maximalist argument here, partly,
you know, because of time limitations. But I don't recall
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our educating young Nazis in rocketry program during the nineteen
thirties and forties. Perhaps I've forgotten about them. Now, our
relationship with or you know, young Russian students need to
understand nuclear arms in the fifties. Now, our relationship with
China is more complex. But there's a real grain of
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truth to that description. Yeah, comparison, you're right, there is.
That's interesting. We got mail bag on the way, so
much to talk about today. I hope you can stay
hear in an hour or two. I want to talk
about Elon as he is exiting his role in the
White House. Remember early in the Trump administration, I said,
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for the first time since Trump came on the scene,
I'm hearing one name more than his and it's Elon.
Elon got mentioned more within earshot every day than Trump.
He's leaving now. But the way that's being treated by
most media drives me crazy. Anyway, hour two, pound on
their stupid heads. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
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To pound on their stupid head heads. But I'm the
man of peace and will not. Today's freedom loving quote
of the day from John Philpot Current, who is an
Irish politician and orator back in the seventeen eighteen hundreds.
Really an amazing guy. Sometimes when I have a little time,
I'll figure out who the freedom loving quote of the
day quota exactly is, and read about them anyway. The quote,
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and this will sound familiar, exists in several different forms.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man
is eternal vigilance. Clearly unequivocally true. You want liberty, the
cost is eternal vigilance. Now he was an amazing man
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of courage, great orator, crusader for freedom, et cetera. And
then in looking at his biography, I came across the
final part bitterness in his final years. His last days
were embittered by domestic troubles and by political disappointment and despair. Quote,
everything I see disgusts and depresses me. I look back
(31:35):
at the streaming of blood for so many years, and
everything else everywhere relapse into its former degradation. So that's
that he moved into the old man Yells a clouds
phase of his life. And how do you avoid that?
I was upset about something yesterday and I thought, I
can't live the rest of my life disappointed by mankind.
(31:57):
I can't let me do that. Let me finish the description.
So everything everywhere relapsed into its former degradation. France rechained
Spain again, saddled for the priests in Ireland like a
bisbastinadoed elephant, kneeling to receive the paltry rider, and a
few days before his death, at the mention of Irish politics,
he hung his head and burst into tears. So how
(32:19):
do you avoid that, because there is a I mean,
I could make the same arguments easily about the United
States and the direction we're headed and be miserable the
rest of my life. Oh yeah, to me, be miserable
that that doesn't help anybody. To me, that's I will
tell you the answer to that question, which I happen
to have. The battle for liberty is never ending, and
(32:44):
the front moves back and forth. And maybe John philpop Kerrant,
in the prime of his life, had moved the front
line further toward the goal of liberty, and late in
his life it had retreated. But he done his part.
He fought his battles, and now he has to trust
the next generations to fight theirs. That's just the way
(33:06):
it works. I know this has taking up all Mailbag's time,
but so I'm reading monocham Began's autobiography and then listening
to another book about him. He Prime Minister Israel, won
the Nobel Peace Prize blah blah blah blah blah. Anyway,
nineteen seventies primarily uh yeah, but he fought his whole
(33:27):
life for jewelry and the jew's not jewels, jewelry, jewelry rings. Anyway,
he spent the last many years of his life just
hold up in his house, depressed, miserable that he that
you know, it didn't matter failed. What are you going
to do? People don't listen to me. I just and
I thought, God, your whole life, but your last who
(33:49):
wants to spend like the last ten years of their
lives miserable about the state of mankind? And I thought,
if it could happen to him, towering intellect and men
brave as, how do you avoid that? And a lot
of old people. I mean, it's like the it's the cliche, right,
and old guy sitting there in his couch watching Fox News,
angry at the world. I don't want to spend all
(34:10):
day like that. How do you avoid that? I think
you you just and listen. I'm lecturing me, folks, not you.
I think you'd say what I just said. That things
EBB and flow. All you can do is do your best,
and you know it's the cruelty of high expectations. You
may progress and you're certain that that progress will remain
(34:34):
and the only thing in front of you is more progress,
and that's just not the nature of mankind. Yeah right, well, uh,
you know, speaking of the nature of mankind, obviously you
got two examples we've just mentioned of like very smart
driven people who couldn't avoid these sitting there watching Fox
News being angry syndrome. Yeah, as it were, Oh god,
(34:57):
dang it, it's just h If John Philpott Current had
seen Fox News, he would have said, why are demons
speaking to me from a box? Because it was the
eighteen I see your point. Yes, anyway, so maybe we'll
do mailbag next hour. It is quite amusing. There are
so many big stories. If you're just tuning in, you
(35:17):
haven't heard. The Court of International Trade has ruled, and
that's a US court, by the way, has said no
this tariff stuff. No, no, we're not letting it happen.
The tariff thing might be over what maybe So if
you missed this segment with the podcast Armstrong and Getty
on demand, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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SEEZ and your It's a dimly lit room deep within
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we're under the tutelage of our general manager. I warned you,
I warned you. I warned you. I warned you as
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our general That's why wait, I've warned you. I'll tell
you what I warned you about after I get done
saying I warned you, our general manager this morning. The
Court of International Trade. Oh, only one major radio show,
Slide Podcast, told you about the Court of International Trade
(01:17):
a week or two ago. You probably tuned out because
it was a fairly dull segment buyers standards. But it
was necessary. It was dullassary, It was vegetable, dull, yet necessary,
dul dulassary. The Court of International Trade has said, no,
the President doesn't have emergency powers to levy all these tariffs.
(01:39):
That all is done. Whoa way to hang on the agreements,
does sum in progress some allegedly what all the tariff
stuff is off. First of all, we got to use
the term dolossary more often. We might even have to
set aside a segment a day now, the dolossary segment.
It's dull, but it's very important. As an American, you
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should know this exactly. Let's consider that it's the eating
your vegetables. Finish that and then we can have a
cookie or something. Yeah, two things on that one. From
the very beginning, it's been astounding to me that one man,
not Trump, just any one man could rattle world economy
(02:19):
that way with his own personal decisions and then wake
up in the morning and think, nah, it should be
one hundred and five percent or never mind. I mean,
one guy being able to do that just doesn't seem
like the right system periodically, given the fact that a
tariff is a tax, plain and simple. It's attacks on imports.
And then secondly, Congress has the right to tax, though
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they have like virtually all of their other rights and
duties given them over to the executive branch. Because they're
a bunch of cowards. They are cards. They don't want
to take a vote on anything. The other part being, hey,
international Trade Court, with your three judges, what were you
busy on the left the last two months? That was
more important than this? Why did it take care get
(03:05):
this long to get around to this? They were getting
their ducks in a row, good American made ducks, by
the way, not for it. You can't get parts for
them now. They stick to the bottom of the pond,
right exactly, their toxic Yeah. The Court of International Trade
blocked one of the Trump administration's most aud assertions of
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executive power under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in
nineteen seventy seven, and they said, in short, the Court
does not read the Emergency Act to confer such unbounded
authority and sets aside the challenge tariffs imposed there under.
That goes now to the circuit courts of appeals and
then the Supreme Court. This is not some sort of
you know, it's it's the first and last Court of
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International Trade. It can be appealed and certainly will be.
Of course, the media, mainstream media, and they're covering of
this is all about Trump didn't get what he wants,
So we're happy with this court ruling, even though the
mainstream media is left and lefties have been talking about
tariffs as they answer to everything my whole life. So
it's kind of a reverse thingy they don't they care
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more about Trump losing than the things that they generally
like or don't like. And then also the other end
of it is in case well and every time Biden
trampled on the Constitution, they celebrated it, right, And the
other end of it is, in case you didn't know this,
almost every conserve real conservative that I like didn't like
(04:35):
the idea of a president being able to have this
much power. Oh right, yeah, I mean, and y'all should agree.
Can you imagine, because there will be a Democrat in
the White House at some point or another party because
the Democratic Party is in terrible shape. But and if
they wield this sort of you know, crazy executive power
(04:55):
to tax and just throw economies into turmoil, I mean,
President AOC. Jack has brought up this example before. President
AOC could declare income inequality a national emergency in the
way that Trump has declared trade imbalances as a national emergency,
and then President AOC could dictate enormous changes to the
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economy and trade practices and whatever in the name of
income equality, or all kinds of things you would hate
around a climate emergency. Yeah, you get a bad hurricane
claim that's proof of climate change and all kinds of
crazy rules and laws, or the school shooting and you
decide clearly a national emergency, all kinds of things we
(05:40):
got to do on taking away guns. You're right, don't
it right? There's lots of easy examples from the left
you could use if you're going to be okay with
presidents and executive orders and using emergencies for their justification. Yeah,
Trump's doing a lot of great stuff that I love.
I've tried to make that very very clear. But we
had a lot yesterday, a very long list yesterday if
you missed it, but Trump, I'm sorry. Oh, the founding
(06:03):
Papas were absolutely right. They knew you, not you necessarily,
but you know, people they want a king. They want
a king because they think, wow, a king could really
get the stuff done that I want them to do.
But here's the problem. And if I have to tell
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you the problem, you should go back to I don't know,
fifth grade civics class that or read a little bit
of history or something. That sort of executive power is abused.
Let's see what percentage of the time one hundred. It's tempting,
but you don't want it again. I ask, hey, International
Court of Trade, Court of International Trade? How did this
(06:45):
not r I as I refer to it. How did
this not rise to the top of your to do
box above? Wait? No, no, we got to decide whether
Belgian yarn falls under the rules were American yarn? No?
Pass on all that stuff and get to the global
trade has been changed for all of history or not.
(07:08):
But anyway, you're just gonna pee all over Belgian yarn.
Let's see it. That's why you're not on the Court
of International Trade. I'm looking forward to it. Just came
across this. I just saw our friend Tim Sandifer retweeted it.
We have Tim Sanderfer, a great legal mind, on the
show later this morning to talk about a number of things,
including Supreme Court releases their most controversial rulings in June,
(07:31):
which starts here in a couple of days, and so
we got that to look forward to. Any who. He
retweeted a George Will column from today from Washington Post
that says the Trump administration is the most progressive in
US history in terms of its politics. So maybe We'll
take a look wi to see what that means. I
don't know what that means. From the headline, we should
(07:52):
start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty
on this it is Thursday, May twenty ninth, year twenty
twenty five, or Armstrong and getting with this program. I
think he probably just means using aggressive executive power to
reshape the country in one particular, you know vision. All right,
let's speak in the show officially now. According to FCC
rules and regulations, lay in truth bombs on you one
(08:14):
after another. Here we go at Mark, like to stay
on topic here, But squirrel? Squirrel? Where squirrel? Riley Green's like,
who invited Rocky? He can get in, he can get out,
he can go wherever he wants. Oh, look at that,
he's in the bullpen with the guys down there. Yeah
he is, Well, what's Tyler halting? Come? Everybody?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
All?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Tyler gets left, He's and Wright he's out. But not
squirrels and a squirrel in the field at a baseball game.
That was our opening clip. Delightful, absolutely so. Tariff policy
and obscure court rulings and squirrels on baseball face. That's
the Armstrong and Getty show. Squirrel you know you got
one hundred and sixty two damn games right based on
(08:55):
the field, It's right, exactly need more squirrels. You know what,
Chuck's beavers, whatever, any sort of and looks like a
giraffe is running across centerfield. Will that thing can really move? Well,
it would be awesome in a boring late May game
that is meaningless a giraffe anything? Or or how about streakers?
(09:17):
Whatever happened to streakers? Streak? We're surrounded by porn in
the modern world. Whatever happened to drop and trow and
running around a base? You know what I think it is?
I remember from the seventies streakers they were always very fit.
I think we're all too fat. And what's the point. Oh,
there's a naked person porn everywhere. You're right, it's not shocking.
You're right about that. So we got to get to
(09:37):
some headlines coming up. We got mail bag this hour,
more news of the day. That is a giant story
that for the most part, the whole tariff thing is
over TFN. But I suspect the appeals and Supreme courts
will uphold the ruling of the he scrolls down, reminding
himself Court of International Trade. I am very unhappy be
(10:00):
with how much glee so much of the media is
taking in Elon Musk stepping away from his government role.
That's not good. It's not good. Yay, he failed. What
why are you happy about? Simultaneously, and this shows the
depth of their stupidity and hypocrisy, Simultaneously they're thrilled to
(10:25):
report he has problems with the big beautiful bill. Right,
what are those problems, morons? It's that the government has
bloated and overspends, which you've been pushing your entire careers.
But no, now you're happy because it's criticizing Trump. Seriously,
these people have the intelligence of goldfish. I think. More importantly,
they have the integrity of goldfish. Well, goldfish might be
(10:46):
very high integrity. I don't actually know. I see your point, though,
they have little or no integrity compared to gold vis.
Guess whatever animal metaphor you prefer. Okay, so we got
lots of the ways.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Stay here, Hey, somebody's run out on the field, some
goofball and a half and a red shirt. Now he
takes off the shirt. He's running down the middle by
the fifty he's at the thirty. He's bear chested and
banging his chest. Now he runs the opposite away, he
runs with the fifty, he runs the forty.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
The guy is drunk. But there he goes there twenty.
They're chasing him. They're not gonna get him.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Breathing his arms, bear chested, somebody's topping there.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Here comes the blue coke. Oh they got him.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Here comes the Oh they tackle him at the forty
yard line.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh, that was the most exciting thing that happened tonight.
I'd tell you what. That was a great call on
your pump. That was a great call. No, man, he
deserves a seat at the right hand of God for
that alone. Presidential Medal of Freedom. That's my suggestion. Great
stay here. The last living grandson of President John Tyler
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has died, Yes he has. The reason that is significant
is that has often been used as an example of
how few generations you can go back in time, as
his grandfather was born in seventeen ninety, you know, at
the time of George Washington of the United States, was
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born when George Washington was president, and his grandson, last
grandson just died. Doesn't take many generations to go really
far back in time, right, especially if you've got a
family that knocks out kids really really old, which is
what happened, and it has him a little bit later but
in life than normal. But yeah, you can jump back
(12:43):
pretty fast. It's interesting. Yeah, the point certainly remains. Although
in the case of the Tyler family, President Tyler himself
was sixty three when he had a son, and that
son was seventy five when he had a son. Really, Okay,
well this is an extreme example, then yes, because I
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consider having a kid at seventy five damn near criminal.
Well that is seventy five's literally three generations. So dude
himself took up three generations, so we are still a
young country. The point remains, but it's not quite as
amazing as it sounds. That's a decent point. Taking the
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magic out of things, that's what I do. No, that's
not interesting. And here's magic out of things. No, that's
not funny. And here's why. No, you shouldn't be happy.
And here's why I'm strong and getty. Taking the magic
out of things. He heard a headline that fills you
with joy or awe, here's why you're wrong, stomping the
(13:47):
magic out of life. I'm strong in Getty Show. Speaking
of Witch, here's your first headline. AI could wipe out
half of all entry level, white colored jobs and spy
unemployment by ten to twenty percent within five years. Warren's
the CEO of AI Giant Anthropic. Yeah, man, I didn't read.
(14:10):
There's a piece in the New Yorker where a leading
AI expert who's on the side of it's not gonna
be near as big a deal as you think writes
an essay, and then a leading AI expert who says
this is going to change everything. Hold on, buckle up,
writes an essay. And I haven't read it yet. I
guess it's it's it's pretty pretty well thought out on
(14:32):
both sides. But one point I heard the other day
is one out of ten workers does some sort of
driving job. One out of ten, So whether truck drivers, Uber,
you know, Amazon delivery, just all kinds of different things. Bus. Yeah.
I could go on and on, but you could probably
use your own imagination driving. I mean that alone, if
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self driving comes along, you disrupt ten percent of jobs,
that would be huge, and it's going to be significantly
more than just driving. So this chap told Axios that
companies and the government must stop sugar coating the threat
and prepare for mass disruption and tech law and finance.
As my kid is halfway through law school, or a
third of the way, most people are unaware of this
is about to happen, he said. It sounds crazy. Another headline,
(15:19):
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State among other duties, announced last
evening that the US will begin revoking visas of Chinese students,
including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party. You're
studying in critical fields. I know this is headlines and
we're not supposed to go deep on these, but back
to the AI thing briefly. It just was just thinking,
ruminating about it. If it's going to disrupt the entire world, yeah,
(15:42):
we can take a minute. It's just ruminating while you
were talking. So are people who have like school age
kids like I do. Ten years from now, are twenty
something kids going to be living in our house as
we all just try to figure out the way the
new world works and what they're gonna do or how
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they're gonna do it, or what government program is going
to pay them to stay home or oh my god,
there is a significant chance that that is indeed, we will.
Holy crap. And by significant, I don't mean and I'm
not an expert in the field obviously, but by significant,
I don't mean like ten percent. I mean like forty
(16:24):
re emphasizing that the actual experts differ in the timeline
on this, but there is a decent chunk of them
that think it's coming really soon. Yeah. Yeah. As we
mentioned earlier, if you're just tuning in the US Court
of International Trade, that is a thing blocked Trump from
imposing all of his more severe tariffs on imports from
(16:45):
countries like China and Mexico. Canada Justice Apartment says it'll peel.
It goes up to the circuit course and then the
Supreme Court, But for now, all the big tariff stuff
is off. It is off. Another headline that I like
is it looks like Trump told net and Yahoo know,
we ain't going to help you bomb Iran, and don't
you bomb Iran because we're close to a piece deal
and he waved off Netan Yaho nuts. Whether or not
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Israel acts alone, we don't know, And whether we are
indeed close to a piece deal, it's tough to say,
because Trump usually comes off very positive. Yeah. No, doubt
about that. We got a lot more. I hope you
can stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
But the paper itself, she was citing real books, but
the quotes did not exist. The page numbers were the
citing page seven hundred in the book only had three
hundred pages.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So that's a professor on the lead with Jake Tapper
on CNN talking about a student who used a AI
on their paper. Well, that's that makes the news. I
have a feeling that here at the end of the
school year about eighty to ninety percent of papers have
at least used AI for something, if not a lot
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of the paper. I would be shocked if that wasn't
the case. Well, I think he'd be a fool if
you didn't use it for a list of good sources
and or proposed structure for the paper. I'm in the
habit thanks to you bringing it up now, of I
go to it before I go to Google for most things,
and it is so good and thorough, it's just absolutely amazing.
I've got it on the front page of my phone
(18:17):
now because it's my go to if I got a
question about anything. It's just so good at getting there.
But to that point of cheating. You brought this up
last week, this hilarious story of this Harvard professor writing
a paper about dishonesty in which she stole and or
made up facts. She did both. I'm sorry, I must quittle.
(18:39):
She is one of the leading scholars in the field.
This is multiple major projects that have attracted huge attention
through the years she was making. This came out today.
She was making at Harvard Francesca Gino a million dollars
a year. She was one of their highest paid faculty.
(19:02):
She was a giant in the field. She was making
a million dollars a year as a behavioral scientist at
Harvard Business School, and she got fired for fabricating data
on her studies focused on dishonesty, which is just too much.
A million dollars a year, These freaking frauds. Yeah, yeah, well,
(19:26):
and she's she's counter student claiming all sorts of stuff.
But you've got these rogue rogues, is that the right word.
These crusading scholars who go through all sorts of scholarship,
and they use algorithmic analysis of the data to find
suspicious patterns, and when they find it, they dig into
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it further and they've identified all sorts of fraudulent academia
or academic work. You know, you combine that with the
utter ridiculousness of the so called soft sciences, as James
Lindsay and Helen Pluckrowse and Peter Bogosien pointed out famously
a few years ago, how much well, okay, I'm sorry.
(20:08):
And then to finish the delicious stew of stupid, you
combine that with all the woke crap that's being taught
on campuses, the federal subsidies to higher education, which has
made it suffocatingly expensive. I mean, our university system could
not be more diseased. And it used to be the
(20:30):
envy of the world. Man, Harvard is to fallen in
terms of the way people think about Harvard a lot
in the last five to ten years, for a whole
bunch of different reasons. This is the first professor that's
with tenure that's been fired since the forties. That alone
is probably a problem. You're gonna tell me there's not
(20:50):
one professor in the last eighty years that has deserved
to be fired. Okay. I think there's it's a great
truth there, and it's still forming in my head. Harvard
has gone from a place that achieved greatness because it
was so academically rigorous, to a place that has preserved
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its greatness by pretending nothing's wrong. So I think in
the years that built Harvard, which is like the year
sixteen eighty on, they would have heaved professors out for
being fraudulent or dishonest right and left. That's how they
became great. But now that they are great, to protect
(21:35):
that greatness, it's another facet or it's like a tangent
to the iron law of bureaucracy. Harvard is now a
giant self protecting bureaucracy. The vast majority of people there
do not get up in the morning with the aim
of pursuing academic excellence. They get up in the morning
with the aim of protecting Harvard. I know this. First
(21:58):
of all, this is hurtful to sever of people. I
know I hope aren't listening, but and I know what
their response would be. I gotta believe the vast majority
of published papers are crap, useless crap that's only for
each other, and nobody reads we know statistically that's true.
Nobody ever cites or reads them. It's just it's like
(22:20):
a it's like an internal make it justify each other's
existence organization that they've built. Correct. Yeah, well, you're so
fond of good Heart's law, speaking of the great laws
that govern the universe, where if a measure becomes a standard,
it ceases to be it ceases to be valid as
(22:41):
a measure. Yeah. Well, if I've got to publish what
happened for papers a year? I have gone from a
guy who published papers because they ought to be published
because there's good research and data and people should know
this stuff too. Ah crap, I gotta do four papers,
all right? What am I gonna do this week? But
this particular paper that one launched her getting investigated and
(23:01):
losing her million dollar a year job. She had done
a study claiming that requiring people to sign an honesty
pledge at the beginning of a form, rather than the end,
boosted honest responses, which I actually think probably is true.
You made me say again, so have you ever I've
(23:23):
filled out tons of papers. I'm sure you have at
the end where you swear that everything you just said
was true. Oh yeah, okay, putting that at the beginning
of the of the form makes it more likely or honest.
I'll but that's true. That makes sense to me, makes
perfect sense. How doing you do it at the end
is kind of odd? Actually, yeah, yeah, she a number
(23:45):
of her studies were really interesting in thought provoking. They're
about dishonesty and and you know, I read the descriptions
of them and thought, wow, that's that's really disappointing that
she may have faked up the dad, because that's a
really important revelation about humankind. But also it's also kind
(24:06):
of funny though, as we were just saying, these papers
they disappear into the world of justifying each other's existences.
It doesn't mean anything to the rest of the humanity.
So the fact that you get fired for you know,
copying somebody else's who cares. I mean, ultimately, it doesn't
make any difference unless you're gonna tear the whole thing down,
which I'd be all for. And to remake a point
(24:27):
have made before, the idea that occasionally these woke professors
in your fake fields of study, gender studies, you know, ethnics, whatever,
that they plagiarized. Of course they plagiarized. The entire field
is repeating the cult's talking points. That's how you become
a giant in the field. By repeating the doctrine of woke.
(24:52):
So of course they're plagiary. They're not supposed to innovate.
That's the last thing they're supposed to do and has
been well document And it also, if you go against
the prevailing narrative on whatever topic it is, you got
no chance. You got to go along with the prevailing narrative.
See climate change as an example. There's not a chance
you're gonna get anywhere being a scientist who says, you know,
(25:15):
I'm not exactly sure it is getting that warm that fast.
That's no money, No, there's not. That's not gonna get
you anywhere. I had one other thing to say about this.
I want to point out what was it? And I
publish the paper on truth and mine. I don't know.
I don't pop back in it. Iron Lobby got good
hearts long so on a completely different topic. I'm trying
to find the numbers I had the other day. It's
(25:36):
probably more trouble. I I did want to point this,
that's such a progressive thing. Though the other people shouldn't lie.
It's very important people be honest. I, however, am so smart.
I can handle the you know, the fudging around the edges.
But only people like me can do that. That's the
exact you know, free speech. I can determine what speech
(25:59):
should be. Okay, not on because my vote, my motives
are so pure, My motives are pure, and my judgment
is so good. Yeah. Anybody who says that I immediately
know their motives suck and their judgment is worse. On
a similar topic, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that's one
of like four titles he has announced Wednesday evening that
(26:21):
the Trump administration would work to aggressively revoke visas of
Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communists Party,
are those who are studying in critical fields. He did
not nail down exactly what it meant to have quote
unquote ties to the Communist Party or what the critical
fields were, although I think we can guess well enough
at what those things mean. A couple of quick points.
(26:43):
Number one mentioned earlier. All right, I guess it was
yesterday that foreign students make up less than five percent
of American university students, but they pay twenty eight percent
of the tuition. They are a cash cow. No offense
(27:04):
to Indian students with sacred cows Hinduism, et cetera. But
you're our sacred cow. You're certainly our cash cow. There.
They are a huge cash grab and so many, many,
hundreds of thousands of American students can't get into the
so called elite universities because they're busy sucking cash out
of the rich foreigners, including many many Chinese students. These
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Chinese students are either Chinese agents or Chinese nationals who
are susceptible to being forced to become Chinese agents. If
Xi Jinping, the CCP, ever, decides that they would be useful,
that's second part is risk. Yeah, that second part is tough.
I mean, you know, if you're here as a spy
(27:50):
and that was your purpose to come here, obviously, if
we can boot you out, we ought to boot you out.
But if you're here and you're just seriously wanting to
study whatever and you like America, just fine. But the
Communist Party says, hey, your your mom is going to
lose her job unless you take a picture of these
forms that you have access to. I feel researcher with us.
(28:14):
I feel bad for that person. Well, feeling bad is
no basis on which to conduct foreign policy. Sir, Wow,
grow up. Wow, now I hear you. It's definitely. It's
a different situation, but one you have to be aware of.
I've told a story one hundred times FBI counter intelligence
going on to a major college campus. Tell them the
university president, your campus has Chinese agents all over the place,
(28:38):
and he said, get off of my campus, you racists.
That is the state of academia. It is an enormous,
glaring weak spot for US national security. I don't doubt
for a bit that that is true. But what are
you going to ban every Chinese born student in America
from a whole bunch of different academic fields. You're going
(29:00):
to aggressively revoke visas of Chinese students, including those with
ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Here those who are
studying criminal in critical fields here's and listen, there are
subtleties to this, and I'm so yes, is the answer
based on that last phrase or studying in critical fields?
I'm making a bit of a maximalist argument here, partly,
you know, because of time limitations. But I don't recall
(29:22):
our educating young Nazis in rocketry program during the nineteen
thirties and forties. Perhaps I've forgotten about them. Now, our
relationship with or you know, young Russian students need to
understand nuclear arms in the fifties. Now, our relationship with
China is more complex. But there's a real grain of
(29:43):
truth to that description. Yeah, comparison, you're right, there is.
That's interesting. We got mail bag on the way, so
much to talk about today. I hope you can stay
hear in an hour or two. I want to talk
about Elon as he is exiting his role in the
White House. Remember early in the Trump administration, I said,
(30:06):
for the first time since Trump came on the scene,
I'm hearing one name more than his and it's Elon.
Elon got mentioned more within earshot every day than Trump.
He's leaving now. But the way that's being treated by
most media drives me crazy. Anyway, hour two, pound on
their stupid heads. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
(30:29):
To pound on their stupid head heads. But I'm the
man of peace and will not. Today's freedom loving quote
of the day from John Philpot Current, who is an
Irish politician and orator back in the seventeen eighteen hundreds.
Really an amazing guy. Sometimes when I have a little time,
I'll figure out who the freedom loving quote of the
day quota exactly is, and read about them anyway. The quote,
(30:52):
and this will sound familiar, exists in several different forms.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man
is eternal vigilance. Clearly unequivocally true. You want liberty, the
cost is eternal vigilance. Now he was an amazing man
(31:13):
of courage, great orator, crusader for freedom, et cetera. And
then in looking at his biography, I came across the
final part bitterness in his final years. His last days
were embittered by domestic troubles and by political disappointment and despair. Quote,
everything I see disgusts and depresses me. I look back
(31:35):
at the streaming of blood for so many years, and
everything else everywhere relapse into its former degradation. So that's
that he moved into the old man Yells a clouds
phase of his life. And how do you avoid that?
I was upset about something yesterday and I thought, I
can't live the rest of my life disappointed by mankind.
(31:57):
I can't let me do that. Let me finish the description.
So everything everywhere relapsed into its former degradation. France rechained
Spain again, saddled for the priests in Ireland like a
bisbastinadoed elephant, kneeling to receive the paltry rider, and a
few days before his death, at the mention of Irish politics,
he hung his head and burst into tears. So how
(32:19):
do you avoid that, because there is a I mean,
I could make the same arguments easily about the United
States and the direction we're headed and be miserable the
rest of my life. Oh yeah, to me, be miserable
that that doesn't help anybody. To me, that's I will
tell you the answer to that question, which I happen
to have. The battle for liberty is never ending, and
(32:44):
the front moves back and forth. And maybe John philpop Kerrant,
in the prime of his life, had moved the front
line further toward the goal of liberty, and late in
his life it had retreated. But he done his part.
He fought his battles, and now he has to trust
the next generations to fight theirs. That's just the way
(33:06):
it works. I know this has taking up all Mailbag's time,
but so I'm reading monocham Began's autobiography and then listening
to another book about him. He Prime Minister Israel, won
the Nobel Peace Prize blah blah blah blah blah. Anyway,
nineteen seventies primarily uh yeah, but he fought his whole
(33:27):
life for jewelry and the jew's not jewels, jewelry, jewelry rings. Anyway,
he spent the last many years of his life just
hold up in his house, depressed, miserable that he that
you know, it didn't matter failed. What are you going
to do? People don't listen to me. I just and
I thought, God, your whole life, but your last who
(33:49):
wants to spend like the last ten years of their
lives miserable about the state of mankind? And I thought,
if it could happen to him, towering intellect and men
brave as, how do you avoid that? And a lot
of old people. I mean, it's like the it's the cliche, right,
and old guy sitting there in his couch watching Fox News,
angry at the world. I don't want to spend all
(34:10):
day like that. How do you avoid that? I think
you you just and listen. I'm lecturing me, folks, not you.
I think you'd say what I just said. That things
EBB and flow. All you can do is do your best,
and you know it's the cruelty of high expectations. You
may progress and you're certain that that progress will remain
(34:34):
and the only thing in front of you is more progress,
and that's just not the nature of mankind. Yeah right, well, uh,
you know, speaking of the nature of mankind, obviously you
got two examples we've just mentioned of like very smart
driven people who couldn't avoid these sitting there watching Fox
News being angry syndrome. Yeah, as it were, Oh god,
(34:57):
dang it, it's just h If John Philpott Current had
seen Fox News, he would have said, why are demons
speaking to me from a box? Because it was the
eighteen I see your point. Yes, anyway, so maybe we'll
do mailbag next hour. It is quite amusing. There are
so many big stories. If you're just tuning in, you
(35:17):
haven't heard. The Court of International Trade has ruled, and
that's a US court, by the way, has said no
this tariff stuff. No, no, we're not letting it happen.
The tariff thing might be over what maybe So if
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