January 8, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Woman killed in MN ICE shooting
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo!
- Gender Bending Madness: Settled Science
- Final Thoughts!
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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 Gatty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jati and he arms Strong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
They clearly wanted her out of there because she was
the main car leading the protest, is my understanding. I
talked to another guy who was driving behind her, but
she was she was very uh, she was very successful
in blocking traffic. She was doing what she was what
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she was set out to do, and so they wanted.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
To get her the hell out of there.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, so it looked like she was impeding ice vehicles.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Definitely, Yeah, that was her goal.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So there's one of her compatriots saying, yeah, that's what
she was doing all day. She was blocking ice and
stopping traffic with their car and the rest of it.
The shooting in Minneapolis we're talking about. Obviously, we've talked
about various aspects of this throughout the show today, but
I came across this and I thought it was so
good because everybody's rushing to, you know, conclusions and assigning
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motives to people even though they don't have any idea
what people's motives are, and the rest of it. It's
just the modern way. I don't like it. This is
from a Twitter account. I refuse to call it x.
It's a letter of the alphabet. You you can't trademark
letter of the alphabet. A mimetic sisyphus, which is a
terrific account anyway. I think a lot of radicalization happens
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in spaces where it's all talk. Everything is hypothetical. It's
easy to larp. Do you know what LARPing is? Live
action role playing. It's easy to larp as revolutionary as
someone who stands against oppression. There's a lack of seriousness
about it all. You start to believe the memes. You
start to believe you're a hero, you're the main character.
When you convince yourself to do something really dumb, like
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pull your car in front of police officers, they draw
their guns and the larp crumbles. You're not that person.
This is real life and those are real guns. Nothing
but get the hell out of here, screams in her brain.
She probably didn't see the officer standing in front of
her car as she smashes the gas. The officers can't
know this, of course, they don't know what she's thinking.
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They just know that when guns were drawn, asking her
to step out of her vehicle. She slammed on the
gas in the direction of an officer. They're not in
a LARP. Their job is real and they encounter people
who want to kill them, so they fire. No one
in this woman's life told her she's on a retarded,
destructive LARP. She was encouraged by her peer group viral
videos of similarly lost radical larper's getting nothing but praise online.
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Politicians calling the enforcement of our laws akinda nazis, calling
them ilegitimate, calling them evil, telling their citizens to make
their voices heard. Everyone in her life failed her. She
needed someone to tell her to grow up. Instead, she
had no one, and now she's dead, a horrible case
of the internet radicalization. To that point, her life is
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one of the best things I've ever heard. Yeah, that's terrific.
That is so good. To that point, her wife ran
up to the vehicle, screaming, Oh my god, this is
my fault, This is my fault. I made her come
out here. They were playing the brave revolutionary, wittingly or
unwittingly doing the Sololinsky Rules for radicals technique of putting
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the cops in a decision dilemma, dilemma provoking them and
provoking them until they got a reaction. The reaction was
deadly and that's tragic. But yeah, that's exactly what these
people are doing. God dang it. And the college campuses
of America are encouraging this constantly. In fact, in some
colleges in California, for instance, it's required to work this
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sort of radical neo Marxism into every class shooting astrophysics,
you know.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
To the extent that it's the online radicalization thing, some
of it is the it's a version of what we
run in all the to all the time where we've
had we've gotten law enforcement involved with people who have
threatened us online. We do that, by the way, if
you decide you want to threaten us online and think
that'll be fun because you're doing a LARP, you're doing
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like a live action role play. I'm gonna pretend to
be the whatever online and then you run into the
real world of the cops say yeah, that's actually a threat,
that's actually something you can't.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Do, and they always back off. Oh no, I didn't
mean that at all. It's joke.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I actually liked the show that has happened over and
over and over again, because people are doing this like game,
they're playing a character. They don't realize when you cross
the line into the real world.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And it's exciting and it feels very vital. If your
world is mostly online, you see other people doing screens, yeah,
and you see other people doing it, and you get
lots and lots of They get lots of praise, You
get lots of praise, and it becomes who you are.
On a similar note, this is actually kind of hilarious.
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Zorn Mumdani, the trust fund socialist who recently became the
mayor of New York, is surrounding himself with like minded
italy to hate capitalism. His new communications director, Anna Bar
attended one of the most expensive private schools in Los Angeles.
Annual tuition at her high school alma mater, Oakwood School
in North Hollywood, runs as high as fifty five thousand
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dollars a year. Fifty five thousand dollars a year high
school whoa interestingly and oddly, her most recent boss, Bernie Sanders,
has repeatedly denounced private schools for perpetuating economic inequality. Bar
thirty three, is one of many expensively educated professionals who've
made the entirely natural transition from journalist to democratic flack.
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While attending Barnard College, the sex segregated Columbia affiliate the
Costra one hundred gees per year, Barr entered at The Huff,
at The HuffPo the Rachel Meadow Show on MSNBC and
MS magazine, and then she landed a job at The
New York Times before becoming a press aid, et cetera,
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et cetera. Let's see, so Barr will oversee the mayor's
communications department, working alongside a number of privileged youth to
craft messaging in support of mcdonnie's efforts to dismantle capitalism.
The mayor said, quote last week in is an augunurial address,
we played this. We will replace the frigidity of rugged
individualism with the warmth of collectivism. We will replace the
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frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. An
early candidate for the Clip of the Year anyway, the
person responsible for that bone chilling sentence is mdonni's speech
writing director, Julian Gerson, who's a twenty nine year old
graduate of the Dalton School, one of the most expensive
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private schools in New York City that makes the La
Place look cheap. It has a tuition as high as
sixty seven thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Now, I understand that trying to come up with like
an overarching philosophy that makes sense doesn't work with a
lot of this stuff on both sides, really, But.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So you think the world is.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
America is full of inequity and unfairness and all these
different sorts of things. So do you think those schools
shouldn't exist anymore? Or it's bad that you went there
or your parents should your parents have given away their
money to I want to tear down all in equity
or organizations, and you gone to a public school.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, how does it all fit together with your worldview? Right?
Do you know? No, they would just I was giving
their actual responsib We should tear it down all in echoitay,
including and equities that I may have been John, I
am ashamed of that anyway. So this Gersonllo honed his
writing craft at Middlebury College, which will run you in
ninety four grand a year if you play full freight.
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He spoke glowingly of Luigi Mangione. Fairly recently he was
a quote adored not only because he dared to target
a leader of one of the most vile self enriching
industries tarketing in society day, but because he dared to
defy the stasis of nihilistic rejection. Well, that's a fair
that's a fair charge. He probably did defy the stasis
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of nihilistic rejection. I'd be hard to say, because I
don't know. I don't know what it means. So it's hard,
dark and what the what? Well, Bar and Gerson will
presumably collaborate with Morris Katz, now the mayor's twenty six
year old senior advisor and muse. Katz is the son
of David Barkatz, a semi renowned television screenwriter and playwright,
and Julie Merberg, a celebrated author of left wing children's books,
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including Diversity Is a Superpower, My First Book of Feminism,
and My First Book of Feminism for Boys. He attended
an exclusive New York City public schools to wealthy elites, etc. Etc.
Among other things. This scrappy gang of privileged white radicals
will craft messaging solutions to bolster Monnami's ambitious housing agenda,
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led by Sea a weaver who we quoted the other day.
Do you have the quote of herrea go ahead, especially
white families, but some pot family to her homeowners as well,
are going to have a different relationship to properties. Yeah.
So she is for confiscating all private property and putting
everyone in public housing everyone.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
But so, and I'm being sincere here, I would like
to know what they would say, is so going forward,
there shouldn't be these super expensive high schools because nobody
would have the money to send their kid there, because they.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Would say they should be open everybody. Oh and you
would say, well, how would that work economically because it's
a small school with a very very high teachered student
ratio and all that. And they would just respond with
whatever nonsense their professors taught them. We need to tear
down the walls of inequity and white supreme and have equity.
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They don't think these things through, they don't think logically.
They're not adults. They're overgrown children who are dangerous to
themselves and others. As we learned in Many it's amazing
how often this happens. I mean, it is a thing,
whether it's Osama bin Laden or these people the privileged
who grew up hating the elite, up class twins promoting revolution,
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which you have been your whole life. That's wild. You
see TPRs uh uctippers, upper class twitts promoting revolution. Octipers
soud you see octopus? No, I said octiper.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
So I mentioned the battle that's going on in the
upstairs bathroom between my two teenagers, one of them clean,
one of them messy. Somebody came up with a way
they handled it in their family, which is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Among other things. On the way, stay here. Florida man
was arrested recently after allegedly stole one thousand dollars from
BJ's meat market while completely naked except for a face mask. Dude,
you should have known. It's Florida. It's illegal to wear
a face mask.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So on seth Meyers, Michael and we we'd have been
better off without it than with it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So we've got to we've got to raise our standards
for jokes. They well, if they don't funniness might be
the standard. If we don't laugh, it is not, you
know my mind, a joke, Yeah, we don't need them.
They're fun when they're funny. When they're not funny, they're
not fun.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I should have brought this up last segment because I
want to move on from this. But Mom Donnie's commie
housing official. This is the National Review. They're editorial today
by all the editors. Mom Donnie's commy housing official is
a lunatic.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's the well, it is the size.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
The governor of New York is trying to pass a
law there that it'll be illegal for three D printers
to be able to print guns or gun parts. I
don't know if that's one of those things that'll be
easily gotten around by bad people, but I don't think
I have any problem with it on its face on
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how effective it'll be or went up. That is something
that is something to be concerned about, though. I saw
some YouTube video about how incredibly easy it is to
make a ghost gun that will fire on your three
D printer and it's not even like a four hundred
dollars three D printer. Yeah, print out a gun and
now you've got a gun that nobody knows you have.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Right and nobody can be forbidden from manufacturing it. You
can be forbidden from possessing it, but you're probably going
to commit a crime anyway, So you don't care. Yeah,
our gun laws either have to change completely or will
be in a new reality of even more guns. Of course,
there are already more guns than people in America. Did
you read the article in the New York Times. I
did not.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I meant to a bookmarked a close call for US
commandos and an emboldened Trump. This is from the raid
on Maduro. As a damaged US helicopter struggled to stay
aloft over Venezuela's capital, the success of the entire operation
hung in the balance. Oh, that sounds very dramatic. I
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will read that at some point and bring you the details.
Looking forward to Yeah. This yesterday Trump said, this is
from the Wall Street Journal. He's taking steps to ban
large investors from buying single family homes.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Where that squares with my usual free market libertarian sort
of beliefs, but I know in the town I live in,
particularly foreign, big time like conglomerates of.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Foreign they come in and buy all the houses. Yeah,
and there's just there's just no way you can compete
as a regular person. I have had some really interesting
discussions with some of my libertarian brethren about this very topic,
because you're right, it's a good one. It's if you like,
you know, Chewy Conundra. This is a good one because
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I'm for the free market too, but it is too
disruptive in the supply of an AA necessity and be
something that's pretty limited, and it I think it's one
of those rare exceptions. You've got to craft legislation that
limits the amount of that you get, otherwise it just
causes too much damage. Now, the libertarian argument was the
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free market will figure that out. It will drop the
value or the value will rise, that will cause more building.
Blah blah blah blah blah. I just I don't like it.
I don't like Chinese oligarchs coming in and buying up
all the available houses in a market. And it's just
that's not right. It's not American. Speaking of money. Land
is different than like a shirt.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It just is speaking of money. So I had lost
track of this Elon Musk's net worth. So we're driving
my tesla. I mentioned something about Elon should blah blah blah,
and my son said, Elon doesn't run the country. He
only cares about robots. Now it doesn't hey, blah blah blah. Anyway,
I've gotten in this conversation with Elon. Now I was wondering
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what is uh. I said, well, he's the largest shareholder,
so he has a lot of sway, but he doesn't.
And I just asked Grok, what's Elon Musk's net worth?
North of seven hundred billion dollars currently? Last time I
checked in it was like two sixty five. And I
remember when people talking about him becoming the first trillionaire.
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He's a long way there, over seven hundred billion dollars
according to Forbes.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Wow, it's just in conference just a couple of years ago.
That was impossible. Anyway, that's where it is currently. The
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, one of the America's oldest newspapers, goes
back to seventeen eighty six closing its doors because newspapers
don't work anymore, because there's no way for him to
make any money. And that ain't good. Oof. I didn't
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read this article Inside China's ghost cities, the country with
sixty five million empty homes. Oh yeah, d sixty five
million empty homes. I remember sixty minutes heres and years
ago did a feature on that. I found it absolutely fascinating.
This these entire cities of high rise off in luxury apartments, condos,
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they're just empty for a mile. Crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And finally this, I talked about my two teenage boys
kind of battling over the upstairs bathroom. One of them
is a slob, one of them is not, and trying
to keep it clean. Somebody texted this. My mom made
us each take turn each week cleaning the bathroom. When
it was the other person's week, we would try to
make it as gross as possible.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Haha. That was a bust. I am not sure that
was a good solution. Oh that's funny. Oh it's your
you got to clean the bathroom next week. Oh wait
till you see this. That's disgusting. Is radical gender theory
a fraud, legally fraud. Stay tuned and.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Hasn't been as awful as I thought it was going
to be. Talking about the shooting today. You know, I
would like to have not had to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But when it.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Happened yesterday, I thought, oh boy, tomorrow is going to
be something.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know, I don't know. It's funny.
I never had that attitude for whatever reason. I know
exactly what you mean, though, I just thought this, all right,
here's a great opportunity. To just can we please be
adults here. I don't know that's out of style, out
of fashion fashion, look at me. So, Michael, if you
would be so kind of it to alert this to you,
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alert you to this rather clip number eighteen. Have that ready.
It's a gender bending madness update. So I kept hearing
about this thing called the Loco Brave. I want to
touch on a couple of stories really briefly, one that
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might go to the Supreme Court and one that is
at the Supreme Court. In fact, the hearing is going
to be held five days from today. So here's a
main mom who is asking the US Supreme Court to
hear her parental rights case. She alleges school staff encouraged
her child to socially identify as a different sex at
school without her knowledge. She learned her thirteen year old
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daughter was given a chest binder by a school social worker,
and school staff had used a different name in pronounce
for her child at school without informing her. Indeed, as
this the tradition among radical leftists, the word was don't
tell the mom, don't tell the parents. Well that's the
law in California, right, Uh yeah, essentially, Yeah, And I
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tell you what Anybody who doesn't understand how hey don't
tell the parents is a flaming red flag, that's something
untoward his hand happening is an idiot. So anyway, a
federal judge dismissed the case in twenty twenty four, concluding
the mom had failed to establish legal claims under which
the school board could be held liable. According to the
AP First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that dismissal in
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twenty twenty five. So, miss Levine, that's her name's attorney
at the Goldwater Institute, our good friends are now petitioning
the US Supreme Court to take up the case. The
idea that there's no grounds for a mom to sue
the school who are trying to twist and pervert her
daughter is sickening to me. Second case actually is going
to be before the Supreme Court. Two West Virginia high
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school students and their families are alleging that the transgender
identifying male student at the center of a case that
will be heard by the Supreme Court on January thirteenth,
is engaged in sexual harassment and intimidation. That seems to
be true. It is what we've been talking about for
a long time. West Virginia has a law that bars
dudes from competing in female sports just because they throw
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on a little masscara, and of course the dude in question,
her parents have sued the state and the rest of it. Good.
Let's get to the end of this this bizarre and
hilarious notion that you can change sex. You can't. It's impossible.
You can present any way you want, but the idea
that trans women are women is laughable. Anyway, looking forward
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to talking to our Supreme Court correspondent about that case,
and then of course we'll have the oral arguments next
week on the thirteenth. I can't wait to hear that.
I'll listen to the whole thing and bring my thoughts
to you. But I found this very very interesting. Doctor
Miriam Grossman has done a lot of good writing about
the gender bending madness thing, and her premise, which she
makes I think pretty clear, as I recall here, is
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that radical gender theory is committing fraud legal according to
the Penal Code, fraud.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
When I examine gender affirming care and Michael.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Can't you stop it? And of course, because it's the Internet,
you got to freaking have sad piano on it, or
are some sort of music in the background. I don't
know about you. I'm a grown man. I can listen
people talk without like a little melody playing in the
background makes me insane anyway. So here's the learned doctor
with some inexplicable piano music that you should try to
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not get distracted by.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
When I examined gender affirming care and the history that
led up to it, I see fraud and deceptive practice everywhere,
going back decades. I see it in the landmark experiment
on Bruce Reimer when he was a toddler and John
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Money instructed his parents to socially and medically transition him.
This was to be doctor Money's proof for a concept
he'd come up with in nineteen sixty six called gender identity.
Doctor Money announced to the world that the experiment was
a resounding success, and for years the world believed it.
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In fact, it was a catastrophe from the start. Decades
after doctor Money, consumers were misled again when gender specialists
took the results of one tiny Dutch study whose subjects
were carefully chosen, and led parents to believe that every
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child distressed about their sex could benefit from that model
of care. And now families are told there's a consensus
among clinicians about the best way to help these children,
but there is no consensus. What there is is the
silencing of opposition. There are many more examples that you're
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going to hear about today, but I think it's fair
to say that the fraud is wide and it's deep.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
The fact that she could get through that while keeping
her piano melody going and playing drums with brushes with
their feet.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
It was very impressive. That's why she's so respected. But yeah,
that's something. Yeah, the story she was talking about. Bruce
Peter Reimer was born in nineteen sixty five and he
had a problem with his genitals, And so do we
know what the problem was. It was a condition in
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which the foreskin of the penis cannot retract, inhibiting regular urination.
He underwent circumstation, common procedure obviously, but there was I
don't want to get too much into the surgical issues,
but it went wrong and the penis had to be removed.
And this guy, this John Money guy, was a psychologist
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and sexologist who worked at Johns Hopkins and he helped
establish the views on the psychology of gender identities and
role role within society. He was one of the leaders
in you know, your sex is just a it's a construct,
it's a societal construct. And will raise this child as
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a girl and treat her medic, hymn medically and never
tell them what happened, and it'll be just fine. It'll
be a girl. And his ideas it turned bizarre, sickening, heartbreaking,
and this poor lad ended up psychologically traumatized and miserable.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Man, if the doctor says I've got some bad news
for you. We're gonna have to remove your penis. Ah,
that is bad news whether I got it or not,
though I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Still a dude, right right, Yeah, that is a very
well anyway, before we wrap it up, the idea that
this sort of thing is being called settled science, or
that there's a medical consensus is actually fraud according to
the definition in the penal Code, and somebody ought to
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enforce it. That's interesting. It's a gender bending madness. Update
sue the crap out of these monsters. That would help
to that is something.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, So the DHS secretary gave a speech a little
bit ago, and now live Tim Walls, the governor of
Minnesota speaking. I don't think anybody speaking is probably gonna
make anything any better. But I hope things have calmed down.
It doesn't look like we're gonna have a George Floyd
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like situation. You remember, George Floyd was one.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Guy actually like a mile from where this happened yesterday
in Minneapolis, and it roiled the entire nation. So we
don't want that again. No, no, indeed, I don't think
it's got the elements though. I mean, you don't have
the racial me Can you imagine if this poor Gale
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was it would all be about race, which goes to
show your spalidity of claiming it's about race. Hispanic could
have been a sweet spot. That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, it would have been. God dang
it not good. All right, we will finish strong next
to here, Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Grock.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
The AI tool from Elon Musk's company x is under fire.
The app, which has an image editing feature, is now
being used to create non consensual and sexualized deep bake
images of women and children. Grok was producing at least
a dozen inappropriate images every minute an upticking those pictures
after Grok enhanced its image generation abilities with a new
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model last month one analysis found more than fifty percent
of images generated by groc between December twenty fifth and
January first were non consensual sexual images. Wow, primarily targeting women.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
So we've had a lot of fun. We were doing
this over family Christmas using the old grock. We took
some family picture and you have us fighting or dancing
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's it's pretty hilarious. Yeah, but half of the request
people are making on grock for the images are some
sort of sex thing. Yeah. Apparently, Wow, there's no stopping this.
By the way, I don't know what what you want
to do. Every proposed way to stop it I've come across.
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I think that's doomed. And that's not to say we
shouldn't try or it's not a good idea. You know,
some poor fourteen year old girl at high school, all
of a sudden, everybody's laughing at giggling because there's a
naked picture of her making the rounds. I hate that,
I really hate.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
I think the only cure for it is that there's
a picture of every other girl floating around too naked.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's that's fake. So we're everybody is Yeah, I don't know,
Oh yeah, that's not good. Yeah, this is also not good.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Uh, change of pace just came across this and then
I well, the headline is this, China just announced they
will not sell anything, export anything to Japan that could
be used for military uses, no dual use anything, which
is pretty provocative because that includes lots of stuff. So
we're not allowed, We're not doing any trade with you
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anything you could use militarily. This comes on the back
of really lots of things that have happened over the
last two months that mostly got obscured by a Christmas season,
but there's been some serious back and forth between China
and Japan, particularly that new prime minister.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
They got the chick. She is hard ass.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
And she had putting up with China's bs, and so
things are getting uglier and uglier. As just reading this article,
as the title was, relations between China and Japan worst
since World War Two. Having just been to the World
War Two Museum and gone through the whole what Japan
did to China thing, their relations have.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Been very very, very very bad in the past.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
That's one of the reasons that any sort of like
anti Asian this or that is kind of hilarious because
Japan and China have murdered, raped, beheaded, tortured each other
and many many different times over the centuries.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
But I have a close palace Filipino. Ask him about
grouping all Asians together, he will go fall.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
For instance, in a now deleted social media post, a
Chinese diplomat commented that the dirty neck that sticks itself
in must be cut off about the Prime Minister of Japan.
They have now deleted it, but that was an actual
tweet from an official in a Chinese diplomat.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That's a heck of a thing to say.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Anyway, this is after and this is the big this
is the news part. This just happened the other day.
The Prime Minister of Japan said that they consider a
China invading Taiwan an existential threat to them.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
They will treat it that way.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
So you attack Taiwan, China, it's the same as you
attacked us, and will react accordingly because.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You're clearly on the war path snapping up all the
islands in the Pacific, and we happen to be several
of them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Wow, So the big question there is So the question
ends up being not would we the United States come
to the defense of Taiwan if China tries to take Taiwan.
I think the answer is no. By the way, I
don't think we would. But if Japan and China get
into it, we're supposed to help Japan. Would we say
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no to help in Japan fight China? And that's full
on World War three, isn't it. If we in Japan
and whoever else gets involved is fighting China, Russian probably
help with China. You can get the potential. Yeah, oh
my god, I mean this is I was listening to
the Dispatch End of the Year podcast. They named this
the most underreported story, the heightening tensions between Japan and
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China and they ain't playing around and what that would
do to the whole world.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Holy crap, there's a little something fun to have on
the back burner. I feel then, as I felt I
fail now as I felt then, the world feels precarious.
It does.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
And again a lot of my feelings are informed by
having just gone through the World War Two Museum and step.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
By step by step, by step by step. I just
think most people, especially younger people, just have a failure
of imagination that this could actually occur. It has occurred
multiple times in world history. In fact, it is the norm.
In fact, it is a certainty. It is guaranteed it
will happen at some point. It's just whether it's now
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with these particular people. But it's just, I think that's
the right term, failure of imagination. You just you can't
imagine that it would ever happen, just like they couldn't
imagine whatever happened in June of nineteen fourteen, that these
major powers to ever go to war war against each other.
But they can and they will. And interestingly, because I've
been digging into World War two, because that's what you
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do when you turn a certain age as an American male,
one of the main messages the Nazis were given to
the German people in the late thirties and early forties
was that, look, this is not going to become a
world war. It's going to be easy, peasy, we've thought
it through. This will not be a world war. Because
the German people had zero interest in a world war.
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They were as decimated as the rest of Europe was.
And yet there it went almost finished. Oh yeah, let's
get ready. Final thoughts with Armstrong and Gety And here's
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Jerrold's for final thoughts. Joe Getty. I needed that soothing introduction. Michaelangelo,
our technical director, will lead the way. We're going to
get a final thought from everybody to wrap to show. Michael,
I just got a text from a relative wanted to
know what a ham kick is. I said it was
a type of martial arts move. Check him right in
the hand. Listen to podcast for me yesterday the hamkick
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yep our four Katie Greener esteemed to us woman As
a final thought, Katie, what is it?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
That's My brain still hurts from trying to figure out
Michael and Jack wearing the wrong size shoes.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I just don't I still can't understand it. It's a
little mystified mess.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I don't know about Michaels situation, but for me, it's
not just the link. I mean, we all get our
foot measured right, but there are other things involved.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, I was right on the wrong size shoe. Yeah. Jack.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Final thought for us, I am going to in our
One More Thing podcast, describe the day I lost the
desire to drink alcohol, which was twenty years ago yesterday.
And I think it's an interesting story and I still
don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Wow. Interesting huh. I'll try to understand your lack of understanding.
My final thought is Denmark acquired Greenland through a gradual
colonial process starting in seventeen twenty one. But there's really
no good reason Greenland is part of Denmark. It kind
of happened because it was big and frozen. Nobody gave
a crap. Here, go ahead, knock yourself out and enjoy Greenland.
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You want it? Okay? All right? Well now it matters
every time.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
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Speaker 4 (34:35):
Already, remember the dirty neck that sticks itself in must
be cut off words live on. We'll see tomorrow. God
bless America.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jati and he arms Strong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
They clearly wanted her out of there because she was
the main car leading the protest, is my understanding. I
talked to another guy who was driving behind her, but
she was she was very uh, she was very successful
in blocking traffic. She was doing what she was what
(00:43):
she was set out to do, and so they wanted.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
To get her the hell out of there.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, so it looked like she was impeding ice vehicles.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Definitely, Yeah, that was her goal.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So there's one of her compatriots saying, yeah, that's what
she was doing all day. She was blocking ice and
stopping traffic with their car and the rest of it.
The shooting in Minneapolis we're talking about. Obviously, we've talked
about various aspects of this throughout the show today, but
I came across this and I thought it was so
good because everybody's rushing to, you know, conclusions and assigning
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motives to people even though they don't have any idea
what people's motives are, and the rest of it. It's
just the modern way. I don't like it. This is
from a Twitter account. I refuse to call it x.
It's a letter of the alphabet. You you can't trademark
letter of the alphabet. A mimetic sisyphus, which is a
terrific account anyway. I think a lot of radicalization happens
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in spaces where it's all talk. Everything is hypothetical. It's
easy to larp. Do you know what LARPing is? Live
action role playing. It's easy to larp as revolutionary as
someone who stands against oppression. There's a lack of seriousness
about it all. You start to believe the memes. You
start to believe you're a hero, you're the main character.
When you convince yourself to do something really dumb, like
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pull your car in front of police officers, they draw
their guns and the larp crumbles. You're not that person.
This is real life and those are real guns. Nothing
but get the hell out of here, screams in her brain.
She probably didn't see the officer standing in front of
her car as she smashes the gas. The officers can't
know this, of course, they don't know what she's thinking.
(02:23):
They just know that when guns were drawn, asking her
to step out of her vehicle. She slammed on the
gas in the direction of an officer. They're not in
a LARP. Their job is real and they encounter people
who want to kill them, so they fire. No one
in this woman's life told her she's on a retarded,
destructive LARP. She was encouraged by her peer group viral
videos of similarly lost radical larper's getting nothing but praise online.
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Politicians calling the enforcement of our laws akinda nazis, calling
them ilegitimate, calling them evil, telling their citizens to make
their voices heard. Everyone in her life failed her. She
needed someone to tell her to grow up. Instead, she
had no one, and now she's dead, a horrible case
of the internet radicalization. To that point, her life is
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one of the best things I've ever heard. Yeah, that's terrific.
That is so good. To that point, her wife ran
up to the vehicle, screaming, Oh my god, this is
my fault, This is my fault. I made her come
out here. They were playing the brave revolutionary, wittingly or
unwittingly doing the Sololinsky Rules for radicals technique of putting
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the cops in a decision dilemma, dilemma provoking them and
provoking them until they got a reaction. The reaction was
deadly and that's tragic. But yeah, that's exactly what these
people are doing. God dang it. And the college campuses
of America are encouraging this constantly. In fact, in some
colleges in California, for instance, it's required to work this
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sort of radical neo Marxism into every class shooting astrophysics,
you know.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
To the extent that it's the online radicalization thing, some
of it is the it's a version of what we
run in all the to all the time where we've
had we've gotten law enforcement involved with people who have
threatened us online. We do that, by the way, if
you decide you want to threaten us online and think
that'll be fun because you're doing a LARP, you're doing
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like a live action role play. I'm gonna pretend to
be the whatever online and then you run into the
real world of the cops say yeah, that's actually a threat,
that's actually something you can't.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Do, and they always back off. Oh no, I didn't
mean that at all. It's joke.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I actually liked the show that has happened over and
over and over again, because people are doing this like game,
they're playing a character. They don't realize when you cross
the line into the real world.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And it's exciting and it feels very vital. If your
world is mostly online, you see other people doing screens, yeah,
and you see other people doing it, and you get
lots and lots of They get lots of praise, You
get lots of praise, and it becomes who you are.
On a similar note, this is actually kind of hilarious.
(05:09):
Zorn Mumdani, the trust fund socialist who recently became the
mayor of New York, is surrounding himself with like minded
italy to hate capitalism. His new communications director, Anna Bar
attended one of the most expensive private schools in Los Angeles.
Annual tuition at her high school alma mater, Oakwood School
in North Hollywood, runs as high as fifty five thousand
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dollars a year. Fifty five thousand dollars a year high
school whoa interestingly and oddly, her most recent boss, Bernie Sanders,
has repeatedly denounced private schools for perpetuating economic inequality. Bar
thirty three, is one of many expensively educated professionals who've
made the entirely natural transition from journalist to democratic flack.
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While attending Barnard College, the sex segregated Columbia affiliate the
Costra one hundred gees per year, Barr entered at The Huff,
at The HuffPo the Rachel Meadow Show on MSNBC and
MS magazine, and then she landed a job at The
New York Times before becoming a press aid, et cetera,
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et cetera. Let's see, so Barr will oversee the mayor's
communications department, working alongside a number of privileged youth to
craft messaging in support of mcdonnie's efforts to dismantle capitalism.
The mayor said, quote last week in is an augunurial address,
we played this. We will replace the frigidity of rugged
individualism with the warmth of collectivism. We will replace the
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frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. An
early candidate for the Clip of the Year anyway, the
person responsible for that bone chilling sentence is mdonni's speech
writing director, Julian Gerson, who's a twenty nine year old
graduate of the Dalton School, one of the most expensive
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private schools in New York City that makes the La
Place look cheap. It has a tuition as high as
sixty seven thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Now, I understand that trying to come up with like
an overarching philosophy that makes sense doesn't work with a
lot of this stuff on both sides, really, But.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So you think the world is.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
America is full of inequity and unfairness and all these
different sorts of things. So do you think those schools
shouldn't exist anymore? Or it's bad that you went there
or your parents should your parents have given away their
money to I want to tear down all in equity
or organizations, and you gone to a public school.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, how does it all fit together with your worldview? Right?
Do you know? No, they would just I was giving
their actual responsib We should tear it down all in echoitay,
including and equities that I may have been John, I
am ashamed of that anyway. So this Gersonllo honed his
writing craft at Middlebury College, which will run you in
ninety four grand a year if you play full freight.
(08:06):
He spoke glowingly of Luigi Mangione. Fairly recently he was
a quote adored not only because he dared to target
a leader of one of the most vile self enriching
industries tarketing in society day, but because he dared to
defy the stasis of nihilistic rejection. Well, that's a fair
that's a fair charge. He probably did defy the stasis
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of nihilistic rejection. I'd be hard to say, because I
don't know. I don't know what it means. So it's hard,
dark and what the what? Well, Bar and Gerson will
presumably collaborate with Morris Katz, now the mayor's twenty six
year old senior advisor and muse. Katz is the son
of David Barkatz, a semi renowned television screenwriter and playwright,
and Julie Merberg, a celebrated author of left wing children's books,
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including Diversity Is a Superpower, My First Book of Feminism,
and My First Book of Feminism for Boys. He attended
an exclusive New York City public schools to wealthy elites, etc. Etc.
Among other things. This scrappy gang of privileged white radicals
will craft messaging solutions to bolster Monnami's ambitious housing agenda,
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led by Sea a weaver who we quoted the other day.
Do you have the quote of herrea go ahead, especially
white families, but some pot family to her homeowners as well,
are going to have a different relationship to properties. Yeah.
So she is for confiscating all private property and putting
everyone in public housing everyone.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
But so, and I'm being sincere here, I would like
to know what they would say, is so going forward,
there shouldn't be these super expensive high schools because nobody
would have the money to send their kid there, because they.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Would say they should be open everybody. Oh and you
would say, well, how would that work economically because it's
a small school with a very very high teachered student
ratio and all that. And they would just respond with
whatever nonsense their professors taught them. We need to tear
down the walls of inequity and white supreme and have equity.
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They don't think these things through, they don't think logically.
They're not adults. They're overgrown children who are dangerous to
themselves and others. As we learned in Many it's amazing
how often this happens. I mean, it is a thing,
whether it's Osama bin Laden or these people the privileged
who grew up hating the elite, up class twins promoting revolution,
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which you have been your whole life. That's wild. You
see TPRs uh uctippers, upper class twitts promoting revolution. Octipers
soud you see octopus? No, I said octiper.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
So I mentioned the battle that's going on in the
upstairs bathroom between my two teenagers, one of them clean,
one of them messy. Somebody came up with a way
they handled it in their family, which is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Among other things. On the way, stay here. Florida man
was arrested recently after allegedly stole one thousand dollars from
BJ's meat market while completely naked except for a face mask. Dude,
you should have known. It's Florida. It's illegal to wear
a face mask.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So on seth Meyers, Michael and we we'd have been
better off without it than with it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So we've got to we've got to raise our standards
for jokes. They well, if they don't funniness might be
the standard. If we don't laugh, it is not, you
know my mind, a joke, Yeah, we don't need them.
They're fun when they're funny. When they're not funny, they're
not fun.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I should have brought this up last segment because I
want to move on from this. But Mom Donnie's commie
housing official. This is the National Review. They're editorial today
by all the editors. Mom Donnie's commy housing official is
a lunatic.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's the well, it is the size.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
The governor of New York is trying to pass a
law there that it'll be illegal for three D printers
to be able to print guns or gun parts. I
don't know if that's one of those things that'll be
easily gotten around by bad people, but I don't think
I have any problem with it on its face on
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how effective it'll be or went up. That is something
that is something to be concerned about, though. I saw
some YouTube video about how incredibly easy it is to
make a ghost gun that will fire on your three
D printer and it's not even like a four hundred
dollars three D printer. Yeah, print out a gun and
now you've got a gun that nobody knows you have.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Right and nobody can be forbidden from manufacturing it. You
can be forbidden from possessing it, but you're probably going
to commit a crime anyway, So you don't care. Yeah,
our gun laws either have to change completely or will
be in a new reality of even more guns. Of course,
there are already more guns than people in America. Did
you read the article in the New York Times. I
did not.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I meant to a bookmarked a close call for US
commandos and an emboldened Trump. This is from the raid
on Maduro. As a damaged US helicopter struggled to stay
aloft over Venezuela's capital, the success of the entire operation
hung in the balance. Oh, that sounds very dramatic. I
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will read that at some point and bring you the details.
Looking forward to Yeah. This yesterday Trump said, this is
from the Wall Street Journal. He's taking steps to ban
large investors from buying single family homes.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Where that squares with my usual free market libertarian sort
of beliefs, but I know in the town I live in,
particularly foreign, big time like conglomerates of.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Foreign they come in and buy all the houses. Yeah,
and there's just there's just no way you can compete
as a regular person. I have had some really interesting
discussions with some of my libertarian brethren about this very topic,
because you're right, it's a good one. It's if you like,
you know, Chewy Conundra. This is a good one because
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I'm for the free market too, but it is too
disruptive in the supply of an AA necessity and be
something that's pretty limited, and it I think it's one
of those rare exceptions. You've got to craft legislation that
limits the amount of that you get, otherwise it just
causes too much damage. Now, the libertarian argument was the
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free market will figure that out. It will drop the
value or the value will rise, that will cause more building.
Blah blah blah blah blah. I just I don't like it.
I don't like Chinese oligarchs coming in and buying up
all the available houses in a market. And it's just
that's not right. It's not American. Speaking of money. Land
is different than like a shirt.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It just is speaking of money. So I had lost
track of this Elon Musk's net worth. So we're driving
my tesla. I mentioned something about Elon should blah blah blah,
and my son said, Elon doesn't run the country. He
only cares about robots. Now it doesn't hey, blah blah blah. Anyway,
I've gotten in this conversation with Elon. Now I was wondering
(15:14):
what is uh. I said, well, he's the largest shareholder,
so he has a lot of sway, but he doesn't.
And I just asked Grok, what's Elon Musk's net worth?
North of seven hundred billion dollars currently? Last time I
checked in it was like two sixty five. And I
remember when people talking about him becoming the first trillionaire.
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He's a long way there, over seven hundred billion dollars
according to Forbes.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Wow, it's just in conference just a couple of years ago.
That was impossible. Anyway, that's where it is currently. The
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, one of the America's oldest newspapers, goes
back to seventeen eighty six closing its doors because newspapers
don't work anymore, because there's no way for him to
make any money. And that ain't good. Oof. I didn't
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read this article Inside China's ghost cities, the country with
sixty five million empty homes. Oh yeah, d sixty five
million empty homes. I remember sixty minutes heres and years
ago did a feature on that. I found it absolutely fascinating.
This these entire cities of high rise off in luxury apartments, condos,
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they're just empty for a mile. Crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And finally this, I talked about my two teenage boys
kind of battling over the upstairs bathroom. One of them
is a slob, one of them is not, and trying
to keep it clean. Somebody texted this. My mom made
us each take turn each week cleaning the bathroom. When
it was the other person's week, we would try to
make it as gross as possible.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Haha. That was a bust. I am not sure that
was a good solution. Oh that's funny. Oh it's your
you got to clean the bathroom next week. Oh wait
till you see this. That's disgusting. Is radical gender theory
a fraud, legally fraud. Stay tuned and.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Hasn't been as awful as I thought it was going
to be. Talking about the shooting today. You know, I
would like to have not had to do it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But when it.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Happened yesterday, I thought, oh boy, tomorrow is going to
be something.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know, I don't know. It's funny.
I never had that attitude for whatever reason. I know
exactly what you mean, though, I just thought this, all right,
here's a great opportunity. To just can we please be
adults here. I don't know that's out of style, out
of fashion fashion, look at me. So, Michael, if you
would be so kind of it to alert this to you,
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alert you to this rather clip number eighteen. Have that ready.
It's a gender bending madness update. So I kept hearing
about this thing called the Loco Brave. I want to
touch on a couple of stories really briefly, one that
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might go to the Supreme Court and one that is
at the Supreme Court. In fact, the hearing is going
to be held five days from today. So here's a
main mom who is asking the US Supreme Court to
hear her parental rights case. She alleges school staff encouraged
her child to socially identify as a different sex at
school without her knowledge. She learned her thirteen year old
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daughter was given a chest binder by a school social worker,
and school staff had used a different name in pronounce
for her child at school without informing her. Indeed, as
this the tradition among radical leftists, the word was don't
tell the mom, don't tell the parents. Well that's the
law in California, right, Uh yeah, essentially, Yeah, And I
(18:52):
tell you what Anybody who doesn't understand how hey don't
tell the parents is a flaming red flag, that's something
untoward his hand happening is an idiot. So anyway, a
federal judge dismissed the case in twenty twenty four, concluding
the mom had failed to establish legal claims under which
the school board could be held liable. According to the
AP First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that dismissal in
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twenty twenty five. So, miss Levine, that's her name's attorney
at the Goldwater Institute, our good friends are now petitioning
the US Supreme Court to take up the case. The
idea that there's no grounds for a mom to sue
the school who are trying to twist and pervert her
daughter is sickening to me. Second case actually is going
to be before the Supreme Court. Two West Virginia high
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school students and their families are alleging that the transgender
identifying male student at the center of a case that
will be heard by the Supreme Court on January thirteenth,
is engaged in sexual harassment and intimidation. That seems to
be true. It is what we've been talking about for
a long time. West Virginia has a law that bars
dudes from competing in female sports just because they throw
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on a little masscara, and of course the dude in question,
her parents have sued the state and the rest of it. Good.
Let's get to the end of this this bizarre and
hilarious notion that you can change sex. You can't. It's impossible.
You can present any way you want, but the idea
that trans women are women is laughable. Anyway, looking forward
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to talking to our Supreme Court correspondent about that case,
and then of course we'll have the oral arguments next
week on the thirteenth. I can't wait to hear that.
I'll listen to the whole thing and bring my thoughts
to you. But I found this very very interesting. Doctor
Miriam Grossman has done a lot of good writing about
the gender bending madness thing, and her premise, which she
makes I think pretty clear, as I recall here, is
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that radical gender theory is committing fraud legal according to
the Penal Code, fraud.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
When I examine gender affirming care and Michael.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Can't you stop it? And of course, because it's the Internet,
you got to freaking have sad piano on it, or
are some sort of music in the background. I don't
know about you. I'm a grown man. I can listen
people talk without like a little melody playing in the
background makes me insane anyway. So here's the learned doctor
with some inexplicable piano music that you should try to
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not get distracted by.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
When I examined gender affirming care and the history that
led up to it, I see fraud and deceptive practice everywhere,
going back decades. I see it in the landmark experiment
on Bruce Reimer when he was a toddler and John
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Money instructed his parents to socially and medically transition him.
This was to be doctor Money's proof for a concept
he'd come up with in nineteen sixty six called gender identity.
Doctor Money announced to the world that the experiment was
a resounding success, and for years the world believed it.
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In fact, it was a catastrophe from the start. Decades
after doctor Money, consumers were misled again when gender specialists
took the results of one tiny Dutch study whose subjects
were carefully chosen, and led parents to believe that every
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child distressed about their sex could benefit from that model
of care. And now families are told there's a consensus
among clinicians about the best way to help these children,
but there is no consensus. What there is is the
silencing of opposition. There are many more examples that you're
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going to hear about today, but I think it's fair
to say that the fraud is wide and it's deep.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
The fact that she could get through that while keeping
her piano melody going and playing drums with brushes with
their feet.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
It was very impressive. That's why she's so respected. But yeah,
that's something. Yeah, the story she was talking about. Bruce
Peter Reimer was born in nineteen sixty five and he
had a problem with his genitals, And so do we
know what the problem was. It was a condition in
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which the foreskin of the penis cannot retract, inhibiting regular urination.
He underwent circumstation, common procedure obviously, but there was I
don't want to get too much into the surgical issues,
but it went wrong and the penis had to be removed.
And this guy, this John Money guy, was a psychologist
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and sexologist who worked at Johns Hopkins and he helped
establish the views on the psychology of gender identities and
role role within society. He was one of the leaders
in you know, your sex is just a it's a construct,
it's a societal construct. And will raise this child as
(24:08):
a girl and treat her medic, hymn medically and never
tell them what happened, and it'll be just fine. It'll
be a girl. And his ideas it turned bizarre, sickening, heartbreaking,
and this poor lad ended up psychologically traumatized and miserable.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Man, if the doctor says I've got some bad news
for you. We're gonna have to remove your penis. Ah,
that is bad news whether I got it or not,
though I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Still a dude, right right, Yeah, that is a very
well anyway, before we wrap it up, the idea that
this sort of thing is being called settled science, or
that there's a medical consensus is actually fraud according to
the definition in the penal Code, and somebody ought to
(25:01):
enforce it. That's interesting. It's a gender bending madness. Update
sue the crap out of these monsters. That would help
to that is something.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, So the DHS secretary gave a speech a little
bit ago, and now live Tim Walls, the governor of
Minnesota speaking. I don't think anybody speaking is probably gonna
make anything any better. But I hope things have calmed down.
It doesn't look like we're gonna have a George Floyd
(25:36):
like situation. You remember, George Floyd was one.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Guy actually like a mile from where this happened yesterday
in Minneapolis, and it roiled the entire nation. So we
don't want that again. No, no, indeed, I don't think
it's got the elements though. I mean, you don't have
the racial me Can you imagine if this poor Gale
(25:59):
was it would all be about race, which goes to
show your spalidity of claiming it's about race. Hispanic could
have been a sweet spot. That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, it would have been. God dang
it not good. All right, we will finish strong next
to here, Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Grock.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
The AI tool from Elon Musk's company x is under fire.
The app, which has an image editing feature, is now
being used to create non consensual and sexualized deep bake
images of women and children. Grok was producing at least
a dozen inappropriate images every minute an upticking those pictures
after Grok enhanced its image generation abilities with a new
(26:41):
model last month one analysis found more than fifty percent
of images generated by groc between December twenty fifth and
January first were non consensual sexual images. Wow, primarily targeting women.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
So we've had a lot of fun. We were doing
this over family Christmas using the old grock. We took
some family picture and you have us fighting or dancing
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's it's pretty hilarious. Yeah, but half of the request
people are making on grock for the images are some
sort of sex thing. Yeah. Apparently, Wow, there's no stopping this.
By the way, I don't know what what you want
to do. Every proposed way to stop it I've come across.
(27:30):
I think that's doomed. And that's not to say we
shouldn't try or it's not a good idea. You know,
some poor fourteen year old girl at high school, all
of a sudden, everybody's laughing at giggling because there's a
naked picture of her making the rounds. I hate that,
I really hate.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
I think the only cure for it is that there's
a picture of every other girl floating around too naked.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's that's fake. So we're everybody is Yeah, I don't know,
Oh yeah, that's not good. Yeah, this is also not good.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Uh, change of pace just came across this and then
I well, the headline is this, China just announced they
will not sell anything, export anything to Japan that could
be used for military uses, no dual use anything, which
is pretty provocative because that includes lots of stuff. So
we're not allowed, We're not doing any trade with you
(28:19):
anything you could use militarily. This comes on the back
of really lots of things that have happened over the
last two months that mostly got obscured by a Christmas season,
but there's been some serious back and forth between China
and Japan, particularly that new prime minister.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
They got the chick. She is hard ass.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
And she had putting up with China's bs, and so
things are getting uglier and uglier. As just reading this article,
as the title was, relations between China and Japan worst
since World War Two. Having just been to the World
War Two Museum and gone through the whole what Japan
did to China thing, their relations have.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Been very very, very very bad in the past.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
That's one of the reasons that any sort of like
anti Asian this or that is kind of hilarious because
Japan and China have murdered, raped, beheaded, tortured each other
and many many different times over the centuries.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
But I have a close palace Filipino. Ask him about
grouping all Asians together, he will go fall.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
For instance, in a now deleted social media post, a
Chinese diplomat commented that the dirty neck that sticks itself
in must be cut off about the Prime Minister of Japan.
They have now deleted it, but that was an actual
tweet from an official in a Chinese diplomat.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That's a heck of a thing to say.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Anyway, this is after and this is the big this
is the news part. This just happened the other day.
The Prime Minister of Japan said that they consider a
China invading Taiwan an existential threat to them.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
They will treat it that way.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
So you attack Taiwan, China, it's the same as you
attacked us, and will react accordingly because.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You're clearly on the war path snapping up all the
islands in the Pacific, and we happen to be several
of them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Wow, So the big question there is So the question
ends up being not would we the United States come
to the defense of Taiwan if China tries to take Taiwan.
I think the answer is no. By the way, I
don't think we would. But if Japan and China get
into it, we're supposed to help Japan. Would we say
(30:41):
no to help in Japan fight China? And that's full
on World War three, isn't it. If we in Japan
and whoever else gets involved is fighting China, Russian probably
help with China. You can get the potential. Yeah, oh
my god, I mean this is I was listening to
the Dispatch End of the Year podcast. They named this
the most underreported story, the heightening tensions between Japan and
(31:06):
China and they ain't playing around and what that would
do to the whole world.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Holy crap, there's a little something fun to have on
the back burner. I feel then, as I felt I
fail now as I felt then, the world feels precarious.
It does.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
And again a lot of my feelings are informed by
having just gone through the World War Two Museum and step.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
By step by step, by step by step. I just
think most people, especially younger people, just have a failure
of imagination that this could actually occur. It has occurred
multiple times in world history. In fact, it is the norm.
In fact, it is a certainty. It is guaranteed it
will happen at some point. It's just whether it's now
(31:49):
with these particular people. But it's just, I think that's
the right term, failure of imagination. You just you can't
imagine that it would ever happen, just like they couldn't
imagine whatever happened in June of nineteen fourteen, that these
major powers to ever go to war war against each other.
But they can and they will. And interestingly, because I've
been digging into World War two, because that's what you
(32:09):
do when you turn a certain age as an American male,
one of the main messages the Nazis were given to
the German people in the late thirties and early forties
was that, look, this is not going to become a
world war. It's going to be easy, peasy, we've thought
it through. This will not be a world war. Because
the German people had zero interest in a world war.
(32:30):
They were as decimated as the rest of Europe was.
And yet there it went almost finished. Oh yeah, let's
get ready. Final thoughts with Armstrong and Gety And here's
(32:51):
Jerrold's for final thoughts. Joe Getty. I needed that soothing introduction. Michaelangelo,
our technical director, will lead the way. We're going to
get a final thought from everybody to wrap to show. Michael,
I just got a text from a relative wanted to
know what a ham kick is. I said it was
a type of martial arts move. Check him right in
the hand. Listen to podcast for me yesterday the hamkick
(33:12):
yep our four Katie Greener esteemed to us woman As
a final thought, Katie, what is it?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
That's My brain still hurts from trying to figure out
Michael and Jack wearing the wrong size shoes.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I just don't I still can't understand it. It's a
little mystified mess.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I don't know about Michaels situation, but for me, it's
not just the link. I mean, we all get our
foot measured right, but there are other things involved.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Yeah, I was right on the wrong size shoe. Yeah. Jack.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Final thought for us, I am going to in our
One More Thing podcast, describe the day I lost the
desire to drink alcohol, which was twenty years ago yesterday.
And I think it's an interesting story and I still
don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Wow. Interesting huh. I'll try to understand your lack of understanding.
My final thought is Denmark acquired Greenland through a gradual
colonial process starting in seventeen twenty one. But there's really
no good reason Greenland is part of Denmark. It kind
of happened because it was big and frozen. Nobody gave
a crap. Here, go ahead, knock yourself out and enjoy Greenland.
(34:13):
You want it? Okay? All right? Well now it matters
every time.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
So many people, thanks so a little time. You got
to go to armstrong in giddy dot com for the
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in getty dot com. I said that.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Already, remember the dirty neck that sticks itself in must
be cut off words live on. We'll see tomorrow. God
bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
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