Joe Getty (2:50)

Yeah, I don't like that argument.

Jack Armstrong (2:52)

I would much rather tend to the problems of too much liberty and too little.

Joe Getty (2:55)

To paraphrase Jefferson, that's a 100% true. But man, what a tangled web web we weave when first we choose to be socialist. Because that is very true. If I'm paying for your incredible number and expensive health problems because you smoke then I should have some say. But I don't like going down that road.

Jack Armstrong (3:14)

I agree completely. So, so much to talk about in terms of the Southern California wildfires. Then we'll move on to other fair including the transition, the inauguration and and just all sorts of stuff. Also, a great couple of blows has been struck have been struck against gender bending madness in recent days. You have not heard about this because the the Bigfoot media hasn't reported it because they're not happy with it. But dudes competing in women's sports. Yeah. Hey son, go play on the boys team. More news on that to come. Couple of things to do with Wildfire though that I wanted to get on. We, we've referenced this. I wanted to get to it specifically 2019. A public relations video put out by the LA Fire Department's head of diversity, equity and inclusion, Deputy Chief Christine Larson said that she was explaining why it was so important that we have an equitable number of women firefighters. Because that's, you know, firefighting. The Marines, they're all jobs programs. They're not like task specific, you know, occupations that demand certain qualifications. No, they're just social experiment anyway.

Joe Getty (4:27)

Well in the weird belief in disparate impact. So if you don't have 50, 50 men and women, clearly you're, you're, you're cheating the system somehow that didn't end up that way.

Jack Armstrong (4:37)

One of the dumbest, least defensible doctrines I've ever heard of in my life. And there are quite a few people who have served on the Supreme Court that believe in disparate impact. If there's a different difference in outcome, that's proof of racism. It's idiotic.

Joe Getty (4:51)

Or sexism or. Right?

Jack Armstrong (4:54)

Yeah. As I've said before, if my dog espoused that view, I would hit him with a rolled up newspaper because it's so dumb. Anyway, so LA's DEI Chief Deputy Chief Christine Larson said, and if we recruit an equitable number of women and she's not strong enough to lift a man out of a burning building, well, and I quote, he got himself in the wrong place. Maybe the hypothetical man burned in the fire will make better life choices next Time.

Joe Getty (5:23)

Yeah, that comment got a lot of. It happened on Friday and got a lot of attention over the weekend. I didn't even understand what she was trying to say. She must have said it poorly or something. What does that mean?

Jack Armstrong (5:32)

No, that was in a video they put out intentionally in 2019.

Joe Getty (5:36)

It just came out Friday and made the attention. Everybody was talking about it, so. But what did they mean that. I don't even understand what that means.

Jack Armstrong (5:46)

What she's saying is. I will translate because I've studied these people to the point of frustration. The main thing is equity. We must have an equitable number of women. And if you point out a problem with that, that problem is the problem. The equity is not the problem. The fact that women can't lift the large man out of a fire is proof that that man is too large and should be less large.

Joe Getty (6:14)

Oh, okay, okay. I, I didn't, I didn't take it that way. I thought they meant that you're in the wrong place. It's like you should have been in a. I don't know, had your house catch on fire in a district where they didn't have an out of shape lesbian.

Jack Armstrong (6:29)

Well, no, it's, it's, it's nonsense. It's. That's. As we were discussing yesterday, the romantic point of view is all that matters is my feelings and I feel this to my bones. So there's no facts you can bring me that will change my mind and I don't even wanna hear them. It's just childish. She also maintained the same nut job Deputy chief Christine Larson, you are a nut job lady. Also maintained that people want to see someone responding to emergency. Who looks to an emergency who looks like you. And the National Review points out.

Joe Getty (7:03)

Yeah.

Jack Armstrong (7:03)

If a Filipino immigrant's house is saved by the LAFD in recent days, homeowner didn't say, oh, thank goodness, but I wish at least one Pacific Islander was on the crew. Nobody ever said that in the history of mankind. God, these people are lunatics. They shouldn't be in charge of anything. Anyway, I just wanted to touch on that briefly. All sorts of news outlets. The Sacramento Bee, which is the Sacramento B, which is the paper of record in the capital of California. Pbs, NBC, Los Angeles, New York Times, all with headlines. Climate change fueled LA wildfires. Experts say, as we've been discussing in recent days, virtually every expert is a college professor, quote, unquote expert. It's a college professor. And what are 97% of college professors? Progressives. So these experts always have progressive views. Here's another one. Warming climate created perfect storm for catastrophic fires. The clear link between the California wildfires and climate change, that's NBC New York Times. The California wildfires are the latest disaster supercharged by climate change. Extreme weather events, deadly heat waves, floods, fires, hurricanes are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say. But as they point out in the California Globe, claiming these fires are because of climate change is patently absurd. I don't think anyone who just watched their home and neighborhood and their kids school burn burned to the ground is thinking that damned climate change. Because climate change is a catch all for dull and deceitful politicians and low information journalists to cover for their incompetence and corruption. And it explains everything and excuses everything. Anthony Watts, a meteorologist, he's got his website Watts up with that. He is a non climate cultist. He explained why climate change did not cause these latest fires. And this is the main point. The current fires, like many before them, are largely driven by well documented weather phenomena, historical land use patterns and human decisions, not by a nebulous all encompassing narrative of climate factors. California's relationship with fire predates the Industrial Revolution. And certainly modern climate discussions, historical records and studies consistent, consistent consistently demonstrate that large wildfires have been a natural part of the state's ecosystem for millennia. You can look at a chart of wildfires, rainfall and droughts going back to the 19th century when some of these records were first kept, and you see every sort of year and every sort of pattern.

Joe Getty (9:27)

As Tom McClintock told us yesterday, as a congressperson from California who's on committees that look at this sort of stuff, they know how many acres used to burn way back in the day and it was a lot.

Jack Armstrong (9:41)

Right? And then where is that? There was one more story. There's, there's a new term that's flying around that you're gonna hear. It's, it has to do with the hydration whiplash or something like that. It's the dry years followed by wet years. The hydration whiplash is part of climate change. So they're trying to get that one going. It's cool. It's ridiculous. And as the point has been made by several different folks, including ourselves, if you are absolutely sold on the idea that climate change is with us and is causing wildfires and the rest of it, then why are you so damn unprepared? You spend all your time talking about how climate change is ruining everything and then you say, well, we couldn't be prepared because of climate change. Yeah, which is it?

Joe Getty (10:33)

Dozens of suspected looters have been arrested so far, preying on really expensive neighborhoods where people have been ordered to evacuate. So the government tells you you have to leave, you leave. And then does the government do a good job of keeping scumbags from coming in and stealing all your stuff? That's a really maddening situation. I'm looking at this picture of all the people that they have arrested. It, you know, you want. You want to. You want a group of people that looks like America. To a certain extent, this group looks like America. All kinds of different shades and hues of human being that are scumbags who will come steal your stuff in a crisis.

Jack Armstrong (11:08)

Evidently, there's diversity, equity, and inclusion among looters who should all be beaten. The term I was looking for, Jack, is hydro climate whiplash. Hydro climate whiplash.

Joe Getty (11:19)

I will start throwing that around.

Jack Armstrong (11:21)

Please do.

Joe Getty (11:22)

And then Governor Newsom yesterday signed an executive order prohibiting greedy land developers from ripping off LA Wildfire victims with unsolicited, undervalued offers to buy their destroyed property, et cetera, et cetera. Karen Bass weighed in on. Hotels are not allowed to raise their rates a certain amount. Jonah Goldberg of the Dispatch tweeted out those stories and said, I think this is profoundly, immorally stupid. It's a waste of government time and resources, an unnecessary impediment to economic recovery, condescending nannyism and demagogic policy.

Jack Armstrong (11:55)

Agreed. Every, Every, Every word. Every long word.

Joe Getty (11:59)

Yeah. Government starts getting involved in that sort of thing and it just distorts every, every level of everything.

Jack Armstrong (12:07)

Right. Coming up later in the hour. Later in the show, in defense of gouging and also the homeowners who have said, yeah, I know we're supposed to have evacuated. I'm staying here with my gun guarding my home. Thank you very much. And their interesting relationship with law enforcement.

Joe Getty (12:23)

I went to Trump's inauguration first term and the fancy ball and everything like that. You gotta write a big check to get in this time around. Among other things we've got to talk about. I hope you can stay here.

Jack Armstrong (12:38)

Armstrong and Getty.

C (12:40)

President Elect Trump's inauguration is just a few days away, and I saw that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will all be in attendance. The three richest men in the world all in one place. Man, if you thought Bernie Sanders looked miserable at the last inauguration, the 1%.

Joe Getty (13:02)

When a Democrat is inaugurated, it's full of Hollywood stars, but that's just cool. It's just cool that Hollywood stars are there. If you got three people who've accomplished Something and happened to get really rich from it. There's an implication that something evil and untoward is happening. They never, I've noticed none of these stories connect any dots, like make any statement. It's just the three richest men will be sitting together.

Jack Armstrong (13:27)

Oh my God.

Joe Getty (13:29)

And finish your sentence. And they're going to do what Barney.

Jack Armstrong (13:32)

Is gonna have to. Bernie's gonna have to clap his hand, hewn mittens over his ears. He's gonna be so disgusted by the proceedings. Speaking of the first go round for Trump, the first inauguration, we've been discussing at times lately the fact that there's a very different feel in this transition. No doubt back in 2016 it was, he's an illegitimate president. He won't even get inau. He's a Russian stooge. Wait till that brave investigation gets going. I heard James Comey yesterday and it just, it was all phony and really, you know, queered the beginning of the Trump administration. Something he had to fight the whole time. Anyway. It's a very, very different field this time around where not only did he obviously win legitimately, but big and you know, the festivities are in full swing. There is full blown FOMO slash status seeking going on in terms of the inauguration to, to an unbelievable extent. CEOs are angling for invites to parties which include the Maha Bowl Ball and another featuring Snoop Dogg, who is the U2 of the 20th century. You can't swing a dead cat without seeing Snoop Dogg on the tv.

Joe Getty (14:44)

What's the Maha Ball?

Jack Armstrong (14:47)

Make America healthy Again ball. But nature of it, I don't know. I don't know why.

Joe Getty (14:51)

But why is it so hot? Because Zarfk Jr. Is going to be there.

Jack Armstrong (14:55)

Yeah, and that's kind of just hot among a certain crowd of Americans. But eight years ago, Trump's inauguration smashed fundraising efforts drew in high dollar donors across corporate spectrum. This month's event will make the 2017 affair look like a bake sale.

Joe Getty (15:10)

Really interesting.

Jack Armstrong (15:11)

Corporate interest in Donald Trump's inauguration has grown so intense that allies of the President elect have been soliciting 10 to 15 million dollars donations. Those are individual donations to spread across various Trump groups. According to people familiar with fundraising. Some high six figure donors have asked consultants to help them get in the door and been turned away.

Joe Getty (15:35)

Wow.

Jack Armstrong (15:36)

Or wait listed. Listen, if a ticket shakes loose, I'll call you. Thanks for your $800,000. I give you 800,000 and they can't get in the door. The inaugurations raised more than $200 million so far. Could double what it raised eight years ago. And they name check various crypto companies and JP Morgan Chase, Comcast, McDonald's, Delta Airlines, Lockheed Martin, Johnson Johnson, all giving a million dollars or more. This is not unique to Trump. Of course not Every inauguration and every fundraising for presidential library is legalized bribery. It's absolutely, unquestionably bribery.

Joe Getty (16:19)

Obviously it is. It's funny. No, more, more people don't talk about that or call it that. Obviously it is. Why'd you donate millions of dollars to the presidential library? Because you just really like books for that particular president or documents?

Jack Armstrong (16:31)

No, no, I like a nice diorama and they don't come cheap.

Joe Getty (16:36)

You're hoping to get a meeting. I'll tell you one thing. I was at the, the, the main ball for Trump in 2016, 2017, but when he was elect inaugurated and the food there was spectacular. I mean, it was one of the sneak in.

Jack Armstrong (16:49)

How'd you get in?

Joe Getty (16:50)

Somebody snuck me in. Yes. I did not have a ticket. Somebody snuck me in because, I mean, it was the highest of high rollers in there, but it was the best buffet I've ever had. I mean, the food was really good, as you would expect.

Jack Armstrong (16:58)

I don't doubt it.

Joe Getty (17:00)

I spent a lot of time lingering over the food. Other people seemed like they were used to that sort of chow, but I was really enjoying it.

Jack Armstrong (17:09)

Coming up, in defense of gouging. Microplastics are ruining your life and much more. Wow. Armstrong and Getty.

D (17:18)

Two U.S. officials say Israel and Hamas have agreed on core elements of a ceasefire and the release of dozens of hostages. According to people familiar with the negotiations. Both sides are working to overcome minor details, but don't believe any sticking points will derail progress. The details of a potential deal are broken up into three main phases, starting with the release of 33 hostages, including at least two Americans, over the next 42 days. Israeli forces would withdraw from parts of Gaza and allow much needed aid in the Biden administration, Qatar, Egypt and the incoming Trump administration all involved. This deal appears close, but a reminder that Prime Minister Netanyahu still has to get it through his security cabinet and his government to get the green light.

Joe Getty (18:04)

Yeah, I did read something the other day about the. The level of coordination between the incoming Trump team and the outgoing Biden team is really high on a couple of different things that are going on right now at a level you wouldn't necessarily think based on the way our politics are. Yeah, yeah. Because that should be what's happened. Joe Biden is making noises, trying to make this be like the you know, the, the end triumph or of a long career in public service, him getting the hostages out and a ceasefire deal. I don't think it's going to land that way. I think it's going to land as, okay, they're scared of Trump. They weren't scared of him and now they're. They're actually going to do it. I think it's going to be seen as a Trump win rather than a Biden win.

Jack Armstrong (18:48)

I don't disagree with a syllable of that.

Joe Getty (18:50)

I also think. So why do wars come to an end when, when one or both sides are exhausted and Hamas is definitely exhausted? And I think some of this is just a guess, some of it based on, you know, the reporting that's out there. I think Israel's hell bent on probably with the help of the United States in a major attack on Iran to take out that nuclear weapons facility where they're just a couple of weeks away from a nuclear weapon if they decide they want it. And, man, I was talking to. Or no, I wasn't talking to him. I wish I was. We should try to see if we could get General Petraeus on Hanson. He's got a book out, so he's probably making the rounds anyway. I heard him on a podcast the other day saying it has absolutely got to be the policy of the United States, as it has been for a long time, that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon, because that would just change all of the formulas for the way everything is done in the Middle east going forward.

Jack Armstrong (19:46)

And there's virtually nobody on Earth who disagrees with that. No significant power. I mean, Russia is in bed with Iran right now, but Putin's got no love for lunatic fundamentalist Shia Muslims and.

Joe Getty (19:57)

He'S kind of busy. And Iran will, as we talked with Ian Bremmer last week, Iran has never been this weak. They'll never be weaker. There's never been a better time than to do it now. So I think that's one of the reasons that Israel is willing to, because that's a heck of a deal they're willing, willing to make right now. You're going to give us back the remaining live people in a bunch of dead bodies. F you people, we're going to kill you all. But I think they're making this deal because they've got bigger fish to fry. We'll see.

Jack Armstrong (20:22)

At least. Yeah, it might buy them a little bit of time to, you know, reposition and reassess the. The thing that, Lord knows, I can't tell. Bibi Netanyahu anything about this topic, because he knows already is that Hamas is fundamentally a fundamentalist Islamic organization. It is written, enshrined in the Quran and tradition that to deceive your enemies is honorable. I mean, if it results in Allah's victory and further conquest, and then that to be utterly dishonest and deceptive is perfectly fine. It's not like our acute Western ethics. So he and I would go into this agreement saying, all right, these guys are going to break every single facet of this and cheat on every single facet of it the first moment it becomes possible. So it's a lovely little agreement. We'll see how it goes.

Joe Getty (21:12)

Well, I didn't fully understand this till I read the Woodward book. Then I think it came up with somebody we're talking to the other day when Iran launched all those drones at Israel and then Israel had to respond, they responded and most of the reporting was okay, it was a gesture, they didn't hit anybody, it was just a, they had to do it to save face, blah, blah. They took out all of Iran's most sophisticated anti aircraft weaponry that Russia had given them. That's what they did. Which was absolutely laying the groundwork for the coming attack, I think with the help of the United States to really take out that nuclear facility. Iran is defenseless right now.

Jack Armstrong (21:50)

I was just going to say, at the very least it was sending the message, all right, we just made you defenseless. Do not mess with us, do not mess with us. Again, how much warning, how much of.

Joe Getty (22:02)

A hard ass is Trump going to look like if he gets this ceasefire thing between Hamas and Israel and Israel has a successful attack with our help on Iran to take out the facility. That'll send a message around the world.

Jack Armstrong (22:18)

It absolutely will.

Joe Getty (22:19)

Yeah, we'll see.

Jack Armstrong (22:20)

You know, the great disconnect between a lot of folks on the MAGA side of things and just people in general is they don't understand to be quote unquote militaristic, to beef up your military, to project strength, to project hard assishness, to quote My colleague Mr. Armstrong here, that prevents war, that stops people from dying in war. If you are so formidable and so clearly willing to use your power, you don't have to. That's the point. Pacifists get in fights.

Joe Getty (23:03)

Looking up at the tv, CBS News going with a redefining obesity story, how we're moving away from the BMI scale, I'll have to dig into that a lot. I need a scale that says better things about me, says nicer things, uses kinder words than the bmi, which calls us all heavy fat.

Jack Armstrong (23:23)

Well, a lot of us are heavy.

Joe Getty (23:25)

Right. But you know, we all know the BMI thing is ridiculous.

Jack Armstrong (23:30)

Yeah, yeah. I mean if you are like at the beginning of the obese section of the BMI scale, I'd really. Because you don't have to be very heavy at all. No, really like to know how, how seriously are your health come health outcomes being, you know, affected by your being 20 pounds over your ideal weight. And I tell you what, just for an example, I, I've been fat. I've been thin. You know, when I was like in the greatest shape of my adult life, when I lost all that weight, I was down to 1 68. Was 78, something like that at 5 11. And I was just in great shape and I was still overweight according to the scale.

Joe Getty (24:12)

Yeah. I think I'm supposed to be 175. And I would be a stick person. I mean people would ask me at me, whispering behind me, is he okay?

Jack Armstrong (24:19)

Yes.

Joe Getty (24:20)

Did his cancer come back? If I was 175.

Jack Armstrong (24:23)

Right, right. So anyway, rejigger it. Fine. Get back to me when you're, when you're done. I'm trying not to get, I'm trying to maintain a reasonable weight.

Joe Getty (24:32)

Yeah, I'm doing pretty good on the. No baked goods or at least no. No donut. So that my, my nieces came up with this standard which is pretty good because I was trying to figure out like, do pancakes count as a baked good? I don't know. They, if you could get it at a bake sale, it's a baked good. If you can't, it's not was there. So that's, that's worked pretty well for me.

Jack Armstrong (24:51)

Yeah, I like it. It's very homespun.

Joe Getty (24:53)

Yeah. Like I had pancakes the other day. You wouldn't get those at a bake sale. I'm not going to go crazy with pancakes like I do donuts. I'm not going to pick up pancakes on the way home and eat them in my car. Probably.

Jack Armstrong (25:03)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (25:04)

You never know though.

Jack Armstrong (25:05)

You know, it's, it's kind of an artificial dividing line, but I get it. It works.

Joe Getty (25:10)

What do you think, Katie? Think I'm slicing it too thin?

Jack Armstrong (25:14)

I think the man that pulled a fork out of his suit pocket so he could eat a pie in his car might get a stack of pancakes needed in there as well.

Joe Getty (25:21)

Well, I'll have to keep an eye on myself. If I start, if I start eating pancakes in my car, I have my Fork right here.

Jack Armstrong (25:28)

He has a fork on him, folks. Nobody carries a fork. I've seen Swiss army knives that have 47 different implements. They don't. Well, sometimes they do include.

Joe Getty (25:40)

This is a full metal table fork that I keep in my jacket pocket case I find myself with a pie or something. Yes, Michael.

Jack Armstrong (25:47)

I'm just in disbelief. That's the way you just waved it around. You're so proud of it.

Joe Getty (25:52)

I know. It's odd, isn't it?

Jack Armstrong (25:53)

As fork will travel. Where were we? We were talking about something important.

Joe Getty (25:59)

We had moved on. I believe there are.

Jack Armstrong (26:01)

That's right. We were on obesity. Right. Okay.

Joe Getty (26:03)

Confirmation hearings that are going on today, live. If anything exciting happens, let you know about it. My current position is Pam Bondi is too hot to be Attorney General. I just think it's. I think it's off putting somehow.

Jack Armstrong (26:15)

Wow, wow. Mad men around here.

Joe Getty (26:19)

It's hard to take her seriously.

Jack Armstrong (26:21)

Also, in defense of looting and an encouraging gender bending madness update.

Joe Getty (26:28)

Like that. Like that. Things are going. The wind is definitely blowing the right direction on that topic. No doubt about it. We got a lot more on the way.

Jack Armstrong (26:35)

Stay here, Armstrong and Getty.

C (26:39)

Starbucks is rolling out a new policy that requires people to buy something if they want to use the bathroom. Meanwhile, at Dunkin Donuts you're free to go to the bathroom while standing in line. Actually the CEO of Dunkin said anybody can come in but you gotta punch the biggest guy in here to establish yourself.

Joe Getty (26:59)

I don't mind.

Jack Armstrong (27:00)

I have been in a number of Dunkin locations throughout our beautiful nation and have not found it to be excrement screw strewn prison like in any way.

Joe Getty (27:11)

Once again, Starbucks twisting themselves into knots trying to deal with the street people problem without saying out loud we're changing our rules because of the street pre people problem. That's why. Hey city, stop having drug addicts hang around everywhere. Coming. I wish they just. I wish all these businesses would just say out loud while they're why they're changing their policies.

Jack Armstrong (27:34)

Yeah, I agree 100%. I think Starbucks is one of the few that would be vulnerable to the online fever pitch crowd.

Joe Getty (27:44)

You're right.

Jack Armstrong (27:45)

Most companies should just ignore those people. They're few in number. They're pissed off about. They'll be pissed off about something different tomorrow. Don't worry about it. But Starbucks could actually get hurt by the young woke lunatics.

Joe Getty (27:57)

Got this text I wanted to read. My dad and I have loved your show for many years. He unfortunately passed away this weekend. But you always brought a smile to his face. Right up till the end. With your intelligence and humor. Keep fighting the good fight. Andy from the O.C. orange County.

Jack Armstrong (28:13)

Oh, thanks, Andy. And we're sorry for your loss, obviously. That's. That's very touching. Yeah. Wow. So. Oh, are we ready, Michael? It's a gender bending madness update, but a twist. Oh, what? Much more hope than outrage this time around.

Joe Getty (28:31)

Check the neck.

Jack Armstrong (28:35)

We don't need to go there. Michael asleep at the switch dealing with the technical problem. I apologize. It's a gender bending madness update. Worth mentioning that though couple of these stories are quite significant indeed, they're getting no attention because they are very, very uncomfortable to the mainstream media. On Thursday, a federal judge in Kentucky issued a nationwide block to the Biden administration's Title 9 rewrite, which made gender identity a protected characteristic under the education Amendment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And that would have required schools and colleges to give trans identifying biological men, also known as men. It's the only kind of man there is. A biological man. Don't bother with the term. Anyway, it would give trans identifying men access to women's sports spaces and scholarships.

Joe Getty (29:42)

It would have been a mess. I mean, it would have unleashed. It would have been like that grants pass reeling ruling what it did to homelessness. If this had gone the other direction on the train thing, just.

Jack Armstrong (29:52)

It would have been devastating. Yeah, devastating and just bizarre and just completely contradictory to the idea of Title 9, which was We've got to protect women's sports and make sure women have equal opportunities. Well, they don't if dudes can just say, yeah, I'm a chick now, and play against them anyway, the court wrote in its ruling quote, when Title 9 is viewed in its entirety, it is abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of being male or female. And in spite of radical gender theory.

Joe Getty (30:28)

Stop using gendered language, which would have.

Jack Armstrong (30:31)

Been laughed out of any sane conversation eight years ago, ten years ago, but is now being taught in your children's school. You don't get to choose whether you're a male or a female. You can throw on a dress there, sweetheart, but you're still a dude as far as the law is concerned, at least. Anyway, well done to the judge in Kentucky. We'll see where that goes. Also, here's a story. This is actually from the New York Times and some great commentary from our friend Paolo. But a divided house on Tuesday approved legislation that aims to bar transgender women and girls. Their. Their boys and men. We have words for that. Men and boys from Participating in school athletic programs designated for female students as Republic. This is great. This is Republicans pounce style sentence. As Republicans sought to wring political opportunity from a social issue that helped them win the 2024 elections.

Joe Getty (31:30)

Wow.

Jack Armstrong (31:31)

Boy, I could teach a college class on that sentence.

Joe Getty (31:34)

No kidding.

Jack Armstrong (31:34)

All right, first of all, as Republicans sought to ring political opportunity, or Republicans sought to not have dudes raping girls and women in prisons, or raping and molesting girls in locker rooms, or. And this is plenty, making women intensely uncomfortable because men have been permitted to be in their locker rooms watching them dress and shower, attempting to wring political opportunity. Well, then the rest of the sentence. Yes.

Joe Getty (32:06)

Yeah, the rest of the sentence where they say. And it worked, basically. So then in what way are you wringing opportunity out of something that America agreed with?

Jack Armstrong (32:14)

Well, right, exactly. They characterized it as a social issue that helped them win the 2024 elections. Um, how do you win elections in our system? New York Times. What do you have to have a majority of? Yeah, people who agree with you. Now, interestingly, as our friend Paolo points out, the bill. Well, this is still. The New York Times approved. Improved. Approved almost entirely along party lines on a vote of 218 to 206, would prohibit federal funding from going to K through 12 schools that include transgender students. Dudes again, we have a word for that already. It's fellas on women's sports teams use gendered language to. To address everyone. It faces a steep challenge in the Senate, where seven Democrats would have to join Republicans to move it past a filibuster into a final vote. Well, I'll tell you what you want to talk about. Republicans pouncing or ringing political opportunity when you can't get more than, I guess, a handful of Democrats to say, hey, dudes, raping women in prison ain't cool. We're gonna ring a hell of a lot more political opportunity from that because it's blanking insane.

Joe Getty (33:27)

So most of those Democrats don't agree with this policy. They're just scared of the. The. The. The online Twitter wing of the Democratic Party and how they'd come after them, which is the way politics works. But when it's on the Republican side, senators are only doing that because they're scared of the MAGA world. It's somehow awful and evil and scary. But when Democratic senators are voting a certain way because they're scared of, you know, lefty nut job Twitter world, it's right. It's what?

Jack Armstrong (33:56)

Well, interestingly, there was a big BBC survey in Britain sent to hundreds and hundreds of athletes, female athletes that answer that asked several questions about transgender athletes, dudes competing in women's sports. And an uncomfortable majority said they felt very uncomfortable about transgender athletes. But quite a few said they were very hesitant to say what they thought because of fears of abuse or being considered discriminatory. That is the extent to which a very small minority of lunatics have intimidated so many of us. And, and my gosh, I feel for the women who, who are in have been intimidated into silence. I have much more on the unbelievable record. It's sickening of there are something like 2,500 dudes in women's prisons right now because they claim to be a girl. And the rape and the pregnancies and sexually assault, the sexual assaults are, are rampant. But we don't have time. That's the end of your gender bending madness update.

Joe Getty (35:05)

What were we gonna do in hour three? You had something good.

Jack Armstrong (35:08)

We're putting off, number one, LA area residents who are defying the evacuation ban to guard their homes, sometimes at gunpoint. And also in defense of gouging.

Joe Getty (35:18)

All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you haven't heard this argument, it'll change your view on this topic. Perhaps if you miss a good podcast.

Jack Armstrong (35:25)

Armstrong and Gettysburg.