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Jack Armstrong
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Unknown Speaker
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There are senior aides inside the Biden White House who are deliberating over whether there should be a more formalized approach by the president to protect people with a preemptive pardon. So it's, that's something that's in the discussion phase right now. A preemptive pardons to people that may be on Donald Trump or his allies lists of people they dislike. That would be a whole new world of the usage of the presidential pardon. So a lot of political implications there.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, I would say it'd be a whole new world. And that came out originally from Jonathan Martin, his reporting, and it was confirmed yesterday by Peter Baker of the New York Times. The White House is weighing blanket pardons for Trump's perceived enemies. James Clyburn, guy from South Carolina who's the only reason Biden ever ended up being president, is urging Biden to do it. I've seen Cash Patel saying who he's going after. So why should we not believe them?
Joe Getty
Well, if the justice system and a jury of their peers finds them guilty of the stuff that earned them the dislike of Trump, well, then they're guilty. To presume that every single thing Donald Trump is unhappy about or his people are happy about is merely a creation of their own insanity. Where did you get that?
Unknown Speaker
Well, let me present it. As a lefty, I would, I think. Why wouldn't you say, let this, this is good news. If I'm a Democrat, let Trump and his Justice Department bring crazy charges against innocent people and make you spend all their political capital on that. Go for it, is what I would say as a Democrat, because they're claiming it's all nuts. Well, then what do you need the blanket pardons for?
Joe Getty
Right, right. You know, I, I might respond that it's incredibly expensive and disruptive merely to be accused of stuff and clutches.
Unknown Speaker
It'd be miserable.
Joe Getty
Law enforcement, it'd be miserable.
Unknown Speaker
But if they're, they're talking about some journalists, too. Okay, if you think it's just insane, and it would be pretty insane to go after journalists that way, well, then.
Joe Getty
What are you worried about? Well, and. Come on, just. And this is, this is a minor point because the constitutional point is all powerful here.
Unknown Speaker
But.
Joe Getty
Trump spent his entire 2016 campaign saying Hillary ought to go to jail. Then the moment he got in the office, he said, no, that would be too divisive and time consuming.
Unknown Speaker
Excellent point, silly.
Joe Getty
We're not going to do that. We're going to focus on the country.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, excellent point. And if I'm a Republican, I might say the same thing I was just saying about the Democrats. Hey, go for it, Joe Biden. Go with the blanket pardons and see what that does for your party. I don't care about your legacy, but see what that does for your party. The problem is what it does to people's view of the Justice Department and rule of law and cynicism toward politicians and everything.
Joe Getty
Oh, my gosh. Yeah. You know, as Peggy Noonan wrote. Well, I'll just quote her. It's embarrassing as a citizen to see the president of the US Pardon his son in such an all encompassing way for any legal transgression going back nearly 11 years, which feels like a concession to the assumption that his more interesting law breaking or stretching may yet be unkn. And then she goes into the fact that he promised frequently and explicitly that he'd play it straight and let the course of justice play out, which means he knew it was important to people how they viewed him, so he lied to reassure them. Aldous did what others have said lowered trust in political leaders, made them more cynical, I think. And that's absolutely true. And that was indefensible. That blanket pardon for a period of many years, that's just sick. But she makes two points, kind of indirectly and directly that I thought were interesting. Number one, and the less important one is she says this pardon struck me as a bitter action, too. A president who cared about public opinion, even that of his own party, would not have done it. Or this way, it's a president flipping the bird to an ungrateful nation that coldly turned on him after a single debate and then elected that tramp Donald Trump. They deserve what they get.
Unknown Speaker
There might be some of that. There also might be some. Most of us don't know what it's like to be on dsd. Death's door, which Biden might feel like he actually is. That. Although where does the anger come from? Where does the whole the Justice Department is corrupt thing come from? Again, there. That. That's. That's a completely different emotion than, I'm a dad and I can save my son, so I'm going to.
Joe Getty
Well, and it's just bizarre, given the facts of the case. I mean, the hunter bragged about the gun thing in his memoir. He confessed in writing to the crime. So that one check and then the tax stuff, he got the opposite of unfairly harsh treatment or unusually harsh treatment. So again, it was just factually nuts. It was useless politically. I swear, I smell the unfortunate perfume of one doctor fake Dr. Jill Biden in the wording. Excuse me, I sneezed.
Unknown Speaker
You should see Dr. Jill. Maybe she can give you some.
Joe Getty
Come on. Here's the main point, though. All of this has been great fun. But here is. This is the devastating point. Clear your calendars, tell your kids to shut up, all over the side of the road. All right? Joe's about to launch a truth ICBM in your direction.
Unknown Speaker
Kids, shut up.
Joe Getty
In the same way that I just moved here. I'll illustrate this. Judy and I moved several years ago from a house that had very little storage. It was weird. It, like, didn't have enough closets, there's no attic whatever. To a house that had tremendous amounts of storage in the attics and stuff like that. Everybody knows this. The more storage space you have, the more crap you accumulate.
Jack Armstrong
And everyone knows it.
Unknown Speaker
Or keep, at least.
Joe Getty
Yeah, George Carlin had a great bit on that. Your stuff. Anyway, in the same way, in a similar way, and don't mean to make light of this, because again, I'm going to level the city of your illusions with my atomic weaponry of logic. And here it is, let's face it, politicians in general, people in general, they get away with. They try to get away with what they think they can get away with. They push against the Constitution or just tear it to the extent that they think they can. They loot the treasury, they abuse your rights. They, you know, list every conceivable miscarriage of power, misuse of power that you can think of. Okay, if I am operating in a world where it is routine or even just possible that the head guy will pardon me in advance for anything that I do, don't you think that really enlarges the palette of things I might do?
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, no kidding.
Joe Getty
Holy crap. It's like, you know, to some superhero who, you know, what's the. What's the superhero dude who you can like shoot him and he's a wise cracking guy and it heals real quick. You can break his arm and it heals. Wisecrack. And everybody loves him. It's as violent, but funny. Come on, Katie, you're young and hip. What the hell am I? Wears a mask. Deadpool. Yeah, exactly. If I wasn't a beauty.
Unknown Speaker
Why are you shaking your head like that? Because I don't know.
Joe Getty
Well, you're supposed to know. I'm looking to my superhero Rolodex there. Start knowing my superhero, knowing Rolodex. But seriously, if I, as a bureaucrat government official, can commit virtually any sin against the people or the Constitution, knowing that I will be preemptively pardoned, because that's a thing now. Holy crap.
Unknown Speaker
Let's hear what Ari Fleischer said about these potential pardons.
Joe Getty
So I just think this whole thing is nuts. They think that Donald Trump is going to come out and get them. It just shows they haven't learned any of the lessons that made them lose this election. They still have Trump Derangement Syndrome. As opposed to realizing Donald Trump actually stands for a lot of common sense, but it's also destructive. It's destructive because if they do it, rest assured, another Republican president will do it as well. Right? And then the pardon, as established in the Constitution, is demolished. Now it becomes a tool for presidents of both parties to in advance give out, get out of jail free cards to anybody and anybody on their list, even if they didn't commit a crime. So here he's making the same point I did, without the charming illustrations of attic space and superheroes.
Unknown Speaker
So the, the question I have is most even lefties think this pardoning his son was horrible. Mostly because Biden went out there and claimed 500 times that he wasn't going to do it will people feel the same way about a blanket pardon of Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff and who else was on the list? Anthony Fauci? Or would they think that makes sense?
Joe Getty
See, I don't, because I don't know.
Unknown Speaker
If they would react the same way as they're reacting to Hunter, which most people think it's awful. Good God.
Joe Getty
Again, the lying in the hypocrisy is absolutely a legit topic to be fired up about. It's the blanket nature of any offenses for a given period of time that is a horror.
Unknown Speaker
Right.
Joe Getty
That is the part we cannot. Well, that's particularly.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, that's why I asked that particularly. I think there's a chance that a lot of Democrats react with, well, he had to do that because Trump's a Hitler and you gotta do this. And so that will, as you said and Ari Fleischer said it's just kind of. It's going to rewrite the rules of pardons, the Overton window of pardons, and establish that's what people do now. And as you said, now all kinds of friends of presidents will think I can do all kinds of stuff.
Joe Getty
Right. It's the proverbial license to kill. You can give all of your cronies a license for lawlessness with no fear of retribution or repercussions. Again, that's the stuff of nightmares. Never mind that the senile old mummy who's about to leave us finally and let us get on with our country is a lying hypocrite. Who cares? It's the blanket anything they did thing that it's Orwellian. I wish Orwell wasn't quoted so much because it's lost some of its weight. But this is a nightmare for a free people.
Unknown Speaker
I'll bet it doesn't happen because the reaction to the Hunter pardon has been so bad. I mean, you had what, what was it, five New York Times columnists the other day and one addition saying it was horrible. I'm thinking that the, the noes will win the debate inside the White House, but the fact that they're having a vigorous debate over this is amazing, you.
Joe Getty
Know, and it's frustrating. Just as a person who actually, and I'm sure all of you share this, who actually cares about this country and thinks it's an incredible experiment, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, people based on a completely misplaced. Well, no, not completely. A lot of people had a misplaced perception of the election being literally stolen by election officials in Georgia or something. Did you see, by the way, where Dinesh D'Souza came out in a apologized for 2000 mules saying yeah, a lot of that stuff I said wasn't true and yeah, the video wasn't what it claimed to be. It was innocent stuff. And anyway, that was all wrong and I'm sorry. Anyway, the fact that you could get a fired up mob to bust up the Capitol over that stuff and I realize some of you are mad about other stuff, so let's not get into it, but that nobody quite gets how horrifying this pardon of Hunter is in the aspect that I've been droning on and on about is frustrating. There ought to be a crowd of 500,000 people surrounding the White House right now chanting no blanket pardons. No blanket pardons. And hardly anybody's even talking about it.
Unknown Speaker
We got more on that later. Here's my favorite headline from the New York post today. At 74 world's oldest albatross hopes to Become Mom Again. It asks more questions than it answers that headline. We've got more on the way. Stay with us.
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I was just on the phone with my son. One of the really interesting things about raising kids, as Joe knows, his kids are out of the house and on into their lives. But, but watching your kids, especially now that they're into the teenage years, go through some of the first time this happened, experiences of being, you know, a human in the world. And I just, long story, I won't get into all the details, but my son overslept for something important and I called him. He wasn't somewhere he was supposed to be. I called him, he woke up. What time is it? And I told him, he said, oh, my God. So that's the first time that has happened in his life. And that whole feeling that he'll have a. Hopefully few times, not a lot of times, but throughout your life and just, you know, all the ramifications that come with it of dealing with the. Everything. It's funny.
Joe Getty
Part of life. Well, it's. Yeah. And can you imagine if you removed the, all of the repercussions from that?
Unknown Speaker
Right.
Joe Getty
The effect that would have.
Unknown Speaker
Right.
Joe Getty
I don't know. It's self evident to, to some of us, the way life has to work. But anyway, yeah, yeah, we've all done it. So what was that thing about albatrosses?
Unknown Speaker
Oh, and I got, geez, I can't, I'm, I, I won't say who this is, but another experience some teenager I know had in which they were texting a lot and I said, hey, can you put that down? And this teenager, not my kids, said, I can't. My girlfriend's mad at me and I don't know why.
Joe Getty
Oh, boy, son, you have become a man.
Unknown Speaker
I said, I said to this person, not my son. No, I said, this is going to happen a lot in your life. Doesn't mean it's not important.
Joe Getty
Right.
Unknown Speaker
But it is going to happen a lot. Yes, Katie, no.
To which I say, he know, he knows what he did.
Joe Getty
Well. Oh, my.
Unknown Speaker
The woman on the show weighing in.
Joe Getty
You or you pretend to be part of our team, you're not.
Unknown Speaker
Or of course, the trump card of if he cared about her, he would know what he did.
Joe Getty
Oh, Lord, now you're killing me with this. It reminds me of when one of my kids had a teacher at the school that they thought was an idiot. And I think they're at least half correct. But they needed a good grade and I told them the skill of managing your relationship with an idiot who you have to work with and getting a good result is the most important thing you will learn from this class.
Unknown Speaker
No kidding. Absolutely. Talk about a life lesson, right?
Joe Getty
Son, this is going to be a painful exercise you're going through, but you'll use that muscle again on another kid.
Unknown Speaker
Related.
Joe Getty
Why are you looking at me?
Unknown Speaker
Joe? This is my son. So he's taking first year Spanish in high school. You know. Bueno. And but one of the things he can do for extra credit that he wants to get is go attend a Spanish mass. So I guess we're going to do that on Sunday. And I thought, I'm not going to understand a single word. Just sit there with people asking me questions and me nodding my head and smiling or talking slow and loudly in English. I don't understand you. Thumbs up for Jesus.
Joe Getty
Buenos dias. Buenos dias. Bueno. This. Yes. Si se quadre. Si se pro.
Unknown Speaker
I'll use all the Spanish I know. Cabo San Lucas to you.
Joe Getty
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Joe Getty
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Well, I got some great texts around the possible blanket pardon of people who aren't his son. What happened to the any dad would do this? Any dad would pardon Adam Schiff.
Joe Getty
Adam Schiff's dad wouldn't pardon Adam Schiff. He's a piece of garbage.
Unknown Speaker
More on that later.
Joe Getty
Sorry, that was disrespectful to garbage. Gotcha. Yeah. How about a Gender Bending Madness update? A very special one. It begins with murder, ends with Supreme Court analysis. Let's begin with a special guest. Gender Bedding Madness update contribution from the geniuses at the Babylon B14. I'd like a tattoo of this really awesome Chinese symbol that I saw.
Unknown Speaker
We're definitely gonna need your parents to.
Joe Getty
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Unknown Speaker
Tattoos are permanent.
You're gonna regret it one day.
Joe Getty
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Unknown Speaker
Smoking is so bad for you.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Unknown Speaker
Not in this state.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Unknown Speaker
You might blow yourself up.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
You might shoot your eye out.
Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Unknown Speaker
No problem.
Joe Getty
We'll get started right away. Oh, cool.
Jack Armstrong
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Unknown Speaker
Of course not.
What if they're not affirming? Wow, the fireworks really got me. Kid camp by 16 year old. Can't buy fireworks on 4th of July. But you could get your penis lopped off.
Joe Getty
Yeah, or get powerful hormone treatments. So your gender Bending madness update proper. We mentioned this earlier. A bunch of men pretending to be women and activists and dudes and whatever held a dance party in the women's bathroom on Capitol Hill to protest banning men from women's bathrooms. And anybody who's seen the video has signed up for the Realities Last Stand newsletter. That's the conservative defending of women's spaces and has become a fan of Riley Gaines. They, as usual, these activists, the more they do what they do, the more people realize, oh, that's crazy. Now that I take a look at it. Another story for you. Northern California native has become the first trans woman to men win model of the year. Sonoma County's Alex Consani, who's a dude, won the first model of the year at The Fashion Awards in London, and.
Unknown Speaker
Of course, was actually the most attractive woman there. And it's not a political virtue signaling at all.
Joe Getty
So once again, women, men are better at everything, including being a woman. You just have to accept it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Just. Just ridiculous. Moving along. Good news. The Ladies Professional Golf association has announced. No dudes. If you went through puberty as a male, you're not playing women's golf because of the obvious undeniable physical advantages you have over women. Well done, lpga. Nice job.
Unknown Speaker
And how much of a backlash are they suffering? I haven't even heard about it.
Joe Getty
So, no, they won't suffer much backlash at all.
Unknown Speaker
Well, then why wouldn't more of these organizations have the guts to stand up and do it?
Joe Getty
Next LPGA tournament. To the extent that anyone pays very much attention to it. And I'm not belittling women's sports in general, but it's not nearly as big a deal as men's golf. But anyway, there will be a protester or two here and there. They might run onto the green and deface something or yell at something or chant at somebody. And there will be outsized coverage of the tiny handful of lunatics that thinks dudes ought to be able to play women's golf. Disney has removed a children's cartoon episode about transgender athletes in which a plucky transgender girl. It's a dude in. In a. With long hair. Is shown to be tough and brave and. And a groundbreaker in participating in girls sports. That's funny. They've yanked that episode elsewhere in children's Entertainment. It's clip 13, Michael. This is a dad watching his kid watch a Transformers cartoon.
Jack Armstrong
I don't think when I'm with my friends or other non binary people. Non binary people who aren't female or male. Oh, I'm sorry.
Joe Getty
I should not.
Unknown Speaker
Absolutely not.
Joe Getty
Transformers Earth Spark on Netflix Transformers streaming on Netflix. A nice episode about a non binary person explaining to their robot friend what non binary is and how it's special and how they're only safe among other non binary people.
Unknown Speaker
That guy said the same thing I said when my kids were watching a Simpsons episode where they did an Up With Socialism song like, absolutely not.
Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, I'm sorry.
Joe Getty
I should not.
Unknown Speaker
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Joe Getty
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Unknown Speaker
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Joe Getty
You've come to believe Twitter is America and your activist young employees represent the future. And they don't. They don't at all. A couple more stories very quickly. We're working our way up to just a little more Supreme Court analysis of the oral arguments the other day. But are you familiar with the Leche League? It's existed for many years, I think I'm pronouncing it correctly. It was founded in the 50s by a couple suburban moms who realized they were doing something very rare at the time they were breastfeeding their babies at a time when the hubris and idiocy of science in the 20th century, this happened a lot. Announced that formula is much better for your baby than breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is for poor people and stupid people. And these two women are like, that can't possibly be true. And we think breastfeeding is important and we want to make it easier for women and understand and they know they're not alone. So this gal founded, these gals founded this organization. 70 years later, one of their founders, 94 year old what's her last name, Marion Thompson, just quit the organization because it's gone woke and is insisting on promoting men who desire to look like women, taking lots and lots of hormones until they lactate and then having their babies eat that.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, wow.
Is there any information out there about what nutrients you get from a dude who lactates as a baby?
Joe Getty
Well, precisely as she writes, she says, on such and such a date, I resigned from such and such a board. Blah, blah, blah. An organization that has become a travesty of my original intent. From an organization with a specific mission of supporting biological women who want to give their baby. Just say women. It's okay to just say women. It's the only kind of women there are who want to give their babies the best start in life by breastfeeding them. Lll's focus has subtly shifted to include men. Men who for whatever reason want to have the experience of breastfeeding despite no careful long term research on male lactation, how they may affect the baby.
Unknown Speaker
Wow, that's horrible. I mean now, I mean this is like another level beyond other horrible stuff. You got a tiny little baby that needs nutrients to survive and they might not be getting any of it. Because who knows? Oh my God, that's horrifying.
Joe Getty
I read on this shift from following the norms of nature, which is the core of mothering through breastfeeding, to indulging the fantasies of adultery adults is destroying our organization. She further explained in an interview, quote, there is no justification for experimentation on newborn babies. No one knows the effects of the multiple drugs and hormones used by these males on the health of babies. There are no long term studies at all. Of course, one of the drugs almost all. Well, yeah, because this lunacy only reared its nutty head a few years ago. Indeed, one of the drugs almost always used to induce lactation, Domperidone, is actually banned in the United States. How can we justify expressing experimenting on babies who cannot give any type of consent? How is this ethical? God bless you ma'am, for doing that and writing that and starting the league way back in the 50s. I wish more people were paying attention.
Unknown Speaker
It reminds me of the Ricky Gervais joke. Different issue. Same thing though, where he said, you know why there aren't any rules about that? Because nobody thought we effing needed any.
Joe Getty
Right? Right. Exactly. Why are there no rules against people with penises in women's sports? Because nobody thought it was necessary. A little Supreme Court glance before we lay that to rest after a word from our friends at Prize Picks here. Football season is heating up. My gosh, the action is exciting last night. Great game. Oh man. And Prize Picks is the best place to get real money sports action while watching football. And it's easy too, if you want.
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Unknown Speaker
That's a decent point. And it made it all the way to the Supreme Court.
Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Gosh dang it. That's disturbing. But anyway, Judge Justice Alito asked whether transgender is an immutable characteristic because under the 14th Amendment that the plaintiffs were saying, you can't have unequal treatment. If a boy can get hormones for, you know, some sort of testicular malfunction, for instance, then a girl should be able to get hormones to turn her into a.
Unknown Speaker
A boy.
Joe Getty
Otherwise, it's sex discrimination because she's transgender. Well, Alito said, all right. Is transgender an immutable characteristic, which means you can't possibly change it. You can't, like, become a white guy tomorrow if you're a black guy? You just can't. That's what immutable means.
Unknown Speaker
What about Michael Jackson.
Joe Getty
The exception that proves the rule anyway? So strong the. The. The. The lawyer. Person. Person argued, yeah, there is a strong biological basis between sex and gender. Therefore it is immutable. In the very next question, the next question Alito asked about gender fluidity and strongio, the transgender lawyer argued that gender identity is informed by an individual's understanding of their gender. Therefore, it is fluid, which is the opposite of immutable. Right. Back to back questions and answers.
Unknown Speaker
Oh, that's interesting. I had missed that. But, yeah, that argument has been a problem all along.
Joe Getty
And this doctor writes, no, they were.
Unknown Speaker
Born that way, and it's up to me on it can change on a daily basis. Okay, which is it exactly?
Joe Getty
Yeah, well, and here's. Here's the devastating point by this doctor. It should not be lost on us that we live in a time when the U.S. supreme Court is presented two arguments back to back that are completely and undeniably in contradiction with each other, while the arguing attorney has the ability to carry on with full confidence, lacking any awareness of these glaring problems. Thus, we have some of the best legal minds in the country hearing arguments from someone who not only cannot identify her own contradictions, but does not appear to comprehend the very concept of contradiction in the first place. I guess this shouldn't be much of a surprise, since the judicial bench is shared with another justice who casually compares the risks of taking aspirations to the chronic administration of deforming and sterilizing hormones. There are many questions that will arise from the Skirmetti case, but one that I imagine we will be pondering for quite some time is how we got to this situation in the first place. And then, let's see. Oh, what time is it? Yeah, we're running kind of late. That's too bad. We've got some great emails about this. We have time for this.
Unknown Speaker
We can do them next. I was going to do a couple of texts. You want to do text emails? Come back.
Joe Getty
Sure.
Unknown Speaker
From some of you who are smart slash funny. We got that on the way and a bunch of other stuff.
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How y'all doing? You realize that you got this weekend, two more weekends and then you got Christmas on a Wednesday. You realize that, right? Okay, do I realize that? I better realize it.
Joe Getty
Craziness. I was tempted to get into this great piece by a legal expert on at least a half a dozen false claims that were made during the government's the federal government and the trans activists side. What the hell? The Federal government. Joe Biden's federal government is arguing in favor of mutilating kids. Lovely. Anyway, but there were many false, false claims that are easily debunked in front of the Supreme Court about the safety of these drugs and the side effects and their permanence and all sorts of stuff. Man. If you're having to come to the Supreme Court with dishonesty, it's because you don't have an honest case to make. But why don't we go with some of the texts and emails instead? You want to lead with a text or two?
Unknown Speaker
No, do your stuff.
Joe Getty
Okay, let's see. I got this from Anonymous. Morning, fellows. I wanted to chime in on what the lawyer she him at whatever they were said about children not having the right to hormones due to sex discrimination. I couldn't help but think, as I listened to them speak, how absurd it is to claim sex discrimination while simultaneously being unable to define what a boy or a girl even is. It goes back to the same question. If genitals don't decide gender, then how does cutting them off? Affirmation, the mental gymnastics are wild. How can these people be so blinded by ideology that their arguments don't even hold up within their own framework?
Unknown Speaker
Yeah, yeah. That is the one that has really struck me in recent days is that idea that it doesn't matter if I have boobs in a vagina. I'm not a woman. Okay, well then why does removing them help you?
Joe Getty
Right. And I find as the father of a couple of beautiful daughters, the idea that a woman is just a low testosterone man, male, with a couple of nips and tucks. That's what a woman is my ass.
Unknown Speaker
Wow.
Joe Getty
Anyway, let's see this gender madness note. You know, I really like this because I think John represents so many people. Guys, I have no personal experience experience with this subject. I don't know anyone who's dealing with this problem. I personally think it's all a mental illness. I'm 54 years old. How do I not know anyone who is dealing with this? Is it because I live in the Central Valley of California? Both of my sons are mechanics. I'm a tradesman myself. People who work with their hands and do s don't have these issues. It saddens me. I think if everyone just grabbed a shovel once in a while and dug a holder, built a fence, we'd all be okay.
Unknown Speaker
That's a good one. That's my dad right there. More people need to dig a hole or build a fence. Less depression, less this stuff, less all kinds of things.
Joe Getty
I would agree. I would agree. I just talked to one of my daughters, as a matter of fact, last night about, about, you know, emotional struggles and problems and, and how going out and taking a brisk walk is like a wonder drug. Hey, get some exercise. Get your heart pumping.
Unknown Speaker
We're talking about the Hunter Biden pardon and maybe the blanket pardons for other people. A lot of people have mentioned this. What if Hunter said to Joe over Thanksgiving, if I serve time, we all serve time? I don't know if he had to say that or if it's just kind of implied. Look, if I go down and they start looking into this stuff, we're all going down. So that might be driving a lot of it.
Joe Getty
Yeah, I don't mean to be unnecessarily dramatic, but no mob boss has to say that. Everybody involved in the syndicate knows.
Unknown Speaker
And I don't know if is this legally possible? Day one in office. Trump should issue an executive order revoking the blanket presidential pardon for Hunter Biden. Let him face the consequences, revoke any other blanket pardons as well, and then eat the Thanksgiving turkey, too.
Joe Getty
Excellent comedic cap to that screen. I don't know anything about if you can unpardon somebody. I don't know.
Unknown Speaker
But if you could, and maybe you can, I don't know, probably not. But then, you know, it'd be. It further prove what we've been saying. The other side is going to get to do this, too. Do you want the other side to be able to do this? Democrats, do you want Trump to be able to pardon. Blanket pardon for people as he heads out the door in four years? No, you don't.
Joe Getty
As I always say, the fact that you even have to use that argument is incredibly disappointing. But there it is. I am certain. And perhaps we could consult one of our unconstitutional. Ben, eat the turkey. You're unpardoned, bitch.
Unknown Speaker
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Joe Getty
Certainly he could attempt it, citing the unconstitutionality of a vague like time period covering all encompassing immunity from the law. Law. Let's let the courts wrestle with this.
Unknown Speaker
That would be hilarious. Trump giving a speech. We need to take a look at the pardon power. It's become too broad. I let this. I'm going to try to rein it in here.
Joe Getty
Awesome. Broad. Many people say it's too broad.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand
Episode Title: I'm Going To Level The City Of Your Illusions With My Atomic Weaponry Of Logic
Release Date: December 6, 2024
Host/Authors: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty
Platform: iHeartPodcasts
In this episode of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosts Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty delve into pressing political and social issues, intertwining sharp analysis with personal anecdotes. The discussion primarily centers around the Biden administration's contemplation of blanket pardons for individuals perceived as adversaries by former President Donald Trump, the ensuing implications for the justice system, and broader societal topics such as gender identity debates in the Supreme Court.
[04:01] Joe Getty:
Jack and Joe commence their discussion by highlighting reports that senior aides within the Biden White House are considering a more formalized approach to preemptive pardons. The potential strategy aims to pardon individuals who may be on Donald Trump's "enemies list," raising alarms about the unprecedented use of presidential pardon powers.
Notable Quote:
"That would be a whole new world of the usage of the presidential pardon. So a lot of political implications there." — Jack Armstrong [04:01]
The hosts express deep concerns about how blanket pardons could undermine the rule of law and erode public trust in the justice system. They argue that such actions could lead to increased cynicism towards political leaders and the judiciary.
[05:03] Joe Getty:
"Well, if the justice system and a jury of their peers finds them guilty of the stuff that earned them the dislike of Trump, well, then they're guilty. To presume that every single thing Donald Trump is unhappy about or his people are happy about is merely a creation of their own insanity."
[07:00] Joe Getty:
Referencing Peggy Noonan, Joe criticizes the notion of blanket pardons as "indefensible" and a "sick" move that betrays a president's commitment to justice and public opinion.
Notable Quote:
"It's like, you know, to some superhero who, you know, what's the superhero dude who, you know, what's the superhero dude who you can like shoot him and he's a wise cracking guy and it heals real quick." — Joe Getty [11:22]
The discussion shifts to the broader public and political fallout from such pardon strategies. The hosts lament the lack of significant public outcry, despite the high stakes involved.
[15:12] Joe Getty:
"But the fact that they're having a vigorous debate over this is amazing, you..."
[16:44] Joe Getty:
"There ought to be a crowd of 500,000 people surrounding the White House right now chanting 'no blanket pardons.' And hardly anybody's even talking about it."
A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to the contentious debates surrounding transgender rights, particularly focusing on recent Supreme Court hearings. The hosts critique the contradictory arguments presented, questioning the basis of gender identity as an immutable characteristic under the 14th Amendment.
[40:20] Joe Getty:
"If genitals don't decide gender, then how does cutting them off? Affirmation, the mental gymnastics are wild."
[41:25] Joe Getty:
"They were born that way, and it's up to me on it can change on a daily basis. Okay, which is it exactly?"
Notable Quote:
"The more storage space you have, the more crap you accumulate." — Joe Getty [09:45]
(While this quote occurs in the context of a personal anecdote, its inclusion here exemplifies the hosts' tendency to blend personal stories with political commentary.)
Interspersed with political discourse, Armstrong and Getty share personal stories about parenting teenagers, emphasizing the challenges and lessons learned. These segments provide a relatable counterbalance to their intense political analysis.
[21:03] Unknown Speaker:
"My son overslept for something important and I called him. He wasn't somewhere he was supposed to be. I called him, he woke up. What time is it? And I told him, he said, oh, my God."
[23:18] Joe Getty:
"We're not going to do that. We're going to focus on the country."
As the episode wraps up, Armstrong and Getty reiterate their concerns about the potential misuse of presidential powers and the societal implications of ongoing debates around gender identity. They call for greater public awareness and engagement to uphold the integrity of the justice system and maintain societal cohesion.
[51:31] Unknown Speaker:
"That would be hilarious. Trump giving a speech. We need to take a look at the pardon power. It's become too broad."
[52:19] Jack Armstrong:
"All right, we're all set for the party. I've trimmed the tree, hung the mistletoe, and paired all those weird shaped knives and forks with the appropriate cheeses."
(This closing remark ties back to the episode's opening themes of preparation and control, metaphorically reflecting their call to action against perceived political overreach.)
Key Takeaways:
The Biden administration is reportedly considering blanket pardons for individuals deemed adversaries by Donald Trump, a move that could set a dangerous precedent for executive power and undermine the justice system.
Such pardons may erode public trust in the rule of law, fostering cynicism towards political leaders and increasing political polarization.
The Supreme Court's handling of transgender rights reflects deep-seated contradictions and ideological divides, with significant implications for societal norms and legal interpretations.
Personal anecdotes about parenting serve to humanize the hosts, illustrating broader themes of responsibility, understanding, and resilience in the face of societal challenges.
Notable Themes:
Executive Power and Accountability: The discussion underscores the delicate balance between presidential authority and the need for checks and balances to prevent abuse.
Public Trust in Institutions: Armstrong and Getty emphasize the importance of maintaining public confidence in judicial and political institutions to ensure a functional democracy.
Cultural and Social Debates: The episode highlights ongoing societal debates around gender identity, reflecting broader cultural shifts and resistance to change.
Listener Recommendations:
For those interested in nuanced political discussions blending personal insight with critical analysis, Armstrong & Getty On Demand offers a compelling listen. This episode is particularly relevant for listeners concerned about executive overreach, judicial integrity, and the evolving landscape of social issues in the United States.