Don't You Try To Out Distaste Me!

Published Jun 20, 2024, 3:22 PM

In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:

  • The school cell phone ban and how phones are an addiction. 
  • School cell phone ban continued. The positive outcomes of zero phone policy 
  • Bingo. Bango. Bongo. Clear & TSA, special headphones and credit card fraud
  • Louisiana schools 10 Commandments in all public schools. Yay or Nay?

 

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe, Ketty arm Strong and Jetty and no He Armstrong and Eddy.

The Los Angeles Unified School District voted yesterday to approve a ban on smartphone usage in classrooms, leaving students no choice but to vape with both hands.

I don't understand how this it took this long to get here. I don't understand how this is the least bit controversial. I feel like if you ask anybody over the age of forty five forty, it would be like ninety percent of people saying, yeah, you can't have cell phones in school, right or certainly not during class.

And we have all sorts of interesting perspectives in audio and emails to share with you. But I brought up the other day the article in the Wall Street Journal about this, this high school biology teacher, Mitchell Rutherford, who noticed day after day it got worse and worse and worse, especially post pandemic, that the kids weren't paying attention at all, and that they were openly and subordinate. They had headphones in there, watching stuff, they're flipping through TikTok during class, and he tried to get the kids to give up cell phones through the power of his authority as a teacher, and the administration said, now, the parents hate this, they don't like it. We're not backing up. And so he actually tried, in a very innovative way to just get the kids to grow give them up voluntarily, and it was really pretty successful for a while, and then the kids drifted back and to get their fix. And he thinks it's absolutely one hundred percent an addiction problem.

Uh well, yeah, yeah, we all know that. We all know.

But anyway, he was stimied at every turn and ended up quitting the profession.

But we're done here, We're done. Let's just go home. I mean, we're done. Civilization is done. I mean, if we can't handle something as simple as this, or why have public schools?

I mean, if this is where we are, we're just done. You're kidding me, right, I mean, how much of my tax money goes to schools where you're gonna let the kids sit in class and watch television while the teacher drones on about whatever they're droning on about.

Right, what you don't have any idea what they're drowning on about well, like I said, how is this controversial? Well, and it's funny.

And you made a great point the other day that people are discussing this and they go to like second and third tier concerns about it.

What if I need to get a hold of my kid and blah blah.

No, the kids are at school to learn, and they're not learning anything because of this, So anything any.

Concern about what if there's a school shooter or whatever.

No, No, you've like ended the experiment that is education that's been going on for thousands of years. It has now been stymied. So any secondary concerns. Sorry, if the kids ain't learning, that's the end of the discussion. And I named a couple of the things the kids could.

Have been doing.

And I've got to admit I'm out of touch with this stuff because my kids are are grown and I don't I'm not really active on any social media. But uh, here's another article an anonymous messaging app. Clearly, oh yeah, swinging is what we're all about anyway. Don't you try to out distaste me going up against a pro h. So this is fizz a private message board. I've never heard of but it's a private message board for colleges and high schools. It's an app open to students at Vermont's largest high school in May. Within hours, posts went from jokes and memes to public shaming of students and speculation about teachers' sex lives. It caused more havoc than the principal had seen in its nine years on the job. Day one, teens posting anonymously made comments speculating about classmates sexual orientation, uploaded photos of students bocking their appearance and disabilities. There were party photos along with accusations that people in them were drunk or high, and it goes on and on and on. Now students could upvote posts to surface them higher on the feed, with the worst ones often rising to the top.

I don't like what the kids are doing on the phone. I get all that, and they're cyber bullying and all these different.

Sort of stuff.

But even if the kids were sitting in class reading the Bible on their phone or reading map stuff while they're in history class, you still can't have phones in class. You gotta pay attention.

You know, I'm doing what I said we shouldn't bother even doing, which is going to more particular concerns and evidence to support our But our thesis is self supporting. If kids aren't learning, the thing that's stopping them from learning has to go, I mean, especially when it's this easy. But and here's the shocking part, and this was so counterintuitive to me. Parents don't support it. You know, I'm sorry. A lot of parents don't support it. And there are enough trouble that the unionized government schools don't want the hassle of arguing with them.

I don't know what the percentages are on that, so maybe I'm out of whack. It's very easy to be out of whack on your thinking because you tend to hang around people like yourself getting whack. Would you on parents' attitudes or to me, it's just so obviously clear. It's again I'm dumbfounded that this is even a conversation.

But I'm not gonna tell this story. I lost my courage.

I got a story in real life about cell phones and a couple of parents were on board with no cell phones. Apparently one was not, And so there are cell phones there, and if there is a cell phone around, that becomes the focus of everything and them, yes, yes, so everybody's got to be on board or it doesn't work.

And I just changed my mind.

I think it is important to pile on some of these secondary concerns because if parents, it's it's insane to me that parents have to be convinced beyond the idea that kids aren't learning. But this is from the Hill dot Com. From deep fakenwds to incriminating audio. School bullying is going AI, deep fake sexual images, all sorts of sorts of bullying and horror and taping of students during what they think is private moments. Then if the the you know how the mean girls turn on you, then all of a sudden, that audio is going everywhere. And the common denominator in all of this is smartphones.

Well, see, that's awful.

And I would have hated to go through high school and be on the wrong end to some of that stuff.

I don't think that goes away.

By banning cell phones in the classroom though, I don't think that's going to change anything. They'll only not be looking at it in the classroom, but they'll still be looking at it after school, weekends, lunchtime.

Everywhere else.

Right, Yeah, so just a little more, we got all sorts of mail horrible. I just can picture scenarios that would have been high school and junior high. High School's awful anyway.

Sickening and heartbreaking. Yeah. Absolutely, let's see.

Got this from Josh Hoover, who's California assemblyman. He says, wanted to drop you a thank you note for talking about the need to limit smartphones in schools. Spend some great movement on this in recent days, as you've discussed with the governor, making your priority. Yeah, and he's working on bipartisan legislative effort to make it happen statewide. That's fabulous. And then got this note from a teacher. Just say, alnonymous, you guys talking about teachers leaving the profession. Pay is not the problem. Teachers work nine months of the year. No other job has that much time off. Back in two thousand and four, I confiscated an MP three and it was immediately returned to the student by the principal. I just gave up trying to enforce phones and earbuds. I figured I could send five students to the library every day, every class period, and.

Blah blah blah, it was useless.

I finally resigned when the administration pressed me to pass every student. I refused, and I found many student grades changed over the summer by the administration. School was little more than young adult day care.

Oh well, I told this story yesterday.

I've told him many times.

I got a friend whose wife worked in a kind of a rough school.

Not like super rough, but kind of rough anyway. It was rough enough kids.

Would just get up and walk out of the classroom and say boring and get up and walk out while she was talking, and she had no authority to do anything about it, whether through grades or sit down, come back here.

Nothing. This cannot endure.

How did it last a day? Let alone in this is a couple of years ago when this happened. How does this last a day? What kind of society doesn't care about that? Yeah, that's the troubling part. This speaks to a fundamental disease in our culture. I don't want to bring anybody down, but I think you know what we're driving at. Where the legitimate, benevolent authorities, and granted with all the problems with government schools, at least they're trying to teach your kids theoretically, and they're not getting enough backing from parents to exercise that authority and or a lot of the leftist philosophies of restorative justice. And you can't discipline any care of color because of disproportionate this, that or the other. It's undermined the very structure of foot of society's built on. As Thomas Jefferson our quote that we started the show with, you know, a while ago.

Don't worry if you missed it. He's saying, what's the fundamentals get corrupt? You can't apply band aids? Well, this is an issue.

Yeah.

And then so even if you get the phones out of school. I mentioned after one parent teacher conference, teacher telling me that after jeez, I don't know, forty years of teaching, she's been teaching forever, the kids are way different now. Just their attention span, their ability to like sit and you know, read for a long time or listen for a long time is way different. Well that's not surprising. Mine's different. And cell phones didn't come into my life until my forties, and I can't concentrate to read long form. So why would a kid who's never had any other thing in their life not have that problem?

I know, smartphones in the hand, the kids might be the greatest evil we've unleashed on them. Hey, I'm looking at the clock, and I'm seeing we've got some really good audio that might bring you some positive vibes and hope on this issue. Why don't we grab a break and come back with that. Certainly an important topics to hear.

Arm Strong and Yetti.

When we first locked the phones up, I would say for two weeks, the nurse's office, the counseling office, and other offices were full of kids upset because they had no phone anywhere anywhere there's a trusted adult where they could be upset. So counseling nursing team shairs teachers they liked.

That's Carol Cruiser, she's a Massachusetts superintendent of schools talking about her district implemented a policy of no, you drop off your cell phones, your smartphone, you pick it up when school is over, roughly, and I think it speaks to what we're really dealing with that the kids exhibited all the signs of an addict, because they are addicts, addicted to the endorphin. The you know what was the great piece of writing we read about how we've moved from a work society to an entertainment society to a just occupying ourselves in getting brief blasts of endorphins.

Yeah, every ten to twelve seconds. Yeah.

And these poor kids, they didn't raise themselves. So they're exhibiting all the signs of the addicts, but a note of hopefulness in the next clip.

So you start seeing them talk more, having more conversations. They're not as in another world. In their online world. We definitely saw fights go down. That was huge. I would say the first I wouldn't say the success part, but the first change was the lunch room because all of a sudden, the lunch room was really loud. It wasn't a bad loud, it was a good loud, but they had no phone, so they were actually talking to each other.

It is that's a huge success.

That's heartbreaking that we've created this world. Retweeted a few weeks ago. Maybe I can dig it up and re retweet it. Video of high schoolers in the nineties, and it was. It was heartbreakingly bittersweet because in every video they're laughing, talking, clowning whatever. Nobody nos in a cell phone, everybody expressing their identity, building it, trying it out. Relating to kids now a lot of the kids, they all have the same identity. I'm stares at my phone guy.

Right.

Well, it was interesting about that video because I think you captured a like what difference do you notice or something like that.

It was obvious.

It wasn't like, well, I wonder what I'm supposed to see here. It was just so damned obvious because they're so used to everybody, including me, walking around staring at their phone, and it is and then all the kids now talking at lunch room instead of it being quiet in their starring phones.

Why are kids oppressed? Why are kids anxious?

Why are they killing themselves at the highest numbers ever, Why are they taking more opioids? Wh why are they so miserable They're deciding, I don't know, maybe I'm the other sex. I'm going to become a different person than I'll be happy. And it's it's gonna be so hard to fight. It's gonna be so hard to fight. Because even if you have a group of kids, if one of them's got a phone, it's.

A completely different situation. Because I've seen it.

They're all gathered around it, right, And you have a certain number of parents who are so desperate to have their kids approval that they will not say, Yeah, I know you desperately want you to be staring at your phone. You're not going to because it's terrible for you. Because all of the data, all of the studies, all of the scholarship.

Around this is practically unanimous.

It's a miserable, miserable thing to do to kids, get them addicted to smartphones.

That's a pretty good point. It's it's similar to smoking.

You know this. Wee.

They talked about putting warning labels on social media like they did on smoking, but just to stare in at the phone is similar to smoking. In that come up, is anybody making a positive argument? One person anyway? So no, I think you're overreacting. No, nobody's saying that. Everybody knows it's bad for us adults and.

Kids well and as a well into adulthood adult with a long and happy relationship. It's become a minor issue that hey, we're spending way too much time staring at our phones and busting them out at the slightest excuse. Oh so somebody mentions the weather, you got to bust open your phone and take a look at the forecast. And the rest of it, or somebody says, yeah, I'm not sure I want to go to that thing. What is it Thursday or Friday. I'll look at email, I'll check whether it's Thursday or Friday. And it's obvious addictive behavior. I recognize it in myself. Yeah, I and we grew up without it, so God help the kids. That's why we've got to summon up the courage and do what is uncomfortable and is absolutely not going with the flow. Keeping in mind that there are companies making trillions of dollars perpetuating this, trillions. Some of the best minds over the last several generations are trying to perpetuate this. We've got to have the courage to stand up and say, you know, we tried this and the results have been disastrous.

Well, and worth noting that those people making trillions of dollars off of this, they don't let their kids have phones or use social media. That's well documented because they're on the prosecution rest its case. Well yeah, yeah, Like I said, there's nobody, there's nobody pushing back on this, yet we still can't do it.

It's maddening.

This is yet another issue where it feels like the end of the beginning.

Well, now we're near the beginning of the end. I'm not optimistic about this one.

No neither of mine. But lost causes are fun. Let's get it.

Good for the good on you the LA School District to take a shot at it, and let's see how it works out in a big school district and take a look at it.

Promote it in your town Armstrong and Getty.

President Biden attended a fundraiser yesterday with former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. It was great catching up, said Bill to Hillary.

You know, I don't get much chuckle out of the hole. They're just kind of a power couple and not in love humor.

It's just so old.

So it's June. The Supreme Court puts out their rulings in June and on Thursdays for some reason usually, and so we're either going to get them most of them today and if we don't, it'll be next Thursday.

But we've had a few come out today, a lot of blockbusters. Yeah.

The big one today that's come out is it has to do with a Trump era attack exchange on foreign income.

No, we're not no, stop tuning out.

We're not going to talk about that uh huh, But I did this and think this headline was so interesting in the liberal USA today. Supreme Court decision preserves Trump era tax change on foreign income COMMA, dodges big loss in federal tax revenue. And not going to wear you out with this, but we have these horrific budget deficits now.

Our nation's debt is out of control.

We're spending more on interest on our debt than we are on national.

Defense, which is indefensible.

And if you hear anybody say the problem is Republican tax cuts, no, the percentage of GDP that's the taxes are has been remarkably consistent for a long time. It's the percentage of GDP that the government is spending that has risen significantly.

So don't listen to that crap. It's not true.

The biggest political one that's left is the immunity thing, which I think is going to end up being very complicated, but that could come at any moment. Of course, we'll tell you if.

It does, yes, and the mainstream media will go into fever pitch misinterpreting the ruling.

Oh yeah, and it's going to be presented as if the ruling was purely to help.

Or hurt Trump.

Right now, they see every ruling is do I love Trump because he's my God?

Or h hate Trump?

Never mind the law in the Constitution. Unbelievable. Anyway, moving along, I thought this was interesting. Anybody who flies at all is familiar with Clear right, the company Clear it's like a weird alterna TSA.

Yeah, are you gonna try to sell me a handbag or anything? Also, and it just seems like a weird thing that showed up at the airport out of nowhere.

Yeah, well, Clear is it's biometric identification. That's the business they're in, and it's caught on. They're actually at fifty seven airports globally. I'd assumed it was more than that, but oh okay, well then maybe you don't know what we're talking about. But it's like a separate security thing that's set up the like just all of a sudden, like, hey, would you like to do a completely different kind of security?

Are you with the government or the airport or what are you? It's been confusing to me. Yeah, we're a private company.

But so anyway, it's it's branching out already from the airport and the headline is from drug stores to Rolling Stones concerts. The surprising way is clear as expanding beyond airports.

Oh I like the sound of that.

Yeah, you don't have to produce a physical ticket. You don't even have to show your phone that has a QRC code qv whatever that code.

Is, which is, or anything which is slower than the old paper ticket way.

It's one thing I find annoying. Yeah, it can be.

If you had a paper ticket, you just handed it over or put it through the machines. If you're in no, you need to hold it closer. No, is your screen brightness up? Turn up your screen brightness?

How do I do that? I don't know. Blah blah blah blah.

So anyway, Sofi Stadium in La County, for instance, members can quickly gain entry to the Rolling Stones without showing the physical ticket.

Membership is almost two hundred bucks annually. I was. I was doing it for a while, but I never used it, so I canceled it.

Yeah, but as it spreads, that membership is more valuable. So you're going to the Stones Cancer for instance, you just go to the clear You see the clear sign, you walk up, it scans your face and then you go.

Yeah, that could if you fly a lot, it's different. But I don't.

I don't hardly ever fly, so uh, it's not worth it to me. But if I could use it for flying and concerts and ball games and stuff, yeah, I could see doing that.

A couple more examples.

Yankee Stadium uses it, Barclay's Center and Madison Square Garden. I'll use clear to let you in if you remember now, of course, because we turn everything dark. Biometric screening face recognition is no, I don't think it is, but it is absolutely one of the most useful tools to come to totalitarianism and in well forever right. China uses it constantly to enforce moment by mom obedience to the party's dictates.

Other than that, it's great.

So moving along as a guy who's probably listened to too much rock and roll, and if I'm like in a noisy bar, it's real difficult for me to hear conversation, and my hearing is actually pretty good. But they're developing these new smart headphones that you if you're in a noisy place and I say look at Jack for between three and five seconds, the AI or whatever algorithms will say, Okay, that's who Joe wants to listen to, and it will screen out all the extraneous noise and I will hear you absolutely loud and clear.

That seems awesome, Yes, it does seem awesome.

At this point, they're full on headphones though, so you got to be headphones at the bar?

Guy, how about I will? I'm more of a I think they're talking about me. Hone in on them, they are talking about me.

Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I did I didn't get that far. I wonder if they didn't get into eavesdropping, right, yeah.

Oho, that couple over there, I think they're fighting. Look at them for a little bit, listening to conversation.

That's not his wife and that's not her husband. Let's hear what they're saying. Only he can meet in my place, my husband's after the evening.

Oh look out for wait a second, he's the top salesperson for a different firm.

What's he talking to that guy for listening? Listen in? Yeah? Wow.

So this sort of thing is coming better in better hearing AIGs, which is good for everybody, because I tell you what, one of the great conceits of youth, and I had it as much as anybody has ever had it, so I'm not not, you know, criticizing anybody is that. I'm not goingn age like that. I'm too young and vital. My hearing's never gonna go, my back is never gonna stiffen up.

I'm going to be.

Youthful and live until my dying day at the age of one hundred and sixty three. Yeah, good luck with that, chum. But I love the idea of like super effective hearing aids. He'd be great. One more consumer story, this one slightly less cheery, although again we managed to turn it dark.

Even the happy one.

The good news is reversing a rotten credit card charge, whether it was fraudulent or they sold you crap, or they didn't give you what you thought you'd bought or whatever. Reversing those charges, get in touch with your your it's not reversing, it's disputing the charge, getting in touch with your credit card company. That's easier to do than ever bad news because it leads fibers.

It leads to totalitarianism. Exactly.

No people are stealing now, they're disputing charges, even though it was a perfectly fine transaction.

They got precisely what they bought.

Ye know. Well, hopefully the now this does get back to totalitarianism. Hopefully it's sort of social credit score like thing with your credit card company that they know you're not abusing that, so they'll will give me a pass.

Credit card companies call it friendly fraud. This covers everything from flagging unrecognized transactions and unwanted subscriptionists to just trying to get stuff for free.

I wish my credit card company would catch on them. I'm a big tipper, so I don't get the texts and emails. Did you mean to leave ten dollars?

Yeah? And she was really nice and helpful, so yeah, yeah, and it means a lot more to her than it does to me. So yeah.

I'm reminded of the was it LLBean that had lifetime agency on their duck boots for what one hundred and twenty years? But now people have figured out through the scumbaggery of the Internet that look, I can go find a worn out pair of garage sale and just grab them and then demand a new.

Pair from ll Bean.

They had to discontinue it or Walmart or costcos you can return anything anytime without a receipt policy that they had to alter I mean the fact that that worked for decades and then stopped means something about a society.

Yes, does this got a fair amount of attention.

Elon Musk tweeted about it yesterday, the headline being Biden's forty two and a half billion dollar rural high speed Internet plan. Do you remember that when he was elected or he ran on that We'll make sure everybody in the whole country has high speed internet because it and housing and everything else is a right. Now, everything's a right, constitutional right. You have a constitutional right to high speed internet. Anyway, Forty two and a half billion dollars rural high speed internet, and not a single home, not just not all the homes, or not half the homes, or some of the homes in some states. No, not a single home connected. Three years after the beginning of that program, billions of dollars spent, and Elon Musk tweeted out, this government program is an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and utterly failing to serve people in need. For forty two billion dollars, they could have bought starlink dishes. That's Elon's thing. Could have bought starlink dishes for one hundred and forty million people, right right.

I love this.

Russ tweeted out the story, and he highlighted part of a news article. I love his caption too, which is my politics are the opposite of whatever this is right and this is Lawmakers and internet companies blame the slow rollout on burdensome requirements for obtaining the funds, including climate change mandates, preferences for hiring union workers, and the requirement that eligible companies prioritize the employment of justice impacted people with criminal records to install broadcat.

Oh my freaking god. Yes, yeah, So.

Not one home has gotten high speed internet with this forty some billion dollar program because they had to look.

Into climate change. What's climate change?

You got to do with it? Get me my high speed internet, says me, as a Montana and.

You've got to have twenty percent x cons or you can't get any of the money. I'm not positive this needs to be a government program anyway.

It's hard to say. I mean, we did do rural electrification back in the day. My dad grew up without electricity in the fifties, even though they had electric lights in you know, in Chicago and San Francisco. In the eighteen hundreds, So sometimes maybe that's the only way to get it done.

I don't know. As long as.

Were go ahead and you got more on that, I was gonna say, as long as we're piling on, I love this story. According to internal documents, White House equity requirements are holding back the EV charging station construction. In twenty twenty one, the Biden administration pledged it would build five hundred thousand EV charging stations this decade. Five hundred thousand so far, it's built seven. Last month's Pete's boot Edge Edge they say, Edge, so half a million charging stations.

They've built seven.

High speed WiFi for the whole country, zero homes.

Okay, Pete boot Edge Edge said Americans should not be surprised. It takes time to stand up a new category of federal investment. It's more than just plunking a small device into the ground. But internal memos from the Department of Transportation, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, as well as interviews with those who are responsible for overseeing the implementation of the EV charging station project, says the delay is in large part result of the White House's DEI initiatives. Now it would be diversity, which doesn't mean diversity, equity which means communism, an inclusion, which means including communists. These requirements are screwing everything up, said one senior Department of Transportation staffer.

It's all a mess. I'm not sure where I stand.

Like I said on taxpayers putting high speed Wi Fi around the country, smarter person will have to tell me what I should think about that, because maybe it's it's like electricity, as I said, But I'm definitely against taxpayers putting charging stations around the country.

You didn't have to pay anybody to put a gas station in your neighborhood.

It was profitable until enough people want freaking electric cars, which may be a very long time or never.

Yeah, I'm not paying for that.

If you're a fan of woke gobbledegook, stay tuned because we'll dive into specifically what this dot higher up is talking about. You're gonna think this is the Babylon being cool that's on the way, and lots of other stuff.

Louisiana is the first state to require the Ten Commandments now be displayed in every public classroom, from kindergarten to state funded universities. Thirty years ago at the Supreme Court struck down a similar law in Kentucky, citing separation of church and state. Louisiana's law could face a similar challenge now, but it would come before today's more conservative high court.

Yeah, why do you need to throw that in at the end, David Muir? No, the Supreme Court's never going to be okay with mandating the Ten Commandments and schools won't last a minute. No, yeah, And I wish Louisiana hadn't done it. No, I don't like these unconstitutional You know, they're unconstitutional gestures from schools, from the president, from anybody.

So getting back to the story we started.

A couple of minutes ago, the Department of Transportation Biden administration claimed it was going to build half a million electric vehicle charging stations this decade. So far, it's built seven, not seven thousand, not seventy seven seven.

And are they the slow, worthless kind? Most of the charging stations in your town are worthless?

Right? Yeah?

Yeah, indeed, But internal memos from the Department of Transportation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon says in large part that's because of the White House's DEI initiatives. Senior Department of Transportation staffer said, these requirements are screwing everything up.

It's all a mess.

Shortly after taking office, you probably remember this Biden sign in the executive order mandating that the beneficiaries of forty percent of all federal climate and environmental programs, which is like virtually anything if you can stretch it to, should come from underserved communities. The order also established the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which monitors agencies like the DOT to ensure that quote voices, perspectives, and lived realities of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White House and reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions.

Why don't I have the charging stations you promised me because of lived realities? Oh okay, because we're still busy getting the voices, perspectives, and live realities of blah blah blah.

Wait, there's so much more.

In order to qualify for a grant, applicants must quote demonstrate how meaningful public involvement, inclusive of disadvantaged communities, will occur throughout a project's life cycle.

What public involvement means is unclear, but.

The Department of Transportation notes it should involve quote intention outreach to underserved communities.

Got to be outreach the Department of Transportation.

States can take the form of games and contests, visual preference surveys, or neighborhood block parties, so long as the grant recipients quote provide multi lingual staff or interpreters to interact with community members who use languages other than English.

So if you document that in your neighborhood you have multi lingual block parties, you might be able to get a charging station with interpreters.

You provide, says Jim Meggs, Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. This all just slows down construction. Of course, public involvement requirements are impossible to quantify and even open up builders up to lawsuits by members of the community where an electric vehicle charging station is set to be constructed. Lawyers get a hold of this stuff and say, hey, we'll just claim that they didn't do this, that or the other adequately, and we'll get them to settle for fifty grand because it's the government anyway, and we'll get rich.

This is socialism on my definition. It's just awful. I can't believe it.

Grown ups think this is the way to compete with China in the world.

On the whole electric card thing.

Let me pile on a little more, senior Department of Transportation official told the Beacon, Quote highly qualified applications, internal memos state must quote promote local, inclusive economic development and entrepreneurships such as the use of minority owned businesses that can take the form of funding. Quote support services to help train, place, and retain people in good paying jobs. Registered apprenticeship with a focus on women, people of color, and others that are underrepresented in infrastructure jobs, and a firm's workplace culture must promote the entry and retention of underrepresentative populations. Senior DOT officials said these onerous diversity, equity and inclusion requirements handcuff professionals from making proper evaluations and prevent the government and public from funding the most deserving projects instead funneling money towards less qualified applicants. There's paragraphs more of this stuff and DEI programs now wherever they exist in government, in schools, in corporate America, and them Now, Well.

If you don't like electric cars, then most people don't. The lefties who do like them are gonna kill the whole electric car project because of.

This crap, which is a fairly delicious irony.

Isn't that ironic?

You can't get your electric car project off the ground because your own weird ideology, just your unicorn riding dopes.

I'm sorry that was uncharitable Armstrong and Getty

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