Trump Win Helped Hostages, DC Mayor's Sanctuary City Shift, San Fran's 'Grade Equity' Insanity

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg for the 3 Martini Lunch as they briefly bemoan lazy disinformation before diving into today’s martinis. They tackle how Trump’s 2024 win quickly led to better treatment of Hamas hostages, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s quiet reversal on her sanctuary city policy, and San Francisco’s absurd new grading equity standards in public schools.

First, Jim and Greg react to a CNN interview with former hostage Omer Shem Tov, who says Trump's 2024 election immediately led to better treatment of prisoners by Hamas. He says Hamas did not want Trump elected because its leaders knew their actions would no longer fly under his presidency.

Next, they are intrigued by Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser’s quick yet covert turnaround regarding her support of DC as a sanctuary city. It's the right move but why is she really doing it? Jim argues that sanctuary cities are so 2020 and not so popular with DC residents.

Last, they get a good laugh over the whole new meaning of C's get degrees with San Francisco's grade equity policies for schools. Doing homework and attending class no longer matter. Getting a 41 percent out of 100 will get you a C and a 21 percent is still a passing grade. This means hard work goes out the window. Jim also wonders where this policy was when he was in school.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:05.3	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.9	Three martini's coming up.
0:13.4	Very glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch.
0:16.8	We've got a lot to talk about today, including how progressive policies towards equity are ruining schools even further.
0:23.6	We'll have a perfect example from San Francisco on that.
0:26.6	We'll also be looking at how Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, not a favorite here on the three martini lunch,
0:32.6	has just suddenly reevaluated whether or not she wants DC to be a sanctuary city.
0:37.6	She's moving in the right direction, but the question is why.
0:41.0	And then we're going to have a very interesting comment from one of the Israeli hostages
0:45.1	who had been held by Hamas for well over a year,
0:47.7	talking about the difference that the U.S. election made and how he was treated by Hamas.
0:52.7	But Jim, I know you follow the Maha movement in the morning jolt,
0:56.3	and we talked about RFK Jr.'s swim in Rock Creek, which raised some eyebrows a couple weeks ago.
1:03.2	You found a little extra stuff that as you scratch in your head.
1:06.4	Think of this as a bonus crazy martini. This is from, oh, the site notice news of the United States,
1:13.2	not potus, saying that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his commission, make America
1:18.2	healthy again. He issued a report, said it cited gold standard science, citing more than 500
1:24.7	studies. Now notice is reporting that seven of the cited sources don't appear to exist at all.
1:31.1	Making people wonder if AI was involved.
1:33.0	AI can have hallucinations and there was that reading list put out by the Chicago Sun Times
1:38.0	that, you know, recommended a whole bunch of books that didn't exist and stuff.
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