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Speaker 2: Good day everyone, it is Friday. Welcome to the j
Speaker 2: Webber Podcast. It feels like it was a quick week,
Speaker 2: a tough week, at least for those of us in
Speaker 2: the Upper Midwest. You're dealing with mending rounds of thunderstorms
Speaker 2: and tornadoes. My producer, Gregory John is here, of course.
Speaker 2: Did you and yours make it through without any damage?
Speaker 2: Donal Creek?
Speaker 3: We the basement was fine, but you know, Oak Creek
Speaker 3: is a low lying area, so all the roads are
Speaker 3: the waters right up to the roads on Pute, So.
Speaker 2: You just got to manage that. The little rivers and
Speaker 2: creeks that are normally pretty sedentary around here are all
Speaker 2: flowing like crazy too. You know, I had a few trees,
Speaker 2: I lose branches. I had one pine that snapped in half.
Speaker 2: But I feel lucky. Many of my neighbors got hit
Speaker 2: much worse. We had some sheds down, and you know,
Speaker 2: they the National Weather Service looks for straight line wins
Speaker 2: if the trees all fall one way, and everything falls
Speaker 2: one way. It's kind of straight line wins as well.
Speaker 2: My neighbors also have their trees fall in every which way.
Speaker 2: So I think we might have had a little bit
Speaker 2: of a tornadic activity over us here. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: glad everyone got shot up, everyone listening got through it, okay.
Speaker 2: And this is of course the sort of thing that
Speaker 2: we see every spring, you know, these unsettled weather patterns,
Speaker 2: heavy rains, high winds, hail. Here in Wisconsin, we have
Speaker 2: a good trail primary going on and one of the
Speaker 2: Democrat candidates is she's a useless pretender of women anyway.
Speaker 2: Her name is Sarah Godluski. She's the secretary of State
Speaker 2: running for governor now, but she's got national attention for
Speaker 2: a meltdown she had on social media over Hale. Here's
Speaker 2: what it sounded like. Republicans say, we don't have climate change,
Speaker 2: but this is all guys, hail in my front yard.
Speaker 2: This is not normal, and we can't keep ignoring our environment.
Speaker 2: Greg is she blaming Republicans for Hale.
Speaker 3: I had to have a roof redownieing redone just two
Speaker 3: years ago because of Gulf sized hail. The deep water system.
Speaker 3: What was that thirty forty years ago. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 3: climate change.
Speaker 2: Well no, and the content of her rent is wrong,
Speaker 2: of course, and that's one of the reasons that went viral.
Speaker 2: She's stand out on her porch and you can hear
Speaker 2: the sirens going off and the hail is falling. But
Speaker 2: the weather isn't unique for April, so she gets that wrong.
Speaker 2: Even golf ball sized hail isn't unique. It does happen occasionally.
Speaker 2: I mean, we all remember as kids instances in which
Speaker 2: the adults in the news reports were talking about golf
Speaker 2: ball sized hail. We all probably know at least one
Speaker 2: or two people who's actually lost a car to gulf
Speaker 2: ball sized hail. It was all digged up. So this
Speaker 2: isn't something we're only seeing now in the twenty first
Speaker 2: century due to climate change. But Greg, what tickled me
Speaker 2: the most about this video of Sarah Godluski melting down
Speaker 2: and blaming the right for Mother Nature was that she
Speaker 2: was standing on her porch and we could see the
Speaker 2: hail behind her. It's lying on the grass and it's
Speaker 2: on her portrail. You can see it's about rock salt
Speaker 2: sized hail, which is not out of the ordinary. So
Speaker 2: she's even lying about the size of the hail.
Speaker 3: And did you notice that she was wearing a Wisconsin sweatshirt.
Speaker 3: I mean it was it was obviously promotional video for.
Speaker 2: Her, right right. You know, she thought it was obviously
Speaker 2: going to launch her to her campaign. I'm wondering if
Speaker 2: god Lusky's little meltdown here didn't put the final dagger
Speaker 2: into her primary campaign. So you know, she wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: win it anyway, But if this were a big move
Speaker 2: to go from one percent support to the top of
Speaker 2: the Democrat heap, I think it failed. So we can
Speaker 2: put that aside. That's about all I have to say
Speaker 2: on that. On the podcast today, we'll talk about the
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Speaker 2: the firm, So my take on this little verbal war
Speaker 2: between Pope Leo and President Trump is quite frankly a
Speaker 2: big yawn in the grand scheme of things. Who cares?
Speaker 2: And I say that because it isn't surprising that a
Speaker 2: pope feels like he needs to weigh in on a
Speaker 2: war or on a moral question, especially after the President
Speaker 2: of the United States has put out an all advised
Speaker 2: tweet that seemed to have him threatening to wipe out
Speaker 2: an entire country. I understand why Leo felt he needed
Speaker 2: to pipe in here. I also understand why President Trump
Speaker 2: would be frustrated that, yet again, we have another pope
Speaker 2: who only seems to be interested in defending the most
Speaker 2: backward and evil regimes on the planet under the guise
Speaker 2: of mercy and peace and understanding. If I was President Trump,
Speaker 2: I'd be frustrated too that I'm taking care of a
Speaker 2: fifty year threat to the enlightened Western world. I'm standing
Speaker 2: against tyranny and brutality that's been so extreme over the
Speaker 2: decades that it can be categorized as evil. The evils
Speaker 2: that the Iranian Mullas have committed against their fellow man
Speaker 2: over the last forty five years are immeasurable and horrific
Speaker 2: and abhorrened. Hell. Right before the pope chimed in to
Speaker 2: defend the Iranian side of this equation, Iran's Mullah's had
Speaker 2: just concluded an effort to cat kill forty thousand of
Speaker 2: their own people in an effort to keep control of
Speaker 2: their brutal regime. For those not following along, the evil
Speaker 2: Mullahs who run Iran are engaged in a campaign of
Speaker 2: extermination currently this is ongoing. They're trying to imprison or
Speaker 2: kill any Iranian who might oppose them or publicly voice
Speaker 2: dissent or threaten in any way their hold on power.
Speaker 2: They had just gotten done with the extermination of about
Speaker 2: forty thousand of their own countrymen when Leo chimed in
Speaker 2: here and felt the need to speak for the regime
Speaker 2: and happen on the wrong side of the moral equation.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing, you know. Pope Leo has chimed
Speaker 2: in on the wrong side of a much larger moral
Speaker 2: argument here. And Trump never should have sent the tweet
Speaker 2: that suggested he'd wipe out an higher country. That was dumb, dumb, dumb.
Speaker 2: But Pope Leo seemed to be favoring the evil Muslims
Speaker 2: in this equation even before that moment, and he used
Speaker 2: the tweet as a chance to speak in favor of
Speaker 2: some moral clarity or some such thing. When he and
Speaker 2: the Catholic Church have largely refused to speak up for
Speaker 2: or get involved with all sorts of other moral arguments,
Speaker 2: especially those related to the evils of the Islamist extremists.
Speaker 2: What Aronzmulas have done to their own people over forty
Speaker 2: years has been a moral abomin nation. Have we ever
Speaker 2: seen a pope so morally exercised about that that he
Speaker 2: puts out global declarations of peace and denounces the evil
Speaker 2: and keeps it up for a week or so. No,
Speaker 2: not that I can recall, is the Catholic Church waging
Speaker 2: a moral war against the organized and horrific slaughter of
Speaker 2: Christians and Jews and any non Muslim in any of
Speaker 2: these African and Middle Eastern countries where it's occurring. No,
Speaker 2: and that violence against Christians has been ongoing. Apparently Leo
Speaker 2: doesn't really have much of a say to say about that. Instead,
Speaker 2: it's a social media post from the president who's leading
Speaker 2: a military effort to bring about a larger global peace
Speaker 2: that really sets him off. Good grief. I'm a Catholic myself,
Speaker 2: and I have no particular problem with Pope Leo. I
Speaker 2: think he's younger and more energetic and more willing to
Speaker 2: do the outreach work to grow the church than the
Speaker 2: last three tired and sickly old popes were. I think
Speaker 2: Leo's been a real breath of fresh air for the
Speaker 2: Catholic Church. And it's a bonus that he's an American, certainly,
Speaker 2: but that also means he's going to chime in on
Speaker 2: America's issues more often. And it could also mean that
Speaker 2: Pope Leo, when he was just a cardinal there living
Speaker 2: in Chicago, was a liberal cardinal living in Chicago with
Speaker 2: maybe a touch of TDS. When he was a liberal
Speaker 2: living in Chicago and elevated to pope, I and some
Speaker 2: others said, don't think this guy is a conservative. Don't
Speaker 2: think he's going to be a more moderate or conservative
Speaker 2: pope than Francis was. And so far, every time the
Speaker 2: Pope has shown us his political side, he's been supporting
Speaker 2: the activist left. I'm not shocked at this, and you
Speaker 2: shouldn't be either. But in this latest dust up with Trump,
Speaker 2: Leo the man seems to have gone too far in
Speaker 2: his attempt to announce any war as unjust and any
Speaker 2: warrior is unjust, and he's even gone so far as
Speaker 2: to misinterpret scripture. And hey, I'm certainly no Theolo but
Speaker 2: those who are say that the pope quoting Isaiah one
Speaker 2: point fifteen is a real stretch. Pope Leo suggested that basically,
Speaker 2: no war is just and no one fighting a war
Speaker 2: can be heard by God. God doesn't hear their prayers.
Speaker 2: This is basically what the Pope said in response to
Speaker 2: Trump and his war quote. Even though you make many prayers,
Speaker 2: I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.
Speaker 2: That's from Isaiah. But Isaiah's context was in reference to
Speaker 2: the corruption and injustices of the Judeans, and it makes
Speaker 2: no sense when applied to Trump and the Iranian war.
Speaker 2: According to these theologians, Leo is claiming God doesn't listen
Speaker 2: to the prayers of those who fight or wage war
Speaker 2: because Jesus preached his love and mercy. But Jesus didn't
Speaker 2: preach pacifism, nor did he suggest that there was no
Speaker 2: such thing as a just war, or a just cause
Speaker 2: or a just reaction that might include violence. Leo made
Speaker 2: it sound as if no war can be a just
Speaker 2: war or a just cause against evil, when they certainly
Speaker 2: can be. Trump says it's not so prising that President
Speaker 2: Trump thinks Pope Leo should be preaching against the evils
Speaker 2: of Iran's leaders and those evils that they'd done to
Speaker 2: their fellow man over the last forty five years. Instead
Speaker 2: of being worried about Trump saying, LEO should be denouncing
Speaker 2: the recent slaughter of forty thousand Iranian people. You'd think
Speaker 2: Trump's reaction doesn't surprise me, But it is surprising that
Speaker 2: a new PULP doesn't think there's such a thing as
Speaker 2: a just war, or that God won't listen to anyone
Speaker 2: resorting to violence. Trump and the US military here are
Speaker 2: resorting to violence in an effort to deal with a
Speaker 2: longtime evil and bring about a more peaceful globe. LEO
Speaker 2: really can't see that. Well, here's a good litmus test
Speaker 2: for the PULP. When the Iranian Mullahs are rushing to
Speaker 2: praise you, you're probably on the wrong side. When you've
Speaker 2: got radical Islam all excited about your comments and your reaction,
Speaker 2: you might be standing on the wrong side of the cloud.
Speaker 2: Iran's radical president ran I mean, he rushed to praise
Speaker 2: Poplo after he denounced President Trump and this war action.
Speaker 2: The same POLP that's been absolutely silent on the atrocities
Speaker 2: committed by the radical imams, and that Iranian regime can
Speaker 2: suddenly find his voice when it comes to criticizing Trump
Speaker 2: for not being gentle enough or diplomatic enough. It really
Speaker 2: is farcical this new evil fan of Leo's. The Iranian
Speaker 2: president said, his holiness, Pope Leo, I condemned the insult
Speaker 2: of your excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran,
Speaker 2: and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of
Speaker 2: peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person.
Speaker 2: I wish you glory by a law. I love the
Speaker 2: reference to the free person. But this is the same
Speaker 2: man who would crucify Christ all over again if Christ
Speaker 2: was walking the earth today. As one pundit put it,
Speaker 2: this is the same regime that has driven thousands of
Speaker 2: Christians out of Iran, persecuted them, imprisoned them, denying them
Speaker 2: the ability to worship freely, and in some cases subjecting
Speaker 2: them to torture or death. Now that same regime wants
Speaker 2: to posture as a defender of Christianity and weigh in
Speaker 2: on church matters. Yeah, and Pope Leo's apparently okay with
Speaker 2: being used by them as they do it. These attacks
Speaker 2: on Trump had been morally confused at best, and for
Speaker 2: the record, anyone insisting that we Catholics have got to
Speaker 2: agree with the Pope on this are incorrect. Catholics are
Speaker 2: not required to agree with the Pope at all times.
Speaker 2: The Second Vatican Council even made this clear quote. The
Speaker 2: Church claims no special divine competence in reaching political conclusions,
Speaker 2: and so no, you don't have to feel guilty about this.
Speaker 2: You do not, as a Catholic, have to agree with
Speaker 2: Pope Leo on this or feel guilty that you don't.
Speaker 2: In fact, here's a shocker. According to a new poll,
Speaker 2: six and ten Catholics are with Trump on the Iranian question,
Speaker 2: with only four and ten being more like Leo. I guess.
Speaker 2: The poll found that church going Catholics found a fifty
Speaker 2: eight percent job appropriating for Trump and fifty percent approve
Speaker 2: of Trump taking the military action against Iran that he
Speaker 2: is so among Catholics who actually practice the faith, six
Speaker 2: and ten approve of Trump's presidency and at least a
Speaker 2: slight majority of them approve of how he's handling Iran. Look,
Speaker 2: if a pope didn't chime in on the morality of war,
Speaker 2: et cetera, he wouldn't be doing his job.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: But Pope Leo's need to chime in on the wrong
Speaker 2: side of the moral equation is what's interesting, and it's
Speaker 2: somewhere between interesting and indefensible when you consider how much
Speaker 2: both he and the Church have been ignoring the ongoing
Speaker 2: slaughter of Christians and Catholics in the Middle East and
Speaker 2: certain African nations for a long long time. Now it's
Speaker 2: as if our new Pope doesn't see the genuine evil
Speaker 2: and inhumanity that's playing out around the globe and instead
Speaker 2: just wants to nitpick on political matters, which brings us
Speaker 2: to why Leo is choosing to take on Trump. Several
Speaker 2: voices at the Vatican are now explaining it this way.
Speaker 2: They say Leo sees the global disorder of the day
Speaker 2: as an opportunity to boost the profile of the Catholic
Speaker 2: Church and repair its global standing after the sexual abuse scandals, etc.
Speaker 2: Which were also global. By the way, this wasn't just
Speaker 2: an American priest thing, if you don't know, but this
Speaker 2: is the claim. Leo is seeing the global disorder as
Speaker 2: a blessing and an opportunity. Quote, this is just a
Speaker 2: huge blessing. It's wonderful for the church all over the
Speaker 2: world that he's the guy who can stand up to Trump.
Speaker 2: They point out Leo is also considerably more popular in
Speaker 2: the US than Trump, so that works to their advantage.
Speaker 2: They point out that Leo is considerably more popular in
Speaker 2: the US than Trump. They like this. He enjoys a
Speaker 2: thirty four percentage point net positive rating compared with a
Speaker 2: twelve percentage point net negative rating for Trump. They're also
Speaker 2: still annoyed that six and ten Catholics supported Trump in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, and they hope Leo's scolding gets them
Speaker 2: back in line. Catholics make up about one fifth of
Speaker 2: all US voters, by the way, and historically they split
Speaker 2: almost evenly between the parties. It's almost fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: So even that slight bump in Catholic support for Trump
Speaker 2: was definitive in twenty twenty four, and the lefty Catholics
Speaker 2: are still stewing over it. But the conservative Catholics remain
Speaker 2: loyal to Trump, and if that CBS poll is correct,
Speaker 2: fifty eight percent of Catholics overall approve of the President
Speaker 2: and nearly that many approve of his actions in Iran.
Speaker 2: I don't see how Leo's really helping himself or the
Speaker 2: church out here. If that's the case. Vice President Vance
Speaker 2: is a Catholic, and he was asked about polpe Leo
Speaker 2: injecting himself into the morality of this war. Here. Here's
Speaker 2: what he had to say.
Speaker 4: So, Number one, when the Pope says that God is
Speaker 4: never on the side of those who willed the sword,
Speaker 4: there is a thousand year, more than a thousand year
Speaker 4: tradition of just war theory.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: Now, we can, of course have disagreements about whether this
Speaker 4: or that conflict is just. But I think that it's important.
Speaker 4: In the same way that it's important for the Vice
Speaker 4: President of the United States to be careful when I
Speaker 4: talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very
Speaker 4: very important for the Pope to be careful when he
Speaker 4: talks about matters of theology. But I think one of
Speaker 4: the issues here is that if you're going to opine
Speaker 4: on matters of theology, you've got to be careful. You've
Speaker 4: got to make sure it's anchored in the truth. And
Speaker 4: that's one of the things that I try to do,
Speaker 4: and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy,
Speaker 4: whether they're Catholic or Protestant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Van's concluded that by saying, I certainly think that
Speaker 2: in some cases it would be best for the Vatican
Speaker 2: to stick to matters of morality, stick to matters of
Speaker 2: what's going on in the Catholic Church, and let the
Speaker 2: President of the United States stick to dictating public policy.
Speaker 2: In general, that's good advice, but if you are Catholic,
Speaker 2: you know that the tenets of our faith often have
Speaker 2: implications for public policy. Our stances against abortion, the death penalty,
Speaker 2: our stances on poverty and charity, etc. They all intersect
Speaker 2: in the political plane. Obviously, I don't think a pope
Speaker 2: needs to quote stay out of politics, but I do
Speaker 2: think that when a pope chimes in, it should be
Speaker 2: only after careful thought and with moral clarity. In our
Speaker 2: rather new pope failed to do that in this instance.
Speaker 2: I did a segment on the last podcast related to
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris and how the left wing accomplices in the
Speaker 2: mainstream media are going to spend the next three years
Speaker 2: trying to force her onto the voters of this country
Speaker 2: as a lost opportunity in twenty twenty four. They are
Speaker 2: trying hard to convince voters that not electing Kamala in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four was a mistake, and I was saying,
Speaker 2: the American people can believe they made a mistake with
Speaker 2: Donald Trump if they do and still not believe that
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris would have been the answer, And that, of
Speaker 2: course is the case. We know it wasn't a mistake.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris ran in twenty twenty and was so thoroughly
Speaker 2: rejected as the answer for her party she was forced
Speaker 2: to drop out before the voting even started in Iowa
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. Of course, after four years as veep,
Speaker 2: the Bidens forced her onto the party leadership because they
Speaker 2: were forcing Joe Biden out. If you remember, Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 2: Barack Obama and others wanted to have a quickie mini
Speaker 2: primary because they didn't want Kamala to be the standard
Speaker 2: bearer in twenty twenty four, the Bidens, as punishment for
Speaker 2: daring to push Joe out, turned around and forced Kamala
Speaker 2: onto the ticket. They engineered her candidacy, and of course
Speaker 2: she lost terribly. We saw how that ended. More importantly, though,
Speaker 2: we saw in technicolor during that stretch that the American
Speaker 2: people simply don't want or like Kamala Harris in public
Speaker 2: office and so it isn't terribly surprising that at least
Speaker 2: some segment of the Democrat base doesn't want to make
Speaker 2: this mistake again in twenty twenty eight, and they're going
Speaker 2: to push back against this mainstream media attempt to make
Speaker 2: her the nominee. I'm not surprised that some factions of
Speaker 2: the left side of the aisle are reacting to this
Speaker 2: latest attempt to relaunch Kamala negatively. But the Huffington Post, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's interesting. The Huffington Post published a piece this week
Speaker 2: from one of their columnists named Kevin Robillard, and it
Speaker 2: was brutal. And this is another reason that this is noteworthy.
Speaker 2: The tone of this piece easily could have been softer,
Speaker 2: more subtle, less direct, not so harsh, not so mocking.
Speaker 2: Realized they made a choice here over at the Huffington Post.
Speaker 2: The socialist progressive editors at the Huffington Post could have
Speaker 2: chosen to take a far less harsh tone and still
Speaker 2: gotten their point across if they wanted to criticize a
Speaker 2: fellow Democrat. Instead, they chose to go heavy. This is
Speaker 2: evidence of what I was saying on Tuesday, Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: will not be the Democrat nominee in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 2: and try as they might, the mainstream leftist news media
Speaker 2: is not going to be able to successfully force her
Speaker 2: onto the voters of this country or that party. Huff
Speaker 2: Post headline, Kamala Harris twenty twenty eight, question mark Democratic
Speaker 2: operatives and donors hope not. Here's just a sample of
Speaker 2: what this guy wrote, and I think you'll agree it's
Speaker 2: kind of dead on, he says. Harris is like this
Speaker 2: drunk buddy of mine from way back when, and not
Speaker 2: because of the drunk part, well not entirely because of
Speaker 2: the drunk part. So he even hints Kamala as a
Speaker 2: quiet drunk, as some of us on the right have,
Speaker 2: because sometimes she appears or sounds drunk. He continues, this
Speaker 2: friend of his would have exactly one cocktail too many.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't be stumbling drunk or slurring drunk, but just
Speaker 2: drunk enough to make things embarrassingly awkward. He'd approach a woman,
Speaker 2: or even an entire table full of women, completely unaware
Speaker 2: that nobody was interested. He had zero ability to take
Speaker 2: a not so subtle hint, read body language, detect, tone, nothing,
Speaker 2: The author says, somebody, usually me, would have to ride
Speaker 2: to the rescue. It's not going to happen, buddy, Come
Speaker 2: on back to the table. We got another picture. That
Speaker 2: gentle reader is Kamala Harrison the White House. This guy says,
Speaker 2: He continues, the only reason Joe Biden picked Harris as
Speaker 2: his running mate is that he'd public talked himself into
Speaker 2: promising a black female running mate, and the only choices
Speaker 2: were Harris or Stacy Abrams, and Abrams was busy costplaying
Speaker 2: as governor of Georgia. He says. Harris, not to put
Speaker 2: too fine a point on it was the highest ranking
Speaker 2: diversity higher of all time. If she succeeded at a
Speaker 2: single job that Biden gave her, yeah, there is no
Speaker 2: If he reconsiders, he says she failed all of them,
Speaker 2: from Borders R to National Security point person. By all appearances,
Speaker 2: Harris seems to think she earned the nomination in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, even though the big names like Barack Obama
Speaker 2: and Nancy Pelosi wanted to hold a mini primary. Precisely
Speaker 2: to Kneecapper, diversity hires always think they earned it. But
Speaker 2: even a cursory glance at Harris's performance as VEEP and
Speaker 2: every cringe inducing day of her comically inept but mercifully
Speaker 2: brief presidential campaign showed a woman with no qualifications aside
Speaker 2: from a blive persistence. The job requires so much more
Speaker 2: than word salads and boxed wines. This is just brutal.
Speaker 2: And it's not some evil conservative or right wing pundit
Speaker 2: trashing er. It's a staff columnist at the Huffington Post.
Speaker 2: Kamala will not be the Democrats twenty twenty eight nominee.
Speaker 2: I've been flat out guaranteeing that since she lost in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. All right, next item on Tuesday's podcast,
Speaker 2: I asked our Americans even going to know that their
Speaker 2: tax refund is larger this year because President Trump and
Speaker 2: the Republican Congress helped them out with some tax breaks
Speaker 2: in the Big Beautiful Bill. This is the filing deadline
Speaker 2: now in which no taxes on tips are overtime and
Speaker 2: no income tax on Social Security, new tax breaks for
Speaker 2: car buyers all kick in. The IRS says just based
Speaker 2: on the early returns that they've handled, the average tax
Speaker 2: return is three hundred and fifty dollars larger than it
Speaker 2: otherwise would have been. This as the Trump White House
Speaker 2: predicts that the overall average return could turn out to
Speaker 2: be about one thousand dollars more than expected. And so
Speaker 2: we've got all this great news related to our overall
Speaker 2: level of federal taxation and our tax returns this year,
Speaker 2: and is anyone going to hear about it? I've been asking.
Speaker 2: I am firmly blaming the mainstream news media for refusing
Speaker 2: to report on any story that might reflect positively on
Speaker 2: President Trump and the publican party. Here, these major news
Speaker 2: outlets have turned into genuine left wing propaganda machines rather
Speaker 2: than news operations. And if you know anything about propaganda,
Speaker 2: you know that it's not just about hyping and spinning
Speaker 2: and lying in order to make yourself and your side
Speaker 2: of the aisle look great. It's also about taking every
Speaker 2: opportunity to trash, malign, and step on your opponents and
Speaker 2: your enemies. And given that our major media outlets are
Speaker 2: now enemies of the truth and the American right, well
Speaker 2: there is no way in their minds that they can
Speaker 2: be expected to honestly report on the merits of the
Speaker 2: big beautiful Bill or the wins that it's bringing to
Speaker 2: the American people. It is therefore not surprising to run
Speaker 2: across this headline from the left wing political website. Tax
Speaker 2: Day arrives with Republicans struggling to sell their cuts. So
Speaker 2: we finally do find a so called news outlet that's
Speaker 2: going to report on this blackout of coverage on tax relief,
Speaker 2: and they spin it as though it's the Republican's fault.
Speaker 2: And I hope you noticed they portrayed the tax relief
Speaker 2: as cuts, as in, this isn't a win for taxpayers,
Speaker 2: it's cuts that took something away from somebody. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just despicable political claims. Republicans hope that last year's
Speaker 2: tax cuts would offer giant political benefits with taxpayers receiving
Speaker 2: supersized refunds and then rewarding them at the ballot box.
Speaker 2: That doesn't look like it's going to happen. Refunds haven't
Speaker 2: jumped as much as Republicans had hoped. See how they
Speaker 2: choose to spin it. Already, with only the first waves
Speaker 2: of tax returns being processed, the average refund is saving
Speaker 2: American workers three hundred and fifty dollars. But you know,
Speaker 2: we get this spin. It's a failure. It's a failure,
Speaker 2: not as much as expected. It's just pathetic. Then they
Speaker 2: go on to pretend as if it's the Republican's fault
Speaker 2: that their win isn't getting any attention. It's the Republicans
Speaker 2: quote struggling to get their message out, and it is not.
Speaker 2: I tell you, it's just it's not the refusal of
Speaker 2: the major meat news outlets to report the story. But
Speaker 2: this is the typical sort of ingrained and overt media
Speaker 2: bias we've come to simply expect in the country. I
Speaker 2: guess they say. That's one reason why Republicans are still
Speaker 2: doing everything they can to keep last year's tax cuts
Speaker 2: top of mind this tax Day, even as they also
Speaker 2: be guilty of over promising on the refunds. Republican officials
Speaker 2: also have another problem. Any benefits they might get from
Speaker 2: talking up the tax cuts are running headlong into the
Speaker 2: war in Iran and surging gas prices associated with it,
Speaker 2: making their goal of holding Congress more daunting. Meanwhile, they report,
Speaker 2: the Bipartisan Policy Center found in a poll of its
Speaker 2: own last week that barely a quarter of taxpayers who
Speaker 2: filed their returns believed the tax law had helped them.
Speaker 2: Only a third of those who'd taken advantage of the
Speaker 2: no tax on tips or no tax on income provisions
Speaker 2: thought they'd gotten a boost, potentially even more troublesome sign
Speaker 2: for the Republicans. Well, the result of this poll is
Speaker 2: because the news media hasn't done its job or reported
Speaker 2: on the facts of these tax cuts to the American people.
Speaker 2: The folks at political cannot possibly be this subtuse. The
Speaker 2: left wing media has put a blackout on any positive
Speaker 2: news related to these tax breaks, and then Politico pretends
Speaker 2: it's surprising that most Americans haven't heard about the tax
Speaker 2: breaks and don't think they were helped by them. Folks.
Speaker 2: According to the IRS, twenty million Americans took advantage of
Speaker 2: the no taxes on tips or overtime provision, twenty million
Speaker 2: working people. Please ask them if they don't think it
Speaker 2: helped them, or if they'd like to go back to
Speaker 2: having their tips and they're overtime taxed. What do you
Speaker 2: think they'd say? Fifty one million seniors are benefiting from
Speaker 2: the no taxes on Social Security provision. Please ask those
Speaker 2: seniors if they've noticed the change, and if they haven't,
Speaker 2: asked them if we should just go back to taxing
Speaker 2: those Social Security benefits. Hey, I mean, if you don't
Speaker 2: notice the difference, why not just go back to taxing
Speaker 2: your tips and your overtime and your social security. Right,
Speaker 2: I'd love to see the political and the mainstream outlets
Speaker 2: try to square those circles. Fifty one million seniors just
Speaker 2: got to keep more of their own money due to
Speaker 2: the Trump GOP tax cuts, and the accomplished news media
Speaker 2: refuses to tell them about it or admit that it's
Speaker 2: a win for them. It's just abhorrent how far our
Speaker 2: so called news media has fallen over the last twenty
Speaker 2: five years. But hey, in twenty twenty eight, when these
Speaker 2: tax changes are set to expire, watch how loudly these
Speaker 2: same media outlet's howl if the next Congress doesn't renew them.
Speaker 2: They don't exist today if you're a lefty activist pretending
Speaker 2: to be a reporter. But they'll be the most important
Speaker 2: taxpayers ever given to the American people if the next
Speaker 2: Congress doesn't renew them, or if this is if Republicans
Speaker 2: are in control of Congress. Of course, I mean fast
Speaker 2: forward two years. If these accomplice leftists in the media
Speaker 2: can portray the Republicans as wanting to punish seniors, you
Speaker 2: know they will. That then will be the spin and
Speaker 2: the news media will have done a complete one to
Speaker 2: eighty on the importance of these tax provisions. But you
Speaker 2: know what, if they're popular and the American people want
Speaker 2: to keep them and Democrats control the Congress, well, if
Speaker 2: the Democrats control Congress in twenty twenty eight and want
Speaker 2: to let these tax cuts expire, well then you can
Speaker 2: write the alternative spin. If a Democrat con told Congress
Speaker 2: wants these to expire, well, renewing them amounts to continuing
Speaker 2: tax breaks for the rich. Right, today's left is so
Speaker 2: transparent you can predict the sort of scumbaggery that they're
Speaker 2: going to pull years from now. Past Democrat congresses and
Speaker 2: presidents have already been destroying this country with their completely
Speaker 2: unfair and one sided taxation, and it's like today's leftists
Speaker 2: are just getting started. The most major of all major
Speaker 2: themes in this Democrat Party right now is tax the rich,
Speaker 2: Tax the rich, tax the rich. Well, the truth is
Speaker 2: that the so called rich in the upper middle class
Speaker 2: are already paying virtually all the federal bills in this country.
Speaker 2: We've been through these stants before on the radio show,
Speaker 2: but they're right from the irs, and yet most Americans
Speaker 2: never hear them. This is another failure of the mainstream media.
Speaker 2: The top one percent of wage earners pay forty percent
Speaker 2: of all of our federal bills. They pay forty percent
Speaker 2: of all income taxes. The top ten percent of earners
Speaker 2: in this country pay seventy two percent of federal government's bills.
Speaker 2: The top fifty percent of earners. This is just among
Speaker 2: We know that half of the country doesn't even have
Speaker 2: a job, but of the half of the country that's working,
Speaker 2: half of those people, the top fifty percent pay ninety
Speaker 2: seven percent of our federal bills. As it is, many
Speaker 2: households in America pay no income taxes at all, and
Speaker 2: the bottom twenty percent actually get benefits from the tax
Speaker 2: system that they never paid into. That's right. It's now
Speaker 2: two in five Americans who are getting some amount of
Speaker 2: welfare through the IRS. They get a so called tax
Speaker 2: return even though they never paid into the system. And
Speaker 2: you know, some of those payments are sizable, they're many
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars. This is the true farce and screwed
Speaker 2: job that's going on as Democrats and their activists lie
Speaker 2: to the American people, and amongst those who do know
Speaker 2: how much they're getting screwed. The flight from the Democrat
Speaker 2: cities and the states has been measurable. I tell you,
Speaker 2: if Americans really knew how much they were being screwed,
Speaker 2: they would be furious with the Democrat Party and a
Speaker 2: Democrat would never win another election. Historians are going to
Speaker 2: look back at the Democrats forced and extended lockdowns during
Speaker 2: COVID as a decision that majorly backfired on the liberal
Speaker 2: left as well. It gave all sorts of CEOs and
Speaker 2: major income earners finally gave them a chance to pause
Speaker 2: and reflect and look at how much they were being
Speaker 2: robbed by the federal government. It gave them a chance
Speaker 2: to see how much they were getting screwed under blue
Speaker 2: state tax laws as well. It also gave them a
Speaker 2: chance to understand just how much today's left hates them
Speaker 2: and wants to repeatedly punish them just for being successful.
Speaker 2: The pandemic lockdowns had tens of thousands of professionals and
Speaker 2: high tax states moving to low tax states, and had hundreds,
Speaker 2: if not thousands, of CEOs and major business owners deciding
Speaker 2: to move entire companies or large portions of them from
Speaker 2: high tax states to low tax states. The Democrats and
Speaker 2: their activists and the Blue state leaders did great harm
Speaker 2: to themselves and their communities by giving the American people
Speaker 2: time to pause and reflect on how much they were
Speaker 2: getting screwed by their respective governments. And we aren't even
Speaker 2: talking about the silent attacks that have been going on
Speaker 2: against the middle class in this country as well, especially
Speaker 2: in these Democrat states. The Wall Street Journal editors correctly
Speaker 2: point out in these blue states, even as their leaders
Speaker 2: chant tax the tax the rich, they're also hammering down
Speaker 2: on the middle class with more taxation. Bernie aoc these
Speaker 2: other minds a dimwits want to insist we don't have
Speaker 2: to tax the middle class if we tax the rich.
Speaker 2: The truth is, even as these blue states have taxed
Speaker 2: the rich more, they've also been taxing the middle class more. Quote.
Speaker 2: The dirty little secret of progressive states is that they
Speaker 2: tax their rich and middle classes more. They also wallop
Speaker 2: small businesses, which typically pay tax at their state's individual rate.
Speaker 2: The more businesses pay in tax, the less they can
Speaker 2: invest in higher YEP. That's the other side effect of
Speaker 2: the pandemic that historians will see more clearly. The pandemic
Speaker 2: ended with a flurry of new taxes on the Blue states,
Speaker 2: and its suppressed a lot of new business activity and
Speaker 2: growth across the country. And to come full circle, is
Speaker 2: any of that reported or reported on honestly by the
Speaker 2: corporate news media, No, of course not. Here's a fun
Speaker 2: little story you probably won't hear elsewhere. Columbia's leaders have
Speaker 2: finally decided to do something about Pablo Escobar's hippos. Some
Speaker 2: of you are going to know the basic story here.
Speaker 2: Notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar had all sorts of exotic
Speaker 2: animals when he was atop the Colombian drug trade, and
Speaker 2: among them were four hippos that he'd apparently bought from
Speaker 2: a private breeder in Texas. Well. They grew huge, of course,
Speaker 2: and when Escobar was killed in nineteen ninety three and
Speaker 2: his drug empire was crumbling, the leaders of Colombia didn't
Speaker 2: quite know what to do with these four massive hippos,
Speaker 2: so they decided to just leave them be. They didn't
Speaker 2: want to euthanize them, and didn't really know what to
Speaker 2: do with a five thousand pound hippo, and yeah, they
Speaker 2: weigh that much. Hippos generally ranged somewhere between three thousand
Speaker 2: and seven thousand pounds, So rather than deal with them,
Speaker 2: Colombia's leaders just let the hippos roam around free and
Speaker 2: live in a stretch of river in a little area
Speaker 2: that they felt comfortable and the climate, of course was
Speaker 2: perfect for them, and so they just left them, even
Speaker 2: as they sold off and shipped off or euthanized the
Speaker 2: other exotic animals that Escobar had. Well, thirty years later
Speaker 2: and four hippos has turned into one hundred and seventy hippos.
Speaker 2: Colombia now has a hit a population of one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy and if they're going to do anything about
Speaker 2: them as an invasive species, g now is the time,
Speaker 2: isn't it so? Colombia's environmental minister says the country's approved
Speaker 2: a plan to euthanize at least eighty of them. The
Speaker 2: Colombian government says they're an invasive species according to one story,
Speaker 2: and they're a threat to humans and they're damaging local ecosystems.
Speaker 2: Obviously they're very disruptive. This environmental minister says, if we
Speaker 2: don't do this, we will not be able to control
Speaker 2: the population. She also said that they've resorted to inbreeding
Speaker 2: and have visible genetic damage due to it. Well, there
Speaker 2: aren't any reports that the animals actually killed her seriously
Speaker 2: injured people. They are threatening people in local towns. They
Speaker 2: say they're causing traffic and boating accidents. They've killed crops
Speaker 2: and livestock. So the Colombian government has been looking for
Speaker 2: an alternative way to stop this population boom for years
Speaker 2: and they haven't been able to find it. They tried
Speaker 2: sterilization and relocation, but those things are expensive, obviously and
Speaker 2: haven't worked out. As Jeff Goldbloom's character told us in
Speaker 2: Jurassic Park, nature finds a way. I find it interesting
Speaker 2: and wrong that they're only going to cull the herd now,
Speaker 2: because it's not going to take care of the problem
Speaker 2: as harsh as it is. Those hippos need to be euthanized.
Speaker 2: If there are issues with the gene pool, you can't
Speaker 2: even move them, right, I mean you shouldn't even move
Speaker 2: them around and relocate them at this point. Why would
Speaker 2: you mix those genes with some African hippo gene pool
Speaker 2: and transfer some of the genetic problems. They just need
Speaker 2: to be euthanized, and in short order, our Colombia is
Speaker 2: going to have a runaway hippo population, just like Florida
Speaker 2: has a runaway Boa constrictor and monkey population. You can't
Speaker 2: hem in nature and expect to keep a population of
Speaker 2: wild animals contained to just a few. All right, that's
Speaker 2: a fun item. Let's get to the next item. So
Speaker 2: it's going to take at least three years and thirty
Speaker 2: or forty million dollars in order for Zoran Mamdani to
Speaker 2: prove that socialism doesn't work and that big government cannot
Speaker 2: run grocery stores more efficiently or competently than the private sector.
Speaker 2: This should be obvious by now, but this is the
Speaker 2: bottom line when it comes to this Nitwitz grand idea
Speaker 2: of government run grocery stores. Mom Donnie ran on this
Speaker 2: promise of government running stores during his campaign, if you remember,
Speaker 2: and unlike the free buses and most of the new
Speaker 2: freebe's he was promising the voters of New York, this
Speaker 2: is one he insists he can move forward with. So
Speaker 2: this week Mom Donnie announced the first government grocery store
Speaker 2: is going to cost thirty million dollars to get up
Speaker 2: and running. And you know that price is going to
Speaker 2: rise significantly before the project is completed, because it always does.
Speaker 2: That's always the case with public works projects. And come on,
Speaker 2: this is a New York public works project. They're not
Speaker 2: going to build it and get it up and running
Speaker 2: for thirty million dollars. That cost will probably double before
Speaker 2: the doors ever open. Trust me, that's a guarantee. And
Speaker 2: by the way, the experts in the grocery store industry
Speaker 2: say a private grocer could do this for about half
Speaker 2: the cost. This is just to put up the building
Speaker 2: and get it going. As things now stand, New York
Speaker 2: grocery CEOs say the project should cost about fifteen or
Speaker 2: twenty million and that's it. So Mom Donnie has already
Speaker 2: lost to the private sector on that front. One expert says, quote,
Speaker 2: thirty million dollars for one store is exceptionally high, considering
Speaker 2: land prices are a significant part of the capital costs
Speaker 2: of new construction, and the city has announced that it
Speaker 2: rents will be waived, so they're already getting a break
Speaker 2: on the land. And they're still going to run this
Speaker 2: type of cost, and that's just building it. They also say, quote,
Speaker 2: the grocery industry is low margin, so heavy subsidies will
Speaker 2: be needed to counteract these inherent inefficiencies. They say, yeah,
Speaker 2: government brings in efficiency, and that's a long time tenant
Speaker 2: of any government and any bureaucracy. They can never, ever,
Speaker 2: never do better than the private sector, and I mean anything.
Speaker 2: The Post Office can't seem to make a profit. They're
Speaker 2: eternally in debt. Yet Ups and Amazon and other private
Speaker 2: courier services can make a profit. Why is that the
Speaker 2: government's been patently unable to run a railroad for decades?
Speaker 2: Amtrak is so heavily subsidized it's crazy. But government run
Speaker 2: grocery stores are going to be the very model of
Speaker 2: efficiency and force lower grocery prices into the private sector.
Speaker 2: I mean bullplop. Government run grocery stores are only going
Speaker 2: to heap even more runaway expenses and subsidies onto the
Speaker 2: backs of the taxpayers as they try to pay for
Speaker 2: their own groceries out of their own pocket. This is
Speaker 2: a farce before it ever gets underway. This week on
Speaker 2: x zoron Mam, Donnie posted I was elected as a
Speaker 2: Democratic socialist and will continue to govern as a Democratic socialist.
Speaker 2: One hundred days in and we're just getting started. I
Speaker 2: read that, and I felt the need to respond. I said,
Speaker 2: please keep making this known, Zorn, Please keep making it
Speaker 2: known that you're a democrat socialist. Say it often so
Speaker 2: there can be no mistake. You're a democratic socialist as
Speaker 2: New York spirals downward on virtually every front under your watch.
Speaker 2: And I mean that I wasn't being snarky. I do
Speaker 2: hope that mom Donnie and his supporters spend the next
Speaker 2: four years making sure everyone knows that this is what
Speaker 2: democratic socialism looks like, because it's going to be a
Speaker 2: costly disaster at every turn. And I know that America's
Speaker 2: leftists think that they're softening the blow, they're softening the
Speaker 2: word socialism when they put democratic in front of it,
Speaker 2: and to the dim witted, I don't doubt that this works.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt that this works on the naive young
Speaker 2: idealists and the perpetual older dimwitz. But democratic socialism is socialism,
Speaker 2: and it's failed always and repeatedly around the globe, and
Speaker 2: it's not going to work here in no matter how
Speaker 2: the activists left in the Democratic Party package it. Mom
Speaker 2: Donnie wants to start with one government or grocery store
Speaker 2: in each of the New York's five boroughs. He claims
Speaker 2: the total cost to this is going to be seventy
Speaker 2: million dollars. Well, that can't possibly be true if the
Speaker 2: first one is going to cost thirty million dollars on
Speaker 2: its own. This is going to be more like one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty or two hundred million dollars in order
Speaker 2: to realize this five borrowed dream. And I'm going to
Speaker 2: predict right now that the first store will already be
Speaker 2: deemed an expensive disaster before the fifth store ever opens
Speaker 2: and borrow number five, you know what I mean. I'm
Speaker 2: going to predict now that there will be questions as
Speaker 2: to whether New York should even move ahead with stores
Speaker 2: number four and five because stores one in two will
Speaker 2: have turned out to be such an obvious disappointment. And
Speaker 2: that's just something to watch for. And for the record,
Speaker 2: this government run grocery store concept has been tried in
Speaker 2: a few other cities, like Kansas City, and it's quickly failed.
Speaker 2: I don't see Mom Donnie or New York socialists being
Speaker 2: any more successful with it, do you. If these stores
Speaker 2: don't work in the more rural communities with smaller populations
Speaker 2: and where shoplifting isn't even an issue, how can they
Speaker 2: possibly work in New York City, where the population is
Speaker 2: massive and where shoplifting is a massive problem. I'll ask
Speaker 2: it now, how do Mom, Donnie and the leftists plan
Speaker 2: to keep food on the shelves when everyone knows that
Speaker 2: it's a store run by bleeding hearts who are accountable
Speaker 2: to no one. These are people who will view shoplifting
Speaker 2: as stealing from government. That makes it especially okay rights.
Speaker 2: It seems to be okay for most of these people
Speaker 2: to steal from the private sector grocery store. It'll be
Speaker 2: seem even more logical to steal from government to them.
Speaker 2: I'll also predict now that the theft is going to
Speaker 2: be the ultimate and never ending nightmare for these government
Speaker 2: run grocery stores. If they think bodegas and privately run
Speaker 2: stores have a problem with shoplifting in New York right now,
Speaker 2: just wait until these socialist groceries are open. The shelves
Speaker 2: are going to look as bare as the photos that
Speaker 2: we've seen of Cuba and Soviet grocery stores over the decades.
Speaker 2: There won't be any food on them. Another fun twist,
Speaker 2: the owners of the bodegas and the smaller grocery stores
Speaker 2: that do already serve these neighborhoods are certain that Mamdanie's
Speaker 2: government run operation is going to put them out of business.
Speaker 2: You know, these are the men and the women who
Speaker 2: are already grinding out a living by running a bodega
Speaker 2: or a small grocery in the crappiest parts of New
Speaker 2: York City. Now government's going to come in and add
Speaker 2: to the competition. What a gut punch to these people,
Speaker 2: right quote, It's going to affect us real hard, said
Speaker 2: Victor Vasquez, thirty three, manager at the City Fresh Market.
Speaker 2: Our prices might have to go up. I assume they will. Yes,
Speaker 2: you know. The Washington Examiner editors put the so perfectly,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to steal a few paragraphs for them.
Speaker 2: They say the supermarket business is inherently low margin and
Speaker 2: intensely competitive. Walmart and Amazon, with its whole food stores,
Speaker 2: compete aggressively on price and delivery. One key to the
Speaker 2: success of these two giants of the American economy is
Speaker 2: their laser focus on distribution costs. At their core, Walmart
Speaker 2: and Amazon are logistics companies, private sectory grocery chains succeed
Speaker 2: or fail based on their ability to manage costs, negotiate
Speaker 2: with suppliers, and respond to demand in that manner. They say,
Speaker 2: a city run market, by contrast, would operate under political
Speaker 2: rather than economic incentives. Decisions about pricing, hiring, product selection,
Speaker 2: and location would inevitably be influenced by political considerations, union pressures,
Speaker 2: and bureaucratic constraints rather than the discipline of profit and loss.
Speaker 2: It's true, they continued, that disconnect matters. Without the pressure
Speaker 2: to turn a profit, a government owned supermarket has little
Speaker 2: incentive to control costs. Over time, what begins as a
Speaker 2: pilot program could easily become a permanent fiscal burden. They
Speaker 2: conclude by saying, advocates of Mamdani's supermarkets argue that the
Speaker 2: food deserts justify government intervention, but the reality is that
Speaker 2: throughout the city a consumer can find a grocery store
Speaker 2: with an attendant of walk. If grocery access is limited
Speaker 2: in certain areas, the causes are complex, including crime, zoning restrictions,
Speaker 2: high operating costs. They say, a city on supermarket does
Speaker 2: nothing to address those underlying issues. In fact, it may
Speaker 2: exacerbate them. I agree with that the private marketplace works,
Speaker 2: and when it comes to food, groceries and feeding America,
Speaker 2: the private marketplace has worked miracles over time. It's our
Speaker 2: model in America that's responsible for the fact that there
Speaker 2: is such a high standard of living globally. Nowhere else
Speaker 2: in the world other countries quote poor people suffering from
Speaker 2: an obesity epidemic that is uniquely America. We know how
Speaker 2: to feed ourselves and our people. And so not only
Speaker 2: will Mam Donni's government run grocery stoes not work, but
Speaker 2: they're not needed. They really aren't. And let's acknowledge that
Speaker 2: Zoran thinks he has this all worked out too. I
Speaker 2: think this is going to be important as well. Let's
Speaker 2: acknowledge that Mom Donnie and his team think they finally
Speaker 2: have this figured out. Their government run grocery store is
Speaker 2: going to work because it's going to be run by
Speaker 2: people who got their experience running private sector grocery stores.
Speaker 2: This too, It just tickles me. City Hall officials said
Speaker 2: they'll identify third party expert grocery operators to run Mom
Speaker 2: Donnie's public groceries. Operators will be required to directly pass
Speaker 2: along any in kind or direct subsidies to consumers in
Speaker 2: the form of reduced prices. Those operators will also be
Speaker 2: under strict pricing, affordability, labor, operating and reporting requirements. They say,
Speaker 2: So let's step back, am in. Mom Donnie's going to
Speaker 2: prove that socialism can work if private sector experts run it. Well,
Speaker 2: If a country goes socialist, where do the private sector
Speaker 2: experts come from to run the operation? After a generation
Speaker 2: or two? You're really going to be screwed, folks. If
Speaker 2: socialism only works if private sector experts run it, how
Speaker 2: long can that last? Everything about this is farcical and fraudulent,
Speaker 2: and it just it frustrates me. There's a perpetual ignorance
Speaker 2: that comes along with socialism and with every new generation
Speaker 2: of naive, well meaning young person. For some reason, the
Speaker 2: catastrophic failures of socialism and communism over time, over generations
Speaker 2: never seems to be learned. It's never internalized and then
Speaker 2: dismissed as a false hope. Socialism and communism are full
Speaker 2: of false hopes and false promises. I mean, if we
Speaker 2: can state anything at this point about socialism and communism
Speaker 2: based on our shared human existence on this planet, we
Speaker 2: can state that socialism and communism are the path to
Speaker 2: economic and social ruin period. These are disastrous ideologies that
Speaker 2: each new generation thinks they can figure out, and they
Speaker 2: can't because it's a falsehood. The underlying premises of socialism
Speaker 2: and communism are falsehoods. The famous cliche from the left is, well,
Speaker 2: we just haven't done it right yet, but that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean we can't do it right yet. Does in part
Speaker 2: because you're all nit wits, but also in part the
Speaker 2: more serious response is, it's the ideologies that are based
Speaker 2: on false definitions of fairness and false premises related to
Speaker 2: human nature, and that's why they fail.
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