WEBVTT - That's Why I Take The Bullet Train Everywhere 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:10.440 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:17.840 Armstrong and Katty I know he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.440 Trumb just said that billionaires Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.920 the Murdocks will be involved in the deal for TikTok. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.000 Rupert Murdoch is ninety four years old. Every time he exhales, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:36.640 it looks like he's doing the cinnamon challenge. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.760 President Trump suggested that Mediam Mogul Rupert Murdoch will be 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.360 involved in the deal for US control of TikTok. So 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.600 don't worry, kids, your beloved TikTok will be perfectly safe 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.720 in the hands of this ninety four year old man. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.160 I still don't quite understand the TikTok deal. Maybe it 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.000 has to be completely done before we'll completely understand it. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.680 What are your questions? Is the algorithm going to be 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:07.240 the same or not? 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:12.880 Reporting last week there were outlets CNBC said the algorithm 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:14.920 was going to be the same. Wall Street Journal said 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:16.720 it is going to be different. Well, if it's a 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.959 different algorithm, it's not TikTok, it's something else. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:19.959 You're calling TikTok. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.480 All right, it's like buying the brand of Taylor Swift, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.600 but it'll be different songs, different music, different legs. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.640 Yes, a leggy songstress. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:36.160 So, speaking of high flying stars of media, you got 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:41.600 Gavin Newsom of cal Unicornia. He's the governor and he 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.360 is hot for the presidency, obviously, and he's been defending 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.320 his tenure in Sacramento by lauding the California Way. He's 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.200 trying to sell that to America. And I am going 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:58.320 to quote Stephen Malanga fairly extensively here. Stephen's a senior 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.200 editor at City Journal, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.120 He writes about economics a lot. But anyway, I found 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.720 this very very interesting because I heard Gave the other 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:14.239 day suggesting that California is a donor state. It gives 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.880 more in taxes than it receives, and it derives from 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.640 balance of payment studies done one hundred years ago, and 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:26.680 that red states, well he actually used the or you know, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.960 he actually he quoted somebody else used the term red 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:31.960 moucher states. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.280 Blue states pay. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.880 More in taxes and they take in and those moucher 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.640 red states are free loading on the backs of the 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:47.080 American people unbelievable, and they quote some reports that came 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.320 out in the early two thousands and even before that 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.000 by the Rockefeller Institute. Now quoting Milange, here's the truth 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.000 some of the bigg the few politicians have ever bothered 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.720 to investigate what these reports measure. Some of the biggest 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.639 catagories of spending aren't discretionary programs that help finance state budgets, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.120 but cash spent by Washington to people in businesses that 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.120 earned it. That California and other states come up short 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.079 in receiving this money can be a function of their 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.720 own failings rather than any funding bias. The biggest category 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.360 these studies measure is direct payments from the federal government 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:25.520 to individuals, like Social Security and government employee pensions. A 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.960 big chunk is the money for people that have worked for 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.120 and that the Feds send them when they retire. Few 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.160 budget experts would classify these as subsidies from Washington and 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.520 California residents annually receive about ten percent less per capita 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.240 than the national average in direct payments, in part because 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:47.280 it's a relatively young state. And Malanga gives several statistics, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.120 but it has to do with the fact that it's 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:54.040 miserably expensive to retire in California. In fact, it's the 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.880 third most expensive state to retire comfortably. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.000 Only Hawaii and Massachusetts are worse. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.480 It's hard to imagine if you lived somewhere else that 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.360 you would move to California to retire right. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.360 Federal contracting dollars constitute another huge spending category. This is 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.480 money that businesses and other private entities earned for work 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.520 performed for the government, especially for national defense, not money 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:21.080 Washington disperses based on the state's population or tax contributions 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.280 or whatever. It's buying fighter planes and that sort of thing, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:29.120 and California falls short on this measure too, about twenty 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.800 eight percent less than the national average, partly because California 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:38.919 is so hostile to business now there are fewer businesses 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.960 per capita for the federal government to buy from because 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.240 so many have fled the state. Where California does quite 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.360 well is in receipt of federal grants, some of which 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.680 clearly represents spending that bolster state budgets. Second largest category 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.040 tracked by moynahnd style studies include medicaid, federal highway funding, welfare, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.799 food stamps, and education subsidies, and given the very high 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.960 poverty numbers in California and all of the illegal immigrants 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:12.520 that have come into the state, California gets more significantly 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:18.480 more per capita than other states in actual charity payments. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:24.360 So it's time to trade less activism in Washington in 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.040 return for more revenue at home for whatever active measures 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.960 blah blah blah. If Newsom is truly upset about California 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.880 subsidizing other states, you might consider incorporating mister Moynihan's proposals 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:41.000 into his presidential platform. Essentially, leave more money in the states. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.880 You know, don't send thirty billion dollars to the federal 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.000 government and beg for your share back anyway, So that 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.080 red mucher state thing is a complete myth. Secondly, and 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.360 this one's so good. This comes from Wall Street Journal. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:02.760 California's great climate backfire. Sacramento Democrats are allowing dirtier air 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.560 to avoid gasoline price hikes, and California's war on fossil 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:12.400 fuels is backfiring in spectacular fashion. As gas prices, imports 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.719 of foreign oil, and CO two emissions are all increasing. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.680 The response in Sacramento. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.200 Allow more oil drilling and dirtier blends of gasoline in 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.280 the state. What happened to the climate emergency, you might ask, 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.600 Then they go into the high high prices of gas 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.800 in California nearly two bucks more in Texas. Looming refinery 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.800 shutdowns and declining in state crude production could drive prices 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:34.840 even higher. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:36.760 During the eighties, did you know this? 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.720 Most of the oil Californians consumed was produced in California, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.400 but then state regulations regulated the oil business right out 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.640 of California, so instead of most of it, California produced 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.120 only twenty three percent of the crew it's refineries used 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.039 last year. Almost all of the rest was imported from 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.680 abroad from countries that don't give a crap about the 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:05.000 environment and drill way more dirtily. More imports have increased 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.719 CO two emissions and smog causing pollutants from tankers docking 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.040 at the state's ports. Declining production is also making pipelines 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.680 that carry crew to in state refineries less economically viable. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.559 If pipelines shut down, the state would have to import 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:23.600 even more foreign crude oil. And looming shutdowns of of 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.560 two larger foineries I mean the state would also have 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.160 to import just gasoline we wouldn't be refining our own gas. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.560 Trouble is the state lacks the infrastructure to handle more imports. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.960 So I studied the spring by a USC business school 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.760 professor trajected the gasoline prices could rise to more than 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.880 eight dollars a gallon owing to constricted supply. None of 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.440 this is good for Gavy, who's eyeballing the presidency. So 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.360 he is now strong armed the legislature into saying, yeah, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.320 all those environmental regulations and the cleaner gas and the 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.840 summer gas blend at all, let's just throw that crap 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:55.960 out the window to. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.080 Keep the prices high. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.160 So you get high prices in spite of that, and 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:07.800 measure super high prices, dirtier gas, dirtier your oil, more 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.160 environmental damage during the drilling. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:11.800 For the oil. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:17.600 You lose in every single environmental measure, but you get 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:22.400 to say, we don't do that dirty, dirty oil stuff 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.280 in California. No, we just burn more of it than 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.360 you know, any other state in the Union because the 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:28.440 population is so big. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.160 Well, that's why I take the bullet train everywhere. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.319 I took the bullet train to work, I take my 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.840 kids to school, and the bullet train. We went camping 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.959 this past weekend, we rode the bullet train up to 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:38.760 our Calraians. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:46.720 Absolutely hilarious, laugh, I laughed, Gavy knwsome in the Democrats. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:52.440 Energy policy in California might be the biggest self goal, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:57.120 own goal they call it in soccer i've ever seen. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.360 Yeah, it's worked so far. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.720 I wonder if it will keep working because people didn't 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.719 catch on to the fact. Oh that is so admirable. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.120 You don't drill for oil in your state. Well, the 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.480 gas has got to come from somewhere, so we buy 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.520 it from places who would do a worse job of 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.679 drilling oil, right, And it jacks up more smog and pollution, which, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.000 unlike you know CO two emissions, which is allegedly behind 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:24.199 some climate change, the smog and pollution actually hurt people's health. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 They damaged lungs and it's bad for children and the 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.280 rest of it. CO two is theoretical and maybe has 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.840 some effect on climate change. More smog hurts people, well, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.760 and you're gonna get lots more smog. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.079 Yeah, I don't know why we can't be grown ups 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.480 around as the Keystone Pipeline, remember that was such a 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.720 big deal during the Obama administration. Everything, and it finally 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:47.400 got killed. Was obviously a good idea. It was gonna 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.600 be a safer, cleaner way to transport oil around the country. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.400 But it is like a pipeline. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.160 It was like doubling down on fossil fuel so you 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.439 don't have it, and then you gotta buy a more 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.400 oil from more expensive places or transported in dirtier ways 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.880 and trains and trucks than the pipeline. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.840 You can pretend that we're not using oil anymore. It's 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:14.800 so childish. It's performative hundred percent. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:19.720 Which is fine if it's just performative. If it's performative 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.679 and its squanders tax dollars, that's a problem. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.360 If it's performative. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.440 And squanders tax dollars and makes the air dirtier so 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.200 they can virtue signal, that's abhorrent. But you too, America 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.679 can have this sort of government and management and leadership. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:41.280 Vote Gavin Newsom in twenty twenty eight. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:44.959 I was thinking about do I want to talk about 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.880 The deadline was last week for national parks to fall 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.600 in line with the new regulations that the Trump administration 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.520 has of not having any plaques or anything like that 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.360 that bad mouth the US. And now you got all 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.280 your museum are in the same situation. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:02.240 That whole topic. 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.720 I find that topic pretty interesting since I've run up 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.280 against it with my kids quite a few times. Every 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.760 damn plaque everywhere it's got something about climate change that 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.479 we were just talking about, or how evil. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.880 We were to the Indians, or slavery. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.560 Every single one that reminds me when I was gone. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.160 Did you do some version of your conversation with Tim 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:25.640 Sanderfer on the air? 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.040 I did, Yeah, about the Indians? Oh good, Yeah, I've 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:28.800 read that stuff. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.079 Oh my god, the Marxist indoctrination, and so many of 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.320 America's kids at schools rather of the kids. If more 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.040 people knew about it, there would be riots in the streets. Well, 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.640 and it's astonishing to me that there aren't riots in 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.839 the streets. I want not calling for riots. I'm calling 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.200 for a shutdown of government schools. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.520 I want to use an example, see if this holds 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.920 up of like an obituary for an individual, or if 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.640 you were saluting a sixty year wedding anniversary. The way 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.440 you would talk about those things versus the way we 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.360 talk about our history in my son's history class or 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.800 in the plaque at your local Park and see if 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:08.920 that makes any sense anyway. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.160 I'll explain that when we come back. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.839 So I'm super sensitive this issue, as I've talked about, 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.520 because my son has taken American history. My son, my 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:29.400 eighth grader, loves history class, and he is in a 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.960 public school that is apparently not going to teach American 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.600 history the way you and I learned it, where you 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.080 talk about the Revolution and the Founding Fathers and Constitutional Convention, 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.360 all that sort of stuff, because all they've done so 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.480 far is talk about how this led. They had to 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.280 write a land acknowledgment about the land learned we're holding 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.040 this class on used to belong to whatever tribe of Indians, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.200 which is just stupid on its own. I don't even 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.960 need to go any further than that. What about the 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.439 tribe that down it before that tribe? I mean, what 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.000 are we doing here? This is moronic And I've since 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.200 pulled my son out of this class. The other day 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.600 they were talking about settler colonialism with anybody who uses 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.840 that term ever is obviously a Marxist. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.560 But we're a fool who's been seduced by Marxists. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.960 Yeah, and it fits in with the story of Trump 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.760 is trying to get national museums and parks and all 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.000 that sort of stuff around the country to stop having 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.320 all these plaques that bad mouff the United States. So 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.120 the NPR version of this sort of story is trying 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.480 to whitewash history to try to cover up, you know, 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.120 slavery and the ills of this. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:34.480 Country and all that sort of thing. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.960 And I have a feeling that's what my son's teacher 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.920 would say, for too long, we didn't teach this. Well, 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.959 now we're going to teach the bad part. And I 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.520 keep wondering, well, first of all, has any country ever 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:49.959 done this before ever? 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:51.920 Where you focus. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.480 Practically to the exclusion of everything else on your negatives. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.960 Why, to what end? What do you try to accomplish? 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.960 If you hadn't overcome the negatives, maybe you could still 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.800 focus on it. But if you have overcome it, like 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.040 we don't have slaves anymore, if you have overcome the negatives, 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:10.480 do you. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.360 Need to make that the focus of everything? 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.960 And I was using the example in my own mind, 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:18.440 and I think I brought this up on the air 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:22.400 a while back of like an obituary, and obituaries they 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.400 highlight all the stuff that a human being did that 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.480 were more or less positive in their lives. You don't 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.440 pick out and then you know, when he was twenty 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.280 eight years old he got cut speed and drunk. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.840 And spent three nights in jail or whatever. You don't 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.160 do that. No, it's a distraction from the totality of 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.520 the story, right right, right. 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.480 And I was thinking of the example of like a 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.720 sixtieth wedding anniversary, or you talk about the wedding, the 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.640 marriage and everything like that, and everybody's giving care. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:50.480 Nobody stands up. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.240 Yeah, well, you know, I don't know if you remember this, 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.400 but they separated briefly when they were in their thirties 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:56.800 because he cheated on her. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:02.720 We don't do that with with lives or towns or whatever. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.000 But why are we doing it with our country where 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.040 we're focusing on the most negative part and acting like 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.080 that's the only thing to look at? 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.280 Two reasons. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:17.120 One, the activists want to end Western civilization as it 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.560 stands and turn it into a Marxist paradise. They know 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.440 precisely what they're doing, like the teacher in California who said, 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:27.080 I have nine months to turn them into revolutionaries. Those people, 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.760 that is precisely their goal. Then The other answer to 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.840 your question is people have been convinced that that's how 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.200 you are a good person. My health loathing is evidence 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:39.479 of being enlightened. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.000 I got Marxists have convinced them. 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.040 I got to use this example because it's so good. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.400 So the other day, the last day he was in 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.200 the class since I've pulled him out, they were talking 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.520 about slavery, and somebody brought up might have been Henry, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.240 but somebody brought up the idea that there were black 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.440 tribes in Africa capturing, capturing other black people and selling 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.920 them to Europeans in the slave trade. They weren't racist, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.520 They just were okay with slavery and making money. He 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.880 actually said in the classroom. Apparently, well, they didn't know 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.360 how bad slavery was in the United States. Yes, they 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.080 did that, but they didn't know that what they were 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.960 signing these people up was the evils of what slavery 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.440 was in the United States. Oh well, he said, you 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.360 were willing to capture people, sell them, take them away 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.320 from their homes, but you know, you didn't know how 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:23.840 bad it was. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.000 Right. I just read a great piece by a historian 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.440 on that is one of the Because you know more 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.680 and more people had become aware. Wait a minute, At 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.080 that time, slavery was ubiquitous. It was everywhere on earth, 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.720 every society. The Native Americans had slaves, the Arabs would 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.560 enslave black people, the black people would everybody was enslaving 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.120 each other, The Irish were enslaved. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:44.920 Blah blah blah. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.800 It was everywhere, and so the Marxists are like, more 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.000 and more people realized that okay, okay, let's go with 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.560 slavery in America was extra bad. And this historian was 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:59.720 disputing that ludicrous idea. You know, in various you know, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.720 ample of here, there and everywhere. It was a little 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.400 better over there, a little worse over there, but then 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.120 ten years later it changed. That is a false argument. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:12.640 So crazy, No, it's deliverate. It's not crazy, it's thought out, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.160 it's smart, it's vicious. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.600 Well, it's crazy that we put up with it, and 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.720 a lot of our kids learn it in class, Amen. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:20.159 Armstrong and Geeddy. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:23.920 So Kamala's got a book out and she's going to 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.920 try to run for president. She thinks she's going to 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.560 run for president. She's going to find no money lines up. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.000 None of the heavyweight people who work in campaigns are 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.159 going to join her, and then she's going to quickly decide. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.960 I guess now it's not my time, that is my prediction. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.000 But she does know her as any other time back 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:41.920 to you now, not. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.000 Your time or any other time, but now it is 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.840 not my time to make it in the NBA. So 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.320 I'm ill stick with the business I'm in for now. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.280 Her book One hundred and seven Days is out, and 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.160 I don't know does the book ever actually come out 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:57.679 or is it just because it seems like it's been 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:58.960 coming out for weeks and months. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.440 It's like a lot next Monster, We'll just hear about 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:02.720 it for the rest of our lifetimes. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.600 So she's done a couple of interviews, making the rounds, 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.919 and we're going to play Eclipse in a second. But 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.160 this is Mark Halprin's take on her performance so far. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.600 If the former veep and book peddler's maiden media hit 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:22.159 on Rachel Maddow as any indication wishy washy for Mum Dami, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.520 wishy washy, semi backtracking on bootheage edge, confusing on Biden's 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.880 acuity open to a twenty eight run, then there ain't 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.280 gonna be much there for her, So Wishy Washy. I 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.200 guess that's when it came off. Let's hear a little 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:38.880 bit of it on Rachel Maddow last night. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.439 I guess, I guess I'd ask you to just elaborate 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.600 on that a little bit. It's hard to hear with 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.080 you running as you know, you're the first woman elected 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.800 vice president, you're a black woman and a South Asian 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.840 woman elected that high office, very nearly elected president, to 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.040 say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:58.359 he was gay, it's hard to hear. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.280 No, No, that's not what I said that. That's that 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.760 he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.359 My point, as I write in the book, is that 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.359 I was clear that in one hundred and seven days, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.720 in one of the most hotly contested elections for president 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:23.359 United States, against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor, 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.560 to be a black woman running for president United States 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:34.199 and as a vice presidential running mate a gay man, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:40.040 with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.399 But I also realized it would be a real list. 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:44.600 I had forgotten. 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:52.920 I had forgotten forgotten her meandering, inability to ever say anything. 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.399 She's a terrible liar, which is a shame because she 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.280 needs to a lot. But Rachel says, it hurts for me. 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.720 She's Rachel's gay. In case you don't know this, but 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.119 to hear that you wouldn't have him on the ticket 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:10.080 because he's a gay man. And after like a full 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.520 word salad bar, she gets to. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.879 So it'd be too big a risk because he's a 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:17.320 gay guy. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.880 Yeah, so that we're talking about Mayor Pete. We never 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.240 set that up properly, Mayor Pete boudhedge Edge, who she 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.280 says in the book. We read this yesterday, this portion 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:31.000 that she liked him best but thought black woman, gay 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:35.000 guy is too controversial a ticket, right. I think she's 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.800 completely wrong because he would have been so much better 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.800 than Tim Walls well as a running mate. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.520 And let me rip off. Hector Barajas, who writes for 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.399 the California Globe. You pointed out that she wanted Pete 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.680 as a running mate but decided America quote couldn't handle 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.240 a black woman and a gay man. And then Hector writes, 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.120 think about that. Harris preaches diversity, equity, and inclusion every day, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.159 but when it came time to choose, she reduced to 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.280 judge to a label and dismissed him as unelectable solely 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:07.000 because of his sexuality. That's not DEI, it's the opposite. 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.560 It shows her worldviews based on boxes, not on value 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:11.159 or worth. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.440 The Democrats are so wrong about this. I've been saying 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.560 this since Barack Obama got elected. Barack Obama got more 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.840 votes because he was black. Hillary Kitton gets more votes 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:22.520 because she's a woman than you would have gotten if 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.800 she was the exact same qualifications in the dude and 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.280 a dude. It helps you at this point, you cannot 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.439 convince me that it holds you back being a woman, 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:33.560 even though Hillary, I guess it is out today talking 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:34.440 about that sort of thing. 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:38.040 Oh that's her only so she's playing it again. 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:43.560 Yeah, if Kamala Harris had been a white guy with those. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.320 Chops, she would have come close. Oh she'd have been 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.040 laughed out of that. Nobody would have even considered her. 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:55.119 So anyway, So Rachel asks, hey, that's rough. You wouldn't 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:58.920 have a little peak because he's gay. Jedge, that's the man, right, 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.840 and Kamala hambles I almost want to hear it again. 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:06.239