1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: So Michael Verie Show is on the air. One of 3 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: the newsletters I follow and read daily is a guy 4 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 2: named Peter Attia, and he's a doctor and he's kind 5 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: of into wellness and longevity and all this sort of stuff. 6 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: But one of the things he does is he tries 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 2: to sort fact from fiction and hype from truth on 8 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,599 Speaker 2: all the medical developments, because every day there's some new 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 2: shot or pill or procedure and diet. And I'm a 10 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 2: big believer in reading and studying, you know, our body. 11 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 2: Focusing on our body, which we're told is a temple right, 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: treating it with respect, it's the one God gave us 13 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: is important. But one of the things he does is 14 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 2: when he does an interview that is important, like a 15 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: New Year's resolution interview, he plays that again at the 16 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 2: beginning of the next year and he says, Hey, I'm 17 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,479 Speaker 2: proud of this interview. I think it's useful. I want 18 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 2: to renew it well. Over the years, we used to 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: replay a lot of our audio. If I had a 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: good interview, we'd play it in the morning, we'd play 21 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 2: it in the evening, and we got a lot of complaints, 22 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 2: But the only people who complained were people who listened 23 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 2: to the Morning and the evening or who listened to 24 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 2: the podcast, because they would hear it twice and it 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 2: made him upset and they'd tell us we were lazy 26 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 2: or whatever else. And it wasn't that we were trying 27 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 2: to recycle our best content. TV stations do that. I 28 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 2: mean a lot of and so we've steered clear of it. 29 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: But we talked about Jimmy Carter's death and all the 30 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 2: praise it's been heaped on him the other night, and 31 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 2: we got so much of a response. I wasn't going 32 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 2: to do it on the morning show, and I don't 33 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: think I could do it as well as we did 34 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 2: it that first time, that we are going to replace 35 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 2: something from the other night. I'm spending all this time 36 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: telling you because I know people will get upset. But 37 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 2: I don't want Jimmy Carter to be hailed as a 38 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 2: hero and sanctified, beatified, because I don't think he's a 39 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 2: good man, and I want to make the case that 40 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: he's not. So here it is I didn't get to 41 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: opine on the passing of the former president. Now I 42 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: fully understand that some of you are cringing right now 43 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: lest I say something negative about the deceased. And I 44 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 2: also understand that some of you are still operating under 45 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 2: the old rules, where the most important thing is that 46 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 2: you be nice, like you're Patrick Swayzee at the bar 47 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 2: in Roadhouse, because you've been taught that the most important thing, 48 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:11,399 Speaker 2: and this is particularly a white person thing, gotta be nice. 49 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 2: Somebody slaps you in the face, be nice. Someone kicks 50 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 2: you in the gut, be nice. Someone steals the election, 51 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: be nice. That's why so many people are afraid to 52 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 2: speak out about election fraud, because we don't seem nice. 53 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: Why so many people don't want criminals sent to prison 54 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 2: when the media shows you, well, he's got babies that 55 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: he's made, they would lose their daddy. Oh, we gotta 56 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 2: be nice. We'd like to deport these people because a 57 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 2: lot of them are criminals. Uh, some of them are 58 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 2: gonna cry and they have friends here. Gotta be nice. 59 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: Being nice has been the death of our reports. It's 60 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 2: better you be principled. Let me ask you this. If 61 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 2: Hitler died tomorrow instead of when he did at the 62 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 2: end of World War two, would you the next day 63 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 2: say we should be nice? No? You shouldn't because he 64 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 2: was a devil. It is important that we're honest about things. 65 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 2: Did you notice that upon his death, the left attacked 66 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: Rush Limbaugh and it upset you because they weren't being nice. 67 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 2: And what did you say? You said, Well, we didn't 68 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 2: do that when your people died. We're always nice to 69 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 2: your people, and you criticize one of our heroes. 70 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 3: Exactly. 71 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 2: Well, now I'm going to not be nice about Jimmy 72 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 2: Carter because it's important that people who did not live 73 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 2: through his presidency I did, people who have not studied 74 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 2: his presidency and his post presidency I have. It's important 75 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,679 Speaker 2: that you understand that this was a very very bad person. 76 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: And before you turn off saying ooh, I don't want 77 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 2: to listen to him speak ill of the dead, did 78 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 2: you know that when Donald Trump was elected, Jimmy Carter 79 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 2: called him an illegitimate president. Jimmy Carter was the biggest 80 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 2: election denier in America, the most prominent election denier in America. 81 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: He claimed he didn't really win. Oh, but that was 82 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 2: the least of what he did. He did so many 83 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: awful things. And so I'd like to spend some time 84 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 2: setting the record straight on Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was 85 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 2: regarded by modern historians accurately as the worst president in 86 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: US history, certainly in modern US history, until Joe Biden 87 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 2: came along. By the way, there's a reason they were 88 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 2: both one term presidents. This is a glowing report by 89 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 2: Leslie Stall of sixty minutes after Jimmy Carter's passing. And 90 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 2: I want you to notice that she uses the same 91 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 2: compliment for Carter Democrats that they use for Joe Biden today. 92 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 2: They're going to use the same argument to prop him up, 93 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 2: because it's important that that be repeated in the living room, 94 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 2: at the dinner table, in the classroom. You know, Carter 95 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 2: didn't win a second term, but he was a good man. No, 96 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 2: he wasn't, and I'll prove it. But first listen to 97 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 2: this glowing report on how great his presidency was. 98 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, he was so unique, a peanut farmer 99 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 4: from Plains, Georgia. He won the presidency I think because 100 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,799 Speaker 4: he was the unnixed and we'd just gone through Watergate. 101 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 4: Jimmy Carter said, I'll never lie to you. Over and 102 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 4: over and over. People think that he was unsuccessful, but 103 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 4: he passed more than most presidents doing two terms in 104 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 4: one term. 105 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 5: I had the best batting average in the Congress in 106 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 5: recent history of any president except Linda Johnson. 107 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 4: He saved every hostage that was held in Iran. He 108 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 4: passed landmark legislation, big things like energy policy and the 109 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 4: giving back the Panama Canality. He put solar panels on 110 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 4: the roof of the White House back then. I think 111 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 4: he's most proud of the fact that there was peace 112 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 4: for the four years that he was president. 113 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 5: We never fired a bullet, we never dropped a bomb, 114 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 5: we never launched a missile. 115 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 4: I think he thought he was a great president. President 116 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 4: Carter's lasting legacy comes out of his post presidency. No 117 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 4: one would disagree that he's one of the great post 118 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 4: presidents we've ever had. He devoted himself to poor people. 119 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 4: He built houses for poor people. He spent his life 120 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 4: trying to get rid of certain diseases in Africa that 121 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 4: were killing people unnecessarily. He won the Nobel Peace Prize, 122 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 4: not when he was president, but after he died, knowing 123 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 4: that he had lived a good life. 124 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 2: No that he is a bad man who did bad things, 125 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 2: and I'll prove it coming up and you did it 126 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 2: out live so Leslie Stall of sixty minutes. What have 127 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 2: you believed that the four years of the Carter presidency 128 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 2: were fantastic? First, he led on the issue of energy. 129 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 2: There was an energy crisis during his administration. Get to 130 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 2: that in a moment. He gave the Panama Canal back. 131 00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: That's terrible for us. We built it. He put solar 132 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 2: panels on the White House. Can you believe it? Yeah? 133 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 2: And then they were removed when he left, and Obama 134 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 2: did it again when he became president. Solar doesn't work. 135 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 2: Would just stop with that already? He brought peace to 136 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 2: the world, He said, are you aware that Iran destabilized 137 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 2: during his presidency? The stable, secular Iran collapsed and the 138 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 2: most disturbing, dangerous Muslim regime in the world replaced it. 139 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 2: To this day, we are dealing with that threat. That's 140 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 2: not peace. How about inflation, inflation the likes of which 141 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 2: we hadn't seen since the Biden administration. My goodness, do 142 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 2: they have so much in common? How about the creation 143 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 2: of the Department of Education. Brag on that for a moment, 144 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 2: because it's an absolute and utter bust. Jimmy Carter was 145 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: remembered for one speech he gave as president. It is 146 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 2: commonly called the Crisis of Confidence speech, but political scientists 147 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 2: and media members remember it as the Malaise Speech. Interestingly, 148 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 2: he never used the word malaise. Malaise is one of 149 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: those words you don't hear very often. And when I 150 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 2: hear the word malaise, being a political junkie as I am, 151 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 2: the first thing I think of is Jimmy Carter. In 152 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 2: that speech, a malaise is defined as a general feeling 153 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 2: of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult 154 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 2: to identify, so kind of fibromyalgia, if you will. The 155 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 2: Carter administered stration was plagued by flu like symptoms upon 156 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 2: the nation. You can think of it that way. The 157 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 2: speech was delivered July fifteenth, nineteen seventy nine. People were down, 158 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,199 Speaker 2: they were depressed, they were listless. There was a malaise, 159 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 2: and so Jimmy Carter decided, Joe Biden one point zero, 160 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 2: that he would give a speech talk about the fact 161 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 2: that it was Americans who were at fault here. It 162 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 2: was your fault that you weren't happy. 163 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 5: It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis 164 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 5: that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit 165 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 5: of our national will. We can see this crisis in 166 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 5: the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives 167 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 5: and in the loss of a unity of purpose for 168 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 5: our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future 169 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 5: is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric 170 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 5: of uncle. The confidence that we have always had as 171 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 5: a people is not simply some romantic dream or a 172 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 5: proverb and a dusty book that we read just. 173 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 3: On the fourth of July. 174 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 5: It is the idea which founded our nation and has 175 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 5: guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future 176 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 5: has supported everything else, public institutions and private enterprise, our 177 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 5: own families, and the very constitution of the United States. 178 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 5: Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link. 179 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 2: Sounds inspiring, doesn't it? Real inspiring? The economy was so 180 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 2: bad under Jimmy Carter that Dan Ackroyd, a star of 181 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live at the time, explained inflation while impersonating 182 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 2: then President Jimmy Carter on Saturday Night Live. 183 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 6: Inflation is our friend. For example, consider this in the 184 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 6: year two thousand, if current trans continued, the average blue 185 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 6: collar annual wage in this country will be five hundred 186 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 6: and sixty eight thousand dollars. 187 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 2: Think what this. 188 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 6: Inflated will of the future will mean? Most Americans will 189 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 6: be millionaires. Everyone will feel like a big shot. Wouldn't 190 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 6: you like to own a four thousand dollars suit and 191 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 6: smoke up seventy five dollars cigar, drive a six hundred 192 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 6: thousand dollars car. I know I would. But what about 193 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 6: people on fixed incomes? They have always been the true 194 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 6: victims of inflation. That's why I will present to Congress 195 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 6: the Inflation Maintenance Program, where by the US Treasury will 196 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 6: make up any inflation cost losses through direct tax rebates 197 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,839 Speaker 6: to the public in cash. Now, you may say, won't 198 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 6: that cost a lot of money? Won't that increase the deficit? 199 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 6: Sure it will, But so what, We'll just print more money. 200 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 6: We have the papers, we have the mints. I can 201 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 6: just call up the Bureau engrave it and say, hi, 202 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:11,599 Speaker 6: this is Jimmy. 203 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 2: Roll Off. 204 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 6: Some of them twenties trend up a couple of thousand 205 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 6: sheets of those century notes. Sure the glot of dollars 206 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 6: will cause even more inflation, but who cares. Everybody'll be 207 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 6: a millionaire. 208 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 2: So yes. The Carter presidency was a terrible four years 209 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 2: for America. January of seventy seven until January of eighty one, 210 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 2: when Ronald Reagan took over and the company the country 211 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 2: went into a boom. Companies boomed, individuals boomed. But wait, 212 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 2: what about since he was president he was such a 213 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 2: good man, right, Scott Jennings laid that clear, laid that 214 00:14:58,040 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 2: low on CNN. 215 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 7: Well, let me preface my take by offering condolences to 216 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 7: the Carter family and on his death. He was obviously 217 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 7: one of the most unique post presidencies we ever have 218 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 7: because he lived so long and he did so much. 219 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 7: That having been said, he was a terrible president. That's 220 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 7: why I lost in a landslide after his one term. 221 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 7: And if it's possible, I think he was even a 222 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 7: worse ex president because of his meddling in US foreign policy, 223 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 7: because of his saddling up to dictators around the world, 224 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 7: because of his vehement views anti Israel views, and more 225 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 7: than dabbling in anti Semitism. Over the years, he often 226 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 7: vexed Democrats. Obama didn't even have him speak at Hiseight Convention. 227 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 7: He put Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign policy box 228 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 7: on a North Korea nuclear issue. I think he was 229 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 7: a guy who had a huge ego and believed that 230 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 7: he was uniquely positioned to do all these things, even 231 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 7: after the American people had roundly and soundly rejected his leadership. 232 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 7: So I respect people who are for president and get 233 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 7: elected president, but in his particular case, I think he 234 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 7: time it again proved why he was never suited for 235 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 7: the office. In the first before you jump up to 236 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 7: the Persian Gulf War, he wrote letters, yeah, I know 237 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 7: about this, all of our allies and to Arab states 238 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 7: asking them to abandon their cooperation and coalition with the 239 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 7: United States of America. If it's not treason US, it's 240 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 7: borderline treasons. And so I hear what you're saying about 241 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 7: the humanitarianism. But when you're an ex president and you 242 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 7: have served in that office, I think you have a 243 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 7: duty to the United States and only to the United States. 244 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 7: And when he did that and other instances, to me, 245 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 7: it showed that he cared more about his own legacy 246 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 7: than he did about the country. 247 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 8: And I think that is long listening to Michael Barry, 248 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 8: so Jimmy Carter, you may not agree that his presidency 249 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 8: was great, but he was a good man after he 250 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 8: was president. 251 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 2: So we're told, how about when he said this after 252 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 2: Donald Trump was elected. 253 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 5: There's no doubt that there did interfere in the election, 254 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 5: and I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if 255 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 5: fully an investigated, would show that Trump didn't actually win 256 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 5: the election in twenty sixteen. He lost the election and 257 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 5: he was put in the office because the Russian's interfere 258 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 5: on his behalf. 259 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 2: Said, you believe President Trump is an illegitimate president. 260 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 5: Face on what I just said was I can retract. 261 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 2: Remember when Ronald Reagan defined what recovery means. 262 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 9: That Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, 263 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 9: of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all 264 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 9: this misery, he tries to tell us that we're only 265 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 9: in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions words 266 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 9: relieve our suffering. 267 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 3: Let it show on the record that. 268 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 9: When the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy 269 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 9: Carter took refuge behind the dictionary. Well, if it's a 270 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 9: definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is 271 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 9: when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when 272 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 9: you lose yours, and recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses. 273 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 2: His speaking of Reagan, there's an appearance that Ramon came 274 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 2: across The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson a while back, 275 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 2: and we've been looking for an opportunity to play it. 276 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 2: Let's do it here. All these years later, it's a 277 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 2: little longer than we would normally play. All these years later, 278 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 2: it is still as relevant as ever today. This was 279 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan on The Tonight. 280 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 10: Show when you and I were boys. Back in the Midwest. 281 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 10: Government's federal, state, and local. We're only taking about fifteen 282 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 10: cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost 283 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 10: half of every dollar earned in the United States. Most 284 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 10: people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden in 285 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 10: the so called business taxes. You know, the politician that 286 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 10: stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man. 287 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 10: Let's tax business, and everybody else are reay. They haven't 288 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 10: figured out that every tax on business is just a 289 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 10: part of the cost of production, and the customer winds 290 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 10: up pay it when he buys the product. It's a 291 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,239 Speaker 10: hidden sales tax. There's one hundred and sixteen of them 292 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 10: in the suit of clothes that each one of us. 293 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 3: Is un suppose. 294 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 11: A lot of the economists have suggested, and I don't 295 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 11: know there'll ever come to be in this country that 296 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 11: they're if they closed all of the loopholes and corporations 297 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 11: and maybe tax loopholes and even on their rich certain loopholes, 298 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 11: and made a percentage income and made a flat fee 299 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 11: without all of the deductions, that the government might raise 300 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 11: as much money as they do now. 301 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 10: Oh sure, And really the loopholes this has been overdone 302 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 10: by the politicians too. 303 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 3: Now the bulk of the money that is taken. 304 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,479 Speaker 10: But what are called loopholes are the legitimate deductions with 305 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 10: which if the people didn't have them, they couldn't pay 306 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 10: their income tax, interest on their mortgage, interest on the 307 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 10: installments on their car, their property taxes on their home 308 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 10: if they have one, and so forth. 309 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 3: These are in politicians as loopholes. 310 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 10: But we ought to have tax reform, and we ought 311 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 10: to start by making it as simple that you don't 312 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 10: have to hire a lawyer to find out how much 313 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 10: you owe every year. 314 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 3: That's for sure. It used to be used to be 315 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 3: a little simplified. 316 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 5: A lot of them. 317 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 3: Are, Johnny. 318 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 10: We live in the only country in the world where 319 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 10: it takes more brains to figure out your income tax 320 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 10: than it does earn the income. 321 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 12: That'd be right. 322 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 10: We've gotten in the habit over the last forty years 323 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 10: of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little 324 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 10: that government can do as efficiently and as economically as 325 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 10: the people can do themselves. And if government would shut 326 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 10: the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd 327 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 10: never miss them. Our biggest problem is that we have 328 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 10: built a permanent structure of government, federal, state, and local, 329 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 10: the permanent employees, and they've come to the place that 330 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 10: they actually determined policy in this country more than does 331 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 10: the Congress of the United States. There are fourteen and 332 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 10: a half million public employees in the United States. That's 333 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 10: quite a voting block. And the bureaus and agencies not 334 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 10: in Washington. I heard you talking earlier about some of 335 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 10: the research programs. What would you say if I told 336 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 10: you about one a study in which this was called the. 337 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 3: Demography of Happiness. 338 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 10: And in this study, the government found out that young 339 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 10: people are happier in old people, and they found out 340 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 10: that people that earn more or happier than people that 341 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 10: earn less. And they found out that well people are halfier. 342 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 3: Than six people. That's good lie. 343 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 10: It was two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars to 344 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 10: find out it's better to be rich, young, and healthy 345 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 10: than old poorts. A poll was taken recently that found 346 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 10: out that only forty six percent of the people in 347 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 10: the pool could name their United States congressman. 348 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 3: But what was worse, eighty six percent of. 349 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 10: Those who could name him couldn't tell you a single 350 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 10: thing that he represented or stood for. 351 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 3: They just knew that he represented the fav. 352 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 10: He was a congressman, But what's he doing while he's 353 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 10: up there? And the same is true at the at 354 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 10: the local levels of government and all the rest. 355 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 11: But you're saying people really have to take an active ventures. 356 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 11: You have to have citizen action groups locally and. 357 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 3: Let him know. It's cert special interest groups. 358 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 10: Now, the special interest groups are as everyone thought, big 359 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 10: powerful business interests are something that are going to persuade 360 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 10: government to do things. As a matter of fact, I 361 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 10: don't know anyone with less influence today in government than business. 362 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 10: They're just a convenient whipping boy. But it's the groups 363 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 10: that have got a particular acts to grind. You can't 364 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 10: have a power plant because it might interfere with the 365 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 10: seagulls Now, I think I'm an environmentalist, and I do 366 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 10: not agree with those people way over in the edge 367 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 10: who pave the whole country over in the name of progress. 368 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 10: But also I don't like those on the other extreme 369 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 10: that will let you build a house unless it looks 370 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 10: like a bird's nest someplace in the middle. 371 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 3: We got to allow people are ecology. 372 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 10: Too well, this kind of group, and they want their 373 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 10: particular program. Hundreds of dollars have been added to the 374 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 10: cost of an automobile putting gadgets on it to clear 375 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 10: up the air. 376 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 3: We're the only country in the world that's set out 377 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 3: to do it that way. 378 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 10: When budget deficits are what's causing inflation, I don't see 379 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 10: that there's any room to. 380 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 3: Be on either side of that argument. 381 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 10: I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget. 382 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 3: Now, how do you do that? I mean, it's not 383 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 3: how do you balance the budget? Well, balancing the. 384 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 10: Budget is like protecting spend more than you take in 385 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 10: right now, it's like protecting your virtue. 386 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 3: You have to learn to say no. 387 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 12: There's got to be an other way. What's the second option. 388 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 10: Well, well, there's some ways that this could be brought about. 389 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 10: First of all the limitation here, here's another one. Why 390 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 10: shouldn't we have, in addition to a simplified income text, 391 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 10: why shouldn't we also have a law that says that 392 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 10: any time a legislator or a congressman introduces a spending program, 393 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 10: he has to introduce with it a tax program to 394 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 10: pay for it. 395 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 3: Then let the people find out. 396 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 10: There was a woman that from a financial firm that 397 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 10: was back at the President's Economic Council, and her words 398 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 10: weren't quoted. 399 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 3: Everybody else's words got. 400 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 10: In the paper, all the Heller's and the gall breaths 401 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 10: and all the soballed economists. And I have a degree 402 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 10: in economics, so I can say this. I think an 403 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 10: economist is someone who has a phive beta kapakey on 404 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 10: one end of his watchchain and no watch on the other. 405 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 10: This woman said that you go to the polls and 406 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 10: you ask the people do they want some social service, 407 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 10: some program that government can give? And the people in 408 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 10: the polls are apt to read and say that sounds good. Yeah, 409 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 10: But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says, put 410 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 10: a one hundred dollars bill in each person's hand and 411 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 10: then show them the program and say, now, isn't that 412 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 10: a nice program? 413 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 3: Do you want it? Give me the one hundred dollars, 414 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 3: And she says. 415 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 10: See what the poll says then, and how many people 416 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 10: hang on with one hundred dollars instead. 417 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 3: Of the program? 418 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 11: In other words, that it's rather hidden than someone doesn't 419 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 11: know exactly where when I come to. 420 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 10: They all start all the government programs. Start a dollar 421 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 10: down and we'll catch you later. 422 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 3: And they multiply all of those things that you were. 423 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 10: The Office of Management and Budget in Washington that's responsible 424 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 10: for the budget up putting the budget together, cannot even 425 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 10: tell you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus, and departments 426 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 10: there are in the federal government. But all of them 427 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 10: can pass regulations, and those regulations have the force of law. 428 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 10: And the difference is when you break the law, you're 429 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 10: innocent until proven guilty. When you break a regulation, the 430 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 10: fellow the charges you with breaking the regulation, you're guilty. 431 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 10: If you want to take him to court and prove 432 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 10: your innocent, that's up to you. And all of these 433 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 10: are things that, yeah, we can trim the budget. There's 434 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 10: enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it, 435 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 10: you could wash the world maybe it's time for realignment 436 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 10: between people who might be find themselves in the wrong parties. 437 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 10: Maybe there's some people still voting. I was a Democrat 438 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 10: most of my life. I became a Republican only not 439 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,679 Speaker 10: too many years ago. And I had the pleasure of 440 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 10: telling some of those people that are saying the Republican 441 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 10: Party ought to broaden its base the other day that 442 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 10: when I switched parties, I didn't do it because the 443 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 10: two parties were alike. 444 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 3: I did it because they were different. 445 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 2: Come did you vote Xanna do? Oh my goodness, we 446 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 2: do not deserve Olivia Newton John my life. When I 447 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 2: were watching Greece the other day, true story. It's so ridiculous, 448 00:25:52,840 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 2: it's so absurd, and that's what makes it perfect. But 449 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 2: to be fair for anybody who thinks this isn't real music, 450 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 2: You've got Jeffrey Lynn of Elo in the background singing harmonies. 451 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 2: That makes it real. That makes it legit. Milania Trump 452 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 2: New York Post reports signs whopping forty million dollar documentary 453 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 2: deal with Amazon with cameos from Baron and Donald a 454 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 2: forty million dollar deal. My friend Buck Sexton notes that 455 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 2: means the widespread corporate boycott of all things Trump has 456 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 2: been broken. This is just the beginning. You see, Fascism 457 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 2: is when you have private companies but they are run 458 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 2: at the direction of the government. The Chinese Communist Party 459 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 2: engaged in some private company ownership rather than state ownership 460 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 2: as a hybrid to jumpstart their economy, and it worked. 461 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 2: But make no mistake, they still have to do the 462 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 2: bidding of the government. This is what happened during COVID, 463 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 2: when the government would use their power over companies, not 464 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 2: just government employees to stay. Hey, you want that bailout, 465 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: you want that subsidy, you want this regulation to continue 466 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 2: to be eased off, you better require the clock shot. 467 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 2: Companies wouldn't touch Trump or you because you were evil, 468 00:27:50,320 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 2: and they would be boycotted, all the while undertaking DEI programs. Well, 469 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 2: now you've seen the list of companies that have rolled 470 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 2: back their DEI policies, Companies that never should have had 471 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 2: them in the first place. Tractor supply, are you kid? 472 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 2: You're a been in a tractor supply. Nobody that believes 473 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:22,879 Speaker 2: in DEI nonsense is shopping at tractor supply for what 474 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:32,919 Speaker 2: tractor supply offers. Well, Meta, which is Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg 475 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 2: has been begging at the feet of Donald Trump to 476 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 2: get back amongst respectable company. So we got Amazon, Jeff 477 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 2: Bisos signing a big deal with Milania. Oh, his liberal 478 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 2: buddies aren't gonna like that. And now you've got Mark 479 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 2: Zuckerberg at Facebook saying I see the writing on the wall. 480 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 2: We're going to do away with our fact checkers. It 481 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 2: was a bad program and it didn't work. Think you 482 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 2: would have done that if Kamala went one. Of course not. 483 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 2: They banned my biggest account. I had to start back over. 484 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 2: They banned it at this election. They did it in 485 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 2: twenty twenty. They let me back on after twenty twenty. 486 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 2: Now they took away my biggest account, so I had 487 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 2: to start over from scratch. Well, Michael, how come you 488 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 2: don't leave them behind? I should. But Facebook is an 489 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 2: opportunity for me to share articles and graphics, photos, engagement 490 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 2: with listeners in a way that I can't do on 491 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 2: the radio. So I got all these radio listeners and 492 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 2: most people email me. They know, go to Michael Berryshow 493 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 2: dot com and email me. But if I want to 494 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 2: post a picture and share it, I do that on 495 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 2: my daily Blast, which is my mail out list, and 496 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 2: I do it on Facebook, and I did that with 497 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 2: a lot of political commentary, and they were fine with 498 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 2: me doing it. They were monetizing it all the way 499 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 2: up till the first week of October, right before the election, 500 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 2: and they shut me down. Apparently I had violated their policies. 501 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 2: They wouldn't tell me how, but that's what they do. 502 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 2: So here is Mark Zuckerberg begging and saying, maya culpa, 503 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 2: maya culpa. You know the fact check in that we 504 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 2: were doing, which was censorship. We weren't really getting it right. 505 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: It's time to get back to our roots around free 506 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media 507 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: to give people a voice. I gave a speech at 508 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free 509 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: expression and I still believe this today. But a lot 510 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: has happened over the last several years. There's been widespread 511 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: debate about potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy 512 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot 513 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot 514 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 1: of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation. 515 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: These are things that we take very seriously, and I 516 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: want to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we 517 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 1: built a lot of complex systems to moderate content. But 518 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even 519 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts, that's 520 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: millions of people, and we've reached a point where it's 521 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent 522 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once 523 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: again prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back to 524 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, 525 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's 526 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: what we're going to do. First, we're going to get 527 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes 528 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: similar to X. Starting in the US, after Trump first 529 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media wrote NonStop 530 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried, 531 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the 532 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: arbiters of truth, but the fact checkers have just been 533 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: too politically biased and have destroyed more trusts than they've created, 534 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: especially in the So over the next couple of months, 535 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second, 536 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid 537 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and 538 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. 539 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: What started as a movement to be more inclusive has 540 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out 541 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So 542 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: I want to make sure that people can share their 543 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: beliefs and experiences on our platforms. 544 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 2: So what he's saying is Facebook is going to become 545 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 2: more like Twitter because Twitter is blowing up and Facebook 546 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:43,959 Speaker 2: is dying. Facebook is mostly left to grandma's posting pictures 547 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 2: of their grandkids, and kids who've moved away from home 548 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 2: posting pictures of their kids for grandma to see. And 549 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 2: that's fine. There's a place for that. In fact, that's 550 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 2: mostly what I still use it for. But it's not 551 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 2: a place to engage to share ideas. To iron sharpens 552 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 2: iron a crucible of concepts. Because you heard what he said, 553 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 2: our attempts to be inclusive turned out to have the 554 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 2: opposite effect. That's what the left does. Oh don't say 555 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 2: that you've hurt my feelings is a nice way of 556 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 2: saying only say what I say, and everything else should 557 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 2: be shut down. And by the way, what I say 558 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 2: today tomorrow I might decide up that wasn't good, So 559 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 2: that's not allowed to be said anymore. You can only 560 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 2: say what I say, which is Biden is great, Kamala 561 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 2: is great, Liberalism is great. Chopping off your kids weiener 562 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 2: is great. Making your daughter into a boy is great. 563 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 2: White people can't have any jobs. Only blacks, and preferably 564 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 2: black lesbian dudes who were born as men. Boys should 565 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 2: be allowed to play against girls and injure them and 566 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 2: have unfair advantages. Welfare should boom, but not for white people. 567 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 2: Our border should be wide open that anything other than 568 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 2: that is not sufficiently inclusive. That is Unamerican. And I 569 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 2: am so proud of you because you won this election. 570 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 2: You took back your workplaces. You as a consumer, as 571 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 2: an employer, as an American, bought back and this is 572 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 2: a win. Congratulations