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Speaker 5: Aidy Perry, the pop music superstar, was spotted smooching the
Speaker 5: former Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. What a couple
Speaker 5: this sing how Canada was gonna exact their revenge for
Speaker 5: the tariffs, and this is it.
Speaker 2: They're taking our women.
Speaker 5: They're not just taking our women, they're taking our astronauts.
Speaker 3: That's a good joan, He's not an obnoxious, politically leaning Kim.
Speaker 3: It's pretty funny taking our astronauts.
Speaker 2: Wow, good joke.
Speaker 4: Yes, So this is just yet more proof, as if
Speaker 4: you needed it, that the whole green energy climate change
Speaker 4: thing was a for profit scam. This is some great
Speaker 4: writing Holman Jenkins, who I really enjoy. He's talking about,
Speaker 4: you know, during the Obama years, they there was a
Speaker 4: finding by the EPA.
Speaker 2: I think it was that.
Speaker 4: Carbon emissions that caused climate change threaten people's health, so
Speaker 4: they could regulate it, like mercury in the rivers or
Speaker 4: smog in the air. And he's writing about how thirty
Speaker 4: nine scientists from various organizations just signed to find signed
Speaker 4: a finding that in fact green greenhouse gases are in
Speaker 4: fact a danger because the Trump administration EPA just said no,
Speaker 4: they're not. So you got these thirty nine scientists anyway,
Speaker 4: So to quote Jenkins, read on realize their book length
Speaker 4: report is concocted for a bureaucratic and legalistic purpose, not
Speaker 4: a scientific one. The finding in the Obama years came
Speaker 4: to justify regulatory actions that have zero impact none on
Speaker 4: climate change. Not only are US emissions too small a
Speaker 4: share of the global total to matter in practice, EPA
Speaker 4: actions mostly just drive US emissions off shore.
Speaker 2: Whatever they think.
Speaker 4: The thirty nine scientists are part of a machine now
Speaker 4: defending its own activity and privilege in one of the
Speaker 4: biggest boondoggles in.
Speaker 2: The history of policy making.
Speaker 4: And then he points out and I was totally unaware
Speaker 4: of this, Michael Moore, the fat progressive film directors. Why
Speaker 4: would I take a shot at his body shape that
Speaker 4: it helps us necessary?
Speaker 3: I disagree. I think it wasn't this. I think it
Speaker 3: helps describe who the person is for people who aren't sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the fat progressive film documentary guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, the judges will permit it, it will stand,
Speaker 4: objection overruled.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 3: He had a movie come out in twenty nineteen, Planet
Speaker 3: of the Humans, and he says, remember that, of course
Speaker 3: you don't. It was shadow banned by the left and
Speaker 3: film distributors, not because it wasn't climate apocalyptic y enough.
Speaker 3: It was over the top on climate apocalyptics. It was
Speaker 3: shadow band for pointing out that the US climate policy
Speaker 3: was a fraud. Oh so, Michael, who actually believes this stuff?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so he actually believes climate change is a problem,
Speaker 3: we need to worry about it, and that all the
Speaker 3: stuff we're doing is fake and people need to know
Speaker 3: that because you're not making a debt. Well, good for him,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, that's better than knowingly lying like
Speaker 3: the al Gore crowd is doing right.
Speaker 4: As Jenkins right, it consisted of colossal pork barrel spending
Speaker 4: that was having no effect on the ellection problem.
Speaker 2: That is amazing.
Speaker 3: Michael Moore, one of the most revered documentary filmmakers of
Speaker 3: the left ever, gets memory hold on eltros.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: They have Richard York at the University of Oregon seen
Speaker 4: marveling in the film at the self willed blindness of
Speaker 4: the US policy community to a simple question to clean
Speaker 4: energy subsidies result in fossil fuels being displaced, he says.
Speaker 3: In a voice of wonder. No, they don't even know
Speaker 3: that that's the question.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of when Californians found out that not
Speaker 4: only was there no measure of how effective the bums
Speaker 4: and junkies billions of dollars spent had been, there wasn't
Speaker 4: even a mechanism to look into the question. And that's
Speaker 4: what this guy's saying about the climate change stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty optimistic that we're on the other side of
Speaker 3: the whole trans issue and are going to go back
Speaker 3: to it at its peak, you know, from a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago where things were just off the rails.
Speaker 2: But I don't. I don't have much faith that.
Speaker 3: We'll get on the other side of the climate change
Speaker 3: thing where people will start being honest. Do you think
Speaker 3: maybe we're actually are head in that direction.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a tough one because a lot
Speaker 4: of people are completely convinced that what they have been
Speaker 4: told is correct. Well, I met, and the left is
Speaker 4: dedicated to keeping that. Then, yeah, I met.
Speaker 3: More in terms of being honest about what things actually
Speaker 3: are doing something and aren't doing something. I mean, to
Speaker 3: Michael Moore's point, you need more people like him or
Speaker 3: saying yeah, climate change is real, but the stuff we're
Speaker 3: doing isn't doing anything. I'm not worried about climate change
Speaker 3: the way he is, but none of these things are
Speaker 3: doing any good. So what are we doing it for?
Speaker 3: You combine people that don't believe in climate change with
Speaker 3: people who are honest about it but realize this stuff
Speaker 3: is phony, and maybe we could kill it most of.
Speaker 2: It right, because we can't.
Speaker 3: Actually we can't actually do anything about it. Reality bats last,
Speaker 3: as we often say. I feel good that it's moving
Speaker 3: in that direction. There are a bunch of headlines actually
Speaker 3: that the entire world. Europe is now put its electric
Speaker 3: car in backward in reverse. When it comes to electric vehicles,
Speaker 3: the whole world is saying, you know, this wasn't quite
Speaker 3: what everybody is saying it was, including even China, which
Speaker 3: leads the world in electric vehicle use and sales and
Speaker 3: manufacture and.
Speaker 2: The rest of it.
Speaker 4: So I think, I think sanity is creeping into the issue.
Speaker 4: But a couple of more stories real quickly, unless you
Speaker 4: had more on that. I love the topic, But the
Speaker 4: United Nations is about to tax you. If if you know,
Speaker 4: the other stuff we've talked to about today hasn't boiled
Speaker 4: your frog already, this.
Speaker 2: Will global government voters.
Speaker 4: Voters are showing their opposition to the net zero climate
Speaker 4: agenda whenever they get the chance in the US and
Speaker 4: increasingly in Europe.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't make sense. People don't like it.
Speaker 4: But that isn't stopping the United Nations, which this week
Speaker 4: is poised to impose what amounts to a global tax
Speaker 4: on carbon emissions. And yes, if you're wondering, this is
Speaker 4: the definition of taxation without representation. Here's how they're doing it.
Speaker 4: The International Maritime Organization, a UN body based in London,
Speaker 4: hopes that it's meeting this week to secure final approval
Speaker 4: for its net zero framework for shipping, and it would
Speaker 4: impose charges per metric ton of carbon dioxide that ships
Speaker 4: emit above certain levels, and the tax would be several
Speaker 4: hundred dollars per metric ton, depending on various factors. That
Speaker 4: could translate to an annual tax take of ten to
Speaker 4: twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 3: And then see how many of the people behind that
Speaker 3: new rule somehow profit from that.
Speaker 2: But that's horrifying. So I mentioned that I listened to
Speaker 2: a podcast.
Speaker 4: And all the money would go to the UN. By
Speaker 4: the way, oh lovely right.
Speaker 3: I mentioned I was listened to a podcast out of
Speaker 3: Great Britain talking about what a disaster their net zero.
Speaker 3: They really took net zero seriously and just destroyed their
Speaker 3: economy a lot of Europe did.
Speaker 2: In fact, I got a.
Speaker 3: Stat on that that I wanted to bring that I
Speaker 3: came across Pohl.
Speaker 4: Seventy five percent of Brits agree with the statement Britain
Speaker 4: is broken seventy five percent just in.
Speaker 2: General, not just around climate change stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean that selling out the economy to
Speaker 4: that cult is one of the main drivers of unhappiness
Speaker 4: and dissatisfaction of all of Europe.
Speaker 3: Yesterday it was announced Ninvidia is worth more than the
Speaker 3: entire German stock market. That one company, Mississippis. We had
Speaker 3: this stat last week. Mississippi's per capita income is almost
Speaker 3: the same as Germany's. So the most powerful economy in
Speaker 3: Europe Germany is roughly the same is our poorest state
Speaker 3: in the United States.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And one thing we don't have a near enough
Speaker 3: understanding of in this country is why we have such
Speaker 3: an engine of creativity and growth.
Speaker 2: It's called liberty, for God's sake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been the richest country for a long time,
Speaker 3: but not to this extent versus a relative to Europe,
Speaker 3: and a lot of it is because of all that
Speaker 3: climate change crap. They did so much climate change crap
Speaker 3: to just destroy their economies.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Though our poorest state is as powerful as Germany.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It really is a final story that I wanted to
Speaker 4: squeeze in because it's all kind of related.
Speaker 3: Note to self by stock. In nuclear, here's the headline
Speaker 3: for you. US Army plans to power bases with tiny
Speaker 3: nuclear reactors. The Janus program fulfills Trump order to start
Speaker 3: powering military installations with state of the art nuclear technology.
Speaker 2: This is such a great idea.
Speaker 4: Dang right time to go nuke, hey hippies with your
Speaker 4: no nuke crap and your climate change bull s.
Speaker 2: And I wish I could use the word your day
Speaker 2: is done. Man. I just pray that that jd.
Speaker 3: Vance wins the next election or whomever there's I mean,
Speaker 3: we got so far down the road to Crazyville. It's
Speaker 3: going to take a minute or two to get our
Speaker 3: way to find our way back to Sanity Town, or
Speaker 3: at least Sanity Heights in the suburbs.
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Speaker 3: Just like hustling started, you know, just getting obsessed, you know,
Speaker 3: sitting there with the you know, the wonderbread and five
Speaker 3: stacks of a you know.
Speaker 4: All right, So there was poor gavenwsome on a recent
Speaker 4: podcast who knew he had grown up poor had to
Speaker 4: hustle to stay alive, and the rest of it. Katie Grimes,
Speaker 4: the Fabulous Katie Grimes with a spectacular takedown.
Speaker 2: I knew, Devin, I knew.
Speaker 3: I said that the other day, I said, she is
Speaker 3: going to have such a rundown of his actual upbringing.
Speaker 4: Oh, she probably had to calm herself down to start
Speaker 4: writing this.
Speaker 2: It is so rich.
Speaker 4: It was about paying the bills Man wonderbread and mac
Speaker 4: and cheese. That's how I grew up, bro. It was
Speaker 4: just like hustling. I raised myself right. Gavin was a
Speaker 4: latchkey kid. When Gavin was featured in a Children of
Speaker 4: the Rich article in nineteen ninety one at the age
Speaker 4: of twenty five, that pretty much put the latchkey kid
Speaker 4: from the Larchmont Holmes tracked Housing Act to rest until
Speaker 4: now as loose knew some longs to be America's next president.
Speaker 2: Then she goes into how what was that? Sorry, it
Speaker 2: made me cough. I swallowed my water. I hadn't heard
Speaker 2: that one before. Children of the Rich article.
Speaker 4: In nineteen ninety one at the age of twenty Wow,
Speaker 4: his father, attorney for the billionaire Getty Oil Family Appeals
Speaker 4: Court judge the rest of it. But Evan slept on
Speaker 4: a couch and ate Wonder. Breton raised himself and he
Speaker 4: opened a winery at the age of twenty five. Newsome
Speaker 4: Man Investors. At the age of twenty five, Newsman Investors
Speaker 4: created Plumpjack Associates LP with the help financial help of
Speaker 4: Gordon Getty.
Speaker 2: In a two thousand and three article bringing up.
Speaker 4: Baby Gavin in the SF Weekly magazine, it says Newsom's father, William,
Speaker 4: was a judge and helped Gordon Getty get access to
Speaker 4: the Getty family money. She writes, I've read the article
Speaker 4: several times over the years, but it is no longer
Speaker 4: available at SF Weekly. They took it down, but they
Speaker 4: found an archive version posted it to Twitter. He even
Speaker 4: helped Gordon Getty so his own father to get access
Speaker 4: to the family trust. In return for these favors and
Speaker 4: many others, Gordon Getty put him the father in charge
Speaker 4: of managing a massive amount of money. Guess how Gavin
Speaker 4: got the funds to start his fancy businesses at such
Speaker 4: a young age. In ten of Gavin's first eleven businesses,
Speaker 4: the primary money came from the Getty family, which is
Speaker 4: intertwined with the Pelosi family by the way money.
Speaker 3: I had read that while his dad did have access
Speaker 3: to blah blah blah because his parents divorced, that Gavin,
Speaker 3: you know, grew up with his poor single mom trying
Speaker 3: to make ends meet, etc.
Speaker 4: No, No, the minute he was of age and again
Speaker 4: he was a subject of Children of the Rich article,
Speaker 4: and then he had all the money he could use
Speaker 4: to finance all of his businesses the minute he was
Speaker 4: an adult. So why lie about being a privileged kid?
Speaker 4: Katie Grimes writes, because Gavin Newsom is inauthentic, phony and
Speaker 4: specious to be polite, as well as a compulsive liar
Speaker 4: to be a little harsh. Newtam's inauthenticity leads in but
Speaker 4: compulsively lie to whomever he's speaking to a kind of pandering.
Speaker 4: She mentions, when with Charlie Kirk, Newsom said he hinted
Speaker 4: that he agreed with Kirk that biological men should not
Speaker 4: playing women's sports, but then he did absolutely nothing about
Speaker 4: it as the governor of the most egregious title on
Speaker 4: via leading state in the country.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't speak Gavin well, but I didn't understand
Speaker 3: what he said in that Charlie Kirk thing. I didn't
Speaker 3: understand that clip we just played. I don't understand what
Speaker 3: he was saying. He uses phrases the kind of hint
Speaker 3: at something, but he never says anything. Well, you know,
Speaker 3: I was out there running around, you know, and I
Speaker 3: got the stacks of bread and what what are you
Speaker 3: claiming here, I don't even know what you're saying. Rich
Speaker 3: Lowry in the National Review, I asked, I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 3: Jim Jim Garretty who's asking did Democrats really need a
Speaker 3: white male version of Kamala Harris?
Speaker 2: But it's worse than that.
Speaker 4: How well do you envision Newsome connecting with all the
Speaker 4: union voters in the Great Lake States? How about those
Speaker 4: working class blue collar whites in North Carolina and Georgia
Speaker 4: for that matter, Will Newsom, who banged his campaign manager's wife,
Speaker 4: I had a nineteen year old girlfriend when he was
Speaker 4: thirty nine, going to do better among women. When you
Speaker 4: see that photo of Newsom on the rug with Kimberly Gilfoyle,
Speaker 4: do you say, yes, this is the kind of Democrat
Speaker 4: candidate who going to resonate with African Americans and Latinos.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I always think that's a blind spot for Democrats, you know,
Speaker 3: the coastal Democrats that they because I come from a
Speaker 3: family of like everybody was a Democrat, but they were
Speaker 3: all Firmer Democrats. They weren't Gavin Newsom sort of that
Speaker 3: trans issues Democrats, and that's where Gavin's gonna really run.
Speaker 4: Up rounds it, right, right, and then one final note
Speaker 4: from Marcus Breton, who has been a columnist for the
Speaker 4: Sacramento b I'm not sure he still is, and Marcos
Speaker 4: always a decent guy, a man of good character. He's
Speaker 4: a man of the left, and I frequently disagreed with
Speaker 4: him vehemently, but he's a good man. He wrote this
Speaker 4: in twenty eighteen, before Gavin was governor. If Gavin Newsom
Speaker 4: elected governor of California without so much as a speed
Speaker 4: bump on his political journey of entitlement, it may take
Speaker 4: future social scientists to explain why current California voters were
Speaker 4: so willing to give this guy a pass on all
Speaker 4: of the things we know about him.
Speaker 2: Can't you see this picture for what it really is.
Speaker 2: The fifty year old.
Speaker 4: Lieutenant governor and former mayor of San Francisco is the
Speaker 4: living embodiment of privilege, and people seem to be okay
Speaker 4: with that. He has white male privilege, class privilege, wealth privilege,
Speaker 4: the privilege of good looks. All creates a teflon exterior
Speaker 4: protecting Newsome's horrendous lapses of judgment and character, excusing his
Speaker 4: questionable background. It is simply accepted without a listening the
Speaker 4: negative scrutiny that would dog or even derail lesser mortals.
Speaker 2: Wow, and that's from a lefty journalist. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And he talks about the connections to the rich, Geddy
Speaker 4: and Pelosi families, how they pump money into everything he does,
Speaker 4: and then his utter moral failings is he is.
Speaker 3: The caricature hm, the sort of stereotype that people try
Speaker 3: to plant on Republicans. Rich white, good looking guy connected,
Speaker 3: you know, rose up through the ranks with no effort
Speaker 3: whatsoever or talent. Right, But as a Democrat, he's gonna
Speaker 3: try to pull off the I raised myself, you know,
Speaker 3: stacks of bread. No, I don't know what do you
Speaker 3: mean by the stacks of bread? What are you trying
Speaker 3: to say back to Rich Lowry.
Speaker 4: Don't you think there's a good chance Republicans will be
Speaker 4: able to portray the Marine County mansion owning luxury, sweet
Speaker 4: partying wine sipping newsome who always looks like a villain
Speaker 4: from a RoboCop movie. It is an out of touch elitist.
Speaker 4: Never mind the whole NAPA dinner in the middle of COVID.
Speaker 4: It was an early dinner. We all feel sometimes, Oh
Speaker 4: that is Gavin Ron.
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Speaker 4: I love Matt Tayebi, who is a man of the left.
Speaker 4: He's a brilliant writer. You know, he's one of those
Speaker 4: guys I disagree with him about twenty five percent of
Speaker 4: the time, but his point of view is always intriguing.
Speaker 4: And he's writing about that up in Maine with the
Speaker 4: Nazi tattoo, but more about Zoran Mumdami. Because Matt grew
Speaker 4: up in a comfortable Northeastern household and was sent to
Speaker 4: expensive boarding schools, and then he hits the job market
Speaker 4: and he realizes he had no skills at all having
Speaker 4: gone through that sort of education.
Speaker 3: That's really and his dad was a famous reporter for
Speaker 3: CBS News, one of the newscasts I watched as a kid.
Speaker 3: His dad I'm whoever tivy. So he grew up with
Speaker 3: that lifestyle. But then he got out of college and thought,
Speaker 3: what am I going to do?
Speaker 4: That's interesting, right, and he thought, yeah, I'd go with
Speaker 4: the family business of journalism. But he hadn't really studied it,
Speaker 4: so he had to start from the bottom. But here's
Speaker 4: where it gets really interesting Across the next decade or
Speaker 4: so of embarrassed residency abroad, because he went to live
Speaker 4: in several foreign countries, I saw that real working class
Speaker 4: people don't have the luxury to send their kids away
Speaker 4: to whack themselves off in intellectual spas it's understood that
Speaker 4: large percentages of young people will be needed to design
Speaker 4: the next generation's roads, water treatment plants, refrigerators, etc. Living
Speaker 4: in places like Mongolian who is Bekistan also introduced me
Speaker 4: to the idea that less than extravagantly wealthy countries don't
Speaker 4: have the luxury of sending class after class of their
Speaker 4: best young minds through curricula devoted to deconstructing the core
Speaker 4: premises of their society. In other words, in the rest
Speaker 4: of the world, rational social planning not only results in
Speaker 4: fewer kids studying pure theory, but the theorists those countries
Speaker 4: do graduate are far less inclined to spend their lives
Speaker 4: denouncing their home countries as forces of historical evil.
Speaker 2: That's good. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 3: Luxury of the self ego grandizing rich to be self
Speaker 3: hating and hate their countries. As I've said many times,
Speaker 3: that's like the highest standard of showing how enlightened you
Speaker 3: are spies, yourself, your country, your religion, the rest of it.
Speaker 3: It's so you're you're so safe from attack from another country.
Speaker 3: The water's so clean, the economy is so stable, the
Speaker 3: government is so stable. Because the government and all of
Speaker 3: that has allowed you to decide this is a horrible country.
Speaker 2: That's right, an interesting turnaround. That's a luxury. Yeah.
Speaker 4: He goes on in countries where the bulk of people
Speaker 4: have to be concerned with survival, getting enough to eat,
Speaker 4: not being conquered by rival nations or revolutionaries, and holding
Speaker 4: crime and corruption to tolerable levels. Colleges don't teach kids
Speaker 4: how they're citizens of oppressor nations that should probably be disbanded.
Speaker 2: They certainly wouldn't do.
Speaker 4: It if they lucked into the benefits of citizenship in
Speaker 4: a country like the United States.
Speaker 2: This country has problems, even serious ones.
Speaker 4: But it's not like gangsters are setting up freelance toll
Speaker 4: booths on I ninety five for West coasters. That's the
Speaker 4: equivalent of I five on the East coast. Or the
Speaker 4: strip stake you ordered at Ponderosa has a good chance
Speaker 4: of being cat meat. The reference that amuse Jack a
Speaker 4: great deal yesterday, and I'm not certain.
Speaker 3: That that is a as solid as he.
Speaker 2: Thinks, But they have atturneys moving along.
Speaker 4: Citizens of countries that have known true suckage, including especially
Speaker 4: the ones with Marxist or Maoist histories, laugh at the
Speaker 4: things Americans call problems.
Speaker 2: The only people who think the system that.
Speaker 4: To produce the richest, safest empire in history is essentially
Speaker 4: unfixable are America's own wealthy, who's current disdain for their
Speaker 4: own good fortune is like a political version of heroin Chic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is so damn true that crowd does not
Speaker 3: realize how hard it is to turn around, or would
Speaker 3: be to turn around if real corruption ever sets in
Speaker 3: in your city, state, or federal government.
Speaker 4: I wish it would immediately with socialism. Sure, Right now,
Speaker 4: he turns his attention to mister Mamdani, the Marxist Islamist
Speaker 4: who may well be the mayor of New York.
Speaker 2: City or run man.
Speaker 4: That's Zawn correct anyway, right, this is what we're seeing now,
Speaker 4: in particular with the Mamdani campaign, which to a hilarious degree,
Speaker 4: is manna from heaven for Trump. Mamdani is the face
Speaker 4: of the new brand of socialism. That embraces the preamble
Speaker 4: theme of the communist Manifesto, in which all of society
Speaker 4: is divided into oppressor and oppressed. Illegal immigration isn't a
Speaker 4: problem that needs to be contained in order to make
Speaker 4: social programming for citizens affordable, as Bernie Sanders once believed
Speaker 4: and probably still does, but because immigration laws are inherently oppressive. So,
Speaker 4: as Mudami now proposes, let's spend one hundred and sixty
Speaker 4: five million dollars making New York quote the strongest sanctuary
Speaker 4: city in the country. Tybi goes on, let's not fix
Speaker 4: police violence by ending stats based enforcement, for instance, or
Speaker 4: doing away with broken windows theory, but let's tweet things
Speaker 4: like quote, queer liberation means defunding the police. Madie's he
Speaker 4: no longer favors defunding, but be your own.
Speaker 3: Judge, guys, is gonna end up mayor of the most
Speaker 3: important city in the world with the slogan what was
Speaker 3: that about that last? Queer liberation means defunding the police.
Speaker 3: Queer liberation means defunding the police?
Speaker 2: What the hell? And then he.
Speaker 4: Quotes another journalist who's writing about it. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 4: Mom Donnie declared of his political career and again in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two. Friends, for me, there's no point in
Speaker 4: doing this without the DSA. The Democratic Socialists of America
Speaker 4: favor full amnesty for legal immigrants, all of them, including
Speaker 4: the criminals, abolishment of the Senate, voting rights for non citizens,
Speaker 4: and public ownership of major corporations. Since he won the nomination,
Speaker 4: he has softened on some of these points, but remains
Speaker 4: a DSA member and fan. New Yorkers can decide if
Speaker 4: he's sincere. And I'll return to my frequently stated theme,
Speaker 4: Marxist sly all the time because people don't expect somebody
Speaker 4: to lie so clearly to their face.
Speaker 2: He still believes all that stuff. Then we're getting toward
Speaker 2: the end.
Speaker 4: But then there's Mundami's Gamut, in which he decided to
Speaker 4: speak to Muslims in New York, telling a story about
Speaker 4: an aunt quote who stopped taking the subway after September
Speaker 4: eleventh because she did not feel safe in her job,
Speaker 4: and Taibi describes it some length. He lived in New
Speaker 4: York City at that time, and he said there was
Speaker 4: an incredible level of enmity and cooperation between most of
Speaker 4: the cities Muslims and non Muslim residents, and the numbers
Speaker 4: bear this out. New York has always been a liberal,
Speaker 4: welcoming city always, And if I might depart for a moment,
Speaker 4: and we talked about this briefly earlier, Mam Donnie was
Speaker 4: talking about the victims of nine to eleven, and he
Speaker 4: spent zero time on the mommies and daddies' sons and
Speaker 4: daughters who died in fire when those planes hit the building,
Speaker 4: or the mommies and daddies who died and good honest,
Speaker 4: hard work in people who died in the towers. Said
Speaker 4: not a word about the NYPD and the NYFD, the
Speaker 4: firefighters who gave us one of the greatest examples of
Speaker 4: heroism in American history, said not a word. His only
Speaker 4: tear was for his fictional aunt, who may have felt
Speaker 4: somewhat nervous getting on the subway in her his job.
Speaker 4: That's somemou Donnie's view of nine to eleven any way,
Speaker 4: I will calm down momentarily.
Speaker 2: All the people on those planes.
Speaker 4: Anyway, for a likely future Muslim mayor of New York
Speaker 4: to even remotely implied that Muslims in New York, where
Speaker 4: victims of nine to eleven is infuriating lunacy. Unfortunately, it
Speaker 4: fits the aforementioned oppressor and oppressed mindset, in which a
Speaker 4: marginalized community always holds the moral high card over people
Speaker 4: who built your roads, bridges and ports and put out
Speaker 4: your fires. Once you see attendees of seventy five thousand
Speaker 4: dollars boarding schools talking about the need to arm the
Speaker 4: proletariat and a candidate for mayor of the world's financial
Speaker 4: center talking about pH I've toned down the rhetoric on
Speaker 4: seizing the means of production so that over time we
Speaker 4: can bring people to that issue.
Speaker 2: That's a quote.
Speaker 4: It's lot were neo Marxist idiocies have been allowed to
Speaker 4: gain a stronghold.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Jack, if you want to that is something.
Speaker 2: There are quotes there I've not heard.
Speaker 3: The mainstream media has done a bad job of covering
Speaker 3: this guy because they sympathize with him.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's clear neo Marxist idiocies have been allowed to
Speaker 4: gain a stronghold. Only people who don't know how hard
Speaker 4: it is to build a society think this way. But
Speaker 4: the number of such people is growing, ironically because of
Speaker 4: the educational system.
Speaker 2: Well, this is being in mind.
Speaker 3: Very Burkyan screed from the left leaning tibe.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, Finally, the liberal left in this country
Speaker 4: used to be about searching for ways to moderate the
Speaker 4: excesses of capitalism, creating more opportunities for social mobility, and
Speaker 4: promoting tolerance and generosity. Instead we're in the quote upper
Speaker 4: class twits promoting revolution space, a script with much which
Speaker 4: most most of the rest of the world is sadly familiar.
Speaker 4: Is there no defense against the ignorant rich God? That's
Speaker 4: really really blank and tayeebe for the win. It's interesting
Speaker 4: to me that he traveled the world and came away
Speaker 4: with that.
Speaker 2: That man.
Speaker 3: We should really be lucky for our stable society because
Speaker 3: it's really hard to get one going. Whereas most people
Speaker 3: I know who travel the world, and it probably has
Speaker 3: a lot to do with like where you stay, what
Speaker 3: you look at, what you choose to do when you're
Speaker 3: in that country, they come away with these other places
Speaker 3: are so much better. Why do we have to be
Speaker 3: the way we are. I've been to all these different
Speaker 3: countries and they're fantastic because you stay in a nice
Speaker 3: hotel and need a nice restaurant and go to the
Speaker 3: museum right right, and you overlook the fact that the
Speaker 3: United States has provided a military umbrella to free up
Speaker 3: their social systems for decades now, in the mold of
Speaker 3: the post WW two carnage, which is long since gone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that. That's brilliant, absolutely brilliant stuff. Matt Taiebe,
Speaker 4: I think you might get paywall. I'd love to post
Speaker 4: this for you at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 2: We'll do it.
Speaker 4: If you want to subscribe to his substack, you can
Speaker 4: if you want. But that's brilliant.
Speaker 3: The Burkean reference Edmund Burke, if you don't know that,
Speaker 3: considered the father of modern conservatism. It's basically the idea
Speaker 3: that if you have created a safe, stable society, don't
Speaker 3: take that for granted. It is really really really hard
Speaker 3: to do, and you start messing with it and it
Speaker 3: could come apart quickly and take centuries or a thousand
Speaker 3: years to build up again. And that's basically Matt Taybee
Speaker 3: is saying to the whatever that last line was about
Speaker 3: the comfortable rich, thinking that.
Speaker 4: If there's no defense against the ignorant rich, were in
Speaker 4: the upper class twits promoting revolution space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to have a revolution against a safe, stable, happy,
Speaker 3: most successful society in world history.
Speaker 4: You idiots, the chances that what is created will be
Speaker 4: far worse are ninety nine point eight out of hundred.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty show, We've been searching for a better
Speaker 3: term to describe what's going on, because, as uh I'll
Speaker 3: be sharing with you in a moment, that is a miss.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a misnomer. Literally, it's a misnaming of the problem.
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, somebody with a flu has a
Speaker 4: catastrophic gunshot wound and the doctors just keep calling him
Speaker 4: the flu patient and treating him for the flu.
Speaker 2: It's not the problem.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But this is from We'll just say, uh.
Speaker 3: Like, if someone had a heart attack with COVID and
Speaker 3: you called it COVID, nobody would do that a COVID
Speaker 3: death no, instead of bums and junkies. I like the
Speaker 3: very accurate term transient drug addicts, Right's anonymous. I think
Speaker 3: the most interesting take is this. That's really good, by
Speaker 3: the way, Yeah, that's kind of what I say with
Speaker 3: the kids the street people drug addicts. TDA is transient
Speaker 3: drug addicts. Uh.
Speaker 4: I think the most interesting take is this, we should
Speaker 4: all we all agree we should help the homeless, i e. Productive,
Speaker 4: law abiding people who fell on hard times. But we
Speaker 4: spend so much money supporting the transient drug addicts that
Speaker 4: we don't have enough to help the actual homeless. Anyone
Speaker 4: who wants to help the homeless should agree that the
Speaker 4: best way to have more resources to support the homeless
Speaker 4: is to stop spending it on the transient drug addicts.
Speaker 3: O the Yeah, yeah, clearly. And then this note again
Speaker 3: from all or a lean anonymous. I'll share part of
Speaker 3: it with you, although the whole thing's great. Says some
Speaker 3: very nice things about the show.
Speaker 4: You've got a way of breaking down complex issues with
Speaker 4: refreshing common sense, like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I work with the homeless in
Speaker 3: I don't see any reason I shouldn't mention the town.
Speaker 3: This person wants to remain anonymous.
Speaker 2: M is there need to mention the town?
Speaker 4: Significant sized city in cal Unicornia. There you go, and
Speaker 4: he or she lists I think maybe he, I don't know,
Speaker 4: uh lists the various places just about every street with
Speaker 4: significant homeless encampments and quotes.
Speaker 2: I was listening to you this morning yesterday.
Speaker 4: Well, you were dropping truth bombs about the homeless on
Speaker 4: the radio and I found myself yelling, yes, finally someone
Speaker 4: gets it, because you're absolutely right. We don't have a
Speaker 4: homeless problem. What we have is a drug problem. Big
Speaker 4: keep in my mindless person works with these people every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The biggest problem I have with that praise is it
Speaker 3: seemed obvious for quite some time that that's what's going on.
Speaker 3: But yeah, eighty five percent of the folks I work
Speaker 3: with are battling drug addiction. Eighty five percent, another ten
Speaker 3: percent are mentally ill because of drug addiction. They're remaining
Speaker 3: five percent they're just mentally ill and need confinement in
Speaker 3: a place that can help them. What do we do
Speaker 3: with people who ruined their brains because of drugs? I
Speaker 3: guess you treat them like the mentally ill of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: While many homeless advocates and quotes argue that most homeless
Speaker 4: individuals are simply struggling abused moms or families in need
Speaker 4: of assistance.
Speaker 2: Five pardon me, rent's too high. Oh yeah, we need control.
Speaker 4: In my five years of experience working in the toughest
Speaker 4: parts of my city, I have encountered only one such
Speaker 4: family one Wow. The rest mostly middle aged men and
Speaker 4: women trapped in a cycle of addiction, who will say
Speaker 4: or do anything to feed their habit and the solutions
Speaker 4: Again in quotes, we keep hearing about like tiny homes
Speaker 4: are just band aids on bullet wounds. The county's current
Speaker 4: plan is to build hundreds of tiny homes near particular location.
Speaker 4: Unless there's a serious plan for dealing with addiction, you're
Speaker 4: just creating a drug camp, of course, And by serious
Speaker 4: plan I mean more than the tired old line we
Speaker 4: hear that support services will be provided. Politicians love the
Speaker 4: optics of tiny homes because people see something that looks
Speaker 4: like actions solve the problem. But when the rules are
Speaker 4: broken at the tiny home settlements, as they inevitably are,
Speaker 4: these folks end up right back on the street. The
Speaker 4: turnover rate is astounding. I don't know if anyone in
Speaker 4: power is noticed, but drug addicts don't obey rules very well.
Speaker 4: Add to the fact that it takes forty five days,
Speaker 4: he has forty five days to have a person cleared
Speaker 4: for intake services. Unfortunately, that's typically forty four days after
Speaker 4: they've disappeared back into the fog. Why not force rehab, Jack,
Speaker 4: You're gonna love this well. Rehab has a ninety four
Speaker 4: percent failure rate the first time around, and politicians, no,
Speaker 4: voters won't stomach a program that's nine hundred and forty
Speaker 4: thousand dollars of failure for every million dollars spent.
Speaker 2: Plus ninety percent.
Speaker 4: Of addicts refuse services outright because it cuts into their
Speaker 4: high time. Wow, so you're looking at a very small
Speaker 4: percent who even agreed to give it a try, and
Speaker 4: then ninety four percent fail. At least for context, thirty
Speaker 4: five dollars can purchase an eight ball in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: It's a measure of drugs.
Speaker 4: Kids providing a high for several days, provided they do
Speaker 4: not share. Five dollars keeps them high for a day.
Speaker 4: All you people handing out cash at stoplights stop, they
Speaker 4: use the cash to buy drugs. They throw the food away.
Speaker 4: Addicts aren't known for huge appetites. Fine, I'll skip to
Speaker 4: the final paragraph. Even though again this is all terrific.
Speaker 4: If we want real change, we need drug courts back,
Speaker 4: We need accountability, we need punishment. We need to stop
Speaker 4: pretending this problem is something it's not. We need to
Speaker 4: stop acting like a long term drug addict has the
Speaker 4: same mental capacity and rights that everyone else does. Most
Speaker 4: addicts will not seek help for their addiction until they've
Speaker 4: reached the lowest point. It's just too easy and as
Speaker 4: he made the point, cheap to stay high and there's
Speaker 4: very little incentive for them to change. Interestingly, we have
Speaker 4: a chance to save them if they reach their lowest
Speaker 4: point within the first two years of their addiction. After
Speaker 4: that decision, situation becomes unpredictable.
Speaker 2: Thanks for keeping it real. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I don't know how long it's going to take for
Speaker 3: society to catch up with this, But so you look
Speaker 3: at those people and you think, well, who would live
Speaker 3: like that? You see somebody on a bridge and they're dirty,
Speaker 3: and it's cold outside and they're under there and they're
Speaker 3: drug addicts, and you think, well, they can't want to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: Well they do.
Speaker 3: It's hard for us to imagine looking at them that
Speaker 3: they want to do that as opposed to not do that,
Speaker 3: but they do today.
Speaker 2: They want to.
Speaker 3: And got so we got to all just you know,
Speaker 3: take that in and understand that there are a lot
Speaker 3: of people that once they're addicted, want to continue doing that.
Speaker 2: Somehow we need to blow up this notion.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's these intervention shows or whatever, but somehow we
Speaker 3: need to blow up this notion that if there is
Speaker 3: a rehab, you can put them in there and fix them.
Speaker 2: I don't know where that came from. That idea.
Speaker 3: It's never been true, it's not true now, it never
Speaker 3: will be true. So we got to blow up that
Speaker 3: idea too. Yeah, they're batting. Average is catastrophically low. People
Speaker 3: don't understand that. You know, you can't be cynical enough
Speaker 3: about this. What government does is it identifies problems, real
Speaker 3: and imagined, and then spreads money out to buy votes
Speaker 3: and influence. That's what it does.
Speaker 2: And Getty