Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt not one but two
Speaker 1: senior Democrat politicians in the state of Virginia in a
Speaker 1: lot of hot water, and it looks like the media's
Speaker 1: running cover for them. We'll talk about that, and also
Speaker 1: the fight for capitalism in this country is very much
Speaker 1: on the front lines. Are the Democrat versus Republican battle.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about how we should think about that and
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Speaker 1: Sexton Show begins. No, welcome to the book Sex and Show. Everybody, Man,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of stuff talk about today. Who
Speaker 1: man getting it getting it kicked off here on this
Speaker 1: on this Monday. Oh man, I'm in a good mood too,
Speaker 1: because it's it just felt like after the deep freeze
Speaker 1: last week. I don't even know, John, what was the
Speaker 1: temperature like down the East Coast. It wasn't like the
Speaker 1: isn't the forties. Maybe it felt like felt like in
Speaker 1: the fifties. It felt like spa. I could have busted
Speaker 1: out my MANKINI I mean it was it felt warm today,
Speaker 1: it felt warm. It was it was good stuff. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's or my speedo, as some people would refer to it.
Speaker 1: So I got one. I got one somewhere in the closet,
Speaker 1: don't you know. Hey, it's books. I know, John, I
Speaker 1: should probably put it. I should probably get a grip.
Speaker 1: All right. Uh, well, the big things today are you know,
Speaker 1: there's the news, the news aspect of this, and then
Speaker 1: there's the philosophical the news aspect of today's show. We
Speaker 1: got a bunch of things to get to obviously, continue
Speaker 1: negotiations over the wall, but more than anything else you have,
Speaker 1: and the aftermath of the super Bowl, some of the
Speaker 1: commercials I'm not going to waste your time giving you, Lou,
Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady's the greatest of all. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't care what I think about that, So we'll skip
Speaker 1: right over that. The news that matters to us news
Speaker 1: and politics and national media discussion has to do with
Speaker 1: this just massive and growing toxic dumpster fire of Virginia
Speaker 1: politics right now, or the Virginia Democratic Party where you
Speaker 1: have a one two punch going. They're going after the
Speaker 1: governor for what is clearly racist stuff that he's lying about.
Speaker 1: I mean when I say they, I'm just talking about
Speaker 1: Republican everybody. You've got Democrats, Schumer, Pelosi, there's a whole
Speaker 1: slew of them, Kirsten gillibrand, I mean, all these different
Speaker 1: prominent Democrats are saying that nor the means to resign
Speaker 1: after and we'll get into some of the details of it.
Speaker 1: But his apology and then I don't know if I'm apologizing.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it was me. I did blackface another time,
Speaker 1: not that time. The guy almost busted out into a
Speaker 1: moonwalk during a press conference over the weekend. It was man,
Speaker 1: I was trying to trying to distance myself from the
Speaker 1: new cycle of the weekend, and it was a hard
Speaker 1: thing to do because the Northam situation was just a mess,
Speaker 1: a mess. This guy's this guy is a farce, but
Speaker 1: he's still the governor. And then you get this same website,
Speaker 1: Big League Politics, that broke the story about Northam, which
Speaker 1: has been verified and is true. That same website now
Speaker 1: has run with this story about a sexual assault allegation
Speaker 1: against the lieutenant governor of the state of Virginia. So
Speaker 1: the person that's supposed to take go over for Northam
Speaker 1: if Northam does step down, which I don't think Northam
Speaker 1: stepping down. I mean, I should probably be checking during
Speaker 1: the course of the show, because it feels like it
Speaker 1: could happen at any moment. It's amazing how little people
Speaker 1: are really focused on the fact there's a State of
Speaker 1: the Union tomorrow. I don't think the State of the
Speaker 1: Union is all that is all that interesting to preview.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll talk about what the President says. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big separation on the issue of immigration
Speaker 1: between Democrats and Republicans. We know that, so okay, we'll
Speaker 1: get into that for sure. But man, it's it's a
Speaker 1: rough time for some of these Democrats going on because
Speaker 1: there's no way around this. I mean, they have only
Speaker 1: two options lose the governorship and possibly the lieutenant governorship
Speaker 1: from Democrat control in Virginia, a critical state for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty on all that that would mean for that state,
Speaker 1: right A lot of people that maybe voted for Northam
Speaker 1: because he seemed like he was a reasonable guy, they're
Speaker 1: going to change their minds, or they might change their
Speaker 1: minds at least you know that possibility. It's a bad
Speaker 1: time right now for the Democratic Party in Virginia, no questions.
Speaker 1: So we'll get into some of those, some of those details,
Speaker 1: because it was just stunning over the weekend, the most
Speaker 1: bizarre apology and then walk back and then non apology
Speaker 1: and just scrambling. I mean, Northam is at the the
Speaker 1: phase of this whole thing where I'm just waiting for
Speaker 1: him to say that hackers went back in time with
Speaker 1: a time machine and change his yearbook page from Eastern
Speaker 1: Virginia Medical University so that it would have this really
Speaker 1: racist stuff. I mean, a person dressed in a KKK
Speaker 1: costume and a person in black face next to them,
Speaker 1: and we all know that Northam is the guy in
Speaker 1: the black face and that he's saying that he's not,
Speaker 1: but he did black face another time. It's just this
Speaker 1: is bizarre. But Democrats always collapse into this kind of
Speaker 1: incoherence because they only want to weaponize these things against Republicans.
Speaker 1: They want these standards that will be useful for shutting
Speaker 1: down or shouting down the opposition, but they don't want
Speaker 1: to have to live under those standards themselves. We will
Speaker 1: certainly talk about about where that is, but I think
Speaker 1: there's a bigger philosophical and policy question that we need
Speaker 1: to address right now on the show, and we're going
Speaker 1: to continue to address it, and that is the increasingly
Speaker 1: favorable attitude that a lot of people are showing toward
Speaker 1: the idea of taxing the very very rich at a
Speaker 1: very high percentage. I saw this. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: really that the Democrats war on capitalism. Okay, That's what
Speaker 1: is shaping up right now in a way that I
Speaker 1: think is surprising for some Democrats. I mean, I do
Speaker 1: think that there are Democrats who see this happening and
Speaker 1: they think, I didn't realize my party was so radical
Speaker 1: in its redistributionist ideology. I didn't realize Democratic Party was
Speaker 1: so willing to engage in the politics of envy and
Speaker 1: going to these kinds of lengths to make it seem
Speaker 1: like anybody who has been really, really, really successful is
Speaker 1: somehow the enemy, as though you would be better able
Speaker 1: to afford your house if only some of these great
Speaker 1: businessmen weren't quite so wealthy. You know, you would be
Speaker 1: able to afford your groceries if Jeff Bezos and Howard
Speaker 1: Schultz and Michael Bloomberg and you name it, if they
Speaker 1: weren't so rich. This is a falsehood and this is
Speaker 1: at the core of the left wing fantasy that the
Speaker 1: government can tackle these problems of inequality on a moral
Speaker 1: on a moral ground without it having negative impacts that
Speaker 1: will be very palpable to all the rest of us.
Speaker 1: So the democrat war on capitalism, though, is gaining steam
Speaker 1: here because now remember, you know, there's no such thing
Speaker 1: as perfect capitalism. There's no such thing as perfect socialism either.
Speaker 1: So people will say, oh, book, they're not they're not
Speaker 1: opposed to capitalism, or they like this, or they like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: show me a socialist country where there haven't been big businesses,
Speaker 1: where there haven't been people that were benefiting financially. You know,
Speaker 1: there's always class stratification in every society. There's no such
Speaker 1: thing as a classleist society. It has never existed. And
Speaker 1: there's never been a program of redistribution of wealth that
Speaker 1: has made everybody super well off and super wealthy. There.
Speaker 1: You know, there's this does not exist. Eliminating class structure
Speaker 1: is not a thing you can achieve. The best you
Speaker 1: can have is a wealthy society where individuals have the
Speaker 1: ability to help other people based on their own initiative,
Speaker 1: based on their own community, and you know, whatever your
Speaker 1: church wants to do, whatever organizations you belong to want
Speaker 1: to help people. And everyone also has the ability to
Speaker 1: pull themselves up. You can make choices, you show up,
Speaker 1: you work, you pull yourself up, and you can advance.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean we all get to be billionaires. And
Speaker 1: I think part of the problem is one of expectations.
Speaker 1: We see this incredible wealth of the Zuckerbergs and the
Speaker 1: bay Zoses and the Buffets and all these different people
Speaker 1: that are so so rich. We see this and we think, well,
Speaker 1: if I can't have that, something must be wrong. Or
Speaker 1: if I can't at least have whatever I want and
Speaker 1: those people can have that, something must be wrong. And
Speaker 1: that's how you get this polling that says seventy six
Speaker 1: percent of registered voters, according to a Politico I believe
Speaker 1: that the wealthiest Americans should pay more in taxes. Seventy
Speaker 1: percent of Americans, according to a Fox News poll, favor
Speaker 1: raising taxes on those earning over ten million dollars. That
Speaker 1: includes fifty four percent of Republicans. Alexandria Occasio Cortez has
Speaker 1: said that she wants to slap a seventy percent marginal
Speaker 1: rate on income earned over ten million dollars that has
Speaker 1: fifty nine percent support. In a recent Hill Harris X
Speaker 1: Pole the Hill like where I work, that's our pole,
Speaker 1: political poll found that sixty one percent favor a wealth
Speaker 1: tax like the one that Elizabeth Warren is talking about.
Speaker 1: It would be a two percent tax on those with
Speaker 1: a net worth over fifty million dollars, three percent tax
Speaker 1: on those over a billion dollars wealth not income. This
Speaker 1: is going to lead us down a very a very
Speaker 1: destructive path if we don't put a hall to it.
Speaker 1: Right now. I'm not saying that these people can't afford
Speaker 1: to pay these pay these rates. Of course they can.
Speaker 1: But you are talking about government confiscation of private property
Speaker 1: under the guise of what feels right to some radical
Speaker 1: left wingers. It feels fair, feels right. Keep mind that
Speaker 1: money has already been taxed, those assets have already been
Speaker 1: through the process. The acquisition of those access of those
Speaker 1: assets required tax will income to be there in the
Speaker 1: first place. And life isn't fair. And I don't pretend
Speaker 1: to tell you that it's fair. But maybe if the
Speaker 1: left had a better understanding of why capitalism is so incredible,
Speaker 1: what it is about capitalism that is so special, they
Speaker 1: would be less willing to start to take an ax
Speaker 1: to the base of it and just sort of see
Speaker 1: what happens. Because when the government can start to have
Speaker 1: a two percent wealth tax on people over fifty million,
Speaker 1: or a three percent over a billion, guess what the
Speaker 1: government could also put a wealth tax in place on
Speaker 1: people over a million. How many of you have families
Speaker 1: that own property somewhere, or maybe you even have a
Speaker 1: family farm. Guess what your acreage alone might be worth
Speaker 1: over a million dollars. How does that get into How
Speaker 1: does that get assessed? We already have people paying taxes
Speaker 1: on land that they live on that they own. That
Speaker 1: is indicative not of an ownership society, but of a
Speaker 1: renting of your property from the government via property taxes.
Speaker 1: You don't really in a lot of places own your house.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't own any money to the bank,
Speaker 1: you rent it from the government. This is something that
Speaker 1: we all need to understand if we're going to get
Speaker 1: closer to the truth here. But there are reasons why
Speaker 1: capitalism is so special, Yes, there's The first thing comes
Speaker 1: to mind is how much wealthier this country, yes, including
Speaker 1: the poor in this country, including the middle class in
Speaker 1: this country. How much wealthier they are in real terms
Speaker 1: now than they would have been fifty years ago. And
Speaker 1: what you have access to in terms of food and
Speaker 1: healthcare and transportation and travel now as a middle class
Speaker 1: American as opposed to fifty years ago, and when you
Speaker 1: look at it on a global scale, then it is
Speaker 1: truly stunning the amount of misery and despair and poverty
Speaker 1: that has been alleviated specifically because of free market capitalism
Speaker 1: and its principles applied imperfectly but applied around the world
Speaker 1: in many many places, and US here the United States,
Speaker 1: at the vanguard of that effort. The amount of people
Speaker 1: that have been brought out of poverty by and the
Speaker 1: amount of productivity and joy and leisure and health that
Speaker 1: has been derived from this process of allowing individual choice
Speaker 1: in the marketplace and individual decisions and ingenuity and innovation.
Speaker 1: It's on a scale that we can barely fathom. I
Speaker 1: want to talk a little about why this is. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have some ideas about what it is the left
Speaker 1: does not understand or does not care to understand about
Speaker 1: capitalism and why these principles are so important right now. Yes,
Speaker 1: we have this alpha capitalist president in Trump, but we
Speaker 1: need to articulate the points so that when this fight continues,
Speaker 1: because this is a fight for the economic and with
Speaker 1: it political future of this country, we are well equipped
Speaker 1: to win. We'll also talk about Nancy Pelosi and the
Speaker 1: wall and the negotiations over that. I got more thoughts
Speaker 1: on the border, you know, I get excited about talking
Speaker 1: the border, and then we'll step into this Northam Fairfax
Speaker 1: fiasco as it continues to unfold. We will have this
Speaker 1: is really this is really good be interstring. We will
Speaker 1: have in the second hour of the show. The lieutenant
Speaker 1: governor who ran with Gillespie, Lieutenant Governor Bishop is going
Speaker 1: to be joining us to talk about or he would
Speaker 1: have been pardon me, would have been lieutenant governor to
Speaker 1: talk about what it was like to run against Gillespie,
Speaker 1: what I mean, sorry, run with Gillespie against North and
Speaker 1: what kind of man we're talking about here. He's gonna
Speaker 1: give you his view of what's really going on with
Speaker 1: these two Virginia politicians from a Democrat side. So you
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Speaker 1: stand by my statement of apology to the many Virginians
Speaker 1: who were hurt by seeing this content on a yearbook
Speaker 1: page that belongs to me. It is disgusting, it is offensive,
Speaker 1: it is racist, and it was my responsibility to recognize
Speaker 1: and prevent it from being published in the first place.
Speaker 1: I recognize that many people will find this difficult to believe.
Speaker 1: I think people find it difficult to believe that this
Speaker 1: guy thinks that he can say these things and anyone's
Speaker 1: gonna believe him. What a pile of nonsense. And there's
Speaker 1: a better word for it. But I can't use it
Speaker 1: on the radio. You have got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1: This guy walked back his apology of his own yearbook page. Now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you that anyone who's ever posed for
Speaker 1: a photograph, if shown the photograph, can look at it
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, that's me, or no, that's not me.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you're taken by you know, if somebody photographed
Speaker 1: you and you didn't know it, you know, maybe in
Speaker 1: certain lighting. No, But but if you stood there and
Speaker 1: you know, big smile on your face, this is a
Speaker 1: photo of me. I don't care who you are. You
Speaker 1: know it's you. It is completely not credible that he's
Speaker 1: that it's not him in the photo. Now, it's just
Speaker 1: not credible, and no person should be even asked to
Speaker 1: believe him. But it is better, you see, for him
Speaker 1: to try to live this lie than to be honest
Speaker 1: and truthful, because if he's honest, he's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to weather this political storm. His governorship is toast.
Speaker 1: Where's the media on this. Oh, they're trying. They're trying
Speaker 1: to run all the interference for him that they can
Speaker 1: and come up with some way, some way to allow
Speaker 1: him to stay. By the way, he also said that
Speaker 1: he had previously worn black face, just not this time.
Speaker 1: Play clip eight of what's his name saying, Michael Jackson,
Speaker 1: excuse me, that's why I have Pam with me. I
Speaker 1: had the shoes, I had a glove, and I used
Speaker 1: us a little bit of shoe polish to put under
Speaker 1: my or all my cheeks. And the reason I used
Speaker 1: a very little bit is because I don't know if
Speaker 1: anybody has ever tried that, but you cannot get shoe
Speaker 1: polosh off for I want to be honest with people.
Speaker 1: And again, as I said earlier, I discussed this with
Speaker 1: a person of color. He let me know why this
Speaker 1: was offensive. I apologize to him, and I will never
Speaker 1: do it again. The guy is talking about the best
Speaker 1: the best practices for when he did previously put himself
Speaker 1: in black face. He's saying, you know, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get it off, so I didn't use too much. I mean,
Speaker 1: Megan Kelly lost her job at NBC for talking about
Speaker 1: black face. He didn't even do anything. We got. We
Speaker 1: gotta hold the left feet to the fire here because
Speaker 1: they've created this fire. I'm sorry. We cannot let them
Speaker 1: do this nonsense where we all get crushed and they
Speaker 1: get to live to fight another day when it comes
Speaker 1: to these these moments of outrage. I mean, this guy,
Speaker 1: if he stays, then you know nothing has any meaning anymore.
Speaker 1: You had quite the showdown. Let's speaker, Pelosi, what did
Speaker 1: you learn about negotiating with her? Well, I think that
Speaker 1: she was very rigid, which I would expect, But I
Speaker 1: think she's very bad for our country. She knows that
Speaker 1: you need a barrier, she knows that we need border security.
Speaker 1: She wanted to win a political point. I happen to
Speaker 1: think it's very bad politics because basically she wants open borders.
Speaker 1: She doesn't mind human trafficking or if she wouldn't do this,
Speaker 1: she's costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars because
Speaker 1: what's happening is when you have a porous border, and
Speaker 1: when you have drugs boring in, and when you have
Speaker 1: people dying all over the country because of people like
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi who don't want to give proper border security
Speaker 1: for political reasons. She's doing a terrible disservice to our country.
Speaker 1: I think Trump is obviously correct when he says that
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's doing a disservice the country. But I also
Speaker 1: think that he gets closer to the truth and a
Speaker 1: lot of other Republicans when they talk about this, because
Speaker 1: he knows that she knows that what she's doing is
Speaker 1: actually bad for the country, but she doesn't care. The
Speaker 1: Democrats know they're lying to you about the border. They
Speaker 1: just don't care. Democrats know that they're being duplicitous about
Speaker 1: negotiations for a wall. They said, open up the government
Speaker 1: and then we'll talk. The government was opened. No talking
Speaker 1: worthy of the name. These are not surprises. We know
Speaker 1: who we're dealing with on the other side. Trump certainly
Speaker 1: knows who we are dealing with on the other side,
Speaker 1: but specifically on the issue of the Democrats pushing things
Speaker 1: that they know are bad for the country. I think
Speaker 1: enough Democrats have some understanding of what the ramifications of
Speaker 1: some of the economic policies they're pushing would be, but
Speaker 1: they simply don't care. They know that it is an
Speaker 1: emotional touch point for their base. It is a way
Speaker 1: to mobilize people. We all have disappointments, we all have
Speaker 1: our resentments. There are things that bother us about the
Speaker 1: way that our day to day goes or how things
Speaker 1: are happening, and there what's going on in the country.
Speaker 1: And coming up with a narrative that allows them blame
Speaker 1: to be placed on the other is very potent. This
Speaker 1: is powerful, and to do this through the prism of
Speaker 1: class warfare is increasingly going to be the central mantra
Speaker 1: you see from the Democrats. This is what they're going
Speaker 1: to do. It's all about the big rich, fatcats. It'll
Speaker 1: be kind of a retread of what you heard during
Speaker 1: the Occupy Wall Street era. But remember Occupy Wall Street fizzled,
Speaker 1: and it didn't just fizzle because it was a bunch
Speaker 1: of pseudo hippies with iPads playing in drum circles fizzled
Speaker 1: because Barack Obama was president during that couldn't get the
Speaker 1: hardcore left that upset with as leftist a president as
Speaker 1: Barack Obama in charge. But now things are different. Now
Speaker 1: you have an ultra capitalist of sorts in President Trump
Speaker 1: in office, and that means that the agitation and the
Speaker 1: community organizing from the left is much more likely to
Speaker 1: succeed here, which then just brings me to what I
Speaker 1: think is an important component of this discussion on capitalism
Speaker 1: that you probably won't hear elsewhere, and it doesn't get
Speaker 1: nearly enough attention when we think of the successes of
Speaker 1: capitalism today, the kind of stuff that Occasio Cortez will
Speaker 1: point to. We look at these Internet era mega companies
Speaker 1: Facebook and Amazon and Google and many others, and we
Speaker 1: understand that there's a big upside in terms of convenience
Speaker 1: and connectivity and communication that they bring to us. There
Speaker 1: are also some downsides. I increasingly think that social media
Speaker 1: is probably you know, and even split as to whether
Speaker 1: it's really good for us in the end or not
Speaker 1: good for society or not. But if you want to
Speaker 1: understand what is so incredible about the system that we have,
Speaker 1: thinking smaller and simpler terms, think more about the Walmart
Speaker 1: effect on this country, or the Ikea effect in this
Speaker 1: country as a result of free markets and capitalism and
Speaker 1: individual innovation, that you can go into a store. I mean,
Speaker 1: here's one example for me. I got a beard trimmer today.
Speaker 1: I got a beard trimmer for about forty bucks. Now,
Speaker 1: people always put down the cheap products that we get
Speaker 1: from overseas and how that's not going to make you know,
Speaker 1: there's this whole mentality in the right of that's not
Speaker 1: going to make you happy, that's not going to make
Speaker 1: you fulfill. Oh yeah, okay, fine. No one's saying that
Speaker 1: my beard trimmer is an existential issue. But I now
Speaker 1: I have my beard trimmer. I know that it's going
Speaker 1: to work. I mean, of course, there's always going to
Speaker 1: be some product effects, but it never really crosses my
Speaker 1: mind that this thing that I'm opening up isn't going
Speaker 1: to work. I know it'll work for a long time.
Speaker 1: I know that the different pieces and components of that
Speaker 1: beard trimmer have been put together by people who specialize
Speaker 1: in doing just that. They think about, how do I
Speaker 1: build the best beard trimmer? What does the guards so
Speaker 1: I don't cut myself and how does that work? Who
Speaker 1: comes up with the battery? What size should the battery be?
Speaker 1: How expensive should the battery be? That goes into this,
Speaker 1: because it's going to be affective of the overall price.
Speaker 1: We are surrounded and the point that I'm really trying
Speaker 1: to make here is that we are surrounded by miracles
Speaker 1: of capitalism large and small. This is astonishing that you
Speaker 1: can walk into the store and buy all the things
Speaker 1: that you can buy and know that they're not gonna
Speaker 1: make you sick. They're gonna do what they say they're
Speaker 1: gonna do. It's gonna be the same product over and
Speaker 1: over again. That there are people who are building better
Speaker 1: ones all the time. You know, we take some of
Speaker 1: this for granted now, just the notion of building a
Speaker 1: better mousetrap. You know, that's just a cliche. Right. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you something. Everything that you are interacting with in
Speaker 1: your day to day life is affected by capitalism for
Speaker 1: the better. Whether it's the ability to buy furniture. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can now set up set up a home comfortably
Speaker 1: on a budget that even twenty or thirty years ago,
Speaker 1: you know, could probably get you a bed. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have seen such an explosion of productivity we all
Speaker 1: have and it's because of specialization, innovation and the micro
Speaker 1: corrections that are only possible when people are self self interested,
Speaker 1: when they actually benefit from making changes to make little
Speaker 1: things better. You know, never it's all the stuff you
Speaker 1: hear about, you know, the devils and the details. You know,
Speaker 1: be a details guy. It's the details that count. We
Speaker 1: see a computer, We see I have a Mac laptop
Speaker 1: sitting in front of me right now. It's it's incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's more computing power than the entire NATO
Speaker 1: Alliance would have had in nineteen fifty. You know, it's
Speaker 1: more than we had when we went to the moon.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting right with it right in front of me.
Speaker 1: But don't think of it just as Apple as this
Speaker 1: genius company that's worth a close to a trillion dollars now,
Speaker 1: And think of it in all the people that worked
Speaker 1: on this screen, all the man hours that went into
Speaker 1: this keyboard that works, It works, it functions. If you
Speaker 1: want an appreciation for how capitalism has made your life
Speaker 1: better and why, the redistribution of wealth and the removal
Speaker 1: of micro corrections in processes, the removal of incentives for innovation,
Speaker 1: because remember, innovation is also about risk. Innovation is to
Speaker 1: do something that may fail. You're not going to do
Speaker 1: things that will fail if you feel like there's nothing
Speaker 1: in it for you. See, capitalism harnesses what is true
Speaker 1: of human nature and creates a system that produces benefit
Speaker 1: fits for everyone without trying to negate that basic trait
Speaker 1: of human nature. It's brilliant, it's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Right,
Speaker 1: democracy is brilliant. It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. But
Speaker 1: the Democrats don't even really the ones that are talking
Speaker 1: in this way, the ones that are taking this radical
Speaker 1: left attitude about you didn't build that, Obama voice this too,
Speaker 1: You didn't build that. Obama had never built anything. He
Speaker 1: built the cult of Obama. Didn't understand how to run
Speaker 1: a business, didn't understand how to produce or create a
Speaker 1: product other than himself. He was the product. He was
Speaker 1: a politician, and now he's, you know, gonna be worth
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars if he's not already by being
Speaker 1: the product. But the rest of us can't do that,
Speaker 1: and by the way, the rest of us don't really
Speaker 1: benefit very much from that. You're surrounded every day by
Speaker 1: the miracles of capitalism, so much so that it's hard
Speaker 1: for us, even me as I sit here and talk
Speaker 1: to you in this microphone that cost a couple of
Speaker 1: hundred bucks. That is world class. I mean crystal clear
Speaker 1: right in my computer that I'm in the same computer
Speaker 1: now for five or six years. Never broken down on me.
Speaker 1: I use this thing every day. This is my life's
Speaker 1: blood in terms of my work is in this computer.
Speaker 1: It never breaks down on me. Knock on wood. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go into a refrigerator full of food
Speaker 1: that is shipped to me in timely fashion, in timely fashioned.
Speaker 1: It's not spoiled. It's going to taste the way I
Speaker 1: wanted to taste. These are all the miracles of capitalism.
Speaker 1: Life was not this way before. Life involved everything you eat.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's okay. Maybe a little bit of risk to
Speaker 1: it though every product you buy, you know, buy or beware.
Speaker 1: You gotta hope that maybe you get lucky this time around,
Speaker 1: trusting the craftsmanship of the individual making it. Just think
Speaker 1: of what you do. I don't know if you have
Speaker 1: quite the same amount of panic as I do and
Speaker 1: this happens, but think about how when your phone goes dead.
Speaker 1: My phone's gone dead a few times for different reasons.
Speaker 1: When your phone goes dead, you feel like you are
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks in the movie cast Away all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: and your only friend is the volleyball name Wilson. You know,
Speaker 1: you just are out there with nothing. And that's because
Speaker 1: we're all so used to things around us working and
Speaker 1: being efficient, being effective, and there is a there's a
Speaker 1: real human benefit to this. I have to spend less
Speaker 1: time worrying about these things because other people worry about
Speaker 1: them for me, because they benefit from them working. You know,
Speaker 1: you get into the fundamentals of why the system works
Speaker 1: as well as it does, and democrats are spitting on it.
Speaker 1: Not all of them, not all of them, but even
Speaker 1: the Pelosi's of the world, who have benefited enormously from
Speaker 1: the very system I'm talking about. Belows he's a very
Speaker 1: wealthy woman, married a very rich guy, very wealthy woman.
Speaker 1: They're allowing this rhetoric of the war in the Ukazia
Speaker 1: Cortez is to overtake the truth in this situation, which
Speaker 1: is that the more individuals are incentivized with clearly defined
Speaker 1: rules and laws around them, sure, but the more individuals
Speaker 1: are incentivized to pursue specialization and excellence in everything they do,
Speaker 1: the better off we all will be as a society. Excellence,
Speaker 1: by the way, is possible and everything. Excellence is possible
Speaker 1: in high tech products that will change the world, that's possible.
Speaker 1: And how you make a cheeseburger every day for customers,
Speaker 1: it's possible. On how you open a door, how you
Speaker 1: drive the truck that you're in right now that delivers
Speaker 1: necessary goods to people all across the country. Excellence is
Speaker 1: possible for all of us in everything that we do,
Speaker 1: and capitalism tries to bring that out and celebrate it
Speaker 1: in all of us, which is why it is such
Speaker 1: a magnificent system that has produced so much benefit around
Speaker 1: the world. And we have seen the other side of
Speaker 1: this coin. We know what happens. We have the history
Speaker 1: to prove it. When you rely on in elite of
Speaker 1: all knowing, whether the revolutionaries or technocrats or whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call them, to make these determinations for us.
Speaker 1: We only need one kind of soap, We only need
Speaker 1: one kind of shoe. This is the best shoe, and
Speaker 1: we'll make it the best way. But nobody else should
Speaker 1: be making shoes. We'll do it for you, and we'll
Speaker 1: give it to you for free. We know what happens.
Speaker 1: The shoes stink, well, not necessarily literally, but the shoes
Speaker 1: are not good and there's not enough of them to
Speaker 1: go around anyway. It's basic human nature and we're talking
Speaker 1: about the building blocks of our society here, and I
Speaker 1: just wish Democrats would stop playing games with something that
Speaker 1: has meant so much to human beings around the world
Speaker 1: for the last hundred years. We'll be right back. He
Speaker 1: should step down and start his road to read. Being
Speaker 1: governor of a state is not an entitlement. What is
Speaker 1: clear is it's time for Governor Ralph Northam to step aside.
Speaker 1: I think that the governor should resign. I think he's
Speaker 1: shown himself sort of damaged in terms of his ability
Speaker 1: to govern. Governor Northam is a man without a party
Speaker 1: after his disastrous press conference, he has no credibility and
Speaker 1: no ability to lead. Once I had picture where the
Speaker 1: black face and the clansman came out, there is no
Speaker 1: way you can continue to be the governor of the
Speaker 1: Commonwealth of Virginia. He cannot serve. It's time for him
Speaker 1: to resign. He should resign. So disturbing, so racist hasn't
Speaker 1: resigned yet. Northam still governor Virginia. John, what do you think, man?
Speaker 1: You think he's going to resign? He has to, he has,
Speaker 1: he asked you, right, I mean, how well, what's he
Speaker 1: hanging on for? Then? Maybe it's to give a little
Speaker 1: more time for the lieutenant governor gets some stuff in
Speaker 1: order here. But he's got all these people coming out
Speaker 1: saying he needs to resign. It's the whole thing. It's
Speaker 1: just amazing, dude. Did we play the thing where he
Speaker 1: said that he might actually where he made it, seeing
Speaker 1: that he might be willing to moonwalk? Did we already
Speaker 1: play that? This is amazing? Guys. So he's at this
Speaker 1: he's at this press conference, which was a just an
Speaker 1: epic fail of a press conference. I don't know how
Speaker 1: else to say. I mean, it was just as bad
Speaker 1: of a press conference as you'll see anywhere anytime involving
Speaker 1: a politician. You know, he says that it's not him
Speaker 1: in the photo when it clearly is him in the photo.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is he's lying? I mean, you
Speaker 1: know he's oj looking for the real killers at this point,
Speaker 1: this just makes no sense. Why is anyone going to
Speaker 1: believe this guy? But as if that wasn't bad enough,
Speaker 1: he raised the idea because he said that he had
Speaker 1: used shoe polish to do blackface to play Michael Jackson
Speaker 1: in a dance contest. I mean, it's just the details
Speaker 1: here are wow. He raised the possibility. It's the governor
Speaker 1: of Virginia, folks, an important state. This is the governor. Okay,
Speaker 1: the guy's at the top of the of the executive
Speaker 1: hierarchy for that state. And here's what he said, play
Speaker 1: Cliff nine. Yes, that's right. Inappropriate, My wife says, inappropriate circumstances.
Speaker 1: So you had a reporter there. If you could see
Speaker 1: the video, it's a little clearer, but i'll just talk
Speaker 1: you through it quickly. You had a reporter there who said,
Speaker 1: can you still moonwalk? And Northam is like well, and
Speaker 1: he kind of like makes it like maybe he's about
Speaker 1: to do it. And then his wife, who's next to him,
Speaker 1: she's obviously going through a rough ordeal here. She's like,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, inappropriate circumstances, as in, don't Joe moonwalk
Speaker 1: right now? You moron, what are you thinking? That's what
Speaker 1: That's what we've come to here with this guy in
Speaker 1: all these democrats that I think of, who wrote it
Speaker 1: for Northam? Over Gillespie because Northam was the you know,
Speaker 1: the sound choice, the reasonable choice, the not racist choice.
Speaker 1: How does that feel now? That didn't age very well,
Speaker 1: as the kids say, or just as people say, that
Speaker 1: did not age well at all. We got the lieutenant
Speaker 1: governor who would be lieutenant governor who ran with Gillespie
Speaker 1: joining us here in just a moment. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you really need to hear from him about what
Speaker 1: it was like to run against Northam and to run
Speaker 1: against Fairfax, and how those guys played the game and
Speaker 1: how dirty they fought. And he wouldn't even shake He
Speaker 1: wouldn't even shake his hand. Well, come back, we'll talk more.
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Speaker 1: Earlier today, I released a statement apologize for behavior in
Speaker 1: my past that falls far short of the standard you
Speaker 1: set from me when you elected me to be your governor.
Speaker 1: I believe you deserve to hear directly from me. That
Speaker 1: photo and the racist and offensive attitude that represents does
Speaker 1: not reflect that person I am today, or the way
Speaker 1: that I have conducted myself as a soldier, a doctor,
Speaker 1: and a public servant. I am deeply sorry. I cannot
Speaker 1: change the decisions I made, nor can I undo the
Speaker 1: harm my behavior calls then and today. But I accept
Speaker 1: responsibility for my past actions and I am ready to
Speaker 1: do the hard work of regaining your trust. So there
Speaker 1: you have Governor of Virginia, Democrat, despite CNN listing him
Speaker 1: as a Republican when this verse broke interesting, you have
Speaker 1: Governor Northam talking about this photo in the year book
Speaker 1: that came up from nineteen eighty four from a medical
Speaker 1: school in Virginia that he attended. Originally apologized, then he
Speaker 1: said he wasn't sure that it was him in the photo.
Speaker 1: Now he says he's not in the photo, but he
Speaker 1: did blackface another time. It's just nonsense. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is crazy stuff that we're seeing from the Democrats in
Speaker 1: a desperate scramble to maintain the governorship of a very
Speaker 1: important state. Well, I want to bring on somebody who
Speaker 1: can shed a particular light on what's going on in
Speaker 1: Virginia and Virginia politics and knows some of these players personally.
Speaker 1: We are joined down by Bishop E. W. Jackson. He
Speaker 1: is with us now. He was the GOP nominee for
Speaker 1: lieutenant governor in Virginia, and he can tell us a
Speaker 1: bit about his own experiences and his thoughts on this
Speaker 1: whole matter. Bishop Jackson, thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. All right, So, first of all,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, I mean, is this at
Speaker 1: all a surprise to you that this has come out
Speaker 1: about northumb I mean, I can go back pretty easily
Speaker 1: and see that Northam was running some very incendiary ads
Speaker 1: and very clearly going after his opponent, which was at
Speaker 1: the top of your ticket for the Republican side of
Speaker 1: things in Virginia, with the accusations of racism. Now it
Speaker 1: turns out that Northam has a racist pas, what do
Speaker 1: you make of this? Bishop, I may be the one
Speaker 1: person in the Commonwealth of Virginia who is not surprised,
Speaker 1: although anybody was following our race fostly saw that and
Speaker 1: were shocked that the mainstream media absolutely dismissed it. And
Speaker 1: we know that had it been a white conservative refusing
Speaker 1: to shake the hand of a black liberal, it would
Speaker 1: have been front page news the very next day. It
Speaker 1: would have been a major scandal. But I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: because look, I was on the campaign trail with the
Speaker 1: man who saw him and had to interact with him
Speaker 1: many times, and I was told, well, he's a nice guy,
Speaker 1: he's a Southern gentleman. He is the only person that
Speaker 1: I've ever run against who I found treated me with
Speaker 1: and I've never said anything personal. I don't do that.
Speaker 1: I don't attack people personally. We kept it strictly on policy.
Speaker 1: But when he refused to shake my hand for the
Speaker 1: first time ever running for any office, I thought, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm dealing with a bona fide racist and
Speaker 1: this man does not want me to touch him. And
Speaker 1: so this came out and I thought, yep, exactly what
Speaker 1: I suspected. And now the tickets have co home to roost.
Speaker 1: Here you are, you're talking about this instant that occurred
Speaker 1: after debate. You're a well known politician the state of Virginia.
Speaker 1: You're also a former Marine Corps veteran and a black
Speaker 1: American who is trying to represent his state, in his
Speaker 1: community and his fellow Americans. And this guy won't shake
Speaker 1: your hand. You rightly point out that if you just
Speaker 1: changed a little bit here in terms of political affiliation,
Speaker 1: it's a big story. Did the Virginia never mind, the
Speaker 1: national press, pay much attention all the fact this guy
Speaker 1: wouldn't even shake your hand. They paid virtually no attention
Speaker 1: to it whatsoever. I mean, I had a lot of
Speaker 1: republic who and conservatives asked me what was that about?
Speaker 1: Why would he not shake your hand? And I mean,
Speaker 1: if not, is it for people who have seen the take?
Speaker 1: They can get it on if they haven't seen. They
Speaker 1: can get it on YouTube. All they guys can do
Speaker 1: is google Northam versus Jackson and handshake or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I reached out and he did not even acknowledge
Speaker 1: my presence, and so then I tapped him on his
Speaker 1: arm because see me, And when I did, he absolutely
Speaker 1: acted as if I was not there. Even at the
Speaker 1: end of the debate. He never looked at me and
Speaker 1: smiled or acknowledge me in any way. So yeah, it
Speaker 1: was definitely a really despicable way of behaving. And I'd
Speaker 1: never seen anybody do anything like that on the campaign trail.
Speaker 1: And is it it fair to say that the way
Speaker 1: that Northam ran against Gillespie, who was a well known
Speaker 1: guy in Republican circles, And look, I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people that know ed, and they all say he's
Speaker 1: also just really a really nice guy and a good guy.
Speaker 1: And they worth those campaign trashed him as a racist.
Speaker 1: Well I know ed too, I had attest to that
Speaker 1: it is a nice guy. Northom portrayed him as a racist,
Speaker 1: basically a child predator who was out hunting down kids
Speaker 1: in a pickup truck with a Confederate flag on the
Speaker 1: bat and has minority kids running and panic that this
Speaker 1: man is out to get them. And this is how
Speaker 1: he depicted Ed Gillestie as a racist child predator. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was so despicable that I when it, I just thought,
Speaker 1: you know, that is beneath contempt. And he'll say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that wasn't really me. But he didn't dennounce it either.
Speaker 1: He didn't say there's no place for that kind of
Speaker 1: rhetoric or communications in politics. He was happy to endorse
Speaker 1: it with his silence, if not with his approval. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even want to hear it. This guy to me,
Speaker 1: and you know, and the thing is, to me, this
Speaker 1: represents so the dirty little secret of the Democrat Party,
Speaker 1: which is they use race to try to sneer Republicans,
Speaker 1: to sneer Conservatives and manipulate black people. But behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: the very thing they're accusing others of is a very
Speaker 1: thing that Stayed themselves are guilty of. We're speaking to
Speaker 1: Bishop Earl Walker Jackson, who is a politician. He was
Speaker 1: the lieutenant governor on the lieutenant governor ticket rather running
Speaker 1: with Ed Gillespie against Northam and also against the current
Speaker 1: Lieutenant governor of Virginia Justin Fairfax, who has also gotten
Speaker 1: into some hot water in the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: So I want to ask you, Bishop. You know, here
Speaker 1: we have an allegation of sexual assault from a while ago,
Speaker 1: about fifteen years ago. I believe Washington Post says that
Speaker 1: they were approached with this and they refused to run
Speaker 1: it because they couldn't verify it. Now that's the same
Speaker 1: Washington Post that ran with a lot of stories about
Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh. I want to know what you think about
Speaker 1: this allegation. How should we How should the people of
Speaker 1: Virginia and across the country gauge this allegation against Lieutenant
Speaker 1: Governor Justin Fairfax, also a Democrat African American at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the ticket with Northam. What do you think
Speaker 1: we should do about this, Lieutenant Governor? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make this about me, even just
Speaker 1: to point out the double standards when they were investigating me,
Speaker 1: and they did extensively when I was running against out
Speaker 1: Ralph Northam. They ran bad stories and speculated, well, we
Speaker 1: can't verify all of this, but we think you all
Speaker 1: ought to know because we think the man is a liar.
Speaker 1: We think there's something wrong with him. So this mindset
Speaker 1: that they had, I mean, I say, if they'd investigated
Speaker 1: Ralph Northam at the depth to which they investigated me,
Speaker 1: he would have never have been elected. I would have
Speaker 1: been elected lieutenant governor. I believe that. But nevertheless, yet
Speaker 1: the Democrats are great at hypocrisy. I don't know whether
Speaker 1: these allegations are true or not true, but there is
Speaker 1: a pattern within the Democrat Party for doing the very
Speaker 1: things that they accuse other than doing in order to
Speaker 1: further their own political agenda and and quest for power.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what this all proves to be. I
Speaker 1: don't want to come to a conclusion yet, but it
Speaker 1: would not surprise me because if Democrats are expert at anything,
Speaker 1: if Liberals are expert at anything, it is hypocrisy. Can
Speaker 1: I ask you, can ask you, Bishop, what kind of
Speaker 1: for the folks listening across the country, what kind of
Speaker 1: media hostility, and what kind of oppo research from the
Speaker 1: media and from groups that are hired specifically to do
Speaker 1: opa resent What kind of stuff were you up against
Speaker 1: running for lieutenant African American Republican would be lieutenant governor
Speaker 1: in the state of Virginia, and look I say all
Speaker 1: the time, I owe my country a great deal. I
Speaker 1: love this country, and so I don't tap myself on
Speaker 1: the back, like you know, I'm some great somebody. But
Speaker 1: but I start as a foster child. I grew up
Speaker 1: in the poverty. And what the Washington Post did, what
Speaker 1: the what the mainstream media did. They never gave me
Speaker 1: any credit for having gone from that to Harvard Law School,
Speaker 1: having practice law, having nothing. They went and investigated my background.
Speaker 1: They tried to prove that my so called foster care
Speaker 1: was a middle class home, that it really did have
Speaker 1: an indoor fass room, and it did not, and it
Speaker 1: was not a middle class home. They tried to prove
Speaker 1: that I hadn't gone to Harvard Divinity School. They tried
Speaker 1: to prove that I'd never been a chaplain for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox. They went about their business trying to disprove
Speaker 1: my background, to show that I was not sort of
Speaker 1: a Horatio Alger story, somebody who started for nothing and
Speaker 1: had made something of himself. They were trying to tear
Speaker 1: me down every turn. That's what I faced. You know
Speaker 1: what Ralph Norton faced. He faced puff pieces that about
Speaker 1: how great he was, and oh the compassion, and he's
Speaker 1: a great pediatrician. They didn't talk about his radical views
Speaker 1: on a portion. They didn't say anything about this stuff
Speaker 1: that I believe they probably knew, saying I just don't
Speaker 1: believe if they could investigate me that way, they either
Speaker 1: knew or they simply chose not to know what Ralph
Speaker 1: Northam had really did and what he really was. Bishop Jackson,
Speaker 1: before we let you go, should Ralph Northam resign? Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: he would resign. Look, we're not going to get any
Speaker 1: bargains in justin Fairfax by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 1: He's got his own problems. He's another race vader as
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. I saw him do it in
Speaker 1: an LG campaign against Joe Vogel, accused her of racism
Speaker 1: because she questioned his experience. Well, that's you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a fair question. Do you have the experience to
Speaker 1: be the head of the state Senate and so forth?
Speaker 1: But he oh, that was a racial play. So but
Speaker 1: you know what, Ralph Northam doesn't deserve to beat to
Speaker 1: sit in the seat that Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 1: There's so many other illustrious leaders to stay in. He
Speaker 1: needs to go. All right, Bishop, we really appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. Oh, thank you
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Speaker 1: and if you read through the story, you'll see it's
Speaker 1: completely uncorroborated. And the fact that they would run a
Speaker 1: story on an uncorroborated allegation from now fifteen years ago
Speaker 1: tells you exactly what this smear is all about. The
Speaker 1: story because it was not credible, because it was uncorroborated,
Speaker 1: and what we know is that it's false and defamatory.
Speaker 1: And so this person then went into hiding and laid
Speaker 1: low and the weeds to have someone manipulate the press
Speaker 1: and to come out a year ago, fail at getting
Speaker 1: that into the media, then go away, and then when
Speaker 1: they think they have an opportunity at maximum media attention
Speaker 1: point to come back again with the same false, uncorroborated
Speaker 1: allegation tells you everything you need to know about the
Speaker 1: falsity of it, about you know, the person who's making
Speaker 1: the allegation, and also about the environment that we're in.
Speaker 1: What a week for Virginia politics. Pretty crazy stuff going
Speaker 1: on here. Okay, you know you have Northam his governorship
Speaker 1: on life support. I think he thinks, and he may
Speaker 1: even manage to make it through. But you have to
Speaker 1: add into that now that you have Lieutenant Governor Fairfax,
Speaker 1: who would be the man to be elevated to the
Speaker 1: governorship if Northam did in fact have to resign, which
Speaker 1: you've had I think Pelosi and Schumer and a lot
Speaker 1: of big Democrats saying he resigns. He should resign because
Speaker 1: they know that this is this is a liability for
Speaker 1: the Democrats. It's too big of a liability that they
Speaker 1: can't explain this one away. They don't have a means
Speaker 1: of making it anything other than obvious that there's a
Speaker 1: double standard in play here. So they're willing, i think,
Speaker 1: to let Northam get sacrifice. But Northam and the Democrats
Speaker 1: and the far left pro abortion progress, they're fighting to
Speaker 1: the very last here. But now you have Fairfax, who
Speaker 1: was accused of a sexual assault. Now he says it
Speaker 1: was consensual. This this is a classic he said, she
Speaker 1: said situation. From what we have so far, we don't
Speaker 1: have that much information to go on here. What we
Speaker 1: have is that this website, the same one that initially
Speaker 1: posted the Northam photo, Big League Politics, ran an update
Speaker 1: that quote Stanford fellow hints at possible justin Fairfax sex assault.
Speaker 1: And this is the same this is the same site
Speaker 1: that broke the Northam story, which is clearly true. I
Speaker 1: mean Northam. Northam had racist, racist crap on his face
Speaker 1: and his Facebook on his yearbook page, and now he
Speaker 1: was just telling lies in a desperate attempt to hold
Speaker 1: keep his job. Okay, Northam's a liar and it's pathetic.
Speaker 1: But that that same website now has put out this
Speaker 1: other story. Now, this is very interesting because I would
Speaker 1: generally want to take the position of we should wait
Speaker 1: for there to be evidence. We shouldn't we shouldn't take
Speaker 1: actually against people without proof, and they should have an
Speaker 1: ability to respond to charges, both criminally and in the
Speaker 1: so called court of public opinion. I don't like that phrase,
Speaker 1: even because public opinion is not a court. But he
Speaker 1: should be able to respond to this. And here's my problem.
Speaker 1: The Washington Post knew about this allegation of a sexual assault.
Speaker 1: It sounds like, you know, sexual assault is a broad
Speaker 1: enough term. It could be a rape. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but certainly some form of sexual assault. Washingtonst knew about
Speaker 1: this a year ago, did not run it, didn't go
Speaker 1: with the story presented to them. A woman named on
Speaker 1: the record said this happened. They didn't want to run it.
Speaker 1: They said it's uncorroborated. And I can't help but look
Speaker 1: at this story and say, where was that streak of
Speaker 1: caution and journalistic integrity from every major newspaper in the
Speaker 1: on the East Coast and really across the country except
Speaker 1: for the Wall Street Journal when it came to Brett Kavanaugh. Uncorroborated,
Speaker 1: just bizarre, incredible in the sense of hard to believe,
Speaker 1: allegation after allegation, with information contradicting or contravening the stories presented,
Speaker 1: and the Washington Post had not an iota of the
Speaker 1: skepticism shown during the Kavanaugh hearings, as they did obviously
Speaker 1: when it came to Fairfax and a Democrat, as an
Speaker 1: African American Democrat as lieutenant governor of Virginia. So this
Speaker 1: is the problem I have. We see this once again
Speaker 1: with Northam. The standard that the left has created for conservatives,
Speaker 1: for Republicans is doesn't matter how old it is. Racist
Speaker 1: stuff gets you fired. Racist stuff gets you kicked out
Speaker 1: of public life. Do I think that's a good standard. No,
Speaker 1: But do we have any prayer of changing that standard
Speaker 1: without the left having to live under it too, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. So Northam's got to go now. You
Speaker 1: also have a standard set up during the Cavanaugh debacle,
Speaker 1: when the Left was trying so desperately to destroy him.
Speaker 1: The standard was women have a right to be believed.
Speaker 1: The standard was an allegation is enough to destroy someone's career,
Speaker 1: to stop them from holding a job, and to ruin
Speaker 1: their life. That was the standard the left was operating it.
Speaker 1: Or now, because Avenati is a clown, and because the
Speaker 1: third accuser against Cavanaugh was clearly a liar, a vicious, evil,
Speaker 1: deranged liar, it didn't work. But the standard the press
Speaker 1: was operating under at the time was the allegation is enough.
Speaker 1: Women have a right to be believed. So if we're
Speaker 1: going to take the same approach with Northam, which is
Speaker 1: that we have to make the left live under its
Speaker 1: own rules, as we do with Fairfax, why should the
Speaker 1: media get a pass for bearing this story? Why was
Speaker 1: this never reported? Woman accuses politician of They're not saying
Speaker 1: it happened, They're saying there's a woman who's making the accusation.
Speaker 1: How is that not a news story? This is how
Speaker 1: the left cheats. This is how the media helps Democrats.
Speaker 1: When we are seeing it in more than one major instance.
Speaker 1: Do not forget it. And we shouldn't get to a
Speaker 1: place where there are people yelling from the rafters that
Speaker 1: because you have been successful, you are a bad person
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be punitive to you. That's to me,
Speaker 1: the antithesis of the spirit of the country. I agree
Speaker 1: with Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks, and I have
Speaker 1: found this whole circumstance of Schultz getting just piled on
Speaker 1: by Democrats very illuminating with regard to the direction and
Speaker 1: trajectory of that party and how it feels about entrepreneurship
Speaker 1: and success and innovation. But I want to bring on
Speaker 1: somebody who actually does all those things, innovation, entrepreneurship, and success,
Speaker 1: and who also served as country and Special Operations. That's right,
Speaker 1: it is our friend, the foundered CEO of Black Rifle Coffee,
Speaker 1: Evan Hayfer, is in the house. Evan, thanks for making
Speaker 1: the time for us. Fuck, man, it's great to tie
Speaker 1: do you haven't talked to you for too long? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know, man, I'm glad we get to catch up here.
Speaker 1: Off the catch up in person. Soon, tell me what
Speaker 1: your thoughts are man as somebody who's running a rapidly
Speaker 1: growing successful company, great American brand obviously a partner here
Speaker 1: on the show, which we tremendously appreciate, But when you
Speaker 1: hear the demonization of success that's coming from very powerful
Speaker 1: quarters and very mainstream voices with regard to running a
Speaker 1: business and growing a business, what do you think about? Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple different things that we have
Speaker 1: to really just unpack, which is demonization of success. Literally
Speaker 1: have to define where does the success come from? And
Speaker 1: how has the person been successful? Right? And I think
Speaker 1: growing a business and when you have a business, for instance,
Speaker 1: like Black Rifle Coffee or Coffee Company X one, you
Speaker 1: have to work through a lot of complex problems in
Speaker 1: order to get to what anybody would define as success
Speaker 1: and not only succeeding. You can't just put place a
Speaker 1: number on it and say, well, we've defined because we've
Speaker 1: made millions of dollars? Well, are we an ethical company
Speaker 1: that supports our community in a way? When I say this,
Speaker 1: I promote American values. But that's part of being a
Speaker 1: successful company is not only having a successful transaction with
Speaker 1: my customers, but also I need a company that promotes
Speaker 1: American values and constitutional beliefs, the fabric in DNA of
Speaker 1: this country. So I think when people demonize Schultz, and
Speaker 1: I think for the wrong reasons, by the way, which
Speaker 1: is probably one of the only things we would agree
Speaker 1: on for success. This is this narrative where if you
Speaker 1: have wealth in this country, you're evil. And I think
Speaker 1: that's such a simplistic way to look at things. And
Speaker 1: I think the progressive millennial looks very much at wealth
Speaker 1: and success as evil and they just want to demonize it. Now, Ivan,
Speaker 1: your special operations vet as people listen to the show,
Speaker 1: and who know Black Rifle know from part of your story.
Speaker 1: So you're you're a guy who's used to getting told
Speaker 1: to do the near impossible and to do it with
Speaker 1: limited stuff and with a smile. Right now, you're in
Speaker 1: the private sector. Though, if, for example, that to expand
Speaker 1: a little bit on the stuff that we're hearing, you
Speaker 1: know what would happen to your business If if o'cazio
Speaker 1: Quarte has got to show up to Black Rifle Coffee
Speaker 1: and just said, you know what, Evan, I just think
Speaker 1: you should pay whatever you're paying your workers. Just pay
Speaker 1: them double. Now, I know you treat your guys well,
Speaker 1: but what would happen if you just got a mandate
Speaker 1: from the government to just pay everybody double what you're
Speaker 1: paying them right now? What would that do to your business? Oh,
Speaker 1: we would have it would destroy the business. Because you know,
Speaker 1: and this is the progressive pipe dream from people that
Speaker 1: have little to zero experience building successful businesses and or
Speaker 1: working through capitalism in order to achieve financial successes. They
Speaker 1: think that because you have or you have made one dollar,
Speaker 1: that dollar goes right back into your bank account. They
Speaker 1: have no concept of reality when it comes to running
Speaker 1: a business in one providing payment for services rendered and
Speaker 1: compensation for a fair job. So if you have a
Speaker 1: barista or somebody that's serving coffee, there's a wage out
Speaker 1: there that you can pay in order to that's a
Speaker 1: fair wage based on market to get a qualified barista
Speaker 1: to come in and serve coffee. If you double that wage,
Speaker 1: just arbitrarily based on government, a government mandate that has
Speaker 1: zero knowledge or complexity to how businesses run, this is
Speaker 1: how you would literally collapse an entire economy within a category.
Speaker 1: So it would be the same thing if there to
Speaker 1: increase a tax burden on the small business without fairly
Speaker 1: looking at how to adjust or comprehend what's called the
Speaker 1: P and L. Right, there's just no way a government,
Speaker 1: when I say this, a government elected official, zero business experience,
Speaker 1: has the ability to look at salary or compensation and
Speaker 1: make an arbitrary decision. They that would be a catastrophe.
Speaker 1: It would be a nightmare. What I call it dumpster fire.
Speaker 1: Evan Hayfer's CEO of Black Rifle Coffee. As you're listening,
Speaker 1: you better already be drinking black Rifle. If you're not, though,
Speaker 1: you know where to go to get it, folks. Um Evan,
Speaker 1: you know did to your point? Also about about taxes,
Speaker 1: I mean we hear a lot from from the Democrats
Speaker 1: these days. They say the taxes only only went to
Speaker 1: the rich. But what is a change in You know,
Speaker 1: you're dealing with operating expenses, with the reality of running
Speaker 1: a rapidly growing business, but a business that still has
Speaker 1: to deal with what is the cost of stuff? What
Speaker 1: are you paying stuff? You know, the numbers matter. What
Speaker 1: does a what does a drastic reduction in the corporate
Speaker 1: tax rate mean? For for example, black Rifle? Well, I
Speaker 1: think people have this this you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say people, and I think I want to define progressive.
Speaker 1: Millennials have this idea that you're once again when we
Speaker 1: go back to this dollar where hey, if you if
Speaker 1: you pull a dollar in from a transaction, you just
Speaker 1: keep this dollar. And they think if you make thirty
Speaker 1: cents on that dollar, that just goes back into your
Speaker 1: bank account, and then wealthy people just pile it up
Speaker 1: in big pools of gold and they jump off their
Speaker 1: diving boards into it. That's just such a flawed interpretation
Speaker 1: of business and it's such a naive perspective. What happens
Speaker 1: is if the government takes less of our money, that
Speaker 1: money is reinvested into the company. So I get to
Speaker 1: hire more people because my ability to scale and grow
Speaker 1: a business also is one of our missions and our
Speaker 1: mandates is to continue to emancipate and provide opportunity for veterans.
Speaker 1: So I want to scale my business. I want to
Speaker 1: create more gross revenue because that means more jobs for veterans.
Speaker 1: So what I do is I take that the ten
Speaker 1: percent difference if the government was to decrease my tax burden,
Speaker 1: I rolled that back into my company in a way
Speaker 1: that makes the most value for the company and creates
Speaker 1: the greatest amount of impact for my mission, which is
Speaker 1: to employ and empower veterans. And you know this is
Speaker 1: just a simplification or a summation of what you just
Speaker 1: said would be. You know what to do with that
Speaker 1: dollar better than the government does. Oh absolutely. You know,
Speaker 1: this year we've been really fortunate. We've we've given back
Speaker 1: into veteran and veteran entrepreneur causes plus law enforcement causes
Speaker 1: to the tune of about four hundred thousand dollars this year,
Speaker 1: which is three times as much as I gave back
Speaker 1: last year, which is also when when I say this,
Speaker 1: we've every year we've been able to give back more
Speaker 1: than I've ever taken out of the company. Like individually,
Speaker 1: I think that's a huge when I say that. For
Speaker 1: the company to be able to do that, that's one
Speaker 1: of our charters. And I know what to do because
Speaker 1: I'm an ethical steward of my customer's dollar. I know
Speaker 1: what to do with that dollar. I also know great
Speaker 1: nonprofits where people put their money to work. Evan Hey
Speaker 1: for Everybody's CEO of Black Rifle Coffee obviously one of
Speaker 1: our favorite sponsors here on the show, but also a
Speaker 1: company that's doing great stuff and somebody who's on the
Speaker 1: front lines of growing a great American brand. So we
Speaker 1: talk about what is the reality of wages and taxes
Speaker 1: and policies that either can be pro growth and capitalistic
Speaker 1: or trending toward the AOC socialistic side. We've got somebody
Speaker 1: who can actually talk to us about what that means
Speaker 1: like day to day. Evan, Tell your guys, I'm coming
Speaker 1: down to San Antonio sometimes to shoot some guns, to
Speaker 1: drink some coffee. All right, man, you've got to get
Speaker 1: down here. Buck. We miss you. Man, You're welcome anytime.
Speaker 1: You know where the guns and the coffee are. They're
Speaker 1: always a black rifle coffee. I'm into it, my friend.
Speaker 1: I'll be talking to you soon. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining us, Evan. Hey for a black rifle. So I
Speaker 1: don't have to tell you that the Super Bowl is boring.
Speaker 1: You probably watched it and realize, yes, the right team won,
Speaker 1: the Patriots with a better team, no question. But the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl has that experienced in terms of it brings
Speaker 1: people together. I watch it with my family, Miss Molly.
Speaker 1: We had a great time, eat a lot of delicious barbecue.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun. Okay. And this is
Speaker 1: also where I know, if I start talking sports, you're
Speaker 1: gonna say, Buck, you talking about football and trying to
Speaker 1: analyze it in any serious way is like listening to
Speaker 1: an Eskimo talk about how to you know, surf? You
Speaker 1: know that it's just not really part of the part
Speaker 1: of the equation that all said. The ads and the
Speaker 1: politics of the ads. I found so many of the
Speaker 1: ads to be smarmy, a little weirdly, condescending, trying way
Speaker 1: too hard. I mean that Andy Warhol ad for I
Speaker 1: guess it was was it burger king was just garbage,
Speaker 1: just was not good. Wasn't a good ADU. There are
Speaker 1: many ads that were not good ads, but the war
Speaker 1: dumpster fire of all in terms of the ads that
Speaker 1: were running during the Super Bowl. In my opinion, which
Speaker 1: I guess I always share with you on the show,
Speaker 1: is is the Washington Post. Add that I remember the
Speaker 1: Washington Post. It's got a sugar daddy with the owner
Speaker 1: and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who funds the Washington Post. Now, so,
Speaker 1: whether the Washington Post is even a successful venture or not,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to say because so much of what
Speaker 1: the Washington Post does is going to be subsidized in
Speaker 1: some way by its association with Jeff Bezos, And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of ways to hide stuff on the books.
Speaker 1: But journalists are obsessed with themselves, and people who say
Speaker 1: to me, will buck your journalist. I do not claim
Speaker 1: to be a journalist. I'm not a journalist, and I
Speaker 1: view my role as as actually kicking out from under
Speaker 1: them this phony, this phony foundation of journalists are the
Speaker 1: firefighters of democracy. Journalists are these incredible, brave truth tellers. No,
Speaker 1: journalists are very much like Hollywood actors. It's a big industry.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of money in it, but it's full
Speaker 1: of incredibly vain, venal, self loving, self interested, thin skinned
Speaker 1: bad people. There are a lot of bad people in
Speaker 1: this industry. You know. This is why I'll say the
Speaker 1: same thing about Hollywood. But that doesn't mean you know,
Speaker 1: I think you know, Jimmy Woods, for example, is a
Speaker 1: great actor and a hilarious political commentary guy. I think
Speaker 1: there are you know, there are other actors. I mean,
Speaker 1: just because I make fun of Hollywood doesn't mean I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give all props in respect to Gary
Speaker 1: Sinisee for all the very real work that he does
Speaker 1: helping veterans and recognizing it. He's also a successful actor,
Speaker 1: but a guy who puts his money where his mouth is,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you can criticize an industry,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you're indicting everybody in it. Journalists or
Speaker 1: terror journalists are very annoying, bad people for the most part.
Speaker 1: They have a skill set that's not in any way unique,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of just sucking up and trying
Speaker 1: to make the right friend group and they just sort
Speaker 1: of go from there. That's why this Washington Post ad
Speaker 1: was just almost too much to stomach. I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It was an appalling exercise in self licking ice cream
Speaker 1: cone five million dollars worth. How many unemployed BuzzFeed writers,
Speaker 1: how many unemployed huff Post bloggers could you pick up
Speaker 1: for five million dollars for a sixty second ad. Here's
Speaker 1: the let's just listen to this, this pompous, stupid ad
Speaker 1: played twenty four. When we go off to war, when
Speaker 1: we exercise our rights, when we or to our greatest heights,
Speaker 1: when we mourn and pray, when our neighbors are at risk,
Speaker 1: when our nation is threatening, there's someone to gather the
Speaker 1: facts to bring you the story, no matter the cost,
Speaker 1: because knowing empowers us, Knowing helps us decide, Knowing keeps
Speaker 1: us great. We don't need journalist for any of that.
Speaker 1: We don't. Information now travels with such frequency in such
Speaker 1: a volume. The idea that we have to have these
Speaker 1: gatekeepers to provide this kind of information, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: sure you need some people to be but there'll always
Speaker 1: be people that are sharing this information won't bear another.
Speaker 1: We do not need a professional class of journalists so
Speaker 1: that we are an informed democracy. We have plenty of
Speaker 1: ways of getting information from, whether it's citizen journalists or
Speaker 1: you know, this idea that we have to have all
Speaker 1: these people. There's a lot of great local journalism that's done.
Speaker 1: We don't need the Washington Post to exist, folks. This
Speaker 1: is really what it comes down to. We don't actually
Speaker 1: need this class to be in place to try to
Speaker 1: tell us what the truth is because they lie, because
Speaker 1: they're biased, because they're self interested in this whole process
Speaker 1: in a way they'reffused to accept, and just a few things,
Speaker 1: you know, when they had the whole opportunity to tell
Speaker 1: us about the threats that face us, and they could
Speaker 1: have picked They could have picked nine to eleven to
Speaker 1: show us something. You know from nine eleven, you know
Speaker 1: what they picked. That's right, Oklahoma City the favorite terrorist
Speaker 1: attack of the progressive left, because it's the terrorists stack
Speaker 1: that they point to you to say, see, the threat
Speaker 1: from mean white nationalists is just as bad as a
Speaker 1: threat from radical Islam. They play this game all the time.
Speaker 1: It's pathetic, it's so weird. No normal person would ever
Speaker 1: think that this is the case, but they will do it.
Speaker 1: They did it in this ad, and there's just a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of stuff that you see from
Speaker 1: their own little montage here where you say to yourself,
Speaker 1: a hold on a minute, why do we need to
Speaker 1: support media organizations? I would note that have been around
Speaker 1: for a long time. What does that really mean? That's
Speaker 1: just a perception issue, right. If we were to look
Speaker 1: at the way the media has operated over time, you'd
Speaker 1: say to yourself, shouldn't some of the really old newspapers
Speaker 1: Since newspapers are going away and it's all online and
Speaker 1: digital now, shouldn't they give way to other organizations? Isn't
Speaker 1: it the natural order of things that the New York Times,
Speaker 1: which was about to go under but was saved by
Speaker 1: Carlos Slim. Oh, that's right, and they had a remarkable
Speaker 1: turn toward open borders editorializing. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: New York Times went from caring about the African American
Speaker 1: and white working class and the downward pressure on wages
Speaker 1: from mass illegal immigration to there's no problem with that
Speaker 1: at all. We're a melting pot immigrants through the jobs
Speaker 1: Americans won't do right around with Carlos Slim took a
Speaker 1: huge stake in and effectively saved the New York Times.
Speaker 1: Look at the Washington Post with Jeff Bezos. What does
Speaker 1: the Washington Post turn into without Bezos's infusion of cash?
Speaker 1: And also, why do we like to tell ourselves or
Speaker 1: why do journalists like to constantly tell us that they
Speaker 1: are independent when we know that they have their bread
Speaker 1: getting buttered from certain people with certain kinds of ideologies.
Speaker 1: It's just the whole thing was just pathetic. We don't
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Speaker 1: because there's been a lot of stuff that has been
Speaker 1: said about me that's absolutely not true. There's points that
Speaker 1: I wanted to make really, just because it's all four points. Good.
Speaker 1: I was bruised, but my ribs were not cracked. Good
Speaker 1: and we're not ready. I went to the doctor immediately,
Speaker 1: Frank Acid Drew movie. I was not hospitalized. Both my
Speaker 1: doctors in LA and Chicago needs to perform because they
Speaker 1: has taken care obviously, and above all, I fought back.
Speaker 1: Jessie Smollett or Smollett is now becoming a household name
Speaker 1: because of this story that has been getting a lot
Speaker 1: of media attention that he as he is an actor,
Speaker 1: he's in the show Empire, and is African American and
Speaker 1: is gay, and he claims that he was attacked by
Speaker 1: two redneck maga hat wearing racists. The claim was that there,
Speaker 1: and the story has been shifting here and there, of course,
Speaker 1: but the claim is that these two guys came up
Speaker 1: to him and attacked him, sprayed some chemical on his face,
Speaker 1: and then put a noose around his neck. I mean
Speaker 1: didn't tighten it and try to actually strangle him, but
Speaker 1: put a noose around his neck in a hate crime attack.
Speaker 1: The President heard about this, he said, sounds horrible. It's
Speaker 1: the most horrible thing. Everyone's saying. It's a horrible thing.
Speaker 1: So let me preface this by saying, if somehow this
Speaker 1: were true, then of course it is a terrible thing.
Speaker 1: Assaulting anybody on the street. Assaulting any in the street
Speaker 1: because you don't like the way they look, or you
Speaker 1: don't like what their ethnicity is, or because you are
Speaker 1: anti gay, any of these things disgusting, disgraceful conduct that
Speaker 1: should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Speaker 1: Let's just put that out there. Okay, Now, let's look
Speaker 1: at the details of this case. Because that was Jesse
Speaker 1: Smollett gave a performance this weekend. He could tell people
Speaker 1: are all, oh, he's some kind of a hero now,
Speaker 1: and he said he fought back. Well, so far, there
Speaker 1: have been a few problems with this whole narrative. For one,
Speaker 1: he wore the noose, this rope around his neck and
Speaker 1: wore it when he went home, and there was another
Speaker 1: person present when he called the police when he went home. Now,
Speaker 1: if somebody put a noose around your neck. I understand
Speaker 1: wanting to keep it for evidentiary purposes, but you're just
Speaker 1: gonna keep wearing it again. I'm not saying it just
Speaker 1: qualifies the story, but it raises questions also that two
Speaker 1: guys would in Chicago be carrying a noose on them
Speaker 1: and then they happen to find this African American gay
Speaker 1: actor on the street and then threw a noose around
Speaker 1: his neck and gently bruised his face and threw some
Speaker 1: weird chemical on him as yet undescribed or unknown, and
Speaker 1: yelled this is Maga country. Strikes me as a very
Speaker 1: implausible thing. Implausible does not mean impossible, It just means implausible. Now,
Speaker 1: let's add to that police asked for access to his
Speaker 1: phone and with his manager during the sixty second window.
Speaker 1: It's only a sixty second window where he claims he
Speaker 1: was attacked, and all this happened when he happens to
Speaker 1: be away surprise from surveillance cameras. The two people identified
Speaker 1: his subjects of interest in the surveillance cameras. Already, it
Speaker 1: has since been shown that they are local. They are
Speaker 1: local vagrant and not considered to be suspects in this attack.
Speaker 1: So yet another thing to cross off the list, but
Speaker 1: Smollett claimed that he was on the phone with his
Speaker 1: manager at the time of the attack, and so police
Speaker 1: wanted to know if they could look at his phone
Speaker 1: and see if maybe this, you know, there's some corroborating
Speaker 1: information information, And he said, no, you can't have access
Speaker 1: to my phone. Now, I know people are rushing in
Speaker 1: to say, what if he has uh, you know, naughty
Speaker 1: pictures on there or you know, civil liberties and blah blah. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you know he's not a suspect. He is a
Speaker 1: victim and a complainant here right, He's the one who
Speaker 1: was saying he was attacked. Usually when someone is the victim,
Speaker 1: they don't say, oh no, you can't. You can't come
Speaker 1: into my home and look for evidence get a warrant. Well,
Speaker 1: if you're saying somebody burglarize your home and the cops
Speaker 1: want to take evidence, don't you let them in. I
Speaker 1: think that that's the people say, oh, Buck, would you
Speaker 1: tell people, because I got some heat, including from some
Speaker 1: journos over the weekend, would you tell some people that
Speaker 1: the Mueller probe should just have access to their phone.
Speaker 1: First of all, the Muller probe party has whatever communications
Speaker 1: they've done if they want it. And second of all, no,
Speaker 1: because they're suspects, they're targets of the probe. When you're
Speaker 1: the victim of something, you have to share the information
Speaker 1: necessary to try to get the bad guys right. So
Speaker 1: that's highly suspect to me. Now, let me tell you
Speaker 1: what I think the possibilities are here. Based on the
Speaker 1: evidence so far, I see the three possibilities. One is
Speaker 1: that this bizarre but hateful attack really happened and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. I give that a one in a hundred
Speaker 1: shot right now. I'm not saying zero, one in a hundred.
Speaker 1: It would be the shock of my you know, of
Speaker 1: my decade if this were true. Maybe highly unlikely, though
Speaker 1: another possibility, this is completely fabricated. He made this whole
Speaker 1: thing up for attention, and it's effectively a very a
Speaker 1: very easy way to raise his national profile. Tournament is
Speaker 1: some kind of a hero. And even if he gets caught,
Speaker 1: remember all you to do is say, well, I was
Speaker 1: raising awareness about a real problem. And as sure as
Speaker 1: you know, night follows day the media will come out
Speaker 1: and say, well, maybe he lied, but he did it
Speaker 1: for a good reason. So he's still a hero. Even
Speaker 1: though he lied that the media has done this before
Speaker 1: with hate crime hoaxes, just raising awareness. I want to
Speaker 1: put out there a third possibility because this one, this one,
Speaker 1: I see as being a little even, maybe a little
Speaker 1: more likely. Maybe maybe he did have some little scuffle
Speaker 1: on the street. Maybe he exchanged words with some people man,
Speaker 1: and maybe they didn't like the way he or something else.
Speaker 1: But maybe there was just some quick exchange and then
Speaker 1: he decided to add all these other details on top
Speaker 1: of it, knowing that as long as there was some
Speaker 1: basis for this, he was on pretty solid ground reporting
Speaker 1: it to the police. Maybe he did get you know,
Speaker 1: someone did smack him in the face or something because
Speaker 1: he exchanged words with them. But it was an opportunity
Speaker 1: to tell this whole story about MAGA oppression and the
Speaker 1: bad Trump people and MAGA hats and all this, and
Speaker 1: he just took it. So it's essentially taking a kernel
Speaker 1: of truth and making this whole, this whole creative and
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Speaker 1: or rather the Trump supporters in the attack and all
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Speaker 1: How stupid can cultural appropriation get? It's not an easy
Speaker 1: question to answer, all right, because cultural appropriation starts off
Speaker 1: being stupid. It is an idiotic idea. It does not
Speaker 1: make any sense. All culture relies on appropriation, and no
Speaker 1: one really has a claim to any culture. It's just
Speaker 1: like saying someone has a claim to a taste, or
Speaker 1: a color scheme, or you know, you name it. It
Speaker 1: simply is idiocy to claim that there is such a
Speaker 1: thing as cultural appropriation. And yet, sure enough, we find
Speaker 1: ourselves in a circumstance where there are people who not
Speaker 1: not only think the cultural appropriation is real, but are
Speaker 1: willing to be complete maniacs about it. Lots of stories
Speaker 1: that we could point to on this one, but I
Speaker 1: just want to start with or dive into this topic
Speaker 1: with the following Portland, Oregon. Portland, Oregon is a town
Speaker 1: that I remember spending a weekend in and I love
Speaker 1: the food vibe there. They have these pods where you
Speaker 1: drive to what's essentially a parking lot or an area
Speaker 1: of town where there's just food truck after food truck,
Speaker 1: and they really helped popularize at a national level the
Speaker 1: whole food truck concept, where you have not just one
Speaker 1: food truck maybe outside your place of work, but a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of them, and it creates a kind of
Speaker 1: makeshift on the move food court. It's a cool idea
Speaker 1: and when it's done well, it's really pretty fun. And
Speaker 1: it's one of those little things about Portland culture that's
Speaker 1: spread across the country. That's high five Portland. But our
Speaker 1: friend Andy no who writes for Quillette and has also
Speaker 1: done some other pieces in the Wall Street Journal, he's
Speaker 1: the one who goes up and asks Antifa, Hey, why
Speaker 1: are you Antifa? And when they answer, you have to
Speaker 1: think to yourself, Oh, these people are maniacs. That's good
Speaker 1: to know. And he writes about how insane things are
Speaker 1: in his hometown when it comes to food. For example,
Speaker 1: a woman named Sally Krantz opened up a beast stroke
Speaker 1: called Saffron Colonial that featured historical recipes from the British Empire.
Speaker 1: The social justice left said this was racist and was
Speaker 1: glorifying colonialism, and they just piled on with all the
Speaker 1: negative reviews and said don't go to this place and
Speaker 1: threatened boycotts. Her suppliers ended up even boycotting her, and
Speaker 1: she had to change the name of the restaurant to
Speaker 1: the British Overseas Restaurant Corporation. So there are some others here.
Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, you had Collie Wilgus and Liz Connolly
Speaker 1: who were told that they were stealing Mexican culture because
Speaker 1: they were selling burritos from a truck. That's right, folks,
Speaker 1: if you are not Mexican, the social justice left thinks
Speaker 1: you should not be able to sell burritos from a truck. Now,
Speaker 1: if we're going to go down this path of stupidity,
Speaker 1: I would want to know what the rules are for
Speaker 1: the sandwich named for the Earl of Sandwich a British dude,
Speaker 1: Does that mean that no one is allowed to sell sandwiches?
Speaker 1: In fact, should we all walk into any subway sandwich
Speaker 1: shop where there's not a British person or an Anglo
Speaker 1: Saxon person selling them and say, you're appropriating our culture.
Speaker 1: Why is it only a one way thing here where
Speaker 1: it's only non white cultures get this special protection where
Speaker 1: people who are themselves white aren't allowed to quote appropriate it.
Speaker 1: You notice how it doesn't go in the other direction.
Speaker 1: This is only a one way thing somehow, at least
Speaker 1: that's the way the social justice left, because if they
Speaker 1: say it's all about oppression and oppression rhetoric and all
Speaker 1: this other stuff, this is how they view it. Then
Speaker 1: there was again this is Andy No, he's doing great
Speaker 1: work these days going after the social justice loons, and
Speaker 1: this is all in this Wall Street journal piece. He writes.
Speaker 1: An anonymous Google spreadsheet began circulating warning about restaurants that
Speaker 1: serve ethnic cuisine. Quote. These white owned businesses hamper the
Speaker 1: ability for people of color to run successful businesses of
Speaker 1: their own by either consuming market share with their attempt
Speaker 1: at authenticity, or by modifying foods to market to white palettes.
Speaker 1: That's right. End quote. Okay, you've got people that are
Speaker 1: spreading around that if a white person sells food that
Speaker 1: is not American food, they're boxing other people out of
Speaker 1: the food selling market. I mean, this is just the
Speaker 1: level of stupidity, but also obvious hostility. Here is something
Speaker 1: that we shouldn't just skip over. Now it gets worse
Speaker 1: here you go. Last month, Lillian Green, an equity director
Speaker 1: at the State Education Department, entered back to Eden, a
Speaker 1: vegan bakery for a few minutes after closing time. She
Speaker 1: recorded videos accusing the bakery of refusing to serve her
Speaker 1: because she was black, using the hashtag living while Black.
Speaker 1: Miss Green, a doctoral student, took to Facebook to demand
Speaker 1: that Back to Eden fire the clerks. The bakery apologized
Speaker 1: and issued a thirty four hundred word apology and offered
Speaker 1: Miss Green a job training the remaining employees in racial
Speaker 1: include civity. This is the real doozy from this. I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole thing is just appalling. These people lost their jobs,
Speaker 1: they were closed. How many times have any of you
Speaker 1: walked into an establishment right after closing time and yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you're frustrated because you know they could probably sell
Speaker 1: you that last donut or whatever. But how many times
Speaker 1: you walked in they say, sorry, we were closed, We're
Speaker 1: going home. It's happened to me over a dozen times,
Speaker 1: at least, probably a few dozen times with the course
Speaker 1: of my life, and I never thought it was anything
Speaker 1: other than these guys are paid or gals are paid
Speaker 1: by the hour. They want to go home, and I
Speaker 1: get it. You know, it's a little and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I've been a little annoyed sometimes and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you can't give me the thirty seconds and make an
Speaker 1: extra few bucks. But it's happened to me. I don't
Speaker 1: make some big deal of it. But Lillian Green, the
Speaker 1: equity director who went right to Facebook, almost like she's
Speaker 1: learned these tactics and this was all planned, went right
Speaker 1: to Facebook and got people fired from their jobs that
Speaker 1: I'm sure they needed to pay their bills. But this
Speaker 1: is the part of it that's really so interesting. They
Speaker 1: said that they didn't even think that the employees were racist.
Speaker 1: They just sacrifice them this you know, look it's a
Speaker 1: vegan bakeries. You can imagine like litty people who working
Speaker 1: in your patty like yeah, man, like di ver see
Speaker 1: the inclusive niece and like I don't want like you
Speaker 1: have a cookie and list I know, like did the
Speaker 1: ingredients for the cookie? Like were they happy in life?
Speaker 1: Like were they like a happy cookie? They wrote the
Speaker 1: bakery wrote in this thirty four hundred World apology the following,
Speaker 1: in this situation, it doesn't really matter that the two
Speaker 1: staff members working are not themselves racist, because the call
Speaker 1: they made to deny Lillian's service caused her to feel
Speaker 1: like she had been discriminated against. This is a co
Speaker 1: owner of it. Okay, he wrote, Sometimes impact outweighs intent,
Speaker 1: and when that happens, people need to be held accountable.
Speaker 1: End quote. Okay, this is the Left showing you what
Speaker 1: they really think and how they really operate. This is
Speaker 1: the Left saying, you know what, even though we know
Speaker 1: that they weren't being racist, and we don't think that
Speaker 1: our employees were being racist, because somebody felt that they
Speaker 1: were being racist, we have to punish the people who
Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong and think they were doing anything
Speaker 1: wrong because of the hurt feelings of the person who
Speaker 1: felt that there was racism. This is nuts, This is crazy,
Speaker 1: And there's case after case of this, these excesses from
Speaker 1: people who are very clearly trying to capitalize on the
Speaker 1: victimology that is so pervasive on the left. You know,
Speaker 1: we're all starting to have enough of this. I know
Speaker 1: I've had enough of this I don't really want to
Speaker 1: keep having to read stories about people that are acting
Speaker 1: in bad faith, that have a huge chip on their
Speaker 1: shoulder about something, and that have that will meet out
Speaker 1: real consequences to people. Because of this, the social justice
Speaker 1: left is insane. We have to fight against them, and
Speaker 1: we have to stamp their lunacy out of our culture.
Speaker 1: There is no such thing as cultural appropriation. It is
Speaker 1: not a concept that exists. Culture is to be shared
Speaker 1: and mixed and spread and adopted by any human being
Speaker 1: who wants to. That's the reality, and we are so
Speaker 1: far away from that right now. And this is not
Speaker 1: a fight that we should give up. Because culture is
Speaker 1: one of those things that should be free flowing and
Speaker 1: people should be able to choose what they want and
Speaker 1: what they don't want. But it also is something that
Speaker 1: allows us all the freedom to choose, and it brings
Speaker 1: us together when we do choose food, manners of dress,
Speaker 1: stories from history, whatever it may be. Culture is a
Speaker 1: very important part of maintaining our society and the openness
Speaker 1: of our society, and therefore the openness to various cultures
Speaker 1: is a central part of it. It is a hallmark
Speaker 1: of America that we are a place with so many
Speaker 1: different cultures that are welcomed and yes, that are taken
Speaker 1: by people who want them. I'm starting to worry that
Speaker 1: some of the largest American cities are going to start
Speaker 1: to really feel the full brunt of the left wing
Speaker 1: stupidity that has been inflicted on them. You got you
Speaker 1: gotta keep in mind, you know, it's hard to mess
Speaker 1: up some of the cities. You've had such a huge
Speaker 1: decrease in crime nationwide, right, and there are a few
Speaker 1: cities that are outliers here, but you've had this massive
Speaker 1: drop in crime rates in places like New York and
Speaker 1: and and across the country. You know, Chicago, Baltimore some outliers,
Speaker 1: to be sure, but overall, violence crimes way down from
Speaker 1: what it was thirty thirty or so years ago, or
Speaker 1: even yeah, twenty years ago. And I just am starting
Speaker 1: to see these stories that to me look like the
Speaker 1: Canaries and the coal mine of general been decay. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's tough to beat in terms of warning signs that
Speaker 1: a city is not being well run. It's it's tough
Speaker 1: to see something like this and not think, oh, gosh,
Speaker 1: this is only going to get worse. A typhus epidemic
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Okay, Typhus is an infectious disease that
Speaker 1: is now making its way through particularly the homeless population.
Speaker 1: But it's a disease that gives you incredibly high fever,
Speaker 1: terrible pain, headaches, and it's really really rough if you
Speaker 1: catch it. Now they are able to treat this, but
Speaker 1: it's one of these diseases that, similar to the bubonic
Speaker 1: plague or the black death back in the day, it
Speaker 1: travels on the fleas that live on rats. Well, you
Speaker 1: might say, why would we have in Los Angeles a
Speaker 1: typhus outbreak, which is a disease that's really generally aotiated
Speaker 1: with extreme deprivation and poverty and trash. And you know
Speaker 1: how I feel about trash. You know everything you need
Speaker 1: to know about a society's wealth and its level of order,
Speaker 1: and obviously it's cleanliness based upon how it deals with
Speaker 1: and what its trash situation is. Trash, sewage the very
Speaker 1: basics of civil society in a modern country these days.
Speaker 1: But they're having this outbreak of typhus and Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: it's from the fleas on the rats. The rats make
Speaker 1: their way around the human population. Because of these ten
Speaker 1: cities you have, you and by the way, you know,
Speaker 1: you had one hundred and twenty four cases last year
Speaker 1: in La County. But that's one hundred and twenty four
Speaker 1: cases they found. You probably have a few times that
Speaker 1: in cases that they haven't found yet, or in cases
Speaker 1: that were misdiagnosed or people just you know, didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: get it dealt with the way they should have. But
Speaker 1: the mayor is now putting millions of dollars together to
Speaker 1: clean up the streets because the rats live on the
Speaker 1: trash and the streets. People live in the streets and
Speaker 1: large numbers in these tense cities in La. Now you know,
Speaker 1: the way that La deals with its homeless this crisis
Speaker 1: is obviously not sufficient, and the way that it's cleaning
Speaker 1: up the trash on its streets is not sufficient. You know,
Speaker 1: they call an area of downtown Law the Typhus Zone.
Speaker 1: This is the second biggest city in the country. And
Speaker 1: for those of you who are like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really it doesn't affect me. You're you're starting
Speaker 1: to see diseases popping back up that had been eradicated.
Speaker 1: You're seeing diseases at the southern border coming in with
Speaker 1: people who have serious health needs have no vaccination history whatsoever,
Speaker 1: and you know, then you're seeing measles outbreaks occurring. People
Speaker 1: are moving away from vaccination, even of diseases that have
Speaker 1: a very very high cure rate because or prevention rate
Speaker 1: because of vaccination. You know, this is this is sketchy stuff.
Speaker 1: And I can talk to you about what I think
Speaker 1: is going on in New York too, after having been
Speaker 1: there of the weekend, and just you know, it takes
Speaker 1: a while to see how liberal policy is destructive and
Speaker 1: how it is eventually always doomed to run the same
Speaker 1: cycle of failure. But I think that we're just beginning
Speaker 1: to really see it happening in places like La San Francisco,
Speaker 1: where they have the poop patrol to pick up human
Speaker 1: feces on the streets. You know, this is where we
Speaker 1: need somebody to come in who's really about law and
Speaker 1: order and cleanliness is a part of that. The show
Speaker 1: ain't over yet, folks. It's time for roll call, roll
Speaker 1: call recarn on the rung call. It's the most exciting
Speaker 1: roll call sound you'll ever hear. I think it's a
Speaker 1: decent possibility at least all right, maybe not, Maybe it's
Speaker 1: just the weirdest but I believe I have your attention,
Speaker 1: and it was more clever than most of the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl commercials that we were forced to sit through over
Speaker 1: the weekend. My guys, where were they clever commercials? Only Microsoft?
Speaker 1: For me, I didn't see all them, be fair. I
Speaker 1: was in my family and Miss Molly, so we weren't
Speaker 1: watching every single one of them. But the Microsoft one
Speaker 1: really was very warm and heartfelt. I like that one.
Speaker 1: There are a couple others that were okay. Actually there
Speaker 1: was a food, a frozen food commercial. I forget what
Speaker 1: the name of the frozen food was, but it was
Speaker 1: really it was really good, and I'm a big frozen
Speaker 1: food person. By the way, people say, oh, that means
Speaker 1: you must not like No, it means that I know
Speaker 1: what good frozen food. To get all right into your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Via the roll Call session, Joe writes, Viva la Dubstep,
Speaker 1: let's do this team, Oh Joe, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: Dubstep can be kind of fun. In fact, Maddie Duppler,
Speaker 1: who's a long time friend of mine from Media World,
Speaker 1: I have always had different names for her because we've
Speaker 1: just gotten along very well, and I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: and I used to call her Dupples and now I
Speaker 1: call her up step and she is okay with this
Speaker 1: because she agrees that dubstep has its or dubstep rather
Speaker 1: has its place. But yes, we will keep that role
Speaker 1: call coming. We are working on new they call it imaging,
Speaker 1: which is always so weird because it's not visual, it's audio.
Speaker 1: But we are working on some new imaging for the show.
Speaker 1: We are hoping that will be out relatively soon for
Speaker 1: your listening enjoyment. Brian Right's buck hope you had a
Speaker 1: good week weekend. Was laughing at your and Crystal's end
Speaker 1: of show chitchat on Disney's Frozen Ugh with two young kids,
Speaker 1: I share crystal sentiment. Keep up the great work on
Speaker 1: that shows. It is as it is, forcing real conversations
Speaker 1: to open liberals eyes. As I am your age, Disney
Speaker 1: classics like Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and Aladdin
Speaker 1: will always have a special place. If you're looking for
Speaker 1: a really good new Disney movie to check out with
Speaker 1: Miss Molly, watch Coco. It's a special movie with a
Speaker 1: great message and music. Now that I've had to watch
Speaker 1: it twenty five times and I'm still not sick of it,
Speaker 1: you will love it okay, Coco sounds kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Miss Molly will probably like that, so I will have
Speaker 1: to check it out. Although Crystal also did show me
Speaker 1: something called baby Shark tark tract stratractor shark, baby shark structure,
Speaker 1: which if you watch it, it's on YouTube. It has
Speaker 1: been watched, and I do not exaggerate over two billion times.
Speaker 1: I assume that there are kids around the globe who
Speaker 1: sit around just watching Grahampa Sarratt tract. I assume that
Speaker 1: that is happening based on the number of views. I
Speaker 1: cannot tell you strong enough unless you have no choice,
Speaker 1: because if your kids do not watch the baby Shark
Speaker 1: movie or YouTube video, whatever it is, because you will
Speaker 1: have baby Shark stuck in your head, you will not
Speaker 1: be able to get rid of baby Shark from your head.
Speaker 1: It'll just be baby shark tract trak. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I wake up in the middle of the night now
Speaker 1: and I can't stop baby Shark tractor. It won't stop,
Speaker 1: the sounds won't stop. Steve Wright's crazy uncle remembers a
Speaker 1: grade school diddy. Whether it's cold or whether it's hot,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have whether whether or not today's Hillary Bernie
Speaker 1: aoc version is whether it's cold or whether it's hot.
Speaker 1: It's global warming warmer or not. Steve, you definitely get
Speaker 1: the rhyming prize for today's edition of Roll Calls, So
Speaker 1: thank you so much for that. Michael buck Northam said
Speaker 1: he didn't use much shoe polish on his face for
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson because it is hard to get off. Yes,
Speaker 1: the stench of racism is hard to get off Michael's.
Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine that this guy, I mean, as
Speaker 1: we go to air, he still is the governor of Virginia, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how democrats can think that anyone's going
Speaker 1: to take them seriously on any of their stuff. But
Speaker 1: maybe they just figure that embracing their hypocritical stances for
Speaker 1: purely weaponized political gain, right to weaponize these standards that
Speaker 1: society you're supposed to operate under for discourse, but to
Speaker 1: do it in a clearly and overtly partisan fashion. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're just embracing it. You know, they're going to lean in,
Speaker 1: if you will, to being these little progressive authoritarians who
Speaker 1: don't live by the rules they make the rest of
Speaker 1: us live by. I think that's what's going on. Chris
Speaker 1: rights big fan here, I will try to be quick
Speaker 1: like you. The New York abortion bill troubles me greatly.
Speaker 1: I have not heard anyone the right point out this fact.
Speaker 1: Most of my life. I listen to Democrats say how
Speaker 1: the Republicans are going to kill people with their policies,
Speaker 1: but the fact is they're the only ones that have
Speaker 1: killed anyone and all of the people. It is the
Speaker 1: ones who can't take it up for themselves. Will you
Speaker 1: please point this out on your podcast Shields High. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Chris, what you're getting at is something that
Speaker 1: I have heard conservatives make as a pitch before, which
Speaker 1: is to say that the Democrats often talk about how
Speaker 1: they are doing everything that they can to help life afterbirth,
Speaker 1: when I think it's fair to say that there's no
Speaker 1: good faith effort on their part to understand why we're
Speaker 1: trying to protect life up to the moment of birth,
Speaker 1: and we do not advocate for any policies that end
Speaker 1: innocent life after birth. So it is in fact the
Speaker 1: Democrats who are looked, though the others have said, other
Speaker 1: other major conservative figures have already said that Democrats are
Speaker 1: the party of death, and I think that that's a
Speaker 1: that's a tough one for them to argue around. Scott writes, Hey, Buck,
Speaker 1: here's a challenge for Okazio Cortez. Why don't you put
Speaker 1: it to the billionaire donors you supposedly hate and double
Speaker 1: down on your Green New Deal and legislate for banning
Speaker 1: private jetliners. Let's see how that goes over before you
Speaker 1: propose banning my automobile in ten years, Shields forever high
Speaker 1: here up in New Hampshire. Scott. Yes, Scott, the Green
Speaker 1: New Deal is going to collapse under its own obvious
Speaker 1: and imminent hypocrisy. So we don't we know that's the case.
Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about the Green New Deal.
Speaker 1: We're from the perspective of what they promise it will
Speaker 1: be and all that. But the issue that we have
Speaker 1: to tackle is they'll always come up with the same
Speaker 1: old justification for why it's not working, which is that
Speaker 1: it's not implemented properly. What's the problem with communism, it's
Speaker 1: not implemented properly. What's the problem with the Green New Deal?
Speaker 1: It will not be implemented properly. These people do not
Speaker 1: learn that is one of the defining characteristics of the
Speaker 1: contemporary progressive in America. They don't look back to history
Speaker 1: and say here's what worked, here's what didn't, here's what
Speaker 1: we know, here's what we wish were So they just say,
Speaker 1: give us power, let us make all the decisions, and
Speaker 1: we will make your pain go away. We will make
Speaker 1: everything better. There's a lot of history of government action
Speaker 1: that shows that that's a false promise. But unfortunately, there's
Speaker 1: also a very deep seated part of the mind of
Speaker 1: any human's mind that wants to believe somebody who says
Speaker 1: I will take away all of your pain, I will
Speaker 1: make everything better. Just surrender your autonomy, surrender your own
Speaker 1: decision making and your property and other things to me
Speaker 1: or to us, to the collective, to the collective good.
Speaker 1: That is the promise, the soma of progressivism, Karen writes.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi says a border wall is immoral. I thought
Speaker 1: the Dems didn't believe in legislating morality. Boom, Karen, that's right.
Speaker 1: You're not backing down here, letting it be known you
Speaker 1: will hold the Democrats to their words. Justina hey Buck
Speaker 1: a few days behind. I want to tell you my
Speaker 1: hometown of Illinois. Mole in Illinois was negative thirty three
Speaker 1: on Thursday Morning without Windshill love your show, Shields High,
Speaker 1: well justin I'm assuming you have not turned into a
Speaker 1: human popsicle, So I'm glad that you managed to brave
Speaker 1: those exceptionally cold temperatures. It certainly sounded like a rough
Speaker 1: time in some parts of the Midwest for folks. I
Speaker 1: know that much, and I'm just glad that it's pasted.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a beautiful day here in DC. It's
Speaker 1: practically t shirt weather, so I'm hoping that we're we're
Speaker 1: only in early February. I'm hoping we're through the worst
Speaker 1: of it. Jonathan, right buck, I'm an iHeart listener, usually
Speaker 1: listening to yesterday's episode while you're alive with today's. I
Speaker 1: have no problem listening to your past shows. Figure to
Speaker 1: let you guys know you can share this knowledge with
Speaker 1: the masses Oss Squad, Jonathan, Thank you, Jonathan Shields Hot ps.
Speaker 1: I remember you griping on Kate Hudson a while back. Oh.
Speaker 1: While I do agree with you on most of these points,
Speaker 1: I submit to you the movie Fools Fool's Gold. It's
Speaker 1: a rom com of sorts, pairing her up with Matthew McConaughey,
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, and Donald Sutherland round out the cast. It's
Speaker 1: worth a watch if you haven't already watched it. Don't
Speaker 1: take it seriously and you'll be entertained. Jonathan, I don't know, man.
Speaker 1: I am not a Kate Hudson fan. I really I
Speaker 1: feel very strongly that it's always everything I've ever seen
Speaker 1: her in is pretty much a waste of time. But
Speaker 1: I like to pretend at least that I have an
Speaker 1: open mind about things. So let's just say that I
Speaker 1: will give it some thought. Scott, kicking up some noise here,
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you some perspective of a DoD worker.
Speaker 1: I've heard you say that federal workers are ninety percent liberal.
Speaker 1: That may mostly be true. However, I've been a DoD
Speaker 1: federal worker for twelve years. I want you to know
Speaker 1: the percentage i'd flipped a ninety percent conservative. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine liberals making weapons of war for a war fighters
Speaker 1: ha shields high Scott, Scott, You're correct when I say
Speaker 1: federal workers, I always, at least in my head, and
Speaker 1: I probably should be more specific about this. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about federal bureaucracy outside of defense. I'm talking about people
Speaker 1: outside of the military. The military I always categorize in
Speaker 1: a different part of my brain. So that's yes, you're
Speaker 1: right that DD has a much more conservative skew than
Speaker 1: say what you'll get in the general federal government. But
Speaker 1: I can tell you that by and large, the federal government,
Speaker 1: the civilians that run all these different agencies, they are superlibs,
Speaker 1: libs and libs and more libs. Let's see who we
Speaker 1: have up next. There so many great things, Richard. It's
Speaker 1: Buck Happy Happy, hello from a Yankee man in a
Speaker 1: southern land. Check this out. If you look at the
Speaker 1: other designs from the others in the yearbook, the Northam yearbook,
Speaker 1: it's clear each person submitted the pictures they wanted in
Speaker 1: the yearbook. So he thought this was a good idea.
Speaker 1: He is so prideful. It doesn't look like he will
Speaker 1: step down. How is it that this election, this didn't
Speaker 1: come out during the election? Shields High You know, Richard,
Speaker 1: you know, you raise a very good point here, which
Speaker 1: is clearly the OPPO research into Northam was not nearly
Speaker 1: as thorough as the OPPO research into his opponent, and
Speaker 1: there was there were racial attacks on his opponent. I
Speaker 1: believe it was Ed Gillespie in the general election. And
Speaker 1: also there were some never trumpers who are showing us
Speaker 1: more and more, not all of them, but some of
Speaker 1: them are showing us their true colors here by openly
Speaker 1: advocating for Democrats and Democrat causes. They just want to
Speaker 1: burn the Republican Party down and start over again, I guess,
Speaker 1: but there was there's always this disparity between the resources
Speaker 1: that you'll get when it comes to opposition against the
Speaker 1: Republican versus the resources you'll get against the Democrat because
Speaker 1: while there is a conservative media, there's not nearly the
Speaker 1: same depth and breadth of conservative media. We just don't
Speaker 1: have as many reporters, we don't have as many newsrooms,
Speaker 1: we don't have as much money, and all that stuff
Speaker 1: matters when it comes to OPO. So Democrats have a
Speaker 1: huge built in advantage with all of that, and it
Speaker 1: allows them to omit some pretty astonishing stuff in major
Speaker 1: political contests. Team that's going to be it from DC today,
Speaker 1: back from NYCL. Though it was lovely over the weekend,
Speaker 1: have a fantastic rest of your evening or day, depending
Speaker 1: when you listen. I will talk to you tomorrow. Shields
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