WEBVTT - Do You Need A Permit To Construct Your Whiteness? 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.680 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.680 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.960 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty, I know 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:26.720 he Armstrong and Yetty. So we've got a former al 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.520 kaieda guy in charge. Now, what does he have planned 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.040 for the new Syria. I'm assuming it's some taliban asque 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.879 brutal fundamentalists to dystopia. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.800 There must be legal framework that protects and ensures the 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.320 rights of all, not a system that serves only one sect. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.480 I asked God Almighty that this be a conquest free 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.200 of revenge, but a conquest entirely of mercy and love. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.199 Conquest of mercy and love. I think that's how Taylor 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.360 ended the aerostour. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:55.880 Wait that. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.640 The new leader of Siria's is swifty. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.480 How many terror groups is that guy in? 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.800 That will be so interesting to watch develop. Is it 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:20.720 going to become a multi sectarian blood bath Islamist nightmare 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.279 for the next seventy five years? 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.000 Or this? 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.640 Does this guy mean what he says? You know, I 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.560 want to get back into that, or I could do 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:30.160 this later. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:30.800 I don't know. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.200 Yeah, we'll get into that later. The idea of what 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.080 should happen next in Syria, but I wanted to get 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:39.480 to this. This is I'm going to take you on 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.800 a multi point journey here. Start over here, we're gonna 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.000 end be over there briefly, but then over there is 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.680 gonna lead us over there, and we're gonna end up 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:48.040 over there. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.320 You'll enjoy it, trust me. So I love this. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.040 Laura Powell, who's an attorney, tweeted this the other day. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.520 You can't from the you can't make this up, this 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.360 stuff up file. A misinformation expert at Stanford one, Jeff Hancock, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.760 build the State of Minnesota six hundred dollars an hour 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.720 to prepare an expert declaration on the dangers of AI 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.960 generated content. Six hundred dollars an hour the dangers of 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.400 AI generated content. He swore, under penalty of perjury, that 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.760 everything staateent in the declaration was true and correct, but 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.600 after it was discovered that the declaration indeed contained fabricated sources, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.840 he was forced to admit that he had relied on 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:32.959 AI to write the declaration. Six hundred dollars an hour 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.200 to talk about the dangers of AI generated content, and 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.520 he shows up with a screen written by AI that's 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.400 almost you know what, it's almost so funny it's worth 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.120 him doing that. But as she points out, and I 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.880 agree completely, if there is a moniker a title that 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.000 leads you to immediately conclude that the person's a fraud, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:57.280 it's either fact checker or misinformation expert. Somebody calls himself 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:02.120 a misinformation expert. I know they're there to sell me something, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.400 to offer some sort of dishonest snow job. Speaking of AI, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.959 I found this amusing. Beckett Adams was writing in the 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.760 National Review about how for normal, healthy people they go 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:22.120 through stages of grief, and his premises for the people 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.519 stupid enough to have trusted a midwin career bureaucrats on 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.520 and scrupulous as Joe Biden, there's a sixth stage just 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:37.280 before acceptance, delusion, and he gets into the really. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.080 Odd theories of why. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.000 That Biden could have served for one thing, and how 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.720 people are shocked that he hunted that he I'm sorry 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.160 that he pardoned Hunter, even though he was completely consistent 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.920 with his entire career. He's been dishonest, a hack, a backslapper, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.400 you know, with no real principles, and that was utterly, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.920 utterly predictable. But here's the part that kind of tie 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.000 that I thought was so funny having to do with Ai. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.600 And he goes into the fact that so much of 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.600 the media, and we played you these clips, was just 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.160 just crowing about the fact that Joe Biden said he 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.720 would not pardon Hunter and that showed him to be 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.880 such an incredibly honorable man, a paragon of justice and 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.200 an American decency and blah blah blah. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.640 And then he turned around and he was lying the 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.880 whole time. But so enter the delusion. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.800 CBS's view co host and supposed political insighter and commentator 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.240 Anna Navarro attempted to defend the pardon last week by 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.960 arguing that many presidents, including America's twenty eighth commander in chief, 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:43.279 have issued such edicts. Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother in law, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:47.480 Hunter debuts, she remarked on social media, but tell me again, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.960 how Joe Biden is setting precedent. We actually got an 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:55.640 adamant email from a listener about this, mentioning that Woodrow 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.640 Wilson pardoned his brother in law. Hunter debts, Well, if 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.520 you've never heard of this incident, it's because it never happened. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.159 There is no Hunter debuts, Wilson never pardoned his brother 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:06.480 in law. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:07.640 It's pure fabrication. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.200 In a fevered scramble to exonerate Biden for his objectively 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:20.480 slazy dealings, Navarro had asked chat GPT for exculpatory historical 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:24.480 examples of similar presidential pardons, and the AI tool then 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:30.560 hallucinated a non existent event, which it does, and that's 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.279 It's such a head scratcher of a phenomenon too. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:34.080 Isn't it. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:39.000 It just invents stuff anyway, and Navarro uncritically shared the 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.320 results on social media because she wanted so badly for 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.000 Biden to be at the very least in line with 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.800 historical president but she didn't like look it up or anything. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:48.880 To get any sort of verification. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:56.200 And then then she she later blamed uh, chat GPT, Hey, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.599 Twitter sleuths, thanks for taking the time to provide context. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.600 Avide context. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:08.000 You claim something utterly fanciful to defend the indefensible. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:10.760 But the great part of this is and. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.560 I'm quoting who, and I say this is beck At Adams. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.680 The funny thing isn't that a robot hallucinated a presidential 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.320 pardon from and with a name like Hunter debts. But 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.479 none of this sounded out of place. To a woman 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.760 who's paid handsomely to explain the news in US politics 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.640 to television audiences. One can't help but wonder whether even 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:35.000 the names huge ass or Amanda hugging kiss would have 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:41.200 set off alarms in Navarro's head. Oh, that's beautiful, And 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.359 then then he points out huge ass. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:45.880 A classic. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.400 Points out that Esquire political columnist Charles Pierce the absolute 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.040 dimmest burnout in the commentary business. Here I did something 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.000 arguably more embarrassing when he wrote an entire article promoting 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.240 a similar pardon fantasy. The article has since been completely 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:02.719 retracted from Esquire. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:03.960 The one thousand. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.640 Plus words story originally titled a president shouldn't pardon his son? Hello, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.960 anybody remember Neil Bush? Claimed that and we got an 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.680 email on this too, claimed that former President George H. W. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.080 Bush pardoned his son over the savings and loan scandal. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.880 Article sub had read, nobody defines Poppy Bush's presidents by 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.440 the fact that presidency by the fact that he pardoned 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.400 his progeny the moral shut the f up about Hunter Biden, Please, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:32.720 except hw never pardoned his son Neil. So immediately after 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:37.200 a number of readers pointed out Esquire, he didn't. Esquire 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.520 article went through significant changes in revisions, including to the headline, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.600 which was changed to Hunter Biden isn't the first presidential 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.880 son caught up in controversy? Anybody remember Neil Bush. But 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.880 eventually Esquire attracted the piece altogether because there was no 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.320 longer any point to the article even with the edits 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.960 and revisions, they put up a note this column has 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:02.080 been removed due to an error anyway, So that all 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:09.080 leads us through various tales of AI dishonesty intersecting with 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.920 politics to the politics endpoint I wanted to get to. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.840 And I know dissecting the election is so last month, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:24.440 but I thought this was absolutely extraordinary about lefty voters. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:33.840 So who did this study? Well, there it is. Hello, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.800 I'm sorry, I got a computer glitch. No, I don't 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:43.319 want to sign up. They did a big poll slash 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:52.160 study of voters explaining what happened with the election or 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.800 giving their perception their explanation of what happened with the election, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:02.360 and the most common, of course, now the website is 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:08.880 locked up, the most common explanation from Harris voters for 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:19.840 why she lost was misogyny, sexism. That was number one, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.120 not the economy or the economy under Trump, not inflation, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.040 not the border, although those things did burble up in 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:30.280 the word cloud thing they had. But the number one explanation, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.440 again was that it was sexism misogyny that people would 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:38.880 not vote for Harris. And if you as a party 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:45.400 come from that election having come to that conclusion, you 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.680 don't have a chance the next go around. I mean, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.680 you have no ability to perceive what went wrong with 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.760 your game, which is really the only thing you can control. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:02.720 And I just find that absolutely extraordinary. And I agree 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.839 with Jack when he said, I think America would love 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.120 to elect a woman president just so we wouldn't have 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.880 to hear about it anymore. And like virtually every conservative 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.880 in America, hey, if she was smart and tough, had 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.959 great policies, loved America, believed in her robust defense, you know, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.120 try to reduce the size of the government, reduce the debt. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:21.520 Whatever. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.920 Hell, I don't care if she's a woman or non 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.319 binary or a lesbian or whatever else. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:29.280 Nobody cares. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:34.440 But that's the number one explanation of why our side lost. Wow, 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:40.080 is that delusional? Speaking of that sort of thing? Brad 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:45.599 Penny acquitted in New York. Thank goodness, some great commentary 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.600 on that case and what it means and what it 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.280 doesn't mean. Plus activists calling for violence in the wake 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.680 of that case. Just unbelievable. And of course how little 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:55.680 attention that's getting. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.840 A lot to squeeze in. Hope you can stay with us. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.959 Heh y, how you doing? Thanks for being here. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.760 You're thinking of picking up an A and G sweatshirt 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.040 or hat or something for a loved one for Christmas? 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:14.120 Probably want to order it today Armstrong and Getty dot com. Yeah, 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:19.240 premium sweatshirts flying off the shelves. Ran this clip yesterday, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.880 where'd go the Oh, it's under the the Penny Daniel 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.640 Penny acquittal stuff, give us forty six. This is the 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.800 head of New York's Black Lives Matter, After or just 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.400 during the trial, he was talking on the street corner, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.040 we need something black visionies. That's right. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.480 People want to jump up and choke us. Hey, kill 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.280 us for being loud. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.120 How about we do the same when they attempt to 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:52.240 oppress us. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.720 I'm tired tie it. Yeah. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.760 He went on to say, Daniel Penny, you're not safe 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:00.760 on the streets in New York. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:01.760 We're gonna hunt you down. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:07.520 Essentially, and I got no coverage threatening violence against a man. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.800 People in general because they didn't like the verdict ought 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.880 to be a giant story in America. It's ignored by 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.880 the utterly dishonest to mainstream media because the idea that 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.480 you know, people of color can be racist is so unpopular. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.400 See if or just it's unspeakable to the media. See 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.559 if this strikes you as a little bit racist, This 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:35.080 is honorary Kleinsman, race, hustler, fraud, merchant. Ebram X Kendy 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.520 on leashing your screen the screed the other day. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.000 I don't think. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:45.640 White people worldwide have really reckoned with how much their 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:50.959 own personal identity is shaped by constructions of whiteness, and 0:12:51.480 --> 0:13:01.400 how much that construction of whiteness prevents uh, white people 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:10.400 from connecting to humanity in other words, uh, recognizing that 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:17.480 when you when you recognize that you are part and 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:23.959 parcel of humanity, in other words, you're not over humanity, right. Uh. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.600 It allows you to. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.520 Really be able to connect to people who don't look 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:35.320 like you, who have kinky hair, who have dark skin, uh, 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.520 and to see yourself in them. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.880 And it's whiteness that prevents that. Right, And when and 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.720 when you're not able to see yourself, uh in other 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:51.600 human beings. That creates all sorts of problems, but not 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.000 just societal. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.000 Problems and personal problems. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.600 Uh that that I think hopefully this, this, this film 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.880 and this work will will liberate those. So I think 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.880 it's this liberat it's liberating all the way around, right it. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.840 You know, I think it will liberate you know, really 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.800 all of us, because you know, we've all been told 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.720 a lie about ourselves and other people. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.280 Well, what a delusional crime. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.200 Liberating you from your inability to pay your bills, I know, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.640 because you've gotten rich. And I congratulate John cooking up 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.720 a scam that's so effective with soft headed, guilt. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:27.360 Ridden white people. 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.320 But what a load of Do you need a constructor 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.120 do you need a permit to construct your whiteness? Because 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.400 if you're constructing your whiteness every day without a permit, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.200 you're probably gonna get a fine. Just absolutely cuckoo nuts. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.520 The idea that white people can't connect themselves to the 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.800 rest of humanity because their hair looks different. 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.720 Have you ever spoken to any. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.400 White people ebra I mean and lecturing them and taking 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.520 twenty five thousand dollars an hour for one of your 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.840 racist screens doesn't doesn't count as talking to people. But 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:56.680 I thought this was so interesting. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.040 There was a big who this poll. It was a 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.640 big pole echelon insights blah blah blah. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.840 More white progressives think that racism is built into our 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.160 society than black or Hispanic Americans, and white progressives are 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.520 much less likely to agree to the America is the 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.920 greatest country in the world than black or Hispanic Americans. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:26.840 This over educated, like the healthcare shooter lunatic dude with 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.440 this view that the great white hope would save the 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:36.480 darker people even though the darker people. For instance, racism 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.920 is built into our society. White progressives seventy seven percent 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.600 say that's correct, with blacks as sixty one percent. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.800 That's still too many and that's a. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:52.120 Shame, But I mean their number is dwarfed by white progressives. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.480 Hispanics is like thirty eight percent, and white conservatives is 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.200 like twenty four percent. I believe racism is built in 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.720 our society. America is the greatest country in the world. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:07.240 Ninety percent of white conservatives believe that, seventy six percent 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.120 of Hispanics believe it. Fifty nine percent of blacks believe it. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:16.840 White progressives thirty percent, by far the lowest number. Most 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.760 people can make it if they work hard. You ask 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.600 a black person that forty percent believe it. That's way 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.120 too low, way too low. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:24.000 They have been. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.520 Absolutely brainwashed into the cult of dependence, and I think 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.640 it's a damn shame. About fifty nine percent of Hispanic 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.920 people believe most people can make it if they work hard. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.040 White conservatives eighty four percent believe it, White progressives twenty 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:42.160 three percent, twenty three percent government should increase border security 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.360 and enforcement. About or about fifty percent of Hispanics and 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.360 blacks believe that white progressives it's about sixteen percent. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.320 Isn't that crazy? 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:58.240 What a weird little cult white progressivism is. People need 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.760 to be studied at the university level, well, except the 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.520 universities are completely captured by them. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:06.480 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.240 I got a couple of emails we might drop in 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.400 during the rest of the show today, including this one. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.800 We were talking yesterday about how difficult it is, apparently 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:21.960 to predict revolutions like the one that just happened Syria, revolution, coup, overthrow, 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:26.479 whatever you want to call it, and Sean reminded us 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.360 of a famous economics saying he's paraphrasing it. I've predicted 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.399 twelve of the last three revolutions. It usually applies to 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.840 recessions or whatever. Bull markets, I've predicted twelve of the 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.560 last three recessions. Meaning people predict stuff all the time. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:48.440 That's the problem. I'm sure there were predictions that Asad 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.879 was about to fall out there, but they were mixed 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.720 in with a bunch of predictions of the opposite, or 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.440 something halfway in between or whatever. It's just everybody's guessing 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.320 all the time. But you think they would see I 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.200 don't know, sweeping across the landscape and Toyota pickup trucks 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:03.679 and notice it. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.720 I don't know. Totally different topic. Thought this was so good. 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.240 Mike Lee, who is the Senator from Utah and is 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.520 one of my favorite people in government, don't agree with 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.000 them one hundred percent of the time. But the list 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:15.680 of people I agree with one hundred percent of the 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.160 time is very very short. In fact, I'm not sure 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.800 there's anybody I change my mind, so I don't agree 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:22.480 with myself one. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.280 Hundred percent at the time. Anyway, Mike Lee unleashed this 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:27.000 the other day. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.640 It's a Twitter threat it's adopted from something he wrote, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.159 adapted rather from something he wrote that I thought was 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.120 just terrific and so interesting and. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.840 A little annoying, troubling and raging. But he begins. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.800 Of all the deceptive sales techniques the US government is 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.080 used on the American people, one of them, the Social 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.480 Security Act, gets far too little attention. Buckle up, because 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.359 this is a wild ride. In nineteen thirty five, the 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.960 American people were sold a bill of goods. They were told, 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.720 pay into this system and it'll be your money for retirement. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.000 And he has some of the actual verbiage of these 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.719 Social Security Act. Sounds great, right, But here's where it 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.040 gets juicy in a really ugly way. Two years later, 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.960 when the Supreme Court was considering the constitutionality of the 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.040 Social Security Act, the government did a complete one point 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:17.199 eighty The government, through Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson, this 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:21.080 is under FDR. Are you in essence? Oh no, no, no, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.920 this isn't your money at all. This is a tax 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.160 and we can do whatever we want with it. Classic 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.439 bait and switch. And let's not forget the ruling in 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.560 Hellverring v. Davis, where the Supreme Court upheld the Social 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:42.439 Security Act by embracing the government's argument slash admission just 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:47.840 skipped ahead that what people pay into Social Security is 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.360 tax revenue available to be used as Congress may direct, 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.000 and not at all money belonging to those who paid it. So, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.680 to summarize, the proponents of the Social Security Act told 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.760 American workers that what they paid in the system would 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.480 remain their money, not the governments, to get Congress to 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.359 pass it, and then told the courts the exact opposite 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.080 when defending the Act's. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:08.520 Use of money. 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.520 So, now let's talk about what happens to your money 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:17.280 once it's in the government's hands. Wright, senatorly spoiler alert, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.199 it's not managed like your or four one K and 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.480 I think a lot of you know this, but it's 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.040 worth repeating, indoor, filling in some of the details, end 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:26.680 or bringing people along. 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:27.560 We had no idea this. 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.680 First of all, the money that goes its taxed out 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.679 of your hands into Social Security does not sit in 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.080 a nice individual account with your name on it. No, 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.800 it goes into a huge account called the Social Security 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:44.800 Trust Fund. But here's the kicker. The government routinely raids 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.640 this fund. Yes you heard that right, They take your 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.800 money and use it for whatever the current Congress deems necessary, 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.720 including stuff that is completely one hundred percent not related 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.600 to Social Security or benefits for old people or whatever. 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:05.159 There's talking Congress about saving Social Security. I've introduced and 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.239 co sponsored a number of measures over the years that 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.439 would fix it, but most in Congress show little desire 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.280 to fix it and are instead constantly looking for ways 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.320 to borrow from it quote unquote, with no plan to 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:20.720 put it back. And the returns, forget about compound to 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.440 interest or stock market gains. Your investment in Social Security 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.199 can give you a lower return than inflation. If you 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:31.399 had put the same amount into literally anything else, a 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.879 mutual fund, real estate, even a savings account, you'd be 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.879 better off by the time you reach retirement age, even if. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.560 The government kept some of it. Do the math with 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:41.520 Social Security. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.520 You're looking at a return that's pathetic compared to market 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.159 market averages. It's not even an investment, it's a tax. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.560 And let's talk about how this system is set up 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:54.960 to fail. The democraphic shift, more retirees, fewer workers. It's 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.320 almost fair to compare it to a Ponzi scheme that's 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:00.159 running out of new investors and every dollar you pay 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:02.520 into Social Security only to see it gobbled up by 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:05.520 the government itself is a dollar you cannot invest in 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:10.000 your own future. It's government dependency at its worst. Remember 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.600 this isn't just about retirement, it's about independence, about controlling 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:17.639 your own destiny. With social Security, you control nothing. The 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:22.399 government promises you security but gives you dependency. It promises ownership, 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.160 but it gives you a tax receipt. And don't get 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:28.600 me started on the management. The Social Security administration is 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:32.760 a bureaucratic biemuth, not exactly known for its efficiency or innovation. 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.239 If you think your money is safe there, you're in 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:38.560 for a rude awakening. The mismanagement, the waste, the deception, 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.640 it's all on display. And I'm going to pause now 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:47.399 and depart from Michaele's text to point out for the 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:55.639 millionth time the utter incompetence, bias, and stupidity of the 0:22:55.680 --> 0:23:02.119 mainstream media. This is a story so massive and so important. 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:03.040 To all of us. 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:08.879 It affects all of us directly financially. You'd think you 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:12.119 would hear about this all the time, and not just 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.200 from quote unquote conservative commentators. 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:17.000 And I honestly don't know. 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:23.159 What's conservative or not conservative about this discussion. Unless you 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:25.960 just want everything controlled by the government, you're that sort 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:27.800 of progressive. 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:29.520 Anyway. 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:32.560 So Mike Lee, right, So what's the solution. We need real, 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:37.480 genuine reform within the Social Security administ system. Americans should 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:39.479 be able to invest in their own future and not 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:42.760 be shackled by the worst parts of this outdated, mismanaged 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:46.520 system again, which was cooked up going on one hundred 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:50.640 years ago. It's time we acknowledge the truth. Social Security 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:53.880 as it now exists is not a retirement plan. It's 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.960 a tax plan with retirement benefits as an afterthought. We 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:00.440 were sold to dream but received a nightmare. It's time 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:03.280 for a wake up call. We need real reform. It's 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:06.879