Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Arm Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Wow
Speaker 1: from Portlandia. A handful of angry white chicks screeching Freemaduro,
Speaker 1: free him now, hands off Venezuela Wow? Or did they
Speaker 1: mind now with now? Which is a songwriter? Offends me anyway.
Speaker 1: So that's that's Portlandia. Let's check in in Seattle, where
Speaker 1: a man who for some reason is chill and to
Speaker 1: present himself as a woman is leading a different chant
Speaker 1: and Za fed.
Speaker 3: As well, fed as well, Great President.
Speaker 4: I.
Speaker 2: Don't speak that language.
Speaker 1: Wow, socialism or death, he sees shouting at them.
Speaker 5: I get the I get the argument that, Uh, I'm
Speaker 5: willing to listen to the argument that we shouldn't be
Speaker 5: going into other countries and snatching their leaders or whatever.
Speaker 5: I get that argument. I'm not particularly worried about it
Speaker 5: in this case.
Speaker 2: I don't. In this case it's wrong, but we'll get
Speaker 2: up to that. I don't understand the you know, up
Speaker 2: with Maduro.
Speaker 1: I know it's insane, it's it's absolutely fruit looks and
Speaker 1: the free press has done some great coverage of this
Speaker 1: story and and the posty is a whole and how
Speaker 1: it ends, and are we quote unquote running Venezuela and
Speaker 1: what it's gonna look like in two years. Those are
Speaker 1: absolutely great questions, wonderful questions, and only time will tell.
Speaker 1: But the idea that it was somehow bad to get
Speaker 1: rid of Maduro and to chant free Maduro, free him
Speaker 1: now is bad ass crazy. I mean that is that's
Speaker 1: like hospitalize these people levels of crazy. And then the
Speaker 1: free press doing a great job of talking to a
Speaker 1: bunch of Venezuelans. Here's this this gal who her phone
Speaker 1: began to buzz Saturday with the news. She's Venezuelan living
Speaker 1: in America. Now her phone began to buzz with news
Speaker 1: that the US had captured Maduro. She could hardly believe it.
Speaker 1: She said, this is what all Venezuelans wished for. We
Speaker 1: were waiting twenty five years for this. And she was
Speaker 1: astounding to Zora astound dead rather by Zora Mumdani, who
Speaker 1: has just sworn in.
Speaker 2: She says, he's young.
Speaker 1: I feel like he he knows what the people blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Oh, he's crazy. He needs to live in
Speaker 1: Venezuela for one year. He shouldn't be saying that anymore.
Speaker 1: And they talk about this split screen reaction in New
Speaker 1: York City, especially where Venezuelans are taking the streets in
Speaker 1: enormous numbers, weeping tears of joy, chanting and singing in celebration. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the lefties of America, like we just heard, including the
Speaker 1: Democratic Socialists of America, held a counter demonstration, released a
Speaker 1: statement demanding the return of Maduro in the first lady
Speaker 1: who's a real sweetheart, and.
Speaker 5: Marching in favor of turning Maduro loose. Well, so, I
Speaker 5: don't we played this clip a lot here, Vince Scully
Speaker 5: La Dodgers back in the day.
Speaker 4: Socialism failing to work as it always does, this time
Speaker 4: in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something free, and
Speaker 4: all of a sudden there's no food to eat. And
Speaker 4: who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela
Speaker 4: The daughter of Hugo Chavis. Hello anyway, Oh and too, So.
Speaker 5: What year was that? I was way back in the nineties.
Speaker 5: So then when Hugo Chavez left broke, this guy took over. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 5: Maduro was his appointed successor. Yeah, and then it was
Speaker 5: an ultra loyal, brutal goon. So then why did he
Speaker 5: try to have an election which he then stole and
Speaker 5: stay in office, stayed in office?
Speaker 2: Why in that way that they do. It's very little downside.
Speaker 1: If you happen to win the election, you get to
Speaker 1: acclaim legitimacy. I'm not a dictator. I got elected. If
Speaker 1: you lose, hit, you just overturned the results. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: too bad, but you gotta do what you got.
Speaker 5: And that ignored by this part ignored by a lot
Speaker 5: of the critics of this that most countries around the
Speaker 5: world did not recognize him as the president, the actual
Speaker 5: president of the country.
Speaker 2: All right, right, including the EU and few others.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so if they don't call him president, how can
Speaker 5: you claim that we took their.
Speaker 2: President or right? Right?
Speaker 1: And as I briefly stated, the idea that we're violating
Speaker 1: the international law by snatching up ahead of state blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, an idea that NPR is just treating is
Speaker 1: a given. It's clearly true, and there's even no reason
Speaker 1: to even discuss it.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely not true.
Speaker 1: Number one, the guy who was an indicted drug trafficker,
Speaker 1: and number two, he was not the legitimate had a state,
Speaker 1: he had had faked an election.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: It was agreed upon by multiple organizations around the world,
Speaker 1: including the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: So it just doesn't apply. So what folks who.
Speaker 1: Are arguing that are advocating is the idea that, look,
Speaker 1: you can commit any crime in the world you want,
Speaker 1: but if you're strong enough to take over another country,
Speaker 1: no matter how small, we can't touch you, which is
Speaker 1: a bizarre way to look at it. But anyway, getting
Speaker 1: back to the left and their reactions. So this gal,
Speaker 1: this Venezuelan gal who's crying tears of joy, was asked
Speaker 1: about the Democratic Socialists, which Mumdannie has been part of
Speaker 1: four years and years. She says, I guess it's not
Speaker 1: surprising because they're socialists. But then you've got New York
Speaker 1: State Senator Jessica Ramos, who's married to Venezuelan and represents
Speaker 1: a district that has a lot of Venezuelan folks. She
Speaker 1: said she was disappointed to see her party take a
Speaker 1: one sided stance. I've seen those signs about socialism beating fascism,
Speaker 1: but how about neither extreme being a good thing? How
Speaker 1: about being against totalitarian regimes as a whole. If you're
Speaker 1: against tashtag no kings, you should be against kings everywhere.
Speaker 1: And Ramos, who ran against Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary,
Speaker 1: told me the situation was not at all good in Venezuela.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But she said, first, anyone who's worked with asylum seekers
Speaker 1: here in New York City over the past few years
Speaker 1: and has heard their stories about having to send their
Speaker 1: children to schools where there's no running water or electricity,
Speaker 1: or about how they can't practice their career or go
Speaker 1: to college, it's impossible not to understand why the immediate
Speaker 1: reaction for so many Venezuelans is joyful. They haven't felt
Speaker 1: a joy like this in a long time before this weekend.
Speaker 2: Then they go through the list of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: And AOC and others who who are saying that this
Speaker 1: is terrible, terrible. Here's a thirty three year old Uber
Speaker 1: Eats delivery driver from Venezuela who argued that Mondami was
Speaker 1: wrong to oppose the actions of President Trump. As a
Speaker 1: patriot of Venezuela. Agree with everything Trump is doing. It's perfect,
Speaker 1: truly perfect, and final final word, New Yorker venezuelan American
Speaker 1: who's lived here for twenty seven years. She said the
Speaker 1: New York mayor's social media post merely confirmed what she
Speaker 1: already suspected, that is posh up bringing on the Upper
Speaker 1: West Side rendered him out of touch. And I quote,
Speaker 1: it's hard to tell a rich kid that poverty exists.
Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to understand that there are people suffering
Speaker 1: in this world and they're suffering because of socialism. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's great stuff. I haven't heard. Go ahead.
Speaker 5: I was just going to say on that, you know,
Speaker 5: the knee jerk while Trump did it, got to be
Speaker 5: against it thing. I was trying to find a piece.
Speaker 5: Mark Calprin wrote, I think for New Year's Day of
Speaker 5: the as long as we're stuck in me and both
Speaker 5: sides do this. It isn't just lefties, but as long
Speaker 5: as we're stuck in the if the other side does it,
Speaker 5: I'm against it. Regardless mode that we've been in for
Speaker 5: quite a few years. We're just never gonna get anywhere.
Speaker 2: We just never.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know it's Charles Laane wrote a fabulous
Speaker 1: piece I came across about this topic, and he's talking
Speaker 1: about George orwell. One of the very very early books
Speaker 1: was about the miners in Britain, not to young people,
Speaker 1: people who mine, and how as an intellectual socialist he
Speaker 1: went to see their lives, and he writes, in a way,
Speaker 1: it is even humiliating to watch coal miners working. It
Speaker 1: raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status
Speaker 1: as an intellectual and a superior person generally, for it
Speaker 1: is brought home to you, at least while you were watching,
Speaker 1: that it is only because of miners sweating their guts
Speaker 1: out that superior persons in quotes, can remain superior. And
Speaker 1: when he got his actual encounters with the working class,
Speaker 1: as opposed to hearing about them in a classroom taught
Speaker 1: by a professor maybe at Columbia, he realized, oh my god,
Speaker 1: the reality is so different from the classroom. And that's
Speaker 1: why he went on a lifelong campaign of saying, hey,
Speaker 1: here's the problems with socialism.
Speaker 5: The next days, weeks, months, certainly matter though, because it
Speaker 5: could it could go so south so fast that uh,
Speaker 5: it's hard to feel like it was a win, couldn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, and all these joyful people of Venezuelan extraction
Speaker 1: might end up being heartbroken because for now the administration's
Speaker 1: embraced the second in command, who's a dedicated totalitarian encounter right.
Speaker 5: I like this conversation that Marco Rubio got into with
Speaker 5: I think mart Brennan on Facination about is this regime
Speaker 5: change or not? And I think it's a good question.
Speaker 5: The no, it's not regime change. It's uh because regime
Speaker 5: change as a nasty hangover from when we've done it
Speaker 5: a couple of times and it hasn't worked out that well.
Speaker 5: But she made the point, well, if it's not regime change,
Speaker 5: I mean, so it's the same regime, but we're expecting
Speaker 5: them to act completely differently.
Speaker 2: That's the hope, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well they're going to try to use
Speaker 1: their leverage and see what happens.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 1: I'm skeptical, but keeping in an open mind. Hey, finally this,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard this, but I hear it's pretty amusing.
Speaker 1: Here's a man on the street montage in New York City.
Speaker 2: It is priceless. Would you try to Trump for Maduro? Yeah?
Speaker 4: One of there.
Speaker 3: I mean I think Trump.
Speaker 5: I think Maduro was democratically elected.
Speaker 2: Probably, yeah, sure, more than likely.
Speaker 4: Yes, of course, if there's a Nicholas Maduro out here
Speaker 4: who's going to bring us to revolution, will support that movement.
Speaker 6: I would rather have a bus driver in charge than
Speaker 6: than a billionaire.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's put it that way. Nicholas Magerald could come
Speaker 2: and be our president.
Speaker 4: Oh any day, anyway, Look, you say, all the check
Speaker 4: marks are there.
Speaker 2: He's not white. Okay, he's a minority.
Speaker 1: Okay, he looks a little too much like Saddam. We're saying, though,
Speaker 1: those people are unspeakably stupid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but how many so, Mom, Donnie? The other night
Speaker 5: it is inauguration this.
Speaker 6: We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
Speaker 6: warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 5: How many people out there actually cheer that believe that?
Speaker 5: I don't have a sense of it.
Speaker 1: It is the most persistent, idiotic scam in the history
Speaker 1: of mankind. It makes snake oil look unpromising. Is a
Speaker 1: scam like chemotherapy.
Speaker 2: Right exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's It's worth studying an under standing why
Speaker 1: it is so alluring to people. Because it has been
Speaker 1: disproved so thoroughly and so many times, and so brutally,
Speaker 1: you'd think nobody with two brain cells to rub together
Speaker 1: could possibly embrace socialism, and yet they by the billions
Speaker 1: yearn for it and they deserve it good and hard.
Speaker 1: Let's just divide up the country in two and you
Speaker 1: can have your socialism. You knock yourselves out over here,
Speaker 1: we'll be doing the liberty thing.
Speaker 5: And so the million people on the streets with tears
Speaker 5: in their eyes, so happy in Venezuela, they're just wrong.
Speaker 5: They just don't know that it's a good system those
Speaker 5: that's just.
Speaker 1: A big loud fact that they ignore, because that's one
Speaker 1: of the keys to being a socialist is you must
Speaker 1: ignore reality.
Speaker 2: Weird, any thoughts, they're misguided. They're the brown face and
Speaker 2: white supremacy.
Speaker 5: Jack, we got to play that mom Donny clip and
Speaker 5: like really put it in context a little bit later
Speaker 5: and discuss it, because it is it is. I don't
Speaker 5: think it's a minor thing that he said that. Oh no,
Speaker 5: we got a lot more.
Speaker 2: On the waist to hear anyways, Oh and too.
Speaker 5: Exactly, yo yo yo, We're back live. That's it, We're
Speaker 5: actually back. This is us back. What if you're listening
Speaker 5: to the show and you heard a lot of reruns
Speaker 5: for the last two weeks, Now this is live, this
Speaker 5: is January fifthy or twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2: God bless it?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna come up with a slogan for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six? Do you think I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Have people suggest ideas what rhymes with six?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: We've been doing this for We've been doing this for
Speaker 5: so long. I know that we could probably just go
Speaker 5: back to sixteen row six or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, sixteen wouldn't work exactly, that's true. How about
Speaker 1: warring for clicks in twenty six?
Speaker 2: Except we don't, No, we don't.
Speaker 5: I got so many notes of news over the last
Speaker 5: two weeks that just deserve a mention. For instance, did
Speaker 5: you see uh you? You almost certainly didn't. Giorgio Maloney.
Speaker 5: She's the leader of Italy. I like the cut of
Speaker 5: her gym. I like her deal anyway. She gave a
Speaker 5: big speech to a giant rally, speaking to Third world
Speaker 5: migrants there. If you feel offended by a crucifix or
Speaker 5: a Nativity scene, then this is not the place where
Speaker 5: you should live. We will live, go girl, We will
Speaker 5: defend God and homeland in the family. There'd been some
Speaker 5: Nativity scenes attacked in Rome, and that's what she was
Speaker 5: speaking to.
Speaker 1: This is the preference cascade we talked about a fair
Speaker 1: amount last year where you're told over and over again
Speaker 1: nobody thinks what you think, you're wrong to think.
Speaker 2: It's stopped thinking it. And then when.
Speaker 1: Everybody fine and all along, you've been thinking this is
Speaker 1: crazy letting all these people in who hate our way
Speaker 1: of life, and then suddenly, when it becomes safe to
Speaker 1: say it out loud, you realize, oh, everybody's been thinking
Speaker 1: about it, certainly everybody who has a conscience and a brain.
Speaker 5: I'm glad she said it. But the cake is in
Speaker 5: the oven and being baked on that whole thing in Europe,
Speaker 5: so we'll see how that turns out. Mean, the people
Speaker 5: are there and they have their beliefs. Elon Musk said
Speaker 5: he's going all in funding Republicans to help President Trump
Speaker 5: take back full control of the House or hold on.
Speaker 2: To full control in the November midterms.
Speaker 5: He's gone all in on a couple of elections where
Speaker 5: he didn't get his way even though he spent a
Speaker 5: lot of money, but funding a whole bunch of House
Speaker 5: members Republican across the country, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 5: know if money will be the difference maker or not.
Speaker 5: I guess no, he did have dinner with Donald and
Speaker 5: Malania at mar A Lago the other night, So the
Speaker 5: whole romance is over. They're feuding or whatever stupid soap
Speaker 5: opera that people like to talk about. He was sitting
Speaker 5: there at the dinner table and they were both laughing
Speaker 5: and chuckling.
Speaker 2: And seeing the dinner table events.
Speaker 5: Right, So, I don't know if you think that's a
Speaker 5: big deal or not. California's open carry ban was blown
Speaker 5: up by a major Second Amendment ruling that happened while
Speaker 5: we were on vacation, and it was the Ninth Circuit Court,
Speaker 5: which generally we hate the thing as they decide, said
Speaker 5: that California's restriction on open carrying firearms fails the Supreme
Speaker 5: Court's modern Second Amendment test.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a couple of huge court victories over the
Speaker 1: break that were kept quiet by most of the media.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see how that turns out.
Speaker 1: Also, Yeah, the National Review had a fairly amusing roundup
Speaker 1: of some of the ridiculous wild blue state laws of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six, including in cal
Speaker 1: Unicornia continuing to be the sanctuary state for children who
Speaker 1: are momentarily confused about their sex and the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six sees the California legislature enacting the banning banning books
Speaker 1: no matter how sexually explicit or age inappropriate they are.
Speaker 1: If you can argue, well, it's gay sex or transsex,
Speaker 1: you can't take it out of your kids' school library.
Speaker 1: It's protected.
Speaker 2: Wow, porn for kids. Yay porn for kid Wow Okay.
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Speaker 3: We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we
Speaker 3: have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.
Speaker 3: There are also other issues that we firmly believe in,
Speaker 3: whether it's BDS right or whether it's the end goal
Speaker 3: of season the means.
Speaker 5: Of production, seizing the means of production from Zorn Mom
Speaker 5: Donnie bad.
Speaker 2: Boy before he got elected. Now, so the.
Speaker 5: Question at the time was, and this is in the
Speaker 5: context of a ridiculously high percentage of young people who
Speaker 5: now say they favor socialism over the free market. I
Speaker 5: should have looked up those numbers, but it's been growing
Speaker 5: for years and it's disturbing. Did he use the term
Speaker 5: seizing the means of production by accident or did he
Speaker 5: know how he will please poking people like us. Well,
Speaker 5: then the same thing the other night when he got
Speaker 5: sworn in New York. In New York as the mayor,
Speaker 5: everybody knowing exactly what he was, and enough people choose
Speaker 5: him on purpose, and he said this, we.
Speaker 6: Will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth
Speaker 6: of collectivism.
Speaker 5: If you're a cold warrior at all, the warmth of
Speaker 5: the term collectivism is just dude, you're you're you're trolling me, right,
Speaker 5: You're just trying to get my head to pop off
Speaker 5: by using the term collectivism.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's amazing, just very quickly, I for one,
Speaker 1: and I'm asking you do you find liberty frigid? I
Speaker 1: find it wonderful and innervating and exciting and fun. The
Speaker 1: last thing I find it is somehow oppressive?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding? Well, it's just an open plea for
Speaker 2: the vote of sheep.
Speaker 5: So if you're not super into the history of this
Speaker 5: sort of stuff, I realize how the word collectivism might
Speaker 5: not land with you.
Speaker 2: But man, if you read he Shares Together.
Speaker 5: But if you follow this sort of stuff, I mean
Speaker 5: that is the term that was used by Lenin and
Speaker 5: Stalin and Mao and Castro and all of these creeps
Speaker 5: who led to the murder of millions and millions and
Speaker 5: millions of people. And it might be the most deadly
Speaker 5: word in world history, right, collectivism, And he chose that
Speaker 5: for his inaugural speech.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So the question was, and I was listening to Jonah
Speaker 5: Goldberg on the Dispatch talk about this, did he does
Speaker 5: he run in circles where that word doesn't have that
Speaker 5: meaning for the rest of us, And so because he's
Speaker 5: surrounded by his dad and his other socialist friends that
Speaker 5: they don't know how it triggers the rest of us.
Speaker 5: Or was he just throwing that word out there for
Speaker 5: the knowing that it, you know, makes people like us crazy,
Speaker 5: but for the people that voted for him, they love
Speaker 5: that word. Or does he not know, well, it's ten
Speaker 5: to thirty five year olds who are not particularly astute,
Speaker 5: who are his target audience, and he couldn't give half
Speaker 5: a crap how it triggers us, as you put it.
Speaker 5: Or the fact that anybody who has any background knowledge
Speaker 5: about the history of socialism, communism, collectivism recoils because the
Speaker 5: history of it is just horrifically it's unspeakably obscene because
Speaker 5: the youngsters, they don't recoil, they don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was funny.
Speaker 1: I heard him hesitate before he used the term seizing
Speaker 1: the means of production, because I think in his like
Speaker 1: ivy league educated head, he knew, oh, this is a
Speaker 1: little on the nose. I mean, this is straight out
Speaker 1: of the textbooks. But he went ahead and used the
Speaker 1: phrase anyway because he knew he was within, you know,
Speaker 1: a friendly crowd.
Speaker 5: Now, you know worth pointing out he doesn't have the
Speaker 5: ability as a mayor of New York to seize the
Speaker 5: means of production or to collectivize hardly anything. But the
Speaker 5: fact that he is in favor of again maybe the
Speaker 5: most deadly word in all of language going back over
Speaker 5: the last century or so. The fact that he's in
Speaker 5: favor of it is just wild. It'd be like if
Speaker 5: you had a right winger say, we need to deal
Speaker 5: with these immigrants through a holocaust of removal or something
Speaker 5: final solution.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly. Yeah, it's amazing. It is this stunning.
Speaker 6: We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
Speaker 6: warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 2: Straight off a mouth. Poster from nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Eight Wow, walk around Cuba, walk around the Soviet Union.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about the warmth of collectivism. That's just bizarre.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's obscene. Now he does have some power within.
Speaker 2: New York City.
Speaker 1: This is se A Weaver, his New York City tenant
Speaker 1: director is going to be in charge of all rentals.
Speaker 2: Listen to her, would you? It's eighteen Michael.
Speaker 7: I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
Speaker 7: really treated property as an individualized good and not a
Speaker 7: collective good. And we are going to trend. Additioning to
Speaker 7: treating it as a collective good and towards a model
Speaker 7: of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,
Speaker 7: and it will mean that families, especially white families, but
Speaker 7: some pot families who are homeowners as well, are going
Speaker 7: to have a different relationship to property than the one
Speaker 7: that we currently have.
Speaker 1: Wait now, sweetheart, a lot of white homeowners well, and
Speaker 1: some pocs are going to have a different relationship with
Speaker 1: their property than they have right now. I don't think
Speaker 1: I need to explain to you, folks what that means.
Speaker 1: We are going to confiscate your property and the state
Speaker 1: will control it. The state, not the state of New York.
Speaker 1: But the state capitalists. Yeah, wow, to a bit more
Speaker 1: s extinct, she said. A couple of years ago, she
Speaker 1: tweeted this private property, including in kind of especially homeownership
Speaker 1: is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as wealth building
Speaker 1: public policy.
Speaker 2: Home ownership is white supremacy. That's correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and people who own homes need to have a
Speaker 1: different relationship with their property.
Speaker 5: Well, you can't accuse them of like trying to fool
Speaker 5: us by pretending to be something else, because that ain't
Speaker 5: what they're doing. Yeah, points for honesty. Mamnami said back
Speaker 5: in June, I don't think we should have billionaires. Is
Speaker 5: there a point to being a billionaire besides for power? Wait,
Speaker 5: this is somewhat crazies, but.
Speaker 1: It's for children and the childlike Only a child or
Speaker 1: an ignoramus could fall for these arguments. Unfortunately, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of childlike adults and more ignoramuses than certainly
Speaker 1: we ought to start exporting them. The United States has
Speaker 1: a net surplus of ignoramuses. Unfortunately, so does much of
Speaker 1: the rest of the world, so they're not buying you know,
Speaker 1: you're right.
Speaker 5: I focused on the second half of the phrase, where
Speaker 5: he talks about the collectivism, the warmth of collectivism, but
Speaker 5: the frigidity of rugged individualism.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's bad to be a rugged individual Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: It's horror, horri doubloo. Just the idea of being able
Speaker 2: to do what I want, how I want. It's scary.
Speaker 5: I want the warmth of collectivism, which is worth so
Speaker 5: well your self sufficient.
Speaker 2: That's sick.
Speaker 5: Wow, it's urging that the mayor of probably the most
Speaker 5: important city on earth, whether he has the power to
Speaker 5: do all these things or.
Speaker 2: Not, believes that stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and people voted for him like crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bernie goes to show you the incredible allure of
Speaker 1: that particular fraud.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. It is. It is the shapel blonde who
Speaker 2: says I'm a little drunk of.
Speaker 1: Political philosophies is like, oh my God, give me some
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how harri of it. It doesn't matter how.
Speaker 1: Many people she murders in cold blood, like openly on
Speaker 1: the streets. The next generation comes along and says, ooh,
Speaker 1: give me a place.
Speaker 2: Seriously, what do you think the goal was?
Speaker 5: As a I don't know if he wrote his own
Speaker 5: speech or his speech writers, but he signed off on it.
Speaker 5: What's the goal of poking everybody who doesn't agree with
Speaker 5: that the way he did? I mean, that is just, oh,
Speaker 5: don't I don't think he even sees.
Speaker 2: It that way.
Speaker 1: No, he was selling what he believes to people who
Speaker 1: were his.
Speaker 2: Customers.
Speaker 5: Do you think he realizes the extent that for the
Speaker 5: normal part of the country.
Speaker 2: That that is just horrific?
Speaker 5: Or is he because he's it's hard to imagine the
Speaker 5: circles he's been in his whole life, right right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he realizes it, but I do
Speaker 1: know that he doesn't care. Yeah, I mean, so hardcore
Speaker 1: socialists have never cared what the burgeois he thinks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're right, their whole philosophy. I do think
Speaker 1: that he has spent his whole life around, you know,
Speaker 1: intellectuals and socialists, and that that crowd so much that
Speaker 1: he doesn't realize what that sounds like to the rest
Speaker 1: of us. Right Hey, getting back, Yeah, I have time
Speaker 1: for this, and I'm so glad. I'm reminded of a
Speaker 1: couple of things. Number One, Matt Tayeebe saying we're in
Speaker 1: the upper class twits promoting revolution point in our country,
Speaker 1: and then we.
Speaker 2: Have Type who tweeted out that.
Speaker 5: Quote about the rigid fragility of the rigidness of it.
Speaker 2: He just said, do you have that for you? I don't.
Speaker 5: Oh, Matt Type just tweeted that quote out about the
Speaker 5: warmth of collectivism and the rigidity of individual liberty or whatever,
Speaker 5: and said, what the f?
Speaker 6: He had the word, we will replace the frigidity of
Speaker 6: rugged individualism the warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt t betweeted on what the f.
Speaker 1: You can't tell you what time it is in less
Speaker 1: than four thousand words? Put to that plainly, and a
Speaker 1: wordsmith is skilled as mad is anyway, So I was
Speaker 1: reminded of that. And also, excuse me, the piece that
Speaker 1: Charles Lane wrote about mostly about Charles or I'm sorry
Speaker 1: about George Orwell, about when Orwell, who is a socialist,
Speaker 1: actually got exposed to the working class, specifically minors. He
Speaker 1: wrote a book called The Road to Wigan Pier. I
Speaker 1: think that's how you pronounce it, but anyway about read
Speaker 1: it essentially, Yeah, it's about him coming up against the
Speaker 1: reality of the working class and socialism and that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. And Orwell wrote this, and I think it's
Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. There are a couple of things you're going
Speaker 1: to want to substitute here as examples. But Orwell writes,
Speaker 1: we've reached a stage where the very word socialism calls up.
Speaker 1: On the one hand, a picture of aeroplanes, tractors, and huge,
Speaker 1: glittering factories of glass and concrete. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: a picture of vegetarians with wilting beards, of Bolshevik commissars,
Speaker 1: half gangster, half Gramophone, of earnest ladies and sandals, shockheaded
Speaker 1: Marxists chewing polysyllables, escaped Quakers, birth control fanatics, and labor
Speaker 1: Party backstairs crawlers. Socialism, at least on this island, does
Speaker 1: not smell any longer of revolution in the overthrow of tyrants.
Speaker 1: It smells of crankishness, machine worship, and the stupid cult
Speaker 1: of Russia. Unless you can remove that smell, and very
Speaker 1: rapidly fascism may win. And Charles Lane points out, substitute
Speaker 1: electric cars for airplanes, and trans kids for birth control,
Speaker 1: and free Palestine for the stupid cult of Russia. And
Speaker 1: Orwell could be writing about academics in the Bay area
Speaker 1: of Mamdani's fan base in Brooklyn and Manhattan substitute Maga
Speaker 1: for fascism, and the parallels are even clearer.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: It's before we went on vacation.
Speaker 5: I talked about this Christmas present I bought myself. I
Speaker 5: bought myself an original, authentic poster from China in the
Speaker 5: late fifties about the Great Leap forward and how great
Speaker 5: it was.
Speaker 2: Going to be.
Speaker 5: And that killed depends on who you ask, fifteen to
Speaker 5: forty million people by collectivizing farming and all kinds of
Speaker 5: different things. And at gunpoint, and you mentioned the idea
Speaker 5: that I can have that on my wall as an idea.
Speaker 2: I'm mocking that. I'm not admiring that.
Speaker 5: I'm just I mean, as an idea of this is
Speaker 5: what governments can do, come up with these kind of
Speaker 5: bad ideas and killed millions.
Speaker 2: But you can't do that with Nazi stuff.
Speaker 5: You can't do that Nazi And that's probably a good
Speaker 5: thing that we're just so turned off by the idea
Speaker 5: of Nazi. You shouldn't talk about you shouldn't, you know,
Speaker 5: give that any air whatsoever. What's the idea that.
Speaker 1: You can give air to communism? Well, right, I think
Speaker 1: you know the whole Nazi thing. You're right, maybe it
Speaker 1: is a good idea. But the contrast is the amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. The Nazi poster up.
Speaker 1: You could say, oh no, no, I'm a collector of
Speaker 1: I study propaganda. I've always said I'm fascinated by it.
Speaker 1: And this is propaganda from an evil regime. This is
Speaker 1: what it looks like. And people will still think I'm bad.
Speaker 1: He's an f N closet Nazi.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, my point is that people are knee jerk.
Speaker 5: You cannot even go half a step toward Nazism, but
Speaker 5: people let you go all the way toward communism. They
Speaker 5: just advocated openly, never mind having the post that killed
Speaker 5: more people used the same phrases, run for office on
Speaker 5: it and nobody blinks an eye.
Speaker 2: Now wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wild is one name for moronic, idiotic, ignorant and
Speaker 1: frightening and frightening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be keeping our eye on that. Among other things.
Speaker 5: I've got something about New Year's I'll bet you haven't heard.
Speaker 5: I guess it's all the rage with the young people.
Speaker 5: Did you crawl under a table on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 5: You didn't, You should have the only way you can
Speaker 5: make sure you have a good year. Among other things
Speaker 5: on the way, stay tuned Ilia Malinan might be a
Speaker 5: household name here. In just a couple of weeks, Ilia Mallinan,
Speaker 5: you'll know him. Everyone will know him. He is one
Speaker 5: of our star skaters that will be at the Winter Olympics,
Speaker 5: which starts in just a few weeks in Italy. He
Speaker 5: is the only person. He's a high school kid. He's
Speaker 5: the only person to ever land a quad in.
Speaker 1: Competition, and I've landed a couple in practice, but there
Speaker 1: are no cameras present, so I have.
Speaker 2: To take my word. You just have to believe the
Speaker 2: many people who are wowed by your.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no, I'm certain I left up in
Speaker 1: the air world around a bunch of times, and I
Speaker 1: was facing the same way, so I think it was four, yeah, four,
Speaker 1: at least.
Speaker 5: Four, Katie, are you familiar with the trend that is
Speaker 5: the sneak arena? That is ballerina shoes which have been
Speaker 5: popular with women various times, coming and going, and now
Speaker 5: they're kind of turned into a sneaker. So it's a
Speaker 5: combination ballerinas, slipper and sneaker, the sneak arena.
Speaker 2: I guess it's I guess it's very hot. I don't
Speaker 2: know that I don't know that. I know it to
Speaker 2: be called that, but yeah, I've seen them.
Speaker 5: Okay, they're viral, so you get those on your feet
Speaker 5: as soon as possible.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: Also came across this is your scalp the new IT
Speaker 5: body part. Consumers are increasingly fixating on their scalps, turning
Speaker 5: to head spas, pricey treatments and products to combat thin
Speaker 5: hair and irritation.
Speaker 2: I mean, no, they're not. No, they're not just leaving
Speaker 2: it there. No, they're not.
Speaker 1: And the idea that it's new that people are I
Speaker 1: have thinning hair.
Speaker 2: Why I'm concerned this is new in twenty twenty. Shut
Speaker 2: the fot.
Speaker 1: You aren't going to head spas. I'm not falling through
Speaker 1: the fake trends.
Speaker 2: I haven't noticed those popping up. The scalp spas.
Speaker 5: There you go, see, yeah, where you go, and they
Speaker 5: just focus on your scalp.
Speaker 2: The scalp is the new IT body part.
Speaker 5: Ah right, I'm all skinny as a baby, Show me
Speaker 5: your scalp. And then there was some announcement some country
Speaker 5: thinks they've actually cracked the coat on growing hair. So
Speaker 5: I might have, as my brother said, I'm gonna have
Speaker 5: bangs in a mullet by the.
Speaker 2: End of the year, May one thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: So we're at New Year's Eve and we're sitting around
Speaker 5: talking about things. It's amazing to me how some people
Speaker 5: embrace the New Year's resolution thing, and then if you
Speaker 5: don't embrace it, you're hostile toward it. There's no in between. Apparently,
Speaker 5: it's like you got to be a hostile at the
Speaker 5: idea that you could improve yourself or I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know what makes people mad about it, but
Speaker 5: if you ask somebody, they either have one or they're
Speaker 5: angry at the topic.
Speaker 1: I think it's the ubiquity of it. It's the obligatory
Speaker 1: feel of the whole thing. Man, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: will reject. I love the idea of a reset and evaluation.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like running a business. You take your
Speaker 1: log at the end of the year.
Speaker 5: How did this go? How did that go? What do
Speaker 5: we need to do more of and less of? Anyway,
Speaker 5: one of the young people at our gathering said, oh,
Speaker 5: did anybody bring any grapes? And I said, why would
Speaker 5: anybody bring me to grapes? Grapes under the table, And
Speaker 5: they're all like duh, I guess that's a thing. Eating
Speaker 5: twelve grapes under a table at midnight is how you
Speaker 5: ensure yourself you're going to have a good year.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: I'd heard about eating the grapes in the context of
Speaker 1: Venezuelan's but not in the table did In fact.
Speaker 5: It's a New Year's Eve thing in my one niece,
Speaker 5: who's twenty three or something like that. I don't know
Speaker 5: how she's out of college starting in real life. She said,
Speaker 5: it doesn't work. I did it last year and I
Speaker 5: had a bad year. Well that's just science exactly, twelve
Speaker 5: grapes under the table, So maybe if you didn't catch
Speaker 5: it this year, maybe do it next year.
Speaker 2: I enjoy grapes. It couldn't hurt.
Speaker 5: I like this picture of a glom Marco Rubio where
Speaker 5: it says Rubio realizing he's going to be president of Venezuela,
Speaker 5: governor of Cuba, and shaw of Iran.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's good.
Speaker 5: We could talk about all of those things an hour four.
Speaker 5: What there's an hour four there is? If you don't
Speaker 5: get it or Miso segment, you can always get our
Speaker 5: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is the.
Speaker 1: Relationship with Venezuela going to look like going forward. That
Speaker 1: is the question nobody has the answer to, and we
Speaker 1: mean nobody. Armstrong and Getty