WEBVTT - Whoring For Clicks In '26! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:07.680 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.240 Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:39.000 Arm Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Wow 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:44.879 from Portlandia. A handful of angry white chicks screeching Freemaduro, 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.680 free him now, hands off Venezuela Wow? Or did they 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.960 mind now with now? Which is a songwriter? Offends me anyway. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.200 So that's that's Portlandia. Let's check in in Seattle, where 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.400 a man who for some reason is chill and to 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.480 present himself as a woman is leading a different chant 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:05.280 and Za fed. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:12.679 As well, fed as well, Great President. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:20.959 I. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:24.520 Don't speak that language. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.640 Wow, socialism or death, he sees shouting at them. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.000 I get the I get the argument that, Uh, I'm 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.160 willing to listen to the argument that we shouldn't be 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.840 going into other countries and snatching their leaders or whatever. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.960 I get that argument. I'm not particularly worried about it 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:42.360 in this case. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.160 I don't. In this case it's wrong, but we'll get 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.320 up to that. I don't understand the you know, up 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:48.960 with Maduro. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.760 I know it's insane, it's it's absolutely fruit looks and 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.160 the free press has done some great coverage of this 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.880 story and and the posty is a whole and how 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.280 it ends, and are we quote unquote running Venezuela and 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.440 what it's gonna look like in two years. Those are 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.160 absolutely great questions, wonderful questions, and only time will tell. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.200 But the idea that it was somehow bad to get 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.079 rid of Maduro and to chant free Maduro, free him 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:23.240 now is bad ass crazy. I mean that is that's 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:28.080 like hospitalize these people levels of crazy. And then the 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.040 free press doing a great job of talking to a 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.760 bunch of Venezuelans. Here's this this gal who her phone 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.360 began to buzz Saturday with the news. She's Venezuelan living 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.160 in America. Now her phone began to buzz with news 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.560 that the US had captured Maduro. She could hardly believe it. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.200 She said, this is what all Venezuelans wished for. We 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.720 were waiting twenty five years for this. And she was 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:55.720 astounding to Zora astound dead rather by Zora Mumdani, who 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:56.440 has just sworn in. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:57.960 She says, he's young. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.639 I feel like he he knows what the people blah 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.840 blah blah. Oh, he's crazy. He needs to live in 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.000 Venezuela for one year. He shouldn't be saying that anymore. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.200 And they talk about this split screen reaction in New 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.120 York City, especially where Venezuelans are taking the streets in 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:23.560 enormous numbers, weeping tears of joy, chanting and singing in celebration. Meanwhile, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.320 the lefties of America, like we just heard, including the 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:31.799 Democratic Socialists of America, held a counter demonstration, released a 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.519 statement demanding the return of Maduro in the first lady 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.240 who's a real sweetheart, and. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.880 Marching in favor of turning Maduro loose. Well, so, I 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.120 don't we played this clip a lot here, Vince Scully 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.080 La Dodgers back in the day. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.600 Socialism failing to work as it always does, this time 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.520 in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something free, and 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.480 all of a sudden there's no food to eat. And 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.240 who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:08.680 The daughter of Hugo Chavis. Hello anyway, Oh and too, So. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.000 What year was that? I was way back in the nineties. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:17.440 So then when Hugo Chavez left broke, this guy took over. Yeah, Yeah, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.800 Maduro was his appointed successor. Yeah, and then it was 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.920 an ultra loyal, brutal goon. So then why did he 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.320 try to have an election which he then stole and 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:29.599 stay in office, stayed in office? 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.280 Why in that way that they do. It's very little downside. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.400 If you happen to win the election, you get to 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.800 acclaim legitimacy. I'm not a dictator. I got elected. If 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.080 you lose, hit, you just overturned the results. Yeah, it's 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.040 too bad, but you gotta do what you got. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.640 And that ignored by this part ignored by a lot 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:52.680 of the critics of this that most countries around the 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.240 world did not recognize him as the president, the actual 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.760 president of the country. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.559 All right, right, including the EU and few others. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.720 Yeah, so if they don't call him president, how can 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.200 you claim that we took their. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.720 President or right? Right? 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.880 And as I briefly stated, the idea that we're violating 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.440 the international law by snatching up ahead of state blah 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.440 blah blah, an idea that NPR is just treating is 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.559 a given. It's clearly true, and there's even no reason 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:22.559 to even discuss it. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:23.719 It's absolutely not true. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.440 Number one, the guy who was an indicted drug trafficker, 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.760 and number two, he was not the legitimate had a state, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.599 he had had faked an election. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:31.840 Everybody knows it. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.680 It was agreed upon by multiple organizations around the world, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.279 including the Biden administration. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.040 So it just doesn't apply. So what folks who. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.560 Are arguing that are advocating is the idea that, look, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.080 you can commit any crime in the world you want, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.400 but if you're strong enough to take over another country, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.760 no matter how small, we can't touch you, which is 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.320 a bizarre way to look at it. But anyway, getting 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.400 back to the left and their reactions. So this gal, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.800 this Venezuelan gal who's crying tears of joy, was asked 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.719 about the Democratic Socialists, which Mumdannie has been part of 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.680 four years and years. She says, I guess it's not 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.760 surprising because they're socialists. But then you've got New York 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.960 State Senator Jessica Ramos, who's married to Venezuelan and represents 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.839 a district that has a lot of Venezuelan folks. She 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.240 said she was disappointed to see her party take a 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.440 one sided stance. I've seen those signs about socialism beating fascism, 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.840 but how about neither extreme being a good thing? How 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.920 about being against totalitarian regimes as a whole. If you're 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.720 against tashtag no kings, you should be against kings everywhere. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:36.320 And Ramos, who ran against Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.640 told me the situation was not at all good in Venezuela. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:42.320 Blah blah blah. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.479 But she said, first, anyone who's worked with asylum seekers 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.200 here in New York City over the past few years 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.200 and has heard their stories about having to send their 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.320 children to schools where there's no running water or electricity, 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.800 or about how they can't practice their career or go 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.039 to college, it's impossible not to understand why the immediate 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.320 reaction for so many Venezuelans is joyful. They haven't felt 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.440 a joy like this in a long time before this weekend. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.920 Then they go through the list of Kamala Harris. 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.360 And AOC and others who who are saying that this 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.280 is terrible, terrible. Here's a thirty three year old Uber 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.360 Eats delivery driver from Venezuela who argued that Mondami was 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.560 wrong to oppose the actions of President Trump. As a 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.960 patriot of Venezuela. Agree with everything Trump is doing. It's perfect, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:31.600 truly perfect, and final final word, New Yorker venezuelan American 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.880 who's lived here for twenty seven years. She said the 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.400 New York mayor's social media post merely confirmed what she 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.320 already suspected, that is posh up bringing on the Upper 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.560 West Side rendered him out of touch. And I quote, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.560 it's hard to tell a rich kid that poverty exists. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.040 He doesn't seem to understand that there are people suffering 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:51.640 in this world and they're suffering because of socialism. Wow, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.840 that's great stuff. I haven't heard. Go ahead. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:57.960 I was just going to say on that, you know, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.400 the knee jerk while Trump did it, got to be 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.520 against it thing. I was trying to find a piece. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.000 Mark Calprin wrote, I think for New Year's Day of 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.120 the as long as we're stuck in me and both 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.960 sides do this. It isn't just lefties, but as long 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.120 as we're stuck in the if the other side does it, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.960 I'm against it. Regardless mode that we've been in for 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.200 quite a few years. We're just never gonna get anywhere. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:21.840 We just never. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.480 Yeah, yeah, you know it's Charles Laane wrote a fabulous 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.600 piece I came across about this topic, and he's talking 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.520 about George orwell. One of the very very early books 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.680 was about the miners in Britain, not to young people, 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.960 people who mine, and how as an intellectual socialist he 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:48.560 went to see their lives, and he writes, in a way, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.760 it is even humiliating to watch coal miners working. It 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.440 raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.400 as an intellectual and a superior person generally, for it 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.520 is brought home to you, at least while you were watching, 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.560 that it is only because of miners sweating their guts 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:07.000 out that superior persons in quotes, can remain superior. And 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.199 when he got his actual encounters with the working class, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.120 as opposed to hearing about them in a classroom taught 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.920 by a professor maybe at Columbia, he realized, oh my god, 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.760 the reality is so different from the classroom. And that's 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.240 why he went on a lifelong campaign of saying, hey, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.359 here's the problems with socialism. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.959 The next days, weeks, months, certainly matter though, because it 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:41.800 could it could go so south so fast that uh, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.640 it's hard to feel like it was a win, couldn't it. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:49.160 Yeah, Well, and all these joyful people of Venezuelan extraction 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.479 might end up being heartbroken because for now the administration's 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:58.000 embraced the second in command, who's a dedicated totalitarian encounter right. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.080 I like this conversation that Marco Rubio got into with 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.960 I think mart Brennan on Facination about is this regime 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.120 change or not? And I think it's a good question. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.640 The no, it's not regime change. It's uh because regime 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.600 change as a nasty hangover from when we've done it 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.839 a couple of times and it hasn't worked out that well. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.400 But she made the point, well, if it's not regime change, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.520 I mean, so it's the same regime, but we're expecting 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.000 them to act completely differently. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.400 That's the hope, I guess. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well they're going to try to use 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:31.720 their leverage and see what happens. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:32.160 Ah. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.320 I'm skeptical, but keeping in an open mind. Hey, finally this, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.040 I haven't heard this, but I hear it's pretty amusing. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.120 Here's a man on the street montage in New York City. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:46.040 It is priceless. Would you try to Trump for Maduro? Yeah? 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:46.679 One of there. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:47.920 I mean I think Trump. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.160 I think Maduro was democratically elected. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.120 Probably, yeah, sure, more than likely. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.120 Yes, of course, if there's a Nicholas Maduro out here 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.080 who's going to bring us to revolution, will support that movement. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.880 I would rather have a bus driver in charge than 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:05.160 than a billionaire. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.240 Okay, let's put it that way. Nicholas Magerald could come 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.160 and be our president. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.560 Oh any day, anyway, Look, you say, all the check 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:14.200 marks are there. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.840 He's not white. Okay, he's a minority. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.839 Okay, he looks a little too much like Saddam. We're saying, though, 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.840 those people are unspeakably stupid. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.319 Yeah, but how many so, Mom, Donnie? The other night 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:29.680 it is inauguration this. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.960 We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:35.360 warmth of collectivism. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.439 How many people out there actually cheer that believe that? 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.200 I don't have a sense of it. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.840 It is the most persistent, idiotic scam in the history 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:52.280 of mankind. It makes snake oil look unpromising. Is a 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:57.560 scam like chemotherapy. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:56.160 Right exactly? 0:11:56.240 --> 0:12:01.800 Yeah, it's it's It's worth studying an under standing why 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:06.240 it is so alluring to people. Because it has been 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:13.199 disproved so thoroughly and so many times, and so brutally, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.880 you'd think nobody with two brain cells to rub together 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.079 could possibly embrace socialism, and yet they by the billions 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.280 yearn for it and they deserve it good and hard. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.560 Let's just divide up the country in two and you 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.680 can have your socialism. You knock yourselves out over here, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.120 we'll be doing the liberty thing. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.480 And so the million people on the streets with tears 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.600 in their eyes, so happy in Venezuela, they're just wrong. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.440 They just don't know that it's a good system those 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:40.200 that's just. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.360 A big loud fact that they ignore, because that's one 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.800 of the keys to being a socialist is you must 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:46.680 ignore reality. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.559 Weird, any thoughts, they're misguided. They're the brown face and 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:52.439 white supremacy. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.600 Jack, we got to play that mom Donny clip and 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.480 like really put it in context a little bit later 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.600 and discuss it, because it is it is. I don't 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.160 think it's a minor thing that he said that. Oh no, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:04.000 we got a lot more. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.160 On the waist to hear anyways, Oh and too. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:13.440 Exactly, yo yo yo, We're back live. That's it, We're 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.040 actually back. This is us back. What if you're listening 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.720 to the show and you heard a lot of reruns 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.959 for the last two weeks, Now this is live, this 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.240 is January fifthy or twenty twenty six? 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:23.560 God bless it? 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.600 Are you gonna come up with a slogan for twenty 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:27.920 twenty six? Do you think I'm going to. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.679 Have people suggest ideas what rhymes with six? 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:31.320 Right? 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:33.880 We've been doing this for We've been doing this for 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.760 so long. I know that we could probably just go 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.000 back to sixteen row six or whatever. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.199 Yeah, well, sixteen wouldn't work exactly, that's true. How about 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.920 warring for clicks in twenty six? 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:51.760 Except we don't, No, we don't. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.360 I got so many notes of news over the last 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.160 two weeks that just deserve a mention. For instance, did 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.319 you see uh you? You almost certainly didn't. Giorgio Maloney. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.880 She's the leader of Italy. I like the cut of 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.880 her gym. I like her deal anyway. She gave a 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.880 big speech to a giant rally, speaking to Third world 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.839 migrants there. If you feel offended by a crucifix or 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.240 a Nativity scene, then this is not the place where 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.680 you should live. We will live, go girl, We will 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.160 defend God and homeland in the family. There'd been some 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:28.000 Nativity scenes attacked in Rome, and that's what she was 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:28.560 speaking to. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.720 This is the preference cascade we talked about a fair 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.160 amount last year where you're told over and over again 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:35.800 nobody thinks what you think, you're wrong to think. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.600 It's stopped thinking it. And then when. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.080 Everybody fine and all along, you've been thinking this is 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.680 crazy letting all these people in who hate our way 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.360 of life, and then suddenly, when it becomes safe to 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.240 say it out loud, you realize, oh, everybody's been thinking 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.640 about it, certainly everybody who has a conscience and a brain. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.960 I'm glad she said it. But the cake is in 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.920 the oven and being baked on that whole thing in Europe, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.440 so we'll see how that turns out. Mean, the people 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.880 are there and they have their beliefs. Elon Musk said 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.800 he's going all in funding Republicans to help President Trump 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.720 take back full control of the House or hold on. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.440 To full control in the November midterms. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.680 He's gone all in on a couple of elections where 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.040 he didn't get his way even though he spent a 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.240 lot of money, but funding a whole bunch of House 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.640 members Republican across the country, I don't know. I don't 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.280 know if money will be the difference maker or not. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.560 I guess no, he did have dinner with Donald and 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.920 Malania at mar A Lago the other night, So the 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.760 whole romance is over. They're feuding or whatever stupid soap 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.080 opera that people like to talk about. He was sitting 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:38.800 there at the dinner table and they were both laughing 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:39.479 and chuckling. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:40.760 And seeing the dinner table events. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.640 Right, So, I don't know if you think that's a 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.960 big deal or not. California's open carry ban was blown 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:54.280 up by a major Second Amendment ruling that happened while 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.200 we were on vacation, and it was the Ninth Circuit Court, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.400 which generally we hate the thing as they decide, said 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.200 that California's restriction on open carrying firearms fails the Supreme 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.160 Court's modern Second Amendment test. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.920 Wow, that's a couple of huge court victories over the 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.000 break that were kept quiet by most of the media. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:13.320 Yeah. 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.200 Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see how that turns out. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.760 Also, Yeah, the National Review had a fairly amusing roundup 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.240 of some of the ridiculous wild blue state laws of 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.640 twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six, including in cal 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:34.640 Unicornia continuing to be the sanctuary state for children who 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.640 are momentarily confused about their sex and the twenty twenty 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:45.880 six sees the California legislature enacting the banning banning books 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.960 no matter how sexually explicit or age inappropriate they are. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:53.000 If you can argue, well, it's gay sex or transsex, 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.200 you can't take it out of your kids' school library. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:56.120 It's protected. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.640 Wow, porn for kids. Yay porn for kid Wow Okay. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.160 On the way, if you miss a segment, get the 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.760 podcast Armstrong and Get You on demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.959 We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.760 have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.240 There are also other issues that we firmly believe in, 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.280 whether it's BDS right or whether it's the end goal 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:22.600 of season the means. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.440 Of production, seizing the means of production from Zorn Mom 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:27.639 Donnie bad. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.160 Boy before he got elected. Now, so the. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.919 Question at the time was, and this is in the 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.760 context of a ridiculously high percentage of young people who 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:42.280 now say they favor socialism over the free market. I 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.320 should have looked up those numbers, but it's been growing 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:49.640 for years and it's disturbing. Did he use the term 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.520 seizing the means of production by accident or did he 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.720 know how he will please poking people like us. Well, 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:58.600 then the same thing the other night when he got 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.480 sworn in New York. In New York as the mayor, 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.200 everybody knowing exactly what he was, and enough people choose 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.480 him on purpose, and he said this, we. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.560 Will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:13.520 of collectivism. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.639 If you're a cold warrior at all, the warmth of 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:25.600 the term collectivism is just dude, you're you're you're trolling me, right, 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.720 You're just trying to get my head to pop off 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.800 by using the term collectivism. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.200 Yeah, I know, it's amazing, just very quickly, I for one, 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.760 and I'm asking you do you find liberty frigid? I 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:42.320 find it wonderful and innervating and exciting and fun. The 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.679 last thing I find it is somehow oppressive? 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.159 Are you kidding? Well, it's just an open plea for 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:49.159 the vote of sheep. 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.080 So if you're not super into the history of this 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.480 sort of stuff, I realize how the word collectivism might 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:58.879 not land with you. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.240 But man, if you read he Shares Together. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:03.800 But if you follow this sort of stuff, I mean 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.120 that is the term that was used by Lenin and 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:11.560 Stalin and Mao and Castro and all of these creeps 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:16.000 who led to the murder of millions and millions and 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.280 millions of people. And it might be the most deadly 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:26.320 word in world history, right, collectivism, And he chose that 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.240 for his inaugural speech. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:30.000 Right. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.080 So the question was, and I was listening to Jonah 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.840 Goldberg on the Dispatch talk about this, did he does 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.680 he run in circles where that word doesn't have that 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.120 meaning for the rest of us, And so because he's 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.400 surrounded by his dad and his other socialist friends that 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.120 they don't know how it triggers the rest of us. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.199 Or was he just throwing that word out there for 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.480 the knowing that it, you know, makes people like us crazy, 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.120 but for the people that voted for him, they love 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:01.040 that word. Or does he not know, well, it's ten 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.000 to thirty five year olds who are not particularly astute, 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.840 who are his target audience, and he couldn't give half 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.000 a crap how it triggers us, as you put it. 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.159 Or the fact that anybody who has any background knowledge 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:18.160 about the history of socialism, communism, collectivism recoils because the 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.760 history of it is just horrifically it's unspeakably obscene because 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.959 the youngsters, they don't recoil, they don't know. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:27.800 I mean, it was funny. 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.560 I heard him hesitate before he used the term seizing 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.080 the means of production, because I think in his like 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.679 ivy league educated head, he knew, oh, this is a 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.800 little on the nose. I mean, this is straight out 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.960 of the textbooks. But he went ahead and used the 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.879 phrase anyway because he knew he was within, you know, 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:44.080 a friendly crowd. 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.399 Now, you know worth pointing out he doesn't have the 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.760 ability as a mayor of New York to seize the 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:53.159 means of production or to collectivize hardly anything. But the 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.600 fact that he is in favor of again maybe the 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:01.440 most deadly word in all of language going back over 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.679 the last century or so. The fact that he's in 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.920 favor of it is just wild. It'd be like if 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.480 you had a right winger say, we need to deal 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:15.040 with these immigrants through a holocaust of removal or something 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:16.200 final solution. 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:21.720 Exactly exactly. Yeah, it's amazing. It is this stunning. 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:25.720 We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:27.120 warmth of collectivism. 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:30.040 Straight off a mouth. Poster from nineteen fifty. 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.240 Eight Wow, walk around Cuba, walk around the Soviet Union. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.800 Talk to me about the warmth of collectivism. That's just bizarre. 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.840