From Iran’s Oil Choke Point To Inflation Pain

Getting squeezed isn’t a vibe, it’s a pattern, and we’re tired of pretending it’s normal. We start with a viral political moment, Trump sharing an uncut Kamala Harris clip, and use it to talk about something bigger: how institutions and media try to steer behavior, how quickly narratives harden, and why “just trust us” stops working when people feel played. If you’ve felt like the little guy in the background of someone else’s palace, you’re in the right place. 

Then we zoom out to Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and the real leverage points in modern conflict. We talk oil choke points, pipelines, morale inside authoritarian systems, and why economic warfare and access to cash can move regimes faster than body counts. From there, we bring it home to the U.S. economy: jobs numbers, revisions, inflation, and the uncomfortable truth that even “lower inflation” doesn’t mean lower prices. We also dig into AI and jobs, boomers retiring, and what happens when demographics collide with markets and wages. 

The middle of the show gets personal and a little creepy: Flock cameras, insurance companies pulling vehicle images, and the trade nobody asked for between safety and constant surveillance. A story about Alexa waking up from the background turns into a bigger question about what “always listening” does to a free society. We close with COVID trust, the media’s “misinformation” obsession, Democratic Socialist policy messaging, Medicare for All tax doublespeak, and the WNBA “what is a woman” trap that exposes how slogans fall apart when real eligibility rules are required. 

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Transcript

Welcome Back To The Studio

SPEAKER_25 0:23

We're getting screwed, man. Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. Well, the revolution's gonna be true guests for sure. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the blood of everything. It's gotta be peasants, man. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people.

SPEAKER_21 1:02

Hello. Good morning, peasants.

SPEAKER_25 1:04

Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. Rodney's just in the middle of telling me something. Glad you guys made it. We're back in studio. Yes. Oh, it's so nice to be back. It's not just me sitting down in my basement. Hi, everybody.

SPEAKER_20 1:19

It is nice to be back.

SPEAKER_25 1:20

Let me monologue for an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_20 1:22

I really did enjoy the show while you did it solo. It was good.

SPEAKER_25 1:26

Oh wow, I'm glad to hear that. I'm glad to hear that. It's a lot better with you here. Everybody always does that. Don't ever get rid of Ron. It's like, yeah, I know it makes it not monotonous and boring. At least for me. Doug Wyatt, good morning, peasants. Glad you made it. For Razor, good morning, peasants. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. The birds are singing, the coffee is brewing. And somewhere a politician is making a decision that will cost us all money. Yes, very good. Markin 967. Yo, Pony Boy, good morning, peasants. John Attackis, good morning from Boise and Carlitz. Howdy, y'all. Thank you so much for joining us. It is Monday, so it is the first

Trump Posts Kamala Uncut

SPEAKER_25 2:00

simultaneous sip of the week. And as we do this simultaneous sip, Donald Trump did something very interesting this weekend. He posted a raw clip of Kamala Harris talking. So before we get to the clip, though, all you need for the simultaneous sip is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip. And it starts right now. Always the sound, always the sound of all the things that you're prepped for. It's always the sound. Okay, here we go. Go back to this. Kamala Harris in raw form on Donald Trump's Truth Social.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Hey everybody, so um they're trying to mess with your ability to vote, just to break it all down. You've got the Supreme Court, they just feel the deal with this case that just came up recently, the Calais decision, which basically took the power out of the Voting Rights Act, which was designed to protect your right to vote. So you got the Supreme Court doing its thing. Then this president is trying to push this SAVE Act, which basically would require that for people to register to vote, you're gonna have to have proof of who you are through a passport, which a lot of Americans don't have, or a birth certificate. Same point, obstacles to make it difficult for you to register to vote.

SPEAKER_25 3:33

This is part of the movement movement. Hashtag let them talk. Yes. Yes. That's all we're really asking here.

SPEAKER_20 3:56

Oh man.

SPEAKER_25 3:57

So hashtag let them talk. So funny. Anyways, Marit Marisel, good morning from Meridian, Idaho. Oh, so glad you made it. Okay.

Iran Update And Economic Pressure

SPEAKER_25 4:10

So a couple updates from Iran. This is Trey Yanks speaking on Fox News this morning, just giving us again another update on the biggest geopolitical threat to the world right now.

SPEAKER_26 4:19

Trey, I saw some images of the Supreme Leader, allegedly the Supreme Leader being released over the weekend. How legitimate are those? And how are the troops responding? Have you heard anything? If they're not getting paid and they're still expected to fight, it's a great question.

SPEAKER_01 4:35

That video that was circulating of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mustaba Khamenay, is believed to be old. And it was circulating among Iranian state media. They were trying to show it as proof of life, but then analysts online pointed to the fact that this is actually showing Mustaba Khamenae from the city of Home months before Operation Epic Fury began. What's interesting about pain soldiers in Iran, this is something that we actually saw during Operation Epic Fury. Remember, Fox reported on some intelligence indicating that as the United States and Israeli air power was hammering the Iranian regime, they had satellite imagery showing the different locations of where these missile launching facilities were located. And then they were actually tracking with real-time video some of the soldiers on the ground fleeing their positions. And so you have a position now where the Iranians are not only afraid of the U.S. strikes that could take place, but also they're not getting paid in some cases. And it raises questions about the morale inside the IRGC and the willingness for these ground soldiers to continue the fight if they are ordered by commanders in Iran.

SPEAKER_09 5:35

Yeah, you hear the Iranian people selling their hair. They have no money to buy anything.

SPEAKER_25 5:46

They have to sell their hair. I just think it's that's funny to me. This feels real, but it also feels like propaganda at the same time.

SPEAKER_20 5:55

Selling their hair? I've never heard of such a thing.

SPEAKER_25 5:58

Yeah, man. They're so broke. You know, apparently the cancer survivors in Iran will pay a lot for a nice Arab carpet, I guess. I don't know. No, but I mean, um Waltz, not Waltz, um, what's his name here? He's the um he's the ambassador to the United Nations. He was he was Trump's national security advisor, uh, waltz, W-A-L. That's not Tim Waltz. I keep wanting to say that. Anyways, his name is very simple. What's his Operation? It's in here. Oh, no, it's not. Anyway, he's the uh he's he's prominent. I can't remember his name. It starts, but he's he's the ambassador to the UN. So he's talking about Iran here on Fox News as well, and with Kilmead, again, who just said they're selling their hair. But the reason that that even matters is because the economic warfare that's going on against Iran is probably a bigger deal than the missiles.

SPEAKER_11 6:54

Operation Economic Fury, led by Secretary Scott Bessent, is devastating the Iranian economy. And I say this jokingly, but seriously, but seriously as well, the Iranians are more afraid of Secretary Bessent than they are of Secretary Heggsh right now. Coming to the table to our negotiators, they are talking about cash, cash, cash because they'll absorb the bombings. They don't care about their military, they don't care about their soldiers uh or even the Iranian people after they massacred 40,000 of them. But what are they worried about? They're worried about that their currency is tanking, inflation is the highest in 80 years, the IRGC controls half the economy. Because this is an accrupt, this is a corrupt, elite, religious, fanatic uh regime that has devastated that country for many, many decades. They are constantly asking for access to cash, access uh to their assets that we've frozen. And what the president is talking about is that's the squeeze. That coupled with the blockade, that's what's going to eventually get the Iranians to move.

SPEAKER_25 7:56

I think I mean Trump's no dummy, and the advisors around him are no dummies.

The Jimmy Carter Hostage Framing

SPEAKER_25 8:00

They might be extremely aggressive with this, but clearly they've done the math on what they're doing over there. Chris Christie was on the powerhouse round table this weekend on ABC. And Chris Christie, is he a fan of Donald Trump? Oh man. Not even in the slightest. Not even in the slightest. But Chris Christie was on Donald Trump, and he was accusing Donald Trump of basically becoming Jimmy Carter because of this Iran debacle.

SPEAKER_12 8:25

I mean, what does he do? Look, the the real problem here is it was a it was an adventure without a plan. And now, uh you know, I was struck this week when the Iranians put out their list of demands to reopen the strait, reparations, yeah, etc. What struck me was that Donald Trump is about to become what he never ever wanted to be. Jimmy Carter. He is being held hostage by Iran. They are holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage. As a result, they're holding the world economy hostage, and it's focused at Donald Trump. And I know from talking to him over the last 24 years, the one person he would never want to be. Jimmy Carter.

SPEAKER_18 9:06

I talked to him about Jimmy Carter.

SPEAKER_12 9:08

And here we are, and it was all voluntary.

SPEAKER_25 9:13

It was all voluntary. So the interesting thing about this, and I've seen this in my life many, many times, the thing that you think is the worst possible outcome rarely ever happens. Because as soon as you identify it as the worst possible outcome, you have a whole new set of tools in your tool belt on how you can react to your circumstances to change the worst possible outcome. And I'm even being liberal enough to just say accepting the worst possible outcome, you know, gives you power to just move forward. But literally, in a case like this, hey, if you're going to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, if you're thinking that things can never change, it's like, well, that's 30% of the world's oil supply. There's no scenario where that ends up being a net positive for the world, right? How does the world compensate for 30% of its oil supply now under threat in the Strait of Hormuz?

SPEAKER_20 10:05

Uh uh burn coal. I don't know.

SPEAKER_25 10:07

Coal, other things, right? You can tweak it a little here. Maybe we can get those Texas oil fields. Pony boy is gonna work double overtime. Maybe we're gonna get some more that that's one thing you can do. But the reality is, just like everything else, there's always compensating factors. People are self-interested. If I have anything to do with an oil, anything in Saudi Arabia, I'm rethinking the way we do it. Scott Bessant did an interview this weekend, and he said just that. Of all the global conflicts we've had and the time frames, you know, Vietnam seven years, Iraq and Afghanistan for what was it, 17 and 20 years respectively, right? Massive amounts of time frame. Very little feels like was accomplished in that. However, with this Iran conflict, it's a little bit different. If we if we had to slog this thing out for two years, victory is almost guaranteed.

SPEAKER_08 10:59

Some who've speculated the strike will never go back to being the way it was before. What would you say?

SPEAKER_31 11:04

I I would say, I would take, I think they're saying that in a uh doomsday sort of way. I I would say it in another way. The strait is uh never going back to the way it was because the Iranians have used or tried to use it as a choke point. What we are going to see over the next two years, the strait's going to become irrelevant. It is going to become just another body of water. And I would say that more than 50 or 70 percent of the energy that moves through the strait now is going to go through underground pipelines. Some who've speculated this.

SPEAKER_25 11:41

Oh, that changes things quite a bit. That changes things quite a bit. You mean the people that produce the oil have a choice on how they deliver it? Yeah. And if the Strait of Hermoose isn't going to work, and the long term is, oh, Iran can exercise this control over the Strait of Hormous as a choke point. Let's build a pipeline and bypass it completely. Did did Chris Christie consider that option?

SPEAKER_20 12:06

You know, you even told me the punchline that it was going to be Jimmy Carter. But when he said it, I was like, oh my gosh, that's so dumb.

SPEAKER_25 12:15

But that's the thing, right? Things can change. Things can change. And the and we know Saudi Arabia is building a pipeline. Like they're going to have that thing done. If it's not already done, I think they turned one on. They had one that they were building before they turned on. But two years, I mean, we all hate endless wars, but this is kind of one of those ones where what they're doing economically to the Iranians, like what he said, they're always coming begging for money. Chris Christie used it. All they they're just going to get these guys to turn on their funds. That's the pinch point. Right?

A War Story About Regime Logic

SPEAKER_25 12:45

That's the pinch point, is the money. There was this was an anecdotal story, but I heard it firsthand from the person who told it as a firsthand story. He was serving over in Afghanistan and he was on patrol and he was in uh he was in a marine, he was in an infantry reconnaissance group of some type, some type. So they're out on patrol, out in you know, Timbuktu Faraway Land Afghanistan. And there's a farmer out in his field in this little village they're working on, and he's got a Ford Massey tractor. You remember those old Ford Massey tractors? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that what they're called? Ford Massey.

SPEAKER_20 13:19

Well, yeah. Yeah, Ford Massey tractors. They're different companies, but they did some things together.

SPEAKER_25 13:24

Yeah, and they're they're and they're usually old tractors. Tractors like that are coming from what? What what 30s, 40s, 1930s, 1940s? So we had a Ford Massey tractor. So this thing's been well cared for for decades.

SPEAKER_20 13:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_25 13:36

So Afghanistan has been an active military area for 60 years, right? The Soviets were there, they had their own Afghanistan war, then the Taliban was there. They weren't exactly, you know, peace-loving planting lilies and roses everywhere. And then we were there. So we've got landmines, the whole country could potentially have landmines or spent uh unspent munitions. And so it's a problem out there.

SPEAKER_20 14:02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_25 14:03

And so he's watching this farmer in his field driving this old tractor, and he's got his children walking in front of the tractor.

SPEAKER_20 14:10

Uh-huh. What's he doing?

SPEAKER_25 14:11

He's mind sweeping.

SPEAKER_20 14:13

Yeah, yeah. He's making sure his tractor doesn't blow up because his tractor's worth more than his kids.

SPEAKER_25 14:18

Bingo. Bingo. That's what he sold him. He said, I can make more kids, I can't get a new tractor. Yeah. I can make more kids, I can't get a new tractor. It doesn't matter how many Iranians may or may not get killed. The Iranians don't care. We can make more Iranians. We can't make more drones, more missiles. Does that make sense? Yeah. So it has to be a combination of not just human life toll. In fact, if you leave the civilian population alive, eventually they become a weapon against the regime because they get so hungry.

SPEAKER_20 14:49

This is the kind of calculus that Americans don't, they can't figure out.

SPEAKER_25 14:54

Of course we don't, which is why we've had 47 years of Iran, you know, having their way with the Middle East. Yeah. It's because everybody wants things to stay exactly the same.

SPEAKER_20 15:03

Yeah, I watched I watched a video of some Iranian, I don't think they were Iranians, but they were Middle Eastern and they were unstrapping their child from a vest bomb. And I was like, oh my gosh. And it's like, well, not today. We can be martyrs tomorrow. It's like, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_25 15:25

Yes. Yes.

Jobs Numbers And Inflation Reality

SPEAKER_25 15:27

All right. So while Iran's economy is crashing, our economy, I don't know, maybe it's doing well, maybe it's not. Here's Kevin Hassent talking about a whole bunch of the new economics, economic numbers that have come out. And there's a couple interesting little tidbits in here. When it comes to the economic numbers, I maintain the stance that they're always lying to us, or they don't have the accurate information to tell us the truth. So they give us a number that pacifies us and they correct it. And it wasn't that they lied to us, it's that the entire system is just one giant omission of the truth. Yes, correct.

SPEAKER_20 15:59

So they didn't even really know the right answer. They're just making it up as the guy.

SPEAKER_25 16:03

They're making it up. The fact that there's even revisions to old numbers. Yeah. These guys are just trying to meet a deadline, you know. So potentially all the economic epit economic numbers could be propaganda. And unfortunately, with that, even if they're not giving us propaganda, there's a slow turn on things changing. When inflation happens, even if you stop inflation, you can't bring prices down unless you get deflation. If you do deflation, you will have a debt default that will end our modern way of living. That's how significant it is, right? So get comfortable with your cost of stake, get comfortable with the first-time home buyer, average cost of housing, get comfortable with the prices the way they are. What can happen is they can stop printing money, and then maybe wages over time can catch up to where we have some functioning parity between the people making the money and the the Yeah, but in the meantime, we're all broke. So the the best you can respectfully ask for any administration is to just stop inflation, stop the climbing prices. But unfortunately, because of the lead lag on how long it takes prices to filter through, even if the day Trump came in, he stopped certain inflation and airy things, you might not see that or feel it for quite a while. I think it's my headphones that are is it me? Does it affect my uh talking? When my headphones go out, it affects the microphone.

SPEAKER_20 17:34

I don't know. Yeah. It's really loud.

SPEAKER_25 17:37

Handle bone connect to the hip bone. There should be no connection between these two things. I'm getting feedback from your computer and the video and the sound phones with ATEM board. It makes no sense at all. Okay, so let's listen to Kevin Hassett here. All right, here we go on the economy, jobs number is out for July, employers. You guys probably want to listen to it at human speed. Hold on, let me go back to reasonable here.

SPEAKER_05 18:05

All right, here we go on the economy. Jobs number is out for July. Employers are cutting 23,000 jobs last night. That's well below the number we were expecting to add about 80,000. Unemployment rate did drop lower, 4.1%. Let's get a take on that now from the White House. Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council Director, sir. Good day to you, and thank you for coming back here. Great to be here. Uh, just give me uh how do you read it? Um strength, weakness. Go.

SPEAKER_30 18:33

Yeah, uh so the strength is what we've seen before: construction workers, uh, manufacturing workers, and so on. Uh, the weakness in this number were really just two things government workers and uh a sort of rebound from all the employment we got from the World Cup, because the World Cup was ending. Because if you uh throw out the World Cup and the government that right there alone.

SPEAKER_25 18:54

So they were expecting 80,000 job growth and they got negative 220,000. But just the World Cup alone, like that alone, just the seasonal workers that are just unemployed, like oh well, this month doesn't count. Like, you know what I mean? Like it's like, you know, there's always an unemployment job from January because all the all the Santa Clauses and elves got employed over Christmas, go back on unemployment. You know what I mean? Like there's always an element of job, like, okay, you know, fake news media, chill out. That's a thing. Like, that's not gonna that's not gonna be compensated for.

AI Growth Versus Job Anxiety

SPEAKER_05 19:52

Okay, all right, let's go ahead and dive in first on artificial intelligence impact on jobs. Uh, is it happening or is it overrated? Your view on that right now from the start.

SPEAKER_30 20:01

Right. Well, what's happening right now is that we're seeing that firms that use AI are outperforming the competition and bringing in new jobs because their sales are going up so much. I think in the long run, there's a legitimate concern that AI might make it so that your job or my job is obsolete. Uh, and what we're doing at the White House is studying that matter very closely. We've got a large group of people together for thinking about the long-run labor force trends that are impacted by AI. But right now, what's going on is that as you see the booming stock market, because firms are booming because they're what they do with AI. That's what we're that's what the nearest is.

SPEAKER_05 20:38

Okay, is it taking jobs, Kevin?

SPEAKER_30 20:41

Not at this moment, no.

SPEAKER_05 20:42

Okay. Uh participation. Is is that an issue of people dropping out as we went to 4.1%?

SPEAKER_30 20:48

There, yeah, there's a little bit of participation uh weakness, but most of that uh really comes from two things. Uh thing one is that the baby boomers are retiring now. We're sort of in a

Boomers Retire And Markets Shift

SPEAKER_30 21:00

demographic uh by the way.

SPEAKER_25 21:01

When I was in college, this moment right now, the baby boomers retiring, was was Robert Kiyosaki wrote a book called The Prophecy. This is okay. The timing this is another one of those examples of once you identify the doomsday, the worst case scenario, you can make adjustments. The situation that's gonna happen with the baby boomers retiring. The baby boomers generally have used uh investment tools like 401ks and IRAs. The previous generation used investment tools like pensions. Pensions fell apart, boomers had to find their own way, boomers worked up and saved and accrued these 401ks and IRAs. Millennials do not have those. No, so there's no one to buy the stocks from the boomers as they sell their stocks. Uh oh. Okay. They don't have four, like they're the gig. Okay. And so what is going to buy the stocks? Stocks from the boomers as they sell the stocks. Trump accounts. Oh. Trump accounts. The uncalculated thing. But this trend of boomers retiring is was projected to be the worst economic thing that could ever happen to our debt system. Because the boomers sucked up all the liquidity that was printed after World War II. And as they liquidate their liquidity because they're not going to be staked anymore, holding it, it's a flood. So the Trump accounts is one way to mop it up, and then all the productivity, but that's a thing. But he's also saying it changes the unemployment because you're losing more boomers than you're gaming in the generations that are coming in take taking jobs.

SPEAKER_20 22:40

So it also sounds like it also sounds like the uh the investments are probably not going to be worth what they people thought they were going to be worth.

SPEAKER_25 22:47

It's if they all hit the market at the same time. Someone's got to buy these stocks.

SPEAKER_20 22:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_25 22:53

This is Robert Kiyosaki's book, The Prophecy, where he talks about this.

SPEAKER_30 22:57

Where uh there'll be less labor force participation, and that'll keep on going for a good long time. And what that means is that when you look at the jobs number, the top line payroll number, then what you need to make the unemployment rate not go up is a smaller, smaller number of jobs, say three or four years ago. If we had a number below around 120 or 130,000, that meant the unemployment rate would go up. Right now, the break-even point for unemployment is about 40,000 because the labor force participation is declining. And of course, the other thing is our tight border policy. So we don't have all these uh foreign illegal workers uh you know stampeding into the economy. And that used to also show up as uh inflated.

SPEAKER_05 23:34

Okay, well whether you hear um okay. That to the side, West Texas now is pushing up about 77, has been bopping around uh throughout the week, uh, but it's been pretty much in the 70s so far. Uh if you look at national gas price, now it's 404, week ago 410, a month ago 379, year ago, you'd take 316 today. What role is the Iran conflict playing in our economy right now, Kevin?

SPEAKER_30 24:01

Oh, it's definitely increasing energy prices some. And that's something that's a temporary phenomenon. As soon as this thing is resolved, then of course things will go back. In fact, production has gone up by so much that we expect the energy prices are gonna drop way below where they were below the conflict, uh, once the conflict is over. Uh the bottom line is that in these summer months where people are driving a lot, gas prices are uh higher, uh, but wages are higher too. And if you net out inflation against wages, that real wages have been growing uh despite this shock, which means real wages are gonna be through the roof uh once the shock is over.

SPEAKER_05 24:35

Okay, so uh here's something that was kind of curious. Uh Wall Street Journal this week with the Fed chair. Trump has called Kevin Warsh repeatedly since he became Fed chair, President Sat Wars' counsel on issues such as how the war in Iran is affecting the economy. Shed some light on their relationships. He was the president's pick, after all. Right, sure.

SPEAKER_30 24:56

No, and and in fact, uh the uh Kevin and the president have been friends for a long time. And uh Kevin is somebody who everybody in the White House has relied upon for sage advice when there's something, hey, I saw this. What do you think about that? What would you think about the jobs report today? Should I worry about uh the negative number or should I throw out the hospitality workers, the government workers? Yeah, that's the kind of stuff that we've all been talking to Kevin Warsh about for decades. And so I whether the president is talking to Kevin or not, I can't confirm or deny because I'm not sitting there with the president's vote, but I can say that he's been talking to Kevin Warsh for decades. So that's one reason why he's confident that he's such a good pick.

SPEAKER_25 25:31

As of So the interesting thing, uh, just me underscore PNW said, I've been out of work all year with over 200 resumes and applications out. A lot of jobs, a lot of jobs, but either they aren't really hiring or hundreds of applicants for the same position. See jobs are like real estate, location, location, location, right? And then you just extend the location to education and and uh what did Robert Kiyosaki mentioned to him a couple times today? What did he used to say? You know, if you specialize, unionize, right? If you have a niche type of skill set, and I'll never forget a debate between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson. And Ben Shapiro was advocating going to an all-electric truck fleet for the United States, that it would eliminate a whole bunch of issues. And Tucker Carlson was like, Well, what would you do with the 10 million truckers that are working for him? And Ben Shapiro looked at him like it was the first time he had ever been asked that question.

SPEAKER_20 26:34

The first time he thought about it.

SPEAKER_25 26:36

What would you do with the 10 million workers? They don't exactly know how to code, right? The Democrats tried this with the coal workers in West Virginia, learn to code, you know, just pause for a couple years, go back to school, learn a skill set, get literate.

SPEAKER_20 26:52

Change your brain.

SPEAKER_25 26:53

Change your brain. Yeah. And then, of course, when a bunch of journalists at the Wall Street Journal got fired who only have skill set on gloviating punditry, realize they come out into the private world where your stuff's not being pushed by huge publishers like the Wall Street Journal, and your blog doesn't take off. And guess what? You're in the world of the peasants.

SPEAKER_20 27:13

Yeah, but we live in a world, Taylor, where people go to school for jobs that are sucky and don't exist.

SPEAKER_25 27:20

Anyways, it is it is very specialized, right? So this is the trap that someone who's looking at things at a federal level or even a state level is yes, you can have huge jobs. Our economy has been driven by seven companies. All the stock market gains. You take all the blue chip, you know, company factory publicly traded companies, flat. Google, Apple, Nvidia, you know, Tesla, sure. Yeah, they're carrying the entire market, they're carrying all of it.

SPEAKER_20 27:52

Well, I'm glad you didn't say McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.

SPEAKER_25 27:56

They're flat, man. They're flat. Like their increase is pegged with inflation, basically. So all the increases have been taken by those few, those, those few sectors. If you're not in it, yeah, I mean, where are the hiring? If you're in construction and you live somewhere in Texas where they're building data centers or someone like that, it's great. But here in this county, I guess if you want to do some sh some roofing, there's apartments going in over there. Yep. So what about inflation? Because inflation is a thing that touches everybody, regardless of your location or your job. Inflation hurts.

SPEAKER_30 28:31

We understand what people are feeling. And in part, it came about because of the runaway inflation under Joe Biden. Uh, inflation has decelerated a lot, uh, but it's, you know, still, if you look at the latest numbers, we're back where we want it. If you look at the 12-month number, we've still got some progress to make. But again, I want to highlight the difference between demand and supply stock. So uh there was a lot of job creation under Joe Biden, but a huge chunk of it was an increase in government workers. So the number of federal government workers rose to 3 million, the highest odd record uh by the time President Trump took office. We've cut that by 10% already. But when you hire all these government workers and pay them salaries and ask them to do whatever it is they're doing, then that's a demand-side stimulus, the kind of thing that causes inflation. The Fed should hike rates around rather than cut rates the way they did. Uh, right now what we're doing is supply-side stuff, so it doesn't have nearly the inflationary effect. You know, we understand what people are feeling, and in part it came about because it is a fact.

SPEAKER_25 29:26

They have decreased the the big number this week was the uh the federal deficit has been officially cut in half. Two years, and Donald Trump has cut the deficit in half. Nobody's gonna give him credit for that except himself. But nobody's done that. And then he'll just sound like an asshole for doing it. When people say, well, Bill Clinton balanced the budget, never happened. Never happened. He presented a budget that would be balanced in 10 years. So we weren't gonna see the balanced budget until 2006, 7, 8. Okay, like to that was when we were gonna see the balance budget. But 9-11 kind of derailed that, war on terror kind of derailed that. So we never saw a bounced budget. We never saw a reduction in spending. That whole Book Clinton balanced the budget thing. Yeah. Uh on a long-term budget analysis on paper, he talked about paper. This is real deficit reduction. This is real receipts have been reduced by half. That's real, that's tangible. That's not pie in the sky. That's not rewriting budgets to you know take out liabilities and make it look like nope, nope, nope, nope.

SPEAKER_20 30:37

Right. That's not an argument with your wife about where the money went.

SPEAKER_25 30:40

This is a combination of taking in tariff revenue and other revenue streams, offsetting the deficit, you know, cutting government spending. So there's, you know, we used to pay all these useless workers, and now their paychecks are sitting in reserve. It's a big deal. Another story that's

Flock Cameras And The Surveillance Trade

SPEAKER_25 30:55

been popping up a lot recently, and this is definitely a uh public interest story, it's flock cameras. Oh. Flock cameras, the the ultimate two-edged sword. I I was watching a documentary over the weekend called Anarchists, it's an HBO special, and it covers the Anarcho Poco conference down in Mexico, which is just anarchist. Do you know what an anarchist is? Do you know what it means?

SPEAKER_20 31:17

Just uh they don't like government.

SPEAKER_25 31:19

It's it's not that.

SPEAKER_20 31:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_25 31:21

So I everybody kind of misunderstands anarchy, and I I forget sometimes that people don't understand it. Anarchy just means without ruler, it just means self-owned government. Like Jesus is the ultimate anarchist, and the whole, you know, God will be our government. Well, God's not a living being. Like, like he's not here to tell you what to do, it's in your brain. So that's anarchy. Now, obviously, if you're a government and you have anarchists, and then people take, I don't want to be governed to a violent extreme, that's where we get what we interpret as anarchy. Like these are people that just will not drive on the right side of the road, you know what I mean? Like they just will not conform. So that's like the perfect anarchy. So they have an anarchy conference down in Acapulco. And guess what? Guess who goes there? Bitcoiners and Maha people and homeschoolers and stuff like that. I mean, that's your anarchy conference.

SPEAKER_20 32:14

Super liberals.

SPEAKER_25 32:15

Yeah, super liberals. But in the documentary, the reason the documentary was even made is because there's one particular anarchist who's selling drugs down in Mexico, gets crossed with the cartel, gets gunned down. And of course, now all these anarchists have a member of their community who's been killed. And he's been on the outs. Like nobody likes him because he deals drugs. There's literally families that are going down there doing this anarchy thing, right? It's basically they're just trying to expatriate. And all of a sudden, this guy gets killed. So these anarchists are being interviewed in this documentary, and they're like, Well, what do you do? Well, if you're a good anarchist who doesn't believe in the government, you call the government to solve the crime. It's like, yes, the two-edged sword. So now we talk about flock cameras. If I get my car stolen, if my child gets kidnapped, I will pray that there's a flock camera on every street corner from here to Timbook 2. Because I want my kids to be found.

SPEAKER_20 33:10

Sure.

SPEAKER_25 33:11

But it's a two-edged sword because you're giving them that power to help find your kid, to help find your stolen car, to help solve legitimate real crimes with real victims. But at the same time, we have a police state where they justify their existence by simply doing things.

SPEAKER_20 33:28

Man, I feel like you put me in a really funny position here, Taylor.

SPEAKER_25 33:31

Like yeah, so there have been documented video after video that have been circulating online of police officers showing up at people's doorsteps and arresting them for alleged suspicion of crimes and things like that that were all flock camera based, only to be disproven wrong by ring doorbell cameras or other evidence, like mistaken identities. Every scenario you can think of has been happening. There's one instance. And some of them are maybe legitimate, but it starts to make you wonder about the Big Brother police state using flock cameras, for example, to watch a man drive from Wisconsin to a Michigan marijuana dispensary only to pull him over for possession when he got back home is so interesting to me when an estimated 460,000 to 600,000 children go missing every year. Right? So we can proactively track a man as he goes and makes a marijuana buy and show up at his house, but we can't figure out where these kids are going.

SPEAKER_20 34:30

Right? We can't figure out or how about about that is very curious, isn't it?

SPEAKER_25 34:33

How about insurance companies? Now, I'm not advocating anyone ever commit insurance fraud, ever. Okay. Not advocating that at all. But we know that people fudge insurance stuff. Like I'm not saying I do, I'm saying other people do. Those flock cameras. So this is a post from someone. I access them when I'm at work because it's just an open free network. I work in insurance. We use them routinely, and now they have me pulling images of your car to see if you lied about damage. Just like week, they had me check multiple cameras on someone's vehicle to see if the damage they claim had existed or if it was truly new. In about 30 seconds, I had over 150 images of his vehicle all over the hometown. These are not crime fighting tools, these are being used to actually F you. We do it through an ISO search, and all we need is your name and address or a VIN or a license plate. And then they can just plug it in and they'll give they'll they'll give you a flock camera update. So even if you're driving an old beater car and it has a license plate on it, you're being tracked. No electronics in the car, doesn't matter. They got you that way. And if you got a new car, the car's tracking you too, right? So yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome to the new world. Again, I don't know. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? I tend to err on the side of liberty. I'd rather have my dangerous freedom of travel, right? Than the under constant surveillance in all public places. That that to me feels like there is no other place we're going to go other than a totalitarian state. It's gonna feel like Moscow or Beijing pretty soon. Look at how clean and orderly our streets are.

SPEAKER_20 36:10

The chairman is so beautiful and wise. Everybody has their ankle monitors on. I mean, phones in their pocket. Yeah.

SPEAKER_25 36:16

I mean, yeah. Oh my goodness. So this

Alexa Wakes Up From The Background

SPEAKER_25 36:20

happens to people all the time, but every now and then it just kind of strikes you as like, wow. So my son, seven years old, he has a tablet. It's got a broken screen.

SPEAKER_24 36:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_25 36:30

And it's a cheap tablet. This is like Android tablet, $89 special warmth on Black Friday. You know, very cheap tablet. And apparently it has Alexa on it. So Friday night. But Friday night, my kids are doing movie night, right? And they're having a little per sleepover in the front room. And something on TV that they're watching says, Hey Alexa, and the the tablet starts talking in the back of the room. It's locked. It says, please unlock the tablet to access Alexa. And they're like, What? So then they're like, Alexa. So I come in and they explained it because it freaked him out, right? Because all of a sudden the voice starts talking in the back of the room. I come in, I'm like, these things are always listening. My son's tablet was just sitting quietly in the back of the room, off, not being used. And something on YouTube said, Hey, Alexa, and it woke up. How many of you guys right now are having your devices talking back to me in Surrey? You know, play Peasants Perspective podcast.

SPEAKER_20 37:29

Continuously forever.

SPEAKER_25 37:31

Continuously forever on repeat. I need the views. We did get kicked out of the creator program, by the way. Oh, bummer.

COVID Trust And The CDC Shooting

SPEAKER_25 37:38

All right. So Margaret Brennan had Ray Baractaria on her on Face the Nation. And obviously, as time has gone on, we have recognized that COVID was a big crock of bullshit. And we've realized that they made us do things that were against this, not even just not consequential, actually against the science, like caused more harm than good. And that's on top of the social trauma and everything like that. But the news media was in on this. Remember, Robert Kennedy Jr. said in the clip, he says, You're parroting puppet lines, right? You guys covered this up. Margaret Brennan is desperate to try to blame you, the people, for pointing out their idiocies. And now she's got a prestigious doctor. Shame on you for noticing. Who's now in a position of authority calling them out, and she just desperately does not want her or her news network to have ever been wrong. And they really want to influence your behavior. They just don't want the dissent. They don't want the dissent. It's not about the truth, it's not about what's right, it's not about any of that. They just don't want dissent.

SPEAKER_28 38:52

This is one year since that horrific shooting at CDC headquarters. Um, officer David Rose was honored.

SPEAKER_25 39:00

Oh, okay. So there was a shootout at the CDC year ago, right? Where somebody who's pissed off about everything the CDC's been doing comes up and I guess I forgot about this. Okay. I want to point something out. Every time there's violence against conservatives or whatever, the narrative that gets out there, or at least the zeitgeist, they deserved it. Oh, you don't want to exclude trans from girls' bathrooms? Don't be surprised when they shoot up the school. Oh, hey, you you know, it's the victim. Like, like this is the whole 9-11. Well, if America wasn't such an evil empire, they wouldn't have had to drive airplanes into the tower. Oh, brother. Same attitude. So this CDC got showed up not because of the things the CDC did that were actually killing people, right? But because you pointed out that they were killing people.

SPEAKER_28 39:51

This past week, he was killed last year protecting CDC employees from a gunman. Um, and we should know he was a combat veteran, a United States Marine who had just graduated five months prior from the police academy with three kids left behind.

SPEAKER_25 40:06

By the way, if I was a law enforcement officer and you asked me to protect Hitler, I might quit. Are we the baddies? Okay. So if you sign up as law enforcement, listen, your due respect, nobody should shoot you. Nobody. But just know, and I and I mean this with love in my heart, because we need you, bro. Just know you're a stormtrooper. And you might be asked to defend things. There's a there's a movie Poldark, or Poldark, you know, this like rebel influential person back in the 1800s. Anyways, long story short, he ends up running like the town militia that's acting as the police force and the fire department in one group, like the volunteers that are going to keep ordering town. And the people who have hired him to do that have been screwing over the people by selling their wheat to France against the law and starving the people in the community. So they raise a little posse and they want to go, you know, raid the storehouse of wheat from these completely crooked businessmen that are breaking the law by selling the wheat to France while the local village starves. And here comes Poldark and he has to defend the guys that are killing people by starving them and prevent them from taking the wheat, right? Just know that situation can happen when you put on the batch. Okay, so that's what happened here. Like, I'm not justifying it, it was never right. I'm just like see it for what it is. Okay, like you're making a choice to be employed by the system. So when the system makes big mistakes, you're gonna be asked to protect it. There are crazy people out there.

SPEAKER_28 41:43

Was motivated by misinformation about the COVID vaccine. That is why he shot over a hundred bullets into the windows of the CDC. Is it not people?

SPEAKER_25 41:54

He was motivated by misinformation about the COVID vaccine that turned out to be absolutely true, and he felt voiceless. I'm not justifying his behavior. He felt voiceless because nobody would listen to him, Margaret Brennan, including you. You gasolit him to thinking he was crazy. So he saw, so he thought, I will be crazy. All right, I am not justifying his actions, nor the CDC, nor any of that. The point is, is is it not always a mess from every angle you look at it? Okay, let's continue on to this clip. I've stopped too many times.

SPEAKER_17 42:26

I mean, I should start with I I got to talk with uh Officer Rose's wife um a few months back. Well, I the um one of the first things I did is I, you know, to honor him and his sacrifice in protecting the people that work at the CDC, the amazing people who work at the CDC, was we, you know, renamed the street that leads into the CDC after him. And it was a really nice event. Um I'll tell you, the the thing is, um, I want to focus on attention on Officer Rose because I don't I think the shooter did was horrific. Um, and I think the you know you could talk about why shooters do things, but really uh fundamentally Well his father said he was brainwashed about the COVID vaccine and thought it was making him suicidal.

SPEAKER_28 43:03

That's right.

SPEAKER_17 43:04

I mean the thing is it's like to talk about the shooter puts the emphasis on somebody who's uh I I mean I think we shouldn't be putting our emphasis on somebody.

SPEAKER_28 43:11

No, I am on misinformation about it.

SPEAKER_17 43:13

I mean, I think I think the key the key thing is there's a loss of public trust in public health that happened in part because of a lot of frankly, you've even even on this network and on other networks, there was a particular single point of view put across during the COVID pandemic about how you know that led to things that really did cause harm to people. The school closures is probably the number one thing.

SPEAKER_28 43:33

Uh that that that the this is not a productive line of claims we covered.

SPEAKER_25 43:40

We don't want our studio shot up. We don't want our studio shot up either. Do you see where we're going here? He's like, listen, there's a loss of trust here. Like when there's loss of trust, people get desperate. I talked, I have a clip. It was on X, right? Guy couldn't go to his father's funeral or visit him in the last year. Of his life in the nursing home. There's real harm there. There's people who lost multiple family members, you know, to vaccine side effects. Like you go watch those old Facebook pages that were like, you know, a mother trying because three of her four children have debilitating vaccine side effects.

SPEAKER_20 44:17

Come on, Taylor. Which road do you want us to name after you? Come on.

SPEAKER_28 44:23

On this program, like no other Sunday show did.

SPEAKER_17 44:27

I'm not blaming you specifically. What I'm saying is misinformation. The kinds of decisions and the sort of the public um sort of face of public health during the pandemic led to many people losing trust in public health. The Trump administration officials. I mean like for instance.

SPEAKER_28 44:45

The pandemic began under the Trump administration.

SPEAKER_17 44:50

Just so we're clear, the Biden administration censored me, right? They censored, they've sent out uh uh direct attacks on people who disagreed on on the COVID on on sort of whether the COVID vaccine uh stopped him. RFK Jr.

SPEAKER_28 45:03

called the COVID vaccine the deadliest vaccine ever made. That is misinformation. And we're not being clear about that.

SPEAKER_25 45:10

And we have an agreement with Pfizer that we have to return the commissions that we got if people turn turn against it.

SPEAKER_20 45:19

You know, I really love I really love how at every step he's like, well, there was a bunch of misinformation, and they're he's definitely talking about the media, and she's like, You mean Trump? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_28 45:31

And I think that is dangerous. Wouldn't you agree?

SPEAKER_17 45:35

Because the the the Biden administration censored people and said, look, you can't even talk about COVID vaccine hearts. Yeah, and I'm talking about why you have the kind of distrust that's led to the kind of uh sort of uh problems that you're talking we're talking about earlier in public health. That distrust was not caused by President Trump. It wasn't caused by Bobby, it was caused by a lot of sort of really government itself regarding natural immunity, closures of schools, closures of mask mandates. People lost their jobs because of these vaccine mandates that didn't make any public health sense. So if you want to talk about public trust, you have to embrace that fully, right? You can't just talk about it in a narrow political way.

SPEAKER_28 46:24

That's what I was talking about. You're talking about something else.

SPEAKER_17 46:28

I also asked without storing. What you're talking about is what you're talking about is you're trying to blame the shooting on Bobby.

SPEAKER_28 46:35

No, I'm not. I'm right reading you what his f said.

SPEAKER_17 46:38

No, what you're reading what you're what you're saying, what you're implying is that somehow the lack of.

SPEAKER_28 46:42

I'm talking about him, I'm talking about your visit. Yes, and there's enough being done.

SPEAKER_25 46:47

It's really there's it's insanity. It's insanity. Like nobody trusts the government, so people on the left and right are gonna shoot at it. I like it the the the hubris of Margaret, it's because of Bobby. Well, why was Bobby saying it's because they have disinformation? Listen, if everybody would just would have just believed our lie, we would all be in a much better place right now. That's what she's saying, right? Like if everybody would just believe our lie, if you guys hadn't have meddled, this wouldn't have happened. This this this woman's husband wouldn't be dead. It's like, well, hold on. Like, that's not really the case here, right? Like, only he can be blamed there. There was no there was no cause and effect here, but to just deny that the CDC lost trust and people would be upset that they were harmed, is like, hello, this is why I say the pole dark example is great. You know, polark was tasked in the movie with trying to protect the guys that were killing village members by selling the wheat that they were pulling out of the ground to French illegally for a higher profit during a famine. You know, it's like that's gonna happen. That's what you're watching right there. You know, you're watching people that have been hired by the Empire, so to speak, to protect the Empire.

SPEAKER_20 48:05

Yep.

AOC Egg Freezing And DSA Drift

SPEAKER_25 48:06

And sometimes the Empire lies to its people.

SPEAKER_20 48:09

They can't possibly imagine they can't possibly mention that yeah, the media had some role, any role at all. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_25 48:17

So do you remember the movie Idiocracy?

SPEAKER_20 48:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_25 48:21

Okay, so in the movie in the opening scene of the Idiocracy, there's this couple, I've got them on the screen here. So this couple is on the screen and they're highly educated, and they're like, we're waiting to have kids till the time is right, till we have savings, retirement, house, blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile, Jimbo Joe on the other side of the cut is just reproducing like crazy. He's got four baby mamas. His oldest kid's got three baby, you know, it's like pretty soon there's like 92 Johnny Clyke.

SPEAKER_20 48:47

Right. And for the smart people, the time is never right.

SPEAKER_25 48:49

And then she freezes her eggs, and then he's infertile, and they can't find it all and they die, right? End of the intelligent IQ. Yeah, and then you end up with the whole rest of the movie where everybody's like, it needs the electrolytes because it's what it needs. Okay, so Ocasio Cortez, Ocasio Cortez. Normally I keep my private life. She's 36, 37 years old. She's engaged, she's been engaged. She's yeah, she's been in a committed relationship for four years, but she's focused on her career, Rob in the world. So she's now making a big whole thing about freezing her eggs.

SPEAKER_23 49:27

Normally I keep my private life private, but I've decided to freeze my eggs after taking time to consider, weigh, and save up for it. This is a choice I'm making to feel more in control of my life.

unknown 49:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_25 49:42

Normally I Okay, so that was obviously I, but that's really a summary of what she said. She actually had the video where she injected herself with whatever hormones. So here's the deal. This is from the American Tribune. The video of AOC doing some egg freezing pre-injection is just yet another example of the unseriousness of our enemies and how they are the softest people imaginable. She is 37, a with a white husband, and is performing the assigned second-wave feminist catechism of pretending that she'll have kids. She's got to focus on her career first. She's a girl saving the world, after all. It would be a real shame if the mass if the people mass mailed her congressional office, empty egg cartons. Two of the seven members of the squad have kids. Hassan, the candidate but Michigan, doesn't have kids. Neither do Mili Kiros or Claire Valdez. We've seen, we've all seen the video of Francisca Hong talking about her quote, proximity to whiteness around her own son. Meanwhile, and this is maybe good news, the white birth rate has been climbing every quarter since 2024. The whole threat of replacement or becoming a minority in our own nation will have disappeared by 2028-2029 at the current pace. The point I will continue to drive home is that these people are not serious political enemies. They don't lead scary political movements. They can barely pilot their own lives in a productive and evolutionary productive way. Do you sincerely feel the political trajectory of a Latinoid waitress-turned congressman who is freezing her eggs like the lady from the intro to idiocracy? Stop treating these people like they're going to bring down our civilization. The only thing they're bringing down is their own genetic viability. There is actually something to that. Tim Poole says this all the time. He's like, we've already won. Like they're the left, these hardcore progressives, they're not reproducing. So they're not going to regenerate. If we can get the education out of the schools, who are they going to teach? Yeah. Who are they going to teach their madness to? If you can get your kids out of the schools andor we can fix what's happening and being taught in the schools, who's going to teach the next generation this idiocy? No one. Because they're not having kids to teach. They are going to become a minority. That's good. They still can't steal an election when up in New York, they're getting 23% fake ballots certified. So, you know, it doesn't mean they won't be in charge of us until we reach absolute critical mass. But those fly cameras could really screw us over. All right, Anna Polina Luda posted this. Found out Democrat leadership has instructed their members not to sign onto our bill that would cap student loan interest at 2% because it would make Republicans look good ahead of the midterm so much for caring about the people in education. Wow, they should really let Democrats know that the Democrats are blocking a cap at 2% on student loan debt. That would actually be a really good thing. I wonder who's in charge of that. You think the DSA is the one that's saying, hey, don't let the Republicans get one of our policy wins. Or maybe it's this. Hey, we don't want it to be 2% because that's like a reasonable price for loans. We want it to be free. Right? The DSA would push that. We want it to be free.

SPEAKER_20 52:46

Maybe it could be variable pricing.

SPEAKER_25 52:48

Yeah. Now the DSA has really created a wedge in the Democrat Party. Right? I mean, we've been playing this for a couple weeks now. Carmills out, like a bunch of these guys like, we don't want anything to do with it. And it's putting a lot of pressure on some of these uh republic like uh progressives like AOC, who is very progressive, played to that base, but now she's in her second term, going on her third term. She's trying to consolidate power. She's got to kind of do the thing, right? The political thing where you're gonna now tack to the middle. So DSA is starting to become toxic among the establishment. And for a while, this was like a prideful thing to be a member of the DSA. Well, now, literally in the last few weeks, the tide's turning. Here's Ocasio Cortez kind of distancing herself from the DSA by trying to make some type of distinction that she's a specific member of the New York chapter of DSA. One of the New York Council, you know, one of these woke people, woke one was crazy. Woke one was crazy. This is the distancing.

SPEAKER_20 53:54

Is that like a 1.0? Yeah, this is the distancing.

SPEAKER_03 53:57

Woke one was crazy.

SPEAKER_19 53:58

Okay, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 53:59

And uh, and I think that what's important is that we have to assess what is. Well, um you know, I think I think that during this time and during, especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the overtone window. We were shut down. There was some of the highest unemployment rates that we have seen because of those shutdowns. And I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. And I actually think that the discussions that had that were had in that time were quite fruitful. I think that when we talk about crime today, it's fundamentally different than the way that we talked about crime in bringing crime down, right? And I think that we all share in the goal.

SPEAKER_25 54:52

Yeah, because now instead of just regular law enforcement, it's deportations. Yeah, the conversation has fundamentally changed.

SPEAKER_03 55:00

Having as low a crime rate as possible. I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today. And I'm grateful that these candidates have the opportunity to present who they are to their electorate and what they're campaigning on in this moment.

SPEAKER_25 55:18

All right. That wasn't the DSA clip, but that was the book one was crazy. So you're backing away from your positions. Do you see the tack to the middle here? I mean, we want lower crime, but yeah, I mean, yeah, the defund the police thing is a little extreme. You're the same politician. Like, this is not this is politic. What you just did right there, that's politic.

SPEAKER_20 55:37

That's not really what you sold your constituents for. This is the same chick that was defund the police.

SPEAKER_25 55:43

Yes, yes, and all of a sudden, well, just we just want to change the conversation around the you know, these stormtroopers, you know, I didn't realize I when I came to Congress, I would also be part of the problem, you know. I mean, like, I really mean you know, the stormtroopers aren't that bad. So here is this Michigan candidate who's being asked on NBC, and it's so crazy to me when these guys try to give them like an out, like just deny this, like say something different. But the candidates stick to it. And this is specifically on listen, man, everybody's gonna pay more in taxes, but we're gonna get rid of one of your primary

Medicare For All And Tax Doublespeak

SPEAKER_25 56:20

bills. We're gonna get rid of your health care bill. So, Ron, would you take this option? Everyone, all the money you pay in taxes, but we're gonna, and then the second biggest bill you pay is your health care bill, your insurance bill. We're gonna get rid of your insurance bill, but we're gonna increase your taxes to make up the difference. Oh, it's oh, that sounds sweet. It does, doesn't it? Especially for someone who uses a lot of insurance. Yeah, for someone who doesn't, it's like, well, hold on a second. Yeah, whose whose insurance am I really paying for?

SPEAKER_27 56:50

Medicare free and universal if you increase taxes. So if you are elected and make this push, would you need to increase taxes?

SPEAKER_10 56:59

As I've said across uh this campaign, I am for taxing billionaires their wealth.

SPEAKER_27 57:04

What about people who make less than a billion or less than a million dollars, though, Dr. Al Sayed? What about people making less than a million dollars?

SPEAKER_10 57:12

So for the average person, and you look at your W-2, if you're a if you're an employee, he gets paid every two weeks or four weeks. After you pay your taxes, the next biggest check that comes off the top of your uh your your pay stub is to your health insurance company. So imagine instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20 million a year, instead you you paid a little bit more in taxes for health care that you wouldn't lose if you lost your job or turned 26 or got married or got divorced. I think all of us would be a lot more interested in that kind of a system if we knew that our health care would be free at the point of care and would be free uh w without having to worry about losing it uh in general. So there's an opportunity here, I think, to trade what we give to a big corporation who gets to decide who we get to see and who we don't for a little bit more uh paid into FICA. And I I think that's a trade that's worth making. I think the broader public understands that that's a trade worth making considering how many people are holding medical debt, a third of all Michigan households uh right now.

SPEAKER_27 58:12

Just to be very clear, you're describing this trade. You are effectively acknowledging that people making less than a million dollars could see their taxes go up. I just want to be very clear. Is that a yes?

SPEAKER_10 58:22

I'm saying that we'd be paying for healthcare in a different way. Uh, instead of uh paying a health insurance company whose CEO makes $20 million, I would much rather pay uh for durable health care into a government, which of course, uh we all know provides health care uh for seniors who need healthcare the most. So if I'm trading paying a CEO to make more money or paying uh government to guarantee me health care, I'll pay the government because they're so efficient.

SPEAKER_25 58:46

Because we can trust, just like the CEO could determine who you can see and who you can't see, because it's you know, you're paying them and they've got a network. Now the government's gonna determine. You know, the same government that told you to stand six weeks ago, put your mask on, vaccinate your kids, you know, probably wanted you to. I bet there were doctors out there telling women, you know, we could stick a needle in your pregnant belly and vaccinate your your fetus right now if you want to. I mean, why not? We'll take it out, we'll change its gender, you know. I mean, holy cow! Holy cow. Yes, we definitely want the government to be the one that determines what care we get. But Ron, the burden wouldn't be on you to have to make that money. And if you don't make money, like if you get a divorce or any of these things happen, no, no harm, no foul, no problem. Big problem, big problem. These DSA people are crazy because the stuff they want to fix is taxing the hell out of me. I mean, we have to acknowledge that it's broken, but the solutions they have are broken everywhere. Like there's not a centralized, socialized healthcare program that works. These same people that are encouraging this actually cite Cuba as an example of a good healthcare system. Nothing else functions, but they think healthcare functions, and it doesn't.

SPEAKER_20 1:00:02

Totally insane.

SPEAKER_25 1:00:03

It doesn't. They they actually cite Cuba as an example, and we've played the clips. This isn't hyperbole, this isn't rhetoric, this isn't a one-off. The entire DSA movement and all that's progressive have idolized healthcare in Cuba. Talk about Canada. Well, healthcare in Canada, where there's wait lists for routine surgeries.

SPEAKER_20 1:00:29

Yeah, people die on the wait list.

SPEAKER_25 1:00:31

Yeah, you don't have to pay, but you don't always get the service. That's the problem. And that's not calculated, it's not part of the mathematics on what they can present. The crime that's undisclosed, uncaptured, is still a crime that happens that doesn't show up in the statistics. I can lower the crime rate in every city by eliminating law enforcement. My crime rate will look low on paper. The streets will be bedlam. Okay. This tax thing is the same problem. There's no amount of money that you can take from us that will deliver to us the promised utopia.

SPEAKER_13 1:01:09

But we do believe in taxing the hell out of millionaires. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_15 1:01:13

Well, what is taxing the hell out of the millionaire?

SPEAKER_13 1:01:16

Uh yeah, you know, I again I don't have like a solid, but but I think but shouldn't you?

SPEAKER_15 1:01:22

Um if you're the co-chair of the DSA, shouldn't you be more specific than just taxing the hell out of something? What what what exactly do you mean?

SPEAKER_25 1:01:32

See, it's not an economic it's not balanced and they know exactly how much money they need, they need. It's not like, well, if every billionaire pitched in a hundred thousand dollars, right, then we would come up with a no. This is about persecuting people who look like they've had success. That's it. There's nothing else here, there's no math, there's no, this is the amount of money we need to raise, there's no creative solutions to this. There's none of it. It's just we're just gonna tax millionaires. Why? Because they're millionaires. What well, what if they employ hundreds of thousands of people and by taxing them, they'll have to unemploy hundreds of 220,000 people. Well, that's why we're gonna make them pay taxes so we can pay their insurance, but they're already paying their insurance. Yeah, but if they lose their job, but they're not gonna be able to do that. Yeah, but we need to punish them. We have to punish them, Taylor. We have to punish them for having success. That's it without our permission. They succeeded without our permission, or we gave them permission, but now we're jealous of their success. When it comes to the medical thing, because we know that medical CEOs and regulators just, you know, Dr. Gott leaves back and forth between, you know, was it Pfizer? I can't remember, FDA. Let's just merge this. You know, I have a lot more employee protections as a government employee. I can't be fired, right? As a even if it's a $20 million CEO, I don't have the security, the job security. You know, the shareholders could fire me. So why don't we just merge these things? You know, and we'll and now well, the highest paid employee in the country was Dr. Fauci, not the president of the United States. The president is allegedly prevented from making money directly in any other way. Not Anthony Fauci. He actually had government employees applying for awards. Like, hey, we're looking for someone that can solve this medical problem. Hey, go into our patent office, find a solution, and go submit it and put my name on the application for the reward.

SPEAKER_20 1:03:35

Fauci can solve anything.

SPEAKER_25 1:03:37

Almost a million dollars in rewards for stuff during COVID created by the government, funded by the government, researched by the government, paid for by the government, have a application applied for government workers, the reward, private benefit. Should have gone to the treasury, right? That's all Trump does. He makes a bunch of money with Intel, goes to the treasury. Why didn't Dr. Fauci put that money in the treasury? That's they're just there's they're successful and they don't work for the government.

SPEAKER_13 1:04:05

So again, it's democracy, right? And and it we have to look at what we need to spend and what we need. We don't want to depend on the existence of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited. So so yeah, we need to we need to look at what we need to pay for in the interim, what what sort of tax base we need for that to happen, and then um and build from there.

SPEAKER_25 1:04:23

But we do believe in Yeah, yeah. So, you know, we just need to tax them. We don't know how much we need to tax them, but we don't want to be dependent on them. These people operate on the presumption that all employee employment is slavery, that there's no that it's not a good job.

SPEAKER_24 1:04:37

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_25 1:04:38

If it's not for the government, then it's not a good job, period. You could get fired, that's a human, that's a tragedy. You could lose your insurance, that's a human's right violation, right? Anything that would cause you to have any kind of growth opportunities, bad, bad, bad, bad. No suffering, no suffering. Okay, so here's Cortasio Cortez admitting she's in the DSA, but she's not in the DSA. She's distancing herself, she's getting ready for a Senate run or a presidential run.

SPEAKER_19 1:05:05

Still a member of Democratic Socialists of America? Of the New York City chapter.

SPEAKER_18 1:05:09

The New York City chapter of the national. And and what what's the difference?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:15

So every uh DSA chapter is is formed locally. Yeah. And so the New York City DSA chapter, those are folks that you know. It's my it's kind of like your local union chapter. Yeah. Um, and yeah.

SPEAKER_19 1:05:29

So, because I I are you still a member of Democratic Social Society.

SPEAKER_25 1:05:33

The national group, they're crazy. But us guys up in New York with Mondani, we're we're dialed in. John Saka says, I had 35 employees in Canada, and easily the number one, I'm assuming, conversation was future doctor appointments that had been scheduled months in advance. One who had a kidney replace had a doctor appointment to get drug drugs prescription. She had four future appointments, one for each of the future four months, could not miss one without the loss of the prescription.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:58

Oh, brother. Yeah.

SPEAKER_25 1:06:00

I mean don't reschedule it. Appointment at the DMV. Don't miss it. So there's another

WNBA Trapped By Its Own Rules

SPEAKER_25 1:06:09

interesting thing. This is kind of a culture war thing, but it's actually very significant. It's a it's a huge shift in the zeitgeist. There was a basketball player named Enos Innes Cantis. Do you know have you ever heard of him?

SPEAKER_24 1:06:20

Ennis, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_25 1:06:21

Six foot nine. He was a center, very good basketball player. Well, he also took real strong stances against human rights abuses. So I'm gonna let him, he's talking to Mike Rowe. I'm gonna let him tell a little bit of story about his final year playing in the NBA and kind of the stances he took because he's kicked off an absolutely incredible movement putting uh laser beam focus, highlight focus on the WNBA's policy on what is a woman.

SPEAKER_33 1:06:47

They pressure me so much. I was like, you know what? Promise you guys I'm not going to wear free T bat shoes every game. They said promise. I said promise. I ain't got the promise. The second game, oh no, I wore free Uyghurs. So the second game, I didn't lie though. The second game I wore free Uyghurs, they called me after the game. They said, You liar, you lied to us. I was like, first of all, I didn't lie to you. I never said I'm not gonna wear free Uyghurs Uyghurs shoes. I just said I'm just not gonna wear free T bat shoes. The third game was like was the end. Um, because we played against third or fourth game. We we played against Charlotte. And who owned Charlotte? Michael Jordan. So I I ordered his shoes, his most famous shoes called Concord. I put Made with Slave Labor before the game, right? I'm gonna be I'm gonna go out there and play with us. I saw Michael Jordan on the stands and I was just like, this is it, like this cannot get any more fun and better than this. I went out there with his shoes, played front of Michael Jordan with his own shoes and put made with slave labor. After the game, all my teammates woke up to me and said, buddy, this is your last year, have fun. You're not gonna be playing basketball ever again on an NBA course. So say goodbye to basketball. Uh my agent called me and he said, Listen, man, I work for you, I don't work for an NBA. Uh, but this is our last year. Let's have fun. Um if you say, I mean, you already did enough damage to NBA and everyone else around you, but if you say another word, um you're not gonna be you know playing basketball ever again. And you're 29 years old, you can play another six years. You're not only throwing away six years, you're literally throwing away between thirty to forty million dollars. I said, Okay, I hang up the phone, now it's not a good thing.

SPEAKER_25 1:08:37

So he pro you know, he he made all these protests by writing these messages on his shoes, and he made a lot of public statements too. And it did, he cost him his job in the NBA, it was a big deal. Well, he came out this week and he declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft. Careful review of their policy qualifies as a woman and can play.

SPEAKER_14 1:08:57

You might not like the truth, but I'll never tell a lie. Give this man a round of applause, please. Because not only is this managed unit for having the WNBA look at their own retarded rules, but he's also a genius because he's literally flipped the script on liberals overnight. Enus has over 40 million views already. Flip the whole game around, and everyone in the comments is super supportive except for liberals, like political punk here who says, You're not a trans woman, you fucking clout chasing piece of shit. So on a trans woman not good enough for you? And this is what I mean when I say Enos flip the script. Let's go into the comments, shall we? Striker Weaver here says this post is trans erasure, it's disgusting. Ellie is stunning and brave. Let her play. The problem says, nothing like a liberal to tell somebody who they are or aren't. Word. How do you know that they're not trans? Exactly. Joe Kerr says he's as much of a woman as any other trans woman. And he says, How dare you challenge this man's womanhood? You absolutely dig it. Isn't that how this works? That's what's happening on our daughter's track teams around the nation. I don't understand your issue. Exactly.

SPEAKER_25 1:10:16

Exactly. So the WNBA has a policy that from their 2018 collective bargaining agreement, only women can play in the NBA. WNBA. But there's no definition of what is a woman. And there's constantly been rumors since the day the NBA started dribbling basketball, basketballs on a on a court, that there were transgenders playing in the WNBA, right? These six foot five tall women, busting men. I get it. It's always been the trope. There may or may not be men playing in the WNBA already. But we saw this happen, right? Uh Leah Grant, uh Riley Gaines and Leah Thompson, right? The NCAA championship swimmer, full-on male. To my understanding, not even on hormones. Like full-on male, ranked 400 in the NCAA for men's swimming, NCAA women's swimming champion one year to the like totally out there. So Innis Cancer declared his eligibility, and so did Royce White. Royce White was the 16th, number 16th draft pick in the 2008 draft, I think. And it's interesting because Royce White has a perfect story. He struggled with mental illness when he joined the NBA. In fact, he, if I'm not mistaken, he even took some time off to go deal with his mental illness. Well, he has come out along with Enos Cantor and he says, I have discovered that when I play basketball, I'm in touch with my feminine side and I'm a trans woman for the purposes of basketball. So he is now very sincere about this. They both declared their eligibility for the draft.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:43

Only players who are women are eligible to play in the NBA, but in the over 400-page document, it doesn't define what a woman is. It seems the answer of what they do now is pretty clear. Would you agree?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:55

Well, you know, it's it's just astounding that the the WNBA can't define the W in the name. Uh and I think we're going through a very necessary conversation about who's actually eligible to play in some of these professional sports leagues, I guess on both sides of the gender spectrum. Uh my goal is to help elevate the WNBA. I think the the ticket prices and the the attendance uh you know will will soar.

SPEAKER_25 1:12:20

Uh, I think the the audience Because it will be a carnival freak show. You're gonna watch six foot nine monsters. The tallest player in the NBA is the WNBA is like six five or something like that. You're gonna watch these monsters booking on these ladies.

SPEAKER_20 1:12:34

It's gonna be like watching the Globetrotters and the General.

SPEAKER_25 1:12:37

I'll I'll buy a ticket. I'll buy a ticket. It'll definitely elevate the WNBA.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:43

We'll increase. And I think ultimately it's good for the game. It's gonna help evolve the game. I mean, who would argue that uh uh, you know, a player like myself, or Ninas Cantor, or you know, in the future, maybe even um I don't know, a LeBron James, you know, after after the NBA, you know, maybe he wakes up one day and realizes he's a uh uh you know a woman as well. You know, who who could argue that that wouldn't make the the women's game better?

SPEAKER_16 1:13:09

So uh listen, I'm I don't know what to even say to that.

SPEAKER_25 1:13:15

So he just did interviews all weekend. I'm in touch with my femininity, gender fluid, touch a basketball. You know, he ordered a wig for on, he's ready to go. He's he's full on ready. So the the MB the WMBA is holding an emergencies commissioners meeting to discuss, and this was the press release, what is a woman? Oh need to get what is a woman, what's a space in there? These guys have totally turned themselves in the pickle. So man on the street interview about the WNBA.

SPEAKER_29 1:13:46

Yeah, the truth is trans women are women, and so if they would like to play women's sports, then that would be something that they should do as women.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:52

A few former NBA first-round picks came out yesterday and declared for the WNBA draft. Are you supportive of them?

SPEAKER_29 1:13:58

Yeah, so if they truly were trans, then I would be perhaps supportive of them, but they're not.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:03

Who uh determines who's really a woman, though?

SPEAKER_29 1:14:07

I would say I would love to see them play against Asia Wilson and Peter. I doubt they would. So thank you so much.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:13

Well I'll put money on that right now.

SPEAKER_25 1:14:18

Who determines who's a man or woman? See, this is the problem. Who determines who's a man or a woman? The man who wants to serve time in a women's prison or the warden who says that's a bad idea? Who decides who's a man or woman? The track coach who sees an overly developed male who wants to win instead of taking cruise.

SPEAKER_20 1:14:39

Sounds like the commissioners are gonna figure it out.

SPEAKER_25 1:14:41

I was like, oh yeah, exactly. What are you protecting here? Who are you protecting? Right? It's nice to say equality for all when no trans women step up to play basketball. It's nice to say when a completely passable woman is able to say, you know, she says, I'm a woman, and we go, yes, you look like a woman. But to exclude the fat slob with a beard who says, I am a woman, are we discriminating because you're a fat slob?

SPEAKER_20 1:15:08

Or are we that we just have clear eyes?

SPEAKER_25 1:15:13

What are we doing here?

SPEAKER_20 1:15:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_25 1:15:14

Well, we don't like these guys are too tall to be women. Too tall to be women. Ridiculousness. Like there's not even a way to deal with this. Vetterman recognizes that the things the Democrat Party has pushed

Democrats Split On Culture And Class

SPEAKER_25 1:15:30

have been damaging. It's not just men and women's sports, it's not just constantly talking about higher taxes, it's not just covering up for fraud and really pushing identity politics. It's a lot of real tangible things. The COVID era policies hurt Americans, hurt them, hurt people in the world. The open border devastating, right? The Democrats have not owned this. John Fetterman is the only politician I've seen on the left that apparently his stroke was like a truth serum for him.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:00

Without a doubt, the Democratic Party, we destroyed our border. 11 million migrants through the Biden administration. When you have 300,000 migrants showing up at the border, that's the side of Pittsburgh. And now how can we handle them? That's every month. Every month. And Democrats pretended that it's all good, it's all fine. Without a doubt, the Democratic Party we destroyed.

SPEAKER_25 1:16:28

It's all good, it's all fine. Hey, that six-foot distancing, those masks, you know, I lost my job for the whole COVID because they were downsizing and nobody was going into work anymore. Like it doesn't even have to be a personal choice. You know, their businesses just went out of business because customers couldn't walk through the door. That's simple. People did followed all the rules, still lost their jobs. So if people are smart and they wake up and they pay attention, they'll see this. Can the Republicans message this appropriately? Are the Democrats going to absorb all this eat the rich mentality and steal elections? Like, what's going on here? This is leaving a lot of pundits, even serious ones like Fareed Zakari on CNN in confusion. The Democrats have a huge challenge ahead of them. They can say all they want, Trump's not popular. They can say all they want, Iran's bad, and inflation hasn't been fixed. But anybody with a brain will know that most of that was actually caused by them. Their opposition to Trump for all things has prevented them from allowing him to do anything good or for them to compromise and get anything done.

SPEAKER_32 1:17:31

But first, here's my take. Democrats are facing a dilemma. Michigan's primary perfectly illustrated it. Abdul Al-Sayed, a charismatic progressive, defeated Representative Haley Stevens, the establishment-backed moderate. The energy was unquestionably without Sayyid. But a Washington Post analysis finds his support was concentrated in the state's most educated counties and college towns. Stevens, the moderate, did better in many rural and lower income areas. You see, the left has the passion, but the middle still has the votes that Democrats need to win in general elections. The progressive answer is that Democrats can solve this by becoming more economically popular, attacking billionaires, expanding benefits, and thus appealing to the working class. But these ideas don't appeal to the actual working class. Among Democrats, a few surveys shows 41% of college graduates say they like politicians who call themselves Democratic Socialists, compared with only 26% of those without degrees. Upper income Democrats are also much more favorable toward democratic socialists than lower-income Democrats, 40% to 24%. Democrats have spent years dreaming of a working class restoration. Joe Biden mounted the largest effort to court them with economics in decades. His administration poured hundreds of billions of dollars into infrastructure, factories, clean energy, and semiconductors, much of it flowing to Republican counties. Yet in the next election, 2024, Donald Trump won voters without college degrees and those earning less than $50,000 while making gains among working class Hispanic and black voters. You see, over the last 30 years, the Democrats have moved left on economics consistently. Obama was to the left of Clinton, and Biden was to the left of Obama. And in that same period, the working class has steadily abandoned the party. The lesson is not that economics don't matter. But the Democratic Party's problem is not that it is seen as too centrist on economics. Democrats routinely lead Republicans on issues like health care and even now the cost of living. Their liabilities are cultural and social issues. Crime, immigration, the border, and the so-called woke agenda. One example. Large gaps also opened up over religion, family, and trust in government not to waste taxpayer dollars. Trump understands the political force of this estrangement. Listen to what he rails against in his campaign rallies. Transgender athletes, DEI bureaucracy, elite universities, crime, and an out-of-control border. There's never been a border in the world like this. He knows that these issues hit voters in their gut. The answer is not for Democrats to imitate Trump, abandon minorities, or become reactionary. It is to stop imagining that Medicare for All and wealth taxes will restore the New Deal coalition. That world and that coalition are gone. The good news is that the party already has a formidable modern coalition. College educated voters, women, minorities, younger Americans, and many working and middle class voters in Metropolitan America. These voters want not a socialist revolution, but effective liberal government that delivers affordable housing, good schools, accessible health care, safe streets, a controlled border, legal immigration, and economic growth. And perhaps this will help Democrats to make inroads with the rest of the working class again, too. Democrats just need to show culturally moderate voters that liberalism can distinguish compassion from permissiveness, openness from disorder, and equality from ideological conformity. Michigan showed where the party's energy lies for its base, a fraction of Americans who vote in primaries. The test is whether Democrats can turn that energy into a politics of common sense that appeals to the rest of the country.

SPEAKER_25 1:24:05

That was a great quote of my caria. It's very fair.

SPEAKER_20 1:24:10

Yeah, the words that he didn't say, but he said in long form to me were the Democrat Party cannot get away from lying.

SPEAKER_25 1:24:18

It cannot get away from lying. And it doesn't understand the country. It only seems to understand its base, its tight core base.

SPEAKER_20 1:24:28

Right. The guys that love the lies.

SPEAKER_25 1:24:30

Now, even people who have been deep in the Democratic Party have been defecting. Now it's not like defectors from Republicans and Democrats haven't happened over time, but the Democrat Party, because it is a house of cards, it's a house of lies, more so than the Republican Party. Yeah, but they're both the lies the Republican Party tell actually have utility. The lies the Democrat Party tells are just ridiculous, like gaslighting can be women kind of. Lies propping up the lies. So this is one of the former general counsels for the Democrat Party. We're talking one of the most powerful Democrat legal minds there is.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:05

I have been criticizing the Democratic Party for a long time as being far to the left of the median voter. Um, so just as a matter of practical politics and pragmatism, I think the party has gone way too far left. But I think the party has also lost its moral center. I'm Julian Epstein. Uh, I'm a longtime Democrat. I was formerly the chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee and the staff director of the House Oversight Committee for the Democrats. Um, I'm the former CEO of the consulting firm uh LMG, which represented, amongst other people, Hillary Clinton for president. If this is where the party's going, this is not a party I want to have anything to do with. My piece in the New York Post today basically says that I'm jumping ship, uh, that I am going over to the Republican side in the Michigan Senate race and I'm supporting Mike Rogers. Um, and this is because I think the Democrats have gone off the deep end. I think the lunatics are in charge of the asylum. Um, I think that um uh there is no room in the tent for people that want to destroy our constitution. There's no room in the tent for people that want to align themselves with radical Islam. There's no room in the tent for people that want to align themselves with anti-Semitism. And there's no room in the tent, I think, in my view, for people that don't have any interest in building for the next generation, but only want to redistribute uh what others have uh created and want to um uh basically tear down the free market that has been the most effective anti-poverty liberation machine that human beings have ever invented. If you want to start taking these lunatic positions, then uh I'm I'm just not gonna be part of it. And I suspect more this isn't about me. I I suspect you're gonna see a large group of Democrats starting to defect. Um, and um I think this is what you're watching in real time here is a party that is uh jumping off a cliff. Um and I just don't intend uh intend to jump off the cliff with that. If you listen to Mike Rogers, um he's sort of a very practical, middle-of-the-road, normie guy who would have been uh very consistent with where the Democrats were, say, during the Clinton administration.

SPEAKER_25 1:27:24

So great. The red team's winning. The Democrats are defecting.

SPEAKER_24 1:27:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_25 1:27:28

The problem is, is just like when Californians moved to Washington and turned Washington weird. It's like these guys coming into the Republican big temp party, they're gonna turn the party weird.

Sites To Visit And Closing

SPEAKER_25 1:27:40

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Monty Python On Class And Power

SPEAKER_34 1:28:20

Man. Man, sorry. What night lived in that castle over there? I'm 37. What? I'm 37. I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you man. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind, you looked. What I objective is you automatically treat me like an inferior. Well, I am king. Oh, king, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress. Eddie! Some lovely filth down here! Oh! How'd you do? How'd you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Who? The Britons. Who are the Britons? Well, we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is. Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again. That's what it's all about. If only people would. Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see. By a civil majority in the case of purely internal affairs. Be quiet. But by a two-thirds majority in the case of quiet. I order you to be quiet. Or does he think he is? I'm your king. Well, I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings. Well, how do you become king then? The lady of the lake. Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Be quiet. Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Shut up! Oh but if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some Moisson bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they put me away. Shut up, will you? Shut up! Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Shut up! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed! Bloody peasant! Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about.

SPEAKER_21 1:31:05

Do you see repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?