A Radical Reset
Our Republic has been converted into a democracy which is just another name for mob rule. The mob is getting what it wants, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, good and hard. One day soon, the entire edifice is going to collapse under its own weight and what takes its place historically will be tyranny. A Radical Reset is the alternative and the system is called Antipolitism. It calls for a new republic based upon merit and not ambition. No parties, no money in politics, no careers in politics, and only serving the public good.
A Radical Reset
Father Figures Missing: Prison Taught Me What Statistics Can't Show
What if everything we believe about crime, poverty, and social breakdown stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of cause versus correlation? Drawing from my personal experience as someone who served over four years in prison, I reveal the uncomfortable truth about what really drives America's most pressing social problems.
The destruction of the nuclear family—particularly in the Black community—stands at the epicenter of our societal decline. In 1960, 80% of Black children were born into two-parent families. Today, that figure has flipped completely, with only 20% having both parents present. This devastating shift wasn't accidental but resulted directly from well-intentioned government programs initiated under Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" that inadvertently incentivized fatherlessness.
During my time behind bars, I witnessed firsthand how virtually every young inmate shared one common factor: they grew up without fathers. Without paternal boundaries, boys lack discipline and direction, while girls often confuse sex for love, seeking male attention at increasingly younger ages—perpetuating the cycle of single parenthood across generations.
Similarly, our approach to drug policy reflects this same confusion between cause and correlation. It's not drugs that cause most crime—it's the artificially high cost of illegal drugs that drives users to theft and violence. If substances were truly legalized (not merely decriminalized with burdensome regulations), most drug-related crime would disappear overnight.
Current approaches to these problems—whether Trump's deployment of federal troops to high-crime areas or government intervention in private industry—treat symptoms while ignoring root causes. Central planning and control inevitably create unintended consequences, regardless of who implements them or how noble their intentions.
The solution isn't to reform these failed systems but to end them entirely. We must stop subsidizing behaviors that destroy families and communities while recognizing that some apparent problems—like recessions—actually represent necessary resets before stronger growth.
Are you ready for a radical reset that addresses causes rather than correlations? Join me in questioning the conventional wisdom that has failed us for generations.
Hey everybody, it's me, your Uncle, herbie Herbie K, the host of the Radical Reset podcast and the author of Radical Reset, available to you now on Amazon by me, herbie K, the Manifesto of Antipolitism, antipolitism being the system that I created that will return us to a republic and convert service in the Congress from being a career to being a duty. It wouldn't be that, that'd be nice. Antipolitism takes all the money out of politics, all of it, every penny. It takes away all the corrupting influences and would leave us with the republic that the founders intended, which we're going to need as AI speeds into the future and central control becomes less and less relevant, which brings me to what I want to talk about today, which is what we're doing. Well, in general, I want to talk about cause and correlation, and then I want to relate it to what's going on in Washington DC and what President Trump is doing all the way around and what all politicians do, you know. Now that I look back on it, I realized that my high school education was so incomplete, because there were a few courses I wish I had been given, and I really think not that, by the way, as a libertarian and as an anti-politist and anti-politism, by the way basically takes libertarianism and just puts its shell around it so that it could actually be executed.
Speaker 1:The problem with libertarianism is that it relies upon politicians to not be politicians, which is that being to accumulate power under themselves to justify their own existence. Antipolitism would eliminate that possibility. So it's a very compatible philosophy or political system with libertarianism and libertarianism. Just for those of you who are not familiar, libertarian is the term that we give for a classic liberal, since liberalism was hijacked by progressivism many decades ago. So what people think of as a liberal today is actually a progressive and what people think of a libertarian is is actually a classic liberal, which is why I think we have a golden opportunity and why I'm running for Congress in Arizona, congressional District 4. We have a golden opportunity to take Democrats in particular, who are disaffected by the party's complete and total disconnect from objective reality and from any semblance of philosophical reason to exist, and bring them to us and leave the progressives out there to pretend that boys and girls can choose any one of innumerable genders and pronouns. So anyway, let's talk about cause and correlation.
Speaker 1:So back to the courses I wish I had had in high school. I brought out all this libertarian discussion just now to point out that I don't advocate for central control of education. Education should be in the hands of the people whose children are being educated at the local level, and the local people together will come up with something that makes sense. And when you disperse responsibility into the tens of thousands of school districts that exist around the country, we'll get a lot of experimentation, a lot of new ideas and better education will be the result, as opposed to central planning, which always fails when you hand down edicts from above, as if what works in Mississippi could work in New York City and vice versa. So, anyway, courses I wish I had had in high school and I hope that someday become mandatory, start with statistics, and statistics are very, very important to figure out why figures lie and liars figure. So many people believe things that are thrown out just because they don't understand how statistics are collected and what they mean. And the other thing that I wish that I had been taught in high school was the difference between cause and correlation, because if people understood that, we would have avoided so many problems.
Speaker 1:So if we turn back the clock to the root of why our society is coming apart at the seams today. That root is anchored in the old saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions and starts in the mid-1960s when Lyndon Johnson decided he could cure poverty and enacted the Great Society Program. So all the programs that we think of today, a lot of people attribute them to FDR, when they were really LBJ. And so when you think of welfare, which is aid to family with dependent children, when you think of food stamps, which is now SNAP or EBT I think they call it, if you think about housing support, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, when you think about Medicare and Medicaid, you're talking Lyndon Johnson. Lyndon Johnson was, if you measure presidents by productivity, lyndon Johnson was the most productive president in history. He passed more legislation in his first three months in office than John F Kennedy, his predecessor, had passed in three years. So if you measure success by the amount of legislation passed, then Lyndon Johnson was a massive, massive success.
Speaker 1:So the program I want to focus on today has to do with the root of crime and I have a unique perspective on crime. Those of you who have never listened to me before, I disclose up front to everybody who listens, and if you read a Radical Reset the manifesto of anti-politism available on Amazon. I always have to say that you will see that in the very first paragraph I disclose that I am an ex-convict who went to prison and was guilty of the crime that I was charged for, and I don't talk much about the circumstances because to discuss the circumstances would be to weasel and I will not weasel because my path is redemption and to be redeemed at least I think that begins with total honesty and complete breakdown in character and committed the crimes I was charged for, plead guilty, had no trial and went to prison. So it was in prison that a lot of these ideas came to me, frankly, because I had a lot of time on my hands to think of. Plus, there's something freeing about when everybody knows everything is bad about you. It's strangely freeing At least it was in my case. It was very relieving.
Speaker 1:But one of the things that I learned in prison back on track is that virtually every single young man that I met I didn't meet many young women in prison other than prison guards, because I was in a men's prison, obviously, but I'm assuming that a lot of what I'm going to say about men is going to be true about women. In fact I'm positive. It's true, I've done some research. But you know, virtually every man I met was raised without a father. They were all the products of single parent families and even when they knew who their father was, he wasn't married to their mother and their mothers often had multiple children with multiple different last names and, in many cases, multiply racial.
Speaker 1:And I know that from firsthand experience because when I would go to visitation, when my kids would come visit me, when I was locked up for over four years and we would be in the big room full of people coming to visit their relatives, it was just obvious. I mean, you only have to use your eyes and to see. You know you would have seven children in a family and none of them would look related and they would be of different races and different mixes of races. None of them would look related and they would be of different races and different mixes of races. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but I'm saying there's tremendous things wrong with it. When there's no father, president, when the woman doesn't get married, at the root of what's going on is the destruction of the nuclear family and at the root of the destruction of the nuclear family, particularly in the black community, and it all began with the black community. So we're going to talk about this is not going to be a politically correct conversation, and not that I'm going to attack black people, because I'm not, but sometimes when you tell the truth and it will not.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, virtually always when you tell the truth in the environment in which we live, you end up being criticized as racist. But I you know again because I've been run through the mud where I belong to be run Again, not making excuses for what I've done. Really all pretense has been knocked away from me. You can call me anything you want, I don't care. I've been called worse, and deservedly so. So anyway, in 1960, 80% of black children were born into two-parent families. Today it's exactly the opposite 20% of black children are born into two-parent families. Today it's exactly the opposite 20% of black children are born into two-parent families, 80% are not. This is the reason, this is the causal reason, the commonality.
Speaker 1:When you look at all the other things, poverty, for example, is often blamed for crime. That's what Lyndon Johnson thought. He thought if we could cure poverty, we can cure everything. The truth is, poverty is largely the result of one of two things. Okay, well, three things. One of them I'm going to rule out immediately. So one reason a person could be poor is if they were terribly physically or mentally handicapped, and of course then in a compassionate society, um, we will take care of them.
Speaker 1:Now, as libertarian, I would say that there are plenty of private organizations to provide that aid and the government doesn't have to go into the take care of the very small portion of the population that is so severely disabled that they can't help themselves. But for the other portion of the population, the vast, vast majority, the reason that people are poor is sometimes it's bad luck, but most often it's vile decisions. They make terrible, terrible decisions, and they make terrible decisions largely because most of them are raised without fathers. So to give you an example, the next time that you hear, the next time there's a story on TV about some kid that's been killed in the commission of crime, or one of those tragic stories and he wasn't my boy and the police killed him unfairly and all that kind of stuff I want you to look at two things. The first thing you're going to notice is it's always mother. Okay, you might see brothers and sisters hanging around or talking to more cousins, but what you won't see is dad, a hundred percent of the time, regardless of race.
Speaker 1:I don't mean to pick just on black people the mother that's going to come out and talk about what a good boy her son was it's most often black people, because black people commit most crime. Black people make up 13% of the population and commit about 55% of all crime. Now, that's not to say that there aren't plenty of white people who commit crime and there aren't plenty of Latino people who commit crime, but the majority of crime is committed by the black community and sadly, the majority of that crime is committed upon themselves. Over 90% of violence in the black community is black on black. In fact, I think it's even north of 95%. So the point I'm making is I'm not picking on black people, I'm speaking of objective reality, and the root of what's gone wrong in the black community is the destruction of the black nuclear family. No father present means no boundaries as the child is raised.
Speaker 1:Now I know that there are going to be single moms out there who are going to be incensed by this, because I'm pointing my finger at the cause of what's wrong with our society across the board not just crime, but the coarseness of it, the nihilism of it is the very fact that so many kids today are being born into single parent families. And not only are we not, as a society, frowning upon it and we should be absolutely frowning upon it, we should be re-stigmatizing bastardy, but instead we're celebrating it as if it's something that's good, because somehow we've got this in this. In the lower classes they pay no attention to whether a father's present, because the idea of shotgun marriage somehow evaporated with AFDC. I can go into all the reasons why, but basically, anything you subsidize, you get more of. So, since AFDC means Aid to Family with Dependent Children, which means payments are only made to mothers who don't have fathers present. That's an incentive to have babies for checks and that's the way it's turned out.
Speaker 1:And briefly, president Clinton reformed welfare and turned it into workfare and it worked in the sense that when I say it worked, it didn't cure the underlying problems entirely, but it slowed down the amount of people that were on welfare and were driving people at least into work, which is a good first step, next step being get married and stay married. But we'll get to that in just one minute. But that was undone by President Obama, who, in my view, was the most anti-American president that we've ever had. I think he was the only anti-American president we've ever had A destructive. He was supposed to be post-racial, instead he racialized and tribalized the country. A destructive, glib man who consistently overestimates himself and is a real psychopath. I really have little to no respect for Barack Obama for all the damage he's done.
Speaker 1:One of those things that he's done was to undo the reforms that President Clinton had done in conjunction with Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress back in the days when Congress did the job it was elected to do. Here's a little trivia note as a sidelight the one job that Congress should be doing constitutionally is passing a budget each year, and I asked Grok the other day what was the last year the Congress passed a budget in good order, in other words, when they actually got together Democrats, republicans, made compromises, yada, yada, yada and passed the budget, and it was 1997. That's how long it's been since the Congress has done its job. Since then, they've been running the country in what are called continuing resolutions, which is how we went from less than a trillion dollars of debt before the turn of the century to now $38 trillion and skyrocketing if you don't include the unfunded obligations of Social Security and Medicare and I've gone into that before so I'm not going to dwell on it today but that brings our national debt closer to $150 to $200 trillion that we cannot possibly pay back and we are headed at lightning speed down the shithole because of it. But having said all that, back to the subject matter at hand.
Speaker 1:By destroying the nuclear family through subsidizing single-parent birth and it's going on today what we've done is we've destroyed the one thing that taught boys in particular, boundaries and girls in particular chastity. So what we've had is a toxic stew of young men who have no boundaries and young girls, since they have no fathers present, basically confuse sex for love to get male attention and immediately start screwing when they're 13 years old, in a community that places no shame on losing virginity early and being essentially a slut. And you know, we can call it promiscuous if you'd like, but these little girls become sluts, and not because they're bad girls, but because there's no father. No one ever told them you were special, no one ever told them, growing up without a sexual underlying motivation, that they have any kind of worth in the world. So, of course, they sink in with what they've got, and this is how we ended up where we are today.
Speaker 1:So what President Trump is doing in Washington DC and this is what brought this all to mind by sending in federal troops oh, they'll bring the crime rate down for a little while and they'll suppress it for a little while, but the fact of the matter is it's going to pop right back up because no one's treating the underlying cause, and the cause is single parent families and the destruction caused by the welfare state. Now that brings the question to okay, you're running for Congress, herbie, what would you do about it? And the answer is I wouldn't do anything about it, I would end it. So, in other words, one of the things that you'll see as my campaign develops during the year and I talk about it in these podcasts is going to be I'm going to propose no new laws. Okay, part of my platform is no new laws, no proposals to reform or change or fix anything.
Speaker 1:You can't reform something that doesn't treat cause, because it's the initial assumption under the program, is wrong to begin with. So you see all these various central control laws that have gone awry and people think, well, we need to reform this, you know, like, for example, housing, urban development. We have to reform that low income housing. No, we don't. No, we don't. We have to get rid of rent controls. We have to get rid of price controls. We have to let the free market handle it and get the fudge out of the way. Everything the government touches it turns to shit. It's amazing to me how much we elect our leaders like crazy.
Speaker 1:People date women in particular, but both, and we've all seen this. I hope you're not one of these people, but you know the people I'm talking about that everyone they date is the one and they get very high hopes and they get very into it very fast. They get very committed very fast, only to be ultimately disappointed and usually in a conflagration of disaster, because they're placing meaning into something that isn't there, because they're nuts. Well, we do the exact same thing with our politicians Every single time, in every election. Democrats look for their savior and Republicans look for their savior.
Speaker 1:One of the podcasts that I enjoy very much and I watch it all the time is the two-way podcast by Mark Halperin, and I watch it on YouTube. I don't actually go on and participate, but I do watch it on YouTube almost every day. He does a podcast called the Morning Meeting and I like to watch it. He has on a Democrat and Republican, both of whom are good, really excellent people. The Republican is Sean Spicer, who was the press secretary for Donald Trump in his first term in the beginning, before Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The second one is Ben Turrentine, who I had not heard of prior to this, but he was Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado's chief of staff, and I am a big fan of Jared Polis. Hold on, I'm going to take a sip of water, I get parched, anyway, and he's done fun, raised me, so on and so forth, and he's a very reasonable. He's the kind of Democrat I would target and I'm going to target my campaign a reasonable, human being who understands what objective reality is. But even he and Spicer and Halperin they're all looking for who's the big dog on each side.
Speaker 1:You know everyone's talking about who's the next savior for the party and you know who's the next Trump, and Trump is going to be a disaster, guys. I'm going to tell you something All of this, all of these tariffs and all of these things he's doing he's doing a lot of good things when he tears away the government, like in deregulation. Obviously that's a wonderful thing and that could help offset some of the disaster he's causing through central control by doing things like tariffs. But the one that really is bad is this idiocy of the government getting in on deals with private industry, which I believe is unconstitutional. And I'm praying to God that various groups of lawyers around the country who do this sort of thing you know ideologically motivated law, uh law and files injunctions and start suing because this, this fascism. You know there's been a lot of accusations of fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is when the state gets involved in private industry. Fascism is essentially communism under the disguise of private industries allowed to continue to exist as long as the government dictates what is important and what priorities are for private industry, and it ends up in a disaster.
Speaker 1:One of the things that people don't know about Hitler, for example. One of the things that people don't know about Hitler, for example. And why did he? Why did Hitler attack Poland before his generals thought they were ready to make the attack and then stall out after he? Well, the French basically capitulated and really the Germans had a brilliant strategy to get to the channel, the English escape, and that's it. That's the high point of the war. And then Hitler goes on to attack Russia. Why did he do those things? Because really they're insane. So was Hitler insane or was there another motivation? And there was another motivation, and the motivation was Hitler.
Speaker 1:A lot of people say that Hitler was great until the Second World War and the Holocaust as if that could be a possible statement because he did so many good things for Germany. You know the out of one. By the way, he takes credit for the out of one. Well, he took people credit him for the out of one, but it was something, an idea, that was actually germinated under the Weimar Republic before that. I just want to say that to be clear. But anyway, moving on, he's credited with a lot of success early and really what he did was kind of what Trump is doing. He built.
Speaker 1:Not that Trump is a fascist, listen to me carefully. I'm not one of those people. I think Trump is vaguely well-motivated. Plus, he has Jewish children and grandchildren. So come on now.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, the but, but building an economy and an enormous amount of debt. Germany borrowed essentially from itself and the same kind of Ponzi scheme that we're running now an enormous amount of money and gave the mirage of everybody was working and everybody was doing and the country was doing well, much as Franklin Roosevelt created that mirage through his programs like the CCC and the WPA. But in the end these things always fail because central control and central planning always fails. And Germany's economy had already reached its apogee, it was on the way down, so Hitler basically had to start the war because he was out of gas. It was now or never. He wasn't going to be in a better position later.
Speaker 1:Well, guys, you know, right now Trump is. I just heard him say yesterday that he's had the best seven months of any president ever, and that couldn't be true, although LBJ might have had a beat in terms of the amount of legislation. And Trump has done this all by executive order. Also a disgusting thing, the Congress has abdicated its responsibility to the executive branch, allowing the president to make all of these crazy executive orders. Some of them are good, like the percentage of regulation, as I've said, but most of them are just what he's doing is he's.
Speaker 1:It's just central control under another name. Instead of central planning and the five-year plan, like the Soviet Union, it's handing down the priorities of what the government should be promoting. We should be promoting the steel industry. In his view, we should be promoting chips, and maybe this is all right, but it also could be wrong and the way he's doing it is going to be wrong and the slant chair where he's using a government is going to be wrong and it's going to create all kinds of unintended consequences. And I say this with certainty and you might be saying to yourself well, that's just your opinion. No, no, no, no. This happens 100% of the time. On central control, there is no exception to it. We are going to live in a world of unintended consequences because of central control and the complete and total abandonment of any understanding between cause and correlation that underlie them. Okay, or even if they're problems at all, because if you look at cause instead of correlation, you start to realize that maybe what you're looking at it might look bad in the present, but might simply be a transition to a better. It's like a recession is actually a good thing, although we all think it's bad because we've been told this our whole lives. But a recession is a reset before the economy recovers and is stronger than it's ever been. You set before the economy recovers and is stronger than it's ever been.
Speaker 1:You have to think of a free market economy as a man walking upstairs throwing a yo-yo. I just want to draw this metaphor for you. Think about a man walking upstairs throwing a yo-yo. As he goes, with every step the guy throws the yo-yo down. Maybe like every five steps the guy throws the yo-yo down and the yo-yo represents the economy taking a drop in a recession. But when it comes back, when it goes down, it doesn't go down as low as it did the five stairs earlier when he threw it before, and when it comes back to his hand, it's going to come up a little bit higher and then there are going to be five more stairs of growth before the yo-yo is thrown again. The yo-yo has to be thrown so that natural market forces get rid of the waste and the buildup and the fraud and all the things that build up in an overheated economy, which is why a recession is a good thing and the recovery is to be enjoyed. But don't get used to it. You need the recession, just like you cannot be happy without being sad.
Speaker 1:Life has duality, alpha and omega. That's where that all comes from. There's always duality in life, and when you try to eliminate that duality through central control, you end up with a disaster. So I know for a certainty we are headed for disaster, which is why I'm calling my campaign, and I called my book, a radical reset, because the interesting is, for example, in the case of the cause of crime, which is welfare, and the other cause of crime, which are drug laws. So the other cause of crime are drug laws, not drugs. Drugs correlate with crime.
Speaker 1:Now here's the difference. Okay, an addict takes a shot. Let's use heroin as an example. Let's say that an addict is addicted to heroin and he has oh, maybe he shoots two eight balls a day, maybe three eight balls a day that's an eighth, by the way, for those of you who haven't gotten to prison and so his habits cost him oh, I don't know, maybe $50 a day, and the guy's living at the bottom and he's got to find his $300. And so, anyway, the bottom line is heroin would be the next thing to free if it were legal, because you can't patent it.
Speaker 1:It's been around forever, I mean before drug laws, which you know let's call go back to the 19th century. You could buy opiates like laudanum, which was just. You probably watch westerns where, like for example, in Tombstone? Why? Because guzzling laudanum? Well, laudanum is opiate, it's heroin. But the point I'm going to make is taking laudanum then and taking heroin now does not suddenly you don't suddenly jump up and turn into a monstrous criminal.
Speaker 1:The crime is created by the drug laws that make the heroin too expensive. So where a three-eighth ball a day habit might be, oh, today I don't even. You know, I've been out of prison so long I've lost track with the prices. But let's say it's a $100 a day habit, or let's call it a $50 a day habit, because when you're really living on the street that's a lot of money that you have to wrangle up. Well, maybe you can get it if you can stand on the street corner and make a good story. But for most people most of them they resort to crime, but they're not otherwise criminal. In fact, heroin in particular, they just lay down and go to bed. If it weren't for the fact that the crime was expensive, it would be a $20 a week habit, because heroin would be, as it's, no more patentable than aspirin is or, as seen in the benefit, it would be available generically, everywhere, it would be safe, it would be clean.
Speaker 1:Now that gets into a much broader discussion of drug utilization, which I have discussed in prior podcasts and I'll discuss again in the future. But the point I want to make today is it's drug laws that cause crime, the reason our prisons are filled to the overflow and we're packing them in there like sardines. I myself experienced being in a 14-man cell with 20 men in it, so six of them were sleeping on the floor. Been there, done that. Okay, and I'm telling you that 90% of the people in prison are there for drug-related crimes. Now law enforcement will tell you it's actually only. I love it when they say this it's only 35%. Yeah, that's when you talk about possession or sale.
Speaker 1:But when you add into it all the theft and the violence that revolves around, remember that when you distribute drugs, you're in an illegal business. Illegal business can't go to court to settle a dispute, so it always results in violence. So not only do drug laws cause crime, but they cause violent crime, because disputes within an illegal enterprise can't be settled by going to court, which, if the drugs were legal, that's exactly what would happen If there was a dispute between a producer and distributor. They would sue each other instead of shooting each other, which meant nobody killed the side effect and all the gangs go away. But I said I wasn't going to go down the drug legalization hole. I just want to point out that drug laws cause crime and single-parent families cause crime, and those are two fixable problems. The drug law problem is easy. We simply legalize all drugs.
Speaker 1:And when I say legalize, I don't mean decriminalize. Decriminalize is a code word for replacing a bureaucracy for the cartels. That's how they have fucked up marijuana legalization. It's not legal anywhere. It's decriminalized in most places. But that means that the states have all put in bureaus of some sort or another to regulate their marijuana industry, as if anything bad could happen with marijuana.
Speaker 1:You can't overdose on marijuana. Trust me, I smoke it. You can't. It can't be done. Believe me, I've given it the college. Try, can't be done. Okay, can't die from it, can't overdose from it.
Speaker 1:And the producers of marijuana, my God, they're like sommeliers. I mean they really pride themselves on growing great weed. The government involvement should be zero, which means that then marijuana would be cheaper. Right now, marijuana is more expensive inside a dispensary than it is if you buy it from the cartels. The untold story of marijuana legalization is that the drug cartels are selling more marijuana than ever because they're undercutting their own competition, because the cost of avoiding interdiction has gone down, because the police aren't really looking for marijuana much anymore and they're much more interested in fentanyl, which is a much smaller amount of drugs coming through and that's where they concentrate their resources. Consequently, enormous amounts of illegal quote unquote marijuana are coming into the country or being sold and people are buying it because what they don't have to pay the stupid sales tax, they don't have to pay the stupid bureaucracy cost.
Speaker 1:To give you an example here in Arizona, to buy an ounce of, let's say, really good marijuana, in fact, no, no, no. Let me say an ounce of crap marijuana. When you go into a dispensary, there's the budget stuff, there's the mid-shelf stuff, there's the top-shelf stuff. Let's just go to the bottom shelf. See it as cheap as possible. My local dispensary, cure Relief. I can buy an ounce if they're having a sale that day of bottom shelf for about $100. But if I go to the illegal it's not hard to find them. Them right in my apartment complex there are a few of them. If I go to one of those guys and say I need to buy an ounce of weed, not only would I pay half of the hundred, I'd pay 50 bucks for it, but it would be better wheat than the bottom shelf at the dispensary. And the reason is is because now they have no problem bringing it into the country because nobody's really looking for it and or growing it. Okay, no one's really looking for it, there's just lots of the. And this is also being run by cartels and they're distributing it and making more money than ever.
Speaker 1:Okay, because the government even fucks up legalization. So when I talk about drug legalization, I mean legal. I mean there's no government involvement at all, other than maybe setting a minimum age, like we do with alcohol, which will be ignored. But I guess it'll make everybody feel like at least there's no government involvement at all, other than maybe setting a minimum age, like we do with alcohol, which will be ignored. But I guess it'll make everybody feel like at least there's a cursory effort being made. Then over on the welfare side. How do we reform welfare? We don't. It can't be done. It subsidizes poverty, and poverty is going back to one of my original concepts oh, I was going back, I didn't even finish that. When the butter comes on the air, and how am I going to prove that people make shitty decisions to be poor?
Speaker 1:I want you the next time to look at where she's speaking and what's in the background. Let's say she's standing out by her trailer in the middle of nowhere, or whatever it might be. Does she have an ATV? Is there a color and big screen television in her apartment or in her trailer? Does she have a car? Does she have two cars? Do you pay 29% interest in a car lot?
Speaker 1:These people make enormous amounts of money Again because they're raised by fathers. To teach them anything. Mothers are great. They're nurturing. You can't live without them. They're just as important. It's a 50-50 thing. One can't replace the other. Fathers can never be as nurturing as a mother, and a mother can never set the boundaries like a father. Just because of the presence of the man. You know his voice, his tone, his physical presence. There's lots of reasons why.
Speaker 1:So anyway, I want to wrap it up here and just say that none of this stuff's going to work. It's going to blow up in Trump's face. It's going to blow up in all of our faces and by this time next year, god willing, I'll be elected to Congress and be a loud voice Because, boy, I'm telling you guys, we have got to stop subsidizing idiocy. The government is basically a giant subsidization and corruption program for idiocy and psychopaths and sociopaths who are attracted to public office, which is what most of them are. And I'll leave it there. I want to thank you very, very much for listening to me. Have a beautiful day, have a beautiful weekend, enjoy yourselves. God bless you, god bless your family and God bless America. Talk to you next time.