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So this week, Molly, the big news, I'd guess was the testimony
of was it three college presidents or four? I forget, but it was
Harvard Penn mit yep, yeah, and they gave some interesting answers to some
questions about anti Semitism and genocide and things like that, basically speaking their truth
and contextualizing genocide and giving answers that were morally unclear, opaque, morally opaque,
I would say, right, and one of them stepped down pens Well
president, I mean, yeah, okay, so at least Stephonic was doing
kind of the final round of questioning and just ask them if a pretty easy
question I think to answer clearly, which was about whether calls for genocide violates
their campus code of conduct. And the context here is that we have universities
that have not been places for free speech for quite some time. I mean,
we've had now decades of people being disinvited from speaking at campuses if they
say things like men are men and women are women, or if they have
views done like not redefining marriage to include same sex couples, or if they're
like free market, you know, like any view mildly not on the left
has been one that is pretty much banned from campus. You look at like
what's happening with faculty, and they're overwhelmingly not just left but far left,
and it's like a very hostile home for conservative students and faculty, and so
like, that's the context in which the question is asked, like are you
okay with? And then, of course the more immediate context being that we
have all these campus protests calling for genocide of Jewish students or Jews, and
so least dephonic is like does this violate your campus code of conduct? And
all of these women because of course they're women, because now with DEI everyone
had to like get rid of any male headship of universities or whatever. They
are all like it depends on the context, and they all like seem to
think it was a really crafty way to answer it. I'm sure they were
coached to answer things this way by their high powered law firm. But it
went over horribly because people are like, wait, what, Like you can
call for the murder of a class of people and be okay as long as
it's Jews, because we know you can't even say things like pronouns are sex
and number specific like that will get you murdered on a campus. So what
happens when you call for murder on a campus? And they just handled it
really horribly. We should point out they didn't say, you know, let's
say there's an argument over some chant like from the River to the Sea.
Like they didn't say, talk about that specific chant. They just said,
if there is someone speaking, you know, chanting or whatever, protesting with
genocidal or about genocide, is that a problem. They couldn't answer it straight
because of all that stuff. But I think you got to the heart of
the matter, is that The biggest lie here to begin with is that there
is free speech on campus, especially at elite universities. It doesn't exist.
And they've been professors and students who think that we have been grandfathered out.
And then, you know, initially and then you just kept you know,
these schools kept hiring freaking the most radical extremists and pseudo intellectual people other than
in STEM programs. I guess, so maybe even there and now there is
no free speech on campus. Is only free speech for extremists essentially, like
you mentioned, so so you know, I was thinking deeply in you do
as well. I know about the free speech issue here, but really I
feel like that's red herring in a way because there is no free speech.
So like, let's get yeah. Yeah. David Sachs had a great tweet
where he said, like, some people think this is about free speech,
and some people think it's about double standards. He said, university presidents are
not and have not defended free speech recently, but they do defend double standards.
So I think this is an art argument about double standards. And so
I thought, you know, like, yeah, let's not pretend that they
in any way and any way care about free speech. I do actually believe
in free speech, and I do think it's like kind of scary how some
of these people, in light of these anti Israeli protests, have been pushing
against free speech. Like it's a difficult thing to balance. Yeah, I
mean I slightly disagree with some people on that end, and maybe I disagree
with you. I don't know. It's that I think some of this is
targeted harassment, and I don't think a private institution has to allow that sort
of thing to go on. You know, if someone's actually celebrating murder,
for instance, it is free speech, of course as far as the state
goes. But I'm not sure that it's academic speech or like. It's very
difficult though to say what is what? So I would always err on the
side of letting people speak, but the problem is, like people can't speak,
like you know, I was giving this example of double standards, like
imagine if there was a march for Intefata it's gay culture or something like,
it would not happen. The school will not allow it. No one would
allow it, right, But then I'm like, why am I even coming
up with an example that's so outrageous? I should just come up with example
of someone saying that we actually have to only to biological sexist right, like
even the most hapid position there is not you know, you're not free to
really say it even but then take it further. Even just basic conservative ideas
are not allowed on campus. They should be. So I wrote about this
today, but you remember, I don't know if you remember, but maybe
two decades ago, even fifteen years ago, I don't remember when Colorado University
of Colorado and Boulder, like go on, well, I'm a monern yeah,
wanted put out the word that they were trying to hire a professor of
conservative thought. Right. I found that so funny because the ideas they're talking
about conservative thought should be embedded in like numerous disciplines already at the school,
right, but they treat it like this exotic idea that in my column I
say, it's like teaching Zoroastrianism or something, you know, outlandish, like
it's a it's a separate ideal. So the very idea that you have to
find a person to teach conservative thought, which why we're talking about Western civilizational
thought right, is insane already. So anyway, the lie at the heart
of this whole thing is that there is any free speech in these schools.
It's not even it's past the double standard. It's just it's just a complete
lie. I think. So where do we go from here? I mean,
so let's first, actually I wanted to mention so then I'm not sure
who broke the store originally, but we found out that the Harvard president gone,
yeah, I think we should like the backup is that a bunch of
donors who were totally fine with all the bad things happening on campus for the
last you know, forty sixty years, particularly the last five years with BLM
riots and things like that, and just completely embracing race identitarianism and all that.
They getting upset about the support for anti Israeli an anti Jewish stuff going
on, and so they launched a big campaign of donors like, we're going
to stop giving you money to destroy this country because you've gone too far.
Finally, and at university at U Penn, they did oust the president there.
She was forced out, which was kind of shocking because she had very
good ties with the donors, but they forced her out. And so then
it was like, okay, well, let's like also get this Claudine Gay
the president of Harvard University. She should go, and she should go because
she's incompetent. And it turns out she's like a rampant plagiarist. But they
came out like strongly behind her and they were like, we love her.
She's the most amazing person ever. We're not going anywhere. And I have
to admit I love this outcome. What do you think, h Well,
well, it just shows the rod in the school because she's like a lot
of times there are accusations of plagiarism, and I'm I don't like it at
all, but sometimes people are just kind of transposing basic facts from one place
to the other. But these instances, many of them were actual ideas and
arguments, you know, I'm saying. So they are really bad in my
opinion, not all of them. Yeah, I'm glad you say that.
Sometimes I'll read these stories about plagiarism and I'm like, it'll be like they
said the such and such battle began in fifteen sixteen, and you see this
other thing says the such and such battle began in fifteen sixteen as well,
and it's like maybe they just both wrote the same thing, because it's just
a fact and how many ways can you say a fact. It's very difficult
to be creative in that way. Like, so what I you know,
so I my citations, Like in my book, I do every word.
I like, I'm citing it because I don't want to make a mistake.
But a lot of this is just ginned up against people. But in this
case, I don't think that that's true. I think she broke And this
was like taking phrases that seemed pretty unique to the scholarship. So I was
looking at the ones that involved Carol Swain, doctor Carol Swain, who's this
black conservative law prof at Bandy and also political science professor. She's a really
interesting academic. And I find it funny actually that Clouding and Gay was stealing
her work. But there were yeah, and it wasn't just like particular phrases,
it was concepts and things like that. It looked really bad. And
one of the other people who she had stolen from also was like, yeah,
this is not cool what happened here. It is no there is no
question that this is a violation of Harvard's Code of Conduct on academic rigor,
and they have in fact expelled students over stuff like this. And so I
just find it funny, like it's just so humiliating that Harvard has. Oh
also in addition to plagiarism, she hasn't really published much, so she's got
a very thin like publication track record probably like about where mine is in terms
of academic stuff. And she became the president of Harvard University, and also
it turned out it wasn't her own stuff, and nobody thinks she's there because
like she deserves to be there. She also was like a super big proponent
of racism during the during the BLM era, and like calling for racist practices
at Harvard. So I want I want that like strung around their necks and
that they have to deal with that every day they've got an incompetent racist thief
as their president. Like good, everyone should know that Harvard is a place
for incompetent racist thieves. Yeah, I mean it should be destroyed. I
you know, sometimes when we do this podcast, I realized why I became
a writer, because I like to organize my thoughts before they come out.
So I just want to take a step back and talk about a little bit
about how you were saying. You know that all of a sudden, these
people are mad because essentially they're going after Jewish people, which is true.
I think that when people are going after you, crystallizes, sometimes crystallizes the
world for you if we're going after them before. But go on. But
I also think a lot of people are like, yeah, there are some
wacky folks at these schools teaching wacky things, like they're not important, but
they've become very important because look at the people they produce, who are going
into journalism, we're going into government, who're going into academics themselves. Like
it's this self perpetuating nut so pseudo intellectual stuff, Like sometimes I go onto
a professor's page who has written something weird on Twitter. I'm like, I
can't believe someone's teaching this. This is not a real subject. There's no
intellectual rigor here. This is just all made up. So I think that
a lot of people are willing to overlook that stuff, and now they realize
that that has become so, you know, so prevalent in schools. But
also I do laugh and I wrote about this that people pretend that this just
like snuck up on like William Buckley or got a man at Yale in nineteen
fifty one talking about this and closing a The American Mind, which was this
massive bestseller in the eighties, talked about what was going on here, one
of the lions. The first line in the book is there is one thing
a professor can be absolutely certain of. Almost every student entering the university believes
or says he believes that truth is relative. And I laughed at that because
President Gay is statement apologizing for this. She said, my truth, and
my truth is the crystallization of the idea that truth obviously is relative. So
it made me laugh that she was probably a student when Harold Bloom wrote that
book, and I firmly believed that of all of the bad things she's done,
stealing other people's work, racism, incompetence, her uttering the phrase my
truth was actually the number one reason why she should be fired. Yeah,
no one, no one teaching in a college. Same mind. Jim Greevy,
Yeah, Gay Governor Jersey, Yeah he was. He was found out
for sexually assaulting a bunch of his staff, which comes to crazy stories there
and how he did that while he was married and his wife was pregnant,
and he I think also involved like financial improprieties and other things like that I
actually don't remember the precise details, so we should look them up. But
he came out and he's like in all sorts of trouble for these problems that
he's caused. And he said, my truth is that I'm a gay American.
It's like, hey, buddy's being gay. I mean you have to
assault the staff? Is that really the issue here? It's like someone I
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Uh, one more thing, Wait there's yeah, yeah, sorry the
club. Oh this is kind of random, but I was thinking about how
the reputation of Harvard has seriously been diminished in my mind since I was young.
So when you're young, and I grew up out west, so I
didn't really know that much about Ivy League schools or anything. But you know,
it seems like Harvard was what you'd put in you'd read in like a
young adult book about like that's a good school to go to, you know,
and Harvard lot that's a good school to go to. Somehow, even
though all of the universities are really corrupted by these bad ideas, you could
still I feel like, get maybe a good education at Yale or Princeton.
I feel like Harvard's really just like slumming it and just like on fumes from
it's previous reputation. And that's why I really love that Claudine Gay is their
president. It just kind of you get to see how weak it is and
how no offense to anybody who went there or is planning on going, But
it's like you're really just going there for the name, right, considering the
people I see you've gone many of the people I've seen have gone there.
They do produce credentialed nitwits, right, But I'm sure there are programs there
that are still you know, have good rigor and all that. But the
reason all this matters, I mean, I think it matters, is that
these schools, as you sort of allude to there, still matter in society.
They produce our leaders and you know, the people run things, and
if it's just another institution that we can't trust. So I mentioned I went
to University of Colorado, and I think I put this in our staff chat,
how embarrassing it is that the University of Colorado is not really a great
school by any measure. Our most famous alum are Trey Parker and Matt Stone,
you know, not considered giants in the academic community. We did also
have Byron Wizard White. I like him a lot, great Supreme Court justice,
but like that's it, and so I have no standing to talk about
anything. It Also, our football team's motto is we Come, and which
you know for university, having a grammatical error in your motto is just also
very embarrassing. So I couldn't come from like lower academic situation here. But
I will say that partly because of that, I always imagine that people who
went to actual good universities or who I just assumed the world was full of
really smart people, And then the higher I get in life in terms of
my career, in encountering some of these people. It is true I have
I've met or studied some really really bright people, But the vast majority of
people who go to these elite institutions or run our country or run different industries,
I'm sometimes struck by how much less smart they are than what I imagined
people in those positions would be when I was younger. I completely agree.
The more I think social media has a lot to do with it, the
more we see what these people know and are about, and the more we
realize that mostly many of them are idiots. I hate to pick on one
person, but I'll never forget. I had joined an editorial board at the
Denver Post for the first time in Diana to get came in to speak.
This was like the she replaced Pat Schroeder. Yes, this was the first
like really a congress person I think I ever met. And after that meeting,
I'm like, my god, she's not bright. And I can't believe
this is a person who's like on committees running things, running my life.
Even and more politicians I met, the more horrified I was the people running
things. And I don't think it was always that way. I think,
listen, going to like an elite school, there's probably you know, you
make connections, you know, your bred to lead and all that, or
at least it used to be. But you know, like, I think
this is right, But to like graduate the theological schools like Yale or whatever,
you used to have to know like ancient Greek, ancient you know,
Hebrew and in Latin. And now I think I don't think that that's the
case anymore. And I think because we treat people like they're not as smart
as they can be, we get these kind of leaders. But anyway,
I don't I think there are great state schools out there. There are all
kinds of good places to go and to get degrees. Journalism schools a joke,
But there are you know, stem programs out there that are probably madder
and are great and all that. I don't know anymore. I don't know.
I don't know who to trust. Like I sometimes I'm like, are
the people like engineers are the people building our bridges? This stupid too,
like do they? I mean, we're going to be in real trouble one
day when planes start falling out of the sky because we've been giving degrees out
like candy. So I don't know. I don't know. But these schools
still matter, So I don't know. Tax the endowments give it, give
it to trade schools, create you know, better schools elsewhere. My trade
Parker matt Stone School does have an improving football program, so we do have
that going with. Is that the Deion Sanderson primetime Sanders. Haven't they been
bad lately though I think they started out strong. No, we have been
horrific in recent years. We went one and eleven. I mean this year
though didn't and then this I don't know how many games we ended up winning,
but it wasn't really sounds silly, but like it was about just like
taking a program that was dead and trying to build it up. And so
I don't know how many games we want. It might have been as few
as four, as many as six, but like more than that, we
turned the program around and we're ready for next year. See you is a
nice school. It's a beautiful campus. It's in the most ridiculously communistic town
on Earth, probably or one of them. Though. I love Boulder,
yeah, nor time there. So my brother and sister went to Boulder.
I didn't even I didn't even make it there. I was at CU Denver.
I will say i'd been very familiar with Boulder though that the school is
less communist than the town. Yes, absolutely, the town is so bad,
like the mayor. The town is Menshevik and the school is Bolshevik basically,
Okay. I think when I was going to school there, the mayor
was an actual abortionist. Oh yeah, and she was the one who wanted
to import homeless people. These things are like totally normal now, but back
in the nineties it seemed absurd. She wanted to import homeless people because she
felt that like Boulder could handle more of a homeless population. And you know,
the number one thing to know about Boulder is that it's in the foothills
of Colorado and that it gets very cold there. There's a reason why unless
you import homelessness, you're not going to have a huge portion of your city
being home. It's also not exactly a or town, like it's expensive to
live there. For the most part. I think I always think about my
strategy if I ever end up on the streets, and definitely one of my
strategies would be to go to a warm climate, you know, like our
temperate climate. I think California has a big homeless population for a reason.
You can kind of live on the straight year round. How do you think
about this? How I am constantly thinking about like absurd things, like every
time I go over a bridge, I'm like, remember the fourteenth Street bridge.
How plane went into the bridge. I think I've told you this before,
Like the plane went into the bridge in the eighties or something and a
bunch of people like fell off the bridge into the icy water. So I
constantly think about things like if a plane hit this bridge and I went into
the water, what would be my strategy for survival? And how would I
get the kids out of the backseat? Like I don't really need to waste
time thinking about it, but I do. Anyway, Wait, what was
my other thing? I was just like homelessness? So warm? So yeah,
warm climate. And then thenly go to like Santa Barbara, you know,
go where there's money, because it's just it's more efficient to get a
big like someone might casually give you one hundred dollars bill as opposed to being
in a really poor part of town where you're getting like coinage. You could
do some busking. Is that what it's called? And I think my problem
is I have no skills there, but I will put that into my things.
I think about that I don't need to. I think about what I'm
going to do when I'm canceled and I have to get a real job somewhere.
So sometimes I'm like, I have no real skills, but I can
be like a Walmart greeter or the guy who checks the thing that when you
leave the receipt, I love you. You would be the worst Walmart greeter
in history. And I say this as someone who not surprisingly has not only
have I thought about being a Walmart greeter, I'd say it's my dream job.
I think about all the time leaving this place and moving to Montana and
working as a Walmart greeter. That's like my shink for law. I think
I could be the no nonsense checking out person at a supermarket. That would
be more my speed, right than greeting people because I don't talk to strangers.
When a few years ago, so this this town, as we say,
is kind of a nightmare place, and there's so much pressure to conform
to the group think of the town. And it started getting really personal with
some of you know, like Marx friends. They really didn't like that my
politics were different, and I felt nervous about it, about getting canceled or
you know, that the forces would get so intense against us that it would
cause us, like our family problems. And I love my husband so much
because he was like, Okay, well, if something happens, we you
know, moved to Midwest and we become Walmart greets or whatever. And it
was like a very nice thing to say, like, we're going to be
fine no matter what, no matter how horrible these people get. Yeah,
that's nice. I think that too. I'm like, that wouldn't be a
bad life. I mean, I have to cut back on some stuff,
but otherwise it would be fine. All right. That was a week comingway
would be a very bad Walmart greater too. You would just grunt, you'd
be annoyed that people didn't already know well, people came in. He'd be
like yeah, he'd be yelling at them. I love it, all right.
I don't even like to go into Walmart. I find that place insufferable.
But anyway, I don't want to. Let's not go there anymore.
Let's talk now about Let's talk about Hunter and Biden. So again I have
to there's so much going on, but Hunter Biden today was supposed to appear
or was Yeah, he's supposed to be here in front of in a public
was it once? You explain it? Please? Well, there's so much
going on with Hunter. I feel like we want to just like quickly mention
that he was indicted in the Central District, California over some of his tax
evasion and tax fraud issues there. He also has this situation in Delaware for
gun related charges, and this week his attorneys tried to get those dismissed on
the grounds that they had a plea deal and like a what is a pre
arraignment or the diversion program that they'd already agreed to. I think actually that's
a stronger case than people realize, So I'll be curious to see how that
goes. You have the just general situation that our Department of Justice has worked
very hard to be as easy as possible on a seemingly like career criminal,
the guy does things that if you or I did, there would be lights
out, and they wait like many many years to investigate and oh, whoops,
the statute of limitations is expired, and they're just like so gentle like
clearly ran an international foreign agent kind of a scheme, or I should say,
his family's business is to take money from foreigners in exchange for goods they
can get from the US or from US people, And they never even looked
into the FARA violations. He wasn't even registered as a foreign agent, you
know. So it's like that's the context. But there's this whole Biden family
business that nobody even tries to explain what it is other than you give money
to one of like a dozen Biden family members through two dozen shell companies in
exchange for things we don't even entirely know. And this type of influence pedaling
is very, very serious. It's certainly much more serious than what Congress went
after Bill Clinton for or what they went after Donald Trump for, regardless of
whether you think those men were in a center guilty of what was being alleged.
This is much more serious. So it's part of the investigation into the
Biden family business influence pedaling business. Congress wanted to sit down with Hunter for
a deposition, not in front of the cameras. So the important thing there
is that when you do it in public, it just becomes this like clownish
circus exercise of grand standing on both sides, and you don't really get answers
because everyone's like playing for the clip that they can put in their campaign ad
or put on TV that night, as opposed to a private deposition where you
have legit people like lawyers for the congressman asking questions that get at the heart
of what's going on and you have to answer it truthfully, and so you
can't play games. And Hunter was like, I'll do it publicly, I'll
do the circus, but I'm not going to do it privately, and they
were like, oh, it's not actually up to you. You have to
do it, were demanding this, and so today he went out in front
of Congress and he said like, basically, he's done nothing wrong, that
he's this poor, poor addict, and so like, you know, gosh,
it's just so awful. He's this addict. So there's nothing you can
really do to him. And the Republicans are mean because they're making his addiction
a problem. So it was like quite the performance for someone who claims to
be a recovered addict, much more of like what you would associate with a
currently in the throes of addiction addict. But that brings us up to speak
for today, I think, so let's unpack a little bit. So today
he gave a spoke to the press. He said, they've ridiculed my struggle
with addiction. Hunter that said this, they belittled my recovery, and they've
tried to dehumanize me. And we should stress this is not First of all,
jails are strewn with people who have addiction problems, who have personal problems.
It doesn't give you the right to break the law, doesn't give you
right to the right to write off hookers on your expenses, on your taxes
and so on. It doesn't give you a right to be a criminal.
But then he said, or do you have something to add to that?
Just that Ron Johnson had a really great line this week about how people should
did not feel sorry for Hunter Biden that the human trafficking like he did sex,
He was involved in sex trafficking. He was like paying women for sex
and doing all this kind of stuff. And it was like to the tune
of six hundred dollars a day, and nobody ever thinks about the women that
are trafficked into these types of situations, Like nobody feels sorry for those poor
women. They just are like, Oh, you're supposed to feel sorry for
Hunter Biden, an incredibly wealthy and by the way, how did he get
so wealthy? It's again kind of weird, you know, an incredibly wealthy
man who was the bag man for his family's influence pedaling scheme. Like that's
what you're supposed to feel sorry for, not the not his own children who
he kind of like didn't take care of through his addiction, or the scores
of women who were abused. Like it's just like he's such a He's the
type of person liberals or progressives are constantly complaining about. He's completely privileged,
and he thought that he could just do whatever he wanted with anyone he felt
like, you know, but it should be stressed. He started this business
before any of that happened, before his brother died, and he continued to
cheat on his taxes after he was supposedly had straightened out his life and gotten
remarried and all that stuff that's important to remember. Not that it's an excuse
anyway, but I wanted to so Actually it's a really good that's a good
point. The indictment in California made it clear that what they were charging in
terms of the intentional tax evasion was occurring after he claimed he got sober,
and not that it's okay to do it when you're not sober. No one's
making him take you know, smoke, crack or anything like that. I
mean, you know, yeah, I always thought that was weird. Like
I always feel like sometimes our criminal justice system acts like being drunk is a
get out of jail free card or something like, yeah, I did a
dui, but like because I was drunk, I wasn't in charge of my
or I crashed in this car, but I was drunk. It's like,
well, that's your second problem, you know. In the seventies, for
you got yourself in that situation. In the seventies, lawyers would actually make
the case, like in vehicular manslaughter cases, that they were drunk so they
weren't really didn't know what they were doing, which it seems to be,
you know, is not like you say, it's a secondary thing that you're
doing wrong. But yeah, do you know any recovered addicts for addicts in
recovery, YEP. So I have a lot of admiration for people who overcome
addiction and a lot of sympathy for people who are in the throes of it
because it's just seems awful and I'm very But there's a thing one of the
one of the things I kind of love about recovers people in recovery is how
honest they are and how willing they are to see their own flaws. Like
our culture is one where we're constantly pointing out what other people have done wrong,
and we make ourselves out to be the hero of every story, or
we make ourselves out to be the victim, and nobody else is the victim,
but my friends and family members, who are you know, in some
stage of recovery, Like pretty early on, most programs kind of require you
to be really honest about how bad you've been, and that if you can
make it through that process of what you coming to terms with what you've put
other people through, you just have like a lifelong humility for a lot of
these people. And I hope that Hunter can get to that stage at some
point, And I know, it's hard to do it while all these other
things are involved, but he doesn't seem anywhere near that stage. Yeah,
the people, I know, I know. One thing that they don't do
is they don't make excuses for the things they've done wrong outside of the addiction
itself, meaning like they're not going to say, oh, yeah, you
know, I crashed the car intough Tree and it was because I was drunk.
They're going to say it was my fault for getting drunk and doing it
or whatever. You know, I made that up. But you know what
I'm saying. They don't hide behind the addiction, which is what he seems
to be doing here. Maybe it's just a legal Maybe it's just a legal
maneuver for him to do this. I don't know, and I don't really
care because, like you have said and I have written, it is not
about him really. I mean, it is about him because he is the
he is the nexus between all the wrongdoing, but it's not like I don't
you know, I hope he pays for his crimes, but it's not really
about him. It's about Joe. And it is clear that the tax violate
the tax the nine and nine things that they were going after him for in
the nine instances purposely circumvent any kind of investigation that would head or lead to
having Joe Biden sit down and under oath explain anything about the business that he
was clearly involved in. Do you agree, Oh, it's shocking given how
much this was. I mean, like there's a little bit of allusion to
some of it, right, Like there's a mention of the brief my funding
and whatnot. But yeah, they go That's what I'm saying. People are
like, oh, the Department of Justice is finally going after him, not
really, Like if it were someone who had once met Donald Trump, this
person would be spending the life of their the rest of their life in prison,
with all of their assets taken from them and everybody they know destroyed.
So no, they're not really going after him. But the way of trying
to make this be about Hunter, I mean, Hunter is a very salacious
character, that is true, and he was key along with James, Joe's
brother, they're kind of like the top two people in the family business.
But there are so many other people, Like I was reading this story at
real clear politics that everyone should read about Sarah Biden. I think her name
is was James's wife. And you know how like one of the one of
the pieces of evidence of Joe Biden financially benefiting from the family business is a
like check for a loan repayment, they claim, And nobody's ever shown evidence
like nobody's ever shown evidence that a loan was made from Joe to James and
Sarah. Nobody ever explained how Joe would have the money to lend to James
or Sarah. There's no like, no document suggesting there really was alone.
But maybe there was a loan, who knows. But this story was about
involving how James and Sarah, I think, owed this Delaware car person,
like an auto seller person, some money and then he got a contract for
to build something outside of Kiev, Ukraine. It's like, oh, that's
an interesting thing here that we have Joe Biden, the point man of Ukraine,
and Hunter Biden, the Barisma board member, despite having no experience as
a board member, is an energy executive or anything, and then like a
loane involving Joe's brother and claims about loan repayment after the guy who they owe
money to gets like a sweetheart deal in Ukraine, and it was like the
level of stuff we have to work with here, of real stuff as opposed
to imagine trips to Moscow and you're a nation on beds and stuff like,
the real stuff we have to work with here is like unbelievable, and all
of our corporate bad are just running complete interference on it. It's just a
few things on that one. In every story we keep hearing how there is
no evidence that Joe Biden directly benefited from any of this. First of all,
as you just mentioned, that's not exactly true. There's plenty of circumstantial
and real evidence that he did. But also it doesn't matter if I am
corrupt and I only enrich my kids and my family and my brother and my
daughter. You know what I'm saying, that's still corruption. You're helping people
in your family around you. Money is fungible. They can help you in
ways that are you know, that circumvent you know, obvious ways to do
that. But secondly, also he lied about this from the beginning, in
ways that are not are obvious and direct lives, and he lied about so
he was forging. He's bragged about it, forging our policy in Ukraine,
while at the same time lying that he knows nothing about his son's business there,
but helping that business now, at the very least, that's a massive
conflict of interest and it should really be a very big topic. At most,
it's corrupt, like there's too many, too much happenstance here that helps
the business for people not to be investigated by the way. A new version
of the relationship of Joe Biden to the family business came out today, So
Hunter Biden said, my father, let me be really, really really clear,
My father has never been financially involved in my business. So do you
remember at first it was I literally don't even know what my son does for
a living. I've never talked with him about a single thing. And it's
a disgusting lie. I'm going to take you out back and beat you up
if you say I knew anything. And then you've got like photos and testimony
of people being like, oh, yeah, we were on the phone with
Joe all the time, or oh yeah, Joe had to clear this before
I joined this, you know, as a high level exec or, like
Joe clearly knew about the business, or Joe met them at a cafe Milana
or whatever place. So then it was then it was like, okay,
well, obviously he loves his son. You know who, by the way,
is an addict. Did you know he was an addict? And if
you say anything against an addict, you're a bad person. And so he
just was like loving and supporting his son as any father would. It was
like, oh, okay, so your story's changing. And then it was
like, I've never financially benefited. And then last week it went back to
Joe saying he never knew anything about the business. Yeah, and then today
it's like, oh, well, he's never financially involved. It's like,
oh, well, we've already got financial involvement of some kind. You know,
they're checks, there are like his address being listed in documents. Just
the simple fact he brought Hunter Biden over on a plane when he was vice
president to China to meet with people who he then set up a firm with.
Like I'm sorry, Joe Biden. Joe met that person, said hello
to that person, I cof you with that person, wrote a letter recommendation
for that person's child to go to college. Like that is you don't if
your vice president, you just don't do things like that for no. I
mean, you know, let me ask you at the or let me just
say, at the very least, this is something that is more than you
know, no evidence, there's no evidence, there's no evidence. It's constantly
what they're saying in the media when there is tons of evidence that they just
don't want to look into. Let me quickly just jump to one other thing
related to this. So it looks like the House is going to whatever,
formulize or I forget the word for it, the impeachment process and so on.
I think there's enough for impeachment. I saw some Democrats today said that
there's no there's no evidence that there's a crime committed by Joe Biden. Do
we have to go through all that there was no there was no evidence that
Donald Trump committed any crime in a phone call. He could still still impeach
him. There's no evidence that Bill Clinton did anything criminal, and you could
still impeach him. But more than that, do you think politically, what
do you think about going I mean, Joe Biden's so unpopular, I feel
like Republicans should slim sit there and stew in it. I don't know,
I feel like there are a million things that are worth impeaching Joe Biden over
and to not do it, like to sort of play along with the previous
impeachments, and you had like a bunch of Republicans playing along with it,
which is really shameful and why that party is disgusting and evil, Sorry,
disgusting and awful. I should say to not go after Like this is a
guy who on his first day in office said I'm going to destroy the sovereignty
of the country and open the floodgates to an invasion of illegal immigrants unknown in
the history of mankind. Like to me, that seems impeachable. I also
think that's criminal, Like it's just a violation or it's so important that you
as a country have borders, that's like kind of what being a country is.
And he campaigned by saying he would do it. Then he did it,
and it's been really bad for the country and it's shocking and it's unconstitutional,
you know some of this stuff, And that alone, to me,
seems worthy of impeachment. Here's another thing that like this is like on the
other range of policy because it's not really a policy thing. But he keeps
telling people his son died in the Iraq War. That's shameful, shameful,
there were thousands of American families who lost men and some women in the Iraq
War, like who actually lost their sons, their husbands, their fathers.
There are real Americans, like thousands of them, and he keeps going out
there and falsely claiming that his son died in the Iraq War. I think,
like it's disgusting. Just compare like calling Vladimir Voldemirt's Zelenski and being like,
hey, we think that we think there's some stuff here that should be
looked into, and that's true, and you get like impeached over that versus
my son died in the Iraq War. Like. I know you can think
like all politicians lie or whatever, but to me, there's just something really
really gross about that. So, like from the open border all the way
down to just lying about the circumstances of your son's death, I think they
are like a thousand things you could impeach him for. So I don't know,
I don't know if it's I think it should have been done like years
ago, basically, but I believe that almost every president of the modern age
deserves to be has deserve to be impeached. So you don't have to convince
me on that I think he should be impeached. The thing for me is
about the lying, is that it is all of all politicians lie for political
reasons. But I think Joe Biden actually is some kind of mental problem where
George Santo's like a problem even in a way worse. Like yeah, because
the George Santos thing actually kind of makes rational sense to me. He's just
kind of a huckster, whereas Biden, I think, believes these things.
He's lied about almost everything in his life. There's never been a person like
him in the presidency who has lied the way he has. And yet what
my point here is that but yet the media and a lot of people have,
and he himself has cultivated this image of being an honest, straightforward moderate,
you know, every man from Scranton and all that, which is not
who he is. He's actually a really bad person. He's always been a
bad person, from the time he was saying that he didn't want his kids
to grow up in a racial jungle and supporting segregation and Senate to today.
He's always been a bad guy. And yet you know, they call like
he's a devout Catholic in New York Times. You know, and stuff like
that, and meanwhile he is takes the most extreme abortion position. Now I'm
not I think that position's wrong and all that, but it's a lie to
say that he's a devout Catholic. There's no devout Catholic who takes that position.
So I don't know, I just find it. I find him creepy
and weird, and I kind of always have and you know, I don't
know, maybe it's finally going to catch up to him because as you see,
his popularity numbers are just I don't know that you can get lower than
where he is in the sense that there's always going to be some partisans who
support you. But it's a pretty bad position. So oh yeah, this
is what I wanted to talk about one quick thing. So the gun charges
that he's facing are really important because Hunter Biden in court is arguing right now
that his Second Amendment rights have been undermined, which is just there is I
don't know what to call it, schadenfreud, karma justice, you know,
because he might actually overturn. So this is kind of complicated. But when
you were getting a gun, you have a background check, you have to
answer a question, do you have you used drugs, and we now know
that, according to his book, he was still using crack when he filled
out that form and got his handgun. That goes with you can go to
jail for fifteen years for lying about that. But in my view, that's
unconstitutional. First of all, it undermines the Fifth Amendment by incriminating yourself.
Secondly, the uh marijuana is illegal federally. People states just ignore it,
but then sometimes they don't ignore it. When it comes to you wanting to
buy a gun, then all of a sudden it matters that it's a what
is it called up? What is it called? The classification says, yeah,
it's like the Schedule one or whatever, like one of the worst drugs.
So anyway, sorry, it's a little bit confusing. But he will
he is challenging this law, and I believe that if it goes to the
Supreme Court, he's going to win. So it would there would be it
would it would warm my heart to know that punter Biden would be undermining the
Democrats' efforts to take guns away from people in through state laws. So but
that's happening too. Anyway, Let's move on to a new topic this week.
Joe Biden basically came out very hard against Israel, said that Benjamin Notatayah,
who needed to dissolve his far right government. It's funny how these people
love democracy, but when people they don't like are elected, then Benjamin Notatayaho
in a foreign country. By the way, when people interfere in our elections
from foreign countries, everyone has a meltdown. But Joe Biden can tell a
democratic country to just dissolve their government because he's decided I did so and get
rid of them. Listen, it's a parliamentary system and the only way you
can govern in that country is to have some weirdo parties of the fringe within
your you know, within your governing coalition. So it is what it is.
But in any event, and then he's claimed that Israel was just indiscriminately
bombing in Gaza, which is a lie. Now he's doing this because he
needs to shore up some of his votes. It tells you a lot about
those voters that you have to be pro Hamas to get them on board.
But it is what it is. And yet at the same listen, that
is harsher language than he has ever used against Iran, which kidnaps Americans,
which uh, you know, kills Americans and it is and then you know
what, really to contrast all that, Zelensky was in town from Ukraine and
oh my god, the king of the world he was treated. So,
you know, do you think Joe Biden would ever go out there and say,
you need to do something about your corruption problem in that country? Because
I hate to break the news to everyone, but Israel is a far freer
country than Ukraine has ever been for one single day, far less corrupt and
in my view, you know, or more moral democracy. But yeah,
look at how Zelenski's treated. On the same day he's saying this about Benjamin
Netsan Yahoo. So if I can just go back to the Israel thing first,
I do think the US really does have a strong alliance with Israel,
and we also contribute a lot financially and militarily to their security. Something like
a horrible I don't think like it's completely how do I say, I don't
think it's necessarily wrong to weigh in on how they should be doing things.
I just don't think in this particular case it's the best strategic approach and it
should not involve their domestic political situation like if you're going to weigh in,
weigh in on a big national security sort of way, not in a here's
who we think you should be electing in your next elections or how you should
be running your next election. I just quickly say I agree that America has
a stake in Israel's security, so they should be able to say, listen,
we don't want you using the iron door. We don't want you to
do it lousing missiles against the Yemen or something. But to say that a
government that is elected by the people should be dissolved because you don't like what
they want done, that's completely out of line. I don't care how much
way be able to take their money away, then take there, or Sam,
we're going to take your money away. If this is the government you
have, you have every right to say that we do. But you know,
but let me just say, when we're giving Pakistan money, he doesn't
say anything. There's a military dictatorship running that country, they have nuclear weapons,
or many other countries. But it's just somehow they hate Natanyahu, who's
going to be gone soon anyway, because this was under his watch. But
it's just there's just this hatred for Israel and they treat it like it's some
kind of crazed, violent, you know, autocracy, which is just a
fantasy of the left in this country. AnyWho, Again, I feel like
the US saved the day at the UN on the resolution demanding a ceasefire in
Israel. Doesn't save the day. I mean, does I think that it's
Israel really appreciates America's support. But do you think that the UN has any
power to tell Israel what they should be doing. They don't. You can
vote any way. You feel like Israel's going to do what it has to
do. UN has no power of the United States or Israel. I mean,
yes, international support is important and they're going to lose it, but
I think they need to do what they need to do anyway. Well,
you've been speaking of meddling though, Like I keep on, just I cannot
believe the situation with Ukraine, where if you go back again decades, people
could see that with the disillusion of the Soviet Union, the one big area
that was going to be a problem was Ukraine. And you had a debate
about whether the thing to do was to sort of like make it a vassal
country of the United States, or whether to like be fiercely strategically neutral buffer
between NATO and Russia, and the people who wanted it to be like a
little like outpost of the US or whatever where we could do things like run
their elections or depose people we didn't want and like funnel a bunch of money
through there through ngngos and stuff. Those people won, and the people who
said that was the bad idea were like, someday Russia is going to invade
this country because of how you're handling this, and they were. They were
vindicated in that claim. So it just seems awful to me what we've done
here. We have basically encouraged Ukraine into hostility, into a position where they
were vulnerable to an invasion awful as it is from Russia. And then as
it's happening, we're like, we're willing to fight this to the last Ukrainian
And you have so many Ukrainians dying and being injured. Yeah, you have
a lot of Russians dying and being injured too, But like they just kind
of build it into their calculus that they're going to they have like a lower
regard for human life or something like. They have a long track record of
throwing bodies at military problems, and everyone claimed that this was going to be
like a really awesome easy war and that we were going to repel Russia and
that we were there were to be destroyed financially. Not only were we going
to win, we were going to destroy Russia. And instead you've got you
know, Vladimir Putin hanging out in Saudi Arabia and the UAE and like being
totally fine economically and withstanding everything, and meanwhile there's still no strategy for victory
in Ukraine, people saying, like I saw that, Jake Sullivan or someone
was like, oh no, Anthony Blinkoln was like, Ukraine has gained back
much of the land that Russia took, and it was like, that's just
not true. It's just not true. Like we've spent a lot of money,
a lot of resources. It is a total slog. Russia has managed
some pretty big gains and they seem well positioned going forward, and we're just
still like with no plan, no strategy, no idea. We're just like
basically encouraging Ukraine to keep going. And then we also say like, oh,
it's their idea to do this, it's their idea to lose all of
their men and have them all be injured and die. It's like, well,
we're heavily involved there, like very heavily involved. It's not totally their
idea. And also it's like a lot of our money. So Zelenski comes
over says, we need to give more money. Everyone in DC is sorry,
I'm a little all over the place here because I have so many different
thoughts on it. But everyone in DC seems really jazzed to give Ukraine money.
But the American people aren't so jazzed. And so the military industrial complex
came up with this great idea, which was, we will pretend to care
about the US border for a few weeks here, put in some stuff that
we claim will somehow secure the border, even though nobody thinks it will secure
the border, will actually just make it sort of easier to process the like
all the illegal immigrants coming through. And then in exchange for pretending to care
about the border, the idiots and the Republican Party will agree to more funding
for Ukraine, even though we don't have any plan or strategy with what to
do there. Yeah, I mean, the border stuff shouldn't even have to
be contingent on anything. It is the number one job of the federal government
to protect the borders of their country and make you know, to keep their
country a soffer a nation like you know again, you know it shouldn't even
have to be tied to this. I you know, when it comes to
Ukraine, I have an idealistic view of these things, and then I have
a realistic view of these things. You're not going to beat Russia. It's
a nuclear power. You can repel it so long, and the end you're
going to end up losing. You know, you can end up losing.
So I don't know. I'm not an expert. Yeah, one more thing.
I read this thing by Fiona Hill, who like is all the neo
kon's favorite favorite person. You might remember her from her testimony that like Russia
collusion was kind of real, but she was like a Trump person, but
she testified against him during impeachment. She was like, Ukraine is the most
perfect, wonderful place in the world, and Russia actually is it is totally
meddling in our elections, and all the like resistance people were like, yay,
we love Fiona Hill. Anyway, I saw a bunch of people being
like this is such a brilliant interview with her and over at Politico, and
so I read it and it was like, the only reason people are opposed
to limitless funding in Ukraine is because Republicans don't want Biden to have a win.
I don't. The thing is, I don't know what a win looks
like anymore. I just say, that's the level of intelligence going on.
This is like their brightest star. And she thinks the reason why people oppose
war without strategy, war without like metrics for success, with like no goal
that makes sense in sight, is because of petty partisan politics. That's idiotic,
and that's like the level of intelligence we're dealing with. And to have
the media. Albeit I was making this point last and on Twitter, but
you know, in Eisenhower's original in one of his drafts for his farewell address,
where he coins the term military industrial complex, he had it written military
industrial Congressional complex. And I actually like that term because it really does show
the key role that Congress plays. But I also wanted to have the media
in there because it's you think, like, how do we keep getting these
long wars that aren't going well that we can our national security, that are
not fought in our national interest When so many Americans oppose them, and yes,
there is this military industrial complex. It couldn't work without corporate media as
complete subservience to this complex like they are. You could almost say like that's
what their job is is to keep this going. And so they just reach
gurgitate what these you know, what Fiona Hill is saying and what other people
They just regurgitate it. They don't ask tough questions, like to me,
a good question would be like, so, how are you going to win
against a nuclear superpower? Like how's that going to happen? But I'd be
At the same time, they tell us that Ukraine's doing so well on a
repelled Russia on one hand. On the other hand, they keep saying we're
going to be in this until Ukrainians win. What does that mean? Are
they going to take back Crimea? Are they going to go to Moscow?
Like I don't understand. I can never understand. It's again very opaque at
the endgame, and I think that we should be pushing people to come to
some resolution here. Oh, David, you thought that was a good question,
but really you just don't want Joe Biden to have a victory. Yeah,
that's what Fiona Hill says, sorry, I do not like Joe Biden,
but I think, you know, stopping a war is a victory I
could support him in, and I don't really understand. You know, if
anything, you could argue that he keeps his going because it helps him somehow
politically. You know, that's the whole point of the complex. Oh.
Also, I love that they actually did this messaging where they're like, Okay,
our critics accuse us of only doing this to basically make money for the
military industrial complex. What if we admitted they were right and then pointed out
that some of these military industrial complex places exist in red states. You had
like this widespread campaign of people being like, actually, when you spend all
of these trillions of dollars, you're really helping yourself. I have no problem
spending trillions of dollars on our military, but I do have a problem with
fueling a war that's going no place. So wait, so you think like
the three trillion in Afghanistan was a good amount of money spent, You're okay
with the lives lost and what we got as an outcome of that. No,
because idealistically it didn't. But a plant in Ohio did, alright?
With some of that. Sorry, that's fine. The thing is I don't
have a problem spent. That's one of the things I think government should be
spending on money is making a strong, averting war and all of that.
So I don't like to use that kind of language. But all I'm saying
is that I just there is no endgame. We need an endgame. This
is a complicated situation. There are many Russians living in these places. It's
not you know, there's an ethnic civil war going on in these places,
and we just treat it like it's just this simplistic thing with like Hitler invading
Poland or something where it's it's not. It's much more complicated. It's its
history goes further back. And I'm happy to help Ukraine fight a war,
but we need to know when it ends or where it goes. Like let
me give you a quick example. With Israel, I know exactly what they
want. I don't know you I know what victory looks like in Israel.
I do not know what victory looks like in you know, Ukraine. So
people always tend to support wars right when they begin, and then it peters
off after time. I was but I think you're absolutely right. Like people
saw what happened on October seventh. They understand that you need to eradicate Hamas
because they're doing these horrific things and that's like not tenable, and so it
makes sense and like almostn't even need to articulate what the plan is because it's
so obvious. You go in and you kill all the people who did this
to you and who supported that. The day after this war is over in
Europe, Putin will still be there or someone like him who you have to
live next to and deal with. Right, So I don't I still don't
get the how this ends. I've asked people, they'll tell me when Ukraine
gets back, Well, it's territory, but everyone keeps telling me they already
did that, they already repelled them, They we already taken back most of
their territory. So I don't know. And then I just want to also
say, yes, I think Americans support a strong defense and they're willing to
spend a lot of money and lose lives in defense of the Country's why you
have to be like really good about knowing when and where to fight. And
not only is this never been communicated as being like a key part of our
national interest. There are things that are happening globally that we're not able to
pay attention to, or we're not able to focus on because we're so diverted
on something that doesn't even make any sense. And we've been doing this for
a long time. It's just like what we did in Afghanistan definitely a just
war, but then we like stay for twenty years and then it ends up
not like the last seventeen years didn't really make a ton of sense, or
the war in Iraq was sold on a false basis, which is very very
bad to do to the public because like they were willing to trust these people
that they thought were totally trustworthy about why we were fighting that more and why
it made sense, and then as it all kind of fell apart, there
weren't mea kopa's from these people. They just like went out and started doing
the next war, and whether it's like involvement in Libya or a thousand other
places, it's again the same people now being like, Okay, we're going
to do in Ukraine kind of like stuff that was similar to what we're doing
in Iraq, Like it's so alid democracy building, like it's all these like
weird phrases that they use to justify and people have learned that they aren't the
most trustworthy people. And there are real problems, whether it is Iran or
China or you know, things that we need to be paying attention to and
thinking through very strategically and building up towards you know, as a matter of
deterrence or otherwise, and that just can't happen when we're doing this kind of
idiotic approach here. Yeah, I think, you know, obviously, in
Afghanist any Rock, the main problem for me was the nation building part where
we died needlessly to uphold basically in Afghanist Curia Law and any Rock. I'm
not sure what, but I would say that I think that we tend to
shy away from using force when we should. You know, when Huti rebels
of Iran or firing missiles at American ships, we should punish them severely for
that, and it wouldn't happen again. Oh, not take them off the
terrorists list like Biden did ye? Or not take them out? So I
I you know, I am. I am not against using military force when
we need it and using it overwhelmingly. I just think that we should be
careful how we do it and what we do it for. Actually, so
what you just said I think is key. I think Americans are more than
fine with using force for a strategic aim, and if anything, they would
like more of that. Like when you have a conflict, you go in
hard and heavy and you do it and then you get out. The military
industrial complex doesn't make as much money that way, like they make money through
these long decades long wars where you can have like a certain expectation of the
money coming in the year after year. If your strategy is just to like
take out the guy who's taking out the Americans, you know, like SOLEMANI,
and you just do it and then you're out, that's not a lot
of money for the military industrial complex. And that's the whole the thing Eisenhower
was warning about. We are living, you know, quite fully in that
nightmare scenario that he was talking about, and it doesn't serve the national nan
interest. I just feel I don't want to get into a big argument with
you, but I just feel sometimes there's a bit of conspiratorial thinking behind the
military industrial Dwight Eisenhower is a I don't but I think that the way it's
been take what he said has been taken sometimes does. Now I'm not saying
that that these you know that the military industry doesn't make a lot of money
and benefit from wars like this. It does, But we're the ones who
elect these people who who send money to Ukraine. Right. You could very
easily elect other people and they wouldn't do it. Right, And it's not
like the military the industrial military industry wouldn't make tons of money anyway, even
if these wars going weren't going on. I mean, they get a lot
of funding even when things aren't going on for all kinds of you know projects.
I'm not saying it's not true that maybe a lot of some people involved
in that are are for it. But I don't think Mitch McConnell and some
Democratic center, I can't think cares that the you know, military military industry
is making tons of money or not. I mean I think that they blow
you, David, this is good for the world, because that's their viewpoint
is kind of a neo con viewpoint. I don't know what is meant by
conspiracy in this case. Like to me, it's kind of the so again,
in the Eisenhower speech. One of the things he says is like,
whether it's witting or unwitting, we're building up this complex. So to me,
that's how I view it, which is not so much a conspiracy.
It's sort of like, these are things that happen. And so to give
an example of how it happens, where it's very difficult to get away from
this, we have like a House of Representatives where each member is representing so
many people it's absurd and so not like how it was when we when we
founded this country. And so you know, it's become a much more prestige
position kind of to be a House member, and it's very difficult to win
reelection, and it takes a lot of money. And so yes, absolutely
different industries are financing these campaigns in a way that might be at odds with
what the actual people want in it that they could convey, like doesn't really
seem like whether you're a Republican or Democrat, that what you want as a
person is getting like the kind of hearing you might want in the House of
Representatives. And I think part of it is that they're representing so many people
and it's so expensive to do campaigns, so it's not like a conspiracy so
much as like systemic problems that lead to an alienation between Washington, d C.
And the people. I'm just a lot of people who use that phrase
though, make it sound like there's this star chamber where people sit around a
table like we're going to start a war and make lots of money. I
think it's far more complex than that. And you know, I just do.
I mean, Europeans are part of this as well. For instance,
Germans are part of it, French are part of it. You know.
It's it's more complicated than that. But and that's a real thing that happened,
and countries get to fight back. Like how much we want to help
those countries is a different story. But I don't think this is some kind
of even again that like the whole situation in Ukraine is to me part of
this story as well, because it became this country where you could sort of
like the incompetent children of politicians could go over and be part of non governmental
organizations and make a lot of money or be part of the money flow,
you know, because we were spending so much money in Ukraine, you could
I don't know, get a job as a Barisma board member getting a million
dollars a year even though you were completely unqualified for it. It's all part
of this like system that has been built up where a lot of people can
benefit from, like yeah, just this flow of money between us and other
countries. And so it's complicated. But I don't think it's like a I
don't. I don't think it's like an X files conspiracy theory. I think
it's just like now, life has gotten really complicated. I agree. I'm
just saying that there is sometimes a conspiratorial element about war. I think that
people now have after Iraq and all the things they live through that I just
think that things are more complicated. I'm not saying that there's yeah, oh
sorry, no, no remember that. Did you read that email? Or
who said you interrupt me all the time? Yeah, I'm sorry, No,
you don't. I'm just joking. I think we interrupt each other equally,
So I don't. I don't mind if you interrupt me at all.
But there is something that's happening in my getting. There's something that's happening in
my city that is somehow related to this, I feel like. So I
live in Alexandria, Virginia, which is just outside of Washington, d C.
It's actually part of what used to be Washington d C. You know,
Virginia had gave part of DC and Maryland gave part, and then they
gave the Virginia part back because they were like, the federal government will never
need so much space as we have here. So we're in that part of
what used to be DC, and we have like a completely communist population.
Of course, and we recently had this issue where they wanted to basically get
rid of zoning for single family house neighborhoods, and it was, you know,
kind of shoved through, but it had a lot of support. It
had a lot of opposition from people who live here, but it also had
a lot of support, particularly from the left. Like the next day,
the Washington Post breaks the news that complete shock to everybody. They're moving the
capitals and the Wizards to Alexandria. And I mean it's all done. Technically,
is not done, like technically maybe there need to be some votes on
this, but like they've got the plan, they've got the location, they've
got like what it's going to look like interior, What it's going to look
like xterior, What it's going to look like traffic for you guys. So
it's not that that I find interesting. What I find interesting is it was
a secret until like yesterday the Washington Post broke the news, and today our
communist mayor Justin Wilson and our Republican Governor Glenn youngkin like held hands and announced
that this like amazing thing is happening. And I don't totally have a problem
with this, Like it's interesting to me that it's happening, but I don't
totally have a problem with it, Like it will be a nightmare of traffic
wise, but I told Mark, I was like, it does kind of
seem like an attack on democracy, like nobody had any idea, and it's
going to fundamentally change everyone's lives in real and meaningful ways, like traffic is
the thing you deal with every day, and it's going to be a disaster.
It's also going to like affect the people of DC because DC is a
Donald Trump had a word for it, so a bad place. It's become
a really bad place to be. Well, can I quickly just say so
they play they used to play. I forget what it's called the arena,
but it was in Chinatown or that's where they are now. Yeah, yeah,
and it was a here. I haven't been there in a while.
That crime is just like outlandish now there, I mean it was getting nicer.
I don't know what's happened, you know. Yeah, I mean,
I'm so old and they've lived in DC for so long that to me,
it just more seems like we're getting back to that nineties era of crime rather
than it's like reaching horrific heights never before seen. But it's an un fun
place to be. DC is grimy, it's dirty, it's like not it's
trying the Boulder Colorado approach of importing homeless people. Like it's just it's a
mess. It's not fun. And taking the Wizards and the Caps out of
DC could be very very very bad for DC, Like it could. It
might, it might really hurt them economically. And my point is just like
it affects so many people, and it was just like decided from on high,
the oligarchs and the politicians. They just took care of everything and then
they just announced it and there's like nothing you can do. And I don't
even really care about this, but like it seems like these things happen over
and over and over and over again, whether it's moving an arena or fighting
a war, it's like decided apart from you, and you don't get to,
like even if you think you get to weigh in, you don't really
get to weigh in. Like it's all it's all just kind of get that
you could vote against the mayor who was part of this if you want it,
but he'll win, right, So yeah, but anyway, you know,
the thing is yeah, yeah, but they're also on my list serves.
People are melting down, and in some cases it's the same people who
were all for destroying zoning for single family housing are now like completely on the
other side. They're appalled, and they're a guest and they're just like venting
with rage about everything, and they keep on attacking Trump voters, And I
kind of want to like weigh in, Like I'm always just staying very quiet
on these lists, but I wouldn't be, like, so, notice the
bigotry against the Trump voters, Like they're blaming Trump voters. We have no
Trump voters other than me. That includes everyone in my house probably, So
it's just kind of funny how they're surprised they're not blaming the Russians. I
bet they will. That would be another approach I could take, is just
just to insert that in there too. I think it's the Russians. There
are a vetch Gan who plays for the Capitals is a Putin fan. So
you know, oh, that actually explains one of these notes, which I'm
going to read. Hold on, go on, that's the Nexus Capitals used
to play in Landover, Maryland, you know, years ago. I don't
know when they moved into town. I think the Wizards also are the Bullets,
which is such a better name. We're out there. I think you're
not supposed to mention exactly, you know, notes from the list. But
someone says, on the bright side, the influx of Trump voters in their
o Vegekin jerseys will surely get us our much needed widening of the scooter lanes.
I was like, I don't even get what that means. But now
you kind of explained, like the people on the left are bitterly clinging their
Russian inclusion conspiracy theories, like they still think that the twenty sixteen election was
stolen by a Vegkin and Putin or whatever, And so it comes out in
these notes on the lists. I don't think. Having lived in the area,
I'm pretty sure there aren't a ton of Republicans there in general, like
a lot of Avechkin fans are probably Democrats. Actually, I was like,
okay, I don't quite get what this insult is. And also a bunch
of the Federalist staff are on scooters, so maybe I was like, hmm,
there are scooters like a Republican thing. I don't know, so weird.
Anyway, Well, I'm sorry to hear that for you. I will
say one thing. Since you mentioned something about where you live, I want
to mention that where I live in Williamsburg, Virginia, they had the second
Sunday festival where they didn't light the Manora that I was so upset about last
week. It rained all over the festival, so I would like, I
will show you what are you talking about. God, it was the Rothschild's
weather machine that we have the Jews have, and next Sunday after that it's
going to do the same thing again. They don't pull it together. But
there was I want to say, there was a lighting at William and Mary
Campus and hundreds of people showed up. I wasn't there, but I heard
it was very beautiful and nice. And so that's that. You want to
talk about culture. I don't have anything. You have zero things. Oh
my gosh, it's all on me. I have three things. I watched
an old movie, La Confidential, which every time I watch I love.
Have you seen it? Yeah, it's good. I got the name of
the author, Elmore, not Elmore Leonard. Anyway. I watched a movie
from nineteen seventy three or two called The Offence with Sean Connery. Have you
ever heard of this? No? But I want to. So it was
a very weird and James Elroy James elbra right. It was directed by Sidney
Lumey, who did likes a bunch of good seventies movies. I think Dog
Day Afternoon and stuff later on, if I'm right about that. So it's
about a detective and it's not really a spoiler to say he kills a person
that he's alleged child molester who he is hasn't police custody as a detective,
and it goes through, it works its way backward to that point and it's
just this very weird, interesting movie. It's on Amazon, So I would
people are interested, I would suggest they watch it. And then I watched
only yesterday, I think it was released on Netflix, a documentary about Tom
Wolfe called Radical Wolf. And I don't know if you're a Tom wolf fan
or not, but I am, even though I don't love him as much
as people might assume that I would. Sometimes they assume I'm a massive fan.
I'm actually a bigger fan of Gayta Lee's who I think was a little
more interesting books, but in that new journalism genre. But it is actually
quite good. It's got John Hamm reading from his books. They go through
a bunch of you know, his writing. They kind of gloss over his
conservatism, and again I don't think he was like a political conservative. Is
just a person who went after the sacred cows of the left, you know,
and poked his figure in the eye of sort of liberals. And so
it was just interesting. I learned a little bit more about his family life,
you know, of his long term marriage and stuff. I didn't really
know about his personal life as much. I thought that was a nice documentary
for anyone who's interested in that. I do love the book Bonfire the Vanities.
I don't think a book has captures New York in the eighties quite like
that book. I mean, it's just I just love that book. The
movie is terrible, but I still even like the movie because I like the
book that much. So anyway, that's all I have and you have literally
nothing. What was Where can you see a Radical Wolf? Netflix? I
believe? Okay, I might check that out. Yeah, no, I
haven't. I did go caroling on Saturday with my church and that was fun,
and we visited people who are unable to leave their homes to come to
church, and one of them is like my really really really good friend who
I've been friends with for a long time, and it was really great to
see her. But she unfortunately like does not she's dealing with pretty severe memory
loss. Yeah, and and yet she's just so lovely, like she's so
much the same person she always was. She just doesn't remember who people are
elderly. Oh yeah, she's like ninety plus she's awesome, awesome lady,
and I love her. So that was that was like the highlight of my
week that I got to see her. Okay, that's very nice. I
hope people will join us next week when we come back. Until them be
lovers of freedom and anxious for the friend having that train I'll go Kaine Casey
Jones. You been what Jos