WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:12.800 Well, whiskey coming take my pain, Oh whiskey don't. From Powerline blog 2 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:19.440 dot com and produced by Ricochet dot Com. This is the three Whiskey Happy 3 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:26.519 Hour with your bartenders Steve Hayward, John You and power Lines International Woman of 4 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:33.719 Mystery Lucretia. Have you gotta giving? Let that whiskey flow where you're being 5 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:39.560 in love down in Low All right, John, I'm going to open with 6 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:45.359 you today quite abruptly and say that if the Pigamic Farm was not inducement enough 7 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:49.560 for you to come to Budapest, then the Good Spirit Whiskey Bar, which 8 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.920 I've finally tried out the other day, is the reason for both of you 9 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:57.039 guys to come. Because I went to finally the Good Spirit Whiskey Bar, 10 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.119 which has the most awesome selection of whiskey in the world that I've seen on 11 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.960 their menu, and because this is the three Whiskey Happy Hour. I tried 12 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:07.000 three whiskeys. I actually tried six, but I didn't write down the second 13 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.560 three. Wow. Right, So no, it's a fantastic What did you 14 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.359 What did you have? Yeah, so I had, you know, I 15 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:19.760 told the barkeeps that, you know, I liked stuff that were pead, 16 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.439 but also, you know, do Highland spaceI and other stuff. It didn't 17 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.439 have to be Lefreud like. And I was trying to think of something for 18 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:29.719 Lucretia. So I had things, and I also want to try things I 19 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:34.280 never heard of before, So I had something called Rued Moore, which is 20 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.680 probably the wrong pronunciation that it's made by the Glenn Turrett people. Now, 21 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.879 people who hang on every word of this podcast may recall that last summer when 22 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:47.879 I podcasted from Scotland, I talked about discovering Glenn Turret and really liking it 23 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:53.319 and this stuff was terrific. And then something called Karen Moore, aged twenty 24 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:57.480 thirteen, agent a sherry cask, and then kil Kuran, agent of Bourbon 25 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.159 casts, and they were all fabulous. Oh my goodness, they were fabulous. 26 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.799 And then I'm going to have to find out if somebody took notes on 27 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.000 the second three that we tried. It was a bunch of us. So 28 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:15.120 I completely shut down once you decided to use podcast as a verb. Well, 29 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:20.560 okay, tough anyway, So there you go, John, You got 30 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:24.719 to come for the whiskey and the pig mcfarm. I'm ready farm. What 31 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:30.240 they need is a whiskey mcpig. It was just just rub rub the McRib 32 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:38.120 and some kind of whiskey based rub. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome whistling 33 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:42.520 mcpig. Right, And I will mention one of my last events with my 34 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:49.439 friends at the Dandub Institute was a panel whose topic was why it is important 35 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.080 for Ukraine to win its war with Russia, which you know is not necessarily 36 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:58.560 the thesis that the Hungarians adhere to. But uh and as Lucretian, mister 37 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:00.960 chance to weigh in on that, although I try, i'd represent her point 38 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.879 of view to some extent, I'll just say that so that was probably a 39 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.319 disaster. Yeah yeah, but boy, this is I'm I'm not sure if 40 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.759 it's right or appropriate to say. This is a week to take the strong 41 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:15.560 drink with, you know, the business in the Middle East, which was 42 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.520 only starting to become a parent when the three of us got together last week 43 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.479 to record, and of course now we know the full dimensions of it. 44 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.360 And I mean everyone's talking about what's going to happen, you know, what 45 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.639 these radiers are going to do and so forth. But I think it are 46 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:35.280 worth our time to spend a little bit on the way this is playing out 47 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:38.960 on campus, which is getting a lot of attention, but there's one aspect 48 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.000 of it that is not getting sufficient attention. And I don't know if you 49 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.520 guys have picked up on it, but there are people who are saying and 50 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:47.879 some of them are idiot libertarian friends who are saying that, Well, you 51 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:53.719 know, if you shut down or censor student groups who are pro Hamas, 52 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:58.159 isn't that the same as the cancel culture you complained about from the left. 53 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.599 And I've even seen, you know, a couple of I will name names, 54 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:05.479 but you know, name brand libertarians who say, play my magazine tossing 55 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:11.000 out a porn star who was tweeting out pro Hamas talking points. Well, 56 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.400 that's cancel culture, isn't it. And you know this is more. This 57 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.560 is idiocy, but it is the kind of idiocy that I think conservatives have 58 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:25.800 invited by simply becoming champions of free speech without any qualification over the last twenty 59 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:28.120 years. And I have lots of thoughts on that. But do either one 60 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:31.000 of you want to jump in on that and add to the scene before we 61 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:38.120 proceed, John, I do, I'll go, and then you can you 62 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:42.959 can tell me why I'm wrong. John, I don't see that as being 63 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.920 the major issue. I don't pay any attention to libertarians when they say things 64 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:54.839 like that. I'm actually slightly pleased that what you see is a lot of 65 00:04:54.920 --> 00:05:00.639 pushback on the left, not so much censoring them, but the whole idea 66 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:02.399 of what I forget the guy's name, the CEO who said, look, 67 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.519 ill on a list of those people from Harvard who signed off on this, 68 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:11.959 because it shows that they have a truly horrible character. That whether they're stupid 69 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:16.079 ignorant college students, which is, you know, whether idiot Larry Summers. 70 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:21.839 Oh oh, you know, I've been against this whole Hamas invasion from the 71 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:28.439 beginning, but we should really think about these poor, stupid, ignorant Harvard 72 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.680 students who really didn't know what they were signing. That's bs. But I 73 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:40.759 am actually really pleased to see the reaction across a lot of universities and they're 74 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.160 not you know, they're universities for God's sake. That because of that, 75 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:51.399 that says, Okay, maybe we shouldn't just allow these idiot pro Palestinian left 76 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:59.519 wing students, the ones who are triggered by the word master bedroom calling for 77 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:03.399 viol against fellow Jewish students. You know, I mean, people are starting 78 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:10.399 to see the real dichotomy there, that the inconsistency, the hypocrisy, you 79 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.319 know, the safe spaces that we needed to have for these lefties who somebody 80 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.279 misgendered them. And now, of course it's perfectly okay for them to take 81 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.399 off and beat a Columbia a Jewish student with a stick, you know. 82 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:28.000 I mean, it's just what you're seeing. I think is a little bit 83 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.800 of change in perception about things. That's what I think. I don't know, 84 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:36.759 John, what do you think you're at Berkeley? Go ahead? So 85 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:42.199 here's one interesting tidbit I don't know if you saw in the law is that 86 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:46.920 a law firm from Chicago, Winston and Strawn, had given a job offer 87 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:51.759 to an NYU law student who praised the attack. Well let me see what 88 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:59.720 she wrote. She president law n YU Law School Student Bar Association, whatever 89 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.480 that is. And this will only verify Lucretia's thoughts. Who identifies as non 90 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:09.680 binary and uses they then pronouns. So maybe it was Winston s Dawn's fault 91 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:15.639 already for hiring them. She sent the tweet saying she declared quote unwavering and 92 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:23.000 absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression towards liberation and self determination, 93 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:28.759 which badly written sentenced though it was. When they found out about this one 94 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.959 Sinon Strong withdrew the offer, So good for them, Yes, yeah, 95 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:40.319 go ahead. Well, I don't think there's any problem with private actors taking 96 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:46.040 actions like that. I don't think there's anything wrong with people criticizing supporters of 97 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.319 Hamas or Palestinians or trying to get there. You know, members of Congress 98 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:56.560 who have a moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel voted out of office. I 99 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:01.560 don't think that conservatives should be in favor of preventing the right to speak, 100 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.160 but I don't think there are any It's more like Lucretia's as. We're fighting 101 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:11.319 back on the merits of what they say and criticizing them. I'm actually glad 102 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:15.519 they have a forum to speak so people can really see the morality of these 103 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:20.759 people. Well, okay, by the way, I shouldn't have simply narrowed 104 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.279 the origin of this thought that is canceled culture from the right to libertarians. 105 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.120 I think it's going to come from the left eventually, And this is amazing. 106 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.840 I'm actually more gloomy and about this than lucretia, which is turnabout. 107 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.600 This is a rare day. I'm going to celebrate it and we get through 108 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:41.639 subsequent topics. Look, we've seen with a couple of rare exceptions, Ben 109 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.840 Sass being one of them. By the way, we've seen college presidents put 110 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:50.600 forward these mealy mouthed statements that are sharply different from the moral certitude you saw 111 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:56.039 about their statements on George Floyd January sixth, whatever. And they're clearly afraid 112 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:00.240 of their faculty and students. And my question is, yeah, by the 113 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.840 way, employers saying I'd like a list of these Harvard students so we know 114 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.200 not to hire them, that's all great. But here's my question is, 115 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.320 is are any of these Middle Eastern studies professors or any of these students in 116 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:16.120 comparative literature. I saw one university oh UCLA a teach in to tell the 117 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.639 Hamas point of view by a professor of comparative literature and a professor of gender 118 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.320 studies, real experts in the Middle East, in other words, And my 119 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.679 point is, are any of these people going to be denied tenure in advancement 120 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.360 by the administrations here? Six months from now, a year from now, 121 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.320 of course not. You know Larry Summers saying I've never been more alienated from 122 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.960 Harvard. He was the president of the darn place. Did he ever do 123 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:48.200 anything to slow down this runaway train of institutionalized anti semitism in higher education? 124 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.000 And the answer, I'm sure the answer is no, none of them did. 125 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.559 They were all cowards, They're all hypocrites. And I predict that while 126 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:01.960 the next few weeks there may actually cre size in our medium mouthed way, 127 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.159 it's going to go back to business as usual and you're going to get more 128 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.679 of these people. And anyway, that's why I'm crumpy these days, and 129 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.480 that's why I think that actually we ought to make an argument that there is 130 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:15.600 a way to make intelligible distinctions, not that there's right wing or left wing 131 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.360 hate speech, but that in fact, the basis of free speech gets back 132 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:24.120 to the fundamental understanding of individual rights, and that you are perfectly justified in 133 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:31.279 firing a faculty member whose doctrine, if put in practice, will deny other 134 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:33.399 people of the rights to free speech, not only in this case, the 135 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.879 rights to life right. You understand the argument of making lucretia. We got 136 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.559 it from yeah, yeah, you're just too far afield. I think with 137 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.720 this whole thing, actually we got to be a little more immediate about what's 138 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:48.360 really happening here and what's going to happen. I do want to mention really 139 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:54.519 quickly two things. One is that I sent an email yesterday picked one of 140 00:10:54.519 --> 00:11:01.720 the stories about Black Lives Matter and their vial obnoxious tweet showing the paratrooper coming 141 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.679 in and we stand with Palestine. And I sent that to all of the 142 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:11.080 people who were highly critical in calling me a racist back in twenty twenty because 143 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:15.759 I refused to put out a public statement in favor of Black Lives Matter, 144 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.080 And I said, you know, Black Lives Matter has always been this group. 145 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:24.120 The fact that the rest of you were too blinded by being trendy and 146 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:28.559 current to see it. I hope that you realize how much egg you have 147 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:35.120 on your face. Now we'll see how that goes. No responses yet, 148 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:41.320 No a little personal thing. So you know, I as I always praise 149 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:45.080 and talk about how blessed I am to belong to the particular Paraschi'm in. 150 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:54.000 However, every Christmas time we have this big fundraiser for scholarships for Bethlehem universities 151 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.600 primarily a nursing school, a few other things, and it's the only Catholic 152 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:00.879 university in Bethlehem. I think it might be the only How the university and 153 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:07.840 the Holy Land go figure, But they sent a letter that was then forwarded 154 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:11.080 to people like me on the parish council and so on, and I just 155 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:16.120 want to read you one statement from the letter. As you are aware, 156 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.440 it is a very unpredictable time here at present, with the actions of the 157 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.919 extreme right wing government in Israel and the stated priority of the expansion of settlements 158 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:30.360 in the West Bank, the pressure on Palestinians has been enormous. There have 159 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:35.279 been more Palestinians killed by the military and settlers this year than any year since 160 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:41.519 two thousand and six. And then they go on and talk about how horrible 161 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:43.840 it is that the power has been shut off and the gas has been you 162 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:48.240 know, and I you know, this is going to be a rough one 163 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.799 for me, because I mean, you know, the next time they talk 164 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:54.600 about giving money to Bethlehem University, I'm going to stand up and say I'm 165 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:01.279 not giving it to those races. I'm not doing it right. You're still 166 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:03.320 seeing go ahead, John, so I said two other points. One was, 167 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:09.399 I think you're both there totally right. Once the university started making moral 168 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:13.960 declarations about black lives matter and this and that, then how could they not 169 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.399 do so on this? I think it just be better if universities just shut 170 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.320 up as institutions and not take positions on anything. Why is it that they 171 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.519 feel it's their business to have to comment on the matters of the world. 172 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.799 It's our job to study, and you know, study those events. But 173 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:35.559 I don't see why Berkeley or Stanford or Harvard needs to have a position at 174 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:41.679 all on anything. And then the second thing is just on the you've already 175 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:48.759 seen. I think what the left is doing is they aren't they know that 176 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:52.879 the Israeli invasion of Gaza is inevitable, and you see this reflected in the 177 00:13:52.879 --> 00:14:00.320 Bide administration's comments too, where they say, but we expect Israel to affect 178 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:07.120 civilian life when they go into Gaza. You can already see this machine ginning 179 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:11.600 up accusations at Israel is going to commit all kinds of war crimes when they 180 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:18.600 go into Gaza, even though it's a mass that violates the rules by Khaki 181 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:24.279 civilians, and these massacres in Israel and then as long being there pactic to 182 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:30.879 hide amongst civilians, you know, to hide their operations in mosques and schools 183 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:35.720 and hospitals and try to blend in with civilians. They want their own civilians 184 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.320 to be attacked because they think it will Israel look bad. So I just 185 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:45.320 another point, is I hope that Israel, though I think Israel goes bends 186 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:50.600 over backwards compared to other countries to try to protect civilians when they know when 187 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:56.600 they engage in military operations, I hope they don't cow feel cowed or restrain 188 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:03.200 themselves, overly restrained themselves because of this are preemptive criticism of them from the 189 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:09.840 less from the bid've heard on the way in the bring both points together, 190 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:16.480 you know, Israel has the IDF has issued an announcement to tell civilians to 191 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:18.799 get the hell out of one point two million is to get the hell out 192 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:24.639 of Gaza because you know, the invasion, the ground war is imminent. 193 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:30.679 And guess who's telling them to stay Amas Yeah, yeah, I think. 194 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:33.600 Sorry, I was just going to say, and of course you know part 195 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.960 of the reason that that that even that Israel is being criticized for that, 196 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:43.919 where are they going to go. How about Egypt? All about that right? 197 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:46.679 Yeah? Well to me, well that's an important point to be a 198 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:52.360 little more precise. They've they've told a million plus residents of northern Gaza to 199 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.279 leave that area. That's what they're going to start. Egypt will not open 200 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.240 its border. They don't want anything to do with these the population in Gaza, 201 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.039 and have it for a very long time. Everybody, no one wants 202 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.879 to take them. Everyone knows the score there and I do think John, 203 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.519 and you know, I don't know. I've been saying that. My guess 204 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.279 is the Israelis have thirty days at most before you see the same old drill. 205 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:21.000 All this is a disproportionate response. Gosh, we're going to stop all 206 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:22.840 this. And you know I wouldn't. I wouldn't put it past the Biden 207 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:27.399 administration with all the forces were amassing, with two carrier groups in the Eastern 208 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.840 Mediterranean to get in the way. Perhaps now, the one thing that might 209 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.720 save them, and it's really too horrible to contemplate is Hamas itself. If 210 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:41.000 AMAS follows through on their threat to live stream execution of hostages, then all 211 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:45.919 bets are off and even there's no way you can charge Israel with having a 212 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:51.919 disproportionate response if that happens, so we'll see this time may be different. 213 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.279 Yeah, I would just follow on that point by saying, one of the 214 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:59.000 things that you're seeing, and it's really hard to tell, I'll be honest 215 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.519 with you, in these days of Ai and so on, is that you're 216 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:07.960 seeing a lot of pushback, especially from the far left and far the despicable 217 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:12.000 far right. Oh there's no you know, well Biden said he saw the 218 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.519 pictures of babies being headed. No he didn't. And you know, what 219 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.799 they're trying to do is confuse that issue, because of course it was the 220 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:30.000 release of the information about what barbarian, savage, subhuman beings those hamas are 221 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.640 that actually I think turned the tide a little bit in favor of Israel. 222 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.920 But if they can convince people that maybe all that didn't really happen, and 223 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.480 you know, they've managed to convince people that the Holocaust didn't happen, so 224 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:45.119 it wouldn't surprise me, then I think your month, your month deadline actually 225 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:52.640 is might even be less because that's everywhere I look at as how should I 226 00:17:52.640 --> 00:18:00.000 say it is the number one propaganda campaign to try to undermine that the images 227 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:06.720 of the barbaric actions of Hamas really aren't true and they're all ai generated by 228 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:10.160 Israel, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, all right, let's do 229 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.720 an exit question for you, John, since I think you've been teaching, 230 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.519 of course on strategy this semester. This semester you're doing last semester. It 231 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:22.000 was just last semester. Okay, Well, Steal, I don't know who 232 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:26.440 knows what's going to happen, whether the war will widen to against Hesbola and 233 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:32.319 Lebanon and maybe even Iran. But I don't know what do you have any 234 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:38.359 particular things you are watching or in particular hypotheses about the grand strategy of this 235 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:41.680 whole scene. I mean, the reason I think that is it's hard to 236 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:48.200 believe that Hamas didn't have, i't necessarily a follow on plan, but didn't 237 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:51.759 want to provoke a massive response from Israel, didn't want to blow up the 238 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:56.680 region. I mean, we know they wanted to disrupt the Saudi Israel normalization 239 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:03.119 of relations, but it does seem to me that I mean, I'm not 240 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.960 quite sure. I'm very suspicious of where this is all going and what the 241 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.240 intent was. Well, I think if you look at the region, it's 242 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:14.279 really Iran that's the major problem. If you look at from that perspective, 243 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:19.960 this is great where they spend some money to funnel and materials which they funnel 244 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:25.759 to these two gorilla groups, you know, Hasbela and Hamas, which continually 245 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:34.480 harass Israel. And this is probably not only harmed Israel militarily, but it's 246 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:40.039 also sort of set back this effort for Israel and Saudi Arabia to enter some 247 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:45.640 kind of normalization or even you know, some kind of treaty, but that 248 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:55.079 would that would settle Israel's position in the region and organize this alliance, not 249 00:19:55.160 --> 00:20:00.279 formal alliance, but this alliance against Iran. So that's I think this is 250 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:03.400 one where I don't know what Lucretia thinks, but I do think this is 251 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.319 one where Trump actually did much better than Biden. You remember, of course, 252 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:14.240 that Trump ordered the killing of wondering Lucretia things on that question, John, 253 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.880 I just wanted to see if she was listening Trump. You know, 254 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.880 I ordered the killing of General Solamani, which actually I think set back the 255 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:30.480 Iranians quite a bit. He actually remember the Iranians bombed Saudi oil facilities, 256 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:34.440 and President Trump thought about a retaliatory strike. I looking at things now, 257 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:40.599 I think actually Trump should have gone farther and launched that retaliatory strike. I 258 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:45.079 think the Iranians really only do respond to strength. But I think the larger 259 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:49.920 strategic thing is that this is this really helps Russia and China. And I 260 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:53.519 think they're, you know, the ones who are giving support to Iran in 261 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:56.960 the back of everything. And of course the Iranians are, you know, 262 00:20:56.039 --> 00:21:02.319 producing munitions for Russia in it's war in Ukraine. I think those two are 263 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:06.480 connected to So I think that this is if you're Russia and China are on 264 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:10.640 you're very happy with the way things are going. You might even have approved 265 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:14.400 it, as some people suspect Ron did with this. But I wouldn't be 266 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.480 surprised if Russia and China have given support to all this behind the scenes too, 267 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:23.799 And that's our bigger strategic strategic I don't know that I can speak to 268 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:27.720 Russia. That one's a little more complicated, but I'm not sure that China 269 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:36.839 has an interest in if nothing else, the loss of fuel coming that's not 270 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:40.680 the word. What do we use natural gas? Well, yes, yeah, 271 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.640 right, coming out of the Middle East and so on. I mean, 272 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:51.759 their economy is so shaky right now that to lose that pipeline in the 273 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:56.000 larger sense, I think is probably not something that they're necessarily in favor of. 274 00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:00.680 I'm sure that they love the fact that the West World is in a 275 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:06.680 crisis at the moment. But you know, I wouldn't be surprised to find 276 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:10.559 Russia behind some of this stuff happening with Hamas, but I'd be surprised to 277 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:14.880 have think it was China, or that China is doing anything with a round 278 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.119 right now. I could be wrong. I'm not an expert in this area. 279 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:27.079 I'm just thinking of the grander strategic goals, all right. Well, 280 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:33.720 speaking of standoffs like Ukraine and Russia, China and the United States, we 281 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.720 have this standoff in Washington, d C. Continuing in the House House Republican 282 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:41.359 Caucus. We can't see the pick. A speaker looked like it was going 283 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.559 to be scale and then there are enough votes that he can't He can't do 284 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:48.440 it. Maybe it'll be Jim Jordan, but I suspect we'll be votes against 285 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.839 him. We have a specter of a House of Representatives. It's closed down 286 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:57.960 for who knows how long. And so here's my odd ball sense of the 287 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:02.240 thing, which is, it may be that if we get thirty days from 288 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:04.039 now and we don't get a budget, there's a government shut down, and 289 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:10.160 it's Democrats, remember who were responsible really for kicking McCarthy out of office. 290 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:11.799 They might actually break and say, you know, we made a mistake. 291 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:18.640 Since McCarthy's got two hundred and ten Republican votes, you might get ten Democrats 292 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:21.200 say you know, maybe we should have McCarthy back as speakers so it can 293 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:23.440 be up and running again. That's my sort of odd ball, you know, 294 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:26.759 ten percent prediction of what might happen. And I mostly just did that 295 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.640 because knew it would annoy Lucretia. I'm not annoyed by it. I'm thinking 296 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:36.000 back to the conversation we had last week about how much the American people will 297 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:38.119 be paying attention to it now. I don't think it's going to go on 298 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:44.200 until the government shuts down. I guess I could be wrong, but I 299 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:48.079 don't think that's what's going to happen. I think though, that the only 300 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:55.640 thing that Americans will remember about Congress. You know, I sort of got 301 00:23:55.759 --> 00:24:00.440 nasty with people, Oh're okay, awesome, not having Congress. This is 302 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.799 going on in Israel, nobody. I mean, that has nothing to do. 303 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:10.279 If Congress were even led by Jim Jordan right now, what difference would 304 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:15.400 it possibly make about what's going on. I mean, that's just so inane 305 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:21.039 and trivial and stupid. But what they might remember is that one congressman who 306 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:26.319 got on and went over and rescued Americans. You know, there's something probably 307 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.039 in the last however many years Congress actually somebody in Congress did that actually made 308 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:34.480 a difference. Otherwise Congress is useless. Wow, sorry, Lucatia. What's 309 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:37.720 I mean, I've been traveling. What story is this? I don't know 310 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:44.640 that they find his name because I'm oh, gosh, you guys, you 311 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:48.359 talk and I'll find his name. Well, okay, John, you have 312 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:53.119 a daughter. I think this is a great chance here for Donald Trump to 313 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:57.880 intervene. I don't know if you saw there is a you know this I 314 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:03.279 think silly movement to get Trump to agree to be speaker. But I don't 315 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:07.200 know if he saw this. Their calls for Trump to intervene, address all 316 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:14.400 the Republican congressmen and congressman and settle all this. So I can't believe Trump's 317 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:18.599 not taking advantage of the publicity. I mean, he sat through this trial 318 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:23.359 for a week where he couldn't say anything in court. It just was abuse 319 00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:26.400 heaped upon him. And then he would come out for just a few minutes 320 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:30.799 of crazy press conference talk. Here's his big chance. He could come in 321 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:36.640 and the art of the deal, right make yeah, the different courts, 322 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:40.759 and there's some I saw one congressman say, we need the leader of the 323 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:45.720 party to show up and settle this for us. That would be terrific politics 324 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:51.680 for Trump to get in and you know, show it on TV, address 325 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:56.400 the members of Congress and then settle and then hand pick the speaker and get 326 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:02.119 the caucus to agree to it. Hmm, I wonder, yeah, go 327 00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:06.680 ahead, and sorry Corey Mills. And he just got back from Israel so 328 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:12.200 that he can be part of the vote after getting seventy seven stranded Americans out 329 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:15.920 of the country. Ah yeah, you know, I know that. You 330 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.839 know Hungary. I was talking to you know, cab drivers and other people 331 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.640 around Budapest saying, you know, Hungary suspended flights for a couple of days 332 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:26.400 and there were you know, people stuck there. And it is true of 333 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:27.960 a lot of places, a lot of people, I guess, because you 334 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:32.559 know, the airport's been under intermitt and rocket fire from the north I think. 335 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:37.640 Anyway, so I did not know that story. So it said that 336 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.200 he read a report that Americans who had gone, you know, church groups 337 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:48.119 that had gone to the Holy Land, which is what you know church groups 338 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.119 do, and they couldn't get out, and so he said, I just 339 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:56.160 immediately decided, within an hour's notice, that there was nothing more I could 340 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.119 do here in Washington. And he he, I don't know that they've given 341 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:04.359 all the details about it, which they probably shouldn't have, but he said, 342 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:08.519 and he said, I couldn't care less what district they're from, whether 343 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.640 they can vote for me, whether they're Democrat or Republican. These are Americans 344 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:15.559 who wanted to get home. And he said, but I have to get 345 00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:18.319 back now because they got to vote on the speaker. Okay, right, 346 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:22.720 right, But but it worries me that you guys didn't hear that story. 347 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.839 Yeah, well I have an excuse, but sort of I don't. They 348 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:32.920 don't put it in The New York. Well, John, those other rats 349 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:40.119 you read in the Times, in the Post, the New York, The 350 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:44.039 New York post. That's the one you're supposed to read. That's the real 351 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:48.799 I do look at it what you've been in it now, So thanks thanks. 352 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.720 Well. The other, you know, the other bit of political news 353 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.240 that did reach me overseas was that RFK Junior is going to run as an 354 00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:02.680 independent. And I mean, I have two thoughts about this, well at 355 00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:06.680 least two. One is he has a huge but I think this news is 356 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:10.759 getting drowned out by of course the events in them at least, but he 357 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:15.880 has a huge opportunity if he will take it on a number of fronts. 358 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.440 But one of them was to say, you know, my father was murdered 359 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:25.319 by a Palestinian radical leftist. Yeah, and I can replay that vote. 360 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:26.920 The problem is, as you may know, he thinks that well, Sir 361 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.759 hanster Hand did in fact pull the trigger. He thinks there was a second 362 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.519 gun men. There's a conspiracy, you know, and he's kind of dug 363 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:37.240 in on that. So I don't know if he can say it that directly 364 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.400 and straightforwardly, but I think there's a great opportunity for him there. But 365 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.039 the bigger point is, you guys think it is not clear to me that 366 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.680 he takes more votes from Democrats than he might from Trump. I can see 367 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:53.519 him drawing from both several articles out there with saying that or yeah, I 368 00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:59.680 mean, well what I mean you, Lucretia, you and I know people 369 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:02.799 who you know, people on the right who are much smitten with RFK. 370 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:07.480 They like him, they think he's and you know, you bring up some 371 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:10.920 of his past positions, and he has trimmed a lot of them in I 372 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.640 think impressive ways. That showed me that he's serious about trying to acquire votes 373 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:18.279 and really run for real, and it's not just a vanity campaign. But 374 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:21.839 I think that's some of these you just simply can't live down. And and 375 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:23.720 he said he would ban fracking, for example. That was an idiot thing 376 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:27.440 to say. You're not going to win Pennsylvania if you say that. No, 377 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:32.200 But he has moved away from I mean, he actually was a climate 378 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:36.920 change nut job for the longest time, but he's moved away from it, 379 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:42.920 and he's recognizing that what all of that really is about is destroying capitalism, 380 00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:49.079 and that capitalism is the thing that to the extent that pollution and other concerns 381 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:53.599 of climate change, I can't take the rest of them seriously. The global 382 00:29:53.640 --> 00:30:00.480 warming stuff seriously, But the rest of it, the capitalism and Western civilization 383 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:07.440 has been have been the most powerful forces for good in combating those things, 384 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.200 right, you know, capitalism and so forth. With pollution. Look at 385 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.160 the difference between US and say China or third world countries. And he's made 386 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:19.880 some comments about that, And I think people are entitled to change their mind. 387 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:27.480 After the whole debacle with being lied to, being censored, being forced 388 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:33.920 to take vaccines which may turn out to have incredibly long term ill effects on 389 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:38.440 the health of our population, may look more and more evidence seems to indicate 390 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:44.680 that somebody who was critical of those vaccines from the beginning, as opposed to 391 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.759 say Trump, who did Operation Warp Speed to get it out there as soon 392 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.920 as possible. I'm not making a judgment here, I'm just commenting. I 393 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.079 can see where he pulls votes from Trump, and I can see where he 394 00:30:56.119 --> 00:31:00.720 pulls votes from Trump who for people who don't want buy no matter what, 395 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.000 but they don't want to vote for Trump. They would have, but now 396 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.880 there's another option. They're not going to go for Cornell West, but others 397 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:11.920 might. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I just think it's a 398 00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.960 wild card. And you know, more unpredictability in our future. I just 399 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:19.440 don't see why he's doing it himself, though, I mean, I mean 400 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:25.880 he's I find it. I don't understand his incentives for why he's doing this. 401 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:32.920 Apparently the stories his parent, his family apparently really opposes him doing this, 402 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:34.359 And I don't know. I mean, if I were one of the 403 00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:38.119 I am not, but if I was one of these many people who revere 404 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:45.519 the Kennedy family name and image, is this embarrassing? I think? I 405 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:52.319 think so think it's really not different from his father and his uncle. It's 406 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:59.799 the Democratic Party and the lesser Kennedy since then who have sort of moved over 407 00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:04.279 to to be left wing nut jobs. He's you know, is he really 408 00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:07.880 that different in what he's saying from his from his uncle or his father, 409 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:12.240 at least from his uncle. Maybe. Well, I mean, I think 410 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.680 you have a different view than you, John. I think he's the last 411 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.000 of the old Kennedy. Not mystique, that's not the right word. But 412 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:23.240 the this impulse to public service that's not the right one either. There's some 413 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:27.720 of them who have it in their chromosomes, going back to their you know 414 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:30.279 Joe Kennedy, right, it's a and yeah, no, blessed be and 415 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:34.359 but and there have been several of them. Uh, you know Patrick Kennedy, 416 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.200 Joseph Kennedy the third or whatever he was. They got into Congress, 417 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.720 they didn't do very well. They had substance abuse problems, they flamed out, 418 00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:45.400 did other things. And there was a Bobby Kennedy Junior biding his time 419 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:49.039 doing all this environmental activism and other things, and you know, having his 420 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:52.960 own family problems of his own two or three marriages and whatnot. Uh. 421 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.000 And what impressed me is that when I said this wasn't a vanity campaign, 422 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.920 is again they haveser to go back and study the stage craft of John F. 423 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:06.279 Kennedy, Bobby in sixty eight and Ted Kennedy even in nineteen eighty in 424 00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:10.240 his lead terrible campaign. But there was a certain consistency in their stagecraft of 425 00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:14.599 how they announced, the way they announced, the crowds, they had, 426 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:19.640 the tableaus, the pr effort. They're all very well thought through. And 427 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:22.559 Bobby did that Bobby Junior that we're talking about now. And I thought, 428 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:28.640 oh, for a certain baby boomer population, this is really nostalgia and a 429 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:34.079 throwback. And I think that he really means I think he's the last of 430 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:36.279 the Kennedy line. I mean, there's a million of them out there now, 431 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.000 because they're right, not a million, but there's a lot. There's 432 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.400 a couple hundred of them at least, and he's the last one that seems 433 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.920 to have the political bug. This is their last throw. And that's kind 434 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:49.920 of why I take it seriously. In all there's no chance, absolutely no 435 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:53.359 chance of winning. So he's not an above ten percent That's what I mean. 436 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:58.440 That's why I find embarrassing is that it's like a vanity I maybe he's 437 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:00.559 not a vanity project, but he has that. So you know, I 438 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:02.680 mean, all the other Kennedys that you mentioned had a chance of winning. 439 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.839 One of them win, did win. One of them might have won if 440 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:13.400 you have been assassinated and Ted came, you know, relatively close he had. 441 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.800 Just so you say it has no chance of winning, and of course 442 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:24.119 I agree with you. But what if you're in the race, you're pulling 443 00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:30.639 more, better and better all the time, and something catastrophic happened, something 444 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:36.440 this, something that, and all of a sudden, you know, you 445 00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:38.920 you're catapulted, for a bunch of weird reasons to the front I mean, 446 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:43.840 Trump's cut his supporters that nobody's going to take away from him. There's that, 447 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:49.320 Okay, that's not the entire group of people that are currently in favor 448 00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.679 of Trump in the in the Republican nomination. There are people who who look 449 00:34:52.719 --> 00:35:00.679 at it and say, Okay, I'll go Trump. But it's not necessarily 450 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:06.360 the case that RFK will pull from Trump where it matters. And when I 451 00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:08.000 say not necessarily the case, I actually want to ask you guys what you 452 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:15.559 think about that he'll pull a lot of people from Trump, probably in California. 453 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:19.639 He'll pull people in places like Massachusetts, I would think, But will 454 00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:24.800 he in places like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Arizona and Georgia. You know, 455 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:30.639 I'm not really sure. But that's where it's going to end up mattering. 456 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:35.880 And it's not going to matter in California. No matter how many votes he 457 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.159 pulls from Trump, Trump wouldn't win anyway. So I'm just trying to play 458 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:44.400 the electoral college game here for a moment, rather than the popular vote game. 459 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.639 Well, let me give you one other seemingly crazy scenario, except I 460 00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:52.400 don't think it's completely crazy, John, And that would be what if Joe 461 00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:57.880 Biden is the nominee and takes a catastrophic stumble down the stairs of Air Force 462 00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:02.599 one in early October of next year, and it's too late to replace him 463 00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.719 on the ballot, and voting has already occurred in half the state's private Well, 464 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:09.599 okay, there's that problem, but let's leave that aside for the moment 465 00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:15.360 another day. But you know, I could see an awful lot of voters 466 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.400 saying, you know, I can't possibly vote for Trump. Biden's clearly incapable. 467 00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:22.840 I don't want Harris whatever. I could see Bobby Kennedy running a very 468 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.840 strong CA. I mean, you have is like the votes with thirty thirty, 469 00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:29.400 thirty or thirty, you know, whatever it is, And who the 470 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:34.880 heck knows how that would unfold. And boy, I don't know. Stranger 471 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:43.000 things have happened in his life. That seems wrong, I know, But 472 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:47.719 just imagine the different sort of the things that could happen that actually might change 473 00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:51.679 the equation. John, That's all I'm saying. You're right. Of course, 474 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:54.320 I'm not disagreeing with you, But if i'm if I got nothing to 475 00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:59.679 lose, which he doesn't other than possibly being assassinated, because what's his name 476 00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:08.880 will get him Secret Security Service service protection. Why not? Why not? 477 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:13.000 And you know what, the reason I cheer him on, I'm not really 478 00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:16.679 It's too hard for me to actually pick which side he helps or hurts. 479 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:21.360 But he is bringing out issues, many, many issues that a lot of 480 00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:24.719 people care about. You know, he's against the deep state, and you 481 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:30.480 know, so I'm okay with people that elevate the conversation beyond the kind of 482 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:35.119 stupid stuff that ends up being part of presidential campaigns most of the time. 483 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:38.039 That would be my only reason for not looking at him and dismissing him, 484 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:42.039 because I do like what he's talking about. Probably won't vote for him. 485 00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:45.599 I've never voted for a Democrat in my life and it's probably not going to 486 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:51.119 happen now. But I like that he's in the race. Yeah, yeah, 487 00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:54.159 all right, let me get a little early this week. I've got 488 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:59.480 the soft, warm breezes of an Indian summer night in Vienna blowing through my 489 00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:01.519 window and coaxing me out into the evening, which I don't want to get 490 00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:05.960 to. Always always a good, always the environment for them to start a 491 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:13.960 war of some kind. Yeah, but you move into this, uh, 492 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:15.440 I don't know if you guys caught it. I wrote about both of these 493 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:20.199 stories and on power Line, on the site that there have been two major 494 00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:23.239 stories about Kamala Harris this week, one at the New York Times and one 495 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:28.199 at The Atlantic Monthly. They're the same story. They're both about gosh, 496 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:30.760 she's really bad. Why is she so bad a stuff? Why can't she 497 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.559 figure it out? And they try to be positive and helpful but they can't. 498 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:39.320 They can't, they can't help this. I keep wondering that was that 499 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:43.360 on purpose? Were they? Is this really a clever thing to try and 500 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.679 force her up? I mean, there's all this gossip about getting rid of 501 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:51.159 brought the ticket, but I'm about to say I you know, Turtle turtled 502 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:53.760 out loud with laughter reading these stories and had a lot of fun with them 503 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.400 because, you know, one of the articles was in search of Kamala Harris. 504 00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:01.239 That's like she's wears Waldo. They can't find her, just predictable. 505 00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:06.159 Well, that actually went to my kammalism, which is, you guys probably 506 00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:09.960 don't know this, but Kamala Harris is in the middle of a what is 507 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:15.159 it called now, it's something like the Freedom Tour on college campuses, believe 508 00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:19.440 this or not. She's been spending months. You just didn't know this. 509 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.760 She's been spending months touring college campuses as part of something that she calls some 510 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:30.679 kind of freedom tour. And so at the last the one she stopped at 511 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:35.639 this week, which was a college of Charleston, she was speaking, of 512 00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:39.239 course, the point of her this campaign, if you wouldn't even call it 513 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:44.599 that, is to attack actually the Supreme Court for Roe versus Wade, say 514 00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:47.239 there's less freedom there. Meanwhile, at the same time, she also goes 515 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:52.119 on about the need to restrict Second Amendment rights and for gun control. I 516 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:57.320 don't know how she reconciles that with the purpose of tour. But here's the 517 00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:05.199 quote. Here's a quote. She encouraged people to not listen to older people 518 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:08.679 who tell them they're too young to make a difference. Quote I eat no 519 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:14.480 for breakfast, Harris said, as audience responded to with laughter. Quote I 520 00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.719 encourage you to have an ambition. I encourage you to see what is possible 521 00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:23.199 and what can be unburdened by what has been. It's just still doing that. 522 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:30.679 Oh God, John, did you look at what I just sent you? 523 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:34.639 I meant to send it last night. I fell asleep. It's a 524 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:39.599 picture. It says if Kamala Harris were a sign, and the sign says 525 00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:49.760 notice the patio is currently not open because it is closed. Okay, I 526 00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.239 saw that one, right, Yeah, what's this week, Lucrecia, it's 527 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:57.719 been quite a lot. Well, Palestinian flag outside Rashida Talib's office seen throwing 528 00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:02.599 Friede flag off the roof. That's the other one they had, which was 529 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:10.280 Harvard students take time out of microaggression seminar to participate and kill the Jews rally. 530 00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:15.400 Okay, sorry, it's all right. I'll forgive you. Go fund 531 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:21.440 me to send the squad to Gaza raises five million. I like that one 532 00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:25.840 too, a little bit reaching back into history, docters wonder if they should 533 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:34.000 have spent more time training for playoffs unless time honoring Satanic drag nuns. I 534 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.320 love that one. Since the Phillies wrapped it up last night in a great 535 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:39.800 game. I figured you'd like that one. Hey, Actually this is a 536 00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:45.719 Lucretia versus me in baseball, because a Phillies are going to be playing the 537 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:51.320 what are they the razorbacks that they make up for themselves because they're just such 538 00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:57.760 a you and they had to come up with a PC mascot. Diamondbacks isn't 539 00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:02.599 a Satanic worshiping naming yourself as a snake after a snake, we do have, 540 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.320 you know, these things here called Diamondback rattlesnakes. I told you one 541 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.599 tried to crawl in my front door the other day. But you know what, 542 00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.920 I'll be honest with you, John, I'm probably more likely to cheer 543 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:20.880 for your Phillies than I am the the Diamondbacks. I've now had three times 544 00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:25.159 had tickets to a Diamondbacks game in Phoenix. It's about about a three hour 545 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:30.199 drive, and all three times it was like, eh, no love, 546 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:37.360 just somebody else. So so yeah, I'll be rooting for your Phillies just 547 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.039 because of you. I just want you to know that. And they are 548 00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.679 non PC team that you know. When these guys come out to play, 549 00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:49.119 they they look like, you know, like the dwarfs from the Hobbit. 550 00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:52.800 They've got all their hairs really long. There's this guy, this one guy 551 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:54.960 looked like you should have been playing for a Zzy top. His beard goes 552 00:42:54.960 --> 00:43:00.639 all the way down to his waist. But they're there. They definitely the 553 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.639 non PC baseball team and all this, well, John, that's a tester 554 00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:08.559 sports knowledge. Here my two favorite Phillies of all time. Well, the 555 00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:13.960 first one was John Kruk, do you remember, I mean what was he? 556 00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:20.159 Was he a specimen of? And then of course Lenny Dykstra, who 557 00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.559 followed me on Twitter for a while and then he dropped me. I don't 558 00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:29.800 know, but I think Dykester became a kind of uh stocks like a stock 559 00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:32.159 booster kind of guy. I guess you would call him an influencer now, 560 00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:36.760 but he was away ahead of his time. And kruck is a baseball analyst. 561 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.239 Whenever you see him on ESPN talking about baseball, I always looked to 562 00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:44.360 see if they were able to wipe the food off the front of his clothes 563 00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:47.000 before he went on That's a you can imagine eating a piece of Kentucky fried 564 00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:51.800 chicken right before he went on stage. Yeah, you always expect him to 565 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:53.920 pull a Hogy out of his back pocket between pitches when he was at bat. 566 00:43:54.119 --> 00:44:00.639 I mean, he was quite the thing. Yeah, Okay, okay, 567 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:05.880 go ahead, right, John, Because you don't read the comments, 568 00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:13.840 you remember last week I was incensed, incensed about Biden being an evil harmas 569 00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:19.320 equivalent because he beats and kicks his dogs, and Steve put the picture of 570 00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:23.320 my dogs. You know what, the biggest of the largest number of comments 571 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:29.079 on the podcast were people upset that I let my dogs on the furniture. 572 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:37.519 That so actually the reason, I know the reason I took the picture of 573 00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:39.760 the dogs. They don't usually get on my bed, but they were so 574 00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:42.840 cute I couldn't help it, so I took a picture of them. Yeah, 575 00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.920 people are upset I let dogs on my furniture. But I do a 576 00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:52.239 couple of real quick final ones to get a little bit more current news in 577 00:44:52.280 --> 00:45:00.039 here. NFL camera cuts the crew cuts away from touchdown pass to show I 578 00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:02.719 can't even say this, let me start over. NFL camera crew cuts away 579 00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:12.679 from touchdown pass to show slow Moe replay of Taylor Swift eating nacho and I'm 580 00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:15.280 assuming you get what that's about. Oh yeah, oh yes, that's that's 581 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:21.599 that's rejuvenated the NFL. Right is that Taylor Swift is is she actually going 582 00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:27.239 out with the Well, this is another Philly thing. The so Kelsey. 583 00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.920 You know that Kelsey is a tight end for the Chiefs, whose brother, 584 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:37.599 the greater Kelsey is alignment for the Eagles. Well, I saw a conspiracy 585 00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:39.599 theory story. I don't buy into it them. I don't need a hat 586 00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:43.880 for this one, but it was kind of funny. Who actually claims that 587 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:50.039 the reason she's dating a jet is because you know, she's such a twit 588 00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:53.360 and a hypocrite about global warming and she owns two, not one, but 589 00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:58.920 two private jets, and you know, John's all over the world in these 590 00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:02.519 private jets, so that when you it used to be that when you googled 591 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.559 Taylor Swift and jet, you would get all these stories about what a hypocrite 592 00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:12.559 she was. And now when you google Taylor Swift and jet, you get 593 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:17.760 stories about her and her supposed NFL Yeah, blame. There's one detail wrong 594 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:22.480 about that. The guy she's dating as a Kansas City chief but she went 595 00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:28.400 to the Jets game. Yes, oh okay, basic conspiracies, right of 596 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:30.880 course. Not you're not you know, it's a you're not a sports lady. 597 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:35.880 But I'm waiting John from when Travis Kelcey has a bad game and drops 598 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:38.639 several passes and you're all gonna blame on Taylor Swift and rightly. So this 599 00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:44.639 is awesome. Okay, So wrapping back up with the theme of our story, 600 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:51.360 Hama's terrorist added to panel of the view. They don't have one, 601 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:54.159 don't they, Okay, white House claims, and they have a picture of 602 00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:59.920 the mop head. White House claims six billion dollars to Ran absolutely not related 603 00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:05.480 to the exactly six billion worth of rockets being fired into Israel. And lastly, 604 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:09.960 to go back to what Steve was saying with his month long prediction, 605 00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:16.559 Emperor Hirohido calls for ceasefire after bombing of Pearl Harbor. Yeah. Yeah, 606 00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:20.400 it's hard to joke about these things, but those guys know how to do 607 00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:23.039 it. They do in such a way that it doesn't it's not cringey. 608 00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:27.519 The only one that was really cringey was I got Steve to cringe on the 609 00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:30.119 one I think this is. That was the week you were gone John, 610 00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:35.320 when it said that, when it made a very cringey statement about oh, 611 00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:40.119 the former mayor of Lori Lightfoot and a picture of her where she looks exactly 612 00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:45.639 like Gollum and Lord of the Rings. Steve cringed at that one, but 613 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.119 I did, all right, Thanks guys. It's great to see you come 614 00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:52.039 back sometimes, Steve. Yes, Steve, when are you coming home? 615 00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:58.000 By another week? You'll see me Oh yeah, I'll see. I'm going 616 00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:00.000 to be up on campus right after I get home. And the lucretia is 617 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:04.000 coming too, right, aren't you. Yeah yeah, I got a little 618 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.199 problem with my schedule. I got to work out. That's why I have 619 00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:08.079 an answer to you. But okay, all right, we'll figure it out, 620 00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:13.239 all right, John sent us out. Always drink your whiskey, meat, 621 00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:30.440 let's go, Brandon and Steve God save the queen man. Start down, 622 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:36.360 you patty child, and take the phone off the hook can disappear for 623 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:40.079 a while. It's all right. You can't afford to lose a day. 624 00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:52.960 Oh wait, will you really be in a way? It's for you and 625 00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:58.079 you know they win. The truth is told the truth and can't what you 626 00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:01.880 want. Or you can just get old. You're gonna sing out, pepall 627 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:08.840 you leaving game, Ricochet Join the conversation. M h.