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Hayward, John Yu and power Lines International Woman of Mystery Lucretia Tank got a
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Hi everybody, and welcome to a special live recording of the Three Whiskey
Happy Hour with the original Three Whiskey Happy Hour drinkers, me and Lucretia.
John Yu is in Peru tonight and was not able to join us, And
I think he's off the machu peach you over the week in Lucretia, Isn't
that? Yeah? And I know he's I'm not able to join him that.
Let's be serious here. I should be in much you peach you this
weekend, but I'm not. Yeah, it's too much flying for me after
being away seven weeks. And of course a couple of commenters said, ah,
more time for Lucretia, and of course I thought just the opposite.
Oh great, John not here to be my wingman. I'm going to get
all the abuse instead of just half of it. So yeah, well it's
been a while so you probably deserve it. Hi. Everyone, it's great
to see everyone out there. Yeah, that's right. I can't really see
him, but I know you're there. I can feel your presence, right.
So what we'll do, listeners, is we have three or four topics
from the headlines here today and this week that will work through. You can
guess what they are, the new Speaker of the House and Israel and so
forth. And then we'll pause every in between topics and take questions that you
post up here either in Q and A or in the chat window. And
then we've got a couple of people sent in. So that's how we're going
to proceed. And I think, actually, Lucretia, why don't we move
to the fact that we've got a new speaker there. So it turns out
that I first want to mention that Lucretia was right about this all along,
that it mattered not even a little bit what Gates and everybody did, that
it didn't put the whole country into some kind of horrible chaos. Oh my
god, we I have a Speaker of the House, and so awful are
so the people who think that way. I was listening to what is it
If Harris Faulkners a bunch of chicks on, and then one guy in a
morning show, and I was driving somewhere, and one of the chicks gets
on and says, well, you know, finally, finally we can get
the government back working the way it needs to, you know, doing things
like a strong statement in support of Israel. I mean, she actually said
that. Guys, what the hell? Who kit? I'm sorry, all
right, that's to the speaker. I think Mike Johnson seems like a pretty
decent person. All the right people hate him, yeah, exactly, All
the right people hate him. That's always a good thing. But then again,
you know a lot of the people hated Jim No Kevin McCarthy on the
left because the left is smart enough to know who their enemy are even a
little bit. But I think Mike Johnson will be decent enough. Let's see,
do you think Steve by the way, Steve predicted they'd bring Kevin McCarthy
back, Well, that was kind of tongue in cheek, mostly to bait
you. But I also think I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's still
waiting in the wings thinking Mike Johnson will fall in his face. Now we're
actually in rare agreement here, I mean, finally we can get things done.
I remember, you know, when Reagan was well exactly, I remember
when Reagan was lying in his hospital bed after he was shot, and he
woke up the next day and Jim Baker and ed me so they to tell
him that the government is running smoothly. And Reagan, who couldn't speak,
he had a you know, tube in this down his throat, scribbled out
the piece of paper. What makes you think I'd be happy to hear that?
What should? He had? His disposition and humor all about him,
you and though he was in extreme pain. Yeah, I mean to me,
well, first of all, I do want to turn to the way
he's freaking out the left and the way Kevin McCarthy never did. I mean,
yeah, you had to attack Kevin McCarthy because you know, MAGA and
all the usual slogans that Democrats are wedded to. But I did hear some
conservatives who I think ought to know better say, gosh, you know,
he's only in his third or fourth term. He doesn't have much experience and
I'm thinking to myself, you know, we're in the current state we're in
with veteran experienced politicians, How could we possibly do worse than what we've been
these dumb things. I think it's the twenty four hour cable news cycle where
you just have to fill up the time with a bunch of stupid stuff.
Well, this was I'm not going to name names. I'll just say it's
some smart people who ought to know better about these things. They don't,
though, because they all think like inside the beltwayh idiots. Yeah, it's
just you know, I mean, there's something in the water that destroys brain
cells, and the longer you're there, the more brain cells it destroys.
And then you'd all become the sort of part of the board and you can't
think for yourself anymore. That's what happens. But I think Mike Johnson,
you know what's I hate to say it, but he will be a success
if he manages to get how many how many budgets do we actually need to
get passed if we don't want to have a continuing resolution? I forget I'm
gonna say eight or nine. You're this expert in these things, Steve if
he could actually force those committees into you know, take the momentum of the
occasion and move forward with it and get actual budgets out of these people with
low spending, low increases in spending. Our government will never be low spending.
But no, and and not give in to the Democrats and not.
You know, one of the problems that you have going on right now in
Washington with both the House and the Senate is that the UNI Party is comprised
of essentially two different parties, but what they share in common is a willingness
to spend all the money that they have to to get their priorities and then
give their the priorities to the other side to get them to agree. So,
you know, it used to be a simple thing about defense. You
know, think about sequestration. The whole point of sequestration was, Oh,
if you don't pass a budget, then we're going to have sequestration, and
the cuts are going to be across the board, and it's going to hurt
defense just as much as it hurts other kinds of discretionary spending. I won't
even go into all the ways that it's just stupid, But now you have
idiots in the Republican Party who just want to keep giving more and more and
more and more money to the military. Idiots on the right saying, oh,
this has been so great to have these wars in Ukraine and now Israel
because we can see where we're not building up our infrastructure making sure that our
defense contractors are ready to go, and we're not funneling money to them.
We weren't, now we are. You know, just dumb things like that
drives me. Well, yeah, okay, but look, one of the
arguments about defense is, well, look, we're not building enough submarines fast
enough where the Navy is deteriorated. Put two billion dollars into the defense budget,
they still won't build submarines. They'll more drags, queen shows on basis
for children, or or on the ships themselves. No, I'm not studied
the defense budget in thirty years, so I don't know exactly how it all
falls out. But the question is, and one of our questioners, Eric
Little, says, we're going to return to regular order, that's the term
of art, and you just raised that it's actually going to be hard to
do in the what two or three weeks we have until the current Continuing Resolution
runs out. So that's going to be difficult for anybody. I don't care
how experienced or inexperienced they are. So as Trump likes to say, we'll
just have to see what happened. Meanwhile, I do want to share with
listeners the way the left is freaking out about Johnson. So the New Republic
magazine is all worked up and they have a quote from Johnson from the speech
he gave back in Louisiana to three years ago. And here's the quote,
and see if you're freaked out by it. Mike Johnson quote. You remember
the late sixties. We invented things like no fault divorce laws. We invented
the sexual revolution, we invented radical feminism, we invented legalized abortion in nineteen
seventy three, where the state, the government sanctions the killing of the unborn.
I mean, we know that we're living in a completely a moral society.
And so people say, how can a young person go into their schoolhouse
and open fire on their classmates because we've taught a whole generation, a couple
generations now of Americans that there is no right and wrong end quote. Well,
it sounds pretty good to me. I'm liking this guy better all the
time, right, Yeah, of course absolutely. It makes me hopeful,
slightly hopeful, because you know me, I'm never really all that optimistic,
but slightly hopeful that he has a strong enough understanding that he's not just a
smarmy politician. He gets what the problems are. You can't even begin to
fix the problems if you don't know what the source of those problems are.
That's in my opinion, and that, of course, is the source.
We have replaced God. There are a lot of moral people out there that
don't believe in God. So when I say that everyone, I kind of
sort of mean in the largest sense, we've replaced good and evil with It's
my truth, my lived experience. Those are the things that matter, not
your judgment, not society's judgment of my behavior. But what I'd like to
hear him say now is, not only did we do all those things in
the sixties and built on that, you know, consistent a morality, constantly
chipping away at whatever moral reasoning is written into the heart of human beings,
to the point where we're now purposely going out to destroy morality, not just
sort of live and let live. And you know, the sexual revolution and
everybody can take the pill with no consequences. Now we are if you're a
heterosexual, if you're married, if you want children, that in and of
itself is an affront to someone else's lived experience and sexual preferences and sexual identity
or even not quite human identity. They want to be a furrey, you
know, whatever it might be. You can't be a moral human being that.
For millennia, we have known that there are certain behaviors marriage, family,
etc. That contribute to happiness. We know that it's not a mystery.
Well we I'm calling this time a living in the age of proprietary truth.
I mean, that's my summary of people saying my truth, your truth,
you know whatever, which means we don't have any at all. All
right, let's get out speaking of killing brain cells. What whiskey you drinking.
I am glad to be back home and having my beloved lefroyganhand as usual.
I'm having a Glenn fittitch. I think it's a fourteen year old.
I don't know, I don't remember. It wasn't a thing, and so
I just grabbed it because I almost forgot. It's a little bit early for
god. I thought pretentious I thought i'd share a God. I thought i'd
share a happy Friday picture of Roger Scrutin with our listeners who are viewing us
today anyway, And plus I knew it would annoy you, So I know,
Okay, Jim says Ukraine has band an entire Christian denomination? You mean
like Russian Orthodox? Is that what you're talking about? Sea Tucker's ten minute
interview. I actually every day I become more and more against any kind of
support for Ukraine. Did everybody see what came out from early on in the
Ukraine conflict where there was actually a negotiated settlement between Kutin and Zelensky, and
our idiot people stopped it. Macrone stopped it. What the hell was that
dumb person? And Merkel stopped it. They actually were ready to negotiate a
settlement, and Merkle was out of office. It couldn't have been her when
it started it started, she was out of office. I thought she was
right at the beginning. No, off Schultz was in by then, and
now now he's talked a big game and not delivered. But that's a different
story. Anyway. I am glad what you mentioned earlier. You said this
earlier before we got on the podcast, Steve, and I'm going backwards,
but that Johnson at least tried to pull the funding and other kinds of support
for Ukraine away from the funding and support for Israel. And by the way,
this is a Friday afternoon. When we're doing this, the ground invasion,
the invasion of Gaza has more or less begun. There is more.
Okay, go ahead, go ahead. Well, I will say, let's
turn that next. Except you know, the question Doppler asked, is I
guess the Ukraine is cracking down on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church if the news accounts
are correct, and one of the problems. Look, I am a member
of the Orthodox Church, although a different branch of it. There's several branches
of Eastern Orthodoxy, but both the Russian and of course, going back to
Soviet days, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church were deeply compromised by the Communists. And
I'm not sure, I'm confident. I'm sorry, I know, I'm not
confident in the Russian Orthodox Church today. I think it's a branch of the
government, and I'm not sure about the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. But I need
to know more to make a judgment. About that, but I think you
should file that one away, as we need to know more to make a
full evaluation of what's going on. That's what I think you're going to I
don't want to talk anymore. I just want to read the comments. They
always make me so happy. I thought you were going to take up one
of the questions that somebody says the question. I just see great comments.
Yeah, other than any bourbon drinkers and whistlepig what everybody's drinking? Okay,
and somebody is accusing me of child abuse with my fourteen year old Okay,
enough of that, all right, Now you want to take up topic too,
I do. I got to figure out your to Okay, what is
actually happening in Israel? You know, well, what's happening. I will
say this, and I'm interested to see in the comments what you guys,
what your reaction to this is what I wanted most from the United States was
unequivocal, moral, publicly stated support for destroying Hamas. And I you know,
I'm a little less convinced that we need to be sending them massive amounts
of money and arms and so on. I'm okay with sending them back the
iron domes we government. But more important to me than anything was the fact
that our government, our State Department, et cetera, would never so much
as even this much walk back their full support for wiping Hamas off the face
of the planet. And of course, in the midst of the beginning of
the offensive whatever, we're still not sure exactly the extent to which this offensive
is happening at this time, but in the midst of it, the Biden
administration is already talking about a pause. It's time for a pause. Yeah,
and I mean, like I said, it's the worst of both worlds.
Everybody wants to send money. Everyone'sbody wants to send the weapons, or
at least they want to get the kickbacks from doing so through our defense contractors.
But what they're not doing is giving an unequivocal moral support. Did you
hear that dumb mop head the other day? Steam when asked about when asked
about Jewish about oh yes, right, violence and harassment and discrimination against Jews,
she said that she hadn't heard of any, but that we have no
incredible information about that. We're more worried about Islamophobia. Yeah, it was
Oh sorry, go ahead, I didn't well even she had to walk it
back the next day because I think people told her. Even the Biden White
House knows that that was idiocy made or walked it back. So either that
or they just saw the backlash. But the funniest thing about all that was
is that the Babylon B not Seth Dylan, but the next guy. The
Babylon B actually put it on a tweet that said this was the headline we
were gonna run. And then they did run it. They didn't run the
day before. They know they ran it. They ran it the day of,
but they were gonna run it. They'd put it together before before Mop
had said what she said, which was basically that I forget exactly how it
went, but something about we're much more concerned about Islamophobia than we are about,
in a joking way, about violence against Jews. Yeah. By the
way, I can't believe we've gotten this far in the timeline of recent events
to not make the connection that the mophead should be a perfect match for Sam
Bankman Free because they have the same hairstyle, Or at least it did until
Free Guns Scared shows you what you know about hair, Steve and I gather
why you're not an expert, but there is a huge difference between the nasty
dreadlock she has and just messy, curly hair that you don't wash. There's
a difference. But anyway, yeah, okay, tell me what you think
about Hamas and Israel's defensive today. Well, actually, I want to separate
those questions. I don't want to connect Maas to our third topic, which
is the scene on campus right now that's even worse than we think, I
think. So look, I mean, one thing that came out a day
or two ago is that American forces actually took some casualties, no one killed,
but several soldiers injured from some of the rockets launched by the Iranian supported
groups in Yemen, and I think in Syria, and there have been I
guess air strikes are missile strikes from American forces against Iranian backed forces in Syria
that are apparently trying to advance on Israel. So we look to be involved
in the fight a little bit. This news came out, This last bit
of news came out about the middle of the day today, at which point
the stock market tanked three hundred points. And I think those two things are
related. I don't often tie them together. But the market actually started out
going up this morning after a terrible week, and it just completely tanked.
I think that is related to the fear of a wider war about the breakout
that we may or may not be involved with now. As to the delay,
now, it could be exactly as you render it, which is pusillanimous
foreign policy from our State Department. By the way, you may have heard
these stories that a large number of State Department people are getting them some kind
of protest petition together and threatening to resign because of our support of Israel.
The bye exactly, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
So, and I've been completely expecting what you've been saying is if it's not
happening already, it will happen. We're going to have the usual game where
we say Israel's response is disproportionate and so forth. On the other hand,
and here I'm just speculating, and I don't usually like to play armchair strategist,
but in this particular case, it's hard for me to believe that Hamas
and Iran didn't have a longer game strategy in mind. With the launch of
the attacks on October seven, and we know that the hes Bolo folks in
southern Lebanon in some ways a greater threat to Israel because they have something like
one hundred and fifty thousand rockets, we think, and they have a pipeline
to get personnel, I mean, large numbers of fighters into Lebanon if they
want to through Syria. And I've been wondering if this whole thing wasn't a
trap set to draw the Israelis in Big to Gaza, whereupon a second front
opens up, and the smart thing, I think, would be again knowing
nothing of what's being deliberated and what calculations are being made by Israel, who's
perfectly capable of defending themselves. I think maybe they're hesitating not because we're telling
them to and the Europeans are telling them to, because they're ready or getting
ready to attack hesbel of first, which might be the smart thing to do.
There's lots of evidence of running weapons and materials into into the West,
right through and over to Lebanon. Right This also ranges another aspect of the
Grand Spranity. It's not just the tactics of the two fronts and when they're
sequenced, but also what Iran wants to do here. Even if Hamas and
Hesbel of lose is they want to pierce the image. Why the hell in
the Arab world that Israel is invulnerable. You know, Israel has clobbered the
Arabs and conventional war twice in our lifetime, at least right in sixty seven
and seventy three, and they had them on the rope several other times when
we stopped them from going further, like Lebanon in eighty two and so forth.
So I think the game here is both political, try and actually weaken
the status of Israel in the eyes of the world, and by the way,
it'll shake the Israelis too. If this is a prolonged war and you
know Tel Aviv gets it goes through something like London went through in the Blitz
in nineteen forty. I mean, this is these are all live possibilities.
If the United States is drawn into direct fighting, which I think is possible
against Hesbula, that'll be another the political point there. See, Israel can't
do it on their own anymore. They have to have the help from the
Great Satan. Remember we're the Great Satan to all these Islamists. So I
don't know, I like it less about that outcome than I do the one
I mentioned, Steve, which is that we just abandon ourselves. Yeah,
no, I expect them. We expect them to engage in a ceasefire when
Hamas doesn't. Basically yeah right, yeah, I mean, we have several
comments here for people saying, you know, these Ralies are getting their ducks
in a row. I think that's possible. You know, we're deploying serious
assets, it seems, in the Eastern Mediterranean, and you know, so
we'll see about all that. In previous wars, these Israelis used to say
we don't want any American troops, we don't need any American troops. Well,
if they do this time, or if we impose ourselves because by the
way, composing ourselves regardless of what they're asking for, Steve, I hope
you know that. I mean, no, no, well, that's what
I was about to say when I started to say, by the way,
is we at various points might get in the way of the Israelis And oh
god, yes we're getting I mean Lloyd Austin of all the moron idiots to
be even in charge of a bubblegum machine, and the fact that he's over
there telling the Israeli defense for what they should be doing is that's scary,
that's nightmare stuff, you know, And yes, we are telling them what
to do now, I think to some extent net and Yahoo and you know,
he's got a coalition government right now that all the opposition has come together
behind him and his cabinet and so forth. But I don't know how long
that lasts because for obvious reasons. Well, yeah, first of all,
I mean it should be said that some of the people who have been in
opposition to Netanyah who are actually just as hard line as he is, and
maybe even harder line in some ways, I think. But I think the
long term here is and it's early yet, but I think at the end
of all this, and then Andy, who's probably finished unfortunately, because I
do like him quite a bit, but he's going to be blamed for not
having intelligence, for failing to see this coming, and you know, I
think that's unfortunately. He's going to be the fall guy for this when it's
over. So yeah, and when in fact Michael asks the question and the
question and answers. The fall guy for this, if there is one on
the international stage, should probably be Jake Sullivan. You know, there's a
guy with a pedigree a mile long, a Rhodes scholar, on and on
and on, but he has an Obama. Okay, forgive me for this.
He's an Obama butt boy. I don't know how else to say it.
Sorry forgive me. The Family Show and all of that and everything despicable
about Obama has been projected onto him, and he's carrying that out in the
Biden administration. Something by the way, Obama did back during his back during
his administration, he promoted Jake Sullivan to be Biden's national security advisor. Right,
he took him out of Hillary and blah blah blah blah blah. So
people question, you know, where's all this Obama influence inside the Biden administration
come from. I don't know about domestic policy. I have my suspicions,
but there is no doubt in my mind that Obama is completely running things on
the national security foreign affairs side to Jake Sullivan. That's my belief. There
you go. You can. You can come back and hold me to account
on that, like I try to hold Steve for his predictions. Sorry,
term of art, Yes, Jim Russ is right that that term is a
term of art, and my heart is breaking. Steve there. I don't
know how many of you follow Amal girl, but she actually she and she
and she and Joe Max and Joe her husband, had planned a big trip
and they both first first Joe and then then then Susan both got really ill.
They subject they succumbed to a virus, but they both think it's because
of their massive depression about what's happening in Israel. And sometimes, by the
way, it's a little bit low on the screen, I promise it was
given to me by the Israeli Defense Minister. It is an American uh and
it was really like an underneath it. I can't remember what and it's too
small for me to read. It's what it means in Hebrew. Is the
the Israeli American Defense Cooperation PACKED or something like that the name for it.
So I've been wearing this just so you know, every single day. The
more that comes out of what happened in Hamas, the more it makes me
realize that we are not dealing with the same almost with the same species here
these people. And I was asking somebody I know who's an intelligence expert,
about the claims that they drugged up these hamos terrists. And it turns out
that actually, if you've heard that, they're given this kind of a methamphetamine
sort of substance, and then on top of that, they're given valume and
it all is administered actually by a physician so they can get the balance just
right. And so this gives them this kind of anger, this sort of
subhuman rage, but on the surface they appear to be fairly normal and calm
because of the value that's counteracting it. I mean, it's just crazy,
but we know that that's what happened with the nine to eleven attackers. There
were doctors actually administering this this drug cocktail to make them just you know,
sub human savage. I can't say animals. Well, you know who else
did that? Animals? The Nazi army in World War two. People,
if you ever watch any CIA Flix, they say the CIA did too.
But well, I mean, well, I think that's a little different experiment
after the war with LSD and all the rest of that, and right,
but no, the Nazi army used widespread, made widespread use of methamphetamines.
You know, that was more just a stimulant to keep our troops up for
seventy two hours without sleep and food and so forth. Yeah, that's not
what's being alleged here those Yeah, I know, it's more of course,
everything's much more sophisticated. Now. We had a question on your when you
initially announced the podcast from both the US. Is that how you say his
name? Bo Atheistha, that's the consolation the philosophy guy, which you would
know who were a pretentious intellectual like me if I were, But I'm not,
and if I if I had read it, I wouldn't know how to
pronounce it anyway, because I don't out with enough pretentious intellectuals to get the
pronunciation right. So I just read anyway. Back to Boethius's question, let
me actually read it to you guys, not most of you probably saw it,
but please discuss how the contract theory of government is a mental fiction,
and how political life resulting from man's nature as a political animal, is a
much more solid foundation for human flourishing. Sorry, but repeating the albeit true
mantra that we're all created equal because we're made in the image of God just
doesn't cut it anymore in this secular age. I disagree. If Boethius is
listening however, is that that is a very insightful comment on a number of
levels. The first. In the first place, of course, the social
contract is a mental fiction, or it's a construct, however you want to
do it. There is never a time in history and any given society anywhere
where all the people got together and unanimously chose to join this social contract.
So that's right, of course, But the basis for the social contract is
it, as Aristotle would say, that we must be in a society because
man is a social animal, excuse me, a political animal, and that
his final t lose is actually only to be found his final happiness is only
to be found in a political community, well ordered political community. That's the
kind of the ancient way of looking at it, or the modern way of
looking at social contract theory, which is that because we're all equal, we're
on our own natural rulers, and as our own natural rulers, we have
every right to our wife, liberty, and property, pursuit of happiness.
But because those rights are insecure, we form a social contract, and then
we set up a government over us to enforce that contract so that our rights
are protected. You guys all know that the question is can you even maintain
that fiction in the face of Hamas sub sub human savages who act that way.
And I think that we're so often focused on the the you know,
the good social contract side, and the Lockeyan idea that the law of natures
written on the heart of man, where it's just passion, sometimes gets in
the way of our reason. We emphasize that, but of course there's there's
an entire another part to that social contract, and that is you only have
a social contract with other human beings who recognize themselves as human beings and the
equality of their fellow human beings. And Lincoln, to a little bit extent,
our teacher Harry Jeffison, you know, you can't have a social contract
with barbarians. And there's no way I'd even honor Hamas with the grandiose title
of being a barbarian. I mean, there are subhuman savages, and there's
no possibility, of course, of having a social contract of negotiating on equal
terms with everything that Hamas and their their proxies or whoever their proxies for the
Iranians, there's you can't you can't make deals with these people. And Trump,
for all of his his faults, and all of his lack of understanding
don't to hold anybody. He got that, you know, he got that.
And so sorry, Steve, I went on too long, But well,
well I was going to say, it's the big subject, went a
long time about it. I'll put it this way. The postulates of the
social contract and equality you can actually find them in embryonic form in the classics,
in Aristotle and Plato and Cicero. Now, but they also were very
keen on the distinction between civilization and barbarism. And that was not simply just
the you know, the enemy country, but it was people who don't have
any civilization in them. The modern version of this we call international law,
and the premise of international law is really an extension of the I'm restating what
you said, Lucretia, but hopefully short in a different way. The premise
of international law is an extension of social contract theory to all the nations of
the world, who also understand at least the lowest common denominator of that,
which is the reciprocal and neutual respect for the rights of individuals and nations.
Well, but the problem is is that we now have that sort of international
law body all includes within it and even elevates, you know, groups of
nations that don't understand that. We have a great question. Let's get more
specific with Michael. How can intersectional Pussives also be pro Hamas who are radical
Islamis? I have my own theory. Should I let Steve go first or
now you go ahead? I think we're probably on the same wave in Yeah,
it's easier than you might think. The hypocrisy of it, you know,
in your face, just makes you not even want to look into it
because it's so so awful. But it goes like this, back to what
Steve was saying that that speaker Johnson said. You know, if if you
believe that the traditions the institutions of Western civilization have in fact brought about the
greatest level of prosperity but also happiness, happiness to the greatest number of people
across the globe of any other kind of broad civilization in history, you have
to recognize what does that and it's Western civilization, you know, again,
the rule of law, the belief in truth, the family, the high
low things, all of those things. That is what the left wants to
destroy because those things are also limits what we get from the entire whatever else
is different from between Aristotle and Lucke or our founding fathers. What they all
understood is that human beings are imperfect, that they do have a perfection understood
as achieving a level of happiness, but that was never going to be godlike
perfection. Human beings were never going to be God, and they could never
cast out either their own nature or the influence of nature writ large on the
lives of human beings and on societies. What the progressive project is is to
destroy that, Okay, to destroy that for not freedom in the way we
understand it, but freedom from any kind of restraints on behavior, et cetera,
etc. What do pro hamas and pro LGBTQ, transferry, etcetera,
etcetera. People have in common. They hate us. They hate people who'd
like to say there's a right and wrong and guess what, you're probably not
the right side of things. Yeah, here's where this willack to provide a
transition into our third major subject, after which, by the way, that
will take up Michael Lee's question. He said in a few days ago,
something David Horowitz has been saying forever is now more crystal clear than ever,
which is the issue is not the issue. The central issue is revolution.
And so if you have again I'm restating what you're staying in a different vocabulary.
If your central goal is revolution against the existing order, then it makes
perfect sense for your LGBTQ people to be on the same side of somemas because
they both represent rejections and challenges to the civilized order. And what you want
above all was revolution, right, And that sounds sort of, you know,
odly sweeping and simplistic, but I think the closer you look, the
more true that becomes. Boy, I've certainly observed in the signs I saw
out on sprou plaset Berkeley on Wednesday this week, where you saw the same
mentality, which is, see every issue that comes along is you know,
worldwide revolutions right around the corner. It sounds archaic twist now, but they
really believe it. And that brings us to our third main topic to bring
up today, which is the campus scene is even worse than we thought.
I can't believe it's taking me more than two weeks so this to come back
to mind. But does anybody remember the name Ward Churchill from the year two
after nine to eleven do you remember him, Lucretia, No, I remember
Louly, Yeah, right, I mean I hadn't thought of the got the
guy in forever, But he was the guy at the University of Colorado who
said we had it coming on September eleventh. You know, all those people
who worked in the towers were killed. They were little Iichmans of the capitalist
order. Well, that kind of rhetoric is not much different from what the
Propa Moas people are saying now in large, I'm trying to get rid of
Churchill though. For that Well, that's what I'm kind of Bear with me
for a minute. That's what I'm coming to, which is they did fire
him from the University of Colorado, but they didn't do it for being a
left wing loon. They went through his record and found out that it was
not only a mediocre, but that a lot of his work was plagiarized.
And yet he was chairman of the Ethnic Studies department, having, by the
way, never been hired through a conventional hiring process. By the way,
the year I spent there, which is ten years ago now, I asked
around a lot, and I found that even left leaning faculty really didn't like
the guy very much. But they put up with him. They put up
with people like this universities everywhere. And again, my old pal David Horowitz
said, the universities are full of hundreds of people like Ward Churchill. What
makes you think he's the only one. He only became notorious because his particular
comments got national attention and embarrassed the university. Well, what I'm not seeing
right now is any serious embarrassment by any universities of all the pro Hamas faculty
coming out, all the students saying the crazy things they're doing, students who
I mean, the most shocking story of the week were the Jewish students who
had to barricade themselves in the library at the Cooper Union in New York City
on Wednesday, I think it was. And you had people banging on the
door to try and get at the Jews inside the room. Uh, there's
a professor Columbia, I forget his name, who is about the word that
Jews are not safe on American college campuses right now? Full stop? This
is these are institutions or as a statement of fact, statement of fact.
No, he's a statement of fact. And and and I'm trying to remember
who else said this. Uh, somebody I forget who has said, you
know, when you're when your students come home for Thanksgiving, don't send them
back to college. I think that's very unlikely that many people do that.
But that's the kind of uh, the kind of atmosphere that we're in.
So the question in my mind is, you know, are are any are
any universities? I mean I've been posting all week more job announcements that specifically
say they want professors in English, in you know, sciences and German literature.
At one college maybe that was Duke, and they want them to be
people who teaching about colonialism and decolonization and all the critical race stuff. I
know, as you know, a provost can put a stop to those ads,
and they never do. And so the thing to watch for is is
are any university is going to have second thoughts about this? I do have
one specific idea a proposal, which is you and if you get a Republican
president or even if you know Congress can get its act together. We know
that the lead American institutions have taken I think the number is something like four
billion dollars in money from Arab countries. A lot of that from Cutter,
where the Hamas leadership lives. I think that Congress should enact a law,
or the Department of Education under a decent president should enact a regulation saying no
university that gets federal funds may accept any money at all from Cutter and en
lists several other countries, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia. I don't care, but
just cut off the influence that they use. Let these let Harvard and Tops
and all these places whine and complain and moan, but that at a minimum.
Yeah, Wayne Johnson says, China, that actually has been happening.
That's happening. That's why I'm kind of looking at you with this what right
on my face, because that would assume that there's anybody in our government that
actually cares about that influence. They obviously don't. Steve Well, this is
why someone needs to repose the idea was at least right. I mean,
people are proposing the ideas. Why do we Why are we allowing Palestinian students
who are out there protesting to stay in the United States revoke their damn visas
and send them home? Oh yeah, no, that's I mean that how
likely is that to happen? Well? In mind under say President DeSantis,
who you know, is shutting down all these Students for Justice and Palatine Palestine
chapters at Florida's public universities, which is, uh, you know, upset
everybody, but you know, good god, it's a good start. So
yeah, I don't know, Steve always have these ideas that never go anywhere.
Well, look, I know somebody made a fuss about the Confucius and
the two. It's being funded by China around the country and a lot of
them have been shut down because did that did get traction? So yeah,
but you know, quite frankly, the government, some at least some elements
of our government, have been worried about Chinese influence on universities, et cetera
for years. And I will tell you that they employ a number of people
who might look say like me, to be on the lookout for evidence of
Chinese spies and Chinese you know. The big problem, of course, there
are the Chinese nationals who are here and they're in the pay of the Chinese
government. And what we're seeing is, you know, of course the Chronicle
of Higher Education is clutching their pearls. Is it so upsetting the way they're
discriminating against Chinese national professors on campus and researchers on campus. But of course,
you know, it's the smartest thing they've done in a while, because
they know that, you know, my university does some really serious shall we
say research in the in the defense field. I'll leave it open like that.
Yeah, you know that. And professors are stupid. They don't understand
the first thing about op SEC anyway, So the least you can do is
sort of get Chinese nationals and Katari nationals and so on out of our research
institutions and put them back in the god awful places they came from. Well,
I mean a lot of that. I think there's this difference. The
Chinese money is more meant to do what you just suggested, which is eavesdropping
and espionage. The era of money is to influence ideology, which a is
the Chinese money also. But yes, they're not as blatant about it and
direct about it. I don't think you're wrong. But anyway, well,
okay, I mean my observation. Well, let's put this way. I've
been at a couple of institutions that had a lot of Chinese students. By
the way, the numbers are way down. Part of that was COVID.
I think a lot of it was COVID, but you know a place like
US. I know, for example, in LA it's something like twenty percent
of their undergraduate student body was Chinese five or six years ago. And that
was a revenue model, because what the Chinese do? They pay full tuition
when almost nobody else does anymore. A lot he is back with a great
comment. Diane Finzin could not be reached. How do you know she may
be a waxwork somewhere with you know, weekend at Murdies or something. Right,
and check Eric Solwell's off as somebody also said, which I think is
right, but well to be continued. But the point is is we made
the point. We can make it fifteen more ways. Is that at least
the University of Colorado had the decency to say, we have to get rid
of this professor, even if we have to do it indirectly, because we're
cowards about actually firing loun directly. But now I see no evidence that any
university is taking any steps at all to have second thoughts about the lunatics in
their midst. That's well, I will tell you that why same things are
worse. Things are worse than every I'm trying to agree with you, Lucre,
but I will say this. My president issued all things considered on a
scale of one to ten, a statement that I'd give a seven and a
half or an eight two. I really was quite good, very little equivocating
about even Palestinians, innocent Palestinians, et cetera. So much so that I
know that the Solid people sent him a note, you know, way to
go, Bobby, blah blah blah. Anyway, So upsetting was that that
the huge We're supposed to have this big meeting, and the person charge of
incident response couldn't come because he needed to be on campus because there was going
to be this huge protest. Except the protest was canceled because they were also
triggered by the President's statement that they they couldn't come out in protest. I
swear to God, I am not making this up. This is not a
Babylonbee, this is not Joe Heller satire. It's a true story. Yeah
right, all right, So okay, next next German universities. I don't
know what about Germany and universities and colonizers. What did you want to say
about that, Steve, Wait, did I know, Wait, which question
are we talking about here? You said, so we seem to be following
the path of German universities in the nineteen thirties. Oh well, just what
I meant was that German universities were a hotbed of support for Nazism and the
Nazi Party. Right and give an intellectual cover by people like especially Heidiger.
Right, that gives the intellectual cover to Hamas, all these people who say
that, you know, Israel is a settler colonist. I mean, but
at the level of a Heidiger. Oh well, you know I haven't.
Well, first of all, nobody, but there are people who purport to
try to do it, like you know, Edward Sayid's famous book on Orientalism,
which I've never read. By you know, it sounds like that really
does sound like a book that's not worth wasting your time on. Friends,
Finans Wretched of the Earth. That's the bible for these people. And I
don't even think that book had anything to talk about the Middle East or Israel
re Jews in particular, but the ideology of it was easily transferable. So
and you know, I remember, I think that book dates from the sixties
The Wretched of the Earth, and I never read it, but I know
it was on a ton of reading lists in the seventies when I was in
college, often in education departments. The other book that was big was Paulo
Freire was some radical left loon, the Pedagogy of the Oppressed. And that's
when we should have been paying attention to when education schools and education programs at
universities were moving hard left, really fast. They still read those books,
I think, and so look, they're not at the level of Heidegger,
who you know, that's another story for another day. But there are these
intellectual gurus who are treated with great authority on college campuses. And I'm sure
AOC's read all of those probably if she knows how to. I didn't know
if she could read. Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, that's what
he says here. Yeah, I thought you want to take up well the
questions, I know you did want to talk a little about colonizing universities.
Well just that, you know, that's the big thing is dec you know,
you even hear this in physics and chemistry. We have to decolonize the
syllabus. And what that means is just halfy were white male authors, you
know, don't read the classic authors, right, I'd like to d the
syllabus. I just want you guys to know. I know I've said this
before, but it bears repeating in this context that you can ask Steve,
especially in graduate school, we would I'll bet three out of all the classes
I took even how to syllabus in graduate school, you know, you just
kind of knew what you were expected to do. They probably didn't put you
know, book orders back before electronic books and so on in Amazon. They
probably didn't even bother to put book orders in the bookstore. But you could
find all of the great classics. And you know, if you dig a
glass on nietzs and each was there. Aristota, Aristata was there. But
they'd walk in and they say, okay, you got these papers due,
and that was it. And then then you just came to class and you
just talked about stuff, and you learned more than you could ever possibly have
imagined. My last syllabus I had to redo because there was a new university
mandated syllabus template without content is fourteen pages long, right, so it has
to include an entire page of resources for students who are struggling mentally, economically,
academically. I don't know what else is left. Sexually, I don't
know. I don't. Yeah, you know, that's well, there's that
the boilerplate, you know, have to include. But even yeah, right,
I remember that, even from someone like let Levy. The syllabus was
two pages long, and I have so that I'm sure you've had this experience.
I for quite a while did the long syllabus week by week. Here's
the reading for each class, here's when the assignments are due, et cetera,
et cetera. And then I always have students send me emails or in
class razers, what are we doing when I say it's in the syllabus?
You know it's online. You can not hard to find. And oh,
so I'm actually decided for this next semester, when I'm visiting at Pepperdine again,
I'm going to go back to the two page syllabus. So, hey,
we should take up Michael Lee's. He has a series of questions,
but I think maybe you want to go from the bottom up, right,
you have a handy If not, I do, Yeah, go ahead,
well, he let's go from the bottom up. Actually, Michael Lee sent
in this question a couple of days ago, when we first announced we were
going to have a live episode. How close is America to the catastrophes of
the Civil War, the Great Depression? In World War Two? We were
at the precipice at the end of the Carter era when Reagan began his presidency.
How do Lucretian I come compare and contrast Trump to Reagan? Or you
know, I can actually use the Santas or or anybody who might replace the
current thunderhead we've got who's worse than Carter? Do you want to go first?
Me? You go first? Well, all right, you know we've
talked about this before, and I'm not sure have anything new to say,
although if you missed it before, what I said is I think that there
are all kinds of conditions for spontaneous violence that would make whatever you think of
January sixth, And we don't need to decide that question to argue it out,
but it would make that seem like a picnic because if you have some
states try to invalidate Trump's presence on the ballot, I mean, you have
serious adults talking about this, or refuse to count his votes, or refuse
to certify his election, or the deep State moves to arrest him and prevent
him from becoming president after he wins an election. That's when you have a
lot of Americans rise up armed this time, unlike January six and starts surrounding
federal buildings in states in the Midwest or wherever this is going on, and
that starts to look like a civil war. And I would add to that
that, of course, everything we've seen happening for the last two and a
half years through our Justice Department, the Biden Justice Department, even Georgia and
New York and so on, the whole point of all of that, the
January sixth prosecutions, persecutions, the point of all of that is to make
sure that they know they've got a cheat. And every day it becomes more
and more apparent that the left has to cheat if they want, if they
want Biden to win again, because you know, he just keeps going further
down in the polls, not just on Republicans in Independence, but I heard
he lost eleven points among Democrats in the last week or so on the polls.
So it's you know, it's one of those things we've always said,
Republicans Trump supporters whatever you want to however you want to say, it will
need to have a slam dunk victory in order to go beyond all the election
fraud. However, it looks like, I mean, we're way out still,
I get it, but it looks like we're With every passing day we
get closer and closer to a huge slam dunk victory, in which case it
will be even more obvious when Democrats do all of the things we know they're
going to try to do to win by hooker by crook the twenty twenty four
election, and if all of that happens, that's all. I'm not disagreeing
with you at all, Steve. I'm just saying it's become even more the
case that people see that the prosecution and persecution of Trump is intended to intimidate
not Trump, he's not intimidated by it, but everybody around him. And
next time, whatever you do, don't you dare support Trump when he tries
to say that the election was stolen from him, because this is what will
happen to you. This is what will happen to you. Same with January
sixth, protesters on and on down the line. Don't you dare go protest
against pornography homosexual pornography in your school library, because we'll send We'll send the
FBI after you will put you on a domestic terror list. Don't you dare
go to a traditional Catholic church where veil and listen to Mass in Latin because
that proves you are, in fact a radical traditional Catholic. Yeah, a
bit of an other by the way, I mean what you said that.
You know, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the Department of Homeland
Security suddenly ratchet up the no fly lists after the election, right to keep
people from coming to Washington from far away right. That would stop an under
January sixth, So I think all kinds of crazy things could happen. They
could just they could just tell the airlines that there's a terrorist threat and they
wouldn't fly in. That's all. Who knows, right exactly who knows?
I have to say. In the comment threat today, Pizza Bob is on
his game. He says x slax would colonies at university. That's true,
But the more serious point Pizza Bob makes is the doubts about whether Joe Biden
is going to be the candidate. So yeah, we've been saying this for
months now. I did catch a quote in I think Politico from Tim Alberta
in the last day or two quoting James Carville. You know that guy knows
a thing or two about politics. You may think he's a barking loom from
the Clinton days and being married to Mary Madeline his punishment enough, I think,
But he said he'd be worse married to her than her married to him.
Well, okay, the one is his comment was, I goes something
like this, He said, you realize that Biden is sinking every day and
can't possibly win re election. And he says when I tell the the Democrats,
they look at me and they don't argue. They say, you're not
allowed to say that, which I think is both literally true but also,
you know, expression of the conformers and the Democratic Party, but also an
expression of their underlying panic about things. Right. Yes, absolutely heard it
back and forth today that the real problem is is that even Democrats have lost
complete faith in Joe Biden, but they have no faith in kam Law,
and so they have to return their faith to Joe Biden. Right. Oh,
by the way, so this week lucretia. I'm going to borrow your
tenfoil hat. I saw this news squib that sometime, maybe it's now today
or the next few days, Biden is making a trip to Minnesota with destination
and purpose undisclosed. Well, what's in Minnesota? The Mayo Clinic is what's
in Minnesota. That's where you go. That's where Ronald Reagan went to have
the diagnosis. As earliest diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease, right, there's some of
the best diagnosing the really fine, difficult diseases at an early moment, and
especially neurological ones. And so I'm thinking, hmm, so he making steak
a secret trip to get checked out. They get checked out for what,
well for Well, well, now you're being too literal, although i'd be
actually what I'm really I think you there's no point in getting checked out there.
They've obviously figured out what it is they need to do to get him
to be almost lucid for at least short amount of time. I'm no expert
on this, some kind of uh, you know, adrenaline, whatever it
is they do, but it's what's obvious is it's working for a shorter and
shorter and shorter. Sure, well, okay, that could be it,
right, See, if we can't get better meds to prop him up.
It could also be again this pure speculation. It could also be he comes
back from this trip and he says, you know, I'm getting old.
I went and decided to get the best medical experts, and you know,
they tell me, although I could carry on from their couple of years,
I can't make it through the next term. And so with great reluctance,
I am going to step back. But by the way, we only have
one more week until you pass a lot of the deadlines for entering for filing
to the candidate in the primaries, So if he waits under ten or ten
days or two weeks, it becomes difficult to have a traditional campaign. So
that means he might still be able to control the nomination. I don't know,
okay, so I have a left field. I forgot to tell you
that I wanted and it'll be short, I promised. But in NPR this
morning National Property, I was reminded of it from my Babylon b and NPR
they actually believe it. In NPR has some sort of written something and so
in something written by out of NPR dot com. This is the title with
the last of nine base renamings. The Army helps cast aside the myth of
the Confederacy. Guys all thought the Confederacy was real, but it's just a
meth. It gets better, though. The Army renamed the last nine bases
originally named for Confederate generals in entire category of memorials venerating the Confederacy disappeared.
The bases had been named for men who fought against the very army that uses
them and who fought for the right to own slaves. The new names could
scarcely be more different. I'm almost done. At the first renaming in March,
Native American dancers and musicians were part of the ceremony as Fort Pickett in
Virginia became Fort Barfoot for World War Two Medal of Honor winner Van Barfoot.
Barfoot was a Choctaw Indian, which made it the first Army post in the
continental United States to bear the name of an American soldier. Okay, let's
think this through for just a moment. We're going to get rid of all
the Confederate names. Of base is because they fought against the very army where
the soldiers serve. Does anybody remember what most of the base I live next
to Fort Wachuka was. Its first thing was here to kill the Apache Indians.
Okay, why kill the Apache Indians? So not just because we are
colonizers and all those other things and genocidal maniacs, because they were killing us.
Yeah, and when people want to kill us, we like to kill
them back. And so we put an army base here. But we're gonna
burn the statue of Robert E. Lee and turn it into I don't know
what the hell, oh god, the whole story. Just want to throw
up because our army fought against his him, I guess. But we're gonna
rename it picket, charge Picket. We're gonna rename it after a chalk to
Indian because we didn't fight Indians and they didn't fight us. Are these people
just stupid? Yes? I means hard. I feel better whiskey talking.
No, it's not. Because what reminded me of that is the Babylon Bee
headline. I should see if I could actually show it. Am I allowed
to share? You're allowed? Sorry? I can't get it bigger than this.
Lee's statue gives one final thumbs up as it's melted down. Yeah,
there's the picture from the terminator too, when you know Arnold gives the thumbs
up as he's being melted down, you know, save the world. And
I saw another of somebody said, why isn't Gallum jumping in after the statue
to try and save it? You know, it's like for Mountcomb. Okay,
okay, do we want it? We're almost out of time, but
do more questions before? Well, Michael had another question, which is a
big, sprawling one, and I just say a couple of brief things about
it. How do we think successful leaders like Lincoln and Roosevelt were able to
knit to get her to their parties? Doesn't require a crisis? Do we
think that, you know, somebody like whether Michael Johnson or somebody else could
do that today? I think the premise of the question is a little bit
flawed in this respect. First of all, if he looked carefully at Franklin
Roosevelt, his party was very fractious. Some of his biggest problems were from
Southern Democrats in particular, and he tried to purge the party and it crashed
and burned. And and then of course Lincoln, the Republican party was more
unified, but that's because it was brand new and he emerged as the pre
event leader before he became president. But noticed they both have to be presidents.
It's lucretion. I were talking about this because this actually Michael Lee brought
it up up, the fact we now have a Republican speaker, and we
kind of like the look of the guy, right, I mean we were
saying earlier. He says some great things. He's sort of handsome and presentable,
and he scares the left and the media. But once, can anybody
name a Speaker of the House who's ever been a prominent party leader from the
last whatever? Really? I mean, Tip O'Neil was the highest ranking Democrat
under Reagan, and for two years he was the leading opponent to Reagan until
you've got a presidential field in eighty four. Uh. You know, Sam
Rayburn was thought to have been, you know, an effective leader of the
House, but that's because you had effective Democratic presidents or Republicans like Eisenhower he
could get along with. But otherwise, can you name any Speaker of the
House from the thirties, the forties, the twenties, anytime? Yeah,
noble people, I told Steve his attempt at historical analogy from one hundred years
ago has no relevance to what wasn't making an analogy. I mean, I
was saying that you give me because if I hadn't heard of somebody before,
that doesn't mean I couldn't hear for somebody. Now. Well, okay,
that's my point. I don't probably see Johnson as a huge you know,
uh, tribe of the lion and the as I go tribe with the lion,
something of the eagle that Lincoln makes reference to. I don't necessarily see
him that. But I do think that in this messed up situation we're in
right now, that if he were able to soberly pass a budget that cuts
spending, that gets rid of the kind of crap spending that Americans don't support
but don't pay too much attention to, and if he were able to do
those things and sort of build some support around that and all those weakned Rhino
Republicans backed him on it, that he might be able to make a difference.
Will he ever be a Lincoln Probably not unless he moves out of that
position into something else, But you never well, remember, he's now number
three in line for the presidency. Can somebody take out Kamala and I think
the other part will take care of itself, that's right, Yeah, yeah,
leave it alone. Maybe at Mayo. Maybe that's where they're going to
go to do that whole Dave thing. They're going to take him into Mayo
and you know, put him in that room down there and keep him alive
and then find a body double, which people claim all the time is actually
the you know, representing him out there on the you know, in front
of the public. It's not really Biden. And they you know, they
show all these differences and little tiny things like ear lobes and stuff could be
you never know, right, Yeah, that's right. There were such great
comments. Steve will never get back back to all of them. I've started
to believe in the myth of intelligence. Holy crap. And and who was
it? Wait a minute, I got to find it pointed out that yes,
in fact, it occurred to me right when you said it, that
the Chalk Down not only sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War, but
they owned slaves, They owned black slaves. These people are just so dumb.
Oh my god. Anyway, yeah, all right, anything else,
Steve before I move on to some really fabulous We should probably wind it up
now, so if you've got some be headlines you want to share with people,
we'll close out for this week. I will mention that next week John
You has gone again. I forget he's often I don't know, Asia somewhere.
So next week will be Lucretian and I. Although we might do a
guest or two next week, we're still thinking about that. And for those
of you John you detractors out there, I do want you to understand that
John makes it possible for me to appear even more radical, one of the
reasons why I love him on this show. And he's actually pretty smart when
it comes to a lot of things, he's really dumb. I thought of
him the other day. Wow, really about something? Sorry? Sorry,
oh, I thought of him the other day talking to a colleague that I
adore. I adore this woman. She is smart, she is capable,
she's a great person. But I asked her, I said, what do
you know about what's going on in Gaza? She said, what do you
mean Gaza? I said, you know what the hamas in these relations?
Nothing? Wow? Yeah, PhD in education. But but still a really
good person, a smart person. Yeah, and so John's a little bit
like that. Of course, he knows what's going on in Gaza, but
he doesn't follow the culture wars. I see the importance of the culture wars,
and I think sometimes yeah, like doctor Jill. No, much smarter
than doctor Jill actually and much more capable. John doesn't doesn't see those things
as important, so he purposely doesn't pay attention to them. But he's still
a great guy. He really, he's a really great guy. Okay,
give me a big smile. I want to get a screenshot for the wait.
Wait, I have to do it so you get my flag. Can't
hold on a sit up straight for a change, I can't. Okay,
sorry, mile for the camera. Good, Okay, all right, Babylon
b Yeah, hamas leader appointed senior fellow at Harvard University. That's not even
that's not even sad satire. Yeah, liberal's call for canceling Normandy invasion as
innocent French people live there. Nobody does this better. They just don't,
you know, they just don't. How about colleges graciously offer addicts for Jewish
students to hideen during violent rallies. Yeah, I know that's a more than
satire, but yes, right, yeah, it really is. This one's
sort of funny. I have yet to ask my MMA son about this one.
I guess it's true to shed gay beer image bud Light partners with Sport,
where sweaty men and underwear hug for twenty five minutes. Yeah, the
picture is you know, some wrestlers. Yeah, some MMA wrestlers smoke rises
over capital, indicating Congress has resumed setting taxpayer money on fire. Yeah,
that's sure true. And over last week where they said that Hamas decides that
you know, the Emperor hero Hido wants a ceasefire after Pearl Harbor, and
they had, you know, this week it's Hamas clarifies they only want Israel
to cease fire because God, these are too close. They're not even satire
anymore. No, right, yeah, okay, do you have a Camalism.
I don't, I should, but i'll just you know, put in
the placeholder for Kamela. She's been really quiet about all this stuff, which
I think is actually I heard a Democrat say she's been a wall Yeah,
and I'll bet that's because everybody knows that whatever she says will be stupid.
All right, But it is possible that she can make a prepared statement and
still get it so god awful messed up wrong. Well, I've been wondering,
well, we'll linger on this for twenty seconds. I've been wondering if
her staff actually hates her because she's, you know, reputation for two decades
now being a terrible boss. And I could see people who say here say
that she's like Ron Burghency. She'll say anything you put on the teleprompter.
So I wonder or she hires such staff of such appalling mediocrity that they don't
know how that they're giving her say. But you know, if you ever
watched The Office and the incredibly clever dialogue that they gave to Michael Scott,
it takes a special kind of genius to put together that sort of dialogue.
And I think that about Kamala Harris. There's a special because there's a consistency
to the idiocy. It's not just random yeah, you know, And so
that's what makes it all. It's almost as if they got a few of
her original sayings and they put it into chat GPT version four and then said,
give us more kamalaisms, and that's what it does. Well, that's
what I'm gonna do next, are you? I'm gonna try it. I
mean, I haven't thought about that, but I'll just ask chat be she
be te to write or other you know, generative apps to write camelisms and
see what we come up with. But for now, I know, and
just so you know, in order to do it, well, you actually
need to upload some so that it learns. Yeah, the later versions,
that's what. Okay, for now, Steve, drink your whiskey. Need
let's go, Brandon, and God don't forget to milk the soft serve power
dividend. Well okay, well wait we are Now is the time to drink
our whiskey, and that time is every day, right, and God save
the queen man. Thanks everybody for tuning in. We had a nice crowd
here today and we'll be back next week. Trapping slat Sail Ricochet joined the
conversation. He kept sending me pictures of Oh, look at me drinking in
this caffee reading my book. Don't I look like an intellectual? No?
I didn't say that, Yes you did. That was the point. I'm
not done making fun of you, but I'll move on