1 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:22,079 Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of Your Wrong with David Harsani and 2 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:26,000 Molly Hemingway. Just like to remind everyone up top that if you have any 3 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,440 hate mail, fan mail, any kind of mail that you want to send 4 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:34,359 us, please do at radio at the Federalist. So, Molly, I 5 00:00:34,359 --> 00:00:38,320 think we should start with today's I mean, I think it's it's a reported 6 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:42,200 announce It's reported that DeSantis is going to Ronda Santis is going to announce for 7 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,320 the presidency today on Twitter. Has that been verified? Like for sure? 8 00:00:45,719 --> 00:00:48,240 I don't know what it would mean to be verified, but yeah, that's 9 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,799 what That's what apparently is going to happen, and it's going to happen, 10 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,359 at least for me. One of the interesting angles of this is that it's 11 00:00:55,359 --> 00:01:00,359 going to happen on Twitter Space, which is kind of like the audio space 12 00:01:00,399 --> 00:01:03,480 where people have conversations. I will I will admit upfront as well that I 13 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:08,200 have never been on a Twitter space and I'm not exactly sure how it feels 14 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,680 or looks to do that. I'll probably tune in today to see what Rond 15 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,599 santass to say. So I have done a Twitter space before. I've listened 16 00:01:17,599 --> 00:01:21,719 in on many of them. There are these people on Twitter who I know 17 00:01:21,879 --> 00:01:27,400 jokingly call the Internet autists who understand every nook and cranny of the Russia collusion 18 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:32,400 hoax. And sometimes they have Twitter spaces and it's just fun to kind of 19 00:01:32,439 --> 00:01:34,640 listen in and see what they're fighting about or what they what they think. 20 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,959 But those are audio only, and for some reason in my mind, I 21 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,640 thought this would be audio end video, but now I realize it might just 22 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,239 be audio. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, maybe maybe there 23 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:53,000 will be some unveiling of some new technology on Twitter. I don't I don't 24 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,120 know. Probably not. I just made that up, but you never know. 25 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:00,719 I find it interesting that a lot of people in media and media observers 26 00:02:00,719 --> 00:02:05,200 and media reporters are very uset where they're pretending not to be upset, but 27 00:02:05,239 --> 00:02:08,159 they seem upset that someone would actually circumvent the gate keepers that you know, 28 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:10,879 where you usually go for this sort of thing. Now, my view on 29 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,680 this is that it's just going to be covered by everyone anyway, so it's 30 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,159 almost irrelevant. I just don't think it's that important today where you announced, 31 00:02:17,199 --> 00:02:20,520 it's not like the old days, right, Do you agree with that? 32 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,719 I actually don't know if it ever mattered where you announced. I mean, 33 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:29,400 I remember. The one announcement I remember from the twenty twenty cycle was Kamala 34 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:36,280 Harris's announcement. It was massive. She had the Barack Obama team rolling her 35 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:42,719 out, she had filled San Francisco with all her lefty supporters and it looked 36 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:46,960 really Obama like, and she went on to get like not a single vote 37 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:52,560 in the Democrat primary. She might have always been running to be a mediocre 38 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:57,759 vice president. I don't know, But that's the only actual announcement that I 39 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,800 really remember. Well, you probably from twenty twenty, From twenty twenty, 40 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,840 yeah, twenty sixteen, nobody would have said, I have an idea for 41 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:10,319 the perfect announcement. You're gonna come down a golden escalator and you're going to 42 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,719 tell people you're gonna win the presidency. Like it was brilliant, but it's 43 00:03:15,759 --> 00:03:17,439 not what anyone would have planned. But usually I think you just need to 44 00:03:17,479 --> 00:03:21,240 get in the race and then just start seeing how things go. But having 45 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,439 said that, I actually like the Twitter announcement for the reason you just said, 46 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:32,560 which is the Ronda stantists has a posture of utter disdain for the propagandists 47 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:38,759 in the corporate media and announcing on Twitter is a great way to show that 48 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,599 you are not going to be beholden to the corporate press. I think. 49 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:47,639 Okay. And another interesting aspect is that Elon Musk and he's going to interview 50 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:53,560 him. I think also David is it sa Sacks? Yes? Yes, 51 00:03:53,840 --> 00:04:00,919 noted federalist author David Sacks. He has a very popular pie cast that he 52 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:08,319 does, and I think he'll be moderating a discussion between Elon and and Ronda 53 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,719 Santis. I don't know exactly how to'll go, but I will be tuning 54 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,319 in. I will as well, and I find but I do find the 55 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:21,279 Elon aspect kind of interesting and in that he is He's an incredibly well known 56 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,279 popular guy. Does he have the most followers on Twitter? Probably? So 57 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:28,399 we're talking about like over one hundred million. I forget what the numbers. 58 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,759 I have this suspicion, though I have no hard data to back it up, 59 00:04:33,759 --> 00:04:41,199 that Elon's turn towards I wouldn't call it like traditional conservatism or even conservatism. 60 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:44,279 I just think it's kind of like normyism, like he's just wants to 61 00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:48,439 normal people doing normal things, going to be a normal country has actually given 62 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,480 a lot of cover to people who who would not normally be open to someone 63 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,120 like Ronda Santis. Do you do you agree that that having Elon sort of 64 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,480 backing him, and I think this, I think he has backed him in 65 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,920 the past on Twitter in some way helps de Santis, you know, just 66 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:10,319 generally with independence or things like that. I can't remember if Elon supported him 67 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,480 for governor or if he was saying you would make a good president, but 68 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:18,360 he has said recently that officially he's neutral in the race. He does seem 69 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:24,680 to be not neutral when it comes to free speech and making Twitter a really 70 00:05:24,759 --> 00:05:30,959 high value free speech platform or something approximating it, because there's still very many 71 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:35,800 problems with it. But I don't know. I don't know if I agree 72 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,959 with that yet. I don't know how. Elon's obviously very influential and he 73 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:46,279 has the power breakthrough conversations by saying things that like everybody kind of knows it 74 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,600 is true, but you're not allowed to say it. So it's interesting that 75 00:05:49,639 --> 00:05:53,800 he's involved in this, But I view it more like you would view Chris 76 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:59,480 Wallace interviewing someone on the day of their announcement. It's not you know, 77 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:03,560 it does matter if the person is well respected or controversial, it's just kind 78 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:09,680 of the person who's being part of the journalistic side of the announcement. Well, 79 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,319 what I like about it is that he's actually not a journalist and he 80 00:06:12,399 --> 00:06:16,519 might ask interesting questions. Like journalists have prefabricated ideas about what they're supposed to 81 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,519 ask. It's always the same, it's always boring. If you went on 82 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:25,040 to CNN, you know exactly how they be like why why don't you think 83 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:28,600 teachers should be able to say the word gay or whatever? So it could 84 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:32,160 be more interesting because he's not really a journalist, right, So that reminds 85 00:06:32,199 --> 00:06:36,560 me that the other thing that is interesting about Twitter spaces is that when you 86 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:42,839 listen in on a Twitter space, you have this option to raise your hand 87 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,720 with like and then buy your avatar. There's a little like emoji hand raised 88 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,600 to say, like, this person wants to ask a question. And so 89 00:06:49,639 --> 00:06:55,839 I saw all these people yesterday saying that Donald Trump should make his triumphant return 90 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:01,240 to Twitter on today during the spent sitting on the Twitter space and just sit 91 00:07:01,319 --> 00:07:08,160 there with his like emoji hand raised constantly throughout the throughout the Twitter space of 92 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,279 Ronda Santis's announcement. It made me laugh. Yeah, that's funny, But 93 00:07:12,439 --> 00:07:15,519 god, I think it means that other people can ask questions. I think 94 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,920 it means like you and I could go in there, raise our hands and 95 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,839 we might get a question answered. I mean, unlikely given how many people 96 00:07:21,839 --> 00:07:28,079 will be watching, but possible. Yeah. Just you you pointing out that 97 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,240 Donald Trump could raise his hand there makes me not look forward to what's going 98 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:35,480 to come in the next few months. The crazy online battle that goes on 99 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,360 between those two camps is just so annoying. I want to quickly say, 100 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,079 though, I read a story or a SOI a story in the Atlantic which 101 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,439 basically said that Elon has turned Twitter into an alt right hub of just nazi's, 102 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:54,800 anti Semites and so forth, and that is why, you know, 103 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,959 someone like Ronda Santis feels more comfortable there than he does on even Fox or 104 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,279 or elsewhere. But it is amazing to me how all of a sudden, 105 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:07,879 having just open speech is framed as you supporting all the speech that's involved, 106 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:13,040 which is just completely one It's a one eighty from what liberalism was about, 107 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,319 maybe even ten years ago, and yet that is just a talking point. 108 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,079 So it's just Okay, I just kind of amazing. Yeah, this reminds 109 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:28,360 me of something The Atlantic puts out this piece saying going after Twitter for being 110 00:08:28,399 --> 00:08:35,200 a free speech platform, and it reminded me that the Atlantic's motto used to 111 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,240 be and probably still is, something about how they've been of no party or 112 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:45,360 click since eighteen fifty seven. I don't know if that was ever true, 113 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:50,480 but I've never thought of a motto that is less true for a publication than 114 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:54,879 of no party or click. I mean, the Atlantic is nothing but party 115 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,320 and click, and they are clearly very hostile to people being able to express 116 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:07,799 themselves in converse and like discover truth on their own without the Atlantic leading the 117 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:13,720 way. Glenn Greenwald was reminding people that the current editor of the Atlantic was 118 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:22,919 one of the primary cheerleaders of the falsehoods that led to the Iraq war invasion. 119 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:26,759 He falsely, you pushed the site. He pushed this idea that Saddam 120 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,000 Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that he was about to deploy at any minute, 121 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,519 And he was hailed and put on every TV show and given this like 122 00:09:35,639 --> 00:09:41,600 really big platform, and it was his name, Jeffrey Goldberg, and he 123 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:46,960 was never punished for being so wrong or being such a bad journalist. He's 124 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:54,320 also the guy who invented, or allowed himself to be used by other people 125 00:09:54,360 --> 00:10:03,720 who invented the completely and demonstrably false twenty twenty store that Donald Trump had called 126 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:07,320 dead American soldiers from World War One suckers and losers or something like that. 127 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,320 He built this, He claims there's no way to test it out at all. 128 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:18,440 He claims he had four anonymous sources who said that the story that Donald 129 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,639 Trump couldn't go to Ein Marne during his visit to France at some point in 130 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,320 his presidency. You know, the story was that he couldn't make it there 131 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,759 because of rain. But really it's because, contrary to everything you've ever seen 132 00:10:30,879 --> 00:10:35,440 or witnessed from the man, he secretly harbors a hatred for dead World War 133 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:41,120 One American soldiers. The story was so ludicrous that more than twenty people, 134 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:46,120 including people who loathed Donald Trump with like the fire of a thousand sons, 135 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:54,919 said this story is complete an utter bullpuckey. People like John Bolton, who 136 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,440 said, I was there, and we know we can only take the President 137 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,639 of the United States to places when it's safe to do so, and because 138 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:07,840 of rain and all this stuff. It was an impossibility. I'll just note 139 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:11,360 that I was in Paris in the summer of twenty twenty and I actually got 140 00:11:11,399 --> 00:11:16,279 to go to ein Marne, and even then people were talking about how they 141 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,039 couldn't take President Trump on the day that they were supposed to do it. 142 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:26,360 A further note, he visited a World War One American cemetery the next day. 143 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:30,559 So, and I mean, there's just like nothing about the story that 144 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,679 was legitimate. It has still not been retracted. The Atlantic is also the 145 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:39,360 publication that pushed the Russia collusion hoax. They published many stories. I think 146 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:45,399 they even had like Franklin four right, like a late era Russia collusion hoax, 147 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,559 defending the most preposterous part of the whole thing, which was like the 148 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,720 Alpha Bank. They I mean, they're just wrong, and they were wrong 149 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,720 about BLM, they were wrong about Kavanaugh, They're wrong about every story out 150 00:11:54,759 --> 00:12:00,919 there. They are purveyors of propaganda and disinformation, and they're angry that people 151 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:05,080 might have free speech of no party or click since eighteen fifty seven. No, 152 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:11,519 yeah, I was a big fan of Atlantic years ago. I just 153 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,519 thought their writing was so high quality, and even when I disagreed. I 154 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,960 just thought it was a worthwhile read. But Jeffrey Goldberg has destroyed that magazine. 155 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,320 I mean, it was already on the way down, the trajectory was 156 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:24,519 not good. But he has completely destroyed the credibility of that magazine. Hired 157 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:30,799 a bunch of people who are, you know, just intellectually dishonest, people 158 00:12:30,919 --> 00:12:35,000 constantly dishonest. And but I just quickly wanted to say one thing, and 159 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:39,519 I agree with everything you say about Jeffrey Goldward, but I think the Iraq 160 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,720 war stuff was far more complicated than the Russia collusion hoax stuff which end that 161 00:12:43,919 --> 00:12:46,480 story. It was that you can roll your eyes at me all you like. 162 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,960 I you know, I think people truly believe things that were untrue. 163 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:56,200 We're in the case of like that story about Donald Trump in the cemetery. 164 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:03,200 It was completely and obviously transparently just concocted as a hit and had absolutely nothing 165 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,360 behind it. That's just my view of things. I actually, despite the 166 00:13:05,399 --> 00:13:09,039 fact that I did roll my eyes that you're there, I agree with what 167 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,840 you said. It was a much more complicated story. And also it was 168 00:13:13,919 --> 00:13:20,879 an era before which we understood just how completely our intelligence agencies play politics. 169 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:24,919 And so we had, you know, Compowe there at the United Nations saying 170 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:26,639 it was what was I can't remember what the phrase was. It was like 171 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:33,039 airtight. There was no doubt about it. They had the intel that Saddam 172 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,320 Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Now later we find out that this like 173 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:45,960 totally locked down, totally airtight intelligence was not. It came from It came 174 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:52,039 from information that the Americans got from Germans who had been talking to an Iraqi 175 00:13:52,279 --> 00:13:58,120 person who wanted his family to take power from Saddam Hussein's family. So he 176 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:03,159 concocted this kind of crazy story about how so Dom not only had weapons of 177 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,679 mass destruction but the reason why nobody had ever found them is because he was 178 00:14:07,799 --> 00:14:13,840 moving it around the country in mobile units. And the source was someone who 179 00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:20,919 had an incentive to not tell the truth. They had his name Curveball or 180 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:26,200 something like that, and never a good name for an intelligent source. The 181 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,240 US never spoke to him. Yeah, the US never spoke to him. 182 00:14:30,519 --> 00:14:33,080 They were never able to assess the credibility of the claim, and they used 183 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,399 that to go to the United Nations to build the Coalition of the Willing. 184 00:14:37,559 --> 00:14:39,000 But you're a right that we didn't know all that at the time. I 185 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:45,200 will point out that many of the people who were suspicious about the Russia collusion 186 00:14:45,279 --> 00:14:48,960 hoax were people on the left, such as Glenn Greenwald, and people on 187 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,879 the right such as myself who had been skeptical going back to you know, 188 00:14:54,919 --> 00:14:58,080 who had been really skeptical about Iraq war claims. And I think the fact 189 00:14:58,159 --> 00:15:03,159 that we had that experience of going through knowing that intel agencies will lie to 190 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:09,559 you that helped us be more suspicious when that was called for. In twenty 191 00:15:09,639 --> 00:15:18,320 sixteen and twenty seventeen. The Watchdolt on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. 192 00:15:18,399 --> 00:15:22,039 Every day Chris helps unpack the connection between politics and the economy and how it 193 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:24,759 affects your wallet. 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Listen, I have to be 202 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,039 honest with you. It just wasn't in me to get involved in the primary 203 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:04,960 debates and writing about primaries yet I need it's just never ending. But anyway, 204 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:10,360 I've noticed that this narrative has taken hold, that the Santis is this 205 00:16:10,559 --> 00:16:14,000 robot, this artistic person who has no personality, et cetera, et cetera. 206 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,159 I just wanted to read you something that I read today, and the 207 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:22,799 Frank Bruney has I pronounce a column at the New York Times. Here's the 208 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:26,879 tweet. From his style of hair to his dearth of flair, from his 209 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:33,279 emotional removed to his fugitive groove, there's something jarringly antimodern about the Santis. 210 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:41,240 He's more Tebird than Tesla. No matter the Musky announcement tonight. Now that 211 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:45,919 is like has really found his calling, hasn't he? Yeah? Well, 212 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,240 just I laughed when I read it because the president is Joe Biden. I 213 00:16:49,279 --> 00:16:52,759 don't know how flair you know, what his groovy hair cuts all about, 214 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,559 or how modern he is, or if he's more Tesla than tebird. But 215 00:16:56,639 --> 00:17:03,320 the very idea that a conservative and I mean this disposition early conservative person can 216 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,359 win the presidency is insane. I don't know it was Hillary like a groovy 217 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:12,720 modern check or was she just an old lady running for president? She didn't, 218 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:17,279 she didn't win. That's true. That was a bad That was a 219 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:22,039 bad example. Is Joe Biden a groovy modern person? I would say, 220 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:26,799 no, no, yeah, anyway, it just makes me laugh. I 221 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:33,319 mean, they're they're completely in on their call in on this narrative. So 222 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,240 I think that, like with with expectations that go with other candidates, when 223 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,160 he comes out and he's going to show himself to be more you know, 224 00:17:41,279 --> 00:17:44,680 more friendly or or funnier or maybe as a dry So I don't even know 225 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,599 anything about Ron de Santis personally, it's going to backfire on them. So 226 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,640 I am like a pro and a con thing here to stay. So first 227 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,079 off, what I find funny it's everybody's like, oh, Ron de Santis 228 00:17:55,119 --> 00:18:00,680 has failed to take flight. The dude hasn't even announced for president, and 229 00:18:00,759 --> 00:18:07,240 he is polling very strong second in states, nationally, etc. Like who's 230 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:14,480 doing great, Nicky Hayley, Asa Hutchinson, Like those people are kind of 231 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,119 like you want to pat them on the head and say, that's cute that 232 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:21,160 you're running for president. But Ron de Santists without actually even running, isn't 233 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:26,759 a pretty good position, particularly given who he's up against. The Other thing, 234 00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:30,440 though, is that I think it's interesting how many pundits think that they 235 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,759 control who the Republican electorate vote for, and how much they just sort of 236 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:41,160 like dismiss the ideas of the Republican voter. And the Republican voter is going 237 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:45,720 to get to say and who they want to be their nominee, and they've 238 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:48,799 already, I don't know, they've definitely expressed thus far that they want it 239 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:52,519 to be probably Trump, but if not Trump, de Santists. And I'm 240 00:18:52,519 --> 00:18:56,440 not saying there's like not a scenario where someone else could get it. There 241 00:18:56,599 --> 00:19:00,160 is, but the vast majority of Republican voters, according to poll want an 242 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:07,680 America First candidate who has these who has rejected the failed policies of that like 243 00:19:07,759 --> 00:19:12,880 two thousand to twenty fifteen era Republican Party, whether it's you know, bailouts 244 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:19,200 for corporations or never ending wars, or amnesty and no boarders, or like 245 00:19:19,319 --> 00:19:26,519 an economic policy that puts the needs of the worst corporations ahead of average Americans. 246 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,480 And I think there's like a lot of leeway in that space for you 247 00:19:30,519 --> 00:19:34,039 know, what the views particularly are. But it's kind of a return to 248 00:19:34,279 --> 00:19:40,480 a more Reagan or pre Reagan Republican party on some of this stuff. This 249 00:19:40,559 --> 00:19:44,599 is the successful pre Reagan Republican Party. I know everything you just said is 250 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,359 basically baiting me into an argument, but I think it was. I mean, 251 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:49,640 you don't think like, oh, I think it was a complete utter 252 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:56,960 failure the pre Reagan Republican Party, the blood Gerald Ford not on foreign policy. 253 00:19:56,759 --> 00:19:59,799 All right, I'm not going to take any of that bait. I'm 254 00:19:59,799 --> 00:20:03,039 just going to say this to you. I think right now, name recognition 255 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,160 is what drives poll numbers, right, and I think Trump obviously has the 256 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,519 name recognition, and he was president and all of that. I think if 257 00:20:10,559 --> 00:20:12,920 we looked at the same time in twenty sixteen, Trump was probably not on 258 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:18,480 top of polls, right, So it's just way too early to make Maybe 259 00:20:18,519 --> 00:20:22,759 he was, I don't know, but it's just way too early to make 260 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:26,759 these pronouncements. I think that the media want Trump. I think they think 261 00:20:26,759 --> 00:20:30,480 he's going to lose. I think they're scared of Ron de Santis because he 262 00:20:30,519 --> 00:20:36,119 has been effective in Florida. And that's just their perspective. I'm not saying 263 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,119 it's right or wrong. I just think that's their perspective on things. Do 264 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,680 you disagree? I do. I always think there's this like cope in right 265 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:47,079 wing circles where people are like, actually the media love Trump. No they 266 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:52,160 don't, And they're like, the media gave Trump all sorts of free media, 267 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:56,160 you know, during twenty sixteen, and that's why he won. They 268 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,240 did give him all sorts of free media. That's not why he won. 269 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:03,839 He won because of his policies matching with the desires, his policies and approach 270 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,960 matching with the ideas of the Republican Party. But then also I don't know. 271 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,960 I mean, the media are clearly out of their minds with hatred towards 272 00:21:14,039 --> 00:21:18,240 Ron de Santis, but in a way that seems thus far pretty conventional media 273 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:22,920 hatred. I think if he were to become a true threat to winning the 274 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:32,559 nomination, we would see them make him look like you know, Trump Hitler 275 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:37,720 Times twenty. I mean, that's always the case. I don't think they 276 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,720 like Trump. I think they think that Trump is easily beatable. I think 277 00:21:41,759 --> 00:21:45,240 they thought that in twenty sixteen as well, and I think many of us 278 00:21:45,319 --> 00:21:52,039 thought he was easily beatable in that year as well, wrongly. So yes, 279 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,240 I think if ron de Santis a month from now is ahead in the 280 00:21:55,279 --> 00:21:56,880 polls you're going to see, I mean, I don't really know where they 281 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,839 can take it. You're pretending that it's conventional. You're just saying that it's 282 00:22:00,839 --> 00:22:04,759 conventional. I mean, is it conventional to I guess that's a double ACP 283 00:22:06,279 --> 00:22:10,799 has warning black people and gay people not to go to Florida because their lives 284 00:22:10,799 --> 00:22:14,839 are in danger or whatever. But I mean that seems pretty conventionally, it 285 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,440 doesn't. I mean, I feel like that goes back to Reagan air. 286 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,839 I just want to clarify again. I really did only mean on foreign policy, 287 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,839 because I think you and I might agree there were major problems with the 288 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:32,039 economic policy or other things free Reagan. I mean to me some one angry 289 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:33,839 email, Yeah, I mean I don't. Maybe one day we'll do it. 290 00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:38,720 Argue over history, have an argument over history. But I think Nixon 291 00:22:38,799 --> 00:22:42,839 was, you know, a terrible president who was way far left wing on 292 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:48,079 most policies. I think, you know, they were just sort of aimless, 293 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,839 non ideological. I think Goldwater was amazing, of course, and I 294 00:22:51,839 --> 00:22:56,119 think Reagan Reagan just fulfilled that promise. But anyway, at least rhetorically. 295 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:02,039 One quick thing also we should mention, and is that Tim Scott, who 296 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:06,400 also doesn't have much support and I think is kind of it's probably running for 297 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:08,880 vice president, right, isn't Nicky Haley? Isn't Tim Scott? Aren't these 298 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:15,440 people running for vice presidents like to me, I have no idea. I 299 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:18,599 said this before, this real no downside and running for president today, all 300 00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:21,880 you do is get attention. All you do is raise some money. What 301 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,400 what's the downside do you want to do it? Well? I mean, 302 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,079 if you're a name and no one. Again, I've said I wouldn't win 303 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,200 an election of my own home. I don't just don't think my belief system 304 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:34,319 is popular among Americans. I think I'm out of touch with the American voter. 305 00:23:36,319 --> 00:23:40,119 Uh yeah, I don't really even feel like mentioning the other people. 306 00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:45,400 Okay, we'll skip over that. I had something to say there's probably well, 307 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:48,039 well, I'm just gonna say, I mean, well, the one 308 00:23:48,079 --> 00:23:51,119 thing that did does always bother me, of course, is when you see 309 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:56,880 someone like Joy Bahar say that Tim Scott and she mentioned Clarence Thomas don't understand 310 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,880 the experience of the black you know, the black American they have not. 311 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,559 Meanwhile, those two, I believe, have like really inspirational stories to tell 312 00:24:04,599 --> 00:24:07,480 about how you don't have to be a victim of a system, even if 313 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,079 you believe that stuff, which I don't. But the very idea of meritocracy 314 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,799 undermines, you know, the whole leftist worldview, right, So that's why 315 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:21,480 they have to sort of smear African Americans who don't aren't you know, who 316 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:25,839 don't believe the stereotypical things they you know, believe they must. So I 317 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,000 don't just want to mention that, I want to talk a little bit about 318 00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:36,039 the Let's turn our attention to another topic, the death ceiling fight, which 319 00:24:36,079 --> 00:24:41,079 is ongoing. Here's all I have to say on that. I wrote a 320 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:45,240 column about this. The I'm so sick of saying this, but the Preciss 321 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:55,319 coverage of this is just intolerably insufferably misleading. Some reporters don't even bother to 322 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,799 mention that the House has passed a bill hiking hiking the death ceiling. The 323 00:24:59,839 --> 00:25:03,799 other the Day, Political at a story if get the reporter's name, saying 324 00:25:03,799 --> 00:25:07,680 that Biden is a consensus maker, He's been trying to negotiate this whole time, 325 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,359 but Republicans are obstinate and they simply won't agree to anything. So where 326 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:19,039 does this all go? Meanwhile, I dug up quotes from in January showing 327 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,119 that Joe Biden has said repeatedly that the White has has said repeatedly they will 328 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:27,240 not negotiate on the death ceiling, and that Kevin McCarthy has been saying since 329 00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:33,720 February, let's sit down and negotiate. But yet they have this prefabricated story 330 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:38,319 and they just continually publish it. They've been doing this since since since Bayner 331 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:44,319 and Obama were involved in these debates. Yeah. There, So the corporate 332 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:51,319 media messaging, particularly the Politico John Lemayer piece that you uttered evisrated, matches 333 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:57,319 completely with left wing Democrat messaging. I saw that AOC tweeted last night. 334 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,119 Why would anyone like Kevin McCarthy has the votes right now, he hasn't done 335 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,039 the work. He doesn't have the votes for his current proposal in the Senate, 336 00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:11,319 he doesn't have the votes in the House. He doesn't even have the 337 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:17,119 votes in his own party, and the GOP are starting to feel that. 338 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,559 But I want to say that this tweet actually kind of excited me. And 339 00:26:21,759 --> 00:26:26,119 let me first off point out the obvious AOC is writing this as if Kevin 340 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:33,880 McCarthy hadn't already passed a House increase on the debt limit, which he did 341 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:38,000 weeks ago, and she's just acting like it didn't happen. But the fact 342 00:26:38,039 --> 00:26:44,079 that she's acting like this didn't happen, the fact that from mea Jaia Paul 343 00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:51,000 called for riots in the streets if she doesn't get a like just clean debt 344 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:56,279 limit raise, the fact that the Senate, including supposed like yes people like 345 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:02,200 John Fetterman, but also saying mentally competent Democrat senators are saying like there's going 346 00:27:02,279 --> 00:27:07,720 to be a fourteenth Amendment solution. The fourteenth Amendment exists so that the president 347 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,799 can unilaterally raise the debt ceiling limit, which is John, that was John 348 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:18,079 Fetterman. Yeah, these are insane reactions, and I think it's what you're 349 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:22,680 seeing is that the left, the Democrats, the media, they realize that 350 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,799 they're about to lose their first debt ceiling fight in forever maybe, and they 351 00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:32,079 don't know how to cope with it, and they're just like lashing out everywhere. 352 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:37,519 So I love seeing the reaction of the left that I also want to 353 00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:41,119 say, can I interject one quick thing. We're talking about taking spending levels 354 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:47,079 back to all the way back to twenty twenty two levels, so they're like, 355 00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:49,119 there's this guy, oh, I think it's last name Stein is a 356 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,839 report at the Economics Report at the Washington Post, who is saying, like, 357 00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:00,559 Democrats can't abide by this kind of massive cut into nutrition for the poor, 358 00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:04,240 and you know, all this stuff when we're talking about going back to 359 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:10,839 twenty twenty two spending levels. And then Republicans the bill, I believe, 360 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:15,720 has a ten year window where you can raise spending or hike spending by one 361 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:18,759 percent per year, which is completely reasonable. And by the way, whenever 362 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:22,000 you pull this question, the vast majority of people, like seventy percent are 363 00:28:22,039 --> 00:28:29,119 in the side of Republicans as when it comes to cutting spending connected to I'd 364 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:33,680 actually just pause to read these Jeff Stein Washington Post chief Stein. Yeah, 365 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:41,000 this guy is the one who last week tweeted out that John Fetterman had made 366 00:28:41,039 --> 00:28:48,759 a mentally coherent comment in a hearing, when in fact he had not spoken 367 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:55,400 sentences, And Jeff Stein cleaned up the quote to make it make sense and 368 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,240 tweeted out that that's what Fetterman had said. Betterman is unable to speak, 369 00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:03,960 he's able, he's unable to do his duties. He's unable to deliberate. 370 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,480 He's unable to do anything, and everyone knows it. And if this were 371 00:29:10,599 --> 00:29:15,359 a Republican it would be the number one story leading everything, like day after 372 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,240 day that the Republicans are monsters for letting someone who's mentally unable to fulfill his 373 00:29:19,319 --> 00:29:26,160 duties preside in the Senate. And Jeff Stein is that level of Pravda like 374 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,640 propagandist. He said again last night, I really do not know how this 375 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:34,720 ends. It is very hard for me to see how the White House accepts 376 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:41,279 the kinds of cuts to programs like education, rental aid, nutrition for poor 377 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,240 families that the GOP seems to have made their red line. Do not envy 378 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:49,119 the White House comms team that could be tasked with figuring out how to spin 379 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:55,200 a deal that is directionally similar to the Goop cuts they spent months incinerating. 380 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,559 At the end of the day, it sure looks like President Biden is going 381 00:29:59,599 --> 00:30:03,319 to have to pick out pick between the unilateral options they view as all incredibly 382 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,960 risky and cuts as big as six percent twelve percent to a huge chunk of 383 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,400 domestic programs that are too numerous to share to list here. He's like the 384 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,440 last hysterical And as you said, it's about bringing spending back to a few 385 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:26,240 months ago. Well, discretionary spending has been raised by twenty three percent in 386 00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:32,359 the last two years because of a COVID emergency. Now this happens all the 387 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,039 time. Whatever spending they're going to do is going to be the new sacred 388 00:30:36,119 --> 00:30:41,240 baseline that can never be breached again. And this is why it's so disastrous 389 00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:44,839 when you let them or give them an emergency bill or let them spend more 390 00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:49,200 money. It's completely irresponsible. But it amazes me how many ECON reporters, 391 00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:55,119 people are supposed to understand economics, could literally just move over, switch their 392 00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:00,519 bio to Bernie Sanders campaign manager and would sound and they could just tweet out 393 00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:03,599 the same exact stuff. It is just amazing. Okay. So I also 394 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:11,480 want to say that this whole imbroglio does show how much Democrats mismanage things. 395 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,960 So I think it was like in February that Chuck Schumer said, mark my 396 00:31:17,319 --> 00:31:21,480 words, the Republicans are not going to come up with a plan. We're 397 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,000 going to get a clean debt limit and it's a clean debt limit increase, 398 00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:33,920 and you had Biden saying, I refuse to even acknowledge the reality that the 399 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,440 House is controlled by Republicans. I am going to deny the election results and 400 00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:48,160 refuse to negotiate with this chamber because like that's my red line. And now 401 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:55,519 we are a few days before we're about to have default situation and Biden is 402 00:31:55,559 --> 00:32:01,200 negotiating with McCarthy. Schumer is nowhere to be found. Democrats are losing their 403 00:32:01,359 --> 00:32:09,200 minds calling for fourteenth Amendment solutions and AOC being hysterical, you know, Premier 404 00:32:09,319 --> 00:32:14,480 Jaya Paul calling for riots in the streets like the BLM riots of twenty twenty 405 00:32:14,519 --> 00:32:17,359 that were led by Democrats that cause like so much destruction to the country. 406 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,319 And I think it really shows that the Democrats have failed to realize the new 407 00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:28,279 political realities of the Republican Party. And I think maybe we're all as shocked 408 00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:31,359 as anybody that Kevin McCarthy has done a good job of channeling all that. 409 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:37,480 But even with the likely concessions that will still have to be made by the 410 00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:42,759 Republicans, they've just kind of won this. I mean, they're not going 411 00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:45,599 to get everything that they put in their bill, but if they are able 412 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:52,960 to keep next year's spending level at this year's spending, that's something that you 413 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,119 know, as you point out those like a ridiculously like low bar given how 414 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,240 much spending has increased in the past couple of years, but that's something that 415 00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:05,720 hasn't happened in recent memory. That's true. He has done a good job, 416 00:33:06,759 --> 00:33:10,160 or I think maybe we should stress that Democrats have done a terrible job 417 00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:15,759 in gambling put you know, gambling on the idea that Republicans would never be 418 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:17,160 able to pass any kind of plan or bill. I mean, you mentioned 419 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:22,079 Chuck Schumer. He would be out daily tweeting at McCarthy saying, where's your 420 00:33:22,079 --> 00:33:24,880 plan, where's your plan? And now he has no plan. Republicans have 421 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,640 a plan. Where's his plan? No one, no one asks, So 422 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,519 yeah, I think that's all true, though I'm not as confident as others 423 00:33:31,519 --> 00:33:36,039 that Republicans have won, though I think maybe politically they have one. I 424 00:33:36,039 --> 00:33:39,160 could see Biden, who does not care about the Constitution, abuses it constantly 425 00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:45,119 unilaterally. I could see him moving to that fourteenth Amendment option rather than dealing 426 00:33:45,119 --> 00:33:47,119 with a political fallout from the left. I don't know what happens then. 427 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,599 I assume the Supreme Court overturns it. I don't know. That would cause 428 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,640 immense damage to the markets and everything else, So we'll see. I will 429 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,200 say though that my piece the other day was basically what I wanted to point 430 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:07,480 out was that every story you read about this in corporate media frames the debate 431 00:34:07,719 --> 00:34:14,119 as hostage takers and consensus builders, meaning the organic position, the position you 432 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:17,360 have to land on, is obviously the one where you pass a clean bill. 433 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:22,880 Where I don't know why anyone thinks that the debt ceiling was invented to 434 00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:27,039 control spending. Literally, this is the best time to discuss that issue. 435 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,000 Like the idea that McCarthy's going to be like, Okay, Biden, we'll 436 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:35,039 discuss spending cuts at another time, I trust you, is absolutely insane. 437 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,840 Biden is the guy who did the student loan thing. Through executive action, 438 00:34:38,039 --> 00:34:42,719 he passed a massive is it the biggest bill in his the most expensive bill 439 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,000 in history using reconciliation, not a single Republican vote. There is no way 440 00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:52,079 he is a builder of a consensus builder. I mean, it's just completely 441 00:34:52,119 --> 00:34:54,280 insane, and McCarthy has no reason to trust him. We'll see how it 442 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,239 turns out. I think it's a really bad spot for Biden because he's either 443 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:04,199 going to be he hammered by his left or he's going to have to deal 444 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,559 with doing something terrible like the fourteenth Amendment option. So he doesn't really have 445 00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:13,280 a good way out of this. One less kind of same one thing about 446 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,519 the media I've been thinking about. I'm working on a project. I've been 447 00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:16,920 thinking about this. You know, if you go back all the way to 448 00:35:17,039 --> 00:35:22,400 even the sixteen hundreds, when journalism sort of first started, there has never 449 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,360 been unbiased media. It was always like there were royalist media, there were 450 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,760 republican media, there was this kind of media, there was Tory media. 451 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,599 The whole idea of an unbiased press is a completely new, you know, 452 00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:37,639 twentieth century idea so or mid twentieth century idea, so I don't think we're 453 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:40,760 ever going back like I saw some of our colleagues saying that we need to 454 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,119 like destroy the media and rebuild it. I don't think that's ever going to 455 00:35:44,199 --> 00:35:47,119 happen. But what the right wing money, a lot of people with the 456 00:35:47,159 --> 00:35:51,760 money don't understand, is that you have to build a right wing media. 457 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,000 I've said this before. You will never be able to fix corporate media. 458 00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:59,480 Never. It's not even like it's corporate media anymore because a lot of these 459 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:06,400 institutions, like the Washington Post where Jeff Stein works, they are just vanity, 460 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,360 have vanity ownership, right, It's not like they're making a lot of 461 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,199 money. They're just left wingers. Just prop them up and right right wing 462 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,599 needs the same thing. Or you're never going to win these battles in the 463 00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:19,400 media. Maybe it doesn't matter, but anyway, no. I will also 464 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,920 add to that, like you have the you have almost nobody who's not a 465 00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:30,400 leftist supporting our current media environment and what they do, but they still have 466 00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:37,320 Their funding from big corporations and big billionaires is astronomical, and the funding that 467 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:43,760 the people who fight their false narratives get is extremely small. And you get 468 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,840 what you invest in And if you have every corporation, every like bad corporation 469 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:53,280 in America propping up Joe Scarborough and you know, the Washington Post and the 470 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:58,239 New York Times, you're gonna get lots of Russia collusion hoaxes and Brett Kavanaugh 471 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:04,159 rape smears and any you know whatever. Like they're like twenty five things every 472 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,119 day that they're doing their lives that dominate the entire media landscape. And even 473 00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:14,320 the ostensibly like right of center publications and media outlets like react to it as 474 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,519 if it's worth reacting to. You have to bite against it really hard. 475 00:37:17,559 --> 00:37:23,480 And it takes reporters because it's not about pushing back with like philosophical arguments or 476 00:37:23,639 --> 00:37:30,280 opinion pieces. You have to do the hard reporting. And hard reporting costs 477 00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:34,360 money, not just for the reporters but for the editors and for all the 478 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,519 support. And then you have to fight the big tech censorship industrial complex, 479 00:37:37,599 --> 00:37:42,239 which our government is part of. And so yeah, if you don't want 480 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,159 the corporate media to destroy the country, you have to invest in. So 481 00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:50,199 if anyone wants to invest, please, we have a media foundation at the 482 00:37:50,199 --> 00:37:55,039 Federalist and are happy to take any and all donations to them. Yeah, 483 00:37:55,079 --> 00:38:04,639 and then when Musk has this platform that lets anyone speak, they have, 484 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,760 they get there, you know, they get hysterical. All right. So 485 00:38:08,039 --> 00:38:12,480 well, I just had an idea. If people want to give money to 486 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:19,800 the Federalist, they should email Jeremy j E. R E M Y at 487 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:25,159 the Federalist dot com and he will help you set up a donation. Yeah, 488 00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:28,440 I'm done. Please do. I didn't even go into that rant to 489 00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:30,760 raise money, but I think it's a good segue for sure. Um. 490 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:36,000 I mean, listen, I think opinions important, obviously, I do that 491 00:38:36,039 --> 00:38:37,639 a lot. I think it's important to have ideas and to push back. 492 00:38:37,679 --> 00:38:43,480 But without the underlying journalism and reporting, there is no ammunition there. That's 493 00:38:43,679 --> 00:38:47,079 you know, that's supremely important. Um. Can we move on. Let's 494 00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:52,360 move on. Let's move on to the Dodgers. The Los Angeles Dodgers, 495 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:58,000 garbage organization and target. So what do these two things have in common? 496 00:38:58,079 --> 00:39:01,599 Well, I don't know if people saw, but the Dodgers had invited a 497 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:09,800 group called the Sisters, Sisters of the Perpetual Indulgence, which is just particulous, 498 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,199 you know, says a lot about them. But anyway, they're kind 499 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,320 of like an anti Catholic organization right, who mock faith or not even mock 500 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:24,599 it. I would say, they do very despicable things that that are unneeded. 501 00:39:24,639 --> 00:39:30,559 It's not like the it's not like what was that French magazine called that 502 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,559 was where the people were shut Charlie, Charlie, hebdo. It's not like 503 00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:39,559 there there's biting social commentary about the church. It's just mocking and demeaning faith 504 00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:44,239 and people of faith. And they were disinvited, I believe, at first 505 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,760 by the Dodgers, but then after being educated by people, the Dodgers reinvited 506 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:53,519 them and sent this Struggle Session letter that is hilarious to read about apologizing to 507 00:39:53,599 --> 00:40:02,800 these these demented people and then reinviting them to to Dodger Stadium to participate in 508 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:09,840 Pride Night or whatever. I just don't understand what these teams and corporations are 509 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,960 thinking. Why do they even have to get involved in this sort of thing 510 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,800 in the first place. Why can't they just be a political Yeah? I 511 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,559 mean, I think the left has done a really good job of, in 512 00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:28,840 fascist fashion, getting corporations to align with their party to push their political narrative, 513 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,880 and they've worked really hard to bully them into doing it. And so 514 00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:37,679 sort of like Pride Night was the camel's nose underneath the tent, and now 515 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:45,159 it's like full on demonic blasphemy, anti Catholic, anti Christian, bigoted hate 516 00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:51,800 groups who are going to be featured on Pride Night at at Dodger Stadium. 517 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,719 And yeah, they never should have been invited in the first place. Then 518 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:58,920 when they were and it caused an outcry among the Roman Catholic and Christian fan 519 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,960 base, they were disinvited. And then that's when the heavy hitters came in, 520 00:41:02,199 --> 00:41:06,360 the people who actually run the country, the regime. They said, 521 00:41:06,679 --> 00:41:12,960 you will apologize, bow down to the sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and you 522 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,519 will do this struggle session, or we will destroy you. And so the 523 00:41:15,559 --> 00:41:21,599 Dodgers, understanding that their fan base doesn't mean anything but that the Woke You 524 00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:27,840 Left BSG movement can actually make life difficult for them, they bowed down so 525 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:32,400 quickly. They're on their knees. They are humiliating themselves, begging for forgiveness 526 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:37,599 from a group that mocks. You know, it's not just like the Roman 527 00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:39,280 Catholic Church, which as a Lutheran, you know, I'm not a big, 528 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:45,079 huge fan of but still try to respect. They actually mock and disparage 529 00:41:45,639 --> 00:41:51,079 and blaspheme our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and there is I mean, 530 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,280 it's just so awful. I think I've noticed the media not really being 531 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:59,320 honest about who the sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are so that they can kind of 532 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,719 like ride this out. But you know, I was talking to my family 533 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:07,079 member who is a lifelong Dodgers fan, and he told me he's done. 534 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,400 So I don't know how many people are like that, but at least the 535 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,119 people I know, they just don't feel like they can in good conscience support 536 00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:20,719 an organization that hates Jesus, which apparently the Dodgers are aligning themselves with. 537 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,280 Did you you know those signs they have in front of houses progressives that says 538 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:30,039 like in this house, I love is love and kindness is everything. Well 539 00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:37,719 is it kindness to have drag queens celebrating the mocking the stations of the Cross 540 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,760 in a bar crawl where they give back condoms for sex. I mean, 541 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,880 these are the kinds of things that this group does. They have a naked 542 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,960 man on top of a cross like doing some kind of sicko dance like, 543 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,960 you know, I don't understand they have. I mean to make it clear. 544 00:42:52,159 --> 00:42:57,880 They have a Jesus on a cross, then they have a naked man 545 00:42:59,039 --> 00:43:04,920 performing at on the Jesus on the cross. It's really bad. I mean, 546 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,960 it's really really bad stuff. So this is the kind of person that 547 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,079 the Dodgers apologized too. Yeah, and then said these words which always make 548 00:43:14,159 --> 00:43:16,119 me laugh. I can't help it. We will continue to work with the 549 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:21,920 LGBTQ plus partners to better educate ourselves. Have you ever heard of a gay 550 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,760 activist saying, you know, I could be educated on let me be educated 551 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:28,719 on what Catholics really believe, or let me be educated on what social conservatives 552 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,159 are find offensive. No, the only people who can educate are BLM activist 553 00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,519 and gay activists. I don't need to be educated by people who have these 554 00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:43,000 stupid ideas of a gender. Wow, forgive me, David, but I 555 00:43:43,159 --> 00:43:46,360 love telling leftists that they need to educate themselves. It's just like makes me 556 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:51,440 laugh so much, Like you need to educate yourself about basic biology, you 557 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,199 need to educate yourself about you know what the world's biggest religion teaches about. 558 00:43:55,679 --> 00:44:00,000 Educate is just a euphemism for a basement basically at this point, which turns 559 00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:04,840 me to Target. And by the way, I am not some like crazy 560 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,639 social conservative type. I just want normalcy. I just want to go watch 561 00:44:07,639 --> 00:44:13,480 a baseball game and a hockey game and not be hit over the head with 562 00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:15,960 flags that have eight hundred colors on them telling me that, you know, 563 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,880 I need to celebrate someone's sexuality. It's just ridiculous. It's un American because 564 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,000 I judge people by their actions, not by the people they sleep with. 565 00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:31,599 Well maybe not always Target Target woman walks in I think this started on a 566 00:44:31,639 --> 00:44:37,079 TikTok I'm not sure, but a woman walks in and sees that the Target 567 00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:44,920 sells clothes you know that let people express their gender choices and or whatever. 568 00:44:45,079 --> 00:44:46,280 But one of them and I, you know, hate to get into this 569 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:51,840 hero on this family friendly podcast, but helps children, you know, do 570 00:44:52,039 --> 00:44:55,760 talking, which is like, you know, makes a a boy feel like 571 00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:01,679 a girl. And what made me crazy was this morning I opened up an 572 00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:07,960 Associated Press story on this where they're like, falls, this is just conservative 573 00:45:08,199 --> 00:45:15,599 misinformation because Target doesn't sell this kind of thing only to children and children's sizes 574 00:45:15,599 --> 00:45:19,840 only adults like children never buy a small adult or anything like that, and 575 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:24,599 then you read like a thousand words of gibberish and journalistic sounding rhetoric, and 576 00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:30,320 then you get to the end and it says Target only sells kids swim swim 577 00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:36,920 shirt shirts swim shirts. I think it's skirts with a tag reading thoughtfully fit 578 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:42,320 on multiple body types and gender expressions, which is literally the same exact thing. 579 00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:44,920 So this is a usual And then there's no other way to put it. 580 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,880 It's gaslighting. They want to gaslight you into believing that this isn't actually 581 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:52,320 happening, that there isn't some guy who says he's a Satanist designer or whatever 582 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:58,920 making clothes for Target, that they're not perpetuating this kind of demented idea that 583 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:04,639 children can change their sex. Yeah. No, I the associated press is 584 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,079 dangerous propaganda, and it's good when people can realize that. But I thought 585 00:46:09,079 --> 00:46:15,880 that was a great example of it. They said that when Targets sold swimsuits 586 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:22,519 to hide male Genitalian present as a female, that that's not tucking, that's 587 00:46:22,599 --> 00:46:28,400 gender affirming. And so therefore when people on the right call it tucking their 588 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,280 false that is not fact checking, that's just straight up propaganda. On behalf 589 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,880 of the regime. I just saw this tweet from Justin Hart who said that 590 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:42,639 his wife was pointing out that when the left burns cities to the ground, 591 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:49,599 the media claimed that's mostly peaceful protests, and that when moms decide to shop 592 00:46:49,679 --> 00:46:55,559 less at Target, that's violent threats. And that's basically meeting. Yeah, 593 00:46:55,639 --> 00:46:59,400 yes, show up a school board meeting and ask questions. Violent threats. 594 00:46:59,559 --> 00:47:07,079 Even journalists regurgitated without skepticism or demands for any kind of substantiation. Targets claims 595 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:14,280 that its customers were like too mad about this and that they were confronting workers, 596 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:15,719 and I mean it was actually kind of fight. They were trying to 597 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:20,159 like suggest that they were violent, but they were really like, they're shopping 598 00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:24,320 less, they're asking questions, they're confronting workers, all things that Americans have 599 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:29,599 a right to do in a free society. And you know, again, 600 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:37,039 the left will support using these corporations in fascist like fashion to push their political 601 00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:40,119 ideology. I just want to, like, I think people think fascists means 602 00:47:40,159 --> 00:47:46,320 like authority figure I don't like, but it really kind of refers to corporations 603 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:53,360 working with the political party that's dominant to control a country. And that's what 604 00:47:53,400 --> 00:48:00,280 we have right now with TARGET working with the Democrat Party to push like ratical, 605 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:05,599 extreme and dangerous gender ideology on children. I don't you know, I 606 00:48:05,599 --> 00:48:07,960 don't have a problem. I'm one of these people who, like I have 607 00:48:08,039 --> 00:48:14,599 these lines that people when they crossed them, I just can't in good conscience 608 00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:20,559 keep supporting someone. So I have no problem not going to TARGET. I 609 00:48:20,559 --> 00:48:24,079 actually think that people who don't want the destruction of their country should be willing 610 00:48:24,119 --> 00:48:28,239 to give up things that they really like. Like I had to give up 611 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:32,159 baseball a few years ago, and I was the world's biggest baseball fan. 612 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:37,519 I mean I lived breathed baseball. I was a huge Saint Louis Cardinals fan. 613 00:48:37,679 --> 00:48:42,519 I had been upset that they shut down for COVID. I had been 614 00:48:42,559 --> 00:48:46,519 really upset that they engaged in the racism of the BLM movement. And I 615 00:48:46,559 --> 00:48:50,960 had even written them a letter saying, like, you can't do this anymore. 616 00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:54,480 This politics is not like, I can't in good conscience continue to support 617 00:48:54,559 --> 00:49:02,280 you. And then the next year MLB said that if you make elections in 618 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:08,880 Georgia more secure and have more integrity, and you work through the democratic process 619 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:15,320 to make that happen. We will economically target you as our savior, Joe 620 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,079 Biden told us to do. And at that point I was like, well, 621 00:49:19,079 --> 00:49:22,920 I can't support Major League Baseball anymore, like they're actively working to destroy 622 00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,119 the country. And so for me, I mean, I stopped, and 623 00:49:25,159 --> 00:49:30,360 I just stopped, and it's not been a problem for me. I mean, 624 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,639 I miss it, but I don't miss it enough to go back to 625 00:49:34,679 --> 00:49:38,599 being a fan. I will continue boycotting Target as I have my whole life. 626 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,840 I will not be going there anymore. I'm not really a boycott or 627 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,559 you know, but I have to say when it comes to my kids and 628 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:51,760 targeting kids, that is I think a red line for me. I don't. 629 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,639 I don't. I just can't even contemplate why someone would do it. 630 00:49:55,679 --> 00:50:00,320 And let's let me just quickly say that I believe again, I'm not have 631 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:05,480 the quotes exactly right, but the CEO initially of Target said we're doing this 632 00:50:05,519 --> 00:50:08,960 with a good of society or some nonsense. It's just ideological twaddle, right. 633 00:50:09,079 --> 00:50:15,079 I mean, the idea that you need to have specialized clothing for this, 634 00:50:15,199 --> 00:50:16,960 of course, is just it's it's it's like a virtue signal. It 635 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:22,800 doesn't really exist, you know, in any way that that matters in the 636 00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,760 real world. And sometimes I do wonder about this as well. I mean, 637 00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:30,000 there are a lot of gay Americans who just go to work. They're 638 00:50:30,039 --> 00:50:34,280 normal, they don't, they don't politicize their private lives in this way. 639 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:42,199 Aren't when you know, aren't they distraught or put off by the idea that 640 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:47,840 the most the craziest, most offensive people represent or put forward as representatives of 641 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:52,239 their movement, that people who want to commerce others to accept ideas are put 642 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:57,440 at the forefront of their you know, to claim to represent them. When 643 00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,280 when someone says, oh, yeah, Jewish people say this or that and 644 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,679 you and claimed to be represented as Jewish people, I am deeply offended because 645 00:51:04,679 --> 00:51:07,079 they are not. So I do wonder about that as well, or when 646 00:51:07,119 --> 00:51:09,760 that is or if that's ever going to turn, And maybe it's not, 647 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:16,639 I don't know. Anyway, Let's get out of politics. Let's talk a 648 00:51:16,639 --> 00:51:22,320 little bit about culture. I actually have watched a couple of things this week, 649 00:51:22,559 --> 00:51:29,000 how about you. I was traveling to my cousin's wedding, which was 650 00:51:29,079 --> 00:51:35,960 beautiful in Denver, and so I also went to my niece's graduation outside of 651 00:51:36,039 --> 00:51:39,320 Omaha. That was also wonderful, just a beautiful wedding. I was crying 652 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:44,719 the whole time. It was great to see my family. And then the 653 00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:46,679 graduation was also great. And I have to say my niece went to a 654 00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:53,079 government high school, and I'm not a fan, but her graduation ceremony included 655 00:51:53,119 --> 00:51:59,159 an excellent speech from this kid who talked about how they'd all been on like 656 00:51:59,199 --> 00:52:02,840 a hero's journey, and it was really well argued and inspirational. And then 657 00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:08,800 the superintendent gave a speech on how failure is an option and how everything great 658 00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:13,760 that happened in this country happened after like multiple failures, and how they need 659 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,679 to stop like being victims of cancel culture or anxiety and just like get out 660 00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,599 there and get ready to fail and then succeed. And I was like, 661 00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:25,199 this is fantastic. It was great. A core idea of American life is 662 00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:30,800 the failure is part of it. Like every great American builder or thinker had 663 00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,599 failed numerous times. Sometimes when they didn't fail, they would actually create a 664 00:52:34,639 --> 00:52:38,000 mythology about failing, like it is part of the American DNA that you can 665 00:52:38,039 --> 00:52:43,760 fail and pop back and achieve something. So that sounds like an amazing speech. 666 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,519 I love that you call them government schools, because at some point people 667 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:53,840 decided that public was less jarring than state run school I want to actually plug 668 00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:59,960 a podcast that probably a million people listened to already, and I think someone 669 00:53:00,079 --> 00:53:02,599 on our staff when we were together a few weeks ago recommend it to me, 670 00:53:02,639 --> 00:53:08,119 but I don't remember who, so I hope that person is listening The 671 00:53:08,159 --> 00:53:13,159 Rest is History podcast with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook I think is his name 672 00:53:13,199 --> 00:53:16,880 to historians. I had to go on a long drive this weekend and I 673 00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:21,119 could not stop listening. I didn't want the car right to end. It 674 00:53:21,199 --> 00:53:24,519 is I think my other than you're wrong with David Arsani, Molly having Way 675 00:53:24,559 --> 00:53:30,960 my favorite podcast maybe or the Federal Stradio Hour, so third it is third. 676 00:53:32,159 --> 00:53:37,039 Tom Holland's an amazing history and his books are fantastic, very They're almost 677 00:53:37,159 --> 00:53:42,199 like reading novels. They're just popular history is usually on ancient history. They're 678 00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,039 amazing. I've only read one book by Dominic Sandbrook, I think is his 679 00:53:45,159 --> 00:53:50,280 name. I might be getting it wrong, but their ability to see the 680 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,760 world through the eyes of the people who are living that history is just really 681 00:53:54,079 --> 00:54:00,119 really compelling. It's very well done, and they also have a very diverse 682 00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:05,239 or like they'll do one on like Reagan Contra, and then they'll do one 683 00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,760 on like Herodotus. Then they'll do it like it's not anything you know, 684 00:54:08,679 --> 00:54:12,440 it's not just ancient history. It's it's all over the well. They'll do 685 00:54:12,559 --> 00:54:15,920 like famous pigeons in history or like you know whatever. It's just really inventive 686 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:20,480 and fun. Anyway, I just wanted to plug that, Okay. Well, 687 00:54:20,519 --> 00:54:24,719 I also made a little more progress in my Bible reading, and I 688 00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:30,880 at first did not love Deuteronomy. I was telling Sean Davis this and he 689 00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:35,000 was like, oh, do you have edits to suggest to God about Deuteronomy. 690 00:54:35,039 --> 00:54:37,079 I was like, well, I was just like really enjoying Genesis, 691 00:54:37,119 --> 00:54:39,360 Exodus, Leviticus, numbers, and then Deuteronomy, say, isn't great? 692 00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:47,719 And Deuteronomy was kind of repeating all this stuff. And then the end just 693 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,880 you start realizing, like the repetition of the law is has a purpose to 694 00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:58,480 make sure people understand like how seriously to take it. And then it ends 695 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:04,480 with like Moses not being able to get into Canaan, and it was very 696 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,440 I cried and I'm like, I can't and I'm not like really a crier 697 00:55:07,599 --> 00:55:14,599 when when reading stuff like that, And I couldn't believe what an amazing man 698 00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:19,159 Moses was like to go with him through all five books, you know, 699 00:55:19,159 --> 00:55:22,199 in terms of either his writing or his story, and I'd really been struck 700 00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:28,679 by how great these people were. In Genesis Abraham, you know, and 701 00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,920 I found that very harsh. It doesn't he's not able to go in because 702 00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,519 he killed the Egyptian men. No, I think it's because he hadn't trusted 703 00:55:37,559 --> 00:55:40,400 God. When he had said, like, hit the rock and water will 704 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,199 come out, and he like hits it twice. It's sort of like hadn't 705 00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,000 he'd lost his faith. So all these jamok who were building idols in the 706 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:50,880 middle of the desert because he didn't show up in like a half an hour, 707 00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,760 they get to go into Canaan and start a new new life, a 708 00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:57,039 new world. But Moses doesn't. I feel like there was also something about 709 00:55:57,039 --> 00:56:00,320 some of them having to die off before they could go in even just the 710 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:05,000 forty years. And I want to skip ahead before I go back to Deuteronomy, 711 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:09,559 because I also read Joshua and seeing how I don't know if I'd quite 712 00:56:09,599 --> 00:56:15,800 realized how much conquering had to happen. When Israel makes it to the Promised 713 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:20,039 Land. I kind of just thought God had delivered them to this place where 714 00:56:20,039 --> 00:56:23,960 they could just inhabit it and all would be good, and seeing that they 715 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,239 had to actually conquer it. And I also like how it goes into like 716 00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,000 the actual war plans and the tricks. You know, there's like the city 717 00:56:30,039 --> 00:56:35,960 of i Ai, which was interestingly named, and how they don't sit enough 718 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,400 men at first and they kind of get slaughtered, and then they go back 719 00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,880 and they pretend they're just doing the same thing, but they actually have a 720 00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,960 much bigger army and they lure them out of the city and then they conquer 721 00:56:44,199 --> 00:56:47,559 It is a lot of Again, Sean Davis was joking that I've read from 722 00:56:47,639 --> 00:56:52,639 Genesis to Genocide, because you know, Joshua is just a lot of a 723 00:56:52,639 --> 00:56:59,880 lot of kids going on. Well it's but not for ethnicity so much. 724 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:05,719 I mean, it's because they do not follow God. But there was this 725 00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,840 thing in Deuteronomy, you know how in the early books of the Bible, 726 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:14,079 there's a lot of like God will punish people like a father will sin, 727 00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,800 and the punishment will go to the third and fourth generation. But there was 728 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:22,679 also this thing in Deuteronomy that says fathers shall not be put to death because 729 00:57:22,679 --> 00:57:27,000 of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. 730 00:57:27,039 --> 00:57:30,119 Each one shall be put to death for his own sin, meaning if 731 00:57:30,119 --> 00:57:34,079 you commit a capital crime, you cannot like other people aren't going to have 732 00:57:34,079 --> 00:57:36,599 to pay for that. And I thought that would be like a good lesson 733 00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:42,519 of justice for our current moment. Even sorry for going off on this, 734 00:57:42,559 --> 00:57:45,800 but so much of this is about laying out what justice is and what it 735 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:52,920 isn't and the modern left has completely turned conceptions of justice on their head. 736 00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:58,760 And you realize that even in these like harsh Old Testament era, there are 737 00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:04,159 all sorts of ideas about having people be scapegoats who aren't responsible for their sin, 738 00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,559 or how like justice should be only to a point and anything beyond that 739 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:13,079 is like an unacceptable vengeance. And so you're saying, yahweh would oppose reparations 740 00:58:13,119 --> 00:58:22,159 for instance, Yes, I agreed, and I also sorry. In Deuteronomy 741 00:58:22,239 --> 00:58:25,320 twenty eight, there's this it's like that I laid before you a blessing and 742 00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,519 a curse, and it's so nice, like the blessing part is like, 743 00:58:28,559 --> 00:58:30,800 you follow my law, You're going to be happy, You're going to be 744 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:35,440 healthy, you're going to have a beautiful wife, you're going to have children, 745 00:58:35,559 --> 00:58:38,559 crops will grow great, your flocks will prosper. And it's like a 746 00:58:38,639 --> 00:58:42,920 nice vision of what happens if you follow God's law. And it's like if 747 00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,119 you don't follow my law, and then it's like straight out of a Liam 748 00:58:46,239 --> 00:58:52,360 Neeson revenge movie. It's like you will you will be betrothed to someone, 749 00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,760 but another man will ravish her, and your children will be born but taken 750 00:58:55,800 --> 00:59:00,800 away into slavery, and your crops will die, and your animals will all 751 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:05,360 have like wasting away illness, and it just goes on and on and on, 752 00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:10,159 and I was like, I'm actually scared right now. It is and 753 00:59:10,519 --> 00:59:17,519 it is interesting the sort of juxtaposition of a national chronicle and also I'm not 754 00:59:17,519 --> 00:59:22,960 saying a mythology, but you know, the theological aspects of it and how 755 00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,119 they're intertwined in those books. I haven't read them in a long time, 756 00:59:25,119 --> 00:59:29,079 but yeah, I'm just gonna read one more verse. Ye strong, be 757 00:59:29,199 --> 00:59:32,440 strong and courageous, do not fear or be in dread of them. For 758 00:59:32,519 --> 00:59:36,280 it is the Lord, your God who goes with you. He will not 759 00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,800 leave you or forsake you. So like I think a lot of people read 760 00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:45,480 these books and they focus on, you know, how harrowing the situation is, 761 00:59:45,639 --> 00:59:47,880 but it's also very comforting, how much God reminds his people that he's 762 00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:55,400 there with them. And I don't know, I've been loving it. Well, 763 00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:59,440 you just keep checking in where I think it's very interesting and you're taking 764 00:59:59,519 --> 01:00:04,280 us a small part on this journey with you. Now, my next thing 765 01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,519 I have is so dumb compared to what you were just talking about that I 766 01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,199 feel I don't even know if I should go forward, but I will. 767 01:00:12,599 --> 01:00:15,599 I had I watched a movie. It's from two thousand and four and it's 768 01:00:15,639 --> 01:00:19,599 a movie from Hong Kong at the time, China. Now, I guess 769 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,960 that it's called Kung Fu Hustle. Have you ever heard about this movie? 770 01:00:22,039 --> 01:00:28,719 Now? It is the weird one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. 771 01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,559 I did not want to watch it. Someone convinced me too, and I 772 01:00:30,639 --> 01:00:34,400 think it's one of my favorite movies that I've seen in years. It is 773 01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:39,559 so funny and inventive and it's not really what It sounds like when I was 774 01:00:39,599 --> 01:00:44,599 a kid and we only had like three, three or four channels, they 775 01:00:44,639 --> 01:00:47,119 used to do on Saturdays to play like Kung Fu movies for us all day. 776 01:00:47,159 --> 01:00:50,440 I don't know if you're you're probably younger than me, but anyway, 777 01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,960 they would play these all day on like the local channel, and I love 778 01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,760 them, and this is sort of like a satire of them, and it's 779 01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,440 just very funny. I can't even explain what it's about, but people who 780 01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:04,119 know what I'm talking about grew up in the same time period, might enjoy 781 01:01:04,159 --> 01:01:07,440 it. Then I watched a remake of White Man Can't Jump on Hulu, 782 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,000 which I did not like, but I have to say the reviews were terrible. 783 01:01:10,519 --> 01:01:15,440 I thought they were better. And then I watched the original, which 784 01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:19,199 has a real heart to it with Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. A very 785 01:01:19,239 --> 01:01:23,000 funny movie. And that is all. Oh. I did watch an NBA 786 01:01:23,119 --> 01:01:28,280 game, which I have never really been into basketball, and the Denver watch 787 01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,159 Lebron lose is how I know it. When I was back at my cousin's 788 01:01:31,159 --> 01:01:36,400 wedding, every all my cousins and siblings and everything, they were all watching, 789 01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,000 right, I don't know what game that was, like Game two or 790 01:01:38,039 --> 01:01:43,719 Game three, and I just seemed like, I feel a little bit bad 791 01:01:43,719 --> 01:01:47,360 that sports has so turned me off that my children don't get to experience what 792 01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:52,639 it's like to cheer for a team. So I let my oldest watch the 793 01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:57,679 end of the Nuggets defeating sweeping the Lakers so that they could head to the 794 01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:02,039 NBA Championship. Yeah, Denver must be going crazy. I miss Colorado a 795 01:02:02,039 --> 01:02:06,599 little jealous when I hear that you go back. Someone should invite me to 796 01:02:06,639 --> 01:02:08,719 speak or something there. If you're listening. It was beautiful, but it 797 01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:14,360 was crazy. The air quality was so bad that my eyes were burning. 798 01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,199 I couldn't breathe. I had a headache, which I don't think was from 799 01:02:17,199 --> 01:02:20,679 an altitude, but it could have been, I guess. And it's because 800 01:02:20,719 --> 01:02:24,559 there are these massive Canadian fires that are like the airstream was carrying the smoke. 801 01:02:24,599 --> 01:02:28,519 I mean, you felt like you weren't just at a campfire, but 802 01:02:28,559 --> 01:02:32,519 like in the middle of it. It was crazy. Yeah, I bet 803 01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:39,920 well. Anyway, thank you, thank you for joining me, Molly, 804 01:02:40,039 --> 01:02:44,400 and thank you for joining me everyone else. And we'll be back next week 805 01:02:44,440 --> 01:03:00,039 and until then, be lovers of freedom. And anxious for the fray, and