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Speaker 2: Dad Adams hosting sitting in for Pete Calendar, who's getting
some well deserved time off here on Newstalk eleven, ten
ninety nine three WBT. Merry Merry Christmas to all and
to all, good afternoon, and we hope that we look
from all of us here. We hope you are enjoying
time with family, friends, whatever, you know, taking stock of
the blessings we have, and able to reflect on the
reason for the season, so to speak. I say that
because as we were, it's so funny. Conservatives are generally
happy people. We don't see the world through these jaded
lenses that everybody's out to, uh, you know, to to
be you know, we're so woke that we can be uncomfortable,
and every we're triggered, We're not that triggered. But I
was triggered a little bit. I will say this as
we were going live on the air, I'm I'm I
was just curious, you know, infinitely curious. I think that's
what we I think is what media needs to be
is more curious. I think we as individuals, you should
ask questions. And I don't mean asking your Alexa device
or your echo or your Siri. I think you should
be inquisitive. I think it's the nature of who we
should be is to be inquisitive. It's biblical. Even Thomas
was a little inquisitive, wasn't He was doubtful, but he
was inquisitive. Now I looked through Governor Cooper's Twitter feed.
I just went there. I probably knew I shouldn't have
based on my my bias as I went to his
Twitter feed, So Governor Cooper at NC Governor, you can
look at it online. So I'm kind of scrolling through.
I'm like, today's Christmas Eve. I wanted to govern Or
has anything out there about Christmas? Nothing? Not a mention
of Christmas. So I go back through because I know
on every holiday, for every cultural reference. There is the
woke governor, whether it's you know, he'll do it for Juneteenth,
he'll do it. He did it for Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
He did it for Hanikah. He does it for Ramadan.
He does it for every potential cultural reference except Christmas.
He can't bring himself he be and it's so even funnier.
So I pulled up just for fun. So I pulled him.
I said, he makes a reference to a Christmas tree
kind of, And so I pulled up the state capital.
When the NC State Capital they have their own Twitter feed,
and they said, don't forget to join us. This was
on December twelfth. I'm just going back, don't forget join
us at NC governor for the state tree lighting tonight.
Holiday starts at five thirty. Holiday music, what kind of
holiday music. It's jolly good time for all NCA culture,
at ncculture, they cannot mention Christmas. And at a certain point,
you know it's intentional. You know it's intent. You know
that it's the projection. That's the problem our governor's always had.
He's a projection of progressive ideology while acting like he's not.
He was a branch committee and he did this, That's
what it would be remembered for, was locking down and
Mandy Cohen and separating people and closing DOWNSS. This has
been a governor who's entirety of political career view as
a citizen, really can't associate with anything. I mean, I
think Republicans can associate him with more things. He was
able to convince the Republicans to expand Medicaid without going
after waste fraud abuse, billions of dollars in waste for
awn abuse. The Republicans in the House and said it said, well,
okay with us, let's just expand Medicaid. Let's take more
federal dollars that we don't have. And he's proud. The
Governor's retweeted, you know, hey, we've got six hundred thousand.
It's like a running lottery count. You know, it's a
billion o's in the lottery where there's eight hundred thousand
people in Medicaid. We're proud of the fact that ten
percent of North Carolinians are now been added to Medicaid
that we can't afford. It's an entitlement we just can't
continue to. I love how we act like you know,
Obamacare was just this wonderful thing. But we never it
was supposed to be the Affordable Care Act, and nothing
about it's become more affordable from the end citizen standpoints like, oh,
this is much more affordable because it's being subsidized. Whenever
you subsidize something, you think it's free. It's like a bond.
Oh bond, I'm all for bond. That's free government money,
isn't it free government money? A bond. I want more parks,
free government bond, free money. I want a new statue free,
I want transit. I want to be free. Everything's free.
It's gonna be bonded, it's gonna be in it's taxi
grument financing. It's free. No, no, its not free. Nois
nois So you have to pay for it somehow, whether
you borrow it, you have to pay for it. But
back to the governor. The governor will recognize everything in
the world, every cultural reference. But right as of right now,
NC governor does not have anything up about Christmas. Nineteen
hours ago, he has one about the shooting in Greensboro,
and two hours ago, actually twenty one hours ago, he's
got about people being healthier. He's there's just medicaid expansion
made it, you know, into the holiday season, doesn't mention
the holiday, doesn't mention Christmas. There's just nothing you can go.
It's hurricane relief, it's it's typical government clap trap stuff.
Not a mention of Christmas. But if it's Kwanza it
would be mentioned. If it's Thanksgiving, he'll at least mention
that because that's an American holiday. But that's and again
that's my rant a little bit about the nature of
where we find ourselves is in this woke kirk culture
that you can recognize everybody but the Christians, and our
governor kind of exemplifies that. That's the problem, and that's
that's the problem. It's just it is. It is. It
is odd, and at a certain point it's not. It's intentional.
And that's the problem with all of this is that
it's it's intentional. He there's an intent to not recognize
Christmas because it would bother someone inside. So I went
and so I went out to Josh Stein's feed to see. Now,
I don't expect Josh stein. Stein is Jewish, highest ranking
Jewish official in North Carolina history, so you kind of
would The only thing I would see is he does
have a hurk like a gingerbread contest house that he retweeted.
But about the Supreme Court race. No mention of Christmas
from Josh Stein. Now, you would think with Stein because
because he's Jewish and Christmas isn't his holiday, that he
would mention it because it would be a way to
extend cultural awareness to Josh Stein. Right, So Governor Cooper,
because he alleges he is a Christian, doesn't need to
recognize Christmas for the rest of you. But he has
to recognize your holiday if you have one. So whatever
holiday you have, he has to recognize, but not his own.
And so Josh I guess would probably not would recognize
Christmas because it's not I can't I can't keep track
of the bouncing ball. The beauty of this is in
twenty five we're likely to see far less of this
kind of behavior. I think the Democrats in North Kahna
will still want to not recognize this kind of stuff.
For some reason. They're much more inclined to recognize any
kind of wokeness and avoid anything that has to do
with the history of the country, because history is very
replete with why we should recognize these things anyway, I
digress away from the many things I want to talk
about today, and there are many you want to get
in on the conversation at seven oh four five seven
oh eleven ten. Merry Christmas two seven o four five
seven oh eleven ten, and it's been it's been a
lot of fun. I do so. Today also is the
day that Ron Paul, I'm sorry, Rand Paul, his son,
the senator from Kentucky, releases his Festivus List. We will
spend some time the Festivus List, that kind of If
you'll remember the old Seinfeldt show. Fest of Us was
the airing of ri even says it was this, you know,
whether there's a poll. It's absolutely hysterical, one of the
best episodes of seinfeld Well, Rand Paul took it and
ran with it and now has created a political event
every year at Christmas. For December twenty third, he releases
the Festivus Report on Government Waste, and it is hysterical
but also very sad because it's illustrative of how wasteful
our government, how out of touch our government is, whether
it's in Republican or Democrat hands, how completely out of
tested they are with your when it's your money. They
don't care, which is why the election of Donald Trump,
at the appointing of his cabinet in this doze department
of government efficiency is so critically important because we have
more pork than a Smithfield operation. There is so much
waste in our He documented over a trillion dollars in waste,
a trillion. And you know, I rats with cocaine, pickleball courts,
all sorts of stuff, and we'll go through some of
those just for your benefit, and and some other There's
quite a number of stories out there that we will
go through. I mentioned yesterday about the aging of Congress.
There was a kind of a little bit of a
heartbreaking story that will bring to you about how a
member of Congress has been gone for six months and
no one really noticed.
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Speaker 2: Nice chill music on a Christmas Eve, just nice. I
was kind of looking through weather maps. You know, that
infinite child at me. You know, we all have it.
I think Christmas allows us to tap into that a
little bit, you know, I hope you always can't. You know,
children are to be admired, children are to be to
listen to in any ways. Not to run the world,
of course, but who knows, maybe smarter than some of
the people that are in DC right now. But it's
interesting to call back to it because you always, you know,
in my mind, I grew up in a lot of
places that would never have you know, winter weather in
the winter. I was in Puerto Rico as a kid,
and you're not going to do that. And on the
Texas Mexican border, no, not going to happen there. But
a little bit of North Carolina and I'm looking here
and it's like, no, I have a picture of the
snow map across the continental US, and there is very
little snow on the ground anywhere across the South all
the way over to Texas. Look like a spot or
two somewhere up in the mountain somewhere. Anyway, just throw
that out there, not to be negative, just to be aware.
Now going over this is the sad story I referred
to before we went to the break, and I don't
want to linger on it, but I have asserted for
some time that the members of Congress buy in large ones.
They get there, it's like rooting out a virus. They
stay there forever. And I'm not being mean to your
Congress individual or mine or anyone else. There's good people
in Congress, believe it or not, but they stay. It's
like a lifetime contract. It was never meant to be
a lifetime contract. And yeah, we have several octogenarians up there.
And here's the saddest one. This is I had just
talked about this issue yesterday and that I read this
story last night and I wanted to mention it. And
this is from Politico. Actually, Congress has long been home
to aging politicians facing serious health conditions, but the case
of retiring Representative Ka Granger is the latest evidence that
a new generation of Washington players are growing fed up
with the tradition of shielding officials infirmities from the world.
Reporting by a conservative activist on Friday, eighty one year
old Texas Republican that's Kay Granger, who until last April
chaired the powerful Appropriations committee that conservative activists kind of
forced it to be, to admit she's been struggling with
dementia and residing in an assisted living facility despite continuing
to hold office. So she's been in that facility for
six months. She's been in an assisted living facility while
an active member of Congress who was just chairing one
of the most powerful committees in all of DC. And
she's been as a Republican. But I mean, we can
talk about Joe Biden, so we can talk about Republicans.
She should have resigned. Now. Her family knew she had
issues prior to being in the assisted living facility, but
she continued to draw salary while not attending a single vote,
not being present, not being a part of you're supposed
to represent. If you can't represent, resign there almost thought
to be an automatic, some kind of way to chat.
I mean, Mitch McConnell's that there are so many that
are just not I mean, when we were watching the
Dianne Feinstein for those of you remember, heard from the
night she was in the Senate forever she's like ninety one.
She was completely out of it. Completely not mentally there
being propped up, wheeled around, and people were being told,
she's fine. She wasn't fine. She was a mess. Mitch
McCall's a mess. There's a bunch of them up there.
It's like a retirement home for fat cats. I just
it was never supposed to be that way. And we've
made a mockery of representation in this country by allowing
to get this far. It is absurd as obscene, and
and you wonder why DC. This is the funny thing.
Government expenditures are about in the same condition that the
members of Congress are. It's that some of them are
in good shape, some programs are well wrong. Some are
in horrific shape. Should have been retired and put out
to pasture a long time ago. But there's so much
power vested in these people that the families and the
staff and the special interest keep them. It's like a
bad episode of Weekend at Berning's. It's Weekend at Biden's.
You know, you would think there'd be a great parody
movie of them propping Biden up and hooking a rope
to his hand and having him wave his hand at
the crowd. You would think, you would think, but it
is sad, so she's been living in a facility for
six months. She hasn't voted. The revelations are sparking pie
barties and backlash, strong scrutiny to other elderly lawmakers. Some
of the toughest comments have emerged from the right, with
the Granger news prompting Elon Musk to float cognitive test
for elective officials, Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky saying he's
more concerned about the congressmen who have dementia and are
still voting. Congress should do its job, and if you
can't do your job, maybe shouldn't be there. Forty four
year old Representative Tony Gonzalez and other Texas Republicans said
to CBS has faced the nation. The Granger episode caps
off a year in which weakness that come weaknesses that
come with age play a major role in accelerating the
Austro senior officials, including Joe Biden's withdrawal from the campaign.
More recent move by House Democrats to force out older
members trying to hold on to top committee posts that
set the stage for lawmakers to take a harder line
with the next Congress poise to include ten senators and
twenty four House members older than the US life expectancy
of seventy seven point five. Thirty four members of Congress
will be older than the US life expectancy. Now I'm
not putting that out. I know some amazing folks that
are in their nineties that mentally are still sharp and
stuff like that. But maybe that. I hate to suggest
a cognitive test because I don't know that it's an
age thing for those members of Congress. I wish there
was an aptitude for corruption, a corruption aptitude test. That
would be kind of cool. I doubt we'll see that.
But would it be neat if you had a you know,
there was some way Yep, you're going to be a
corrupt official. Sorry, like a minority report type thing, very
sci fi. Sorry, you can't be in Congress. You are
like ninety nine percent likely to be a corrupt official,
take bribes, you know, get special favors. You're not there.
Oh your stock portfolio, you overperform the market by five
thousand percent? Did you get some insider deals? Or would
it be neat if they created a mutual fund based
on members of Congress? So since they can trade stocks,
whatever they have, is this you know, the Congressional Mutual Fund,
and all of America can invest in it. So it's
like we wouldn't know the insider trading. We would just
we would just invest based on the level of corruption
they have that we assume they have. When the markets move,
we move with Congress. That'd be a way to get
around it, wouldn't we just invest the way they were?
So as we move in next year, that's going to
be problematic. I think for some I think the Mitch
McConnell thing, you know, he says he wants to serve
or run again, that it's it's this. I don't know
if it's arrogance. I don't know if it's dementia. I
don't know what it is. But there have been moments
where Mitch mcconnald is standing there and you can see
the lights, the lights dim, and he's not there at
least from a mental standpoint. He's rigid, he's locked on
his staff have to hold him up, and he kind
of comes to later and if we're gonna make if
we're gonna you know, poke fun at Joe Biden, we
need the two of the most powerful people up there.
Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden are checked out, and we
now know for a fact that they've been checked out.
We know from the reporting that did Joe Biden's checked out,
and we allowed the Democrats allowed for someone to be
put in the position of possibly being president without receiving
a single vote, while claiming that they're trying to save democracy.
And the hypocrisy of that rings in a fascinating way.
It rings at a level that you're just not the
arrogance and the hubersence. Now, much more to go the
Festust report, we'll get to. I wanted to mention the
age thing and uh, the reporting on climate change. You know,
the governments are being pushing to push the rink and
it's not Oh that's bad governance. Much more to go here,
all in the Peak Calendar radio show.
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Speaker 2: So I'm trying not to be chagrane or dated myself.
I'm an upbeat person. I'm generally optimistic. And here we
are on Christmas Eve. It should be. It is a
time of wonder. It's an amazing time and I'm blessed.
I'm very fortunate that family and friends and just should
be an amazing Christmas. And in spite of you know,
we can reflect on things that we've lost, people we've
lost in our lives, but also looking forward. It's a
time of optimism. So the New York Times, and I'm
not entirely I'm not entirely sure why this piece, I
don't know. The New York Times picks Christmas Eve. Well,
actually it wasn't Christmas Eve, but it's pretty close to
Christmas Eve. Let's see when they publish this. Yeah, just
a few days on the twenty first, Nicholas Christoph published
a piece in The New York Times. So imagine, if
you will, any legacy media writing a piece on the
eve or around some sacred holiday, whether it be a
Jewish holiday or a Muslim holiday, in which they assert
that maybe the entirety of that faith shouldn't exist or
is based on a on fraud or lie. They wouldn't.
Can you imagine that they remember Salmon Rushdie wrote a
fictional book called Satanic Verses in which Muslims put out
a fought. Well, they authorized the killing of Salmon Rushdie
just for and he's he has since been attacked and
he's thank he's missing the vision in one that was
a horrible attack, not too long ago, knife attack. But
imagine that that mainstream media, that the La Times or
you know, the New York Times, whatever, these ABC, NBC
that you know, right around the time a holiday was
going to happen, that they wrote a piece that just
under they do it with Columbus a lot, that it
was a religious thing, and they went after and attacked
Islam and said all of the Quran is based on
a lie. It's one thing to believe it, it's another
to say it and run a story about it. They
wouldn't or are they? They would? They not do it
because they're afraid or because they're woke or both. I
don't know. Yeah, I think you could make the argument
either way. But the New York Times decided to write
a piece. Here's the title of the piece, A conversation
about the virgin birth that maybe wasn't. And what they're
asserting is that on Christmas Eve they've published or not
Christmas Eve they published a few days ago, but a
lot of people saying Christmas Eve they publish a piece
debunking the virgin birth and making the argument that Mary
either had an affair or was raped by a Roman
soldier named Pantherra. That's the argument that they made in
this piece. On the doorsteps of the major Christian holiday,
the second major Christian knowledgy. What really defines the holiday
is the Resurrection. That's what. Without the Resurrection, there isn't Christianity,
there is no faith, there is no there's none of
this would matter. Christmas wouldn't exist without the resurrection, Christmas
is irrelevant. And obviously through Constantina and we consider and
talk all afternoon about how we ended up here with
Christmas tree and Yule logs and merging pagan and Christian
things and the winter solstice all of that. But for Christians,
it is a date that's been arrived at that we
celebrate the birth of the Savior. That is the second
difding part of Christianity. It's the birth, and then then
he becomes known, and then he dies, and it's get
resurrected in Easter. So we get the season. But the
fact that The New York Times would do this is
rather interesting because, again, for those of you who listened
to me for some time, I talk about confirmation bias
and that we all have some form of confirmation bias,
and that the real challenge for all of us is
to look at our bias and read take that into account,
to question our own bias. The New York Times, the
La Times, A lot of these more arrogant news sources,
they never do question their own bias, even as a
conservative talk shows I do it all the time. We
have callers that disagree completely with me. I respect that
we have usually a good spirited discussion. They're welcome to
be a part of the broadcast anytimes seven oh four,
five seven oh eleven ten, five seven eleven ten here
on this wonderful Christmas Eve. But it was just interesting
that that's the direction that New York Times. They could
have published that piece the rest of the year, it'd
probably been a lotless but they publish it in a
tactical way that can do the most damage at that
moment in time. And that's the part that you know,
is it's intentional. Governor Cooper can't mention Christmas. The New
York Times publishes a piece undermining the entirety of Christmas,
the virgin birth. You know that's probably not true. That's
and that's what passes for And it's an opinion piece.
But they picked that particular time to do that to
trying don't want to spend too much time on giving it,
but wanted to mention it too now. But it does
take us to an interesting point as we get to
the next break, and that is that that Americans have
lost faith in the media. It's one of the things
we shouldn't we shouldn't be here. It's a sad state
of affairs that we are where we are, and there
are people trying to say, you know, Americans have not
lost trust. There's this guy that's lefties that Americans have
not lost trust in the media. Republicans have. But when
you look at the rest of what he wrote, so
it says, you know, only Republicans have lost trust in
the media. And there's a graph he shows where it
shows this Republicans over time losing faith in the media.
But when you look at the next chart, the guy
doesn't mention in the report. The next chart says, well,
if you look at Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated, they have
all dropped in faith in the media. They have all
lost faith in the media. And it's if you look
at nineteen seventy two, Republicans, about sixty eight per cent
of the sixty eight percent of folks in the Republican
side felt very confident that the news was fair, and
it was about seventy four percent of Democrats and about
fifty eight percent of independence they felt the media was fair,
you know, was not tremendously biased. But from nineteen seventy
two all through the eighties, that started going down into
the nineties into the Clinton era, and then it starts
getting kind of erratic. It goes up and down, up
and down, up and down. But around right after Trump
gets elected, trust in media amongst Democrats has reached the
highest point since they started keeping those numbers. So the
media at twenty sixteen, heading into twenty seventeen, it went
to almost eighty percent of Democrats felt the media was fair, good,
and fair now and at the same time, Republicans dropped
down to about fourteen percent feeling it's fair. This massive
disparity between Republicans and Democrats. The unafeel to were about
forty two percent thinking it was fair. So what's interesting
is go through that for you go through Trump, go
through COVID, and then go through Biden. And now Democrats
have gone from almost eighty percent of them thinking of
the media was fair or good down to fifty four percent,
so that they know that they were lied to. Democrats
are increasingly aware that they were completely lied to through
Trump's first administration, increasing lie to through COVID, increasingly lied
to through the Biden administration. Republicans now are at twelve
percent twelve percent feel the media is good or fair,
twenty seven percent of unaffiliated. So that's the nature of
where our country is. It's a dangerous time because people
are going to be picking where they get things from.
They're gonna be comparing, and unfortunately, a lot of loons
and move back crazy people will be recognized through that.
But the media did this to itself, CNN, MSNBC, ABCCBS,
all of them. They did this to themselves, and that
leaves Americans not knowing who to trust. And then they
take their confirmation bias and they start digesting news that
only they agree with. So if you wonder why we're divided,
there you go right now. And need you to take
a break chat at I'm sitting in for Pete Calendar
here on newstock eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT Christmas
Eve twenty twenty four. Much more to go. We'll be
back in just a few minutes. Stay tuned all right.
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Isaac Kerzog So I didn't finish sending this one out.
I will in just a few moments. For those of
you follow me on Twitter or x platform chat. Adam's
perspective sold I looked at Governor Cooper and Josh Stein's
Christmas wishes. I mentioned that earlier in the broadcast, and
so Isaac Kurzog from the Middle East says, you know,
to all our Christmas He's Jewish, To all our Christian
sisters and brothers in Israel, the Middle East and around
the world, we wish you a happy Christmas, a new
year fill with peace and prosperity, and a festive period
when we see our beloved hostages immediately return home around
the world the beautiful and festive Christmas tree. In the
village of Kaffre Yosef in northern Israel, we gathered the
regional council head Asamchity and leaders of Christian, Muslim Jewish
communities to try to unify the messages of peace. This
is more, by the way, than anything that here we
are in this country where we can celebrate all sorts
of faith. Then more than our Christian govenor wished for Christmas,
more than our governor elect Josh Stein has wished for Christmas.
And again it sounds like I'm being very judging here,
not meaning to. It's an observation more than a judgment.
I'm not passing judgment on either of those individuals. They
have I guess they have their reasons for why they
don't want to wish you a merry Christmas. I don't know,
but I don't understand it. I don't understand why the
state of North Caroline puts a holiday tree up. Can't
mention it's a Christmas tree. It is intentional. It is
not accidental. It is an intentional They are concerned about
offending someone, and we need to get past that. Christians
are not offended if you wish them a merry Christmas.
They're not. And the people that are offended by someone
wishing you a marry Christmas, they're the ones with the problem,
not the other way around. So it is. It is
a rather odd odd thing. Now, I want to get
to one story before we get inside of the break,
and then we'll get to the festival stuff, I promise.
But this is worth knowing because the left continues. Like
someone said yesterday, don't get the environmentalists cleaning up the
southern border because they'll turn it into climate change and
then it'll all go whackad do. And they were absolutely right.
I don't remember the caller's name, but they did that.
But this was a story over at Vox, which is
a decidedly left leaning place, and I'm constantly and do this.
I tell you, while you're watching TV with the holidays,
while you're watching different things, pay attention to the number
of ways in which your entertainment pushes you tries to
push you left. I'll give you an example of this.
So I'm watching a show on Netflix four episodes, and
I like a lot of British or European six episode
four episodes. I don't like having to be invested for
ten years into a given show. I like something short,
like a movie that runs along, and they just turned
it into four episodes. So I was watching one called
La Palma. It's on Netflix, you can see it. And
it's a European disaster flick. You don't see many of those. Usually.
America is good at from the Towering Inferno on through
you know, the twenty twelve, any kind of cataclysmic movie.
The Americans just love disaster movies. We always have, and
some of them are really trashing, some of them pretty good.
So this one was pretty interesting. It's an island off
the coast of Spain, La Palma and Teneriff in these islands,
and there's a volcanic thing and it's a disaster. There's
going to be a tsunami, and they and they characters
that and of itself. It's well done. It's very part
of it's very interesting, the tsunami side, the science mind,
it's kind of interesting. But they have one family to
kind of focus on it that has a wife and
a husband, the divorced their daughter. So there's only one
romantic interest in the story. It's a teenage girl. And
in that story, the teenage girl is interested in another
teenage girl, and it becomes a central part of the story,
not the story, but becomes how people live or die
in this in this disaster, inflick around that there wasn't
a need. So if you look at that, you would
think that the vast propensity of young girls are interested
in other girls, but there was no. It's not that
they need not do that, it's that it distracts from
the story when it doesn't, when it seems more forced
than natural. If that makes sense, And you see this
in this is that this has been a problem for Disney,
it's been a problem for Paramount. It's been a problem
for so many different even Paramount. The ending of Yellowstone
very very pc the way if you haven't. I'm not
going to give it away, but a little bit of
it is, you know that when when the Indians take
over the Dunton ranch and start kicking over tombstones and
stuff like that for the family and desecrating that as
if that's that's some cow paybacker legit. That's the kind
of But you see it in subtle ways, this constant
need to push you into a narrative and into a
belief structure that is a creation. It's not necessarily natural,
but it's a creation of the way they want the
world to be. So this is the way the story
goes over at Vox. Twenty twenty four is on track
to become the hottest year since humans have been keeping tracked,
by the way, humans have only been keeping track for
about little over one hundred and some years. Beating out
twenty twenty three hasn't done it, but we'll see the
extraordinary back to back. By the way, there's a lot
more to this story than just saying it's the hottest year.
The extraordinary back to back record breakers amplified disasters like
heat waves, hurricanes. They didn't do anything about hurricanes. Hurricanes
were no worse. That's not true, but they say it
and then they throw it in there. It's an unnecessary thing.
And torrential downpours around the world. We've always had torrential
downpours around the world, claiming thousands of lives and causing
billions and damages. Also worth noting disasters over the past
several thousand years. Go look at them. Look it up
on your own, don't trust me. Go look at up
on Wikipedia. You'll see that disasters killed hundreds of thousands
of people at one time. They killed more people long
ago than they do now, thankfully, and we have a
lot more people than it could kill. But we have
a lot more development along these coastal edges in big cities.
So when they say billions in damages in constant dollars,
I mean Vesuvius destroying the city of Pompeii. You could
say that was hundreds of billions or billions of dollars.
Few countries have emerged unscathed over the past two years,
but one place is known for its welcoming climate was
especially wounded. In twenty twenty three, Spain experienced a searing
early season heat wave, with temperatures topping one hundred and
one degrees Fahrenheart in the south of the country, followed
by more severe heat across the country in July. Now
it's had that, And acting like this is all connected
to what humans have done is always and it's never
that humans slightly did it. It's that humans had done
it in an extreme way. And it's an existential threat.
Your children shouldn't have children, and the world is about
to end, and thus we have to act now to
socialize the world, and it's the only way we fix it.
And then you think to yourself, is government really fixed
any problem it's ever tried to solve? He really has.
Government's very bad at solving problems. But when you read
the headline, here the headline, here's the way the headline,
climate change is pushing some governments to the breaking point.
And I would say that's not true. Governments have just
done a terrible job of governing. Spain isn't necessarily known
to have the most efficient government san In fact, it's
kind of dicey with respect to how Barcelona is set
up and Catalans, and it's just a bit of a
train wreck over there. But climate change doesn't push in anything.
If you want to see an example of climate changing
very fast. It's but the climate change. People say, Chad,
you're talking about the weather. It was horrible weather when
Napoleon marched on Moscow. You you should see that chart.
I'm not going to go into it in great detail,
but when Napoleon marched on Moscow, it was so cold
that he lost had four hundred and twenty two thousand troops.
I think it came back with about twelve. He lost
over four hundred thousand people in the march on Moscow
because the Russians just pulled back. The winter killed his troops.
This was just the early eighteen hundreds. So from that
point in time it out. Yeah, it's gotten a lot warmer.
Why was it so bleeding cold? Then you had a
mini ice age? Then it was horrible. Were we better
when Greenland was green? Because Greenland was green at one time? Anyway,
much more ago. We need to take a break right now,
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