WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:05.160 Ask not what your country can do for you and 2 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:15.800 what you can do for your country read my lips? 3 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:19.920 Pretty excuse me? And are people are still talking about discount? 4 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.039 It's the Ricochet Podcast with Charles C. W. You Cook 5 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:26.280 and Stephen Hayward. I'm James Lylyax. It's July and we're 6 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:29.960 just going to talk amongst arcels. Shallis led zeversos a podcast. 7 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:35.240 Welcome everybody. It's the Ricochet Podcast, number seven hundred and 8 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:39.640 forty eight. Hey, why don't you? Yes, you go to 9 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.359 ricochet dot com join up, sign up and be part 10 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:44.960 of the most stimulating conversations in community on the web. 11 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:48.719 I'm James Lenox in Minneapolis downtown in a tall, beautiful 12 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:51.840 skyscraper for the very last time, and I'm joined by 13 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.920 Charles C. W. Cook in Florida and Stephen Hayward, who, 14 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:57.960 as we know, is a parapatetic soul and might be 15 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.359 ware at the moment. Don't say californ Yeah, well. 16 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:03.679 I'm at home. I see the ocean. I won't say 17 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:04.480 where though, So. 18 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:10.000 All right, well, so once again we span the nation. Gentlemen, 19 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:12.599 what is on your minds? Of the more? There's so much. 20 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.519 We've got the big beautiful bill of course, which people 21 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:18.799 are still chewing through. And according to my Twitter feeds 22 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:21.239 and the tiktoks that I get, I am under the 23 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:24.319 understanding that the debt are going to be heaped like 24 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.680 cordwood on the street corners because of the cuts that 25 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:29.920 are being made in various programs. I could point out 26 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:32.840 that maybe I've heard before that every time somebody tries 27 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:35.079 to cut something, it's always going to be that people 28 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:37.319 are going to die. I think we discussed last week 29 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:43.719 or the week before, the incalculable fatality right after net neutrality. 30 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:49.000 But is this different? Was this actually a change in 31 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.519 programs and going forth there might be some difficulty of 32 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.799 aidable bodied people to get what they had got before. 33 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:58.760 Well, I don't know. I think a unifying thread right now, 34 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.439 a whole bunch of issues. Who someone our rundown some 35 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.640 not is the exhaustion of the Democrats in the left. 36 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:07.439 I mean, look, you mentioned that neutrality, but we also 37 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.840 heard the same thing about the twenty seventeen Trump tax cuts, 38 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.800 that people would die from those tax cuts, right and 39 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.840 the flash flooding in Texas. They want to blame it 40 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:21.000 on Doge, but there was also they're trying to run 41 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:24.360 the Katrina playbook. Right, you remember Katrina twenty years ago now, 42 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.120 and you know Bush made some mistakes. They didn't present 43 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.919 themselves very well, but it wrecked Bush's second term and 44 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.680 they thought, oh, well, rerun that playbook. So they keep 45 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:36.599 trying to rerun these old playbooks. But I think they're 46 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:40.240 less and less persuasive. And I'll give you one more 47 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:45.280 of several I could do. I've noticed a conspicuous silence 48 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:47.919 from Democrats about all the cuts to green energy that 49 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.680 were in the One Big, Beautiful Bill, And you would 50 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.479 think they would be saying, we're going to die because 51 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:54.439 we're cutting all the green energy because now we're not 52 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:58.360 fighting climate change instead. Apparently, the latest figure I saw 53 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:03.759 that Politico reported five House Democrats have joined in endorsing 54 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:07.800 President Trump's plan to get rid of California's electric car mandate, which, 55 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:11.039 of course that's spread across the country. And so that shows, 56 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:14.520 as some people have been saying, is that the green 57 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:18.479 mania is in retreat at the moment. And so what 58 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:22.120 have Democrats got, Well, they've got Mondani running in New York. Boy, 59 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:22.599 isn't that. 60 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:26.080 A great story for it? Indeed, I think California is 61 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:29.639 shutting down some refineries as well, under the belief that 62 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:32.439 perhaps they will be able to power their cars the 63 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.199 old Flintstone way, and that's the most ecologically safety Charles, 64 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.159 what have you taken away from the followed from the BB. 65 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:44.639 Well, there's an enormous amount. It's such a big bill. 66 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:47.879 I'm not sure it's beautiful, but it's such a big 67 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:55.520 bill that it's quite hard for serious people to take 68 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:58.879 a unified approach to it. Now that doesn't include those who, 69 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:03.759 of course a demogogueing people were discussing. But there's a 70 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:05.400 lot in that to alike. And then there's arts in 71 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:09.680 there not to like. For example, if you had told 72 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:13.800 a physical conservative two or three years ago, not only 73 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.439 will all of the twenty seventeen tax cuts be renewed, 74 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:20.120 but we'll get full expensing, I would have just jumped 75 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:23.199 for joy. Some of the rest of it less so, 76 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.720 but they shouldn't undermine the achievements. The Democrats are in 77 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:33.439 a very weird position here because although they are pretending 78 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:36.480 that everyone's going to die from medicaid, not even cuts 79 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:43.399 slowed growth. And although they are upset that the Inflation 80 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:47.079 Reduction Act, which had nothing to do with inflation has 81 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:56.639 been partly rescinded. They also agreed that the vast majority 82 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:01.279 of the cuts to taxes in the twenty seventeen should remain. 83 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:08.160 They're glossing over that, but that is a huge hypocrisy 84 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:14.040 something I've observed over the last few years. James's conservatives 85 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.879 often don't give themselves enough credit, especially on taxes. We 86 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:19.680 get all of this, or what if you were concerned 87 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:25.079 were conservatives were conserved? Well, here is a change. When 88 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.480 Hillary Clinton ran for president twenty sixteen, she said that 89 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:34.199 nobody who made more than less sorry than two hundred 90 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:37.439 and fifty thousand dollars a year would see a tax increase. 91 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.800 When Kamala Harris ran for president in twenty twenty four, 92 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:47.240 that number was four hundred thousand dollars. Now, if you 93 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:50.399 go back thirty years, no Democrat would have promised that. 94 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:55.160 The reason I mentioned that is we don't even have 95 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:57.120 to say, well, of course Democrats wanted to keep a 96 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.480 lot of the tax cuts. They said they wanted to 97 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.839 keep most of the tax cuts. And yet they're again 98 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:06.759 pretending every single statement that they put out that this 99 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.079 was a tax cut for billionaires. So that's all this 100 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:13.600 did was cut the taxes of billionaires. So it's very frustrating. 101 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:16.480 It's also a reason why we shouldn't legislate by this 102 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.360 like this. We really should actually have lots of smaller 103 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:22.560 bills and actually debate things and not have physical clefts 104 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:27.639 and so on. But my takeaway from this is there 105 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.120 are of course disagreements of America, and there are disagreements 106 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.800 over the Inflation Reduction Act, but most of the stuff 107 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:35.160 that is in this bill is actually stuff Democrats wanted 108 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:40.199 and they got their sole deduction back. So the idea like, oh, 109 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.560 this is the worst bill I've ever seen, which I've 110 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:45.639 seen some Democrats say there's the worst bill in American history. 111 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.480 It's an astonishing thing to say. The fugitive slave access. 112 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:48.720 Hello. 113 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:53.839 It's just another reason why a lot of our politics 114 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:55.480 are so silly, because it's nothing of the sort. 115 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:57.959 I agree that I would like to see smaller bills. 116 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:59.800 It would be nice to see all of these things 117 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:04.399 in individually enumerated, delineated, and then voted up and down 118 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:07.199 so we have a clearer view of who's believing what 119 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:10.279 and what they say and do. I agree. I also 120 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:13.920 don't think there's any way back to that, at least However, 121 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.160 we have a bill that somebody voted on as opposed 122 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:19.879 to continuing resolutions to just roll everything over into the 123 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.040 blob that just rolls and rolls on. So there's that. 124 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:28.439 Stephen mentioned the green energy, but it's curious read a 125 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:30.360 tweet the other day that somebody said, after twenty years 126 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.879 of green energy, you have better lamps and better appliances 127 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:35.600 and better home stuff and all this stuff. My electricity 128 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.120 costs is twice what it was before, which means it 129 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.120 me entirely accurate. But you get that feeling. I outfitted 130 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:44.040 my house with all of the finest and greatest LEDs, 131 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:48.319 I have my Energy Star compliance appliances and the like, 132 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:52.439 and I haven't seen a reduction whatsoever could possibly be 133 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:57.000 because rates go up because of a push to make 134 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:01.240 the grid earth friendly, etc. That's losing it. That's that's 135 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.959 that feels like a dead issue now. It just it 136 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:08.199 feels like after the Green New Deal of you know, 137 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:12.319 the AOC years, there's no enthusiasm for that anymore. And 138 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:14.360 it seems that the Democrats find themselves in a position 139 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:16.480 where all of the things that they all the standards 140 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:19.879 that they held so high are tattered and the flagpoles 141 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.800 have have have wilted in the in the hot sun 142 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.199 of disapproval and indifference. And yeah, Steven said, what do 143 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:28.279 they have they got this guy in New York. Is 144 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.839 that the future then of the party an appeal to 145 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.559 the people who absolutely want their communism and they want 146 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:35.759 it now, fresh and hot. 147 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:39.440 Well, I mean we've talked about this before a couple 148 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.000 of times. At the same time, you have this enthusiasm 149 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.000 among some of the progressive thinking class, like you know, 150 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:50.240 Ezra Kline for the abundance agenda, and a few politicians 151 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.120 gingerly putting a toe in the water. Even Gavin Newsom 152 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:56.200 for half an hour said yeah, I think I'm for this. Meanwhile, 153 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.039 I just picked up the latest New York Review of 154 00:08:58.039 --> 00:08:59.799 Books because I read it so you don't have to. 155 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.519 And there's a long review of several books about the 156 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.120 whole de growth agenda, and one of them even is 157 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:09.039 called de growth communism. I mean, talk about putting it 158 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.480 all out there in playing view without any euphemisms, right, 159 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:14.279 I mean, this is perfect. Right, So you know that 160 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:18.159 old religion dies hard, but I think, yeah, the practical 161 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:22.039 politicians realize that this has been a vote loser for democrats. 162 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.399 But the main point the abundance people. They just say 163 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:30.080 one thing sensible, which is, can't democrats somewhere pick a 164 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:32.360 city and run it well and you know, make the 165 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.799 schools work, clean up the streets, produce crime? How about that? 166 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.840 And you would think there'd be least there weren't in 167 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:42.240 nineteen nineties a few Democratic mayors like you know, North Quistan, Milwaukee, 168 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:44.200 and a couple others who ran their cities in a 169 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.320 sensible way. And so that might be a place to start. 170 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:49.480 But I let me start in New York. 171 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:51.440 Let me start, let me stop you right there. That's 172 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:54.320 a great idea. It depends, however, on an electorate that 173 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.840 is willing to be comfortable with some uncomfortable things. After 174 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.120 my recent experience as a I don't want to say 175 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.440 a victim of crime because I hate the sound of that. 176 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.919 As a non enthusiastic participant in the rearrangement of my 177 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.120 personal property, let's put it that way. I talked to 178 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:14.440 an awful lot of people because I was walking up 179 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:16.879 and down on the boulevards of several blocks trying to 180 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.039 find one of the air pods because the carjacker had 181 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:21.519 thrown my aarpods out at three locations, which is just 182 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.919 really devious, just evil. So I have to go to 183 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:25.559 each one and get down on my hands and knees 184 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:26.960 and look into the boulevard and the gutter and the 185 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.200 rest of it. And I would explain to people why 186 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.639 I was on their lawn looking, And once everybody heard 187 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.919 what had happened to me, everybody had their own story. 188 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.960 Now they weren't necessarily carjacking, but it was thievery, it 189 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:45.159 was miscreens in the neighborhood, it was bad stuff. Everybody 190 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:49.679 had a story, and everybody was equally convinced that nothing 191 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:51.840 was going to be done to any of the people 192 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:54.440 who had done these things. And as long as they 193 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.120 keep voting in the same people that they do, and 194 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:58.399 I presume that they do because they all want to 195 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:00.679 be thought of as good people and somebody who votes 196 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.279 for those you know, nazis, nothing will change. So I mean, 197 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:08.639 it takes a mayor to say that we're going to 198 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.799 do the broken windows and squeegee guys things, But it 199 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.799 doesn't seem to be that that's from their side. There, No, 200 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:17.639 I should correct myself. I read the other day that 201 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:19.960 Eric Adams is actually trying to do like real mayor 202 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.519 stuff like they used to do to make lives better 203 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:25.799 for his constituencies, which is what mayors is supposed to do. 204 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:32.360 But I mean, what's in it for them necessarily if 205 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.480 they are getting rich and their friends are getting rich 206 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.360 on the graft and everybody else in their party is 207 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:42.240 doing okay, what's in it for them to go all 208 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:43.600 doge on their own fiefs. 209 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:47.720 Yeah, good question. By the way, back up a step, James, 210 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:52.000 you were carjacked. I mean yeah, at gunpoint nine point. 211 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.600 I mean he didn't see a gun. Tail didn't happen 212 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.320 that it happened too fast. They were in my car 213 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.759 before I could notice it. 214 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:00.919 More than one person. 215 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.879 Yeah, well they traveled in too is they followed me 216 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:05.159 home and then one of them stayed in the car. 217 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.480 The other jumps out, and I assume there's a gun 218 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:09.639 because I mean, you have to have some persuasive means 219 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:12.480 to relieve somebody of you know, their of their auto. 220 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.240 And the gun was not produced while I was hanging 221 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.159 on the side of the car swinging into the car 222 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.039 trying to hit the guy. Although it may have been 223 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.960 you know, half a blockdown, you never know. So no, 224 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:28.279 I didn't see one, But Charles helped me out here 225 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:30.679 because a lot of people have said, this is why 226 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:34.399 you always carry And I'm trying to think of a 227 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.200 situation in which I could have produced the weapon fast 228 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:40.159 enough while moving a lawnmower, you know, had it strapped. 229 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:44.840 I don't live my life with the idea that I 230 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:46.960 should put on my I should strap on my pistol 231 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:48.960 to go get a lawnmower out of my garage in 232 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.000 the middle of the afternoon. I just don't. But you, 233 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.320 but you may have some other ideas on the thought. 234 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:57.639 Yeah, although I do think I would be careful in 235 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:00.639 Minnesota in the situation that you were in, if my 236 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:04.720 life weren't being threatened, which is of course the question, 237 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.360 right because you don't want to end up being prosecuted. 238 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.960 No, that's what you worry about. I mean the cerea 239 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.320 is basically this, I see him coming towards me, I 240 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.120 can produce my pistol. If he then makes a motion 241 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.320 to indicate that he's about to pull one out himself, 242 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.600 I think at that point I got every right to 243 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:25.279 put a hole in him. But if he takes my 244 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:29.200 car and runs away, I can't shoot him. So yeah, 245 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:33.360 I mean all these little calculations that go through your head. Unfortunate, 246 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.399 but yes, I know, go on. 247 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:40.159 I just wanted to make a comment about de growth communism. 248 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:43.200 So when I was at Oxford, I saw a debate 249 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.200 at the Oxford Union. I can't remember the topic of it, 250 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.639 but there was this absolutely hilarious moment where the guy 251 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:57.639 on the other side from my friend made some concession, 252 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:01.919 rhetorical concession. My friends did up and he said he said, no, no, 253 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:08.559 in mock helpfulness, he said, no, no, you don't understand. 254 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.320 He said, you just said what I am here to 255 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:17.480 get you to say. You don't say that. You say 256 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:20.519 anything you can to avoid saying what you just said, 257 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.039 which loses you the debate. And I spent my time 258 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.360 trying to get you to say what you just said, 259 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.159 but you came out and said it at the beginning. 260 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:30.759 It was just hilarious and it was just a brilliant 261 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:35.279 rhetorical trick. When someone says I'm for de growth communism, 262 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.679 that reminds me of that. No, no, you don't say that. 263 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.399 We we say that, that's our criticism of you being 264 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.759 a communist, that it's you don't say that at the outset. 265 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:48.320 Where's the fun in that it's a fit like the 266 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:51.399 Monty Python haggled properly from Life for Brian. 267 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:54.759 Uh well, they say, they say, because they believe it to, 268 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:58.679 not that it's it sounds good to people. Those are 269 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:02.120 those are absolutely attributes of which they witched trumpet. 270 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:04.320 So yeah, Steve, well here I've actually got the I've 271 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.039 looked up the actual titles. Charlie, it's even better. It's 272 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.759 even better than you thought. The title of one of 273 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:14.039 the books is Marx in the Anthrops Scene towards the 274 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.480 Idea of de growth Communism. Now, is this book published 275 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.919 by Island Press or some little obscure Greenee publishing house. No, 276 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.879 it's published by Cambridge University Press. By the way, a 277 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:30.600 mayor one hundred and ten dollars for the hardback. That'll 278 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:34.960 generate a few communists. It's amazing. You can't make this up. 279 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.039 Well, I mean, if you're inculcated to believe that that 280 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:42.320 capitalism and is the roots of is the most evil 281 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:45.039 system ever combined, ever created on the planet, then yes, 282 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:48.080 of course you would want all manifestations of it to 283 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.399 be removed. There was a little video floating around on 284 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.200 Twitter a couple of days ago of a University of 285 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:55.399 Minnesota professor who's talking about the need to decolonize and 286 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:59.559 dismantle America. And they say this as though America is 287 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:06.600 some so of is this object that once removed, nothing 288 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.240 but goodness will happen, That the systems that immediately and 289 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:15.519 effortlessly flow into place will empower all, will cause abundance, 290 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:22.000 will make everybody absolutely just jack Dandy happy. When what 291 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.480 they're talking about, if it comes about, is a state 292 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.759 of nature. And it's remarkable. It's the sort of thing 293 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:30.399 you know that you only hear. It's so stupid you 294 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.480 could only hear it from an academic according to the man. 295 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:39.879 Yeah, and that's the classic human nature problem. We see 296 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:41.440 this a little bit on the right at the moment. 297 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:43.600 There are some people who believe that the entire modern 298 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:46.320 world is corrupt and that when you really wanted to 299 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:50.080 live with, say the Roman Empire or the Aztecs or something. 300 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:52.799 And most funny about them is that in that Twitter 301 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:58.360 avatars or that general esthetic preferences, they have pictures of 302 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:02.600 statues of Caesar because they think they would have been Caesar, 303 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:04.640 when actually they wouldn't. And it's the same with these 304 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:06.920 common sides. They all think that if there was some 305 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:13.079 revolution and then we entered into communism, they'd be the artist, right, 306 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:15.519 They wouldn't be the guy who cleaned the latrines. They 307 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.519 would get the plumb allocation. They would get to a 308 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.000 bunch of paints, and they would get a ceiling to 309 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:25.680 spend their days using them on. And this is of 310 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:29.200 course absolute nonsense, and the ceiling would collapse on them, 311 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:33.079 hopefully quickly before they knew it. But they don't think that. 312 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.480 They think that they would. They would be given all 313 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:37.319 of the best choices. 314 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.480 Well, but not necessarily so, because I followed the same accounts, 315 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:43.319 or they pop in my stuff too, and they all 316 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.200 want to return, and the U in return is always 317 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:49.640 spelled like A like a Latin V. And while they 318 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.759 sometimes will say, you know, yes, I realized the class distinctions, 319 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:55.839 being I probably wouldn't be a senator. But on the 320 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:58.559 other hand, there was a simplicity to life. There was 321 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:01.680 a sturdiness, there was an honorable quality to it. A 322 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.200 man knew his place, and uh, well, if you look 323 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.960 at some of these studies, peasants worked actually less than 324 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.440 people do in America today. I know, I know, you 325 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:13.440 see this all the time, and it's nonsense on its face. 326 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:18.000 But conversely, I think there are things to learn from 327 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:22.440 the past. There are some details motors operendez, motors vivendi 328 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:26.920 that that that bear consideration, and perhaps modernizing, integration and 329 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:29.440 the rest of it. I like studying the past, but 330 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:33.079 a clear eyed view of it means that you're probably 331 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.079 going to die at twenty six of an abscess tooth. 332 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:41.720 So while while yes, having these sorts of cultural solidity 333 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:45.799 and national identification in the so that's that's that's good, 334 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.799 and we can learn. But yeah, you're you're going to 335 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.200 be in the fields ten hours a day, and you're 336 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:53.799 not going to own the land, and you're going to 337 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:56.279 be strung up for a tree if you shoot a 338 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:58.960 deer that belongs to the to the local laird. So 339 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:03.599 you're right, Charles. It is ridiculous. It certainly is. 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I think the most interesting piece 389 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.000 I read by this was Ace over an Ace of spades, 390 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:49.599 who said, you know, I don't think there was a file. 391 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.000 I don't think he kept a file. And he makes 392 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:56.079 the point that rather than being part of some ingenious 393 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:03.720 masade directed black male compromont operation, he was just a 394 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:06.480 guy who called in favors all the time to make 395 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:10.799 himself rich, brought people to the island, got some backgrounds 396 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:14.440 from some cute girls. Everybody knew what had happened. 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