August 22, 2025 • 35 mins
What if everything we believe about crime, poverty, and social breakdown stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of cause versus correlation? Drawing from my personal experience as someone who served over four years in prison, I reveal the uncomfortable truth about what really drives America's most pressing social problems.
The destruction of the nuclear family—particularly in the Black community—stands at the epicenter of our societal decline. In 1960, 80% of Black children were born into two-parent families. Today, that figure has flipped completely, with only 20% having both parents present. This devastating shift wasn't accidental but resulted directly from well-intentioned government programs initiated under Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" that inadvertently incentivized fatherlessness.
During my time behind bars, I witnessed firsthand how virtually every young inmate shared one common factor: they grew up without fathers. Without paternal boundaries, boys lack discipline and direction, while girls often confuse sex for love, seeking male attention at increasingly younger ages—perpetuating the cycle of single parenthood across generations.
Similarly, our approach to drug policy reflects this same confusion between cause and correlation. It's not drugs that cause most crime—it's the artificially high cost of illegal drugs that drives users to theft and violence. If substances were truly legalized (not merely decriminalized with burdensome regulations), most drug-related crime would disappear overnight.
Current approaches to these problems—whether Trump's deployment of federal troops to high-crime areas or government intervention in private industry—treat symptoms while ignoring root causes. Central planning and control inevitably create unintended consequences, regardless of who implements them or how noble their intentions.
The solution isn't to reform these failed systems but to end them entirely. We must stop subsidizing behaviors that destroy families and communities while recognizing that some apparent problems—like recessions—actually represent necessary resets before stronger growth.
Are you ready for a radical reset that addresses causes rather than correlations? Join me in questioning the conventional wisdom that has failed us for generations.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey everybody, it's me, your Uncle, herbie Herbie K,
the host of the Radical Resetpodcast and the author of
Radical Reset, available to younow on Amazon by me, herbie K,
the Manifesto of Antipolitism,antipolitism being the system
that I created that will returnus to a republic and convert
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service in the Congress frombeing a career to being a duty.
It wouldn't be that, that'd benice.
Antipolitism takes all themoney out of politics, all of it
, every penny.
It takes away all thecorrupting influences and would
leave us with the republic thatthe founders intended, which
we're going to need as AI speedsinto the future and central
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control becomes less and lessrelevant, which brings me to
what I want to talk about today,which is what we're doing.
Well, in general, I want totalk about cause and correlation
, and then I want to relate itto what's going on in Washington
DC and what President Trump isdoing all the way around and
what all politicians do, youknow.
Now that I look back on it, Irealized that my high school
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education was so incomplete,because there were a few courses
I wish I had been given, and Ireally think not that, by the
way, as a libertarian and as ananti-politist and anti-politism,
by the way basically takeslibertarianism and just puts its
shell around it so that itcould actually be executed.
The problem with libertarianismis that it relies upon
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politicians to not bepoliticians, which is that being
to accumulate power underthemselves to justify their own
existence.
Antipolitism would eliminatethat possibility.
So it's a very compatiblephilosophy or political system
with libertarianism andlibertarianism.
Just for those of you who arenot familiar, libertarian is the
term that we give for a classicliberal, since liberalism was
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hijacked by progressivism manydecades ago.
So what people think of as aliberal today is actually a
progressive and what peoplethink of a libertarian is is
actually a classic liberal,which is why I think we have a
golden opportunity and why I'mrunning for Congress in Arizona,
congressional District 4.
We have a golden opportunity totake Democrats in particular,
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who are disaffected by theparty's complete and total
disconnect from objectivereality and from any semblance
of philosophical reason to exist, and bring them to us and leave
the progressives out there topretend that boys and girls can
choose any one of innumerablegenders and pronouns.
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So anyway, let's talk aboutcause and correlation.
So back to the courses I wish Ihad had in high school.
I brought out all thislibertarian discussion just now
to point out that I don'tadvocate for central control of
education.
Education should be in thehands of the people whose
children are being educated atthe local level, and the local
people together will come upwith something that makes sense.
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And when you disperseresponsibility into the tens of
thousands of school districtsthat exist around the country,
we'll get a lot ofexperimentation, a lot of new
ideas and better education willbe the result, as opposed to
central planning, which alwaysfails when you hand down edicts
from above, as if what works inMississippi could work in New
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York City and vice versa.
So, anyway, courses I wish Ihad had in high school and I
hope that someday becomemandatory, start with statistics
, and statistics are very, veryimportant to figure out why
figures lie and liars figure.
So many people believe thingsthat are thrown out just because
they don't understand howstatistics are collected and
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what they mean.
And the other thing that I wishthat I had been taught in high
school was the differencebetween cause and correlation,
because if people understoodthat, we would have avoided so
many problems.
So if we turn back the clock tothe root of why our society is
coming apart at the seams today.
That root is anchored in theold saying that the road to hell
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is paved with good intentionsand starts in the mid-1960s when
Lyndon Johnson decided he couldcure poverty and enacted the
Great Society Program.
So all the programs that wethink of today, a lot of people
attribute them to FDR, when theywere really LBJ.
And so when you think ofwelfare, which is aid to family
with dependent children, whenyou think of food stamps, which
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is now SNAP or EBT I think theycall it, if you think about
housing support, the Departmentof Housing and Urban Development
, when you think about Medicareand Medicaid, you're talking
Lyndon Johnson.
Lyndon Johnson was, if youmeasure presidents by
productivity, lyndon Johnson wasthe most productive president
in history.
He passed more legislation inhis first three months in office
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than John F Kennedy, hispredecessor, had passed in three
years.
So if you measure success bythe amount of legislation passed
, then Lyndon Johnson was amassive, massive success.
So the program I want to focuson today has to do with the root
of crime and I have a uniqueperspective on crime.
Those of you who have neverlistened to me before, I
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disclose up front to everybodywho listens, and if you read a
Radical Reset the manifesto ofanti-politism available on
Amazon.
I always have to say that youwill see that in the very first
paragraph I disclose that I aman ex-convict who went to prison
and was guilty of the crimethat I was charged for, and I
don't talk much about thecircumstances because to discuss
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the circumstances would be toweasel and I will not weasel
because my path is redemptionand to be redeemed at least I
think that begins with totalhonesty and complete breakdown
in character and committed thecrimes I was charged for, plead
guilty, had no trial and went toprison.
So it was in prison that a lotof these ideas came to me,
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frankly, because I had a lot oftime on my hands to think of.
Plus, there's something freeingabout when everybody knows
everything is bad about you.
It's strangely freeing At leastit was in my case.
It was very relieving.
But one of the things that Ilearned in prison back on track
is that virtually every singleyoung man that I met I didn't
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meet many young women in prisonother than prison guards,
because I was in a men's prison,obviously, but I'm assuming
that a lot of what I'm going tosay about men is going to be
true about women.
In fact I'm positive.
It's true, I've done someresearch.
But you know, virtually everyman I met was raised without a
father.
They were all the products ofsingle parent families and even
when they knew who their fatherwas, he wasn't married to their
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mother and their mothers oftenhad multiple children with
multiple different last namesand, in many cases, multiply
racial.
And I know that from firsthandexperience because when I would
go to visitation, when my kidswould come visit me, when I was
locked up for over four yearsand we would be in the big room
full of people coming to visittheir relatives, it was just
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obvious.
I mean, you only have to useyour eyes and to see.
You know you would have sevenchildren in a family and none of
them would look related andthey would be of different races
and different mixes of races.
None of them would look relatedand they would be of different
races and different mixes ofraces.
And I'm not saying there'sanything wrong with that, but
I'm saying there's tremendousthings wrong with it.
When there's no father,president, when the woman
doesn't get married, at the rootof what's going on is the
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destruction of the nuclearfamily and at the root of the
destruction of the nuclearfamily, particularly in the
black community, and it allbegan with the black community.
So we're going to talk aboutthis is not going to be a
politically correct conversation, and not that I'm going to
attack black people, because I'mnot, but sometimes when you
tell the truth and it will not.
Sometimes, virtually always whenyou tell the truth in the
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environment in which we live,you end up being criticized as
racist.
But I you know again becauseI've been run through the mud
where I belong to be run Again,not making excuses for what I've
done.
Really all pretense has beenknocked away from me.
You can call me anything youwant, I don't care.
I've been called worse, anddeservedly so.
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So anyway, in 1960, 80% ofblack children were born into
two-parent families.
Today it's exactly the opposite20% of black children are born
into two-parent families.
Today it's exactly the opposite20% of black children are born
into two-parent families, 80%are not.
This is the reason, this is thecausal reason, the commonality.
When you look at all the otherthings, poverty, for example, is
often blamed for crime.
That's what Lyndon Johnsonthought.
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He thought if we could curepoverty, we can cure everything.
The truth is, poverty islargely the result of one of two
things.
Okay, well, three things.
One of them I'm going to ruleout immediately.
So one reason a person could bepoor is if they were terribly
physically or mentallyhandicapped, and of course then
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in a compassionate society, um,we will take care of them.
Now, as libertarian, I would saythat there are plenty of
private organizations to providethat aid and the government
doesn't have to go into the takecare of the very small portion
of the population that is soseverely disabled that they
can't help themselves.
But for the other portion ofthe population, the vast, vast
majority, the reason that peopleare poor is sometimes it's bad
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luck, but most often it's viledecisions.
They make terrible, terribledecisions, and they make
terrible decisions largelybecause most of them are raised
without fathers.
So to give you an example, thenext time that you hear, the
next time there's a story on TVabout some kid that's been
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killed in the commission ofcrime, or one of those tragic
stories and he wasn't my boy andthe police killed him unfairly
and all that kind of stuff Iwant you to look at two things.
The first thing you're going tonotice is it's always mother.
Okay, you might see brothersand sisters hanging around or
talking to more cousins, butwhat you won't see is dad, a
hundred percent of the time,regardless of race.
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I don't mean to pick just onblack people the mother that's
going to come out and talk aboutwhat a good boy her son was
it's most often black people,because black people commit most
crime.
Black people make up 13% of thepopulation and commit about 55%
of all crime.
Now, that's not to say thatthere aren't plenty of white
people who commit crime andthere aren't plenty of Latino
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people who commit crime, but themajority of crime is committed
by the black community and sadly, the majority of that crime is
committed upon themselves.
Over 90% of violence in theblack community is black on
black.
In fact, I think it's evennorth of 95%.
So the point I'm making is I'mnot picking on black people, I'm
speaking of objective reality,and the root of what's gone
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wrong in the black community isthe destruction of the black
nuclear family.
No father present means noboundaries as the child is
raised.
Now I know that there are goingto be single moms out there who
are going to be incensed by this, because I'm pointing my finger
at the cause of what's wrongwith our society across the
board not just crime, but thecoarseness of it, the nihilism
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of it is the very fact that somany kids today are being born
into single parent families.
And not only are we not, as asociety, frowning upon it and we
should be absolutely frowningupon it, we should be
re-stigmatizing bastardy, butinstead we're celebrating it as
if it's something that's good,because somehow we've got this
in this.
In the lower classes they payno attention to whether a
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father's present, because theidea of shotgun marriage somehow
evaporated with AFDC.
I can go into all the reasonswhy, but basically, anything you
subsidize, you get more of.
So, since AFDC means Aid toFamily with Dependent Children,
which means payments are onlymade to mothers who don't have
fathers present.
That's an incentive to havebabies for checks and that's the
way it's turned out.
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And briefly, president Clintonreformed welfare and turned it
into workfare and it worked inthe sense that when I say it
worked, it didn't cure theunderlying problems entirely,
but it slowed down the amount ofpeople that were on welfare and
were driving people at leastinto work, which is a good first
step, next step being getmarried and stay married.
But we'll get to that in justone minute.
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But that was undone byPresident Obama, who, in my view
, was the most anti-Americanpresident that we've ever had.
I think he was the onlyanti-American president we've
ever had A destructive.
He was supposed to bepost-racial, instead he
racialized and tribalized thecountry.
A destructive, glib man whoconsistently overestimates
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himself and is a real psychopath.
I really have little to norespect for Barack Obama for all
the damage he's done.
One of those things that he'sdone was to undo the reforms
that President Clinton had donein conjunction with Newt
Gingrich and the RepublicanCongress back in the days when
Congress did the job it waselected to do.
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Here's a little trivia note asa sidelight the one job that
Congress should be doingconstitutionally is passing a
budget each year, and I askedGrok the other day what was the
last year the Congress passed abudget in good order, in other
words, when they actually gottogether Democrats, republicans,
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made compromises, yada, yada,yada and passed the budget, and
it was 1997.
That's how long it's been sincethe Congress has done its job.
Since then, they've beenrunning the country in what are
called continuing resolutions,which is how we went from less
than a trillion dollars of debtbefore the turn of the century
to now $38 trillion andskyrocketing if you don't
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include the unfunded obligationsof Social Security and Medicare
and I've gone into that beforeso I'm not going to dwell on it
today but that brings ournational debt closer to $150 to
$200 trillion that we cannotpossibly pay back and we are
headed at lightning speed downthe shithole because of it.
But having said all that, backto the subject matter at hand.
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By destroying the nuclear familythrough subsidizing
single-parent birth and it'sgoing on today what we've done
is we've destroyed the one thingthat taught boys in particular,
boundaries and girls inparticular chastity.
So what we've had is a toxicstew of young men who have no
boundaries and young girls,since they have no fathers
present, basically confuse sexfor love to get male attention
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and immediately start screwingwhen they're 13 years old, in a
community that places no shameon losing virginity early and
being essentially a slut.
And you know, we can call itpromiscuous if you'd like, but
these little girls become sluts,and not because they're bad
girls, but because there's nofather.
No one ever told them you werespecial, no one ever told them,
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growing up without a sexualunderlying motivation, that they
have any kind of worth in theworld.
So, of course, they sink inwith what they've got, and this
is how we ended up where we aretoday.
So what President Trump is doingin Washington DC and this is
what brought this all to mind bysending in federal troops oh,
they'll bring the crime ratedown for a little while and
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they'll suppress it for a littlewhile, but the fact of the
matter is it's going to popright back up because no one's
treating the underlying cause,and the cause is single parent
families and the destructioncaused by the welfare state.
Now that brings the question tookay, you're running for
Congress, herbie, what would youdo about it?
And the answer is I wouldn't doanything about it, I would end
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it.
So, in other words, one of thethings that you'll see as my
campaign develops during theyear and I talk about it in
these podcasts is going to beI'm going to propose no new laws
.
Okay, part of my platform is nonew laws, no proposals to
reform or change or fix anything.
You can't reform something thatdoesn't treat cause, because
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it's the initial assumptionunder the program, is wrong to
begin with.
So you see all these variouscentral control laws that have
gone awry and people think, well, we need to reform this, you
know, like, for example, housing, urban development.
We have to reform that lowincome housing.
No, we don't.
No, we don't.
We have to get rid of rentcontrols.
We have to get rid of pricecontrols.
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We have to let the free markethandle it and get the fudge out
of the way.
Everything the governmenttouches it turns to shit.
It's amazing to me how much weelect our leaders like crazy.
People date women in particular,but both, and we've all seen
this.
I hope you're not one of thesepeople, but you know the people
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I'm talking about that everyonethey date is the one and they
get very high hopes and they getvery into it very fast.
They get very committed veryfast, only to be ultimately
disappointed and usually in aconflagration of disaster,
because they're placing meaninginto something that isn't there,
because they're nuts.
Well, we do the exact samething with our politicians Every
single time, in every election.
Democrats look for their saviorand Republicans look for their
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savior.
One of the podcasts that I enjoyvery much and I watch it all
the time is the two-way podcastby Mark Halperin, and I watch it
on YouTube.
I don't actually go on andparticipate, but I do watch it
on YouTube almost every day.
He does a podcast called theMorning Meeting and I like to
watch it.
He has on a Democrat andRepublican, both of whom are
good, really excellent people.
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The Republican is Sean Spicer,who was the press secretary for
Donald Trump in his first termin the beginning, before Sarah
Huckabee Sanders.
The second one is BenTurrentine, who I had not heard
of prior to this, but he wasJared Polis, the governor of
Colorado's chief of staff, and Iam a big fan of Jared Polis.
Hold on, I'm going to take asip of water, I get parched,
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anyway, and he's done fun,raised me, so on and so forth,
and he's a very reasonable.
He's the kind of Democrat Iwould target and I'm going to
target my campaign a reasonable,human being who understands
what objective reality is.
But even he and Spicer andHalperin they're all looking for
who's the big dog on each side.
You know everyone's talkingabout who's the next savior for
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the party and you know who's thenext Trump, and Trump is going
to be a disaster, guys.
I'm going to tell you somethingAll of this, all of these
tariffs and all of these thingshe's doing he's doing a lot of
good things when he tears awaythe government, like in
deregulation.
Obviously that's a wonderfulthing and that could help offset
some of the disaster he'scausing through central control
by doing things like tariffs.
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But the one that really is badis this idiocy of the government
getting in on deals withprivate industry, which I
believe is unconstitutional.
And I'm praying to God thatvarious groups of lawyers around
the country who do this sort ofthing you know ideologically
motivated law, uh law and filesinjunctions and start suing
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because this, this fascism.
You know there's been a lot ofaccusations of fascism.
This is fascism.
Fascism is when the state getsinvolved in private industry.
Fascism is essentiallycommunism under the disguise of
private industries allowed tocontinue to exist as long as the
government dictates what isimportant and what priorities
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are for private industry, and itends up in a disaster.
One of the things that peopledon't know about Hitler, for
example.
One of the things that peopledon't know about Hitler, for
example.
And why did he?
Why did Hitler attack Polandbefore his generals thought they
were ready to make the attackand then stall out after he?
Well, the French basicallycapitulated and really the
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Germans had a brilliant strategyto get to the channel, the
English escape, and that's it.
That's the high point of thewar.
And then Hitler goes on toattack Russia.
Why did he do those things?
Because really they're insane.
So was Hitler insane or wasthere another motivation?
And there was anothermotivation, and the motivation
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was Hitler.
A lot of people say that Hitlerwas great until the Second World
War and the Holocaust as ifthat could be a possible
statement because he did so manygood things for Germany.
You know the out of one.
By the way, he takes credit forthe out of one.
Well, he took people credit himfor the out of one, but it was
something, an idea, that wasactually germinated under the
Weimar Republic before that.
I just want to say that to beclear.
But anyway, moving on, he'scredited with a lot of success
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early and really what he did waskind of what Trump is doing.
He built.
Not that Trump is a fascist,listen to me carefully.
I'm not one of those people.
I think Trump is vaguelywell-motivated.
Plus, he has Jewish childrenand grandchildren.
So come on now.
So, anyway, the but, butbuilding an economy and an
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enormous amount of debt.
Germany borrowed essentiallyfrom itself and the same kind of
Ponzi scheme that we're runningnow an enormous amount of money
and gave the mirage ofeverybody was working and
everybody was doing and thecountry was doing well, much as
Franklin Roosevelt created thatmirage through his programs like
the CCC and the WPA.
But in the end these thingsalways fail because central
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control and central planningalways fails.
And Germany's economy hadalready reached its apogee, it
was on the way down, so Hitlerbasically had to start the war
because he was out of gas.
It was now or never.
He wasn't going to be in abetter position later.
Well, guys, you know, right nowTrump is.
I just heard him say yesterdaythat he's had the best seven
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months of any president ever,and that couldn't be true,
although LBJ might have had abeat in terms of the amount of
legislation.
And Trump has done this all byexecutive order.
Also a disgusting thing, theCongress has abdicated its
responsibility to the executivebranch, allowing the president
to make all of these crazyexecutive orders.
Some of them are good, like thepercentage of regulation, as
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I've said, but most of them arejust what he's doing is he's.
It's just central control underanother name.
Instead of central planning andthe five-year plan, like the
Soviet Union, it's handing downthe priorities of what the
government should be promoting.
We should be promoting thesteel industry.
In his view, we should bepromoting chips, and maybe this
is all right, but it also couldbe wrong and the way he's doing
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it is going to be wrong and theslant chair where he's using a
government is going to be wrongand it's going to create all
kinds of unintended consequences.
And I say this with certaintyand you might be saying to
yourself well, that's just youropinion.
No, no, no, no.
This happens 100% of the time.
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On central control, there is noexception to it.
We are going to live in a worldof unintended consequences
because of central control andthe complete and total
abandonment of any understandingbetween cause and correlation
that underlie them.
Okay, or even if they'reproblems at all, because if you
look at cause instead ofcorrelation, you start to
realize that maybe what you'relooking at it might look bad in
the present, but might simply bea transition to a better.
It's like a recession isactually a good thing, although
we all think it's bad becausewe've been told this our whole
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lives.
But a recession is a resetbefore the economy recovers and
is stronger than it's ever been.
You set before the economyrecovers and is stronger than
it's ever been.
You have to think of a freemarket economy as a man walking
upstairs throwing a yo-yo.
I just want to draw thismetaphor for you.
Think about a man walkingupstairs throwing a yo-yo.
As he goes, with every step theguy throws the yo-yo down.
Maybe like every five steps theguy throws the yo-yo down and
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the yo-yo represents the economytaking a drop in a recession.
But when it comes back, when itgoes down, it doesn't go down
as low as it did the five stairsearlier when he threw it before
, and when it comes back to hishand, it's going to come up a
little bit higher and then thereare going to be five more
stairs of growth before theyo-yo is thrown again.
The yo-yo has to be thrown sothat natural market forces get
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rid of the waste and the buildupand the fraud and all the
things that build up in anoverheated economy, which is why
a recession is a good thing andthe recovery is to be enjoyed.
But don't get used to it.
You need the recession, justlike you cannot be happy without
being sad.
Life has duality, alpha andomega.
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That's where that all comesfrom.
There's always duality in life,and when you try to eliminate
that duality through centralcontrol, you end up with a
disaster.
So I know for a certainty weare headed for disaster, which
is why I'm calling my campaign,and I called my book, a radical
reset, because the interestingis, for example, in the case of
the cause of crime, which iswelfare, and the other cause of
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crime, which are drug laws.
So the other cause of crime aredrug laws, not drugs.
Drugs correlate with crime.
Now here's the difference.
Okay, an addict takes a shot.
Let's use heroin as an example.
Let's say that an addict isaddicted to heroin and he has oh
, maybe he shoots two eightballs a day, maybe three eight
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balls a day that's an eighth, bythe way, for those of you who
haven't gotten to prison and sohis habits cost him oh, I don't
know, maybe $50 a day, and theguy's living at the bottom and
he's got to find his $300.
And so, anyway, the bottom lineis heroin would be the next
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thing to free if it were legal,because you can't patent it.
It's been around forever, I meanbefore drug laws, which you
know let's call go back to the19th century.
You could buy opiates likelaudanum, which was just.
You probably watch westernswhere, like for example, in
Tombstone?
Why?
Because guzzling laudanum?
Well, laudanum is opiate, it'sheroin.
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But the point I'm going to makeis taking laudanum then and
taking heroin now does notsuddenly you don't suddenly jump
up and turn into a monstrouscriminal.
The crime is created by the druglaws that make the heroin too
expensive.
So where a three-eighth ball aday habit might be, oh, today I
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don't even.
You know, I've been out ofprison so long I've lost track
with the prices.
But let's say it's a $100 a dayhabit, or let's call it a $50 a
day habit, because when you'rereally living on the street
that's a lot of money that youhave to wrangle up.
Well, maybe you can get it ifyou can stand on the street
corner and make a good story.
But for most people most ofthem they resort to crime, but
they're not otherwise criminal.
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In fact, heroin in particular,they just lay down and go to bed
.
If it weren't for the fact thatthe crime was expensive, it
would be a $20 a week habit,because heroin would be, as it's
, no more patentable thanaspirin is or, as seen in the
benefit, it would be availablegenerically, everywhere, it
would be safe, it would be clean.
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Now that gets into a muchbroader discussion of drug
utilization, which I havediscussed in prior podcasts and
I'll discuss again in the future.
But the point I want to maketoday is it's drug laws that
cause crime, the reason ourprisons are filled to the
overflow and we're packing themin there like sardines.
I myself experienced being in a14-man cell with 20 men in it,
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so six of them were sleeping onthe floor.
Been there, done that.
Okay, and I'm telling you that90% of the people in prison are
there for drug-related crimes.
Now law enforcement will tellyou it's actually only.
I love it when they say thisit's only 35%.
Yeah, that's when you talkabout possession or sale.
But when you add into it all thetheft and the violence that
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revolves around, remember thatwhen you distribute drugs,
you're in an illegal business.
Illegal business can't go tocourt to settle a dispute, so it
always results in violence.
So not only do drug laws causecrime, but they cause violent
crime, because disputes withinan illegal enterprise can't be
settled by going to court, which, if the drugs were legal,
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that's exactly what would happenIf there was a dispute between
a producer and distributor.
They would sue each otherinstead of shooting each other,
which meant nobody killed theside effect and all the gangs go
away.
But I said I wasn't going to godown the drug legalization hole
.
I just want to point out thatdrug laws cause crime and
single-parent families causecrime, and those are two fixable
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problems.
The drug law problem is easy.
We simply legalize all drugs.
And when I say legalize, I don'tmean decriminalize.
Decriminalize is a code wordfor replacing a bureaucracy for
the cartels.
That's how they have fucked upmarijuana legalization.
It's not legal anywhere.
It's decriminalized in mostplaces.
But that means that the stateshave all put in bureaus of some
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sort or another to regulatetheir marijuana industry, as if
anything bad could happen withmarijuana.
You can't overdose on marijuana.
Trust me, I smoke it.
You can't.
It can't be done.
Believe me, I've given it thecollege.
Try, can't be done.
Okay, can't die from it, can'toverdose from it.
And the producers of marijuana,my God, they're like sommeliers.
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I mean they really pridethemselves on growing great weed
.
The government involvementshould be zero, which means that
then marijuana would be cheaper.
Right now, marijuana is moreexpensive inside a dispensary
than it is if you buy it fromthe cartels.
The untold story of marijuanalegalization is that the drug
cartels are selling moremarijuana than ever because
they're undercutting their owncompetition, because the cost of
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avoiding interdiction has gonedown, because the police aren't
really looking for marijuanamuch anymore and they're much
more interested in fentanyl,which is a much smaller amount
of drugs coming through andthat's where they concentrate
their resources.
Consequently, enormous amountsof illegal quote unquote
marijuana are coming into thecountry or being sold and people
are buying it because what theydon't have to pay the stupid
sales tax, they don't have topay the stupid bureaucracy cost.
To give you an example here inArizona, to buy an ounce of,
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let's say, really good marijuana, in fact, no, no, no.
Let me say an ounce of crapmarijuana.
When you go into a dispensary,there's the budget stuff,
there's the mid-shelf stuff,there's the top-shelf stuff.
Let's just go to the bottomshelf.
See it as cheap as possible.
My local dispensary, cureRelief.
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I can buy an ounce if they'rehaving a sale that day of bottom
shelf for about $100.
But if I go to the illegal it'snot hard to find them.
Them right in my apartmentcomplex there are a few of them.
If I go to one of those guysand say I need to buy an ounce
of weed, not only would I payhalf of the hundred, I'd pay 50
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bucks for it, but it would bebetter wheat than the bottom
shelf at the dispensary.
And the reason is is becausenow they have no problem
bringing it into the countrybecause nobody's really looking
for it and or growing it.
Okay, no one's really lookingfor it, there's just lots of the
.
And this is also being run bycartels and they're distributing
it and making more money thanever.
Okay, because the governmenteven fucks up legalization.
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So when I talk about druglegalization, I mean legal.
I mean there's no governmentinvolvement at all, other than
maybe setting a minimum age,like we do with alcohol, which
will be ignored.
But I guess it'll makeeverybody feel like at least
there's no governmentinvolvement at all, other than
maybe setting a minimum age,like we do with alcohol, which
will be ignored.
But I guess it'll makeeverybody feel like at least
there's a cursory effort beingmade.
Then over on the welfare side.
How do we reform welfare?
We don't.
It can't be done.
It subsidizes poverty, andpoverty is going back to one of
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my original concepts oh, I wasgoing back, I didn't even finish
that.
When the butter comes on theair, and how am I going to prove
that people make shittydecisions to be poor?
I want you the next time to lookat where she's speaking and
what's in the background.
Let's say she's standing out byher trailer in the middle of
nowhere, or whatever it might be.
Does she have an ATV?
Is there a color and big screentelevision in her apartment or
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in her trailer?
Does she have a car?
Does she have two cars?
Do you pay 29% interest in acar lot?
These people make enormousamounts of money Again because
they're raised by fathers.
To teach them anything.
Mothers are great.
They're nurturing.
You can't live without them.
They're just as important.
It's a 50-50 thing.
One can't replace the other.
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Fathers can never be asnurturing as a mother, and a
mother can never set theboundaries like a father.
Just because of the presence ofthe man.
You know his voice, his tone,his physical presence.
There's lots of reasons why.
So anyway, I want to wrap it uphere and just say that none of
this stuff's going to work.
It's going to blow up inTrump's face.
It's going to blow up in all ofour faces and by this time next
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year, god willing, I'll beelected to Congress and be a
loud voice Because, boy, I'mtelling you guys, we have got to
stop subsidizing idiocy.
The government is basically agiant subsidization and
corruption program for idiocyand psychopaths and sociopaths
who are attracted to publicoffice, which is what most of
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them are.
And I'll leave it there.
I want to thank you very, verymuch for listening to me.
Have a beautiful day, have abeautiful weekend, enjoy
yourselves.
God bless you, god bless yourfamily and God bless America.
Talk to you next time.
Hey everybody, it's me, your Uncle, herbie Herbie K,
the host of the Radical Resetpodcast and the author of
Radical Reset, available to younow on Amazon by me, herbie K,
the Manifesto of Antipolitism,antipolitism being the system
that I created that will returnus to a republic and convert
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service in the Congress frombeing a career to being a duty.
It wouldn't be that, that'd benice.
Antipolitism takes all themoney out of politics, all of it
, every penny.
It takes away all thecorrupting influences and would
leave us with the republic thatthe founders intended, which
we're going to need as AI speedsinto the future and central
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control becomes less and lessrelevant, which brings me to
what I want to talk about today,which is what we're doing.
Well, in general, I want totalk about cause and correlation
, and then I want to relate itto what's going on in Washington
DC and what President Trump isdoing all the way around and
what all politicians do, youknow.
Now that I look back on it, Irealized that my high school
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education was so incomplete,because there were a few courses
I wish I had been given, and Ireally think not that, by the
way, as a libertarian and as ananti-politist and anti-politism,
by the way basically takeslibertarianism and just puts its
shell around it so that itcould actually be executed.
The problem with libertarianismis that it relies upon
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politicians to not bepoliticians, which is that being
to accumulate power underthemselves to justify their own
existence.
Antipolitism would eliminatethat possibility.
So it's a very compatiblephilosophy or political system
with libertarianism andlibertarianism.
Just for those of you who arenot familiar, libertarian is the
term that we give for a classicliberal, since liberalism was
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hijacked by progressivism manydecades ago.
So what people think of as aliberal today is actually a
progressive and what peoplethink of a libertarian is is
actually a classic liberal,which is why I think we have a
golden opportunity and why I'mrunning for Congress in Arizona,
congressional District 4.
We have a golden opportunity totake Democrats in particular,
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who are disaffected by theparty's complete and total
disconnect from objectivereality and from any semblance
of philosophical reason to exist, and bring them to us and leave
the progressives out there topretend that boys and girls can
choose any one of innumerablegenders and pronouns.
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So anyway, let's talk aboutcause and correlation.
So back to the courses I wish Ihad had in high school.
I brought out all thislibertarian discussion just now
to point out that I don'tadvocate for central control of
education.
Education should be in thehands of the people whose
children are being educated atthe local level, and the local
people together will come upwith something that makes sense.
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And when you disperseresponsibility into the tens of
thousands of school districtsthat exist around the country,
we'll get a lot ofexperimentation, a lot of new
ideas and better education willbe the result, as opposed to
central planning, which alwaysfails when you hand down edicts
from above, as if what works inMississippi could work in New
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York City and vice versa.
So, anyway, courses I wish Ihad had in high school and I
hope that someday becomemandatory, start with statistics
, and statistics are very, veryimportant to figure out why
figures lie and liars figure.
So many people believe thingsthat are thrown out just because
they don't understand howstatistics are collected and
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what they mean.
And the other thing that I wishthat I had been taught in high
school was the differencebetween cause and correlation,
because if people understoodthat, we would have avoided so
many problems.
So if we turn back the clock tothe root of why our society is
coming apart at the seams today.
That root is anchored in theold saying that the road to hell
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is paved with good intentionsand starts in the mid-1960s when
Lyndon Johnson decided he couldcure poverty and enacted the
Great Society Program.
So all the programs that wethink of today, a lot of people
attribute them to FDR, when theywere really LBJ.
And so when you think ofwelfare, which is aid to family
with dependent children, whenyou think of food stamps, which
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is now SNAP or EBT I think theycall it, if you think about
housing support, the Departmentof Housing and Urban Development
, when you think about Medicareand Medicaid, you're talking
Lyndon Johnson.
Lyndon Johnson was, if youmeasure presidents by
productivity, lyndon Johnson wasthe most productive president
in history.
He passed more legislation inhis first three months in office
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than John F Kennedy, hispredecessor, had passed in three
years.
So if you measure success bythe amount of legislation passed
, then Lyndon Johnson was amassive, massive success.
So the program I want to focuson today has to do with the root
of crime and I have a uniqueperspective on crime.
Those of you who have neverlistened to me before, I
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disclose up front to everybodywho listens, and if you read a
Radical Reset the manifesto ofanti-politism available on
Amazon.
I always have to say that youwill see that in the very first
paragraph I disclose that I aman ex-convict who went to prison
and was guilty of the crimethat I was charged for, and I
don't talk much about thecircumstances because to discuss
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the circumstances would be toweasel and I will not weasel
because my path is redemptionand to be redeemed at least I
think that begins with totalhonesty and complete breakdown
in character and committed thecrimes I was charged for, plead
guilty, had no trial and went toprison.
So it was in prison that a lotof these ideas came to me,
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frankly, because I had a lot oftime on my hands to think of.
Plus, there's something freeingabout when everybody knows
everything is bad about you.
It's strangely freeing At leastit was in my case.
It was very relieving.
But one of the things that Ilearned in prison back on track
is that virtually every singleyoung man that I met I didn't
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meet many young women in prisonother than prison guards,
because I was in a men's prison,obviously, but I'm assuming
that a lot of what I'm going tosay about men is going to be
true about women.
In fact I'm positive.
It's true, I've done someresearch.
But you know, virtually everyman I met was raised without a
father.
They were all the products ofsingle parent families and even
when they knew who their fatherwas, he wasn't married to their
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mother and their mothers oftenhad multiple children with
multiple different last namesand, in many cases, multiply
racial.
And I know that from firsthandexperience because when I would
go to visitation, when my kidswould come visit me, when I was
locked up for over four yearsand we would be in the big room
full of people coming to visittheir relatives, it was just
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obvious.
I mean, you only have to useyour eyes and to see.
You know you would have sevenchildren in a family and none of
them would look related andthey would be of different races
and different mixes of races.
None of them would look relatedand they would be of different
races and different mixes ofraces.
And I'm not saying there'sanything wrong with that, but
I'm saying there's tremendousthings wrong with it.
When there's no father,president, when the woman
doesn't get married, at the rootof what's going on is the
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destruction of the nuclearfamily and at the root of the
destruction of the nuclearfamily, particularly in the
black community, and it allbegan with the black community.
So we're going to talk aboutthis is not going to be a
politically correct conversation, and not that I'm going to
attack black people, because I'mnot, but sometimes when you
tell the truth and it will not.
Sometimes, virtually always whenyou tell the truth in the
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environment in which we live,you end up being criticized as
racist.
But I you know again becauseI've been run through the mud
where I belong to be run Again,not making excuses for what I've
done.
Really all pretense has beenknocked away from me.
You can call me anything youwant, I don't care.
I've been called worse, anddeservedly so.
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So anyway, in 1960, 80% ofblack children were born into
two-parent families.
Today it's exactly the opposite20% of black children are born
into two-parent families.
Today it's exactly the opposite20% of black children are born
into two-parent families, 80%are not.
This is the reason, this is thecausal reason, the commonality.
When you look at all the otherthings, poverty, for example, is
often blamed for crime.
That's what Lyndon Johnsonthought.
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He thought if we could curepoverty, we can cure everything.
The truth is, poverty islargely the result of one of two
things.
Okay, well, three things.
One of them I'm going to ruleout immediately.
So one reason a person could bepoor is if they were terribly
physically or mentallyhandicapped, and of course then
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in a compassionate society, um,we will take care of them.
Now, as libertarian, I would saythat there are plenty of
private organizations to providethat aid and the government
doesn't have to go into the takecare of the very small portion
of the population that is soseverely disabled that they
can't help themselves.
But for the other portion ofthe population, the vast, vast
majority, the reason that peopleare poor is sometimes it's bad
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luck, but most often it's viledecisions.
They make terrible, terribledecisions, and they make
terrible decisions largelybecause most of them are raised
without fathers.
So to give you an example, thenext time that you hear, the
next time there's a story on TVabout some kid that's been
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killed in the commission ofcrime, or one of those tragic
stories and he wasn't my boy andthe police killed him unfairly
and all that kind of stuff Iwant you to look at two things.
The first thing you're going tonotice is it's always mother.
Okay, you might see brothersand sisters hanging around or
talking to more cousins, butwhat you won't see is dad, a
hundred percent of the time,regardless of race.
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I don't mean to pick just onblack people the mother that's
going to come out and talk aboutwhat a good boy her son was
it's most often black people,because black people commit most
crime.
Black people make up 13% of thepopulation and commit about 55%
of all crime.
Now, that's not to say thatthere aren't plenty of white
people who commit crime andthere aren't plenty of Latino
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people who commit crime, but themajority of crime is committed
by the black community and sadly, the majority of that crime is
committed upon themselves.
Over 90% of violence in theblack community is black on
black.
In fact, I think it's evennorth of 95%.
So the point I'm making is I'mnot picking on black people, I'm
speaking of objective reality,and the root of what's gone
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wrong in the black community isthe destruction of the black
nuclear family.
No father present means noboundaries as the child is
raised.
Now I know that there are goingto be single moms out there who
are going to be incensed by this, because I'm pointing my finger
at the cause of what's wrongwith our society across the
board not just crime, but thecoarseness of it, the nihilism
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of it is the very fact that somany kids today are being born
into single parent families.
And not only are we not, as asociety, frowning upon it and we
should be absolutely frowningupon it, we should be
re-stigmatizing bastardy, butinstead we're celebrating it as
if it's something that's good,because somehow we've got this
in this.
In the lower classes they payno attention to whether a
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father's present, because theidea of shotgun marriage somehow
evaporated with AFDC.
I can go into all the reasonswhy, but basically, anything you
subsidize, you get more of.
So, since AFDC means Aid toFamily with Dependent Children,
which means payments are onlymade to mothers who don't have
fathers present.
That's an incentive to havebabies for checks and that's the
way it's turned out.
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And briefly, president Clintonreformed welfare and turned it
into workfare and it worked inthe sense that when I say it
worked, it didn't cure theunderlying problems entirely,
but it slowed down the amount ofpeople that were on welfare and
were driving people at leastinto work, which is a good first
step, next step being getmarried and stay married.
But we'll get to that in justone minute.
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But that was undone byPresident Obama, who, in my view
, was the most anti-Americanpresident that we've ever had.
I think he was the onlyanti-American president we've
ever had A destructive.
He was supposed to bepost-racial, instead he
racialized and tribalized thecountry.
A destructive, glib man whoconsistently overestimates
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himself and is a real psychopath.
I really have little to norespect for Barack Obama for all
the damage he's done.
One of those things that he'sdone was to undo the reforms
that President Clinton had donein conjunction with Newt
Gingrich and the RepublicanCongress back in the days when
Congress did the job it waselected to do.
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Here's a little trivia note asa sidelight the one job that
Congress should be doingconstitutionally is passing a
budget each year, and I askedGrok the other day what was the
last year the Congress passed abudget in good order, in other
words, when they actually gottogether Democrats, republicans,
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made compromises, yada, yada,yada and passed the budget, and
it was 1997.
That's how long it's been sincethe Congress has done its job.
Since then, they've beenrunning the country in what are
called continuing resolutions,which is how we went from less
than a trillion dollars of debtbefore the turn of the century
to now $38 trillion andskyrocketing if you don't
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include the unfunded obligationsof Social Security and Medicare
and I've gone into that beforeso I'm not going to dwell on it
today but that brings ournational debt closer to $150 to
$200 trillion that we cannotpossibly pay back and we are
headed at lightning speed downthe shithole because of it.
But having said all that, backto the subject matter at hand.
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By destroying the nuclear familythrough subsidizing
single-parent birth and it'sgoing on today what we've done
is we've destroyed the one thingthat taught boys in particular,
boundaries and girls inparticular chastity.
So what we've had is a toxicstew of young men who have no
boundaries and young girls,since they have no fathers
present, basically confuse sexfor love to get male attention
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and immediately start screwingwhen they're 13 years old, in a
community that places no shameon losing virginity early and
being essentially a slut.
And you know, we can call itpromiscuous if you'd like, but
these little girls become sluts,and not because they're bad
girls, but because there's nofather.
No one ever told them you werespecial, no one ever told them,
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growing up without a sexualunderlying motivation, that they
have any kind of worth in theworld.
So, of course, they sink inwith what they've got, and this
is how we ended up where we aretoday.
So what President Trump is doingin Washington DC and this is
what brought this all to mind bysending in federal troops oh,
they'll bring the crime ratedown for a little while and
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they'll suppress it for a littlewhile, but the fact of the
matter is it's going to popright back up because no one's
treating the underlying cause,and the cause is single parent
families and the destructioncaused by the welfare state.
Now that brings the question tookay, you're running for
Congress, herbie, what would youdo about it?
And the answer is I wouldn't doanything about it, I would end
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it.
So, in other words, one of thethings that you'll see as my
campaign develops during theyear and I talk about it in
these podcasts is going to beI'm going to propose no new laws
.
Okay, part of my platform is nonew laws, no proposals to
reform or change or fix anything.
You can't reform something thatdoesn't treat cause, because
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it's the initial assumptionunder the program, is wrong to
begin with.
So you see all these variouscentral control laws that have
gone awry and people think, well, we need to reform this, you
know, like, for example, housing, urban development.
We have to reform that lowincome housing.
No, we don't.
No, we don't.
We have to get rid of rentcontrols.
We have to get rid of pricecontrols.
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We have to let the free markethandle it and get the fudge out
of the way.
Everything the governmenttouches it turns to shit.
It's amazing to me how much weelect our leaders like crazy.
People date women in particular,but both, and we've all seen
this.
I hope you're not one of thesepeople, but you know the people
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I'm talking about that everyonethey date is the one and they
get very high hopes and they getvery into it very fast.
They get very committed veryfast, only to be ultimately
disappointed and usually in aconflagration of disaster,
because they're placing meaninginto something that isn't there,
because they're nuts.
Well, we do the exact samething with our politicians Every
single time, in every election.
Democrats look for their saviorand Republicans look for their
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savior.
One of the podcasts that I enjoyvery much and I watch it all
the time is the two-way podcastby Mark Halperin, and I watch it
on YouTube.
I don't actually go on andparticipate, but I do watch it
on YouTube almost every day.
He does a podcast called theMorning Meeting and I like to
watch it.
He has on a Democrat andRepublican, both of whom are
good, really excellent people.
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The Republican is Sean Spicer,who was the press secretary for
Donald Trump in his first termin the beginning, before Sarah
Huckabee Sanders.
The second one is BenTurrentine, who I had not heard
of prior to this, but he wasJared Polis, the governor of
Colorado's chief of staff, and Iam a big fan of Jared Polis.
Hold on, I'm going to take asip of water, I get parched,
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anyway, and he's done fun,raised me, so on and so forth,
and he's a very reasonable.
He's the kind of Democrat Iwould target and I'm going to
target my campaign a reasonable,human being who understands
what objective reality is.
But even he and Spicer andHalperin they're all looking for
who's the big dog on each side.
You know everyone's talkingabout who's the next savior for
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the party and you know who's thenext Trump, and Trump is going
to be a disaster, guys.
I'm going to tell you somethingAll of this, all of these
tariffs and all of these thingshe's doing he's doing a lot of
good things when he tears awaythe government, like in
deregulation.
Obviously that's a wonderfulthing and that could help offset
some of the disaster he'scausing through central control
by doing things like tariffs.
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But the one that really is badis this idiocy of the government
getting in on deals withprivate industry, which I
believe is unconstitutional.
And I'm praying to God thatvarious groups of lawyers around
the country who do this sort ofthing you know ideologically
motivated law, uh law and filesinjunctions and start suing
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because this, this fascism.
You know there's been a lot ofaccusations of fascism.
This is fascism.
Fascism is when the state getsinvolved in private industry.
Fascism is essentiallycommunism under the disguise of
private industries allowed tocontinue to exist as long as the
government dictates what isimportant and what priorities
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are for private industry, and itends up in a disaster.
One of the things that peopledon't know about Hitler, for
example.
One of the things that peopledon't know about Hitler, for
example.
And why did he?
Why did Hitler attack Polandbefore his generals thought they
were ready to make the attackand then stall out after he?
Well, the French basicallycapitulated and really the
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Germans had a brilliant strategyto get to the channel, the
English escape, and that's it.
That's the high point of thewar.
And then Hitler goes on toattack Russia.
Why did he do those things?
Because really they're insane.
So was Hitler insane or wasthere another motivation?
And there was anothermotivation, and the motivation
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was Hitler.
A lot of people say that Hitlerwas great until the Second World
War and the Holocaust as ifthat could be a possible
statement because he did so manygood things for Germany.
You know the out of one.
By the way, he takes credit forthe out of one.
Well, he took people credit himfor the out of one, but it was
something, an idea, that wasactually germinated under the
Weimar Republic before that.
I just want to say that to beclear.
But anyway, moving on, he'scredited with a lot of success
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early and really what he did waskind of what Trump is doing.
He built.
Not that Trump is a fascist,listen to me carefully.
I'm not one of those people.
I think Trump is vaguelywell-motivated.
Plus, he has Jewish childrenand grandchildren.
So come on now.
So, anyway, the but, butbuilding an economy and an
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enormous amount of debt.
Germany borrowed essentiallyfrom itself and the same kind of
Ponzi scheme that we're runningnow an enormous amount of money
and gave the mirage ofeverybody was working and
everybody was doing and thecountry was doing well, much as
Franklin Roosevelt created thatmirage through his programs like
the CCC and the WPA.
But in the end these thingsalways fail because central
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control and central planningalways fails.
And Germany's economy hadalready reached its apogee, it
was on the way down, so Hitlerbasically had to start the war
because he was out of gas.
It was now or never.
He wasn't going to be in abetter position later.
Well, guys, you know, right nowTrump is.
I just heard him say yesterdaythat he's had the best seven
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months of any president ever,and that couldn't be true,
although LBJ might have had abeat in terms of the amount of
legislation.
And Trump has done this all byexecutive order.
Also a disgusting thing, theCongress has abdicated its
responsibility to the executivebranch, allowing the president
to make all of these crazyexecutive orders.
Some of them are good, like thepercentage of regulation, as
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I've said, but most of them arejust what he's doing is he's.
It's just central control underanother name.
Instead of central planning andthe five-year plan, like the
Soviet Union, it's handing downthe priorities of what the
government should be promoting.
We should be promoting thesteel industry.
In his view, we should bepromoting chips, and maybe this
is all right, but it also couldbe wrong and the way he's doing
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it is going to be wrong and theslant chair where he's using a
government is going to be wrongand it's going to create all
kinds of unintended consequences.
And I say this with certaintyand you might be saying to
yourself well, that's just youropinion.
No, no, no, no.
This happens 100% of the time.
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On central control, there is noexception to it.
We are going to live in a worldof unintended consequences
because of central control andthe complete and total
abandonment of any understandingbetween cause and correlation
that underlie them.
Okay, or even if they'reproblems at all, because if you
look at cause instead ofcorrelation, you start to
realize that maybe what you'relooking at it might look bad in
the present, but might simply bea transition to a better.
It's like a recession isactually a good thing, although
we all think it's bad becausewe've been told this our whole
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lives.
But a recession is a resetbefore the economy recovers and
is stronger than it's ever been.
You set before the economyrecovers and is stronger than
it's ever been.
You have to think of a freemarket economy as a man walking
upstairs throwing a yo-yo.
I just want to draw thismetaphor for you.
Think about a man walkingupstairs throwing a yo-yo.
As he goes, with every step theguy throws the yo-yo down.
Maybe like every five steps theguy throws the yo-yo down and
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the yo-yo represents the economytaking a drop in a recession.
But when it comes back, when itgoes down, it doesn't go down
as low as it did the five stairsearlier when he threw it before
, and when it comes back to hishand, it's going to come up a
little bit higher and then thereare going to be five more
stairs of growth before theyo-yo is thrown again.
The yo-yo has to be thrown sothat natural market forces get
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rid of the waste and the buildupand the fraud and all the
things that build up in anoverheated economy, which is why
a recession is a good thing andthe recovery is to be enjoyed.
But don't get used to it.
You need the recession, justlike you cannot be happy without
being sad.
Life has duality, alpha andomega.
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That's where that all comesfrom.
There's always duality in life,and when you try to eliminate
that duality through centralcontrol, you end up with a
disaster.
So I know for a certainty weare headed for disaster, which
is why I'm calling my campaign,and I called my book, a radical
reset, because the interestingis, for example, in the case of
the cause of crime, which iswelfare, and the other cause of
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crime, which are drug laws.
So the other cause of crime aredrug laws, not drugs.
Drugs correlate with crime.
Now here's the difference.
Okay, an addict takes a shot.
Let's use heroin as an example.
Let's say that an addict isaddicted to heroin and he has oh
, maybe he shoots two eightballs a day, maybe three eight
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balls a day that's an eighth, bythe way, for those of you who
haven't gotten to prison and sohis habits cost him oh, I don't
know, maybe $50 a day, and theguy's living at the bottom and
he's got to find his $300.
And so, anyway, the bottom lineis heroin would be the next
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thing to free if it were legal,because you can't patent it.
It's been around forever, I meanbefore drug laws, which you
know let's call go back to the19th century.
You could buy opiates likelaudanum, which was just.
You probably watch westernswhere, like for example, in
Tombstone?
Why?
Because guzzling laudanum?
Well, laudanum is opiate, it'sheroin.
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But the point I'm going to makeis taking laudanum then and
taking heroin now does notsuddenly you don't suddenly jump
up and turn into a monstrouscriminal.
The crime is created by the druglaws that make the heroin too
expensive.
So where a three-eighth ball aday habit might be, oh, today I
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don't even.
You know, I've been out ofprison so long I've lost track
with the prices.
But let's say it's a $100 a dayhabit, or let's call it a $50 a
day habit, because when you'rereally living on the street
that's a lot of money that youhave to wrangle up.
Well, maybe you can get it ifyou can stand on the street
corner and make a good story.
But for most people most ofthem they resort to crime, but
they're not otherwise criminal.
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In fact, heroin in particular,they just lay down and go to bed
.
If it weren't for the fact thatthe crime was expensive, it
would be a $20 a week habit,because heroin would be, as it's
, no more patentable thanaspirin is or, as seen in the
benefit, it would be availablegenerically, everywhere, it
would be safe, it would be clean.
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Now that gets into a muchbroader discussion of drug
utilization, which I havediscussed in prior podcasts and
I'll discuss again in the future.
But the point I want to maketoday is it's drug laws that
cause crime, the reason ourprisons are filled to the
overflow and we're packing themin there like sardines.
I myself experienced being in a14-man cell with 20 men in it,
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so six of them were sleeping onthe floor.
Been there, done that.
Okay, and I'm telling you that90% of the people in prison are
there for drug-related crimes.
Now law enforcement will tellyou it's actually only.
I love it when they say thisit's only 35%.
Yeah, that's when you talkabout possession or sale.
But when you add into it all thetheft and the violence that
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revolves around, remember thatwhen you distribute drugs,
you're in an illegal business.
Illegal business can't go tocourt to settle a dispute, so it
always results in violence.
So not only do drug laws causecrime, but they cause violent
crime, because disputes withinan illegal enterprise can't be
settled by going to court, which, if the drugs were legal,
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that's exactly what would happenIf there was a dispute between
a producer and distributor.
They would sue each otherinstead of shooting each other,
which meant nobody killed theside effect and all the gangs go
away.
But I said I wasn't going to godown the drug legalization hole
.
I just want to point out thatdrug laws cause crime and
single-parent families causecrime, and those are two fixable
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problems.
The drug law problem is easy.
We simply legalize all drugs.
And when I say legalize, I don'tmean decriminalize.
Decriminalize is a code wordfor replacing a bureaucracy for
the cartels.
That's how they have fucked upmarijuana legalization.
It's not legal anywhere.
It's decriminalized in mostplaces.
But that means that the stateshave all put in bureaus of some
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sort or another to regulatetheir marijuana industry, as if
anything bad could happen withmarijuana.
You can't overdose on marijuana.
Trust me, I smoke it.
You can't.
It can't be done.
Believe me, I've given it thecollege.
Try, can't be done.
Okay, can't die from it, can'toverdose from it.
And the producers of marijuana,my God, they're like sommeliers.
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I mean they really pridethemselves on growing great weed
.
The government involvementshould be zero, which means that
then marijuana would be cheaper.
Right now, marijuana is moreexpensive inside a dispensary
than it is if you buy it fromthe cartels.
The untold story of marijuanalegalization is that the drug
cartels are selling moremarijuana than ever because
they're undercutting their owncompetition, because the cost of
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avoiding interdiction has gonedown, because the police aren't
really looking for marijuanamuch anymore and they're much
more interested in fentanyl,which is a much smaller amount
of drugs coming through andthat's where they concentrate
their resources.
Consequently, enormous amountsof illegal quote unquote
marijuana are coming into thecountry or being sold and people
are buying it because what theydon't have to pay the stupid
sales tax, they don't have topay the stupid bureaucracy cost.
To give you an example here inArizona, to buy an ounce of,
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let's say, really good marijuana, in fact, no, no, no.
Let me say an ounce of crapmarijuana.
When you go into a dispensary,there's the budget stuff,
there's the mid-shelf stuff,there's the top-shelf stuff.
Let's just go to the bottomshelf.
See it as cheap as possible.
My local dispensary, cureRelief.
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I can buy an ounce if they'rehaving a sale that day of bottom
shelf for about $100.
But if I go to the illegal it'snot hard to find them.
Them right in my apartmentcomplex there are a few of them.
If I go to one of those guysand say I need to buy an ounce
of weed, not only would I payhalf of the hundred, I'd pay 50
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bucks for it, but it would bebetter wheat than the bottom
shelf at the dispensary.
And the reason is is becausenow they have no problem
bringing it into the countrybecause nobody's really looking
for it and or growing it.
Okay, no one's really lookingfor it, there's just lots of the
.
And this is also being run bycartels and they're distributing
it and making more money thanever.
Okay, because the governmenteven fucks up legalization.
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So when I talk about druglegalization, I mean legal.
I mean there's no governmentinvolvement at all, other than
maybe setting a minimum age,like we do with alcohol, which
will be ignored.
But I guess it'll makeeverybody feel like at least
there's no governmentinvolvement at all, other than
maybe setting a minimum age,like we do with alcohol, which
will be ignored.
But I guess it'll makeeverybody feel like at least
there's a cursory effort beingmade.
Then over on the welfare side.
How do we reform welfare?
We don't.
It can't be done.
It subsidizes poverty, andpoverty is going back to one of
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my original concepts oh, I wasgoing back, I didn't even finish
that.
When the butter comes on theair, and how am I going to prove
that people make shittydecisions to be poor?
I want you the next time to lookat where she's speaking and
what's in the background.
Let's say she's standing out byher trailer in the middle of
nowhere, or whatever it might be.
Does she have an ATV?
Is there a color and big screentelevision in her apartment or
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in her trailer?
Does she have a car?
Does she have two cars?
Do you pay 29% interest in acar lot?
These people make enormousamounts of money Again because
they're raised by fathers.
To teach them anything.
Mothers are great.
They're nurturing.
You can't live without them.
They're just as important.
It's a 50-50 thing.
One can't replace the other.
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Fathers can never be asnurturing as a mother, and a
mother can never set theboundaries like a father.
Just because of the presence ofthe man.
You know his voice, his tone,his physical presence.
There's lots of reasons why.
So anyway, I want to wrap it uphere and just say that none of
this stuff's going to work.
It's going to blow up inTrump's face.
It's going to blow up in all ofour faces and by this time next
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year, god willing, I'll beelected to Congress and be a
loud voice Because, boy, I'mtelling you guys, we have got to
stop subsidizing idiocy.
The government is basically agiant subsidization and
corruption program for idiocyand psychopaths and sociopaths
who are attracted to publicoffice, which is what most of
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them are.
And I'll leave it there.
I want to thank you very, verymuch for listening to me.
Have a beautiful day, have abeautiful weekend, enjoy
yourselves.
God bless you, god bless yourfamily and God bless America.
Talk to you next time.
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