August 1, 2025 • 38 mins
Political discourse has devolved into a dangerous game of absolutes, where every issue must be labeled either completely good or completely evil. This oversimplified thinking prevents us from addressing the complex realities facing America today, from the welfare system's unintended consequences to Social Security's looming mathematical collapse.
We explore how decades of well-intentioned government programs have transformed temporary poverty into permanent dependency, disrupting the natural family support structures that once helped people through difficult times. The demographic implications are staggering - responsible families limit childbearing due to economic pressures while those dependent on government assistance continue having children without considering long-term consequences. This pattern threatens the foundation of American society.
The conversation turns to Social Security's impending crisis, where mathematical certainty shows bankruptcy by the early 2030s. Rather than treating this as an untouchable political "third rail," we examine practical solutions including innovative investment strategies using immigration program revenues. Climate change discussions also require nuanced thinking beyond emergency rhetoric, considering both costs and benefits of proposed policies while acknowledging that warmer climates historically benefit human civilization.
Political movements must offer substantive alternatives rather than simply opposing everything proposed by opponents. We discuss how Democrats could rebuild by embracing objective reality over progressive ideology, ditching positions that deny basic science like gender biology, and focusing on achievable policy goals. The path forward requires honest acknowledgment of which problems government can actually solve versus those requiring different approaches entirely.
This represents more than political commentary - it's a call for Americans to demand better from their leaders and themselves, moving beyond tribal thinking toward practical solutions based on evidence rather than emotion.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Friday, dudes and dudettes.
It's me, your Uncle Herbie,your host here at A Radical
Reset, the home of anti-politism, where, if the system is
adopted, we'll save the republicand save our culture at the
same time, which, of course, isreally one and the same thing.
Having said that, I want totalk a little bit about this,
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about how life's choices are notalways binary.
You know, we have a tendency tothink of things as good or bad.
When things are really on aspectrum between good and bad,
there's an enormous spectrum ofgray, and so when people try to
simplify things, includingso-called experts or so-called
political geniuses or whatever,you know, whatever it is we're
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talking about in current eventsthey always come at it from this
is good or this is bad, butthat's nothing is good or bad.
The other thing?
Well, that's not true.
Hitler was bad.
And let's see what is anabsolute good.
A newborn child is an absolutegood, untarnished at birth, but
after that it's all downhill.
I'm sorry, I don't mean tolaugh, but it brought to mind
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something that someone once saidto me, which is that the
children are the receptacles ofall of their parents' unresolved
issues.
So the moment we get our handson our children.
We proceed to fuck them up.
I don't know what else to say.
Anyway, let's get back on course.
It just is true, guys.
You know, that's true.
You absolutely know.
It's why parents and childrenfight when they become adults
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because they push each other'sbuttons, because the parents put
the children's buttons thereand the children don't realize
the parents put the children'sbuttons there, so they're mad at
the parents for putting them,and it's just.
It goes on and on and on.
But anyway, my children love me.
By the way, it's not by the waythey don't love me by the way,
it's not by the way they don'tlove me.
Right now, out of my fourchildren, one is not talking to
me, three are, but the onethat's not talking to me it's
over silliness, it'll be oversoon.
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You know, you have to learn asa parent to keep.
You got to know when to holdthem and know when to fold them.
And this particular littledisagreement I'm having with my
daughter, I'm just keeping mymouth shut.
She'll come around, but anyway.
Um, that was a weird digression.
So let's talk about PresidentTrump.
What's going on?
Tariffs, economy, yada, yada,yada, and the fact that the
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Democratic Party has learnednothing.
So, as I have shared with youin a prior podcast.
I'm going to run for Congress.
I've already filed my letter ofintent with the state of
Arizona and I'll be collectingsignatures coming up in the fall
as a libertarian.
I'm running as a libertarian,which means I'm going to lose,
but bear with me, I'll just walkthrough this with you.
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I filed my letter of intent.
I have to collect signatures.
I have to collect a quarter ofa percent of the registered I
think is what it is or half apercent of registered
libertarians.
It comes out to my district,which is the fourthth
Congressional District ofArizona.
I have to get about 800signatures and change, which is
not a big deal.
There are a number of softwareprograms and helps, and the
party is helping me.
So I'll be on the ballot andI'll run, and I'll be running
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for Congress next year as alibertarian in the 4th
Congressional District againstthe incumbent, who's a guy named
Greg Stanton, who is a prettytypical Democratic congressman.
He's not the worst that everlived.
He's not the best that everlived, he's just a career
politician.
He was the mayor of Phoenix,where he was okay, and he's a
congressman where he's okay, butwe're going into times that are
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way, way past.
Okay, and when I run this fallI know I've discussed this a
little bit, but I'll be runningeven though I'm running as a
libertarian I'm really runningfor the hearts and minds of
Democrats and independents.
Okay, the Republicans have drankthe cup of national,
nationalist economics.
Okay, and I want to be verycareful about this, because
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nationalist economics andfascism were very close to being
the same thing, and and I don'twant to use the fascist label
to paint my Republican friendsthat's not what I'm trying to do
but understand that when youuse the government to carry out
national goals by manipulatingprivate industry to do it for
you, so they are, in fact, anarm of the government and
everything.
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They're independent, really inname only.
That is fascism.
That's what fascism is.
Fascism is socialism dressed upto look like capitalism, when
it's really.
The state is directing privatebusiness to carry out what it
considers to be of the nationalinterest, and Trump is a
nationalist and a populist, sohe basically feeds off the mood
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of the people and then uses thegovernment unapologetically,
through an enormous variety ofexecutive orders, to enforce
national policy through privatebusiness.
And that's what all this.
You know we're going to getthis many hundreds of billions
of investment that's all comingin on the private side but with
the government directing and soon and so forth and I'm not
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saying some of the governmentgoals aren't laudable I think
we're going to need a lot ofenergy for AI.
I'm very much in favor of himderegulating to free up a lot of
things, but when he startspushing business to do his
bidding by, for example, thePresident of the United States
suing a network over itsreporting or how it edited a
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video okay, which it did in theyou know the case, the Paramount
case Kamala Harris.
You know the case, theparamount case Kamala Harris,
who, by the way, was a, was amoron.
I mean, I'll tell you why KamalaHarris lost.
She's a moron, she's a she'sthe living embodiment of the
Peter principle.
She literally fucked her way tothe top.
She was Willie Brown's mistressand, through his patronage,
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ended up where she ended up.
Now, there's a long story inbetween and I can go into it,
but that's not what this podcastis about.
But if you ever wonder how thehell did Kamala Harris end up as
vice president of the UnitedStates, willie Brown, willie
Brown, and probably she's greatin bed, I don't know I'd do her.
I mean, what can I say?
So any, I'm a guy.
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If you tell me she'sunattractive, if you were a man
my age, 68 years old, and youlooked at her in her fifties,
she's pretty good looking, 50something year old woman.
Sorry, she just is.
So anyway, she's a moron.
But you know, like we don'thave to carry on a doctoral
dissertation in the sack, andI'm sure that's how Willie Brown
felt as he pushed her down theroad and she ended up in a
position that she had nobusiness being in.
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As I've often said, a peoplehire B people, but B people hire
C people.
So President Clinton was an A.
President Obama is a definite B.
He's got a thin skin about allcriticism.
He hires Biden to be his vicepresident, who's a C.
Biden is a C minus on a goodday, plus he's slipping, so he
doesn't want to be competed with.
So he picks a vice presidentwho's a D and she, of course,
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picks a running mate who's an F.
That guy, tim, what's his name?
Waltz was really a zero, is azero and it just proves the
axiom.
But anyway, back to the topicof the podcast, which is it's
just not black and white guys,it's not all good and evil.
So, as I speak to Democrats andI speak to independents in the
upcoming campaign, and as I'mspeaking to you now, I'm going
to tell you something.
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We need to take a long, hardlook at reorganizing the whole
government and not just how wechoose people for office.
If you want to get intoantipolitism and the Republic by
lottery on a merit-basedlottery and everything about it,
please pick up a copy of ARadical Reset.
It's the manifesto ofantipolitism.
It's available to you on Amazon.
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It's in Kindle hardcover andsoftcover.
Take your, pick pick up a copyand give it a read.
But and in it I haveprescriptions for every and
understand that.
In the manifesto itself, at thevery end, I describe how
antipolitism works.
I kind of saved the best forlast, but I go through a series
of policy prescriptions and eachof those prescriptions are
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suggestions, not dictates.
I'm not.
You know, a radical reset isnot Mein Kampf, I am not trying
to be the leader.
That's what Fuhrer means.
By the way, fuhrer is theGerman word for leader.
I'm not trying to be the leader, I'm trying to be the founder,
and then, hopefully, because ofmy advanced age 68 years old and
no one lives forever and Irealize I'm young compared to
Trump, but I'm not a springchicken.
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I'm looking to build a movement, replace myself, because I view
this as a war, not a battle,and America's soul is at stake
and we need a new way of lookingat things, and anti-politism is
the new way.
But understand, I want to makethis very clear I'm running for
Congress next year to bringattention to the movement, not
to bring attention to me.
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Okay, so to be very, very clear, I don't care about power or
money at this stage in my life.
In fact, you know, I used to berich and now I'm poor, after
going to prison and so on and soforth.
I have to be honest, I'mhappier now.
I wake up in the morning andthere's nothing in my mind
except what am I going to havefor lunch, which is much more
pleasant than worrying about allthe complications of your life
you've made because of the vilefucking decisions you made along
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the way that you have to livewith, the unintended
consequences of which relates to, by the way, why I structured
anti-politism and why the policyprescriptions are as they are
in a radical reset.
So let's talk about just a fewof the things.
Just real briefly.
The government is involved injust too many things we get into
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a discussion of we need toreform this or fix that, when we
really need to do is just stopdoing it altogether.
There are some things thatcannot be accomplished.
Let's start with, for example,poverty.
Poverty is going to alwaysJesus said it.
I mean it's povertythe poorwill always be with us.
Now, the poor will always bewith us, but what we've managed
to do in trying to cure poverty,which is incurable, we have
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created it as a permanent stateof being, as opposed to a
temporary condition.
That you fall into Poverty inthe modern time should be
something that you fall into.
Maybe your business failed,maybe you lost a job, maybe both
parents lost a job, maybe bothparents lost the job.
Who knows what might happen?
Maybe there's an illness.
There can be a number of thingsthat pull a family into poverty
.
Keyword being family.
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We'll get there in a minute,but then what should happen is
the pain of poverty, thewondering where the money's
coming from, the having to getmoney together just to eat, to
maintain shelter and so on andso forth.
That pain, that stress, thatstuff that really, really, for
most people is almost unbearableis the very reason why you pull
out of poverty.
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If you take those out of thepoverty, you create it as a
comfortable condition for thelazy, and there are a lot of
lazy people.
A lot of us are fundamentallylazy, unless we're kicked in the
rear.
Let's be honest about who weare.
That's not a bad thing, it'sjust.
There's a reason that sloth isone of the seven deadly sins
okay.
And so if you subsidize lazinesswhich is what happens when you
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subsidize, when you try to curepoverty, all you're doing is
subsidizing it, since you cannotcure it, because the cause of
poverty is vile decisions okayor terrible bad luck, and you
cannot legislate out either one.
If it's terrible bad luck likea family's primary breadwinner
is killed or becomes very illand the family has to pull
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together and get the extendedfamily involved and pull out of
it that's just bad luck.
But that's why you have familyand extended family, because
that's your social safety net ina healthy culture, which we
don't have now.
I'll get to that in a minute.
But if you subsidize it from agovernment level, whether it's
federal or state, all you'regoing to do is take the pain out
.
And if you take too much of thepain out, you get what we've
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got, which is a permanentunderclass of people that are
born into the poverty, live inpoverty and die in poverty, male
and female, with no expectationof escaping it and your only
concern being how much free shitare you going to get?
Then, when we created universalsuffrage, when we decided under
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Wilson that everybody couldvote regardless of whether they
own property or not which wasthe primary stumbling block that
the founders put in, because ifyou don't have skin in the game
, you shouldn't be allowed tovote when you let the parasites
vote, that's when the party'sover, which is exactly what we
did and what we've done.
Plus and this is a biggerproblem than everything else
that's going on is thedemographics of the country,
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which are in free fall among theeducated, the intelligent and
the commonsensical and are anabsolute explosion among the
parasitic class.
The parasites are breeding andthe rest of us are not.
That's the problem.
Okay, you know responsiblepeople, regardless of what they
do for a living, whether aplumber or an engineer or a
research scientist or acarpenter, people who work hard
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and put together and get marriedand have a family, and, do you
know?
They have budgets and they look.
And having a child is expensiveand inflation is eaten into
that.
Two incomes isn't always enoughand people are having fewer and
fewer children Plus women,because of reasons that I've
discussed in other podcasts.
You can listen to some of thepast ones and I'll cover them
again, but today I don't wantthis to go for two hours.
But for a number of reasons,women have chosen to have babies
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later and later, and that meanshaving fewer children and, in
many cases, not having childrenat all, which has led to an
explosion of depression amongwomen, which is again another
story for another day.
But I'll tell you who's notdepressed and who's not having a
problem.
Having babies is the parasiticclass.
So the parasitic class, thepermanent poverty class, the
ones that are, you know, beatingup people in mobs and in cities
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and so on and so forth, ofevery race let's make this clear
, okay that are raised withoutfathers and are raised in within
the frame of the so-calledLyndon Johnson's war on poverty,
which is actually theinstitutionalization of poverty.
They're breeding like bunnyrabbits.
They have baby mamas.
Girls spread their legs forevery guy that comes by, because
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when they're raised without afather, that's how they seek
male attention.
They confuse sex for love andget laid and have babies, and
that's what their mothers did,so that's what's been role
modeled to them and they raisetheir children.
The fathers have no expectationof taking responsibility and
these women and this is thefurthest thing from rare, it's
common.
You can walk into any urbanenvironment in this country and
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you'll see this over and overand over Women with children
with different last names, oftendifferent racial mixes, because
they're fucking across thespectrum and having baby after
baby and with no intention or noidea of how to raise boys or
girls in any healthy environment.
Women are nurturing.
They don't set boundaries, guys, and without a male in the
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picture to set boundaries,things will go out of control
and have.
This is not something I'mpredicting, it already has.
Look at what's been going on,for example, in Cincinnati A
manifestation of this.
So, as we sit there, one of thethings that bothers me about
Trump see, democrats, guys, youhave a lot to attack Trump on.
It's just you're all attackingthe wrong, stupid things.
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First of all, it's time,democrats, let me share a few
lessons with you that I'm goingto share with you during the
campaign.
Number one is it's time tounderstand there's such a thing
as objective reality, and here'sobjective reality.
There was never any Russiancollusion or intervention by the
Russians on behalf of Trump inthe last election.
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That much is crystal clear.
The release documents that TulsiGabbard just released and
declassified, along with thedeclassified FBI files and the
House report and when you put itall together, it was all the
political put-up job by theClinton campaign.
It was one of the greatesthoaxes in American history and,
in my opinion, deserves to beprosecuted.
I think that Hillary Clintonbelongs in prison, and I'm not
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so sure that Barack Obamadoesn't belong in there with her
, and I know how hysterical thatis, but it's looking like it
was a conspiracy that's finallycome out, as all conspiracies do
, to undermine Trump.
Now, whether or not that's aprosecutable crime, I'll leave
it to the lawyers and the judgesto figure that out, but it was
certainly heinous and none of itis true, so let go.
Okay, this doesn't work.
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You guys have been attackingTrump on this bullshit.
I know so many Democrats whothink they're being reasonable
when they say oh yeah, I knowmost of it was a hoax, but you
know there was some Russian.
No, there wasn't.
It was all a lie from the start.
None, zero, zilch.
Erase that from your memorybank.
Trump is many, many things butan agent of Russia or a stooge
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of Russia.
And look what's going on now.
He's not being easy on Putin.
He never has been.
He's harder on Putin than Obamaever was.
So I mean, the evidencesuggests and the objective
reality is it was all a lie.
Sorry, I took a drink of water,a little dry mouth, so let that
go.
Number two you're not going towin by just saying that
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everything Trump does is bad orgood.
Now look, it's early in theTrump presidency and pride goeth
before a fall, and I ampositive that some of these
policies that look like they'reworking are going to backfire on
Trump.
Sure, as God made little greenapples, I think the tariffs are
going to prove a problem downthe road.
I still think that's true.
I know that there are a lot ofpeople who think that Trump's
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already proven.
This is not true.
We'll see.
We will see.
But certainly a lot of whathe's done has been great the
massive deregulation of theenergy industry, the bringing
onto line of nuclear powerplants through deregulation
we're rapidly doing.
None have come on brand new yet.
It's only been six months.
But he's wiped all of theregulation out of the way.
He's wiped all the regulationon oil drilling out of the way.
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He's wiped.
He's he's regulating in ahealthy way.
One of the few areas where I'dagree with this the crypto
community to bring it into themainstream as a legitimate asset
for people to diversify into.
He's done a terrific jobstopping wars.
The war between Congo andRwanda killed a million people
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over the last 10 years.
Trump deserves the Nobel PeacePrize for that alone.
Again gets absolutely nomainstream coverage for it,
which just goes to show you whata bunch of stooges they are.
What's going on?
The attack on Iran to take outthe nuclear program?
I believe it did represent anexistential threat to the United
States, because I know you cansail a nuclear warhead into a
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harbor in a boat.
You don't need a ballisticmissile and detonate it and kill
a million people.
You won't kill 10 millionpeople like you would if you hit
it with a missile and did anairburst as opposed to a ground
burst, but you'll still kill amillion people and that had to
be stopped and Trump put a stopto it.
So he's done a lot of goodthings.
He shut the border down, buthe's done a lot of bad things on
the border.
You know this masked man outthere rounding up people.
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Democrats, you need to startyour every sentence with this
was good, you know.
My first piece of advice to youpeople is stop stop
simplistically thinking thatyour entire path to the future
is attacking Trump.
You need to have some positivepolicies.
You need to have some people,need to reason.
You can't fight something withnothing.
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Trump, for all of his good andhis bad.
Let's not go through adiscussion of all of his
policies today, but understandthat, if nothing else, again,
another objective reality is hehas a lot of policies that he's
put in place and is putting inplace, and it's very, very
concrete and well-defined,whether you agree with it or not
, and forget what the polls saynow.
Okay, and yeah, the Democratsare the lowest they've ever been
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, but Republicans aren't exactly.
You know Trump's approvalratings in the mid-40s.
I know there was an outlierpoll in the low, but there's
always an outlier.
Trump's approval is around 46%,which you say.
Well, that's still less thanhalf the country.
Yeah, that's because theindependents have a hard time
declaring their allegiance, andremember that independents are
the largest group.
There are more independentsthan Democrats or Republicans,
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and independents are independentbecause most of them are
healthy people living healthylives, where they don't obsess
on politics and when askedpolitical questions, they're not
necessarily up on them and theyjust have a general feeling and
until an election comes intoplay, their opinions really
aren't too set in stone.
So right now, with all thechange that's going on, change
is scary and so it's unnerved alot of independents rightfully
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so, and so he's not polling aswell.
But he's got the conversation,guys, and you're sounding like
you've got to present a reasonfor Say what you want about
Trump.
He gives you a lot of reasonsto like him, but those are also
reasons to debate him.
But instead of framing it asgood or evil, why not frame it
as, for example, we like that hesealed the border.
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That was long overdue.
But we think that there's apath to dealing with all the
people in the country alreadywithout having to round them up
with jackboots.
See, that was hyperbolic.
I fell into the trap.
But they are wearing face masks, with masked officers rounding
up illegals.
Listen, we're not going toround up 20 to 30 million.
Who even knows how many are inhere?
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It's all a guess.
It's tens of millions.
Who knows?
And you know I've just again,I've discussed this before.
I'm not going to go into theissue, but there's plenty.
I'm saying it's not a binary.
You can say he did a good jobclosing the border and still
have put forward a proactivepolicy.
What your alternative is, Ihave.
I'll be putting it forth in thecampaign next year when I run
for district forward.
It's all in the radical reset.
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The reason I wrote that bookfull of prescriptions is so that
we have something else to talkabout besides.
Just, you know, we've got to doit different.
A lot of things don't need tobe done differently.
They need to be stopped,because a lot of things that the
government tries to do can't bedone, since poverty will always
be with us, since povertycannot be ended, since Jesus
said the poor will always bewith us.
Let's stop trying to endpoverty, which has destroyed the
black and the lower classfamily structures of every race.
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Let's stop doing that andinstead replace it with nothing
and let family do what it wasdoing all along, before we
decided to destroy it throughthis.
See, a proactive policy here isto say, let's repeal all welfare
programs, and then the naturalquestion would be if you think
in the mainstream, the waypeople think now is well, what
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would you replace it with?
And the answer is nothing.
I would devolve it to thestates and let the states decide
if they wanted to do it.
The states, remember, are like50 little countries with free
trade among them.
We're just a giant free tradezone.
But if you think the people inWyoming think exactly like the
people in Alabama, you'resmoking crack.
And if you think that thepeople in California think
exactly like the people in SouthCarolina, you're really smoking
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crack and mainlining heroin.
The point I'm telling you isevery state is culturally and
demographically different andhas different mixes.
And if you're going to have anyshot at all at creating a
social safety net not a welfarestate not trying to cure a
problem that can't be cured, butthe states could individually
put in a safety net for peoplethat, through bad luck, are in a
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bad position, but design it insuch a way that they have a
strong incentive to get to workand get out of it again, let the
states experiment with it.
Let it be 50 little laboratoriesof how to do it correctly,
because states don't print money.
And since states don't printmoney and can't print money.
I'm not sure if they can't, butthey don't print money.
Thank God.
They really can't get.
But they don't print money,thank God they really can't get
in the big trouble.
They can only ruin themselves.
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They can't ruin the wholecountry the way we're doing it
with our $37 trillion really$140 trillion national debt,
when you consider SocialSecurity and Medicare and let's
go to Social Security andMedicare, the untouchable rails
of politics.
We're going to need to touchthem.
This is another area wheresomeone could make a, another
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area where someone could make alook.
We we are.
This is the most identifiableum train wreck in it may be in
history is the the oncomingcollapse of social security in
uh 20 in the early 2030s.
We're going to run out of moneyabout 2032, 2033.
You know give or take.
It's not going to be exactlywhich year it is, but it'll be
right there and it's just math.
It's just compounding interest.
If interest rates go up, as Ithink they will, it'll be right
there and it's just math.
It's just compounding interest.
If interest rates go up, as Ithink they will, it'll be even
worse as the government debtrolls over and has to roll over
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at higher interest rates,creating more interest than it
has to pay.
And it has to roll over.
You get it.
It's like borrowing from Peterto pay Paul, as this happens.
Okay, we're just going to haveto do it.
I mean now.
The trick is, we can do it now.
There used to be an oldcommercial years ago for a
product called.
I don't even know if they stillmake it.
Do they still make Fram oilfilters?
I don't know, but anyway therewas this brand of oil filter
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called Fram.
I think they still make them.
I think I saw them in AutoZone.
I could be wrong, but anyway itwas, or is, a premium oil
filter versus the cheap shitthat you can buy generically off
the shelf.
That's China, maybe they aretoo.
I don't really know the wholestory, but you're going to get
my drift on this.
They used to have a commercialabout Fram oil filters.
This is back in the old dayswhen there was only four
channels on TV and thecommercial went like this Fram
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oil filters are more expensive.
You can pay me now, and thenthey would have a picture of a
car with a blown engine, or youcan pay me later, the message
being you can buy the good oilfilter, or you can buy the shit
oil filter and what happens isup to you.
Well, that's kind of true innational politics, you know,
like we can buy the good oilfilter and do it the right way,
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or we can fuck around and do itthe wrong way and it will never
succeed.
And what's going on here isSocial Security can't be fixed,
guys.
I mean, I'm sorry that's wrong.
Social Security can be fixed,but the longer we wait, the
worse it's going to be.
Do you want to deal with ablown engine or do you want to
just change an oil filter?
So right now, it's still nottoo late for us to do things
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like, for example, means test itor perhaps raise the retirement
age a little bit and make otherrelatively minor adjustments
that are well spelled out.
By the way, there are plenty ofpeople who have studied this in
depth and I'm not going to redotheir work, but we could make
the adjustments now and save thesystem, and one of the
suggestions I love is to take$500 billion of the $5 trillion
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that we'll raise through Trump'sgold card program of charging
$5 million for basically a goldcard to come into the United
States and get citizenship on anexpedited basis because you
bring your own money and you'repaying this $5 million and
you're bringing talent andresources into the United States
.
It's a really smart program,it's a good idea and it's going
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to create.
If there are a millionapplicants and there will be at
least a million applicants it'llcreate $5 trillion in revenue.
If we take $500 billion of thatand place it in an index of the
standard Poor's 500 within theSocial Security System Trust
Fund, it'll save the systemwithout making an adjustment.
This is according to ChamathPalihipataya, who is a terrific
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Silicon Valley-type hedge fundguy or or entrepreneur type guy
that you can check out on yourown.
Chamath Palihipatia and I'mstealing his idea because I
think it's a great idea and Iknow he's done the math and he's
smarter than me.
So there you go.
But having said that, we're notdoing anything.
And so Democrats, instead ofsaying we won't touch Social
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Security and Donald Trump sayingwe won't touch social security,
how about saying, yeah, we'regoing to touch it.
We're going to touch it becausewe have to, but we're going to
save it as painlessly aspossible by, for example,
depositing this money into theprivate sector, where we should
have done this to begin with.
You know Trump talked early onabout creating a sovereign
wealth fund.
Well, there it is.
It's a makeable case.
Put a half a trillion dollarsinto the Standard Poor's 500
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Index, which is a blind index.
No management, no politics, nonothing, just the S&P 500, it'll
save the system.
So, but that's just onesuggestion.
What I'm saying, democrats, ishow about have a policy?
Okay, let's go on to climatechange.
Sometimes you have to admitwhen you were wrong.
Okay, all the hype around thescience, that was a hoax, just
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like the Russia thing's a hoax.
Now, not to say that thereisn't climate change.
There is climate change.
Not to say the world'stemperatures aren't going up.
They were going up for a while.
Now they've been leveling offfor the last 10 or 15 years.
They might go up again.
There's some discussion among inscientific circles whether
there comes a time when youreach enough carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere where it justdoesn't warm up anymore.
It reaches its saturation pointof how much heating could go on
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for a variety of reasons, andwe seem to have reached that.
Again.
This is never discussed.
I know you guys have neverheard this because you're not
nutty like me and read all thescientific literature because it
interests you.
Unless it interests you, inwhich you do.
And if you do, then you knowthat the climate change is real.
Man is probably contributing toit, but it's the furthest thing
from an emergency.
We haven't even discussed thecost-benefit relationships, you
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know.
For example, carbon dioxide iscausing the world to green, the
Sahara Desert is shrinking.
We have more growable land thanwe've ever had before.
We don't discuss that.
Human beings are a tropicalspecies.
We do better in warm weatherthan cold.
Cold kills one-tenth as manypeople as heat does.
I mean cold kills, I'm sorry,just the opposite.
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Cold kills 10 times as manypeople every year as warmth does
.
So why are we worried about awarming planet?
We know exactly what and thehuman race is great at
mitigation and it's a slowprocess.
Anyway, this is no emergency.
So what should the Democrats do?
They should say we made amistake.
Trump is right to deregulateall these fuels and to get
everything online, but we needto do it cleanly, if not for
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climate change, just to maintainthe lifestyle and the beauty of
our country.
And we can cooperate with theRepublicans and we can discuss
where it's smart, but in thisparticular issue, there is only
one smart way to handle it,which is to let private industry
handle it and get the fuck outof the way.
This is why the Democratsshould abandon progressivism and
seize libertarianism, classicliberalism, as the new
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Democratic Party.
That's the argument I'm goingto be making.
Going into the election newDemocratic Party.
That's the argument I'm goingto be making going into the
election Ditch the progressives,leave them behind.
Let them be the Democrats.
All you other Democrats and allyou independents join with us
libertarians.
We can call it the LibertarianParty, we can call it the new
Democrat Party, we can call itthe new Liberty Party.
Call it whatever you want, butget away from this nonsense
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where you have no arguing thatthere's more than two genders.
If you hear a politicianmealy-mouthed on the gender
issue and I'm going to beat theliving shit out of Greg Stanton
on this if he mealy-mouths evena little bit on how many genders
there are when it comes to thedebates that we will undoubtedly
be involved in, you don'tdeserve to be in office Again.
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Objective reality If apolitician can't recognize an
objective reality, theyshouldn't be in public life.
They're showing you in a signthat their ambition is so
overwhelming that they'rewilling to scrap every ounce of
common sense and lie and lookright into a camera which is
right into your eyes and lie toyou.
Stupidity like the gender issue.
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That's an incredible deal,killer for 8 out of 10 parents
in this country.
Ditch it.
Don't find a way to message it.
Don't find a way to talk aroundit.
Just say you know what.
That's the progressives.
They're insane.
We're not a part of this.
Goodbye.
There are two genders.
That's not a political issue.
That's science.
Okay, you want to talk science?
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Embrace science.
There are two genders.
That's the science.
Okay.
There's no climate emergency.
That's the science.
Embrace it.
And and pose free trade is is agood thing.
Make the argument for freetrade.
Tariffs are a stupid thing.
Okay, we just haven't.
They haven't been around longenough to really fuck things up
yet, but they're going to.
And all of this is going tocause unexpected consequences in
all kinds of ways, becausewe're messing around again with
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the free market.
To the extent that you messwith a free market is, to the
extent that you're going toultimately cause unintended
consequences that are worse thananything you're trying to
prevent.
And as these come online,that's where Democrats should
attack.
Okay, free trade is a goodthing.
No, tariffs are the goal, okay.
And look, if the Chinese wantto make cheap shit that we buy,
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then the massive Americansbenefit by the cheap shit.
Okay.
And when you becomeeconomically interdependent,
when China depends on us and wedepend on China for different
things, that's a good thing, nota bad thing.
It prevents war, okay.
You don't blow up countries whoare your primary suppliers for
things you have to have.
Okay, the Japanese would havenever attacked Pearl Harbor if
they was involved with us then,as they are now.
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Okay, it just wouldn't havehappened.
You don't blow up your tradingpartners.
Free trade how it got a bad nameis through ignorance, my
friends.
Trump is selling ignorance,okay, and he's
institutionalizing it and he'sframing it as fairness, and fair
has nothing to do with it.
The free enterprise is not fair.
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It's the most efficient pricingmechanism.
That's all an economy is is.
How do you assign a price toany good or service?
A free market does that becauseit's all voluntary, so the
price that's set is set the mostaccurately because the buyer
and seller are negotiating towhere the fair level of pricing
is.
The minute a bureaucrat stepsin, someone who doesn't make
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anything for a living, I'mtelling you Democrats, this is
your opportunity, this is ouropportunity to join together
with libertarians and go to theright of the Republicans.
The Republicans are notconservatives anymore.
The Republicans have becomesocial Democrats.
That's what Trump is turningthem into tariffs and the
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manipulation of rules to benefitthe United States.
He's turning us into the EU andthe United States.
There's plenty of room tocriticize Trump, okay, but you
don't do it by attacking him.
That was all a lie.
Let go of the lie.
Yes, did he say he'd grab awoman by the pussy and go?
Yeah, but men talk about likethat in the locker room.
No, I've never said it myself,but I've said things that are
similar.
I mean, come on, get a grip.
You know, we've all said thingsin privacy, among people.
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We feel safe with that.
We wish we hadn't said, ormaybe we didn't mean, or they
were youthful or whatever.
You know, people say a lot ofbullshit and seizing it over.
That's why politics are sopoisonous and why anti-politism
makes so much sense, becauseonce you take the ambition out
of it, you take the lying out ofit and you take the shitty
people who run despiteeverything out of it, and you
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don't get people like that.
So, anyway, that's enough fortoday.
So the overall message today ismy friends, my democratic and
independent friends andDemocrats in particular, you got
it.
You can't beat something withsomething with nothing, my
friends.
So you better come up with somesomethings.
You better ditch all the stuffthat denies objective reality.
You better stop with theconstant attacks on trump.
Yeah, trump is no bargain.
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Neither are you, okay.
So let's start talking aboutsome policies.
None of us are any bargain.
I'm no bargain, my god.
I have a criminal record and Ideserved it.
Okay, I don't sell myself asmorally superior.
I sell myself as having betterideas than everybody else.
That's not well, that's prettyfucking arrogant.
Then, having better ideas thanthe mainstream of everybody else
and and wanting to take it intothe sphere of debate, okay,
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that's what it's all about.
And then we have a discussion,because I don't think I'm
perfect either.
I think you're going to read mypolicy prescriptions in a
radical reset and say toyourself oh, I agree with this
and I don't agree with that, butthat's the difference between
us discussing it and politiciansdiscussing it, like Trump or
anyone else or any of theDemocrats, is that we don't give
a shit about making careers aspoliticians.
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We're not trying to make moneyfrom insider trading.
We're not trying to to buildour historic legacies, whatever
the hell that is, you know?
Uh, we're just regular.
The masses, the people thatpull the cart and have actually
done it and have not soughtoffice and instead come to
service through duty, should bethe ones making the decisions,
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not the people who try to runfor office because they're
megalomaniacs.
Okay, I could keep going, butI'm going to stop right there.
Thank you very much for joiningme today.
Don't forget to pick up a copyof A Radical Reset.
Again, it's on Amazon, kindle,paperback or hardcover by me,
herbie K.
A Radical Reset is the title ofthe book.
Don't forget to share thispodcast with your friends.
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Yada, yada, yada.
You know the drill.
Until next week.
Have a beautiful weekend.
God bless you, god bless yourfamily and God bless America.
Happy Friday, dudes and dudettes.
It's me, your Uncle Herbie,your host here at A Radical
Reset, the home of anti-politism, where, if the system is
adopted, we'll save the republicand save our culture at the
same time, which, of course, isreally one and the same thing.
Having said that, I want totalk a little bit about this,
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about how life's choices are notalways binary.
You know, we have a tendency tothink of things as good or bad.
When things are really on aspectrum between good and bad,
there's an enormous spectrum ofgray, and so when people try to
simplify things, includingso-called experts or so-called
political geniuses or whatever,you know, whatever it is we're
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talking about in current eventsthey always come at it from this
is good or this is bad, butthat's nothing is good or bad.
The other thing?
Well, that's not true.
Hitler was bad.
And let's see what is anabsolute good.
A newborn child is an absolutegood, untarnished at birth, but
after that it's all downhill.
I'm sorry, I don't mean tolaugh, but it brought to mind
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something that someone once saidto me, which is that the
children are the receptacles ofall of their parents' unresolved
issues.
So the moment we get our handson our children.
We proceed to fuck them up.
I don't know what else to say.
Anyway, let's get back on course.
It just is true, guys.
You know, that's true.
You absolutely know.
It's why parents and childrenfight when they become adults
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because they push each other'sbuttons, because the parents put
the children's buttons thereand the children don't realize
the parents put the children'sbuttons there, so they're mad at
the parents for putting them,and it's just.
It goes on and on and on.
But anyway, my children love me.
By the way, it's not by the waythey don't love me by the way,
it's not by the way they don'tlove me.
Right now, out of my fourchildren, one is not talking to
me, three are, but the onethat's not talking to me it's
over silliness, it'll be oversoon.
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You know, you have to learn asa parent to keep.
You got to know when to holdthem and know when to fold them.
And this particular littledisagreement I'm having with my
daughter, I'm just keeping mymouth shut.
She'll come around, but anyway.
Um, that was a weird digression.
So let's talk about PresidentTrump.
What's going on?
Tariffs, economy, yada, yada,yada, and the fact that the
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Democratic Party has learnednothing.
So, as I have shared with youin a prior podcast.
I'm going to run for Congress.
I've already filed my letter ofintent with the state of
Arizona and I'll be collectingsignatures coming up in the fall
as a libertarian.
I'm running as a libertarian,which means I'm going to lose,
but bear with me, I'll just walkthrough this with you.
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I filed my letter of intent.
I have to collect signatures.
I have to collect a quarter ofa percent of the registered I
think is what it is or half apercent of registered
libertarians.
It comes out to my district,which is the fourthth
Congressional District ofArizona.
I have to get about 800signatures and change, which is
not a big deal.
There are a number of softwareprograms and helps, and the
party is helping me.
So I'll be on the ballot andI'll run, and I'll be running
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for Congress next year as alibertarian in the 4th
Congressional District againstthe incumbent, who's a guy named
Greg Stanton, who is a prettytypical Democratic congressman.
He's not the worst that everlived.
He's not the best that everlived, he's just a career
politician.
He was the mayor of Phoenix,where he was okay, and he's a
congressman where he's okay, butwe're going into times that are
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way, way past.
Okay, and when I run this fallI know I've discussed this a
little bit, but I'll be runningeven though I'm running as a
libertarian I'm really runningfor the hearts and minds of
Democrats and independents.
Okay, the Republicans have drankthe cup of national,
nationalist economics.
Okay, and I want to be verycareful about this, because
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nationalist economics andfascism were very close to being
the same thing, and and I don'twant to use the fascist label
to paint my Republican friendsthat's not what I'm trying to do
but understand that when youuse the government to carry out
national goals by manipulatingprivate industry to do it for
you, so they are, in fact, anarm of the government and
everything.
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They're independent, really inname only.
That is fascism.
That's what fascism is.
Fascism is socialism dressed upto look like capitalism, when
it's really.
The state is directing privatebusiness to carry out what it
considers to be of the nationalinterest, and Trump is a
nationalist and a populist, sohe basically feeds off the mood
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of the people and then uses thegovernment unapologetically,
through an enormous variety ofexecutive orders, to enforce
national policy through privatebusiness.
And that's what all this.
You know we're going to getthis many hundreds of billions
of investment that's all comingin on the private side but with
the government directing and soon and so forth and I'm not
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saying some of the governmentgoals aren't laudable I think
we're going to need a lot ofenergy for AI.
I'm very much in favor of himderegulating to free up a lot of
things, but when he startspushing business to do his
bidding by, for example, thePresident of the United States
suing a network over itsreporting or how it edited a
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video okay, which it did in theyou know the case, the Paramount
case Kamala Harris.
You know the case, theparamount case Kamala Harris,
who, by the way, was a, was amoron.
I mean, I'll tell you why KamalaHarris lost.
She's a moron, she's a she'sthe living embodiment of the
Peter principle.
She literally fucked her way tothe top.
She was Willie Brown's mistressand, through his patronage,
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ended up where she ended up.
Now, there's a long story inbetween and I can go into it,
but that's not what this podcastis about.
But if you ever wonder how thehell did Kamala Harris end up as
vice president of the UnitedStates, willie Brown, willie
Brown, and probably she's greatin bed, I don't know I'd do her.
I mean, what can I say?
So any, I'm a guy.
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If you tell me she'sunattractive, if you were a man
my age, 68 years old, and youlooked at her in her fifties,
she's pretty good looking, 50something year old woman.
Sorry, she just is.
So anyway, she's a moron.
But you know, like we don'thave to carry on a doctoral
dissertation in the sack, andI'm sure that's how Willie Brown
felt as he pushed her down theroad and she ended up in a
position that she had nobusiness being in.
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As I've often said, a peoplehire B people, but B people hire
C people.
So President Clinton was an A.
President Obama is a definite B.
He's got a thin skin about allcriticism.
He hires Biden to be his vicepresident, who's a C.
Biden is a C minus on a goodday, plus he's slipping, so he
doesn't want to be competed with.
So he picks a vice presidentwho's a D and she, of course,
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picks a running mate who's an F.
That guy, tim, what's his name?
Waltz was really a zero, is azero and it just proves the
axiom.
But anyway, back to the topicof the podcast, which is it's
just not black and white guys,it's not all good and evil.
So, as I speak to Democrats andI speak to independents in the
upcoming campaign, and as I'mspeaking to you now, I'm going
to tell you something.
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We need to take a long, hardlook at reorganizing the whole
government and not just how wechoose people for office.
If you want to get intoantipolitism and the Republic by
lottery on a merit-basedlottery and everything about it,
please pick up a copy of ARadical Reset.
It's the manifesto ofantipolitism.
It's available to you on Amazon.
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It's in Kindle hardcover andsoftcover.
Take your, pick pick up a copyand give it a read.
But and in it I haveprescriptions for every and
understand that.
In the manifesto itself, at thevery end, I describe how
antipolitism works.
I kind of saved the best forlast, but I go through a series
of policy prescriptions and eachof those prescriptions are
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suggestions, not dictates.
I'm not.
You know, a radical reset isnot Mein Kampf, I am not trying
to be the leader.
That's what Fuhrer means.
By the way, fuhrer is theGerman word for leader.
I'm not trying to be the leader, I'm trying to be the founder,
and then, hopefully, because ofmy advanced age 68 years old and
no one lives forever and Irealize I'm young compared to
Trump, but I'm not a springchicken.
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I'm looking to build a movement, replace myself, because I view
this as a war, not a battle,and America's soul is at stake
and we need a new way of lookingat things, and anti-politism is
the new way.
But understand, I want to makethis very clear I'm running for
Congress next year to bringattention to the movement, not
to bring attention to me.
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Okay, so to be very, very clear, I don't care about power or
money at this stage in my life.
In fact, you know, I used to berich and now I'm poor, after
going to prison and so on and soforth.
I have to be honest, I'mhappier now.
I wake up in the morning andthere's nothing in my mind
except what am I going to havefor lunch, which is much more
pleasant than worrying about allthe complications of your life
you've made because of the vilefucking decisions you made along
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the way that you have to livewith, the unintended
consequences of which relates to, by the way, why I structured
anti-politism and why the policyprescriptions are as they are
in a radical reset.
So let's talk about just a fewof the things.
Just real briefly.
The government is involved injust too many things we get into
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a discussion of we need toreform this or fix that, when we
really need to do is just stopdoing it altogether.
There are some things thatcannot be accomplished.
Let's start with, for example,poverty.
Poverty is going to alwaysJesus said it.
I mean it's povertythe poorwill always be with us.
Now, the poor will always bewith us, but what we've managed
to do in trying to cure poverty,which is incurable, we have
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created it as a permanent stateof being, as opposed to a
temporary condition.
That you fall into Poverty inthe modern time should be
something that you fall into.
Maybe your business failed,maybe you lost a job, maybe both
parents lost a job, maybe bothparents lost the job.
Who knows what might happen?
Maybe there's an illness.
There can be a number of thingsthat pull a family into poverty
.
Keyword being family.
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We'll get there in a minute,but then what should happen is
the pain of poverty, thewondering where the money's
coming from, the having to getmoney together just to eat, to
maintain shelter and so on andso forth.
That pain, that stress, thatstuff that really, really, for
most people is almost unbearableis the very reason why you pull
out of poverty.
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If you take those out of thepoverty, you create it as a
comfortable condition for thelazy, and there are a lot of
lazy people.
A lot of us are fundamentallylazy, unless we're kicked in the
rear.
Let's be honest about who weare.
That's not a bad thing, it'sjust.
There's a reason that sloth isone of the seven deadly sins
okay.
And so if you subsidize lazinesswhich is what happens when you
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subsidize, when you try to curepoverty, all you're doing is
subsidizing it, since you cannotcure it, because the cause of
poverty is vile decisions okayor terrible bad luck, and you
cannot legislate out either one.
If it's terrible bad luck likea family's primary breadwinner
is killed or becomes very illand the family has to pull
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together and get the extendedfamily involved and pull out of
it that's just bad luck.
But that's why you have familyand extended family, because
that's your social safety net ina healthy culture, which we
don't have now.
I'll get to that in a minute.
But if you subsidize it from agovernment level, whether it's
federal or state, all you'regoing to do is take the pain out
.
And if you take too much of thepain out, you get what we've
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got, which is a permanentunderclass of people that are
born into the poverty, live inpoverty and die in poverty, male
and female, with no expectationof escaping it and your only
concern being how much free shitare you going to get?
Then, when we created universalsuffrage, when we decided under
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Wilson that everybody couldvote regardless of whether they
own property or not which wasthe primary stumbling block that
the founders put in, because ifyou don't have skin in the game
, you shouldn't be allowed tovote when you let the parasites
vote, that's when the party'sover, which is exactly what we
did and what we've done.
Plus and this is a biggerproblem than everything else
that's going on is thedemographics of the country,
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which are in free fall among theeducated, the intelligent and
the commonsensical and are anabsolute explosion among the
parasitic class.
The parasites are breeding andthe rest of us are not.
That's the problem.
Okay, you know responsiblepeople, regardless of what they
do for a living, whether aplumber or an engineer or a
research scientist or acarpenter, people who work hard
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and put together and get marriedand have a family, and, do you
know?
They have budgets and they look.
And having a child is expensiveand inflation is eaten into
that.
Two incomes isn't always enoughand people are having fewer and
fewer children Plus women,because of reasons that I've
discussed in other podcasts.
You can listen to some of thepast ones and I'll cover them
again, but today I don't wantthis to go for two hours.
But for a number of reasons,women have chosen to have babies
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later and later, and that meanshaving fewer children and, in
many cases, not having childrenat all, which has led to an
explosion of depression amongwomen, which is again another
story for another day.
But I'll tell you who's notdepressed and who's not having a
problem.
Having babies is the parasiticclass.
So the parasitic class, thepermanent poverty class, the
ones that are, you know, beatingup people in mobs and in cities
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and so on and so forth, ofevery race let's make this clear
, okay that are raised withoutfathers and are raised in within
the frame of the so-calledLyndon Johnson's war on poverty,
which is actually theinstitutionalization of poverty.
They're breeding like bunnyrabbits.
They have baby mamas.
Girls spread their legs forevery guy that comes by, because
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when they're raised without afather, that's how they seek
male attention.
They confuse sex for love andget laid and have babies, and
that's what their mothers did,so that's what's been role
modeled to them and they raisetheir children.
The fathers have no expectationof taking responsibility and
these women and this is thefurthest thing from rare, it's
common.
You can walk into any urbanenvironment in this country and
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you'll see this over and overand over Women with children
with different last names, oftendifferent racial mixes, because
they're fucking across thespectrum and having baby after
baby and with no intention or noidea of how to raise boys or
girls in any healthy environment.
Women are nurturing.
They don't set boundaries, guys, and without a male in the
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picture to set boundaries,things will go out of control
and have.
This is not something I'mpredicting, it already has.
Look at what's been going on,for example, in Cincinnati A
manifestation of this.
So, as we sit there, one of thethings that bothers me about
Trump see, democrats, guys, youhave a lot to attack Trump on.
It's just you're all attackingthe wrong, stupid things.
(14:17):
First of all, it's time,democrats, let me share a few
lessons with you that I'm goingto share with you during the
campaign.
Number one is it's time tounderstand there's such a thing
as objective reality, and here'sobjective reality.
There was never any Russiancollusion or intervention by the
Russians on behalf of Trump inthe last election.
(14:38):
That much is crystal clear.
The release documents that TulsiGabbard just released and
declassified, along with thedeclassified FBI files and the
House report and when you put itall together, it was all the
political put-up job by theClinton campaign.
It was one of the greatesthoaxes in American history and,
in my opinion, deserves to beprosecuted.
I think that Hillary Clintonbelongs in prison, and I'm not
(14:58):
so sure that Barack Obamadoesn't belong in there with her
, and I know how hysterical thatis, but it's looking like it
was a conspiracy that's finallycome out, as all conspiracies do
, to undermine Trump.
Now, whether or not that's aprosecutable crime, I'll leave
it to the lawyers and the judgesto figure that out, but it was
certainly heinous and none of itis true, so let go.
Okay, this doesn't work.
(15:21):
You guys have been attackingTrump on this bullshit.
I know so many Democrats whothink they're being reasonable
when they say oh yeah, I knowmost of it was a hoax, but you
know there was some Russian.
No, there wasn't.
It was all a lie from the start.
None, zero, zilch.
Erase that from your memorybank.
Trump is many, many things butan agent of Russia or a stooge
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of Russia.
And look what's going on now.
He's not being easy on Putin.
He never has been.
He's harder on Putin than Obamaever was.
So I mean, the evidencesuggests and the objective
reality is it was all a lie.
Sorry, I took a drink of water,a little dry mouth, so let that
go.
Number two you're not going towin by just saying that
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everything Trump does is bad orgood.
Now look, it's early in theTrump presidency and pride goeth
before a fall, and I ampositive that some of these
policies that look like they'reworking are going to backfire on
Trump.
Sure, as God made little greenapples, I think the tariffs are
going to prove a problem downthe road.
I still think that's true.
I know that there are a lot ofpeople who think that Trump's
(16:25):
already proven.
This is not true.
We'll see.
We will see.
But certainly a lot of whathe's done has been great the
massive deregulation of theenergy industry, the bringing
onto line of nuclear powerplants through deregulation
we're rapidly doing.
None have come on brand new yet.
It's only been six months.
But he's wiped all of theregulation out of the way.
He's wiped all the regulationon oil drilling out of the way.
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He's wiped.
He's he's regulating in ahealthy way.
One of the few areas where I'dagree with this the crypto
community to bring it into themainstream as a legitimate asset
for people to diversify into.
He's done a terrific jobstopping wars.
The war between Congo andRwanda killed a million people
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over the last 10 years.
Trump deserves the Nobel PeacePrize for that alone.
Again gets absolutely nomainstream coverage for it,
which just goes to show you whata bunch of stooges they are.
What's going on?
The attack on Iran to take outthe nuclear program?
I believe it did represent anexistential threat to the United
States, because I know you cansail a nuclear warhead into a
(17:33):
harbor in a boat.
You don't need a ballisticmissile and detonate it and kill
a million people.
You won't kill 10 millionpeople like you would if you hit
it with a missile and did anairburst as opposed to a ground
burst, but you'll still kill amillion people and that had to
be stopped and Trump put a stopto it.
So he's done a lot of goodthings.
He shut the border down, buthe's done a lot of bad things on
the border.
You know this masked man outthere rounding up people.
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Democrats, you need to startyour every sentence with this
was good, you know.
My first piece of advice to youpeople is stop stop
simplistically thinking thatyour entire path to the future
is attacking Trump.
You need to have some positivepolicies.
You need to have some people,need to reason.
You can't fight something withnothing.
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Trump, for all of his good andhis bad.
Let's not go through adiscussion of all of his
policies today, but understandthat, if nothing else, again,
another objective reality is hehas a lot of policies that he's
put in place and is putting inplace, and it's very, very
concrete and well-defined,whether you agree with it or not
, and forget what the polls saynow.
Okay, and yeah, the Democratsare the lowest they've ever been
(18:36):
, but Republicans aren't exactly.
You know Trump's approvalratings in the mid-40s.
I know there was an outlierpoll in the low, but there's
always an outlier.
Trump's approval is around 46%,which you say.
Well, that's still less thanhalf the country.
Yeah, that's because theindependents have a hard time
declaring their allegiance, andremember that independents are
the largest group.
There are more independentsthan Democrats or Republicans,
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and independents are independentbecause most of them are
healthy people living healthylives, where they don't obsess
on politics and when askedpolitical questions, they're not
necessarily up on them and theyjust have a general feeling and
until an election comes intoplay, their opinions really
aren't too set in stone.
So right now, with all thechange that's going on, change
is scary and so it's unnerved alot of independents rightfully
(19:20):
so, and so he's not polling aswell.
But he's got the conversation,guys, and you're sounding like
you've got to present a reasonfor Say what you want about
Trump.
He gives you a lot of reasonsto like him, but those are also
reasons to debate him.
But instead of framing it asgood or evil, why not frame it
as, for example, we like that hesealed the border.
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That was long overdue.
But we think that there's apath to dealing with all the
people in the country alreadywithout having to round them up
with jackboots.
See, that was hyperbolic.
I fell into the trap.
But they are wearing face masks, with masked officers rounding
up illegals.
Listen, we're not going toround up 20 to 30 million.
Who even knows how many are inhere?
(20:03):
It's all a guess.
It's tens of millions.
Who knows?
And you know I've just again,I've discussed this before.
I'm not going to go into theissue, but there's plenty.
I'm saying it's not a binary.
You can say he did a good jobclosing the border and still
have put forward a proactivepolicy.
What your alternative is, Ihave.
I'll be putting it forth in thecampaign next year when I run
for district forward.
It's all in the radical reset.
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The reason I wrote that bookfull of prescriptions is so that
we have something else to talkabout besides.
Just, you know, we've got to doit different.
A lot of things don't need tobe done differently.
They need to be stopped,because a lot of things that the
government tries to do can't bedone, since poverty will always
be with us, since povertycannot be ended, since Jesus
said the poor will always bewith us.
Let's stop trying to endpoverty, which has destroyed the
black and the lower classfamily structures of every race.
(20:57):
Let's stop doing that andinstead replace it with nothing
and let family do what it wasdoing all along, before we
decided to destroy it throughthis.
See, a proactive policy here isto say, let's repeal all welfare
programs, and then the naturalquestion would be if you think
in the mainstream, the waypeople think now is well, what
(21:18):
would you replace it with?
And the answer is nothing.
I would devolve it to thestates and let the states decide
if they wanted to do it.
The states, remember, are like50 little countries with free
trade among them.
We're just a giant free tradezone.
But if you think the people inWyoming think exactly like the
people in Alabama, you'resmoking crack.
And if you think that thepeople in California think
exactly like the people in SouthCarolina, you're really smoking
(21:42):
crack and mainlining heroin.
The point I'm telling you isevery state is culturally and
demographically different andhas different mixes.
And if you're going to have anyshot at all at creating a
social safety net not a welfarestate not trying to cure a
problem that can't be cured, butthe states could individually
put in a safety net for peoplethat, through bad luck, are in a
(22:04):
bad position, but design it insuch a way that they have a
strong incentive to get to workand get out of it again, let the
states experiment with it.
Let it be 50 little laboratoriesof how to do it correctly,
because states don't print money.
And since states don't printmoney and can't print money.
I'm not sure if they can't, butthey don't print money.
Thank God.
They really can't get.
But they don't print money,thank God they really can't get
in the big trouble.
They can only ruin themselves.
(22:24):
They can't ruin the wholecountry the way we're doing it
with our $37 trillion really$140 trillion national debt,
when you consider SocialSecurity and Medicare and let's
go to Social Security andMedicare, the untouchable rails
of politics.
We're going to need to touchthem.
This is another area wheresomeone could make a, another
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area where someone could make alook.
We we are.
This is the most identifiableum train wreck in it may be in
history is the the oncomingcollapse of social security in
uh 20 in the early 2030s.
We're going to run out of moneyabout 2032, 2033.
You know give or take.
It's not going to be exactlywhich year it is, but it'll be
right there and it's just math.
It's just compounding interest.
If interest rates go up, as Ithink they will, it'll be right
there and it's just math.
It's just compounding interest.
If interest rates go up, as Ithink they will, it'll be even
worse as the government debtrolls over and has to roll over
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at higher interest rates,creating more interest than it
has to pay.
And it has to roll over.
You get it.
It's like borrowing from Peterto pay Paul, as this happens.
Okay, we're just going to haveto do it.
I mean now.
The trick is, we can do it now.
There used to be an oldcommercial years ago for a
product called.
I don't even know if they stillmake it.
Do they still make Fram oilfilters?
I don't know, but anyway therewas this brand of oil filter
(23:30):
called Fram.
I think they still make them.
I think I saw them in AutoZone.
I could be wrong, but anyway itwas, or is, a premium oil
filter versus the cheap shitthat you can buy generically off
the shelf.
That's China, maybe they aretoo.
I don't really know the wholestory, but you're going to get
my drift on this.
They used to have a commercialabout Fram oil filters.
This is back in the old dayswhen there was only four
channels on TV and thecommercial went like this Fram
(23:53):
oil filters are more expensive.
You can pay me now, and thenthey would have a picture of a
car with a blown engine, or youcan pay me later, the message
being you can buy the good oilfilter, or you can buy the shit
oil filter and what happens isup to you.
Well, that's kind of true innational politics, you know,
like we can buy the good oilfilter and do it the right way,
(24:14):
or we can fuck around and do itthe wrong way and it will never
succeed.
And what's going on here isSocial Security can't be fixed,
guys.
I mean, I'm sorry that's wrong.
Social Security can be fixed,but the longer we wait, the
worse it's going to be.
Do you want to deal with ablown engine or do you want to
just change an oil filter?
So right now, it's still nottoo late for us to do things
(24:37):
like, for example, means test itor perhaps raise the retirement
age a little bit and make otherrelatively minor adjustments
that are well spelled out.
By the way, there are plenty ofpeople who have studied this in
depth and I'm not going to redotheir work, but we could make
the adjustments now and save thesystem, and one of the
suggestions I love is to take$500 billion of the $5 trillion
(24:59):
that we'll raise through Trump'sgold card program of charging
$5 million for basically a goldcard to come into the United
States and get citizenship on anexpedited basis because you
bring your own money and you'repaying this $5 million and
you're bringing talent andresources into the United States
.
It's a really smart program,it's a good idea and it's going
(25:19):
to create.
If there are a millionapplicants and there will be at
least a million applicants it'llcreate $5 trillion in revenue.
If we take $500 billion of thatand place it in an index of the
standard Poor's 500 within theSocial Security System Trust
Fund, it'll save the systemwithout making an adjustment.
This is according to ChamathPalihipataya, who is a terrific
(25:42):
Silicon Valley-type hedge fundguy or or entrepreneur type guy
that you can check out on yourown.
Chamath Palihipatia and I'mstealing his idea because I
think it's a great idea and Iknow he's done the math and he's
smarter than me.
So there you go.
But having said that, we're notdoing anything.
And so Democrats, instead ofsaying we won't touch Social
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Security and Donald Trump sayingwe won't touch social security,
how about saying, yeah, we'regoing to touch it.
We're going to touch it becausewe have to, but we're going to
save it as painlessly aspossible by, for example,
depositing this money into theprivate sector, where we should
have done this to begin with.
You know Trump talked early onabout creating a sovereign
wealth fund.
Well, there it is.
It's a makeable case.
Put a half a trillion dollarsinto the Standard Poor's 500
(26:25):
Index, which is a blind index.
No management, no politics, nonothing, just the S&P 500, it'll
save the system.
So, but that's just onesuggestion.
What I'm saying, democrats, ishow about have a policy?
Okay, let's go on to climatechange.
Sometimes you have to admitwhen you were wrong.
Okay, all the hype around thescience, that was a hoax, just
(26:48):
like the Russia thing's a hoax.
Now, not to say that thereisn't climate change.
There is climate change.
Not to say the world'stemperatures aren't going up.
They were going up for a while.
Now they've been leveling offfor the last 10 or 15 years.
They might go up again.
There's some discussion among inscientific circles whether
there comes a time when youreach enough carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere where it justdoesn't warm up anymore.
It reaches its saturation pointof how much heating could go on
(27:12):
for a variety of reasons, andwe seem to have reached that.
Again.
This is never discussed.
I know you guys have neverheard this because you're not
nutty like me and read all thescientific literature because it
interests you.
Unless it interests you, inwhich you do.
And if you do, then you knowthat the climate change is real.
Man is probably contributing toit, but it's the furthest thing
from an emergency.
We haven't even discussed thecost-benefit relationships, you
(27:34):
know.
For example, carbon dioxide iscausing the world to green, the
Sahara Desert is shrinking.
We have more growable land thanwe've ever had before.
We don't discuss that.
Human beings are a tropicalspecies.
We do better in warm weatherthan cold.
Cold kills one-tenth as manypeople as heat does.
I mean cold kills, I'm sorry,just the opposite.
(27:55):
Cold kills 10 times as manypeople every year as warmth does
.
So why are we worried about awarming planet?
We know exactly what and thehuman race is great at
mitigation and it's a slowprocess.
Anyway, this is no emergency.
So what should the Democrats do?
They should say we made amistake.
Trump is right to deregulateall these fuels and to get
everything online, but we needto do it cleanly, if not for
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climate change, just to maintainthe lifestyle and the beauty of
our country.
And we can cooperate with theRepublicans and we can discuss
where it's smart, but in thisparticular issue, there is only
one smart way to handle it,which is to let private industry
handle it and get the fuck outof the way.
This is why the Democratsshould abandon progressivism and
seize libertarianism, classicliberalism, as the new
(28:40):
Democratic Party.
That's the argument I'm goingto be making.
Going into the election newDemocratic Party.
That's the argument I'm goingto be making going into the
election Ditch the progressives,leave them behind.
Let them be the Democrats.
All you other Democrats and allyou independents join with us
libertarians.
We can call it the LibertarianParty, we can call it the new
Democrat Party, we can call itthe new Liberty Party.
Call it whatever you want, butget away from this nonsense
(29:02):
where you have no arguing thatthere's more than two genders.
If you hear a politicianmealy-mouthed on the gender
issue and I'm going to beat theliving shit out of Greg Stanton
on this if he mealy-mouths evena little bit on how many genders
there are when it comes to thedebates that we will undoubtedly
be involved in, you don'tdeserve to be in office Again.
(29:25):
Objective reality If apolitician can't recognize an
objective reality, theyshouldn't be in public life.
They're showing you in a signthat their ambition is so
overwhelming that they'rewilling to scrap every ounce of
common sense and lie and lookright into a camera which is
right into your eyes and lie toyou.
Stupidity like the gender issue.
(29:50):
That's an incredible deal,killer for 8 out of 10 parents
in this country.
Ditch it.
Don't find a way to message it.
Don't find a way to talk aroundit.
Just say you know what.
That's the progressives.
They're insane.
We're not a part of this.
Goodbye.
There are two genders.
That's not a political issue.
That's science.
Okay, you want to talk science?
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Embrace science.
There are two genders.
That's the science.
Okay.
There's no climate emergency.
That's the science.
Embrace it.
And and pose free trade is is agood thing.
Make the argument for freetrade.
Tariffs are a stupid thing.
Okay, we just haven't.
They haven't been around longenough to really fuck things up
yet, but they're going to.
And all of this is going tocause unexpected consequences in
all kinds of ways, becausewe're messing around again with
(30:38):
the free market.
To the extent that you messwith a free market is, to the
extent that you're going toultimately cause unintended
consequences that are worse thananything you're trying to
prevent.
And as these come online,that's where Democrats should
attack.
Okay, free trade is a goodthing.
No, tariffs are the goal, okay.
And look, if the Chinese wantto make cheap shit that we buy,
(31:00):
then the massive Americansbenefit by the cheap shit.
Okay.
And when you becomeeconomically interdependent,
when China depends on us and wedepend on China for different
things, that's a good thing, nota bad thing.
It prevents war, okay.
You don't blow up countries whoare your primary suppliers for
things you have to have.
Okay, the Japanese would havenever attacked Pearl Harbor if
they was involved with us then,as they are now.
(31:21):
Okay, it just wouldn't havehappened.
You don't blow up your tradingpartners.
Free trade how it got a bad nameis through ignorance, my
friends.
Trump is selling ignorance,okay, and he's
institutionalizing it and he'sframing it as fairness, and fair
has nothing to do with it.
The free enterprise is not fair.
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It's the most efficient pricingmechanism.
That's all an economy is is.
How do you assign a price toany good or service?
A free market does that becauseit's all voluntary, so the
price that's set is set the mostaccurately because the buyer
and seller are negotiating towhere the fair level of pricing
is.
The minute a bureaucrat stepsin, someone who doesn't make
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anything for a living, I'mtelling you Democrats, this is
your opportunity, this is ouropportunity to join together
with libertarians and go to theright of the Republicans.
The Republicans are notconservatives anymore.
The Republicans have becomesocial Democrats.
That's what Trump is turningthem into tariffs and the
(32:33):
manipulation of rules to benefitthe United States.
He's turning us into the EU andthe United States.
There's plenty of room tocriticize Trump, okay, but you
don't do it by attacking him.
That was all a lie.
Let go of the lie.
Yes, did he say he'd grab awoman by the pussy and go?
Yeah, but men talk about likethat in the locker room.
No, I've never said it myself,but I've said things that are
similar.
I mean, come on, get a grip.
You know, we've all said thingsin privacy, among people.
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We feel safe with that.
We wish we hadn't said, ormaybe we didn't mean, or they
were youthful or whatever.
You know, people say a lot ofbullshit and seizing it over.
That's why politics are sopoisonous and why anti-politism
makes so much sense, becauseonce you take the ambition out
of it, you take the lying out ofit and you take the shitty
people who run despiteeverything out of it, and you
(33:18):
don't get people like that.
So, anyway, that's enough fortoday.
So the overall message today ismy friends, my democratic and
independent friends andDemocrats in particular, you got
it.
You can't beat something withsomething with nothing, my
friends.
So you better come up with somesomethings.
You better ditch all the stuffthat denies objective reality.
You better stop with theconstant attacks on trump.
Yeah, trump is no bargain.
(33:40):
Neither are you, okay.
So let's start talking aboutsome policies.
None of us are any bargain.
I'm no bargain, my god.
I have a criminal record and Ideserved it.
Okay, I don't sell myself asmorally superior.
I sell myself as having betterideas than everybody else.
That's not well, that's prettyfucking arrogant.
Then, having better ideas thanthe mainstream of everybody else
and and wanting to take it intothe sphere of debate, okay,
(34:04):
that's what it's all about.
And then we have a discussion,because I don't think I'm
perfect either.
I think you're going to read mypolicy prescriptions in a
radical reset and say toyourself oh, I agree with this
and I don't agree with that, butthat's the difference between
us discussing it and politiciansdiscussing it, like Trump or
anyone else or any of theDemocrats, is that we don't give
a shit about making careers aspoliticians.
(34:25):
We're not trying to make moneyfrom insider trading.
We're not trying to to buildour historic legacies, whatever
the hell that is, you know?
Uh, we're just regular.
The masses, the people thatpull the cart and have actually
done it and have not soughtoffice and instead come to
service through duty, should bethe ones making the decisions,
(34:46):
not the people who try to runfor office because they're
megalomaniacs.
Okay, I could keep going, butI'm going to stop right there.
Thank you very much for joiningme today.
Don't forget to pick up a copyof A Radical Reset.
Again, it's on Amazon, kindle,paperback or hardcover by me,
herbie K.
A Radical Reset is the title ofthe book.
Don't forget to share thispodcast with your friends.
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Yada, yada, yada.
You know the drill.
Until next week.
Have a beautiful weekend.
God bless you, god bless yourfamily and God bless America.
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