November 26, 2024 • 30 mins
Major companies including Walmart, Ford and John Deere announce they are ENDING their DEI policies. Meanwhile, Dana shares the story of how socialism’s failure led to the first Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dana Lashes of surd Truth podcast sponsored by Keltech.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's time for Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
I feel like this goes into a headspace with regards
to like super serious gaming that I ever wanted to
go into.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So I just really quickly.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
There's this story where this one gamer who's Kane You're
gonna love his name, moist critical.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh yes, Charlie Yeah, claims that.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He was in this case Billy Mitchell versus carl Jobs
and he they actually had him passing gas on camera
used as evidence in this court case. For real, he
testified against this guy Namedilly Mitchell in an ongoing court
case and an included footage of him blowing is on
(00:53):
horn so to speak on camera uses evidence and the
yeah they I okay, uh yeah, I'm not. We can't
play any of the video where he talks about it
because of the way he talks about it. But it's
a suit that is they're arguing over four hundred fifty
thousand dollars in damages because the the It was a
(01:13):
suit raised by Mitchell who said that Jops YouTube videos
about him cheating at Donkey Kong were defamation a grown
man made a video, but another grown man cheating at
Donkey Kong and now it's a four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars defamation case. And another gamer had his own
farts used in court as evidence. Not even making this up.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That is there. You go.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Now, if you think that your family, what you got
to deal with at Thanksgiving is bad, you could be that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
One of these guys could be it.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I'm just saying, you know, a Florida man has wanted
for stealing money from a tip jar because he's a
loser from a Florida establishment. It's a guy who stole
money from a tip jar to Fort Myer's establishment. He literally,
i mean, grabbed her on camera six hundred dollars and left.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
He just took six hundred dollars and left.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
White t shirt, white cat, blue shorts, blue shoes. He's
got identifiable tattoos. They're still looking for him. You're supposed
to call crime stoppers. I on, like, nobody cared. Do
you think people care that they're surveillance cameras are? They're
so ubiquitous that ever, people just don't care anymore?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Is out why?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I think it's more they don't care anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I mean, I don't know. It just okay, let's see here.
I got a call boy. So this guy, a Florida
man is busted because he tried to run over kids
waiting for the school bus.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Another I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
They said it was a bizarre and harrowing scene, said deputies.
Lake County, Florida. A man was arrested Friday morning. The
Lake County Sheriff's Office says it was a bizarre and
heroing scene at a school bus stop. They tried to
run over kids at a bus stop in an area
of Mills Street. The man then allegedly went to a
nearby location where he had grabbed an attack to female
teen as she walked to her bus stop. Fifty nine
(02:52):
year old Arthur James Young was finally apprehended and the moms,
all the parents were just in his steric. So one
of the women, Vivian Little, said hers son A King,
called and said that someoney just tried to run him over.
He's a crazy dude. He's just chaced trying to run
everybody over and chasing everybody. So they were all running
for their lives. This poor kid like crying on the
phone with his mom. Like, can you imagine. So then
(03:17):
he was in a black Dodge Ram pickup and he
actually grabbed one girl and tried to choke her, and
so they said that the police responded. There was a
concealed cary permit holder apparently who fired a gunshot to
try to stop the attack, fired around or to try
to stop it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Just wild. This is just so.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
He's been charged with aggravated assault, child abuse, kidnapping, and
several other charges.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I need a break after that story. Good night. He's
like slapping and choking everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I'm reading a head on the story.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
It says here that the sheriff say they've had interactions
with him before, and apparently the mom has known him
for a long time. That was like some information to
high in the story.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
We're at the end.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, I really want to read this story, but I
just don't know. It's about a Florida inmate Kane.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Oh, I know which would talk about?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So oh we.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Only have about thirty seconds here.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Okay, twenty nine year old Daisy Link and this other
per I don't know who this, this guy, Joan Deepaz.
They were inmates at Turner Guildford Night Correctional Center and
apparently they were. They're facing murder charges. Essentially, she's she's
the Florida inmate, is pregnant. She says she's a miracle baby.
(04:36):
And she says that the conception happened through an air
vent from a fellow prisoner. And I'm gonna leave it there.
We're just gonna be done with Florida man right now.
I made mentioned earlier about the pendulum maybe perhaps swinging
the other way. I wanted to play audio sound bite
(04:59):
nine for you because this is the Walmart, the CEO
of Walmart.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
They are rolling back.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Their deipolicies, believe it or not, and they're just the
latest US company to do this.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Listen to this first.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Let me say, like many companies all across the United States,
we've been on a journey and we continue to be
on a journey. And what we're trying to do is
to ensure that every customer, every associate feels welcome here
to shop and to feel like they belong. And that
term belong We've been talking about belonging now for almost
two years. Early twenty twenty three, we started talking about belonging,
(05:38):
and we're going to continue to make the best decisions
we can that makes everyone, our customers, our associates feel
like this is an environment than.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
This is me.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
As CEO, I don't give a reds ask about belonging.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Just buy our stuff, en scene. That's it. That's the quote.
That's it.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Tell you you sell things. You don't have to affirm
anything for anyone. Can you imagine someone to go into
a Walmart and looking at the products.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm looking at these bags of dog and cat food
and I just don't know if they affirm how I
choose to get it out in my private life.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I just don't feel like it's affirming me because it's
a product. It's a product. It doesn't have to affirm you, Cynthia.
It does not have to affirm anything. You're making a purchase.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That's it. I hate this.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Like they said that some of the they've removed some
product like chest binders for kids. Can't even believe that
was the thing that they had or had to take out.
They're not going to extend the Racial Equity Center, which
I don't even know what that is, and it launched
in twenty twenty. They're going to ditch the terms in
Canaan wan who are basically white adjacent. They hate these
(06:55):
terms like they bristle if you say Latin X. They
don't even want the the letters D and E and
I at all together no more. And they're gonna for
focus on the term belonging. Why do you have to
focus on any term?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Why?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I feel like, you know, Elmo when he gets real excited,
Karma a frog when he's dancing for Christmas and he
just gets really excited.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I feel like that. Why does there have to be
any term? Why? Why do you have to Who did this?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I mean, I get it, they're getting away from it,
But do you have to give someone the crutch of
a term?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Right? You see what I mean? Why do you have
to have it? Belonging? What?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
What's about belonging? You know who belongs here? Anyone who's
got money to buy your products?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
What? Belonging? What? That's how that works? And I know that?
Did you? Why are you here at the Walmart? That's
what the Walmart greeterer should ask? Excuse me? Why are
you here? I might buy some of your still? Okay,
you belong right, That's how that works.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
So what gets me is so now they have John
Deere Ford other companies, the Caterpillar company, Caterpillar, Caine. What
do the Caterpillar people do again, the.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Heavy construction equipment?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh, heavy construction equipment.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, why do they have to have DEI stuff?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
That is a great question. I think we know the
answer is they don't. They don't need it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I mean, who was like, well, let's see we uh
here a Caterpillar, we make a big heavy construction equipment.
We got to start using these phrases Latin X and
starting all this stuff. I feel like if you're focusing
on that, then you're not focusing on making your stuff.
So they're doing DEI changes. They're requiring that all corporate
(09:04):
training be oriented to focus on business operate because it
wasn't before.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
What that's amazing to me. Yeah, so they they've.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
They have to they're bringing in an external speaker to
talk to the Caterpillar employees, the Caterpillar people, and uh
now they've got to have approval from senior vps who
make sure speakers are vetted, et cetera, et cetera. They
must have had some humdingers before if they got to
go through all that.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I just it's.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Amazing to me that everything like cores and Ford. The Uh,
they ended their participation in the and this is a
long one Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
What is that, Dana?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
What is the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index? Well,
that is the annual survey and report used to measure quote, policies,
practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender queer
lbgt Q plus employees.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't even know what any of that means. All
I heard was that's all I heard. Actually I heard.
I understood myself just then, better than I did with us.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, yeah, the Uh? I guess that they that's like
the behavioral thing. Have you seen that with?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Uh? Their?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
They have the required Cheerio. It's our roadmap and benchmarking
tool for businesses. And I guess they give you a score.
You get points, inclusive benefits, things like that. Uh, apparently
you get alphabet benefits.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I don't even know what that means. What are alphabet benefits?
Do you get?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Supporting and inclusive culture? Are twenty five points possible? What
about shutting up and not being annoying? How many points
do you get for that? Wondering corporate social responsibility? This
kind of goes on to you know, the stuff that
we talked about, like why is it that out of
all of the charging stations that we had, how much
was it seven billions something like that allocated to spend
(11:09):
on it, and we only got two of them built.
And that's because they and this is a true thing,
you had to give your the government could only consider
contracts from businesses that I guess had one of these
like a specific score, and they checked all of these
identity politic boxes. So well, if you're like a regular
lesbian and you are up against a one armed lesbian,
(11:32):
then guess what the one armed lesbian is going to
get the contract and you're not. If you're a lesbian,
you're up against a dude who says that he's a woman.
Guess what the lesbian loses. It's the dudeh says he's
a woman. Why because he checks a bigger identity politic
box than you do. See Like that, that's the stuff.
And then you had to have like translators and have
all this stuff in your business that have nothing to
do with your business. You're literally building a charging station.
(11:55):
Why do you have to put on like community events?
You're a company that builds charging stations. Companies don't need
to put on community. You need to demonstrate your uh
your community, your social responsibility.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You need to scf you.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
No, this is so dumb, golly belonging. How many times
did he say that word in that clip is a few? Yeah,
there's a few times. I mean it was almost like
a call to action, right.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Good night. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
But so you got General Motors or no Ford, that's
the other one. That's uh, they're they're dropping out. Oh,
speaking of car companies. So the New York Times is
claiming that automakers want Trump to keep EV mandates, but
apparently that's not true. New York Times were in this
story saying, oh, yes they want to. They're having a
(12:47):
coordinated lobbying push to convince potus potus elect to maintain
all these climate rules, forcing these EV purchases. But apparently
that's not exactly true, according to the Free Beacon, because
Stillantis said that, yeah, we're not pushing for any of
this stuff. They completely contradicted the New York Times report,
(13:09):
they said, and the New York Times said that Stillantis
was actually going to lobby the Trump administration to keep
these mandates, and Stillantas said that's a lie. Stillantis told
Free Beacon, we absolutely are not doing that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That is a lie, they said, we are not.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Amongst the lobbyists and all these people from these car companies,
if there is one that's pushing for this, no one's
buying the damn things.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
If you want an EV, you know, to fart.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Around with fine, nobody cares, but don't force all of
us to get EV's. They're ugly cars. They're ugly, ugly, ugly. Golly,
they're so ugly it kills my soul. Oh my gosh.
I see them and it's like everything about modernity that
I hate, soulless design. They all look like those EVA
(13:53):
butts from Wally.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
They all look like that.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
They all look the same, right, it's some Stepford wife's stuff.
Everybody's got their step for live EV. So one of
the reasons why I like, oddly enough, the cyber truck
because it's a.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Giant middle finger.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It's literally shaped like a child's imagination, and it's brutalist.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And it's kind of ugly and completely ridiculous. And is
it aerodynamic? I think there's questions, But.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
It's so ridiculous. It actually mocks modernity in a way,
doesn't it. At least that's my interpretation of it. Right.
It goes a lot deeper than a banana duct tape
to a wall. Just say, nobody's buying these cars though,
And I just I whenever I would have to get
(14:41):
if I had to take my car to the shop
and I would have to get they always try to
give you an EV oh man, And I'm a brat.
They know when I'm coming through the door, like, oh
my gosh, do not give this woman an EV loner
because she hates them, and she will complain for every
second that she's in this office. Oh my gosh, because
I can't stand them.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
It's weird, Kane. I'm just saying, I don't care. I
don't really care about any of this stuff. All oil
and gas is renewable. It's renewable, and it's great. It's
it's a great, plentiful affordable energy in the United States
without the the uh convincing of federal mandates, they've we've
already been coming up and pioneering clean environmentally uh more
(15:23):
environmentally respectful extraction methods before anybody else ever did, before
anybody in government thought of it, we were already doing it.
You know why, because we like to maintain the business, right.
You know that if you're just damaging the earth and
you're not taking care of stuff and you're just you know,
sloppy extraction all this stuff, you're you're not gonna have
much to work with in the future. And so it's
all about you know, prolonging, and it's about you know,
(15:46):
making sure that you know you you have an industry
and you're not just destroying everything to the point where
you can't have one anymore. They did that, they didn't
have to have the government pressure them to do that.
The government comes in and acts like it scored something.
Oh look, we're going to pressure these people to do
exactly what they're already doing. Well, I mean, some of
the stuff actually makes it to where your cars are
more fuel inefficient, which is a whole other issue, but
(16:09):
nobody wanted. Once people are in one of these evs,
still antess is like, we ain't lobbying for nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Why aren't I doing nothing?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
And now all of the news you would probably miss
it's time for Dana's quick five.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey can stop this, they're saying.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Forecasts are warning of possible winter storms across the country
during Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
It's going to be eighty degrees in Texas tomorrow. It's
sixty degrees today. It's absolutely frigid. This is just artic.
It's frigid sixty degrees that some of the far comes
on eighty degrees tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
My head's going, what's happening? Everyone? Sinusys are like, why
does nature hate us? So they said that.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Another round of wintery weather could complicate stop it right now,
could complicate travel and talking about snow. I apparently Montana
are already getting snow.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That's crazy. You guys are old.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I don't know, man, I can't. I like to look
at it, you know, maybe like touch it, and then
I'm done, finished finitoed can't handle it anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's too cold. It's like a no, I can't. You can't.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Also, let's see New York's meatpacking district is gonna say
goodbye to its last meat packer, and a sixty story
tower could be on the way. That's like now, like
the really already bougie it's been like that for the
last twenty years, a real already place. Are they gonna
call it meat packing anymore? I mean, if they're the
last because that's where all the meat used to go.
Now it's like all luxury, high end stuff and clubs
(17:37):
and all this. But yeah, that's where actually all the
people went to pack meet and they called it the
meatpacking district for a reason.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And now it's just no, it's not gonna now. It's not.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Now it's all like bougie and offices and everything else.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So the last one is that's kind of sad. I
don't know why, but that, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Because nobody's I mean, pretty soon they're gonna call it
something different. Butterball is facing oh boy, it's facing a
Thanksgiving turkey boycott. Of course, it's discussing sex abuse allegations resurface.
It's slaughterhouse workers torturing and sexual abusing turkeys.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Wow. Wow, Peta.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I don't dislike Peta, but I think they go way
over the top with stuff. But they launched an investigation
under Butterball's Ozark, Arkansas location, and they said that they
were I mean torturing them. They weren't, you know they would.
I can't tell you everything that they did, but you
probably have an idea. I just find that to be heinous.
(18:40):
That's heinous, Like we don't need to do that. I
like eating meat. Don't try to like make me hate
you and make me not want to eat your turkeys.
Quit you know, just be nice. You can still work
with animals and be nice. You can still prepare them
for slaughter and be nice. Right, It's like the Patrick
Swayze Roadhouse Matra be nice because these people peopill make me.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Want to not be nice.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
And our brains love taking shortcuts with everything because we're lazy.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
We're a lazy species. We are coming up.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
We got a lot more on the way, the story
of socialism's failure, which led ultimately to the First Thanksgiving.
We're going to get into that all kinds. Oh Alec
Baldwin says that we're ignorant people. Americans are an ignorant people.
So it's Thanksgiving Eve Eve And one of the things
that I always liked to go through when I homeschooled
(19:29):
my kids up up until junior high. This is one
of the lessons that we looked at every single Thanksgiving.
And it's based on the writings of William Bradford, who
is the governor of Plymouth. And as you know, that
was like the first big I guess colony. That was
being established here in the United States. And I had
said before we went to break that the United States,
(19:51):
actually the society here was it was actually started by
failed socialists who really horribly failed and they had tried,
they tried socialism. There was extensive historical writing on this
from William Bradford, who was the governor at the time,
(20:13):
who talked about all of this when they first came
to the New World, and this was like in sixteen twenty. Yes,
they were fleeing religious persecution, but they also wanted to
get away from the old world and create something new.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And so that is where the Plymouth Colony. That's how
that came to be.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And they were big adherents of Plato's Republic, and they
wanted the ideal communism that they claim was found in
the Republican which is ironic, but they said that, you know,
in the beginning, when they were all establishing this colony,
that they would not have either private property, they would
not have any sort of self interested you know, gain
(20:59):
nothing like that. And the diary of the governor at
the time, who's the head of the colony, he noted
that they the colonists, they collectively cleared and they worked
the land, and they said, however, they ran into a
problem because you would think, you know, no one's going
to own everything every it's going to be kittens and sunshine,
hold hands and seeing kumbaya, hippies ya, and that it
(21:22):
was going to be, you know, perfect little, glorious society.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And it wasn't. It was.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It was absolute hell. And Bradford noted at the time
that as they were collectively clearing the land and working
the land that they quote brought forth neither the bountiful
harvest hope for nor a spirit of shared and cheerful brotherhood.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
There's a reason.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Why in every society you have people who want to work,
and you have people who don't work. And the people
who do not work there might be some different reasons,
but in a lot of it, I think that they're
in some respects. And I think that the people who
don't work because of some kind of you know, illness
or something anything that's that's the exception to this rule.
(22:12):
There are a lot of people and this is all
how I define all the progressivism that.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Are just lazy.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
They're lazy, they don't want to work, they want to
be taken care of. They think that the point of
government is to take care of them, and they first
got the taste of this in this Plymouth colony, the
less industrious. Bradford noted members of this colony, they would
come to work in the fields late. They were slow
(22:38):
and easy in their labors, he noticed, because they knew
they didn't have to work hard. They did not have
to exert as much effort as they would have to
had they were they forced to rely upon their own labor.
They knew that they and their families, no matter what
kind of effort they put into work in the land,
(23:00):
they and their families were going to get an equal
share of everything whatever the group produced. So where is
the incentive to be more diligent in your effort when
you're going to get an equal share regardless. And the
colonists that showed up on time or early and worked
(23:22):
hard and stayed late, they began feeling incredibly resentful of
the less industrious bunch of colonists who did not want
to work. They were mad that their efforts would be redistributed, redistributed,
redistributed to their lazy neighbors. So then they lost their incentive.
(23:47):
So they started coming in late, and they were less
energetic in clearing the fields and working the land. Bradford
noted in his diary quote, for the young men that
were able to fit for labor and service, did pine
that they should spend their time and strength to work
for other men's wives and children without recompense. The strong
(24:07):
or men of parts had no more division of food clothes,
et cetera than he that was weak and not able
to do a quarter the other could. This was thought
in justice the aged and graver men to be ranked
and equalized in labor and food clothes, et cetera. With
the meaner and younger sort. Thought it's some indignant and
disrespect unto them. And for men's wives to be commanded
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to do service for other men, as dressing their meat
or washing their clothes, they deemed it a kind of slavery.
Neither could husbands brook it, so they had resentment. They
immediately fostered, not brotherhood, but resentment. They de incentivized hard work,
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and if you can imagine, the harvest was sparse and meager.
They had a ration and equal shares, and it was
not enough that first winter to ward off starvation and death.
They were only at this barely two years and they
realized they had to do something else. They could not
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go through another winter where they were starving to death
and burying people, because even though the resources were a plenty,
no one wanted to do the work. So what they
did is they did they tried something completely new. Instead
of the hippie kumbaya handholding stuff, they thought, why not
allow people an allotment of land, and then from that
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allotment they would keep whatever they put into it. So
they introduced something radically different to the colony. Again, this
was barely after two years. Barely two years they introduced
private property and the right of families to keep the
fruit of their own labor. Bradford in his diary wrote,
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and so assigned to every family a parcel of land
according to the proportion of their number for that end.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And this had very good.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as
much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been
by any means the governor or any other could use,
and saved him a great deal of trouble and gave
far better content. The women now went willingly into the
field and took their little ones with them to steck
corn which before would allege weakness and inability, whom to
have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.
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So the first harvest that they had introduced private property.
Bradford noted in his diary that the Plymouth colony they
had a bounty of food. They were trading with each other.
They had their own little commerce. Not only did they
have so much food, they had more food than they knew.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
What to do with. Industry was the order of the day.
There was dignity, and what they were doing they weren't
having to get a hand out from their fellow man.
They were all equal in their ability to create, or
produce or contribute, and they got to keep the fruits
of their labor and bless other people that may have
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struggled with one thing or another. And so when harvest's
time came, Bradford noted that they had surpluses, and they
all began trading with each other. He writes quote, by
this time harvest was come, and instead of famine, now
God gave them plenty. And the face of things was
changed to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for
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which they blessed God. And the effect of their planting
was well seen for all had one way or another
pretty well to bring the year about, and some of
the abler sort and more industrious had to spare and
sell to others, so as any general want or famine
hath not been amongst them since to this day. They
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rejected the socialists utopia, which interestingly is Latin for something
that doesn't exist, for actual, real world individualism. And he said.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
That what they had tried because the Greeks had promised
that you could achieve a paradise through collectivism as opposed
to being an individual. And Bradford was like, you know
that this has been tried sundry years, and they may
well convince of the vanity and conceit of Platos and
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other ancients. He said that the taking away of property
bringing commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And he said, but that was not to be. And
they realized that.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
This kind of approach is incompatible with the human spirit.
It's it's charity is not compulsory. There you can't force
people to do it. That takes away the spirit of charity.
It takes away the dual purpose of it. And Bradford
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concluded with let none object. This is man's corruption. Nothing
to the cure itself, and he said, God, in his wisdom,
saw another course fitter for them. Talking of the colonists,
they chose to bless other people. They chose individually, of
their own volition to help others and engage in trade
and do all of this. That is the animating spirit
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of liberty. And it's a difficult thing. If you could
bottle it and sell it, they'd be great. It's a
difficult thing to catch because there are people who want
to be taken care of. There are people in this
country who think that by being citizens of this country
that you already are, you're somehow like a ward of
the state. And there is risk and freedom, and that's
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the beauty of freedom, because there's also comebacks in freedom.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's time for Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
I feel like this goes into a headspace with regards
to like super serious gaming that I ever wanted to
go into.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So I just really quickly.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
There's this story where this one gamer who's Kane You're
gonna love his name, moist critical.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Oh yes, Charlie Yeah, claims that.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He was in this case Billy Mitchell versus carl Jobs
and he they actually had him passing gas on camera
used as evidence in this court case. For real, he
testified against this guy Namedilly Mitchell in an ongoing court
case and an included footage of him blowing is on
(00:53):
horn so to speak on camera uses evidence and the
yeah they I okay, uh yeah, I'm not. We can't
play any of the video where he talks about it
because of the way he talks about it. But it's
a suit that is they're arguing over four hundred fifty
thousand dollars in damages because the the It was a
(01:13):
suit raised by Mitchell who said that Jops YouTube videos
about him cheating at Donkey Kong were defamation a grown
man made a video, but another grown man cheating at
Donkey Kong and now it's a four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars defamation case. And another gamer had his own
farts used in court as evidence. Not even making this up.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That is there. You go.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Now, if you think that your family, what you got
to deal with at Thanksgiving is bad, you could be that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
One of these guys could be it.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I'm just saying, you know, a Florida man has wanted
for stealing money from a tip jar because he's a
loser from a Florida establishment. It's a guy who stole
money from a tip jar to Fort Myer's establishment. He literally,
i mean, grabbed her on camera six hundred dollars and left.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
He just took six hundred dollars and left.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
White t shirt, white cat, blue shorts, blue shoes. He's
got identifiable tattoos. They're still looking for him. You're supposed
to call crime stoppers. I on, like, nobody cared. Do
you think people care that they're surveillance cameras are? They're
so ubiquitous that ever, people just don't care anymore?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Is out why?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I think it's more they don't care anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I mean, I don't know. It just okay, let's see here.
I got a call boy. So this guy, a Florida
man is busted because he tried to run over kids
waiting for the school bus.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Another I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
They said it was a bizarre and harrowing scene, said deputies.
Lake County, Florida. A man was arrested Friday morning. The
Lake County Sheriff's Office says it was a bizarre and
heroing scene at a school bus stop. They tried to
run over kids at a bus stop in an area
of Mills Street. The man then allegedly went to a
nearby location where he had grabbed an attack to female
teen as she walked to her bus stop. Fifty nine
(02:52):
year old Arthur James Young was finally apprehended and the moms,
all the parents were just in his steric. So one
of the women, Vivian Little, said hers son A King,
called and said that someoney just tried to run him over.
He's a crazy dude. He's just chaced trying to run
everybody over and chasing everybody. So they were all running
for their lives. This poor kid like crying on the
phone with his mom. Like, can you imagine. So then
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he was in a black Dodge Ram pickup and he
actually grabbed one girl and tried to choke her, and
so they said that the police responded. There was a
concealed cary permit holder apparently who fired a gunshot to
try to stop the attack, fired around or to try
to stop it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Just wild. This is just so.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
He's been charged with aggravated assault, child abuse, kidnapping, and
several other charges.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I need a break after that story. Good night. He's
like slapping and choking everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I'm reading a head on the story.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
It says here that the sheriff say they've had interactions
with him before, and apparently the mom has known him
for a long time. That was like some information to
high in the story.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
We're at the end.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, I really want to read this story, but I
just don't know. It's about a Florida inmate Kane.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Oh, I know which would talk about?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So oh we.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Only have about thirty seconds here.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Okay, twenty nine year old Daisy Link and this other
per I don't know who this, this guy, Joan Deepaz.
They were inmates at Turner Guildford Night Correctional Center and
apparently they were. They're facing murder charges. Essentially, she's she's
the Florida inmate, is pregnant. She says she's a miracle baby.
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And she says that the conception happened through an air
vent from a fellow prisoner. And I'm gonna leave it there.
We're just gonna be done with Florida man right now.
I made mentioned earlier about the pendulum maybe perhaps swinging
the other way. I wanted to play audio sound bite
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nine for you because this is the Walmart, the CEO
of Walmart.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
They are rolling back.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Their deipolicies, believe it or not, and they're just the
latest US company to do this.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Listen to this first.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Let me say, like many companies all across the United States,
we've been on a journey and we continue to be
on a journey. And what we're trying to do is
to ensure that every customer, every associate feels welcome here
to shop and to feel like they belong. And that
term belong We've been talking about belonging now for almost
two years. Early twenty twenty three, we started talking about belonging,
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and we're going to continue to make the best decisions
we can that makes everyone, our customers, our associates feel
like this is an environment than.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
This is me.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
As CEO, I don't give a reds ask about belonging.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Just buy our stuff, en scene. That's it. That's the quote.
That's it.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Tell you you sell things. You don't have to affirm
anything for anyone. Can you imagine someone to go into
a Walmart and looking at the products.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm looking at these bags of dog and cat food
and I just don't know if they affirm how I
choose to get it out in my private life.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I just don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I just don't feel like it's affirming me because it's
a product. It's a product. It doesn't have to affirm you, Cynthia.
It does not have to affirm anything. You're making a purchase.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That's it. I hate this.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Like they said that some of the they've removed some
product like chest binders for kids. Can't even believe that
was the thing that they had or had to take out.
They're not going to extend the Racial Equity Center, which
I don't even know what that is, and it launched
in twenty twenty. They're going to ditch the terms in
Canaan wan who are basically white adjacent. They hate these
(06:55):
terms like they bristle if you say Latin X. They
don't even want the the letters D and E and
I at all together no more. And they're gonna for
focus on the term belonging. Why do you have to
focus on any term?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Why?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I feel like, you know, Elmo when he gets real excited,
Karma a frog when he's dancing for Christmas and he
just gets really excited.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I feel like that. Why does there have to be
any term? Why? Why do you have to Who did this?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I mean, I get it, they're getting away from it,
But do you have to give someone the crutch of
a term?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Right? You see what I mean? Why do you have
to have it? Belonging? What?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
What's about belonging? You know who belongs here? Anyone who's
got money to buy your products?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
What? Belonging? What? That's how that works? And I know that?
Did you? Why are you here at the Walmart? That's
what the Walmart greeterer should ask? Excuse me? Why are
you here? I might buy some of your still? Okay,
you belong right, That's how that works.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
So what gets me is so now they have John
Deere Ford other companies, the Caterpillar company, Caterpillar, Caine. What
do the Caterpillar people do again, the.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Heavy construction equipment?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh, heavy construction equipment.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, why do they have to have DEI stuff?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
That is a great question. I think we know the
answer is they don't. They don't need it.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I mean, who was like, well, let's see we uh
here a Caterpillar, we make a big heavy construction equipment.
We got to start using these phrases Latin X and
starting all this stuff. I feel like if you're focusing
on that, then you're not focusing on making your stuff.
So they're doing DEI changes. They're requiring that all corporate
(09:04):
training be oriented to focus on business operate because it
wasn't before.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
What that's amazing to me. Yeah, so they they've.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
They have to they're bringing in an external speaker to
talk to the Caterpillar employees, the Caterpillar people, and uh
now they've got to have approval from senior vps who
make sure speakers are vetted, et cetera, et cetera. They
must have had some humdingers before if they got to
go through all that.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I just it's.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Amazing to me that everything like cores and Ford. The Uh,
they ended their participation in the and this is a
long one Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
What is that, Dana?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
What is the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index? Well,
that is the annual survey and report used to measure quote, policies,
practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender queer
lbgt Q plus employees.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't even know what any of that means. All
I heard was that's all I heard. Actually I heard.
I understood myself just then, better than I did with us.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, yeah, the Uh? I guess that they that's like
the behavioral thing. Have you seen that with?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Uh? Their?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
They have the required Cheerio. It's our roadmap and benchmarking
tool for businesses. And I guess they give you a score.
You get points, inclusive benefits, things like that. Uh, apparently
you get alphabet benefits.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I don't even know what that means. What are alphabet benefits?
Do you get?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Supporting and inclusive culture? Are twenty five points possible? What
about shutting up and not being annoying? How many points
do you get for that? Wondering corporate social responsibility? This
kind of goes on to you know, the stuff that
we talked about, like why is it that out of
all of the charging stations that we had, how much
was it seven billions something like that allocated to spend
(11:09):
on it, and we only got two of them built.
And that's because they and this is a true thing,
you had to give your the government could only consider
contracts from businesses that I guess had one of these
like a specific score, and they checked all of these
identity politic boxes. So well, if you're like a regular
lesbian and you are up against a one armed lesbian,
(11:32):
then guess what the one armed lesbian is going to
get the contract and you're not. If you're a lesbian,
you're up against a dude who says that he's a woman.
Guess what the lesbian loses. It's the dudeh says he's
a woman. Why because he checks a bigger identity politic
box than you do. See Like that, that's the stuff.
And then you had to have like translators and have
all this stuff in your business that have nothing to
do with your business. You're literally building a charging station.
(11:55):
Why do you have to put on like community events?
You're a company that builds charging stations. Companies don't need
to put on community. You need to demonstrate your uh
your community, your social responsibility.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You need to scf you.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
No, this is so dumb, golly belonging. How many times
did he say that word in that clip is a few? Yeah,
there's a few times. I mean it was almost like
a call to action, right.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Good night. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
But so you got General Motors or no Ford, that's
the other one. That's uh, they're they're dropping out. Oh,
speaking of car companies. So the New York Times is
claiming that automakers want Trump to keep EV mandates, but
apparently that's not true. New York Times were in this
story saying, oh, yes they want to. They're having a
(12:47):
coordinated lobbying push to convince potus potus elect to maintain
all these climate rules, forcing these EV purchases. But apparently
that's not exactly true, according to the Free Beacon, because
Stillantis said that, yeah, we're not pushing for any of
this stuff. They completely contradicted the New York Times report,
(13:09):
they said, and the New York Times said that Stillantis
was actually going to lobby the Trump administration to keep
these mandates, and Stillantas said that's a lie. Stillantis told
Free Beacon, we absolutely are not doing that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That is a lie, they said, we are not.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Amongst the lobbyists and all these people from these car companies,
if there is one that's pushing for this, no one's
buying the damn things.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
If you want an EV, you know, to fart.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Around with fine, nobody cares, but don't force all of
us to get EV's. They're ugly cars. They're ugly, ugly, ugly. Golly,
they're so ugly it kills my soul. Oh my gosh.
I see them and it's like everything about modernity that
I hate, soulless design. They all look like those EVA
(13:53):
butts from Wally.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
They all look like that.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
They all look the same, right, it's some Stepford wife's stuff.
Everybody's got their step for live EV. So one of
the reasons why I like, oddly enough, the cyber truck
because it's a.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Giant middle finger.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It's literally shaped like a child's imagination, and it's brutalist.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And it's kind of ugly and completely ridiculous. And is
it aerodynamic? I think there's questions, But.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
It's so ridiculous. It actually mocks modernity in a way,
doesn't it. At least that's my interpretation of it. Right.
It goes a lot deeper than a banana duct tape
to a wall. Just say, nobody's buying these cars though,
And I just I whenever I would have to get
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if I had to take my car to the shop
and I would have to get they always try to
give you an EV oh man, And I'm a brat.
They know when I'm coming through the door, like, oh
my gosh, do not give this woman an EV loner
because she hates them, and she will complain for every
second that she's in this office. Oh my gosh, because
I can't stand them.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
It's weird, Kane. I'm just saying, I don't care. I
don't really care about any of this stuff. All oil
and gas is renewable. It's renewable, and it's great. It's
it's a great, plentiful affordable energy in the United States
without the the uh convincing of federal mandates, they've we've
already been coming up and pioneering clean environmentally uh more
(15:23):
environmentally respectful extraction methods before anybody else ever did, before
anybody in government thought of it, we were already doing it.
You know why, because we like to maintain the business, right.
You know that if you're just damaging the earth and
you're not taking care of stuff and you're just you know,
sloppy extraction all this stuff, you're you're not gonna have
much to work with in the future. And so it's
all about you know, prolonging, and it's about you know,
(15:46):
making sure that you know you you have an industry
and you're not just destroying everything to the point where
you can't have one anymore. They did that, they didn't
have to have the government pressure them to do that.
The government comes in and acts like it scored something.
Oh look, we're going to pressure these people to do
exactly what they're already doing. Well, I mean, some of
the stuff actually makes it to where your cars are
more fuel inefficient, which is a whole other issue, but
(16:09):
nobody wanted. Once people are in one of these evs,
still antess is like, we ain't lobbying for nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Why aren't I doing nothing?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
And now all of the news you would probably miss
it's time for Dana's quick five.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Hey can stop this, they're saying.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Forecasts are warning of possible winter storms across the country
during Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
It's going to be eighty degrees in Texas tomorrow. It's
sixty degrees today. It's absolutely frigid. This is just artic.
It's frigid sixty degrees that some of the far comes
on eighty degrees tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
My head's going, what's happening? Everyone? Sinusys are like, why
does nature hate us? So they said that.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Another round of wintery weather could complicate stop it right now,
could complicate travel and talking about snow. I apparently Montana
are already getting snow.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
That's crazy. You guys are old.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I don't know, man, I can't. I like to look
at it, you know, maybe like touch it, and then
I'm done, finished finitoed can't handle it anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It's too cold. It's like a no, I can't. You can't.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Also, let's see New York's meatpacking district is gonna say
goodbye to its last meat packer, and a sixty story
tower could be on the way. That's like now, like
the really already bougie it's been like that for the
last twenty years, a real already place. Are they gonna
call it meat packing anymore? I mean, if they're the
last because that's where all the meat used to go.
Now it's like all luxury, high end stuff and clubs
(17:37):
and all this. But yeah, that's where actually all the
people went to pack meet and they called it the
meatpacking district for a reason.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And now it's just no, it's not gonna now. It's not.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Now it's all like bougie and offices and everything else.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So the last one is that's kind of sad. I
don't know why, but that, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Because nobody's I mean, pretty soon they're gonna call it
something different. Butterball is facing oh boy, it's facing a
Thanksgiving turkey boycott. Of course, it's discussing sex abuse allegations resurface.
It's slaughterhouse workers torturing and sexual abusing turkeys.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Wow. Wow, Peta.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I don't dislike Peta, but I think they go way
over the top with stuff. But they launched an investigation
under Butterball's Ozark, Arkansas location, and they said that they
were I mean torturing them. They weren't, you know they would.
I can't tell you everything that they did, but you
probably have an idea. I just find that to be heinous.
(18:40):
That's heinous, Like we don't need to do that. I
like eating meat. Don't try to like make me hate
you and make me not want to eat your turkeys.
Quit you know, just be nice. You can still work
with animals and be nice. You can still prepare them
for slaughter and be nice. Right, It's like the Patrick
Swayze Roadhouse Matra be nice because these people peopill make me.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Want to not be nice.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
And our brains love taking shortcuts with everything because we're lazy.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
We're a lazy species. We are coming up.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
We got a lot more on the way, the story
of socialism's failure, which led ultimately to the First Thanksgiving.
We're going to get into that all kinds. Oh Alec
Baldwin says that we're ignorant people. Americans are an ignorant people.
So it's Thanksgiving Eve Eve And one of the things
that I always liked to go through when I homeschooled
(19:29):
my kids up up until junior high. This is one
of the lessons that we looked at every single Thanksgiving.
And it's based on the writings of William Bradford, who
is the governor of Plymouth. And as you know, that
was like the first big I guess colony. That was
being established here in the United States. And I had
said before we went to break that the United States,
(19:51):
actually the society here was it was actually started by
failed socialists who really horribly failed and they had tried,
they tried socialism. There was extensive historical writing on this
from William Bradford, who was the governor at the time,
(20:13):
who talked about all of this when they first came
to the New World, and this was like in sixteen twenty. Yes,
they were fleeing religious persecution, but they also wanted to
get away from the old world and create something new.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
And so that is where the Plymouth Colony. That's how
that came to be.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And they were big adherents of Plato's Republic, and they
wanted the ideal communism that they claim was found in
the Republican which is ironic, but they said that, you know,
in the beginning, when they were all establishing this colony,
that they would not have either private property, they would
not have any sort of self interested you know, gain
(20:59):
nothing like that. And the diary of the governor at
the time, who's the head of the colony, he noted
that they the colonists, they collectively cleared and they worked
the land, and they said, however, they ran into a
problem because you would think, you know, no one's going
to own everything every it's going to be kittens and sunshine,
hold hands and seeing kumbaya, hippies ya, and that it
(21:22):
was going to be, you know, perfect little, glorious society.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And it wasn't. It was.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It was absolute hell. And Bradford noted at the time
that as they were collectively clearing the land and working
the land that they quote brought forth neither the bountiful
harvest hope for nor a spirit of shared and cheerful brotherhood.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
There's a reason.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Why in every society you have people who want to work,
and you have people who don't work. And the people
who do not work there might be some different reasons,
but in a lot of it, I think that they're
in some respects. And I think that the people who
don't work because of some kind of you know, illness
or something anything that's that's the exception to this rule.
(22:12):
There are a lot of people and this is all
how I define all the progressivism that.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Are just lazy.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
They're lazy, they don't want to work, they want to
be taken care of. They think that the point of
government is to take care of them, and they first
got the taste of this in this Plymouth colony, the
less industrious. Bradford noted members of this colony, they would
come to work in the fields late. They were slow
(22:38):
and easy in their labors, he noticed, because they knew
they didn't have to work hard. They did not have
to exert as much effort as they would have to
had they were they forced to rely upon their own labor.
They knew that they and their families, no matter what
kind of effort they put into work in the land,
(23:00):
they and their families were going to get an equal
share of everything whatever the group produced. So where is
the incentive to be more diligent in your effort when
you're going to get an equal share regardless. And the
colonists that showed up on time or early and worked
(23:22):
hard and stayed late, they began feeling incredibly resentful of
the less industrious bunch of colonists who did not want
to work. They were mad that their efforts would be redistributed, redistributed,
redistributed to their lazy neighbors. So then they lost their incentive.
(23:47):
So they started coming in late, and they were less
energetic in clearing the fields and working the land. Bradford
noted in his diary quote, for the young men that
were able to fit for labor and service, did pine
that they should spend their time and strength to work
for other men's wives and children without recompense. The strong
(24:07):
or men of parts had no more division of food clothes,
et cetera than he that was weak and not able
to do a quarter the other could. This was thought
in justice the aged and graver men to be ranked
and equalized in labor and food clothes, et cetera. With
the meaner and younger sort. Thought it's some indignant and
disrespect unto them. And for men's wives to be commanded
(24:30):
to do service for other men, as dressing their meat
or washing their clothes, they deemed it a kind of slavery.
Neither could husbands brook it, so they had resentment. They
immediately fostered, not brotherhood, but resentment. They de incentivized hard work,
(24:50):
and if you can imagine, the harvest was sparse and meager.
They had a ration and equal shares, and it was
not enough that first winter to ward off starvation and death.
They were only at this barely two years and they
realized they had to do something else. They could not
(25:11):
go through another winter where they were starving to death
and burying people, because even though the resources were a plenty,
no one wanted to do the work. So what they
did is they did they tried something completely new. Instead
of the hippie kumbaya handholding stuff, they thought, why not
allow people an allotment of land, and then from that
(25:35):
allotment they would keep whatever they put into it. So
they introduced something radically different to the colony. Again, this
was barely after two years. Barely two years they introduced
private property and the right of families to keep the
fruit of their own labor. Bradford in his diary wrote,
(25:57):
and so assigned to every family a parcel of land
according to the proportion of their number for that end.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And this had very good.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as
much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been
by any means the governor or any other could use,
and saved him a great deal of trouble and gave
far better content. The women now went willingly into the
field and took their little ones with them to steck
corn which before would allege weakness and inability, whom to
have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.
(26:30):
So the first harvest that they had introduced private property.
Bradford noted in his diary that the Plymouth colony they
had a bounty of food. They were trading with each other.
They had their own little commerce. Not only did they
have so much food, they had more food than they knew.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
What to do with. Industry was the order of the day.
There was dignity, and what they were doing they weren't
having to get a hand out from their fellow man.
They were all equal in their ability to create, or
produce or contribute, and they got to keep the fruits
of their labor and bless other people that may have
(27:14):
struggled with one thing or another. And so when harvest's
time came, Bradford noted that they had surpluses, and they
all began trading with each other. He writes quote, by
this time harvest was come, and instead of famine, now
God gave them plenty. And the face of things was
changed to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for
(27:36):
which they blessed God. And the effect of their planting
was well seen for all had one way or another
pretty well to bring the year about, and some of
the abler sort and more industrious had to spare and
sell to others, so as any general want or famine
hath not been amongst them since to this day. They
(27:57):
rejected the socialists utopia, which interestingly is Latin for something
that doesn't exist, for actual, real world individualism. And he said.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
That what they had tried because the Greeks had promised
that you could achieve a paradise through collectivism as opposed
to being an individual. And Bradford was like, you know
that this has been tried sundry years, and they may
well convince of the vanity and conceit of Platos and
(28:34):
other ancients. He said that the taking away of property
bringing commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And he said, but that was not to be. And
they realized that.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
This kind of approach is incompatible with the human spirit.
It's it's charity is not compulsory. There you can't force
people to do it. That takes away the spirit of charity.
It takes away the dual purpose of it. And Bradford
(29:09):
concluded with let none object. This is man's corruption. Nothing
to the cure itself, and he said, God, in his wisdom,
saw another course fitter for them. Talking of the colonists,
they chose to bless other people. They chose individually, of
their own volition to help others and engage in trade
and do all of this. That is the animating spirit
(29:33):
of liberty. And it's a difficult thing. If you could
bottle it and sell it, they'd be great. It's a
difficult thing to catch because there are people who want
to be taken care of. There are people in this
country who think that by being citizens of this country
that you already are, you're somehow like a ward of
the state. And there is risk and freedom, and that's
(29:55):
the beauty of freedom, because there's also comebacks in freedom.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
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