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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Absolute favorites from one of my favorite websites, hot air
dot com. David Strom is a prolific writer of things
about the news, and he has been on a tear
about the Democratic Socialists of America, the not ready for
primetime crowd who want to destroy everything about the country.
But don't ask him for details. First of all, David,

(00:20):
good to see you again.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh it's always the pleasure many So.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Let's first of all, I have two stories today about
the DSA on the blog, and I want to get
into the one that you didn't write about yet, although
I'm sure it's coming, and that is that we're now
finding out a lot of the quote leadership.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
The faces of the DSA.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Especially in New York, are actually like trust fund kids,
or they are NEPO babies, or they come from a
significant amount of wealth. I always love pointing out that
the mayor of Seattle's mommy and daddy still pay for
her childcare because her husband won't get a job, so
they help out with that. It is amazing how these

(01:03):
young morons have now decided that socialism is the answer
after growing up in great privilege.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
So that is on the blog today. But you went deep.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Into the DSA leadership and their inability to simply share
what their actual platform is. So what is making the
rounds right now out there in the form of DSA
talking points that caught your eye and your eye, Well,
first of all.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
I mean the DSA has an actual platform and among themselves,
I mean there are all these video calls that you
can look up. They're very big about once we've made
a decision, everybody's got to get in line.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
But they also have media.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Training for all the DSA people that basically say, don't
actually talk about any of these things. What you need
to do is give it to attacking billionaires or you know,
something where you can get a lot of people on
board with just sort of general resentment about things like,

(02:11):
you know, the rent is too damn high, but don't
talk about the fact that you want to, you know,
essentially turn all buildings into government buildings.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
And so.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
What I called it is actually the DSAY is practicing takia,
which is the Muslim practice of lying to people for
political purposes. Because the people you're lying to are essentially
soulless until they convert to your point of view, and

(02:45):
so it's perfectly legitimate to lie to them, this is
what communists always do. And getting to your first point, Actually,
it's very perceptive of you just to say that about
how they're all trust fun kids, and there's a reason
for that. They're not just trust fund kids. They're trust
fund kids who are failures. They're downwardly mobile people. And

(03:11):
the reason why they're communists and democratic socialists or whatever
you want to call them or they want to call themselves,
is because they need an explanation for why after going
to college and these boarding schools and having a trust fund,
they're all still failures. And the answer is the system

(03:32):
is rigged. That's their explanation that it can't be them,
it's the system.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
But in fact, they're just all failures. A lot of them.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
You know, at best they're midwits, but a lot of
them really are halfway.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Explain midwin? What is midwin?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
All right?

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Well, I have a quick, quick and dirty explanation for it.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
It's the people who are relatively.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Educated, at least you know, in the college sense of
the term, who are slightly above average in intelligence, but
not smart enough to realize that they don't have all
the answers, and so, you know, I call them the
sort of one point fifteen to one twenty IQ people.
They're verbally fluent, you know, in terms of being able

(04:24):
to read and write, but they really don't understand anything,
you know. The midwies are the journalists of the world.
They're you know, not they think they know everything, but
don't know anything.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Some of my favorite people are journalists. So I have
to give some exceptions to that category.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
For people, well there are exceptions, but I mean, you know,
anyone who really thinks they know they know it alls,
you know, and they're the people who will tell you
their credentials.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Right the people who have a PhD in English literature
but demand you call them doctor.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yes, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
The big joke is you can talk to like a
mechanical engineer with three degrees and he'll.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Say call me Bob, yeah. Uh.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
And you talk to someone who's got a PhD in
education from you know, a third grade community college, and
they'll say call me doctor.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
You You embedded in this story some of the video
of some of the leadership of the DSA in these interviews,
and genuinely, David, I thought, I thought, maybe you are
exaggerating a little bit about this, and then I watched
the videos in the story. It is behind a paywall,

(05:48):
so you do have to subscribe to hot air dot com.
What you should do anyway, But the the pidity is vapidity,
A word is vapid with any of the conversation is
mind blowing. They have no real answers for any sort
of pressing questions. But to your point, that is not

(06:10):
a bug, it's a feature. After I saw your story,
and maybe it's in the story, I don't have it
open right now, But did you have the story of
like Hassan Piker recommending that they don't really tell people
what they stand for because they have to get into
office first.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Is that in the story? Is that where I saw it?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
I actually have written three over the past couple of days.
I woke up this morning not thinking that I was
going to do a dsa day, but I wound up
doing a dsa day because of the Hassan Piker. And
that's what I That's the one where I called it
takia yause of course he's also an Islamist, and so

(06:53):
is by the way El sayed in Michigan. I mean
he's actually a member an Islamis sect and a musclim
brotherhood guy, and so I mean, it's not it's it's
not making anything up to say that these people believe

(07:13):
that lying is okay.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I mean, Hassan Piker set it out right. DSA people
with it.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
You know, when they're in these video calls that they
do with each other, and the reason why they're recorded
is because this is their decision making body, and so
they record all this stuff. We'll say explicitly, well, we're
not Democrats. They run as Democrats, we're not Democrats. We're
here to take over the party, just as David Hagg

(07:44):
who was you know, a Democratic National Committee vice chair,
is talking about, you know, you've got to kick out
all the Democrats who are there now and replace them
essentially with the DSA people. It really is is you know,
when they say they're Democrats, they're just flat out lying.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
They're communists. That's who they are.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
And that leads me to my next question, because what
concerns me is as all of us normies out there
sit around and talk about how stupid all of this
is because we're actually educated on the dangers and the
failures of communism and socialism around the world, whereas these.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
People are not.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
I am concerned that as we're laughing at them, no
one is making a forcible counter argument to the young
people who are buying into this load of crap. And
to your point about not wanting to do any introspection,
that reminded me of when I was in college and
I had this wonderful friend, African American.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Woman, very very intelligent. She was a business major.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
She went to a few interviews that were set up
through the School of Business and did not get a callback.
Her default was, well, it's because they're racist. And when
I said, wait a minute, when you say it's because
they're racist, aren't you missing out on an opportunity to
find out what your weaknesses are and become a better
candidate for the next job. And she looked at me
and said, it's just because they're racist. This is the

(09:09):
same thing. They don't want to look and do any
introspection to find out. Why isn't my gender studies degree
with a minor in women's literature of the feminist era
getting me a job?

Speaker 4 (09:21):
You know?

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Where do I need to shore up my skills? And
they are failing miserably, and they're failing spectacularly, and they're
failing with one hundred thousand dollars worth of student debt.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
At least.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Well, in fact, I can't believe I'm suggesting an article
in the Atlantic, But an article in the Atlantic just
came out from Tyler Austin Harper, who was about to
get tenure, and I think it was Bates College, you know,
a dream job, and you know he's a black scholar,

(09:55):
he's a socialist, so I mean, he's really progressive.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Laugh.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Uh, but he left because he realized he's just a token.
You know, the whole place is run by insane people,
and you know, he just he couldn't live. And if
you read the article, I mean it's clear the guy
is actually brilliant. I mean, we've got to get him
out of socialism. But you know, and that it really

(10:24):
is this all purpose explanation for everything. And if you
actually are a smart, competent person in that environment, to
you know, be treated in the way that he was
treated as basically a token, it was you know, a
blow to you know.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
His own sense of self.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
So we just let I mean, that's a dream job,
you know, as someone who left academia myself, I mean,
Henyer is now almost impossible to get seventy five percent
of people in academia are in non tenured positions.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I mean, you know.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
In fact, when he got hired, his dissertation advisor said,
I feel like I'm watching the last Dinosaur people.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, you know, I haven't talked about the Jason Arday story,
but there are some similarities to what we were talking
about now. Jason Arday, for those who don't know, was
a Cambridge professor who had this incredible backstory of all
these things he had accomplished and done, all of which
were completely fabricated. He was hired by Cambridge University in

(11:34):
the UK. He was given a million dollar forward for
writing a book about his absolutely fabricated life. That book,
by the way, is going to come out, but he
just resigned in disgrace from Cambridge because his backstory was
too good to question and when book.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
I'm sorry, but just give you your listeners enough idea
of how insane his backstone he was.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
I'll just give you the you know, hop highlights. There's
a lot more.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
He claims that he you know that he's autistic and
was nonverbal until eleven.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
He was.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Incapable of reading, illiterate until he was eighteen, and then
he got through college and got a PhD. I think
by the time he was twenty six, was a professor
at twenty seven, and was a full professor at Cambridge
at thirty seven. He claims to have run six hundred

(12:39):
miles in six days, and thirty marathons in thirty five days,
and the last nine we were with a broken leg.
And the people at and the people at Cambridge, you know,
just when they hired him, they said, you are the
best at what you do in the world.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
And guys, I mean, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
We love you and you're you're black. I don't know
if you've noticed. We love your story, we love that
you're black. The reality is is so sad.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
But here in Denver, in Colorado right now, we have
a gubernatorial candidate who I believe has fabricated so many
insanely wild stories that there were too.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Good to check. Same thing.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
And now we've got a candidate who I can't even
with that, David Strom writes prolifically at Hot Air.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yes, make your final comment.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Well, I was just going to say, getting getting back
to the DSA, all of this is based upon a fantasy,
you know, that is what the DSA sells.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
It's all somebody else's fault.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, And if we could only tax the billionaires and
do this and do that, you would live in nirvana.
And there's a there's a huge market for that, for
for living in a fancy world.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
You know what, though, David, The reason that there's a
huge market for that is nobody thinks in the socialist
utopia that they're going to be the guys in charge
of cleaning out the porta potties against their will or
washing the dishes at the local restaurant against their will.
They all think they're going to be in the upper
echelon and have a nice Kardashian like life with no effort.

(14:23):
And that is what I find so profoundly disturbing for
the future of our country.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
That is what they're after.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
It's like the people who think that, you know, they
remember their past lives and they were always like, you know, princess,
oh yeah, nights, you know, I was Queen of Siva
or something like that, and it's like everybody was a peasant.
No one remembers, you know, a bad life where you know,
they were a medieval person who died of the play.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
You are absolutely right, read David's work at hot air
dot com. It is fantastic. Good to see you, my friend.
I'll see you again soon, all right, all right, thanks David.

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