July 7, 2025

The Untold Reason for NYC Mamdani’s Democratic Mayoral Win & DJT the Real BLM President

The Untold Reason for NYC Mamdani’s Democratic Mayoral Win & DJT the Real BLM President
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Season 2

Selwyn Duke the writer for The American Conservative, American Thinker, World Net Daily and many other print and online publications explains how Democrats selected their Democratic Socialist nominee to be their next Mayor. Plus, how Donald Trump is becoming the Real Black Lives President. Join us as we discuss.

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Hello and welcome. I'm Bill Martinez and we are live.

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We've got lots to talk about today. Selwyn Duke, who's

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a writer for the American Conservative, American Thinker, WorldNetDaily, many

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other print and online publications, going to go one on

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one and lots of things to talk about. Joe Biden.

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I mean, the books just keep on coming, you know,

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and you just wonder, okay, when is the real one

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with the real smoking gun. You know, we've got iterations

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of accusations of his incompetency, and of course Congress this

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week is going to be meeting with some of White

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House aides under the Biden administration to talk about the

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auto pen, so lots to talk there. Also want to

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get into a discussion with Selwyn and get his insight

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and why he thinks that Mom Donnie won so resoundedly

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in New York. I mean, it's like, wait a minute,

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what's going on. I mean, we've kind of accepted the

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fact that California is a different on a different planet altogether.

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But it's like New York is finding a whole new

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planet for themselves as well. Doesn't seem to make sense,

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but you know, what are we missing here? Also, Selwyn

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recently wrote about Donald Trump being the real Black Lives

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Matter president. So, without further ado, let's bring Selwyn Duke on. Selwyn.

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Welcome to Michelle. Good to have you with us, sir.

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Great to be with you. Bill, always great to be

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with you.

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Hey, I appreciate you taking the time to talk to

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us and enlighten our audience. Now we've got another book

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that's just been released about, you know, trying to give

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us some insight into the Biden administration. I think that

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you know, you've also got one from you know, his

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former press secretary that is due out in the coming months,

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and so you wonder, Okay, who's going to finally give

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us the goods. But you know, like Denish de Susan

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found out when he was in jail, he told me,

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he says, Bill, He says, one thing my big takeaway

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from being around the convicts is they say they never

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give up the con.

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Yeah, yeah, no, that really is true. And you know,

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I find it to be so funny.

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Bill.

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We had that book by Jake Tapper right where he

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said he missed the story. He missed the story somehow.

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Now I know you're in my boat too. But I

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was talking about Biden's dementia because it was a parent

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in twenty nineteen. In fact, there was a rumor probably

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not long after that he was on an anti dementia

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drug called n Menda. But you know what this reminds

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me of. And I know this is a reference that

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some of the young people might not get, but it's

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like from the movie Casablanca, where Captain Renault goes into

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that place, that gambling hall where he gambles all the time.

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He's an officer, but now he's got to put on

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a show because his Nazi masters are going to be

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clamping down. And he says, I'm shocked, shocked to find

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out there's gambling going on in here. That's what it

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reminds me of. It was so obvious. Any person who

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is sentient and who was watching the news knew that

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Joe Biden was going senile unfortunately, but of course everyone

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else wanted to pretend as if the emperor was fully clothed.

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Exactly. And the thing that still astounds me. Okay, we

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have all the months and the years before, and it

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was quite obvious. Like you say, anybody that had a

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command of their senses whatsoever, could see easily what was

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going on. And we referred to it as elder abuse,

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the way Biden was being drunk about. But even where

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yet is the Robert Hurr report, Selwyn? I mean to

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me that was irrefutable. I mean, at that point somebody

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should have put a bag over his head and walked

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him off the grounds, you know what I'm saying.

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Yeah, absolutely. Well, Also think about poor Robert Hurr. I mean,

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that guy can't win for losing because back when he

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issued the report, the establishment, the left wingers were slamming him.

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They were saying that he was in the tank for Trump,

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he was trying to hurt Biden. Now that Jake Tapper

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and others are disclosing what actually was the obvious truth.

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Now you hear people on the left saying, well, you know,

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he didn't do enough. It's his fault. He should have

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been more forthcoming. I've heard accusations like that too, So

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you know that poor guy is going to get it

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no matter what happens. But yeah, I mean, of course, look,

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the whole thing was ridiculous. There's no way that that

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should have been allowed. But it was just a major

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con perpetrated upon the American people. And you know, it's

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disgusting because if you can have a guy like that

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in office, then who can't you have an office? I mean,

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obviously he was controlled by puppeteers behind the strings, behind

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the scenes. And I would still like to know, Bill,

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who were those puppeteers exactly? That would really be fascinating

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to find out. Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, was that Jill

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Biden who wasn't who was actually making the decisions? And

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then we know about the auto pen who was controlling

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the autopen right exactly?

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Anybody but Biden, it seems, and you know, and Trump

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I think had some insight on this a bit so

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in saying that all that he had experienced and known

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of Biden that he would never have gone along being

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of sound mind and being consistent, even though you know,

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I don't know consistency, and Joe Biden seems to be

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a bit of an oxymoron. I get that, but still

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it seemed that Biden, you know, went off the reservation

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in some of these areas, especially when it came to

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immigration for example.

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Yeah, well absolutely, I mean, as we know, he was

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a lot more quote conservative, at least on the surface

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decades ago. You know who knows. I mean, he's not

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a principled person, so certainly I could see him changing

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with the times. But in this case, we know there

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were hard left wingers behind the scenes pulling the strings.

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There is no doubt about it. And you know, it's

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so funny when people say, when they were trying to

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explain away Biden's inability to articulate himself, well he has

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a stutter. He has a stutter. Well maybe he had

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a stutter when he was a little kid. I have

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no idea, although that could be untrue too. You know,

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that's like Sandy Cortez saying, I'm a Bronx girl. But

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the truth is, you look at Biden speaking fifteen years ago.

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Because I said this, I accessed his speeches. He was great.

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He was a great speaker, and I know the difference.

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He was known as, quote the great talker, that was

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one of his nicknames.

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Right, yeah, No, it's all it's just all manufactured and

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brought to you, brought to you by the mainstream media,

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the social media oligarchs. They were all in on this

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cabult and supposedly you had this, you know, this group

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within the White House that were pulling the strings, maybe

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five or six people. I was intersing that. I thought,

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like you, Valerie Jarrett was one of the first names

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that came to mind. Even Barack Obama is Barack Obama

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admitted right when he said if he was to have

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a third term, you know, his ideal would be you

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know that you be home in his pajama speaking into

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the year of the president.

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Right, yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. You know, let's also understand

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that Barack Obama is also the guy who once said

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about Joe Biden, quote, never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to

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f things up. Of course, he actually used that vulgar word, right,

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That's what he reportedly said. According to sources, so, I

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mean he knew that Joe Biden was not competent. Of course,

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once Joe Biden rose to the four, he didn't really

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say anything because all these people, like you said, they're

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in on the con. They're all about power. That's all

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they care about. And it's really really a shame because

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these powermongers can absolutely destroy civilization. And although we all

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of our flaws Trump included, that's one thing you can

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say about Donald Trump. He was not a politician for

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most of his life. You can't say he's necessary early

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a powermonger. And I really think he does want to

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resurrect what he considers to be a better America.

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Well, I mean definitely. I mean, look what's happening, and

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look at the trajectory we're on right now. And what

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are we six months into this presidency. Unemployment down low, inflation,

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got to handle on inflation, the big of course, the

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big win with Iran in decimating their nuclear ambitions. You know,

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I mean it's just at every turn, the guy's hot,

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he's on fire. I mean, he goes overseas and these

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European leaders are you know, all but shining his shoes

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and calling him daddy.

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Yeah. Absolutely, because They know that he's a strong man,

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and that's very, very important. You know, this is a

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rough world and you have to project strength, There's no

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doubt about it. When you have a senile man in office,

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or you have someone like Barack Obama who's obviously weak,

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then that sends the signal. But the United States can

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be had. And let me tell you something else. I

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heard that in China during Trump's first term they actually

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regarded him as a genius. They did because of the

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way he could manipulate things and he could advance America's

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best interests in a very very clever way. So I

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know the left wants to think he's stupid. There's teds

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all over the place. But he's a lot more respected

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around the world than any of these left wing leaders,

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There's no doubt about that.

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Well, as my old mentor used to say, Bill, your

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charm is only as good as your bottom line. Look

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at Donald Trump's bottom line. It's one win after another.

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I mean people were all, you know, shaking about you know,

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the trade and tariff deals he was making. But I

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mean he came in with a plan. He was giving

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us a vision of saying, hey, look at I get

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this squared away. This is going to have an effect.

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We maybe we can, you know, begin to buy that

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debt down. Let's do no tax on tips. Let's how

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about you know, no tax on Social Security, which I

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was glad to see ind because they had taken it out,

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they modified, and then they put back in. So that

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was good news for the seniors of America that that

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had happened. The big beautiful bill. Look at, nothing coming

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out of Congress or DC is going to be perfect,

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but it moved the ball down the field and we

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dealt with something we hadn't dealt with in two decades

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called entitlements and making people who say, look, if you know,

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if you want to be on government subsidy, then and

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then if you're able body, then maybe you should be working.

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Yeah. Oh absolutely. And as far as that bill goes, yes,

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it's way too expensive, but our government has been way

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too expensive for a long time. And I know some

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people are maybe sick of my quoting this, but I'll

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always say Otto von Bismarck, the German leader, said politics

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is quote the art of the possible. You have to

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understand that you just can't snap your fingers and do

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whatever you want when you're president of the United States.

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Especially with the narrow margins we have in Congress, you

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have to work with these congressmen. And also as far

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as the expense goes. The problem is inherent in our

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system because at the end of the day, all of

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these representatives want to be able to bring home the

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bacon to their district, so they don't have a vested

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interest in cutting spending. That is the problem. Elon Musk,

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who I like, by the way, I respect them, just

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started a new party. I don't support that at all,

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because again, we don't need another party. The problem is

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inherent in the system, and there might be a way

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of dealing with that, but we'd have to completely rework

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the system. It's something that I've been thinking about.

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good news bad news. Good news is in one sense,

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and it could be bad news that Trump has turned

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things around, the economy is coming back, and what happens

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is that little is changed, you know, in terms of

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you know, fixing our ills. When when we are in

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an area of prosperity, you know, those changes that are

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needed usually happen when when things are on a downturn.

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is okay, Trump's in the White House. Things are looking up,

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price of eggs is coming. We can eat eggs again,

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which is good. But the problem is that some of

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these issues that Doe should pointed out, which opened the

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books for decades, has been pointing out, going back to

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the Coburn era, and he's been pointing out all this

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efficiency and he brought receipts, but they didn't want to

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hear it, you know. And even when if you remember,

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hw Bush went in and tried to tried to address

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some entitlements and Congress all but trd and feathered him.

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for re election, right his ratings were all up high,

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and you think, okay, they just they mugged him and

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get out of here, you know, go have a cup

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of coffee. We don't want to talk to you, you know. So,

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but it's just I think that for us to really

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deal with some of these items self, and sorry to say,

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is that we may have to. You know, we're probably

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already bankrupt. We just we haven't just really admitted it.

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But I mean, we may have to deal with some

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real bankrupts type issues where you know, like in most companies,

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when they deal with bankruptcy, that's when they start getting

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rid of the family members you know that have been

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in the company getting paid an unbalanced amount of money.

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But hey, they're family, they got to be there. Well,

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you know, now you've got to save the company. So

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now you got to cut everything out there, and even

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if it is your wife's favorite grandson or whatever, you know,

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you got to make those tough cuts. And until we

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get to that point, we're going to continue on. And

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the only thing we can almost helpe for is that

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Trump was right with these tariffs. That maybe that money

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and I'm saying, I want to keep an eye on

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that money. Any money that we generate from teriffs, is

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it going to go to pay down the debt? Is

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there going to be some specific dollars going there?

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if we're putting that money into something else, that means

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less money than we're grabbing. Now, we still got to

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to me, we still got to fix the problem. I'm

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with you.

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Yeah, well absolutely, you know it's interesting Bill O'Reilly of

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the pundit. He had a very good idea. He said,

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we could drilling on federal lands, drilling for oil and

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natural guess, and then use the profits that the Feds

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would derive from that to pay down the debt. That

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would help. But you know, if you want to illustrate

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the problem, they really this little story, does it. I

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remember years ago the late economics professor Walter Williams, a

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great man, related this story when he was on the

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radio once. Now he was a big libertarian economist, and

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he said he was having lunch with Jesse Helms, who

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was a senator back then from the Carolinas, North Carolina,

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I believe, big tobacco growing state, and he was telling

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Helms about how bad tobacco subsidies were, and he was

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going on about it. He was expounding upon the issue,

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and Helms listened politely, and then when Williams was done,

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Elms looked at him and said, well, Walter, I agree

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with you, but here's the problem. If I come out

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against tobacco subsidies, I'm going to lose reelection and I'm

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going to be replaced by someone who's even worse. Yes,

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that's what he said. Now you might say that's a

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very very convenient point of view, and maybe it is,

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but it also happens to be absolutely true because that's

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the system we have and we're stuck in that Titler cycle.

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Alexander Tyler, he was a scotsman. I know you've seen

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this quotation. I can't give it to you verbatim, but

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he basically said that a democracy, quote unquote can only

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exist until people expend the treasury, because what happens is

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that people realize they can vote themselves larges from the treasury,

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and then, of course the fiscal situation becomes worse and

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worse until you experience fiscal collapse. And then he said,

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what happens then is that the democracy is always succeeded

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by a dictatorship. That's what he said. So unfortunately we

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are in that cycle.

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Yeah, and it seemed like gosh last year, especially so

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when we were close and then here we are, and

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you see what happens in New York with Mom Donnie.

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I mean, he's got these kids, he's like the pied piper,

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and he's got these kids following behind him, and like

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these kids that are on these college campuses yelling from

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the river to the sea, I especially am charmed by

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some of these kids that profess to be gay, you know,

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chanting from the river to the sea. Little do they

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know what would happen to them if they got the

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river to the sea.

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Yeah, well exactly. I mean, you know what they say,

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useful idiots. And Mamdani is just a true pied piper,

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as you just said. You know, I wrote about him

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just recently, and one reason why he's so dangerous, Bill

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is that he's so darn charismatic. You know, I hadn't

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really seen this fellow on TV until recently, but then

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I did, and I said, yep, now I know why

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he prevailed in that Democratic primary. Remember this guy was

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at one percent in the Poles five months ago. He

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was also ran. Then he ended up beating Cuomo by

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a wide margin. They didn't even have to really go

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to the rank choice voting calculations. He beat him on

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the first calculation, which wasn't expected, wasn't predicted even by

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the Poles. And my point here is this, you know,

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USA is so important in politics. Unfortunately, studies have shown

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that in an election, the more charismatic candidate virtually always wins,

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assuming they both get decent exposure. And if you look

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at history, you can see that. You go back to

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seventy six, you had Ford and Carter. Carter was more charismatic,

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Ady Reagan was more charismatic than Carter. He won. Reagan

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was more charismatic than Mondale in eighty four. And I

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don't want to bore you with the whole lineup, but

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you can go to Clinton, GHW. Bush in nineteen ninety

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two and Dole in nineteen ninety six. He was more

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charismatic than they were. And that's how it is with

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Mam Donnie. He's got a great smile, he has a

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lot of charm, but unfortunately that makes him dangerous because

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you have to remember many people, most people, I would say,

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do not vote on the basis of logic and reason

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and knowledge. They vote on an emotional basis, and that's

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all they see very often is the packaging. And you

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can stop me if I'm going on too long.

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Now, you're exactly rightby, because I mean I saw this

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early on with Bill Clinton, for example, you know his handlers.

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I think you know what's the same name out of

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Louisiana said that he admitted that they didn't expect Clinton

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to win the first time around, because he had all

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this sexual harassment baggage that he was dragging behind him,

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and and it was just that and I think hw

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got tired and and kind of surrendered. And of course

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it didn't help either that h Ross Perrot splintered the

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vote as well. But but yes, Clinton was very, very charming,

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and he was able to get around all that stuff.

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Amazing Barack Obama the same way. Barack Obama. I mean,

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you know, I talked to several people who did an

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incredible amount of research and vetting, unlike our mainstream media

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on Barack Obama's origination and even going back to the

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controversial birth certificate. They even went so far seen they

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found the birth certificate that Barack Obama had lifted the

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information on and manipulated a new birth certificate for himself.

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I mean, it was quite quite revealing. But Barack Obama,

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because of his charm and the desire for the American

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people thinking, you know, maybe if we elect this black president,

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we can get all this racial stuff behind us once

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and for all. I think that was a big motivator.

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I don't know, but I agree with you that, you know, charming.

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It reminds me of my old mentor who was to

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tell me all the times that Bill, your charm is

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only as good as your bottom line, and that of

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course that has to do with business and business you

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got to have a bottom line. Charm will get you

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through the door, may get you a meeting, but can

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you deliver the goods? And unfortunately, in politics it gets

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you through the door, and once you're in the door,

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you get the auto pen and you get to stay

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there for a while.

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Yeah. Well, in politics, unfortunately, Bill charm is the bottom line.

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There was another study many years ago that found that

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if people express themselves well, if they say something, well,

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they will sway others no matter what it is that

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they're selling. And you know, you look at Mam Donnie

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getting back to him. I mean, here's a guy who

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is a full blown communist, it seems. And no, that's

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not a radical statement. He was actually seen in a

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video that emerged recently from twenty twenty one talking to

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a socialist group and he said one of their goals

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he said this very casually, was quote the seizure of

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the means of production. The seizure of the means of production. Now,

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I did a little research as far as I can

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tell this video is absolutely valid. It's authentic. It's not AI. Now,

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if you're saying something like that, you're just a full

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blown Marxist. You're like Mount Setungue or Joseph Stalin. And

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that means this guy may have a nice smile, he

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may be beautiful externally, but he could be a malevolent

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creature on the inside. And he is definitely someone we

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should be wary of. Bill.

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Yeah, And like you said, how many other world leaders

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going back in history had had the charm you know,

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for the moment and time, and then what happened. It

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did not turn out anywhere close to what they expected.

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You know, they lost their liberties, they're under control, they

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got a boot on their throats, and they're suffering. And

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then you know we're back to which is a condition

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of the ISM's shared misery.

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Right right? Well absolutely, And you know it's interesting because

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many years ago I actually wrote a poem titled The

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Charmer about this very thing. But you know, it's just

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unbelievable when you look at what's going on here with

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this fellow Mamdani. I mean, we know that this does

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not work socialism, and when you're talking about seizing the

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means of production. Well, that absolutely would be disastrous. This

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is just insane. But you know it's interesting because I'll

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illustrate how little many people know. About twenty five years ago, Bill,

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I was teaching religious education and I was working one

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on one with this fourteen year old boy in my area.

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And I live in a suburb anyway, So when I

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was trying to make certain points, I used Adolf Hitler

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as an example of evil incarnate. Well, after a few weeks,

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you know what, the kid asked me, fourteen years old,

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who's Adel Fiddler? He had no idea, And this was

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about twenty five years ago, and I'm thinking to myself, well,

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wait a second, now, if you don't know who Adel

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Hiddler is, what do you know about history? That's a substance.

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And this really is a testimonial as to how terrible

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our education is nowadays. But again it also illustrates Bill

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how there are many people out there who don't know

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anything about what really matters politics, civics, history. Okay, so

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again they're voting on emotional bases. And you know, this

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is why the founding fathers stress that if you want

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to be free, you have to have an educated electorate.

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It is imperative. And more importantly, you have to have

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an electorate that has virtue in it. The founding Father's

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strust that. And of course if they are virtuous, they

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will educate themselves, because that's an aspect of virtue. Diligence

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is a virtue. If you're diligent, you make sure you

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cross all the t's and dot all the eyes, you

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make sure you're conversant with the issues before casting that vote.

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Exactly. And the also, the key idea was that in

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order for us to manage this humongous opportunity and a

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great American idea, it really was built on self rule.

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And in order to have self rule rule, you had

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to have all these elements, like you said, an educated constituency,

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people that just didn't, you know, have their heels up

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on the desk. And because that had already been tried,

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because even as our in our early foundings, the Pilgrims

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came across and thought, okay, well we'll approach this in

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a socialistic sort of manner, and they found out within

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a year that didn't work right right.

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Well, absolutely, I mean socialism actually the ideas that underpin

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it were born long long before the Communist Manifesto was

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written that that was published in eighteen forty eight. By

461
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the way, I understand that they initially wanted to name

462
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it the Socialist Manifesto, but they didn't do that because

463
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the term socialism had already and discredited at the time

464
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because it was associated with so many wackos, so many

465
00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:07.720
bizarre people. But if you look at history, we have

466
00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:10.920
more than one hundred and fifty years of socialist failure

467
00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:13.799
to look back on. Just take Robert Owen, the Scottish

468
00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:17.880
quote reformer, and his little commune New Harmony in Indiana

469
00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:20.880
in eighteen twenty six. He set up this commune. Now

470
00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.400
he was probably a bill inspired by all of the

471
00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.680
religious communes that existed at the time, some of which

472
00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:30.079
were very successful. So he sets up this socialist like

473
00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.640
commune where basically it is from each according to his

474
00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:36.960
abilities and to each according to his needs. Supposedly. Well,

475
00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.000
you know how long it lasted. It lasted two years

476
00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:43.079
and then it started dissolving. Why because if you read

477
00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:45.680
the history of it, they will say it attracted layabouts,

478
00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.119
it attracted irresponsible people, and that was on a very

479
00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:52.000
very small scale, by the way. Okay, it didn't even

480
00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:54.480
work there. You think that this is going to work

481
00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:57.359
on a national scale, Never has, never will And if

482
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you want to destroy wealth, that is the to do it.

483
00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:05.480
Remember twenty thirteen Think Progress left wing site actually confess

484
00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:08.880
that we were living in the most prosperous age worldwide

485
00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:12.240
in human history. Now why is that? That is because

486
00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:16.279
of the industrial revolution and the spread of healthy market

487
00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:21.519
systems which create wealth. They are wealth creation engines. That's

488
00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:25.000
why you kill that golden goose. Forget about it. We're

489
00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:27.680
going to see poverty like you can't imagine with having

490
00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:29.680
more than eight billion people on the earth.

491
00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:37.200
You imagine poverty, depression, suicide rate, violence, lawlessness. It all

492
00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:42.200
goes down the proverbial toilet because you know, one of

493
00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:46.319
the higher levels of our existence is to have that

494
00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:49.480
ability to be productive selling. We want to be able

495
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to feel at the end of the day we've earned

496
00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:54.319
our wage for the most part. Okay, are there exceptions,

497
00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:58.160
I get that, But the heartbeat of America and the

498
00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:02.079
magnet that draws people is that you can be productive,

499
00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:04.880
you can be the captain of your own ship. And

500
00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:08.319
you know it's you know, some government interference. I'm not

501
00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:12.039
saying everything's perfect, but we're working on that. But nonetheless,

502
00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:14.759
I mean compared to anybody else in the world. I mean,

503
00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:16.240
it's a pretty good idea here.

504
00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.799
Yeah, well, it absolutely is. And like I said, see

505
00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:22.960
part of the problem here is perspective. People don't have

506
00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:25.799
things in perspective. They always see the glass too, many

507
00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:28.400
of the young people, especially as half empty, when it's

508
00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:31.480
way more than half full. And you know, as Milton Friedman,

509
00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:34.400
the famed late economists, pointed out, you have to realize

510
00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:38.400
that the norm for mankind was to live in grinding poverty.

511
00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:41.640
I read once that the average life spend during the

512
00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.160
Roman Empire was twenty two. I read that it was

513
00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:47.240
in ancient Greece thirty five. Now these are approximations, but

514
00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:49.599
the point is is that on average, if you factor

515
00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:53.319
in infant mortality and childhood deaths from disease, people didn't

516
00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:56.279
live very long. If you look at ancient Spartan boys

517
00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.240
in their military camps, they subsisted off blood soup, whichrobably

518
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:02.839
isn't as bad as it sounds. But they were hungry

519
00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:05.519
all the time, and they were I think even expected

520
00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:08.599
to steal to try to supplement their diets. So the

521
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:11.599
point is, and by the way, the average Spartan Hoplight

522
00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:14.200
Warrior was only about five five, one hundred and thirty

523
00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:17.599
five pounds. That's not portrayed and entertainment, and that's probably

524
00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:20.759
largely because of their diet and by the way, they

525
00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:23.559
had it good compared to many people in this world.

526
00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:26.400
I mean, there are so many people who have lived

527
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:29.759
in dire poverty and who died of starvation. We still

528
00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:32.559
see this in Africa today when they were very, very young.

529
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:37.200
And again it's only free market systems, those wealth creation

530
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.680
engines that ended all that. As Milton Friedman put it,

531
00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:44.759
they catalyzed the creative capacities of the modern men because

532
00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.240
they give you an incentive to create wealth, to take

533
00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.200
the things you find on and in this earth and

534
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:54.599
combine them in ways so that you become innovative. You

535
00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:58.720
invent new things in ways that enhance human existence. And

536
00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:01.839
all of our modern science, all of our modern luxuries,

537
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:06.559
everything we enjoy, the computer we're communicating through right now,

538
00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:08.759
all these things are attributable to that.

539
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:13.599
Yeah, exactly. Uh not by not by former Vice president.

540
00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:16.480
I'm sorry to tell you Al Gore did not. But

541
00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:20.799
you know, his dream lives on, His dream lives on,

542
00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:23.519
you know, But that's Okay, we'll pretend, but you know,

543
00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:26.039
but you're exactly right. And the thing is is that

544
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:30.599
Mamdani and his ilk would want us to be creative

545
00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.400
and still productive, but he wants to come in and

546
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:36.759
steal what you've created, and he'll and he'll steal from

547
00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:41.599
you all your productivity until you finally just give up.

548
00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:45.000
And uh, and then what what's life worth living for? Then?

549
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.039
I mean, this is this is why these type of

550
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.240
programs are short, are short lived and uh, and they're

551
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:55.960
very painful. And I hear it is our country was

552
00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.720
so close just surrendering that you imagine if Kamala Harris

553
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:02.720
would have been elected over Donald Trump this time around,

554
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:04.519
where do you think we'd be at this point?

555
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:06.480
Oh? Well, it would just be awful. I mean, the

556
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:09.880
woman's incompetent. Who knows how she would be manipulated by

557
00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:13.839
left wingers. And let's understand something, Bill. You know, Trump

558
00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:15.559
won and we're saying, well, you know, he won the

559
00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.359
popular vote and the electoral college, of course, but if

560
00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:20.319
you look at many states in which he won, it

561
00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:23.400
was really a very narrow margin and that should scare people.

562
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:24.559
And I know there was a lot of vote for

563
00:29:24.599 --> 00:29:26.680
aud too, let's be honest about it. I think in

564
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:29.480
this case, though, the election was just too big to rig.

565
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:33.200
But yes, these socialists would destroy us, and you take

566
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:35.799
mem Donnie. You know. The problem he has is that

567
00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:38.720
he wants things like a thirty dollars minimum wage, which

568
00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:42.160
by the way, would devastate little bodega's in New York City.

569
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:44.200
What are they going to do with that? He wants

570
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.119
free buses, He wants so many things that are going

571
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:48.920
to be free. How are you going to pay for this?

572
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:51.319
He wants to tax millionaires more highly. Now here's the

573
00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:54.079
problem he has. Bill. I don't think correct me if

574
00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:56.160
I'm wrong. I don't think he's going to be able

575
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.160
to erect a Berlin Wall around New York City to

576
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.119
keep people in, which is what the Marxists did during

577
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:04.599
the Cold War. And what that means is you're going

578
00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:07.799
to see a flight of capital of rich people from

579
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.640
New York City like you haven't seen before. And I've

580
00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:13.559
heard some left wingers say, well, nobody leaves New York. Really,

581
00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:16.240
I left New York City decades ago, and I'm not

582
00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:18.000
going back on a bed. I say to people, if

583
00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:19.599
I never saw it again, it would be too soon.

584
00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:24.480
Hey, and what's the occupancy rate right now in New

585
00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:27.319
York I mean, how many apartments are emptied, which has

586
00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:30.960
been unheard of for many years. And yes, there's been

587
00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:33.319
such a flight out of there. I'm in Florida and

588
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.319
we warned Floridians not to stand close to the exit

589
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.640
doors or the entrances because people from New York are

590
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:43.359
flooding down here. You're gonna get a run over.

591
00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:48.000
Yeah, oh, absolutely, So he could really destroy New York,

592
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:50.519
which is one of the financial capitals of the world.

593
00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:53.839
I mean, it's terrible, but again, the man is so charismatic.

594
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:56.559
He's the favorite right now, he's leading in the polls.

595
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.240
I wouldn't want to bit against him, and I don't

596
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:01.359
live in New York City anymore.

597
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:03.960
Yeah, it's amazing. I mean I was looking at some

598
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:06.680
recent polls here. I mean, you know, to your point, Mom,

599
00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:10.480
Donnie got forty one percent of the vote, Cuomo twenty

600
00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:15.359
six percent, Eric Adams sixteen percent, Curtis Leewah less than

601
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.680
ten percent. You got fifty one percent of New Yorker

602
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.480
saying they would never vote for Adams. Okay, fifty one percent.

603
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.720
Forty six percent say they would never vote for Mom Donnie,

604
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:31.319
So you got what five percent spread there that'll probably

605
00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:35.559
be chewed up if Cuomo does go independent and Slee

606
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:38.799
watch chips off some of that stuff as well. Yeah,

607
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:41.519
I mean the stars look like they're aligned for this guy.

608
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:43.960
Yeah, they really do. I mean, he actually has me

609
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:46.680
rooting for Eric Adams and I never thought that could

610
00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:50.400
happen before you hobbied. It's ible, isn't it.

611
00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:54.200
Yeah, I know how you feel. And Curtis Lee was

612
00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:56.200
a great guy. He's a nice guy and all that

613
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.799
he's you know, tried to do, and you know, in

614
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.720
protecting New York he's gotten beat up. I mean they

615
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:05.079
busted his ribs up and stuff. I mean, the poor

616
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:08.839
guy and here, but he's gonna he's gonna exacerbate the

617
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:12.759
problem because he's not going to get enough votes to

618
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:15.000
overcome I mean, to be where he's at. He's just

619
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.880
gonna be He's gonna be a spoiler. So I think

620
00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:22.000
they need to get together somehow and talk strategically as

621
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.839
to what they can do. But yeah, I find myself

622
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:28.960
it's it is ironic to sit there and go, yeah, uh,

623
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:33.279
you know, Eric Adams is the best option right now.

624
00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:35.640
But you know, we'll see we'll see how that plays out.

625
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:37.279
I did want to talk to you about another thing

626
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:39.160
that you recently wrote about, and that is that Donald

627
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:42.759
Trump is really has become the real Black Lives Matter president, right.

628
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:45.839
Yeah, he certainly has. And why I say that is

629
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:49.200
something most people don't know about. But Donald Trump recently

630
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:51.920
broke her to peace between the Democratic Republic of the

631
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:54.880
Congo and Rwanda. Now people might say, Duke, what are

632
00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:56.839
you talking about. Well, this is one of those wars

633
00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:59.200
that you don't hear about. But it's been going on

634
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:02.680
for decades, conflict between them, different wars I'm talking about,

635
00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:05.839
and it's cost millions of lives. You know. We hear

636
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:08.400
about Ukraine, we hear about what's happening with Israel and

637
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:10.759
the Palestinians. We don't hear about things like this. And

638
00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:13.200
like I said, Trump just broke her to peace. So

639
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:15.480
if this piece holds, and we don't know if it will,

640
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:18.119
human nature being what it is, but if it does,

641
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:22.559
Trump will have saved innumerable black lives. And this is

642
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:24.759
where the rubber hits the road because you look at

643
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:26.640
all these other people on the left, they say, oh,

644
00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:29.319
I support Black Lives Matter, which we know the organization

645
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.279
is a complete fraud now. But the truth is their

646
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:36.599
policies cost black lives. And by the way, just talking

647
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:39.160
about that, that's another area where Trump actually has done

648
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:42.000
things beneficial for the black community. Because when you allow

649
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.119
crime to proliferate, which the left wing has done, no

650
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:48.240
cash bail, let's slap on the wrist, so called justice,

651
00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:51.839
you know, in New York City and Philadelphia other places,

652
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:56.519
what happens is more minority people, black people die. Because

653
00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:59.480
I'm a plurality of crime, I would say is black

654
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.680
on black, okay, So that's where the crime is in

655
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:05.880
these black communities. So when you see de policing like

656
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:08.159
you saw in the wake of the George Floyd riots,

657
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:10.639
where the police are afraid to do their duties, what

658
00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:13.920
happens is more black people die, more black people get hurt,

659
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:18.000
innocent Black Americans. And Trump does something about that, or

660
00:34:18.039 --> 00:34:20.000
at least he tries to, because he's a law and

661
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:23.039
order president. The left does not, because the left is

662
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:27.599
facilitating criminality. That's what it's doing. It's very very evil,

663
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:30.800
And as is always the case with these people, when

664
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:34.480
they accuse you of something like not caring about Black Americans,

665
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.519
it's because they are projecting their mindset onto you.

666
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:41.360
They're excusing you of what they're guilty of themselves. How

667
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:43.679
come we can't get legitimate numbers on that that you

668
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:47.480
just mentioned. I mean, I know some of this is anecdotal.

669
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:50.159
Doctor John Lott, who is a researcher, has come up

670
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:53.159
with numbers and talking about law enforcement the way they

671
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:57.400
jury rig the numbers, and you know they've really manipulated

672
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.679
them in such a way. But yet we're still looking

673
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:05.039
for data that is legitimate that reinforces exactly what you

674
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:08.159
just said, and that is in these minority communities where

675
00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:12.800
lawlessness takes over, you defund police and then look at

676
00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:17.519
the rate of crime and murder and everything else.

677
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:21.159
Yeah. Well absolutely, I mean there's no question about it.

678
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:24.079
This is what's been happening in these communities for a

679
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:27.239
very very long time now. And you mentioned the numbers. Bill, Well,

680
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:28.920
I remember some years ago. I don't know if this

681
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:31.679
is still the case, but you had major cities that

682
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:35.119
were not reporting their crime stats to the AQBAI. So

683
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:37.559
when the left wing media would say, well, crime is

684
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:39.760
down or crime is not up that much, the truth

685
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.000
is is they had huge holes in the data there.

686
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:45.920
I mean, it was completely invalid the claim, and the

687
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:48.159
truth is is when you have depolicing this was a

688
00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:51.239
problem in Baltimore some years ago, probably still is, where

689
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:55.519
the police just stop arresting criminals and the ba's they

690
00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:58.840
stop prosecuting criminals. Well, of course, then the crime rate

691
00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.239
is going to appear to go down, but it's simply

692
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:04.000
because you're not arresting the criminals. That's like you said,

693
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:06.880
getting the real numbers can be very, very difficult. That's

694
00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:07.719
smoke and mirrors.

695
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.440
Well, if you remember the mayor of Baltimore, Oh, just

696
00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:12.559
let them riot, you know, they need to get this

697
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:13.480
out of their system.

698
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:18.760
What I mean Lake, Yeah, she said space to destroy.

699
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:21.760
That's how she put it. People who needed space to destroy.

700
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:23.840
They were going to give them room to do that.

701
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:26.559
I mean, it was just unbelievable. This is the mentality

702
00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:28.719
we have here. It's crazy. That's what man Donnie would

703
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:31.480
bring to New York City right on steroids. I mean,

704
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:34.400
we just open all that up and look what happened.

705
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:39.320
I mean, just some minor law enforcement that Donald Trump

706
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:42.760
with the National Guard employed in Los Angeles. Seen if

707
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:45.400
he didn't do that, Alick could still be burning. You know,

708
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:50.079
oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely, you know the issues.

709
00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.320
You know, the looting. I mean they put the stop

710
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:53.920
to the looting right away. I mean they got away

711
00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:56.760
with it for the first couple of nights. And you know,

712
00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:59.599
Karen bas didn't seem to be too concerned about that.

713
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:02.159
You know, they could take up to one thousand dollars,

714
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:04.760
not a problem until the Feds came in and said, no,

715
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:06.760
you know, federal law is different. I don't care you

716
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:09.079
take a piece of gum, you're gonna get, You're gonna

717
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:11.079
go to jail, We're gonna we're gonna come after you.

718
00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:15.119
Well, absolutely, listen. It's a basic function of the government

719
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:18.559
to ensure domestic tranquility. If the government does not perform

720
00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:21.199
that role, and if it doesn't secure our borders, it

721
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:24.280
has no right to exist, no moral right at all.

722
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:27.480
These are basic functions. It's not a basic function to

723
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:31.000
facilitate the so called sex changes of children. It's not

724
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:34.920
a basic function to impose DEEI, which is poison, and

725
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:38.480
it's just officially sanctioned discrimination. None of these things are

726
00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:41.800
basic functions. But taking care of crime is. And a

727
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:45.400
politician who doesn't resolve to do that shouldn't be elected.

728
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:51.920
Dogcatcher exactly. Well, speaking, of Charmers. Let's go to of course,

729
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:58.559
you know the top Bronx girl herself AOC. You right,

730
00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:01.559
she's more suburban social list in Bronx Bolshevik.

731
00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:06.000
Yeah, here's another one. Now, by the way, you're actually

732
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:09.079
looking at a real Bronx boy. I know you can't

733
00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:11.000
tell from the way I speak, you know what, I'm

734
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:15.760
following your build, but Moon but believe it or not.

735
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:18.199
I was born in Yonkers, which is a city that

736
00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:20.440
abuts the Bronx, and then my parents lived in the

737
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.039
Bronx at the time, and I lived there for the

738
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:24.800
first twenty eight years of my life. Actually, now I

739
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:28.960
live in Westchester currently, which is where AOC Sandy Cortes

740
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:31.239
of Green Leafy Westchester, as I like to call her,

741
00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:34.199
actually grew up. She only lived in the Bronx until

742
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:36.800
she was five years old. Then her parents took her

743
00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:39.599
up to Yorktown Heights, which is a tony town, a

744
00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:42.880
very very nice town. So she's a suburban girl. And

745
00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:45.840
I've been to Yorktown Heights, very very nice place. But

746
00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:47.920
you're not going to find the hood there. You're not

747
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:50.480
going to find the crips or the bloods there. But

748
00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:53.639
you did find Sandy Cortes there, and if she was

749
00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:55.760
taken out of the Bronx when she was a little

750
00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:58.239
five year old, that means she doesn't even really remember

751
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:01.320
her time there. And I'm sure she visited relatives there,

752
00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:03.920
I know that. But she's not a Bronx girl. But

753
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:06.280
you know what she is. She is another one like

754
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:10.039
Mim Donnie. She is someone who actually does have charisma. Now,

755
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:12.159
people on my side, they're going to say, wait a second,

756
00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:14.400
what are you talking about. I can't stand the woman.

757
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:17.559
You've got to change your mentality. Put yourself in the

758
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:20.960
shoes of someone who's not confisant with the issues, who

759
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:24.480
doesn't know anything about ideology, doesn't know civics, who just

760
00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:28.199
listens to her. You're going to see someone who's very fluent,

761
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.599
who can present things well, as one of her high

762
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.480
school teachers said, best presenter he ever saw. And you

763
00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:36.840
know it's no coincidence because you know how she was chosen.

764
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:40.239
She was chosen by the Justice Democrats, a far left

765
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:44.280
wing group. They're socialists via what essentially was an audition.

766
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:48.199
An audition, that's how she got there. And you know,

767
00:39:48.280 --> 00:39:50.559
here's the thing. You may find this interesting. This occurred

768
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:52.960
to me when I was writing my article about Mam Donnie.

769
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:55.760
But you know, in sports nowadays you see the competition

770
00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:58.480
bill is tougher than ever. You know, the records now

771
00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:02.039
are unbelievable. In the mid fifties, Roger Banister broke the

772
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:04.760
four minute mile, everyone thought that couldn't be done. Now

773
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:08.199
the boys high school record is three point fifty three

774
00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:10.440
and change. Now, my point here is that I think

775
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.760
the competition for a charm in the charisma department in

776
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:17.119
politics has followed the same path. And I think that's

777
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:20.920
because of social media, because of the Internet. Agen. Yes,

778
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:25.039
you go back to the time before radio, it didn't

779
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:28.280
matter nearly as much because people usually didn't see the candidates.

780
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:30.840
Maybe they read about them in a newspaper, so they

781
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:32.960
might focus on what was told to them in that

782
00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:36.440
paper about the candidate's positions. Then you had the radio,

783
00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:38.280
you could hear them, but still it wasn't like the

784
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:40.920
television age. Then you had the television age, and you

785
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:44.679
had the first televised debate in nineteen sixty presidential debate

786
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:48.559
between JFK and Richard Nixon. And what happened there. What

787
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:51.119
happened there was that people who only heard it on

788
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.920
the radio thought Nixon won, but people who watched it

789
00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:58.519
on TV thought jfk one why because he was younger,

790
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.400
better looking, Nixon had at five o'clock shadow, and JAF

791
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:07.280
he was sweating, right. And now we have the Internet

792
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.480
age with social media and podcasts, and now you have

793
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:13.639
television on steroids. So I think it's a situation where

794
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:18.559
as in sports you just have to be uber charismatic nowadays.

795
00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:20.920
I don't like that fact because I don't vote on

796
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:23.360
that basis, but I just think that's the way it is.

797
00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:25.679
And that's why I said in my article about Mamdani,

798
00:41:26.039 --> 00:41:29.000
I think Republicans have to realize now when they're nominating

799
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:32.599
people that you've got to ask this question, can this person?

800
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:35.920
Would this person be able to successfully carry a podcast?

801
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.920
Because if the answer is no, if he can't do that,

802
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:40.840
maybe he can't carry the election in this age of

803
00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:41.679
big time.

804
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:44.039
Well, I think that was the question that was asked

805
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.480
of Cuomo here, right, He meets with a donor and

806
00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:50.440
the donor says, this guy doesn't have the passion. He

807
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:53.440
couldn't do a podcast, and so he says, I'm not

808
00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:56.280
backing him. So he decides to put you know, his

809
00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:59.679
chips on Adams. But going into the meeting, you know,

810
00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:03.320
to your exact point, he was he was going to

811
00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:05.639
cut a big check for Andrew Guomo.

812
00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:07.920
Right. Well, you know, I think that's a very good

813
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:10.480
example because if you look at Andrew Cuomo, he's a

814
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:13.400
lot more charismatic than many. If you remember him during COVID,

815
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:16.079
he completely mismanaged it, but he would sit there and

816
00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:18.000
he was being revered for a while. You know, in

817
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:20.000
that outfit he had that was dark, It almost looked

818
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:22.639
facistic to me. But he was giving these news conference

819
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.280
and telling these stories about his mother, and he's such

820
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:28.960
a good rock conteur, and he had people mesmerized, transfixed.

821
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:31.880
So he's not even bad in that department. But again,

822
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:34.360
HARKing back to what I said about the competition, he

823
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.800
still pales in comparison to mom Donnie, who not only

824
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.800
has more charisma. But you mentioned this, you know, he

825
00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:43.920
says what he says with passion. He really seems to

826
00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:47.159
believe in it. So maybe he's sincerely wrong. But I

827
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:49.119
guess maybe he is sincere I don't.

828
00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:52.199
Know well, and I think you're right, sincerely wrong, because

829
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:56.119
we know that history and the evidence, the math won't

830
00:42:56.119 --> 00:42:58.320
back up. I mean, you know he wants to I'm

831
00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:01.599
done going back to Ma'm donnie again. He thinks he's

832
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:04.880
going to generate all the money that he needs, you know,

833
00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:12.440
for free buses, free bus rides, what cities supported bodegas

834
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:16.719
and and and grocery stores? Are you kidding me? And

835
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:21.639
he's gonna he's going to tax the uber wealthy. I mean,

836
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:25.280
whoever stays in town, even even if you stopped it

837
00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:27.679
right now and said, hey, run the math, run the

838
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:29.559
math on the numbers right now in the in the

839
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:33.159
you know, the uber wealthy. How much? How much money

840
00:43:33.159 --> 00:43:34.079
are we talking about?

841
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:37.679
Yeah, well exactly. You're dealing with the fluid situation. I mean,

842
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.119
you can't view it in a static way where you

843
00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:43.039
raise taxes everything else stays the same so you generate

844
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:45.480
more revenue. It just doesn't work that way. If you

845
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:48.760
institute a law, what happens is people change their behavior.

846
00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:50.880
It may seem unrelated, but this is an example of

847
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:53.400
what I'm talking about. In twenty twenty one, New Jersey

848
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:56.840
and acted a single use plastic bag bend because they

849
00:43:56.840 --> 00:43:58.840
were saying, we wanted to save on plastic because it's

850
00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:01.599
bad for the environment. You know what happened plastic use

851
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:06.119
for plastic bags increase three hundred percent. Why because people

852
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:08.920
had to use these so called reusable bags which require

853
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:11.920
fifteen times much as much plastic, but people don't use

854
00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:15.440
them on average fifteen times as much. So again that's

855
00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:18.599
an example of how you can't have people in government

856
00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.159
who have these big egos and who think they can

857
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:25.440
micromanage things from the top because it just does not work.

858
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:28.119
You know, as Thomas soul has pointed out, most all

859
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:31.559
of us have expertise and only a very narrow range

860
00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:34.679
of endeavor. And the truth is, you have to understand

861
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.199
that if you're in government, you have to have humility.

862
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:39.800
You have to understand that, for the most part, you

863
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.280
have to rely on the invisible hand of the market

864
00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:48.840
to orchestrate things because it generally does not go wrong occasionally,

865
00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.559
but not generally. Much better than having some oligarchy of

866
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:56.679
socialists of pseudo elites trying to control things from the

867
00:44:56.719 --> 00:44:57.280
top down.

868
00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.480
Well, you know, I guess in some sense where fortunate

869
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:03.360
that we have four recent years to use as a

870
00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:07.719
comparative and the government was involved in everything, you know,

871
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.000
down to the light bulb that you screwed into your lamp.

872
00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:13.320
You know, how how well did that work out for you?

873
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:16.679
Yeah? No, exactly. I mean this is the problem, and

874
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:19.119
a lot of well meaning people don't get it. You know,

875
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:21.519
I just gave you the example of the plastic bags

876
00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:24.280
in New Jersey. You could have the best intentions in

877
00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:27.360
the world, but the reality is is that none of

878
00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:30.480
us know enough to orchestrate an entire economy from the

879
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:33.800
top down. Here's another example. According to Walter Williams, the

880
00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:37.760
average supermarket stocks fifteen thousand items. Now, these are from

881
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:40.760
the world over. And if you're going to know what

882
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:44.280
you should stock, what you should discontinue, what you should introduce,

883
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.760
how much of each product, you have to be someone

884
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:49.239
who's an expert in that area and who's on the

885
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:52.920
ground there in the supermarket looking at sales. Do you

886
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:57.119
think some bureaucrat in Washington, DC could even come close

887
00:45:57.159 --> 00:45:59.440
to doing that job? And it's not just that supermarket.

888
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:03.480
Apply that by ten thousand, because it's supermarkets everywhere. It's

889
00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:07.039
other businesses of all different kinds, other entities. I mean,

890
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:10.960
it's just impossible. This whole situation is so complex that

891
00:46:11.039 --> 00:46:14.000
you might say, if you're a futurist, a technocrat, well

892
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.119
maybe AI will be able to do it. Well, I

893
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:18.159
don't know. I wouldn't want to bank on that either,

894
00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:22.119
because that's also a very risky proposition. You have to

895
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:26.199
rely on the market, because you know, Winston Churchill set

896
00:46:26.239 --> 00:46:29.679
about democracy, it's absolutely the worst system in the world

897
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:32.519
except for all the rest. And what is the market?

898
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:36.360
The market is economic democracy. Every time we make a

899
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:39.199
purchase or retain a service, we're casting a vote. Within

900
00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:43.000
the context of the system. We're deciding what products and

901
00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:45.719
services will prevail. And you can say the same thing

902
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:48.480
about the free market that you could say about democracy.

903
00:46:48.679 --> 00:46:52.679
It's absolutely the worst system in the world except for

904
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:53.159
all the rest.

905
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:54.360
But you know, if you think about it, so in

906
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:58.440
the cumulative intelligence of what three hundred and fifty billions,

907
00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:00.440
are we three hundred FFT billion? And no, we're three

908
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:06.159
hundred fifty million three Yeah, So so here we are

909
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:11.920
the cumulative intelligence of our population, and you know, and

910
00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:14.079
you want to just take that out of the mix.

911
00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:18.679
I mean, I think that we saw what happened with COVID,

912
00:47:18.719 --> 00:47:20.880
for example, you didn't want to listen to what was

913
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:23.480
happening on the ground. You wanted to talk from on

914
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.440
high and your ivory towers and you end up killing

915
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:31.719
a lot of people unnecessarily when we had we had

916
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:35.760
the the not necessarily vaccines, but we had the medicine

917
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:37.960
that could have solved the problem. And of course we're

918
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:40.960
finding this out, you know, five years down the road

919
00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:43.960
after you know, millions of people have died.

920
00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:48.039
Absolutely absolutely, Well, what did Reagan say? The nine scariest

921
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:50.960
words in the English language are I'm from the government

922
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:54.559
and I'm here to help you know, it really is true.

923
00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:57.119
And again we need some government. We understand that we're

924
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.639
not anarchists, but you can't have the government get involved

925
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:02.119
in too many things. And let me tell you what

926
00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:03.840
governs this. I know we don't have a lot of time.

927
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:07.760
He let's do this. We got about a minute left.

928
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:10.119
I'm going to let you summarize it and bring us home.

929
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:13.920
Go ahead, Okay. The principle is called subsidiarity. Now what

930
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:15.639
that means is that if a task has to be

931
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performed in society, the smallest possible unit of society that

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can possibly perform that task should be the one to

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do so. So it's something the family can do. Then

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you don't outsource that to a larger entity like a

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community organization. If the family can't. You don't go straight

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to the federal government. You go to that community organization

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or the local government. If it can't do it, you

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go to the state. But that's the principle that governs

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this subsidiarity. People like these left wingers Mamdannie Sandy Cortez,

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they want to go right to the Feds with everything.

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That is a recipe for disaster. We saw that with

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the Soviet Union. It does not work that way.

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Lies madness, what hubris that they think they know better? Right,

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and look at the proof that they show us. They

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show us time and again they don't. And when we're

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caught in this trap, as Elvis Presley would say, but

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we'll leave it there. Sew and Duke, you're awesome. Thank

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you so much for being with us, selling Duke as

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a writer for The New American, The Hill Observer, The

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American Conservative, WorldNet, Daily, American Thinker, and many other print

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and online publications. Thank you, my friend. Appreciate the insight.

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Take care, God bless Thanks gentlemen, Thank you for being

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with us. Someone brought a lot to the front here

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and I'm sure it has given you a lot to

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think about. And I pray that you were blessed by this.

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Thank you so much again for sharing some time with

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us and with Selwyn Duke. May God bless you and

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keep you, may make his face shine upon you, May

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be gracious unto you and give you peace. God bless