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Welcome to the program. I saw this um F let me start out by saying this. I saw this this story. Excuse me. That gets into how a growing Portion.
of the quote unquote right. Yeah. says that young people are delaying marriage because they can't afford to buy a house and establish financial security first. Yes, housing is expensive. But I also think that this is not a problem that is unique to any generation.
When my husband and I got married. And Uh 2000. It was, I mean, good grief. We rented. We didn't buy a house right away.
We rented. We rented a property in Kirkwood, Missouri. By I forty four. And that's how we started out.
So many other, in fact, a lot of boomers. to my parents' age, my mom's age. started out like renting.
So I think that there's a combination of things. happening here. And one of the big things is. A lot, so you have a growing segment on the right that says young people are delaying marriage, but they're also looking at, I think they judge things differently than previous generations did. in terms of what you get at what age, how you should start out.
etc. Um, like a lot of the newly, a lot of the boomers, when they started out, they were renters, as I said. It's just sort of like the same formula. I feel like sometimes history is being retconned a little bit, but they get married and then they start out in life and then they have. A more solidified, a stronger base, right?
That's I mean, marriage would always come before the mortgage.
So there was a couple of, there's some data that came out. Let me look at this. There was some data that came out. It's over at Uh AEI. And they were looking at marriage came before mortgage, Americans under the age of 35, one year into their first marriage, rented versus.
owned and so in the 60s And the 1960, and of course, this comes from census and American community survey data, so it comes from previous census history, et cetera.
So in 1960 It was 83% rented, 17% owned.
So this was in 1960s, newlyweds. Americans under the age of 35, one year into their first marriage, rented versus owned.
So in 1960, 83% rented, 17% owned. In 1980, 70% rented, 30% owned. And in 2023, 58% rented, 42% owned.
So there's something that's being missed here. They And no one is saying that housing isn't. Expensive, but I think that there's a lot of nuance that's just absolutely bulldozed over. For take your pick, narrative, agenda, whatever it is. Most people, the affordability debate is always the accusation that the boomers just basically, as a friend put it, the boomers pulled up the ladder behind them.
I mean, I think that that's what it is. Ultimately, that's not really what happened. One, we had big government that made housing a scarcity, and not because we are short resources, or we're short land, or we're short anything else, but we're short smart people in government. That's really what it is.
So, if you look at a lot of these problems economically with housing or with food, or we had the burrito economy, and we're going to talk with our friend Carol Roth about that specifically later this week. You can trace all of this down to Not due to a lack of scarcity, not due to a lack of anything but smart people in government. Big government makes things miserable. Which is why I always come back to why are some on the right wanting to. They think that they can wield government.
And use more government to make the big government better. Does that make sense? I've never understood this. I was having a conversation about this with James Lindsay earlier. Mm-hmm.
Because I have always forever, and he just started using this analogy, and I'm very pleased to see everyone else also bringing back everything to Lord of the Rings, particularly the one ring.
So you remember the one ring, you remember Yes Eliodor, right? He was the king of men in Lord of the Rings, right? And you're right there at the you cut off, so I'm sorry, you have the ring in your hand, and all you have to do is throw it in the fires of Mount Doom. And he's like, no. but I can wield it.
I can wield it. for the common good. And then all the years later, when the Fellowship of the Ring gets together and Barromir is Is standing there and he's like, This is a gift. What are you doing? We can take this and use it.
You can't, though. It represents many things, including absolute power, which corrupts absolutely. And there are always these big government factions of the Republican Party that think that they can also wield government similarly without realizing that that's ultimately the problem. is too much government. No one's saying Jettison government, we're saying let's go back to the enumerated powers of Article I, Section 8 in the Constitution.
That's what those are, enumerated powers. I don't think a lot of people are aware of this, at least the ones that want big government. When you wield government beyond the scope of enumerated powers, you get problems. When you try to assume the power of state sovereignty, you get problems. When you try to expand government to fix things that the private sector should be fixing by being simply left alone, you create problems.
When you try to use government to create societal ills, you get problems. There's a common denominator here. Too much government creates problems. Reagan knew it. Coolidge knew it.
But some Republicans today do not. And this is what I come down to. The other big thing that popped off over the weekend was this soundbite they came off.
Now, I'm going to make very clear that I do not have, because you have to say this to pay the toll, the troll toll. I don't, and I, when I do, I will let you know. But as it is right now, I don't It is too damn early to have a dog in the fight for 2028. Can we just please establish this now?
However, Vance is running. He's already started. He's already started. He's already been fundraising. That man is running.
He'll tell you no, but he's running. He's making the rounds. When you're not seeing him in D.C., he's making the rounds. That's a fact. Bank on it.
He's running. I don't know who else Is cultivating a race or is putting together a campaign and I get resistant to even looking into it because I feel like we get jettisoned into these damn presidential cycles earlier and earlier every time, right? Every time we get it's like we're shoved into them months early. Like normally, I mean, normally it doesn't pick up until like the springtime. before the election later that same year, right?
So typically. It's like we would not even be having these conversations until, I don't know, maybe what, April of 28? But we're already having it now. But I would rather have this discussion now, honestly, than have in spring of 28.
So like I said, Vance is running. He's absolutely running. And there are a couple of things to point out here with us. The first is that this video that came out over the weekend. Wherein he was talking about.
And I've listened to the entire. discussion that he had, not just the clip. I listened to it several times. Then I went and listened to everything else that he has said about this, which we're going to unpack this week. There's tons of videos, tons of written word, tons of speeches that he's given where he has talked about this.
about eliminating The dollar As the world of uh the reserve currency. I'm very much against that for very obvious reasons. And you could sit here and talk about Trifling Dilemma, you could talk about, you know, every other. Scenario But the bottom line is that it is an absolute protection. I want to play the clip first.
Because this went viral and it kicked off a big old thing over the weekend. This is, what is this, cut four? Is this that's the one particular thing? Yeah, this, let's play cut four because he's talking about ending the dollar's position as the global reserve currency. Listen.
Yeah, that's exactly right. And by the way, you know, I'm a. This is like maybe super heterodox. Uh I am not sure that I think the reserve currency is actually good for the United States of America. I think there is a good argument that reserve currency status is akin to coal in Appalachia.
It's a resource curse, right? It allows your consumers to consume very cheaply, right? That's been the story of the American economy for the last 15 or so years, even before that, we can just borrow. basically in an unlimited way because we have the reserve currency Hmm. Mm.
So This is a problem, I think. I saw this and actually, that's literally what I said. I was like, what in the world? Because it's not a curse. The global reserve currency is not a curse.
It is not a curse. This is. a result of our absolute economic dominance. Our dominance. Our stability Our freedom.
When everything in the world goes to hell, you want everyone running to the dollar, right? And do you know why the world demands the dollar? Do we know why? Why does the word, and this is a Bricks thing? It sounds like a Bricks argument right here.
That's the first thing I saw. I was like, this sounds like Bricks. Why is it? Why does the world love the dollar? Why do they trust the dollar?
Very simple. It is a very simple to completely not complicated or complex answer. I'll tell you, the reason why is because they put stock in American freedom over foreign tyranny. That's the top reason. They know that this is a market that operates off of freedom.
For better or for worse, it operates off of freedom. It's not manipulated by a party, it's not manipulated by a government, it's not manipulated by a tyrant. Yes, you could take exception to certain things, but using it as a universal statement is illogical.
So Why in the world would we apologize? For our dominance here. Why in the world? And by the way, again, I listened to the whole video, it does not get better. This sound bite is not redeemed later by any other audio.
That somehow exonerates what was said. I listened. I was giving it the benefit of the doubt. Mainly because I don't want to have a weak bench going into 28, but this is where we are. I'd rather have this conversation now and get it taken care of before then.
No, we should never as a nation, ever apologize? for being a world superpower. for being dominant. for winning the economic game. We should never apologize for this.
I just, it's just shocking me.
Now, this is not the first time he said this. It's not the second time that he has said this. It is not the third time that he has said this. It's like the seventh or eighth time that he has said this. Here's more.
This is cut five. Go ahead. I'm wondering when I hear about the history, when I think about and read about the history of Appalachia and the resource curse, I'm struck by the idea that you could make a similar argument about the reserve currency status of the United States dollar. Americans have enjoyed one of the greatest privileges of the international economy for the last nearly eight decades: a strong dollar that acts, of course, as the world's reserve currency. You know that better than I do.
Now, this has obviously been great for American purchasing power. We enjoy cheaper imports. Americans, when they travel abroad, benefit from lower costs, but it does come at a cost to American producers. I think, in some ways, you can argue that the reserve currency status is a massive subsidy to American consumers, but a massive tax on American producers.
Now, I know the strong dollar is sort of a sacred cow of the Washington Consensus, but when I survey the American economy, so I'm going to have more on this because we're going to come back to this. But just to start, the destruction. of our manufacturing is not because of a strong currency.
Okay, it's caused by big government regulations. What were we just talking about as I led you into this segment? Big government. What makes the private sector struggle big government? What makes business struggle?
Bad regulation. Over and over again throughout history, this is what we have seen play out: high corporate taxes. crushing regulation. I mean And in some aspects, particularly in the energy sector, crazy environment. Uh mandates.
You Honestly, I'm going to be very frank. Presenting the strong dollar as like a tax or a curse on manufacturing. is an anti-capitalist position. It is an Obama-style wealth redistribution type rhetoric. It pains me to say this, but it is.
It absolutely is. And as Kane notes, this is not where Trump's position is. I mean, I differ from Trump on the use of tariffs in certain regards. But this is not Trump's position either. You're viewing this as a curse or a tax on manufacturing when the real curse is high inflation.
The real curse is out of touch government spending. The real curse is the weaponization of the tax code. The real curse are all of these other big government things that have completely hollowed out. our domestic factories. Blaming this on America's strength is an anti-capitalist, Marxist, multipolar position.
And that's exactly The multipolar part What he believes. I would really Love to hear more from, and I have been hearing more from, he's got tons of video talking about this. We're going to come back to this because we're coming up to the end of this hour. There is so much more. That I need to share with you about this because what you need to realize is the beast that the Tea Party subdued.
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Booking.com, booking.yeah. I want to get into, because I feel like this is a huge issue. The affordability issue, which one of the reasons you're hearing so much about this, is because it's becoming a very big thing in the right right now. And you. The issue.
In terms of discussing said issue, but the solutions to said issue actually look like a kind of a hot mess if you're looking at discussion within the right right now. And a lot of this kicked off actually last week and we talked about the burrito economy when you had people that were looking at the cost of like having a burrito delivered for lunch, which I thought was just maybe not the best way to. Um That's not the best measure of whether or not something is affordable. And You know, just make the burrito at home. And then there were all these comparisons of people who would go shopping and show what they would be able to get for like $20, $50, $60, $80.
That. And one of the things that I discovered too. And I saw this. From someone who had posted what they went and got at the store for $50. And they got like spaghetti and they got some flour and some chicken and things like that.
And some of the comments beneath it were.
Well, what are you going to do with that flour if you don't have baking powder or baking soda or anything like this? And how are you going to have spaghetti, but you don't have any spaghetti sauce? And someone else said, This is going to, you know, if you buy whatever spaghetti sauce, that's going to immediately take this over. And my first thought was: can you not cook? I'm trying not to be a jackass about this, but at the same time, I feel like not all, but some people don't know what the hell they're doing when it comes to budgeting in a home.
Instead of teaching you to balance a checkbook in school, balance a checkbook, and apparently learn how to grocery shop and budget your household, you were taught to square dance. I don't know why that was important, but it was. You know that's true, Kane. When I homeschooled, when my kids were younger and I homeschooled them, we literally had mom's bank. And they were, we had house checks, and we did the whole nine yards.
You guys don't understand how nuts I was with home education. We literally had a bank, and we had moms. Uh it was Mom's Bank. Dad was basically the underwriter, and it was mom's bank. And the kids learned how to write checks, they learned how to budget, they learned how to all of it.
And my son, it shocked me. Later on, because my oldest son was talking about how nobody his age apparently knows how to deal with balancing their bank account and all of this. And he goes, Honestly, I wouldn't know how to do it either if you hadn't taught us. When because they were homeschooled till seventh grade, and he was like, If you hadn't taught us when we were being homeschooled. And I thought, schools aren't teaching that?
This is something that they're not teaching? That's crazy. We had a fifth grade teacher. Mrs. Davenport.
She was a great teacher, and it was at Festus Elementary in Jefferson County, Missouri. She was the one, actually, it's where I got my idea from to do this because in my fourth grade classroom, no, sorry, fifth grade classroom, that's what she did. Everybody had a shoebox house, and you could make your own furniture with it, or you could purchase furniture that other students made. And we literally had to trade on our skills, and we could barter, but we had our own little economy, and we had checks, and it was like one of the funnest, most practical learning experiences ever. I learned so much more from that than I did any math class.
I'm not even kidding you. And it was just a part of the day-to-day thing, and she made it so fun, we didn't even know we were learning. She was such a great teacher.
So that's, I actually stole that whole thing, and that's how I used it in our homeschool class. And people are like, well, what curriculum did you use? I used Abecca, and I used Bob Jones, and I used Calvert Math. Those are the three publishers that I used. I go back to this.
I feel like. The Republican Party does not know how to answer. Correctly and succinctly, the issue of affordability, which is Going to be the big thing that hurts them going into midterms, and particularly in 2028. Using big government to fix the problem is only going to make it worse, and that's what post-liberalism is. Post-liberalism thinks that partially that capitalism failed in the private sector can't work, so you have to have government to come in and do some of this stuff.
That's honestly where a lot of this is coming from. And that in order, and that dovetails into the burrito economy and all of that. It is a band-aid that makes the problem worse. And so I say this because we had Vance, who was talking about ending the dollar as the world's currency, and he was talking about resource curse, which I don't think it's our strength isn't a curse, it's the too much government, it's too much regulation. In fact, I had this, let me pull this up.
Uh I saw this, I think it was from the Wall Street Journal. I actually have to do a search in all of my notes to grab it real quick, so forgive me.
Okay, so yeah, we now have a record high budget deficit because we have a Congress that won't stop spending, and it's a Republican Congress that won't stop spending. And I have said repeatedly that you cannot have excessive spending without excessive. You gotta cut spending. You're going to have excessive taxation. Democrats use the big spending as a way to say, we've got to make up this deficit, we're going to have to have higher taxes.
This happens every single time. There's no reason that we, and I'm not talking about spending on things, enumerated power we're spending. We're spending it on so many other things we don't need to. The Trump accounts is one thing. That's a big government, that's a post-liberal policy.
That's actually socialism. You take $1,000 from the Treasury account to seed these accounts. Anchor babies are not excluded. That's socialism. That's a redistribution of wealth.
Talking about ending the dollar as the American world current, as the world reserve currency, is Is an ant it's very it's very much an anti-free market, anti-capitalist, anti-conservative position. It absolutely is. And this is part of the problem. I mean, the real enemy and Vance always brings up Appalachia and coal. The real enemy that's hollowing out American manufacturing is not our strong currency.
It's, as I said, crushing regulations, excessive taxation. I would even add overreaching labor unions. Let's be honest, that plays a force into this, that makes these companies flee and go overseas. You also have, by the way, when you're blaming the dollar dominance. By blaming Our currency.
What you're doing is you're allowing All of the politicians in Washington, DC, all of the people who created this problem to dodge responsibility for their own anti-manufacturing, anti-business policies. You're giving them a pass. A strong dollar represents a strong free market economy. And so, this idea of exorbitant privilege, because we operate on the dollar, I mean, we possess insane geopolitical and financial leverage as a result of this. And by the way, we're going to have a Carol Roth on this week to dive into this specifically.
But The other part of this is if you surrender this, if you, this proposal for an This is an engineered domestic economic collapse. by removing the dollar as the world currency reserve. That's what this gets into. It is engineering a collapse, or what some would say, managing the decline. I say you're engineering a collapse.
Because the demand for treasuries keeps our American interest rates artificially lower than they would be otherwise. And if we abandon our reserve status, what happens? What happens? Foreign Demand for debt plummets, interest rates on mortgages, oh my gosh, car loans. Um small business loans.
would skyrocket. What happens when that happens? Your economic growth is kneecapped. I mean, you're every day, if you're bitching about $20 burritos right now, guess how much those burritos would cost? Devaluing the dollar.
Maybe what, triple that, Kane? At least. At least. And Kay makes a really good point. Look, I know a lot of people like Nixon, but Nixon stopped the gold standard.
Nixon had some pretty bad economic policies. Let's be, everyone's like Nixon magazine. I'm like, why don't you mathematical max first? He had some bad policies. We ended the gold standard under Nixon.
That's a fact. Ken, you made this point. Because in 70, that's how we lost most of our dollar lost most of its value. Since then, if you look at the trend of the dollar value based on the gold standard and then the dollar value based on where we are today, the majority of the dollar's value has been lost. And then they control the metals market.
So we're talking silver and gold and all that is also being suppressed. When, in fact, if we had the gold standard, that relationship would work much better. It's just the dollar right now has been so undervalued. We've got to get back to good. By making the dollar weak, And undesirable as a world currency.
You're not going to bring back the 1950s manufacturing, you know, the factory towns. You're not going to bring back Appalachian coal. by devaluing the dollar. That's not going to happen. What you're doing is you're surrendering it to the CHICOMs.
You're surrendering it to the Reds. That's what you're doing. There is no other way around it. This doesn't require a bunch of, you know, excessive posturing. That's really what happens.
And this is a real problem that we have to have, we have to discuss. It's also part of a multipolarity approach. This has been going on for quite some time. This was back in February 25. That's when Vance broke away from post-Cold War liberal internationalism.
And and the Munich security conferences getting into what he calls strategic minimalism, getting into maybe even questioning the petrodollar as well as the World Currency Reserve. There's a lot of stuff here that is not even about managing decline. It's just about engineering a collapse. That's a huge problem.
Now, let me get into this big government stuff because. Post-liberalism is a belief set that That Really promotes the idea of using government to fix the problems that government has created. And it's dumb. It provides actual it it it prioritizes For the lack of a better way to put it, domestic. community over economic liberty.
Leveraging the federal government and engineering social structures.
Now, we've seen this before through child tax credits. We've seen it before through the Trump accounts. There was the idea that the post-liberals and the Republican side, and I wrote a post about this months ago, they were promoting the idea of incentivizing through payments like Hungary did with Victor Orbán, people to have more babies. And they were saying, well, that's child-friendly. That's a family-friendly thing.
Why wouldn't Republicans do that?
Well, because it fails. That's called welfare. We do that already. It's failed. And they did it in Hungary, and it failed, spectacularly failed, to the point where their birth rates plummeted to b lower than what they were before they implemented that plan.
No one tells you how it ended. They just tell you that they want to do it.
So that doesn't work. That's again a band-aid. Why would you do that when you could Cut the corporate tax rate when you could cut taxes, period, when you could cut government spending. You want to really supercharge families? Strip everything back to Article 1, Section 8.
Only allow enumerated powers, and anything beyond that is something that the states have to tackle with their voting electorate. That's it. Of course, nobody wants to do that because it costs votes, even on the Republican side of things. I once had a Republican look me dead square in the face and tell me that he will never ever talk about privatizing. He ran for multiple elected offices and ended up as a government toady somewhere in the bureaucracy.
But he looked at me, he was from Missouri, looked at me right in the face and told me verbatim that he will never get behind privatizing Social Security, at least publicly, because he will lose all of his votes. I'll give you one guess, came privately to guess who that was. And I was just like, where are your balls? Is this about you staying in office, or is it about you actually doing something for the American people? But see, Do the American people want it?
We're being primed to go back to that Bush 2.0 stuff. the too big to fail. No child left behind. Cementing everything, consolidating everything at the federal level. This is what post-liberalism is.
They want to take you back to that. It failed once already, but they think again, just like everyone else who suddenly discovered politics in 2016, that it's never, but it'll work this time. Where do you think the Tea Party came from? The Tea Party literally was created to protest post-liberalism. We were out in the streets before Obama won.
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This is Shane Gillis talking about free healthcare.
Now, I think Shane Gillis is funny. I don't want to go to Shangillis though for policy. Let's just play 22 real quick. Communism's the gayest ever. This is what Somebody needs to look into how gay communism is.
Isn't it crazy that it's making a comeback? Yeah. It always does. It's a cycle. There's a cycle.
The problem is if we cannot call it communism if we get free health care. Right. That would be a good move. That would help a lot. We're calling everybody communist, socialist, communist, and the other.
Free healthcare is cool. Yeah. We should have that. It's normal. It's not communism.
So. What is free who runs free health care?
Well, no, no, no, no, no. Who runs free health care? In a system of free health care? Who runs it? The government?
What was that, Kane, in the back? One time again? The government. The government. Huh.
So the government Runs The healthcare. In a communist state who runs the health care cane. Oh yeah. The communist in charge of the Health care? Government Government run healthcare.
I mean, um, so number one. Number two, what is this phrase that's called free health care? Can anyone tell me where that phrase comes from? What is free health care? What's free?
Because it's not free. Is it really free? Who funds it if it's free? Are you telling me, well, hold up, that all of these doctors work for free? And the nurses work for free, and all the supplies that they get are for free, and the power that runs the hospital is for free, and all the EMTs, et cetera, work for free.
And of course, you know, you have to have the janitors, that's a support.
So they have to, you know, the cleaning crew, they got to come. Housekeeping's got to work for free, right? Schooling.
Well, I'm not having gone to this.
So, what about the education of the doctors? Are those teachers expected to also work for free? And all the equipment and the supplies for the classroom, that's also for free, correct? And then if the teachers are working for free, how are the teachers taking care of their family? Again, that's a support issue.
So are we also getting free food and free housing? Because they have to work for free to educate the doctors for free so the doctors can provide free health care. There's no really incentive to do anything. It's just all going to be free. You're never, you know, it's all going to.
So, so, how does that work? And then the people that are providing the free food to the educators that are providing the free education to the doctors so they can provide free health care. Who is paying for the free food that the groceries are having to provide for the educators that are having to for free educate the doctors who are having to work for free so we can provide free health care? Right? I mean, I can continue.
So, like, the free food. And then, what about the free housing and the free gas for them to get to their job and the free car? And what about if they have kids? Are they allowed to have kids? Do those kids go to school?
And then, who takes care of those kids? Because that also is a part of this whole structure.
So, do you see how stupid that is to say free health care, by the way? It's not free. The government is paying for it through massive taxes on businesses and consumers and citizens. That's it. I mean, it works so well.
I have a friend that had a scan and it's something very serious. She lives in Canada and she's been waiting. It'll be a year the first week of next month, the first week of September, it'll be a year since her abnormal scan for her to just go in for a checkup to see the abnormal scan. And I'm pretty sure, and that's in Canada, that's like SOP, standard operating procedure.
So Yeah, that's a stupid, that's not a smart statement. It's still, it's like, communism is gay, man, but I love this gay thing.
Okay. That's also communism. What? That's what it is. That's what he just said.
I mean, I think Shane Gills is funny, but what he just said was: communism is gay, but I love that gay thing right there. That's also communism. So gay. It's true. But do you see what I mean?
We are in this. This is a great way to seg into post-liberalism. And I was explaining to you. What post-liberalism was. J.D.
Vance has literally verbatim said that he's post-liberal. He has called himself post-liberal. He's literally verbatim called himself post-liberal. He has described his policies as being post-liberal. And I explained to you last Friday what post-liberal meant.
post-liberal for the the easiest way I can describe it. Is big government, compassionate conservatism, bushism 2.0. Everything that the Tea Party rejected. In the mid towards the end of the aughts, going into the teens. Is exactly post-liberalism.
That's exactly what it is. Post-liberalism is like New Deal 2.0. Post-liberalism is using the government to do what you're either too lazy or unwilling to do in the private sector. That's ultimately what it is. That's post-liberalism.
And Vance has said that he is post-liberal. And he's explained it before. There is this phrase that's sometimes used that is a complete oxymoron called big state conservatism. And that's a great way to describe post-liberalism. It's all about the quote-unquote common good over individual choice.
But the problem with the whole phrase common good is who defines common, who defines good. Who defines that? Do you see how it can be completely arbitrary depending upon who's in power? These are people who aren't necessarily for traditional free trade. They are really about using the so if you think the government, which I do, has made all of this stuff worse, why in the world would you want to use more government to try to make it better?
Because that's what they tried doing in the 90s and the early aughts and it failed spectacularly. Why do you people think that they can the government's like the one ring, right? No, no, no, I can wield it better. This is where I go back again. Lord of the Rings.
I was talking about this. I've been talking about this for forever. This is the idea that you can use the one ring and you can wield it, but the problem is that it never works this way, right? I mean, the issue is this. There are some, some think the virtue of not being leftist.
protects Those who wield government power beyond the scope of Right. and that this constitutes enough of a difference to make it acceptable.
So at best, you end up with compassionate conservatism, Bush 2.0, and at worst, Which is, by the way, that's why the Tea Party revolted. And at worst, Ma'am Donnie. That's what you get with us. That's it. And it's like people who think that they can, it's the one ring.
We can wield it. No, no, no, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and you are no different. But he calls himself a post-liberal. That's why he has this, and I want to play this again. That's why he has this weird soundbite where he was talking about.
Literally getting rid of, and they're tons. By the way, I have tons of audio all over him. I have just two cuts right off the bat, a couple of years apart. He has consistently talked about eliminating the American dollar as the world's, as the global reserve currency cut for. Yeah, that's exactly right.
And by the way, you know, I- This is like maybe super heterodox. Mm-hmm. I am not sure that I think the reserve currency is actually good for the United States of America. I think there is a good argument. That reserve currency status is akin to coal in Appalachia.
It's a resource curse, right? It allows your consumers to consume very cheaply, right? That's been the story of the American economy for the last 15 or so years, even before that, is we can just borrow. basically in an unlimited way because we have the reserve currency.
So this is the problem. First off, Alexander Dugan has talked about this, and Vance himself has talked about multipolarity. The problem with this is that this is framing America's strength as a weakness, and it's not. There is no resource curse. This is not a thing.
I mean, this is global demand that's keeping the dollar strong. It's allowing us to buy. Foreign goods and allowing us to borrow money at low cost and carry debt. As much debt as we carry without, I think, the rest of the world blinking, I think it's safe to say. But the problem with this.
is that This is an absolute strength of America. And There are so many other things that I would classify as a curse. Before I would classify this resource as a curse. Right. It's not I I mean that's that's that's not the that's not the problem.
I mean, the problem is that you have big government, you have crushing restrictions, you have environmental regulations, you have a ton of things that have actually done so much more to hurt this and so much more to harm business and manufacturing. It's not because people, countries flock to the dollar. And our strength in the dollar is because we have freedom, because it's not dictated by a party, because it's not dictated by a tyrant. And that's why there is so much, that is why there's such confidence in the dollar as the world's currency. This is an argument in the context of multipolarity.
Multipolarity, as I've explained before, and I'm going to have a post that's out later today that gets into this. And I'm going to get into what we discussed previously. And then I'm going to build up on that. Multipolarity is the Russian, the Alexander Dugan slash Putin belief that the United States must become less so other countries can become more. And they want to shrink the United States into only acting in its, you know, pole.
Its own particular sphere in the Western Hemisphere, so as to allow China and Russia to rise. It's about diminishing the United States, right? That's exactly what this is. And so, Vance wanting to. get rid of and he says, well, this is super heterodox.
Well, yeah, it's super heterodox and it's super like economic dox and everything else. I mean, it's there what the re it's not the the strength of Americans dollar is not what hurt Appalachia. That's not what hurt Appalachia. The strength of America's dollar is not creating the housing crunch. The strength of America's dollar is not what's hurting manufacturing.
It's not what is hurting us economically. That is big government, big spending. We have record deficits right now because government won't stop spending. And I have been warning Republicans that this is going to come back and bite you in the ass. I've been warning about it for years now, especially Trump's second term.
Stuff like that is what causes a curse. This is Playing into this multipolarity argument that America has to recoil, that we need to not be the pet, we can't have the petrol dollar, we can't have this current, this reserve currency, we just have to pull back.
So that the Communists can rise. That's what this is. Pare it down. That's exactly what this argument is. But there's more to it than that, though.
This is a big, honestly, this is. That this conversation is one that we're going to have over the next several days because it's such a big, in-depth conversation.
So, can we save those two bits, those two audio cuts too? Because I'm not done with them and just keep them on the back burner in perpetuity right now, because I have a lot more that goes along with it. The problem isn't that. Our dollar is strong. The problem is that we have business that is at odds with our strength economically.
We have business policy. People try to sit here and blame it on greed. It's because of big government. You're not going to use big government to end big government. You're not going to use big government to restore freedom.
You're not going to use big government to fix the economy. You need less government to fix the economy. You need less spending to fix the economy. You need less entitlement to fix the economy. You have to create a strong domestic backbone to fix the economy.
You're not going to do it by having more government regulation. You're not going to do it by sabotaging the American dollar. What currency do you want to be a World Reserve currency? You want everyone flocking to China and Russia? You realize you can't have confidence in those currencies because of the tyrannical nature of the government that sits here and determines their economic policy and their monetary policy?
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I feel like let's just do it. I know I don't have this on the list per se, but we had the video, so you knew it was gonna come up.
So I'm going to get back to the whole multipolarity thing and all of that, but I wanted to kind of get a little break over it. Can you imagine, first off, men men cannot fathom this. Men, I'm going to tell you some of the things that ladies do sometimes to be pretty. They will literally go and get like their eyebrows tattooed. parts of them.
It's like blading, right? Like they go and they just make them look thicker, so they actually have to wear less makeup. I have a ton of friends who do it. It's not a big deal, right? Super easy.
But Just like you would with anybody who's gonna tattoo anything on your face. You would like for them to demonstrate. Just the slightest amount of I don't know. Sense? Integrity.
So there's this place called Kareemi Brows in Alexandria, Virginia. And I was reading over the weekend. The Post From this woman who went to this this eyebrow place, right? She went to go get her eyebrows microbladed. Microblading is what that's called, right?
So she went to go get her her eyebrows microbladed. And She ended up having like this very nice discussion with. I don't want to call them like the blader, but with the woman who was doing the services, like the woman who apparently owns. The whole salon, whatever.
So She was having this, you know, just a nice conversation with this person. Uh she had said, and the woman is she's on uh Facebook. And she put originally she put this on Facebook, and originally the video. That the salon owner also had was on, I think, on Facebook or something. That's important to know because you ended up having a social media battle with this stuff.
So it started out like this.
So this woman. She's ghost of her eyebrows bladed, microbladed. She is having a conversation with the with the person. And she c and then ultimately it ended up with. The uh Woman being kicked out of her salon because the owner found out that she was Jewish.
Which is insane to me.
So The way that this reads, and I'm pulling this up now because, for whatever reason, the link that I have won't pull up.
So the woman who went there writes, her name's Jessica. She said that she was nauseated at even having to write this, but she wants everyone to know. She says, This is her post: quote: I went to the salon yesterday to get my eyebrows done. The esthetician turned out to be Afghan. I was delighted since I just finished writing a novel based on true stories, partly said in Afghanistan.
And they talked about her book and the woman's love for Afghan culture and food. And then she said that the esthetician asked her to tell her more about the premise of her novel. And she said, Well, the story is about a Muslim-Afghan refugee and the son of Jewish immigrants who forged an unlikely friendship in post-9/11 Alabama, only to find that their shared gift for languages draws them into America's shadow war in Afghanistan. And she said that she went down a rabbit hole studying Islam, et cetera, and all this. And she said, But she had an easier time, she said, sketching the Jewish, half-Israeli characters since she was Jewish and half-Israeli herself.
And at that woman, that point, she said, the esthetician stopped short and said, Get out of my shop. And she says, I can't provide service to an Israeli. It's against my political beliefs, right?
So as if that's not crazy, the salon owner. recorded the whole thing. Right? As a flex, she thought this was going to be a flex.
So she recorded herself. berating This woman that had paid a deposit to get her eyebrows microbladed. And then she was told by the salon owner. that she can't get her deposit back.
So, I want you to watch this video. Watch this. This is how this unfolds. What does that mean? That means that you signed a photo video release form.
Okay, I didn't do anything wrong. No, there's nothing wrong. I kindly asked you that you're you just kept saying Israel you're talking about politics no not at all I was talk I thought we were having a great conversation about Afghanistan like a culture that I actually no it's beautiful thank you and I and I love that I kept saying that it's wonderful and I love what you're doing and everything but I'm I don't when you keep saying give me my deposit back I had no idea that you would basically say things like I'm Israeli American and then I say things like oh I just don't really believe in Israel but you are doing this based on you can defend it as much as you want but this is this is my business this is my that's fine that's totally but you should give me my deposit back and if you don't I'm gonna have to take legal action and I Yeah. And she actually has every right to.
So this woman recorded herself actually violating law in Virginia because they have a law where you can't discriminate, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, right? And so that's. That is She actually recorded herself committing, I think it's a misdemeanor, but still committing a crime. But what's more, the the salon owner put that video up first. acting like I always like to provide an occlusive plast for my papa.
And it ended up backfiring on her.
So she the whole reason that the woman who was being recorded apparently even said anything online is because this salon owner posted that video as a way to shame this woman and try to flex. And it got worse the longer the video went on. And then the woman decides to double down on it. This is a this at this point, this is when you seek Legal You seek some kind of like legal redress. Like you, you try to seek some kind of like legal.
Um something. To get some kind of a consultation, to get some advice. Because she doubled down on it. I realized, I don't know if I sent you this video. She doubled down on it and she put it out there and she decided to try to go even further with it.
And it just, again, backfired.
So the woman goes in literally, like, oh, and here's where it gets crazier.
So she, when she got, when the woman who went into the salon got the treatment, she was wearing a t-shirt that she said had been given to her while she had this treatment done. And The woman demanded her shirt back, I guess. And she was like, I have to change. It was a small salon, as you can see from the video. And she was like, well, I have to change.
And the woman would not stop recording her changing.
So that violates a voyeurism law.
So there's at least a couple of laws in there that the salon owner broke. And I hope that she's investigated for it because no, you guys want to force people to bake the cake by God. I will crush you with the rules you refuse to follow. That is how we should be. The woman's she is an Islamist bigot.
She's a bigot in favor of a third world, you know. Ideology where a guy flew up in the sky on a Pegasus for crying out loud. I mean, it's this is not even thinking was a Pegasus, right? It was just a winged thing. Uh But This is just insane to treat someone like this.
This is how bad it is. This is how bad this is.
So she said that she immediately, the woman contacted her bank, she was refunded her deposit, and then They contacted the woman to let her know they would be withdrawing the funds based on the incident. And they also are, the bank asked the woman to report what happened to the authorities. And that's it. I mean, I do at least hope that the salon owner is cited because if you're going to, I mean, a public business, you got to, I mean, that's just the way it is. Public accommodation, that's the way it is.
And Obviously, the woman is a leftist.
So, if you guys want to play identity politics and protected classes, well, guess what? You just did the you just violated your own rule. But here's the thing. First off, I'm not going to go to anyone that I think believes in a ridiculous ideology to tattoo anything on my face. That's like a news flash for everybody.
I am not going to go. To A salon art, a salon esthetician, a microblader who believes in a third world sex cult. And have them tattoo something on my face. That's number one. Number two, Why would you still want to?
I felt like the woman still wanted to continue with the service. God love her. It's like, no, lady, run. This woman is going to tattoo something. You're going to end up being a meme.
Stop it. She's going to put something horrible on your face. Don't. But she got her money back. But that salon owner was not going to give her her money back.
That's straight up thievery.
So now this lawn owner's complaining. She was like, I'm getting so many nasty comments. You, Bimbo, you were the one who started this whole thing because you recorded what you did to this woman and then you uploaded it to the internet. And then she had to respond because people were finding her out. You started this whole thing.
Don't cry, victim now, you hit dog hollering. Don't cry, victim now. You did this to yourself.
So just Bask in the consequence of your actions. Just crazy.
So It's like a man, would you take your vehicle to go get it detailed to someone who you thought might jack it up? No. Yeah. Just crazy, but this is where society is. This is in Alexandria, Virginia, for crying out loud.
And then over the weekend, there was an attack in a synagogue. New York Post has this nut job who ran into a New York City synagogue and told cops. Uh and he and and allegedly uh told the cops that the uh uh That all of the Jewish congregants were swine and he's held on bail. Larry Montez. He was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court already.
So bail is ten thousand. And it was the central synagogue. Admitted to the cops, yeah, he went in there simply because they were Jewish. He literally told them, that's why he just was telling them. And he also said that he didn't like Jewish people and he didn't like black people.
I mean, he told cops he had animus towards Jews and blacks. That's literally what he said.
So he's charged with two counts of assault. I don't believe in hate crimes because I think all crimes are hate. I don't think you should elevate one over the other. But he got, I think the enhanced charge is the hate crime aspect of it. One kind of aggravated harassment, a kind of criminal mischief, all is hate crimes over this weekend.
But he was screaming, charging towards the, for the lack of a better word, pulpit, grabbed religious candles and candle holders, broke them. And then tried to attack all the people that were in there. He struck a 63-year-old in the head. and busted her lip and she knocked her to the ground. And then, before exiting the building, he turned his attention away to the security guard, a 65-year-old black man.
And then he was screaming, Blank the Jews, all this other stuff.
So, just like a regular day with Hamas, with I almost said Hamas Piker, sorry, Hassan Piker. That's a verbal typo that I think should actually stay. I'm very impressed with myself. It's just another day in Mandani's New York. This is what Zohar Mandani wants.
He wants this type of stuff. He loves this. He wants to usher in. He loves it. Mandani is just as much as the woke Reich as some of the woke Rikers are.
But this is his world. This is what he's created. A uh I hope people realize what the reality is on the ground right now. It's a little nuts. Especially in New York.
Especially in New York. That's why so many people are leaving. We got more on the way. We got headlines coming up. We have burrito economy.
We also.
Okay, everybody's debating Nancy Mace's tattoos. I just. Think it's weird? But also I don't care 'cause I'm not invested in her life. Did you see that?
Oh yeah, she's got sleeves now. No. I'm not joking. You don't know this? Google it.
Google it. Dude, Google it. I know and it's colorful and I don't like colored I don't like colorful stuff. Like that. Yeah, Google, I'm watching.
I'm sorry, I'm dragging this out. Oh lord.
Okay. My I told you you didn't believe me. You didn't believe me. At first, I was like, is that like one of those t-shirts that have the nude sleeves and then they have the temp tattoo or something? No, it's not.
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Alright, so first up Yeah. It's a tale of two rabid beavers. This is New York Post. Dangerous rabid beavers attacked two teens. at a popular park that's now partially closed because Actual rabid beavers are attacking people.
One was a 13-year-old swimmer. He had hands, injuries to his hands and chest. Air lifted to John Hopkins. Can you believe that? Airlifted to the hospital.
The beaver had to be euthanized and tested positive for rabies the following day.
So that poor little kid's gotta have, that 13-year-old's gotta have all those crazy shots and all of that stuff. And then there was a second one, a 19-year-old fisherman was bitten in the ankle by another rabid beaver. Uh, he, uh Received treatment, got a tetanus shot. The beaver was euthanized and then tested positive for rabies.
So now they close the park. It's Cunningham Falls State Park in Maryland, in Frederick County. And two, like apparently within close enough span, and two different rabid beavers. Yeah. Have you ever seen like beavers' teeth?
They're disgusting. Yeah. Ah, gross. That's just. I don't.
Any animal that's got a lot of attitude, I'm just like, you're rabid. Immediately, I assume it. Oh boy, are they trying to sit here and seriously? NPR is trying to say, oh, there's a summer COVID surge. Shut up, shut up, and delete your face.
Drivers accused of running over a couple and their dog during a walk at the park in LA. ABC 7 had this story. A routine dog walk took a serious turn. A couple says that a car jumped the curb and hit them and their dog after a verbal exchange. And it was all caught on camera as well.
So it looks like it's on purpose. Poor little Dotson. Looks like, I mean, barely just missed. The dog, but try to run them straight over. That's insane.
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Exclusively from free enterprise. And there is a Guy who used to occupy this time spot every afternoon they believe that. How did we get away from that? I think it goes way back to the very early 1900s. When the Fed was created.
Well, and now even we have this idea that, well, we just we have to have more government to help us with the government that we have. R when you have more regulation, that increases costs. More government regulation increases costs. I was telling Kane, so I don't know if I finished this, when I was talking to, well, when I was watching this conversation that flowed from how people were sharing how, what they spent on groceries that month. And someone was criticizing someone's grocery haul, saying, I see that you got spaghetti, but you didn't get pasta sauce, and you didn't get, you have flour, but you don't have baking soda or baking powder, and like picking this stuff apart.
And I'm thinking we'll... Who says you have to buy pantry staples every week? And why would you spend, how much is like a jar of like usually people get a jar of pasta sauce? It's like, why would you do that when you literally can get. Tomato paste, or even some posada, or something like even just a can of tomato sauce, and add.
To it yourself with the stuff that you already have, or if you have your own herb garden, like I do, and you add, you can add, you know, oregano or whatever you add, whatever herbs you like to add in there. Um And make it yourself. Add some garlic, you know? I mean, why do you have to spend? I just, I think that that's kind of a significant difference in the views on affordability, especially as it relates to food.
Because I don't think that, and I'm going to be honest, I don't think a lot of people know how to shop and budget for it. They don't realize that it's easier to get like a whole chicken and just parse it out instead of buying like chicken that's pre-chopped. Like literally one of the comments was a girl complaining about the cost of her pre-cut fruit. I'm going to say it again, her pre-cut fruit. She literally purchased watermelon chunks.
Do you realize if you're purchasing watermelon chunks, it's going to be more than if you just bought a damn watermelon because you're paying for the labor of somebody chunking up the watermelon for you? How? What in the world? I think we have, just like in school, there's an illiteracy problem. I think people don't know how to cook either.
I don't know. No, they don't. You're right. You're absolutely right. Absolutely right.
They do not. They do not know how to cook. They don't know how to cook, they don't know how to like make stuff. last. They don't know how to stretch it out.
Like you don't, there's certain things you just don't, you have. Like you have salt, you have pepper, you have, I have garlic, I always keep garlic. I always have like a fresh garlic clove. I always have garlic. I always have, you have your, you make sure you stock your pantry, right?
That's a big thing in my family. When people get married, the family makes sure the pantry's stocked. Which I like more so than the the bougie shower gifts. Like you have a stocked pantry, and then you know what a stocked pantry looks like, and you have things that you use. I thought that was like invaluable to have.
Um, that's you know, we you're right, we it's not just a Financial illiteracy, it is literally a life illiteracy. Like, we gotta fix this. We're gonna have more on this this week. Uh but in the meantime, today and stupidity came. All right, so Chunky Yogurt, he was out there talking to figure out who you were talking about.
From the Young Turks. Yeah. Young doing a lot of heavy lifting there. The guy's like 16. Boy.
And heavy is the main word there. Yeah. Chunk said this. Listen to this dumb stuff about trans athletes. I'm going to say, go ahead and write in the race.
And if you beat my daughter and it costs her this much out of the 13 cases in the country, and it costs her a little bit because she wanted to get into Yale, but she got into Dartmouth. A little bit. Because I'm not checking your genitalia and I'm not traumatizing you when you're a kid.
Okay. I would rather have my daughter come and see. Your daughter will be traumatized, not the good one. But she's going to see a dad who doesn't have the balls to stick up for her. That's what she's going to see.
Good job. Good job. Won't trust men the rest of her life after this. Yeah, exactly. You just, yeah, you just ruined it.
You made a Republican, Chunk. You made your kid a Republican. All right, that does it for us today. I hope you have a great rest of your evening. Find us on Substack Chapter and Verse, YouTube, Facebook, like and subscribe.
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