The Dan Bongino Show - Ep 541 Liberalism is the 8 Minute Abs of Politics

Episode Date: September 6, 2017

In this episode: Liberals are still pushing false narratives about the causes of Hurricane Harvey's damage.    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-31/a-hard-rain-and-a-hard-lesson-for-houston   Why is liberalism the "8-Minute-Abs" of politics? In this show I'll explain.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/something-about-bernie-1504642242   This Democrat legislator couldn't answer a simple question of Fox News last night.  https://www.google.com/amp/insider.foxnews.com/amp/article/57774   Who is really censoring content on the Internet? https://www.wsj.com/articles/whos-the-real-internet-censor-comcast-or-facebook-1504653147   Why you should fear any government firearm registry. https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/05/us-virgin-islands-governor-orders-seizure-citizens-weapons-nra-threatens-to-sue.amp.html   SPONSOR LINKS: www.PrepareWithDan.com www.BrickhouseNutrition.com/Dan         Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dan Bongino. You want the truth, come to this podcast. You want someone to BS you and be full of crap, go to a political rally. The Dan Bongino Show. We have to call it what it is and we have to stop being delicate about it. Get ready to hear the truth about America. We're not like the leftists. The conservatives don't need safe spaces.

They don't need lollipops and coloring books and teddy bears. I'm good, okay? safe spaces. They don't need lollipops and coloring books and teddy bears. I'm good, okay? On a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. All right, welcome to the Renegade Republican with Dan Bongino. Producer Joe, how are you today? Hey, sitting back and watching, baby. I'm doing okay. Hey, listen, I got a lot of emails from people, and I really, really appreciate this. I mean it from the bottom of my heart, saying, hey, you know, on Labor Day, so just so you know the genesis of this comment I'm about to make is that

people are saying, ah, you don't have to work on Labor Day and produce a product, and we appreciate you doing it, and you know, there's a hurricane bearing down, like, on my house here down here in the Treasure Coast on the East Coast of Florida, and I got a lot of really nice emails saying, hey, you know, take a break, and

you know, on a personal note, folks, if you'll allow me for just a moment, I know this is a substance-based show, and I don't like to waste a lot of your time with a lot of personal crap, but you guys and ladies out there are everything to me. This is what I do now. I was a cop.

I was a business owner. I was a secret service agent. I was an author. I still write books, but this is my life. My life is I love what I do. And Joe and I both feel like we have an obligation to produce a product every working day of the week. Now, I take the weekends off, not really because I need them off, but because you do.

And some people just don't want to listen to politics on the weekend. That's the only reason. I don't take weekdays off ever. I am going to try my hardest through this hurricane to get a product and a good one up for you. Joe and I will keep you updated, but if I don't have power, I can't do a podcast. My wife and my kids left.

They are up in Maryland. We're looking at a pretty potentially devastating landfall if it comes near us. Maybe not. Some of the new tracks show it going out towards the Atlantic Ocean, but Irma is a big storm. I buttoned up my house yesterday. I have accordion shutters. I sealed them shut, and my office right now is completely dark outside of the little overhead

light for my studio here because I have the shutters closed, so no daylight's getting in my house right now, so it feels like a tomb, but it's a lonely place. Usually, my wife is around when I'm recording, but I feel an obligation to do this for you, and just quickly, again, I don't want to waste any of your time, but you guys and ladies work hard. Joe and I, what we do is not hard. It's not. I love what I do. I love my audience, and I feel an obligation.

The people out there, now, it's challenging, but it's not hard. I grew up tough, you know? There was a lot of, there was some, some child abuse stuff. There was some, I mean, a lot of, I don't talk about it on the air because it gets me kind of, but it's in my,

you know, I wrote about it a little bit. It's in a book I wrote. I didn't get into too much detail, but I used to dig ditches in a cemetery. You know, I used to work in a store where they had an oven that was like 600 degrees. And I used to have to go up in the attic where,

and get bottles out to refill a stock shelf. And to get the bottles out, because the attic was only like four feet, you had to crawl around. I got a hernia in my back from trying to lift heavy cases of Snapple Ice Tea all the time doing it. That's hard work. This isn't hard. You work hard. You deserve a content producer that's going to show up every damn day and give you a product. I don't care if it's a hurricane, if it's a holiday.

It's going to be there. This show is going to be there for you all the time. If you choose to listen, that's perfectly fine. It's up to you. You want to take a holiday on your holidays? I totally understand, but this show is going to be there for you. And I deeply appreciate all the compliments, but please don't worry about me. I like what I do. We enjoy it. So sorry about that long two, three minute. But I get a lot of those emails and that's why. That's why I'm not taking any days off. So appreciate it. All right. Love you guys and ladies.

You're the best. Oh man, it's really, it's tough. Because I like you guys so much. I get very emotional about this kind of stuff. So I saw a couple of stories today I thought were fascinating. One I read was just kind of blowing me So, I saw a couple stories today I thought were fascinating. One I read was just kind of blowing me away

because it's something we've been talking about for a couple of days and it speaks to a whole larger narrative on the left, which is the fatal conceit, the pretense of knowledge. In other words,

the idea amongst liberal academics and elitists and sadly a growing radicalized group of far leftists that people in government, Joe, know things that you don't. They're smarter than you, and therefore they should have your money,

you know, your health care, and control of your kids' education. You know, what Dayek would call, again, the fatal conceit. This idea, again, that they're smarter than you. So there was a great, great piece, which I'm sorry, again, it's Wall Street Journal. I don't know if it's subscriber only because I'm a subscriber. So when I click on it, it comes up. But I'm going to put it in the show notes at Bongino.com. Sorry I didn't get if it's subscriber only because I'm a subscriber. So when I click on it, it comes up.

But I'm going to put it in the show notes at Bongino.com. Sorry I didn't get an email out yesterday. These hurricanes caused a lot of chaos in my house. I'm trying to get gas. It's just a pain in the butt. But I will try to get it out today. But it's all available on Bongino.com either way if you want to check out the show notes. But this article is terrific because it ties in this idea of the pretense of knowledge.

And it is amazing that Hillary Clinton is back again with this book, What Happened? And she's blaming who? I'm going to tie this together for you, so just follow me. She's blaming now Bernie Sanders. So, Joe, for her loss. It was the Russians. It was, what was it, Moldovian server farms or something? Macedonia. No,ovian server farms or something? Macedonia. No, Macedonian server farms.

It was the DNC. It was Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She's blamed everybody and their mother for her loss besides herself. She was a crap candidate, right? So she's got this book coming out called What Happened. And in the book, and this piece is so good. I'm so excited to talk about it. I can't even get my thoughts out straight.

In the book, she blames Bernie Sanders. And she says the gist of her complaint is that every time she put out a policy, Bernie Sanders, Joe, would one-up her in the policy. And she had no retort because her claim is that Bernie Sanders, there's no way he could make this stuff happen. He was just doing it. You know, everybody knows the one-upper, right? You're at a party. You're like, I just got this Raptor. It's a really great truck.

I love the Raptor, by the way. Guy goes, oh, I got a GMC thing. And you know the one-upper? Everybody hates the one-upper. Her complaint is that Bernie was the one-upper on policy and that there was no way he could pay for it. So if she said, we're going to do a $12 an hour national minimum wage, Bernie said, it's going to be 15. If she said, you know, quote, free college for dreamers, Bernie said, free college for

everyone, right? Free for everyone. Right, free for everybody. If she said, we're going to expand Obamacare, Bernie said, free healthcare for everyone. Now, Mrs. Clinton's complaining about this in her book, saying, how do you compete with that? Like, he destroyed my reputation because he was the political one-upper.

And I thought this was absolutely genius, this thing by James Freeman on the Wall Street Journal. He says, and this has been a common theme of this show, he makes the greatest analogy I think I have ever seen, Joe, in print. I'm not kidding. That's not hyperbolic. I read it this morning. I was getting my wife off to the airport at 4 o'clock in the morning.

I read it with groggy eyes and a groggier brain. I was like, holy, this is terrific. He says, this is it. This is the problem with the Democrat party. And Mrs. Clinton doesn't even get it. She's exposing liberals right now for what they are, Joe. Remember the movie Something About Mary? Do you remember that movie? Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller? It was great comedy, hysterical, one of the few comedies I ever laughed at. There's a scene in this comedy, Something About Mary, where Ben Stiller picks up a hitchhiker and the guy's like a killer.

He's a murderer. I mean, it's meant to be funny in the scene, although it sounds crazy. And the guy's crazy and he talks about this great idea he has, Joe. He has the greatest idea ever. And Ben Stiller's listening like he knows the guy's nuts now and he's like regretting picking him up. And the guy goes, you know

that thing eight minute abs remember eight minute abs show the video yeah he goes i got an idea seven minute abs and ben stiller's like this is the dumbest thing i've ever seven minute if you could do eight minute abs this guy's got a seven minute abs so ben stiller's talking to the guy he goes dude um that's like kind of dumb right because then why doesn't somebody just come out within six minute abs? And the guy scratches his head. He's like, I don't know. Now, you say, what the hell does this have to do with Hillary Clinton, one-upsmanship liberals, the fatal conceit, and the lack of knowledge?

Well, this is what I think we do differently in the show, right? He makes the point, Freeman, and he threw the analogy, that that's the Democrat Party. They feed on ignorance, just like eight-minute abs did. It's a great analogy. I know it sounds silly, but it's really terrific.

Joe, if you believe that I work out, I love to work out, I'm big into diet and nutrition. If you really believe that an eight-minute workout is going to give you a six-pack of abs, you're out of your freaking mind. Ain't happening, baby. It ain't happening. So if you're a sucker enough to believe in eight-minute abs,

you're surely a sucker enough to believe in seven-minute abs. The seven-minute ab guy is the Bernie Sanders. He's the one-upper. You can do eight-minute abs. I can do seven. But do you understand, Joe? Do you see what I'm getting at? They both rely on one upper. You can do eight minute abs. I can do seven. But do you understand, Joe, do you see what I'm getting at? That both rely on one thing.

You not understanding that neither seven or eight minute abs is even possible. He makes this analogy to the Democrat Party and it was so good. And again, forgive me for keeping like teasing it because it's like, all right, this is the Democrats. This is the Democrats. They sell you things like eight-minute abs that if you're dumb enough to believe them, you're setting yourself up for the seven-minute ab guy. When you sell a $12 an hour minimum wage, an idea so ridiculous on its face that the government mandating people to pay more is going to make society richer. Folks, I've done whole shows on it.

I'm not going to, this show is not about the minimum wage. You can listen to my library. It's been debunked a thousand times over. It's not even common sense. But if you believe the government could make people richer, then why not mandate a $20 an hour minimum wage? Seven minute abs. Why not a $25 an hour minimum wage? Seven minute abs. Why not a $25 an hour minimum wage?

Six minute abs. Why not a $50 an hour minimum wage? Four minute abs. Why not 100,000 a year for everyone? Two minute abs. I mean, we're getting reductio ad absurdum here. I get it that I'm making a point through absurdity, but the absurdity is real.

It was, Joe, tell me that's not a killer analogy. No, easy to follow, right on the money. Because you know how a common theme of this show from day one, and someone sent me a nice email yesterday, which I deeply appreciate. Forgive me, I don't remember your name right now. But he said, I went back and listened to your entire library,

which is quite a feat for a new listener. It's over 500. I know, Joe. I don't even think Joe and I remember the whole library. He listened to the entire library. And he said, Dan, if you go back and listen now, it was amazing how many of your predictions came true. He's like, bingo. Like, go back and listen. You're going to be, your predictions came true he's like bingo like

go back and listen you're gonna be it's eerie but this is it like one of the predictions through the show we've always made is how the fatal conceit the lack of knowledge on the left how people don't understand policy was ultimately going to tie their hands in the long run because you're promising eight minute abs and it's never gonna happen happen. Obamacare was never going to cut a family's healthcare costs by $2,500. You were never going to be allowed to keep your plan. Eventually, this was all going to boomerang because you're going to do the eight minute abs workout and it's not going to work. And all of a sudden you're like, wait, I don't have a six pack. I have a 22 pack of lard, of Crisco. It never worked. It is such a beautiful analogy

about the problems on the left. The fatal conceit, the idea that people in D.C. have the knowledge and the power to give you eight-minute abs sets them up for the seven-minute ab guy. And that's what Bernie Sanders did to Hillary Clinton.

She's absolutely right, by the way. Joe, nothing she's... I'm not telling you she's lying. What I'm telling you is Freeman beautifully points out that not only is she not lying, she's ignorant to the larger umbrella truth, what we would call on the show, the why. She doesn't understand the why. Like the why matters.

Like, why did this work? Why was she one up by the seven minute ab guy when she's the eight minute ab girl? Because she was saying things that were unbelievable and ridiculous. We're going to come in there and we're going to cut the costs of healthcare. The government can't do that. It has no power to do that. It doesn't have the knowledge to do that, ladies and gentlemen. If the healthcare industry, doctors, hospitals, nurses, administrative employees, hospital managers,

insurance companies, that their very livelihood depends on producing an effectively priced product that people like. If they can't do it, what makes you think someone in government with zero knowledge of that arena, of that sphere, can do that? Why do you believe that? Let me give you another simple analogy

I thought of before the show. All right. Would you trust a government bureaucrat to manage your favorite baseball team? Uh-oh. I mean, it sounds silly, Joe. You and I are like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

But when you, I have to tie this with emotions because sometimes to counter the emotions of the left, they're so in love with government that they don't let, that reason never gets in the way of their emotion. They love government. They genuflect at the altar of government. But when you tie it to sports, maybe it'll make sense to people on the left. Why wouldn't you let a government bureaucrat manage your favorite baseball team? Now you don't laugh because the obvious answer is they don't know squat about baseball.

Folks, they don't know squat about healthcare either. I don't get it. Oh, they know about the oil industry? They know about technology. They know about net neutrality and the IT industry? They don't know any of this. And yet you're entrusting them to run the United States economy? This is absurd.

If you are a liberal, you are the eight-minute ab guy. You're selling a nonsensical plan that is never going to work, that preys on people's ignorance. I'm telling you, I've been working out my whole life. When I saw eight-minute abs and the Thighmaster come out, I laughed, and I knew it was going to sell. Because, sadly, there's a large swath of people, similar to liberals, by the way, who are seeking an answer but don't want to do the homework.

I'm sorry. I know that doesn't sound cute. And I'm not trying to offend anyone. I'm really not. And the media is not helping by feeding people garbage information, telling people that eight minute abs works. That's what they do with liberalism. They tell you, oh, tax cuts don't work. They will never give you any data to back that up because they don't have it. But folks, there's a group of people out there, liberals, who are emotionally seeking

a better tomorrow. I get that. They don't want to be worse off, but they don't want to do the hard work of serious policy analysis so they go right to the emotion. We need to help poor people. Well, let's just tell the government to pay them more. Okay. Well, what is that going to do? Well, it's going to up the employer's costs.

Well, what's that going to do? It's going to cause them to raise prices. Well, what's that going to do? It's going to make people spend more money on basic food products. Well, what's that going to do? Well, it's going to make people poorer. But I thought the whole goal was to make people richer by paying them more. Oh, yeah, yeah, but it doesn't really do that. That's where the conservatives have to take over and be the adults in the room. We're not the eight-minute ab guys. We're not. We're the guys and ladies who are going to go to the gym. And let me give you the hard news.

You want abs? Folks, I say this with no air of pretension at all. I got a pretty damn good set of abs for a 42-year-old dude. I work out hard. And you know what? It sucks. Every day it sucks. You want to know the truth?

You want to get ripped? You want 18-inch arms? You want forearms that look like Popeye? You want a six-pack of abs? It sucks. Get to the gym. Get under the kettlebell. Do your Tabata sprints. Get your heart rate above 180. Deadlift, squat, do weighted pull-ups, bench really heavy, lift stuff overhead, sprint as fast as you can, jump as high as you can do it five days a week then stretch yourself out in the sauna afterwards and sweat your cajones off for 20 minutes afterwards my workouts are two hours a day four to five days a week plus grappling on the weekends

which leaves me aching in pain every day of my life i may die i of, I'm not going to die of pain. I have a lot of arthritis, but damn it, I'm not going to die of any kind of like obesity related disorder because I didn't take care of myself. It sucks.

There's no eight minute abs. There's no, the government will pay people more because they said so. Well, the government's just going to spend money on infrastructure. Therefore, we're going to create more jobs. Where'd the money come from? That's the guy like us who has to tell you the truth.

There's no eight-minute abs. Now, folks, I'm serious. It sucks. It's not a workout show. I'm still considering that on the weekends, doing a show called Rough Cuts with Joe with some stuff, you know, that we really enjoy talking about outside of politics.

But I'm telling you, you want to get ripped and shredded? It is directly correlated with the amount of pain. I mean, raw pain you put in the gym. You want to talk about pain? Go get a deadlift bar, right? Stack yourself under a deadlift bar and do a set

with your 80 rep max. Do a set of 20 breathing deadlifts where you got to take like a minute between each rep at the end. You are going to want to throw up your guts into a bucket. It sucks. Do a set of Zercher squats

where you pick your 10 rep max and you do 20. 20. Meaning you're like, but I'm not kidding. That's the actual sound you make at rep 18. When you're like, I can't possibly be hurting anymore right now. You know, sit under a guy in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class who is whooping your caboose in a most brutal way possible.

You can't breathe. You've been rolling around now for 25 minutes. His gi is on top of you covering your nose so you feel like you're suffocating. Your head is in his armpit and he is literally choking the life out of you, and you don't want to tap. You want to be a badass? Go get on the mat. You want to look like a badass?

Go get under the damn bar. And to clarify for the listener, the gi is the clothing worn during the grapple. Yes, that's good. That's why you're the audience on budget. There you go. And in jujitsu, they're super thick, so you really can't breathe when it hovers over your face. It sucks. There is no eight-minute abs.

Now, because I like to tie things to current events, and obviously Freeman's piece was about the current event of Hillary Clinton's book. She's now blaming Bernie. I thought to myself, gosh, this is a deeper story than even Freeman may understand. Right. But maybe not.

Maybe he's a very smart guy. But Bloomberg has a piece out today, which I'll put in the show notes, proving my point to tie in a couple of stories. I brought up that email about predictions on the show intentionally. Nothing here is done unintentionally. I'm watching Fox, by the way. There's a woman giving a speech, a congressman, and the microphone is on a stand.

I don't know if you guys are seeing this, ladies. And the microphone, they didn't screw the thing in right, and it's going down and down and down. I know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They didn't tighten it up. It's hysterical. I'm watching this now.

Yeah, this is a good joke. But one of the stories I saw in Bloomberg about the knowledge problem, how Democrats don't have the knowledge to institute an eight minute abs program. So they have to rely on manipulation, which eight minute abs did. Minimum wage. Everybody's going to get more. It's the same thing.

There's a knowledge problem with planners as well. So to be clear where I'm going with this, on one end with the eight minute abs thing i'm talking about democrats manipulating the net the lack of knowledge on behalf of liberals to get eight minute abs pushed through which minimum wage is it's eight minute abs it's something that can't work but sounds good eight minute abs minimum wage We're all going to get a raise because of the government? Yeah, this is great. That relies on the lack of knowledge and a manipulation by people who do know better. Folks, I'm telling you, I've had these conversations, right? Most elected Democrats who push minimum wage know it doesn't work.

They totally understand. Now they're taking the mic off. This is great. They know it doesn't work. They handed it to her because again, it doesn't work. They totally understand. Now they're taking the mic off. This is great. They know it doesn't work. They handed it to her because again, it doesn't work. They know that they're just relying on manipulating your lack of knowledge. The other problem with liberalism is the pretense of knowledge on behalf of the people who are elected or in the government bureaucracy. In other words, voters who are liberals can be very dumb. They believe in eight-minute abs.

But what's even worse is that people who are elected, some of them, not only manipulate people, but some of them actually do believe they can institute eight-minute abs. Now, this is coming up because a Bloomberg piece about Harvey and a prediction I made the other day. What did I tell you? Zoning was going to be the new thing. Here's an article from

bloomberg harvey wasn't just bad weather it was bad city planning here we go there we go what did we say i'm not taking any credit for this i'm just telling you on this show there's nothing i can predict better than the far left i've read entire books there's a really good book on the left but it's an older book by a guy dan fly Flynn. It's called The Conservative History of the American Left. Read the book. It's a long book, but it's a really, really good. I'm always better at promoting other people's stuff than my own, but it's a good book. Read books like that, and you'll always be able to predict what the left is going to do because the left is easy to predict because they think they know better than you, and they don't. Now, it's amazing that, again, the zoning thing, oh, now Houston, it was a zoning problem. This is incredible. They're saying now that the zoning and the lack of planning by government officials led to this flooding in Houston, which, as I pointed out in shows this week, is absurd. pervious surface not and less impervious surfaces than a lot of major liberal cities that have

extensive planning so i'm not sure where you're going with this now in the piece they make some other articles about canals and drainage and things like that but folks that is totally completely not correlated to central planners ability to fix these things at all. New York and New Jersey are central planners, socialist central, Joe. And Hurricane Sandy nearly decimated most of those areas. A lot of those were planned.

So you may say to yourself, if Bloomberg is making the connection here, and if I lose you, Joe, let me know. If Bloomberg is trying to make the connection because these liberal writers have an agenda, and I don't know if these writers are liberal or just suckers, but if their agenda here on the, but the left's agenda is clear,

is to push the idea that government planners would have solved this problem, then Joe, how come they didn't? Four minute glutes. Four, dad, now, let me tell you, that's a good, dad, we gotta, we gotta start writing these down, we need them. Four minute glutes, four minute glutes. Dad, now, let me tell you. Dad, we got to start writing these down. We need them. Four minute glutes.

Four minute glutes. Government planners would have done it. Four minute glutes. But they didn't. You did the four minute glutes and you're like, wow, my butt is still as fat as it was the day before. Nothing changed at all. It's not shapely. Four minute glutes. It didn't happen. You had Superstorm Sandy in an extensive government socialist

nearly socialist run regimes or semi-semi-socialist regimes and the damage was as extensive was was was extensive as well so if your premise is that planners would have fixed it i'm just making a very simple statement of fact or a question. Then why didn't they? Now, again, this is based on the premise. So we're clear that the government officials have some special class of knowledge that Houstonians didn't. And if you would have just let government planners plan the city, they would have planned it. And none of this flooding would have occurred, at least not at the levels it did. But folks, there's no evidence to back that up at all. Now, you may say, why? Because this is important on this show. The why matters. Why do government planners, why can't they do it? Because folks,

it comes down to two things, knowledge and incentives. Number one, government planners have no special class of knowledge. There is no set of facts out there on flood prone areas, on climate science that you can't access as easily as government planners can. And none of it's top secret. You can go on the internet. You can start a study. You can access the stuff. The information is out there for anyone to see.

The government has no special class of knowledge at all. But what's the secondary problem? Why didn't planners in New York and New Jersey stop the flooding and the damage from Hurricane, from Superstorm Sandy? Why? Why didn't they? Because folks, the incentives are all wrong for government. As I've said to you repeatedly, probably 200 plus times on this show, As I've said to you repeatedly, probably 200 plus times on this show, the government and bureaucrats who work in the government do not care about your money when they buy things because it's not their money. It's your money. They take your money through taxes.

They did not earn it. Someone who earns a dollar is always going to care more how it's spent better than someone who just took the dollar and gets it basically for free from someone else. Secondly, the government doesn't buy things for itself. It buys things for the government. In other words, when Lawmaker Jones or Lawmaker Joey Bag of Donuts goes and buys something, he's not buying it for himself. He's buying it for the military. He's buying it for the courts. He's buying it for himself. He's buying it for the military. He's buying it for the courts.

He's buying it for votes. He's buying an infrastructure package in his district. It's not his. If it works out or not, doesn't affect him at all. Maybe through the votes later on, but very rarely. Everybody loves pork because nobody follows up on it. You want to build a bridge to nowhere? Fine. Great. Go right ahead. Nobody cares. It's not your money.

So not only does the government not have any special knowledge when it comes to building up Houston to some special flood resistant area, it doesn't have the incentive to do it either. I ask you again, if government planners can plan better than the private, free market, free Americans can on their own, why don't they? Why do you have zero evidence?

Now, do you have zero evidence that this is, there's no evidence at all if this is true? Even worse, Joe. I took a couple notes about some natural disasters

and a hat tip to Kevin Williamson in National Review. He put this in one of his books. These were, you want to talk about government planning not only not helping, but actually destroying the environment and making it worse? Here are some examples. Again, planners are supposed to joke,

they would have done Houston so much differently than this Wild West building going on, what we call economic freedom and liberty. Here are some disasters that happened in economies that were totally planned, like socialist economies where the government owns the means of production. Chernobyl. Remember Chernobyl?

The nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union? That was planned. That was a planned economy. I mean, it was a planned economy. No one planned Chernobyl. But again, if a planned economy can do things so much better because the government has a better incentive and more knowledge, what happened there? You may say, well, it happened in the United States too. I'm not making that point that it doesn't happen. You're making the point that planners do it better. I'm telling you you're

wrong. They don't. I'm not telling you the free market and economic liberty doesn't happen. You're making the point that planners do it better. I'm telling you, you're wrong. They don't. I'm not telling you the free market and economic liberty doesn't have some downsides. People make mistakes. Sure.

You're making the point that planners do it better and don't make mistakes. You're wrong. Oh, you would say, Dan Chernobyl, that's one example. Oh, no, no.

I got more. I got more. The Three Gorgesges dam what about the pemex disaster in mexico what about the yangtze's river what about the aral sea drying up what about the pollution levels in china right now wait i thought the government does it better you ever been to china you ever been there joe no i've been to china good You ever been there, Joe? No. I've been to China. Good luck walking, going for a mile and a half run in Beijing. You'll be like, Remember like I told you with the Zurcher squat on rep number 18?

Go do a mile and a half run in Beijing at a leisurely pace. You're going to be like, The air is like thick with soot. When I was there, at least. Maybe they've cleaned it up since. It's been a while. So to be fair to the Chinese, I haven't been back in a while. But I'm tellingot. When I was there, at least. Maybe they've cleaned it up since. It's been a while. So to be fair to the Chinese, I haven't been back in a while. But I'm telling you, when I was there, it was bad.

Really bad. I went there with Michael Chertoff, the DHS secretary. They wouldn't even run outside. But I thought planners did it better. That's a planned economy. Do you understand how your premise is completely absurd? We are not making the case that the free market doesn't have a downside. You're making the case that planning has an upside with no evidence at all to back up that assertion. Eight-minute abs, four-minute

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You may remember the Virgin Islands has come up in this show before. Remember, Joe, the story we did about Exxon and the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands suing Exxon? Folks, there's a story about the Virgin Islands that should really, I kid you not, freak you out completely. The governor of the Virgin Islands, this guy, Kenneth Mapp, there is a human tragedy unfolding there with the hurricane. And he issued an emergency order allowing his National Guard to go and seize the weapons and firearms of private citizens because they may need them in the event of an emergency. Folks, you know, again, I did a show, gosh, I don't know, a year and a half ago, maybe in the first hundred with Gail Trotter. She was one of the few guests I've ever had on the show. Remember that?

We recorded that in my basement. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure during the show, the idea came up of a government registry and government lists. If it didn't, I'm sorry, because I've spoken to Gail about it so many times. I'm not sure if it came up in the show or not, but this is the problem.

This is the problem. This is why you never trust government with that kind of information. So now they've got a list. Now they're knocking on your door. So now when you need it most, Joe, in the event of, God forbid, a civil disturbance, say the power goes out for three to four months.

You know, what did they say? We're only four missed meals away from chaos. You know, what is it? Havelock Ellis, who said, you know, it's the civilizations, the thin crust on a volcano. We're always a few minutes away from revolution. Right. When you need it most in the event of a disaster, the government comes to knock on your door and goes, hey, by the way, that AR you have and that pistol? Yeah, we're going to need that. No, no thanks.

Thank you. And then they go, well, I got 40 guys outside in the truck that are armed to the teeth and we're going to need that. Folks, do not ever, ever trust liberals, ever with your guns or your registry. Because this is what inevitably happens when things break bad. Is it going to happen in the United States? Thankfully, I doubt it. But I don't doubt it enough to trust them with a national firearms registry. Absolutely not.

Don't ever forget this story. Because the next time your liberal friends go, ah, that's crazy. There should be a registry of fires. We need to know who has the guns. Why do you need to know? Why? Because you want to want to take them no people aren't going to take them well really that's interesting because the u.s territory in the virgin islands with us um uh the governor map over there that's exactly what they did oh wow that's in the virgin islands yeah well it happened so don't tell me it doesn't happen now one more the reason i brought that up too is because we did a show in the past about the Attorney General over there in the Virgin Islands who wanted to sue Exxon because he didn't

like the outcome of their climate science research. And basically, he was trying to get money out of Exxon. So you can't trust these liberals. They will manipulate the power of government to impact both business and individual liberty. And just don't trust them. They cannot be trusted. They have a control agenda, and that's it. When you accept that, you'll fully understand what's going on. All right, where do we go next?

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Yeah, I was supposed to fill in tonight for someone, but he's coming back. Okay. This show is like a total stream of consciousness. I love it, how we do this. We're leaving this in. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, I'm getting a text from a radio guy. So net neutrality is another example of the pretense of knowledge, the idea that government officials can do things and regulate things better than the private market, although the government has no substantial, you know, either intrinsic or extrinsic knowledge about this arena than the people who are actually in the IT field. Now, net neutrality, folks, I get it. I totally understand. Listen, I'm cool with the

fact that a lot of conservatives and liberals both feel strongly. I get it. I respect your opinion. I get a lot of great emails. There's a liberal listener of mine sent me a great email. He loves net neutrality. I disagree. I mean, obviously, it's my show. I'm never going to lie to you. I think net neutrality is a disaster in in in essence net neutrality is this idea the government should be able to regulate through title to the internet as a communication service rather than an information service now why anybody thinks government regulators know more about the internet than the people who actually work and built the internet i have no idea and i'm not kidding there are some conservatives who support this too they're like well what's gonna happen is you know the government

if we don't stop this kind of stuff then you know providers of internet internet service providers joe they're gonna have a monopoly and they're gonna start shutting down websites and they're basically gonna start making companies pay more and you know not it not going to treat a bit as a bit as a bit. In other words, a bit of transmission data as every bit should be treated equal. Notice the equality language, by the way, right? Comes up all the time with the left. They always frame things in terms of emotion, never reason. It's always emotion.

They use that term equality for a reason. That's not accidental, folks. That's why I asked the conservatives and Republicans who support net neutrality, please don't be a sucker. I shouldn't say that. I get it. I've gotten emails. I understand.

I'm not going to get into a deep net neutrality debate today. But again, this is an eight-minute abs problem. And there's a piece in the journal today about this, where they go, where they say, listen, the real problem out there, and why the left? Because liberals, it's largely, as an organized group, Joe,

liberals who are pushing for government regulation of the internet. And they're preying on, I think some level of ignorance about the problem to get some conservatives to go along now one of the premises they've used is what i just said that oh well isps can block sites now here's a quote from the wall street journal today and it's interesting how they avoid the actual problem about blocking of information for a fake problem about isps doing it and i'll

put this article in the show notes today as well. It says, one problem. No one has presented a single credible case of any major internet provider censoring web content based on political beliefs. But you know who does? The very companies calling for net neutrality. Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google, PayPal, and other tech firms are engaged in increasingly strict political censorship through vague and subjective prohibitions on hate speech and fake news. Folks, four-minute glutes.

Net neutrality is a four-minute glutes problem to get you to believe you can develop glutes in four minutes or that the government can somehow regulate the internet better than the internet can regulate itself. Why are we falling for this? They are selling you on this idea that these ISPs are somehow going to block unpopular websites and block bits of information they don't like, when in reality, what's really going on, Joe, is Facebook, Apple, Google are blocking right now information they don't like. Do their monopolistic run over social media and and internet communication the internet communication ecosystem they're the ones doing this do you see

the bait and switch here oh yeah how this is an entire i mean another one how they so basically just to leave things i want to run on too long about that but the point i was making about that is net neutrality is another eight minute abs problem it it requires you to believe something that's not true in order for them to advance the agenda the again it requires you to believe that this is happening on a mass scale it's a big problem and somehow government's going to fix it when the actual problem is people like facebook google and other people censoring content it's not the isps it. And now you introduce the government in to solve the problem, pretending they have the ability to give you abs in eight minutes or to fix the internet.

They have no ability to do that at all. They can't fix anything. The government. The government doesn't know how to operate the internet. The government doesn't even know how to operate the government. I mean, are we serious? Government can't even fix itself. All right, another thing I saw on the knowledge problem. I mean, are we serious? Government can't even fix itself.

All right, another thing I saw on this, the knowledge problem. So last night, how they prey on and manipulate people based on emotion. Eight-minute abs, four-minute glutes. They had Representative Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, was on Tucker last night, Tucker Carlson show. I don't know if you saw this, but I love Tucker's show. He always does a really good job of dismantling these leftists. And he was very respectful of the guy. And the guy sounds like a genuinely nice guy, but he comes on. He's a Democrat from Texas, and he wanted to talk about the benefits of DACA,

the illegal amnesty for children who were brought here illegally into the country, the unconstitutional amnesty program. So Cuellar is trying to defend the program and Tucker asked him a basic question. Now, I will put the Fox News Insider article in the show notes and I strongly encourage you to watch this because it shows you how the Democrats play on emotions. Just

like 8-Minute Abs and the reason and the substance is never there. Tucker must have asked him, Joe, I don't know five times. He must have said to him, Joe, I don't know, five times. He must have said to him, okay, what then are the rules? How long do you have to be here before you're given amnesty? What age do you have to be here?

Can anybody who's brought here as a kid forever now be eligible for U.S. citizenship? He would not answer the question no matter what. Because his only talking point is dreamers, dreamers, dreamers, dreamers. But he's not willing to engage in the higher second order conversations. What next? OK, we get it. There are some people brought here when they were young who, yes, probably do no fault of their own, who may be working in the United States. We all get that.

OK, I don't agree with the program. I think it should go away. Okay, that's not everyone, though. That's not every case. And the secondary effects of that is it's going to incentivize anyone all over the world to bring their kids here, leave them here, and get them U.S. citizenship by a never-ending cycle of amnesty. Cuellar would not answer the question because he doesn't have a solution, folks. All he has is emotion. That's it. Dreamers.

Dreamers. Working on it. That's all he has. He doesn't have anything else. Again, eight-minute abs. Every, every time.

Great piece by Freeman, though. Really, you need to read it. All right, folks. Thanks again for all the reviews on iTunes. And I got to throw in an extra kind of comment today at the end here. I appreciate the reviews on Amazon. My book doesn't come out in bookstores until September 19th, but it's available on Amazon now.

People have already read it. And I got a couple of really, really nice reviews on Amazon. I think there's four up there now. So if you have the time and you feel like doing it, I would appreciate a review. And it really means a lot to me. I got a really nice review there from a couple of folks on Amazon. My book is called Protecting the President. So thanks a lot.

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