The Nick DiPaolo Show - Jason Rantz | Nick Di Paolo Show #1470

Episode Date: October 12, 2023

In this episode right leaning comedian Nick Di Paolo interviews Jason Rantz! Jason Rantz is the author of the book, "What’s Killing America: Inside the Radical Left’s Tragic Destruction of Our Cities," which you can purchase, here: https://a.co/d/b3tD0k Like what you hear?  Get TWICE as much "Nick Di Paolo Show", full episodes of Steven Crowder’s “Louder with Crowder” show and more on Mug Club! Sign up today to get all their content at https://Nickdip.com and use the promo code NICKDIP to get your first month FREE! For Tour Dates, Merch, stand-up clips and more visit https://nickdip.com 

🎵 My vagina's angry. It is. It's pissed off. Well, treat it nicely. Welcome to the Nick DiPaolo Show on a Thursday from the great state of Georgia. How are you, folks? Good to be with you. Got a great show today. My guest today, big fan of this guy. I used to see him on Tucker Carlson all the time and many other places. He's a conservative radio talk show host in Seattle.

That has to be fun. I got a taste of that in New York. And he's got a great new book I'll call What's Killing America Inside the Radical Left's Tragic Destruction of Our Cities. Jason Rance, welcome to the show. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. Thank you so much for having me. That's the best picture we've ever had. This guy knows what he's doing. This is unbelievable. I dress for the occasion. Yeah, you look good, man. Let me ask you a question,

Jay. First of all, what's it like to be, do you get a lot of crank calls when you're doing your radio show? I mean, you're a conservative in Seattle. I know you've got, obviously, your own fan base, but every once in a while, does a radical douchebag sneak in? Well, they definitely text in. See, I have a large ego, so I don't take phone calls. I monologue and do interviews for three, four hours a day. So get to avoid the cranks,

although I do get weird looks when I'm walking down the street every so often. See, Danny, when I was on radio, even now I don't look at my social media. For a comedian, I get pretty thin skin, so that's what I should have done, interviews. That's a sign of a real good radio guy. My first time on the radio i was taking calls like i was a you know 9-1-1 dispatcher in oklahoma people it's like it can be a crutch for some folks but you got to get comfortable then you can monologue all day and that's what i did i for the first there you go and uh you know because i'm a comedian i play off

people anyways i digress um so is this book, it's out already, right? Yeah, it came out last Tuesday. It already hit Amazon bestseller list. We want to keep it there. Let me ask you a question. Will it be on the New York Times bestseller list, even if you have the numbers, right? They'll probably ignore you. Yeah, I mean, even if I had the numbers, it's not going to get there. You know, we like to make it hard for them to get around putting us there so we always encourage people to go ahead and purchase the hardcover book right the fact of the matter is when you are a conservative author it is very very very difficult to get any kind of press so i go on fox news of course i'm doing talk radio right but cnn's never going to cover me new york times washington post they're never going to reach out

unless it's a hit piece so we really really need, you know, conservatives and libertarians and moderate Democrats and like-minded people to actually go out and buy the book. So mature on the left, aren't they? Those people of tolerance. It's beyond that now. I don't even know how to describe it. That's why the book's out, I guess. But you're talking about specifically the cities falling apart. And I witnessed, I mean, I actually experienced a little of this when I was in New York. When I first moved to New York, real quick, and this was back in the early 90s, Dinkins was still mayor. And there was garbage everywhere. There was garbage piled a mile high. There was crime. I go out to L.A.

I think I'm going to make it for about a year. I come back. Giuliani had already been elected. I came back about a year and a half later. I couldn't even recognize the city. I couldn't find any squeegee guys. The trash was completely, it was a different city. And I'm like, oh oh maybe government can make a

difference if you bring in um the right guys but giuliani today they look at him like he's the devil compared to you know these left-wing mayors right i mean how is that possible well i mean it turns out when you actually enforce the law and you take pride in your city you can actually clean it up and make sure that it's safe. You know, we're always going to have some level of crime and homelessness and litter, right? That's just when you have a whole bunch of people, that's what ends up happening. But when you have policies that make it so much easier to commit the crime and to become

homeless and stay homeless and shoot up or smoke on street corners, people are going to take advantage of that, and it just begets more of the same action. And so I do things, if I can point to a policy that I think is responsible, that means it's avoidable. It might not be easy to avoid. You might have to put some resources into it and some thought into it, but we certainly know that it can be done because, to your point, it's been done.

That's what I don't understand i understand these leftist marxists and how much they hate this country but aren't they aren't they worrying about getting stabbed in the ass on the way to the grocery store how how are you going to do your marxist duties every day if uh because the people don't know the homeless people and the crackheads don't know who you are you know i mean i don't under i really don't understand plus it's never worked anywhere you think without evidence what what yet they still believe in this wet uh utopian dream how how stupid yeah i mean it is there's a psychosis here i i watch fraser so i know a little bit about this um you've got people who find themselves in positions where they like to be elevated above others.

And so it's almost always a white progressive who looks at the person who's homeless, feels good about themselves because they go up to them, offer them an oat milk latte, take a selfie, post it, hashtag I'm a hero. And they think that they're actually doing something. I truly believe that's part of the psychological issues behind some people within these cities. But ultimately, I think it comes down to, I kind of view it as a cult, far left, radicals, not Democrats, but the radical left, I view it as a cult. They either are blinded by their ideological perspective, that they're literally not seeing what it is we're seeing until it impacts them directly. Or, and I think especially for lawmakers, this is the case, you've got folks

who believe you're going to have some collateral damage, you're going to have some short term pain for some long term gain, that if only you go down this path, you completely dismantle and rebuild the criminal justice system or education, or immigration law, whatever it happens to be, that at the end of the day, when it's all set and done, we'll live in that utopian society. Now, of course, to your point, historically, that does not actually work. We know it doesn't work. And I don't think it's worth the risk that we've been taking and the loss of lives that we've been experiencing to get to someplace that we know is not going to work. And now you said you made a differentiation. You said, you know, far left radicals, not Democrats. But the people running the party seem, I mean, for the most part, radical leftists. I mean, Biden's we know these

aren't Biden's ideas because obviously his brain is gone. But when I listen to him speak, I and he's reading the tele or trying to read the teleprompter. I'm hearing Bernie Sanders. I'm hearing AOC. I'm hearing the squad, even Barack Obama. That's what I'm hearing. And those people are far left. I don't even consider them Democrats. Yeah, they I mean, they clearly are far left. And I think they're also they happen to be media savvy. I think that's a little bit of it as, they I mean, they clearly are far left. And I think they're also they happen to be media savvy. I think that's a little bit of it as well. I mean, conservative media covers them a lot, too, because they're the ones who know how to work the media, get in front of people, get that little soundbite out and act like we're calcintrid children. Right. But I would

still argue, even though I do think that there is a growing part of the Democrat Party that's almost 50-50 at this point of radical towards just a normal person whom I happen to disagree with. I still think that the voters are the ones who are being duped. And that's the reason why I wrote What's Killing America is that all of these things are happening behind the scenes. And they're pitched to us in a way that on paper maybe sounds great. and they're pitched to us in a way that on paper maybe sounds great. And if you're already a Democrat in one of these blue cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, New York, wherever it is, you're going to be more apt to believe the Democrat candidate than the Republican one. And you don't barely even get Republicans.

You just get different shades of progressive. On paper, it sounds great. And I'll give you a perfect example. we very clearly have a drug overdose crisis in this country here just in seattle king county we're going to hit another record high all-time high drug fatal drug overdose so the reason why it's because we've implemented something called harm reduction as a strategy i can go ahead and ask anybody on the street if they can even define what that is or if they've even ever heard of it and they would tell me no and yet that yet that's the strategy that's being pushed. So how do we stop that? How do we hold someone accountable as a lawmaker or a public official if we don't actually know the policies that are being

implemented? They're pitching it in this compassionate way, but you don't actually know. So in the book, I connect the dots to these different policies that decode some of the language so you actually know what it is that's happening it starts always starts with the language i mean they're great at that it starts with the language and yeah harm reduction act right there if you're a conservative or even somebody who has a you know a little idea how the left works your radar should go up any the more innocuous the title the more more insidious the policies behind it. And whenever it's masked around this compassion, they love to talk about how evolved they are and how they're the true heroes. Whenever you get language like that, you can guarantee that it's

a radical idea. And there are people who believe that these issues just stay in these big cities. It's never going to leave Chicago. It's never going to leave Chicago. It's never going to leave Atlanta or D.C. No, no, no. It's everywhere. Washington State has some red counties and red cities. It's being implemented there. It's being implemented all across New York, all across California.

And that's why you're seeing the numbers that we're seeing of drug overdoses. Right. Hey, folks. In the second half of the show, we're going to continue my interview with Jason Rantz. Got a great book out. You can get it on Amazon right now. It's number one on Amazon, I believe.

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to nickdip.com and click on store. Again, that's nickdip.com. Click on store. Thank you guys so much. See you soon. We're talking to Jason Rantz. He has a great new book called What's Killing America. And yes, we used to think it was just the coast, New York and L.A. Oh, those are just West Coast liberals. But no, not anymore. Isn't this, Jason, isn't it even bigger than, it's bigger than left versus right? This is like a cultural revolution we're going through from the left. People are talking about like this is regular everyday politics. It's bigger than that, folks, right? Yeah, 100%. There is a cultural shift around all of our institutions. It started politically, and obviously you can't take it away from the politics, because it's politicians who are forwarding this, activists who are changing laws and policies and how the government works. But you're right, we have, looking at crime, for example, we've created a culture of lawlessness.

seriousness it used to be at some point where you had some general respect for police you didn't want to throw a brick at their head every single time you got triggered because they walked by you and yet now that's kind of what has been created the black lives matter movement that took advantage of covet and took advantage of the death of george floyd really started to change that cultural cultural issues around the criminal justice system around around drugs. They took advantage in a pretty nefarious way. It was strategically was brilliant because they were able to accomplish so much. They defunded police departments all across the country. They helped to get into power prosecutors who really don't have any oversight or accountability of their office. They get to act unilaterally at their own discretion.

And they have clearly implemented policies that have made us less safe. But then just looking into schools, the indoctrination that's going on. And as I was doing the research, you know, I'm finding schools in small towns in Nebraska and Iowa that are being that have teachers telling kids to distrust police. So it's not just on the coasts. It's not just staying there. It's happening everywhere. And it couldn't happen on this larger scale without the spineless jerk offs in the media. The media, the mainstream media, especially when it comes to race. Before I was even following politics, I was just a dumb kid out of college sitting around watching Ted Turner's CNN back in the late 80s, early 90s. And they were showing some thing where a white cop supposedly did something. And I looked at my buddy and I go, hey, has a black guy done anything wrong anywhere?

This is back in the late 80s. They've been cherry picking these stories as far as race goes for years and this powder keg has been building and building and we got what, Fox News and some conservative radio. They call it the conservative media by the way. But I'm going what? Now it's in the movies

I haven't seen in black. Colin Quinn a great comedian, friend of mine he went back in the show Law and Order. He went back over seven or eight seasons and he counted there was a total of like two black defendants in eight seasons. Thank you

Dick Wolf. But all this shit, that sounds innocuous, but it brainwashes people. Right? It absolutely can. I mean, the way that they look at race in particular on the radical left is that it is about marginalized communities, that you have some sort of unearned privilege, regardless of your background and regardless of the background of the person you claim to be

marginalized. So we're pretending in this radical world that someone who happens to be white or Asian, but comes from a low income background, single family household, they have privilege that a multimillionaire who happens to be Latino or black doesn't have. It is, of course, absurd. I would argue that there's clearly socioeconomic privilege, right? If you're low income, you struggle. If you're high income, you struggle less. But this idea that you have these institutions that have been built to be racist is just so divisive it's also just false even even the lines that blm were using about how white officers were patrolling the streets of america for black people to murder yeah it's just

so wrong and it creates resentment it creates distrust ultimately, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, because if you tell any group of people, Black, Asian, white, Latino, that a cop poses a risk to you every single time they pull you over, or every single time you walk by, well, you're going to get tense. You're going to react like they are a threat. They're going to pick up on that. And they're going to have to do something at some point if you were to act. So we're kind of pushing people into it. And then we pretend that from the media perspective, oh, we had nothing to do. We're just reporting the facts. But you're not reporting facts. You are choosing to frame stories in a way that doesn't just elicit some, you know, emotional reaction from the audience.

It's a dangerous reaction that you're trying to get in some cases. I think it's intentional. I would have liked to, you know, george floyd and and the cops getting shot was it louisiana or dallas that night it was in texas texas yes but i would have liked to had one cop come out and go really when when i pull you over when i pull you over you feel like you're at risk have you seen how many been cops have been killed in the last decade you feel like you're at risk? Are you shitting me? I'm out here doing my job. Excuse me. Protecting.

Yeah, I mean, I never feel any pushback. And again, now we're at a point, if you do pushback, you're going to be labeled a pariah and all that. And I keep hearing the cops can't do anything, you know. So now it's coming down. It's coming from the top down. And what else didn't help was during the George Floyd riot, you have your vice president bailing criminals out of jail. Yeah, you have these bail funds that are all over the place. And they're just indiscriminately releasing people based, again, on some sort of characteristic that they find to be marginalized.

So, for example, when we have someone who happens to be homeless who is committing, like, violent crimes, they will treat that person the same way as they would someone who literally stole a loaf of bread to eat that night. So, like, there's a clear difference between the two. Right. But they pretend otherwise because they view criminals as victims. the two, but they pretend otherwise because they view criminals as victims. Yeah. And as far as the homeless situation, I know you have a chapter in your book called the Salt Lake City Myth. A few years ago, I guess they kind of said, hey, we got the solution. It's working here. Tell the people why that was a myth. Yeah. So it's called Housing First is the policy that has been implemented across

the country it's a federal policy it's also state by state for the most part being used housing first basically means we put someone who's homeless in a house first and then we go after the underlying cause of their homelessness mental health issues drug addiction whatever it is and Salt Lake City did this several years ago and after I think was a five year experiment, they said, we got the functional zero homelessness. And I looked at that because I hear that being used by housing first advocates all the time. And these are, you know, lefties who are promoting Salt Lake City, which is it's a purple city, it's leaning blue now. But it always sort of sounded weird to me. So I started doing the research. And I realized,

oh, yeah, it wasn't a success. It was a total failure. They were looking at different numbers. They were comparing apples to oranges and homelessness has gotten worse every single year since. And so I decided to do an entire chapter, which was not my intent going in just on Salt Lake City, just to dispel a lot of these myths so that the next time, again,

that's one of those terms housing first, I can ask someone, they have no idea what the hell it is I'm talking about. And yet that's the policy that I think is to blame for homelessness because they're not looking to get them completely clean and sober and treated. There's low barrier households. That's what housing first is. So let's say you're an addict. You continue to use while in subsidized housing.

Oh, I see. So at some point you realize, oh, so we're just giving them forever subsidized home. They're going to end up overdosing. They're going to die anyway, but I guess they'll die indoors and we're supposed to be okay with that. And they say they're going after the root cause. And they, you know, well, it's not housing.

It's them putting a needle between their toes at three in the afternoon in front of the gap. Yeah, I mean, and like you said, again, with the language, it sounds great. The problem is, you know, the rank and file, us people who work, you know, we don't have time to thank God, you know, guys like you dig into this. But that's the problem. They hear it on TV and they go, oh, they're trying to do their best. And we've been falling for it forever.

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