Hour 1 - The Politics of Envy
4/16/202637 mincomplete
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0:09Show. Clay is in flight, so you are rolling with the Buckster solo today.
0:14That would be me. Thanks for being here, everybody.
0:17Clay and I are linking up for a lovely charity event tonight at Mar -a
0:23-Lago, a place I'm sure you're quite familiar with.
0:27So, yeah, that's what we got going on.
0:28And we have a lot of news to talk about.
0:31A Department of War press conference this morning, D .O .W., Secretary Hexeth laying out
0:38where things stand right now with this blockade.
0:42And it's now just a blockade of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
0:47We've got Mamdani's New York getting crazier by the minute and doing exactly what you
0:55would expect, an economic ignoramus communist to do.
1:00And that is class warfare, redistribution of wealth, find some way to blame other people,
1:09and take their money while you're doing it.
1:12That's what's going on in New York City.
1:14It is the case, I think, that Mamdani will be seen as real estate salesman
1:21of the year for Florida.
1:23That is likely to happen, along with some Texas and Tennessee.
1:27But New Yorkers, like me, like Hannity, like a bunch of us, we tend to
1:33retreat to Castle, Florida, when we've had enough of the commies in New York.
1:38So we've got that going on.
1:40And you've also got some, I mean, a really just gut punch of a story
1:47about a slain DHS employee and the guy who killed her.
1:51So a Department of Homeland Security employee, young woman, and she was murdered by some
1:55maniac who went on a terror spree, essentially, terrorizing people.
2:01And guess what? He's somebody who was brought into the country, another person who should
2:05not have been here, another person who has preyed upon the innocent and never should
2:10have been in a position to do so.
2:12A little more of the fallout from Eric Swalwell's resignation and the end of Swalwell's
2:20political career. Now I think he's focused on the staying out of prison side of
2:25the equation. And then we'll get to a lot of your talkbacks and calls and
2:28everything else. So a very stacked show today.
2:29And that brings me to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, who was speaking this morning
2:38about the situation in Iran.
2:40And this is where we are.
2:42This is where things stand right now.
2:45We are a few days into this, a few days into saying that every ship
2:51can go through the strait except Iranian ships.
2:55So we are choking off their economic lifeline right now.
3:00And Trump feels like we have all the cards to do so.
3:04Secretary Hegseth coming in over the top with a reminder that there is a definitely
3:10not just a willingness, but in fact preparations are underway to take action against the
3:16Iranians should they not concede.
3:19Should they not agree in a deal?
3:23Or if they do anything aggressive, which would seem even crazier under the circumstances.
3:27This is, let's do cut one here.
3:30Secretary of War speaking directly to the Iranian regime.
3:32Play it. We'll start with a message to Iran's military leadership, to the KH leadership
3:39and IRGC leadership. We're watching you.
3:43Our capabilities are not the same, our military and yours.
3:46Remember, this is not a fair fight.
3:48We are locked and loaded on your critical dual -use infrastructure, on your remaining power
3:54generation, and on your energy industry.
3:57We'd rather not have to do it, but we're ready to go at the command
4:02of our president and at the push of a button.
4:05You'd like to say publicly, Iran, that you control the strait of Hormuz, but you
4:10don't have a navy or real domain awareness.
4:14You can't control anything. Can't control anything, he says.
4:21Now, the only way I think that the Iranians are able to change the game
4:28here, the only thing that I can see as their next level, their next move,
4:33would be something that is so aggressive and catastrophic for them as well as for
4:39the strait, and that would be to blow up a ship, an oil tanker.
4:44And I don't think that they're going to do that.
4:46I think they recognize that that would not serve their interests.
4:50I think they recognize that America would react even more strongly to that, and it
4:55would also bring the international community onto our side or, well, some of them.
5:01Some of them would blame us, to be clear.
5:02Some other countries, lots of other countries, unfortunately, would rather blame America than blame Iran
5:08for all of this. They view us as the instigator here.
5:13Now, we did start this conflict, but we didn't start the overall disagreement with Iran,
5:20and we didn't start the decades of terrorism.
5:23We didn't start... We didn't start...
5:24The isolation of Iran from the international community because it refuses to act like a
5:30normal state. You'll notice we have no interest in blockading Spain or the Philippines or,
5:40you know, India or go around the world.
5:44We're not looking for fights.
5:46We just refuse. And this Trump administration refuses to back down to bullies and to
5:53bad actors and to malefactors.
5:55And this is where Hegseth just says, look, this is the carrots and sticks moment.
6:00Iran can play ball or this just gets worse for them.
6:04This is cut to he's just saying this is how it's going to play out
6:08over the days ahead. This blockade, which the chairman will detail this morning, is the
6:13polite way that this can go.
6:15Your energy is not moving and will not move.
6:18And we can do this all day, but it's not destroyed yet.
6:22Your energy industry is not destroyed yet.
6:24The United States Navy controls the traffic going in and out of the strait because
6:30we have real assets and real capabilities.
6:33And we're doing this blockade, performing it with less than 10 percent of America's naval
6:39power. The math is clear.
6:42We're using 10 percent of the world's most powerful Navy and you have zero percent
6:47of your Navy. That's real control.
6:50And we have a long track record of dealing with pirates and terrorists.
6:56We do have by far the most powerful Navy.
7:00We have the most powerful military, of course, but our Navy is in just a
7:05whole different league from every other Navy around the planet.
7:09The Brits used to have some great stuff, but their Navy now is a couple
7:13of rowboats and a dinghy.
7:14It's gotten gotten sad, gotten sad.
7:16The once great British Navy is not what it used to be.
7:19But we have a great Navy and we are using it here to bring maximum
7:25pressure against the Iranian regime.
7:27And what you're going to see is how much pain can the Iranian, the Iranian
7:32regime tolerate before they will concede.
7:35Now, this is this is going to be interesting and it's going to take time.
7:40This is not going to be an overnight thing.
7:42The Iranians are not going to come back to us in a few days, in
7:44my opinion, and say, you know what?
7:47Fine. All that stuff we refuse to do, we're willing to do.
7:51And this is why Secretary Hegseth has said to them, look, you have a choice
7:55to make here. You should choose wisely.
7:58This is cut three. Play it to Iran.
8:01Choose wisely. I pray you choose a deal which is within your grasp for the
8:07betterment of your people and for the betterment of the world.
8:10In the meantime, the War Department is locked and loaded.
8:16Now, the problem here that we run into is that the Iranian government, as it
8:21still stands, and we're told that Mujtaba is deep, deep, deep underground somewhere.
8:27So the Iranian governing body, which is still in place, does not care about the
8:34suffering of its own people.
8:36That's why I have brought up numerous times the Iran -Iraq War of the 80s
8:39with, they think, about a million people died.
8:42And it was just a brutal border and trench warfare conflict between Iraq and Iran.
8:50And they're willing to use their people as cannon fodder, as we discussed.
8:54So the idea that the Iranians calling the shots are going to say, you know
8:59what? Food prices are too high.
9:02People are suffering. We're just going to have to bend the knee on this.
9:07I don't see that. In fact, what may be the end state here, what may
9:13be the goal of Trump and the whole team is that things get so rough
9:19inside of Iran that the Iranian people finally do say, whatever it takes, whatever the
9:25cost, we've just got to get rid of these IRGC scumbags and we've got it.
9:29Now, is that even possible?
9:32We have seen so little of it thus far.
9:34So I do have my concerns about it.
9:38But then there's this other piece of it.
9:41And I'm I wonder if we're going to if we would really do this.
9:49It's it's going to be tough if we do.
9:51This is Secretary Hague said this is cut for.
9:53Or he's saying if Iran is unwilling to play ball, meaning concede, we're very straightforwardly
10:00telling them you're giving up your nukes now and forever or not your nukes, but
10:04your nuclear material and your nuclear ambitions like you're never allowed to have a nuke.
10:09And Trump has been clear that that is the goal.
10:11Reopening the strait is not the goal.
10:13Iran never having a nuke is the goal of this whole operation.
10:16It's not regime change, but it's never having a nuke.
10:19Right. That is where this really has come down.
10:22If they're not going to see the light on this, Secretary Hegseth is telling them
10:27this could get a lot tougher for you.
10:30Cut for we're doing this blockade, performing it with less than 10 percent of America's
10:35naval power. The math is clear.
10:37We're using 10 percent of the world's most powerful navy and you have zero percent
10:42of your navy. That's real control.
10:44And we have a long track record of dealing with pirates and terrorists.
10:48No, no, no. But there is an alternative.
10:50Guys, if Iran chooses poorly, they will have a blockade.
10:52bombs dropping on infrastructure power and energy can we find that one please because that
10:57is what i'm talking about here which is the next phase would be bombs on
11:03as i said infrastructure power energy this is what president trump said president trump said
11:10before that if they won't deal we are going to do a little bit more
11:16of a bomb them back into the stone ages campaign which would cause immense civilian
11:21suffering uh this this is the this is going very deep into the bag of
11:27uh of options that the pentagon has here to do something that is pretty radical
11:32and at that point you will be inflicting a lot of pain on the iranian
11:37people 90 million of them not just the military aspects and the military uh capability
11:43industrial capability of iran that's a pretty extreme place to go it sounds like trump
11:49i would not i would not ever doubt trump's seriousness with this mission it sounds
11:54like trump is planning on that as a next phase a next stop so we
11:59shall see where this goes but as of right now it sounds like the trump
12:03administration is very comfortable very confident in its position as articulated by secretary of war
12:09hex at this morning that this has now turned into a waiting game where we
12:16have all the resources we have all the cards so to speak and it's just
12:21a question of when the iranians will see that reality at least the regime will
12:25see that reality so this is going to be something we're following for days weeks
12:29maybe months i think the ceasefire is going to come up here pretty quickly i
12:34still believe that there'll be an extension of that ceasefire but i could be wrong
12:39and trump is saying that the pain will be ratcheted up considerably if there's not
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13:43just preset them on the iheart app so what's the next phase of this iran
13:48blockade that is now where we are it's no longer really a war it's a
13:53naval blockade the air campaign has been put on pause we're in a ceasefire and
13:59this is going to make i think a huge difference into what the future looks
14:03like how does this campaign now unfold what happens with this blockade now the iranians
14:11are very dependent this is all function of geography and pipelines you know iran some
14:17countries have pipelines like russia has pipelines that go right into uh europe and and
14:22russia has uh pipelines i think that connect into china um but you can look
14:27at maps of this stuff iran really only has pipelines to get to oil terminals
14:32inside of iran on the coast so if it can't get the oil out through
14:39this strait then guess what happens it can't get the oil to market it can't
14:45get hard hard currency it's effectively economically dead in the water if you will but
14:53there's more that isn't the only leverage point here and this is what i was
14:57talking about before um secretary hegseth this morning said that if iran makes the wrong
15:03choice here they are facing even greater punishment than choking off their economy via the
15:10strait of hormuz blockade play 25 there is an alternative as our negotiators have said
15:15you iran can choose a prosperous future a golden bridge and we hope that you
15:19do for the people of iran in the meantime and for as long as it
15:23takes we will maintain this blockade successful blockade but if iran chooses poorly then they
15:29will have a blockade and bombs dropping on infrastructure power and energy so if we
15:40plunge iran into the dark which we can do if we destroy critical infrastructure in
15:48that country that is a major escalation and it could create a humanitarian crisis inside
15:55the country i think it likely would depends on the extent of it but again
15:59it goes back to trump is seemingly completely completely unwilling and i will say i
16:06am impressed with the resolve here because given the midterms and the political pressures and
16:11the price of gas it would be much easier to take the position we're going
16:17to just negotiate and then talk to talk you you and more negotiations and that
16:21is what iran that is iran's best case scenario so just understand that now iran's
16:26best case scenario is what i had initially said which is that there's no deal
16:30but there might be a deal they say and so they get us talking and
16:34they get us moving forward into some kind of just merry -go -round of talks
16:38talks talks well iran's been doing that for 20 something years now in the nuclear
16:42program and this is this has been the whole game so they would be very
16:46happy with that as long as the oil is flowing now if the oil is
16:50not flowing that puts pressure on them if beyond just being able to talk this
16:56out endlessly if they lose a lot of critical infrastructure then we're kind of upending
17:02their society and just seeing what happens and then that's we're flipping over the table
17:06and looking underneath and come what may that's what will be it does seem like
17:12the trump administration is willing to see it through to that extent which is pretty
17:16remarkable uh this is this is the highest of high stakes poker trump chose this
17:22war trump chose this showdown and he's either going to walk away from this i
17:28think the most uh statesman like commander -in -chief slash strategist slash uh political tactician
17:39that we have seen in our lifetime in the middle east or it's going to
17:44be a real drag on us in the midterms and people are going to say
17:47that there was some folly in this i i am actually though seeing more now
17:52that i am looking at the way this is lined up with iran getting choked
17:56off but the rest of hormuz going i'm actually starting to feel pretty optimistic about
18:01trump getting what he wants out of this so we'll talk more about it but
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18:54april 30th is text my name buck to 98 98 98 text b -u -c
18:59-k buck to 98 98 98 so what does kami mom donny mom donny mom
19:06donny mom donny mom donny it's not that easy to say kwame mom donny mom
19:12donny oh gosh is a tongue twister not easy to say what does he have
19:18in store for the city of new york where as you know i still have
19:21family that lives there and so i i am very sympathetic to all of you
19:28especially our wor listeners who are in the greater new york area and have to
19:34deal with the consequences of some of the worst governance in the in the entire
19:38country some of the highest taxes the greatest dysfunction and there's no sign of any
19:44of it getting any better and this is something that is a more general rule
19:49and this is applicable to dealing with democrats anywhere so whether you live in manhattan
19:52or montana this is something to keep in mind democrats do not learn the lessons
19:59that you as a rational person learn from decisions from policy they don't come away
20:07from oh this was a massive failure this was a giant boondoggle this was huge
20:13waste fraud and abuse people suffered because of this comma maybe we should do something
20:19different their mindset is always we needed to do more of it the reason we
20:28didn't get the outcome that we wanted the reason we didn't get to the utopian
20:32place the place of perfection the place of oh everybody has all the money they
20:37need and everybody is totally equal and there's no one who feels left out and
20:43there's no resentment and there's no envy and that doesn't sound like reality does it
20:47but doesn't that's what they're going for it's why they're commies this is the vision
20:53of the future that they think they can construct for all of the rest of
20:57us if only they have enough power and that's the key the problem is never
21:03the idea is bad the problem is they had insufficient authority over you another way
21:10of saying power insufficient authority to achieve the end state and one version of this
21:17or one variant of this is they did not have enough of your money to
21:22get done what needed to be done and another a corollary of this is they
21:27have never taken enough of your money it's never enough because there could always be
21:34more brilliant humanitarian equitable things that they could do with your cash that you of
21:43course won't do because you're a fat cat you're one of the you're one of
21:47the are you you Thank you.
21:47elite and many of you are saying buck i you know i i make 50
21:5160 70 grand a year what are you talking about yeah but you're not looking
21:55for handouts you're not down with this democrat welfarism and everything else so you're you're
22:01a problem and you are a cow to be milked like all of the rest
22:05of us you're not some illegal who showed up here who's getting on benefits as
22:08fast as they can defrauding the taxpayer and not contributing no no no you you
22:16want autonomy you want to contribute you want to do things and does the government
22:21ever thank you now let's speak to new yorkers for a second does the state
22:24of new york thank you for your high taxes do you feel thanked if anything
22:30i think they are outraged every time they take money from you and i went
22:35through this myself so i speak of that which i know they feel like you
22:41should thank them because they didn't turn you upside down and fully empty out your
22:47pockets you are supposed to have a form of economic stockholm syndrome in new york
22:53you are to thank your economic captors for leaving you with some of the crumbs
22:59from the cake that you baked and once you understand that mentality once you have
23:06a full grasp and understanding of the mindset of the people who are pushing this
23:12stuff who are demanding this stuff then you're never surprised then it all lines up
23:20and you can see it coming a mile away and with that i give you
23:26kammy mamdani talking about a new luxury tax on properties play cut six when i
23:35ran for mayor i said i was going to tax the rich well today we're
23:39taxing i'm thrilled to announce we secured a pied -a -terre tax the first in
23:43new york's history this is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than five
23:47million dollars whose owners do not live full -time in the city like for this
23:51penthouse which hedge fund ceo ken griffin bought for 238 million dollars this pied -a
23:56-terre tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich those who store their
24:00wealth in new york city real estate but who don't actually live here most of
24:03the time these units are sitting empty since again they don't actually live here this
24:07is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working new yorkers now it's coming to an
24:12end i believe everyone has a role to play in contributing to our city and
24:16some a little bit more than others this is moronic he does not understand he
24:25does not get why this is a bad idea i truly believe that because he
24:32he governs and he became the mayor of new york off of feel -goodism for
24:40people who are ignorant unaccountable and don't want to face reality they want to create
24:47some perception they want this utopia future that they'll never achieve but like i said
24:53their inability to achieve and this is what's so important wherever you are oregon georgia
25:00arizona maine anywhere and everywhere in between when democrats fail it's your fault it's your
25:10fault don't you see you didn't give them enough money you didn't give them enough
25:15power you are the weak link in the chain they say they don't ever want
25:21to sit there and look at their idiotic ideas and the history of failure of
25:27those ideas we've got mom funded grocery store that's going to cost 30 million dollars
25:35and take three years to build does anyone uh hear this you don't know if
25:42you should laugh or cry that's crazy but it's all about the idea it's all
25:49about pushing this forward it's saying see i am soaking the rich and this is
25:55the other part of it as well the politics of envy are not about math
26:01you just had tax day yesterday you just had to deal with this many of
26:06you i had to write a big check irs just sucking money out of my
26:10bank account um the politics of envy are not about math meaning they will do
26:17these things and this was true of obama's true of biden this is the democrats
26:21really understanding how they view this stuff they would rather try to soak the rich
26:29it's very hard to do so which we'll talk about in a second but they
26:32would rather target the rich and have less revenue over time then promote pro -growth
26:40policies and have more revenue because if that more revenue means people doing well continue
26:47to do well and even do better that's unacceptable it is about tearing them down
26:53it is about blaming them it's the emotional appeal of this to people in new
26:58york otherwise you'd sit there and say hey why is housing so expensive gee i
27:04don't know maybe because of insane regulations the city of new york has maybe because
27:09the unions drive up the costs of all all construction in ways that are just
27:15incomprehensible. Maybe it's because the tax climate is such that developers are having to make
27:21all kinds of concessions and deals just to get things done to build more.
27:25It's a mess. And the people telling you, in this case, Momdani, but this is
27:31true in LA. This is true in New York City.
27:34This is true all over the country, in any urban center, really.
27:38The people telling you it's because the rich don't pay enough, they've created the environment
27:43that makes it all so expensive.
27:45The people like Momdani, with his silver -tongued nonsense, they promise you that they will
27:53address these problems and hope you don't notice they are the cause of the problem.
27:57And this is where all this blame -shifting and understanding the mentality of these people
28:01is so powerful and is so important.
28:04Because otherwise you would say, okay, let's get to this pied -à -terre tax for
28:08a second here. Does he think, it's very specifically targeted, he says, at homes over
28:14$5 million people don't live in, does he think that there's going to be some
28:18downstream effect of this? Has he considered that people, first of all, if you buy
28:23a very expensive, obviously a very expensive home, if you buy it, in New York
28:30City there's $5 million homes everywhere, as you know.
28:32I mean, that's like a, in Manhattan, that's a nice two - or three -bedroom
28:36apartment. Standard. Standard. Three -bedroom apartment, $5 million.
28:40In Manhattan, that's not a, there are other states where a $5 million home, you
28:46know, if you're in Nebraska, a $5 million home is going to have like a
28:49bowling alley, it's going to have a private pond, you can water ski on, I
28:53mean, you know, you're talking about really probably 12 to 16 ,000 square feet, right?
28:59In New York City, it's a three -bedroom apartment.
29:02That's how expensive it's gotten there now.
29:04But he's saying this is going to help people.
29:07Some of the best residents you can have are people who don't use any of
29:12your services at all, aren't there that much, and are already paying taxes, businesses have
29:20already put a lot of money into the economy, right?
29:24So this might have the effect of people buying fewer of these $5 million homes.
29:30This might have the effect of people saying, fine, I'll try to sell it.
29:33But then also your other buyers recognize that they're going to be targets for this
29:38too. And so they start putting their money in other places.
29:42I got to tell you, a $5 million house down here in South Florida, it's
29:46a nice house. It's not a crazy nice house.
29:48It won't get you on the water in most places.
29:51That's how tight the market has gotten here now.
29:54And I mean South Florida pretty broadly, right?
29:56I'm just talking about Miami and Naples and some of the fanciest places, Palm Beach.
30:01Palm Beach, you can't even get $5 million to get you like a glorified outhouse
30:07somewhere. It's crazy. So it's gotten so expensive.
30:11The money's going to move elsewhere.
30:13And you might say, well, why do we care and everything else?
30:16Well, because the very decision making of someone like Imamdani is going to make all
30:24this stuff worse. This is what I think you have to remember.
30:27It's not that they're offering trade -offs.
30:31It's that they're doing things that exacerbate the thing that they claim they are fixing,
30:38right? It'd be one thing if they said, hey, you know, we're going to increase,
30:45we're going to have way more doctors to increase the supply of doctors in New
30:50York City, but we're going to have to raise some taxes for that.
30:53I'm just coming up with something on the fly here.
30:55You could say, well, look, you're going to have to raise taxes a lot in
30:58this program. Is it even going to, but you would at least theoretically have more
31:01doctors. So maybe that's a good thing for Imamdani capping rent, putting these wealth taxes.
31:08And that's exactly what this is.
31:10Putting these things in place will make the affordability crisis worse.
31:15We'll make the long -term fiscal projections of New York City worse.
31:20And this is again, that key.
31:23And he knows it and he doesn't care.
31:25And he still wants to do it.
31:27It is about punishing your perceived class enemies.
31:32It is about every person who lives in New York channeling, who is frustrated about
31:37costs, who is frustrated about their economics situation.
31:41Instead of being angry at the bureaucracy and the high taxes there, which is a
31:45very reasonable position thinking, yeah, if only Ken Griffin paid more in taxes, I could
31:52afford to send my kids to that, you know, Catholic school or that, that religious
31:55school in my neighborhood. It's Ken Griffin's fault.
31:59It's not Ken Griffin's fault.
32:01This is idiotic. In fact, he's a job creator who's bought a lot of properties
32:05and moving a lot of cash around and creating a lot of, uh, a lot
32:09of actual wealth. But at the same time, you can see now why it never
32:15gets better with these people.
32:17You can see why after de Blasio to Adams, you know, Adams was, we should
32:23appreciate him, I guess, more than we did at some level because while he was
32:26incompetent, he wasn't, he wasn't, uh, nefarious.
32:31He wasn't intentionally ruining New York city.
32:34He just wasn't a very good mayor.
32:35We are now back to, for ideological reasons, Mondani intentionally ruining New York.
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33:50Looking for normal in a world of crazy?
33:53Clay and Buck have your back.
33:56All right, we got some calls.
33:56We got some talkbacks. We got good things going on here.
33:59Let's go to it. And a talkback listener, Michael, from Arizona wants to weigh in
34:07on something. Here we go.
34:09Buck, got to give you some crap.
34:11Drawstring pants. You can't carry a 1911 like a real man should.
34:15Just making fun. Just having a good time with you all.
34:18Love your show. Well, Michael, we love you too.
34:20But I just want to be clear that the proper way to carry your 1911
34:25is in your breeches, like from what they wore during the Revolutionary Era, you know,
34:32with like the high white socks.
34:33Because you want it to fit in with the timeline.
34:37So you got to go, 1911, you got to go back, dress a little bit
34:41like George Washington, because that's how old you're vibing with your 1911.
34:47I'm here for you. And on the drawstring pants, guys, I'm telling you, even my
34:53team, my team is making fun of me.
34:55I am telling you guys, it's like a life -changing thing.
34:59My parents, and it's funny because they both take credit for this, so I'm going
35:02to get a text from probably both of them after this.
35:04My mom and my dad both claim that have comfortable shoes, doesn't mean ugly shoes,
35:09just means comfortable shoes, is a life hack.
35:11Don't ever let anyone tell you to wear shoes that hurt your feet because it
35:14will ruin whatever you're doing and everything else.
35:16They're completely correct on that.
35:18But many of you have followed me down the sartorial pathway of freedom from the
35:26necktie. And as I have explained, because a French king in the 17th century had
35:31a bunch of Croatian mercenaries who had to have a brightly colored cloth around their
35:35neck so they could look cool and also probably not shoot each other on the
35:38battle or stab each other on the battlefield, as it were.
35:41That doesn't mean that I should have to put a self -induced noose around my
35:46own neck with the necktie.
35:48I do not like it.
35:49And people have followed me on that one.
35:51They're correct. They know that I'm right.
35:53C, podcast listener on West Treasure Island floor.
35:56Once Talk Mom Donnie, hit it.
35:58Clay and Buck, I just want to remind you that Mamdami's grocery store cannot fail
36:04because he's a communist. No communist plan ever fails because it wasn't true communism.
36:10When the grocery store fails, it's going to be capitalism's fault, not his.
36:17The gentleman is correct. When the grocery store becomes a debacle, when people are seeing
36:24empty shelves or rotten meat in the case, when all of that happens and that
36:29is inevitable, they, you know what they will say?
36:33It is because of the stinginess of capitalism, not the failure of communism.
36:38It is because the rich are not paying their fair share.
36:41You see, friends, even when they force you to do something you don't want to
36:46do, their failure when they take your money is because you weren't a source of
36:53even more money for them.