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The short version is that Elizabeth Warren is not only a pedestrian thinker, she is a hardcore socialist. When one looks at the history of socialism -- as I do in this podcast -- one can see that it has failed wherever its been implemented, whether by killing tens of millions of people, bringing starvation and terror in its wake, or just destroying freedom and initiative by inches. That's a terrible deal for America.

The great danger of riptides is the fact that you don't realize you're drifting further and further from shore. In American politics, Leftists and, of late, NeverTrumpers have inexorably been drifting further and further from the shore of sanity, rationality, and national security. I discuss that drift in today's politics -- how it happened, what it means, and whether there's hope for it to stop.

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Although there is no real news out there right now (the economy is chugging along, the world is relatively stable), the 24-hour internet, corporate media, and social media keep churning out fantasies that aren't even closely related to reality.

This podcast looks at five exhibits highlighting how far removed American news is from actual news and how dangerously its perverting our political discourse.

For more about the podcast's content, as well as links for the material cited in the podcast, you can find a full post here.

When it comes to mass shootings, guns are a tool, not a reason. In this podcast, I run through the reasons behind mass shootings:

Violent rhetoric permeating our culture (mostly from the Left)

Fatherlessness

Attacks on men as toxic and evil

Loss of respect for life as seen in abortion, rejection of the death penalty for murder, and the end of our anthropocentric world view in favor of a Marxist, Gaia-ist world view.

The de-institutionalization of the mentally ill

The reliance on drugs to treat normal boy energy and genuine mental illness.

Put these all together and you've got a powerful brew of nihilism, anger, and madness.

In this podcast, I spent a little time talking about our Bill of Rights, which constrains the government in favor of liberties naturally inherent in all people. Of these liberties, the Second Amendment is one of the most important. I discuss too the lack of imagination that has Progressives see only the relatively small number who die from guns, versus the very large number of people whose lives are saved by guns.

Finally, I discuss the way in which the Left is making thought crimes an issue. Leftists impute racist thought crimes to Trump and then seek to punish them. In doing so, they ignore that Truman, one America's more righteous leaders was a racist who integrated the U.S. Military Forces and an anti-Semite who supported the founding of the state of Israel. In other words, people can put principles ahead of prejudices. Trump's record shows that, even if we pretend solely for the sake of argument that he's a racist, there is nothing racist about his governance.

In the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, we need to remember that the Second Amendment still protects us against the greatest killer of all: government. The change in our society shouldn't be about guns; it needs to be about morality. We've reverted to a neo-paganism that devalues human life, leaving us more open to mass shootings. Lastly, I suggest that simply being kind may be something of an antidote to the alienation that seems to drive some shooters.

In this podcast:

Michael Moore thinks Michelle Obama is the Democrats' only hope.

Reasoning: people like her – it's a popularity contest.

Doesn't point to any major accomplishments. Can't.

Until Obama, presidents were expected to have accomplished things before presidency.

It's a new aristocracy. The old aristocracy held you're entitled to office by birth; the new aristocracy holds you're entitled to office by membership in the Leftist elite

Tulsi is lovely to look at and has proven that she can strike like a rattlesnake. Her military record makes her appealing to centrists and, unlike the other vet on the stage, she lacks the anger and LGBTQ baggage Buttigieg.

The thing is, though, she's just a generic leftist in policy.

Supports socialized medicine, although she pays lip service to some form of private insurance.

Wants to force American taxpayers to fully fund community and two year colleges and to pay for "middle-class students" at public universities, seeding generations of new, government-funded Leftists.

Supports unlimited abortion – supported 2013's "Women's Health Protection Act" which would have removed all state mandated limits on abortion.

Generic greenie

On race, voted yes on the "Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals."

On immigration, talks tough about security but really wants to give a free pass to people already in the country illegally, giving hope to millions more to come here illegally.

On national security, like Trump, Tulsi is anti-Wilson doctrine. Because she's like Trump, why not stick with him?

Story out of Garfield Heights, Ohio, about a 79 year old woman being sent to jail for 10 days for feeding stray cats.

Feeding feral cats is not innocuous. Feral cats have lots of nasty diseases, they kill birds, and the food you put out for them brings in other animals, such as rats and raccoons.

Just because you're a cute little old lady doesn't mean the law doesn't apply to you.

Show notes:

1. All led with emotions – and some never left them. It was always about the children – Latin American children, never American.

2. Kamala is good when she's in an offensive position and dreadful when she's in a defensive position. In other words, she can handle herself when she's been prepped, but falls apart when she's blindsided, as she was by Tulsi.

a) Sounds both bored and condescending.

b) Healthcare is a NOT right.

c) Described every summer camp ever.

I went to a place in Florida called Homestead, and there is a private detention facility being paid for by your taxpayer dollars, a private detention facility that currently houses 2,700 children.

And by the way, there were members of us -- Julian was there, members of Congress, they would not let us enter the place, members of the United States Congress. So I walked down the road, I climbed a ladder, and I looked over the fence. And I'm going to tell you what I saw. I saw children lined up single file based on gender being walked into barracks.

3. Biden is haunted by the "sleepy Joe" tag Trump hung on him. Biden just made going to prison a better option than trying for a college scholarship.

Right now, we're in a situation where, when someone is convicted of a drug crime, they end up going to jail and to prison. They should be going to rehabilitation. They shouldn't be going to prison. When in prison, they should be learning to read and write and not just sit in there and learn how to be better criminals.

And when they get out of prison, they should be in a situation where they have access to everything they would have had before, including Pell grants for education, including making sure that they're able to have housing, public housing, including they have all the opportunities that were available to them because we want them to become better citizens.

Radical: Biden wants to imprison law-abiding businessmen for disagreeing with him: "we should put some of these insurance executives who totally oppose my plan in jail for of the $9 billion opioids they sell out there."

4. Inslee is a climate monomaniac. It's sad, really. No, I take it back. It's scary that he's the avatar of too many indoctrinated Leftists. (This indoctrination, BTW, is why Dems want to funnel all Americans into college.)

Also funny to hear him tout criminal justice reform in Washington when you think about Seattle.

5. Gillibrand touts herself as the "white privilege translator."

I think as a white woman of privilege, who is a U.S. senator, running for president of the United States, it is also my responsibility to lift up those voices that aren't being listened to.

And I can talk to those white women in the suburbs that voted for Trump and explain to them what white privilege actually is, that when their son is walking down a street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie, his whiteness is what protects him from not being shot.

When his - when her - when their child has a car that breaks down, and he knocks on someone's door for help, and the door opens, and the help is given, it's his whiteness that protects him from being shot. That is what white privilege in America is today. And so, my responsibility's to only lift up those stories, but explain to communities across America, like I did in Youngstown, Ohio, to a young mother, that this is all of our responsibilities, and that together we can make our community stronger.

Does it not occur to her that if WP is such a problem, every candidate who is white needs to withdraw immediately from the race?

About me

1. Why I decided to podcast
2. Dream job

Things to know

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2. May take me a while until I got over arch, weird speech

Topics

1. Debate
   • Elizabeth Warren wants to destroy America with open borders.
   • Marianne Williamson is a garden variety leftist.
2. Mueller is the picture of Dorian Gray
3. Trump Obstruction charge