02:00 NYT: Hooray! WNBA and media bully Caitlin Clark into denouncing critics of the racist and heterophobic violence perpetrated against her, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/nyt-hooray-wnba-and-media-bully-caitlin
04:00 Steve Sailer: It’s time for a national conversation about racist violence … in the WNBA, https://www.stevesailer.net/p/its-time-for-a-national-conversation
06:00 DNC Begins: Can Harris Get Boost She Needs vs Trump? | Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBifdcaLH-w
18:00 Why Hanania is voting Republican, https://substack.com/@richardhanania/p-147665224
20:00 Richard Hanania’s confident proclamations about covid show that he doesn’t have a clue, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/are-covid-restrictions-the-new-tsa
29:30 Hanania claims he can write as well as Shakespeare, https://www.takimag.com/article/32214/
35:00 Kamala received her first bad press last Friday, https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/philboas/2024/08/19/kamala-harris-economic-plan-price-gouging-controls/74859756007/
36:00 Steve Sailer: Shut up about race & IQ, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/shut-up-about-race-and-iq
40:00 Richard Hanania talks to Nathan Cofnas, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/how-much-truth-can-we-take
48:00 Kamala calling for price controls was dumb, https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/philboas/2024/08/19/kamala-harris-economic-plan-price-gouging-controls/74859756007/
55:00 If Books Could Kill: The Origins of Woke, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/richard-hananias-the-origins-of-woke/id1651876897?i=1000661885769
58:00 Kamala gets her first bad press
1:18:50 Why Trump gets away with his lies
1:22:00 Kamala Harris: A Story of Cover-Up , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0y2dH3bYy4
1:26:00 Does Kamala have a drinking problem?
Podnotes Transcript: I’ve been reading a lot of Richard Hana Hanania posts over the past few days. The guy is not a serious thinker. He’s an attention-seeker.
He is very similar to Richard Spencer. And there’s nothing higher for Richard Hanania than himself at his own ego. So the type of post that you pin to the top of your twitter feed, it’s a pretty good way to get a read on somebody. And so this is what’s important to Richard don onion. This is what he wants you to know beyond everything else.
I ran the numbers. And 1 percent of my newsletter subscribers have an email from 1 of the top 20 schools in the country. Right that’s the number 1 thing that he wants you to know about his work. That 1 percent of his newsletter subscribers have an email from 1 of the top 20 schools in the country. There is nothing higher for Richard Hana than Richard Hanania ego, his advancement in status Right?
His standing, his prestige his ability to capture your attention. He’s very much like Rich it’s Spencer. He differs from another cell back Grand isaac, Mike Benz and that Mike Benz, does live as something higher than himself. Mike Pence is incredibly self grand when he says that he he ran cyber for the state department, right, completely ludicrous claim. But Mike Ben devote himself to causes.
Right? He’s devoted himself to free speech at to promoting Republicans, and that is above and beyond. Right? His own amount of attention and prestige. Right?
There are things that Mike Pence believes in that are greater than Mike Pence after reading a number of richard Hana essays. I I don’t think there’s anything that Richard Hana believes in that’s bigger than Richard Hana. So… Here’s an example So steve Sailor wrote a few months ago, New York Times. Right?
It’s Hooray. W nba Media bully Caitlyn Clark. W nba Media Bully Caitlyn Clark into critics of the racist that had a perfect violence per against to buy black Lesbian, and that’s good for reasons of who I’m in my life to the best of I adult life that I paid attention to female basketball because solely because of Caitlyn Clark. Alright. I I watch the vinyl of the college goals basketball championship solely because I I heard so much about Caitlyn Clark.
And see Sail notes something that was… So obvious once he pointed it out, but I didn’t notice that Right? So… I do know the W mba has been struggling financially for as long as it’s been in operation, and it could explode in popularity. Right?
If they simply equally enforce the law. So here’s sailor learning. W mba Rookie Caitlyn Clark is being exposed to vicious racist and violence from black lesbian angered by a straight white woman winding in on their turf. Women’s basketball administrators even shot themselves in the foot by leaving her their biggest star of Us Olympic team. Now in the New York times sports section, the athletic at Column next explains the real issue is that bad people are object to the abuse the Caitlyn Clock has endured.
Right? So… Caitlyn Clark is just getting hammered because she is wide and because she is heterosexual. So C Points out the obvious which wasn’t obvious to me until he pointed out that, yeah. And how does how does Richard Hana respond to a series of great points by Steve Sailor.
So Steve Za says it’s time for a national conversation about racist violence in the W nba. Richard Hanania about my post yesterday about the seasoned long campaign of he sexist and racist violence by WNBA Black Play against White Rookie Caitlyn Clock. And Richard Tan yet. This is typical Richard Don nun. There’s nothing higher to Rich than his own ego, his own grand.
Hate Clocked announced support from Racist, Steve sailor is not taking well. Right? Do do you really think that the ups shot, of Steve Sail post about Caitlyn Clark getting hammered on a Racist and Sexist basis is really about Steve Sailor not taking it well. And Steve Za apologize up. You can tell the baseball star Caitlyn Clark supporters a racist because they object to Caitlyn being subjected to racist and violence by black Lesbian have 3 intersection Pokemon points while Caitlyn Clark only as 1.
Right? And and so you see clark, just getting smashed right here in the head, Like, 2 seconds after Caitlyn Clark shot. Right? Smashed in the head by the forearm of her loud mouth rival angel r. Alright.
Clark sharp was already 2 feet past reese hand when Reese hammond clock in the head with their arm knocking her of the floor. Reese was whistle for unnecessary rough but not for excessive rock. Like, what 1 of these punches could kill someone. Right? Women are much more fragile than men.
Now if the races were reversed, this would be a huge ongoing story dwarf even the central Park Karen of 20 20. But the New York Times treats the biggest story is a bad people noticing the racist violence against the white woman and object to it. When all good people know that blacks can’t be racist because they have no power such as in the W nba. Right. And for Richard Hana, this is an opportunity to sn.
Right? Because there there isn’t anything that he holds himself higher than Richard hana. Alright? So he’s he’s history. He…
He’s all over the pace that there’s this kind of uneasy feeling you get when you read him because he is dancing so hard for your attention. Right? He is consistently disagreeable against conservatives and Republicans because that’s his niche. Like Richard Spencer. He wants to knock down every other pun on the right.
Every other intellectual on the right just smash them. Right? To advance his own cause, but in so doing, he just looks petty and and completely acting as though he has no core. Right On the other hand, this is what the serious observer sounds like. Right?
Here is Mark Hal today at the Democratic National convention.
Speaker 1: And there’s a lot of pent up desire to go to actual parties and hug and celebrate and greet, and they’re being encouraged by the media. Now, the media is gonna be frank today because they’re lying to get in here for the press is the longest line I’ve waited in since I went to went to universal studios in Osaka, Japan. It’s a long line. And that’ll make some reporters cranky, particularly when some media stars got whisk in. You might think this is a small thing, but trust me this is how reporters feel in general and and develop their views about the convention convention.
However, mostly this
Speaker 0: This is what someone sounds like. When there are things that they strive for that are greater that their own ag. Right? Notice the calm. Right?
The the the willingness to offend multiple size of the political spectrum, but not looking to offend for the sake of attracting attention.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a celebration of the Dom love affair with Tom Polaris and the democratic party. I wanna show you something that Po political wrote at this morning.
Speaker 0: Right. So, Richard Na would sn about this kind of commentary. He sn about conservatives complaining about biased media coverage. For for Richard Hana nun, his perspective, the media is great. Right?
That’s Richard. He he he wrote, the the media is truthful and good. It’s It’s 1 of his longer essays.
Speaker 1: In their playbook folks if you can put that element up. Representative of the way the press covers the 2 the 2 sides. Go ahead and and put the spotlight that story, please, if you would, so everybody can see it. This says got some language in it that I tweeted about would struck me. And says so much is exciting and familiar.
And then when you see at the end of the paragraph that talks about says we’re feeling that old buzz again. Those are not words that the press would have written about, about, the Republican convention. And I’ve only been here about an hour, but it’s so different when reporters see democratic celebrities easier, like Terry Mcconnell or or needed done. They sw and they come over and ask asked friendly questions when they see Republican celebrities. In Milwaukee, they raise at them and asked hostile questions.
So It’s just a reality of of of what’s happening. So I would say in the democratic side. I… There’s still a lot not known. We know that Ao is speaking tonight.
She announced that to our supporters in an email. We know the Biden are speaking. We still don’t know very much about the program. And so be curious to see who does speak Hillary Clinton as well, and I expect that to be in a extraordinary speech. Recall that in 2016, much her real focus was on being liked.
Right? And so the speech was not particularly cutting. I I would anticipate tonight. You all see 1 of the best species at her career and a speech focused on the choice and the history of the democratic nominee and and it actually feels about Donald Trump. So I would I would tune in for that.
On the Republican side, interesting dynamics going on. The the the text of President Trump’s speech today is, right on message for republican fund talked about it Came out just a while ago ago. I skim through it, and it is just a paragraph after paragraph. I can’t believe. He’s really gonna deliver it, but he might.
And I’ll tell you why he might deliver. Go ahead and put up Jim Ga tweet. Jim Ga, the conservative writer tweeted this earlier today, and it is it is exactly right regarding the mood of the party, even some of Trump’s biggest boosters and allies Larry P Kellyanne Conway Nikki Haley, deputy Mccarthy, Peter Navarro, background swam Michel Andy are begging into stay message. Stop about crowd size and imaginary helicopter rides with Willie Brown, stop attacking Brian kemp. Stop claiming Biden tried to have an assassinated And stop saying that the presidential matter of freedom is better than the congressional medal of Honor, the biggest obstacle to Republican victory in 20 24 is the Republican nominee.
Totally true that that’s what not only those people, but lots of republicans safe totally true that we all know Donald Trump has an executed that. If he does the speech that that they were written form today, he’ll they’ll they’ll make those people happy. But I’ll tell you what the problem is. The problem is that even some of the very people who are critics.
Speaker 0: Alright. So this is where you pay attention to Mark Hal. Alright? A hundred thousand republicans evade that critique that Donald Trump Can’t stay on message. Alright?
But Mark Hal prince follow up or has not been made by anyone of which I’m aware.
Speaker 1: It’s end are constantly putting stuff on social media and saying stuff on Tv. That is exactly like along lines of what Trump does that they don’t want Trump to do. So for instance, Kamala harris went to a convenience store in Pennsylvania. Sheets convenience store. And and there there’s a flap of.
Speaker 0: So there are a hundred thousand Trump critics who wanted him to stay on message and stop himself, but Trump’s critics making this accusation. Can’t follow the the same message for themselves. Alright? They have to ag themselves as much as possible.
Speaker 1: For that. And you see you see Chris Las vid re tweeting that. You see other Trump ally tweeting that? There’s a there’s a connection between that and the economic argument, but it’s it’s not it’s not fully on message, and it’s part of the kind of personal attacks that are a bit obscure for most voters. So my point is, They all find it irresistible.
Trump Trump does too, but it’s harder to get him to do it because he sees these social media posts and sees people on cable. He hears chatter from people, , on the plane on the phone, etcetera. And so they’re asking him to do something that they themselves aren’t really doing. And that right now, I think is a big part of the tension in elite circles in the Republican party. The Democrats could not be more united right now.
There’s… Continuing the simmering tension between Nancy Pelosi and and and the Biden and and and and the Biden people in general are relatively unhappy, although they may be happier after tonight and the reception he gets in the hall, But outside of that sub plot, and it’s a little strange. Obviously, referred to a sub involving incumbent president. Democrats here and around the country are super psyche united and Republicans are dealing with this problem. Of Donald Trump.
So when he gets underway, I wanna dip in and give you a taste. But I assume at least they’ll start on on on the the text or or get to the text before too long, and you can hear to see how you think he’s doing. But before then we’re gonna, have conversation, Trump is is underway. So let’s let’s dip into that before we get started if Our got.
Speaker 2: I’ve ever seen before, but it serves for everybody during the Trump administration every group, everybody, men, and women. We had every household was at a level that they’ve never really experienced before the typical American households store their incomes grow by more than 4200 dollars per year. Everyone was better off when you had a gentleman named president Donald J Trump at the helm. Does anybody know him. Whoever he may be, I kept every single promise I made to the workers of Pennsylvania to every other place within our country.
On day 1, I withdrew from the unfair job killing trans specific partnership and…
Speaker 0: So for every 20 post that, Richard Hana makes about Donald Trump. 19 us snarky at and negative. Right? So if you had that kind of ratio in your real life, right? You wouldn’t be able to maintain any kind of relationship.
Hanania so eager to prove himself superior and more courageous just than all other right wing pun that he spends probably 5 times, , as many posts puts in 5 times as much effort, criticizing Republicans compared to praising them. But he does have a new post out. That’s called hating modern conservatism or voting Republican. So okay. You you hate modern conservatism, as opposed to what.
Right? Richard considers himself now a global liberal. Right? Because Richard desperately wants above ground acceptance. And so he was an outright white for about 10 years, but now he desperately wants above ground acceptance.
So he apologized for his humanitarian phase. And now he identifies as a global, and as a liberal? And so on what basis would he vote for for Republicans. And and This basis just shows how lacking in seriousness he is. He says, my main consideration is that economic growth is what matters.
Right. We’ve never been closer to a nuclear war with the exception of the Cuban missile crisis that that we are today. Right, due to our unnecessary involvement in Ukraine, and incentivizing Russia to invade Ukraine, and and now we are funding an arming Ukraine, and considerably increasing tensions with another nuclear power. So living in a world where nuclear war has never been more imminent with the rhetoric that. Right?
His main consideration for voting Republican his economic growth. Right, Donald Trump, whatever you think about him, he he’s the first president in many decades to not get us into a new war. Donald Trump, I don’t think whatever funded Ukraine Russia would not have invaded Ukraine, Hamas would not have invaded Israel on October seventh if if Donald Trump had been president. Alright. The biden administration has engaged absolutely reckless foreign policy adventures in funding Ukraine, and then Joe Biden flying to Israel to Hug Bib Netanyahu completely unnecessary inject injection of the United States into these conflicts.
And Biden keeps saying that we’ll go to war to fight for Taiwan. And Taiwan is not willing to fight for itself. Taiwan is not willing to take its own security seriously. Taiwan is not willing to spend to defend itself. Taiwan is not willing to sacrifice for itself.
Taiwan is not willing to have a serious army. Taiwan is not willing to seriously train people to defend the island. Taiwan is not making any serious preparations to defend itself against invasion from China. But Biden keeps talking about how the United States will go to war to defend a country that has no interest in defending itself. To me, that’s a serious issue.
Alright? Richard Hana is voting for the 20 24 election on the basis of economic growth. But compared to the the deadly issues completely unnecessary tension that we have with with Russia, in particular, but also with China, and we have unnecessarily injected ourselves into the Middle East as well. Right. It it just seems such a a trivial a trivial basis to vote.
Right. And Not is a big supporter of abortion, and he’s also a big supporter of Eu in Asia. Right? He says if the Democrats came out una in favor of a Canadian type system for Eu asia, then he’d seriously consider voting for the Democrats. Right?
So if the devs just changed their eu policy, then Richard Hana. Would seriously consider voting for them. And he doesn’t like voting for Republicans because they’ll give us more theo bureaucratic inclined judges who will completely fore the possibility of widespread eu asia. Alright. So judges are gonna get their values from someplace.
Right? Do you do you want them to get their their values primarily from socialism? Or do you want them to primarily get their their values from tradition. I don’t think you should vote based on a general sense of cultural grievance? Why not?
What why is is culture not not worthy of fighting for Alright… It’s only noteworthy worthy for fighting for if you don’t have a traditional hero system. And Richard Pan does not have a hero blood and and a little. And I I enjoy him. I I enjoy the stimulation from from his pose, but he’s not a serious thinker.
You can’t take anything that he says, seriously. He he just doesn’t… Seemed to know what he’s talking about much of the time. And he he wrote about Covid, it it’s such a completely reckless way that because we have some estimates that to 30000 to 90000 people die a year from the flu, and, people in in his estimation were dying in 20 21 from Covid at a rate of about a hundred thousand a year, he thought that Covid was about 1 a half times more serious than the average flu. Right?
Those numbers on flu deaths are estimates designed to promote people to take the flu vaccine. How many people do have died from the flu? How many celebrities do have died from the flu? Right? It almost never happens.
Right? It’s a made up number to push an agenda. On the other hand, Covid deaths are marked on death certificates, which are taken very seriously. Right? Your your life will be ruined if your reckless, in the filling out of a death certificate.
Alright? You’ll you’ll be done in that industry. So we know the the numbers of deaths from Covid. And we know that Covid is approximately 8 to 10 times more deadly than than the flu. Hana nun makes these proclamation that once you get vaccinated but Covid, Covid is no longer a threat.
This is insane. Right? Anyone who says that shows that they know nothing and are not particularly interested in in knowing anything. Taking the Covid vaccine, provides some protection against hospitalization and death, it does not render you immune from dying from Covid. But it provides a measure of protection, wearing a mask, may provide a measure of protection.
We don’t have strong evidence for that. A common sense suggests to me that wearing a mask in crowded indoor settings may provide some level of protection. But there’s no magic key that just you from, Covid. Richard and nun year pro claims that children don’t get Covid don’t suffer from Covid. We we had 2000 American children die from Covid in in the first year of Covid.
And tens of thousands more dealing with serious consequences from Covid. So he he just can’t be trusted on what he says, except as a stimulus for for thought, just like Richard Spencer and Mike Pence cannot be trusted on anything that they say, but it it could propel you to do deeper research, and and then it it’s… If it’s inspiring or en analyzing to you to look into something more deeply. Then then it’s worth paying attention to these attention seeking provocative.
Speaker 2: If I didn’t do that, You wouldn’t be open right now. You wouldn’t have a job. That was a big thing. It was approved by… Another president.
It would have destroyed our manufacturing in this country still further imposed historic tariffs on foreign aluminum and foreign steel and numerous other things that were unfair to our country and unfair to our workers I ended. The total disaster known as Nafta the worst trade deal ever made by this country and replaced it with the brand new Us Mca that’s Mexico and Canada the best trade deal ever made by our country.
Speaker 1: Alright. Alright. That’s gonna about 10.
Speaker 2: That I think the deal was…
Speaker 1: We’ll we’ll monitor it and and maybe bring it back if if we think some interesting occurring. I wanna bring in some folks to talk if you wanna get in on the conversation, please raise your electronic hands, love to have questions, comments when people aren’t wanna…
Speaker 3: Eighties. Yep.
Speaker 1: 80 sorry So not as not a diverse Idaho hope, but in any event. Right. Guys, I’d love to hear just your your general thoughts on on this is either a issuer or boat, democratic unity and whether that lives all the way through the general, and and this division within the Republican party over Trump and is did lack of discipline. John you first just weighing on either or both.
Speaker 4: I think the Democratic union is real in this fundamental sense which is I think by election day, even if Biden had stayed in, assuming that you could have held it together until election day, you would have seen these numbers of Democrats coming home. In October. Right? You would have seen 80 to 90 percent of Saying they were both gonna about Democratic. And that’s just sped up.
So she got in the race, I took 3 and a half weeks for democratic enthusiasm we’re democratic coming home to happen. And now it’s happened, and it’s there and we can assume that it will stay there. Question now is we’re just back in this 8 percent in the middle and where they’re gonna be. So, the switcher rule did what it needed to do and she has 4 days to make a case to people who are paying attention who are , who can be swayed to her side from Trump’s side, and there’s a little bit of evidence that in independent voters are responding at least to the idea that she’s somebody knew they didn’t want this race between these 2 guys now. It’s not a race between these 2 guys.
That said, it’s still a 1 point or 2 point race maybe. And , if I said to you that she… Given the press of the last month that she was ahead by 5 points. Would that wouldn’t be surprising. Right?
I wouldn’t be surprising given the kind of month that she’s had. And she doesn’t seem to be. So I just presume now that we have reached a new kind of equilibrium back where we might have…
Speaker 0: So to me, Covid is often an an excellent test for how how serious. A thinker is, and it’s a test that Richard on fails, so he writes here. Right now he writes in July t of 20 21. And he says we’re on pace for 97000 Covid deaths right, in 20 21. We had way over 400000 covid deaths in 20 21.
And he says for sake of comparison in 20 17, 20 18, about 61000 people died to the flu in the Us. Though the usual number of flu deaths is closer to 30000. That’s just an estimate. That’s not based on death certificates. That is just promotion for selling the flu vaccine.
So he he claims, oh Covid something like 1 and a half to 3 times as bad as the flu now. And the gap between the 2 is going to be closing for the foreseeable future. We don’t know that. Alright?
Speaker 5: There could be a new version of Covid that’s even more deadly than any version
Speaker 0: of Covid that we’ve seen so far. So Covid apparently has about over a 1 percent fatality rate. Right? That’s that’s pretty high. Right?
And so he says the threat to children from Covid is almost 0, which is not true. The threat to the vaccinated is basically 0. The vaccinated adults, completely bogus. It just makes this stuff up. Right, He he has no fidelity.
For for the truth. Alright? He’s just completely reckless in in the things he he says. Right? He cannot cannot be trusted.
Oh, and and speaking of reckless. Right? He said about Shakespeare, Shakespeare is fake. When we have objective measures, the past is never matter, better. So when Steve Sailor reviewed, Richard Hana nun book the origins of work.
Steve said, I admire Richard’s Intellect, but he needs to watch his ego. And now now we see Richard declaring. It should an. I could copy Shakespeare diet and produce something just as appealing. And then to remove it.
And emitted what he assumed was a Shakespeare like r dog roll, not realizing that Shakespeare greatest works written in un unrivaled ia pent. Right? He he just just so frequently, so reckless doesn’t have the the mild clue about what he’s talking about. Now he… He’s good at playing the game.
Alright? So he was exposed as an alt outright white vegetarian who wrote for various white websites, and he he then made a very effective apology. So Steve S says, I’d already looked into this question of Richard posting as richard host, and I saw many similarities, but Richard Nun was just so much better of a thinker and writer than Richard host that I decided to remain agnostic on this mystery. So it turns out that Richard And Nun, as used to be a fat high school dropout, but now he has a law degree from the University of Chicago and a Phd from Ucla, and has recently become a prominent skinny public intellectual. He keeps improving at this rate The sky is the limit.
Still, although he has much to be prouder of Richard needs to watch his ego. His editors at Harper Collins do a good job, of keeping it in check on the printed page, but online he’s been boasting like a rapper. Didn’t anyone do any of this before? I don’t think anyone else could have written the origins of work. Alright.
This is just completely ludicrous point. Was it was there anything original in the origins of work? Steve S says, I have several books on my books shelves. From as far back as the 19 seventies that cover the same material as Richard Hana does in the origins of work. It’s a dry topic, conservative tent get lessons once learned, favor of hybrid speculations about corporal.
And therefore, they need periodic finding such as the origins of work. A lot of good stuff on today’s Mock street.
Speaker 4: Expected it to be anyway, and that means that she has an opportunity. To close the sale with independents and Trump or Republicans have an opportunity to close the sale with independents or una voters between now and November. So on the 1 hand, it’s a wildly successful period and on the other hand, I, it’s not like we’re seeing her pull way or, , which what it feels that way if you’re us. Like…
Speaker 0: Right. Her momentum has torn. But Alright, she got in the mainstream media on Friday in reaction to her ridiculous price gouging allegations with the groceries. So she got her first bad press on Friday. And she has stopped rising in the polls in fact a lead has begun to diminish over the past 5 days.
Speaker 4: And you’re monitoring this granular on an hour hour basis, but there’s just no evidence of that.
Speaker 1: Dan, you during the… End end days of the Biden campaign, you were very sensitive to how much division and tension there was. There’s reports of some tension in Wilmington between the harris people in the Biden people. There’s this pelosi Biden thing. But in general, are you finding K by and and happiness and and joy that that important 20 24 word within your party now?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, it’s the old, , Jfk victory has a thousand fathers and defeats lonely orphan. I mean, right now, people sense, , it it’s possible to win. And, yeah, I mean, the tension in Nd, I I think they’re still obviously very hurt feelings there.
The 1 issue that I think still and I mentioned this this morning kinda of boils under the surface is the Israel , Hamas or I ran kind of Palestinian issue. That is still simmering. I I mean, both biden and Kamala I have based in protests, even, , recently, think we’ll see what happens here this week, whether there’s an event, , they start firing each other, whether somebody gets up at the convention. But, I think, yeah, as a rule, there’s great unity. She seems to not be doing as well with Hispanics as I think they would like.
, she’s she’s doing better than Biden did, but Trump is still not doing… Is still doing significantly better than most Republicans. And I think that’s reflected in Arizona and Nevada, kind of still not having too much movement the way you’re seeing in Georgia and North Carolina. So, Yeah. I mean, I think there’s great excitement.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Mark Hal is on location in Chicago, the Democratic National.
Speaker 3: Optimism, but
Speaker 1: gonna be as the Republican convention was a very well produced show. Spielberg involved, a lot of veterans of convention production are involved. And I would expect we know the Marquee 10 pole speakers, and I’d expect them all to be red light for performers and do quite well. We don’t know who the the everyday people are. We don’t know some of the other speakers will be.
, we know, Adam Kin are speaking can go I suspect from whatever, there’ll be other republicans. And other former Trump people. And, again, the what does it take to produce a good convention? You need a well, , well thought through program. You need good speakers you need an enthusiastic grab in the room, and you need to press board to lap it all off, I think all the elements are here for that, right now, at least at least so it appears.
I wanna ask you guys 1 more thing And then, again, I encourage folks if you wanna get into the conversation, please raise your hand. I wanna ask you guys about this this issue of, of, of, weather Democrats are being too irrational Z. You , you we all think the race is is close and she may have an edge today with momentum, but things can change as we know. Is there a danger to Democrats? If like, Ari said, again, yesterday, she’s the underdog.
Is is there a complacency danger? Or is there… What… What’s the danger? Being I think because to me, it’s giving them a lot of a lot of instead of super charging the momentum.
So is there danger to being too bullish on her chances this now? What’s the data?
Speaker 3: I’ll say, I I think for certain… For
Speaker 0: Okay. So, Richard Hana nun had a conversation 01/11/2024 with Nathan C. Right? And it’s a good illustration of the difference between serious and attention seeking.
Speaker 6: This scientific and philosophical questions.
Speaker 0: This is complex
Speaker 6: including evolution of intelligence, in science, and evolution of morality implications of findings in moral psychology for… And the evolution of morality for the nature of morality and moral application. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Early k.
Speaker 0: So both Nathan Ka and Richard Don have Phds. Right? C is in a much more difficult area, philosophy and biology, philosophy, the academic discipline that attracts the the highest average verbal scores and biology also is pretty formidable discipline, Rich richard got his Phd at Ucla in a much softer discipline political science.
Speaker 7: So, what what’s that job? Like, an American context and, you, fellowship associate for Like what is
Speaker 6: it an appropriate job? Post doc. It’s equipment It’s a 3 year post doc, especially for me, requires a certain amount of miracle. I’m get… Getting the lever human early career fellowship at Cambridge, there are more people who apply than are admitted.
By by quite a lot nick. But in the Uk, there are 10 years behind the Us in terms of at Won’t and enforcing this orthodox. But still it was really shocking because when I apply for the position, I have to be nominated by the philosophy faculty, then there’s an an internal competition among the university in the university. So all departments nominated 1 or 2 people and then there’s an internal competition. They select, 1 out of 6 and the internal competition, internal competition.
And then it goes…
Speaker 0: So Phil Don died, I read his biography, and I I used to watch his show. At at times during 19 83 84 offered with my father, and he’d say to me, I’m gonna be on there 1 day. It it never happened. My father never reached the level of success that he he hoped for. So nathan think Costa speaks slowly.
I… I’m speeding him up here to 1.5 speed. But he also speaks slowly because he takes what he says seriously. Alright. While, for for Richard, words just tools that he uses for his own ag advertising.
Speaker 6: To believer for human trust, and then they have to approve it, and that’s…
Speaker 7: Right. Is that… Is that… Reason nothing people where they got trouble.
Speaker 6: Yeah. So when I was a Phd student at Oxford, I wrote a paper, which also miraculously was published in the Journal Philosophical Psychology, which was quite respectable, mainstream journal where I argued that, although, I had to hold back a little bit because, , you have to get through peer reviewers. I said evidence is suggesting that there could be race differences, and I argued that, If this is the case, we need to be open to to what the evidence says. Because there, a number of philosophers and scientists, very prominent people who have said, it doesn’t matter what the truth is. These facts are just too horrible.
It’s too unethical, to you even consider the possibility that this is true, so we should just dismiss it on on world.
Speaker 0: So like Richard Spencer, Richard Hana is on the war path to try to knock down or or competing right wing intellectual and pun, so he damned steve sailor with fate Praise. Steve Sailor is insightful on many things. But if you assign him an article on housing litter or any issue really, he’ll just turn into a tie raid against immigration. But that bears absolutely no no resemblance to reality. It it’s such a a cheap put down.
Right? This is… From Richard Hana length the essay sa shut up about race Iq. Well, noticing that different people have different gifts is 1 of the the most important ways that you can more clearly discern reality and and make better choices. Right?
It’s such a powerful tool for understanding how the world works. But Richard not Nun yet wants to make the case to stop talking about this because when he talked about it, he was in danger blowing up his career. So for Richard hana nun, there are many things far more important than telling the truth. Right? What’s far more important than telling the truth is Richard Ana status and advancement and having having a a good life.
Alright Steve Sailor, like Charles Murray, alright? That there are many things that these blokes believe in that are greater than their their own status. Right? And Anu says, I searched it was blocked the delivering practically every resort on the first page were somehow connected to Latinos or immigrants. Right?
So Sea sail noticed that in some areas of Los Angeles that have started to become heavily littered that it was overwhelmingly Latino immigrants who were using those areas. Right. And, Richard richard, says, I tried the same thing with global warming, and the results weren’t as extreme, but the patent was similar? Does if when you brought up stamp collecting with someone they shifted the conversation to how armenians are always trying to pass off, counterfeit stamps as the real thing. You start to think that this person cares more about armenians than about stamps.
Right. Steve Sailor focuses on those topics where he can provide insight that you’re not gonna read in the New York Times. And so he also develops certain specialties, but he he so consistently produces important insights that you don’t get elsewhere that the these criticisms are so cheap here coming from Han onion. Imagine a left is coming along and saying, all you have to do is show sale of the let latinos don’t litter that much, and then he’ll support immigration. Obviously, the whole litter obsession is a tense.
It’s not a pretense. Right? You can notice that different groups have different approaches to litter. Right? In the world that I come from of of California in the 19 seventies and Australia in the 19 seventies, right you had the beginnings of pretty intense anti litter campaigns.
But some groups in America don’t really care that much about litter. And the same is true for other right wing figures who’ve talked about litter, like anne quarter and and Tucker Carlson. Alright? I think they’re just noticing patterns and anne quarter and Tucker Carlson are willing to talk out about things that are greater and more important than their own egos in their own advancement. Immigration restriction are mainly driven by aesthetic preferences.
At what an insane analysis Obviously, different people have different gifts. You can import you can bring to your country, people who, 10 times more likely than the average American to commit murder. But you can choose to bring people into your country for much less likely than the average American. To me, that’s part more significant than aesthetic differences. So go back to Richard Hana is incredibly shallow critique.
Immigration restriction are mainly driven by aesthetic preferences, partly in the most literal sense that is what people in the country should look like. Well, what people look like isn’t just about what they look like. But it tends to be a giveaway of a whole post of traits that can help to build up and advance a society or tear it down and destroy a society. Right? Different groups have different gifts different tendencies, different weaknesses and at a glance, you can often get a sense of of what’s going on.
Alright? If if you see someone dressed dressed in a suit. Alright? You get a an impression of that person that’s quite different than if they’re walking around with their their pants, , down their ass. Talking about group differences in iq is not the way to influence or ultimately defeat the left.
The more individuals accept group differences between the races, the more they want society organized to satisfy the preferences of the worst whites and to make excuses for their behavior? It it what what planet does he live on? Right? Plenty of 9 white people except that different groups have different gifts. And it has virtually nothing to do with satisfying their preferences of the worst whites.
He just makes stuff up in in a completely reckless way that that there’s no basis with reality, but it is politically advantageous for him.
Speaker 6: 4 grounds. And I… Argue against that. And as part of that argument, I review the evidence that I I… I’d say this is a a live possibility, this can’t be just as missed as…
Speaker 0: So what are the biggest differences between Richard Hana and serious intellectual like Nathan Kaufman? Is that people like Steve Sailor, Nathan Ka, Charles Murray, first and foremost about the evidence. Richard Hana does not want his theories and his online employees for attention to be restricted by facts and evidence. So he ventures way out there, where the buses don’t run no more, but where where the facts are applicable. He wants the freedom to spin narratives and stories and attention getting ploy.
So and he doesn’t want to be fence in by facts. Right? In this sense, he’s like Neil Ferguson. Right? They’re both about self ad Ag and don’t hold me back by the facts band.
Speaker 6: Due science or flat. So I was very disappointed by the initial reaction to the paper. It got 4 or 5000 , views, which is not, know, not far from being viral, but I was rescued by this philosopher for Mark El alfonso. Who launched a petition to retract the paper and to fire the editors who were responsible for it. So 1 story short, it’s now, has 75000 views, it’s the most viewed paper in the history of the journal.
Although some
Speaker 0: So there’s a comment in the chat that nathan Kaufman has never contributed at anything. Well, he spent a year and decode a Kevin Mcdonald’s culture critique book. Alright? This is a book that has changed thousands of lives. Sometimes for dramatically worse life results.
So you hear about people such as is it Paul Little? Who was it the bloke who claimed the e quit a hundred and 30000 dollar a year job to drive for Uber because His his mind was so blown by a culture of critique, or Nathan Carter took a year and studied the sources and of culture of critique, and decode and and explained the book, He was the first serious intellectual to delve into Kevin Mcdonald’s book, and he did a did a great job.
Speaker 6: I was sorry that some innocent people had to pay price for that. So 1 of the editors resigned to protest the fact that the editorial board was
Speaker 0: coming in the chat, do, I understand that for every cough, there is a human jimenez who would debunk and noticing about their group. Okay. Name me these Human jimenez. I don’t know any important intellectual who talk about these topics with the name Yam jimenez. There there may be some.
I am unaware of any.
Speaker 6: Was bow to some of Autonomous demands, and then the other editor apparently was fired. But anyway, I got the message out there. Yeah. And when I got to Cambridge, this article in Philosophical psychology was discovered by some of the students of the student journalists. And so they wrote what was I guess, supposed to be a hit piece about me.
But what they said is they quoted me saying, like, the truth is important or something like that. Mh. But trying to paint it in a very sinister way. But how could I get in trouble this? It didn’t make any sense to me.
So that, I think fell flat, but it was picked up by the daily nail, and they kind funny as I’m I’m racist, My it the daily article So quarterly researched and just make it
Speaker 7: it’s very stupid. It’s a very stupid paper that usually, it’s like, sort of right wing, but it’s, like, too dumb to, like, know what’s even what’s right wing at left wing. So, occasionally doesn’t occasionally come up like this guy is , is a big racist. So I think your article sort of… In that vein.
And so nobody bothers you on a daily basis in Cambridge .
Speaker 6: No. Not at all I at all.
Speaker 7: So told me in classics that, like Oxford he… There’s company oxford and, like, Cambridge, like. Said it’s 10 years the Us. But sometimes even better than that. Actually, like, there’s a lot of sort of right wing people in analytic philosophy and classics.
Is is that right? Because I don’t know how you get through all… You you wanna you could get. I think you get a fellowship and Eric And just Don’t unthinkable about, like, they would allow this, at this point of our, , the history of American University. Is it like…
You just take the behind or is there actually, like, a lot of right representation.
Speaker 6: Well, I have not been able… I was not able to get into a single philosophy Phd program in the United States. So I know that they won’t care. But for the people who say that Kaufman only got into Oxford in Cambridge because he’s a jew. In fact, Jews have way more influence in America, at American Universities.
But there’s
Speaker 7: not why why do they think you got it? Because you’re Jewish is they have favor Cambridge, bridges Is that what people all?
Speaker 6: Right. So, Jews get… Or can just whenever they feel like, they can just go to Officer. Doctor. Harvard, I chose Oxford this sort harvard.
So there was a single person in the whole that either permanent or temporary faculty in the Philosophy Department at Cambridge, not a single Jew before I came. Mh. So… And I know for a fact that people involved in hiring me weren’t Jewish, but.
Speaker 7: But they like what they pick you. They like they like the Jew who, talked about race science. So that tells us something about, , that something tells us something about sort of where they’re at. Doesn’t it? I…
That’s it incredible that you that you got a job. But it’s just
Speaker 6: not think about America. Yes. It… So I haven’t… Gotten…
I’m very happy. I was… So I got Phil Cambridge D with Oxford. Now I got it job at cambridge, and It couldn’t have worked out better. But, in fact, I didn’t have a choice because, no 1 in America was giving the any offer either for a Phd program or or a job.
Yeah.
Speaker 0: Okay. Let’s get some more analysis on the convention here from.
Speaker 3: Know, Twitter as much as that’s not through real world. That, like, now everyone’s kind of, does so many democrats just loa Trump. They don’t understand why people vote for him, which I think is really dangerous. They don’t ask kind of why
Speaker 1: But what’s the? But then what’s the… What’s… I understand the mindset? But as long as they’re giving money and volunteering.
What’s the downside?
Speaker 3: Be because because you… I I don’t think you will go through from now in November and not hit his speed from. And I think
Speaker 1: Up much. So what they hit to speed bump? I’m serious.
Speaker 4: I… If you’re tilt the illogical acts toward Trump. I don’t think price controls. I don’t think calling for price controls is a smart move. But I don’t
Speaker 1: that a product. Is that a product of exuberance on the part of the voters and the commentary?
Speaker 4: No. I think it’s a pie… It could be part… It could be her it could be them. It could be what they think they need to they wanna preach, could be that that they they don’t have at their fingertips.
The feeling of what this American electric really is. Let me just… Kamala Harris is somebody who is a political product of the state of California and Northern California politics. And it’s not clear to me that she, the extent that she is in charge knows that much about what people who are not like her think. Or what it is she can read information.
She can read reports on focus groups, She can read Poland. But, she may not know that saying things like price controls cause inflation and inflation is a problem, and I don’t like hearing what I’m hearing. Is something that small businessmen across the country tree. It don’t have problem here.
Speaker 1: It’s an interesting point, but I’m was gonna have to do with my theory that it’s the upside of being Z is greater than the den stone.
Speaker 4: Oh, it’s I think totally totally in this moment without question that’s better for your audience for the people who are back with you to be excited and to be depressed. The question is whether she, I think like Hillary in 20 16 and others part because of that loa of Trump and some other things. Don’t understand where the democratic message starts tilting into ordinary…
Speaker 0: And Hal comes with with another great point that you don’t get in most political coverage. Right?
Speaker 4: Are people going listen sound like, crazy liberal.
Speaker 1: I wanna I wanna raise another topic that Wanna bring in again You wanna get the conversation raise your hand. I get emails.
Speaker 0: So when your your thinking is not primarily shaped by the need to put yourself first and get the most attention. Right? It it… Calms you down. Right?
So from a common place, you’re going to have a wiser understanding of reality, and you have all this cognitive processing power that is then freed up away from self ag advertisement to notice what’s going on in the world around you. This is what you get from people like Mark Alfred.
Speaker 1: Impacts every day now, and I see it on cable and in social media. Anti Trump people saying, he’s crazier than he’s ever been. He’s lost his mind. He’s he’s totally different because he’s he’s under so much pressure because Harris is big present. He’s behind the pulse.
I think Trump is every bit is crazy as he guys in 20 16. I don’t understand. So I wrong is he is he by some measurable metric or in some subjective way. Crazier than he was in 20 16 in terms of what he says. I don’t think so.
Because I can give you a thousand things he said, finally 6 Crazy. So do you agree with me? Or do you with the people who tell me? And I hear people say this is that he’s lost his mind and I can’t believe it this this guy could never win because he’s too nuts. And he says…
Speaker 4: I think that the people who hate him are going little nuts because there’s stuff that he’s doing in that he’s is doing to amaze himself. Though I don’t think it’s particularly effective or is even like smart because he should be focused on taking seriously to battle, but he’s not a kind of sense of humor, that doesn’t appeal to me. But, like, when he says things like, I’m much better looking than she is. That’s a joke people. Like, I know Ron Philip H doesn’t think it’s…
Speaker 0: Right. You don’t read an electricity bill. The same way that you read a sex message. Right? You don’t read the newspaper, the same way that you read Shakespeare.
And you don’t read a joke. Right? The same way that you read a serious political proposal.
Speaker 4: It’s a joke, but it’s a joke. He’s joking. It’s not really funny. It’s like a joke that isn’t really funny. And I’m sorry, but I hate to put it this way because I think what he said was disgusting.
But I think the whole it’s better to win the medal of freedom that it is to win the medal of honor because, , you might be dead when you win the medal of honor, but you’re alive when you win the medal of freedom, is like a really bad joke. I mean, it’s a genuinely taste and bad joke. But it is a joke. He doesn’t mean it because he often doesn’t mean anything. And I think there the calibration is, if you’re just every word that comes out of his mouth is gonna strike the people who hate him so much as the raving of a mad man who needs to be thrown into, , into a luna asylum, fine, but there’s a lot of people in America who aren’t gonna have that reaction to all of this.
And the reinforcing nature of the media, twitter, democratic information bubbles and all…
Speaker 3: This is the means this only a third campaign It’s the first time he’s facing an opponent who’s a little more nimble online and a little better at playing this up and kind of with humor and memes and, like, Pom, it is not in the day obviously from Biden, but even Hillary campaign was not nearly as clever. I I just think they didn’t know how to really take on.
Speaker 0: But Kamala Harris campaign is formidable. Right? The people who are operating okay in. Are doing an amazing job considering who they’re working with. I I used to like to put down, a friend of mine by by saying, oh, you get more out of your talent than anyone I know.
Well, the the people running Kamala at Harris campaign are getting more out of her talent, than anyone else. I, I mean, that they have push to the top of the polls is amazing. So I enjoy the podcast if books could kill. Right? A couple of left ease, but they make some good points, and here they are on Richard and Nun, the origins of
Speaker 8: fucking stupid, but I’ve I regret choosing it.
Speaker 9: No z. Just you complaining. And bam.
Speaker 8: I I’d put in like, a week of work into this before I was like, shit. This was a mistake.
Speaker 9: The Sc the for the first time we’re doing a bad book on the show include a book that could kill 1 might even say.
Speaker 8: It makes me so mad at this book is called the origins of Woke. Dude instead of woken?
Speaker 9: It does sound vaguely, like, some sort of business self help book that we would also cover on the show. The parable of great.
Speaker 8: Alright. Okay. So Michael. Peter. What do about the origins of woke?
Speaker 9: All I know is that this is going to be the first time we’re doing an episode that requires not only an Internet connection, but a pair of cali.
Speaker 0: Okay. Cali are devices that you could use to measure someone’s small. I had to look up call.
Speaker 1: Come on, guys. Alright.
Speaker 8: The origins of woke. This is a book by Richard Hana came out last year, Little look behind the curtain. Oh, when you go 2 or 3 months without releasing a podcast. What you wanna do is come back with a book that no one’s ever heard of.
Speaker 9: And that our irritation with doing it is pal. You don’t wanna be here.
Speaker 8: A big problem for our show is that conservatives keep putting out books complaining about woken?
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 8: All of which are exactly the same.
Speaker 9: The same way they’re running out of ideas we’re running out of things to say about their ideas.
Speaker 8: What makes this 1 interesting, and I think worth covering. It’s not about, like the abstract cultural origins of, quote, unquote, woken. Hana does not talk about of Fu. Or, like, any other post modern theory. He blames civil rights laws for the modern cultural context, and that is the premise of…
Speaker 0: Okay. So they’re laughing and this is the same reason that many think that Republicans are are weird is that it it’s a violation of their hero system. Right? For a liberal left hero system civil rights of the epitome of the sacred, for people with traditional perspectives on say, private property and freedom of association. Alright, civil rights are a new constitution that in many ways has super preceded our original constitution.
So weird is the apa appetite, you you often hear when dealing with a country here system. But if if the opposition or the challenge from this country here system is more intense, then people start using creepy as in creepy eth nationalist, right? That simply means someone went with a hero system that challenges and threatens my hero system. So if you read rerun a Goodman book. Right?
Conservative claims of cultural oppression. Is just 100 times more deep than Richard Hana efforts. And 100 times more deep than if big if books could kill podcast podcasts, but not nearly as well spoken
Speaker 8: and I’m amusing this book.
Speaker 9: I… I’m imagining him quietly putting away a dog whistle and just pulling out a whistle. Like, look, We’re just saying it at this point.
Speaker 8: That is I think the purpose. This is not aimed at a popular audience. This is aimed at powerful conservatives. Especially, I think the next Trump administration. Yeah.
Which I think is why it’s it’s worth analyzing despite the fact that we’ve talked about woken before.
Speaker 9: Although 1…
Speaker 0: Yeah. So the news media is turning on Kamala. It it began most dramatically, on Friday. So let’s get from Jesse Waters on Fox.
Speaker 10: But most Biden voters, they don’t even know what kamala stands for. They’re completely unaware of kamala policies. Look at this. No idea about eliminating private health insurance, abolishing ice, being the most liberal senator pushing for the green new deal or even to funding the police. They have no idea.
It’s up to Trump now to break through the cover up. Even the liberal media is saying enough is enough.
Speaker 11: She has served as an un nearly invisible vice president. Thus far, Harris has had a free ride. She’s not given any media interviews hasn’t faced voter questioning sooner or later, She’s going to be held accountable and face pressure that she has thus far largely avoided.
Speaker 10: That’s the point. And people are starting to notice. The little princess crowds are shrinking back to Biden size. That’s called shrink inflation. Kamala is popping into small little tents with just a few dozen people.
Speaks for 15 minutes then runs back to the safe space on our bus with walls as her security blanket. Poor prince kamala. Campaigning is hard. All o’leary Ventures chairman. Kevin O o’leary joins me.
Speaker 0: Okay. Let’s get more analysis here from, if books could kill the origins. Of what.
Speaker 9: I thing I was gonna say, I was gonna try to turn this into his z, but, like, how Lady Gaga has, like, little monsters and Taylor swift has swift.
Speaker 8: Mh.
Speaker 9: I was gonna say that, like, this dude’s fans. Should be Han. But then that requires him to have fans.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 9: And like, right. Other than fucking center left journalists who are life these do. Are important to take seriously. I haven’t actually seen all that many conservatives say that they like this guy. I think there’s something where, like, Yeah.
Even conservatives can tell that someone like Anemia is just a fucking worm.
Speaker 8: Appearance fam.
Speaker 9: He he has, like, the overall demeanor of Like Robert Blake in lost highway. He’s like a fucking haunted doll that you would find it like, your grandmother house after she dies under mysterious circumstances.
Speaker 8: He does look like. 1 of those creepy little dolls.
Speaker 9: He really does.
Speaker 8: But but more more rep, more snake like
Speaker 9: Actually. Less likable.
Speaker 8: If it was between living in a home with him and the doll from goosebumps, I probably just choose the doll. We don’t need to go into his background too much. He’s a conservative writer think tank guy. He’s appeared in many op ed pages over the years. The time or post the Atlantic, all the biggie.
This book. Is about the origins of modern woken. Mh. Blissful, he does try to provide a workable definition of woken. Okay.
He says that Woken has 3 central pillars. I’m going to send them to you.
Speaker 9: So the 3 pillars of woken. 1, the belief that disparities equal discrimination, Practically any disparity that appears to favor men over women or whites over non whites. Is caused by some combination of past and present discrimination.
Speaker 0: So you can hate the ideology or underpinning of this podcast, but it’s 1 the most popular podcast in America, and it’s a podcast about books. So these guys know how to podcast.
Speaker 9: Disparities that favor women over men or non whites over whites are either ignored or celebrated. This includes not only material outcomes like differences in income or representation in high status professions. But disparities in thought or stereotypes about different groups. 2, speech restrictions. In the interest of overcoming such problematic disparities, speech needs to be restricted, particularly speech that suggests they are caused by factors other than discrimination, or that stereotypes are true.
3, human resources bureaucracy. In the interest of overcoming disparities in regulating speech, a full time bureaucracy is needed to enforce correct thought and action. I like it we’re already resort to, like, things that annoy me. Absolutely. It’s just, like, Hr managers, the trainings we have to do.
Speaker 8: So I will give him some credit, I guess for providing something of a concrete definition here. His book is mostly built around the idea that what, like Woke liberals believe is that any disparity between demographics must indicate discrimination. Right?
Speaker 1: This is
Speaker 8: a very common argument from conservatives, though. I don’t think I know anyone on the left, at least anyone’s serious who actually believes this.
Speaker 9: It’s also it’s an interesting mirror to the conservative belief, which is that disparities must be caused by the inherent nature of those groups.
Speaker 8: That’s the that’s the irony here is that he creates what I think is a straw man where he says liberals believe that every disparity is discrimination. Now even if you believe that that’s what Liberals believe you can say that’s wrong without adopting his position.
Speaker 0: So if you don’t listen to left wing critiques of right wing Ideas. You’re essentially playing Tennis with with the net down. Right? You have to you have to listen and consider left wing critiques or right wing ideas, or you’re just in a in a bubble. Right?
You’re not mature, you truly lack sufficient confidence in your own abilities to understand things, and you are just resort to living in in a fantasy world if you can’t, , stand up to listening to critiques of what you hold sacred. And this podcast, left wing podcast. It booked good kill. Right? They do an excellent job, often of cri right wing trips,
Speaker 8: which is basically any disparity is justified and exist
Speaker 1: and, like, you…
Speaker 8: And, , is the will of God.
Speaker 9: It’s also gonna be very funny noticing the parallels between this and Y Monk. Who’s, like, allegedly this kind of serious center left person, his definition of woke also had this, like, trip structure, like, the 3 legs of the stool or whatever.
Speaker 8: Yeah. You when you can’t provide, like, a clean definition of something. You you have to be like, oh, it has… 3 pillars. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So you
Speaker 8: need just start, like talking out your ads. Like, no, it’s not 1 thing. It’s actually Right 5 elements.
Speaker 9: It’s actually a 10 minute sequence in a terrence mali movie. Where you’re just sort of dream drifting through landscapes.
Speaker 8: So This book has several components, I’m gonna focus on the elements that are targeting the workplace. K. We start off with an anecdote about the passage of these Civil Rights Act of 19 64. He tells a story of how originally the law only forbid discrimination based on race color, national origin and religion, the reason that sex was added to that list was because an opponent of the bill, Howard Smith. Proposed as an amendment.
Mh. Smith was an opponent of the bill. He was adding gender in order to undermine its likelihood of passage.
Speaker 9: Right. This is a famous like poison pill attempt.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Hana says, the story of how sex discrimination became illegal and how the definition of discrimination changed over time tells us something fundamental about how the American system works. In the simplified version of constitutional law presented to school children, Congress passes bills, the The executive branch enforces them and courts interpret the law, but in the hands of Bureau, executive agencies and judges. The text can take on a life of its own.
Speaker 9: Oh, judges be out here doing interpretation.
Speaker 8: So I guess his whole point here is that this is an example of how something can become law without really reflecting the beliefs of society or maybe even the beliefs of legislators.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 8: The problem with this story is that it’s kind of half myth.
Speaker 0: So let’s take a stroll a scroll down through Richard Hanania’s Twitter feed. And Richard and nun wrote an article saying that he’s gonna a Republican. And this is a rare article that lost me subscribers right and left, but I must continue telling you the truth. Alright.
He’s not particularly concerned about telling you the truth. He is concerned about developing a reputation, developing a status developing attention, and he will manipulate or ignore truth if it gets in the way of his thirst 4 attention. Liberals, your economic views will make us all poor and Miserable. Right? That’s not true.
Right? There are many prosperous socialist countries such as in Northern Europe. Conservatives, you don’t respect women. Right? This idea that conservatives don’t respect weapon, it’s such a pathetic critique.
And are in an orange man court. Right? The there plenty of people on the right, Republicans conservatives who do not particularly care for Donald Trump, but the wise person Right, has to choose between alternatives. You you don’t get to choose, your ideal spokesman, your ideal candidate. You have to deal with reality and people who don’t like many things that Donald Trump says and and does.
Right? Still support him. Why? Because they believe in things greater than themselves. Right?
Unlike Richard Hana, they have values, they have goals. Never a hero a system. Right? They have priorities that are greater, then their own self ag. Right.
And so this is how Hana paints your average Republican. Conservatives are the stupid party. They’re also bigoted, dishonest and anti democracy. So he buys into the the argument that Republicans are anti democracy. There are elements of conservative thought.
That wanna hold democracy in check, there are elements of left thought and liberal thought that wanna hold democracy in check. The idea that Republicans are some unique threat to democracy is not a serious argument. And his whole basis for voting Republican is economic growth matters most. Right when we have unprecedented threats from Russia and China, the idea that economic growth matters most. And just make sure to apologize to women and minorities when you vote Republican?
It it’s such pathetic low level trolling. I think post liberal is just a mood. Look, all political ideologies. Right? Are better and worse in different circumstances.
Right? In some circumstances, a liberal democracy is the most effective system for allowing people to perpetuate their nation their their state. And in other circumstances, a xenophobic police state is more successful. Right? There are times when post liberal is more effective for some problems, and there are other situations where liberal or left or communism or socialism is more effective or capitalism.
Right? It depends on the situation. Right? It’s not like there’s 1 political ideology. Including Richard and nun global, embrace of liberal that is always best.
I think post liberal is just a mood, and nun says, people are just sad or angry by disposition and think everything sucks, There’s more a psychological issue than anything. There’s no alternative, most people aren’t that miserable, liberal isn’t 1. Really? That the world hasn’t been coming has not been becoming more liberal over the past 15 years. The world has steadily become less liberal over the past 15 years.
Right? Feels no fidelity to facts order providing much evidence to his points. Now he is good at social media if good you rate in terms of attention getting. I like how he dedicated his life to this, but he is so little to show for it 81 followers on x 53 subscribers on Youtube, a man of principal. Well, Ana nun, like most modern.
Guru is very interested in his metrics. Alright? He feels that his worth is determined by the number of people who follow him and pay attention to him. Some people live for higher things than metrics. Some people, for example, I I may be naive, but what I I try to do is to tell the truth.
That’s my number 1 priority on this show. It’s not getting attention. It’s not striking heroic poses. This election is between 1 side that threatens capitalism. Democratic party doesn’t threaten capitalism.
And another the threatens democracy. The Republican party does not threaten democracy. He’s not a serious thing. He is a pose. Capitalism is both more important and much more fragile.
No 1 else is going to give it to you this straight. Is delusional about his abilities. Kirk Catholic post liberal ism really attracts the best minds such penetrating insights into the modern condition. See at Starbucks and avocado toast. Well, there are very smart.
Catholic post liberals. And there are less intelligent catholic post Liberals. At the idea that you discredit Catholic post liberal by pointing out 1 less than stellar essay sa. It’s not particularly strong. Alex Jones is now promoting the idea that his fans should escape to rush it again their freedom.
Yeah. So Richard and nadia used to be quite positively disposed to Alex Jones for years years years. Richard Was positively disposed towards Alex Jones. Alright, Richard Does not have have the greatest ability to detect truth from Paul. In his latest podcast, he talked about how kept doubling down and betting that Joe Biden would stay in office and be the democratic representative for the 20 24 presidential campaign and and why did he do this Because it was really important to him to show to the world his superior forecasting skills.
Right? It’s really important for him to demonstrate the world that he is a superior man. So who was Richard and nun you’re referring to with regard to the small metrics? You’ll have to check out Richard and Nun Twitter feed. Right?
The the exact name isn’t important. Is just… It’s a tell that you you’re dealing with an attention seeker b typically slippery guru. And they’re all about the metrics. And there have many higher values than talking about what is true.
Speaker 8: Yeah. And a lot of people make it seem like this was an accident. He says it was proposed as a joke and then just says, despite representative Smith’s intentions, the amendment passed as did the Civil Rights act, which like sort of leads to the question of why a joke amendment would pass.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And the answer is that when the amendment was proposed, Martha Griffith, 1 of the few female representatives at the time, rallies support convince L.
Speaker 0: Right. Hanania is not particularly interested in what really happened. Right? He’s just using history to try to come up with. Stories that ag himself
Speaker 8: to support the amendment, they get all this momentum and then it becomes as part of the bill. So the stories told them the left to sort of like, a tale of Hub. Right?
Speaker 9: I do love the idea of, like, This is so far out there. Pretty soon. They’re gonna start saying that women are une society too. Right. I’m gonna call your bluff.
Speaker 8: They’ve been they’ve been doing this forever whereas, like, what’s next?
Speaker 0: Okay. Let’s look at the chat. The gap between Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones has narrowed to an embarrassing degree. It has. Right.
Much of what Tucker produces is pathetic. What do I make of Trump’s remark to evangelical will fix things so you won’t even have to vote in 4 years. I think it’s just a a throw way line talking about. He’s going to go to war. To protect them and to protect their hero system, protect their values and to protect their interests.
Speaker 8: The way he’s framing this is like, this is a weird fluke. That this sort of tells us something about how like off k discrimination law is, but like, isn’t this actually just a story of political will. Yeah. It’s not an accident that the amendment gets passed. It’s the result of people who support it, mobilizing for something they believe in.
Speaker 9: I do like the idea of some laws basically being Mu. You’re like, oh, this 1 doesn’t count. Nobody really wanted this 1.
Speaker 8: He’s trying to make this argument that, like, elites and bureau have taken the simple law and turn
Speaker 0: So for Richard Hana, arguments like everything else in his life, are simply things like people for him to use for his own ag. Right? That there’s nothing higher. Then is an ag advertisement, which makes him an unreliable intellectual and observer.
Speaker 3: Trump and they just thought never win. So… But that is different Mark your point. Like, why Democrats kinda feel this way. It’s like, u aha.
Somebody is really on offense. Using, , his act against him. I I don’t know if it’ll worth in the election, but you you can feel it in the democratic party.
Speaker 4: Well, Hillary, Hillary moved really slowly. I mean, remember this, like, remember those things are gonna be like, it would take 6 hours for someone to approve a tweet in the in the Clinton campaign that’s obviously clear. Right. Now the circumstances are clear that that this is a nimble Campaign, It has to be of necessity because they they need to make an impact instantly. But I said, I don’t know that there might be diminishing returns from that.
I don’t know.
Speaker 1: They’re less afraid to make mistakes and Claim campaign english. But you, , trump makes a lot of mistakes so it’s okay to make mistakes. Sue, welcome back. Remind everybody who you’re supporting where you are and ask per speak.
Speaker 12: I have a question. Right. I currently live in Colorado, and I will be supporting Harris. I have 2 questions. The first 1 is about North Carolina.
I am…
Speaker 1: Yeah. So so let me start and then and then I’ll let my colleagues go. Okay. Hillary would have won if jim comey had seated.
Speaker 0: Right. So Donald Trump… 01:20 16 in large part by a fluke. Right? If that election he’d been run at 10 times, he probably would have won once out of 10 times.
Speaker 1: Biden barely be trump. So drawing broad lessons about sort of what it all means from 16 to 20 till now. I think it’s a little bit misleading.
Speaker 5: But both those elections could have gone
Speaker 1: the other way, and when it’s for overlook. The country’s country is already divided. Trump does have a sealant. But into the right circumstances, Trump can win even with a ceiling on his support. The Democrats have run 3 weekend candidates, and we’ll see how good a candidate Harris ends up eating.
But there’s no doubt that in Clinton and Biden. Trump was lucky in running against relatively weak candidates. That not not powerhouse has candidates. Not Clinton Bush Obama not. Just, , rising superstars.
Now. Now a month ago, you would have said, Harris would have been another gift to Trump. , month ago, you would said, how could the democrats possibly find the way to dis dislike biden and replace with with another deeply flawed candidates so far that’s how it appears to be, but
Speaker 4: here is that Harris is giving an opportunity on policy. She doesn’t know how to not be left wing, but he doesn’t know how to run against the left winger because Biden isn’t really a left winger, and Hillary wasn’t really a left winger. And the way to run against Harris is to run against her. As a left winger, and he… That’s not what’s in his fingertips.
Just like I said, the American people’s populist sent is not in Paris fingertips. Trump doesn’t know how to run an ideological campaign against somebody who is marinated born raised and marinated in the left of the democratic party, and he’s gonna have…
Speaker 9: And… Liquid…
Speaker 6: That’s not…
Speaker 4: I’m sorry. That sounds quite that’s not quite right. Or actually me? Now. Between 20 17 and 20 20, real incomes in the United States went up for the first time in 20 years.
That… That’s a real thing didn’t go up hugely, but there had been a kind of total stag estimation in middle class wage growth and that ended with the employment boom, You… He’s not… I don’t believe he gets credit for the employment boom, really, but he was president during it So since that’s the way we sometimes.
Speaker 5: Why am… Where am I going wrong here? I mean, why do people think that that he’s gonna tell the truth or help people if he lies all the time?
Speaker 1: Steve I’ll
Speaker 4: explain I I got a quick answer for you. Okay? Things changed in this country in 19 98. When the president of the United States stood in front of the American people and said I did not have sex with that woman and got away with it. And in 20…
To a 2011, Barack by 20 12 Barack Obama said if you want your doctor, you can keep your doctor. And that wasn’t true, and that was a huge lie about the most consequential piece of public policy in a generation.
Speaker 1: And he knew an trump came advance Was a lie, and he said it a political gain.
Speaker 4: Right. So what I’m saying is Trump came along at the end of a period in which the American people lost faith that politicians were gonna tell them the truth. A lot of Democrats leave the Bush. Lied us into iraq. I don’t, but that…
That’s another aspect of this. And so if you put this all together, Trump comes along and says, they’re all full of shit. They’ve all been shit forever. And then when he lies, and then people say, well, trump lies a alive, the trump people who support Trump are like, don’t tell me that he lies. I sat here and listen to bill lied to my face and Barack obama lie to my face.
All politicians lie. You can’t hold Trump to a different standard. He’s for me and they weren’t. That’s my answer to you. I’m not
Speaker 0: That is a great answer so you have to understand, Donald Trump and he’s lies in a certain context. Alright? It’s not like he’s the the first major politician to come along and lie. Alright? There been so substantial lies.
Told by Trump’s predecessor that Trump’s supporters, are willing to give him a pass.
Speaker 8: Earned it into something much more sprawling and per than anyone at the time has envisioned.
Speaker 0: Greg point in the chat Perhaps the great tragedy in the trajectory of individuals such as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens is the discredit effect upon the legitimate points that they raise. Right. Candace Owens used to do great work. For years, she did great work. It was on a mid level Iq.
Right? For for a 100 audience, but she did do a lot of great washington.
Speaker 8: This is like the big theme of his book that this is that this is all very divorce from the will of the people. These liberal bureaucratic elites. Have taken control of civil Rights law.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 8: He focuses on 4 outputs of the Civil Rights Act, affirmative action, disparate impact harassment law and Title ix. For our purposes, we’re gonna focus on the…
Speaker 0: Right. It would have been really nice if Hana nun had done his work and paid, , great fidelity to the facts so that you could have confidence when you’re reading something that he’s written that this is someone who cares about getting it right. But Hana does not care about getting it right. He cares about advancing his own attention.
Speaker 8: In the middle 2 again, desperate disparate impact and harassment law. There is a section titled disparate impact. Everything is illegal.
Speaker 9: Yep. I remember this from Civic, the the anti purge.
Speaker 8: So basically, Civil rights act made discrimination in employment illegal, but it didn’t define what counts the discrimination really. Everyone knew that you couldn’t just say whites only in hiring anymore. Right? But like, what about job requirements that aren’t explicitly discriminatory, but still disproportionately impact black people, for example. Right?
Mh. Enter The supreme Court.
Speaker 9: I have a podcast to recommend about this institution.
Speaker 8: I’m gonna send you something, it’s a quick summary
Speaker 0: that Hana provides. Okay. Peter White has probably done the best background investigation of Kamala Harris of any journalist. I know. He was just interviewed.
Speaker 11: She was running against the incumbent a guy named Terrence Hall, and Right.
Speaker 0: Talking about her entry into politics into 2003.
Speaker 11: Aaron… Terrence Helen was a progressive and he was a Democrat, but he really kind of wanted a whole powerful people into account. He didn’t matter to him who those people were. He had launched a couple of investigations and was in the middle of prose several of Willie Brown’s 2 friends. Willie Brown, of course, who had been the ahead of the California assembly.
Was now the mayor of San Francisco. Terrence Helen was investigating his friends. Helen was also investigating, the problem of priest sex abuse that was rocking the country at the time, he had gotten documents from the, San Francisco D. He had gotten documents from a very powerful prep school they’re called San ig, and he was getting ready to aid prosecute people and b, take those internal documents scrub the names of victims and public publicized them. So needless to say Terrence Hall was ru a lot of feathers in very powerful positions.
So what basically happened is Kamala harris ran against Terrence Hall and she had a full backing of the mayor Willie Brown with whom she had previously had a romantic relationship. And also some very powerful people in San Francisco who were connected to that Catholic school who wanted a scandal to go away. They poured go of money into her campaign, Willie Brown got the local unions energized, and she literally came out of nowhere. She was not known in San Francisco, and she beat Terrence Hall. What happened?
She got into power. She dropped the charges against all of Willie Brown’s friends. Some of these charges involve public safety. 1 of his friends was selling sub park concrete for the construction of, things like, parking garages and bridges that could end in disaster. The other thing that she did was she deep 6 any investigation or exposure of the priest abuse case in the Bay Area.
So the bottom line is that the genesis of her political career. It was all about cover up. It was all about insiders putting her into power. And for all the talking that she does about, , being concerned about justice and protecting innocent victims that certainly was not the case when she ran for office and she achieved that position, but the same sort of problems occurred when she became the California attorney general as well.
Speaker 13: what? And it’s so scary because the thing is is they’re promoting her as somebody that she’s not. Her policy, everything that she’s doing and being a Californian and somebody who had run for office in the past. I saw firsthand. That I was being supported by grassroots, supporters, the people where piles of money from corporations and lobbyists are what supports these campaigns.
In Your opinion, Peter, how dangerous is it for this country if Kamala kamala harris were to become president?
Speaker 11: Well, if you look in the space of her position as prosecutor, you see that she… She covers up for political allies, and she goes after her political enemies. I mean, look at when she became California attorney general in 20 10. 1 of the things that was happening around the country is that were investigations taking place of, health nutrition supplement companies for making faulty exaggerated claims about what their products would do. The Department of Justice was looking at it, the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, Dc, and her office in San Diego said we need to investigate these companies.
They’re located in California. We’ve done it as it regards other industries, we need to go after these 6 companies and investigate. Kamala Harris has shut it down. Totally out of character for her, why did she do it? Well, it turns out, that lo behold her husband’s law firm, v represented all 6 of those companies.
So literally, those 6… Those investigations of those companies went away, and I would argue it’s because Kamala Harris husband was the managing partner of the v office in Los Angeles at the time. Look at some of the other things that she did. There was a profit hospital chain in California, that was run by the sisters of mercy. They wanted to sell it to another profit because they couldn’t afford to run it anymore.
The problem is that that profit that wanted to buy it, did not want the service employees international union to organize because they said they couldn’t afford it. They couldn’t run the hospitals with it. This is a profit who worked with the California Nurses association had endorsements from the national organization of women because they had said, if we buy this this chain of hospitals, we will maintain consistent services. We will not eliminate any. The fact that they would not allow the Sci to union utilize, lead Kamala harris who have the authority to block that sale.
And what it ended up happening is, this hospital chain that was gonna go to a non nonprofit was bought by a hedge fund in New York. Kamala harris did approve with that transaction because the hedge fund donors were Democrat donors, and of course, they allowed Sci to union utilize. The problem is that the hospital chain shut down and restricted a lot of services. So my point is is that she goes after her opponents, she supports her powerful friends. That’s certainly what she does is a law enforcement officials as a prosecutor.
And I can expect as a president she would continue to win reevaluate in the same way.
Speaker 13: And we’ve seen a lot of that. We’ve seen this with president Trump with all these the law laid out against him. We’ve seen it against American citizens. And I do know that Kamala… At 1 point, there were some investigating.
Speaker 0: Okay. There’s growing talk online about Kamala Harris having a drinking problem.
Speaker 9: Our extraordinary day president Joe biden. He’s gonna speak in a minute when And there’s a lot love this our president
Speaker 0: Alright. She definitely likes to drink? Alright Does she have a drinking problem but not known, but it’s it’s getting talked about on social media. It it might explain, , did see silly behavior on her part publicly. So we know she she likes drinking.
We don’t know how much if any of a drinking problem. That she has. So something worth looking into the the bigger point is that she’s not being thoroughly vetted. And so we’re gonna find out all sorts of things about Kamala Harris that we don’t really know. Yet.
But she’s not been thoroughly vetted. Tim Walls has not been thoroughly vetted. Her husband has not been thoroughly vetted. I suspect that We’re gonna find out a lot more about Kamala harris, and it’s not going to be to her advantage. Because right now, just looking at the state of the race, you’d have to say that Kamala harris is the favorite.
But we’re gonna find out more. Talk to you later. Bye bye.