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April 3, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Hey everyone, welcome to View from the Right.
This is Gregory Hood, I'm here as always with Paul Kersey, and this week we will be discussing what was once one of America's greatest cities, Baltimore, and now is almost something of a punchline.
Certainly the biggest news is the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after a collision from a tanker from, I believe it was Singapore, with an Indian crew, which may have been being Driven by an American pilot toward the end as it navigated under the bridge at his support, the entire bridge collapsed.
And somehow, someway, rather than the focus being on the economic disaster, this creates for one of the already struggling city of Baltimore.
The story now, according to the mainstream media, is about how heroic the Baltimore mayor is being in standing up to people who are mocking DEI standards, because there was an online controversy about whether DEI had contributed to this accident.
It doesn't seem very likely that it did, but except maybe upstream in the sense of lowered standards, and certainly we'll see how it affects the reconstruction.
But it's amazing how this unprecedented disaster has really had very little airing in like the actual discussion about it.
Instead, we're just getting another stupid discussion about how evil white people are, even though when you actually look at it, white people may not have had much to do with this story at all on any level.
But then again, I mean, I guess that's the story of Baltimore.
I mean, what do you think, Paul?
Because I mean, Baltimore, obviously That was where the National Anthem was written.
That's what the bridge was named about.
HL Mencken, probably America's greatest journalist, one of its greatest writers, was from Baltimore.
Edgar Allen Poe is from Baltimore.
I mean, this is a city that's always punched above its weight in terms of culture, and yet now, I mean, it's essentially just a culturalist wasteland.
Yeah, well, greetings to all of our listeners here as we talk about, you know, the Really, what is an amazing city?
Up until probably 1950, 1960, you know, this was one of America's most important cities.
And as you alluded to, you know, Francis Scott Key, Fort McHenry.
I mean, these are some of the landmark institutions, cultural achievements were pinned there.
I mean, the National Anthem, for Pete's sake.
Now, of course, I, you know, just point of fact, I'll do a quick little anecdote for you.
I was just passing through Baltimore and we went across the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
This was in December of 2023.
And I remarked to the people I was in the car with, you know, I can't believe this is still named for Francis Scott Key.
Because Mr. Hood, there was a school in Maryland that's named for Francis Scott Key and big controversy was they need to rename it during the whole George Floyd insanity.
You had all the, of course, our military basically decided to rename everything.
Well, in a lot of these blue-controlled states, they've said, hey, let's examine and make sure that we're not honoring anyone who owns slaves.
And as you said, Francis Scott Key, not only did he own slaves, but he was one of the founding members of the American Colonization Society, which wanted to free slaves, financially recompense Slave owners with federal government money and then ship all freed slaves out of the United States back to Africa.
So Francis got keys like a double whammy, Mr. Hood.
I mean, he's not only did he own slaves, he wanted to actually end the problem.
And so that's problematic.
One might say that the current city of Baltimore is exactly what he was trying to prevent.
Yeah, you know, it's fascinating to think that the governor of Maryland is a guy named Wes Moore.
He wrote a book about Baltimore.
I think it's called The Other Wes Moore, his experience there in Baltimore.
And a lot of it is, got it, he's a lot like Ty Neesey Coates.
I'm sorry, is that how you pronounce that guy's name?
But he's kind of fallen out, hasn't he?
Yeah, it's kind of funny.
He was the go-to guy, and then Ibram Kendi seems to have replaced him.
It's sort of like someone even dumber and someone even less cultured, because he was sort of like a midwit guy who, like, oh, he writes about racism, but he also was into, like, comic books and stuff.
Isn't that quirky and weird and great?
But that's still too highbrow for today, so now we have Ibram Kendi.
I've actually read the Black Panther that Coach wrote.
He wrote a number of Black Panther stories set during World War II.
But anyways, neither here nor now.
No, I mean, the fascinating thing about Baltimore, you and I have been to H.L.
Mencken Club meetings.
I don't think we're going too deep here for people.
You know, the H.L.
Mencken Club used to exist, and it was held in Baltimore.
I think it's been disbanded, correct?
What, the Mencken Club?
Yeah.
I don't, I'm not sure.
I mean, I haven't been there in quite a long time, but I mean, the issue with Mencken, of course, is that he really, him and Poe really made Baltimore a signal of, or a sign of like America's cultural growth, because Mencken's whole bit was that the American language deserved to stand on its own, that it wasn't just downstream from the British, that the American language was a cultural accomplishment in its own right.
And a lot of what he contributed, not only his journalism, not only some of his political writings, which have always had a certain amount of popularity on the right, but also his autobiography and his book, The American Language, which has remained consistently in print, even though it's a pretty dense topic.
But it's one of those things where The United States was still incredible, as it seems, coming into its own early in the 20th century.
The idea that we actually do have a culture, we have a high culture, and we have a vernacular that's worth talking about, and that we're not just a bunch of uncivilized barbarians.
And then, of course, Edgar Allen Poe, who essentially created an entire genre.
But these things, it really is something that comes from a different time, and almost It's as distant as the Roman Empire in terms of the relevance to Baltimore today, because one of the things that Mencken talked about when it comes to Baltimore is that he said, a citizen of Baltimore, and I'm paraphrasing here, he's not just a citizen of the cities, a citizen of a particular place that has a real cultural cachet and a real reputation and really means something significant, because the interesting thing about Baltimore was it was essentially a southern city
with sort of a northern way of operating.
It had a heavy German presence.
It was very culturally unique.
It was very important port, but it still had that kind of southern charm to it, even as it had this northern business climate.
I mean, they're really, it's sort of like New Orleans in the sense that it's not just another city.
Like there's something very distinctive about it.
That is not true anymore.
No, it's not.
Baltimore is just another, Black wreck.
I mean, you've seen one, you've seen it all.
If you've been to East St.
Louis, well, guess what?
You've been to Baltimore.
And there are a few leftover institutions from the good old days, but, well, now you can't get to them anymore, I guess.
But I mean, that's, it's just been kind of coasting on that.
And the interesting thing about it, of course, is that all the things that made it great to begin with, the people who are in charge now have been systematically driving those things out.
Obviously, Francis Scott Key is one of those things.
I mean, just after it happened, the Washington Post wrote an article, Who Was Francis Scott Key?
The Controversial Poet the Bridge is Named After.
Well, controversial to who, exactly?
And the root, of course, is saying Francis Scott Key is a slaveholder, and you have all these people saying that when it gets rebuilt, we need to make sure that it's not after A slaveholder that's not about Francis Scott Key.
I mean, presumably it'll be the George Floyd Memorial Bridge or whatever it is, assuming they can get around to actually replacing it.
But what's interesting about all of this is that there seems to be almost no focus on what's actually going to happen to the city now.
I mean, this is a city that has been losing population for years now.
The homicide rate is through the roof.
The wire, famously, Profile Baltimore and the interesting thing about the wire was it essentially portrayed Baltimore as this irredeemable?
disaster that no matter how well-meaning or how idealistic somebody was The politics of the city would always defeat you and no matter how hard you worked or how much you sacrificed There was nothing you could do the black police chief at one point says it's Baltimore gentlemen.
The gods will not save you and then When President Trump, I believe he made some unkind remarks to Baltimore, which are reminiscent of the remarks that he made about Haiti, at that point that you saw the same sort of reaction.
You saw, including the Creator of the Wire, but you had all these other celebrities and politicians and everything else rallying, talking about how wonderful Baltimore is, how it's the greatest city ever, how its culture is so rich and everything else.
No, it's not!
It's just the port where all the heroin comes into this country.
It's a place where everybody who can afford it tries to leave.
It used to have a waterfront and, you know, Camden Yards and things like that, where they were essentially trying to gentrify it.
But over the last few years, that's being essentially driven out because gentrification is a bad thing now.
And everyone has just sort of resigned to the fact that it's a crime-ridden disaster.
And people are happy about this.
I've got to jump in and tell you, it's not a crime disaster anymore, because this past January, The AP and everybody, the Baltimore Sun, everybody celebrated the fact that Baltimore celebrated a historic 20% drop in homicides, even though gun violence remained high.
Now, Mr. Hood, since 2015, the city has had more than 300 homicides every year.
There were some years, Mr. Hood, that Baltimore had more homicides The New York City had homicides, and New York City's population is what, 6-7 million?
Baltimore is 600,000 and falling.
Yeah, I guess last year was the first time they had less than 300.
Yeah, it's the first time since 2015 when the whole Freddie Gray riot started.
You and I watched those.
Yeah.
And everything, everything, it was the hard right that predicted it, uh, ended up happening.
Cause we were all saying like this, what's going to happen is police are just going to stop trying to enforce the law.
And everyone's like, no, no, no, this is going to make things better.
It's going to bring the people and the police closer together.
Well, we know what happened.
I mean, one of the interesting things in the wire too, is there's a scene where the two cops are drinking.
The Black Cop says something along the lines of, I think this is an exact quote, the city's going to hell, man.
We're looking at 300 homicides this year.
And that was portrayed as the ultimate nightmare.
That was portrayed as something so ridiculous that that was the worst case scenario.
And until last year, that was just par for the course.
Now, of course, one of the reasons homicides might be going down, leaving aside the fact about whether they're even reporting these things, whether there are bodies they're even finding, It's that the population is going down.
And what's interesting about Baltimore, too, is that for a little while, they did try to make it a kind of a comeback story.
I mean, that was what Camden Yards was all about.
That's what the waterfront was all about.
It was sort of the model for this is how we can turn some of these cities around.
But there's no indication of any of that now.
And certainly the bridge collapse is probably going to be the final blow.
No, and again, let's just be blunt.
The city can't come back.
Because if the city comes back, then you're going to see the displacement and the usurpation of the black elected leadership and the black bureaucracy.
That's one of the reasons why black crime is such a hinge against Mr. Hood, white people coming back.
I mean, about a decade ago, there was a famous article by a white lesbian called Baltimore, You're Breaking My Heart.
And she never mentioned black crime.
She wrote this story about what it was like, I think, to try and have a business in Fells Point, which is a primarily white area of the city, white enclave.
And she just talked about how, you know, we want to make the city better for everyone.
And people's cars are being broken into every day.
Police don't answer calls.
What's going on?
Why is this crime so bad?
And that was before the Freddie Gray riots.
And I remember that was when I first started playing around Twitter and I text, I tweeted her.
It's like, hey, you know, I did control F in your article.
You didn't mention the African American or black.
Why not?
I mean, we know who's committing the crime.
I mean, David Simons made a fortune off of his book Homicide and the show The Wire that he was the showrunner and the producer for.
We all know who it is.
I mean, if you can't call it out, how are you ever going to make things better?
And it's like any major city.
You know, Baltimore, a hundred years ago, people would be incredulous of you and I having this conversation.
Because as you and I published back in, gosh, August 20th, 2020, The Great Replacement Baltimore graced the hallowed pages of Amarin.com online.
And this was the seventh installment in the series.
Mr. Baltimore in 1920 was 87% white.
Think about that for a second, ladies and gentlemen.
I think the population was even more than it is now, by the way.
It was 87% white.
These are Americans that just don't exist anymore.
You had first generation, like you said, Germans, there were Italians, there were Irish, but then you had the white southerners who had created the city.
And unfortunately, the so-called Great Migration was beginning to take place in Baltimore, had a burgeoning NAACP chapter.
They unfortunately had a, they had enough of a foothold to start to chip away.
And by 1970, by 1980, the population had fallen under 50% white.
By 1980, the population had fallen under 50% white.
It was still majority white up until 1980.
So it held on longer than most major cities did, Mr. Hood, but the consequences were just devastating.
And you see this black mayor, Mr. Hood, this is a city that I think had
three black female mayors in a row.
They all resigned in disgrace, and some white.
Newscaster said, hey, maybe it's time for, maybe it's time we don't have another black female mayor, you know?
Yeah, then she got fired.
She got fired.
I mean, obviously the real problem is mentioning it.
Mentioning what's happening is much worse than it actually happening.
I mean, what's interesting too is about this, this DEI controversy when it comes to Baltimore.
When it happened, and this is where a lot of the speculation sort of comes from, you saw the whole thing go down.
Yeah.
And so you immediately had a bunch of people talking about, you know, is it sabotage?
Is it an attack?
Is it an accident?
Did the bridge itself just randomly collapse?
Because it seemed unrealistic at that time that a boat essentially crashing into a pillar could bring the whole thing down.
Now, of course, it's not just a boat.
It's an 100,000 ton supply ship, which obviously is going to bring the whole thing down.
And most US bridges do not have protection against this kind of thing.
It would obviously be extremely expensive to implement these sorts of things.
But these were people speculating as it was happening.
There wasn't just people spouting off like in the days or weeks afterward.
This was as it was happening, hey, what's going on?
And the idea that the press is now taking this as, well, this is all misinformation.
And we need to make sure that we control the narrative when it comes like this.
And Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says that he's brushing off the DEI mayor criticism that he got immediately as it happened.
Well, the reason he got this criticism is because he showed up wearing like, what, a hoodie or something like that to the initial press conference and started just, he could barely enunciate.
What was even happening?
And people were like, this is a major city.
This is a major port.
We've just had a major disaster and this is the guy in charge?
Like, what are you kidding me?
I mean, you can't dress it up when the stakes are so real.
And certainly, of course, Baltimore itself can't do anything about this.
President Biden has already said that the federal government is going to have to eat the cost of this whole thing.
It'll be an interesting test to see how long it will take to rebuild the bridge.
Whether it's possible to rebuild the bridge at all, and whether it'll be on budget.
I was looking at something from California's high-speed rail, where I'm pretty, it's already over budget, it's already behind schedule.
I'm not sure any rail has even been laid yet.
No, and Mr. Hoog, for all of our listeners who might not know what you're talking about, the high-speed rail was supposed to connect, I believe, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
And they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars.
Not one, not one rail tile has been smashed in.
I was a big fan of the show Hell on Wheels, which was about building the transcontinental
railroad and it was probably the last show we'll ever see that the protagonist was a
Confederate officer, a veteran who helped build.
And anyways, point being, you're right.
I mean, the Francis Scott Key Bridge was built back in, I think, the Bicentennial, 1976.
And I think it was started that year, and it took a few years to build.
But that was back when, you know, there was still You didn't have the cost overruns that you have now.
I mean, you're from the North.
You know the crazy story about the Boston Tunnel.
Yeah, the big dig.
A lot of it is because the purpose of such projects is not to actually build anything.
The purpose of such projects is to distribute patronage, is to distribute jobs.
Whether the jobs actually lead to anything, whether you're actually doing anything, that's kind of beside the point.
I mean, how many of these?
I mean, it's sort of the question of the whole DEI industry.
I mean, forget the mayor of Baltimore.
Why do we have a DEI industry?
Why do these things exist?
What is diversity, equity, inclusion in every single major company?
Because it's a way of having a political commissar class in every single institution of note, so you can ensure political loyalty and make sure the wrong types of people don't get jobs and the right people types of people do get jobs.
It's a way of providing jobs for people who get these majors in ethnic studies or diversity studies or African American studies.
They can't create value.
But they have an influential voice in academia and in media, and so therefore they essentially get a kind of set-aside.
And you have to put them into these sorts of things.
You have to give them something to do.
And now you have given them something to do, the same way a member of the Communist Party would always get a job in some state-owned company in the Soviet Union.
And it's a way of ensuring re-election for these big-city politicians, because You get to distribute the money around.
In this case, the money is not even going to come from Baltimore.
It's going to come from the federal government.
It's going to come from, let's face it, mostly white taxpayers, and it's going to be redistributed around Baltimore.
Whether the bridge is rebuilt or whether there even is a bridge sort of doesn't matter.
It also has no impact whatsoever on what the future of Baltimore is going to be in terms of which political party is going to govern.
I mean, one of the things that you alluded to, but we should probably spell out a bit more, is when you see these high crime statistics in these major cities, it never actually changes anything in terms of who is actually elected or who gets to run these sorts of things.
The reason for that, I remember there was an Ann Coulter post a while back where she said something along the lines of, well, African-Americans are the ones who pay the most from these kinds of crime.
They should be the ones spearheading tough on crime policies.
And it's like, yeah, but they don't.
And insofar as political choices reflect the will of the community on anything, it is true that they pay the highest cost from crime.
As the Antifa never cease to remind us, most crime is within racial groups, so it is mostly black on black.
But insofar as the community supports one party over the other, they support the criminals.
Nobody cares about the victims.
Nobody is hosting rallies.
Nobody's hosting protests.
Nobody's destroying anything because they think crime is too high.
Those types of actions are saved for when some murderer or some drug dealer gets arrested and he gets a boo-boo from the police.
That's what happens.
And the reason for that is because, not just because it's a way of winning the get a lottery and getting money, not just because it's a way of Extracting concessions from the white community, but high crime has a value in and of itself because it prevents gentrification It maintains black political control of communities and make sure that white people don't come cry in and turn these things around yeah black hegemony because again it creates the patronage system you're able to create a Bureaucracy where you know the entire water department can be staffed by blacks like in like in Fulton County in Atlanta, which I discovered
When I asked when I asked for the breakdown of that data back in God was about a decade ago to find out just how unbelievably overstaffed all these organizations are all these departments within the bureaucracy by just blacks.
And you're basically creating a fake black middle class.
Now the consequences.
of the situation in Baltimore, there are two things to unpack. We need to go back.
One, the black mayor of Baltimore, of course, basically said his life is to make those who
attack him—I can't remember the exact words that he said, but basically he said he didn't
threaten white people, but he said that DEI is, you know, these people are too afraid to call me
the N-word. They use DEI. And I want to congratulate Chris Ruffo, because this guy has almost single
handedly created the pushback.
He's the most successful advocate out there right now.
He's the most successful, and I think you'd agree with me on this, he's the most successful person on the right right now who's revolutionized things, where now DEI is something that white conservatives, white Republicans are thinking about.
In a lot of ways, people are starting to realize, well, hey, wait a second, we have rights too, don't we?
And there was an Axios article yesterday.
Is that the right pronunciation?
Is it Axios or Axios?
I think it's Axios, but who cares?
Okay.
Point is, they basically said, if Trump wins, he's going to appoint Stephen Miller to create safeguards for white people.
How can this be?
And the media, of course, as you've said, all journalists are bastards, A-J-A-B.
Chris Ruffo is one of the people, and again, there are other people, you know, yourself, Jared Taylor, Peter Brimlow, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis.
But the point is, it was always going to take somebody else to bring these ideas, and now you've got the black mayor of almost three-quarters black city, Baltimore, where a bridge, again, a ship hit it and it just collapsed.
It was very, it was shocking to watch.
I thought it Again, when I saw it on live that morning, I'm like, is this real?
Did this just happen?
It just looked so crazy.
And this guy shows up literally looking like he's getting ready to go do a rap show.
And he gives a press conference.
He's incoherent.
And then the next day it becomes, hey man, yo, why not call me the n-word?
Well, yeah, that's become the story now.
I mean, the exact quote was, me being at my position means that their way of thinking, their way of life, of being comfortable while everyone else suffers is going to be at risk, and they should be afraid because that's my purpose in life.
It's like, no, what's happened is exactly what you would predict.
Like, yeah, you're the mayor and it's a dump and everybody wants to leave.
Like, you did it.
Congratulations.
Like, now there's a bunch of trash and you scooped up some of the trash and made a little crown out of the trash and put it on your head.
Like, good work.
That's exactly, I mean, things work out more or less the way the so-called racist predict it will.
I mean, if you're looking at any public policy, the way it's actually going to play out on the ground is exactly what you would expect.
From the perspective of race realism.
And what's remarkable about this is that this is now the story.
This is, like, that is what he went.
He went on Joy Read and started talking about how much he wants to upset white people and how outrageous it is that people are criticizing him.
It's like, well, your city's a dump and the bridge that everybody relies on just fell into the river and you're complaining about race.
Who cares?
What difference does it make, particularly when it's going to be white people who are going to be writing you the checks for all this?
You're not going to do anything.
Well, not only Baltimore's not going to pay for any of this.
Yeah.
You know, Mr. Hood, it's so funny to think at the timing of the just horrible destruction of this bridge.
Because again, for those who might not know, who might be listening from around the world, Baltimore is one of the most important ports In the United States, it's a great deepwater port.
In fact, it's responsible for tens of thousands of jobs for the local economy.
It's costing millions of dollars per day as ships are having to be rerouted to the Port of Virginia, and Norfolk, and Virginia Beach, to Savannah, to Brunswick, to Georgia, to New York.
And this happened a couple of days after an article And Mayor Brandon Scott, the black mayor of Baltimore, spearheaded this plan.
They're trying to sell over 15,000 abandoned properties, abandoned row houses that once were replete with white people, white families who enjoyed a beautiful city and created one of the most dynamic economies and major cities in the country.
They're trying to sell these abandoned row houses for $1.
Yeah, I was thinking about what you could do in terms of market opportunity.
If you had a bunch of working class white guys who weren't afraid of some labor, you could go in there, you could fix them up, you could hold them, you could prevent people from stealing the copper or whatever else, and you could start turning these things around.
But, you know as well as I do, you're not going to have government backing.
So, if the thing starts getting gentrified, if the property values start going up, if people start confronting you, If you do anything, you're going to get, you're going to be the one who gets arrested.
They're not going to punish actual crime.
They're not going to publish actual drug dealing.
They're not going to punish all the things that actually destroy community.
They will punish somebody who does something about it.
And to a certain extent, when you see a city like Baltimore, I mean, you just sort of have to understand that this is what they want.
I mean, because there's no point where you could suggest the alternatives and they'd be willing to accept it.
And I think the response to this whole thing, I mean, this is going to strengthen his political position.
This is going to strengthen DEI.
I mean, let's look at some of the recent articles about this.
Baltimore Banner.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott responds to racists calling him DEI Mayor.
Local News.
Baltimore Mayor claims racist critics use DEI instead of N-word to attack him.
W-Mail.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott claims DEI label is being weaponized by racists.
The Hill.
Baltimore Mayor says critics don't have the courage to say the N-word.
He's on Face the Nation.
Baltimore bridge disaster being blamed by leading Republicans on DEI decried by Baltimore mayor.
All of this is now the main focus of the story.
And the fact that these racist white Republicans are going to be the ones replacing this bridge makes no difference whatsoever.
The focus now is that they've committed less majesty against a black politician who is governing what used to be a decent city and is now a dump, but we have to pretend that he's an elected official who's done something or has shown some sort of competence or is running a city in such a way that a civilized society would find acceptable.
And then we have to bow and scrape and cry because random people on the internet, and that's who this is, random people on the internet may have been calling him names.
Like, what difference does it make?
This is what the press does now.
Some guy with like a thousand followers on Twitter says something, or X, excuse me, says something, and that's national news now because you're not allowed to criticize this stuff.
I would think that the collapse of the bridge would be bigger news, but at a certain level it's also because The appearance and the image really is more significant now than the reality.
I mean, you've seen a number of these stories talking about the state of the economy, and if you poll Americans what their own experience is about inflation, about the cost of living, about housing costs, about whether they're ever going to be able to afford a house, particularly young people, poll after poll after poll after poll is going to show that people say things are bad and they're getting worse, and that Their children, if they can be bothered to have children, are going to enjoy a lower standard of living than they themselves have enjoyed, and certainly lower than their parents have enjoyed.
But the media response to this is basically to scold people and say, well, actually, the reason people are saying this is because the evil right-wing news media Is telling people the wrong story about the state of the economy.
In fact, the economy is doing great and you should stop complaining and it always comes back to misinformation and disinformation in the need for the government to have more control over social media.
And the implication that they should be censoring, that they should be kicking people off, that you should be making sure certain search results are suppressed while trusted sources are brought up.
Now, of course, we already have that.
I mean, the Internet is censored to an extent that 15 years ago would have caused like a violent rebellion among the same people who are advocating it today.
But I think the 2016 election.
I'd actually push back and say eight years ago.
I mean, again, because the media could not have foreseen.
Even in 2015.
Yeah, exactly.
It's eight years.
It's 2016.
Even up until the miraculous night Trump won in November of 2016.
So, less than eight years ago.
And real quick, the media doesn't care about the tens of thousands of jobs that are now in jeopardy.
And the industry that's in jeopardy of this bridge collapsing.
As you alluded to, they care more about going after those few individuals who have called out The mayor, the black mayor, and it's called the DEI mayor, and basically saying, you can't say that.
Because again, it's so obvious what has happened.
Again, we're not saying the DEI had anything to do with the bridge collapsing at all.
What we're saying is, again, the priority of Baltimore, of Baltimore politicians, of the black elected officials, is big.
And again, think about Marilyn Mosby, who was the celebrated Black state's attorney of Baltimore during the Freddie Gray riots, where she basically sided with the rioters.
And the black mayor, I think, said they deserve space to... I can't remember what word she said.
Space to destroy.
They didn't care about what was going on.
You know, I love Baltimore.
Point of fact, I would love to live in Baltimore.
It is, like you said, it's a southern city.
Up until, I think, the disastrous Unite the Right rally, which of course has been one of the
just horrific moments in our time in this dark timeline we live in.
Baltimore had arguably one of the most beautiful Robert E.
Lee Stonewall Jackson statues that was taken down at night because they were worried.
I think it was, I don't know if it was Dixon or which black female mayor it was, but they
did it at night because they're like, oh, we were worried about, you know, threats.
So they took down this awesome statue that had existed for, I think, a hundred years
in Baltimore.
Because again, Lincoln during the Civil War, I want to say that Maryland, wasn't it under martial law so they couldn't secede?
Yeah, I mean that's one of the ironies of the whole situation we're in.
Maryland was a state that would have gone with the South had it been left to its own devices.
Lincoln basically occupied the state legislature with federal troops to make sure that there was no secession.
There was a notable incident early in the war where there was basically a fight between civilians and troops.
This is where the song My Maryland comes from, which until recently was the state's song, speaks of the patriotic gore that struck the streets of Baltimore.
That's what that's a reference to.
Maryland, you know, it even talks about the tyrant's heel is on the shore and everything else.
I mean, the reason was because it had every reason to go with the South in terms of its economic interests, but DC was just not going to let that happen.
And certainly Maryland as a state is very interesting because even though it's not very big compared to some of our states out West, if you look at like Western Maryland, I mean, it's the South you go out there.
Oh yeah.
And the way people talk, the culture, the way everything is set up.
I mean, essentially you just have this thing, this giant sucking maw of Baltimore.
And because it's a port and because there's only so many locations that you can have for these sorts of things, and the infrastructure is already there, well, at least until recently, I mean, Baltimore is always going to be extremely important.
But I think we're going to learn about Whether it can in fact just be replaced.
It's going to take time to repair this thing.
Right now they're still trying to clear the wreckage from the bridge to kind of open up the port again.
And certainly Baltimore has had a problem with being, I believe, one of the, it may have the highest rate of heroin addiction.
I think at one point it was something like one out of ten residents, but that's where a lot of the heroin that comes into this country comes from.
And there doesn't seem to be any indication of Solving any of these problems because ultimately it's a policy choice and those with power have everything to gain from the status quo Continuing so there's no reason to expect anything to change on this front and I think the consequence of this and This may strike a lot of breeders as counterintuitive But I think the consequence of this is it's actually going to strengthen the position of the black political class I mean you've got billions of dollars that are just gonna come in now so they get to redistribute that to all their friends You've got the media running cover
And let's be honest, it's not really on the Baltimore political class for why the bridge itself collapsed.
I mean, that wasn't really their fault.
The question is the overall state of the city and whether they're going to be able to rebuild it in anything close to a respectable timeframe.
I have my doubts about that.
I don't know what exactly has been the effect of all those huge infrastructure bills that were passed a few years ago.
Under President Biden, there's been a lot of talk about infrastructure and about the return of manufacturing to the United States.
But the reality has not been so impressive.
For example, one of the big things that the president took a lot of credit for was returning semiconductor manufacturing to the United States of America.
Notably, Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing was going to build a plant in Arizona.
A number of other companies were going to start building their stuff here in the United States, but they decided not to do it.
Because the DEI regulations made it untenable.
Because if you're building semiconductors, you really don't have the leeway to, you know, pay an African Studies professor to lecture everybody about the racist history of semiconductors.
Like, you actually need to build semiconductors.
I mean, these sorts of things can be done in a city like Baltimore where there's enough money kind of lying around because it's a port and because of the history of it and because there's so much capital that really can't be moved so you can scrape some off and kind of redistribute it to your buddies.
But when you're actually trying to produce something, it's not so simple.
I would like to say that, well, maybe Baltimore is going to have to tighten up a bit and maybe we're going to see greater efficiency.
But I don't think that's true.
I think the federal government's going to bail it out to an extent that we're probably going to see more corruption.
We're probably going to see more crime.
We're going to see greater fortification of the existing black political class.
And we're going to see greater insistence that they should be beyond criticism.
I mean, one of the things that's interesting, too, about this whole idea is they're saying, oh, well, DEI is the new N-word.
And it's like, well, have you ever noticed that whatever word is being used to describe blacks, whether it's blacks themselves, whether it's coloreds, whether it's, you know, people of color, whether it's African-Americans, whether it's whatever else.
And now DEI or whatever is going to be used to describe these sorts of programs going forward.
It always becomes a slur.
It always becomes offensive.
It doesn't matter who came up with the word or why they're using it, because it wasn't the right wing that came up with DEI.
It's their word.
It's their acronym.
But it naturally becomes a slur.
And the reason it naturally becomes a slur is because of what it represents.
It's not because the word itself isn't sensitive or it has a history of it being an insensitive word.
It's because at the end of the day, you're describing something that's inherently parasitic.
And unless you're doing it as part of an official communication saying that you want more money come to these things, Anytime you describe something that's inherently parasitic, it's going to be used in a negative sense.
I mean, what are you going to say?
Like how DEI benefits the economy or something?
Give me a break.
No, it creates an artificial black middle class.
That's all it does.
That's all DEI does.
I mean, one of the fascinating things about Baltimore and its importance to the United States, just as so many Northern, and again, Baltimore was not a Northern state.
It's a Southern state.
I'm sorry.
Maryland is a Southern state.
Baltimore is a Southern city.
It was.
But, you know, one of the most important Institutions of Higher Learning is in Baltimore.
It's Johns Hopkins University.
And there's been a massive battle because it's situated right in the middle of one of the blackety blackest ghettos.
And they wanted to have their own police force because there's been so much violent crime.
There was an amazing story, Mr. Hood.
Maybe five, six, seven, probably eight years ago, a white guy killed some black intruder, a white student at Johns Hopkins.
killed a black intruder with a samurai sword. I don't know how I remember this. It just this just
came back to me. I was thinking about this and this controversy that happened and it's amazing
the guy wasn't lynched on the spot but you know they wanted to have their own police force just
because just to protect the the you know this very important um college this very important university.
Yeah, Hopkins was moving forward with it a few years ago.
And then a group challenging the memorandum of understanding between Baltimore City Police Department and Johns Hopkins University says it will appeal after the lawsuit was dismissed.
The Coalition Against Policing by Hopkins says the agreement that allows Hopkins to operate an armed police force in the city conflicts with state law.
Well, obviously, if the objective is to protect Johns Hopkins and essentially to admit that frankly, yeah, the real estate and the human capital represented at this institution is actually worth more than the rest of the city.
And we have a greater stake in making sure that the kind of chaos that rages about it doesn't come here too.
There's not really a way to put that in the law that will square with equal protection, but equality doesn't exist.
And even equal protection, It sounds like a good idea, but it's the sort of thing that people are always going to try to find a workaround for.
You certainly see this even in Chicago and Philadelphia and a number of, and obviously in New York, with a number of other communities and a number of other institutions where there's always a kind of private security force or workaround for the places that really matter.
And community advocates are always like really angry that this is allowed to exist and it always exists in this kind of legal gray zone because at some point.
You figure someone's going to confront it directly, and there's going to be some sort of a use of force, and then there's going to be protests, and then the media is going to go nuts and everyone's going to get all upset.
But at the same time, when it comes to facts on the ground, nobody really wants to be at the mercy of the Baltimore police force.
And it's not even a question of going after the Baltimore PD and not having a go at them.
It's that after the Freddie Gray trial, we sort of learned that, well, if you're the police, And you get into any one of these kinds of situations, the city's not going to have your back.
And so why would you put yourself in these situations?
Why not just stay back, let them kill each other, get your pension, move out to the suburbs, let it rot?
I mean, clearly, this is what they want.
A lot of the Sort of tough ethnic neighborhoods that generated a lot of the union workers or the police departments or some of the old school democratic political machines, something else which was sort of talked about in The Wire, but also, you know, the nonfiction surrounding this time and everything else.
All this is sort of fading away because there's no longer the extra wealth that's needed to sustain these sorts of things.
It's all going to the black political class.
And I don't think that Baltimore can Even maintain itself as sort of the third string city that it is now particularly now that the main thing it has going for it economically no longer exists.
I mean one last thing with the wire just because it's so tied to the symbolism of the city itself is in the second season there's sort of a subplot where it's these white union guys and there are sort of this Buchananite Almost Trumpist, pre-Trump rhetoric about, oh, we used to build things in this country and we used to have unions that were strong and could do all these things.
And now we don't do these things anymore.
And essentially he is, the union head is getting involved in the criminal stuff to try to keep jobs going to his guys.
And his guys are mostly white.
And there's this one conversation where he and his nephew are discussing the way things are going in front of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
And the guy says something along the lines of, That bridge is going to be there forever.
It's assembled, you know, like us, we're always going to be there just like this bridge.
And it's like, yeah, actually, the wire was way too optimistic about the future of Baltimore.
No, I mean, really, I think what we can put, we can really wrap this whole conversation around to really get people to understand.
What Baltimore represents.
And this is kind of where I think we are.
Everything could change.
This is why I'm so white-pilled.
This is why I'm very optimistic about the future.
And I'm not bullish on America, but I'm bullish on what America represents to white people.
And again, that's what I look at the world now.
It's what comes after this empire that is imploding on itself.
Every idea, we've tried them all.
Oregon just basically had to recriminalize drug use, Mr. Hood, because they basically said, hey, you know what?
The libertarians are right.
Let's legalize everything.
People can make the right choices.
And what happened?
Insanity broke out.
People are not capable of making their own choices.
People need to be told what to do.
And you know what?
I would love to look the black mayor of Baltimore in his face and say, you know, I'm not going to call it the N-word, but I'm going to tell you this, pal.
It's not DEI that's ruining Baltimore.
It's you and your people.
And Francis Scott Key, he warned Americans.
And that's the reason why the American Colonization Society was started.
Because we knew then what would happen if we dared believe that equality, egalitarianism should be the bedrock and the foundational myths trying to be the sinew holding together this vast country.
It wasn't going to work.
And you know what?
Baltimore in 2024, regardless of the Francis Scott Key Bridge being destroyed by a Singapore company with a bunch of probably illegal immigrants who... Well, it was actually wasn't in terms of, I mean, I do want to correct this.
We don't know the name, although I've seen some reports that it was this, this woman or something, but they haven't, I'm hesitant to jump out in front of this stuff until we see like the actual report, but It was an Indian, it was Singapore ship, Indian crew.
And we can say whatever we want about the qualifications of that crew and about that ship.
And I'm sure there's a lot to say there.
There did seem to be some sort of a power failure.
In theory, the person who was actually piloting it at that point, because they have people, their job title is actually pilot.
And once you get to this certain level, these highly qualified people essentially handle that part.
And by all accounts, the pilot, Called in a Mayday, identified the problem, told people to clear the bridge, handled it about as well as you could possibly handle it, but the power went out.
And so, you know, there's nothing you can do.
Now, if we want to talk about how DEI might have actually contributed to the accident itself, certainly we can talk about, well, what are the quality, what are the standards for these ships?
Singapore is not exactly known for cutting corners, but when it comes to shipping companies, Where a ship is actually flagged is often very different from saying that the ship is actually truly based out of there.
And if it was truly based out of there, why is it an Indian crew?
And who are these guys?
Because at the end of the day, it's going to be the crew that's responsible for maintaining the ship, not the pilot.
I think that people blaming the accident itself on DEI Probably stretching, but we don't even really know that either at this point.
We could end up finding that the declining standards that led to the power failure and that led to the accident and that led to all these other things happening was sort of a cascade effect.
But I think the bigger thing where we don't need to beat around the bush or try to disguise it or anything is that Baltimore is the way it is because of DEI on a grand scale.
And it's certainly, the reconstruction effort is certainly going to be defined by that.
The way the money is spent is certainly going to be defined by that.
Who the mayor is, is definitely going to be defined by that.
And more than anything, the way that this is actually turning into a political triumph for them.
Because it's sort of, I mean, the person we named the show after, it comes from Lawrence Oster's blog, and one of the things that he had was the first law of majority-minority relations.
And the first law of majority-minority relations is that The worse a non-white group behaves, the more the white group has to apologize because we cannot admit the groups perform at different levels because then the whole thing falls apart.
So therefore, the more disgracefully minority group behaves, the more we actually have to praise them for being heroic and doing the right thing.
And that's sort of the indication here.
We have this guy kind of trot out and mumble some stuff about the bridge.
And people are like, what is this, like some kind of a joke?
And that's enough for him to become a hero and for people to start launching this crazy attack on white people as if they have something to do with what just happened.
The only thing we have to do with it is we're going to pay for everything.
When it comes to immigration, the only people that were supposedly on The bridge at the time, because they were able to apparently stop some traffic and certainly could have been a lot worse.
I've driven across that bridge quite a few times, unlike President Biden, who said that he used to go across it on a train.
There are and have never been trains going across it.
It's always been an automobile bridge.
But then again, we all just kind of know that the president's not the guy running the show and has no idea what he's talking about.
So that was just kind of politely overlooked.
Let's not forget he was It was held that by that Department of Justice investigation that he broke the law, but we can't hold him accountable because he's too confused and he's just kind of a well-meaning old guy.
So he's he's capable enough to be president, but he's not capable enough to be held legally accountable for anything.
I mean, that's how the how it goes in terms of the people who were on the bridge.
I doubt I mean, who knows what the way paperwork is faked, but from what we have been told, they were not illegal, but they were, in fact, immigrants.
And this became believe it or not, a pro-immigration talking point, which
was, well, the immigrants are up there doing these jobs and then they die. And then this is a reason why
we need more immigrants. It's sort of a more sophisticated version of the, well, we need the
Kelly Osborne quote, you know, we need immigrants because if we don't have immigrants, who's
going to clean the toilets?
You got to bring in these people so we can dump jobs on them that nobody wants to do.
So when they die, nobody really cares.
That's the pro-immigration position.
That's like the compassionate position.
I mean, the obvious counter, of course, is why are immigrants doing these sorts of jobs?
I mean, these are serious jobs and these should be done by Americans.
If there is going to be discrimination, it should be For Americans to be doing these kinds of jobs.
Certainly we don't want bridges collapsing.
Well, these things are happening, but there seemed to be a whole chain of events leading to the bridge collapse itself and whether any of those things are actually going to be fixed.
I don't know.
I mean, again, we had this whole big thing about repairing infrastructure and how this was going to be.
Build back better, and that was going to be what President Biden's term was all about.
But as we saw with the infrastructure bill, none of it had anything to do with actual infrastructure.
All of it was just sort of clean energy boondoggles, grants to various left-wing groups, DEI programs, manufacturing initiatives that don't actually go anywhere because equity gets in the way of actually hiring qualified workforce.
It's just sort of this endless redistribution of wealth.
And we're able to get away with it because the deficit has just exploded.
And we're spending a huge chunk of money just sort of paying off the interest on each of these payments.
And we can get away with that for a very long time.
We may even be allowed to get away with it indefinitely because the dollar is the world's reserve currency.
But it's not because any of this is working.
I mean, you can live a great lifestyle for a very long time as long as you never actually have to pay off your credit cards.
But eventually the bill does come due.
And I sort of get the feeling that With the way the bridge collapsing and the way so many people weren't even that surprised by it.
That was sort of the takeaway from a lot of people when this collapsed.
Everyone was just sort of like, oh, well, of course, of course this happened.
And I think we're going to see a lot more of these sorts of things because you really do have a kind of competency crisis in industries where you really Didn't have to worry about it before.
Certainly with Boeing, where you have parts falling off planes.
The president even joked about it in a speech the other day.
I mean, it seems like a strange thing to joke about, but he did.
You've got parts falling off, and I think corporate leadership just had to get shaken up because of it.
You have, in the military, they're trying to rehire a lot of these guys who they let go over the vaccine, and because of pushing white people out of the services, because they're running out of qualified people to take some of these jobs, There does seem to be these very complicated systems that were kept running by middle class white guys who weren't making a lot of money and may not have even been the most highly educated, but knew what their business was.
And now you're trying to move more politically reliable people into these positions and they just can't do it.
And that's applying to every single system across the entire country.
And it really doesn't take much For these things to start falling apart.
Now, I don't think it's going to be like a lot of people predicting, even like Elon Musk predicted, where you're going to get planes falling out of the sky and bridges collapsing and the water doesn't work anymore and all these sorts of things.
But that is going to happen in some places and already has happened in some places like Jackson or Flint.
I'd actually stop you and say, I think all of America has the potential to be Baltimore until we can be honest and look these mayors in the eye.
We basically need reconstruction 2.0, like what happened after The scalawags and just the horrific nature of the post-Civil War Union victory over the Confederacy.
And they basically put these incompetent, unqualified blacks in charge of all these state legislatures.
And then eventually, eventually, white people said no.
And this is the word that will change the world.
This is the only thing that will save America.
Is if white people just say no, Mr. Hood.
And that's kind of... I mean, that's the mayor was saying, oh, you guys are saying DEI, but you're, cause you're afraid to say the N word.
Well, the N word that needs to be said is no.
Exactly.
No, we're not going to pay for you.
We're not going to put up with your complaining.
Go build Wakanda.
We don't care.
You had your shot.
You created a ruin and you create a ruin wherever you go.
It doesn't matter whether it's Haiti, you know, if it's, if you chase out the colonizers and kill them, you get Haiti.
If you've never been colonized, you get Liberia.
It doesn't matter what the circumstances are.
It doesn't matter what the history is.
It doesn't matter what language is spoken.
It doesn't matter the natural resources.
It's the same outcome every single time.
It doesn't matter what the institution is.
It doesn't matter what ideology is being used.
It doesn't matter whether it's anarcho-capitalism or centrally planned communism or whatever else.
It's just the same thing over and over and over again.
And we have to spend our entire lives pretending that this isn't happening.
There's no simulation to run that's going to make Baltimore better until white people say no.
And this is ultimately why I think we are we're seeing something happening in 2024.
And it's been brewing.
And this is why the mayor got so upset.
And this is why you see so much effort by journalists to try to intimidate and attack anybody who dares say no, no, no.
And, you know, Chris Rufo, just as VDARE is being attacked by Letitia James, With lawfare, you know, Chris Ruffo is facing that with the ACLU.
I'm sorry, is it the ADL?
My apologies, it's the ADL.
I'm not sure exactly, but I know what you're talking about.
I know Ruffo was also facing lawfare efforts.
So that should be, we should refrain from discussing that until we go into that with all the facts at hand.
But lawfare is becoming increasingly common on all fronts.
And one has to admit that there's not really a cure for this.
Within the system the ideas of Anglo-Saxon laws laid down centuries ago by like Blackstone or something These sorts of things are entirely gone from the United States because what we've learned is that Anglo-Saxon law doesn't really work unless you've got Anglo-Saxons and legal theories that are built upon the premise of what if everybody was a 130 IQ Anglo just like me don't really work and They barely work when you've got 100% Anglo society.
They don't work at all when you've got mutually incomprehensible tribes all stuffed together, all of whom hate each other and many of whom survive entirely through redistribution of wealth.
And the way one prospers in society is essentially through the manipulation of language to achieve rent seeking.
I mean, that's how power is really determined in this society.
And there are a number of sort of magic words that are used.
DEI, until it became a slur, was one of these words.
You say it, you have this industry, you put these things forward, and then you are no longer able to push back against demands for redistribution of wealth.
What happens when people do start pushing it back against these sorts of things?
Now, I have much less optimism than you do about 2024.
I think Biden is going to win re-election.
I think he's going to do it rather handily.
The polls have been trending in his direction for some time.
He's now decidedly up in the prediction markets.
I think the Trump campaign seems entirely listless.
And frankly, there Doing the right thing as far as crippling his campaign because he's crippled via lawfare.
He's going to spend all his time in courtrooms and paying off fines.
You can't get on Twitter because he's got to do this Trump's truth social thing in order to keep the money up that he's going to need to pay off these fines.
The media is totally against him.
The internet is completely censored and essentially rigged to make sure that people are always going to get the worst normal people who are just logging on every day are going to get the worst possible picture about what it is he's trying to do.
And as Elon Musk and a number of other people were talking about today, I mean, you now have voters being registered without any photo ID.
So in any of these.
Battleground states a lot of these guys who we see coming across the border regardless of what the law says because I know some reporters gonna be like well actually the law says they can't vote it's like okay, but if you don't have a way to actually enforce that law if you don't actually require photo ID and apparently Requiring photo ID to vote is just an unbelievable Racial offense.
Yeah, you can't the idea that somebody is Should have to have a photo ID in order to vote is a civil rights violation because that's too much to ask.
They should be allowed to direct the state and use force against political opponents.
That's good.
But the idea that you should expect them to be able to get a photo ID, that's just beyond the pale.
Well, I mean, these guys are obviously going to vote and the courts are going to say, well, there's just nothing we can do about it.
And then that's just going to be that.
And.
To a certain extent, there is.
More of an awakening and more awareness about these sorts of issues.
Certainly you and I would have been delighted a decade ago.
If you saw the circulation of some of our talking points within the American conservative movement.
But the difference is that the American conservative movement really has been ghettoized to an extent that I don't think could have been predicted a decade ago, because the open internet essentially has been shut off.
And there are certain subcultures where a lot of these things are running around, but they're not really breaking out into mainstream rhetoric, at least not yet.
And certainly the media is intensifying its gatekeeping efforts, which is why, to kind of end this and I'll let you close, You have the collapse of a major bridge in one of America's most important cities that shuts down a port.
And the main takeaway, the main thing the media cares about is the fact that people on X may have called them, people whose names we don't even know, may have called the mayor some mean things.
And the mean thing they called him, by the way, is DEI, which until a week ago was the enlightened way to talk about things.
And now it's the N-word.
Yeah, that's where we're at.
So I'll leave you to wrap up.
Exactly.
Not only the enlightened way to talk about things, but the right way for every Fortune 500, every Fortune 100 company to operate their standard, their standing operating procedures.
You know, one of the fascinating things that happened a couple weeks, about a month, three or four months ago was We learned that 94% of the jobs in corporate America since George Floyd was killed went to people of color and that was due to DEI initiatives and practices.
We've seen this all across the board with you name the company that that's publicly traded as an equity and it is a company that is dedicated to DEI.
Our military One of the first things that happened once Biden took office is our military stood down in a historic precedent under the black defense secretary.
They stood down to look at, you know, so-called white supremacists within the ranks to do a DEI take.
I mean, everything that is happening in our country is based on, is this putting diversity, equity and inclusion At the forefront.
Doesn't matter what else happens.
DEI is all that matters.
And so that's why I, again, we're not trying to say anything about Baltimore's bridge collapsing.
The point of Baltimore's bridge collapse is a symbolism named after the man who wrote our national anthem, but also a man who wanted to ensure that his posterity didn't have to deal with these problems by being part of the American Colonization Society, which wanted to Peacefully separate.
And unfortunately, in our current situation, we can't have any conversation that point pointedly says, hey, you know, maybe this whole problem isn't due to systemic racism, implicit bias, or white privilege.
You guys are in charge.
You've been in charge of the city for a while.
Perhaps the quality of life found in Baltimore is, you know, based upon What black individuals collectively create and that's what Baltimore represents all of our problems.
I mean, it's, it's, it's there.
And, um, like I said earlier about that white lesbian who wrote that article, Baltimore, you're breaking my heart.
And, you know, Baltimore can be the city that breaks the back of black run America.
Baltimore can be the city that breaks the back of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
If white people just say the N word.
It's no.
That's the true most powerful word.
And certainly Francis Scott Key warned us, and we should have listened, but I think our opponents know that, and that's why whatever they put up, maybe it'll just be like a few planks of wood with like a string holding it all together.
When that gets put up, I highly doubt it'll be named after Francis Scott Key.
So with that, we'll close it.
Thank you, Paul.
Thank you to all of our listeners for joining us once again.
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