Dave Smith analyzes the upcoming election, predicting an October surprise against Trump while critiquing his late push to ban Critical Race Theory in federal institutions. He argues that intense hatred from elites stems from Trump's refusal to adhere to "woke" political correctness, exposing CRT as a modern tool used by corporate powers to divide society and distract from economic failures. Smith contends that CRT is hostile toward libertarianism, labeling free markets as white supremacy, and asserts libertarians must oppose it to dismantle the managed economy and authoritarian state rather than accepting progressive distractions. [Automatically generated summary]
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Here's your host, Dave Smith.
Hey, what's up, everybody?
Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem.
I am, of course, Dave Smith.
I'm flying solo for this episode.
Robbie, Robbie the fire.
He's up one battle.
He's down one battle.
The war on optimum rages on.
So I wanted to talk about a few things regarding the presidential race because we're getting down to the home stretch here.
And there's some stuff going on that I thought was pretty interesting.
So, first of all, I would say keep in mind that we are about, what is it?
Today is the 9th, I believe, right?
Yeah.
Yep, September 9th.
So we're about a month earlier in the cycle than when the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape was released in 2016.
That was in, I believe, the first week of October.
When that came out, it was dubbed that year's October surprise.
I think that you should expect an October surprise this year.
I don't know what it's going to be, but I would bet that there will be something damning about Trump that comes out in October.
If you remember the Access Hollywood tape, which was the, you know, the infamous grab him by the pussy tape, that was something that they had for months.
They sat on it, possibly even years.
But they sat on that, and then the Washington Post released it right before a debate, a month out from the election, all very intentionally done.
And I would expect something like that to be coming in the next few weeks or in the next month.
That's my guess.
What we've seen so far are a bunch of little attempted scandal stories against Trump, but none of them really seem to have legs on them.
It surprises me that they're even attempting to put some of these out and make a big thing about it, because it's just, for the most part, you look at these and you're like, there's no way this is actually going to have an effect on anybody who is supporting or even considering supporting Donald Trump in this election.
We talked a couple shows ago about the accusations that he called some Marines or something losers, that he didn't want to go to a grave site of World War I, you know, vets or something like that.
It's just grasping at straws, and it's the type of thing that even if they could prove it true, most people have already accepted this side of Trump's personality.
They've either accepted it and they're willing to get past it, or they absolutely hate him for it, in which case they were never considering voting for him anyway.
So, you know, that's it seemed to me almost surprising that they'd even run with this and try to make a thing out of it.
I don't know what how it serves their purposes.
But the new one that's out right now that people are making a big thing about is this tape of Donald Trump where it's trending on Twitter.
Trump knew.
And basically he's saying in the tape that he knew that COVID was really bad and he acknowledges he was still trying to downplay it.
It just doesn't seem like there's that much there to get outraged over.
Even in the tape, what Donald Trump says is, I don't want to create a panic.
So he's pretty clearly giving you his reasoning for why he was downplaying it.
It just really seems like grasping at straws.
And I doubt it'll have, like, I doubt it'll move the needle even slightly.
So they're throwing out these stories.
None of them really seem to have any legs on them, but I'm telling you, I think there's going to be something coming out in October.
That would be my guess, probably in the first week of October.
We'll see.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but that would be my prediction.
So we'll see what ends up coming of all of that.
But there's some interesting things going on in Trump's response and also in Trump's late election strategy.
So one thing that's really interesting that Donald Trump's done is that it's now coming out being announced that troop reductions will be happening in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Donald Trump's going to pull out a few thousand troops from Afghanistan, a few thousand troops from Iraq.
This is the plan.
In typical Trumpian fashion, it's kind of too little, too late, not really making the difference that people wanted, but it's pretty good.
And so that, you know, I guess I'll applaud Trump for pulling some troops out or planning on pulling some troops out.
You never know with Donald Trump because he says he's going to do this stuff all the time and doesn't end up doing it.
The other thing that I thought was really interesting was this letter that Trump sent out to end critical race theory being taught in federal institutions.
So I want to talk a little bit about that in today's episode.
But whether it's the troop withdrawals or ending the critical race theory stuff, what's so frustrating about Donald Trump and why he's just completely, you know, completely failed as a president.
And so much of it is that he just didn't understand the moment that he was, you know, the potential of the moment that his presidency could have been.
And this is why he's achieved none of his major objectives.
But this type of stuff is what Donald Trump should have done month one as president, not the, you know, month and a half before you're up for reelection.
This is the stuff that you lead with.
Once Donald Trump, when Donald Trump came in in January 2017, that's when this stuff should have been happening.
Should have been right away.
We're having major troop reductions, if not just pulling them all out and bringing them all home.
And he should have gotten away from all this critical race theory garbage.
And that would have been, that would have been the perfect time to do it.
That would have been a thing where you can say, hey, elections have consequences.
This is what I was voted in for.
The voters have rejected this crap and we're getting rid of it.
And then it would have meant something.
To do it now is too little, too late, and just really, really poor strategy.
One of the problems with Donald Trump is that he doesn't know enough.
He just doesn't know enough about the system that he's in, the situation that he's in.
It's been reported, I don't know if this is true or not, but that he basically saw a report on Fox News about critical race theory being taught in like the FBI and in the military.
And he was like, what?
I want to get rid of this thing.
This is terrible.
So Donald Trump, who's been president for nearly four years, just figured out that this is a thing and was like, what?
Well, let's get rid of it.
And it's like, yeah, well, the issue is that you needed to know this stuff coming in.
Donald Trump is an interesting guy.
He's a unique human being, unlike any other human being I've ever seen in my life.
And he certainly has some genius instincts, but he's not a guy who, you know, he's an ignoramus and he doesn't, he's like, I don't waste my time, you know, reading policy papers and books and knowing what's going on.
He's like, I can watch the shows on TV, have my finger on the pulse, know what'll move people.
And he does, you know, like he's good at all of that.
But unfortunately, the task required a little bit more.
And he needed to actually know what was going on here.
And he doesn't.
And he didn't.
So that's the issue with Donald Trump.
There's one funny thing.
One of the things that I've talked about a lot on this show is the dynamic of the people who hate Donald Trump.
There's a lot of people really, really hate Donald Trump.
I'm sure everyone listening knows some people who really hate Donald Trump.
He inspires hatred from a lot of people.
And of course, then there's a lot of people who he inspires like, you know, praise and loyalty from.
But it's interesting to me why people hate Donald Trump.
And it's interesting to me why different groups of people hate Donald Trump because it's not all the same thing.
And this is a point that I've really tried to drive home for the last four years or so.
Like the reason why your left-wing friend hates Donald Trump is very different from the reason why the CIA hates Donald Trump or CNN hates Donald Trump.
It's not all the same thing.
And it's even interesting to me why a lot of libertarians hate Donald Trump.
I mean, like you, not that there's not reasons to hate him, but it doesn't seem like there's anything about Trump that makes him a unique evil from a libertarian perspective.
I mean, he's, he's the next president, you know, he's the next bad guy.
He's the head of the federal government, which is an evil institution.
And so, of course, we would hate him.
But it's not any different than Bush or Obama, in some ways, better.
So my point is just like libertarians, if you were to ask them why they hate Donald Trump, like the left libertarian crowd, even if you ask them why they hate Donald Trump, I mean, they could give you policies, I'm sure.
They could say, you know, whatever he's the kids in cages, his immigration policy or his, you know, foreign policy or his fiscal policy or any of these things.
But none of those would be a reason to uniquely hate Donald Trump.
That would still just make him the next guy.
Yet there are certainly a lot of left libertarians who seem to hate him a lot more than they hate Obama.
And same really with people on the left.
I mean, they could tell you policies of why they hate Donald Trump.
But I think as everyone knows, I mean, you could make just as strong an argument to hate Barack Obama for a lot of those reasons and certainly just as strong, if not much stronger argument to hate George W. Bush.
But they don't.
They hate Trump more.
And there's something interesting about that.
And to me, I really think it comes down to his personality.
I think that they really, really hate, you know, like left-wing people are programmed to hate what Donald Trump is, the very nature of his personality.
You're telling me he's a straight, white, rich, unapologetic man, you know, who just kind of like, he's braggadocious and he's like he's just represents the excesses of capitalism probably more than any other person.
And then he's kind of like, you know, he's he's not humble.
He's kind of mean.
He's just got all of the things.
It's all wrapped up into one perfect package to hate.
And what Donald Trump doesn't do, and this is kind of what's interesting about the critical race theory stuff, is that Donald Trump does not buy into any of the wokeism.
And the woke shit, which is basically what critical race theory is, it's what common people know as woke culture.
But this is the kind of academic, you know, intellectual philosophy behind all of that shit.
And there's different levels of it, right?
Like there's different levels of wokeism.
So like in the same way that you'd look at something like Scientology or something like that, you know, where they have like the different levels that you get to, they're, you know, if you look at like some fucking college gender studies major, that's like the ultimate max level of wokeism.
But it's something that dominates all areas of life.
And there's, you know, it's really incredible, actually, how much it's spread.
The Power of Political Correctness00:15:47
And then there's, there's just, you know, your average kind of politician or something like that who will still speak in these kind of, you know, coded, you know, phrases and stuff like that.
But Donald Trump doesn't play any of that.
Like he's just outside of that cultural norm.
So if he just, you know, like even when he said his things, he goes, yeah, you know, the Mexicans coming over here sure aren't the best Mexicans.
A lot of them are rapists and criminals.
I'm sure some are good people.
And people are like, holy shit.
Like you're, that's Adolf Hitler to them.
Like you're not only is he, he's speaking in a way where he's just disregarding all of the political incorrect rules.
So one of the things that this woke political correct culture does to people is they make you guarded.
They make you worried that you could say the wrong thing.
And that has an effect on people.
It has an effect on all of us.
I mean, certainly, you know, like, look, I don't really want to get kicked off like Twitter or something like that.
I'm sure I will at some point, but I don't particularly want to.
You know, it's taken me a long time to get a following on there.
So it's like, I don't really want to get kicked off.
So then you think about that before you tweet something.
You know, sometimes you're like, oh, I just want to say something like, yeah, maybe I shouldn't say that.
And that's the effect that political correctness has on people all the time.
Even if the threat isn't something so severe as you're going to get, you know, like you're going to get fired or something like that.
But the threat might just be that you're going to have some type of social ramifications of some sort.
And people watch their mouth.
That's what this is like when you see boomers talk about race.
They're always like so uncomfortable because they just don't want to say the wrong thing.
Like, I just don't.
Now, that might be different if you're having a beer at a, you know, a barbecue or something like that.
But like, you know, in any type of public environment, it's always like very low.
Well, I just feel that African-American culture, you know, they're very nervous to say the wrong thing.
And that's something that the people who are proponents of wokeism or critical race theory, they really love.
They really love that shit.
Like they love that you have to constantly be worried about saying the wrong thing.
And they like to bash people when they do say the wrong thing.
And in the same way that a bully likes to see someone intimidated, then they know they can bully that person, right?
Like if you're, if, if you let, like, just in third grade, if you let a bully know that he's really affecting you, he's going to keep bullying you.
Whereas if you don't give a shit what the bully says, they'll probably move on because then they don't get any like anything out of this.
So what Donald Trump does is he speaks in a way where he's like, I don't give a shit.
And he doesn't even have to say that.
It's just clear in the way he speaks.
I don't care about these rules.
I don't play within them.
That's why they have all these quotes on Donald Trump, you know, just saying things like whatever.
It's just ridiculous, hilarious shit.
And sometimes in really poor taste, but there's this shit where he's like, you know, if a woman's flat chested, it's very hard to be a 10.
This is just how Donald Trump talks.
That's the guy.
And so this drives left-wingers crazy.
And that's what they hate about him.
It's really not anything to do with his policies.
Because if the level of hatred correlated to the policies of Donald Trump, most left-wingers, they'd probably be like, well, I really don't like his immigration policy.
I mean, you know, it's really not that much harsher than Obama's was, but I don't really love that.
You know, he's deregulated and cut taxes a little too much for me.
The criminal justice reform was really great.
Not starting new wars, that was pretty great.
You know, like there's no reason for them to, for him to be uniquely evil to them.
It's this other stuff.
But that is not why CNN hates Donald Trump.
That is not why the CNN hates Donald Trump.
And here is why CNN hates Donald Trump.
And this is, let me pull this up here.
This was from a, this is from Ryan Brown, who is a CNN national security reporter.
So these are the worst of the worst.
I mean, if you want to find the worst of the corporate press, go to their national security reporters.
So he tweets, in an unprecedented public attack by a sitting U.S. president on the leadership of the U.S. military, President Donald Trump has accused U.S. military leaders of seeking to start wars to boost the profits of defense contractors.
My God, the horror.
Now here's the quote from the president.
I'm not saying the military, I'm not saying the military is in love with me.
The soldiers are.
The top people in the Pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.
That's a quote from Donald Trump.
And this is why these guys hate him.
It has nothing to do with any of that other shit.
They don't believe in any of this woke shit.
And that's an important theme to keep in mind throughout this episode.
None of these people actually believe this shit.
They don't believe in fucking that white people are inherently racist.
They don't fucking believe in any of this shit.
Most of these people are white.
They don't give up their power.
They're not this guy who I just fucking quoted is a white guy.
He's not fucking going, hey, you know what?
I really shouldn't have this big platform.
I should give this over to a person of color.
I mean, I have achieved all of this based on a racist system.
He doesn't believe any of this shit.
It's just a very convenient tool for them.
But this is what they don't like about Donald Trump.
And this is also why they love the woke shit.
Because the woke shit, the political correctness, right?
This keeps people worried about saying the wrong thing.
You're training people constantly.
Like, this is the area that you're allowed to be in.
And if you come over here, you get slapped.
And then you move back into this area.
Don't come over here.
But the reason they don't want you coming over here is not that you might commit some microaggression.
It's that you might do what Donald Trump just did and go, oops, you know, without even thinking about it, he just basically told everyone that war is a racket.
Now, of course, if you're analyzing what Trump said, of course he's 100% right.
Does anyone, how could you possibly even argue against it?
Like, oh, yes, I mean, sure, there are all these top-level military people who then go and work for all of these fucking weapons companies, you know, and sure, the weapons companies just rake in billions and billions of dollars in profits every time we have another one of these military conflicts.
And sure, you know, the increase in the military budget, sure, that does, you know, like fucking line all these people's pockets, but there's no conflict of interest there.
I mean, they would never support a policy because it maximizes their profits.
Like, it's a joke to even try to argue it.
But their whole thing, the reason those guys hate Donald Trump is because he has no fucking filter and he will say shit that you're not supposed to say.
And you're not allowed to do that.
But remember that they don't actually believe in any of this critical race theory garbage.
None of them do.
And the reason, when I say none of them do, none of them do.
Not to say there's no left-wingers who really believe that shit.
There are.
Those top-level gender studies majors on college campuses, they really, really, really believe that shit.
But they're just useful idiots.
They don't even realize that they're aiding their enemies.
And that's basically the whole story of America in the last hundred years, a little bit more than 100 years.
Certainly, you know, going back to the progressive era.
You got to read Murray Rothbard's The Progressive Era.
I have it.
It's up here somewhere on these shelves here, right here.
Got to read this book.
Murray Rothbard's The Progressive Era.
It's very important.
And the reason you need to read it is because it's important to understand what really happened to this country in the progressive era.
And that this critical race theory garbage, it's all really just the latest tool that the progressives use.
And the progressive era is what gave us everything that we hate today.
Everything that's wrong.
This is the reason why we have so many problems in this country.
The progressives gave us, and this started, you know, before Woodrow Wilson, but Woodrow Wilson was really the one, you know, in his administration is really when they took over the country.
But they gave us the Federal Reserve, the income tax, World War I, which of course led to World War II, the national security state, the FBI, the CIA, all this shit.
This is all right out of the progressive era.
And of course, directly after that, it leads to World War I.
Then you have FDR, the New Deal, all of this shit.
And pretty much the progressives won.
I mean, they won the day.
They got all of these policies in.
And everybody basically today who's in power is a progressive, including like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.
All of them.
I mean, you know, they're all progressives.
And what I mean by progressives is that they accept all of the policies of the progressive era as a given.
And I mean, these policies that I'm naming, like they might feel like, you know, some of them might be bold enough to say, I think the Fed has been too inflationary, but none of them are questioning whether there should be a Federal Reserve.
None of them are questioning whether there should be an income tax, right?
Like even on Fox News, they might argue for lower tax rates.
Like, you know, they might be like, well, Obama wants 39% income taxes, and that's socialism.
And we want 35% income taxes, and that's capitalism.
Like that's the allowable range within the progressive dynamic.
The only one who really ever blew all that out of the water was Ron Paul, who would just come out and say, just abolish it.
Just abolish the income tax and replace it with nothing.
I don't, you know, so that's the rest of them, they don't question any of the, you know, like they, there might be some people who say, we never should have fought the, you know, the war in Vietnam, or we never should have fought the war in Iraq or something like that, right?
Like that you can get away with saying.
But how many of them are going to just question the entire national security apparatus?
How many of them are going to say, well, we never should have fought World War II?
Who's going to say that?
Well, you know, who said that was Pat Buchanan, and he doesn't have a job anymore.
You know, like he got fucking booted real quick out of NMSNBC after he wrote that book.
So it's like that's nobody who's outside of progressivism is really allowed at the table.
And that's the world that we live in.
And the progressives, basically, if you read the Rothbard book, his major thesis is essentially that the progressive era was a right-wing takeover of a left-wing cause.
And it's a really interesting way to look at it because that is in effect, like that's actually what happened.
Basically, there were these left-wingers who were, you know, basically socialists and they wanted a managed economy.
And they, you know, they looked at the Industrial Revolution.
Wealth had been created in a way that had never been created before.
Of course, this generated, you know, basically, I mean, maybe not nominally, but like billionaires basically for the first time ever.
I mean, I don't know if any of them actually had a billion dollars, but in terms of very, very rich people, the robber barons, as they became called, right?
Like this was the, you know, J.P. Morgans and the John D. Rockefellers of the world.
They all came out of these huge industries.
They had tons of money.
And of course, the standard of living was rising at a more rapid pace than ever before in human history.
More wealth was being created.
But they looked around and they saw these very wealthy people and they said, we should have a managed economy.
This wealth should be shared amongst the people and yada yada, all these kind of left-wing views.
And then you had the big bankers and the robber barons and all of these other forces come in and say, oh, yeah, yeah, we can totally give you a managed economy.
We will absolutely give you a managed economy, but we're going to manage it.
And that's what you got.
And that's why it's this incredibly ironic dynamic where it's like, oh, we have to have a managed economy to make sure that the working class doesn't get screwed over.
And it'll be managed by the big banks.
And this is, and in this latest iteration of it, the woke bullshit, it's still the same thing, right?
It's like, oh, Joe Biden, you know, an old rich white guy will be like, well, I'm going to pick a black woman as my VP.
Well, okay, but if you really believe this shit, why don't you just step aside and let her be president, right?
Like it's just, it's, it's all this dynamic.
If you really, like these big banks, you are the ones who are screwing over the working class more than anyone else, and yet they own this kind of left-wing space.
But it's not, you know, it's important to understand it's not really the true left-wing socialism.
That's not really our problem.
What we have is this progressive system.
We have like, it's like a participatory, quasi-fascistic system.
That's more or less what we all live under.
And so they became the managers, the, you know, what you could call the right-wing forces, you know, big bankers, big industry, all of this shit.
They became the managers and then they spew this leftist progressive garbage.
But of course, even then, they never really believed in the ideology of progressivism.
They just wanted more power and more control and more wealth.
That's all that it's ever about.
And oftentimes I think people don't understand that.
And of course, it's like the Sean Hannity's of the world just do nobody any service when they'll be like, you know, the far left, Nancy Pelosi and all this shit.
Nancy Pelosi is not far left.
And the far left, you know, if you call her that and you're, you know, in the presence of some far left person, they'll laugh in your fucking face.
And they're kind of right too, because it's ridiculous to think that she's any of those things.
She's just a power broker.
That's all.
And that's important to understand.
It's like there's a difference between your left-wing friend who hates Trump and the CIA who hates Trump.
There's a difference between your left-wing friend who believes in this woke bullshit and somebody at fucking JP Morgan Chase who's putting up a, you know, a billboard about confronting racism or something.
There's a difference there.
One of them genuinely believes it.
The other one is using it for power.
And it makes sense that these big corporations would want to co-opt the left because really, who's the biggest threat to those big corporations?
I mean, I know, I'd like to believe it's like libertarians and shit, but truthfully speaking, what's a big movement that ever was really going to go, you know, like in the 20th century, what was a big movement that was going to go and seize the wealth and redistribute it?
Your eye would probably be on the left if you were concerned about that shit.
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So of course, this is a perfect way to co-opt it.
So they became the fucking managers of the economy, of our society.
So they become the managers.
And then, you know, they fucked everything up.
And not just, you know, for a lot of reasons, because they wanted more power.
And so they're, but the nature of ruling over people and managing an economy is that you're essentially stealing from them.
So they fucked people over left and right.
But for a while, they were able to, you know, control this through their propaganda.
And they had a complete lock on media, on education, on all these things.
So, you know, I mean, look, World War I and World War II were pretty big fuck ups, but, you know, they won.
They won both the wars and they controlled all the propaganda.
And so, you know, the thing kept on moving.
But now we're basically coming up on a little over 100 years of this experiment in a managed economy in the United States of America.
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White Privilege and Division00:15:14
All right, let's get back into the show.
There has been, you know, let's say in since, say, the year 2000, so let's say in the 21st century, there's been a lot of people who are getting pretty upset with the system because it's crumbling in a lot of ways and in ways that you can't hide from people.
Like I've said before on the show, but it's people, you can keep a lot from people.
You can keep people in the dark about a lot of different things.
But if you can't protect your borders or balance your budgets or win your wars or, you know, like very basic roles of government, if you can't do any of that stuff, people start to notice and they start to notice that the middle class is getting punched in the gut constantly.
They start to notice this shit.
And so that people have been getting more and more frustrated.
And that's why you see these populist movements all over the place.
And some of them really good populist movements, you know, like even the ones that you may not like as much.
You know, like if you looked at like Occupy Wall Street or something like that, you know, I'm sure there's, we wouldn't exactly agree with all of the people at Occupy Wall Street, but you kind of get why there'd be a populist movement against the banks getting bailed out.
I mean, that does make sense.
So, and like the Tea Party and all types of things like this, right?
And so what's happened as this populist movement has been growing is that this critical race theory has really like ramped up and been shoved down everyone's throats.
Now, back to my point about people not like the powers that be don't really believe this shit.
And they don't believe what happens is there's intellectuals out there who float out all types of different theories.
And some catch on with other intellectuals and some don't.
But the ones that are useful for people in power end up being promoted.
So if you look at something like Keynesian, you know, economics, it's not that people in power were like persuaded that Keynesian economics was the way to go on its merits.
It's not as if they were like sitting there reading John Maynard Keynes and then reading some F.A. Hayek and some Mises.
And they were like, you know what?
Just think this Keynes guy has figured it out.
It's just that, you know, if you read Keynes and Mises, Keynes is telling the government they can take more power, and Mises is telling them that they can't.
And so it's not a surprise that they went with that guy.
And this is true with other people too.
This is true with like Rawls or someone like that.
The people who end up getting promoted just happen to be the ones who are arguing for philosophical reasons that the state needs to take more power.
And so the critical race theory stuff, this was very useful for people in power.
And the reason it was very useful, I think, was like twofold.
Number one, it divides people against each other by its very nature.
And that's something that people who rule always want to do.
They always try to divide people against each other because it's much easier.
And usually one group gets a privileged status.
So you divide groups against each other and give one a privileged status.
And then what happens is they fight a war against each other.
They don't end up looking up and fighting the power that's actually managing their lives.
They're too busy fighting each other.
And it's much easier in reach.
Like you could hate your neighbor and actually fight him, but you're probably not going to be able to fight Jamie Diamond.
You know what I mean?
You're not going to fight the CEO of Chase, but you might fight your neighbor who's right there.
And you might be able to win that fight, you know?
So it lures people into that.
And then, of course, you give one group the privilege status.
And that's, you know, that way they're a little bit more incentivized to not want to overthrow the whole system because they're like, I don't know, I got privileged status within this system.
So I'm going to fucking fight them.
And I'm going to fight to keep that status.
And then the other group hates them for having the privilege status over them.
And nobody's looking up to the fucking, you know, man behind the curtain.
So that's one of the reasons why critical race theory was adopted by all these people.
It's incredibly useful to them for that reason.
And it's also useful to them because they can essentially buy off the left.
This is what you see all over the place.
This is what you see with this guy, this white man, white male journalist tweeting about, you know, how terrible it is that Trump stepped out of bounds.
It's like, yeah, okay, but you're not going to give up your job, but you will throw them this bone.
So that's not a bad deal for you, right?
I mean, if you got a whole bunch of left-wing socialist types and you're a big banker and they're basically fine with dragging you through the streets, taking every dime you have and throwing you in a fucking gulag, I mean, they're legitimately okay with that happening to you, but you don't want that.
But here's a compromise.
You can go to a racial sensitivity awareness training and keep all your money.
That seems like a pretty good compromise from that guy's position.
So, okay.
So they divide people against each other.
They distract them from what they're actually doing to people and they buy off who they perceive to be their biggest threat.
Works out perfectly.
You know, if you don't know about critical race theory, it's really, it's quite crazy shit.
It comes out of postmodern thinkers.
It's all the shit.
It's basically encompasses everything that is wrong with our culture today.
And, you know, it's all the shit about microaggressions, intersectionality, white privilege, all of that shit.
You know, white people, like the entire history of our culture, our society can be reduced to racism, white supremacy.
That's the history.
You don't need to know anything else.
That's it.
White people have original sin.
They're all racist.
Black people are oppressed.
Gay people are oppressed.
Women are oppressed.
All of this shit.
And one of the things that's interesting is that when the progressives, like early on in the progressive era, they didn't buy into any of this shit, any of it.
And I mean, critical race theory didn't exist.
I think it came about in the 70s or 80s, and it wasn't really mainstreamed until the last 20 years.
But like the term microaggression, no one knew what that was 20 years ago, like regular people.
And now pretty much everyone's heard of it.
But the original progressives were just racist.
The old-fashioned kind, not the new critical race theory kind of racists.
They were just the good old, because that was the way.
Like that back then seemed like a more palatable way to achieve all of the same ends.
You pit racial groups against each other, stoke resentment, and give one group the privileged class.
It's just back then they gave white people the privileged class.
And now they do it for, you know, black people or gay people or women or whatever.
But it's the exact same game.
They just switch sides.
They just, you know, and it was very clever the way they did it.
It's almost like, you know, there's like, oh, okay, we're going to be racist against black people and pit white and black people against each other and give white people the privileged society.
And then there's like this civil rights like energy coming up and people are getting, you know, becoming against racism.
And then they just went, okay, and we'll switch.
We'll take all this momentum and just switch over to this side and keep pitting people against each other this way.
So the critical race theory stuff has seeped into everything.
It's really been amazing how much it's taken over.
I mean, it dominates the culture, dominates corporate America, dominates academia, dominates the corporate press, and all throughout government.
And it is incredibly destructive.
And one of the, you know, one of the problems with these games, right, is that, so historically, right, like the old school progressives who were just fucking racists, and they were like hardcore racists, that in a weird way was more traditional and stable than some of this critical race theory stuff.
Because what typically happens throughout, you know, most societies is that to control people, they teach them to worship the state and they demonize minority groups who can't really do anything about it.
You know, like if you're 10% of the population, you get fucking demonized.
Everybody else is worshiping the state and that's that.
And I mean, not that it's any better, morally speaking, but it's more stable.
What they're doing now is they're demonizing the entire country, the entire society.
You're supposed to feel terrible about this society.
And they're also demonizing the majority group, which is a much more unstable way to do things.
And so this is, it's really dangerous.
It's pushing the country toward like a civil war type state.
And as we said before, you see out in like Portland, people are already playing like mock civil war.
I mean, it's not exactly a civil war yet, but they're like flirting with the idea.
They're playing footsie with the idea of fighting a civil war.
And it's like, okay, you're flirting with a really fucking dangerous idea.
It's not something you want to do.
This is not something any of us want to see, like a hot civil war.
Not that I think that's going to happen, but it's like we're flirting with it.
And that's scary enough.
So anyway, so this stuff has really spread.
It's distracting a lot of people.
I mean, as you see, look, like you got the government literally just wrecked the economy.
And what's everyone upset about?
Well, it's racism.
And now it's a fight between, you know, the, do you support the cops or do you support the riots?
That's basically the artificial teams that people are supposed to be on.
And there's just a few of us who hate both of them.
But that's so when you're focused on that, what are you not focused on?
Oh, okay.
Well, you're not focused on the fact that the people who run the economy, the people who run the government, have fucked everything up.
And that's why libertarians need to be against this shit because it's a distraction from what we want to talk about, which is like, hey, stop fighting each other.
You don't have to be best friends, but you can peacefully coexist.
There's no fucking reason for you guys to be at each other's throats.
And look up, because there's a reason why you should be at their throats.
Like, that's the libertarian message, basically, as I see it.
What also just, you know, I guess what I find crazy is that there are the obviously, as I've, you know, mentioned and demonstrated in recent shows, is that there has been a real co-opting of the libertarian movement.
And many of the left libertarian types or the Beltway libertarian types won't say a goddamn word about this critical race theory stuff.
Like they don't even want to go there.
And they'll probably call anyone who does criticize it out for being racist or something like that.
But the thing that's infuriating is that like if you, you know, they give you all of these kind of mushy libertarian talking points, if there's ever anyone on the right who they deem racist, like, oh, racism is just collectivism, you know, like all this shit.
Oh, racism is just like an ugly form of collectivism.
And like, okay, fair enough.
All right, sure.
Let's let's go that route.
Racism is just an ugly form of collectivism.
But go take a look at critical race theory.
It's pure collectivist garbage.
But that doesn't seem to get called out.
That never seems to get attacked with the same, at least with the same fury that it would be if anyone on the right was pushing this type of absolute nonsense, like absolute garbage.
And so this is this is, you know, it's an interesting thing that it's even in the news.
But of course, I just, basically my major point from this whole rant is just to understand what it really is.
Understand it.
It's not, you know, in the same way that when Hillary Clinton says, I want to raise the minimum wage.
That doesn't mean that Hillary Clinton cares about the minimum wage.
Hillary Clinton cares about power.
And she knows that a certain block of her potential voters care about the minimum wage.
So Hillary Clinton cares about power.
They care about the minimum wage.
And that's why Hillary Clinton says Hillary Clinton cares about the minimum wage.
But that doesn't actually mean that she gives a shit about it.
Of course not.
And that's why you see things like, you know, like this is one of the stories that was like came out in the last few weeks was that this critical race theory has made its way into the military.
And so you're having, you know, fucking like Air Force seminars about microaggressions.
I just think about this shit.
It's like, this is fucking, what an amazing cartoon that we're living in.
The military is concerned about microaggressions.
Their whole organization is a fucking top-down authoritarian department of murder.
Like that's what they're there for.
And so the same organization, they're talking about racism and like, you know, oppressed people in America, while they're literally have been involved in genocide after genocide in third world countries.
So it's the same thing as it's like the same dynamic as the big banks managing the economy.
The ones who are screwing over the people the most are the ones who are put in charge of not screwing people over.
You know, it's like the military is in charge of, you know, or whatever, or they've been tasked with sorting out the problems of racism as they're dropping bombs on poor brown people in third world countries.
It's the whole thing is such a mind fuck.
And that's what, you know, the first step is to understand it and understand what actually is going on here and just how funny, how funny the whole thing is and how absurd it is.
Funny in, you know, like a tragic way.
But anyway, I guess to conclude, Donald Trump needed to end this bullshit in his first month and he needed to call it out for the evil, divisive garbage that it is.
And on top of everything else, it's just idiotic.
Like it's really, really stupid.
Aggression vs. Freedom00:02:50
But people who care about freedom, you have to be against this shit.
And if you don't want to, if you're unafraid to take this stuff on and you're just like, well, I'd rather just talk about, I don't know, economics or, you know, the war on drugs or something like that.
I mean, all that stuff is great.
But if you're not going to, if you're not going to take this stuff on, you're never going to get anywhere with that.
And this is, you know, it's garbage.
It's bullshit.
It's racist.
And it's also the other thing, which really makes it frustrating that libertarians won't take it on is that critical race theory is explicitly hostile toward libertarianism, like explicitly.
I mean, they call it like liberalism or they call it the, I think they call it the merit system.
That's just another form of white supremacy, by the way.
Liberalism, that's another form of white supremacy.
Free markets, that's white supremacy.
All the shit that you love and believe in, they call racist.
So instead of jumping on board with them and calling anyone else who calls that out racist, maybe you should realize that this is fucking clearly your enemy.
Like they're telling you they're your enemy.
Like people, if you believe that microaggressions are a problem, you can't believe in liberty.
You can't have both of those things.
You can't believe in freedom, but also believe that it's an act of aggression to ask someone where they're from.
That's sorry.
If that's considered an act of aggression, right?
And there's, and it's interesting.
Always notice when they use our words, okay?
Like aggression, that's our word.
And they're using this and claiming that asking someone where they're from is an aggression.
Okay.
Well, if that's an aggression, then by our own libertarian philosophy, then that person has a right to defend themselves.
So that person now has a right to use violence, essentially.
I mean, they won't explicitly say this, but this is the implication, right?
If you call something a microaggression, it's still an aggression.
It's just a small aggression.
So now, right, what are you allowed to do if someone aggresses upon you?
Well, you're allowed to defend yourself.
Okay.
So you can obviously see where this is completely incompatible with libertarianism.
And they'll tell you that.
So if you're a libertarian and you just don't feel like taking on this shit, that's fine.
That's fine.
But stand aside for the ones who do have the balls to take this shit on because it's pretty important.
And of course, Donald Trump, who the fuck knows if they'll even end doing this.
But it is interesting that a lot of people in the corporate press got really upset about this.
They got really upset about it.
So I think it does mean something to them.
Defending Yourself Against Oppression00:00:51
Like I said before, they really, really like this system.
They like the woke culture.
They like, you know, now, of course, none of them believe in any of it because they're never actually called to, you know, sacrifice for this.
And that's kind of the point.
But they really like the idea of creating a very narrow range of allowable opinion.
As Tom Wood says, the three by five index card of allowable opinion and saying that anyone who strays from that is automatically deemed evil.
Now, that's if you're running a military industrial complex in a managed economy that's screwing people over, that's a really wonderful system for you to have.
And that's why they have it.
Okay, that's the episode for today.
Thank you guys very much for listening.
And I will be back with Robbie the Fire Bernstein on Friday for a brand new episode.