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We’re late –really late– so we’re going to make this brief: we’ve got our old friend Mickey Kaus to talk about Biden’s immigration policy, California politics, and other assorted ephemera, and we’ve got Mary Eberstadt on her book Primal Screams:How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. We also punditize (yes, we just invented that word) Biden’s press conference, and debate what city would be better to move to: San Francisco or New York. Finally, what does “Zoom, Duck, Milkshake, Cinnamon Toast Crunch” mean? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
Music from this week’s show: Illegal Alien by Genesis
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“Fins” is Jimmy Buffetish. “Puditize” is skirting a CoC violation.
I should fire myself.
As I say to Don, I will fix it in post.
Actually I kind of really liked “puditize.” Sure, I have the emotional maturity of a 14-year-old boy, but it works. Akin to not dickifying a remark with an answer.
I laughed when I heard it. And, for the record, it was from the 80’s when Genesis was a hit machine that the kids today are surprised to know even existed. I know Phil recently had a tour, but I doubt he was playing this one.
I liked the song.
Youngsters…
“What do you mean, Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings????”
One of my favorite Genesis songs. If you think the song is problematic, you should see the video.
The GOP and the libertarians are never going to get any traction until they make this the foremost issue.
Ah, the carefree days of 1983 when being an illegal alien involved forged paperwork; an updated version would be about paying off the coyotes.
As confirmation of my being a terrible person, I watched the video and thought that a part was missing. I was correct – specifically the part where he basically prostitutes his sister “who is willing to oblige”. The song on my phone, which came off the CD, was 5:15; the video is 4:36. A seamless edit on the video though – wouldn’t have realized it was missing if I hadn’t owned the music for almost 40 years (yikes).
I hope you commented to that effect, on youtube. At least to the extent of pointing out there’s something missing, versus the original song. Specifying WHAT was missing, could get you “cancelled.”
Commenting on YouTube would require my signing in to YouTube. They can track, but I’m not signing in. Not that it does me any good in the end, I’m sure.
If you use a random/fake gmail account, or something like protonmail, and a vpn, they have no idea who or where you are. That’s what I do.
Not if you have a Samsung phone.
30 minutes in to the Tuesday Hugh Hewitt show, he has a lawyer talking about this indirectly. The dynamics of estate taxation. The Fed inflates everything, and then eventually the government destroys it in the name of trying to solve social problems. The system is set up to grow government, cause social problems, and destroy capital. We have been doing this for many decades, the only question is what day do you want to pick as the start? His show is free on YouTube.
https://mises.org/wire/were-living-age-capital-consumption
Then he went into it in the next segment with Byron York. The system is insane.
Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™
Lots of people these days rent for their whole lives, so they wouldn’t be passing anything along to start with. And that’s going to make them think it’s “unfair” that others benefit from a system that they chose not to participate in.
This is some very good commentary on “the system.”
https://investresolve.com/podcasts/mike-green-the-fourth-turning-and-reimagining-the-american-dream/
I haven’t read it yet, but Oren Cass has a good article as well.
If you wonder where the interest in populism and Socialism is coming from, there it is.
Trust me, spend the dollar to watch this.
Also, don’t follow me on Twitter. lol
In regard to California politics and the upcoming recall election, Mickey Kaus sounds like a time traveler. Gary Hart? Pro school choice/anti-teachers’ union Democrats? Kaus will have to go back a decade or more in his time machine or move to a small town in flyover country to find a politically viable number of Democrats like that. He should just take the red pill and get it over with.
A good overview of Mary Eberstadt’s arguments is the essay she published in First Things in December of 2020, entitled “The Fury of the Fatherless”. If they want to take this discussion further on the podcast from another angle, a good guest would be Katy Faust, the founder of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. Her book was released in late February. The dramatic increase in the number of children and young adults that try to construct identities, functional families, and stable community structures for themselves through proclaiming their pronoun preferences, minute details of their sexual desires, and what political causes they promote or condemn many times traces back to a lack of or dysfunction in the relationship with their biological mother and father, i.e. being a child of divorce or abandonment, a donor conceived child (the child is bought like a commodity and one or both biological parents may be absent and/or anonymous), a child growing up with ethically non-monogamous/polyamorous/polygamous parents, or a child with LGBT parents (one of the biological parents is absent) (Note: Katy Faust was raised by her mother and lesbian partner). Children and adults who have lived through these difficulties have submitted their stories here. For a detailed look at how New York state’s legalization of commercial surrogacy (they snuck it through early in the pandemic, April 2020) will effect children, see here.
The growing number of unaccompanied child migrants at the border can be viewed through this lens. What does it say about adults (yes, even their parents) that they ask kids to do an incredibly difficult and extremely dangerous thing (travel hundreds of miles in the custody of human traffickers and cartel members) to exploit Biden’s exemption of minors from Title 42? How craven and cynical does Biden and his administration have to be to romanticize and incentivize this dangerous children’s journey that’s lucrative for the cartels just so they can import future voters? “Oh, but children are tough and resilient,” they say. “They can take it.” That’s the same excuse used by adults to justify their selfish divorces – “The kids will be fine!”