Dave Smith

They just they distort genuine markets where people are trading voluntarily.

And that's I mean, I don't you know, people should really read Ludwig von Mises.

And, you know, this is like this is the cornerstone of libertarianism or certainly particularly of my brand of libertarianism is like this understanding of what economics really is and the idea that economics is human action.

What pricing is that that a pricing mechanism gives you information about

a vast, vast amount of different people's preferences and desires and abilities and availability of materials and resources and labor needs.

We get a lot of information from prices.

This is what makes all of us richer.

We trade with each other.

This is how we grow economically.

All these government policies are going to hurt it.

And you could meaningfully oppose a lot of these government policies if you had a leg to stand on.

But when you're supporting a government that spends $7 trillion a year already,

know good luck you gotta argue that it's such a great deal for us to give iran or ukraine or israel or anyone money because they spend it with our weapons companies and so the money comes back into america okay you're already a socialist dude if you're saying that helps the economy and creates jobs you're already a socialist as much as mom donnie is so what are you now

You don't get to go like, oh, no, he's a socialist.

You're a socialist, too.

You're just a socialist for war.

And he's a socialist for fucking buses.

It's all dumb.

None of it's good.

you don't get to play that card and so much of this stuff is them trying to again as i guess this has been a major theme of the show now for years but they're essentially trying to play this card of like we're morally outraged by this guy because he's a secret islamist something when everybody's watched you support the most