Matt Welch
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How about if in Nevada, none of the above had won, right? Because that's on the ballot.
Same way rich people are libertarian, they just decided to become libertarian. I mean, it's a set of ideas and beliefs about policy. It's also, you know, marginal on some level. Libertarians are never a huge part of the electorate, but one of the things, stories that libertarians like to tell and,
Same way rich people are libertarian, they just decided to become libertarian. I mean, it's a set of ideas and beliefs about policy. It's also, you know, marginal on some level. Libertarians are never a huge part of the electorate, but one of the things, stories that libertarians like to tell and,
Same way rich people are libertarian, they just decided to become libertarian. I mean, it's a set of ideas and beliefs about policy. It's also, you know, marginal on some level. Libertarians are never a huge part of the electorate, but one of the things, stories that libertarians like to tell and,
republicans back when they used to talk about this stuff um back when these guys were republicans um is that free trade to go back to the last question has lifted more people out of extreme poverty over the last 35 years than anyone has ever seen in the history of the world and that is an unvarnished great thing that we don't talk about nearly enough um and so
republicans back when they used to talk about this stuff um back when these guys were republicans um is that free trade to go back to the last question has lifted more people out of extreme poverty over the last 35 years than anyone has ever seen in the history of the world and that is an unvarnished great thing that we don't talk about nearly enough um and so
republicans back when they used to talk about this stuff um back when these guys were republicans um is that free trade to go back to the last question has lifted more people out of extreme poverty over the last 35 years than anyone has ever seen in the history of the world and that is an unvarnished great thing that we don't talk about nearly enough um and so
liberal ideas, meaning the classical liberal ideas, have been the best poverty eradication program ever. So I don't see any conflict.
liberal ideas, meaning the classical liberal ideas, have been the best poverty eradication program ever. So I don't see any conflict.
liberal ideas, meaning the classical liberal ideas, have been the best poverty eradication program ever. So I don't see any conflict.
So I'm going to leave you with one or two stories, bedtime stories. One is about a very successful billionaire, one of the most successful billionaires in the country who fashioned himself as a philanthropist, which he was and is, and also somewhat of a philosopher, thinking a lot about... Austrian economics and kind of big ideas. He even published kind of a book of his own, Sense of Philosophy.
So I'm going to leave you with one or two stories, bedtime stories. One is about a very successful billionaire, one of the most successful billionaires in the country who fashioned himself as a philanthropist, which he was and is, and also somewhat of a philosopher, thinking a lot about... Austrian economics and kind of big ideas. He even published kind of a book of his own, Sense of Philosophy.
So I'm going to leave you with one or two stories, bedtime stories. One is about a very successful billionaire, one of the most successful billionaires in the country who fashioned himself as a philanthropist, which he was and is, and also somewhat of a philosopher, thinking a lot about... Austrian economics and kind of big ideas. He even published kind of a book of his own, Sense of Philosophy.
And he had been a big, you know, multi, multi, tens of millions philanthropist in Germany,
And he had been a big, you know, multi, multi, tens of millions philanthropist in Germany,
And he had been a big, you know, multi, multi, tens of millions philanthropist in Germany,
Policy causes but had long said that I don't want to get into the politics of it I don't want to choose a side in politics as it reduces my effectiveness and I worry that it's going to make me dumber Well president is elected and the president that he sees as oh this could be An extinction level event for American democracy We're gonna see the bubble of American supremacy popped and this is a bad thing.
Policy causes but had long said that I don't want to get into the politics of it I don't want to choose a side in politics as it reduces my effectiveness and I worry that it's going to make me dumber Well president is elected and the president that he sees as oh this could be An extinction level event for American democracy We're gonna see the bubble of American supremacy popped and this is a bad thing.
Policy causes but had long said that I don't want to get into the politics of it I don't want to choose a side in politics as it reduces my effectiveness and I worry that it's going to make me dumber Well president is elected and the president that he sees as oh this could be An extinction level event for American democracy We're gonna see the bubble of American supremacy popped and this is a bad thing.
So he decided suddenly to throw a ton of money into politics to oppose this president, to create mirror institutions on his side that he saw the other side doing so well. And the funny thing is, I could be talking about both Charles Koch and George Soros, but for the sake of this, I'm talking about George Soros. And what did he create? What are these things?