Michael Shellenberger
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4 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Feb
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I mean, which is just crazy because, of course, he's just, you know, like he's like a billionaire. I mean, he's self-made and. extraordinarily successful person and clearly running for mayor is an altruistic act. So it was just appalling. So, of course, I mean, I have to say, you know... What is that?
The more hatred I express towards white people, the better I am as a human being.
Oh, yeah. The nihilism. Obviously, this is a very old story about decadence and of comfort, and you start to kind of believe – I mean, there's something really checked out from reality about the whole thing. I mean, first of all, it's the stories that get told are just, you know, like absurd, like 1619 being the founding of America. That's just obviously wrong.
The country was founded, you know, our Constitution in 1789, Declaration of Independence in 1776. And not only that, but like slavery was never at the heart of the United States.
It was always, it was a whole place committed to, it was English Americans or the American English, as they were referred to, wanting to create a country the first time that was just founded on the enlightenment ideals of freedom and of free expression. I mean, so important. They put us the first amendment, they insist on a bill of rights.
So you just get this completely twisted, you know, disinformation story about the United States that gets embraced. Yeah, it's nihilism. But embraced by whites. Yeah.
I mean, it's end of civilization sort of ideology, isn't it?
No, and when you read the old- And it is the whites, too. Oh, yeah. No, because the Latinos, I mean, they're sort of- They're like, what? Yeah, for sure. They're like more working class. They're more Christian. They're more, they love America more. They remember where they came from more. I agree.
So, yeah, I mean, it's also, yeah, so it's just in some ways it's an old story of a civilization just at its end. I mean, including all the transgenderism. I mean, that's, you know, that's the Camille Polly is famous writing about how that shows up at the end of civilizations. Yeah.
And so, you know, if you read Toynbee, it's like one of the characteristics is when the elites stop the creative class of elites, which is, I mean, Los Angeles, they stop identifying with their own working class and they start to identify with, you know, with outsiders, basically with people from foreigners from outside the country. That's another sign of a civilization at its end.
Tucker says it best. The credit card companies are ripping Americans off, and enough is enough. This is Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas. Our legislation, the Credit Card Competition Act, would help end the grip Visa and MasterCard have on us. Every time you use your credit card, they charge you a hidden fee called a swipe fee, and they've been raising it without even telling you.
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I'm asking you to call your senator today and demand they pass the Credit Card Competition Act.
I mean, it's a cliche, but like a lot of cliches, there's a lot of truth to it, is the good times make soft men and soft men make bad times. So, I mean, there's obviously been a huge correction in the United States, which is, you know, welcome, which is a sort of re-embrace of the ideals of the United States. I mean, let's hope that this has been a wake-up call for the people of Los Angeles.
I mean, it's... they are reaping what they sowed and the people of California are reaping what we sowed. And, you know, that is, you know, I mean, it's really quite symbolic. You know, it's like the neighborhoods of the of the elites in Los Angeles that are really that really got the most effective that are having to flee.
And but again, I mean, part of the reason I wanted to come on, I've been writing about it every day and trying to surface the stories of the utility, the water utility executives. And I've got a story coming out later today from a firefighter who, you know, like basically just described, I mean, the firefighters, of course, the men and women on the ground doing the hard work, they're blameless.
But I mean, the destruction, there's 29 fire departments in Los Angeles, including LA County Fire Department. You know, there's 88 cities, and people don't realize, like Los Angeles is a city, but then there's a much larger county around it with 88 cities in it. And not all of them have fire departments. In fact, most of them don't, right?
So the ones that don't have their own fire departments, they depend on LA County Fire Department. And it's been this way for a long time, so it's not like it can't work, but it definitely introduces a level of complexity into it. I mean, the priorities of these fire departments, it's not just like a social media meme. I mean, it really has been DEI.
Like, it really has been the priority of these fire departments. The first priority of the fire departments should be to put out fires and keep people safe and save lives. But the first priority has been DEI.
I mean, I mean, what are the chances, right? That like all three of these executives are, I mean... You know, it's like it's also sort of like I mean, it's it's funny because the way that the the defenders of it sort of talk about it is as though they're imposing equality. Actually, they're demanding that that it not be based on merit.
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