Milei murders malaise and teaching the truth about communism (12-18-2024--Hour3)

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[00:01:25] Um, let me see here. Oh, is that a drone? No, never mind. It's a cleaning lady. Um, all right. So, Argentina. Remember them? They elected that guy with the chainsaw and everybody was freaking out.

[00:01:40] Turns out they have now emerged from a deep recession. Wow. Who could have seen that coming? Except obviously the guy with the chainsaw. Um, Javier Millet, the new president. A major victory for the country's, quote, unorthodox president. I mean, well, I guess.

[00:02:02] I guess it's unorthodox to be campaigning with a chainsaw. This was the guy. Remember, you probably have seen the video where he's standing at the, like, chalkboard or whiteboard.

[00:02:16] Do kids even know what a chalkboard is any longer? Yeah, I don't even know. Yeah, it's all just whiteboards. Why do they got to be whiteboards? I don't know.

[00:02:24] But they're at the whiteboard and he's got, like, all of these, uh, like, cards or post-it notes on the board.

[00:02:32] And there are these different departments inside the government.

[00:02:36] And he's reading off the, the name of the department.

[00:02:40] And he rips the card, the note, uh, the note, the sticky note.

[00:02:44] He rips it off the wall and it's like, cut or gone.

[00:02:48] This other department, gone. This department, gone.

[00:02:51] Like, and so that's what he's been doing.

[00:02:53] That was the point of the chainsaw.

[00:02:54] That he was, you know, sending the message that he's going to be just clearing out a whole bunch of government bureaucracy.

[00:03:04] He spent the past year enacting sweeping, this is according to CNN, sweeping and painful reforms in Latin America's third largest economy.

[00:03:16] Gross domestic product grew 3.9% in a three-month period.

[00:03:24] Three, so a four-point increase in GDP in three months compared to the previous three months.

[00:03:35] Argentina's statistics agency reported these numbers.

[00:03:38] The agriculture and mining sectors drove the expansion with consumer spending also growing strongly.

[00:03:46] Wait a minute.

[00:03:47] Hang on one second.

[00:03:48] Are you telling me that if people get to keep more of their own money, that that means they will spend that money?

[00:03:57] That's nuts.

[00:03:58] Wait a minute.

[00:04:00] Why won't they just let us spend it?

[00:04:03] We know better than they do.

[00:04:07] Manufacturing and construction, though, suffered sharp declines in output.

[00:04:13] It's one of the things about economic news you should always keep in mind that rarely is economic news good or bad.

[00:04:27] These are all just data points for different things.

[00:04:31] They are measuring, you know, different things at different points in time.

[00:04:34] And you have to look at all of it.

[00:04:38] And usually it's a mixed bag, right?

[00:04:41] There are, as Thomas Sowell says, trade-offs.

[00:04:47] All of this stuff is trade-offs.

[00:04:49] This was one of his big complaints about the way media reports on economics or economic news.

[00:04:57] The news of the economic rebound comes a year after Malay was elected on a ticket to tackle chronic hyperinflation.

[00:05:05] Think about that.

[00:05:08] Chronic hyperinflation.

[00:05:10] Not just hyperinflation.

[00:05:11] Chronic is lasting.

[00:05:15] It's continuous.

[00:05:17] It keeps coming back.

[00:05:19] Hyperinflation.

[00:05:20] And he was also elected to overhaul the long-suffering economy.

[00:05:25] He has slashed government spending, reducing sky-high inflation and helping repair the country's finances.

[00:05:33] Wait a minute.

[00:05:35] Or I should say, wait another minute.

[00:05:38] How is it?

[00:05:40] How is it that tackling chronic hyperinflation, slashing government spending, how are those two things related?

[00:05:52] Why would slashing government spending reduce sky-high inflation, CNN?

[00:06:00] Tell me.

[00:06:01] Tell me.

[00:06:02] Why are these two things connected?

[00:06:05] Because I've been assured recently for the last few years that deficits don't matter.

[00:06:13] And we could just keep printing more and more money and we just keep spending.

[00:06:16] This is the MMT theory, right?

[00:06:18] The modern monetary theory.

[00:06:20] MMT.

[00:06:21] Modern monetary theory, which is just basically old theory.

[00:06:25] Marxism.

[00:06:27] Keynesian economics, just priming the pump.

[00:06:30] Just spend, spend, spend.

[00:06:31] None of it matters.

[00:06:32] We're the world reserve currency.

[00:06:34] Who cares?

[00:06:37] How would slashing government spending reduce sky-high inflation?

[00:06:43] That's right.

[00:06:44] That's right.

[00:06:45] The inflation is tied to the sky-high government spending.

[00:06:49] That's why you've got sky-high inflation.

[00:06:54] CNN goes on to say, these measures, though, have also pushed up unemployment and the poverty rate.

[00:07:03] So keep in mind, also, I believe unemployment is a lagging indicator.

[00:07:09] So, like, after a recession, or like when a recession hits or you've got a hobbled economy, people get fired.

[00:07:17] It takes, then as the economy rebounds, then hiring starts up again.

[00:07:21] It takes time for people then to get into those jobs.

[00:07:25] So it's not on, I believe it's a lagging indicator.

[00:07:30] But also, I would doubt this, that these measures have pushed up the unemployment and poverty rate.

[00:07:36] I would submit that it was the hyperinflation, the long-suffering economy, just using your words here.

[00:07:44] I would think those are the problems.

[00:07:47] Those were the problems that drove up the unemployment and poverty rates.

[00:07:54] Because those were structural problems.

[00:07:57] They weren't going away.

[00:07:59] And the only way you're going to fix it is to go through this process.

[00:08:06] So, yes, they say painful reforms.

[00:08:11] Painful because you have to fix the thing that is broken, right?

[00:08:16] They got to, like, you got a dislocated shoulder.

[00:08:19] You can't just keep walking around with that.

[00:08:21] And it's going to be painful when you pop it back into its socket.

[00:08:24] But once you do that, you're going to be okay.

[00:08:26] You got to go through that little bit of pain first.

[00:08:29] So that makes sense.

[00:08:30] So why wouldn't you blame the structural problems in the Argentinian economy rather than blaming the guy who's coming in to fix it?

[00:08:38] And there were signs that what he's doing is working.

[00:08:42] And I would also note that when he was saying these are the things that will fix the economy, everybody said, no, they won't.

[00:08:49] And now here comes the evidence that it does.

[00:08:53] Did anybody going to offer any apologies for getting this wrong?

[00:08:58] Of course not.

[00:09:00] Of course not.

[00:09:01] This was like the lefties here in North Carolina that predicted economic ruin when Republicans took over and started doing tax cuts.

[00:09:12] And they were like, no, it's going to create more spending and actually more revenue to the state treasury because when people get to keep more of their own money, they make more investments, they buy more stuff.

[00:09:24] And that generates more tax revenue rather than just confiscating it all.

[00:09:29] If you allow it to work in economic activity, then it will generate more tax revenue.

[00:09:34] And they have been proven correct on that.

[00:09:37] Yet no apologies from all the people that were predicting catastrophe.

[00:09:41] They still get quoted in news stories as if they haven't been wrong about this stuff.

[00:09:46] Argentina's flagship stock index called the Merval is up 174 percent as investors have welcomed Millet's radical reforms.

[00:10:02] Millet inherited an economy in crisis racked by hyperinflation that reached 211 percent last December.

[00:10:15] It was fueled by the prior government's money printing to fund spending.

[00:10:20] Look, even CNN understands this.

[00:10:22] They pretend that they don't understand the connection, but they do.

[00:10:26] They're saying it right there.

[00:10:28] That when you print all the money to fund all of the spending, you get all of the inflation.

[00:10:36] And that's what did in Joe Biden, right?

[00:10:40] According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's biggest creditor, Millet has delivered, quote, better than expected results.

[00:10:52] So we may never know the connection, people.

[00:11:00] It's a mystery.

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[00:12:04] Got a message here on the Twitter machine, which is at Pete Calliner, K-A-L-I-N-E-R.

[00:12:10] It's wild, Pete, how Javier Millet's economic reforms along with Bukele's criminal reform.

[00:12:18] I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, but Bukele.

[00:12:22] Buckley.

[00:12:24] Bukele.

[00:12:25] What's his first name here?

[00:12:27] It's Naib.

[00:12:28] He is the president of El Salvador.

[00:12:34] His criminal reforms, the crackdown on all the gangs, which now he's apparently like the most popular leader in the world.

[00:12:44] This guy.

[00:12:46] Naib Armando Bukele-Ortez.

[00:12:50] El Salvadoran, or Salvadoran, politician and businessman.

[00:12:54] He's the president of El Salvador, and he has waged this crackdown on crime and gangs, and he has become the world's most popular head of state.

[00:13:10] So, yeah, it's pretty amazing how that kind of thing happens, right?

[00:13:14] But anyway, back to the message here on Twitter from Russ, who says,

[00:13:19] It's wild how Millet's economic reforms, Bukele's criminal reforms were framed as impossibile to implement and unlikely to have any impact, even if they were.

[00:13:32] Maybe there are some lessons or models there.

[00:13:35] Hmm.

[00:13:36] Let me think about that.

[00:13:37] No, definitely not.

[00:13:38] Nothing to learn.

[00:13:39] Nothing to learn from these two men.

[00:13:44] Speaking of not learning, Cuban-American Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar has successfully pushed a bill through the House

[00:13:54] that should make it very difficult for leftists on the local and state level to oppose teaching the truth about communism to schoolchildren in the United States.

[00:14:05] Naturally, there will be challenges.

[00:14:07] This according to Carlos Ere at the Babalu blog.

[00:14:12] He says,

[00:14:16] By the way, you've seen this, the polling.

[00:14:22] I mentioned some of it yesterday.

[00:14:23] There's another poll out that shows 41% of the youth, ages 18 to like 30, 34, something like that.

[00:14:32] Like 41% of them think that it's okay to murder CEOs of companies.

[00:14:38] Where do you think they got those ideas?

[00:14:44] Another mystery.

[00:14:44] We may never know.

[00:14:46] But at least for now, there is now a firm legal foundation that should deflect some of these legal challenges.

[00:14:52] A companion version of the bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate.

[00:14:56] The vote was 327 to 62.

[00:15:01] There were 43 abstentions.

[00:15:03] These were people that were like, I just don't know if we should teach communism was bad.

[00:15:11] I don't know.

[00:15:14] I'm just going to abstain.

[00:15:16] Surprisingly, 28 of the no votes were cast by Republicans.

[00:15:20] Now, I think those Republicans are probably in the camp of we shouldn't be doing anything at the federal level regarding curriculum.

[00:15:30] Which I understand the argument, but horse is already out of the barn on that one.

[00:15:37] So until you deconstruct the NEA, or sorry, the Department of Education, okay, both.

[00:15:44] But as soon as you, once you deconstruct the Department of Ed, then okay, fine.

[00:15:48] You shouldn't be doing any of this stuff anymore.

[00:15:50] That being said, we still have a Department of Education.

[00:15:52] So as long as you guys are already involved and still involved, and I won't believe you're not going to be involved until I see it happen, then yeah, you should probably say, you know what?

[00:16:01] Communism is bad.

[00:16:02] You know why?

[00:16:03] Because it is.

[00:16:04] It's bad.

[00:16:07] And you don't need to lie about communism.

[00:16:09] That's the best part of it all.

[00:16:11] You just teach the truth about it.

[00:16:15] It is on its face inherently awful.

[00:16:18] And so if you just tell people what it is and be like, hey, look at all the murdered people associated with this religion.

[00:16:26] Then, or ideology, or economic theory.

[00:16:31] But it's not, it's, that's the thing.

[00:16:32] It's, it is a religion.

[00:16:33] That's what it is.

[00:16:34] Okay.

[00:16:35] It cloaks itself in this idea that it's economic theory when it's not.

[00:16:39] It's way more than that.

[00:16:41] And they're like, but Pete, no, you don't understand.

[00:16:44] Like they, all these commies, these Marxists, they always talk about as an economic theory.

[00:16:48] Yeah.

[00:16:49] Commies lie.

[00:16:50] Okay.

[00:16:51] Rule number one about commies is that they lie.

[00:16:53] Okay.

[00:16:54] So if they're telling you it's economic theory, that's a lie.

[00:16:58] All right.

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[00:17:28] Cell phones.

[00:17:31] And all the fights that people are, are engaging in, in the schools, using the cell phones and social media is exacerbated during the pandemic.

[00:17:41] And then the communism, that's bad.

[00:17:45] And how the materials are going to be provided for high schoolers and middle schoolers to learn about that murderous ideology.

[00:17:52] What is the connection?

[00:17:53] Hmm.

[00:17:57] Jim Garrity at national review writes that the U S house of representatives oversight and accountability committees, COVID-19 panel issued a final report on the COVID pandemic.

[00:18:05] The committee begins.

[00:18:08] With, uh, what some people, AKA conspiracy theorists said, the most likely origin of the pandemic that killed about 7 million people officially and anywhere from 18 to 32 million.

[00:18:23] If you count all the suspiciously high excess deaths in places like China and Russia quote, four years after the onset of the worst pandemic in a hundred years, the weight of the evidence increasingly supports.

[00:18:36] The lab leak hypothesis.

[00:18:38] The lab leak hypothesis.

[00:18:40] I'm as shocked as you are.

[00:18:44] What was always amazing to me about the weird insistence that it started at, uh, a wet market where they were eating bat soup or whatever, or pangolin pie or something like, like that, that was somehow the non-racist position.

[00:19:06] That was always weird to me that when I said, Hey, you know, they've got this with like right down the street from where the first guy was reported.

[00:19:17] The patient zero was reported to get the COVID and they got the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

[00:19:24] And one of the employees there, her name is like the bat lady.

[00:19:29] She's got all these news stories about her from all over the world, going into bat caves everywhere and scooping up pat, uh, bat poop and, uh, running all sorts of tests and, and mixing up viruses from them and stuff.

[00:19:43] And that's where she worked.

[00:19:44] And then lo and behold, here we have this respiratory virus that just so happens to erupt a block or two away from the whiff.

[00:19:58] And they were like, you're racist for saying that you can't call it the China flu.

[00:20:04] You can't say it's the Wuhan flu, even though we named every other flu from like the original location of where it starts, like dengue fever, Spanish flu, Rocky mountain spotted fever, right?

[00:20:15] That's how we name things of this nature.

[00:20:19] Not all things.

[00:20:20] We name storms very stupidly, but although I guess it would make sense.

[00:20:24] Cause if you named us, if you named all the hurricanes from where they start there, you're going to be like basically naming them just three names all the time.

[00:20:31] So I guess that does make sense.

[00:20:32] Anyway, the, the, the argument was that, that it was racist to name it, the Wuhan flu.

[00:20:40] So we, that we had to come up with the COVID-19 and not allowed to say that.

[00:20:46] No, no, no.

[00:20:47] The non-racist explanation isn't that it came from a Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak.

[00:20:53] No, no, no.

[00:20:54] It came from those Chinese people who eat pangolins.

[00:21:00] That was the non-racist.

[00:21:03] Really?

[00:21:04] Cause that sounds way worse than me saying a bunch of scientists.

[00:21:10] We're doing some like highly specialized, super smart, sciencey stuff.

[00:21:15] And, uh, and then it broke containment.

[00:21:17] Like that seems to me like, like, like way less racisty, you know, in their application to DARPA, a company called EcoHealth.

[00:21:33] Remember them?

[00:21:33] EcoHealth Alliance and its partners at the WIV stated their intent to create a SARS-like virus with a furin cleavage site.

[00:21:44] That's to attract all the dudes, which is the exact same feature that made humans susceptible to COVID-19 infection.

[00:21:52] The furin cleavage site.

[00:21:53] This is what, um, Rand Paul was questioning the science when he appeared before the Senate committee.

[00:22:00] Dr. Fauci, a.k.a. the science.

[00:22:04] He was asking about the furin cleavage site.

[00:22:07] Also, the WIV has a bit of a track record of engaging in this type of airborne viral research under low biosafety conditions.

[00:22:15] See, at the WIV, it was known that Chinese researchers conducted this kind of research under BSL-2 protocols.

[00:22:25] Biosafety lab 2.

[00:22:26] So 2 is the thing there.

[00:22:28] 2 does not require masking at all times.

[00:22:32] And it means you don't have to wear all of the same kinds of protective equipment.

[00:22:36] In the U.S., if we were doing this kind of research at one of our labs, it would be conducted under a BSL-3 protocol.

[00:22:44] And that would be stricter.

[00:22:47] You got to use a respirator at all times.

[00:22:50] Got to wear more protective equipment.

[00:22:52] In fact, in a draft proposal for the grant money that was sent to DARPA, a fellow by the name of Dr. Pedic Dajak.

[00:23:03] Remember that name?

[00:23:04] Yes.

[00:23:05] He acknowledged that some of the SARS-CoV-2 research would be conducted out of BSL-2 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

[00:23:15] But there's no indication that it could have escaped that lab.

[00:23:20] Furthermore, no infected animal has ever been verified at the Wuhan market or its supply chain.

[00:23:29] Key evidence that would be expected if the virus had emerged from the wildlife trade is still missing.

[00:23:35] In previous outbreaks, such as SARS in 2002 and MERS in 2012, infected animals were found.

[00:23:44] The earliest cases occurred in people exposed to live animals and ancestral variants of the virus found in animals were also discovered.

[00:23:54] But none of this evidence has ever been discovered for COVID-19.

[00:23:59] We may never know.

[00:24:02] Look, if you want to say it came from a zoonotic source, right, if that's where you want to argue that, then at least make the argument that it originated in bears.

[00:24:16] That at least makes sense.

[00:24:18] Specifically Winnie the Pooh.

[00:24:19] That makes sense.

[00:24:22] All right, let me head over to the phone line here and get Chris on.

[00:24:26] Hello, Chris.

[00:24:26] Welcome to the program.

[00:24:27] Hey, Chris.

[00:24:28] Excuse me.

[00:24:29] Hey, Pete.

[00:24:30] Hey, happy holidays, brother.

[00:24:31] You too.

[00:24:31] Merry Christmas.

[00:24:32] Yeah, we can say Merry Christmas now.

[00:24:34] Trump won.

[00:24:35] We can say Merry Christmas.

[00:24:36] It's a relief, isn't it, brother?

[00:24:38] Hey, look, I know you're from New York, but did you hear about the Darwin Award that happened in Rochester?

[00:24:44] Rochester is in, yeah, that's Canada.

[00:24:48] Well, it will be.

[00:24:49] No, anything north of the Bronx is Canada.

[00:24:52] Oh, there you go.

[00:24:53] Well, I'm from Long Island, so yeah, that's what we think.

[00:24:56] Did you hear about these two Darwin Award winners who were putting bat poop on their marijuana?

[00:25:03] Oh, my God.

[00:25:05] They grew it, smoked it, and they both died.

[00:25:08] Oh, my gosh.

[00:25:10] Have you not heard this?

[00:25:11] No, I have not.

[00:25:13] Oh, yeah.

[00:25:14] So they used it as a fertilizer?

[00:25:17] Yes, exactly.

[00:25:17] Okay, wait a minute.

[00:25:18] Hang on.

[00:25:19] Where did they get the bat poop?

[00:25:21] Well, the first guy, one guy's in his 50s, one guy's in his 60s.

[00:25:27] Well, the one guy had bats in his attic, so he was scooping the poop out and putting it in his home.

[00:25:33] This is homegrown marijuana.

[00:25:35] Oh, my God.

[00:25:36] So he told one of his friends, evidently, you can buy bat guano online, and his buddy did it.

[00:25:44] It was doing the same stuff.

[00:25:46] They're smoking this stuff, and it caused respiratory issues.

[00:25:50] So there you go.

[00:25:51] When I heard you talking about COVID, I was like, I've got to let him know, because he's from New York.

[00:25:55] Do you think that they would call that the Rochester flu if there was an outbreak that occurred?

[00:26:01] No, yeah, the Rochester happy flu.

[00:26:04] Yeah, maybe so.

[00:26:05] That's nuts.

[00:26:06] Yeah.

[00:26:06] That's nuts.

[00:26:07] Hey, I love your show, man.

[00:26:08] Thanks, Chris.

[00:26:08] I appreciate it.

[00:26:09] I had not heard about the idiots in Rochester.

[00:26:13] Good Lord.

[00:26:14] Like, really?

[00:26:15] Like, you're that desperate to get the plants to grow faster?

[00:26:19] Just get some extra grow lamps.

[00:26:21] Everybody knows that.

[00:26:22] All right.

[00:26:24] So, I'm kidding.

[00:26:25] I'm kidding.

[00:26:26] I'm not advising.

[00:26:27] I had a friend back in college who...

[00:26:31] Okay, never mind.

[00:26:33] I barely knew him, actually.

[00:26:34] It wasn't even a friend.

[00:26:35] Like, I didn't even talk to the guy.

[00:26:37] I just had heard rumors about him.

[00:26:38] Okay.

[00:26:39] I forget his name.

[00:26:40] Key evidence that would be expected if the virus came from wildlife has been missing.

[00:26:47] This has been a pretty glaring hole in the whole theory of the wet market origin story for COVID.

[00:26:54] It's been...

[00:26:55] This hole has existed since the beginning of the pandemic.

[00:27:01] I was talking about it like, well, where's the connection?

[00:27:04] Where are the animals?

[00:27:05] How come they haven't been able to trace it back?

[00:27:07] And there is this gap.

[00:27:09] It's like the missing link.

[00:27:11] And it just so happens to be the link where the thing makes the jump.

[00:27:14] Like, the most important part of the link.

[00:27:16] The thing that proves the whole theory.

[00:27:18] That's the one that's missing.

[00:27:20] It's kind of like, this is not persuasive.

[00:27:23] And then on the other side, you have the bat lady.

[00:27:26] You got the BSL-2 protocols.

[00:27:28] You got people that got sick.

[00:27:32] That went missing.

[00:27:33] That were employees over there.

[00:27:35] Right?

[00:27:36] The proximity to the wet market where they say it happened.

[00:27:38] And you had all of these other...

[00:27:40] They had want ads.

[00:27:41] Or wanted ads.

[00:27:43] The classifieds for...

[00:27:44] Because I guess the commies are still running newspaper classifieds for job openings.

[00:27:51] And they had all these job openings that came open at the WIV for scientists.

[00:27:57] There's way more evidence over on that side.

[00:28:01] Jim Garrity at National Review.

[00:28:03] He has been doing a ton of work on this for years.

[00:28:07] And he said, for those of us who find the lab leak theory the most plausible explanation,

[00:28:14] quote,

[00:28:14] One, the argument in the realm of public opinion in the United States.

[00:28:19] And then nothing happened.

[00:28:22] Yeah, nothing happened.

[00:28:25] There have still been few...

[00:28:27] Any real consequences for the Chinese government.

[00:28:29] And certainly no consequences commensurate to unleashing a freaking plague on the planet.

[00:28:37] Right?

[00:28:38] Nothing?

[00:28:40] At all?

[00:28:40] Not even a little hush money here or there?

[00:28:43] Nothing?

[00:28:45] Maybe we'll get something after Joe Biden.

[00:28:47] See, well, yeah, that might be it.

[00:28:49] With Joe Biden in office.

[00:28:50] Maybe they never were going to be held accountable.

[00:28:53] That's possible.

[00:28:54] Oh, I saw Hunter Biden's posing with social media influencers and TikTokers.

[00:28:58] I'm sure it's unrelated.

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