Platner quits, El-Sayed lies, and the Revolutionary archetype | Hour 3

What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show Prep with all the links, become a patron, go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free, write to your smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for your support. Today is a sad day for me because I'm not going to have Graham Platner anymore to kick around. I know, I know, I mean, yes, it could be good for the body politic, but think about like the show Prep that I have now lost, you know, I mean, excuse me, it's a sacrifice that I'm willing to to make. Okay, I'm willing to make it now. So and I'm not going to play any of this guy's narcissistic rant about how it was. He continued to deny all of the allegations against him. No, it's not true, nothing is true. But the establishment has locked him out of all of the mechanisms that he needs to win, so he can't possibly win, and so now the Democrat Party. That's why I call it the Democrat Party, not the Democratic Party. They're now going to put somebody else's name on the ballot, and all of the lobbying and horse trading and smoke filled backroom deals are all, you know, being negotiated right now among a couple hundred Democrat poubas up in Maine. They will determine whose name shall appear. And there was some kind of comical story earlier about did I print this? I think I printed it, and I think I left it. I sure did, I left at home. But there was a story at Politico where they were trying to they were trying to extract concessions from the state party. You know, I talked a little bit about this yesterday, where he was trying to hold the party hostage to say, like, you need to appoint believe it's this guy, Troy Jackson, right, this logger, left wing guy, former state lawmaker or something. They wanted him to replace Platner. And the Democrats were like, yeah, no, you have no leverage here. You either stay on the ballot or you don't your call. You're not going to have any say in who gets the spot. And so then he has to decide what kind of a statement do you put out? And apparently, according to Politico, there was a great debate inside the Platner camp. Do you go scorched earth or do you go conciliatory? Right? Do you try to play nice with the Democrat establishment with the Democrat Party, Like, do you try to be like, you know, I'll respect the process, I understand, blah blah blah. And he did not. He chose not to do that. He went off on the party establishment and how they're trying to, you know, suppress all of the working class and all of this, which, you know, it's kind of hilarious. Now. I heard on Vince Cochley's show. He was reading from I think it was a Slate dot com article, which, like I make it a point to never go to Slate dot com. It's just a terrible publication. But like he was, he was reading something about how like Slate was now dragging Platiner, just gutting him and making all saying all of the things that we have been saying that I've been saying for the last two months, everything from his you know, silver spoon, oyster farming hobby, right, like they're saying all of the stuff, like, now it can be told. Now the truth can be told about Graham Platner now that he has dropped out, Like, yeah, you know what, this guy wasn't such a good pick. You know, Oh you had some problems here. Who knew I did? I did a lot of people, did a lot of oppo research on this guy, and uh, for some reason, you just fell in love with this cartoonish caricature of who you think is going to be appealing to the blue collar, working class guy that like Trump. It's like, this is who they thought, This is who democrats and socialists thought, Republican rural voters like, that's in their mind, that's a working class guy. They look at Grand Platner and they're like, that's a working class dude. Meanwhile, the working class dudes look at Graham Platner and they're like, that guy's terrible, Like I wouldn't associate with this jerk. So that leads me to another candidate up there in the same neck of the woods up north. This is in Michigan. This a guy named Abdul l Sayed, Michigan Democrat Senate front runner dsa guy he has faced criticism for previous comments he made about defunding the police, because you know, back in twenty twenty oh, who doesn't have some youthful indiscretions, right when they were out there screaming for the you know, the deconstruction of all policing and the elimination of prisons and such, it seemed like, I mean, those were heady days, I tell you. If you weren't around for them, oh boy man, people were. They were just just out and proud with their belief that the real problem is is law enforcement and not punishing crime or punishing crime right. They preferred some kinder, gentler approach to violent criminals, and so in recent interviews, now L Sayed has insisted that he never never called for defunding the police. Last week, in an interview with CNN's Cassie Hunt, he said he deleted old tweets supporting the defund the police movement because he says they were taken out of context and that this is just clickbait in DC. That's why he deleted all those tweets espousing the defunding of the police. You see, it's not because he said we should defund the police in those tweets. No, no, No, it's because it's taken out of context. Slight problem. The internet is forever and he gave interviews at the time. From twenty twenty interview show el si ed repeatedly endorsing defunding the police. According to a CNN K file review. This is by Andrew Kosinski, who does the K file, he said, quote, we need to defund the police. See now, so I can understand why some people might be confused when he says we need to defund the police. Why you would think he's saying that we need to defund the police. I totally understand that, but it's a misunderstanding. See when he says we do need to defund the police, he does not mean that we do need to defund the police. He means something different. That's why he said that. Just a big misunderstand It's out of context, don't you see. His interviews over the course of two years show him embracing the defund the Police movement, not just uttering the phrase, but also supporting the key principle of reinvesting funds from the police into other public sector spaces like mental health and anti poverty efforts. Right, because this was the standard line defund the police and use the money to get at the root causes. So now he's saying he never said the thing he said he was he was against or sorry, I guess he was against defunding the police before he was for it. Or no, he was he was for defunding the police before he was against it. I think Roxy Richner, a spokesperson told CNN, said that his perspective has become more nuanced since then. Well, why if it's been taken out of context. Wasn't it always nuanced? Or it has also evolved? Are you saying that he was taken out of context. He didn't say the thing he said, but now it has evolved and it's more nuanced. Gosh, it's so confusing, these lies, all right. For over a year now you've heard me talking about Create a Video. Great local company in mint Hill that has helped more than two million families preserve their memories by turning old photos, VHS, tapes, film reels and slides into lasting keepsakes. Now creative videos helping families and groups create brand new memories while they're traveling. Introducing group travel videos perfect for family reunions, church mission trips, group vacations, destination weddings, student trips, senior adult groups, sports teams, I mean, really any gathering of people that you care about that's traveling together. 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You can email Katie Katie at group travel videos dot com. Group travel Videos from old memories to new adventures, preserving life's moments for a lifetime. M H. From the text line, John says, first, you took the word of the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirkin. Now you're taking the word of crazy Michigan senate candidate. Who are you to believe these people when they say that and not what they obviously meant, which was the opposite of what they said, obviously, check your privilege at the door, radio boy. Yeah, I mean somebody confesses to murdering somebody five different times to different people. Yeah, kind of thinking they might have done it. And someone says, we need to defund the police, and they say, did multiple interviews over the course of two years. Kind of thinking they want to defund the police. You know, just that's just me. Your mileage may vary, all right. Next, there's a website called State of the Day dot US. A piece here by Jeffrey Ingersoll called Socialism Chic, and he's talking about this, this growing popularity in or of socialism. Right. He says, it's not even remotely a workers revolution. And I've talked about this too, right, this is these the socialists. I'm gonna say the Marxist revolutions. They are always led by the haves against the have mores. They are like failure to launch kind of kids right there. Well here, I'll just I'll go through. There's this piece and then there's another one by Francis Menton over at the Manhattan Contrarian, and they did a great job of summarizing and distilling a lot of the things that we've talked about here over the last few well years probably, but you really are starting to see the pattern now with the rise of the DSA and the types of candidates that they're pushing. You're seeing the pattern. And it's always the haves versus the have mores, and these candidates are always paying lip service to the workers, right because that's always how they do it. That's how that's from the Marxist playbook from the very beginning. Marx himself is also he's like sort of the prototype for this, for this pattern. In recent elections, the workers i e. Working class people usually break from the socialists and socialism sympathizers. He then goes through the data breakdown in the Democrat primaries where dari Alaiza Alvi La Chevalier won the primary in New York's thirteenth Congressional district, as well as the candidate for DC Mayor, Janice Lewis George. And when you break down the numbers, it's very obvious their support comes from affluent, college educated voters, a lot of them female and white. These are what we have referred to over the years as the awfuls affluent white female liberals. He says, it's less hammer and sickle and more seven dollars lattes and useless master's degrees. The modern socialist coalition does not look like Rosie the Riveter. It's not a room full of black faced coal workers. It's a grad student with a New Year York Times subscription and a framed poster of Zoron Mumdani. They are college educated, urban, and comfortably removed from the working class base that the movement ostensibly claims to represent. He goes in depth on a couple of these candidates here. For example, Chevalier attended Columbia University for Middle Eastern Studies, which is a euphemism for Prohomas activism. Is now a doctoral student at the City University of New York for sociology with a focus on immigration and criminal justice out in Seattle. That moonbat mayor Katie Wilson. She was born to two famous professors and literally grew up in academia. She attended Oxford before dropping out and founding the Transit Writers Union A five oh one c three dead catered to rider equity on public transit for the workers, they're just saying. And then there's the Boston mayor, Michelle wou Born to highly educated a highly educated chemical engineer. She attended a top one percent high school, then went to Harvard twice. Apparently she then almost immediately went into government. Graham Platner a son to wealthy parents. His rapetastic voyage started by attending a seventy five thousand dollars a year prep school New York City Mayor's or mom Donnie is literally a theater kid, also very wealthy parents. Mom's a documentarian, Dad's a professor of postcolonialism in Africa or something. Do you see the pattern? They are all cut from an identical cloth, and so are their supporters. This is why they're so impassioned by these candidates. These are the so called downwardly mobile elite. Downwardly mobile elite, what does that mean? It means that you are born to the elite class, or as I call them, the foe leads, because they oftentimes are not very elite at all. Right, but they came of age at a certain time where getting the college degree and the master's paid off very well for them. And then you had this explosion in costs for education, and then there was this overproduction of the elites we've talked about over the years. You have too many kids coming out of college with all these degrees. They come from the faux elite class. But now they can't get access because there are no jobs in those in those industries. They're all full of their parents, and so they have this resentment towards the parents because the parents have more halves versus have mores. So now they are downwardly mobile. They're losing ground. They got the expense of education, and now they want the job, except there's no job for people with a quarter million dollars in debt and doctorates in sociology. Then there's Francis Menton over at the Manhattan Contrarian. He says DSA candidates have now succeeded in some thirty down ballot primary races in Oregon, California, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Utah, Maryland, New York, and North Carolina. Yeah, there's a DSA candidate, I want to say, out of the Durham area. Researching the biographies of these successful candidates, there's a that repeats time after time. Your budding communist ideologue comes from a family that has recently achieved modest or even substantial, but not extreme success in the free market economy. So they've recently achieved modest or substantial success in the free market, and then a member of the next generation goes away to school at some elite institution, often on scholarship, studying some subject where leftist orthodoxy is pervasive, like African studies, Middle Eastern studies, sociology. These are the typical examples, right. They then either remain in school indefinitely, or they leave the school but disdains the private economy and dabbles in political organizing or other left wing not for profit endeavors. Combine this sort of background with a sense of entitlement, and the result is a bitter, angry, resentful young person with no understanding of the blessings of freedom or of the private economy. They're completely ignorant of human history and convinced that the socialist communist program will click quickly lead to utopia. Right, that's the pattern. Back to this piece by Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian, going over the pattern that repeats itself time after time. That makes sense because it would otherwise not be a pattern, right if it doesn't repeat. But talking about the Halves and their revolution against the have Mores, right, the budding communist, socialist, Marxist, whatever you want to call them, it's all Marxism. I give the devil it's due. And so they all come from the same sort of a profile, if you will. And then he proceeds to some examples, and I already mentioned Zar Mam Donnie. He covers Mom Donnie as well Daria Eliza a Villa Chevalier, also a DSA candidate that won a congressional primary up in New York, and same pattern. There's miltt Kiros. We talked about her after she won out in Colorado. Same things. Her family immigrated from Ethiopia when she was an infant, and her father went to pharmacy school, so presumably as a pharmacist, she went to private colleges Washington College in Maryland and law school at Notre Dame. Landed a job at Sidley and Austin Law firm, elite law firm in New York, and then got herself fired because she wrote an anti Israel screed. And now she has spent the last three years as a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Denver. Like all three of these and other DSA candidates, they all follow in the footsteps of many famous predecessors, all of whom seemed to have very similar biographies right as as the other author there, Ingersol said, downward mobile elites, for example, just going through the historical record, Francis menton notes pol Pott, Oh, that's totally different, Pete, what is it? Listen to the biography. Born by the name of Saloth Sar from nineteen twenty five to a relatively wealthy farming family. In later years, the family would have been class enemies. They had thirty acres of land and six buffalo One of sorrow cousins, one of pol Pot's cousins, was a dancer in the royal palace and became one of the king's principal wives. Married a king, then one of his sisters moved into the palace and became a royal consort, and by the age of six, Paul Pott himself had moved into the Royal Palace and after that was he was sent to top French colonial schools of the time. In his early twenties, he was sent off for further education in Paris, which was a big mistake. That's where he took up with the trendy communism of the day. So you don't like the pole Pot example. Okay, how about this one Vladimir Lenin? How about that? Lenin's paternal grandfather was impoverished. His father, who was a striver though, who worked himself up to be director of public school rules for a Russian province and got himself awarded a hereditary title of nobility. Lenin went off to Kazan University, where he promptly began associating with the radicals of the time. You don't like that exa, okay, al, how about we go to the route mister Marx. Karl Marx, creator of communism. Right. He was the son of a prosperous lawyer named Heinrich Marx, but he had a huge sense of entitlement and was angry and resentful that he would have to that he should have to work to make a living. And I've read this letter that Heinrich wrote to Karl in November of eighteen thirty seven. This is what Daddy Marx sent his lazy son who kept pestering him for money, refusing to work, was drinking away all of the money in the in the bars and stuff quote. Frankly speaking, my dear Carl, I do not like this modern word which all weaklings use to cloak their feelings when they quarrel with the world, because they do not possess without labor or trouble, well furnished palaces, with vast sums of money and elegant carriages. This embitterment disgusts me, and you are the last person from whom I would expect it. What grounds can you have for it? Has not everything smiled on you ever since you're cradle. Has not nature endowed you with magnificent talents? Have not your parents lavished affection on you? Have you ever up to now been unable to satisfy your reasonable wishes? Yeah, they have envy for things that they wish to have, but are unwilling to work for and so we want to take it from you, right, But we can't say it like that. So we say, we're going to go after these people over here who are taking it from those people over there, and those people, well, we are your champions. See, I'm from the elite class. I grew up in this way, but I'm for you. I'm going to rob from them and give to you. That's how you get around the immorality at the heart of this philosophy, which is envy and theft. Right came across a really good example, a historical example from nineteen sixty so not that long ago, I mean way before I was born, but newly independent African leaders they just won independence from their colonial oppressors and such. So they had a choice to make capitalism or socialism. Right, you guys are on your own now, like the French have been driven out or whatever. So which path are you going to take? Needless to say, virtually all of them chose socialism. There is an economist from Ghana named George Ayata. He spent forty years documenting what happened next. His findings are in print, and almost nobody outside Africa wants to hear them. The reasoning back in nineteen sixty looked air tight. This is according to post by Students for Liberty. Colonialism, you see, had been run by Western capitalists. Capitalism was a tool of oppression. So socialism is the opposite, that would be the path to liberation, right, seems logical. There so they proceed down the socialist path. The results catastrophic. All right, So Students for Liberty with this post about the experiment run in Africa in various countries when they were you know, released out of colonialists oppression, and like, which path would you take? And virtually all of them took the path of socialism over capitalism. You saw this in Ghana, Tanzania, Guinea, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe. Right, they all reached the same conclusion through the same logic, which was colonialism was of the West and capitalists, so therefore socialism is the opposite, so that's the path to liberation. Logic was tidy. The results were catastrophic. In Ghana, the government built sixty four state enterprises before the leader was overthrown, Only three or four were ever profitable. In nineteen seventy, the Ghanian state was setting prices on nearly six thousand items across more than seven hundred products. That's ghana in Tanzania. Julius Nyerere called the program ujama, a Swahili word for familyhood. That's in nineteen seventy. Six years later, the state had relocated more than eleven million peasants into roughly eight thousand collective villages. Much of the relocation was done at gunpoint. As I often say, right, the use of force. Violence is not a bug of Marxism, it is an essential factor. Marxism is the opposite of human nature. And so in order to make it work, quote unquote, you have to force people to do it, and if they won't do it, you got to kill them. That's the way it always works. Okay, So the state of relocated eleven million people into these collective villages. Government bulldozers flattened houses so families could not return. Tanzania exported more than half a million tons of maize in nineteen seventy five hundred and forty thousand tons annually, exporting. Four years later, they're importing three hundred thousand tons of food basically of maze, so like a turnaround of a million tons. Almost They were producing under the oppressive colonialist capitalist pre market system right, but then when socialists take over, Now they can't feed themselves. Within a few years, a country that had been able to feed itself was depending on Western grain shipments to survive. Over in Guinea, Seku Torrey made unauthorized trade a criminal offense. Smuggling would be punished by death. Out of a population of five and a half million, about two million Ghaneians fled the country. The richest territory in French West Africa ended up importing food it once exported. They then asked the question of the economist. Guy George Attia, the Ghanian economist, asked the question he considered most important. How do the rich get rich in the US compared to Africa. In the United States, the wealthiest people are builders built they make stuff, makers versus takers. That's the key difference here. The free market rewards people who make things. It's true, if you don't make anything, or if you make something that nobody wants, you won't get rich. You can't force people to buy stuff from you. Elon Musk built Tesla and SpaceX, Jeff Bezos built Amazon. Roughly two thirds of American billionaires founded the company that made them rich. Two thirds. In socialist era Africa, the wealthiest people were heads of state and their ministers. Mobutu Sesse SICCO of Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Estimates of stolen wealth ranged from one to five billion dollars. Sani Abacha of Nigeria stole around five billion, Ibrahim Baba Ganida of Nigeria stole roughly twelve billion, Hasnimabarak of Egypt somewhere in the neighborhood of about forty billion, Momar Kadafi of Libya somewhere around two hundred billion. George Iata put it plainly, the combined net worth of every American president from George Washington through Barack Obama, all forty three of them, was about two point seven billion dollars in twenty ten. Sani Abacha alone stole more than more than that in just five years in office. African socialism built a ruling class that created nothing and extracted everything. The argument that Iata most wanted Africans to hear, and the one almost nobody quotes, is that socialism was never African. Pre colonial Africa had open markets, it had long distance trade, It had private enterprise cloth weaving iron smelting, gold smelting, regional commerce. Property was held by extended families and clans, not by the state. Nieri and his peers took kinship based property and re labeled it communism. They confused village solidarity with state ownership. They imported a nineteenth century European industrial ideology and applied it to agricultural societies that already had functioning markets older than the modern European state, shortages, political prisons, and a parasitic ruling class. That's what they got. South Africa in twenty twenty six is preparing this the same policies now. The Expropriation Act was signed in January of twenty five. The MK Party introduced a constitutional amendment this past April to push land restitution claims back to sixteen fifty two and remove compensation from the property clause. Zimbabwe already ran this experiment by the way back in two thousand, Tobacco exports earnings fell from six hundred million dollars to one hundred and seventy five million in nine years. May's production did not return to pre seizure levels until twenty seventeen. IOTA warned about this for thirty years and South Africa is doing it anyway. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanarshow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.