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When common knowledge is wrong · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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  This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
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  Have you noticed how often so-called common knowledge is just plain wrong?
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  As I like to say, it's not what you don't know, but what you know that just ain't so that gets you in trouble.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read instead of the Constitution, teacherizing generation be free.
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  Glad I could join you today.
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  You know, it's I I spent a lot of time pointing out that common sense is the rarest of elements.
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  And as I've read and studied and learned and observed, I've noticed there's a lot of common knowledge that just isn't true.
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  I was first exposed to this actually when I first started reading the Constitution.
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  I I tell the story.
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  There was a quote from John Jay about reading and studying the Constitution, and I realized I'd never actually read it.
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  So I sat down and read it.
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  And I was shocked by two things.
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  First is how little of the Constitution I'd actually been taught in high school.
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  The second was how much of what I had been taught was absolutely wrong.
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  And when you make policy, when you make decisions based on bad information, well, we had a term for that in the IT industry.
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  Gigo, garbage in, garbage out.
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  So I want to take some time today and look at some uh, well, we'll just call it common knowledge, it just isn't right.
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  It's just plain wrong, and uh the impact it could have.
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  Well, for example, uh, I hear it all the time, right?
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  You know, if you want to get rid of gun crime, get rid of the guns.
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  But we never think that all the way through.
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  Because you never think of, well, wait a second, what about the good that guns do?
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  We always focus on the bad.
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  So when I looked, when I saw a report on the National Crime Victimization Survey, they estimated there are approximately 330,000 violent victimizations involving a firearm in 2021.
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  And we look at that number and go, oh, that is horrible.
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  That and I agree, that's 330,000 too many.
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  But we forget the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey used to say.
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  That same year, they estimated 1.67 million defensive gun uses, meaning with the presence of a gun, whether fired or not, was used to stop a crime.
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  That means the def a gun is used in defense five times more often than it was used in a crime in 2021.
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  So when you talk about getting guns out, you know when we talk about getting rid of the guns, we're not actually talking about getting rid of the guns, we're talking about getting guns out of the hands of civilians.
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  We still want guns in the hands of the police, we still want guns in the hands of the military.
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  We just don't want you and I to have guns.
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  In an attempt to stop 330,000 victimizations with guns, they're willing to allow 1.67 million victimizations with guns because they won't be stopped by the presence of a gun.
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  Well, Paul, if all the guns are gone, then they won't have the you're never gonna get rid of all the guns.
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  You cannot get rid of a technology.
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  You can regulate it, you can you can hide it, but the knowledge is there, the guns are there, you're never getting rid of guns.
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  That's pie in the sky, never gonna happen.
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  So now when people argue about, you know, well, we need to get rid of guns.
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  I want to argue what I've been arguing, what I hope you'll start arguing is let's take a look at this number.
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  Let's realize that you know, in order to get rid of 330,000 uh um uh gun violence uh incidents, we're willing to allow 1.67 million because well, there then um you know because there'll be no one there with a gun to to stop it.
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  Now, I'll put a link into the article, and from the article you can find the the report and the details and whatnot, because I think it's important that we deal with facts and data.
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  I think way too often we deal with emotion and common knowledge.
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  We know that if we get rid of guns, gun violence goes down.
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  But the evidence here says no.
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  If we get rid of guns, violence is likely to go up.
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  And it's the data is there.
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  We need to look at it.
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  Since I'm talking about guns, let's head to New Jersey.
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  And another um, well, it's this common knowledge about guns that isn't all a strictology.
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  Now, I understand that not everybody here, not everybody listening is a gun enthusiast, right?
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  I've been around guns my entire life.
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  Um, but I want to I want to make sure there's certain things that everybody knows that well, it's not the whole story.
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  There is currently a lawsuit um called Bergman Schotch versus Davenport, and it challenges New Jersey's law prohibiting hollow point ammunition.
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  Now, again, hollow point ammunition gets a bad rap.
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  Let's understand because what is hollow point amid hollow point ammunition is designed to do two things.
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  One, it's designed to cause enough damage to stop a threat or stop a life, right?
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  That is its purpose.
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  Its purpose is not to wound, its purpose is to disable or kill.
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  If I'm using hollow point ammunition, my goal is not to uh uh you know scare somebody, it's there to kill somebody.
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  But a lot of people are afraid because what is it?
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  It does a massive amount of damage.
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  Hollow point ammunition does one other thing, it minimizes damage to bystanders.
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  I know we're never taught that this doesn't come in part of the discussion, but I want to bring it up here because it's important understanding.
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  The reason, again, the reason I use a uh hollow point ammunition, the reason everybody I know that uses it, even law enforcement uses it for two reasons.
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  One, when a bullet enters a body, you it's not like the movies, right?
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  The person doesn't go flying back dead.
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  No, it enters the body and it does damage.
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  And a a what's called a full metal jacket, right?
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  The the completely copper uh jacketed round tends to stay in one piece unless it hits bone.
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  And then depending on the construction, it may or may not break up.
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  It may or may not break up.
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  Now that does a certain amount of damage.
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  Now that does a certain amount of damage.
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  A hollow point is designed on impact with the person to open up to make a bigger hole.
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  A hollow point is designed on impact with the person to open up to make a bigger hole.
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  Oh, Paul, that's mean.
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  Oh, Paul, that's mean, that's cruel.
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  That's cruel.
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  Remember the job of the bullet.
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  Remember the job of the bullet.
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  The job of the bullet is to stop the attack, either by incapacitating them or killing them.
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  The job of the bullet is to stop the attack, either by incapacitating them or killing them.
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  So if I can take one round and do more damage, then I don't have to shoot more rounds.
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  So if I can take one round and do more damage, then I don't have to shoot more rounds.
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  I'm more likely to stop the threat.
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  But there's another important point because a hollow round, a hollow point round is designed to stay within the body.
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  You would be surprised.
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  When I was uh live back up in New York, and um I had a friend of mine, his son was uh doing a shooting safety course, and I was trying to show them how important it is.
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  One of the basic gun safety laws is know what you're shooting at and what's behind it.
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  So I took a standard jacketed uh uh full jet full metal jacket round, it was a rifle round, and I loaded it into my rifle, and I had a uh a pine tree that was about oh, three feet around, three feet across, right?
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  Three foot diameter.
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  And I took the rifle and I pointed it at that tree and I pulled the trigger.
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  Big blow bang, boys are very happy.
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  We look at the tree, there's a little hole going into the tree.
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  There's a hole about the same size going out the tree.
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  That bullet went right through a three-foot pine tree.
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  That bullet still had a lethal velocity after doing that.
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  Meaning, if I wasn't aware of what was behind that, that's a problem.
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  Now, imagine a self-disfend situation.
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  You're in your home, you're on the street, you're in your car, and you're forced to use a weapon to defend your life for the life of an innocent bystander, maybe your family members.
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  And in doing so, you fire a round that goes through the human that's attacking you and still has enough energy to harm someone else.
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  That's bad.
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  A hollow point on the other, is designed to remain in the body, to not exit.
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  So it becomes less dangerous to those around it.
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  Now, with that in mind, I look at you at New Jersey's uh uh prohibition on hollow point ammunition, and I see it as the the emotional political reaction.
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  Hollow points are bad because they hurt people.
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  That's the purpose of a weapon.
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  A gun.
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  A gun is not there to be pretty.
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  A gun is not there to show off.
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  A gun is there to use lethal force and should only be used in defense of the life or serious injury of an innocent person.
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  If someone is attacking me or my family, I'm looking to stop the threat.
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  And if I can do it with one round and a hollow point versus three rounds with a full metal jacket, that to me is not only best for my family, it's best for anyone else around me.
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  So when I look at these uh lawsuits, again, it's this this common knowledge that hollow rounds are evil.
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  They are not evil, they are doing their job very, very, very well.
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  Now, people point, well, the military they use full metal jacket.
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  That's right.
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  Do you know why the military uses full metal jacket?
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  When you're in a bat, when you're on a battlefield, you're not so worried about the enemy around you, right?
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  You're not worried if you're going to, if your round is going to go through somebody and um uh uh uh you know hit somebody else.
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  If you can, if you can line three soldiers up of the enemy and take them out with one shot, that's a good thing.
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  But the other reason they use full metal jacket is by treaty.
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  They're designed to wound people, not kill people.
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  No, they're designed to leave people that the opposing army now has to deal with medically.
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  Doesn't mean they're not lethal, right?
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  It's a it's a convention that was established by treaty if memory serves, that is designed for a battlefield environment.
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  And again, this that bill that bullet can still kill somebody, but you're less concerned if it goes through your enemy and hits somebody else.
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  You're not worried about that.
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  So it doesn't become a tactical concern.
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  They're also, I believe, less expensive to manufacture, and there's a lot of other reasons why.
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  But again, it's the understanding the reason why the military uses full metal jacket is not because they're more lethal.
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  It's not because uh uh you know hollow points are are evil, right?
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  Because remember, the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.
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  No, it's a convention designed to actually cause more losses on the battlefield through bleeding out and taking people away from fighting to taking care of the wounded than it is actually to be a more effective weapon.
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  From and again, there's a difference between a military intervention and a self-defense intervention.
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  Right?
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  Military has one goal, self-defense has a different goal.
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  And this common knowledge about the evil of hollow point ammunition actually leads people the situation where things are more dangerous because again, I'm more likely, especially like I think in a home where I may or I'm dealing with you know interior walls, even exterior walls, where a round can go through a suspect, somebody is attacking my family, go through them through a wall and hit somebody else on the other side.
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  I cannot even see.
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  Guns were used to stop violence five times more than they were used to commit violence, which don't you want less violence?
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  Don't you want someone to be able to stop the violence?
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  It's the kind it's where common knowledge kind of falls apart.
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  The same thing with the hollow point rounds.
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  They've been vilified because they do their job very well, they cause a lot of damage.
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  When you're when someone or something is shot with a hollow point round, that gun, that round's designed to open up and do a lot of damage.
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  Up and do a lot of damage.
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  That's its purpose.
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  That's its purpose.
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  If that person is a threat to your life, that's exactly what you want.
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  If that person is a threat to your life, that's exactly what you want.
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  You want them disabled or killed so they are no longer a threat.
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  You want them disabled or killed so they are no longer a threat.
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  But again, common knowledge is well, there's they're scary and and we don't like them.
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  But again, common knowledge is well, there's they're scary and and we don't like them.
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  Now I want to switch gears.
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  Now I want to switch gears.
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  I have some other examples of common knowledge being dangerous, but I've got a break coming up.
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  I have some other examples of common knowledge being dangerous, but I've got a break coming up.
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  It's not true, and we often suffer the consequences of it.
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  For example, I forget who it was that said uh uh people should get what they vote for and they should get it good and hard.
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  Well, if you live in New York City, you've this the people voted for uh Zaron Mandami, the socialist, outright declared socialist, who uh, well, he made some promises.
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  Well, if you live in New York City, you've this the people voted for uh Zaron Mandami, the socialist, outright declared socialist who uh well, he made some promises, he's starting to get to keep them, and the people of the city are going to suffer the consequences.
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  He's starting to get to keep them, and the people of the city are going to suffer the consequences.
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  When I ran for mayor, I said I was gonna tax the rich.
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  When I ran for mayor, I said I was gonna tax the rich.
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  Well, today we're taxing.
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  I'm thrilled to announce we've secured a Peter Tear tax.
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  The first in New York's history.
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  This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth money, five million dollars, whose owners do not live full time in the city.
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  Now, first I want you to recognize this is the first time this tax has ever been enacted in in New York City.
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  New York City, where they can figure out tax pretty much everything but breathing, they've never actually done this tax before.
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  I I wonder why.
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  Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for 238 million dollars.
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  This Pier de Terror tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don't actually live there.
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  But even so, they're able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in dare I say, the greatest city in the world.
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  And just what are the benefits of owning property in what he describes as a greatest city in the world?
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  You pay high taxes, you pay property tax, you've got you've got your property taxes, you pay all these fees, and now the mayor says we're gonna suck even more out of you because not only did were you able to pay an exorbitant amount of money for much more than that would be worth anywhere else in the country, not only going to pay more taxes on them, but you don't live there all the time.
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  Why is that bad?
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  You're telling me New York City is getting property taxes on a property that they don't have to provide services for the occupant all the time because they're not there.
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  Now, I don't know about Mr.
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  Griffin, and I don't know why.
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  Uh well, I know why.
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  I know why Mayor Zondani hates Mr.
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  Griffin because he was successful, therefore Mandami hates him because he's greedy because he's I don't know, you can he's a socialist, he wants other people's money.
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  Now, there were some places back in New York City when I was a much younger man.
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  Um, what people would do is if they didn't live full time in that apartment, it would they would rent it out like a hotel.
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  They actually had uh residential hotels where people owned the apartments, and when they were not using them, they would be the company that used them as a hotel as hotel rooms.
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  Um, I actually stayed at one a couple times.
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  My grandfather liked those types of places.
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  So a couple times we were down there visiting, and that's where we were.
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  But again, this is all about the greed of somebody has money, I don't, and I want it.
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  And most of the time, these units are sitting empty.
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  Since again, they don't actually live here.
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  This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working New Yorkers.
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  Again, how does it hurt working New Yorkers?
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  He says it does, but how?
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  The city doesn't have to pay for garbage collection.
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  The city doesn't have the city isn't paying extra because they don't live there.
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  They're more likely to be paying to be generating less services, they're gonna be assuming a less electricity, less heating and cooling, uh, less water because they're not occupied all them.
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  How is this harming working?
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  It's not, it's simple class warfare and greed.
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  Now, it's coming to an end.
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  This tax will raise at least 500 million dollars directly for the city.
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  Oh, I doubt that.
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  And I'm gonna explain more why, but let's face it, if you're going to raise taxes on things, there's an old adage.
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  If you want more of something, subsidize it.
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  If you want less of something, tax it.
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  So what happens when you you tax the rich that live only part-time in the city?
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  You get less of them.
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  It'll help fund things like free child care, cleaner streets, safer neighborhoods.
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  Okay, I guess two out of three ain't bad, because it's not the city's job to provide free child care.
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  Now, have cleaner streets, less crime, that's those are those are good things.
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  I'm not sure how this tax is going to help, but again, I gotta get to that in a minute.
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  As mayor, I believe everyone has a role to play in contributing to our city, and some a little bit more than others.
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  Happy tax day, New York.
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  Happy tax day.
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  Let's happy by by making again by attacking the people who pay the most, use the lease and encourage them to leave the city.
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  That's right.
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  Leave the city.
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  Because according to the one the New York Post, Mr.
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  Griffin that uh that Mondami pointed out, and other quote unquote billionaire bigweds are basically getting ready to leave the city.
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  They're looking to invest their money elsewhere.
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  Why?
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  Because greedy Mondami and the greedy citizens of New York City want their money simply because they they have money.
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  Now, it really shouldn't surprise you that again, Mr.
• 26:03
  Griffin, who Mr.
• 26:04
  Mondani specifically targeted, and other leaders are looking to places like, oh, I don't know, Florida and Texas, and even my home new home state of Tennessee.
• 26:13
  They want to move their future opportunities there.
• 26:16
  Why?
• 26:16
  Because they're not going to be punished for being successful, they're going to be encouraged to be successful.
• 26:22
  They're not going to be viewed as as you know, ATMs to simply suck money out of.
• 26:27
  They're going to be looked at as well, residents and treated as such.
• 26:31
  So this common knowledge that that uh, you know, having somebody who who owns an apartment in New York City and doesn't live there full time is somehow bad.
• 26:42
  I doesn't hurt the city somehow.
• 26:44
  Again, they're paying 100% of the taxes, but they're only living there some smaller percentage of the time.
• 26:50
  How is that a downside for New York City?
• 26:53
  This is the shooting the goose that laid the golden egg because of politics, because of greed, because of um just the hate of the fact that someone maybe did better than you did.
• 27:09
  And that common knowledge is on the way to destroying New York City.
• 27:13
  Here's another example.
• 27:14
  So a lot of people, when I ask people, what does the government do good?
• 27:17
  What does the federal government do well?
• 27:20
  And I usually don't get a lot of good answers.
• 27:22
  Sometimes they say education, but then the federal government's not legally allowed in education.
• 27:25
  And let's face it, ever since the federal government got involved in education, it has gone down the toilet.
• 27:30
  Some people say it's the Postal Service, right?
• 27:33
  For just a few cents, you can get a letter anywhere in the country in a couple of days.
• 27:36
  Yay.
• 27:38
  Well, the the US Postal Service, they they had a great announcement.
• 27:43
  Yay, look at it.
• 27:44
  We slashed our quarterly losses by 1.3 billion dollars.
• 27:49
  That sounds great.
• 27:50
  Isn't that awesome?
• 27:54
  Wait a second.
• 27:55
  Um, the problem is the U.S.
• 27:56
  Postal Service lost two billion dollars in the second quarter of fiscal year 26th.
• 28:01
  In the second quarter of fiscal year 26th.
• 28:03
  They lost $2 billion.
• 28:03
  They lost 2 billion dollars.
• 28:06
  Now, last year they lost $3.3 billion.
• 28:06
  Now, last year they lost 3.3 billion dollars.
• 28:08
  So yay, look at we we know the Postal Service is still losing money hand over fist.
• 28:08
  So yay, look at we we know the post service is still losing money hand over fist.
• 28:15
  And where do they make up for those losses?
• 28:15
  And where do they make up for those losses?
• 28:18
  That's right.
• 28:18
  That's right.
• 28:19
  You and me, taxpayer.
• 28:19
  You and me, taxpayer.
• 28:21
  Now don't get me wrong.
• 28:21
  Now, don't get me wrong, I use the Postal Service all the time.
• 28:22
  I use the postal service all the time.
• 28:24
  I get stuff in the mail.
• 28:24
  I get stuff in the mail, I ship stuff through the mail.
• 28:25
  I ship stuff through the mail.
• 28:27
  Uh, for what I get, it's inexpensive.
• 28:27
  Uh for what I get, it's inexpensive.
• 28:29
  It's a lot cheaper to mail something, especially when I'm mailing books and stuff than it is to send it via another carrier like FedEx or UPS.
• 28:38
  So I mean, it's cheap, but I have to remember I'm paying twice.
• 28:43
  I pay my postage, but I'm also paying through my taxes to make up for these losses.
• 28:49
  And there's a lot of financial reasons why these losses are out of control.
• 28:53
  Um I actually have a friend who works for the Postal Service.
• 28:55
  Let me point out that the Postal Service is the only entity I know of that's required to front load their pension funding.
• 29:04
  When my family had a business and we had a pension for our employees, yes, we had to pay it.
• 29:09
  We paid it at the end of the quarter.
• 29:11
  Only in the polls they pay at the beginning of the quarter.
• 29:14
  Do they pay for the pension before the people of acting worked?
• 29:17
  Um, yeah, it's it's kind of a and that's just the beginning, right?
• 29:20
  You've got Congress that plays game that has um yeah, uh post offices open because, well, it's in their district, whether or not that post office makes financial sense or not.
• 29:31
  They are legally required to deliver to every address, but they don't have to have a post office for all of those, you know.
• 29:37
  Say even where I live, my my small town.
• 29:39
  Do I really need a post office in my small town when there's a post office 15 minutes away in the county seat, the small city?
• 29:48
  That to me would make a lot of sense.
• 29:49
  I wonder how much money would be saved if they did that.
• 29:51
  But you see, they can't do that because that would harm that, you know, that would that would people would complain, oh well, we're losing jobs, and and of course, Congressmen don't like it when there's not enough post offices in their district for that's in other words.
• 30:05
  The reason part of the reason that I uh the the post service keeps losing money is politics of the post office more than the business of the post office.
• 30:14
  And the fact that the post office is a polit, it's a federal agency, it is a political entity as much as it is a service, and it's it is established by the constitution, right?
• 30:27
  Congress has the power to create uh maintain post offices and post roads, but the business aspect of it has been lost on Congress, and well we're still the taxpayer is making up the difference.
• 30:40
  Speaking of uh Congress not understanding basic economics and math and the people paying the difference, uh, remember the Affordable Care Act, and they created these exchanges, and oh, it's gonna be great.
• 30:50
  You can go on a website and you'll be able to get affordable health care and uh you know health care coverage, it'll be easy.
• 30:59
  It failed.
• 31:00
  First of all, it failed because they couldn't get a website to work, but that's that was bad enough.
• 31:04
  But now there's a new there's a new uh announcement.
• 31:08
  Cygna is announced back late April that they're leaving the exchanges in 2027.
• 31:15
  So in other words, now you have even fewer insurance companies participating in these exchange plans, which is isn't that that's less competition, which is supposed to drive down prices.
• 31:29
  Uh Aetna ceased offering plans uh and and and and a while back, and guess what?
• 31:36
  Enrollment is going down.
• 31:37
  Now, why has enrollment been going down?
• 31:40
  Because Congress did not resume these subsidies.
• 31:44
  Remember, if you want more, subsidize it.
• 31:47
  If you want less, tax it.
• 31:50
  But Congress seemed to forget that just because you call something the Affordable Care Act, doesn't mean it makes care affordable.
• 31:58
  Uh, according to Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstown Institute, medical insurance has become unbearably expensive.
• 32:05
  And this is even before a single service is used.
• 32:08
  For many people, this truly makes no sense.
• 32:11
  I agree.
• 32:12
  When I stopped working in corporate America, further, when I worked in corporate America, insurance was tied to my work, and I got really good insurance, and it was it was very beneficial.
• 32:22
  But when I stopped working in corporate America, I was punished for not getting my insurance through an employer.
• 32:29
  Yes, punished.
• 32:31
  You see, when I worked in corporate America, when they paid my health insurance, it was deducted from their taxes.
• 32:37
  It was a tax, it was a tax-deductible expense.
• 32:40
  As a private individual, no, it's not.
• 32:46
  Uh the prices are again completely outrageous, and they keep going up.
• 32:51
  And they to me, they they keep going for a couple of reasons.
• 32:55
  One is the Affordable Care Act requires me to carry coverage for things I will never ever ever use.
• 33:02
  I am a heterosexual male.
• 33:05
  Tell me, why must my coverage include abortions?
• 33:10
  I'm not talking about covering my wife.
• 33:11
  By the way, my wife and I both, we are fundamentally opposed to abortions.
• 33:16
  Why should they be forced to cover abortions?
• 33:19
  It's because it's political.
• 33:21
  Because it's no longer about health insurance, it's about the politics of health care.
• 33:26
  And uh these these mandates have destroyed competition.
• 33:31
  The subsidies destroyed competition.
• 33:34
  And now, when Congress says, you know what, we're not going to renew these because they're doing damage.
• 33:40
  Now the the exchanges are apparently collapsing under the weight of a promise that that Obama made that the country can't cash.
• 33:50
  Now, for me, interesting, one of the best things I have done.
• 33:53
  In fact, the only reason I've been able to make it through recently lately is my health savings account.
• 33:59
  Back when they were reduced, I was in corporate America, and most of the companies I work for, if you contributed to your HSA account, they would match a certain percentage up to a certain amount.
• 34:11
  So guess what?
• 34:11
  I would always max out my my matching to the HSA.
• 34:17
  So I had money stored in this savings account that I could use for any medical need, and I have.
• 35:00
  Now, is that just common knowledge running amok?
• 35:05
  Or is there some more sinister underlying concern?
• 35:10
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• 39:50
  Today we've been talking about, well, when common knowledge is wrong.
• 39:54
  And one of the things I've noticed is quite common in people who are dependent on common knowledge is not only how often that it's wrong, it's the arrogance that it tends to engender to people.
• 40:06
  We just know this to be true.
• 40:08
  It couldn't possibly be that we're wrong.
• 40:11
  Perfect example.
• 40:12
  Another example of uh opening mouth to insert foot is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
• 40:18
  She claimed the other day that uh, well, she said one thing a lot of people do know.
• 40:23
  All right, stop just a second there.
• 40:25
  We it's not that we have evidence for, it's people know.
• 40:29
  So one thing that a lot of people do know in the voting rights space is that a lot of red states aren't necessarily red or republican, they are voter suppressed.
• 40:39
  It couldn't be that people disagree with us as as socialists, Marxist Democrats.
• 40:44
  Well, they're just voter suppressed.
• 40:47
  She goes on to say, and so it's less that they are more Republican than they are Democrat, and it's more that rights, the voting rights of communities that have historically voted for Democrats have been slowly eroded over time, and it's been an unevil, uneven playing field.
• 41:01
  Uh again, it couldn't be that people who have historically voted for Democrats are actually disgusted with where the Democratic Party is gone.
• 41:09
  No, no, no, no.
• 41:10
  It's got to be voter suppression.
• 41:12
  It's not my fault.
• 41:15
  Now, this is a live stream with uh Project Vote Arizona.
• 41:19
  But again, it shows it couldn't be because if you look at this and say, wait a second, if people are voting Republican, why are they voting Republican?
• 41:29
  I mean, that's the honest way to approach this.
• 41:32
  Well, somebody said, well, everybody knows that those are democratic strongholds.
• 41:36
  Everybody knows that blacks and Latinos vote democratic in high percentage.
• 41:42
  Everyone knows this, so if it's not happening, it's got to be voter suppression.
• 41:48
  It's got to be some evil thing being done by the other side.
• 41:51
  Now, I'm not saying the opposite doesn't happen, right?
• 41:54
  Because if there's a any even a whiff of voter fraud or malfeasance during the election, of course, it's always blamed on the Democrats.
• 42:00
  Course, it's always blamed on the Democrats.
• 42:03
  Well, okay, a lot of it does happen for the Democratic Party, but it doesn't mean it all happens in the Democratic Party.
• 42:03
  Well, okay, a lot of it does happen from the Democratic Party, but it doesn't mean it all happens in the Democratic P.
• 42:08
  But it's this, well, we all know this is the case.
• 42:08
  But it's this, well, we all know this is the case.
• 42:11
  No, Ms.
• 42:11
  No, Ms.
• 42:11
  Aller, you've you've deluded yourself into believing that you are owed those votes, that it is your right as a Democrat for the Democratic Party to have those votes, and anything that doesn't lead that way means some evil must be going on.
• 42:11
  Aller, you've you've deluded yourself into believing that you are owed those votes, that it is your right as a Democrat for the Democratic Party to have those votes, and anything that doesn't lead that way means some evil must be going on.
• 42:27
  Never considering that maybe people have.
• 42:27
  Never considering that maybe people have left the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party has gotten insane.
• 42:36
  And that people don't identify with it.
• 42:39
  It couldn't be that you're doing something wrong.
• 42:41
  And again, this is AOC, one of the leaders of the Marxist lean of the Democratic Party.
• 42:46
  It couldn't be that you've made a tactical and strategic mistake and alienated your parts of your base.
• 42:52
  No, no, no, no.
• 42:54
  Everybody loves me, everybody wants to sleep with me, everybody wants this.
• 42:58
  It's got to be voter suppression.
• 43:00
  Mr.
• 43:00
  President, in talking about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed mistakes of the past.
• 43:05
  And you blame the Congress.
• 43:07
  Does any of the blame belong to you?
• 43:09
  Yes, because for many years I was a Democrat.
• 43:12
  And I wonder just how many people left the Democratic Party because of the direction it was going, because of their ideals, their agenda, and their continued move towards Marxism and communism.
• 43:27
  I wonder, could that possibly be?
• 43:29
  But no, no, no.
• 43:30
  We can't, because everybody knows.
• 43:33
  One thing a lot of people do know is a lot of red states aren't necessarily read a Republican, they're voter suppressed.
• 43:40
  Well, continue with that.
• 43:42
  Everybody knows, Ms.
• 43:43
  Acacia Cortez, and watch as your party continues to lose.
• 43:47
  Because I think you'll find if you actually talk to the people, they may lean Democrat, but they look at what you're doing and saying that's not for me.
• 44:00
  Another example.
• 44:00
  Let's take a look at it at a republic.
• 44:02
  All right, because you've got uh well, Donald Trump and his his Trump accounts.
• 44:06
  This idea that the American taxpayer is going to be taxed to well give babies money.
• 44:13
  Now, don't get me wrong.
• 44:15
  There is an important need for parents to make smart moves with their money, right?
• 44:23
  What do they spend money on?
• 44:25
  How do they invest it?
• 44:26
  What do they do?
• 44:26
  That's very important.
• 44:27
  And it's the responsibility of the parents.
• 44:30
  But again, the states keep getting in the way.
• 44:32
  Now, again, Trump with his Trump accounts wants to get in the way.
• 44:35
  It is an illegal unconstitutional move.
• 44:38
  But here's what I find interesting.
• 44:39
  So, Rhode Island recently passed what they call a baby bond program as a a tool to help low-income children build wealth and promote economic equity.
• 44:51
  Um based on the idea that government should take from the witch and give to the poor, and that's fair.
• 44:59
  That uh we should have state managed accounts that that this isn't going to cause uh further dependency on government entities, that it doesn't pick winners and losers, that it treats wealth building as a political program rather than a responsibility of of individuals and families.
• 45:18
  It ignores the fact that poverty is not a lack of money, poverty is a mindset.
• 45:25
  Now, I know I just blew a lot of people's minds, but follow me in this.
• 45:29
  However, look up the stories of when a quote unquote poor person wins the lottery.
• 45:35
  Do you know what percentage of lottery winners are bankrupt within just a few years?
• 45:40
  Now it's in the the numbers are kind of interesting.
• 45:43
  Um some studies say that approximately one third of lottery winners will eventually declare bankruptcy, while another says as much as 70% um will will go bankrupt uh in in within 20 years and never fully recover financially.
• 46:03
  Now, why is that true?
• 46:05
  Whether the number is a third or 70%, why is it not?
• 46:08
  And again, I I think the 70% number is better.
• 46:10
  I think the the third is a is too short a time frame that they're looking at.
• 46:14
  But let's let's suck at those numbers.
• 46:17
  Why do 70% of um lottery winners go bankrupt within 20 years?
• 46:24
  Well, because it's not the lack of money, it's the lack of a knowledge of how to handle money.
• 46:31
  Now, like most people, when my wife and I got married, we were most people can say, well, if not poor, pretty close to poor.
• 46:39
  I didn't we only had one car.
• 46:41
  I borrowed a vehicle uh to get around to work in.
• 46:47
  Uh, we didn't own a home, we didn't have a lot of cash on hand, we had debts we had to pay off.
• 46:53
  Um, we were we were pretty much underwater.
• 46:56
  Now, again, uh, I and and we didn't depend on our families.
• 47:01
  We did occasionally get help from them.
• 47:03
  They'd we'd lend they'd lend us money, we'd pay them back, but we didn't have money.
• 47:09
  Now, here we are, some 37 years later, and well, let's just say we're financially secure.
• 47:15
  And it wasn't because of some government program.
• 47:19
  It was because we spent decades educating ourselves and finding uh and making smart choices with our money.
• 47:29
  We were it wasn't perfect.
• 47:31
  Some of the things we invested didn't work out, but we worked hard to make smart choices.
• 47:37
  So in the long run, we became a successful family.
• 47:44
  We didn't win the lottery, we didn't get a chunk of money from our parents until well, we did get some money from our parents when they died when we were much, much older.
• 47:52
  But that's after we had already become pretty settled.
• 47:56
  It's the idea that poverty is simply that if you simply give somebody money, you you do the poverty disappears.
• 48:04
  The problem is that that doesn't work.
• 48:07
  And this everybody knows that if you just give people money, they won't be poor anymore, is a lie.
• 48:13
  Because if they don't know how to deal with that money, they lose that money.
• 48:17
  And then they end up often worse off than they started.
• 48:20
  So whether it's the Rhode Island baby bond or you know, Trump's uh you know, Trump accounts with the government seeding it with money, you're dealing with the wrong problem.
• 48:32
  You're you're you're you're saying if we just if people just have money, they're not poor.
• 48:36
  No, a fool and their money are soon parted, and that's part of the problem is we quickly run through these uh uh this money because most people aren't wise in how they deal with money.
• 48:48
  They value they value the fun in the short term rather than the long term uh stability.
• 48:58
  And you know, you you're you if you simply take the common knowledge that just giving them money solves poverty, again, doesn't work and it causes more problems in the long run.
• 49:00
  You know, if you simply take the common knowledge that just giving them money solves poverty, again, doesn't work.
• 49:06
  And it causes more problems in the long run.
• 49:09
  But you have to get past that common knowledge that the problem of poverty is a lack of money rather than a lack of character for lack of a better term.
• 49:09
  But you have to get past that common knowledge that the problem of poverty is a lack of money rather than a lack of character for lack of a better term.
• 49:20
  Another common knowledge that government can government has role to fix these problems.
• 49:20
  Another common knowledge that government can government has role to fix these problems.
• 49:25
  Um the Department of Housing and Urban Development, an unconstitutional, illegal.
• 49:25
  Um, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, an unconstitutional, illegal criminal uh agency doesn't legally exist, embezzles billions of dollars to the American people every year.
• 49:36
  Um they said, you know what we're gonna do?
• 49:38
  We're gonna update some of our environmental review requirements to make it easier for multifamily lenders and developers to build these these multifamily complexes.
• 49:50
  And of course, a lot of people going, oh, great, lower regulations.
• 49:53
  This is wonderful.
• 49:54
  People forget that these reg, these requirements were put in place by HUD in the first place.
• 50:02
  Now, what are they looking at?
• 50:03
  Well, they're looking at uh uh railroad vibration assessments, pressurized pipeline policies, uh, high voltage power lines and fall handers and and and outdoor noise sensitivities as to whether or not the federal government will embezzle money from you to deal with loans for these developers and and others for uh you know seeking FHA sponsored loans to develop these properties.
• 50:32
  But again, what have you got?
• 50:33
  You got the federal government picking winners and losers, creating these policies, restricting access, and now they let some of that off and say, ah, see, look at how great we are, we've made things better.
• 50:46
  It was government that made the mess in the first place.
• 50:49
  This is literally the the the you know, the government's three steps of encroachment forward, and then or three steps towards freedom of and then two steps back.
• 50:59
  So they're still encroaching on our rights, they just backed off a little bit.
• 51:03
  But that's because of the common knowledge of this is government's role in life.
• 51:06
  No, it's not.
• 51:07
  It's actually illegal for the federal government to do this.
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  And I don't use that term lightly.
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  I'm not simply throwing it around.
• 51:14
  The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it says that Congress can that the United States can only do what powers are delegated to it by the Constitution, that Congress can only pass legislation to put into an for to enactment um powers delegated to the government to the United States.
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  Funding housing development is not a power delegated to the United States.
• 51:38
  Managing housing and development is not a power delegated to the United States.
• 51:42
  These are violations of the Supreme Law of the land.
• 51:45
  But common knowledge, it's it's their job now.
• 51:47
  No, it's not.
• 51:49
  And the fact that we keep going down this road is why things are not getting to my mind, are not going to get better.
• 51:56
  Because until we get past this common knowledge of how things are, we're never going to see the truth, and we're never going to be able to make things better.
• 52:06
  That's the biggest hurdle.
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  That's the that's the first high hurdle we have to get over.
• 52:10
  This common knowledge of this is how things should be.
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  Not how this may be how they are, but that's not how they should be.
• 52:18
  And until we get past the the R to the should be and start saying, wait a second, these are not legal.
• 52:24
  They're not, they violate the Constitution.
• 52:27
  They're they're illegal and start treating them that way.
• 52:31
  Will we ever get to the point where facts and reason supersede common knowledge?
• 52:37
  To let common knowledge keep us from our freedom.
• 52:41
  Because everybody knows you can't fight City Hall.
• 52:44
  Why?
• 52:44
  You can fight City Hall all you want.
• 52:46
  Well, everybody knows that this is a federal issue.
• 52:49
  No, it's not.
• 52:50
  We need to break this.
• 52:52
  Everybody knows.
• 52:53
  We need to break this common knowledge.
• 52:55
  We need to challenge it with real facts and real data and then hold people accountable.
• 53:01
  Let them understand their role in this making this mess, that that common knowledge has been used to help make this mess and the way to break this.
• 53:12
  How do we fix this?
• 53:14
  You start by forget by not following common knowledge, but looking for facts and evidence and truth.
• 53:22
  That's why common knowledge is so often wrong, is it's not based in facts and data.
• 53:29
  It's why it's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you know that just ain't so that really bites you in the backside.
• 53:36
  Now you would think after being bit in the backside often enough, the American people would learn to uh maybe make sure they know before they they they commit.
• 53:48
  Hasn't been the case.
• 53:50
  Hasn't been the case, which brings me to an interesting question.
• 53:52
  See, this is the this year's a semi-quincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
• 53:59
  But common knowledge says that the Americ that America is the land of the free.
• 54:04
  But is it?
• 54:06
  Because if you go through those 27 grievances listed in that great document, I bet you you can point to them being those same grievances against the government of the United States.
• 54:17
  In fact, I know because I've done it for several years.
• 54:19
  Where you look and saying, well, those things that we complained about the king in Great Britain, Washington, DC is doing today.
• 54:27
  Common knowledge is we're free.
• 54:30
  But how?
• 54:31
  Unless we're brave enough to stand up for the truth.
• 54:35
  Unless we're brave enough to look at those grievances to look at those problems and say, we have a problem.
• 54:41
  Washington, we have a problem.
• 54:44
  And we're going to start fixing it.
• 54:46
  I think the semi-quincentennial is a great opportunity.
• 54:50
  It's a it's a it's an opportunity to start.
• 54:53
  It's it should be something to initiate.
• 54:55
  How many of you have actually sat down and read the Declaration of Independence?
• 54:59
  How many of you have done some recently?
• 55:01
  Why don't you sit down and read the Declaration of Independence?
• 55:04
  Look at those 27 grievances.
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  And while you're doing that, ask yourself, well, wait a second, is the federal government doing this?
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  Is Washington DC doing this?
• 55:13
  And when you get to the end, and it says, and for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
• 55:28
  Let me ask you.
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  What would you pledge for your freedom?
• 55:34
  Would you pledge your to live your life as a free person?
• 55:36
  Would you pledge your fortune to fed to fund it?
• 55:39
  Would you pledge on your sacred honor to hold those we elect to represent us accountable for the oath they take to the constitution?
• 55:48
  That's the change I believe we need to make.
• 55:51
  It's not going to be a quick one, it's not going to be an easy one, but it is an important one.
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