RadixJournal - The Teflon Don and the Hillbilly Shapeshifter

00:00:00.000 Before Trump came down the escalator in 2015, there was a model of what an American politician would look like.

00:00:14.520 And a lot of people talk about identity politics. I think there was something about personal identity politics that Obama represented in the sense that one of the secondary taglines of that campaign was, be the change you want to see in the world.

00:00:36.020 And you could take that phrase in multiple ways. One of the ways you could take that is just simply voting for Obama was the change you wanted to see.

00:00:48.860 And so let's go back to Obama. Obama was and is a thoughtful man. He's sometimes too nuanced in his responses to things. He doesn't go for the jugular.

00:01:06.020 He can sometimes be a little gray on gray or talk around things and so on. But he's clearly an intelligent person. He's clearly a thoughtful, a deeper person than, say, Donald Trump or George W. Bush.

00:01:18.780 When he started running against Hillary, there was a very strong dynamic of, first off, he gives great speeches, but I can get the job done. That was kind of Hillary's case, along with the white people love me, which was what she was saying in 2008, believe it or not.

00:01:39.620 But there was also a sort of Hillary Clinton voted for the war. And she's kind of tainted by the Bush era and we're moving off the war on terror. Barack Obama became a senator in 2004, so he couldn't have voted for the war. He did engage in some protests.

00:01:57.620 He spoke at protests in Chicago against the war in Iraq. Now, it should be noted that in those speeches, he actually endorsed the war on terror and endorsed the Afghanistan campaign.

00:02:13.300 I actually learned about this reading Spencer Ackerman's book, Reign of Terror, which is pretty good.

00:02:19.700 And he is one of these leftists who is highly skeptical of Barack Obama.

00:02:24.760 And as he should be, Barack Obama created a sustainable war on terror. He increased drone strikes. He never really moved off Gitmo or torture, etc., etc.

00:02:38.680 He never fundamentally questioned the war on terror. And thus, he was kind of stuck in this, you voted for me because you hated George W. Bush, and you want the war to be over, but I kind of can't fully end it.

00:02:54.880 It was this liminal kind of purgatory state that never really worked. And in that way, his whole movement was a failure.

00:03:06.340 But I think what Obama represented, along with actual policy, like stop the war in Iraq, Bush and Cheney are evil, which is fair enough, it was this personal story where you vote.

00:03:28.460 It doesn't matter what Barack Obama is going to do. Just the fact that he is the president is what is remarkable.

00:03:35.120 You know, the fact that he's cast in this role, you know, isn't it amazing that the new James Bond is black, or the Little Mermaid is black, or, you know, Super Mario Brothers is gay, or whatever, that didn't happen. 0.54

00:03:53.060 I'm just saying, where they're vampirically leeching off something that's old, and they're replacing the front man.

00:04:02.800 And I think that's what he represented. And there was a kind of model of a new politician in the 2000s that would represent that.

00:04:10.840 Someone like Pete Buttigieg, who, you know, comes from highly educated, comes from this consultant world, and he's kind of like the gay Obama. 0.93

00:04:23.520 You know, I'm this nice, non-Elton John-like homosexual from the Midwest. I was a mayor of a small town, and only in America could I rise to become your president, blah, blah, blah. 0.51

00:04:37.700 This, like, personal identity politics. It's personal politics more than anything. Wouldn't it be amazing if we, you know, vault Mayo Pete into the presidency?

00:04:51.140 We're so proud of ourselves. It's a kind of virtue signal that you're voting for Barack Obama.

00:04:57.140 J.D. Vance has always struck me as kind of like, why is J.D. Vance?

00:05:05.640 So, when I first heard of J.D. Vance, and the fact that he was involved in venture capital, etc., I assumed that he was some sort of savant from the trailer park, or, you know, some quant kid who was able to offer all of this

00:05:27.080 insight into investing, and it was one of the, you find them, you know, it's like, his parents were terrible drug addicts, but this kid is so damn smart, and he just gets taken up.

00:05:41.080 And that's not the case. You know, there's a line from one of these Steve Jobs biopics where Waz asked him, what exactly is it that you do?

00:05:52.700 And I don't know what J.D. Vance does. He's obviously articulate, and he can answer a question reporters, but so what? He went to Yale Law School.

00:06:09.500 So what? I've met people who went to Yale Law School. When my graduate career, I met highly intelligent people at U of C or Duke. I met people who I found to be sub-mediocrities at both places.

00:06:27.800 I just don't care what diploma you have. He's never really practiced law. Again, it's just this, like, venture capital guy. He seems to have been chosen or kind of anointed by Amy Chua and then the Peter Thiel people and others as kind of, like, our guy.

00:06:51.920 But I don't really see the point of it all. And even by the age of 30, he was already focused on this politics of personal success of, like, isn't it amazing that I exist?

00:07:07.040 And I guess my response to that is not really. I don't know what to say. I actually watched his TED Talk from many years ago, and I think this really sums up the kind of fakeness, narcissism on his part, and also just meaninglessness of his, like, working class thing. 0.78

00:07:36.620 Where, you know, like, to compare him to Obama. Obama has a Muslim-y background. I mean, obviously, we have the birthers who are obsessed with the fact that he wasn't born in this country and grew up in a mosque or whatever they were saying.

00:07:51.220 I don't believe that. But he ultimately did nothing for Muslims. Like, as Spencer Ackerman demonstrates in his book, the FBI and Homeland Security were still, like, rounding up Muslims, infiltrating their mosques, kicking them out of the country, drone-striking innocent people, including an American citizen.

00:08:16.560 I mean, it's just Barack Obama. It's his personal story. You almost, like, invest revolutionary politics in one person. And just by the fact that he exists, that's enough. You've accomplished it. Let's not actually change anything. Let's not even do anything for the supposed constituency of Barack Obama.

00:08:40.580 Just by the fact that he is existing as our president is enough. And I think there's the same thing for J.D. Vance. Whether he cultivated this himself, whether he grasped that that was in the zeitgeist, or whether other people found him as, like, a kind of malleable person to construct in this image.

00:09:00.760 I don't know. It's probably a combination of the two. I don't know which was more prominent. But it's just all fake.

00:09:09.300 And let's just watch this TED Talk, because, you know, you can tell a lot about people from the masks they wear and how they present themselves and the sort of anecdotes they tell.

00:09:24.080 I found this extremely revealing. I imagine he wrote this himself. I have not read Hillbilly Elegy. I've seen smart people who have read it on Twitter, and they're just like, it was a self-serving naval gaze, basically. And I don't doubt it. I might actually read the book. I don't want to buy it, though, because I don't want to give this son of a bitch any money.

00:09:45.900 But I remember the very first time I went to a nice restaurant, a really nice restaurant. It was for a law firm recruitment dinner. And I remember beforehand, the waitress walked around and asked whether we wanted some wine. So I said, sure, I'll take some white wine. 0.99

00:10:03.680 And she immediately said, would you like Sauvignon Blanc or Chardonnay? And I remember thinking, come on, lady. Stop with the fancy French words and just give me some white wine. 0.97

00:10:17.240 But I used my powers of deduction and recognized that Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc were two separate types of white wine. And so I told her that I would take the Chardonnay, because, frankly, that was the easiest one to pronounce for me.

00:10:28.280 So I had a lot of experiences like that during my first couple of years.

00:10:33.280 First off, that's not a terribly interesting anecdote. The fact that you open with that is wet.

00:10:41.820 There's this theme of J.D. Vance of putting on a mask and pretending to be another person and congratulating himself for that and never really being comfortable in his own skin.

00:10:58.480 And so, like, I would imagine a true, like, Scotch-Irish Appalachia guy would maybe order a beer or say, like, hell, lady, I don't care. 0.79

00:11:13.880 So long as you fill up this glass to the brim, that's good enough.

00:11:17.300 Like, there's a sort of, like, earthy way of responding to that and saying it with a, you know, twinkle in your eye where it's kind of funny.

00:11:24.660 But he instead pretends to be someone, he pretends to know the difference between those things.

00:11:30.600 Just hear this whole thing out, because throughout this speech, which I presume he wrote himself, there are numerous examples.

00:11:39.120 The only, the way he, his survival mechanism throughout his life is pretending to be someone else.

00:11:46.120 And this is just the, he, this is the opener.

00:11:49.640 And it's just, again, another example of the way he survives is he puts on a mask and a costume. 0.98

00:11:56.720 This man comes from a sociopathic, excuse me, a psychopathic family of drug addicts and criminals. 0.96

00:12:03.780 And he is one, he's just really good at it. 0.97

00:12:06.140 So that's my basic lead on this.

00:12:10.120 I'll prove it to you as we go on.

00:12:12.840 Let's watch more.

00:12:14.600 Because despite all outward appearances, I'm a cultural outsider.

00:12:18.340 I didn't come from the elites.

00:12:19.720 I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco.

00:12:23.940 I came from a Southern Ohio steel town.

00:12:26.320 And it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways,

00:12:28.840 ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

00:12:33.900 Heroin has moved in, killing a lot of people.

00:12:36.140 People I know.

00:12:37.700 Family violence, domestic violence and divorce of torn apart families.

00:12:42.320 And there's a very unique sense of pessimism that's moved in.

00:12:46.600 Think about rising mortality rates in these communities and recognize that

00:12:50.180 for a lot of these folks, the problems that they're seeing are actually causing

00:12:54.220 rising death rates in their own communities.

00:12:56.700 So there's a very real sense of struggle.

00:12:59.060 Now, I had a very front row seat to that struggle.

00:13:02.700 My family has been part of that struggle for a very long time.

00:13:06.700 I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

00:13:12.040 The addiction that plagued my community also plagued my family, and even, sadly, my own mom.

00:13:18.380 There were a lot of problems that I saw in my own family, problems caused sometimes by lack of money,

00:13:25.380 problems caused sometimes by lack of access to resources and social capital that really affected my life.

00:13:32.720 If you had looked at my life when I was 14 years old and said,

00:13:36.720 well, what's going to happen to this kid?

00:13:39.360 You would have concluded that I would have struggled with what academics call upward mobility.

00:13:45.560 So upward mobility is an abstract term,

00:13:48.440 but it strikes as something that's very core at the heart of the American dream.

00:13:52.740 It's the sense, and it measures whether kids like me who grow up in poor communities

00:13:57.280 are going to live a better life,

00:13:58.880 whether they're going to have a chance to live a materially better existence,

00:14:03.920 or whether they're going to stay in the circumstances where they came from.

00:14:07.800 And one of the things we've learned, unfortunately,

00:14:10.060 is that upward mobility isn't as high as we'd like it to be in this country.

00:14:14.540 And interestingly, it's very geographically distributed.

00:14:19.140 So take Utah, for instance.

00:14:21.900 In Utah, a poor kid is actually doing okay,

00:14:25.480 very likely to live their share and their part in the American dream.

00:14:29.620 But if you think of where I'm from,

00:14:31.440 in the South, in Appalachia, in Southern Ohio,

00:14:34.720 it's very unlikely that kids like that will rise.

00:14:39.720 The American dream in those parts of the country is,

00:14:42.120 in a very real sense, just a dream.

00:14:43.900 I mean, yeah, a lot of gullible wasp and German types were taken in by Mormonism. 0.87

00:14:52.860 And there was even a selection process of making the trek to Utah,

00:14:57.620 in which the strongest survived.

00:14:59.700 And that is why they're like that.

00:15:03.860 I remember driving around.

00:15:06.480 I was visiting Paul Gottfried.

00:15:07.960 I think I've told this story before.

00:15:10.080 But just driving from the South into German Pennsylvania,

00:15:16.020 you drive from like front yards in which there is a broken down car on bricks,

00:15:24.120 a broken, rusty car sitting on bricks in the front yard,

00:15:28.040 to driving to a well-kept, like almost goofy,

00:15:32.800 like gnome-laden little Germanic yard.

00:15:35.480 I mean, there are ethnic differences.

00:15:39.920 And you, I mean, all this upward mobility,

00:15:44.200 the way he imagines it is like becoming another person,

00:15:47.360 like putting on a mask or putting on a new costume.

00:15:50.220 I mean, J.D., you are who you are.

00:15:54.420 People don't change, actually.

00:15:56.960 The takeaway that I get from his, from J.D.'s stuff is he doesn't offer any solution to this

00:16:06.220 outside of upward mobility.

00:16:09.060 Like your ability to kind of finagle your way into a position where you're drinking sparkling wine

00:16:16.220 and Chardonnay as opposed to grain alcohol is kind of like his only message.

00:16:24.600 But let's go on.

00:16:26.440 So why is that happening?

00:16:28.640 So one reason is obviously economic or structural.

00:16:31.920 So you think of these areas, they're beset by these terrible economic trends

00:16:35.660 built around industries like coal and steel that make it harder for folks to get ahead.

00:16:41.120 It's certainly one problem.

00:16:42.520 There's also the problem of brain drain, where they're really talented people

00:16:46.000 because they can't find high-skill work at home end up moving elsewhere,

00:16:49.080 so they don't build a business or a non-profit where they're from.

00:16:51.780 They end up going elsewhere and taking their talents with them.

00:16:55.400 There are failing schools in a lot of these communities,

00:16:57.880 failing to give kids the educational leg up

00:17:00.060 that really makes it possible for kids to have opportunities later in life.

00:17:03.680 These things are all important.

00:17:05.100 I don't mean to discount these structural barriers,

00:17:07.340 but when I look back at my life and at my community,

00:17:10.720 something else was going on.

00:17:11.920 Something else mattered.

00:17:13.220 It's difficult to quantify,

00:17:16.300 but it was no less real.

00:17:18.940 So for starters,

00:17:19.960 there was a very real sense of hopelessness

00:17:22.280 in the community that I grew up in.

00:17:24.400 There was a sense that kids had that their choices didn't matter.

00:17:27.580 No matter what happened,

00:17:28.960 no matter how hard they worked,

00:17:30.320 no matter how hard they tried to get ahead,

00:17:32.500 nothing good would happen.

00:17:35.000 So that's a tough feeling to grow up around.

00:17:37.960 That's a tough mindset to penetrate.

00:17:41.280 And it leads, sometimes,

00:17:43.520 to very conspiratorial places.

00:17:46.140 So let's just take one political issue that's pretty hot,

00:17:50.160 affirmative action.

00:17:51.580 So depending on your politics,

00:17:52.860 you might think that affirmative action

00:17:54.100 is either a wise or an unwise way

00:17:56.480 to promote diversity in the workplace or the classroom.

00:17:58.880 But if you grow up in an area like this,

00:18:01.680 you see affirmative action as a tool

00:18:03.260 to hold people like you back.

00:18:05.340 That's especially true

00:18:06.420 if you're a member of the white working class.

00:18:08.520 You see it as something

00:18:09.440 that isn't just about good or bad policy.

00:18:12.080 You see it as something

00:18:13.120 that's actively conspiring,

00:18:14.980 where people with political and financial power

00:18:16.860 are working against you.

00:18:18.260 And there are a lot of ways

00:18:19.820 that you see that conspiracy against you

00:18:23.680 perceived, real,

00:18:26.120 but it's there,

00:18:27.300 and it warps expectations.

00:18:29.660 So if you think about

00:18:30.640 what do you do when you grow up in that world,

00:18:32.900 you can respond in a couple ways.

00:18:34.400 One, you can say,

00:18:35.600 I'm not going to work hard

00:18:36.460 because no matter how hard I work,

00:18:37.940 it's not going to matter.

00:18:39.300 Another thing you might do is say,

00:18:41.040 well,

00:18:42.280 I'm not going to go after

00:18:43.260 the traditional markers of success

00:18:44.500 like a university education

00:18:45.900 or a prestigious job

00:18:46.940 because the people who care about those things

00:18:48.740 are unlike me.

00:18:49.640 They're never going to let me in.

00:18:51.440 When I got admitted to Yale,

00:18:52.760 a family member asked me

00:18:53.720 if I had pretended to be a liberal

00:18:55.120 to get it by the admissions committee.

00:18:58.300 Seriously.

00:18:59.420 And it's obviously not the case

00:19:01.940 that there was a liberal box to check

00:19:03.500 on the application,

00:19:04.380 but it speaks to the very real insecurity

00:19:07.020 in these places

00:19:08.180 that you have to pretend to be somebody you're not

00:19:10.720 to get past these various social barriers.

00:19:13.200 Okay, he ends there.

00:19:13.980 So it's a very significant problem.

00:19:15.880 Yeah, thanks, JD, for that.

00:19:16.940 Brilliant.

00:19:17.480 Yeah.

00:19:18.620 Why do you think people have a perception

00:19:21.300 that affirmative action is anti-white?

00:19:24.880 Why is that, do you think, JD?

00:19:28.380 And what are you going to do about that?

00:19:32.340 Does this need to be changed?

00:19:34.560 Or is this just an example

00:19:36.820 of conspiratorial thinking

00:19:39.440 that people descend into?

00:19:41.580 He is like the hillbilly whisperer 0.87

00:19:47.400 in the sense that he'll tell liberals

00:19:50.000 like real talk now, guys.

00:19:51.840 This is how people think.

00:19:53.880 They think that only liberals

00:19:54.960 are at these elite colleges

00:19:56.200 and affirmative actions

00:19:58.320 holding the white man down or something.

00:19:59.940 So that's one way they could think.

00:20:02.260 But, you know, it's just...

00:20:04.580 I don't know why...

00:20:06.320 I don't know why this guy bothers me so much,

00:20:09.300 but it's like I know what he's doing.

00:20:11.620 He's almost like monitoring

00:20:14.240 any sort of resentment,

00:20:20.460 even rage,

00:20:22.220 or righteous criticism

00:20:24.620 of the system or so on,

00:20:27.060 and then just kind of like

00:20:28.460 observing it

00:20:30.500 and then moving on

00:20:31.560 and talking about how he got a DM.

00:20:34.960 It's just very weird

00:20:37.120 because you even...

00:20:38.560 I think some people could even hear this

00:20:40.240 and get the sense

00:20:40.940 that he's opposed to affirmative action.

00:20:43.060 There's no reason to believe that, actually.

00:20:46.180 But let's go on.

00:20:47.900 Give into that hopelessness.

00:20:48.520 Even if you don't give into that hopelessness,

00:20:50.760 even if you think, let's say,

00:20:52.560 that your choices matter

00:20:54.260 and you want to make the good choices,

00:20:55.740 you want to do better for yourself

00:20:57.600 and for your family,

00:20:59.160 it's sometimes hard

00:21:00.560 to even know what those choices are

00:21:02.360 when you grow up in a community like I did.

00:21:04.520 I didn't know, for example,

00:21:06.040 that you had to go to law school

00:21:07.180 to be a lawyer.

00:21:09.040 I didn't know that elite universities,

00:21:10.840 as research consistently tells us,

00:21:13.000 are cheaper for low-income kids

00:21:14.820 because these universities have bigger endowments,

00:21:17.420 can offer more generous financial aid.

00:21:19.580 I remember I learned this

00:21:20.640 when I got the financial aid letter

00:21:21.940 from Yale for myself.

00:21:23.200 tens of thousands of dollars

00:21:24.920 in need-based aid,

00:21:26.500 which is a term I'd never heard before.

00:21:28.680 But I turned to my aunt

00:21:29.980 when I got that letter and said,

00:21:31.180 you know, I think this just means

00:21:32.360 that for the first time in my life,

00:21:34.080 being poor has paid really well.

00:21:36.100 This guy has so much good.

00:21:36.980 Yeah, like, the point is that

00:21:40.340 you can't get in,

00:21:41.620 it's exceedingly difficult

00:21:42.820 to get into Yale.

00:21:44.320 And I'm glad that you were

00:21:45.480 kind of the chosen one.

00:21:46.700 I have no idea why this person

00:21:51.820 who does not,

00:21:52.740 strikes me as pretty, like,

00:21:54.120 moderately intelligent and articulate

00:21:56.160 and uncharismatic

00:21:57.820 is chosen over others.

00:22:00.080 I really have no idea

00:22:01.640 what makes this guy special,

00:22:04.880 but you got in.

00:22:06.520 The reason, like,

00:22:07.940 that's not a solution

00:22:09.480 to a problem

00:22:10.740 of the decline of the middle class

00:22:13.080 is that if you get into Yale,

00:22:15.420 which is about a 1% chance,

00:22:18.260 I would assume,

00:22:18.860 on your application,

00:22:19.960 for every 100 applicants,

00:22:21.620 I would imagine 99 are rejected.

00:22:23.640 It might even be more than that.

00:22:25.380 That because these guys

00:22:27.080 have more endowments,

00:22:28.620 that they can offer you more aid.

00:22:30.420 Like, to think of that

00:22:32.060 as any sort of solution

00:22:33.760 to the problem

00:22:34.840 that he is putting forth

00:22:35.820 is just absurd.

00:22:38.580 I mean, what is his solution?

00:22:39.840 Go to Yale

00:22:40.560 and don't go to U of Ohio?

00:22:43.600 And he's just talking about

00:22:45.280 his little specialness.

00:22:47.400 This kid got the golden ticket

00:22:49.820 in the chocolate bar,

00:22:51.160 and he's, like,

00:22:52.240 instructing people,

00:22:53.640 well, what you need to do

00:22:54.740 to get ahead

00:22:55.460 is to find the golden ticket

00:22:57.520 in the Wonka chocolate bar.

00:22:59.020 It's just truly absurd, actually.

00:23:02.480 I'm not even sure

00:23:03.280 I agree with the 2016 Trump notion

00:23:06.660 of, like,

00:23:07.020 we're bringing back coal mining

00:23:08.660 and so on.

00:23:09.460 I'm not even sure

00:23:10.260 I agree with that.

00:23:11.380 But putting that aside,

00:23:12.920 that is a solution

00:23:14.180 to bring back coal

00:23:15.440 to revitalize these communities.

00:23:17.100 Like, what is he saying

00:23:18.620 outside of get into Yale Law School?

00:23:22.600 Why do you even go into Yale Law School

00:23:25.220 if you're not going to practice law?

00:23:26.360 Like, is it just to kind of

00:23:28.640 be part of the club?

00:23:31.320 Apparently, you know,

00:23:34.580 like, you don't actually care

00:23:36.620 about the law

00:23:38.180 or being a prosecutor

00:23:39.280 or whatever.

00:23:39.860 You went into venture capital.

00:23:41.980 But anyway.

00:23:43.820 So, I didn't have access

00:23:45.500 to that information.

00:23:46.540 I didn't have access

00:23:47.420 to that information

00:23:48.340 because the social networks

00:23:49.440 around me didn't have access

00:23:50.480 to that information.

00:23:51.220 I learned from my community

00:23:53.300 how to shoot a gun,

00:23:54.380 how to shoot it well.

00:23:55.720 I learned how to make 0.99

00:23:56.420 a damn good biscuit recipe. 0.98

00:23:58.260 The trick, by the way, 0.99

00:23:59.380 is frozen butter,

00:24:00.680 not warm butter. 1.00

00:24:01.220 What the fuck is he talking about? 0.99

00:24:02.160 How to get ahead. 1.00

00:24:03.460 How to get ahead.

00:24:04.320 I didn't learn how to make

00:24:05.540 the good decisions

00:24:06.780 about education

00:24:07.560 and opportunity

00:24:08.220 that you need

00:24:09.260 to make

00:24:10.900 to actually have a chance

00:24:12.400 in this 21st century

00:24:13.360 knowledge economy.

00:24:14.860 Economists call

00:24:15.860 the value that we gain

00:24:17.380 from our informal networks,

00:24:18.800 from our friends

00:24:19.780 and colleagues

00:24:20.520 and family social capital.

00:24:22.380 The social capital

00:24:23.160 that I had wasn't built

00:24:24.260 for 21st century America.

00:24:26.240 And it showed.

00:24:28.440 There's something else

00:24:29.220 that's really important

00:24:29.940 that's going on

00:24:30.940 that our community

00:24:32.120 doesn't like to talk about,

00:24:33.460 but it's very real.

00:24:35.320 Working class kids 1.00

00:24:36.160 are much more likely

00:24:36.960 to face what's called

00:24:37.920 adverse childhood experiences,

00:24:39.940 which is just a famous word,

00:24:41.780 fancy word,

00:24:42.720 for childhood trauma.

00:24:44.500 Getting hit

00:24:45.080 or yelled at,

00:24:46.200 put down by a parent

00:24:47.040 repeatedly,

00:24:48.140 watching someone hit

00:24:49.100 or beat your parent,

00:24:50.520 watching someone do drugs

00:24:51.960 or abuse alcohol. 1.00

00:24:53.140 Yeah, no shit, J.D. 0.99

00:24:54.180 These are all instances 0.99

00:24:54.980 of childhood trauma.

00:24:55.460 Why is this person

00:24:56.200 telling us something

00:24:57.200 that everyone knows?

00:25:00.600 Economists call it

00:25:01.600 personal trauma.

00:25:03.640 If your dad

00:25:04.820 beats you up 0.99

00:25:05.820 and shoots your mom, 1.00

00:25:08.820 what the fuck 1.00

00:25:10.220 is this? 1.00

00:25:11.420 That may have

00:25:11.940 a negative impact.

00:25:12.800 He didn't know.

00:25:14.180 Yeah, I think so.

00:25:16.280 You'd have to go

00:25:16.840 to law school

00:25:17.540 to be a lawyer.

00:25:18.220 I didn't know that.

00:25:19.480 Bro, I think I knew that

00:25:20.240 when I was a guy. 1.00

00:25:21.960 What the fuck 0.99

00:25:22.400 do you think 1.00

00:25:24.060 you go to law school for?

00:25:25.660 It's just...

00:25:26.740 Well, I don't know.

00:25:27.520 It's like this...

00:25:28.600 He's offering

00:25:29.360 some crucial insights.

00:25:30.680 It's like,

00:25:31.360 economists say

00:25:32.940 that if your mom

00:25:33.860 puts meth

00:25:34.680 in your Cheerios,

00:25:35.940 you're a lot less likely

00:25:37.560 to understand

00:25:38.440 what Chardonnay means.

00:25:41.300 Who the...

00:25:41.900 This is the most

00:25:43.240 obnoxiously 1.00

00:25:44.500 dumb person 0.99

00:25:46.300 I... 1.00

00:25:48.220 I mean,

00:25:48.600 again,

00:25:49.040 I know it's a TED Talk,

00:25:50.280 so you kind of have

00:25:50.740 to boil things down,

00:25:52.060 but isn't this

00:25:52.760 just a kind of expression

00:25:54.280 of this just like

00:25:55.240 malformed brain? 1.00

00:25:57.800 He's a self-made midwit 1.00

00:25:59.080 is what he is. 0.97

00:26:00.440 He's proud of 0.95

00:26:01.400 being a self-made midwit. 0.98

00:26:03.320 Because I wasn't 1.00

00:26:04.040 a dumbass 1.00

00:26:04.680 in a trailer park. 1.00

00:26:05.600 I didn't just pound

00:26:06.740 Bush Light all day.

00:26:07.660 I decided to

00:26:08.480 pull myself up

00:26:09.460 by the bootstraps

00:26:10.300 and articulate

00:26:11.340 and use corporate buzzwords.

00:26:13.480 Yeah.

00:26:14.860 And like Obama,

00:26:15.860 I wrote an autobiography

00:26:17.300 at age 30.

00:26:19.540 And again,

00:26:20.600 he hadn't done anything.

00:26:22.280 Making it meant

00:26:23.020 getting into Yale Law School

00:26:24.580 and then just being like

00:26:25.720 having a sinecure

00:26:26.980 at a venture fund

00:26:28.180 or whatever.

00:26:28.860 This is...

00:26:29.880 This guy is...

00:26:33.000 Like,

00:26:33.400 not just because

00:26:34.280 of his figure...

00:26:35.340 Like,

00:26:35.760 face physiognomy,

00:26:37.220 but like,

00:26:37.920 he is extremely punchable.

00:26:40.520 Yeah,

00:26:41.040 but his...

00:26:41.280 I just have to say... 0.99

00:26:41.960 It's just the fat face. 0.96

00:26:44.960 I mean, 0.96

00:26:45.200 it's like...

00:26:45.960 It's like Charlie

00:26:46.920 His head is round.

00:26:49.020 It's just...

00:26:49.620 He's got the small face.

00:26:51.060 But it's just...

00:26:51.560 There are ethnic differences

00:26:53.000 in the white race.

00:26:54.300 And like,

00:26:54.620 the fact that

00:26:55.620 we want to

00:26:56.520 pump up

00:26:57.600 like the J.D. Vance type

00:27:00.100 is just

00:27:00.700 really 0.99

00:27:01.500 fucking insulting. 0.99

00:27:03.920 Like, 0.99

00:27:04.500 we should be promoting

00:27:05.700 blonde,

00:27:06.940 German,

00:27:07.800 tall,

00:27:09.620 angular, 0.95

00:27:10.120 badasses. 1.00

00:27:11.480 That's the fucking 1.00

00:27:12.500 white race 1.00

00:27:13.440 in my opinion.

00:27:14.700 And even like,

00:27:17.100 Italians 0.69

00:27:17.660 and people

00:27:18.440 who are more fun

00:27:19.500 and like,

00:27:20.320 earthy

00:27:20.740 and passionate

00:27:21.540 or whatever,

00:27:22.100 that's also great too.

00:27:23.860 But just these

00:27:24.480 lifeless, 1.00

00:27:26.140 boring roundheads, 1.00

00:27:27.700 just go fuck... 1.00

00:27:29.020 Like, 1.00

00:27:29.700 you're embarrassing. 0.74

00:27:31.380 Yeah.

00:27:31.580 You're not...

00:27:32.160 You ain't...

00:27:32.620 In the words of John Wayne,

00:27:34.060 you ain't white.

00:27:35.080 Like,

00:27:35.820 you're not

00:27:36.480 the best of us.

00:27:38.020 And the fact

00:27:39.460 that you're from

00:27:40.040 a family 1.00

00:27:40.680 of psychopathic 0.99

00:27:42.240 drug-addled 1.00

00:27:44.020 criminals

00:27:44.660 just kind of

00:27:46.600 makes me think

00:27:47.380 that Oliver Holmes

00:27:48.520 was correct,

00:27:49.520 that the most

00:27:50.040 moral thing

00:27:50.780 to do

00:27:51.100 to the Vance family

00:27:52.100 is to sterilize them.

00:27:53.920 Sorry to be

00:27:54.660 this much 1.00

00:27:55.420 of an asshole, 1.00

00:27:56.380 but like, 1.00

00:27:56.840 I really hate 1.00

00:27:57.700 this motherfucker. 1.00

00:28:00.160 Well, 1.00

00:28:00.300 you should.

00:28:01.200 There's no 0.97

00:28:02.040 fucking 0.97

00:28:02.700 redeemable quality 0.99

00:28:03.840 to this piece 1.00

00:28:04.720 of shit. 1.00

00:28:06.380 He represents 1.00

00:28:07.200 physically

00:28:08.060 the degeneration

00:28:09.200 of a race.

00:28:10.120 Everybody should be

00:28:11.020 mad when they look

00:28:11.840 at him.

00:28:12.200 This is like...

00:28:13.060 There's like

00:28:13.940 another thing as well

00:28:14.560 that class

00:28:15.160 is very much like

00:28:16.080 classes don't come

00:28:18.840 out of nowhere.

00:28:19.700 It's often just

00:28:20.220 an expression

00:28:21.140 of like

00:28:22.720 racial differences.

00:28:24.620 I mean,

00:28:24.820 it's not...

00:28:25.500 Especially like

00:28:25.940 under a liberal society

00:28:26.940 because if you have

00:28:27.640 like feudalism

00:28:28.300 or whatever,

00:28:28.960 there's this

00:28:29.900 like stagnation.

00:28:33.120 Yeah,

00:28:33.340 I get it.

00:28:34.320 That's what I was

00:28:35.140 implying.

00:28:35.620 This is the other

00:28:36.380 thing I would say

00:28:37.360 that I kind of

00:28:39.080 almost regret

00:28:39.980 bringing this

00:28:40.700 being this much 1.00

00:28:41.820 of an asshole 1.00

00:28:42.500 towards him, 1.00

00:28:43.160 but there's no 0.98

00:28:44.480 fucking redeeming 0.98

00:28:45.580 quality to him 0.99

00:28:46.560 because like

00:28:48.160 I would...

00:28:49.560 Like,

00:28:49.780 I like things

00:28:50.900 that are

00:28:52.040 lower in a way.

00:28:54.420 You know,

00:28:54.720 like I...

00:28:56.200 I love going

00:28:58.200 to the 0.99

00:28:59.580 fucking 1.00

00:29:00.220 minor league 1.00

00:29:01.120 baseball team

00:29:02.380 here in the

00:29:03.140 Flathead Valley

00:29:03.960 where you have

00:29:04.880 a bunch of just

00:29:05.540 dudes drinking

00:29:06.520 beer and having

00:29:07.580 fun.

00:29:08.280 Now,

00:29:08.560 they are

00:29:08.880 the drug-addled 0.99

00:29:11.100 criminal class

00:29:12.200 that he derives

00:29:13.480 from,

00:29:14.180 but like

00:29:14.720 I don't

00:29:15.940 look down

00:29:16.680 upon them.

00:29:17.600 I like the fact

00:29:18.600 that they exist.

00:29:19.720 I think they're

00:29:20.240 pretty earthy

00:29:21.060 and they have

00:29:21.520 something to tell

00:29:22.300 me that I don't

00:29:22.960 know.

00:29:23.380 In fact,

00:29:23.780 they have an

00:29:24.400 experience,

00:29:25.300 but like

00:29:25.600 they're redeemable

00:29:27.620 in other words

00:29:28.420 in the sense

00:29:29.020 that they're

00:29:29.540 good-hearted

00:29:30.200 and kind

00:29:30.900 of fun.

00:29:33.180 And it's

00:29:33.880 like the

00:29:35.220 way he...

00:29:36.400 Like,

00:29:37.100 he understands

00:29:38.360 his redneck 0.86

00:29:39.960 background

00:29:40.580 is basically

00:29:41.500 like I

00:29:42.220 escaped

00:29:43.080 my criminal

00:29:45.040 family. 0.82

00:29:46.280 And you'll

00:29:46.540 learn more

00:29:46.980 about this.

00:29:48.060 Like,

00:29:48.400 psychopathy is

00:29:49.340 heritable and

00:29:50.300 there is no

00:29:51.160 question that he

00:29:52.040 comes from a

00:29:52.460 family of 0.99

00:29:53.160 psychopaths. 0.99

00:29:54.340 And I

00:29:55.220 think he's

00:29:55.620 actually

00:29:55.880 probably not

00:29:56.640 telling us

00:29:57.160 the whole

00:29:57.500 story of

00:29:58.920 this,

00:29:59.360 the Vance

00:30:00.020 clan.

00:30:02.180 But it's

00:30:03.200 like there's

00:30:03.980 nothing,

00:30:04.600 you don't,

00:30:04.960 he doesn't

00:30:05.340 even see

00:30:05.920 anything

00:30:06.280 redeemable in

00:30:07.360 his family.

00:30:08.080 He just

00:30:08.400 pities them

00:30:09.180 that they

00:30:09.880 haven't become

00:30:10.580 venture

00:30:11.020 capitalist.

00:30:11.620 And again,

00:30:15.020 I haven't

00:30:15.620 heard JD,

00:30:16.960 I haven't

00:30:17.220 heard any

00:30:18.100 policy proposal,

00:30:20.200 whether it's

00:30:21.960 community

00:30:22.820 college education,

00:30:24.760 bringing back

00:30:25.620 industrial jobs,

00:30:27.080 manufacturing,

00:30:29.040 Andrew Yang

00:30:30.180 style,

00:30:31.020 thousand dollars

00:30:31.920 a month,

00:30:32.500 basic minimum

00:30:33.260 income.

00:30:34.020 I haven't 1.00

00:30:34.420 heard fucking 0.99

00:30:35.120 anything from 1.00

00:30:36.220 your fat ass 1.00

00:30:37.400 outside of 1.00

00:30:38.660 get into

00:30:39.620 Yale Law

00:30:40.420 School,

00:30:41.060 write an

00:30:41.440 autobiography

00:30:42.380 and become

00:30:43.040 a venture

00:30:43.460 capitalist.

00:30:44.760 Has he

00:30:44.980 offered any

00:30:45.880 solution to

00:30:49.240 these problems?

00:30:51.000 Am I

00:30:51.860 wrong?

00:30:52.660 Please,

00:30:53.200 someone correct

00:30:53.940 me.

00:30:54.340 Someone tell

00:30:55.020 me what

00:30:55.960 this fat 1.00

00:30:57.160 fuck is 1.00

00:30:58.000 bringing to 1.00

00:30:58.600 the table.

00:30:59.660 I'm ready

00:31:00.860 and waiting.

00:31:02.140 His job

00:31:03.080 is to

00:31:03.820 make it

00:31:05.120 socially

00:31:05.860 acceptable to

00:31:07.200 hate poor

00:31:07.780 people again 0.91

00:31:08.480 in a way.

00:31:09.500 So he's

00:31:10.100 there as the

00:31:10.860 token.

00:31:11.880 I did

00:31:12.700 not need

00:31:13.160 government

00:31:13.540 programs to

00:31:14.280 do this

00:31:14.620 for me.

00:31:15.560 If you're

00:31:16.020 abject poverty,

00:31:17.060 all you have

00:31:17.540 to do is

00:31:17.980 be a 0.96

00:31:18.640 midwit like 1.00

00:31:19.180 me and 0.92

00:31:19.660 you can

00:31:19.920 crawl your

00:31:20.400 way up.

00:31:21.740 So his

00:31:22.180 job is

00:31:23.120 just to

00:31:23.540 say,

00:31:23.800 if someone

00:31:24.540 comes around

00:31:25.380 and says,

00:31:25.900 we need

00:31:26.620 some sort

00:31:27.480 of public

00:31:28.300 spending on

00:31:29.000 this issue,

00:31:29.860 he could

00:31:30.220 say,

00:31:30.740 are you

00:31:31.120 insulting my

00:31:32.000 people?

00:31:32.600 Do you

00:31:32.800 think we're

00:31:33.160 not good

00:31:33.600 enough to

00:31:34.060 do it on

00:31:34.460 our own?

00:31:34.800 Well,

00:31:35.160 the thing

00:31:35.640 is,

00:31:36.020 Yale has 0.66

00:31:36.840 a multi-billion

00:31:38.280 dollar endowment,

00:31:39.300 so they

00:31:39.540 can actually

00:31:40.220 offer more

00:31:40.960 assistance.

00:31:41.820 The degree

00:31:42.940 to which

00:31:44.080 that is not

00:31:45.260 a solution

00:31:45.900 to any

00:31:46.720 problem

00:31:47.360 cannot be

00:31:48.080 overstated.

00:31:48.820 The level

00:31:50.040 at which he

00:31:50.720 is offering

00:31:51.480 nothing

00:31:52.340 is

00:31:53.960 incredible.

00:31:56.660 And again,

00:31:57.860 I don't know,

00:31:59.260 JD,

00:31:59.540 is there

00:32:00.180 a problem

00:32:00.740 with logic

00:32:01.740 among your

00:32:02.640 folks?

00:32:04.460 You don't

00:32:04.900 logic so

00:32:05.660 good?

00:32:06.840 Because you

00:32:07.840 are offering

00:32:08.540 non-sequiturs

00:32:09.960 is what you

00:32:10.840 are doing.

00:32:11.280 You are not 0.98

00:32:11.900 intelligent. 0.99

00:32:12.860 That is my

00:32:13.380 impression.

00:32:14.100 I have no

00:32:14.660 earthly idea

00:32:15.660 why he became

00:32:16.520 the golden

00:32:16.980 boy and has

00:32:17.820 been chosen,

00:32:19.420 but I can

00:32:20.120 only conclude

00:32:21.200 that he has

00:32:21.760 been chosen

00:32:22.220 for cynical

00:32:22.940 reasons,

00:32:23.980 because he

00:32:24.780 is obnoxiously 0.98

00:32:26.520 unintelligent. 1.00

00:32:29.540 I fucking 1.00

00:32:30.620 hate this 1.00

00:32:31.160 person more

00:32:31.700 than Ron. 0.88

00:32:32.040 I hate

00:32:32.260 Ron DeSantis. 0.99

00:32:33.120 I loathe 1.00

00:32:34.800 this motherfucker. 1.00

00:32:36.920 I get this 1.00

00:32:37.960 feeling from

00:32:38.640 him and a

00:32:39.320 lot of other

00:32:39.840 conservatives

00:32:40.380 that it

00:32:41.280 seems like

00:32:41.760 they think

00:32:42.120 the only

00:32:42.420 real poor

00:32:43.080 people are

00:32:43.920 from Midwestern

00:32:45.520 steel towns.

00:32:47.000 If you're

00:32:47.340 not from

00:32:48.000 some place

00:32:49.280 with a

00:32:49.580 population

00:32:50.240 density of

00:32:51.640 beneath 2,000

00:32:53.080 out in the

00:32:54.060 country,

00:32:54.540 you're not

00:32:54.760 really a

00:32:55.280 poor person.

00:32:56.380 You're just

00:32:56.660 either a 1.00

00:32:58.220 mentally ill

00:32:58.860 homeless 0.99

00:32:59.260 dude or

00:32:59.700 a criminal

00:33:00.140 or a 0.93

00:33:00.400 queen.

00:33:01.360 Yeah,

00:33:01.560 something like

00:33:02.300 that.

00:33:02.760 He's like

00:33:03.300 that.

00:33:04.200 The noble

00:33:05.120 poor comes

00:33:06.120 from the

00:33:06.520 Midwest and

00:33:07.380 the Midwest

00:33:07.880 only.

00:33:08.900 Well, I

00:33:09.040 think it

00:33:09.360 helps to have

00:33:10.100 him on the

00:33:10.740 ticket to

00:33:11.200 say, oh,

00:33:11.900 Trump's rich

00:33:13.500 and this

00:33:14.120 guy's poor

00:33:14.700 and he made

00:33:15.160 it up.

00:33:15.460 He pulled

00:33:15.760 himself up

00:33:16.240 by the

00:33:16.440 bootstraps.

00:33:17.220 But the

00:33:17.420 whole idea

00:33:17.940 is he's

00:33:18.440 clearly not

00:33:19.020 offering any

00:33:19.500 solutions,

00:33:19.880 as you said,

00:33:20.520 and he's

00:33:20.940 just pulling

00:33:21.380 up the

00:33:21.680 ladder after

00:33:22.520 he's made

00:33:22.900 it up to

00:33:23.180 the top.

00:33:23.660 That's

00:33:24.340 fundamentally

00:33:25.220 who this

00:33:25.680 person is.

00:33:26.780 Like a 1.00

00:33:27.000 true psychopath. 1.00

00:33:27.740 He is a 1.00

00:33:29.720 psychopath. 1.00

00:33:30.480 Exactly.

00:33:31.100 And again,

00:33:32.080 the I know

00:33:33.080 is Dr.

00:33:34.000 Grande is

00:33:34.540 like, I'm

00:33:35.200 not here to

00:33:35.600 diagnose anyone

00:33:36.380 just merely

00:33:36.880 speculating.

00:33:37.860 It's like,

00:33:38.700 I'm like,

00:33:39.720 I'm diagnosing

00:33:40.500 diagnosing the

00:33:41.640 son of a 1.00

00:33:42.060 bitch. 1.00

00:33:43.080 He just 1.00

00:33:43.600 puts on

00:33:44.500 costumes like

00:33:45.820 he's going

00:33:46.680 to Halloween.

00:33:48.420 And who

00:33:48.840 is what

00:33:50.300 is is there

00:33:51.020 any there

00:33:51.780 there?

00:33:52.600 Is there

00:33:53.200 anything below

00:33:54.240 the layers

00:33:55.660 of fat?

00:33:56.400 This is

00:33:58.560 like a

00:33:58.900 good point

00:33:59.460 that he

00:33:59.740 brings up

00:34:00.160 that he's 0.98

00:34:00.660 fat and 1.00

00:34:01.200 psychopathic 1.00

00:34:01.840 because he 0.75

00:34:02.220 does lie

00:34:02.820 in his

00:34:03.180 autobiography

00:34:03.660 because I

00:34:04.120 didn't know

00:34:04.420 what he

00:34:04.700 looked like

00:34:05.200 for many

00:34:05.640 years,

00:34:05.940 but because

00:34:06.500 I read

00:34:06.780 his book

00:34:07.120 and I

00:34:07.320 sort of

00:34:07.640 like faded

00:34:08.080 to obscurity.

00:34:10.020 But he

00:34:10.220 does say

00:34:10.680 in his book

00:34:11.260 that,

00:34:11.580 and this

00:34:11.760 is something

00:34:11.960 that always

00:34:12.480 bothered me

00:34:13.800 since I

00:34:15.120 became more

00:34:17.440 in the media

00:34:17.880 and I know

00:34:18.180 what he

00:34:18.400 looks like

00:34:18.780 because he

00:34:19.140 does say

00:34:19.540 like,

00:34:19.820 I used to

00:34:20.120 be fat

00:34:20.500 as a kid 0.50

00:34:20.940 and I

00:34:21.180 joined the

00:34:21.500 Marine Corps

00:34:22.080 and I

00:34:22.320 lost all

00:34:22.680 my weight.

00:34:23.940 And then you

00:34:24.420 see pictures

00:34:24.940 of him

00:34:25.420 both in

00:34:26.840 the military

00:34:27.260 and now

00:34:27.940 and you

00:34:28.500 just think

00:34:28.800 you always

00:34:29.780 were like 1.00

00:34:30.160 a fat

00:34:30.720 like why 0.98

00:34:31.240 are you

00:34:31.420 lying about

00:34:31.940 this?

00:34:32.300 And it's

00:34:32.840 just such a

00:34:33.340 thing.

00:34:34.000 I mean,

00:34:34.640 you're lying

00:34:35.140 to the

00:34:35.800 libtars

00:34:37.080 who are

00:34:37.320 buying this

00:34:37.820 kind of

00:34:38.080 book about

00:34:38.580 class

00:34:38.940 journey

00:34:39.340 or whatever.

00:34:40.400 There's another

00:34:40.760 thing I want

00:34:41.100 to bring up.

00:34:42.620 I mean,

00:34:43.340 class

00:34:43.680 journey,

00:34:44.220 that's not

00:34:45.420 really a

00:34:45.960 thing because

00:34:46.600 if you look

00:34:47.120 at,

00:34:47.720 this is

00:34:47.980 particularly

00:34:48.760 obvious in

00:34:49.640 the South

00:34:49.980 but also

00:34:50.300 other places

00:34:50.780 as well.

00:34:51.760 There are

00:34:52.020 groups in

00:34:52.940 America who

00:34:53.420 have had

00:34:53.760 the same

00:34:54.420 social

00:34:55.000 economic

00:34:55.920 status for

00:34:57.460 hundreds of

00:34:58.020 years,

00:34:58.280 including

00:34:58.600 his.

00:34:59.320 I mean,

00:34:59.460 so there

00:34:59.680 is no

00:35:00.160 thing about

00:35:00.840 that for

00:35:01.960 HPD

00:35:02.480 reasons,

00:35:02.920 for IQ

00:35:03.420 reasons and

00:35:04.060 such.

00:35:05.380 Yeah,

00:35:05.720 upward

00:35:06.040 mobility.

00:35:06.620 as opposed

00:35:08.000 to finding

00:35:08.640 something

00:35:09.060 redeemable

00:35:09.920 in those

00:35:10.740 people.

00:35:11.340 Look,

00:35:12.140 you can't

00:35:12.880 have a 1.00

00:35:13.500 fucking 1.00

00:35:13.800 society. 1.00

00:35:15.000 I can't

00:35:15.220 believe I

00:35:15.480 have to

00:35:15.680 tell an 1.00

00:35:16.420 idiot like 1.00

00:35:17.080 J.D. 1.00

00:35:17.420 Vance's.

00:35:18.120 There is

00:35:18.560 no society

00:35:20.040 ever that

00:35:21.640 is going to

00:35:22.100 be a bunch

00:35:22.860 of Yale

00:35:23.480 graduate

00:35:24.060 venture

00:35:24.680 capitalists.

00:35:26.260 Someone has

00:35:27.820 got to

00:35:28.600 fix the

00:35:29.840 plumbing.

00:35:31.400 Someone's

00:35:32.080 got to

00:35:32.440 make the

00:35:33.120 burger for

00:35:33.840 you.

00:35:34.440 Someone has

00:35:34.940 to pick

00:35:35.400 up the

00:35:35.700 trash, 0.90

00:35:36.260 I'm afraid 1.00

00:35:36.720 to say.

00:35:37.760 Someone has

00:35:39.360 to be the

00:35:40.620 youth pastor

00:35:41.480 in your

00:35:42.560 rural community.

00:35:43.840 That is,

00:35:44.440 you need

00:35:45.020 people who

00:35:46.220 are kind

00:35:46.820 of not

00:35:48.060 Yale

00:35:49.480 quality people

00:35:50.820 for any

00:35:51.480 society to

00:35:52.380 function.

00:35:53.980 And the

00:35:54.220 question is,

00:35:55.140 are you going

00:35:55.560 to treat

00:35:56.080 those people 1.00

00:35:56.660 like crap 1.00

00:35:57.500 or are you 1.00

00:35:58.860 going to

00:35:59.060 find redeemable

00:36:00.280 qualities to

00:36:02.060 average folk

00:36:03.520 or are you

00:36:04.860 going to

00:36:05.120 worry about

00:36:06.400 why they

00:36:07.160 didn't get

00:36:08.540 a scholarship

00:36:09.320 from Yale?

00:36:10.840 It's just

00:36:11.620 absurd.

00:36:13.780 It is

00:36:14.540 absurd what

00:36:16.060 this guy is 0.90

00:36:16.740 talking about.

00:36:18.500 I even think

00:36:19.500 I was being

00:36:19.920 too nice to

00:36:20.760 him by

00:36:21.060 suggesting that

00:36:21.720 he's intelligent.

00:36:22.680 He's not

00:36:23.340 intelligent. 0.94

00:36:24.060 He's wily.

00:36:25.720 He doesn't

00:36:26.580 understand the

00:36:27.340 truth of the

00:36:28.140 matter.

00:36:28.600 He can't

00:36:29.040 think logically.

00:36:30.160 He can just

00:36:30.740 say what you

00:36:31.740 want to hear.

00:36:32.200 He's this

00:36:32.840 wily and

00:36:34.440 sophist,

00:36:36.340 as Plato

00:36:36.740 would say,

00:36:37.120 intelligence.

00:36:38.400 It's all 1.00

00:36:38.800 bullshit. 1.00

00:36:40.500 And they're 1.00

00:36:41.600 pretty common

00:36:42.120 place in my

00:36:42.740 family.

00:36:44.200 Importantly,

00:36:44.900 they're not

00:36:45.180 just common

00:36:45.660 place in my

00:36:46.180 family right

00:36:46.700 now.

00:36:47.420 They're also

00:36:47.880 multi-generational.

00:36:49.420 So my

00:36:49.800 grandparents,

00:36:51.340 the very

00:36:52.100 first time

00:36:52.900 that they

00:36:53.540 had kids,

00:36:54.460 they expected

00:36:55.120 that they

00:36:55.460 were going

00:36:55.700 to raise

00:36:56.060 them in a

00:36:56.620 way that

00:36:57.020 was uniquely

00:36:58.120 good.

00:36:58.800 They were

00:36:59.080 middle class.

00:37:00.000 They were

00:37:00.360 able to earn

00:37:00.820 a good wage

00:37:01.320 in a steel

00:37:01.720 mill.

00:37:02.200 But what

00:37:02.900 ended up

00:37:03.180 happening is

00:37:04.080 that they

00:37:04.620 exposed their

00:37:05.280 kids to a

00:37:05.920 lot of the

00:37:06.200 childhood trauma

00:37:06.880 that had

00:37:07.200 gone back

00:37:07.740 many generations.

00:37:09.720 My mom

00:37:10.040 was 12 when

00:37:11.200 she saw my

00:37:12.080 grandma set

00:37:12.860 my grandfather

00:37:13.520 on fire.

00:37:15.160 His crime

00:37:16.020 was that he

00:37:16.920 came home

00:37:17.380 drunk after

00:37:18.300 she told him,

00:37:19.340 if you come

00:37:19.720 home drunk, 0.98

00:37:20.300 I'm going to 1.00

00:37:20.920 kill him. 1.00

00:37:21.100 That is, 1.00

00:37:21.600 you are from

00:37:22.200 a family of 1.00

00:37:22.880 psychopaths. 1.00

00:37:23.860 Period.

00:37:24.340 End of

00:37:24.640 statement.

00:37:25.960 You're from

00:37:26.640 a family of 1.00

00:37:27.600 criminally insane 1.00

00:37:28.580 psychopaths. 1.00

00:37:29.500 You don't

00:37:30.580 set people 0.98

00:37:31.460 on fucking 1.00

00:37:32.160 fire. 1.00

00:37:34.480 I don't

00:37:35.140 know what 0.99

00:37:35.420 to fucking 1.00

00:37:36.080 tell you. 1.00

00:37:37.120 There are

00:37:37.380 people like

00:37:38.760 rural poverty

00:37:39.840 in Montana

00:37:40.940 that don't 1.00

00:37:42.260 fucking act 0.99

00:37:43.160 that way. 1.00

00:37:43.820 Margaret Sanger

00:37:47.140 was right.

00:37:48.800 Yes.

00:37:49.520 And

00:37:49.840 psychopathy

00:37:50.880 is significantly

00:37:52.400 heritable.

00:37:53.200 It's not like

00:37:53.780 eye color or

00:37:54.580 something.

00:37:55.240 It's heritable.

00:37:57.160 And these

00:37:57.940 multi-generational

00:37:59.420 poverty,

00:38:00.020 what is he even

00:38:01.000 talking about

00:38:01.800 when these

00:38:02.920 people had

00:38:03.780 high wages

00:38:04.580 50 years ago,

00:38:05.560 but apparently

00:38:06.120 they're still

00:38:06.580 setting their

00:38:07.720 family members

00:38:08.720 aflame.

00:38:10.480 So maybe

00:38:10.860 there's something

00:38:11.520 else going on

00:38:12.380 here.

00:38:12.520 I don't

00:38:13.740 even think

00:38:14.140 he's even

00:38:14.580 gesturing

00:38:15.380 towards

00:38:15.780 reviving

00:38:16.940 manufacturing.

00:38:18.000 He's only

00:38:18.460 gesturing

00:38:18.960 towards

00:38:19.280 get into

00:38:19.920 Yale Law

00:38:20.480 School.

00:38:21.320 But even

00:38:21.720 if he

00:38:22.040 were,

00:38:22.740 it doesn't

00:38:23.200 even make

00:38:23.840 sense.

00:38:25.360 His argument

00:38:25.920 has no

00:38:26.500 validity.

00:38:27.060 He's offering

00:38:27.620 evidence that

00:38:28.820 goes against

00:38:29.600 what he's

00:38:30.080 saying because

00:38:30.880 he is a

00:38:31.800 sophist 1.00

00:38:33.200 idiot. 1.00

00:38:35.020 I am 1.00

00:38:35.560 just,

00:38:36.260 my level

00:38:37.100 of contempt

00:38:37.920 for J.D.

00:38:38.560 I mean,

00:38:39.360 I didn't even

00:38:40.060 know how much

00:38:40.980 I hated him

00:38:41.740 until I started

00:38:42.440 looking into

00:38:43.060 it.

00:38:43.620 It's really

00:38:44.140 sad when 0.91

00:38:45.300 psychopaths

00:38:46.400 destroy other 0.99

00:38:47.340 people's lives.

00:38:48.800 But what is

00:38:49.700 the answer to

00:38:50.400 this?

00:38:50.820 Get into

00:38:51.340 Yale.

00:38:51.840 That is the

00:38:52.300 only answer

00:38:53.160 that I have

00:38:54.080 heard him

00:38:54.480 offer.

00:38:55.220 The way that

00:38:55.720 that affects

00:38:56.540 a child's

00:38:57.240 mind.

00:38:57.500 Wow, I

00:38:57.960 wonder if

00:38:58.420 murder might 0.96

00:38:59.320 affect a

00:39:00.340 child.

00:39:01.500 Thank you,

00:39:04.240 JD.

00:39:04.500 Let me think

00:39:05.220 about that for

00:39:05.800 a little bit,

00:39:06.220 JD.

00:39:06.860 You're so

00:39:07.360 profound.

00:39:08.000 I mean,

00:39:09.880 what the 0.99

00:39:10.280 fuck is 1.00

00:39:11.080 this? 1.00

00:39:11.960 Oh, there's

00:39:12.380 a study.

00:39:13.320 A study

00:39:13.780 by the

00:39:14.160 Wisconsin

00:39:14.520 Children's

00:39:15.060 Trust Fund

00:39:15.540 found that

00:39:16.440 40% of

00:39:18.100 low-income

00:39:18.560 kids face

00:39:19.680 multiple

00:39:20.400 instances of

00:39:21.120 childhood

00:39:21.400 trauma compared

00:39:22.920 to only 29%

00:39:24.040 for upper-income

00:39:24.920 kids.

00:39:25.160 Of children

00:39:25.520 who witness

00:39:26.380 intrafamilial

00:39:28.740 murder

00:39:29.620 don't get

00:39:31.860 into Yale

00:39:32.380 Law School.

00:39:33.220 There's a

00:39:33.980 fascinating

00:39:34.460 new study

00:39:35.440 that's just

00:39:36.580 out.

00:39:36.900 Yeah.

00:39:38.000 What the 1.00

00:39:39.580 fuck is 1.00

00:39:40.160 this guy? 1.00

00:39:40.680 Scientific

00:39:41.040 community

00:39:41.600 on its

00:39:42.600 head.

00:39:44.020 It's

00:39:44.340 counterintuitive.

00:39:47.820 I mean,

00:39:48.660 what the 0.99

00:39:49.060 fuck is 1.00

00:39:50.300 this? 1.00

00:39:52.440 Why did

00:39:53.320 liberals buy

00:39:54.080 this?

00:39:54.660 This is like

00:39:55.460 the midwit 0.99

00:39:56.560 like Jesus 0.96

00:39:58.560 basically.

00:40:03.100 Wow.

00:40:04.780 What that

00:40:05.540 really means.

00:40:06.560 If you're a 0.88

00:40:07.180 low-income

00:40:07.580 kid,

00:40:08.500 almost half

00:40:09.500 of you

00:40:09.880 face multiple

00:40:11.040 instances of

00:40:11.840 childhood trauma,

00:40:12.780 this is not an

00:40:13.580 isolated problem.

00:40:14.780 This is a very

00:40:15.440 significant issue.

00:40:17.340 We know what

00:40:18.160 happens to the

00:40:19.200 kids who

00:40:19.640 experience that

00:40:20.420 life.

00:40:21.440 They're more

00:40:22.160 likely to do

00:40:22.720 drugs,

00:40:23.340 more likely to

00:40:23.940 go to jail, 0.97

00:40:24.920 more likely to

00:40:25.800 drop out of

00:40:26.260 high school,

00:40:27.280 and most

00:40:27.960 importantly,

00:40:28.720 they're more

00:40:29.320 likely to do

00:40:30.080 to their

00:40:30.580 children what

00:40:31.340 their parents

00:40:31.980 did to them.

00:40:32.920 this trauma,

00:40:35.020 this chaos in

00:40:35.920 the home is

00:40:36.860 our culture's

00:40:37.620 very worst

00:40:38.480 gift to our

00:40:39.360 children,

00:40:40.200 and it's a

00:40:40.560 gift that

00:40:41.340 keeps on

00:40:41.900 giving.

00:40:41.920 That's why we

00:40:42.080 should continue

00:40:42.700 that gift.

00:40:43.320 We should

00:40:43.560 continue that

00:40:44.240 gift for

00:40:45.120 generation and

00:40:45.960 generation in

00:40:47.240 Virginia and all

00:40:48.260 these places,

00:40:48.780 because these are

00:40:49.360 the real Americans.

00:40:50.660 We just need to

00:40:51.500 continue that

00:40:52.180 forever.

00:40:53.300 So you

00:41:00.940 combine all

00:41:01.540 that, the

00:41:02.720 hopelessness, the

00:41:04.140 despair, the

00:41:05.520 cynicism about

00:41:06.240 the future, the

00:41:07.720 childhood trauma,

00:41:09.840 the low social

00:41:10.640 capital, and you

00:41:12.040 begin to understand

00:41:12.960 why me, at the

00:41:14.380 age of 14, was

00:41:15.940 ready to become

00:41:16.700 just another

00:41:17.560 statistic, another

00:41:18.300 kid who failed to

00:41:19.600 beat the odds.

00:41:20.900 But something

00:41:22.100 unexpected happened.

00:41:23.300 I did beat the

00:41:24.540 odds.

00:41:25.580 Things turned up

00:41:26.820 for me.

00:41:27.760 I graduated from

00:41:28.380 high school, from

00:41:29.380 college, I went to

00:41:30.480 law school, and I

00:41:31.660 have a pretty good

00:41:32.240 job now.

00:41:33.740 So what happened?

00:41:35.460 Well, one thing

00:41:36.180 that happened is

00:41:36.820 that my grandparents,

00:41:37.760 the same grandparents

00:41:38.520 of setting someone

00:41:39.400 on fire fame, they

00:41:40.880 really shaped up by

00:41:41.820 the time I came

00:41:42.620 around.

00:41:43.760 They provided me a

00:41:45.440 stable home, a

00:41:46.960 stable family.

00:41:48.080 They made sure that

00:41:49.020 when my parents

00:41:49.780 weren't able to do

00:41:50.560 the things that kids

00:41:51.360 need, they stepped

00:41:52.680 in and filled that

00:41:53.640 role.

00:41:55.320 My grandma especially

00:41:56.320 did two things that

00:41:57.280 really mattered.

00:41:57.920 One, she provided that

00:41:59.320 peaceful home that

00:42:00.140 allowed me to focus on

00:42:01.080 homework and the things

00:42:02.040 that kids should be

00:42:02.820 focused on.

00:42:04.080 But she was also this

00:42:04.940 incredibly perceptive

00:42:05.920 woman, despite not even

00:42:06.980 having a middle school

00:42:07.860 education.

00:42:08.500 She recognized the

00:42:09.840 message that my

00:42:10.600 community had for me,

00:42:11.640 that my choices didn't

00:42:13.020 matter, that the deck

00:42:14.240 was stacked against me.

00:42:15.200 She once told me,

00:42:16.160 J.D., never be like 0.99

00:42:18.240 those losers who think 0.98

00:42:19.400 the deck is stacked 1.00

00:42:20.120 against them.

00:42:20.780 You can do anything

00:42:21.700 you want to.

00:42:23.160 And yet she recognized

00:42:24.540 that life wasn't fair.

00:42:26.340 It's hard to strike that

00:42:27.480 balance, to tell a kid

00:42:28.800 that life isn't fair,

00:42:30.080 but also recognize and

00:42:31.760 enforce in them the

00:42:33.600 reality that their

00:42:34.380 choices matter.

00:42:35.400 But Mammal was able to

00:42:36.300 strike that balance.

00:42:39.180 The other thing that

00:42:39.980 really helped was the

00:42:40.840 United States Marine

00:42:41.540 Corps.

00:42:41.980 So we think of the

00:42:42.560 Marine Corps as a

00:42:43.140 military outfit, and of

00:42:44.240 course it is.

00:42:45.240 But for me, the U.S.

00:42:46.340 Marine Corps was a

00:42:47.060 four-year crash course

00:42:48.140 in character education,

00:42:49.480 taught me how to make

00:42:50.000 a bed, how to do

00:42:50.840 laundry, how to wake

00:42:51.940 up early, how to

00:42:53.100 manage my finances.

00:42:54.760 These are things my

00:42:55.540 community didn't teach

00:42:56.460 me.

00:42:57.220 I remember when I went

00:42:57.860 to go buy a car for

00:42:58.940 the very first time,

00:43:00.260 I was offered a dealer's

00:43:01.620 low, low interest rate

00:43:02.620 of 21.9%.

00:43:04.260 I was ready to sign on

00:43:06.320 the dotted line.

00:43:08.060 But I didn't take that

00:43:09.560 deal, because I went

00:43:10.520 and took it to my

00:43:11.280 officer, who told me, 1.00

00:43:13.040 stop being an idiot, 1.00

00:43:13.820 go to the local credit 1.00

00:43:15.060 union, and get a

00:43:15.820 better deal.

00:43:16.780 And so that's what I

00:43:17.360 did.

00:43:18.180 But without the Marine 0.61

00:43:18.760 Corps, I would have

00:43:19.180 never had access to that.

00:43:19.540 My level of contempt is

00:43:20.700 so high for this.

00:43:24.320 He even destroys

00:43:26.440 military honor.

00:43:29.000 We think of the Marine

00:43:29.820 Corps as a military

00:43:30.540 outfit.

00:43:31.700 But no.

00:43:32.560 Actually, yeah.

00:43:34.060 I want the military to

00:43:35.760 be a bunch of bad 1.00

00:43:37.180 asses, maniacs. 1.00

00:43:39.080 Yes. 1.00

00:43:39.360 That's the idea that you

00:43:42.040 go to the military to

00:43:43.660 learn that 21% interest

00:43:46.440 rate is a bit much.

00:43:48.640 You should go to a

00:43:49.340 like, isn't it amazing

00:43:51.020 that I learned that?

00:43:52.100 Like, no, it's not.

00:43:55.820 Yeah.

00:43:56.440 Yeah.

00:43:56.960 Probably Meemaw should 1.00

00:43:58.660 have taught you that or

00:43:59.560 whatever. 0.99

00:44:00.240 But also, who the fuck 0.99

00:44:01.720 cares? 0.99

00:44:03.200 Like, who the fuck 0.99

00:44:04.560 cares that you might 0.99

00:44:06.160 have paid $2,000 of

00:44:08.480 interest on a $10,000

00:44:10.740 used automobile? 0.99

00:44:11.960 Who the fuck cares? 0.99

00:44:14.200 Seriously. 0.99

00:44:15.020 Like, wow.

00:44:15.780 Marine Corps saved me.

00:44:16.580 Who cares?

00:44:17.360 I've wasted money in my

00:44:18.780 life. 1.00

00:44:19.060 Who the fuck cares? 0.99

00:44:20.120 I don't look down on 1.00

00:44:21.520 someone who's like, 0.99

00:44:22.640 fucking A. 0.99

00:44:23.460 You know, I was such an 1.00

00:44:24.240 idiot. 1.00

00:44:24.600 I bought a car. 1.00

00:44:25.360 It's too expensive.

00:44:26.080 And I, whew, I lost

00:44:27.840 20 grand. 1.00

00:44:28.660 I'm such an idiot. 1.00

00:44:29.480 Yeah. 1.00

00:44:29.740 It's like, yeah.

00:44:31.100 That kind of happens.

00:44:32.300 Who cares?

00:44:34.800 Yeah.

00:44:35.040 He's not special.

00:44:36.520 He's not special.

00:44:37.380 He's not this unique

00:44:38.260 person who's had all

00:44:40.400 this terrible things

00:44:41.360 happen to him.

00:44:42.180 And, ah, I just

00:44:44.460 happened to survive.

00:44:45.360 I just happened to

00:44:46.100 make my way through

00:44:46.960 this world, this cruel

00:44:48.220 world.

00:44:48.740 Pretty good job with

00:44:50.160 Peter Thiel.

00:44:50.960 And, you know, what

00:44:52.460 do they see in this 1.00

00:44:53.880 fucking person? 1.00

00:44:54.620 I mean, I can only 1.00

00:44:56.320 suggest that there is

00:44:58.300 some like cynical,

00:44:59.640 like profoundly

00:45:01.540 cynical, almost

00:45:02.920 like hateful

00:45:04.420 urge that people

00:45:05.920 see in him in

00:45:06.880 order to promote

00:45:07.540 him.

00:45:08.260 Hmm.

00:45:08.880 Yeah.

00:45:09.460 Yeah.

00:45:10.420 Like this is the

00:45:11.720 way to win over

00:45:12.920 redneck populists

00:45:14.300 and bring them

00:45:15.180 towards our like

00:45:16.600 tech accelerationist

00:45:18.480 society.

00:45:18.940 We're going to have

00:45:19.520 to trick them all

00:45:20.580 into this.

00:45:21.960 Right.

00:45:22.380 And he seems like

00:45:23.100 he would be able

00:45:23.700 to present that

00:45:25.380 face, present both

00:45:26.700 faces, one to the

00:45:29.120 tech, one to the

00:45:29.780 hillbillies.

00:45:31.260 It's I don't think

00:45:32.600 he can do it, but 0.96

00:45:33.280 it's just ridiculous

00:45:34.040 that the notion

00:45:35.200 that this is their

00:45:37.120 plan, that this is

00:45:38.000 their grand scheme.

00:45:42.080 Yeah.

00:45:43.520 Unbelievable.

00:45:47.280 Knowledge.

00:45:48.080 I would have.

00:45:48.840 It's not even that

00:45:49.480 financial calamity,

00:45:50.500 frankly.

00:45:52.200 Last thing I want

00:45:52.860 to say is that I

00:45:53.880 had a lot of good

00:45:54.680 fortune in the

00:45:55.660 mentors and people

00:45:56.540 who have played an

00:45:57.520 important role in my

00:45:58.280 life, from the

00:45:58.840 Marines, from Ohio

00:46:00.200 State, from Yale,

00:46:02.000 from other places.

00:46:03.380 People have really

00:46:04.180 stepped in and

00:46:05.280 ensured that they

00:46:06.320 filled that social

00:46:07.300 capital gap that it

00:46:08.200 was pretty obvious

00:46:08.920 apparently that I

00:46:09.640 had.

00:46:10.680 That comes from

00:46:11.600 good fortune.

00:46:12.700 Okay.

00:46:13.360 But a lot of

00:46:13.780 children aren't

00:46:14.480 going to have that

00:46:15.160 good fortune.

00:46:15.640 We're getting to

00:46:16.080 something.

00:46:16.680 He's going to

00:46:17.040 offer a solution.

00:46:17.140 I think that raises

00:46:17.500 really important

00:46:18.340 questions for all

00:46:19.440 of us about how

00:46:20.780 we're going to

00:46:21.140 change that.

00:46:23.040 We need to ask

00:46:23.620 questions about how

00:46:24.740 we're going to give

00:46:25.640 low-income kids who

00:46:27.160 come from a broken

00:46:27.920 home access to a

00:46:29.500 loving home.

00:46:30.560 We need to ask

00:46:31.100 questions about how

00:46:32.160 we're going to teach

00:46:32.880 low-income parents how

00:46:33.940 to better interact

00:46:34.860 with their children,

00:46:36.400 with their partners.

00:46:37.880 We need to ask

00:46:38.340 questions about how

00:46:39.680 we give social

00:46:41.240 capital, mentorship

00:46:42.980 to low-income kids

00:46:44.460 who don't have it.

00:46:45.780 We need to think

00:46:46.380 about how we teach

00:46:47.340 working-class children

00:46:48.420 about not just

00:46:50.420 hard skills like

00:46:51.620 reading, mathematics,

00:46:53.240 but also soft skills

00:46:54.820 like conflict resolution

00:46:56.220 and financial management.

00:46:57.400 How all the fat in his

00:46:58.740 body is.

00:46:59.160 Now, I don't have

00:47:00.560 all of the answers.

00:47:01.640 like a Christian. 0.97

00:47:02.900 Like, it's just, it's

00:47:06.680 like the lack of

00:47:08.140 idealism is just

00:47:10.580 staggering.

00:47:12.860 Yeah.

00:47:13.900 You know, like, this

00:47:15.900 is the guy being

00:47:16.700 promoted by, you

00:47:18.100 know, like Harzoni and

00:47:19.380 national conservatives,

00:47:20.860 you know, Jewish and

00:47:22.580 Catholic alliance for

00:47:24.780 nationalism.

00:47:25.700 like, like the lack

00:47:28.440 of idealism.

00:47:31.360 Again, just to repeat

00:47:32.420 myself, it's just, it's

00:47:33.580 just breathtaking.

00:47:36.480 Yeah.

00:47:37.340 Yeah.

00:47:37.740 It's just, we're asking

00:47:38.640 these questions.

00:47:39.520 We need to find the

00:47:40.300 answer, but there's no

00:47:41.480 answer in sight.

00:47:42.320 So what are we going to

00:47:43.320 do?

00:47:43.420 No, he does not offer

00:47:44.600 an answer.

00:47:45.440 And the only anecdotes

00:47:46.880 he's offered is about

00:47:47.760 how not to get ripped

00:47:48.780 off by a used car

00:47:50.120 dealer.

00:47:50.740 Right.

00:47:51.220 Like literally,

00:47:51.920 literally, that is the

00:47:53.600 anecdote.

00:47:54.160 this is one of the

00:48:00.380 most contemptible 1.00

00:48:01.920 pieces of shit I 1.00

00:48:04.180 have ever encountered. 1.00

00:48:05.780 Like, you know, it's

00:48:07.740 that like, do you want

00:48:08.700 to have a beer with

00:48:09.580 someone or do like

00:48:10.680 I would there, I

00:48:13.640 would rather turn down

00:48:15.100 a beer offered by this

00:48:16.680 guy.

00:48:17.200 Yeah.

00:48:17.380 I would rather have a

00:48:18.580 beer with like a random 1.00

00:48:20.320 moron from Nebraska. 1.00

00:48:22.440 I genuinely believe 1.00

00:48:24.960 would have like more

00:48:26.620 like humanity and kind

00:48:29.000 of insight into the

00:48:30.440 world.

00:48:31.260 More interesting stories.

00:48:32.200 Yeah.

00:48:32.700 Sitting in more

00:48:33.540 interesting, more fun

00:48:35.160 and can tell a joke.

00:48:37.020 Yeah. 1.00

00:48:37.960 Unlike this fat fuck 1.00

00:48:39.520 whose anecdotes are 1.00

00:48:40.780 like, oh, I was so

00:48:41.740 embarrassed at a

00:48:42.560 restaurant or whatever.

00:48:43.380 Like the level at

00:48:46.200 which like the

00:48:48.000 vast majority of

00:48:49.720 people in this

00:48:51.120 country are more

00:48:52.680 fun and insightful

00:48:54.220 and redeemable than 1.00

00:48:56.040 this piece of shit 1.00

00:48:57.280 is just staggering. 1.00

00:48:59.660 ring.

RadixJournal - July 18, 2024

The Teflon Don and the Hillbilly Shapeshifter

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