00:18:36.780The device sat on the open internet on its published default port, findable by anybody on earth, if you know what you're doing, in about four seconds.
00:18:46.620And then they put in the code, 1111, and they got in.
00:18:51.000My question was, why is this online at all?
00:18:53.920The box is a programmable logic controller.
00:23:50.020So he stopped looking at the walls and he decided to go upstream where the Euphrates ran into the city because that was the source of life.
00:24:30.900If you read Daniel in the Bible, the fingers, the writing on the plaster, you know, weighed in the balance and you were found wanting, that's where we get the phrase, the writing is on the wall, okay?
00:24:45.040It came the same night the river went dry.
00:29:23.060It means that power is not in Washington.
00:29:25.380You need to find out who runs the water, your city council, water district board, rural association, private utility with a public regulator.
00:29:33.920That body meets in public on a schedule, and it meets most likely in a room that's usually empty.
00:34:00.520Yeah, but I think that the left is going to have to deal with this regardless
00:34:03.980Because even the people who they would say are more mainstream are still far to the left of the average median Democrat in, let's call it, 1990.
00:34:14.220These are not Bill Clinton's Democrats, that's for sure.
00:35:24.960So it'll be interesting to see the exit polls to see where black voters ended up with El Saeed.
00:35:29.060um but but my sense is that a lot of voters across race across ethnicity are concerned about
00:35:36.480the material issues and even conservatives i'm looking online conservatives are saying look the
00:35:42.580republican party has to do something about affordability um and obviously democrats are
00:35:47.020taking that message and i think their solutions and their proposals are ultimately going to be
00:35:52.300worse, like city-run grocery stores. But it seems like those kitchen table issues are the types of
00:36:00.560things that people are responding to. So both the left and the right have to figure out, okay,
00:36:05.420what is our affordability agenda, both for young people who are feeling the squeeze,
00:36:12.300obviously, at a different stage of life, and for middle-aged and older Americans?
00:36:17.260You know, it's amazing to me because I've said to the president that, you know, he should be going for, we're going to cut all of the federal regulations, you know, except for the things that, you know, get people killed.
00:36:29.480Cut as many of those federal regulations for housing.
00:36:32.880Build, build, build, cut everything you have to cut within reason to get all of this regulation out.
00:36:39.140I mean, the regulations for building homes and everything has, I think it has quadrupled in the last 10 years.
00:36:45.960it's insane cut them cut them let people build again that that should be our answer is build
00:36:53.260build build build build and i don't know why the republicans are not they just seem really lost on
00:37:01.200as you said the kitchen table stuff what what about my food what about my gasoline what about
00:37:05.520my house what about my job they've got to get that message right because the socialists they
00:37:10.640have the right diagnosis, they have the wrong prescription. Yes, and I actually think the point
00:37:16.480that you raise is a very interesting one because it touches on something of human nature. I worked
00:37:22.60015 years in local government in Washington, D.C., and just from my experience and observation,
00:37:28.060if you come to someone and you say, okay, I know you've identified a problem in your life,
00:37:32.140there's an issue of affordability, and if one of the responses is, I'm going to cut government
00:37:37.620in such a way that it will eventually redound to your benefit.
00:37:42.500And then the other person says, well, I'm going to give you something
00:37:45.580so that you can afford the things that you want.
00:37:48.940My sense is that a good number of people are going to take the second option
00:37:52.600because getting something in hand is a handout.
00:37:55.760Correct. And that's how conservatives would frame it as a handout.
00:37:59.180But for instance, let's go back to housing.
00:38:01.780If you live in a city and the city says, okay, we're going to set aside $10 million
00:38:06.300for first-time homebuyer programs or affordable homebuyer programs, where if you go through this
00:38:11.800training, you will get cash in hand. I don't know, let's call it $10,000 or $15,000 to go
00:38:18.080towards your closing payment. That, to me, is going to strike people as a much more attractive
00:38:24.420option than a different politician saying, I'm going to cut regulations that will down the road
00:38:29.740bring down the cost of housing for you. So here's the problem, Delano, that I think
00:39:03.340But you have to do that if you're going to have a house.
00:39:07.960And so he's spending all of his time on that stuff because he saw, I can change this quickly and give stuff away or tweak this here and tweak this here.
00:39:16.800But then after four years, it can all be done.
00:39:19.720I've got to put the deep work in on the infrastructure to give us ready for the next century.
00:39:26.400There's got to be some combination of that.
00:39:58.240And to your point, as a homeowner, there's certain things that if they go wrong in your house, the infrastructure issues, yes, they're not sexy, but they certainly are expensive.
00:40:07.680But if you're a child in one of the bedrooms and I don't know, you know, your bed is lumpy or there's mold in your room, then your thing is like, I'm not I'm not actually as interested in, you know, whether the water heater is on its last legs.
00:40:22.980I want to address those things that affect me on an everyday basis first.
00:40:27.920And I think finding that balance is the right thing.
00:40:30.580So I can give you one tangible example, even something like the Trump accounts, right, where particularly parents with young children can say, I'm going to open this account.
00:40:39.340Now, even that, you will get an immediate $1,000 into the account, but in order for it to feel the full benefit, you have to rely on the benefit, correct, of the free market and compound interest.
00:40:54.640So, it's a challenge because I think voters across the board are often looking for the things that impact them in here and now.
00:41:02.400Yeah. Honestly, it is the biggest problem that we face. We are a fast food society, and we have fine dining problems. I'm sorry, it's going to take a 10-course meal to fix this thing. You cannot get it at the window as you're driving through, but we don't want the 10-course meal.
00:41:20.800We'd love it if we sat down and we ate the 10-course meal, but we have no understanding of it.
00:41:31.920And I don't know how you fix a nation like this if you can't get people to say, yeah, we have problems, and I'll bite the bullet if you'll give me a little help.
00:41:47.180All right, I'm going to take a quick break because I want to, and if you don't mind, if you have time, I'd like to hold you over at the bottom of the hour and give you a little more time on this book because I think what you're doing is really, really important.
00:41:56.300The name of the book is The Vanishing Black Family.
00:41:59.280And this has been a theory of mine for a long time that how do you go from people who said no to the Civil Rights Act to four years later being the ones who designed the great society that's so good for blacks?
00:42:13.560That doesn't make any sense to me at all.
00:42:34.580The name of the book is The Vanishing Black Family, but I think the subtitle says it all.
00:42:38.180How Welfare and Feminism Made Marriage Optional and Children Vulnerable.
00:42:42.160um delano you just heard me say something that i've believed intuitively for a long time and i
00:42:49.340don't have any evidence that it's true but did you find anything that shows that that the the
00:42:56.520great welfare system or the great society actually did the opposite and did you find anything that
00:43:03.040says there were some in the progressive movement that were racist were were cheering for that
00:43:11.700So I will say it's clear after 60 years that the expansion of welfare, particularly for low-income families, oftentimes targeted at black families starting in the 1960s, did a tremendous amount of damage to the structure of the black family.
00:43:31.800And what I say in the book, and this is in chapter two, I say that welfare displaced men from their rightful positions as providers in their home.
00:43:39.760Now, I'll say this, Glenn, and I say this as somebody who worked 15 years in local government.
00:43:44.980I found that the besetting sin of elected officials and unelected bureaucrats, for that matter, is more often hubris than it is malice.
00:43:53.980And I would say the same thing about, you know, Lyndon Johnson, Great Society, War on Poverty.
00:43:58.280It's the idea that, you know, I as the president, as the commander in chief, as the leader of the free world, I can fix the problems of millions of people who I've never seen and never met and I do not know.
00:44:09.160um, by the stroke of a pen, by increasing funding. Uh, and it's, it's, it's the idea that, okay,
00:44:14.440if we just give people more material resources, their families will be stronger, not understanding
00:44:19.200the worldview, um, that when you do something like that, and particularly when you say that
00:44:24.240married couples are not eligible for welfare benefits, you create incentives for women,
00:44:29.560particularly low income women to have children without the benefit of a husband. Um, so, so
00:44:34.360I mean, if I'm not mistaken, there were, and I'm not assigning any malice to it, but there were those that would go to doors and say, look, I know you're struggling, we can't help you, but if you would just divorce, then you can afford it.
00:44:50.100You can keep your relationship or anything, but you got a divorce.
00:44:53.140So they were actually pushing those things.
00:44:56.460Yeah, and you can see that from the 1960s and even to today.
00:45:00.980I recently did an event around Father's Day called Invisible Men at the Heritage Foundation.
00:45:07.580And what I found is that even today, guaranteed income programs for moms oftentimes write dads completely out of the family story.
00:45:15.920And I trace that type of programmatic design directly to the welfare system that really came into place in the 1960s.
00:45:26.120It's the idea that, you know, the mom is the beating heart.
00:45:40.140And I think they ran that play first in the black community and certainly has expanded to everyone else since that time.
00:45:46.080So you can, I mean, this is feminism that really sounds like it was pushing that.
00:45:52.380But, you know, when you're going in and you're dismantling families like that, I'm sorry, why has there been nobody inside that has gone, hey, guys, this is not working?
00:46:08.320You know, when you look at how our tax system is structured, you structure taxes to shape behavior.
00:46:15.060You know, you say, hey, you're going to have to pay a cigarette tax.
00:46:17.800You're trying to get people to stop smoking.