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i remember that one i i know i've heard of gary newman but i'm not familiar with that
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the show would be complete without america's humble servant lawyer teacher provocateur
that's of course the last and the most important thing your doctor benjamin jeremy stein and
welcome everybody to the world of ben stein i want to get to this right away because you you you sent
me an email last night um or yesterday and it had the most perfect word you called it by dynamics
and um i i found it extremely fascinating i thought it was brilliant play on words ben
and you wanted to talk about biodynamics and race
people have been wondering what mr biden's uh president biden's proposals are gonna be
about the economy and uh he hasn't been very forthcoming thus far but now he has somewhat
and what he seems to advocate is what i would call a kind of mismatch of supply side keynesianism and
straightforward racial bribery and what's going to happen is the u.s is going to borrow a great
deal more money hugely hugely greater amount than we can afford to borrow and we are going
to use that money to pay bribes to non-white uh african-american and other non-white americans in
order to keep them uh subservient to the democrat party uh now this this supposedly is to stimulate
the economy and make the economy grow and to some extent it undoubtedly will but uh what's
really happened here is that we already have a very substantial boom going on we already have
a bridge potential recovery coming after the crash having to do with cobia and what this is going to
do is like pouring gasoline on a fire and usually when that happens to carry for this crude analogy
a little bit better a little bit further uh we haven't is that we have inflation so we are we're
going to have to worry about inflation and we're going to have to worry about it in a serious way
this level of monetary creation without there being inflation accompanying it would be extremely
unusual and i might say unheard of in the history of economics and unheard of in economic theory
now why are we pouring all this money onto an economy is already recovering i think the
answer has to be racial bribery i mean the uh the economy in general does not need this money
but there are certain groups in the economy who are lagging behind other groups and they need to
be bribed at least as the democratic party sees it i don't see it that way i think african americans
are perfectly capable of making their own way in the world and being successful and achieving
whatever they want to achieve just the same as white people but the democratic
party doesn't see it that way so they are passing out these enormous sums of money
to non-white americans in order to stimulate them not to work more but to endlessly vote democrat
and here i'm going to back up and i apologize for going on so long ron as long as he wants thank you
uh when when lbj uh signed uh one of the voting either one or two of the voting rights attacks
and some gigantic amount of money for the so-called war on poverty which
which did avoid me for a while and i'm grateful for them uh he said we're going to have those n
words voting democratic for 100 years and that was a big change because the african-americans used
to vote republican because the republicans had uh freed them from slavery but uh linda johnson
was much too clever and cynical for that so he bribed the african-americans to vote democrat
and it has worked phenomenally well especially in recent years in terms of affecting the outcome of
elections now question is what is what is new about this it's always been true it's different
types of bribes various interest groups devote their way that's not all unusual the idea is
and by the way this was always the basis of keynesianism names were john maynard keynes
one of the great geniuses of all time and he said the economy was usually by itself go to a state of
equilibrium which would be full employment but he said there would be times when for various
reasons there would be rigidities in the economy that would keep us from going to full employment
when those happened we needed to have money poured into the economy to make the economy grow past the
rigidities and that is what bioeconomics is about doing pouring money into the economy to have it go
past the virginities but but everyone including kane says this would have to stop after a while
we couldn't do it forever otherwise you'd go broke the democrats under the new democratic economist
i don't know their names i'm sure they're very fine men and women
probably some gender fluid as well uh said there's not going to be any stopping point to the steps
and spending finance financial stimulus it's going to go on forever and and that is i i think
wildly insulting to the african-americans of this great country and uh tells them to take government
and the people around it think that they are so incompetent that they will need fiscal stimulation
wherever and that by the way there's never been any group that needed fiscal stimulation forever
and i don't think the black people in america will turn out to be that first group ever
at least i certainly hope not let's give them a chance to show what they can do if the shackles
of discrimination are taken off which they were that was where they were about 70 years ago
and 60 years ago they've been taken off so now let's see what the black people can do with their
own god-given abilities and energy and i think they'll surprise the whole world at what turns out
and brilliantly said and thank you for that lesson i want to apologize i think
i am having some technical issues um but gary what are your thoughts on what ben just said
well as he was talking i thought i want to be called astronaut gary from here on out
or astronaut collins because i feel like i live on mars half the time with what's going on and plus i
it appears that if you're a democrat you can just give yourself a title whatever you want anyway and
i was told by an email this week that i pick on democrats more than i pick on republicans so that
is why i'm labeled a right-wing extremist whatever he's an idiot but you don't have to write your own
whatever what's that it's whatever yeah i know it's you know but i agree i agree with ben and
and obviously ben is when it comes to this he's the expert when it comes to economics he's been
there done that i learned a lot from him i'm a simple kid and i just look at it as it is
it's simply buying votes i mean that's what it is and i thought it was rather
ironic that the leader of black lives matter just bought a house what 1.4 million dollars
in a nice part of southern california that has a population of black people at 1.4 percent
so it appears that black lives matter does not really like black people interesting how
that works they're following the maxine waters uh real estate plan since maxine waters lives in one
of the most prestigious los angeles neighborhoods hancock park and represents what watts or compton
um he doesn't even know where that is watson compton is let alone her house is worth something
like over four million dollars and by the way can i i just want to bring something up quickly has
anybody ever noticed there's a real similarity and appearance between her and al sharpton just
saying similarity in what way sir they look very similar um similar hairstyle i'm going to hell um
i've been fighting against maxine water since the 1970s when she was pushing school busing
and i was uh opting for neighborhood schools and we've been fighting back and forth forever and
every time there would be one referendum after another in los angeles and the voters would always
be on the side of neighborhood schools but the courts would always overturn that and let the uh
let the lobbyists for the african-americans freedom fighters have their way but here's
my question aren't people going to realize unless this i mean people i think people
realize things but they just don't care because they believe that they've come to believe that
it's rich people's job to take care of them it's it's the the corporation you know let's tax the
corporations more let's tax people that make money more and that's enough money to somehow subsidize
everybody else ben and they don't realize that that is the numbers don't add up by anything the
numbers don't add up at all it's just not enough money out there to take money from well-to-do
people and give it to non-wealthy people and make everybody rich there's just not enough
money out there in the pot there's a lot of money there's a hell of a lot of money floating around
but there's not enough to make every poor person rich and anyway it wouldn't do them any good
because they would still be lacking self-esteem and self-discipline and all the great attributes
that make people successful in life so it is to me very sad that we are going to basically
a planning a democrat party is basically planning to keep african-american people in chains
and shackles forever shackles and dependence on the federal government forever in order to make
sure they are in the democrats pocket forever and if i were a black person i would be kind of
insulted at the idea that the democratic party thought that i had to be bribed in order to be
successful and that i couldn't be successful on my own or what was by my own endeavors i look at
people playing basketball that is an incredibly hard game as incredibly exhausting game as a game
requiring unbelievable finesse and skill is there somebody from the department of education out
there whispering plays all the african-american players all the time no the black people can do it
by themselves they can do it all by themselves and the government just get out of their way
gary well first of all we need to understand that the poor in this country are not poor
they're rich they're the richest people in the world they're in the top one percent most of them
so let's get that straight so you know buy me a river i don't want to hear it for the most part
we are the richest nation in the world we have the richest poor people in the world
but i agree and very very good that's very very good i really really admire that well thank you
ben and ben i want to ask you a question far as when nixon was president and we got off the gold
standard because uh uh i think rock breath brought that up but what was the the thought process of
taking us off the gold standard what was the public school i was too young i was barely born
what was the process of doing that and liquidity liquidating our economy is what they didn't they
didn't regret the economy at all actually my saintly father uh had a lot to do with that
and i might assume almost every other economist in the world thought we didn't need to be on the gold
stand we just didn't have enough gold to redeem all the dollars that were being held by foreigners
uh in uh and who could have said all right here's a hundred billion dollars of greenbacks
we want a hundred billion dollars worth of gold we just didn't have the gold to make it
good i i was not at this meeting but i was told about this by my saints and father that
at a certain point when they were discussing this uh and apparently the head of the federal reserve
the central bank of belgium a very prosperous country small country but a very rich country
said that he was going to demand uh goals for his dollars and the president uh brother nixon
turned to the secretary of the treasury industry mr uh was at columbus conley and said and said uh
what will you do if he does that and he says i'll take that little belgian feeling i'll kick the
[ __ ] out of them anyway so that's that was sort of one way they had to approach the problem but
the other way another way they had an approaching problem was to simply say we are not going to
exchange dollars for gold anymore and if you don't like the price that we're offering for dollars and
you have to pay for a dollar uh then then use somebody else's currency but in fact the dollar
fell off very very little there was very little inflation caused by that and it worked perfectly
well not having a dollar inside the goal we did we did not need that time to go as long as it
was and we still don't need it down inside the goal well i just love by the way gary that only
on this show could you have asked that question and gotten the answer directly from the source
and how damn cool is that yeah remember the history of it then and them always talking about
tax the rich and how they do that their attitude is we're going to raise the corporate income tax
which actually puts us at a disadvantage worldwide economically in manufacturing especially but
and if you could explain to people that the rich richest companies in this country don't pay any
tax anyway so it attacks small businesses and middle-sized companies not big companies
i'm sorry i'm sorry go ahead well that's i if you could explain to people how that works because
everyone we're going to tax the rich everyone's all right give it and go and you go that's not
how it works sorry uh the uh there is no such thing as a corporation as a separate entity
group of human beings corporations are just a paper entry uh somewhere uh registering who owns
various miniscule or large pieces of a corporation and if you if the government
applies a tax to corporations that tax is borne by the stockholders of corporations namely
stockholders and uh stockholders wives and children and trust good children's education
and children's uh bar mitzvahs when they get older after that it's not uh there is no separate entity
such as a rich corporation who will pay that tax if they just don't exist that is still going to
be found in all the representative data of the us government so when we say we're going to tax
the corporations more it doesn't mean anything it's all the tax is passed on to the individual
people individual stockholders and that's fine it's perfectly fair why not do that but there's
no reason whatsoever pass on that tax just to individual uh corporations and individual rich
corporations it's just they're just going to pass it on to their stockholders you know in most cases
are just families saving up for their children's education and their for their retirement
or universities saving up to uh pay for the faculty salaries or uh ice skating rinks
or whatever universities build these days you actually you know you bring up a point which is
really important the media has managed to create this narrative right so where they take the ceos
of companies and imply that the ceo is the company right so they take his salary and they say oh my
god the ceo is making 40 million dollars and they then associate that with your corporate tax
and they and and they they mix it all together and they forget that their pensions are invested in
these companies that mom and pop and and grandma and grandpa and your future generations are these
companies they like to separate ben the the ceo from the actual what the company does
right the ceo is just a clerk well-paid clerk it's just a clerk the money belongs to the stockholders
if the corporation is tax the tax falls upon the stockholders uh if the corporation's chief
executive is a criminal and a looter and is taking money out of the corporation illegally the money
does not belong to him either by vote of the shareholders or vote of the board of directors so
that he's a criminal or she's a criminal and that person should be put in prison but uh in general
uh when people when corporations pay their top executives uh that money just falls upon those
individuals as individuals there is no tax on corporations that allows a mythical bookkeeping
entity called the corporation to pay the tax without it reducing the amount available
to send junior and assists to a college or or pay for your uh nursing home uh when you're old
that's that's a whole exist thing that doesn't exist uh ben somebody in the chat has a question
what caused um the wage price freeze well there was a wage price for us well you're really out
you're getting closer to the market because my old kid who i missed so very very much
was actually in charge of the wage price freeze and i believe it was i believe 71
and that was uh that was called phase one phase one in which doris gets her own anyway and uh the
uh who remembers that oh even judah doesn't know that's a beatles song anyway so uh uh the first
phase of the control effort to control inflation in the early 70s was a wage price freeze in which
there was literally a price assigned to everything widgets gallons of gasoline uh bushels of wheat
pounds of butter uh diet coke best thing there is on the market and there's and uh there's uh except
when they've been playing political games and uh there's uh so but that didn't work out very well
because that and that imposed a lot of rigidity i mean that imposes a lot and requires an incredible
amount of record-keeping and supervision and turns the country into a dictatorship so that the nixon
got us out of that stage very quickly but it is scary to think of how much control the
government can have over an economy by closing by controlling the price control of prices is
enormously important way to control an economy i got to tell you i i we are learning a lot tonight
i i love that we get this firsthand knowledge and i it really is i i think we're all should
consider ourselves blessed that we are getting these uh economic lessons really nice america
yes but the people that are listening we here right now are blessed ben stein because we have
your knowledge and on that note i want to tell everybody thank you for listening to the world
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get back to this for a little bit because somebody raised this this point that i was going to bring
up first of all somebody gary acknowledged your amazing rusher um beginning at 212. um
often but ben i want to get into something that gary brought up somebody brought up in the chat
which i think is an exceptional point people love to bring up um how expensive things are
yet everybody seems to have it when it refers to health care and other things but everybody
seems to have the newest phones they seem to have the newest tvs they seem to have the newest cars
p you know we in in los angeles i call them 50 000 millionaires you know you have people
that have like 70 50 to 70 000 cars and live in apartments but it's like we've lost our priorities
yeah i'm sorry with all due respect it may seem to you that there's an enormous amount of very
conspicuous consumption and there is especially in our glorious los angeles but by and large it
isn't true that everyone has a new car it isn't true that everyone has a brand new colored tv it
isn't true that everyone has a brand new house uh the level of consumption is very very high
but we are a very very rich country i don't think the level of consumption is much higher in the us
than it is in germany and germany uh was bombed to hell during world war ii and uh same same as true
of france and through italy uh so i think denmark probably has a higher gdp per capita than we do so
there are plenty of other countries that are high high spending countries uh why can they why can
they afford to do it well i mean a car for a great many people is not just not that expensive an item
compared to their total income if you're a wealthy person or you're a modestly well-known person you
buy a car on the installment plan it doesn't cost very much or you can buy a very very expensive car
on the installment plan it doesn't cost very much at all and americans are doing that but i mean
the level of consumption of new cars and new tvs is no higher than it was several years ago and uh
it's uh as i say and even it's a very very small fraction of the total output of the economy and
what i'm really referring to is your priorities people's priorities you know we constantly hear
that healthcare and it is healthcare is extremely important and that it's a right but people often
think that getting a new phone is a right people often think that getting a new computer
the latest computer is a right and people often think and and somewhere along the line
when you were younger when we were all younger we knew you know growing up we didn't have the
newest cars growing up we didn't always get the newest tvs schooling was more important so you
know certain things were more important than the newest things and i think we've lost our
way on what our priorities have been i could be dreaming i could be imagining this but it seems to
be that people think having a having the newest phone is more important than health insurance
with all due respect the amount of money that people are spending on consumer goods as a total
amount a fraction of their income has not changed in a very long time harry what
are your thoughts on that because maybe i'm out of well let me let me let me say
you and i travel around together a great deal of time and we see fantastically lavished cars being
driven by people who look homeless and we see what looked like homeless looking people getting
in and out of very fancy cars at my favorite grocery store the pavilion so i can see where
you would get the impression but as a matter of data as opposed to anecdotes uh it's just yes
okay gary yeah i think it it's harder for me because i'm an eyeball test guy and it likes it
after the first stimulus checks uh when i was in uh spokane when uh covet hit i saw more brand new
50 000 plus trucks with dealer plates than i'd ever seen before and also the the unemployment
enhancement kicked in and it was interesting that the timing of it just so happened to coincide
and i saw a lot of big round people walking around at 10 in the morning with no job shopping
at walmart and everywhere else and i'm you know i think we've just lost our priorities of what's
important you know it's you know i think that gary and god bless we all love you at least i i think
everyone watching this show loves you it's just not true that people are spending a dramatically
or even noticeably greater amount of their income on new cars or new tvs than they were 10 years
20 years 30 years ago i mean it just isn't true it just seems like that to us because we didn't
have it yeah because we see those glittering cars uh in the parking lot of pavilions or the
park guys and vintage near our house in malibu and we and so we think everybody's rich i mean
you you and i dude i don't know you don't come out to malibu with me as much as you used to but
but uh i get out of the car there and all around me are ferraris and bentleys and lamborghinis and
people getting out of them look like they should be in a homeless encampment so i can understand
why it gives that impression why that impression is given well those are just celebrities and
movie stars and so i don't i i i don't know if they are i don't know i don't know who they are
and by the way gary actually really raises a great point by the way ben and i think listen
i'm totally going on anecdotal data but some of the the most do you remember i want to say three
months into covid as you were sitting at home that you had so you were we were inundated with car ads
that you didn't have to pay for six months very very very well that that so that might be a reason
why gary you were seeing a ton of people with a ton of new cars because when you give people six
months where they think oh it's six months free not realizing that there's an eventual back end
i i would imagine in two years gary you're gonna see a lot of uh you know the tow trucks in those
uh in those same areas hauling off those cars because sadly people didn't realize
they might not be able to afford those cars that's anecdotal data i could be totally wrong
but it's interesting anecdote and uh the impression that people form of the life around
them has something to do with economic behavior i mean if the impression that there's money to
burn they will spend more but but so far there has not been a big increase in consumer spending
as a percentage of the national income okay so do you think that anyone's
so it's kind of just do you then do you think the income levels gone up at the
same time as the spending then so it's kind of coincided they've gone up evenly
together neither of them have actually gone up that incredibly much i mean we
we have prosperity but we don't have any more prosperity than we did uh seven eight nine well
say 14 15 months ago under president trump we uh the idea that we had that we're just but bursting
into scenes with prosperity is true if you're in the stock market if you're in the property market
you do tend to do well although i'd like to assure you that not every part of it does well but uh
there's um but in general americans are spending right at roughly the same levels of proportion
that's the favorite person that they're spending on a long time and that does not take a very long
time to change but i would argue that we've been pumping money into the economy this funny money
beneficiaries have been the lower end who are buying these cars who can't afford the money
and buying out everything on amazon and then it floats right back up to the top so i i would
agree with you but i think we've been pumping in money to where these people are getting a lot of
free easy money as well even though the numbers stay the same well there there's a there's a very
large number of people in this country who are supported by government subsidies of all kinds and
that is a fact and it's probably not a good fact in the sense that the country will become addicted
to subsidization uh and then that once they become addicted to subsidization uh it's
hard to see how it'll stop but and it will hush sales stop accepting tears and uh we don't uh
as my father used to say i have a thunder god go on forever it will stop and this will stop
but uh we're nowhere near at the level at which it has to stop or else we're going to be broke we're
we are heading towards national insolvency but it takes a long time to get there
okay and on that note i want to switch gears a little bit if you just tuned in you
are listening to the world according to that man benjamin jeremy stein and we've all been
really blessed for the last 30 minutes to get an education that a lot of a lot of kids a lot
of people don't get and we got it from the source um ben used to be a teacher and the
his students were truly blessed to get that education um i assure you i loved them too
yes i know you did and um but on that note welcome back to the world according to ben
stein and i want to get into something because it's been bothering me for quite a while this word
this word insurrection has been really bothering me for for quite a while because people don't you
know really understand the definition of this word um it's it's one of those words that it's almost
like being it's like a mass racist call you're all insurrectionist you're all racist it's hard
to fight back once you use certain words so they used it for the people on the capitol but ben
i want to get into this joe biden is doing executive orders on trying to figure out
on gun control trying to figure out executive orders on the filibuster trying to figure out
executive orders on court packing and trying to figure out other loopholes in the constitution
and and everybody when trump was asking mike pence to study the constitution and to say and
to not and to to to to not certify the vote they called it blasphemy but as this jackass biden is
fully committing an insurrection against our constitution well if i may say so i i was uh
stopped at my taxes now by you're using the word loopholes i don't think that that there
are loopholes in the these executive orders uh i think they got the i said trying i said try okay i
i think at some point if we ever got a supreme court that has any gonads they're gonna say hey
uh we have a long complicated constitution that uh allows us to show those hours to enact legislation
to govern the country it's not supposed to be done by the president typing something up and then
signing it and that that is uh that's that seems to have been completely forgotten now that there
is no process in the constitution for just having blanket authority to change laws simply by saying
oh this this is an executive order and therefore we can do any darn thing we want with it that
that that's a figment of somebody's imagination that just doesn't happen there certainly aren't
cases where executive orders do apply uh but the last time we had a president a wildly asserting
wise wildly asserting executive privilege the gospel orders was abraham lincoln during the war
between the states and uh eventually the supreme court caught up with him and he had long since
saturn immortality and said wait a minute you you can't have done this these this is allowed
and i'm not sure we've ever had any kind of mass litigation questioning mass issuing of executive
orders before obviously there was quite a bit of questioning on returning the great depression
but uh a mass question of the of these uh what i would say is insurrectionist executive orders
that hasn't been done yet it'll be interesting to see what the courts say about it i have a bad
feeling about the court what they're going to say about it because ben they never seem to um
be on the right side of things even when they're even when they are on the right
gary well yeah and i i if i might need to brush up on my constitutional law i have no expert
um but i do understand like the fourth amendment and certain things that and
second amendment that biden's going after completely unconstitutionally and when he he
gave that statement about gun control and why he's using these uh uh you know these rulings and what
he's doing i was a way to hold on a second here first of all what you can't even figure out atf
instead of aft uh i'm getting scared now and he actually about 90 percent of what he said
during that that that uh i guess it was a press conference for you know gun control 90 of it was
utterly false and literally made up he just made things up but i thought that you could only do
that for regulations i didn't think you could pass laws by executing privilege i don't think i don't
think you can either and i if i may go back again to anecdote uh long ago when president obama was
president bishop obama issued an executive order uh compelling uh either government or some part of
the government to buy i believe was to to buy the bonds of chrysler corporation or to uh make sure
that the bonds were bought by somebody who had the money to buy them and i remember very well
calling up the white house speaking to the press secretary and saying where is his right to do that
in the constitution and never give me an answer they never even seriously tried and basically
what they said was well he's the president he won the election he can do whatever he wants
and that's if that's true then goodbye to the constitution and uh we're all in a lot
of trouble well yeah especially when he's passing laws that don't affect anyone but legal gun owners
criminals don't do background checks criminals don't get guns with serial numbers this is the
biggest as9 red herring i've ever seen they're trying to control weapons of law-abiding citizens
they're trying to create a big registry it's obvious for anyone who understands what they're
trying to do they want to know how many guns gary owns and where they're at that's what they want
to know good luck with that you know but they are they're going to try to find that they are
going to try to find out but yeah but that if i may say so while the second amendment is a very
very important part of the constitution uh that's just the beginning if if the supreme court allows
the president and the executive branch to simply ignore the constitution in terms of how lost
it's not just figuratively or saying it to make a dramatic point it really is the end of america
yeah well and to think that there's 400 million guns in the united states and somehow
they're going to reduce crime by taking them away from the people who can actually legally
defend themselves and are law abiding citizens and they don't the problem is they they don't address
the problem of gun violence and the statistics bear this out that especially rifles rifles commit
they're involved in a small fraction of crimes and killings i mean a small fraction of one percent
not even a small fraction small fraction of one percent most are done by unregistered handguns
right how does that end up being my my fault i don't i don't do that and that's let's go even
deeper into what you just said because one of the ways they're trying to get the loophole is
by calling it a health crisis right so they never refer to what goes on in chicago every weekend
what goes on in these inner cities every weekend like a video game of mass murder
as a health crisis that somehow isn't a health crisis legal gun owners that's a health crisis
not not this horrific actions that's going on in these communities that they never touch
that as a health crisis and try to figure out what's going on there or has been like still
is very fond of not fond of but it's very fearful of the public school education the reading levels
as being a public health crisis the math levels as being a public health crisis ben
that's never the the the health crisis now all of a sudden it's gone
well this reminds me of something really terrifying big wifey and i watch uh
documents every night and people ask us all the time why we spend so much time watching this
documentary about world war ii and as i always say because it is the most fascinating thing that's
ever happened in the history of the world and but uh after uh hitler took power i forget what today
was when i was either early 32 or early late 32 early 33. some someone either the nazis or someone
someone else burned down the reichstag which is the same as are similar to our capital and hitler
i said had been the communist hitler said it was a conspiracy against the nation and he issued
an executive order that said from now on he would rule by emergency decree and that the state state
of germany was now to be governed by emergency decrees and that was never listed lifted until
after v e day that was germany was governed by a state of emergency from the uh burning
of the reichstag to the end of the surrender of germany to the allied towers and to russia and to
the soviet union and that's what i see happening now that is why covet scares me so much i think
that some evil people have in mind using covet as the emergency to justify all kinds of origins
of the constitution i see it already happening and it is extremely discouraging and not just
discouraging but terrifying the constitution is our lifeline in the united states of america
if we are going to toss it aside we are in real serious trouble well yeah well in the for that
you know think about that what kova did this is the first time in history where healthy people
were quarantined that's scary very very very good point very very very good point it's not
it's not stopped yet and and now they're gonna now they're coming out with these allegations and they
may well be true i'm not saying that they're made up about new strains of the virus that are not uh
taken care of by the uh inoculation and therefore they're going to have to have a stage of emergency
indefinitely this is a very worrisome prospect now you both always you know you know the point that
gary just brought up is is is really brilliant and the point that you've brought up brent is
absolutely brilliant and and thank you god no no it really is and the lack of critical thinking the
la the lack of mass critical thinking where is guilty and as as conservatives as when when bush
was uh and larry clayman fought against it which was basically the wire you know the invasion of
privacy that we allowed certain things to happen all under the guise of terrorism that we allowed
certain things to take place and shame on me shame on you know on on on that type of stuff but the
left right now is doing the same exact thing they are taking covid and they are using it to it's
as much as they possibly can yeah they're using kevin to sweep the streets clean of any kind of
descent against president biden and mrs harris it isn't clear to me at all that this is a legitimate
to exercise power under the constitution and i i think judah correctly nailed it
uh the supreme court has gotten to be so weak and so frightened of something i'm not sure what
uh i said i i just i i just worried terribly the last time we had a president who
completely ignored the constitution i was starting to say that several minutes ago was abraham
lincoln at the beginning of the civil war he declared that the firing on fort sumter by the uh
would be secessionist uh was an actual a national emergency and testified all kinds of violations of
the law and in fact justify the arrest of most of the state of maryland my home state uh legislature
to keep them from voting to see feed the union same thing with missouri same thing with kentucky
uh the whole course of the civil war working in the states would have been different if president
lincoln had not done these extra constitutional things maybe it's a good thing that he did because
it kept the country together but it did also just demolish the constitution for a good long while
you know and i i it's it's you also brought up something and by the way if you just didn't
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and of course that man benjamin jeremy stein but they keep on doing this and you're right
there's a new strain right let's let's look let's 1984 them even more there's there's
that we found this new variant that and because we as layman's are never going to be able to say
what the hell are you talking about because they never explain exactly ben what these well what
what what it is they just use words that terrify people because if any of us walked into a doctor's
office after having suffered from anything and the doctor said well you have a new variant of it now
we'd all be like does that mean i'm gonna what does that mean and they're using words to terrify
us they're using words and actions and the words are emergency new variant as you say
those are the words but the actions of saying we don't have to have congress pass the laws
we are the law we are the law there's a famous movie i'm sure judah will remember it
because uh he's uh oh oh oh it's that great great movie with orson welles playing a
corrupt sheriff in border town in mexico where he says i am the law uh that's uh
that's sort of what we're seeing now and it's to me it's extremely frightening maybe i'm
wrong maybe i've misunderstood it totally but to me it's very frightening i'd like
to see laws go through the constitution the way the families the constitution intended
gary you being a person that likes to be off the grid and your thoughts on this because
i know your thoughts on covet and i know your thoughts
are we losing your sound like whatever but this do you ever see do you see a way
of us getting past this well i got kicked out of a place today for not wearing a mask so i'm not
real sure and uh the little woke little uh mangina who did it was really rude in the way he did it um
but i don't because i've always said that why have we not gotten it received the true numbers
as taxpayers as the people they just quarantine in the people's lives and and livelihoods they just
took away arbitrarily i didn't get a decision in this why haven't they told us the real numbers on
how many people died from only hovit i want to know no other underlying health conditions zero
i want to know how many people in america died only from coded they need to answer that question
i want to know and we'll never hear from them because i'll i'll put money on it that the
numbers could be as low as a thousand at highest 10 my dear friend what you want means nothing to
these people you are just a number you're nobody exactly people the people who run the government
around these important departments they are somebody the people who run the news bureaus
and important networks and and the giant uh news organizations in print and on the air and
on the internet they're somebody you're nobody sorry i could almost guarantee you this if trump
didn't lose the election we would have hearings and panels and every single thing known to man
like they did and we would have commissions like they had on 9 11.
after 9 11 we'd have commissions like they did after with iraq we'd have commissions up the wazoo
and all of a sudden what's another 125 000 supposed deaths due to this thing it's the tickers
are gone the fear factors donna all we know is we still have to wear masks after we get a vaccine
it's absolute insanity ben and and and this is where republicans and this is why i brought up
the thing about the insurrection because as i look back on it now i wish mike pence that day did dick
did look at the constitution didn't certify what he might have thought was fraud because i could
tell you if it was the left at the way they're acting now we they would have treated this very
differently well that that is as they're saying goes beyond my pay grade i don't i don't know what
mr pence had the authority to do i do know that for something as gigantic as this to have happened
uh without the supreme court saying there's even one case that merited judicial examination
is extremely worrisome i mean there are hundreds of cases and instances brought before the court
of cases where there are more votes counted than people lived in the area uh under in
question uh the thing that the supreme court just thumbed their nose at those facts and data points
that's very frightening the supreme court the supreme court is as neutered itself
we're in a really bad moment because that that's the supreme court is an extremely
large part of the federal government and hence what separates the ban
these idiotic republicans and democrats they just say and then say we'll prove it later republicans
on the other hand don't follow that same thread and there were no republicans not
not enough screaming from the rooftops this one plus one isn't adding up to two
and in claiming and looking at thoroughly through tons of different not anecdotal data ben like you
love to use real data that certain impossibilities happen and we played by stupidly and as we look at
what democrats are doing right now with executive actions on gun control every day we heard trump
as a fascist i can't think of one a more fascist thing than joe biden is doing right now than what
he's dreaming about or people that are that i because let's be real when he speaks he's got
earpieces in ben and uh it depends on the day of of of what message if it's aoc on one day if it's
whatever left this group on the other day they're giving him the talking points and the damage that
you that you've spoken about what he's doing to the constitution is absolutely frightening
in his speech against where he uh the executive orders against uh gun control that
he was executing he said that amendments are not absolute in the constitution try that one let that
one digest yeah yeah that's i i i'm i i didn't see that it's it's scary but the whole thing the whole
thing is scary but in a sense life goes on day by day in america uh i had a very fine meal crab
cakes this evening uh i had delicious uh some kind of carrot soup it was delicious i looked out the
window i just before i came in here to just look at the computer the sun was setting over the santa
rosa mountains everything looked great uh but the scary thing is when they show the newsreels
of berlin and germany and the hence and the baltic beaches after hitler took power that
looks like fun and games too everything can look like fun and games until it stops
now you raise a great point and if you look outside like i've shared the stories we i know i
know you live in a certain part of town ben that's absolutely beautiful but as you drive three to
four miles away it it starts looking like that as you walk into a mobile station or a gas station to
get gas and you see the extra plexi glass up you see all the it's it's it's it's like a freakish
way of uh living that there's no data on i mean think about all the think about this
you couldn't find purell when this first when this thing first came out right
i mean like every company in america started making hand sanitizers because we didn't is
so we were told you could get it like this you could get it like this nobody and and to this
day that we still don't know we still don't know and the problem is there's nobody that's doing
commissions because everybody is scared to death to say maybe your science is wrong maybe maybe
everybody is so scared because they're terrified of being vilified by the media
right you're rape you're racist if you say the science is wrong you're a racist if you say
that gun control is not going to help and that's a really the real problem is in the non-white inner
cities not in the suburbs or on the farms you're you can be called a racist all the time i mean
these people make mccarthy look like a nun in terms of his silence and and yet they get
completely get away with it no it it's i remember mccarthy no i mean i've studied i mean we all know
i mean i hope most people know who mccarthy was but gary you've been doing it since the beginning
you've been living off the grid you've been you know talking about um the the what the government
has uh the government control and so has been for that matter but you've actually you don't wear a
mask you you you you haven't did i did in places that i had to go into that i literally had to they
would not let me shop there otherwise um but at this point i've stopped completely and i don't
care but like i said most places don't care but i'm in a state arizona where they've lifted the
the uh mask band or mask mandatory so when i walked into this place today in this little mouth
on this guy he was really tough behind the counter he wasn't going to say anything to my face um
but i'm over it i'm done and there's a great video i'm trying to think who put this out it was i got
it on twitter of all things but i saw it and it was this crazy overweight young lady screaming and
yelling that she has all these health conditions and why can't people wear their f in mass and i
went off i went why will i have to wear a mask for your dumb fat ass why don't you go stay home
and stop eating cupcakes and maybe that rougher respiratory problem will go away and that's where
we're at it's like wait wait why do we have to wear a mask and stay home life is unfair if you
have a health condition and every year the flu when the flu was bad and it has been many years we
told my grandmother don't go out maybe stay home you're at risk my mom does it this to this day
what's happened is now the meek expect the strong to sacrifice their lives so they can go out and
shop at walmart and get their 24 pack of hot pockets [ __ ] i'm over it i'm done i'm done
so there's a hot pocket i just know what
you don't want one let's just put it that way if you don't know what it is it's sort of like and
it's sort of like a chef veradi ravioli put it frozen but in a much larger thing that you put
in the microwave for about a minute and a half and um i hate to say it gary they're actually
they're not half bad but um but but i want to get back to this one more time before we
before before we uh leave for the night um ben where do you see we we have gas prices right now
in california as you were driving today i'm sure you must see close to six dollars a gallon
timeout in california it's six bucks a gallon it's getting close yeah it's it's six bucks
it's like 10 cents here and i thought that was outrageous yeah six thousand six dollars a gallon
almost in certain parts reading 240 and tyler texas ben do you see us and i want to ask you
this seriously ben because i think this is a big concern of people's can we sustain what's going on
could we sustain any what biden's doing the economy sustain this where are we headed i
know you're you know you can't predict but in your vulnerable i'm sorry i i i think we can
sustain it economically for a very long time a very very very very long time
but i think uh the attack on our civil rights the attack on our
constitution is extremely frightening and i would like to see more resistance to it
in the courts and more resistance to it from the republicans in the uh state legislatures
and in the federal legislature and uh i i don't understand why there isn't more resistance to to
that i'm that just puzzles me and it scares me yeah i mean so i want to go back to so
tortured and railroaded he had no there were very few republicans right that's why he had to
that's why he resigned there were there were enough to have slowed considerably but they
were scared to death of the media too people have been scared to death in the media for a long time
and they haven't learned their lesson 40 40 years later you know over 40 years later
47 years later they have not learned their life and that ben that is a terrifying thought
and that's why i want to get back to this is so important people get that petition out there email
it to your friends because i will say this now and i'll say it forever there is one person in america
who could get away and and could bring unite the party and that is donald j trump i i i will say
that from i will scream that he is the only person with the cajones the size of bayonne to get up on
stage and to say it back to them and i wish others would follow we have a few like ted cruz and rand
paul but there just aren't enough that haven't learned in over 47 years no matter how nice you
are they still hate your guts say it loud i'm an american and i'm proud i'd like to hear that
and on that note i want to thank everybody that's been listening to the world according
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blessed that we got this great history lesson tonight i want to thank gary collins from the
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