Structure of the World has Changed and Getting Back to Basics w/ Stacy Washington

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It felt like we were driving change. Right now it feels like the change is kind of happening to us and we’re kind of floating along going, oh, this is, you know, more change. And we’re, we’re trying to absorb it and keep up. The technology moves a lot faster than we do as humans. And the ones who are driving the technology, they’re the ones who could slow it down, but they don’t want to because they’re considering profitability. And that’s the check and balance in the system that we have. Capitalism is not a flawless system. It does engender greed and it rewards people who are the fastest.

If you’re the fastest, capitalism rewards you the fastest. Um, but for humanity, the fastest isn’t always the best for humanity, like for human beings, ourselves. So that’s the balancing act where we have to slow down the rougher, less humane aspects of capitalism. And that’s where libertarianism comes in. Just a quick break from the program. I need to share with you an urgent manner about scam gold IRAs and the important need to make sure that you’re working with a trusted company in the precious metals space. I have had hundreds of people come to me now where they have lost 50, 60, 70% of their life savings in these scam gold IRAs.

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Welcome to business Game changers. I’m Sarah Westall. I have Stacy Washington. She’s Stacy on the right. Coming back on the show and you know, we discussed that being on the right really isn’t. I’m not. I always thought I was in the middle and now I’m like a far. I was a far right nut job for a while and I don’t know if I’m all that far right nut job anymore. Cause so many other people are speaking out. So maybe I’m back kind of centering. I don’t know, it doesn’t really matter. But the point is that our culture has changed so much.

But she’s coming on the program, we’re going to talk about things. I don’t agree with everything, but we had a great conversation. My goal, I think differently. I think people who listen to me a lot know, God, she’s kind of different. And I think because when I first started getting popular, thinking different was really a no, no. And now people are starting to at least say wait a minute, maybe we should be thinking differently and thinking about this stuff. And the structure of the world’s changed. You know, it’s all Big tech is dominating the whole market caps of the top 30 companies in the world.

There’s exceptions, a few, but mostly it’s big tech, Dominic, especially the top 20 that are dominating the world. The structure of the world’s change. So we talk about that a little bit and, and then. But she’s a political commentator so I asked her about all kind of a lot of the big items and get her perspective on it. And I push back on a few things just because I tend to look at things from all different perspectives. But you know, it’s always from a freedom I’m really about how do we maintain freedom, sovereignty. And I don’t want, I don’t want anybody making decisions for me.

I’m just, no, unless you’re really good, unless you’re freaking expert, I don’t want you making my decision for me. And I just, I hate it when things are automated by, by people. And it’s stupid, right? I hate being in a stupid automated process where you’re stuck with stupid. And you know, when as things get automated, it works for 80% of the people and 20% of the people it doesn’t. And I was talking to somebody the other day because everything’s going that direction. Every single one of us on something are in the 20% where it’s all screwed up.

And so you spend all your time, all of us are spent, whatever the 20% is for you that you’re stuck in, you know, 80% it works for 20% it doesn’t. And there’s something in maybe a multiple things that you don’t fit into. Every single one of us are working hard at fixing the 20% issue that we have where we don’t fit into the norm. My case, I tend not to fit in the norm on too many things. And so all of us are all dealing with our own nightmare in some capacity because the automation doesn’t work for us because we don’t.

We fall out of the 80, 20 rule. And that’s the problem with things being stupidly automated and just blindly followed and we, we’re going to have, I do think that smart automation is, it makes things kind of good if it, if it’s used as a tool and things. And maybe in 50 to 100 years we’ll be smarter and these things won’t be such so stupid. But right now as we’re going towards that direction. This is really awful. I’m about freedom and so I think a lot of you are like that too, where it’s just becoming just ridiculous.

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I do get emails from people who are politically on the left or their moderates, and when they disagree with me, sometimes they send me book link dissertations as to why something I said was wrong. Sometimes I reply to those directly, other times I take them to the show to address them. But I’m pretty far right in the common terms that are used nowadays. But I’m a far right person based on common sense. So my viewpoint is actually the same viewpoint that was held by pretty much 95% of Americans about 40 years ago. And so the change is that the culture has shifted rather than so many millions of us who hold these views, very traditional views that are rooted in success and really the historical founding of our country.

So what I do is I talk about politics and culture, parenting, marriage, Christianity, faith, and the intersection of all those things, because politics is a tool. And I do that every night on the radio from 9 to midnight. We take calls. I have a lot of guests. I have about 20 guests a week, sometimes more. And we just talk about everything that’s going on in the world. And if they disagree, like if the guest and I disagree, that actually makes it far more interesting because the people who are listening can then hear both views simultaneously and weigh them up against what they think.

So I also, like I said, I have a book and then I do a lot of speaking engagements. I’ll be at Moms for Liberty at the end of the month and we’ll be at Policy and prayer in D.C. at the end of the month. And I’m speaking at Southern Evangelical Seminary at their apologetics conference this weekend. And so really it’s about impacting the culture. Not just it’s, it’s not really for me because I’m already living. I’ve already, you know, have, have quite a bit of life under my belt. But I have three young Adult kids. My husband and I raised them in the same viewpoint that we have.

And I want the world to be available to them for the same kind of opportunities that my husband and I have had. And that extends out to all of the children of their age range, really the future. They’re going to be running this country soon and I’d love to see them run it in a way that preserves it for future generations. I hope to be a grandma one day and I hope my grandkids have the same opportunities that I had and the same opportunities that my parents had. So I’m a talker. Grew up talking, had talks too much on every report card from kindergarten through ninth grade until they stopped tracking that.

So communicating well. I would. I agree with you that the whole political spectrum of change, because I was always considered myself in the middle. I actually lean more libertarian, although not hardcore. And I just think the whole world changed around me and I was smeared for many years here as being far right. I’m like, I don’t think I’m really all that far right, but I guess I am in today’s climate. So I agree with you that the whole everything has just shifted so much. But let’s talk a little bit about the, the military going into some of these cities.

It is kind of a double edged sword in how we look at liberty and freed and having our military go into these cities. I can understand both arguments on this. Where do you stand on, you know, like what’s going on in Portland and what’s going on in some of these big Cities in Washington D.C. as far as the federal military, you know, federal government coming in and taking over, what do you think of that? Well, okay, so this is the National Guard. So these are domestic troops. They’re not active duty service members. They’re activated a time and they’re usually the National Guard from your state.

So like in Tennessee, in Memphis, where the National Guard is being deployed, the majority of those National Guardsmen will be from the state of Tennessee. Supplementation from other states can occur. But usually your National Guard deployment is people who are from Missouri. Like if it were here in Missouri, there would be Missourians who are serving in the National Guard on a part time basis. They would be activated for full time use and then they would be stationed within Missouri. In the case of Portland, I think they need so many more that they may have to supplement with troops from other states.

But the issue here is really one of governance and accountability. President Trump wouldn’t be cleaning up America’s cities if the people who are in charge of those cities would keep the crime down by using the tools that are available to them. And we have a very well developed judicial system and system of justice. It’s based in and rooted in Anglo Saxon system of, of. But don’t you think it’s broken? I mean, our justice system? I don’t, I don’t, I don’t think it’s. I don’t think it’s broken. I think you don’t. Okay, yeah, it’s being misused. So the issue is, but if our judges are corrupt to the point where, and the system’s corrupt, where actual justice doesn’t occur, isn’t that broken? In what way isn’t justice occurring? Well, I mean, we’re seeing lawfare going on.

We’re seeing people where. I mean, I was in a lawsuit with Google and it didn’t matter. They just ignored all the facts and just went to whatever Google said. And it’s, it’s been like that in a lot of cases. I’ve been from Minnesota, so I watch just craziness up here. The. There’s political appointments on these, these courts where they side with where their politics are, not with what the law says. So let’s, let’s handle this one thing at a time. First off, you asked me about the National Guard deployment. I did, but I had to bring up the justice system.

Yeah. That it was like, fair. And I’m like, the justice system is way broken. But go ahead. First, first. And that’s, that’s a valid opinion based on your anecdotal experience. But the fact is our system works very well when it’s actually used as it was intended. So the issue in Minnesota, you brought up, Minnesota, is that you have a governor who, he and his wife actually believe that the smell of burning rubber and tires and the city on fire is actually the smell of freedom. So you need to elect people who believe in law and order in order to use the system that currently exists.

Now, a lot of people on the left side of the political aisle believe that the system is broken, as you have expressed, and they want to break the system further and once it’s completely broken down, then remake a new system. And that system is Marxist and nihilist in nature and is completely and wholly incompatible with the system of government that we have now, which is capitalism. So the issue in Minnesota is that you have bad leadership. It’s the same thing in Portland, but they have more issues because they have really deeply entrenched antifa, which is a political movement, but also it’s kind of a militant arm of the Democrats, and those people are actually exercising specific goals and aims that nonprofits have gotten together and set up for them and funded.

And they’re pushing back against the lawful federal implementation of our deportation laws. And so when you see President Trump sending National Guard troops in, in the case of Memphis, they actually are fine with it. The local leadership there didn’t request it, but they’re not pushing back. But in the case of Chicago, Washington, D.C. the areas where he’s having to put these troops, this is a supplementation of the mass deportation effort because the people who run those cities have declared them sanctuary cities, meaning their law enforcement is prohibited from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on executing detainers.

So you have to have supplementation there because you don’t have cooperation with law enforcement. And you also have higher than average numbers of people who are legally present in the country in the. Those jurisdictions. Very different situation in each of those locales. Yeah. So what do you think of. I’m just kind of playing a devil advocate. I can see all sides of this thing. What do you think of the fact that the states are really supposed to be sovereign states in and of themselves, and the governor should have power to, to govern and the people there should have power to govern and the federal government, I mean, that’s the whole point of, you know, the abortion back.

Yeah. Going. I mean, that’s a, the, the essence of, of freedom is, you know, pushing things down to the local as much as possible and when the government starts to take over, you know. But it’s not a takeover. Yeah. So. No, no, no, no. Takeover is a perfect. It is of that, of that slice. It is, but, well, it’s, It’s a temporary resetting of the table. So a takeover is a permanent installation of some form of federal law enforcement, which all jurisdictions have. All federal law enforcement is present in all 50 states, but not in a controlling.

So federal trump state. Right. The federal law trumps the state, but the Constitution guarantees all the states a Republican form of government. So that’s a part of what we’re seeing here is when the system at the local level fails, meaning law enforcement is unable to tamp down crime. In Washington, D.C. for example, where this is the first area where the National Guard was deployed, you have 3400 arrests of hardened criminals. They’re repeat offenders. Just that in and of itself has reduced crime there by hundreds of percent. It’s an amazing transformation. You can’t argue that you can’t get a seat at a restaurant in Washington D.C.

right now, where before you could walk into any place you wanted and get sat for any meal, any time of the day, now you can’t get sat anywhere without a three or four week reservation because people are back out on the streets riding bikes, riding scooters. I was shocked by the transformation. I was there about a month ago and I’m there five or six times a year, sometimes 15 times a year. And sometimes it’s like a ghost town where there’s nobody out walking or doing anything except homeless people who are accosting you, begging for money. And it’s a very, it feels dangerous for, you know, to be a woman walking around.

Yep. And so the change is remarkable. And in Memphis, the crime is so bad it has spilled out into the suburbs. High end suburbs are now plagued by crime. And we’re not talking about just breaking in, entering, you know, car thefts, things like that. We’re talking about armed carjackings and armed home invasions that are leaving couples, you know, 50 year old couple at home after dinner, they’re robbed, raped and killed in their own home. This is happening in Memphis with regularity. And gangs have control of large portions of the city there. So the deployment of the National Guard is actually something that’s really supported by the people in these jurisdictions.

Speak to the people in Chicago, they want the National Guard, they want the mass deportations and the primary group. 80%, 82%. One survey, 88% of black Americans want more law enforcement in Chicago than their own mayor, who happens to be a black man, will give them their understaffed because of the all cops are bad, defund the police movement. And so that understaffing on police forces, these major city police forces has really given criminals the upper hand. Then you have the soft on crime policies where you can walk out, you can literally carjack someone, violently burn their car to the ground and be released on your own recognizance to go reoffend.

And a lot of these heinous murders we’re seeing are people who were out on bail for other violent crimes. So it’s not that President Trump is dying to send troops into these locales. Instead he’s doing it because he said he’d be a law and order president. He ran on that, swept all seven swing states, the electoral College by a mile, and he got the popular vote. So Americans want to see what he can do. And he’s going to do that for four years because he was given that mandate through the election. And I think you know, obviously, the concerns that you’re raising are actually really important to me because I’m a veteran.

I’m a fourth generation veteran serving my family. My husband and I met on active duty in the dorm on Eglin Air Force Base. So if it’s one thing I’m not into, it’s seeing American troops deployed to American cities. But these aren’t active duty service members. These are National Guardsmen. They are from the States where they’re being deployed largely. And the effort would not be underway if big city mayors would simply allow their police departments to stop crime. Yeah, well, I can’t argue with that. When you see what has been going on, what do you think of the border and what’s happening there? Do you believe that.

That it is getting cleaned up, or do you believe that it’s lip service? What do you think is happening there? And are we making progress when it comes to the human trafficking front? Well, I know that the. I’m on the White House press list, so I get all of their press releases and their updates. I believe they’ve found 75,000 of the 350,000 children who were lost during the Biden administration. Unaccompanied minors who were sent here by their parents, and they were given to sponsors who often aren’t related to them. And so 350,000 lost, 75,000 found as of this month.

So that’s a big success. You also have massive. Yeah, it’s massive. And, and when we think about where those children are being found, they’re being found in immigration raids, they’re working on marijuana plants, farms, they’re. They’re working in chicken processing plants. And they’re not with their parents. Right. I mean, these were. Their parents aren’t here. They’re with sponsors, they’re really trafficked. And many of them are being found in brothels where they’re being used for sex slavery. So the idea that that happened under the Biden administration, funded by the taxpayers, meaning we all have a part in it, is a real blight on our moral standing.

It’s, it’s, it’s a tragedy of epic proportions, and I can’t believe we allowed it, but President Trump is cleaning it up. Border crossings are effectively at zero. You have about 350 people being apprehended at the border on a daily basis, down from a high of 14,700 a day under the Biden administration. So that is a success. The border is largely sealed. We have shut down the other inflows from the north because people were crossing over there as well. And so President Trump has effectively shut down the open border scheme, but mass deportation has only yielded 400,000 removals.

And then 1.6 million people have self deported under the CBP1 home applied. So I think it’s interesting that there’s not been a lot of discussion about this in the media. It’s interesting that you’re asking about the progress because most major media has refused to cover it now because President Trump said he would shut down the border and he did. It’s not hard to do. Our existing legal framework allows for us to have a sovereign nation with a sealed border and lawful immigration through our ports of entry and asylum application points around the world. So I’m really happy with President Trump shutting down the human trafficking, but we have a lot more work to do.

And Patel and others within the infrastructure, you have Kristi Noem and of course the border czar, Tom Homan, really working hard to leverage every action point to make the mass deportations at a faster clip. But the lawsuits have slowed things down and so we’ll see what happens. But I think President Trump’s doing a good job right now. Well, what do you think of the shutdown, the government shutdown, and is it a good thing or do you think it’s a bad thing or is it a combination of both, depending on what issue we’re talking about? It’s an embarrassment.

I mean, shutting the government down for partisan fights is an embarrassment. We had Tommy take it on the program the other night. He’s a spokesperson for the U.S. state Department and he was saying, you know, their foreign partners are getting auto messages saying the US Government is shut down. Please reach back out. You know, and you know, we will reach out to you once the government reopens. That’s embarrassing. We have projects going on and things that we’re interacting with foreign partners on. This is not happening right now because only essential services are allowed to continue to operate.

But we needed seven Democrats to cross over and supplement the 53 Republicans who were voting for the clean CR. The Democrats refused to do that. And now OMB Director Russ Vogt has issued a memorandum saying that there will be reduction in force. All agencies are now ordered to examine how many employees and staff they need to reopen and only reopen with those numbers. They have to consider veteran status, senior, you know, seniority, longevity, a number of factors when they make the rifts. But rifts will occur now. And this was a part of, right, sizing government that President Trump promised on the campaign trail.

But The Democrats have been fighting him on this hammer and tongs, tooth and nail from the moment he was inaugurated. And now they’re giving him free reign to make these cuts. Cuts under the guise of a shutdown, which. That’s how the government is set up. When the government shut down, you can make rifts. So it’s an interesting thing to see. Chuck Schumer, he just literally signed the same piece of legislation a few months ago, but now they don’t want to do it. I think it’s embarrassing. I also think it’s funny because I want to see smaller government, but I don’t want to see people summarily rift.

I would rather see it done in an orderly fashion instead of going this way. This is like going in with, you know, a butcher knife instead of a scalpel. But it’s going to happen now because the government shut down and the memorandum has been issued. So I can’t say it’s a good thing. I can’t say the shutdown’s a good thing. But I mean, they’re using it for a purpose that President Trump ran on. And so there will be some silver lining out of it. But I think there’s going to be some negative ramifications as well. Yeah.

Because there’s going to be services that shouldn’t be cut. I know that as one example, there was my sister volunteers at a homeless shelter and for, for women. And they really need that, those kind of services. And the federal government, whether you believe in that kind of where the fed that money should go to that or not, now they’re these homeless shelters are getting shut down because they don’t have money for those kind of services. So, I mean, I don’t know demonstration of why that should be in the private sector. Homeless shelters should be run by nonprofits in the private sector, not by the federal government.

And I mean, we don’t have shutdowns that often. And usually the average length of a shutdown is three to five days. So this one’s already running long. But those kinds of services are better meted out by people at the local level, as opposed to being something that’s doled out by the federal government. You have better services when it’s a local organization. People are more invested in it and they see the impact on their community. They see the number of homeless people reduced, the number of women who are needing help, assistance. Yeah, I, I don’t, I don’t agree with it being a properly run program.

Well, I don’t like the federal government. I’m like, like I said, I don’t like federal government involved in as many things as possible. The problem is, and this is like what Ron Paul said, you can’t just cut, okay? We don’t like the federal government doing it. So, bam, federal government no longer does it. You kind of have to have a transition somehow of we need to cut this, but we also need to build up some private stuff, and there needs to be some smart adults in the room making sure that we don’t. The pain of cutting this isn’t disastrous and we somehow shift it.

I mean, I don’t know. It’s hard, but it takes hard work. And nobody wants to work that hard. Well, I mean, I think private sector people work that hard. Like you work that hard. Right? We do that in the private sector. We do. There are parts of government that are really hard working and do a great job. We are very critical of government. But there are a lot of things that government does well. There’s a lot that they’re doing that’s not constitutionally mandated, and those are the things that need to be cut. And I think the private sector is very responsive when there’s a need.

And we have so many, like, you know, one of Putin’s favorite jokes about America is that it’s not uncommon to bump into millionaires here. Being a millionaire in the United States is not an uncommon thing. And he says it derisively, but there’s jealousy there because he doesn’t just churn out millionaires in his country. He’d love to, but he does not, nor do they turn out millionaires in communist China. Really. That’s an American thing. So we have plenty of people in this country to fund our nonprofit infrastructure to help people. But people aren’t going to be as motivated to do that if the government is doing it.

When the government’s doing it, people say, oh, I don’t need to donate to that. The government runs wic. The government runs snap. The government runs programs for people in need. I don’t need to donate to that. So It’s a catch 22. The other thing is, you know, I kind of disagree that they can’t just make cuts and that it won’t be catastrophic because other than air traffic control and what you’ve mentioned, most Americans haven’t noticed that the government has shut down. Our foreign partners have noticed, but most Americans haven’t. People will begin to notice on the 15th when paychecks don’t go out.

But if you’re on active duty and you’re with A credit union, you’re going to get paycheck protection. I remember the government being shut down when I was on active duty. I got paid as usual because my direct deposit went to a credit union and the credit union covered my pay and they just took it back whenever it was deposited to replace what was missed. They kept that because they’d already given it to me. So I think it’s. We’ve been conditioned. I think the government’s supposed to be doing that. No, we’re actually supposed to be doing it.

Most of the things we’re supposed to be doing unless it’s remanded to the, the federal government in the Constitution. So we kind of have to really kind of reorient ourselves. Do we really want the government and bureaucrats in D.C. doing these things for us when they’re so far away from the problem and they don’t really know us most D.C. absolutely. Yeah. You know, they’re making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. They’re not like regular Americans. Well, I, I would say I brought up this example on purpose. I wanted to talk to you about it because I’m almost to the point and it’s not a popular opinion, but I think it’s reality that you have to have a lot of pain in order for people to wake up.

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We have to have eaten, clean this kitchen and get out on the road to go to practice. And they respond to that directive. They don’t really respond to, I need, you know, I need you guys to maybe, or could you possibly. And sometimes it’s this the same thing on the converse. They won’t help you do whatever it is. They refuse to do it. And so you have to cut off their cell phone or, you know, remove their Game Boy or Nintendo DS or whatever the thing is now. And it makes, it snaps you to attention. We’re all like that a little bit.

We all sometimes need a little bit tough, a little bit of tough love. But government, you know, what’s interesting about government is that we are both like totally married to it. And we are also constantly complaining about it. The DMV paying our taxes every year in Missouri, we have to pay tax on things we already paid tax on, like our car. We have an annual car tax. So you pay tax on the car at a high percentage when you buy it. So that’s your sales tax. Then you pay a property tax, meaning your car is property that you own.

So you have to pay for it every year. And it was every other year. Now it’s every year. And the, the prices keep going up. We. Property taxes on our houses went up by 40% this year. It was up higher than inflation, which is, yeah, by far is not okay because now that’s a, that’s a percentage of tax rates yet. No, the house increase, I could do a whole show on that. We could. And I mean, I have some statistics because I’ve been fighting them over these increases since we’ve owned this place. And I, I tell you, I’m always wondering, what am I getting? So my husband went through and he was like, every time something happens or we get a note from our little municipality, he’ll say, oh, yeah, they raised the tax on that.

Now they’re doing, you know, now they’re putting in a new sidewalk. Maybe that’s what that’s paying for. And I’m like, you know, we sound like a couple of 88 year old, you know, porch sitters who just. All we do is review bills and complain about it. He was like, yeah, but they’re. They increase taxes by 38% on some houses, 40% on others. We probably should be looking at what they’re spending on because that’s a huge increase. It feels like that shouldn’t be allowed. Don’t you think? Like, that number seems like that’s. It shouldn’t be allowed. You shouldn’t be able to increase the percentage because now your part of the pie is that you can take home is much smaller.

And they get, as the value of the house increases, they get more and more income from that. So if they increase it beyond the value of the house increasing, they’re increasing the percentage of the pie, and that should not be legal. I agree with you. And just, just because your point is so well made, I’ll just add one more thing. So they never reduce the property tax when the value of the house goes down. So remember, this is a tax on your house that you haven’t sold yet. Right. So they’re saying houses in my neighborhood have gone up in value by 40%, therefore my house is worth 40% more, so I need to pay more in tax.

Okay, well, by that premise, if we accept that when the houses went down in value, why did I not see my taxes go lower to match it? So, you know, it’s. It’s a racket. That’s what this is, a racket. Well, they were trying to tax the equity that you have in your home. It’s unrealized gains. Yeah. You don’t have to like that on anything else. Right. Imagine real life. Yeah, I’m. That would grind everything. That would be, I mean, that would be really bad decisions if they did that. That’s. That is, is. That is stealing from people.

It’s stealing from us. And, you know, I go through this every year when the tax bill comes. I, it’s, you know, I just throw it on the center island. And then my husband comes home from work and he’s like, oh, the tax bill. And he immediately rips it open because he wants to see the damage. Sometimes I even leave the room and just come back later and say, how bad was it? Because I don’t want to hear it because there’s nothing I can do about it. Our. Our tax assessor he’ll have like a town hall meeting and he’ll have it on WebEx, which is like, you know, zoom for government.

And you join in, you have to say your name. Sometimes they require that you put your property address in there. And then what they do is he chooses who he’ll take questions from. So he remembers me from when we used to be neighbors, when we lived in the last little town and he was running for state rep and he became a state rep and then became the county assessor for St. Louis County. And so he knows who I am, and he will not take a question from me live. They always message me and say, we’re sorry we didn’t get to your question, but if you’d like to send it an email, we’ll make sure that he answers you directly.

In other words, we’re not going to allow you the opportunity to embarrass him by asking him a tough question. So, you know, and that’s what I’m paying for an extra 40% this year. Well, and then you add the taxes that you pay when you buy groceries, when you go to the dmv, when you go to. It really adds up. So if you make 100 grand, you’re only taking a home. 45,000. My kids, you know, it’s so funny when you look at like college kids and stuff, they be, they’re really into, you know, bigger government and stuff until they have to pay taxes.

180. Yeah, it’s lovely. You see that. They’re like, well, the government probably should do that. That’s. That’s not bad. And I’m like, yeah, and my kids especially love the library system here. We had a big tax increase for that so they could build a whole bunch of new libraries. They tore down the old ones and replaced them with these modern looking. They look like kind of angular spaceships and. And they reduce the number of books in the library, put in a lot of digital resources. And so when you walk in, it’s fancy. It looks like kind of like a little bit like an airport, a little bit like a library, but with fewer books on the shelves and all the expense of building these new buildings.

I’m kind of like, well, if I had been in charge of it, if I’d really been in charge, I’m only paying for it, I would have made the buildings traditional looking, like traditional libraries with columns on the front and, you know, neoclassical architecture to kind of give children a sense of awe about it and have them come in. And then they do the reading programs. And everything else, which they do actually have wonderful summer programs for kids in our county, but I would have had it done differently, but they didn’t weigh in, and they built themselves an administrative center.

Well, that’s. Yeah, right. Administration. I see. I’m. I’m a cheapo. So I’m like, how is the lease? Why do we have to have the most expensive buildings and all these fancy things? Let’s focus on what the nut is that we need. You know, like, what are we doing? We’re focusing on all the flash and the fluff, but we’re not focusing on the meat of what we really need. Spend the money on that. And who cares that much about the building? That building needs to meet the needs, but it doesn’t need to be. I think we just.

It gets back to the fact that our priorities are all messed up, and it’s because we care about the way things look. And I always said I liked doing my job when it was nerdy, you know, being a podcaster and really growing my. And then once everybody wanted to do it, I don’t like it as much. I like it when it was just the meat of stuff, you know, I remember our first one, we were doing it on something called. I think it was called podcon or it was like this. This, you know, little wonky site.

And a friend of mine named Demetrius, we had a little show called he said, she Said, and we could see how many people were tuned in. And it was just him in his apartment and me. I was in my family room on the couch, you know, with the. My laptop on the coffee table. And we would just be podcasting. And we had a little bit. Like, we had a guy who helped us with a little bit of bumper music. So we’d press a button and have a little bumper music and then come back in, and we would talk, and we had lots of people.

The engagement was so awesome. Like, people would be live in the chat room, and then afterwards they would tweet, you know, oh, we loved it tonight. Or I didn’t like this person, or I didn’t like what you said about X. And, you know, that would go on for a couple of hours, and then I would kind of, you know, go to. It was once a week, and it was a lot of fun. That was back when, like, having a podcast, people didn’t even know what it was. It was like. Like a podcast. What is that? It’s like you’re doing a radio show from your living room, and I’m like, kind of.

But sometimes Well, I, I did a segment, I taught at the University of Minnesota. I did a segment on podcasting back in like 2016 or something. And I remember a lot of the college kids were like, this is stupid. You know, they just thought it was stupid. Who wants to do a podcast? I, I, there was a few that thought it was cool, but I was trying to teach them, it was a business class, trying to teach them how they can use this media to promote their business and how it’s the up and coming, this is the future, guys learn about this.

And it was a great segment that we did, but they just didn’t appreciate it. Now they all think it’s cool. And that’s the number one thing people want to be. It’s like, it’s just so stupid. It is. I, I, I think what’s funny about podcasting and what you’re talking about with people saying, oh, that sounds idiotic, is that now podcasts are displacing traditional media. I mean, look at the numbers at CNN and MSNBC. MSNBC’s numbers are so bad, they’re being spun off and they’ll be Ms. Live. I think it’s a very interesting thing. Or Ms. Now they’re going to be something else.

And the rest of media is kind of taking notice. And then all the stars, like I used to get beat up on Don Lemon show on cnn, and now he’s like a podcaster. And I know he still has a huge audience, but it’s still, the point is he’s no longer on CNN with that huge staff of like 500 people. I don’t know how many people worked. Well, they had to switch because the media changed, but, or the medium changed, the platform changed. But the reason why I ended up being in a lawsuit with Google, they cut us all off.

And I think, think, I mean, we had more the 15 or the 17. There’s 15 of us that sued Google. We had more viewership than the mainstream media combined at that time. And they cut us off and they wouldn’t let us back. And then they, I think it was on purpose to bring the mainstream media up and build them up, build them up. And they held us down and that was on purpose because they had to retake back control of the narrative and the airwaves, and they knew this was the new medium. And so I got caught up in it.

I just happened to be successful at that time. Now everybody’s talking about the same crap I talked about. I just was first, you know, and, but to me, watching that whole progression is kind of disheartening because you see the control of the media just shifted and they were behind and in order to take back control, they had to do anti democracy, democratic principle, anti republic, anti what we’re about, principles in order to take back control. Well, you know, the thing with Google is they get to be free in America because of our system. In Europe, there are huge crackdowns on Google, lawsuits, fines, lots of that.

Now, Google is a multi billion dollar company. They are really not hurting when they have to pay these fines, but it’s a demonstration of how free speech is being cracked down on in much of the Western world, but not in the United States. And even with. I would disagree with you on that, like. Well, I adamantly disagree. I’m just getting there. I understand there have been free speech problems here in our country. And it’s not just you, like you’re talking about your Google lawsuit. There have been some very serious crackdowns. And we saw them on President Trump.

And one thing about what happened to President Trump is, you know, that was the center of the story about censorship. But there were so many other people who’ve been censored, like yourself, whose stories didn’t receive national prominence because, you know, one is the president. I’m not the president. Yeah, right. So that’s. I think the real, the real problem we have is we haven’t gotten to the bottom of the censorship that happened. It happened during the Trump administration, during the Biden administration. I think it’s still going on today. I think. Think there’s still throttling going on by engineers.

Absolutely right. And so when I say it’s not as big of a problem as Europe, I only mean you’re right with that, that in America we’re not being arrested. That’s the only thing. I mean, we’re not being arrested for our tweets like they are. But you’re right, we do have censorship. And so I agree with you. I want to be clear that I’m not saying that we don’t have it. I’ve lived. I lived this painful death that I’m like, man. And. And I think the fact that they were in bed now, they just admitted it, you know, that they were taking directive and working.

Did you read that? And kind of almost spit your coffee out. I was like, well, we knew it. We just. Yeah, well, now we got proof. But I was reading it the way they wrote it. The way they wrote it. Like I write, you know, an estate sale over this weekend. I bought six rolls of lace out of a loose sight box, you know, like, this is boring stuff. They read it like it was just not a big deal. Like, well, well, you know, it’s just part of whatever. Yeah, their, their goals were to institute a European style censorship program.

And that’s not okay in this country. And when you have a monopoly essentially online, and they have a monopoly over five in five states. Right. You can’t, there’s, there’s a problem. We need to relook at that because you can’t support. There is free enterprise. But when that enterprise becomes a monopoly and they’re wielding it because almost all search is, even all these other search companies use their algorithms. They have almost a complete monopoly on search. Now the AIs can disrupt that, which is kind of cool. But they have their own issues. Well, yeah, there’s quite a few issues with the AI, the artificial intelligence, but we’re just at the beginning of that.

But the thing you’re talking about with Google and the monopoly, I’m old enough to remember, I’m from the 1900s. I’m old enough to remember when they broke up the bells. And my parents talked about it so much. And as a child I thought, what are these bells that they’re breaking up? Because I’m thinking of, you know, the kind of bell you see on someone’s shelf, you pick it up and you ring crystal bell or it’s glass or it’s porcelain. And my mom was like, these are, these are companies that have phone service and they’re being broken up because all of them are owned by one company.

So you, you, if you don’t like the way they’re treating you, you can’t go get another phone service. Even the other phone services that you get are baby bells, meaning Ma Bell and Baby Bell. These are tiny versions of the original company. You’re, you’re, there’s no, it’s a monopoly and it’s not a utility. Later, when I came to understand what she meant, I saw how insidious that was. And this is exactly the same thing, right? Yeah, I, come on, telecom, that’s my background. So I was, yeah, so I told. You know, then, you know. Exactly. So telecom is the Internet.

That is where it originated. We built the Internet and it’s the, it came out of that. And it’s, it’s, it is insidious. And it’s really important that if we want freedom that we don’t allow this. It’s so important. I can’t, it is so important for freedom because I lived it. I Lived it as an engineer. I lived it in business, big in telcom, big tech. And then I lived it on the censorship side and I’m like, holy crap, guys. It is so intertwined in the basic freedom. It is. It is. So it is a basic freedom to be able to go on the Internet and search and find what you’re looking for.

Not have to go to the ninth page to find any conservative results. Yeah. Because you are censored. They don’t want anyone to hear Stacey Washington because you can reach people because of what your profile is. So they do not want anyone, especially someone like you, to be able to be on that front page. But the front page is full of nonsense. Like, at least they could be good on the front page. Don’t you think? Yeah, One or two good things on there, like, it’s. It’s all bogus. But when we started it, you know, back in the late 90s and 2000, it was really good.

I could find all sorts of. I love. Yeah, it was. I think we grew up. I grew up. Your mind expands. You grow up, you learn, you’re exposed to stuff and you can find, like, I could find 10 sources and some of them would be different, but I could read the first three or four and really understand the subject. And then, you know, I would just go on and if someone asked me about it, I could go back and find that link and share it. And now they’ve got it so jumbled up. If you find a link and you’re like, wow, this is a really good one.

If you don’t, like, text that to yourself or save it. That’s right. When you go back to search again, you’re like, well, where’s the. Where’s what I was like looking at before? Buried and scrubbed and. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know all these, like, really good sources. And so if you’ve lived through that period and you were. You were enriched by it. It’s sad. I mean, it’s. It’s really sad. You know, it’s like that is the essence of freedom is being able to gain knowledge and truth and research and be able to grow your mind and perspective.

You take that away, you’re taking the essence of freedom away. The essence of it. I agree with you. And so the answer for us, because obviously Google has a lot of lobbying dollars. That’s why we don’t have legislation. And I think that’s a place we need reform to lobby someone as opposed to just talking to them about your opinion on something. The fact that people and companies and you know, pretty much anyone can pay a legislator and say, look, I’m going to donate to your campaign, but here’s how we feel about this issue. And the corporations, obviously they have people, they have the whole divisions.

It’s called government affairs. Right, Government affairs. At Google, they spend all their time talking to legislators and making sure that there’s no legislation to break them apart because they should have been broken apart 10 years ago, at least, maybe before that for their monopoly. And it’s monopoly on search, it’s a monopoly on ad revenue as well. Notice how they’ve stripped all the publishers. Like if you had a blog with a lot of people who went to it, they’ve throttled that people aren’t going to blog anymore. The artificial intelligence has gobbled up all of our content. I didn’t even know it.

I wasn’t asked. The artificial intelligence has read my book and put it up into the cloud so they can pull from it. If you ask a question about my book, it can pull from that and share excerpts from it, but I don’t get any revenue from that. And I wasn’t asked if I wanted my book in the cloud. And I think about people who’ve written 40 books. Right. Eric Metaxas has all of those books he’s written. These are highly consequential, fun to read, informative books and all of that work he put into them. And now they’re up in the cloud for the AI to pull from without him getting any revenue from that.

Which seems, it seems ludicrous to me. So there’s more to it. Like when you say they have a monopoly, I mean this is like a monopoly on steroids. It. Yeah. Can we about it? If the legislators are all bought by them, it’s. That’s exactly right. We have some work to do. Yeah. If we want to maintain just some of our. The essence of who we are. And that to me is we have to, guys. Because we. That there isn’t a bigger fight on our hands than keeping the essence of who we are. I agree. Who we are.

Yeah. You know, because you were talking about that with the deployment of the National Guard, we don’t want to be a police state. We don’t want to. So I think one of the most important things that can happen is like what we’re doing right now where we’re having a conversation. We push back on each other. We are testing whether or not the things that we’re currently believing or accepting are actually right. I mean, in the taxes, like so I used to get so mad about it. But then I realized getting angry about this is giving me gray hair and, you know, helping me not to be able to sleep.

So I’m not going to be angry, but I am going to look for opportunities to talk about this with the people in the state legislature who might be able to do something about it. So I have to redirect that energy from just being mad to actually talking to someone who could maybe help us. And it’s the same thing with this monopoly. I almost feel like President Trump, if he were motivated to do that, if it were an issue that he was focused on, he would do something about it. He’s doing something about a whole bunch of other stuff.

He could possibly do something about Google monopolizing what we can see and controlling us. That’s right. And I think that the fact that they’re the top 10, you know, the top market, top 25 market cap companies in the world are all big tech. I think he’s his, the mountain he’s climbing and what he’s fighting is pretty massive. And we need to recognize that. And so the political world needs to need, and I would say the structure of the world has changed. Political world needs to start looking through a different lens on how the world is running on, you know, and how we fight for our, for freedom and the things that we care about now.

Because it’s changed. It’s, it sucks, but it’s true. Yeah, it’s changed. And we’re like, I remember when change you. It felt like we were driving it. It felt like we were driving change. Right now it feels like the change is kind of happening to us and we’re kind of floating along going, oh, this is, you know, that more change. And we’re, we’re trying to absorb it and keep up. The technology moves a lot faster than we do as humans. And the ones who are driving the technology, they’re the ones who could slow it down, but they don’t want to because they’re considering profitability.

And that’s the check and balance in the system that we have. Capitalism is not a flawless system. It does engender greed and it rewards people who are the fastest. If you’re the fastest, capitalism rewards you the fastest. But for humanity, the fastest isn’t always the best for humanity, like for human beings, ourselves. So that’s the balancing act where we have to slow down the rougher, less humane aspects of capitalism. And that’s where libertarianism comes in. I mean, that’s, that’s why people are libertarians. Because they’re. They’re pretty sure there’s a couple things wrong with capitalism and they want to.

They want to kind of temper that. And then I don’t know why people are Democrats anymore. I know why they were. I don’t even have a clue. Right. I know why they were. I know why they were. Remember when Democrats were just Americans who believed a different path? Right. They were just like, oh, you know, we’re more for green energy or we’re more for the environment. And you’re like, oh, okay, but you could still have dinner with them. Your kids could be friends with their kids. You could be in the same family. Right. You didn’t have to cut them off.

Nobody cut you off. Those Democrats. I understand why they were Democrats, these current ones. I don’t get it. I don’t. I don’t think there is as many as people realize, actually, I think it’s some kind of fabric. I don’t know get it either. I don’t know. I don’t know. Well, okay. Where can people follow you? You’re just an interesting, dynamite person. Where can they follow you? Thank you. Okay, so first off, we have to get you, Sarah, back on the show because we were talking before we got started here, and it turns out, I think you come on with Mary Walter, and Mary and I are friends, and I have not.

I. I don’t think we’ve had a chance to talk, so we’re going to. If you want to follow me, I’m Stacy on the Right. On all social media channels, whichever one you’re on. Except I’m not on threads and it’s not because I don’t like Facebook or Instagram, but it’s because I’m on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. I even have a small TikTok account that I never post to. I’m on Truth Social, which I never post to. So I kind of feel like if I add any more, they’re not going to get posted to. So I’m not on threads, but I am on.

I’m on Instagram and I post there every day. Also on the Facebook page. Stacy. On the Right show. And then of course, on X you could find me there. And I really thank you for having me on. You’ve given me a couple things to think about. Well, good. That’s the whole point of my show, is to come on and let’s talk. Yeah. Let’s figure it out. I don’t have all the answers. Me either. Yeah. So thank you so much for joining the program. I appreciate you Sarah. Thank you.
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