Robbie the Fire Bernstein (9:25)
So look, what can you say about this? First of all, I understand there's this comedian guy who's kind of taken over the libertarian mantle. Who else are we talking about here? Okay, so this is clearly a shot at me, what these guys do. And this is. Again, it's just. It's these kind of. It's these tactics from the old order that somehow they think are still going to work. It's that, hey, like, we're above that. So they don't even want to pretend that they know my name. Like, it's just this comedian guy. I don't even remember his name. You know? Like, first of all, I know it's a difficult name to pronounce. I understand it's a difficult one to memorize. But this is an act. Moynihan knows my name. He could just say it if you want. If you want to spend the time criticizing me on the podcast, well, then just say it and do it. Because think about this while. While you guys think with. I was going to say before, but I said I didn't want to poison the well, but it's like, you'll see through this whole thing. It's just this pure, like, snob routine that they do. Like, just. Just constantly letting you know, and they're not even good at it. So they're like, I'll just tell you that I'm better than you. Whereas, like, you're supposed to kind of demonstrate that, not just assert it. But think about. While you're trying to play this game of pretending you can't remember the name Dave, think about how stupid what you're saying is. Imagine saying you can't remember someone's name and then criticizing them for what they don't discuss. Just think about how stupid that is. Like, you're telling me that if you can't remember the name Dave, you don't know enough about me to remember the name Dave Smith yet. You know what I. Not only what I do talk about, right? Because you'd have to have a lot more familiarity with someone to criticize them for what they don't talk about, right? Like, I could not be familiar with someone at all and see them say one thing, and then I could criticize them for what they said. But in order for me to criticize someone for not discussing something like avoiding a topic, I'd have to actually follow their work, right? Because that would be pretty stupid. Like, if I were. If somebody were to, let's say, tweet about tax policy. And then my criticism of them was, I go, I don't know anything about this guy. I'm not sure what his name is. But my criticism of him is that he never discusses monetary policy. Well, how would I know that unless I was somewhat familiar with the guy? And then he could turn around and be like, I wrote three books on monetary policy. And I'd be like, oh, I feel like a retard because I just criticize someone whose name I don't know for what they don't discuss. And again, a good way to avoid looking really, really stupid like that is to like not do this, not criticize someone for what they do. And, and again, Moynihan, sorry, this is just a stupid criticism. I talk about economics constantly. My faction in the Libertarian Party is the Mises Caucus, named after Ludwig von Mises, the Austrian economist. We talk about economics constantly. Too much, some might say. But anyway, I. What, what can you even say about that other than like this is just, this is silly on its face. And again, the reason it, it, there's a thing here. And I'll get into this more with these guys, but there's a thing here where it's just, I, I don't know exactly how to say it. There's a reason why me and you would not make that type of mistake. There'd be no time that we'd criticize someone, pretend we don't know their name, and then claim they don't talk about something which they talk about all the time. And the reason why is like, because we'd, we'd look like idiots if we did that. Right? And we are in the marketplace here. You can't, we can't just be retarded because then like we'll lose our support. You know, people come in here and they watch the show because they count on us to not be retards. You know, like, I'm not saying we're the most brilliant things in the world, but like, like we at least the expectation is when you talk about something, you kind of know what you're talking about. You kind of know a little something about it. And we would guard against talking about something that we don't know about at all. The old school guys, the guys from the old order, they don't have any of that because they weren't in a real competitive market. They were at the National Review where. What are you going to do? Compete with the National Review? The National Review already made it. So you can't compete with the National Review. They're like in, they've been knighted in this circle. And so they would, when they were talking about, back in the day, let's say if they were talking about Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan or anyone who they had like exercised from the conservative movement, they could just say whatever they want. Cuz you never get to hear from that guy. But that's not the world we live in now. You can't just say whatever you want about me, cuz I have a bigger platform than you do now. Jonah Goldberg. I tweeted Something about this. It was actually a pretty funny exchange. I tweeted something about this, like, just on the, the level of like, how dumb is it to claim you can't remember my name, but you can criticize me for what I do and don't discuss, Right? Pretty straightforward. Stupid. And so I said this, and Jonah Goldberg, he, he responded to me, so let me make sure I get this right. So I give him what he said. So he responded by saying, I have so little idea of who you are, I don't even remember talking about you. Sorry, dude, didn't mean it as an insult. Still don't. And this is what I'm telling you. Just the pure snobbery of these guys, as if they're superior to everybody. Because you fucking sold the war in Iraq twenty something years ago. Your one claim to fame is the most disastrous foreign policy blunder in modern American history. And yet you have a sense of superiority when call now, as soon as he says that, it's so funny, cuz he tweets this. And then everybody on Twitter is just responding. They're like, hey, dude, you know, Twitter has this really cool function where you can see how many followers everybody has. And so, by the way, I'm not saying if you don't know who I am, that's fine. Don't know who I am. Lots of people don't know who I am. I don't know who lots of other people are. I'm sure there's lots of people who have way bigger followings than me, and I don't know who they are, right? But what I would never do, what you'll never see me do on this show, is address somebody with a much bigger following than me. Criticize them for what they don't talk about. Okay? Which is something they do talk about all the time. And then when they call me out on that go, dude, I don't even know who you are. Like, what's that supposed to mean? Anyway, in this new world, unlike the old world, you have to be prepared to actually argue against those people. You don't get to just slander Ron Paul with whatever you want and then people don't get to hear from them. And in fact, as I said to you before, Rob, as like, we have a much bigger platform than them. And so it just, it's like, you know, my, my three year old, he has like one of those, you know, like the little hammers that kids have that are like squishy at the end, that make like a little honk noise when you Hit them. It's like if you had that little hammer and someone else has a sledgehammer, and then you just hit them with your little clown hammer. I'm the guy with the sledgehammer. So now I'm just sitting here looking at this sledgehammer in my hand, going like, oh, well, if you want to get into a game of hitting people with hammer, like, if you want to get into a game of shitting on each other on our podcasts, or I'll just do that to way more people than you do it to. It's. I don't know what to say. It's just the whole thing is. Is very bizarre to me. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is, of course, Crowd Health. We've been telling you about this company for years because they really are that amazing. If anybody here is not thrilled with their health insurance carrier, which is pretty much 100% of people, you gotta check out Crowd Health. It is a decentralized healthcare payment system that frees you from the tyranny of health insurance. So, in other words, not health insurance. It's an alternative to health insurance where you can see whatever doctors you like because there's no networks limiting you. 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