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Now. So this is obviously cheap rage bait. And anyone can see that. I can see that. Anyone can see it. And that's basically all political commentary these days. I mean, this guy is, I guess this was his podcast that he was doing this on. Nobody watches his podcast. Nobody cares about it. No one is. You walk up to a thousand people randomly and say, what's your favorite podcast? None of them are going to say Wajahat Ali. My favorite podcast is Wajahat Ali. No one's going to say that. If they did say that, you wouldn't have any. No one else would have any idea what they're talking about. You would think they would have. They're having a stroke or something. Wajahad Ali. What is that? And so that's almost all political podcasts, you know, almost all the time is just rage bait, which, which is why the whole space is dying, to be honest, collapsing in on itself because everyone is just clip farming and rage baiting all the time. And I know people will say, well, that's what you do. But I mean, I'm just being myself. I, you know, and, and actually I start every show with like a 25 minute written monologue which is the opposite of clip farming. For better or worse, it's the opposite. And no one in this space does that. Everyone else is just turning on the camera and speaking extemporaneously. And I'm the only idiot putting hours of writing into every show. My final show of last week was a 30 minute rebuttal to a Ken Burns documentary. And so for better or worse, that's what we're doing over here. Anyway, the point is, this clip from Wadjihat is clearly meant to provoke a reaction. And when you're a boring guy with a name that sounds like a Star wars character, that's all you can do. When you're a bland nobody that no one cares about with a name that sounds like the bad guy from Dune or something, then that's all that you have. And yet in this case, I'm regrettably going to give him what he wants. Because I do think that a lot of truth is. Well, a lot of truth is said in jest and a lot of truth is said in rage baiting. So that might have been his intention, but he was like he was saying it to get a reaction. He was saying that he was saying it to get attention. But he also thinks that. So Wajahat admits to several things here, things that up until 12 seconds ago we were called racist for saying. First of all, he admits that brown people basically weren't in this country at all until the late 20th century. That was quite an admission. That's not something they will ever admit until just now. But he's right, because up until now these same people have insisted that immigrants from the Muslim world and immigrants from the third world helped to build this country. And now he admits that that was always a lie. I mean, I just wasn't. I just in an argument with one of these people, who was it? Mehdi Hassan. And his argument was that, well, Muslim immigrants helped to build the country. And now here we have Wajah saying, oh no, actually we just got here. We weren't here at all until a couple of decades ago. Until a few decades ago. No, they didn't come here. They didn't build the country. They came here after everything was built. They came here because everything was built. They came here because they wanted to take advantage of a well built country because they weren't able to build up their own countries. And he finally admits it. There were not any Wajahats fighting in the American Revolution. There weren't any Wajahats on the American frontier. Okay, There weren't any Wajahats. In the Civil War, there weren't any Wajahats traveling across the, you know, American wilderness out West. There weren't any Wajahats here doing anything or contributing in any way to anything until like 10 and a half seconds ago. They did not help to build the country. They came here because our country had been built. And he admits it. Those are his words. He said it, he admitted it. And most of all, he's admitting that the Great Replacement is real. So we see the familiar trajectory here. For years they told us that the Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory. For years they told us that we are racist for suggesting that there was any kind of plot to replace the native inhabitants of the United States who are white people. White people are the natives of the United States of America. And they said that there was no plot, like, to suggest that there was any plot to replace them with non white foreigners was racist. And now here he is admitting it. Everything he described is exactly what the Great Replacement is. And so we've officially entered the actually it is happening and it's good stage. We know this is how it always goes, verse, we on the right, we say that something is happening, and they say that's not happening. That's crazy. You're racist for saying it. That's conspiracy theory. And. And then eventually they get to, okay, actually it is happening and it's good. So before you were, you were racist for thinking that it's happening. Now you're racist for thinking that it's bad that it's happening, which is a very different argument. And he's right. It works exactly as he described. This is why mass migration is a mistake. It's why third world migration is a mistake. It's why H1B program is a mistake. It's why it should be abolished. It's all right there. As he said, we bring in third worlders and they bring in their extended family, they breed, they're breeders. That's his word, said we are breeding people. And they. Which in and of itself, by the way, is not like we should be breeders. We should all have kids. I have six kids, so I'll wear that, that badge proudly. But what he's saying is, okay, you bring us in and like, supposedly we're here on whatever. We're here to work a job or whatever, and next thing you know, right, there's 20 more because we're bringing in. It's not just breeding, it's like bringing in, oh, now we're going to bring the aunt and now the uncle and now the cousin and the second cousin, third cousin, and on and on and they try to turn our country into the countries that they fled. This is again, I'm just, I'm just summarizing what he said and he happens to be right. But he's only wrong about one thing really, which is the most obvious thing. He says that white culture, that this is what he's referring to. He's talking to and about white people specifically, and he's saying that, well, we're inferior in every way and everything's better for them. He says white people suck and are lame and bad and his culture is so much better. Well, not only is he wrong about that, but he doesn't believe it because that's why he's here. So that's always where it breaks down. They say our culture is so much better, it's so much more. It's so much, it's superior and everything. Why are you here then? Why did you come here? Like why did you come to the country that was built, by and large, the vast majority, by white people who you hate and you think are lame and terrible and have nothing to bring to the table? Why are you here? And that's always where it breaks down. So. But everything else, everything else he said is true. And even if he's just looking desperately for attention, which is all this is really about for him, I think in this one particular case, we should pay attention. Our Cyber Monday continues with our best deal we offer all year. 50% off all Daily Wire plus annual memberships. That gives you everything, every show, every film, every investigation and the first chance to watch the epic seven part cinematic series, the Pendragon cycle. Rise of the Merlin. All Access members watch episodes one and two on Christmas Day. Everyone else, January 22nd. You'll not see this price again for a full year. Join now@dailywire.com subscribe all right, finally, Business Insider has this article. Headline is Gen Z is obsessed with renting. From dresses to strollers to wine glasses, renting lives in Gen Z ers heads rent free. So the article, unfortunate pun there in the headline. But so the not really unfortunate. I think you should put a pun in any headline where you can fit it in. I'm a big believer in puns. So the article describes this phenomenon that I hadn't heard of it. Well, I hadn't heard of it to this extent and maybe they're exaggerating in the article. Who knows? But I didn't know this is a thing people, lots of people apparently, especially young people, they're talking about are renting not just apartments to live in, we knew that, but also everything in the apartment, especially clothing. So there are these clothing rental subscription services. Everybody, you know, everyone has a million subscription services now. And here's another one that's a subscription service. And you rent clothes from other people, secondhand clothing rentals. So you can wear a pair of pants that 27 other people have already worn. That's the pitch. You can wear a pair of pants that contain, frankly, the fumes of 27 other people embedded into the fabric. Not to get too scientific, but that's what's being offered. People are also renting, apparently, accessories, home decor, jewelry, glassware, I don't know, utensils, furniture, I assume everything. Now, the analysis you'll hear from most people about this, and I think this is kind of the argument the article makes, is that, well, the economy is in such rough shape, the economy's in the toilet. And so that's why, you know, you've got. That's why renting has become so popular. This is why Gen Z are. They're a generation of renters. They rent everything because they can't afford to buy anything because everything's so expensive and the economy is in the toilet. But that's not really what's going on here. That's not actually what's going on. Now, it is true. The economy's in rough shape, everything's too expensive. All that stuff is true, but that's not why you've got all the renting going. That's not why. That doesn't explain this phenomenon that we're talking about here. Because there is no way in hell that renting clothes from a clothing rental subscription service is in any way cheaper than just buying them secondhand or from a place like Walmart or wherever and keeping them in your closet and wearing them multiple times, as people have always done. That's the normal thing to do. You know, I have shirts in my closet that I've worn like, I don't know, a thousand times, ten thousand times. And that is definitely cheaper than renting without any question at all. And this is what you see sometimes. You see these, you see this kind of phenomenon. Gen Z, they're renting everything. And the explanation is always, oh, well, it's because the economy, it's because they can't afford. Well, yeah, but you're doing something that's more expensive. So that doesn't make any sense. What's actually happening is that people are spending more. They're actually spending more with the excuse of a bad economy, low income, all that sort of thing. What's happening is people are spending more on these kinds of things and they're doing it so they can get the designer outfit and post a picture on Instagram. That's what the point of this really is. They rent the, I mean, the article talks about, they rent the home decor and the glassware and then post a picture of the table spread for Instagram, which is basically the whole point. And it's much, much more expensive than just buying these items and using them thousands of times. As again, almost all people have always done, since forever. But the effect is this. And here's why. This is why I hate this. Well, three reasons. First of all, this is consumerism, materialism, wastefulness, cloaked as being thrifty and living affordably. And it's really the opposite of that. And there's a lot of this kind of thing going around. This is supposed to be, oh well, you're renting it so it's cheaper. I'm being, I'm being wiser with my money. No, this is not that. This is the opposite. And people think that just because they don't own anything, they don't buy anything, they only rent, that they're somehow living a more humble and affordable lifestyle, but they aren't at all. And the second problem is that it's performative. This is life as performance. It's about getting things so you can post about on social media. And that's not real, that's not authentic. You cannot be a happy or well rounded or good or interesting person if you're not authentic. And I don't mean authentic in a kind of shallow, self help, mumbo jumbo sort of way. I mean authentic as in honest, just living a real, honest life, which this isn't. And third, most importantly, it's very bad to have so many people who own nothing. And that's where we are. I mean, think about it. Think about the life of someone who subscribes to one of these clothing rental services. And I don't know how many people do, but think about their life. We can assume they don't own the home they live in, right? They don't own their land, they probably live in an apartment. They don't own their car, they don't own the clothes on their back. Many of them don't own their furniture, their utensils. They have a lot of stuff, okay? That's the point. They possess a great many things, but they don't own any of it. So they have a materialistic lifestyle without the ownership that used to come with that. So it's really the worst of all worlds to be surrounded with crap, with stuff, to be incredibly materialistic, but to not own any of it. It's really the worst combination for a person. Because if you own very little but also possess very little, well, then at least you reap the spiritual rewards of, you know, an austere, humble, minimalist life. And on the other hand, if you have a lot of stuff that could be very materialistic, but if you own it, well, then there are rewards that come with owning things. Like, this is mine, I have it, it's own. This is my thing, right? And depending on what it is, this is something I can pass down to my family. And there are real rewards that come from that. This is the worst of all worlds. And I think this is kind of the disconnect between Gen Z and boomers, because they're always locked in this debate, this contest where Gen Z says that, well, they have it so much worse than the boomers did. And then boomers say, oh, well, you ungrateful brats, you have the easiest lives anyone's ever lived. You don't know how good you have it. And it goes back and forth. And the truth is that it's kind of a third option, which is this, that Gen Z are correct, that they have to deal with things that no other generation of Americans really had to deal with, at least not to this extent. A country overrun by third world invaders. They have to compete against the entire world. It's worse now than it's ever been. So no one has had to deal with that at this level. They're in massive debt from getting worthless college degrees that they were, you know, they were cajoled and coerced into getting. And everything is way more expensive than it should be. All of that is true. The quality of everything has gone down. We talked about that last week. Even when it comes to, like, restaurant food, the quality, it's, like, more expensive, but the quality, everything's. It's all frozen food and not fresh and coming off the back of the same Cisco truck. All that is true. And in this war between boomers and Gen Z and millennials, I'm millennial, so we kind of. I don't know, we're sort of in the middle of it. But this is something that I think often the boomers are not willing to acknowledge all those points. However, it's also true that boomers lived much humbler lives for the most part, when they were the age that zoomers are now, they had less stuff. They had a lot less. We talk about how they could buy homes. Boomers, when they were 24 years old, just got married, they could go buy a home. A lot of them could. And that is true. They were not big homes. They were not living in palaces though. They were living in like small houses. And you know, if the average zoomer had to live like the average boomer lived in 1973, they would probably treat it like solitary confinement in prison. I mean, they wouldn't know how to live such a minimal, non materialistic life. So, you know, you've got Gen Z saying, the economy is destroyed, we have to compete against the whole globe country is bankrupted. And then boomers say, hey, when we were your age, we lived much humbler and less extravagant and luxurious lives than you kids do today. We worked really hard and all that kind of stuff. And then zoomers say, yeah, but you owned a house and you had a car that was paid off and you could buy a week's worth of groceries for 98 cents at a toothpick. And then boomers say, yeah, well you kids have TVs and video games and phones and subscription services and way more luxury and material possessions than we ever had. And the truth is like, they're both right. Which is the worst option? Actually, I'd rather it be door number one or two, but it's kind of door number three. It's the worst of all worlds really, where the economy's in bad shape, people are broke, but it's also a very materialistic culture and people have many more things than they need and all this kind of thing. So that's where we are. That's the bad news. The good news is that everyone is kind of right in a way. The bad news is that what they're right about is pretty awful. And I think that that's a very light and positive and uplifting note to end on. Thanks for watching, thanks for listening. 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