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Radio Derb December 20 2024
Dec 21, 2024Tap to summarizeThis Week’s Show Contents 01m51s Drone panic 06m55s This land is their land 11m05s End student visas 16m28s Zero-based immigration policy 21m43s Chauvin gets a break 24m22s How they spend our money 26m14s VDARE’s Christmas message 26m58s Signoff: Not a Christmas song? Direct Download, The iTunes, Podcast Addict, RSS Feed Full Show On Spreaker Full Show On Rumble Full Show On Odysee Transcript 01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air for Christmas! That was the voice of the great American soprano Leontyne Price giving us Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; this is the voice of your suitably genial host John Derbyshire with reflections and commentary on the week’s news. First, those mysterious drones. 02 — Drone panic. From early December on, my local news media here in New York were running stories about mysterious lights hovering above night-time New Jersey. The lights were generally described as coming from “drones,” but nobody seemed to know for certain just what they were. If the authorities — the FBI, Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration — if they knew, they weren’t telling us. I assumed it was just a hysteria of the sort our media are drone to … sorry: I mean prone to in periods when there isn’t much political news — for example, when one federal administration is packing up to make way for a new one. Drones were the new Qanon, another hysteria I could never summon up any interest in. It didn’t help that the drones seemed mainly to be seen over New Jersey. To seasoned New Yorkers like your genial host, New Jerseyans are the dimwitted country cousins; like the Irish are to the English, or New Zealanders to Australians. Do you think 180 is a high IQ? You do? What, for the whole of New Jersey? (ta-da!) And so on. That reality-TV show Jersey Shore of course reinforced the stereotype. Last Saturday conspiracy theorists finally caught up with the drone business. It was, they told us, the opening phase of Project Blue Beam. That’s a conspiracy theory cooked up thirty years ago by a Canadian wacko, alleging a covert operation by global elites to establish a totalitarian world government by orchestrating fake celestial or supernatural events using advanced technology. Among those on board with that were Roseanne Barr, Adam Kinzinger, Alex Jones, and Charlie Kirk — a pretty solid bench of tinfoil-hat conspiracizers, lacking only Tucker Carlson and RFK, Jr. Sane people pointed out that with most of the sightings near military bases, it wasn’t likely these drones were of foreign nationality, or we would have shot them down. Other sane people said they might not be drones at all, just small manned aircraft displaying the lights that are required in U.S. airspace. The question vexing most of us was: Why don’t the feds tell us what’s going on? With all their surveillance technology, they surely know. Donald Trump voiced that vexation on Monday at a press conference in Palm Beach — his first presser as President-Elect. Quote: The government knows what is happening. For some reason, they don’t want to comment. And I think they’d be better off saying what it is our military knows and our president knows. End quote. I didn’t see much mystery myself. With five weeks to Trump’s inauguration, I assumed that Biden and his people were too busy packing their boxes to bother with minor responsibilities like telling us what they know about something. Then the following day, Tuesday, the FBI, FAA, Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security said in a joint statement that, quote: We assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones. End quote. So that was the end of the drone panic, right? Wrong! 03 — This land is their land. While Jersey Girls had been worrying that voyeurs might be using drones to record their extracurricular activities and Roseanne Barr was moving stuff into her fallout shelter in preparation for the Apocalypse, the New York Post had been gathering information on drone sightings elsewhere. Quote from that organ, December 18th, quote: At least 17 military bases adjacent to Chinese-owned farmland across the US have experienced a rash of drone sightings in recent weeks, The Post has learned. Mysterious drones have been reported near military bases in Hawaii and by installations in Utah, California, Maine and Florida — among other facilities scattered throughout the country. The Post previously identified 19 military bases that lie close to farmland bought up by Chinese-owned companies — a situation that has worried China analysts, who feared the Communist country would use the land to spy on US military operations. End quote. Further down the report we learn that as of year-end 2022, Chinese investors owned 350 thousand acres of US farmland — that’s 546 square miles — as of December 31, 2022. Just one guy, billionaire and Chinese Communist Party member Chén Tiānqiáo is the second-largest foreign owner of farmland in the U.S.A — nearly 200,000 acres of farmland, which is 312 square miles. It’s sheer coincidence, of course, that so much of this Chinese-owned farmland is right up adjacent to our military installations. Sheer coincidence, right? Sure. Reading reports like this I’m struck time and again by the easy-going carelessness of the federal officials we trust to administer our laws, and indeed of the laws themselves. Why isn’t any drone within sight of a U.S. military base immediately shot down? Why do we allow foreigners to buy hundreds of square miles of our farmland? “This land is your land, this land is my land, …” warbled Woody Guthrie back in the day. That needs an update, Woody. Today several hundred square miles of it is their land. How many square miles of mainland China’s farmland is owned by American citizens? I think we all know the answer to that one. Our agricultural land is one component of our country’s resources, of ...
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Dec 20, 2024Tap to summarizeThe final show of the year is a double album set. That means two hours of the dulcet sound of my voice jumping through twenty topics. There were a lot of good questions this time, so rather than try to figure out which ones were the best, I decided to do a two hour show and cover them all. There were some left out only because they were duplicates or not appropriate for a family show. A few will become full shows in the new year. While I was talking about Strauss it occurred to me that it would make for a good trio of shows. One hour on Strauss, one hour on the neocons and one hour on Claremont. All three are tangled up together and all three are relevant to the next administration. There are more than a few people from the Jaffa cult in the Trump team. Another thing that occurred to me while doing the show is a good feature of the new site would be a way to submit show ideas and questions/topics for these multi-topic shows that people seem to like. Over the holidays I am hoping to make some progress on the new site and maybe have it done next month. If anyone has ideas feel free to post them up in the comments Otherwise, this is the final show of the year, other than the green door show. There will be a Sunday show and maybe some video experiments. That is another project on the drawing board. I did some experiments from the back of the truck the other day, so I might test those out over the holiday break. On the other hand, if they are terrible, I might save myself the trouble and scrap the idea. For sites like this to exist, it requires people like you chipping in a few bucks a month to keep the lights on and the people fed. Five bucks a month is not a lot to ask. If you don’t want to commit to a subscription, make a one time donation via crypto. You can send money to: Z Media LLC P.O. Box 1047 Berkeley Springs, WV 25411-3047. You can also use PayPal to send a few bucks. Thank you for your support! This Week’s Show Contents Intro Liberalism Black Pilled Leo Strauss Dissident Art Our Bolsheviks Juvenile Politics AI Cunning & Evil Music Marriage & Family Civilizationalism Jewish Lobby & Christian Profilicity South Asians Populism Versus Dissident Right The Fuentes Business Video & Writing Christianity & Liberalism Israel & Jews Be Not Afraid Direct Download, The iTunes, iHeart Radio, RSS Feed Full Show On Spreaker Full Show On Rumble Full Show On Odysee
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Radio Derb November 22 2024
Nov 23, 2024Tap to summarizeThis Week’s Show Contents 02m01s Musk, Friedman, and Milei 06m44s The Uniparty strikes back 13m56s Masculinity past, present, east, and west 20m24s Report from Jim Snow America 24m03s The Penny Trial 27m29s Jussie off the hook? 29m13s Nations of the mind 31m47s Advice from the Duke 34m45s Signoff with the King Direct Download, The iTunes, Podcast Addict, RSS Feed Full Show On Spreaker Full Show On Rumble Full Show On Odysee Transcript 01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Welcome, listeners; this is your suavely genial host John Derbyshire with edition number 972 of America’s longest-running National Conservative podcast. I should of course commence by wishing Happy Birthday! to our President Joe Biden, who turned 82 on Wednesday. No, I didn’t vote for him. I think his Presidency has been a disaster and I think the leading elements of the Ruling-Class faction who made it happen should all be incarcerated and put to hard labor. Joe Biden’s the President, though; we only get to have one at a time; umpteen millions of my fellow citizens voted for him; so he’s entitled to some respect. Happy Birthday, Sir! President-Elect Trump’s nominations to cabinet and other senior posts in the coming administration proceed apace. Of the 27 that need Senate confirmation, 17 have already been named, although of course none yet confirmed. I’ll take a look at one recent development. First, though, some general observations on our federal government 02 — Musk, Friedman, and Milei. Elon Musk, preparing to take up his post in the Department of Government Efficiency, has posted to X an interview given 25 years ago to Peter Robinson by star 20th-century economist the late Milton Friedman, who was already 87 years old at the time of the intervew. In the matter of federal government departments, Friedman was a minimalist. Robinson went through the federal departments one by one, inviting Friedman to say whether the department should be kept or abolished. Department of Agriculture? “Abolish!” Department of Commerce? “Abolish!” Department of Defense? “Keep it.” Department of Education? “Abolish!” … We ended up at last with just departments of Defense, Justice, State, and Treasury, with grudging acknowledgement that the Feds might need some small involvement in Healthcare. That would be a huge reduction in the power of the federal government, even more so now than it would have been 25 years ago. We have more federal government now than we had then. We have, for example, the Department of Homeland Security, which, under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, is doing so much to keep our homeland secure. I totally approve of Milton Friedman’s attitude, of course. It’s encouraging to know that Musk, who obviously also approves, has the ear of our President-Elect. Some commentators have expressed doubts that the Musk-Trump bromance can endure for four years. I share those doubts. History doesn’t offer many examples of two strong-willed, energetic men sharing power amicably at a high level. “There can only be one Sun in the sky …” But we shall see. In the meantime it’s heartening that these minimalist ideas are taken seriously by the coming administration. One influence has been Javier Milei, who will shortly begin his second year as President of Argentina. One of Milei’s first acts was to halve the number of government departments from 18 to 9, adding only a Ministry of Deregulation. He’s cut government spending by one-third and laid off tens of thousands of public employees. Milei’s efforts are an inspiration, but also a warning. You can’t break that many “iron rice bowls” without making a lot of people angry. Argentina’s going through a recession; there have been strikes and demonstrations. I doubt the Trump-Musk reforms will bring disorder on that scale: pre-Milei Argentina was in far worse shape than Biden’s U.S.A. These things need to be done with skill and tact. They can be done, though; and there was no way they were going to be done by Biden and his people — or the Obamas and their people, which seems to be closer to the truth of what we’ve been living through. So go to it, Mr Trump and Mr Musk! If we do this right, four years from now we shall be living in a freer, safer, more prosperous country. 03 — The Uniparty strikes back. On the Trump nominations, this week’s big news was Matt Gaetz stepping down as Attorney General-designate. The stepping-down was done with dignity and class. Quote from him, posted on X, quote: There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1. I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful President in history. I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I’m certain he will Save America. End quote. That’s straightforward and gentlemanly. I’m liking Matt Gaetz more and more. What’s he going to do now? He was a Congressman, but resigned his seat when he got tapped for the A-G position nine days ago. The week before that, however, he’d been re-elected to the seat; and under the rules, he can rejoin the House when Congress convenes on January 3rd. He told the House Speaker he wouldn’t, but he might change his mind. Or assuming Marco Rubio is confirmed as Secretary of State, Rubio will resign his seat in the Senate. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might then tap Gaetz to fill the seat temporarily pending a special election for new Senator in 2026 to complete Rubio’s term, which ends in 2028. Matt Gaetz might also be appointed to some position that doesn’t require Senate confirmation. There are plenty of those. Trump has already named a Chief of Staff and four — count ’em, four — Deputy Chiefs of Staff. Why not five? Yeah, yeah, it goes against the Musk-Friedman spirit of my previous segment, but for Matt’s sake I wouldn’t mind too much. The reason for Matt Gaetz stepping down was, he told associates (according to the New York Times), that four Senators would vote against his appointment. The four would be: Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of ...
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