California has lots of good stuff and lots of bad stuff. Is it really headed for 3rd World status? Why is the middle class moving out? Are the beaches and mountains worth the hassle?  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

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Did you know Cali is the poorest state per capita when factoring housing? - Still the Golden State? The many pros and many cons of California

Bill Gates says that cow flatulence is creating too much C02 and as such we should grow our meat in test tubes instead of on the hoof. That does not sound appetizing.  However REAL steak is still readily available and I show in this episode you how to impress your friends with your meat grilling skills. It's not that hard and people will LOVE your steaks. (Put your dad to shame.) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Bill Gates wants you to eat lab created meat. YUCK. I explain how to cook the perfect (real) steak, guaranteed, on the grill and in a pan

Biden want's you the taxpayer to spend another $3 trillion on "infrastructure", AKA a Democratic Party wish list of programs including federal funding of universal pre-school?  Where will this money come from? Some will be debt. In the  end it will all morph into debt. But taxes are going to go up too including (at this point - so who knows) couples making $200,000/year. ($400k was supposed to be the limit.) Dems also want to raise the corporate tax from 21% to 28% which is basically job suicide. The USA long had the highest corporate rates in the world and this chased away business. Now we are more competitive, but raising corporate rates (which are ultimately paid for by the consumer in one way or another) would set us way back. This is absolute folly but some in Congress want to move now and to fund big government dreams before Congress potentially changes hands.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Unhinged: Biden Wants to Spend ANOTHER $3 TRILLION, Debt Already Larger than the US Economy

There is no government unless the private sector pays for the government. Civil servants are supposed to be just that - servants. They work at the pleasure of the taxpayer fundamentally. However there is a large group of people these days who think getting rich in politics is perfectly legitimate. This is an example of a creeping banana republic kind of thinking in this country. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Truman: ‘You Can’t Get Rich in Politics Unless You’re a Crook’ - We have a lot of 'rich' people in politics these days

2008 was an important point in the history of this country. Probably as important as 2001. It was in the Great Recessions that the American people saw the big shots abandon capitalism and anything like fair play in the marketplace to save their skins, while everyday people lost their homes. - The result? People blamed "capitalism" for this unfair situation and started to demand that government bail them out too.  The thing is, bailouts are the exact opposite of capitalism, and it is the American taxpayers, the engine of American prosperity, who have paid for these bailouts anyway. (In more ways than one.) Our current system is not sustainable. But the politicians/cronies/other people addicted to government won't stop until the system comes to an agonizing halt.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

We'd be better off now had we let the banks implode in 2008/2009. Now, government addiction is widespread

The Biden Pentagon is dangerously engaging in partisan games. This must stop immediately.  The Republican Party should hold up and celebrate REPUBLIC-an values, The Constitution, federalism, rule of law, limited government, as a way forward. A "big tent" that is big enough to counter a Democratic Party that all too often seems driven by a mob mentality.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

If you wear a military uniform you don't get to engage in partisan politics. - The GOP should embrace "REPUBLIC- an" values

There's whole lot o' stupidity going on these days. From Cardi B, to arguing over pronouns in Congress, we are a distracted, childish nation. Who will step up? Will this era ever end? How does it end?  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Are the "Old Media" pushing a REVOLUTION FOR THE STUPID?

Bill is correct. We are a silly people now. We spend time arguing about pronouns and microaggressions while China, now a serious country, laughs. We discuss China, and American silliness, and the American crony capitalist system - which helps to enable this “silly” non-serious disposition. Can it be turned around? Can we get serious. Can we start acting like adults? - I don't know.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

"Americans are a silly people" - Bill Maher, And China is eating our lunch

My governor Northam in VA is a guide for Cuomo. Just don’t leave. People will get over it. (In the case of Northam is was a blackface photo). If you had shame you wouldn’t have gone into politics in the first place right? Please consider becoming a sponsor at HERE. It's super easy and helps us do what we do.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Son’bitchery: Cuomo’s not going to leave, Newsom might be recalled, Whitmer COULD be in hot water

Yesterday was the last day for my old website AC2News.com. Part of Against Crony Capitalism, AC2 covered all news crony for almost 10 years. Then, Facebook effectively strangled it. Our 400,000 followers could no longer see us in their feeds. It's a sad day but there are other opportunities and adventures to be had. However all people who believe in a free Internet need to sit up and take notice NOW. - In time the censors of this era will likely be derided as busybodies and illiberal. But in the meantime they must be confronted. Liberty, as Jefferson said, is only one generation away from being extinguished at any time.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Not "Right" or "Left": " The real division here is between those who believe in a free Internet and those who do not. -Glenn Greenwald

Is affirmative action fair and just? We argue that it is not. 2 wrongs don't make a right. But there are interesting complications that are often not discussed in the affirmative action equation. Harry and Meghan, if you can't go back to the UK at least go back to Canada. This is the USA. We don't have "royals" here. The social media fact checkers are out of control at the moment. They have gone far beyond "fact" checking. They are now censors.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Is Affirmative Action just?, Harry and Meghan are insufferable, "Fact checkers" or just censors?

Has the GOP become the party of the working/middle class and small business, while the Dems  the party - generally - of the folks who feed off of the wealth created by the working/middle class and business owners. Think govt workers, cronies in large corporations with deep connections to government and access to subsidies. We are in an interesting period of transition and change. To be clear, I am no Republican. But I am no Dem either.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

Has the GOP become the party of the working/middle class and biz owners, and The Dems the party of crony capitalists and govt dependent?

1. The bots talk to you when you chat with the bank online. They give you a ticket when you run a red light. How long until robot judges, cops? - Not a joke. Worth considering for society's sake. 2. "Equity" is a dog whistle term being used in social justice circles. -- It does not mean "equality". It means the opposite. It means the "equality of outcomes" in society. The only way to make that happen is through the use of brute governmental force. Think lowest common denominator. #VivaFountainhead  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

The bots have taken over the Internet. Is the world next? - "Equity" is a code word for discrimination and authoritarianism

This podcast is not going to be all politics and economic policy. Sometimes we'll talk about other stuff. Today we are talking cars.  You know what is awesome? A BMW M5. A new Corvette. A Ford F-150.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

I examine each make of car on sale in the United States. (Honda is the best.But not my favorite.) Part 1

Are “fascism” and “socialism” just 2 sides of the same coin? Most people who read this website probably know where we land on this question. The two ideologies have the same father and are not really that different from one another. Both are collectivist dreams. Both venerate the state over the individual. Both are obsessed with works projects and managing the economy. Both see the ends as justifying the means. And yet by some bizarre accident (actually it’s not really that much of an accident) of history fascism has somehow become associated with the “Right” and socialism with the “Left.” Part of the problem is that the terms “Right” and “Left” don’t really make much sense. There are those who are for more statism and there are those who are for less statism. Both Nazis and Communists are for ever more power to the state. Those with a classically liberal drift are on the other end of the political spectrum (assuming we want to be intellectually honest). As Daniel Hannan points out below, one of the key differences between the two similar camps is that Hitler (and others) saw that it was just more efficient to keep the bourgeois factory owners and managers in place than to liquidate the entire class as they had in Soviet Russia. It wasn’t like the factory owners and other business owners weren’t under the thumb of the party vanguard post 1933, or that the industrialists even “owned” the Nazi Party. They were just kept on and co-opted in technocratic German style. The other key factor in differentiating between the fascists and the “socialists” was that Bolshevism was widely associated with the Jewish intelligentsia and Hitler of course despised the Jews. Hitler hated the Jews (tragically) even more than he hated bourgeois liberal republicanism and democracy and that is why they were the first to meet his wrath. (From The Telegraph) On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he wrote, for capitalists nor priests nor Tsars. Rather, in the place of debased, Jewish Bolshevism, the Wehrmacht would deliver “der echte Sozialismus”: real socialism. Goebbels never doubted that he was a socialist. He understood Nazism to be a better and more plausible form of socialism than that propagated by Lenin. Instead of spreading itself across different nations, it would operate within the unit of the Volk. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-sorrentino/support

What is fascism REALLY? Goebbels was a professed socialist. Was FDR a fascist?

Politics, pop culture, and economics from a Washington insider/outsider perspective. Nick Sorrentino is the co-founder and editor of AC2NEWS.com. A political and communications consultant whose clients have spanned the political spectrum, his work has been featured at Foreign Policy Magazine, Chief Executive Magazine, Reason.com, NPR.com, Townhall, The Daily Caller, and many other publications. He has spoken at CPAC, The Commit Forum, The Atlas Summit, The US Chamber of Commerce, The National Press Club, and at other venues. Sorrentino is the Founder of Exelorix Consultants.

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