Your

Yeah, I know. Stop to keep your chin up business. That Jimmy Kimmel joke that we played

on the show in which the audience people in America have no concept the difference between

their taxes going up or down or the refund going up or down is just disinher- I mean

I democracy won't work. No, no, it's doomed. It's doomed. Sooner you accept that.

Sooner you can have a happy life. Well, let's prolong your suffering for just a moment or two

by trying to make a little sense of the world. With Lon, he, Chen, he is David and Diane

Steffi research fellow to Hoover Institution director of domestic policy studies at Stanford

and ladies and gentlemen, a host of the podcast crossing lines with Lon, he, Chen, will have

a link so you can find that easily. I have a feeling that's really, really good. Lon,

he how are you, sir? Hey guys, good morning. Happy, happy rainy Wednesday. Happy 22 trillion

dollar budget, budget debt day as well. Yeah. So listen, why don't we start with how about

four words? Okay. Green New Deal Go. Oh, how long do we have? Where would you like to start?

You know, I, here's the thing. I tell people that they should just go and read the green

new deal because there's all this angst on the left. It's being mischaracterized. The

conservatives are out to demonize this thing. So, you know, I just went and they said go

and read it. So I did that. I went and read it. And what I discovered, apparently, is that

we should not be flying from Hawaii to California anymore. We should all get in boats. And,

by the way, those boats can't give off, you know, can't have any carbon footprint. So,

I'm talking about commues. So we have to canoe our way from Honolulu to San Francisco now.

That is the vision of the green new deal because they don't want to have any airplanes anymore.

And by the way, they don't want to have any cars, any regular gas consuming cars. So,

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