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Three, two, one, zero, all engine running. Lift-off, we have a lifetown. Conversationalists, it's Eric Yerickson here across the United States. I am delighted to have you with me. The phone number is 877. 973-7-7-4-25. This week is my birthday week, and we're giving away a discount to the daily show notes email. If you text the word data or data, D-A-T-A to 33-777, you get a 20% discount on the show notes. It's a good birthday present for me. It's a great birthday present for you because you get the show notes every day at noon because, you know, you get morning stuff, but you've got to be the paid subscriber to get the show notes. Leland Vittered at News Nation calls it the best. conservative newsletter on the planet, you can get it. You just text data to 33777 and click the subscribe button. I need to talk to you about the commies. Before I do, I got to play this for you. I don't know who put this together, but this is great. James Talarico in Texas, I'm going to play for you two separate interviews at the same time. One interview was given to CBS News on May 27th. The other interview was given to MS Now on May 28th. And he was asked about Republican support in both of these interviews. And I want you to listen to James Howard. And again, what you're hearing is not an echo. What you're about to hear is not an echo. It is two separate interviews, one on the 27th of May. and one on the 28th of May, and the reason I'm playing them in sync, well, just listen. Well, you know, I've gone to every corner of Texas over the course of this campaign, from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarola or Brownsville, and everywhere in between. And I can't tell you the number of people who come up to me at the end of these events and whisper, I'm not a Democrat, like they're in the witness protection program. Well, you know, I... He's got the line so memorized. Even the um. Even he's memorized the um. I mean, literally, y'all, these are two separate interviews on two separate days. And he delivers the exact same word for word statement. Well, you know, I've gone to every corner of Texas over the course of this campaign from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarola or Brownsville, and everywhere in between. And I can't tell you the number of people who come up to me at the end of these events and whisper, I'm not a Democrat.

Like they're in the witness protection program. Wow. Well, well, well, well memorized. Well, well memorized. I'm, I would be a terrible actor because I have a hard time memorizing lines. Now, I've gotten this question and I wrote about this this morning. Why is it? Why is it that so many of the Democratic Socialists of America. are really wealthy kids. They're young, they're 20-somethings. Take Morris Cats. Morris Cats was the media advisor to John Fetterman when John Fetterman was a progressive, like hardcore progressive. And then he walked away when John Fetterman turned out to be reasonable. He's advised Zohran Mamdani himself from a wealthy family. He's now advising Graham Platner, who himself is from a wealthy family. I want to, essentially I'm going to read you my morning piece, but I'll talk about it instead because we can take Zohran Mamdani. You know, he's the son of a Columbia professor and a well-known filmmaker. They're wealthy. They have a compound that they guard 24-7 in Africa. I think it's in Uganda. It is a well-guarded family compound. The surrounding area is... full of poverty, and they have this mansion and infinity pool and all the sort of stuff, and he's kind of become the standard bearer. You've got Morris Katz, who advises him and Graham Platner. He lives on the, from the south end of Manhattan, any of you who know about Manhattan, understand that is where the very rich people live. His mother was an acclaimed author. So Morris Katz, who is Zohran Mamdani's media advisor and Graham Platner's media advisor, decided to write a book about puberty. wanted to put a picture of his male reproductive organ in a book written for children. Ponder that one. The publisher told him it was a bad idea. It was a book for boys going through puberty. And he wanted to put a picture of his male reproductive organ in the book for boys. He is a Democratic socialist who picks radical people. There's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who if you know anything about her, you know she was a bartender, but actually she's from a pretty well-to-do family. There's Elizabeth Warren who decided to claim to be a Native American to get an affirmative action slot at Harvard where she otherwise might not have been qualified. There's Bernie Sanders who honeymooned in the actual Soviet Union and has multiple houses. All of these leaders of the Democratic Socialist Movement in America, or there's Hasan Piker, who's from an extremely wealthy family, who himself is extremely wealthy, gets major subsidies and income from live streaming and other things. wears multi-thousand-dollar glasses and clothes and has massively expensive sports cars and yet claims to be a socialist or communist. What's going on? Well, the pattern is older than the Democratic Socialists of America. You know, Frederick Engels co-authored the Communist Manifesto, and he ran his father's textile mill in Manchester, England, and Karl Marx married in Depression nobility, and he lived off of Frederick Engel's industrial fortune.

Lennon's father held hereditary status under the Tsarist table of ranks. Fidel Castro was the son of one of the largest landowners in Cuba. The proletariat that these people claim to support rarely starts revolutions. It's the disaffected sons of the bourgeois, the upper middle class, the shopkeepers and the like who start the revolutions. The patterns held for pretty much two centuries. What socialism reliably produces when imposed isn't equality but a closed cast. The Soviet nomenclatured had sealed stores like the elite of the Soviet Union had hospitals they could go to that were advanced. They had schools they could go to that were advanced. They had grocery stores they could go to that were like Western grocery stores. They had daches. They had these big palatial homes that the normal people of the Soviet Union didn't have. Remember, from each according to his ability to each according to his need, except if you were at the upper echelons of Soviet society, you were protected from communism. The Chinese Communist Party has what they call princelings. Xi Jinping is one of the princelings. They have inherited political positions. North Korea has three generations of Kim's in charge. The Castro's gave Cuba six decades of dynastic rule. The empirical record is pretty uncontested. Every long-running communist regime has frozen its founding elite into a hereditary aristocracy. The system that promised to abolish class only ever abolish the class mobility that threatens the rulers. So what's up with the United States and all these elite kids, rich kids who are from elite families who have decided to become communist? Well, here's what's going on here. A free market. is ruthlessly meritocratic. Joseph Schumter called it creative destruction, the relentless process by which yesterday's titans can be unseated by tomorrow's strivers. David can slay Goliath in a capitalist system. The immigrant entrepreneur can eclipse the inherited fortune. The garage startup can gut the incumbent. Capitalism doesn't care who your father was. It takes your standing and hands it to the kid from Queens with a better idea. For someone who suspects quietly, he is the exactly the unearned aristocrat who is living on his family's elite status. Capitalism is a threat. So you got to stamp out capitalism to preserve your place in elite society. Socialism offers what these people want. They replaced the Marduk's verdict with the committee's verdict. The credentialed, the connections, the cultural fluencies.

of the elite child that they accumulate in prep school become decisive. That's where woke speech comes in. It is a virtue signal that they are of the caste system to be protected. The Ph.D. from the Kay Ivey League can't be displaced by the H-FAC contractor skill set in a system that allocates success in society by ideological vocabulary and bureaucratic capture. The nonprofit, the agency, the university, the foundation, those are the institutions, the inherited elite already died. and precisely the institutions, the socialist order empowers. Empowerment requires a mandate, and that's where... victimization comes in. The inherited radical faces a problem of legitimacy in society, and so he can't rule in the name of his own privilege. He's got a manufacturer constituency and then position himself as a TED. So this is why the socialist societies of America, why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders and Zordamundami and Graham Platner and the like, they pursue victimization in society. They claim that society is irredeemable. But he, being a credentialed person who can navigate it, for those suffering, is qualified to lead them. So it's entirely based on performance of victimhood. A grievance that is resolved liquidates his position. A striver who climbs out of his own refutes the entire premise. The activist is therefore structurally invested in keeping his underclass aggrieved, dependent, and convinced that the ladder is rigged because the moment they believe they can climb the ladder themselves. They no longer need the socialist leaders. They no longer need Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Elizabeth Warren or Graham Platner or Zohran Mamdani and Zohran Mamdani. They've got to be perpetual victims of a society. Now, the logic here is that the bourgeois are the villains. The middle class is denounced because it oppresses the worker. Not really. It's because it's the living refutation of the whole arrangement. The shopkeeper is proclaimed to be the oppressor, but really he's the proof that there is no oppression. The shopkeeper, the contractor, the engineer who built his own firm, the immigrant family that ran the bodega into a chain of stores. These are the people creative destruction elevates the people who prove their grievances and destiny. They expose the inherited elite as unearned and the manufactured victimhood as a racket. It's why, by the way, they're wrapping around Graham Platner. Graham Platner is backed by Bernie Sanders in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren. He claims to be a working class major. Did you know Graham Platner is actually from a very wealthy family? He claims to be an oyster man. He sells oysters on a very rich friend's private island to his own mother's restaurant. His father and grandfather were wealthy. His grandfather Warren Graham Platner was a modernist architect. He designed the dining room at Windows of the World atop the World Trade Center that was destroyed on 9-11. He designed the interiors of the Ford Foundation building. Graham Platner's father, Bronson Graham Platner, is a Dartmouth-educated lawyer who contributed over $60,000 to Democratic candidates and put up Graham Platner's $200,000 payment for his home. Got a loan from his daddy. He also funded Graham Platner's $75,000-year private school that he was forced out of for indiscretions that will be coming out shortly.

But Graham Platner claims to be a worker. He claims disability. He claims the VA put up the loan for his home, but it was actually from his dad. He lied about his biography. He presents himself as a victim of the system and claims that he can navigate the system. And it's blue collar branding. It's not reality. It's mandate manufacturing performed in real time, showing that he's a guy who can lead the proletary. He's a guy who can lead the victimized masses. He can pretend to be a victim and claim the mantle of leadership of the victims, even though he's not a victim. He made up his biography. He lied about it. Like Zohran Mamdani lied about it. His family is very wealthy. Hasan Piker, his family is very wealthy. And they want to lead others by telling others that, see, I'm a victim of this race. this oppressive society, the bigots, and I've elevated and ascended, never mind it was their mommy and daddy who did it for them. And so they want to lead the victims. Because in a free market system, they know deep down that they lack the merit to get ahead. They've relied on their family's wealth and their elite vocabulary and connections to get ahead. Today's wealthy young radicals, they need not... Justly script any of this. The instinct suffices. They intuit the free market's verdict on their merit would be unkind and that their authority rests on keeping others convinced they cannot rise without them. Socialism is the insurance policy, dressed up as equality, sold as liberation, and structured always to keep the preferred people on top. That's what we're dealing with here. with the elite these days. That's why all the rich kids are communist, because deep down they know that in a free market, they lack the skills. and relatability and education to actually succeed. And so they need a socialist system that they can be in charge of to protect their elite status. It's the same story every time communism has tried. The failed children of the elite who know deep down their failures preserve a system that protects their privilege while telling everyone else it's the system preventing the others from getting ahead when really it's the rich kids who are preventing everyone else from getting ahead because God forbid they have some competition. Those who love him, listen to find out what he's going to say next. Those who disagree with him also listen to see what he's going to say next. It's the Eric Erickson Show.

The Four Things You Need to Know podcast, giving you the four things to pay attention to after the show, available on YouTube and your favorite podcast app, or by texting Eric to 3377777. Video went viral yesterday for the MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, and it was a homeless man peeing onto the tracks. He sadly missed the third rail. I have been accosted on the MARTA system in Atlanta, and this is happening around the country, except you know where it's not happening anymore? San Francisco. The BART system. In San Francisco, they have closed the terminals now. You can't get into the stations unless you pay. And it has dropped crime almost 100%. And they've been able to reopen the public bathrooms inside the terminals because the vandalism crime defacing and the like has gone down. Here in Atlanta the other day, Margaret Sam Swan, 66, was killed on a train. At 11.30 a.m. Saturday, she's a former Atlanta public school employee. John Matthews, 25, is behind bars charged with her murder. She was stabbed to death on board the Marta train. How is it that progressives in this country continue to demand the rest of us move into cities and take public transit and they do not want to keep you safe? This is a failure of the progressive system. It is an absolute failure of progressives in America to manage cities. And I'm a big fan of the mayor of Atlanta, by the way, but it's the MARTA system that is not exactly under his direct purview. It's a system. that is under the purview of others and these people went woke and they have allowed their system to be hijacked by homeless vagrants who are now murdering people like they've done in other cities around the country. They deface the property. They... pee on the tracks that they bump into people, they steal money from people, they sell drugs in there. You know, the only people I know Atlanta has a streetcar, and the only people I know who have ever used the streetcar are people who admit to me that when they were in college, they used it to buy drugs. It's a safe place to buy drugs. The people, the government employees in charge should be shameful, shamed by what they're doing to the public. Now, picture this. You're at work and your phone buzzes. It's your kid's number. And it's your kid's voice. And they're panicked saying that they've been in an accident. They need money wired right now. You'd move heaven and earth, wouldn't you? It's what scammers are doing.

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About Donald Trump. You were the ones who said that it was a sign of a moral character flaw on the right that Republicans would support a guy like Donald Trump. And you would never do that. And here you are. And then Republicans also point out, you guys kind of started it with Bill Clinton. I mean, who was dittling interns in the office and using cigars in odd ways and groping women. And you said you were getting from him what you wanted on abortion rights and the like. Therefore, you were willing to turn a blind eye. It is kind of wild for Democrats to have this high-mindedness. In fact, I've seen media commentary on this. Like, will the Democrats finally become what the Republicans have become? And have they all forgotten Bill Clinton? literally had what the head of Ney Rao at the time, the nags, the national abortion gals that were out there saying, you know what, who cares what Bill Clinton did to interns? He gives us what we wanted abortion rights. And they were perfectly willing. to take that line with Bill Clinton at the time. And then the Republicans fast forward to all these years later to Trump after the Democrats have assailed George Bush as Hitler and Mitt Romney as Hitler and John McCain is Hitler. Suddenly Republicans nominate Donald Trump. And remember Bill Maher back in 2016, one of his stand-up lines was, listen, I know we've said that Mitt Romney and McCain and Bush were all Hitler, but this guy really is. And the Republicans are like, you know what? You guys stood by. Bill Clinton. You stood by John Kerry. You stood by all these people. We're going with Donald Trump to blow up Washington, D.C. And the Democrats are like, we have never done anything like that. Democrats, by the way, always, always find a way to proclaim their own virtuousness. That is, I think, the thing, if you can understand one thing about the Democratic Party, they rely on the mythology of their own virtuousness to sleep well at night. It is Democrats who backed Bill Clinton, despite his philandering, his abuse of power with interns and things like that, they said he gives us what we want. So Trump comes along. Republicans do that and Democrats like we would never vote for a guy like Donald Trump. You literally voted for and protected a man who was shoving cigars to the insides of women. That is who you Democrats were. Because he gave you what you wanted. You were willing to allow the abuse of power, a man who you say Donald Trump was in the Epstein files, Bill Clinton was photographed with the Epstein women, and you gave him a pass on all of this stuff, and you claimed that you would never support a man like Donald Trump, how offensive it was.

He didn't get a swatstick. He got the symbol of the guards who murdered the Jews in concentration camps, tattooed to his chest, and admitted he knew what it was until it became inconvenient and then pretended he had no idea, and maybe he was drunk when he got it. This is a man who refuses to take responsibility for himself. He refuses to take any responsibility. He blamed Susan Collins. By the way, you know what he did yesterday. He attacked Susan Collins for getting the support of Jews. Yeah, you can't be surprised. Jews wouldn't want to fund a man who got a Nazi tattoo. And now he's attacking Susan Collins for getting money from Jews. Of course he's blaming Jews. And the Democrats, instead of saying vote for Janet Mills, are saying we're going to protect Graham Platner. He's our guy. The primary is not until next week. The Democrats could in unison be saying everyone support Janet Mills. She's still on the ballot. She even came out yesterday and reminded people she's on the ballot. And the Democrats could be out there vocal. this week saying, people, you got to vote for Janet Mills, character counts. We can't be like the Republicans because they think they're better than the Republicans. Instead, they're saying, hey, you Republicans support guys like Paxson and Trump. We're going to support a Nazi who cheated on his wife, who bought drugs, including cocaine while in the military, who bragged about loving to kill people, who signed up repeatedly to go to war zones to kill people, and used his leave to bang hookers in Thailand. That's the guy. We want to send to the Senate when there's another choice. And then the Democrats say, well, he was youthful when he did. He was in his 30s. They claim he was a teenager or in his 20s. He was in his 30s when he got the Nazi tattoo and did these things. He was in his 30s. He wasn't a child. He was in his 30s. And they're pretending that he was a child because they don't want to grapple with the fact that they're backing a 30-year-old Nazi-turned communist in Maine. And they want you to ignore the primary has not happened. And there is another candidate on the ballot who Democrats could choose. But the Democrats have chosen to stand with a Nazi-turn communist instead of the incumbent governor of Maine who they could choose as their alternative. So spare me, Democrats, your moral preening over Republicans back into Ken Paxton. He became the Republican nominee. Graham Platner has not become the Democratic nominee and yet you people have chosen to side with him. Spare me your lectures of morality. Spare me your lectures of choice. Spare me your lectures on how Republicans have led you to do this. If the Republicans have led the Democrats to circle the wagons around a Nazi turned communist in Maine who has been abusive and who has cheated on his wife and sent sexually explicit messages to women within three years of his marriage and done all the other stuff he's already confessed to. And more out. allegations are coming, and you've already circled the wagons around him, you can spare the rest of us lectures over the GOP in Texas chose this guy and you're standing behind him. The Democrats in Maine have not yet chosen, Graham Platner, and yet nationally the Democrats act like they have. I mean, I don't like Ken Paxton. I can understand voters in Texas choosing him over James Talarico. These are the choices, Talariko or Paxon.

Another choice on the Democratic ballot in Maine, and the Democrats have chosen to ignore the incumbent governor there for this guy. That's a bridge too far for me. It's like the arrogance of the media circling the wagons around Scott Pelly. It actually is. Scott Pelley is one of the people at CBS News, who is an arrogant and pretentious guy. who has covered for Joe Biden, gave him that softball interview, defended Joe Biden over his stuttering. And now he's come out and he's attacking the changes being made at CBS News. Let's not forget what is her name, Alfonzi or whatever, who got the can. She was the one who produced the story in Florida about publics and vaccines that even Democrats denounced as a hack job. And Scott Pelley's defending the woman who was accused of doing the hack job. And Scott Pelley doesn't think he should be fired. If I were in charge of CBS News, I would fire Scott Pelley of 60 minutes for his arrogance in thinking he can lecture his bosses about the integrity of a news program that has used its credibility to regularly defend Democrats and protect Democratic interests and attack Republicans. The fact that Bari Weiss came in and started making changes and the ratings for 60 minutes have gone up should tell CBS everything they need. need more of Bari Weiss and less of Scott Pelley. The Democrats, however, again, like Scott Pelly, they view themselves as virtuous. And Scott Pelley goes to bed at night thinking, I'm a nonpartisan overtly smug journalist. I have no biases. Yeah, you have absolute biases for the Democratic Party. You protected Joe Biden, and now you're upset that you don't have the power you once had. The end of the partisan press is happening, and the Democrats don't know how to take it. You got Brian Stelter, you even got Howard Kurtz out there defending 60 minutes. And Scott Pelley, these people have contributed to the... decline of the media. They've contributed to the climate where people no longer trust the media. And now their cover, by the way, in parts of the media for guys like Graham Platner, just solidifies how partisan the media is. The burning down of all these institutions cannot come fast enough. And the funniest part about it all is how it's the members of the media themselves who are helping pour the gasoline and strike the matches as we watch these institutions burn to the ground. 60 minutes, if you don't fire Scott Pelley. I'm going to question the judgment of management because that guy was out of line in what he did. And you Democrats, if you don't reject Graham Platner for Janet Mills, you too can spare us any lectures on morality. When the truth seems hazy, Eric will clear the way. It's the Eric Erickson Show.

Hello, my friends. I just got a nice email from someone saying I missed the Rush Limbaugh pregnant pauses. Sometimes I get criticized for pausing too much, but I was on a roll in the last segment. I'm also in a hotel room, and had I paused too much, you would have heard the fire truck with its sirens directly outside the window. The things we sometimes have to do for audio. I'm in a hotel room in Washington, D.C. I flew up last night. I'm giving an off-the-record speech this afternoon to some dignitaries, and then I'm on a plane back home tonight. And so if you all text data to 3377, you can get a discount on my show notes, and I can use the revenue and actually maybe... finally get net jets. So I am so, y'all, I got on a plane last night. I'm sitting in first class. I'm sitting in the very first row. Person sits down next to me. Reeks, reeks of weed, reeks of weed. I can't believe they let him, I mean, it stunk. Takes his shoes off. Takes his shoes off. Puts his feet up. At least he's got socks on on the ball kid. and begins to view extremely explicit pictures on his phone, which she doesn't have one of them. Like I got a little shield on my phone. They made me put on it where from an angle you can't say, no, no, his phone is all lit up with these pictures. And then we take off, he turns his phone over. It leaves the screen on, I notice, because it's blaring bright and dozes off. And all I can think is, yep. I got to buy a lottery ticket and hope I win so I can start using Net Jets because good Lord. That was, I mean, just, I mean, forget the pictures didn't last long. It was the, it was the smell and the taking his shoes off. It was just gross. People have just lost all sense of self. I'm like, dude, Spirit Airlines is not Delta. We are not Spirit Airlines here. Put your shoes on and turn your phone. I just, oh, it was, ugh. I'm. I got a fly to Oklahoma City in two weeks, and then I got to fly back to New York, and then I got to go to Vegas, and then at the end of July I finally get a vacation. I'm kind of getting tired of airplanes, folks. I have gotten 500,000 miles now on Delta between credit card stuff and fly in so much these past six months. I'm just kind of tired of flying, and particularly when you sit next to people who reek of weed and take their shoes off on the plane, it's just kind of. It's kind of gross. It kind of is. 877-97-9-37-3-7-4-25. When we come back, the president has finally, finally, I'm afraid, overplayed his hand and lost control of Congress. The House and Senate Republicans have decided to stop giving the president what he wants. In fact, they're actively obstructing the president's agenda now. And his picking of Bill Pulte to be the director of national intelligence is not going over well with Republican members of Congress who are now quite furious with him.

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