Very true:

I hear a lot of people who are moderates, independents, or even some conservatives say that Andrew Yang is the smartest and most reasonable guy on the Democratic primary stage right now.

He may be, but he’s still a blithering ideological idiot.

I don’t care how he’s supposed to be some tech entrepreneur genius, he’s a macroeconomics moron.

Frequent readers of this blog know that I have taken his UBI to task.  It won’t make people better, it will subsidize indolence and rob people of their motivation and dignity.  Assuming it doesn’t cause hyperinflation and collapse the value of our dollar, what does paying a person $12,000 per year do.  A person working minimum wage full time is making $14,500 pre-deductions.

So how many minimum wage people would quit working or quit working full time to be idle and live off their UBI?

The idea that people would still work full time and then have a combined income of $26,500 per year (pre deductions) is fantasy and not reflective of how humans really behave.  A UBI would be a disaster, and it has been everywhere it has been tried on the small scale.

But there are two clips I saw last night of him at a town hall that really nailed just how dumb he is on macroeconomics.

Andrew Yang: The goal of our climate plan is to make it so we don’t “own our own cars” pic.twitter.com/ucN0cowjVl

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 19, 2019

First of all, government control of our ability to travel freely is a massive restriction on our rights.  I agree with the great Iowahawk, we need a Second Amendment for cars.  The great Bill Whittle did a wonderful video about how the car is freedom and restricting car ownership restricts freedom (watch it, it’s excellent).

Those are good points but this is post about economics.

Yang demonstrates his total lack of knowledge of the Tragedy of the Commons.   In a nutshell, people don’t value and take care of things they don’t own.

When nobody owns a car and we all share in a fleet of vehicles, who will care about keeping them clean or running?  Nobody.  That fleet of self-driving cars will make the NYC subway system look clean.  It will be the biggest waste of money as those vehicles are turned, very quickly, into sel driving dumpsters.

Then there was this clip:

.@AndrewYang says beef should include the cost of cows’ “emissions” so that it becomes so expensive people stop eating it. pic.twitter.com/ZoDtCp0fT5

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 19, 2019

Let us crunch some numbers.  The US is responsible for less than 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions.  Only 9% of US greenhouse gasses come from agriculture, and only 42% of all agriculture emissions come from animal agriculture.

Put that all together and 42% of 9% of 15% is 0.57%.  Less than six-tenths of one percent of global greenhouse gases come from all US animal agriculture.  Being generous, let’s say that beef is half of US animal agriculture, which is three-tenths of one percent of global greenhouse gases.

According to the USDA, the Beef industry was worth $67 Billion in 2018.  The meat industry as a whole was worth $864 Billion, or 6% of the American GDP.  The meat industry employs half a million people directly and more than six million including distributors and others.

So Yang here wants to make meat, especially beef, more expensive, perhaps prohibitively expensive for working-class Americans, over greenhouse gases.

To put numbers to it, he wants to put hundreds of thousands to millions of Americans out of work, disrupt a near trillion-dollar segment of our economy, and make life more miserable for many, many people all to slightly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of an industry that is right now responsible for a fraction of a percent of global greenhouse emissions.

That is bullshit.

This guy is an economic clown.  He may know how to make himself rich in tech, but in terms of macroeconomics, his a fucking idiot.

This Tweet from March for our Lives is pure gold (link is live but screengrabs are forever).

The article is from American Military News:

Colt is ending production of AR-15s

Very first sentence:

Colt Firearms will be ending its production and sales of its AR-15 rifles due to lack of public demand amid excess market capacity.

They saw “lack of public demand” but skipped over “amid excess market capacity.”

Second paragraph:

Colt released a statement on Thursday to clarify the decision, which was made because the company simply isn’t selling enough of the rifles in the civilian marketplace to continue devoting the resources into it — a pattern that may be attributed to Colt rifles’ $1,000+ price tag and a market supplied with lower priced competitors.

Nobody wants to pay a grand for a Colt AR-15 when you can get one from Palmetto State, DPMS, Anderson Manufacturing, and S&W for sub $500 depending on features, and all just as reliable and often more accurate.

Third paragraph:

Colt President and CEO Dennis Veilleux said, “The fact of the matter is that over the last few years, the market for modern sporting rifles has experienced significant excess manufacturing capacity. Given this level of manufacturing capacity, we believe there is adequate supply for modern sporting rifles for the foreseeable future.”

The market is flooded with low-cost alternatives that Cold can’t compete with so they are pulling out of the game.

Fifth Paragraph:

“On the other hand, our warfighters and law enforcement personnel continue to demand Colt rifles and we are fortunate enough to have been awarded significant military and law enforcement contracts. Currently, these high-volume contracts are absorbing all of Colt’s manufacturing capacity for rifles,” he said.

Rather than lose money on the civilian market, they are putting all their resources into military contracts – which by the way are mostly overseas to support allies in the war on terror.

Sixth paragraph:

Veilleux doesn’t want customers to think the decision has any bearing on the company’s support of civilian customers or the Second Amendment.

Colt isn’t doing this for political reasons, just the money.

So this article contradicts the very essence of March for our Lives’ Tweet.  They read the first nineteen words of the article and jumped for joy and ignored the rest,

I just wouldn’t consider the idea of the market being so flooded with cheap AR-15’s that Colt can’t profit off civilian sales as their definition of “winning.”

That’s more like our definition of winning.

Do you know what you do today will stop the end of the world in 12 years? How do we fight it and survive? By placing a banner in an pedestrian overpass!

It was not taken well by the Pod-eating generation that swear will save us with their scientific knowledge acquired in the latest app by Bill Nye n they wish me to die soon.

After I posted that, I figured I should share with you guys:

I have been hearing tales of Environmental doom since the late 70s and we were supposed to be under 7 feet of ice by now according to the SETTLED SCIENCE back then only to have it switched to Global Warming and ASSURED END OF THE WORLD BY 2000! and we are still here breathing and kicking.

And now we flipped to the vague term Climate Change that pretty much covers whatever people want to be: IT IS HOT! ZOMG! CLIMATE CHANGE! (formerly known as Hot Spell)
IT IS SNOWING IN THE ROCKIES! CLIMATE CHANGE! (something that has never happened before, right) ZOMG! HURRICANES IN FLORIDA! (Also, first time Evah!)

WE HAVE 12 YEARS LEFT TO LIVE!

Pardon me if I am a bit reticent about believing this new doomsday date based only in political BS from a bartender from Brooklyn and an angry 21st version of Pippi Longstocking.

I do believe it is not going to go well anyway… Who cares?

This made my day.

WATCH: Exchange between @RepMattGaetz and @TheRevAl.

Full video here: https://t.co/Os6QuMZQOL pic.twitter.com/LWdPsLh7yu

— CSPAN (@cspan) September 19, 2019

From Standard Form 86 – Questionnaire for National Security Positions

Question 29.1: Are you now or have you EVER been a member of an organization dedicated to terrorism, wither with an awareness fo the organization’s dedication to that end, or with the specific intent to further such activities?

So if the Democrats do at the national level what they did in San Francisco, how will that affect every NRA member who has or is trying to get a security clearance, and do they know how many security contractors are NRA members?

President Donald Trump was born June 14, 1946.  That means that he was 18 years old when the Civil Rights Act was passed and segregation was finally ended.  At 73 years old, he is old enough to fit the mold of the “old, racist Grandpa” that Progressives love to write articles about.

The Democrats and the Media (redundant, I know) tell us daily that Trump is a racist and try and point out the racism in every single thing that he does.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was born December 25, 1971, he’s only 47 and squarely a Gen X’er.  He finished high school in 1990 and college in 1994.  He was younger when he was elected PM than Obama was when he (Obama) was elected President.

Trudeau is also the internet’s Woke Bae.  This was the PM who chastised a teenage girl for saying “mankind” reminding her is “peoplekind” (“peoplekind” is such a made-up, Woke, bullshit word that my spell checker keeps telling me it’s wrong).

So which one of these world leaders do you think is the one who had pictures taken of him in Blackface?

If you followed the #MeToo campaign and learned that declaring oneself to be a “male feminist” is near 100% accurate predictor of being a rapist, then you probably make some assumptions about the world leader that declares himself an anti-racist.

Yep, it’s PM Justin Trudeau that has not one, not two, but three different photos or videos surface of him in some sort of racial blackface.

These were not from the 1960’s mind you, because he wasn’t born yet.  Nope, these date from the 1990s and as late as 2001.

Trudeau has started on his apology tour, but I’m curious how merciless Woke cancel culture will be to their once beloved Woke Bea.

Hopefully very.

P.S.  Given how much Trudeau pushed being anti-racist and to see this, and to know that he calls himself a “male feminist” I’m wondering when the story of him having a The-Girl-With-the-Dragon-Tattoo-esque kidnap and rape torture dungeon emerge.