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a dot com slash doing our part. I think the loss of community is one of the biggest consequences of automation and artificial intelligence in the way they're changing work. Used to be, you've got a lot of community from the workplace because you knew that you would have a
lifelong relationship with a single employer. And that was true whether you were a blue collar worker at a at a production facility and your spouses get to know each other through the union technics, or whether you're a white collar worker at a c P A firm and you and your spouses get to know each other at the firm dinners um. That model is fading away. People in my generation are likely to change careers more often than
our parents change jobs. Who was that young firebrand, Pete butter Jitch who when he talks, I think, Bob, that is really interesting, even the stuff that I don't agree with, I think that is an interesting way to present it, at least as thoughtful. Yeah and and not And so far I haven't heard him hit any of those phrases that you know he knows is complete bs and he's just throwing it out there to make everybody go yeah,
which you hear from all candidates all the time. I don't know if that means he's got a better shot or no shot. I have a and that a powerful and bitter criticism of Mr butter Jig coming up a little bit later on as a candidate or his political stances. Um, his political stances. Yeah, just something I vehemently disagree with on.
But you know, we'll get to that eventually. Right now, though, speaking of Pete butter Jig and another young firebrand who's getting a lot of attention on the Democrats side of the al Tiana Load joins just Tiana's a commentary writer for The Washington Examiner. Thiata welcome, how are you hi? Thank you for having me. It's our pleasure. Thanks so listen to any agreement disagreement. Pete Butter j just seems like a thoughtful and sincere young man. Well, yes, certainly.
I mean he's a Rhodes scholar, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard by data Kappa, served the country, he was a lieutenant in the Navy, and clearly he knows his policy shops. Yeah, unlike these like six senators who are running for president, who keep on, you know, making fools of themselves discussing was saying nineties three trillion dollar a green new deals and being unable to answer basic questions about the Medicare for All bill that they support. But
a judge has been quite nuanced. And that's not to say that he hasn't proven himself extremely progressive and less doing in a way that I think scares me personally. But he's able to answer his questions understanding the minutia of the policy that he's advocating for. Yeah. Well, I look at all these things as two different things. By grading this person as a candidate because I like the sport of running for president or I discussing policy in terms of running for president, I think he is the
class of the field. I don't know if that style of running for president works anymore though, so I guess that remains to be seen. Yeah, I mean, so right now is top pole that everyone's been talking about is pulling a four percent in Iowa, which is which is fairly incredible. Um. I mean, the odds of him winning, statistically speaking, are very, very very slim. Why didn't think about it? Because he's mayor of the two hundred largest
city in the country. Has never elected a mayor as president, not a mayor of New York, let alone of South Bend, India. We also never we'd also never elected a game show host. I mean, there's a lot of new things that can happen reality. But I think that people forget that Donald Trump was so week because he's had about hundred percent name recognition in the country since Judge that people are just hearing about for the first time now. So listen in your piece in the Examiner and we'll have a
link to it so folks can find it easily. It's quite informative. You also talk about a guy who is the number one name people tell us, guys, you've got to get this guy on and talk to him. He's running as a Democrat, but I think it'll be interested. And that's entrepreneur Andrew Yang tell us about Mr Yang. So Yang's essential premise of running is on a one tho dollar universal basic income up and pay pay out called the Freedom Dividends. And Yang's campaign is very interestingly,
it's it's extremely technocratic. So you can find like more than seventy different policy proposals, ranging from a Mall Act which dedicates some six million dollars to renovating American malls or reappropriating Then theusizzle thing is is reckoning with the
creative destruction of automation. And I do think it's very interesting because this is so both Bag and Yang aren't running on a lot of why people cared about Trump, right, which is just I really think a great idea, But it just talking about that on Monday, why the Mueller report. He's saying, you know, instead of talking about that, why don't why aren't we discussing why people voted for Donald Trump and and reaching out to those people. That's obviously
a good idea. I mean, democratic leadership couldn't fathom the idea that maybe people voted for Donald Trump and maybe people killed Donald Trump in the primary because they were tired of the neoliberal policies that brought the country to the place you were in sixteen. They could not reckon with the idea said Hillary Clinton, which is seen nakuly that's candidate and focused on running a good candidate. Instead, they have to blame it on something. They have to
blame it on a fourth outside of voter's conscience. And I say, this is someone who's just not for Trump, But I am very supportive of neoliberal free trade in a way that Donald Trump isn't. But the fact is that she resonates a lot of American But the thing that Andrew Yang gets right is that an eight percent of manufacturing jobs that have been lost in recent history hasn't been lost to trade. They've been lost to automation. And that's if people need to start reckoning less. Yeah,
that's a really interesting point too. And I know he's all concerned about climate change and his answers deregulate nuclear energy. We need more nukes, So that's pretty unconventional as well. It shouldn't be. I mean, the original champion of nuclear power was Margaret Thatcher. And the reason why nuclear became so politicized by the least was because it was a great way of dismantling the Cool Union in the seventies.
And now who is the number one champion against nuclear the renewables industry because they understand that renewable from defenses inefficient and they of acquire more government rate. Interesting. Tiana Low, commentary writer for The Washington Examiner. Tiana, you are a thoughtful woman. We enjoyed the chat very much. I hope we can do it again. Thank you, no, thank you.
So listen the butter Jug and Yang thing number one, I like the feel of I really disagree with several issues, and and I really don't want them to be president for a couple of different reasons. But I find them to be thoroughly likable and decent human beings. There's no need to demonize Pete buttera Jage just because he has a rather bizarre progressive view of what freedom is, which I'll explain to you in a bit um. It's dangerous, um.
But I don't think he's an insipious human being. I just think his ideas are bad, and I'm perfectly comfortable meeting him on the field of ideas and you know, going back and forth. But these two guys. Joe Biden, on the other hand, he's the devil's spawn again. I followed as a sport. Who's the best political animal? These guys running and talking about issues like bringing back nuclear power or or or whatever, you know, whatever issue you're gonna talk about, how to deal with the incredibly rapid
change technology brings. Yeah, yeah, that Buddages was just talking about in that clip we played as opposed to the president's a racist? Is your speech right? Um? Right? Gotta be good, doesn't it. If it's not, we're screwed. Yeah,
we're screwed. We're screwed. We're doomed if you if you can get the nomination mostly running on the other sides, a bunch of racists or evil as opposed to bringing back nuclear power, whatever issue to do is you want to argue about, sure, or just in general, our giant, bloated, idiotic federal government is doing nothing to help the American
people deal with twenty one century challenges. I think that might explain that the vote for Trumps, as well as any descriptions not well, I didn't know so many Americans were racist. If you're if you're running on that, maybe I should keep my mouth shut. If you're running on that, you're gonna lose. When you're ready to ride Metro, we want you to know we're ready for you. Here are just a few of the people at Metro to tell you how we're doing our part to keep riders safe.
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