Dad Saves America

California innovation sent us to the moon in 1969. Today it spends $126 billion on high-speed rail to nowhere and loses $180 billion in welfare fraud. While Artemis II circled the moon for the first time in half a century, taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, California continued on its budget spiral to hell.
Chris Rufo’s recent reporting exposed that Gavin Newsom has presided over an “empire of fraud” across the state’s generous unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and homelessness programs. What happened to the state that elected Ronald Reagan and built Silicon Valley?
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I sat down with Matt Taibbi, the reporter who broke the Twitter Files, to trace how the American press went from honest journalism to deep state propaganda.
Matt spent about a decade studying and working as a journalist in Russia, witnessing the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Vladimir Putin. When American meddling in Ukraine led to Russian military intervention in 2014, he was uniquely positioned to understand what was really going on.
This conflict set the stage for over a decade of American politics, from the rise of Donald Trump, to Russiagate, to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and the FBI censorship plot that followed. Matt saw Soviet propaganda up close, and he’s convinced the fight for free speech in America is more urgent than ever.
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Outline:
[0:00] Matt's journalism origin story
[5:06] Why Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was censored during COVID
[13:23] What the Missouri v. Biden ruling actually means
[19:19] The government wants to control your mind
[25:39] Free speech used to unite Americans
[31:28] The unbridled arrogance of elite journalism
[43:54] Studying and working in the Soviet Union
[54:28] Russia’s financial crisis and the dot-com bubble
[1:02:19] Witnessing the rise of Vladimir Putin
[1:13:12] Taking over Hunter S. Thompson’s job at Rolling Stone
[1:16:21] Obama, NATO expansion, and the road to Ukraine
[1:20:48] The real reason Russia annexed Crimea
[1:30:20] Is American influence in Ukraine overblown?
[1:37:16] Biden family corruption in Ukraine
[1:44:31] How Matt knew Russiagate was a scam
[2:02:14] Elon’s DM and getting access to the Twitter Files
[2:12:30] No one wanted to cover the censorship crisis
[2:18:05] Figuring out what was actually in the Twitter Files
[2:25:54] How the Hunter Biden laptop story was censored
[2:39:30] Proof that government is behind social media censorship
[2:46:55] Did Trump’s reelection actually strengthen free speech?
[2:52:17] How Wilsonian liberalism overtook populist liberalism
[2:57:07] Fight for American values for the sake of your kids
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Marc Andreessen’s claim that “introspection is overrated” sparked a predictable media backlash, but the real debate isn’t about therapy culture or woke narcissism. In a world shaped by AI, social media algorithms, and increasingly rigid ideologies, we’re losing the ability to question ourselves. That’s where things get dangerous.
This Good Friday, I’m reflecting on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Live Not by Lies,” the sin of pride, and why Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The symbol of the Cross is a reminder that suffering is unavoidable and that humility is the path to truth.
Resisting pride means admitting when you’re wrong, something our social media-driven culture rarely rewards. Committing yourself to truth, even when it’s inconvenient, means accepting that cost.
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I sat down with investor and economist David Bahnsen to unpack what really happened in the 2008 financial crisis. Socialists blame capitalism and Wall Street, while libertarians blame the government, especially the Federal Reserve, but David argues that all of the popular narratives are missing a key piece. He places a significant amount of the blame on what he calls the “Crisis of Responsibility,” also the title of his book on the subject.
Bankruptcy and foreclosure were once seen as shameful events, not standard parts of the American dream of homeownership. By the time of the financial crisis, signing up for a mortgage you obviously couldn’t afford had been normalized on all sides: lenders, investors, and even “average Americans” themselves.
We dig into how easy money, government backstops, and cultural decay fueled a nationwide housing bubble and, in the end, turned both the left and right against free markets and toward populism.
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Outline:
[0:00] The financial crisis broke the American economy
[10:12] What is “neoliberalism”?
[15:20] Was Ron Paul right about the financial crisis?
[20:21] The moral failing of the financial crisis
[29:07] Low interest rates and government-backed mortgages
[37:40] Wall Street really believed their own lies
[41:20] The crisis of responsibility and the cult of housing
[47:25] How can we make housing more affordable?
[55:42] The generational shift in home ownership
[1:06:09] Populism, elitism, and luxury beliefs
[1:18:15] Is government too big to fix?
[1:27:18] The death of policy debate in America
[1:33:15] Can liberalism survive without Christianity?
[1:45:08] Freedom and virtue have to go together
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The TSA is running out of staff, airport security lines are spiraling out of control, and Congress still can’t resolve its fight over DHS funding. This isn’t just a temporary breakdown. We’re seeing what happens when a $12 billion government “solution” finally gets stress-tested. Despite collecting billions in additional fees from travelers every year, the TSA still can’t maintain basic service and even fails its core security mission at an alarming rate when fully funded.
Before 9/11, airport security was largely operated by private entities. Today, a handful of U.S. airports still use private contractors under TSA rules and regulations. They follow the same general procedures, but consistently deliver faster lines and better service. The rest of the country is stuck in the middle of Washington turf wars that treat air travel as a bargaining chip, tying essential operations to unrelated legislation while workers go unpaid and travelers miss flights.
If private airport security is a proven model, why are most of us stuck with substandard government service? What would a system built on real incentives and accountability actually look like?
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