Political requests and political grievances. paul: this is different than 2009 which was mainly political. yeah. it started off different. listen, economic dissatisfaction under lies all protests. it s necessary but not the issue. these protests began in different places by different people than before. it is people who are hungry and unemployed marching in the streets. and the regime made a mistake. they immediately treated it as a political issue, not an economic issue. and we saw they came down on the protesters and they made it a political issue. and now they face a problem, which is they can t solve the underlying economic disparities because the regime is corrupt and because it spent its money on terrorism and that now is a political issue. paul: one of the things that you heard in all of these demonstrations is complaints about foreign ad venturism. money to syria, money to hezbollah. we were supposed to get money to
Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. paul: time for hits and misses of the week. mary. i wanted to give a big hit to attorney general jeff sessions for rolling back president obama s policies to go lightly on some forms of marijuana enforcement to which i say, high time, politicians from colorado and california maybe tripping out but the right way to legalize pot is to do it through congress and the constitutional way not through selective enforcement of the law. paul: alicia. miss to california, once upon a time, mountain lion attack dog, backyard, you are able to obtain permit, now you have to use nonlethal methods to try to
Presidential elections there. president trump tweeting his support for the protesters on tuesday saying, quote, the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt iranian regime. all of the money that president obama socialists gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets. the people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. the u.s. is watching. we have the managerring director at the israel project. welcome. thank you. paul: how much of a threat to the rulers in iran are those protests or are they likely to fizzle out? the protesters face overwhelming odds. the consensus is probably that this round will not be the round that brings down the regime. but what s happening is you re seeing economic complaints and economic disparities and so on. people not having food like the president said, being channeled into political complaints and
It. but it s an interesting point you re making. paul: why not? because this is a regime committed to expansion. this is a revolutionary regime. paul: shiite many linealism. but also old school expansionism. they are committed to exploiting the revolution. the people running it are committed. paul: and yet other people watching things inside iran say that the public itself is becoming secular. the mosques aren t filled. the mosques are a lot like european churches. nobody goes to them anywhere. you don t have the ideological fur fefirfer with the public. the idea that this is not a regime that s capable of realigning itself with its population. but you make an interesting point. we may think that. we may assess that this regime
Mountain lions and they are concerned about diversity. paul: what do you use a broom? blow horn. [laughter] paul: dan. i don t know if i can try to top that, miss to progressive democrats, new year s day, senator bernie sanders of vermont was standing on the steps of new york city city hall in arctic temperatures swearing in mayor bell de blasio. bill de blasio said he would like to turn new york into the most progressive city in the country. we already know that bernie sanders wants to make the united states the most progressive country in the world. i can t wait until the two progressive start each other on the way to presidential. paul: both may run. you will make it progressive paradise can we do something about the subways, maybe start running on time? they are falling apart.