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Occur to them. so america's environmentalists, america is the villain. china is not. ever. so the obsession over plastic straws, as you can o see, is a microcosm of how our rulers view the world at large.he for them, problems are always solved by making life a little worse for ordinary people while ignoring the actual problems that in many cases they caused. regular people have worse straws now. business owners are paying more to buy those straws, but the left doesn't care. the supposed purpose of this campaign was to prevent garbage from ruining america's parks, rivers, and wildlife. that's a...

Tell you they are not very effective. they don't work. we have to get used to them because across the countrye. plastic straws are disappearing. in addition to washington, d.c., seattle has banned them as well. starbucks planned to ban nationwide and worldwide. many other will follow suit. and so, as so often happens, life foret ordinary people gets a little bit worse. this one time, let's pause and ask how exactly did this happen? well, like countless other modern trends, this is a moral panic. activists will tell you americans use about 500 million plastic straws every day. but is that numbe...

This has been a very clever move on the part of the president. >> tucker: if you see like six or seven senators and talking heads in a row repeelgt the same talking point like robots. this is a christmas present for putin. that's like prima facie evidence that they are dumb, right? >> you could say stupid. but obviously they are briefed by only one side and that side has no interest in the truth. the truth is by getting out of way, we have eliminated the consensus that was holding these various diverse partners together. there is no reasons why the turks, the russians, the iranians should coop...

Six or seven senators and talking heads in a row repeating the same talking point like robots. this is a christmas present for putin. that's like prima facie evidence that they are dumb, right? >> you could say stupid.e but obviously they are briefed by only one side and that side has no interest in the truth. the truth is by getting out of way, we have eliminated the consensus that was holding these various diverse partners together. there is no reasons why the turks, the russians, the iranians should cooperate at all. that's a good thing. >> tucker: that is a good thing. colonel, thank you v...

Them and what they survived. that's something that caught a lot of people's attention and gave, you know, not just voices but faces to a lot of these situations. >> talk about the time capsule. what did you all decide went into the time capsule? >> the time capsule is theoretical. we look to put things in there that we think encapsulate niche stories or things that didn't make the front page but things people were talking about in 2018. this year i included things like plastic drinking straws which starbucks say they will ban. definitely had a little moment this summer. fichl flyers mascot who...