Oct 9, 2026 · 42 min · 18 segments
Seg 1: Who Can Fix the Affordability Crisis? Seg 2: No Accountability for the Cost of Living? Seg 3: Who’s to Blame for a Resurgent Trump? Seg 4: Catch or Release for the Trump Legacy?
Now, you wrote a, uh, an article on the pages of libertynation.com called "Fool Me Once: Why You Can't Trust," uh, a certain party on their promises for, uh, tackling the cost of living crisis as it has been trademarked.
And before we get into your, your thesis on this, Tim, uh, I'd just like to point out a little bit of history about this term, the cost of living crisis.
It has been widely adopted in the United States, um, but it actually originated a few years ago, uh, in my neck of the woods on the other side of the pond.
And it was used as a battering ram, rallying cry d'accord, uh, against any political opponents you like, are the cost of living crisis that we're living through.
And back then, it actually wasn't so true that there was a cost of living crisis going on, but it made great narratives and great soundbites.
Um, but now, of course, that, uh, the party that was hurling that, uh, particular term around i, is the party of government, uh, uh, in England.
And, a- and now they're, they're, they're all a bit quiet on the cost of living crisis that appears to actually be, uh, even greater than it was if you follow the numbers.
Well, it doesn't take a Rhodes Scholar to understand that the cost of living is too high.
Or, as I prefer to put it, per the, the famous New York gadfly politician Jimmy McMillan, "The cost of living is too damn high."
Let me just check that that was, uh, Jimmy McMillan of the, the gas is too high party?
But be that as it may, um, you don't have to be a Rhodes Scholar to identify that we've got a cost of living crisis.
Candidates of the left, broadly speaking, are just assuming, and maybe they're right, that voters who are frustrated with high prices, continuing high prices at the pump, at the supermarket, with their electric bills, that whatever is going on now can't be as good as whoever is claiming they can fix it.
Now, you wrote a, uh, an article on the pages of libertynation.com called "Fool Me Once: Why You Can't Trust," uh, a certain party on their promises for, uh, tackling the cost of living crisis as it has been trademarked.
And before we get into your, your thesis on this, Tim, uh, I'd just like to point out a little bit of history about this term, the cost of living crisis.
It has been widely adopted in the United States, um, but it actually originated a few years ago, uh, in my neck of the woods on the other side of the pond.
And it was used as a battering ram, rallying cry d'accord, uh, against any political opponents you like, are the cost of living crisis that we're living through.
And back then, it actually wasn't so true that there was a cost of living crisis going on, but it made great narratives and great soundbites.
Um, but now, of course, that, uh, the party that was hurling that, uh, particular term around i, is the party of government, uh, uh, in England.
And, a- and now they're, they're, they're all a bit quiet on the cost of living crisis that appears to actually be, uh, even greater than it was if you follow the numbers.
Well, it doesn't take a Rhodes Scholar to understand that the cost of living is too high.
Or, as I prefer to put it, per the, the famous New York gadfly politician Jimmy McMillan, "The cost of living is too damn high."
Let me just check that that was, uh, Jimmy McMillan of the, the gas is too high party?
But be that as it may, um, you don't have to be a Rhodes Scholar to identify that we've got a cost of living crisis.
Candidates of the left, broadly speaking, are just assuming, and maybe they're right, that voters who are frustrated with high prices, continuing high prices at the pump, at the supermarket, with their electric bills, that whatever is going on now can't be as good as whoever is claiming they can fix it.
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