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CTP (S3E121) Earning vs. Taking: A Capitalist’s Case for Responsibility
We push past slogans to talk about earned profit, personal responsibility, and why entitlement corrodes trust. A diner meltdown, a Tigers rant, and a faith-based lens tie together work ethic, charity, and the costs of ignoring human nature.
• why “best capitalist life” means refusing hypocrisy about profit
• earned income versus coerced redistribution
• the diner incident as a snapshot of entitlement culture
• personal backstory on disability, work, and dignity
• biblical community versus worldly communism
• incentives, human nature, and why systems fail without accountability
• profit as proof of value, not a vice
• practical calls for local charity and personal action
CTP: Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond


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00:00Welcome to the Constitutionalist Politics Podcast, a.k.a. CTP.
00:07I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard, and that's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12CTP is your no-must, no-fuss, just-me-you-and-occasional-guest-type podcast.
00:19I really appreciate you tuning in.
00:22As Graham Norton will say, let's get on with the show!
00:25Oh, hello everybody. Season 3 episode. I'm not sure what number yet, and why am I wearing my Tiger's hat.
00:38In fact, let me take it off, but I'm recording in September.
00:43I was going to make this my 12th or 13th September 2025 video exclusive,
00:51but I think this is too important to not be a regular episode about what I'll get to in a second,
01:00but I was wearing the Tiger's cap still and just sat down to hit record, toss that over there.
01:09Recording in September, Tiger's just forfeit the rest of the games.
01:14Go home, get an early start on your offseason.
01:17Listen, you're stinking of late. You don't deserve to be in the playoffs.
01:23Don't even try. Just forfeit the rest of the season.
01:26Let somebody else who deserves to be there, who is playing better,
01:32so you don't just coast and back into the playoffs.
01:36No, let somebody forfeit. Go home.
01:39Now, by the time you're seeing this, the season will be over and the playoffs will be started.
01:45Whether they make it or not, it'll be determined.
01:48But, yeah, I've been on Stone Cold Sports Show the last few Saturdays.
01:53Again, I'm recording this Thursday, September the 25th.
01:59The last few Saturdays, me and Derek on Stone Cold Sports Truth have been saying this.
02:05Hinge. Fire hinge. Start the hashtag. Fire hinge.
02:10Even if they make the playoffs, fire hinge.
02:14He's got to go.
02:16An AI robot can manage the team without emotion like he does.
02:22We need someone more like Dan Campbell of the Lions.
02:26Some, the old Sparky Anderson, right?
02:30Somebody with some passion.
02:32Somebody with some gumption.
02:33Somebody, oh, somebody who will manage the team, not be there to be their friend.
02:40And, ah, we win. Great, we lose.
02:43Ah, whatever, I'm getting paid.
02:46No, fire hinge.
02:48We need a real manager, one that knows he's there to manage the team, not be their buddies and friends.
02:56At any rate, that's what I'm here to talk about.
03:01And I did, I was at Nana's kitchen.
03:04Did I say that or not yet?
03:06That's why I was wearing the hat still, just came in the door.
03:09Got a mini breakfast at Nana's.
03:12At any rate, I did write some notes while in the car.
03:18Now, on the way back from Nana's kitchen, had on the radio in the car.
03:25I don't remember what show, not sure what show, but they were talking about Charlie Kirk.
03:31And one of the early things Charlie said he brought up, and I want to address that.
03:38Charlie, kind of when he was younger and first started, he didn't do it towards the end of Turning Point events.
03:48Charlie Kirk would say, I'm living my best capitalist life or something like that.
03:54I'm living a capitalist life.
03:58And the whole thing, what does that mean exactly?
04:03It's like, I'm not quite sure what that means.
04:06Well, I'll tell you what it means.
04:09It means not being a hypocrite.
04:12It means not being a liar.
04:14It means not opposing profits, including one's own personal profits.
04:21Everybody wants a personal profit for them.
04:26Everybody wants some income coming in from somewhere.
04:31Even the commies, the commie, fascist, sociocrats who want to steal the income from others so they profit.
04:44They want their own personal profit.
04:47They're not against profit when it's going into their pockets.
04:53That's where Charlie's brilliance, I'm living my best capitalist life.
04:58I'm not a hypocrite.
05:00I'm not against profit.
05:01Mine or anybody else's, I understand that I have the difference.
05:08We earn our profit.
05:11We work for our profit versus the communists who want to steal it for somebody else to put in their pockets.
05:23The question isn't income and profit.
05:25It's whether you earn it or whether you're stealing it.
05:32It's that simple.
05:35Really simple.
05:37We're not hypocrites.
05:39The left, as usual, liars, cheaters, finks, frauds, hypocrites, commie, fascist, sociocrats.
05:50Get off your duff.
05:52Earn it.
05:53Right?
05:54And money I earn, although, full disclosure, I am on disability now.
06:01You should know that by now.
06:03But, you know, if this is your first show, I'm not hiding anything.
06:06I worked for, oh, since the late 70s when I first got a job, up until 2004 when I needed to go on disability due to a stress and anxiety break.
06:23Suffer chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue, immune dysfunction syndrome, IBSD, fibromyalgia, tardive dyskinesia, if you ever noticed, uncontrolled mouth movements.
06:35Yes, yes, that's me.
06:37I don't take a drug for that.
06:39If I took a drug for every ailment that I've got that has me on disability, I'd spend every, if I got up at noon, I'd be up until midnight taking a pill.
06:53Pill after pill after pill after pill after pill after pill.
06:56Different story, not hear what I'm talking about.
06:59But I earned a living.
07:02And I'd much rather be still doing my IT job than I was making six-figure salary rather than scraping by on this disability.
07:13But the disability I have, the disability income coming in, I earned through the years and years and years of hard work.
07:27I earned this disability.
07:30disability, I didn't, Nana's, oh, I'm, got it, right?
07:36A woman threw a tantrum in there.
07:39And I said to the waitress, perfect, perfect example of today's entitled attitude, right?
07:49Some minor issue, she blew a gasket.
07:53They only had a half a cup of chicken papakash because they ran out.
07:59They didn't charge her for the half a cup of chicken papakash they gave to her.
08:06But, oh my God, I don't have a full thing of chicken papakash.
08:12I'm entitled to what I want, when I want it.
08:15I want it now.
08:17Not now, I wanted it yesterday.
08:19Why didn't you, why didn't you read my mind?
08:22Why didn't you know?
08:23She didn't even have to pay for what they gave her.
08:28And she's still throwing a tantrum.
08:30Oh, I'm sorry.
08:31I'm turning into Raging Joe again.
08:34But I'm upset.
08:37I am.
08:38I get tired.
08:39I'm sick and tired.
08:42I get pissed off at seeing this entitled attitude, right?
08:48Oh my God, it isn't perfect.
08:50I demand my money back.
08:53And I'm going to huff and puff out the door and throw a tantrum.
08:58Commie, fashy, soshi mentality.
09:01I want everything.
09:02I want it for next to nothing.
09:03It needs to be perfect.
09:05I don't want to have had to earn it or work for it.
09:10It perfectly all relates.
09:12It's amazing.
09:13You think, this isn't coincidence.
09:16I mean, I think this is a divine intervention.
09:19It's like, this all happened today so I can talk about this today because I need to talk about this today.
09:28But back to what Charlie said.
09:30Indeed, I'm living my best capitalism, right?
09:33But I'm at home, so I'm trying to author books.
09:38Not to become a millionaire.
09:43Let me joke again.
09:45You won't hear it.
09:46I'll not be able to see it on the audio.
09:48But behind the scenes, right, I'm holding up the green screen showing what I joke about the ugly couch all the time, right?
09:56And you see all the crap.
09:58I'm not a hoarder.
10:00I am a slob.
10:01I have all the notes and whatnot and the books that are sitting here so I can grab them and show them.
10:09I author books because I'm stuck at home.
10:13What am I going to do?
10:15So this is my hobby.
10:17It's not about me becoming rich.
10:20I'm not J.K. Rowling or Stephen King millionaire rich.
10:26No.
10:27This is costing me money.
10:30Nine times out of ten.
10:31But it's about getting information out.
10:34What I can do, how I can do it from home behind my keyboard because I can't, like when I was younger and had more money, go all over Michigan, Ohio, Illinois for campaign events and rallies and speakers to have speaking engagements to talk about conservatism.
11:01Now I'm talking constitutionalist folks, right?
11:07Christian-based, our Judeo-Christian foundations, republic, not mobocracy, not ineptocracy, not kleptocracy, our constitutionalist community, God-given free will, freedoms, charity from our own blood and treasure.
11:31We are to want to be our brother's keeper and to take care of widows and orphans that can't take care of themselves.
11:40Distinction, Bible makes it, between those unable to help themselves, those who are unwilling to help themselves.
11:51Why Jesus said, the poor will always be among you.
11:55It isn't a governance or an economic statement.
12:00It is a human nature statement that there will always be Atlas Shrugged, those wanting and insisting and feeling entitled to be dragged around in the cart by others.
12:18Them giving things from others who have earned it.
12:22Steal from them to give to them because they don't want to do anything, not that they're unable to do it.
12:32The Bible makes that distinction.
12:35Biblical community versus worldly communism, human nature, that's why it fails.
12:42Because more and more and more and more and more people will want to get lazy and do less and climb in the cart.
12:50And sooner or later, as Margaret Thatcher said, with socialism, you always run out of other people's money.
12:56Sooner or later, there's too many people in the cart to actually have the cart be pulled by anyone.
13:03That's why commie, commie fascist, so she's always fail.
13:11Human nature, the left can't deal in it.
13:16They're delusional.
13:18They refuse to deal in reality.
13:23They want this fantasy unicorn fart world where everybody can have everything for nothing.
13:31No, and communism, as always, trying to take from people.
13:37Eventually, there's very few to take from.
13:41So you dumb down and poor.
13:44Make everybody poor except, of course, the ruling elites who live well, like in Russia and China and North Korea and all those left-wing places.
13:57The ruling elites do great, but everybody else, the middle class is destroyed, everybody's poor.
14:06There is the haves and the have-nots.
14:09There is the poor, and then there are the ruling commie, fascist, so she's elites.
14:16Human nature.
14:19The left doesn't understand these things.
14:22They don't get it.
14:23They don't know.
14:24They don't want to know.
14:26They don't care to know.
14:27They are too lazy to bother to learn anything.
14:31They just want to maintain their delusion that there will always be a golden goose they can steal golden eggs from.
14:40And when you kill the golden goose, then there's no gold for anyone.
14:44Remember, there's a reason for that nursery rhyme, for that Aesop's table, if that's what it was, or was that that nursery rhyme, right?
14:55There was a reason that moral story was created about human nature and, indeed, politics and the way the world works.
15:06Kill the golden goose.
15:08No one has anything.
15:10Idiots.
15:13Morons.
15:14I'm sorry.
15:15I'm trying to be calm.
15:17I'm not, you know, like I joke in one video exclusive, turning into the hulking green and becoming Raging Joe.
15:29Capitalist.
15:29I'm not a liar.
15:31I'm not a hypocrite.
15:32I'm not against other people having profits and money I get.
15:36I want to be able to spend on stuff.
15:38And guess what?
15:40Other people have to make that stuff.
15:43They earn profits for making that stuff.
15:45They're not forced slave labor to make widgets so I can have a widget.
15:52But they get to have no profit for making widgets.
15:57That's not how it works.
15:59It's not.
16:00Remember the old Geico ad.
16:03Remember the old women putting a picture on a, I'm putting pictures on my wall.
16:09That's not how it works.
16:11That's not how any of this works.
16:15That's exactly right.
16:16That's not how any of this works.
16:20When will leftists come down to reality?
16:26See, communism works in two places.
16:29Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already got it.
16:35And the left wants that hell on earth.
16:39So, capitalists.
16:40Yes.
16:41Not a hypocrite.
16:42Not a liar.
16:45Nothing wrong with profits.
16:47As long as you earn them, stealing from others, communist versions of profits, theft, worldly communism, not biblical community, theft, redistribution, that's not real profit, that's not real earnings, that's not real income.
17:09That's theft and redistribution.
17:13Big difference.
17:14Off to others.
17:19I'm sorry.
17:23Communist profit and often.
17:26I'm sorry.
17:27I don't know what I meant by my note.
17:33But I think I've covered the topic enough and you see why.
17:37This couldn't be a video exclusive.
17:40It's better on video, of course.
17:43Please, bitch you.
17:44Brideon, Daily Motion in France.
17:47Get next to no views there.
17:49But, hey, I keep putting it there.
17:51Maybe someday people in Europe will discover the channel and start watching the episodes.
17:58Rumble on YouTube, video channels, behind-the-scenes sneak peek videos.
18:03Please watch there, or thank you, if you're one of the many listeners.
18:09I'm a podcaster.
18:11I coined the term.
18:13I call you a podcastee.
18:16Right?
18:17See, I like playing with words.
18:20You know that.
18:20Lots of wordplay and terror strikes coming soon to a city near you.
18:26See, behind-the-scenes video exclusive Origins of Language and Origins of Language 2 for more on that.
18:36But this was too important to not have a regular episode.
18:41Thank you, podcastees, for being a listener across the 25-plus audio-only platforms, though, of course.
18:50It's always better.
18:51Well, eh.
18:53Right?
18:54I always say you need to maintain a sense of humor, and you shouldn't pick on anyone else or laugh at anyone else if you're not willing to laugh at yourself.
19:01I mean, I get it.
19:03You're not wanting to look at a video and see this ugly face.
19:07Right?
19:08If I can't pick on myself, I shouldn't pick on anybody else.
19:12But anyway, this has gone way longer than expected.
19:17Thank you all.
19:19Take care.
19:20God bless.
19:21And as I say to the staff at Nana's Kitchen, every time I'm laying, love you all.
19:27Really, mean it from the bottom of my heart.
19:30Love you all.
19:32Care and concern about your soul, not just concerned about myself.
19:39Love, one of the Christian tenets of this show, caring for others, caring about others, loving even your enemy.
19:52That doesn't mean surrender and succumb and be assaulted.
19:56Turn the other cheek doesn't mean always be abused.
20:01Let somebody else always...
20:03Context.
20:05That's not what Jesus meant.
20:06It's all the things in the Bible in full context.
20:12He didn't erase the Old Testament.
20:15Some of it still applies.
20:17Some of it, please see or listen to the show, the new way about the New Testament.
20:23But the New Testament, as the U.S. Constitution, isn't a suicide pact.
20:28See that episode for a better, or is it CTP3?
20:36I got it here.
20:37If you're looking behind the scenes videos.
20:41Yes.
20:44Chapter 16 in CTP3, Constitutional Rights vs. Commie Dumb Down Privilege.
20:51Chapter 19, New Testament and Constitution, both not a suicide pact.
20:58Buy and read the book.
21:00And again, I'm not getting rich off these books.
21:03I get very low royalties on these books.
21:06It's about getting information out, not me trying to become rich.
21:10Since I'm disabled, on disability, back here on my couch, behind my keyboard, I have to do what I can, how I can, to get information out.
21:25I can't do it by running all over the states, like I used to, and speaking places.
21:33I can't do that anymore because of my health issues.
21:37So I do what I can, from how I can, from where I can.
21:41You that can get up and go about, you that do still have good jobs and making good money and can afford gas and wear and tear on your car to go places.
21:54Because you need to be doing that.
21:57I can't anymore.
21:58I wish I could.
22:00I really wish.
22:01Oh, do I understand.
22:03Anyway, thank you all.
22:05Take care.
22:05God bless.
22:06Love you all.
22:08Love your neighbors.
22:10That doesn't mean be a sucker to them.
22:12It doesn't mean be assaulted.
22:13If they don't love you back, if they hate you, that doesn't mean be a sucker for and to them.
22:20The Bible in full context.
22:22Take care.
22:23God bless.
22:24Love you all.
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22:56And let me remind, over time, the fancy high production items will come.
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23:23So again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
23:27Take care.
23:28God bless.
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