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Iranian Revolution?; Venezuela Update; Mearsheimer; Waltz; Kelly; Mamdani | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: January fifth, twenty twenty six. We made it to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. Happen to you yet, everybody? And uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's an exciting year. Ready, ready, five days
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  Speaker 1: in and things exciting in Venezuela and now and and
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  Speaker 1: in iwan now for nine I think it's nine days
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  Speaker 1: straight of demonstrations, and of course things are not slowing
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, exciting stuff, exciting stuff, all right, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get started with Iran, and then we'll talk about Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: is the story? Let's see. Uh, let's start with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: So demonstrations continue in Iran, if anything, they really do
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  Speaker 1: seem to be intensifying and all over Iran. Now there
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  Speaker 1: are reports now of protests in over one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eight towns and cities across Yron. Now this is a
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  Speaker 1: challenge for the regime to have the kind of troops
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  Speaker 1: and and and people to be able to suppress all
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  Speaker 1: these demonstrations all over the country. Now, of course, if
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  Speaker 1: they do a oppressive enough job in Tehran, that'll you
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  Speaker 1: know that that I'll send a signal and UH and
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  Speaker 1: it'll die out. This revolution will be won or lost
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  Speaker 1: in the streets of Tehran at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: with with other cities basically falling in line with whatever
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  Speaker 1: happens there. UH. There are all kinds of stories out
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  Speaker 1: there that basically are questioning UH, claiming that demonstrators have
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  Speaker 1: taken control over certain cities, including shockingly, if this was true.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's true. The city of kom
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  Speaker 1: Kom is it's not It's not that far from Tehran,
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  Speaker 1: but com is a major city, but it's primarily known
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  Speaker 1: as kind of the spiritual home of the Islamic Rare revolution.
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  Speaker 1: This is the This is where the big madrasas, the schools,
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  Speaker 1: where the mullas sit, where much of the religious authority
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  Speaker 1: comes from political authority Tehran. Religious authority really comes out
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  Speaker 1: of calm. The idea of com would fall to these
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  Speaker 1: demonstrators would be quite shocking if it's indeed the case.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to be careful of these kind of claims.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of claims out there, but what we
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  Speaker 1: really we really do not know. Fog of war. All
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  Speaker 1: of that is is all true. The protesters are getting
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  Speaker 1: the protests generally are getting more violent, both on the
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  Speaker 1: side of demonstrators. In some cities, demonstrators have got their
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  Speaker 1: hands on weapons and are using them. There are a
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  Speaker 1: number of videos online showing demonstrators actually ambushing security forces,
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  Speaker 1: beating them up and taking their weapons, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: they are gaining They're gaining weapons, so that that is happening.
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  Speaker 1: A security forces also starting to shoot at demonstrators, and
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  Speaker 1: I expect that part of it to get worse in
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  Speaker 1: the days to come. I expect their security forces to
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  Speaker 1: get more brutal as we move forward. In past demonstrations
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  Speaker 1: in past years, hundreds and in some thousands of people
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  Speaker 1: were slaughtered by the regime as part of suppressing the demonstrations,
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  Speaker 1: and then many thousands were slaughtered afterwards in kangaroo courts
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  Speaker 1: and trials where they all receive the death penalties after
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  Speaker 1: the demonstrations were subdued. So I expect more violence, significantly
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  Speaker 1: more violence in Yuan in the days to come. We
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  Speaker 1: still haven't seen what I think is going to be
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  Speaker 1: necessary for this to turn into a revolution that actually
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  Speaker 1: is successful that actually overturned this regime and gets rid
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  Speaker 1: of the mulas. For for that, I've stated now for
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  Speaker 1: several years that you would need one of the military factions,
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  Speaker 1: some of the military units, probably within the within the army,
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  Speaker 1: not not the Islamic Revolutionary God, who are loyalists, not
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  Speaker 1: within these I can't even pronounce their name, these uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, internal security forces. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: have to be from the regular army. That is, somebody
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  Speaker 1: in the regular army has to turn. Somebody in the
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  Speaker 1: regular army has to be willing to take their troops
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  Speaker 1: inside with the protesters, and to be successful, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to have to become from from pretty high up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it could be individual soldiers leaving their posts and joining
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  Speaker 1: the demonstrators, but ultimately for this to be successful, it
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  Speaker 1: probably has to be a people in senior positions. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Islamic Revolutionary God and the other forces that the
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  Speaker 1: regime has at their disposal have a lot of weapons.
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  Speaker 1: They are brutal, and it's going to have to be
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  Speaker 1: something of equivalent size to compete with them. So that
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  Speaker 1: has not happened yet. Of course, when that happens, when
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  Speaker 1: that happens, I think it'll be a very fast domino effect.
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  Speaker 1: I think once once the army turns against the regime,
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  Speaker 1: will one elements within the army turn against the regime.
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  Speaker 1: I really think the regime will collapse. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's sustainable, but we don't know whether that will happen.
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  Speaker 1: My guess is, again no inside information here. My guess
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  Speaker 1: is that that is what the son of the Shah
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  Speaker 1: who's in the United States is working on. Is trying
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  Speaker 1: to communicate with military officers who might not be that
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  Speaker 1: supportive of the regime in and to try to get
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  Speaker 1: them to turn Most of them though afraid the cowards,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not sure they can be successful. At some
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  Speaker 1: point this will tilt. There will be a tipping point.
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  Speaker 1: We won't know when the tipping point happens until after
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  Speaker 1: it's happened. But once it's happened, things will go I
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  Speaker 1: think pretty fast. Indeed, The Times of London today has
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  Speaker 1: a detailed story that basically lays out Ali Hameni, the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Leader Alikmani's plan to flee to Hran if it
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  Speaker 1: looks like his security forces cannot quell the civil unrest.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, once they stop following orders or once
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  Speaker 1: the military flips on him, he's out of there. And
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  Speaker 1: supposedly there is a detailed plan for him and up
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  Speaker 1: to twin aids and families to get on an airplane
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  Speaker 1: and fly to Moscow to join to join there his friend,
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  Speaker 1: not really, but you know his associate Basha Alasad, the
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  Speaker 1: Syrian dictator who fled they in twenty twenty four from
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  Speaker 1: Damascus and went to Moscow. Supposedly, how many and planning
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  Speaker 1: his escape would gather, this is the story, would gather assets,
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  Speaker 1: properties abroad and cash to facilitate they say patches. As
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  Speaker 1: I've told you in the past, the Iranian elite of
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  Speaker 1: this regime have assets all over the world. They are
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  Speaker 1: particularly invested in Canada, strong presence in Toronto, Canada. So
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  Speaker 1: if this regime falls, I wouldn't be surprised to find
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  Speaker 1: some of the generals and the mulahs and the Islamic
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  Speaker 1: Revolutionary God officers roaming the streets of Toronto. So beware,
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  Speaker 1: be careful. They've smuggled money out. They have been stealing
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  Speaker 1: from the Uranian people for decades and funneling money into
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of assets and all kinds of properties and
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts, all over the world. They have always been
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  Speaker 1: ready to escape, and here they are. They are indeed
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  Speaker 1: ready ready to escape. So according to the Times, these
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  Speaker 1: plans are in motion. He's not ready to leave yet
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  Speaker 1: because as I said, the army really hasn't turned on
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  Speaker 1: him yet, but he is definitely ready for that outcome
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  Speaker 1: and prepared prepared for it. On betting markets, on betting
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  Speaker 1: markets right now. You know, as I was for a
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  Speaker 1: few days ago, the odds of how many being outed
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  Speaker 1: as supreme leader by December thirty was twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: As of like say, December was around thirty percent, maybe
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, thirty two percent, maybe up to thirty three
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  Speaker 1: percent in some periods, but basically down there as of today.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's today. Let me just it's not clear
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  Speaker 1: exactly what the dated it might be might be. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: those odds up above forty two percent, So dramatic increase
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  Speaker 1: in the odds that Hamani will not be there by
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  Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty six. I mean, look, I
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  Speaker 1: fear that it's either going to happen now or it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to happen. That is, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: could kind of play this play this kind of a hedging,
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  Speaker 1: not a hedging game. But if if there were odds
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  Speaker 1: on what would happen by the end of this month,
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  Speaker 1: I think it either happens by the end of this
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  Speaker 1: month or it doesn't happen. Although he could die and
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  Speaker 1: he could be replaced in other means, but this particular
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  Speaker 1: by revolution that replaces this regime, not just him, but
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  Speaker 1: this regime. It's gonna be. Now, this is the best
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  Speaker 1: chance the Iranian people have had. Israel set them up
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  Speaker 1: for this, I mean it goes revolution set them up.
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  Speaker 1: Israel then really showed the weakness of this regime and
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  Speaker 1: weakened it further because Israel killed hundreds, maybe thousands of
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  Speaker 1: the regime operatives that would have been used to suppress
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  Speaker 1: these riots. And this is it. I really do think
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  Speaker 1: it's now, not never, but now, a long long time
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  Speaker 1: from now. Now is the time. Now's the time to
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  Speaker 1: do it again. News reports are that riots are continued
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  Speaker 1: to escalate in cities across Iran, the capital of Tehran,
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  Speaker 1: where demonstrators have now armed themselves, according to some reports,
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  Speaker 1: with rifles and other other weapons, minor clashes with any
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  Speaker 1: security forces in Tehran. We will see, we will see
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  Speaker 1: how this all plays out, of course, the big question
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  Speaker 1: at this point. The big question at this point is
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  Speaker 1: does Israel or does the Trump administration do something here?
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  Speaker 1: The Islamic regime is clearly concerned that Israel and all
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  Speaker 1: the United States are going to engage in military action
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  Speaker 1: against Iran. You know this. The military action against Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: has made them even more afraid. They now fear that
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  Speaker 1: Trump might have this aggressive from policy and is willing
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  Speaker 1: to use force. There's also significant movement of US military assets,
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  Speaker 1: but primarily airplanes, including Delta Force. A plane out of
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  Speaker 1: the Delta Force base that actually executed the mission in Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: One of those a plane who knows what's who's on it,
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  Speaker 1: but assuming ADULTA force forces on it, you know, has
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  Speaker 1: has landed in Europe. A number of other cargo planes,
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  Speaker 1: large military cargo planes, fuel tankers, and fighter jets are
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  Speaker 1: basically on the way or already arrived in in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't seen this amount of movement of assets, military assets,
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  Speaker 1: air force assets really since the Twelve Day War. So
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  Speaker 1: there is some reason to believe that the US is
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  Speaker 1: considering some kind of military action or at least upping
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  Speaker 1: the pressure on the Iranians. By putting assets around them.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe what the US is doing is through back
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  Speaker 1: channels telling the Iranians, all right, how many? This is
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  Speaker 1: what they did with Maduro after all, okay, how many
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  Speaker 1: you can leave. We'll let you leave safe passages to Moscow,
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  Speaker 1: but we will not provide that safe passes forever. And
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  Speaker 1: if you wait for too long, you know you you
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  Speaker 1: will suffer the consequences. We have the assets in the region,
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  Speaker 1: we can deploy them. We can deploy them, and you
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  Speaker 1: you won't survive. Indeed, President Trump has issued a second
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  Speaker 1: warning to you. On yesterday, I guess or this morning,
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  Speaker 1: he said the regime would be hit very hard if
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  Speaker 1: it if it's forces killed protesters. Now, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: protesters already being killed. Well, you know, it's still in
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  Speaker 1: the kind of couple of dozen probably, so it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: reached huge numbers, but it's there. There's no question that
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  Speaker 1: that these forces are being killed. Trump said this while
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  Speaker 1: answering a question on FOS one. Let's see. Uh. In addition, Israel,
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  Speaker 1: let me just say, I'm not sure that's a quick report.
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  Speaker 1: Israel has stated that, you know, the rumors out of
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  Speaker 1: Israel that Israel is preparing an attack on Iran. They've
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  Speaker 1: actually got a name for it and everything. Indeed, opposition
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  Speaker 1: leaders in Israel are telling Nathaniel that if he launches
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  Speaker 1: an attack on Iran, he will have the full support
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  Speaker 1: of the opposition. So opposition leaders kind of quote the left,
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  Speaker 1: supposedly it's not really a left. Opposition leaders in Israel
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  Speaker 1: urging Nathaniel to go after the Iranians, encouraging him if
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have Trump support, to go back to Washington
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  Speaker 1: to get it, and saying that he has, they have
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  Speaker 1: his back. That is, they hate him on everything else.
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  Speaker 1: They want to get rid of him, they want an election.
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  Speaker 1: They they're fighting him tooth and nail of other issues
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  Speaker 1: in Parliament right now as we speak. And at the
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  Speaker 1: same time they issued declarations that uh, you know, Israel
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  Speaker 1: needs to attack you on and if they're in the
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  Speaker 1: prime Minister would get complete support from the opposition if
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  Speaker 1: they do engage in an attack on Yuon. So it
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  Speaker 1: does look likely again that Israel is at least preparing something. Now. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this could be all more psychological than real in a
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  Speaker 1: sense that this could be part of a psychological campaign
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  Speaker 1: to try to convince Haramani to just leave and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and and and this is just this is just you know, uh, bluffing,
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  Speaker 1: as they say in Poka, in order to in order
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  Speaker 1: to get him to leave. We will see again, We'll
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  Speaker 1: we'll find out in the days to come. Indeed, one
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  Speaker 1: of the opposition leaders in a in a announcement said,
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  Speaker 1: this is a kind of a once in a who
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  Speaker 1: knows lifetime opportunity. Uh. The people are in the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Uh it. We need a tipping point. We need something
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  Speaker 1: to tip this, We need something to get them now.
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  Speaker 1: Some people are arguing that if Israel the United States intervene,
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  Speaker 1: that raise patriotic sentiments against Israel and Iran and and
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  Speaker 1: in favor of the regime. But that didn't happen during
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  Speaker 1: the Twelve Day War, and it's not clear that what
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  Speaker 1: happened now. Uh so uh and and if if if
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  Speaker 1: Israel in the United States carefully target regime targets, they
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  Speaker 1: you know, they could take out Amani, They could take
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  Speaker 1: him out, they could kill him. They could they could
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  Speaker 1: they could destroy whatever forces are left for the Islamic
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  Speaker 1: Revolutionary God. They could take out their bases, They could
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  Speaker 1: do the kind of uh stuff that would reduce the
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  Speaker 1: ability of the regime to suppress these riots and at
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  Speaker 1: the same time convey clearly to the rioters that Israel
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  Speaker 1: in the United States support what they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: That would, I think top all the regime. It would
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  Speaker 1: be the tipping point. It would be what ultimately destroys
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  Speaker 1: the Unian regime. Again, I've said this many times of
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  Speaker 1: the last few months, really over the last few decades.
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  Speaker 1: The fall of the Unian regime will be the most
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  Speaker 1: significant geopolitical event easily since the since the fall of
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  Speaker 1: the Billion Wall. And in a sense it would surpass
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  Speaker 1: the fall of the Berlin Wall, because the following the
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  Speaker 1: Billion Wall, at some point was basically inevitable. Russia was
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  Speaker 1: no longer the Soviet Union was no longer threat to
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  Speaker 1: the United States. It was it was it was you know,
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  Speaker 1: once once the opening started happening, it was clear there
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  Speaker 1: was only one direction that could go. Uh and you
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  Speaker 1: know this, this really could be the most important geopolitical event,
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  Speaker 1: maybe since the building of the Billion Wall, since the
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  Speaker 1: Cold War started, and it would be immensely positive. It
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  Speaker 1: would completely reorient the Middle East, completely change the dynamics
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  Speaker 1: in the Middle East. A pro Western Iran would change
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  Speaker 1: the dynamics of the oil market. It would immediately open
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  Speaker 1: up one of the largest you know, free up massive
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  Speaker 1: quantities of oil into the market. It would, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: open up one of the largest oil reserves in the
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  Speaker 1: in the world for future development. Uh. And it would
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  Speaker 1: take away the number one enemy that Israel has in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East. It would take really the number one
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  Speaker 1: enemy Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have in
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  Speaker 1: the region. It would immediately take away the ally of Chrisbelchi.
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  Speaker 1: Isbela would collapse the the the Lebanese Army could then
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  Speaker 1: really take over Isbela and and dismantle it. It would
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  Speaker 1: take all support from from the hutis away. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Hucies might collapse or at least be weakened dramatically
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  Speaker 1: and not want to incite any more create any more problems.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I cannot think of a you know. It
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  Speaker 1: would it would put put there as I said, when
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  Speaker 1: did I do the show and Maduo on Saturday? It
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  Speaker 1: would it would put the the Chinese unnoticed because now
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese would have no way to buy oil from
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  Speaker 1: particularly if Trump follows to on this idea that the
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  Speaker 1: United States will control the oil and Venezuela I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure he can and will. But if he does, then
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  Speaker 1: you've taken out Venezuela as the source of war from
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  Speaker 1: for China. You've taken out Iran as the source of
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  Speaker 1: war from China. All they have is Russia. Now they
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  Speaker 1: can buy oil on the global market, and they do,
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  Speaker 1: and oil will be cheap, and that'll be good for them,
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  Speaker 1: But they have to consider that in a war with Taiwan,
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  Speaker 1: the West will embogo them. They will, the West will
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  Speaker 1: cut off, they will supply, the United States will cut off.
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  Speaker 1: There will all supply, including Iwan in Venezuela. And that
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  Speaker 1: I think rejuices the probab probability of invading Taiwan dramatically.
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  Speaker 1: So even from the perspective of the of of of UH,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the UH of China, Taiwan, the potential of
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  Speaker 1: war in the Western Pacific, in Southeast Asia, even from
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  Speaker 1: that perspective, Iran is huge, huge. Now add to that
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  Speaker 1: the fact that I won is a massive what do
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  Speaker 1: you call it, ally of Russia supplying it with drones
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  Speaker 1: and drone technology, and and that goes away and weakends
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  Speaker 1: putin UH it. So it's it's an unequivocal good. I
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  Speaker 1: mean Israel and Yuan would establish relationships. The shaf Juan
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  Speaker 1: has already said, so imagine diplomatic relationship between the Iranians
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and Israelis, and and the potential that that has Iran
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: could become. And imagine if Ran stops building weapons and
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons and oppressing its people and that you know,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: established some kind of a free society. Imagine how wealthy
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: this country could become. Not only is that oil, but
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: it has incredibly you know, incredible people, entrepreneurial and creative.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: We've done very very well in the rest of the world.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: There is a Uranian diaspora that is incredibly wealthy that
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: would go back and send money. I mean, it would
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: be a flourishing, successful place. And I'd say there was
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: one conflict in the world in which if Israel in
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the United States could have devene and tip it towards resolution,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and they should. This is it more important than Ukraine,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: more important than Venezuela, more important than Cuba, more important
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: than anyway right now, right now, it's Iran, and the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: easiest one in a sense because it doesn't require occupation,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: It doesn't require much. The people, especially in themselves, they
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: want how many dead they yell, you know, death to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: how many death to the dictator? They're yelling this in
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the streets. You know, you could imagine how many either
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: killed or flown off to Russia and the Shaw coming back,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: setting up interim government and within six months you have
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: elections in Iran. I mean that is that changes the world,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you know, not like if a capitalism would, but it
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: changes the world, and it buys all of us who
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: value us and civilization. It buys us time. It weakens
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the Islamists in Europe, it makes them less passionate, confident
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: because it takes out the one country ruled but Sharia law.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: It takes them out. So the various factions in Europe
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: become weaker. The funding for them, much of it goes away.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: The Ranian funding goes away. We can help focus all
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: our attention on Kata and getting them to stop the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: funding and crushing the Muslim brotherhood. And and that's it,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and it's over. And the threat of Islam, the threat
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: of is Islam is them, which is the real threat
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: of Islam is gone. It doesn't take that much. That's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: my whole point about Islam doesn't have to be a threat,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: is that it doesn't take that much because they are weak.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And imagine, imagine, you know, all these people yelling for
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: sharia law, and then the one country that has charia law,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: that cherial law is overturned, is trashed by its own people,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: by the people living under that cheria. How great the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: cheria law be so hugely powerful message if you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: if if this actually happens, so let us let us.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: We can't pray. I don't pray anyway, you guys may
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: we can pray, Uh it doesn't help. We can hope
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: that doesn't help either. We can send out best wishes.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: We can uh encourage encourage our politicians to do something.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Certainly Israel should do something it has a direct immediate
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: interest in doing so. We should. We should retweet the videos.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: We should encourage public support for the for the for
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the brave. Oh yeah, and I should end on this
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the segment. I should end on this. I mean the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: people of you on, the people out into the going
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: into the streets, the men, women, uh and and young
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and young goals and and uh and and uh, people
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: from all walks of life. Now, I mean this really
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: has become broad. It was started with shopkeepers and now
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: it's students and everybody in the middle. It's a middle class,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it's the working classes. Uh, They're all out there in
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the streets, and it takes a huge amount of courage.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: It takes a huge amount of courage. They know what
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the fate is. They know what the regime has done
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: in the past. They know what this regime is capable
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: of doing. The regime advertises it by hanging people from
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: cranes in the middle of Tehran. Everybody knows how this
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: regime deals with its opponents. They kill them, they slaughter them.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And if this doesn't succeed, that'll come after many of
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: these people. Now there is safety in numbers, and the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: more people out in the streets, the more likely it
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: is to succeed. The more people out in the streets,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the more the less likely it is that any one
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of them, any particular one of them, gets in trouble,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and they need to sustain the numbers. But it's incredibly
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: brave of these people. Their courage cannot be. You can't
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: everestimate how courageous this is. You know, it's you remember
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the Goals Revolution. I think that's what Mocha wages, particularly
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: because they're all women. But this is the inevitable, the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: inevitable sequel to that goes revolution. And I salute the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Uranian people. Those out in the streets and those who
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: are sitting in their homes twiddling their thumbs should be
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: shamed and embarrassed. Get some balls and go out there,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: join your fellow Uranians, demonstrate and bring about the end
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of this regime. It's about time that this regime is
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: shut down, shut down, closed off, and the Uranian people
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: are free. And Iran could be a kind of a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: liberal style, relatively free place. I mean, there's no lesser
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: fay capitalism and even in the world, but the West
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: is a pretty free place. So this could be like
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: any other Western country without a king and without a uh,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: without a without a supreme leader, a kind of Western
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: democracy that I think that the Indian people would benefit
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: enormously from. And as I said, the rest of the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: World War two. All right, let us turn now to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: kind of the hot story in the news everywhere, and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: that is Venezuela. I lad with you on because I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: think ultimately it's more important. Plus what's going on Venezuela
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: is really just it, really is it. I think the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: technical term is a shit show. I think I think
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: that's a technical term. So on the show on Saturday,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I said, kind of as a joke, well not really
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: as a joke, because I believe this, but but you know,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that anybody would ever support this. I
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: said something like the reason Donald Trump I dismissed the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Courina Machado as the person to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: replaced you know, remember you said, you know, I actually
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: didn't have enough support among the Venezuelan people. Un though
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: she won the election and all the hope, you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the guy she nominated won it, but really she has
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: a huge amount of support for Venezuela. Why did Trump
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: disa the way he did? I mean, he really just
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: dismissed her. And I said that the reason he did
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: it was because he's pissed off that she got the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Nobel Prize and he didn't. And this is typical Trump narcissism,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: not strategic thinking, but completely narcissistic emotionalism, which is typical
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: of Trump. And I said, that's you know, that's what
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: that motivated Trump to do it. Well, according to the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Washington Post, not granted to the Washington Post. According to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Washington Post, two people close to the White House said
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: that Machado's acceptance of the prize, the fact that she
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: was willing to accept the prize she didn't decline it
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was an ultimate sin to the President Trump, despite the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: fact that she dedicated the wood to Trump and time
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: again complimented him about his work in Venezuela. Uh Bill,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: what Trump really wanted, what he really wanted and what
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: would have made her the next leader of Venezuela is
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: if she said, if she just turned it down and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: said I can't accept it because it's Donald Trump's, then
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: she would have been. She would have been, she would
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: have been. It so unsurprising, unshocking at all. I mean, again,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: as as some people are claiming, the greatest president in
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: American history, is completely driven by his narcissistic emotions, by
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: his sense of being offended by his by who insulted
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: him and who who who? Who? Who does he feel
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you know offended him? Remember, I mean, even if she
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: turned it down, it wouldn't be Donald Trump's. The committee
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: would have given it to somebody else. They had no
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: intention of giving it to Trump. So yeah, Jennifer says
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: as five year old, Yeah, we're governed by a five
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: year old. Well, I know some of you offended when
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I say that. I know that. But not only does
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: he have a five year old understanding of economics, he's also,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: as it behaves, emotionally like like a five year old.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: All right, okay, So I just want to put that aside.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I thought it was funny, and I was right. I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: was right, at least according to two sources close to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the White House. But of course, the more interesting, the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: more interesting story, and the more troubling story is Okay,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: what is going to happen with Venezuela, Because what really
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: seems clear is that this administration has no plan for
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the day after. You'd think you'd learn from Iraq. So
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the governor of Maduo, the vice president of Madua's government,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: is now president of Venezuela. By all accounts, she is
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: as authoritarian, as brutal, as ideologically committed to statism and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to an anti American agenda as Maduro ever was. She's
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a nasty human being from everything I can see, and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: she is now the dictator of Venezuela. She now runs
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the government. The entire government is intact, all the generals
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: running the security forces, all the people super loyal to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the regime, all the people who've oppressed their own people. Indeed,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: he's are that right now. You know, on Saturday there
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: were stories that people are celebrating in Caracas the fall
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: of Maduo. Well the stories are that yesterday and today,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the streets are empty. Nobody's going to work, nobody's leaving
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: home because because the troops loyal to the regime out
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: into the streets, arresting people, harassing people, and everybody's afraid,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: so they're staying home. And if you show any sympathy
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: towards the United States getting rid of Maduro, you're arrested.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And so Venetoela is still under a basically military rule
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: of the people who ran the government for Maduu. It's
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: not like Madua was a one man show. It was
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: an entire infrastructure. The Chavez before Madua had created and
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Madua inherited and continues in the military has huge financial
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: incentives and and I think the military realizes that if
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the opposition ever got into power, they would probably fire
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: them and probably put them up for trial. These people,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you know, abuse their power, stole money from from from
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the people, killed people, they were afraid. So supposedly the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: way this is going to work. Is the United States
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: is going to tell the Venezuelan government what it wants
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: them to do, and then the Venezuelan government is going
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: to say yes, sir, and if they don't, then the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: US government will do more military stuff? What stuff? What
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: is the US government going to do? What is the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: threat hanging over Venezuela? Are they gonna now snatch the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: vice president and then the vice vice president will become president?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Are they going to try to get Are they going
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: to bomb the place and kill the entire leadership of
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: of of this government? Are they going to stop bombing Caracas?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: What exactly is the US going to do to achieve
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: its aims? It's threatening? What really? And then is there
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: any way given that they Venezuela and people, unlike to
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: some extent at least the Iranian people, have not gone
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: into the streets, is this going to require boots on
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the ground? And look, if it's required boots on the ground,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you know, I very I believe the United States has
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the strongest military force in the world. It has the best,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the chnology, it has the best, it has the incredible soldiers.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: It is. It could do what it wants, particularly in
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the air, but it can do what he wants if
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: he wants to deploy that force. But given the wrs
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: of engagement, given everything else, given the way America fights was,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and given it's the morality of a war with Venezuela,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Venezuela is not is not a threat to the security
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: of the United States. It's just not. How are you
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: going to fight a war in Venezuela. How many troops
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: would you have to put on the ground in order
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: to in order to take Venezuela. What would be the purpose?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: And remember South America has filled with gorilla forces. They
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: are good at gorilla warfare. Uh, you know, there's and
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: and Venezuela is filled with jungles and mountains, and really
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: United States really wants to get into that, And why
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: what would be the purpose? What would be the aim?
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: To get oil? So I I, you know, I don't
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: get it. I thought they had a plan for regime change.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: They thought they had a plan maybe coordinated with the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: opposition of Venezuela to take out the leadership of Venezuela
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and bring in somehow assuming they had a plan, uh,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the opposition to take over and maybe there was some
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: military leaders that the United States had already contacted that
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: were willing to side with them. But just taking my
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: duro does nothing, not a other than flex muscles. Now,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: maybe flexing muscles is the point. So yeah, it's it's crazy.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know what this administration is doing. I don't
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: know what they're trying to do. Uh and and it
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: really right now seems pretty mindless and uh and and
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: and and ridiculous. Right, I mean, the reality is that
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: this is not about one man, It's about a whole regime.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: So where do we go from here? Again, Rubio suppose
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: he's going to run Venezuela, is going to tell the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: regime what to do, and they're going to agree. The
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: focus of the US of the administration is one hundred
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: percent of oil. They want all companies in there. They
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: want Americans running the oil business. Will that happen? You know,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: who knows. It's again going to depend on whether regime
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: is willing to cooperate. It's not clear why or whether
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: they are. On the other hand, if all it means
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: is USL companies come in there, help the Venezuelans build
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: up their oil business and funnel money into the regime
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to help them get stronger and more oppressive towards their
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: own people. And at the same time, the regime itself
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: will become rich. People in the regime itself will become rich.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: And yeah, the all companies will do well as well.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: But how does that make things better? How does that
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: move things in a positive direction? Not clear at all.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Is this regime of these people right now in leadership?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Are they willing to give up power in a really
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: fair election. No, But if the US gives them a
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: bunch of money through improving their oil industry and open
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: up the embargo and opening up, you know, sale of oil,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: maybe they'll they'll be so wealthy that they can bribe
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: themselves into a new election. The whole thing is just ridiculous.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was a little bit positive on Saturday,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: partially because I'm always impressed by really efficacious military operations.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a minute, and partially because
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I thought there was a possibility that and this was
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: my mistake, the Trumpet deministation had a plan. You know,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I'm benvolent in that way. I think people have plans.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I think people think, you know, know what they're doing
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and plan accordingly and and and have their act together,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and they know what's happening. It turns out no, there
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: is no plan. They have no clue what they what
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: they're doing, and that is absolutely what we what we're seeing.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And well, you know, I might be wrong, right, we
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: might in the next few days weeks, we might find
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: out that there is a plan and something else, something
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: else will happen. We'll see. Clearly, this is this is
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: It serves well as a distraction from a lot of
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: things that the administration would like you to be distracted from,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: whether it's Epstein or whether it's you know, whether just
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: how unpopular Trump is in the polls, cost of living,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: all the all the other stuff that is not quite
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: exactly going the way, tariffs, all of that. Maybe this
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: is a distraction, but whatever, I don't see how this
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: leads to anything that serves America's interests. It doesn't reduce drugs.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I will say this. It turns out that
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the US did bomb to Risbala facilities in Venezuela, giving
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: credence to Tecacos and car and Candice Owens claim that
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: this is all a zion As ploy. It was all
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: done to behest of Israel, which is kind of funny.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: But yeah, so one supposedly factory where the where drones
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: were being built both for Risbella and for the Venezuelan
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: and army use and these Uranian design as Iran again
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Uranian design drone, and another facility is supposedly where they
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: were creating fake documents, passports and others for terrorists. So,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if that's true again, but
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: that's what I've read. And if that's true, that's great.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: But is that going to go way because we bombed
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: some stuff? I mean, what prevents it from being rebuilt?
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Will we go back? Wi we bomb every few weeks, months, years,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: what's the next step? What's the plan other than we
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: control Venezuela because Trump said so, I don't know what
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: the plan is. I don't see a plan. I don't
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: see any evidence of a plan. Another element coming out
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: of this attack, it turns out that, according to Cuban government,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: thirty two Cubans were killed in the operation on Saturday
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: early morning. It is likely that the thirty two were
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: part of Meduro's security team there was protecting Maduo. That
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: of course indicates the importance of the relationship between Venezuela
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and Cuba. You know, Cuba does not survive without Venezuelan money.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Venezuela still has some money from oil. Some of their
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: money goes to Cuba. Cuba supplies the Venezuelans with security
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: personnel call it that way, uh, people treating the military service,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: bodyguards and uh and other things and and I think
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: many kind of advisors, but primarily on the military side.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: So the Cuba, Cuba has a strong interest in seeing uh,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the Venezuela regimes survive because it's a source of funding.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we'll see. I told you on
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Saturday that I thought that uh, this uh uh this
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: uh attack on Venezuela would would reduce the probability of
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: a of an attack by China and Taiwan. And and
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I think I continue to think that's true, partially for
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the reasons of regarding oil that I talked about earlier,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: but also there's one other element that I did not
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: mention Saturday. It turns out that we talked about it
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Their defense system, the Venezuela and air defense
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: system that completely failed. That did not prevent US helicopters
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: from flying low straight into Caracas and into the presidential palace.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Now it could be and there's no confirmation one or another.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: One possibility is that somebody shut it all off. That
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: is that somebody in the military cooperated with Americans, or
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: somebody in government corporated with Americans and just shut it
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: all off. There's even a ruma the Madua wanted to
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: be kidnapped by the Americans in order to get out
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: from under the Cubans, because if he had tried to
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: go run away to Russia or something like that, the
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Cubans would have killed him. This way, he goes to America.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: He may have spent a few years in jail, Trump
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: pardons him, and he goes to Moscow. You know who knows.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: That seems like a ridiculous conspiracy theory. But bet it
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: could be that somebody high up in Venezuela actually and
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: off all their defense systems. That's one possibility, but much
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: more likely is that the air defense systems failed, primarily
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Russian air defense systems. With one exception. The Chinese had
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: these brand new sophisticated radars installed in Venezuela. These are
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: radars that the Chinese are selling with the marketing statement
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: that they are that they are radars that can pick
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: up stealth fighters radars that can identify stealth fighters that
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: they can they can see in F twenty two and
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: an F thirty five. Now, it is likely that the
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: US figured out how to jam these radars and prevent
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: them from seeing the F twenty two and thirty five's
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: that were up in the air and for them at
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: anything else up in the air above Venezuela. It seems
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: that these Chinese radars failed completely. And if that is
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: the case, if they failed, if US technology has overcome
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: the ability of these radars, then not only does that
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: mean that American LI airplanes are still stealthy when it
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: comes to China, but it also suggests something that I've
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: been suggesting for a while now, and that is that
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: the Chinese military is very powerful on paper. The Chinese
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: military is very powerful if you believe all their assertions
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: about the capabilities of their weapons systems. But maybe, just
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: like the Russians, the weapon systems are nowhere near as
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: good as they claim they are. And if that's the case,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: maybe they're a paper tiger technologically advanced, you know, paper
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: tiger in the sense that the technology's paper. It can't
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: it can't do the things that they promised it'll do. Now,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the case, but this good
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: reason to believe it is. You know, She in China
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: has purged many of the senior officers within the Chinese
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Army over the last couple of years, and the purges
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: were explained as consequence of corruption. Now, I don't know
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: if that was the real reason, or they just disagreed
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: with him and he purged them for that reason they
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: weren't loyal enough, but some of them were people he appointed,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: were his people. Now, it could be that they were
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: purged because they promised to develop some weapons and their
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: weapons would be able to do X y Z and
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: they failed. It could be that they were purged because
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: instead of developing their weapons they promised, they funneled that
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: money into their own source bank accounts. It could be
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and likely that a lot of these purges have to
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: do with the fact that the Chinese Army is nowhere
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: near as mighty some people would like you to believe.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: So the failure of the Chinese radars is I think
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: going to be significant, and whether they failed or turned
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: off is going to be important, is going to be important. Right,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Let's see a few more things about Venezuela. Yeah, Oh,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I wanted to show this as a video. Let me
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: see if I can. Let me see if you can
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: make that happen. Yeah, it's a good chance with each other.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: All right, it's too funny not to share your video.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: I will put he asked Trump, This is not the video.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Butt asked Trump where it was going to demand that Rodriguez,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the vice president, allow opposition figures to return to Caracas.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: They're all outside Venezuela and uh or free any political business,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: And he basically said, this is a quote. We haven't
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: gotten to that right now. We want to do. What
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: we want to do is fix up the oil. Just
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: once to the oil. That's his focus. That's what he
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: wants to do. Dubious about whether he could do that.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: All right, Taiwan again is celebrating. Uh let's see what
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: else did I want to add here? Yeah, it's uh
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: covered that already. Yeah, I mean, Rubio keeps saying they're
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: not they don't want to govern Venezuela. They want to
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: cause Venezuela to do what they wanted to do. Gun
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: build diplomacy. Can they do that? Can they do that?
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Not clear? It's it's there is still a partial blockade.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: On oil leaving Venezuela's to that extent, maybe it exists. Okay,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: I have to show you this, this video of Tucker Carlson.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: It's just too good to be true. You You know,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I gave you a number of reasons why I thought
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: maybe Donald Trump did what he did on Saturday morning.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Why why this administration went out and and I took
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: out Maduro. I have no sympathy for Maduos, so taking
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Amaduos gets a thumbs up from me. But there's no
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: strategy here. It doesn't seem like there's anything else going on. Again,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Trump is a gangster. Gangsters take out other bad guys.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Sometimes that is good, right, Getting rid of other bad
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: guys is good. But whether I anything actual good comes
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: out of it, maybe determining China a little bit, maybe
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: showing your strength a little bit. But the bottom line is,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: I just don't see how they go from where they
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: are now to actually some kind of positive outcome in
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: the months to come, or a significant changed outcome, and
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: you urecom a different outcome. My guess is that Trump
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: will say, yeah, no more shipmates of drugs from Venezuela
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: because the Auntietie anyway, uh and and clean victory and
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: and walk away ultimately all right, But techer Causon has
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a take on this that I didn't consider. And and
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: you know, it's Tucker, and you gotta you gotta think
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: maybe well, anyway, it's Tucker casts you gotta, you gotta,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: you gotta see what he has to say. Let's see
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: what he has to say. Let's see what Techo calltions.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of people heard this yet,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: but this is Tucker Callson's explanation of what happened, why
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: it happened.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: We can safely discuss out democracy as a reason for
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: affecting regime change in Venezuela. Not going to go kill
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Nicholas Maduro because we don't like the way he's treating.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: His people, That's true. It's possible.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: We're mad that he doesn't allow gay marriage. That is
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: your distinct possibility.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: So he's not allowing gay marriage, we're mad at that.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: And now you could think he's just being flippant and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: throwing out something, but he doubles down on this.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: But no one will say that out loud, not defending
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: the regime, just saying no one will say it out loud.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: One of the most.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: Conservative countries in North or South or Central America. Only
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: El Salvador really comes close, which is much smaller, of course.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: And by the way, the US backed opposition leader who
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: would take Maduro's place if he were taken out, is
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: of course pretty eager to get gay marriage in Venezuela.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: So those of you who thought this whole project was
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: globohomo not crazy, Actually, why are.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: We driving stole this woman? It makes no sense.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Well, because she'll bring game marriage to Venezuela and that's important.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, all I can do is laugh because it's
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: so pathetic. I mean, he is, that's it. I mean
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: he is. I mean, as if the demon scratching him
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night wasn't enough. Yeah, we
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: just did this because we want to be in gay
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: marriage to Venezuela. That's Sony at the top, top top
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: consideration of the Trump administration. I mean, you could imagine
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: maybe he would say this if it was Biden, Obama
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: or something like that. This is Trump and this is
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Ruby O and Haigseeth and they're really considered about gay
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: marriage one or the other. And it's just what an idiot.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: But he had made this comment about Maduro and Madua's
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: government being the most conservative goverman. He said this a
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: few months ago in South America, and therefore one of
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: the good guys, right, because they didn't allow abortion, and
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: they didn't allow gay marriage, and they were very conservative,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: and therefore they should be an ally of the United States,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: because those are things that really matter. It's not a
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: whether you're a socialist, it's not whether you're an Islamist.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: What really matters is do you And this is why
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Katari is so good. Do you allow abortion, do you
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: allow gay marriage? You know, your attitude to its sex, whatever,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: whatever the social issue of the day, pornography, they banned pornography.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Those are the issues that matter to Tucker Carlson. Now,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: I think he is making himself super relevant, but he's
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: still got millions of followers. People are still watching his videos,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: maybe out of maybe it's it's a joke now, but
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: but they are, Oh, I don't I don't want you
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to see that picture. We'll get to her, we'll get
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to that woman later. It's it's that that's even a
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: better video, actually a spookyer video, but one from somebody
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: a lot less influential, uh and a lot less powerful
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: than Tucker, but I just wanted to you'll we'll get
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: to her as a representative of of the left of
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: the Marxist the good Marxist left. It's all about gay marriage.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: We'll go three. It's gonna be about gay marriage, don't
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: This is why, by the way, they love the Putin
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: I mean basically, I mean, not like quite lists, but basically.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: You know Jordan Peterson, you remember I did a whole
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: show in Jordan Peterson's kind of defense of Putin, or
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, the argument for Putin was, he's a conservative.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: He's he's Christian, he's religious, he's conservative, he's got our values.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: He's he's he's he's a Western civilization. We can't go
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: to war with him. You'd think the source of that
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: little video was the onion. You think it would be
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: an ai e thing, but it's not. It is It
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: is actually actually real. It's as funny as the onion is.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: But reality is often funnier than comedy. In comedy, all right,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: talk about funny and ridiculous. I want to talk about
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: John Mushhamayah, Mushmaya, Musha Maya, Mushmaya, something like that. Right,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: this guy is an intellectual teaches at the University of Chicago,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: you know, world leading commentator on geopolitics, and really it
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: came to the forefront and came to my attention and
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: pretty much everybody else's attention, really a big time. After
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Russia invaded Ukraine and he came out. He had done
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: talks about Ukraine and Russia in the past, and some
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: of those talks were interpreted as he was predicting that
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Russia would invade Ukraine, in spite of the fact that
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: over and over again over the years he said, no,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: you know, puts In doesn't really want Ukraine. He doesn't
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: want to take over the whole of Ukraine. He's got
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: these problems, but he would do with it. I mean,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: even just before the war he predicted it wouldn't happen.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: But it did happen. Anyway, when the war happened, he
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: was all over the place basically blaming NATO, basically blaming
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: NATO in the West for the war, and blaming the Ukrainians,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: blaming NATO, blaming the EU for Putin's war. You know.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Any and he got a lot of press. I mean,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: I had so many people on my chat saying, but
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Mai Suma, you got to watch this talk about him.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: He's brilliant, and he shows how it's all Ukraine's fold.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Russia is the good guys. And he was pushed out
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: there as him and Jeffrey Sachs as the expert on Russia.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: And of course he predicted that Russia would win the
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: war much faster than it did. He predicted that Russia
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have territorial ambitions beyond the Dunbass. I mean, almost
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: everything he's predicted and then about Russia has has you know,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: turned out wrong. I mean, just before the war he
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: said the Russians are doing very well for themselves, just
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: about the Russian economy, and I don't think they're going
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: to invade. Turns out they're not doing that well, and
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: we'reever doing that well economically, quite badly, very still a
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: poor country, and they did invade. You know. He also, uh, well,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about in it twil in a second. So
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: here's this expert that everybody cites, that is on all
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: the shows that if he probably gets tens of thousands
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: of dollars per lecture, public public appearance, and and he was,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: you know, all these declarations about Russia pro Russia, I
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: mean at some point he was even asked, I think
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: in Australia some way, you sound like all your points
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: are put in talking points, and he basically said, yes,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I mean complete putin kny but used by everybody, by
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: all the media and all the so called experts, and
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: all my opponents used him over and over and over again.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: And then and then the Seventh happened, and then he
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: started to talk about the Middle East. Now Russia, arguably
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know as much. Maybe I mean, he's dedicated
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: his whole career to studying Russia, although it turns out
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: I know more than he does. But the Middle East
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I know. And he was just wrong from the beginning
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: on everything you know. And then in the twelfth Day
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: War Iran happened. He basically said that he is always
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: going to use nukes because those the only way is
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: what could deal with you on he is always going
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: to use nukes. I'm not kidding. Actually what he said
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: it was going to use nukes and not tactical ones.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Used nukes to flatten Iran and murder Americans. He thought
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: it would be a false flag operation, so nukes would
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: be used on Americans, claiming the Ranians that it you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: know whatever, some ridiculous stupid stuff like that. He thought,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: is all, it's suffer enormous casualties and know what you want?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: You know he was he was wrong on Oh, he thought,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: there's no when the pages remember when the pages happened. Uh,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: there were the pages blew up and and uh uh.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: In in Lebanon with Risabella, he said, oh yeah, Israel's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: that is meaningless. Israel's taking huge casualties in Lebanon. Grisbel
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: is incredibly powerful. Isa's going to lose this war. Isabella
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: is uh is gonna you know, Israel is underestimating how
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: powerful Hubela is. Just say anybody Iran, I mean the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: guy's zero, I mean one hundred predictions zero and one
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: hundred just awful. And I mean now everyone in my
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: chat saying, yeah he's a DVN intellectual. Yeah he's terrible.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah he's did all this stuff. But if you go
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: back three years, my chat was full of you got
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: to listen to Meischamaia Maischemai is the guy. He knows
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: everything God unbelievable. Anyway, he predicted. Uh. First of all,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: he said, yeah, all this build up of assets in
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the Caribbean Sea, I mean it's just a bluff. It's
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: a bluff. Trump isn't gonna do it. It's all to
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: cut a real estate deal. Trump points a real estate deal.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: That was That was his explanation forwards going in the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Caribbean Sea. Then he said in a long form interview
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: which I listened to, the whole thing, he said, US
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: can't do anything in Venezuela. Venezuela has a military, they
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: have a big regime. What is it what they're gonna do.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: They're gonna take Maduo, how they're gonna find him. He's
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: well protected, he's guarded. This way, the United States can
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: do it. More egg in his face, over and over
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: and again. So anyway, I just wanted this to dedicate
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: five minutes to saying that John Moshamaia is a third rate,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: you know, academic international affairs non expert. He's awful, He's terrible,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: he knows nothing. Don't listen to him, don't watch him.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: It is It is really tragic that we live in
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: a world in which he gets a massive amount of
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: attention from the left, from MAGA or other people who
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: love Russia. The left, MAGA and the libertarians love this guy,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: and yet he is a joke. He doesn't know his stuff,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: He doesn't understand the world. He is quote a realist
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: who I mean, I know realists who are reasonable, I
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: mean with at least new Stuf right Kissinger. You can
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: disagree with Kissinger, and I disagree with Kissener on almost everything.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: But Kissinger k new stuff. He wasn't an idiot. He
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: and he wasn't. He didn't spout nonsense, and he and
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: he didn't have these he didn't make these ridiculous episode predictions.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: But you know, so he was the he was, you suppose,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: the guy who coined the turn realist school of Van Polsi.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Mush of my has none either with realism is a
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: bad you know, philosophically bad. Uh. And this guy is
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: particularly just I don't know stupid is the right word
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: or what it exactly is, but but he's really really bad.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: So stay away from him. Have a good laugh about Mushmayer. Right,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: all right, let's see, yes, let's talk about Waltz. We're
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: talking about Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz. As you know Minnesota,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: the corruption in in walfare of welfare in Minnesota is
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: just astronomical numbers and levels. And now some of this
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: is being dramatically exaggerated by Maga and and some of
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: it was made up. But it's really bad, right, It's
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: really bad. And and there's plenty of reason to believe
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: that the state government in Minnesota exhibited incredible incompetence in
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: dealing with this, and maybe even to the point of
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: turning a blind eye to the corruption because they didn't
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: want to offend the Somali, the Somali population in Minneapolis.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Uh and and so this has made Tim Waltz look really,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: really bad. Of course, this is Tim Walter who ran
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: as as vice president with Kamala Harris. She should have
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: she should have taken Shapiro. She would have had a
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: much better chance with Shapiro and it wouldn't have looked
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: so embarrassing after the fact. You know, that decision will
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: she's dead in the water for any future in politics.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: But anyway, he today announced that he will not be running.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: He will actually withdrawing from the governor's race in twenty
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: twenty six. He was going to seek re election for
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: a third term and he has decided to not seek reelection.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: So this is a case where you know, the Democratic
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Party basically went to him and said, your liability at
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: this point of the party. You did so poorly here
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  Speaker 1: that ce libility. Let me just I want to answer
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  Speaker 1: something about welfare fraud. It's happening everywhere. There's a story
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  Speaker 1: today about massive welfare fraud in Mississippi. It happens all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It's been going on for decades. It went
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  Speaker 1: on steroids, the fault, the fraud after the Trump and
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  Speaker 1: then Biden stimulus packages that had all kinds of goodies
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  Speaker 1: around COVID. So COVID blew this up because the government
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  Speaker 1: was basically the assumption in the government was we just
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  Speaker 1: want to hand out money. We want to hand out money.
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  Speaker 1: We want to get money in out there to keep
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  Speaker 1: the economy afloat, and we can do that by just
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  Speaker 1: giving money so people spend it, and that'll increase demand
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  Speaker 1: and that'll sup supply. It also raised prices, of course,
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  Speaker 1: But they were just throwing money at businesses. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: temporary what it was it employment thing where they give
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  Speaker 1: every business money and they get They threw it in individuals,
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  Speaker 1: and they threw it a welfare and they threw it
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  Speaker 1: at autism, and they throw at everything. And the consequence
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  Speaker 1: of that was people created whole entities to suck as
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  Speaker 1: much money fraudulently as they could, because the government is
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  Speaker 1: so right for fraught and some of this that we caught,
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  Speaker 1: most of it will not be caught, but much of
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  Speaker 1: it will be caught in Minnesota. To the Biden administration's
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  Speaker 1: credit and to some law enforcement within Minnesota's credit, they
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  Speaker 1: did catch it, and they have been prosecuting people around
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  Speaker 1: it and so on. The meaning it already means sentenced
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  Speaker 1: than a spending time in jail. Every state has this,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to about more and more and more
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  Speaker 1: of this. But this has become a big rallying court
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  Speaker 1: for MAGA because it's Tim Waltzon, because it's Somali's they
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  Speaker 1: love to hate Somali's and because of the size and
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: scope of this is massive, right, so Tim Wltz is out. Interestingly,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: it does appear, and we will know later tonight, but
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: it does appear that Senator Amy Klobashow is likely to
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  Speaker 1: run for governor. She wasn't going to if Walts was
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  Speaker 1: going to run, but given that he is withdrawing, and
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  Speaker 1: it turns out that she was in the meeting with
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  Speaker 1: him to convince him to withdraw. She was in a
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  Speaker 1: meeting with him. I guess over the weekend, so Klobashow
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  Speaker 1: is running. This will give I think Klobashow is a
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  Speaker 1: relatively centrist Democratic senator from Minnesota. She is a centrist,
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  Speaker 1: she's not part of the wacky left of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: She gives I think the Democrats a chance to keep
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  Speaker 1: the state. It also sets her up potentially to run
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  Speaker 1: for president in the future. She did run in the
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  Speaker 1: primaries last time and lost to Biden two times ago
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  Speaker 1: lost to Biden. But you know, she's mildly a better
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  Speaker 1: Democrat than a lot of the crazy leftists. This will
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  Speaker 1: be interesting to see. I don't know who the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: putting up. Last I heard it was pillow Man. You
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  Speaker 1: remember what's his name? I forget the guy's name, but
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  Speaker 1: the idiot completely not case trump ist zombie who sells
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  Speaker 1: those pillows. It was was gonna run, And yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would vote for pretty much anybody after over Mike Lindell.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the guys are nut a complete, another complete,
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  Speaker 1: another school ball nut, So I would I would easily
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  Speaker 1: vote for Amy Kobe Show over him. Hopefully it's the
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  Speaker 1: my pillow guy, My pillow guy. Hopefully it'll be Republicans
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  Speaker 1: will find somebody better than Mike Lindell, but who knows
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  Speaker 1: he has money? And Trump loves him because because he
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: was he was big into the conspiracy theories around Trumph
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: losing the election in twenty twenty, winning the Sorry, winning
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  Speaker 1: the election, didn't lose it. Of course, he didn't lose it. God,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: he couldn't have lost it. How could he lose it?
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: How could Trump lose anything? Trump never loses. So let's
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  Speaker 1: let's if Republicans in the primary vote for somebody other
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  Speaker 1: than Lindell. If it's a Lindel, I hope Kobasha wins, right,
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  Speaker 1: But if it's not Lindell, then hopefully it's a semi
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  Speaker 1: rational Republican, and then I would probably vote for Republican. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. We'd have to know more about Minnesota politics,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: because voting Republican, for example, puts abortion in Minnesota in play.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: Then I would vote for a Democrat. Now that abortion
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: is a state issue, it's dangerous to vote for a
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  Speaker 1: Republican on state level. All right, let's see. Oh yeah, Kelly, so,
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  Speaker 1: as you probably remember, we talked about this on the
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  Speaker 1: show a few months ago. You remember, send it to
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  Speaker 1: Kelly in a number of other Democratic senators put out
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: a video a few months ago basically telling this as
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: a consequence of the blowing up boats and and just
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Trump threatening to use US military in ways that it's
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to and he doesn't have the constitution authority
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  Speaker 1: to make them act. There was a video made by
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  Speaker 1: these Democratic lawmakers basically advising servicemen that they were not
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: required to follow illegal orders under the Constitution. So basically
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: just stating the fact, which is a fact, which is
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Automatous Station flipped out over this. And you
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  Speaker 1: might remember the Trump and Secretary Hegseth threatened to court
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  Speaker 1: martial him to actually bringing in because he's a he
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  Speaker 1: is a I mean we're talking about somebody who is
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  Speaker 1: a decorated pilots, a decorated pilot, a astronaut, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pretty pretty pretty famous guy for in that career, I
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  Speaker 1: mean thirty nine thirty nine combat mission formations the space
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  Speaker 1: and Yeah, anyway, what did he say, if you get
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  Speaker 1: an illegal order, you do not have to follow it.
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  Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense, That's what the Constitution says. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out that Hecseth came to the conclusion that
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  Speaker 1: so anyway, he's in the reserve Navy. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a pilot, and they were going to kind of call
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  Speaker 1: him up and they court martial him. It turns out
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  Speaker 1: that HECCESS probably probably couldn't do that, couldn't pull that off.
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  Speaker 1: It probably wasn't a case to be made in a
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  Speaker 1: court martial. He probably would have lost. So HECCESS instead
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: has decided basically to order and investigation, which would lead
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: to a reduction in Kelly's retired rank of captain, a
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  Speaker 1: reduction in his pay, and possibly elimination of his I
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  Speaker 1: guess pensioned from the military. Uh and uh yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: just treat him, you know, probably, And it's just unbelievable
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: how vindictive this administration is, how how they don't care
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: about the law, they don't care about the constitution. So
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: heexas has issued issued a form of a letter of
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  Speaker 1: censure which outlines the totality of Captain for now. He says,
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  Speaker 1: in parentheses, Kelly's reckless misconduct conduct This census necessary process
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  Speaker 1: step and will be placed in Captain Kelly's official and
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  Speaker 1: permanent military personnel record file. Captain Kelly has been provided
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  Speaker 1: notice on of the of the basis for this action
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  Speaker 1: and has thirty days to submit a response. There are
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: time and grade determination process directed by Secretary, he says
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  Speaker 1: will be completed within forty five days. Captain Kelly's status
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: as a city United States senator does not exempt him
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  Speaker 1: from accountability, and further violations would result in fur their actions.
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  Speaker 1: These actions are based on Kelly's public statement from June
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  Speaker 1: through December twenty twenty five, in which he characterized lawful
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  Speaker 1: military operations as illegal and council members of armed forces
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: to refuse lawful orders, which is a complete distortion of
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  Speaker 1: what actually happened. As Senator Kelly responds to this, my
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  Speaker 1: rank and retirement of things that I earned through my
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shot
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  Speaker 1: a mission while my wife Gaby recovered from a gunshot
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: wound to the head. If you remember, she was a
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: congresswoman who got shot all while proudly wearing the American
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: flag on my shoulder. Generations of service members have made
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: and rank they deserve. Pete Heseth wants to send a
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  Speaker 1: message to every single retired service member that if they
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: say something he so Donald Trump doesn't like, they will
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  Speaker 1: come after them the same in the same way. It's
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: outrageous and it's wrong, and there's nothing more un American
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  Speaker 1: than that. I agree with him completely. If Pete Hexseth,
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  Speaker 1: the most unqualified Secretary of Defense, I agree with that
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  Speaker 1: too in our country's history, thinks he can intimidate me
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  Speaker 1: with a censure or threat to demote me or prosecute me.
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  Speaker 1: He still doesn't get it. I will fight this with
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  Speaker 1: everything I've got, not for myself, but just well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is his sacrifice stuff, But to send a message
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  Speaker 1: back that Pete Keckseth and Donald Trump don't get to
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  Speaker 1: the side what Americans in this country get to say
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  Speaker 1: about their government. Good for Senator Kelly, I will note
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: that all of this attention Kelly is getting is I
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: think going to do, going to do a lot for
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  Speaker 1: Senator Kelly's presidential ambitions. I would not be surprised at
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  Speaker 1: all if Kelly runs for president in twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: in the Democratic primary. This kind of attention that he's
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  Speaker 1: getting is could propel him to a senior position, into
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  Speaker 1: a leading position in those primaries in the Democratic he'll
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: have to run against the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: and maybe there'll be some other Democrats. But he's getting
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of press right now, and he's presenting yourself
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: as his patriot, which will appeal to centrists, it'll appeal
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: to the center of the country. It appeal to some
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: Republicans fed up with Trump and who don't want to
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: vote for Let's say to jd Vance whoever it is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Kelly might be using this as an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to elevate his status. Can't you know, can't blame him
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  Speaker 1: for doing that, all right, Final story of the day.
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  Speaker 1: M'm Donnie, Oh, Ma'm Danny, Mom, Donny. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: Ma'm Donnie's a democratic socialist and uh, you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: said that he can't do much democratically, and but some
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  Speaker 1: people within his administration are ambitious in terms of this socialism.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: They're not just they're not just an armchair socialist. They
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: want to get in and they want to do the
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: real socialism stuff. They want to socialize stuff. Uh. And
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: so it turns out that his appointee to be a
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  Speaker 1: kind of head of tenant advocacy, so the advocate for tenants.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: A big chunk of Mum Donnie's agenda focuses around trying
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  Speaker 1: to lower costs of rent and begin advocate for renters
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: in New York right, lower the cost of rent, lower
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: the cost of living. And she's advocated she's the advocate
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: for renters right against landlords. You gotta watch this video.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: This is a video of this woman, Kia Kia Weaver,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: who is tenant advocate under Madonni's administration. Uh and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I laugh because you know, look how young she is,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: and you'll see him in how delusional she is. And
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  Speaker 1: luckily for all of us. Luckily for all of us,
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  Speaker 1: she can't actually get any of this stuff that she
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: once done. But it's still pretty horrifying. Somebody in American government,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's just the city government of New York,
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  Speaker 1: believes this crap here it is.
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  Speaker 3: I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
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  Speaker 3: really treated property as an individualized good and not a
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  Speaker 3: collective good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there were a problem in the world. It's
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  Speaker 1: too much individualism. Mamdanni's already told us that. And a
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  Speaker 1: symbol of that, the primary symbol of that in the
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  Speaker 1: world out there is private property, private property, that's individual property.
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  Speaker 1: We don't like private property. We don't like individualism. We
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  Speaker 1: want collectivism, you know, friendly, nice, wonderful, friendly, warm collectivism.
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  Speaker 1: So we don't want private property. We want to keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Property as an individualized good and not a collection good.
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  Speaker 3: And we are going to and transitioning to treating it
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  Speaker 3: as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: Will so the transitioning towards treating private property as collective property,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: as turning private homes into collective ownership and to own
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: by the collective. I mean, she's a real socialist, she's
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  Speaker 1: not holding back, and this is what they want to
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: transition towards all have shared equity.
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  Speaker 3: Shared equity will require that we think about it differently,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: and it will mean that families, especially white families, but
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: some POC families who her homeowners as well, are going
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: to have a different relationship to property than than than
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  Speaker 3: the one that we currently have.
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  Speaker 1: Families are can have a different relationship to property than
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  Speaker 1: they come into the app. In other words, they can
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  Speaker 1: have a relationship that it's not their property anymore. That
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: these bests are going to nationalize it. They're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: take it. They're just gonna you know, this is anti
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  Speaker 1: everything this country stands for. It's anti western, it's anti civilizational,
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  Speaker 1: it's anti enlightenment, and of course it's racist. It's like
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  Speaker 1: white families, not white white families, because I guess the
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  Speaker 1: claim would be that most of the property in New
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  Speaker 1: York is owned by white people. So maybe maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: just a numbers game, but they're gonna have to change.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about changing your relationship with with with
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: your home, changing your relationship with the property that you own.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: When you don't own it anymore, you can have a
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: different relationship with it now. Luckily for all of us,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: what she is advocating for is anti constitutional. Will get
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  Speaker 1: thrown out of the courts. It won't even have to
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: go to the Supreme Court because they get thrown out
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  Speaker 1: in the lower courts, and all courts will throw this out.
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  Speaker 1: This is there's a taking clause in the in the
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  Speaker 1: Constitution that is quite clear about this stuff. And there's
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  Speaker 1: no they can't claim here eminent domain. There's no legitimate
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  Speaker 1: case for any kind of eminent domain. No American court
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  Speaker 1: is going to stand by this. So this is just
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  Speaker 1: a young, idealistic, crazy anti American anti civilizational, anti Western
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  Speaker 1: SIEV socialist nutcase imagining. Imagine all the people right imagining
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: what she would like, which is this you know, socialist
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: fantasy that she has. I'm not going to go through
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  Speaker 1: the evil of what it actually means, uh, not to
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: have private property and what that would what that would entail,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: and the evil that that would represent. I think you
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: all know that, and you know my position on this.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: This was mainly for your entertainment. It's not going to happen,
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: but it does mean, It does mean, and this is
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: serious and scary and important that this from Donnie administration
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: will do everything they can that is within the scope
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: of their power, which is not much, but everything they
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: can within the scope of their power to undermine property rights.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: This will be an agenda, a big part of their agenda.
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  Speaker 1: It's the undermined property rights that is a fundamental, essential
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: characteristic of socialism. They disdain property, they disdain individualism, the
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: individualism manifests and property rights. That's what they want done
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  Speaker 1: away with.
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  Speaker 1: of the US military in Venezuela makes me even more upset.
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  Speaker 1: Why on Earth will be playing a round with the Hucis.
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  Speaker 1: He had no kidding, and other threats are so long
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. Absolutely, And you know again, we have the
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  Speaker 1: mightiest military for some planet Earth by far. We can
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  Speaker 1: do what we want in big chunks of the world.
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  Speaker 1: The only military that has any chance of standing up
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  Speaker 1: to the United States is the Chinese. We will would
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  Speaker 1: defeat the Chinese. It would cost us a lot, it
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  Speaker 1: would not be an easy war, but it's the only
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  Speaker 1: one that can even come close, even come close. No
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: other military can even scratch the US really scratch. And
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: I'm counting here Western European militaries and everybody. It's just
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: not it's not close. So why do we let these
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: insignificant players like Yuan and the huchis? Why do we
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  Speaker 1: let them? I mean, if we gave these weapons to
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: who gave deficent weapons to Ukraine, Ukraine could beat Russia.
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  Speaker 1: We wouldn't even have to use American troops directly. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it really is pathetic. Grant, thank you, grant fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I can see the efficiency in economies
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  Speaker 1: of scale, But what if quality and quality quality seemingly
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  Speaker 1: negative correlation with profit motive cut costs, cut quality, increased
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  Speaker 1: margins McDonald's scale, but lowered quality to Yota scale, but
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: maintain standards. Yeah, I mean, no markets drive quality. Profit
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: margins drives quality in some cases, right, So what happens
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: in markets is they get segmented by quality. If McDonald's
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: declines because it reduced quality. I don't know if they did,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: but let's assume they did. I have no idea. Then
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: that creates an opening for some other player to come
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  Speaker 1: in and capture the slightly higher quality. You know, And
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: you know, competition doesn't drive quality down quite the country.
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  Speaker 1: It drives quality for a price up. You get higher
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: quality for a given price because of competition. So let's
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: say I say McDonald didn't change the price, kept the
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  Speaker 1: price as it was, and lowered quality. And let's say,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: you know, there hasn't mean inflation, and it costs a
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  Speaker 1: pretty stable and all of that right now, competitor like
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  Speaker 1: Burger King looks at that and says, huh, I can
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  Speaker 1: match their price and keep the quality, and yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 1: make less money per Hamburger. But as people realize that
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: the Burger's in McDonald's reduced in quality, they will come
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  Speaker 1: over to Burger King. I'll make more money on quantity
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: because I've got a higher quality, and that will force
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: McDonald's in the long run to raise quality back up,
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: which is exactly what happened over and over again. This
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: is why this is why Toyota keeps quality up. It
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: keeps quality up because it knows if it doesn't. Somebody
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: is going to take market share from them. Somebody will
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: step in there and take just like Tayota took market
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: share for American car companies who got lazy, who got
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: big and lazy and non innovative, and they thought they
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: were protected by the US government. They thought they no
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: other car company could compete with them, because you know,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: we'd won World War two basically, and in the nineteen
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: seventies the Japanese came in with higher quality, lower price,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: and if not for the US government bailing the auto
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: companies out, the US auto industry today would be a
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: lot smaller, which it should be. Markets drive quality up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about your computer. There's a really competitive market,
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable competitive market. You can buy a computer at every
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: price versus quality point along a pretty long graph. You
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: can buy very cheap still good, right, you can buy now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the room is that Apple is coming out
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  Speaker 1: with a MacBook. She's not gonna be a MacBook Air.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be cheaper than a MacBook Air. It's
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: going to have not one of their M chips but
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  Speaker 1: one of the A chips, the chips that run the
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  Speaker 1: phones in it. And it's going to be really cheap
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  Speaker 1: and really good. Not as good as a MacBook Pro,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: but it'd be a lot cheaper. And of course at
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: every point you will get the appropriate quality for the
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: price and if and the reason Apple is introducing this
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: is because there are lots of alternatives. There's Dell's and
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: Lenovo's and Google Chrome Books and all these others that competing.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: So competition constantly is driving the relationship between price and quality, right,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, Walmart, quality is low, so is price.
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  Speaker 1: But for the price, the quality is high. Not Strom.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: Quality is high but expensive, but for the price, the
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: quality is good. So it's it's it's it's a constant
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: in a play between these things. But the idea that
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: somehow markets or economies of scale drive down quality is
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: just wrong historically, and when it does, those companies get
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: competed out of business. Has happened to the American auto companies. Rockefeller,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: who had ninety three percent of all the refining capacity
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: in the United States in the eighteen seventies, quality ninety
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: three percent. Quality went up every single year. Price went
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: down every single year. The iPhone quality goes up every
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: single year. They just get better, I mean a little bit,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: and price pretty much stays the same. So no, I
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: mean there's nothing, there's nothing out there that there's no
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: all the principles of economics show that you don't give
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: up quality buy in a marketplace. And the more dynamic,
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: the free of the marketplace, the more competitive it is,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: whether it's explicitly competitive or implicitly competitive through substitute products
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: or potential competitors. Quality is going up constantly. That's what happens.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: That's how markets work, that's how the economy works. And again,
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: if somebody lowest quality, they get penalized for it in
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: the free market. Right, thank you, guys. Uh well, I
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: did want to mention somebody here did his first super chat. Ever,
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• 1:41:30
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  Speaker 1: I know I saw it earlier. Anyway, to whoever it
• 1:41:46
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• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: first sticker, thank you, I really really agree. Oh I
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• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: I still can't find it anyway, Let's go back to cha.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: Chasbat says, Please don't tell us what Star Trek of
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• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: my memory's shot anyway, Michael, do you think too many
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: objectivists have the attitude people aren't ready for objectivism or
• 1:42:43
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  Speaker 1: I actually don't think that's the case. I've seen no
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  Speaker 1: don't know what too focused is, but they're focused on
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  Speaker 1: enough to go out there and engage people with their ideas.
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  Speaker 1: I think there are lots of personal reasons. I don't
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: think there's a lot of people are too primitive. You know.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think that attitude exists much in objectives. I
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  Speaker 1: might be wrong, but I don't see I haven't seen
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: it if it exists, all right, A three part question
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: it looks like again for Michael. Thank you, Michael. So
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: many questions to ask about Trump's operation Venezuela. What was
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: Trump's motive? Were are there any plans in place for
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: transitioning Venezula to government supported by Doer's opposition? So let
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: me just take those What was Trump's motive? You know,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: it's hard to tell. I think much of the motive
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: is flexing muscle and being macho. I think he has
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: this vague notion that he wants more oil. He loves oil,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: he loves the oil industry, wants more oil, and I
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: think he'd like to see USL companies controlled those those
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: assets in Venezuela. I don't think it has anything to
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: do with being freedom to the Venezuelan people. I don't
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: think he kiss one iota for that. I don't think
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: it has anything to do with drugs because Venezuela's irrelevant
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: to the drugs problem in the United States, and they
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: all know it, they all lie about it constantly. It's
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: a macho move, it's a it's a flexing muscle move,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: it's a gangst the move, and it's it's I think
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: focused on oil. I think those are the two motivations.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: Were there any plans in place, such as nixing Venezuela
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: or government supported by Madua's opposition, No, no. I think
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: the plan is that once they resolved the oil issue
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: and they get American oil companies they're controlling the oil
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: fields and really dominating, then they will twist the current
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: government's arm about setting up election down the road at
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: some point and then maybe the opposition wins, and maybe
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: they don't. But they don't care about that. That is
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: not a priority. They're not about transitioning Venezuela to government
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: supported by Madua's opposition. They don't care about that. That's
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: not part of their agenda. Maybe Marco Rubio cares, but
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: Trump and Hegseth and JD and all the people who
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: actually run the government don't care. Okay. Part two is
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: a continuation. What is the message that Trump wants to
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: send by doing this? I think that he can that
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: he has both the military strength to do stuff like this,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: that nobody should mess with us, and that he has
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: the will to approve such operations, that he is willing
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: to engage in military reactions to get his way. I
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: think the messages don't mess with Trump. You know. Maybe
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: it's a message to Denmark, Hey, you guys should negotiate
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: about giving us Greenland. Maybe it's a message to the Uranians,
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: you should get out of town before we come and
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: get you. Maybe it's a message to Chinese, but I
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: doubt that. But but it's it's it's the kind of
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: gangster move where don't mess with us. This is what
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: we do to people who mess with us, And and
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: I have the weapons, I have the power to do it.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a little scary. Then you think that
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: somebody like Trump, somebody with the mentality of Trump, somebody
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: with the intelligence of Trump, somebody with the attitude of Trump,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: actually controls the mightiest military force in all of human history.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: It is it is very scary. What's he gonna use
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: it for? Michael says, would Trump do this to somebody
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: he disagreed with domestically? Not yet? Not yet. I mean,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: he'd like to, but I don't think he's quite ready
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: for that. I think he realizes that the courts would
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: be after in public opinion won't quite go with him.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: So he's he's a little reluctant to do that. But
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: is again he's his mentality is Yes, he's a gangster.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: He's got a gangster mentality. Will he attempt to use
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: Foster remain in office? He has already in twenty twenty.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: Would he try again? He could? He could. I don't
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: know if he has enough levers of power to do it.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: We will see, we'll find out. Will this have an
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: impact on midterm elections. I don't think so. I think
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: this is the kind of operation that, yeah, maybe Americans
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: get rab a little bit patriotic and they support the government,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: but then nothing really happens, and then what I mean,
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the elections play a role in this. He
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  Speaker 1: needs to divote attention from the things that are not
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  Speaker 1: going well, cost of living, tariffs again, Epstein, and other
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. He wants to diverte attention. This works
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  Speaker 1: for that, but I don't think it'll actually I don't
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  Speaker 1: know it's too fine in the future. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it will sustain through November. And I think enough Americans
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: are going to see through this that they won't be
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  Speaker 1: that excited about it. Clark is feeling bad for the
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  Speaker 1: less fortunate a real weakness once you get rid of
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: is less fortunate than anti concept. Yes, it's definitely an
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: anti concept that assumes the fortune is involved. And you know,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: there's a sense in which fortune is involved, luck is involved.
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  Speaker 1: You have no control over your genes and your circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: and the country you were born to sent you, you
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  Speaker 1: were born, the parents you were born into. That's all true,
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  Speaker 1: but they want to make it that what it's all about,
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  Speaker 1: what you are is a creature of luck, and what
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: the poor are a creature of luck and some of
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  Speaker 1: that they are particularly in a mixed economy where the
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: opportunities they face are limited because we don't live in
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: a capitalism because the government destroys those opportunities, because the
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: government destroys incentives. But there's plenty of people who've escaped
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  Speaker 1: poverty to suggest that it's possible, and they what they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do. An anti concept is trying to confuse
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  Speaker 1: your thinking. It's trying to undermine your thinking. What they're
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: trying to do is obliterate the idea of a deserving
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  Speaker 1: poor and an undeserving poor. An undeserving poor being somebody
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  Speaker 1: who had bad luck and no fault of their own
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  Speaker 1: in a situation of poverty, and I think deserve I'll
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  Speaker 1: help in those circumstances, and the deserving poor blue choose
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason to undermine their own ability to rise
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  Speaker 1: up from poverty, Drinking drugs, irrationality, immorality, you know, and
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: living off of welfare, whatever, all of that. So it
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: wants to obliterate that distinction of deserving versus undeserving liam
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: How much better can objectivism make your life in a
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: heavily irrational world? Do you recognize the external limits to
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  Speaker 1: your flourishing, no matter how well you have integrated the
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  Speaker 1: philosophy into your soul? Yes, But I think those limits
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: not very what's the right term. I don't think they're
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  Speaker 1: very constraining. There's so much you can do. There's so
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: much you can do that is out that the limits
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: are not yet interfering with. There's so much you can
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: do in your own personal life. There's so much you
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: can do in your own development. There's so much you
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: can do still in your profession, there's so much possibilities. Now, yes,
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: there are professions. There are some professions that are particularly sensitive.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: Two the state of the culture. I'm thinking of arts
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: and certain arts, and I think of I think of
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: being an intellectual right, and or if you want to
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: be a professor teacher and you have to deal with
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: the with the intellectual climate at universities, and you have
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: to deal with the students and other professors and all that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it definitely, it definitely makes But for a lot of professions,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: the irrationality makes it hard hard, uh, suddenly, But it
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't make it impossible to be successful. See, yes, there
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: are limitations, there's no question you could be life could
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: be so much better if we lived in a rational society,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: but we don't. So you make the most of what
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: you have. And I don't see enough people making the
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: most of what they have, just just living the life
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: and succeeding, and you know, building their souls, building their character,
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  Speaker 1: enjoying the things that are within their scope, within their
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• 1:52:57
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• 1:53:03
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• 1:53:07
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• 1:53:12
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• 1:53:15
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• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: the past member shows and some of them are really fun,
• 1:53:21
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• 1:53:24
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• 1:53:30
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• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: the one we did last time, which was the missing link.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I think you'll really, you really enjoy it,
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  Speaker 1: I have some plans from some arts shows from members only.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also thinking about the oh Pah course Opah reading
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  Speaker 1: on how to do it. I'm hoping so let's say
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  Speaker 1: within a week, I will have a plan and fill
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• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: we'll know what we're doing and we'll start doing OPA
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  Speaker 1: on a regular basis. So we'll start doing a reading
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  Speaker 1: group of OPA with me leading. Uh. And I'm still
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  Speaker 1: figuring out how much money to charge. I'm thinking something
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: like just to just to just to get you over actions.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking something like one hundred bucks a month with
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: it being at least two shows a month, which which
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: it'd be each be at least probably two hours long.
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  Speaker 1: So one hundred bucks a month for four hours on
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: OPAH that would be my expectation. So let me know
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  Speaker 1: what you think I need to make it worth while,
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  Speaker 1: we'd want twenty to thirty people signed up for it.
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  Speaker 1: That would be that would be amazing if we got
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: twenty to thirty people, right, all right, I see Silvanus
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: is on board. That's great. Bakup, yes for redo on
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  Speaker 1: the Rules of Life shows. But five x but five
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: x what does that mean? Five times yes for redo
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  Speaker 1: on Virtue shows. The objectives ethics are the most crucial
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: needed Oh but five x yes for redo on the
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  Speaker 1: Virtue Show. So he wants more virtues, and more so
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: than the Rules for Life, although the Rules for Life
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: were really the virtues, another form, another repetition of the
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: virtues shows with a different spin on them. It's all
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: the same, right, The objectives ethics are the most crucially
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: needed part of our philosophy and are relatively easily graspable
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: by an honest newcomer. All right, I really appreciate that input,
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  Speaker 1: and I will start thinking about how to do that
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: and when to do that, and how to integrate it
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: into all these new shows as well and everything else.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: But yes, so we've got o con study group, we've
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: got virtues, we've got the capitalism shows, the civilization form
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: versus Christianity shows, and the meaning shows. We could do.
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: The meaning could be also virtues. We could fit the
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: virtues into kind of the meaning shows. Yeah, we'll figure
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: this out. They're not enough, not enough days in the
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: week to do all the shows I'd like to do,
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: it turns out, but we will figure it out. We'll
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: make it happen, all right, anonymous says, fine with us, smoke.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: Why is the stock market up today? Well, let me
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: first say that the real answer to that, the proper
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: answer to that is I don't know. I don't know
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: the stock market going up and down any particular day.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: It's very difficult to assess. I mean, okay, Madu, happened
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: over the weekend, that's the obvious news. What does that suggest?
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe all prices going down, probability of China invading Taiwan
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: going down, those are all good things for the economy,
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: all good things for lack of instability moving into the future,
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: reduction and uncertainty, things better in the future that gets priced,
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: and that could be that could be the cause of
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: the market going up. Also, all of that could suggest
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  Speaker 1: less fear in the market. I mean, let me, let
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: me just see. Let's let's take a look at the
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: stock market. Want to say, I mean, uh yeah, I
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: mean Russell two thousand, which is small stocks way up.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of that is driven by the
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: fact that bank stocks up two percent. Russell two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: So why bank stocks up two percent? Now, as that
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: is only you know, two thirds of a percent. So
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: ai is up and tech stocks are up and mostly
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: it's smaller firms and a lot of banks. Gold is up,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: silver's up, Crude oil is up, not down. You'd expect
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  Speaker 1: it to be down. Yeah, but here's the key, right,
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: fifty bonds are down. As I told you, when interestates
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: go down, prices go up. Now the question is when
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: interstrites go down, acid prices go up, stock markets go up.
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  Speaker 1: Why and those companies most sensitive to interestrates go up
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  Speaker 1: the most. What are the companies most sensitive to interestrate changes? Banks?
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: That's why banks up the most. So here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Why is interestrates go down? Maybe because uncertainly he's down
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  Speaker 1: into the future. Maybe because there's a fear about the future.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe because with oil prices coming down, there's some thinking
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: which I don't think is correct, but some thinking about
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: that puts less pressure on prices. Prices might come down
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: less inflation the way people understand the price inflation as
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: a consequence. More likely the Fed reduces interest rates, So
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: we're already reducing rates, and anticipation lower interest rates higher stocks.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: So any of that, any of that could be a cause. Now,
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: given all that, why is gold going up? You know
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: gold it should go in the opposite direction. Silver should
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: go in the opposite direction. Gold is up almost three
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: percent and silver is up. What about bitcoin? Yeah, Bitcoin's
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: up huge, right. Bitcoin was way under ninety just last week.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: Now it's up to ninety four. So Bitcoin's going up.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: Gold is going up in spite of the fact that
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: we've you know, because of what Maduro. What is Madua
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: have to do with the gold? And again, you know,
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: it's almost it's impossible to explain daily movements and stocks.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: You can often explain long term movements in stocks once
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: you get some distance and you look back at them.
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  Speaker 1: To explain daily movements in stock market indexes, yeah, very
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: very difficult, and it's not clear. There's so many moving parts,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: there's so many considerations, and there's so many things driving
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: the people speculating in these stocks. That is my explanation, sorry, Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: Altruism requires pretense to want to help others as one's purpose.
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: But even if under self pretense one believes one wants
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  Speaker 1: to help, does altruism require negating negating model credit for
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: the helping because one wants to do so. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the more one wants to do so, the more one
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: perceives it is a self interest, the less credit you
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  Speaker 1: can give yourself or the less credit. Somewhere in your psychology,
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: you're going to give yourself for an altruistic action, you know,
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: suddenly that's what cont suggested, that you give yourself less credit.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's somewhat internalized. It's why we admire
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  Speaker 1: so much those really sacrifice. The more they sacrifice the
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  Speaker 1: mother way to why admire them. And if we think
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: there's a hint of a self interested motivation, we admire
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  Speaker 1: them less. So I definitely think that there's a psychological
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  Speaker 1: element of not giving yourself for credit for the for
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  Speaker 1: credit on the deception for the action because it may
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  Speaker 1: be feel good. I did it out of a I
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: did it because I wanted to. Yeah, I mean that
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  Speaker 1: undermines the whole point of a duty. Lincoln, why do
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  Speaker 1: you think there's so much speculation and pressure of metals recently?
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  Speaker 1: It seems illogical given it typically moves opposite of the
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: stock market. Well, I mean, I think because you get
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of speculation in metals when
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: there's an almost uncertainty about the future, both geopolitical un certainty.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: I think war in Ukraine, war in them at least
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: war with Iran. You know, maybe war in Venezuela. Are
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: we going to say in troops or not? What is
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: China going to do with think in invade Taiwan? Is
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: this organatrate into World War three? I think any scary
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: scenarios that have geopolitical consequences lead to people speculating or
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: buying precious metals. There's also a lot of uncertainly about
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: a price inflation. Price is going up much? Is there
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: going to be how's the US coming going to get
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: rid of its debt? Are they going to inflate it away?
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: When's that going to happen? So then, certainly around monetary
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: policy as it affects prices is another reason why gold
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: gold is up. It's not reflecting current inflation or past inflation.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: It's reflecting the potential for future inflation. I fear it's overdone,
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: But you know, what do I know? And you know,
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: would I be surprised to see gold in three thousand, No,
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. But I'm shocked to see gold at forty
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: five hundreds. So what do I know? Right? This guy
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: says capitalism makes profit, not quality. You can only make
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: profit by producing quality, So capitalism makes quality. By extension,
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  Speaker 1: I mean to live in the twenty first century. You know, look,
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: I look at my setup here with three monitors, an
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: amazing camera, these led lights that I can control from
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: my computer, the soundboard which is amazing, a computer that
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't even you know, doesn't even huff and puff to
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: do all this and manage it all. And to say
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  Speaker 1: capitalism doesn't produce quality is so evasive, it's so check
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: your premise, guy, you know, think about what you're what
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: you're advocating for, Think about what you believe. There's something
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: really wrong about what you hold to believe that. Just
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: think about You're probably on an iPhone, You're probably on
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: a Samsung. You're probably on a smartphone, which is a
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: direct product of one of the freest markets in the world,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: the technology market, a capitalist market. And you know, you're
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: probably driving an automobile, which is a pure product of
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: capitalism and competition, and go on and on and on
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: and on. God, capitalism is all about quality. I mean
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: your fruit, food and vegetables, and your restaurants and everything,
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: everything in your world is dramatically superior in terms of
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: quality that it was twenty thirty fifty one hundred, five
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: hundred years ago by orders of magnitude because of whatever
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: capitalism we have. So you have to be completely utterly
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: delusional and not of this world to believe what you're writing. Michael,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: Does the president have the authority to unilaterally determine what
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: a particular nation should be invaded at a particular time. No,
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: he doesn't. I mean, clearly, this Venezuela thing is illegal.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: It's supposed to be approved by Congress. A military action
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: like this is supposed to be approved by Congress. Congress
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: not only wasn't approved by it, they weren't even notified
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: by it. It wasn't an emergency like I mean, bombing
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: US right now we have to respond. There was plenty
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: of time to let Congress know that you had some
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: intention to get some authority, not an authority for specific action,
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: but just an authority generally to engage in action. And
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: this is illegal. But presidents, starting I think with Vietnam,
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: have completely ignored Congress and gotten away with it. So
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: Trump is just continuing the tradition of ignoring Congress. He's
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: not just continued, he's elevating the ignoring Congress to a
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: to a much higher level. H ggf F ring. Thank
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: you for the sticker. Jimmy, thank you for the sticker.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it all right. Matthew meth Methi is something
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: like that Putin and she condemned US actions in Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they did. Do you think simply do you
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: think they simply want to oppose the US and support
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: an aperssive dictator. Are they also nervous about the display
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: of use military strength. Well, I think it's all of it.
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: They want to they want to support a fellow dictator.
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: They want to oppose the US. They are worried about
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: the display of force. But more than that, they have
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: investments in Venezuela. They have weapons systems in Venezuela, they
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: have economic ties to Venezuela. China relies on Venezuela oil,
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: so they have real political, economic, geopolitical concerns about Venezuela.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: As I've told you, China is worried about its all
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: supplied in a case of it goes to war, and
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: you know, it was relying on Venezuela and oil and
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: now it can't. That's a problem for them also by
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: they don't want to support it because by supporting it,
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: by supporting the US here, it basically says, Yeah, the
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: US is okay going around the world deposing authoritarians. Well
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: what about them? They were taritarians. If the US has
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: the authority to get rid of a duo, does it
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: has the legitimacy to get rid of Putin, to get
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: rid of Chi Where does it stop? From their perspective,
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: Michael as Trump turned America into a bully and he
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: found a weak little man in Banana Republic that also
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: happens to have a ton of oil. Yeah, I mean,
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: but Trump was using a Trump is a bully, and
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: he's just making America reflect who he is. And he's
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: discovered that he can he can he can use a
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: military force in order to do things like this. But yeah,
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: I think that's right. Uh. Rajiev excellent announced to doctor
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: book on Iran and the great consequences of the regimes fall.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you and happy New Year. Thank you, Rajiev, appreciate
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: you being a member. I was talking to a young
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: Uranian on a VPN. He said he wished it was
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: easier to find weapons for the revolution. He said, don't
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: give up on your Second Amendment. Yeah, I mean, that's fine.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: The problem in the US is Yeah, anyway, we'll talk
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: about we can talk about the Second Amendment and why
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think having again at home is going to
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: protect our liberties. But yeah, I mean a real issue
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: in Iran is they have to do more ambushing of
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: the existing police and military forces and steal their weapons,
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: which is what you'd have to do if you wanted
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: to revolt against the American government anyway, You'd have to
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: break in a military basis and steal weapons. You couldn't
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: just do it with the M sixteen that you have
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: at home. Not good enough, Larry, You're on. Your coverage
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: of the world events continues to be outstanding, and your
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: commentary is super insightful. I appreciate larryppreciate that. Thank you,
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: and I will be doing the book. I will be
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: doing the short story in a week and a half.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: Michael says, the sheer lightning speed at which MAGA went
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: from war was a bad to invading countries and regime
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: change is awesome. Is dumbfounding, it is and it just
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: shows how much of MAGA is oriented around personality worship
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: of Trump, and you know how horrific that could be
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: if Trump does even worse things. Michael is Trump in
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: the early stages of dementia, he is he likely to
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: unleash more wild, unjustified military actions. I don't know. I
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: don't think so, because this was a very relatively low
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: risk operation for Trump and even with his base, I
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: think this was relatively low risk. So I don't think
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot more military operations. Is
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: in the early stage of demanitia, I don't think so,
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: although he is fading so you can see that. I
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: don't know. If you saw him standing behind Access and
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: Rubio during the press confidence, he was half asleep. I mean,
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: he had his eyes closed. He could I was white
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: that he was going to fall asleep and fall down
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: standing up. He really really looked old. He looked terrible.
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: So yeah, this I mean reality is that the presidency
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: is a young man's job. You should be in your forties,
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: forties and fifties to be president of the United States.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: Lincoln is music in decline over the past few decades.
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: Music from eighties, nineties and even before still get played,
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: but modern music is quickly forgotten. Similarly, they used to
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: be many bands and musicians that were universally known. Nobody
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: today matches that at the level. Aside from Taylor swift.
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think music is in declines, just like
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: all most of the darts, maybe the exception of TV.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: But I don't know that because I don't know enough
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: about popular music. I don't follow it. I don't listen
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: to popular music, so you know, it might be that
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: there are groups they're just not as famous. But I
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: do think the era of the Beatles and the era
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: of the seventies were better errors for popular music than
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: they are right now. I think the music today has
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: become monotone and dull and boring, and you know, it
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: lacks any kind of complexity and interest. But I can't
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: say that for sure because I don't know enough about music. Paul.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: Do you think a revolution like this could have happened
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: had Obama supported the Iranian revolutionaries during his term? Yes, yes,
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: they were very It was a big revolution back then,
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: and you know, I think it was two thousand and
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: nine and he failed completely, And I think, yes, absolutely,
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: it could have made a big difference. Would it have happened,
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: can't be sure, but he would have had a shot. Michael,
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: is there any strategy at all except for peasing his
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: tough guy base. I mean, he thinks he can get
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: away with the oil stuff. Intimidation is the strategy. They're
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: going to try to intimidate the Venezuelan regime and doing
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: what America wants them to do. We'll see if that works. Michael,
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: did mum Donnie's rugged individualism comment move people towards Iran?
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of people referencing Ran when discussing
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: that line from m donnie. It certainly made them remember
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: i Ran. I don't think it made them move towards Iran,
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: but they remembered Iran. They realize that she is the
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: one who always defended individualism and condemned collectivism, and so
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: it reminded people of her. Whether it will lead new
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: people to read her as a consequence, one can hope.
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: One can hope that all the attention that got and
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: the connection to Rand will cause some people who haven't
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: read Ironman to just go out and read her. There'll
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: be a great outcome, and we will have to be
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: very thankful to Mamdani for that. I think Obama had
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: a lot to do with a lot of people reading
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: Iran in the twenty nine to twenty thirteen period. Lincoln
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: how much of the rise of fascism fascists like Fuentus
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: is due to the media declaring the right as a
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: whole as fascist, lost a lot of its meaning, seemingly.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's much. I don't think it's much.
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, a little bit. It became a joke
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't taken seriously. But no, I mean you
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: have to explain fuentas. You can't just explain it as Oh,
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: people don't mind the label fascism because the media overused it.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: I think it's much more than that. There's a real
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: phenomena here. You know, if, for int this is really
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: a fascist, it's not just a playing at it. So
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: not you haver algorithm, Pinka and Harris have accepted escaped Jesus,
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: but it's still fully captured by altruism. Why is it
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: easier for intellectuals to reject the metaphysics and epistemology of
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: religion but not its ethics. I mean, it's a good question,
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: and I don't have an answer the ethics of christian
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is my attempt at an answer. The
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: ethics of Christianity have only been challenged with an alternative
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: by eying it. I mean, Nietzsche challenges them but doesn't
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: provide an alternative. Rand does. But that's new. So the
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: existence of an alternative to altruism is a new phenomena.
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: Whereas the questioning of their pistemology and metaphysics, you know,
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: they're already been questioned in Greece, they're atheists. In the
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: golden era of Islam, there thinkers were atheists and are
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: challenging the epistemology and metaphysics of religion. And I think
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: throughout the ages there have been people who challenge that
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: morality for whatever reason. Coming up with a new morality
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: linking it up with the Aristotles has been the toughest,
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: and only iron Rand has really presented an alternative. Thinkers
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: have not done that. Arguably a little bitch Finoza, a
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: tiny bit John Locke, but not enough to present an
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: actual alternative. Only Iron Rand. So it's new. That's the
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: main reason James Texas is discussing a limit ating property
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: taxes as well. This seems like a like a post
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: a collapse of MAGA GOP strategy. You know, I don't know,
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: it's still the question is how they're going to fund
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: all government activities. I mean, you can eliminate taxes but
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: then what what are you going to what are you
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: going to actually how you're you going to raise the
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: revenue to fund schools, How you're going to raise the
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: revenue to do all the other things that the government does. Sadly,
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: and if I don't see plans for that, right, Texas
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't have any income tax either, so where they're going
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: to raise sales taxes, then it's the question of what
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: taxes are better, what taxes are worse from an economic
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 1: perspective and a rights perspective, And that's a that's a
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: tricky kind of discussion to have. But so I don't
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: know if that's a post collapse mega strategy. I I
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: don't know how universalizable that is. Texas has energy sector
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: they can tax, it can exit and businesses. You know,
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: maybe it's running surpluses and it feels plush, But a
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: lot of states use property taxes to fund education. As
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: long as the state runs education, they need how they're
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: going to fund it if they don't fund it for
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: property tax So I don't know if it's really a
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: strategy that they can they can implement. James is there's
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: all secretly arming the Iranian rebels, did the did the
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: courage and success of Operation Rising Lion make the downfall
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: of view on a radical Islam inevitable. I don't know
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: if they're funding the Iranian rebels, you know, I wouldn't
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: be surprised if visuals funding groups like the Coods in
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: northwest Iran and and maybe some other particular ethnic groups
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: so organized militias that exist. It's quite possible they could
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: be smuggling weapons in from Azerbajehan as well has a
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: good relationship with Azaba Jehan. They could be smuggling in
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: weapons from Kurdistan. They have a good relation with the goods.
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: It's possible. I don't know how much of that is
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 1: getting into the into the cities, though certainly to Hran,
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: as I said, I think the Twelve Day War set
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: the stage for this. I think it's certainly, uh, you know,
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: made it much much easier. I don't I don't believe
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: in it, and in in historic inevitability. Choices have to
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: be made, but it made it much easier to make
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: the choice. Once Israel did what it did in the
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: Twelve Day War, it reduced the number of soldiers that
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: could be brought out the streets to press this. It
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: eliminated the ability to bring in very large contingents of
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: Arabs from place like Lebanon UH in Syria by evstuating
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: Himalah uh and uh and it, and it showed how
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: weak the regime really was. And all of that I
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: think inspired what's happening right now, Andrew. Is altruism connected
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: with the number zero? That's a weird question. If one's
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: purpose for sacrifice is to be moral and being model
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: is a value, then one gained a value from a sacrifice,
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: Then one gains a value from a sacrifice which is banned.
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: It's a logical vacuum with no why at the base
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: I lost you so certainly not the number zero zero.
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: The number zero means something else. I think you're talking
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: about a vacuum which is not zero. It's not the
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: same thing. If one's purpose of sacrifice is to be
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: moral and being model is a value, then one gained
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: a value from the sacrifice which is banned. Yeah, it's
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: a logical value vacuum with no Yeah. I mean there
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: are a lot of these internal contradictions to altruism. It's inevitable.
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: It is inevitable, but they still hold that you're doing
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: what is moral morality is a duty. It's your duty
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: to do it. You don't gain, you don't. You don't.
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: You might gain from it, but you can't use the
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: fact that you gained from it as a motivation. You
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: just have to do it. And you know, Christianity doesn't say,
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: for example, you can't gain values. You can't. You just
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: have to gain. You can only gain them by rejecting
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: other values, and by by rejecting your life, by rejecting
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: your personal values, the values that are important to you.
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: So as long as you're sacrificing for the sake of
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 1: a value as the creed by a power above you,
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: as a duty, a category, competitive or God's commandment, something
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: like that, then it's okay to attain that value which
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: you have to give up are your personal values. So
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: it's a value decreed onto you. It's not a value
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: from an objectivest perspective as that which one gains, actually
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: gain or keep that promotes human life, that that's a
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: positive value. These are just values that are decreed. Those
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: are okay for you to attain, and there's not good
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: for you, YHL. Hopefully that's satisfactory answer, how you ron
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: I was talking with a coworker the other day about
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: government taxation. He advocated for a return to ninety four
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: taxes on the top one percent, like of World War Two.
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: Your thoughts, well, I mean, it's evil, it's downright evil
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: to take somebody's ninety four percent of somebody's money, to
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: the extent that they're serious, it's downright evil. It's god,
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: it's awful to take fifty percent of somebody's money. To
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: take ninety four percent of the dollar that I earned
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: right now, it's just unthinkable. How I mean, it's it's
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: not yours, it's not yours, it's mine. You can't just
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: steal my stuff. And that's outright unequivocal. Theft at ninety
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: four percent, it's absolutely horrific. Now, the reason they could
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: get away with in World War two and in the
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifties is because nobody paid ninety four percent. There
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: were so many deductions, exclusions and all of that that
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: the effective tax rate, the tax rate you actually paid
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: if you were rich back then, was not higher than
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: it is today. As many exclusions and deductions and loopholes
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: are today. There were one hundred times more back then,
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: So nobody actually paid ninety four percent if they did,
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: they'd stop working. Nobody is going to work to get
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: six percent of the value of their labor. Why would
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: they do that rather stay home? James? How does Iran
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: and Venezuela regimes losing power impact the US in the
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: short term and long term? Do we really need Greenland?
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: Or do we really need Canada? Canada has substantial resources
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: not used well, I mean, I don't know what need
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: means in this concept. We don't have a right to
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: any of this and we don't have and what does
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: it mean to need it? We can trade for it.
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: Anything Greenland has we can trade for We don't need
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: Greenland for our security. They're already a member of NATO.
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: They already are responsible for securing the Western hemisphere up there.
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: The United States already has military bases in Greenland. There's
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: no But what is the context that need? What's the
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: context that makes need relevant or an issue? What is
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: America qua? America need nothing? Protect its individual the individual
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: rights of a citizens. That's it. There's no national need
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: and need doesn't justify anything. If you, as an individual
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: needs something, you have to work to gain it. You
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: can't just take it. It's not yours. All you have
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: to do is trade with Canada. And if Canada doesn't
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: develop its natural resources, it's the people of Canada's natural resources,
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: not mine or yours. Now, you know Canada should be
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: private property, da da da, but neithers America. So we're
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: not in a position to elect your Canada about private property.
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: And then what uh Iran Venatoria regimes losing power. I've
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: already talked about that. I've talked about Iran and how
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: important that is and how it affects the US shorter
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: man long term. It's a huge boon to the US,
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: well short and long term. In Venezuela. If you actually
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: have the regime lose power and you actually have an
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: opposition to take over that is pro America, pro West,
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: and liberates the economy and lives of in Itezuelans, then
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: it's massive pro Not only does increases all supplying the world,
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: it provides US with massive leverage over China because the
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 1: West in the sense controls most orders of US. I've
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: covered all this at the beginning of the show, So
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: all of that I've already said, James, So I've already
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 1: answered the question. Listener says, I just woke up. Hope
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• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: dislike religion as a kid was actually mainly the ethics.
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: Seems strange to me that people were so attached to that.
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: I became an atheist when I realized it was impossible
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: to truly live on Christian morality. That's a huge achievement
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: because that rarely occurs to people because the ethics has
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: been so secularized that it's not even anymore associated with Christianity.
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: It's just associated with this is the ethics we have.
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: And you know, the only alternative is presented as some
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: kind of nihilism or some kind of immorality, or you
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: know what kind of predatory selfishness we'll call it being predatory.
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: Is the only alternative be autruistic. So that's quite an achievement.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I to me, religions just didn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the stories didn't make sense. The whole concept
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: of God didn't make sense. And I just this and
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: just moved on from it. I think I was six
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• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: get those numbers up. Thank you guys. See you all tomorrow,
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: same time, same place, and more news, more news. Bye everybody,