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E30: Hypocrisy and the Double Standards Eating American Politics · The Junto Podcast

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Hello, America. Welcome to the Junto Podcast, where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I am your host, Edgar Mills. Thanks for joining.
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Hello, America. Welcome to episode 30 of the Juneteau podcast.
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Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for staying with me.
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So what are we going to talk about today?
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I'm going to talk a little bit about intellectual consistency,
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political consistency, and double standards and where we see them at out there in the wild.
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So a friend of mine hit me up just yesterday, and we talked a little bit about the subject.
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And it's something that kind of weighs on him a little bit. He was curious to hear my thoughts on it.
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So we're going to get into it. Now look, again, you all know I'm a libertarian
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by politics and the libertarian platform,
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and you can think libertarian, you can think classical liberal,
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you can think constitutional purist if you want, or originalist.
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You can think a lot of things, but definitely not Republican or Democrat.
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Individual liberty, individual autonomy, free markets, genuine free markets,
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and consistent principles.
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We put those things above all other things when it comes to politics,
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consistent principles being very important.
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We do, I don't, you're hard-pressed to find libertarians who are hypocritical
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Because they're willing to do some reflection and they're willing to adjust
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or consider alternative perspectives.
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And the hypocrisy that we see in the mainstream politics or the extremes of
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either sides of that politics,
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it just chips away and erodes at our own personal freedoms and ultimately invites government overreach.
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Now, I'm of the opinion that Democrats, for sure, and more and more and more,
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we're seeing that Republicans, they're all perfectly happy with government overreach.
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The battle is no longer big government, little government.
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The battle now is who controls the enforcement apparatus of government.
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That's what it is now. They're all happy with big government.
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Republicans and the MAGA movement, all of them, they're happy with big government.
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Now, during the presidential campaign, DJT ran on very libertarian sort of talking
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points, and he had some support from libertarian-type people.
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But where is that today? Did he stick to his guns? No, he didn't.
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So what we see with the Republicans and their MAGA, the MAGA faction,
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and we'll point out some of the hypocrisies that they show.
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And then with the Democrats and the Antifa factions, we'll look at some of their,
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I don't know, I'd say pretty blatant inconsistencies.
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And they all, all of them apply double standards to issues that suit their agendas.
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And then they all apply selective outrage to issues that seemingly harm their agenda.
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And all this selective outrage, it's all disingenuous. It is selective.
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If you apply the same standards across the board, you would always be outraged.
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Really? I think so. You hear the MAGA movement out there.
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You hear a lot of them raging against illegal immigration.
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Celebrating all these ice raids and things like that.
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And their claim is that the illegal immigrants are a drain on resources and
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a frigging threat, physical threat to security.
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And they would even say national security.
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Now, there is some truth in that, some truth in that.
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And even though I am a libertarian, I do not advocate open borders.
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And when I say open borders, I mean unchecked free flow of humans without any
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kind of accountability whatsoever.
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I believe that Congress has just failed to to posit a functional immigration
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policy and they don't want to.
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I've said this in other episodes and I'll say it again.
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Congress doesn't want to to institute a practical, efficient immigration policy
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because it's a great friggin campaign talking point.
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To blame the other side for whatever perceived ills of illegal immigration.
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But the MAGA, yeah, yeah. They drain on resources and threat to our security.
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But then the business of the people in the agriculture industry,
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the MAGA movement who are part of that industry or the hospitality industry,
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specifically hotels, that they're happy to overlook illegal immigration when
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it benefits their interests.
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Right? And some of you may not know this, but Trump curtailed or suspended ICE
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raids on hotels, on farms, and on restaurants in 2025.
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This year, he suspended ICE raids on those very specific industries.
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And I imagine the farms that were spared are government-subsidized farms.
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And I imagine a lot of the hotels that were spared probably had ties to Trump,
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or at least, yeah, some ties.
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So he was happy to protect allies, right, business allies.
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But then we're still seeing
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them on television and all social medias these
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these very aggressive ice raids
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and a lot of right-wingers man they're like on board yeah yeah yeah it's awesome
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we got we got dudes that look like uh call of duty you know operator types going
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out and snatching up illegals from wherever, not hotels, not restaurants,
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but out and about somewhere.
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And people are all about that. Yeah, yeah, the right way.
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There's a right way and wrong way to do anything. And I don't think it's by
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accident or by ignorance. I
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think they want that vision. I think they want that that image out there.
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They want to push that scary image of massed up,
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heavily armed operator types out there in the general public,
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snatching people up in a very violent way and just creating general chaos among the public.
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Where there's going to be ice raids, there's going to be protests.
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Where there's protests, there's going to be eventual violence. And what does that do?
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It just invites more government overreach. And I said this before, and I'll say it again.
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If any reaction from Trump, if it's anything, it's an overreaction.
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So, and look, he's been doing business long before he was ever in politics,
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right? He's been doing business.
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And people say the things they say about him. Was he a racist?
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No, I don't think Trump is a racist at all.
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He's done great things for the black community.
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Tangible, tangible things. I don't think he's a racist, but I do think he's a harsh businessman.
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And I do think he's an opportunist. and practices that he used in his business,
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like hiring illegal laborers.
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He turns around as the president and condemns it and then puts all these scary
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dudes out on the ground to strike fear into the illegal immigration population.
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I agree that all immigrants should come here legally. I do.
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But there's ways. There's right and wrong ways to do things.
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So, yeah, MAGA's too happy to dogpile on to the illegal immigration situation
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here, but then they're too happy to defend their own use of these illegal immigrants.
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And that's hypocritical. Yeah, that's hypocritical. Don't be a hypocrite.
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What else? What about surveillance? What about this mass surveillance? And what about Alt.
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Just surveillance of American citizens in general.
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But if you roll out some Palantir program where they compile all this data from
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all these government agencies and there's easy access and it's easy to build these lists of people.
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And you do it in the name of security.
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In the fight against terrorism. the red hat MAGA crowd is too happy to jump
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on board man they're too happy to jump on board,
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but then there's another side of that coin folks then they want to criticize
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a big topic in the libertarian movement is all these flock traffic cameras that
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are constantly recording not just I just you know people running red lights
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but always they're always recording they're always compiling data,
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and they essentially can be used to track you anywhere you go.
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Now, the MAGA people tend to frown on that, but it's very difficult to have
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one overreach without the other overreach.
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So they're happy when it comes to, well, we're using all this surveillance,
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mass surveillance, to pick up illegal immigrants and spot early warning of terrorists
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and facial recognition of bad guys and all this.
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But if it can be used against them, folks, it can be used against you.
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And that's the crux of this whole story here, is that whatever government overreach
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is happening, if you're in charge and you're like, oh, yeah, that's nice.
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Imagine that power and that resource in the hands of your political opposite.
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And all of this is just another form of cronyism. That's all it is.
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That's using these resources to essentially benefit and profit your homies,
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your associates, your people.
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Yeah. So the right wing, they demand strict borders.
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And I think borders are important but then they turn around and profit from cheap labor,
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illegal labor they exploit don't think that illegal immigrants who do come here
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to work I'm not talking about criminals folks I'm not talking about people who are trafficking in,
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child labor and child prostitution I'm talking about laborers I'm talking about
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people coming up here to pick friggin strawberries,
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the Republicans are more than happy to exploit that cheap labor.
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And if you don't think so, you're delusional.
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You're delusional.
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Let's move on to Democrats for a moment.
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Now, Democrats are happy to open the doors, aren't they?
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They want the doors open. Why? They want as many undocumented citizens as possible.
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And why? Because you can look around the nation at various Democrat-held cities,
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and they're trying to register illegals to vote.
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You get a driver's license, you can vote.
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You don't have to be a citizen. That's what they want. That's what they believe.
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Well, that's essentially.
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Cronyism on the other end of the scale. They're essentially buying votes.
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You come over here, you vote Democrat, and you get all these benefits,
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and you get the state. You don't have to work.
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We'll protect you. We'll put you in a, what do they call it?
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Safe haven, what are they called? Sanctuary cities.
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Yeah. Oh, you don't need to work. We'll put you on the snaps.
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Yeah. So they're happy to exploit illegal immigration for votes.
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Do you think the Democrats really and truly do much for the illegal population?
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Or for the immigrant population at all? Not really.
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They have a deeper agenda to erase the American identity.
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And, you know, whatever. for whatever reason, but that's their game.
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They want to erase the American identity, and they want to flood the polls with
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illegal voters in order to maintain power.
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And then once they get control of the state apparatus, the state power,
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then they will try, just like Democrats are trying their best to,
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or Republicans are trying their best to maintain that control.
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I saw in recent days, old DJT was talking about a third term.
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Well, that's not bueno, folks.
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I don't care what you think about him getting robbed out of his second term or not.
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That's a whole different game.
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He's served two terms, or he will have served two terms.
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And that's enough. The last time we saw a three-term president,
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Congress had to rectify that because that last time we had a three-term president,
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he was essentially a communist sympathizer.
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Yeah, and you can hit me offline, however you feel about Franklin Delano.
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All right, never mind illegal immigration.
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Let's talk a little bit about the far left. Let's talk about the Antifa crowd,
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who on a daily basis decry fascism.
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Their name is Antifa, anti-fascist.
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They say they defend free speech as long as it aligns with their views.
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Yeah as long
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as it aligns with their views they are perfectly happy
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to use these state
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resources of surveillance to monitor your social media to make sure that you
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are not saying anything potentially racist or what's the catch for hate speech
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oh my god hate speech we can't have that Oh,
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no, we defend free speech, but not hate speech.
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I got news for you. If you draw in a distinction between free speech and hate
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speech, you're all wrong.
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You're confused and you have an agenda.
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Now, the difference between saying something ugly to somebody and calling their
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communistic views stupid and dangerous is different than actually threatening
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to kill someone or hurt someone. are actually.
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Inciting violence by actually telling someone, I want you to assemble and then
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go and attack this event or that event.
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That's not hate speech or free speech. That is, that's a clear threat.
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And there is a difference there. It's subtle. The hate speech,
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just calling something you don't like hate speech is not, that's not it.
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That's, you're not pro free speech.
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You're stifling opposing views, and that's a very fascist thing to do.
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Nobody is more coercive in their operations than Antifa in order to silence
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opposition, to silence conservatives.
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We have seen more in the way of silencing conservatives than we ever have in
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the way of silencing liberals, more violence.
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I'll give you a pretty egregious example. And this was, there was a girl named
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Lola Daviette, and she was a 12-year-old French girl, murdered by an Algerian immigrant.
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And Antifa went out there and protested against, they destroyed this girl's
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portrait, and they had a violent clash with, you know, regular citizens.
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In opposition to the indictment of this Algerian fricking migrant who murdered this girl, by the way.
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So murder is no longer a standard for the left. That's not the point at all to them.
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As long as it was a white girl, by the way.
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So there is a very big and obvious double standard from both sides of the aisle, folks.
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And Antifa, they're quite violent. They're quite violent.
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And I can tell you that Trump designated Antifa as a terrorist organization.
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Only last month or the month before. Okay, it's recent.
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And one of the things he cited as the reason for that was that their protests,
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that they use their protests, violent protests, as a means to suppress any and
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intimidate and suppress dissent, any opposing thought.
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And that's what they did. They do. They strong arm. They go out in force, in numbers.
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And by the way, they hire paid agitators to join in on these things.
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Now, are they a terrorist organization?
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I'd say they're more of a criminal organization than terrorist organization.
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Now, there's always the component, right? There's a handful of definitions of
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terrorism kind of floating around out there.
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SOCOM has one, you know, the State Department has one.
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They're a little different, I think. But the common theme that separates terrorism
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from criminal is the political component.
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And can we say Antifa is political?
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Yeah, I mean, we can. I think by definition, you could call them a terrorist organization.
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Based on the actual documented physical destruction that they do,
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and then based on the political component.
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If you put a dollar amount on how much damage to property Antifa's done over the past several years,
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or how many actual physical assaults they've perpetrated,
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they did it would
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it would be a lot there'd be high numbers there and
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those techniques are very very very fascist in nature very authoritarian in
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nature so it's not that they oppose fascism or authoritarianism it's that they
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oppose who's in charge of the,
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the authoritarian regime there as
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long as they're in charge if they're in charge and it's all good I guess.
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Mainstream Democrats will ignore all of this. CNN will report a mostly peaceful
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protest when they, when, when there's cities on fire in the background.
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And that's, you know, that's from a while back, but it's absolutely true.
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And they'll, they'll conveniently ignore all these actions.
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And then anybody who criticizes those actions, they'll just label them as racist
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and extremist demanding. They demand tolerance of their position, right?
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Well, no, it's American. It's the most American of all things to go out and
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protest, which ain't wrong.
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But it's not American to go burn down city blocks or to assault and murder the opposition.
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That's not American. So they leave out these little details.
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And this hypocrisy from the left and right, from the MAGA and the Antifa,
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from the Republicans and the Democrats, all it does is stifle any voluntary,
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rational, voluntary discourse.
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And every time there's an event, an incident at an event, every time there's
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a murder or someone beaten to a bloody pulp, I'll see you next time.
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All it does is invite the state into the situation. And like I said earlier,
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I think Republicans and Democrats, I think both of them want state control.
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They just want to make sure that they're in charge of it.
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And that might be a bridge too far here, but you have to, as an individual,
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hold yourself accountable to a standard of behavior.
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Believe what you believe, man.
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But don't think because there's a mob going on, you can throw a mask on and
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go and bust a bottle over somebody's head, jump up and down on a police car.
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Because then you're just a savage. If you're doing that only because you can,
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only because you're just a savage.
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There is no there is nothing good nothing profitable nothing advancing an argument,
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about destruction so look at yourself
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and look at look for your own inconsistencies and I'll give an example of that
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I and I've said this on a podcast I repeat myself a lot I know but here's the
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example I like to use because it's true now you've heard me say this folks there
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are some people out there that need killing.
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There are some people out there that need killing. I'm not going to say who.
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I'm not going to say what. I'm not going to say anything like that.
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But I used to be very much legally for the death penalty.
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I used to be for the death penalty because I think there are people who've done heinous, heinous,
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unthinkable crimes and are dead inside and empty inside and just don't care
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and have zero remorse and will do it again given the opportunity.
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Think those people do need killing. However, my cynicism, my faith in the state is so low.
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My faith in the state is so low that I don't think the state and that our system is capable,
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of assessing and adjudicating death upon anyone because they will too readily do it.
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Kind of, I don't know, I don't want to say flippantly.
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Everybody pretends to be very meticulous about their decision-making process,
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but you do have judges out there who are looking for a little bit of fame or
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whatever their reasons for doing things are.
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The system is flawed, folks, and it's flawed because it's filled with humans, and humans are flawed.
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But I no longer believe in a death penalty as a legal matter.
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Now, I do 100% believe if somebody breaks into your house and you shoot them, you're justified.
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Well, what if he just wanted to get out of the weather? What if he just wanted a sandwich?
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That's fucking irrelevant. I got to imagine somebody breaks into my house uninvited.
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I don't have time to assess their mental state. I don't have time to pontificate upon their motives.
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They've done a thing that's universally accepted as wrong.
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It's wrong to come into someone else's house uninvited. That's called trespassing.
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And libertarians do, among other things, value property rights.
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And you should value property rights.
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Even if you don't own property, even if you live in a, I don't care if you live
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in a Section 8 in the hood, behind that door is your domain.
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Should care for your domain and you should maintain it and be proud of it and
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be mindful of who comes in and out of it.
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And if somebody comes in it uninvited, well, why are they coming in uninvited, right?
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So I'm dragging on about people deserving what they get.
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The state, I don't think, has the wisdom.
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I don't think the state has the wisdom to put someone down.
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And there's plenty of examples of men who have been falsely accused,
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tainted evidence, some nefarious cop, lawyer,
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jury member, someone in the system who did a thing with ill intent.
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And then even then, dna right
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these days there are people who there's
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cases being reopened based on dna new dna
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technology that didn't exist in the 70s or
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80s or even early 90s and they're being exonerated because dna proves them innocent
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and and having spent you know 15 20 years in jail so the legal system has it's
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flaws because people in the legal system are flawed.
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That's just the answer there. So no, I don't think. So that's an example. That's my example of...
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To a consistency of intellectual consistency, right?
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I dislike the state. I distrust the state.
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If somebody I think is a criminal gets sentenced to death, I think the state has overreached.
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And if they put that person to death, then they've potentially just murdered
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someone who very potentially didn't deserve it.
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Now, that being said, There are some cases out there, folks,
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that are very cut and dry.
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And now you've got to have the sort of question about rehabilitation and things like that.
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I'm all about criminal reform, the criminal system, right, the justice system.
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I'm all about that. There needs to be that.
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But you can't complain about government overreach as a conservative or small
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government as a conservative.
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And then turn around in the same breath and carry on about being tough on crime,
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and putting everybody in jail for the most minor of infractions.
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Because these jails, and I'll point to Fulton County Jail right now on Rice Street.
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That place is an absolute shithole. It should be condemned. Now, do the prisoners do it?
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Mostly. How long has that building been standing, you know?
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And yeah, prisoners have a vested interest in destroying things.
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There. They use parts. They use bits for shivs.
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They use mattresses to bunker themselves in. There's all kind of stuff.
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They'll flood the toilet to get somebody in there to have to do the work so
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they get out of the cell for a little bit.
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There's just different things, but you can't be about small government and then
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be about building bigger and more prisons, more and more and more prisons.
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That's inconsistent. You can't be about, well, immigration, immigration, immigration.
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Let's cut down on all. What about the H-1B visa immigration?
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So we want to crack down on immigrant labor.
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Well, we'll say illegal immigrant labor.
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But then we want to be very selective about the H-1B visas so that we can bring
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tech, tech savvy Indians and whoever else in.
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It ain't about the race. It's just that it happens to be the tech sector.
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So do we favor the tech sector?
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So much so that we can give visas to these folks, but then we don't favor the
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agricultural system to give visas to those folks.
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That's where your cronyism comes in. I don't know, man. It's crazy.
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It's crazy how we can overlook one thing but then harp on another thing.
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And I attribute that to the mainstream media and to our echo chambers that I've talked about a lot.
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Be intellectually consistent. Be politically consistent.
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Don't let Trump slide, man. Don't let him slide on things that are wrong or bad.
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I remember the Clinton years. Well, I remember George H.W. Bush years, too.
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I remember the Clinton years. And the economy was pretty good under Clinton, if you remember.
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But if you also remember, there was a Republican House and Senate.
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So Clinton was pretty well stood up with, and you can like or hate Newt Gingrich,
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but he was a good politician.
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The economy was good. I think everybody would agree with that.
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Literally, everybody let that guy slide for getting a blowjob in the White House. Yeah.
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Charming. If you guys remember the Clinton years, they were touting the Clintons
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as the new, the second coming of Camelot.
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If you guys remember J.F. Kimmy and Jacqueline Onassis, back in those days,
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they called that Camelot.
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It was like a fairy tale, handsome and articulate and all that stuff.
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And Jacqueline Onassis was glamorous and reserved and perfect wife.
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Yeah all this and jfk was
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a war hero and yeah and
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he was sympathetic to to the well and
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you know he was anti-cia by the way and so that
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was camelot and then bill clinton because he's a lick willie because he's a
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smooth talker and he played the saxophone you guys remember that on arsenio
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hall he was cool man yeah he got oh i'm cool he's a cool president like the
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first like cool cool president.
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Now, JFK was really the first, but I think that's where they're making comparisons. You know what I mean?
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JFK's got Marilyn Monroe up there singing him happy birthday.
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Hanging out with Frank Sinatra and whatnot. Bill Clinton.
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Was that the second coming of Camelot? Nah, not really, man.
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Dude got a blowjob in the Oval Office.
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Dude put a cigar up Monica Lewinsky's bits.
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He got a free pass. He still gets a free pass.
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That joker's you know it goes around god knows how much
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they make him and and hillary how much
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they make uh you know doing a just doing
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a speaking to you know on a speaking tour on a speaking
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engagement i'd like to know i should i don't know if i could look that up or
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not i wonder how much they make on on one single speaking engagement and then
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where's the money go does everybody remember haiti i remember that yeah haiti
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you think monica linwinski was screwed by the Clintons.
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Haiti was screwed by the Clintons, good people.
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Screw it, but he got free pass. He was charming. He was charming. Played saxophone.
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What if Donald Trump was up in the Oval Office with, I don't know, an intern?
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Some intern, some 20, I don't know, 23, 24, 26 max year old intern.
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What if Donald Trump got a blow job today? Right now, today,
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in the Oval Office, and put a cigar in our private bits.
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Can you imagine the liberal explosion?
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Oh, my God. Inconsistency, folks. Double standards.
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Both sides hold double standards. It's good for me, not good for you, and vice versa.
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Is that okay?
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Now, I always say this, the left, you know, they kind of lean a little bit on communism.
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And they might say, well, if they're honest, they'll just say,
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yes, that's what we want.
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But one of the prevailing principles there is that the ends justify the means.
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So the left, you know, they have varying degrees of, you know, moral values, right?
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Varying degrees in a
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sense that and I'm not going to attribute the
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right in Christianity that ain't necessarily
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the case at all but the left makes no such pretense on Christianity or anything
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else they're happy to be belligerent and be heathenistic and all that stuff
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and that whatever man on a personal note,
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whatever but on a political note,
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And that's where Republicans go wrong when they apply.
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Now, I'm not saying it's wrong to apply some moral standard to a policy or to
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a thing, but you got to apply it consistently.
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And it can't be a moral standard.
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Based on your personal religion it needs
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to be a universal moral standard now i know
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like that's hard to that's kind
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of hard to pin down a universal moral standard and i
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and i differentiate between ethical and moral i
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think morals probably come from your religion
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and all these things and your upbringing and that
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and then ethics is sort of a yeah
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universal standard of behavior so you
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got to have ethical decision making and ethical policies
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that are universal now we
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can get a deeper conversation on whether we think sort
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of all ethics derive from christian values i think they kind of do but that's
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another conversation so that's where the republicans go wrong is they They try
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to attribute the things they're doing to being Christian or within Christian
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values instead of just being ethical.
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And a lot of lefties will look at the Republicans and their treatment or their
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attitudes of illegal immigration as unethical.
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Because we always talk about human rights as well, right? The standard of human rights.
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So every human has a basic dignity and a basic right as a human, not as a criminal.
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Even criminals have basic human rights, but that's where it kind of goes sour,
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where the Republicans will...
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They say it's moral, but it ain't necessarily ethical, which is weird, right?
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They'll say it's moral within their Christian values, but it ain't necessarily
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ethical on the treatment of people, you know, on a personal level. Yeah.
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Sort your stuff out, good people. and especially
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if you're into politics if you are into politics you know by all means please
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please you know get your sources from other places like don't just follow fox
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news or newsmax or whatever don't don't just follow hard right.
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And yeah, it's painful to go over to the opposite end of the spectrum and watch hard left outlets.
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It is painful. It's painful for me to watch either one.
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But I do occasionally, just to see the freaking blatant hypocrisy in action. Just to see.
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Yeah. So check it out. I could write a scathing and blistering critique of, I don't know what,
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a generic critique of the way the Democrats treat the Republicans as people.
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And I could go into great detail and I could use examples. And then what I could
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do is that very same article, that very same essay that I write,
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I could do an opposite swap of Democrat and Republican in the words, right?
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Every time I reference Republicans in that essay, take that out and put Democrat and then vice versa.
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And it would be the same exact article. I could talk about hyperbole and I could
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talk about exacerbating division and being,
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if not physically complicit,
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at least morally complicit in promoting violence against the other side.
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I could just swap the names, and it would be the exact same article.
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No words other than those two would change, and it would be equally as valid. Yeah.
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Both sides are very hypocritical.
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Both sides have very, very, what's the word I'm looking for? They read the news.
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They consume the actions and activities that go on out in the world.
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They consume that stuff with blinders on or with red colored lenses or blue colored lenses.
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And that's got to stop. That's contrary to critical thinking.
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Yeah, that's contrary to critical thinking. Be an individual.
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Step out of the red and blue.
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Criticize your own team if they deserve criticism.
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And if it's criticism to the point that you are intellectually honest and you
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go, you know what, that doesn't represent my beliefs.
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Hey, folks, the Libertarian Party is wide open.
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And you can, most people are misguided about the Libertarian Party,
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by the way. Most people are misguided.
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And I've said this before, and it's hilarious and true.
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Nobody is more critical of Libertarians than Libertarians.
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But isn't that the way you want it? Isn't that correct after all?
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Don't you want Republicans to be critical of themselves, to hold themselves to a higher standard?
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Don't you want Democrats to be critical of themselves and hold themselves to a higher standard?
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That's what libertarians do. They're very critical of themselves,
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and they all hold themselves to a higher standard.
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Now, there's some who have reached levels of smugness that is very about being
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so, that's the word I'm looking for, consistent,
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and I'm so much smarter than you that I'm elevated beyond you but that doesn't
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play out in the political world most in my in my experience most libertarians
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at least respect that the other guy has,
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a valid point it might be a weaker point than yours but it's valid maybe you
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know what I mean I don't know man I'm not I didn't mean to get on here and push
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libertarianism I just want to point out based on my conversation with my friend Hooch that.
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There being hypocritical stuff you know it's
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once a bad look for you makes
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you look like a weak person and you are a weak person if you push hypocrisy
41:19
by any other name you know it's still hypocrisy so don't be a weak person be
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strong and stand in your actual beliefs now hey by saying that,
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if you are a right-wing extremist and you are a racist and you don't believe
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that there should be any brown people in America, then stand on it.
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Show the world what you are and be that and own it.
41:47
Don't try to infiltrate what generally would be considered moderate,
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factions of the party and try to infect it with your church.
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Stand on your beliefs. Be man enough or woman enough to stand on your beliefs
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and then take what comes.
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And the same goes for liberals, antifas. I don't even know what your real true belief systems are.
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If you want everybody in the world to be transgender and
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light tan mocha chino
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and get their
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genitals mutilated and i don't know what i mean i don't even yeah be communists
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and was somehow communist but also islamists i saw a picture of a trans queer
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muslim something i'll just sign up.
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I'm a trans, queer, Muslim or something you may believe that you're you may
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be trans and you may be queer but you're not a Muslim you're not a devout Muslim anyway.
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They're not compatible, good people. I don't care what you think.
43:05
I don't care what kind of fairy tale you weave into that situation.
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But that person holding that sign was not in a Muslim country,
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by the way. They were probably in the northwest of America somewhere.
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But if you want to be that, hey, stand on it. Stand on it.
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Be that and be all of that. But guess what? But don't try to make me stand on
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it because I'm not going to stand on it.
43:33
Don't force me to do anything.
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You're going to hold your beliefs, however extreme they may be.
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Hold them and put it out there.
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And that's it. Don't try to put them onto me.
43:47
I don't want the extremes from either side of that equation.
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I don't want it. I don't need it.
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It's inconsistent with what I think living a normal whatever life.
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And the word normal is very subjective, folks.
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But you can be a happy human being without ever forcing or trying to cancel,
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or trying to call out someone or trying to do all these things.
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Stand on your beliefs by all means. But don't be a hypocrite.
44:18
Don't say you hate surveillance, but then you want certain groups,
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social media, to be monitored for hate speech.
44:26
Don't say you hate surveillance, but you want to use facial recognition to spot
44:32
potential criminals and terrorists.
44:35
Because it's all of it. The state apparatus, every resource within the state
44:43
is a double-edged sword and it cuts both ways.
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And the people who wield the sword at the time, they're only slicing it one
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way, but it's always going to change hands.
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And if it ever gets to the point where it doesn't change hands,
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we would probably got a big problem.
45:02
The Democrats will be perfectly happy to flood America with illegal aliens who
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will vote Democrat and never have to worry about another campaign in their whole entire life.
45:16
Always be in power and they would be so happy and the world and in america would go to shit,
45:23
financially it would become a third world country and then it would be like
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every other third world country the highest levels of government would government
45:32
would live very comfortably like they do now they would still enjoy all the
45:38
the goodness that they get to enjoy and we would be out here,
45:43
on some kind of universal income, free health care that is barely at the level
45:54
of an infantry or like a medic, you know what I mean?
45:57
Like the quality of services would drop.
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The cost, well, the cost would drop. I mean, we wouldn't have to pay for it
46:06
for sure. We would pay for it via taxes.
46:08
You wouldn't see very much of your paycheck if you had a paycheck at all.
46:13
And if they were able to make everything state regulated, then you would just be on the state dole.
46:18
And then what if Republicans took over? I don't know, man. I don't know. What if?
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It would be a very probably, well, I don't know, in any extreme version,
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I imagine a bunch of like American psychos, you know what I mean?
46:32
A bunch of money hungry traders and mergers and acquisitions. Yeah.
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Murders and inquisitions and the weirdos and the weirdos and the,
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and the hippies would be second-class citizens.
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And, you know, I, I'm not a hundred percent sure what that would look like,
46:53
but they would still be probably very much operate in the same way.
46:59
As far as state control, I imagine. Yeah. I imagine.
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So I don't know what now I'm going off on like unverifiable things.
47:08
I'm just telling you opinions here, but it's always just my opinion anyway,
47:12
folks. It's always just my opinion.
47:15
I'm going to circle back though. Here we go. Don't be a hypocrite.
47:19
If you believe a way, believe that way, but don't, don't conveniently massage
47:23
it in certain company. Just stand on your beliefs.
47:28
Yeah. Just stand on them politically.
47:32
If you believe it's okay to go out and murder somebody, no, that's psychotic and wrong.
47:40
Believe what you want to believe and let other people believe what they want to believe.
47:45
If it comes down to you arguing about it and fighting over it, just don't.
47:49
Just choose not to. You can just as easily cuss somebody out or go,
47:56
hey, man, you want to go grab a pint and talk shit over at Guinness?
48:02
You might find out you both like some of the same things. You know what I mean?
48:06
Yeah. It's just as easy to do one as the other.
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But these days, political discourse, at least on the socials and at least on
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TV, it's all dominated by emotion.
48:18
And and that's emotions will play tricks on you so don't be guided by emotions
48:25
stand on your beliefs don't be a hypocrite don't let emotions dictate your actions
48:31
feel what you need to feel but
48:34
don't let them dictate your actions because you get in trouble that way.
48:39
Man all right i droned on and on i
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droned on and on what i'm getting at is
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be consistent don't be hypocrite consider
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other people have every bit
48:52
as right to believe something as you do and if it's and if those beliefs are
48:58
inconsistent they that doesn't change their rights it doesn't change yours you
49:03
do not have a right to infringe upon someone else you do not have a right to
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infringe upon someone else.
49:13
Good people golly land navigation
49:17
november let's see i'm
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going to tell you exactly when that is land navigation
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november blah blah blah blah blah
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blah this is the two-day course
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and it is on 15 and
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16 november one day classroom one
49:37
day in the woods we provide all the equipment the
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three-day land navigation course slash challenge
49:44
that's an overnighter in the woods that is
49:47
on december 5 through 7 december
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5 6 and 7 that's one day in
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the classroom and then one overnighter
49:57
in the woods so december 5 and
50:00
7 that's a challenging course we we
50:04
have a few seats available for that and the recommendation
50:07
here we provide all the equipment good people the recommendation
50:10
here is that you know it does require
50:14
a little fitness i don't
50:16
think you need to be an ultra runner good people but it requires a little bit
50:20
of fitness you will be taxed out there physically so be mindful the good news
50:25
is it's in december and the trees won't have any leaves on them so you you'll
50:31
be able to see at least during the daytime you'll be able to see well.
50:35
All right. And then for shooting wise, let's see, November 9th,
50:38
we got the Fall of the Wall two-gun match, celebrating the Fall of the Berlin
50:43
Wall, one of the most iconic symbols of communism ever to have existed.
50:48
I can remember watching that on the news as well on CNN, the very,
50:55
very day that that wall came down.
50:57
And it was very inspiring. And it's what inspired me, one of the things that
51:02
inspired me to join the Army.
51:05
Two-gun match november 9th and that's
51:08
going to be four action stages at least
51:11
two two-gun stages and probably one pistol one rifle
51:14
and then two two-gun stages so it's
51:17
going to be a good time it's gonna be fun uh fast-paced well
51:21
fast-paced stages and so so
51:24
check that out good people and then you know go on the
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gentopodcast.com and read some
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51:33
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51:40
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