Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "Death Panels, Subsidies and Surveillance" (Thursday October 16, 2025, Hour 4)
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Quick for you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
- 0:09Speaker 2: George said, steal me stem you have a day at.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Least for work when the sun comes up, drops.
- 0:16Speaker 3: A cut to school on the way.
- 0:19Speaker 4: Joe has everything, a Janda, all the treasure needs.
- 0:24Speaker 5: No one that Joe's allis smiled.
- 0:26Speaker 3: He only eggs.
- 0:30Speaker 6: Let me be, you know, Joe, We're all human, aren't.
- 0:35Speaker 7: I want to be Joe.
- 0:37Speaker 6: And I say that not to make an excuse for something,
- 0:40but I bless you for being on the receiving end
- 0:43of the program this morning, and you interact with it.
- 0:46You're part of it. You're the most local part of
- 0:48your radio station, is you. Nobody ever tells you that
- 0:52you don't hear those promotional announcements number one with you
- 0:56most local listeners, whatever, But you are the most important
- 1:01local part of your radio station, whether they tell you
- 1:05they are that you are or not. That's why I
- 1:07want to hear how the news is impacting youse? Where
- 1:11you are at four three four eight eight two four
- 1:13to two one seven question text in if an ordinary citizen,
- 1:19a legal American citizen, sad world that we have to
- 1:23add that don'tly lies before Congress and the Senate. It's
- 1:27a crime, a federal crime. But when a senator, a
- 1:30congressman lies to the American citizen, they get away with it,
- 1:33no repercussions. Yep, yep. That's pretty much the way it rolls, Joel.
- 1:38And the reason that is is sometimes you need to
- 1:42be This is the gas lighting I talk about. You
- 1:45need to be lied to. You can't handle the truth.
- 1:50They tell you. What they mean when they say that is, uh, you,
- 1:55you wouldn't be nice to us once you found out
- 1:58the truth. That's what they mean when they say you
- 2:01can't handle the truth, is that the truth is going
- 2:03to make us look really, really bad, and we can't
- 2:09take that because democracy, ah, democracy, that's just the bane
- 2:17of all of our existences, like like some chemical, for example,
- 2:24a cinnaminafin. I'm sure at some point the derivative of
- 2:29tree bark that it begins as is perfectly fine. You
- 2:34get the tree bark, you drind, grind it up, medicine
- 2:37man grinds it up. Smoke in peace pipe, take some
- 2:41of the ground up tree bark pain, go away back
- 2:45to casino with you, pale face. But as time goes
- 2:52on and the derivatives and everything else, and in its
- 2:55isolated form, it's got you know, pain relieving important. Well,
- 3:02were you even talking to a dentist the other day
- 3:05about fentanyl. Fentanyl is actually a dental pain killer, not
- 3:12just a team killer. But democracy, like so many of
- 3:18these things, when abused, when misused, it becomes poisonous, it
- 3:27becomes deadly. And that's what's happened in the world is
- 3:34we we've become the victims of democracy because democracy is
- 3:41mob rule. Democracy isn't the defense of the minority voice,
- 3:52mob rule being you know, the the sum total of
- 3:56what democracy gives is the opportunity for the guy who's
- 4:01got the most guys to rule, which wasn't what this
- 4:06country was based on. We were going to use democratic principles.
- 4:12So they have to lie to you so that you
- 4:14will line up and give them your vote, so that
- 4:17then they can go about their business of making friends
- 4:20of theirs wealthy and profitable, sometimes even through a money
- 4:26laundering scheme like the subsidies that we see going through Obamacare.
- 4:32Time for our first things so that we know what
- 4:34we're talking about this morning. Shutdown is back in the
- 4:38news now that all the dust is settled from peace
- 4:42in the Middle East, but that was three days ago. Joe,
- 4:45come on, we don't want to talk about peace in
- 4:46the Middle East. We've got a shutdown to talk about.
- 4:50John Thune is looking to bring the Democrats to the
- 4:53playground over a year long peddagon funding bill, full year
- 4:58funding bill for the pentic on the military, coming to
- 5:02the floor of the US Senate today to try to
- 5:05force Chuck Schumer at al to get to it. One
- 5:09of those senators that Thune hopes to force onto the
- 5:14dance floor and dance with the one that brings him
- 5:18is Tim Kaine, who says that it's about the Obamacare
- 5:21subsidies and guarantees.
- 5:23Speaker 8: People's healthcare premiums don't spike dramatically, which they are set
- 5:26to do by year end in Virginia and elsewhere. And second,
- 5:30we just want an agreement from the President that a
- 5:32deal is a deal, If we shake hands on a deal,
- 5:35that this is going to be government funding, you won't
- 5:38unilaterally cancel it next week.
- 5:41Speaker 6: Meanwhile, the folks at you Gov, at the request of
- 5:45the Economist magazine, did a poll to see who's to
- 5:48blame in the eyes of the American citizen for the shutdown.
- 5:53The gap is narrowing it had been quite a large
- 5:56number of the respondents blamed Republicans. Umber is closing as
- 6:01thirty nine percent of the survey said it's the Republicans fault,
- 6:04and thirty three percent blame Democrats in Congress. If you
- 6:09do a math equation there, you find that there's still
- 6:13twenty eight percent that's not in the poll. They haven't
- 6:17noticed that the government's shut down. That's why they didn't
- 6:20show up in the poll. And those are our first
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- 11:00Speaker 2: Oh brah, that's buzzed.
- 11:01Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 11:05Speaker 14: And now a.
- 11:06Speaker 15: Speech I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 11:10heart and brain.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Who's with me?
- 11:13Speaker 15: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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- 11:20Speaker 5: Love that guy, me too.
- 11:21Speaker 16: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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- 11:25Speaker 3: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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- 13:12Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
- 13:35Speaker 6: I remember when the reason they have to pit us
- 13:38against one another is that way you don't ever wake
- 13:42up to the fact that there are more of us
- 13:44than there are of them. Bruce is on the line
- 13:48at four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
- 13:51Morning Bruce. Thanks for hanging on the line. What's on
- 13:53your mind, sir.
- 13:55Speaker 7: Well, we've been talking a lot about Obamacare and the
- 14:03it's not thank you. If I recall the night before
- 14:08Obamacare went into effect, Obama was on the TV and
- 14:13he said we all have Obamacare, and he gave the impression,
- 14:18all go, all time, even the President, his family, vice President, Congress,
- 14:23and everybody else was going to be Obamacare. Then he
- 14:27went out there and said, I am going to exclude myself,
- 14:31the vice president, Congress, and the Supreme Court from being Obamacare.
- 14:37And he gave some big thing on this. And I
- 14:39was with my neighbor and I said, I told you,
- 14:42this is a bunch of.
- 14:45Speaker 6: What's going on. Well, and now we see it. I
- 14:49mean I tried to warn and I think you were
- 14:51around at the time, and we were warning that it
- 14:53seemed like this insurance scam was designed to crash this system,
- 15:01not fix the system. Hang on the line, we'll get
- 15:03right to you there. And so, Bruce, do you remember that.
- 15:08I mean, we were warning people in twenty ten that
- 15:11this whole thing was going to at some point crash
- 15:16the private health system and leave us no choice but
- 15:20to go with a public option. Government takes over the hospitals,
- 15:23government takes over the clinics, and then they can guarantee
- 15:29healthcare for everybody.
- 15:32Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll be lousely healthcare, but they guarantee it.
- 15:34Speaker 6: Yeah, but they don't. This is the thing that they
- 15:38convince us that the words don't mean what we think
- 15:41the words mean. And this is why it's dangerous. There's
- 15:44so many lawyers out there, and bless them if you
- 15:48need a defense lawyer. I have a few good names,
- 15:50but a lot of these folks they write these rules.
- 15:54They write these laws so that they can go, Wow,
- 15:56we didn't say you were going to have healthcare. We
- 15:59said we are going to have health care insurance. We
- 16:02didn't say that your copey was going to be eight
- 16:05thousand dollars out of pocket before we gave you, you know,
- 16:08one red cent. We never said any of that. And
- 16:10that's really the insurance company anyway. And I listened to
- 16:15a guy, it might have been Dershoids bringing up the
- 16:17fact that the government's rhetoric on healthcare and insurance could
- 16:23lead to a conspiracy case against the guy who killed
- 16:27the US Healthcare CEO, because you know, at some point
- 16:32the politicians have to be held accountable for the you know,
- 16:36they call it sloppy language, but I think it's intentionally
- 16:43deceiving and intentionally yeah, because they tell you something that
- 16:48thinks that you sound like, oh, well this is one
- 16:50hundred percent organic. Well, so's my poop. My poop is
- 16:54one hundred percent organic, but that doesn't mean I'm going
- 16:57to feed it to you. But they say these words
- 17:00we imagine means something that they don't, and we need
- 17:04to really clamp down on these people for that. I
- 17:09don't know. I call it malpractice. I'm sure you have
- 17:12a harsher phrase for.
- 17:13Speaker 7: It, but I can't say it on the air.
- 17:16Speaker 6: Well, we appreciate that, Bruce, Thank you, sir, God bless
- 17:19bye bye. Let me get to line too here. Good morning,
- 17:23you're on the air with Joe Thomas. First thing this morning.
- 17:25Who's this?
- 17:26Speaker 20: Hi?
- 17:27Speaker 6: This is Ray? Good morning Ray. How are you doing, sir?
- 17:29Speaker 20: I'm doing just fine. And it just it just occurred
- 17:34to me, just off the off the off the cuff,
- 17:36that remember that death panels are still healthcare. Yeah, of course.
- 17:43But what I was what I was calling about. Really,
- 17:46I'm wondering if we've maybe been a little bit unfair
- 17:50to mister Riggleman. We think of him as having very
- 17:55flexible opinions and principles and changes them more often than
- 18:02he changes his underwear. Probably, but that's probably not true.
- 18:09What we made the mistake of thinking and I did,
- 18:11I certainly I voted with a scum was that he
- 18:16was a conservative Republican and he's not. He's a bureaucrat.
- 18:20He is he believes in government. That's his party, that's
- 18:26his principles, it's his church, it's his fundamentals. And once
- 18:34you understand that, then he's been faithful to it all
- 18:39the way through, extremely faithful to it. And it just
- 18:43reminded me that the people who work in Washington, and
- 18:47this includes members of the military like him, the ones
- 18:51who fly desks tend to be members of this party.
- 18:56The ones who go out and get and actually shoulder
- 19:01a rifle or fight to defend our border.
- 19:06Speaker 6: Take incoming, you take.
- 19:08Speaker 20: Incoming, they're different. They tend not to be parties members
- 19:14of the government party so much. Yeah, in my experience.
- 19:18Speaker 6: Well, because they see it, they see it that they
- 19:20see the bureaucracy. I mean, what's the expression catch twenty
- 19:24two output?
- 19:26Speaker 20: They see the outputs, Yeah, fighting.
- 19:29Speaker 6: Because they're calling it. They call the Pentagon looking for
- 19:32supplies or backup or whatever, and they get a bureaucrat
- 19:36like you mentioned, these these these Washington types on the
- 19:40phone saying well, you know, fill out the form. You
- 19:42like you didn't check that mark on the on the
- 19:45form the requisition that you sent six months ago. That's
- 19:48why you don't have the the the gasoline for your
- 19:51jeeps anymore.
- 19:53Speaker 16: Uh.
- 19:53Speaker 6: And and that's the catch twenty two. That's what you know,
- 19:55what made Joseph Heller's book so specific is that the
- 20:00military had already had expressions for this stuff. I mean,
- 20:04it was a catch twenty two. You had to ask first.
- 20:07But if you asked first, then you know, you had
- 20:09to know first. And therefore, if you knew first, then
- 20:12you weren't allowed to ask first. And all these things
- 20:15that they built in so that you wouldn't be able
- 20:18to get what they didn't want to.
- 20:20Speaker 20: Give you exactly. And the other thing to remember, of course,
- 20:24is that for a bureaucrat, regardless of what where he is,
- 20:29whether he's in the DA or whatever, scattered throughout Washington
- 20:36and the government and the provinces and the like, we're
- 20:39not states anymore, we're provinces. But the primary concern is
- 20:48the main maintenance and enhancement of the organization of the
- 20:52bureaucracy and the government for which.
- 20:55Speaker 6: It stands, right, and it's an entity, it's become a
- 20:59life forms. It's behavior on January sixth is just another
- 21:03example of a life formed fighting for its own survival.
- 21:07Speaker 20: Absolutely, And when you consider the fact that of all
- 21:12the riots that went through that wonderful period they're leading
- 21:18up to January sixth, the January sixth riot was probably
- 21:22the least destructive.
- 21:24Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean, I mean it was tragedy. There
- 21:27were tragedies, but I mean you look at the burning
- 21:30in Milwaukee and Chicago and Richmond and places like that. Yeah,
- 21:34Portland exactly, property destruction, maybe not the deaths associated with
- 21:41January sixth, but certainly mostly.
- 21:47Speaker 20: It's probably the first insurrection where people came unarmed.
- 21:52Speaker 6: That's true, although completely armed except for the FBI agents
- 21:57that were in the crowd they I think that's different.
- 22:00Speaker 20: Yeah.
- 22:02Speaker 10: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas? Yes?
- 22:07Actually three known gas is I'm doctor Mitch and nitric
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- 22:43Speaker 6: Well.
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- 24:03Speaker 10: Considered by most Optimized curcumin is one of the few
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- 24:26reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
- 24:31The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
- 24:36has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
- 24:42cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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- 25:02Speaker 11: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
- 25:06warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
- 25:10Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
- 25:13will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
- 25:17personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
- 25:22are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
- 25:26threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
- 25:30call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
- 25:33your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
- 25:38or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
- 25:43or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
- 25:47enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OYG,
- 25:51dot SSA dot gov.
- 25:55Speaker 2: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
- 25:57Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 26:01Speaker 14: And now a speech.
- 26:02Speaker 15: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 26:06art and brain.
- 26:07Speaker 3: Who's with me?
- 26:08Speaker 2: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
- 26:11Speaker 15: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home,
- 26:14Somebody call me a ride.
- 26:15Speaker 2: Love that guy, me too.
- 26:17Speaker 16: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
- 26:19it's time to go home.
- 26:20Speaker 5: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 26:23Speaker 17: Did you know that more than half our household energy
- 26:26costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
- 26:30good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
- 26:34One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
- 26:37energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
- 26:41learn how to do it yourself at Energysavers. Dot gov.
- 26:44That's Energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
- 26:47leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
- 26:51improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
- 26:54when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
- 26:57energy star logo and read the energy label. And there
- 27:01are day to day things you can do. Lower your
- 27:04thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer, close
- 27:07fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep air
- 27:10filters clean. For more tips on saving money by reducing
- 27:14your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
- 27:18a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
- 27:22protection agency.
- 27:24Speaker 19: For those fortunate enough to help the person who has
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- 27:33Speaker 10: Hope you enjoyed your meal, and I just want to
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- 27:39Speaker 5: Lucky.
- 27:40Speaker 3: Caring for my brother is far from easy, but he's
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- 27:48Speaker 5: Nothing can disable this love.
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- 28:11Speaker 1: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Jams.
- 28:15Speaker 6: That's the sovereignation or just opposing state. You better look out.
- 28:25Speaker 1: People worn gets too late.
- 28:29Speaker 6: I was thinking about what Ray called in about UH,
- 28:32and and even to a degree Bruce before that, because
- 28:36the Obamacare, the admission of Tim Kaine about the Obamacare
- 28:40subsidies that we've been playing for you, that this is
- 28:43what the Democrats hang up is about. UH, the government shutdown.
- 28:51Speaker 8: People's healthcare premium s don't spike dramatically, which they are
- 28:55set to do by year end. And Virginia now.
- 29:00Speaker 6: Because these and in these subsidies don't even go back
- 29:03to the origination of the Affordable Care Act. These came
- 29:07along during COVID, when all of a sudden, all those
- 29:09insurance companies that thought it was all fun in games
- 29:13when the government mandated that we go buy policies from
- 29:16them and that they would launder some of our tax
- 29:19money into subsidizing those purchases, said.
- 29:23Speaker 18: Whoa, whoa, WOA.
- 29:24Speaker 6: All these people showing up here with whatever this bug is.
- 29:27We don't want to pay all these premiums out. So
- 29:30they had to come up with ways. And there is
- 29:33a huge division of every insurance company that goes through
- 29:37the laws of their insurance company to make sure there
- 29:41are as many ways possible for them to say no
- 29:47some of it. And just like Hopfer has said, fraud
- 29:50protection because people do defraud insurance companies. So the idea
- 29:56of protecting an insurance company from fraud start arts is
- 30:00a good idea, becomes a business and then devolves into
- 30:04a racket. So now I would argue that I know
- 30:07some insurance companies where the departments that are in charge
- 30:11of big call them the saying no departments are larger
- 30:17than the other departments of the insurance company, all dedicated
- 30:22to find ways to say no. So the insurance companies
- 30:28before we can figure out a way to say no
- 30:30to this stuff, can you help us out? So we
- 30:32had subsidies for our healthcare insurance because they were like,
- 30:37people are claiming six seven visits to the doctor in
- 30:40one year, we're going to drive up their premiums over this.
- 30:48And then along with that, today is this revelation, this
- 30:52expose of a lot of stuff we knew, we just
- 30:56it's attached to it. Adam Kinsinger and Denver Wrigglemann and
- 31:00the folks and the stuff that Wriggleman gleefully bragged about
- 31:04in his twenty twenty two book. But then couple what
- 31:12he bragged about with what Kinsinger admits, and this is
- 31:16where John Solomon should be the head of the FBI.
- 31:18I'm sorry, because Adam Kinsinger goes on a braggadocious rant
- 31:22yet earlier in the week about all the stuff he
- 31:26turned over to the FBI from January sixth, and then
- 31:30you couple that with what Wriggleman bragged about in his book,
- 31:33and you're like, hold it. That means he had the
- 31:38surveillance of the senators and American citizens before there were
- 31:42subpoenas for them, because Wriggleman brags in the book that
- 31:46he told Kinsinger what to write subpoenas for and where,
- 31:50and then then Kinsinger is bragging about You ask any
- 31:55law enforcement professional, the stupidity of any criminal is unfortunately
- 32:01the largest percentage of ways law enforcement closes cases. I mean,
- 32:10sometimes great law enforcement, like when they caught Jesse Matthew Junior,
- 32:14because you know, a great brave woman defended herself and
- 32:18was able to get away from him. But his DNA
- 32:21was on record for having sexually assaulted her, and then
- 32:25they were able to match it on the DNA found
- 32:28on Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham and Bota Bing. We
- 32:30got a mass murderer working as an orderly at the hospital.
- 32:36I mean, never mind the controversy. We just find out
- 32:38about the hospital and their reco case that's being filed
- 32:42against the University of Virginia Health System. That's much more
- 32:47of a local thing, though it hits you guys in Houston.
- 32:49Are we on in Beaumont yet? I know we are
- 32:52supposed to be going on in Beaumont, Texas. You know,
- 32:54University of Texas Health System in Houston as one of
- 32:58the leaders of a pretty scary group that's now facing
- 33:02RICO charges for the way they were running the hospital.
- 33:11But be careful of all these stories because these stories
- 33:16I fear and I have no proof. But as you
- 33:21start to see all of these things piling up on
- 33:23the shelf, you're like, hold on a second, here, you're
- 33:26getting conservatives to hate the government. The government that we
- 33:30have to have by constitution by the establishment of John
- 33:35Locke's theories, we need a government to ensure our rights,
- 33:39to secure our rights. So what we have to hate
- 33:44are the people who have driven the government that was
- 33:48there to secure our rights into a field of fanciful
- 33:53poppies where we've grown hooked on the opioid dusts from
- 33:58the poppy, and now we've fallen asleep in the field.
- 34:09And the existence of the government is there to protect
- 34:13the existence of the government more than it is there
- 34:16to protect the existence of our rights. So we need
- 34:19to be very pedantic about how we approach fixing this,
- 34:24because just crumpling up the government and tossing it out
- 34:28isn't the right answer. As a matter of fact. James Hankins,
- 34:31the Harvard professor, I played a clip of my interview
- 34:33with him yesterday. We address this in the interview about
- 34:36his book The Golden Thread, trying to bring back a
- 34:40discussion of what Western civilization means. I asked him directly,
- 34:44I said, do you think this is intentionally done? The
- 34:47fact that kids are not learning about Western civilization except
- 34:51for the slavery that was going on in it and
- 34:54some of the bad warts on it. Do you think
- 34:57it's intentional, Professor.
- 35:00Speaker 21: Well, it comes out of the Vietnam generation, which developed
- 35:06a hatred of the US government, and then they also
- 35:09decided that the Western tradition was as an invention of
- 35:14militarists in the First World War, which is completely wrong.
- 35:18I think that it's a longstanding opposition to the US
- 35:24and its culture and belief that things have to change.
- 35:29At first, it was just denigrating American history and the
- 35:33Western tradition, but more recently it's been about just not
- 35:37teaching at all. You know, there's a kind of feeling
- 35:41that Western civilization is evil, so we shouldn't teach it
- 35:45because that won't effect under high school students undergraduate with
- 35:51ideas that they are not supported by the radical progressive left.
- 35:56So I think that much is intentional. I don't think
- 36:00it's a conspiracy. I think it's just a shared attitude
- 36:04among people who despise the West, and most of those
- 36:07people who despise the West don't know anything about it,
- 36:11and then if we don't teach it, then no one's
- 36:14there to say, well, this is wrong. The West is
- 36:17not the only civilization that had slavery. They all had slavery.
- 36:21Muslim slavery is much worse than Western slavery. It's not
- 36:26the case that you know, we are a colonialist founders
- 36:31of colonies. Well, the US was founded as a revolt
- 36:33against colonialism in fact, and you know, the very simplest
- 36:38docts of history are not known. So you can say
- 36:42anything negative about the United States or about Western civilization
- 36:47if you want, because no one knows enough to respond
- 36:50to that.
- 36:51Speaker 6: And I think that's the key to me. And you
- 36:55can hear the whole interview this weekend that Freedom and
- 36:57Prosperity Radio, and I think we posted on line at
- 37:00Virginia Institute dot org. You come to our flagship station,
- 37:05you'll stream it. It's I think Sunday morning at eight.
- 37:10It's an hour long interview. I'm not going to play
- 37:12the whole thing here. We've got to get to traffic
- 37:14and weather together. But that intent is so that you
- 37:21look and you say, oh my gosh, look at the homelessness,
- 37:24look at the poverty, look at the schisms between wealthy
- 37:29and poor, and you say that's Western civilization, and it's not.
- 37:33It's a perversion of it, using crony capitalism in place
- 37:38of actual capitalism, using government mandates, and government programs in
- 37:45lieu of free market solutions. So what they've done is
- 37:52they've created the scenario in which they can now go
- 37:57out and sell Marxism as the answer.
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- 44:10Speaker 1: As the first thing today on the Talk Media Network
- 44:15by Joe Jones's.
- 44:16Speaker 6: A sovereignation or just a polling state?
- 44:25Speaker 17: You met?
- 44:25Speaker 6: Look at people born gets too, you know, And I
- 44:31realized that one of the things we talked about with
- 44:34Professor Hankins actually addresses the intentionality of this.
- 44:43Speaker 21: Well, it comes out of the Vietnam generation, which developed
- 44:49a hatred of the US government, and then they also
- 44:53decided that the Western tradition was as an invention of
- 44:57militarists in the First World War, which is they won't.
- 45:01Speaker 6: I don't know. This is the clip we played.
- 45:03Speaker 21: It's it's it's a longstanding opposition.
- 45:07Speaker 6: To Yeah, we we played this clip already. I wanted
- 45:10the clip where we talked about uh specifically, you know
- 45:13how you know, not knowing leads to you know, the
- 45:18misunderstanding of who it is and and the part I
- 45:22was making, the point I was making about government being
- 45:26uh the important uh you know an important part of
- 45:29this that to secure uh these rights.
- 45:32Speaker 21: Yeah, well the US has always been more future oriented
- 45:36than other societies, and I think that's good. Innovation is good, Uh,
- 45:40but innovation always has to be balanced with with tradition.
- 45:44But you don't know what you're doing.
- 45:46Speaker 8: You know.
- 45:47Speaker 21: There are all these tech people now who are talking
- 45:49about saving the West, and Elon Musk talks about mar Coutry.
- 45:53So this is kind of a it's fat even among
- 45:58tech the founders, but the actually don't know very much
- 46:02about the West. For them, it's all about capitalism to speech,
- 46:05which is fine, but there's older traditions of virtue and
- 46:10civilized conduct which we need to preserve. Also the purpose
- 46:14of a civilization is to civilize. When civilizing people is necessary,
- 46:22you can teach anything from morals to etiquette, but we
- 46:28need to have common moral criteria too, common moral stories
- 46:33and narratives that find us together. Otherwise, you know, there's
- 46:38just nothing at all that people have in common. They
- 46:40can't All they can do.
- 46:41Speaker 6: Is fight, Professor. There's some famous and apocryphal to a degree,
- 46:47but I think it speaks volumes. This is the part
- 46:51I wanted. This is the part that is the question
- 46:53you jumped ahead too far. Atoms responded, this is a
- 46:58wonderful document for a moral nation. And and the reminder
- 47:02being that you know, you can't be self governing unless
- 47:05you can be well self governing. And and that is
- 47:09one of the trappings of Western civilization as well, whether
- 47:13it's what you call the jude or Christian ethic, the
- 47:19democratization of faith through Martin Luther and and but but
- 47:25you know, higher power understanding that humility, I think is
- 47:30one of those threads that runs through what we call
- 47:34Western civilization. Perhaps just all civilizations have it, just we
- 47:39we have this particular type. Am I wrong?
- 47:45Speaker 1: No?
- 47:45Speaker 21: We all civilizations need to have a certain humility and
- 47:50gratitude towards the past, or they don't have any grounds
- 47:54for preserving it. You have to understand that there are
- 47:57people in tradition of great, great achievements that need to
- 48:01be uh copied. They need to be examples for us
- 48:06in modern times. But if you think that nothing could
- 48:10ever happened in the past, you won't have any models
- 48:13for behavior. The future has no models of behavior that
- 48:17we can we can we can, we can imitate and value.
- 48:23I do think that stability requires knowledge of the tradition
- 48:30and uh respect for tradition. There has to be some people,
- 48:35some stories, events, common experience that people accept as good
- 48:42as things that can structure our structure. Are are our
- 48:47common life together. They have to understand, you know, what
- 48:50is a republic? Everyone talks about democracy today. Democracy is
- 48:56a great aspiration for civilizations, equality under law and freedom
- 49:02of religion and of speech. But we are actually formally
- 49:11speaking in republic and there are reasons why the why
- 49:15our constitution is set up the way it is. But
- 49:18whether you're going to understand that without any study of
- 49:21history is to me doubtful. I'm not sure I'm answering
- 49:26your question because there was an earlier part of your
- 49:31question started with something I thought was interesting. I'd like
- 49:35to respond to another famous quote that they use, which
- 49:40was the most corrupt republic has the most laws.
- 49:45Speaker 6: The moment did not.
- 49:47Speaker 21: Have that many laws because they they could rely on
- 49:50the virtue of their magistrates and all sorts of constraining traditions.
- 49:56I think we had something like one hundred and fifty
- 49:58thousand laws in the United States, the Romans at about thirty.
- 50:04And that that shows you in a way that they
- 50:06rely relies much more on the on the magistrates and
- 50:11traditions and uh and uh, and the willingness of people
- 50:16to abide by the laws, and of course the heavy
- 50:19punishments that also came if you broke the laws. Anyway.
- 50:25But we seem to think that when we have a
- 50:27social problem, you have to do is pass a law
- 50:29and it will resolved. But I don't think that's the case. Yeah,
- 50:33well that I'm reading a book right now, Josiah Osgood.
- 50:39It's about it's called Lawless Republic, and one of the
- 50:43themes of the book is that the lawless the Romans
- 50:47was what one thing, a major cause of the fall
- 50:50of the republic. So and what happens is that people
- 50:54at a certain point don't have any respect for the law.
- 50:57The law is constantly being used for purposes. You end
- 51:02up with people just having this, you know, and we've
- 51:06seen the judiciary is losing its reputation with all of
- 51:10these district court judges keep popping up and trying to
- 51:15control the country, and they keep getting you know, the
- 51:19Supreme Court has to play whack them all with.
- 51:22Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely right. James Hankins Golden threat.
- 51:26Speaker 21: Another famous quote quote that they use, which was the
- 51:31most corrupt republic has the most laws.
- 51:34Speaker 6: I love that line and and hold on to that
- 51:37one because that's that's what we see, is that that
- 51:41lawlessness that has come from an overabundance of laws. I
- 51:45could just write a law that helps me get around
- 51:47the other laws. We were talking about that earlier with
- 51:51the Congress not being held accountable for their actions.
- 51:56Speaker 21: These systems don't work on their own. They're not like
- 51:59a machine to turn on and will automatically give you
- 52:02good government. You need to have good governors as well
- 52:06as good government. You need people in charge who have
- 52:11a respect for tradition and respect for religion, respect for
- 52:17the past and the achievements of our civilizations. They have
- 52:21to have that. They have to be good people who
- 52:25are in our tradition a good person to someone who
- 52:29combines the nationality of the Greeks and the devotion to
- 52:34law of the Romans with Christian values. That's what the
- 52:38Western tradition is, a combination of Greece, Rome and Christianity
- 52:43all come together and create a new civilization.
- 52:46Speaker 6: And with that thought until tomorrow morning, so long and
- 52:49thanks for all the fish.
- 52:51Speaker 2: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
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