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  Speaker 1: A lot of them, fuss of widow last and an
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  Speaker 1: week so far. There's Jonathan in with the first sticker.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Jonathan. And yeah, we've got a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's see. No no conferences. Not traveling for conference.
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  Speaker 1: Friend Helpers says he will pray for the Wi Fi gods.
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  Speaker 1: That is always a good thing. I mean, the Wi
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  Speaker 1: Fi god is all powerful, and praying to the Wi
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  Speaker 1: Fi gods or the Internet gods more broadly, is a
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  Speaker 1: it's like Pascal's wager, What do you gotta lose? Right,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's jump in. So Politico has a story
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  Speaker 1: today that's kind of, uh, you know, really reverberating through
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  Speaker 1: through Twitter quite a bit. So, you know, I spend
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  Speaker 1: probably way too much time on x Twitter, and this
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  Speaker 1: is kind of the leading story, it seems on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: is the story in political Political basically got a twelve
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  Speaker 1: of chats from a telegram channel, a telegram channel of
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  Speaker 1: Young Republicans. Young Republicans is a nationwide organization of Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: I've spoken at some Young Republican chapters years and years
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  Speaker 1: and years ago. I spoke at the New York City
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: Young Republicans. I've spoken at Young Republican groups at a
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  Speaker 1: variety at a bunch of different universities over the years.
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  Speaker 1: So this is like is a Young Democrats on campus
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  Speaker 1: Young Republicans, but it's also beyond. It's not just at universities.
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  Speaker 1: It is a generally a national organization Young Republican National Federation.
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  Speaker 1: It's fifteen thousand member and you have to be between
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  Speaker 1: the ages of eighteen and forty to be part of this. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: they got they got their hands on a private chat
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  Speaker 1: that Spans. I don't know, a huge amount of a
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  Speaker 1: huge amount of data. And this is primarily kind of
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  Speaker 1: people in leadership positions within the Young Republican Association, the
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  Speaker 1: Young Republican you know, so this is leaders from New York, Kansas, Arizona, Vermont,
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  Speaker 1: and other places. It's twenty nine hundred, two thousand, nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred pages of chats shared among about a dozen Millennium
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  Speaker 1: and gen Z Republicans. And this is in the period
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  Speaker 1: between January and mid August. And you know, it has
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  Speaker 1: a lot a lot of it has to do with
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  Speaker 1: internal politics within the Young Republicans. They attempt to kind
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  Speaker 1: of they were very this is a group that is
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  Speaker 1: very mega and and uh their attempt to kind of
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  Speaker 1: take over the Young Republicans from a very pro Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump platform. Uh. And uh some of them are actually
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  Speaker 1: working for the Trump administration. Some of them are working
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  Speaker 1: for the various chapters of the Young Republican Association. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: these chats, uh, these chats are filled with racist, antisemitic, uh,
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  Speaker 1: anti gay uh you know, just you know, uh a
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  Speaker 1: kind of a positive positive commentary on rape. Uh, just horrible, horrible,
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  Speaker 1: horrible stuff that is uh, that is a spewed by
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  Speaker 1: these guys uh in uh in conversation. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the there's something called they love the watermelon
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  Speaker 1: people talking about blacks obviously, Uh, there's a great I
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  Speaker 1: love Hitler, although you know the full context of that statement,
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: it is said kind of an irony. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a they're going they're giving nationalists too much credit
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  Speaker 1: and expecting the Jews to be honest. You know, everyone
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  Speaker 1: that votes No. One a particular thing is going to
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  Speaker 1: be gas chambered, you know. Uh uh and uh and
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  Speaker 1: and on and on and on it goes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he also hates Jews with a bunch of likes on
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  Speaker 1: that one. Uh So, yeah, pretty pretty pretty disgusting racist,
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  Speaker 1: anti Semitic, sexist, pro violence stuff that's in there now. Granted,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's they're just chatting, right. This reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of of of the the comment I guesst Trump made
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  Speaker 1: about grabbing women by the you know what, and and
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  Speaker 1: everybody was like, yeah, well, it's just locker room chatter.
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  Speaker 1: That's our guys talk in the locker room. And like,
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  Speaker 1: I never talked like that in the locker room. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if something's wrong with me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my distusterone is high, I promise, And yet I never
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  Speaker 1: talked like that in the locker room. And and this
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  Speaker 1: is like the same thing. It's like, oh, they're just young.
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  Speaker 1: This is how they talk really racist, anti Semitic gobbage
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  Speaker 1: like this is just this is just how we talk.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you throw out there when you're discussing,
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  Speaker 1: when you're discussing stuff, and you're doing this in writing.
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  Speaker 1: So this isn't a chat, just terrific. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about where I think partially
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  Speaker 1: where I think this comes from, and how this is.
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  Speaker 1: This has been kind of legitimized, but uh, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: It really is disgusting. And again, these are these are
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  Speaker 1: not junior people, these are senior people. Uh, these are
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  Speaker 1: colored foma. I don't think there are any colored FORMA
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  Speaker 1: congressional staffers. And it's really sad to me because I
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  Speaker 1: used to give talks to congressional staffers. There were years
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  Speaker 1: in the early teens where I would go to Washington,
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  Speaker 1: DC on a regular basis, and I think we do.
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  Speaker 1: We did a series for a few years of talks
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  Speaker 1: in front of Congression Republican Congressional staffers and and it
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  Speaker 1: was great and I really enjoyed that. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of these people are former congressional staffers. Something has
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  Speaker 1: changed in the Republican Party. Something dramatic has changed in
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party and people who are activists around the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party. There's been a legitimization of racism. There's been
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  Speaker 1: a legitimization of anti Semitism that's being brought into the
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  Speaker 1: party and is now just part of it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: here's one guy who I guess it was part of
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  Speaker 1: this chat and is trying to defend it all. And
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  Speaker 1: he says, anyone in this article, that is all the
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  Speaker 1: people in the chat is a patriot and everyone attacking
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  Speaker 1: them is a dirty, treacherous, impotent, cowardly bundle of sticks. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So people actually, you know, defending defending this, You know,
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  Speaker 1: these are good guys. And I really think this is
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  Speaker 1: where the Republican Party is heading. I think that you know,
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  Speaker 1: the racist kind of anti Semitic stuff, but I think
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  Speaker 1: this has all been if you will, this was all
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  Speaker 1: legitimized during the Trump first term with the alt right.
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  Speaker 1: You remember the old right, but altwright was always viewsed
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  Speaker 1: as fringe and then he had Charlottesville, and Charlotteville was
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  Speaker 1: basically explicit racist and explicit anti Sermites going out there
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  Speaker 1: and basically Trump and I'm not gonna argue this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I've done whole videos explaining how true this is,
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  Speaker 1: but basically Trump giving them a thumbs up, like not
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  Speaker 1: that Trump's an anti semino racist, He's not, but Trump
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  Speaker 1: is quite happy to have a big tent that includes
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  Speaker 1: racist and anti Semites. And and you know, he gave
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  Speaker 1: them a thumbs up, and he winked at them, and
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  Speaker 1: he said yeah, yeah, yeah, good people on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: And and I've analyzed that and everything. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just a it wasn't just a it wasn't you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was exactly what it sounds like. It was exactly Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are okay, don't worry about it to the
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  Speaker 1: racist And indeed, those people, the people who marched there,
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  Speaker 1: are not mon more mainstream. The OATS right is much
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  Speaker 1: more part of the Republican Party. It's much more mainstream
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  Speaker 1: on the right. The groupers are much more part of
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  Speaker 1: a coalition on the right. And you can see that
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  Speaker 1: in the attempts of people this morning like Matt Walsh
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  Speaker 1: and JD. Vans to excuse the young Republicans. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: basically JD. Vans has said he's not going to condemn
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  Speaker 1: them because Democrats do things that are a lot worse. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's true. The current candidate, the attorney general kind of
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  Speaker 1: candidate for attorney general of Virginia is a guy who
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  Speaker 1: in a in again, in a in a in a
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  Speaker 1: chat made comments about wanting to kill the children of
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  Speaker 1: the opposition of Republicans. He, you know, just horrible stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy should resign, He should certainly apologize,
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  Speaker 1: and voters should definitely vote this guy out. I mean, nasty,
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  Speaker 1: horrible stuff. And you know, nobody is nobody has denied
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  Speaker 1: this that he said all this stuff, So he actually
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  Speaker 1: said it. So JD. Vans is saying, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: quoting the guy from Virginia saying this is far wards
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  Speaker 1: than anything said in a college group chat. And the
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  Speaker 1: guy who said it could become the age of Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: I refuse to join the pole clutching when powerful people
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  Speaker 1: call for political violence. These are not this is not
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  Speaker 1: a college chat. These are relatively senior young, but senior
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  Speaker 1: people young meaning under forty. I don't know how many
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  Speaker 1: of you who are under forty could consider yourself just
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  Speaker 1: the same as college kids. Uh. These are young Republicans
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  Speaker 1: who have really senior position, really senior positions within the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party, certainly within the kind of young Republicans and JD. Vans.
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  Speaker 1: The Vice President of the United States will not condemn him,
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  Speaker 1: just like at the end of the day, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: did not condemn the marches in Charlottesville. This is Republican leadership. Basically, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we need these guys. Matt Walsh basically came
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  Speaker 1: out and said, I'm not gonna condemn them. He wrote,
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  Speaker 1: the right doesn't stick together. That's our biggest problem. By far,
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  Speaker 1: Conservatives are quick to denounce each other, jump on dog piles,
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  Speaker 1: disavow attack their allies. I said a few weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: that we all need to band together in the wake
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  Speaker 1: of Charlie's death, and the anside got back from a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, and the Right was basically no, well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: then guys, we'll just lose. Instead, the keep up the
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  Speaker 1: United Front and defend day guys no matter what, while
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  Speaker 1: we keep throwing each other to the wolves and every opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Great plan Samtt Walves is basically saying, yeah, I mean racists,
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  Speaker 1: anti Semis, bring them on. What you know? What the
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  Speaker 1: hell you know? The Candice Owens, the Tucker Colson, the
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  Speaker 1: what's his name? The the the grape of guy who's
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  Speaker 1: a real anti Semite. Yeah, what you know, one big
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  Speaker 1: happy tenth because we need to defeat the left whatever,
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  Speaker 1: to defeat the left. The only thing that matters in
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  Speaker 1: life is to defeat the left. And the fact that
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  Speaker 1: these attitudes, and maybe Matt Wells just shares these attitudes,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that these attitudes Nick for Intis is the
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  Speaker 1: guy who was thinking of Nick Fointis, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: these attitudes are only growing. Nick foro Interis was a
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  Speaker 1: nobody a few years ago, and now he's got millions
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  Speaker 1: of followers. Candace has become a crazy nutcase, a complete
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  Speaker 1: and out of anti Semitic conspiracy theory wacko has millions
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  Speaker 1: of followers. Tucker Carlson has become a complete nutty antisemitic
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  Speaker 1: freak show, you know, with demons scratching him in the night,
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  Speaker 1: with millions of followers, I mean people whose ideas, these
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  Speaker 1: ideas would have been fringe eight years ago, ten years ago,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly fifteen years ago now a mainstream are becoming more
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  Speaker 1: and more mainstream, and Matt Walsh wants to embrace them
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  Speaker 1: even further in the name of victory. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: maybe you know some people who at least used to
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  Speaker 1: be on my chat would want ask to participate in
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  Speaker 1: these big tents and embrace them all in the name
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  Speaker 1: of defeating the left, because that's all that matters, you know.
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  Speaker 1: The Reagan Caucus tweeted in response to the Young Republicans
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  Speaker 1: JD Vansam Matt Walsh once again showed that they are
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  Speaker 1: tribalists within no enemies to my right mentality, and Matt
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  Speaker 1: Walsh replies, yes, we want to win. I know that
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  Speaker 1: concept is confusing to you. So bring in the Nazis,
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  Speaker 1: bring in the races, bring in the klu klux Klan.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell we want to win? That's all the matters.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that they grow in numbers because we
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  Speaker 1: have sanctioned them, we have promoted them, we have given
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  Speaker 1: them the thumbs up. We who are supposedly credible and
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  Speaker 1: the legit part of the Republican Party are sanctioning these
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  Speaker 1: either the fact that they will grow, Yeah, that doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that matters, literally, the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: matters is that we win, that we beat the left.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I mean, there's now a fad among Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: among certain people on the right to quote call Schmid,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: the Nazi called Schmidt, and that's been excused by a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of people, I think, including Matt Welsh. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these ideas, these fascist, horrific, racist ideas, are gaining more
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  Speaker 1: and more and more attraction on the right. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know they're also gaining traction on the fall left
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  Speaker 1: and have been part of the fall left agenda for
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: a long time. But this is my point. We have
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  Speaker 1: two enemies, not one, two, two enemies left and right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, MATD. Welsh continues in a different tweet when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to fighting the left and defeating the people
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  Speaker 1: who want to kill me and my family and piss
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  Speaker 1: on my grave, that's the left. I assume I will
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  Speaker 1: unite with anyone on the right, even those I don't
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  Speaker 1: like and who don't like me. If you think this
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  Speaker 1: is un principle, the morally compromised, then you simply don't
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  Speaker 1: understand how to fight and actually win a battle. A
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  Speaker 1: fractured conservative movement will fail. Only a united front will
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  Speaker 1: succeed and succeed in what to bring about? What to achieve? What?
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  Speaker 1: What is the goal? What is once the left is defeated?
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  Speaker 1: What happens? Then? I believe that a united right. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, that the rally in Charlottesville, not accidentally,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the rally in Charlottesville was called Unite the Right, Unite
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  Speaker 1: the Right, that's what they call themselves right, And now
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that was saying that unite the right with the people
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  Speaker 1: marching and Charlottesville, let's join them. And once you win,
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  Speaker 1: what do you get? Who's left? He continues. If you
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: reject this invitation, that's fine, it's your right. I won't
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  Speaker 1: be the first time I've reached out my hand and
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  Speaker 1: got a hearty fuck you in response. It doesn't hurt
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  Speaker 1: my feelings, but it does hurt the cause. What's the cause?
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  Speaker 1: One has to ask, what is the cause? Defeat the left? Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's establish an evil politics, an evil alternative to
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  Speaker 1: the evil and and somehow this is an improvement, that's
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: somehow this makes things makes things better right now. To
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: their credit, the Young Republicans organization seems to have come
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: out it's both the directors have come out and and
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  Speaker 1: written the following. We are palled by the vile and
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  Speaker 1: inexcusable language revealed in the police article published today. Such
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  Speaker 1: behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican and stands in
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  Speaker 1: direct opposition to the values our movement represents. Those involved
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  Speaker 1: must immediately resign from all positions within this state and
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  Speaker 1: local young Republican organizations. We must hold ourselves to the
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  Speaker 1: highest standards of integrity, respect, and professionalism. Now, yay, this
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: is good. Good for them, Good for them. Some Republicans,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: adults Matt Walsh, JD. Vans are not. And the only
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: reason I bring up Charlottesville is because this is the consequence.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: This is the consequence of Trump's wink wink, You're all okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're all part of the big tent anyway, big story.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Somebody else noting that people in those chats
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: joked about how rape ist epic called slavey megabased. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it would be It would be kind of cool if JD.
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  Speaker 1: Van's Vice President of the United States, these United States
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  Speaker 1: actually condemned that. That would be cool, said something negative
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: about it. Anyway. Let's see, here's somebody else writing a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: bunch of young people are probably feeling very exposed and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: guilty and worried about their futures because the edgy group
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: chat got leaked. Edgy note, do not give in. Do
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: not voluntarily resign or even apologize. You did nothing wrong. Frankly,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the jokes that I've seen aren't even as bad as
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the stuff the left says in completely sincerity. Of course,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: what about is them? Your only response to people asking
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: about it should be cry about it. I'm not apologizing
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: for using racy language in private. You know, while I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: hear the gregious hate constantly from the mainstream media, Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: and even universities, no young Republicans said they want to
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: kill the children of Democrats. We didn't celebrate the murder
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of a prominent liberal your outrageous fake and we don't
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: won't be distracted from our mission to save the country
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  Speaker 1: from the real bad guys, save the country from the
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: real bad guys, and hand it over to bad guys
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to bad guys. I'm just going to answer this question
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: because it's relevant and it's just going to be in
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  Speaker 1: my mind if I don't just answer it and get
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: it out of the way, because it's so vile and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: just so is you know, so despicable, right, Harrison says, Wow,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Trump has finally brought peace to the Middle East, and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: instead of mentioning that here you are is still renewed,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: mediating or whatever on whether or not he said that
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Neo Nazis are very fine people. Worse than CNN. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm much more objective than CNN. I hate Trump much
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: more than CNN. I objectively understand why Trump is much
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: worse than CNN. And about bringing peace to the Middle East,
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  Speaker 1: you might want to tell that to the dozens of
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  Speaker 1: Palestinians who were shot in the head over the last
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  Speaker 1: two or three days. Uh, and uh, you might want
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  Speaker 1: to tell that to uh uh, you know, to the
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to these Reeleas who uh you know, still haven't gotten
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the bodies of their of their loved ones back. Being
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: peace to the Middle East is going to require a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: little bit more than what has happened so far. And
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'd be talking NonStop about the bringing peace to the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East without defeating Kamas and without you know, uh
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  Speaker 1: crushing them. I've been talking about that NonStop since it happened.
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  Speaker 1: That has been the top of my news. So you
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: coming here and here, you know, uh, you know, pretending
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  Speaker 1: that you understand anything or know anything. You basically have
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: no clue what I've said, and and you just want
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to you want to what you know, denounce me as
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: being anti Trump. Yeah, I'm very anti Trump. Trump is
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: horrific as a as a president, as a political leader,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: as a human being. And you know, he did something
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: half decent in the Middle East, not bring peace to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the Middle East, but he got the hostages released. I'm
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: all for that. That's great. I mean, if you really
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: want a piece in the Middle East, he did unleash
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: these Raelis now to actually disarmed Hamas and destroy that
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: would bring peace to the Middle East. And he wouldn't
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: have stopped Israel from bombing Iran. He would have let
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: them continue so that the Ranian regime could have fallen.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: A lot of things. He could have done even better
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: than he did to bring piece to the Middle East,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: but you know, you will spend everything. My guess is
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: that bring piece to the release is just one among
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a million things that you think that Trump has done
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: phenomenally well. And you're excited about everything he does and
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: everything he said, because my guess is, I don't know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know Harrison. But my guess is, just by
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the tone of his thing, that he suffers from Trump
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: mindlessness syndrome and is just part of a tribe. Yep.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Trump Trump rallied the epic countries to put pressure on
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Hamas and should get credit for that. That he got
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Hamas to agree to release the hostages is a big plus.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Now the real challenge is going to be to get
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: them to this arm and if, by the way, if
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: in order to get Arab countries to put pressure on
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Romas to release the hostages Trump has promised for example
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Turkey F thirty five's. Yeah, I don't know how good
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that trade off it will be in the very long
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: In the very long run, Paul reminds me that the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: actual one is Trump's zombie syndrome. I agree, that's better.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: So I have a feeling Harrison might suffer from Trump's
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: zombie syndrome. Not the first person and certainly not the last.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: A large number of Americans, a significant number of Americans,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: maybe a majority of Republicans now suffer from Trump' zombie syndrome.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: So this is a a virus that has infected a
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: very large number of human beings around the country, and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the world. Really, it's a global phenomena. All right, yeah,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: young Republicans, what do you do? What can you do?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Swim court Todayhood a significant case regarding the Civil Rights
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Act of nineteen sixty four, and in particular the voting
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act that is part of the Civil
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Rights You know, this is an act again, part of
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the Civil Rights nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act, which
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: is part of the big civil rights legislation of the time,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: So not part of the Civil Rights Act itself, but
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: part of the civil rights legislation at the time. And
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: it's also it was also an act that was reinforced
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: by Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty two, signing in law
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a follow up act that kind of reinforced the voting
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: rights Voting Right section. What is this? You know? What
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: is this? This is a again the Voting Right Act
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: of sixty five is amended by the law Reagan signed
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two. This is what it basically does.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: It prohibits any state election law that quote results in
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a denial or abridgment of the right of any US
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: citizen to vote on account of race or color unquote.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Now that sounds pretty straightforward. And pretty good and not problematic.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: That sounds that sounds basically fine, right. The problem is
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the way it's being interpreted, because in a quote case
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six, the quote held that this language
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: requires states to redraw the legislative maps under certain circumstances,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and redraw them so that minorities do not get supposedly
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: disenfranchised by having maps drawn in a way that the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: minority will always be in the minority in a state,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: even though they might be a majority in a particular area,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the minority in the state, the districts will be drawn
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: in such a way that they will never get representation,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that they will never be represented in a sense. So
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the court, i guess at the time, stated are two
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: factors to decimine when this redistricting kind of to allow for,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: if you will, minority representation was allowed. So one was
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: whether a state is residentially segregated by race, so people
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: are living in clusters based on race, And whether the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: state's voters are racially polarized. That is, you know, Blacksvel's
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Democratic and white Road Republicans example, So you know, so
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: voters of one race tend to vote for one party,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and voters of another race tend to vote for another party,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: saying if those two standards, the clustering, and then the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: different races votes for different for different political parties, then
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you need to draw the maps in a way that
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: allows the clusters of the minority to have representation to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to be able to vote in their political candidate. Uh.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: This has resulted in the fact that many Southern states
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: that a majority white but have significant minority minority populations,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: significant black population point really have re drawn their maps
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: in order to give, if you will, blacks certain districts
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: that are safely theirs and and and For example, in
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the case in front of the Supreme Court right now,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Louisiane Republican legislature initially drew up a map that included
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: one out of six districts that was black majority. Right,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: but blacks constitute thirty percent of the population of Louisianas
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: if you sweare based on the percentages, then they should
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: have more than one out of six, they should have
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: more like two out of six. Right. So a law
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: court applying the nineteen eighty six Supreme Court ruling struck
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: down the map and said this, and the state responded
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: by drawing new maps which created two black districts, and
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of course this is now in front of the Supreme
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Court whether this new map with two black districts is
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: okay right now. The problem with all of this is
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: that the Constitution basically prohibits correct I think interpretation of
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the Constitution that basically prohibits discriminating based on race, so
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: discriminating based on racial characteristics, and now in order to
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: address past discrimination or in order to address existing discrimination,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: we are discriminating in terms of race. And while Caughts
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: in the past accepted this logic based on the Civil
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Rights Act and kind of legislation and caught rulings from
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty on that basically viewed it from inaction
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that basically viewed in order to address past discrimination, we
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: have to do reverse discrimination or to fix things. Well,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: this group of conservatives in this court, I think has
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: had it with that logic, has had it with that thinking. Basically,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I think these conservatives are saying, look, there has to
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: be a limit to that. That was in the nineteen sixties,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the Region Crow laws. Maybe it made some sense then
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to do this, but at some point there, you know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the reverse discrimination should be over. At some point you've
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: addressed past concerns and you need to be able to
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: move forward, and they are. It seems slowly dismantling the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: whole reverse discrimination agenda out there, and I think justifiably
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: and in a positive way. So, you know, the different
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: it really does look like the different justices had different
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: reasons why. But it really does look like they are
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: going to rule that Section two of the Voting Act,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: which has been interpreted as requiring this gerrymandering in order
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to provide minorities with their own districts, is they're going
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: to rule it unconstitutional. Now, of course, what Republicans will
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: do here is that they will redraw district maps. They
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: will gerrymanda district maps all over the South basically to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: give whites a majority, not because they're whites, but because
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: they're Republican. And since all these states are controlled by
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the Republican legislature, they can get away with that. And
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: that is not deemed racist, even if some of it
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: is motivated by racism, it's not deemed racist because it's
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: focused on you know, partisan pols, which the Court allows.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: The Court allows jurymandering of districts for partisan reasons. It
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: doesn't allow gerrymandering of districts for racial reasons, and the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: idea here is that these districts today are done because
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: of race, not because of politics, and therefore they were legitimate. Now,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what the solution is. I
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: find the whole drawing of these districts and creating this
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: gerrymandering opportunities and these weird shaped districts and stuff. I
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: find that the whole thing bizarre. And the ability for
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: legislature where they have a one political party as a majority,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to be able to shape these districts any way they
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: want to get the results that they want in advance
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: seems to me bizarre somehow. I don't know what the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: solution is. Some kind of independent commission, which is what
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I think California had for a while, and some other
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: states had for a while, independent commissions that draw up
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the districts while trying to be bipartisan and not not
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: being overtly trying to have one political party win everything,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, something like that, doing it based
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: on population or seems to be the right thing, the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: right approach, but that's not how the American law is written.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: You can Jerry Amanda and it's been rule constitutional, and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: it's happening all the time, and both Democrats and Republicans
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: do it. I guess we're stuck with this. I do
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: think that the Voting Rights Act should be over this
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: use of it, this interpretation of it, should be overturned
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: by the streame courts. I think this will be good.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know that the outcome will be good. The
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: outcome will be you know, districts rigged based on I
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: still think based on race, based on kind of race
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and favor of whites. But I don't think you can
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: avoid that. I think that's just a political reality. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: wish that you know, our adherence the particular political parties
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: was not divided racially in the South or anywhere else,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and maybe one day we'll live in a world in
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: which it's not. This is a step towards that world,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: because I think that the kind of reverse discrimination that
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: is part of a civil Rights Act and part of
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the Voting Act, and part of the way these are
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: being interpreted and affirmative action and for only increased racism,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: not decreased it. I then predicted it in the nineteen
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: sixties when these bills were being passed, So I hope
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the Streme Court reverses this. I fear that this is
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a huge win for Republicans when I don't really want
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Republicans to have a big win, a big win not
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: based on ideology, but a big win based on race,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: which is sad and offensive. But that's that's what it
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: looks like. So you know, we'll see. But it does
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: look like this will fall. It looks like it'll be
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: a sixty three majority opinion, you know, getting rid of
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty six interpretation of the Voting Rights Act
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: that created jurymandering based on race, So good riddance for that. Again,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Republicans are likely to gain anywhere from half a dozen
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: to fifteen seats in the House of Representatives as a
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: consequence of this. This is going to reduce the probability
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that they lose in twenty twenty six. I very much
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: want Republicans to lose in twenty twenty six. So you
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: know that is unfortunate. But you have to go by
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the law, right, you have to go by what's right
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: in terms of the Constitution, not by your particular policy
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: goal preferences, political preferences, but the whole thing, the whole
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: germandering thing. Is corrupt. There has to be a way
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: to fix it. I'm not sure how you do it,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: but there has to be some way. Somebody has to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: figure out how to fix it and get rid of
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: it again. I think an independent commission that is based
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: on trying to divvy up the state based on population
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: density or something like that is the right way to go.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: But I don't know, and I don't know that it's
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: worked in any of the states where it's been tried.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: All right, in spite of efforts by the Trump administration
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: to over the weekend to try to say, oh, the
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: trade war with China is not that bad and things
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: are going to be okay, the trade road only seems
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to be escalating. It does not seem to be getting better. Today.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Secretary Bessett called the Chinese Trade Negotiata, the lead the
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: senior Chinese trade negotiating called them unhinged, and and you
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: know they are. They are in the midst of throwing
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: accusations one or the other and at escalating this. Now, look,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I have no sight in this. They're both nuts, right.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, as I've said many times, responding to somebody
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: imposing tariffs on you, by imposing tariffs on them. It's
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: like somebody shooting themselves in the knee and you shooting
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: yourself in the knee as well, or shooting yourself in
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the hip. It just doesn't make any sense. It's stupid.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: The Chinese getting into a trade war with the United
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: States is dumb policy, and it is not going to
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: help the Chinese. But I also know that it's the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: United States who started this, and maybe you could argue
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: there is a the goal is ultimately to delink from China,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: and that's a good thing because China is the potential
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: enemy of the United States. I still say that if
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: the goal is to delink, there are much much better
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: ways to do that, much more rational ways to do it,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and ways that do not descend into the stupidity of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a trade war. Neither party can win because trade wars
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: by definition a lose lose. But the United States is
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: going to lose a lot, has the potential at least
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: to lose a lot. Now, for example, I mean, China
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: has put on all these restrictions on rare earth material
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: and in the short run this is going to inflict
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: significant pain on the United States and on much of
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the West, and on everybody who is importing rare earth
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: materials from China, which is basically everybody uses raal oarth
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: material But the reality is that these restrictions are going
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: to create massive incentives for Western countries to go out
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and mine for rarel oath materials themselves. They are vast
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: quantities of rare earth material in Ukraine, in Scandinavia, probably
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: all over Europe, suddenly in the in the United States,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: in the Mountain region in the United States, in places
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: like Greenland, probably in Alaska, and off the shore I
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: think in the Ocean, off the shore of Japan, massive
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: deposit of rare earth materials, and probably lots of other
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: places Africa, other parts of Asia. And now you've just
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: created a massive incentive for people like GP Morgan, for example,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: as I told you yesterday, to allocate significant amount of
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: capital to going out there and finding this because the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: profit margin has just gone up. Right, It's like making
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: drugs illegal and suddenly the profit margin goes up, so
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of people go into the drug trade. I'm
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: talking about illegal drugs. And now you've made rare earth
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: materials super expensive, profit margins go up. A lot of
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: capital is gonna float to find alternatives to China. So
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: long term, this is really really stupid policy for China.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: It's kind of one of these things that you can
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: only It's like one of these guns you can only
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: shoot once. After that the other party gets a bigger
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: gun and you're in trouble. So I mean, maybe the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Chinese are doing the West of favor by in a
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: sense forcing US, forcing Western companies, forcing Western governments, forcing
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Western investment houses to go out there and find alternatives
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: to what the Chinese have. Maybe this will work out
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: in that sense, but this is so non strategic on
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: behalf of the Trump administration, which they should have done
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: it reverse. First, find the resources to start mining them
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and start refining them, and then if you want to
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: get into trade, we'll get into trade. Will I said
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: that yesterday, So I just don't to emphasize how much
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: of a lose lose this really is. And now, at
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: least according to breaking news, and again I don't know
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: if this is completely accurate, but rumors are that Trumpetminstration
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: is now considering setting price floors on a range of
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: industries they can't go below a certain price in order
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: to combat price manipulation dumping by Chinese companies. More government
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: intervention in our economy, more attempts to control our economy,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: more efforts to raise prices than all of us. I
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: guess tariffs are not enough. I mean, I remember when
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: everybody called kamalahas a communist and a socialist, and since
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: then we've got nothing but socialist policies coming out of
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Here's another one. So this trade war,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: you know, with the US investing in Intel, and the
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: US government investing in real earth material companies, and use
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: government wanting to take positions and companies now and Trump
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: creating a what is a trump X a pharmacuty, a
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: pharmacy that you can buy drugs direct from the government,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: just socialism, one on one in in kind of a
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: just such a stupid way. So best and and the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: rest of the Trumpet deminstration is now trying to rally
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: out allies in order to deal with the with this
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: new threat from China, with this trade war from China.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: You know, Trump and administration realizes they can't win this
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: war alone. They need allies. Hmm. But haven't we just
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: spent the last six months alienating those allies, putting tariffs
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: on them, telling them how terrible they were not wanting
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: to buy their goods. Uh and and and you know,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and and and penalizing the India, for example, throwing it
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: in the arms of the Chinese, and the Russians just
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: going after them constant. So yeah, so here is the
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: best Now is going to say, We're going to speak
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: to European allies, to India and the Asian democracies. We're
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: going to have a folsome group response this because burecrats
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: in China cannot manage the supply chain or the manufacturing
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: process for the rest of the world. That is true,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: But I wish you hadn't again planning strategy. If you
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: really if China is really the issue and why you've
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: got tariffs and the rest of the world, why are
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: you alienating the rest of the world. Why are you
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: alienating Europe, Why are you alienating India? Why are you
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: alienating Canada and Mexico? What is the point of that?
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: If you want to address problems with China, no answer
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: for them, Sillingly, no answers from Harrison, because Trump is
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: a genius and everything he does is five D chess.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Stop it, you're on. You just don't understand, You just
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: can't think strategically enough. This is so deep it's hard
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: to get our heads around it. So the trade will
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: continues and will continue to continue. It's not going anywhere.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: On top of this, we have the gunment shut down.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: The Trump innoverstation is using a gum shutdown to do
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: a number of things. One is to fire thousands of
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: federal employees. Now, let me be clear, I am all
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: four laying off federal employees and firving them. Now, whether
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: this is legal or not, is again, is this job
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: of Congress not? Can can then executive do this? I
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see the courts will chime in. But
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: firving government employees, just like dog did IM four, I'm
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: not sure they have a strategy around who they're firing
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: other than as Trump said, I think we're going to
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: fire government employees that work for democratic kind of the
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: pet projects of Democrats. So you know, we'll see who
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: ultimately gets fired. And I know people have been fired
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: from you know what he calls democratic sponsored programs, but
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: that's included Health and Human Services, which is run by
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: none of them. RFK. We've seen people from the Treasury
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: being fired. I r S. I'm all for the irs.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Shrinking and becoming a less efficient I'm a huge advocate
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: for that, although you know they're going to have problems
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: with deficits. They've of course fired people in the part
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: of education, which shouldn't exist. They've fired people for the
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Officer Fair Housing an equal opportunity. I'm all for shutting
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: that office down. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: shut it down, as well as, as I said, the
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: IRS Some Sense of Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: another one that should be shut down. But all of
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: this should be shut down. The Big Beautiful Bill should
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: have had all this being shut down. It's sad that
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Republicans can get the stuff done through legislation. They have
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: to do it. They have to wait for the government
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: to shut down and then use that opportunity to do it.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: The other thing is that they're cutting spending by not
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: providing funding to programs that Congress has approved that are
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: in Democratic districts. So so far, in terms of programs
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: that have shut down, they have cut twenty seven point
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: twenty four billion dollars from Democratic districts eighty seven of them,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: and they've cut less than one billion from Republican districts.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: So they're basically using the government shut down and the
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: cutting spending and the laying people off for political retribution
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: for going after stuff that they couldn't get done through legislation.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: And while again I'm all for cutting government and shredding
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: these departments and getting rid of all this bring that
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: chain so over, I don't like it being done like this.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: This should have been done through legislation. This should have
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: been what Trump fought Congress over. The Big Beautiful Bill
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: should have been a bill that trunk government's spending significantly
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: because it shut down these programs and shut down these
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: departments and whatever the pouts they want. If they shut
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: it down through legislation, I'll be one hundred percent supportive
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: of it, and then you can fire all the people
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: who belong to those departments. But what they want is
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: to elevate the executive, to give him unlimited power to
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: nooter Congress, to make Congress completely impotent and ineffective. That
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: I really really worry about. That I think is very, very,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: very dangerous, and we will pay for that in the
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: future and in the present, but in the future, as
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: a government becomes more and more thoritarian, because it becomes
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: more and more centralized, over the character the personage of
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: the president being left or right or whatever. And right now,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: you know he's cutting stuff, But what if he wants
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: to grow certain stuff and he doesn't have to ask Congress.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: He just reality, Oh, we got some extra tariff money,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: let's spend it on stuff I want to help with Congress.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: I mean the genius of our political system, the division
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: of powers, separation of powers, the weakness of every branch
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: alone that is being diminished. And that is very, very
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: very dangerous, and there's much more important than any particular
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: spending on any particular program. But that's what Republicans want.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: They want power, and they want a strong executive and
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: they think if they get that, they can win every
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: election from now until forever. And maybe they can. But
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: that too is scary, because it's not that they're always
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: going to cut good stuff. They might cut, I mean
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: cut bad stuff. They might very well start increasing funding
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: for bad stuff that supports their particular economic, moral, you know,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: or philosophical agenda. Scary days, scary days of freedom in America.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: All right, a couple of a few other stories. So
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: me Lay sadly, you know, certain aspects of me Lay's
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: programs of not being going well, and you know, they
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: haven't been going well because because I think he didn't
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: go far enough, and I think that his loss in
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: the election was there a month or two ago, basically
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: made people worry about his ability to follow through on
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: some of the things that he's promised. I think the
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: most one of the most important things in his agenda
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: is dollarization, basically eliminating the the paso and eliminating speculation
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: around the paso, the concern about the peso, moving the
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: entire economy to dollar to dollars, getting rid of a
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: central bank, I think would have it might have been painful,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: and maybe maybe he couldn't do it because the IMF,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: which gave him a big grant, gave him a huge
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: amount of money, wouldn't allow it. That is quite possible,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: but it would have allowed taking off the whole monitored
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: question off the table. Because what's happened since the since
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: he didn't win the election, is that the paso is plummeted,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: that people are selling paesos, they're still manipulating it. That
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: is causing the economy to struggle. The economy is actually
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: shrinking right now in Argentina. After a period of real growth,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: and he's really struggling, and his public supporters has gone
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: down from fifty to forty percent. And of course we're
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: up in two weeks eleven days actually in twenty six
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: for the big election. This is the election accounts for
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: parliament in Argentina. He only has fifteen percent of parliament
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: on his site right now. He needs much more of
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: that to be able to do anything meaningful moving forward.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: And if he fails in these elections, then it's hard
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: to see how his agenda moves forward. Anyway. The consequence
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: what's happened over the last few weeks is that Trump
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: has stepped in with a bailout plan for the Paesel. Basically,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: the US Treasury is now going to buy pesos in
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: order to keep its value up. They supposed they are
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: willing to dedicate up to forty billion dollars forty billion
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: dollars of your tax payer money to bail out the
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Malay administration by propping up the value of the PAESEL. Now,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: I don't think the United States should ever do this.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think this is appropriate for government to do.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think you should do it domestically. I certainly
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: don't think we should do it for other countries. And
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: so again I don't think I don't think it should
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: have been done. The government should do it. But now
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Trump has come out and said, not only are we
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: gonna do this, but if me Lay loses the election,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: and he didn't define what lose means, but if me
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Lay loses the election on October, we won't support the PAESEL.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: So initially, when this was announced, the stock market in
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Argentina went up quite a bit because they thought, oh,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: this is great, this is going to help. I can't
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: to me, this is going to bail out the government innocence.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Now whoa what happens if me Lay doesn't win based
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: on some definition of winning the Trump has in his
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: mind they won't bail us out. So there's a massive
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: amount of volatility involved here. Again, it's just Trump trying
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: to try to put his finger on the weight in
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: terms of the election. Hey guys, if Melle wins, you
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: get I'll give you a bunch of money, you know,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: So trying to trying to sway the election in a
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: particular in a particular direction. So yeah, Malay's in trouble.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Milay's in trouble because it's very very difficult to to
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: control a hypherinflated currency because much of its value is
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: dependent on people's sentiment and that moves around all the time.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: All right, two other quick stories and then I'll go
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: to your questions. Not a lot of questions today, So
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: I have a hard stop in an hour, but we
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: might have an even shorter program today because we're not
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: not even making the first hour goals. Come on, people,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: we should at least make the first hour goal. That
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: should be like base. We should never miss the two
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty first hour goal. Yeah, I mean, malays.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: The Congress won't allow him to implement all of the goals,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: all of his agenda. I get that. And maybe he's
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: done all that he can. And now it's up to
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: the election. It's up to Argentinian people, and we will
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: see how the Argentinian people vote. I'm not blaming me, Lay.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: I wish he could have dollarized. Maybe there was no
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: way to dollarize. Maybe it was just impossible. That is
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: absolutely possible, But know we we will see. We will
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: see what he does and and and what kind of
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: impact this has. All right, Russia, it really does seem
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: like the administration is really shifting on Russia. We talked
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: about this yesterday, about providing them with weapons and uh,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: you know, uh cruise missiles. As Zelenski is coming to
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Washington on Friday. We'll see what happens then. Uh. Well,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: heck Saith, who's who's been very anti Ukraine. Uh and
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: and and together with Jadie vance and and quite leaning
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: towards Russia in the past, has shifted completely now. And
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: basically this is a quote from him today saying it's
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: time to end the war and come to the peace table.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Or this is a threat to Russia. The United States
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: War Department stands ready to do our part in ways
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: that only the United States can do. Now it's clear
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: exactly what he means, of course, but it seems like
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: a real threat. And and I think this is partially
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: about delivering weapons, but it's it's it's probably more than that,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: you know, It's it's backing up our allies. Uh, it's
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: maybe a bigger commitment to NATO. Uh. Trump the other
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: day said that if we're a NATO country, I came
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: to which NATO country that was evaded, he would he
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: would support the United States intervening, reversing things that he
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: said a few months ago. I mean, that's the thing
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: about Trump. Who knows what he'd actually do, Who knows
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: what his precision is tomorrow? Who knows? You know, nobody knows,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: including our enemies. And maybe that's an asset. Maybe I
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: doubt it, but maybe that's a that's a positive thing.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: How to tell, given you know, given the whiplash we
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: get as as he changes his mind constantly, But this
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: is a again another change of mind mind which is positive.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe Trump's learning on the road and you know, in
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: action and actually becoming better. At least his positions are
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: becoming better. I you know, whatever led him to be
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: more pro Ukraine, gophert I'm happy to have him be
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: pro Ukraine rather than be pro Russia. I think it
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: was the fact that Putin humiliated him after the meeting
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: in Alaska. Even though you know, all you pro Trump
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: people justified the Alaska meeting and we all gung ho
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: and we're convinced that Trump was going to get Putin.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: I think Putin clearly humiliated Trump, and I think even
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Trump was not immune from seeing that. And because it's
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: all about Trump, it's all about again, this is a
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: narcissistic behavior. Putin humiliating him has caused him to shift
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: away from away from Russia and towards towards Ukraine. Good.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Whatever it takes, whatever it takes. Finally, it's kind of
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: a cool story, a positive story, and kind of shows
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: the potential if we want it into the nuclear power.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: This is I'm reading from the new story. The US
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Army on Tuesday unveiled the Genius Genus Program, a more
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: than six year effort by the Army and the Pentagons
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Defense Innovation Unit's Great Unit, the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: with the goal of developing and constructing hundreds of state
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: of the arts small nuclear reactors to power military bases
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: across the United States. This is you know, based on
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: all the journal story. The reactors, dubbed microreactors by the Army,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: will generate less than twenty gigawatts of electricity, enough to
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: power a small town or military base, and will be
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: small enough to be transported by either ship or aircraft
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: to remote military locations overseas, such as islands in the
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Pacific Secutive. The Army Daniel P. Drisco stated that they
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: hope to have the first reactors operational at bases across
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: the country by September twenty twenty eight. Now, this is huge.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: You know, the military has always been at the forefront
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: of power of nuclear power reactors. You know, we've got
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: submarines than the nuclear powered, We've got aircraft carriers that
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: are in nuclear powered. But we can't we can't build
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: a nuclear power plant on land somehow. So this is
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: this is really really good. I don't think they need
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: to be well guarded. I don't think these are kind
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: of the nuclear reactors that explode or pose a real threat.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: It depends on the particular technology that they use. But
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: this is fantastic. That's small. The damage you could do
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: if you did blow one up would be small. The
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: portable and this is exactly what we need the United States.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, imagine all these data centers that they have
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: AI using one of these designed nuclear reactor plants. Now
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: I assume that they've been designed and manufactured by private industry.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: There are a bunch of nuclear companies developing small nuclear reactors.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of them out there, and the evaluations
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: have gone up quite a bit because the anticipation is
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: they will be used for these data centers. But the
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: fact is the Energy Department has not approved a one
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: of these reactors for civilian used in a very long time.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: But if you get a proof of concept on military basis,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe maybe we can then start using nuclear reactors
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: for civilian purposes as well. So I think this is
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: really good use and this is the one positive that
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: government can play technology. I mean, the reality is that,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: for example, the semiconductor, the first uses for the semiconductor
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: were military in missiles and other type of you know,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: ballistic themselves and other types of ofogy military technologies. So
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: it was the defense department buying large quantities of semiconductors
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: that basically created the semiconductor industry. Drove the prices and
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: the quality of semiconductors down to the point where they
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: could be used for civilian applications. And that is the
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: kind of government intervention I have no problem with. You're
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: buying a product you actually need for a purpose that
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: there's a legitimate purpose of government defense, and by doing so,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: you're helping create new industries and new technologies and new
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: things that happen and then can be used. But you're
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: not trying to control those industries. You're just buying fund them.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: And here, if we get the defense Department buying large
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: quantities of these small nuclear reaction the prices of the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: reactors will come down, the technology will improve, and at
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: some point they will become incredibly economic for data centers
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: and other uses for these nuclear reactors. And this is
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: this is the kind of synergy that can exist and
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: should exist between the Defense Department and the private sector.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: And this does not involve actually owning any private companies
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: to I guess the disappointment of the Trump administration. All right, that,
• 1:05:36
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  Speaker 1: altruism render a person effectively dumb in the area of
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  Speaker 1: morality as in blind and deaf the facts? Well, I
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  Speaker 1: mean certainly they don't see it that way because they
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  Speaker 1: to them, being altruistic is morality. So they view everything
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  Speaker 1: they're looking at as morality and sacrifice and all of
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  Speaker 1: that is morality. So you know, it makes it you know,
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  Speaker 1: once they accept altruism as morality, it makes it very
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  Speaker 1: very difficult to get them to think outside of that paradigm,
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  Speaker 1: outside of that context. And if when you come and
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  Speaker 1: say selfishness is a virtue, they immediately try to put
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  Speaker 1: it into the framework of altruism and it doesn't compute
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  Speaker 1: and they immediately reject and they don't even listen. They
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  Speaker 1: can't even hear you, or they think, Okay, so if
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  Speaker 1: I act self interestedly in this case, I can make
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  Speaker 1: more money, so that I can be I can sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: more later, I can give away more later, or things
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  Speaker 1: like that. This is the effective altruists do this, right,
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  Speaker 1: So if I work really really hard and make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money today, which is deemed selfish, I can.
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  Speaker 1: So they they try whatever you tell them in terms
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  Speaker 1: of self interest, they'll try to massage, they'll try to
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  Speaker 1: evade into altruism into their framework because it's the only
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  Speaker 1: framework they can think of when it comes to morality,
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  Speaker 1: and just says, how would you describe to an everyday
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  Speaker 1: smart non objectivist as to why selfishness is good in
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: a highly condensed form, Well, I mean I would say
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  Speaker 1: that your life is all you have. You have one life,
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  Speaker 1: and to live it successfully takes real effort and real guidance,
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  Speaker 1: and you need morality for that. A morality that's focused
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  Speaker 1: on living your life, on living your life well to
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  Speaker 1: you know, to be able to achieve your happiness, and
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  Speaker 1: the that means focusing and emphasizing the things that are
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  Speaker 1: going to lead you to be happy. And that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what it means to be selfish. What it means to
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  Speaker 1: be selfish is the place your interests i e. Your
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  Speaker 1: survival and you're thriving and you're flourishing, and your happiness
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  Speaker 1: as your as your defining purpose and and and evaluate
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  Speaker 1: everything else based on that standard. That is the standard life.
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  Speaker 1: Your life, your individual life, is not a standard for
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  Speaker 1: evaluating every value out there. What is the value to
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  Speaker 1: you and what is not? So you should be selfish
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: because all you have is your is your life and
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: living you know, living is is the only is the
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  Speaker 1: only context in which morality is even comes it to being.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, your starting point is life and that should
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: be how you stop your model thinking. And it's your life,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: so by definition it's selfish, Michael. Are Europeans getting poorer
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: while Americans are getting richer? Well? Are Europeans just getting
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: richer at a snail pace compared to us? Well, I
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: don't know if it's a snail place, but they're getting
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Europeans are getting richer slower than Americans are getting richer.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: And again it depends which Europeans polls are getting richer
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: faster than Americans. But most Europeans, Germans, French, Spaniards, Italians,
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  Speaker 1: uk Bits are getting richer, but at a slower pace
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  Speaker 1: than wheel. Their economies are still growing, and the GDP
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: per capital is still growing, but at a smaller rate
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  Speaker 1: than it is in the United States. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: going fast to the United States. It's just going fast.
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  Speaker 1: collapses into the dictatorship, would you say the Objectives project
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  Speaker 1: has been a failure or uh, it was simply started
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  Speaker 1: too late to stop a downfall. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 1: it didn't stop the downfall. It was it a failure? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: could the objective project could have been done better or differently.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard anybody propose it alternative that sounded better
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  Speaker 1: failure of all of those of us who believe that
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: it shouldn't happen, or a fighting to stop it. But
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  Speaker 1: it's quite possible that nothing we could do will stop it.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think objectives will be a failure long term,
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  Speaker 1: because I think long term it will win. That long
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  Speaker 1: term could be fifty years, it could be one hundred years,
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  Speaker 1: it could be twenty years, I don't know, probably not twenty,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: probably more like fifty one hundred ultimately to win. But
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  Speaker 1: in the short run it might fail to win. So
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  Speaker 1: unless you have a suggestion and how to make it better,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: on how to win, I'm not sure what the point
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: is on dwelling and all that, Michael. Every post of
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  Speaker 1: a released Palestinian has the caption like he spent twenty
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: years torn from his family, and then a quick Google
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  Speaker 1: search reveals he blew up a school bus. Yes, I
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: mean these are murderers. These are murderers. You should have
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: zero sympathy for them. Uh, and the people out there.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: I just show a video of what's his name, Mishenasien,
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  Speaker 1: the guy who was very pro Russia and and everybody
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: loved him because he predicted supposed to predicted the Russian invasion,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: whose name I can't pronounce anyway, I just saw him,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: you know, land blasting Trump and Nintennaios war criminals and
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: and the prisoner, the exchange of hostages. This is the
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: language they use. These are murderers that have been released.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: And again they should have should have implemented death penalty.
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  Speaker 1: They should all be dead. Mushsheimer Musheimer, Yeah, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: A real scumbag, a real horrible person and a and
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  Speaker 1: it's such a I said this before I knew he
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  Speaker 1: was so poor Palestinian. I said this when he was
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: talking about Russia and Ukraine. Just a just not a
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: not a good thinker and not a good intellectual. Michael,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: I amazed how childlike many of these young adults act
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: like highly ignorant for being an educator an educational setting.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly who you're talking about, maybe young Republicans,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but yeah, I like numbers. Says have
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  Speaker 1: you birthday? Lennon Peacock yes, today is is formerly Lena
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: Peakoff's birthday. He is today ninety two years old. Leni
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  Speaker 1: Peakoff is one of the great minds in history. He
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  Speaker 1: is you know, my debt to him is beyond anything
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  Speaker 1: I can describe. He is to lodge and shape my life.
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  Speaker 1: What I know, I know, you know I ran. But
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: then second is Lena Peakoff and he has been for
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  Speaker 1: many many years a friend, some of these years a
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  Speaker 1: very close friend. So yeah, Leonard is lended, is great.
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  Speaker 1: Um and um he's ninety two, ninety two years old,
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  Speaker 1: So just take that into account. Consider that as part
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  Speaker 1: of your context for everything you know he says he does.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: He's ninety two years old. It's it's takes a toll.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: Life takes a I mean, age takes a toll on you.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, happy birthday, Leonard. And how can we get
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: legislation cuts if Democrats win the midterms? Well, you cut,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: you do the cuts before the Democrats win the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, one of the reasons I want Democrats to
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  Speaker 1: win the midterms is because Republicans have failed to make
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  Speaker 1: legislative cuts. They had the opportunity to make legislative cuts,
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  Speaker 1: and the Big Beautiful Bill, which was a bill that
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  Speaker 1: didn't need any Democratic vot votes. It could pass with
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  Speaker 1: just fifty one votes and in the Senates and Republicans
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: had those votes, it could pass in the House. The House,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: they had a majority, and they refused to cut spending.
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  Speaker 1: Trump is doing it to executive order, which is not
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  Speaker 1: the right way to do it, not a good way
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: to do it, in an ultimately destructive way because it
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: gives the executive too much power. And Republicans have the
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: majority in the House, have the majority in the Senate,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: have the presidency right now, and the one thing of
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: all the things they want to do, the one thing
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: they're not doing not doing is cutting spending. So white
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  Speaker 1: vote for them. If they're not going to cut spending,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: might as well vote for Democrats. Frend Harper. The most
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: annoying part of this situation to me is seeing people saying,
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  Speaker 1: oh so much for anarco capitalist policy. It has to
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: be bailed out because it has failed. When it comes
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: to me, La, yeah, I mean, it's sad that they
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: view anything as an aco capitalist policy. It wasn't an
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  Speaker 1: alco capitalist So if they blame it on an alco capitalism,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: that's good. I'm happy if they blame it on capitalism
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: or on free markets, then I'd be sad. But yeah,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: it is sad because they will blame it to some
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: extent on that. And yeah, so it Yeah, it's terrible
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: because it will be blamed on the good stuff that melated,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: There's no question about that. And yeah, an alco capitalism
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: would be worse for Argentina than socialism. I mean, an
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: alco capitalism is the equivalent of of communism because it
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: basically legitimizes force and it becomes anarchy, which is shooting
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: in the streets, which ultimately he's authoritarianism. So it's about
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: as bad as you can you can do. But the
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: fact that Milai is being bailed out is not good
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: for anything. And I don't think I don't know that
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: he needs it. Maybe he needs it because he couldn't
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: get at all his policies through Congress. But yeah, we'll
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: see what happens in the election. I'm still hoping he
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: wins in the election and can do the things that
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: are necessary to make Argentina prosperous. Justin says, keep up
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: the amazing work, thank you, thank you, Justin really appreciate that.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: Raphael says, how you Ron I was wondering, what's your
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: view on hope. It's often used in a spiritual or
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: faith based way, but can this emotion exist within reason.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you Leonard Peacoff, since we talked about Leonard
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: is very negative on hope. I mean, at least he
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: was very negative with me on hope. So he whenever
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: you say something I hope so and so, he would
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: say this is years ago hope. Hope is an irrational emotion.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's based on faith, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: very negative. So I don't know if you can really
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you can create a a a
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: a way to use it that is consistent with that
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: is consistent with with uh reason. That is to say,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: since we don't know what's gonna happen in the future,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: I am hopeful that that it You know that, uh,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that you know good things will come. But
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: since you don't have control over it, hope is usually
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: when you don't have controls, it's it's placing a wish
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: above reality in a sense. So Leaned at least has
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: been very negative about it and and and always viewed
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: as it bad. I think you can probably think of
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: some way to use it positively, but you have to
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: be careful. Harrison says. When Antifa attacked you in the
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: UK in twenty seventeen eighteen, what happened to the flag
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: you captured from them? What do you think of Antifa today?
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: What's his name? Who I was with? Who was the
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: guy up on stage with me? God, I forget his name.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: He's become like a really mainstream conservative type, right wing
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: conservative type. Pretty bad, Sargon of al Kaid. Yeah, so
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: Sargon took the flag. So I let him take the flag.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: You know, he is much better at using a call, Benjamin.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: He's much better at using stuff like that for marketing
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: purposes than I am. So he took the flag, he
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: assumed he still has it somewhere. As far as I know,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: what I think of Antiva today, same as I've always
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: thought about it. They are thugs, They're violent thugs, they
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: left nuts. I think they're really really evil and bad
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: as anybody who initiates force is. They're anti free speech,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: they are nihilists, and that they hate Western civilization. They
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  Speaker 1: hate the concept of freedom of speech. Uh and and
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  Speaker 1: they hate they basically hate every value that I Holdea.
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  Speaker 1: They hate so yeah, I think they're terrible, hobable, and
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  Speaker 1: to the extent that they use violence, it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: matter for the police. They should be arrested, and they
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: should be tried and and they should be prosecuted. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the great failures of most Western governments has
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  Speaker 1: been that in cases on campuses where where violence has
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  Speaker 1: been used to try or to successfully or as an
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  Speaker 1: attempt to silence people, they have not been prosecuted for this,
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  Speaker 1: for the violence that they've committed. So that's a failure,
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  Speaker 1: a real failure of the West. Are they a terrorist organization?
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's very difficult. You have to really
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: have a clear definition of what a terrorist organization is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean a Trump administration is just to find them
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  Speaker 1: as a terrorist organization. It's very dangerous that you throw
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: around the term of terrorists. They're a violent gang and
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: they should be treated as a violent gang. Terrorism should
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: be you know, probably should be left two more dangerous
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  Speaker 1: organizations than Antifa. But yeah, they should be stopped. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate it, and thanks to all the
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: super chatters, and I will see you again on Friday.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: Sorry a doodo bunny that I'm traveling again. I'll tell
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: you on Friday or on Saturday why I'm traveling. Ye,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: but I will. I will talk to you soon bieverybody
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  Speaker 1: have a great rest of your week. M hm.