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Legal Immigration; Slush Fund; AI EO; Barney Frank; Response 2 Bezos; Islamism | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh right, everybody, welcome, Welcome to yourn book show on
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  Speaker 1: this May twenty second. It is a Friday. Everybody's having
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  Speaker 1: a had a good week, having a good week, looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the weekend. And the madness continues. It's insane
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  Speaker 1: out there, it really is. Keep looking for good news.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to find it. Yesterday was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a good news, but how to find it? All right?
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  Speaker 1: The latest insanity, the latest insanity comes from the United
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  Speaker 1: States Citizens and Immigration Citizenship and Immigration Services. They published
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  Speaker 1: a memo to yesterday, I guess yesterday that is being
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  Speaker 1: released today and people have had access to it today,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it proves, you know, it proves that. Then
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  Speaker 1: everybody who said, oh no, we love immigrants, we just
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  Speaker 1: don't like illegal immigrants. Immigration is great, legal immigrants are fine.
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  Speaker 1: We like legal immigrants. We promise we're lying. They hate
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  Speaker 1: legal immigration. They want to end legal immigration and they
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  Speaker 1: want to destroy it. And so here's what they you know,
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  Speaker 1: us c I S, the us UH centifer whatever immigration
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  Speaker 1: and naturalization and the whole thing. Here's here's the here's
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  Speaker 1: what they released and quoting. We're returning to the original
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  Speaker 1: intent of the law to ensure aliens and navigate our
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  Speaker 1: nation's immigration system properly. From now on, an alien who
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  Speaker 1: is in the United States temporarily and wants a Green
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  Speaker 1: Card must return to their home country to apply, except
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  Speaker 1: in extraordinary circumstances. This policy allows for immigrations for our
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  Speaker 1: immigration system to function as the law intended, instead of
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  Speaker 1: incentivizing loopholes when aliens apply for their from their home country,
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  Speaker 1: it reduces the need to find and remove those who
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  Speaker 1: decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the
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  Speaker 1: US illegally after being denied residency. This is pretty stunning. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is that when you get a when you
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  Speaker 1: get an H one B visa, when you get a
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  Speaker 1: one extraordinary ability visa to be in the United States
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  Speaker 1: for a period, and you know you you the institution
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  Speaker 1: that has sponsored you, your your employer is willing to
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  Speaker 1: sponsor you for a Green card, and you qualify for
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  Speaker 1: the green card and everything. What has happened in the
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  Speaker 1: past is while you are working, while you're still in
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  Speaker 1: the H one B or or on the on on
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  Speaker 1: whatever visa you are on legal visa to work. They
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  Speaker 1: apply for you for the for the green card, and
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  Speaker 1: while you're waiting, you are you have a legal status
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  Speaker 1: in the United States while you're waiting for the decision
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  Speaker 1: of the thirties. And in most cases, I think I
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  Speaker 1: don't have the stats, but in most cases in which
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  Speaker 1: you apply, people apply for green cord. They've done the research.
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  Speaker 1: Dy you know, it's a it's a significant expanse lawyers
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, and usually your employer engage in it and
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  Speaker 1: the consequences. Most people get it. So and you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people who apply for green cards being
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  Speaker 1: in the United States a long time. They might have
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  Speaker 1: been in the United States ten years or fifteen years
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  Speaker 1: and there now applying for a green card, and what
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  Speaker 1: the circulation is makesically saying no, you have to leave.
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  Speaker 1: You have to leave the United States, apply from your
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  Speaker 1: home country, and then wait in line until it is approved.
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  Speaker 1: Other words, we don't want legal immigrants, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: you here. We want you to leave, and we'll do
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  Speaker 1: everything we can to incentivize you from ever coming back.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, think about it, you're here for ten years,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a career, you've got a business. They are
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  Speaker 1: sponsoring you under the assumption you will continue in your job.
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  Speaker 1: But now you're gonna leave, You're not gonna be able
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  Speaker 1: to do your job. You're have to wait. Who knows
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  Speaker 1: how long? Right we're talking about right now? Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: saw this number. I had the number here, where's the number.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're talking about one point two million people
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  Speaker 1: in this category. And you know, this means everybody AI researchers, employees,
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  Speaker 1: students have to leave the country and wait through a backlog,
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  Speaker 1: which could be years or decades in order to get
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  Speaker 1: back in. It is basically an end. It's not an
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  Speaker 1: adjustment for a loophole. This is an end basically to
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  Speaker 1: new Green cod holders to permanent residency in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: the ability to convert to become a citizen. Ultimately, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what percentage of Silicon Valley, what percentage
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  Speaker 1: of senior people in Silicon Valley went through this process,
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  Speaker 1: this adjustment of status. You know, it's a legal immigration process,
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  Speaker 1: stipulating stipularity in regulations where visa such as one's and
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  Speaker 1: H one b's a dual intent, which means the visa
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  Speaker 1: holding in the United State state's working on a non
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  Speaker 1: immigrant visa and also apply for permanent residents. It's completely legal.
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  Speaker 1: I think about the fact that some of these people,
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  Speaker 1: many of these people have families, they probably bought a
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  Speaker 1: house with a mortgage. They've been in the United State,
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  Speaker 1: it's a long time. They have high paying jobs, they're
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  Speaker 1: being productive. They assume that it's a no brainer to
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  Speaker 1: get a green card. They've invested in their life, their
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  Speaker 1: kids go to school. The kids might even be American
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  Speaker 1: citizen because both white citizens. But at least for now,
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  Speaker 1: and now they have to go back to India or Israel,
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  Speaker 1: or Norway or South America, Brazil in order to what
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  Speaker 1: to apply for a green card again, which take could
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  Speaker 1: take years to get. This is completely inconsistent with the
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  Speaker 1: law as written by Congress. So they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: lawsuits around this. There's going to be a big deal
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  Speaker 1: about this. But but what what what you know, who
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  Speaker 1: knows if this will ever go into place, But it
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  Speaker 1: certainly is the intention of this administration to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and let this be hopefully the final straw in convincing
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  Speaker 1: everybody that this administration, these Republicans, these people don't want
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  Speaker 1: immigrants in this country. And you know, this is to
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  Speaker 1: large extent targeted at Indians, I guess and Chinese. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want none whites in this country for sure, So
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a massive issue that again affects hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands, maybe over a million million people who are
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  Speaker 1: seeking Greek cards, who are going to be seeking Greek
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  Speaker 1: cards and now might not probably won't. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: already have a massive brain drain in this country, people
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  Speaker 1: leaving going back to India and China and other places
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  Speaker 1: around the world. You know, the CNN is tallied at
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  Speaker 1: least eighty five top US researchers, including more than a
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  Speaker 1: dozen artificial intelligence specialists, who have now joined Chinese institutions
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  Speaker 1: since early twenty twenty four. In March twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: Nature profound the three quarters of US based scientists are
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  Speaker 1: considering leaving Britain, Singapore, Australia and Canada, in addition to
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  Speaker 1: Chinese actively recruiting them. I mean, while we are supposedly
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  Speaker 1: engaged in this competition over AI, we are encouraging AI
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  Speaker 1: scientists who are a majority of whom we're not born
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, a majority of whom came to
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  Speaker 1: the United States on H one B visa or one visa,
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  Speaker 1: A majority of whom we are now encouraging to go
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  Speaker 1: back home to leave not welcome in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a direct attack on high skilled immigration, which
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  Speaker 1: supposedly everybody agrees is good, everybody except the racist xenophobes
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  Speaker 1: in the White House. You know, it would have affected me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I would have done. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how this would have made would be impossible the
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  Speaker 1: you know, I would have had to go back to
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  Speaker 1: Israel to apply in these really in the American embassy
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  Speaker 1: in Israel. Wait years. You know, I had two kids
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  Speaker 1: at that point. My career would have been a hold.
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  Speaker 1: Would Santa Clara have waited with my job if I
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  Speaker 1: was going to leave? Why would they? Why would they?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they can't just put a hold on what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing. It's just mind boggling. This is so such
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  Speaker 1: a rights violation. It is a rights violation of Americans.
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  Speaker 1: The institutions that would like to hire these people and
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  Speaker 1: now are banned from doing it, or massive obstacles are
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  Speaker 1: being placed in front of them, and the rights of
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  Speaker 1: people who emigrate to the United States whose life are
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  Speaker 1: now turned upside down by forcing them to go back
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  Speaker 1: home and of course, it's a violation of the rights
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  Speaker 1: of all Americans who would like to trade with these people,
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  Speaker 1: who would like to benefit from the value that they
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  Speaker 1: create and produce. It's a massive hit on the US economy,
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  Speaker 1: which is driven to a large extent by immigration, particularly
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  Speaker 1: high skilled immigration, but immigration across the board. It's just
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  Speaker 1: through and through a real just a real disaster. Let
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  Speaker 1: me just see something here, a real disaster. And it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is about Indians having to wait decades. Where do
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  Speaker 1: Russians go? Where do the Russians go? They can't go
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  Speaker 1: back to Russia because, I mean, they can't apply for
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  Speaker 1: green cut from Russia because there's no American embassy in Russia.
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  Speaker 1: And do we really think that Chinese are going to
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  Speaker 1: go and go to China and then apply it to embassy.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen. It's basically, this is
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  Speaker 1: an ask that these immigrants leave and not come back,
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  Speaker 1: leave and not come back. And it really is it
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  Speaker 1: really is disgusting. I mean, yeah, it's again the central government,
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  Speaker 1: the federal government, overwriting the will and the wishes of
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  Speaker 1: people in the US economy voluntarily wanting to exchange with
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  Speaker 1: one another, that the I mean, the whole immigration law
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  Speaker 1: is that, and and this is a way to make
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  Speaker 1: it so much more unjust than it already is. It
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  Speaker 1: already is massively unjust, and this makes it so much worse.
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  Speaker 1: All right, just as the word just a word on
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  Speaker 1: Yuan before we continue. I didn't include it in the
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  Speaker 1: list of topics because the reality is there's nothing really
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  Speaker 1: new to say. Everything I said yesterday holds the rumors
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  Speaker 1: in every direction. There's an attack coming, you know. Right now.
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  Speaker 1: There's an update from a few from about an hour
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  Speaker 1: ago that, first of all, Trump is not going to
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  Speaker 1: his son's wedding this weekend. He's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the Bahamas for Don junior is wedding. So everybody speculating, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that means there's a war. You know, we're attacking you
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  Speaker 1: on And then just an hour, just an hour ago,
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  Speaker 1: Trump abruptly canceled this trip to Trump National in Bedminster,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. I don't know there was a Trump National,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be heading straight back to the White House
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  Speaker 1: following a speech in New York. It's unclear why. So
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to Sun's wedding, he's canceling events, He's
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  Speaker 1: heading back to the White House. You know, we've got
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  Speaker 1: the pizza monitor from yesterday suggesting something's up. But the
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  Speaker 1: reality nobody knows. My view is, even if there is
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  Speaker 1: an attack this weekend is Trump is basically trying to surrender.
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  Speaker 1: He's really, really, really trying hard to surrender, to give up.
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  Speaker 1: There is a there's a really good uh uh editorial
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  Speaker 1: in the Atlantic magazine by I think it's Frederick Kagan,
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  Speaker 1: one of the Kagans, about this about how Trump is
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  Speaker 1: basically surrendered to the Iranians. He's doing everything you can't
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  Speaker 1: surrender the Iranians. Maybe you're bombin up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and then surrender to the Ranians. But his primary focus
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  Speaker 1: is surrender. He wants out, he wants to get out
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  Speaker 1: of there, and he doesn't care what happens. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he only cares about his reputation and what the vote,
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  Speaker 1: what people think of him, but he doesn't care about
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  Speaker 1: what happens in Iran. And he is leaving Iran at
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  Speaker 1: this point. If he leaves today, and we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: happens if they attacked it this weekend, stronger than ever,
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  Speaker 1: in control of the home Wost Straits with the uranium,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh and and and if he if, if
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  Speaker 1: what is true about all these agreements about unfree assets
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  Speaker 1: and eliminating sanctions, then Iran will be richer than ever
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  Speaker 1: and be able to invest in nuclear be able to
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  Speaker 1: invest in missiles, be able to invest in Haramas and Chrisbala,
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  Speaker 1: be able to invest in a new navy, be able
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  Speaker 1: to rebuild all that stuff, and hold the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: and the world hostage. In addition, the Gulf States would
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  Speaker 1: have learned an important lesson. They can't trust the Americans,
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  Speaker 1: they can't rely in America, and therefore they will align
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  Speaker 1: themselves much more closely with Iran. Iran is the threat
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  Speaker 1: that they have to deal with. They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: deal with it militarily. And then will Israel act in
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  Speaker 1: spite of in spite of Trump is already isolated in America.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats hate it, half Republicans hate it. Do they pess
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  Speaker 1: off the one guy who seems to like Israel? Did
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  Speaker 1: they act in spite of him telling them, no, you
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  Speaker 1: know how to tell hot to toe? They followed through
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  Speaker 1: and Gaza and Lebanon They've done what Trump has asked
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  Speaker 1: him to do. But it really does seem like this
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  Speaker 1: is setting towards a complete disaster. But we have to
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  Speaker 1: wait and see because, as I said, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what ultimately is going to happen. I mean again, I've
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  Speaker 1: said this for now weeks. Our saving grace is that
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  Speaker 1: the Iranians are playing hardball. The Iranians are refusing Trump's surrender.
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  Speaker 1: Trump keeps trying to surrender, and the Iranians so that's
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  Speaker 1: not good enough. We want more. It's not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: We want more, and even Trump hasses limits. So I
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  Speaker 1: think the only saving grace we have right now is
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  Speaker 1: the Ranians. So I wouldn't be surprised if he's staying
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  Speaker 1: in that White House because there's a military operation. But
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  Speaker 1: I also wouldn't be surprised if he's staying in the
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  Speaker 1: White House because he expects to announce a deal with
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  Speaker 1: the Iranians and he wants to do it from the
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  Speaker 1: White House in person right now. Both basically, the facto
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  Speaker 1: leader of Pakistan, the head of their military is in
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  Speaker 1: Tehran as our representative of the Katari government who supposedly
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  Speaker 1: got permission to go there to help the negotiations. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna bump Tehran while they're there,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think. And sending the kataris in is another
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  Speaker 1: just sign of surrender. It's unbelievably depressing in in that sense,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a complete disaster. You know, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to if this, if this is, if this is how
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  Speaker 1: it goes, i am going to have to I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to, you know, come back to you and say
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong and and going to war with you
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  Speaker 1: on at this point was a complete and utter mistake
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  Speaker 1: because it's Trump doing it, and nothing Trump can do
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  Speaker 1: will ever be right. But we'll see, we'll see. They
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  Speaker 1: still hope that the Ranians will somehow save us from
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  Speaker 1: this fate by p seem off royally. All right, just
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  Speaker 1: some update on the slush fund, the the one point
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven six we can always remember that number. It's easy,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six billion dollar fund that is set up
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  Speaker 1: to redress injustices towards Republicans who are who are harassed
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, bad things happened to them under
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration. So uh, you know, it turns out
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans, for some bizarre reason that you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we can explain, but it's not clear we can explain,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly have decided maybe maybe something Trump is doing is
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  Speaker 1: not right. So you know, they have they have suddenly
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  Speaker 1: gotten really really angry and really really upset by this
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  Speaker 1: slush fund. Indeed, they scrapped plans to vote on what
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  Speaker 1: has been their top priority, a seventy two billion dollar
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  Speaker 1: immigration crackdown measure, which would fund ice and provide funding
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  Speaker 1: for all kinds of stuff. And and this is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest issue, right, crackdown immigration only illegal, oh also illegal,
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  Speaker 1: both legal and illegal. This is the this is their passion,
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  Speaker 1: this is their love, this is what drives them. And
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  Speaker 1: yet they have postponed dealing with it because they're so
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  Speaker 1: upset by this, uh, you know, by this issue. Even
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  Speaker 1: as so they met was it this morning or yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: They met with the Attorney General Todd Blanche, who would
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  Speaker 1: put this deal together, the seventeen seventy sixth deal, the
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  Speaker 1: slush fun deal. And even before the meeting started, John Thune,
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  Speaker 1: who is the Republican who is the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: majority leader and basically does whatever Trump tells him to do,
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  Speaker 1: but here he was upset. He says, our members have
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  Speaker 1: very legitimate questions about it, and we've had some conversations
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  Speaker 1: about it. If it's going to be a feature going
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  Speaker 1: forward that it might what it might look like, and
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  Speaker 1: how we might make sure that it's fenced inappropriately. That
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  Speaker 1: was before the meeting with Blanche. Well, once the meeting started,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all help broke loose. According to reports, they
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  Speaker 1: were very upset. They were incredulous about this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: asking how it would work. It's clear from his answers
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  Speaker 1: that Congress was going to be completely ice out of this.
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  Speaker 1: Of the of the five member committee that is going
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  Speaker 1: to be appointed to distribute these funds, Congress might have
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  Speaker 1: input into one. The other four the Executive branch will
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  Speaker 1: decide unilaterally, I mean decided all five unilaterally, but one
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  Speaker 1: they'll get consultation from Congress. You know. The Republican says,
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  Speaker 1: that's no criteria for the payoffs and it doesn't include
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  Speaker 1: any kind of prohibition on paying someone who is involved
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  Speaker 1: in violence. Because Bill Cassidy, who is finally found that
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  Speaker 1: he can stand up to Trump now that you know,
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  Speaker 1: Trump sta stabbed him in the back and send him
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  Speaker 1: off and he's a he's you know, lamed out because
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  Speaker 1: he can't run for re election because he lost in
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  Speaker 1: the primary. Cassidy's finally found his voice and objected to
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  Speaker 1: all of this. But other Republicans also who are not
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  Speaker 1: directly affected yet by you know, by Trump's stabbing people
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  Speaker 1: in the back, who were quite adamant that this was wrong. Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it looks like Republicans and Democrats will want
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  Speaker 1: to condition the passage on of the seventy two billion
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  Speaker 1: dollar immigration bill on at least the adjustments or some
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  Speaker 1: kind of review of this seventeen seventy six slush fund.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's not clear that Trump has a
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  Speaker 1: majority anymore because again he's pissed off cast Kanye from Texas.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Trump Indoorst's opponents, so he's not particularly happy
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  Speaker 1: with Trump, and generally Republican leadership in the Senate is
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  Speaker 1: not happy with Trump undermining their fellow Republicans. Trump seems
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  Speaker 1: to make it clear that all these really interested is
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  Speaker 1: in controlling the Republican Party, not in actually winning any legislation,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: because he doesn't care about Congress. He thinks he can
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  Speaker 1: get everything done to executive order, and so far they've
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  Speaker 1: let him get away with it. You know, some Republicans
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  Speaker 1: like Tommy turn Tuberville, a Republican from Atland, Alabama, who
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  Speaker 1: just want his primey to run for the governorship of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Alabama and needs to be on Trump's good side for that,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and needs to have MAGA on his side to win
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the governorship of Alabama or that. That should be pretty easy.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty red state. He defended this thing. Hundreds
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: of innocent patriots sat behind bars over this made up
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: witch hunt. Now there there were some guilty, but a
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: huge number of them were vastly innocent. Vastly innocent. But
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the rule of law here is really interesting.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: The Senate, now the science. Who's interested, innocent, who's not?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, Trump has already pardoned them all, which is
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a travesty in and of itself. But now we're gonna
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: pay them reparations because we don't like the jury's verdict.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: We don't like what our court system has decided. It's
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: not like they were rounded up and jailed without a trial,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: had trials and they lost, and Republicans don't care. They
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: just want to overturn it. This is the part of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the rule of law, supposedly. Anyway, Republicans are pissed off.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: They're unhappy. They're unhappy also about the ballroom. I mean,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: we haven't talked about the ballroom really because it's so ridiculous.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And the arch. Trump is building this massive arch, like
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the arch that the Arch of the Romans built in Rome,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the Victory Arch, and like the architectriumph that I think
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Napoleon built in Paris. Trump wants one in Washington, DC,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: bigger than the other two. And he claims he doesn't
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: need approve of for Congress to do it. Ironran wrote
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: about monument builders and you know what that represents, what
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: that represents, I mean, she was, you know, unbelievably critical
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: of politicians build monuments to themselves, to their own glory,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and what that represents. So anyway, he wants to build Dodge,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and he wants to build the ballroom. And he said
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: originally that the ballroom would car all the costs of
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the ballroom would be borne by private individuals that fundraise.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: He would put some money in, and his people would
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: put money in. All the bribes that he's getting go
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to the ballroom. And he built his ballroom. And now
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: he's asking Congress for a billion dollars on top of
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: what supposedly he's you know, gotten privately, supposedly for security
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: around the ballroom. A billion dollars, and he has all
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: these stories about bunkers and drones and drones in the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: roof and it's all top secret, but he's telling us
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: it's just it's just unbelievable, and it's a Congress is
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: just a bulking at the ballroom and the and the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: arch trumpo today with regard to the weaponization fund, the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: anti weaponization fund, I gave up a lot of money
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and allowing the just announced anti weaponization Fund to go forward.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: He didn't really because it is a good likelihood that
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the judge was about to throw out his legal case.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: And this is why they came up with a solution.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: They wouldn't actually have to go to trial. I could
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: have settled my case, including the illegal release of my
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: tax returns and the equally illegal breaking of my logo.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Why was it a bacant? Why was it illegal? There
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: was a warrant, an actual warrant for an absolute fortune,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: not a courting diars. Maybe the Justice Department, which he
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: has under his thumb, but not according diarress. I am
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: helping others who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and weaponized Biden administration. Imagine if every administration set up
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a slush fund to pay off the people they believe
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: were treated badly by the previous administration. Why not just
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: set it up in Switzerland in the name of the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: president so that he has some money to retire on,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: like like Putin has a big slush fund in Switzerland anyway,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: And that is what is going on. You know, Republicans
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: also having a hot time rounding up the votes to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: stop a a vote. And this white might be why
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the United States might attack today, just because there's an urgency.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: There was a resolution was going to be in the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Senate that would actually force Trump to actually get congressional
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: approval if he wanted to assume fighting in Iran, and
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Republicans could not find a vote to defeat it, so
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: they basically decided not to vote on it. The House
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that scheduled the vote on the war powers resolution that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: was brought by Democrats, but some Republicans were going to
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: vote for it. It became clear Republicans could not have
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: their numbers to defeat the bill, so Geopia leaders declined
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to hold the vote on it. In other words, Trump
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: ass slipping support in Congress. It is a slipping to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: the extent that they might impeach him, or they might
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: actually go after his corruption. But enough so that sudden
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: issues that are not very popular with voters, Republicans don't
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: want to take it up for a vote because they're
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: cowards courts. Anyway, that's where we are in terms of politics. Also,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: this last few days, Trump was supposed to sign an
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: executive order regarding AI. The executive order was going to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: create a process by which AI companies the AI industry
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: would submit their models for approval by a new government
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: regulatory agency. Now, this was supposed to be a voluntary process,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: but I think people were very very afraid in THEAI
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: business that it would not just be voluntary, that.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: It would be you know that it would be it
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: would change to be a permanent fixture and everything now
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: that AI did would have to get government approval.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: This is part of the executive order. Nothing in this
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: mandatory government licensing preclearance of permitting requirement for the development, publication, release,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the distribution of new AI models, including frontier models. So
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: nothing in this section is we construed to authorize such
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a thing. But they were setting up something for voluntary
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: approval licensing and so on on a voluntativ basis, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the AI industry panicked, paniced. Now it turns out that
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: this was being pushed by Bassett, who wants regulation. This
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: is someone an article about this in political The drafting
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: of the executive order was exposed tensions between Besson, who
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: has taken on an outside role in the policy's creation,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and National Cyber Director Sheen can Cross, according to a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: senior White House official, another senior US official, and two
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: other people familiar with the dynamics, They, like some others
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: in this report, were granted anonymity to speak freely about
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: closely held policy. Bessant were displeased in the early stages
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: of the policy making process with the pace of the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: administration's response to anthropics advanced AI model Mythos myth Us
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: is the one that finds a programming problems in existing software.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: As he and can Cross disagreed over their respective lanes.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: The senior White House official and two people said specifically
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: he was concerned can Cross was not moving swiftly enough
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: to address potential risk the critical infrastructure and the financial system.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: According to senior US official and two people, and it
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: goes on their arrival evanthropics. Mythos accelerated those concerns and
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: complicated and already fought policy debate inside the government. Bassett
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and can Cross also clashed over a top Treasury aid
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: requesting access to Mythos without going through an into agency process.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: So some infighting inside the administration, it sounds like, although
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: how to tell exactly what's going on given that it's
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: all anonymous sources. I mean, basically what happened it sounds like,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: is that David sack X, the venta capitalist who was
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I guess the a I saw until a couple of
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: months ago. David Sex called Trump this morning and argued
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: that having the federal government review models before the public
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: release would slow down innovation and harm US and the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: US and the AI race with China. David Sex was
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: read in on the EO this week, and senior White
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: House officials believed he was good with it. Then me
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: changed his mind and try to convince convinced Trump to
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: withdraw it. I mean, the main reason you know the
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: signing was delayed is Trump, as Sex reminded him, just
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: hates regulation. Uh and the Sex hated it. The whole
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: thing was unnecessary and just something the doomers want the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: people who think, you know, AI is doomsday. Supposedly, Ellen
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Musk also spoke with Trump between Wednesday night and Thursday
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: morning Meta and X you know potentially SEEO of META. Also,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Trump said I didn't like certain aspects of it. I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: postponed it. He says, I think it's getting in the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: way of you know, we're leading China, we're leading everybody,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: and I didn't want to do anything to get in
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the way of that lead. Now, mythus is a real problem,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: right because it finds gaps that can easily provide hacking
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: into pretty sensitive national security software. And you'd expect the
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: government to do something to deal with that. And it's
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: not clear the government is doing it and what it's
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: doing and how it's going to do it. So there's
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: a there there. I doubt that this circulation was the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: answer to the challenges that we face with regard to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: AI and particularly with regard to Mythos. And it's hard
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: to believe that this administration is going to find the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: right balance. But there are issues that are gonna have
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: to be dealt with, uh and how they're dealt with,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you know, and what the right way to deal with
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: it I don't know enough about AI to figure that out.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe you know, the government has no role here. You know,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: it strikes me individual rights you know matter here that is,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: there are issues. But people are gonna have to figure
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: this out, and they're gonna have to really do some
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: hard thinking about this. And the challenge is we don't
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: have those kind of people, I don't think in government
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: right now. So we're either going to get too little,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: which it's better than an alternative, which is too much
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: regulation of this. All right, I think it was the
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: day before yesterday Bonnie Frank, Bonnie Fank, not Bonie Fank,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Bonnie Fink. Bonnie Fank passed away at the age of
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: eighty six. Frank was a long time Democratic congressman I
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: think from Massachusetts. Was very much beloved by Democrats, was
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: well established, was big in the gay rights movement. And
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: there'd been a lot of commentary about Bonnie Bonnie Frank,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and almost all of it is raving, you know, from
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: even from political opponents. Everybody liked him. He seems like
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: a nice guy, and he seemed like he was funny,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: he was really smart and all that stuff. But I
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: am here to say to talk ill of the dead.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Bonnie Frank was a disaster. He was head of the
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Finance Committee in the House of Representatives and yet he
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: knew nothing about finance. He was corrupt. Miss There was
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: significant evidence I mean that he supported I mean, we
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: know he supported Fanny May and Freddie mac throughout the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: two thousands, in spite of the fact that the entities
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: were clearly you know, a they cannot report, They cannot
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: report their earnings because they nobody could audit them. They
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: audited financial statements, did not did not work. Something was
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: deeply wrong there, and nobody's ever been secuted for it.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: But for years there were no out of financial statements
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: because there was obviously fraud there that nobody could figure
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: out how to deal with. Bonnie Fank was the primary
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: person to support them, to give them political cover, and
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: also was a massive recipient of money from Freddi and
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Fanny for his political campaigns. He was one of the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: largest recipients of campaign financing from these entities. Now these
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: were quasi government entities, private public private partnerships, if you will,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: ridiculous notion of what that is. Bonny Fank was, you know,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: to a large extent, one of the causes his policies
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and its support for Freddie and Fanny and its support
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: for housing and his acts as chairman of the Finance
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Committee was one of the main people responsible for the
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: subprime crisis and the Great Recession of two thousand and eight,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: which impoverished millions and turned hundreds of millions against capitalism.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: He supported the massive bailouts I mean a bailouts of
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: a crisis that he helped instigate. And it wasn't like
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: nobody warned about this, I mean in April of two
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: thousand and one, Administration Bush administration two thousand and two
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: budget declared that the size of Fitty and Fanny is
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: quote a potential problem because financial trouble of a large
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: GSE would cause strong repercussions in financial markets affecting federally
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: insured entities and economic activity. Remember, both of these entities
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: basically went bankrupt and were put under federal government receivership
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: during the crisis in two thousand and two. In May,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the Office of Butt Management and Budget calls for the
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: disclosure and coporate governance principles contained in the President's ten
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Point Plan for Corporate Responsibility to apply to Fetti and Fanning.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: In February two thousand and three, the Office of Federal
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Housing and Enterprise Oversight releases of report explaining that unexpected
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: problems at a GSC could immediately spread into financial sectors
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: beyond the housing market. Yeah, and that happened. In September,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: then Secretary Treasury John Snow testified before the House Financial
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Services Committee Bonnie's group to recommend that Congress and act
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: legislation to create a new federal agency to regulate and
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: supervise the financial activity of our housing related government sponsored
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: enterprises Freddie and Fanny and set prudent and appropriate minimum
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: capital adequacy requirements. Never happened. In September, also House Financial
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Services Committee ranking member Bonnie Frank strongly disagrees with the
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: administration's assessment, saying, quote, these two entities, Fannie May and
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: is on these companies, and the less we will see
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: in terms of affordable housing. This is just five years
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: before Lehman Brothers goes bust, four years before the crisis
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: starts becoming real, five years before Freddie and Fanny have
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: to go into receivership. And of course, his bad judgment
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: all those years, over and over and over again, his
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: bad judgment ultimately led him to more power and more accolades.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Under the Obama administration, Bonnie Fank basically was put in
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: charge of creating a financial regulatory bill that passed Congress
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: in twenty ten with Republican votes that would regulate the
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: entire financial industry and yet did nothing to break up
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Fanny and Freddi, privatize them, do anything. They're still in
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: receivership to this day. He has his name on that bill.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: It's called the Dodd Frank Bill. The Fank is Bonnie. See,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: here's the guy who got it wrong over and over
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and over and over again. Here's a guy who is
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: basically corrupt and corrupted by his Vettie and Fanny. It
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: gets to write the bill.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: That basically regulated the entire financial industry in ways that
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I will guarantee to you cause the next financial crisis,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: the next financial crisis will be.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Caused by the provisions in Dodd Frank. So, no, Barney
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Frank was not a good guy. He was not a
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: good politician. He was not a good congressman. He might
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: have been a nice guy. He might have been friendly.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea, I don't care.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: His lasting legacy in America is the financial crisis of
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight and the DoD Frank Bill, which
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: would generate the next financial crisis. Dot by the way,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: a Democratic senator, was also in the pocket of Fettie
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: and Fanny and a big recipient of campaign contributions from him.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Right now, there was kind of other sleazy stories about
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Bonnie Frank. You can look them up. He supposedly ran
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: a rent boy prostitution ring. But I don't know. I mean,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of those are, you know,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: accurate or not. But this stuff on finance is absolutely accurate.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Not a good guy when it comes to finance and
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: what he did to the American financial industry and the
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: extent to which he is responsible for what is going on.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: All right, just want to set the record straight with
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the god of Bonnie. I think it's important to do
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: I you know, Okay, So, as we talked about yesterday,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos did this interview and I showed you bits
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: and pieces of it, and in part of the interview
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: he claimed that the American tax system was very regressive,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: already progressive, sorry, progressive already, but he said we should
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: make it more progressive by eliminating taxes on basically fifty
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: percent of Americans. And you know, he basically granted much
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: of the kind of all outrage against millionaires in terms
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: of not paying enough taxes and played right into the
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: hands of his critics. I think, you know, he said
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: part of what he said was that if his taxes
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: were raised, that would not help. I don't know a teacher,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: a firefighter, whatever in New York City. Well, Mamdani immediately
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: tweeted afterwards, I know a few teachers in Queens who
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: would beg to differ. They would love a little bit
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: more of beezels as money. A lot of economists, economists
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: in quotation marks, you know, a former economist like Cookman,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: came out and put out delusional graphs, made up graphs
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: that purport to show that, no, we don't have a
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: progressive tax system at all. It's completely regressive. And there's
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: a massive debate going on about how progressive or how
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: regressive it really is. It's pretty progressive. Their argument is, yes,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: income taxes is progressive, that is, the rich pay a
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: higher rate than the poor, But once you encount for
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: payroll taxes and stayed in local taxes, it's not But
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: that's simply not true. It's still progressive. And if you
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: account for the benefits people get in welfare, Medicare, Medicaid,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: so security payments and all the rest, if you if
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: those are us accounted against the taxes, then it's even
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: no contest. It's a massively progressive tax system. But here's
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: the point now with debating with Paul Kogman, how we
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: count taxes and what counts as a measure, and what
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: is the right way to measure it, and and what's
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: the right graph? And and who pays what? And there's
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: this big you know, should besos as ownership of Amazon?
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: You know, how does that count? And the fact that
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Amazon pays such a low corporate tax rate, how does
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: that count. We're getting into the weeds instead of making
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: And of course the left is jumping all over this
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: by saying, you know, of course they should pay higher taxes.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: The rich, I mean, these are the people who exploit us,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: These are people who take from us. Yeah, they should
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: give a lot more back, a lot more back. And
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: the left is all over this, and of course it's
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: not like, there's a lot of people in MAGA defending billionaires. No,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: that's not MAGA at all. They share hatred. A billion
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: is with the left, you know. And so here's an
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: example of some guy saying, so you're two hundred and
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: seventy two billion, and you're giving away less than one
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: percent to mostly ineffective charities. Maybe that's the real problem. Here,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: here's the suggestion, Jeff Pisos, drop the vanity projects, ditch
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: the Earth Fund, debical fund, the most impractical fund, the
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: most impactful organizations with the best evidence based interventions, and
• 52:18
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  Speaker 1: That's what businessmen to be trying to do since the
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't convince anybody, and it's just because it's non objective.
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  Speaker 1: The billionaires right to their own creation, their right to
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  Speaker 1: It's mine. I produced it, I created, I made it.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Government has a limited number of things that
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  Speaker 1: that everything else, keep your hands off, leave me alone.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, it's sad, but this is the
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  Speaker 1: reality and of the way he's being attacked. But it's
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: completely predictable. I predicted it yesterday. All right, let's talk
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: about the problem of Islamism. You know, we've talked about
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: this many times that you know, Europe does have objectively
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: a real problem of Islamic immigration and a real problem
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: of those Muslims not assimilating and many of them advocating
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: for jihad and for Sharia law and for the destruction
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: of the societies in which they live. And one of
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: my arguments has always been, well, one of the ways
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: you get them to assimilate is you penalize them for
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: the bad things that they do when they break the law.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: You you really throw the book at them, You make
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: them suffer. You make it clear to them that their
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: behavior is unacceptable, the barbaric behavior that maybe they're bringing in.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: And you also have to make clear it's just an
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: act of self esteem, that you will not succumb to
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Sharia law, you will not give in, that you will
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: not accept defeat, that you will not accept jihad, and
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: that people who are advocating for the violent overthrow of
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: existing governments in Europe will find themselves thrown out of
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: the country. But nobody listens to me. I mean, you
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: guys do, But not enough of you, no influential enough.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: I read this, I read a number of stories you know,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: the last few days. They just show the extent of
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: which Europe is insane, literally actively committing suicide. So here's
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the case of Muhammad Bakali. Mohammed Bakali was the mastermind,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: the mastermind behind one of the most devastating terrorist attacks
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: in European history. In November twenty fifteen, at the Buttakalan
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Theater in Paris, two men stormed the fifteen hundred person
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: theater where a concert was in progress. They fired their
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: weapons and discriminately people. They hunted them down because people
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: cowered in our officers and cupboards. They even executed those
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: who lay on the floor pretending to be dead. They
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: raped and mutilated some of their victims. One hundred and
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: thirty people died that day. Hundreds were injured. One hundred
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: and thirty people died. Mohammed Bakhali is a Moroccan Belgium
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: who was behind this attack and others that took place
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: the same night other venues was attacked. He had rented
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: safe houses provided cause for the Islamic State cell. He
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: knew exactly what was happening and he facilitated it. He
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: went to trial in twenty twenty two in Paris and
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: was sentenced to thirty years for his role. Now I
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: don't understand thirty years. I mean, this is a classic
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: case where you throw away the key, multiple life sentences,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: never get out of jail. But it's fans, it's Europe.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: But it turns out he was also extradited to Belgium
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: to face trial, and the condition for the extradition was
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: of fans that he served any sentences in a Belgium prison. Anyway,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: He's now served four years, but on eleventh of May,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: a Belgium court granted him the right to leave six
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: times for thirty six hours each. They cited his good
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: behavior and rehabilitation. It's a good chance that if he
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: continues this good behavior and rehabilitation, he might actually be
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: freed way before the thirty years. Up here's an Islamist
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: who facilitated the murder of one hundred and twenty nine people,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: but potentially the intent was thousands. A brutal, barbaric, maniac, evil, evil,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: evil human being who should not be allowed ever outside
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: of a prison. So and Europeans in this case to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Belgium's are probably gonna let him out now. The French apoplectic.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: The French are furious, and hopefully they'll put pressure on
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: the Belgium not to do this and maybe send him
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: back to France where he can serve the thirty years.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: But just the fact that anybody would consider this, this
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: is not how you deter Islam. This is not how
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: you deter homicidal mediacs jihadis. This is not how you
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: assure your self esteem as a civilization. This is complete
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: capitulation and defeat in the face of the Islamists. Come
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: take your appt yours. We won't do anything to stop you.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: It's disgusting and to speak up at the same time,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: an Arkaeda terrorist who is suspected of the seven to
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: seven London bombing being the mastermind behind it, right, this
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: is the July seventh, two thousand and what was it
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: five four? It was not long after nine eleven he
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: was linked to the killings. He was found with bomb
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: making material there was sentenced in the US for supporting
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: al Qaeda. Well. He's been quietly released early from a
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: UK psychiatric prison last year, despite warning some police and
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: security services there remained a major threat. A judge ruled
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: that his schizophrenia had improved and its stricter monitoring could
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: violate mental health protections because mental health is more important
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: than the murderous rampage that was committed because of him.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: Meant to remind you the bombing in London resulted in
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: fifty two people murdered, over eight hundred wounded. Now they're
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: letting him go. I mean, it's just unimaginable. But this
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: is exactly the oppos of what you need to do,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: exactly the opposite of what Europe needs to do. I mean,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: it's easy to yell no more immigrants, no more immigration,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: we hate immigrants, which is what they do. How about
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: just clamping down on the crazies you already have. It's
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: not just in Europe. Reading from a post by Colin Wraid,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: it tell us on the FBI Most Wanted List was
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: sitting on the board of an American nonprofit. I mean,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: there is vastly slammist influenced network in America. It's coordinated
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: through Care, the Center for something something I can't remember
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: what it stands for, care c Air California. This one
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: is k California. Care receives more than four hundred million
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: dollars in public money, even as it has Hamas links
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: that are being documented in congressional testimony. The actual Secretary
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an FBI
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: most Wanted terrorist sanctioned by the US Treasury, was simultaneously
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: sitting on the board of an American nonprofit. This is
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: all document in public filings. After federal prosecutors exposed the network,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: it just rebranded under a new organizational name. When many
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: of the same people regaining nonprofit protection Camp Florida then
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: work closely with this network, inviting convicted members and terror
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: financiers to its annual gala, dismissing their terrorism conviction as baseless,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: and featuring them in fundraising videos. I mean, how can
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: the United States allow organizations like care who clearly support
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: terrorism and advocate for terrorists to exist and thrive in
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: this country. This isn't how you assimilate Muslims. This isn't
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: how you deal with the problem of Muslim immigration. This
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: is how you surrender. And here's one from the UK again.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Remember the rape gangs. The rape gangs, Well, the Daily
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Mail had this headline Asian grooming gang who raped and
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: sexually abused girls as young as twelve a jailed for
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: more than two hundred and seventy years. Well, that sounds like, okay,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: they got multiple life sentences and they're going to be
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: there forever. But it turns out the two hundred seventy
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: years is just aggregating the sentences of each one of
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: twenty different rapists. So on average they got around I
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: don't know, twelve years twelve years for raping little girls
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: hundreds of times over many years. And of course, with
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: a way, you know, good behavior and rehabilitation and all
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: that that they'll be out in less than ten years.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: This is not the rule of law. This is the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: rule of thugs. This is allowing rapists and murderers and
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: the worst human beings on the planet to get away
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: with rape and murder not pay for their crimes. It's disgusting.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: And if you want to know how to deal with
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: the Muslims in Europe, you start by putting them in jail,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: the ones that are criminals, the ones that have done
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: these horrifics, throwing away the keys, not by giving them
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: cushy sentences and allowing them back into the streets. And
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: here's the irony. At the same time as that is happening,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Israel actually has a list of thousands of terrorists who
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: participated in October seventh massacre, and they are working systematically
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: to either eliminate them or capture them. They're regularly assassinating
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Palestinians in Gaza who in one way or another participated
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: in October seventh massacre. Hundreds of others have been already
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: captured as sitting in Israeli jails. There's a big story
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: about this in the Wall Street Journal, Inside Israel's high
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: tech campaign to kill or capture every October seventh attacker,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: every single one of them. Now this is what's called justice.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: But if you read the article, the article reads kind
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: of critically, I mean, why aren't these people all facing
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: a trial in front of a jury, and is the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: death penalty really warranted for everybody? And should a state
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: be assassinating at the scale? And then it says, do
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: you remember when they did this to the terrorists who
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: killed the Munich athletes and they went around the world
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: and assassinated all the people responsible for that? Was that right?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: And you know there was even a movie made by
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg called Munich, which kind of questioned the morality
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: of assassinating the terrorsts responsible for the killing of the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: Munich athletes. This is the exact weakness of the West,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: the weakness that will allow the Islamists to be successful,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: at least be successful in killing more Westerners. I don't
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: think they'll ever win the war, but they can certainly
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: win many battles and cause many casualties in the process.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: The West has to stand foam not just against not
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: against Muslims, but against those who would use Islam to
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: justify their violence, against murderers and rapists, against people who
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: refuse to accept Western civilization, refuse to accept civilization and
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: continue to behave like barbarians. Well, they should be treated
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: like the barbarians they are, whether that means locking them
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: up forever or whether that means deporting them back to
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: where they came from. They cannot be allowed to continue
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: their barbaric behavior in the West. How do you fix it?
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's possible, given the state of
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: the West. What are you going to do? Go go
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: and re educate all these judges. I mean, I think
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: it'll fix itself. With the rise of right wing political parties,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: in Europe, they'll have solutions. Whether those solutions are good
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: is dubious. Whether they throw the baby out with the
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: bath water is probable. You'll get solutions like right now
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: in the United States, stop all immigration not a good solution.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: But at some point they'll violate rights on a massive
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: scale to get rid of these bastards. But by then
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: that'll have to violate a lot of people's rights in
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: order to do it, whereas now it could be done
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: relatively easier. And name says I like tougher on crime,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: You're on. I've always been tough on crime and terrorism.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: Violence is not to be forgiven. I'm not a turn
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: out of the cheek. Love your enemy, absolutely not. I
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: reject Christianity and I reject that feature of Christianity more
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: than anything. And when it comes to you want to
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: fight jihadis, you want to fight the Islamic takeover of Europe,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: the way to do it is get really, really tough
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: on the people committing these crimes. All right, That, my friends,
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  Speaker 1: I live around a lot of wealthy lefties. He says,
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  Speaker 1: they will turn on socialism once it really affects them,
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  Speaker 1: and they sport kids. These people are hard working and
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  Speaker 1: just never happens. They'll still want it, just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit less of it. It kept my texts a little bit.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: You don't need to take that much from me, and hey,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: you know you can. Here's money to spend more money
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: on those government schools, as long as I get to
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: keep sending my kids to private school. But if you
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: do way with private education, then they'll get upset. So
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  Speaker 1: I agree. There's a lot of people who don't really
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: think their altruism leads them towards supporting a kind of
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: a leftist agenda. They don't really think it through. They
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: think they're doing the right thing, the moral thing, the
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: just thing. When it hurts them, they then change their
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: mind about particularly concretes, but it doesn't fundamentally change what
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: they believe in in any kind of ways. So they
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: become a little, you know, a little different mixture in
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: the mixed economy, little different mixture, thanks Liam. But yes,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: in that sense, there's a pendulum in a sense that
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: once a lot of these vote is realize what they've done,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: they flip back towards the center. But they never flip
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: all the way and they never do anything on principles.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: It's pure pragmatism. Here's a question I have from It's
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: not a super chat, but it's from one of my
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  Speaker 1: students from the capitalism course at the University of University
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: of Austin. It's so I'm gonna he send me an
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: email with this question, and I think instead of writing
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: him a long email, I'll answer it here. It's easier
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: for me to do verbally anyway. Here's here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: I was curious about how I'm mean or you would
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: think about broken window theory. I'll speaker yesterday evening this
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  Speaker 1: is at the university. Charles faine Lehmann discussed how public
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  Speaker 1: disorder is a phenomenon in which individuals dominate public space
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: with their private interests, for example, playing music loudly on
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  Speaker 1: the street corner, sleeping on a park bench. This disorder
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: starts a snowball that grows and creates an environment more
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: conductive to serious crime. The speaker noted that there is
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: a stigma with which bystanders will look the other way
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  Speaker 1: at this disorder, for it is found upon to be
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: a Karen and care too much about a small incident
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: that doesn't have an immediate effect seemingly have an immediate
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: effect on crime. I was trying to think of these
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: scenarios in the world of public and private property, but
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: it seems I need some help to understand Rand's philosophy
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  Speaker 1: on how public disorder should be dealt with. As far
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: as I can tell, because disorder infringes on another's right
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: to pursue their interest, then it should be punished. Isn't
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: this clear In the case of a homeless man sleeping
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: on a park bedge, which doesn't directly cause me any
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: harm or prevent me in pursuing my interests in any
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  Speaker 1: any other citizens sitting on that bench would prevent me
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  Speaker 1: from using the bench the same way. Do you have thoughts? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So here's the thing. Imagine a world in which all
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: property is private, and you should always start with that
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: world kind of with the idea, with the Eynman's ideal.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: Her definition of capitalism is a world in which the
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: government protects individual rights and all private all property is private.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: That's a paraphrasing of a definition right. And you know
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: the So what would happen in a world like that? Well,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: could you just stand on somebody's property and play loud music.
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  Speaker 1: I mean for two reasons. No one is the person
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  Speaker 1: who owned the property would have a say into how
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  Speaker 1: loud your muse. It could be they could have, you know, restrictions.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be on my property, you want to
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  Speaker 1: walk on my sidewalk, you want to be in my
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  Speaker 1: park under these terms. And in that sense there would
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: be an implicit contract. So maybe between so now is
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: maybe not can you sleep on the bench. Well maybe
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: some private owners would say, sure, you can do it,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: then it's okay, But most private owners would say, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's my benches. This is not a place to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I've intended these benches in this park for people to
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  Speaker 1: be able to sit and you know, and have a
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  Speaker 1: good time and walk around and you know, not have
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: a bench occupied by somebody sleeping, or not have a
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: bench occupied by somebody so smelly, then anybody can't come
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: anywhere near them. So you know, in private property, if
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  Speaker 1: all property was private, then there would be wolves. There
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: would be contractual wolves in terms of how you behave Now,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: in terms of the loud music, there's another issue, and
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: that is by playing loud music, certainly at certain times
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: of night, you're infringing on the rights of the people
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  Speaker 1: in their homes, and it's a physical infringement. I can't
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: block out you know, your your your music is literally
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: hitting me physically, and therefore it's a it's a violation
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: of my right as your neighbor. So again, you'd have
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: to consider that in a in a true free market,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: where everything's privately owned, none of this behavior would be
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: allowed on private land, and all land would be private. Now,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: what happens when we include what's called public property, that
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: is property and nominally owned by the government. Well, in
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: those circumstances, one has to treat that property as if
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: the government were private entity. That is, the fact that
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: it is public property, but would in a truly fee
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: society be private. Doesn't mean that there are no rules
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: in this property. Anything goes in this property. It means
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: that the governing authority over the property in this case,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: the local government, gets to set the rules, and they
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: should set rules that are comparable to the rules that
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: would be reasonably set by a private owner. That's why
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: it's not okay homeless people to sleep on sidewalks. In
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: no private world would that be allowed. Now, if they're
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: outside on the fringes of the town away from people. Okay, maybe,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: but where they're actually interfering with people's ability to walk
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: in the sidewalk, that's what it's there for. It's for walking,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: not for sleeping. Infringing on the people's ability to go
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: into shops and engage in voluntary transactions, then the government
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: needs to clear them out. They need to be city
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: ordinances in terms of noise and in terms of sleeping
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: on benches, and that need to be prevented. So the
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: reason to do it is not the broken window theory,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: although I think the broken window theory is true, but
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: it's basic rule of law, basic respect for private property,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: basic respect for the individuals using the park, the individuals
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: that are that are using the pavement, the individuals living
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: in these neighborhoods. It's their rights that you're protecting by
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: clearing them out of this obnoxious behavior. It's also true
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: that when the police look the other way over minor
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: infringements of the law, that only emboldens the criminals. This
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: is the broken window theory. The broken window theory is
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: that when police don't follow through with the small stuff,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: somebody breaks a window and property rights are being violated.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: And you don't go after that cook, You don't go
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: after that kid or that thug, or somebody sleeps on
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: the bench. So somebody does graffiti on private wall and
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: you let them get away with it. You're just encouraging
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: the bad guys, and that encouragement, that leniency ultimately leads
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: to most serious crimes. But that's kind of a utilitarian
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: reason to do it. The real reason to do it
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: is justice and respect for property. The general principle is
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: you need to treat quote, public property is if it
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: was private, and in that sense, the same is true
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: by the way of demonstrations. I'm against demonstrations that infringe
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: on my ability to use the streets to go to
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: the park and have a picnic with my kids, and
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: suddenly the masses of people that I don't know yelling
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: and screaming about the thing that they don't like. You
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: treat it as private property, and you know, you need
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: an explicit approval of a private property owner, and you know,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: given that there's no private property owner, they don't have permission.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: They shouldn't be allowed to do it. Hopefully that is helpful.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: All right, All right, let's see go back to super
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: chat questions. About forty two dollars short of our first
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: hour goal. Let's please try to get the first hour goal.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: We're probably going to go into our third hour, well
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: into our second. All right, Michael, A bill just passed
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: the House. We've we've re reventing preventing preventing blackrock from
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: buying homes. Will it pass the Senate? Will Trump pursue
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: a more socialist anti corporate agenda the remainder of his
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: tomb I think this villa has already passed the Senate.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: There's slight differences between OL's version and the Senate version.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: They will reconcile them, and this bill will pass and
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: Trump will sign it. It was part of Trump's promises
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: of the campaign trail, and this is something he wants
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: to do, something he believes in. This is kind of
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: the socialist fascist intervention that he is very fond of,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: and you know he's in some areas he has a
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: very socialist anti corporate agenda. We talked yesterday about the
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: fact that they just invested in IBM. The government is
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: now an owner of IBM stock, as well as nine
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: other quantum computing companies.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 4: That's socialism, most socialism than the socialist presidents we've had
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 4: in the past, So you want to call them communists,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 4: but not Trump on what basis?
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: On what basis? Michael? How big an army could you
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: must if we had to organize a revolution ten thousand people? Oh,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know where would I get five thousand, five
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: thousand or willing to take up arms? I don't think so.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think I could give five thousand, partially because
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: why would you start a revolution when you know you're
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: going to lose? And I think everybody today would know
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: what you're going to lose, So it's not even it's
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: not even a long shot. So no, I couldn't muster anybody.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: So army is to be mustered only when there's some
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: chance of winning, and there's no chance of winning right now.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: Not javiage, I'll go with them. Happy sixty fifth birthday.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: Oh you guys know tomorrow officially I'll be a senior.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: I will be sixty five tomorrow. It's pretty traumatic. I
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: have to admit. How much do you get from social
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: security if you started collecting now? Is it significantly more
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: if you wait until seventy What if the world collapsed
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: by then? Why would I tell you how much I
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: might collect on SO Security, I don't. I don't know.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: That strikes me. There's a bit of an intrusive question,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: you know, asking me how much money I make or
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: how much money I get from this so so that.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I haven't looked it up recently,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: but I you know, in terms of percentages, I think
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: I would make about a third more if I collected
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: seventy two, which I think is the last year you
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: can start collecting. So it's it's a significant amount. I've
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: done the math. Assuming Social Security still pays, assuming they
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: don't change it for me, then I will I will
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: do I will do better by waiting than by getting
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: it now. Yeah, I guess if I was sort of funds,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: if you know, I'd have to think, if I was
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: withdrawing from saving, would it be better to collect so
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: city rather than withdrawal from saving. Maybe. So far I
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: haven't had to, but but it's close.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: You know, I survive on the your super chats, for example,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: so it you know, I've survived on my speaking and
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: my teaching and all this stuff and the show. So far,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: I haven't had to withdraw on savings. But if I
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: if I needed to then I'd have to recalculate whether
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: it was worth collecting so security now or not. Thank
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: you for the happy birthday. James, has Bezos read Rand?
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: It seems like most billionaires who read Rand only gained
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: some perficial inspiration from her writing. Maybe Blake Shows became
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: a famous billionaire. He'll be the first to make that difference.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: It would be great if Blake Shows became a billionaire. Yes,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: and because he knows the philosophy, he knows it well.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: And you know, Bezos has read iron Rand as far
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: as I can tell, as far as people have told
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: me he has read it. He knows something about it.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: But it only goes so deep. You're right, it's superficial
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: Ian Any new K drama recommendations? Unfortunately, No, I haven't
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: seen any. Haven't seen any. I know you guys are
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: recommended some I haven't tried them yet. I should probably
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: do a K K K drama soon because I'm running
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: out of other kind of TV to watch. All right,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: last few questions, Roman, how can we divorce political from
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: economic power in the courts? How to make sure a
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: wealth gap doesn't translate into justice gap? Well, because you
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: have you know, you have the ability to appeal. You
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: have juries, who why would they be swayed by your money.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: Quite the contrary, you have a system of law that
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: prevents it, and you could be persecuted for for bribery
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: and fraud if you try to influence people. Uh So,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: a solid system of law and a system of appeal
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: and and and a real commitment to the rule of
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: law would prevent kind of the kind of corruption that
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: people with economic power could have. It's not clear who
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: they would bribe. You know, you need a pay judge
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: as well, and you need to make sure juries work appropriately,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: and you got to pay prosecute as well. You've got
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: you got to pay the system. Well, so they're not
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: susceptible to bribes. And look look if they if they
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: if everybody's corrupt, if everybody is bribable, easily bibable, then yeah,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: any system will collapse. Any system is dependent on the
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: willingness and and motivation of the people to abide by it,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: the people who are running it. Roman says and kepts
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: things the competition between private security companies would yield a
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: better product than a state monopoly on the use of force, thoughts, Well,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: I mean it depends what product you're manasuring. What is
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: the product that they're measuring. If the product is violence,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: then yeah, you would get much better, more efficient violence.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: You would get constance civil war. If that is what
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: you want, then competing private police forces are fine, because
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: what you're basically saying is we have now legitimized competition
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: in force. Well, what does competition in force look like? Well,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: it looks like a It looks like a boxing ring
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: without a referee, because the referee is there's some third
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: party entity, and that third party entity is gone. So
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: you just have people who are punching each other and
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: the strongest will win, or there'll be a you know,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: if there's no clear strongest, they'll just be ongoing warfare constantly.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: What stops them from fighting, what stops them from shooting
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: at each other? What disciplines them? Not much? Nothing. Indeed,
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: if you really think about it, a marketplace, part of
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: what characterizes a marketplace is the fact that we've extracted
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: force from it. So when I go to the shopkeeper,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: when I haggle over the price of the vegetables or
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: whatever it is that I'm buying, we understand that force
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: is not a player. That everything that happens here is
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: voluntary and that forces being extracted from the community, from
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: the from the from the marketplace. That is, that's how
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: the marketplace functions. If force is part of the marketplace,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: there is no marketplace. I'm not going to sell my
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: wares if the guy buying them can pull out a
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: gun and just take them. So, you know, force is
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: not something that you create a marketplace around. It is
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: the thing you extract in order for that to be
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: a marketplace to begin with. A marketplace and force is
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: a contradiction in terms. A marketplace and force is war,
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: basically civil war. Roman Protecting the individual rights can be
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: achieved through different methods, innovative and cost efficient ways might
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: escape a sluggish state's thoughts. Well, it's not clear what
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: different methods you're talking about. Generally, there's only one method,
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: the use of retaliatory force. And you know, there's no
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: method innovative methods to protect individual rights outside of the
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: state because there's no incentive to protect individual rights outside
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: of the state. Individual rights don't matter in anarchy. In
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: a state of war, when people are just fighting with
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: one another, or where different police represent different parties and
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: then negotiating settlements, there's no interest in individual rights, just
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: like there's no question of individual rights. When countries disagree,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: they're either willing to go to war for it or not.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: But there's no way to resolve. There's no innovation in
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: the protection of rights on the international sphere, so the
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: whole thing breaks down. There is no innovation and efficiency attained.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: And because there's no individual rights being protected, we all
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: still have individual rights, but there's no protection once you
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: abolish the government. Linda, Happy birthday. Thank you, Linda, I
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Sebastian says, have you ever read North
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: Vote and Stiga in Sweden? No worth reading? What's it about? Wesley?
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: The other day, Ben Shapiro said his only critique of
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: Trump's China summit was Trump speaking positively of Chinese students
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: coming to the US. Thoughts, I mean, it's pathetic. Ben
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: is being pathetic again, groveling before Trump and his voters.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: Why is it? Why should we not talk positively about
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: Chinese students? Is that the issue? Immigration? Always that's the issue,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: and immigration of non whites. That station what's wrong with
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Chinese students, And that's the only problem. All the groveling
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  Speaker 1: of Trump before she that's not a problem. So I
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  Speaker 1: think Ben Shapiro has lost it and since Trump got
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  Speaker 1: elected and is basically a uncritical I mean, it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: It really is ridiculous, and he knows better, and if
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  Speaker 1: you pushed him, he would fold. Paul says, happy birthday.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Paul, appreciate it. All right, guys, that is
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: today's show. I will see tomorrow Tomorrow's Nikos and we'll
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: talk about the manosphere. So three pm East Coast time tomorrow,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: the Manosphere. And remember it's my birthday, so be nice.
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  Speaker 1: Neo comes in with would you go after Trump if
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: you became the next president? Well, I definitely prosecute him
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  Speaker 1: for all the corruption. Yeah, absolutely, Otherwise you're basically validating him.
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  Speaker 1: He should have been prosecuted for the things he did
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: last time. The fact that he wasn't is a travesty.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, he's so corrupt. This to him and as
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  Speaker 1: long as you can, as long as you can push it,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you can prove it. Yeah, yes, I
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: would definitely go after him. All right, Thank you everybody.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow. I have a great weekend.