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  Speaker 1: A lot of them, fundamental principles of the leader, national
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  Speaker 3: This is the show, all right, everybody, welcome to her
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  Speaker 3: one books show on this Saturday, January seventeenth.
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  Speaker 1: I hope everybody is doing well, try stuff the week
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  Speaker 2: I am here.
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  Speaker 1: I apologize that no show yesterday, just at meeting, upon meeting,
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  Speaker 2: On next week, so hopefully that will go well. All right,
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  Speaker 2: we're gon.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna jump into the topic, and you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about three things today. Basically, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the idea of constitutional republic, what it means,
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  Speaker 1: and where we are in terms of its applicability to
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America as of January seventeenth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll give you an update about Iran and what
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  Speaker 1: is going on there and kind of kind of I
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  Speaker 1: don't know whether we can be hopeful or not, or
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  Speaker 1: what the likely as scenarios are in the in the
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  Speaker 1: days to.
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  Speaker 2: Come, but give you an update on Iran. And then
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  Speaker 2: finally I.
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  Speaker 1: Owe a final review of Folks in the Road, So
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  Speaker 1: the final essay and Folks in the Row will road
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  Speaker 1: and we'll cover that at the end of that portion
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  Speaker 1: All right. So I think there's I think we all know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, America is a constitution of a public, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's worth talking about for a little bit what
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  Speaker 1: that means. What it means to be a constitution of
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  Speaker 1: a public.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The constitutional part of this.
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  Speaker 1: Is that it is a government who's power is limited
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  Speaker 1: by a constitution. A constitution limits the powers of government
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  Speaker 1: what it can what it can do, and it basically
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  Speaker 1: says it enumerates the things that government can do and
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  Speaker 1: exclude and by doing so, everything else is excluded. It
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  Speaker 1: cannot do those things. In addition, in the United States case,
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  Speaker 1: there's a Bill of Rights which articulates specific rights that.
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  Speaker 2: The government cannot violate, although.
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  Speaker 1: There is the Ninth Amendment that says this is non
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  Speaker 1: exhaustive list and there are other rights. Basically, with the
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  Speaker 1: notion do I from the from the declaration that the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of the government is to protect the individual.
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  Speaker 2: Rights of its citizens.
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  Speaker 1: So that is the kind of the constitution portion of it,
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  Speaker 1: and the Republican portion of it is of course, the
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  Speaker 1: political authority comes from the people exercise though not directly,
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  Speaker 1: not through directly through a democratic process, but exercises through
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  Speaker 1: elected representative.
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  Speaker 2: So there's not a direct rule of the majority.
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  Speaker 1: But even those remember those directly elected representatives are constrained
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  Speaker 1: limited by the constitution.
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  Speaker 2: What is written in the constitution.
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  Speaker 1: So in a constitution of republic, you've got a written constitution,
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  Speaker 1: and that written constitution is the highest law you have
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  Speaker 1: govern officials cannot act beyond the powers that are granted
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  Speaker 1: to them.
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  Speaker 2: Explicitly in the constitution.
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  Speaker 1: Individual rights are protected even against a popular majority, even
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  Speaker 1: against a democratic majority. Call it what it is, and
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  Speaker 1: that laws and actions that violate the Constitution are invalid.
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  Speaker 1: And indeed there's there's a mechanism to determine that. And
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  Speaker 1: in the case of the American Constitution, in the existence
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  Speaker 1: of a Supreme Court, which has the authority to rule
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  Speaker 1: that certain actions and laws, even approved by the legislature
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  Speaker 1: and the executive, that they are on constitution, so constitution
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  Speaker 1: of republicanism in certainly the American system means. It means
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  Speaker 1: that the government does not have unlimited authority. It does
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  Speaker 1: not have unlimited authority. And that doesn't it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: whether what the government wants to do is supported by
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  Speaker 1: the majority or not. It doesn't matter whether the president
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  Speaker 1: who is elected is elected in alliance slide or not.
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  Speaker 1: The what the government can do does not depend on
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  Speaker 1: let the scope of what the COVID can do does
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  Speaker 1: not depend on how popular, It does not depend on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the people.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on what is in the constitution.
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  Speaker 1: And of course constitutions can be changed, usually through supermajority.
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  Speaker 1: But unless the constitution is changed, it is the governing
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  Speaker 1: law of the country. And as we said, the people's
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  Speaker 1: the people that like representatives to make laws on their
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  Speaker 1: behalf within the constraints placed on them by the constitution.
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  Speaker 1: Leaders accountable and can be removed. You know, you have
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  Speaker 1: no leader is above being removed. The mechanisms for removal,
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  Speaker 1: of course elections, impeachment.
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  Speaker 2: And impeachment.
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  Speaker 1: So elections and impeachment, and I guess for some functions
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  Speaker 1: muls so citizens don't vote directly and representatives cannot.
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  Speaker 2: Act, they cannot vote whatever they want.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be within within the scope of what
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  Speaker 1: the constitution allows. Other aspects that are comment to a
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  Speaker 1: constitution of republic and certainly present in the American Constitution
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  Speaker 1: of Republic is a separation of powers. You've got three
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  Speaker 1: distinct entities, each with unique powers, and that.
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  Speaker 2: There's minimum overlap. Right. Is a legislative that writes the laws.
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  Speaker 1: There's an executive that executes on those laws and manages
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  Speaker 1: feign policy.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a judiciary that makes.
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  Speaker 1: Sure that the legislature and the executives are functioning within
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  Speaker 1: the scope of the constitution. Of course, that can also
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  Speaker 1: happen with the executive vetoing bills that the legislatures sent
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  Speaker 1: to them. The legislative can also impeach an executive for
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  Speaker 1: you know, his actions that might be in violation of
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  Speaker 1: the constitution. So the idea is that each one has
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  Speaker 1: its own separate power, but they also constitute checks and
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  Speaker 1: balances against each other.
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  Speaker 2: No one of these no one of these.
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  Speaker 1: Entities has indefinite and un you know, understrained power. Each
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  Speaker 1: one of them is restraining the other. And it is
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  Speaker 1: to such an extent that the Constitution, particularly the American
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  Speaker 1: constitution works to make consensus really really difficult. Is the
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  Speaker 1: fact that even the legislature split into two entities, and
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  Speaker 1: those two entities have to agree in order.
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  Speaker 2: For legislation actually to get passed.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very difficult under the American system to actually
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  Speaker 1: get legislation passed intentionally. So both, you know, the House
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  Speaker 1: and the Senate have to agree that the President has
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  Speaker 1: to sign off on it, and the judiciary has to
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  Speaker 1: Basically it doesn't have to do anything, but but if
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  Speaker 1: it's appealed to the judiciary, it has to rule that
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  Speaker 1: it's constitution within the powers of the legislature to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Other core features of constitution of republic a rule of law.
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  Speaker 1: The government is subject to the same law as citizens,
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  Speaker 1: and the government must function within the scope of the law,
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  Speaker 1: within the scope of the law, and only within that scope.
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  Speaker 1: That is, uh in that sense, the executive cannot just act,
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  Speaker 1: cannot make up law as it goes along. It has
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  Speaker 1: to function within that scope and only within that scope.
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  Speaker 4: On second, I'm just looking at something, Yeah, where am I?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? So we have a rule of law. Law the
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  Speaker 2: law is are.
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  Speaker 1: We function and nobody is above the law, not the president,
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  Speaker 1: not ice, agents, nobody not you know, secretaries in the government,
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  Speaker 1: not the military. Everybody's within the rule of law. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in the American system, we have protected rights. We
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  Speaker 1: have acts that are clearly demarcated as protected speech, religion, express,
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  Speaker 1: religious expression, property and the property you process.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the government is limited in terms of what
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  Speaker 2: it can do to you, search and seizure.
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  Speaker 1: It cannot just seize you. You have a right to
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  Speaker 1: your life, you have a right to act in this world.
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  Speaker 1: The government can only deal with you within the purview
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  Speaker 1: of the law and without violating you right. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have independent courts then enforce the law
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  Speaker 1: and the constitution. So that is the basic idea of
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  Speaker 1: what a constitutional is. And the constitution is very limiting.
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  Speaker 1: It really provides particularly again the American Constitution is very limiting.
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  Speaker 1: It really does provide for a government that is very
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  Speaker 1: restrained and very limited. The government, according to the American Constitution,
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  Speaker 1: can only exercise its enumerated powers, which are limited. The
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  Speaker 1: Constitution strictly limits what the state can do. And rights
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  Speaker 1: are in a sense above the law. They are the
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  Speaker 1: context in which the law is written. You cannot write
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  Speaker 1: a law that abrogates that takes away the rights of individuals.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot override rights. They are the starting point. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the reality is that given this very constrained nature of
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  Speaker 1: government it and the way the Constitution is written, and
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  Speaker 1: the political philosophy that when into that constitution, a political
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  Speaker 1: philosophy with an understanding of the role of individual, the
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  Speaker 1: role of the state is protecting that individual. The role
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  Speaker 1: of rights, the importance of rights are clear, are clear
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  Speaker 1: or at least relatively clear definition of what those rights.
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  Speaker 2: Were, what rights constitute.
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  Speaker 1: There has been really from day one post constitution, a
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  Speaker 1: tug between the desire of the desire of government and
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  Speaker 1: the officials in government and the people within government to
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  Speaker 1: expand their power, to grow their power, and this constitutional
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  Speaker 1: order that seeks to restrain it and to limit it.
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  Speaker 1: And there's constantly this poll and and sometimes it is
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  Speaker 1: constrained and sometimes it is not. And given that that
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  Speaker 1: philosophy that you know, was prevalent and understood by the
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  Speaker 1: founders when the country was created, and even then under
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  Speaker 1: stood up to a point, not completely, not thougholy and
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  Speaker 1: this is why they could accept the existence of slavely
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  Speaker 1: so not consistently, but given that that philosophy was going
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  Speaker 1: to erode, erode, because because the intellectuals of the nineteenth
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  Speaker 1: century just couldn't keep up with it, they couldn't maintain it.
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  Speaker 1: It was challenged by philosophers in Germany and philosophers in
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  Speaker 1: England and in the UK, and the intellectuals couldn't hold
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  Speaker 1: on to the ideas of the Enlightenment, couldn't hold on
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  Speaker 1: to the explicit notions that were embedded in the constitution,
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  Speaker 1: forgot what they even meant, or evaded what they even meant,
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  Speaker 1: kept going with the constitution because the best we got
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  Speaker 1: rather than a complete full understanding of it, and slowly
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  Speaker 1: facilitated the erosion of the Constitution again from day one,
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  Speaker 1: from you know, from probably the Whiskey Rebellion, and and
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  Speaker 1: uh and and included uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, the.
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  Speaker 1: Adams what was it, the Alien and Sedition Act, uh
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  Speaker 1: and uh and and through uh through the various the
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  Speaker 1: various expansions of government authority beyond the numerated powers. The
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  Speaker 1: Constitution strictly limits what the state may do, and yet
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  Speaker 1: those were slowly eroded. Federal power expanded and expanded and
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  Speaker 1: expanded throughout the nineteenth century, slowly, very slowly. During the
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  Speaker 1: nineteenth century, but you know, in significant ways you got
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  Speaker 1: you get, you get railroads, you get I mean, arguably,
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  Speaker 1: it's not clear that the the Louisiana purchase that Jefferson does,
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  Speaker 1: it's not at all clear that that is constitutional. Way
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  Speaker 1: in the Constitution does the government have the power to
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  Speaker 1: buy land. Now, to the credit of that generation, at
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  Speaker 1: least the land then was kind of provided to the
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  Speaker 1: people through through various mechanisms to establish private property on it,
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  Speaker 1: and wasn't held by the state as was done in
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  Speaker 1: the west of the Mississippi, where to this day what's
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  Speaker 1: seventy five percent of all the land is state land.
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  Speaker 1: Way in the constitutions is to say that the state
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  Speaker 1: can own land. There was broad interpretation of the Commis Clause,
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  Speaker 1: the General Welfare Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause to
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  Speaker 1: justify then regulating railroads initially and then everything ultimately right
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  Speaker 1: from labor and labor relations to health care and education
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  Speaker 1: and housing. I mean, where in the constitution does the
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  Speaker 1: government does the state have authority or any kind of
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  Speaker 1: authority over education, or over housing, or over healthcare. And
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution has become a kind of a flexible framework that.
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  Speaker 2: Is adhere to when it seems.
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  Speaker 1: Popular to do so, or it seems that the political
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  Speaker 1: forces on the ascend would like to at least in
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  Speaker 1: some areas, abide by the constitution and it's completely ignored
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  Speaker 1: where there is a general belief in the population that
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  Speaker 1: it should be ignored. So while it's not done to
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  Speaker 1: sheare democracy, it is clearly done. So you could argue
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  Speaker 1: that today, well, we'll get to today in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Today we've got a real breakdown, a real breakdown in
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  Speaker 1: our constitutional order, a breakdown that has been building for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. It's been eroding forever. But erosion is
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  Speaker 1: one thing. Breaking is another. In the economic sphere, the
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  Speaker 1: constitutional order, for the most part has broken and was
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  Speaker 1: probably broken by IFDA.
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  Speaker 2: Governing intervention in the economy uh and and uh. And
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  Speaker 2: then his.
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  Speaker 1: Threat to pack the courts because the courts were opposing
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  Speaker 1: his economic policies. Is threat to pack the courts, which
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  Speaker 1: resulted in the courts ultimately approving its various moves which
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  Speaker 1: allowed government intervention in Federal government intervention.
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  Speaker 2: In all these areas, for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: Broke constitutional limitations a government control over economy. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of presidents and a lot of Congresses
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  Speaker 1: and the people have still fain felt a little somewhat
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  Speaker 1: some restraint in terms of what the government shouldn't, shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't do. There's generally, and again that has changed over time,
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  Speaker 1: and coming out of coming out of World War Two,
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  Speaker 1: there was a sense in which the government should do more,
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  Speaker 1: and then with the failure, kind of the failed economy
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  Speaker 1: of the late sixties and the nineteen seventies, there was
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  Speaker 1: a sense that the government should do less. But generally
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  Speaker 1: there was an abandonment really of constitutional limitations on the
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  Speaker 1: government's authority to regulate, to tax and to control. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: to get an income tax, the United States had to
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  Speaker 1: pass a constitutional amendment because the courts had ruled previously
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  Speaker 1: then income tax was unconstitutional. So with FDR's dramatic expansion
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  Speaker 1: of government intervention, government redistribution, you saw an erosion and
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  Speaker 1: a break really from the constitutional order when it came to.
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  Speaker 2: When it came to economic.
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  Speaker 1: Issues, social issues as well have kind of fluctuated suddenly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the United States tolerated slavey for a long
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  Speaker 1: time as a as a kind of a right to life,
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  Speaker 1: talk about a right to life. It violated that. And
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  Speaker 1: then after reconstruction and the failure of reconstruction, it reverted
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  Speaker 1: again to a very weak protection of the rights, the
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  Speaker 1: civil rights, the individual rights of blacks in the South,
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  Speaker 1: allowed for laws that were clearly discriminatory and that undid
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  Speaker 1: the idea of the rule of law. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: there are big periods in America that have been better
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  Speaker 1: on free speech and worse than free speech. And there
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  Speaker 1: have been periods in American history where there's been more
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  Speaker 1: respect for the rule of law, less respect for the
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  Speaker 1: rule of law. But in general, again just like with
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  Speaker 1: economic rights, there seems to be some improvement. Maybe during
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  Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties, there was some improvement over issues
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  Speaker 1: like free speech. Over the last fifty years sixty years,
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  Speaker 1: there's only been improvements and steps backwards on the issue
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  Speaker 1: of civil rights, on the issue of discrimination based on
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  Speaker 1: sex and nation by the government, based on race and
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  Speaker 1: sex and everything else. So really across the board, there's
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  Speaker 1: this like kind of tentative position situation where you never
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  Speaker 1: know when the Constitution seems to matter when it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain periods, certain courts that care about certain
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  Speaker 1: parts of the Constitution and they will try to enforce it.
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  Speaker 1: And there's certain periods and certain courts where they don't
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  Speaker 1: care anymore about those they care about other ones. And
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  Speaker 1: there's this constant shift and constant move in terms of
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  Speaker 1: in terms of that aspect. And we'll return to the
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  Speaker 1: courts in a minute, but I would say that we
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  Speaker 1: stand right now at a point where really our constitutional
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  Speaker 1: order is at a breaking point, making point and above
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  Speaker 1: and beyond anything else that I at least know from
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  Speaker 1: American history, at least since slavery was abolished.
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  Speaker 2: It really seems like.
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  Speaker 1: The idea of separation of powers, the idea of checks
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  Speaker 1: and balances, is on the verge of going. The one
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  Speaker 1: area in which some constitutional issues matter is the courts,
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  Speaker 1: and we will see what the fate of the courts
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  Speaker 1: is going to be, but it's not obvious and it's
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  Speaker 1: not clear that the courts are going to survive.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly, a separation of powers as.
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  Speaker 1: Eroded, eroted, eroted, and the executive branch has expanded, expanded,
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  Speaker 1: expanded over the.
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  Speaker 2: Last you know, since FDR.
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  Speaker 1: But we're now at a point where you really get
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  Speaker 1: a sense that Congress is not interested in doing its job.
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  Speaker 1: It is obsessed, I think more than ever, And again
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  Speaker 1: historians might correct me, but it seems like more than
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  Speaker 1: ever with the next election with preservation of people's seats,
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  Speaker 1: and has no interest, no interest in actually governing, in
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  Speaker 1: passing laws, in holding the executive branch accountable, in doing
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: its job in terms of chicks and balances, or doing
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: its job in terms of legislation, with even the remote
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: idea of individual rights at stake, it just seems non existent.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: They can't pass a budget. They haven't passed a budget
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in years and years and years. They refuse to restrain
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the president. Indeed, over the last few decades they have
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: given more and more and more and more authority to
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the press and his regulatory agencies to run amook. There
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: is some attempt by the courts to take away some
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: of the power from the agencies, but it is a
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: half asked job and taking away their power, and it's
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: certainly the restrain on that power is not coming from
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the legislature.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: It's not being attempted by the legislature.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: More and more, Congress is delegating vast lawmaking authority to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the president and to federal agencies. And we know for
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: federal agencies, we know this for you know, things like
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: dot Frank. Congress writes like a law that basically creates
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a a framework, and then it tells the regulatory agencies
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you fill in the blanks, you fill in all the details,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and according to that, the agencies then right the regulations,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: they figure out how to enforce them, and they even
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: have legal entities within the agencies to judicate violations internally
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: without any chicks and balances, without any I mean, I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: guess some of those can be taken to the Supreme Court,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: but with no involvement in Congress, no review of the laws,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the regulations that they have written.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: But on top of that, Congress has.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Basically shrugged off its responsibility for declaring war. It lets
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: presidents engage in military action without any sanction by Congress,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: without any need for approval, without any votes.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: The Venezuela right now is.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: A prime example of this, where actually a bill came
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to the flaw to require congressional approval for more military
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: action in Venezuela, and he got voted down.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Now, you don't even need a bill like that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: The Constitution clearly says that if Trump wants to engage
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in military action in Venezuela, he needs congressional approval, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: and and the Senate can't even muster enough notes votes.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Republicans who claim to be defenders of the constitution can't
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: even muster enough votes to do a reset, to return
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to a constitutional order that says, oh, next time you should,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna penalize you for last time.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Next time you need to ask up permission. Nothing. They
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: have not. They've delegated.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: They've delegated a power that you know, you could arguably
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: say not arguably, they have no athouty the delegate.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: It's the responsibility, it's their power.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: They've done the same on a variety of different issues
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: related to for example, tariffs.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: The power to tariff, the power.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: To tax explicitly is explicitly in the Constitution, and that
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: power to tariff lies with Congress, not with the president.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It's allowed by the constitution. It shouldn't be, but it's
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: allowed by the Constitution, but it's allowed for Congress to do.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: But Congress again going back to really going back to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the Great Depression, going back to FDR, and in that case,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: as a positive, it delegated the authority in many respects
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: on tariffs to the legend, to the executive, not on
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: everything with certain boundaries. That that's why there's a chance
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: that the latest did about somewhere between forty percent of
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the taffs Trump passed will be ruled un constitutional because
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: they're outside the boundaries of what Congress delegated.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: But they delegated in the nineteen.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Thirties, actually delegated the authority to the executives because they
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: wanted tariffs reduced. They didn't have the balls and maybe
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: they didn't believe they had the votes to actually literally
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: reduce the tariffs. So they gave the presidency the authority
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to reduce the tariffs that had previously been put on
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: goods through Smooth Holly. So this was a way for
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: them to weaken Smooth Holly. So Congress has given authority
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the president to do tariffs, a lot of them, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to make them go up and make them down down,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and it's reached an absurdity today, an absurdity. I don't
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: know if you saw this, but today Donald Trump pronounced
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: that any country in Europe that sends troops to Greenland
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to bolster their defenses in the face of the supposed
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: threat that Trump claims exists from China and Russia, any
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: country that sends troops to Greenland, which he covers Greenland,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: that is, he will place a taro.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: For ten percent on them.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: So, in other words, any country that sends troops to Greenland,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: NATO country, or other country that sends troops to Greenlands,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: even to all NATO countries.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Trump will tax American citizens.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: On goods from those countries, raise our taxes to penalize
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: those countries for sending troops to a place that he
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: claims needs more troops to defend itself.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: That's why he wants that place.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, just showing you the lie that Greenland is
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a national security issue. It has nothing, zero, not a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to do with national security. Trump's desire for
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Greenland is purely an issue of his ego, his desire,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: his whim. And I know I'm relucting to say this,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: given so many people out there declare that he is
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest presidents in American history. Indeed, the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: very fact that Trump is going to take Greenland without
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: asking Congress, and a threatened to deploy troops to Greenland,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and it's clear that he would do this without asking Congress,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and then on top of that he has no fear,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: no fear, zero, not a nothing, that he will be
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: impeached over it because it is an impeachable offense. He
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: deploys troops to Greenland in order to occupy glean Rand
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: and take it over for the United States.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: That is an impeachable offense.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: That is basically a declaration of war on America's closest
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: allies without Congressional approval, without the checks and balances, without
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the legislature, which is responsible for declarations of war. The
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Constitution in that sense is breaking. The order is breaking.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Congress won't do its job, and Trump just doesn't care
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: about the Constitution. I mean, of all the presidents in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: American history, I think Trump knows the least about the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Constitution and cares the least about the Constitution.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: He wants what he wants.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: The Constitution also, so you know, we will see, by
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the way, what happens when the Supreme Court rules. And
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: let's be very clear, if the Streme Court rules for
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Trump on the tariff case, then the Supreme Court is
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: basically saying, yeah, the legislature doesn't matter and the Constitution
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter because old point in the cases, the Congress
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: passed a law saying that the president could do x
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: y z in times of economic emergency. The x y
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Z do not include tariffs. Trump used that law to
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: im post tariffs. And if the stream Court says, yeah, okay,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: then it doesn't matter what.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Congress writes in its laws.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: The President could do whatever he wants, and it doesn't
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: matter what's written in the Constitution because the president could
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: do what he wants. And indeed, again, that whole law
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: that delegating the authority of the president to engage in
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: economic whatever sanctions, this, that, or the other during economic
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: emergencies is absolutely one hundred percent non objective law. It's
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: another delegation of powers that is an abrogation of Congress
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: of their role. So this is a massive test, a
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: massive test for the Supreme Court. It really does seem
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: like the Supreme Court is the only entity in American
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: government right now that cares one iota about the Constitution.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: And the question is how much how much do they get?
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I worry about how much I think This case was
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: supposed to be decided before New Years, was supposed to
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: be decided a week and a half go. We're supposed
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: to be decided on Wednesday, and they keep delaying and postponing,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: which worries me.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I should worry you. This is one of the.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Biggest cases, at least in I think probably the biggest
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: case since Dobbs, where the court ruled badly. It's the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: biggest case in a long time, you know, in defining
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: this relationship between the constitution and the legislature and the executive.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: So we have a constitutional owner, we have.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: A constitution of republic in which Congress is dysfunctional, the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: legislature is disjunctional, the executive is eager to take as
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: much power as you can, and the executive right now
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: is eager to do so like no other executive in history.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, FD as bad as he was, was restrained
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: by a certain tradition of limited powers. Ultimately got his
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: way with the courts, but was far from just ignoring.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Congress and doing whatever you wanted.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Since then, we've seen a slow erosion, particularly over the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: last few presidents. Bush wrote lots of executive voters, Obama
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: wrote more executive voters, and now Trump is just out
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: of control.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Granted, FDR wrote lots of executive orders, but his starting
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: point was a relatively free economy and world, so there
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: are much damage as he did a functioning, somewhat functioning
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: constitutional order. The continent shoulder is so degraded, and now
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: put on top of that Trump he's eviscerating it, completely
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: eviscerating it.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: And you can see this in a number of different ways.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I wonder what courts one hundred years ago would have
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: thought of the equity positions that the federal government is
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: taking in American businesses.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: To control those businesses.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: And the degree in which Trump is involving himself the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: federal government executive branch, not leg just say the executive
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: branch is involving itself in the running of American businesses.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: And the fact that you know, he basically takes equity positions,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: makes investments in businesses, forces through merger agreements to give
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the government a stake without any congressional approval, just because
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: because he wants to. There's no law has passed saying
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the American government has decided that it will be in
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: order to facilitate X y Z, which would be false
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: and anti constitutional, but still would at least go through
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the right process, decide to take stakes in these companies.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: And we're delegating that authority to the federal government, to.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: The executive to be able to do this.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: None of that, No who cares, who needs it, authority,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I just take it, just do it. The other area,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, that is the responsibility of Congress should
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: be the responsibility of Congress has been.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: The responsibility of Congress that has been delegated almost entirely
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: is immigration.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I mean Trump can can ban immigrantion and Muslim countries,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: or ban immigrants of these countries and ban h one
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: b's unless they pay one hundred thousand dollars, or ban
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: this and ban that allow these, or the flip side
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: of that, Biden can just declare, oh yeah, we'll take
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: a million asylum seekers.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Don't care.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Anybody who wants asylum can come into this country. We
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: have no limitations. They're just winging it. They're just shooting
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: from the hip. There's no strategy, no standard, no principle,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: no constitutional guide rails, no legislative guide rails.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Congress does not involved. Congress doesn't care.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: They passed a law in nineteen sixty five of our
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: immigration that is barely relevant to today. Everything else is
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: basically done by executive order order. You know, we've got
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: these dreamers who Obama did executive order to allow them
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: to pass the citizenship Trump reverse that. The courts have
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: kind of neither here nor there, and it's just a
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: complete mass. But at this point, complete discretion of the
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: executive branch, no rule of law, no separation of powers,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: no checks and balances.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: We basically.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: We don't have in that sense the constitution of a public.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe a republic, but if the legislation did its job,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: you could call it a republic. But the legislation is
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: not doing its job. It's defaulting on its job. It's
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: completely defaulting on its job. It is as if it
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: didn't exist. And maybe, you know, maybe right now you're
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: seeing one of the expressions of that, and that is
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the complete negation of the rule of law by the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security. They just do whatever the hell
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: they want. They you know, they detain citizens, they throw
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: them and sell us for days.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Now some of those citizens are going to sue, and there's.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: A lawsuit bought by IJ representing some of these citizens
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: being detained, and it will go ultimately maybe the Supreme Court,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: and maybe a year from now we'll find out what
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court thinks about that.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: But in the meantime, ICE doesn't care.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: They'll send uh, you know, they'll send whoever they want,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: at least for a while to u El salvatory in jails.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I'll send some of them to South Sudan. They'll they'll
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: just treat people like cattle, like animals. They'll shoot us citizens.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: They'll shoot us citizens and kill them, kill them.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: And what consequences.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: None? And and you know, you would think Congress would
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: maybe talk about impeaching the head of the Department of
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: of of of Homeland Security, uh Gnome.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: And would they would? They would they impeach her? They should?
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: She's a not only not only.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Is what she's doing horrific, but she's she's an idiot
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: on top of all that. I mean, she's clearly an imbecile.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: It's it's completely nuts, and it doesn't matter.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: They can get away with it. They keep going.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Now, the story is that Gnomas has said that from
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: now on, from now on, American everybody is going to
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: have to be going to be required to show an
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: ID and prove that they are citizens. Now, this is
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: clearly goes against the Constitution. This is clearly a violation
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: of individual rights. This is clearly unprecedented in the history
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: of law enforcement in the United States. Again, I'm sure
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: they've been other examples of this violation, but.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: At least in the modern times.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: And she's just declaring on TV nonetheless that this is
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: a new policy and that citizens who refuse to show
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: an ID proving that their citizens will be detained.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: She's saying that's now legal.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: How did it become legal? Did Congress pass a law?
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, even if they did, the law would be unconstitutional.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: But who cares because it will take a year two
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: years until the Supreme Court actually rules on it.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: And here the Supreme Court is unbelievably weak.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Why isn't the Supreme Court going into emergency session and
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: saying what's going on right now is unprecedented. The executive
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: branch is taking on unbelievable powers that they do not have.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: We will review these powers in the next couple of weeks,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and we will rule on these things. I don't know
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: if there's ever been a precedent for that. I'm not
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: an expert, but it strikes me that something like that
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: or one of these court cases should be expedited and
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: the quote should rule now because rights are being abused
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: on scale all over the country.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: I got an email from a listener in Wilma and Wilmam, Minnesota.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: I've been to Wilma It's a small town in way
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: way way westn Minnesota. It's two and a half hour drive,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: two hours, two and a half hour drives from Minneapolis.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Do west, just go west a little north.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: And west where Ice is harassing people and the response right,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: And this is not a big patrolton area. Yeah, this
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: is not where hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and they're arresting. You know, I'll on Monday on the show,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: I'll read you some of the examples of what she
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: sent me in terms of the harassment going on there by,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: what power a border patrol, a border agency should be
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: at the border, not in Wilma, Minnesota. Now Willma, Minnesotas
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: are far from the Canadian border, I guess, but it's
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: not border patrol. Customs you do when people cross the border,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: not in Minneapolis, not in Chicago, not in Los Angeles
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: at the border. And yet we have now unleashed a
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: custom and border agency, and we've given them extra powers,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: powers that no police force in the United States has.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: They can demand to CID.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: And not only that, NOME has told us they can
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: ambrass demonstrators because the very fact of demonstrating and filming.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Is obstruction of law enforcement. No quoter has ever ruled that.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Again, not constitutional, anti constitutional. But who's going to stop it?
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Who is going to stop them? And if they don't
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: get stopped, what's next. But we've seen we've seen the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: slip we slope since the late nineteenth century, a bad
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court decisions and ever growing federal government and a
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: growing and growing and growing power. We saw the establishment
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: of the We saw the anti just laws in eighteen nineties.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: We saw the establishment of the federals observing the income
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: tax in the under Wilson in nineteen fourteen.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: You know, we saw if they are.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Imposed kind of regulatory regimes in the economy that were
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: unheard of, and redistribution of wealth, the creation of the big,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: biggest pyramid scheme in history cled so security, you know,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: and a massive federal regulation on a scope unthought of
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: in American history of the financial system by the Feds
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty three and thirty four.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: And it just gets worse and worse and worse. Time.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Once in a while we get a legislature it's a
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: little bit more friendly market to market, So they deregulated
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit, not too much, and then but it
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: all bounces back because there's no basis for the deregulation,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: and certainly no constitutional one.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: And we've seen this slippy slope, slippy slope.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Down, down, down, down, away from constitutional republicanism. We go
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: and we're about to reach the bottom. And what does
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the bottom mean. It really means the legislatures insignificant, unimportant.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court and the court system are just there
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: to confirm the actions of the executive, and the bottom
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: is the executive rules. Basically, the executive does what he wants.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: The executive is.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: In charge.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: And there is no questioning his authority that if you
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: want to see the bottom as it will happen in
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: the United States if unchecked.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: It's putin in Russia.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: A softer version of that, I'm a moderate version of
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: that is Aubonne in Hungary.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: But the ultimate is putin in Russia.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: It started off, you know, in the in when he
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: was supposed to elect it as Yeah, there were I mean,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a constry order, but there was some semblance
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: of freedom and it wrote.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: It not happen very fast.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Because there's no constitutional republic, but it's happening here because
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: a constitution of republicanism they're so eroded, so becoming irrelevant
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: that we are now on the verge of it going
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: away and disappearing in the American form of government, basically
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: being a feature of history. ICE has no legitimate power
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: suddenly away from the border.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: It has no legitimate power.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: If people in Minneapolis are here illegally because they don't
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: have the right dogs are working illegally because they don't
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: have work permits. Work permits a constitutional requiring one, I
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: don't know, but okay, then that's a law enforcement issue,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: and law enforcement should deal with it. And if local
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: law enforcement doesn't deal with it, then it's the problem
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: of local law enfence. It's a problem of the local people.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: And if the local people want to change it, they
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: can vote out the government and bringing it down the government.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: They can then.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Impose the laws or enforce the laws, or maybe the
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: FBI needs to be sent in if it's a real crisis.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: But there's just no vote for ICE inside the United States. Nothing,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: not a zero. It is an illegitimate agency functioning in
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: illegitimate ways. It is not protecting individual rights, it's not
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: protecting American national security, it's not protecting anything. It is
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: an above the law monstrosity, and that's the sense in
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: which I believe it should be opposed, given what's at stake. Yes,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: civil disobedience is the answer the American people. Because Congress
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: won't do it and the courts don't seem to be
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: willing to do it, we have no choice. The Constitution
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: is gone, or at least deferred. By the time this
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: reaches the Supme Court will be a year or two. Right,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the America people need to assert their sovereignty, need to
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: assert their views, and that can only be done through
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: civil disobedience.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: I mean the photos I see coming out of.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: All these places around the country, armed thugs in groups,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: masked with unmarked cars, walking around neighborhoods, intimidating the population.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: That's not America. That's Russia. That's not America. Remember, the
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: sovereignty of the government comes from the individual. We are
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: sovereign as individuals. A government that stops suspecting the rights
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: of its citizens is a government that loses its sovereignty,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: and an age is created by government. You know, our
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: rights to violate our rights in explicit explicit. A contradiction
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: to the Constitution is not an entity. It's not an
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: entity that needs to be respected or should be respected
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: in any respect. It should be opposed, it should be opposed.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: And what a civil disobedient means. It means that you
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: obstruct them without using violence, knowing that you'll probably get
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: arrested and sitting in jail. But if enough of us
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: do it, if the number of people who do it
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: is large enough, then they can't arrest everybody. And if
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: there's enough pressure, then maybe maybe they will change their ways.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: The alternative, of course, is they become a lot more violent.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, I think we're on the verge right.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to be interested to see how
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court rules on tariffs.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: And whether what Trump does in response, and you're interesting
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: to see how this issue with Ice evolves and whether
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Congress will do anything.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: But I think we're very much in the precipice that.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: The constitutional order in the United States, the idea of
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: constitutional federalism is dead.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: It's not just.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Eroded and imperfect and you know, problematic, but it's dead.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe at some fringes, on some issues of property rights
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: and some issues of other things, you can still appeal
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: to the Constitution, but on the big stuff, you know,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's dead. And again it will depends a
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: lot on whether the Supreme Court is willing to uphold
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: the Constitution in clicker cases and whether the administration will then.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Abide by the Supreme Courts.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: And if they don't, which I hope doesn't happen, But
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: if they don't, what happens, What happens, Does anything happen?
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Is there anybody, any entity in the American system of
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: government that can act at that point? So we are
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: at the conclusion of that slippy slope at we're very
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: close to bottom. And as I warned when Trump was elected,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Trump could easily bring us to that bottom. Not because
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: he has an ideology, not because he's a fascist or
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: communist or whatever.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: But because he's just a wim worshiping, a win worshipper
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: who enjoy his power.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: And enjoys shocking people and just enjoys doing whatever the
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: hell he wants to do. Because again, Trumpt's not ideological,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: but he doesn't believe in the Constitution. He believes in authoritarianism.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: That's why he admires putin Kshi and the rest of them,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: and why he hates Europe. He despises Europe. I mean,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: if he treated Putin like he treats Europe. Ukraine would
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: have won the war by now. He hates Europe. Why
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: because it's free, because relatively there's actually rule of law
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: and people vote and political parties, juckie. And they're not
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: constitution of republics, but they're you know, they're limited democracies
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: with limitation on what the democrats that they can vote.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: But they function as free societies, relatively free societies, and
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: that he doesn't like.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: He doesn't believe in. He believes in authoritarianism.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: He wants illegal immigrants out because he promised that to
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: his voters.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Then they need to get out.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Whatever the means, the end justifies the means. He wants Greenland,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: who's Congress or the courts to get in his way.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: He wants to impose tariffs. He loves taffs.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: He keeps unpopular as Tarisa Tavising hugely unpopular in American day.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: All the polls show this.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: He doesn't care. He likes tariffs. He said it's his
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: favorite word in English language. So he's going to impose them.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Tappower given to Congress, who cares. He's just gonna do it.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: And this is what's going to happen. If the courts,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: if the quotes strike down these particular tariffs, he'll use
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: another law and impose reimpose all the tariffs using a
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: different law, and then they'll go back.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: To the courts.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Is does he has the constitutional power to use that
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: law to do it? And maybe a year from now
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: they'll strike that down and then they'll find another law.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: He is not going to by it, not it's spirit.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: He'll abide by the letter maybe, but not the spirit
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: of it. And there's really very little we can do
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: at this point other than, you know, stand up and
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: make up voices heard. And you know, I don't know
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: how you could penalize Trump. I mean, maybe vote against
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the Republicans in the midim election, which is not a
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: great outcome, but I'm not even sure he'll pay attention
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: to that. I mean, that'll be the bat next big test.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Are we a republic anymore? We're not a constitution of
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: republic anymore? Oh we even a republic? Our elections even
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: matter anymore? Clearly, his behavior after the twenty twenty elections
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: suggests that he doesn't believe we should be. He is
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: uninterested in elections. He's uninterested in being a republic is
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: uninterested in the rule of law and in all of
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: those senses. You know, I really do think he is
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: the worst president in American history, not the best, the worst.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: And that doesn't preclude.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: That he might do some stuff that we approve of
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: once in a while by accident. Almost all right, And
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: by the way, here's another one. I just you know,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: it's another example of just completely ignoring the rule of law.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Just just it doesn't matter anymore.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating elected officials for
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: criticizing the administration's immigration enforcement operation. They supposedly investigating Waltz
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: and the mayor of Minneapolis for criticizing.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Ice.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Now I'm meeting this from kind of a press release
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: from fire. This is organization that protects freedom of speech.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: They write, If this is the basis for the investigation,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: it is blatantly unconstitutional and intolerable in a few society.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: The right to condemn government action without fear of government
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: punishment is the foundation of the First Amendment. Now I
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: don't know if that's the foundation, but it is a foundation.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: This would be the first time the administration has used
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: boundless imaginary definitions of obstruction or incitement that have no
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: basis in the law and run headlong into constitutional limits.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: The few exceptions to the First Amendment are defined by
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: now exacting standards for a reason to prevent the government
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: from widening, from wielding its power to squash the sent
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: If criticism or government policy can be rebranded as a crime,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: then constitutional protections become meaningless and the government becomes unaccountable.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: That is precisely the danger the First Amendment is meant
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: to prevent, and it is a line no administration may cross.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: But this administration is willing to cross it. This administration
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: is willing to test that boundary. This administration is willing
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: to push and try. Why because he's the greatest American
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: president of American history, because he can do no wrong,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: even according to people who claim to share some of
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: our values.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: It's just another example of how monstrous this administration is
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: and what that you know, what they're trying to do.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so I know that's suppressing. Sorry, Saturday,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: What can I do?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: I was thinking what could I do as a positive
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: But there's too many bad things going on right now
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: to do a positive show. Because the other thing I
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about and I'll do this briefly, more
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: briefly than I expected to. I wanted to talk a
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: little bit about the history of you on and why
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: where we are right now, but I won't. I'll leave
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: that to a future show. I just want to talk
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: about what I think is going on right now. And
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: and by the way, just as in a side you
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: guys should all read Trump's post on Greenland that he
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: published this morning. I think about the tariff is impose
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: on countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and UK,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Netherlands and Finlands to penalize them for sending troops to
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: to to Greenland. A tariff that will start a ten
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: percent will increase to twenty five percent on June first,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. And of course he pretends that it's them,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: and it pretends that they pay for it.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: We will pay for that tariff.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: And you know, he pretends that there's a national security
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: reason it's required for the for the what do you
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: call it, the Golden Dome, But NATO would allow any
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: installations there that have required for the Golden Dome. There's
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: no requirement that we actually own Greenland to put a
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: base there with an anti missile technology of the Golden Dome.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: It is a complete myth. Sames turn Canada, you could
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: you could post them in Canada. And indeed, if we
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: don't use our ally Is territory as part of the
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: Golden Dome to protect America, then the Golden Dome is
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: not going to be very effective. And if we don't
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: have any allies by the time Donald Trump is finished,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: then it's going to be very difficult to defend America.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: I want to point out just a few things about Iran,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: which quickly and then I need to do this review,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: and then I'll go to your questions. And there are
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of questions and you guys have been very
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: very generous today, so I very much appreciate that, and
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: so I need to cover all that.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: So today's show is going to.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Go along long, but I can't have it go too
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: long because they didn't reservation is out there at some point,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: so you on, I just want to mention these few things. One,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: demonstrations are continuing. There is evidence coming out of you
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: on that the demonstrations are continuing. Then, in spite of
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: the fact that by most accounts that I've seen, the
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Ranian regime is killed anywhere between twelve to twenty thousand,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: twelve to twenty thousand of its own civilians. This is
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: a massacre of the civilian population. I've even seen reports
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: which I hesitate to talk about because I haven't seen confirmation,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: but I've seen a number of different places. I don't
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: know if this is true, but it wouldn't surprise me
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: if it was true that they actually used chemical weapons
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: chemicals on some of the demonstrators, but they killed them
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: in mass and there are people out there.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: Again, I have no way of verifying this.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: There are people out there claiming that twenty thousand number
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: is low.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: So this is happening.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Remember Trump said, you know, go out the streets protest,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: I will you know, help is coming.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: No help is coming.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Trump had the airplanes in the air to go after
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: the Ranians and withdrew them. And then he said they
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: promised not to execute. And indeed, on Wednesday they didn't
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: execute the guy that they said they were.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: Going to execute.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: But over this weekend yesterday and today, that's the weekend
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: in Iran. Yesterday today, the mulas have come out and
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: said no, no, no, we intend to execute everybody. Inde'd
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: expect eight hundred people, at least in the near future,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: to be executed.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Eight hundred people, you know.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Harmony also said, and this is a strategic mistake he made,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: but not surprising. Is another authoritarian, you know, not very
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: smart authoritarian, but who knows? He said, Trump is responsible
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: for all the people who died in Iran.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: It's Trump's fault.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: That'll piss off Trump, so he might do something. Demonstrations
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: are continuing, the killings are continuing, the executioners will continue,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: and Trump is sitting on his hands. Trump is sitting
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: on his hands now, he did say this morning. Trump
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: did that he's calling for any end to other companies
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: reign in Iran. He said, it's time to look to
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: new leadership in Iran. What does that mean? How does
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: that come about? Just replace the Supreme Leader? Maybe his
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: son could do a better job. Trump said that the
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: rulers rely on repression and violence to govern and after
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: reading the hostile expost by Supreme Leader who called Trump
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: a criminal and accused him of inciting sedition in Iran,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Trump said, what are his guilt as a leader of
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: a country is the complete destruction of the country and
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: the use of violence at levels never seen before.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: You might want to read about Nazi Germany.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: In order to keep the country functioning, even though that
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: function is very low level, the leadership should focus on
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: running his country properly like I do with the United States,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: and not killing people by the thousands in order to
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: get control. Leadership is about respect, not fear and death.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: The man is a sick man who should run his
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: country properly and stop killing people. Yes, but he can't
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: because he's an authoritarian thug. What is Trump going to do?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: He's promised that help is on the way. In the meantime,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: people are in the streets. In the meantime, people are
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: in the streets even today, even after they know the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: scale of the killer. I mean, just imagine, you know
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: the scale the degree of courage that you need to
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: go into streets knowing you will.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Shot at, knowing you are unarmed. So we will see.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: And in this respect, there was a sense in which
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: it's Trump's fault, in.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: Which and I know some of you will object to
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: this because you know.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: TDS or whatever, but there's a real respect in which
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: is this is Trump's fault. Early in twenty twenty five,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Israel had the Iranian regime in an unbelievable defensive posture.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: The reality is the mozad ed you know, killed many
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: of Ewan's leadership, Pamelion, the military, the the the pride
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: of the Ranian regime. The nuclear program had been destroyed,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: the missile program was was was weakened dramatically.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: I mean Ayatola, the Isola was on on you know,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: on the ropes.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Barely survived, belly survived, and Israel had the agents in place,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: It was about to launch additional air strikes against regime facilities,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: and at any time Israel or the United States could
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: have killed al Kamini. The United States did come in
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: and bomb the nuclear program, probably most symbolic than anything else,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: and the regime was on the verge of being well,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: maybe not collapsing, but being so weakened that the Iranian
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: people could have finished the job.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: Instead. Trump really at the behest of the Qataris.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Forced at Tennia to bring the planes home, forced Israel
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: into a ceasefire, forced them to stop when again another
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: week or so they could have completely destroyed the Iranian regime.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: And think about what would be happening right now with
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: the demonstrations if that had happened. But he wanted to
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: be a peace maker. He wanted to be a ceasefire maker.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: He wants a Nobel prize, he wants to be respected
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: for his bringing peace to the world or whatever. And
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: what he did was handing the Ayatula a lifeline that
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: allowed the Tula and the regime to regroup, to jail
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: and kill spies, and to regain control so that now
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: they can kill their own people in masks without any retribution.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: There's a long history, there's a long lesson. Once you'd
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: learn from history. Bad guys don't quit, they don't go away,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: they don't moderate. They get emboldened by your weakness. They
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: get embolden when you don't kill them. They get embolden
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: when they're not crushed. And at the earliest opportunity they
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: will pounce, they will destroy.
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  Speaker 2: And Trump had it so close, so close, and.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't require the US to do anything other than
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: to give you it is all the green light.
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  Speaker 2: And he boked all in the name.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Of some crazy idea of a ceasefire and peace and
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: whatever three thousand years Middle East, whatever nonsense that he
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: has rolling around in his head. And the Ranian people
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: are now, you know, paying the price, paying the price
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of deaths. And again, I just want
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: to remind everybody, and this is worth just remembering, particularly
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: when we when we look at the kind of the
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: challenges that we phase as a country, think of how
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: courageous and brave the Iranians going out on the streets.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: So I want you to remember that.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: And and when you see the bodies of the people killed,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: so many of them are young young men and women
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: in their teens and their twenties and their thirty is
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: this is the young generation is being eviscerated by the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Iranian regime. And yet they keep going out, and their
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: parents keep going out, and and it's just it's heartbreaking
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: and inspiring at the same time.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: All Right, Finally, I owe a book a book reviewer.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: I guess tell Larry Larry rad Key are a d
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: T K E.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: And the book is Folks in the Road. It's a
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: book of short stories, and I reviewed it. I reviewed it,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know, a few months ago. Reviewed the first
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: few stories and one story I hadn't reviewed yet, and
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: I said I would, And now's the day, so I'm
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: gonna review it today.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: Uh, do a quick review of it. You can buy
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: get Folks on the Road.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what it costs, but it's it's
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: I think you can in the kindow you can pretty
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: skater for free. It maybe cost a minimum amount, but
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: uh it's available on Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: Folks in the Road and uh so yeah again Larry
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: r A d t k E. Right, and.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I put on let me just just bring it
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: up in all right, No, that's a different folks in
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: the Road. The problem is there's more folks in the road.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: There's more than one folks in the road. So you
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: got to find the right folks in the road. So
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: let's put his family r A d.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: T k E. And there it is.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, you can get the kindle for free.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: Basically you can get a paperback for five fifty uh
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: and it is available. So the the final story in
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: the short story is called the Spirit of the Marsh.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: And you know, one thing that's characteristic of was characteristic
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: of all those short stories in the book.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: There are four short stories in the book, and.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: One thing is characteristic of all the short stories is
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: the story is a super original. And god, I don't
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: know where people like Larry where they find the imagination
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: to come up with these stories.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: But the stories are.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: Really imaginative and original, and so I give him a
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: lot of credit for that, for coming up with just
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: original stories. The spirit of a marsh you know, has
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: elements of kind of not objectivism, I wouldn't say, but
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: respect for science and a and a respect for property
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: rights and kind of a standing up against uh eminent domain.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: Although there's no there's no speeches, there's no uh you know,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: uh long long paragraphs of articulation of of of philosophical
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: which I like, I don't you know, I don't like
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: unless you I ran I. I generally don't like books
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: that try to preach outside of the story that where
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: you get speeches and long articulations of philosophical points. It's
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: a story about property is being taken over through eminent
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: domain by a company.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: And it's a story about a scientist.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: Who uses let's call it uses the animal world to
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: get revenge against the people who are taking her family's
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: land through eminent domain.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: And uh, you know, it's a bit of a thriller.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: There's a there's an attempted murder, and there's a uh
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: you know, no real fight scenes, but the the revenge
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: of the of the of nature is pretty uh, pretty violent,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: but it's all guided by a human hand and human technology.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: I think it's a little science fiction in that sense.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: The technology doesn't exist, the technology they're talking about, but
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: it's good. There's an element of it that, oh okay.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: So all of that is, you know, I liked and
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: it's fun. It's a fun story. But I'm going to
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: be critical, so sorry, Larry. Larry paid me a lot
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: of money to be critical.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: I guess a few things that I would say I
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: would critique about the story.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: The story just logically has certain gaps. I'm not going
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: to get into because again I don't want to give
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: away the story. You know, not everything is explained. When
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: it is explained, it's often explained after the fact, and
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: kind of a rushed way. It goes by too fast.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: A lot is happening and it goes by too fast.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: But I think the main thing I didn't like was
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: that the protagonist, the hero, really.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: He's principled.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: He's principled and you could argue strong at the beginning
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: of the story. Principle is then's strong at the end
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: of the story, but he's very weak.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: Through most of the story. He's weak, and he doesn't
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: drive the plot like I like heroes who drive the plot.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: It's them who are making things happen and determining things
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: and moving the things along, and he really isn't. It's
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: either he's falling for stuff, but it's other forces. And
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: the forces are not always clear what's driving it because
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: it's not clear if I mean, there's a fog and
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: it plays into this, and it's not clear where the
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: fog can, how it can do what it does. It's
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: probably guided by some tech that a certain woman has
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: and maybe she's driving the plot, but it's not clear,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: and there's ambiguity about it. But one thing is clear.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: He the protagonist, the hero, is not driving the plot.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: He's not in charge.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: He's not.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: His decisions are not what makes make a difference except
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: his initial decision and right at the end, And indeed
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: he's he's weak and kind of kind of pathetic during
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: most of it.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: So, you know, I just didn't like him.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: He was not a person I could relate to, and
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: he didn't strike me as a heroic person, and if anything,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: he struck me as out of character when he became
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: more principled. So I think that was my main you know,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: a negative negative point about it. The story is, you know,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: a little out there in a sense of the science
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: fiction elements.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: But justice is done, I'll say that. So it's always
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: good to have a story with the bad guys don't
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: succeed or meets an appropriate end. Put it that way.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: Again, some of the storytelling feels a little rushed, like
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: the details field, a little rushed, and there might be
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: some plot holes in it that I that I don't
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: quite don't quite get. But yeah, it's it's it's definitely
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: entertaining and enjoyable and again a very original.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: Plot just the awk of it.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: It's just I've never read anything like it and never
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: seen anything like it. It could be a movie. I
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: could see it being turned into a movie. It's got
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: a visual a strong visual element to it. And Bonnie says,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: Folks in the Road is own folks with an ass
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: at the end, and you have to put his the
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: name of the author into it in order to get
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: the right book. She says, it's only two ninety nine.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: I some kind of Kindle unlimited and I get it
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: for free, all right, So that's right, it's it's part
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: of the Kindle and limit. I get it for free,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: but you can get it for two ninety nine.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: If you buy it. If you buy it, and what
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: do you call it?
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: I found again the four stories. Four stories though all original.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: I actually, you know, funnily enough, I kind of enjoyed
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: the first two more than I enjoyed the latter two.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: But but I think they're all again, all original, all interesting, and.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, check out Larry's writing. I think I'll see Larry
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: in Florida at the conference in where's the conference in?
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: Not in? Not invented? Where's what's it called?
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: I forget the name, I forget the name of the
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: the name of the town where the conference is held,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: But it's the Rand Con Rand's birthday. We're going to
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: be celebrating Rand's birthday. Yeah, it's Larry D R A
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: D T K E. So check him out, check out
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: the book, and all right, where am I? I think
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: that's it. I think I covered the material I wanted
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: to cover an hour and a half and I now
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: will turn to your super chat questions. And there were
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of them, so thank you. Also some a
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: lot of stickers and some substantial ones, So I've got
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of thank yous to do here Wes Well,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: well before Wes, I think we've got Rand and Coley Ran, Coley,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: thank you for the fifty dollars. Rand knows, Wilma, I'm
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: pretty sure, Wilmar, Michigan and Michigan, Cott Minnesota, Wilma, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: John Bobbin, thank you. Really appreciate that. And I need
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  Speaker 1: to get back to you on your email and I
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  Speaker 1: I really really appreciate all the support you provide to
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• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. And let's see who else do we have.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: We have Stephen Harper, thank you. All right, we got
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: to do that. Let's go backwards. Stephen Harper. Mum dumdumdumdum.
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  Speaker 2: It's Troy. Thank you again. I'm just going through it.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: John and Ran all right, cool. Thank you guys.
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  Speaker 1: To the stickers, really appreciate it. It's a great way
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• 1:25:54
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• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: thank you all. We also got some terrific support on
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  Speaker 1: the super chat with a number of kind of fifty
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• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: Pledges contributions. So thank you for that. And so let's
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: just go through the su chats.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go with it, all right, not Javi
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  Speaker 1: JAGORITHM one hundred dollars, thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: He says.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: Many people love Rand's novels while never comprehending the philosophy,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: but millions of people now live more productive, more ambitious,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: more happy lives.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think all that's true.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: That sense of life is not going to grow even
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: if people don't understand these idea. That sense of life
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: is only going to grow even if people don't understand
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: these ideas on an intellectual level. I mean maybe, but
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if their ambition ultimately translates into a
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: sense of life. And I really don't see any evidence
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: of this sense of life and its growth. I see
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: people being productive and being more ambitious and creating wealth
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: and doing things like that. Maybe because they read Iron Rand,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: But I don't see them being upset that they ever
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: growing encroachment, ever growing encroachment of government into our lives
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: and into our neighborhoods.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: I don't see enough people upset.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: I don't see that sense of life that Americans used
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: to have before objectivism of don't tread on me.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: Of it's my life, it's my values, it's my choices.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: That attitude seems to have.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: And now I hope that people reading Ironrand will slowly
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: bring that back. But sense of life is something that
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: is really a sense of life is something that's created
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: in childhood, in maybe young adulthood, and all indications are
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: that by the time they read on Rand, and maybe
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: this is why they don't company in the philosophy, their
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: sense of.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: Life is read rotted away.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: And while the philosophy might the novels might appeal to
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: some spark remnant of their sense of life that still
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: exists in them, and that might spark them to behave
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: and to do certain things that are positive. I don't
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: know how comprehensive it is is. I don't know how
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: deep it goes and how much it actually changes them.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: Without grasping the philosophy and of course, our educational system
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: does all in its power to make sure that by
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: the time you become an adult, you don't have the tools,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: i e. A mind to be able to grasp the philosophy.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: So I mean, I hope you're right, very much, hope
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: you're right. You know, we're if there is a chance
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: for this culture, if there's a chance for this world,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: for this generation, for the next two generations. It is
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: in the novels of Iinnrand. It is in the hope
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: that it is imprinting a sense of life.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: In Iran, in the readers. I wait to see the
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: evidence of them.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: And I think, I think the challenge that Trump is
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: throwing at us right now with Ice is the big challenge,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: because I don't know, you know, he might retreat because
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: it's very what he's doing is very unpopular, which is good.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: It's very unpopular, and polls are not good.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: And he might choose to strategically or tactically retreat to
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: engage another time in another place, or he might choose
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: to escalate. And if he chooses to escalate, what do
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: the American people do Not just in Minneapolis, which tends
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: to be a pretty leftist place and where a lot
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: of the people, some of the people at least out
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: there in the streets, are motivated, probably by the wrong things.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: What happens when this happens in other places? I mean,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to see, well, anyway, what happens when it
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: happens in other places? How do the American people respond?
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: How do how does the how does the Yeah, what happens?
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: That's going to be a big test, a big test.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: I'm also happy to see the billions leaving California because
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: not because it hurts California, but because it says that
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: there are billionaires out there willing to acknowledge their selfishness,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: at least in this warm realm. There's only so much
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: confiscation they're willing to tolerate. And maybe that's a little
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: bit of iron Rand influence, because not all the not
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: all the billionaires are doing that. Chasbat and I quote
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: this is from Ando from Goman. In Ando quote, if
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: you can hear me, the imperial slaughter of Gorman has begun.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: Thousands are dying. Help us? Is there no one who
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: can help us? Yeah? I don't know if you've seen Ando,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: but it's pretty powerful.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: And the slaughter happens and it's on a massive scale,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: and there is no one to help them, or the
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: people to help them.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: It's really too little, too late. There's not enough.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: But right now the United States is in a great
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: position to help the Iranian people, and it's promised to
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: help the Ranian people.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: Will it live up to the promise? You know, I
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: don't know. I just don't know, all right, Michael.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: Both sides are held together, not by ideas, not by
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: any understanding of political philosophy, but they but they hatred
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: of the other tribe. They can be no victory in
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: a blind struggle of that kind, only fear, distrust, and
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: transient regional warlords.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, it's not completely idea less. The problem is
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: the ideas that they do hold.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: The ideas that are rising on the right, that are
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: slowly dominating the right are the ideas of nationalism, mingled
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: with Christianity, mingled with religion. It's a kind of it's
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: a Christian nationalism, but nationalism this heritage Americans, that America's
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: blood and soil. So the ideas on the right are
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the ideas of nationalism. The ideas on the left are
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: the ideas of the far left, which is the only
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: part of the left that really has ideas. It's the
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: ideas of disintegration, is of postmodernism, the ideas of fragmentation.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: And there is some center that believes in America as
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: it they believe it was a few decades ago. It
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't quite understand what America is confounding and the more
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: principles behind it, but has some notion of they'd like
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: to return to normalcy. They've viewed normalcy as America vis
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: a vis I don't know the nineteen nineties, of the
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: early two thousands, before nine to eleven, So it's not
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: completely empty of ideas. And the question is what winds
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: out if there is a wolf ideas, that is what
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: winds out. Is it the integrating evil, integration of religion
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: and nationalism, or is it the disintegration of woke and
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: postcolonial theory and all this garbage it's in America that
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: it's not, you know, it's I think that the winner
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: is the national conservative, the national Christian nationalists.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not going to be easy and it's not
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: going to happen quickly. And I agree with you that
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: in the.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: Process we're gonna have a lot of fear destruction, a
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: lot of fear in destructure, whether it evolves into devolves
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: into civil war.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so, but I don't know. Have you
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: this is was res uh? Thank you? As for fifty
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: Australian dollars.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: Have you seen the videos posted by DHS themselves mocking
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: the deported One had the Pokemon theme with footage of arrests.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: Another I had a remike remix of jet to holiday music.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: This is this is fun to them, and they're little
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: fascist supporters and the little fast supporters love it, he says.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: Unbelieve you know, I haven't seen it. I should go
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: back and say I should, I should look for it,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: and I want to see it. But yes, I agree
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: with you completely. They relish this, they enjoy it. I
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: think they relished the murder of good. They they celebrate it. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, for those of you still in doubt,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: the New York Times just did I think?
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: The published it this morning a frame by frame analysis
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: of all the videos, including the video that the that
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: the ice agent took from the front of the car,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: that is, the the one he took in his cell phone.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a it wasn't a video cam a cam
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: on him.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: It was a cell phone. He was busy filming. Uh,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: and while all this was going on, and uh, frame
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: by frame, and it shows that he wasn't hit.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: If he was, maybe his almost hit a little bit,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: he wasn't hit, and that he by the time he shoots,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: he's way out of danger, even the first shot, never
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: mind the second and third shots.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: So I courage you to watch that. But they they
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: like this. They shot somebody. Now everybody is really intimidated, and.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: They're all about flexing muscles for intimidation's purposes. Whereas also rights,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: I've already I've always thought conservatives have tended towards authoritarianism.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: They have.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: They when they say law and oder, they mean blick
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: obedience to laws and institutions who are who are legitimate
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: because they are the law and institutions, and you'd better.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: Comply or else. Yeah. Now it's becoming and now it's
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: becoming really reality. You're seeing.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: I keep getting people commenting on my videos and ice, well,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: if you just do what they say, nothing will happen
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: to you.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't want to do.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: What they say, and they have no right to say
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: what they say. You know, somebody was saying what you know,
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: I don't get ever thrown down onto the ground back
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: by uh, you know, the authorities, because I just I
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: just get out of the car when they tell me
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: to get out of the car, and I go down
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: on the ground by myself if.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: They asked me to. Yeah, so you're you're you're a
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: little slave who does what you are told and and
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: and just follows orders, follows orders.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: Conservatives are supposed to be the ones who conserve the constitution.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: They're supposed to be the ones conserving the American form
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: of government. They're supposed to be the ones conserving the
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: rule of law. But that's exactly what they're not doing
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: because they've they've separated law something coming down from the authorities,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: from a constitution, from a moral authority, even from a
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: political authority, because the laws coming down from the Ice
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: Agent have no political authority.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: They're anti constitutional. They're not.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: A an entity that has policing power over me, over you. So, yes,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: conservatives are way too follow laws because they're the laws
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: because we said so, not because they're there to protect
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: individual rights, not because they're there for a particular purpose
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: and particular meaning.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: And when they lose that meaning, well maybe we.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: Should question those laws, challenge those laws. But you know,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: conservatives would not have fought against slavery, They would not
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: have fought against Jim Crow laws, and they didn't. They
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: would have not objected to the many irrational, illegitimate, horrific
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: laws that existed in this country over the years. They
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: would have changed nothing. Andrew can One can have times
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: of strong resistance to focus, but focus is still when
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: Conrango wants focused, to get it working right, refuse to
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: give in to starting blankly and look for the light.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: Any thoughts on will and focus? Yeah? Absolutely.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: Look how many times are there that you you have
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: something you know you need to do and you don't
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: feel like it. I mean, seriously, don't feel like it,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: not just I mean you just you don't want to
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: do it. You know, the beach is beckoning. Of the
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: book you're reading is beckoning, TV is whatever something else
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: is becking or different project is beckoning. But this is
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do, this is what you've decided
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: previously to do, and this is the right thing to do.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: And at that point you have to muster your will,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: You have to bring your focus forward. You have to
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: say okay, in spite of all that I'm gonna do it.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: And that's the difference between whim worshippers who don't get
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: anything done or procrastinate who really don't get anything done
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: or not.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: Productive, and the productive people in our world. The productive
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: people in our world do it.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: They don't do it as a sense of duty. They
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: do it because that is the choice that they made.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: But they don't let their particular specific emotional state or
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: the particular specific distractions keep them from.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: Doing what they know is right. They get it done.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: And yep, and and you can notice it in yourself.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like that, but I'm gonna do it.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: And you bring that energy, you bring the focus, you
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: bring the metal concentuation, and you do whatever it is
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: that you want to do that you need to do. Michael,
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: we are now at the point where the administration is
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: talking openly about requiring you to carry proof of citizenship
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: at all times and to show it to government agents
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: on demand. We are at the borderline of dictatorship. Well
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that is the borderline of the dictatorship,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: but certainly we're at just another that big step towards authbitarianism,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: no question about that. And that requirement is again goes
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: against the Constitution, and it looks like, according to Nome,
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: they're going to require it. And then the question is
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: what then, and how do we resist it, and how
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: do we stop it, and how do we prevent it
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: from happening.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: But they are intent on.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: Pushing the boundaries, pushing the boundaries of the law as
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: much as they can and then saying, sue us.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: That's the attitude, sue us, knowing that it won't reach
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court for a year or two.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: Clark, I've toured Auschwitz to think the ideology that led
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: to its creation is gaining in popularity and is astounding.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: Such wickedness and cruelty are beyond my comprehension. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: you look at how many people today are sympathetic to
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: the Nazis, Nazi apologists only asking questions about the Nazis,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: something that even five years ago would have been unthinkable.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: If you think about the tech of cautions of the
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: world and all the other influences in that universe.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: Who are I mean?
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: I think the number the number two lawyer in Ice
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: right now is based I think in Texas isn't avowed
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: neo Nazi. He's posted on it. He's he's no questions
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: about it. He was he left, you know, he was,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: I guess put on probation for a while.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: And he's back.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: He's back prosecuting cases for Ice, a Nazi. You know,
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: the tolerance for for Nazis. It's just unbelievable at this
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: point among Republicans, It's just unthinkable. Clark Ice is a
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: paramilitary group operating within the executive branch, answerable to the
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: pre The essence of VICE is that it is designed
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: to be arbitrary, uncontrolled power. What's stopping it from morphing
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: into the Gestapo, Well, what's stopping it is the fact
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: that Trump and the people around him are still somewhat
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: tentative about throwing out the constitution completely. They still worry
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: about the courts a little bit. They've stole an out
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: ready to take that next step, which is to just
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: ignore the courts.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe they will soon, I mean Elon Musk wants to
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: literally prosecute judges who.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: Are anti Trump. They're not quite ready yet to take
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: that next step. I don't know when they will be,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: And a lot of it depends on how we the
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: people respond to what is happening now.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: The more we acquience.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: The more we stay silent, the more we just don't
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: really care about ICE, the more power ICE will gain,
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: and the more the administration will start thinking, start thinking
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: about how to use it in other ways and how
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: it can become gestapo like.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: But there's no The only thing limiting them right now
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: is an unwillingness to.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: H to ignore the court system completely, push it at
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: the edges, push it to the edgines.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: But not ignore it completely.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: But I don't know how long that will last. The
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: more confident they get, the more they'll be willing to
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: ignore it.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: Rue.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: Some are claiming that Trump is thinking about the future
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: of AI and the US and China are in a race,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: and he fears that we don't act outside of the
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: US in countries like Venezuela, Greenland, and Canada, they'll lose
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: to China, will lose to China.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know how all of that is related to AI.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, clearly there is a competitive nature to the
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: United States and China's relationship. There is hostility there. I
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: don't see how that's related to Greenland, in Canada and Venezuela.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, what the United States needs to do. Alex
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: Epstein has a Alex Epstein has a video interview with
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: a young entrepreneur in the military technology space, which is
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: very good.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: I encourage you to watch it, and basically I agree
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: with the kid.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: He says, Look, what we need is we need to
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: embrace modern technology and modern warfare.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: And to do that, that's what we need to beat China.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: We can, but we need to be investing in that.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 2: It's not hugely expensive.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: But we need to focus our energies on drones and
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: electronic warfare and to shoot down ballistic missiles, even hypersonic.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: We need a really focused effort around the essentials of
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: winning a war against China.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: Greenland is not necessary for that. Venezuela has no relevance
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: for that.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: What we need to do is build a preemptive force
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: that China would not dare to challenge. And it's possible
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: for the United States to do it. We can innovate
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: at a speed China can't keep up with, even though
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: it has much larger population, more engeneers most scientists because
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: they don't have the freedom. But we need to do it,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: and that is the defensive BONDM needs to be focused
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: on it, which I don't think it is. Instead it's
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: focused on kidnapping, you know, kidnapping. What's a better word
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: than kidnapping, So it doesn't seem so negative, you know, deposing,
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: arresting Maduro. I mean good, but is that really I mean,
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: it's nice that they showed the Chinese that we can
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: evade their radar. Maybe it's better that we didn't show
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: them that so that when we need to, we can
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: actually do it and surprise them. Now they know now
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: they can Tika, Now they can improve. The US can
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: beat China if it focuses immediately on the right things.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: And I don't think a Defense Department or Department of
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: War headed by Hegseth has the intellectual capacity to do that.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: Ali Musa says we lost Iran because of Trump and
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: his weakness.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: Now, I don't think we've lost yet, and Trump might
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: still act. He might still act, and Harmoni blaming the
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: massacre on Trump might instigate Trump acting. It's exactly that
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: kind of triggers that might get him to be impulsive
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: and do something, So you might still do it. But yes,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: the loss of life is a consequence of Trump's weakness. Again,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: if Israel hadgit continued for another week or two, this
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: regime would have just toppled, just toppled. Never mind if
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: the United States had entered and joined Israel and helped it, then, yeah,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: regime would have been lost a long time ago. Ali
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: Musa says, Ben Shapiro is one of these people who
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: asking for shadow banning along with Eric. Now I don't
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: understand Ben Shapiro is one of those of these people
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: who asking for shadow banning along with Eric.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what Eric you mean.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: Now they are in power, it is all the free
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: speech until they take power. Oh, all force free speech
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: until they take power.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: The arepathetic.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, So they were arguing for free speech and now
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: that they've got power to tell with that.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: That's the nature of authoritarians. And this group with Trump
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: behind trumps porting Trump, enabling it. This is the key word, enabling.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: Trump is not interested in free speech, then I'm interested,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: and they're all enabling Trump. And Ben Shapiro is a
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: Trump enabler, and I think I think what he's doing
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: is horrific. Clark, if you did members only shows every Sunday,
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: it would grow your revenue substantially, maybe make every Sunday
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: an Opah show. Well, I don't know because the members
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: only show don't generate a lot of revenue, so I
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: don't know if it would. And look, I can do
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: every Sunday, that would mean I'm doing seven days a week.
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: Some days, like Monday, two shows a day, even I
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: need a day of rest. The Sabbath has significance. And
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: as it is, if I do Opah twice two Sundays
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: and i do a members only show on one Sunday.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: Then I'm already doing three out of four Sundays.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's too much. It's too much. We have
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: to find other ways to increase my revenue, like numbers.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: The way to do it is for you to share
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: Like the show.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: You don't get the show out there, get exposure to show,
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: particularly the shorter videos, share them, share them, share them.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: The more people see them, the algorithm will share them
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: a little bit. But the algorithm is going to be
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: limited because I'm too controversial. I'm too radical for the
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: algorithm to go crazy with my shows. And the best
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: shows are the ones that are most radical. So if
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: you want to help the show grow, you have to
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: do it. Nobody else can do it. Minnesota Representative reb
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: Key posts Ice locations live incitement.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: Now, why is an incitement?
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: It's a free speech information and there's absolutely nothing wrong
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: with people going to where ICE is and filming them.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: It is being shown that ICE needs to be filmed.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: They're killing people and it hasn't been filmed. We don't
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: know how bad it was, but it has been filmed.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: We at least no.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: So, no, it's not an excitement. It's public service. It's
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: a public service. It's a service to all of us.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: James.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: I've heard mega people argue we cannot be afraid to
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: do something because the left might do it in the future.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: Principles, we have.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: To initiate a fascist dictatorship before we get a woke dictatorship.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: Yeap. I mean what they lack is they lack principles.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: So it's not you know, the reason they shouldn't do
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: something is not because the Left could do it, could
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: use the same laws to do something even bigger. The
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: reason they shouldn't do it is because it's wrong. Because
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: it's bad, because it's anti constitutional, anti American, anti the
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: principles of this country. That's why they shouldn't do it.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: And you know, so they shouldn't the institute a dictatorship.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: Not in order to prevent the left from doing a dictatorship,
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: they shouldn't do a dictations But having a dictatorship is
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: inherently wrong, anti American. But they can't get that. They
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: can't think in principles. Principles are beyond them. Whereas two
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: hundred Australian dollars, Thank you, thank you, that is fantastic,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you again for what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Your strong, unwaiving stand against the obvious government overreach, even
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: in the face of harsh opposition against you and the
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: loss of subscribers, is inspiring and a true demonstration of
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: all the fundamental virtues of objectivism.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And it's people you guys who are listening and supporting
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: the show, who inspire me to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Because you know, you guys have got my back, and
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Thank you.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: Bonnie says, how did such a limited government get so huge? Well,
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: slippy slope, slow erosion, little violation. Once you undo a principle,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: the principle is gone. And then you undo it even
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: more and more and more and more and more, just
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: everything grows. Slippy slopes exist all the time. Everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you have to stick with principles. James says,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: this crime is getting lower than ever, and we're getting
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: richer than ever. I know many groups of people who've
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: inherited seven figures. Why are we getting more nihilistic and
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: fearful than ever? Because the reality is that, you know,
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: the nihilism and the fear have nothing to do with wealth,
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: and they have nothing to do with crime. They have
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: everything to do with ideas. Philosophy is the driver of history.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: Philosophy is the driver of culture. Philosophy determines I. Fearfulness
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: determines I nihilism. And it's it's our lack of capacity
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  Speaker 1: to reason which leads to fear. It's our abandonment and
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: lack of ability to comprehend values and to value anything which.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: Leads down nihilism. And those are philosophical issues, and philosophical
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: issues that are Sadly the issues are encouraged and fed
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: by our educational system. Cement. So Enerick, Enrick, just go
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: with Enric.
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  Speaker 1: Is it the problem that the executive can select the
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: judiciary members to be approved? Does that further the dominating
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: power of the executive branch? It hasn't in the past
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: because it's you know, they've needed a usually they needed
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: sixty votes to get a Supreme Court nominee approved, and
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: you know, filibusters were applied. You know, my position of
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: filibuster is today that I'm for filibuster if it's actually practiced,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: that is, somebody has to stand up and start speaking.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: That is, I'm against non speaking filibusters. I'm against the
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: automatic filibuster. I think that's a cop out. But look,
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: it's inevitable. There's no shortcuts here.
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  Speaker 2: The courts are going to reflect the politics of the time.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: And you know, given that we somehow dem sometimes have democrats,
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: sometimes have Republicans, the court will reflect the alternating that
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: alternating state. Liam Would you classify China as a mixed
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: economy or fascist? God, it's a mixed economy leaning towards
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: more fascism, but you know, it's not like fascism and
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: communism with only two systems. It's a statist regime with
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: elements of mixed economy, but dominantly statist because it controls
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: everything at DAN it is the final decision making. It
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: has no limitations, there's no limiting factor. It's statists. So
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: whether it's particularly fascist a particular. I don't know if
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: those terms necessarily always apply to every regime. Statist is
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: the is the best way the state dictates liam Are
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  Speaker 1: the Arab countries more fascist than socialist? Well, they're not socialists.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: But are they fascist again?
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 3: Not?
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: If you understand fascism is the ideology of Mussolini, their monarchies,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: they're statist authoritarians. Not everything has to be fascist or socialist.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: It could be uh, you know, they are the unnamed
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: forms of statism. We just the umbrella is statism. But
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: like Saudi Rave is a monarchy, right, Harpacampbell is Mega
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: a vocal minority. Most of the country is disgusted by
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: Trump and wants whom gone. Well, certainly Mega is a
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: vocal minority. Whether most of it and I think to
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: the country would like Trump gone, I'm not don't know
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: who they'd vote for, that is, if it was Trump
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: versus AOC, I don't know.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 2: Who they'd vote for.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: Right, So how desperate are they to get Trump gone?
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: And if the economy picks up next year? Well that
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: changed their mind. How principled is the is the is
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: the public or is it mostly just because they feel
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: like the economy's not doing wells they hate Trump, and
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: if the economy changes, they love Trump.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how deep it goes.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: In other words, Huper Campbell, Trump says the United States
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: shouldn't even have an election in twenty twenty six because
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: of all this, all this accomplishments. Do you think he's
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: feeling confident enough to break the election, to ignore the
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: results of the votes of the elections?
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean he was confident enough in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: to try.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's like one hundred times more confident now,
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: so I wouldn't put it beyond him at all at all.
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  Speaker 2: Both rig and Trite overturned it afterwards, and he said,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: I know he said.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: I heard him say, shouldn't even have an election because
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: he's so good, he's so confident, and he got such
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: a mandate. Why would you even need an election. It's
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: clear what the American people want. It's been channeled through him.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: He's a typical dictator in that sense. We will say,
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: you know, in less than a year, we will know
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: the answer to that. Na Chavi jagorithm fashion fascism is
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: the stage reached after communism has proven an illusion.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Fascism did not come out of communism. Arguably it came
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: out of socialism, but did come out of communism. And
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: you know, fascism came out of fascism. Qua.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: Fascism is an Italian phenomena, Mussolini, and it had nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with communism.
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  Speaker 1: Michael, What should have happened to people who cross a border?
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: Nothing absent proved a violent, fraudulent conduct. A voda marks
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: a jurishdiction. The mere act of crossing it without more
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: viola doesn't violate anyone's rights. I think that's that's absolutely right.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: In an ideal society, that is definitely the right approach.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: This voter is meaningless other than who Who's Jewish hiction?
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 2: Are you under? Jerome?
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: Hi?
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 2: Ron?
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: Can you explain the idea that the Constitution being a
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: social contract agreement across individuals and then individual states?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't actually view it as a social contract. A
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: social contract is an idea from Hobbes and Rousseau.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 2: You know, there's some kind of agreement of the.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: Governed, and I don't think that's true. None of us
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: signed anything. We're not asked to sign anything. We haven't
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: actually agreed to it one way or the other. So
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's actually a a social contract in
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: a sense that we all acquiesced to it, we all
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: agree to.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 2: It because we don't.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: And indeed, a constitution, the US Constitution was imposed on
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: the people. You know that the states voted for it,
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: but even that it's a majority, it was democratically voted.
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: There were minorities that voted against it, and yet it
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: still applies to them. A contract is something that you
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: have to agree to, not that somebody else votes for.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: You have to agree to it if you're a party
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: to the contract. So I don't view it as a
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: as a contract. I think that's confusing. A constitution is
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's a consequence of the recognition that the
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: individuals have rights and the rule those rights need to
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: be protected by government and and and how they are
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: protected needs to be articulated in a government that limits
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: how that government protects those rights and what it does
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: in order to protect them.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 2: And it's a it's a recognition that at this is
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 2: good for people, even if they don't know it.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: In from a political sense, it's good for people even
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: when they don't know it because it leaves them free
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  Speaker 1: to use their minds to do what they want, as
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: long as they not violent the other people's rights, which
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: is which is a moral principle that you know, must
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  Speaker 1: be abided by in order for us to live in
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: a in a in a in society, that is, in
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: a society that is civilized. So I yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm interested to see what some of all philosophers say
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: about the idea of a social contract, but I don't
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: like that notion, not Javis agor with them. The Willian
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: redefinitions are pretty staggering. It's not hard to see the
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: difference between an army who so just come to kill
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: us versus immigrants who come to work for us. I know,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: it's it's stunning, it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Be upsetting.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really upsetting is why people can't just see
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: right through it, and why people continue to use that terminology,
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: even people who you think would know better. So yeah,
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, and they use the constant use of those
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: kind of terms.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 2: Is just awful. Oops.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: Clock Will Trump's invasion of Greenland be the start of
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: World War III? Will America still just haven't fight for
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: a fascist even fight for a fashion leader. I don't
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: think it really started World War three. I don't think
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: anybody will oppose the United States if it goes into Greenland.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: I think NATO will make a lot of noise. We
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: won't do anything. I don't Will Americans still just fight
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: for fascist leader. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they did,
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: particularly after Heck Says has cleared out all the generals
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: who might oppose him. But again, we will see, we
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: will see what the state of the American military really is. Sadly,
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: we will see that in the months to come. James,
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: will the air I send it in Austin, Texas be
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: like Ironman Museum exhibit. Anyone can just walk in and
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: get a pamphlet, checking check out books or ten paid lectures.
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: So it's going to have it's definitely going to have
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: an element of paid lectures. I don't know there will
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: check out books. I don't know there will be a
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: library in that sense, but they'll be lectures, debates, events
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: that are going on there. There'll be a library where
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: you can sit and work and look at books, and
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: maybe a coffee shop. I don't know what's being decided
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: about that. That'll be one section and another section. There
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: will be an exhibit or more likely an experience where
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: you will I don't want to give it away, but
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: where you will interact with material around Ironman's novels and objectivism,
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: and anybody can walk off the street and theoretically and
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: do this.
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  Speaker 2: There'll be opening hours.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: There'll be opening hours for the library, they will opening
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: hours for the for the events, and they'll be opening
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: hours for this exhibit. There will also be the offices
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: and classrooms of the Ironman Institute and Aaru.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 2: Moulten Splendor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping up the fight, speaking out for freedom
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: and individual rights and calling ice agents murderers. Thank you,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: Multen Splendor. I appreciate that. And as I said, you
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: guys have my back, and I really really appreciate that.
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: I know it's not easy right now. Clark Ice agents
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: want to eat at at family owned Mexican restaurant in
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: Minnesota and guess what, hours later, they arrested the very
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: staff who served them.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 2: It's just so stupid, so evil, so evil. Yeah.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: Flora Nick Florida South College has the largest single largest
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: collection of Fank Floyd Wright buildings and office. Daily tours
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: the campus was this I'm by him. Yeah, I need
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: to I need to go there sometime. I mean, wow,
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty amazing. I don't know where it is.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure where Florida Southern College is, but I
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: need to figure that out, and one of my trips
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: to Florida I need to make sure to go there.
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  Speaker 2: So thanks for reminding me that that exists. I'm a
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 2: huge Frankloyd Wright fan, and I'm just looking at a
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 2: map where it is. It's not far from Tampa.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: It's between Tampa and Orlando, all right, next time, I
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: mean either Tampon Orlando.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 2: Gotta make it out there, all right.
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: Clark, physical appearance can never be probable? Cause absolutely absolutely, John,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: do you agree with Ben Swang who compares Trump and
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: Ice to SS. Does bench Wangne know that Himmler headed
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: the SS and was second to Hitler as the architect
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: of the final solution?
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think bench Wheyne knows that.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: And if you think about about Miller is basically running
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: the operations of ICE, not officially, but for practical reasons.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of similarities.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: I know that Miller is Jewish, but he's got he's
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: got that evil streak in him.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 2: That makes him such.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: Look, I don't think Ice is SS yet, but I
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: think that, as somebody else pointed out, I think Ice
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: is the is the testing ground for whether the American
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: people will tolerate something that is more like the SS.
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be surprised if they can get away
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: with it. And this might not happen, but if they
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: can get away with it, that ICE evolves into something
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: and develops into something that looks a lot more like
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: the kind of an SS. I mean, think about demanding
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: now that we have papers and show them to Ice.
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: That's a big step.
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 2: And while the SS went after Jews, you know, ICE
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 2: is going after immigrants, not treating them quite as badly,
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 2: but pretty badly. And of course the ss'ls say evolved.
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: It started out just much more thuggish street gangs, and
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: it evolved into this fine tune machine of murder of genocide.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: So I don't think anybody thinks that Ice is the
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: SS at its peak, but Ice might be kind of
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: the kind of the beginnings, the way the SS was
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: at the very beginning. The similarities, the similarities are not
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: that crazy, not that crazy at all. Liam due to
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: the missing link problem in the culture can people today
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: not get beyond socialism or fascism? That's all these the
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: crook can handle. Will bounce back between these two as
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: we circle the drain. Well, I mean again, it depends
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: on the ones who are not part of the missing link,
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: the ones who have their conceptual faculty. Do they rise
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: to the challenge, do they voice an opinion? Do they
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: draw people away from these nutty positions. It depends on
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: the people more intellectual who have the cognitive ability.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: Too many of them in the service of evil ideology.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: But if we can replace them, if we can have
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: more intellectuals making the case, and look, they are courageous
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: people out there arguing the same thing I'm arguing.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: We just need more of it. If there are enough
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 2: of them, then.
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe we can walk away from the abyss and and
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: and you know, start to rebuilding. Tom Scottis rulings exposed
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: ideas that drive the country. The most obvious ruling was
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: was the one that weekend, the eleventh Amendment. Scottis altered
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: the eleventh I don't know what ruling you're talking about. Sorry,
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: I have to brush up on that ruling because I'm
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: not sure what it is. John says, seems like Congress
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: is focused on making as much money for themselves as possible.
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: Seems they all become millionaires within a few years. Yeah,
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: inside of trading is a prevalent activity within Congress. And
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: and you know, bribery, not suitcases of cash handed but
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: speaking gigs and all kinds of other gigs, particularly when
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: they leave office. Yes, Congress is uninterested in actually governing
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: based on the principles of America. That's the one thing
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: that I'm interested in, all right, Chris Christal Crystal. We
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: want Greenland, We'll take Greenland. Not even Putin tasks In
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: this way, Trump is becoming a proper dictator. Yeah, I
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: mean Putin is far more intellectual and much more intelligent
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: than Trump. You know, Trump is a poor man's Putin,
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: kind of a dumbed down Putin. I mean Putin really
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: does say we want Ukraine, will take Ukraine. But he brings,
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: you know, an array of historical facts.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: And arguments and issues and philosophical arguments about the nature
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 2: of Russia and what it is to the table because
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 2: he is you know, he ran the KGB.
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: You know, he's not He's no idiot. He has a
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: vast intellectual and background and he's smart. Trump is just
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: a thug. He's putin without all that. We want Greenland,
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: We'll take.
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 2: Andrew. Why in the world the Nitanielle Trump from attacking Iran?
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Nitanielle.
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think he was worried about a massive
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: missile attack against Israel. And uh he thought the plan
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: that Trump proposed to attack Iran was too weak and
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: didn't address the concerns that he and for that matter,
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: of the Saudis and the Katari's had about a counter attack.
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 2: Uh So, I think he thought it was going to
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: be too weak and and and and maybe needed to
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  Speaker 2: focus differently. I don't know there will ever know. I'm Meilkat.
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  Speaker 2: I like the people of Iran more than many west
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  Speaker 2: the nations.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, massive, massive, massive respect vibed to opposition music
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  Speaker 2: at work all day yesterday. That's great, that's great. I'm
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  Speaker 2: here cut.
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  Speaker 1: And he didn't have the thing about Gaza, which he
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  Speaker 1: always does, so I'm not sure he's getting soft.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm mare cut.
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  Speaker 1: Is is Israel worried if the US strikes Iran now
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  Speaker 1: they won't be prepared for Uan's counter attack of waves
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  Speaker 1: of faster ballistic missiles.
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  Speaker 2: Then they can't intercept.
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  Speaker 1: I think Israel is worried that the US strike is
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  Speaker 1: not strong enough or not focused on their right targets,
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  Speaker 1: and that yes, there'll be this counter attack that the
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  Speaker 1: United States and Israel are not prepared to actually defend against.
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  Speaker 1: That I think is the main worry. I mean, Israel
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  Speaker 1: should do it. So Israel should go out there and
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  Speaker 1: bomb what they think there needs to be bombed. First,
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  Speaker 1: bomb BA ballistic missiles. Problem is, those are very very
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  Speaker 1: well protected.
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  Speaker 2: But and it would be.
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  Speaker 1: Great if the United States joined in with their bunker
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  Speaker 1: busting bombs and then do regime change. So first you
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the ability of the Iranians to do
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  Speaker 1: damage to Israel, and then you get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: regime institutions.
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  Speaker 2: But Israel needs to do it. If the United States
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  Speaker 2: won't do it, Israel has to do it. This is
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  Speaker 2: the time. This will give it the legitimacy. It cannot
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  Speaker 2: wait because it is all survival depends on getting rid
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  Speaker 2: of this regime.
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  Speaker 1: Res Conservatives use the language of America as a facade,
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  Speaker 1: whereas the left is open about their authoritarianism and don't
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  Speaker 1: pretend they are continuing the American tradition.
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  Speaker 2: I agree absolutely, Marius.
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  Speaker 1: From a pure military perspective, is requiring the legislative to
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  Speaker 1: declare war not thwarting the element of surprise?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it or is the secret session efficient?
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: It could be under circum circumstances, and you could at
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  Speaker 1: the very least put together secret session or declare war
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  Speaker 1: immediately after the operation begins.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not the case. For example in Venezuela. Where
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  Speaker 2: all Congress could have done.
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  Speaker 1: Is we generally approve the use of force against Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: without any specifics, without timing, and without whether would actually
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  Speaker 1: happen or now just approving it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all you would.
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  Speaker 1: Need, right, You would need Congress just to step and
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  Speaker 1: it says yeah, if at some point the US does
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  Speaker 1: use force or within the next year, with the next
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  Speaker 1: two years, it's approved, we gave authority.
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  Speaker 2: Steve O.
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  Speaker 1: Does objectivism hold that federalism is an important interest? Is
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: it more important than the supreme supremacy clause? What do
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  Speaker 1: you think the outcome would be in Berkeley versus Troy
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  Speaker 1: if you know the case. I don't know the case,
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  Speaker 1: So it's federalism is not that important. What's important is
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  Speaker 1: protection of individual rights. Federalism is a means by which
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  Speaker 1: to restrict the growth of the central government and to
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  Speaker 1: allow smaller governments i e. States to experiment with the
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  Speaker 1: protection of rights where it is optional, like what sentences
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: should different crimes be? What exact definition is our first
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  Speaker 1: degree murder versus second versus third degree?
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 2: Which each state could do differently? Things like that. So the.
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  Speaker 1: Supremacy clause is there when rights are violated by the states.
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  Speaker 1: But in the realm of trying to protect rights, this
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  Speaker 1: optionality that should.
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  Speaker 2: Be left to the states. Marius.
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't liberal democracy stop diplomacy with illegitimate governments on pre
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  Speaker 1: like you Ron for example?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Absolutely, If you listen.
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  Speaker 1: To my talks on farm policy, I advocate for a
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  Speaker 1: system where we have no embassies in the worst countries
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: out there. Steve O, do you think states have gone
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: in the right direction on abortion rights since Dobbs? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know about the Wyoming opinion January sixth, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of it?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think states have gone in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: In my view, abortion is an inalienable right, and given
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  Speaker 1: that this court will not protect it as an inedable right,
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  Speaker 1: I think that the state governments needed to protect it
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  Speaker 1: as a right.
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  Speaker 2: Every single state in.
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  Speaker 1: The Union should have been pro abortion and past legislation
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  Speaker 1: to protect.
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  Speaker 2: A woman's right to a bote and that should have
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  Speaker 2: been throughout the country. I am. I think it's horrific
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  Speaker 2: that there are a third of the states in the
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  Speaker 2: country that deny a woman.
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  Speaker 1: In almost all cases, and then there's another chunk of
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  Speaker 1: states that deny our woman right to abortion in many
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  Speaker 1: in many circumstances. So I just think it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: an individual rights, it's a right out of a woman.
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  Speaker 1: It should be protected at the federal level. Marius, what's
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: the correct solution to prevent one Islamic terrorists? One Islamic
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  Speaker 1: terrorism from domestic solution to prevent Islamic terrorism from domestic terrorists?
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand the question getting.
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  Speaker 1: It rid of blasphemy laws surveillance, Well, I mean to
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  Speaker 1: correct solution to prevent Islamic terrorism. The solution is to
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  Speaker 1: monitor those who advocate for an ideology we view as
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  Speaker 1: an enemy ideology Islamism, to survey them and those who
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  Speaker 1: preach that ideology who are actively encouraging people to live
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  Speaker 1: by that ideology should be deported, should should leave the
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: country now. If there's citizens, then they could be It
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: could be viewed as treason once you identify the particular
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: ideology and those who represent it as the enemy. But
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: that requires that would require an act of Congress. Hi,
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: you're on what is your favorite country to visit so far?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think everyone should hold world travel as a value?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I love so many places I travel to and and
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  Speaker 1: it really depends on why I'm there and what I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing there, you know.
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  Speaker 2: For work.
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  Speaker 1: I love London because in England, because it's English and
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: they speaking English, and because London is such an amazing city,
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's there's so much history, and there's
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 1: so much culture, and there's so much there's a real
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  Speaker 1: vibe to London.
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  Speaker 2: Which I really really enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of the growth of the number of Muslims there,
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: in spite of that, I still think London's a great city.
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  Speaker 2: What was the other thing?
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  Speaker 1: I definitely, unquestionably think that world travel is a value.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: It's so cheap, it's so easy today, there's so many
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  Speaker 1: interesting things to see.
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  Speaker 2: About around the world.
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  Speaker 1: The history of Europe, which is the history of Western civilization,
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: the history of Greece and the Renaissance in Italy, the
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: Asia and what it's done over the last fifty years
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: and the success, but also the fact that there's a
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: different culture out there that you know, embraces some Western
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  Speaker 1: values and can be successful.
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 2: Japan is amazing. South Korea is amazing.
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: China is amazing, although I don't know that I would
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: go there now, but China is amazing.
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 2: But Thailand and.
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: Cambodia to see what poverty really looks like and what
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: ancient civilization they had, which is interesting. There's just so
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: much to see in the world. I you know, I
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: love traveling. I could travel all the time. You know.
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 2: It's there's so many interesting people to meet, so many
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 2: beautiful things to see, beautiful people, beautiful places, beautiful skyscrapers,
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 2: beautiful cities, beautiful nature, beautiful animals. It goes so fari
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  Speaker 2: in Africa. I mean, there's no end to it, and
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 2: it's just life.
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  Speaker 1: It makes life more interesting. So I consider it a
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  Speaker 1: pretty high value. Will one hundred dollars, Thank you, Will.
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  Speaker 1: This Land is Mine really hits home today. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for getting as articulately pissed as you do.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. This Land is mine. Absolutely one of my
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 2: top five movies of all time.
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 1: Literally, one of my top five movies of all time,
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: This Land is Mine, by Jeana Benois and Charles Lawton.
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: I think moreno Hara movie that's almost impossible to find
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 2: Go watch it, you know, go watch it. You'll see
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 2: what a police state looks like and.
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: The courage that it takes from people, and how that
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: courage manifests itself. Basically, the theme of the movie is
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: the nature of courage, and the nature of courage and
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  Speaker 1: the different forms it takes, from physical to the spiritual,
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: and how it manifests in the lives of different people,
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: and how a coward becomes a hero, how a coward
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: becomes brave. And it's one of the most touching, most
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: inspiring movies you can see, and very applicable to the
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: world in which we live now. It was made in
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: the forties during World War two, about World War two,
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: about Nazi occupation of a town in Europe.
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  Speaker 2: U p. Gupta is a New York Times video analysis.
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  Speaker 2: Now enough to charge that it should be.
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  Speaker 1: I think they already had enough, but I doubt that
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  Speaker 1: they will be charging. I'm not sure who will do
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  Speaker 1: the charging. I'm not trying to who's jurisdiction they fall,
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: Steve O, do you know do you know of other
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: podcasts that answer every super chat like you? Maybe one
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: that focuses on law and legal opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Vote Conspiracy is a good legal legal blog.
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they have podcasts, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there is anybody who answers all
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: the super chests like I do. And the only reason
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: I can do this is because Miroslav created this amazing app. Basically,
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: it sits on my browser that collects all your superchet
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: questions and and keeps them for me so that I
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: can I can get to them ultimately, because otherwise I'd
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: be I'd be overwhelmed by them. Marius is ending a
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  Speaker 1: dictatorship through offensive wars a legitimate use of force. Does
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: the u N not work to achieve the opposite? U
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  Speaker 1: N is an abomination? The UN should be dismantled, or
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  Speaker 1: it should be sent off and based in Caracas or
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: some other or Baby Peung Pan in North Korea. So
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: I despise. The UN, in my view, has no authority,
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: no legitimacy, no force of anything morality, politically, nothing should
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: be ignored. The United State should leave it and stuff
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: funding it. Is any dictatorship through offensive was a legitimate
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: use of force, it couldn't be. It really depends on
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: the people doing the ending and what their motivation is.
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: And suddenly Iran is not just ending dictatorship. It's making
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  Speaker 1: the world safer for Americans and for American interests. Liscinda,
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: it's driving me mad that the worst kind of enemies
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: of America and what it stands for doing it in
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: the name of America. I'm more American than any of
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  Speaker 1: those bastards at Ice.
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  Speaker 2: I second you. You definitely are more American than any
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 2: of those bastards. Ice.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely Lessenda, and stay an American even if you don't
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 1: come here, Stay an American. What's most frustrating, she continues,
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: isn't that the people can't see through it, but that
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: many could but choose not to absolutely, and that with
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of them they choose not to see for
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: the most petty and fear of fears and envies. Yet
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 1: it really is driven by fear. It really is driven
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: by fear and hate, hate of illegals, fear of illegals, fear.
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 2: Of reality, fear of life.
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you Lesinda, red liberals once Missolinian, his dad, Marxists
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  Speaker 1: originally or left down or kiss is fascism the only
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: way to save capitalism, liberalism, and democracy from violent leftist, murdering,
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: communist and populist Why would you want to like if
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: you had a choice between communism and fascism, why would
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: you choose fascism?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't.
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: Is fascism not as bad as communism? So and how
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 1: do you how do you save capitalism by brasing fascism?
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: Fascism is the opposite of capitalism. Fascism is the opposite
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: of liberalism. Fascism is the opposite of democracy. So how
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: do you save any of those things by embracing the
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: exact opposite, the opposite? So the fascist win when you
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: in the communist win. When you think the only alternative
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: is communism or fascism, No, the alternative is Americanism. The
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: alternative is capitalism. And we should fight for capitalism. And
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: if the choice is fascism or communism, you should fight
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: both of them. Go on the ground, leave the country.
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: But you cannot embrace fascism. That's anti everything you claim
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: to believe in. Mussolini was a leftist. Absolutely, he was
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: a socialist, and that's why fascism is not far from socialism.
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: Fascism is a form of socialism or a form of statism,
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: depending on how you categorize things.
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  Speaker 5: All right, thank you, guys, Really really really appreciate the support,
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 5: particularly when I do these impassioned in controversial topics that
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 5: I know lose me people, but I also know that
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 5: they gain me people and they certainly gain your support.
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  Speaker 1: So you've been incredibly generous today. Thank you, thank you,
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: thank you. Lucinda just came in.
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  Speaker 2: With In my old school.
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: In my old school, little kids, some even under ten,
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: had to do little written texts and posters about how
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: awesome the UN is absolutely horrid. Yes, it's very European.
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: Europeans will love the UN, but yes, is an abomination.
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  Speaker 1: I could do a whole show just on how the
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: UN is an immoral abomination if anybody wants to sponsor
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  Speaker 1: To do it, I need to run for dinner. I'll
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  Speaker 1: see you all on Monday. No show tomorrow, I'll see
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  Speaker 1: you Monday. I hope you have a great weekend in
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: spite of all this that's going on in the world.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll see you Monday. Thank you, bye everybody.