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  Speaker 1: A lot of them, fundamental printles of Widow Last and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to yourn Book Show on this Tuesday, November twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: It's two days to Thanksgiving. I hope everybody's ready, and
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  Speaker 1: and just after Thanksgiving. And hopefully you have friends family
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  Speaker 1: dinner and get out there and do the Thanksgiving stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But there will be a show. All right, let's I guess,
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  Speaker 1: let's jump into let's jump into the show. Let's jump
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  Speaker 1: into our the news for today, Tuesday, November twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so you know, once in a while, once
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  Speaker 1: in a while, Trump does something did you think is good?
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  Speaker 1: And it turns out that what he does is suggestive
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  Speaker 1: of something good, is suggestive of what could be good.
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  Speaker 1: But he can't really do anything really good. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not in his nature because of the politics and because
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  Speaker 1: of the kind of influencers that play upon him. So,
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  Speaker 1: for example, yesterday Donald Trump signed an executive order that
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  Speaker 1: took a step towards Notice the language took a step
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  Speaker 1: towards designating parts of a step towards parts of the
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  Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terror organization. Now, if implemented,
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  Speaker 1: this would impose you know, broad travel economic restrictions and
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  Speaker 1: allow for I mean, basically with the clay them wasn't
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  Speaker 1: as an enemy of the United States, and that has
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  Speaker 1: massive implications. I mean, think about it. The Muslim Brotherhood
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  Speaker 1: is the fountain head, the mother organization, the parod organization
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  Speaker 1: of pretty much every Islamic terrorist organization out there hamas
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  Speaker 1: it used to be the Muslim Brotherhood of Palestine RISMAL.
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  Speaker 1: She cooperates very closely with the Muslim Motherhood in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 1: The Muslim Brotherhood ultimately is behind the Islamic Jihad, a
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  Speaker 1: Kaida Isis and so on. Indeed, one of the steps
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  Speaker 1: that George Bush should have taken after nine eleven. One
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  Speaker 1: of the first steps he should have taken is to
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  Speaker 1: designate the Muslim Brotherhood as an enemy of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And what that would have done is also made it
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  Speaker 1: possible to look at chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood within
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  Speaker 1: the United States and declared them as part of the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Would have made it possible for without violating free speech,
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  Speaker 1: because the enemy does not have free speech, you know,
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  Speaker 1: restricting who came into the country. It would have been
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  Speaker 1: no way to restrict immigration of Islamists. It would have
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  Speaker 1: been no way to restrict the preaching of certain imams
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  Speaker 1: and certain mosques, the hatred of the West, hatred of America,
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  Speaker 1: all in the name of the Muslim Brotherhood agenda. It
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  Speaker 1: would have given the tools to actually confront the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy not being a particular group al Qaida, the
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  Speaker 1: enemy being Islamism. But of course you couldn't do that
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  Speaker 1: because Islam is a religion of peace, and God forbid
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  Speaker 1: you tie Islam to anything around nine to eleven. So
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  Speaker 1: Trump has taken a step towards doing this, but notice
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  Speaker 1: that it's a step. He hasn't actually designated them yet.
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  Speaker 1: Mainly he's designated uh you know, he hasn't designated to
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  Speaker 1: But even that partial step only applies to certain limited
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  Speaker 1: numbers of Muslim Brotherhood groups in Egypt, in Lebanon, and
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  Speaker 1: in Jordan. Jordan because they support Ramas, Lebanon because they Supportsala,
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  Speaker 1: and Egypt because basically the Moslim Brotherhood is opposed to
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  Speaker 1: Egypt's rulers CCI continue to govern Egypt and CECI is
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  Speaker 1: an ally of the United States and therefore an enemy
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy, is they enemy? So what is lacking here?
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  Speaker 1: Lacking is a principled condemnation of Islamism. Lacking is an
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  Speaker 1: is a identification of them Muslim Brotherhood's role not just
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  Speaker 1: in those three countries but broadly as the umbrella organization
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  Speaker 1: for so much bringing Islamism into the West and so
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  Speaker 1: much of the terrorism that comes with it. Lacking, lacking
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  Speaker 1: in particular is actually going after the Muslim Brotherhood where
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  Speaker 1: they are strongest, going after the Muslim Brotherhood where they
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  Speaker 1: are the most influential, Going after the Muslim Brotherhood where
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  Speaker 1: they have the money to impact everything else. Egypt, Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan barely you know, starts the process of going after
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim brother In a note, why not just do
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  Speaker 1: a global thing. Why not just do a global definition
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  Speaker 1: of Muslim brotherhoods as foreign terror organizations wherever they may be,
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  Speaker 1: wherever they may be, anywhere in the world. Why not
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  Speaker 1: do that? Who would that upset? Where is the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood's strongest Where does some of the Muslim Brotherhood gets
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  Speaker 1: most of it support, both political and financial from? Who
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  Speaker 1: would be upset if Trump actually went after the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood as a whole. Yeah, some of you get it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you could start with Kata suddenly, Kata is the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: And on this issue, I have to say I fear
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  Speaker 1: saying this. It's it's it's it's you know, it's Why
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  Speaker 1: are some to say this? And I don't know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on? But the reality is that some of the
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  Speaker 1: best posts on this particular thing were made by Laura Luma.
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  Speaker 1: This is what she wrote, and it's good. Trump actually
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  Speaker 1: didn't designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. He created
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  Speaker 1: a seventy five day review process to consider designating chapters
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  Speaker 1: of the Muslim Brotherhood, and whoever drafted the executive order
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  Speaker 1: for the president did a terrant job because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: even include the two most important chapters of the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood being caught her and Turkey, Turkey other one who
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  Speaker 1: he loves and who had a great relationship with we
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  Speaker 1: had in the White House, who he joked around with,
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  Speaker 1: She continues, Everyone with a brain knows Kato funds the
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  Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood. Another one in Turkey claims to be the
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  Speaker 1: leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet they are protected because
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  Speaker 1: the Katari's lobby their buddies in the White House to
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  Speaker 1: protect them from the Executive Order. As from the Executive order,
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  Speaker 1: and of course Trump loves He's one of those theocrets
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  Speaker 1: he likes. Anyone who's even the slightest counter terrorism knowledge
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  Speaker 1: knows that the most problematic chapters and the Muslim Motherhood
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  Speaker 1: are Kata and Turkey. Terrorists are terrorists. You can't say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this chapter is okay and this one isn't. The Sami
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  Speaker 1: Jihad is Sami Jihad, and all the branches of Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood make it clear Jihad is our way. It's literally
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  Speaker 1: their motto. The Mother Brotherhood is already banned in Egypt
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  Speaker 1: and Jordan. It's a big deal, that's right. The Executive
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  Speaker 1: Order is nothing more than gaslighting. The language makes it
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  Speaker 1: very clear. She goes on and on and on going
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  Speaker 1: after citing the Executive Order and going on right and yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: some like Sebastian Goka are drooling over this history has
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  Speaker 1: been made just a moment ago in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the National Security Council colleague who helped author of the
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  Speaker 1: executive Order, President Trump designated multiple chapters three the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, including Egyptian branch. Remember that is
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  Speaker 1: the branch that is already illegal, which is the propagator
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  Speaker 1: of modern jihadism. Al Kaieda isis and Ramas included. All
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  Speaker 1: that true, but already illegal in Egypt. And yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: Muslim Motherhood was founded in Egypt in the nineteen twenties
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  Speaker 1: by Hassan Elbana b A n n A. Hassan Albana
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  Speaker 1: was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and it really
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  Speaker 1: was a primarily Egyptian phenomena for a long time. In
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties, the most prominent advocate of Muslim brotherhoods,
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  Speaker 1: the most prominent intellectual of the Muslim Brotherhood was a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Said who had spent some time in the
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  Speaker 1: US and developed a passionate hatred of the United States,
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  Speaker 1: which animated much of his writing. He went to a
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  Speaker 1: church dance in the US and saw God forbid women
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  Speaker 1: and men dancing together, and that flipped him out, and
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  Speaker 1: he writes about it repeatedly. In the nineteen sixties, Al Naso,
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  Speaker 1: the dictator of Egypt hum Side could in one of
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  Speaker 1: the many attempts to purge the Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: but the Muslim Motherhood remained strong. It was a spinoff
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  Speaker 1: from the Muslim Brotherhood that was responsible for the killing
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  Speaker 1: of Saddat in the early nineteen eighties eighty one, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and that wasn't just because of primarily because he had
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  Speaker 1: signed a peace treaty with Israel. Musn't brother who generally
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  Speaker 1: didn't care that much about Israel. It was because you
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  Speaker 1: were secular. It was because they viewed him as secularizing
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  Speaker 1: Egypt and moving Egypt towards a secular country, and they
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  Speaker 1: killed him for that. Since then, they've been banned and
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  Speaker 1: appeased and went. During the Arab Spring, if you remember
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  Speaker 1: the Arab Spring of the early twenty teens, there was
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  Speaker 1: a free election in Egypt with a Muslim brotherhood gott
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  Speaker 1: to participate, and guess what happened. They won and he
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  Speaker 1: actually had a Muslim Motherhood president of Egypt for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of a few years, and then egypt and public
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  Speaker 1: realized maybe we don't like this Muslim Brotherhood guy, and
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  Speaker 1: there was a coup and the military took over. And
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  Speaker 1: since then Ceci, who was the head of the military
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  Speaker 1: at the time, has become the ruler of Egypt. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: but of course it was a mod splintered. The part
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  Speaker 1: of the globalization in the Muslim Brotherhood was that in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties and seventies, in addition hanging some of
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood, the rest were kicked out of Egypt
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  Speaker 1: and they went primarily to Saudi Arabia where they they
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  Speaker 1: taught in the schools in Saudi Arabia at the universities
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  Speaker 1: at the Madrasas. Indeed said Koup's brother was a teacher
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  Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia, and he was the teacher or one
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  Speaker 1: of the teachers of a young Osama bin Ladin when
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  Speaker 1: asamb Bin Ladin was studying at university in Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 1: before he went to Afghanistan, and he inspired Osambi Ladin
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  Speaker 1: and many other Egyptians to any other Saudis to adopt
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood ideology, and from there it has just
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  Speaker 1: sped and sped and spread through educational institutions. The Saudis
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  Speaker 1: were very, very instrumental in spreading Muslim Brotherhood ideologies, primarily
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  Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties and early two thousands. They
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  Speaker 1: until they decided they wanted to, I don't know, become
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  Speaker 1: more westernized and kick the Muslim Brotherhood out. And guess
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  Speaker 1: where the Muslim Brotherhood went when they got kicked out
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  Speaker 1: of Saudi Arabia and they couldn't go to Egypt and
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  Speaker 1: where they have their sen tell, where they have their
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  Speaker 1: main preachers, where they have their own radio shows, where
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  Speaker 1: they are intellectually, you know, assented headquartered. Katta Kutta is
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  Speaker 1: the promoter of Muslim Brotherhood. And of course we know
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  Speaker 1: that Trump is you know, has A has another bromance.
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  Speaker 1: He loves these romances with the sheikhs of sheikhs of
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  Speaker 1: of Katta, Right, I mean, there's no way Trump is
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  Speaker 1: going to seriously confront him. Was the brotherhood because Katta
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  Speaker 1: is the financier and the intellectual hub of the Muslim Motherhood.
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  Speaker 1: And they gave him a Boeing seven forty seven plated
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  Speaker 1: with gold he's not gonna he's not gonna go after
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  Speaker 1: the people who gave him a Boeing seven four seven
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  Speaker 1: plated with gold. I mean, that just is not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get your priorities straight. So the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: even when you think, oh, Trump did something good, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't a Muslim brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and you go, uh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not, maybe that's not what happened. It's the weakest
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  Speaker 1: designation you could have. It has no relevance given that
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  Speaker 1: it does not apply to Koto and of course Tooki.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically theater. It's political theater. It's to appease certain
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  Speaker 1: elements within the United States and maybe even within his base.
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't do anything because, I mean, the Trump
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  Speaker 1: family has real investments in Kato and Saudi Arabia and
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  Speaker 1: and and many other and Turkey and and they want
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  Speaker 1: to be nice and friendly with the Turks. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go into come in conflict with the Tooks
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  Speaker 1: of the Katawi's and uh, of course, don't forget Kata
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  Speaker 1: spends a huge amount of money in the United States
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  Speaker 1: lobbying and uh uh you know, engaging with UH administration
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  Speaker 1: officials it's just it's just this administration is not going
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  Speaker 1: to go against kata and and designating was the other
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  Speaker 1: wood properly because it is impossible for them, just impossible. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Indid you know Katari's have recently asked the Trumpet administration
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  Speaker 1: to release a senior Muslim Brotherhood terrorists from Egypt. So
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  Speaker 1: they want the Trumpet administration to put pressure on the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians to release a Senia And I'm sure they'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll do that because Trump's relationship with Egypt
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  Speaker 1: and trumps relationship with oh put it this way, translation,
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  Speaker 1: with Katcha is much more important than national security considerations,
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  Speaker 1: much more important than the safety and security of the
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  Speaker 1: American public, much more important than defeating terrorism in the world.
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  Speaker 1: His primary. I mean, he's got a relationship with Katarr,
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  Speaker 1: with Turkey, and with these people. He's not gonna he's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna risk that in order to reduce terrorism for us.
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  Speaker 1: Not the kind of person that Trump is, in spite
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that sometimes you guys want to believe
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  Speaker 1: he is. Anyway, I tried, I really tried to give
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  Speaker 1: you a story where I could say Trump did the
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  Speaker 1: right thing. Uh, And I couldn't. I couldn't not because
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't emotionally or integrity wise. I couldn't because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't do the right thing. He chickened out. He could
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  Speaker 1: have done the right thing, He was close to doing
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  Speaker 1: the right thing, and he chickened out because his priorities
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  Speaker 1: are completely, completely, unequivocally upside down, upside down. It's not
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  Speaker 1: America First. There is no American First agenda here at all,
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  Speaker 1: zero results, nada. You get more America First here on
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  Speaker 1: this show, on the Iran Book Show. The true, the true, real,
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  Speaker 1: unequivocally real America First agenda is right here on the
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  Speaker 1: Iron Book Show. Not Nick Foyntes, not Donald Trump, not
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  Speaker 1: any of these guys. We here really care about America
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  Speaker 1: and advocate for policies that are good for America, like
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, going after real terrorists, supporting our allies,
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  Speaker 1: and going after our enemies like capitalism, freedom, free speech.
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  Speaker 1: I mean real issues, issues that actually are America First
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  Speaker 1: issues like the right you know, the government limiting the
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  Speaker 1: government to protection of individual rights, life, liberty, property, pursuit
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  Speaker 1: of happiness. That is an American First agenda. Maybe one
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  Speaker 1: day we'll have two to three million people following following us.
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  Speaker 1: We will see, we will see, all right, let's see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: an update on what is happening with Ukraine. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about the Ukraine peace steal and over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend Witcuff and Rubio and the Driscoll who is the
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of the Army, not Secretary of Defense of War,
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  Speaker 1: but of the Army. We're in Geneva negotiating with the Ukrainians.
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  Speaker 1: They've trimmed the eighteen pot plan to nineteen plot and
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  Speaker 1: now they've sent the Secretary of the Army, this guy Driscoll.
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  Speaker 1: Not sure where his qualifications, but I said this. I
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  Speaker 1: mean he went to school with JD. Evans. They both
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  Speaker 1: went to Yo Yo law School around the same time.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not sure what you know. And he served
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  Speaker 1: in the military inns. You know, he's a smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: But he is now seems to be very involved in
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  Speaker 1: some of these negotiations. Anyway, he was sent today or
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  Speaker 1: Monday yesterday to Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi in the uae
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  Speaker 1: UH to basically negotiate underhalf of the Trump administration with
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  Speaker 1: the Russians. So Ukrainians and Geneva. I'd rather go to
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  Speaker 1: Geneva than Abudwi Ukrainians in Geneva, and then abu w
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  Speaker 1: with the Russians, and uh, you know there's some question
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  Speaker 1: about you know, what can be achieved and and and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you know with with the Russians, it really is hard
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  Speaker 1: to tell. Uh, I don't anything that you give the Ukrainians,
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  Speaker 1: and it sounds like they gave them quite a few
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  Speaker 1: things in in Geneva, the Russians going to bok At.
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  Speaker 1: The Russians want everything or nothing, and the plan proposed,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty eight point plan was everything pretty much, and
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  Speaker 1: the Russians still weren't one hundred percent happy with it.
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  Speaker 1: So I just don't think there is a deal there
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  Speaker 1: on the table. I just don't think there's a deal
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  Speaker 1: on the table. I will say that there are many
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: people within the Republican House and Senate that are so
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: horrified by Trump's position in Ukraine, that really view this
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  Speaker 1: as a betrayal, and view this as America backtracking from
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  Speaker 1: any kind of principle, from any kind of legitimate position
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  Speaker 1: that it has, or any kind of leadership position it
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  Speaker 1: has in the world. There really seems to be horror
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  Speaker 1: among many Republicans. Again, both in the Senate in the House,
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  Speaker 1: some even threatening to over this. You know, at least
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  Speaker 1: a number of Republican Congressmen I think are not going
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  Speaker 1: to run for reelection in twenty twenty six. I think
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you're going to see them kind of accepting the fact
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that the probably that the caucus generally Republicans will probably lose,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that the majority will shift to Democrats. The Democrats will
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: spend their term mainly going after Trump and trying to
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  Speaker 1: impeach him. Why spend ten years two years in the
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  Speaker 1: House basically doing nothing and begin a minority. Many of
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: them are just pissed off at Trump administration for a
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: variety of different things, including this Ukraine stuff. And it
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: sounds like a lot of them are just not going
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  Speaker 1: to run. They're just gonna, you know, let somebody, some
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  Speaker 1: other Republican run. A lot of them, I'm safe Republican districts.
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  Speaker 1: It's not an issue of flipping. But why bother being
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a congressman if you're going to be in the minority,
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  Speaker 1: can't get anything done, And when you are in the majority,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you're not getting anything done because Trump has a crazy
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  Speaker 1: agena that is not consistent with your own. So, for example,
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  Speaker 1: Representative Don Bacon from Nebraska, appalled by the Trump administration's
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  Speaker 1: proposed peace plan to and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He
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  Speaker 1: called it Witkuff's Ukrainian surrender plan, which is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And so a lot of angst among Republicans
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  Speaker 1: who know something about from policy, who care about American
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  Speaker 1: from policy, who care about American's influence. They think it's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: a good thing, not an evil bad thing, and are
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  Speaker 1: horrified by kind of Trump's complete and out of capitulation
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  Speaker 1: to putin every single opportunity that he has, he completely
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  Speaker 1: and utterly capitulates to putin. Neo Khans, says Don Bacon
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  Speaker 1: is in a democratic district in the Asca, all right,
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  Speaker 1: more or the movies are not to run, right and
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  Speaker 1: where you might get beaten anyway by a Democrat, might
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  Speaker 1: as well retire now. But we will see. I mean
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  Speaker 1: rumors are and the only rumors that I have no insight,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: that a lot of Republicans, a lot of Republicans in
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the House are thinking about retiring before the twenty twenty
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: sixth election. And we will see. It won't be announced
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: for a while now, probably in the new year, but
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: we will see if that comes comes true, something interesting
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: happened last week with regard to China. For only maybe
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they're only the second time in American history, in the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: history of Chinese and American relations, Chinese premiere called the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: US President. Almost every conversation between China and America in
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the past has been at the initiative of an American president,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: not just Trump, but this goes way back. And yet
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: last week she called Trump. And the idea is, you know,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the call was about tariffs or trade or whatever, but
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you know, an analysis of what was actually discussed on
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the call shows the no, she was trying to send
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a clear message, a clear message to America and really
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to its ally Japan. I mean, China is in a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: massive dispute right now. I think we talked about this
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: yesterday with Japan about Taiwan. The new Japanese Premiere, the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Iron Lady as she's sometimes called, has basically in a
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: address to Congress this is taka Takaichi, Takaichi. Basically in
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: her address to parliament, Japanese Parliament mentioned the fact that
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Japan would definitely consider intervening if China invaded Taiwan. And
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: this is after she it just means to China and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: had would appear to be a pretty pleasant conversation with
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: she and had a good meetings over there. But she
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: mentioned this about a week and a half a week ago,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: so Ago and China just blew a stack. As I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: told you, they boy cut it it traveled to Japan.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: They went into this whole nationalistic for they're not buying
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: seafood from Japan and threatening the Japanese and japan while
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: trying to appease the Chinese refuses to back down from
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: its statement. Indeed, yesterday, as I think I mentioned, the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Japanese have actually said that they were moving missiles close
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to Taiwan. There are there's a series of islands off
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the coast of Taiwan, kind of between Taiwan and Japan.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: If you look at a map, you can see them
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: very close to Taiwan, but by the Chinese, but Japanese territory,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and that China kind of has a claim on China
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: would kind of thinks that those belong to it. And indeed,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Takei said that when she visited China that the Chinese,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the Chinese have often explicitly told her that more than
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: that Okinawa where there is a massive US Navy base,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Okinawa is merely lent to Japan temporarily, and that the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Chinese were one they want that back, together with the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Senkaku Islands. So it turns out that China has some
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: territory claims against Japan, and Japan views an invasion of
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Taiwan an expression of those territory claims and a belief
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that if they can get away with invading Taiwan and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: taking Taiwan, they will next try to take the Japanese
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: islands and maybe Okinawa, and indeed beyond that, remember that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: China has a lot of just the fireball, you know,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: gripes against the Japanese because of the way the Japanese
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: treated them in World War two. Japanese wire like the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Nazis of World War two, and so you know, she
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: views this or the Chinese might want retribution what happened
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in World War two.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: So I'm just checking out something here one second. All right,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: not sure what that is, Okay.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: So Japan has real warries, just like Europe has worries
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: about Ukraine. Russia taking Ukraine and then wanting parts of Poland,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: certainly a stone in Lithuania and Latvia, the Baltics, maybe
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: parts of Finland. No doubt that Russia would not stop
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: at Ukraine if it could get away with it, And
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Japan is worried about China having the same intentions. Taiwan
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: is step one, the islands are step two, Okinawa step three.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And just like China's doing with Taiwan, which says jets
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: over the airspace, assuming it's their own airspace, they're now
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: doing this with Japanese airspace. So on Monday yesterday, fighter
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: jets with the japan Defense Forces were scrambled to intercept
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the Chinese high altitude surveillance drone that it passed over
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Japanese airspace between Taiwan and Japanese islands. So you were
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: seeing a real escalation. Anyway, what does this have to
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: do with the phone call. Well, during this phone call,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: she wanted to paint a picture for Trump, wanted to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: pick the picture of you know, we were allies in
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: World War Two, and he says part of the post
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: World War two reality has to be Taiwan becoming part
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: of China. He says something like jointly that that America
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and China must jointly maintain the World War two victory,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the fruits of victory. And to do that, the fruits
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: of victory against fascism and militarism, which is a reference
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to Japan. And part of that is Taiwan. That's the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: World War two victory that he's talking about. So, you know,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: emphasis the Trump that quote, Taiwan's return to China is
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: an important component of the post war international order. So
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: China's basically telling the Americans, rain in the Japanese, Rain
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in the Japanese. They've gone off track. Taiwan is oles.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of when not if we take it.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: We don't expect you to intervene. Don't let the Japanese
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: get in the middle of this, keep them out of this.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: She calls Trump for the first time ever to tell
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Trump get the Japanese to back off. Now he doesn't
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: say it. This is kind of Chinese roundabout ism, right,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: but that's his intent. That is his intent. And of course,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and you know who knows. Now Trump of course maybe
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: played that he didn't get it. I had a very
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: good telephone call with presidents, she writes. We discussed many topics,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: including Ukraine, Russia, fence, and all soybeans and other farm products,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Notice, Taiwan and Japan not mentioned, we have
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: done a good and very important deal for our great farmers,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and it will only get better. Relationship with China is
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: extremely strong. This call was a follow up to a
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: highly successful meeting in South Korea. Since then, there's been
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: significant progress. Da da da da da da da da
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: da you call, and then he says, to that end, present,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: she invited me to visit Beijing in April, which I
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: accepted and I reciprocated where he will be my guest
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: for state visiting the United States later in the year.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We agree that it is important to keate that that
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: we communicate often, which I look forward to doing so. Again,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Trump gushing over another bromance with another dictator of China,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: ignoring the whole Taiwan Japan situation, ignoring what it means
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: to the Japanese, and UH gushing over farming and stuff
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: like that, and of course as part of that, you know,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: saying how wonderful it's going to be to go visit China,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: invite visiting China, of course, UH sanctioning the regime then
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: inviting the Chinese over here. For all of you people
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: who thought Trump was gonna be tough on China, who
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: thought that tough. Trump is a wimp with dictatorships. A wimp,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, other than maybe the case can be made
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: for Israel, China's sham, Trump's small posse is just horrific
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and pro dictators So yes, that was the meaning. Of course.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Trump immediately called or a day later called Japanese Prime
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: minister once a name, Japanese minister, you know, express support
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: for her, but not clear what he exactly said and
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: did he tell her to back off a little bit?
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Did he tell her to moderate? Did he tell her
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to tone it down because he's got a good relationship
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: going on with she and he doesn't want to distract that.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: What exactly what exactly did Trump tell, you know, tell
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the Japanese Prime minister? Did he do what she wanted
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: him to do? Takiyachi herself said President Trump mentioned that
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: he and I extremely good friends and that I should
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: call him anytime. But of course she has an incentive
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to say that. She's not going to say Trump is
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: pressuring me to back off. She would never do that,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: all right, add key to uh another one of the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: dictators who have a friendly, positive, wonderful relationship with Trump.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Uh Oh mom, Donny mom, Donny Mom, Donny, Mom Donny.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: So I'm Donny is now appointing people for his uh
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: you know, uh cabinet or whatever you call it. When
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: a mayor his his people who will actually act on
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: his behalf when he becomes mayor on the first of January.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I think he becomes mayor. You know, a lot of people,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: of course in New York and politics and the Republican
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: side of politics are jocking for position. He announced earlier today,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I guess or yesterday announced yesterday that he was appointing
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the first. One of the first appointments he made was
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: a first deputy team mayor. And here he chose a
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: guy named Dean Fullyhan now for land is a Democrat progressive.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: But what makes him from Mondannie's perspective, I guess a
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: good choice is, where's mon? Donnie is thirty four with
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: no experience. This Dean guy is seventy four years old,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: has been around the block for a long time, was
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: a deputy mayor to Bill de Blasio, and was budget
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: director for Bill Deblasio before that. So this is somebody
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: who knows all the ins and outs of New York
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: City Hall. So you know, again trying to say, yeah,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I know I'm young. I know I'm an experience, but
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I'm bringing in somebody more experienced. His chief of staff
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: is La biz god Church, and of course she's been
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: around him and she's somebody who managed this campaign, and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: she will continue his chief of staff. She's aligned intellectually
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: ideologically with him completely. She will run she will run
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: his life for the next few years. She's also a
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: member of the Democratic Socialist of America. And you know
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: she and what's his name? Fullingham's and appointment were announced together.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: As you know, Fullingham is like a throw to I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: guess Democrats generally, although he's pretty progressive and he served
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: under the Blasio of all mass she is to indicate, no,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I'm keeping my Democratic Socialist credentials. He did keep Jessica Tasha,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: as I told you, who is the police commissioner? Who
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: is That's a that's a good one. That's one that
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: that is going to be good. So I think Mam
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Donnie is going to try to play it both ways,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: appear as an adult, but not give up on his
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: progressive agenda. I hate to call it progressive because it's
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: anti progressive, like it's anti progress agenda. And even as
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: anti progress agenda is a mixture of really really dumb
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: stuff like rent control and good stuff like really reducing
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: regulations on new building codes. Now we'll see if the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: latter actually gets passed. But he ran on that. He's
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: also appointed a bunch of Jews, you know, the token Jews,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to his four hundred member mayoral transition committee. I don't know.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, God, can you imagine appointing four hundred people
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: to your transition committee different committees? I guess, I mean,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: is it that complicate? Four hundred people? It seems bizillre Anyway,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: he's got a rabbi, he's got the all kind of
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the leftist Jews who voted for him, All the leftist Jews,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: some of whom are real anti Zionists who hate Israel
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: a part of this. So you know, he can he
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: can point to his token Jews and saying, yeah, see,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I got some Jews, not a problem. By the way,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Adams has a seven hundred member transition team seventeen committees,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: so I guess this is how it's done. And Adams
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: has sixteen rabbis on his transition team. I don't think
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: that Mamdani has that many rabbis. I think Adams is
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: beating him on the token Jew thing, on the Rabbi
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: thing on see I love my Jews, see I appointed
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: some Anyway, we will follow up I'm down, and see
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: what he actually does as compared to the rhetoric and
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: everything else, everything else, all right, I mean, the stories
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: about deportation continue to be horrific, continue to be just ridiculous.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, based on the latest data I guess that's
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: out there, ICE is not really focused on arresting criminals,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: certainly not violent criminals, and need only five percent of
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: people detained by ICE have had violent criminal convictions. Three
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: quarters have no criminal convictions at all, and most quote
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: criminals had immigration, traffic or vice offenses. You know these
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: are not, to quote Trump, the worst of the worst.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, Trump just is lying about the worst of
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the worst. And you know they're mostly targeting people with
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: no criminal record that I here illegally. Many of them
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: are people that they're redetaining who are complying with the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: law and attending they court hearings, and the nitpicking to
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: find ways to get them out of the country. Clearly,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the deputations scheme has nothing to do with crime, has
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with criminals. Has nothing to do with
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: getting rid of gangs and everything to do. We're fulfilling
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: some ambiguous promise about getting rid of all the illegal
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: immigrants and a general hostility, you know, towards immigrants, generally
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: towards people don't look like you. I mean, you know.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Here's an example a Maryland, a mother from Vietnam right
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: was deported. She's a mother of four. She left Vietnam
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: as a child. She has been in the United States legally.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: You know, she has been routine check ins with immigration
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: officials in Baltimore, doing them routinely. And she does have
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: a theft conviction from decades ago, decades ago, not yesterday,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: decades ago in Virginia. So the trumped administration has assended
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: her legal status and basically deported her to Vietnam, a
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: place she hasn't been to since she was a little child,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: while her children in the United States. No husband's still
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: in the US, children are still in the US, I mean,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: ripping families apart. What is the goal? What is the purpose?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I can imagine if anybody who's ever caught stealing is
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: deported from the US, including citizens. Imagine if you deported
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: from the US people who stole whose ancestors fought in
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the Civil War, Heritage Americans. I wonder if any of
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: them steal. Do you think any heritage Americans steal? Do
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: you think that ever happens. No Heritage Americans would never steal.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: They have the right skin color, they don't. Those people
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: don't steal. It really is I mean, I don't know
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: how you guys are not just horrifically offended by the
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: fact that this is our government doing this in our name.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I'll give you another example. You have people who escaped
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Iran Christians in this case, who escaped persecution in Iran,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: people who have converted to Christianity in Iran and considered apostates,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: and I persecuted in Iran. Anyway, here's an example of
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: a guy named Majid who fled you on for the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: US in October twenty twenty four after repeated detentions in
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Iran torture and he was involved in the women's protests
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: against the job wearing the scoffs. And he was also
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: a convert to Christianity. You know, he came here probably
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: illegally trying but trying to get asylum as a political prison.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: You'd think you would think that given the talk about
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: the importents of Christianity, and we need to say Christians
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: around the world, and we got to protect Christians around
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the world, and I Ranian Christian being persecuted for Christianity
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: would be a top of the administration's list of people
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: to give asylum to see. But he's not a white
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: South African. Only white South Africans are getting an easy
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: path to asylum if you're brown, even if you're Christian.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Uh huh uh uh, I mean by that standard, Latin
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Americans all Christian you can't can do that, can do that.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: So we lament the plight of Christians in all these countries,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: but then we let them rot anyway. Majid has been
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: put on a plane and sent to Nicoagua. In Nicouagua,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: he was basically routed through Venezuela to Turkey, with the
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: idea of from Turkey he would be sent back to Iran.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: In Turkey, he managed to flee and he is now
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: right now hiding in Istanbul, convinced that if he goes
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: back to Iran he will be imprisoned, tortured, may be killed.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Trumpet Invertatian doesn't get we're not We're not a place
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: that accepts people just who are fleeing authoritarian regimes. We're
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: not a place that respects freedom. Forget what's written on
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the Statue of Liberty. That's old hat. We haven't been
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: nan in a long time. We're certainly not going to
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: start up with that again. I mean, there are the
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: stories of our Uranian Christians who live in the United
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: States and have been sent back to Iran, and who
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: knows what they fate in Iran is going to be.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: It's it's just unbelievable just to disrespect, disregard for human life,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: for individual rights that this administration's immigration policy has. It's
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: just I mean, when he said we're gonna round them
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: out and depote them, all right, we all kind of
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: believe him, and I thought he was serious. But when
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: you actually see and one of the reasons I didn't
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: vote for him, it wouldn't didn't support voting for him.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: But once you see what it actually looks like and
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: how evil it is, should have made even a bigger
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: deal out of it than before. Let's say, okay to me,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: last we had eight another eight topic. You're getting a
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: lot of news from me, A lot of news. Something
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: new on x Twitter, if you are on AX, if
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: you're on Twitter, I don't know how many of you are.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: But now when you click on somebody's profile, you can
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: actually see where they are tweeting from. Right, So you're
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: cleaning a profile and it tells you this guy Whoho's
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: tweeting from Washington, DC that I clicked on. If I
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: click on my profile, it says I'm tweeting from Puerto Rico.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: So everybody knows where I'm tweeting from, right, where I'm
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: tweeting from. Well, this is a new feature. We didn't
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: know where people were tweeting from. And it has been
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: a real revelation over the weekend, a real revelation over
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: the weekend. Many of the accounts that support Mega, for example,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: and you know, promote Mega and repeat Mega stuff over
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: and over and over again and spaed Mega are based
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: in places like Bangaladesh. They have very American sounding names,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: but they're based in Bangaladesh, or in you know, the
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Middle East, and or in all kinds of god forsaken
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: countries around the world. And these are accounts that have
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people following them, and they again
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: make it appear and We're talking about tens of thousands
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: of accounts. They make it appear like Mega or any
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: of these things are much bigger than they really are.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Or for example, many of the accounts that have been
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: especially pro Muslim Brotherhood, pro Rahmas, pro resistance, por Palestinians,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: who many of whom made it sound like they were
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: in Gaza, made it sound like they were real Palestinians.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: It turns out that many of these accounts are from Qatar, Turkey, Yemen,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Pakistan and other places around the world. Didjikin says on
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: the Chatty says BBC quoted a journalist as an eyewitness
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza. It turns out he was tweeting from Poland.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: And now you can see this. This is one of
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: the really good innovations of Twitter recently that you can
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: actually see it, you can actually find it, and you
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: can click on their profile and you can see exactly
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: what they're from, and you can see all the fake
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: accounts that are out there, and there are a lot
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: of them. There are a lot of them. So it
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: turns out that a lot of the amplification of certain
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: viewpoints of certain perspectives basically psychop operations misinformation by probably
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: accounts that are guided by Russian sources, Katari sources, Chinese sources,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: who knows, but that it aimed at basically creating fake news,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: disinformation and creating uh what do you call it? Just
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: conflict within the United States and appearing to the world
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: is if Suddain viewpoints are much more popular than they
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  Speaker 1: really are than they really are and Twitter has been
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: particularly hood by this. But you know, now you can
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: actually check an accounts, you can check and you can
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  Speaker 1: see and you can people can point out look, you know,
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  Speaker 1: look at what's happening, Look at how bad it is. Yeah,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: all right, so it's important to point out and you
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: can now check these things on a regular basis. You
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: can check to see if any particular account that you
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: see tweeting, you can see where they come from. I
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: finally or almost finally on AI, there's going to be
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of people opposed to AI. AI is going
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: to be a massive disrupt tour of jobs. It's a
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: It's one of those technologies that really disrupt any economy
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  Speaker 1: for the better, without any question. But they disrupt, they
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: cause real angst among people, and they create real uncertainty
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: challenges for people who are not sure about what their
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: futures is and what it's going to be. And you
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: typically think about ludites when it comes to these new
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: technologies as belonging on the left, labor unions who you know,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: like a like, like at the American ports, who don't
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: want robots and mechanization, or you know, I'm sure there
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: are many people out there at Amazon, if Amazon was unionized,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: who are fighting the automization of their warehouses. But the
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: reality is AI is going to be a massive economic
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: disruptor and it's going to force people to change shops.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: And it is a disruptive because it is a massive
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: increase in actual productivity. It is more efficient in some
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: cases at least than human beings. And the left freaks
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: out about technology like this, But what we forget is
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: that so does the right. The right is really afraid
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: of new technology. The right is very much dedicated to stagnation.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: They don't want to go forward, if anything, they want
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: to go backwards Middle Ages. We'll get to that in
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: a minute now. Trump, to his credit, has basically eliminated
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: most regulations on AI with the idea of building the largest,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: most powerful, most innovative AI ecosystem in the world, and
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: he's got a AI zat the White House who has
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: a cler economic incentive to build out AI and dominate
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: AI space and go all in on AI. And indeed,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: AI right now is driving the Trump economy more than
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: anything else. Everything else he's doing, I would argue, is
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: trying to slow down the economy. But AI is the
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: one thing that is growing in. But the reality is
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: that MAGA doesn't like AI. If you listen to Stephen Bannon,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: who is like the article of MAGA, he hates AI.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Bannon said this is this is kind of funny, but
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: this is what he said. I mean, you can laugh
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: along with me. He said, I'm a capitalist. Really, that's
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: about as much bullshit as I. It's like, you know
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Mamdani saying I'm a capitalist. Oil's Mattoavan saying I'm a
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: capital Anyway, Manna says I'm a capitalist. This is not capitalism.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: This is corporatism and crony capitalism. He said that AI
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: is likely the most dangerous technology in the history of mankind.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: He is horrified by things like self driving cause and
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: he says, you have more restrictions of starting a nail
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: salon in Capitol Hill or to have your hair braided,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: than you do, than you have on the most dangerous
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: technologies in human history. Now maybe that's true, but then
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: what we should do is eliminate the restrictions of starting
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: a nail salon and braiding hair. H History will know
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: us for this, he said, even more than the age
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: of Trump. The Mega base will be known for this.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: So we've got to get it right. That is, for
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: AI and for killing AI. And this is widespread among
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Maga you know. Again, Trump has David Sachs at the
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: White House arguing four AI. But the Maga crowd, the
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: real Maga crowd, who is really diabolically anti capitalism. You know.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Part of what they thrive on is fear and AI
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: is a wonderful vehicle for fear mongering. He again writes,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: AI is probably probably the greatest crisis we face as
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: a species right now, but it isn't being addressed with
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: any urgency at all. This one is from mad Walsh.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: This is daily why I'm at Welsh We're just sleepwalking
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: into our dystopian future. Taker Cousin in October released a
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: nearly two hour podcast to critically looked at the rise
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: of AI, comparing it to the cult and discussed how
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: AI could lead to the AI could lead to the
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: mark of the beast, The mark of the beast. Senator
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Josh Hawley and Missouri Republican and Marshall Blackburne, a Republican
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: from Tennessee, have emerged as prominent elected officials. This is
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: for our news article sounding alarm about AI introducing legislation
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: to strict AI's use in critical decisions affecting Americans' lives.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: No AI in loan approval, No AI in medical diagnosis?
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Why exactly do you not want it in medical diagnosis?
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Are you worried for the jobs of radiologists? What exactly
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: is the problem? I mean, how many lives could they
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: I save if it got better at radiology than doctors? Really?
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  Speaker 1: Hardy argues that without aggressive intervention, AI will concentrate power
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  Speaker 1: in the hands of a few tech companies while dissubmitting
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  Speaker 1: the working class. So typical Marxist arguments, right, concentration of wealth.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: The wealthy will dominate, the will take over everything. They
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: will own everything, they will have everything, and the poor
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: working class will have nothing. It's all about the tech
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: pros versus the working class. If ever, there was a
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: you know, basically a Marxist argument. This is it, and
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: the rate is completely embracing it. The technology is advancing
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: without regulation. This is from Bannon, who claims he's a
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: capitalist that would hurt working people. Many of where she
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: points out are Trump supporters. So yeah, I mean, it's
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see how this evolves, how Trump,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: where the Trump goes with Maga, Where the Trump goes
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  Speaker 1: with his tech bro supporters. They have the money, so
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: he's likely to go with them. But who knows something
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: AI does that's bad and suddenly everything could shift. There's
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of talk Bannon and Maga about transhumanism, transhumanism.
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  Speaker 1: It's the war against humanity, and AI is leading the
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: charge for transhumanism. Transhumanism is just a word to reflect
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: the attempt to use science to better human beings, to
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: make us better, smarter, stronger, live longer. That's what transhumanism is.
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  Speaker 1: They're really scared of it, really discovered scared of it.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, who knows what monsters these tech bros are
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: going to create? What Frankenstein's We're going to get out
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: of the combination of AI, biotech and all this other stuff,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: scary stuff. Long term, they say the AI is going
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: to be in charge.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, sadly, Elon Musk fuels all of this, fuels
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: all of this within his doomsday scenarios. All right, anyway,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: this is where we are, so we have a united
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: front against AI. It'll be interesting to see what it
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: leads to. Bannon has taken this on as a major issue.
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  Speaker 1: He is he is taking us to the base, is
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: speaking about it every opportunity. He believes that AI will
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: do so much damage to the workie class that that
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: will fracture MAGA and cost the Republicans the twenty twenty
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: six and twenty twenty eight election. It's good that they
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: now have a scapegoat for losing those elections. God forbid
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: that they would actually look in the mirror and say, oh,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: it's us with the reason we're losing the election. No,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: it's AI AI, all right. Final word, final story, not Wood,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: final story. This is an essay there was published published
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  Speaker 1: today today or yesterday on Free Press, written by Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Pinker and Marion two P t U p Y and
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: I just want to highlight this essay. I mean, I'm
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: trying to bring you some good intellectual stuff. Yesterday we
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: got Golden Wood. Today we get Stephen Picko, marian to be.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Who knows we'll get tomb but good stuff. People are fighting.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: We're not alone in the fight against the monsters. We're
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: not alone in the fight against the mid age middle
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  Speaker 1: ageism of the right would yesterday did a good job
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: fighting against kind of heritage Americans. The idea that America
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: is a people jeans, skin color or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: It is a creed. It is a set of ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're going to talk about the idea that modernity
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: is a problem and that what we really should be
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: striving towards is a return. How did Michael Knowles put
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: it to twelve twenty? The title of this piece is
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Asian of humanity question mark. We're living in it.
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  Speaker 1: Modernity is more meaningful and marvel than medieval Christendom, and
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: I like that. They bring in morality. They don't quite
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: know how to deal with the morality question. But they're
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: on the right path. Put it that way, on the
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: right path. They don't have the right answer. They need Iman,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: they desperately need Iran. But anyway, here's how the essay begins.
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  Speaker 1: I'll read you some sections out of it. This is
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: also a link to the new book I've told you
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  Speaker 1: about Christianity Versus the West that I am writing with
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: Don Watkins. It's linked to a lot of the kind
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: of things that I want to be working on in
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: the next few years. I think I'm going to launch
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: like three different types of you on book shows, beyond
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: if you Will, Beyond the News, So either of these
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: will come at the end of it, you show. There'll
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: be elements of these every you know, maybe every show
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  Speaker 1: we'll see or like the shows on Saturday will not
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  Speaker 1: be newsed that w one of these three and the
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  Speaker 1: three topics I really want to focus your on book
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  Speaker 1: shows that are not news on but are also integrated
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  Speaker 1: into the news. Three topics capitalism, so just more positives
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  Speaker 1: about capitalism. We talk a lot about the attacks and capitalism,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: but we need the positives. We need what is capitalism,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: what is it about? What's its success, what is it done,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: what's it achieved? Where are examples of it? What's the history?
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  Speaker 1: So we'll start integrating more and more of those kind
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  Speaker 1: of things that often do with my lectures into what
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  Speaker 1: we do here on thern book show. That's one second,
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  Speaker 1: what is the West? And here you could add the
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  Speaker 1: evil of Christianity. So planning on talking a lot more
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: about the values of the West, the positives of the West,
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  Speaker 1: and how Christianity is completely incompatible with those. Just we
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: could do a lot of shows just on that, right,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: just different aspects of the West and the relationship with Christianity,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: from art to economics, to politics, to technology, to attitude
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: towards sex and marriage, and a whole bunch of stuff abortion,
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  Speaker 1: lots of them. And then finally, and maybe most importantly,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I want to do a series of shows on the
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: search for meaning. This idea that you can only find
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: meaning outside of you, you can only find meaning in
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: Christianity or in some force greater than yourself. I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about what it means to meaning or in
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  Speaker 1: other words, that purpose in your own life and how
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  Speaker 1: you do that in a secular, rational, reason based way.
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  Speaker 1: So this is our twenty twenty sixth plan. Is the
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: really emphasized these three topics, Capitalism, the West, those are
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: related and meaning. Finding meaning, Meaning in a sense will
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: be the new rules for life. Rules for life. And
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: in this battle, people like Stephen Pinker is definitely an ally,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: particularly when it comes to the West and even for meaning. Right,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: so he writes, would we be better off living in
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: the Middle Ages? Astonishingly influential voices, and the American intellectual
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  Speaker 1: right now seem to think so. Rather than affirming the
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  Speaker 1: Enlightenment ideals that inspired this country's founding reason rights markets,
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  Speaker 1: liberal democracy, and short states separation, they're longing for, of
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  Speaker 1: all things, rule from the throne and the altar. Last
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: month at Yale, the influential political blogger Curtis Yavin, in
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  Speaker 1: a debate against Free Press contributor Jeb Rubinfeld, argued that
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  Speaker 1: America ought to quote end the democratic experiment and established
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  Speaker 1: a monarchy. Yavin has noted that Donald Trump is quote
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  Speaker 1: biologically suited unquote to be America's monarch. Now, the idea
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: of my time sound extreme, but they have been influential. JD.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: Vance describes Yavin as a friend and has cited his work,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: and Yavin is part of a family of movements known
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: as the Dark Enlightenment, techno authoritarianism, and neo reaction that
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: reject the entire family of Enlightenment values. Note I would
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  Speaker 1: just add that Yavin is incredibly influential Silicon value right now.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the figures that people brought up in
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  Speaker 1: my debate about Christianity, and they view in with great respect,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: monarchy with great respect. And he's influential on people like
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: Andreessen and others. You know, Peter Teo and others are
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: a great admirers of the depth of Curtis Jovin's thinking.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, unbelievably shallow and infantile. But we'll probably talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. I might might have nicos On to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. Meanwhile, Pinka continues writing, Pinka and Uh, Pinka
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  Speaker 1: and Marion continue Meanwhile, theocracy is making a comeback in
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: movements known as theo Conservatism, Christian nationalism, and national conservatism.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: The National Conservatism Statement of Principles, for example, declares that
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: where a Christian majority exists, public life should be rooted
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: in Christianity and its moral vision, which should be honored
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  Speaker 1: by the state and other institutions, but public and private.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: You see a statement like that, by the way, and
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: you wonder why anti Semitism is coming back. It's right there.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: The list of signatories is a look book of influential conservatives,
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  Speaker 1: including Charlie Cook, Peter Teel, Trumpet, administration insider Is Michael
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  Speaker 1: and Anton and Russell Vote Vote, as well as our
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: fellow Free Press contributors Christopher Ruffo and ron Rod Dreheer.
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  Speaker 1: The latter a friend of the Vice President, has said
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  Speaker 1: elsewhere that the West will not quote recover until and
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  Speaker 1: unless we become re enchanted and seek a form of
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  Speaker 1: Christianity and indeed of Judaism that is more mystical, that
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: valorizes this direct perception of the Holy Spirit, of holiness
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  Speaker 1: and of transcendence. These are your modern conservatives, more mystical.
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  Speaker 1: And they say these ideas are not idle philosophical renumerations,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: as they infiltrate the brain trust of the mega movement.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: They may to justify Donald Trump's vandalism of enlightened innovations.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: And you know, they go on quite a bit here.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: You know, they critique another article that was published in
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: The Free Pass, which I will also a critique in
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  Speaker 1: a future show. We'll cover that in a future show.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: But they go on and then they spend a whole
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: section of this essay. Right, knowledge is more meaningful than
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: ignorance and superstition. And notice, knowledge is more meaningful if
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: you're gonna search for meaning, if you're gonna look for meaning,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna aspire to meaning in your life. What
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: you want is knowledge, not ignorance and superstition. And they
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  Speaker 1: critique here the idea of getting morality from old texts,
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  Speaker 1: from bizarre historical stories, from stories about snakes and Garden
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  Speaker 1: of Edens and Adam and Eve, and for written fruits
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  Speaker 1: and commandments handed down and mount Sinai to Moses. This
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: is where you know virgin births. There's another one, resurrections,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: divine providence, miracles. This is the social morality. I mean
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: that should be a joke. And I think they then
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  Speaker 1: try to establish that you can have a secular morality,
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  Speaker 1: a reason based morality. They don't do a good of
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: a job, as i Ran does in that, but they
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: at least trying. They're making an effort. Sadly, you know,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: they adopt much of the altruism of Christianity. The next
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: section in the essay is called pre modern Christendom was
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: not moral but barbaric. Yay, they write in contest to
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: enlightenments exaltation of universal well being, the morality of Holy
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  Speaker 1: Scriptures was dubious at best. The God of the Old
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: Testament prescribes the death penalty for blasphemy, adultery, homosexuality, idolatory
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  Speaker 1: disobedience and working on the sabbath will finding nothing particularly
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: wrong were slavery, rape, torture, mutilation, and genocide. Indeed, as
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: I've often said in the show, God commanded these were
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: lights to commit all these against their enemies. Whatever humane
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: advances we might attribute to Jesus, his followers did not
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: adopt them for an awfully long time. For some fourteen
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: hundred years that separated Constantine's embrace of Christianity in the
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: early fourth century to the rise of the Enlightenment in
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: the eighteenth most Christians remained untroubled by slavery, the persecution
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: of heretics, the brutal colonial conquests. I mean. According to
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: historian Matthew White, he estimates that forty seven million people
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: have been killed over religious beliefs by Christianity, not counting Islam.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: The Crusades in Holy Land, for instance, killed three million,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: their Bigensian Crusade a million. The Huguenot was this is
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: a Catholic French killing Protestant French two to four million
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: to the four million, And of course, the Thirty Year
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: War triggered by the Reformation seven and a half million people,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: when the population was much more smaller barbarism was not
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: was also carried out at smaller scales. Before the Enlightenment,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: the standard judicial method for fact finding and punishment was torture.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of non lethal crimes were punished by by death.
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  Speaker 1: Acutions carried out in public with public entertainment were engineered
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  Speaker 1: to be protracted and as painful as possible, including breaking
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  Speaker 1: on the wheel, burning at the stake, impalement, disembemberment, and disembowerment.
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  Speaker 1: Disembowment is the worst of all of this. These orgies
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  Speaker 1: of sadism did not took civilians from killing each other
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  Speaker 1: in large numbers homicide rates. This is good. Homicide rates
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  Speaker 1: in fourteenth century European countries averaged around forty per one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand per year. Today's rates are close that are
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  Speaker 1: one per hundred thousand. That's a huge achievement. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: health and prosperity, he says, healthless prosperity are more meaningful.
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  Speaker 1: I love the way that he uses meaningful meaning searching
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  Speaker 1: for meaning Well, health does prosperity are more meaningful than starvation?
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  Speaker 1: A squad. Westerners have been complaining about how wealth causes
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  Speaker 1: mal decline for millennia. Few of the complaints have reflected
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  Speaker 1: on how complainers have reflected on how it was wealth
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  Speaker 1: that gave them the luxury to complain about that wealth.
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  Speaker 1: They contemporaries who died in childbirth, ohose lives were raked
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  Speaker 1: by hunger, pain and disease were not as lucky. The
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  Speaker 1: vanquishing of early death propelled not by prayer but knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe humanity's greatest moral triumph. I mean, he goes through
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: the life expectancy numbers, child mortality numbers, all of that,
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  Speaker 1: which is just amazing, right. I mean, in eighteen hundred,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: European life expectancy was thirty three. Today it's seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: Before the turn of the twentieth century, a third to
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: half of European children died before their fifth birthday. Today
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  Speaker 1: it's three ten of one. I mean, in those days,
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  Speaker 1: children who survived faced oftenhood, hunger, parasites, workhouses, and beatings.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: Famines killed huge numbers of population as this disease a malaria, tuberculsis, smallpox, cholera.
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  Speaker 1: It's human ingenuity, largely in the form of vaccines and sanitation,
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  Speaker 1: has decimated ancient scrooges, including measles, malaria, polia. You know,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: rebella and others. Basically, two diseases, smallpox and wind or pest,
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  Speaker 1: have been wiped off the face of the earth because
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  Speaker 1: of vaccination. And finally, he says, you know, they talk
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: about anti Semitism and how pre modern Christianity was anti Semitic,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: and then modernity is not a ruin. And he says
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  Speaker 1: that the twenty first century, with all his woes, is
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: a better time to be alive than any time before.
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  Speaker 1: Extreme poverty, child child and maternity, mortality, illiteracy, tyranny, violent crime,
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  Speaker 1: and war des so lower than in any previous century.
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  Speaker 1: The wealth that the THEO conservatives finds so course of funds,
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  Speaker 1: the education and leisure that allows individuals to contemplate meaning, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how are you going to contemplate meaning when
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: you're a subsistent farmer, whether that meaning be found in work, family, community, nature, science, sport, arts,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, religion. Another gift of modernity is that people
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  Speaker 1: are not burned alive for their beliefs, but allowed to
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  Speaker 1: hold whatever ones they find meaningful. There's another it's you know, so,
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  Speaker 1: I mean this is all amazing, right. It's sometimes claimed
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  Speaker 1: that for all these opportunities, people today are suffering from
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  Speaker 1: a new crisis of meaning. Here again, we shouldn't confuse
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  Speaker 1: nostalgia with facts illiterate. This is great right. Illiterate Medieval
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  Speaker 1: peasants left us with no records of how meaningful they
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  Speaker 1: thought their lives were. As the historian Eleanor Jenger points out,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: they themselves thought they were living in a time of decline.
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  Speaker 1: They were rebelling constantly. Every generation believes that it stands
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  Speaker 1: amid ruins of a better error. Nostalgics have fallen for
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: this illusion, weaving a fantasy of civilization of decline from
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: endenic bliss. All available evidence. All available evidence shows the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: The early stages of our civilization were stained by ignorance, superstition,
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  Speaker 1: sick and cruelty, grinding poverty, and early death. From those
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  Speaker 1: rude beginnings, the airs of the Enlightenment deployed knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: sympathy to claw increments of progress from indifferent universe. Wise
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  Speaker 1: people should cherish these accomplishments and ensure that we don't
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  Speaker 1: squander them based on figments from make believe Golden Age.
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  Speaker 1: All right, two thumbs up, three cheers to Peter Stephen Piker.
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  Speaker 1: I mean almost three cheers. I mean that is great.
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  Speaker 1: We need much more of that. Whatever error's mistakes that
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  Speaker 1: are made in that essay a trivial as compared to
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  Speaker 1: the truth that he is illuminating and the shared enemy
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  Speaker 1: that we have, which is the Middle Aged. You know,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: the people who crave for the Middle Ages, who strive
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: from Middle Ages, who have a Middle Ages mentality. So
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  Speaker 1: good for Stephen Piker. We need more allies like that,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be doing more of this talking about the past.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do more history. We're going to do more celebrating
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  Speaker 1: successes of the present and successes of capitalism more broadly.
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  Speaker 1: But I really want to give you a sense at
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: least my audience knows how awful the past was and
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  Speaker 1: knows how good they have it today. It's way too
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  Speaker 1: depressing to listen to the news and think that is
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  Speaker 1: essentially what life is today. But that's not essentially what
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  Speaker 1: life is today. Screw Trump, screw all these people. The
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  Speaker 1: reality is that you have a pretty good life. Now.
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  Speaker 1: There are people trying to make it worse, and we
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  Speaker 1: should fight them. But if we only focus on the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they're trying to make it worse, we lose.
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  Speaker 1: All right, David, we're going to the super Chats. We
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  Speaker 1: are sixty five dollars short of out two hour goal,
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  Speaker 1: Given the number of questions, probably answer the third hour.
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  Speaker 1: So let's try and get beyond that, but certainly sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: David says, fifty dollars. Thank you, David. What is your
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  Speaker 1: opinion on modern economist Yiannis Violl Fuckus and Tyler Count
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  Speaker 1: Would you recommend reading their work? No? And yes so
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  Speaker 1: Jannis Fuckers is not worth reading. He's he's a hack.
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  Speaker 1: He is a neo Marxian Marxist. He's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: bad economist, very very very left wing, very very Marxist,
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  Speaker 1: and just just not not worth engaging with because I
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  Speaker 1: don't think his work is worth anything. I've tried to
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  Speaker 1: debate him, he refuses to debate me. Another Tyler Cowen
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  Speaker 1: is good. He's not objective, is good. He's not loz
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: A fit capitalism one hundred percent good, but he's good.
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  Speaker 1: He's often got original thoughts. He often approaches economics in
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: an interesting way. He's he's a clear thinker and uh, generally,
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  Speaker 1: I encourage you to read Tyler Cowen, follow his stuff,
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• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: Tyler heavily influenced by Austin economics, but doesn't consider himself
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  Speaker 1: an our stand He's more eclectic, but certainly a free marketer,
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  Speaker 1: even if not one hundred percent les Fai capitalism. So yes,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: Tyler Cowen, definitely. David also asked so Rich to see
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: the chickens coming home to roost with Trump supporters trying
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: to distance themselves from neo Nazis, people like Nole Ferguson,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Shapiro, Richard Hannania. Yes, I think
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: that's absolutely right. You know, Richard Trani is the best
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: of them, because I think he's been very critical of
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: Trump even before all this. But absolutely I gave a
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  Speaker 1: ranch yesterday about this, and and and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: national Conservatives, the the Joo Brazzonis who basically set set
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: the stage for the anti Semites, set the stage for
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: the Nick four Inhasis and the Tucker Carsons through the
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: nationalistic conservative views and the emphasis on religion and the
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: emphasis on nationalism. In abbitable consequence of that was anti Semitism.
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  Speaker 1: And they made it possible. And now they're complaining about it. Now,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: they're horrified by it, now they're upset about it. And
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Trump is the carrier. Trump makes it all possible. Trump
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: opens the barnyard, baronyard door wide open for the worst
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: of the worst, and has been doing so since his
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: first term, and I will return to Charlottesville because Charlotteville
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: was one of the first places where he gave them
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: a wink and a nod. I mean, he did it
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: also when he came down the escalator in twenty fifteen
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: and started slamming Hispanic judges and calling Hispanic immigrants into
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: the United States rapists, so elevating that kind of racist
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: language and articulating that that was what Trump did, and
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: he basically created massive space on the right for the worst,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: you know, racist, anti Semitic, fascist types. He made it
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  Speaker 1: all possible, and he's been making it possible since since
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: he came on the political scene, and it's one of
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: the things that makes him as bad as he really is.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: But yes, chickens have come home to roost, and a
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: lot of these people supported Trump, who supported the ideas
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: that are making these anti semites possible. They're now in
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: fam mode. They're now struggling to large extent. It's their fault. Also, David,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: how is Japan able to avoid higher inflation? The debt
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: is now two and a half times GDP and the
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: new PM is issuing new debt for hundreds of billions.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's basically because they are very cautious about
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: monetizing that debt. They have not been aggressive about turning
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: that debt into money in the hands of consumers. And
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: even then, when money flows to people, the Japanese tend
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: to take that money and put it into government debt.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: So there's like this constant flow, and it doesn't go
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: into consumption, it doesn't go into driving prices up. It
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: basically guarantees stagnation because instead of the money flowing into
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: investments and into increased productivity, which would increase incomes, which
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: would increase the well being of people, and therefore they'd
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: feel more comfortable about spending more, it goes back into
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: government debt as a major form of Japanese public savings.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: That just feeds stagnation. There's no investment, there's no growth,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: there's no real GDP growth or any kind of real growth.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: And they keep doing this, They keep stimulating the economy
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: with that, but that just you're sucking money out of
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: the economy with one hand, taking on the debt, and
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: you're spending that money. It has no impact, it does nothing,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: and you keep the spinning around and look, for whatever reason,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: the Japanese public believes that they will get their money back,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: that Japan will find a way without inflation, because it
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: hasn't inflated today, I mean without inflation, without monetary inflation,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: without price inflation, sorry, because it hasn't today. They will
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: find a way to repay that debt without that. Now
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: how they'll do that, nobody knows. And this current Prime
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: minister is just as bad as the previous In terms
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: of this, Andrew rand said it's always important for an
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: artist to know what feelings motivate him. That suggests that
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: in choosing a career, the selfish guiding question should be
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: what do I like to do? And then check if
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: it's rational? Is that the essential process? Yeah? I think
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  Speaker 1: that's right. What am I passionate about? What I love?
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  Speaker 1: Doing what I like? And then is it rational? Is
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  Speaker 1: this career value creating? Should I feel good about it? No?
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: It turns out I really get passionate when I cheat
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: people out of their money. That's not good, it's not productive.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: That'll lead to a destructive life. Yeah, I shouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: I need to question my feelings. I should go see
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: an analyst, a therapist. So you've got to you start with, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what gets you excited, what's passionate? Assuming you're healthy, and
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  Speaker 1: then and assuming you generally a rational person, and then
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: ask the question is this rational? Is it right? How
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  Speaker 1: does it fit into my moral values? Is it consistent
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  Speaker 1: with those values? Is it consistent with how I think
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: human life should be lived philosophically, intellectually? Right? Andrew? Also,
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's important for objectives to integrate the independence
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: of rationality, not just the morality of rationality, but the
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: individualism involved. A collectivists may not know that he can
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: think on his own know this how Yeah? I mean, look,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: independence is one of the main one of the seven
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: virtues and objectivism And what does independence mean in objectivism
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: not living in a desert island. Absolutely not. It means
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: it really means thinking for yourself. And what is thinking
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: for yourself mean? It just means being rational. Nobody could
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: be rational for you. Nobody can think for you. So
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: what independence really mean is think, don't be swayed by
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  Speaker 1: other people, don't go with the crowd. Think, make knowledge
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  Speaker 1: your own, make decisions based on your own mind, your
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  Speaker 1: own reason, your own rationality. That's essentially you know what
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: independence means, you have a mind, use it. And of
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  Speaker 1: course only you can use it. Nobody else can use it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not part of a network. It's alone. It can
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: get information from other people and other sources like books,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: but it can't think for you. Nobody can think for you.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Nobody can actually do the calculation, the integration, the induction,
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: the thinking part, the logic. Nobody can do that for you.
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  Speaker 1: Zero to Chicken, Thank you from Norway, Hion. I got
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: a bone to pick with you objectivists. It has to
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: do with regulations. Afaik objectivists, I don't know who those are.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: Seem to be one hundred percent against regulations. However, it
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to me. I think that's mainly your problem.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: I think this is a part two. In a free society,
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  Speaker 1: should my naghbor be allowed to run a small nuclear
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: pop plant from the garage? Does it not need to
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  Speaker 1: be objective regulation measured in risk? Such agulation seem a
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  Speaker 1: necessary form of self defense. So I mean, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to, you can call it regulation if you want.
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  Speaker 1: But regulation is typically preemptive. Now, in a world of
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  Speaker 1: completely safe nuclear pop plants, why is it a problem
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: now if there is some knowledge that nuclear pop plants
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: might be unsafe, they might emit radiation. You know, they
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: might blow up, which is, by the way, not really
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: the case, but let's assume that was the case. Then
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: you have every right if if your neighbor is building
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: a nuclear pop plant, to call the police and say, look,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: you know, what he's doing is very risky. I fear
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: that it's going to infringe on my rights. And then
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: the police, and maybe this is some division of the
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: police which is in charge of safety, would inspect the
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: nuclear pop plant that your neighbor has and make sure
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: that it's of the type and the kind that does
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: not that is not unsafe, that does not pose a
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: risk to you. But notice here that the violation of
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: rights here. You only have a right to stop your
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: neighbor from doing something if there is an objective risk
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: that you can identify that his activity is imposing on you.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: And here the very fact that he's building a nuclap
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: pop plant. We have enough knowledge about the risks involved
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: in nuclear pop plants that we identify that as a
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: real risk to me. And they fall into my property
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: and they fall, yeah, I want somebody to inspect it.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: I want something to review it. It's not that he
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: needs a permit that if he's building something like this, I,
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: as his neighbor, I have the right to make sure
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: that it doesn't pose a threat to me. But I
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: have to have some indication. I have to know that
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: there's construction going on over there and it seems to
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: involve materials that are not kosher, not okay. So, for example,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: you don't need building permits. But if I'm walking down
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  Speaker 1: the street and I see a building and there's a crane,
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  Speaker 1: and a crane is like really tilted and it looks
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  Speaker 1: like it might fall, I would call up the relevent
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  Speaker 1: Policing Agency and say, there's a risk to the public here,
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  Speaker 1: there's a risk to other people's property. Come and inspect
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  Speaker 1: it and see. So the crane would not need a permit,
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  Speaker 1: a preemptive approval, but if it exhibited risky behavior, it
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  Speaker 1: would need to be inspected. So you'd have to have
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable suspicion of risk to allow somebody to inspect
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor's crane, your neighbor's nuclear power plant, your neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it happens to be. Paul, how can you expect
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  Speaker 1: to convince the American people of the evil of Trump's policies?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to convince and some alleged objectivists
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  Speaker 1: of this evil. I'm not trying, right, We're not trying
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  Speaker 1: to convince the American people of Trump's evil. We're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get people to think about, you know, what is
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  Speaker 1: going on in their lives and in the world, and
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: maybe to get a few of them to go, oh,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, what he's saying about Trump kind of
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: seems right. I've voted for him, but he's doing this
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  Speaker 1: horrible stuff. What is this guy? You know, where's this
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  Speaker 1: coming from? How come he saw it before I did?
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  Speaker 1: Or why is this analysis so interesting? And then get
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  Speaker 1: them to you know, listen to more and then read
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  Speaker 1: a book and read irand and I mean, we're not
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  Speaker 1: talking about a mass movement here. I have no I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I have no illusions about reaching millions of people and
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  Speaker 1: changing them and starting I mean, that's just not going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. What we're talking about is individuals, maybe dozens,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe hundreds, who are you know, curious about what
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  Speaker 1: we say about Trump and and and therefore shift their
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: position or inquire or search more and look, the people
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: who are exposed objectivism thoroughly and then become passionate supporters
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: of Trump and the defenders of Trump and what I
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: called apologist for Trump. Okay, they've had their chance, they've
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: been exposed objectives and they didn't, you know, and something's
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: something's wrong. They're in my view in their analysis. But
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  Speaker 1: my goal is not them. I don't care about them,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: and I don't care about people who are always going
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  Speaker 1: to be committed to Trump. I care about the people
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  Speaker 1: who are willing to think and are willing to be
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: challenged and are willing to change their mind. And I'm
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: willing to investigate and seek deeper truths, seek philosophical knowledge
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: about what is going on in the world. David says,
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  Speaker 1: any thoughts on Victor Fankel search for Meaning through logo Therapy.
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  Speaker 1: I read Victor Frankel a long long time ago. I
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  Speaker 1: probably need to read him again because if I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do something on meaning, that seems to be such
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  Speaker 1: an important book in the God. I wasn't particularly positive
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  Speaker 1: about whatever I read back then. I can't remember the details,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't about finding meaning in a rational, positive sense.
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  Speaker 1: And of course the context of Victor Fankel is in
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  Speaker 1: a concentration camp, and it's not clear you can find
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  Speaker 1: meaning in a concentration camp. It's not clear you should
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  Speaker 1: find meaning then, I mean it bails down to life
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  Speaker 1: and the value of life, and it's not clear that
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  Speaker 1: you can find value to life in a concentration camp,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe the hope that in the future you will
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  Speaker 1: find right, It's it's very existentialistic. Yeah, it's it's Cameu
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  Speaker 1: and Sautro and life sucks generally and you've got to
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  Speaker 1: you've gotta And I get it if you're in a
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  Speaker 1: concentration camp. But I think we need to look elsewhere
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  Speaker 1: if we really want meaning. And I'll be talking more
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  Speaker 1: about that over time. All right, we are thirty six
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  Speaker 1: dollars short of our goal for the second hour, and
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: it'd be good to get into the third hour. So
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  Speaker 1: anybody have additional questions, jump in. Franco says, having purpose
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  Speaker 1: in life creates meaning. I think that's right, that's fundamentally right.
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  Speaker 1: Bet you need to be clear about not any purpose.
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  Speaker 1: So I would rephrase that as saying having a rational purpose,
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  Speaker 1: a purpose that helps build self esteem, that creates meaning,
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  Speaker 1: That is what creates meaning. So I think that the
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  Speaker 1: rational and the self esteem need to be there. Nomberive Randroid,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the sticker, and Andrew, I think the
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: two of you basically put us over the second hour target,
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  Speaker 1: so I appreciate that. Normadif r Android also did another
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  Speaker 1: sticker earlier, so thank you for that, and so did
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  Speaker 1: a vial esque and who else who else did stickers?
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  Speaker 1: Roland thank you, and Jeff Banister thank you, so thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys for the sticker, and I think we got
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  Speaker 1: us all started with Catherine uh and with Kate dem
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  Speaker 1: To Demeter, thank you guys for the stickers, and and
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  Speaker 1: there's another one from x I Exit one two Fight four.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Andrew, Andrew, will you please spend some time
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  Speaker 1: arguing form morality of pride contra Christian doctrine. I did
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  Speaker 1: a host show on this in My Rules for Life,
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  Speaker 1: and I certainly will do a host showing it in
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  Speaker 1: the future as I discuss meaning, Christianity, the West, all
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  Speaker 1: of those things. So I think the fine meaning you
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  Speaker 1: have to pride and and and pride is something the
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  Speaker 1: Christianity denounces. It's a sin. I think I did a
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  Speaker 1: show on the Christian deadly sins. Pride is the idea
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  Speaker 1: that once you strive from all perfection, once you strive
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  Speaker 1: to be good, once you strive to be virtuous. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, once it strive to be rational, one should
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  Speaker 1: try to be rational in all aspects of one's life.
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  Speaker 1: It is something to be proud of. It is that
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  Speaker 1: you take your character seriously, that you take morality seriously,
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  Speaker 1: and it is a massive build of self esteem. I
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  Speaker 1: am rational, I take my life seriously. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be a good guy. I am a good guy. Versus Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: where pride is a sin, because how do you think
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  Speaker 1: you can be good? How do you think you deserve
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  Speaker 1: self esteem? How do you think you can be morally
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  Speaker 1: pro victim or achieve morality? Christianity looks down on it
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  Speaker 1: because it's selfish, because it's self confident, because it's a
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  Speaker 1: reflection and a prerequisite for self esteem. And Christianity doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want you to have self esteem. It wants you to grovel,
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  Speaker 1: It wants you on your knees. It wants you to
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  Speaker 1: recognize that you are a sinful, low, meaningless nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the universe, and that everything is God. They might not
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  Speaker 1: say it that way, particularly not the I don't know
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  Speaker 1: some Protestant preachers, but that's what Christianity really means. It's
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: a it's a it's a it's a religion for your knees,
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  Speaker 1: not for standing up tall. Now you know it changes
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  Speaker 1: over time, so you know it's it's about guilts of
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  Speaker 1: original sin, it's about shame of sex and your own body.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's about it's about it's the opposite of pride.
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  Speaker 1: Stop about it. Taking your life seriously, taking e life seriously,
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  Speaker 1: your self interested. Stop doing that, says Christianity. The only
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  Speaker 1: purpose of your life is to serve God, serve your
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  Speaker 1: neighbor by that serving God, Andrew, I know it's painful
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to politics sometimes, but a rational, self interested,
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  Speaker 1: responsible individual should still do it, correct, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: up to a point, not too much. Don't obsess. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to know what's going on in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: when the time comes, you might have to act on
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  Speaker 1: that knowledge, like in elections, but generally, don't spend too
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  Speaker 1: much time on it. Certainly, don't obsess about it and
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  Speaker 1: don't get it. Let it get to you. Focus on
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  Speaker 1: your life and living it and making the most of it.
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Immigration crime is a classic power law example. Most
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  Speaker 1: of the crime from a small percentage of top offenders.
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  Speaker 1: This is true for most crime. Yeah, most crime is
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  Speaker 1: done by a very small number of people, and if
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  Speaker 1: you could if you could identify those people and ultimately
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  Speaker 1: convict and try and convict and imprison those people, crime plummets.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: And when incarceration rates go up in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: when the police is serious about catching criminals and the
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  Speaker 1: justice system is serious about putting them away, crime declines.
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  Speaker 1: Crime declines, Andrew. If conspiracy theories spend half the time
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  Speaker 1: of half the amount of energy and time that they
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: spend trying to uncover lies on seeking truth, they'd be
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: a lot they'd be a lot more knowledge in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and they'd be a lot less scared. Yes, yes, they
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  Speaker 1: They fear comes from the lack of knowledge. They fear
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: comes from the world being unintelligible to them, mischievous forces
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  Speaker 1: out there. The more knowledge you have, the more understandable
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: the world becomes, the less afraid you are of it,
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: daniel says recently, the vorst mother of two with Danielle
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  Speaker 1: with four and a half bitcoin and one hundred and
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: seven k in cash, what advice would you have for
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  Speaker 1: her portfolio or ways to think about her portfolio? God,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I would sell the bitcoin a four and
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  Speaker 1: a half bitcoins that's a lot of money. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's uh, it was more. It was four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars not doing long ago. It's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit less than that right now. But yeah, I would
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  Speaker 1: sell the bitcoins, you know, opportunistically if you want to
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  Speaker 1: sell them out a one, so sell them over time,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully bitcoin goes up, so you can sell
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: it while it goes up, and then take take the cash.
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  Speaker 1: And I would take the cash and keep, like I
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: don't know, a few months worth of expenses on hand
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  Speaker 1: right in cash and the rest together with what you
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  Speaker 1: get from the bitcoin. Diversify. But if this is all
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: your assets, then definitely don't have it all in bitcoin.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you've got to diversify, and diversify extensively, you know,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: diversify both in US and across the globe. The more
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: risk averse you are, the more worried you are, the
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: more put into bonds and the less into stocks. But
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: generally a mixture of stocks and bonds and a glow
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: in a global portfolio. And do it with very low risk,
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: low sorry, low expenses index funds. And I should note
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: that nothing of what I said should count as investment advice.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, you know, my opinions. I have to watch
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  Speaker 1: the sec all right. Danielle also says is it too
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  Speaker 1: late to buy into the Argentina stock market? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so. I mean, a lot of the success of
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  Speaker 1: me lay is priced. But I think there's a lot
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: of upside still if he actually executes on everything, and
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: then if he gets to your elected in two years,
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  Speaker 1: so I think there's definitely upside. All Right, We've got
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: somebody who knows exactly when the next rally point in
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: bitcoin is going to be. Don't follow his advice because
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: nobody knows. Anybody who claims to know that is in
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: my view not to offend anybody delusional. You can't know
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: these things. If you could predict the markets, you would
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: be a trillionaire, not a billionaire, a trillionaire. If you
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: could tie markets, you would be a trillionaire. Andrew, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for sparking righteous indignation and covering the story about Maga
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: versus tech bos, the d MOLA month, the demonization of
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: the tech bots who are the modern athless as a
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: deeply serious injustice. Yeah. Absolutely, And unfortunately they're bad ideas
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: and they play into this. But yeah, they're the good
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: guys and ultimately the ones building modern society and advancing
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: us and pulling us forward in spite of ourselves. Uh so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thought criminal once. Tips for objective soul building that you're
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: going to have to wait until shows where I discussed
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: that I would refer you to my Rules for Life series.
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  Speaker 1: You can get like twenty two, the twenty two shows
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: that I did on Rules for Life, and they have
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of tips of soul building. I'man soul building
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  Speaker 1: basically is integrating your values, creating a value hierarchy, making
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  Speaker 1: sure all your values are consistent with your moral values,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: understanding your moral values and integrating them into every aspect
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: of your life, and making sure all your other values
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: are integrated with them. So it's a constant progress process
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: of learning and integrating and introspecting what are my values?
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  Speaker 1: What do I care about? What's gonna what is good
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: for me? And that's how you build the soul. And
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: most of that is about characters. So most of that
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: is about moral values. Why am I honest? What is
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: the value of honesty? What? Why should I pursue honesty?
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  Speaker 1: What's good about it? Integrity? You know, should I be courageous.
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  Speaker 1: What does courage even mean? How do I do that
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: in the world in which we live? Why is it rational?
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: Those are the kind of questions you have to constantly
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself and constantly think about, solve and constantly keep
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  Speaker 1: coming back to it and integrating it into your other
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  Speaker 1: valueses other values. Daniel in London, is London's still worth visiting?
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  Speaker 1: Or did Islam is spoiler? Oh no, It's definitely worth visiting. God,
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  Speaker 1: don't let the fearmongerers out there destroy your capacity to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the good in life. London is a beautiful, magnificent,
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: amazing city. There's certain areas of London you shouldn't go to.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: They're not hard to identify. But there's so much good
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: in London. It's such a beautiful city. There's so much
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: interesting stuff that neighborhoods that are different is to vibe
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  Speaker 1: and place. There's so much arts and music and great
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: restaurants and all of that. Don't go to the Muslim
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  Speaker 1: parts of town. So the fact that this Muslim immigration
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: into Europe should not capital n should not discourage you
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  Speaker 1: from going to Europe. That's ridiculous. I mean, the Muslims
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: are still a small minority in Europe, and Europe has
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  Speaker 1: much to offer. You think about your life, stop living
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  Speaker 1: in fear, and don't listen to the film Mongerers, the
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  Speaker 1: stupid fearmongerers who would have you stay at home under
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: your blanket reading the Bible instead of living your life
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: out there in the world. Lincoln. The nineteen fifties obsession
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: the Right has is based on a false view of
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: the past, but is understandable if one was ignorant about economics.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve twenty conservatism really shows the Right as anti Western civilization.
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  Speaker 1: I think the fifties is the same thing. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need to know economics. You just need to know a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about history to see that it's complete nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to have a lack of deep lack
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: of appreciation for the world you live in and the
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  Speaker 1: values you have. We all know houses are smaller. You
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: didn't have iPhone, you didn't have the Internet, you didn't
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: have Netflix, you didn't have really color TV, you didn't
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: have any of this stuff. It's all all of that
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: is really cool. And you had Jim Crow laws in
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  Speaker 1: the South, and women were treated like sn class citizens,
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: and I mean it was awful and gaze, had hide
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  Speaker 1: and were often beaten and sometimes in prison. And if
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  Speaker 1: you said the F word on stage, you were you
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: spent the night in jail or worse. There's so many
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  Speaker 1: ways that life today is better than the fifties, and
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: it doesn't take economics to know that. Jason two pot
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  Speaker 1: question sixteen minutes Inside Montana's fight to block sale of
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  Speaker 1: federally owned land eleven twenty five mountains are themselves as
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  Speaker 1: stuarts of the land, not owners Montanas. Montanas themselves as
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  Speaker 1: stuarts of the land, not owners. Left and right, cowboy
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  Speaker 1: and green, what's going on today with my I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: with my mouse huh? Right, left and right, cowboys and
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  Speaker 1: green econs unite to stop any sale, fearing a slippy
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  Speaker 1: slope and loss of heritage. No one asks how povetization
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  Speaker 1: could would work. Yeah, I mean this is the sense
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  Speaker 1: in which I said the environment is something both left
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: and right, you know, really a passionate about and are
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice private property easily for. And they all
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  Speaker 1: left and right have this idea of somehow the land
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  Speaker 1: being sacred, the land being godlike and not being allowed
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  Speaker 1: to touch it, and private property being a violation of
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  Speaker 1: the land, because the land, because you can't own land.
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  Speaker 1: God didn't give you the garden of Eden to own.
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  Speaker 1: He gave you the garden of Eden to take care
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  Speaker 1: of uh Suneric something like that. Fantastic You'll be doing
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  Speaker 1: shows and capitalism, Christian mysticism and meaning absolutely is there
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  Speaker 1: Christian non mysticism. I think it's all Christian mysticism. Linda,
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to the new additions to the show. Thank you, Linda. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we started today with Pinker h s Saku Fan. After
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: interviewing you the other day, Stitch and Adam said that
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Jackson's abolition of the Second Bank of the United
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  Speaker 1: States contributed greatly to a depression in eighteen thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Can you comment in this is he right? Thanks? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I doubt it, but I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the history well enough, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the depression of eighteen thirty seven well enough to
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  Speaker 1: have an opinion. You might look at the work of
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: Sulgent and White. They have kind of banking history going
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  Speaker 1: back to that era. I just don't remember. So no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Unlikely put it that way. When you
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  Speaker 1: get to my five dollars question below. I'm just pointing
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  Speaker 1: out how right you are on cultural trends and thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: You might find it interesting if you want to comment
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  Speaker 1: on it. Maybe there's better sources.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what is this? What's Jason referring to? I know
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  Speaker 2: what he's referring to. I don't understand Jason.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Andrew? Is there selfishness in being kind to others?
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  Speaker 1: I realize to be exact one would need context, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean being kind as a default rule. Yes, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: it's selfish. You you live in a benevolent world. You
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  Speaker 1: live in a world of where other people of value
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  Speaker 1: to you. You want to live in a world of
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  Speaker 1: smiles and benevolence across the board. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: ways you create that kind of world is you model
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  Speaker 1: that behavior. You behave in that way, You treat other
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  Speaker 1: people that way, and that contributes to making a world
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  Speaker 1: that is benevolent, friendly, kind, nice, unless you have reason
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  Speaker 1: to stop it, and yes, you have beason not to
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  Speaker 1: do it. So absolutely it's a part of selfishness to
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  Speaker 1: extend that other people of value to you. Saq you
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  Speaker 1: Fan eleven, I'm a hunter. If I own property, should
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  Speaker 1: I be able to shoot any wild game that comes
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  Speaker 1: onto my property or do other people who want to
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  Speaker 1: conserve wildlife have the right to stop me? What should
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  Speaker 1: be the law be. It's your property. You have a
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  Speaker 1: right to kill any wildlife that comes onto your property.
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  Speaker 1: If other people value wildlife, then they can buy property
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  Speaker 1: and fence in that wildlife onto their property. This happens
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  Speaker 1: in Africa. The best way to preserve elephants, the best
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  Speaker 1: way to to preserve lions, and I think rhinocerousas is
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  Speaker 1: to privatize them. Privatize the privatize them by you know,
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  Speaker 1: making the elephant part of your private property, making the
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  Speaker 1: animals who live on your land yours, and now you
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  Speaker 1: have an incentive to keep them or to issue hunting
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  Speaker 1: licenses to people who want to hunt them. But you
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  Speaker 1: need more of them to be able to benefit from
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  Speaker 1: the hunting licenses, so you make sure that hunting is
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  Speaker 1: restricted and so on. But yes, absolutely you have every
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  Speaker 1: right to You have avery ability or have every right
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  Speaker 1: to do that. If the animals on your private property,
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  Speaker 1: now again those who want to preserve it can buy
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  Speaker 1: the property from you, can try to convince you not
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  Speaker 1: to hunt them, can establish a animal preserve on their land,
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  Speaker 1: can set up a big national park privately owned where
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  Speaker 1: these animals can roam. But once it's on your property,
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  Speaker 1: animals don't have rights. You definitely have a right to
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  Speaker 1: kill them. Whether it's moral, whether it's healthy, whether it's good,
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  Speaker 1: it is a different question, but it's certainly politically permissible. Lincoln,
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  Speaker 1: why do you think art and music have been on
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  Speaker 1: a gradual decline in quality over the past decades. I
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: get mal decay plays a factor, but with painting falling
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  Speaker 1: off one hundred years ago, some other factors exist. Yeah. Philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: Einman describes this process in the Romantic Manifesto. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if painting, for example, reflects and artist's deep metaphysical value
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  Speaker 1: judgments and his way of seeing the world, he recreates
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  Speaker 1: the way he sees the world. Then as his epistemology decline,
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  Speaker 1: as he's convinced the world that he sees doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: exist in that form, as the world becomes more disintegrated
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  Speaker 1: in his mind, that is reflected in his painting. When
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: the world lee loses all meaning, then his painting lose
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  Speaker 1: all meanings. So it's a general decline of philosophy. It's
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  Speaker 1: philosophical ideas that are embraced by artists as they decline,
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  Speaker 1: their arts declines with it. Now that deserves a whole show.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do that at some point. I think if you
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  Speaker 1: go watch my lecture on modern arts, I cover some
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  Speaker 1: of that there. Lincoln, something like eighty percent of all
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: crime happens from people with three or more prior arrests.
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  Speaker 1: This is why three strikes laws were so effective. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, and I don't object to three strikes.
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  Speaker 1: If the strikes are really real crimes, not I don't know,
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: possession of majuana or something like that, but real, particularly
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: violent crimes, then throw away the keys. Are you okay
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: with UBI? Under some context, in the context of getting
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: rid of the every other aspect of the welfare state
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: and with the idea of a transition towards no welfare
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: at all, Yes, this is universe of basic income. So
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: it would have to be that it app places every
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: single other welfare program that exists at the federal, state,
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: local level, and that it is ultimately a way to
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: long term phase out welfare completely. That's the context. Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: Musk could be a real life John Gult if he
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: wasn't such a Duma and Trump supporter, Well Duma Trump supporter,
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  Speaker 1: just manifestations of a subjectivism that is part of a
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: lun Musk's soul, that's part of who he is, part
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: of philosophy he's integrated into his life. Sadly, he's too
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: emotional and he's too subjectivist. Right, Lincoln says, I recommend
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  Speaker 1: all colleague students do a summer in Europe. So much
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: history to explore, and you can stay in cheap hostels
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: and get a three month Amtrak pass for under six
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Totally worth the money, and by the way,
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: you probably almost suddenly will not get killed by any Islamist. Yes, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Lincoln. Why three months, spend a year,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: Spend a year in Europe before you even go to college.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: Go take her back back and go back track through Europe.
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: You can take the trains, you can stay hostels. You know,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: there's so much to see in Europe, it's unbelievable. Be
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: a unique life experience, and you'll want to keep going
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: back because there's so much more to see and there's
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: so much fun to be had. And the idea that
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: you would let fear of I don't know, some Muslim
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: stop you. I mean, don't go to Kata, don't go
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  Speaker 1: to Iran. You know most of you don't go to
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia or even to Dubai. I don't think, but
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: you could. A lot of people go to Dubai and
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: they're perfectly safe. But Europe, give me a break. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: like to make a point about the psychological evil in
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: the Christian Effect on human nrvous system. It says to
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: feel pain, fear, and shame in response to selfish acts.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: Yes so it It basically encourages you to feel shame
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  Speaker 1: and guilt from being selfish, which then discourages you from
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  Speaker 1: being selfish, and and and and and make you make
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: you live in a constant state of fear and shame,
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: and you can never develop self esteem as a consequence,
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: and it's unbelievably destructive psychologically. Absolutely. Again, we'll talk more
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: about that when we talk about Christianity and it's disasters,
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: disasters impact on the West. All right, thanks everybody. I
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: will see you tomorrow tomorrow's show. What's tomorrow's showtime? It's
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: going to be it'll be later. I have some meeting
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• 2:08:42
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