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Episode Three Hundred: US In Peril · The Death Of Journalism

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to episode three hundred of the Death of Journalism Podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: My name is John Zigler. I'm your host on today's show.
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  Speaker 1: As the United States celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot to discuss. A major Supreme Court ruling,
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  Speaker 1: New York goes full communist, and it seems to be spreading.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsome pivots more evidence Trump is effectively ruling as
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  Speaker 1: a king. Are we in for an American royal wedding
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  Speaker 1: this holiday weekend? Plus the World Cup? Caitlin Clark, Phil Mickelson,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully at least sometime for your questions for our
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  Speaker 1: anniversary edition of Ask John Anything. We have so much
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  Speaker 1: to get to on this special three hundredth episode of
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  Speaker 1: the Death of Journalism podcast They're going to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit quicker as I go through the news than normal,
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  Speaker 1: because otherwise this would be a four hour episode and
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  Speaker 1: we can't do that for lots of different reasons. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to start with the Supreme Court ruling and involving
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  Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. This was highly anticipated. It deals with the
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  Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which was written rather vaguely
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  Speaker 1: and I believe is no longer really relevant to today's world,
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  Speaker 1: and we've seen this in a couple of different situations
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  Speaker 1: involving the Constitution, where what is written was probably followed
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  Speaker 1: correctly by a five to four decision by the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court striking down President Trump's executive order and upholding the
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  Speaker 1: concept of birthright citizenship. So technically I understand why the
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  Speaker 1: five justice is three liberals and two of the moderate
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  Speaker 1: conservatives voted to strike down Trump's executive order and uphold
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  Speaker 1: birthright citizenship, because if you go by the wording, it
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  Speaker 1: makes sense, not total sense. There was an argument to
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  Speaker 1: go the other direction that was based on the technical
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  Speaker 1: language and the underpinnings of the fourteenth Amendment. But here's
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  Speaker 1: where I differ with the majority. Very very clearly, those
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  Speaker 1: that voted on and wrote the fourteenth Amendment to the
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  Speaker 1: Constitution had no concept that we would live in a
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  Speaker 1: world one where travel was so easy that travel to
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  Speaker 1: the United States from all over the world could be
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  Speaker 1: done by almost anybody. And maybe more important than that,
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  Speaker 1: they clearly had no idea that we would be living
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  Speaker 1: in a welfare state where there would be a magnet
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  Speaker 1: for people to come to the United States have their
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  Speaker 1: child be born here so that they could get all
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  Speaker 1: the financial benefits of being a citizen of the United
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  Speaker 1: States that was not in the equation, and had it
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  Speaker 1: been in the equation at that time, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's any question whatsoever that those that wrote and passed
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  Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution would have
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  Speaker 1: worded this very, very differently. The circumstances are fundamentally different
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  Speaker 1: than they were when the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. So,
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  Speaker 1: both from a practical as well as a philosophical perspective,
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  Speaker 1: I think this was the wrong decision, and I do
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  Speaker 1: think it matters, although I think it's being a little
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  Speaker 1: bit overestimated. Look, it's a significant decision, no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: There's some difference of opinion as to whether or not
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  Speaker 1: Justice Kavanaugh left open the concept of Congress acting. It
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  Speaker 1: appears to be the conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 1: through Kavanaugh's opinion, basically said, hey, look, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to pass a law changing this, that's fine. Now does
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  Speaker 1: that mean it requires a constitutional amendment or can it
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  Speaker 1: just be a law? I'm uncertain on that. Ron De
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  Speaker 1: Santis seems to have a contral opinion on that, and
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  Speaker 1: I put a lot of weight on whatever Ronda Santis says,
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  Speaker 1: but there does appear to be at least the chance
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  Speaker 1: of a legislative fix. Of course, there's no evidence whatsoever
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  Speaker 1: that the Republican House of the Republican Senate can get
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  Speaker 1: their act together with small majorities and do something as
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  Speaker 1: significant as effectively changing the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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  Speaker 1: So while there's still a glimmer of hope of this
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  Speaker 1: problem being fixed, I'm not particularly optimistic. But this is
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  Speaker 1: where we get stuck where conservatives, alleged conservatives, people like
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  Speaker 1: Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett and I guess Justice Roberts, who
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  Speaker 1: are effectively now moderates when they try to be constitutionalists
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  Speaker 1: and they look specifically at the language. The language isn't
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  Speaker 1: written particularly well because they were living in a completely
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  Speaker 1: different world. Now, you might argue, well, John, what about
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  Speaker 1: the Second Amendment? I agree? The Second Amendment was written
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  Speaker 1: in a world where guns were very, very different than
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  Speaker 1: they are today, and the entire concept of the Second
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  Speaker 1: Amendment seems to be about a militia and the idea
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  Speaker 1: of the people being able to arm themselves to protect
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  Speaker 1: themselves from a tyrannical government, a concept I agree with,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously is antiquated because there is no possible way
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  Speaker 1: that any sort of public militia could possibly stand up
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  Speaker 1: to the US military given today's technology. However, I actually
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  Speaker 1: think the Second Amendment supports my argument in the way
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  Speaker 1: that that has been interpreted over time, because it's not
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  Speaker 1: as if the Supreme Court has said you can't put
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  Speaker 1: any restrictions whatsoever on gun ownership. That's not remotely the reality.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is there's all sorts of restrictions on gun
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  Speaker 1: ownership in this country. It's just that the concept of
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  Speaker 1: banning all guns is unconstitutional for all intensive purposes. Well, similarly,
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  Speaker 1: I think you could easily put restrictions significant ones on
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  Speaker 1: birthright citizenship, given even the wording of the fourteenth Amendment,
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  Speaker 1: but the Supreme Court decided not to do that. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason why they decided not to do that, to me,
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  Speaker 1: is the most interesting and maybe in the long term,
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  Speaker 1: the most significant part of this whole deal, and that
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  Speaker 1: is something that I've discussed previously. That's a source of
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  Speaker 1: great frustration for me, and that is the makeup of
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  Speaker 1: this Supreme Court, because conservatives are getting the worst of
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  Speaker 1: all worlds. The perception is that this is a conservative
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  Speaker 1: court six to three. If you listen to the liberal
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  Speaker 1: news media, the legacy news media, and somehow you know
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  Speaker 1: this is perceived. I think widely across the country that
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  Speaker 1: our Supreme Court is conservative. Well, that would be fine
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  Speaker 1: if in reality the court was conservative. But when I say,
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  Speaker 1: we get the worst of all worlds. We get all
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  Speaker 1: the negatives of the perception that the Court is conservative
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  Speaker 1: without very much of the reality of it. Because the
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  Speaker 1: reality is as follows. We have three hardcore leftist progressive
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  Speaker 1: socialist communists at times all females on the US Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court who will one hundred percent of the time go
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  Speaker 1: with the Democrat liberal position one hundred percent of the time.
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  Speaker 1: That does not exist on the right, because even Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: Alito and Gorsich will go against the Republican position if
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  Speaker 1: they believe that's what the Constitution requires them to do.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen occasionally on
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  Speaker 1: big cases. Now, it did not happen in this particular
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  Speaker 1: case with regard to birthright citizenship. But the Court is
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  Speaker 1: currently made up of three partisan liberals, three hard core
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  Speaker 1: conservatives Thomas, Alito and Gorsts and unfortunately Thomas and Alito
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  Speaker 1: are near retirement, in fact, probably should be retirement retiring.
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  Speaker 1: NPR incorrectly reported through Nina Totenberg, who is I guess
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  Speaker 1: technically retired and ought to be put out the pasture
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  Speaker 1: because somehow she reported that Samuel Alito was retiring and
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  Speaker 1: they had to retract that like a couple of minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: a complete embarrassment for NPR. Alito is not for better
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  Speaker 1: or for worse retiring. But you have three hard core
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  Speaker 1: conservatives that are reliable constitutionalists, and then you have the
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  Speaker 1: three in the middle, Roberts, who for a long time
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  Speaker 1: I've been telling you is a swishy moderate who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like Trump and who wants to be loved as the
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  Speaker 1: chief Justice, and he sees himself he's in love with
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  Speaker 1: his own virtue. He's a James Comey type of person
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  Speaker 1: and can't be relied upon. Then you have the two
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  Speaker 1: Trump nominees, and Trump has to be fuming, especially given
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he went to bat for Justice Kavanaugh
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  Speaker 1: in a way their president ever would rightfully so, because
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  Speaker 1: Kavanaugh was smeared during his confirmation hearings with untrue stories
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  Speaker 1: of sexual abuse. But Cavanaugh is no longer even remotely
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  Speaker 1: considered a hardcore conservative, and Amy Barrett is probably worse
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  Speaker 1: than even Cavanaugh. And both of those are Trump's selections.
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  Speaker 1: So Trump fucked up. Now is it his fault? Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's the ultimate arbiter of this. He's the
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  Speaker 1: one that nominated them, and Barrett and Cavanaugh at least
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  Speaker 1: for his agenda politically. I'm not even just talking about
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  Speaker 1: issues related to his power as president. That to me
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  Speaker 1: is very different. But as far as policy perspectives, Cavanaugh
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  Speaker 1: and Barrett have been borderlined, if not total disasters, and
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  Speaker 1: that's on Trump. Trump blew it in those decisions. Now,
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  Speaker 1: who was the person that that influenced him, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but the buck stops with Trump, and it's clear that
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  Speaker 1: Trump blew it. And now we have on a five
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  Speaker 1: to four decisions something that has significance maybe for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the history of this country, depending on how
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  Speaker 1: things break out. But the bigger picture to me is
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  Speaker 1: this notion, this fallacy that the liberal media has created
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  Speaker 1: that somehow we have a conservative Supreme Court. We do not.
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  Speaker 1: We have three partisan liberals, three constitutionalists, and three virtue
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  Speaker 1: signaling moderates who feel pressure to be seen as reasonable
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  Speaker 1: and moderate and they want to please their elite friends,
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  Speaker 1: their Ivy league friends, and they're not really conservatives. So
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  Speaker 1: it's really broken down into three, three and three. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you might think that that's great, and I think there
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  Speaker 1: is some value to that, if not for the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we are under attack in this country from progressivism.
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  Speaker 1: If I felt like the left was acting in good
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  Speaker 1: faith and we didn't see signs that the country was
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  Speaker 1: on the verge of being taken over by effectively communists,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, you know what, that's fine. Having three,
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  Speaker 1: three and three actually has some value to it. But
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  Speaker 1: that's not the world we live in. We're living in
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  Speaker 1: a world that is very precarious and getting more so
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  Speaker 1: almost on a daily basis. And the proof of that,
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  Speaker 1: and there's certainly an immigration element to this issue is
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in New York City with Zoron Mandani. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I referenced whether it was in the last episode or
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  Speaker 1: two episodes ago, I can't remember for sure, but I
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  Speaker 1: referenced that one of the downsides of the New York
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  Speaker 1: Knicks winning their first NBA championship in fifty three years
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  Speaker 1: is that it's going to create a subconscious perception that
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  Speaker 1: things are awesome in New York and that Mandannie's up
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  Speaker 1: to off to a great start. It's going to give
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  Speaker 1: him even more power and influence. Now, I'm not pretending
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  Speaker 1: that the Knicks are the reason that this happened, but
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  Speaker 1: it certainly didn't hurt because in the most recent elections
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  Speaker 1: last week in New York, it was a clean suite
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  Speaker 1: for Mandani, both on the congressional level as well as
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  Speaker 1: the local level, and the candidates that won even against
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  Speaker 1: long term incumbents on the Democratic side, these Democratic socialists,
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  Speaker 1: these are clear cut anti American, anti Israel, oftentimes pro Muslim,
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  Speaker 1: anti Christian candidates, the likes of which would have been
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  Speaker 1: impossible to comprehend in New York City in the aftermath
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  Speaker 1: of nine to eleven just less than twenty five years ago. Impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Just the fact that Mandani is the mayor of New York,
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  Speaker 1: an avowed socialist who is acting like a communist and
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  Speaker 1: now getting everybody he endorsed elected defeating Democratic incumbents just
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  Speaker 1: less than twenty five years after nine to eleven is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely incomprehensible, incomprehensible, and I actually believe and I realize
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  Speaker 1: I'm known as a pessimist I often say that the
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  Speaker 1: only time I'm wrong is when I'm too optimistic, or
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  Speaker 1: most of the time when I'm wrong, it's because I'm
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  Speaker 1: too optimistic. But I truly believe that conservatives are in
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  Speaker 1: general not looking at this movement with nearly enough urgency.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of urgency, But to me, I look
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  Speaker 1: at this to use a metaphor or analogy, like a
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  Speaker 1: virus and a vaccine. I think there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conservatives who think that what's happening with Mandani is
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  Speaker 1: a vaccine for the rest of the country. They don't
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  Speaker 1: really care that much about New York. Let New York
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  Speaker 1: fall apart. It'll be a great lesson for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the country, and it will give us immunity nationwide
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  Speaker 1: against socialism or communism and whatever the hell else. This
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  Speaker 1: philosophy is, this anti Americanism, this anti semitism, and I
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  Speaker 1: would love to believe that. I would love to believe
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  Speaker 1: that the country is going to look at New York,
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  Speaker 1: the New York will fail, and we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: this as a lesson and it will act like a
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  Speaker 1: vaccine against communism. I don't think that's what's happening. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is moving too fast. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a virus that's going to overwhelm the immunity, and there's
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  Speaker 1: evidence to that already. Last night in Colorado, a long
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  Speaker 1: term fairly mainstream Democrat, not a conservative Democrat, democratic female
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  Speaker 1: lost a congressional primary to a young once again. They're
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  Speaker 1: all seemingly young, fairly attractive, sometimes not always females who
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  Speaker 1: are women of color, who are socialists, who are anti Semitic,
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  Speaker 1: and they are winning and the incumbent lost out of
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  Speaker 1: nowhere once again in Colorado. In Colorado, So this virus
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  Speaker 1: is spreading way too fast in my opinion, to be contained.
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  Speaker 1: And that whatever value to use the virus analogy, you
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  Speaker 1: get from immunity. You know, that's how a vaccine essentially works,
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  Speaker 1: to simplify it. As you get a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: the virus and you get immunity. Well, this could be
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  Speaker 1: a situation where we get too much of it and
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  Speaker 1: it causes death. And I'm not being hyperbolic here. This
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  Speaker 1: is a massive challenge we have and it's one that
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  Speaker 1: I am not comfortable at all that we are prepared
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  Speaker 1: to handle, partially because we got a shitty Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 1: far shittier than it should be considering how many of
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  Speaker 1: the justices were appointed by Republican presidents, including President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: but also because the Republican Party led by Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: is in a very poor position to play defense because
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  Speaker 1: of Trump's toxicity. And so I am very very concerned
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  Speaker 1: that what Mondani is doing is not isolated to New
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  Speaker 1: York City. And what Mandanni is doing is incredibly scary
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  Speaker 1: because he is the real deal. He is smart, he
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  Speaker 1: is articulate, he is charismatic, he's good looking. The media
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  Speaker 1: loves him even when they know what he's doing is
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  Speaker 1: totally wrong and destined for failure. Right after he won
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  Speaker 1: the election, he had his stacked Rental Committee or whatever
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  Speaker 1: the hell they call it, frees the rent on about
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  Speaker 1: a million properties in New York City. Now, everybody with
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  Speaker 1: have a brain knows that freezing the rent is not
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  Speaker 1: going to work. But I actually think what's happening here
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  Speaker 1: is way more insidious than is being perceived, because my
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  Speaker 1: understanding is that not only is the rent being frozen,
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  Speaker 1: but that if the landlords don't keep up their property
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  Speaker 1: to whatever nebulous standard that the city in Mandani have created,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, because they're not making as much profit
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  Speaker 1: because the rent has been frozen, and they decide to
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  Speaker 1: not spend that money on upkeeping the properties that the
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  Speaker 1: city can effectively take over the property, which might be
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  Speaker 1: the plan in the first place, government control of all
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  Speaker 1: these properties. Now, this is all going to take some time,
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  Speaker 1: which is one of the biggest problems we have here
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  Speaker 1: is time. We live in an incredibly short attention span society,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the biggest problems with trying to fend
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  Speaker 1: off communism is that communism uppears to work in the
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  Speaker 1: short run, at least for the masses. And Mandani understands that.
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  Speaker 1: Mandani seems to understand time. And right now he's exceedingly
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  Speaker 1: popular by every measure, probably gaining more popularity on a
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  Speaker 1: daily basis because to the idiots, to the masses, the
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  Speaker 1: people that either don't know or don't care about basic economics,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna work for that because all they know
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  Speaker 1: is that their rent isn't going up, and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give Mondanie credit for that. And when it all goes
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  Speaker 1: to shit, however long it takes, and it might take
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  Speaker 1: years for it to fully go to shit, the media
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  Speaker 1: will cover up for him or someone else will get blamed.
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  Speaker 1: They'll blame Trump or whatever, or there'll be a bell,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be a democratic president that will provide a bailout,
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  Speaker 1: thus protecting the communist cause from being seen as causing disaster.
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  Speaker 1: This is a massive problem. This is why I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we're in a vaccine situation. I think we're more
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  Speaker 1: likely to be in a situation where the virus overtakes us.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll give Trump some credit. Trump is calling out
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  Speaker 1: this communism for what it is. This might be an
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  Speaker 1: area where he's at his strongest. Maybe it's partially because
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  Speaker 1: of him being a real estate guy and feeling so
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  Speaker 1: strongly about the issue of rent freeze. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: but remember when Mandannie met Trump at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Mandanni was the alpha. Trump basically kissed his ass and
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  Speaker 1: it was terrible. So you know, when it came to it,
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  Speaker 1: Trump didn't stand up to Mandani. Literally, he was sitting
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  Speaker 1: down in his seat and Mandonnie was was the alpha guy.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll give Trump credit because I'm not sure any
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  Speaker 1: other president would have called this out as clearly as
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  Speaker 1: Trump did at the White House. When questioned about some
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  Speaker 1: of the things Mandani is doing in New York, specifically
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  Speaker 1: with regard to the rent Freeze.
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  Speaker 2: And Zara Bondani said in an interview this week that
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  Speaker 2: he was open to being the poster child for socialist candidates.
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  Speaker 1: Are you worried about more socialist candidates across the Unit?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a big threat to our nation, actually,
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  Speaker 2: because it's not socialism, it's really communism. They use the
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  Speaker 2: word social democrat because it sounds so nice, but it's
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  Speaker 2: really communism you're talking about it. I think it's the
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  Speaker 2: biggest threat to our nation there is maybe since our founding.
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  Speaker 2: That includes World War one, World War two, September eleventh,
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  Speaker 2: it includes the Pearl Harbor attack. I think this is
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  Speaker 2: the biggest threat to our nation. People will smile when
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  Speaker 2: I say that, but the smart people are going to say,
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  Speaker 2: and he's probably right, it's basically introducing communism into the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America. There's never been anything so dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Now, that was excellent from Trump. But what's he going
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  Speaker 1: to do about it? I don't think he has much
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  Speaker 1: ability to do anything about it, and he, as the
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  Speaker 1: head of the Republican Party, being so politically toxic prevents
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party, in my opinion, nationally, from being a
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  Speaker 1: defensive force. Oh has been one of my primary disconnects
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  Speaker 1: with Maga. I have many, but at the core is
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  Speaker 1: my vision of what the Republican Party is supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be in the modern era. The Republican Party in the
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  Speaker 1: modern era, and that's why I'm such a big Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court guy, is to play defense against this onslaught of communism.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's become real, and now we're heading for
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  Speaker 1: a midterm election and presidential election right around the corner
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  Speaker 1: from that, and the Republican Party is exceedingly ill prepared
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to play defense because their leader, their cult leader, their
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: brand is based entirely in Donald Trump, who is toxic
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: politically to at least fifty five to sixty percent of
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the American voting population. And that's a massive problem. Now
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: as far as the democratic side of this and how
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the politics plays out in a Mundanni dominated world, I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: have a bit of a contrarian opinion on this. Now.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Some people might think that this is me being mister
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Doomsday again. I don't think it is. I actually think
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking very very clearly about this. I believe that nationally,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: when it comes to the twenty twenty eight presidential election,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the biggest winner in what happened last week with Mondani
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: in New York and what's continuing this week in Colorado
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party. The biggest
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: winner is Gavin Newsom. Now hear me out on this,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Here's why I think Newsom was clearly the biggest winner.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Number one is AOC is now obviously gonna run for president. AOC,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: female Democratic Congresswoman Cortes from New York. She's gonna have
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Mandanni's support, She's gonna have Bernie Sanders support. You know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: she's young, she's attractive, she fits this, this whole brand,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: this whole this mo she's perfect for what they want,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and there's no possible way she's gonna resist running for
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: president in this moment. There might have been a moment
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: not that long ago, before the Mandanni craze Mandani Mania,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: where AOC takes a pass and says, you know, I'm
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: too young, it's too early. Whatever. No, that's not gonna happen. Now,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: AOC is going to run because there's gonna be too
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: much momentum, too much money, and it's going to be
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: too easy for her to get traction. She's going to
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: be instantaneously at least ten percent in the polls when
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: she announces, and if she does well, when you start
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: at ten percent, you have automatic traction, media coverage, credibility,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: all of that. To me, that dooms Kamala Harris. I
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: think now it's interesting that this morning there was an
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: article that Kamala Harris is reaching out to Mandanni, which
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to me is probably a smart move on her part,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: but it's it wreaks of desperation because I don't think
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: that's a fit at all. I don't think Mandanni gains
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: anything from hitching his wagon to Harris, and it's very
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: clear to me that he would be an AOC guy.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So unless she Harris can pull off something miraculous with
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: regard to Mandanni, I don't see how that works for her.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: But to me, it goes to my whole argument, because
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it proves she understands, at least someone in her camp
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: understands this is a fucking problem. AOC is a massive
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: problem for Harris because they're both females. I guess you
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: would call them ethnic females if you call AOC a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: woman of color or not, but kind of sort of
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: she is, but it's the same basic laying and AOC
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: is younger, more charismatic, more attractive, more socialist, non establishment.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: It's bad for Harris all the way around. And I've
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: said constantly that the biggest problem Newsom has in the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Democratic primary in twenty twenty eight is Kamala Harris, because
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: they're both from California. Because Harris is a woman of color,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: because she was Vice President of the United States, It's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: impossible for a white, straight male like Newsom to attack her,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and she effectively might cock block Newsom. My cock bloc
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: theory is almost completely falling a part now because AOC
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: is short, run short to get traction short to harm Harris,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and the more that Harris shrinks, the better it is
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: for Newsom. The other thing this does for Newsom, I
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: think there are two other things that this does for Newsom.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Number one is I do believe there's an argument that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: this will help Republicans at the congressional level in the midterms.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I agree with that logic. I think it's being overestimated,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: but I do think that in red areas of the country,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: in red states, there will be at least some backlash
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that some of these candidates are so outside the mainstream,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: so extreme, anti American, so anti Semitic, anti Christian, that
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: there has to be much more urgency in a lot
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: of these red areas of the country to get out
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and vote and make sure or that these people are
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: not part of the majority in Congress. I agree that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: will help keep things close. At least they should help
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: keep things close in the midterm elections. When it comes
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: to the House of Representatives. I've been someone who has
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: said there is almost no chance. I've never said no chance,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: but I've said almost no chance of Republicans holding the House.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I think those chances have increased slightly. I still don't
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: believe that Republicans are going to hold the House because
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the numbers are just so thin to begin with, but
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I do think it's going to be closer than it
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: could be. I don't think we're heading at least I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: hope not. I don't think we're heading for a blue
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: wave election. And it's partially because of the Mandani effect.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But getting back to my theory about Newsom, that actually
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: helps Newsom. That helps Newsom if the Democrats win the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: House by a smaller majority. Why because he'll be able
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to take credit for why that happens. Because he was
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the only Democratic governor in a major state that was
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: able to pull off a redistrict thing or gerrymandering boondoggle,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and he stole effectively at least four or five seats
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party. And so Newsom, should the Democrats
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: take the House by a smaller majority, is going to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: be seen as the hero and that'll have some impact
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: that'll help Newsom perception wise. But I think that there's
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: another effect here that's going to be even stronger for
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Newsom with regard to Mondani and AOC, because there is
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: a small but somewhat influential and large enough group to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: matter of Democrats who are very uncomfortable with this democratic
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: socialist movement, and those people previously have been dreaming of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: a Governor Shapiro in Pennsylvania or I think, hilariously and
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the Governor Asher in Kentucky candidacy where you have some
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: moderate straight white male or at least plausibly moderate straight
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: white male, where we can appeal to the middle of
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the country again and we can actually win the presidency.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: The pragmatic Democratic wing, which is small and probably shrinking
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: but still exists, I think those people are gonna look
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: at AOC getting traction, and when Harris doesn't get off
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the ground and clearly isn't gonna end up being the winner.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Under my scenario, They're gonna look around and they're gonna go, Okay,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: what's our best alternative? And because the Democratic Party is
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: moving so hard and so far to the left, all
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, Newsome looks somewhat moderate. I know that's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: insane to people that have followed Gavin Newsom's career because
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: he is the furthest thing from a moderate, but perception
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: is reality, and as the Democratic Party goes farther and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: farther to the left, then I think it actually helps
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Newsom appear to be a plausible moderate. He's an acceptable alternative,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that he's not quite as crazy as the AOC wing,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: and that therefore, if Newsom has the same kind of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: traction as he currently does in the polls, he will
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: be a viable alternative for those that had been in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the Shapiro or I don't even know who else you
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: would put in that camp, but people that are looking
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: for an electable, viable, somewhat moderate alternative, and somehow Newsom
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I think will end up being that guy. So I'm
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: raising the Gavin Newsom becomes president fear factor from six
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: point five to at least seven point zero and rising.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Now I realize that I'm not in the majority here.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't heard anybody else put forward this
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: theory that the Mundani mania actually helps Newsome. But I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: think since it's based in sound logic and reasoning. Now,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: of course, the circumstances can change. Maybe for some reason
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: AOC decides not to run. Maybe somehow Harris gets more
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: traction than I expected. Maybe somehow Mundani and Harris get
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: an alliance. And if that happens, then I think probably
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Harris is going to be very, very difficult and not
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: impossible to beat as the Democratic nominee. But I don't
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: anticipate any of that happening now as far as Newsome
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: is concerned. Interestingly, right after the Mundani victories in New York,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the billionaire theft proposition got on the ballot here in California.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: And I've gone through this before, I'm sure I'll do
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: it again. This is the worst proposition I've ever seen
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: in twenty plus years of living twenty five almost years
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: of living in California. It has massive implications not just
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: for the state but for the country. And Newsome interestingly
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: came out against it. Now he's been against it. He
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: apparently tried to keep it off the ballot but failed
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: in doing so, and he came out against it. But
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: he did so and what I thought was a pretty
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: crafty way. He essentially made the argument he's against the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: billionaire theft, not in concept, not in principle. In fact,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: he's in favor of the principle of stealing people's assets
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: that have been unrealized, unrealized gains, which it causes so
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: many philosophical and practical problems that it boggles the mind.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: But news made it clear he's not against the concept.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: He just thinks that from a practical perspective, it's not
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a great idea to do it state by state because
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: it gives and I'm paraphrasing here, it gives these dastardly
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: billionaires the ability to go to a new state and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: avoid the tax. In theory, I don't think that's really
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: what's going on. I think newsom One realizes it's a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: bad idea too. It's probably going to hurt some of
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: his presidential don't California. But his theory is we do
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: this nationally so that they have no place to escape
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: other than I guess another country, which is also plausible.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: So we got to do this nationally, which I thought
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: was an interesting political maneuver because Newsom is smart enough
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: to understand one, this is a bad idea. Two it
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: would make California and him look bad. Right if this passes,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: especially if Newsom supported it, it pretty much destroys any
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: argument that Newsom has that he is in a rational
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: moderate wing of the Democratic Party. California already has massive
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: looney Tunes and rightfully so, perception problems, So it would
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: not be good for his presidential campaign, especially since there's
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: enough time between now and twenty twenty eight to where
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: there would be some negative impacts of this billionaire's theft
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: tax or proposition should it pass. So I don't think
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: knew Some wants that on his record. I don't think
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: he wants that to deal with it running for president,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: and so he's against it. But he's in favor of
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: what he calls an economic reset. An economic reset, and
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: by the way, he used the standard of ten percent.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Top ten percent awage earners in his mind, ought to
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: be subject to some sort of massive taxation, even more
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: so than we're already enduring ten percent, which goes to
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the whole idea that this is just going to be eliminated,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: just going to be limited to billionaires, and it's going
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: to be a one time thing. Bullshit, bullshit. This is
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: just an experiment to see if they can get away
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: with it. This was crafted simply to see whether or
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: not they could pass something like this statewide. And once
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: they do, the economic the income and asset threshold will
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: be lowered and it'll happen time and time again, and
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that will become legalized, and it's all over. There is
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: no property. There is no personal private property in California,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and if there's none in California, that's going to spread
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: to the rest of the country eventually. But Newsom believes
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: that this, at least publicly, he believes in the concept.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: But this ought to happen nationally and not on a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: state level. And Newsom went on and actually, I'm a
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: little confused, which is weird, since I had prior knowledge
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: that this was happening. Newsom did an interview, I think,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: on his podcast, but I'm not quite sure with a
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: liberal podcaster by the name of Brian Tyler Cohen, with
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: whom I have been on CNN twice in the last
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: few weeks, which and the last time I went on CNN.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: On Alex Michaelson's late night show on CNN, Brian was
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: telling Alex and myself about the fact that he was
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: going up to Sacramento, and I was unclear as to
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: whether or not he was inter viewing Newsom or Newsom
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and it was interviewing him or I think what happened
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: was he was invited to come up to interview Newsom
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: on Newsom's program. I think is what happened. I should know,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: since literally the guy involved told me about this, but
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: we were about to go on the air and I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: didn't get all the details, and so that's the best
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I can figure, and having watched clips of this, I'm
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: still not a hut of percent to more. I think
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Brian was brought up to Sacramento to interview Newsom on
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Newsom's show, which is weird, But I think what really
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: was happening is that Newsom, who's running for president twenty
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: twenty eight, sees Brian as an influential liberal podcaster and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: he's trying to do effectively what Donald Trump did in
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the last campaign, which is to really make sure that
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the podcasting audience is appealed to, and he sees that
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Brian as someone who could be a conduit to that
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: audience give a little bit more credibility to an interview,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: even though Brian is obviously a big fan of Gavin Newsom.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: So anyway, the reason why I'm even mentioning this is
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the fact that Newsom said some absolutely batshit crazy things
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: in this interview, regardless of who was interviewing whom. At
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: one point he said that Brian had convinced him that
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: it was the right thing to do to pack the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court with up to thirteen justices, which is just
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: absolutely batshit crazy insane. But I'm not going to even
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: bother playing that clip. Here's instead the clip of Newsom
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: and Brian talking about how somehow Democrats are at a
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: disadvantage when it comes to the media ecosystem because the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: right wing maga media ecosystem is so much more efficient
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and effective than the left wing media ecosystem, which, according
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to Newsom doesn't even exist at ms NOW or CNN,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: which I've found to be absolutely hilarious, especially since Brian
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: goes on CN on a fairly regular basis. But here
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: was Newsome and Brian Tyler Cohen talking about how tough
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: they have and when it comes to the way that
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the news media exists in twenty twenty six.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, Trump is tryumph twenty four to seven on
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: these grievance networks, and they come in in their hardware.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: I watch, look, you got the Daily Wire goes to
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: the California Post. California Post goes to the New York Post.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: New York Post goes to you.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Know, the Five.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: The Five goes to the lineup of the primetime news hosts,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: all three of light to the olof goes right to
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: the Oval Office. And then we got Fox and Friends
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: and Now and you know, and then you've got this guy,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Chris Ruffo, one of the great you know greats in
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the Manhattan Institute, and they write all these things, and
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: it's this sort of circular ecosystem. The sewer that has
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: a presidential seal and gold leaf. Now, yeah, train no
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: swamp with respect. You know, I don't see that on MS.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: You're a contribute. I don't see that on MS, Right,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: I don't see IM. Sure as hell don't see it
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: on CNN. Yeah, I don't see it anywhere.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: There is no infrastructure, no left So how do you
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: compete with that man? You build it now. I can't
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: be sure, but I think Newsome might have been a
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: little confused about which media outlets Brian Tyler Cohen goes on.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Although maybe I'm confused because I'm unaware that Brian is
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: working at MS now. Like I said, I've been on
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: CNN with him a couple of times, and so there
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: might have been some confusion on Newsom's part there, and
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I think Brian was probably a little uncomfortable. But the
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: bigger issue there is the delusion that Newsome at least
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: is pretending to live under that somehow there's no left
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: wing media ecosystem. That's just garbage. I mean, it's exactly.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: It's just that on places like X it's way more
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: popular than Blue SKI and Fox News Channel is way
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: more popular than MS, DOWUR, CNN. That's the big problem
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: for them, is the popularity issue. And of course they're
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: not acknowledging the fact that what's left of the legacy
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: media ABCNBC and CBS is effectively the same thing as
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: the liberal media. They don't see it that way because
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: they're that biased or that delusional or both. Now, as
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: far as Trump is concerned the most amazing revelation over
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the last week, which is just so stupefying and so
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: mind blowing that I'm not sure we are ridiculously desensitized
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: to it. I mean, desensitization is one of the most
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: important words when it comes to evaluating Trump, and I
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: think we have an absolutely perfect example of that with
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: regard to the story involving Trump's financial disclosures for twenty
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: twenty five. I mean, it's just unbelievable. It's unbelievable that
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the president of the United States is disclosing that in
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five he made two point two billion dollars
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: two point two billion dollars as president of the United States,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: and that one point four billion of that was related
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: to cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency. One point four billion billion related to cryptocurrency. Now,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: that would be insane, inherently corrupt, and absurd under any circumstances.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: But this is the same Donald Trump and his supporters
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: who screamed luddy murder about the Biden family and specifically
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and making basically pennies and aarrison off of
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: the Biden name and off of the presidency. I mean,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: it's to say a tip of critical is an insult
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: to the word hypocrisy, and it is absolutely inherently corrupt,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: especially given the nature of cryptocurrencies and the way that
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: this money was made, because a lot of people lost
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: money because of the fact that the Trump team, Trump
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: himself and his family made so much money in cryptocurrency.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Not to mention see it would this would be There's
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: so many our aspects of this that are just awful.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: But to me, the worst and the one that gets
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the least amount of attention is that not only is
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: the President of the United States clearly making an insane
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: insane amount of money via the presidency and the influence
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: that that carries with it, but he's doing so in
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: a realm cryptocurrency, one that has inherent elements of corruption
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: attached to it, where a lot of people are losing
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of money because of Trump effectively taking advantage
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: of them, especially with these mean coins. Whenever all this
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: other bullshit, but the biggest part of this is we
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: have the president of the United States, deeply, deeply, to
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the tune of over a billion dollars in one year,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: invested in an alternative currency to the US dollar. That
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to me is the worst part of this. The corruption
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: is horrendous and ought to be condemned by everybody in
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: the country, especially given the fact that Trump came to
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: office saying he was going to drain the swamp and
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: like I said, criticizing the Biden family and Hunter Biden
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: and all that, and conservatives love to talk all the
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: time about how much money the Obamas have made after
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the presidency, and the Clinton's the same way. I mean,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're a bunch of fucking hypocrites on this,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: But the idea that the president of the United States
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: literally seems to have more money in crypto than in
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: US dollars and it might not even be close, is
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: incredibly terrifying, especially given the fact that I'm of the
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: belief that the US dollar in the long run is
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: in big trouble for a whole host of reasons I'm
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: not going to go into, some of which are related
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: to AI and digital currencies and all these other things
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: seem to be in the direction that we're heading. But
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: this story deserves all the coverage that it's getting, and
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the fact that it's being released just before a massive
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: holiday weekend and will be largely forgotten. I'm sure was
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: done on purpose because this is scandalous. Now there's a
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: book out about Trump called Regime Change by two New
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: York Times reporters, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, that I
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: want to at least play a couple of clips from
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: their interviews regarding partially because, as we've mentioned on the
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: podcast before, Maggie Haberman has famously good sourcing within the
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Trump White House. Trump seems to, at least in the past,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: have had a soft spot for Maggie Haberman for whatever reason.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: He wants the New York Times to love him because
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: he'll always think of the New York Times as his
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: hometown newspaper. And there are some remarkable revelations I guess
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: you would call them revelations in this book. To me,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: they're more like confirmations than revelations. Because the two clips
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I want to play from the many, many interviews of
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: these guys. I mean, they've been doing interviews like twenty
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: four to seven for the last two weeks Haberman and Swan.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: The two interviews are two clips of two different interviews
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: that I want to play from Aberman and Swan really
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: deal with what my major concern was about a second
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Trump administration. You may recall that I did not want
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris to win, so I guess I did not
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: vote for Trump, but I guess I was rooting for Trump.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I worked as a silent consultant for former Trump advisor
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Steve Cortes and his Political Action Committee in an effort
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: to try to help Trump and Key States. You can
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: make that of it what it was, but it felt
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: like it was the right thing to do at the time.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: But I always said constantly that my biggest concern about
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Trump two point zero was that the environment would be
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: completely different that in Trump one point zero. There were
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: people around Trump who were trying to put guardrails around
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: him that would at least have the ability to tell
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: me was wrong from time to time. By the way,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Steve Cortez was one of those people. That those people,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: including Steve, would not exist in Trump two point zero,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: that there would be only sycophants, and that Trump would
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: be treated like a god king because one he had
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: survived an assassination attempt, he had survived for indictments, he
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: was thought to be politically dead. He was Lazarus. He's
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: a cult leader to begin with. That was an environment
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: where when you have nothing but sycophants around you for
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: your second administration. That's a very very dangerous set of circumstances.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: That's like a king. And this book Regime Change validates
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: my concerns in every way possible. So here are the
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: two clips. The first one deals with the issue of information.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: This is kind of in a weird way, going to
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: substantiate what Gavendusa was talking about with Brian Tyler Cohen,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: but in a different because there is no doubt that
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: when it comes to getting information to the President of
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: United States, Trump lives in the ultimate bubble, a bubble
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: where only good news is provided to him, and it's
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: coming largely from whack jobs within the Magamedia world, where
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: truth is not even a factor. It's all about telling
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Trump how great things are going. And this is exceedingly
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: and obviously dangerous. And so here is an interview with
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan where Maggie Haberman details the
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: differences in the way Trump is getting his information in
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: the second administration.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Gins are made inside the White House by you know,
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: a handful of top officials in this government. They are
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: constantly worried about leaks. So the information flow going back
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: out is very limited, let alone coming in, and people
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: are constantly trying to reach Trump on his cell pH
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: and so forth. But his inputs, his news inputs, are
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: so different than before it. Yes he still reads the
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: New York Post. Yes he reads the New York Times
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: despite what he says, and yes he sometimes watches you know,
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: cable news programs in the morning. But generally speaking, Fox
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: News is it. Fox News is much more supportive of
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: him overall across the board, or at least less critical
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: of him than it was in term one. He's not
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: on Twitter. He used to, and several people said to us,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: you know, he would go through Twitter and term one
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: and he would see the replies, or he would see
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: the trending topics. He doesn't see any of that now,
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: and the algorithm is obviously very different now under Musk's ownership.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: He looks at truth social where everything, for the most
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: part is you are fabulous, and so forth and so on.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: He has Natalie Harp, the aide who is often described
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: as a human printer, who sits in a room with
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: him in almost every meeting, almost every senior meeting. She
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: is in more than basically any other major staffer and
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: him with a constant stream of positive news. But those
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: positive news pieces are coming from Gateway Pundit or all
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: kinds of other websites. He hears what he wants to hear,
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: and when AIDS try to push back on him, as
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: they did, and we write about this in the book
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: for months about you need to talk about affordability, you
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: need to talk about what people are feeling. He doesn't want.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: To hear it. Now, that's bad because if you're only
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: getting very one sided, inaccurate information, it's garbage in, garbage
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: out in fact. Frankly, it's amazing to me, given this reality,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: that Trump doesn't say more crazy things than he already does,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: and that's really saying thing something because Trump says a
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: lot of crazy things that are obviously completely inaccurate, oftentimes
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: where people don't even understand what the hell he's talking about. Well,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: that's the reason, because of the types of information he's getting,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: because no one wants to give him any bad news,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: and they're constantly feeding him with information that will make
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: him feel good like a child king and getting more
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: specifically to this issue of being treated like a king,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: here is a separate interview where Jonathan Swan talks about
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: this issue that I've already referenced where the people around
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: him have now just decided, unlike in the first administration,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: have now just decided. You know what, even if it
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem like Trump knows what he's doing, We've got
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: to trust him because he has the track record. He's
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: taken on this magical quality. He's magic, and because he's
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: survived everything in the past and he's been successful and
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: he always turns out to win in the end, at
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: least in their perception, that we've got to go along
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: with it even when he's wrong, and specifically with regard
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: to what happened with us getting involved into the Iran war.
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: As you project out, we've got two and a half
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: more years of this.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: If he thinks he's Mao and Stalin, now where are
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: we going? Well.
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: Part of the book is really a story of hubris.
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: I mean he came in this second term. It's actually
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: it's a little deeper than what you were saying, because
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: a lot of the people around him there's an almost
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: mystical belief in him, particularly the ones that went through
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: the campaign with him. It's Donald Trump is a figure
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: of destiny, that survived four indictments to assassination attempts somehow
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: won this election. Maybe in the first time when you
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: would talk to senior aides, a lot of them had
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: absolute contempt for him, and they would mock him and say,
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: you know, this guy's dangerous. We're trying to stop him.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: You never hear that. These are people who, oh, you
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: never hear that. You never hear that.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: There's none of the backbiting now on that.
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, these are people who believe in him.
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: And actually even when he says something that they think, well,
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: maybe that that's kind of out there. Well, maybe he's
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: picking up on something that we're not picking up on.
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: There's a deference to his judgment. And the Iran war,
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: the Iran war is actually sort of a perfect example
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: of that.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Now, that right there is pretty much the perfect articulation
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: of my greatest concern about a Trump two point zero administration.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: It has come to fruition, apparently exactly as I had feared.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what to do. There's nothing I
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: could do about it. I'm not sure there's anyone anything
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: anyone can do about it. We have a guy who
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: is living in a bubble being treated like a child
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: king who often acts like a child king, and he's got,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: you know, two and a half more years left at office,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: and I truly believe I've said this before, he is
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: going to cause all sorts of problems for the Republican nominee,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: whoever it is, and I think he'll choose it in
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eight presidential election, which is one of
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: the reasons I'm so terrified of Gavin Newsom winning the
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Democratic nomination, because I think winning the Democratic nomination is
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: far more valuable in twenty twenty eight than, especially people
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: in the right are giving it credit for, because I
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: think all the circumstances right now, many of those circumstances
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: can change. I hope they do, but all the circumstances
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: are very much against the Republican and the one that's
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: being most underrated is this child god king in the
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: White House with a massive ego, who is going to effectively,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: in my belief, whether on purpose or simply by being himself,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: going to essentially sabotage the Republican nominee in twenty twenty eight. Now, thankfully,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: while we have a guy who is in the presidency
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: who's acting like a child God King, there are still
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: some issues that he can't override the legislative process on,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: and I have to at least mention what's been going
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: on with regard to Trump and some Republican senators, because this,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: to me illustrates another one of my pet peeves about
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. For a guy who has been remarkably successful
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: in two of the three presidential elections in which he
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: has run, and I'll even give him credit for three
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: presidential elections, not twenty twenty, but because he won the
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Republican nomination in twenty sixteen against the all star field,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: So he's essentially won against all odds, three presidential elections
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: without any prior experience, the Republican nomination in twenty sixteen,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: beating Hillary in twenty sixteen, and getting very very fortunate
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: to run against both Joe Biden and Kamala Harrison twenty
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: twenty four. For a guy that has somehow won those
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: three presidential elections, he is really bad at politics in
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: some ways, and I've often talked about how he is
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: at best a checkers player and not a chess player.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: He does not understand more than one move ahead. He
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: just doesn't. And the perfect proof of This is that
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: there was a high profile confrontation between Trump and a
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: couple of Republican senators when they had a meeting trying
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: to figure out what they're gonna do with the legislative
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: agenda that's quickly evaporating before the midterms, and specifically, Trump
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: got into it with Senator Cassidy from Louisiana. And this
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: made me laugh, although not in a joyous way, because
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: this is a great example of how Trump does not
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: understand the impact of his actions or doesn't care, and
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: because he's not a chess player, he can't think more
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: than one move ahead. So Trump, because he you know,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: he wants instant gratification and he loves exerting his power
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: and getting revenge. He or just the opponent of Senator
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Cassidy in the primary. Cassidy got his ass kicked, finished third,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: so his career is over and Trump thinks he's won.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: But there's a massive problem. Cassidy is still in office
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: for the next seven fucking months, and you only have
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: fifty three votes in the US Senate. So Trump never
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: thinks about, apparently the fact that there is a downside,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: that there are negative consequences, that there are all sorts
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: of things that are gonna happen because of the fact
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: that you have pissed off Bill Cassidy, the Senator from Louisiana.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: He has nothing to lose anymore, nothing, and that has
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: massive implications because now he can do whatever the hell
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: he wants. He doesn't have to listen to Donald Trump,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm not even talking about the confrontation of the meeting.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to vote in any way that Trump wants.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Trump has no leverage over him, zero. Same with Cornin
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: in Texas, and he's doing the same thing with Lisa
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Murkowski in Alaska. He's disparaging Lisa Murkowski in a situation
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: where it's very possible Alaska may elect a Democratic Senator.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: It's very possible that the Republican threshold and the Senate
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: is going to be razor thin. It could end up
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: being fifty to fifty. And what happens if it's fifty
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: to fifty, Lisa Murkowski could turn into a Democrat and
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: a heartbeat, So he's effectively a Democrat to begin with,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, you need to win
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: one more race that you thought you did in order
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: to hold the Senate. Murkowski is gonna be at best
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: and independent, and it works the Democrat if the Senate
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: goes fifty to fifty in the midterms. Trump is terrible
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: at this. He does not understand. Yes, there might be
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: short term gratification for you to knock off one of
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: your enemies or get revenge on somebody. We don't even
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: understand why he did this against corn And in Texas,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: although because I think it puts Texas in play to
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: get rid of cornin but you get rid of corn
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: and in Cassidy. Now for the next seven months, you've
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: effectively lost two centers. You have no leverage o of
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Are you fucking idiot? There's a downside, there's other ramifications
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: of this that you apparently don't have the intellectual capability
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: to understand. And so oh, it's very very frustrating to
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: me as someone who has tried to be very fair
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: to Trump all along for this ten year period of
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: time and has seen as clear as day where this
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: is all heading. This is all heading into a sit
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: situation where we have a midterm and a presidential election
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: where Trump is going to put the Republican Party at
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: a huge disadvantage at a time period where we have
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: never needed a strong Republican party more to fend off
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: the communist onslaught, the literal communist onslaught, And we need
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: a majority in the Senate, and we need to be
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: able to replace Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito when and
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: if they actually do retire, god forbid they die. You
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: need a Senate majority to do that, and Trump is
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: endangering that. So all of this still could end up
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: in the long run, this entire Trump experiment could end
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: up as disastrous, maybe worse than even I anticipated or predicted.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: And of course the Maga fans never understood that, and
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: they'll never accept that because what they will say, if
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: it turns out as bad as it might right now,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: they will say that that was inevitable, that Trump actually
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: fought back against the onslaught and did a better job
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: than anyone else could, And just because he lost doesn't
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: mean it was his fault, because the Woosie Republicans that
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: came before him would have lost sooner and more dramatically.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: That's what they will believe, even though I don't think
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: that's the reality. And that kind of brings us to
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: where we are on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: of our birth as a nation in the United States
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: of America. Obviously, like many commentators, I could talk about
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: our two hundred and fiftieth birthday for many hours, and
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: you know, you only get a few opportunities to do this.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: The fourth of July annually is a chance to do so.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: But this one is special since it is the two
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth anniversary. So I feel like I should
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: at least make some comments regarding the two hundred and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: fiftieth birthday of America. Some of this will sound like
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: I'm repeating myself from past analysis of where we are
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: in this country, but again, because of the nature of
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, I think it's warranted.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: Here's my very broad and as brief as possible analysis
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: of where we are on our two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: I always go back to our mission statement, our branding
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: as a country, What made us special? Why is it
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: that this American experiment was so unique and has been
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: so incredibly successful? And I do think the two hundred
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: and fiftieth is a perfect opportunity to acknowledge the success,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: the resounding success of this experiment. This is without a doubt,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: the greatest country that man has ever created. That's not hyperbole,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: that's not exaggeration. That is a fact. Now, is it perfect?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: No?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Has it ever been perfect? No where our framers founding
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: other's perfect. No. But they were a hell of a
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: lot better than anybody else that ever created a country.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: And it was created based upon a few incredibly important concepts,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: freedom and liberty, unity, bravery, risk taking, hard work, equal opportunity,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: justice for all. That was effectively our mission statement as
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: we broke off from Great Britain, and the signers created
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence, which is seen as the birth
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: of the United States of America, although I think you
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: could actually argue that this really isn't the birth of
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: the United States of America. I actually think it was
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: probably seventeen eighty nine and the US Constitution and George Washington.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: But we can celebrate that if we make it that
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: far for that two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. But I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: get why people are celebrating, and I'm all in favor
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: of people celebrating. July fourth, seventeen seventy six, is the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: is the birth of the United States of America, And
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I think it's important to acknowledge the remarkable success of
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: this the success as far as what we have done
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  Speaker 1: as a country internally and externally. We have been a
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  Speaker 1: force generally for good throughout the world, obviously winning two
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  Speaker 1: World Wars, or being a very big part of winning
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  Speaker 1: two World wars, making the West at least somewhat safe
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  Speaker 1: for democracy. We have been able to hold on, for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, to our democracy, although Trump is threatening
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: that in some ways, I think significant ways. For almost
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years now and again I cannot
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: emphasize enough not perfect, but the best there's ever been.
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  Speaker 1: Incredibly positive things have happened because of this country, and
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  Speaker 1: we should all be proud of that. And I am
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  Speaker 1: someone who has always been exceedingly proud of being an American.
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  Speaker 1: And my story well kind of remarkable, is not that unusual.
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  Speaker 1: That's what makes America so great. I mean, it's almost cliche.
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  Speaker 1: My particular story on my father's side, my grandfather was
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: a German scientist who came over to America and Operation
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  Speaker 1: paper Clip to work on rockets and satellites and the
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: space program, and went from working for the German government
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  Speaker 1: under Hitler to getting the highest civilian honor that the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: US Army can give somebody becoming a rather famous rocket scientist.
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  Speaker 1: And then his son becomes very successful in finance, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, that to me is a remarkable story that
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  Speaker 1: is kind of uniquely American. And on my mother's side,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of generations before that, directly from Ireland on
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  Speaker 1: a boat. My father comes over on a boat. My
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  Speaker 1: great grand great grand great grandfather, that's two greats great
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  Speaker 1: great grand grandfather on my mother's side comes from a
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  Speaker 1: boat from Ireland. My great grandfather opens like twelve different businesses,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: most of them having to do with alcohol, which is
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: hilarious coming from Ireland, and so stereotypical, becomes effectively like
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties version of a billionaire in today's money,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: loses it all, almost all of it, and the Great Depression.
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  Speaker 1: His sons rebuild a a company called Roller Bearing Company
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: of America, which becomes very successful, and you know, my
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: mother ends up becoming one of the first women to
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  Speaker 1: go to Georgetown University. I mean, all these things are
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: not unique to the American experience, but they can really
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  Speaker 1: only happen in America. And my great grandfather and my
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  Speaker 1: mother side, after he loses everything becomes the head of
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Senate in the state of Pennsylvania. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so all sorts of really amazing things have happened in
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: my American story, and I have benefited greatly from being
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: an American, and I want us to hold on to that.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: I desperately want us to hold on to that so
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  Speaker 1: that my kids can experience the same kind of country
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  Speaker 1: that I did. And I think that's in peril. I
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: truly do believe it's in peril. And again, I understand
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: that I'm perceived as a pessimist, but I'm trying to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: be as optimistic as possible. And when I look at
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: our mission statement, I see that at every single level,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: those concepts are no longer rooted in a strong foundation,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact are barely hanging by a thread. Freedom
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: and liberty. I think we're becoming less free and liberty
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: is becoming less pervasive on almost a daily basis. And
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: it's not just because I live in California. I always
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: go back to the COVID panic as the ultimate proof
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: of this. I mean, I realize that it was some
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: extreme circumstances, but freedom and liberty lost big time during
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: the COVID panic, and it proved that to a huge
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: portion of our population and a vast majority of our politicians,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: they don't give a flying fuck about freedom and liberty.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: That could be pushed aside immediately, especially if we perceive
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: it to be in the name of safety, even if
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: it really wasn't about safety, even had nothing to do
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: like masks had nothing to do with safety. If it's
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: perceived that way, if it's a virtue signal of safety,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: we can put aside freedom and liberty. So we have
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: failed on that front. Unity. We are failing badly when
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: it comes to unity, which is literally in our name,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: the United States of America. We have never, in my opinion,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: be more been more politically divided. Yes, we were more
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: divided during the Civil War, but politically, I don't think
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: there's ever been a time. I'm sure there's never been
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: a time where there is more of a disparity in
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: the way that Republicans perceived this country and Democrats perceived
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: this country. And it's largely because of Trump, not entirely,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: but largely. Trump has divided us more than any other
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: president probably ever. I mean, I know that FDR divided
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, including my grandfather on my mother's
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: side or hated FDR. But the reality is that Trump
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: has been a divider in chief on purpose. He's probably
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: been the only guy who's ever done so on purpose.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, FDR was able to unite to win World
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: War Two. So I mean there's no no one been
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: anyone as close to as divisive a figure in the
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: presidency as Donald Trump. And it has had massive implications,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: massive implications in my opinion, that we're just beginning to
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: see the results of and are going to get worse
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: as we go on. So we're failing on freedom and liberty,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: We're failing on unity. We're no longer the home or
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: the brave. We are a woosy country. We are no
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: longer risk takers. We are risk averse in virtually every
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: aspect of society. It's pathetic how we never take risks anymore.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Everything is about safety, not just physical safety, but financial safety.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: No one ever wants to risk their jobs. Frankly, I
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: think we just got too rich. As rich as we
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: are the richest country that's ever been created by far,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: there's been negative consequences to that, because when people get rich,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: they get soft, they get risk averse. They don't take chances.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: And part of that softness, part of that wooziness, is
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: giving up on the concept that hard work is rewarded
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: and some people fail. We've just lost that entire idea.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: Now we live in a welfare state because we we
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: went soft. We became so rich that we could actually
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: subsidize people who didn't work, and then we justified people
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: that didn't provide anything for society, and we taught our
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: children were this is the way the world works. And guy, God,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, we become so soft when it comes to
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: teaching our children anything. We are no longer a hard working,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: hardened people that can deal with adversity. Dealing with adversity
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: is one of the things that made this country great
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: that no longer exists because we're so damn soft. And
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: we used to believe in equal opportunities, not equal outcome.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: This is the whole equality versus equity debate that I
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: think we've largely lost. Not totally, because otherwise Kamala Harris
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: would be President the United States right now. But we
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: were built on the concept of equal opportunity for all,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: not equal outcome, and that's what we're becoming. Equal outcome
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: in the Mundani mania is a direct result of that.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: He wants to create equal outcome, not equal opportunity. That's communism.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: And then there's the idea of justice for all. We
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: don't live in that world anymore. And yes, I talk
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: all the time about how the pendulum swings in one
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: direction to the other, and often it swings too much
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: from one direction to the other. Yes, we once lived
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: in a country where it was way too advantageous to
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: be a white male and way too disadvantage disadvantageous to
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: be a person of color or to be gay one
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: hundred percent. Well guess what, we fix that. And now
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: So now we still have injustice, it's just in a
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: different direction. We now live in a world where, in
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: many circumstances it is a disadvantage to be a white male,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: and it is absolutely an advantage to be a person
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: of color, especially a female of color. That's not justice
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: for all. And our justice system, in my opinion, is
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: is probably more fucked up than it's ever been. Now
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: in some ways it's actually gotten better because of technology.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: It's becoming almost impossible to get away with a traditional
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: murder because of all the technologies we have. So from
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: that standpoint, it's probably much more difficult to get away
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: with murder. But our justice system is being used as
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: a weapon economically. I talk about this all the time
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: when it comes to lawsuits, the likes of which our
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: creators never imagined. They never imagined that that would be
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: driving the bus, that the American dream would be to
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: have a lawsuit against a deep pocketed entity. And that's
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: the world we live in now, and that, to me,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: is one of the fundamental differences in America today in
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: comparison to the America of thirty forty fifty years ago.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: The American dream is literally to get a decent lawsuit
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: against a deep pocketed entity. That is the American dream.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: That's not an exaggeration. The evidence of that is overwhelming,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: and the implications of that are just as overwhelming. So
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: to me, we have we're failing when it comes to
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: our basic mission statement and our branding. And there's almost
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: no institution right now, almost none other than maybe elements
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: of the US military and maybe some other minor aspects
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: of our society, largely because of technological advances that I
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: have confidence in that are actually getting better but when
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: you look at every single aspect of American society in
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, the foundations are crumbling. Our academic institutions
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: are completely broken, completely broken, crumbling our media institutions maybe
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: even more dramatically than our academic institutions. People have no trust,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: understandably so in anything they're being told by our news organizations,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: and it's going to get worse in an ai world.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: Our healthcare institutions totally broken. Not to mention our health
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: in general, we have become fat as a nation, literally fat,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: and our healthcare system is broken and hemorrhaging at the seams.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Our political system completely broken, partially because of the divisions,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: some of which created by Trump. We can't get anything done,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: completely and totally dysfunctional. Even our entertainment is dysfunctional. It's
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: almost impossible to create a great movie, or a great song,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: or a great piece of art anymore. In my opinion,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: our sports institutions are broken again largely because of too
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: much money. Too much money, too much wealth is an
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: incredibly difficult thing to deal with as a human, and
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: I think sports are a perfect example of this. There's
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: way too much money in every aspect of sports, whether
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: it's professional or what used to be called college sports,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: and it's very difficult for me to look around and go,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: that's an institution that I still have trust in that
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: I think is on a firm foundation. Again, our US
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: military seems to still be in pretty good health, partially
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: because of what Trump has done, but I think that's
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: mostly technological. Our technological advances have given us a situation
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: where we have so many advantages over other countries. And yes,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: we still have enough people that are willing to serve
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: at a high level that our US military can still
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: be highly functional. But it's very difficult for me to
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: look around and go, Okay, that's something that is on
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: firm foundation, and I have trust in the future that
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: it's at least not going to get worse. I can't
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: think of any and I realize this is awfully pessimistic,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: and I'm trying hard not to give up all hope.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: But I truly do believe. I've said this before and
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: I'll say it again, even though it's not popular to
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: do so on such an important birthday like our two
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth, But I truly do believe we're hosed.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: I believe we're cooked. If I was just described the
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: United States of America in human terms on our two
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth birthday, I think we're like someone who's
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: about sixty years old who has lived a remarkable life,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: who has achieved incredible things. They've been imperfect, but they
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: have dominated their profession. They've made the world a better place.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: They've become rich beyond all comprehension. But they are fat,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: their brain is eroding, they're getting dumber, and they have
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: been diagnosed with some form of serious cancer. So even
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: though we're sixty and we ought to have a fairly
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: long life ahead of us, and maybe you know, some
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: glory years ahead of us, because we were told that
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: our seventies and eighties is supposed to be the golden years,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: although I don't think it's really turned out that way,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: but that's another story for another day. We should have
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: a long life ahead of us to look forward to.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: But I think we've got major, major challenges. I think
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: this whole thing could be heading for a very dark
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: place in a fairly short amount of time, and I've
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: articulated some of how that's going to happen. I mean,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom in an AI takeover world. As president, things
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: are going to change awfully fast and very very much
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: in the negative, and that America is not going to exist,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: at least in comparison to any concept that we've previously
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: had about what America was supposed to mean. So I hope,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: I hope that maybe the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: of the birth of America can be a reminder of
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: what made us great and maybe get enough of the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: country to remember that if we don't fight for that,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: we're gonna lose it because it's in peril. It is
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: absolutely in peril. And the Mundani Manian thing, well, it's
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: not the most important thing facing us, it's certainly one
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: of them. It's right in our face. Now, this is
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: not a drill. This is reality. This is what many
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: people have been predicting for decades and decades. Whenever humanity
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: creates something amazing like the United States of America, it
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: is within our nature, for some reason that I don't
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: fully understand, to destroy it. And we are in the
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: process of seeing the greatness of America destroyed for real.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: It's no longer theoretical, it is real. The barbarians are
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: at the gate, I mean, and everything we built this
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: country on is in peril if we don't defend it,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: if we don't fight back. And unfortunately, as I've said
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: many times, those that are most likely to fight back,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: conservatives lack of better term, Republicans, are in a very
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: bad spot to do so, largely because of the toxicity
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: of our president Donald Trump, who claims to be all
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: about making America great. That's one of the great ironies
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: of all this. Trump says he's gonna make America great again,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: when in fact he may end up handing the country
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: to the communists. Even though I truly do believe, as
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: I said earlier in this podcast episode, he gets it,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: he gets it on how dangerous this is. He just
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: happens to be essentially a weapon of the communists, because
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: this could not be happening with the speed that it
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: is without the toxicity of Donald Trump and the reaction
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: to him. But it also couldn't happen for a whole
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: lot of other reasons, including US teaching two generations of
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: children that in this country through public school education, that
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: America is bad, and that you know that being white
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: is bad, and that capitalism is bad, and that socialism
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: is good, and you know being a victim is good.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: All of that's coming home to roost now. So I
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: don't want to give up hope. I really don't. As
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: long as there's any hope, I'll keep fighting. Not that
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: I matter. But on this two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: while it's absolutely time to celebrate, and I hope you
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: have a great time, it's also a time to be
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: wary and to be vigilant and to start realizing that
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: you've got to fight back or we're going to lose this.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: And let California, I say this all the time. Let
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: California be a warning to the rest of the country.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: This is real. This is real because it when it
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: happens in New York and it happens in California, it's
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: gonna spread. Using the virus analogy again, And unfortunately, I
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: don't have the confidence that it's going to act more
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: like a vaccine than it will a virus that ends
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: up killing us all. How and when I don't know,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: I mean if the AI thing turns out to be
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: as bad as many are predicting. Although I'm actually starting
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: to become a little bit more optimistic on that front,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: partially because a lot of the American people have reacted
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: negatively towards it, partially because I'm not sure the technology
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: is going to get to where you know, the those
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: in Silicon Valley have been predicting and hoping for as
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: fast as they have been claiming it to be. And
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: that'll be another topic for another day. But you know,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: if that all happens as predicted or feared, God help
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: us all. We're going to need a lot of help.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: Well, that that wasn't particularly uplifting for the July fourth holiday,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: but I think you understand where I'm coming from. Thanks
• 1:23:55
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