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Radicalization, Assassination & The Real Threat to Freedom | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: The radical fundamental principles of freedom, rational self interest, and
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  Speaker 1: individual rights. This is the Uran Brook Show. All right, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to lan Brook Show on this land team. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Uh we uh continue. They continue to be lots of
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  Speaker 1: stories about, you know, Charlie Cook and his killer potential motives.
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  Speaker 1: Although very little new information actual information has come out.
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  Speaker 1: It does seem as as I've been saying all along,
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  Speaker 1: they're probably the the most The simplest explanation is probably
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  Speaker 1: the choice. That explanation that is, this is somebody who's
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  Speaker 1: on the left who despises, uh, you know, despised Cooke,
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  Speaker 1: despised what he was saying, had some connection to trans
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  Speaker 1: the trans world, and shot him more I think I
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  Speaker 1: still think unless improve in otherwise more for attention than
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  Speaker 1: anything else. But we will see, we'll get more information.
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  Speaker 1: And meantime, there's a lot of talk about political violence
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  Speaker 1: in the United States. There's a lot of talk about
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  Speaker 1: violence increasing, a lot of connecting. You see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of connecting of the of the Ukrainian goals, brutal murder,
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  Speaker 1: murder in North Carolina, and the shooting of Charlie, of
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Cooke, and a general sense and I think a
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  Speaker 1: general sense that exists out there among many people that
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  Speaker 1: this country is descending into some violent hellhole and the
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  Speaker 1: police of violence is out of control, or the nihilistic
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  Speaker 1: left is just it, you know, is committing acts of
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  Speaker 1: political violence on a regular basis. That's the impression one gets,
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  Speaker 1: particularly if one listens reads right wing right wing medium.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to talk a little bit about it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what is uh, what is what I think
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  Speaker 1: is actually going on? How bad is it? And uh?
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  Speaker 1: And what what should we really be afraid of? And
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  Speaker 1: who should be really be afraid of? You know? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: go back to the to the brutal killing of of
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  Speaker 1: that Ukrainian girl, which is just horrific, uh and and pointless.
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  Speaker 1: But we you know, so what do you make of that? Is?
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  Speaker 1: Is that now? You know? Is this what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in America? Is this some sign of of a new
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  Speaker 1: thing that's happening in America? And I think the reality
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  Speaker 1: is no, The reality is we paid attention to that
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  Speaker 1: story because of the video, because of his brutality, because
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  Speaker 1: we saw it, we could see it with our own eyes.
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  Speaker 1: There were over sixty murders committed every day in the
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  Speaker 1: United States over sixty It's not like sixty two sixty
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  Speaker 1: two points something. Murders committed every day in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many of them are like that,
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  Speaker 1: do you. I mean, maybe every day there's a murder
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  Speaker 1: like that, some crazy homeless person slaughtering some innocent person
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in this huge country of two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: million people. Is this unique? Is this different? The main
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  Speaker 1: difference is those are our videotapes, and this is this
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  Speaker 1: was so the fact that we got to see, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we got to see the horror.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't change the real nature of it, which is horrific,
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  Speaker 2: but it does seem to change the response everybody has
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  Speaker 2: to it, and the extrapolation from one case to there's
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  Speaker 2: some kind of natural national disaster, there's some kind of
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  Speaker 2: epidemic of you know, horrific violence.
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  Speaker 1: Going through this country, and people really have the sense.
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  Speaker 1: I know you guys, some of you guys have it.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys fight with me constantly about about crime
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  Speaker 1: numbers constantly because you're convinced by the sense, the sense
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  Speaker 1: that you have, and by the reporting by the media,
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  Speaker 1: by the partisans who have an incentive to do this,
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  Speaker 1: that the United States is murder is spiking and going
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  Speaker 1: through the roof in the United States, and it's horrific,
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  Speaker 1: And that's just not true. The numbers just don't match it.
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  Speaker 1: And again I've said that you can fake violent crime numbers.
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  Speaker 1: You can. You can you can fake break ins and
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  Speaker 1: book Lewis, it's you can fake. Even the numbers on
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  Speaker 1: rape very difficult to fake. Motivates, very very difficult to fake,
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  Speaker 1: motivates and motivates a declining almost everywhere, almost everywhere, and
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  Speaker 1: from a historical perspective, from the perspective of the US
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  Speaker 1: and history, the declining to some of the lowest rates
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  Speaker 1: they've ever been at.
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  Speaker 3: So uh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the impression ones gets from videos, from commentary,
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  Speaker 1: from reading the news, from listening to them is the
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  Speaker 1: murderers through the roof. It's brutal out there New York.
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  Speaker 1: You can't walk in the street at night in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Just not true. As somebody who's walked to night in
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  Speaker 1: the streets of New York recently, it's just not true.
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  Speaker 1: And again, you know, I'm I like numbers, and the
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  Speaker 1: numbers just don't back up this idea that there's some
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy crime wave, particularly murder wave going on
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, and I know that goes against
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  Speaker 1: what you feel, that goes against what you're being told,
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  Speaker 1: that goes against what you know the tribes out there
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  Speaker 1: want you to believe. But it's the reality. We live
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  Speaker 1: in a pretty safe, old pretty safe there. And this
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  Speaker 1: brings me to political violence. Political violence is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can categorize it in a variety of different ways,
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  Speaker 1: and different people who try to measure it categorize it differently.
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  Speaker 1: But no matter how you categorize it, political violence is
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  Speaker 1: relatively low. It's rare, and it's way below the heights
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  Speaker 1: of the nineteen sixties. And you know, the only if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the number of people killed in political
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  Speaker 1: violence over the last thirty years, it's high only because
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  Speaker 1: of September eleventh. If you take out September eleventh, if
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  Speaker 1: you count that as political violence, then there's very little,
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  Speaker 1: very few people have been killed from political violence over
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  Speaker 1: the last thirty years. And that's not increasing, it's not
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  Speaker 1: getting much much worse. Again, in spite of what commentators, presidents,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the world they're telling you. Just
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  Speaker 1: like there's no cottage in the streets of America, there's
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  Speaker 1: no massive increase in political violence in America. Now, there's
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  Speaker 1: no question in America is a more violent place than
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  Speaker 1: almost anywhere else, well than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
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  Speaker 1: Right Ian's putting up stats up there and he says
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  Speaker 1: that we're more motivates in the US. Are two x
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  Speaker 1: Canada's and you know, six x's Germany's, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty x Japan or something like that
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  Speaker 1: in South Korea, which are incredibly there's no murder. There's
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  Speaker 1: almost never murder in Japan and South Korea, so are
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  Speaker 1: ady to hide, but they've always been high we are,
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  Speaker 1: like it or not, we are. America has been a
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  Speaker 1: violent society, maybe going all the way back to the frontier.
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  Speaker 1: We have been a violent society and we still are.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not getting worse. And it's surprising we're not
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  Speaker 1: getting worse. For example, if you look at left wing
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  Speaker 1: you know, left wing political violence, it's bad. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot smaller, but almost any measure that you measure it
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  Speaker 1: than right wing political violence. But it's almost any measure.
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  Speaker 1: Over the last thirty years, you know, there's been more
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  Speaker 1: violence from the right than from the left. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you add the left up with the Islamists. There's a connection,
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  Speaker 1: but if you add the two up, it gets a
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  Speaker 1: little closer. But it's not increasing. And that surprises because
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  Speaker 1: the reality is that you'd expect to increase. And you
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  Speaker 1: you know, given what kids are being taught in school today,
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  Speaker 1: given what professor are drilling into their heads, you would
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  Speaker 1: think there would be a lot more violence, a lot
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  Speaker 1: more rioting, a lot more killing, a lot more I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, just violent action, given that the professors have
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  Speaker 1: given them a thumbs up, given them a sanction, said
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  Speaker 1: it's okay. Not only okay, it's requiet, it's necessary. Now
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  Speaker 1: the professors that will go out there. So it's surprising
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  Speaker 1: how little violence there is, relatively speaking, given how bad
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  Speaker 1: our educational system is. I mean, all these numbers of
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  Speaker 1: deaths and killings and everything, include things like school shootings
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  Speaker 1: and everything else. Again, homicides are down and relatively low
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  Speaker 1: in American history, surprising given how awful our education is,
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  Speaker 1: particular what they teach at our universities. If speech is violence,
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  Speaker 1: you'd expect they'll be a lot more violence against speakers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what all of these studies don't take into accounts, and
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  Speaker 1: this is their big weakness. Is they look at motives
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  Speaker 1: and and and and because motives are easy to measure,
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  Speaker 1: easy to account the it's objective whether somebody is dead
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  Speaker 1: or not. And in that realm, yeah, the numbers are
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  Speaker 1: not that alarming, and they have not increased. But what
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  Speaker 1: about other forms of violence? What about silencing speakers, not
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  Speaker 1: letting you speak by banging drums in the background, and
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  Speaker 1: by yelling at him by singing by whatever right whatever means?
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  Speaker 1: What about you know, other forms of of you know, violence,
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  Speaker 1: like like what antifa does. Antifa rarely kills somebody, but
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  Speaker 1: it disrupts events, It beats people up. You know, who's
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  Speaker 1: measuring that? Is that being measured? Can that be measured?
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  Speaker 1: How does one measure it? What counts and what doesn't count?
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  Speaker 1: It could very well be that by those measures, the
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  Speaker 1: you know, violence, particularly on the left, is significantly higher.
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  Speaker 1: It is significantly high. But again those things that are
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  Speaker 1: hard to measure. Again by the measure of by the
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  Speaker 1: measure of body count. The right is much more destructive
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  Speaker 1: than the left. Just three events that each one of
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  Speaker 1: them were based on a kind of you could all
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  Speaker 1: of the right wing manifesto killed more people than almost
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  Speaker 1: I think any other leftist kind of event, or for
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  Speaker 1: that matter, Islamist event, except with the exception of nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven Tree of Life you're killing in a synagogue,
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  Speaker 1: the Apasso Walmart attack, and the Buffalo supermarket shooting. Those three,
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  Speaker 1: you know, are huge in terms of number and their lethality,
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  Speaker 1: and they're all kind of fall right as defined today. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So I would caution you not to get too riled
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  Speaker 1: up about the current levels of violence. Now. It could
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  Speaker 1: be that it's going to get much worse. It's possible
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  Speaker 1: something would have to try give it. I'm not sure what,
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  Speaker 1: but it could be that it gets it's gonna get
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  Speaker 1: much worse. Again. The educational system and people. The thing
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  Speaker 1: that scares me the most of everything that's happened. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's shooting was horrific and scary and just disturbing and
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  Speaker 1: hubbable and and tragic and everything, right, but would really
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  Speaker 1: disturbed me even more than that because that could you
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  Speaker 1: could you could assign that to some crazy individual who
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  Speaker 1: did this. But what was disturbing was the reaction. How
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  Speaker 1: many young people said, yeah, it was okay. Now does
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  Speaker 1: that mean we're heading towards more violence? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean what I think is happening is while young
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  Speaker 1: people influenced by their professors and and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can include uh, the all the pro Palestinian UH
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  Speaker 1: demonstrations and campuses, while they are all violences. You know,
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  Speaker 1: violence is okay, speeches violence. We should silence these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, It's okay for us to occupy buildings, It's
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  Speaker 1: okay for us to beat up Jewish kids, It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: All of these things are okay, they say. The people
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  Speaker 1: who are actually willing to actually act their numbers very small.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to pitch a tent and live in a
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  Speaker 1: tent for a while. It's kind of cool, hang out
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  Speaker 1: with your buddies and pretend to be you know, to
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  Speaker 1: virtue signals to the world how much you're sacrificing for
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  Speaker 1: the poor Palestinians. But how many of those people are
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  Speaker 1: willing to actually fly to Gaza and fight on the
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  Speaker 1: side of Hamas I think zero. How many of them
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  Speaker 1: are willing to occupy a campus building not a particularly
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  Speaker 1: risky thing. A few, a few dozen maybe. Out of
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  Speaker 1: the hundreds that pitch tents, very few are willing to
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  Speaker 1: actually engage in the violent activity. And how many of
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  Speaker 1: them are willing to actually shoot kill the people whose
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  Speaker 1: speech they consider violence. Very very very few. Luckily for
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  Speaker 1: all of us, that is somehow civilization as a hold
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  Speaker 1: on these people that's strong enough to overcome the beliefs
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  Speaker 1: that they might only be accepting in a shallow way
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  Speaker 1: from their professors. I mean it is fascinating to you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you see people being questioned in the street about
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, their support for the Palestine, for the Palestinians,
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  Speaker 1: and they're asked which river and would see. They have
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  Speaker 1: no clue. They don't know what Palestine is, they don't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about their history, they don't understand anything. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of this is just kind of the cool thing
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  Speaker 1: to do. How many of them are willing to go
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  Speaker 1: man the barricades for this car very few and good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really happy because if everybody who went
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  Speaker 1: through a intersectionality, postcolonial, crazy left, anti civilizational class actually
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  Speaker 1: was radicalized, radicalized to the point of action, then we
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  Speaker 1: would be in really, really grieve danger as a civilization.
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  Speaker 1: There would be riots in the streets, there would be
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  Speaker 1: a revolution amongst us because so many people go through
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  Speaker 1: those classes. Again, most of them men get jobs maybe
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  Speaker 1: Mary ever family, and soon enough those ideas are forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: They're too busy trying to figure out the latest tax
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  Speaker 1: loophole so that they pay less taxes, and trying to
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  Speaker 1: get their kids into the coolest, best daycare that only
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  Speaker 1: people you know, only only they can afford. Luckily, for us,
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  Speaker 1: the relictalization goes only so deep. And this is true
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  Speaker 1: just broadly, much broader than this. Give you another example
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  Speaker 1: which has always been striking to me. They are close
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  Speaker 1: to two billion Muslims in the world. By some estimates,
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  Speaker 1: there's somewhere between five hundred to eight hundred million, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred to eight hundred million Muslims who express support for
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  Speaker 1: the Islamist jihadist cause, five hundred to eight hundred million
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  Speaker 1: who express support for ISIS and al Qa'ida and Hamas
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  Speaker 1: and Chrismalah and generally the jihadi cause. Of those five
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  Speaker 1: hundred million to eight hundred million, how many of them
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  Speaker 1: are willing to stop a bomb, walk into supermarket and
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  Speaker 1: blow themselves up, walk into a coffee shop and blow
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  Speaker 1: themselves up, and go and get those seventy three virgins.
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  Speaker 1: How many of them are willing to do that? How
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  Speaker 1: of them are excited to do it. How many of
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  Speaker 1: them are interested in getting involved in organizing such things
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  Speaker 1: or managing such stuff. Luckily, very very very very few.
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  Speaker 1: We know this, how because they're not that many suicide bombers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're periods in which they're more their peers
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  Speaker 1: in which they're less, but generally they're not that many.
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  Speaker 1: Not nothing is compared to the five hundred and eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred million people who claim that here to these ideas
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  Speaker 1: and support the seers that BOMBA when he goes, But
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  Speaker 1: they're not willing to do it themselves. So our society,
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  Speaker 1: even some of the weaker parts of our society, basically,
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  Speaker 1: basically I think, helped make violence unacceptable, and people are
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  Speaker 1: not quite willing to go out there and kill and
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  Speaker 1: be killed for the cause that it's easy for them
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  Speaker 1: to claim as their own, to claim that they're willing
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  Speaker 1: to fight for. Well, when the fight actually happens, almost
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  Speaker 1: nobody is there to actually get involved in the fight. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I miscounted the virgins. I apologize, it's seventy two. I promoted.
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  Speaker 1: I made it even more attractive. I mean, God, if
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  Speaker 1: there were seventy three virgins, you'd have a lot more
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  Speaker 1: suicide bombas, it's that these Muslims are cheap and they
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  Speaker 1: only do seventy two. So anyway, you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: watching Nick Fuantes today and what is it about Nick
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  Speaker 1: foyt this that gets people? I mean, he's got millions
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  Speaker 1: of followers and people excited about him, about him, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're all racists and anti Semites. But how did he
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  Speaker 1: get those people? Because a lot of people want when
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  Speaker 1: they first watched him, what is his message that is
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  Speaker 1: so attractive? And what's the message that of most successful
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  Speaker 1: people in this business, in the business I'm in, And
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking, God, I'm doing this all wrong. See,
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  Speaker 1: if I want a lot of followers, if we want
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  Speaker 1: to really increase subscribers, then I should have given you
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  Speaker 1: a whole rant today on how we're at the precipices
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  Speaker 1: of the end of Western civilization. We're at each other's throats.
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  Speaker 1: People are killing each other left and right. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's connage in the streets. Uh and uh and look
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  Speaker 1: and and the left and right and everybody, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's there's a civil war about to break any data
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  Speaker 1: and life generally sucks you guys, You guys should feel
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  Speaker 1: bad about the world because you can't get jobs. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a guy, you're not getting any women because of
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  Speaker 1: feminism or whatever. If you're a woman, you can't find
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  Speaker 1: a decent guy because they're all feminized. I can keep going.
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  Speaker 1: I can do this stick. I can't do it with conviction,
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  Speaker 1: but I can do it. Things are just horrible. That sells. Catastrophizing,
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  Speaker 1: end of the world, millennium cults. Things are horrible, things
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  Speaker 1: are bad, things are falling apart. That sells. And of
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  Speaker 1: course I know why it's happening. I'm the only one
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  Speaker 1: who knows why it's happening because I'm the only one
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  Speaker 1: out there. I'm not the only one who knows what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Want who hans the courage and honesty to tell you
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  Speaker 1: who really is doing this all to you. They're all
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  Speaker 1: lying to you, they're all making stuff up. But I
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  Speaker 1: am authentic. I'm gonna tell you exactly who's behind this
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  Speaker 1: plot to destroy the world. And we know, we all
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  Speaker 1: know who it is. I don't even have to say
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  Speaker 1: it because just by implying it, we all know who
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  Speaker 1: it is. See, I can do it, and you know
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  Speaker 1: my viewership would go through the roof, go through the roof, Cinda,
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  Speaker 1: are you trying to lighten the mood? She's asking if
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  Speaker 1: waffles are pancakes, which is better? That's these amazing pancakes.
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  Speaker 1: Where did I have these amazing pancakes? I can't remember now? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I think Jennifer's right in asking if blueberries are involved.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the point. This is not a show where
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get catastrophism. I look at the data. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna get panicky. I want to know what's actually
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  Speaker 1: going on. Is there a left wing network of terrorists
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  Speaker 1: trying to kill leading conservative spokesman? I mean maybe, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't see any evidence of it, and so the
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  Speaker 1: murder of Charlie Cook does not seem related to that.
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  Speaker 1: There might be a bunch of kids, kids in the twenties, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but nihilistic kids fooling around on the Internet and talking
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  Speaker 1: about that. But is there literally is a Heida of
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  Speaker 1: the left? The isis of the left just just scheming
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  Speaker 1: and building and creating platforms from which they will then
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: descend on the world and kill their political opponents. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't see any evidence that there
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: is such. There is a massive number of just evil,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: evil academics destroying kids' minds, teaching them complete and utter
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: nonsense and encouraging whatever sense of nihilism they already have.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't really seem to stick it. You know.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: The eve gend Zy is going into the workplace. As
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I told you before, they're making more money than previous generations.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Everybody complains about them in the workplace, but they must
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: be doing okay because they're making good money. A number
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: of them become entrepren knows and done very very very well.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And there restuff becoming coporate, you know, getting corporate jobs
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and becoming part of the machine and working for the man.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: These are terms on the sixties, I think, and and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: doing their thing. I am interested. I see people saying
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: that Destiny said some controversial things. I'm curious what he said.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you can write it on YouTube,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: but I'm curious what Destiny said. And in terms of
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I assume in terms of Charlie Cook thing. So I think,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: by the way, I think it's much more like there's
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: there's a there are organizations on the right, you know,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: scheming the overthrow of the US government or planning or
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: doing things like that. Then there on the left. Again,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the left seems to me fragmented, disorganized, incompetent, stupid, well
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: not stupid, but it's just incompetent, incompetent, and very much
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in their own hands and very much not away in interaction. Well,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: January sixth was coordinated, this plant, it was incompetent. I mean.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: The good thing is generally these people in the left
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and right are completely incompetent. And if you're going to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: fear anybody, and this is this is I think important.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: If you're going to fear anybody, then what you shouldn't
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: fear is it is not radicals in the left and
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: radicals in the right. What you really should fear. Of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: course this is a consequence of radicals on the left
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and radicals in the right. But you really should fear
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: is our government. I think our government is the source
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of real authoritarianism down the road. It's already a source
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: of fear. If you've got brown skin, if you look
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Latin in cin cities in America, a government is a
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: source of fear. We'll see that based on what Pambondi
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: said yesterday, A so so fia for anyone like me
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: criticizing the right, A government is what is going to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: trample on our rights, already does, already has, and seems
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to be committed left and right united in one way
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: or another, to continue to trample on our rights. So
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I think if we're going to fear something, we should
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: watch the left on the right because they're going to
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: do a lot of damage, and they they drive what
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: happens in politics. But in terms of actual threat to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: your life, to your liberty, it's well government, it's the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: federal government that is likely the biggest threat to you.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: All right, Oh that's not good. Huh, all right, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: did that again.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: I keep doing this, all right, I missed some I
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: need a cup and let me just see Michael and Michael,
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: maybe it's only one, all right, all right, let me
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: just do this.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Uh all right. So let's so that's political violence. I mean,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about this and more data I'm sure
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: will come out, and you know, we'll see where all
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: this all this plays out ultimately. But you know, again,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: no reason to panic yet. Panic about the universities, panicing
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: about the kids education that they're getting, panic about the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: future of the country, because I think, at the end
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: of the day, what do cowards who want to inflict
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: violence do At the end of the day, they vote
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in authoritarians who will inflict the violence for them. They
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: don't have the guts to pull the trigger. But they
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: can hire people to pull the trigger for them. Call
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it government. They can hire. They can ask the government
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to go after their enemies for them. They don't have
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: to do it themselves. And that's what ultimately happens, is
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: we make people mindless, we increase, we increase stars that
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: our government become more and more violent towards us, that
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: our government violates our right more and more, the more
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: tribal we become. That's the real threat is who we
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: vote into power much more then, I don't know, some
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: conspiracy to shoot right wing commentators on campuses. All right,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: talk about our federal government. The Federals have met today
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to decide on you know, they do this once a
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: month or so. A bunch of people sit around the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: table and centrally plan and determine the most important price
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in the US economy and the world economy. The price
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of money, the price of time, the price of money
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: over time, that is the interest rate. It is stunning
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and shocking, and I keep reminding you every time the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Fed meets. That is stunning and shocking that we completely
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: end stand the price controls of many, many, many goods. Yeah,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: they just don't make sense. It doesn't work, always fail.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: We still haven't got that quite un rent control. It
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: turns out given mcdonny in New York is gonna win.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: But we seem to figure out that we don't want
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the federal government determining the price of bread, or the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: price of iPhones, other prices. The price of money that
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: is okay for the government to determine. So the FED
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: met today and unsurprising to meet or the markets. The
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: FED lowered interest rates by courtere a percent. Now, the
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: basically what that Fed does is it lowers something called
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the benchmark overnight lending rate. This is the rate that
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: banks lend to the banks led to each other. But
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: banks don't lend to each other anymore because everything goes
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: everything goes through the reserves and the FED. There were
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: all interest rates that the Federal Reserve could tools is
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the interest that it pays on the money banks hold
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and reserve at the FED, and that is declined by
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: a coded point. And the idea is if you reduce
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: interest rates, more people borrow money. Banks which are getting
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a lower return on the money that they have on reserve,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: will have a greater incentive to lend it out. Lending
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: would go up. As lending goes up, business activity goes up,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: jobs are created, All is good in the world. So
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: interestates have supposedly gone down now. Of course, the risk
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: with that is is you're also increasing the volatility the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: velocity of money. You're introducing in a sense, more money
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: into the economy. There's money tached away in reserves and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: now it's starting to be active in the economy because
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: they're being lent out by banks. And when banks lend
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: up money lended out, they're creating money that is much
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: more has how much higher velocity than money that has
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: no velocity just sitting at the FED. And by doing
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: that you could increase inflation, price inflation. That's the argument
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I told you about this yesterday. I said there would
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: be three positions, one not to lower, the second lower
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: quarter percent, and the third to lower fifty basis points.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: And I said that the majority would be to the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: lower quarta. I was right about that, I was wrong
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: about everything else. There weren't three positions. That were only two.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Nobody on the Fed voted to keep interest rates steady. Indeed,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: eleven of the twelve members of the FED, so it
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: wasn't even close. Eleven of the twelve members of the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Fed voted to reduce interestates by a quarter percent. The
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: one person who dissented. The one person who dissented was,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: of course Stephen Miran, who was approved to sit on
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the board at the FED yesterday by the Senate so
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: that he could dissent today at the meeting, that was
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the only purpose. He was there to represent the Trump
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: administration's position about interest rates. He advocated for a full
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: half percentage point decrease in interest rates, and he actually
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: articulated what he believed the feted scher do in the
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: months to come. And he basically believes the Fed should
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: decrease interest rates by by one and a half percent
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: before the end of twenty twenty five, which is a
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: position consistent with Donald Trumps down. Trump says three percent
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: by the end of twenty twenty five. But you know
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: that no economists could actually say that without without i
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: don't know, without breaking out into absurd laughter. So I
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: think Miran has moderated to one and a half per cent,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: you know, six or eight cuts between now and the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: end of twenty of this year. SE's two cuts a
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: month ain't happening, Miron, but that is what he would
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: like to see. The rest of the federers aboard disagrees.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: As I've told you before, I don't really did Lisa
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Cook vote? Yes, she did. She voted. She was She
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: was prevented from being fired by an appellate court yesterday,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: so she could participate in the meeting until this goes
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: through the courts and determines whether Donald Trump can't fire
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: her or not. So she voted to lower byte quarter percent,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: as everybody else did. And this is the one. I
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: don't know what the right rate is. I don't know
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: if there is a right rate. The FED shouldn't be
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: there's so many interest rates. I mean, you could argue
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: if the fit exists, then has to determine monetary policy.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: It's not clear that interest rates is the way to regulate,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: if you will monetary policy. There are other ways to
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: do it that have to do with the amount of
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: money being supplied into the economy. But that's tricky and
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: it's much more, much harder for people to grasp. There's
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: not one number you can look at. It we're targeting this.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You know, if you follow some kind of rule, it's
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: very difficult for the rest of the world to follow it,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: you know. And again it's not clear rules, right. The
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: market is the only way to get these things right.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: The only objectivity that can be brought to interest rates
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: is through a market process, and of course a market process.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And the supply money, by the way, is a market process.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: And that can only happen in the world without a
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: central bank and private bank, private free banks. And that's
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: a world I do not expect to see in my lifetime.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe in your lifetime. Maybe we can hope right that
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: in your lifetime you'll be able to see that. Anyway,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of talk about this. Donald Trump
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: will not be happy. He wouldn't have much be a cut.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: But I guess I think Trump is probably gonna wait
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: it out until May to get rid of next year,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to get rid of Powell. Uh. And he's not going
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: to get enough people onto the Federal Open Market Committee.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Even if you can get rid of Lisa Cook, that
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: will still only give two people. The other people who
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: are generally favorable towards Trump on the Federal Open Market
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Committee voted with Powell this time, so Trump might not
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: view them positively anyway. That is, that is where the
• 38:47
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• 38:53
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• 39:42
  Speaker 1: by the way, a big you know, a lot of
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: stories all over the place about this political violences that
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: are on the increases and not and again all the
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: numbers I'm seeing the economists that a big story on
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: it yesterday or a few days ago. All right, So
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you know how Donald Trump is used I E e
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: p A. This is declared an economic emergency and is
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: part of that economic emergency using the i e e
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: p A, which is a law, an economic emergency law
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: that gives the president the authority to declare an economic
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: emergency and do certain things. And Trump has declared that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: is part of those things. He is going to impose tariffs,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: and the whole retaliatory tariffs, the whole April thing, most
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: of the tabs, not all of them, most of the
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: tats that are being imposed now through this i e
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: e p A. And Trump has claims this authority. It's
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court will decide whether he really has it.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: There will be hearing arguments about that in November, and
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: we'll make a decision early next year. So at some
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: point we'll decide at least what the court thinks about
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: whether he has this authority or not. But anyway, the
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: reality is that according to this law. According to this law,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Congress must view the emergency every six months. So here's
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the language of the law. Not later than six months
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: after a national emergency is declared, and not later than
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the end of each six month period thereafter that such
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: an emergency continues, each House of Congress shall meet to
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: consider a vote on a joint resolution to determine whether
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: that emergency shall be terminated. So it gives Congress the responsibility,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: not just the option, but the responsibility to every six
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: months check in and say, uh, you know, no emergency now,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: we're going to vote it down or vote it up
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Trump declared this emergency but six months ago
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and the House is avoiding this. It's basically growing the law.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Speak of Johnson has gained the House rules to constantly
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: block any attempt to consider this. Their proposals on the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: table in the House, including by Massey, the Republican, to
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: vote down the emergency and thus eliminate the tariffs, and
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: yet he can't get a vote because Johnson won't allow it,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: and they keep burying it. And supposedly, you know now
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: in one of the rules that was just passed, they
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: have managed to defer any consideration of this emergency status
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: until March of twenty twenty six, which is an explicit
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: defiance of the law. There's nothing you can do about
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: if Congress decides that it won't abide by the laws
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: that it writes. I don't think there's anything they can
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: do about it. This is the breakdown of the rule
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: of law. It's the breakdown of our system and government.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Congress is supposed to write the laws and make sure
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: they're followed, and follow them itself. It should penalize the
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: executive when he doesn't follow the law. It should impeach
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: judges when they don't follow the law. It should overturn
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: a present over rule a president when he's not following
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the law. But here Congress itself refuses to follow the law.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: So they all review this until March of twenty twenty six.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: And if the tariffs are still standing in March of
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, if they haven't been overturned by the courts,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that Speaker Johnson will find a
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: way to push them out into the future. One of
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the great tragedies of America over the last probably twenty
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: years is that Congress, but sub me over the last
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: ten years, Congress has completely defaulted on its responsibilities. It
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: is handing more and more and more power to the executive.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: It is refusing to have any oversight over that executive,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Democrat or Republican. And when they do, like they went
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: after impeaching Trump. They impeach him on trivialities, on stupidities,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: instead of something substantive like this, or like TikTok, or
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: like a million other ways in which Trump is literally
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: violating the law, going against the Constitution. But they don't
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: have the balls or the courage to do that. So anyway,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Congress is basicy doing everything they can to avoid bringing
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: to a vote some kind of resolution that eliminates the
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: state of emergent economic state of emergency and thus eliminate
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the tariffs, because partially because Johnson know it'll gain the majority,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: they'll just be enough Republicans voting for it with the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Democrats that it could actually pass, and he of course
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: doesn't want that. I'm not sure what's going on in
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the Senate because it says both houses of Congress, so
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happens in the Senate. Maybe it
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: first has to go in the House. The Senate can't
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: take it up until it starts. I mean, if we're
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: gonna save our system of government, I think the first
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: step that has to happen is Congress in the House
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: and in the Senate. I'm gonna have to grow some balls.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to take the responsibility. Seriously, I'm gonna
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: have to re establish and re engage with their constitutional role.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: If they're going to default in the count stitutional role,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: it's going to be very difficult to save this goverment,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: very difficult system of government. I mean, courtes can make decisions,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: courts can change things, colts go hold things back. But
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's Congress that passors laws.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Congress that has to hold the present accountable at the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: end of the day. And if Congress doesn't do that,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: the courts can only do so much. By the way.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: You know, we're getting more and more studies about tariffs
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: and about who bears the cost of tariffs. And you know,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: this is a study that came out looking at Chinese
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: goods and it looks like Chinese exporters maybe have absorbed
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: less than three percent of the twenty seven percent increase
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: in tariffs this year, maybe three percent. Everything else you
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: are paying one way or the other, whether there's an
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: invest in business or where there's a consumer, you are paying.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: So yes, all right, cocaine, cocaine. So cocaine is becoming
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: popular again. It's cool to snort cocaine in America, demand
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: for cocaine has gone through the roof. Consumption is going
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: And what's interesting this time is it's not just in America.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: It's going even faster in Europe. Cocaine, cocaine use all
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: over the world is up dramatically. Americans, after going through
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: a period of getting hooked on opioids and fentanol and
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff like that, back to cocaine, back
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: to their first love. Consumption in Western the United States
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: has increased one hundred and fifty four percent since twenty nineteen,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: up nineteen percent during that same period in the eastern
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: part of the country. So it's by belly in the
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: West that people are taking it using cocaine. And now
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: you know, I usually wouldn't even mention this. I mean,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: who cares, Right, cocaine is up. It's in the context
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: of the idea of the war on drugs. We've got
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: this intense worn drugs going on and it's being intensified.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: And we saw ships in the Caribbean Sea. We're seen
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: F thirty five's in Puerto Rico. We're seeing the bombings
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: of boats off the shore of Venezuela that the administration
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: is claiming are drug smugglers. But they have no proof
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: of that, and they have presented no evidence. And it's
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: dubious whether they have the legal authority to kill drug
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: smugglers or people they claim to be drug smugglers in
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: international waters. It's just bizarre that they could do that. Hey,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: that boat's drugs, slugly boat. Boom, let's blow them up.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I mean they've done into three ships steamboats so far,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: killed I don't know, fifteen people by what authority. As
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Congress passed a law that allows the president to approve
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: the killing of accused suspected COTEL members. The whole thing.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: And again, this is where Congress is completely failing. Why
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: is in Congress saying something about this? Why aren't their
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: hearings about this? Why aren't they acting to rain the
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: president in on this or at least get more information
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: about their hell's going on? Nothing? Complete silence from Congress.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: But what's interesting about it is we've been involved in
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've been involved in a war against drugs.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Against drugs. You can't have a war against a then
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: unanimate OBVIEC. But what they call the Wan drugs since
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: the early nineteen seventies seventies, so fifty plus. Yes, And
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: what have we achieved nothing? Death and destruction, corruption, lots
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: of dead people, and really really, really really powerful cartels
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: all over the world who run the drug trade. That's
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: what we've achieved. Is drug use come down? No less
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: people dining from over those No a drug safer? No.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's going on? And you know, well, Trump,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: because he's tough, because he's a man's man, he's a
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: macho guy. Is Trump gonna be successful way others have not?
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: What does it take to win the one? Drugs blowing
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: up ships in the Caribbean. It's interesting because fentanyl, almost
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: all the fentannel coming into the United States smuggled in
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: from Canada, oh no, sorry, from Mexico. Canada was accused
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: of that, and therefore talents were placed on for Mexico
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: almost all of them. And almost all of the cocaine
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: that comes from place like Colombia goes into the United
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: States from the Pacific side. I'm not sure who exactly
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: is getting bombed in the Caribbean. I'm sure some drug
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: smuggling is happening there, but it's not the main route.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, the goal of what Trump is doing is
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to go after Venezuela. But here's the thing. So, you
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: know the drug the US has been going after catails
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: in Mexico significantly, and they've they've you know, cut deals
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: with Mexico to go after some of these cartels. And
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: you know, the US US got the the Mexicans to
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: really go after the what do you call it, the
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: what's the name of that cotel? This it starts within
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: the s this Sinola, the Cinaloa Hotel. Right, so they
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: got they got they got the Mexicans go after that.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: You know, there's been a woo within this Cinealora. They've
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: really chipped away at their influence. They've caught, you know, Guzman,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: the big shot in the Cineala cotel. That's all the
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: way back to twenty sixteen. They've really weakened the biggest
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: cartel out there, the Santala catel. So what has happened.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: What has happened, Well, what's happened is somebody stepped in
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: and replacement. So now you've got this other cartel, right,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: there's a big story about it in the Wall Street Journal,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: you know, called the osse Guera Hotel's Aguera cartel. The
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: leader of it is a fifty nine year old Nemicio
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Mincho or see or Seguerra, and he's basically bigger and
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: stronger than the cineloa. He has guarding him, hired guns
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: who carry with them anti tank weapons. They're fully military
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: brought in. You were training me in military. He's brought
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: in real military, ex military to come and protect him.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: He has land mines surrounding his compound and his speciality's cocaine.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: And you know he grew up, this guy who runs
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: the cartel, grew up poor selling avocados, and now he's
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: one of the richest people maybe in the world as
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: a drug lord. So what have we done. Yeah, we
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: killed some bad guys and incentivized other bad guys to
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: fill in the gap. We've destroyed some cartels and emboldened
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: other cartels to grow even bigger. This is not you're
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: not gonna win this. There is demand, this demand for
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: these drugs.
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: People are willing to pay a lot of money for
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: these drugs, and they're going to beat people. Bad people
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: who come in and use violence to fill in, to
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: fill the supply, to make sure the demand is met
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: and to make money in the process.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: And they might be called Sinaloa something else so jealistico
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: hotel or this hotel or that hotel. One dies, another
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: one who just rise up to replace it? The one.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Drugs is a dead end, whether you fight it in
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: the waters, the Caribbean, or wherever you fight it. I mean,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: even if you invade Mexico tomorrow and take Mexico over,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: drugs will continue to flow to the United States of America.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: There is no scenario. I mean, think about provision. Did
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: stop alcohol? Did alcohol consumption decline? I mean the types
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: of alcohol changed, but no, same thing with drugs. You
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: can't stop it. The only solution of drugs is to
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: legalize it at least get the violence out of the way.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: And if people want to take who am I to
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: say they shouldn't. So the war on drugs is all
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: it does is it gets a lot of innocent people killed,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of innocent people killed. It completely disrupts, completely disrupts.
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: You know, the countries and where the drugs are grown
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: and shipped through in order to get to market. And
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: it's and it's it's a massive distraction. It's a massive
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: consumption of dollars to contain Uh, it's a massive waste
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: of our resources. Drug shouldn't be legalized. Not because I
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: love drugs, but because I think a I think is
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: out of my business if you want to take them,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: but be because people are dying and there's no way
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: to win this. I mean, how many years now have we,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: as the United States tried to stop the growing of
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: cocaine in Colombia. Forever as I stopped, and now Colombian drugs,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons, they're going to Ecuador. In Ecuador,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: this is creating a huge gang problem in Ecuador. Cartels
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: have entered Ecuador because now it's a transportation hub between
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Colombia and Mexico. Then the drugs get put on boats.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: This is why most of the drugs come from the Pacific.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: They get put on boats that are then shipped via
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: the Galopolis Islands, of all places, to Mexico. Galapolis is
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: where you refuel and then you know, you head towards Mexico.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Mexico has deployed special force to try to stop the
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: drugs from coming in. They can't. They're overwhelmed. There's just
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: not enough of them. And then you you take them
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: along within Mexico. The you know, the one cartel controls
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: the coasts it takes possession of the of the drugs
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: and then passes on to other cartels that are responsible
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: for delivering it to the United States. And they're delivering
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: into the United States through tunnels underneath Trump's wall and uh,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: through any other routes that you can get in, and
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: nobody's disrupted that. I mean, it's a disruptive, but it
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: hasn't stopped, and it's not going to stop. And again,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: you could switch out, you can arrest these guys. It's
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: like killing the leaders of a terrorist organization. You get
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: new leaders. Killing a leader of a cartel, destroying the
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: old hotel and getting new cartail. Too many opportunities, too
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: many opportunities. Anyway, the cartels are only becoming more sophisticated
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: using MURE technology, become more sophisticated weapons systems. And the
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: delusion that people on this can be stopped is truly
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: bet Hey, that doesn't stop anybody. Absurdity, so much absurdity
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: in this world, and yet it doesn't stop anybody. All right,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: what do we have? We still have a couple of topics, right,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Oh we have okay, we have genocide pages and ideas.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: All right, let's tell we genocide said the UN came
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: out of the reports that says is those committing genocide,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: is those commeding genisis? I mean the report is amateurish, stupid, ridiculous,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: filled with contradictions. For example, the report accusas Ntenniao are
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: making no distinction between combatants and civilians. At the same statement,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: they recognized that he told Palestinians he got to leave
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: because the operation is going to happen. In other words,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: he urged noncombatants to leave the area. And they say, well,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: but that that is no distinction when you combatants are
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: noncombatants because he knows that Palestinians guards have no where
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: to go. Well, but they do have to go places
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: to go. They have these humanitarian zones that be set
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: up where they can go and they can live, and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Israel generally doesn't bother them today, So you know, just
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: lie after lie or for example, you know, here's a
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: you know, here's a sentence from the report. Based on
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: the above, the commission finds that the Israeli security forces
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: were aware that their military operations since seven October twenty
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: twenty three would cause the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza. Yeah,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: it's a war. Some people will die. Furthermore, considering the
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: duration of the military operation or reports of high numbers
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: of deaths high by what standard it is reasonable to
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: find that the Israeli authorities knew of a high number
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: of casualties in Gaza since seven October twenty twenty three. Okay,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: if you define high as those numbers, doesn't seem high
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: to me at all. Nevertheless, Israeli athoritis need not intervene
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: to change the means and method of warfare employee. On
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: the contrary, the military operation persisted over time and caused
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: even more Palestinian death Yeah, it's called war. The Commission
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: therefore finds that these early authorities intended to kill as
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: many Palestinians as possible through their military operations in Gaza
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: since seventh of Vacovia twenty twenty three. Wait, that is
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: a inference that you cannot make. There's no logic there.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: The logic check broke down is on you. Their military
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: operations would kill Palestinians. They didn't change their military opations
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: to stop killing Palestinians because you can't do that. Therefore,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: they intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible. No
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: is could have killed many, many, many, many, many more
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Palestins if they wanted to. I mean, they could have
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: indiscriminately bombed the entire place into oblivion, indiscriminately, and you
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: would have a million people dead by now, But they didn't.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It's just a leap to a conclusion that
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: they had predecided, and they're trying to fluff it up
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: and make some things that look like logical arguments beforehand,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: but the logic doesn't flow. So the Commission therefore finds
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: that the Israeli authorities intended to kill as many Palestinians
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: as possible through its military operations in Goslins seven October
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and knew that the means and method
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: of Wolfe employed would cause mass death of Palestinians, including children,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: mass deaths. What is math death? Is the ten thousand,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand, a million? How do you define it?
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: I guess any deaths if they're Palestinians, and if the
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Jews doing it counters math deaths to the to the
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: United Nations. Of course, is all knew that civilians would
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: die in its operation in Gauza, including children, So did Ramas.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Ramas knew that when they did October seventh, they knew
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: israell retaliate and Palestinians would die every time Ramas attacks
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Israeli troops. They know that in counterattacking some Palestinians will die.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Nature of war. Suddenly in an urban setting, Ramas is
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: not responsible. No, Israel's responsible, and the UI knows. The
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: people who wrote this know that the only way to
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: avoid civilian casualties is not to go to war. And
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: that's what they really want. They want Israel to dissm.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: It wants Israel to surrender and for the slaughter of
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Israelis to continue. I mean, why should it stop on
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: October seventh, It should have gone on. They would want
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: it to God forbid the Israeli army killed any Palestinians.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: So they're redefining genocide to include any war in which
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: a country knows there will be civilians civilian deaths, which
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: means every war now is genocide. There are no wars
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: in which only military forces engage. I mean, Russia is
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: committing genocide in Ukraine, and there's every every war. Everyone
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: on the planet is a genocide. M It's truly insane. Yeah,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean and they site reports that are
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: being countered, they cite, you know, they cite this US
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Green beret who says that as well purposely launched you know,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: tank crowns and motor rounds into crowds of Ana Palestinians.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Even that doesn't constitute genocide, by the way, if that
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: were true, but it's not true, and it's been contradicted
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: by many, many others who were there. Indeed, the report
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: was written by somebody who, in twenty twenty two was
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: condemned by the UN Secretary General as a blatant anti Semite,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: a guy named Milun Kothari. Even the head of UNRAH
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: saying a lot called him an anti Semite. And somebody
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: here writes that's like, that's that's that's like being called
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: a fascist by Benina Massolini. Because the head of UNRO
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: would know an anti Semite if they saw him, they
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: sew one. It really is unbelievable, Really is unbelievable, the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: extent to which hatred of Israel, and by extension, hatred
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: of Jews is so common in the world out there
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: all right. Finally, a couple of good news stories, particularly
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: this one. This is you know, today marks the one
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: year since the page your operations. One of the greatest
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: intelligence military operations in the history of mankind. Is all
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: sold Chrisbella pages that had explosive devices in them, and
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: they activated those explosive devices. A year ago today, thousands
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: of pages exploded simultaneously in Lebanon, causing mass injuries, many
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: deaths among a group of Risbala operatives. People who were
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: had pages for the Chrisbella. So these are many of
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: the senior leaders of Isbella, many of the operational leaders
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: of the Arisbella, thousands of them, and many of them died.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Some of them lost an eye, some of them lost
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: other parts of their bodies. The next day, of course,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: as Chrisbellah moved to using walkie talkies, it turned out
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: those walkie talkies were detonated because they'd been bought, I
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: guess from the same source, and a few hundred more
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: were injured as a consequence. This is the kind of
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: targeted precision warfare that Israel has engaged in incredibly effectively.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: This is the opposite of genocide. Now, by the way,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: did civilians die in this? Yeah? So you know, if
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: you were the daughter of a terrorist and you picked
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: up one of the pages and it blew up if
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: you were wife of up. Yeah, people who are quote
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: innocent got hurt. But that's the nature of war. And
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: if you don't want them to get hurt, don't start wars.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Don't start wars. Finally, where is this? Uh? There it is? Yes,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Finally is this fascinating story today in the You know
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: it's it's in Wired, but it's also cided in ScienceDirect
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: dot com orch in health dot com. Uh, there's this
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: story about the the uh I guess Uh the founder
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: and CEO of a company called Orchard, a biotech company,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: and uh, basically, he was at the Wired Health summit
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: last week and he was saying that in the near fuse,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: he thinks that more and more parents are going to
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: choose to use IVF as the means of having children
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: rather than the natural means. And the reason for that
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: is that right now, a company like Orchid can do
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: a whole genome screening of embryos for IVF, So you
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: could analyze the DNA of different embryos and you can
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: select the one that has the least likelihood to have cancer,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: to have Alzheimers. I mean, we know exactly which genes
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: dramatically increase the probability of alzheimer is you can select
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: your child not to have those parents can significantly lower
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: the risk of their kids having genetic conditions. And uh,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: you know, there's a there's a huge potential here, and
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: it looks like having child children in the future is
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: going to be very difficult, very different than it has
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: been in the past. For example, an estimated four percent
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: of people worldwide have a disease that's caused by a
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: single genetic mutation one g. Four percent. You could screen
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: those embOS out. Now, think about that. That means those
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: embas will never become human. Ooh, some of you screaming.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: If you're screaming, there's a little bit of religion, so
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: stuck in there. Some of those embOS will never become human.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: They might be destroyed, they might be flushed down the toilet.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: So artificial asseimination IDF screen, choose the baby you want,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: uh and uh you screen five. You implant one that
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: has the least possibility of having genetic diseases. And if
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: you do this, we can really make a dance in
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: just the existence of genetic diseases in the population, because
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: you start screening them out. That is great news in
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: my view. Now, if that least the decline is sex,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: that would be bad. But if that just leads to
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: a you know, a decline in disease, then it's phenomenal, phenomenal,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: you know. Sometimes they right now they plant more than
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: one IVF, so they planning more than one mbo. But
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: it's not clear that that's going to be two in
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: the future. As they get better at this, as they
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: d stand it more, as more and more healthy couples
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: are going to get IVF rather than couples that are
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: having difficulty, it might be the case that it's just
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: one it's just one embryo. I think we'll get to
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: that point and that's when the screening makes the most sense.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: All Right, you can check out Orchid Biotech to get
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: out more information about this, and there's an article about
• 1:13:25
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  Speaker 1: starts us off, as he often does, with a fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars question. Why does super wealthy people move to Puerto Rico?
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  Speaker 1: If you have that level of money, isn't it worth
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  Speaker 1: it to eat the taxes so you can live comfortably
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  Speaker 1: in America? I understand living in Puerto Rico if you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to build wealth, but once you already have it,
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  Speaker 1: because nobody likes to pay taxes, it's it's a reduction
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  Speaker 1: in your wealth, it's a reduction in your income. It's
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  Speaker 1: a reduction in what you can do with your money.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're a billionaire, your money is still valuable
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  Speaker 1: to you. Now, I'd say I don't know that that
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  Speaker 1: many billionaires have moved to Puerto Rico. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: of any A number of you know, people worth hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars have moved to Puerto Rico. Tens
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars have certainly moved to Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if any billionaire, although I'm sure there's some.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever your amount of wealth is means you have
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  Speaker 1: certain ambitions. You want to go to Mars, you want
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  Speaker 1: to build something, you want to create something. You want
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  Speaker 1: to give it away and give more of it rather
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  Speaker 1: than the government taking it away. You're pissed off at
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: Washington and the way they use it. And you can live,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can live in this neighborhood that's run
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  Speaker 1: by the rich Carlton in Dorado, Puerto Rico, at a
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  Speaker 1: very high standup a living. You can buy a thirty
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  Speaker 1: million dollar home there, thirty forty million dollar home right
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  Speaker 1: on the beach, gorgeous architecture, modern, much nicer than anything
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  Speaker 1: you'll see in most communities in the United States. Modern,
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  Speaker 1: big homes with glass windows overlooking the ocean walking to
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  Speaker 1: the beach. I mean, why not? And you don't get
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  Speaker 1: paid taxes and you only have to be in Puerto
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  Speaker 1: Rico one hundred and eighty three days a year. You
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  Speaker 1: can spend the rest in Monte Carlo, or in Europe,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: or in some in America, a lot in America. You
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  Speaker 1: could travel the world. But if you're in Puerto Rico
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty three days, and actually, technically, if
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  Speaker 1: you're not in the United States the rest of the time,
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  Speaker 1: you can actually actually only be in Puerto Rico one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three days, and you can be anywhere
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  Speaker 1: else in the world as well. Why not why not
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  Speaker 1: make it your primary residence and then buy a home
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  Speaker 1: in London, and buy a home in Singapore, and buy
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  Speaker 1: a home in the French of Vieira, and in New
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: York City and shuttle between those places. But make that
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: beautiful home on the beach where you can see the
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  Speaker 1: water and you've got good internet and you can communicate
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  Speaker 1: with the world. Why not make that your primary residence
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  Speaker 1: and not have to pay federal taxes and pay an
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: effective rate kosher if you do everything right and legal,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: and if you have the right kind of business, a
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  Speaker 1: four percent instead of over fifty in some states. So
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: it's a big difference. It's a big difference. That's why
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  Speaker 1: they do it. I don't think. I mean, it's true
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  Speaker 1: that if you have a lot of money, then yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you pay taxes, you still have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money and you can still live well in the US
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  Speaker 1: that way, But you're still giving away. I mean, you're
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: having half your income taken, millions of dollars in some people,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars in some cases. Jennifer Destiny
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  Speaker 1: said on Pierre Morgan's show that he will not condemn
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  Speaker 1: Cooke's murder until Trump tells people to calm down. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's stupid, really stupid. I mean, it doesn't make
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  Speaker 1: any sense the to an unrelated he should condemn Cook's
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  Speaker 1: murder murder and demand the Trump act like a human being.
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  Speaker 1: So that is an unfortunate position. Destiny is taken, a
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: bad position. Destiny is taken. Paul, Why do you think
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  Speaker 1: no one comes to the military, the military defense of
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: the Palestinians when virtually the entire world opposes Israel. Well, because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're not willing to die for the Palestinians.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: They oppose Israel, they sanctions in Israel, they'll take an
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: economic hit for the Palestinians, but they're not willing to
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: die for the Palestinians, and really then I'm willing to
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: commit that much money to the Palestinians. They also know
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: Israel has nukes. Israel has ballistic missiles that can travel
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  Speaker 1: a long way is or can reach I'm pretty sure
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: every country in Europe and can reach Moscow with its missiles.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: You can see the kind of reach it has with
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: airplanes the time at least is theirs in that sense.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: I also believe, in spite of all you know journals,
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  Speaker 1: all these military journals that come out with it ranking
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: of their world's best armies and so on, I think
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: pound for pound, Israel has the best army in the world,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: and not pound for pound, it probably has the third
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: best army in the world. Maybe, you know, I wouldn't
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: want to be any military in the world going up
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: against the Israelis. I don't think any air force in
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: the world matches up to the Israeli air force. Maybe
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: a Marria pilots, but I don't think they are They
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: don't have an experience. So it's really, you know, air
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: force is probably the best in the world. Now, America
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: could overwhelm it with quantity, so could the Chinese and
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: maybe the Russians. If they stone the border, but it's
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: not clear because Israel has so much more weapons an
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: air dominance over Russia that it's not clear that even
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: if they put a million troops along the borders with Israel,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: you know, Russia would win given the air dominance that
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: Israel would have. So who's going to take them up
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: on it? Who wants to some of the casualties, for whom?
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: For the Palestinians, who none of them really like a
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: demaya of respect. They do it out of a sense
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: of altruism, not of a sense of caring, not a
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: sense of liking, not out of a sense of valuing,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: out of a sense of we need to sacrifice of
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: these but not too much, I'll trust in the modern era,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: how many militaritions are there, How many people in the
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: world that they really do give their kidneys to a stranger,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: Not that many? Not they both their kidneys one kidney.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: Rob c says, I just learned about the Fabians and
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: they were all informing the original UK Labor Party. Do
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: you think that explains a lot about the state of
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: the UK right now? Yes and no. Right, So, the
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: Fabians were a product of the intellectual environment in the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: UK and in Europe broadly of the intellectual bankruptcy of
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: the West, Socialism was very strong and has deep roots
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: in England. This is why, you know, Carl Marx found it,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: you know, established his home there and did much of
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: his writing in the British Museum, in the British Library.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: So the United Kingdom is dominated by the same intellectual forces.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: And it's those intellectual forces that would have shaped the
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Labor Party and ultimately the Conservative Party. And you know,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: and one of the so the mess that the UK's
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: in today is a consequence of those intellectual forces over
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: the last one hundred plus years. And if you had
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: a pinpoint who's faulted is, you'd have to say that
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: the real issue, the real issue is that there was
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: never an alternative. The real issue in the UK and
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: in the US and everywhere really is what's the alternative
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: to the left? A pathetic conservative movement that wants to
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: conserve what what does it want to conserve tradition? Why So,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: the really the state of the UK right now, in
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: the state of the world in many respects, is that
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: there was no real capitalist political party. There's no political
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: party that stands up for individual rights. There's no political
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: party that stands up for free markets. There's no political
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: party that stands up for liberty and freedom. You have
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: wishy washy conservatives who kind of believed in free markets
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: and kind of believed in individual rights and kind but
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: kind of means they didn't and they couldn't compete for
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: violating rights with the socialists, so they had to lose
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: in the end. You know, look at bars Johnson. He
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: had this overwhelming majority and couldn't do it anything. Couldn't
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: do anything because he's a statist. He's not is not
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: a freedom lover. So you can't get a freedom of
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: loving government from a non freedom loving intellectual and political party.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: So the real cause of the current situation is that
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: the Labor Party is never really faced opposition, maybe with
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: the short with the exception of Margaret Thatcher for a
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: very short period of time, Andrew. One of the things
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: Ali is doing is promoting and growing a corpus of
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: works that a genius can use to propel their own work.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: A few principal geniuses could launch objectivism and change the
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: world faster than we think. I hope, So I hope,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: so that you know, the geniuses are born all the time,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: in a sense of the war talent, the war machinery.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: You need a culture that noishes them, and we don't
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: have such a culture. So I don't know what happens
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: to those geniuses, but let's hope some of them discover
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: Irand and help us move it into a dominant position
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: in the culture. All right, let's see how we're doing
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: shipping away at it, but very slowly, and it's going
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: to be difficult. We've got half an hour, twenty nine minutes,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: We've got I don't know, fifteen questions or so, and
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: we've got two hundred dollar. We've got to raise two
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. So any if you out there can do
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars one hundred dollars, that would help a lot,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: help a lot, help us get to where we need
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: to be in terms of the goal for the show.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: Super Chat or stick up, any of those would be great. Kim,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: Why do some people brainwash themselves with religion? Religion never
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: appeal to me. I don't know why. You know, it's
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's what everybody around them does, it's
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: what they're raised with. It's there's a sense in which
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: it's easy if you don't want to take responsibility for
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: your own life and use your own mind. Religion never
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: appealed to me either. I was an atheist at aged
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: six and never looked back. Never looked back for a second.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: Listen to waffles of pancakes? Which is better? I think
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: probably pancakes, but you know, I don't like some pancakes
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: have to be like interesting pancakes I don't know, made
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: of not just plain white flowers, something something of interest.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: I had some really good pancakes made from I don't know,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: sweet potato or something something like that. They were really
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: good in in Lisbon. But yeah, I prefer I prefer pancakes,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: but I don't eat any of them because i've been
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: low COB for the last twenty five years or twenty
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: not twenty five. I've been low COB probably twenty two
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: or three years, and so I don't eat pancakes or waffles.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: I have to admit that though in Italy I'm eating
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: pasta and I'm eating a lot of bread. I'll have
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: to go on a massive diet when I get home.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: Cut all that out of my thing. I'm white about
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: blood sugar, and all my blood numbers are going to
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: be freaking out from my trip to Europe, particularly Italy, Italy, Italy.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: It's very it's very difficult to eat in Italy healthy
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: in Italy, I find, I mean Florence. Every second, every
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: restaurant's steakhoups be stick up bestick a la Florentine. We've
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: eaten amazing steaks, maybe the best steaks of our lives
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: here in but too many, too many steaks, much meat,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: and then pizza and then pasta and then and then
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: cheese to flaze and uh, I mean, I can't even
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to know what my cholesterol and
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: all those other numbers are right now. And the bread
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: is really good, really good bread. I mean not all bread.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: I mean two restaurants today and the bread was like
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: really bad, But then another restaurant bread is really good.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, when the bread here is good,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: it's really good. So I'm trying to so once we
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: get back to Puerto Rico, I'll go on my usual diet,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: which is no dessert, no bread, no pasta, very little
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: cheese meats, but but but not overdoing it on not
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: overdoing it on red meat. All right, h the cinder says,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: let's get to this goal and she put fifty euro
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: into that, so she's serious. So come on, guys, somebody
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: should be able to match less Cinder's passion in deep pockets.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: And we're only one hundred and forty three dollars away,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: maybe one hundred and forty forty one dollars away from
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: our goal now. So Michael, the only reason the video
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: went viral with the Ukrainian goal was due to racism.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: While violent crime is overwailed down, this country has become
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: more explositly racist. Well, I mean, that's part of it,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: but the other part of what was how how scary
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: it was, how just brutal it was. And in a
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: culture where we used to seeing that in movies and
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: video games, to see something that really happened, people are
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: fascinating by that, and they watch stuff like that, you know,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: the whole I guess networks of people who watch snuff
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: videos now videos are created for them. But videos online
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: are people dying from wars from these cameras on, you know,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: and crime scenes and things like that. There are a
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: lot of sick people out there. But then there's just
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of curiosity out there about violence. People like
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: to watch violence, and I do think the country's more
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: racist now than it was twenty years ago. And I
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: think the reason for that is that the left became
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: racist really in numbers about fifteen years ago. The left
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: has become more and more and more racist over the
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: last fifteen years, at least until BLM. Maybe that's down
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: a little bit now. And the right responded, as I
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: said during BLM, you want to play the race card,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: the right will play right back at you. So racism
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: on the right has increased dramatically. I think over the
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: last twenty years, racism on the right was going away
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: or declining significantly, and it has come back in space
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: now It's always been there. There's always been racism in
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: this country. But I think it is true that the
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: country is more racist now than in a long time,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: in a long term. And it's both sides. And that's
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: not Bodhism, it's just both sides. Gulagh, it's a weird name.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: How do you stop the election of authoritarians in a democracy?
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: How do you ensure the preservation of individual rights if
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: some loom could be voted in? Well, I mean you
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: do that with a strong constitution. And I think we
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: can learn from the last two hundred and fifty years
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: of a Constitution of republic in the United States on
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: how to make the constitution even stronger than it is.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: We haven't had an authoritarian to a large extent because
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: of our constitution. So you reject democracy, you embrace constitutionalism
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: and republicanism, but ultimately the only way to eliminate authoritarianism
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: is to reserve a freak society, is to restrict politics
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: to such a narrow band of human life that they
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: are very little power over us. And it's not attractive
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: to the power lusters because there's very little power to get.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Because the Constitution explicitly negates so much of what today's
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: politicians do. It needs to negate. So if you had
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: a separation of state from economics, and state from science,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: and state for education, and state from ideas, then you know,
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: Congress would meet once a year for three months. Maybe
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: there would be super weak. Everything would go through Congress.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: They'd be a Supreme Court that was very activist in
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: a sense of knocking stuff down if they even sniffed
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: something non again going against the Constitution, and it wouldn't
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: become an attractive place to be, and those of principles
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: would then be imposed on state governments, and state governments
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: would not be allowed to violate the constitution either. That's
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: part of the lesson of the constitutions, So the states
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be violating your rights. And that's the only way.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: If you have a pure democracy, you can't stop it.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: A pure democracy will always descend into a mixed economy.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: We'll always, therefore descend into a gang wolfare between pressure
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: groups and who can grab more stuff because the stuff
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: is just available, because democracy allows you to take from
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: some and give to others, and it turns into a
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: partisan gang wolfare existence, which can only then be rectified
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: and settled and calm down within a thebitarian So yes,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: democracy will lead always to thebitarianism. Real democracy, you have
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: to limit democracy. You have to limit the power of
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: government as much as possible. Vikrum Baja. A few days
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: ago you said that buying gold was a world is
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: going to crash hedge, but that you didn't think we
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: were quite there yet. I hold a good chunk of
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: gold ETFs. The momentum in gold is being great in
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: my portfolio. I think more upside is left. Yet your thoughts, well,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: first you have to realize that ETFs are not a
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: hedge against the world ending, because when the world ends,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: when things go really, really, really bad, it'll be very
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: hard to in a sense, get the value out of
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: that paper that you hold, Whereas if you old gold,
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: actual gold bars and actual gold coins, then those will
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: become real currency. They'll have real value when the crash comes,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: if the crash is really really end of the worldish
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: type crash. I get that it's been a great investment,
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: good for you, good for anybody who's made money off
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: of good for people who invested in a bitcoin and
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: made a lot of money off food. I don't know
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: what the foundation of it is, other than kind of
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: end of the world scenarios, you know, hyperinflation or World
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: War III or things like that. So I don't know
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: how to value I don't know how to value gold
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: any more than you know. I can value it a
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: little bit better than I can value bitcoin, but not much.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if it has more upside. I
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: have no idea. Now. Is uncertainly going to continue? Yes?
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: Does the price of gold benefit from uncertainty? Yes, so
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: in that sense they might be upside in the sense
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: that I think as long as Trump is a president,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: and maybe well, beyond that, we will be living on
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: the cusp of some cataclysmic events of great uncertainty. And
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: that's good for gold. But if Trump calms down because
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: he's getting old, or because he's in his latter part
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: of his second term, or if you know, somebody else
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: comes to be president and thinks, then gold could be
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: worth a lot less than it is right now, a
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: lot less as people sell gold and move their funds
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: into productive assets. Ultimately, productive assets is where you want
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: to be ultimately in the long run, productive assets or
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: what produce wealth. Gold doesn't produce wealth. And in fact,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: that gold has gone up so much so quickly, it
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense wealth is not being destroyed elsewhere
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: by that amount. So I'd worry, you know, given the
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: run up, maybe it's time to sell. I certainly wouldn't
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: re up all right, all in, Uh, tell us more
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: about the great work arts you've seen in Florence. I'm
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: gonna do a show on it, and hopefully I've had
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: photographs to show you. But yeah, I mean, every day
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: every day we go to a different museum, every day
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: we go to a different place and see great artworks.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: It's it's been truly amazing. Today we were at the
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: Palazzo Vecchio but Lotso Vichio, which is an amazing palace.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: It's where the the the flaunting government was run from
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: and ultimately when when it became a dutchery, when the
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: Casino de Medici became the Duke, that it became his
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: home in a sense. It's also adjacent to the Fizi,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: and there's a secret passageway where the Medicis could go
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: to the Fizi where they had all the art. But
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: the palace itself has a lot of art. It has
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: one Michelangelo original almost complete, not complete. I'd say seventy
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: five percent complete, maybe less, maybe sixty five percent complete.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: Sculpture there was supposed to be a part of the
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: of Julius, Pope Julius's tomb. It also had a bunch
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: of paintings by Frescos and wood paintings on wood on
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: the ceiling. So I got a stiff nick by Vasari.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: Vesari is well known as being the historians, a historian
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: of art of Venice, he wrote the first biographies of
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: the great artists of Michelangelo, of the great artists of
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: the Renaissance. Anyway, he was also a painter and a sculptor,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: and he painted much of it, and a lot of
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: it was quite beautiful, quite amazing. And you know, this
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: trip I discovered I really really like Philipo Leapy. Philipo
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: Leapy a Renaissance artist, very influenced by uh but Chelli.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: But yeah, but Philippe Leppy almost all did all religious
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: religious paintings. But but they're really beautiful, really beautiful. I've
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: gained gained added appreciation, always had it, but even a
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: great appreciation for Renaissance art. Uh and and U and
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: its beauty and its diversity and uh and what you
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: can do. You know, yesterday we saw Donnatello's David, Donna
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: Tello's David. Here's an interesting fact for you. Donna Tello's
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: David is the first sculpture in the West, in Western
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: civilization to be uh you know in the Roald that
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: is you could you could view it for three undre
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: and sixty degrees and uh, fully naked. So it's a
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: you know, it's since it's not the first right since
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: Roman Empire. So for about a thousand years, the Christians
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: didn't allow for nudity. And he were talking about malen
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: nudity didn't allow penis to appear in a sculpture or painting.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: And suddenly, once don Otello put a penis on David
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: and portrayed him naked for the first time since the Romans,
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: a sculpture of a naked man. Uh naked men. Sculptures
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: of naked men exploded in France, and it was stunning,
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: how many, how many sculptures at the ballots of Vacuo,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: of naked men wrestling, naked men doing all kinds of things.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: And you know, one of the sculptures was pretty I'll
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: show it. I show you a photo of it. You know,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: one guy has the other guy by the balls literally
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: he's holding and his you know, penis is floating about.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: It's just it's amazing that they had no qualms about this.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: This is Christian Florence in the fifteenth century, fifteenth century,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: and you can actually tell a sculpture or painting when
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: it's from the middle of the sixteenth century because the
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: penises disappear. It's not gay, they're fighting. What are you
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: talking about? And even if it is gay. Yeah, So
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: in the sixteenth century, mid sixteenth century, penises disappear because
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: as part of the counter Reformation, the answer to the
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: Gothic answer to Luther, they cover up the unity, they
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: go back to being Ristian Puritans. So there's one hundred
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: period about one hundred years where nudity is allowed and then.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 3: It then.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: It goes away again. It really is fascinating. By the way,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: Luther hated. One of the things he hated about the
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: Catholics is they allowed the Renaissance. So the Protestants were
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: super Puritan. And that's why. You know, art flourished in
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: the South and didn't really flourish until much later, and
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: when it did, it was very restrained. It's only broke through.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: It only art only painting. Its cauled to only break
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: through from the restraints placed on it by the Reformation
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: in the nineteenth century, you know, secular era where religion
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: is sateline. Anyway, that's a little bit art history art
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: theory from Uran. I'll talk more about that. I'll do
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: a Mamerzoni show about Florence with pictures. Marius. Are you
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: aware of the CCP amassing a lot of gold and
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: daily increasingly yuon instead of dollars? Yes, But the reality
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: is they're not going to go on a gold standard
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: eight because that will take control. That would reduce the
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: control the central government house over money, and that's the
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: last thing they want. And b there's only so many
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: countries in the world that are willing to trade with
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: China with yuon because the reality is that nobody trusts them,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: nobody trusts the Chinese Dominippiliad currency. So the dollar is
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: not safe because the dollar is good. The dollar is
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: safe is because everybody else is crazier than the Americans,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: at least for now now. The dollars declining in values
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: declined a lot this year because of Trump, almost ten percent,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: and it is likely to continue to decline. I just
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: don't see collapsing, which is that is a world switching
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: to reserve councy of the Yuon. I just don't see that.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: But again, not because the dollars good, certainly not under Trump,
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: but because people distrust China even more than they distrust
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: the United States. Andrew constant political declarations of emergency would
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: be checked in irrational society. But a society of emotionalists
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: constantly fall for constantly fall for them. Irrationalists are home
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: with the feeling of panic. Yes, I mean they love
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: the declaration emergency. It confirms their sense of life. It
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: confirms their sense of panic. It confirms the badness of
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: the world, and they they run from it. So, yes,
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: the irrationality, panic, emergency, catastrophizing, all of that goes together.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: The more we teach our kids not to think, the
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: more they become emotionalists, the more they fear, the more
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: tribe ills they become, the more scared they become, the
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: more tribalists they become, the more scared they become. It's
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: not the opposite of a virtual circle, a circle of vice.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: Vedim one hundred dollars. Thank you for them, really really
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you. So now we're only seven dollars
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: away from our goal. Can you help clarify a confusion
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: about Mallory the sculptor in the Fountain? Was his error
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: in thinking that one can fight ideas with force? Was
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: that what Rand was trying to illustrate, Well, yes, I
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: mean that you know, the idea that forces how you
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: change the world when the world is being driven by
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: bad ideas and there's no way for you to do that.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: She's also challenging his malevolent universe premise, the premise that
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: he cannot be successful in this world, that this world
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: is not made for him that he had that his
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: own result is violence because because the world is you know,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: can never he can never be successful in this world.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a real similarity between Mallory and Dominique.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: But yeah, she was definitely trying to illustrate that you
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: cannot fight ideas with force. But she was also trying
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: to illustrate the dead end, the falsehood of a malevolent universe,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: premise of of of of of of that it leads
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: to force and therefore leads to a dead end, and
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: that what you need is is the self esteem, the
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: courage and the commitment to fight them, but not fight
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: them physically, fight them ideologically, and fight them with your work,
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: not give up on your work, do the opposite. Thanks
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: for they really appreciate the support, Linda. Thanks for the support.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: There was a sticker, all right, Andrew. It takes self
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: esteem to admire the admirable Trump. Worship is not an
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: example of that. But admiring objectively great qualities in people
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: is the rational psychological response and ought to be a
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: pleasant experience. Thoughts. Yes, absolutely, I mean too many in
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: our too many in our culture lacks self esteem. Few
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: people who deserve to be admired with fear, or they
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: view them as a threat. I can never be as
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: great as that. Therefore I must present that whereas somebody
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: with self esteem goes, I can be as great as
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: I can be. If somebody else is greater, or somebody
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: else has done more, achieve greater things, made more money,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: solve more problems, good for them, that's fantastic. I admire
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: that in them, and to the extent that that can
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: help me get better. I'm going to be better. I'm
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: going to be the best version of me. But you see,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: a person who self esteem doesn't envy and it doesn't
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: resent those who achieve more. Quite the contrary, They identify
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: the positive qualities, They celebrate them because they know it's
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: the same qualities in them that allows them to achieve,
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: and second, to the extent that they can emulate those qualities.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: But that those qualities in somebody else's success is never
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: a threat to them. It's the opposite. It benefits them
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: in one way or the other. It's a win win
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: worle in that sense, it's a benevolent world. Somebody else's achievements,
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: if they're real or benefit to you, not a threat
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: to you. They don't take from you. The world does
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: not zero sum. There's a dichotomy. MAGA is so delusional.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: Is there even a path back for a generation? Plus
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: the magas I know think violence is only on the left,
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: gloss over any right violence. Yeah, I mean for them,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think there is a future. I think the
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: kind of dead ends they might get if Trump is
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: a big failure and false flat on his face, they
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: might get disillusioned with politics and exit politics for a while.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: It's hard to tell, but remember my MAGA is still
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: a minority in this country. It's probably twenty percent, probably
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: less committed mega, probably less than that. Some of them
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: will switch if the culture switches, and some of them
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  Speaker 1: will just disappear. But yeah, there's no way back for them,
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  Speaker 1: and if they come to dominate, there's no way back
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  Speaker 1: for the culture. Andrew, Why is right more animated than
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: left by the one drugs? Well, because the right is
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: always more interested in what you do with yourself, So
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: the left is what is much more interested in what
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: you do in groups across society. The right is more
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: interestate in what you do with yourself. So the right
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: cares about your sex life, and the right cares about
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: whether you take drugs, and the right cares about whether
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: you have kids. The right once they impose its morality,
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: so I don't even put it this way. The Right
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: thinks the material world is meaningless. The only thing that
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: matters is the spiritual world, and the only thing that
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: matters is the spiritual life that leads to afterlife, because
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: this life is useless. The material world doesn't matter. So
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: you can be free in the material world. We don't care.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: You want freedom, You want to be capitalist in the
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: material world, go fit. Who cares? But when it comes
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: to what's important, the spiritual stuff, uh uh, you can't
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: do that. You can't enjoy life. You know. Part of
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: what they hate about drugs is that people do makes
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: people feel good. And you know, they want to be
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: able to run people's lives spiritually. They want to run
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: people's lives. The left is materialist from Mars. They don't
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: care about the spiritual world. You want to believe, you
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: want to do this, you wanna, you wanna, you wanna
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: all the personal stuff. Who cares? They care about the
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: physical world, They care about the economy. They care about
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: the material stuff, and that's too important to leave the
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: individuals and the markets that has to be controlled. They
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: want to control that. So each party wants to control
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: what they view is important. The right views your life
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: is an individual is important, and therefore they want to
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: control it. Liscinda, let's reach a super chat goal if
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: you want, we did. Thank you, listener, you really helped
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: get us there. Listener did a fifty euro let's get
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: to this goal. And yeah, so listen definitely helped us
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: get there. As the economy, Destiny did condemn the murder
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  Speaker 1: on his own stream. Well, that's good, he was. He
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: just won't do it when debating Maga, who won't condemn?
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: January sixth, Pelosi attack, et cetera. Tired of conceding. Fine,
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: that's a more reasonable position, Vince. Regarding tariffs, even though
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: Trump doesn't specifically advocate for it, are towns or sanctions
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  Speaker 1: effective tools for combating intellectual property theft by companies like
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: Timo and Ali Express, No, they're not. The effective way
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: of handling intellectual property theft is if they stolen intellectual property.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: If Timo stole intellectual property, then the products that are
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: built based on that intellectual property should be banned from
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  Speaker 1: sale in the United States, not taxed. Why should the
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: American people pay because the Chinese pay a tax because
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: the Chinese stole intellectual property from somebody. But if it's
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: a if it's a property theft, and a court of
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: a law should declare that these products were a consequence
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: of a theft of intellectual property, and therefore that court
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: of law should ban the sale of those products in
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: the United States. That's how you deal with intellectual property theft.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: You don't deal with it at the level of government.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: You deal with it as theft, and you have a remedy.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: And tariffs are never, ever, ever, ever an excuse for anything.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: They're not a found policy tool. They're not any tool.
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  Speaker 1: If you want, if you want, if you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to trade with China, have an embargo band trade with China.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: But tariffs are tax on Americans. Why would you taxt
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: Americans if you want to penalize China. That's true, China
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: suffers as well, But why penalize Americans? That makes China suffer?
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: End it all, right, Blaze guitar lessons. How do you
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: see in the US and twenty three years? I don't know.
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can see three scenarios, I guess, But
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: this is a cop out right three scenarios. Once America
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: is in authoritarian state, there's basically somebody in Washington who
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: runs the country. We still have elections, but them phenomenal.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they're rigged. Maybe we effectively have a one
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: party system. We look more like Russia looks today, or
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: Russia looked even ten years ago, where you know, oligocks
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: and a president who has a lot of power a week,
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: a weak legislature and in a Supreme court just hanging on.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: But basically it's athbitarianism, even though it's still the guise
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: of some kind of constitutional government. The second option is
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: we just we just somehow peter along here, and you
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: know the pendulum theory. We get a little bit better
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: and then a little bit worse, and generally it's worse,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: and we have stagnation and we're not growing, but nothing
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: dramatic happens. Right, We're not a thebitarian yet we still
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: have a lot of the appearances of a free country.
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: And then the third is we're at the beginning of
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: our real intellectual revolution where capitalism is on the right.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: Liscinder says, my girlfriend is going to study abroad in
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: Florence soon. Any recommendations of places for her to visit there.
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean send me an email and I'll
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: send you a list. I mean it's it's way too
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: long for me than to do it here. But yeah,
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: I mean all the museums, all the classic places, all
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: the churches or the big churches. If your girlfriend likes
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: loves the arts. I mean this is heaven here. So churches, museums. Yeah,
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, send me an email and send you a list.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: All right, final question. I guess it's a full part
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: of Raymond. In China, they have a love hate relationship
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: with Western goods. They idealize Apple and Nike as a
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: sign of their sophistication and hate it as imperialism and
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: want to domesticate it. The previous Kim sent people to
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: Beijing for McDonald's. The Saudi, these Russians, Emirates share this love.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: What is going on here? How powerful would it be
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: for boycott, for a boycott to producers to force them
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: to buy Chinese knockoffs and deny them the mall sanctioned?
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: Den I who the mall sanction? How powerful would it
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: be to boycott the producers to force them to buy
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: Chinese knockoffs? I don't know who we're talking about. Don't
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: let them pretend they are civilized with iPhones and have
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: them know they are the bad guys. Are they all
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: bad guys? I mean? Is the hardwarkie engineer in Beijing
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: who's saving money up and starting a family and wants
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: to have an iPhone because it's cool and it's the
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: best tool available out there. Is he a bad guy?
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: Should he be denied the ability to have an iPhone
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: because his government sucks? I don't know. I'm not sure
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: that's true. If China is a little military threats to
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: the United States, if we think we're going to go
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: to war with China, then yeah, we can embargo them.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: But even then, you know that embargo would probably tip
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: everything towards a war. Is that the best thing we
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: can do right now? And if it's not, then why
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: not let private companies and private individuals decide who to
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: buy farm and when to buy, who to sell to
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: and when to sell. If Apple wants to sell it
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: to China, let them sell to China with all the
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: risks associated with that. They might steal your intellectual property.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: They might do this, They might do that. Apple know this,
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: and we in the American government are not going to
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: go to war to protect you. Okay, let them sell it.
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  Speaker 1: But the hardworking Chinese person is not the bad guy
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: the government is. And you're not penalizing the government. If
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: you embargo a country, you're preventing the people from enjoying
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: the fruits of their labor. So it's not clear to
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: me that that is the right strategy, and that would
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: be ideal. I think again, the only people who should
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: be emboggoed, who you should not trade with, are your
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: explicit enemy, people you expect to go to war with,
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: and I think they're only I think there's three right now.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: I think there's Iran, North Korea, and Russia. I don't
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: think China yet qualifies. It's close, and it could qualify
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: pretty quickly. And Apple better be ready for the day
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: when American decides that you should not be able to
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: trade with China. But I don't think we're there, and
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: I yeah, Apple makes way too much money in China.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: Blaze guitar lessons. Do you think Milaba will win reelection?
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: It's a tough call. I don't know. It really depends
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: what happens in the next two years. I mean, he
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: will win the election is in two years. How will
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: they do in parliamentary election next week? I wish I
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: had somebody from Argentina I could talk to. I don't know.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: I think he'll do okay but not great. I think
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: he'll do okay but not great, and that'll set him back,
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: but it won't completely destroy him. And then the question
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: is what can he do in the next two years
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: and how will that affect his chances are getting re elected?
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is the show for Wednesday, September seventeenth.
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  Speaker 1: As I expect, we will have a show tomorrow. It'll
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: probably be at four pm tomorrow, maybe three thirty, three
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: thirty or four tomorrow. Then we'll have a show on Friday.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: That one will be earlier, probably three, and no show Saturday,
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: probably a show Sunday. I'll try I'll try to do
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: a show Sunday, and we're going to try to do
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: a show Monday, and then no shows for the rest
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: of the week. Going to see an opera on Sunday,
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: The pro Fishers, Beze's pro Fishers. It's quite beautiful. I've
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: never seen it on stage, and it's not one of
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: those operas I've heard many times, but the little I've
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: heard it's been really good. And yeah, and we've got
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: one more museum we have to get to, probably to tomorrow.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: We're going to the Museum of the Duomo, that is
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: the main cathedral in It's got another Michael Angelo, so
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: that'll cover us. We'll have seen all the mikeel Angelos
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: in Florence. And then I do want to go on
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: Friday one last time to go see David. I have
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: to say goodbye to David, so on Friday I expect
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: to go and see David less Well. One final question
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: from Andrew talk about self esteem and lack of envy.
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: Francisco was in level Dagny but recognized that Gold was superior. Well,
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if superior is the right word. It's
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: not the right word. Rand would never use that word.
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  Speaker 1: He recognized that that you know that Dagne won, the
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: Gold won, and that gold was in some sense more worthy,
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: and you know that the Dagnes's response to Gold was
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: more intense, more significant than her response to him. But
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: I would never call superior. That's not the right word.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean Rand Rand recognizes in pretty much
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: every one of her novels that you can love more
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: than one person, you can fall in love with more
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: than one person, that you can love people in different
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: ways in a sense. She also noticed she she's the
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: anti Puritan when he comes to sex. Her female characters
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: have sex with multiple partners in her novels, in all
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: the novels with the Living fountain Head and Atlas shrug.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's you know, love is the person responds
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: and clearly DIAGNI responded more to Gold than to him,
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: and he understood that. And since he loved Gold, he
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: understood what she saw in him. And I think if
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: the reverse that happened, Gold would have understood it too.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: Even though Francisco is not quote superior, So the whole
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: superior thing goes out the window because of that. Wait,
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: thanks guys, they're not superior. They each amazing great even
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: if Gold Gold just has something, you know, he's a
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: face that never recognized pain or fear or something like that.
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: I can't regard the exact quote right when she first
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: sees him in the valley that Francisco doesn't have, even
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: though Francisco has had this amazing life. Thank you, guys,
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you to the super chatters. Thanks everybody else. I
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: will see you all tomorrow, have a great rest of
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: your week. Bye everybody,