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Rubio in Athens; Iran War?; Bond Vigilantes; Ukraine; Vance; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: The Radical. Fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Yaron Brook Show. Alright everybody, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Yaron Brook Show on this October 8th. Hope everybody is
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  Speaker 1: having a fantastic week. And thank you for joining me
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  Speaker 1: for another news roundup on this October. Afternoon where I am,
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  Speaker 1: 4 p.m. here in Puerto Rico, East Coast time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a little different. I got into a whole thing with
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  Speaker 1: Claude today, so I spent a lot of time with Claude.
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  Speaker 1: your time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great. It's great. But once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of... It goes berserk and you have to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what the hell is going on. All right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you for being here. So we're going
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  Speaker 1: to start today with Secretary Rubio, Marco Rubio, Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State of the United States at the Phoenix... I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how you pronounce that. Where he gave... How do
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  Speaker 1: we say this? You know, one of the best speeches
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  Speaker 1: about the West that any American official is giving in decades,
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  Speaker 1: and yet it got some things so badly wrong. And
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  Speaker 1: it has so much bad stuff that it just drives
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  Speaker 1: me nuts. All right. We'll also talk about the Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: being told that they need to prepare strikes on Iran,
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  Speaker 1: but then the president said, Not before the election, because
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  Speaker 1: this is all an election play after all. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about interstates, and we'll talk about what else is
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  Speaker 1: going on out there in the world. And, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we will see how far we get. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to watch quite a bit of this video of Marco Rubio,
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  Speaker 1: so I hope you can handle that. It's about a
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  Speaker 1: 15-minute long video podcast. segment from, uh, a 25 or so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: minute speech. Uh, but I think the 25 minutes are
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  Speaker 1: worth it. Uh, and, uh, we, we, you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of positive things to say. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of, uh, negative things to say, and we're gonna,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be, uh, fair to, uh, fair to Marco Rubio. Uh, Mary,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the sticker. C.P. Milken, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the sticker. That was Mary's Fifth, super chat, super sticker
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  Speaker 1: chat on a live stream, so I appreciate that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so this is yesterday, October 7th. He never mentions October
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  Speaker 1: 7th in the talk at all. It's at 6.30 p.m. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: October 7th started 6.30 a.m. I have no idea if
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  Speaker 1: this is purposeful or not, but it is on October 7th.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't mention it. It's on the hill where the
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  Speaker 1: Athenian Assembly met. Let me show you. There it is.
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  Speaker 1: The Acropolis is behind him. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: of many better places in the world to give a talk.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at that. I mean, that's about as
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  Speaker 1: good of a framing as you can get. And then
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  Speaker 1: he calls the talk. He called the talk. I think
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  Speaker 1: the transcript has this. In defense of Western civilizations. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the State Department Substack called it. So this is good.
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  Speaker 1: This is, I mean, defending Western civilization is good. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see that he doesn't quite get Western civilization. He gets
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  Speaker 1: some of it, doesn't get the rest. But look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that. I mean, that beats doing it in
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  Speaker 1: a church with a cross behind him, doing it in
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem with the, I don't know, wailing wall behind him, judo-Christian.
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  Speaker 1: It beats almost any place on planet Earth. I have
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  Speaker 1: photos of me giving a talk, not quite from there,
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  Speaker 1: from the rooftop of a hotel with the Acropolis. No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't the Acropolis. It was a different building, ancient
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  Speaker 1: ruin on the top of a hill. Nikos would know
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  Speaker 1: what name it is. But also beautiful setting, probably the
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  Speaker 1: best setting I've ever had for a talk I gave,
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  Speaker 1: and that was in Athens a few years ago. Nikos
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  Speaker 1: arranged it for me with a local think tank over there.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, just for the setting, this is worth it, right?
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Again, there's so many good things about it.
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  Speaker 1: This is why we're watching it. But there are also
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of bad things with it. And I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you got excited about this speech, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it's important. It's important to also point out
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  Speaker 1: the bad stuff in it. And maybe for you guys
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  Speaker 1: who are particularly excited about it, it's important to point
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  Speaker 1: those out. So let's get going. Let's see. Yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 1: just start from here. And then we'll see where we
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  Speaker 1: go as we start. Wow, what a setting. All right,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Let me know any issues with sound,
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  Speaker 1: too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow, whatever. I'm
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  Speaker 1: playing it at 1.0 speed because I know some of
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  Speaker 1: you are running the whole show at 2.0. And if
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  Speaker 1: I run the video at 2.0, then you're running it
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  Speaker 1: at 4.0 and everything gets gobbled. So I'm running it
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  Speaker 1: at normal speed for you guys. Here goes.
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  Speaker 2: There are great ruins all across the world. In many cases,
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  Speaker 2: they are places where history seems to have exhausted itself,
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  Speaker 2: remnants of distant cultures that have long passed beyond a
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  Speaker 2: living memory. But the Acropolis is different. For thousands of years,
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  Speaker 2: the civilization that built what stands behind me has captivated
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  Speaker 2: the imagination of the Western world. Generations of our statesmen
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  Speaker 2: artists and philosophers have looked to it, they've looked to
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  Speaker 2: it with wonder and they've looked to it with awe.
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  Speaker 2: Now time has a tendency to dull the senses. Great
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  Speaker 2: victories and catastrophic defeats, they seem to shrink to becoming
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  Speaker 2: like a footnote in a textbook. Another fact for our
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  Speaker 2: school children to memorize and forget. But the Greeks of
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  Speaker 2: antiquity They seem to have an almost mystical hold on
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  Speaker 2: our memory. They call us back to them again and again.
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  Speaker 1: That is true. There's something which he's identifying as something very,
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  Speaker 1: very special, particularly for the West, in Greece, in ancient Greece,
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  Speaker 1: in our connection to ancient Greece.
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  Speaker 2: 480 years before Christ. The armies of Xerxes arrived in
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  Speaker 2: this city and they put its sanctuaries to the torch.
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  Speaker 2: Most Athenians had by then evacuated by ship to a
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  Speaker 2: nearby island, but there was a handful of them that
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  Speaker 2: refused to leave their home. So instead they barricaded themselves
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  Speaker 2: in the rocky fortress of the Acropolis to fight an
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary last stand, heaving massive stones down the cliffs, onto
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  Speaker 2: the Persian invaders, and holding the greatest empire of that
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  Speaker 2: age at bay for days. They were eventually overwhelmed. The
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  Speaker 2: Persians plundered the temples, they burned the shrines, they razed
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  Speaker 2: the Acropolis to the ground. But when the Athenians returned,
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  Speaker 2: they gathered the broken remains of the old Acropolis and
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  Speaker 2: buried them in the hill where it had stood. And
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  Speaker 2: decades later, under Pericles, they raised the Parthenon. For 25
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  Speaker 2: centuries since, the Parthenon has stood. Empires have risen and
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  Speaker 2: fallen beneath its shadow. And the progeny of the men
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  Speaker 2: who built it, the sons of Athens and Rome, have
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  Speaker 2: carried their civilization with them to the ends of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: Two and a half centuries later, after the founding of
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  Speaker 2: the American Republic halfway across the world from where I
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  Speaker 2: stand now. I stand here today as the Secretary of
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  Speaker 2: State of that Republic and as the great grandson of
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  Speaker 2: settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain. I
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  Speaker 2: stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse
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  Speaker 2: of time, no distance of space can ever extinguish.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean, that is well said. And the debt,
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  Speaker 1: the debt that, I mean, there is no America without Greece.
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  Speaker 1: There's no Western civilization without Greece. There is no civilization.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who knows what kind of civilization we get
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  Speaker 1: without Greece. All the characteristics of Western civilization. are fundamentally Greek.
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  Speaker 2: The history of America, the history of my country, is
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  Speaker 2: covered with the fingerprints of antiquity. Greece is literally carved
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  Speaker 2: into the architecture of our government. In the towering columns,
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  Speaker 2: in the domes and the monuments across our capital city,
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  Speaker 2: the city where our constitution was born, Philadelphia, is itself
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  Speaker 2: a Greek name. The men who founded my country were
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  Speaker 2: fascinated by the heritage we inherited from yours. They were
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  Speaker 2: exceptionally well-read in history. They are vividly aware of their
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  Speaker 2: unique place in it. But no other age of the
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  Speaker 2: past held their attention or their imagination quite like that
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  Speaker 2: of antiquity. Many people are surprised to learn that the
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  Speaker 2: most commonly cited author in the Federalist Papers was not
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  Speaker 2: an Enlightenment philosopher or a political theorist. The most commonly
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  Speaker 2: cited author in the Federalist Papers was Plutarch, the Greek
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  Speaker 2: biographer of Greece and Rome's great men. Now, much has
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  Speaker 2: been written and said about the influence of ancient Greece
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  Speaker 2: on the ideas of the American founders, and for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: on all of the Western philosophers and statesmen that preceded them.
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  Speaker 2: Most of us are familiar with the basic history. Athens
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  Speaker 2: gave us democracy. Plato and Aristotle gave us Western philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: Our ideas of law, of virtue, of citizenship, and republican
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  Speaker 2: government were shaped in the Greek city-states. Even much of
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  Speaker 2: our political vocabulary, words like democracy, tyranny, the word politics
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  Speaker 2: itself found its origins here. All of that is true.
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  Speaker 2: But the things we owe to this place, as Americans
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  Speaker 2: and as Westerners, are actually far, far deeper. These institutions
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  Speaker 2: and ideas were the outward expression of more fundamental qualities
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  Speaker 2: we see in the ancient Greeks. qualities that can't be
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  Speaker 2: reduced to any particular political system or theory. Here, in Athens,
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  Speaker 2: we found the first full realization of all the essential
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  Speaker 2: traits that would come to define the West. Fierce individuality
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  Speaker 2: and relentless ambition, daring exploration and invention, a yearning for discovery,
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  Speaker 2: for adventure, risk and glory, an insatiable curiosity about the
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  Speaker 2: world and the principles by which it operates, a hunger
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  Speaker 2: to know the mysteries of nature and grasp the secrets
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  Speaker 2: of the cosmos, an impatience with the notion of impossibility
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  Speaker 2: chafing at all boundaries, at all limits, straining to peer
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  Speaker 2: into the depths of the unknown.
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  Speaker 1: You know, let me just see.
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  Speaker 2: These were not just the formulas or precepts of a
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  Speaker 2: particular school of philosophy. They were the characteristic of a people,
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  Speaker 2: expressed in their tradition, their stories, their imagination. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, this is really, really good. And that
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  Speaker 1: last segment is particularly good. I mean, I'll repeat some
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  Speaker 1: of it. Here in Athens, we found the first full
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  Speaker 1: realization of all the essential traits of that would come
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  Speaker 1: to define the West. Note what's not here. What is
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  Speaker 1: here is fierce individuality, call it individualism, and relentless ambition, individualism.
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  Speaker 1: Daring exploration and invention, an insatiable curiosity, call exploration, invention,
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  Speaker 1: even reason, an insatiable curiosity about the world, And the
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  Speaker 1: principles by which it operates. I mean, that is good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That is good stuff. And stuff that nobody else says.
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  Speaker 1: What the West is, what the West has inherited, is
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  Speaker 1: not a set of genes. It's not a skin color.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a geography. It's a set of ideas, of attitudes.
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  Speaker 1: And those ideas start right here. They start in Greece.
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  Speaker 1: They start in Athens. I mean, Greece, this idea of individualism,
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  Speaker 1: which everybody says, oh, it's Christian. I mean, here Marco
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  Speaker 1: Rubio is saying it's Greek. Daring and exploration, inventions. using
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  Speaker 1: the human mind. He's already attributed philosophy to the Sarah. So, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he names individuality first. That's pretty good. I
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  Speaker 1: just wish, as we'll see, that he could stay with that,
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  Speaker 1: stick with that, not compromise on that, not Not compromised
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  Speaker 1: but not contradicted which he does in a little bit
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's keep going a little bit here and.
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  Speaker 2: The qualities that they demanded of their citizens and The
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  Speaker 2: things they lived and fought and died for To know
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  Speaker 2: them Is to know ourselves What blossomed here in this
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  Speaker 2: place was the Western desire to uncover all that ignorance
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  Speaker 2: and darkness and distance had kept hidden from the mind
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  Speaker 2: of man. The Greeks did not just shape history. The
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  Speaker 2: Greeks gave us history itself. Much of what we know
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  Speaker 2: about many ancient civilizations comes almost entirely from the records
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  Speaker 2: of Greek explorers and historians. Explorers and historians who didn't
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  Speaker 2: just chronicle the histories of their own people, but ventured
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  Speaker 2: outwards to observe and record the sagas of foreign peoples
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  Speaker 2: and cultures all across the world. Where others looked inward,
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  Speaker 2: the Greeks were the first to direct their focus outward,
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  Speaker 2: to chase the thrill and glory of seeing all that
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  Speaker 2: was strange and new. It was this trait, it was
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  Speaker 2: this trait that would push the West to create and
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  Speaker 2: build things that others could not. marking us out from
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  Speaker 2: so many other cultures and civilizations where stability and subsistence
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  Speaker 2: were the highest ends of life. But it is not
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  Speaker 2: just the ambition to explore the unknown that we inherit
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  Speaker 2: from the Greeks. It is the conviction that the unknown
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  Speaker 2: can be known. The confidence that the world can be
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  Speaker 2: charted and measured and mapped and understood And that there
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  Speaker 2: is a rational order to the cosmos governed by certain
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  Speaker 2: fundamental laws, laws that men can observe and the mind
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  Speaker 2: can come to understand.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's, again, pretty amazing. He's basically describing the
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  Speaker 1: Greeks' discovery of rationality and reason, his ideas. I'll repeat
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  Speaker 1: what he just said. It is not just ambition to
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  Speaker 1: explore the unknown. And this is the important part, right?
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  Speaker 1: It is the conviction that the unknown can be known.
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  Speaker 1: The confidence that there is a rational order to the
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  Speaker 1: cosmos governed by certain fundamental laws. Laws that men can
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  Speaker 1: observe and the mind can come to understand. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: is Aristotle. And it's the most important single, most important
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  Speaker 1: sentence in the entire speech. Reality is real. It's lawful.
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  Speaker 1: And the human mind, the human mind can grasp it,
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  Speaker 1: not through revelation, but through observation, understanding, through reason. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is This is science, medicine. Ultimately, this is capitalism,
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  Speaker 1: individual rights. This is everything. Everything follows from that. And
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  Speaker 1: as Jennifer says in the chat, not very Christian of Rubio.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I thought all this was revealed to us
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  Speaker 1: by a superpower. And notice, here's an opportunity to say
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  Speaker 1: governed by a higher power, governed by a god, governed
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  Speaker 1: by something. No, he avoids that. Now, he says in
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  Speaker 1: a minute, you'll hear it in a minute, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to say it now, that, quote, we assume
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  Speaker 1: that these somehow are universal to all people in all
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  Speaker 1: times and in all places. They are not. Most cultures
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  Speaker 1: looked inward. The Greek looked out. i mean that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: amazing again he's identified individualism he's identified reason as these
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  Speaker 1: foundational values of greece I don't know what evangelical and
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  Speaker 1: Catholic fans are thinking as they watch this, but he
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  Speaker 1: is basically undermining, undermining the whole idea that is so
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  Speaker 1: prevalent out there that Western civilization is a product of
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  Speaker 1: is a product of religion, Christianity. Now, the Christianity is
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  Speaker 1: going to come. Don't worry. He's not going to give
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  Speaker 1: it up. And he's going to make some ridiculous statements
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  Speaker 1: here in a little bit. But this section is really good.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: This was the foundation of the Western mind.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this foundation. Not Augustine, not Jesus, not the Middle Ages,
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  Speaker 1: not the religionists of that thousand years of nothingness. This
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  Speaker 1: is the foundation of the Western mind. This is the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of all mind. Forget Western. These are universal principles.
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  Speaker 1: Apply to everybody. But to admit... Without any question.
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  Speaker 2: Our math, our science, our medicine, our philosophy, ethics, and religion,
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  Speaker 2: it paved the way for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Paved the way for the gospel of Jesus Christ. It
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  Speaker 1: has to come in at some point. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: a sense in which that's true. Because, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Christianity is so platonic. So it has to enter here, right?
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  Speaker 1: But I'll give him credit.
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  Speaker 2: Define plural plural in Europe and flourish into the empire
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  Speaker 2: of Christendom.
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  Speaker 1: Empire of Christendom, which destroyed, and this is where kind
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  Speaker 1: of he will not admit the history, which destroyed the
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  Speaker 1: achievements of the Greeks, which for a thousand years tried
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  Speaker 1: to bury them, or at least for the first 400 years,
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  Speaker 1: of the empire of Christendom. I mean, empire of Christendom,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Constantine is 300 AD to 1200 AD.
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  Speaker 1: There's every effort to destroy what Greece has created, to
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  Speaker 1: reject individualism, to reject individualism in any meaningful sense, to
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  Speaker 1: reject science, to reject reason. in favor of faith and dogma.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you could actually extend it into the 1600s, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Galileo was 15-something, right? So, Christianity destroyed the soil,
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  Speaker 1: the grease, you know, made, what's the word? Flourishing is
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  Speaker 1: not the right word. Fertile, fertile. So, yeah, he can't
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  Speaker 1: avoid this, right? So he has to revert back to Christianity.
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  Speaker 2: It was the foundation of the riches of Christian theology,
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  Speaker 2: of Augustine and Aquinas and the whole tradition of natural law.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just putting Augustine and Aquinas in the same
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  Speaker 1: sentence in this.
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  Speaker 3: Way, right?
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  Speaker 1: Again, there's a sense in which it's true. Augustine is Plato, right?
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  Speaker 1: And Aquinas is Aristotle. I mean, I'm simplifying, but generally.
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  Speaker 1: And they are opposites in many respects, both from Greece.
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  Speaker 1: So Greece is fertile soil for both of them. But
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  Speaker 1: they are the opposite. Jason says, I gather there were 1600s. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: early 1600s, I think. But yes, so all the way
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  Speaker 1: to there. So again, you can go through, how much?
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  Speaker 1: You know, about nine minutes of pretty good stuff, of
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  Speaker 1: really good stuff, maybe eight minutes of really good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And then Christianity has to kick in, has to kick in.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get more of this in a minute. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: and attributing natural law to Augustine, I think, is a lot,
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  Speaker 1: is a lot. maybe to Aquinas, but Augustine.
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  Speaker 2: It gave birth to a civilization marked not just by
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  Speaker 2: a common culture. It was marked by a common anthropology,
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  Speaker 2: a common view of man and of his place in
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  Speaker 2: the universe.
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  Speaker 1: There is no common view. I mean, Christianity's anthropology, as
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  Speaker 1: he calls it, a view of man of place in
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  Speaker 1: the universe, Christianity's view of man's place in the universe
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  Speaker 1: and the Greeks' view of man's place in the universe,
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  Speaker 1: Greeks more broadly, if you put aside kind of the
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  Speaker 1: worst of the philosophers, is completely opposite. Completely opposite. Think
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  Speaker 1: about Christianity's view of the fall versus Greek sculpture. Think
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  Speaker 1: about what the Christians did to the Greek sculptures they
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: discovered before the Renaissance. Think about the systematic destruction of
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Greek beauty that the Christians engaged in because They had
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a very, very, very, very different view of man and
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  Speaker 1: his place in the universe than the Greeks did. It's
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: not the same view.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Its descendants would share not just the idea of a
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: natural order, but a distinctive understanding of virtue, of destiny,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: of fate.
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  Speaker 1: No. No. virtue, according to the Greeks, particularly Aristotle, very
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: different than the, uh, Christian view of virtue. Very different.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Just think of the virtue of pride, which in Aristotle
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: is the queen of all the virtues. And in, um,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: in Christianity is a vice of destiny and fate. No,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: there is no, you know, it's, it's, it's very different.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Of truth.
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  Speaker 1: Truth is, as he said just a minute ago, truth in, um,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: In the Greek mind, it's based on reason and science
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and observation. And in Christianity, at least, it's based on revelation.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Goodness and beauty.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: None of those are consistent, right? None of those align
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Christianity with... And this is the thing. This is the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: problem with this speech. The problem with the right, which
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Rubrio represents here. The problem is.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: That they want to basically claim Greece as their foundation.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: They want to say, oh no, we accept Greece. We
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: built on Greece. Christianity is built on Greece. Christianity is
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the continuation of Greece. And that is just unjust and horrible. So,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is where the Christians and the Christian
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: right just makes me crazy.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Of a code that dictates how men ought to live,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: of objective standards and ideals to strive towards.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Again, think about the ideals of Greece. Think about the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: ambition of Greece. think about the individuality of Greece, think
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: about a Greek sculpture, and think about a mid-ages gargoyle.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Think about the beauty of Greece and the ugliness of
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the Middle Ages. So this is fundamentally, you know, again,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: while a lot of correct things are being said. They're
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: being said in the name of a very evil goal.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And that evil goal is to legitimize Christianity, to claim
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a foundation of Christianity that Christianity does not deserve and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: did not have.
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  Speaker 2: For the Greeks of antiquity, the pursuit of excellence, was
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the very principle of man's existence.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: That's right. And that's not Christian. That's very much pride.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I'll repeat that. For the Greeks of antiquity, the pursuit
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: of excellence was the very principle of man's existence. Yes.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'm Competition. In everything. The striving towards perfection. That's pride.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: That is pride. And yet, it's exactly what the Christians reject.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: The Christians about humility. Humility. And pride is a vice,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: not a virtue. So note, again, how he's, and note
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: that he's good stuff, bad stuff, good stuff, bad stuff,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: good stuff, bad stuff, so that it all merges, the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Christian and the Greek. That's the purpose, the purpose to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: make you think they are the same, and they are not.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And again, Christianity just does not deserve it, does not
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: deserve the credit.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: They organized all of civic life around contest and ambition
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: and competition and philosophy and poetry and sculpture and drama
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: and athletics and art and war and statescraft. The classical
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Greek city was an arena for great men to test
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: and prove themselves, to hone their potential through perpetual struggle,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: to be the best, the strongest, the most beautiful. straining
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: to inch ever closer to perfection.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get that without the virtue of pride. You
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: don't get that without a deep, deep love of man.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: A love of what it is to be man and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: what the potential of a human being is. You don't
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: get that kind of striving for perfection for man has fallen.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: For man is having original sin. It is not the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: same attitude. It is not the same culture. It is
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: not the same philosophical foundations.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Now, I know that to modern ears, what I just described,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: this way of life may sound odd. It may even
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: sound cruel. The ideal of many ideologies in our time
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: is frankly become a world of perfect safety, a world
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: devoid of risk or failure or were neither the glory
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: of victory nor the shame of defeat.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: That is true, and you'd have to blame, to a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: large extent, Christianity for that.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Too often, these days, we build downwards. We design our
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: standards to ensure that no one will lose. We preoccupy
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: among us hostage, to the average, the ordinary, the mediocre.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is egalitarianism, which he is criticizing. But where
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: does this egalitarianism come from? It comes from Christianity. Christianity
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: is in opposition to everything good he said about Greece. So,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you know, it's true. He says, too often these days
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: we build downwards to design our standards to ensure no
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: one will lose. Yeah, that's egalitarianism. We preoccupy ourselves with more,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: with the comfort of the worst than the potential of
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the best. Remember, the meek shall inherit the earth. We
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the ordinary, the mediocre.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: The men who made the Parthenon, they built upwards. They
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: held that the highest and most noble aspiration in life
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: was to surpass all others, to strive to be the
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: best in all things. The ancient Greek city-states were filled.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: They were filled with intense passion and rivalry and faction
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: and conflict. But from that constant struggle for distinction, from
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: that came the great flowering of art, and philosophy, and
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: political and intellectual energy that would transform a collective of
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Mediterranean cities into the birthplace of the greatest civilization in
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: the world. The Thumos, as the ancient Greeks called it,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride, is the heart
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: of great civilization. And without it, without it, nations lose
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: their will to fight The will to strive, the will
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to survive. Today, too much of the West has forgotten
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: this quality. Over time, we in the West came to
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the rest of the world. Our prosperity somehow became a
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: source of guilt. We no longer believed we deserved and
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: had earned our greatness. The word nationalism became a dirty word.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: All right, so here's the prognosis, right? Over time, we
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: in the West came to feel ashamed of the very
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: thing that made us exceptional. What are those things? Well,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I assume it's individuality, reason, science, ambition, pride, striving for perfection,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: striving for excellence. Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: he says. We no longer believe we deserve and had
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: earned our greatness. That's all true. Where does it come from?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: And then nationalism? Where did nationalism come from? Where did
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: he bring that in? Is there nationalism in Greece? Was
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: nationalism mentioned as one of the great virtues of Greece?
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: No.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: So where does it come from? It's again, he's trying
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: to link his ideas, which are not Greek, which are anti-Greece,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: which are anti-reason and anti-Greek civilization, with Greek. He wants
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the credibility of Greek philosophy and Greek culture and Greek
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: civilization to justify his national conservative agenda. So yes, he
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: diagnoses Greece. The state of the West, filled with guilt
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: about prosperity. Absolutely, this is the left. You know, this
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: idea of we don't have a right to be successful.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: But then nationalism just sneaks it in there. Sneaky and creepy.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: And so we tore down our monuments. We condemned our
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: own history.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Tore down our monuments. Just notice, what monuments is he
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: talking about? What monuments did we tear down? I mean,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: this is really, really, I mean, this is not confusion.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: This is purposeful. What do you call it? Purposefully trying
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: to confuse you. What monuments did we tear down? Notice how, again,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: he's sneaking it in there. The monuments to the heroes
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: that defended slavery. That's the monuments we tore down. But
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: that's not the source of our greatness. That's not our prosperity.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: That's not, if you properly understand it, not our civilization.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: That's not Greece. We taught our monuments to traitors, to
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: traitors of Western civilization, to traitors to the cause of
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: individualism and reason. We taught our monuments to the bad guys,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: to the people who were trying to destroy Western civilization,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: not defend it. So he's purposefully, purposefully, and this is
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: a sense in which this is, yeah, it's got a
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: lot of good stuff, but it is evil speech. Because
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: what he's really aiming here is, again, to have ancient
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Greece endorse his nationalist conservative agenda. The ideas of Greece.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: And to coin the national conservative agenda, his nationalist conservative agenda,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: as the agenda of Western civilization. Built On Greek ideas.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: And in too many places, we taught our children to
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: be ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: we opened our borders and outsourced our industry. Yep.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: So there we go. Now we're going after immigrants and
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: we're going after globalization. What does this have to do
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: with Greece, with Greek philosophy, with Greek ideas?
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: And allowed our militaries to wither and to decay. And
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: with every passing year, we seem to outsource more of
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: our sovereignty. transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: the reach of our control.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: So let's attack globalism in the context of Greece. Again,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: what is he talking about? This is sleight of hand,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: left and right. Let me just see what I'm saying.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: But others were all too happy to fill the vacuum
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: that we left, the vacuum left behind by our weakness.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: And as the West's confidence faltered, its adversaries and its
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: rivals only grew more assertive, building up their own wealth
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: and their own power in our stead. And now, today,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: we find ourselves at a crossroads because the next decade
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: And the decisions we make will write the story of
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: the next century. The course we take will determine whether
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: the West maintains its place at the head of the
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: world or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: servitude and decline. We will either choose to act now
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: or lose the choice to act at all.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: What is the action exactly?
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's President Trump. A model for Greek philosophical leadership.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is so despicable. It's so despicable.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And yeah, listen to the speech. As I said, word
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: for word. Its whole point is the sleight of hand.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: It's the undermining.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power to take
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: back control of our critical supply chains, to re-industrialize our economy,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: to rebuild our defense, to fight for dominance of the
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: technologies and industries of the future. We choose to reach
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: for new frontiers in advanced manufacturing and superintelligence, in drones, weapons,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: and warfare, in chips. minerals, cyber, and every other domain
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: of human possibility to unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: to return our astronauts to the moon, and launch a
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: new age of exploration in space.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: How's that going? Running a $ 40 trillion debt, $ 2 trillion
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: deficit a year, manufacturing employment down, manufacturing building down, if
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: you exclude AI, you know, growing, increasing prices regularly. How
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: is all that going? I mean, sounds ambitious. Sounds good. Yeah,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: let's go build this.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Now, for all their lofty ideals, the ancient Greeks were
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: not naive. They understood that nations have interest. They understood
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: that statecraft requires prudence and diplomacy. But they also understood
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: that it requires the ability to wield force when prudence
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: and diplomacy fail.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, they did.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: They understood that power requires not only having the means
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: to defend yourself, it requires the credibility that you are
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: willing to use it.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is, outright funny, and particularly for those
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: of you who think I just hate Trump and hate
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Rubio and, you know, I'll just say anything to put
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: them down. I mean, everybody should be embarrassed by a
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: statement like that. Rubio, of all people, should be embarrassed
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: by a statement like that, given where we are seven
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: months into a war with Iran. What credibility? What credibility?
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Where our allies are, you know, turning away from us
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Because they don't trust us. Because we have no credibility.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: We can't win a war. Trump can get us into wars,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: can't win them. And of course, anyway.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: This is the classical understanding of politics and of statecraft
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: that the Trump administration hopes to reclaim.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Again, you have to laugh. Classic understanding of statescraft. I
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: emphasize statescraft. Really? This administration? Statescraft? Give me a freaking break.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Reclaim not just for our country, but for the whole
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: of our civilization. We believe that Europe can awaken from
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: here millennia ago. There are already signs. Across this continent,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: we are witnessing what we hope will be the beginning
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: of a generational shift, skyrocketing defense spending, a flurry of
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: new partnerships and programs, expanded manufacturing and production, following on
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: the historic defense commitments made last year in The Hague.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, Europe has never been more skeptical of defense
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: commitments made by the United States or America towards them.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: So really?
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: All right. Let me just see. I mean, here's the thing.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: It's filled with the sleight of hand. Greek reason paved
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: the way for the gospel of Jesus Christ? Really? Really?
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Later on, he says, Americans are born in Athens, formed
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: by Rome, baptized in Christendom. That's the link he wants
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: to make. Athens to Christendom. Christendom did not inherit Athens.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: It buried it. I mean, Justinian closed the academy in 529.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: The Greek text survives in Arabic and came back to
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Europe a thousand years later. against the church, not through it.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Aquinas read Aristotle in spite of his faith, not because
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: of it. The church then spent centuries defending Aristotle's wrong
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: physics because they took it as scripture, because that's the
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: only way they could relate to knowledge. I mean, we
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: will later on, we'll praise the period between 1000 and
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: 1600 as this is the story of Europe moving from
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: faith to reason. It's the rejection or marginalization of Christianity,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: not the embrace. Augustine, who said personal self-defense is immoral,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: is that who should guide our troops into battle? Turn
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: the other cheek? Is that how we should design our
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: foreign policy? And yet, Augustine is somehow the founder of
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: West's fighting spirit, I mean, I've said this before. I'll
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: say it many times again. Christianity is the enemy of
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Western civilization. It's not the cause of it. It's what
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: hampers it. It's anti-Enlightenment. Now he lists Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Newton as Greek heirs. Absolutely right. I'm skipping ahead. Then
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: why was Galileo put in trial?
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: And note that all of them are.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Heroes of reason, not of faith, not of Scripture. And then,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: you know, he emphasizes sacrifice as heroism. According to Rubio,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: I'm quoting him, I haven't got to this part yet.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: The man who was willing to pay any cost for
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: a cause worthy of his loyalty, striving, sacrificing, and achieving
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: greatly for something larger than himself, always larger than himself.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: He says Achilles chose death at Troy. Yeah, but what
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: did Achilles later say What did Achilles later say? I mean,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: he chooses death to Troy. And then what does he
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: say to Odysseus in Hades? he says he'd rather be
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: the servant of a peasant and alive than the king
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: of Hades Achilles realizes and this is a great innovation
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: of classical Greece that did not exist in Bronze Age
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Greece maybe it's not so good to die for glory
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: And it's all about something larger than yourself, right? Every
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: collectivist ever has always told you there's a vision. There's
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: something bigger than you. And by the way, he knows
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: what that vision is. He knows what you should be
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: sacrificing for. But the one thing you should avoid is
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: your own vision, your own life, living your life for you.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: It's the same thing. We get the same crap from
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the left and from the right. Somebody's asking if I
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: like MSNBC. I never watch MSNBC. I don't watch television news.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, Achilles picks death over a long life and
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: then kind of regrets it. Rubio calls it glory. But
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: is it? So, you know, so, yeah, I mean, he
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: opens the speech with fierce individuality of Athens. He closes
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: the speech with the Amopolis, the 300, choosing to fight
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: to the last man rather than abandon their post or
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: abandon their duty. Now, yes, they saved civilization. They saved
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Greece from the Persians. And they will be remembered for that.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: But remember they were Spartans. And Sparta is not Athens.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Sparta is not the individualism. Sparta is not the reason.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Sparta is not man is rational.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, it's all about nationalism and borders
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: and outsourcing. It's sickening. It really is sickening at the
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: end of the day. It's sickening. He says at some point,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: we chose the unapologetic pursuit of national power. And then
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: he goes on, and the Greeks knew there was nothing
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: selfish or wrong about loyalty to a nation. No anything
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: selfish or wrong. but fighting to defend its interests above
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: all else, above all else. And what are those interests? Blank.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Which interests? Blank. And the reality is, which needs to
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: be acknowledged, somebody needs to say it, that the United
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: States of America is politically a massive improvement over Greece.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: It's built on certain foundations of Greece, but it builds
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: on them. It improves them. Weak democracy is not the ideal.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: The founders came close to the ideal with the Declaration
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: of Constitution of the United States of America. So, to summarize,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and then we'll go on to the rest of the news,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: there's some really good stuff here. Reason, knowable cosmos, excellence, pride,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: refusal to apologize for life against a cult of death.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: That's all good. But it's all positioned in the talk
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: to serve an evil cause. What's it for? What are
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: all these good things for? For the church, for Christianity,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: for a cause greater than yourself, for glorious death. He's
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: praising Athens, but what he's prescribing is Rome post the
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Roman Empire. He's praising reason, but he's crediting Christendom, which
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: is based on faith and a rejection of reason. He
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: pays his fierce individualism, or individuality as he says, but
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: he demands duty. It's a supposed defense of Western civilization
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: that undermines Western civilization and that ignores the foundation of
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Western civilization. The right of the individual to live his
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: own life based on his reason in pursuit of his values.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Now that is based, that's based on Greece. It's not
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: fully recognized in Greece, but based on Greece. Not on Christianity.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: It's not a Christian ideal. And then at the end,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: it's all about national greatness. And what's the difference between
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: his national greatness and the left social justice, it's all
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: the same collectivistic crap. He's a national conservative. Just that
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: much short from Pete Hegseth and J.D. Vance's national, sorry,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Christian conservatives, Christian nationalists, Christian nationalists. So, no, this is
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: a speech that at the end of the day, is
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: meant to subvert, not to build, not to create, not
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: a rebirth of Western civilization, but to justify the perversion
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: of Christianity and of Christian nationalism and national conservatism and
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: the rest of the collectivistic ideas that animate this White House.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: It's also supposed to bolster somehow just the unbelievable, you know,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: pathetic weakness of this administration. A weakness illustrated by what's
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: at the top of the news right now. So let's
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: go to our news. So this morning when I looked
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: at the news, the lead was we're preparing to strike.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: According to Axios, the Pentagon told the military several days
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: ago to be ready to resume operations against Iran. No date. Supposedly,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Trump hadn't decided yet, but targets, the targets, when, if
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: it happens, nuclear infrastructure, energy, Israel will take part. Two
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Israeli officials call Iran desperate and paranoid and say, It
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: might strike first, so they're getting ready, but they're in
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: coordination with the White House. We're going back to finish
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: the job we started in February. A number of other
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: stories back this up. Pentagon has plans to strike before
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: the midterms. Stated reason, administration officials say, to show Trump
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: is serious about lowering gas prices. I can't help myself.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: It's an entertaining administration. You have to give them that. Right?
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: We're going to go to war. We're going to put,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: you know, troops at risk. We're going to spend gazillions
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: and gazillions and gazillions of dollars, which we could give
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: back to the American people or maybe pay off our
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: debts in order to show that we are serious, not
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: to lower prices, but to show that we're serious about
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: lowering prices. I mean, What do you do with that?
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: And really, why do we want to show that we're
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: serious about lowering gas prices? Because we want to win
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: the election. So we're going to go to war. We're
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: going to spend gazillions, put people's lives at risk, Americans'
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: lives at risk to win an election. White House official says,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: this is all from this morning, The U.S. is in,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: I quote, a very strong position with control of the
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian economy collapsing the easy
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: way or the hard way. That's Trump holds all the cards,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: all the cards. Then in the afternoon, I get an update.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Trump says, right, Trump says, We will not be attacking
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Iran any time prior to the midterm election. I mean,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I know what happened. Between the morning and the afternoon,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: maybe some congressmen and some senators called him up and said,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: are you crazy? You can't go to war before the midterm. election.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: We'll lose. People don't like this war. You can't go
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: to war before the election. So now he says, we're
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: not attacking Iran anytime prior to midterm election, which, by
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the way, just told the Iranians, you're free for the
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: next month. You're cool. The same day, this is the
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: kind of complete, complete nonsensical nature and non-strategic nature of
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: this administration. At the same time, the Iranians say we've
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: received and are reviewing a U.S. ceasefire proposal. And we
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: will respond. According to this proposal, sanctions, it's going to
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: include sanction relief in exchange for free passage to Hormuz
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: and shutting down the nuclear program. Not clear exactly what
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: it means to shut down the nuclear program. Vance yesterday said,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: we want less, less enrichment. We don't need to enrich
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: to 60%. Less enrichment. But remember, not that long ago,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: the demand of the Americans was no enrichment. Because if
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: you can enrich to 5%, you can enrich to 60%.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Centrifuges are exactly the same. Iran also said that it's
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: a reached... an agreement with Oman on administering transit routes
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: through the Strait. So in other words, you've got two administrations,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: the American and the Iranians, lying through their teeth constantly.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: And who the hell knows what's going on? CENTCOM, again today,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: briefs shipping companies. We're building momentum for freedom of navigation
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: as commercial traffic increases. As the Iranians are saying, we're
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: shutting it down. But CINCOM did acknowledge sacrifices by civilian
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: crews from unwarranted Iranian attacks. They're still happening. So is
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: it open? Is it closed? How open? How closed? Is
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Iran capable of closing it? Will they close in the future?
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: What exactly is going on? In the meantime, gas prices
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: in some places in California are over $ 7 a gallon. Now,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Trump does not have to worry about California. It's not
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: going Republican. Meanwhile, the Houthis, emboldened by American weakness, are
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: striking Riyadh and other airports in Saudi Arabia. Three are dead.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Blast a hood in Riyadh. You know, supposedly they intercepted
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: two missiles, but some stuff hit. The U.S. is doing
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: nothing other than restricting its own staff from using the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Riyadh airport. and telling Americans to stay at least 20
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: miles from the Yemeni border. That's a sign of strength. Anyway,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: you know, in the meantime, as I said, tankers were
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: attacked around Hormuz, one near Qatar, Brent went above 105 again,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: and French power prices, France is everywhere in the news
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: these days, went over 100 euros for the first time
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: since 2023. So in the morning, we're preparing to strike
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: Iran to show we're serious about gas prices. In the afternoon,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: we're promising not to strike before the election because we
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: care about gas prices, maybe. It's all about the election.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: Neither is about a threat. If this was about defending
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Americans from a real objective threat, which I think it is,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: not that this administration knows it, But here's the thing.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: All of this mumbo-jumbo, contradictory statements, and you can test
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: me on this. I mean, I don't know, maybe this
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: is horrifically biased against Trump. I don't, you know, you
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: tell me. All of this is the classical statescraft based
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: on reason that Rubio praised yesterday. I mean, wartime to
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: a price target. And an election day? This is what
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: he meant by statescraft? I didn't realize it. This is statescraft.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: It's just ridiculous, right? Do we control the state of Hormuz?
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the state of Hormuz is far more
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: open than it has been since the beginning of the war.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: But tankers are still being hit. We're not doing anything
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: about that. Freedom of navigation... Freedom of navigation in the
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz is something that should and must be
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: secured by force. Not by sanctions relief, not by negotiation,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: not by compromise, by force. And our credibility, the West's
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: credibility that Rubio was so adamant about, strength of the West,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: where's that credibility? when we let an ally that we
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: have a defense agreement with the saudis we actually have
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: an agreement you could question that agreement but it's it
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: exists and yet we're saying oh we're not going to
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: help you tell with that yeah you know what a
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: disaster In the meantime, the bond vigilantes, I love bond vigilantes.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: I think they're great. This is the bond market trying
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: to discipline governments. That's not the reason they're doing it.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: Bond vigilantes are there pricing risk, pricing bonds, pricing debt.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: And they're basically saying, risky, risky, more risky, getting riskier.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: In the United Kingdom, Guilt, which is the government bonds, 5.515%,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: the highest since July 2007. The 30-year is at 6.047%,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: which is the highest since January 1998. Villains? These aren't villains.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: These are the only rational people out there in the marketplace.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: 20-year over 6% for the first time since March 1998.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: diesel at a record two pounds a liter, up 40%
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: since February. I mean, all bond market is doing, all
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: these vigilantes are doing is pricing risk, identifying what the
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: real risk is. These are the heroes because they might
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: actually force governments to be disciplined. They have in the past.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Bank of England's governor says physical policy must be credible.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: Here's the discipline, right? Physical policy must be credible means politicians.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: You need to start cutting spending. You need to show
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: how you're going to pay off the debt. You need
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: to have a balanced budget. The markets assume the Bank
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: of England is going to increase interest rates four times.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: In the next few months... We're expecting a budget... From...
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: From the new.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: From the new Chancellor of Exchequer... In England... On October 28th...
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Remember the Bank of England is saying... Must be credible... Credible...
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: We'll see... And we'll see how the bond market responds
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: to it... In France... The 10-year is nearly 5%, higher
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: since 2002. Spared over Germany, that is the amount of
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: interest that the French are paying above what Germans are
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: paying on government debt, supposedly risk-free debt, is 1.2%. That's huge.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Interest payments on the debt for the French could top
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: $ 90 billion next year in the U.S., it's going to
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: top $ 1 trillion. $ 1 trillion. And of course, they've already
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: missed this year's deficit target. Here's the funny, here's the
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: amazing number. Again, for those of you who are a
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: little bit finance geeks like me, this is a pretty
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: amazing number. 215 euro, 215 billion euro. French investment-grade corporate bonds.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: This is debt issued by corporations, right? 38% of the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: entire pool of French investment-grade corporate bonds now have pay
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: interest rates lower than the French government. So right now,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: the market is saying, the bond vigilantes are saying, that
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: French corporations... are safer than the French government. The default
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: risk on French corporations is lower than the default risk
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: of the French government. Now remember, the French government cannot
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: print money. It does not print money. Not like the US.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Not like the Brits. The European Central Bank is responsible
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: for the printing of money. So it's very hard for
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: them to bail themselves out. Now, the European Central Bank
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: could bail them out and probably will. They bailed out Greece,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: after all, so they're likely to bail out France. But still,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: pretty amazing, pretty amazing that corporate bonds are less risky
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: than government bonds. That's very, very unusual in the Western world.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal writes, default may be the tail
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: risk haunting French bonds. That is real fear. that France
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: would default on its debt. Bloomberg writes, the European Central
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: Bank is wary of using, basically buying French bonds. At
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: the same time, in the United States, the 10-year is
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: still hovering around 5.3%. I think it's at 5.29% earlier today.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: I haven't looked. Let me look now. I always want
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: to give you updated information if I can. It looks
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: like it's probably down because stocks are up. Let's see.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: What is it? Yeah, 5.23. It went down quite a bit.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: So something happened to cause maybe oil is down a
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: little bit. Maybe there's some credibility. No, crude is up. Yeah,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure why interest rates are down in the U.S.,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: but they're down to 5.23. And Fed raised gross debt
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: is $ 40 trillion, over 120% of GDP. And again, interest
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: on the debt is at $ 1 trillion. Basically, lenders have
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: stopped assuming the state is the safest borrower because it
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: can tax or because it can print money. They're pricing
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: their ability to repay. And a government that can't pass
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: a budget is a worse credit than a company that
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: sells industrial, I don't know, stuff to willing customers. This
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: is not a crisis what's building out there. It's not
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: a crisis of capitalism. It's capitalism, what's left of capitalism,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: giving a grade to governments, to the state. I mean,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: I think it's still too generous, but it's giving them
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: a grade. Britain is in real trouble. We've got a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Labour government, a Labour chancellor. He has to present a
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: budget in three weeks. Central Bank is telling him it
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: needs to be credible. But there's no way he can
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: make the budget credible because, I mean, what he will
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: do is he won't cut spending. He can't do that.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: He's a labor chancellor. Then he has to raise taxes.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: But if he raises taxes, will the market like that?
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: And if he raises taxes on things like capital gains,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: which is what they're threatening, I mean, I talked to
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: a couple of British businessmen, when I was in there
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, they'll leave. UK does not tax
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: your global income. So if they leave, they take their
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: income with them. And UK loses revenue if they raise taxes.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: The temptation in all of these countries, the European Central Bank,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: the Bank of England, and the Fed, is to get
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: the central bank to buy the bonds. I mean, Melchon
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: in France, I told you yesterday, says it's treason if
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: they don't. The central bank buying these bonds means inflating.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: That means inflation. That's how you inflate. You increase the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: supply of money by buying government bonds and putting liquidity
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: into the market. It's converting debt into inflation, which governments
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: might do. But inflation is also, voters hate inflation. They
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: hate inflation. They hated it in the 70s. That's why
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: you kept getting a change of government in the U.S.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: in the 70s. They hated in the 2018s. That's why
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: Biden was out. Biden was going to lose because of inflation.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: They hate inflation. It's why Marine Le Pen will probably
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: almost certainly win, even though she has no credible plan.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: on dealing with inflation. But there will be political consequences,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: in other words. All right, let's see. Yeah, quickly. So
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing, right? Russia is bombing the hell out
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: of Ukraine. And it's not bombing even energy facilities. It's
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: not bombing military facilities. It's just killing people. Just killing civilians.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: And nobody's yelling genocide. And the left is not screaming
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: at Putin. And the right is not super upset because
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Putin is just mowing down civilians. I mean, a Russian
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: glide bomb yesterday hit two commuter buses. This is not random.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: 33 dead, 18 injured. Both vehicles burned out, so you
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: can imagine the injuries. In another city in Ukraine, a
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: missile hit a residential building, 22 dead, 5 children, 54 injured,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: 100-plus buildings damaged. It's 200 miles from the front, and
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: yet it's a civilian building, and nobody cares. Nobody cares.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: A jet drone today hit Kiev. Three dead. Tonight, powers
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: out across all of Kiev. Out of strikes on energy infrastructure. Yes,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: they're hitting that as well. No metro, no trolleybuses, no streetlights.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: And yet, you know, nobody seems to care. I mean,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: everybody's forgotten about the Ukraine war. They still remember Israel.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: By the way, you know, they still protest. It's still genocide.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: Russia explicitly targets civilians. Constantly. Not, we were targeting the
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: military and whoops, we missed. And nobody cares. Supposedly, according
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: to the Ukrainian military, Russia has launched 3,500 jet-powered drones
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: in September versus 350 in June, so 10x, and dropped
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: a record of 8,700 guided bombs in August. So it's
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: okay for Putin to kill civilians. Nobody else can. Putin, okay.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: Or at least we're not too worried about it. What
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Ukraine is doing in response is trying to take out
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: the Russian economy by going after the refining capacity, which
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: is pissing off Trump, because that is a large extent
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: why diesel prices up. They actually hit Russia's largest refinery
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: overnight in Omsk, 2,500 kilometers from the border. Pretty amazing. So,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: you know, Ukraine is going after real infrastructure. trying to
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: make Russia really suffer. Russia's trying to kill as many
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: Ukrainians as they can. Well, not as many because they
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: could nuke them, but within, you know, without pissing off
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: the West too much. And what are we doing? Not much.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: Not much. All right. This is just a funny one. J.D. Vance,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: vice president of the United States, was asked to define socialism.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Asked to define what socialism is. He says he doesn't
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: really know what the term means anymore. Doesn't really know
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: what the term means anymore. That's what he said. Because
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: he can't say the state owns the means of production
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: because that would make Trump a socialist. I mean, again,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: I know you think it's some kind of Trump derangement syndrome,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: but those are facts.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: U.S.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: Government is taking equity positions and over 30 U.S. businesses.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: Not the left, not the socialist, Trump's. And that's kind
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: of the definition of socialism, owning the means of production.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: So what does it mean, socialism? He says, in the
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: American context, it means wanting to replace American workers with
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: foreign workers and wanting boys to play in girls' sports.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Wow. Define socialism to mean your enemy. By the way,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: the real socialists, the socialists of America, want the state
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: to own the means of production. They think... Trump is
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: not socialist enough. So it's not the socialists have changed.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: It's that J.D. Vance doesn't want to make socialism about
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: the economic policy because he adheres to that economic policy.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: He is a socialist. He wants to make it about
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: the cultural issues. Immigration and Trans issues. Because he thinks
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: those are winning issues for Republicans. And those ultimately are
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: the only things this set of Republicans actually cares about.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: The statists when it comes to economics. There are also
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: statists when it comes to immigration. I mean, really, is
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: the biggest problem in the United States today, is the
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: biggest issue in the United States today, boys playing in
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: girls' sports? I mean, I'm against it, but is that
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: the issue? Really? Who cares in the big picture, given
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: the rights violations that this government is engaged in, given
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: oil prices and diesel prices? Is this what Americans care
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: right now? They don't like boys playing in girls' sports,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: but they also want to feed their families. Mike Johnson
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: was on Fox, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: He was asked, whose fault is it if Republicans lose
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: the House? He said, the people were misled. They're misled.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: It's not him. It's not the House. It's not Republicans.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: It's not Trump. They're just being misled. By whom? Maybe
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: by Trump himself. Yeah, I mean. All right, let's see.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: What else did I want to do? Not going to
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: say anything about that today. I did want to comment
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: on this. Yes, I want to comment on this and
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: then we'll go to achievements. Yesterday. October 7th, the day
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: in which 1,200 plus Israelis were massacred, raped, tortured. Horror,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: really horror, was inflicted on Israelis by Palestinians, led by Hamas.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, just horrific acts. Children were killed. in front
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: of their parents. Parents were killed in front of their children.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: There were beheadings, there were rapes, there was torture. It
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: just disgusted them. But in New York, in New York,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: in New York, a march to commemorate this day had
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: to be protected by police. As demonstrators with Hamas and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: Hezbollah flags started chanting, Long live Hamas! Mamdani, who attended
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: the vigil commemorating, was called a traitor. Because in his statement,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: he had condemned Hamas. He condemned Israel even more. But
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: he condemned Hamas. So he was a traitor. You know,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: Drowning out a vigil is not protected speech. It's a
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: violation of other people's right to assemble. And the mayor
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: who accused Israel of genocide, these crazy, nutty people consider
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: him a traitor. I mean, these are some of the
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: most disgusting, awful human beings on the planet right now.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: Other people celebrating rape and torture. And we just let them. Basically,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: we do nothing about it. One other quick update, just
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: because we've talked about it in the past. Do you
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: remember the 87-year-old who was evicted on September 23rd from
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: her Madrid apartment? Well, she died yesterday. She died yesterday, which,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: of course, only emboldened the demonstrations even more. And again...
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: Sanchez is going to try to use this. We need
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: more controls over housing. We need the state to control housing.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: He's going to try to use this to try to
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: win in the elections that he has declared, that he
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: has declared. So we will see. We will see. God. Okay,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: let me do this story as well. I have to
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: do this story. Because there's an election coming up in
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: Israel in a little while, and I know so many
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: of you, Love Netanyahu's government and want to see Netanyahu's
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: government return. So the finance minister, you know, finance minister,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: who is Netanyahu's finance minister. This is the right-wing finance
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: minister under Smotich, the right-wing guy, right? Came out, I think,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: today with an interim report. This is the ministry, not
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: the minister, the ministry. So people working under him. basically
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: rejecting a special AI tax. That's good. But instead, he's
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: proposing taxing capital gains, taxing equity compensation, and undeveloped land.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: And he also wants a Netflix tax. Because AI may
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: cut labor tax revenue, so they have to figure out
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: how to tax other stuff other than labor. Already in Israel,
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: tech employees pay over a third of Israel's income tax.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: So when you go to the polls in Israel and
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: you vote for Netanyahu or one of the political parties
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: that are going to support Netanyahu, and you think, oh,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: I'm voting for the pro-capitalist candidate, you're just evading because
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: these people are not pro-capitalist. They're not pro-free markets. These
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: people are statists when it comes to economics, and Netanyahu
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: leads them with his statism. He's not done anything to
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: liberalize Israel's economy in 15 years. He did when he
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: was finance minister. He knows how to do it. He
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: has not done anything as prime minister because politically it
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: didn't mesh. So you're taxing, you're looking at a political
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: party that wants to increase taxes, increase taxes. All right.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: A few achievement stories, uh, to, to end this, uh,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: to end this, um, Boas says there's no good candidate. No,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: there's no good candidate, but there are certain candidates that
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: are beyond, beyond redemption. And Netanyahu happens to be that candidate.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: So maybe no good candidates, but you can't vote for him. Cannot. Cannot. Sorry.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: Margaret Hamilton died September 30th at the age of 90 90,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: that's a good age. She joined MIT in 1959. She
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: ran its software engineering division and led the team that
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: wrote the onboard flight software for Apollo 11. On July 20th, 1969,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: minutes before touchdown, the guidance computer throws 1202 and 1201 alarms.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: It's being overloaded with radar data. The team had built
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: a software to rank tasks by priority and drop the
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: low ones when overloaded. It dropped the background jobs, kept
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: flying the landing, no abort. That's foresight. Thinking through failure
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: before it happens instead of hoping it won't. Afterwards, after
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: her time at NASA and at MIT, She left for
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: private businesses. She started a company called Higher Order Software,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: then Hamilton Technologies, and she got the Presidential Medal of
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: Freedom in 2016. She was one of the unsung heroes
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: of the Apollo program, one of the people who made
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: possible the achievement of sending man to the moon and
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: she was 32 years old at the time, and she
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: led the team that made it happen. She imagined what
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: a computer failing would look like and how you would
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: want to overcome it. You know, this is the kind
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: of minds that are actually the inhabitants of that Greek
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: philosophy that he talked about. Two groups, one in Beijing
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: and one in Vienna, have independent built the first working
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: nuclear clocks they're based on thorium thorium 229 nucleus uh
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: the works published in nature this was proposed in 2003
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: it's taken 23 years Now, these are lab prototypes, not
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: yet as stable as the best atomic clocks. But the
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: Chinese press is claiming theirs is more stable, six times
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: more stable than the Vienna one. This is an atomic
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: clock that ticks on electrons. A nuclear clock ticks on nucleus,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: which is far less sensitive to stray fields. Eventually, it
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: results in better navigation, better communication. And, you know, it's
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: just a cool physics thing. That's my best interpretation, a
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: cool physics thing. It's China and Europe working separately, two
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: research groups separately growing crystals that kept basically the same
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: time and published in a journal. So this is great information.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: When Rubio talks about knowable universe, this is the kind
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: of work that is the result. It's kind of a
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: funny story. John Urschel, 35-year-old. He's a former Baltimore Ravens guard.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: It's football. Big guy. A former Baltimore Ravens guard. He
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: quit football in 2017. because he was worried about the
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: risk to his brain. Good for him. Good for him.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: He's now an MIT math professor. You don't usually associate,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: you know, football players, particularly guards, with math professor. It
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't usually go in the same sentence, but here you are.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: A big football player is now an MIT math professor. Anyway,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Monday he posted a preprint on Gaussian elimination. I don't
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: know what Gaussian elimination is. I'm reading from a story
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: for you because I have no idea. It's a 200-year-old
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: algorithm for solving systems of equations that runs inside every
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: engineering package, every weather model, and circuit simulator. Everyone trusts
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: it because it works. Nobody could prove why it's so
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: reliable in practice when it can fail in theory. He
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: says he's shown it's close to 100% reliable. It's a preprint.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: It's not yet a peer-reviewed, but a Berkeley colleague calls
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: it a breakthrough. Here's a man who could have had
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: another decade in the NFL, made a lot of money
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: if he'd stayed in the NFL, but chose his mind
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: over the money. And he walked away. Good for him.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: And he's doing real work in math. But very cool. Again,
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: this is what the Greeks meant. The universe is knowable.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: The human mind, using the human mind. The unknown can
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: be known. That, my friends, is the news for today, Thursday,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: October 8th. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for
• 1:32:26
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  Speaker 1: let's start with Liam interesting how our nihilistic altruistic culture
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: has a lot of empathy and benevolence towards animals but
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: a real contempt and hatred for human beings Is this
• 1:38:50
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• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: animals and innocent?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, fundamentally, yes. Think about what it is they
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• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: the Garden of Eden is in the Garden of Eden,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: man is an animal. He's innocent. He doesn't think for himself.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't really choose for himself. He doesn't reason. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't pursue his own aims. He just cultivates the garden
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: for God. Cultivates the God. That's his job. There's no ambition.
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  Speaker 1: There's no self-interest. There's no pride. There's just an animalistic
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: do what your genetic code, what God tells you to do.
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  Speaker 1: And they love animals because animals don't choose, don't think.
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  Speaker 1: Animals can't reason. And animals are not ambitious. They're not
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: seeking stuff. I mean, lions seek a gazelle, but then
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: they eat the gazelle and they're satisfied for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Other gazelles can walk by and they won't be eaten.
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  Speaker 1: So their greed is capped, limited to their needs. They
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  Speaker 1: only take what they need. Human beings take way more
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: than they need. Our needs, indeed, are infinite. That's what
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: they hate about human beings, the fact that our needs
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: are infinite. We always want more, which is good. So, yes,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: I think absolutely. They want human beings to be animals,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: and they love animals. I mean, there's a huge debate
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: going on among the effective altruists about what you would
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: be willing to give up in order to save the
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: lives of shrimp.
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  Speaker 2: Shrimp.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know the trolley problem? Do you pull
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: the lever to save one person if two people are
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: going to be killed or whatever? All these alternatives. Well,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: what are you willing to do to save shrimp? And
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: one shrimp or a ton of shrimp? How many shrimps?
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: Shrimp.
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  Speaker 1: Insane, because life is a value. All life is a value.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: We have to treat all life as the same, I guess.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: This is egalitarianism taken to a huge extreme. Yes, shrimp
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: are tasty, so you've got to kill them and eat them.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: Or you can kill them by eating them. They're really
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: tasty raw. Non-chavage algorithm. On a positive note, There are
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: seven states pushing to eliminate property taxes on this November's ballot.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: They're attempting to lower housing costs. Why are they doing
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: this instead of just deregulating supply chains and allowing developers
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: to build? You know, I think because that would acknowledge
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: the efficacy of markets. What they're really trying to do
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: is buy votes. They're trying to appease voters. And they're
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: trying to be good Republicans by cutting taxes. You know,
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not convinced of all the taxes you want to cut.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: Property taxes is high on my list of priorities. It's
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: probably not. It's a good tax to cut because as
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: long as you're paying a property tax, you don't really
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: own your property. I worry about these provisions to eliminate
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: property taxes because they have lots of exclusions Like they won't,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: they don't apply to second homes. They don't apply to
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: people maybe who own the home from out of state.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: They don't apply to corporate owners. So it's really a
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: vote buying mechanism more than anything else.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I mean, it's good news. Cutting taxes. I'm
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: all for it, particularly in states who have balanced budgets
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: or Running surpluses, cutting taxes is a good thing. You know,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: it would be much, much more inspiring if they were
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: cutting income taxes. Now, some of these states already don't
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: have income taxes. So, yeah, then property taxes or corporate taxes.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: How about cutting corporate taxes? Eliminating corporate taxes. So, again,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: not the tax that is most disruptive economically, but But
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: a good one to cut from the perspective of property rights. Arthur,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: will the rise of Nazism be slower than it was
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: in the 1930s, the AfD's huge win in Germany, the
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: rise of ICE and MAGA, the morphing back into Nazism
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: will be gradual, but will consume the West as predicted
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: in dim and ominous powers? I think it's going to
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: be much slower than the 1930s. I don't think it
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: will manifest itself in the form of Nazism necessarily, particularly
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: in America, as I've said. And as Dim says, I
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: think it'll be wrapped in religion. It'll be much more
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: religious in nature, wrapped in religion and nationalism, religion and
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: a flag. But clearly statism and socialism, you've already seen
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: that from people like J.D.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: Vance.
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  Speaker 1: But it will be slower in the 30s. In the 30s,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: it happened pretty quickly. I think there's still a lot
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: of resistance to authoritarianism in the West, even the rise
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: of the AFD. If they actually institute, I mean, look
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: at ICE and look at the backlash against ICE. Everybody's
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: excited about, we're going to get rid of illegal immigrants.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: But then when he actually started getting rid of them,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: people were very unhappy, very unhappy. Jack, thank you for
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: the sticker. Alan, thank you for the sticker. Darlene, thank
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: you for the stickers. Really, really appreciate the support. Um,
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: Need a lot more of those stickers to get to
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: the goal, so please consider supporting the show. Value for value. Questions, questions.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: We're going to run out of questions here soon, so
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: please consider asking some questions. Michael says, interesting, people refer
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: to October 7th as a pogrom, when it was really
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: an invasion by a foreign army. Not really, because it
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: wasn't an invasion meant to occupy and to call Hamas
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: an army force. is giving them a lot more credit
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: than they deserve. It was much more like a pogrom. Pogrom,
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: you go after civilians, you rape, you terrorize, you pillage.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of the people who committed the atrocities on
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: October 7th were not soldiers. They were just civilians in
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: Gaza who came along for the ride. They figured they
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: could steal. They figured it was an opportunity to rape,
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: maybe kill some Israelis and get another notch. To their credit,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: you know, more credit towards going to heaven. So I
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: wouldn't call it an army. And if you see them
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: crossing the border, you can see they're not an army.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: So I don't think it's an invasion. And, of course,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: they never intended to stay because they knew the Israeli
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: army at some point would come and beat them back.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: So it was really, you know, I think it's very
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: much like a pogrom. the difference is that in a pogrom,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: the people who are committing the pogrom are the people
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: in power. Jews are just a minority with no power.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: And here, the Jews have power, and the power showed
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: up later, but it showed up too late. But it
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: was there, and of course it inflicted damage after the fact.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: So it's not exactly a pogrom, but it's not exactly
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: an invasion. That gives too much credit to Hamas. It
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: was a massive act of terrorism on a massive scale.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: involving thousands of people. Lone dissenter. People complain about Rubio
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: kissing Trump's ring, making him not votable, vote worthy. But
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: is it possible that he's making a calculated move to
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: stay and moderate Trump and to stay relevant to what
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: comes after? Well, I mean, it's probably what he's thinking. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: But is he moderating Trump or is he becoming a tool,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: a legitimizer of Trump's pathetic foreign policy? He is Secretary
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: of State. He is carrying Trump's water. He is implementing
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: Trump's ideas. Maybe behind the scenes he's trying to moderate Trump,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: but to what effect? Trump's foreign policy has been an
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: unmitigated disaster. which Rubio has to be held responsible for.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: He's the Secretary of State. So, you know, we're talking about,
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: we're talking about, we're not talking about, I don't know,
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: some of the people who later resigned from the first
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: Trump administration. I don't see Rubio resigning. If he resigns
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: and he criticizes, I'll have a much more favorable opinion
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: about him. Still unfavorable because he still participated in one
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: of the most, in probably the most corrupt, anti-American administration
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: in American history. And I think that makes him unelectable.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: That he is part of one of the most corrupt and,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: you know, just bad, particularly in foreign policy, more than
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: in anything else, administrations in American history. Learn the center.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: Say what you want about Rubio's grasp of Augustine. But
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: Trump probably thinks it's a golf course. Yes. I mean,
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: Rubio is much smarter, with a much more grasp of
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: the world and much more grasp of facts and even
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: economics than Trump is. But that's not a very high standard. Indeed,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: it's a very, very, very low standard. Shahzbat, shrimp aren't
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: good raw. They are good cold, dipped in cocktail sauce.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: They are shrimp. You know, if you go to Spain
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: and you go to some of these seafood restaurants where
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: they give you these sweet shrimps, uncooked, raw, just eat
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: the shrimp as it is. Oh, my God. It's so good.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: So damn good. Now, they're good cooked. And they're good cold,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: dipped in cocktail sauce. I mean, shrimp are good in
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: lots of different varieties and ways. But go to a
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: good Japanese restaurant and get some shrimp sashimi. But particularly
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: in Spain, unbelievable raw prawns and shrimp and langoustines. And
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: sometimes they're cut thin so you get these. carpaccio shrimps
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: you know and scallops carpaccio i just all this all
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: this stuff is delicious in raw so you've got to
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: broaden your gastronomic horizons but i agree there was a
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: good cold and dipped in cocktail sauce i mean i
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: like shrimp in lots of different varieties just like Fish
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: generally is good in a variety of different ways, but
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: raw is one of the best. Andrew, is there any
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: logic to attributing virtue to sacrifice because it's hard? What's
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: wrong with this? Yes, doing what you don't want to
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: do and giving up your values hurts, but that's good.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: Enduring hurt is required to be virtuous. Wait a minute,
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: that's circular logic. It's virtuous because it's hard and it's
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: hard because it's virtuous. You have to decide. Virtue is
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: that which promotes life. Real sacrifice, which involves giving up
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: a higher value for a lower value, not working hard.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: That's not sacrifice. Sacrifice is not feeling pain. Sacrifice is
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: not doing something that's hard. Sacrifice means... giving up something
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: of higher value for something of lower value or for
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: no value. That's anti-life by definition. That means moving away
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: from life, assuming your value is oriented towards life. And therefore,
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: it's the epitome of evil. Now, the common usage of
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: sacrifice is massively confused. And one of our jobs is
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: to clarify it. Sacrifice is often used for delayed Delayed consumption.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: Delayed benefits. Investing is viewed as a sacrifice. I'm not
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: going to eat my ice cream now because I want
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: to invest the money in something. I'll eat ice cream later.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: That's a sacrifice. But it's not. Because the value of
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: a future good is greater than, for you at that
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: point in time, is greater than the value of the
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: ice cream right now. I'm going to sacrifice and not
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: go to the movies, which I wanted to go to,
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: Because my child is sick. How is that a sacrifice?
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: Your child is more important than going to the movies.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: So you're committing a trade-off. You're choosing something. I'm going to,
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: for the next five years, I'm going to work really, really,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: really hard, day and night, so that I can achieve
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: financial independence. That's my goal. Well, that's amazing. It's not
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: a sacrifice. That's you deciding to pursue a long-term goal
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: that's hard. And the way to get that long-term value,
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: which is hard, is by investing heavily, by working hard now.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: Not a sacrifice. People talk about it as if it is,
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: but it's not. It's you choosing to be better by
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: working hard more now so you can achieve things in
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: the future. So a trade-off of a higher value, a
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: low value for a higher value, is not a sacrifice.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: It's an investment. It's a trade-off. All right, Frank says, Yohan,
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: what is the Hannibal Directive? People keep telling me Israel
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: killed its own people in this directive tactic. They say
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: Gallant admitted it. All right. I had a window open
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: here one second. Yeah, there it is. So the Hannibal
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: directive was a directive that was instituted in Israel after Shalit,
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: an Israeli soldier, was taken hostage. And there was this
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: notion of do your after. So, you know, you see
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: one of your fellow soldiers being grabbed and taken hostage.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: And the first instinct is to back off because you
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: don't want to shoot the bad guys because you might
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: kill your own guy who's being taken hostage. The Hannibal
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: Directive was a directive that said, no, you must stop
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: an enemy from abducting Israeli soldiers. You must stop an
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: enemy from abducting Israelis, even if that places the life
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: of the soldier in danger. So it's not a directive
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: that says, kill the soldier so they can't take him.
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: But it does say, go after them even if it
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: puts his life in danger. Basically with the idea that
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: a hostage in the hands of Hamas is a horrific outcome,
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: both for the person who's the hostage and for the
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: fact that then they will use that hostage to, you know,
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: to destroy force Israel to give them stuff. Now, there
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: was some confusion within the IDF about what it exactly
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: meant and how it would work and under what circumstances
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: and all this. And in 2016, chief of staff of
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: the IDF, Gadi Eisenkot, who is now running for prime minister,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: actually formally revoked the Hannibal directive. And he replaced with
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: other procedures that were much more explicit. And it made
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: it clear that there's no standing order to kill Israeli hostages.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: That was never the intent. Now, there is evidence that
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: on October 7th, Israel inadvertently killed Israelis who were being
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: taken hostage by the Palestinians by going after those Palestinians.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: And on February 25th, Galant, who was the Secretary of Defense,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: was asked about this, and he said, I think tactically
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: in some places it was, i.e. the Hannibal thing. In
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: other places it was not, and that is a problem,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: that it was inconsistently applied. So Hannibal orders were issued
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: in some locations is the point. And there's some evidence
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: that Israel killed some Israelis on October 7th. An IDF
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: investigation concluded that hostage Ifrat Katz was killed by an
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: Israeli helicopter attacking her captor's vehicle. The crew reportedly did
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: not know hostages were in the vehicle. But she died.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: There's another case where a tank, you know, I think,
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: blew up a home in which hostages were being held
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: and some of the hostages died. But the reality is.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 4: That very, very few, very, very few Israelis were killed
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 4: by friendly fire, call it, you know, during October 7th.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: And even if they were, The place. is still on
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: Hamas they were trying to take them hostage hostage taking
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: you know is still a crime by any measure um
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: We don't know exactly how many Israelis were killed by
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: friendly fire. Again, there's never been a commission that really
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: analyzes everything that happened, why it happened, how it happened.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe one day there will be, and there will be
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: a counting. It changes zero about the mall culpability of
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: October 7th. It changes zero about the fact that Hamas
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: and just regular Palestinians from the West Bank, from the
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: Gaza Strip, killed over 1,200 people. It changes nothing about
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: the rape, the torture, the burning alive, the decapitation in
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: some cases, the killing of babies, the killing of children, and,
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: of course, the hostage-taking of 250 people. So it makes
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: no difference. And Look, once these people were taken hostage,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: Israel went out of its way constantly throughout the war
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: in Gaza to try to avoid hurting them. So it's
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: a little bizarre to say, yeah, on October 7th, they
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: just mowed Israelis down, but then they hold back their forces.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: They literally prevented themselves from winning in order to protect
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: the lives of the 250 hostages that were there. It's
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: completely inconsistent and stupid. Indeed, I said at the time,
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: I said it in Israel, I said it in many places,
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: they shouldn't have worried about the hostages. Gone in and won.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: Gone in and crushed Hamas. And the hostages, sadly, some
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: of them would have been saved, some of them would
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: have been killed. They would have been the victims of Hamas. So, Yeah.
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: There was no deal that Hamas offered to give back
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: the hostages they won that is complete BS. I mean,
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: people say, evidence? Evidence. Complete nonsense. Never happened. And look
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: how long it took them to give up any hostages. So, Yeah,
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: Hannibal Directive existed, but properly understood. It's the right directive.
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: You do not want your people falling hostage to the
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: bad guys. You want to do whatever you can to
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: stop that, including putting their lives at risk if that's
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: the only way to do it. Lone Descent, it was
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: a blunder for the Union to allow states to retain
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: elements of the flag of the Confederacy. They conquered enemy
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: in the state flags. Agree? Yeah, absolutely. Horrible mistake. They
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: should have never allowed that. They should have denazified the South. De,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know, de-radicalized the South. De-gotten rid of the,
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: they should have gotten rid of any remnants of the
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: slave-owning class from the South in terms of political power.
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: And they were in the process of doing that with Reconstruction.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: And for political reasons, it was all stopped. I mean,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: the period, the post-Civil War period in the South starts
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: out good and ends unbelievably tragedy, one of the most
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: tragic periods in American history. Matt, if Rubio runs against
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: a pretty bad Democrat, would you vote for him? He
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: seems to be the best we can realistically expect, but
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: Christianity is scary. I don't know. It really depends on
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: who he's running against. It depends on what else is
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: going on. It depends about what he's saying at that
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: point in time. To what extent is he playing to MAGA?
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: To what extent is he, you know, supporting ICE? To
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: what extent does he, you know, it depends the details
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: of what he actually stands for. Doesn't look good for
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: him right now. TubeStop. Good analysis of the speech you're on.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: It's a shame equating America to Christianity. A missed opportunity.
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about a mixed-up message. Yeah, I mean, his
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: message is mixed up, but it's consciously mixed up, and
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: it's mixed up. This is standard conservative rhetoric, and it's
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: been mixed up for a long, long time now. This
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: is what Ayn Rand was complaining about with conservatives, that
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: they base their defense of freedom on Christianity, and that's
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: why they have to lose. Ayn Rand's been saying that
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: since her critique of Goldwater in 1964. So not new.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: Not new at all. It's just Rubio maybe is very
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: articulate or sneakier about it, but this idea that the
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: conservatives want to base everything on Christianity is not new.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: It's just they're getting more aggressive about it. And now
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: people like Vance are rejecting the whole idea of separation
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: of church and state. I don't know if Rubio believes
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: that too. but certainly Vance does. All right, guys. Thank
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: you to all the super chatters. Thank you for all
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: of you for being here. I appreciate it. We'll be
• 2:04:06
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• 2:04:09
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