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Speaker 1: A fundamental principles. I love reading it rational self interest
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Speaker 1: and individual rights. This is the Brook Show. Oh right,
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Speaker 1: everybody welcome Dround Book Show on this Thursday, September fourth.
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Speaker 1: I hope everybody's having a great week. Yeah, it's Thursday twenty,
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Speaker 1: the end of the week. Soon September will be over
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Speaker 1: and then what Oh, we've got a lot to talk
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Speaker 1: about today, I think. I think there's just a lot
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Speaker 1: of topics. It's late at night here, so we'll see
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Speaker 1: how much how much we get through. There was an
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Speaker 1: echo during the music. Yeah, all right, I'll solve that
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Speaker 1: next time. Let's uh, let's jump in with with I
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Speaker 1: guess I didn't really prep this, but this is an
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Speaker 1: important story. It didn't come up on my news feeds
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Speaker 1: and stuff. But sorry, it's not listed on one of
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Speaker 1: the topics to talk about, but it is worth noting.
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Speaker 1: It looks like Paramount, the company Paramount is buying Barry
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Speaker 1: Weiss's Free Press for about two hundred million dollars. So
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Speaker 1: congratulating Barry Weiss. I mean, she basically went from an
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Speaker 1: unemployed former New York Times writer and to a you know,
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Speaker 1: to worth two hundred million dollars for the media company
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Speaker 1: she created, and this is a great example of being
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Speaker 1: rewarded for the entrepreneurial spirit, the thought, the effort, the
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Speaker 1: focus that went into creating this company. It's it's pretty
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Speaker 1: stunning good. You know, it's amazing. It's amazing. And she
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Speaker 1: did this, what is it three years now? She went
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Speaker 1: from basically nothing to two hundred million dollar to becoming
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Speaker 1: a two hundred million dollar media mogul. Yeah, she started
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Speaker 1: free Press in twenty twenty two. Is that three years?
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Speaker 1: Supposedly she's in line for a senior editorial role at
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Speaker 1: CBS News as part of the deal. And the whole
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Speaker 1: thing is going to fold fold, you know, her free
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Speaker 1: Press into the new Paramount, into what's called the New Paramount.
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Speaker 1: But so you know, how to say exactly how this
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Speaker 1: is all going to play out and what it's going
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Speaker 1: to mean and how it's going to affect the free press.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's basically going to be part of mainstream
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Speaker 1: media now, it's not going to be alternative media. It is,
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Speaker 1: of course shifted, It shifted quite a bit to the
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Speaker 1: rights in the last year or so since simply since
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Speaker 1: Trump won the election. Let's see, uh you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: pamlat of course, has merged with Skydance Media. Uh, and
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Speaker 1: uh controls CBS and CBS News. Uh, it's yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: free Pass is not part of the mainstream media. How
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Speaker 1: How how does that affect the Free Pass? How does
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Speaker 1: that affect CBS? How does all this work out? I
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Speaker 1: guess nobody is actually talking yet, and we don't really
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Speaker 1: have much of details in terms of what this all includes.
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Speaker 1: But if you look at the content a free Pass
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Speaker 1: and you look at the content and CBS News, you
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Speaker 1: can see there's going to be some conflict there, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, Free Pass has its own journalists, I mean
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Speaker 1: reporters out there and and on issues like Israel and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, many many other issues, there's going to be
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Speaker 1: real conflict between the two. It's going to be interesting.
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Speaker 1: It could also mean, and this probably is what it means,
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Speaker 1: that the mainstream media is repositioning itself and shifting to
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Speaker 1: the right, given the changed world in which they find themselves,
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Speaker 1: given Donald Trump, given the change political environments. So you know,
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Speaker 1: this should not surprise us that the mainstream media is
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Speaker 1: going to start shifting away from its kind of standard
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Speaker 1: left of center positioning. And CBS, NBC, ABC, How to
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Speaker 1: tell exactly what happens at CNN. But this is the reality.
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Speaker 1: This is where the ratings are, This is where what
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Speaker 1: the public is demanding, if you will. So you know,
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Speaker 1: the Paramount Skide merger that makes all this possible, of course,
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Speaker 1: was approved only after Paramount agreed to settle a lawsuit
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Speaker 1: with Trump, who had suited CBS News on the Paramount
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Speaker 1: for something related to the a Kamala Harris interview. So
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Speaker 1: that lawsuit, the settling of that lawsuit, they're writing a
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Speaker 1: big check to Donald Trump actually is what facilitated the
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Speaker 1: merger and then this re orientation now of Pamount and
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Speaker 1: all of its various media assets. Again, nobody's talking on
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Speaker 1: the record, yes about this, but it does seem that
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Speaker 1: this is a reality. It is that it is, it
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Speaker 1: is happening. The fact that the Free Prayers was built
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Speaker 1: in three years and achieved as much as it has
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Speaker 1: and now its old for two hundred million dollars. Wow,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta respect Barry Weiss and Nearly Bowls
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Speaker 1: and a bunch of other people at the Free Press
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Speaker 1: who have done this. Uh it's to their credit amazing
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Speaker 1: Uh business building. Uh, seeing a niche filling that niche,
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Speaker 1: doing the work hiring the right people, putting out the
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Speaker 1: right content and and uh and getting it done so well.
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Speaker 1: I have lots of disagreements about the content at the
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Speaker 1: Free Press. It's been better than much of the mainstream media,
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Speaker 1: at least it was before Trump. Uh. And in any case,
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Speaker 1: I admire the entrepreneurial ability, skill achievement that is reflected
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Speaker 1: in this sale. So congratulations to Barry Weiss. All right, Uh,
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Speaker 1: let's see Uh Yeah, National confidence, National the National Conservatism
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Speaker 1: confidence is happening now the last few days, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to give us a lot of content. This is good.
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Speaker 1: It's going to give us a lot of content in
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Speaker 1: terms of the speeches that are being presented there. The
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Speaker 1: content that's being presented there. It'll tell us where this
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Speaker 1: movement is heading and who its leaders are and what
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Speaker 1: they're thinking is and what their ideology is. The One
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Speaker 1: thing you have to say about the National Conservatives is
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Speaker 1: they tell you how they see it, at least to
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Speaker 1: a loge extent, and it is you know, it's a
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Speaker 1: conference in which a lot of the leading political figures
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Speaker 1: on the right are going to be speaking and telling
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Speaker 1: us what this is all about. And a theme that
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Speaker 1: seems to be evolving. I mean the many themes, but
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Speaker 1: one of the things that seems to be evolving is
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Speaker 1: this idea of what is America. And this is spinning
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Speaker 1: off of JD. Vance and really Josh Holly, who have
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Speaker 1: been talking about this for a while. America is not
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Speaker 1: an idea. America is not a universal idea, America as
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Speaker 1: a people. America is a nation in America's blood and
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Speaker 1: soil to one extent or another. And you a senator
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Speaker 1: advocate for this vision of conservatism of nationalism, dare I
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Speaker 1: say Christian nationalism has now emerged. And and that is
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Speaker 1: Senator Schmidt. Senator Schmidt, who not I think accidentally is
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Speaker 1: from the same state as a Senator Holly, the senator
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Speaker 1: who I first recognized as kind of the nationalist threat
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Speaker 1: to this country, Josh Holly. Us Schmidt is from the
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Speaker 1: same state, Missouri, as Holly. He is the junior senator
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Speaker 1: from I haven't heard much about him. He hasn't made
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Speaker 1: much noise. He is a junior senator and he hasn't
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Speaker 1: been engaged that much that much. But he has made
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Speaker 1: his debut acts at the UH at the National Conservative Conference,
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Speaker 1: and a quite a debut. It was quite a debut.
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Speaker 1: It was. Now we have two senators from Missouri to
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Speaker 1: worry about, in addition to JD. Van's and in addition
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Speaker 1: to others who we will uh, you know, unveil during
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Speaker 1: this conference, who will come and tell us what they
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Speaker 1: think about the world during this conference. But I want
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Speaker 1: to I want to read you a little bit about
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Speaker 1: some some some quotes from his talk. And and the
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Speaker 1: talk is interesting, It's very well done. It's very well written,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's interesting, but it's uh, and it's got
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Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff in it, right, founding father stuff.
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Speaker 1: It's got to meet the potato stuff. And you you know,
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Speaker 1: it makes sense. They need to appeal to that, and
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Speaker 1: maybe they even believe it. They need appeal to the
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Speaker 1: people who still value the funny fathers and still respect
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Speaker 1: the funny fathers. But it is filled with this kind
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Speaker 1: of nationalist rhetoric that is pretty scary. That is pretty scary.
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Speaker 1: Let's see what I want to read. What I want
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Speaker 1: to read to you. I mean it as all sections
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Speaker 1: about as a bunch of different sections. Let me read,
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Speaker 1: let me read this is it? Yeah, his anti immigration screed.
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Speaker 1: All right, For decades we heard the so called high
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Speaker 1: skilled immigration was an urgent necessity. The H one bvs of,
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Speaker 1: for example, were sold as a way to keep America
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Speaker 1: globally competitive. Of course, we do have an interest in
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Speaker 1: attracting they're truly exceptional few, the very best and brightest
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Speaker 1: in the world. But that's not how the programs like
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Speaker 1: H one B have actually functioned. Instead, they've imported. Noted
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Speaker 1: the word imported. We brought them in consciously. They've imported
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Speaker 1: a vast new labor force from abroad, not to fill
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Speaker 1: jobs Americans can't do or won't do, but to undercut
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Speaker 1: American wages, replace American workers, and transfer entire industries into
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Speaker 1: the hands of foreign bodies. Isn't that fascinating and goes
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Speaker 1: completely counter to the reality in facts on the ground
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Speaker 1: in places like Silicon Valley, The fact that half of
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Speaker 1: all successful venture backed firms are have at least one
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Speaker 1: founder who is an immigrant, almost always on the H
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Speaker 1: one B visa. The fact that so many of our
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Speaker 1: senior engineers and so many companies in the United States
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Speaker 1: tech companies that are leading the world, tech companies that
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Speaker 1: are defining American industry today, that are defining and leading
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Speaker 1: the American economy today, started out as h one B
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Speaker 1: visa holders. I mean, what does it mean attracting the
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Speaker 1: truly exceptional few? Who gets to decide that? Who are
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Speaker 1: exceptional by what standard? So government should decide it. Govern
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Speaker 1: should have a criteria for the exceptional few. Sounds pretty
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Speaker 1: dangerous to me and have that role. So we were told,
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Speaker 1: we were told over and over again that Mega and
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Speaker 1: the New Rights and Trump are not against legal immigration,
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Speaker 1: so only illegals. We hate illegals. We don't want illegals,
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Speaker 1: they break the law. We don't want people who break
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Speaker 1: the law in the country. But we love legal immigration. Well, no, no,
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Speaker 1: they don't. They never wanted them. They don't want them.
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Speaker 1: They cannot become American than not American. And this is
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Speaker 1: the new Right, This is national conservatism. This is the
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Speaker 1: leading intellectual political movement within the rights in America today.
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Speaker 1: Many of them saner than Mega, more dignified than Mega.
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Speaker 1: Same ideas, same ideas, he continues. We funneled in millions
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Speaker 1: of foreign nationals to take the jobs, salaries, and futures
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Speaker 1: that should belong to our children, not because the foreign
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Speaker 1: workers are smarter and more talented, but merely because they
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Speaker 1: are cheaper and more compliant and therefore preferable in the
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Speaker 1: eyes of too many business elites who often see their
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Speaker 1: own countrymen as an inconvenience. I mean, this is a
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Speaker 1: kind of mythology lining that is going to define the
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Speaker 1: future of this country. This sets us up for the
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Speaker 1: kind of racist authoritarians that are going to use this
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Speaker 1: funneled in millions of foreign nationals take jobs. Unemployment is
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Speaker 1: historical low, take the salaries up significantly over the last
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Speaker 1: fifteen years in spite of all that immigration, legal and illegal,
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Speaker 1: and take away the future of our children. Really it's
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Speaker 1: immigrants they're taking away the future of our children. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is disgusting, false, and you know, horrific. It continues
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Speaker 1: while our trade agreements kneecap blue collar workers. No they didn't,
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Speaker 1: a slow moving disaster decade in the making. Abuse of
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Speaker 1: the H one B is kneecapping white collar workers right
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Speaker 1: before our eyes. Really, really, if you look at the
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Speaker 1: tech sector again, it's leading the world. American workers are
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Speaker 1: being kneecapped by H one B. Maybe American workers are
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Speaker 1: getting jobs because of H one BB as the holders
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Speaker 1: who don't start companies who then hire Americans. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, many of those he B visus holders become
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Speaker 1: Americans and now all Americans for the tens of thousands
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Speaker 1: of This is the same for the tens of thousands
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Speaker 1: of Americans who were forced to train their fall on
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Speaker 1: he B replacements just to get their seventh package. The
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Speaker 1: fact that it was legal is little comfort. See the
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Speaker 1: fact that it was legal is little comfort. For decades,
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Speaker 1: the mainstream consensus on the left and their way alike
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Speaker 1: seemed to be that America itself was an idea, a
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Speaker 1: vehicle for global liberalism. We were told that the entire
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Speaker 1: meaning of America boiled down to a few lines in
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Speaker 1: a poem on the Statue of Liberty and a five
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Speaker 1: words about equality in the Declaration of Independence. Any other
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Speaker 1: aspect of American identity was deemed to be illegitimate, any
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Speaker 1: more poisoned by the evils of our ancestors. Now, it's
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Speaker 1: true that the Left has distorted the meaning of what
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Speaker 1: America is, has perverted it. He brings up this example.
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Speaker 1: In a speech in nineteen ninety eight, Bill Clinton said
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Speaker 1: that the continuous influx of immigrants was and I quote,
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Speaker 1: a reminder that America is not so much a place
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Speaker 1: as a promise. If you're going to criticize Bill Clinton,
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Speaker 1: and what he says, this is what you criticize is
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Speaker 1: in America a promise? Isn't it a shiny city on
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Speaker 1: the hill. Now here's where he gives us a little
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Speaker 1: bit of the funding fathers. Now, let me just say,
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Speaker 1: I believe that our funding fathers were the most brilliant
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Speaker 1: group of men to ever assemble in one room. The
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Speaker 1: ideas are central to who we are. You can't understand
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Speaker 1: America without understanding things like the freedom of speech, the
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Speaker 1: right to self defense, the ideas of independence, self governance,
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Speaker 1: and political liberty. Notice what's missing, individual rights, the right
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Speaker 1: to life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. That's missing.
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Speaker 1: That all men equal in that sense is missing. But
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Speaker 1: of course that would be hard. But he says, but
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Speaker 1: these principles are not abstractions. They're not obstections. Indeed, they
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Speaker 1: are abstractions. He continues, they are living, breathing things, rooted
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Speaker 1: in a people and embodied, embodied in a way of life.
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Speaker 1: It's only in that context that they become real. Really, yes,
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Speaker 1: they become real by being embraced by people. Those ideas,
18:49
Speaker 1: and those ideas can be embraced by people of any
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Speaker 1: color of skin and any nationality. He says, if you
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Speaker 1: impose the cop copy of the US Constitution a Kazakhstan tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: Kazistan wouldn't magically become America because Kazakhstani isn't filled with Americans.
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Speaker 1: It's filled with Kazakstanians. But what made America America, what
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Speaker 1: made Americans Americans? Those principles and the particular experiences that
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Speaker 1: America had. Would Kazistan be a much, much much better
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Speaker 1: place with those ideas? Yes? Because could a Kazistani come
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Speaker 1: to America and embrace those principles and live life here
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Speaker 1: as an American? Yes? Do you born in America? Have
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Speaker 1: you experienced the things that made America through your DNA,
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Speaker 1: your blood because your ancestors fought on some battle long ago.
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Speaker 1: Are you now an American because you, somehow, by osmosis
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Speaker 1: biological osmosis, received that American wisdom, that that experience. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is such mystical bs. He says. If America was
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Speaker 1: a universal proposition, then everything we inherited from our specific
20:19
Speaker 1: Western heritage had to be abolished. That's according to the Left.
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Speaker 1: He says, Uh, I just want to skip ahead here.
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Speaker 1: Now you're talking about Donald Trump's movement. His movement is
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Speaker 1: the revolt of the real American nation. Well, that's good
20:39
Speaker 1: to know. Did you know that Donald Trump represents the
20:43
Speaker 1: real American nation? If you vote for anybody else, you
20:46
Speaker 1: are not part of that real American nation. Me, I'm
20:50
Speaker 1: an immigrant. A you're a citizen, but an immigrant. And
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Speaker 1: I didn't vote for Donald Trump. Three times I didn't
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Speaker 1: vote for him. I'm obviously not part of the real
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Speaker 1: American nation. His movement is a revolt of the real
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Speaker 1: American nation. It's a peace folk revolution that I agree with,
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Speaker 1: driven by millions of Americans who felt that they were
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Speaker 1: turned into strangers in their own country, by whom by
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Speaker 1: other people who are people this geography call them the left.
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Speaker 1: Many of them have ancestors who came across on the Mayflower.
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Speaker 1: Many of them have ancestors who fought on the battlefields
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Speaker 1: of the World Independence, of the Civil War, in World
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Speaker 1: War One and World War Two? And so what makes
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Speaker 1: them less real? Now you can say that being American
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Speaker 1: or Americanism is a set of ideas, and if you
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Speaker 1: don't agree with those ideas, you're rejecting what it really
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Speaker 1: means to be an American. That I hold I believe
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Speaker 1: that in a sense of left is not American, and
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Speaker 1: I believe Schmidt is not really an American in a
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Speaker 1: sense of Americanism and what represents and what it means individualism,
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Speaker 1: individual rights, freedom, liberty. Very little talk about freedom and
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Speaker 1: liberty in any of these speeches at the NATCON, at
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Speaker 1: the National Conservative Conference. So the mooment is a pitchfolk revolution, right.
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Speaker 1: They were the forgotten men and women who wrapped themselves
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Speaker 1: in our flag and drove for hours to hear a
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Speaker 1: real estate tycoon from New York speak because they knew
22:48
Speaker 1: he was speaking for them. They were the Americans whose
22:51
Speaker 1: factories were gutted in the name of free trade. Really,
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Speaker 1: whose sons were sent to dian wars that served one tooth.
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Speaker 1: You get son now, one, two, three, you get sown
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Speaker 1: now all Wait when did the sound go off? Oh god? Yeah, hey,
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Speaker 1: sorry about that. Battery went out on the on the
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Speaker 1: other mic I used it. Didn't realize how long I
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Speaker 1: was using it. I'd used it for a while. Don't
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Speaker 1: need new mics. I just need to be more conscious
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Speaker 1: of need to be more aware of the mics. Sorry
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Speaker 1: about that, And I am and I was shouting and
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Speaker 1: it was quite passionate. It was quite good. It was
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Speaker 1: quite good. All right. Did you guys get the part
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Speaker 1: about the Continental Army soldiers dying a frostbite? When did I?
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Speaker 1: Did anybody remember when I cut out Continental Continental soldiers?
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Speaker 1: You got an echo? Now echo go now one two three?
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Speaker 1: No eko, Paul says no. Eco equity says no. E
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Speaker 1: quote okay, E quote tell He says, no, what about
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Speaker 1: when I? Okay? So no to uh learn nothing about
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Speaker 1: fussbd okay. So this is what he writes about the
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Speaker 1: history American history. He writes, the Continental Army soldier just
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Speaker 1: dying of frostbite, the Valley Forge, the Pilgrims struggling to
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Speaker 1: survive in hard winter soil, the Plymouth, the Pioneers striking
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Speaker 1: out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier. They
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Speaker 1: outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelled wave after wave of Indian war bands,
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Speaker 1: attacked from behind the stockade walls. All of them would
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Speaker 1: be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for
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Speaker 1: a proposition, But they will. They were fighting for freedom.
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Speaker 1: They were fighting for property rights. They were fighting for
27:41
Speaker 1: their right to their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
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Speaker 1: They were fighting for that declaration of independence. Now, yeah,
27:49
Speaker 1: they were fighting for the concrete manifestations of that. They
27:51
Speaker 1: were fighting for their families, to preserve them, to keep
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Speaker 1: them alive, to build a new home for themselves and
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Speaker 1: families and the people they cared for. But no, no,
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Speaker 1: let's purpoo the proposition. Let's propoo the reason they came
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Speaker 1: to America to make their lives better. And let's purple
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Speaker 1: with the fact that they were all immigrants within a
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Speaker 1: few generations, because everybody's an immigrant who came to America.
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Speaker 1: I continue with what he says. They believe they were
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Speaker 1: forging a nation, a homeland for themselves and their descendants.
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Speaker 1: They thought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us,
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Speaker 1: They built this country for us. Really, the sacrifice America,
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Speaker 1: in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed
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Speaker 1: down across the generations. It belongs to us. It's our birthright,
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Speaker 1: our heritage, our destiny. So let me just understand this.
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Speaker 1: I don't have ancests who did in any of those things?
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Speaker 1: Was I not gifted? This is this not mine? Is
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Speaker 1: America not mine? What about the children of slaves? Is
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Speaker 1: America not theirs? Their ancestors did not do all those things.
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Speaker 1: They struggled, Oh god did they struggle. They suffered. But
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Speaker 1: are they us that they counter as us? When does
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Speaker 1: a start? When does a sacrifice start? For future generations?
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Speaker 1: And make you in America? How many generations do you
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Speaker 1: have to go back? He continues, If America is everything
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Speaker 1: and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all.
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Speaker 1: But we know that's not true. America is not for
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Speaker 1: everything and everyone. America is for those who embrace and
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Speaker 1: accept the principles that made this country, not the bloodline
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Speaker 1: that made it, not skin color that made it, but
30:07
Speaker 1: the principles that made it. The idea is that proposition
30:11
Speaker 1: which he likes to pooh pooh, America is unique in that. Now,
30:16
Speaker 1: in every other nation, you could say, yeah, my forefathers
30:19
Speaker 1: and almost all the people in this country, in that country, yeah,
30:23
Speaker 1: they all have roots going backwards, right fans, they're French
30:28
Speaker 1: people hundreds of years ago, Germans out of German roots
30:32
Speaker 1: hundreds of years in the America is not that, it's
30:37
Speaker 1: not as it's not a creation of a tribal society,
30:45
Speaker 1: He says. America is not a universal nation. It is
30:48
Speaker 1: something distinctive, unique and real. Yes, by its ideas unlike
30:52
Speaker 1: any other place of people in history of mankind, America.
30:58
Speaker 1: And here we get to the you know, should we
31:02
Speaker 1: get to it? Right? Who are the Americans? America was settled,
31:08
Speaker 1: founded and built by the most adventurous and most courageous
31:11
Speaker 1: and most curious and innovative and risk take taking sons
31:14
Speaker 1: and daughters of the West. Yeah, that's who founded it.
31:17
Speaker 1: And that's who still comes here. Not of the West.
31:20
Speaker 1: Now it comes from all over the world. Those kind
31:22
Speaker 1: of people come here. And if you want to exclude
31:27
Speaker 1: the people who come here for the warfare, stop giving
31:29
Speaker 1: them welfare. Our country is, in this important sense, the
31:33
Speaker 1: most essential Western nation for our setl ancestors. An American
31:38
Speaker 1: frontier stretched out as the horizon of infinite possibilities. It
31:42
Speaker 1: was here on this continent that the West realized its destiny.
31:45
Speaker 1: I wouldn't use the word destiny, but yes, all of
31:47
Speaker 1: that is true. This, my friends, is why every great
31:52
Speaker 1: feat of the modern world bore American fingerprints. And now
31:55
Speaker 1: he goes through all the American inventors. It was an
31:58
Speaker 1: American who created the most telegram and later the telephone,
32:02
Speaker 1: collapsing vast distances in a single instance. And it was
32:04
Speaker 1: an American who mapped the humans. You know, da was
32:07
Speaker 1: an American who did this, an American who did that.
32:10
Speaker 1: And yet all of them were children, grandchildren, great grandchildren
32:16
Speaker 1: of immigrants. He didn't mention Steve Jobs, a child of
32:24
Speaker 1: a Muslim Arab who changed America, changed our world. But
32:35
Speaker 1: here's the crux of it, and this is what it
32:37
Speaker 1: all adds up. Who are we? Who are Americans? Who
32:42
Speaker 1: is us that we got this gift here? It is we?
32:48
Speaker 1: Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian programs
32:54
Speaker 1: that poured out of europe shores to baptize a new
32:58
Speaker 1: world in their ancient faith. Our ancestors were driven here
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Speaker 1: by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief,
33:10
Speaker 1: devoted to the cause and their God. They were Christians,
33:23
Speaker 1: they were Europeans. This is who we are. This is
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Speaker 1: what America belongs to. He says, America belongs to us
33:40
Speaker 1: and only us. If we disappear, then American too will
33:43
Speaker 1: cease to exist. Who's us? Who's we? White Christians, European Christians,
33:55
Speaker 1: That's who he's talking about. That's who he's talking about.
34:03
Speaker 1: It's about European Christians, and particularly from Northern Europe. I
34:07
Speaker 1: don't know what he feels about Southern Europeans. This is
34:14
Speaker 1: a senator in the US Senate again mixing in stuff
34:18
Speaker 1: that you would agree and write in Grea and mixing
34:31
Speaker 1: it in with racist, nationalist blood and soil ideology, which
34:39
Speaker 1: is about as un American as it gets. The national
34:46
Speaker 1: conservatives un American. They reject America. They reject what America
34:52
Speaker 1: really is about. They reject the essence of the American ideal,
34:57
Speaker 1: the American philosophy, the American identity, in the name of
35:01
Speaker 1: European style tribalism, nationalism, you know, mixed in with a
35:08
Speaker 1: good amount of American racism. These are dangerous people. These
35:15
Speaker 1: are the people we're handing the future of this country too.
35:19
Speaker 1: Dangerous people. All right, let's see before we get onto
35:33
Speaker 1: the next topic. I see you guys need some encouragement
35:38
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35:43
Speaker 1: you know, twenty super chats yesterday? I know I challenged
35:47
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35:51
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36:02
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36:13
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36:17
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36:21
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36:48
Speaker 1: RFK today was in front of the Senate trying to
36:52
Speaker 1: defend his actions as the head of the Health and
36:56
Speaker 1: Human Services Department, including the chaos that is being right
37:00
Speaker 1: now at the CDC, the firing oops, the firing of
37:07
Speaker 1: the head of the CDC, the resignation of a number
37:10
Speaker 1: of senior people at the CDC, and UH and just
37:15
Speaker 1: a lot of unhappiness at the Health and Human Services
37:18
Speaker 1: more broadly. UH. There seems to be a lot of dissent,
37:21
Speaker 1: a lot of disagreement, and a lot of people upset
37:24
Speaker 1: at Rfk's actions. RFK kept on emphasizing during his testimony
37:31
Speaker 1: today in the Senate that America is the sickest country
37:34
Speaker 1: on earth that you know, people were there was more
37:40
Speaker 1: h what do you call it? Diseases that in the
37:45
Speaker 1: country today than ever before that. Obviously health officials had
37:51
Speaker 1: had failed, uh, and then he was shaking things up
37:57
Speaker 1: in order to make Americans healthy. But this is just
38:02
Speaker 1: you know, untrue and stupid. Yes, Americans unhealthy. Many Americans
38:07
Speaker 1: unhealthy because of the habits that Americans have adopted. Some
38:11
Speaker 1: of that is probably a consequence of certain things that
38:14
Speaker 1: the federal government has done in terms of health. Food
38:18
Speaker 1: pyramids that emphasize the wrong types of food recommendations about
38:22
Speaker 1: what we should and shouldn't eat, which don't reflect you know,
38:26
Speaker 1: actual science or the later science, but reflect lawbying by
38:31
Speaker 1: special interest groups. But indeed, you could argue, and should argue,
38:37
Speaker 1: could argue and should argue that governments shouldn't have a
38:43
Speaker 1: position about any of these things. The health of Americans
38:48
Speaker 1: is a problem for individual Americans to deal with them.
38:51
Speaker 1: To solve it should be between them and their doctor.
38:55
Speaker 1: RFK replacing the comment ideology around health with his own
38:59
Speaker 1: ideology round health, which is more bogus than the current one.
39:04
Speaker 1: The current one is bad, is worse, is not going
39:07
Speaker 1: to make us healthier, is not going to change anything.
39:14
Speaker 1: And his anti science is anti science, pro conspiracy theory nonsense,
39:24
Speaker 1: as reflected by some of the people he's appointed and
39:26
Speaker 1: by his own views on vaccines and other stuff. Is
39:30
Speaker 1: destructive to American health. He's not making us healthier. Now.
39:34
Speaker 1: It's true that he can sit up there and says,
39:38
Speaker 1: you've been a senator for twenty five years as Americans
39:41
Speaker 1: have gotten sicker and you've done nothing. But is it
39:44
Speaker 1: really the job of government to prevent us from getting sicker?
39:47
Speaker 1: Or is it the job of us as individuals? Yes,
39:52
Speaker 1: stop giving us bad advice, but coming to just step
40:00
Speaker 1: away from health. But what RFK is doing is appointing
40:07
Speaker 1: quacks to make medical decisions, not just health decisions, medical
40:11
Speaker 1: decisions about what vaccines and potentially what drugs we cannot
40:16
Speaker 1: use in the future. He's antagonistic to the drug companies
40:21
Speaker 1: that are life savers for so many Americans and have
40:25
Speaker 1: the potential, if I'm reading science right, we have the
40:30
Speaker 1: potential not only to cure diseases and extend human life
40:33
Speaker 1: significantly in the future. He is going to be a
40:36
Speaker 1: barrier to that, not a help to that. He is
40:41
Speaker 1: a unmitigated evil disaster inflicted on the American people by
40:48
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He was caught today Cassidy, who is an
40:54
Speaker 1: unbelievable whimp and really should lose his election. Cassidy, who
41:02
Speaker 1: was the deciding vote in favor of RFK, and a
41:06
Speaker 1: lot of people thought that he would vote against him
41:08
Speaker 1: because Cassidy is a doctor. You think he would know what,
41:13
Speaker 1: you know, how bad r FK is. Anyway, today he
41:16
Speaker 1: tried to catch RFK at a contradiction that was this
41:19
Speaker 1: big thing, right, he asked RFK in a way of
41:25
Speaker 1: sucking up to Donald Trump, which is what Cassidy's main
41:27
Speaker 1: objection in life right now is in order to get
41:30
Speaker 1: re elected, he asks RFK. He asks RFK, does RFK
41:36
Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump should get a Nobel Prize for
41:41
Speaker 1: Operation Warp Speed that developed the COVID vaccines. And RFK
41:46
Speaker 1: of course had to say yes because RFK is one
41:50
Speaker 1: of the tribe now that sucks up to Donald Trump,
41:54
Speaker 1: and he can't say no to the Nobel Prize to
41:56
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So then Cassidy said, okay, but just the
42:00
Speaker 1: minute ago, you said the vaccine killed more people than
42:02
Speaker 1: COVID did. How do you max that up? And RFK
42:06
Speaker 1: just lying, He said I never said that, And Cassie said,
42:10
Speaker 1: but you did just a minute ago. We'll look in
42:12
Speaker 1: the record. It really is, you know, crazy, stupid and nutty.
42:28
Speaker 1: But this is who are Health and Human Services? And
42:30
Speaker 1: the Republicans do not have the ball. Although they did
42:32
Speaker 1: they seemed a little critical of him today a little,
42:35
Speaker 1: but given how critical they should be of him, it
42:39
Speaker 1: was very, very mild. But it's a travesty that this
42:45
Speaker 1: guy is running anything, never mind an important part of
42:50
Speaker 1: the American government. Given how involved American government is in medicine,
42:56
Speaker 1: it is a travesty that this quack is winning Health
43:00
Speaker 1: and Human Services. Also today in the Senate, Miwan, who
43:05
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump's is what is theact the exact term
43:12
Speaker 1: he is? Oops, you know, it's a long article, so
43:18
Speaker 1: you know he is charms dominif the FED governor rule.
43:22
Speaker 1: But he's also chair of the Council for Economic Advisors
43:26
Speaker 1: and Miwon is going to take a leave of absence
43:30
Speaker 1: from the Chair of Economic Advisors of the Chair of
43:33
Speaker 1: the Council of Economic Advisors in order to fill this
43:38
Speaker 1: role at the FED that was vacated by the resignation
43:41
Speaker 1: of a FED board member there was unexpected and he
43:45
Speaker 1: will fill that role until it expires on January thirty one,
43:49
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. It's not a very long period of time.
43:54
Speaker 1: But Samir said he can have both positions. One is
43:58
Speaker 1: going to take a leave of absence to but keep
44:00
Speaker 1: and then leave the FED and go back to the
44:02
Speaker 1: White House. And he was asked today, well, how can
44:05
Speaker 1: you be independent of the White House while you're at
44:09
Speaker 1: the FED. An she's just going to do the presidents bidding?
44:12
Speaker 1: What about FED independence? And Merin said, no, no, no, I'm
44:15
Speaker 1: a complete believer in FED independence now will not be
44:18
Speaker 1: influenced by anything Donald Trump of the White House says,
44:21
Speaker 1: even though I'm going to go back to a job
44:24
Speaker 1: in the White House after the fact. He's also written
44:31
Speaker 1: in the past about how the FED shouldn't be as
44:33
Speaker 1: independent as he's written in the past how the FED
44:37
Speaker 1: should be independent. And one of the ways I guarantee
44:39
Speaker 1: it's independent is to stop the rotating door between the
44:42
Speaker 1: White House and the FED. And he is the embodiment
44:45
Speaker 1: of the rotating dough between the FED and the White House.
44:50
Speaker 1: And he's again Republicans are so cowardly, so afraid of
44:54
Speaker 1: Trump that they are probably going to vote for him
45:00
Speaker 1: undermine the Fed's independence by doing so without any doubts.
45:07
Speaker 1: But you know. I just don't see anybody being willing
45:12
Speaker 1: to stand up against them, against Trump, against anything Trump wants,
45:17
Speaker 1: pretty much anything Trump points literally right, let's see. Yeah.
45:28
Speaker 1: Part of this reevaluation of vaccines has now led the
45:35
Speaker 1: state of Florida to uh to basically swhere am I? Yeah?
45:45
Speaker 1: The state of Florida, Florida Attorney General has announced a
45:49
Speaker 1: plan to end all state vaccine mandates, including for children
45:54
Speaker 1: to attend schools. So it would be the first state
45:58
Speaker 1: where there was no mandate vaccination mandated to attend a school.
46:03
Speaker 1: You can come to school even if you're not vaccinate
46:06
Speaker 1: against any of these diseases. Now, I don't believe they
46:08
Speaker 1: should be a government mandate on vaccines. If we had
46:13
Speaker 1: private schools, if parents could pull the child from a
46:18
Speaker 1: particular school and send him to another school, let each
46:21
Speaker 1: school decide whether they want to have a vaccine mandate
46:25
Speaker 1: or not. This is you know, and even with public schools,
46:30
Speaker 1: you could do that. Why not drop the state mandate
46:36
Speaker 1: and allow each school to decide whether to have a
46:39
Speaker 1: vaccine mandate or not, and then allow parents to move
46:44
Speaker 1: their kid to any school, public or private, right that
46:49
Speaker 1: they wish. And one of the criteria maybe would be
46:52
Speaker 1: parents want to send their kids a school that all
46:56
Speaker 1: the kids are vaccinated or they don't. I mean, this
46:59
Speaker 1: should be one hundred percent a parent decision. But again
47:05
Speaker 1: this is this is denying the parent that decision. It's
47:09
Speaker 1: going from one extreme to another. It's like during COVID right,
47:14
Speaker 1: I was against government mask or vaccine mandates, but private
47:22
Speaker 1: businesses could say, you can't come into this business if
47:25
Speaker 1: you wear a mask, or if you don't wear a mask.
47:28
Speaker 1: That's completely within the right of that business. Florida, on
47:32
Speaker 1: the descent has passed a law that said, I remember
47:35
Speaker 1: it was cruises. Cruise ships could not require passengers to
47:40
Speaker 1: be vaccinated. Why not? It's private business. Why can't it
47:45
Speaker 1: make its own rules. Why is the state dictating to it?
47:54
Speaker 1: So it would be good, It would be good if
48:04
Speaker 1: schools could make those decisions for themselves and parents could
48:06
Speaker 1: then choose. I doubt that that is going to be
48:10
Speaker 1: the outcome in Florida, just like they couldn't mandate, you know,
48:18
Speaker 1: businesses couldn't mandate during COVID vaccines or masks. That was
48:24
Speaker 1: viewed as somehow violating people's whatever. Schools are not going
48:30
Speaker 1: to be able to do this. I mean, this is
48:34
Speaker 1: so anti science. And at the end of the day,
48:37
Speaker 1: this isn't This isn't motivated by parent rights, this isn't
48:42
Speaker 1: motivated by individual rights. This is one hundred percent motivated
48:47
Speaker 1: by an anti science, anti vaccine mentality. And this is
48:55
Speaker 1: what's spreading around the country. Talk about it by science
49:01
Speaker 1: and in this case, anti woman mentality. The state of Texas,
49:06
Speaker 1: the state of Texas is becoming Uglia and uglia. I
49:11
Speaker 1: mean literally Uglia and uglia. Texas is about. Governor Abbott
49:19
Speaker 1: is about to sign legislation into law that will allow anyone,
49:24
Speaker 1: anyone to sue doctors and distributors of abortion pills involved
49:31
Speaker 1: in sending the drugs into the state into the state.
49:38
Speaker 1: So this allows private citizens to sue companies and individuals
49:43
Speaker 1: who manufacture and distribute abortion pills to patients in Texas.
49:49
Speaker 1: Winning plaintiffs would get a minimum of one hundred thousand
49:52
Speaker 1: dollars in damages. I mean, the idea abandoning the abortion
50:02
Speaker 1: pill is so disgusting, it's so primitive, it's so anti science,
50:09
Speaker 1: it's so anti women, it's so anti life, it's indeed
50:13
Speaker 1: anti man. It's an anti human. Now, so you now,
50:25
Speaker 1: since you can't get that abortion pill inside some of
50:27
Speaker 1: these states. What they're trying to do is criminalize mailing
50:33
Speaker 1: it in. But it's not enough that the state is
50:37
Speaker 1: going to watch over who is help people are behaving.
50:42
Speaker 1: Now we're going to have our neighbors check our mail
50:46
Speaker 1: and with a huge financial incentive to see if we
50:49
Speaker 1: might have gotten an envelope from an abortion clinic outside
50:53
Speaker 1: the United outside sorry Texas, or doctor outside of Texas
50:57
Speaker 1: who might have mailed that pill, and they get to
51:00
Speaker 1: sue and they get to collect a reward. I mean,
51:12
Speaker 1: abortions should be legal, one hundred percent, completely, unequivocally. Okay,
51:19
Speaker 1: So they say viability, all right, you could somehow make
51:24
Speaker 1: an argument for banning abortion after viability. Oh no, no, then
51:30
Speaker 1: they say some viability. It's heartbeat. As soon as we
51:33
Speaker 1: can hear a heartbeat, they were human being, they were alive. Okay,
51:39
Speaker 1: But it's not. It's conception. It's this mystical, anti scientific
51:46
Speaker 1: concept view of what makes a human being. The very
51:51
Speaker 1: splitting of a cell. At conception, that's a human being. Already,
51:57
Speaker 1: a clump of cells is a human being. Why could
52:00
Speaker 1: it could become a human being one day? Because an
52:05
Speaker 1: abortion pill is only effective in the first few weeks
52:09
Speaker 1: after conception, when it's clearly not a human being where
52:14
Speaker 1: to come themselves. And yet they will do anything to penalize, criminalize,
52:29
Speaker 1: to beat down anybody who stands for abortion rights, and
52:33
Speaker 1: to anybody who dares, who dares stand up to the
52:38
Speaker 1: state find ways around the state's laws and actually get
52:47
Speaker 1: their hands on an abortion pill. Now, as abortions have
52:50
Speaker 1: declined in places like Texas have disappeared, really in Texas,
52:55
Speaker 1: more and more people are reverting to using the pill.
53:02
Speaker 1: And this is unacceptable to these you know, human being haters.
53:08
Speaker 1: They they don't believe in the right to life because
53:12
Speaker 1: they're anti life. They're fundamental ideology is anti life. Say yes,
53:23
Speaker 1: you know you're going to have now people snitching, You're
53:25
Speaker 1: gonna have private citizens and bounty hunters. I mean, Texas
53:29
Speaker 1: is really becoming a state that is just going after
53:34
Speaker 1: young women and making it inhospitable for young women to
53:39
Speaker 1: live in and or anybody who wants to have sex.
53:46
Speaker 1: I mean, you ask me, how could anybody live in
53:49
Speaker 1: a blue state. Well, if you want to have sex,
53:51
Speaker 1: you should live in a blue state. At least they
53:54
Speaker 1: won't criminalize you. If you're taking a bullsh and pill
53:57
Speaker 1: after getting pregnant accidentally from sex. That's how you get
54:02
Speaker 1: pregnant from sex. It's yeah, it's it's pretty crazy and disturbing.
54:19
Speaker 1: Florida and Texas nutty, I mean, just becoming nutty places.
54:25
Speaker 1: I had a couple of quick stories. Finally, as uh well,
54:30
Speaker 1: as I predicted, the trumpet restation has filed with this
54:35
Speaker 1: court uh to uh uphol or to overturn the the
54:42
Speaker 1: the Appellate Court's decision upholding the lower courts decision to
54:49
Speaker 1: that the tariffs, these particular tariffs, the towers that are
54:53
Speaker 1: done under the the Economic Emergency Act uh to to
55:00
Speaker 1: reverse that decision. They, you know, to uphold his global
55:06
Speaker 1: tariffs and the power that he has to impose them.
55:13
Speaker 1: They're asking the court to put the case on a
55:16
Speaker 1: highly expedited schedule with arguments in early November. Early November, Yeah,
55:27
Speaker 1: that's soon. Of course, the financial stakes are huge. A
55:34
Speaker 1: defeat for Trump would mean cutting the effective tariff rate
55:38
Speaker 1: of something like sixteen point three percent to less than
55:41
Speaker 1: half of that. Now. It wouldn't change the tariffs on
55:45
Speaker 1: things like aluminum and steel that are being deemed national
55:49
Speaker 1: security issues and were imposed by a different according to
55:53
Speaker 1: different law. But now the levees stay in place until
55:58
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court rules, because that's how the appellate court
56:04
Speaker 1: determined right. They didn't want to have the economic shock
56:07
Speaker 1: if the Supremecourt ultimately backed Trumps. So this is going
56:11
Speaker 1: to Supreme Court. Another one that's going to Supreme Court
56:13
Speaker 1: is a federal appeals court blocked Trumps from using the
56:20
Speaker 1: wartime law, another emergency wartime law to deport a group
56:26
Speaker 1: of Venezuela and immigrants. This is again putting the whole
56:32
Speaker 1: immigration deportation, the use of this law to deport immigrants
56:39
Speaker 1: again at a with a question mark. So an appellate
56:44
Speaker 1: court now is blocked this and it is heading for
56:48
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. The White House has argued that Venezuela
56:52
Speaker 1: is attempting a predatory incursion i e. War against the
56:57
Speaker 1: United States, and therefore this constitutes an act of war
57:02
Speaker 1: and therefore it can deport them as foreign agents and terrorists.
57:09
Speaker 1: The Court of Appeals are the Fifth Circuit rule Tuesday
57:13
Speaker 1: that the Aliens Enemies Act couldn't be applied in the
57:18
Speaker 1: case of migrants because they found no evidence. This is
57:23
Speaker 1: the Fifth no evidence Circuit court no evidence of an
57:27
Speaker 1: invasion or predatory incursion by a foreign power. I can't remember.
57:33
Speaker 1: The Fifth is a conservative court. I think it is.
57:36
Speaker 1: By the way, yesterday I confused the Eighth Circuit Court
57:40
Speaker 1: with the Ninth Circuit Court. The Ninth, which governs California
57:44
Speaker 1: in the West, is the court that's going to take
57:49
Speaker 1: up this issue of the National Guard deploying troops in
57:53
Speaker 1: LA and they are a very very liberal court. The
57:56
Speaker 1: Eighth is actually a very conservative court. So I got
57:59
Speaker 1: those too confuse. I apologize it's the Ninth anyway. A
58:04
Speaker 1: lot of cases, a lot of cases. Half, no, three
58:08
Speaker 1: quarters of Trump's agenda is heading to the Supreme Court.
58:12
Speaker 1: A big chunk all the major issues, all the let's
58:16
Speaker 1: go after the others is heading to the Supreme Court.
58:20
Speaker 1: And it's going to be truly fascinating to see what
58:22
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court does. All right, everybody, That is the
58:27
Speaker 1: news for September fourth, Thursday, September fourth, Thank you for listening.
58:33
Speaker 1: Let's see. You know, we're still trailing on the on
58:37
Speaker 1: the challenge. On the superchat challenge, we got seven out
58:43
Speaker 1: of twenty, so we're looking for thirteen more super chats. Oh, stickers,
58:47
Speaker 1: you can do sticker count stickers. You can do sticker
58:51
Speaker 1: to get to our number. We're also you know, looking
58:54
Speaker 1: for twenty dollars questions, which would be great to get
58:57
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Speaker 1: The Centata's just put out a vote. Just put a
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Speaker 1: vote forward for early next year to make Florida the
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Speaker 1: first state to property taxes. I know you have reservations
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Speaker 1: about him. But if he if he proceeds Trump, I
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Speaker 1: think that would be a positive corrective step for the GOP. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like Grand DeSantis. I think is
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Speaker 1: a is very dangerous and potentially very very bad. But
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Speaker 1: he's better than Trump, although he's smarter than Trump, which
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Speaker 1: makes him dangerous. He does seem to have I'll give
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Speaker 1: him this. He does seem to have uh a pro capitalist,
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Speaker 1: pro capitalist, is too strong pro markets perspective. He does
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Speaker 1: seem to be more like a traditional conservative in his
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Speaker 1: support of markets. Cutting property taxes is great. It's going
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Speaker 1: to be interesting to see. I don't know, property access
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Speaker 1: pretty high in Florida, so I don't know what this
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Speaker 1: does to government spending and government revenue. And they're for
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Speaker 1: government spending, you know. I hope this doesn't create a
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Speaker 1: deficit in Florida that ultimately has to be made up
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Speaker 1: with other taxes. But it's great to wipe out a
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Speaker 1: whole a whole form of taxation is fantastic. It's great news,
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Speaker 1: good for Ron de Santas. But I can't say that
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Speaker 1: I'm excited about Desantas or super positive about him. He
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Speaker 1: also is doing the thing about the vaccines and without
1:05:41
Speaker 1: I think the countermeasure of giving schools the option of
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Speaker 1: having their own mandates at the school level, which is
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Speaker 1: where it should be. Now we'll see maybe there's information
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Speaker 1: about that that will come out where it's much more
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Speaker 1: similar to mine. They've also made lab meat illegal, just
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Speaker 1: bizarre stuff like that. I don't know what his position
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Speaker 1: is for example, and free trade. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: his position is on on on industrial planning. Uh, this
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Speaker 1: is a good move, so this is great. Uh and
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Speaker 1: uh I commend anybody who wipes out a whole category
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Speaker 1: of taxes. So uh, good for good for Florida. And
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Speaker 1: I hope it passes. I hope it actually happens. I
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Speaker 1: don't think he can win the presidency though, let's just
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Speaker 1: be clear. I do not think Janda Sandis can win
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Speaker 1: the presidency. He showed that this last time. He just
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Speaker 1: has no charisma, no presence, no nothing, nothing, no no
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Speaker 1: that gets people excited. It's just it's just not there.
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Speaker 1: It's not in him. I think, you know, maybe maybe
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Speaker 1: a few more, eight more stickers, all right, Jennifer. One
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Speaker 1: of Jefferson's complaints against George, the third listed in the
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Speaker 1: decoration was quote cutting off our trade with all parts
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Speaker 1: of the world. Yes, everything had it was it was
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Speaker 1: the Jones Act. Everything had to go through England. The
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Speaker 1: colonies couldn't trade directly with feign countries. Everything had to
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Speaker 1: be on American ships on British ships had to go
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Speaker 1: through the homeland of the UK. But you know, let's
1:08:20
Speaker 1: not listen to funding fathers. You know, let's not listen
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Speaker 1: to them. Let's just as long as we share their bloodline.
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Speaker 1: Were Okay, It's not the ideas that matter, it's their genes.
1:08:35
Speaker 1: Andrew found it interesting that Rand told someone who is
1:08:39
Speaker 1: writing an essay on egalitarianism that if he didn't say
1:08:42
Speaker 1: that it was hatred of man for the man of ability,
1:08:46
Speaker 1: that it was a betrayal. Conveys them all fervor and
1:08:49
Speaker 1: passion for ideas and passion for ability. Rand was the
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Speaker 1: opposite of egalitarian, loved, valued, honored, praised, raised up, made
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Speaker 1: heroes of the men of ability, men who weren't bordered ability,
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Speaker 1: the men who used ability that went out and did
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Speaker 1: stuff in the world that changed the world, that made
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Speaker 1: the world. They're the characters that fell out of the shrug.
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Speaker 1: They the people she admires. She has a huge amount
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Speaker 1: of respect for them, and they're the ones who are
1:09:34
Speaker 1: crushed by the galitarians. They're the ones that the galicarians
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Speaker 1: don't care about. And of course they are also the
1:09:43
Speaker 1: ones who moved civilization forward. And yet this people who
1:09:54
Speaker 1: are going to be moved forward by the men of
1:10:00
Speaker 1: ability are the ones who denounced them in the name
1:10:03
Speaker 1: of a galitarianism. I mean, you know how I always
1:10:06
Speaker 1: say I don't believe in trickle down economic because it's
1:10:09
Speaker 1: not a trickle, it's a it's a waterfall, it's a flood.
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Speaker 1: The benefits that the common man receives from the geniuses
1:10:20
Speaker 1: is just unbelievable. You know. It's geniuses who've shaped the
1:10:26
Speaker 1: modern world, who've shaped all the benefits that we get
1:10:28
Speaker 1: in the modern world, and for them to then turn
1:10:31
Speaker 1: around and denounce them by supporting egalitarians is one of
1:10:36
Speaker 1: the great injustices in the world. So, yes, Ironmand is
1:10:40
Speaker 1: gonna you know, this is one of her biggest issues, right.
1:10:45
Speaker 1: You see that in Atlas uh am Kat says, call
1:10:56
Speaker 1: them woke, right, it really gets under their skin. Yeah,
1:11:00
Speaker 1: it's I don't know, I don't I don't particularly like
1:11:02
Speaker 1: the term, but yeah, I guess getting them under the
1:11:06
Speaker 1: skin is a value in and of itself. I make
1:11:10
Speaker 1: adosa ads gaza needs to go basically equal to reality.
1:11:19
Speaker 1: Thank you for the sticker, basically Ian, thank you, Mary, Mary,
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Speaker 1: thank you all of my my mic I apologize again
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Speaker 1: for the mic drop that we had there. H Andrews says.
1:11:31
Speaker 1: Another interesting thing about about Ran was that she frequently
1:11:36
Speaker 1: thought of and identified the motives behind ideas and actions
1:11:39
Speaker 1: without revoting to psychologizing. Do you think that's difficult to do?
1:11:45
Speaker 1: And any thought on how Yeah, I think it's very
1:11:47
Speaker 1: difficult to do. I think it's it's hugely difficult to do,
1:11:51
Speaker 1: and it's why you don't get other objectives thinkers doing
1:11:55
Speaker 1: it quite to the extent that she does. I think
1:11:58
Speaker 1: she brings a perspective on it that I don't have
1:12:03
Speaker 1: and others don't have, and that is of a novelist
1:12:05
Speaker 1: who's thought a lot about human psychology and human motivation.
1:12:10
Speaker 1: You can't write a novel like Out of the Shrug
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Speaker 1: without understanding human motivation and really thinking about it and
1:12:18
Speaker 1: in a sense researching, researching in terms of from that perspective,
1:12:23
Speaker 1: from the perspective what motivates people to hold the ideas
1:12:26
Speaker 1: and to take the actions that they take. And I'm
1:12:31
Speaker 1: man great novelist that she was was of course a
1:12:34
Speaker 1: master of exactly that of seeing the motivation, of understanding motivation.
1:12:39
Speaker 1: You can't do characterization in literature unless you understand do motivation,
1:12:45
Speaker 1: and that means understanding psychology, the psychology of people that
1:12:49
Speaker 1: drives them. And she was a genius at that. And
1:12:52
Speaker 1: it's what in many of many of our nonfiction essays.
1:12:57
Speaker 1: Is what gives life to the essays the fact that
1:13:00
Speaker 1: she identifies the psychological cause, the motivating factor that drives
1:13:06
Speaker 1: people the whole, the ideas that they do and to
1:13:08
Speaker 1: do the things that they do. Raymond, how do you
1:13:15
Speaker 1: objectively assign a way to your gut feeling? I find
1:13:18
Speaker 1: my gut to be pretty reliable, but it's by definition
1:13:21
Speaker 1: not consciously reasoned. I think the way to look at
1:13:26
Speaker 1: this is your gut, which is really what I forget
1:13:31
Speaker 1: the name of the psychologists called fast thinking. Your gout
1:13:35
Speaker 1: is really just fast thinking. It's giving you an emotional,
1:13:40
Speaker 1: very fast integration, integrated response to the information you're receiving.
1:13:49
Speaker 1: If the issue at hand, if the topic you're evaluating,
1:13:55
Speaker 1: in a sense is a topic you're an expert in,
1:13:58
Speaker 1: you really thought of out a lot in the past,
1:14:02
Speaker 1: and you're really good at consciously so you know a
1:14:10
Speaker 1: huge amount about it, you would trust your gut more
1:14:17
Speaker 1: over a topic like that than something that's completely new
1:14:20
Speaker 1: to you. That's something that you haven't studied, that you
1:14:25
Speaker 1: don't know that much about. So there's a good example.
1:14:30
Speaker 1: I think that in one of Gladwell's books, where he says,
1:14:34
Speaker 1: you know an expert on an art forgery, and some
1:14:38
Speaker 1: of these art forgers are really really good, so they'll
1:14:41
Speaker 1: forge your Rembrandt, or they'll forge of Vermio or something,
1:14:43
Speaker 1: and it looks really like the original. And an expert
1:14:48
Speaker 1: art forgery can look at a painting and his gut
1:14:52
Speaker 1: will tell him and he's almost always right. But that's
1:14:56
Speaker 1: because he's practiced. It's subconscious feeding you because you know
1:15:04
Speaker 1: so much and you're practiced in it. It's like you
1:15:08
Speaker 1: don't think about well, you guys wouldn't know about this.
1:15:12
Speaker 1: Right when you drive a car, right in old days,
1:15:20
Speaker 1: we used to shift gears manually with clutch. And the
1:15:26
Speaker 1: amazing thing is you never thought about, oh, I should
1:15:28
Speaker 1: go from second to third. Now you just when the
1:15:31
Speaker 1: time came, you went from second to third. And that's
1:15:33
Speaker 1: in a sense you got your subconscious is telling you,
1:15:36
Speaker 1: now's the time do it. But when you're driving for
1:15:41
Speaker 1: the first X number of thousands of hours, you actually
1:15:46
Speaker 1: think it, Oh, it's revving up, I need to go
1:15:48
Speaker 1: to I need to shift gears. I need to shift gears.
1:15:52
Speaker 1: And then you shift gears. But the repetition, the practice,
1:15:55
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over and over again,
1:15:59
Speaker 1: you don't need the conscious mind to actually guide what
1:16:03
Speaker 1: you're doing. You can rely on your subconscious all that
1:16:08
Speaker 1: is all the gut thing is, can you rely on
1:16:10
Speaker 1: your subconscious? Now? Are the issues on which you can
1:16:13
Speaker 1: rely on your subconscious? Yeah, some very unimportant stuff you
1:16:18
Speaker 1: don't have time to think it through, and stuff that
1:16:22
Speaker 1: you're an expert, and even then you want to back
1:16:26
Speaker 1: it up with conscious thought, with consciously guided thought. But
1:16:33
Speaker 1: when we talk about things is becoming automatized. This is
1:16:38
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. And you can automatize pretty sophisticated things.
1:16:44
Speaker 1: But too many people use their gut for everything, including
1:16:48
Speaker 1: stuff they know nothing about, and that is irrational and
1:16:53
Speaker 1: that is well, you have to your subconscious be guided
1:17:02
Speaker 1: at some point, fed with the right ideas, the right conclusions,
1:17:11
Speaker 1: the right context, and that requires work. All right, We've
1:17:18
Speaker 1: got four minutes, four minutes to get three super chats
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Speaker 1: or stickers, four minutes to get three let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Let's let's make this goal. You can do ninety nine cents.
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Speaker 1: Ninety nine cents works, So three stickers or three questions
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Speaker 1: in the next three minutes and thirty five seconds. That's
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Speaker 1: the goal. Go for it, guys, Raymond. Hopefully that provided
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Speaker 1: you with an answer, harp A Campbell. Even if you're healthy,
1:17:52
Speaker 1: is it possible to be consistently happy if you're not wealthy? Yes?
1:17:57
Speaker 1: And what does it mean to be wealthy? How much
1:17:59
Speaker 1: wealth does one need to be happy? Yes, I don't
1:18:05
Speaker 1: know what you mean by wealthy. Wealth is not required
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Speaker 1: for happiness. It makes happiness in a sense easier, and
1:18:17
Speaker 1: it increases your happiness, and certainly he needs some level
1:18:21
Speaker 1: of wealth. If you're really struggling to put food on
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Speaker 1: the table and on the verge of potential starvation, then yeah,
1:18:31
Speaker 1: it is possible that the lack of wealth is preventing
1:18:34
Speaker 1: you from being happy. So some minimal requirement is there.
1:18:40
Speaker 1: But I don't know what wealthy is. Is it a
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Speaker 1: million dollars, five million dollars, ten million dollars? Don't know.
1:18:49
Speaker 1: I think we just achieved our goal. We'll see if
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Speaker 1: YouTube recognizes that fact. No, it's not recognizing you know,
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Speaker 1: every single one of your sticks. I don't know why
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Speaker 1: the ninety nine cents ones, I don't think it recognized,
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Speaker 1: even though in the past, like further up, it did
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Speaker 1: recognize ninety nine cents ones. So I don't know. So
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Speaker 1: keep them coming. We've got two minutes. Keep them coming,
1:19:16
Speaker 1: Maybe ask a question or put the few letters underneath it,
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Speaker 1: just to make it more officially super chatty and Jacob
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1:19:35
Speaker 1: all right, those two did it, so Urban Pocupine and
1:19:39
Speaker 1: Robert Naser got us through the challenge. I'm not gonna
1:19:44
Speaker 1: do any more of these challenges because it's not working right,
1:19:48
Speaker 1: and I will so I will complain to YouTube and
1:19:52
Speaker 1: tell them we have a real problem here so that
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Speaker 1: they can fix it and we can actually have real numbers.
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Speaker 1: His numbers are fraudulent, fraudulent, I tell you. Yeah. Paul
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Speaker 1: actually made his twenty twenty, but we needed a bunch
1:20:12
Speaker 1: of others to get there. So thank you as the
1:20:15
Speaker 1: Zurich dichotomy. Thank you Listenda, thank you Jacob, thank you, Audief,
1:20:19
Speaker 1: thank you Paul, thank you Dean again. Thank you Jonathan
1:20:23
Speaker 1: Honing who showed up late. Thank you to you guys.
1:20:28
Speaker 1: I know some of you did even more than one
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Speaker 1: Staker doubly. Thank you for that. Andrew. You know how
1:20:34
Speaker 1: with Trump everything is horrible a disgrace, a hell whole,
1:20:37
Speaker 1: et cetera, unless he's responsible for it. I'm highlighting his
1:20:41
Speaker 1: negativity and malevolence. Do you think that's correlated with skepticism cynicism.
1:20:51
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean it's colllated. I don't think
1:20:54
Speaker 1: that's the case with Trump. I mean, partially, Trump understands
1:20:58
Speaker 1: that that's how you motivate people. You motivate them through
1:21:02
Speaker 1: fear and hate, and that is what his base wants.
1:21:08
Speaker 1: So I think partially it's that. Is Trump super negative
1:21:15
Speaker 1: in his everyday life. I don't know. I don't think so.
1:21:18
Speaker 1: I don't think he could have done what he did
1:21:23
Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur if he'd been like this as applied
1:21:26
Speaker 1: to his entrepreneurship. I think it's more of a it's
1:21:30
Speaker 1: his narcissism, wanting to take credit for everything, wanting everything
1:21:34
Speaker 1: to be his responsibility if it's good, mixed in with
1:21:38
Speaker 1: understanding his audience and understanding how to manipulate them. I
1:21:44
Speaker 1: think it's that combination, Bonnie. Why does some grow up
1:21:49
Speaker 1: trying to think in principles in spite of their education.
1:21:51
Speaker 1: Others don't. I have no idea, because they chose to,
1:21:56
Speaker 1: because they chose to focus they chose to engage their mind.
1:22:02
Speaker 1: They both chose to put it at full throttle, not
1:22:07
Speaker 1: eh so so, and there's no explanation for why they
1:22:12
Speaker 1: choose it. But this is the majority of human beings.
1:22:22
Speaker 1: It's an achievement two thinking principles. It's a real achievement,
1:22:29
Speaker 1: particularly given our educational system. So you should take pride
1:22:33
Speaker 1: in yourself in achieving that. I don't have. I mean, yeah,
1:22:41
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's just that it requires effort,
1:22:45
Speaker 1: It requires focus, It requires constant focus. I mean when
1:22:50
Speaker 1: you're focusing, it requires real engagement, and it requires being
1:22:54
Speaker 1: committed to having that mind up, a commitment to reality
1:22:59
Speaker 1: and to commitment to honesty. Liam. When you take responsibility
1:23:06
Speaker 1: for yourself, regardless of whatever else is going on, that
1:23:09
Speaker 1: is power. That is when the fun begins. Yeah, I
1:23:12
Speaker 1: agree with that. Take responsibility for yourself if you understand
1:23:16
Speaker 1: what it means to take responsibility for yourself, not in
1:23:18
Speaker 1: a superficial kind of conservative way, but in the sense
1:23:22
Speaker 1: of my mind, my life. I will shape it, I
1:23:27
Speaker 1: will make it. Yes, Michael, does the left have more
1:23:34
Speaker 1: respect for human rights than the right, respect for due
1:23:38
Speaker 1: process and humane treatment of the teenees and prisoners. In
1:23:41
Speaker 1: that sense, I mean who on the left, right and
1:23:47
Speaker 1: who on the right. Some people on the left, some
1:23:50
Speaker 1: people in the left have no respect for that. You
1:23:52
Speaker 1: can see that in countries dominated by leftist politics, Brazil, Venezuela.
1:23:58
Speaker 1: So it depends who. The center left, center right tends
1:24:01
Speaker 1: to have respect for these things to some extent. The
1:24:04
Speaker 1: far left far right don't. The far left in America
1:24:08
Speaker 1: does not have respect for any of those things. They
1:24:12
Speaker 1: have respect for Palestinian due process, but not for Israeli
1:24:16
Speaker 1: due process, Palestinian humane treatment, not Israeli humane treatment. So no,
1:24:25
Speaker 1: I don't think either extremes if you will, or either.
1:24:31
Speaker 1: I don't think collectivism take it to the extreme consistently
1:24:34
Speaker 1: has any respect for human rights, individual rights, or anything
1:24:40
Speaker 1: like that. Excuse me one second, Oh shit, I missed it.
1:24:47
Speaker 1: I try to kill the mosquito. I mean, in this
1:24:50
Speaker 1: room for two days now with this mosquito, and if
1:24:55
Speaker 1: he's I think he's biting me constantly, and I almost
1:24:59
Speaker 1: got in the Wait a minute, I might have another
1:25:01
Speaker 1: shot at it. Hold on, got it, And a bunch
1:25:10
Speaker 1: of blood came off on the wall, which suggests that
1:25:14
Speaker 1: he's already bitten me and that's my blood on the wall. Michael. Oops, Michael,
1:25:27
Speaker 1: and yesterday's show, you said iron Rand didn't convince that
1:25:30
Speaker 1: many people, but maybe she convinced the most important people.
1:25:34
Speaker 1: What did you mean by that? Well, she convinced the
1:25:36
Speaker 1: people who are most important in the sense that they're
1:25:44
Speaker 1: the ones who could grasp her ideas and do something
1:25:46
Speaker 1: with him. I mean, look, yeah, I mean it's not
1:25:52
Speaker 1: really clear, right she convinced her, She convinced. But to
1:25:58
Speaker 1: be convinced, my iron Rand, you have to already you have
1:26:00
Speaker 1: a sudden degree of honesty. You know, you have to
1:26:03
Speaker 1: be have a sudden degree of thinking, as Bonnie asked about,
1:26:11
Speaker 1: you have to be able to conceive of principles and
1:26:13
Speaker 1: be able to think in principles. And those are the
1:26:15
Speaker 1: people you want to convince. She you know, there's a
1:26:18
Speaker 1: lot of wishy watching people. There might have been somewhat convinced,
1:26:21
Speaker 1: and then who knows what they would have done with it.
1:26:24
Speaker 1: They might have been people who who treated Irand as
1:26:27
Speaker 1: of religion and taking it as religion, and that would
1:26:30
Speaker 1: have done damage. So there might have been people who
1:26:33
Speaker 1: jumped on the bandwagon aving Rand who and there have
1:26:35
Speaker 1: been people who've jumped on the bandwagon, but there might
1:26:37
Speaker 1: have been more who do more harm than good to
1:26:40
Speaker 1: the cause of objectivism. But I take your point as
1:26:46
Speaker 1: me not being very precise and clear about my statement there, Andrew.
1:26:52
Speaker 1: When Tom Snyder asked rand what she meant by selfishness,
1:26:56
Speaker 1: she referenced self esteem and that one respects one's mind.
1:27:01
Speaker 1: What is respecting one's mind entail in tails respecting one's
1:27:07
Speaker 1: mind or what does it detail? Sorry, and it tails
1:27:12
Speaker 1: taking your own judgment seriously and entails the knowledge that
1:27:18
Speaker 1: you are capable of judgment, that you are capable of
1:27:23
Speaker 1: knowing the world around you, that you're capable of understanding,
1:27:28
Speaker 1: that you're capable of taking care of your own survival,
1:27:31
Speaker 1: of taking care of producing to live and building and
1:27:39
Speaker 1: making stuff. So I think that's what it means to
1:27:43
Speaker 1: take your mind, to respect your mind. It's to know
1:27:49
Speaker 1: that you can know and that you can solve problems,
1:27:54
Speaker 1: and then engaging in that activity on an ongoing basis
1:28:00
Speaker 1: and trusting in your own mind, in your own thinking.
1:28:10
Speaker 1: I mean, think about other people who constantly apologize for
1:28:13
Speaker 1: their opinions, apologize for I could never understand that. I
1:28:17
Speaker 1: could never do that. I can never figure that out.
1:28:19
Speaker 1: I could constantly putting themselves down, the mind down, Respect
1:28:24
Speaker 1: your mind, know what it's capable of, know what it's not,
1:28:28
Speaker 1: what its limitations are. Right, I'm not going to try
1:28:31
Speaker 1: to understand Einstein. I did once. I can't get it. Okay,
1:28:36
Speaker 1: I can live with that, But I also know what
1:28:40
Speaker 1: I am capable of. And you know, you've got to
1:28:46
Speaker 1: respect that capability that you have. Justin when a crony
1:28:52
Speaker 1: politician is accused of acting in self interest against the
1:28:55
Speaker 1: interest on the people, what's a better term than self interest? Well, well,
1:29:00
Speaker 1: it depends on this specific case. It could be that
1:29:05
Speaker 1: he is acting based on short term whim considerations of
1:29:13
Speaker 1: short term and wim, that he is just against that
1:29:21
Speaker 1: he's acting against his own long term interest, that he's
1:29:27
Speaker 1: acting in a destructive way, that he's acting kind of Yeah,
1:29:38
Speaker 1: I've always I've said for a long time that we
1:29:41
Speaker 1: lack a concept that can include all those things that
1:29:47
Speaker 1: people perceive as self interested but are not and you know,
1:29:53
Speaker 1: self destructive. But that's not clear enough anyway, that there's
1:30:00
Speaker 1: a lot of that. I think I think that a
1:30:05
Speaker 1: new concept to capture that would be helpful unpackage the
1:30:10
Speaker 1: package deal and create a new concept for all the
1:30:13
Speaker 1: stuff that doesn't belong liam When evaluating selfishness, are people
1:30:21
Speaker 1: not so much put up by the idea of you
1:30:23
Speaker 1: pursuing your values and achieving your happiness, but it perceived
1:30:26
Speaker 1: ugliness of not caring about others. I mean, I think
1:30:31
Speaker 1: that's where it goes where their mind goes to first, right,
1:30:36
Speaker 1: because I think that's what they're trained to they trained altruistically.
1:30:41
Speaker 1: But then, but then if you explain to them, for example, no,
1:30:47
Speaker 1: I mean, caring about some others is completely self interested.
1:30:51
Speaker 1: It's completely selfish. It doesn't seem to make them feel
1:30:56
Speaker 1: better about it. So at the end, it is about
1:31:02
Speaker 1: them feeling uncomfortable about pursuing their own values unsacrificially. And
1:31:12
Speaker 1: even if they're even if you could convince them that
1:31:15
Speaker 1: you would still treat other people with respect and still
1:31:17
Speaker 1: treat other people as traders, that doesn't convince them. So
1:31:24
Speaker 1: there's something else going on. Adif says count me on YouTube.
1:31:28
Speaker 1: Thank you Odif fendoop I asked about this about Biden.
1:31:34
Speaker 1: But how many clones of Trump could you take in
1:31:37
Speaker 1: a fight? They come in one at a time, every
1:31:41
Speaker 1: minute maximum is ten. Once they can't get back up,
1:31:45
Speaker 1: they disappear. I don't know. I don't know that I
1:31:48
Speaker 1: can take any of them. Trump is a big guy.
1:31:52
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not particularly skilled at fighting. He can
1:31:54
Speaker 1: probably just fall on me and knock me down. I
1:31:57
Speaker 1: have no idea, Jacob. Thanks to the support, could a
1:32:04
Speaker 1: hospital now say, want to deliver your baby at hospital ABC,
1:32:09
Speaker 1: you must get these specific vaccines for our nie. You
1:32:14
Speaker 1: would protection? I think so. If not, they should be
1:32:21
Speaker 1: able to. I think they can, but I'm not sure. Yeah,
1:32:27
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I know they should be able to, Jacob.
1:32:32
Speaker 1: If there are some p five hundred booms four k
1:32:35
Speaker 1: points after the travs are shut down, would Trump be
1:32:39
Speaker 1: considered chaffs? Is he too deep into mecanalism to think otherwise?
1:32:45
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be consider But look, I
1:32:48
Speaker 1: don't think there's some people five hander war boom four
1:32:50
Speaker 1: thousand points. I don't think it'll go up at all.
1:32:52
Speaker 1: I think it'll it's likely to go down when I
1:32:55
Speaker 1: think that there are simply five hundred is kind of
1:32:58
Speaker 1: priced in tariffs and relieve that uncertainty in a sense
1:33:05
Speaker 1: is gone. And now the Supreme Court ruling against tariffs
1:33:11
Speaker 1: would cause more certainty and stocks could very well go down,
1:33:16
Speaker 1: and tilp could view that as a message of ce
1:33:20
Speaker 1: I told you tariffs were good. This is the problem
1:33:24
Speaker 1: of relying on markets to interpret, you know, interpreting markets
1:33:28
Speaker 1: as signals of what's good and what's bad. Markets don't
1:33:32
Speaker 1: do that. They're not good at that. Paul says, are
1:33:37
Speaker 1: you planning to become a genocide scholar? No, I'm not.
1:33:40
Speaker 1: I did cover that story yesterday about how anybody could
1:33:42
Speaker 1: sign up at the website and become a genocide scholar
1:33:45
Speaker 1: and then make pronouncements in the names in the name
1:33:48
Speaker 1: of genocidal scholars, But no, I have no intention of
1:33:53
Speaker 1: signing up. Peter nat cons if America is an idea
1:33:57
Speaker 1: capitalism which everyone hates, then we don't get to be
1:34:01
Speaker 1: mindless nationalists like citizens in other countries. That's right. I
1:34:05
Speaker 1: mean the the American Nacons a particular have a particular problem,
1:34:12
Speaker 1: and that is that they they don't have a tribe
1:34:19
Speaker 1: affiliation that's easy to define. They have to really squirm
1:34:24
Speaker 1: and figure it out without alienating half of all Americans
1:34:28
Speaker 1: who don't fit their standard. Right, the real Americans are Scots.
1:34:33
Speaker 1: The Scots invented America. And if for only Scots are
1:34:37
Speaker 1: the real Americans? And you know they want to say
1:34:40
Speaker 1: stuff like that, they can't hector. Yesterday you said Italy
1:34:46
Speaker 1: is for history, not the future. So which countries embody
1:34:49
Speaker 1: the future? And are they the ones we should visit now?
1:34:53
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the thing that for a long time
1:34:56
Speaker 1: I said Asia. Asia was younger, It was dynamic, it
1:35:02
Speaker 1: was clearly it was growing, it was turning capitalist, it
1:35:05
Speaker 1: was turning free. It was where the excitement was. But
1:35:10
Speaker 1: that has turned Asias turned away from that. Birth rates
1:35:14
Speaker 1: have plummeted, they don't have children anymore. China has gone
1:35:18
Speaker 1: off the deep end. It's become much more status so
1:35:20
Speaker 1: you don't get the excitement, the energy, the growth that
1:35:24
Speaker 1: you used to so Asias. I mean, one of the
1:35:32
Speaker 1: things that embodied the future when you went to China
1:35:35
Speaker 1: and Hong Kong and place like that was the architecture.
1:35:38
Speaker 1: Architecture was bold and beautiful and striving and future oriented
1:35:44
Speaker 1: versus kind of dull and boring, mostly in the West.
1:35:51
Speaker 1: But that's probably going away, So I don't know, maybe Argentina,
1:35:55
Speaker 1: I don't know where you go for the future. It's
1:35:56
Speaker 1: very difficult. It's not a good time in the world
1:36:00
Speaker 1: world right now, it looked a lot better fifteen years ago.
1:36:03
Speaker 1: It really did. And then Lennon Peacock for demypothesis, and
1:36:08
Speaker 1: then the demipothesis has decided to become true. Hey, Ron,
1:36:17
Speaker 1: if someone loves to donate because they like gifting others
1:36:20
Speaker 1: and seeing happy reactions, how to keep it distinct from altruism? Well,
1:36:26
Speaker 1: it's you have to really only you can do it,
1:36:31
Speaker 1: and you have to be able to introspect your values.
1:36:35
Speaker 1: And why do you like seeing happy reactions in people?
1:36:39
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't know, I've never met, know nothing about.
1:36:43
Speaker 1: What is it about that? How important is that to
1:36:45
Speaker 1: you relative to other values? And then when you analyze that,
1:36:52
Speaker 1: does this justify the level of importance? You're giving it
1:36:55
Speaker 1: from a rational human perspective, So it requires a lot
1:37:00
Speaker 1: of introspection to understand your true motivations. Urban Porcupine, thank
1:37:08
Speaker 1: you for giving me something interesting to listen to while
1:37:11
Speaker 1: I fix my car. Happy to do so, and thank
1:37:13
Speaker 1: you for the support, Robert says for the super chart challenge,
1:37:17
Speaker 1: name one fun film, not necessarily a top favorite, just
1:37:20
Speaker 1: plain fun. Oh, any movie by the Marx Brothers. I
1:37:24
Speaker 1: love the Max Brothers. Night at the Opera by the
1:37:29
Speaker 1: Max Brothers. I know it's old, people resent old, but
1:37:33
Speaker 1: Max Brothers movies. I really really enjoyed them. They were
1:37:37
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and necessarily there's a lot of
1:37:39
Speaker 1: silliness that goes on, but I think it's kind of
1:37:41
Speaker 1: clever silliness, if that's possible. Liscinder says, hope YouTube recognizes this.
1:37:49
Speaker 1: I think it did. Thank you guys, really appreciate it,
1:37:53
Speaker 1: appreciate all the support. I will be back tomorrow at
1:37:58
Speaker 1: about the same time I think fourth third East Coast time.
1:38:01
Speaker 1: It's now past midnight over here, so expect the same
1:38:05
Speaker 1: time tomorrow. I teach a class until four, so the
1:38:08
Speaker 1: show will either start a four thirty or five, either
1:38:13
Speaker 1: four thirty or five. But there will be a show tomorrow.
1:38:16
Speaker 1: No show on Saturday, probably a show on Sunday. So
1:38:20
Speaker 1: on Saturday, I'm going to visit Milcot who is listening
1:38:27
Speaker 1: to the show and it shows up on the chat
1:38:29
Speaker 1: once in a while. All right, everybody, have a great
1:38:32
Speaker 1: rest of your week, have a great rest of your Thursday,
1:38:35
Speaker 1: and I will see you tomorrow. Bye, everybody.