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Speaker 1: A lot of fundamental principles of a little self rich
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Speaker 1: and the individuals. This is the show. Oh right, everybody,
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Speaker 1: welcome to one book show on this Friday, January ninth.
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Speaker 1: It is an unusual time, but so be it. Still
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Speaker 1: wanted to get to the news today, a day full
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Speaker 1: of news, so we will jump right to it. A
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Speaker 2: All right, let's jump in with the situation.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Iran, I think the most important story out
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Speaker 1: there in spite of everything else going on in the.
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Speaker 2: World, this is it.
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Speaker 1: This is it because this really does now have the
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Speaker 1: potential of becoming a real revolution. That is, it has
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Speaker 1: the real potential to see the overthrowing of the how
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Speaker 1: many the Islamic Republic's regime. Yesterday masses of people, millions
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Speaker 1: of people came out into the streets and demonstrated. There
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Speaker 1: was the Before the demonstration started, the regime shut down
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Speaker 1: all communications, The Internet went silent. Starlink still works, although
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Speaker 1: they're trying to jam it. They've been trying to jam
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Speaker 1: it now for two days, but the entire Internet was down.
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Speaker 1: You know, they they're even restricting you know, phone service
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Speaker 1: and cellular service. Everything is shut down. Some cities don't
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Speaker 1: even have power. In spite of that, millions, it looks
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Speaker 1: like over million people came out into the streets of
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Speaker 1: various cities around Iran, from Tehran, but also the other
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Speaker 1: large cities in Iran which had not seen as many demonstrations.
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Speaker 1: Some of the smallest cities and the dimonsties were more aggressive.
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Speaker 1: They were burning down mosques, government buildings, and they were
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Speaker 1: shot on. So yesterday we saw significant casualties. The Ayatula
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Speaker 1: has decided to fight back. He is unleashed the Islamic
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Speaker 1: Revolutionary God. He's taking these demonstrations out of the hands
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Speaker 1: of local authorities and out of the hands of the police,
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Speaker 1: and even out of the hands of the militias that
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Speaker 1: are usually suppressed demonstrations. And now he's bringing in the army,
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Speaker 1: or the particularly units of the army loyal to the regime,
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Speaker 1: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, and they're shooting, they're shooting admonistrators.
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Speaker 2: Hospitals were busy.
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Speaker 1: But in spite of that, you know it, people people
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day and then I went home,
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Speaker 1: and then today today, earlier today, and it's still ongoing.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: The Tehran is what did we say, it's uh uh
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Speaker 1: seven or eight hours ahead of where I am, eight
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Speaker 1: or nine hours ahead of East coast, So it's two
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Speaker 1: in the morning right now or something like that in Tehran.
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Speaker 1: Even more people came out into streets today throughout Iran,
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Speaker 1: including the main major cities outside of Tehran, including the
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Speaker 1: birthplace and you know, home.
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Speaker 2: Of Hamini himself.
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Speaker 1: Today there's I can see video of a of a
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Speaker 1: government building burning in the city of Collage. I can
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Speaker 1: see a mosque burning in in Tehran. Imagine that they're
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Speaker 1: burning mosques, more shooting, more killing.
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Speaker 2: It pictures some hospitals are pretty horrific.
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Speaker 1: And it's the number of casualties coming in, the number
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Speaker 1: of injured coming in. Again, the Islamic revolutionary God has
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Speaker 1: been unleashed on the crowds.
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Speaker 2: But look, never before.
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Speaker 1: Have the Ranian people come out a day after the
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Speaker 1: kind of bloodshed we saw yesterday and a communication blackout
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Speaker 1: and a promise of more bloodshed in the past.
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Speaker 2: You know, some.
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Speaker 1: Bloodshed, communication blackout, internet blackout, and people gave up the
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Speaker 1: Ranians do not seem like they're giving up at all.
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Speaker 1: And we will see, we will see what happened. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the next few days are going to be key. Can
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Speaker 1: they sustain it? What happens to the regime? Do they
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Speaker 1: start attacking regime installations? There's still what is the mechanism?
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Speaker 1: What do they do? Where do they go? Is there
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Speaker 1: a presidential palace they can they can take over? Is
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Speaker 1: there a parliament building they can take over? What exactly
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Speaker 1: are they going to do? What does it look like
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Speaker 1: for these demonstrations to turn into something that actually sees
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Speaker 1: the regime collapse. I still think we're going to have
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Speaker 1: to see some units within the Iranian military flip flip
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Speaker 1: over the demonstrated side in order to see something happen
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Speaker 1: or and I think if that happens, then you start
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Speaker 1: seeing a regime officials start fleeing, running away. I mean
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Speaker 1: there's already stories about them getting visas to France and
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Speaker 1: communicating with Moscow. And most of them don't want to
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Speaker 1: go to Moscow, they'd rather go to Paris, but they
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Speaker 1: are they will flee. You know, some one of the
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Speaker 1: ministers and his whole family uh in Beiruts, right, now,
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Speaker 1: so they they are going to get ready to escape.
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Speaker 1: But the Ranian people out in the streets, and the
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Speaker 1: question is what is the endgame? Where does this lead to?
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Speaker 1: How long do they have to be in the streets
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Speaker 1: for the how many people have to die in streets
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Speaker 1: of Tehran and other Ranian cities for this regime to collapse?
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Speaker 1: And when, if ever, do we see some of the
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Speaker 1: military units come to their support. Suppose how many is
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Speaker 1: there conflicting reports? I mean, it's very hard to actually
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Speaker 1: find out what's going on. I mean again, I know
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Speaker 1: that some of you have sent me links to a
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Speaker 1: number of different broadcasters who are broadcasting live. I watch
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Speaker 1: those links, and I appreciate what they do and the
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Speaker 1: courageous and and I know it takes a lot of work,
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Speaker 1: but it's hard to tell sometimes how much checking they
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Speaker 1: do on the reports that they transmit. It's also very
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Speaker 1: hard to tell whether they're being maybe a little over
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Speaker 1: optimistic about the success and whether they have thought through
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Speaker 1: how this plays out and what exactly happens. But in
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Speaker 1: spite of the Internet shutdown, video is reaching outside of
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Speaker 1: Iran primarily through stalling. People are making phone calls through stalling,
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Speaker 1: so there is some communication about what is going on there.
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Speaker 1: It sounds brutal tonight, it sounds pretty It sounds really bad,
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Speaker 1: but it also seems like the Indian people are more
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Speaker 1: committed than ever to actually going out. The regime itself
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Speaker 1: this morning told the told people not to come out
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Speaker 1: and not to bring the kids out unless because they
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Speaker 1: expected shooting to happen, they expected violence, that the regime
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Speaker 1: would not hold back. Indeed, a number of members of
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Speaker 1: the regime have said that they will not back down,
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Speaker 1: how many himself himself gave a speech yesterday, well it
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Speaker 1: was today, I guess Friday, so today earlier today, basically
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Speaker 1: saying the Islamic Republic would not back down in the
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Speaker 1: face of the protests and that they would use whatever
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Speaker 1: force was necessary in order to in order to suppress it.
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Speaker 1: He presented a tough image of We're going to fight
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Speaker 1: this to the end, and which is not a good
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Speaker 1: sign for the demonstrators, at least not at this point.
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Speaker 1: Rumors also flooding, you know out there that some of
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Speaker 1: the banks in Iran have failed, that the entire maybe
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Speaker 1: the entire financial system is collapsing. ATMs ATM machines are
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Speaker 1: not working. Banks they've been banks runs on the banks,
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Speaker 1: and the banks are collapsing. How to tell? And given
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Speaker 1: given the rate at which you know they're inflating their currency,
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Speaker 1: it could very well be the case that these banks
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Speaker 1: are basically going away.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Trump repeated again today that if they start shooting demonstrators,
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Speaker 1: the United States would intervene. Well, this is now the
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Speaker 1: second night in a row. I mean, they've been shooting
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Speaker 1: demonstrators for a week now, but this is the second
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Speaker 1: now night in Oh. Well, they've been shooting demonstrators in quantity,
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Speaker 1: if you will, aggressively and persistently. The question now, of course,
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Speaker 1: is does the US do anything, will Trump do or
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Speaker 1: is he just is he just you know, spouting off nonsense.
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Speaker 1: We will see. I said yesterday that res Pau Lavi,
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Speaker 1: the son of the show, was.
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Speaker 2: Going to meet with Trump.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that meeting ever happened, So I think
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Speaker 1: again that was kind of fake news. It's very hard
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Speaker 1: to tell sometimes what is real and what is not. Again,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of different interest groups and a lot
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Speaker 1: of just rumors floating around, and sometimes it's hard to tell.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's met Trump yet. He did pin
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Speaker 1: this note on Twitter, mister President, this is an urgent
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Speaker 1: and immediately call for your attention support an action. Last
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Speaker 1: night you saw the millions of bravey Ranians in the
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Speaker 1: streets facing down like bullets. Today they are facing not
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Speaker 1: just bullets, but a total communication blackout, no internet, no landlines.
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Speaker 2: Ali Kamini fears.
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Speaker 1: The end of his criminal regimers at hand at the
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Speaker 1: hands of the people, and with the help of your
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Speaker 1: powerful promise to support the protesters, has threatened the people
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Speaker 1: on the streets with a brutal crackdown, and he wants
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Speaker 1: to use this blackout to murder these young heroes. I've
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Speaker 1: called the people to the streets to fight for their
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Speaker 1: freedom and to overwhelm the security forces with shier numbers.
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Speaker 1: Last night they did that. Your threat to this criminal
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Speaker 1: regime has also kept the regime's thugs at bay. But
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Speaker 1: time is of the essence. The people will be on
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Speaker 1: the street again in an hour. I'm asking you to help.
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Speaker 1: We are proven, and I know you're a man of
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Speaker 1: peace and a man of your world. Please be prepared
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Speaker 1: to intervene to help the people of you on so
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Speaker 1: we will see if the United States does anything based
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Speaker 1: on what Trump has said the regime has already contradicted
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Speaker 1: and violated his threshold. According to what Trump said, the
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Speaker 1: United States should intervene, But whether they will or not
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Speaker 1: almost impossible at this point to say, I'm skeptical. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Israel is on high alert. Israel could do it. I
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Speaker 1: don't think Israel will do it without a green light
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Speaker 1: from the United States. Actually, I'm sure Israel will now
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Speaker 1: do it without a green light from the United States.
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Speaker 1: I think they're basically they're basically waiting. They're basically waiting
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Speaker 1: for the US to make up its mind about what
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Speaker 1: it wants to do. Is give Israel a green light.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Trump wouldn't even have to deploy American planes.
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Speaker 1: You could just unleash Israeli efes and do it. So
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Speaker 1: you know, we will see Terran's chief prosecutor again today.
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Speaker 1: We will show no leniency towards instigators of them nest.
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Speaker 1: They will be charged with fuss lfhill, that is, spreading
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Speaker 1: mischief on earth, which carries the death penalty. So they
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Speaker 1: are sounding tough, sounding tough. Let's see if there's anything
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Speaker 1: else out of Iran. Yeah, I mean, there's no question
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Speaker 1: that the scale of the demonstrations, the number people out,
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Speaker 1: and the number of cities in which the demonstrators are
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Speaker 1: happening has increased significantly since January seventh. Over the last
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Speaker 1: two nights, there's been a dramatic increase.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: There was one hundred and fifty six demonstrations yesterday across
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Speaker 1: twenty seven provinces, which was double the number of protest
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Speaker 1: recorded on January seventh. And they put us a much
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Speaker 1: much larger, so significant large in small places and large places.
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Speaker 1: And of course I still think the most important place
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Speaker 1: is ultimately going to be Tehran and maybe a couple
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Speaker 1: of the other very large cities if if once they fall,
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Speaker 1: the rest of the country will follow pretty quickly.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: Ali Kaminias has been said, according to the economists, to
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Speaker 1: have been taking to a.
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Speaker 2: Somewhere inside Iran where he is hidden.
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Speaker 1: Uh and uh he did, he did appear in not
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Speaker 1: public but made a public address today. Uh and uh.
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Speaker 1: And but but he is he he was shuffled from
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Speaker 1: there straight into hiding. All right, let's see anything else. Uh,
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Speaker 1: here's a you know, this is the kind of post
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Speaker 1: that makes you laugh. Right, millions of Mosad agents on
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Speaker 1: the ground planning this, for sure, guys, Millions of Masad agents,
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Speaker 1: like the entire population of Israel. There's millions. They're all
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Speaker 1: in Iran. They're all Mosad agents. It's pretty funny, all right.
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Speaker 1: Here's one thing that I found interesting both the intelligence
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Speaker 1: assessment coming out of US intelligence agencies and the intelligence
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Speaker 1: assessment coming out of the Israeli intelligence agency is that
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Speaker 1: while a few days ago these protests were unlikely to
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Speaker 1: lead to a revolution, that they were perceived as of
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Speaker 1: a few days ago, to be too small, too insignificant,
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Speaker 1: to lead to an actual revolution. As of today, both
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Speaker 1: intelligence agencies are reassessing and think that this is of substance,
15:50
Speaker 1: that this is serious, and this could pose a serious
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Speaker 1: threat to the regime. So we could have some good
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Speaker 1: news in the next few days. A lot of Iranians,
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Speaker 1: unfortunately will probably die right in the process, but it
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Speaker 1: could ultimately lead to a fall of the you know,
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Speaker 1: just terrific regime. And as I've said, I'll say it again,
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Speaker 1: it's worth repeating. I really do think and I think
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Speaker 1: I can you know, this is not hard to prove.
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Speaker 1: This will be the most significant geopolitical event since the
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Speaker 1: fall of the Billion Wall, easily probably potentially the most
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Speaker 1: significant geopolitical event since the beginning of the Cold War,
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Speaker 1: that is, since the building.
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Speaker 2: Of the Berlin Wall.
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Speaker 1: Really the fall of the Billion Wall happened in a
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Speaker 1: sense over time with Petroshka and with globatchovs easing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there weren't that many strains by the late nineteen eighties.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the building of the building wall change
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Speaker 1: the dynamics, global dynamics. This has the chance, on the
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Speaker 1: positive side, to be the most positive thing since the
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Speaker 1: victory in World War Two. So yep, I am eager
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Speaker 1: to see what happens. Uh, eager to see what happens.
17:33
Speaker 1: Just looking at the implication here for oil, you know,
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Speaker 1: the the put let's see oil strikes. So currently output
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Speaker 1: of oil hovers about just under five million battles of crude,
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Speaker 1: which is a lot. Now that's balls today. What we
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Speaker 1: haven't seen yet and what ultimately changed the dynamics in
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine was when the oil fields went on strike.
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Speaker 1: When the workers in the oil field went on strike,
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Speaker 1: that was the end of the of the Shaw's regime
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Speaker 1: because that was the end of revenue, that was the
18:21
Speaker 1: end of income. The You know this, if if the
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Speaker 1: oil fields go on strike, then I think it's just
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Speaker 1: amount of time. Well, we haven't seen it yet. We
18:35
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet. I uh, let's uh, let's see
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Speaker 1: what else did I want to say?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean think about Iran.
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Speaker 1: You won sales ninety percent of it sold to Russia,
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Speaker 1: to sorry, China, huge geopolitical event. If if if Iran stopped,
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Speaker 1: you know, stops being sanctioned and is a constant source
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Speaker 1: to the Chinese. Again, if Iran now integrates into the
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Speaker 1: Western world, then just like the rest of the Arab world,
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Speaker 1: it is very susceptible to what Washington wants them to
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Speaker 1: do with the oil.
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Speaker 2: And if Washington at some point.
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Speaker 1: Because China's invaded Taiwan says no more oil to China,
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Speaker 1: they don't sell all to China. So China's worried about
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Speaker 1: what's going on in Iran and would like to see
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Speaker 1: the regime remain. Of course, Iran is one of the
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Speaker 1: very few allies that Putin has and supplied him with
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Speaker 1: drone technology that has allowed the Russians to stay in
19:47
Speaker 1: this war, so they have a huge steak. And then
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Speaker 1: of course, just the idea that the people would rise
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Speaker 1: up against an Islamist Sharia law regime kind of takes
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Speaker 1: out all the air from the radicals out there, from
20:06
Speaker 1: the you know, from the radicals in Europe, from the
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Speaker 1: Muslim radicals in Europe would like to bring Shariah to
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Speaker 1: the world. It just deflates them completely. It would see
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Speaker 1: the complete collapse of the Islamist cause, or at least
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Speaker 1: a massive setback to the Islamist cause, and make Europe
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Speaker 1: a lot more peaceful and a lot easier to deal
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Speaker 1: with the Islamists everywhere in the world. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: see X. Twitter has changed the official flag emoji of
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Speaker 1: Iran from the Islamic Republic flag to the old Iranian
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Speaker 1: flag with the lion and a sword in the middle.
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Speaker 1: So good for X. We will see. I don't know again,
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Speaker 1: these are the kind of rumors that you don't hate
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Speaker 1: to report, but.
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Speaker 2: You know who knows, right, Okay, So this is breaking news.
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Speaker 1: Unconfirmed unconfirmed, of course, unconfirmed reports that the Iranian president
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Speaker 1: Skian has submitted his resignation to Iran Supreme Leader and
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Speaker 1: Kamini who knows who knows and who knows who knows
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Speaker 1: what that means? Uh, there's no confirmation. So if you
21:38
Speaker 1: grock checked all the news sources, the news sources. I
21:43
Speaker 1: cannot confirm this. Uh so uh so again uh hard hard,
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Speaker 1: too hard to tell, how to tell, Probably too early
21:56
Speaker 1: for that to happen. And uh if it does happen,
22:02
Speaker 1: then again it's you'll see the beginning is of fragmentation
22:08
Speaker 1: within their ruling regime, which you'll signal the upcoming collapse.
22:15
Speaker 1: They'll start going at each other, they'll start running, they'll
22:19
Speaker 1: start fleeing the country like rats, the rats that they are.
22:23
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, what else do we have? Venezuela, right, Venezuela.
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Speaker 1: So a bunch of stuff is happening. Reasonaly, Venezuela. We'll
22:37
Speaker 1: take it one by one. We'll start with the fact
22:39
Speaker 1: that Venezuela on an incredible positive side. It's unlike we'll
22:47
Speaker 1: really put pressure on this Venezuela and regime. And the
22:50
Speaker 1: consequence of that is that today they freed a significant
22:55
Speaker 1: number of political political prisoners. Originally, when I read it,
23:01
Speaker 1: it sounded like they were only going to release foreign
23:03
Speaker 1: feign as they were being held as political prisoners often
23:09
Speaker 1: used to trade with other countries, as they did with America.
23:16
Speaker 1: They traded with the United States, but trade prisoners for prisoners.
23:21
Speaker 1: But I saw photos and video of Venezuela and opposition leaders.
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Speaker 1: Venezuela and opposition leaders, So people who oppose the regime
23:33
Speaker 1: in Venezuela being released. Uh, the one of the leaders
23:38
Speaker 1: of the opposition party and number of the leaders of
23:40
Speaker 1: the opposition party sort of celebrating with their family.
23:43
Speaker 2: As they as they reached home.
23:45
Speaker 1: So this is great news and and indicates maybe potentially
23:50
Speaker 1: that this whole thing could lead ultimately to some kind
23:55
Speaker 1: of actual you know, election, to an acceptance of the
24:03
Speaker 1: opposition and acceptance of ultimately opposition rule. It really is
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Speaker 1: hard to tell, right, It's hard to tell because everything
24:10
Speaker 1: could change. It's a dictatorship there, so all it takes
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Speaker 1: is the people at the top to decide otherwise and
24:15
Speaker 1: everything changes. So still hard to tell. But some positive science,
24:21
Speaker 1: some positive science. In addition, the Venezuela Feign Ministry has
24:33
Speaker 1: announced that it is decided to initiate what it is
24:37
Speaker 1: calling extraordinary exploratory an extraordinary exploratory diplomatic process with the
24:42
Speaker 1: United States in order to address mutual interests as well
24:46
Speaker 1: as the quote kidnapping of former President Aduo. As part
24:51
Speaker 1: of this diplomatic poscess, the Foreign Ministry confirmed the arrival
24:53
Speaker 1: of a delegation of US Department of State in Caracas
24:57
Speaker 1: was stating that delegation of Venezuela and the plomats will
25:01
Speaker 1: be sent to.
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Speaker 2: The United States.
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Speaker 1: Supposedly, the current dictator of Venezuela wants to come to
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Speaker 1: Washington to meet with meet with Trump. That might happen
25:11
Speaker 1: in the next few weeks, so she wants to suck
25:15
Speaker 1: up to Trump. And indeed a number of US staff
25:23
Speaker 1: have arrived in Caracas. The United States has had a
25:28
Speaker 1: Venezuela is a phase unit that runs out of Colombia
25:32
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen, and they have an acting US Ambassador
25:37
Speaker 1: to Columbia, John McNamara, and the people in the embassy
25:42
Speaker 1: in Colombia, the people who are part of this Venezuela
25:47
Speaker 1: and a fay unit are the ones going over to
25:50
Speaker 1: that have gone over to Caracas to start negotiating, to
25:54
Speaker 1: start maybe setting up the opening of the embassy in Caracas.
25:59
Speaker 1: It's that is the plan at least, So it seems
26:04
Speaker 1: like on the diplomatic front, things are easing and there's
26:08
Speaker 1: a certain openness on the part of the dictators in
26:12
Speaker 1: Caracas to appease the Trump administration. Trump said, I think
26:20
Speaker 1: earlier today, like we had a second strike, and I
26:23
Speaker 1: stopped a second strike because they're behaving themselves. So he
26:26
Speaker 1: keeps threatening the second strike, and I think that take
26:29
Speaker 1: came seriously so in that sense, exactly what the goal is,
26:35
Speaker 1: who knows, but it seems to be working today. Trump willbio,
26:40
Speaker 1: Chris Wright, the Secretary Energy, Doug Bergram, Interior Secretary, met
26:44
Speaker 1: with executives some seventeen oil companies.
26:47
Speaker 2: I saw photos with.
26:48
Speaker 1: Techer Calson was like, at this meeting, I'm sure that's
26:52
Speaker 1: real or not. Maybe it was at the reception after before. Anyway,
26:56
Speaker 1: you had all the major oil companies at this meeting today.
27:03
Speaker 1: Not clear what exactly came out of that meeting. Basically,
27:07
Speaker 1: Trump basically told Conico Phillips that they need to abandon
27:11
Speaker 1: their twelve billion legal claim against Venezuela for seizing their
27:15
Speaker 1: oil so much for property rights restitution. That's not what
27:21
Speaker 1: Trump wants, and so he's basically telling him to to
27:27
Speaker 1: to drop it. And he's asking the old companies to
27:32
Speaker 1: invest in Venezuela.
27:35
Speaker 2: And you know, Chevron, which.
27:39
Speaker 1: Is already there, basically is saying, yeah, no problem, we
27:44
Speaker 1: can increase capacity.
27:46
Speaker 2: It's not that hard and not an Exon.
27:51
Speaker 1: Exon is basically saying Venezuela's uninvestible, it's uninvestable, it's too risky,
27:59
Speaker 1: and and you know it can be done. If this
28:03
Speaker 1: is the the CEO of Exxon. If you look at
28:06
Speaker 1: the commercial constructs frameworks in place in Venezuela today, it's uninvestable.
28:13
Speaker 1: Significant changes have to be made to these frameworks, the
28:16
Speaker 1: legal system, they have to be doable, investment protections, and
28:22
Speaker 1: change to the hydro carbon laws. You basically said they've
28:28
Speaker 1: nationalized our stuff twice twice.
28:32
Speaker 2: We're not going to fall for that again.
28:36
Speaker 1: Now. I think I think Trump's inclination will be we'll
28:44
Speaker 1: ensure you, we'll gearantee you, we'll subsidize you. Just go
28:50
Speaker 1: invest there so you know we will see, we will see.
28:57
Speaker 1: Now it's hard to imagine investing in Venezuela where you
29:04
Speaker 1: really need oil at about eighty bucks a gallon to
29:07
Speaker 1: be profitable oil right now is it fifty nine dollars
29:10
Speaker 1: a gallon. There are other places in the world that
29:14
Speaker 1: are much easier investments, a lot less political risk, a
29:18
Speaker 1: lot lower risk of losing money. Venezuela is the demands
29:23
Speaker 1: A fifty percent royalty rate, has a thirty three percent
29:26
Speaker 1: tax rate, and of course you've got security challenges, rull
29:29
Speaker 1: of law, and hulpable infrastructure. So the likelihood that you know,
29:36
Speaker 1: American oil companies are going to rush into Venezuela is
29:40
Speaker 1: very small. It's just not going to happen. It's wish
29:44
Speaker 1: for thinking on the part of Trump. It's still not
29:48
Speaker 1: exactly what the homer Doer thing is all about. It's
29:52
Speaker 1: still not clear to me why they couldn't have just
29:54
Speaker 1: kind of deal with my door to open up his
29:56
Speaker 1: own market. And you know, I don't know, I have
30:02
Speaker 1: no idea. What's the endgame, what's the purpose? What are
30:06
Speaker 1: they trying to achieve? I mean, maybe it's just what
30:10
Speaker 1: it looks like, which is Trump wants to control the
30:13
Speaker 1: oil in Venezuela. He wants absolute control over that who
30:17
Speaker 1: it sells to. He actually said today, They're okay to
30:20
Speaker 1: sell to China. We'll sell it. We'll sell it to China. So, yeah,
30:39
Speaker 1: what exactly they're doing Hotel now, They are chasing down
30:42
Speaker 1: the tankers, so they are committed to kind of this
30:45
Speaker 1: oil imbalgo. They're not allowing tankers to leave Venezuela with
30:49
Speaker 1: oil unless the United States has approved it. Sixteen sixteen
30:53
Speaker 1: tankers have escaped US blockade.
30:56
Speaker 2: They did it on January.
30:59
Speaker 1: Third, just after the rest of my duo. Sixteen of
31:03
Speaker 1: them fled. Two have been seized, right including so total
31:10
Speaker 1: total have been seized five two of those sixteen, so
31:15
Speaker 1: there's still fourteen out there. That part of the shadow
31:19
Speaker 1: fleet that the US is not captured, is not seized.
31:27
Speaker 1: So yeah, early this morning they got the fifth boat,
31:31
Speaker 1: which the coast got boarded. You can see video of it.
31:35
Speaker 1: It's quite dramatic, the video of getting getting of boarding
31:42
Speaker 1: the ship and taking it over. Yeah, it's pretty dramatic.
31:45
Speaker 1: See helicopter and a boat and they climbed up on board.
31:52
Speaker 1: This ship was loaded with seven hundred thousand bowels of
31:56
Speaker 1: CUD from Venezuela. It had loaded up on December of
32:00
Speaker 1: twenty fourth and was heading who knows, you know. The
32:06
Speaker 1: The owner is a Hong Kong company, probably heading to
32:10
Speaker 1: China uh. And the tank is now on its way
32:14
Speaker 1: back to Venezuela again to be to be controlled.
32:17
Speaker 3: By to be.
32:19
Speaker 1: Whatever by the United States by Trump. Trump makes all
32:24
Speaker 1: oil decisions. About seventy of Venezuela's oil exports rely on
32:35
Speaker 1: these sanctioned vessels to get around US sanctions of its
32:40
Speaker 1: own oil industry. Both Russia, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela all
32:45
Speaker 1: use this almada of old you know, falling apart vessels
32:52
Speaker 1: to get oil to markets to the dumb all right.
32:59
Speaker 2: I guess some of this is to.
33:03
Speaker 1: Signal to to China, to Russia, uh that the United
33:10
Speaker 1: States has the capacity to blockade and to block these
33:13
Speaker 1: uh uh these shipments from from happening.
33:19
Speaker 3: All right, m.
33:28
Speaker 2: M all right, where are we?
33:32
Speaker 1: Yes? All right? So that is that is Venezuela. Keep
33:36
Speaker 1: you updated as we get any clarity on this. This
33:39
Speaker 1: probably story will will probably yeh, take years to really
33:44
Speaker 1: evolve and and to really understand what they're doing. Weeks,
33:47
Speaker 1: if not months. So unless something dramatic happens, you probably
33:51
Speaker 1: won't be hearing from me much about it. Uh. Let's see.
33:56
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, let's talk about what happened in Many Bliss,
34:00
Speaker 1: the Ice shooting murder. In my view, a more video
34:04
Speaker 1: has come out, more video, this time what looks like
34:08
Speaker 1: bodycam from the either bodycam.
34:11
Speaker 2: Or from his iPhone from the shooter himself.
34:15
Speaker 1: I think this, you know, solidifies my position that you know,
34:21
Speaker 1: he was he was actually not being run over that
34:27
Speaker 1: you know she had. So this video right before the shooting,
34:32
Speaker 1: he first of all, he goes and stands in front
34:34
Speaker 1: of the of the car, of the suv. According to
34:38
Speaker 1: all the regulations, all the instructions of law enforcement, including ICE,
34:43
Speaker 1: you don't stand in front of a vehicle. You don't
34:46
Speaker 1: you stand to the side, you don't stand in front,
34:49
Speaker 1: and you don't try to stop a fleeing a fleeing suspect.
34:54
Speaker 1: You take down the license plate number and you go
34:56
Speaker 1: chase him down later, particularly for a relatively insignificant.
35:02
Speaker 2: Fence, which is I don't know, maybe obstructing.
35:04
Speaker 1: It's not clear what they had against her, but maybe obstructing.
35:10
Speaker 1: So he stands in front of their shue, but to
35:12
Speaker 1: the side, not center, to the side, and you can
35:16
Speaker 1: see so the camera's facing her directly and you can
35:20
Speaker 1: see her turning the wheel to the right to go
35:25
Speaker 1: around him. See, Yeah, she gets very close and maybe
35:30
Speaker 1: he needs to move a little bit so she doesn't
35:32
Speaker 1: hit him. But he only shoots. This is the shooter.
35:41
Speaker 1: This is the shooter. Is the shooter.
35:46
Speaker 5: And he he gets out of the way, but draws
35:53
Speaker 5: his gun, shoots her through the front windshield and then
35:57
Speaker 5: shoots twice through the side windshield.
35:59
Speaker 1: By that point, she's the cause of what he got.
36:01
Speaker 1: He's not no risk to his life. So the more
36:04
Speaker 1: video I see, the most low motion I see, the
36:08
Speaker 1: most still photos I see, the more convincing. You know,
36:14
Speaker 1: i'd say unequivocal, but so many of you don't seem
36:17
Speaker 1: to come to the same conclusion as I do. So
36:20
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what to say, but suddenly convincing,
36:24
Speaker 1: if not an equivocal, that this was not an act
36:27
Speaker 1: of self defense, this was an act of panic, of arrogance,
36:34
Speaker 1: of stupidity, of lack of professionalism on behalf of the agent. Now,
36:45
Speaker 1: she probably shouldn't have driven away, given how aggressive ice is.
36:51
Speaker 1: You've got to be careful of these bastards. But again,
36:57
Speaker 1: even if she was making the law by driving away,
36:59
Speaker 1: even if she selted a cop, even if it wasn't
37:02
Speaker 1: the right thing to do, doesn't justify death sentence on
37:09
Speaker 1: the spot, death sentence. And then, as I said yesterday,
37:15
Speaker 1: the behavior afterwards, I'm just walking around. I mean, they
37:20
Speaker 1: were almost high fiving and nonchalant, not giving a medical
37:27
Speaker 1: aid when her car because she died her foot pressed
37:31
Speaker 1: on accelerator zoomed in and crashed into con front of her,
37:35
Speaker 1: and she's lying there bleeding out. Nobody nobody ran over,
37:41
Speaker 1: I mean ultimate finally that the shooter went over and
37:43
Speaker 1: looked and he said, oh, you guys should call ninety
37:45
Speaker 1: one one. Really, I mean, these are like what I
37:53
Speaker 1: don't know, These are like paramilitary forces running around US streets.
37:58
Speaker 2: And what is the response? What is the response?
38:01
Speaker 1: Well? This is this one is the best response of
38:03
Speaker 1: all Right. This is from my as you know, my
38:05
Speaker 1: favorite commentator out day, almost my favorite, one of my favorites. Anyway,
38:09
Speaker 1: Matt Walsh, Matt Walsh. This is what Matt Walsh had
38:11
Speaker 1: to say, right. This is what a good Christian Matt Walsh,
38:17
Speaker 1: you know, father, family man, had to say about what happened. Right.
38:28
Speaker 1: He says, this lesbian agitator gave her life to protect
38:33
Speaker 1: sixty eight IQ Somali scammers who couldn't give less of
38:38
Speaker 1: a shit about her. The most disgraceful and humiliating end
38:43
Speaker 1: a person could possibly meet.
38:50
Speaker 2: This is so disgusting, so despicable.
38:57
Speaker 1: I mean, if they've got sixty eight IQ some all
39:00
Speaker 1: these scams, you know, how did they do the scams?
39:05
Speaker 1: Sixty eight IQ n car is not pointing at the shooter.
39:13
Speaker 1: She turns the wheel away from the shooter. You can
39:16
Speaker 1: literally see her turn the wheel, literally see her in
39:20
Speaker 1: the video turning the wheel and then driving away from
39:24
Speaker 1: the shooter. It's it's it's you know, it's not even debatable, guys,
39:31
Speaker 1: just watch the video. Not with your biased view to
39:36
Speaker 1: justify anything a law enforcement officer ever does. It's not
39:39
Speaker 1: your biased view of defending Trump no matter what, and
39:42
Speaker 1: defending this ugly, horrific administration. Not with a Matt Walsh
39:49
Speaker 1: view of she's a lesbian, therefore she must be bad
39:53
Speaker 1: and Somali's sixty eight IQ and now with a racist,
39:58
Speaker 1: you know, take off the racism for a little bit, take.
40:00
Speaker 2: Off your your your your your blinders.
40:02
Speaker 1: And actually look, she's turning the wheel away from him.
40:15
Speaker 1: Matt Walsh is a disgusting, despicable human being. We're talking
40:22
Speaker 1: about a US citizen, This woman, a mother. She just
40:30
Speaker 1: was killed in cold blood, cold blood. She didn't commit suicide.
40:36
Speaker 1: I mean, the right, the these these nutty, crazy Matt
40:40
Speaker 1: Walsh rightists are presenting this as if it's a suicide.
40:50
Speaker 1: She's not justifiable. Southsay need if you did this, if
40:54
Speaker 1: you did this. If you shot somebody on that basis,
40:59
Speaker 1: with that idio evidence and the photos you get from that,
41:03
Speaker 1: you would be sent to jail for a long time.
41:06
Speaker 1: And if you.
41:08
Speaker 2: Would be sent to.
41:09
Speaker 1: Jail social this cap and absolutely not justify self defense.
41:19
Speaker 1: He put himself into a position of harm. He should
41:21
Speaker 1: have never been in front of that vehicle. Never been
41:24
Speaker 1: in front of that vehicle.
41:26
Speaker 2: And when her.
41:29
Speaker 1: I don't know wife whatever tells her move move, she's
41:33
Speaker 1: telling her to get away because they're trying to get
41:34
Speaker 1: break into her car.
41:36
Speaker 2: Break into the car.
41:37
Speaker 1: They have no right to try to open her door
41:40
Speaker 1: and drag her out of the car. It's not how
41:44
Speaker 1: law enforcement don't function. Law enforcement would go up talk
41:48
Speaker 1: to her, ask her to get out. These people didn't
41:52
Speaker 1: do that, ran up to the car, grabbed the handle,
41:55
Speaker 1: try to open the door. So her wife he says, yeah,
42:01
Speaker 1: get out of here. Yes not move, move run over
42:04
Speaker 1: this guy. That's insane and clearly counted to the evidence presented. Yeah.
42:20
Speaker 1: Pe Gupta says, ramming into the agent would mean van
42:24
Speaker 1: accelerating towards him, which would have prevented.
42:27
Speaker 2: Him from pointing and shooting.
42:28
Speaker 1: And he shot very effectively, very accurately, but you can see.
42:33
Speaker 1: I mean there are photos of when exact moment he
42:37
Speaker 1: makes the first shot, and he is away from the vehicle.
42:43
Speaker 1: He is not being run over by the vehicle. He
42:46
Speaker 1: is already safe distance from the vehicle when he makes
42:49
Speaker 1: that first shot. Never mind the second and third shot,
42:52
Speaker 1: which are nowhere near self defense. He put himself in
42:58
Speaker 1: a position of harm and he inflicted on him, says
43:11
Speaker 1: she put herself in a position of harm. If people
43:13
Speaker 1: should harass Ice, which other law enforcement should be harassed
43:17
Speaker 1: by the sidants of the iOS agents. I should definitely
43:23
Speaker 1: be harassed. They're roaming around the streets in body armor
43:30
Speaker 1: and masks. They should definitely be protests. They should definitely
43:34
Speaker 1: be challenged, absolutely infilmed, sitting back and pretending this is
43:43
Speaker 1: this isn't a massive violation of your rights. If iOS
43:46
Speaker 1: agents start going door to door and knocking on your
43:49
Speaker 1: door and and and demanding to come in to see
43:53
Speaker 1: what assets you have in the home, then they should
43:56
Speaker 1: be harassed.
43:56
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
43:59
Speaker 1: When you get stopped by an ICE agent for no reason,
44:03
Speaker 1: you've done nothing, they should be harassed, at least filmed.
44:12
Speaker 1: We're not talking about insurrection, We're talking about standing by, yelling, shame,
44:17
Speaker 1: at them. Nobody is. Nobody is pulling weapons out and
44:22
Speaker 1: fighting them. Nobody is nobody is nobody has attacked an
44:27
Speaker 1: ICE agents.
44:28
Speaker 2: You know, maybe maybe some people threw some stuff at.
44:30
Speaker 1: Them in LA. Nobody's attacking ICE agents peacefully demonstrating, peacefully videotaping.
44:39
Speaker 1: Given the extent, given the extent at which ICE is
44:44
Speaker 1: violating people's rights, given extent at which they're harassing individuals,
44:49
Speaker 1: given the extent in which they're physically harming human beings,
44:59
Speaker 1: they need to be stopped. They need to be you know,
45:03
Speaker 1: what they're doing needs to be shown to the world,
45:06
Speaker 1: and the American public needs to express the dissatisfaction with
45:11
Speaker 1: what they are doing. Nobody's God, these guys are armed
45:20
Speaker 1: to the teeth. Who the hell is attacking them? You know,
45:24
Speaker 1: they're pulling guns out on unarmed civilians.
45:27
Speaker 2: This is America.
45:32
Speaker 1: I don't know when when you think it's appropriate to
45:35
Speaker 1: stand up to the government and say no.
45:38
Speaker 2: Ever, do you think it's ever? I mean, is it
45:43
Speaker 2: the case?
45:45
Speaker 1: Is it the case that whatever the government asks you
45:48
Speaker 1: to do, whatever government officers I ask you to do, you
45:51
Speaker 1: go yes, sir, immediately, sir, of course, sir. I'm at
45:55
Speaker 1: your disposal. Sir, this is the land of don't tread
46:01
Speaker 1: on me. This is the land of liberty and freedom.
46:05
Speaker 1: This is the land of individual rights. You people who
46:10
Speaker 1: claim to be pro liberty, you want to just hand
46:14
Speaker 1: over your rights the law enforcement in the name of
46:17
Speaker 1: sixty eight IQ Somali's and deporting them. That's more important
46:21
Speaker 1: than your rights. You're important than your liberties. This is
46:28
Speaker 1: about as close as we bean to a police state.
46:30
Speaker 1: You've got police roaming the streets demanding you identify yourself.
46:36
Speaker 2: I don't know.
46:37
Speaker 1: That sounds like a police state to me. It's as
46:39
Speaker 1: close as we being. I'm not saying shoot them, I'm
46:46
Speaker 1: not saying start the revolution. But pull out a camera
46:50
Speaker 1: to record what they're doing. Absolutely, yell at them and
46:53
Speaker 1: shame them. Absolutely, because they should be ashamed of their behavior.
46:57
Speaker 1: They should be ashamed of what they are doing. If
47:06
Speaker 1: you don't, yeah, you inviting them to tread on you
47:14
Speaker 1: by saying no, I can't object.
47:16
Speaker 2: To the law enforcement.
47:17
Speaker 1: Always do what law enforcement tells you, guys, that's my advice.
47:21
Speaker 1: Always do what law enforcement tells you. That is ridiculous,
47:31
Speaker 1: particularly after months of seeing ice abusing their power over
47:37
Speaker 1: and over and over again.
47:45
Speaker 2: I get it.
47:46
Speaker 1: I've already lost a lot of subscribers over this. That's fine,
47:49
Speaker 1: and I lose more. I really don't care. My standard
47:53
Speaker 1: is the truth and freedom and liberty, and as a
47:56
Speaker 1: domestic issue, I can't think of anything more, you know,
48:02
Speaker 1: horrific than the actions of ICE. I mean, if ICE
48:11
Speaker 1: was going after criminals, okay, ICE was going after gang members, okay,
48:17
Speaker 1: But ICE is not doing any of that.
48:19
Speaker 2: Indeed, it shot a US citizen.
48:27
Speaker 1: Because an unprofessional ICE agent panic because in the past
48:32
Speaker 1: he was traumatized by the fact that in the past
48:34
Speaker 1: he'd smashed in another he'd smashed somebody's back window, reached
48:40
Speaker 1: in to try to open the front door, which is
48:42
Speaker 1: again against all police protocol, amateur behavior. And then the
48:48
Speaker 1: guy started driving and dragged him along and he had
48:50
Speaker 1: to have I don't know thirty three stitches as a consequence.
48:53
Speaker 1: And now he's traumatized by cause she shoots anybody who
48:57
Speaker 1: he fears on its way.
49:01
Speaker 2: The guy.
49:03
Speaker 1: Has shown these unprofessional doesn't know how to deal with people.
49:07
Speaker 2: And what are people smashing people's car windows for.
49:10
Speaker 1: You think they were going after murderers, You think they
49:14
Speaker 1: were going after I don't know, terrorists.
49:18
Speaker 2: This is what you do with terrorists.
49:21
Speaker 1: But now they're just going after you know, brown looking
49:28
Speaker 1: people who are trying to work for a living. You
49:38
Speaker 1: don't have to be do You have to be pro
49:40
Speaker 1: open voters to see the evil that is involved in
49:44
Speaker 1: the way Ice is behaving. I've articulated what I believe
49:49
Speaker 1: is a proper immigration policy. This ain't it. This ain't
49:55
Speaker 1: it anyway. If you're fall individual rights, then you're full immigration.
50:15
Speaker 1: If you're for individual rights, you should reject the idea
50:19
Speaker 1: of the police stopping you and demanding identification without you
50:23
Speaker 1: having done anything wrong. If your point a vidual rights,
50:26
Speaker 1: you should be against rounding people up who have committed
50:31
Speaker 1: no crime. Maybe they violated the law, but they've committed
50:36
Speaker 1: no crime by armed thugs who used force use anyway,
50:49
Speaker 1: there is a there's a bill in Congress and attempt
50:54
Speaker 1: to put together a bill in Congress to reform the
50:57
Speaker 1: Department of Human of Homeland Security. How about dismantling that department.
51:02
Speaker 1: I mean I was against the formation of the Department
51:05
Speaker 1: Homeland Security.
51:07
Speaker 2: In two thousand and two.
51:08
Speaker 1: When George Bush did the biggest restructuring of government in
51:11
Speaker 1: American history and created the Department of Homeland Security.
51:15
Speaker 2: He created a monster.
51:18
Speaker 1: And ICE is one of the manifestations of that monster,
51:30
Speaker 1: and the whole department should be broken up and ICE
51:34
Speaker 1: should be shut down, completely shut down.
51:41
Speaker 2: Let's see.
51:41
Speaker 1: Anyway, this bill is going to supposedly would reform the
51:47
Speaker 1: bound health of Homeland Security, would place constraints on agents
51:51
Speaker 1: and how the agency conducts arrests.
51:54
Speaker 2: This is.
51:56
Speaker 1: Senator Chris Murphy. He's trying to build a Democrats to
52:02
Speaker 1: reject the Department of Homeland Security funding absent reforms. And
52:09
Speaker 1: the bill would include it would require DHS to obtain
52:12
Speaker 1: a want for any arrest that isn't at the border. Yes,
52:17
Speaker 1: in America, you should need a warrant to arrest somebody.
52:20
Speaker 1: They would limit the use of firearms by ICE when
52:23
Speaker 1: conducting civil matters. Immigration is a civil not a criminal matter.
52:29
Speaker 1: It would require agents to wear identification and remain unmasked.
52:33
Speaker 2: During enforcement operations.
52:35
Speaker 1: Absolutely, they should behave like every other police force out there.
52:39
Speaker 1: And it would require a border patrol, the actual people
52:42
Speaker 1: from the border patrol to do what how about stay
52:46
Speaker 1: at the border. So yeah, I don't.
52:59
Speaker 2: Have much hope that a bit like that would pass.
53:01
Speaker 1: Republicans won't let it. But that would be That would
53:04
Speaker 1: be amazing. You know, the woman in the car, if
53:12
Speaker 1: they thought she was obstructing, they could have arrested her.
53:15
Speaker 1: There was no urgency. They could have arrested her later.
53:18
Speaker 1: They didn't have to arrest her right there. They could
53:20
Speaker 1: have let her car go and gone and arrested at home.
53:24
Speaker 1: They didn't have to shoot her. Don't have to kill her.
53:28
Speaker 1: Nobody nobody once you know, given where the shot was
53:34
Speaker 1: taken from, nobody's life was in danger when the first
53:38
Speaker 1: shot was taken, never mind the second and third. Nobody's
53:42
Speaker 1: life was in danger. Jd Evans today, This is a
53:48
Speaker 1: quote from Jadvance. It was a legitimate law enforcement operation.
53:52
Speaker 1: We were going door to door to try to find
53:55
Speaker 1: criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States
53:58
Speaker 1: door to door. Then I'll go, I don't think that's
54:03
Speaker 1: legal for them to do. And they're not looking for
54:06
Speaker 1: criminal illegal aliens. They're just drowning up anybody who is
54:10
Speaker 1: an illegal. They're not looking for criminals.
54:16
Speaker 4: Uh.
54:16
Speaker 1: Jd Evans continue to say a prayer for that agent,
54:19
Speaker 1: he deserves a debt of gratitude. No, he deserves condemnation
54:22
Speaker 1: and to rotten hell. H. He also continues to say
54:31
Speaker 1: that that agent is protected by quote absolute immunity. He
54:37
Speaker 1: was thus just doing his job. So now when you
54:41
Speaker 1: know when h law enforce, when ICE in particular shoots you,
54:46
Speaker 1: then they're covered by complete immunity, no problem, complete immunity.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean if you look at the agent's video, yeah,
55:10
Speaker 1: it just it just shows without any question that she
55:15
Speaker 1: is uh, you know, she's moving away away.
55:20
Speaker 3: From where he's standing. All right, what are we doing here?
55:38
Speaker 1: You want to ask questions? Super chat is open. All right,
55:45
Speaker 1: we'll get to all your questions, Leada, let's see. Yeah,
55:56
Speaker 1: this is from the dispatch. I think this is quite good.
55:59
Speaker 1: For the past, ICE has been involved in a series
56:02
Speaker 1: of escalating incidents that rarely result in repercussions for anyone involved.
56:07
Speaker 1: ICE agents have recklessly caused traffic accidents and then, in
56:11
Speaker 1: one incident, arrested the person whose car they hit. They've
56:15
Speaker 1: tear gassed a veteran, arrested him and denied him access
56:18
Speaker 1: to medical care and an attorney. They have attack protesters
56:23
Speaker 1: merely for filming them in public. They pepper spade a
56:27
Speaker 1: fleeing onlooker in the eyes from a foot away. They
56:31
Speaker 1: pointed guns six year old. They've knelt on top of
56:34
Speaker 1: a pregnant woman while they arrested her. They have arrested
56:38
Speaker 1: another pregnant woman then kept us separated from her newborn.
56:42
Speaker 2: While she languished in custody.
56:45
Speaker 1: They have repeatedly arrested American citizens, and they've even reportedly
56:49
Speaker 1: deported a citizen directly contradicting court orders. As these violence
56:55
Speaker 1: keep occurring, the response on the Trumpet administration is the
56:59
Speaker 1: propagate dies and lie as flagrantly as it can. Jd Vance,
57:06
Speaker 1: offering absolutely nothing whatsoever it to back up his word
57:10
Speaker 1: words is called Renee Good, a deranged leftist. Homeland Security
57:16
Speaker 1: Secretary of christ Henomes claim Wednesday that Good was a
57:19
Speaker 1: domestic terrorist was said without a shred of evidence, but
57:23
Speaker 1: it's part of a pattern. The administration and its agencies
57:27
Speaker 1: claim they are not arresting citizens when they are. They
57:30
Speaker 1: claimed any Iraq veteran assaulted officers when video showed Deplainey
57:35
Speaker 1: did not and no charges were ever filed. They denied
57:40
Speaker 1: pepper spraying an infant when they did, and far from
57:43
Speaker 1: trying to cool tensions and prevent for the violent incidents,
57:46
Speaker 1: the administration routinely employs mombastic language and social media in
57:51
Speaker 1: attempt to normalize brutality, violence, and lawlessness a standard operating procedure,
57:59
Speaker 1: absolutely right. And the more they escalate this, the more
58:02
Speaker 1: people will get shot, the more people will get killed,
58:06
Speaker 1: the more horrors will occur, And if nobody stands up
58:11
Speaker 1: to them, then they will continue to believe that they
58:13
Speaker 1: can get away with anything. In other words, they can
58:16
Speaker 1: get away with murder. And it looks like they can
58:20
Speaker 1: indeed get away with murder, and it looks like many
58:23
Speaker 1: of you will support them when they get away with murder.
58:26
Speaker 1: So why would they ever stop? The Trump administration has
58:29
Speaker 1: their back and many people in the public are just
58:34
Speaker 1: willing to do.
58:34
Speaker 2: Oh, it's law enforcement.
58:35
Speaker 1: We can't criticize law enforcement. God forbid, we criticized LA enforcement,
58:39
Speaker 1: and god forbid we challenge them or film them or
58:42
Speaker 1: tape them, or tell them that there's scum. So no,
58:52
Speaker 1: this is just reinforced. And if this guy gets away
58:55
Speaker 1: with it, you will see more and more escalation in
58:58
Speaker 1: the violence. You will see more and more Americans being
59:03
Speaker 1: hood by ICE because look, once you the reality is
59:07
Speaker 1: that ICE is supposed to go.
59:08
Speaker 2: After illegal immigrants.
59:11
Speaker 1: But you can imagine a world in which ICE is
59:14
Speaker 1: used by an administration of a future to just go
59:17
Speaker 1: after their opponents, to just go after whoever they want.
59:23
Speaker 1: We're letting them get away with it. Letting them get
59:28
Speaker 1: away with it. Here's just a few a few of
59:35
Speaker 1: the standards by which police functions. So this is the
59:38
Speaker 1: police use of force rule on moving vehicles Court police
59:44
Speaker 1: rule taught nationwide. Officers should not intentionally place themselves in
59:49
Speaker 1: front of or in the path of a moving vehicle
59:53
Speaker 1: and then use their deforced to stop it. It's pretty
59:56
Speaker 1: clear Partner of Justice, FBI, and National police standards. This
1:00:02
Speaker 1: is the US Department of Justice, and if we are
1:00:04
Speaker 1: training doctrinate, a moving vehicle alone is not considered a death.
1:00:09
Speaker 1: A deadly threat, officers must attempt to move out of
1:00:12
Speaker 1: the vehicle's path rather than fire, which is what he did,
1:00:16
Speaker 1: and then he fired. Deadly force is not justified if quote,
1:00:23
Speaker 1: the officer voluntarily placed themselves in front of the vehicle,
1:00:27
Speaker 1: which he did. In this case, the vehicle is attempting
1:00:30
Speaker 1: to flee. There are other avenues of escape. The International
1:00:36
Speaker 1: Association of Chiefs of Police Officers shall not fire at
1:00:41
Speaker 1: or farm a movie vehicle unless there's an imminent threat
1:00:45
Speaker 1: other than the vehicle itself, and no reasonable alternative exists.
1:00:50
Speaker 1: Standing in front of a vehicle creates the danger and
1:00:53
Speaker 1: invalidates the justification. Invalidates the justification. Minnesota training police training
1:01:05
Speaker 1: officers must avoid positioning themselves in front of vehicles doing
1:01:08
Speaker 1: enforcement actions. Use of deadly forces not justified when the
1:01:12
Speaker 1: danger results from officers' own tactical decisions.
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Speaker 2: This is just their manuals the Supreme Court.
1:01:19
Speaker 1: This is a ruling by the Upme Court. An officer
1:01:24
Speaker 1: cannot manufacture a deadly forced scenario and then claim self defense.
1:01:29
Speaker 1: This is known legally as the officer created jeopardy. By
1:01:33
Speaker 1: standing in front of the car. He created the jeopardy.
1:01:40
Speaker 1: Police are taught step aside, let the vehicle go identify
1:01:44
Speaker 1: it later, do not block the call with your body,
1:01:48
Speaker 1: do not draw a gun in front of a car.
1:01:53
Speaker 1: That's just police training. That's not me making it up.
1:01:57
Speaker 1: That's not my views.
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Speaker 3: All right, all.
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Speaker 2: Alright, Muslim Brotherhood.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of a funny story, but I think
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Speaker 1: quite indicative, quite indicative of the state of the world.
1:03:57
Speaker 1: See the United Arab Emirates, you know, and Abu Dhabi. Yeah,
1:04:03
Speaker 1: Arab Emirates has decided to cut the amount of money
1:04:07
Speaker 1: they are giving they will give the citizens who go
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Speaker 1: to study in the UK. And generally they are discouraging
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Speaker 1: their students from going to study in the UK.
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Speaker 2: Why because they're afraid.
1:04:24
Speaker 1: They're worried that when they go to the UK they
1:04:28
Speaker 1: will be radicalized by the Muslim Brotherhood. Emirates fear of
1:04:35
Speaker 1: Islamic radicalization weighs on exclusion of British universities from scholarships.
1:04:41
Speaker 1: That is the headline, and this is from the Financial Times.
1:04:48
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty funny when the Arabs, when the
1:04:52
Speaker 1: Muslim Arabs are telling Great Britain and it's great universities
1:04:59
Speaker 1: that the students are far more likely to be radicalized
1:05:04
Speaker 1: into Islam into UH, you know, the into Islamism by
1:05:13
Speaker 1: by UH preachers in in in England than they are
1:05:21
Speaker 1: likely to be radicalized in the Arab world itself. Yue
1:05:26
Speaker 1: has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, sees it as an entity
1:05:32
Speaker 1: that is actively engaged in subverting UH their government. I
1:05:41
Speaker 1: think the West generally should outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood. The
1:05:44
Speaker 1: Muslim brotherhood is dedicated to dedicating to subverting Western governments,
1:05:51
Speaker 1: and it should be outlawed.
1:05:52
Speaker 2: And until you know, right now.
1:05:55
Speaker 1: There's more Muslim brotherhoods preaching and teaching in Europe, then
1:06:01
Speaker 1: there on Saudi Arabia and the UE. Saudi Arabia and
1:06:04
Speaker 1: UI have recognized the threat and done something about it.
1:06:08
Speaker 1: Europe still pretends there is no threat. Europe chooses to
1:06:12
Speaker 1: take its head and bury it deep, deep, deep into
1:06:16
Speaker 1: the sand. I see on my chat that's still talking
1:06:21
Speaker 1: about ice. All right, let's see. Job support came out
1:06:35
Speaker 1: today and you know, generally I think there were fifty
1:06:43
Speaker 1: thousand jobs created in the economy last month, way below expectations.
1:06:49
Speaker 1: Unemployment rate who was surprised, went down to four point
1:06:54
Speaker 1: four percent, I think, from four point six and the end,
1:06:58
Speaker 1: you know, growth in average all the earnings was in
1:07:03
Speaker 1: line with expectations. Labor force participation of sixty two point
1:07:07
Speaker 1: four which again was in line of expectations. But generally,
1:07:11
Speaker 1: the clear conclusion is that over the last really since April,
1:07:18
Speaker 1: since Tariff's, job growth in the United States has been anemic.
1:07:24
Speaker 1: Basically all the jobs have been concentrated in one sector,
1:07:28
Speaker 1: and that's healthcare services. Almost no other sector has seen
1:07:33
Speaker 1: job growth. Maybe leision, hospitality, but certainly manufacturing has seen
1:07:41
Speaker 1: declines in growth systematically since April. But in every other area,
1:07:46
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a GRAPHI In every other area, maybe
1:07:49
Speaker 1: finance seen a little bit of growth, and government obviously
1:07:54
Speaker 1: have shown quite a bit because about two hundred thousand
1:07:56
Speaker 1: government employees have been fired.
1:07:58
Speaker 2: That's a good thing.
1:07:58
Speaker 1: I'm all for of that shrinking, shrinking the government. But
1:08:06
Speaker 1: all of that is does not bode well. You know,
1:08:11
Speaker 1: the job market is bad in the tech secting continuing
1:08:14
Speaker 1: in particular, you see a continuing losing jobs. Overall employment
1:08:20
Speaker 1: decreased by five thousand last month. It's down nineteen thousand
1:08:24
Speaker 1: over the last year, so over the last twelve months,
1:08:28
Speaker 1: and not as bad as it was, let's say in
1:08:34
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four when there was kind of a so
1:08:36
Speaker 1: called tech recession, but pretty bad as compared to what
1:08:40
Speaker 1: it was in the early two thousands and in the
1:08:43
Speaker 1: late in the late teens. So pretty lousy job report.
1:08:53
Speaker 1: And really, if you look at when it all started,
1:08:55
Speaker 1: when job growth, job growth is going fine under Biden,
1:08:59
Speaker 1: job growth is fine. It really starts in the first
1:09:02
Speaker 1: couple of months of Trump job growth is fine. It
1:09:05
Speaker 1: really starts in April. It starts in Liberation Day. And
1:09:09
Speaker 1: since Liberation Day, job creation in America has been pathetic.
1:09:14
Speaker 1: It's been very low. And you know, so, even though
1:09:19
Speaker 1: the economy seems to be growing on GDP basis, even
1:09:23
Speaker 1: though consumers seem to be spending, I think, you know,
1:09:30
Speaker 1: jobs seem to be hooting. So people are talking about
1:09:33
Speaker 1: a jobless boom. Stock market keeps to going up, GDP
1:09:37
Speaker 1: goes up, right, and yet there's a hiring recession, almost
1:09:42
Speaker 1: no hiring outside of healthcare maybe hospitality. Twenty five was
1:09:49
Speaker 1: the worst year for hiring outside of a recession recession
1:09:53
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty in two thousand and eight. Since two
1:09:57
Speaker 1: thousand and three, there's almost no hiring in April, sinceable,
1:10:03
Speaker 1: no hiring net sin sable. December is often a decent
1:10:07
Speaker 1: month for hiring. Fifty thousand is really low.
1:10:12
Speaker 4: Now.
1:10:12
Speaker 1: A lot of that could be that all the illegal
1:10:17
Speaker 1: immigrants are being deported, they being working right their jobs,
1:10:19
Speaker 1: of this they're leaving, or the being they're kicked out.
1:10:25
Speaker 2: But I was told, I was told.
1:10:28
Speaker 1: Maybe by some of you, that when the illegals leave,
1:10:31
Speaker 1: Americans will fill their jobs. It turns out that is
1:10:35
Speaker 1: not happening. Lay participation rates are not going up the stable,
1:10:39
Speaker 1: but they're not going up. And you know, hiring is
1:10:45
Speaker 1: down significantly. If you don't get manufacturing manufacturing, you can
1:10:50
Speaker 1: come to the conclusion of the Tariks of actually doing
1:10:52
Speaker 1: the opposite of what they were promised. You remember, Taos
1:10:55
Speaker 1: are supposed to bring industrial jobs back to America.
1:10:59
Speaker 2: Well, if you look at hiring in in.
1:11:02
Speaker 1: In industry, what you're seeing is de industrialization of the country.
1:11:07
Speaker 1: That is across most industries. We're seeing loss of jobs.
1:11:13
Speaker 1: On a net, there's been a massive loss of jobs
1:11:16
Speaker 1: since April.
1:11:18
Speaker 2: In manufacturing, the only areas.
1:11:22
Speaker 1: Of manufacturing electrical equipment, fabricate a metal production up. Everything
1:11:27
Speaker 1: else is down. Transportation equipment way down, furniture way down,
1:11:32
Speaker 1: miscellaneous manufacturing way down, machinery way down, wood product manufacturing
1:11:37
Speaker 1: way down. And these are areas in which tariff should
1:11:41
Speaker 1: have restricted the amount of goods coming in and where
1:11:44
Speaker 1: American industry should be booming, and yet it's not working. Shockingly,
1:11:50
Speaker 1: and yet not unsurprisingly, manufacturing is contracting. Uh and the
1:11:58
Speaker 1: again the only one who's metal manufacturing, and that's because
1:12:03
Speaker 1: metal manufacturing steel aluminium, that's because of the tariffs. The
1:12:07
Speaker 1: traffs are basically made them the only game of talent,
1:12:12
Speaker 1: and the people who are paying for that are the
1:12:15
Speaker 1: people who use the metals or want to use the metals,
1:12:19
Speaker 1: and are now paying unbelievable prices. Can't afford to keep
1:12:22
Speaker 1: all the employees in a fiving.
1:12:23
Speaker 2: Them all right.
1:12:33
Speaker 1: If you look at broader measures of unemployment, including people
1:12:36
Speaker 1: who want a job but aren't in the labor market,
1:12:39
Speaker 1: who are working part time but want a full time job,
1:12:42
Speaker 1: then the labor market is in the worst place since
1:12:46
Speaker 1: the early pandemic, since twenty twenty. Not good, all right. Finally,
1:12:56
Speaker 1: let's talk about fentanyl. That's a fun topic, right, fentanyl.
1:13:00
Speaker 1: So there's a published in Science today trying to explain
1:13:06
Speaker 1: what has been happening with overdose deaths from fentanyl. Oh God,
1:13:12
Speaker 1: I lost my thing once again. Yeah, I mean, obviously
1:13:21
Speaker 1: the fentanyl.
1:13:23
Speaker 2: Trade.
1:13:25
Speaker 1: Fentanyl showed a huge, massive increase in deaths through twenty
1:13:32
Speaker 1: twenty three. Over that deaths passed one hundred thousand annually.
1:13:38
Speaker 1: During the only part of the Biden administration they have
1:13:43
Speaker 1: they had increased what twentyfold I think from like nineteen
1:13:47
Speaker 1: ninety overdoses from drugs have increased like twentyfold. But what's
1:13:54
Speaker 1: interesting is it's starting somewhere in twenty twenty three.
1:14:01
Speaker 2: And continuing to today.
1:14:05
Speaker 1: Death some overdose have dropped dramatically, I mean significantly numbers
1:14:10
Speaker 1: of reductions.
1:14:14
Speaker 2: So, you know, and this started.
1:14:17
Speaker 1: I'm sure Donald Trump is going to take full one
1:14:19
Speaker 1: hundred percent credit for this, but this decline in deaths
1:14:25
Speaker 1: from overdose has started well before Trump took office. They
1:14:28
Speaker 1: started in twenty twenty three. Now, why what is the cause?
1:14:34
Speaker 1: So this is the purpose of the researchers to figure
1:14:36
Speaker 1: that out.
1:14:37
Speaker 2: So what they find is.
1:14:41
Speaker 1: That, you know, the main the main reason for the reversal, right,
1:14:55
Speaker 1: is primarily the fact that China clam down on the
1:15:02
Speaker 1: production and sale of the precasa chemicals to make fentanyl.
1:15:08
Speaker 1: What happened was there was a significant shrinkage in supply.
1:15:14
Speaker 1: There was a major disruption in the fentanyl trade. They
1:15:17
Speaker 1: assume it was tied to Chinese government actions. So in
1:15:22
Speaker 1: spite of Trump making this a fentanyl tariffs and fentanyl
1:15:26
Speaker 1: this it sounds like the Chinese actually acted to reduce
1:15:30
Speaker 1: the amount of fentanyl being produced in Mexico and coming into.
1:15:34
Speaker 2: The United States.
1:15:37
Speaker 1: And the result of the decrease in supply is less
1:15:41
Speaker 1: use of fentanyl in other drugs, in the drugs that
1:15:46
Speaker 1: people are using, and the consequence of that is less
1:15:48
Speaker 1: deaths from fentanyl injections.
1:15:53
Speaker 2: China basically controls.
1:15:54
Speaker 1: This in a sense that if they sell the because
1:15:58
Speaker 1: of chemicals, it's easy to make fentanol in Mexico and
1:16:02
Speaker 1: begin into the United States. If they don't, it's very
1:16:05
Speaker 1: hard to find alternative sources for the basic chemicals that
1:16:08
Speaker 1: go into this synthetic opioid into the synthetic drug.
1:16:14
Speaker 2: So it's internal restrictions in China.
1:16:17
Speaker 1: That you know, China agree to really under the first
1:16:22
Speaker 1: Trump administration, but really only started enforcing under the Biden administration,
1:16:26
Speaker 1: laid in the Bide administration in twenty twenty three, that
1:16:29
Speaker 1: have led to this. So you will see a dramatic
1:16:31
Speaker 1: decline in over those deaths. Trump will claim it's blowing
1:16:36
Speaker 1: up boats in the Caribbean, killing people in the Caribbean.
1:16:39
Speaker 1: See that did it. Maybe deposing Maduro did it, But
1:16:42
Speaker 1: none of that has anything to do with over those deaths.
1:16:45
Speaker 1: None of that has anything to do with fentanol. It
1:16:47
Speaker 1: turns out it all has to do with fentanol. The
1:16:51
Speaker 1: supply of fentanyl being reduced, reduced because of actions taken
1:16:55
Speaker 1: by China and reduce starting during the Biden administration. God
1:16:59
Speaker 1: forbid we give Biden that administration credit for anything and
1:17:05
Speaker 1: not give it all all to God like Trump. Researchers
1:17:15
Speaker 1: also analyzed fans and our trends in Canada, where criminal
1:17:20
Speaker 1: groups have also secured precursor chemicals from China. Canada is
1:17:24
Speaker 1: typically based on all public health centered approach to combating
1:17:27
Speaker 1: opiot of epidemic. You know, they authorized numerous centers were
1:17:33
Speaker 1: users can consume drugs under supervision and stuff like that.
1:17:36
Speaker 1: Still death began falling around the same time in twenty
1:17:40
Speaker 1: twenty three. The Chinese crackdown probably explains the parallel mortality
1:17:48
Speaker 1: declines both in Canada and in the United States. What
1:17:55
Speaker 1: this the quote, Carnegie Mail and professor. What's really striking
1:17:59
Speaker 1: is that across the two countries, even though the two
1:18:02
Speaker 1: countries have very different domestic policies. So yeah, some good
1:18:10
Speaker 1: news over those deaths are declining. Of course, they would
1:18:14
Speaker 1: decline dramatically if drugs are legalized, but short of that
1:18:21
Speaker 1: will take what we can get. It's good that people
1:18:23
Speaker 1: are not dying in the streets from overdose. So for
1:18:26
Speaker 1: anything else except I guess you guys think it's good
1:18:30
Speaker 1: when they're dying in the streets by being shot from
1:18:32
Speaker 1: by ice, as long as it's ice ice. So the
1:18:35
Speaker 1: good guys, no matter what, absolute immunity according to gd
1:18:39
Speaker 1: events absolute. All right, that is the news for this Friday,
1:18:44
Speaker 1: January ninth. There will be a show tomorrow. I will
1:18:51
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1:19:02
Speaker 1: will be the review, but that will be the whole topic,
1:19:05
Speaker 1: Evola by Evola. I'll be talking about other stuff to
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Speaker 2: Thank you, he says, thanks to a.
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Speaker 1: Moral for the moral clarity, please consider reviewing the Good
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Speaker 1: Ice Minnesota Madness. The Good Ice Minnesota Madness with Jane Valiant.
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Speaker 1: Would appreciate a video with both of you understand If
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Speaker 1: you are not interested, thanks again. Yeah, I'm really not
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Speaker 1: interested in reviewing videos of other objectivists and uh and
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Speaker 1: So sorry, geek geek economists, I understand that, and I
1:23:03
Speaker 1: I I'm sorry, given given this fifty Canadian dollars, all right, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: what do you think of this as a psychological moral rule?
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Speaker 2: To help one.
1:23:18
Speaker 1: Re repress de repress, be the former skeptic, be he
1:23:26
Speaker 1: form of skeptic, or Christian saint, One can and should
1:23:30
Speaker 1: learn the cause of feeling true feeling true love and
1:23:35
Speaker 1: use such knowledge to inform one's choices. I mean, I
1:23:42
Speaker 1: think you know, I don't know if that will de
1:23:44
Speaker 1: repress you. I mean, it sounds right. You should definitely
1:23:48
Speaker 1: learn the cause of feeling true love, and you should
1:23:52
Speaker 1: hopefully you should can experience that and you can use
1:23:54
Speaker 1: that knowledge for other things. But Andrew, I you know,
1:23:58
Speaker 1: I'm not a psychologist. I don't know if that will
1:24:01
Speaker 1: depress you, and I don't know if that's enough. I
1:24:05
Speaker 1: doubt that that's enough. I think you need much more
1:24:07
Speaker 1: than that. But and it depends. Some people are former
1:24:10
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1:24:19
Speaker 1: lot less of impact on them, and some will raised
1:24:24
Speaker 1: Christian it has a huge impact on them. So it
1:24:26
Speaker 1: really really depends on how how much they've automatized that,
1:24:29
Speaker 1: how much they've integrated, how much it's become a part
1:24:31
Speaker 1: of them. Andrew Rand said, the essential characteristics of an
1:24:38
Speaker 1: ideal man is rationality. Yep, independence an aspect of rationality
1:24:43
Speaker 1: in a sense a great self esteem. Why do you
1:24:47
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1:24:50
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1:24:56
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1:24:58
Speaker 1: But why would to choose independence in addition to rationality?
1:25:02
Speaker 1: Rationality implies independence, but because to emphasize that you're an
1:25:06
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1:25:12
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1:25:19
Speaker 1: of rationality to who is really crucial.
1:25:25
Speaker 2: And of course you could add a lot.
1:25:26
Speaker 1: Of things, because I mean, how's he going to get
1:25:28
Speaker 1: have a great self esteem by really living up to
1:25:32
Speaker 1: all the virtues, not just those two, to being fully
1:25:36
Speaker 1: in his life. But the self esteem is also trying
1:25:40
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1:25:45
Speaker 1: have internalized the virtues, that you have made them part
1:25:49
Speaker 1: of you and you are reaping the benefits of them.
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Speaker 2: That is, you have created.
1:25:54
Speaker 1: An understanding of yourself.
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1:26:01
Speaker 1: Oriented and integrated around your life so that you are
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1:26:10
Speaker 2: You know, the achievement is the achievement.
1:26:12
Speaker 1: Of living the good life and being rational and acting
1:26:16
Speaker 1: in the world.
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Speaker 2: Is that you have self esteem.
1:26:20
Speaker 1: Imagine being rational without self esteem, which is possible because
1:26:24
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1:26:27
Speaker 2: So the self esteem captures the.
1:26:32
Speaker 1: Role psychology has in a sense turning your virtues into
1:26:38
Speaker 1: the value that is self esteem. But yeah, and pride
1:26:48
Speaker 1: is crucial here, right, I mean she doesn't mention it,
1:26:51
Speaker 1: but pride is crucial because pride taking your life seriously,
1:26:55
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1:27:00
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1:27:04
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1:27:08
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1:27:12
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1:27:16
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1:27:19
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1:27:28
Speaker 1: makes the ideal man possible Molten splendor. Short of eliminating ICE,
1:27:37
Speaker 1: what is it going to take to require agents unmask
1:27:41
Speaker 1: were vest cams and it'd here to police procedure in training. Well,
1:27:45
Speaker 1: I mean you would have to have a law, I
1:27:47
Speaker 1: think because the Trumpe administration is not going to do it.
1:27:49
Speaker 1: I mean, Chris Murphy, the Senator, is proposing such a
1:27:53
Speaker 1: law which would require all these things. But short of
1:27:57
Speaker 1: federal law that requires it, I don't see how you implement.
1:28:01
Speaker 1: I don't think you can do it at the state level.
1:28:03
Speaker 1: I think it has to be at this federal level.
1:28:05
Speaker 1: I might be mistaken, but I think that's the case.
1:28:08
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, you know, and Trump will
1:28:10
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1:28:14
Speaker 2: So it has to come from Congress.
1:28:17
Speaker 1: Congress would have to pass a law saying ice cannot mask.
1:28:22
Speaker 2: They have to wake body cams, they have.
1:28:24
Speaker 1: To follow police, they have to follow procedure, and then
1:28:26
Speaker 1: it's training. They have to be trained in police procedure,
1:28:30
Speaker 1: and they're not. I told you that they've cut training
1:28:34
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1:28:38
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1:28:41
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1:28:51
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1:28:53
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1:28:56
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1:28:59
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1:29:05
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1:29:08
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1:34:02
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Speaker 2: So you know you're trying to.
1:34:11
Speaker 1: Get at free will I think correct me if I'm wrong,
1:34:16
Speaker 1: But it's not that the idea with free will is
1:34:23
Speaker 1: there's a cause that comes before the command. There is
1:34:29
Speaker 1: no before the command. The command is the cause. That is,
1:34:34
Speaker 1: the command is the starting point. Now, if new a
1:34:38
Speaker 1: scientists find the mechanism for doing X came before the
1:34:41
Speaker 1: command to do X, for example, can the cause and
1:34:44
Speaker 1: effect happened simultaneously, Yes, they can have a simultaneously they do. Indeed,
1:34:48
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1:34:54
Speaker 1: be simultaneous with the effect.
1:34:56
Speaker 2: But well, but it's a big gif.
1:35:00
Speaker 1: If neuro scientists find the mechanism for doing X came
1:35:02
Speaker 1: before the command to do it. Yeah, I mean on
1:35:05
Speaker 1: most you know, simple things, don't You don't literally decide
1:35:11
Speaker 1: to move your hand away from the stove.
1:35:16
Speaker 2: There's no command. It just happens, right, So.
1:35:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure quite what you're getting at.
1:35:25
Speaker 1: You might want to be a little bit more explicit,
1:35:27
Speaker 1: maybe in directly and asking Linda. I feel that the
1:35:32
Speaker 1: government will cover up, make up evidence to exonerate the shooter.
1:35:35
Speaker 1: We are no longer being ruled by justice but by force.
1:35:39
Speaker 1: I think they're going to have a really hard time.
1:35:40
Speaker 1: I mean, the reality is that this was photographed by
1:35:44
Speaker 1: so many different angles. There's so much video of this
1:35:47
Speaker 1: from every thinkable angle. And you know, if somebody does
1:35:52
Speaker 1: the forensic of the video and really looks at it carefully, yeah,
1:35:58
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear what happened. And to think
1:36:02
Speaker 1: if this ever came to a court and a jury,
1:36:06
Speaker 1: I mean, you can imagine a hung jury over some
1:36:10
Speaker 1: aspect of it, but most likely is that the policeman
1:36:14
Speaker 1: gets convicted. Depending on exactly what he's being prosecuted for.
1:36:19
Speaker 1: You'd have to, you know, because I don't know what
1:36:22
Speaker 1: this counts as So in this case, the problem is
1:36:28
Speaker 1: there's lots of places where police shoot or ice does
1:36:32
Speaker 1: stuff and it's not being filmed, and then yeah, they
1:36:35
Speaker 1: could make up evidence, they could do whatever. I don't
1:36:38
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1:36:49
Speaker 1: objectivism requires mal perfection, but also that a good person
1:36:54
Speaker 1: may evade sometimes. Refuse of the objectives requires more perfection,
1:36:59
Speaker 1: but also the good person may evade sometimes, As you're
1:37:01
Speaker 1: correct in the end, how do you interpret this? How
1:37:05
Speaker 1: does moral perfection comporte with making moral errors? Well, first
1:37:09
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1:37:14
Speaker 1: Evasion is not an error. So you can make mistakes
1:37:19
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1:37:23
Speaker 1: is about.
1:37:26
Speaker 2: You know, are you irrational? Are you not?
1:37:29
Speaker 1: Now?
1:37:29
Speaker 2: Can a.
1:37:32
Speaker 1: Good person be irrational sometimes yes, in all kinds of circumstances,
1:37:38
Speaker 1: And if he's committed to working on making himself better
1:37:42
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1:37:59
Speaker 1: constantly work, identify way you have been flawed and work
1:38:04
Speaker 1: to correct, work to improve. Piegupta also she was being
1:38:14
Speaker 1: accusted by one goon at a window at the same time. Yeah,
1:38:17
Speaker 1: she had the guy trying to open the car, and
1:38:20
Speaker 1: she basically turns the wheel away from the guy standing
1:38:23
Speaker 1: in front of her. He's not standing in the middle,
1:38:25
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1:38:28
Speaker 1: and he moves further off, and she's not accelerating. She's
1:38:33
Speaker 1: not going fast. Even if she hits it, she doesn't
1:38:36
Speaker 1: kill him. She's you know, just starting to move. The
1:38:41
Speaker 1: colony really accelerates when she's shot, and you know, her
1:38:45
Speaker 1: her leg just slams on the gas. Steve O, When
1:38:55
Speaker 1: can you say a person does something before the end?
1:38:58
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means for the end. A
1:39:01
Speaker 1: boy fails a test when he starts the test, not
1:39:06
Speaker 1: when the grade is released. Why can you run a
1:39:12
Speaker 1: red light before literally crossing the limit light? No, so
1:39:18
Speaker 1: the boy doesn't fail the test when he starts the test.
1:39:20
Speaker 1: He fails the test when he finishes the tests, not
1:39:23
Speaker 1: when the grade is released. But he has to finish
1:39:25
Speaker 1: the test. That only then is he failed. He hasn't
1:39:29
Speaker 1: failed at the start, and you haven't crossed. They haven't
1:39:33
Speaker 1: run a red light until you run a red light,
1:39:36
Speaker 1: which means you've passed the intersection or you've gone into
1:39:40
Speaker 1: the intersection.
1:39:43
Speaker 2: So again, I'm not sure exactly what you're getting in, Abraham.
1:39:50
Speaker 1: Thanks to your Marl Cloudy on the Ice case, the
1:39:52
Speaker 1: level of confusion surrounding this is astonishing. It's nonsensical to
1:39:56
Speaker 1: think that shooting her point black while driving was the
1:39:58
Speaker 1: safest choice, or anyway since the correct choice. It's just
1:40:06
Speaker 1: unbelievable to me the amount of rationalization that people are
1:40:09
Speaker 1: willing to engage in in order to try to justify
1:40:14
Speaker 1: Ice because it's Ice because it's the police. If this
1:40:21
Speaker 1: was a civilian shooting a cop in exactly the same circumstances,
1:40:26
Speaker 1: I don't think they'd be that forgiving. I think it's
1:40:31
Speaker 1: really shaped by we hate illegal immigration. And by the way,
1:40:35
Speaker 1: I mean, this is clearly what it's shaped by. You
1:40:37
Speaker 1: saw that it might Waltz's tweet. It's shaped by she
1:40:41
Speaker 1: was a leftist.
1:40:42
Speaker 2: How do we know?
1:40:43
Speaker 1: Because he's a lesbian, right, and she was maybe obstructing Ice,
1:40:48
Speaker 1: So she's a leftist. Okay, Well, see shot a leftist?
1:40:53
Speaker 1: Big deal. That's basically what it's all about. Everything else
1:40:57
Speaker 1: is detailed, and the line is is how adamant are
1:41:02
Speaker 1: you about the left being an evil that must be
1:41:05
Speaker 1: eradicated and must be fought at all costs. And people
1:41:09
Speaker 1: who believe that, and a lot of them have no
1:41:12
Speaker 1: problem with the shooting, or people who believe, yes, illegal
1:41:16
Speaker 1: immigration that is destroying our country, that is the cause
1:41:20
Speaker 1: of all our problems.
1:41:21
Speaker 2: Ice is doing God's work.
1:41:24
Speaker 1: They're gonna side with Ice. So I don't think it's confusion,
1:41:28
Speaker 1: as it is bias, that it's biased, biased by their
1:41:35
Speaker 1: views about immigration and about primarily about the left. That's
1:41:38
Speaker 1: the more dominant one. They hate the left.
1:41:43
Speaker 2: It's okay that the left hast died.
1:41:45
Speaker 1: They hate illegal immigrants, so the guys kicking them out
1:41:49
Speaker 1: should be allowed to do whatever it takes, literally, whatever
1:41:52
Speaker 1: it takes, even if a few American citizens die in
1:41:55
Speaker 1: the process. Because the evil of illegal immigration is so large,
1:41:59
Speaker 1: nothing else matters.
1:42:00
Speaker 2: They are single minded about that.
1:42:07
Speaker 1: Clark, in a twisted way, is mum donnie a good
1:42:10
Speaker 1: pushback to Trump and Ice?
1:42:12
Speaker 2: At least immigrants will be safe in New York City?
1:42:14
Speaker 2: Will they?
1:42:15
Speaker 1: I mean, Ice can go into New York City. So no,
1:42:18
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a good pushback. It's never a
1:42:20
Speaker 1: good pushback. You know, both sides basically agree that you
1:42:25
Speaker 1: have no right to your own life, that you have
1:42:27
Speaker 1: no right to private property. It's just a question of
1:42:30
Speaker 1: who gets to decide what gets done with your life
1:42:31
Speaker 1: and what gets done with your property. Mamdani wants I
1:42:35
Speaker 1: don't know, some kind of democratic process to decide, or
1:42:39
Speaker 1: maybe just the proletarian to decide, and Trump wants Trump
1:42:43
Speaker 1: to decide. But that's not a good contrast. It's not
1:42:46
Speaker 1: a good pushback. And ultimately I'm sure they get along
1:42:50
Speaker 1: fine because.
1:42:50
Speaker 2: They're both power lusters.
1:42:54
Speaker 1: P Gupta, I should retreat if they're unlawful. This detains
1:43:00
Speaker 1: and rus are blocked by protesters instead of American citizens
1:43:04
Speaker 1: being killed on the streets. Yes, yes, but sadly it's
1:43:10
Speaker 1: not happening, James Aywai. There will be no justice year,
1:43:15
Speaker 1: and the murderer's woman's name will get drape dragged through
1:43:19
Speaker 1: the mud in the process. Yeah, the murdered woman's name. Yes,
1:43:23
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I don't think they'll be justice year.
1:43:25
Speaker 1: I think they'll claim some kind of immunity and get
1:43:28
Speaker 1: him off. By the way, we'll only thirty three dollars
1:43:33
Speaker 1: away from reaching our goal. We've still got quite a
1:43:35
Speaker 1: few of the two and five dollars questions, so you
1:43:38
Speaker 1: can still chime in and help us make the five
1:43:40
Speaker 1: hundred dollars two hour goal. We've got fifteen minutes. James, Well,
1:43:45
Speaker 1: a state of Minnesota charge an ICE agent with murder.
1:43:47
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how that works. I
1:43:50
Speaker 1: assume if they can, they will, but we'll have to
1:43:55
Speaker 1: wait and see. So far, the FBI is not letting
1:43:57
Speaker 1: them investigate the murder. That is, the FBI is not
1:44:00
Speaker 1: sharing any information with the Minnesota police. Michael, what about
1:44:06
Speaker 1: selfishness makes What about selfishness makes intellectuals anxious and insecure?
1:44:12
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it a self esteem issue? They think
1:44:15
Speaker 1: a selfish world they couldn't make it. I think there's
1:44:19
Speaker 1: some of that, but it's also I think they they've
1:44:23
Speaker 1: really evaded to the point where they're bought in and
1:44:28
Speaker 1: fully integrated into the idea that selfishness involves all the
1:44:33
Speaker 1: ugly things that we you know, that are typically associated
1:44:37
Speaker 1: in the culture of selfishness, That selfish people are lying, cheating,
1:44:40
Speaker 1: bastards who cheat and stab people, you know, do walk
1:44:45
Speaker 1: all over people to get their way. And I think
1:44:49
Speaker 1: I think that's what they believe, and and they're adamant
1:44:53
Speaker 1: against it, and they're not willing to reconsider, and they're
1:44:56
Speaker 1: not willing to think outside of the conventional because they
1:44:59
Speaker 1: are super conventional, really really super conventional. That's a nature
1:45:08
Speaker 1: of you know, intellectuals today. They're just they.
1:45:14
Speaker 2: Don't want to be.
1:45:17
Speaker 1: They don't want to let their mind go somewhere new, someway,
1:45:20
Speaker 1: different someway, the challenges the previous beliefs.
1:45:25
Speaker 2: Steve O.
1:45:26
Speaker 1: Kend the government categorically prevent illegal immigrants from driving CDL trucks.
1:45:31
Speaker 1: How about owning a gun. How about free speech? Well,
1:45:36
Speaker 1: I mean it depends right, so uh uh, you know,
1:45:45
Speaker 1: is driving a CDLL truck violating somebody's rights? I mean,
1:45:50
Speaker 1: of course today they can, but we're talking about it
1:45:53
Speaker 1: in Let's say an ideal society or better society, is
1:45:56
Speaker 1: driving a CDL truck violating somebody's rights. I don't think so. No,
1:46:04
Speaker 1: So I don't see how they can legitimately ban that.
1:46:07
Speaker 1: How about only a gun? I think only a gun? Maybe,
1:46:09
Speaker 1: I think only a gun is the Second Amendment is
1:46:12
Speaker 1: applies only to citizens. I don't think it's a universal right.
1:46:17
Speaker 1: So maybe they can ban them from only a gun. Yeah,
1:46:20
Speaker 1: free speech, how can you ban a illegal from having
1:46:23
Speaker 1: free speech? Free speech is clearly a universal right. It's
1:46:28
Speaker 1: a right of man qua man. It's part of the
1:46:32
Speaker 1: right to liberty, it's part of the right to life.
1:46:35
Speaker 1: And therefore, no, they can't ban an illegal immigrants free speech.
1:46:39
Speaker 1: Now again, in the world we live in today, they
1:46:40
Speaker 1: can do whatever they want with her illegal immigrants. They
1:46:43
Speaker 1: claim illegals have no rights. Not you have a jogo
1:46:50
Speaker 1: with him? Oh we live in dystopian times. Well no,
1:46:54
Speaker 1: but for some people, the dyscipian if you're an illegal
1:46:57
Speaker 1: immigrant dystopian, and we're heading in that direction, heading in
1:47:02
Speaker 1: that direction, not Chavi jo Goordham. I'm fairly suddenly younger
1:47:08
Speaker 1: Lenipeakoff would have turned on Trump by now. I'll speculate
1:47:13
Speaker 1: here that a younger Lenipeaoff would have never supported Trump
1:47:16
Speaker 1: to begin with. Team twelve seventy five. Cruel Ty is
1:47:22
Speaker 1: the point of this administration. Yes, cool ty, Particularly anything
1:47:27
Speaker 1: the Miller touches. Anything the Miller touches is tinged with cruelty.
1:47:35
Speaker 1: Moon Rock, all right, you convinced me. Here's the five dollars.
1:47:39
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that, Moon Rock, Leam, Trump and
1:47:45
Speaker 1: Vance want to make this ICE hit a state sanctioned
1:47:49
Speaker 1: murder like Hitter's essay, a branch of law enforcement only
1:47:55
Speaker 1: loyal to him. And that's the real danger is that
1:47:58
Speaker 1: ICE is a part of the government that is loyal
1:48:02
Speaker 1: to the President and the executive branch, and more and
1:48:07
Speaker 1: more can get away with more. Right now, it only goes,
1:48:10
Speaker 1: suppose to the af day legal immigrants. What's next. It's
1:48:14
Speaker 1: very very dangerous long term to have this kind of
1:48:19
Speaker 1: policing entity at the federal level. I mean, it's not
1:48:22
Speaker 1: clear that there should be a federal police. Policing is
1:48:25
Speaker 1: a state function, not a federal function. Hapacambo, What do
1:48:32
Speaker 1: you think of saying the pain you avoid is the
1:48:35
Speaker 1: strength you'll never get.
1:48:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like that.
1:48:39
Speaker 1: Pain sometimes can make you strong and sometimes can destroy you.
1:48:44
Speaker 2: Pain is awful. Pain is not a good thing.
1:48:48
Speaker 1: As somebody who's suffered from back pain most of my life.
1:48:53
Speaker 1: Pain doesn't make me stronger. I mean up to a point,
1:48:56
Speaker 1: and certainly when you exercise the muscle, pain you get
1:48:59
Speaker 1: afterward is making you stronger. But the pain of losing
1:49:03
Speaker 1: a loved one, the pain, I mean, there's so many
1:49:05
Speaker 1: forms of pain. There's no upside. There's a pain pleasure mechanism.
1:49:11
Speaker 1: You're supposed to avoid pain and rejoice in pleasure. No, so,
1:49:15
Speaker 1: pain doesn't make you stronger. Some pain makes you stronger sometimes,
1:49:20
Speaker 1: Bonnie says, thank you appreciated.
1:49:22
Speaker 2: Bonnie, all right, we've made our goal.
1:49:23
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, Molten's splendor, thank you twenty dollars. I'm
1:49:27
Speaker 1: glad you played the vivic Ramaswami speech and dissected his
1:49:31
Speaker 1: thoughts about what makes America and Americans, even though he
1:49:35
Speaker 1: didn't state the importance of the individual as a politician,
1:49:39
Speaker 1: he seemed to be a good choice thoughts. Yeah, I
1:49:42
Speaker 1: mean in that speech he was certainly good. I think
1:49:45
Speaker 1: as governor he's good. I was distressed by certain positions
1:49:50
Speaker 1: he had when he ran for president. I thought he
1:49:54
Speaker 1: too easily catered to Maga fed Maga. He was the
1:49:59
Speaker 1: first one to raise the possibility of the United States
1:50:02
Speaker 1: attacking cartels in Mexico and launching a war. He was
1:50:07
Speaker 1: way too eager to embrace Magon immigration on illegal immigration,
1:50:14
Speaker 1: he was way too eager to use Maga's talking points,
1:50:22
Speaker 1: which I don't think in many cases he believed. I
1:50:25
Speaker 1: think he's much more free markets than he came across
1:50:27
Speaker 1: during the presidential campaign, so I thought. In the presidential campaign,
1:50:32
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, I don't like this guy at all.
1:50:34
Speaker 1: I would never vote for him. And since then he's
1:50:37
Speaker 1: been better. He's been better. And as governor of Ohio, yeah,
1:50:40
Speaker 1: I would vote for him, no question. And I think
1:50:45
Speaker 1: he can improve, and I think he can grow and
1:50:48
Speaker 1: hopefully not revert to.
1:50:51
Speaker 2: The vivic of the presidential race.
1:50:54
Speaker 1: Andrew, I want to centralize for myself this very anti
1:50:58
Speaker 1: Christian point you make some times, and figured I might
1:51:02
Speaker 1: as well send some more dollars your way. Pride is
1:51:06
Speaker 1: a moral good. Yes, pride is a moral good as
1:51:11
Speaker 1: recognizing the importance of virtue, recognizing the achievement of virtue,
1:51:19
Speaker 1: and striving towards being good, being the best you can be,
1:51:25
Speaker 1: striving to be perfect. It's not about achieving, it's about
1:51:28
Speaker 1: striving that is when achieving is possible. That is, that
1:51:37
Speaker 1: is not just am all good, as Aristotle said the
1:51:42
Speaker 1: Queen of the Virtues, that is an amazing moral good
1:51:46
Speaker 1: that basically makes self esteem possible and drives you to
1:51:51
Speaker 1: be to have a great life. It's necessary for happiness,
1:51:56
Speaker 1: necessary for flourishing.
1:52:03
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Andrew.
1:52:07
Speaker 1: All Right, Michael, A lot of Republicans I know are
1:52:09
Speaker 1: turning on Trump. Not the hardcore maga nuts, but moderate
1:52:12
Speaker 1: Republicans are hopping off the bandwagon. Good. That's good to hear.
1:52:16
Speaker 1: I don't interact with people, so I don't know what
1:52:18
Speaker 1: they're thinking. I mean, I don't interact with Republicans or
1:52:20
Speaker 1: Democrats for that matter, so I don't know what people
1:52:22
Speaker 1: are thinking. But I'm glad if people are jumping off
1:52:25
Speaker 1: the badwagon. Michael. Also, why don't ice agents have to
1:52:29
Speaker 1: weigh body cameras like if you other police agency. One
1:52:31
Speaker 1: hundred percent of officers should have body cameras or they
1:52:34
Speaker 1: shouldn't be law enforcement. I agree with you completely. Again,
1:52:38
Speaker 1: one of the things we forget is the police are
1:52:40
Speaker 1: our servants. We are not theirs. ICE is your servant.
1:52:47
Speaker 1: They need to treat you as a US citizen with respect.
1:52:54
Speaker 1: Even when they suspect you of something, they can just
1:52:58
Speaker 1: come crashing on top of you. So they are your servants.
1:53:05
Speaker 1: You've got to hold that the government doesn't exist for
1:53:08
Speaker 1: you to serve it. It's not about ask not what
1:53:12
Speaker 1: the government can do to you for you, but what
1:53:14
Speaker 1: you can do for the government. You shouldn't do anything
1:53:16
Speaker 1: for the government, and the government is there to serve you,
1:53:23
Speaker 1: and therefore they have to expect you, imagine you as
1:53:26
Speaker 1: a customer, treat you with respect, and these goons some
1:53:33
Speaker 1: ICE do not treat Americans with respect.
1:53:38
Speaker 2: Harper Campbell, I.
1:53:39
Speaker 1: Typically don't like comparing American politics to Nazi Germany, but
1:53:42
Speaker 1: what's happening now is on the spectrum. Yeah, although again
1:53:50
Speaker 1: Nazi Germany was driven by an ideology. There's no ideology here.
1:53:53
Speaker 1: There's just a bunch of thugs from Trump down. I mean,
1:53:57
Speaker 1: Miller's an ideologue and jade Van's an ideloge. But the
1:54:00
Speaker 1: people actually executing the policies just thugs.
1:54:04
Speaker 2: There's nothing.
1:54:05
Speaker 1: So that's a fundamental difference between this and Nazi Germany. Michael,
1:54:12
Speaker 1: he killed her at point blank rage for trying to flee,
1:54:15
Speaker 1: not for weaponizing her vehicle or to protect his life.
1:54:18
Speaker 1: I agree with him completely, Harbacambell. If there's a major
1:54:25
Speaker 1: session under Trump, will Ice use it covert engage in
1:54:28
Speaker 1: more duportations, leading to more firefights, ending in some kind
1:54:31
Speaker 1: of widespread civil unrest of civil war.
1:54:34
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
1:54:35
Speaker 1: But Ice is bringing as closer to civil war than
1:54:38
Speaker 1: anything else that's happening out there. So I don't know,
1:54:43
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's what's going to happen. I
1:54:45
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to get a civil war anytime soon.
1:54:52
Speaker 1: Steve O, do you think some being clause is a
1:54:56
Speaker 1: good provision supremacy clause or should have feder government be
1:55:00
Speaker 1: even more differential to the States.
1:55:04
Speaker 2: No.
1:55:05
Speaker 1: I think it is a good clause in the Constitution.
1:55:07
Speaker 1: And again I think that the it is there because
1:55:13
Speaker 1: of slavery, and it's it's there in order to make
1:55:17
Speaker 1: clear that and and also because of the Confederate States,
1:55:23
Speaker 1: you know, their constitution, which was not very binding and
1:55:26
Speaker 1: didn't work very well. It's it's it's really to create
1:55:29
Speaker 1: a country, a state, and nation, and.
1:55:33
Speaker 2: So I do think it's there.
1:55:35
Speaker 1: But I do also think that states have domains in
1:55:40
Speaker 1: which they function which the federal government needs to leave
1:55:44
Speaker 1: them alone. Policing is is much of that domain. Criminal
1:55:48
Speaker 1: law is relegated to the states, and and you know,
1:55:54
Speaker 1: the the the federal government should assert its supremacy, primli
1:55:59
Speaker 1: in cases where the state clearly violating individual rights like slavely.
1:56:07
Speaker 2: Jamie from Canada.
1:56:09
Speaker 1: If depression was caused, was caused actions of US government
1:56:14
Speaker 1: Federal Reserve? Why was its impact felt around the world?
1:56:17
Speaker 1: France but in Germany? Was US government responsible for World
1:56:21
Speaker 1: War two causing conditions for Hitler to arise? I'm you know,
1:56:28
Speaker 1: that's a big question. But the bottom line is that
1:56:34
Speaker 1: it wasn't just a federal reserve. You could argue that
1:56:38
Speaker 1: part of the mistakes the Federal Reserve was making were
1:56:43
Speaker 1: instigated by a big error that the British Central Bank
1:56:49
Speaker 1: was making when it came back onto the gold standard
1:56:54
Speaker 1: after World War One at the same exchange rate as
1:56:58
Speaker 1: before the war. Even though they inflated the money supply.
1:57:02
Speaker 1: So the so gold was you know, was the pound
1:57:10
Speaker 1: was overvalued in terms of gold, and as a consequence,
1:57:17
Speaker 1: gold flowed out of England.
1:57:19
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean.
1:57:19
Speaker 1: So the reality is that under an international gold standard
1:57:23
Speaker 1: and the way the gold stand was practiced, all the
1:57:26
Speaker 1: central banks were connected, and many of them made the
1:57:29
Speaker 1: same errors.
1:57:30
Speaker 2: Now, the reality is.
1:57:32
Speaker 1: That other countries around the world got out of the
1:57:35
Speaker 1: Great Depression much faster than the United States. The United
1:57:38
Speaker 1: States and France were the slowest to recover from the
1:57:42
Speaker 1: Great Depression. Germany had its own problems. Germany's real economic
1:57:48
Speaker 1: problems were before the Great Depression when in the mid
1:57:51
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties the hype inflation, and by the time the
1:57:55
Speaker 1: US was in the Great Depression, they were already on
1:57:59
Speaker 1: the other side and covering for it. But in all cases,
1:58:03
Speaker 1: these depressions and the hype inflation of Germany were caused
1:58:06
Speaker 1: by their own central banks. They all follow a very
1:58:10
Speaker 1: similar playbook, and they were all connected in really important
1:58:15
Speaker 1: ways that drove them to irresponsible behavior. But the FED
1:58:22
Speaker 1: uniquely made har of the mistakes. Now, you know, did
1:58:27
Speaker 1: the US government responsible for World War Two? If you
1:58:32
Speaker 1: argue that the recession caused a depression caused World War two,
1:58:35
Speaker 1: then it has some blame. But I'm not sure world
1:58:38
Speaker 1: War two is caused by depression. It was caused by
1:58:43
Speaker 1: you know, bad philosophy and philosophical ideas. If it hadn't
1:58:46
Speaker 1: happened under the circumstances, would happen under other circumstances. The
1:58:50
Speaker 1: fact is Germany believed they could have won World War One.
1:58:54
Speaker 1: They rejected the deal, the peace of after World War One.
1:59:00
Speaker 1: Population was ready for another war, was committed to another war,
1:59:03
Speaker 1: and philosophically they were ready for a dictator like Hitler.
1:59:07
Speaker 1: And it's just a matter of when and when, when
1:59:09
Speaker 1: and who?
1:59:10
Speaker 3: When and who?
1:59:12
Speaker 1: God, We've got a lot of questions today, Andrew. Respecting
1:59:17
Speaker 1: a minority doesn't require admiring him or catering to him.
1:59:21
Speaker 1: One respects a minority member the same way one respects
1:59:24
Speaker 1: any man, by regarding him as an individual and respecting
1:59:28
Speaker 1: his rights. Yes, you don't respect somebody as a minority member.
1:59:31
Speaker 1: You respect somebody as an individual. So it's the individual
1:59:35
Speaker 1: that you're respecting, not the color of his skin or
1:59:38
Speaker 1: whatever his background is.
1:59:42
Speaker 2: Stephen, just a be authority.
1:59:44
Speaker 1: Even if you did nothing wrong because you're likely to
1:59:47
Speaker 1: get shot.
1:59:49
Speaker 2: Maybe you know.
1:59:50
Speaker 1: That's a quote, right, maybe practical advice, but it's a
1:59:53
Speaker 1: sad state of affair to have to say that, very
1:59:56
Speaker 1: very sad state of affair. And I don't even I
2:00:00
Speaker 1: you know, I find it hard to believe that that
2:00:08
Speaker 1: is that. I hope not everybody uses that aspectacle advice,
2:00:13
Speaker 1: because then the bad guys win.
2:00:18
Speaker 2: Michael.
2:00:18
Speaker 1: Any value in being a long range optimist but a
2:00:20
Speaker 1: short range pessimist? Well, I mean what you're supposed to
2:00:23
Speaker 1: be is objective. You're supposed to be realistic, not optimistic
2:00:28
Speaker 1: or pessimistic, but realistic. And if that leads you to
2:00:31
Speaker 1: be positive about the future distant future and negative about
2:00:35
Speaker 1: the short term future, then so be it. It's not
2:00:37
Speaker 1: about what is a value, it's about what is right.
2:00:43
Speaker 1: Jennifer from Canada, I've never fully understood what iron Rand
2:00:48
Speaker 1: was saying in the fountain scene where Howard has his
2:00:51
Speaker 1: way with Dominique and afterwards she says to herself she
2:00:55
Speaker 1: was raped.
2:00:56
Speaker 2: What was Rand's intent?
2:00:58
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, what Rand is trying to do is
2:01:01
Speaker 1: conquatize the inner conflict that Dominique has about her attitude
2:01:09
Speaker 1: towards values. She she is a valuer, but she doesn't
2:01:15
Speaker 1: want to value in a sense because she thinks the
2:01:17
Speaker 1: values will be destroyed.
2:01:18
Speaker 2: The world is not good enough for these values. So
2:01:20
Speaker 2: she doesn't want to admit.
2:01:22
Speaker 1: To herself attraction to Walk because then he's a value
2:01:26
Speaker 1: and she doesn't want to have value. She smashes value,
2:01:28
Speaker 1: she destroys sculpture. So she's trying to convince herself that
2:01:32
Speaker 1: she's not really attracted to him and it was really
2:01:35
Speaker 1: a rape in order to you know, justify you know,
2:01:40
Speaker 1: what just happened as not falling into the realm of value.
2:01:44
Speaker 1: So you can't understand the scene without understanding Dominique and
2:01:49
Speaker 1: her very very very confused psychology.
2:01:55
Speaker 2: But this is part of her character. It's part of
2:01:59
Speaker 2: her character.
2:02:01
Speaker 1: Two. I mean, and constantly she wants Walk, but she's
2:02:05
Speaker 1: trying to destroy him.
2:02:06
Speaker 2: She wants him, she's trying to destroy him.
2:02:08
Speaker 1: She wants him, she thinks it's great. I mean, that
2:02:11
Speaker 1: is the that is the internal conflict going inside of her.
2:02:17
Speaker 1: Jennifer is ran part of the most sensible politician in
2:02:20
Speaker 1: the US. On some issues, Yes on many of the
2:02:23
Speaker 1: domestic issues, Yes on some of the international issues, Yes
2:02:26
Speaker 1: on other issues. He's terrible. He's terrible in the Middle East,
2:02:30
Speaker 1: he's terrible in Ukraine. But on everything else he's pretty good.
2:02:36
Speaker 1: Certainly on domestic issues, he's the most sensible. Why didn't
2:02:40
Speaker 1: the Bayden and habitedmiss team discussed the decline in death
2:02:43
Speaker 1: rates from fence and al during the campaign. First of all,
2:02:46
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I'm not sure they knew what
2:02:48
Speaker 1: was happening, because there's a lag from when the data
2:02:53
Speaker 1: happens and when you receive it. It wasn't clear, you know,
2:02:58
Speaker 1: if it was this was a real pheno, just a bump,
2:03:04
Speaker 1: and they ran an awful campaign generally. You know, they
2:03:08
Speaker 1: didn't run a campaign on their achievements in quotes. They
2:03:12
Speaker 1: ran a campaign on Trump is horrible, and so they
2:03:15
Speaker 1: never got to their achievements. But it doesn't matter what
2:03:18
Speaker 1: they ran. The reality is that Fenton ol deaths were
2:03:22
Speaker 1: declining starting in mid twenty twenty three and significantly, and
2:03:28
Speaker 1: they continue to decline significantly.
2:03:30
Speaker 2: That's good news. Okay.
2:03:33
Speaker 1: Can you take a look at Constant Kissing's tweet about
2:03:36
Speaker 1: the Ice shooting and give your thoughts about his thoughts?
2:03:38
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jennifer of Canada.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take a look at it.
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Speaker 1: Professor Kraken helping along with the goal, Thank you Marius.
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Speaker 1: Which impact would a free, secular, democratic run have for
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Speaker 1: the surrounding countries?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 1: Huge, I mean it would have a peace deal with Israel.
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Speaker 1: It would it would encourage I think some of the
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Speaker 1: other Arab states to turn towards most secularism. I think
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Speaker 1: it would embolden a lot of the Muslim intellectuals to
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Speaker 1: you know, basically adopt a most secular version of Islam
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Speaker 1: and to move to secularizing Islam. I think it would
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Speaker 1: have profound impacts. It would primarily be on Israel in
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Speaker 1: the West and on Muslims all over the world. It
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Speaker 1: would provide an option, an alternative. You know, Iran is
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Speaker 1: an ancient civilization. It was in Iran that Islam had
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Speaker 1: a golden age. Iran has often led the Muslim world,
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Speaker 1: and here it could lead it into a new direction
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Speaker 1: of moving Islam and Islamic countries away from Islamism. And
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Speaker 1: you've already got that in small countries like Azerbaijan and Albania,
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Speaker 1: you know Bosnia, where you've got majority Muslim countries that
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Speaker 1: are not Islamic. But Iran would be a game change
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Speaker 1: it's ninety million people. It's a dominant, intellectually dominant place.
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Speaker 1: We will see Jennifer Sis, thank you, Thank you, Jennifer,
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Pigupta. Whether or not the murder gets convicted,
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Speaker 1: Ice itself needs to be de armed, driven back to borders,
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Speaker 1: away from American cities. Absolutely absolutely. Yi he why didn't
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Speaker 1: the Biden have a s administration discussed the decline in
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Speaker 1: death rates? Oh? I answered that already.
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Speaker 2: Steve O.
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Speaker 1: Would you say there are several levels of goodness but
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Speaker 1: only one level of evilness? It takes work even to
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Speaker 1: reach the first level of being good, Yes, But I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't say there's only one level of evilness. I mean
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Speaker 1: there's many levels of evilness. You can't compare Hitler to
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Speaker 1: just somebody who have and sty evade If evasion is evil,
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Speaker 1: ivade the fact that his wife is having an affair,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, something like that. You could argue that's
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Speaker 1: still evil, but it's not a not at scale, right.
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Speaker 1: I think Leonard talks about different Lenin Peacock talks about
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Speaker 1: different levels of evil in one of his lectures, and
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Speaker 1: I can't remember. I can't remember the categories he has. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I can't remember, but one of his lectures he talks
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Speaker 1: about different levels of evil. Jonathan says looked like m
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Speaker 1: are to me by untrained Rambos. Yeah. I think that
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Speaker 1: the ice all and the way they're being trained or
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Speaker 1: not trained is these are just these just people pulled
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Speaker 1: off the streets. I mean, the criteria.
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Speaker 2: Are very, very, very low level.
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Speaker 1: Evil. Are some people who don't deserve self esteem, they
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Speaker 1: have no right to show their faces among good people,
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Speaker 1: et cetera, and should accept their lot in life. Well,
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Speaker 1: now we should accept their lot in life. Everybody has
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Speaker 1: a chance to unless you've murdered somebody, and which is
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Speaker 1: I think you redeemable. You have a chance to make
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Speaker 1: yourself better. So I don't think there's people who don't
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Speaker 1: deserve self esteem. You can make yourself deserve self esteem.
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Speaker 1: You can become worthy of yourself. So I don't think
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Speaker 1: you give up on people very You should give up
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Speaker 1: on people veryous. When people have free will, they can
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Speaker 1: rise to the occasion. They can create a they can
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Speaker 1: create the kind of character and pursue the kind of
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Speaker 1: values that make them worthy of self esteem. So I
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Speaker 1: don't think you're inherently that's it right for it now yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean people can be so nasty, so evil that
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Speaker 1: they're inherently incapable of self esteem. But that's a small
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Speaker 1: number of people, Cook says, I tell Homonia is such
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Speaker 1: a butthole, all right, Yes he is, Andrew. How do
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Speaker 1: you judge overall value of Trump's deregulation versus harm of
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Speaker 1: his interventions of the economy?
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Speaker 2: I mean it's hard to judge.
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Speaker 1: The main thing for me is that the deregulation has
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Speaker 1: happened on the agency level, and I think.
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Speaker 2: Is relatively easy to reverse.
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Speaker 1: Deregulation would be a lot more powerful if it was
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Speaker 1: done through legislation, which you can't get done because of
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Speaker 1: the Phillybuster. Hard to tell. I think the economy is
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Speaker 1: still growing because of the deregulation, but it's not growing
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Speaker 1: in a very healthy way, in a very robust way,
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Speaker 1: because of all this other interventions. Multen splendor our time quotas.
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Speaker 1: Any time quoteras are the goal, without regard to how
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Speaker 1: the numbers are achieved. Corruption will be the result. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: this is ice have a quoted to duport how doesn't matter?
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Speaker 1: Just deport them. That will be bad, and that is bad, Andrew.
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Speaker 1: Christianity love everyone, Rand in James' Day interview. You do
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Speaker 1: not have to love everyone. You cannot love everyone. It
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Speaker 1: is a meaningless concept. Yeah, it's absolutely meaningless. You cannot
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Speaker 1: love everyone. Love is love requires selectivity, demand selectivity, demand selectivity.
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Speaker 1: Ryan says, how you on, I am now living and
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Speaker 1: working in the United States. It has been a dream
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Speaker 1: for a long time. I have three people to thank
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Speaker 1: Iron Rand Talts, Fanny and you on Brook. Thank you
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Speaker 1: can't send dollars yet, no problem appreciated, Ryan Shamie from Canada.
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Speaker 1: When train crashed and caught fire in Ohio a few
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Speaker 1: years back, left to set the train company spent money
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Speaker 1: on stuff buybacks instead of increasing safety and all was
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Speaker 1: yet another case against capitalism and for increased regulation. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was just a way to increase regulation. Now, look,
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Speaker 1: trains that heavily regulated, heavily regulated, and I suspect I
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Speaker 1: can't prove this because I haven't looked into it deeply
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Speaker 1: enough that if you looked at it deeply, the causes
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Speaker 1: of most of these crashes is regulation. Is the low
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Speaker 1: standards that regulation set that in a competitive, free rail
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Speaker 1: industry there would be a lot less crashes, a lot
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Speaker 1: fewer problems. So yeah, it was just an attack of capitalism.
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Speaker 1: It was nothing more than that. Again, railroads a heavily
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Speaker 1: regulated and have been the regional industry other than banking
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Speaker 1: banking railroads. Banking was always regulated, but railroads were the
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Speaker 1: next big industry to be regulated, and from their birth
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Speaker 1: almost they were heavily regulated. All right, guys, thank you
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Speaker 1: really appreciate the support. Thanks for getting us to our target.
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Speaker 1: And I will see you all tomorrow. And yeah, I
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Speaker 1: have a great night in spite of all this BS.
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Speaker 1: You know, life, don't let all this stuff get you down.
2:11:21
Speaker 1: Don't let all this stuff get you down. Have a
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Speaker 1: great weekend by everybody.