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  Speaker 1: A lot of fundamental principles of interest and individual lots.
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  Speaker 1: This is the show. Oh right, everybody, welcome to one
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  Speaker 1: book show in this Tuesday, January thirteenth, of everybody. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: is having a good beginning of the week, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So I came across an article by Andrew Sullivan called
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  Speaker 1: a Viking Phone Policy, which describes Donald Trump as a Viking,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, huh, this is pretty good. I like
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  Speaker 1: this formulation. It's not the kind of philosophical formulation you
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  Speaker 1: get from mine Rand in Selfishness Without her Self. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about that on a Member's Only show on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: But he's making a lot of really good observations about
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  Speaker 1: basically Trump's mentality and Trump's attitude that actually doesn't only
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  Speaker 1: apply to fun policy. It's actually much broader than that.
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  Speaker 1: It's explains much of the way Trump thinks about the Well,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to talk about that article. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about Trump. Sorry, we'll talk about how it applies to
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  Speaker 1: fun policy, domestic policy, and everything in between. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: do that, and yeah, all of course, take any questions
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  Speaker 1: or comments you had you have with regard to that.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get to that, I want to give you
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  Speaker 1: a quick update on Iran, because I know I'm super
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  Speaker 1: interested in I know many of you are as well
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  Speaker 1: about what is going on over there. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: related to this issue, to the big issue of Trump,
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  Speaker 1: but less so at least for now. So the situation
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  Speaker 1: ion is bad, it's dire. The numbers coming out of
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  Speaker 1: Iran about as horrific as you could imagine. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about, I think relatively early, maybe on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: I talked about the fact that there were probably two
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  Speaker 1: thousand dead yesterday there were any suggestions that the number
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  Speaker 1: was significantly higher than that. And we're talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: unarmed civilians. We're talking about just people out there demonstrating,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even rioting, but just being shot at from buildings,
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  Speaker 1: from the street, with from you know, people with heavy
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  Speaker 1: with guns and with a lot of firepower. Today the
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  Speaker 1: number has risen again. Officially Iran admits to the number
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  Speaker 1: that kind of officially, the official rumor is twelve, and
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  Speaker 1: now people are starting to say, even some people in
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  Speaker 1: the mainstream media starting to say the number could be
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty thousand. People remember that a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: numbers we saw from the weekend and yesterday were coming
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  Speaker 1: out of Tehran, coming out of the places where we
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  Speaker 1: actually where we actually have had some communication via starlink,
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  Speaker 1: But now numbers are coming in from some of the
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  Speaker 1: peripheral towns and cities around Iran where they were demonstrations.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the data from Friday and Saturday nights, most
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  Speaker 1: of the demonstrations have now rescinded given the extent of
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  Speaker 1: the violence of the regime. The regime is also told
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  Speaker 1: basically the shopkeepers that they have to open their stores.
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  Speaker 1: The regime is using force to reopen businesses. So the
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  Speaker 1: bazaars where this whole thing started, when the bazaars started
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  Speaker 1: shutting down and the shopkeepers started protesting, they are now
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  Speaker 1: being forced to open. So that is the state. You know.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if the Shah, the son of the Shaw
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  Speaker 1: in America, calls for more demonstrations, whether the people got
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  Speaker 1: into the streets. We'll see if they have more in them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is horrific. It's it's reached
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  Speaker 1: a state. Well, in spite of what I said yesterday
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  Speaker 1: about the silence of the left, the left is still silent,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Greta is still it's still you know, sulking
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  Speaker 1: from the truthment you got in Israel. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we now have pretty much every major country in Europe
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  Speaker 1: has condemned what Evan has done. Formally, they've called the
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  Speaker 1: ambassadors in. They should kick them out, they should kick
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  Speaker 1: them out of the country immediately. But they've called the
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  Speaker 1: ambassadors in and and condemned it. UH, they've called for UH. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: there's many, many more people now talking about regime change.
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  Speaker 1: Even in even in some of the meat mainstream media,
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing people say this regime is finished, even if
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen now, it's now just amount of time.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost all, you know, sovereignty, what they've done to
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  Speaker 1: their own people makes it impossible for this regime to continue.
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  Speaker 1: I think in much of Europe among that is the sense.
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  Speaker 1: I think in the US, among intellectuals who seem those
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  Speaker 1: who care at least, that seems to be the sense.
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  Speaker 1: What really hasn't happened in Iran is we haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: the military forces. We haven't seen the military forces, you know,
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  Speaker 1: shift leave the regime and join the demonstration, and that,
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  Speaker 1: as I told you, would be the tipping point. You
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  Speaker 1: have to have guns on the side of the demonstrators
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  Speaker 1: for this regime to go. There has to be a
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  Speaker 1: sense which the guns not listening to the commanders anymore,
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  Speaker 1: they're going on strike, or they're shifting sides. So and
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  Speaker 1: that has not happened. That has not happened yet. So
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  Speaker 1: we're at a position where it's not clear to me
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  Speaker 1: what happens and how it happens. Now. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: big question mark now is what will Trump do? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what will Trump do? He won't tell us what I'll do,
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  Speaker 1: So what we do do? He did today tell the
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  Speaker 1: Iranians to go back into the streets to demonstrate. He
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  Speaker 1: said he use them to increase the demonstrations and to
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  Speaker 1: hold on to regime assets, to take over regime facilities.
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  Speaker 1: He did say explicitly that help was on the way.
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  Speaker 1: When he was asked what he meant, he said, you
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  Speaker 1: will find out soon. Israeli media is reporting that the
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  Speaker 1: United States is engaged in, you know, very substantial, significant,
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  Speaker 1: widespread aerial attacks on the Iranian regime, and it could
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  Speaker 1: happen anytime. It could happen tonight, but more you know,
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  Speaker 1: but more likely later this week it could happen. That
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  Speaker 1: is that Trump is serious and that the United States
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  Speaker 1: is indeed going to bomb bomb you on. If that happens,
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  Speaker 1: of course that all the Ranians will probably launch on Israel.
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  Speaker 1: They'll certainly launch on an American basis. So we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: exactly that evolves, and we'll see if it actually happens.
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  Speaker 1: Until Trump actually does something, you don't really know if
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  Speaker 1: it'll happen. You don't really know if it's coming. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's the potential for significant bombing from B twos,
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  Speaker 1: stealth b twos. You know, I don't know whether he
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  Speaker 1: will want to put any other planes kind of in danger.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Israel last time incapacitated the Uranian defense system.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they've rebuilt it. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the status of that is. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if America wants to try to do the same thing
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  Speaker 1: that Israel did. We will see. So at this point,
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  Speaker 1: it's Trump saying bombastic things. Maybe he'll follow up, you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: indications are that he will. But with Trump, you never know,
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  Speaker 1: and you never know exactly how it's going to play out.
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  Speaker 1: So but it does, and then the question is okay,
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  Speaker 1: so the United States, maybe even Israel bomb the regime's
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  Speaker 1: ballistic missile facilities. Maybe they bomb the Islamic Revolutionary God bases,
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  Speaker 1: they probably don't bomb inside any of the cities. They
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  Speaker 1: probably bomb at the proof referee and the outside. My
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  Speaker 1: guess is or whatever Trump does, he will minimize collateral
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  Speaker 1: damage as much as he can, preferably to zero. He
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  Speaker 1: will try. That means outside of cities, military bases, bunkers
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  Speaker 1: in which they have the ballistic missiles, they can attack
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  Speaker 1: us basis an Israeli basis, maybe go after the nuclear
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  Speaker 1: program again, and then probably if they retaliate, then he'll
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  Speaker 1: leave it up to these release to handle the rest.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to put pilots in harm's way,
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  Speaker 1: which means flying low to take out a defense system.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll see, we'll see. I mean he's writing high
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  Speaker 1: right now, kind of an invincibility high coming out of Nizuela,
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  Speaker 1: and he will project that. Then the question is then
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  Speaker 1: the question is what do the Ranians do? At that point?
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  Speaker 1: They go back out in the street, and the Revolutionary
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  Speaker 1: God is not busy, and they with other stuff with
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  Speaker 1: trying to launch the ballistic missile. Else these Raelis are
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  Speaker 1: bombing them, so maybe they're distracted. They can't they can't
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  Speaker 1: really repress the revolution. Maybe Trump goes after regime targets.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt it, but Israel certainly, will you know, leaders
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  Speaker 1: of the revolutionary god, political leaders. Maybe they know where
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  Speaker 1: how many is, although I doubt that anybody's gonna literally
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  Speaker 1: bomb how many, but that would be great. We know
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  Speaker 1: where the president of Iran is. Will they go after him?
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  Speaker 1: Will they go after political leaders? Because if they don't,
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  Speaker 1: somebody has to right, somebody has to kill them or
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  Speaker 1: make them be so afraid as to run away. And
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  Speaker 1: if it's not going to be the Americans, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be the Israelis, and the Iranians still
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  Speaker 1: don't have the weapons to do it, then nothing happens,
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  Speaker 1: nothing moves, nothing changes. So somebody has to go after
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  Speaker 1: regime targets. That's the key. You do not need boots
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. There's zero need for boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: What you need to do is capacity the Iranian regime
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  Speaker 1: to make it so weak militarily politically that they can't
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  Speaker 1: do anything against the demonstrators. They can't do anything against
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  Speaker 1: the crowds in the streets. They overrun the different ministries,
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  Speaker 1: they overrun the military basis, they overrun the presidential palace
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it is that that House of Parliament and
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  Speaker 1: the Ranians take care of their own leaders, and the
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  Speaker 1: Ranians taking care of their own leaders will be a
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  Speaker 1: lot more ugly, a lot uglier, not more ugly, a
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  Speaker 1: lot uglier than these reeligs of Americans taking care of
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  Speaker 1: those political leaders. So I'm cautiously optimistic that the United
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  Speaker 1: States is going to act. I'm cautiously optimistic that that
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  Speaker 1: action will lead to the fall of this regime. We
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  Speaker 1: still could get this major geopolitical action occur, and that
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  Speaker 1: is to be determined. So that's a quick update. I
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  Speaker 1: mean to Trump credit. The Ranians have been begging. I
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  Speaker 1: think begging is the right term to meet, to discuss,
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  Speaker 1: to negotiate, and Trump has basically said no. Another indication
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  Speaker 1: that maybe we're heading towards military action is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that all prices are up. That is, the fear is
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  Speaker 1: that Iranian oil is going to be disrupted by an attack,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even oil fields attacked, and as a consequence of that,
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  Speaker 1: global prices are going up because they're afraid of restrictions
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  Speaker 1: in a supply. Remember, almost all Uranian oil is sold
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  Speaker 1: to China. But if China is not buying Uranian oil
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  Speaker 1: because the supplies are restricted. Then it goes, it goes
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  Speaker 1: into the world market, ad buys oil from other people,
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  Speaker 1: driving prices up. So the potential price is going up
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  Speaker 1: exists all my already pricing in an attack and uncertainty
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  Speaker 1: about Uranian oil. To Trump's credit, he walked away from
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  Speaker 1: negotiations typically in the past, these negotia. I think, I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a different Trump this time around. I
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  Speaker 1: think Trump has is now found his Viking self. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's he's he's he's now you know, uh, really
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  Speaker 1: embraced what he really always was, which is I And
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  Speaker 1: I know some of you think Viking that that romanticizes it,
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  Speaker 1: that you know, that that makes him kind of there's
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  Speaker 1: a nobility to being a vical Well no, not really Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: What was what was characteristics of the Vikings? You know,
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  Speaker 1: the characteristics of the Vikings. This is a back starting
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  Speaker 1: really in the sixth and seventh centuries, uh, well, following
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  Speaker 1: the sixth and seventh centuries. This is this the eighth
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  Speaker 1: and nineth centuries. What characterized the Vikings is widespread violence,
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  Speaker 1: laudism and basically raids on other countries, on other cultures
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  Speaker 1: and looting. That is, the Vikings thrived by looting. They
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  Speaker 1: are moanders. I mean, I don't know if you know this.
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  Speaker 1: You would know this if you watched the TV series
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  Speaker 1: called Vikings, you know bits of it. Not really, but
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  Speaker 1: this waalodism was endemic at home. They constantly fought among
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  Speaker 1: each other. There was basically anarchy. They lived under anarchy,
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  Speaker 1: which meant there was no one king, there was no
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  Speaker 1: central government. They constantly were fighting, They constantly were killing
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  Speaker 1: each other, and you know, they invaded, murdered, plundered everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and it was all for a very clear view of
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  Speaker 1: a zero sum world in which they used force to
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  Speaker 1: plunder and to live off a plunder. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you could argue the land that they had was very infertile.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's very cold, the seasons they are very
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  Speaker 1: short in terms of growing anything, and the best way
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  Speaker 1: to get food was to go and steal it. And
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  Speaker 1: and once you steal everything, you can't steal within you
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  Speaker 1: among your Scandinavian brotherhood, you go outside of that. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but the Viking
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  Speaker 1: sacked Paris twice. They came, they destroyed the place, and
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  Speaker 1: then they left. They sacked large parts of Christian England
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  Speaker 1: for decades. I'm actually reading this from this article by
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Sullivan. Right, they sacked large parts of Christian England
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  Speaker 1: for decades, entirely for the riches of the monasteries. They
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  Speaker 1: would slaughter all the monks and take all the gold,
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  Speaker 1: and would they would take the gold back, or they
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  Speaker 1: would take you know, they would you know, take wheat
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  Speaker 1: and whatever they were growing in England. Over time, as
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  Speaker 1: their raids continued, the victims try to pay them off,
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  Speaker 1: to pay them to lay off, effectively paying protection money.
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  Speaker 1: Parisians kept coughing up when besieged repeatedly from the Ciennes.
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  Speaker 1: So they only sacked Paris twice, but they surrounded Paris
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  Speaker 1: many times, and in the end they just offered the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings a piece of France. Normandy, right, Normandy is Vikingland.
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  Speaker 1: The word Normandy comes from the northern men Land, north
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  Speaker 1: men Land. That's where the Vikings settled. So the Normans
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  Speaker 1: are you know, the Normans are French. Normans are just Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: And the idea was to give the Vikings some territory
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  Speaker 1: at the mouth of the Cienne that would deter other
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  Speaker 1: Vikings from coming up the River to Monk Paris again
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  Speaker 1: and it worked for will not forever. The English wasn't
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  Speaker 1: forced to pay what became known as dane geld Day
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  Speaker 1: in gold right protection money again first foked over by
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  Speaker 1: King ethel Read the second. But the Viking threatens never lifted,
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  Speaker 1: and demands for more and more and more money kept coming.
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  Speaker 1: At the word's first payment of ten thousand pounds of
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  Speaker 1: silver in ninety ninety one, by ten sixteen that became
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  Speaker 1: eighty five thousand pounds, you know. And this is how
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  Speaker 1: it went. And even there the Vikings landed up settling
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  Speaker 1: in and taking over the whole parts of England, and
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  Speaker 1: many Brits really descendants of the Vikings. Now, the whole
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  Speaker 1: mentality of the Vikings is a mentality of zero sum,
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  Speaker 1: not a production of creation, not a trade. There is
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  Speaker 1: no trade. It was looting, it was taking. The whole
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  Speaker 1: idea was domination, was to dominate man, to be stronger.
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  Speaker 1: That was the only way to survive. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is I think, this is I think Trump zero
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  Speaker 1: some and dominance. This is again from the article. The
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  Speaker 1: core drive is for disinhibited dominion, domination, sorry, domination, And
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  Speaker 1: this is true of Trump. He is only comfortable if
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  Speaker 1: he controls everything and everyone in his domain. Ecal co
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  Speaker 1: existence without subordination is simply beyond his understanding. Hence his
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  Speaker 1: sincere bafflement at the Constitution, which you know, assumes politically quality.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, this also explains his adoration for people
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  Speaker 1: who are dominant over their domains. He adores she he adored,
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  Speaker 1: best friends with the Buddha dictator of North Korea. He
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  Speaker 1: adores putin. These people exhibit dominance power everybody respects. They
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  Speaker 1: stand up when they walk into a room. They do
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  Speaker 1: as they are told. They don't question, they don't talk back.
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  Speaker 1: There's no media to harass them to question them. They
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  Speaker 1: control everything. And he, you know, you know demayas those
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  Speaker 1: people and wishes he could be the same. You can
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  Speaker 1: find this article on the Weekly Dish. This is Andrew Sullivan.
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  Speaker 1: I will put the link. I will put the link here.
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  Speaker 1: It is you know. You have to be a subscriber
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  Speaker 1: to a substack. Happened to be one because Andrew Sullivan's
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  Speaker 1: stuff is often won't let me put the link in
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  Speaker 1: their way. It's too long. The link is too long.
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  Speaker 1: I have to get a shorter link. I'll figure it
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  Speaker 1: out anyway, if you look the Weekly Dish, you'll find it.
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  Speaker 1: It's on Sep Stack and it's Andrew Sullivan. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I disagree with Andrew Sullivan on a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: I actually debated him live at Clemson University a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago. But Andrew Sullivan was the first one for me,
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  Speaker 1: at least back in twenty fifteen, to really start analyzing
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  Speaker 1: the left the woke. I don't think he called it
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  Speaker 1: woke back then, but intersectionality and all of that. I
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  Speaker 1: really benefited enormously from Sullivan's analysis of that, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it was spot on. Sullivan is also very anti Trump,
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  Speaker 1: which I respect because he is a conservative. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: a strange kind of conservative, but he is a conservative,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And and and and uh I think it.
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  Speaker 1: I think actually agrees with Trump on many of his
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  Speaker 1: economic things, but is Uh gets the issue of character,
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  Speaker 1: gets what Trump early is. Mos love MOUs love is
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  Speaker 1: put in the link to the Andrew Sullivan in the
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  Speaker 1: in the chat, so you can you can act, you
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  Speaker 1: can access it. He goes on ideas like the dignity
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  Speaker 1: of the individual or the rule of law are to
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  Speaker 1: him like shades of green to a color blind person.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one of those guys who can't tell different shades
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  Speaker 1: of green. All he ever sees, are ways to con
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  Speaker 1: and control others. The reward for power is gloue then
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  Speaker 1: no other values, which is why Trump is busily trying
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  Speaker 1: to erect monuments to himself, to his own eternal awesomeness
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  Speaker 1: across DC. You know Iman's article The monument Builders comes
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  Speaker 1: to mind in this context as well. It's how someone
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  Speaker 1: he believes. It's how someone who believes in nothing but
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  Speaker 1: himself faces mortality, sorry mortality. Now you know, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really believe in himself. The whole point of this kind
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  Speaker 1: of mentality is a deep seated, deep seated sense of inadequacy,
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  Speaker 1: a deep seated lack of self esteem, a deep seated
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  Speaker 1: lack of confidence, which is a consequence of what we've
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  Speaker 1: identified with Trump, which is his anti conceptual mentality, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he is an anti conceptual being and therefore
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  Speaker 1: can't trust his mind because he can't use his mind
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  Speaker 1: or doesn't choose to use his mind, and as a consequence,
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  Speaker 1: lives in fear, and as a consequence, has no self esteem.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not really believes in himself. But Andrew Sullivan
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  Speaker 1: is not a not a not a rational egoist. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the vikings of Bruto zero sum looters had
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  Speaker 1: no interest in the people they conquered other than in
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the loot they could achieve from them. And if you
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: think about it, you know, Trump's has said over and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: overgan he's against war, he's the peace bringer. But if
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: he senses that loot is involved, if he senses the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: control is possible, he's definitely an imperialist. He's definitely eager
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to go to war. I mean, at the end of
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the day, you know, Venezuela is about what it's a
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: our Trump's ability to control oil, why for what purpose?
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: What does it give us? I mean, we could have
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: traded for that oil. All we could have done with
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Venezuela is lifted all the sanctions and allowed American companies
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: to invest there, and that's it, and put pressure Venezuela
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: in to allow the American companies to come in. I mean,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it's not like Trump is going to reimburst oil companies
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: for the theft that Venezuela committed against them. He's not
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: even going to reimburst them from Venezuela and oil. He's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: actually said that one of the things that the revenue
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: from selling Venezuela and oil will not go towards is
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to reimburse oil companies. So this is not some kind
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: of active justice as he presented it originally in a
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: sense of reimbursing the all companies for the theft. This
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: is straight out looting Venezuela and oil control over it
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and having the resources run controlled managed not even by
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: US all companies, but by him, by the US government.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty amazing. Fifty million dollos of oil
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: right now in all tankers are going to be directly
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: sold by the US. They're going to be, you know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: taken from those ships and sold by the US. Who
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: knows where that money's going to go. Nobody really knows
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: how their money's going to be used and where it's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: going to go. But we do know, and Trump has
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: told us that the person controlling the money is going
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to be him. He's just a thug, He's a Viking looter.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: And it's zero sum, like trading with Venezuela for the oil.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe even you know, if you really want to go
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: out liberating Venezuela, putting in the opposition leaders and then
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: liberating it and then trading with it doesn't even occur
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to Trump. The whole point of the whole Venezuela operation
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: is US control of the oil. And I wonder, I'm
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I really do wonder whether Trump's excitement about getting involved
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: in Iran is not similar? Does can Trump? Does Trump
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: think that somehow there's a play here for Uranian oil?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Does he somehow think that America can control that oil
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: if he deposes or if he acts stuff. He doesn't
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: even have to depose the rulers. He didn't depose the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: people in Venezuela. Can can that lead to his control
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of the oil? And he'd own, he'd run, he'd manage,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: he'd control, he'd have domain over. I mean a big chunk.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: If you look at the US Venezuela le you run,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that's a big chunk of all the old supplies in
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the world. This is from the article if you have
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: no concept of anything but domination by violent, domination by
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: violence a completely a model, A model is exactly our
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Iran described Trump type people in selfishness without her self,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and you have the biggest and scariest force around. The
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Viking logic is impeccable. You just bully for money. Anything
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: else is for suckers. That's why Trump long called America's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: post war leadership stupid. If we had the huge military
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: superiority that we did for decades, why do anything but
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: bludgeon the rest of the world to enrich and glorify yourself.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: The marsh Plan remains as incomprehensible to Trump as it
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: would have been to the Vikings, or, for that matter,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: my entry. That was him, you know, securing global trading
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: routes incomprehensible to him. Why America should spend money to
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: secure global trade routes. Indeed, he didn't when the hooties
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: didn't give up easily, just back the way, okay as
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: they close the trading roots? Who cares mutual benificial trade
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: completely completely eludes him. He can't understand it. Why help anyone,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Why help anyone else when you can fuck him over?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: That's his effort, not mine. Hence the tariffs. Tariff raised
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: them because in his mind he could leverage American economic
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and military power to raid other countries treasuries. I think
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to some extent he really doesn't believe that they pay it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: He's wrong, of course, but the genuinely, but he genuinely
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: thinks foreign countries pay terriffs and no one else. Hence
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: also the loathing of NATO. Any alliance that drests on
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: mutual security and respect is anethema to him. Either the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: United States should demand for reimbursement as mercenaries or get
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the hell out of there. He goes on this as
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: being Trump's core beliefs his entire life. I think that's
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: absolutely right. He was outraged in the late nineteen eighties,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: for example, when the US deployed Navy forces to protect
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Quait from Soviet influence during the Ronnie Rock War. When
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I see Quait, he said, a total ripoff. Why aren't
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: we getting some of that money? He lamanded to fill
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Donnou in eighty seven, And NATO is the ultimate ripoff.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: The Gulf wo was a ripoff war for plunder. That's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: all he sees. That's all he believes in. I mean,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and why not. I think what he's discovered in his
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: second term, which I don't think quite resonated with his
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: first time, and I think that he is now high
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: on the knowledge because of Venezuela and how well it went,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: is that he is the commander a chief of the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: mightiest military force in all of human history. He can
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: bully people around the world. He can actually do it,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and they depend on him. He can do what he
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: wants with Zelenski, he can play with him as a toy.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: He can do what he wants with any of these.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: He he bombed the Iranians and wow, big bombs. It's beautiful,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it's amazing. And he did the Venezuela rate and it
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: went so smoothly. He suddenly realized, Wow, I have at
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: my disposal this amazing force. Right. So, you know, he
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: attacked Venezuela, kidnapped the president and his wife, you know,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: which they deserve to do. I have no problem with that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: He did it for the thrill of domination. Man the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: man does he relish parading his enemies on a prop walk,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: but mainly for the losa, the loote. He has told
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: us this explicitly shamelessness is one of his pagan virtues,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: long before and immediately after the fact. The idea that
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: he is interested in Venezuela and theocracy is ludicrous. He's
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a mom boss, that's all I mean. I've been saying
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: he's a mob boss for a long time. I'm glad
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to see Andrews, saying the same thing, and a protection
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: racket has not descended, has not descended over the entire
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Western hemisphere, called as now descendant of the entire Western hemisphere,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: it is called the Donroe doctrine. That is what America
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: is now a global Tony soprano, I like that line
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: in Greenland again, The reasoning is quite simple. Sullivan tells
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: us Trump has the military power to take over the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: world's largest island tomorrow and ran second for its vast
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: mineral resources, just as he envisions. However, delusion deludingly that
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: running Venezuela means USO companies selling venezuela and oil to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: enrich the US treasury if we're lucky, or to himself.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: If we're not, the money will be controlled by me,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: he tells us. So why on Earth not forced Greenland
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: into submission? What is anybody going to do about it?
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: As Stephen Miller said out loud, channeling Napoleon, you also
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: you also get the thrill of expanding American sovereignty by
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: adding eight hundred and thirty six thousand feet square miles
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: as big or bigger than the Louisiana proaches, more than
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a quarter of the continental US land mass, that new
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: chunk of Great America looks even more impressive on you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: on a map. And there's nothing in the worldview that's
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: going to restrain him. I don't know if you saw
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: this comment he made to New York Times about who
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I had this marked? Wit? Did I put it about?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: You know? What is going to restrain him? Let me
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: just find this. Yeah, So he's asked by the New
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: York Times, He's asked, are there any limits to his
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: global power powers? And he says, yeah, there's one thing.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: My own morality, my own mind. It's the only thing
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: that can stop me. Now that's super spooky when you
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: consider what kind of a mind he has and what
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: kind of morality he holds. What am I walking back?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Somebody says, yeah, your on is walking back. I'm not
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: sure what I'm walking back. So the only thing you
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: can restrain him is him. There isn't a constitution. He
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: didn't mention the constitution. There isn't the rule of law, nothing,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: just whatever his whims dictate, whatever his desires dictate. Again,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: he has that is Macon call the mightiest military force
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that seems to be willing to do whatever he wants.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Them to do. I mean nothing he's doing. Greenland is
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: not about deterring Russia or China in the Arctic. As
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I've said on other shows, we can do that easily
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: already because the Danes are one of the greatest allies
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and friends in the United States has ever had, from
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the resistance and Nazism to their support after nine to eleven.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: We could turn Greenland into a NATO fortress if he
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: wanted to, with NATO's support. But this is about glory
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and plunder and expanding the United States, which means blackmail
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: or conquest of an ally, which means the end of NATO,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: and well. Striking about this week's interview with Trump is
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that Trump is obviously aware that he could end NATO.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: In Wildfall Swoop, he saysn't maybe a choice, He says,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: ownership of Greenland. This is ownership of Greenland is very
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: important because that's what I feel is psychologically needed for success.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: That's what I feel is psychologically needed for success. Ownership
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: gives you things that an elements that you can't get
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: from signing a document. In other words, he needs to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: control it, he needs to dominate it, not through an
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: alliance like NATO. Not in corporation with the Danes, but no,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: just all out. And this is psychological right, It's what
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I feel is psychologically needed. I mean, that's pretty revealing.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: That's pretty revealing. I mean, trumps Down a neocon. He's
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: not a realist. He's not really an imperialist. He's not
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: about conquering countries and occupying them and you know, for
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the resources and bringing them back and bring the modernity
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in the process and investing in those countries. No, bring
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: a civilization there. Like the British imperialists or the French
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: or the any of the imperialists, they all believe they
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: were civilizing the people they were ruling. He's just a
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Viking leveraging his power to plunder, to blackmail, to extore,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: to bully, to attack anyone who's weaker. He doesn't have
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: to give a reason. He's strong. Why does he have
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: to give a reason? Who does he have to answer to?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to answer to anybody. And if everything unravels,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: if our alliances a ravel, if we piss off our
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: allies for friends to zuite us, who cares. We're so
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: strong we don't need them anyway. We got the biggest
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: military what's the point. And I think it's important to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: note that this. So that's kind of that's Andrew Sullivan's article.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: But this mentality, this mentality is no different than the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: mentality that he brings to domestic policy. I mean, he
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: doesn't like the fact that American business might be acting
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: on their own behalf, making decisions that don't ALIGNE necessarily
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: or Trump. So for the first time really since the
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: early nineteen fifties, the United States is taking equity positions
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: in companies that are not bankrupt, not as a bailout,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: but just to make sure they toe the line. In
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, the equity positions were mainly as a consequence
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: of investments made during World War Two. All wrong, none
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: of them should have been done. But it's coming out
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: of a war. This is not. The United States government now,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: over the last six months has made investments in one, two, three, four,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: sixteen companies including US Steel, you know, AMD, Intel, in Nvidia,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: by taking revenues from them, revenue of the chips they
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: sell to China. So I want to control directly, I
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: want dominion of American business. And indeed, this week Trump
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: kind of hinted, threatened, or suggested that maybe the US
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: government should take a position in some of the US
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: all companies to make sure they behave He certainly wasn't
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: happening with Exon. Axon's not getting anything. Exon's not going
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to Venezuela. I mean he he then going to get
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: any of the goodies that Trump administration is going to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: throw at all companies. Why because they said Venezuela's uninvestable. Well, okay,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: you said something that was inconsistent with Trump, with Trump's views,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: with Trump's agenda, with Trump's whims, you're going to get
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: locked out of future deals. So you know, let's take
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: of o companies, not entirely, but some a little bit.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: And then of course, the big wood right now, the
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: big idea right now is we need to solve the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: affordability crisis things, which is affordability is really an anti concept,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything, but you know, basically it's trying to
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: identify this angst that a lot of Americans are feeling
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: that they can't afford that they can't afford houses, They're
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: paying a lot of interest in their credit cards, they
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: are I don't know. You know, the prices are just high.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: And this is hurting Trump politically, hurting Republicans politically is
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: being harassed by So how do we deal with it? Well,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: remember Trump is a perceptual level, zero sum mentality. You
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: can't think abstractly. He can't think an economic principle. You
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: can't think in terms of when, when trade. You can
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: only think in terms of a looter. So what do
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: you do well, you basically try to control and manipulate.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: So the idea is, you know, we're gonnat cap interest
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: on credit cards Americans, some Americans who don't pay off
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: their balance every month. If you pay off your balance
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: every month, you don't pay any interest. But those who
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: don't pay their balance off every month, some of them
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: have interestrates as high as twenty thirty. That's usually that's
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a great line for him. So he's saying, we're putting
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: on one year cap a ten percent. Credit card companies
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: have totally abused the public. I'm not going to let
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: that happen. We used to live in the Land of
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: the Free. Companies could do what they wanted to at
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: least a large extent. Customers could choose to interact with
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: them or not. Now the government's coming in and telling
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: companies the interestation they can charge in credit cards. Now,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: a long time ago, do US government told banks what
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: they could charge on loans, and certainly told them what
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: they could pay on savings. But that era is long gone,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: and that era created real distortions and real damage in
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: the economy. But Trump is not even thinking about a
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: grand regulatory regime to try to control things. No, he's thinking,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I knew to appease the public. How do I do that. Well,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: let's price controls. Price controls in places where I think
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: they will sympathetic usury. Everybody hates usury, so I can
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: get rid of that. Usury is high interest rates. I
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: can't get rid of that. Now. You know, some economists,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: and I know the economists in his adminstration know this.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: They all know what that'll do. That'll reduce the amount
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: of credit poor people can get a bad credit, people
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: with bad credit can get you know, credit card companies
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: basically will have to shrink dramatically. There's only so many
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: customers that they're willing to put on a ten percent
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: you know, ten percent interest rate. Everybody else a'll basically
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: cancel the credit cards. Where will those poor souls go
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: in order to get credit, because they'll still need a
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: bottle of money. Where will they go. They'll go to
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: you know, payday lenders if they're lucky, and they'll charge
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: again thirty forty percent. Or they'll go to what do
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: you call the the the tony Sopranos of of debt. Right,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: they'll go to their local uh, the local black market.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: They'll go to the local thug. They'll go to the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: local you know guy who if you don't pay back
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the debt, he'll break your loan sharks, he'll break your
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: he'll break your bones. So instead of the credit card companies,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: we'll go with the launch sharks and little sharks, which
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: charge you a much higher interest rate, and you can't
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: evade them. You can't escape from them by filing bankruptcy
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: zero sum negative. Some everybody's a loser, right, you go,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: policy after policy. Mortgage rates a high. So what is
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Trump gonna do? You know, it's n it's not good.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Mortgage rates are height. So we're going to ban private
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: equity funds from buying homes. That sounds stuff and sounds
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: good again. Control control the economy, control business, Control what
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: you can and cannot do. We're gonna ban them from
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: buying homes, which will only make houses, won't make houses cheaper.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: And we'll also use Fetti and Fanny, Fetti and Fanny,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: who long should have been dissolves, broken up, destroyed, you know,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: just they shouldn't exist, certainly, not in this current form.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: But they're controlled by the government. These are government entities.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: They're under in receivership of government. We'll tell Freddie if
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I need to buy two hundred billion dollars of mortgage
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: bonds to lower interest rates for home buyers, so we'll
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: use power, sheer force, sheer force of government to manipulate
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the interest rate. Will this cause all kinds of distortions
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: and perversions and potentially financial crisis in the future. Potentially,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: But at perceptual level. Mentality can't think into the future,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: can't think of all the abstract stages that go from
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: price control to disaster. And when the disaster happen, here'll
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: blame immigrants or Wall Street or the Jews or the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Chinese or somebody. There's plenty of people, plenty of people
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: out there to blame. He's gonna use tariff revenue to
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: give you all two thousand dollars a check like the
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: stimulus check that you got during COVID that didn't create inflation. No, no,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: And of course, where is this tariff money. I mean,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: if there is extra tariffs, there are extra tariff revenue,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: they're they're going to close a little bit the gap,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the deficit. There's no extra money. He's making that up.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: But he has control. Think of what he's doing to
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: pour power the chairman of the Federal Reserve, using muscle,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: using power, using force to curse him, using the Justice
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Department to curse him into lowering interestrates or leaving lowing interstrates.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: It's not a solution to economic problems. It's an artificial,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: manipulative way in order to make people feel richer, but
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: it has horrific economic consequences long term. But it's a
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: great power play, and it's control, and it's a lever
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: he can pull. He just needs to get Powell out
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: of the way. And if he could get the Supreme
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Court to say it's okay for him to fire Power,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: he would have fired him already. He just doesn't want
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: the hassle of having to go to the Supreme Court.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: And you know, he's already posted that he wants. He
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: doesn't want data centers to cause electricity prices to go
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: up for Americans, so he's going to find a way
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: to control that price. I don't know who's going to
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: be the cost, but you know, you know he's targeting
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars a boot, even if it's completely artificial. Maybe
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: that's why he's going to Iran again, is with the
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: hope of controlling the oil from Yon to lower O prices,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: which is promised because of quote affordability. Every one of
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: these all he can think of think of this mentality
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: is control domination, zero sum, central planning. Markets are on abstraction.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Markets are difficult to comprehend how they work. Markets rely
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: on on understanding that the essential nature of trade is
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: win win, that the essential nature of trade is wealth creation,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: it's wealth addition. But he doesn't have that. Trade is lose.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: When somebody loses, somebody wins and award like that. The
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  Speaker 1: key to him is he has to be the winner.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: So you know, this is only the first year of
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: a four year term. He's going to keep doing this.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I guess the only hope is Democrats win in the
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: House and Senate, And I don't know try to impeach him,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: and that creates he distracts him away from all this
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: garbage from I mean, Maga is upset because he's not
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: going to go to war lot and he's threatening wars
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: all over the place. When he promised that he was
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: not going to be deploy US troops anyway, not going
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: to use military force anywhere. Now he's discovered a great tool.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: It is just like the Vikings, and that he could
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: beat up anybody. He's not going to stop. I mean,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Trump is that primitive mentality, zero sum, domination forces, good forces, power,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Might makes right, but it's not even might what makes right.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Trump's whims, that's all that matters. It's where they want something,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: where they desire something. And if you look at domestic
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: and fun stuff that's happening right now as we speak,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: it's basically all of that. And domestically he's struggling because,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: you know, voters, the cost of living has gone up,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be surprised if we see all kinds
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: of attempts at price controls in various ways. But you know,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: credit cards, you know, we'll see what he does with oil,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: We'll see what he does with mortgage rates. Manipulating, controlling,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: it's all he knows. We have a Viking running our
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: government and the policies of Viking policies. What we have
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: force and zero sum. That is what drives everything that
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: he is doing. All right, just checking to see if
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: there's anything else, I mean, just on the pign policy front,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: there was this. And notice who e Moost respects. Who
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: he most admires, Hu Specs and Admyer's people who use force,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Hugh Specs and ad Maya's dictators, Hugh Specs and Ad
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Mayas we said, putin Kshi. But you know today he
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: came out, they came out with a statement, you know,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: a banning or I guess boycotting, declaring as a terrostal
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: entity the Muslim Brotherhood. And you go, whoa, this is great,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: you know, finally an American president to stood up against
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood, the fountain head of Islamism. But then
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: you look and he says, it's only three groups of
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood Muslim otherho is a global organization in Egypt,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: in Jordan, and in Lebanon, not in Syria. Muslim Brotherhood
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: is basically at the heart of this new Syrian regime.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Not in Kata, where the Muslim brotherhood has all its
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: preachers intellectuals, you know, and where the money is. Not
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: anywhere else. Those two places don't offend the dictators of Kata,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the Saudis. You don't intervene in their affairs, even though
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: the Saudis are pretty anti Muslim brotherhood. Not when a
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: band Uslim brotherhood is global entity. Just those three chapters.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Because his buddies, the sheikhs of Arabia, he has to
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: make sure to appease them, because those are the kind
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: of people he likes. He likes other dictators. No, I mean,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: the whole way he's treated is Zelenski. It's just so immoral,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: it's so offensive, it's so ridiculous, it's so anti American.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: But it's perfect for somebody who's just looking funny an angle.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: What can I plunder here? What can I steal? What
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: can I take? What can I control? Who's going to
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: give me more? If I side with Russia? Could I
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: get more out of it? Probably? Putin's promised me all
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: these great things. Anyway, I thought the trumpet a Viking
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: was good, good analogy, and I think it fits again
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: both his foreign and domestic policies, all friends, that is
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: the news. Most of the items in the news, Greenland,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: the credit card thing, the other economic interventions. I managed
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: to get in there. That is the news for this Tuesday,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: January thirteenth. I mean, think about ice in terms of
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: in terms of the efficacy of force zero, some mentality.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Think about the attitude it was illegal immigrants. It's all
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the same forces. What's honorable forces? What's good? The guy
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: who shot her in the car, Wow, that's being a man,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: standing up with yourself, not taking this obnoxious behavior by
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: these leftists. Shoot him. That's the way you deal with issues.
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  Speaker 1: you think it's appropriate to speak of objectivist tribalists pseudo
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: objectivist people who claim to love the writings of wine
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  Speaker 1: Man but really don't understand at any level just regurgitate.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, but I think those people don't survive
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  Speaker 1: for very long. They don't stay for very long, and
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  Speaker 1: they go join a more accepting tribe than the objectivist movement.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think there's literally, you know, objective tribalists,
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  Speaker 1: because they don't survive long enough to make it they
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  Speaker 1: they quickly drift off and join the Conservatives, or join
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  Speaker 1: the Libertarians, or join some other group that is is
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  Speaker 1: more receptive to that mindlessness. I do know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conservatives who like Imrand and who's some concept within
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  Speaker 1: iran appeal to them, and they think they're objectivists, but
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  Speaker 1: they're really still conservatives. And you know, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think you really see that with with the with all
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  Speaker 1: the Trumpists, the people who who became even in the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: first term and then again now devout call it devout
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: followers of Trump, they were never really objectivists, at least
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: some of them, some not. I'm not saying everybody is
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: which Trump is this, but there's a certain group there.
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  Speaker 1: So there are lots of pseudo activists. It manifests itself
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  Speaker 1: in different ways, and they don't survive in the movement
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  Speaker 1: for very long, Okay, Jimmy. Unfortunately, it seems likely the
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  Speaker 1: regime is going to survive. How this might play out
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: in the long term, how Yuon might be further isolated,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: how feign policy establishment might move on and pretend it's
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: never happened. I actually don't think they're going to survive.
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  Speaker 1: I actually think it's going to fall exactly how I
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: don't know. But the reality is this Iran is did poor,
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  Speaker 1: I mean unbelievably poor in spite of its alders. Those
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  Speaker 1: whatever money they had, whatever money they get from oil,
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  Speaker 1: they poured into weapons systems, and they poured into their
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  Speaker 1: allies overseas. I mean Iran was spending money in Venezuela,
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  Speaker 1: like one poor country was funding another poor country. So
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  Speaker 1: So I think the regime, so there's years, it's poor,
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  Speaker 1: it has no money. The money it's it spends on
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  Speaker 1: all these other things. It has to maintain a vast
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  Speaker 1: security force in order to oppress its own people. The
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  Speaker 1: people have had it the fed up. As I told you,
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  Speaker 1: I think the water reservoir was in Iran are very low.
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  Speaker 1: So there's water rationing in vast parts of Iran. There's
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  Speaker 1: water rationing, really for the first time in modern Iranian history.
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  Speaker 1: There's power rationing because they don't actually don't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of refining capacity. They don't have enough refining capacity
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  Speaker 1: they produce the fuel to actually produce the energy in
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  Speaker 1: the countries. The country is in really bad shape and
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: the people know it. So even just economically, it's in
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: bad shape. They've stopped, you know, enforcing the huge job
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  Speaker 1: laws because the goals revolted and they couldn't put that
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  Speaker 1: down completely. They've just killed maybe ten to twenty thousand
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: of their own people. They will not be forgiven for
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: that very easily, I think. Now it's just a question
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  Speaker 1: of what configuration of opposition rises up against them. We
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  Speaker 1: know that people can go in the streets. Problem with
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: that is they get mowed down. Now the question is
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: are there people either within regime who see it's going
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  Speaker 1: to collapse and want to get ahead of it, or
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: a little outside the regime, like as we mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: the past, in the army that might want to take
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  Speaker 1: over or might want to be the ones that tip
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: it over. And then of course, if the United States
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: bombs them, and if Israel gets involved, then you'll see
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: a significant weakening of their ability to project force even
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: on their own people, and I think all of that
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: culminates with this regime. So if I had a bed,
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  Speaker 1: I'd say there's a higher than fifty percent chance that
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  Speaker 1: this regime does not survive the year, and there is
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  Speaker 1: a twenty five percent chance that it doesn't survive the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of months. So I think it's coming. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to happen, and primarily because of the
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  Speaker 1: economy right If anything, you can expect the Europeans now
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  Speaker 1: to join in much tougher sanctions against Ian, join the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: United States, and much tougher sanctions against I Won, which
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  Speaker 1: means the economy will deteriorate. Even for that, nobody's coming
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  Speaker 1: to help the Uranians. The Russians are busy and poor themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The Chinese probably don't want to bet on the Uranians
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  Speaker 1: right now. I don't know what kind of help they
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  Speaker 1: could provide. They could send them money, they could they
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: could you know, bring them, but they haven't to this date.
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  Speaker 1: They can continue buying their oil, but you know, the
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  Speaker 1: the it's quite possible that the West will isolate you
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  Speaker 1: Wan to the to the point where the oil doesn't leave.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't take much so the next few I mean if
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  Speaker 1: Trump does something, the next few days will be really interesting.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Of course, you want can't control the States of Homoes.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: It could stop the flow of oil from Kuwait and
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Uee and some Saudi Arabias oil a lot of Saudi
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Arabia's oil through the States of Homos. But it will
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: suffer for deally for that. So we will see, we
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: will see. But I don't think they're going to survive.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see how they can survive. They're isolated, and
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: again they're good poor. They have nothing. They can't even
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: probably you know, they can still pay for weapon systems,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: but their weapons systems up in significant in compared to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: cast to what Israel in the United States has. Mary Eleene,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: how do you think the Supreme Court will rule on
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs? Looks like it will be soon. I expect
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: it to be tomorrow, and I think that'll overturn the tariffs.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: I think that rule the tariffs unconstitutional based on the
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: law that he used to put them with place. Now
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: remember that's right now, less than fifty percent of all
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: the tariffs. Most of the taffs he has in place
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: are based on his faun policy emergency powers stuff's national
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: security stuff like the steel and the aluminum and all
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: of that. Even some of the like things like furniture
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: was national security, so it only affects some of the tariffs.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: I expect what will happen is Trump will turn around
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: and try to reimpose them under a different law. He'll
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: find another law, and then you'll have to assue him
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: all the way up the Supream Court again. But I
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: think the Supreme Court will do the right thing and
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: ruled them unconstitutional. I you know, I'm worried about the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: fact that they delayed from Friday to Wednesday to this Wednesday.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: They were supposed to release the decision on Friday, that
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: maybe there's some still jockeying on the court to try
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: to try to get Trump a better deal, a decision
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: that's more favorable to him. I expect the decision to
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: go I don't know. I mean, I hope it's unanimous,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: maybe nine to one, with Roberts, sorry with with uh
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: Thomas being the one who sides with Trump, because he
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: seems to be the most Partizan At worst. I hope
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: it's sixty three with Alito and maybe Ghostage siding with Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: But I hope ghost Itch doesn't Ghostich is the one
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  Speaker 1: that I most want to side eight to one, sorry,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: not nine to one one. I mostly hope to side
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: with against Trump because Ghostige, I think, is the most
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: reasonable of them and is the one that is Ghostis
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: is the one that believes in separation of powers. He says, well,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: this is a test. Does he really believe that? So
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  Speaker 1: it would be great if it was eight to one,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: even seven to two would be good with Alido going
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: with Thomas Andrew. It's dangerous when a man has no shame.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: The Trumpet administration lacks it entirely. Absolutely. They don't blink
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: when they lie. Of course, they're cool and aggresses. They
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: don't see themselves as fully human anymore. Well, as we've
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: talked about in Ram's essay the Missing Link, there's a
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: sentition which they're not right. There's a sense in which
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: they're not being they're not choosing to be fully human
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: because they're not fully conceptual, and certainly Trump is not.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Trump is the perfect concretization of the anti conceptual mentality,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: of the thuggish, anti conceptual mentality, the lone wolf, as
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: she describes him in Selfishness without her Self. Thank you, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we've got a bunch of ten and two's
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• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Remo says, you recently summed up the historical events in
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: which the US hood Israel's interests to refuse the APAC claim.
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  Speaker 1: I can't find the specific show anymore. Can you mention
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: some events again? Sure? All right? Well, started right at
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the founding of Israel, Truman was very
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: reluctant to recognize Israel when it was founded in nineteen
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: forty eight. He did recognize it, primarily because he was
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: worried about the fact that the Soviet Union would recognize
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: it and would cozy up to Israel, and Israel would
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: become friendly with the Soviets, so as a cold warplay,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: he recognized it, but immediately placed an arms embogo on Israel.
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  Speaker 1: So from nineteen forty eight to nineteen sixty one or
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: sixty two, the United States sold no weapons to Israel,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: and then from nineteen sixty two under Kennedy till nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven the Sixth Day War, they sold very little weapons,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: very very few weapons, no financial help, no weapons to
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: Israel during until you know, nineteen sixty seven, in nineteen
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: sixty seven, so that's one right, so Armsenbogle. In nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty six, when Israel took the Sinai as part of
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: a joint military operation with France and England who took
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: the Seals Canal, it was the Eisenhower administration forced Israel
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: to give the Sinai back to the Egyptians in nineteen
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: sixty seven. The sixty seven would be the Johnson administration
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: refused Israel's Israel's request to preemptively strike the Egyptian Army
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: in Sinai, and you know, basically delayed, delayed, delayed, and
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: then acted in spite of the fact that Johnson administration
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: prohibited them to act, and they ultimately did act. In
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, during the Young Kipoul War, Israel was
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: on the verge of destroying the Egyptian Third Army, I mean,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: completely destroying them. It was it was the Third Army
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: was on the verge of starvation. They had been surrounded.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: It was we're talking about probably, you know, a country
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand men, and you know, Nixon basically
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: told Goldamin no, and then the United States force results
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: to negotiate a deal with Saddad, you know, on the
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: terms that were probably more favorable to the Egyptians, and greed.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: They greed to cease fire with Egypt on the more
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: favorable terms than the Israel wanted. In nineteen seventy nine,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: when Israel was negotiating peace with the Egyptians, it was
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: the Americans who twisted Israel's arm to give up strategic
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: locations in the sina By Meli, the Red Sea, the
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: whole strip of land between Elat and Charle Machere along
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: the Red Sea, which Israel wanted to sustain. And it
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: was the it was the Carter administration that twisted their
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: arms and forced them to give that to Egypt's pause
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: of the peace deal with Anwal Sadda in nineteen eighty three,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: Israel had yes Or in the crosshairs. They could have
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: killed him and six thousand of his terrorist fighters, six
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: thousand PLO fighters. They had them cornered in the western
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  Speaker 1: part a Bay Route. I was, you know, and I
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: was going to tell a personal story, but I won't,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: and you know, they would have been finished. These are
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: these were planning how to enter West Bay Route and
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: take him out. And the Reagan administration forced them to
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: cut a deal whereby Yes Ralpha, what's six thousand of
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: each men left Bay Route moved to Tunisia on boats
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: protected by marines, Marines who were later killed in the
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: bombing of Rizbala when the marine barracks was bombed. And
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: that was Reagan. That wasn't Israel's doing. That was Reagan's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Reagan forced that, you know, I could go on and
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: on and on. It was it was the Americans the
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: first day Israel to wo draw from you know, from
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: originally from Bay Route and then ultimately from Lebanon as
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: a whole. By two thousand, it was George Bush that
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: prevented Alek Shahan from killing yes or Alphad during the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: Second Intafada. At least twice the Israelis had him, were
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: ready to kill him, and George Bush told them no. So,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: you know, it was you know, Trump just stopped Israel
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  Speaker 1: in the Twelve Day War from actually finishing the job
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  Speaker 1: or continuing the job and maybe setting the Ranians up
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: for an even easier revolution. Time after time after time
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: after time after time again the Americans are the ones
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: that forced Israel to back down, to back down. So
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: those are some examples. Savannas. What is their official status
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: in Gaza. I haven't lost resolve that Israel isn't the right,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: but that before and after shots of the agricultural areas
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  Speaker 1: being destroyed around Gaza leaves me troubled that they are
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: worst elements of Israeli policy there. I don't see why.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see why Israel shouldn't destroy everything in Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: This is a country at war. Ramasa is not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in remember, all the land outside of Gaza City is
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: all tunneus is ohos bombing tunnels. The fact that agricultural
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: land was bombed, it's the middle of a war, of
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: course that it will be bombed. Why should is all
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: allow the gardens to feed themselves while a war is
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: going on. Indeed, the very fact that is well allowed
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: for aid to flow into Gaza during the war is
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: an abomination. It's an altruistic horror that just prolonged the
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: war and and and made it worse for the Israelis.
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  Speaker 1: So no, there's nothing, there's nothing that should make you
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  Speaker 1: question Israeli policy there, if anything is really policy, there
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: is too soft. Now Hamas refuses to disarm. That is
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: part of the peace deal. The Trump signed the three
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: thousand year first time peace deal in the Middle East.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: The Trump made possible. Hamas refuses the disarm. It looks like, uh,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: the war will have to be resumed. There's no international
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: force in the world that will actually go in in
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: disarms Hamas. ISO's going to have to go in and
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: going to have to literally destroy them, you know, a
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: tunnel by tunnel, building by building and whatever destruction there is.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Now they're going to have to destroy a lot more
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: of Gaza before they're done, because the reality is that
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: Ramas is well embedded within the within the civilian population,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: and there's just no way to destroy Ramas and disarms
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: Hamas without destroying the entire civilian infrastructure of Gaza, which
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: is or hasn't done yet, which it should have. So no,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: there's there's just no there's no worst elements of Israeli policy.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: There The worst elements of Israeli policy there is that
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: Tramas is still around, that they haven't yet destroyed it.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: That's the worst element. It's not that they that they
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: destroy too much, they destroy too little. Ramask can end
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: it tomorrow. All they have to do is the song
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: and then it ends, and then gazillions of dollars will
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: flow in to rebuild Gaza. But they won't the song
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: because they're not interested in the well being of Gazans.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: They're interested exclusively in their own power. So thank you Savanus,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: But I really don't you know, I don't think there's
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: anything positive, there are anything negative in what is world
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: is doing other than being too weak and not ending
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: this not and I think Trump is responsible for not
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: letting them end it because he's looking for an angle.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: He's constantly looking an angle where it's a real estate play,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: or it's appeasing the Saudis, or it's appeating appeasing the Katari's.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: He's interested in some angle that also make him a peacemaker.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: He really, really, really really wants to know what peace
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: prize and m do you agree with Harry Ben swaying
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: a sanction of disloyal sanction of disobeying ICE. Well, I
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what Harry said about it,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: but as I've told you, I am fine with disobeying ICE.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you have to be careful because
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: I don't think you want to hurt yourself. But my
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: view of ICE is that it is an inherently immoral institution.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: That not only the law that they're applying this deportation
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: of illegals is abhorrent, but the way they're doing it
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: is so disgusting that, yes, I think that civil disobedience
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: in the face of ICE is the right approach. If
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: enough people exhibit civil disobedience, sit in the middle of
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: the road prevent ICE from executing their duties, maybe they'll
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: change their behavior. So I'm I don't have a problem
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: with civil disobedience. I think civil disobedience during the Civil
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: rights era was appropriate, and I think in this case,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: in this case where Ice is so dishonest, you know,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: standing them, facing them and again in a nonviolent, civil
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: disobedient way, knowing you'll probably get arrested and you'll probably
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: be charged, and you might spend some time in jail,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: you know, and you have to be careful how you
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: do it. You do not want to give them an
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: excuse to shoot at you. You do not want to
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: drive even anyway close to them, bet filming them. Absolutely,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: film everything that they do. I mean. The only people
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: who are afraid of being filmed people who have something
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: to hide. And remember Ice as our servant. There's a
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: concert for you. Ice serves you, they're your agents. You
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be afraid of them. They should be afraid of you. Hopper,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: if you see Ice conducting a raid in front of
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: your you, would you yell at them or not engage.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: I would probably yell at them. I would find it
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: hard to resist, and if they were in the middle
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: of a raid, I would definitely film. Luckily, there's no
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: Ice where I am, you know, on not nothing I've
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: seen so, but because I worry about how passionate I
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: would become. Happa Campbell is ice primarily function to facilitate
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: ethnic cleansing. Well, I mean they can't, but yes, I
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: mean there's a sense in which that's part of what
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: they're doing because they are trying to intimate, intimidate people
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: of a different color. They're trying to intimidate anybody who's different.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: They can't literally deport them, but they can intimidate them
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: make it unpleasant for them to live in this country. Okay, Michael,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: since you aren't doing much traveling or in person talks, No,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: I am, It's just not right now. But it starts
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: in two weeks. It's probably worth it to reach out
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: to Destiny of Peter Schiff or other YouTubers for interviews
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: to help grow your brand. Yep, that makes sense. That
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: probably makes sense. I need to figure out how to
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: do that and who to do it with. As The
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: Saxon series by Burnout Cornwell is historical fiction about by Vikings. Thanks.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: I've enjoyed the TV shows. There's a variety of different
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: TV shows on Vikings. And then there was this movie
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: The Norseman. Was it a few years ago? Ultra violent, brutal, brutal,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: really trying to be realistic to the world in which
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: they live. You get you learn a lot. You learn
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: a lot from that. Yeah. By the way, in obstructing Ice,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't obstruct traffic. I wouldn't stop regular
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: people from going about their lives. I would do what
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: I could too, you know, harass again peacefully ice itself.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: But I'm not going to block roads and not gonna
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: disrupt other people from going about their lives. I don't
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: believe in that. Ennis. You argue Iran's fall would cripple
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: radical Islam. But is that when Sunni movements never dorew
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: inspiration from shiai Atula's Is that true when Sunni movements there,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: But they did. They absolutely did. If you read, if
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: you even we'd mean Latin. But if you read the
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: Sunnis all the way out in Indonesia, the Sudis who
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: bought into all the different Muslim Brotherhood Islamic Jihad movements,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: they absolutely took inspiration from the Shia tolders they took
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: inspiration from Romani, they took inspiration from the establishment of
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: the Iranian Islamic Republic, from the imposition of Sharia law.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: They you know, it's all over their literature. It is
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: a huge part of the inspiration. It's not an accident
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: that the Islamist movement grows dramatically starting in the late
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies early nineteen eighties. The opposition to the Russians
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: in Afghanistan was inspired by the Iranian regime, even though
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: it was Sunni and was funded by SADII be A
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: primarily absolutely, you can see the inspiration. You know, I
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: studied this after nine eleven and it's all over the place.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: They are the model, they are the proof that it
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: can happen. They are the proof that you can oppose
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: Muslim ideology Sharia law on a westernizing country, which is
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: what Iran was during the seventy nine So it was
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: a massive inspiration. Maybe they don't take inspiration from particular
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: Shia ayatula. They take inspiration from the model, from the existence,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: from the ability to do Sharia law. But they really did.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: They loved Romani. Romani was a huge inspiration to them.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: You will see if you Wan falls, Sunni movements will
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: become much much weaker, much weaker. And indeed, Iran has
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: helped the Sunnis. They helped al Kada. They they certainly
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: have held Ramas Ramas's Sunni movement not a shared movement.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: They've helped Islamic jihad in its various forms. Uh. They
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: have no problem helping soonies. When the goal, the short
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: term goal is to destroy Ewan's enemies, and a long
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: term goal is being used real lot to the entire world,
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  Speaker 1: then they'll settle. Whether she et a Sunio. In between,
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  Speaker 1: they'll fight. I mean, even as Soonies hate each other,
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  Speaker 1: right Isis and a Kaita and different different variations of
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  Speaker 1: Isis and different variations of are constantly fighting with one another.
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  Speaker 1: And this is true in the entire history of Islam.
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  Speaker 1: They never get along. They're constantly at each other's throats.
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  Speaker 1: That's the nature of religion. Same with Protestant sects. They
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  Speaker 1: all hate each other's guts or have historically. Hopper Campbell,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're not a fan of objectivists in person demonstrations,
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  Speaker 1: but if ICE gets significantly worse when an objectives to
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  Speaker 1: anti ICE rally in Austin, Texas outside a rise new
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  Speaker 1: facility server benefit, I don't think much of a benefit.
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  Speaker 1: We' about intellectual arguments. We're about, you know, intellectual content,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think you get that from a demonstration. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: the new facility is not going to be open until
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. It actually opened just before the election,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't think that would be a good time
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  Speaker 1: to do it. James, I can't believe I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have to start voting Democrat in the first time in
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  Speaker 1: my life to stop the rise of socialism. Yeah, pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Our socialist This administration is more socialists may in some
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  Speaker 1: respects than Biden. Less socialist in others, but more socialists
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  Speaker 1: in some liam The mall deranged, dig degenerates of the
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  Speaker 1: left and right need to be able to unify around
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  Speaker 1: hating Israel but not immigration. Why I think they ultimately
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  Speaker 1: will unite around immigration because as I've told you, often
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  Speaker 1: unions are anti immigration, and the left ultimately is anti immigration,
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  Speaker 1: but primarily because the left views immigration through the prism
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  Speaker 1: of oppressor, oppressed, and the immigrants are the oppressed, and
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  Speaker 1: the Americans and the oppressed, so and therefore they side
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  Speaker 1: with the immigrants. Israel for the left is the oppressed soul,
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  Speaker 1: and it also is the Jews for the right, so
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  Speaker 1: it fits perfectly into both Camps's view of the enemy
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  Speaker 1: immigrants because they're weak, because they're poor. The left and
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  Speaker 1: the right view them differently. The left adores them, the
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  Speaker 1: right hates them because they're different color. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: all the illegal immigrants were white, there would be noise. Liam,
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  Speaker 1: They don't tread on me. Folks are sure turning into
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  Speaker 1: comply or die very quickly. It's pretty amazing, really pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Give me liberty or give me death. Oh no, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: not not when it comes to deporting immigrants. In deporting
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  Speaker 1: image and we need to lay down and just comply
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  Speaker 1: because the value of it. Deporting immigrants is so great
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  Speaker 1: that it overs It's more important than immigrants. It's more
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  Speaker 1: important than liberty. Michael. In what way are European welfare
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  Speaker 1: systems more efficient than ours? It's easier extracting free money there, yeah,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: but it's more. It gets the money into the hands
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  Speaker 1: of those who quote need it faster, smoother, less bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 1: The American welfare state is more bureaucratic than much of
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: the European welfare state. We have more programs that overlap
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  Speaker 1: with one another, we have more bureaucracy. We use nonprofits
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  Speaker 1: that skim off the system constantly. We have welfare at
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: the federal level, land at the state level. I think
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  Speaker 1: the Europeans just have it more streamlined, more efficient in
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  Speaker 1: terms of delivering the goodies to the mooches. Gail, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's being too silent on Canada. Does he have
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: a plan for Canada? Well, Greenland will give him another
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  Speaker 1: border with Canada. I think he realizes that Canada is
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: not something that he's actually going to do. It's not
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: something that's actually going to happen, So what's the point
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  Speaker 1: of talking too much about it unless it's to troll
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: you and harassed Canadians. Right now, is focuses in Greenland,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: which he thinks he can actually get, and he's willing.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: I think he's willing to deploy military force. I think
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: you would take it, Paul. I thought my opinion of
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: Trump was as low as it could go, but you've
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: lowered it even more. Good. I'm really happy. My mission
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: in life is to lower all of your opinions of Trump,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: Sir Menic Menrick. There's an interesting talk by Hickseth at
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: Musk's star Base, insightful into the military direction on removing
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: red tape, integrating AI and directing how business operates a
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: woy economy perspective. Yeah, And I think what you're seeing
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: too is one of the reasons that they're owning companies
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: is that that's our woy economy kind of perspective. We
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: need to own the companies that produce our weapons systems.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: We don't want the market to be the dictator of what,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: of how and what they produce and when they produce it.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: We want to and Trump's thing about I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell them how much to see oak and own. I'm
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: going to tell them how many dividends and how many
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: stock buybacks they can do. It's all a part of
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: a war economy perspective of building up the military for
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: the sake of building up the military, because it's not
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: about it's not about confronting China because they have no
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: interest in China. It's about dominating the week of players
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Right now, that's the America's, it's Greenland,
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: It's it's Venezuela. But who knows who else it is
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: and maybe he ran we'll see, Jason says. Prog voted
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  Speaker 1: to make all taxis electric by twenty thirty. If it
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: feels good, vote feel good, then, right, or wrong, win
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: or lose, good will feel will be felt. There you go.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: Everybody is kumbaya, feeling good, having a good time. So
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: all taxes have to be electric by twenty thirty. You know,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me given that I think all cause
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: in Europe have to be electric soon, not much later
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  Speaker 1: than twenty thirty. So it's all kind of consistent as
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: part of this crazy going green project. Katherine says, sorry,
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: I voted twice for reading Opah yesterday. I voted not interested,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: by mistake, but I would like to do it and
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: pay the one hundred dollars US. Great, I will take
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: that into account. I think we've got enough to do it.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: So we're putting together the website to sign up and
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: all of that, and so that'll happen soon. If you
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  Speaker 1: had to pick Rome of Florence, how many days would
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: you recommend for Florence. I definitely recommend Florence more manageable.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: And how many days, Well, it really depends on you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, but I don't know five days. I mean,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: you got a day at DOFEZI you gotta day at
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: the at the academia. I mean, assuming you're not doing
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: two museums. A day, got a day at the Palazzo pt.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: You got a day at the at the at the
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: God the Sculpture Museum where they have Donald Tello's David
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: and some of Michelangelo's other sculptures. You gotta go to
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: the Medici Chapel. You've got to go into the Doomo.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: There's a couple two or three churches you have to
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: go visit. Yeah, easily five days and you you know
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: you won't be bored. You won't be bored. Uh, Florence,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: you can do everything right foot. Rome is a little
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: bit trickier, but Rome is great as well. I'd pick
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: I'd pick Florence. Higher density of greatness, higher density of
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: greatness everything. I mean, it's just just stunning, how much
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: good stuff there is there. All right, thank you guys.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: I will see you tomorrow. Tomorrow's that's a tricky time.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: What time are we doing tomorrow? Because I have a
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: board meeting tomorrow. Oh no, tomorrow's okay, tomorrow will do
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: two o'clock. Okay, so tomorrow will do two o'clock. Tomorrow works, yep,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: two o'clock Pacific time. Tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. Cool, see
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: you guys then, Oh, one more question. Ollie just asked,
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: do you think Trump has fundamentally altered the global order
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: or will it revert once it's no longer in office. No,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: I think he's fundamentally altered it, and he's only just started.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: And of course it completely depends on who comes next, right,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: who replaces Trump, who comes instead of Trump? So I
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: think he's altered it. It'll be hard to get it back.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: It's possible, but it depends who it is. And again
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: he's got three more years to make it even worse.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys, see you tomorrow. Bye, everybody,