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Bad Bunny; Racism; Iran; Japan; India; Jimmy Lai; Measles; Immigration | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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Speaker 1: A lot of fundamentals of edo, a little self interest
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Speaker 1: and individual wats This is the show. Oh right, everybody
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Speaker 1: welcome tore One Book Show on this Monday, February ninth.
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Speaker 1: It's been a while. Huh you guys, miss me, I
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Speaker 1: think you did. Uh. Anyway, I am back home for
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Speaker 1: the next almost three weeks. Then I go on the
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Speaker 1: road again. But yeah, I'm here for the foreseeable future.
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Speaker 1: So we will be having lots of fun and lots
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Speaker 1: of shows and uh yeah, anyway, the show is on.
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Speaker 1: I was in uh where was I? Florida? Boston, Texas
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Speaker 1: A good tripe. I will be posting the video of
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Speaker 1: the talk I gave in Austin at some point. I'm
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Speaker 1: waiting for the host, Semitas Institute to post it on
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Speaker 1: their site, and then hopefully we'll get a copy and
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Speaker 1: we'll post it on your own book show site, so
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Speaker 1: you can look forward to That was a good talk.
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Speaker 1: I think I think about America. What it is. Reminder,
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Speaker 1: we are going to have Gregg some yeary on later today.
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Speaker 1: time we'll have Greg on, and so that's always interesting
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Speaker 1: and fun and we can go deep and remember all
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Speaker 1: those questions you asked me, and I said, ask a philosopher. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is your chance. Ask a philosopher. Any questions about
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Speaker 1: ancient Greece, ancient gree philosophy, questions about philosophy more broadly, epistemology,
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Speaker 1: and of course the topics we'll be talking about today,
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Speaker 1: including his new book, and including did we title it?
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Speaker 1: Something about how we got? How do we get? How
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Speaker 1: do you interpret? How we America today? And how do
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Speaker 1: we get here? So kind of a broad perspective on
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Speaker 1: American history, ideas and an evaluation of the state of
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Speaker 1: the world or the state of America today. So tune
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Speaker 1: in Greg Slamery. There should be a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: Anything else I need to tell you, I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: I think well good. I think well good, And we
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Speaker 1: can jump in. Yes, one last thing behind you maybe
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Speaker 1: later soon to be announced, I will be doing a
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Speaker 1: seminar in London. It'll be a small group four plus hours,
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Speaker 1: including we'll all got to dinner afterwards, so we can
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Speaker 1: hang out in London on February twenty eighth. February twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: the topic will be capitalism, everything you wanted to know,
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Speaker 1: and we're afraid to ask about capitalism. I'll take any
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Speaker 1: questions you have, any issues you want to raise. I'll
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Speaker 1: be posting information about that really, really really soon on
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Speaker 1: my website, but i'll also announce it here with the
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Speaker 1: links of everything to sign up and to register and
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Speaker 1: all that. Hopefully by tomorrow Wednesday at the latest, there'll
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Speaker 1: be informational signing up. But please put Saturday, February twenty
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Speaker 1: eight aside on your calendar. It'll be I think, like
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Speaker 1: last time, three hundred pounds. So yeah, I'm looking forward
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Speaker 1: to seeing you. Hopefully you can get like ten people,
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Speaker 1: twelve people, eight people, whatever, whatever, whatever the interest is,
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Speaker 1: and we'll be able to hang out an afternoon. You
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Speaker 1: can ask me anything about capitalism and related stuff, and
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Speaker 1: then we'll go to dinner and then we'll just have
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Speaker 1: free conversation and that'll be fun to get to know
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Speaker 1: each other. So there'll be a social element to this
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Speaker 1: as well. I won't be buying you dinner, but other
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Speaker 1: than you know, but but you'll get my time, all right.
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Speaker 1: I'll figure out where to go as well. Someone said,
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Speaker 1: well London, Uh, so hopefully easy to get to maybe
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Speaker 1: some hotel we did last time, all right? Uh, let's
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Speaker 1: get going. Yesterday was a super Bowl. It was a
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Speaker 1: pretty boring super Bowl. I think I only saw bits
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Speaker 1: and pieces. I tried to watch it on the flight
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Speaker 1: on the plane, and the Wi Fi wasn't that great,
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Speaker 1: but it did stream some of it, but seemed pretty boring.
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Speaker 1: New England Patriots played pretty abysmally, particularly on offense, so
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Speaker 1: it was a defense oriented game, and who likes those?
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Speaker 1: It was that's not fun. And then and then, and
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Speaker 1: then the halftime show, of course, which generated a lot
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Speaker 1: of political angst and and and conflict and frustration, and
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Speaker 1: you know, even a competing halftime show put on by
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Speaker 1: Turning Points USA with Kid Rock whoop. So you had
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Speaker 1: two shows going on. So I missed the halftime show.
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Speaker 1: But then when I got home, my wife showed it
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Speaker 1: to me, so we rewinded and saw the whole thing
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Speaker 1: in Spanish. And I don't know, you know, I don't
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Speaker 1: like bad Money. I don't know about you guys, but
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Speaker 1: I find the music uninspiring, uninteresting. I don't know, but
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Speaker 1: then that's true of almost everybody who ever appears on
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Speaker 1: the halftime shows, so completely uninspiring and uninteresting. I found
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Speaker 1: the kind of storytelling involved it was kind of cute.
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Speaker 1: It was all about Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico stuff,
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Speaker 1: as I live here, so it was interesting, Like there
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Speaker 1: was a whole song dedicated the pack fact that we
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Speaker 1: have power outages all the time. He even climbs the
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Speaker 1: uh the electricity pole. Cool, I mean recognition of our
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Speaker 1: of our pain every time the electricity goes out. I
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Speaker 1: appreciated that. But anyway, most of these super Bowl halftime
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Speaker 1: shows I find completely uninteresting and uninspiring. And I don't
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Speaker 1: like even even when the artists are uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: reasonable and uh I like the music offline at the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl, its just yeah, anyway, it's just uninteresting. Uh
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Speaker 1: so yes, so aesthetically, I mean, Lady Gaga was there.
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Speaker 1: She has a great voice. Uh what's his name? Was there?
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Speaker 1: I forget Martin something. Martin was there. He has a
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Speaker 1: good voice. But you know, it's just not my music
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Speaker 1: and not my style, and I'm not But that's of
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Speaker 1: course not why everybody's talking about Bad Bunny. They're talking
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Speaker 1: about Bad Bunny because the White House flipped out about
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Speaker 1: this show. Now when it was announced, it was like,
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Speaker 1: how dare they right? Bad Bunny is not a real American.
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Speaker 1: No heritage, his ancestors is not fight in the Civil
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Speaker 1: War or the Worth Independence. As far as I know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know who knows, actually, but he's from Puerto Rico,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of America, but not really from the
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Speaker 1: perspective of the White House. Puerto Ricans are not even
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Speaker 1: though they are passports and they're officially Americans, they're not
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Speaker 1: legit Americans because they're not, you know, heritage Americans. So
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Speaker 1: he's not a heritage American. Of course, neither was Sequrra.
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Speaker 1: Neither were many, many, many of the artists you know
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Speaker 1: who've appeared in Super Bowl, you know, Super Bowl as.
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Speaker 1: Let's say Rihanna is not a US citizen, Secure out
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Speaker 1: of your citizen could play not US citizens? The who
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Speaker 1: not US citizens? Rolling Stones? Not US citizens, Paul McCartney,
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Speaker 1: I think, still not a US citizen, you too? Not
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Speaker 1: US citizens? How could that be bad money? Actually a
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Speaker 1: US citizen. But he's saying in Spanish that is very
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Speaker 1: unpatriotic and not right and no good like and now
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Speaker 1: look bad Bunny has bad politics, I mean really awful.
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Speaker 1: I don't like him. He's very socialist. He's he's you know,
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Speaker 1: I think he would work, a fear if if he could,
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Speaker 1: and everything else. But he's the most streamed artist in
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Speaker 1: the world, the most popular artist in the world right now.
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Speaker 1: Uh he is, Uh, he's big, and and the fact
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Speaker 1: that he sings in Spanish. Who cares so good for
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Speaker 1: having bad money? I mean, whoever it is? Is? Uh?
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Speaker 1: You know is? I mean you know Shakira's politics, Shaquiro
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Speaker 1: who some of his songs I actually like. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's awful, it's horrible. She's a leftist not and again
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Speaker 1: and really anti Israel, Poorramas. I don't know about the
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Speaker 1: who I can really guess. I don't know about the
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Speaker 1: Rolling Stones, I can really guess. I don't know about
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Speaker 1: any of any of these people's politics. And for that matter,
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Speaker 1: I don't really care. I don't listen to music for politics.
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Speaker 1: I don't listen to music for their political statements. I'm
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Speaker 1: not interested in what celebrities have to say about these
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Speaker 1: really Palistinian conflict, about any frigging other thing in the world.
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Speaker 1: They're fairly ignorant. There are I don't know the singers
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Speaker 1: or movie stars or whatever happens to me, so that
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Speaker 1: politics don't matter to me. I mean, the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: invited him because he's the biggest star of out there.
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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they? And indeed, and indeed supposedly the ratings
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Speaker 1: in terms of halftime it was the most watched halftime
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Speaker 1: performance of all time, one hundred and thirty five million views.
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Speaker 1: That I think is only US, doesn't include international. So
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Speaker 1: they got a huger turn on the advertising revenue, and
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Speaker 1: the NFL is happy, and the NFL has a lot
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Speaker 1: of Hispanic fans. And so he's sing in Spanish. Who
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Speaker 1: cares half the time when these singers sing in Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl and they claim to be singing in English, you
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Speaker 1: can't make out anything they say. And even when you do,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't frigging mean anything. Oh Linda hasn't hood a
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Speaker 1: bad Bunny? Oh my god, I mean bad Bunny is huge.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is what somebody wrote. Bad money is
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Speaker 1: a demonic Marxist who has been granted the largest stage
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Speaker 1: with the greatest audience in the middle of a Christian revival.
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Speaker 1: That's what they really are pissed off at. This is
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Speaker 1: by design. We are in a spiritual war. And once
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Speaker 1: you see it, you can't unsee it. I mean again,
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Speaker 1: have you one of those other bands probably just as
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Speaker 1: leftist as as Bad Bunny. What upsets them is that
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Speaker 1: he's from Puerto Rico. What up said Trump? And Trump
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Speaker 1: made it in a mega thing nobody else would have cared.
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Speaker 1: So what a what a ridiculous? You know, kid Rock
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Speaker 1: got six million views. I mean it's pretty pretty. That's
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Speaker 1: a lot. I which I got six million views. But
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Speaker 1: kid Rock on TPSU, I mean Kid Rock snuck in
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Speaker 1: a bunch of Christian lyrics into his songs. I mean,
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Speaker 1: is that really? And do we know Bad Bunny is
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Speaker 1: not a Christian? Do we know he's not like a
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Speaker 1: Catholic Marxist? That wouldn't be that strange. I mean, this
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Speaker 1: is this is Donald Trump. I mean, you just get
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Speaker 1: the vitual. Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely terrible, one
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Speaker 1: of the worst ever. It makes no sense and to
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Speaker 1: the greatness of America and doesn't represent our standards of success,
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Speaker 1: creativity and excellence. But that's true of every Super Bowl show.
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Speaker 1: When did they ever they celebrated American genius, skyscrapers, scientists, startups, innovation,
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Speaker 1: Silicon Valley. That's not what rock and roll does, or
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Speaker 1: for that matter, any popular music does. He continues, nobody
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Speaker 1: understands the wood this guy's saying. Nobody understands anything any
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Speaker 1: of these. Do you guys understand the lyrics of half
12:28
Speaker 1: the heavy metal bands that you listen to. You can't
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Speaker 1: hear them. It's all muscled, mumbled, you know. Anyway, Nobody
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Speaker 1: understands the word this guy's saying. And dancing is disgusting.
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Speaker 1: Did you see the dancing with Shakira and Rihanna? Was
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Speaker 1: it any different? It's exactly the same dancing, especially for
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Speaker 1: young children that are watching from throughout the United States
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Speaker 1: and all over the world. That's true of almost all
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Speaker 1: halftime shows. This show is just a slap in the
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Speaker 1: face our country, which is setting new standards and records
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Speaker 1: every day, including the best stock market in for one
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Speaker 1: case in history that's relevant. There is nothing inspirational about
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Speaker 1: this mess of a halftime show and watch it will
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Speaker 1: get great reviews from the fake news media because they
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Speaker 1: haven't got a clue of what is going on in
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Speaker 1: the real world. And by the way, the NFL should
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Speaker 1: immediately replace this ridiculous new kickoff rule. Make America great again.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you know the president wants to run the
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Speaker 1: NFL as well as everything else. God yes, if awful
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Speaker 1: music was the standard. All the halftime shows that I've
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Speaker 1: ever seen would be pretty much disqualified. This was in
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Speaker 1: many ways more wholesome. It kind of was a day
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Speaker 1: to day life in Puerto Rico, discussing the challenges and
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Speaker 1: life of people in the thing. I mean, it's not inspirational,
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Speaker 1: but it was not the kind of decadence that you
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Speaker 1: saw in the past. So get a life, get over it,
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Speaker 1: maga and look, it's all tinged by racism. Ultimately, it's
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Speaker 1: all tinged by racism. The fact that he sang in
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Speaker 1: Spanish unacceptable. But anyway, as I said, more watched halftime
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Speaker 1: show than probably any other in history. Now, there was
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Speaker 1: a reference in Bad Bunny to God Bless America in
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Speaker 1: his show, to God Bless America. Do you know wrote
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Speaker 1: God Bless America. It sounds like a patriotic, big patriotic song,
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Speaker 1: But God Bless America was a song written by a Jew,
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Speaker 1: a Jewish immigrant from Russia whose name was original name
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Speaker 1: was Israel Balin, and he changed it to Irving Berlin
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Speaker 1: became one of the great songwriters in American history. His
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Speaker 1: family had anti Jewish programs, settled and reached New York
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Speaker 1: in eighteen ninety three, and he wrote God Bless America
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Speaker 1: as a gratitude, as a song of gratitude, Thank you America.
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Speaker 1: It's another one of those little contributions that immigrants, I
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Speaker 1: mean all immigrants to some extent, so immigrants have made
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Speaker 1: to this country. And that song that sounds so American
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Speaker 1: was written by a Russian Russian born anyway American. So
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Speaker 1: Quitdebias says Tom Petty was good. I don't remember, and
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Speaker 1: I doubt that. I mean, Tom Petty might be an
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Speaker 1: excellent musician, but in the Super Bowl it all gets
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Speaker 1: drowned out. It's a show. It has nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with music, and the show was just as average and bizarre,
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Speaker 1: you know, uninspiring as all the others. All right, let's see,
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Speaker 1: I mean says you couldn't see the show from the
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Speaker 1: stadium because it's all hidden. I mean, that's true of
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Speaker 1: all these shows. There's stages that props, but they have
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Speaker 1: a giant screens, giant screens, so everybody in the stadium
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Speaker 1: saw everything they needed to see. So oh, and by
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Speaker 1: the way, there was a wedding in the show, and
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Speaker 1: that wedding actually happened. That is, that couple got married
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Speaker 1: live right there in the show. And that was their
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Speaker 1: wedding party. So cool. Cool for them, that was pretty amazing.
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Speaker 1: So don't worry about the people at the stadium. They
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Speaker 1: didn't get their money's worth visa the football game, but
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Speaker 1: but you know, they they I'm sure it was pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it was pretty cool. The halftime show was
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Speaker 1: pretty cool. You know. It's just it's just the Trump
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Speaker 1: disgusting racism stuff. Although of course that could have reapplied
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Speaker 1: to Lehanna and to Shakira and but this didn't make
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Speaker 1: a citizens but talking about racism, I mean, I didn't
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Speaker 1: comment on it, but it didn't. It didn't comment on this,
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Speaker 1: but it did happen last week. I thought i'd mention
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Speaker 1: it quickly because it was It was significant because the
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Speaker 1: one time Republicans, some Republicans actually stood up to Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump shockingly was when Trump posted the video which I
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe. I saw it on Twitter and it was like, really,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I could believe it because it's so Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: He posted a video of uh, you know, Michelle and
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Speaker 1: the Obama's basically apes with the Obama's faces on them,
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Speaker 1: dancing around. Uh, and you know, the internet up with this,
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Speaker 1: and he was accused of racism. Finally, it's only taken
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Speaker 1: what you know since twenty seventeen or sixteen seven seventeen
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Speaker 1: to figure out that this guy's a racist. Welcome, wake
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Speaker 1: up America to the reality of who your president is.
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Speaker 1: So it went virals. Even some Republicans criticized him. Tim Scott,
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Speaker 1: who happens to be black, sentence, I think for South Carolina,
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Speaker 1: criticized Trump for the first time I think on record
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Speaker 1: ever a word of criticism. Tim Scott to Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: he actually said it was a racist thing to do.
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Speaker 1: Trump says he didn't see the whole He didn't see
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Speaker 1: the part of the video with the racist clip to
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Speaker 1: picked in Obamas and apes. He didn't actually catch that.
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Speaker 1: He claims that a staffer did it. It wasn't him.
18:56
Speaker 1: It was a staffer, you know, that staffer that stays
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Speaker 1: up between one in three am to post all of
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's rants. Because that, of course couldn't be Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump himself. That's the staffers, and there's no quality control.
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Speaker 1: I guess on the staffer anyway, Yeah, blame the staffer,
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Speaker 1: and Trump says he didn't make the mistake. Of course.
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Speaker 1: Trump basically says he never makes mistakes. Trump says it's
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Speaker 1: impossible for him to make mistake because what Trump says
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Speaker 1: is truth is right, So mistakes are impossible for Trump.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, he refuses to apologize. And you know the
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Speaker 1: videos that about a minute long, and you know it
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Speaker 1: mentions the fact that Trump should have won did win
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Speaker 1: indeed the twenty twenty election, if not for voter forud
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Speaker 1: And of course at the end of the clip about that,
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Speaker 1: there's the Obama faces super imposed on a cartoon of
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Speaker 1: apes with the songs Lion sleeps Tonight. And the video
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Speaker 1: was removed a few hours later once it exploded in
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Speaker 1: his face, and even again his allies were criticizing him.
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Speaker 1: But when he was asked if he was going to
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Speaker 1: apologize to Obama, he says, no, I didn't make a mistake.
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Speaker 1: He says, I looked at the beginning of it and
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Speaker 1: it was fine. So typical. This is a Trump that
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Speaker 1: takes no responsibility over anything that happens. There's no buck
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Speaker 1: stops here. Even if it was a staffer who did it.
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Speaker 1: Trump will never apologize, never take responsibility. You know, he
20:59
Speaker 1: said it, I looked in the first part of it.
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Speaker 1: It was really about voter ford and the machines, how
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Speaker 1: cooking it is, how disgusting it is. Then I give
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Speaker 1: it to people. To the people, generally they look at
21:12
Speaker 1: the whole thing, but I guess somebody didn't, and they
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Speaker 1: posted Yeah right. We took it down as soon as
21:17
Speaker 1: we found out about it. Yeah, I mean this is uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, this is this is the quality of this president.
21:30
Speaker 1: This is the quality of this White House. The Press secretary. Originally,
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Speaker 1: when the first revelation of this video came out, she
21:36
Speaker 1: was defending this and and and was making fun of
21:39
Speaker 1: the kind of the mock outrage coming from the critics.
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Speaker 1: Then of course, you know, said it was a mistake
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Speaker 1: and and deleted it. But first response is always defend Trump.
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Speaker 1: First response was, yeah, it's it's ours, it's it's yeah
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Speaker 1: Trump that you guys are criticizing something that isn't really there.
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Speaker 1: M yeah. She said, please up to outrage and report
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Speaker 1: on something today that actually matters to American public. That
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Speaker 1: was the Press secretary, before announcing that they deleted a
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Speaker 1: few hours later. So, uh yeah, no apology, no uh
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Speaker 1: taking responsibility, not from this president. You're not gonna get
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Speaker 1: it ever, just won't happen. This is the president who
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Speaker 1: is well, I mean, he's a racist, So why would
22:47
Speaker 1: a video like this shock anybody? Will surprise anybody put
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Speaker 1: it that way. What shocking is that he would think
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Speaker 1: he could put it out there with no response because
22:55
Speaker 1: he's been given so much slack from so many people
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Speaker 1: who've enabled it that he thinks he can get away
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Speaker 1: with anything. But that's really what it is. It's it's
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Speaker 1: all the people from Ben Shapiro on to every single
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Speaker 1: almost every single houseman, but almost every single Senate's a
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Speaker 1: maybe the exception of Massy and Rand Paul giving him
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Speaker 1: so much slack that he thinks he can get away
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Speaker 1: with anything, particularly on the race issue. There nobody has
23:30
Speaker 1: stood up to him, not since Charlottesville. And I know
23:33
Speaker 1: you think I don't understand what was said in Charlotteville.
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Speaker 1: I've gone a textual analysis of it, put that video together,
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Speaker 1: put it up online. I haven't seen anybody actually go
23:43
Speaker 1: through my video and say, no, you're on, you are no,
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Speaker 1: you're on, you are wrong. I haven't seen anybody do that.
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Speaker 1: Watch my video if you know, just put you on
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Speaker 1: book Charlottevill and you'll find it. If you doubt, I
23:59
Speaker 1: went through every line so you can't say I skipped anything,
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Speaker 1: but you can see my analysis there. You know, he
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Speaker 1: has been he has been appealing to the Racis for
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Speaker 1: very very, very very really since the beginning of the campaign,
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Speaker 1: since he came down the escalator and went after he
24:19
Speaker 1: he he went after the Hispanic judge. All right, let's
24:26
Speaker 1: talk about let's talk about IWON. So on Friday, the
24:33
Speaker 1: United States team, the brilliant, unmatched negotiating team of Whitkoff
24:40
Speaker 1: and you know, A Kushna met with met with Iranians
24:47
Speaker 1: in order to pursue a deal, a deal that would
24:52
Speaker 1: they would eliminate euon's a nuclear program, move Euon's uranium
24:59
Speaker 1: out of the country, shrink its missile its ballistic missile program,
25:04
Speaker 1: stop its funding of you know, Islamist groups around the
25:13
Speaker 1: Middle East. Uh and basically the uraniums shut it all down.
25:19
Speaker 1: They basically said, no, we're not gonna cut missile missile system,
25:24
Speaker 1: We're not gonna stop refining uranium. We're not gonna do
25:28
Speaker 1: anything that the United States asks. But don't worry. Don't worry.
25:32
Speaker 1: They're gonna mean again this week. So not to worry.
25:35
Speaker 1: Negotiations continuing because we know, you know, Whitcoff has a
25:40
Speaker 1: track record. He you know, evil bends when it sees
25:45
Speaker 1: with cough, it just bends. It just gives in immediately.
25:47
Speaker 1: I mean, think about Russia. It's agreed to withdraw from Ukraine. Right,
25:53
Speaker 1: Oh wait, no, I don't think it has hmmm, so
25:58
Speaker 1: whit Cooff negotiating which with Putin hasn't gone well, has it?
26:03
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean
26:08
Speaker 1: Russia announced just just I think over the weekend that
26:13
Speaker 1: not only was it not going to with to all
26:15
Speaker 1: any troops from Ukraine, it was not gonna seed any
26:19
Speaker 1: territory and it would refuse to accept any security guarantees
26:24
Speaker 1: that involved the positioning of foreign troops in Ukrainian land.
26:29
Speaker 1: Go go go wi Coough. Hamas this weekend also said,
26:34
Speaker 1: you know, whitchkof said this incredible successful Kramas, Right, he's
26:38
Speaker 1: been so good and negotiating with Ramas. We should add
26:42
Speaker 1: to his portfolio of negotiation because he is the master.
26:45
Speaker 1: He has read the Art of the deal at least
26:48
Speaker 1: two dozen times and he knows exactly how to do this.
26:52
Speaker 1: Ramas this weekend said, oh no, absolutely, no disarmament. You
26:56
Speaker 1: got to be kidding, not only we're not going to disarm.
26:58
Speaker 1: We're not gonna accept any of you know, there's not
27:02
Speaker 1: Palestinian over the Gaza strips to get rid of your
27:05
Speaker 1: boat of piece and all that stuff that will have
27:07
Speaker 1: no authority over us in Gaza. So yeah, I guess
27:11
Speaker 1: he's going over two. And then if you take the
27:14
Speaker 1: fact that on Friday Ewon refused to give up uranium
27:17
Speaker 1: and richment, that's oh for three. Wickcuff is a loser,
27:21
Speaker 1: another loser attached to the Grand Puba of all losers,
27:26
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. It's a pretty bleak situation that we have
27:34
Speaker 1: that we have going on. Anyway, it's hor to tell
27:38
Speaker 1: exactly what's going on with the Eon strategy. I mean,
27:41
Speaker 1: you could make an argument that what Trump is really
27:45
Speaker 1: doing through a negotiation is just the lay tactics. It's
27:48
Speaker 1: just delaying, and he has every intention to strike you
27:52
Speaker 1: on as assets are positioned in the Middle East. Indeed,
27:56
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, additional F thirty five
28:00
Speaker 1: flown into the Middle East to be positioned in the
28:03
Speaker 1: Middle East, you know, last night, and are there now.
28:08
Speaker 1: They continue to deploy missile defense systems all over the
28:13
Speaker 1: Middle East. Indeed, the United States has never not since
28:18
Speaker 1: I think they got four. As the United States has
28:21
Speaker 1: as much military hardware in the Middle East as it
28:26
Speaker 1: does right now, this is a much bigger deployment than
28:30
Speaker 1: what occurred when the US bombed the nuclear site in Inyan,
28:39
Speaker 1: which brings up the question if that bombing completely destroyed
28:43
Speaker 1: Iran's ability to process uranium, why do we need another
28:48
Speaker 1: strike now? Turns out that mission was not as successful
28:54
Speaker 1: as Trump would have liked you to believe. Indeed, if
28:57
Speaker 1: you remember the day after the mission or two days after,
29:00
Speaker 1: the US military intelligence came out with the report saying
29:05
Speaker 1: this has probably slowed down the Ranians by months, not
29:12
Speaker 1: years of decades, like the administration claiming, and that report
29:15
Speaker 1: was immediately shut down and people who leaked it were
29:19
Speaker 1: attack you know, anyway, they went after them. So but
29:23
Speaker 1: it looks like that was probably the more accurate report.
29:26
Speaker 1: One bombing ain't gonna do it. So it could be
29:33
Speaker 1: that what is going on right now is that the
29:35
Speaker 1: Trumpe deministration is letting negotiations play out while it puts
29:42
Speaker 1: all the assets it needs in place in order to
29:46
Speaker 1: organize a sustained, lengthy attack on Iran, plus protection of
29:52
Speaker 1: the Homo straits, protection of over fine oil tanker is
29:58
Speaker 1: trying to leave the Gulf. The Gulf which is probably
30:01
Speaker 1: the biggest leverage Iran has is over the movement of
30:06
Speaker 1: oil tankers in the Gulf in the Gulf. So it
30:10
Speaker 1: is it's possible and certainly American military assets a position
30:14
Speaker 1: in the Middle East to sustain a real significant attack
30:19
Speaker 1: against Iran. We've talked about this, you know, Replacing or
30:24
Speaker 1: getting rid of the Ranian regime is you know, as
30:30
Speaker 1: a world changing kind of event. It is a geopolitical earthquake.
30:35
Speaker 1: It changes everything geopolitically. It weakens Islamism, It weakens Russia
30:41
Speaker 1: to some extent, even weakest China, weakens China. It changes
30:47
Speaker 1: the dynamics on a geopolitical scale in a way that
30:51
Speaker 1: is really that is uh really how to overestimate, right
31:01
Speaker 1: to how to exaggerate because it's so big, It would
31:04
Speaker 1: be so big, and it would be the best thing
31:06
Speaker 1: Trump could do geopolitically. He's not gonna do much in
31:09
Speaker 1: China and Russia. Russia, He's doing a lot of bad.
31:12
Speaker 1: Iran could be huge. I don't think Trump boys people
31:16
Speaker 1: see it that way. They see an attack and he
31:19
Speaker 1: run as a liability, could get dragged them into war.
31:22
Speaker 1: It could cause all places to spike in the short run,
31:28
Speaker 1: It could lead to a civil war in Iran, which
31:30
Speaker 1: they would then own. It could lead to significant damage
31:34
Speaker 1: to US allies in Saudi Arabia and other parts of
31:39
Speaker 1: the Gulf. That's why these other countries are not supporting
31:43
Speaker 1: the strikes, because they fear the US won't go all
31:46
Speaker 1: the way and actually eliminate the regime. So Trump's kind
31:51
Speaker 1: of got himself cornered into this by promising the demonstrators
31:56
Speaker 1: that he would help them, and by promising Israel that
31:59
Speaker 1: they wouldn't let Yon get a nuke and everything like that.
32:02
Speaker 1: But so all this could be delayed tactics. I worry though,
32:07
Speaker 1: because Israel seems worried. Nataniello has decided to come to
32:15
Speaker 1: Washington about two weeks ahead of schedule to meet with
32:19
Speaker 1: Trump in two days to try to convince convince him
32:23
Speaker 1: to get off his diplomatic track. Nataniel also wants a
32:27
Speaker 1: green light from the United States that even if the
32:30
Speaker 1: US won't attack Israel, the United States won't stop Israel
32:34
Speaker 1: from attacking. Israel is ready to attack you on and
32:37
Speaker 1: there's there's PEPs people that people are ready for the
32:40
Speaker 1: backlash of the Ranian missiles reigning in on Israel. There's
32:44
Speaker 1: basically uniformity across Israel. There's agreement that this Israel attacking
32:50
Speaker 1: Iran is necessary. So he's coming here to the US
33:00
Speaker 1: US to speak to Trump. He seems a little desperate.
33:03
Speaker 1: He seems a little worried that if he doesn't do that,
33:06
Speaker 1: Trump might cut some kind of deal with the Ranians,
33:10
Speaker 1: which would be a catastrophe. Any deal with Ranians is
33:13
Speaker 1: going to be a catastrophe. So I think we are
33:20
Speaker 1: still in a wait and see position. I don't know
33:23
Speaker 1: if Trump is already made up his mind or not.
33:26
Speaker 1: He probably hasn't He probably he hopes for a deal.
33:29
Speaker 1: The Ranians are not going to give up on the
33:32
Speaker 1: nuclear They're certainly not going to give up on the
33:34
Speaker 1: ballistic missiles or supporting their proxies. I mean, that is
33:39
Speaker 1: the whole essence of the regime is they need the
33:42
Speaker 1: missiles to protect themselves, and their proxies are part of
33:46
Speaker 1: the global Giad, which they believe in. I mean, the
33:51
Speaker 1: Aanian regime is not accidentally jihadi. The Aanian regime is
33:56
Speaker 1: by its very nature, by its foundations, by its very essence,
34:00
Speaker 1: and a Jihati regime or region that believes in bringing
34:04
Speaker 1: Jihad and bringing Islam and bringing world, bringing yeah Islam
34:09
Speaker 1: to world domination Shariah. They believe in this stuff. They
34:13
Speaker 1: don't want just their people women to wear a hijab.
34:17
Speaker 1: They want your women to wear the hijab. You're women.
34:21
Speaker 1: You women out there, you none Uanian women out there.
34:26
Speaker 1: They are They are involved in a global attempt to
34:31
Speaker 1: bring Islam to every part of the world, and they
34:35
Speaker 1: won't settle. So now yuan is playing. Ian is gonna
34:42
Speaker 1: play the use of administration. It's gonna go to meetings
34:44
Speaker 1: because it needs time. I don't know what time buys it,
34:48
Speaker 1: but I think what they think by time buys is
34:52
Speaker 1: a chance for Trump to change his mind. Is so
34:54
Speaker 1: some other geopolitical event happens some in the world that
34:57
Speaker 1: distracts him. I don't know. For for the something thing
35:00
Speaker 1: to happen in the United States which distracts him. Maybe
35:03
Speaker 1: Techa Carson can go and convince him not to bomb.
35:06
Speaker 1: You on who knows they have nothing to lose by
35:10
Speaker 1: delaying and delaying and delaying, and the deaying delay doing
35:12
Speaker 1: everything they can to delay the United States from attacking.
35:17
Speaker 1: And that's that's really in essence. You know what you're seeing.
35:21
Speaker 1: You're seeing delayed tactics on a massive scale by the
35:26
Speaker 1: Iranians and the Americans buying into it. Again, people overestimate
35:31
Speaker 1: the capabilities of the Ranians. The United States had enough
35:34
Speaker 1: assets there if you add in the Israelis to do
35:39
Speaker 1: all the damage they need to Iran and to suffer
35:44
Speaker 1: very very few, very little damage on other side from
35:49
Speaker 1: the Iranian ballistic missiles. People always overestimate the power of evil,
35:55
Speaker 1: overestimate the military capabilities of a sitarian or really totalitarian regimes.
36:02
Speaker 1: You saw what Israel did to them in Twelve Day War.
36:06
Speaker 1: It was a joke. I mean, they completely dominated disguise
36:11
Speaker 1: in Iran. And if Israel could do it, certainly the
36:15
Speaker 1: Americans could do it. Now we will see the Iranians
36:18
Speaker 1: have brought in a lot of Chinese tech. We'll see
36:21
Speaker 1: maybe they've upgraded their systems. I doubt it in a
36:24
Speaker 1: signific I doubt that those systems will will help them
36:27
Speaker 1: in a significant way. Is so worried This another worth mentioning.
36:31
Speaker 1: We talked about this before, but as also worried that
36:36
Speaker 1: the United States's attack on Iran will be too little
36:40
Speaker 1: won't be decisive enough, will be symbolic. What Iran needs
36:48
Speaker 1: is demolition. It needs to be its military capabilities, its
36:53
Speaker 1: governmental institutions to be turned into dust, so that the
36:58
Speaker 1: regime will have no option. And ideally they would kill
37:02
Speaker 1: how many and kill his potential successes like his son,
37:07
Speaker 1: you know, kill the mulas, destroy the infrastructure of the regime,
37:12
Speaker 1: not just militarily but spiritually as well. And if you
37:15
Speaker 1: do that, the Iranian people will take over. I don't
37:17
Speaker 1: believe there will be a civil war. Persia has a
37:21
Speaker 1: long history of a multi ethnic state. There's no reasona
37:26
Speaker 1: believe all the diffinitensities actually want their own independence. Maybe
37:29
Speaker 1: with the exception of the Kords, how exactly coalesces, what
37:36
Speaker 1: brings it together? It could be the son of the Shah,
37:38
Speaker 1: it could be something else. But let the Iranian people
37:40
Speaker 1: figure out that out, and maybe a civil wars part
37:43
Speaker 1: of what they'll need. But the first thing is get
37:46
Speaker 1: rid of the revolutionary god, Islamic revolutionary god, and get
37:52
Speaker 1: rid of the regime. And I think groups will figure
37:56
Speaker 1: this out. You know, the variety of pretty significant non
38:02
Speaker 1: Persian ethnic groups in Iran, but that's true of Persia
38:06
Speaker 1: throughout all its history. They've got along relatively well. This
38:12
Speaker 1: is not Iraq, this is not Libya. This is Persia,
38:17
Speaker 1: a land with an ancient, well developed culture and civilization
38:28
Speaker 1: and history. Right now, this is not for the sake
38:39
Speaker 1: of the Uranian people, for those of you asking, this
38:41
Speaker 1: is the sake of America. Finally, America has been a
38:45
Speaker 1: war with what you want since nineteen seventy nine. American
38:51
Speaker 1: Uranians have killed Americans left and right. Iran has killed Americans.
39:01
Speaker 1: Is developing ICBMs into continental ballistic missiles. Who do you
39:07
Speaker 1: think they're targeting with those? It's also essential for American
39:13
Speaker 1: interests in the Middle East. America has a strong interest
39:16
Speaker 1: in the ability of the Saudis and the Kwadis and
39:19
Speaker 1: the UEE to continue to export the oil into world markets.
39:23
Speaker 1: This is part of preserving the shipping lanes in that
39:26
Speaker 1: region of the world. The Iranian threat needs to be
39:28
Speaker 1: eliminated once and for all. This is a curse on America.
39:33
Speaker 1: It is in a front and a threat to America's
39:37
Speaker 1: self interest, America's citizens individual rights. It should be retribution
39:46
Speaker 1: for the taking of the embassy in seventy nine, not
39:49
Speaker 1: to mention all the dozens and dozens and dozen hundreds
39:53
Speaker 1: really of Americans the Ranians have killed since then, murdered
39:57
Speaker 1: since then. So no, this is a some kind of
40:01
Speaker 1: sacrificial thing for the Iranian people. I would say in
40:07
Speaker 1: that case, support them morally, send them weapons, but don't
40:11
Speaker 1: risk American lives and don't spend too much money on it.
40:17
Speaker 1: Otherwise you become the policeman of the world and bringing
40:20
Speaker 1: up liberty to everybody. That's not the job of America.
40:22
Speaker 1: But in this case, Iran is an explicit, unequivocal enemy
40:28
Speaker 1: of the United States, indeed, the biggest enemy of the
40:30
Speaker 1: United States has seen since nineteen seventy nine, and an
40:34
Speaker 1: enemy the US has evaded since then. Now hopefully it's
40:38
Speaker 1: gotten to a point where you can't evade it anymore.
40:42
Speaker 1: So finally do it, right. I've been calling for taking
40:45
Speaker 1: out the diner instrue, has been calling out for taking
40:48
Speaker 1: out the Iranian regime since nineteen eighty nine. I ran
40:52
Speaker 1: called for it in nineteen, you know, after the hostages
40:57
Speaker 1: were taken, and certainly I believe that after nine eleven
41:03
Speaker 1: it should have been the primary target. But as you know,
41:07
Speaker 1: other than you guys, nobody listens to me, all right,
41:13
Speaker 1: That is Iran. God, We've got a lot of topics today. Japan. Wow,
41:19
Speaker 1: what an election? Just an election for the lower house
41:22
Speaker 1: in Japan. This is like the House of Representatives in Japan.
41:26
Speaker 1: And the party a Prime Minister Sunai Sunaya, Sunae, Takiyachi, Takkaichi, Takaichi,
41:38
Speaker 1: takaichih just just want a landslide victory. They basically won
41:43
Speaker 1: a super majority, them and their coalition partner. They have
41:49
Speaker 1: a super majority. Now they can potentially revise the Japanese Constitution,
41:54
Speaker 1: which they've wanted to do, the conservatives in the party
41:57
Speaker 1: have wanted to do for decades. They can pass pretty
42:00
Speaker 1: much any law they want. Uh and Uh, this is
42:04
Speaker 1: a you know, basically a big boost to Prime Minister
42:15
Speaker 1: Takeichi's agenda and program. And you know, again, a Japanese
42:21
Speaker 1: a Japanese political party has not one such a majority,
42:25
Speaker 1: I think since World War Two. This is huge. This
42:28
Speaker 1: is huge for her now. Why because if you go
42:34
Speaker 1: back just a few months before she was, before the
42:38
Speaker 1: previous prime minister resigned and she was nominated, uh took
42:43
Speaker 1: over the position. Her political party was unbelievably unpopular. It's unpopular.
42:55
Speaker 1: There was an insurgent populist political party that looked like
43:00
Speaker 1: it was going to do really really well. And in
43:03
Speaker 1: the election, uh, the previous leader, this is the from
43:07
Speaker 1: the Liberal Democratic Party, right, this is her party was
43:11
Speaker 1: had to resign I mean scandal and in fighting. Uh
43:15
Speaker 1: and things looked like there were hubbaball and if there
43:18
Speaker 1: was an election, the l d L, the sorry l
43:21
Speaker 1: DP would lose. And here she is just a few
43:25
Speaker 1: months later, winning a landslide victory. And it is fascinating
43:32
Speaker 1: to watch because what is it about her first woman
43:36
Speaker 1: prime minister in the history of Japan that has achieved us?
43:40
Speaker 1: Now at some level, she has become like a cult figure,
43:45
Speaker 1: like a like somebody that you know that everybody, uh
43:49
Speaker 1: admire's respects. You've got You've got people. She's got these
43:53
Speaker 1: pink pens and now it's a huge fad in in
43:57
Speaker 1: Japan to have these peak pens and the particular hand
44:00
Speaker 1: that she carries, everybody's carrying it around. But what is
44:04
Speaker 1: it then, in four months has made her you know
44:08
Speaker 1: this big, you know huge, I mean merchandise depicting her
44:14
Speaker 1: is available all across the country. People are waving it
44:17
Speaker 1: to buy it. This is more than just a honeymoon period.
44:22
Speaker 1: After she was elected prime minister. This is definitely different
44:29
Speaker 1: basically than any prime minister before. I mean, Pole found
44:33
Speaker 1: the ninety of eighteen to twenty nine year olds support her.
44:43
Speaker 1: She's not young. I don't know how old she is.
44:46
Speaker 1: She's not young. It's not that so what is she?
44:54
Speaker 1: And she's called the Iron Lady after Margaret Thatcher. She
45:03
Speaker 1: is dynamic. She comes across as principled, as strong as
45:14
Speaker 1: pro Japanese and maybe you know, she's very conservative, which
45:21
Speaker 1: is kind of weird given her support among young people.
45:26
Speaker 1: She's much more socially conservative than her base. She supports
45:30
Speaker 1: a traditional patriarchal family structure, although she of course is
45:36
Speaker 1: the boss. Oh she's my age. She's sixty four, so
45:40
Speaker 1: you know she opposes gay marriage. But she is the
45:44
Speaker 1: first female leader ever. So she exudes strength, determination, initiative.
45:54
Speaker 1: But I think the real thing that has led to
45:56
Speaker 1: her popularity and led to this victory and the reason
46:00
Speaker 1: why she called an election, she didn't have to call
46:02
Speaker 1: it an election. She called an election because she sensed
46:05
Speaker 1: that she would win big. The big thing is she
46:09
Speaker 1: stood up to China. She has stood up to China
46:15
Speaker 1: at a time where I think a lot of people
46:18
Speaker 1: feel like Japan is. Japan's era is setting, that it
46:25
Speaker 1: is becoming irrelevant, that its strength is dramatically diminishing, its
46:30
Speaker 1: population shrinking and dramatically aging, where its economic leadership is
46:37
Speaker 1: being way surpassed by the Chinese at a time where
46:41
Speaker 1: people have no you know, people are really thinking of
46:43
Speaker 1: Chinese corporations and businesses in decline. She refuses to accept
46:51
Speaker 1: that she has stood up to China. In a big
47:01
Speaker 1: diplomatic spat over Taiwan, she basically said that Japan would
47:08
Speaker 1: help Taiwan if China invaded and the Chinese filpped out, the
47:13
Speaker 1: Chinese stopped buying Japanese fish, and they stopped buying anything Japanese.
47:18
Speaker 1: And while almost every other prime minister in the past
47:20
Speaker 1: would have folded, she didn't. She stood from She has
47:32
Speaker 1: advocated for strong Japanese military and military. They can stand
47:36
Speaker 1: up to China. They can defend Japanese sovereignty over the
47:43
Speaker 1: chain of islands that China not fall from Taiwan that
47:46
Speaker 1: China claims its territory. She's positioned missiles there that can
47:52
Speaker 1: reach mainland China. She has projected herself as a leader
48:02
Speaker 1: not of a declining, weak, fading Japan, but as a
48:06
Speaker 1: strong Japan they can ally itself with the other free
48:11
Speaker 1: countries in that part of Asia, can ally itself with
48:14
Speaker 1: the United States and defend against Chinese authoritarianism. So yeah,
48:28
Speaker 1: she is you know, she's strong, but she's also playful.
48:33
Speaker 1: She has these pink pens, she has these cool bags.
48:38
Speaker 1: She takes selfies. She has one with the Italian Prime
48:43
Speaker 1: Minister Jojia Maloney. She has played She played drums in
48:49
Speaker 1: a heavy metal band as a colleague students. She rode
48:52
Speaker 1: a Kawasaki motorcycle before she entered politics. She doesn't come
48:57
Speaker 1: from a long line of you know, a politicians, so
49:01
Speaker 1: she's not part of some political dynasty as so many
49:05
Speaker 1: in Japanese politics have been. Her father was an automobile
49:10
Speaker 1: automotives parts manufacturer, he worked for them. Her mother was
49:15
Speaker 1: a police officer. So she's modern strong for some reason,
49:24
Speaker 1: it's socially conservative, doesn't seem like it from her appearance,
49:29
Speaker 1: and is willing to stand up to China. One of
49:34
Speaker 1: the things that they want to change the constitution is
49:36
Speaker 1: to take out the pacifist part of the constitution that
49:42
Speaker 1: was placed there by General MacArthur and make it possible
49:49
Speaker 1: for Japan to spend a lot more in its military.
49:51
Speaker 1: Japan today has probably the third strongest navy in the world,
49:55
Speaker 1: after the United States and China. But imagine a Japan
50:01
Speaker 1: with a much stronger missile capability, missiles that can reach China,
50:07
Speaker 1: a much stronger missile defense system that can stop the
50:11
Speaker 1: hypersonics coming in. A Japan that has submarines and drones
50:16
Speaker 1: and drone submarines, drone ships that can interfere with the
50:20
Speaker 1: Chinese trying to take Taiwan or trying to invade a
50:24
Speaker 1: Japanese island. I mean that changed the whole geopolitics of
50:27
Speaker 1: that region, and she is working towards that. The bad
50:31
Speaker 1: side about her is that she has she's adopted a statist,
50:40
Speaker 1: i'd say conservative view of economics. She's not a free marketer.
50:48
Speaker 1: She believes governments needs to spend more and tax less.
50:56
Speaker 1: Thus she's big on deficit spending, which is a real
51:00
Speaker 1: problem in a Japan running some of the largest deficits
51:05
Speaker 1: and has some has some of the largest debt. She's
51:11
Speaker 1: anti immigration in the country that needs immigrants. So my
51:18
Speaker 1: problem with her is there is a chance there was
51:22
Speaker 1: a chance that you know, she fails economically. The economic
51:31
Speaker 1: strategy will not work, and as a consequence, Japanese economy
51:43
Speaker 1: will not do well long term potentially, and and as
51:47
Speaker 1: a as a you know, as that might make raising
51:52
Speaker 1: the money for the military harder, might make a politician
51:56
Speaker 1: like her less likely in the future, right, Mikao unpopular? Ultimately,
52:03
Speaker 1: she's not Margaret Thatcher in her economic views. I wish
52:07
Speaker 1: she was. She's Margat Thatcher in her kind of principled stands,
52:14
Speaker 1: but the principles are not always good. And in a
52:20
Speaker 1: stance you know, Visa vi China, Marga Thatcher was visa
52:23
Speaker 1: visa Soviet Union. So we will see, we will see.
52:31
Speaker 1: You know, she wants a proactive physical policy, but responsible
52:35
Speaker 1: whatever the hell that means. Uh. But you know, Japan
52:39
Speaker 1: has serious long time economic problems, I mean big ones,
52:43
Speaker 1: and there's nothing that she has proposed that suggests she's
52:47
Speaker 1: willing to deal with those problems. And and she has,
52:53
Speaker 1: you know, again, real problems with the fact that the
52:56
Speaker 1: population is shrinking and the working force is aging and
53:01
Speaker 1: therefore shrinking even faster than the population. Or broadly, you
53:05
Speaker 1: need vast amounts of money to fund everybody's retirement. So
53:14
Speaker 1: you know, some people think, given demographic trends. By the
53:18
Speaker 1: end of the century, they're only going to be fifty
53:20
Speaker 1: million Japanese. Fifty million. This is a country that was
53:27
Speaker 1: well over one hundred million. What is the population of Japan?
53:31
Speaker 1: Good question. In Japan population right now there's one hundred
53:38
Speaker 1: and twenty four million, and I think it's been higher
53:41
Speaker 1: than that, so and it's going to go down to
53:48
Speaker 1: fifty that's a real problem. I mean, not a problem
53:52
Speaker 1: for any particularly individual Japanese, but if you think about
53:55
Speaker 1: the Japanese economy, if you think about fighting, if you
53:58
Speaker 1: think about the ability to defend themselves, it could be
54:00
Speaker 1: a poem. When did it peak? It peaked in I
54:11
Speaker 1: think it peaked in twenty twenty two at one hundred
54:13
Speaker 1: and twenty five million, and it's been going down since.
54:18
Speaker 1: Robots will fill in, but as I said, robots will
54:21
Speaker 1: create more jobs than they destroy, So that's not good.
54:26
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna have to do the rest of their jobs.
54:29
Speaker 1: And for that you might you might need, you might
54:32
Speaker 1: need immigrants. Population do have booms and busts, there's no
54:40
Speaker 1: question about that, but it does seem to be a
54:43
Speaker 1: global bust right now, a global bust that is a
54:48
Speaker 1: challenge from a for nationalists and for for you know,
54:56
Speaker 1: for conflict, and of course it can be solved with immigrations,
54:58
Speaker 1: so it's not really that big of a part. The
55:01
Speaker 1: problem is for nationalists who don't want us solve through immigration.
55:04
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, anyway, a country that we watched
55:10
Speaker 1: and suddenly it's conflict with China needs to be watched
55:15
Speaker 1: very very carefully. Let's talk about India, from one Asian
55:21
Speaker 1: country to another. Donald Trump, I think about a week ago,
55:29
Speaker 1: but I hadn't done a show since then, announced that
55:31
Speaker 1: the United States and India had come to a trade deal.
55:34
Speaker 1: He had a phone call with Modi and they he took.
55:39
Speaker 1: He said, the United States will lower TARIS from fifty
55:41
Speaker 1: to eighteen percent, and there was this deal. India would
55:44
Speaker 1: purchase five hundred billion dollars of US goods over the
55:46
Speaker 1: next five years, and it would stop inputting oil from Russia,
55:51
Speaker 1: and it would do all these other things and in
55:53
Speaker 1: the meantime, India would lower TARISTA close to zero on
55:57
Speaker 1: most US inputs and so on and all excitement. Of course,
56:01
Speaker 1: this was immediately after India cut a free trade deal
56:05
Speaker 1: with Europe with the EU, massive huge free trade deal
56:09
Speaker 1: with Europe and a big free trade deal with or
56:14
Speaker 1: it's negotiating free jade deal with Canada, and Trump jumped
56:21
Speaker 1: in and wanted a deal finally with India. India has
56:24
Speaker 1: been seeking a deal for quite a while. The problem
56:27
Speaker 1: with this deal, as always is the deal is an
56:30
Speaker 1: outline for framework of a deal to be negotiated sometime
56:35
Speaker 1: in the future. There is no deal. There's a lot
56:40
Speaker 1: of stuff, but no actual deal. We don't actually know
56:49
Speaker 1: what's going to be part of the deal, you know.
56:55
Speaker 1: Trump said that taps are going down from fifty to
56:57
Speaker 1: eighteen percent. Okay, that's great, but that only applies to
57:01
Speaker 1: about fifty five percent of Indian experts. What happens to
57:04
Speaker 1: the others? Right, he said that, but then it turns
57:06
Speaker 1: out it's only fifty five percent. He said that India
57:12
Speaker 1: will not be buying Russian oil, but when India talks
57:15
Speaker 1: about the deal, it doesn't mention Russian oil. So are
57:23
Speaker 1: they aren't they? Now? It does seem like some refiners
57:27
Speaker 1: in India, because India it's private businesses that buy the
57:32
Speaker 1: over from Russia, some refiners are cancel or not renewing
57:37
Speaker 1: shipments into I think April or May from Russia. But
57:42
Speaker 1: that could change, and we don't know. We've seen nothing
57:46
Speaker 1: to suggest that that is unequivocally new Indian policy. So
57:53
Speaker 1: is it the case that India will not buy Russian
57:56
Speaker 1: oil anymore? We just we don't know. Agricultural products. I mean,
58:04
Speaker 1: it claims that India is going to stop buying huge
58:07
Speaker 1: quantities of agricultural products in the United States, but you know,
58:14
Speaker 1: India is a big agricultural producer, does really need to
58:20
Speaker 1: buy stuff in the United States? And you know, will
58:26
Speaker 1: Indian companies lobby against this and actually what's going to
58:29
Speaker 1: be in the deal? We just don't know. We don't
58:30
Speaker 1: know yet know how Trump is trying to take care
58:33
Speaker 1: of those farmers that he keeps screwing. And then if
58:38
Speaker 1: you look at the five hundred billion dollar purchase, India
58:41
Speaker 1: is a poor country. It has a lot of people,
58:46
Speaker 1: but most of them are very poor. Can they buy
58:51
Speaker 1: enough to make up five hundred billion? Now, some of
58:55
Speaker 1: that will be spent on things like aircraft. That's an
58:59
Speaker 1: ex of items, So you can spend tens of billions
59:02
Speaker 1: in aircraft, maybe you know, buying weapons systems. It's hard
59:09
Speaker 1: to tell. Maybe that's what I'll take up most of this,
59:14
Speaker 1: but a lot of people are skeptical about whether it's
59:16
Speaker 1: five hundred billion dollars number that like the trillions of
59:21
Speaker 1: dollars that Trump likes to likes to throw out there
59:24
Speaker 1: the numbers, whether that's real over the patent. So Trump,
59:29
Speaker 1: I think was kind of pushed into cutting this deal
59:33
Speaker 1: as the rest of the world was dealing with India,
59:35
Speaker 1: and the United States in a sense was left out.
59:41
Speaker 1: But it's still not clear what the deal has He
59:44
Speaker 1: keeps touting. It still not clear what the deal involves.
59:48
Speaker 1: You know, when India talks about the deal, it sounds
59:51
Speaker 1: differently than when Trump talks about the deal. We will
59:54
Speaker 1: just have to wait and see and addswer that. Why
59:57
Speaker 1: American citizens expected to pay eighteen percent tax on everything
1:00:02
Speaker 1: they buy from India? I say it again, Why American
1:00:07
Speaker 1: citizens expected to pay an eighteen percent tax on everything
1:00:10
Speaker 1: they buy from India? Because that's what a taff is,
1:00:12
Speaker 1: attacks on Americans and stuff that they buy from overseas. Yeah,
1:00:16
Speaker 1: fifty percent was ridiculous, but why eighteen percent? I mean,
1:00:22
Speaker 1: this is a great deal for India. They pay zuo
1:00:24
Speaker 1: taffs on American stuff. Go India, It'll raise their standard
1:00:28
Speaker 1: of living. Why are we losing when they are gaining
1:00:40
Speaker 1: all right, Just quickly, an update on Jimmy Lai. I've
1:00:44
Speaker 1: talked about Jimmy Lyon in the past. Jimmy Lai that
1:00:46
Speaker 1: owned Apple Media in Hong Kong, was a big supporter
1:00:52
Speaker 1: of the freedom movement in Hong Kong, a big opponent
1:00:55
Speaker 1: of the Chinese. He was arrested under the Chinese kind
1:01:00
Speaker 1: of sedition law that of course violates his free speech rights,
1:01:06
Speaker 1: in his individual rights and his right to his own life.
1:01:10
Speaker 1: Was there was a kind of a kangaroo quote trial.
1:01:13
Speaker 1: And he's seventy years old, seventy eight years old. He's
1:01:18
Speaker 1: a billionaire who came to Hong Kong as a young
1:01:21
Speaker 1: child with nothing. Should literally to show run his back,
1:01:25
Speaker 1: but nothing, and has become one of the you know,
1:01:31
Speaker 1: one of the richest people in the world and incredibly
1:01:34
Speaker 1: successful and a fighter for freedom and liberty. And not
1:01:39
Speaker 1: that I agree with him on everything. He's Catholic, for example,
1:01:44
Speaker 1: And yet he could have left Hong Kong when the
1:01:48
Speaker 1: Chinese came. He could have fled to Great Brittany's is
1:01:52
Speaker 1: a UK citizen. UK was granting citizenship to anybody who
1:01:57
Speaker 1: wanted to flee Hong Kong anyway. Not like the US
1:01:59
Speaker 1: who you know, and he decided to stay and fight
1:02:03
Speaker 1: with the people that he had funded and helped fight
1:02:06
Speaker 1: for freedom for years in Hong Kong. He was arrested, tried,
1:02:13
Speaker 1: and I think just yesterday or this weekend, sentenced to
1:02:18
Speaker 1: twenty years. He's seventy eight years old. So it's a
1:02:23
Speaker 1: it's a life sentence. It's a life sentence. Tragic, horrific,
1:02:31
Speaker 1: and you're not going to hear many people complain about it.
1:02:33
Speaker 1: Not many people in now, many people in this administration,
1:02:40
Speaker 1: not even in Europe, but just such cowards. They fear
1:02:45
Speaker 1: China so badly, so badly. All right, measles. The United
1:02:53
Speaker 1: States is experiencing right now one of the largest, one
1:02:56
Speaker 1: of the largest measles outbreaks in many, many years, and uh,
1:03:03
Speaker 1: it might be the largest means a lot breaks since
1:03:05
Speaker 1: two thousand. The outbreak in South Carolina has reached eight
1:03:09
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six cases, but there's also cases across
1:03:16
Speaker 1: the country in other parts of the country, even as
1:03:18
Speaker 1: far as North Dakota, North Dakota, there has been there's
1:03:23
Speaker 1: been this, Uh, there's been measles. Make when I look
1:03:27
Speaker 1: measles mostly you get as a kid and you get
1:03:30
Speaker 1: sick for a while and and you you recover. Most
1:03:35
Speaker 1: people recover, but in rare cases, I mean not very
1:03:41
Speaker 1: very very rare, just rare cases, kids develop a bank
1:03:46
Speaker 1: swelling and some people die. The bank swelling has already
1:03:54
Speaker 1: developed in some of the kids in South Carolina, and
1:03:58
Speaker 1: and this looks like it's spending beyond South Kellen. As
1:04:00
Speaker 1: I said, now, one of the reasons for this is,
1:04:09
Speaker 1: you know, the anti vaxx movement has encouraged parents not
1:04:11
Speaker 1: to vaccine against measles. Now, look, as I said, most
1:04:17
Speaker 1: kids will survive. Some kids will die. We'll die for
1:04:23
Speaker 1: no reason. The vaccine is widely used everywhere in the world,
1:04:28
Speaker 1: and it is you don't need to get it. You
1:04:32
Speaker 1: don't need to suffer. I had the measles, I suffer.
1:04:36
Speaker 1: It was not pleasant if you could save your kid
1:04:38
Speaker 1: from suffering like I had all the childhood disease, I think,
1:04:42
Speaker 1: and it was not nice at all. Vaccine is ninety
1:04:50
Speaker 1: seven percent effective in preventing measles infection, and most people
1:04:56
Speaker 1: going after nineteen fifty seven it received a vaccine. They
1:04:59
Speaker 1: got it when they were children. But there's been a
1:05:04
Speaker 1: significant upick in people who are not vaccinate now RFK
1:05:09
Speaker 1: discourages vaccination across the boat, discourages is too soft, warns
1:05:15
Speaker 1: against vaccination. Uh, even the measles vaccine. But he lies
1:05:22
Speaker 1: about vaccines all the time, like the servical cancer vaccine.
1:05:28
Speaker 1: He he, he claims it causes cancer. When if you
1:05:31
Speaker 1: look at cancer each they've gone like that, they've gone
1:05:33
Speaker 1: sharply down since young women or I guess, I guess
1:05:40
Speaker 1: uh teenagers have gotten that vaccine. Uh. I mean, if
1:05:47
Speaker 1: you get measles, you have ten to fourteen days of
1:05:49
Speaker 1: high fever, cold like symptoms, eye inflammation or rash starts
1:05:53
Speaker 1: at the face, spreads across the body, and it usually
1:05:57
Speaker 1: just goes away by itself. It's usually the case ten
1:06:00
Speaker 1: to fourteen days of unpleasantness, which is bad anyway, it
1:06:09
Speaker 1: can be really really, really really bad. Anyway, we're seeing
1:06:13
Speaker 1: the SPED. We're seeing the SPED under a regime in Washington,
1:06:18
Speaker 1: Decie that does not believe in vaccination and discourages vaccination.
1:06:23
Speaker 1: I found it interesting that doctor Oz, doctor Oz, who
1:06:27
Speaker 1: is you know what is he? Uh? He's described as
1:06:31
Speaker 1: a senior US public health official, the good old duct Oz. Anyway,
1:06:39
Speaker 1: doctor Oz is not calling people to get vaccinated against
1:06:42
Speaker 1: the measles. He's calling parents to vaccinate their kids against measles.
1:06:51
Speaker 1: He says, take the vaccine, please. We have a solution
1:06:55
Speaker 1: for a problem. He writes. Not all us equally dangerous,
1:07:01
Speaker 1: and not all people are equally susceptible to these illnesses,
1:07:05
Speaker 1: but MEAs those is one. You should get your vaccine. Now,
1:07:09
Speaker 1: his boss wouldn't say that, but good for doctor Oz
1:07:15
Speaker 1: for backing vaccines. I'm sure he's terrible on other things,
1:07:19
Speaker 1: but in this I think what happens is health and
1:07:22
Speaker 1: Human services figures. They'll talk about both sides of their mouths.
1:07:25
Speaker 1: They'll give mixed messages, messages in terms of who you
1:07:30
Speaker 1: want to listen to, and then they can struggle and say, oh,
1:07:34
Speaker 1: you know, to the anti vax people say oh, well,
1:07:35
Speaker 1: all givest vaccines, and then to the pro vaxed people say,
1:07:38
Speaker 1: oh look, doctor Oz, just recommend to the vaccine. They've
1:07:41
Speaker 1: got their basis covered, they asked, is covered in other woods,
1:07:45
Speaker 1: so they don't won't be held responsible for whoever dies
1:07:50
Speaker 1: from this. Really pathetic. I didn't want to say. We
1:07:57
Speaker 1: will have Amish on the show at some point, probably
1:08:03
Speaker 1: now much of April, to talk about RFK and doctor
1:08:11
Speaker 1: OZ and just what's going on at HSS more broadly,
1:08:15
Speaker 1: so looking forward to that, we'll get an insight from
1:08:18
Speaker 1: the inside of the medical profession into the health and
1:08:22
Speaker 1: human services and what is going on there. All right,
1:08:28
Speaker 1: let's let's oh immigration. Uh, there's just been a number
1:08:37
Speaker 1: of stories, uh, just a lot today on can of
1:08:42
Speaker 1: the economic impact of mass deportation. What are the economic
1:08:46
Speaker 1: im back to mass deportation? You expect way just to
1:08:49
Speaker 1: go up in the country, to thrive. Things would be
1:08:52
Speaker 1: amazingly work good once we get rid of these all
1:08:55
Speaker 1: these illegals. That's what we're told, right that illegal immigrants
1:09:03
Speaker 1: lower wages, reduce economic prosperity, They suck resources out of state, local,
1:09:14
Speaker 1: federal government, make us all poor. Anyway, There's been a
1:09:20
Speaker 1: paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research to
1:09:24
Speaker 1: working paper, it's not published at This is the abstract.
1:09:29
Speaker 1: This paper qualifies the effects of large scale deportation on wages, prices,
1:09:33
Speaker 1: and real incomes in the United States. We impute the
1:09:37
Speaker 1: legal status of each worker in the American Community Survey
1:09:41
Speaker 1: by coming detailed individual information with group level visa records.
1:09:46
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, to three point two percent of
1:09:47
Speaker 1: US workers were unauthorized, but some regions sectors were heavily
1:09:52
Speaker 1: dependent on unauthorizedly immigrant labor. We develop a dynamic quantitative
1:09:57
Speaker 1: framework with multiple regions, sectors, occupations, heterogeneous workers, and indogenous
1:10:02
Speaker 1: capital accumulation. Da da da da da. We derive an
1:10:05
Speaker 1: analytic expression and it goes through the model and how
1:10:07
Speaker 1: they do it and uh, you know. Following the removal
1:10:11
Speaker 1: of fifty percent of unauthorized immigrants, in the short run,
1:10:15
Speaker 1: average native wages rise zero point one point five percent nationally,
1:10:21
Speaker 1: driven by an increase in the capital laboration. In the
1:10:25
Speaker 1: long run, however, native real wages fall in every state
1:10:32
Speaker 1: by on average point three three percent. That's on a
1:10:37
Speaker 1: national level, as capital gets decumulated in response to the
1:10:44
Speaker 1: lower population. Consumer prices in this in the sector's intensive
1:10:52
Speaker 1: unauthorized workers, such as farming, rise by about one percent
1:10:58
Speaker 1: to the price of the average consumption basket, while most
1:11:02
Speaker 1: other sectors experienced negligible relative price changes. In other words,
1:11:09
Speaker 1: if you deport a significant number of illegal immigrants who
1:11:13
Speaker 1: are working, wages go down over the long run and
1:11:18
Speaker 1: prices go up over the long run. Not a good outcome.
1:11:23
Speaker 1: Not a good outcome. Immigrants, including low wage immigrants, including
1:11:31
Speaker 1: exploited illegal immigrants, don't lower wages of Americans. They raise them,
1:11:39
Speaker 1: maybe not in that particular profession that they compete in,
1:11:42
Speaker 1: but in a lot of professions where they become consumers,
1:11:49
Speaker 1: and they actually lower prices in those sectors where they
1:11:54
Speaker 1: work because they provide more abundant labor. Here's another story
1:12:04
Speaker 1: in the Wall Seat Journal. When was this certain today?
1:12:08
Speaker 1: I think I think it was published today. Yeps, give
1:12:16
Speaker 1: me a second here, Oh, why is this doing this? Yeah? Constantly?
1:12:26
Speaker 1: Once a password or something. I mean, it's it's it's
1:12:30
Speaker 1: just a hassle to get into these things. Come on anyway,
1:12:36
Speaker 1: we'll leave that. We don't need it, all right. It
1:12:39
Speaker 1: is the story from Wicco, Texas. It's a story about
1:12:42
Speaker 1: South Texas. South Texas is generally booming a lot of
1:12:47
Speaker 1: construction of new homes. Well, that construction has slowed dramatically,
1:12:53
Speaker 1: dramatically as aggressive immigration enforcement has taken shrunk the work
1:12:59
Speaker 1: for everybody said, Oh, americans will do the jobs of
1:13:03
Speaker 1: the illegals. Where are they? So the whole subdivisions workers
1:13:12
Speaker 1: won't come to work, either because they've already been deported
1:13:17
Speaker 1: or because they're afraid to be deported. The same is turing,
1:13:21
Speaker 1: farming and in other parts of the economy. So this
1:13:24
Speaker 1: is a this is a region South Texas that is
1:13:28
Speaker 1: very affected by illegal immigrants. They crossed right into South Texas.
1:13:33
Speaker 1: It's so suc It's just an area that is being
1:13:38
Speaker 1: significantly negatively impacted by the deportation of those immigrants, and
1:13:43
Speaker 1: they're rounding them up in the workplace. Rounding illegal immigrants
1:13:48
Speaker 1: who work and sending them home is a massive drain
1:13:55
Speaker 1: on the US economy. And because it's being done aggressively,
1:14:00
Speaker 1: it's being done, it actually involves even greater harm because
1:14:07
Speaker 1: a lot of people are not going to work because
1:14:09
Speaker 1: they're afraid of being rounded up. Even you as citizens,
1:14:12
Speaker 1: even legal migrants, they don't want to They don't want
1:14:16
Speaker 1: to be harassed by ice. They don't know what ice
1:14:18
Speaker 1: is going to do to them. Make America inhospitable, fewer
1:14:26
Speaker 1: people will come already seeing you with tourism which crashed
1:14:28
Speaker 1: last year, and you'll see it in those markets that
1:14:34
Speaker 1: depend on that have dependent on immigrants for their labor.
1:14:41
Speaker 1: All right, that is the news for this February ninth, Monday, Monday,
1:14:47
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Speaker 1: But yes, healthcare in particularly NHS in particularly is a
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1:32:05
Speaker 1: In the US, the viability of socialized medicine is at
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1:32:38
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1:32:54
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Speaker 1: It was the most industrialized. So suddenly the programs against
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1:33:09
Speaker 1: and chaotic. They were usually organized, but they weren't industrial
1:33:16
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1:33:25
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Speaker 1: unique in many respects the way you identify. But industrialization
1:34:01
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1:34:07
Speaker 1: If you focus on things you can control for too long,
1:34:11
Speaker 1: you'll turn to violence. It's a source of a nihilistic mindset. Well,
1:34:16
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1:34:18
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1:34:22
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1:34:26
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1:34:29
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1:34:36
Speaker 1: through physical violence. When reason gives out, what are you
1:34:39
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1:34:45
Speaker 1: is Picosa Michael. Can Reason never die? Well, I mean
1:34:51
Speaker 1: we could extinguish human race from the planet. Reason is
1:34:55
Speaker 1: unlikely to die. It seems to survive in one corner
1:34:59
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1:35:04
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1:35:12
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1:35:17
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1:35:22
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1:35:27
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1:35:31
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1:35:35
Speaker 1: Keep the flame alive, Michael. How have Americans been able
1:35:42
Speaker 1: to resist socialized medicine for this long, particularly after all
1:35:46
Speaker 1: the regulations and subsidies have made private insurance so insanely expensive.
1:35:52
Speaker 1: I think there's just a feeling among Americans, and it's
1:35:56
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1:36:02
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1:36:06
Speaker 1: It's at that level, and health care seems to be
1:36:09
Speaker 1: a step in the road to socializing everything, and they
1:36:14
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1:36:18
Speaker 1: other realms, but in health care seems to be big enough,
1:36:21
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1:36:25
Speaker 1: I mean, hellary Care almost passed. Obamacare was bad, although
1:36:30
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1:36:34
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1:36:38
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1:36:43
Speaker 1: There's still that sense in America we don't want to
1:36:46
Speaker 1: give all the powers to the government, and even Medicare
1:36:49
Speaker 1: is structured in a way that you have some choice.
1:36:52
Speaker 1: Medicare in the United States is not like the NHS.
1:36:55
Speaker 1: That's why it's so expensive. Medicare the NHS, you a
1:37:00
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1:37:02
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1:37:05
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1:37:07
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1:37:10
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1:37:15
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1:37:18
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1:37:25
Speaker 1: I agree with you that Americans will embrace narcissism to
1:37:29
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1:37:34
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1:37:37
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1:37:42
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1:37:48
Speaker 1: I mean, for the most part, I think that's true.
1:37:50
Speaker 1: Americans tend to be immature. Americans tend to tend to
1:37:54
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1:37:56
Speaker 1: Europe's educational system is better they know more, they travel more,
1:38:01
Speaker 1: They've seen more of the world, they understand more. They're
1:38:06
Speaker 1: corrupted by philosophy, corrupted by altruism and collectivism, corrupted by socialism.
1:38:12
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1:38:16
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1:38:20
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1:38:23
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1:38:26
Speaker 1: Americans are mostly ignorant of all of that, mostly ignorant
1:38:30
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1:38:40
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1:38:45
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1:38:48
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1:38:55
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1:39:25
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1:39:52
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1:39:57
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1:40:01
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Speaker 1: There's no context for the sex. Yeah, some porn has
1:40:10
Speaker 1: a story, but the story.
1:40:12
Speaker 3: Is an excuse for the sex, whereas sex in a
1:40:17
Speaker 3: proper movie, where it can where it's odd, has a purpose.
1:40:23
Speaker 1: It's part of the context of the movie. It's part
1:40:27
Speaker 1: of the theme, it's part of the story. Whatever's been
1:40:31
Speaker 1: expressed through the sex, even when it's depicted, is meant
1:40:35
Speaker 1: to tell part of the story, the intimate nature of
1:40:40
Speaker 1: their relationship, the way they deal with sex, from an
1:40:44
Speaker 1: indio masculinity, whatever that depending on the story and what's
1:40:47
Speaker 1: going on. So or a sculpture can be erotic if
1:40:53
Speaker 1: it's trying to say something beyond just presenting you with
1:40:57
Speaker 1: the physical aspect of the sex. It has to have
1:41:00
Speaker 1: a larger theme. It has to have project something more
1:41:04
Speaker 1: meaningful than the act of sex itself. Now, I think
1:41:09
Speaker 1: some particularly when it's not as you know, when it's
1:41:14
Speaker 1: not as vulgar and graphic as as as porn can
1:41:18
Speaker 1: you can have already God where the theme is something
1:41:21
Speaker 1: about the sex. But but then you know, it has
1:41:25
Speaker 1: to have aesthetic value. It has to be done with
1:41:28
Speaker 1: some beauty. It has to be done with some artistic flair.
1:41:32
Speaker 1: It has to be done with it has to be
1:41:35
Speaker 1: done in an interesting way. I mean, most porn is
1:41:37
Speaker 1: boring because it's it's repetitive, it's the same, and it's
1:41:41
Speaker 1: and it's it has zero aesthetic value to zero attempted
1:41:45
Speaker 1: aesthetic value. It's it's just not interesting, other than maybe
1:41:50
Speaker 1: to learn new positions that you didn't know existed. But yeah,
1:41:58
Speaker 1: so it's it has to have an aesthetic component. It
1:42:02
Speaker 1: has to have something to say, something meaningful to say,
1:42:06
Speaker 1: even if that's something to say is about sex. See,
1:42:13
Speaker 1: you can have a work of art that is about sex,
1:42:16
Speaker 1: and if I just to depict sex, if it's about sex,
1:42:19
Speaker 1: sex is an important part of human life. It can't
1:42:22
Speaker 1: be that sex is the one part of human life
1:42:24
Speaker 1: that has never depicted. But it has to be done
1:42:27
Speaker 1: in a way an artist would do it, not in
1:42:29
Speaker 1: a way a pornographer would do it. And you know,
1:42:35
Speaker 1: so you have to have a real esthetic value. Bad
1:42:44
Speaker 1: bunny voga, I don't know. I mean, I find a
1:42:50
Speaker 1: lot of the dancing, but that's not bad bunny, that's
1:42:53
Speaker 1: just modern. The same with the dancers, Shakira's performances or
1:42:59
Speaker 1: any of these. There's a certain element of vulgarity to
1:43:04
Speaker 1: the dancing, but you know, there's there's no attempt at
1:43:11
Speaker 1: But that's true of popular music to a large extent.
1:43:13
Speaker 1: The popular music is vulga not in a sense that
1:43:16
Speaker 1: it's in a sense that it doesn't really there's no
1:43:20
Speaker 1: real any deep values there. It's it's simple, and it's
1:43:24
Speaker 1: it appeals to our lowest economic common human denominator beat, beat,
1:43:31
Speaker 1: and you know dance, But dance that is the most
1:43:38
Speaker 1: primitive of the dances in the sense that it it
1:43:43
Speaker 1: exudes sexuality but nothing else. There's no deeper meaning. If
1:43:51
Speaker 1: you compare it to even modern dance, from modern dance performance,
1:43:56
Speaker 1: or of course ballet or even room dancing or anything
1:44:01
Speaker 1: like that, it doesn't it doesn't exhibit romance and situality.
1:44:08
Speaker 1: It exhibits just just sex pumping. Right, that's all you
1:44:15
Speaker 1: get from a j as An Iranian who refuses to
1:44:22
Speaker 1: live meaninglessly. How long should one rationally rely on the
1:44:28
Speaker 1: world's moral progress versus one's own agency? Well, you should
1:44:32
Speaker 1: always rely one hundred percent on your own moral agency.
1:44:35
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't be dependent when it comes to
1:44:39
Speaker 1: morality in the world. You must only depend on yourself
1:44:43
Speaker 1: when it comes to morality, and hopefully the world will
1:44:46
Speaker 1: catch up to you. Right, But that's yes, I don't
1:44:50
Speaker 1: quite understand the question. You have to conquatize it a
1:44:52
Speaker 1: little bit, but you have to rely on your own agency.
1:44:57
Speaker 1: So Uranians in Iran, yeah, they have to find a
1:45:01
Speaker 1: way to make their revolution work and not rely on
1:45:03
Speaker 1: the world because I'm not sure. I mean, maybe the
1:45:05
Speaker 1: world will be there, but even then they'll still have
1:45:08
Speaker 1: to do the hard work because you won't get troops
1:45:11
Speaker 1: on the ground, So Iranians will have to do the
1:45:15
Speaker 1: hard work themselves. AJ have you considered pitching their on
1:45:19
Speaker 1: book show to Netflix? Now that's streamings podcasts. No, I
1:45:24
Speaker 1: need to check that out. I'll think about it and
1:45:26
Speaker 1: check it out. Thanks. I didn't know they were doing that. Michael,
1:45:31
Speaker 1: Is Ice more like the SS of the SA? What's
1:45:34
Speaker 1: the difference? I can't remember. I don't like these comparisons.
1:45:39
Speaker 1: I don't find them very useful. In any case, Ice
1:45:43
Speaker 1: is still much narrower, less violent, in spite of its violence,
1:45:52
Speaker 1: less offensive than either one would be. My guess, ab Schmidt,
1:46:00
Speaker 1: you've seen faun Away from the early nineties. I recently
1:46:02
Speaker 1: rewatched it, and it's overflowing a sense of life. I
1:46:05
Speaker 1: think it's also it puts in it film given the
1:46:08
Speaker 1: current obsession with immigrants. Yes, I mean I like that movie.
1:46:12
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's got a it's a bit of
1:46:14
Speaker 1: a it's got a it's got a few too many
1:46:16
Speaker 1: cliches and and and it's a bit what would you
1:46:21
Speaker 1: call it? A? Yeah, much of it of it is predictable.
1:46:28
Speaker 1: But I really liked I really liked the movie. I
1:46:31
Speaker 1: can't now remember the theme. And you know, I used
1:46:35
Speaker 1: to have it used to be a movie I show
1:46:37
Speaker 1: in my movie Nights and we come up with the
1:46:39
Speaker 1: theme of the movie. It's definitely got a positive sense
1:46:41
Speaker 1: of life, uh, and a positive sense of strong characters
1:46:47
Speaker 1: who pursue their values, who stand up for themselves who fight,
1:46:53
Speaker 1: they don't roll over. So yeah, I'd say it's a
1:46:58
Speaker 1: movie I like and I have enjoyed, have enjoyed Liam
1:47:11
Speaker 1: Are we twenty or thirty years away from being Nazi Germany?
1:47:17
Speaker 1: How does ARII and ybs show stop this? Well, I
1:47:22
Speaker 1: don't know if we're twenty thirty years away from being
1:47:24
Speaker 1: Nazi Germany. Maybe maybe not. I'm skeptical about history repeating itself.
1:47:29
Speaker 1: I doubt that we've become Nazi Germany will become some
1:47:32
Speaker 1: kind of authoritarian state, more like Putin's Russia than Nazi Germany.
1:47:37
Speaker 1: But how does ARII and YBS stop this? Public can't?
1:47:41
Speaker 1: Public can't? Twenty thirty years is too short of a scale.
1:47:46
Speaker 1: And all we can do, all we can actually do
1:47:51
Speaker 1: to try to stop it is what we're doing. It's
1:47:55
Speaker 1: developing intellectuals right speak, right speak, develop new intellectuals right
1:48:00
Speaker 1: and speak. That's all you can do. Something else that
1:48:02
Speaker 1: can be done, in my view, So if you have
1:48:06
Speaker 1: ideas on what should be done and now it can
1:48:08
Speaker 1: be done, let me know. But I don't know of
1:48:11
Speaker 1: any other way. It's intellectual leadership. That leadership takes a
1:48:15
Speaker 1: long time to develop. We need to keep doing it
1:48:18
Speaker 1: with the resources we have, the people, and the money
1:48:20
Speaker 1: we have. Liam does ICE have its own jail system,
1:48:26
Speaker 1: not subject to judges and courts where attorneys can't see
1:48:30
Speaker 1: their clients. Definitely has its own jail system, its own
1:48:35
Speaker 1: deportation centers. The judges are not the normal judges. They
1:48:42
Speaker 1: are judges appointed by ICE, so they are agency judges,
1:48:47
Speaker 1: immigration judges and immigration courts, which are specialized courts. I
1:48:53
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what the attorney client thing is. I
1:48:55
Speaker 1: do think immigrants can have an attorney present and be
1:49:00
Speaker 1: represented by an attorney in front of in front of
1:49:03
Speaker 1: those courts, so and they can see their clients, I believe,
1:49:08
Speaker 1: so separate judges and courts. I think attorneys can't see
1:49:14
Speaker 1: their clients. It's a parallel legal system, like the SEC.
1:49:19
Speaker 1: Like all of these agencies have parallel I r s.
1:49:24
Speaker 1: When you get sued by the IRS, you don't go
1:49:26
Speaker 1: into the regular court system, you go into a court
1:49:28
Speaker 1: system that is run by basically the I R S.
1:49:38
Speaker 1: James Trump is just a thug. He does stuggish things
1:49:43
Speaker 1: whenever he feels he can get away with it, which
1:49:45
Speaker 1: appears to be most of the time, suggesting much of
1:49:49
Speaker 1: our population is ignorant and doesn't care or much of
1:49:52
Speaker 1: our population is thuggish. Much of it is stuggish, and
1:49:56
Speaker 1: they're quite happy to see him be a thug. But
1:49:59
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Jeremie at Legoland this weekend. Cool.
1:50:05
Speaker 1: I saw shut. I wish for you what you wish
1:50:08
Speaker 1: for immigrants. Yeah, I wish for you which you wish
1:50:17
Speaker 1: for immigrants. I like that. I'm sure got a lot
1:50:23
Speaker 1: of nasty looks, if not nasty comments, right, James from
1:50:33
Speaker 1: America first, America alone. Global trust in the US is collapsing, Yes,
1:50:38
Speaker 1: and global goodwill towards America, and global tourism is the consequences,
1:50:43
Speaker 1: and global migration of high high you know, highly talented
1:50:48
Speaker 1: people is collapsing. So yeah, all of that is collapsing.
1:50:51
Speaker 1: It's pretty disgraceful and discouraging. Christian subaton as Swedish metal
1:50:58
Speaker 1: bands singing about history has great lyrics. Listen to it.
1:51:02
Speaker 1: You will love the song about the Six Day War. Okay,
1:51:07
Speaker 1: you should pay me to review one of their songs.
1:51:11
Speaker 1: One hundred bucks. Harper Campbell has our content educational system
1:51:17
Speaker 1: created a generation of losers who can't make it in
1:51:20
Speaker 1: the world. Unsuccessful people always look for someone to blame Jews, immigrants, etc. Yeah, fundamentally, yes,
1:51:27
Speaker 1: I mean every generation has been worse in a sense
1:51:31
Speaker 1: of the educational system, not in sense of income and
1:51:33
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but in sense of educational system. And
1:51:37
Speaker 1: what's interesting is, look, you can blame young people, but
1:51:40
Speaker 1: the reality is that most of the maga old people.
1:51:45
Speaker 1: They're not young. And Andy Trump is losing a lot
1:51:48
Speaker 1: of his the young people's support. It's a lot of
1:51:52
Speaker 1: old people frustrated and afraid and ignorant. And that's the
1:51:58
Speaker 1: educational system. But it's also so you know, the educational
1:52:01
Speaker 1: system just trained their intellectuals and what howl. The intellectuals
1:52:05
Speaker 1: trained the people, whether they go through education or not,
1:52:07
Speaker 1: or whether they went through education now or fifty years ago.
1:52:12
Speaker 1: But yep, Christian says, hundred dollars is really a fat price. Yeah,
1:52:22
Speaker 1: I mean, my opinion about a song is worth a
1:52:25
Speaker 1: fat price. I don't know people pay me, so you
1:52:30
Speaker 1: know that's the price if I if I lower the price,
1:52:33
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think I get more. So I
1:52:37
Speaker 1: have to find the point of maximum revenue. I have
1:52:40
Speaker 1: to find ways to put food on the table. Reviewing
1:52:43
Speaker 1: songs as one of them. But I completely understand people
1:52:47
Speaker 1: who think it's a lot of money. It is CpML
1:52:57
Speaker 1: Can Trump said reimagining Pens station was Schuma's idea. Yeah,
1:53:05
Speaker 1: I'm sure Schuma came up with the idea of renaming
1:53:08
Speaker 1: it Trump's station. That sounds exactly like Schuma. Can you
1:53:12
Speaker 1: imagine that Trump wanted all these things named after Trump,
1:53:15
Speaker 1: but he wouldn't provide federal funds if it wasn't. I mean,
1:53:18
Speaker 1: what a narcissistic creep. Narcissistic creep. I like numbers of
1:53:29
Speaker 1: any objectives. Talked about group dynamics. I think our psychologists
1:53:33
Speaker 1: have I mean Gina and and it has some she
1:53:41
Speaker 1: talks about She does psychology for founders, so she talks
1:53:44
Speaker 1: a lot about dynamics at the workplace, which is basically
1:53:47
Speaker 1: group dynamics. I think people like John Allison have talked
1:53:50
Speaker 1: about it. Again, I think I think it's being talked
1:53:53
Speaker 1: about in the context of work, in the context of
1:53:56
Speaker 1: teams and groups pursuing a common objective. Christian I'm anoid
1:54:04
Speaker 1: that's Trump wanting to deal with Atula. I even prefer
1:54:08
Speaker 1: you on to attack Israel. Of course, it would be
1:54:11
Speaker 1: better if American Israel strike first, but the Islamic Republic
1:54:14
Speaker 1: must go thoughts. Yeah, I agree, I said that during
1:54:17
Speaker 1: the show. Absolutely, I mean, annoyed is too soft of
1:54:21
Speaker 1: a term at what I feel towards Trump, and is
1:54:25
Speaker 1: unwillingness just to go for it and do it. Huh.
1:54:37
Speaker 1: All right, let's see noture you're going as a Psycopasts
1:54:45
Speaker 1: don't care about human feelings. Sociopaths don't care about human feelings.
1:54:52
Speaker 1: Psychopaths don't care about human life. Okay, I you know, Okay,
1:54:57
Speaker 1: I guess he's I said I didn't know the difference
1:54:59
Speaker 1: in a people show, not a psychologist. Take I'll take
1:55:02
Speaker 1: your word for it. Thank you, Christian. I told i'm
1:55:07
Speaker 1: in Navabo and Goldie Gamali to come on your show,
1:55:12
Speaker 1: to your show. They are one of the best sources
1:55:15
Speaker 1: of the revolution in Iran. I hope one of the
1:55:18
Speaker 1: two will find time for you. Hope. So I'll be
1:55:24
Speaker 1: I'll be contacting them and and see Clark. If an
1:55:30
Speaker 1: orderly police officer arrested, arrests you unlawfully, you can sue them.
1:55:37
Speaker 1: When can you sue ice agent for unlawful detention? Do
1:55:42
Speaker 1: you have full Do they have full immunity? It's very
1:55:44
Speaker 1: difficult to sue an ice agent. They have quite a
1:55:47
Speaker 1: bit of immunity. I don't know the details of all
1:55:50
Speaker 1: of it, and I'm not sure you can easily sue
1:55:52
Speaker 1: up a police officer. The police have immunity as well,
1:55:57
Speaker 1: so you can only se under certain circumstance answers for
1:56:00
Speaker 1: certain things. There's a big barrier to cross. It's it's
1:56:06
Speaker 1: one of the problems I think with policing is they
1:56:09
Speaker 1: have way, way, way too much immunity, and particularly if
1:56:16
Speaker 1: you're a federal officer. The federal officers which I saw,
1:56:21
Speaker 1: have more immunity than local officers. Liam what are some
1:56:28
Speaker 1: of the lower court rulings Trump and Ice have been ignoring? Well,
1:56:36
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's primarily, you know, informational. That is,
1:56:41
Speaker 1: the lower court says, you know, you need to coming
1:56:43
Speaker 1: for us, and you need to do this X y Z,
1:56:46
Speaker 1: provide us with this information, and they just don't provide
1:56:49
Speaker 1: the information. And there was a lawyer from Ice week ago,
1:56:54
Speaker 1: I think, telling the court were just overloaded. We just
1:56:57
Speaker 1: don't have enough people. We can't fulfill all your requests.
1:57:01
Speaker 1: Because the people are out there, We're trying, we're working
1:57:03
Speaker 1: day and night, and we can't We can't get you
1:57:06
Speaker 1: the documentation that you need. I think that's most of it. Uh,
1:57:12
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know of any major issue beyond
1:57:16
Speaker 1: that that is that is Uh, you know, there's some
1:57:20
Speaker 1: issues going through the courts about the ones that were
1:57:23
Speaker 1: deported overseas and over seas and this, this, some cases
1:57:28
Speaker 1: going through the courts about due process. But I think
1:57:31
Speaker 1: most of the lower court rulings that they're ignoring have
1:57:34
Speaker 1: to do with providing information. All right, Harrison Trump called
1:57:42
Speaker 1: neo Nazis very fine people because there were only neo
1:57:45
Speaker 1: Nazis there. Your argument was that the protest alongside Nazis
1:57:52
Speaker 1: made you a Nazi too. I was paying attention to
1:57:54
Speaker 1: that show. Notably, this sane principle does not apply to
1:57:59
Speaker 1: anyone protesting alongside the race communists in my hometown of
1:58:02
Speaker 1: Minnesota right now. So a couple of things. I did
1:58:06
Speaker 1: not say that if you protest alongside Nazis, that made
1:58:11
Speaker 1: you a Nazi. I said that if you protest among Nazis,
1:58:15
Speaker 1: it made you not a very nice person. It made
1:58:20
Speaker 1: you a bad person. Not a Nazi necessarily, but a
1:58:22
Speaker 1: very bad person. And specifically, what were they protesting, which
1:58:28
Speaker 1: is important and relevant to the difference with Minneapolis. What
1:58:32
Speaker 1: is it that they were protesting alongside the Nazis. What
1:58:35
Speaker 1: did they share in common with the Nazis? I never
1:58:40
Speaker 1: said they were Nazis. I said they weren't very fine people.
1:58:43
Speaker 1: They were bad people. Why were they bad people? Because
1:58:48
Speaker 1: they were protesting taking down Confederate statues? Taking down a
1:58:57
Speaker 1: statue a Robert E. Lee who fought slavery, I'm sorry,
1:59:02
Speaker 1: fighting for keeping statues of people who fought, not just
1:59:08
Speaker 1: had slaves, fought violently to keep slaves makes you a
1:59:17
Speaker 1: bad person. I don't like people. You know, if you
1:59:19
Speaker 1: if you think the monuments shouldn't be taken down to
1:59:23
Speaker 1: Robert E. Lee into the Confederate generals, I don't consider
1:59:29
Speaker 1: you a good person. And you go out and protest
1:59:31
Speaker 1: with the Nazis, then you're not a very fine person.
1:59:38
Speaker 1: I mean, see what he says, very fine people, very
1:59:42
Speaker 1: fine people don't support Confederate statues and don't make an
1:59:46
Speaker 1: effort to go out and protest with Nazis to keep
1:59:53
Speaker 1: those statues up. I mean you might sit at home
1:59:55
Speaker 1: and say, you know, I'd rather didn't take down the statues.
1:59:58
Speaker 1: They've been here a long time. But to make the
2:00:00
Speaker 1: efforts to go and protest makes you a not very
2:00:04
Speaker 1: fine person. Now, what are the people in Minneapolis protesting.
2:00:10
Speaker 1: They're protesting the government, not harassing hardworking people in the
2:00:16
Speaker 1: streets of Minneapolis. That's a good cause. So first, it's
2:00:24
Speaker 1: a good cause. Now the fact that they're doing with
2:00:28
Speaker 1: communists should make them pause. And I have said I
2:00:32
Speaker 1: wouldn't go out because I don't want to be protesting,
2:00:35
Speaker 1: you know, like the No Kings demonstration stuff. I don't
2:00:38
Speaker 1: want to be there with a bunch of communists and
2:00:40
Speaker 1: a bunch of kafa wearing people, So I wouldn't do it.
2:00:44
Speaker 1: But with the neo Nazis in Charlottesville, two things they
2:00:48
Speaker 1: had against them. One the cause was an evil cause,
2:00:52
Speaker 1: and two they were with the Nazis. At least in Minneapolis,
2:00:56
Speaker 1: the cause is a good cause. And yeah, itshes them
2:01:00
Speaker 1: that they're worth the communists. So it's more mixed. But
2:01:06
Speaker 1: the one in Charlottesville, no mixture. It's pure bad. So
2:01:11
Speaker 1: to say they're very fine people, eh not. So they're
2:01:15
Speaker 1: not very fine people. And that's just that's just a
2:01:18
Speaker 1: winking and nod to the racists, to the people who
2:01:21
Speaker 1: thought the South were the good guys. It's a winking
2:01:25
Speaker 1: a nod to the bad elements who were there in Charlottesville,
2:01:29
Speaker 1: not all Nazis, but all bad I guess somebody called
2:01:37
Speaker 1: me an unk. All right, I don't take it easy.
2:01:43
Speaker 1: I get passionate when when I get passionate when things,
2:01:48
Speaker 1: when I think things are important, and when things when
2:01:52
Speaker 1: somebody kind of misrepresents what I say. Liam is the
2:02:01
Speaker 1: strong stock market from deregulation the only thing that could
2:02:05
Speaker 1: save Trump. This will encourage him to deregulate more. How
2:02:10
Speaker 1: much time will this bias before the collapse into dictatorship.
2:02:14
Speaker 1: I don't know that the strong stock market will save
2:02:16
Speaker 1: us from a collapse. Why would it look Biden had
2:02:21
Speaker 1: a strong stock market in twenty twenty three and twenty
2:02:25
Speaker 1: twenty four. The stock market went up both years twenty
2:02:28
Speaker 1: five percent more than what it went under the Trump
2:02:32
Speaker 1: and he had more all time high is than Trump.
2:02:36
Speaker 1: So you know, we can't. We can't. You shouldn't run
2:02:42
Speaker 1: a country, and you shouldn't come to conclusions about the
2:02:45
Speaker 1: state of the world and the state of politics and
2:02:48
Speaker 1: the long term consequences from the stock market. The stock
2:02:52
Speaker 1: market is company by company. That those companies are doing well.
2:02:57
Speaker 1: They do even better in a free world, But they
2:02:59
Speaker 1: do well doesn't mean everybody's doing well, doesn't mean the
2:03:02
Speaker 1: economy is doing well. So I don't know. I don't
2:03:11
Speaker 1: know that the stock market encourages Trump to deregulate more.
2:03:14
Speaker 1: I think he just deregulates because that's the people he's
2:03:16
Speaker 1: hired in the regulatory agencies, and they'll continue to deregulate.
2:03:22
Speaker 1: The stock market responds partially to that because they have
2:03:26
Speaker 1: businesses have more freedom, and that's good, a good thing.
2:03:30
Speaker 1: But I don't know that the stock market is buying
2:03:32
Speaker 1: us time in and of itself. It might convince people
2:03:35
Speaker 1: to vote for Trump like people in the future, therefore
2:03:39
Speaker 1: lead us more quickly into dictatorship. Not you have your algorithm.
2:03:46
Speaker 1: Why does Israel keep its nuclear arsenal a secret? Is
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Speaker 1: it likely they will ever? They will never ever have
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Speaker 1: to use it. They probably will never have to use it.
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Speaker 1: That's what nuclear arsenals are four therefore deterrents they're not
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Speaker 1: for actually using. They keep it a secret because once
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Speaker 1: they put it out in the open, then they'll be
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Speaker 1: onder huge international pressure to to join the non proliferation
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Speaker 1: agreements and to agree to inspections and all of that stuff.
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Speaker 1: In Israel's doesn't want to do that, so they'd rather
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Speaker 1: not acknowledge it so that you know. It's a diplomatic
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Speaker 1: games It's just diplomatic gamesmanship, that's all it is. Jason,
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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister of Japan, has said she's against Islamic immigration.
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Speaker 1: She's a racist. No, I don't think she's a racist.
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Speaker 1: I'm against Islamic immigration too. I just I haven't heard
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Speaker 1: her exactly in what context she said that. If she
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Speaker 1: explains why she's against Islamic immigration, Islam is not a race.
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Speaker 1: I know it's hard for you to get that, but
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Speaker 1: Islam is not a race. And there are plenty of
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Speaker 1: reasons not to accept Islamic immigration, particularly if you can't
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Speaker 1: differentiate between Muslims and Islamists. But if she understands that
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Speaker 1: Islamism is an enemy of Japan, and she can articulate
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Speaker 1: that case, then it's fine for to ban Muslim immigration.
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Speaker 1: And I think Islamic immigration, I think that's true of
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Speaker 1: any country. But you have to make the case. But
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Speaker 1: I know you think you just got me. You know,
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Speaker 1: I've talked about Islamic immigration for years and years and
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Speaker 1: years and years, and people still think I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm a proet Let them in Please bring more Muslims
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Speaker 1: into my God stupidity is amazing. Adam, you called vetting
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Speaker 1: the essence of authoritarianism. Do you mean your call for
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Speaker 1: EU Islamist vetting is demanding? Oh here's another one. Well,
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Speaker 1: why do you keep asking this question when I've answered
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Speaker 1: it like a thousand times. Could you scan my PV
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Speaker 1: shows and get the answer to this question which have
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Speaker 1: answered a thousand times? And I just don't get it.
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Speaker 1: When you're at war, the wolves change, and we were
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Speaker 1: at war with Islamism whether we know it or not.
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Speaker 1: So if we declare war on Islamism and declare it
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Speaker 1: the enemy, then we can vet, and we can vet
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Speaker 1: everybody because we're trying to figure out who they. You know,
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Speaker 1: the enemy is when during World War two Nazis went
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Speaker 1: out welcoming to the United States and it would have
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Speaker 1: been okay to vet for Nazis when we were at
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Speaker 1: war with the Soviet Union Cold War, I guess you
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Speaker 1: get vet for communism and not allowed communism. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: you have to be explicit about it, just as the
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Speaker 1: same thing which band. You have to explicit about it,
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Speaker 1: explain it, understand that it's the exception, and vet for
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Speaker 1: something that is truly a threat to the individual rights
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Speaker 1: of your citizens. Islamism is such a threat. VET for it.
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Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I've set am fine with that forever.
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Speaker 1: But only if you recognize it as a threat and
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Speaker 1: identify it as a threat and talk about it as
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Speaker 1: a threat, which refuses to do and America refuses to do.
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Speaker 1: And when Trump does, I'm banning immigrants from these Muslim countries.
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Speaker 1: And he keeps off that list the countries from which
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Speaker 1: all the terrorists are nine to eleven came and the
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Speaker 1: countries on the list from which all really Islamist terrorists
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Speaker 1: in the United States have ever come, Then he's not serious.
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Speaker 1: It's not about Islamism. It's about virtue signaling to his base. Look,
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Speaker 1: I did an Islamic immigration band. It's not so come on, people.
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Speaker 1: How many times do I have to repeat the same
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Speaker 1: thing over and up again? I guess I do. I
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Speaker 1: guess I just need to repeat it. I should stop complaining,
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Speaker 1: all right. Dan will pter i tas survived Epstein Epstein
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Speaker 1: files release of emails he exchanged. I don't know. He
2:08:22
Speaker 1: probably will, but at a much lower profile, he probably
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Speaker 1: won't lose a lot of his clients. Because the clients
2:08:29
Speaker 1: are probably mostly rich men who will probably just brush
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Speaker 1: it off. We'll see if he loses subscribers. If he
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Speaker 1: loses subscribers, viewers on his YouTube channel and everything else,
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Speaker 1: I think he will. But will he survive, probably with
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Speaker 1: a much lower profile, much lower key Roman The government
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Speaker 1: in Beijing instructed the Chinese banks to buy fewer US treasuries.
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Speaker 1: How do you make what do you make of this development?
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Speaker 1: I mean not much, because I don't think they really
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Speaker 1: are doing that. I mean it's it's a it's again
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Speaker 1: more virtue signaling. The Chinese have said they want governments
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Speaker 1: and countries to use the Chinese currency for exchange, and
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Speaker 1: they you know, and part of that is to diminish
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Speaker 1: the role of the value, the role of the dollar.
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Speaker 1: None of that is actually happening in China. Nobody wants
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Speaker 1: to use the yuan. What are what are Chinese banks
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Speaker 1: actually gonna do with the dollars that they have? If
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Speaker 1: they can buy US treasuries, they have a lot of dollars,
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Speaker 1: what are they going to do with them? So it's
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Speaker 1: one thing to say that, it's very different actually implement it.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it has any consequence. What happens is
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Speaker 1: the Chinese just by the same government US treasuries, but
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Speaker 1: in roundabout ways. So, for example, the amount of US
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Speaker 1: treasuries owned by Chinese explicitly directly has been declining for
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Speaker 1: quite a long time now, for many years the amount
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Speaker 1: of money, but the amount of US treasuries owned by
2:10:24
Speaker 1: funds based in Belgium with Chinese money in them has
2:10:30
Speaker 1: increased almost as much. So the actual holding of the
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Speaker 1: Chinese has probably not changed that much. It's just in
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Speaker 1: different pools, and one pool where they're kind of hiding it,
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Speaker 1: another one where they're not. It's mostly that run, all right.
2:10:51
Speaker 1: I have to translate while I read. Have you heard
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Speaker 1: of the Turkish students Muslim students that is studying in
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Speaker 1: the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and said nice things about Israel,
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Speaker 1: including that she's as Zionists and the Turkish authorities have
2:11:08
Speaker 1: put out a warrant for her arrest. I hadn't heard
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Speaker 1: about that. That's horrible, but I guess it's not surprising.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Tuki is violently anti Israel. I mean Israel
2:11:22
Speaker 1: should give a you know, citizenship just as a friendly gesture.
2:11:30
Speaker 1: They should give an Israeli passport, but yeah, I mean
2:11:35
Speaker 1: it's it's truly horrible. TOOKI is becoming an Islamist state
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Speaker 1: run by an Islamist president, who is who is supportive
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Speaker 1: of the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is which
2:11:48
Speaker 1: is an Islamist, anti Western civilization, anti Israeli agenda. Paul said,
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Speaker 1: I mailed your question. You two won't send it. Okay,
2:12:00
Speaker 1: here it is. Have you seen the video on the
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Speaker 1: Uanian man who made a video of himself before ending
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Speaker 1: his own life? Opinion? No, I haven't seen it. I
2:12:09
Speaker 1: haven't seen it. But you know, why did he end
2:12:14
Speaker 1: his own life? You could have gone on in the streets,
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Speaker 1: ended it by fighting at least that one. I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you're gonna die anyway, die die taking
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Speaker 1: downs on the bad guys. But I haven't seen it.
2:12:28
Speaker 1: I'd be interested in seeing it, run Rourke. Refusing the
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Speaker 1: bank hits hard. Refusing the bank hit hard. How do
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Speaker 1: you identify your non negotiable red lines values you should
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Speaker 1: never cross, even under extreme pressure. Well, you should never cross.
2:12:51
Speaker 1: You should never violate your moral principles. You should never
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Speaker 1: violate your moral principles. You should never be rational, You
2:13:02
Speaker 1: should never be dishonest. You know, with the proper understanding
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Speaker 1: what honesty means, you should never violate your integrity and
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Speaker 1: that was a non negotiable and I think it should
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Speaker 1: mean Now, how do you define what your integrity requires demands?
2:13:22
Speaker 1: That's work. You have to define what your values are,
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Speaker 1: what your important values are, what's less important to you.
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Speaker 1: Integrity has to be a non negotiable again, but you
2:13:33
Speaker 1: have to think through to integrate what is integrity? How
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Speaker 1: does it apply to your life? How does it apply
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Speaker 1: to things you do in your life? And that's the
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Speaker 1: challenge I think you're asking about. And that's work, right,
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Speaker 1: That is really work, and it requires really understanding what
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Speaker 1: your values really mean to you and what they are.
2:14:05
Speaker 1: But really it's don't compromise unethical values, unvirtues, sorry, ethical
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Speaker 1: virtues or values. Don't ever compromise again, your honesty, your integrity,
2:14:16
Speaker 1: don't ever you know, not pursuationality even when the pressure
2:14:28
Speaker 1: is extreme. But you know, that's a good topic for
2:14:36
Speaker 1: a show. Actually maybe I'll do a show on that.
2:14:41
Speaker 1: That's a good topic for a show to kind of
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Speaker 1: chew on Rourke's decision why he makes it christas the
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Speaker 1: healthiness of a culture in my view, can largely be
2:14:52
Speaker 1: judged by its attitude towards foreigners. It is a sign
2:14:57
Speaker 1: of decay to be unwelcoming, a hostile to them. I
2:15:00
Speaker 1: think that's right. I think that's absolutely right, and it
2:15:04
Speaker 1: does not bode well for US culture its attitude towards them.
2:15:10
Speaker 1: Robert has a quote from mattla Shrugg. The only man
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Speaker 1: never to be redeemed is the man without passion. Well,
2:15:21
Speaker 1: you can't blame you can't claim I have no passion.
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Speaker 1: Passion I have all right, guys, Thank you, John, thank
2:15:30
Speaker 1: you for the stickup. Really appreciate that. I will see
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Speaker 1: you tonight in two and a half hours, basically two
2:15:38
Speaker 1: hours forty five minutes. We'll be talking to Greg Sumieri.
2:15:44
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about America, the passion of your on
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Speaker 1: I like that they should be a movie. No crucifixion,
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Speaker 1: though I refuse to be crucified. I'd rather be impelled
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Speaker 1: by a woman's sword then be crucified. So fight until
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Speaker 1: the end. See you tonight, if not tomorrow, about the
2:16:11
Speaker 1: same time I think, And no tomorrow is a little later.
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Speaker 1: I think it's at three o'clock Eastern time instead of
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Speaker 1: two o'clock. But see you tonight, tonight. You got to
2:16:23
Speaker 1: come tonight, all of you. Greg is a great guest,
2:16:28
Speaker 1: lots of questions, bring your philosophy questions, being your philosophy attitude.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have fun. Bye, everybody,