00:01:35.000These are just things that, generally speaking, we have to live with until there's a more fundamental change in the society, which I've talked about before, and that is about rebuilding a social fabric.
00:01:51.000We'll also be talking tonight about Ben and Jerry's ice cream, which is now back in the news after Israel brokered a deal with the ADL and Unilever to force.
00:02:05.000Ben Jerry's franchise in Israel to sell their businesses to some Israel based company against their will.
00:02:14.000And if you remember, this is a story actually from a year ago where Ben Jerry's, the ice cream company, they said that they were going to stop selling their ice cream in the disputed occupied Palestinian territory in Israel.
00:02:32.000And this was perceived as BDS, boycott, divest, sanction.
00:02:37.000This was perceived as an anti Israel measure in support of Palestine, which ostensibly it was.
00:02:45.000And so Israel put out the bat signal and said to all of the American governors, state governors, Israel said, hey, you need to tell Israel they can't do business in America.
00:02:56.000If they can't do business in Israel, they can't do business anywhere.
00:03:00.000And so this has been an ongoing dispute for about a year.
00:03:03.000And it was just announced last week that they had brokered a deal between the company that owns Ben Jerry's and.
00:03:12.000The state of Israel, it was brokered by the ADL, and now Unilever, the holding company, will sell the Israeli Ben Jerry's franchises to an Israeli company, and the Israeli company will continue to sell that ice cream in the disputed occupied Palestinian territory.
00:03:33.000And the news on our end, which this just takes the cake, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida put out a big statement about this and said this is a step in the right direction, but Ben Jerry's is still a big problem.
00:03:47.000And so it's like our country just works for Israel.
00:03:51.000I was telling my dad this the other day.
00:03:53.000I'm like, this is the kind of thing that just makes you want to lose your mind because it's so glaringly obvious.
00:04:03.000But if you talk about it, you sound like a crazy person.
00:05:14.000I promised you I was going to do a show tonight.
00:05:17.000I said it on Friday, and it worked out like it always does.
00:05:20.000I told you on Friday, every time there's one of these holidays on the weekend, every time there's a three day weekend, I go on the show on Friday and tell everybody I'm going to do a show on Monday.
00:09:08.000You know, because in this life, you can't always get everything you want, and you can't always get it when you want or exactly the way you want it.
00:09:18.000Sometimes you can't even get it at all.
00:09:21.000So, why don't you just lay off and just be happy that I'm even doing a show in the first place?
00:09:28.000I would be grateful that we went to all this effort.
00:09:32.000To build this platform and build this studio, even to do this show, and people go, Late, Late, Late.
00:16:16.000In the same way that everybody else does, our Independence Day and the political nature of it and the political context of it, because that's anachronistic.
00:17:22.000And, you know, so that's kind of my thinking on it, but like with everything else, I'm willing to put that aside and just have a good time and watch the fireworks and wave the flag and celebrate the sort of mythological meaning behind it if it's not completely right, you know, if it's not something that I'm feeling particularly this year.
00:17:44.000You know, because look at a guy like me.
00:17:46.000I'm supposed to celebrate Independence Day.
00:17:52.000This past year, got off the no fly list.
00:17:55.000I guess that's, I'm independent from the TSA or DHS, but you know, that's been my experience no fly list, money frozen, banned from everything, can't make a Twitter, can't make a TikTok, can't accept payments on the internet because I'm banned from all the banks and payment processors.
00:18:46.000And events that have transpired in the past 200 years with political theory have changed everything, too.
00:18:54.000We have to sort of embody the spirit of the founders, but we have to chart our own destiny.
00:19:00.000And the way that I've always thought about it is like this the founding fathers were gifted.
00:19:05.000It was an anomaly in the history of mankind that you had Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin and George Washington and John Adams and all the greats in the same place at the same time on the same project.
00:19:32.000So, I really believe some people look at our problems today and they look backwards at the founding fathers and think, what would the founding fathers do?
00:19:41.000And that makes sense to a degree, but we have got to become the new founding fathers of a new country.
00:19:49.000And it's fine to look in the past for inspiration, and it's fine to look in the past and see how they figured out their problems, but we have got to rise to the occasion and figure out our own problems in our own time ourselves.
00:20:05.000And it is a mistake to look too much to the past.
00:20:09.000We have got to look forward to the future.
00:20:11.000We have got to look at the recent past and how we got to our present moment.
00:20:18.000And we have got to chart our own destiny.
00:20:21.000I don't think we need the founding fathers.
00:20:23.000I don't think we need to go back necessarily to the Federalist Papers or to the Constitution.
00:20:28.000I think that we need to become like the founding fathers in the present day and write the new Federalist Papers and the new Constitution for the new country.
00:20:42.000So it's fine to embody the tradition and the spirit and the history of it, of course, but that means that we've got to take it and apply it to the present day.
00:20:54.000I think that there's a little bit too much, at least with conservatism, people are looking backwards too much, too much of a preoccupation with the ancient past.
00:21:03.000And we need to understand it, but we also need to have a practical knowledge and we need to look in a practical way at our present time and say, There's nothing that Alexander Hamilton and the rest did that we can't do today with the right people.
00:21:20.000So that's my feelings on Independence Day.
00:22:15.000And it's so obvious and it's so in your face.
00:22:19.000And sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy because it's right there.
00:22:25.000And not only do people not, they're not just ignoring it and pretending like it's not happening and completely ignorant of it, but they act like even to be suspicious of it, even to be cognizant of that or asking questions about that is to be crazy.
00:22:46.000It's like you're an insane person, you're possessed with prejudice.
00:23:01.000Ben Jerry's, the famous ice cream company, last year announced that they would stop selling ice cream in the so called occupied Palestinian territory.
00:23:13.000And so if you're not familiar with the background of Israel and Palestine, I'm not going to give you the whole story here.
00:23:19.000But essentially, you've got Jewish Israeli land, and then you've got Arab Muslim Palestinian land.
00:23:27.000The Israelis have been militarily occupying Palestine since 1967, but they've also begun to expand the borders of Israel into Palestine with civilian settlements, which is broadly regarded as illegal under international law.
00:23:44.000It's one thing to occupy a country with your military, like the NATO powers did with Germany after World War II, or like the United States invading Iraq or Afghanistan.
00:23:59.000Not saying those things are justified, but that's one kind of thing.
00:24:04.000It's quite a different thing to have civilians settle the lands occupied by the military, which is what Israel is doing.
00:24:11.000So that would be the equivalent of the United States invading Afghanistan and then encouraging Americans to move to Afghanistan and establish residency and form enclaves of Christian, white, American nation in the country and saying, this is now America.
00:24:29.000It's like you're annexing the land, essentially.
00:24:33.000And so that's just in brief what's going on.
00:24:38.000And Ben and Jerry's said that it's contrary to the values of their company to do business in the state of Israel and in these occupied territories.
00:24:57.000And the state of Israel puts out a statement and says that.
00:25:00.000By doing this, they're effectively participating in Boycott, Divest, and Sanction, which is a movement supported by Palestinians to sanction the Israeli economy and punish the Israeli economy by getting private businesses to boycott Israel, divest from Israel, or sanction Israel.
00:25:22.000And so Israel said Ben and Jerry's is part of BDS, and that means they're anti Semitic, and that means they're anti Israel, and they put out the.
00:25:31.000The Star of David signal to the whole world saying, You've got to punish Ben Jerry's.
00:25:37.000And at the time, Ron DeSantis put out a statement and said that Florida, the state of Florida, would divest from Ben Jerry's because Ben Jerry's pulled out of Israel.
00:25:49.000And Ron DeSantis did that specifically in response to the foreign minister of Israel calling on all of the state, United States state governors and attorney generals to review their relationship with the Ben Jerry's company.
00:26:05.000So, now the big story this week is that the ADL, Anti Defamation League, run by Jonathan Greenblatt, has brokered a deal between Unilever, the holding company of Ben Jerry's, and the State of Israel.
00:26:20.000And the deal is this The State of Israel is backing an Israeli based company buying the Israeli Ben Jerry's franchises from Unilever, which Unilever is not happy about, but they were forced to do it by the government, by the Israeli state government, and the deal is brokered by the ADL.
00:26:40.000And Ron DeSantis puts out a statement this week and says it's a step in the right direction, but there's still all these problems and so on.
00:26:50.000And if you could see this play out in real time, if this were on national news all the time, I think it would be fair to ask what's going on here?
00:27:01.000To some extent, it makes sense that the government of Israel would intervene if a company is boycotting business in their nation.
00:27:13.000If some company said we're pulling out of the United States because of gun violence or what they're doing at the border, it would make sense for the U.S. government to respond.
00:27:24.000But you've got an executive of a state, which is essentially a province of a nation.
00:27:33.000Why is a provincial government in America responding to this drama that's playing out in the Middle East?
00:27:40.000In other words, why is it the business of the governor of Florida that?
00:27:46.000One company is not selling ice cream in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
00:27:53.000And what's more, why would the ADL, an American nonprofit, be involved in brokering a deal between Unilever and some Israeli based manufacturer?
00:28:04.000So this is the story that says Governor Ron DeSantis and State Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Petronas praised Ben Jerry's parent company for a decision that will allow the sale of ice cream in Israel.
00:28:18.000But that doesn't mean Florida will immediately return to investing or contracting with the parent company, Unilever, and its subsidiaries.
00:28:27.000Over the objection of Ben Jerry's, Unilever on Tuesday announced an agreement that will lead to Avi Zinger, an Israeli manufacturer and distributor of the brand, selling ice cream independently under the product's Hebrew and Arabic names in Israel and the West Bank.
00:28:43.000DeSantis said in a Twitter post that the move by Unilever is a step in the right direction, but he remained, quote, disappointed.
00:28:51.000That they took a year to stand against a movement that involves boycotting Israel, divesting, and imposing sanctions.
00:28:59.000Last year, the State Board of Administration, which oversees Florida's pension fund and other investments, advised Unilever it had been placed on Florida's list of, quote, scrutinized companies that boycott Israel after Ben Jerry's said that it is inconsistent with their values to sell ice cream in occupied Palestinian territory.
00:29:21.000The State Board of Administration spokeswoman. Emily Oglesby said in an email on Friday At this time, it does not appear that the status of Unilever remaining on the state's scrutinized companies that boycott Israel list would change.
00:29:37.000When the state board took action last year, Florida had about $139 million in holdings in Unilever and its subsidiaries.
00:29:46.000Oglesby said As we continue to review and learn more about this development, we will analyze such in the context of our statutory directives and act accordingly.
00:29:57.000So, the state of Florida, which has $130 million in holdings in Unilever, the holding company for Ben Jerry's, apparently is now at war with this company and divesting their holdings in the company because they stopped selling ice cream in Israel and they're doing this at the behest of, apparently, ADL and the foreign minister of Israel.
00:30:22.000And so, you look at the situation and it's obvious what's going on here.
00:30:26.000Florida has one of the highest Jewish populations in the world.
00:31:02.000Thinks that Israel is very, very important.
00:31:05.000The first thing he did when he became governor in 2018 was fly to Israel and sign a bill banning BDS on Florida college campuses.
00:31:15.000And then it's been a pattern ever since then of interacting with Israel against BDS like this.
00:31:21.000So Ron DeSantis, you can say quite clearly, was elected with the support of Jewish money in the state of Florida.
00:31:31.000Votes, but more specifically, money from influential right wing Jews and Zionists in the state of Florida.
00:31:39.000And that's why it's because of that dependency on Israeli political power or Jewish political power in Florida that he has gone out of his way to use his office as the governor of Florida to benefit the state of Israel in ways that don't apparently benefit the United States or, more specifically, the state that he is the governor of.
00:32:03.000Signing a bill banning BDS on Florida college campuses in Israel does not benefit the United States in any tangible way.
00:32:11.000It doesn't benefit the state of Florida in any tangible way.
00:32:15.000In fact, arguably, it's detrimental to the state of Florida insofar as banning BDS protests and groups on American college campuses obstructs American freedoms like the First Amendment and freedom of expression and speech, specifically on college campuses.
00:32:37.000And what's more, going to war with Ben and Jerry's in the Florida Retirement Fund.
00:32:44.000Because they stopped selling ice cream a world away on the other side of the planet on another continent, what possible tangible benefit does that have for the people of Florida or for the United States?
00:33:01.000This is a model of how all American Israeli relations work.
00:33:08.000The Jews in America, and specifically the Zionist Jews, wield with their money and their organization a disproportionate amount of political influence.
00:33:19.000And whether right or left, politicians are dependent on this influence in both a positive and a negative sense.
00:33:25.000They need the support of the Israeli Jewish influence to get elected.
00:33:30.000And if they went against the Jewish Israeli interest, well, then the Jewish Israeli influence would back somebody else.
00:33:38.000And so they're in this position where they're benefiting from supporting Israel.
00:33:43.000And if they went against Israel, it would be bad for them.
00:33:47.000But the question is is this appropriate?
00:33:51.000It would be one thing if Ron DeSantis were pandering to Jewish voters in Broward County by going to the whatever, the Shabbat dinner, and he went to the Jewish parade and he did whatever.
00:34:11.000But here's the rub you're not working for your constituents in your state, you're working for your constituents by benefiting another country.
00:34:21.000And so you're using the office of an American government position, and this happens all the time at the state level and at the federal level, to benefit not the constituents of that state or of the country directly, but indirectly by using that office and using the American Treasury and the American military to benefit a foreign country.
00:34:45.000That's a completely different picture altogether.
00:34:51.000And why can't people just, well, we know why.
00:34:54.000Why can't right wing people, why can't nationalists just come right out and say that?
00:35:00.000Well, it's because of the very existence of the thing that we're talking about that they're deterred or prevented from saying that.
00:35:07.000It's because it is so real that this isn't talked about.
00:35:15.000And it would make sense if people in politics don't talk about it, but it feels like even people on the ground are afraid of talking about it.
00:35:24.000People who have nothing to lose tangibly because they're not in politics and don't work for the government or whatever.
00:35:40.000I need super chats to pay for my internet or whatever, pay for the bandwidth on the site, and that's it.
00:35:49.000And so I can talk about it, but it's disturbing that there are so many people out there that this is so striking, it's so in your face, and the conditioning is so strong that people don't even see anything wrong with this picture, even to the extent that they're aware of it.
00:37:27.000You know, they haven't done any of that.
00:37:30.000So there's one fatal problem with that argument, which is that the politicians don't respond to what the voters want, whether they really want it or they don't really want it or how they rank it.
00:37:44.000The voters want all kinds of things that the politicians don't give them, even though, to varying degrees, they may promise that they will do that.
00:37:53.000And that would be the only issue where there seems to be a one to one correlation between some constituents wanting something and politicians doing it.
00:38:02.000Because what do people want all the time?
00:38:04.000Well, people wanted the wars to end, and people want the taxes to be cut, and people want the gas prices to come down.
00:38:13.000People want a lot of things and then they just don't get those things.
00:38:16.000They get NAFTA and they get foreign wars and they get mass immigration, none of which they want.
00:38:28.000Obviously, it is the influence of an organized, well funded interest lobby in Washington, D.C. and in concentrated places all across the country.
00:38:39.000And what they're doing, in a sense, is buying the American government.
00:38:43.000Because the governor of Florida should be executing the laws and governing the state for the benefit of the people of Florida, for the Florida residents and the Florida people and citizens and taxpayers.
00:38:59.000That's who the Florida governor should work for, not for the rich Jews that pay for the Florida governor's campaign.
00:39:08.000And the same thing goes for the United States federal government.
00:39:12.000The American tax dollars and the American military, which is comprised of American soldiers, should work for Americans and should benefit Americans in America.
00:39:26.000And this is the problem across the board with corruption, but this is the most blatant example of it.
00:39:32.000People that wield the power and the treasury of the American government are selling their influence over it to rich people from other countries, rich people that don't have our best interest in mind.
00:39:45.000And that's why the country is failing because the people that are out there dying from opioid addictions and the people driving over dilapidated infrastructure like bridges and highways and potholes and people that are living in towns where there's no jobs and there's not good health care and so on.
00:40:04.000Well, they don't have money to buy the influence of politicians to work for them.
00:40:10.000And there's something intrinsically wrong with that.
00:40:16.000That the people of the country have no representative and the government doesn't represent them.
00:40:22.000And the government really has no interest in helping them because they don't have any money directly to buy off the campaigns.
00:40:29.000They'll pay their taxes, but don't have money to buy the campaigns and rub shoulders and go to the parties and so on.
00:40:39.000That somebody like Ron DeSantis, the only way somebody like that could get elected is by selling out to somebody for billions of dollars, which is essentially what's going on here, or millions of dollars at the state level.
00:40:54.000For as much as people might congratulate Ron DeSantis and celebrate his achievements, how did he get into office?
00:41:01.000Well, he had to sell out to foreign special interests, he had to sell out to global special interests.
00:41:08.000And this is the deal with the devil that we are now doing.
00:41:11.000This is what, in a sense, the MAGA and the conservative movement says that it has to do is that it has to sell itself to some of the global special interests, like Israel or Saudi Arabia or Qatar or whatever, so that they could get an office and do some things for their constituents.
00:41:57.000Because a dictator who wielded authority over the oligarchs and over the legislature to some extent and the courts would not be dependent on money.
00:42:10.000And a dictator who is not dependent on money would not then be dependent on.
00:42:16.000This opaque network of billionaires and lobbyists and think tanks and bureaucrats and functionaries.
00:42:24.000If the government was rich and if a president didn't have to worry about re election and elections and that kind of thing, and if the president was able to get lots of wealth from the state, he wouldn't be dependent on anybody other than the government itself.
00:42:43.000And so there would be an incentive to make the government work and make the government work for the people.
00:42:48.000And that would be a superior system to what we have now.
00:42:52.000Where the best we could get is Donald Trump running for president getting $100 million from Sheldon Adelson.
00:43:16.000Who really wields the power in the country if Sheldon Adelson, a single issue voter, which is his support for the state of Israel because he's a Jewish Zionist, And that private individual is able to give $100 million to the campaign of one person running for president so that that person benefits a foreign country.
00:45:16.000You know, who knows because there's no transparency ever.
00:45:19.000But I'm sure everybody out there that's shilling DeSantis over Trump, for the most part, if they're not foolish, they're getting paid to do that.
00:45:48.000This guy doesn't even work for America.
00:45:51.000So, and, you know, and again, you can't be America first if you don't talk about it in every case.
00:45:58.000There's a reason why I'm the most banned guy ever because I really am America first.
00:46:03.000Anybody else saying they're America first but isn't banned, you have to ask who are they getting paid by?
00:46:09.000What things are they not talking about?
00:46:14.000America First turns out to be the most censored position in its pure form because the censors are people that are buying the government and putting America last.
00:46:24.000So, of course, they don't like America First.
00:47:27.000It says, quote, U.S. police have arrested a suspect after six people were killed at an Independence Day parade near Chicago.
00:47:35.000Police say Robert Cremo III, age 22, was detained after a brief chase.
00:47:42.000At least 24 other people were injured in the city of Highland Park, Illinois, after a gunman used a high powered rifle to target people from a rooftop.
00:47:51.000It is the latest mass shooting to hit the United States.
00:47:53.000There's been one in every week of 2022.
00:47:58.000Mr. Cremo was detained after a manhunt.
00:48:01.000He was referred to as a person of interest in Monday's shooting, but after his arrest, people say they believe he was responsible.
00:48:09.000The gunman opened fire at the parade at around 10 15 local time, just a few minutes after it began.
00:48:15.000The event was scheduled to include floats, marching bands, and community entertainment.
00:48:20.000But what should have been one of the happiest days of the year quickly turned into panic, with push chairs, purses, and lawn chairs left discarded on the street as crowds fled from the scene.
00:48:30.000The suspect is believed to have fired at members of the public from the rooftop of a nearby store, where police say they recovered evidence of a firearm.
00:48:39.000Five adults were killed, as well as a further victim who the local coroner said died in a nearby hospital.
00:48:45.000No charges have been filed, and there is no indication of any motive.
00:48:49.000Social media firms suspended accounts.
00:48:51.000Belonging to the shooter who posted rap videos under an alias.
00:48:57.000So, what's interesting about this shooting, it's obviously a horrible tragedy.
00:49:07.000And what's interesting about this shooting is, or maybe what's different about this compared to recent mass shootings, and I said this at the top of the show, is that this shooting happened where there is very strict gun control.
00:49:55.000And as long as guns are accessible to people, in a country with 330 million people, people will get guns, and the wrong people will get guns, and the wrong people have the wrong idea, and they will go out and shoot people.
00:50:11.000And it's not saying that this is okay, obviously.
00:50:15.000It's a horrible thing when it happens.
00:50:18.000But realistically, what can be done to prevent this from happening?
00:50:21.000People say more gun control, and short of banning all guns from being sold, purchased, or owned, There are just too many guns out there, and there are so many guns that if somebody wants one, if there's a person out there with a plan, they can acquire one.
00:50:42.000And once you accept the fact that it is to some extent inevitable that bad people will acquire guns, what can reasonably be done to stop a bad person from going out and using a gun?
00:50:54.000A person can become a bad person overnight.
00:50:57.000A person who is mentally well one day could become mentally unwell overnight, and maybe they bought a gun when they were fine.
00:51:05.000A person who was not a killer one day may overnight become a killer.
00:51:10.000And so, what level of screening, what level of wait times, background check is going to protect against that?
00:51:17.000And it's as simple as somebody gets a gun and goes out their front door and opens fire.
00:51:26.000And unless you have a police officer in front of every human being, even if every person were armed, at least one person is going to get shot in an incident like that.
00:51:38.000Here you have a situation where there's police all over the place.
00:51:44.000And he just went to a rooftop where nobody was.
00:51:47.000He just went to a rooftop where I'm sure nobody's looking at the rooftops.
00:51:51.000For snipers at an Independence Day parade in a suburb of Chicago.
00:51:57.000And so he just went somewhere where nobody could see him.
00:52:00.000There were cops everywhere, armed cops, and just started shooting and he hit some people.
00:52:05.000And again, I don't mean to sound insensitive when I say that.
00:52:10.000I don't mean to phrase it in such a way, but I mean to describe logistically how this is a problem which there is really no good solution for.
00:52:22.000Implement reasonable restrictions, and you can have police and you can have people armed.
00:52:28.000But even in a situation like this, what good does it do if even everybody at the parade is armed if the shots are coming from on top of a rooftop with a rifle?
00:52:37.000What is everybody going to walk around with a rifle at all times and look and peeking corners like they're playing CSGO or something like they're a SWAT team?
00:52:49.000So that's something that people don't want to.
00:52:53.000To hear, you know, I know that media and government don't say that because, you know, you can't tell people that the situation is hopeless, but it kind of is.
00:53:04.000People don't like to be told that there's nothing that we could do about a problem, but in this case, it's just true.
00:53:11.000There is almost nothing that can be done about this.
00:53:14.000There are some things that can be done, but there's nothing that can be done to prevent this completely.
00:53:18.000The problem has to be stopped before it even becomes a problem.
00:53:25.000If you accept that in this country it's inevitable for a bad person to be able to acquire a gun, and once that happens, it's nearly impossible to stop a bad person with a gun from harming people, well, then you have to rewind even further and say, where do we get all these bad people?
00:53:43.000Where do we get all these bad people with these crazy plans?
00:53:49.000And the answer is these people come from our country.
00:53:53.000I said this during the last mass shooting these people come from.
00:53:58.000A mother and a father, just like everybody does.
00:54:00.000And they came from a home, and they came from a school, and they came from a community.
00:54:06.000And I know that might sound redundant, but think about really how a person becomes this way.
00:54:15.000In order to pull off a plot like this, there's a tremendous amount of isolation that has to occur here first.
00:54:22.000For a person to plot something like this and go off and do it, that's a person that's really got to be out there.
00:54:31.000If you've got friends, if you've got family, I don't know that there's any one of these mass shootings where they say that they really had like a robust social family life or involvement in the community, unless you're talking about workplace violence where someone gets fired and then come back and kill a bunch of people, which is more a crime of passion.
00:54:49.000In terms of these mass killings, random acts of violence, not essentially murders, this can really only happen in a country where people are set adrift.
00:55:04.000Some of them will go out and get addicted to drugs.
00:55:06.000And some of them will kill themselves.
00:55:08.000And some of them will become homeless.
00:55:10.000And some of them will become live streamers, you know, or they'll become performers or they'll go on a street corner and juggle.
00:55:17.000And some of them may become entrepreneurs, you know.
00:55:20.000And some of them are going to totally go off the deep end and they're going to spiral down and then they're going to do something horrible.
00:55:29.000And so, where do these things really come from?
00:55:32.000When we look at a mass shooting, we're kind of stopping in the middle of the story.
00:55:37.000This guy was born to a mother and a father.
00:55:38.000How do you get born, go through a childhood, and then one day decide you're going to open fire and kill a bunch of people in your neighborhood?
00:55:47.000That's the question which should concern us.
00:55:49.000That's the question which is most important.
00:55:51.000Because I think if we're really, it might sound lofty and maybe silly to say this, but I think the most practical way to stop mass shootings is to prevent people from wanting to shoot other people.
00:56:06.000I know that might sound like, well, how do you do that?
00:56:10.000Every mass shooter has a mother and a father.
00:56:12.000Could you imagine if every mass shooter just had involved parents?
00:56:17.000Every mass shooter lived in a community and went to a school.
00:56:22.000Could you imagine if every mass shooter had friends and family looking out for them?
00:56:28.000They felt like they were a part of the community.
00:56:30.000They felt like they were a part of their school or a friend group or a club or something.
00:56:37.000And most often, when you see these mass shooters, they're.
00:56:43.000After grade school, there are some school shooters that are high school aged, but more often than not, what I've seen is that the mass shooters are in their 20s or late teens, meaning they've graduated high school.
00:56:55.000And so once you've graduated high school, you're kind of out there.
00:57:01.000I think you would have a lot less mass shootings, a lot fewer mass shootings, if there was some degree of community that people could rely on after they graduated high school.
00:57:13.000If they don't go to college after they go to high school or after college, if they went to college.
00:57:19.000Because almost all the mass shooters, it's the same story.
00:57:22.000It's a story of isolation, it's a story of people in broken homes, social outcasts in their childhood, and then something curious happens when they leave high school.
00:57:34.000They're sort of dropped off into planet Earth, and that is when they're outside of the watchful eye of any person at all, any guardian, any friend, any.
00:57:46.000Any figure of authority or something like that.
00:57:50.000And so, what I'm trying to say here is there is a direct connection between the atomized individualistic nature of our liberal society and the creation of these lone wolf killers.
00:58:07.000I think that you don't get as many mass shootings, for example, in a country like Italy or Spain, because I think those are more traditional.
00:58:18.000Countries, and I don't know, I mean, I've never been in those countries.
00:58:20.000This is kind of a leap, but it would seem to me like in those countries, there's a stronger tradition, there's a stronger sense of identity, there are stronger social bonds between families and within the community, there's local character, there's a local identity.
00:58:37.000And here in America, it seems like stripped away of all those things, it's creating uniquely a situation where people are becoming incredibly antisocial.
00:59:13.000But, you know, my wife, if I come home from work every day and my wife is telling me, you don't do this, you don't do that, you don't take out the garbage, you know, and then you, you know, you kill your wife.
00:59:26.000Now, it doesn't make it right, but a normal person can kill their wife.
00:59:31.000A normal person can kill their neighbor.
00:59:33.000You know, what if your neighbor, I don't know how that might happen.
00:59:36.000What if you get in a fistfight with your neighbor and you punch them and they hit their head on the curb and they die?
00:59:42.000That happened in my neighborhood when I was growing up.
00:59:48.000This girl who was in my grade, her older sister was like moving out with her boyfriend to get married and the dad didn't like it and so the dad came out of the house and punched the boyfriend.
00:59:59.000And he hit his head on the curb and died.
01:00:03.000Anyway, you know, these are like, these are episodes of violence which are not okay, but these are things that happen for a reason.
01:00:13.000And crimes that are personal are of a fundamentally different character than crimes that are impersonal.
01:00:20.000A mass killing is an impersonal crime.
01:00:23.000To go and get a gun and shoot strangers in a place that is not familiar to you, in a school you didn't go to, or in a neighborhood you didn't grow up in, Go and kill people you don't know.
01:01:29.000But going out and killing random people, it's a different kind of person, it's a different kind of killer, and it's a different kind of motivation.
01:01:36.000And if you're curious about why these things happen, you need to enter the psychology of what's really going on here.
01:01:43.000A mass killing against a group of strangers is an act of antisocial violence.
01:02:01.000These are people that hate maybe what society has done to them or hate their role in society.
01:02:07.000You know, there's all kinds of, when you look at all the different kinds of mass killers, sometimes they say it's political, sometimes they say they're evil, sometimes in the case of incel terrorists, it's because it's women broadly and, you know, those kinds of failures like Elliot Rodger.
01:02:27.000It's always against the society, it's always a case of alienation.
01:02:33.000And I think that when you ask the question, because we hear this all the time when these mass shootings occur, why here?
01:03:38.000And the people are coming from the society.
01:03:40.000And the society is producing these people because these are people that are really not being taken care of.
01:03:47.000These are people that are being allowed to slip through the cracks because.
01:03:51.000Society is defined obviously by social relations, by these sort of concentric circles, and or maybe could use a different model and say it's these overlapping networks, it's these bonds,
01:04:07.000it's the way that we derive our identity in relation to other people within your family, within your peer group, same aged peer group, within your profession, within your geographical proximity, within your community, all these kinds of things.
01:04:24.000And it's only people that are sort of falling through this network and not getting caught by any of it that are put.
01:04:30.000And not all of them do this, but this is a crisis across the board.
01:04:34.000The mass shooting is only one expression of the same problem.
01:04:38.000It's the same problem with people that are killing themselves in America.
01:04:42.000It's the same problem of overdoses in America.
01:04:45.000It's the same problem of all of these other pathological, antisocial behaviors.
01:04:53.000The mass shooting is only one expression.
01:04:56.000Very low frequency, relatively, expression of it.
01:05:00.000If you've got millions and millions of antisocial people, it's a fraction of a percentage that wind up this way, but it's that frequency of them which is creating a large number of mass shooters.
01:05:18.000These people are out there, and the guns are out there, and statistically speaking, there are enough of them who are smart enough and lucky enough that they're going to succeed in what they want to do.
01:05:31.000And to the extent that we can, we need to bring police and concealed carry into the picture so that we can mitigate the damage.
01:05:42.000But as far as how do you bring an end to it completely or drastically reduce the amount of times as things happen, you know, you can't clear every rooftop, you can't secure every parade and every public gathering of people everywhere in America, you can't prevent every person who is bad or might be bad from getting a gun forever.
01:06:03.000You know, those kinds of solutions statistically just aren't going to work.
01:06:07.000What are the odds that you're going to get a 100% rate of knowing everybody who is going to use a gun for bad reasons or may use a gun for bad reasons in the future?
01:06:17.000You're never going to get 100% of those people.
01:06:20.000You're never going to get 100% of people that are right now going to use a gun for the wrong reason or may in the course of their lifetime do it.
01:06:29.000And even then, they could get a gun from someplace where it's not sanctioned.
01:06:34.000So that's just, that's doomed to fail.
01:07:06.000Statistically, you're going to get 1%, 5%, 10% of those people are going to get those guns.
01:07:13.0001% to 10% are going to find the soft target, the vulnerability where there isn't a cop, the event with no police presence, the place at the event where the police can't see you.
01:07:39.000You know, even if you could, you couldn't get 99% coverage, but even if you could, it's that 1% that's the problem.
01:07:45.000And that's the one mass shooting, that's the one time where you get major collateral damage, and it's unstoppable.
01:07:55.000The real way that you could get a good percentage of these people to not do these things is to start at the very beginning.
01:08:03.000And if you had moms and dads raising their kids, and if you had kids being raised by their moms until they're five years old, if kids had siblings, If they had aunts and uncles, if they had grandparents, if they lived in multi generational households, if they went to a school and there was a concerted effort where the kids are in a community and there's community events and they celebrate holidays together and things like that,
01:08:30.000if they're reintegrated into the society after school, if there is a real community, the odds of anti social violence happening is drastically reduced.
01:08:42.000If there is a real society, if there's a pro social society, Community, antisocial violence would become exceedingly rare.
01:08:51.000You wouldn't eradicate it, but this is how you can reduce drastically the amount of violence that's happening.
01:08:58.000You combine that with the sensible gun restrictions, you combine that with concealed carry and police, and you have people in a real society, antisocial violence would cease.
01:09:16.000But that's the only way that you're going to even come close to solving these things.
01:09:20.000It is to shrink the pool of antisocial people by creating a society.
01:09:25.000It's the same problem across the board.
01:09:28.000Like I said, the mass killing is only a very specific kind of person.
01:09:37.000The antisocial person, depending on their personality, they may get addicted to drugs, they may shoot themselves, they may murder someone they know, they may become a sociopath and get really rich.
01:09:49.000I mean, there's lots of things that antisocial people do, extremely antisocial.
01:09:56.000And only somebody who's got something wrong with them and with a certain kind of disposition, a certain kind of upbringing, is going to go and do the worst antisocial act.
01:10:08.000But it's the fullest expression of that same sentiment.
01:10:12.000The problem is there are millions and millions of these people in the millennial and Z and alpha generation.
01:10:21.000And so if 1% of the antisocial people commit killings, If there's 10 million antisocial young people, well, you've got a problem.
01:10:36.000Whenever I see these mass shootings, you look at this guy, and the guy's got face tattoos, and he's a rapper, and it's like, where's this guy's parents?
01:11:27.000The question is, is that the kind of society that we want to live in?
01:11:32.000Forget about how do we prevent mass shootings.
01:11:35.000The question should really be are we in a society that people want to live in?
01:11:40.000Why are we creating a society that people want to go out and shoot each other and kill themselves?
01:11:45.000Isn't there something fundamentally wrong with the society if young people, instead of being imaginative and pious and zealous and all of that, Instead, they're going out and killing everyone and shooting themselves and going on painkillers.
01:12:34.000People are unhappy and they're antisocial and their needs are not being fulfilled by the society.
01:12:41.000That's the overarching problem, is that people's human needs are not being satisfied by the society.
01:12:49.000There's water, there's food, there's shelter, but there's really not much else, is there?
01:12:54.000There is not really much in the way of any other kind of satisfaction in the country, is there?
01:13:01.000There is not much for the aesthetic emotion, there is not much for The pious man or the warrior, there's not anything for the leader, the creative, the romantic, the lover.
01:13:56.000It does not adequately fulfill the needs of the people living within the society.
01:14:02.000And this is why people are leaving society.
01:14:05.000When you hear this stuff about go off the grid, leave society, this is not, I don't actually think this is going to be controversial because I know some people that do this.
01:14:16.000I think that this is less about prepping and practical, political consideration.
01:14:24.000I think that people like leaving society.
01:14:27.000And going on a farm and going somewhere else.
01:14:32.000It's really just a repudiation of society itself.
01:14:37.000Now, people could say, well, we're preparing, we're doing this because we want to raise our kids our own way.
01:14:43.000But ultimately, they're rejecting the society.
01:14:45.000They're saying, we'd rather go it alone because society, like the trade off that happens, exchanging certain things by living in society, driving in traffic, giving up your privacy, giving up some of your rights.
01:15:00.000For the things you get in return for society, the value proposition is no longer the same.
01:15:05.000And so people are saying, I'm done with society.
01:15:08.000I'm going to go move into where there is no society the mountains, the woods, an undeveloped part of the country, a farm, a homestead.
01:15:19.000I'm going to get my wife, have my kids, and go live on a homestead.
01:15:41.000That's the root of all of this craziness.
01:15:43.000It's the same reason why people do every other pathological behavior, of which there are a lot of them binge watching TV, experimenting, risk taking.
01:15:56.000It's all a symptom of a society that is truly failing.
01:16:00.000When I say failing, I don't just mean things are bad, I mean the society is not meeting the needs of the people.
01:16:26.000Meaning it is literally just coming apart.
01:16:28.000If the society is all the people, you know, like this in different ways, families, communities, businesses, all these different activities, if If society is an integration of people, we are seeing the disintegration, the disentangling on every level, and literally coming apart.
01:16:47.000And what will happen is that the society, the order will fall.
01:16:55.000The order will fall, and the society will be destroyed, and the conditions for society will be destroyed.
01:17:03.000And then a new society will form organically.
01:17:06.000And that process is going to be very painful if it is allowed to go forward.
01:17:11.000That process is going to be very violent and it's going to be very chaotic, and lots of people will die because this is a very complex and large society.
01:17:21.000And so the consequences of disorder will be catastrophic like nothing we've ever seen before.
01:17:27.000And then a new order will emerge and it will be not like it is now.
01:17:34.000And the one way that we could turn it around is to bring in a dictator to fix everything.
01:17:37.000That's, unfortunately, that's literally all that can be done.
01:19:24.000And they don't understand that you have to just be yourself.
01:19:27.000You have to just go out and be yourself.
01:19:30.000Because the minute that you start listening to other people, like, You know, they're never, there's always going to be people in negativity.
01:19:38.000They'll find something, and if they can't, they'll just make something up.
01:19:42.000So you really just have to be yourself.
01:24:52.000I think it's, you know, I think it's, I'm not against it, but I just don't like to do that stuff because it's just, it's dangerous, it's loud.
01:25:03.000Like, I just have no appetite for that.
01:25:05.000Some people like that and they're like, oh, I like that I almost blew up.
01:25:08.000I'm like, yeah, it's not really fun to me.
01:26:37.000Because the next woman who's going to give you attention, you are going to be so far up her asshole, you're going to be able to see you poking out of her mouth.1.00
01:32:28.000Maybe find another girlfriend or something, make a ton of money, get a hotter, younger girlfriend, and then join up with America First, you know, when you're in good shape.
01:36:38.000Judas insisted to me that he wasn't having sex with his girlfriend, but yet he would like race over there, like a three hour drive, race over there.
01:36:48.000I'm like, you know, something tells me he didn't race over there in the middle of a blizzard after he drove.
01:36:53.00020 hours on a three hour drive to her place just so that they could make out more, which is what he said they were doing.
01:37:36.000I think he's impotent because he didn't even use contraception and he was having sex apparently all the time.
01:37:44.000So, I think he was probably just impotent, would be my guess.
01:37:47.000I would guess, owing perhaps to the Klinefelter syndrome, which we speculate that he has, or just plain impotence, because he would say he pulled out.
01:37:58.000You know, he would say that, and not to get too graphic or whatever, but.
01:38:02.000You know, he was sexually active with 5 out of 10s for years and never used, he would always say he doesn't use contraceptives.
01:38:11.000So I think the guy's just impotent, would be based on, you know, that would be my inference based on what he told me about his sex life, based on his 5 out of 10 sex life.
01:42:45.000And he will probably annex everything east of the Dnieper River, create a land bridge to Crimea.
01:42:52.000And I think that is the extent of the territorial ambitions liberate Donbass and secure everything east of the Dnieper River, particularly the land bridge.
01:43:05.000Because if you look at what was happening in the region, Leading up to the invasion, the Ukrainian military was amassing their forces near Donbass and building up these defensive fortifications for eight years.
01:43:20.000And they were preparing artillery, they were shelling Donbass with artillery.
01:43:24.000And the goal of the Kiev government was to retake Donbass and Crimea eventually.
01:43:30.000And they had been preparing for that for eight years.
01:43:33.000And so everybody says, oh, they were going to try and take Kiev, but then they got rebuffed because of the unexpected.
01:43:43.000The unexpected might, or whatever word they keep using, the resistance from the Ukrainian armed forces, that is completely fake.
01:43:53.000The Ukrainians were counting on Russia using modern warfare tactics to go at their line, their fortifications, the civilian shields, the fortifications they carved out in the urban areas, and all of that.
01:44:11.000They were counting on Russia basically to run in.
01:44:14.000To massive resistance and impale themselves, which they didn't.
01:44:17.000What the Russians did is they opened up a front in Kiev to tie down the troops that were in Kiev.
01:44:23.000Meanwhile, they engaged the forces that had been fortified in Donbass.
01:44:29.000You see, but they opened up the front in Kiev so that the front line in Donbass could not be reinforced.
01:44:35.000So when they opened up that front in the northwest, they did that to tie down about 100,000 troops in that region so they couldn't immediately reinforce.
01:44:44.000And then what the Russians were doing, and this is according to Some of the military analysts is very methodically just destroying the Ukrainian military with artillery, primarily.
01:44:56.000And so, what they will do is they will send in drones and they will gather photographs and videos and sensor data.
01:45:04.000They will send it back to the Russians.
01:45:06.000They'll get their targets and then they'll just use the artillery and they'll just destroy the fortifications with artillery.
01:45:18.000They keep doing that until it's clear, and then they send in the tanks and the infantry to mop up, and then they repeat all over again.
01:45:25.000And so, what the strategy really is, as opposed to taking the capital and winning the war and taking the country, the real goal is to degrade and destroy the military, which is what Putin said on February 24th when he announced the invasion.
01:45:41.000He said, Our goal is to demilitarize Ukraine, meaning destroy their military.
01:45:47.000Half a million troops armed to the teeth by NATO.
01:46:23.000Russia's just killing these people, man.
01:46:26.000And they're saying in the European countries, they're saying that driving by yourself is helping Putin, and using too much heat is helping Putin.
01:46:37.000So it's going to be a cold winter without that natural gas and Russian energy.
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