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00:05:15.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
00:05:29.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:34.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
00:07:13.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:18.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:24.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:32.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:39.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:42.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:07:56.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:08:00.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:04.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:11.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:14.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:44.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:08:49.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:09:04.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:14.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who through an increasing amount of activism are really going to ensure the future and the success.
00:09:44.000America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
00:09:56.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
00:10:04.000But believe me, it's for their benefit.
00:10:07.000My message is that things have to change.
00:14:51.000Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
00:17:04.000Buy, and more importantly, hire Americans.
00:17:08.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
00:17:25.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:17:33.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:17:43.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
00:20:19.000I want you to- I'm sorry, Mr. Puentes.
00:20:21.000I should have supported Groyper War II. Years
00:26:18.000from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
00:31:59.000Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:32:10.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.
00:32:22.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
00:32:26.000For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.
00:32:36.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat.
00:32:44.000This is not simply another four-year election.
00:32:47.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government.
00:32:59.000The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration.
00:33:12.000And economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.
00:33:19.000The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.
00:33:30.000It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth.
00:33:39.000and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities This is a struggle for the survival of our nation And this will be our last chance to save it.
00:33:56.000This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
00:34:12.000You know it, they know it, I know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it.
00:34:18.000The thing that said take a look what happened These are people who work hard, but no longer have a voice Your voice
00:34:42.000They've been put on notice if you fuck around with us if you do something bad to us We are going to do things to you that have never been done before Don't sit yet, get it like this.
00:35:29.000Socialists, globalists, Marxists, communists who are attacking our civilization have no idea of the sleeping giant they have awoken.
00:35:42.000They cannot even begin to imagine the brave and righteous spirit they've unleashed in men and women.
00:35:49.000But they're going to find out the hard way.
00:37:29.000As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America
00:43:21.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:43:28.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:43:43.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:43:52.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that.
00:44:23.000Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, we're all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large.
00:59:01.000I'm sure you've heard about the stock market crash, specifically some of these major tech companies led by NVIDIA, which manufactures the chips and graphics cards that power the data centers that create the AI. And basically, the Chinese AI... It's better.
00:59:30.000Math problems, science problems, very high-level problems to determine the accuracy, efficiency of the program.
00:59:39.000And what we found in the past week is that DeepSeek performs better.
00:59:44.000Then any of the American AI models like ChatGPT, like Claude, any of the major American ChatGPT, the brand new Chinese DeepSeek R1 is outperforming them.
01:00:00.000It's not only outperforming them and getting a better score, but it's doing so with significantly less resources.
01:00:08.000It takes less energy, which means therefore costs less money.
01:00:13.000And they built it for cheaper, with far fewer personnel, and they made it free.
01:00:20.000So it's literally better in every way.
01:00:24.000ChatGPT, for example, if you want to use the best model, costs a lot of money every month.
01:00:32.000They spent billions of dollars on it, employed hundreds, thousands of personnel to build it.
01:00:51.000In the past week, it has sailed to the top of the Apple App Store.
01:00:56.000It is one of the top downloaded apps in the country.
01:00:59.000And it shows that maybe all of this investment going into AI is a bubble.
01:01:07.000And we've talked about this extensively over the past year, and we talked about it a little bit last night.
01:01:15.000Artificial intelligence is effectively our national strategy.
01:01:20.000They are heralding AI as a panacea for all of our problems.
01:01:26.000They believe that by creating the superior AI and in order to do that, by building the biggest supercomputer with the most chips and the most computing power, they believe we will create a machine that will literally solve all of our problems they believe we will create a machine that will literally solve all of our problems and We're going all in on accelerating the rate of development of artificial intelligence.
01:01:54.000And so this is driving, like we talked about yesterday, Energy policy, immigration policy, labor policy, foreign policy.
01:02:04.000Probably this is single-handedly or significantly responsible, if not single-handedly or mostly responsible for getting Trump elected.
01:02:14.000All this investment, all this money, data centers, nuclear reactors coming back online.
01:02:21.000And it seems like maybe they just don't know what they're doing with it.
01:02:59.000I want to talk about the geopolitical significance of China creating superior tech products because this is the second one, arguably the second one, maybe the second consumer-facing tech product in one of these advanced areas where China has simply beaten us, the first being TikTok.
01:04:04.000So on day one, Trump signs an executive order that says there's two genders, male and female.
01:04:11.000And all the trannies are coping and they're saying, oh, well, that means everyone's a female because in the earliest stage of development, shut the fuck up.
01:08:24.000But we're going to be doing it in a couple of days, so make sure to tune in.
01:08:28.000I'll make a post about it on X, but it should be interesting.
01:08:31.000For people that are in the know, this Milady thing is pretty big in the crypto space, and it's pretty big in this alt tech or little tech scene.
01:10:12.000But every executive order that he signed pertaining to the border, for the most part, on Monday, last week, they were executive orders that he had signed in his first term.
01:10:23.000And he had to re-sign them because they were undone in the first week of Biden's administration.
01:10:34.000So Trump did them, Biden took them away, Trump redid them, and surely a future Democratic administration will take them away.
01:10:46.000Withdrawing from the World Health Organization, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, migrant protection protocols, removing transgenders from the military.
01:10:56.000These are all things that were done in the first term, every single one.
01:15:06.000Michael D'Amino, who we talked about last week, who has replaced Brian Hook at the Department of Defense as a Middle East policy advisor to Pete Hegseth, to the administration.
01:15:19.000And D'Amino has been opposed to war with Iran, Abraham Accords, the war with the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
01:15:27.000And there has been a quiet but intense tug of war behind the scenes on his appointment, him and other people in the Department of Defense.
01:15:37.000And all the usual suspects, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Levin and others, are putting a lot of pressure on the administration to fire Domino.
01:15:48.000And other people like Tucker Carlson and Kurt Mills, who comes from the Koch brother, American restraint scene, American conservatism.
01:16:01.000And so it seems like there is a battle underway in the administration over the exact thing that I said would be a critical juncture.
01:16:10.000And that is whether we're going to have a hawkish stance towards Iran.
01:16:14.000Because we stand at a crossroads right now.
01:16:17.000After October 7th, after the Gaza War, With these two fragile ceasefire deals in place in Gaza and in Lebanon, and with Israel's expansion and now to the West Bank in Janine, there is a question.
01:16:32.000Will the war deepen and expand and continue?
01:16:35.000Will Netanyahu, in order to remain in power, fabricate a justification to continue the fighting in South Lebanon, Gaza, and create a provocation to attack Iran with airstrikes?
01:16:53.000Or will Trump lead the way and meet with the Iranian president and create a diplomatic solution to the regional struggle between Iran and Israel?
01:18:06.000If they develop one, that might be the last thing standing in the way of regime change in Iran.
01:18:12.000So it's either they will be destroyed and the Ayatollah and the Islamic regime overthrown, or they will create a new Iranian nuclear deal in the form of the JCPOA as the successor to the JCPOA in 2015. And again, it's either going to be led by Netanyahu provoking a war, or it will be led by Trump containing and restraining Israel and pursuing diplomacy independently with Iran.
01:18:41.000That is one of the major, major, major critical junctures.
01:18:47.000And it's like I said throughout the election, that was one of the big areas of contention.
01:18:53.000That is one of the big risks of Trump being elected with the support of the Israel lobby.
01:18:59.000That he would be led by the nose, by Netanyahu, by Adelson, by the usual suspects, into regime change, a confrontation, either willingly or unwillingly.
01:19:12.000So February 4th, that is the first meeting between Trump and Netanyahu.
01:19:16.000That will give us an idea of where things are headed.
01:19:21.000There's things on both sides that can make you optimistic or pessimistic.
01:19:27.000On the one side, you have some good personnel being hired in the DOD. You have Trump, according to some sources, saying that he wants to withdraw Americans from Syria.
01:19:39.000And he tried to do that in the first term.
01:19:42.000On the other hand, you have Pete Hegseth with a DOD security official with a KIPA. You have Marco Rubio saying that the Taliban is holding Americans hostage.
01:20:31.000Well, technically three, but usually they package it as one.
01:20:35.000There is one bill which the Senate can pass with a simple majority.
01:20:40.000Using the budget reconciliation progress, this is a provision that came into effect in the 1970s.
01:20:47.000It says a bill that increases revenue, decreases spending, or affects the debt ceiling.
01:20:54.000A bill that does any one of those three things can bypass the filibuster in the Senate.
01:20:59.000Normally, in order to force cloture and end the filibuster in the Senate, you need a supermajority of 60 votes.
01:21:06.000Almost nothing can pass the Senate without 60 votes, except for since 10 years ago, cabinet appointments and one time a year budget reconciliation.
01:21:19.000The Senate and the House passed identical budget bills out there.
01:21:23.000That's why they call it reconciliation, because they reconcile between the two chambers.
01:21:27.000And that sort of a bill can pass the Senate.
01:22:49.000Three, technically four in the Senate.
01:22:53.000And that is coming down the pike over the next couple of months.
01:22:56.000That will be the next major area where the rubber meets the road.
01:23:01.000It's easy to pass executive orders, and it's easy because they're unilateral.
01:23:07.000Trump can pass them, and the next president can undo them.
01:23:10.000But what's really going to matter, the issues where you will get resistance are in the realm of foreign policy with our closest ally, Israel, and in Congress.
01:23:22.000We're going to have to negotiate with these pieces of shit senators like Murkowski and Collins and Mitch McConnell over whether we can do mass deportations, whether Congress will strip the illegals of birthright citizenship, among many, many other things.
01:23:39.000And then a third area, which does not have a concrete date, but the question of legal immigration.
01:23:46.000Trump is in talks with Modi for him to visit the United States.
01:23:51.000And apparently there are negotiations happening behind the scenes.
01:23:55.000Trump is deporting 18,000 Indians in exchange for America protecting avenues for Indians to immigrate to the United States legally.
01:24:05.000Student visas, work visas, not a good deal.
01:24:09.000That will be another issue which will be coming up later.
01:24:12.000But those to me are some of the big issues that I talked about throughout the campaign.
01:24:18.000And if there are positive developments, I will be very pleasantly surprised.
01:24:23.000Those are areas where if Trump succeeds and stands up to the pressure from Israel, from Republicans, if he uses the bully pulpit, if they're organized, then I will consider this administration a surprising, remarkable success.
01:24:39.000But I am concerned about the pressure coming on those issues.
01:24:44.000So that's sort of my view right now, that day over day, because like I said, things are going pretty well.
01:24:51.000These executive orders are very ambitious and bold and aggressive, and they're more organized and a lot better than what I anticipated, especially considering the first administration was so was such a disaster, especially in the beginning.
01:25:06.000And I assumed that given the team that they had – Which is this Jason Miller and Susie Wiles and other people.
01:25:14.000I thought it was going to be the first two years, three years all over again from the first administration.
01:25:19.000But to their credit, they've been doing a good job.
01:25:21.000And we have to be, I said at the beginning of the year, I would be fair and objective.
01:25:26.000And I think they're doing a good job so far.
01:25:28.000But they haven't hit the real resistance yet.
01:27:37.000With the way things are going, I'll take that as a win.
01:27:40.000Because that is where the federal government was headed.
01:27:43.000Civil protections for transgenders, which means that it will eventually apply to businesses and federal contractors.
01:27:50.000And if the government is doing it, the government being the biggest employer, the biggest spender, That means that is how society will work outside of like Oklahoma and like, you know, North Dakota, right?
01:29:10.000That we have an executive order that will undoubtedly save children, save their lives from being irreparably, irreversibly ruined by these surgeries.
01:29:22.000That is something that concretely every day will save a multitude of lives.
01:30:15.000It says, quote, And many Democrats believe the strategy helped him win.
01:30:35.000But in the first eight days of his term, President Trump has signed three executive orders limiting transgender rights.
01:30:42.000The breadth of the areas they cover and starkness of language that appear to impugn the character of anyone whose gender identity does not match the sex on their birth certificate.
01:32:24.000Anyway, so that's what these people whose gender identity doesn't match what's on their birth certificate, as if like what's on the birth certificate is just like chosen at random.
01:32:36.000That's what they're calling them in the New York Times.
01:32:38.000In his first gender-related order, Mr. Trump instructed government agencies to ensure that federally funded institutions recognize people as girls, boys, men, or women based solely on immutable biological classification.
01:34:33.000Requiring the Bureau of Prisons to house transgender women in prisons designated for men and to stop providing prisoners with medical treatments related to gender transitions.
01:34:43.000On Monday, Mr. Trump directed the Pentagon to reevaluate whether transgender troops should be permitted to serve in the military.
01:34:52.000And on Tuesday evening, he issued an order taking steps to end gender transition medical treatments for anyone under the age of 19. Directing agencies to curtail puberty-suppressing medication, hormone therapy, and surgery.
01:35:11.000As far as I'm concerned, that's the most important one.
01:35:15.000Court challenges of the first two orders are already underway, and trans advocates said on Tuesday evening they would challenge the order on medical treatment as well.
01:35:25.000A lawyer with the ACLU said we will not allow this dangerous, sweeping, and unconstitutional order to stand.
01:35:33.000Transgender people account for less than 1% of the adult population, according to an estimate from the Williams Institute at UCLA. Polling shows that Americans have mixed views on the inclusion of transgender girls and women in sports and whether minors should be allowed to obtain medical treatment to transition.
01:35:59.000You either believe that sex is biological or you believe that it is constructed.
01:36:06.000Saying that there are men and women and nothing else is a statement that comes with a lot of implications, which many people are maybe not fully prepared to accept.
01:36:16.000It comes with implications not only for gender and for how society should be organized around gender.
01:36:24.000And by the way, that doesn't just exclude transgenders.
01:36:31.000It also has implications for sexuality itself.
01:36:35.000To say there are men and women the way that God created them is to basically support biological sex essentialism, which also would tend to support sexual essentialism, which is that if men and women are distinct and distinguished from one another by their sexual reproductive faculties,
01:37:02.000then they also must be distinct and distinguished in their roles in society and their roles in family formation. then they also must be distinct and distinguished in their If you say that men and women are men and women by the fact that they take the active and passive role, that they are fertilizing and that they have eggs.
01:37:22.000That one has testosterone and one has estrogen, that one is strong and one is nurturing, then congratulations.
01:37:29.000You have implied, you have taken it to its logical conclusion to not only abrogate the existence of transgenders and transgenderism, but also to abrogate homosexuality, also to support biological gender roles.
01:37:50.000If what is essential to who we are as human beings is our sexual characteristics, then so are our social functions.
01:38:00.000If a woman has to carry a child for nine months because that is her sexual function, then she cannot be in the military.
01:38:07.000Then she cannot necessarily be in the workforce and maybe ought not be in college because those are her prime childbearing years.
01:39:34.000And if there is something good about biological essentialism, immutable biological classification characteristics, if there is something good about it, It is good because it is true.
01:39:49.000Initially, the opposition to transgenderism started because people would not carry on with the delusion that a man changes his haircut and becomes a woman.
01:40:02.000People could not be party to the indignity of having to call men, women, and women, men.
01:40:14.000That we would have to participate in a lie, in an obvious delusion.
01:40:20.000It is undignified and offends the conscience of normal people.
01:40:26.000Forget about even religious or moral people, but even just normal people.
01:40:31.000If it is good, it is good because it is true.
01:40:36.000And the truth is that men are men and women are women.
01:40:40.000And the same is true, by the way, of those...
01:40:43.000And I guess that's where, you know, there are limits to how much I like this, because one of my critiques of conservatism, for as long as I've been doing the show, and it's not even original, many people have said this over the generations of intellectual development in conservatism.
01:41:11.000People have started to notice that the purpose of conservatism is not actually to oppose liberalism.
01:41:18.000It's not an opposition to liberalism, actually.
01:41:48.000But the purpose, it seems, of Republicans and conservatives is not to oppose Democrats and liberals.
01:41:55.000It is something like to moderate their excesses.
01:42:02.000And in a sense, that makes Republicans and conservatives liberals themselves, but just less radical.
01:42:09.000They might be the lower bound of liberalism, but they're not actually fundamentally different.
01:42:16.000They're not fundamentally resisting or in opposition.
01:42:20.000And so enter the transgender discourse.
01:42:24.000I always thought that transgenderism, or I should say conservatives opposing transgenderism, was a way of circumscribing The liberal advances on social issues.
01:42:38.000Over the past 20 or 30 years, feminism, race mixing, homosexuality, casual sex, pornography, prostitution, drugs, all of these things have become commonplace.
01:43:00.000Acceptance of homosexuality is probably at an all-time high a couple years ago.
01:43:04.000It seems to be receding a little bit, though.
01:43:07.000Acceptance of race mixing is at an all-time high.
01:43:10.000Casual sex and pornography hookups are rampant.
01:43:14.000We have probably a more immoral and licentious society with sex than we ever have.
01:43:23.000And it seems like curtailing transgenderism in these moderate ways It's the most that Republicans are willing to do to push back against these things.
01:43:35.000And that's where it's not like I oppose them, but I just don't think they go far enough.
01:43:41.000It's good, and it's a start, but I think that it only has value if we keep pushing.
01:43:48.000In other words, if Republicans are here to say, all right, guys, time out.
01:44:20.000If that's how it goes, then you can see how this is happening.
01:44:25.000This is a form of corralling traditional people into thinking that we have had a victory.
01:44:33.000This is imposing a speed limit on liberalism rather than rolling it back, rather than turning it back and moving in the opposite direction towards a moral society.
01:44:43.000And that's why we have to get into first principles like saying there are men and women.
01:44:47.000And it's important that you start there, but it has to go further to say, okay, there are men and women.
01:44:52.000Well, what's a man and what's a woman?
01:44:55.000Well, a man and a woman, they embody the active and passive principle, and they embody that in their sexual role, in their sexual faculty.
01:45:51.000Who are defined by their sexual faculty become fertile after they hit puberty, in their adolescence.
01:45:59.000That is when they should be getting married.
01:46:01.000That is when the children are the healthiest.
01:46:04.000That is when you have the best chance of having children.
01:46:10.000That is when the women are the most beautiful.
01:46:14.000That is when the men are the most strong and the most sexually active.
01:46:19.000That is when they should be getting married.
01:46:20.000Now, if we have a society where men and women are being told about this, there's this age of consent, and men and women have to be going out and getting sexual experience first, and pornography is available to men when they're very young, and if there are these pressures for men and women to go to college, all men and women to have a...
01:46:45.00022-year education, regardless of their aptitude, regardless of their IQ, and for women to be participating in that as well, it's creating the fertility crisis.
01:46:57.000That's why we're not having children, because there are all these other considerations, because there's the consideration of the market, of equality, of human resources, of civil rights, all these other things.
01:47:11.000And so we've created a society that is conducive to A system, a political and economic system, but not to the biological reality.
01:47:23.000And so if we can say there are men and women and if we are to say that transgenders are people that are deeply confused and so we shouldn't have them in the military and society should not be accommodating them in every way and we should not impose these delusions on children causing irreparable harm, we have to take it a step further.
01:47:43.000And I always thought that was a valid critique.
01:47:46.000When the gay marriage debate was raging, they would say, well, what about divorce for heterosexuals?
01:47:54.000What about the fact that there's casual sex?
01:47:57.000And in principle, you either have licit moral sexuality within marriage or anything goes.
01:48:12.000And I suppose something that's arbitrary and in favor of what's normative, it's better than a free-for-all, but there is no substitute for moral sexuality.
01:48:20.000So it's good, but like everything else, it's not enough unless it fundamentally changes society.
01:48:43.000For 30 years, millions and millions of people came in legally, illegally.
01:48:47.000And after it got so overwhelming that even the most liberal people said it is just logistically impossible to absorb these people, then they said, okay, we'll take a temporary pause.
01:49:01.000And we'll deport a moderate amount of people.
01:49:03.000It's like, okay, but are we ever going to get a lot of them out?
01:49:06.000Are we ever going to stop taking people ever?
01:49:13.000And I feel like the same is true as sexuality.
01:49:15.000We had 20 or 30 years of a free-for-all.
01:49:18.000Think about the generational ripple effect of no-fault divorce, feminism, abortion, pornography, all of it.
01:49:26.000Think about how many broken lives people have been shattered by this.
01:49:30.000Think about all the, they say half of the...
01:49:33.000Married people get divorced now, but it's difficult to track these statistics for statistical reasons, which we could get into.
01:49:40.000But they estimate it's about 50% of married couples get divorced.
01:49:45.000Think about all of the children who are deeply messed up because they grew up in a broken home.
01:49:50.000It causes irreparable harm psychologically for a child to experience that really at any age, whether they're very young, whether they're an adolescent.
01:52:30.000We have to have the truth in the charity.
01:52:32.000It's not enough to have mercy, you know, as Ratzinger said, it's not enough to have charity and mercy.
01:52:39.000It is just sentiment without the truth, without the Christ, without the law.
01:52:48.000And that's the element which I think might be missing.
01:52:51.000This is sort of a – what I get the sense of when I see the transgender stuff coming from Republicans is it almost seems like a meme more than anything because many of these Republicans, I mean, they associate with transgenders.
01:53:08.000Richard Hanania is regularly appearing on transgender podcasts.
01:53:13.000Curtis Yarvin had a transgender person get married in his home.
01:53:18.000Curtis Yarvin, who everybody loves, had a transgender wedding hosted in his home.
01:53:26.000And if you go to Sovereign House, you'll find a dozen transgender groupies there.
01:53:31.000And if you go to Man's World magazine, you'll see photo shoots from a transgender fashion show.
01:53:38.000And if you went to their party in Austin, it was sponsored by Passage Press, but they didn't want their name on it because they knew the transgenders would be there and they didn't want to get the heat from people like me.
01:53:51.000So, and by the way, the same goes for J.D. Vance.
01:53:54.000Have you read what J.D. Vance said about transgenders?
01:53:58.000He wrote, I don't know, about five or seven years ago, back when he was a big fan of Barack Obama, J.D. Vance wrote that he, Cried with his transgender friend and they cried together about the treatment that the transgender people were getting.
01:54:45.000And many of them, like I said, roll with transgenders regularly.
01:54:50.000So, I think that as Catholics, we have to be cautious.
01:54:54.000I don't know, although they are delivering these things, I think, for the base.
01:54:58.000And like I said, I think these are valid reasons for people to vote Republican, and they're good.
01:55:02.000And they're good strictly because it will save lives.
01:55:06.000The idea that a child in the United States would have their genitals removed or not go through puberty, I mean, that is just by definition satanic.
01:55:16.000I mean, this is just like demons eating your fucking kids.
01:55:46.000And that this is happening to children, it's like you wonder why God hasn't destroyed this country with a meteor by now.
01:55:54.000I suppose he sent Trump instead by sparing his life because whoever is going to get rid of that, I support it.
01:56:02.000But I think that we have to take a look and say, now that we've gotten rid of the worst of the worst, that is probably the most heinous and abominable thing that was happening in the country between abortion and that.
01:56:14.000Why don't we take a step in another direction and say, is it really that much less abominable?
01:56:20.000I mean, it is, but how much less abominable?
01:56:22.000To subject children to divorce and porn.
01:57:20.000And the reason that it has been so disruptive in getting headlines is because it is objectively superior to anything that America has made.
01:57:29.000Like I said at the top of the show, it has sailed to the top of the Apple App Store charts because it is free, unlike ChatGPT.
01:57:38.000And unlike many of the other competitors in America, the other competitors aren't even in the top 200 on the App Store.
01:57:45.000So it is one of the most popular AI models in the world today, if not the most popular, and it is free.
01:57:53.000It is smarter and better and more efficient.
01:57:56.000It was cheaper to develop and required fewer personnel and less time, and it runs on less energy.
01:58:04.000And what this has signaled in a nutshell is that China is winning the artificial intelligence race.
01:58:11.000This was, like Vivek said, I think actually poignantly, This was the Sputnik moment.
01:58:19.000We are right now engaged in a great power competition with China, very similar to the Cold War.
01:58:25.000In fact, many of the different domains of the Cold War are now once again a domain for great power competition.
01:58:33.000For 30 years, there was no competition in the realm of space, in the realm of advanced technology, military hardware, anything like that.
01:59:09.000Russia has developed a significant hypersonic missile capability.
01:59:14.000The reason this is such a destabilizing development is because this has made our anti-ballistic missile systems irrelevant.
01:59:27.000We withdrew from the ABM Treaty 25-30 years ago under George W. Bush.
01:59:34.000To build anti-ballistic missile systems that would theoretically create a shield or an early warning about ICBMs, ballistic missiles launched by Russia.
01:59:44.000Now that their missiles are so fast, now that they create a plasma field around the warhead.
01:59:55.000That will bypass any anti-missile system that we have, and it makes all of that redundant.
02:00:01.000This is why Trump is now talking about an American Iron Dome in the realm of artificial intelligence, which is a security as well as a commercial domain of competition.
02:00:13.000Now China has beaten us on AI, and the question is, what are we doing?
02:00:18.000Because like I said at the top of the show, the United States is all in on AI. Under the influence of a new technological oligarchy, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, Sean McGuire, Peter Thiel, the United States has embraced a techno-optimist vision.
02:00:40.000They call it effective accelerationism.
02:00:43.000And the goal is to accelerate technology, specifically artificial intelligence, and the rate of progress on artificial intelligence as much as possible.
02:00:55.000So that we could solve all of the impending problems, such as energy scarcity, that we are reaching peak oil, such as some of our competence problems, that global IQ and IQ in the United States is going down.
02:01:14.000ecological and climate problems, that there may be a shortage of resources, that there is going to be pollution that is doing irreversible damage, that the climate is changing.
02:01:27.000I think not as much as a byproduct of human activity as people say, but it's a part of it.
02:01:35.000So they believe that AI is going to – and this is what they say.
02:01:57.000The venture capital behind the AI companies and the AI companies themselves are all in on Donald Trump.
02:02:06.000Because Donald Trump is going to roll back the safety regulations on AI. Donald Trump is going to...
02:02:13.000Open up energy so that we can fuel the data centers that power AI and Donald Trump will import the cheap labor that will work on AI. In order to develop AI we are being told by these oligarchs that we need to build bigger computers.
02:02:36.000And we need as many of them as possible.
02:02:38.000And if we build supercomputers with more computation, with more chips, more cards, then we're going to get better AI. And that requires massive investment.
02:02:48.000And we need to build data centers with nuclear reactors.
02:02:51.000And that is the conventional thinking.
02:02:55.000And basically, our economy has been propped up by these assumptions for the past few years.
02:03:02.000With these breakthrough developments in artificial intelligence, everybody is all in on AI, which is supposed to bring about a fifth industrial revolution and transform everything.
02:03:14.000And again, the assumption was huge investment, more compute, more chips, more investment, more everything to build a bigger computer, to achieve an AGI, to achieve recursive self-learning.
02:03:32.000So that we could get a super intelligence that will unlock the secrets of the universe and make the United States the final superpower.
02:03:53.000Because it can improve itself, it will improve itself faster than man was able to create it in the first place.
02:04:00.000At an exponential rate, and it will become smarter than all people put together.
02:04:06.000And then, the country that unlocks the super intelligence, who can wield it, who harnesses it, who holds the keys, or the on and off button, that country will own the future.
02:04:20.000Until the next epochal transformation, if there is one.
02:04:51.000And it's better in every way than everything we have.
02:04:55.000All the optimism, all the hype, all the talk from the gay Jews in Silicon Valley, from Sam Altman, from Jacob Hellberg, because that's who's pushing it.
02:05:05.000Jacob, excuse me, Jacob Hellberg, who is the right-hand man for Palantir.
02:05:14.000Jacob Hellberg, who was at these tech companies, who is married to Keith Raboy.
02:05:24.000Jacob Helberg was in Trump's ear because he was the first donor in March of 2024 from Silicon Valley to max out the contribution to the Joint Fundraising Committee.
02:05:36.000Helberg was in Trump's ear in the beginning.
02:05:39.000And then David Sachs, friend of J.D. Vance, who is now the AI czar.
02:05:44.000They were in Trump's ear telling him, we need to drill to power AI. We need the immigrants to power AI. AI will drive the investment and they will fix all our problems and they will drive the future.
02:06:45.000It was the fastest growing social media in the United States, the fastest social media to accumulate a billion active users, vastly outpacing Instagram, YouTube, any product developed by an American company.
02:07:02.000It was popular organically and it was owned in China.
02:07:10.000It had a faster rate of adoption because it was better.
02:07:14.000Their proprietary algorithm, their software, was better than anything that Facebook or Instagram, Meta, Alphabet, it was Google, it was better than anything that any of them had developed.
02:08:00.000So, first, it was the race for social media and data.
02:08:06.000Social media was really in the business of data.
02:08:11.000Why is Facebook paying to host your inane posts and photos?
02:08:17.000Why is Instagram paying to host all of that?
02:08:20.000Because they were harnessing your data.
02:08:22.000They were harnessing your device information, your tastes, habits, geolocation, all of your information.
02:08:29.000Social media was in the business of big data, metadata, and TikTok won.
02:08:37.000And that's why they're getting the data, and that's why they had to be banned.
02:08:41.000Now, now that they're taking the data and putting it into artificial intelligence, you see?
02:08:47.000Now that they're taking the data and putting it into these language models to train the AI to create the supercomputer, to create the superintelligence, now China's winning that too.
02:09:00.000China has a better AI model, cheaper...
02:09:04.000More efficient and smarter than anything that America has.
02:09:09.000And here are now the existential questions.
02:09:13.000So America has been the leader, was the leader at the end of the Cold War, by far.
02:09:19.000They describe the United States and its preeminent position in the world as a hyper-power, as a unipole.
02:10:52.000Again, they're not natural allies, but they have complementary roles and they have been driven together by the United States.
02:11:01.000We are now in a state of cold war in a couple of hot spots, a couple of geopolitical flashpoints in Syria, in the Caucasus, obviously in Ukraine and Taiwan and West Africa, in South and Central America.
02:11:19.000It is a war which is becoming more intense.
02:12:01.000And there has been so much said ideologically about what China represents, which is a new ideological battle.
02:12:09.000They said that China represents authoritarianism and...
02:12:14.000And in some way fascism, they're saying it's communism, it's a form of fascism.
02:12:22.000They are saying that they are pushing an alternative system to liberal democracy, that the United States is spreading human rights, liberalism, democracy against autocratic rule by the Russian dictator and the Chinese communist surveillance state.
02:12:41.000And for all the talk, all the doubts, all of the overconfidence, the hubris, all of this loaded language, it seems that they are winning.
02:12:52.000In some ways, they are winning in certain domains where this competition is taking place.
02:13:00.000And like I said, missiles is one area which we've talked about on the show.
02:13:05.000And another one now is in these industries of the future, like artificial intelligence, which are the most important, or some of these softwares.
02:13:15.000And what does it say about the American system if it is losing to China?
02:13:33.000Well, democracy gave us the gay Jew Sam Altman and Sam Bankman Freed, these degenerate, faker, I mean, these guys are snake oil salesmen and basically criminals.
02:13:47.000Our democracy, our open society, this system gave us scammers.
02:13:56.000Gave us these immigrants that are really experts at marketing, and they're experts at selling, and they're experts at raising capital, but they're not actually at every level.
02:14:08.000Zuckerberg and Facebook and Instagram, for all the hype and all the talk, they got trounced.
02:16:25.000And look, I don't want America to lose.
02:16:30.000But this is a situation where China beating us in the great power competition and Russia beating us in a couple of different domains, it should force us to reflect.
02:16:44.000And here is something that I've thought about a lot.
02:16:47.000This is something that they're thinking about too.
02:16:49.000And when I say they, I mean people like Peter Thiel.
02:16:53.000Many of the people behind Trump, like Peter Thiel in particular, they're all in on the war with China.
02:16:59.000That is the one thing they all agree on.
02:17:03.000All of Trump's cabinet officials, Bannon, Thiel, they're all China hawks.
02:17:07.000And I think one reason why is because they believe...
02:17:11.000That a great power competition will energize America.
02:17:15.000It will awaken the spirit of the country.
02:17:18.000They believe that a lack of, and I think this is the case, they believe that a lack of competition and conflict has made us complacent and has killed our energy.
02:17:29.000And they think that if we are engaging China, and if it is a real battle, that we're going to wake up and rise to the occasion.
02:20:11.000Vivek Ramaswamy, he just got done browbeating white people for being lazy.
02:20:17.000These Indians are coming into our country and telling us, you're lazy, you're lazy, you're having too many sleepovers, you need to work harder to compete with us.
02:20:26.000Our new overlords, they're buying up all the new construction.
02:21:08.000So I think that really, in order for America to be great, in order to compete with China, we have to first figure out the reason to shake us out of the...
02:22:55.000That is what has caused the market correction is that China came in and ate our lunch yet again on something that was supposed to be the machine of the future.
02:23:08.000But I think the bigger problem is when we look inside, we're not going to like what we find.
02:23:13.000When there is a self-reflection about our system, and think about it, to me what is so rich about this is that everybody right now that is faking optimism, everybody that is saying, rah, rah, rah, it's okay guys, it's morning in America, I don't believe that for a second.
02:23:34.000And a lot of people say, well, that's the problem, man.
02:23:37.000If you don't just believe, then it's not going to happen.
02:23:40.000It's not going to happen for very deep and profound reasons, not because I'm being a negative Nelly.
02:23:47.000We are being told right now by Trump and by his Silicon Valley backers, Sean McGuire at Sequoia, Mark Andreessen at A16Z, Elon Musk at Tesla and SpaceX, among others.
02:24:02.000We're being told by all these people, guys, the future's bright.
02:24:07.000We need reasons to be excited about the future, man.
02:24:41.000The one thing that we could get behind is technological progress.
02:24:46.000And that's going to save our country and that's going to lift our spirits.
02:24:49.000And we're in this competition with China.
02:24:52.000And one week in, one week in, all of our hopes placed on this machine.
02:25:00.000This machine will save us from the lack of religion, from the lack of race, family, belonging, society, beauty, art, goodness, decency, conscience.
02:25:19.000From having to deal with any of that, that we've invested trillions of dollars, it's going to save our economy just with the investment alone.
02:27:53.000So who's going to want to go and get together with a bunch of immigrants and Indians and Jews who are all fucking gay atheists and code a computer so that, like, what?
02:28:46.000But to get excited about the future, we got to think about getting on a rocket ship and going to live underground on a barren wasteland that the air is poisoned to breathe.
02:28:55.000And we're going to live underground indoors.
02:28:59.000We're going to live indoors and fabricate food and lab-grown meat.
02:30:07.000The Chinese have a deep connection with who they are, a deep connection with perennial principles about what it is to be human and their tradition and their identity.
02:30:19.000There's a coherent sense of self within society.
02:30:24.000They seem not to be as alienated as we are.
02:30:28.000And maybe that's for genetic reasons and cultural reasons, but it's also just true.
02:30:33.000That there is less individualism and then less of a sense of alienation.
02:30:38.000There's a sense of being a part of a coherent whole, which is not just horizontal but vertical, connected to the past and future, but also connected to everybody else.
02:30:47.000And what connection do we have with anybody, I mean, literally in our own fucking neighborhood?
02:30:54.000Maybe that doesn't go for our traditional Catholics, but for your average person.
02:30:59.000What connection do people have, even...
02:31:01.000In the most intimate setting between two individuals in this country or between their parents and children.
02:31:09.000And so there's just this lack of unity, identity, humanity, and that is the black hole at the center of this society that's eating everything.
02:31:19.000And people think that we're going to get a Sam Bankman Freed and a fucking Sam Altman and we're going to get an Elon Musk.
02:31:28.000To make some sort of machine that's going to fix it, and we can't even do that.
02:31:35.000And that was supposed to inspire all of us to fix ourselves and our country.
02:32:57.000To me, that's the deep existential problem because I was thinking about it.
02:33:02.000I said that in theory, this should have been, would have been, and people think it's going to be the thing that shakes us from our slumber, wakes us from our slumber.
02:33:15.000This is going to awaken the energies of Americans and shake us from our terminal apathy.
02:35:16.000And by the way, one reason why I'm a big believer in the Catholic Church, or one reason how you know the Catholic Church is holy is that it's against AI. And the Catholic Church came out with a document today saying that the shadow of death Follows artificial intelligence.
02:35:40.000And the Catholic Church has been speaking on this for a long time.
02:35:44.000Even Pope Francis, who everybody hates.
02:35:47.000Pope Francis, who idiot chuds, say, the Pope's a communist.
02:42:26.000Peter Thiel picked him up and brought him into venture capital and then gave him $15 million in a Trump endorsement to become a U.S. Senator.
02:46:45.000Hello, that's obviously the difference.
02:46:49.000If we were a tiny island in the desert with unlimited money, we could probably make a lot of things happen, but we're not.
02:46:57.000If we were a tiny island in the middle of the desert with unlimited money and a small population, we could really do a lot of things, but we're not that.
02:47:09.000I mean, the Emirates isn't even really a country, strictly speaking.
02:47:15.000You know, in the Middle East, and it's not to say, look, they have sovereignty, they have a state, they're a competitive regional state, regional power.
02:47:28.000But the idea that they have nationhood, they really don't.
02:52:23.000Trump was signing executive orders last week and he said, I support H-1Bs like I bring in the best waiters and the best maitre d's and I bring in all, I hire H-1Bs and it's great and I'm on both sides and I think we need great people coming in.
02:52:55.000here for a good while but now I get it yeah Christine Weston Chandler sent five dollars daughters in bed GF working all night reheated Applebee's leftovers almost ready for dinner freshly smoked pot cigarette and a cold brewski in the fridge that has my name all over it yup I'm ready for America first well done Well done, sir.
02:53:39.000It's getting to a point, like a bunch of people are just arrested because I guess they entrapped the wrong guy or something and beat him up in, I think it was Boston or something.
02:53:50.000But I think it's one of those things where people try to appear tough and edgy by taking the safest position ever.
02:55:57.000Please unblock me on X. We can collaborate.
02:55:59.000I'll create merch under your brand and give you a slice of my audience.
02:56:01.000let's push our differences aside and we can be unstoppable together first of all i don't know who you are i don't know what jew face is second of all why is that a good deal for me i make my own merch why would i oh you're gonna give me a cut of my merch i have fucking merch a different i and i don't know who you are so Let's put our difference...
02:56:27.000I have a problem with you, but I'll get over it and sell your merch.
03:00:36.000Don't you think J.D. Vance's I Just Don't Care line sets the precedent for our foreign allies to not help us when it comes to counterinsurgency and future wars?
03:00:41.000It feels like one of the quiet parts we shouldn't say out loud while others are watching.
03:03:24.000I got Brett Stevens' America in Retreat from my father for Christmas in like 2015. Brett Stevens is like a neocon, total Jewish neocon, but I read it.
03:03:36.000And I read Unthinkable by Kenneth Pollack, which is about Iran's nuclear program.
03:12:10.000And, you know, if you're like a blue-collar person and you organically smoke cigarettes because you hate your life, fine, you know, based.
03:12:18.000If you're like a machinist or like a blue-collar guy and like you live in an apartment, you're like, dude, fuck this, you know, fine.
03:12:26.000But if you're like, if you like live in New York and you're like a right-wing internet guy and you think you're like cool for smoking cigarettes, you're just a fag, okay?
03:15:52.000According to Financial Times, Trump wants him to deal with Iran diplomacy and the same people attacking Mike Domino are calling him an agent of Qatar slash Iran because of the ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.
03:15:58.000Yeah, I've heard that, but who knows if that's real.
03:22:14.000The Shanghai factory guarantees X amount of cars produced, but every car they produce over the amount agreed upon would be bonus money for China.
03:22:19.000Well, the factory completely blew the numbers out of the water.
03:22:24.000It's almost as if it's something innate in the Chinese spirit that lets them play the underdogs so well and then explode onto the world stage with their true potential.
03:22:29.000Similar to how Jays have chutzpah or Americans are pioneers.
03:22:31.000It's definitely something to be aware of anticipating China's next moves.
03:25:01.000But yeah, I had a dream that I was like, I was like looking for something and there were people around me and I went through this door and closed it behind me and then I turned around and it was like, and it was free.
03:25:14.000And in the dream, I was eating these pastries and I looked up and there was a camera.
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