00:01:12.000But Israel practically went to war against Syria yesterday over the weekend, and nobody's talking about it.
00:01:20.000I don't know, maybe they're talking about it.
00:01:21.000I don't watch television, but as far as I'm concerned, if Iran had done anything like Israel did over the weekend, if Russia did anything like Israel did, if China, if Syria, Iraq, if any country in the world conducted a provocation like Israel did over the weekend, you wouldn't hear the end of it.
00:01:41.000We'd be talking about it for two weeks.
00:01:43.000So we're going to get into that and what that means.
00:01:47.000Not only for the world, but for the world order, what that means for the system of nations and nation states, because I really think what's going on in Syria is a game changer for human history.
00:02:02.000Of course, there is the Trump budget, which I think we'll tackle first.
00:02:06.000Go into what's in Donald Trump's proposed budget for 2018, if it's a good thing, if it's a bad thing, if it's going to pass, and all of that.
00:02:18.000The portraits, folks, what was going on with those portraits today?
00:02:23.000President Obama was at some gala or something with his wife, and they unveiled these big portraits of him and his wife you know, the president and the former first lady.
00:04:35.000And then on top of that, not only were the portraits kind of silly, not only was the Barack Obama one goofy, not only was the Michelle Obama one, you know, just ridiculous, then there was the fact that he goes up there and he's talking about the portraits and he called his wife hot.
00:04:50.000He said, It captures the charm and the intelligence and the hotness of my wife.
00:04:56.000And I thought, you know, just when you think this guy couldn't disappoint you anymore, he does it again.
00:05:06.000The guy's got no respect for the office, no dignity for the office.
00:05:09.000He doesn't even hold it anymore, and he's still tarnishing it.
00:05:13.000And then, on top of that, if that, maybe you don't agree with that, but the person who painted the portrait for Barack Obama that was commissioned to do this portrait, he has painted a number of times, not just once, which would be bad enough, but a number of times he's painted a picture of black women chopping the heads off of white children.
00:05:35.000So, the person that paints the Barack Obama picture, he paints at least two times these big pictures of the black queen chopping off the heads of white kids.
00:05:57.000Or would we hear about that until kingdom come?
00:06:02.000We would hear about that until the sun exploded, until the earth exploded.
00:06:07.000Ceased spinning, we would be hearing about it.
00:06:10.000And God forbid it even approached something like that.
00:06:12.000But Barack Obama, a presidential portrait commissioned by a guy who, yeah, you know, casually paints white kids, you know, racial, like ethnic crimes against white people.
00:06:45.000But for starters, we got to get into the budget here.
00:06:48.000And I'm going to whip up our document.
00:06:49.000And what exactly is in the Trump budget?
00:06:52.000We finally committed to the budgetary process.
00:06:56.000We've been doing these kind of monthly stopgap measures for a long time, with two exceptions.
00:07:02.000We've been doing the month by month government shutdown to government shutdown since 2010.
00:07:08.000With only two exceptions, in 2015 and in 2016, you had a normal budget passed for the fiscal year.
00:07:15.000So on March 23rd, as we talked about last week, the money runs out again, and we have to commission, or rather, we have to draft, we have to write, and then the Congress has to pass, and the president has to sign a budget into law by March 23rd for the entire fiscal year, and that will expire on September 30th.
00:07:36.000So President Trump put forth his budget proposal.
00:08:04.000That's a trillion dollars more than we have.
00:08:07.000And so, it's a trillion dollar deficit, which means that at the end of the year, a trillion dollars is tacked onto the debt, which is already something like $21 trillion or approaching $21 trillion.
00:08:19.000So, that's probably the most notable thing about President Trump's budget is that unlike previous attempts by Paul Ryan or presidential candidates, even President Trump, who kind of promised this, he wasn't as strong on the fiscal conservatism as, say, Rand Paul.
00:08:33.000Or Ted Cruz, but President Trump did promise cutting deficits, getting spending under control.
00:08:39.000It looks like they've kind of abandoned that.
00:08:41.000If they're serious about getting this budget passed, they've basically abandoned that because this will be a trillion dollar deficit.
00:08:49.000And those are numbers we haven't seen since the recession, those are numbers we haven't seen since 2008.
00:08:56.000We have a historic military budget, the biggest military budget in American history, if it's passed, $686 billion, up $80 billion from last year.
00:09:08.000And they say they need this to deter threats from Russia and China.
00:09:13.000$18 billion for a wall, as well as 2,000 ICE agents, 750 border patrol, and 75 judges to expedite the immigration process.
00:09:26.000$17 billion to combat the opioid epidemic.
00:09:30.000And these are the major spending pieces.
00:09:33.000He also unveiled the infrastructure plan earlier this week.
00:09:36.000That's a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package, but I believe it's only $500 billion.
00:11:24.000And that's why I'm not too concerned about the fact that this is out of control spending because we don't really know what it's going to look like in the end.
00:11:33.000And, you know, you put everything you want on your wish list.
00:11:35.000When I give people my book wish list, I put on 150 books with the expectation, you know, there's going to be five or six or whatever.
00:11:43.000And so if this is a wish list, if this is a $4.4 trillion wish list, that's, you know, we want this much military and this much immigration, and actually there has to be compromises and maybe there's some cuts and maybe it's not totally that.
00:11:56.000You know, there's not so much to worry about.
00:12:12.000I think President Trump has four years, and we have to work with the Trump economy, I think, before we make significant cuts in the sense that the things that we're beefing up are things that need to happen.
00:12:24.000Infrastructure needs to happen, not just for safety, not just for defense in a lot of ways.
00:12:28.000If you're looking at 5G, Telecommunications, roads, a lot of it is national security.
00:12:35.000You know, when we built the highways, people think that was a big infrastructure thing.
00:13:06.000I know a lot of alt right people are skeptical about this.
00:13:10.000They don't understand why we have to spend so much on the military.
00:13:13.000They say, you know, we're winding down our operations in Iraq.
00:13:17.000We're increasing them a little bit in Afghanistan, but we're making them more efficient.
00:13:21.000What happened to bringing the troops home and so on?
00:13:23.000You know, look, the way it is right now in terms of the global financial system, in terms of the global political system, the global world order, it's built on the back of the American military.
00:14:05.000You may think we have no business in the Pacific.
00:14:07.000But again, That is a longer term strategic readjustment, not something that's going to take place in a very short period of time.
00:14:14.000So, in the short term, it makes sense that we're beefing up our defense so that we can continue to be respected in the world, so that we can continue to have our commitments and our strength respected.
00:14:27.000You understand that even if we don't necessarily want to be in these different theaters of the world, if we were to withdraw, if we were to not have the money to back up our word, not have the money to back up these pre existing commitments, Well, that's a bad thing no matter how you slice it.
00:14:42.000Even if you don't want us in Estonia, even if you don't want us in Japan or South Korea, if we don't have the money to back up what we've already committed to, well, then we look weak.
00:14:53.000And then it ends up being more costly in the long run because then we get our power contested in all kinds of regions in the world and all kinds of places.
00:15:01.000Our enemies are emboldened, not just Russia and China, our great power adversaries, but also non state actors like terrorists, like drug cartels, many other places.
00:15:11.000So, You know, this is something that is, again, it's necessary.
00:15:14.000The military spending, I'm a big believer in military spending, even if you don't always use it.
00:15:20.000I think it's actually more cost effective to have a big military than it is to have multiple wars going on.
00:15:26.000You know, I would rather have the biggest military in the world by far, and maybe you throw around some Tomahawk missiles, maybe you throw around some special forces, but you don't have to commit to any wars.
00:16:33.000The problem with our deficit is systemic not only to the budgetary process, but also to trade, to monetary policy, and to fiscal policy.
00:16:42.000And until we get all these things in order, until we get entitlement spending under control, until we get our monetary program under control, we exercise some monetary restraint with our currency, until we get a trade policy that favors.
00:16:57.000American job growth and American economic growth, it's kind of, you know, who are we kidding?
00:17:03.000We're going to make an $80 billion cut to defense, and that's somehow going to solve a trillion dollar shortage in money?
00:17:47.000I think this is a good starting point because these are all things that we need money for.
00:17:52.000You know, and if we get everything, that'll be good.
00:17:54.000And the cuts will have to come later once we get more revenue from the job growth and the economic growth.
00:17:59.000If you're optimistic like the Republicans are and like I am about the future of the country economically, in terms of if we have robust 3% GDP growth for the next 10 years because we're not being choked by regulations and taxes and corporate taxes and so on, you will get the necessary amount of revenue to offset the new spending.
00:18:21.000And that's the way that we correct for the budget.
00:22:36.000And even Israeli media is having trouble coming up with a reason for why an Iranian drone, why a single Iranian drone would violate Israeli airspace.
00:22:47.000So, you know, if you go on Haaretz, if you go on the Israel Times, the Jerusalem Post, they write that, you know, well, we believe that the Iranian drone was shot down over Israeli airspace.
00:23:10.000I don't think it really matters in the end because what has happened has happened.
00:23:14.000But that's what the Iranians and the Syrians claim.
00:23:16.000They're already using it as a propaganda victory because they say now that Russia has basically threatened Israel, or not threatened, but Russia and Iran have basically communicated to Israel that any more activity in Syria, airstrikes or otherwise, would be a dramatic escalation.
00:23:35.000And so Iran and Syria are now taunting Israel and basically saying, you can't do any airstrikes in Syria.
00:23:44.000And of course, Israel can at the risk of severely escalating the conflict, potentially with Russia, but definitely with Iran, in a way that they might not want to.
00:23:54.000Of course, the reason that they risk it is because they don't want to have an Iranian military presence on Israel's border.
00:24:30.000And so, the reason that Israel is willing to risk a confrontation with Iran, the reason that Israel is flicking matches into this highly volatile situation is because Iran is all the way over here.
00:24:45.000Iran is the last remaining power in the region which has not been completely destroyed.
00:24:51.000By the United States or has not been pacified by United States money or through diplomacy.
00:24:57.000You know, for example, Jordan has an alliance with Israel.
00:25:01.000They have very good diplomatic relations.
00:25:03.000Egypt, which is right here, has good relations with Israel.
00:25:06.000The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a tacit and clandestine relationship with Israel.
00:25:32.000But every country in the region that has not been destroyed, that has not been pacified, the only remaining one that has not been destroyed or pacified is Iran.
00:25:43.000And so the reason Israel's willing to go out there and do these airstrikes and risk rousing the ire of Russia and the United States is because Iran is now putting military bases in Syria.
00:25:55.000Iran wasn't so much of a problem when they're all the way over here.
00:25:58.000The only problem they would present is if they had a nuclear capability.
00:26:01.000If they had an ICBM, or if they even had a medium ballistic range missile, a medium range ballistic missile, that would present a problem, but they don't have a nuclear arsenal.
00:26:11.000Conventionally, they would not be a threat.
00:26:13.000But now that Syria has fallen apart, now that Iraq has fallen apart, Iran has spread its influence through Iraq, through Syria, and now they directly border Israel.
00:26:23.000And so that's why this provocation by Iran, the drone flying into Israeli airspace, was.
00:26:31.000Now, on the topic of Syria, this is only the latest, I guess, incident in the region.
00:26:38.000Of course, what is also ongoing while you have Israel and Iran fighting out a proxy conflict in Syria, at the same time you have Turkey and the Kurds fighting out a proxy conflict in Syria.
00:26:51.000For several weeks now, Turkey has been conducting a campaign in Afrin.
00:26:56.000This little enclave right here, this orange enclave, this is the YPG.
00:27:02.000The YPG is the military arm, and try and follow this.
00:27:07.000I know this is a little bit difficult, but the PKK is a military arm of the PKK.
00:27:14.000The PKK is the Kurdish Workers' Party.
00:27:18.000The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state besides Europeans and white people.
00:27:24.000And so the Kurds, they exist in northern Syria, in Iraq, in Iran, in southern Turkey, and the PKK or the YPG, they're kind of interchangeable.
00:27:33.000They have been a terrorist group in Turkey for 30 years.
00:27:36.000And the reason being is because the Kurds have wanted sovereignty.
00:27:40.000They want a nation of their own, or they want some degree of political autonomy in countries like Syria and Iraq and Turkey.
00:27:47.000And so, Turkey does not want, in the aftermath of the Syrian Civil War, after ISIS ripped this country apart, after the rebels ripped this country apart, the Kurds have gained a substantial amount of land, as you can see, on the border between Syria and Turkey.
00:28:02.000They're here, they're here, and they now control 60% of the border between Turkey and Syria.
00:28:10.000The Kurds to control that much land because they've been terrorizing Turkey for 30 years.
00:28:15.000There have been bus bombings in Istanbul, bus bombings in Ankara, suitcase bombings.
00:28:20.000I mean, you saw, I think, significantly a lot of terrorist attacks in 2016 and 2017 by the Kurds in Turkey.
00:28:27.000And so now that ISIS has died off, now that the United States presence is winding down, now that the Russian presence is winding down, Turkey finds that the Kurds control a significant amount of their border with Syria.
00:28:38.000So Turkey said, we're going to go into this enclave right here.
00:28:43.000This orange enclave in Afrin, that's the city in the middle of it, and they say, We're going to go in there and we are going to take it over.
00:28:51.000And so they've been fighting this campaign for about a couple of weeks now.
00:28:54.000And the problem is they're running into some severe resistance now.
00:28:58.000Russia told Turkey, basically, there's a no fly zone in northern Syria.
00:29:32.000Their plan is to liberate Afrin and they're going to give the land over to the Syrian rebels.
00:29:37.000And then they're going to work their way across the purple.
00:29:39.000The purple is just your regular Syrian rebels, they're allied with Turkey.
00:29:45.000They're going to work their way through the purple.
00:29:47.000And then they're going to attack a city back in the orange, back among the Kurds, called Manbij.
00:29:52.000And the United States conducts patrols there.
00:29:54.000You have the United States troops there.
00:29:56.000And so, Turkey, they thought it was going to be a real breeze.
00:29:58.000They were going to come in here, they were going to liberate Afrin, they were going to make their way over, liberate Manbij, and then they were going to keep going east, and they were just going to mess everything up and liberate all this land from the Kurds.
00:30:10.000Now, the reason that I bring this up, the reason that I bring up Turkey, the reason that I bring up Israel all together is to illustrate something that's pretty fundamental, not just about the Middle East.
00:30:19.000And not just about Syria, but about the world order.
00:30:23.000What you see happening in Syria is the destruction of something called the Westphalian state system, which is an international relations term.
00:30:34.000But what we see right now in Syria is a country where the government in Damascus, the sovereign government that is supposed to be controlling all the affairs within this territory, the Assad regime, which is supposed to handle your public services and defend the country, they now have been invaded, not only by great powers, you now have a presence of 8,000 Russians in Syria, 4,000 Americans in Syria, 5,000 Chinese in Syria.
00:31:01.000On top of that, you have 1,000 ISIS fighters, and they're from all over the place.
00:31:06.000You have people from Europe, you have people from Asia, you have people from the Middle East.
00:31:28.000Some of these groups, the red is the Assad regime, the orange is the Kurds, the purple is the rebels.
00:31:34.000I only drew a few groups to illustrate what was happening with Turkey, but this country is split among all kinds of interests.
00:31:40.000You have all these thousands and thousands of foreign actors operating in Syria from the region, non state actors, great power actors from across different oceans.
00:31:52.000And what we are seeing in Syria is the collapse of something very fundamental to the way that the international state system was supposed to operate.
00:32:00.000Since 1648, since the Peace of Westphalia, Which ended the Thirty Years' War, we defined the world order as constituted by nation states.
00:32:13.000And this is something we take for granted.
00:32:15.000We talk about the United Nations, we talk about wars as classically conceived, interstate conflicts, you know, of one army with a flag going up against another army with a flag.
00:32:26.000And I don't think we really need this so much.
00:32:29.000Wars as traditionally conceived in other things.
00:32:32.000The pretext, this is all under the system of the Westphalian state system.
00:32:40.000What was laid out in 1648 by this peace conference was that you have nation states.
00:32:46.000This was the fundamental building block of the world.
00:32:49.000That if you have a monarchy or if you have a republic, whatever the government was, whatever the state was, that coincided with a nation.
00:32:57.000And a nation is a people that speaks the same language, that descends from the same race or ethnicity, they have a national belonging.
00:33:05.000For example, the French nation state, France as a nation state, has the government in Paris.
00:33:14.000Right now, it's, I think, the Fifth Republic.
00:33:16.000So the regime, the state, is the Fifth Republic in Paris, and the nation is the French.
00:33:23.000And so if you go to Marseille, or you go to Paris, or you go in the north, or in the east, or the west, in France, you have a nation, you have the French people governed by the Parisian state, governed by this Fifth Republic, and they preside over the affairs.
00:33:39.000Was the fundamental building block of the world.
00:33:42.000And so, what that meant alongside that was that each nation state had territorial integrity in the sense that every state in Europe under this new settlement, under the Westphalian settlement, could control and conduct its own affairs.
00:33:57.000So, France, you know, maybe they wanted to kill off a bunch of people.
00:34:01.000Maybe they wanted to shut down the press.
00:34:03.000Maybe they were Protestant or maybe they were Catholic.
00:34:06.000Well, that was their jurisdiction to do so.
00:34:09.000And no other country could come in and say, well, we don't like that or.
00:34:15.000The Westphalian system ended any attempt by one power to exert a supranational control over any other country.
00:34:22.000So, gone were the days of the Holy Roman Empire trying to say, well, you have to bow to our whims, or any other state or any other empire royal family saying that otherwise.
00:34:36.000France controls what the French do, and Spain controls what the Spanish do, and the English control what the English do, and so on and so forth.
00:34:44.000And this has been how the world has operated ever since 1648.
00:34:51.000350 years that this has been the system.
00:34:54.000And as you can tell, as we can kind of contrast, I think you can kind of start to see where the contrast comes in.
00:35:00.000This is in diametric opposite to what is happening all around the world, but particularly in Syria.
00:35:05.000This is only the most egregious example of a world where that order is rapidly coming apart, where no longer do you have nation states at all.
00:35:15.000You know, now you look at the United States and what's the nation?
00:35:18.000We have a state, but we have no nation.
00:35:20.000What would be described as the nation?
00:35:22.000What will be described as the nation in 50 years when the country has no majority racial group?
00:35:27.000When the country doesn't have a single language?
00:35:30.000When the country doesn't have a religion?
00:35:32.000When maybe half the country doesn't even salute the same flag.
00:35:35.000Maybe half the country believes that the southwest of the United States should go back to Mexico, right?
00:35:41.000Should go back to Mexico with stolen land in the Mexican Cession.
00:35:44.000That's what a lot of these Hispanics believe in the southwest.
00:35:47.000Or in Paris, or in France, or in Sweden, or in Great Britain, in Germany, where it's rapidly being overtaken by Muslims.
00:35:54.000Where's the nation there if half the country is Muslim and half the country is ultra conservative, ultra traditionalist, Middle Eastern in character, and the other half is British or French or whatever?
00:36:05.000So, the nation state is rapidly coming apart.
00:36:08.000And you see this not only in Europe, but you see this moreover in Africa, in the Middle East, where they didn't really have a tradition of the nation state.
00:36:16.000You understand that, particularly in the Middle East, which was governed by the Ottoman Empire until the 1920s, they did not have nation states the way that Europe did.
00:36:30.000The Ottoman Empire only dissolved in the 1920s.
00:36:34.000And between, you know, the 15th century and the 1920s, This was governed by this massive empire, this massive caliphate from Turkey all the way down through Arabia, all the way up through Azerbaijan.
00:36:47.000And there were not really these individuated nation states.
00:36:49.000And that's why I think we see this coming apart.
00:36:51.000And especially now in this modern period when you have all these different allegiances, you have these sectarian conflicts, ethnic conflicts, religious conflicts, regional.
00:37:01.000You have these great powers intervening.
00:37:03.000You see that this world order that the world has been based on, every war, every treaty, Every supranational institution, the UN, the General Assembly, NATO, it's all coming apart.
00:37:17.000And there's no better example of that than in Syria, when you see that not only do you have the government, which is vying for control in Damascus, but you also have rebel groups in Syria.
00:37:27.000And you also have regional fighters there.
00:37:29.000You have people in countries that are bordering Syria, like Iraq and Iran and Lebanon, but you also have people from Afghanistan.
00:37:37.000You also have mercenaries from all over the world.
00:37:41.000You have the United States operating in there with the rebels.
00:37:45.000And even the Chinese, even as far as the Chinese, you have weapons pouring in and on and on and on.
00:37:51.000And this makes us really rethink everything that we know about the world because we see a country here where the territorial integrity is not being respected.
00:37:58.000And this is one example, probably the best example, but this was also true in Iraq.
00:38:07.000Just a few weeks ago, when there were protests, and you have the United States saying, We support the protesters of Iran, it's none of your business.
00:38:48.000It was before globalization, and globalization in a real sense, when you really had these mass migrations of people, when you really had the mixings of religion and language and so on.
00:38:59.000Before we move any further into this new world, into this new world order, we have to figure out what the rules are.
00:39:06.000Because you see the potential, the horrible potential for tragedy in Syria right now in the absence of rules.
00:39:14.000Because, you know, before we would say, well, Syria is going to do what Syria is going to do.
00:39:19.000If there is some kind of an uprising, well, you know, let them sort it out.
00:39:25.000Well, you know, let Iraq figure it out.
00:39:26.000Well, if we're all going to go in and play ball, if Russia's going to go in, if the U.S. is going to go in there and we're going to vie for control and the CIA's going to be in there and everyone's going to be in there, well, what are the rules then?
00:39:38.000You see the potential for conflict when you have Russia and the United States in the same country.
00:39:44.000We see this with Turkey, where Turkey may come face to face with American troops fighting the Kurds, where Israel's bombing Iran in Syria.
00:39:53.000And while they're bombing Iran in Syria, they might bomb Russians.
00:40:09.000We have to come up with new rules, new traditions, new procedures, new modes of conduct.
00:40:16.000Because the way that this is functioning, where there's just no rules, where it's just anarchy, where anything goes and there's no precedent, it can lead to nothing but chaos.
00:40:27.000And so You know, we can talk about Syria.
00:40:30.000We can talk about, well, there's these factions, and well, this person bombed this person, and there's a lot of potential for conflict here.
00:40:37.000But, I mean, more broadly, if we don't figure out these rules, you will see this again and again and again.
00:40:42.000Maybe we get lucky and we sort out Syria.
00:40:45.000Maybe we get lucky and Assad stays for a little while, and we achieve some kind of settlement with Russia, and they ease into a new regime, and Iran is expelled, and hopefully, maybe we sort it all out.
00:41:11.000We have to figure out the standards, the procedures, because otherwise this will repeat and repeat until it ends tragically.
00:41:18.000And you understand that the worst thing that can happen is not Israel bombing a couple of Iranian sites in Syria, it's the United States and Russia firing at each other in a country where we don't even know whose side we're on anymore.
00:41:31.000And then it turns into a much bigger exchange.
00:41:51.000But isn't it wild that you have Syria and you have people all the way from up here in Russia and all the way from here in Turkey and all the way from here in Iran and here in Iraq.
00:42:20.000What happens when Turkey fires on the United States and NATO falls apart and Israel goes to war in Syria against Iran and Russia comes at them and then we have to come to the defense of Israel?
00:42:34.000And that's why I'm starting to get a little bit worried because I'm reading in the gospel, Jesus Christ talks about this like, Three times he says, Well, the end of the world will be when all the nations of the world are at war with each other.
00:43:07.000How many earthquakes have there been this year?
00:43:09.000It's like every day there's an earthquake in Mexico, there's an earthquake in Iran, there's an earthquake in California, there's an earthquake in Japan, there's one in North Korea.
00:44:50.000Empress Finest, Empress Finest, who's baking the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, they're going to have to send some over this way pretty soon as tribute.
00:46:20.000The fact of the matter is, we're spending trillions and trillions on things the government constitutionally shouldn't even be spending money on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
00:46:32.000You know, we could on Two and a half trillion dollars.
00:46:35.000We could have infrastructure, we could have a wall, we could have all kinds of stuff.
00:46:42.000We could have a trillion dollars in defense and NASA, and you would have a really great country if you cut out all the entitlements.
00:46:50.000We could be running massive surpluses and be funding everything we're funding right now and a little bit more if we cut out all the entitlements.
00:46:58.000But the problem is the fact that the government is taking from Peter and they're giving to Paul.
00:47:11.000And I went through this last week where Social Security was supposed to be you put money into a trust, you get the money back, and you understand why that works then.
00:47:21.000You put money into the trust, it accrues interest, and then there's more of it.
00:47:25.000And then you retire, and you should be living in retirement a lot less than you'd be contributing while you're working.
00:47:30.000So there's enough money then to be given in and then taken out.
00:47:33.000Well, now what happens is the beneficiaries are taking money from the workers.
00:47:39.000So what I'm paying in right now, that money is going right to the retirees.
00:48:17.000We can afford to spend a lot of money on defense.
00:48:19.000That's a legitimate function of the state.
00:48:22.000That's a legitimate function of the government, a constitutional function of the government, a constitutional item that the House is authorized to appropriate money for.
00:48:31.000The same cannot be said about Social Security.
00:48:34.000The same cannot be said about Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, unemployment insurance, and all the rest.
00:48:40.000So, constitutional, forget about it, but that's why.
00:48:44.000And on the hyphenated Americans, true.
00:48:46.000I mean, as long as you have these different identities, you have to modify them.
00:48:52.000They've chosen, when they show up to the State of the Union in their African garb and they want to do the black power and they want to protest the flag, well, I'm sorry, that's not American.
00:49:10.000John Shepard Smith, you can't just paper it over with the wording.
00:49:13.000John Shepard Smith, so are the authors, AP and Reuters, of the pro North Korean articles that kicked off yesterday's absurd MSM fawning undercover DPRK agents?
00:49:32.000I haven't been watching that so closely.
00:49:35.000This is just kind of the habit of the mainstream media.
00:49:37.000They have been doing this for a long time with North Korea, but also for all kinds of other people.
00:49:42.000You know, I mean, they were doing this for Russia years ago.
00:49:45.000I remember when I was a conservative in 2014, I remember I was on the speech team in high school, and I would be up there railing about how Barack Obama was too soft.
00:49:56.000On Russia, how the media was keeping it a secret that Russia actually invaded Ukraine in the Donbass, in Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, but covertly, even though they denied it.
00:50:09.000And the mainstream media covered that up.
00:50:11.000So the mainstream media just pays lip service to whatever the deep state, the establishment wants to be said.
00:50:16.000So I don't know if it's particular to North Korea.
00:50:19.000I don't know if it's particular to like double agents or sleeper cells.
00:50:23.000I just think they just kind of towed the party line essentially.
00:50:28.000Frederick White, Jewish Jets got that mosquito zapper treatment this weekend.
00:53:23.000This happened from time to time, even at the height of the Westphalian order in the 19th century, when you saw from the end of Napoleon until the First World War, this was probably best characterized as a time of the balance of power of the Westphalian system.
00:53:36.000And even then, you had the revolutions of 1848, you had an earlier spate of revolutions in the 1820s, 1824, I believe.
00:55:11.000But that's going to do it for us tonight here on the show.
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