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00:04:25.000So today, of course, if you've been watching the news, it's been all over Twitter, it's been all over the news, and that is French President Emmanuel Macron's official state visit.
00:05:51.000I don't believe he had any prior government experience.
00:05:54.000And he went up against Marine Le Pen of the National Front.
00:05:57.000She was the nationalist candidate, she was the anti migration candidate.
00:06:02.000A lot of conservatives took issue with her because not only was she not totally gung ho about Israel and all that stuff, but she was much more left leaning on economics, much more right leaning on migration.
00:06:19.000Macron beat her out by a pretty significant margin.
00:06:22.000Now, Le Pen did win a much larger margin than her father had before, but nevertheless, Macron won.
00:06:29.000And a lot of people were expecting him to be a globalist technocrat in a similar vein as his predecessor, Hollande, or Merkel in Germany, or Theresa May, or David Cameron.
00:06:41.000I think a lot of people expected him to fit the standard mold of a 2000s, 2010s European politics.
00:06:49.000Politician, much more in line with a Barack Obama than with a Donald Trump, much more in line with a miracle as opposed to an Orban or a Putin.
00:06:58.000And you are kind of seeing this divide in world leaders where I think some leaders are embracing the ethnic nationalism, tribalism, identity, and embracing a little bit more of an authoritarian flavor.
00:07:10.000You see this in Hungary, in the Philippines, in Russia, in Turkey, to an extent, people say, in the United States with Trump versus the old liberal order, the old new liberal order.
00:07:22.000Which would be represented by Barack Obama, David Cameron, Holland, and most of all, probably Merkel.
00:07:27.000She's probably the most enduring fixture of that liberal order.
00:07:33.000And many people said, well, Macron probably fits into the technocrat side.
00:07:37.000He probably fits into the liberal side.
00:07:39.000And as we've seen him govern, we've seen a lot of things that come out as a little bit against that.
00:07:43.000Some of the comments he's made, his general tone is far and away different from the Merkles and the Obamas of the world.
00:07:50.000He's taken a surprisingly pretty strident line against.
00:07:54.000Illegal migration from Northern Africa and from the Middle East.
00:07:59.000He's taken a much different line with regard to Syria than other adventurists and explorers.
00:08:04.000Not so much different than his predecessors in France, but definitely his compatriots in the UK and other countries in Europe, particularly the United States across the Atlantic.
00:08:13.000But he talks about being a Jupiterian monarch.
00:08:32.000I think the biggest thing people have commented on is not so much the substance of their meeting today between Macron and Trump, but the body language, the handshakes, the comments, the kisses, this kind of thing.
00:08:45.000And there were several major episodes, several major exchanges that have been played up.
00:08:51.000At one point during the summit, President Trump went over, he reached over into Macron's personal space and said he was wiping a piece of dandruff off of his shoulder, which is.
00:09:02.000You know, obviously very inappropriate for a state visit, at least if you're trying to abide by the politeness, if you're trying to be a couth and polite individual.
00:09:11.000There was a moment where President Trump leaned over and kissed the French President Macron.
00:09:16.000There was just jockeying throughout, handshakes, hand squeezing, people tapping each other's hands, bringing each other.
00:09:26.000And this is not the first time we saw this.
00:09:28.000We saw this actually pretty early on in the presidency, the first time that they met.
00:09:33.000There was this handshake thing going on.
00:09:35.000When President Trump visited Europe, there was another handshake episode.
00:09:39.000They said that they were squeezing each other's hands so tightly that you could see that their hands were turning white.
00:09:45.000And the liberal media played it up that when President Trump shook Macron's hand, I think for the first or the second time a little bit earlier in the year, they said that, oh, he was begging for release.
00:09:56.000He was trying to let go because Macron was hurting him.
00:09:59.000And so then the next time that Macron visited the United States, Trump made it a point, or rather, when Trump visited France, Trump made it a point to shake Macron's hand for 60 seconds, shaking his hand, shaking his wife's hand at the same time.
00:10:13.000You know, a very, very elaborate, very, very spectacular display there.
00:10:18.000And so we get it again today with the handshakes and all the rest.
00:10:21.000And I think a lot of this is a result of, to tackle this before we get into Iran, and that's what I really want to focus on, but to tackle the body language.
00:10:40.000People are portraying it like this is just goes to show what a great relationship they have.
00:10:44.000This just goes to show not only what a great relationship Macron has with Trump, but a great relationship France has with the United States.
00:10:52.000And nothing could be further from the truth.
00:10:54.000It's got nothing to do with friendship.
00:10:56.000When they're shaking each other's hands really, really hard and they're patting each other on the back and yanking each other, that's got nothing to do with they're really good friends.
00:11:05.000I mean, maybe to an extent, I think there's some affection.
00:11:07.000I think there's some level of respect that they're two statesmen.
00:11:12.000The bottom line is that this is about dominance.
00:11:14.000This is about a very physical manifestation, a very physical expression of dominance.
00:11:19.000And this is how Trump has interacted since the time he took office, even before that.
00:11:24.000I mean, you could go back and you could look at the way that he shook Mike Pence's hand when he won the election in 2016, the way he was yanking him around.
00:11:33.000You could see this in the 2016 Republican National Convention when he did the same thing to Mike Pence, brought him in for a kiss.
00:11:39.000You could see it when Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch.
00:11:42.000I think that was maybe the first time we saw.
00:11:45.000The Trump handshake yanking him around.
00:11:47.000We saw this with Shinzo Abe the first time that he met him in the White House, tapping the hand.
00:11:52.000You know, that turned into a big thing.
00:11:53.000And so, this is just how Trump operates.
00:11:56.000This is how Trump asserts dominance over other people.
00:12:10.000You saw this even during the presidential debate, the second one with Hillary Clinton, how he towered over her.
00:12:16.000This is one of the ways that he communicates, not just to people he's negotiating with, but also to the public in a very public way, who's in control.
00:12:27.000And so that's what that was about today.
00:12:28.000And I think, in large measure, we saw that kind of aggression, that kind of overbearing physicality, because of what happened just a couple of weeks ago.
00:12:39.000If you recall, we went into the serious strikes with France.
00:12:43.000It wasn't just the United States in the serious strikes, it was also France and the United Kingdom.
00:12:48.000And shortly after the serious strikes, French President Macron said that he had convinced, he personally had convinced President Trump.
00:12:56.000To keep U.S. troops in Syria for the long term.
00:12:59.000If you remember the week prior to the Syria strikes, Trump was saying, I think three different times in public, we want to get troops out as soon as possible.
00:13:07.000We want to get troops out as soon as possible.
00:14:16.000I think a lot of people, a lot of amateurs misinterpret it.
00:14:19.000I was almost surprised because, you know, the media is pretty accurately, and they've provided a lot of good resources on the body language since Trump got into office.
00:14:29.000I mean, they were pretty accurate in how they assessed those exchanges that he's had with other world leaders.
00:15:00.000The big reason that they had the meeting and German Chancellor Merkel will be visiting the United States, visiting President Trump on Friday to.
00:15:08.000Discuss the same thing is the Iran nuclear deal.
00:15:12.000The Iran nuclear deal, which was signed in 2015 in negotiations with six major nations.
00:15:18.000And the reason they're meeting is because there's a major deadline coming up on May 12th.
00:15:24.000And we talked about this a little bit in the fall where President Trump refused to recertify the deal.
00:15:30.000There's a provision in the Iran nuclear deal that every so often, pretty regularly, the president has to certify that both the United States and Iran are in compliance with the provisions of the deal.
00:15:42.000And so President Trump, although he threatened it a few times since he got into office in 2017, he finally said, I'm not going to certify it in the fall.
00:15:51.000And we talked about that, I think, in like October, September.
00:15:54.000And the deadline's coming up, May 12th.
00:15:56.000And if he doesn't certify, if he has to make a decision on May 12th, is he going to put on additional sanctions in response to Iran allegedly not following the spirit of the deal?
00:16:08.000And the White House has said they're not actually, they're not technically breaking any of the rules in the deal.
00:16:13.000Technically, everything they've been doing so far has not violated the letter of the deal.
00:16:18.000But the White House position is, well, they're violating the spirit of the deal.
00:16:23.000These are being very antagonistic in neighboring countries.
00:16:26.000They're spreading their wings, trying to become a regional hegemon.
00:16:32.000Some say the missile tests were fake, some say they're real.
00:16:34.000Either way, the White House says they're violating the spirit of the deal, and therefore we're considering slapping on sanctions on May 12th.
00:16:42.000And on Monday, you had the president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, say that he's very worried about the United States.
00:16:49.000He says that if the U.S. pulls out of the deal, if they slap on sanctions, they'll restart their nuclear program.
00:16:55.000Iran's foreign minister said today, shortly before President Trump met with Macron, that there would be dire consequences if the U.S. eliminated or pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, and that Iran would probably scrap the deal if the U.S. pulled out.
00:17:11.000And so there was a lot of big rhetoric going into it.
00:17:13.000And there were some very crucial statements made about the deal today, which I think are very telling about the foreign policy of Trump.
00:17:20.000And many people are worried about this because we heard some very bellicose rhetoric from the president today, some very strong threats.
00:17:44.000I think a lot of people, they look at Trump, and in order to excuse or explain their position or the shortcomings of their position, they say, well, things have happened like this in the past.
00:17:56.000And look at the people he surrounded himself with.
00:17:58.000But they don't actually look at what the president is saying?
00:18:10.000And so President Trump today issued some pretty severe threats.
00:18:15.000He said, They're not going to be restarting anything in response to Iran saying they would restart their nuclear program.
00:18:22.000He continued, They restart it, they're going to have big problems, bigger than they've ever had before.
00:18:28.000And he went on to say that they would face penalties that no other country, few other countries, have ever faced before at the hands of the United States.
00:18:36.000As some very strong and hardline rhetoric against Iran.
00:19:16.000Can anybody say, does anybody remember where that phrase came from?
00:19:19.000Not the book, Fire and Fury, but does anybody remember over the summer when President Trump said if North Korea continues down their path, they will face fire and fury, the likes of which has never been seen?
00:20:21.000But much more important than the threats, the threats got big publicity, the body language got big publicity, but I think the thing that was missing is it was a very subtle thing that if you're not paying attention to the Middle East, if you're not paying attention to the news, it might have escaped you.
00:20:38.000And President Trump was talking about the nuclear deal, and he said, I think we will have a great shot at doing a much bigger deal.
00:20:47.000He said that any new agreement would be built on solid foundations.
00:20:51.000He said they should have made a deal, referring to the nuclear deal with Obama and the other powers.
00:20:56.000He said they should have made a deal that covered Yemen, that covered Syria, that covered other parts of the Middle East.
00:21:02.000And he said that the 2015 accord was insane and ridiculous.
00:21:07.000And you hear this kind of rhetoric, you hear the threats, you hear insane and ridiculous, they should have done this and that.
00:21:12.000But he's saying something that's, I think, very important here, something very crucial.
00:21:18.000And then he goes on to talk about how it should have encapsulated Yemen and should have encapsulated Syria.
00:21:23.000And then Macron laid out four pillars to the nuclear deal, to a new deal that could be made.
00:21:28.000We made a deal in 2015 that expires in 2025.
00:21:32.000And it has Iran mothballing their nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief and other things.
00:21:39.000And so Macron said, okay, we shouldn't scrap this deal, but if we're going to make a new deal, maybe we could make a new deal.
00:21:45.000He said it would be based on four pillars, which would be stopping Iran's short term nuclear activity, stopping their long term nuclear activity.
00:21:53.000Ending their ballistic missile program and finding a diplomatic solution to Iran's bid for regional hegemony, which would be their pursuits in Yemen, their pursuits in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, with Hezbollah, with Palestine, and all the rest.
00:22:09.000And I think what was totally overshadowed in all of this, where you hear the over the top threats, where you hear the body language stuff, is that Trump is looking at the Middle East and he's not just looking at Iran.
00:22:21.000He's not just looking at the Iran nuclear deal.
00:22:23.000This is something I think that sets Trump apart from.
00:22:27.000Obama and even from Bush and others for that matter.
00:22:29.000This is what puts Trump and the Trump doctrine on par with the Reagan doctrine, with the Nixon doctrine.
00:22:35.000Maybe you don't like the Reagan doctrine, but puts it on par with them in terms of its scope.
00:22:41.000In terms of, you can tell from the way Trump is looking at this, he's not looking at just Iran has a nuclear program, how do we stop the nuclear program?
00:23:11.000Let's also figure out what's happening in Yemen.
00:23:12.000Let's figure out what's happening in Syria.
00:23:15.000And if you're figuring out what's happening in Syria, then also we're talking now about the Syrian civil war.
00:23:20.000We're talking about the civil war in Yemen.
00:23:22.000We're talking effectively about not the nuclear program, not about Syria, but when we include all the issues, effectively what we're addressing here is.
00:23:32.000Is the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
00:23:36.000And ultimately, even further than that, we're addressing Israel.
00:23:40.000I mean, this is, you're getting into the meat and potatoes of the Middle East.
00:23:43.000And so, this was a big thing that was overlooked.
00:23:45.000But I think that Trump has a much better understanding of the Middle East than any of the experts, than any of the people that came before him in the White House, any of the pundits for that matter as well.
00:23:56.000I think many people have read into this.
00:23:59.000Trump is talking about tearing up a good deal with Iran and maybe going to war with Iran or something like that.
00:24:05.000And I think you're hearing, I think if you look at his approach over time, if you look at the rhetoric over time, the scope of this doctrine in the Middle East is much broader.
00:24:14.000You have to understand that the reason, you know, we look at Iran having a nuclear program.
00:24:18.000We look at Iran and their bid for regional hegemony.
00:24:21.000They're sponsoring the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
00:24:24.000They have the Shiite militias in Syria.
00:24:27.000They sponsor Hezbollah, which is in Lebanon.
00:24:29.000They antagonize Israel, and they're also in Syria.
00:24:32.000And we look at all these different components, and we could say, how could we address Hezbollah?
00:24:38.000How could we address the Iran nuclear program?
00:24:41.000But at the end of the day, we can boil it back down to why do they need all of that?
00:24:45.000It's because of Saudi Arabia and Israel.
00:24:48.000And a good deal maker understands that it's not about the symptoms of these broader problems, it's about the disease.
00:24:54.000It's about what's underlying all of these things.
00:24:57.000Iran isn't getting a nuclear program for the same reason that North Korea is.
00:25:02.000Iran isn't getting a nuclear program because they want self reliance, they want to be isolated, they want to be left alone and pursue their own, you know, Juche ideology.
00:25:10.000Iran's getting a nuclear program for a very specific reason.
00:25:14.000Iran's getting a nuclear program to deter a country like Israel or to deter a country like Israel using the United States.
00:25:48.000Well, Israel wants Iran to be taken out because Iran sponsors Hezbollah, which is on their northern border.
00:25:55.000Israel fundamentally is not so much concerned with Iran.
00:25:58.000I mean, they are, but predominantly they're concerned with Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Syria.
00:26:02.000And so Trump looks at the entire Middle East and he says, We're not going to figure out the Iran nuclear deal until we figure out how we put an end to Saudi Arabia and Iran proxy war, how we figure out how to satiate Israel without completely destroying the Middle East.
00:26:19.000How do we satiate Israel, who has a great influence on our foreign policy?
00:26:23.000And that's not going away anytime soon.
00:26:25.000I don't think there's a law you could pass.
00:26:27.000That would stop these people from intervening.
00:26:29.000But how do we get them to believe that their security interests are being met without having regime change in Syria or regime change in Iran?
00:26:37.000That's the way I believe that Trump is looking at it.
00:26:40.000And you get to the fundamental heart of the matter when you hear this kind of talk about we have to make a much bigger deal that includes Yemen and Syria.
00:26:49.000What he's talking about now is not a nuclear deal, he's talking about a grand bargain.
00:26:54.000He's talking about rewriting the order in the Middle East, probably with Vladimir Putin, probably with Iran in some cooperative way.
00:27:01.000And also, I think he would have to be dragging along his allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel probably a lot more than you need to drag along Iran, Russia, and others, even Syria.
00:27:12.000And so I think that we look at the summit today, and this gives us a big idea about the Trump doctrine.
00:27:17.000I think a lot of people are very upset about the Syria strike.
00:27:21.000People are very upset about his comments about Iran.
00:27:24.000But I think this is fitting into the broader narrative here.
00:27:27.000I think this fits into the broader theory that Trump is a dealmaker.
00:27:31.000What underlies these bigger problems, and he's trying to meet a solution for all these.
00:27:36.000Because there's a big report that came out earlier this week that said that when Trump first got into office, he called up BB Netanyahu and said, Do you legitimately want peace?
00:27:46.000And that's a very, very telling thing.
00:27:49.000We put that together with his other comments towards BB Netanyahu, telling him to stop building settlements and other things he said.
00:27:56.000And I think Trump incisively and intuitively has gotten to the heart of the problem here, which is that unlike Barack Obama, who says, Let's just put a cap on the nuclear program, he says, This is.
00:28:08.000A perpetual conflict here because interests are overlapping, they're competing, they're contradictory.
00:28:14.000You will never have peace in the Middle East so long as Israel is concerned about the northern border.
00:28:20.000You won't have peace in the Middle East so long as Iran and Saudi Arabia, because Iraq is gone as a buffer state, are trying to encircle each other because Iran is sponsoring Shiite militias in the Gulf states and in Yemen and all the rest.
00:28:34.000And Saudi Arabia is maybe meddling in Iran with the help of Israel.
00:28:49.000They're both violating international law.
00:28:51.000They're both going against U.S. interests.
00:28:54.000Because until those differences are resolved, there won't be any stability.
00:28:58.000There will only be that kind of conflict.
00:29:00.000And so this is a very, I think, a very white pilling thing that we're seeing from the president.
00:29:04.000If this is going down the same trajectory as North Korea, we are in for.
00:29:10.000I think something very transformative for the Middle East that we haven't seen in a long time.
00:29:15.000This would really be a closing chapter on a long period of Zionist domination of our politics and Zionist domination of our foreign affairs in the Middle East, where we have been going to war and doing these big adventures and exercises.
00:29:29.000You look at Trump's doctrine there in a very comprehensive way, and he is revolutionizing American energy.
00:29:36.000We're now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world, so our dependence has been weaned off of the Persian Gulf.
00:29:43.000You've seen that we've been able to achieve, or we're on the road to achieving, a great peace with North Korea, which builds rapport with China, which sets a precedent for Iran.
00:29:52.000You've seen him demonstrate a willingness and an ability to use power in Syria, even against the warnings of Russia and the admonitions of Russia.
00:30:02.000So you're putting together all the pieces here for a much more complicated deal than North Korea, which I think is why they're pursuing it first, but ultimately, I think a big and a great deal.
00:30:29.000This is my prediction based on what we've seen.
00:30:31.000So I'm not doubling down on this anytime soon or saying, you know, I'm certain this is the way it's going to go.
00:30:37.000But I think this has been where it's been trending from the beginning.
00:30:41.000And I predicted this earlier in the week, if you recall.
00:30:45.000Either last week or the week before, after the Syria strikes, I said, Don't be surprised if you hear the same kind of rhetoric that we heard towards North Korea about Iran.
00:30:53.000I said, Don't be surprised if in the coming months or maybe in a year, once this North Korea stuff starts to be fulfilled, once you see the summit between South Korea and North Korea and the summit between North Korea and the United States, once all of that happens, you'll probably see a similar effort begin with Iran.
00:31:11.000I think he'll start working on it with Iran.
00:31:13.000And so you'll probably see, you could potentially see, More limited intervention in Syria or in other places to serve the same purpose that it did in North Korea.
00:31:22.000And I think we're seeing that obviously come across today with the statement, the threats about Iran, and also the talk of a bigger deal.
00:31:30.000And that is what is possible with a guy like Trump with a deal maker.
00:31:36.000My prediction is that, and it'll be probably not anytime soon.
00:31:40.000I don't think it'll be in the very, very short term.
00:31:43.000I mean, May the 12th is the big deadline for when he puts on sanctions or he doesn't put on sanctions, whether he continues on with this deal or he doesn't.
00:31:52.000If I were a betting man, I would say he stays on with the current deal, but he starts working on an alternative deal.
00:31:59.000And I would say that in the mid to longer term future, you will see something like that come together.
00:32:07.000Like I said, if I'm a betting man, I would bet that you see Russia brought into that, China's brought into it, Iran, Syria, Yemen are incorporated, and I would think that would be the grand bargain.
00:32:17.000I think that would really be a transformative thing.
00:32:20.000And this is how it has to happen, ultimately.
00:32:22.000This is how a deal ultimately has to happen.
00:32:25.000There has to be leverage brought to the table.
00:32:27.000You know, people say it's either you're a neoconservative and you're for regime change, it's either you solve the Middle East with war, or you just walk away.
00:32:39.000And you believe in American empire and you're an imperialist and you're a Zionist and all the rest, or you just completely wash your hands of it and anything goes, and the Persian Gulf is contested, you have a proxy war, there's nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, and it all goes to hell and we don't care.
00:32:58.000And I strongly believe that the latter is not an option in terms of people assume that we could make some kind of a deal or we could walk away and everything would just work out.
00:33:27.000And whether we're directly involved in it or we're indirectly involved in it, or it's just Israel and our allies, but either way, the region goes to hell.
00:33:56.000If you listen very intently and if you have been paying attention to what's been said and what's been going on, this is how it's been trending for a long time.
00:34:04.000This is how Trump conducts diplomacy, which is vying for the grand deal of them all.
00:34:10.000So that was the France and U.S. summit.
00:35:11.000And just remember this for anybody, maybe write down a time stamp for this episode so that if a strike happens again, if or when a strike happens again, if or when.
00:35:20.000It seems like we're on the brink of war with Iran.
00:35:22.000You can bring this back up and say, oh no, look, this is all part of it.
00:35:25.000This has been predicted even before it happened because that's the only way that these people understand it.
00:35:30.000I think Iran would be much more inclined to do a deal with us than North Korea.
00:35:35.000I don't think it'll have to be as intense as it was with North Korea because North Korea and Iran are very different.
00:35:41.000They're pursuing a nuclear weapon for different reasons.
00:35:44.000But I still think you'd see some of that.
00:35:48.000The other big story we've got to get to is this young fellow named Alfie Evans.
00:35:53.000And this story is a big rebuke to people who believe in socialized medicine, people who counter signal.
00:36:02.000Conservatives and your basic conservatives, your small government people, people who believe in fascism and these other things.
00:36:11.000We saw a very dark tragedy today here where you had this little guy, and this has been all over Twitter, it's been all over the news.
00:36:18.000There's this little two year old toddler named Alfie Evans, and he's in the United Kingdom.
00:36:23.000He is suffering from a degenerative neurological disorder.
00:36:28.000And the reason we're talking about it is because he was brought into the doctor about a year ago, but he was having seizures, he was having all kinds of medical problems.
00:36:36.000Apparently, he's been unresponsive for a while.
00:36:39.000He has not been able to breathe without the help of a machine.
00:36:42.000And spectacularly, he's defied all the odds.
00:36:46.000He shouldn't be alive right now because of this condition he's in.
00:36:49.000But for some reason, maybe by the grace of God, he's been able to stay alive.
00:36:54.000And his parents said, okay, we want to keep him on life support.
00:36:57.000We want to keep pursuing medical treatment.
00:37:00.000And if we can't do it in the United Kingdom, then we want to take him to Rome and Italy or we want to take him somewhere else to get treatment.
00:37:06.000And today, a ruling came down from one of the United Kingdom's high courts that this family, they got a sick kid.
00:37:43.000Where you have a kid who's on life support, he's alive, he's beat the odds this far, and I guess people who've had a similar condition have lived into their teenage years before.
00:37:53.000So, why is a high court pulling the plug on him?
00:37:56.000And how can they disallow him from going to Rome in Italy for getting further treatment?
00:38:01.000Well, the way that the United Kingdom works, the way that their laws work, this child is under the jurisdiction of the courts, and because of a specific law, That was passed in the UK in, I think it was 1989.
00:38:14.000It was one of their child protection laws.
00:38:16.000In certain circumstances, the public can overrule the parents.
00:38:21.000If the public decides it's in the best interest of a child, they can overrule what the parents decide.
00:38:27.000So the parents say, we want to keep the kid on life support.
00:38:29.000We want to bring the kid to Rome for further treatment if we can't get it in the UK.
00:38:33.000The government can say, you can't make that decision.
00:38:36.000We've decided it's in the child's best interest that we pull the plug, and he's had a great time.
00:38:42.000You know, he's had a great life, but his road has come to an end.
00:38:47.000And so they can do that because of how the government functions there.
00:38:51.000And this is a tragic story, but I think it's one that we need to learn from in the United States.
00:38:57.000It's one that I think the free world needs to learn from.
00:39:00.000That if the government, if bureaucrats, technocrats, you know, we talk about government and we have to talk about who are the decision makers here.
00:39:09.000A lot of people think about government and they could either think of it as the best thing or the worst thing.
00:39:14.000You know, the bumbling doofuses who are pushing papers and they don't understand the black, you know, they don't understand getting things in the black.
00:39:23.000They don't understand profits like the free market does.
00:39:26.000Or you think they're the smartest people, they're the most qualified people, they're experts, as the left typically does, or even some people on the right say.
00:39:34.000But either way that you look at it, we have to understand that bureaucrats, technocrats making these kinds of decisions, how can you live in a free society if bureaucrats, technocrats, whoever it is running the government, whether it's smart people or dumb people, if they're making decisions about the life of your children, if they can say on a whim, if a judge can say it's not in the best interest of the child and therefore.
00:41:08.000What happens when the state, as opposed to the people, is sovereign?
00:41:11.000When the state has all the power and the people have no God given rights that are respected.
00:41:16.000That's the difference between the UK and the United States.
00:41:20.000In the UK, they may say they're a democracy.
00:41:22.000They may say they're a liberal capitalist democracy, and that may be a fine thing.
00:41:27.000But they abide by something called, I learned about it in comparative government actually in high school, they abide by something called parliamentary sovereignty, which means that the parliament is sovereign.
00:41:37.000Since the Glorious Revolution, which overthrew What was it?
00:41:40.000King James II and installed William and Mary.
00:41:44.000They have had some degree of parliamentary sovereignty where the parliament has gradually become more powerful, exerted more power over the country to the point where the monarchy, the king and queen are basically, and the royal family are basically figureheads, and parliament now has all the power.
00:41:59.000And the way it works in the UK is that parliament is in control of the country.
00:42:04.000The people are subjects of the parliament, it's top down.
00:43:12.000And we, as the sovereigns of this country, are giving up some rights.
00:43:17.000And we delegate these responsibilities to a government so that government can abide by the Constitution through a mandate from the Constitution, exercise those responsibilities and provide public services, defend the country, and all the rest.
00:43:31.000Now, it's very different, too, for the United States because we see that those rights come from God.
00:43:35.000This is where it enters another dimension, where it actually is top down in a different way.
00:43:40.000This is where even the populists get it wrong on a more technical note.
00:43:43.000People will say, well, in the UK, it goes from Parliament down to the people, here it goes from the people to the Constitution to the government.
00:43:51.000For the United States, although we do have the sovereignty of the people, the founders understood it that actually our rights come from God.
00:44:04.000And in order to protect our God given rights, we have a constitution.
00:44:09.000And then the constitution creates the government, and the government serves the people, protects their rights.
00:44:13.000So it is still top down, but it's obviously ordered very differently.
00:44:16.000Whereas the United Kingdom sees it as parliament.
00:44:19.000Gives power, or rather, Parliament exercises power over the people.
00:44:23.000We see it as God gives us rights, we create the Constitution, the Constitution creates the government, so the government can protect those rights.
00:44:32.000And that is why that's such an important difference.
00:44:35.000That's where you really see in this case why that is such an important difference, the practical implications of it, in the sense that you would never see something like that in the United States because you would never have the government administering services like that.
00:44:49.000You would never have the government administering health care.
00:44:52.000And deciding, economizing health services based on who's most deserving.
00:44:56.000Well, it's best for the public good that this person has health care as opposed to this person.
00:45:01.000It may be in the public good that Alfie Evans, we pull the plug on him and instead we give a mattress or we give a hospital bed to a refugee or to an obese person or somebody who smokes cigarettes or whatever.
00:45:16.000It's in the public good that we pull the plug on him and give it to someone else.
00:45:20.000And that's what the parliament or a judge or a bureaucrat might decide.
00:45:24.000In the United States, we say it doesn't matter.
00:45:26.000Every individual has rights that, even if it's in the public good to take away guns, even if it's in the public good to redistribute money, even if it's in the public good to redistribute health services or other public services, you can't do it because it's infringing on rights.
00:45:45.000And this is one of the tragic consequences when you see the real effects, the real implications of not being a free person in your country.
00:45:54.000And they see it in a variety of ways in the United Kingdom.
00:45:57.000It's not just medical, it's also in terms of free speech, in terms of guns.
00:46:01.000People think it's an arbitrary difference.
00:46:03.000People don't, I think, understand the gravity when they talk about government.
00:46:07.000It's very easy when you get caught up in your political objectives to say, I want a big government.
00:46:13.000I want the government to have all the rights.
00:46:18.000You know, maybe right now it's not the top consideration because there's something very crucial happening.
00:46:25.000And maybe we have to suspend some of those considerations about separation of powers so we can have some kind of vanguard deliver us to a place that makes sense.
00:46:35.000But when people start talking about socialism or national socialism or fascism or anything like that, you always have to be very worried.
00:46:44.000Because while we can cheer on the memes and we can cheer on, you know, Putin is a strong leader who executes the will of the people and that's a great thing, we have to look at what are the practical effects.
00:46:54.000It's all fun and games when they're in memes and when they're, you know, supporting Bashar Assad and all that, but what happens when it's your kid?
00:47:02.000What happens when they take away your guns?
00:47:03.000What happens when you don't have free speech?
00:47:06.000It is still within the American tradition.
00:47:08.000It is still within the American character.
00:47:11.000I think it's a biological component of the people who descend from the founding stock of the country and the founding culture of the country that we have some degree of freedom.
00:47:20.000Now, that doesn't mean that we're like a liberal, democratic, secular society, nothing close to it, but that liberty is still important.
00:47:28.000And you could go back to the days of the founding fathers where we had a federal system that was much different than it was today.
00:47:34.000I don't even think you could even call it democratic in many ways.
00:47:38.000It was a much more centralized system, it was a federal system, it was a religious system.
00:47:42.000Added all the things that we wanted, but there was still liberty.
00:47:58.000I don't, you know, it's worth saying we don't know what's going to happen to this guy.
00:48:02.000The courts and the doctors have a point.
00:48:04.000They say his brain has deteriorated to the point where it could just be inhumane to bring him back because there's like no chance he could live.
00:48:56.000And of course, that was World War II, the Australians who participated in the Pacific War.
00:49:02.000And the only reason I know that is because I play Axis and Allies with my friends.
00:49:07.000But it's true, Australia is a great American ally, very underappreciated.
00:49:12.000Nick says, and not me, someone on the Super Chat says, A modern mindset which sees all of reality as material for human manipulation and control thus explains the necessity for atheism in a Marxist worldview.
00:49:27.000I mean, the globalist worldview, atheist, globalist, liberal, I mean, the whole gauntlet of these corrupt ideas, ideas, systems, ideologies, whatever you want to call it, they are built on fundamentally atheism.
00:50:22.000He believed that it was basically sinning against God for somebody to violate the property rights of another individual.
00:50:29.000He said that suicide was immoral because you are destroying God's property, God's creation.
00:50:35.000So for someone like Dave Rubin or any one of these classical liberal, the liberalists, for them to say, oh, no, we're the real liberals from back in the day, and they're atheists, and they celebrate degeneracy, hedonism, impulse, materialism.
00:50:51.000They have no understanding of liberalism.
00:50:53.000It was never intended, at least at the outset.
00:50:56.000Maybe they didn't, maybe this was the inevitable consequence, but it was never intended at the outset to be liberalism for the sake of liberalism.
00:51:04.000Even Kant, even Kant, who you could say was one of the architects of the Enlightenment, he believed in the public good.
00:51:12.000He said, What is in the best interest of the public good?
00:51:15.000We know what is good by, well, if everybody practiced it, would that be a good thing for society?
00:51:21.000And even him, he saw these freedoms and these other things not as ends in themselves, but as geared towards a higher goal.
00:51:28.000John Stuart Mill, who was a utilitarian, if you read his On Liberty, if you read what he even writes about free speech, He says he doesn't believe in free speech and freedom because, oh, freedom is good and socialism sucks.
00:51:41.000He said it because this is how we move society forward.
00:51:44.000This is how we get the best public good for the most people.
00:51:49.000And that is a materialist worldview to an extent, but definitely not as secular as it's become today.
00:51:54.000So the whole modernist mind frame is built on top of atheism, is built on top of materialism.
00:52:01.000That's why it's so alien whenever you start talking about faith.
00:52:04.000That's why it's so alien whenever you start talking about any of these conceptions from before the French Revolution, because we're on another paradigm.
00:52:12.000There's a very good book that somebody who watches this show sent to me.
00:52:30.000And basically, the premise of this book is it's called Beyond Church and State.
00:52:35.000In France, in the Middle Ages, this dichotomy between church and state didn't even exist.
00:52:42.000Whereas people will project onto the past modern prejudices about, or modern preconceptions about church and state or about religion, it was a totally, a fundamentally different paradigm then because they saw them as intrinsically linked, as codependent, and one was not separable from the other.
00:53:01.000And I think many modern, or rather, many conservative Catholics contemporarily, Contemporaneously today, they say things about women, about the economy, about politics, and all the rest.
00:53:16.000It's very confusing to people who bill themselves as conservatives because whether they say they're conservative or not, they're still in this materialist, modernist worldview.
00:53:25.000That's why I go on a stream with someone like Lauren Southern, or somebody could go on a stream with Paul Joseph Watson or Alex Jones or somebody like that.
00:53:33.000And there could be an immense disagreement.
00:53:35.000Even though we say we're both conservative, we both are for similar policies.
00:53:39.000It's a fundamental different worldview.
00:53:48.000Alvaro Quintana says, You should do an analysis on Blade Runner 2049.
00:53:53.000I kind of missed the boat on that one.
00:53:55.000It's been a while since it came out, but I think I did talk about it on one of my shows.
00:54:02.000I forget which one, but I went and saw it, and I believe my general take was that it was basically about modern man in the sense that you look at Ryan Gosling.
00:54:14.000Who, his character, what was his character's name?
00:54:40.000And in many ways, the Blade Runner world resembles our world in the sense that here was this guy.
00:54:46.000He didn't know if he was human or if he was a machine.
00:54:49.000And I think many people feel this way.
00:54:50.000He went to his job to be a machine and he came home.
00:54:53.000And it was a very, I think, a very good cinematography.
00:54:57.000He comes home and it's polluted, it's dirty, he's in his apartment, everybody's poor, all the apartments are tiny, everybody speaks different languages, they're all hooked up to drugs.
00:55:08.000He gets into his house and he's got a waifu, a holographic wife.
00:55:14.000And I think many people see that kind of a character.
00:55:17.000This was my analysis after I watched the movie.
00:55:19.000Many people see this character and I think they relate to that in the modern world.
00:55:24.000And this is something that Dostoevsky talks about, something that Evola talks about.
00:55:29.000We talked about it in the episode, I think that was called Why Mass Shootings Happen or something to that effect.
00:55:35.000That in the modern day, people see themselves as machines just carrying out tasks in a very deterministic fashion.
00:55:42.000And I think Blade Runner speaks to that.
00:55:44.000But maybe that's just my own interpretation.
00:55:54.000You have to understand that Pope is the vicar of Christ on earth.
00:55:57.000And you have to understand that you have to understand Petrin or recognize the legitimacy of Petrin.
00:56:04.000Succession and Roman succession, basically, that St. Peter was given the keys to the church in the same way that it happens in the book of Isaiah.
00:56:13.000Peter is, in an analogy to political science, Peter would be the head of government to Christ's head of state if we're talking about the church as though it was a country.
00:56:24.000Peter would be the head of government like the prime minister, with Christ being the king or the head of state.
00:56:31.000And he also was the rock on which the church was founded.
00:57:07.000He died in Rome as the bishop there, that the Roman bishop goes on now as the head of the church and all the rest.
00:57:15.000And you don't have to agree with everything the Pope says.
00:57:17.000You just have to understand that the magisterium is not in error, it can't be in error, and that petron succession is legitimate and all of that.
00:57:27.000And I understand people have a problem with that because they say, you know, I disagree with the Pope on this.
00:57:30.000Not everything the Pope says is infallible, not everything the Pope says is protected from error by Christ.
00:58:14.000I was always a Catholic, but I didn't embrace it because I said I'm gung ho about the Pope, who's a Marxist and a Jesuit, and he's from Argentina.
00:58:23.000I said it doesn't make sense if you don't have a Pope.
00:58:25.000You don't have to like the Pope, but you have to have a Pope.
00:58:29.000It would simply not make sense for you to not have a Pope.
00:58:31.000How else could you define what a Christian even is?
00:58:34.000How else could you define that if there was not clearly defined succession, there was not clearly defined authority from Christ?
00:58:43.000This is a big argument against Protestants.
00:58:45.000This is just a logical thing I think anybody could come up with.
00:58:48.000If you're a Protestant and you believe that through the Bible alone you can understand what a Christian is, who's to say that I read the Bible and I say, well, this is true and this is not true, and I like this part, I don't like this part?
00:59:00.000Who's to say I'm any more wrong about Christianity than people who study it for a living, than Christ himself or the apostles or the church fathers?
00:59:09.000Who are you to say that I'm interpreting it incorrectly?
00:59:12.000You know, and any layman could open up the Bible.
00:59:52.000Who wrote about the French Revolution and he effectively came to the conclusion, I believe it was in the 19th century, that you cannot have a government that's founded on rational means.
01:00:01.000It has to be founded from some kind of mandate from the outside.
01:00:05.000This is true in politics, this is true in religion.
01:00:08.000Thomas Howard says, Get Yusuf on here.
01:00:11.000He'll put you back on the socialism train.
01:00:31.000I'm not saying I'm against having some limited amount of health insurance be guaranteed by the government, but to have government make decisions about your medical care, that's a big difference.
01:00:42.000It's a big difference to say maybe the government provides a baseline of catastrophic health insurance as opposed to saying the government should be economizing on who gets medical care and who doesn't.
01:01:55.000And we'll be having it again on Thursday, and then again on Saturday, and then again on Sunday, and then next week, and then the day after.
01:02:01.000And Holocaust Remembrance Day is every other week.
01:02:03.000We never hear about the Armenian Genocide.
01:02:56.000I wouldn't say that we should never have an African Pope, but I don't know.
01:03:00.000It just seems a little bit off to me to have an African Pope.
01:03:02.000That's not because I think they can't do a very good job.
01:03:05.000This Pope, I think, understands the situation better than the South American Marxists, but I just think it makes more sense to have him from Europe or from Italy or from one of these more historic places.
01:03:57.000I don't know what it is about people in these communities.
01:04:01.000I'm gradually coming to the conclusion, I'm gradually starting to believe that familiarity breeds nothing but contempt.
01:04:07.000I have to say, I was watching a documentary actually today about Louis Prima, who was a classic, a great Italian singer, songwriter from back in the day, and Sam Butera, who was his saxophone player.
01:04:24.000He was talking about him for this documentary.
01:04:26.000He said, Who you know, Louis Prima, he was a loner.
01:04:37.000And I see this in the Discord people who are hanging out, they watch the show and then they fight and they fight and they cause trouble and they're DMing me, Nick, Nick, you know, Nick, give me a role in the server.
01:04:47.000Nick, this guy's being a jerk in the server.
01:05:52.000But there are people out there who say, we believe in traditional values.
01:05:56.000And then when push comes to shove on traditional values, not only do they not abide by them, They don't even attempt to abide by them, and they will actually hold them in contempt.
01:06:06.000People who say they're traditional, not only are they themselves not moral in terms of sexuality, but they'll say, Nick is a virgin, like that's, I'm not married.
01:06:17.000So they say that like it's a bad thing.
01:06:38.000I would never call somebody who sins a hypocrite because we're all human beings.
01:06:43.000But if you don't even try, and if you actively counter signal people who are trying to live the way that you're supposed to, then you're no good.